UGLWOMM TO SEEK COHGRESS SUT
U. S. Court Rules Against City School Board
Motion for Approval 'Freedom
Of Choice' Denied by Judge
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MRS. COBB
Final Rites are
Held Dec. 1 for
Mrs. Mary Cobb
The last rites for Mrs. Mary
Etta Cobb, 86, were held at
St. Joseph's AME Church here,
Wednesday, December 1, at
3:30 P.M. The pastor, the Rev.
Phillip R. Cousin, delivered
the eulogy.
Mrs .Cobb succumbed No
vember 27 at the Freedman
Hospital, Washington, D. C.
following a short illness. At
the time of her death, she was
residing at the home of her
son, Attorney James B. Cobb
of Washington.
Mrs. Cobb was born in Ala
mance County. In 1903 she
moved to Durham and soon
afterward joined St. Joseph's
AME Church, where she serv
ed as president and treasurer
of the Missionary Society for a
long number of- years. Tn 1962
her church honored her as
"Mother of the Year."
Surviving are two- daughters
and two sons. The daughters
are Mrs. Margaret Allen, with
whom she lived in Durham,
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WHEELER
J. H. Wheeler
To Visit South
Africa For U.S.
J. H. Wheeler, president of
the Mechanics and Farmers
will spend two weeks in the
Republic of South Africa on a
visit to that country sponsored
by the South African Leader
ship Exchange Program, Inc.
During his visit to South
Africa, which will include the
cities of Johanesburg, Cape
town, Durban, Stellendosch,
Pretoria, other cities and towns,
Wheeler will interview a
great many white and black
leaders of that country.
This year's visit to South
Africa is Wheeler's third to the
continent of Africa. His first
was made as the personal rep
resentative of former Secretary
of Commerce, Luther Hodges,
during his term in that office
and was made during the Inter
national Trade Fair held in
Tripoli.
Wheeler left Durham by
plane Thusrday afternoon. He
Is expected to return to the
city on or about Dec. 21.
Judge Edwin M. Stanley,
Chief District Judge for the
Middle District of North Caro
lina, in a hearing held in fed
eral court here Monday, No
vember 29, denied the Durham
City School Board's motion for
a final order approving the
Board's Freedom of Choice'
plan for desegregation of the
city schools. The action was
brought by Negro plaintiffs
against the Durham City Board
of Education.
Judge Stanley's denial of the
motion of the defendants in
the case is believed to have
been influenced to a great ex
tent by the U. S. Supreme
Court's recent reversal of the
Bradley tase involving the
Richmond, Va. city schools.
The court held on November
15, 1965 that the matter of ra
cial integration of teachers
should be considered by the
court in conjunction with any
final ruling on the Board
of Education's "Freedom of
Choice" plan.
Representing the defendants
in the Durham City schools
case were Judge Marshall T.
Spears and Attorney Jerry Mar
vis. The plaintiffs were repre
sented by Attorneys C. O.
Pearson and J.' H. Wheeler.
FUNERAL OF JAS.
DAYE HELD AT
BAHAMA THUR.
The funeral of James Wal
ter Daye, 18, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter 0. Daye was held
at the Mt. Calvary Baptist
Church of Bahama Thursday,
December 2, at 3:00 P.M. The
eulogy was delivered by the
pastor, Rev. J. Neal Hugh
ley.
Daye, who resided with his
parents at 3041 Lake Dr..
succumbed at Duke Hospital,
Tuesday, November 30 at
12:15 a.m., following an ill
ness of two years or more.
He was a member of Mt. Cal
vary up to the time of his
death, and prior to his de
clining health was active with
in the younger group of the
?hurch.
•In addition to his parents,
he is survived by two sisters,
Misses Gwendolyn and Cynthia
Day of the home and other
relatives and friends.
Interment was at the church
cemetery.
NAACP Registers
Over 5,000 In 2 Wks.
In 6 Miss. Counties
JACKSON, Miss.—Efforts by
the NAACP have been success
ful in placing more than 5,000
Negroes on the registration
lists in six Mississippi counties
in a two-week period from Nov.
10-23, Miss Althea T. L. Sim
mons, NAACP voter registra
tion co-ordinator, reported this
week.
In Hinds County, Negroes
have been registering at the
rate of 150 per day since Nov.
15 and in nearby Raymond an
average of 50 Negroes are reg-
See REGISTERS 2A
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WHITE ROCK CHOIR TO PRESENT
"THE MESSIAH" SUN., DECEMBER 5
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VOLUME 42 No. 45 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1965 ~~ ~PRICE: 15c
NAACPPushes Investigation
Charlotte Homes Bombing
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COEDS DONATE FOOD BOX—
Residents of the Old Senior
Dormitory at North Carolina
College donated a box of food
Civil Rights Attorneys Ask
Protection For Negro Nurses
Win. Clement Alphas Founder's
Day Keynoter ai NCC Sunday
William Alexander Clement,
vice president and agency di
rector of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, will speak at the Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity's annua]
Founder's Day program Sun
day, December 4, at 4 o'clock
in the B. N. Duke Auditorium
at North Carolina College.
Raymond C. Perry, president
of the local college chapter,
will introduce Clement and
'A'ill serve as official host at
the reception to follow in the
Education Auditorium at 5:00
p.m. Members of the alumni
chapter and undergraduate
members will be present in the
receiving line at the reception.
The Founder's Day program
is sponsored by Gamma Beta
Chapter of the Alpha Phi Al
pha Fraternity, Incorporated in
conjunction with the Beta
Theta Lambda Graduate Chap
ter. Members of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority will also
White Rock Baptist Church's
forty voice Senior Choir will
present George Frederick Han
del's "The Messiah" Sunday
afternoon, December 5, at'4:so
o'clock. The choir will be und
er the direction of John H.
Gattis. Mrs. Lavinia Parker will
be at the Console. Pianists will
be Mesdames Otelia J. Stew
art, Dorothy Judkins, Alice
Stewart and L. H. Cole. Solo
ists: Mesdames Gwendolyn Tait,
Soprano and Margaret Good
win, Contralto; Albertis Win
gate, Tenor, Willie H. Green
and R. Delacy Peters, Bass.
The public is invited to this
presentation.
Thought of the Week: After
70 you look forward to a good
night's sleep.
on Thanksgiving Day to a nMdy
family in Durham. Some of th«
coeds are shown with th* box
which was filled under thf
CLEMENT
participate in the program.
Special seats will be reserved
for the Alpha Kappa Alpha So
rority and for Alpha wives.
Clement, a native of Charles-
See CLEMENT 2A
Sue Attackers
NEW ORLEANS —Two Mis
sissippi civil rights workers
filed damage suits in the Cir
cuit Court of Leake County
against white men they said at
tacked them "savagely and vi
ciously" during at attempt to
integrate a movie theater in
Carthage on Sunday, Novem
ber 14. Both suits were filed
on Fw}ay7-November 19.
CORE worker Sears Buckley,
Jr., of Canton, Miss., asked
SIO,OOO damages from W. D.
Martin who Buckley claims hit
him on the head with a club.
The Rev. Rims Barber, a grad
uate of Princetoji Theological
Seminary who is a volunteer
CORE worker in Mississippi,
asked $5,000 damages from a
defendant identified as the
operator of the Parland Gas
Station in Carthage.
The cases arise from an at
tempt to integrate the Fox
tup*rvlilon of th» rasidanca
counselor, Mrs. Claytae H.
: Watson.
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RICHMOND, Va.—The U. S.
Court of Appeals was asked to
decide today if Negro nurses
are protected by the Constitu
tion with regard to racial dis
crimination at hospitals re
ceiving Federal monies under
the Hill-Burton Act.
Attorneys of the NAACP Le
gal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc. are asking that three
Negro nurses, fired two years
ago for eating in the "white"
cafeteria of Dixie Hos(Ntal,
Hampton, Va., be reinstated.
The attorneys argue that
Dixie Hospital "received Fed
eral funds in 1956, seven years
before the racial discharge"
after promising that it would
not "discriminate on basis of
race, creed or color."
Negro nurses across the
South generally work for less
money than their white coun
terparts; are given separate
facilities; assigned the less de
sirable work; and, are confined
to Negro wards, for the most
part.
The nurses in this case, Mil
dred Smith, Agnes L. Stokes
and Patricia L. Taylor were
among Dixie Hospital's Negro
See NURSES 2A
theater. Having been chased
out of the theater on November
7, a group of 38 Negroes and
CORE workers again attempted
to integrate the Fox on Novem
ber 14, but never even got into
the theater; a group of 150
white men beat the integra
tionists and chased them away.
Buckley's suit charges that
Martin "intentionally and ma
liciously" perpetrated "a sav
age attack" upon him and that
Martin "struck Buckley vio
lently on the head with a
wooden club thereby inflicting
severe and painful injuries to
his person." The suit says
Buckley suffered extreme "phy
sical and mental pain, cerebral
concussion, headaches and con
tusions."
Quote of the Week: "Pleas
ure bulls iu even where there
is supposed to be business.
Wilkins Sends
Telegram to
Gov. Moore
NEW YORK—NAACP Exec
utive Director Roy Wilkins has
called on North Carolina Gov
ernor Dan Moore for a tho
rough investigation into the
bombings that rocked homes
of four Negroes in Charlotte
•nd for "stringent precautions
(by state authorities) against a
recurrence."
In a telegram to the gover
nor on November 22, Wilkins
expressed the Association's
confidence that the governor's
office "and all decent people in
North Carolina are outraged
over (the) cowardly bombings
in Charlotte early this morning
in which the homes of Kelly
Alexander, state president of
NAACP, and his brother Fred,
newly-elected City Councilman,
were two of the targets."
Also victims of the pre dawn
attacks were the home of Juli
us Chambers, an NAACP at
torney and recently appointed
U.S. Commissioner in Char
lotte, and Dr. Reginald A. Haw
kins, a dentist who has been
active in voter registration
drives in the city and in ef
forts to break do-wn the color
bar in the American Dental
Association.
Wilkins stated that "the
NAACP cannot afford to lose
or to have rendered immobile
a National Board member like
Kelly Alexander and North
Carolina cannot afford another
race hate bombing, fatal or
not."
HOUSEWIFE TO RUN FOR CONGRESS
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MRS. SARA SMALL, William
ston housewife, who will maka
tha raea for Congress from fha
first Congressional District of
North Carolina, ii shown hare
with har campaign manager,
Willamstonian In Dist. Race
WILLIAMSTON For the held December 18.
first time since the days of Not since 1901 when George
Reconstruction, North Carolina White surrendered his congres
will have a Negro candidate for sional seat to Claude Kitchen
U.S. Congress. of the Second District has any
Mrs. Sara E. Small of Wil- Negro of North Carolina sought
liamston, housewife and moth- a seat in Congress,
er of five, announced this week Mrs. Small's entry into the
that she will run for the post congressional race in her dis
in the special Democratic Pri- trict is considered a forebod
mary for the First District ing of other Negro candidates,
made vacant on account of the for Congress, especially in
death of Congressman Herbert other districts of the black belt
C. Bonner. The primary will be where in many cases Negroes
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EAGLE GRIDDER CITED—Bil
ly Shropshire, North Carolina
College junior fullback of
Charlotte, receives a trophy as
the most valuable player on
his team after the annual game
between NCC and A. and T.
College in Greensboro Thanks
NCC Student Killed, Two Others
Injured in Automobile Wreck
Donald .M. Jenkins, 24, a
North. Carolina College senior
physical education major from
Roxbury, Mass., was injured
fatally in an automobile acci
dent near New York City Sun
day night, college authorities
reported Monday. He and two
other students were enroute to
Durham following the Thanks
living vacation.
Critically injured in the
accident were Miss Letricia Pri
vette, of New York, a senior
Goldan Frinfcs, left, noted
field secretary of tha Southarn
Leadership Confaranca. At the
right in the pictura is Attorney
Floyd B. McKissick, national
chairman of CORE, who will
gibing Day. Making the pre
sentation is Dr. William Bell,
A. and T.'s athletic director.
Shropshire's punting and »
key pass interception he made
aided the Eagles in upsetting
A. and T„ 7-6.
home economics major at the
college and Jenkins' fiance,
and John R. Tillman, of Bos
ton, Mass., a sociology major
at the institution. Passengers
in the automobile driven by
Jenkins, both are hospitalized
in New York.
An honor student at NCC and
a member of the Physical Edu
cation Majors 'Club and the
crack squad, Jenkins was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
A. Jenkins of Roxbury.
act In an advisory capacity.
Mrs. Small it the first member
of her race to run for Congress
from North Carolina tinea Re
construction days. The Primary
will be held December 18.
outnumber the whites but have
been of little political conse
quence since Reconstruction.
Mrs. Small's husband is a
former school teacher of Mar
tin County who lost his job
when she took an active part
in civil rights. Small finally
was forced to leave the state
when he was unable to secure
employment elsewhere in N.
C. He is now teaching in New
York.
See CONGRESS 2A