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REV. FRED SHUTTLEWORTH
CR Leader Praises FBI
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For Arrests in New Bern
ORLEANS, La.—The Rev.
Ffed L. Shuttles worth, noted civil
rights leader, commended Federal
authorities for their prompt ar
rests ki recent bombings in New
Jtefn, fi. C. and asked Attorney
general Nichols Katzenbach to
How through now with "a viga
joas investigation of Ku Klux
KUn terrorism in all parts of
flfbrth Carolina."
. ' Shuttlesworth, who is president
o£)the Southern Conference Educa
.ttonal Fund, and also a leader of
Soythern Christian Leadership
(Joaference, told Katzenbach that
atrcst of three Klansmen just a
days after the Nc.v Bern
hpmbings "may well have prevent
«f another tragedy like the bomb
IjjA that killed four children in
in 1963."
;'The minister had noted in a
rofegram to the Justice Denar*
immediately after the North
Clfoliha bombings that the church
bottibing in Birmingham came ar
Jl simax to a long series of small
er bombings that went unpunish
ed.
The New Bern bombings dam
aged two automobiles and a mor
tjiary during a civil rights meet
ing in a church January 24. The
arrests came on January 29 or
charges of conspiring to intimi
date and deprive Negroes of their
civil rights.
Shutttesworth noted, however
that the New Bern incidents were
only one of many acts of terror
that have been directed again?'
Negroes in North Carolina in thr
past year. John Salter, SCEF field
representative in the state, report?
. that the Klan has grown rapidly
and reportedly has about 10,000
members in North Carolina.
In a recent letter to Gov. Dar
K. Moore, Salter said there had
been numerous Incidents such a r
, cross-burnings, threats, ar v"
mot oread and shootings
for wiiicbC r\o one has been appre
hended: Mojt of the incidents hav
gone in the oress an
unnottccd l*y thp general public.
' Shuttleswbrth also asked the U
8. Cotnml'sslen Jrfh Civil Rights t'
condilct. public hearings in Nort
' Carolina in order to focus th
spotlight of public opinion o:
' Klan ' terrorism. ,
Since 1930,402 Negroes Have
Been Killed for Rape; Whites 45
; SAN FRANCISCO—A national
Campaign "directed at capital
• punishment" was announced here
this 'keek' by jfack Grcenberg, di
• rectoi--cdunsel/of the NAACP Le
' gal Defense Fond.
" "We afe starting out by givirtg
' attention to t))je most outrageous
of situations' In' which the'state
Ukeu life, capital punishment, fur
testimonial dinner given In lienor
of his ratlrhtat,' «Ail* Ni I.
W. A. Clement to be Honored
At NCM Baltimore Convention
The North Carolina' Mutual Lif*
Insurance Company will hold its
21St AhnuallTSaud burst Sales Con
vention in Baltimore, Maryland,
February 24-26, 1963, at tha Lord
Baltimore Hotel. ?' • ■
C-mpahy officials ,*j|l fee, .hosts
'nd approximately 05 represen
tatives from, throughout tha Com
nany's territory 6(, eleven . states
md the Distrfct c qf Columbia arc
to attend .
The Convention, . will, honor
Williaui A. Clement, ,CLty. Vice
President and Agenoy Director.
Phe highlight of th£ meeting wijl
ie a reception and jmJjquet, Wed
nesday, February 24. The speaker
"or this occasion wiH be Fr«nk
3. Maher, Senior Vice President,
John Hancock Mutual Life Insur
ance Company.
The North Carolina MutuaJ
r vife Insurance Company, of which
Asa T. Spaulding is president,
Kittrell College to Celebrate 79th
Founder's Day February 17
KITTRELL Kittrell College
vill observe its 79th Anniversary
vith a Founder's Day Program,
Vednesday, Feb. 17. The program
will be highlighted with an ad
lress by the Rev. Mr. J. S. Bern
11, of Indianapolis, Ind., at 10
i.m.
Under the direction of adminis
ration officials, the board of trus
ees and its chairman, Bishop G6o.
iV. Baber of the Second Episcopal,
district, the college has instituted
n extensive renovation for cam
>us building!. And, additionally,
vith the aid of the District's Mia
-.ionary Society, led by the i>i«h
•p's wife, Mrs. Elvira Baber, has
efurnished completely the girl's
dormitory.
The Bishop has also organized
Operation Nehemiah," a project
rape "he said. ■ .
Grcenberg was in California (o
attend the National L*f«l Con
fercnce on Equal Opportunity in
Housing. While there, he ipptur
ed in behalf of the Northern Cali
fornia.NAACP Legal Defeate Fund
Committee.
The death penalty for rape
See HAPS, page iA
White, Scoutmaster and C. B. Nix
on, Assistant Scoutmaster look on.
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CLEM2NT
operates 3 4 district offices
throughout the United States. The
Home Office is in Durham.
to "rebuild the fortress of higher
education in the Second Episcopal
District to •*-lthstand"the onslaught
of atheistic materialism," and har
aided laymen in organizing the
Kittrell College Foundation.
The Kittrell Foundation was
initiated through the efforts of L.
E. Austin, publisher of the Caro
lina Times, who laid the ground
work at "a meeting held at the
i home office of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co. Among
those present, as well as the Bish
op and Mrs, Baber, were J H.
Wheeler, president of Mechanics
■nd Farmers Bank; J. J. Hender
son, treasurer of North Carolina
Mutual; N. H. Bennett, vice presi
dent and actuary, North Carolina
Mutual; Funderburg, cash
ier, Mechanics and Farmers Bank;
H. M. Michaux, Sr., president.
Union Insurarice and Realty Co/f
Mrs. Vorheese Jamison, national
president, Kittrell College Alum-
Hi; Joseph McKinney, engineer,
Washington, D. C.; the Rev. John
M". "Cox; "Secretary; board of -trus
tee#, and Dr. Philip R. Cousin,
president, Kittrell College.
Those in attendance at the
meeting were the luncheon guests
of A- T. Spaulding, president of
Nprth Carolina Mutual.
Among the goals of the founda
tion we .to increase the financial
solvency of the college, to up
grade its academic program, and
'.o gain the college accreditation.
Che Cimeg
VOLUME 42—No. 7 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1965 PRICE: IS Cent*
President Johnson To Seek
Federal "Right To Vote" Law
Legislation May
Provide National
Registrars
WASHINGTON—President John
son plans to seek Congressional
legislation to break down barriers
restricting the right to vote. Ac
cording to administration officials
the proposed legislation may seek
to provide federal voting registrars
and ask constitutional amendment
restricting states from setting vot
ing qualifications other than age.
Since last month, reports of
legislation along those lines have
been circulating but were uncon
firmed until Presidential Press
Secretary, George E. Reedy, vol
unteered the information at a
news briefing.
Reedy was questioned about a
request from the Rev. Martin
Luther King for an appointment
with President Johnson, and went
on to comment on the proposed
new li is. Dr. Kina, according to
Rerdy, was advised tp consult
with Justice Department Officials
on voter's rights. However, he
idded, the President has "of
■viurse, made clear his total com
Tiittment to the cause of full vot
ing rights," and that a Johnson
King meeting may still be held at
a later date.
A Justice Department spokes
man said that arrangements were
bding mode for King to meet At
torney General Nicholas Katzen
bach as advised by Lee C. White,
associate special counsel to the
President.
In another matter, the Presi
dent issued an order creating a
Cabinet-level Council on Equal
Employment Opportunity to be
headed by Vice President Hubert
Humphrey. The council will co
ordinatethe civil rights work of
federal agencies.
Humphrey was chosen last De-
See VOTE, page 4A
Virgin Wives
Medical Study
Reveals Startling
Information
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Women'* Medical New* Service
Hundreds of Wives between the
ages of 17 and/47, married from
periods of from one to 21 years,
proved upon medical examination
to bt virgins.
They told psychologist, Dr. John
Bla?er who was doing a study of
virginity in married women, that
th".v had refrained from having
relations with their husbands for
a/variety of reasons: fepr of pain.
belief that the sex act is "nasty"
\f "wicked," fear of pregnancy,
of contraceptives.
After studying the replies, Dr:
Blazer, who was formerly with the
Mental Health Clinic, Bristol, Vir
ginia, concluded that the one
thing the women have in common
is ignorance-. None the- reasons
given would be enough to account
for the continuing failure to con
summate • marriage. The doctor
concludes that if the woman and
her husband can obtain pdequate
scientific knowledge and guidance
from a qualified doctor, nurse, or
psychologist, at least some of the
.women might be helped to over
come their blocks and h«ve a nor
! mel married life .
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TEACHERS MEET ACTOR—Three |
member! of the North Carolina;
College Enr.'ilh faculty chit with !
noted actor Basil Rathbone fol- j
lowing his on« man show "In and
Out of Character" presented at |
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GETS BOY SCOUT EAGLE
AWARD—George Wayne Cox, 111
»on of Mr. and Mrs. George Wayne
Cox, Jr. receives the Eagle Scout
Award during the Annual Scout
JAMES A. LAMB
Treasurer Of Connecticut To
Speak At St. Joseph's Sunday
On February 14, St. Jypeph's A.
M.- E. Church *>vill observe Race
Relations Sunday. At the Morn
ing Worship Hour, the sermon
will be delivered by the Minister,
Rev. Melvin Chester Swann. Music
will be furnished by the Senior
Choir, Joseph T. Mitchell direct
ing and Mrs. Minnie VV. Gilmer
at the organ.
February 14 is also binhday
-of Richard Allen. fQUU'Je • of tie
African Methodist Episcopal
Church A resume of nis lile will
be given by William Rowland
lUII
The Boy of St.. Joseph's
will attend the service in recce-'
ivtiton of Boy Scout Week. Troop,
No 105 and Pack No. 295 will re
ceive their '•barters. .
At the 7:00 P.M. Worship Hour,
the Race Relations program will
be presented, featuring as guest
speaker the Honorable Gerald A.
Lamb, Treasurer of the State of
Connecticut. Muiicwill'be furnish
ed by the choir o i Olio T. Brink
1 the college recently.
From left are Mrs. Marion
: Spaulding, Dr. Sylvia Lyons Ren
| der, Rathbone, and Mrs. Martha
1 Lifson.
) RaWibtm® termed his perform
Service Sunday, February 7. Stand
ing, left to r T ght: Mrs. G. W. Cox,
Sr., Grandmother, G. W. Cox, Jr.,
father, Cox 111, Mrs. G. W. Cox,
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ley Memorial Baptist Church of
Chapel Hill, assisted by the Gos
pel and Youth Choirs of St. Jo
seph's. The speaker will be intro
duced by Watts Hill, Jr., President
ance of reading from great writ
ers «nd recollections of his life
,n the theater, "a concert'' featur
ing "the oniy instrument I know
how to play—the Human voice."
Jr., Anets Cox, sister »nd R. C.
Foreman. Young Cox Is a mem
'".or of Explorers Pest No. 55 at
yVhite Rock Baptist Church.
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's Sunday
of the Home Security Life iii
surajice Company of Durham.
The Junior Ushers of the church
will serve in conjunction with
ushers from Temple Baptist
Church of Durham.
Honorable Gerald A. Lamb,
Democrat, of Waterbury, Connec
ticut was in Elizabeth City,
Soon after becoming an adult, he
adopted Connecticut as his home
state. On November 6, 1962 he
was elected Treasurer of the State
of Connecticut.
His rapid ascension to a suc
cessful career in the field of
politics began in 1959 when he
was elected to* fhe Watferbory
Board of Aldermen, where he
served as president pro tem dur
ing his two terms, and also as
Acting Mayor several times. He
was a member of the Board of
Directors of the United Fund and
served on its Budget Panels; mem
ber of the Waterbury Board of
Park Commissioners, President of
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Pupils Charged
With Truancy
By Selma Officer
SELMA, Alabama —Hundreds of
Negro parents, aroused after law
officers forced approximately 160
students to march three miles
following a demonstration for
voter registration, voted Wednes
day to ask President Johnson to
place Selma under martial law.
Meanwhile, the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., had returned to
the city following a conference
with the President, and urged the
citizen they "must not return vio
lence for violence." Amid cheers
and ovations the 1964 Nobel
Peace Prize winner said "brutal
ity, meanness and terror" will con
tinue to reign in the city until
the federal government "is willing
to do spmething about it." .
He told his audience, which in*
eluded many of the students who
had been compelled to march the
three (titles by Sheriff Jim Clark
and his deputies, they would lose
more than they would gain in
yielding to the temptation to vio
lence.
The sheriff said he had arrest
ed the students for truancy be
cause they were out of school and
intended to make them walk six
miles to a Fraternal Order of
Police Lodge for detention. The
county jail, according to
iff, was crowded, but he made no
reference to a one-time National
Guard Armory where demonstra
tors had been taken earlier*"
Halfway to the lodge, the stu
dents broke lines and ran into
homes along the roadside elud
ing Sheriff Clark and his deputies
who were in carsJl
Dr. King, reviewing his meefing
with President Johnson, said the
President and other administra
tion officials were pledged to seek
federal legislation.
Some of* ffie students complain
ed that the deputies jabbed them
with nightsticks along the march,
but the Sheriff said he did not see
any such action.
NAACP Speeds
Aid to Selma
Vote Drive
NEW YORK A Long distance
phone call from tension ridden
Selma, Alabama this '.veek. set a
team of five NAACP Legal Defense
Fund attorneys into action and
gained quick release from jail for
nearly 100 Negroes.
"Sheriff Clark is back at it
again. He's arresting Negroes left
and right down at the court house
just as if Judge Thomas (Daniel
H. of the Federal District Court;
had n«er issued an injunction."
Legal Defense Fund Attorney
■Chfcrles Jones listens carefully to
the emergency call from Fund co
operattrtg attorney. Peter Hall.
The time is 4 P.M. Wednesday,
January 27th.
Legal Defense Fund attorneys,
Jones and Norman Amaker meet
in Director-Counsel Jack Green
berg's office. They must speed up
preparation of the contempt cita
tion against Negro-hating Sheriff
James C>rk; amend their papers,
requesting removal of Negroes
arrested trying to register, from
state to federal court, so as to
include those newly arrested.
The problem is that the papers
have to be prrnared and present
ed to Judge Thomas in Mobile the
next morning, and it is nearly
five o'clock.
Bven if the New York staff
works overtime, as it often docs,
there are no flights to Mobile by
the time they finish drafting the
papers.
The attorneys confer with offi
cials of Dr. Martin Luther King's
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference who stress the urgency
of going to court the next day in
order to keep the voter-rcjjisffa-'
tion drive in l)igh gear.
Time is short. Attorneys Jones
and Amaker decide they have to
re-draft their papers on t|)£ plane.
They need a secretary. Miss (Ha
rine Ford volunteers. There is no
time for her to go home and pack,
so she simply phones her family
to let them know where she it
Sec SELMA
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