Reaffirms "No Discrimination" Policy For Home Security
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WHITE ROCK NAMES PASTOR
Watts Hill, Jr. Signs Pledge
With V. P. Hubert Humphrey
In ■ "Plan for Progress"
"booklet, Just off the press, it
wai revealed here this week
that the Home Security Life In
surance Company of this city
has "reaffirmed its policy of
merit employment and promo
tion of all persons without dis
crimination because of race,
creed, color or national origin."
The plan which is in line
with the "Plans for Progress"
program of President Johnson's
Committee on Equal Employ
ment Opportunity was signed
jointly by Vice President Hu
bert H. Humphrey and Presi
dent Watts Hill, Jr., of Home
Security on June 1, 1965 in
Washington.
The statement of the Home
Security president said in full:
Heme Security Life has
pledged full cooperation In
the Plans for Progress Pro
gram of President Johnson's
Committee on Equal Employ
ment Opportunity. By pledge
and action we join in a na
tional voluntary effort led by
the business community to
achieve equal employment op
portunity and end discrimi
nation In employment based
on race, creed or national
origin.
All employees of Home
Security Life share responsi
bility for positive action to
fully Implement this plan,
■quality of opportunity can
be achieved only through the
willingness of each employee
to recognise right and act
justly In all relationships.
We have confidence In the
good spirit of Home Security
Life people and know that
together we shall work ob
jectively toward achieving
the national goal of equal
employment opportunity."
Often mentioned by close
friends and acquaintances, as
N. C. School of
Arts Adds 7.
To It's Faculty
WINSTOf^SALEM—Seven
teachers of academic studies
and a librarian have been
added to the faculty of the
North Carolina School of the
Arts. The appointments are
announced today by Dr. Vit
torio Giannini president of
the school, and Mrs. Julia
Mueller, Acting Dean of
Academic Studies.
William Van Hovan of
Greensboro will be librarian
at the School of the Arts
when it opens here in Sept.
Additions to the academic
faculty include:
Miss Lois Raff of Charlotte.
Chatham, N. J., who will
teach mathematics and phy
sics; Mrs. Adrianna Ciompi of
Torino, Italy, Italian and
French; Mrs. Ralna Fehl o|
Vienna, Austria, German;
Miss Scherer James of Mt.
Airy. English and Spanish;
Mla> Lola Raff of CCharlotte,
social studies; Miss Marjorie
Randolph of Winston-Salem,
foreign languages, and Regi
nald F. Spauldlng of Durham,
English.
Spaulding holds a B. S.
degree from North Carolina
College at Durham and has
completed course work to
ward a M. A. degree in Eng
lish from the University of
North Carolina.
The North Carolina School
at the Arta waa eatabllahed
by an act of Legislature to
five professional training to
especially talented students
in music, drama and dance.
Hie school accepts college,
hlfh school and younger stu
dents, and academic studies
are required of all students.
Courses are baaed on require
ments of the North Carolina
State Board of Education, and
high school diplomas, bache*
lor of music snd bachelor of
fine arts degrees will be
given to students completing
required courses.
High school students will
report for classis Sept. 7, and
college orientation will begin
■apt SO. A student body of
anradnuMy fig students
will be enrolled for the first
term of title new school.
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HILL
possessing unusual gubernato
rial qualifications, Hill's sign
ing of the "Plan for Progress"
statement, jointly with the
vice president of the United
States, has once again started
tongues wagging about his pos
sibility as a gubernatorial can
didate for 1972 if not in 1968.
The rumors persist in spite of
the fact that the president of
Home Security has apparently
given abosolutely no indications
as to his feelings in the matter.
In a further effort to make it
absolutely clear %s to the fu
ture policy of Home Security in
the matter of employment, the
executive stated further: "We
have confidence in the good
spirit of Home Security Life
people and know that together
we shall work objectively to
ward achieving the national
goal of equal employment op
portunity."
"In keeping with the Civil
Rights Law of 1964," the state
ment indicated, the firm "will
not permit nor condone either
discrimination or discrimina
tion in reverse.
A pledge was also made to
"actively seek qualified minor
ity group applicants for all job
categories," and to consider all
employees without bias in re
gard to placement, promotion
and training.
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MOUNT OILIAD BAPTIST
Church Patter's Aid Club cele
brated Its 25Hi Anniversary
Sunday, July 25, by worshipping
In a group at church during
the regular 11 o'clock service.
U. S. Federal Gov't Enjoins La. Klan and Police for Brutality
BOGALUSA Following
two days of attacks by whites
against pickets at the Pine
Tree Shopping Center while
state and city police stood by
Inertly, the U. S. Inflated
broad legal action against
local police officials and the
Original Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan .
Specifically, Police Chief
Claxton Knight and Public
Safety Commissioner Arnold
Spiers were accused of civil
and criminal contempt of a
federal Injunction calling up
on them to protect civil
rights demonstrators.
Deputy Sheriff Walter
Adams of Washington parish
was changed with beating
and intimidating Negroes. An
injunction was sought to re
strain the Original Knights
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VOLUME 42 No. 2« DURHAM, N. C—SATURDAY, JULY 31, IMS PRICE 15 Cent.
50-Year-Old Woman Badly
Beaten By Kinston Constable
KINSTON—A meeting of a
committee composed of house
wives and two ministers held
here recently with Simon Sit
terson of Kinston to protest the
storm-trooper tactics of a Lenoir
County constable in serving a
warrant on a 50-year-old wom
an, proved of no avail when
the mayor informed the com
mittee that he was without
jurisdiction because the con
stable was from Vance Town
ship. As a result of the mayor's
decision, the housewives have
organized a community action
program '#ith SCOPE and the
local branch of the NAACP in
an effort to eventually remove
the constable, Robert Garris,
from his office.
According to a statement
made to Mrs. J. J. Hannibal, by
Mrs. Nora Graham, heart pat
ient, recently discharged from
a sanatorium, Garris appeared
at her home with a warrant for
a $9.00 debt and became en
raged when she explained to
him that she paid $5.00 on the
debt and had been released
from further payment by the
court in April.
Mrs. Graham stated further
she was cursed by the consta
ble, beaten in the face with his
fists, and menaced with a re-
See PROTEST Page 2A
1,000 Expected At Annual Session Of
SCLC In Birmingham August 9-13
The Club presented Dr. and
Mrs. A. O. Mosoley, the pastor,
the sum of SIOO as an anniver
sary gift.
Those in the group are from
left to right, seated: Mrs. Lot-
of the Ku Klux Klan, 20 of
its members and IS other
white* from "assaulting, ha
rassing, threatening and
intimidating" either rights
workers or business men
complying with desegregation
orders.
On July 10, eegregationists
attacked the shopping center
pickets six times, with state
troopers looking on only 50
yards away. Charles Bellows
and John Hamilton, both
CORE volunteers, were twice
beaten before being taken to
a doctor. CORE Community
Relations Director Alan Gart
ner was strode repeatedly in
the face and his glasses were
shattered. Later, city police
arrested seven of the pickets
tor "trespassing," but none
of the attackers. Since Jan.
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HITTIN" THE ROAD Lan»
■ton Hugfees, internet I
famed poet, humorist and play
wright, consumates agreement
with Miss Jay Ooodlette-Basa,
president of PARI YAH FAC
TOR, a Now York based public
He Holloawy, President} Mrs.
Calllna Smith, Secretary; Mrs.
Mrs. Christine Bsrbee, Vice
President, Mrs. Selena Miller,
Mrs. Minnie Watklns.
Standing are: Mrs. Agnes Hln
30 segregstionlsts hsve been
arrested for sssaulting civil
rights workers but none were
prosecuted.
On July 17, pickets at the
shopping center were drenchr
ed with hoses. "You still
smell a little a little bit Uke
a nigger to me," said Ray
Risen, a local barber and
city fireman after he had
finished dousing Henry Park,
a white CORE volunteer.
Later in the day, civil rights
workers were pelted with
rocks and fruit. Again, police
arrested none of the attaclo
ers, but took three marchers
Into "protective custody."
Since July 10, when the
U. S. took legal action, the
marches and picketing have
gone on peacefully and four
restaurants have aerved Ne>-
relations firm which will handle
the road tour of Mr. Hughes'
play "Black Nativity."
Farlyah Factor has been re
tained to act In a consultant
capacity for the publicity end
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ton, Mrs. Ooldle Amis, Mrs,
Jessie M. Davidson, Mrs. Mose
ley. Rev. Moseley, Mrs. Mable
Lyons, Mrs. Elizabeth Short,
Mrs. Betty Tuck.
Photo by Purefoy
gro tester*. However, the
main issues of equal employ
ment and Improved communi
ty facilities for Negroes rt
main unresolved, despite a
recent aeries of negotiations
sessions with Mayor Jesse
Cutrer, Jr. and Mayor John
McKeithan. Negotiators for
CORE and the Bogalusa Civic
Sc Voters League flatly re
jected the governor's pro
posal for a 30 day truce in
return for the granting of
state jobs to two Negro lead,
era.
CHICAGO Charges of ag
gravated assault, theft and bat
tery, filed against a brother of
the late singer Sam Cooke, were
dropped Wednesday In court at
at the request of Mrs. Barbara
Cooke Womack.
promotion of "Black Nativity",
and to act as the soliciting
agent for colleges, universities
and civic organisations Interest
ed in having the play presented
In their home cities.
ATLANTA The largest
annual gathering in the eight
year history of the Soutehrn
Christian Leadership Confer
ence is expected In Birming
ham, Alabama Aug. 9-13
when SCLC, headed by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
holds its Ninth Annual Con
vention. More than 1,000
delegates are expected to be
on hand for the five day
meeting.
Theme of this year's con
vention will be: "Human
Rights, Basic Issues, The
Grand Alliance." Host to the
convention will be the Ala
bama Christian Movement
See SCLC Psge 2A
NEGRO LABORER OF
Sampson Co. Gets 10,000tl|
Loan In War On Poverty
WASHINGTON—The 10,-
000 th "war on poverty" loan
made recently by the Farm
ers Home Admnistration of
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture went to a Negro day
laborer with a family of
seven, whose earnings as a
pulpwood cutter last year
totaled only $2,000.
He is Sam Newton of
Sampson County, N. C., who
received an SI,BOO loan to
buy a chain saw and a used
truck. With this equipment,
he will be able to become an
Independent pulpwood cut*
ter and hauler. As such he
expects to work year-round
and increase his earnings to
$9,900 a year as well give
employment to two helpers.
Altogether, Negro workers
and farmers received 40 per
cent of the rural Economic
Opportunity loans that have
been made In the 10 South,
era States since last Janhary
when this phase of the anti
poverty program was launch
ed. "This program", said
Secretary of Agriculture Qr
See LOAN Page 2A
Greensboro Minister Gets
Call To Local Baptist Church
White Rock Baptist Church
has extended a call to Reverend
Lorenzo A. Lynch, Pastor of the
Providence Baptist Church,
Greensboro.
He will succeed Dr. Miles
Mark Fisher, who retired as
White Rock's Pastor on Janu
ary 1, 1963 after more than
30 years pastorate.
A native of Oak City, North
Carolina, Reverend Lynch is of
the fourth generation of min
isters in the fsmily. He received
his Bachelor of Arts degree
from Shaw University College
of Liberal Arts; Bachelor of
Divinity degree from Shaw Uni
versity School of Religion; stud
led as a graduate student at
Southeastern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary, Wake Forest and
also at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has
completed more than a year of
study in Ne*' Testament at Bos
ton University Graduate School,
working on his Ph.D. degree.
Reverend Lynch attended clin
ics in preaching at Duke Uni
versity School, and at the pres
ent time is a special student at
Duke Divinity School.
Providence Baptist Church
has experienced many accom
plishments since Rev. Lynch's
ministry began there in 1958.
A Sunday, and a licensed week
day nursery; established a
church library; renovation of
the church building; additions
in office equipment; a monthly
church newspaper; additional
Sunday School classes; a Board
of Christian Education; an of
ficers and workers conference;
Music Council; Every Member
Enlistment Canvass; Home De
partment of the Sunday School;
High Point Man Meets Death
At RR Crossing; Hit By Train
HIGH POINT Andrew J.
Diggs, who was struck by •
southbound Southern Railway
passenger train here, was dead
after the train carried his body
290 feet Wednesday.
He was identified by papers
in his pocket which listed him
as a resident of High Point.
Police said no evidence of foul
play "was found.
The train's engineer, Tom
Wood, said he saw something
on the tracks but it was too
late to stop the train before It
struck Dlggs' body. The inci
dent occurred about 1:19 a. m.
Wednesday.
Funeral services for the vic
tim will be held at 4 p. m. Fri
day in Hazlip's Funeral parlor
with the Rev. D. D. Mason as
minister in charge.
Diggs, whose body was too
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REV. EATOV
LAST RITES FOR
REV. C. W. EATON
HELD JULY 30
The funeral of Rev. C. W.
Eaton, 87, former pastor of
Gethsemane Baptist Church will
be held st White Rock Baptist
Church, here, Friday, July
3Q, st 2:30 P.M. Hie Rev. Ed
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REV. LYIfCH
Commission on Evangelism;
Youth four addi
tional staff persons have been
added to the church's program
(3 nursery school teachers and
cne secretary to the pastor);
Church community surveys;
Employment Council; Annual
Family Life Institute and An
nual Human Relations Institute;
Church parsonage has been
built, which values over $30,-
000; the church has been set
debt free twice; his first year"*
budget doubled any previouj
year's budget; church attend
ance and membership have also
increased; the church has be
gun a building program for an
j ether church for the relocation
| and expansion of its program;
a summary of his Sunday's
sermons appears in the Pastor*i
Paragraphs in the Monday edi
tion of the Greensboro Dally
See WHITE ROCK Page 2A
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DIOOS
mangled for an autopsy to be
performed, is survived by five
brothers and three sisters.
Burial will be in Greenhill
Cemetary.
Four Promoted
At N.C. College
By Pres. Massie
North Carolina Collect
President Samuel P. Maaaie
Saturday announced promo*-
tkms for four of the college's
faculty members.
Hie change* in rank, «J»
proved by the institution'*
Board of Trustees at its last
meeting were the following;
Dr. Cecil L. Patterson, Eng
lish and acting director of
Summer School, from asso
ciate professor to professor,
Le Marquis DeJarmon, law,
from associate professor to
professor; Dr. Be mice Wada,
education, from instructor to
assistant professor; and 10M
Jean K. Norris, English,
from instructor to assistant
professor.