No Clues Yet Uncovered In Search For Missing 11- Year.Old-Girl
/ Reportedly Last
Seen With A
Strange Man
A search by law officers was
continuing aa The Csfolina Times
went to,press for a Durham girl,
11-year-old Gwynette Ruffin, who
has been missing from her home
since Jan. 25.
The daughter of Mrs. Doris Mae
Taylor Ruffin of 112 Moline St.,
she was a student at C. C. Cpauld
ing School. No clues to her where
■bouts have been reported.
The' young girl lived with her
mother at the home address, from
where she disappeared reportedly
with a strange man who had
been seen hanging around in the
community by several neighbors.
Mrs. Ruffin and her husband,
William Ruffin, separated several
years ago. He is reported to be
residing at present in Washing
ton, D.' C.
Local police informed the Car
olina Times this 'week that they
are putting forth every effort pos
sible to locate the young girl but
at- present every clue as to her
See MISSINO, 4A
NAACP Regional
Conference to
HeetinCharl'te
; CHARLOTTC—CharIotte will be
the scene for the 13th Annual
NAACP Southeast Regional Meet
ing, February 25-28. All sessions
of the Conference -will be held In
the Queen Charlotte Hotel.
> About 500 NAACP leaders from
the states of Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, SQuth Carolina and Geor
gia will be in attendance to pro-
See CONFERENCE 5A
Several Officers
otwmcp
Named to Posts
SAVANNAH, Ga —Several offi
cers of the locfel branch of the
Natipnal Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored Bsople have
been appointed recently to pro
minent positions In the city ad
ministration.
Mrs. Esther Girri6on, branch;
secretary, Has bben appointed to
the Board *f Education. Curtis
Cooper, chairman of the Übor
ahd industry committee and Mrs
Mercedes 'Wright were named to
$e Anti-Povfcrty Authority. Mrs
Wright, active In the Savannah
boycotts, has worked with the
NAACP as a special field worker
in Jackson, Miss., Detroit, Mich.,
and other places.
Rev. L. S. Stell, long-time mem
ber of the brancH's executive com
mittee, church work committee
chairman and other offices, wat
appointed to the transit Author
fa-
Also named to the Board of
Education was Lawrence Perry," r
member Of the Branch.
President of the Savannal
Btranch is W. W. Law, who is also
pjmember of the National NAACI
Board.
Dr. Rachel Davis-Dußois Named
To Staff of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
ATLANTA, oa.—'Another giant
step in the cohtinuous expansion
of the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference will be taken
when noted Nw York lecturer
and author Dr. Rachel Davis-Du-
Rois Joins SCLC's newest but fast
est growing program department
knff#B as Operation Dialogue. Dr.
Dußois, an expert
in her fielcj of human relations
and group cpnversatlqn, will come
to SCLC on It temporary basis for
a six-tionth per kid.
Accompanying Dp. Dußois to
SCLC' Atlanta office will be one
Of her associates, Mti. Mew-Soong
Li, alao an expert in the same
field and co-authcr with lira. Du-
Bois of one of thiif several books
in the area of hupianj, relations.
' SCLC's department" of Opera
tion. Diatogitt, hfaded by Harry
G- feoyte, was activated in Octo
ber, 1664. Its furictioh is to fur
ther extend a greitfer understand
ing of the civil rights movement
ioto the whit* community through
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VOLUME 42—No. 6 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1965 PRICE: IS Cent.
NAACP Names Two New Top
Officials For Defense Fund
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LAWYER; PLAN DANVILLE
MEET—MI $5 Ruth L. Harvey, Dan
ville, V«, attorney and presldfnt
of the Southeastern Lawyer'i As
sodation, discusses plans to r the
organization's Winter meeting, In
Danville, Va., on February 12.-13
with several leader* el the North
POLICE
Raids In Baltimore
Protested By NAACP
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AUINS JOYCI TOOKS
IXMVMV* Director, D«ltu Sigma Th«ta
Mrs. Tooks Gets
Executive Post
Of DST Sorority
WASHINGTON, D.
'oyce Tooks, a former personnel
lirector of the Philadelphia De
partment of Public Health, has
jeen named executive director of
>elta Sigma Theta, women's in
crracial public service organiza
ion. Announcement of the ap-
See MRS. TOOKS. 5A
group discussion, both integrated
?nd non-intesrated.
Dr. Dußois has had more than
a quarter of a century of experi
ence in this area, having helped
organize in 1934 a Service Bureau
for Inter-cultural Education io
New York City. Its purpose was
to serve teachers in all grades
With factual materials on the cul
tural '* contributions of various
groups to American life.
A graduate of Bucknell, Uni
versity with a Ph.D. in Education
al Psychology from New York Uni
versity, Mrs. Dußois wrote her
thesis on the best methods of de
veloping more understanding »t
--titudej among all of America's
culture groups. It was later pub
lished under the title, Bui 14 TP*
gether Americans; by Hinds, Hey
tien and Aldridge,' New York, 1946.
She has written several otljer
books in the same vein, among
them, Neighbors in Action, and
Get Together Americans, Harper
See NAMID, page 9A '
Cjjfpllna Section et the Jack Tar
Hotel here recently. Shown with
Miss Harvey axe Henry E.' Frye,
Assistant United States Attorney
for the Middle District of North
Carolina, Greensbpro; C. 0. Peer
son, Durham, Ohelrmen of the
Nortih Caroline NAACP Legal Re
NCC Professor
To Receive Duke
Doctorate jn Jun.
.. A native df Paris, France, who
came to the United States in
1960 as a Fulbrieht exchar."e
scholar in the medical fifcld, will
receive the Ph.D. degree in ro
; mance languages from Duke Uni
i versity at the institution's June
convocation.
Miss MoniqUe Bras, assistant
professor Of romance languages
at North Carolina College, defend
ed her dissertation recently at
Duke and will be awarded the de
gree at the University's spring
,commencement. Her dissertation
is entitled, "Paul Claudel et Mau
rice Pottecher. Une epoque, deux
attitudes poetlques."
A member of the NCC faculty
since January, 1064, Miss Bras
was a student at L'Ecole Normale
Catholique in Paris from 1935 to
1944, receiving the Baccalaureat
es Lettres and Philosophie of the
University of Paris ( - #ith "men
tion"). She studied also at L'Ecole
du Louvre in Paris from 1945 to
1947 and was graduated with hon
ors in Mohaitimedan Arts. From
1949 tp 1951, she was a student
in physical therapy and received
both the national diploma and
the diploma of the Faculty of
Medicine of Paris with honors.
In 1959, she deceived, wjth hon
ors, a diploma in para-medical
See PKOPKSSOR 5A
AFL-CIO Backs
Amer. Red Cross
Program for '65
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
AFLdO has indorsed the Ameri
can Red Cross and its program
for 1?69.
In a letter to E. Roland Harri
man, chairman, American Nation
al Red Croas, APL-CIO President
George Meahy stated: "The mem
bers of the are pleased
to join with thfclr fellow ciUfcens
In endorsing inept strongly the
principles anb services of the
American Hfed Cross."
The federatidA president point
ed out that "As Red Cross servi
ices reach out to meet new needs
in our industrialized and urban
Sea PROGRAM, 5A '
dress Committee; Miss Harvey;
Earl Whitted, Jr., a member of
the Goldsboro City Council and
vice-president for the North Car
olina Section of the SLA; and F.
B. McKissick, Durham, National
Chairman of the Congress of Ra
cial Equality.
BALTIMORE—"I saw many
policemen lined-up with guns at
my fence. Qb, jtfy God! What
have w* dope, what do they
want," testified Miss Lpcinda
Wallace. "The officers were crude
because they barged, iute the
house without askipg to be admit
ted and rude because they were
impolite and evasive' when asked
why they fere there," complained
Mrs. Dothery J.' Barfick.
These remarks were a part of
the testimony jjiven by witnesses
before the United Biases District
Court in Maryland. Attorneys for
the Legal Defense and
Educational Fumi. ,
several Negro citizens, protest
ing searches that " - #ere arbitrary
and unreasonable and vio 1 a te d
plaintiffs' rights to due process of
the law atld equal protection of
See RAID*, 5 A
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MEMBERS OF • THS CHARMO
UITTS are pictured eb*ve
*9* Club that meets rprjlarly ft
John Avtry Boys' Club) as th*y
presented a #ka«k fjar- -f 7-AOO to
the Bays' Cliifr, Left to right,
P; L. H*ll, fdvi»or: Sylvia Bul
Sunrey on Adults Educational Background Released
WASHINGTON, D. C. Secre
tary of Labor W. WiUard Wirt?
has released the first nation-wide
survey of the vocational training
backgrounds of fdult American
workers. Th« study measures the
extent and nature of formal job
traiaitaj oi 32.1 millioji yorkert
Rivers Elected to
Replace Dr.
Allan Chalmers
NEW YORK CITY—In unani
mous agreement, the NAACP Le
gal Defense Fund Board of Di
rectors announced that the Hon
orable Francis E. Rivers, former
New York City Civil Court Judge
has been chosen to succeed Dr.
Allan K. Chalmers as President of
the Lfegal Defense Fund.
The Board reported, also, that
Legal Defense Bpard member Wil-
T. Coleman, Jr., has been selected
as Vice President, the office form
ly held by Judge Rivers.
The shift was made necessary
by the announced intention to re
sign of Dr. Chalmers, taking ef
fect in Anril.
Judge Rivers, is presently Spe
cial Mediator for New York State
Board of Mediation, and Hearing
Officer for New York Waterfront
Commission.
He has served on the Legal De
fense Fund Board of Directors
since 1950.
In 1963, Judge Rivers, a Negro,
was appointed Chairman of the
Special Committee on Civil Rights
Under Law _qJ the. HftE Associa
tion of No v York City, a commit
tee created to study federal laws
relating to the enforcement of
civil rights and to propose revi
sions for their modernization.
William T. Coleman, Jr., who
recently served as Senior Consul
tant and Assistant General Coun
sel to the President's Commission
on the Assassination of President
Kennedy, is a partner in the Law
Firm of DilWorth, Paxson, Kali.sh,
Kohn and Dilks of i Philadelphia.
He Specializes in respWlngmatters
that hflve to go before federal
regulatory '^blYimissferfS 1 . "" "
Starting his law career as Law
Secretary to United States Su
preme Court Justice Felix Frank
furter, he has an outstanding re-
See REPLACE 5A
lock, secretary; Patricia King, vice
pgrasident; Laa W. Smith, Jr.
fxecutive director of tha Boys'
Dalphina Banfcnight, presi
dent; Shirley Bullock; Katrina
K'ny, treasurer and Mrs. A. M.
s*vis, advisor. Members not pres
with less than three years of col- 64 age bracket —only 31 percent
lege. of those aged 55 to 64 had re-
The study shows that in the ceived such' training in their life
past 30 years a steadily rising pro- times while 37 per cent of the 22
portion of the American labor to 24 year-olds had.
force has receivd formal occupa- Educational disadvantage also
tional training. Of workers studied was linked with a comparative lack
—all of whom were ia the 22 to See TRAINING 5A
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COURTESY HAS ITS REWARDS
Ross Caple, center, a North Caro
lina Coller,* senior bio-chemistry
major, has learned that congeni
ality and effic'*ncy have their re
wards. Here she is shown being
interviewed by R. C. Hendrick
son, left, manager of the Sherwin-
Williams Company's recruitment
DR. KING
Among 1300 Arrests In
Ala.RightTo Vote Drive
J. Saunders Redding to Speak at
North Carolina College Feb. 17
J. Saunders Redding, well-known
scholar and author, will deliver
the Negro History Week convoca
tion address at North Carolina
College Wednesday at 10 a.m. in
the college's MeDougald Gymna
sium. .
The public is invited to attend
the event, at which the speaker's
topic 'A'ill be, "American Intellec
tuals: The Prospect Before Them."
Currently holder of the John
son Professorship in creative Writ
ing at Hampton Institute, Redding
is on leave this academic year as
aa fellow in the cooperative hu
manities' program at Duke Uni
versity.
Redding, a native of Wilming
ton, D>-1., attended Brown Univer
sity, where hi received both un
dergradifkte and graduate''degrees.
He holds the Ph D:, M.A., Litt.D.
and the L-HD. (honorary Hobard
College) degrees.
He is author of the following
See REDDING, 5A
ent when picture tcken were
Equilla Covinr. on, Stella Shaw,
Jacquelina Stone, Harriet Myers,
Thotnasine McNeil, Annicr Davis,
Sue Verbal, Loretta Leslie and
Delores Vines. ! "Jf
division, and W. H. Maynor, direc.
tcr of the company's industrial
relations, during their recent re
cruitment visit to the NCC cam
pus.
Last summer, while working as
a waitress at a resort, Miss CapJe,
a native of Morven, met and
served Mr. and Mrs. Maynor, who
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SPAULDING
Asa Spaulding
On Chamber of
Commerce Board
Asa T. Spaulding, president of
the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Co., was one of five
persons named Wednesday to one
year terms on the Durham Cham
ber of Commerce Board of Di
rectors.
In addition to Spaulding, the
other board members appointed
by Joseph A. Robb, the cham
ber's president, were Albert W.
Kennon, Gilbert Klein, Ralph
Rogers, Jr.,- and O. Z. Wrenn.
Seven ex-officio members were
also appointed.
Over 750 At Meeting Held to
To Discuss Civil Rights Act of '64
WASHINGTON, D. C. Over
750 state officials, U. S. Govern
ment administrators, and repre
sentatives of charitable, religious
andother organizations gathered at
the Departmental Auditorium in
Washington, D. C. The purpose of
the National Conference was to
discuss Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act -of HHJ4 and the-tbeeie: 'JSqual.
Opportunity In Federally Assisted 1
Programs." Key speaker was Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey
who stressed that the Johnson Ad
ministration will do its best to
walk "the extra mile" in' seeking
voluntary compliance with the
Civil Kights provision that bans
racial discrimination in Federal
aid programs. There are now 190
Federal aid programs which will
contribute' $13.6 million to the
various state and local govern
ments next year. Southern Con
were so much impressed by h»r
that tfcsy insisted that she main
tain contact with them. Learning
that Miss Caple was a rising sen
ior chemistry major at NCC, May
nor expressed interest in having
ber join his firm and followed up
with a visit "to the campus last
week.
CHARGED WITH
PARADING
WITHOUT PERMIT
SEI.AIA, Ala. Nobel prize
winner Dr. Martin Luther King
began his fourth day in jail Thurs
day after being arrested Monday
on charges of parading without
a permit. He said he "would re
main confined "88 long JK" is
needed to dramatize" the efforts
to get Negroes registered to vote
Meanwhile, leaders urged more
demonstrations in thii Dallas
County seat as part of a co*tin
uing effort to point up discrimi
nation. Nearly 1.300 persons have
been arrested, in three weeks,
among the most recent three stu
dents, ranging in age from 10
to 18. who were stopped by po
lice Wednesday and charged with
no.permit to stage a parade.
were from a group
which had just held a mid-day
demonstration at a church and
were carrying signs saying "Free
dom Now," and "One Man—One
Vote."
State troopers, who have been
on the scene since Tuesday, said
in addition to the Selma arrests,
16 persons had been arrested in
neighboring Perry County which
King asid would also be the tar
get of anti-bias and voter regis
tration campaigns. However, lead
ers reported that at least one
Perry County restaurant had been
desegregated.
Alabama's segregationist gover
nor, George C. Wallace, made an
address to the Selma-Dallas
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
but reference to local
racial turmoil.
While Sheriff James G. Clark
and two deputies stood outside
the door, the governor said, "We
have a great future in Selma,
Alabama and the South."
gressional opponents of the Civil
Rights Act had fought the. hard
est the enactment of Title
VI because of its far-reaching im
plications.
The Vice President made it very
clear to the audience that Federal •
atojfHeo.-. would and could with
hold. funds from any state or in
atttuSwj til#t fails to _£nd discrinv _
inwtiort. The usual procedure will
be to hold hearings, notify Con
gress of pny situation, have a judi
cial review, make referrals to
state or local and as a last resort
—off Federal funds.
Ag&yice President also admon
isfrcjoKe press to be sure to "pub
good news of compliance
and strongly advised
nfpFederal Administrations of tho
ipb.Otederal Aid Program to get
out >nd do r good job and follow-
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