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VOLUME 43 - No. 30 DURHAM, N. C. - SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1966 - PRICE 15c
Federal License Urged For
Drivers At Lawyer's Meet
"Law Would
Save Thousands
Of Lives"
LOS ANGELES, Calif—Eli
minate "political protection"
for certain classes of automo
bile drivers in state laws and
save "thousands of lives" now
lost needlessly on our high
■*ays, Joseph Kelner of New
York, national president of
the American Trial Lawyers
Association, declared recently
at the bar association's 20th
annual convention here,
Kelner urged his 25,000 trial
lawyer membership to lead a
fight for federal licensing of
all drivers and the adoption of
federal minimum automobile
highway laws placing the
driving and licensing of all
cars and drivers under federal
control.
"We must take a 'new look'
at the American driver," Kel
ner declared in his Convention
address. "We must sharply
curtail the American driver's
actions of carelessness and
recklessness." New Federal
Laws and restrictions must be
impo|pd to limit the licensing
of drivers to those who have
been tested scientifically and
medically to insure they have
the necessary standards of
vision, temperament and men
tality.
"There must be new qualifi
cations adopted lo drive on
public high'.vavs . . . Political
considerations in crazy-quilt
laws in the states so far have
prevented thorough screening
and enactment of realistic con
trols in various states to insure
that only qualified individuals
be permitted to drive automo
biles.
"Because of these political
considerations in specific states
deciet and give out a ray of
which favor certain groups such
as the aged, the infirm, the
reckless »nd chronic traffic
violators, adequate legislation
for control of driver's licensing
has been impossible.'
Kelner stated that the Fed-
See DRIVERS 2A
NAACP Seeks New
Jobs For Negroes
To Collect
Information on
Employment
CHARLOTTE—The Charlotte-
Mecklenburg NAACP Branch is
initiating a job market infor
mation bureau to provide bet
ter employment for Negroes.
Kelly Alexander, state
NAACP president ,says the
service is being organized to
fill "one of the most impor
tant gaps" in Negro efforts to
make economic progress. He
says the bureau's major func
tion will be to "reach the Ne
gro community with job infor
mation, and to try to match the
job with the individual.
"We must also try to direct
young people, particularly to
move into the labor market
through proper channels. Ne
eroes have too long been in
fluenced by apathy and igno
rance of their opportunities to
oenetrate new job possibili
ties."
The new bureau will collect
job information from many of
See NAACP 2A
B> T MJwFi i irti ™i.. ■. j«* \ A '
THE JACK TAR HOTEL was Club* this week. The sessions
the scene of the annual meet- were widely attended and en
ins, of fhe Federated Garden ioyed by a large number of,
Charleston YWCA Sued For
Refusing Negroes Facilities
St. Paul's Faculty Member
Tapped by Doctoral Association
GREENSBORO—The Doctoral
Association of Educators re
cently invited Dr. Clara Barnes
Jenkins into membership in
that organization. Membership
in the organization is by invi
tation only and Dr. Jenkins re
ceived her invitation to become
affiliated with the group of
outstanding educators from DP.
Mary K. Marshall, secretary of
the organization and Supervis
ing Principal of the Fulton
Schpol, Pittsburgh, Pa. The or
ganization became interested
in Dr. Jenkins as a prospective
member as a result of her re
cent research articles, book
reviews, and publications in
education.
See TAPS 2A
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THE OPENING PROGRAM of
the annual "Retreat" of the
Second Episcopal District of
the A.M.E. Church hold in Ral
• igh last »Hk. Mrs. Phyllis
Mann is shotowi delivering the
welcome address on behalf of
St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Oth
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DR. JENKINS
ers on the platform from left
to right are Rev. J. D. Davis. 1
Presiding Elder, Morganton
District; Rev. P. R. Cousin,
Pastor, St. Joseph's A. M. E.
Church, Durham; Bishop Geo.
W. Beber. presiding prelate of
the District; Dr. John Hunter.;
members. The picture above
shows one of the meeting* in
, session.
NAACP LAWYERS
FILE ACTION
UNDER CR ACT
CHARLESTON, S. C. The
Local branch of the Young
Men's Christian Association
was sued here this week for
denying Negroes the use of its
facilities.
Attorneys of the NAACP Le
gal Defense Fund filed suit
under Title II of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 in behalf
of local Negroes.
Legal Defense Fund lawyers
cited the Local Y's "well-stab
lished and maintained policy,
practice, custom and usage of
excluding, refusing to serve
and discriminating against Ne
groes in all its facilities, serv
ices and accommodations."
Legal Defense Fund attorneys
asked that the Y be enjoined
from such activities.
COLLIDES BRING STUDIED
RALEIGH Gov. Dan K.
Moore said last week two stud
ies of Negro higher education
in North Carolina are currently
in progress.
Gov. Moore, asked at a news
conference about a request by
Watts Hill, chairman of the
State Board of Higher Educa
tion for such a study, pointed
out the two currently under
way.
pastor, First A.M.E. Church,
Gary, Indiana, who dalivarad
tha kaynota addrasi and John
Winters, mambar of tha Ralalgh
City Council. Othan on tha
platform ara unidantlfiad. Hbst
pastor was Hav. B. S. Foust.
NAACP Files
Action in Behalf
Of Workers
GREENSBORO—The N'AACP
1 Legal Defense Fund this week
j filed suit, in behalf of Negro
women employees, against the
P Lorillard Company (Kent
Cigarettes).
The request for a permanent
injunction due to alleged dis
criminatory practices, was also
I filed against the Tobacco Work
?rs International AFL-CIO and
the Tobacco Workers Interna
tional Union, AFL-CIO, Local
317 y
Suit was filed in the U. S.
District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina
Negro employees, the Legal
Defense Fund's complaint as
serts, "Have been hired for j
menial and IOTA- paying jobs :
solely on basis of race and '
color
Matters regarding salary, I
terms of employment, condi-1
tions and privileges "have been :
governed and controlled by |
collective bargaining agree-1
ment entered into by defend- j
ants P Lorillard and the
Union," the complaint asserts.;
Following discussions with
the President's Committee on
Equal Job Opportunities. P. (
Lorillard instituted department
See CIGARETTES 2A
ANNUAL AME
RETREAT HELD
IN RALEIGH
RALEIGH The annual re
treat of the Second Episcopal
District of the A.M.E. Church,
which met in Raleigh last week,
was acclaimed by many who
attended the event as the best
in the history.
With St. Paul A.M.E Church,
oastored by the Rev. B.
Foust .as host, sessions of the
retreat were held at St. Augus
tine's College. The retreat got
underway officially Tuesday,
August 2, at 7:30 P.M.
Three-minute welcome a d
dresses were delivered by Hon
orable Travis Tomlinson, Mayor
of Raleigh; Mrs. Phyllis Mann
of St. Paul; Dr. P. R. Robinson,
acting president of St. Augus
tine's College; Rev. W. B. Lew
is, of the Raleigh Interdenomi-
See RETREAT 3A
Sen. Robt. Kennedy's South
African Visit Told By LOOK
| 'Bible' Apartheid
Attacked By
Congressman
NEW YORK—During his re
cent trip to South Africa, Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy flung up to
that country's segregationists
still another dilemma, perhaps
one to be faced on Judgment
Day.
At the University of Natal in
| Durban, the Senator was told
that the church to which most
of South Africa's white popu
lation belongs teaches apar
theid (racial separateness) as a
moral necessity.
It was pointed out to Ken
j nedy that few of the country's
J churehes allow..bU&k, .Africans.
'o pray with whites because the
Bible says God created Negroes
j to serve
;In a signed article appearing
[ in the current issue of Look
magazine. Kennedy said that I
he silenced the argument with j
what to many white Afri
with what to many white Afri-
I kaaners must he a devastating j
and frightening idea
Replied Kennedy: "Suppose |
; God is black What if we go to j
[ Heaven and we, all our lives, j
have treated the Negro as an j
inferior, and God's there, and I
we look up and He is not
white" What then is our re
sponse'"
The Senator said there was
no answer. Only silence.
DR. LEROY R. SWIFT, Durham
physicen, delivered • paper at
the National Medical Associa
tion Convention held In Chica
go, Aufiuft S-12.
Th* tltl* of hit presentation
was "Family Planning, Durham
County—Social Impact."
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A MOMENT OF PRAYER
(Chicago, III.) Demonstrators
protesting alleged housing dis
crimination kneel and pray on
the sidewalk in front of a real
Alphas To Hold Sixtieth
Annual Session Aug. 15-18
Palmer Named Chairman of
NCE Human Rights Committee
E. B. Palmer, executive Sec
retary of the North Carolina
Teachers Association, has been
unanimously elected to chair
the National Committee of
Educators for Human Rights.
The Committee met at the Al
giers Hotel in Miami Beach re
cently.
Since Palmer assumed hi«
post with NCTA, November 1,
1964, he has traveled extensive
ly all over North Carolina and
other states in behalf of teach
ers who arv facing problems of
dismissals due to the integra
tion of schools. In addition to
his assistance in the NAACP
Legal Defense Program to pre
vent teacher dismissals and ef- (
forts to place teachers who j
have been dismissed. Palmer has
consistently reported and in-!
terpreted these problems thru
the news, personal appearances
on programs and through his
articles in the official publica
tions of the North Carolina
Pres. Johnson Urged to Name
Negro Judge to sth District
APPOINTMENT
WOULD IMPROVE
ATT'YS' STATUS
DETROIT President John
son was urged to appoint a Ne
gro Federal Judge in the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals in the
south by members of the Na
tional Bar Association at their
41st Annual Convention here
last week
Making, .I®,
prove the position of the Ne
gro lawyer throughout the na
tion, the Association also warn
ed Sargent Shriver. chief of
the nation's War On Poverty,
in a resolution, that they ex
oected him to give them full
recognition in hiring attorneys
for his legal services to the
j poor
The same resolution, adopted
unanimously by the 250 dele
gates from 35 cities who were
in attendance at the five day '
session, also took President I
Johnson to task for giving "un
'.;ntingly of our funds and
money to the cause of free
dom abroad, while niggardly
economizing on opportunity
and freedom at home."
In what was termed the most
successful convention ever held
by the NBA, a bevy of topnotch
Federal, state and local officials
were on hand to address the
largest professional association
of minority attorneys.
Richmond M. Flowers, Attor-
See LAWYERS 2A
estate oH.ce here. The Rev
Jesse Jackson, one of the lead
ers of the protest, claimed Gage
Park listings had bten offered
♦o white persons who visited
PALMER
Teachers Association. He has
received commendations from
educators all over North Caro
Una and other states on the
progress made in the area of
See PALMER. 2A
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JUL ~
3H
REV. HORTON
Rev. L. Horton
Guest Minister
At St. Joseph's
Guest minister for St. Jos
eph's A.M.E. Church, Sunday,
August 14, will be Rev. L. G.
Horton, president of Kittrell
College and former pastor of
Emmanuel A. M. E. Church of
this city.
Rev. Horton will preach at
the early morning service held
at seven o'clock during the
summer months and at the reg
ular 11:00 a.m. service. He is
filling in for the pastor of St.
Joseph's who is away on vaca
tion.
23 real estate offices in the
neighborhood recently but
were refused to Negro appli
cants. (UPI Telephoto)
Thurgood Marshall
Slated To Address
Convention
ST LOUIS—Men of the Al
pha Phi Alpha fraternity from
around the world will converge
upon St. Louis for the 60th An
nual Convention, August 15-18.
It has all of the earmarks of
becoming the most spectacular
event in the long and distin
guished history of Alpha con
fabs
The host chapters: Epsilon
Lambda. Alpha Eta and Delta
Epsilon Lambda, under the
leadership of a special conven
tion committee headed hv John
D Buckncr. has put together
"the most memorable conven
tion" ever
The Honorable Thurgood
Marshall, Solicitor General of
the United States heads a dis
tinguished group of Alpha men
who will address the conven
tion. He will lead a pilgrimage
to the historic Old Court House
—site of the Dred Scott de
cision Those delivering other
major addresses to the con
vention will include: Lionel H.
Nevvsom, president of Barber-
Scotia College and Alpha Gen
eral President; John B. Ervin,
A&soriate Dean and Director of
the Summer School, Washing-
See ALPHA 2A
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Colonial Stores
Central Carolina Farmers
Clayton Motors
Eckerd Drug Stores
IBM
Frazier Realty Co.
Johnson Motor Company
Liberal Credit Store
Long's Florist
Model Laundry
Mutual Savings & Loan
Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.
Mcßrooms Rentals
Mebane Lumber Co.
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company
New Method Laundry
One Hour Martinizing
Providence Loan Co.
Rigsbee Tire Sales
Rigsbee Motor Co.
Roscoe Griffin Shoe Co.
Sam's Pawn Shop
Sanitary Laundry
Union Ins. & Realty Co.
Wynn-Dixie
Weavers Cleaners
W. T. Grant