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 « V . V , V t Y , -• r E& iti «,• •/' - ———— —————— ■ ' '• . _____ VOLUME 42—No. 6 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1965 PRICE: IS Cent. NAACP Names Two New Top Officials For Defense Fund — L jMjMj^^B^PBfcML SI ■■■■ '" II Wit-- ■- • • 'm^: 'fsfl Z '■ *" * 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 . ■ . 'M' - 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 J- M\, 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 yMMßtr:"'':-;- *■■' mmm - m wmm IP wara*. mmr HP M 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 ' M SBBHwUBBMBBHifIHI 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- See DISCUSS 5A

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