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Two Trucking Firms Charged With Job Bias ic * * ★ ★ * * * ★ ★ ★★ ★ -¥■ * * ★ FRST n ww lift cown Noted CR Atty. Gets Voice Vote OK by Senate NEW YOKK—The Cinderalla story,' as Mrs Constance Baker Motley likes to refer to her life, has finally come to a happy ending The U S Senate yesterday confirmed by a voice vote the nomination of Mrs Motley, the first Negro woman named to the Federal District Court bench. The news caused a great deal of excitement at the New York headquarters of the NAACP I,egal Defense and Educational Fund. Inc., which has .on pre vious occasions seen similar ap pointments of staff members to important Federal offices. The most noteworthy of which was the appointment of the former Director Counsel Thurgood Marshall to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship Marshall now serves as the U S. Solicitor General Another Legal Defense Fund colleague of Mrs. Motley to achieve distinction was Edward Dudley, former Manhattan Bo rough President, and now a State Supreme Court Justice. Mrs Motley, nationally known for her string of civil rights legal victories, served in the Ix-gal Defense Fund's number two administrative post prior to her entry into public life As a federal judge, Mrs. Mot ley will have to take a $5,000 cut from the $35,000 a year she now makes as Manhattan Bo rough President. However, the judgeship is a lifetime position A New Haven benefactor helped launch Mrs Motley on her career, but her colleagues at the NAACP I,egal Defense and Educational Fund. Inc.. whre she championed the cause of civil rights for more than 20 years, know that Connie Motley wrote her own success story. - k . ,v mm HERALD SPORTS WRITER— Earl Mason, former (porta edi tor of tha Carolina Timaa, hat baan namad full-time to tha Durham Morning Herald aporti ataff aa a aportawritar. Maaon. tha ion of Mra. Drucilla Maaon at 1406 Club Blvd. haa worked with tha Herald aporti depart mini for thraa yeara covering pradominantly Hagro high •chool and collaga athlatie en gagement!. Maaon'a job bacama effective September 2. Doings of the N. C. Ushers By VIOLA BRODIE THE "MISS N. C. USHER" CONTEST Tickets (or the "Miss N. C. | Usher" contest to be conduct ed for the benefits of the Ush- j ers Home of Franklinton •will ' be off press by Monday, Sep tember 12, and will be rushed | to all supervisors immediately. | according to Chairman of the I Steering Committee, Clifton ! Stone of Chapel Hjll. Other members of the committee are Mrs. S. D. Cates and J. R. Mit chell of Durham. * • * DURHAM USHERS MEET The regular monthly busi ness meeting of the Durham j Ushers Union will be held at I 7:30 p.m Seot 19 at White j See USHERS 2A Clie €ar§Sp Cinws VOLUME 43 No. 35 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1966 PRICE: 15c Secretary Of Labor Hails Ban On Bank Hiring Bias NEW NCC EMPLOYEES—Three Three new members of North Carolina College English Depart ment are briefed on NCC life UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 4 College Presidents Among New Trustees NEW YORK. N. Y.—The ap j pointment of five distinguished | educators as Trustees of the i United Negro College Fund was j announced this week by Dr. J | A Perkins. President of Cor | nell University and Chairman j of the Fund's Board of Trus- j tees. The appointees are: Dr. Ken j neth B. Clark, professor of psy chology, the College of the City j of New York, Dr. Fred C. Cole, president, Washington and Lee j University; Reverend Theodore j M Hesburgh, C. S. C.. president, University of Notre Dame; Dr. j Douglas M. Knight, president, j Duke University, and Dr. John i W. Nason, president, Carleton College. "The new Trustees." Dr. Per t kins noted, "combine a wealth j of experience in academic ad- I ministration, the deployment of j scientific and technical re- I sources, inter-institutional co- j operative programming as: well as a deep understanding of the educational and psycho- | logical needs of underprivileg | ed youth. The United Negro College j Fund's Trustee body is com posed of the presidents of the Fund's 33 member colleges I and universities and other prominent educators and civic j leaders, including: John D | Rockefeller 3rd. honorary , chairman of the Trustees; Dr. j Earl J. McGrath, executive of i ficer. Institute of Higher Edu | cation, Teachers College. Co- j lumbia University; Dr. Carey i Millicent Mcintosh, former! president of Barnard College: | Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, j honorary president of the Fund, and George LP Weaver, As- | sistant Secretary for Interna- | tional Affairs, U.S Department | of Labor. The Board of Trustees is concerned primarily with edu cational standards and pro grams affecting the 33 member colleges and universities, as the allocation of contributed funds to its member instltu- j tions. by a longtime member of the college's English faculty and chairman of the department, Dr. Charles A. Ray, right. « P. Lorillard's New Cigarette Claimed Most Effective Filter True and Kent Top Eliminators Of Tar, Nicotine A recent study by Dr. George E. Moore, director of Roswell Park Memorial Institute. New York state's cancer reseafch and treatment facility, shows that the most effective filter cigarette in eliminating tar and nicotine is True—a new brand Kent cigarettes the report states, follow closely behind True. Both brands are products of P. Lorillard Company. Regarding the report, Manuel Yellen. board chairman and chief executive officer of the Lorillard Company, sail: "P. Lorillard Company is, of course, delighted to learn that its brands of True and Kent cigarettes received such a favorable repdrt by the Roswell P_ark Memorial Institute study. We have long recognized con sumer interest and demand for effective filtration that main tains good taste and smoking satisfaction. Ninety-six percent of our cigarette business in volves filter brands. "Lorillard's Kent brand pio neered the industry in the high filtration field years ago, and the effectiveness of its filter has been consistently maintain ed at the same time that our renewed research efforts were leading to the new True brand "We have referred to the de velopment of True cigarettes as a forward step in filter smok ing Our effective air filtration system in True cigarettes is de signed to provide reduced tar and nicotine and the effective ness of this development by Lorrillard research is supported by the recent report. "True is already available in Sec CIGARETTES 2A The newcomers, from left, are Gregory Kannerstein, Mrs. Gladys Heard, and Mrs. Sally T. Broadbent. VERWOERD South African Prime Minister Assassinated CAPETOWN, South Africa— A detailed investigation into the slaying of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd was prom ised Tuesday night by govern ment leaders as Verwoerd's as sassin. Dmitri Stafendas, re mained under close security guard. Verwoerd. chief architect of South Africa's policy of apar theid. racial segregation, was stabbed to death on the floor of Parliament early Tuesday afternoon by Stafendas. a 45- year-old messenger and native of Mozambique. Using two sil ver daggers, Stafendas inflict ed wounds in the victim's neck and chest—including the heart —after walking up to where Verwoerd had taken a seat shortly after lunch. As Stafen das approached. Vei'A-oerd arose ?.s if to speak. Nov. 30 Date For Abolishing Discrimination WASHINGTON, D. C —Secre tary of Labor W Willard Wirtz has pronounced the extension of the job discrimination hiring ban to the Nation's banks, as most heartening and another milestone in the Administra tion's determination to promote meaningful equal employment opportunity. The White House announced! that some 14,000 banks witfi ' over 500,000 employees have | been notified by the Secretary j of the Treasury that they are j now under an existing Execu- j tive Order barring discrimina- I tion in hiring because of race, creed or national origin by j firms holding government con •tracts. The Order is effective as of ! November 30. 1966 and applies to existing employers and job j applicants. Secretary Wirtz who has the j responsibility for the overall | administration equal employ ment regulations resulting from Presidential Executive Order, notes that the Treasury Depart ment's notification to the banks | involved, culminates an effort j beginning with the Justice De j partment's opinion that . . I contracts of deposits with j banks,, made by the Federal Government in circumstances j •vhere the bank is free to ac- j cept the funds or not, would I be covered by these Executive Orders." . Edward C. "Sylvester, Jr , Di- j rector of the Office of Federal I Contract Compliance establish ed within the Labor Depart ment in October of 1965. has been actively working with the Treasury Department in bring ing the bank hiring ban to suc cessful conclusion. THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: These days a man needs at least five bucks to buy his way out of even a dime store. NAACP Demands Integrated Floats In "Miss USA" Pageant ATLANTIC CITY, N. J —The Atlantic City Branch and New Jersey State Conference of the NAACP are making consider able headway in their campaign to have integrated floats in the Miss America 1966 Pageant, scheduled for September 10. Three of the resort city's leading hotels, the Marlbo rough-Blenheim, Claridge, and Haddon Hall have pledged themselves to have Negroes on their floats, as have New Jer sey Bell Telephone Co., South Jersey Gas Co., and the Atlan tic City Electric Co. Telegrams have been sent to key NAACP branches urging them to contact float sponsors in their cities to demand inte grated participation. Atlantic City Branch Presi dent Edgar Harris is keeping constant check on progress to determine whether a direct ac tion campaign should be launch ed against the annual pageant. Pageant officials report that their only stipulations concern ing the floats are made on the See FLOATS 2A i_l wVw \ THROUGH PICKET LINE TO SCHOOL (Bertrandville, La.) —A Negro mother and her two children drive through a white picket line to attend the Wood Suits Filed In District Court Against Char. Motor Lines Former NCC Instructor Named To Office of Education Post Dr. Howard Wright Gets Important Appointment WASHINGTON. D. C.—How ard E. Wright, 58, of Columbia, South Carolina, has been ap pointed Chief of the Develop ing Institutions Branch Divi sion of College Support, in the U. S. Office of Education, As sociatc Commissioner for High er Education Peter P Muir head announced this week The program which Dr Wright will direct supports co operative arrangements be tween developing institutions and cooperating colleges and universities. This program was authorized in Title 111 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and $5 million was appropriat ed for its operation during the first year. A native of Philadelphia, Pa , Dr. Wright received his bache lor's degree from Lincoln Uni versity In 1932 and his master's degree from Ohio State Uni versity in 1933. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Univer sity of Chicago in 1946. He was principal of the laboratory school at State College, Albany, Georgia, from 1933 to 1934 From 1940 to 1945 he was prin cipal of the campus laboratory sM, ~ \A YOUTHFUL PROTESTORS —: (Milwaukaa) Mamban of tha j youth council of tha Milwauka* i chapter of tha National A»oci» ' lawn school in Plaquemines Par. ish after the courts ordered the parish schools desegregated No white students showed up WRIGHT School at the State College, | Prairie View, Texas He! served as chairman of the de partment of psychology at N. C. College, Durham, from 1945 t0.1946, and from 1953 to 1961 From 1948 to 1953, he was chairman of the division of ed ucation and psychology at j Texas Southern University, J Houston. Texas Dr. Wright was president of Allen University, Columbia, S. ! C from 1961 to November 1965 From September to Novem | ber 1965. Dr. Wright served as ] civil rights analyst for the Of fice of Equal Educational Op- | See WRIGHT page 2A tion for th« Advitficamont ot j Colorad Paopla march to »übur- | ban Wauwatou Sunday night fcr th» 10th avaninj, of pickat for classes giving strength to segregationist appeal* for a boy cott of the desegregat«d school. (UPI Telepholo) Practice Non- Advancement For Negroes CHARLOTTE The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational fund. Inc this week filed suits charging employment discrim ination against two North Caro lina trucking firms The suits were filed against the Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc and the Central Motor Lines. Inc. Both the defendant com panies are trucking firms op erating from Charlotte, and are engaged in interstate com merce. The Legal Defense Fund at torneys, in their U. S. District Court complaints, allege that the defendant companies in both the cases refused to con sider the plaintiff's application for employment. The Negro plaintiffs in the two separate cases are Charles W Walker, and Marcus Black, respectively Walker, in his complaint, stat ed that the Pilot Freight Car riers Inc refused to accept his application for employment as a long-haul truck driver, be cause of "equipment shortage." However, subsequent to Mr Walker's application, according to the complaint, the company hired five white workers for the same position. In the case of Black, the Fund attorneys charge the Cen tral Motor Lines with discrimi natory practices against the plaintiff and other members of his race. Segregated toilet fa cilities, dressing room facilities, and general refusal to consider advancements for Negroes in job positions, were some of the main charges listed in the com plaint. ing against a Milwauk#* iud»«'« membership in in all-whit# f*a* ternal group. (UPI Ttl»phoio)
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