ST. JOSEPH'S GETS NEW PASTOR
JUDGE REBUKES WOMAN BEATEN BY iCONSTABLE
Court Ignores
Accusations
Of Victim
KINSTON Judge Edward
? Clark of Elizabethtown on
. Thursday, September 9, at Su
;i perior Court here sharply re
| buked defendant Mrs. Nora
(. Graham who had testified that
; Constable Robert Garris had
; made anti-Negro remarks prior
to giving her a brutal beating
I when serving her with a war
f rant for a four dollar balance
on a bill she owed. Judge Clark
said he believed the woman
had been encouraged to make
false accusations against the
Constable by persons seeking
to stir up racial trouble.
Mrs. Graham was convicted
of resisting arrest and assault
ing an officer by a jury which
i included three women and one
Negro, (a man). She was sen
tenced by Judge Clark to serve
twelve months in Woman's
prison, suspended for three
years on payment of a fifty
dollar fine and court costs and
on condition that she violate
no law. The Judge commended
the jury for not giving credu
lence to Mrs. Graham's sworn
testimony that Constable Gar
ris had beaten her to uncon
sciousness with brass knuckles
and that Constable Garris had
threatened to kill her because
Negroes in Kinston had their
heads poisoned by a local civil
rights worker into thinking
they could run the town and
he would show that they
couldn't.
Mrs. Graham, who had spent
a year and a half in a sanato
rium, and her invalid husband,
both testified that Garris
brought the warrant to their
home on a Sunday morning
(July 18) and became enraged
when Mrs. Graham told him
that she had already been to
court about the matter and the
judge had told her the mat
ter was settled. They said he
entered their home and brand
ed his pistol, told the man to
sit down or he would shoot
him. He prevented Mrs. Grah
am from telephoning for help
by jerking the wire aloose
from the phone. Mrs. Graham
was placed under arrest and
was beaten in the face and
kicked by Garris behind the
courthouse. She was in jail
from noon until eight at night
before she was able to get a
bondsman to bail her out.
Upon release, she was taken to
the hospital for X-rays and
emergency treatment for her
face.
Dr. D. L. Whitaker, of Le
noir Memorial Hospital, testi
fied at the trial that he had
treated Mrs. Graham for con
tusions and abrasions; that
the injuries had caused swell
's. Ing and discoloration to the
right side of Mrs. Graham's
face and eye. There was a
scrape on one knee and tend
erness in the abdominal area.
Garris testified that he did
strike Mrs. Graham anete she
got her injuries when she tried
to assault him and ran into the
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WILCOMID—Three of 26
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•dhdM North Carolina Col
lag* campus recently are
ihown with tholr dapartmant
heads. From left are Dr. Char
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VOLUME 12
President Baptist
Issues Call For National Unity
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DR. JOSEPH H. JACKSON,
president of the National Bap
tist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.,
receives honorary Doctor of
Canon and Civil Law degree
from Edward Waters (AME)
college during ceremonies high
lighting eighty-fifth annual ses
sion of organisation at Jackson
Mrs. Rosa Wade Accidentally
Killed; Funeral Last Sunday
Funeral service for Mrs.
Rosa Wade, 77-year-old \yell
known resident of Durham who
was struck by an automobile
last Wednesday evening about
7 o'clock, was held at the Mt.
Vernon Baptist Church Sun
day at 12:30 p.m. with the pas
tor, Rev. E. T. Browne officiat
ing. Burial followed in the
3eechwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Wade was struck by an
automobile driven by Rufus
Sliglif, 58-year-old resident of
Route 3, Durham, on 'South
Roxboro Street, 45 feet north
of Enterprise Street when she
allegedly stepped from the
curb into the street. She re
ceived multiple injuries in the
incident and was taken to Lin
coln Hospital where she died
at 2 a.m. Thursday morning.
See WADE 5A
les Ray, chairman of the De
partment of English, and Mrs.
Ann R. Richman of the Eng
lish faculty; Russell L. Adams
of the political science faculty;
Charles J. Farmer of the geo
ville Fie. Shown (left to right)
are the Rev. A. B. Coleman,
pastor of Shiloh Bapt. church,
Jacksonville; Rev. J. A. F. Fln
layson, president, Florida State
Baptist Convention; Dr. Wil
liam Stewart, president, Ed
ward • Waters, who made the
f
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MRS. WADE
graphy faculty; Dr. Violet
Wurfel, chairman of the De
partment of Political Science;
and. Dr. Theodore Spelgner,
chairman of the Department
of Geography.
presentation; R. E. L. Hart
man, National Baptist Conven
tion representative to the Unit
ed Nations; Dean James Espy,
who read the citation; Dr. Jack
son and AME Bishop Eugene
Hatcher, speaker for fhe oc
casion. •
NAACP State
Conference to
Meet in W-S
WINSTON-SALEM The
22nd Annual Convention of the
North Carolina State Confer
ence of Branches will be held
in Winston-Salem, October 7-
10.
Special emphasis will be
placed on "NAACP Leadership-
Meeting the Challenge of an
Integrated Society."
Clarence Mitchell, Director
of Washington Bureau NAACP
will keynote the Convention on
Friday evening. Mitchell is an
outstanding Civil Rights leader.
He will discuss "The Voting
Rights Bill of 1965."
Convention headquarters will
be at St. James AME Church,
1501 North Patterson Street.
of Branches NAACP will ad
dress the Convention on Satur
day morning. Current is direc
tor of Branch activities
throughout the United States.
Gloster B. Current, Director
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, Southeast
Regional Director NAACP will
be the Sunday Civil Rights
Mass Meeting speaker. Mrs.
Hurley directs activities of the
Branches in the states' of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, South Carolina,
North ..Carolina, and Tennessee.
A special workshop on "Poli
tical Action Now" will be held
featuring Negroes who have
been elected to political office
in North Carolina.
Additional workshops includ
ing; School Desegregation, Em
ployment and Anti-Poverty
Legislation and Greater Imple
mentation of the Civil Rights
Act will be discussed.
All Must Unite
And Work for
Nation's Life '
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Dx.
Joseph H. Jackson, president
of the five-million member
National Baptist Convention,
U.S.A., Inc., has issued a call
for national unity, urging all
groups in .the country to "rise
above all differences of creed,
color and caste."
The powerful Baptist leader,
who has been re-elected presi
dent of the convention each
year since 1953, warned Ameri
ca of "its plight and the perils
of the many divisions that af
flict and disturb this nation"
in his annual address deliver
ed at the eighty-fifth annual
session of the organization in
Jacksonville, Fla,
He pledged the strength of
the denomination's vast mem
bership in calling attention to
the national crisis.
The distinguished minister
said Americans can no longer
afford tre luxury and "nega
tive weights of past prejudi
ces, hatred, envy, discrimina
tion, disrespect for law and
order, and for one another;
race riots, and bloodshed."
"All of us must unite and
work together as one for the
nation's life and cause or
eventually perish," be warn
ed.
Dr. Jackson, pastor of Chi
cago's Olivet Baptist Church,
(3101 S. Parkway), said the
civil rights struggle is, in real
ity, the struggle of Americans
to implement all of the just
laws of the land and to fulfill
every promise and pledge that
America has made for the
equality of all Americans," he
stated.
Approximately 12,000 dele
gates and visitors attended the
convention.
Dr. Jackson said the con
vention chose Jacksonville as
the site of its 1965 meeting
because of "a great faith —
faith in ourselves as a race,
See BAPTIST HEAD, 2A
Noted Missionary to Preach at Mount Vernon
Baptist Church Sunday Morn., September 26
Rev. Sydney L. Goldfinch,
Sr., Southern Baptist mission
ary, will deliver the massage
at Mount Vernon Baptist
Church Sunday morning dur
ing the 11 o'clock service. Rev.
E. T. Browne is the pastor.
A native of Conway, S. C.,
Rev. Goldfinch holds the bach
elor of philosophy degree from
Wheaton ail.) College and the
master of theology degree from
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky. be
fore he became a missionary,
Rev. Goldfinch held pastorate
in Sylvania and Douglas, Ga.
and also taught school in his
hometown.
Presently, Goldfinch is devel
oping leaders for Baptist
churches in Costa Rica. He di
rects and teaches in the Bap
tist theological institute in
San Joe, Costa Rica -where he
has been since 1061 having
previously worked in Paraguay
and Uruguay.
In the 15 years he spent In
Paraguay, Goldfinch served as
field evangelist, pastor, teholo
gical professor, camp admini
strator, hospital chaplain,
president of the national Bap
tist convention and executive
secretary of the convention's
mission board.
Rev. Goldfinch and his wife,
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REV. COUSIN BISHOP BABER REV. FOUST
BISHOP GEORGE W. BABER
congratulates Rev. Benjamin S.
Rev. Philip Cousin Is New
Pastor Of St. Joseph's; Rev.
Foust New President K.C.
Mrs. M. B. Lucas Women's Day
Speaker at St. Mark Sunday
Mrs. M. B. Lucas has been
chosen as the Woman's Day
speaker at St. Mark A. M. E.
Zion Church, Sunday morning.
September 26, 10:55. Rev. 1,.
A Miller is the pastor.
Mrs. M. B. Lucas is a native
of Abbottsburg, and resides in
Durham. She is married to W.
W. Lucas, of Elizabethtown.
She is a member of St. Mark
and is affiliated with the Sun
day School and the Varick
Christian Endeavor Society.
She received her undergrad
uate degree from A. and T.
College; and the M. A. Degree
from the University of New
York. She has done further
study at the University of N.
C., Chapel Hill, and New York
University.
Mrs. Lucas is presently em
ployed as an instructor in the
Department of Education, in
the area of Special Education,
North Carolina College at Dur
ham.
Her membership in Region
al. State and National Profes
sional organizations includes: 1
DR. STANTON L. WORMLEY NAMED
ACTING PRESIDENT OF HOWARD U.
WASHINGTON, D. C—The
Howard University board of
trustees today granted Presi
dent James M. Nabrit, Jr. a
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RIV. GOLDFINCH, JR.
the former Frances McCaw of
Columbia, S. C., have six chil
dren and several grandchil
dren. One of their daughters,
Leila, serves with the Peace
Corps in Columbia.
Foust, (right). Acting President
of Kittrell Junior College, while I
jt.
MRS. LUCAS
Past ' President of the South
eastern District Association of
C.T.A. ol NCTA. a member of
thr North Carolina Speech As
sociation, FTA. NCTA, and
NEA. Zcta Pi Omega Chapter
of the AKA Sorority, and the
American Speech Association.
one-year leave of absence to
serve as U. S. Representative
to the United Nations, a post
to which he was appointed by
President Lyndon B. Johnson
last month. At the same time
the trustees named Dr. Stan
ton L. Wormly, academic vice
president of the University,
acting president for the 1965-
66 school year.
President Nabrit left the
University immediately for
New York City, where he will
take the oath of office for
his nw post at 9:30 a.m. to
morrow (Tuesday).
The action by the trustees
followed the annual Formal
Opening exercises at Howard,
where Presidnt Nabrit de
livered his final address to the
faculty and student body be
fore leaving for the U. N. Dr.
Nabrit urged his Cramton
Auditorium audience to con
tinue towards its goal of aca
demic excellence and the even
more important goal of twing
ing the blessings of democracy
to all men.
"Today this (fight far equali
ty) is still unfiniirhed, thia
See PRESIDENT, SA
the former President, Dr. Phil
ip R. Cousin, (left), looks on.
FORMER HEAD
OF KITTRELL
COLLEGE NAMED
In an unprecedented Pre-
Conference shake-up, made
necessary by the recent death
of one of the leading ministers
of ' the Second Episcopal Dis
(rict of the A. M. E. ChuMh,
the Rev. I. J. Miller, pastor
of Mt. Moriah A. M. E. Church
of Annapolis, Md., Bishop
George W. Baber, presiding
prelate of the District, was
forced to change the pastorates
and posts held by several lead
ing ministers of his district
last week.
Moved from the pastorate of
St. Joseph's AME Church at
Durham, to the pastorate of
the Waters AME Church, in
Baltimore was the Rev. Melvin
Chester Swann. Replacing Rev.
Swann at St. Joseph's will be
the Rev. Philip R. Cousin, who
for the past five years has
been president of Kittrell Col
lege. The post at Kittrell will
be filled by Rev. B. S. Foust,
who up until his new appoint
ment as president of Kittrell,
was pastor of St. Paul A. M. E.
Church of Raleigh.
Rev. Cousin will assume the
pastorate of St. Joseph's Sun-
See ST. JOSEPH'S, 2A
Hobart Taylor Is
Sworn In As Dir.
Exim Bank
WASHINGTON, »D. C—Hob
art Taylor, Jr., was sworn in
today as a Director of the Ex
port-Import Bank of Washing
ton. The Honorable Tom C.
Clark, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court administered
the oath of office at the Ex
port-Import Bank.
President Johnson named
Taylor to the bi-partisan Board
of Directors on August 25. The
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee approved the nomi
nation on September 2, and
the full Senate concurred on
September 7.
Until today, Taylor had been
Associate Counsel to the
President and Executive Vice
Chairman of the President'*
Committee on Equal Employ
ment Opportunity.
Born in Texarkana, Texas,
Taylor was graduate from
Prairie View College with a
bachelor's degree. He received
a Master of Arts degree in
Economics from Howard Uni
versity and a Bachelor of
Laws degree from the Univer
sity of Michigan. In IMM6.
he was a research clerk to the
Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court.
Taylor, a former Wayne
County (Detroit) Corporation
Counsel, was In private law
See TAYLOR. 2A