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Sick Womam Dies When Wrongfull For ★ ★★★********★★★*** * Man Charged With Murder After Slaving - ii** m VPHH DR. DAVIS Union Baptist Church to Burn Mortgage Sun. Mother's Day services at the Union Baptist Church here Sunday will have special signi ficance for the members of the congregation pastored by Dr. Grady D. Davis. During the 11th anniversary celebration of the new struc ture, services will be conduct ed for burning of the church's mortgage, a memorial service in honor of the late pastor Dr. A. S. Croom besides the regu lar worship in remembrance of Mother's Day. Dr. Davis, who took over the pastorate of the church Janu ary, 1964 following the death of Dr. Croom in May, 1963 f will speak on the topic "Mortgage Burning, Memorial for Dr." A,. S. Croom, Mother's Day" dur ing the 11 o'clock worship. Tne theme for the morning devo- See UNION page 6A DR. VIVIAN HENDERSON N. C. C. ALUMNI SPEAKER SAT., MAY 28 Dr. Vivian Henderson, a grad uate of North Carolina College and president of Clark College, will be the speaker at the an nual meeting of the college's alumni association Saturday, May 28, in the auditorium of the Education Building. Claude Harrison, association president, in announcing the meeting, said "important is sues" will be discussed and said all alumni "should take an active part in developing and determining the policies of our growing alumni association." National officers for the coming year "will be elected. Sesqui-Centennial AME Confab To Be Observed May 17-22 Free SSO Cash For Churches Or Auxiliary Save Purchase Slips From Carolina Times Advertisers RICEIVI SSO EACH MONTH FOR YOUR CHURCH OR CHURCH AUXILIARY The Carolina Times will do nate each month SSO in cash to the Church or church auxiliary in Durham saving from its members and friends the high est number in dollars and cents of cash register receipts or cash purchase slips from advertisers in The Carolina Times listed below: Appliance A TV A&P Stores Alexander Ford Belle Leggett Colonial Stores Central Carolina Fanners Liberal Credit Store Long's Florist Mutual Savings and Loan Association Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. Mary Carter Paint Store Mcßroom's Truck Rental Continued on page 2A Registration Books Are Now Open ... Register Now!| "A Voteless People is A Hopeless People" Che Cflwla Citowsg (I'THETRUTM UNBRIDLED H VOL. 43 NUMBER 19 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1966 PRICE 15c Court Frees Father Of Four In Death Of Deputy Sheriff LOS ANGELES—PhiIip Bent ly Brooks, Negro father of faur, was freed Wednesday April 26, after a jury declared him innocent in the shooting death of a white deputy sheriff during the Watts uprising of last August. Deputy Ronald Ludlow was killed during the disorders when the shotgun of his part ner Deputy William Leuer dis charged, striking him in the stomach. Brooks, Joseph Lavine, Jr., and Harold Potts, were driving in Watts when approached by the armed deputies. After one deputy shot the other, the three Negroe? were dragged from their car, beaten, carted off to the jail section of the county hospital and charged with murder, although none had a weapon nor had touched the trigger that fired the fa tal shot. Potts and Lavine were held without bail for four months and then released following a court decision on appeal. Srouks, held for nearly seven months, was finally brought to See FATHER page 6A DR. HENDERSON WASHINGTON, D. C. A joint session of the Baltimore, Virginia, North Carolina, Wes tern North Carolina and Wash inton, D, C., conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal Church will be held during the church's sesqui-centennial cele bration, May 17-22. Bishop Geo. W. Baber, prelate of the Sec ond Episcopal District, will preside. Bishop and Mrs. Baber will begin the 1966 series of Annual Conferences by placing em phasis on the sesqui-centennial (1818-1966) celebration which will terminate with an all-day service May 22 at Constitution Hall. The Baltimore and Washing ton Conference will convene jointly b«ginning May 17 at Bethel AME Church, Lanvale Ave. and Druid Hill St., Balti more. The Rev. Frank Reid is host pastor and the Rev.. John M. Cox is host presiding elder. Mrs. Baber, supervisor of the Second District Women's Mis sionary Society, will lead the women of each conference throughout the series of ses sions. Mrs. Pauline Mattison, presi dent ..of the Women's Mission ary Society of the Washington Conference, has announced that Thursday, May 18, at 8 p.m., annual missionary night will be held at Bethel AME Church. See CONFAB, page 6A I J I RECEIVE PURPLE HEART— On last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Needham Lewis Thompson were presented a Purple Heart in recogntlon of their son, Alfred, who was killed in action in Viet Nam. The presentation was made by Lt. Leland Parks, 3rd Ministers Fellowship of High Point and Vicinity Calls for Apology of Mayor Pro Tem, Press HIGH POINT—In a regular s'ession of the Ministers Fellow ship of High Point and vicinity on Monday, April 25, the Com mittee on Social Concerns was authorized to release a state ment concerning the recent controversy involving the City Council of High Point and the Ministers Fellowship. The con troversy was caused over a list of ten grievances submitted by the fellowship in April of 1965. The statement is also direct ed to the writer of the Good Morning column of the High Point Enterprise, Sunday, Apr. 24, 1966. In this article, clergy man B. Elton Cox, in the fel lowship's opinion, was unneces sarily and maliciously attacked and accused of masquerading under a cloak of self righteous- People of color the world over are crying and shouting freedom—freedom from oppres sion, freedom from exploita tion, freedom from prejudices. See MINISTER page 3A Scott To Attend UNC With Full Scholarship Agreement LAURINBURG —Charlie Scott of Laurinburg Institute ended much speculation Tuesday when he signed a full scholarship agreement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to Scott, Dean Smith, the head basketball coach at Carolina, visited hin» Tuesday and signed him. A 6-5 New York native, Scott's services had been requested by more than 93 colleges and uni versities. After much consid eration, Scott cut the list to three schools—Davidson, Duke and UNC. Word had been circulated that Scott was all but "in" at Davidson because he had signed a "letter of intent." To clarify this statement, Scott stated that he only signed an "early let ter of decision." Scott is the first of his race to receive an athletic grant-in aid at UNC. However, Willie from right, of the Armed | Forces and stationed in Raleigh. The presentation was made at ! the Thompson home, 1210 | Grant Street. Present for the I occasion were several members [ and friends of the family. Those lin the picture from left to RALPH FRASIER NAMED ASSIST. SECRETARY WACHOVIA BOARD WINSTON-SALEM At its quarterly meeting held last month by the Board of Direc tors of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Winston-Sal em, announced the election of Ralph K. Frasier to the posi tion of Assistant Secretary. Fra sier was first associated with the bank during the summer of 1964, at which time he was em ployed to review and organize its real estate files and review the insurance coverage of the office locations. In February of 1965 he was employed on a permanent basis as Legal As sistant in the Comptroller's Di vision. Frasier, formerly of Durham, is the son of Leßoy B. Frasier of Durham, and the late Kath eryn 0. Kennedy Frasier. He was educated in the public schools of Durham and is a SCOTT Cooper, a Negro from Elm City, played basketball on the fresh man team in 1964-65 but he was not on a scholarship. The 175-pounder who scored See SCOTT page 6A | right are: Mrs. Nola Allen of Durham, a daughter, Mr. I Thompson, Mrs. Thompson, Lt. | Parks, Mrs. Dorothy Spencer, Fayetteville, daughter and Jar vis Spencer, son-in-law. Ft. Bragg. Bragg. (See story page SA) FRASIER graduate of North Carolina Col lege at Durham and an honor graduate of North Carolina See FRASIER page 6A Miss Mildred Amey Passes Following Long Illness Miss Harriette Amey, 41 daughter of the late Chaarles C. Amey and Mrs. Mildred Amey, died at Duke Hospital, early Thursday morning, May 5, at 5:35, following an illness of several months. Miss Amey was born and reared in Durham where she attended the public schools and N. C. College, the latter from which she graduated in 1944. For several years she was employed at Duke Hospital as a medical social •worker. Surviving Miss Amey, in ad dition to her mother, Is one sister, Mrs. Clementine Winters of New York. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press time. I Frank Flint Loses Life In Bloody Fight Here • » UO-> fell-UIU ivui Mllll DI IC'K nason, Willard Wilder, has Von charged by police with ■mirrier in connection with the d\ith of Frank Flint. 43, who "as pronounced dead on ar r:\al at Duke Hospital Tuesday afternoon. Flint, a laborer of 411 Branch Place, had been shot in the chest with a 22 caliber revolver according to Police Capt John Ellen Wilder,' of Gl4 Branch Place, sustained a pistol wound on his left wrist and a stab wound in the stomach during an alleged fight with Flint at the home of Murdock Farley, 410 Mo bile Ave. Investigating Officer J E. Hunter said Flint had been shot and Wilder 'was wounded when he arrived at the Mobile Ave address Flint was found about 175 feet away from the Farley kitchen on Branch Place lying in the street. Police said Wilder was taken Arrest And Jailing Of Highly Respected Woman Shocking The arrest and jailing of a fcdfathly ill and highly respected i Negro woman by local police | here last week end, after she j was wrongfully accused of be I ing drunk on a city bus fairly I rocked Durham and the sur rounding vicinity this week. Investigation of the unfortu j nate incident disclosed that j Mrs. Minnie I.ee (jjpuncil, 516 1 Mason Street, suffered a cere bral hemorrhage while enrouti home on the bus. She was la ter arrested and jailed by po lice officer, T. T. Blalock, at Five Points, after he had been summond to the scene when she failed to leave the bus after being ordered to do so by the driver. According to police records, Mrs. Council was placed in jail at 6:30 p.m. When it was dis covered around three hours la ter that she was seriously ill, instead of being was rushed to Lincoln Hospital where it has been reported she was suffering great pain in the head. She was treated at Lin coln where she succumbed to the cerebral hemorrhage about 9:45 p.m. Further investigation of Mrs. '• ■■■■■■■■■■■■l S> A BANQUET, honoring L. E. | Davis, retiring principal of C. j C. Spaulding Elementary School J and Mrs. N. A. Cheek, retiring member of the faculty was giv- ( en at the Blair House here last | Friday evening b-y faculty j Gloster B. Current at Mt. Gilead Church May 15 Gloster B. Current, director of branches and field adminis tration of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, will be the speaker on a program marking the 12th anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court education | decision Sunday, May 15, at 3 p.m. at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church. » The program is being spon , Jrj ■ J£>> ■ ' FLINT to Lincoln Hospital to undergo treatment for his stomach and wrist wounds. According to Dr. D. K Perry, coroner, an autopsy was being conducted on Flint's body to determine the cause of death The victim was shot in the MRS. COUNCIL Council's arrest and jailing dis closes that she was never known to drink and according to Rev. IS. T. Browne, minister of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church of which Mrs. Council was a member, she was one of the best members of the church and to his knowledge, over 19 years, had proved true to the tenets of the Christian re ligion members. Mr. Davis served a* | principal of the school for 13 years and Mrs. Cheek has served as a member of the City School System for 45 years. Those in the pucture from left to right are: Lew Hannen, su sored by the Durham Branch NAACP and the Rev. William H. Fuller, branch president, will be in charge. The Rev. L. A. Miller will introduce the speaker and music will be ren dered by the Union Baptist Church Male Chorus. Mr. Current has charge of field West Virginia State College and has a master's degree in public administration from Wayne •1 u | /y, r >i ™3^ , ill WILDER chest four times with one of the' bullets striking near the heart. Officers said five bullets had been fired from Wilder's pistol and that one of the bullets might possibly have caused Wil der's wrist wound. Civil Rights Proposals of LBJ Hailed NEW YORK Koy Wilkins, executive director of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, today (April 29) issued the fol lowing statement on President Lyndon B. Johnson's message to the Congress and his propo sals for new civil rights legis lation: "The President's message to the Congress and his legisla tive proposals emphasize that, despite notable beginnings to wards elimination of some as pects of racial discrimination, much remains to be done. "The tightening of legal pro cedures to assure punishment of terrorists who inflict vio lence upon civil rights workers See HAILS page 6A perintendent of Durham Ctly Schools; Mrs. Cheek, Mr. Davit and Mrs. Nancy Rowland who presented Mr. Davis with • Bulova Accutron timepiece on behalf of the faculty. University. He has been affili ated with the NAACP, first as a volunteer then as a profes sional worker, since 1936. A member of St. Paul Metho dist Church in Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., where he resides, Mr. Curren thas charge of field services, youth, membership, program and organizational ac tivities of over 1,796 branches, See CURRENT page OA,
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