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Supreme Court To Review Ms&ougald°Terrace Eviction Case
WASHINGTON The U. S.
Supreme Court has agreed to
review the case of a mother
with three children who re
ceived a 15-day eviction notice
from a low Income housing
project, without a hearing, the
day after she was elected presi
dent of the Parents' Club, a
tenant group.
The petition for review was
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AT HEARINGS ON URBAN DE
VELOPMENT—(Waihington)
The Senate Govt. Operations
Subcommittee continued rts
hearings last week on the Fed
eral role in urban development.
Two of the witnesses to appear
Henderson Lee Funeral Held
Ebenezer Baptist Tue v Dec. 6
Former School
Employe Dies
Following Illness
Henderson Lee, 801 Grant
St., died here Saturday, Dec.
2, after a brief illness.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Ebenezer
Baptist Church, the Rev. James
A. Brown, pastor, delivered the
eulogy.
Henderson Lee, a long time
member of Ebenezer served in
many official capacities includ
ing treasurer and a member of
the deacon board. He was for
mally employed by Durham
City Schools as custodian, un
til his recent retirement.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
M. Ora Sneed Lee; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Catherine Haskins of
Durham and Mrs. Mary Jack
son of Newark, N. J.; one son,
Hubert Lee of Philadelphia,
Pa.; one sister, Mrs. Macie
Keith of Newark, N. J.; five
brothers, Richard Lee and
Glennis Lee of Philadelphia,
Coy Lee ,of Newark and Arvey
Lee and Clyde Lee of Durham;
eight grandchildren; and eight
great-grandchildren.
Interment was in Beechwood
Cemetery.
Scholars See Hope And Peril
In An "Abundant Society"
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—
Scholars thinking into the fu
ture see an "abundant society"
in America holding both high
promise and deep peril.
Their intellectual explora
tions of tomorrow's America
are recorded in "Looking For
ward: The Abundant Society,"
most recent publication of the
Center for the Study of Demo
cratic Institutions, which con
ducted the conference.
Discussion centered around
papers by Dr. Walter A. Weiss
kopf, chairman of the depart
ment of economics at Roosevelt
University in Chicago, and Rag
havan N. Iyer, political philos
ophy consultant to the Center
who teaches at the University
of California at Santa Barbara.
Weisskopf projected an
American society in which
"abundance" truly has arrived.
Iyer examined principles which
might underlie the structure of
such a society.
The conference assumed the
United States is capable of pro
viding reasonable subsistence
for all, serious consideration
will be given to some form of
guaranteed annual income and
tfctre will be growing concern
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filed by the NAACP Legal De
fense and Educational Fund,
Inc (LDF) attorneys in behalf
of Mrs. Joyce C. Thorpe, a resi
dent in a low income housing
project in Durham.
The case is of "substantial
public importance." argued the
LDF attorneys, since "its reso
lution has ramifications affect
ing the rights of recipients to
are shown in combo here. At
right Roy Wilkini, Executive
Secretary of the NAACP, who
charged that the Federal gov
ernment's job training pro
grams have been marred by
"outright racial discrimina
North Carolina Branches Spur
NAACP Membership Campaign
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NATION'S FIRST NEGRO WAR
DEN—(Mansfield. Ohio) Ben.
nett J. Cooper , associate war
den of the Ohio State Reforma
tory, sits at his desk here after
it was announced that he would
succeed superintendent M. J.
Koloski to become the first
Negro prison warden in the
country. Cooper will assume his
new post on Dec. 4th, when
Koloski leaves to become head
of Ohio's newly leased Chilli
cothe Correctional Institute.
Douglas E. Stewart is Named
Director Planned Parenthood
NEW YORK Douglas E.
Stewart, formerly Executive Di
rector of the Omaha Urban
League, has been appointed
Director of the newly formed
Department of Community Re
lations for Planned Parent
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SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
all forms of welfare benefits."
This is the first time the
nation's highest court has
agreed to review the "rights
of a tenant" in public housing
to be free from arbitrary evic
tion. There are approximately
1400 local housing authorities
with low-rent projects through
out the United States.
The LDF attorneys argued
tion." Writer Harry Golden
(left) proposed that the Negro
be paid a SIOO billion "indem
nity" for the centuries he has
spent locked away from the
mainsteram of American life.
(UPI Telephoto)
NEW YORK—Charles A. Mc-
Lean, NAACP North Carolina
field director, has devised a
novel and effective way to stim
ulate his state's 100 branches
In the organization's current
Crash Membership drive.
Each NAACP branch has been
supplied with a card to send
to Miss Lucille Black, secretary
for membership at the Nation
al Office, in which the branch
pledges to enroll its quota of
new or renewed membersips
before December 15.
The card reads, "Miss Black,
tell Mr. Current and Mr. Wil
kins to weep no more for us.
Our membership campaign ia
on!" It gives the number of
members the branch will en
roll.
Miss Black reports that the
cards are coming in every mail,
arid she is encouraged to be
lieve that North Carolina will
surpass last year's membership
totals.
VERSE OF THE WEEK
An educated man is one who
has finally discovered there are
some questions to which no
body has the answers.
hood-World Population.
Mr. Stewart's department will
work with local, state and re
gional agencies concerned with
health, welfare and economic
problems and interested in
family planning.
A graduate of San Francisco
State College, Mr. Stewart
served for one year as a CORO
Foundation Intern in Public
Affairs in various public agen
cies and voluntary organizations
in San Francisco. He coordinat
ed the campaign of the mayor
of San Francisco and was the
Director of Youth Motivation
Project hf the Bay Area Ur
ban League and Acting Execu
tive Secretary of the San Fran
cisco branch of the National
Association for the Adance
ment of Colored People. He was
Executive Director of the Oma
ha Uifcan League from Decem
ber, 1003 until his present ap
pointment.
Mr. Stewart is married and
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that Mrs. Thorpe, in receiving
notice of eviction and being de
nied a hearing, was denied
rights guaranteed by the due
process clause of the Four
teenth Amendment, and the
First and Fifth Amendments
of the U. S. Constitution.
"In addition," the LDF brief
says, "the broader question is
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VOLUME 43 No. 48 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1966 PRICE: 15c
Wilson To Host Masonic
Annual Session Dec. 12-14
Over 1,000 to
Attend Grand
Lodge Meeting
WILSON The 96th Annual
Grand Lodge Session of the
Most Worshipful Prince Hall
Grand Lodge of Free and Ac
cepted Masons of North Caro
lina and its jurisdiction will
convene December 12, 13 and
j 14 in the city of Wilson.
The host lodges are Mount
| Hebron and Pride of Wilson.
J They are being assisted by Sil
ver Star Chapter and Starlight
Chapter of the order of Eastern
Star Lodges.
Clark S. Brown of Winston
! Salem the Most Worshipful
Grand Master will preside over
the meetings assisted by his
deputies and the Right Worship
ful Grand Senior Warden, Mil
ton F. Fitch of W'lson.
Plans are being made for
over one thousand brothers to
supervision of J. M. Miller and
converge on the city under the
George C. Alexander, Co-chair
man.
Representation is expected
from Massachusetts, Connecti
cut, New York, New Jersey,
Maryland, Delaware, District
of Columbia and Virginia and
several other states.
Wilson is known as the city
that makes the Grand Masters,
the last two having been made
here, 1947 and 1959, there are
no changes in view for this ses
sion.
The opening will be a Memo
rial Service at the St. John A.
M. E. Zion Church Monday
night at 7:30 P.M. The public
is invited to attend this affair
and the fellowship Banquet on
Tuesday night at 8:00 P.M.
The remaining meetings will
be closed for the membership
only.
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prtaa for Ntwmbtr givon by
tho CmlliM TlmM Mch month
to tha church or church auxil
iary itvlnf tha higfhoot amount
of purchaw alipa from With
titan in tha Carolina Thnaa.
involved of the right of per
sons receiving any public wel
fare benefits to at least a bare
minimum of procedural pro
tection before the very necessi
ties for life are taken from
them."
Currently, the local public
housing authorities follow a
procedure of drawing up the
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HILLSIDE HONOR STUDENTS
—Six honor studants wara fin
alist In tha National Achiava
m• nt Scholarship program
which was held hara recently.
Thay ara front row, laft to
right: Mlssas Ida Rosabud Pag*.
Ga. Indigent Tenants Case
Taken To U.S.Supreme Court
WASHINGTON The U. S.
Supreme Court was this week
asked to review the constitu
tionality of those statutes of the
State of Georgia which prevent
indigent tenants from making
a defense against eviction ord
ers because of their inability
to post bond in order to obtain
a hearing.
The petition was filed by at
torneys for the NAACP Legal
ww tha Community B a»Wa»
Church, paalaiail by tha Rov.
I. T. Thomson. Proaontatian
of tha chock la shown Mn|
m*4o at tha church, Sunday,
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tenant leases on a month-to
month basis. "This practice,"
the lawyers asserted, "does
permit evictions to be accom
plished after the giving of a
notice to vacate which does
not state the reasons therefor."
This is the first case in
LDF's new program of litiga
tion to protect and establish
daughtar of Rav. and Mrs. R.
E. Pags; Alica LaVarna Sharpa.
daughtar of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond A. Sharpa; Gurnia Car
roll Mlchaux, daughtar of Mr.
and Mrs. M. F. Mlchaux. Back
row, laft to rigftt: Fradarick
Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc. (LDF) on behalf of two
indigent Negroes residing in
Atlanta, Georgia, who were un
able to defend an eviction ord
er solely on the basis of their
poverty.
The LDF attorneys, in filing
the petition for review, argued
that the "Georgia Code 61-303
which barred the petitioners
from a hearing because of their
Tha Carolina Timas. Thoao In
tha pictura from loft to right
ara Rov. Thompaon, Mr. Auatin
an 4 Mr*. OnoitU McGhaa, who
rocolvod tho chock on bohalf of
tha church.
(Photo by Purafoy)
the rights of poor people.
LDF has recently become in
volved in cases seeking to make
precedent of poverty law ques
tions just as it has done over
the years in civil rights.
The LDF attorneys who filed
the petition are Director-Coun
sel Jack Greenberg, James M.
Nabrit 111, Charles Stephen Ral
Br only Wright, ion of Mr. and
Mrs. Vargla C. Wright; Alfrad
Robarts, ton of Mrs. Ollia M
Robarts, and Macao Kannedy
Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ma
cao A. Sloan.
poverty is in conflict with the
principles declared by this
court, ana is unconstitutional
under the equal protection and
due process clauses of the four
teenth amendment."
The brief also raised an im
portant constitutional issue in
the developing field of the Law
of Poverty, and in a particular
ly crucial area of that field,
landlord-tenant law.
More specifically, the brief
Rural Negroes
In Ala. Start
New Program
ANNEMANIE, Ala.—A pio
neering self-help program of
education for seasonal farm
workers here in Wilcox Coun
ty was officially opened this
week.
The occasion marked the first
co-operative effort of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference and the federal Office
of Economic Opportunity to
bring new hope for long-neg
lected rural families.
County residents who will
help operate and also benefit
from the project met with rep
resentatives of supporting
groups: the national SCLC and
its Wilcox County affiliate, the
federal anti-poverty agency, and
the United Presbyterian Church,
USA, of Wilcox County.
Junius Griffin, Adminlstrt-
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ston, Michael Meltsner, Charles
H. Jones, Jr., and Sheila Rush
Jones of the New York office,
and M. C. Burt of Durham.
They were joined by attor
neys. Edward V. Sparer, Mar
tin Garbus, and Howard Thor
kelsan of the Center for Social
Welfare Policy and Law of Co
lumbia University.
DR. McLESTER
Last Rites Held
For Dr. C. E.
McLester Thurs.
The last rites of Dr. Charles
Edward McLester, son of the
late Richard and Charlotte Mc
Lester, and the husband of
Mrs. J. B McLester, were
held Thursday, December 8 at
Morrhead Ave Baptist Church,
the church he founded and or
ganized some twenty years ago.
He succumbed Friday, Dec. -2,
at Lincoln Hospital following a
period of extended illness.
Born in Curshaw County,
near Camden, S. C., Dr. McLes
ter was a graduate of Tuskegee
Institute and Benedict College,
receiving both the B.A. and
B.D. degrees. He studied fur
ther at Union Theological Sem
inary, Duke University, and
received the honorary D.D
from Friendship and Benedict
Colleges; his specific interests
being in the area of Biblical
interpretations of the Original.
In 1941, he married Johnnie
Blunt of Mobile, Ala., and to
this union was born one son,
Charles Edward n, who died
at infancy.
Dr. McLester attributed the
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The Carolina Times will do
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in Durham saving from its
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est number in dollars and cents
of cash register receipts or
cash purchase slips from ad
vertisers in The Carolina Times
listed below:
Alexander Ford
Appliance & TV
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Appel's Freezer Locker
Baldwin's
Brittain's Shoes
Brunson's
Coca-Cola Bot. Co.
Eckerd Drug Stores
Johnson Motor Company
Kress
Long's Florist
Model Laundry
Mutual Savings & Loan
Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.
Mcßrooms Rentals
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
North Carolina Mutual Ufe
Insurance Company
New Method Laundry
One Hour Martinizing
O'Briant's Motor
Providence Loan Co.
Rigsbee Tire Sales
Robbins of Durham
Roscoe Griffin Shoe Co.
Sam's Pawn Show
Sanitary Laundry
Union Ins. Sc Realty Co.
Winn-Dixie
Weavers Cleaners
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
Zales Jewelry
Zuckerman Fun - Burton's