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LBJ Appoints First Negro Woman U. S. Judge
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AWARDED GRANT—Dr. Mary
M. Town**, associate professor
of biology at North Carolina
Colleg*, who hat been conduct
ing research since 1953 on gly
cerinated stalks of vorticella in
hopes of understanding the
causes of muscular dystrophy.
NCC Instructor Seeks Key to
Muscular Distrophy Disease
By GEORGE E. HARDIN
For every scientist who wins
public acclaim for a new .dis
covery, there are scores of
Others working in fields just
as important, but without spec
tacular results, and therefore
known only to their colleagues.
In this latter class is Dr.
Mary-McLean Townes, associ
ate professor of biology at N.
C. College, who has been con
' ducting research since 1953 In
a project which may lead to
greater understanding of one
of man's most puzzling diseases
muscular dystrophy. Her
work involves the study of vor
tieella. "decidedly microscopic"
animals which can contract and
relax much as muscles do until
affected by dystrophy which
causes them to progressively
waste away.
Speaking highly spe
cialized project in the spotless
office fronting the small labor
atory in which her research is
conducted. Dr. Towries indicat- ]
ed that her is a part
time activity, spliced between
teaching ard family responsi-
See DR. TOWNES 2A
Intimidation of
Negroes Rises
In Mississippi
MAYERSVILLE, Miss—Mrs.
Unita Blackwell, a Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party
leader said, "There has been
an increase in intimidation of
Negroes in Isequena County."
The intimidation has increased
as Negroes register to vote and
as they register their children
in formerly all-white schools.
"There is a pattern of evictions
used as intimidation," Mrs.
Blackwell said. "The problem
is that there are 1,808 Negroes
eligible to vote and only 640
whites are eligible.
Negroes have the potential
to control the county. In 1964,
there were no Negroes regis
tered to vote. Today, after a
federal suit was filed by the
Justice Department against the
Isequena registrar, Mary T.
Vandevender, there are over
500 Negroes registered. Now
the registrar accepts all -who
oome In the door of the court
house, whether or not they can
read or write."
Mrs. Blackwell said the peo
ple can't stand to be intimidat
ed much longer. "Twenty five
people ran out of their homes
and into the streets on Dec.
23rd after a car-load of white
men threw fire bombs onto the
sidewalks." The Negroes had
shot guns under their arms.
When the sheriff was called,
he stated there was nothing he
could do to apprehend the
bombers since no one got the
license number of the car. The
Neeroes said If they caught the
bombers, the sheriff would
find them in the road.
was recently awarded a grant
to continue her work by the
NCC Faculty Research Com
mittee, An NCC faculty mem
ber since 1950, she earned her
doctorate at the University of
Michigan in 1962.
Julian Bond To Be Guest On
NBC Meet The Press Jan. 30
Julian Bond, the 26-year-old
Negro Representative - elect
who was barred from sitting in
the Georgia House of Repre
sentatives because of his criti
cism of the United States posi
tion int. the war in Vietnam
will be the guest on "Meet the
Press" Sunday, Jan. 30.
Bond, one of the founders
of SNCC (Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee) and
now its communications direc
tor, has appealed the Georgia
Legislature's action to Federal
court.
The program will be color
fast live from Washington, D.
C. on the NBC Television Net
week 1-1:30 p.m. EST, and will
be broadcast on the NBC Ra
dio Network 6:30-7 p.m. EST.
He will be interviewed by
Robert Novak of the New York
Herald Tribune Syndicate; Carl
Rowan, former director of the
U»S. Information Agency and
now a columnist for the Chi
cago Daily News; NBC News
Correspondent Herbert Kaplow
ALEXANDER
Alexander to
Be Honored
By Colleagues
CHARLOTTE Kelly M.
Alexander, president of the
North Carolina State Confer
ence, NAACP, •will be honored
by friends and NAACP co
workers at a "Testimonial Ban
quet" to be held in Charlotte,
at the Queen Charlotte Hotel
on Saturday, February 5, at
7:30 p.m. Clarence Mitchell, di
rector of the NAACP's Wash
ington, D. C. Bureau will be
the principle banquet speaker.
The banquet will commemo
rate Alexander's service of: 15
years as an NAACP National
Board Member; 20 years as
president of the North Carolina
See ALEXANDER 2A
Expect Mrs. Motley to Continue
"Stormy" Role In New Post
NEW YORK President
Johnson's appointment of Mrs.
Constance Baker Motley Tues
day to the federal judgeship
for the southern New York dis
trict was the first time a Ne
gro woman has been named to
a federal judge position.
Mrs. Motley is the second
ranking attorney in the legal
defense fund of the NAACP—
the agency which handles most
of the national civil rights
cases and is the president of
the Borough of Manhattan.
Named to this $35,000 post in
1964, she was also the first
woman to hold this position.
Mrs. Motley, 44, is married
to Joel W. Motley, a real estate
man and they have one son,
Joel, Jr.
Having done graduate work
at Columbia University Law
School, she is northern born
and southern educated.
When asked by her father
why she had decided to be
come a lawyer, she replied.
"Law is difficult, and I want
to do something that's diffi
cult."
Most of Mrs. Motley's adult
years have been spent in the
thick of the legal storm and
her selection by President
Johnson to be a federal district
court judge is not likely to
cause any calm.
She represented James H.
Meredith when he became the
first known Negro to enroll at
the University of Mississippi.
She led a battery of five law
yers to get Harvey Gantt ad
mitted to Clemson College in
1962. She was the NAACP's le
gal tactician in the struggle
over Alabama school desegre
and Lawrence E. Spivak. pro
ducer and permanent
member of "Meet the Press."
Moderator of the program will
be NBC News Correspondent
Robert Goralski.
Katzenbach to
Address Queen
City Confab
CHARLOTTE North Caro
lina NAACP President, Kelly
M. Alexander announced this
i week that the Annual NAACP
Leadership Conference to be
held in the Queen Charlotte
Hotel, Charlotte, beginning
Friday evening, February -4,
will end Sunday, February 8
with an address by the Attor
ney General of the-United
States, Nichols Deß Katzen
bach. This will be Katzenbach's
first appearance in the state,
sponsored by a Civil Rights or
ganization.
The leadership Conference
will have as its major program
focus, "Governmental Assisted
Program#." Alexander stated
that oup community leadership
is in need of a better under
'standing of the provisions and
implementation of governmen
tal assisted programs on the
community level.
Representatives from various
government departments who
yill participate are William M.
Seabrim,' Assistant to the Sec
retary. Department of Agricul
ture; Theodore M. Berry, Di
rector, Community Action Pro
gram. Office of Economic Op
portunity; B. T. McGraw, As
sistant to the Administrator
for Intergroup Relations, Hous
ing and Home Finance Agency
and John Hope, n. Area Direc
tor, Office of Equal Education-
See KATZENBACH 2A
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MRS. MOTLEY
gation, and she was instru
mental in getting Charlayne
Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
into the University of Georgia
in 1961.
Mrs. Motley has sometimes
found the machinery of the law
moving too slowly.
"You always feel that you
wish they'd hurry up and rule
. but when you finally win,
then everything is wonderful."
COURT REFUSES
4,000 WATTS
RIOT CASES
WASHINGTON The U. S.
Supreme Court declined Mon
day to accept for consideration
a protest that about 4.000 de
fendants arrested during the
1965 Watts riots in Los Ange
las are not getting adequate le
gal help.
Improved Telephone
Service For Durham
To Begin In Feb.
Durham telephone subscrib
ers beginning next month will
experience further improve
ment in service ,as General
Telephone Company of the
Southeast completes a $2-mil
lion project designed to sub
stantially upgrade local facili
ties. '
The company presently is
putting the finishing touches
to a months-long effort involv
ing the installation of tons of
intricate central office equip
ment on Hollof.vay Street and
miles on related wiring. Line
crews completely reworked
outside distribution and feed
er routes between the main of
fice and satellite (neighborhood
switching) stations.
Customers will directly bene
fit from having the latest faci
lities at their disposal, while
See TELEPHONE 2A
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LAWYERS GATHER—Th* Jack
Tar Hotal was th* meeting
plac* h*r* Saturday, January
22, of Hi* Exacutlv* Commltt**
of th* National Bar Association.
Committee is Named to Recommend President for N. C. C.
| Bascom Baynes, chairman of ,
the North Carolina College i
board of trustees, Friday nam
ed a five-member committee to
recommend a successor to Dr.
Samuel P. Massie as president
of the college.
Massie, who submitted his
resignation to the board of
Che Carolina Cinws
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VOLUME 43 No. 5 DUHRAM, N. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1966 PRICE: 15c
Organic Union and "Great
Society" AMEZ Meet Topics
Close Three
Day Session at
Salisbury, Md.
i SALISBURY, Maryland
I The 1966 winter meeting of the
| Board of Bishops, and the an-
I nual meeting of the Ministers
j and Laymen's Association, A.
| M E. Zion Church, closed here
| Friday after a three day ses-
I sion at St. James A. M. F.. Zion
I Church, on two notes — Organic
Union and President Johnson's
"Great Society."
Bishop H. C, Bunton, C. M.
IE. Church;' Bishop John Wes
' ley Lord, Methodist Church,
and Governor J. Millard Tawes
lighted the torch of unity at
| the Wednesday night session.
Bishop Bunton told an over
flow audience that the leaders
iof the three Methodist bodies
j had held the funeral of its'
founders too long. He had the
| following to say, "We must not
j look to the past so long to be-
I come insensitive to the pres
ent. Don't let the dead hand
of the past choke the life out
out of you." the prelate said.
He chided the bishops about
j holding on to "little stuff" that;
! does not appeal to the consti
tuency He warned them to not
get in the way of the unifica
tion of the three because of
rami 1 self»sh motive or person
al desire. "I want a Methodist '
Church built on a non-racial
basis that will practice the
principles of the Christian re
ligion in all its ramifications."
Bishop Lord warned that
churches soon discover that
ecumenicity stands for renewal
and reform as well as for re
union. Governor Tawes, him
self a Methodist, departed from
his prepared speech to add his
testimony, true Methodist style,
when he declared for a heart
warming unity that would make
all men brothers.
Bishop Felix S. Anderson,
Louisville, Ky., was elected
President of the Board and will
serve for the next ensuing six
months. Bishop William M.
Smith, Mobile, Ala., was elect
ed Secretary for the same pe
riod. Bishop H.B. Shaw, Wil
mington, was re-elected treas
urer. Bishop Anderson suc
ceeds Bishop Joseph D. Cau
then, Norfolk, Va.
Hoat for Hi* occasion was th*
Gaorg* White Bar Attoclaflon
and C. C. Spauldlngt Jr., a
member of the Exocutlvo Com
mitt**. W. G. P*arson, 11. I»
trustees Wednesday to become
! effectve June 30, has been
granted a leave of absence with
full salary beginning Feb. 1.
Appointed to the selection
Committee •were NCC trustees
Clyde Shreve of Greensboro,
chairman; Mrs .Eloise C. Beech
1 j
M
METHODIST LEADERS—Shown
in this picture are three Meth
odist leaders who took part in
the meeting of the Board of
Bishops, A.M.E. Zion Church,
which met recently in Salis
bury, Md. L-r, Bishop John W.
NCC Professor To Teach At
Ind. University Next Semester
Dr. Ernest M. Manassg,
chairman of the Department of
German, Latin, and Philo»ophy
at North Carolina College, will
be a visiting professor at Indi
ana University, Bloomington,
during the second semester.
A member of the NCC facul
ty since 1939—a tenure equaled
by - ondy one other professor—
Dr. l&inasse was a student of
the German philosopher Karl
Jaspers at the University of
Heidelberg where he earned
his doctor of philosophy de
gree. Dr. Manasse will lecture
on Jaspers and Martin Heideg
ger, and will hold a seminar
on Plato who has been the sub
ject of his major works. He is
See PROFESSOR 2A
proaldont of th* G*org* Whit* j
Bar Association. Officers of
Hi* NBA ar* R. O. Ortlque, •
Pr*sld*nt; Judge Billy Jon**, I
first Vic*-pr*sid*nt and Mrs. |
of Klnston; Mrs. R. S. Fergu
son of Taylorsville; Clarence
C. Watkins of Reidsville; and
Robert Brown of High Point.
The committee's recommen
dation will be presented to the
board of trustees for final ap
proval.
Lord, MeHiodist Church, who
] welcomed the A.M.E. Zion con- j
j fab; Governor J. Millard Tawes,
j who was also on hand and
Bishop Felix S. Anderson who 1
j presided over the sessions. The
! three endorsed the union of
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DR. MANASSE
Loon* P. Thurmon, Socrotary.
Th« above photo It compocod
• of mombori of th« NBA Exocu
i five Commlttoo and Hi* host*.
CHICAGO Dr. Martin Lu
ther King Jr., president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, set to move this
•■veek into his slum apartment
to direct his campaign against
racial discrimination in the
North.
the three predominantly-Negro
bodies, with an eye toward to
tal unification of all Methodist
bodies. The target date for the
three bodies is 1972 and the
tentative date for complete
unification is 1980.
OFF TO INDIANA —Dr. Ernest
M. Manasse, chairman of the
Department of German, Latin,
and Philosophy at North Caro
lina College, will serve as a
visiting professor at Indiana
University for the secon3 se
mester. A member of the NCC
faculty for 27 years, he will
lecture on Karl Jaspers, who
was his teacher at the Univer
sity of Heidelberg, Germany;
Heidegger, and Plato.
Negro Pulpmill
Workers Shot
To Death In Ala.
CAMDEN', Alabama A 32-
year old Negro pulpmill work
er was shot to death last Sun
day by a white farmer in the
presence of his wife and three
other relatives.
David Colston, a lifetime
resident of Camden, was slain
by a single gunshot above the
right ear, fired at point blank
range from a 32 caliber revol
ver.
The admitted slayer was J.
T, Reaves, a 47-year old white
cattle farmer, who minutes
earlier, had driven his car into
the rear of Colston's auto. The
slaying took place about 2 p.m.
in front of the Antioch Baptist
Church where a funeral had
just ended and a civil rights
meeting was about to begin.
Mrs. Colston a local school
teacher at Camden Academy,
gave this account of her hus
band's slaying.
"We were going to a funeral,
my husband and I, two sisters,
and a brother-in-law. My hus
band and I were in the front
seat. We were about to park
on the right side of Antioch
Baptist Church. We felt a
bump behind us, and I looked
back and there was a man who
bumped us."
"So naturally," Mrs. Colston
added, "My husband got out
and went back to see what was
wrong. The man in the other
car, the Reaves fellow said,
'you had better be interested
in the front of my car and not
be looking at the .back of
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