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VOLUME 12 No. 40 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1965 PRICE: 15c
U.S. COURT ORDERS SWIFT
ARK. SCHOOL INTEGRATION
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WHEN MORGAN STATE COL
LEGE, Baltimore, celebrated iti
Homecoming October 30, the
theme was the "Gay Nineties."
Here are Miss Debra Johnson,
2nd from left, Columbia, S. C.,
98th SESSION BAPT.
CONVENE AT SHAW
Laymen's League
In Sixteenth
Annual Meeting
RALEIGH The 98th An
nual Session of the General
Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina, Inc. and the
16th Annual Session of the
Laymen's League Convention
will hold their Annual meeting
at Shaw University, Raleigh,
November 8-11.
The theme of the joint ses
sion is "Thanking God For
Shaw University."
The highlights of the Lay
men's Convention will be dis
cussion by Rudolph Jones,
President of Fayetteville State
College, "What the Laymen
must do to Ease Shaw's Finan
cial Crisis"; Charles Ray, N.
C. College, Durham, "Advan
tages of Attending a Church
lege."
The Annual Sermon will be
delivered by the Reverend J.
B. Humphrey, pastor of First
Baptist Church, Charlotte.
Frank Marshall of Asheville is
president of the Laymen's Con
vention.
The General Baptist State
Convention will be called to
order by the president, R. M.
Pitts, pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church, Winston-Salem.
Following the call to order,
the convention will hear re
ports from the Executive Sec
retary, O. L. Sherrill, the His
torian, the Statistician, the De
partment of Interracial Coope
ration, the Central Orphanage,
Editor of the Baptist Informer
and others.
The highlights of the conven
tion will be a discussion of
the theme, the Annual Sermon
by H .S. Diggs, pastor of Pro
vidence Baptist Church, Rock
ingham and a symposium by
the School of Religion of Shaw
University. Special messages
will be given by Carlyle Mar
ney, pastor of Myers Park Bap
tist Church, Charlotte, and J.
C. Hairston, pastor of the Sixth
Mount Zion Baptist Church,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Shaw University's Chorale
Society will sing on Wednes
day night, November 10, fol
lowed by a sermon from the
President, J. E. Cheek.
The General Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina
is composed of seventeen hun
dred with a member
ship of more than three hun
dred thousand Baptists.
| "Miss A. and T."; and at rljht,
Miss Adele Protcor, Brandy
wine, Md., "Miss Morgan."
They are shown at Morgan's
Homecoming game with 2nd
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Token Integration, Biased
Reporting Behind Tex. Turmoil
HUNTSVILLE, Texas— Mass
arrests, fines and jail sentences
are being imposed upon SCLC
led demonstrators in this
small, Northeast Texas town
which has attempted to defy
school integration,, with only
token placement of Negro pu
pils in previously all-white
schools.
Since demonstrations began
on Oct. 18 when Negro parents
began picketing the all-Negro
Sam Houston High School be
cause of its segregated enroll
ment, nearly 50 persons chil
dren and adults have been jail
ed and given stiff fines and
sentences. Seven a-lults were
arrested the first day of the
protest and charged with un
lawful assembly. They were
held under SI,OOO bond each.
The following day a total of
31 additional arrests were
made made in the Walker
County Courthouse when stu-
Former Durhamite Honored
By Gasfonia Jr. Women's Club
GASTONIA The highlight
of the dinner meeting of the
Junior Wpman's Club Thurs
day evening at Masonic Temple
was the presentation of the An
nual Service Award to Thebaud
Jeffers.
Thebaud Jeffers City Coun
cilman of Ward Four, principal
of Highland High School, is
the first of the race to be so
honored by a group of young
women devoted and committed
to service.
Jeffers has served as prin
cipal of Highland since 1940.
Prior to coming to Gastonla, he
taugh English and French and
was advisor and founder of
the "Relgh High Sentinel" of
Belmont. He also served aa
principal of Reid High School.
He is a graduate of Hillside
High School, Durham; Johnson
C. Smith University, Charlotte
and the University of Southern
California, where he earned
the M.A. degree in French and
English. He completed Admini
stration and Supervision at
Corney University of Ithaca,
New York.
He has served four summers
as teacher in the Principals'
Workshop at North Carolina
Lt. David Burton, Columbia, S.
C.; and Michael Herndon (Ca
det Col.) Lexington Park, Md.,
right. Morgan beat the Aggies
3U.
dents and parents showed up
in court td'protest the arrests.
All were fined SIOO and sen
tenced to three days in jail on
charges of contempt of court.
Six others also were arrested
at Sam Houston High School on
charges of unlawful assembly
and placed in jail in solitary
confinement.
They were later given the
maximum sentence of six
months in jail.
The protest demonstrations
in Huntsville have been led in
the spirit of nonviolence un
der the guidance of SCLC
Filed Secretary Booker T. Bon
ner and Assistant Field Direc
tor Richard Boone.
Meanwhile plans are for
demonstrations to continue
and mass meetings are being
held regularly at Goliath Bap
tist Church with upwards of
200 parents in attendance.
College at Durham and taught
courses at Gaston Memorial
Hospital in Gastonia four ses
sions in the field of "Human
Relations and Current Events."
Jeffers has served on the eval
uation committee for high
schools for the State Depart
ment of Education for five
high schools during the past
several years.
He is secretary of the may
or's committee on human rela
tions, secretary of the Board
of trustees of Gaston County
Negro Hospital and a member
of the Board of the Anti-Pover
ty Program of Gaston County.
Jeffers is an organizer and
president of the N. C. Teach
ers' Association Credit Union.
As eldrt- in Third Street
Presbyterinn Church, he was
elected Moderator of the Ca
tawba Presbytery.
As state directpr of Educa
tion for the Elks, he has inter
ested the various lodges in
scholarships for worthy stu
dents. He is also a 32nd degree
Prince Hall Mason, and a
Shriner. In 1057 he was named
"Man of the Year" by the Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity Epsilon Upi-
See JEFFERS 2A
Strikes Blow at
"Freedom of
Choice" Plan
ST. LOUIS A Federal Cir
cuit Court of Appeals here this
week struck a blow at "Free
dom of choice' 'as a means of
desegregating public schools.
The three-judge court, act
ing on an appeal by NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, said a desegregation
plan submitted by the El Do
rado, Ark., school board did
not go far enough or fast
enough towards integrated edu
cation.
The Legal Irenes Fund ap
pealed a lower decision
accepting a plan thatXjyoj/ld
have given pupils the choice
of which of the systems 10
white and eight Negro schools
they wished to attend.
While agreeing with Fund
attorneys that freedom of
choice places the burden of
desegregating education on Ne
gro pupils and their parents
rather than school officials,
the court said such a plan was
acceptable on an experimental
basis.
The court ruled that the
school board must offer free
dom of choice to the 11th and
12th grades for the 1965 66
school year as well as to the
first and second grades as out
lined in the original plan.
It further ordered desegre
gation of at least four addition
al grades for the following
year, with all grades desegre
gated by the 1967-68 school
year. The original plan was
not to be fully implemented
until the 1968 69 school year.
Students who do not exer
cise their free choice should
"be assigned to the school
nearest their homes or on the
basis of nonracial attendance
zones" in accordance with
guidelines laid down by the
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, the court
said.
The court also agreed with
a Legal Defense Fund argu
ment that the school board
should offer the choice of
schools to pupils in every
grade each year once the plan
is fully operational.
Ministers r Labor, DCNABack School
Employees Better Working Conditions
GROUP MEETS
WITH CITY
COUNCIL MON.
Led by representatives of
labor, the Durham Ministerial
Alliance, the Committee on
Negro Affairs and officials of
the Durham City School Em
ployees Local Union 481, con
sisting of approximately 300
Negro workers in the City
School system, the City Coun
cil of Durham was presented a
petition here Monday night re
questing its aid in securing
better working conditions and
an increase in wages for all
city school employees.
Attending the meeting were
approximately 100 person who
jammed into the limited Coun
cil chamber, occupying all
seats and standing around the
the walls. Highlighting the
Monday night's session were
the remarks of Rev. J v A.
Brown, pastor of the Ebeneier
Baptist Church. Brown charg
ed that the Durham City Board
of Education maintained a
policy that denied Negro chil
dren equal educational oppor
tunities.
Rev. Brorwn's remarks drew
See SCHOOL 2A
CORE Director Haley Reports
Law Officers "Just Ran Wild"
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MRS. SPAULDING
Mother of NCM
President Dies
In Columbus Co.
CLARKTON Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Annie Bell Low
ery Spaulding, 100, were held
Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m.
at the Rehoboth A.M.E. Zion
Church near Whiteville.
Mrs. Spaulding died last Sat
urday night at the home of
her daughter, Miss Hattie Jane
Spaulding of Clarkton.
Her survivors include five
children, Asa T. Spaulding,
president of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, Mrs. Lula S. Jackson and
D. Fuller Spaulding of Dur
ham, Armstead McClain Spaul
ding of Whiteville and Miss
Cecil Spaulding of Riverdale,
N. Y. Other survivors are two
brothers, a sister, 19 grandchil
dren and three great-great
grandchildren.
Interment was in the Mit
chell Cemetery.
Local School to
Observe Amer.
Education Wk.
Hillside High School stu
dents and faculty will observe
American Education Week be
ginning Monday, November 8,
and extending through Friday,
November 21.
The Annual observance will
start on Monday with a daily
theme for each school day.
Open House for parents and
friends will be observed dur
ing the initial day's opening,
and the theme for Monday is
"To Strengthen Moral and
Spiritual Values, To cultivate
the Intellect."
The theme for Tuesday, No
vember 9 is "To Enhance Per
sonal Fulfillment."
A special assembly is being
olanned for Wednesday, No
vember 10, and the theme for
that day is "To Improve Earn-
See ED. WEEK 2A
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AT NC C HOMiCOMING—
Among actlvltlaa during North
Carolina Collogo'i homacomlng
f«T actlvltlai Saturday In Dur
ham, was a gam* batwaan NCC
and Shaw Unlvaralty. During
halfthna, two "quaan*" wara
BOGALI'SA, La.—Police in
Bogalusa, La., had already ar
rested 75 persons on Wednes
day, October 20th; that night
they charged into the Negro
section of town after a pro
test meeting and beat, clubbed,
and kicked any Negro who hap
pened to be in the area, ar
resting 20 additional persons.
This was the charge leveled by
CORE southern director Rich
ard Haley at Bogalusa and
Washington Parish (county)
law officers following what he
called "a night of terror in
typical Bogalusa style."
"They just ran wild," said
Haley, who reported that po
lice dogs were let off their
leashes, that officers pulled
Negroes from cars that were
simply passing through the
neighborhood, that in several
cases officers beat Negroes in
«'de places of business, and
that one officer fired Shots at
a fleeing Negro youth.
Haley's charges are especial
ly serious in view of a federal
court order issued in July, and
still in effect, ordering police
and sheriff's deputies to pro
tect Negroes and civil rights
workers, to allow them full ex
ercise of their rights and to
refrain from using any form of
brutality. "There is no doubt
in our mind that the officers
violated the court order," Ha
ley stated and added, "our
See BOGALUSA 2A
600 Classroom Teachers of
NEA In Convention Here
The Southeast Regional Con
ference of the Department of
Classroom Teachers of The Na-
I tional Education Association
has been convening at Dur
ham's Jack Tar Hotel during
I the present week as some 600
' odd classroom teachers, prin
cipals, and other school offi
cials are in attendance at the
workshops, buzz sessions, dis
cussions, and banquets center
ed around the theme "Oppor
-1 tunity for Responsibility."
The conference opened with
registration on Wednesday eve
-1 ning, and settled down to the
official school affairs of resolu
tions committee meetings, ad
visory council meetings, in-ser
vice training workshops, and
the like on Thursday rooming,
November 4.
The first General Session for
the delegates and other visit
ing dignitaries was held on
Thursday night at o'clock when
Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz, presi
dent- of the NEA Department
of Classroom Teachers address
ed the delegation. Fri. morn
ing's sessions included an ad
dress by Miss Margaret Stev
enson, executive secretary of
the NEA Department of Class
room Teachers, workshops cen
tered around topics of "condi
tions of work," "Citizenship,"
and "Tenure."
crownad, Linda Wllion "Mitt
Homacomlng;" and Margarat
MeCullough, "Mln Alumni."
From laft In tha photo ara:
Dr. Samual P. Mania, NCC
pratktant; Robart Farguton,
NCC co-«aptain; Ml«t Wilton;
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AND AWAY WE CO This j
spectator »t North Carolina
College's Oct. 30 homecoming |
parade was so excited by the
thumping beat of the NCC
marching band that he went
into an old vaudeville routine, j
MRS. KOONTZ
The final feature on the af
ternoon program for Friday
•*as a panel discussion of the
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965. Friday
night's session was focused on
"Human Rights and the Million
Dollar Fund."
Final sessions for the con
ference are scheduled for Sat
urday, November 6 beginning
with a 9 a m business session
which will include some
amendments to the NEA By
laws, and DCT Resolutions. A
2 p.m. panel ddiscussion will
be centered around "Changing
See NEA page 2A
Bobby Atmond, NCC coop
tain; Mitt McCullough; and
Chariot Stray horn, national
protidant of tha NCC Alumni
Auoclation. NCC won tha tilt,
3512.
The homecoming parada,
consisting, of some 70 units, in
cluded eight marching bands,
and was followed by an NCC-
Shaw game which NCC won,
35-12.
Microbiology
Institute For
NCC Approved
The National Science Foun
dation has awarded a grant of
$29,370 to North Carolina Col
lege to support a five-week
summer institute in microbiol
ogy for college teachers for
1966, President Samuel P. Mas
sie announced this week.
To be directed by Dr. Nell
Hirschberg, professor of biol
ogy at NCC, tie institute will
he the second consecutive one
of its kind supported at the
college by the foundation. Last
summer's program at NCC was
the only one in the nation spe
cifically designated for college
teachers of microbiology.
Provisions of the grant in
clude stipends, dependency al
lowances, and travel allowanc
es for 24 participants.
VIETNAM
Asks for 17
Year Olds to
Be Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, D. C. —lm
mediate withdrawal from com
bat in Vietnam of all American
soldiers less than eighteen
years old was again called for
by Congressman John Conyers,
Jr. (Dem-Michigan). "Not send
ing American soldiers into
combat until they are eighteen
years old was the policy dur
ing the Korean War and I
think the same policy should
also apply to Vietnam," de
clared Conyers who was de
corated for combat service in
Korea as an Army officer.
"Quite simply I feel that seven
teen is just too young for
someone to fight in war,
though I admire and respect
the courage of the American
youths who volunteer at such
an early age. Not only should
soldiers less than eighteen no
longer be ordered into combat,
but all those less than eigh
teen should be immediately
withdrawn from combat. Since
the best Defense Department
guess-estimate is that present
ly there are no more than 1200
seventeen year olds in Viet
nam, I feel confident this can
be done without endangering
thte safety of the individual
military ui^ts."
Conyers originally becamt
aware of this issue in early
September when cohstituents
complained to him that they
had been misled by Marina
See CONYERS 2A