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f - ANNUAL P®' f SUBSCRIPTION IN NORTH CAROLINA $5.15 ELSEWHERE $5.00 , J VOLUME 43 No. 47 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1966 PRICE: 15c LDF Gets One Million From Ford Foundation To Aid Poor ★ ★★ ***★***★*★ ★ * * ★★★★★★★ Criminal Justice To Undergo Trial By Noted Lawyers FORD GRANT Largest Single Contribution In In The History of Civil Rights NEW YORK—A grant of $1 million was announced to the NAACP Legal Defense and Edu cational Fund, Inc (LDF) this week by the Ford Foundation. The money, which is the lar gest single contribution by a major foundation in the his tory of civil rights, will be used to establish a National Office for the Rights of the In digent. Jack Greenberg, director counsel of the LDF, will also serve as director-counsel of the new agency which will be head quartered at 10 Columbus Cir cle. The LDF operates from the same address and the two staffs will be interchangeable when and if necessary. "If the law is to fulfill its role as a great binding force for civil peace in our society, it must be readily at the serv ice of all, the poor as well as the rich," said McGeorge Bun dy, president of the Founda tion, in announcing the grant. "In strengthening the legal rights of those who are poor and those who lack full and fair opportunities, we streng then the rights of all." "Respect for law will grow as the law respects the aspira tions of those who seek to climb out of poverty and dis crimination," Bundy added The National Office for the Rights of the Indigent, which is now being set up, will be main ly concerned with the system atic testing of cases before courts and administrative agen cies. Free SSO Cash For Churches Or Auxiliaries Save Purchases Slips From Carolina Times Advertisers RECEIVE 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 ad vertisers in The Carolina Times listed below: A&P Stores Alexander Ford Eckerd Drug Stores Johnson Motor Company Long's Florist Model Laundry Mutual Savings it Loan Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. Mcßrooms Rentals Mechanics & Farmers Bank North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company New Method Laundry One Hour Martinizing O'Briant's Motor Providence Loan Co. Rlgsbee Tire Sales Roscoe Griffin Shoe Co. Sam's Pawn Show Sanitary Laundry Union Ins. & Realty Co. Winn-Dixie Weavers Cleaner* Baldwin's Coca-Cola Bot. Co. Roses Central Carolina Farmers Frazier Realty Co. Main Uniform Center Johnson-Forrester Harriss-Conners O'Briant Motor Co. University Dodge ° Lakewood Shopping Center The Wig Warn Appliance & TV Wi NAMED TO COUNCIL —Mrs. Ruth M. Gore, director of Coun seling and Testing at A. and T. College was last week named to a three-year term as a mem ber of the Executive Council of the Southern College Per sonnel Association at its an nual convention at New Or leans, La. Mrs. Gore, who joined the A. and T. faculty in 1956, was named to her present position in 1963. White Rock Senior Choir To Render Hendel's "The Messiah" MRS. SPAULDING WHITE ROCK SR. CHOIR TO PRESENT HANDEL'S "THE MESSIAH"—The 50 voice Sen ior Choir of White Rock Bap tist Church will present its an nual rendition of the Christmas King Points To Economic Strides Made By Negroes ATLANTA, Ga. The South ern Christian Leadership Con ference has won an unprece dented and historic victory in boosting Negro business income and providing more and better jobs for Negroes. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Civil Rights organization, said today that a little-noticed development in Chicago "portends dramatic new strides toward economic freedom for America's black people." He referred to a pioneer agreement between the Chicago Freedom Movement and a large grocery chain. Chain store ex ecutives accepted demands that they sell products manufactur ed by Negro companies, and put money spent by Negroes in Negro banks. The food chain also agreed to hire 183 Negroes at its stores in Negro neighborhoods of Chi cago and to guarantee prompt advancement of present Negro employees to better - paying jobs. Dr. King declared that a drive for similar gains at other companies will be Intensified, as part of SCLC's economic de velopment program. The Chicago agreement was the most stunning success yet for "Operation Breadbasket," the job* and income branch of €J« €art®a Cui£o Carmichael Out On S3OO Bond In "Riot" Case SELMA, Alabama Stokeley Carmichael, head of the Stu dent Non-violent Coordinating Committee, and William S. House, a field secretary, are free on appeal bonds totaling S3OO after conviction in City's Recorders Court on charges of inciting to riot. In addition to SIOO fines each, Carmichael was sentenc ed to 60 days at hard labor and House received 30 days. Car michael had failed to appear at the original trial which was scheduled for Nov. 22 and the hearing was a continuation from that date. House had asked for a continuation until he could obtain counsel Thomas Taylor, a third mem- Supporters of Bishop Ozro T. Jones Will Converge on Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Pa —Rally-, ing his strong forces behind j him, after his supposed "oust-1 er" from top post in the | Church of God in Christ in the church's 59th Annual Mem phis Convocation, Bishop Ozro .. . .j --' "ijJMMißiiii mi - ~ if, :>. • - Jk •• - K c tJS' . pr M MRS. VAUGHN portion of George Frederick Handel's "The Messiah," Sun day afternoon, December 4, at 4:50 p.m. The choir will be under the ; direction of John KJ. Gattis with SCLC. The program on many occa sions has won hundreds of new jobs and promotions for Ne groes in Chicago and the South. In the latest agreement, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago Director "War on Poverty" Is Topic For Young Democrats Forum On December 5 the John F. Kennedy Young Democratic Club will hold the first of a series of monthly programs de signed to encourage public dis cussion of local and national issues. The first program will be in the form of a public forum on the state and local poverty program. Featured speaker will be Jim McDon ald, Director of Community Support for the North Carolina Fund, and William Purcell, Ex ecutive Director of Operation Breakthrough in Durham. Questions will be directed toward the featured speakers by a panel made up of Gene Hurdle, City Editor of the Dur ha m Morning Herald: Tom Findley of WTVD; Mrs. Ruby Gattis, President of the United Organization for Community Improvement; and Dr. John O. 4 ' CARMICHAEL ber, was arrested for blocking traffic and resisting arrest, and was fined S6O. The three were arrested on Nov. 5 in" a Negro section of the city of Selma, where they had driven a sound truck. T. Jones made his first counter | move Tuesday by calling on all I ministers and lay people and i officers of the church to con- I verge on Philadelphia for a I mass show of strength Tuesday See BISHOP 3A MISS GOODWIN Mrs. Lavinia Parker at tha or i pan. Pianist accompanists are Mesdames Otella J. Stawart, Dorothy Judkins, Alice M. Stew art and Miss Paula D. Harrell. of Operation Breadbasket, led a group of ministers in bargain ing with High-Low Foods, Inc., a food chain with 50 outlets in Chicago, including 14 in Negro districts. See STRIDES 3A Blackburn, Associate Professor of Economics at Duke Univer sity. The forum to which the pub lic is invited, will be held at 8:00 p.m. next Monday night, December 5, in the basement of the Security Savings and Loan Association located at Chapel Hill and Roney Streets. Programs planned for the coming months are: January— "Proposals of the North Caro lin Tax Study Commission"; February 22 "Our Vietnam Policy—lts Past, Its Future"; March "Zoning Problems in the Research Triangle"; April —"Public Education in Durham County"; May "Durham City Government." Some of the programs will feature nationally - known as well as local speakers Boston to Host Gathering of Legal Giants BOSTON, Mass Criminal iust'ce—propelled into the spot light by the U S. Supreme Court—will undergo the "cross examination of the year" at what is perhaps the greatest gathering of giants of the crim inal defense bar ever assem bled And the criminal law trial it self—elevated by court order to new legal significance—will "take t he witness stand" on December 2 and 3 in Washing ton, D, C., before the nation's criminal lawyers. Aware of the need for train ing more competent trial law yers to understand the multi faceted problems arising out of new concepts on criminal jus tice, the 25,000 member Ameri can Trial Lawyers Association will stage a highly unusual teaching seminar this Friday and Saturday at the capital's Mayflower Hotel. The teaching faculty all volunteers will include the lawyer ressponsible for the present Fair Trial-Free Press controversy throughout the na- See LAWYERS 3A McLEAN Soloists will b« Mesdames Elna B. Spauldlng and Latelle Vaug han, sopranos. Marsha L. Good win, Contralto and William Mc Laan, Tenor. Teachers Ass'n Merger Topic NCEA Meeting RALEIGH lndividual opin ions of teachers will be sought concerning the proposed mer ger of the North Carolina Teachers Association at 12 Area Conferences now sched ulcd to begin Dec. 12 and end prior to Christmas. NCEA board members at tending the conferences will re port on the tentative proposals already made concerning the merger. No final decisions have yet been made, but teachers' views on the issue will consti tute the specific effort of the conferences. The Liaison Com mittees of NCEA and NCTA have worked out some tenta tive agreements, but any final decisions will be submitted to the entire NCEA membership A tentative date has been set for July, 1969, but any union of the two organizations must be formulated to the satisfac tion of the majority of NCEA members; the reported stand of NCEA officials. The Board of Directors of NCEA offers to its members the following merger proposals and emphasizes that these are tentative pnimafrily for the purpose of discussion and to canvas their individual feel- See TEACHERS 2A m rJyB * '.'l l SEVENTH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS MASS —(New York) —Priests of different races par ticipate in the celebration of the Seventh Annual Human Rir.Sts Mass recently at St. NAACP Pushes Probe of Negro Slaying In Alabama LAST RITES HELD FOR WILLIE (Poss) JONES AT FIRST CALVARY NOV. 26 Final rites for Willie (Possj Jones, 76, highly respected citi zen of Durham, were held at the First Calvary Baptist Church here, Saturday, Novem ber 26, at 3 p.m. The Rev, A. L. Thompson, pastor, delivered the eulogy. Mr. Jones succumbed Tues day, November 22, following an illness of several weeks He was born in Durham, the son of the late Mr and Mrs. Robert Jones. For over 60 years he was 3 member of the First Calvary Baptist Church, joining there in 1906 when it was known as I the Second Baptist Church. I During the 60 years Mr. Jones I served his church, both as a deacon and member of the trustee board. He was also a charter member of the Metoka Sunday School Class. In addi tion, he served as chairman of the Sunday School Finance Committee and treasurer. Mr. Jones was also active in many civic organizations name ly: the John Avery Boys Club, Durham Committee On Negro Affairs, Lyon Park Community Club, the Boy Scouts and vari ous other organizations of the NCC SENIORS AND COACH— Th# senior members of the N. C. College football team POM with Coach James St«v#n» and Henry M. Mlchaox. Jr., preal dent of the NCC National Alumni Association with th* For Christmas GIVE A ONE-YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE CAROLINA TIMES | Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church here. The priests are (left to right): Rev. John Fer nandez, a Puerto Rican; Rev. Barnabas Wang, who is Chin ■ jSnSKI JONES city. Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Alice Hall Jones; one sister, Mrs. Josephine J. Johnson, both of Durham; a brother, Robert Jones of Portsmouth, Ohio and several other relatives. Interment was a Beechwood Cemetery. Funeral arrange ments were by Scarborough and Hargett. Bull-Eagle II Trophy. NCC now has fwo legs on the trophy by virtu* of it* 12-4 win over A. ind T. College Thanksgiving Day in Durham. Shown in the picture from left to right ara , ese; Rev. James Violenus, an ! American Negro; Rev. Wigbert : Ferreras, of India; and Rev. Er | win Beck, of the U. S. A. (UPI Photol I TUSKEGEE, Ala. The Na tional Association for the Ad vancemcnt of Coloivd People has called upon state and Fed eral law enforcement officers to investigate and bring to jus tice the killer or killers of James Earl Motley, 26-yoar-old Negro construction worker, who was beaten to death while in jail in nearby Wetumpka. on Nov. 20. In identical telegrams to Ala bama Attorney General Rich ard Flowers; John Doar, chief of the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice: Dillard Howell, FBI regional director; and Elmore Counts Sheriff Lester Holley, the Rev Kenneth L. Buford urged them to do everything within their power "to see to it that the person or persons who com mited this dastardly crime be immediately brought to jus tice." Meanwhile, th e Alabama State NAACP and the Elmore County (Wetumpka) NAACP Branch, headed by C. W George, has initiated an in vestigation into the crime. "This case is a clear evidence of police brutality at its worst and the NAACP intends to in vestigate it to the best of our ability," Buford said. Motley was arrested, accused See SLAYING 3A kneeling, Louis Ball and Edwin Jonas. Standing: Colon Oliver, Michaux, Roosevelt Robertson, Harman Byrd and Stevens. Tha axtra lag bahind Oliver belongs to aca punter Billy Shropshire.
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