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■M- I'T ~l • Wlrsr ' or, ~ ;,3 - L fc m > r, « Local University severs Relation /V. C. i>ar ★ * ★ * *★*★***★★★★★★★*★*★★ Law School Controversy Stirs Negro Citizens Che €arsuja Cures VOLUME 43 No. 50 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1966 Congressmen Told of Slow Pace of School Integration 85% Remains Segregated in Southern States ATLANTA— A subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee was told here this week that "an estimated 88-90 per cent of Negro pupils in southern states are still in totally segregated schools. Spokesmen for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education al Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) also noted that this circumstance exists three school years after pas sage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. * It was LDF attorneys, under the leadership of former Di rector-Counsel Thurgood Mar- shall, who won the Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation in 1954. Since that time LDF attorneys have argued hundreds of indi vidual school integration cases across the South. However, AFSC executive Winifred Green told the Con gressional sub-committee that "disappointingly modest pro gress" in southern school de segregation has been made. Miss Green appealed for the inclusion, in the Office of Edu cation's compliance regulations, of school districts desegregat ing under court order. Population centers in which the majority of southern Ne gro children live, Miss Green testified, are desegregating un der Federal District Court or ders. "Federal judges have wel comed the role of the Commis sioner of Education as 'long overdue,' " she added. Backing up her assertion, Miss Green cited Fifth Circuit Court Judge Elbert Tuttle's Mobile, Alabama ruling of last August. The Commissioner's role of implementing the Civil Rights Act is overdue because of the "utter impracticability of a con tinued exercise by the court of the responsibility of supervis ing the manner In which segre gated school systems break out of the policy of complete segre gation . . . and toward com pliance," Judge Tuttle com mented. ON RACIAL ISSUE Minister Warns Christians To "Stand Up Or Get Out" NEW YORK A Protestant minister from Grenada, Miss., warned fellow Christians re cently to "stand up or get out" on the race issue in America. In a signed article appear ing in £he current issue of Look magazine, The Rev. C. B. Burt, pastor of the First Meth olist Church in Grenada, said that far too many white Christ ians refuse to practice what they say they believe "We are confronted all over this land with a great social issue. Hardly a city or hamlet can escape some racial pain . . . I think the issue must be re aolved ultimately in out, hearts," Rev. Burt wrote in his article. "We can no longer be com '.stable in tire face of the tre ■Kp W flr* SEN. ROBT. KENNEDY CLASH ES WITH NEGRO LEADER— (Washington) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (left). D-N.Y., chats with Floyd B. McKlsslck, head of the Congress of Racial Equal Duke Law School Acts When State Bar Snubs Negro Grad The denial of a Negro gradu ate's application for member ship has prompted the Duke University School of Law( to cut all ties with the North Car olina Bar Assn. The action taken by the law school faculty was in protest of the exclusion of Eric Michaux from membership in the asso ciation. Michaux is a Durham native and 1966 graduate of the law school. Michaux was admitted to the N. C. Bar after passing his ex aminations in late summer. The N. C. Bar Association is a separate organization which sponsors social events and con tinuing education for the legal profession. Dean F. Hodge O'Neal re leased a resolution Wednesday in which the law school faculty charged that Michaux's appli cation was rejected solely be cause of his race. Exclusion of a Duke law grad uate from membership in the North Carolina Bar Associa tion, the resolution continued, represents an obstacle to his professional advancement. Dean O'Neal announced that mendous evil in the world." added Rev. Burt "Christians are going to have to make a choice: stand up for what you profess or get out. TTjere is no real choice. If you can't make the teaching of Jesus relevant, you are already out." N. H. BENNETT, JR., vie* president and actuary of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, was elected to the board of Watts Hospital Wed nesday. Others named to the Board are fames T. Hedricfc of the lew firm of Newsome. Graham, Strayhorn and Hedrick; Dr. Frank T. deVyver, vice provost and pijfeseor of economics at Duke OTlveraity and James A. Ward, associate architect fee Ouke University. , ity (CORE) durln? a brack In the Senate Government Opera- j I tions Subcommittee's hearings ' on urban development. Ken- j ' nedy, a frequent defender of civil rights causes, clashed with i MICHAUX the action taken by the law school means: —Members of the law faculty at Duke no longer will serve on association committees which plan continuing educa tion programs; —Facilities of the Duke Law School no longer will be avail able to the association for its See BAR page 2A Rev. Burt lashed out at those See MINISTER 2A BENNETT PRICE: 15c I McKiseJck during the hearing j over the "blade power" concept. ' Kennedy accused McKitsick of j hindering rather than helping , Negroes with his "black pow | er" advocacy. Fifth Plans for Progress Meet January 23-24 WASHINGTON, D. C.—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey announced this week that the sth Annual Plans for Progess National Conference will be held on January 23 and 24 at the Sheraton Park Hotel here. The Vice President also an nounced that Olcott D. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Aetna Life and Casualty Com pany, will serve as Honorary Chairman of the Conference. Humphrey Sullivan, Public Relations Director for Lever Brothers, will serve as Chair man of the annual meeting. Plans for Progress is the na tion's voluntary equal employ ment opportunity program. It now enlists some 349 corpora tions employing than 9 million persons. The Vice President is very active in Plans for Progress programs and serves as an ex officio member of the Plans for Progress Advisory Council, a group of 25 top business execu tives who guide the overall voluntary program. Mr. Sullivan, who also is a member of the Advisory Coun cil, said primary emphasis for the sth annual conference will be on community activities of Plans for Progress companies and the programs of local merit employment groups. Mahalia Jackson Marriage In Divorce Court CHICAGO Mahalia Jackson filed suit for divorce last week in District Court, claiming her husband hit her on several oc casions during th&' year. Her husband, Sigmond Galloway, suffered a broken hand when he failed in the most recent attempt to punch her with hli fist, but hit the wall instead. The famous singer who in re- See MAHALIA 2A NCC and Public Seething With Anger at Rumor The surprise release of in formation that the North Caro lina College Law School faces the danger of loss of financial support by the North Carolina Legislature in the future burst like a bombshell in Negro cir cles of North Carolina this wpek and spurred wide specu lation when it appeared in newspaper, radio, and televis ion reports. Speculation was and still is rife among the state's citizens, the college's faculty nd stu dent body, and, more signifi cantly, the freshman students now enrolled in the Law School, who will be unoble to finish their course if the al leged proposed cutoff of funds is approved for the second year of the 1967-69 biennium. While an incredulous campus and local public seethed with anger and speculation, and while the politically "wise" asked questions and provided many of their own answers, the interim committee now admin istering the college remained orudently quiet, releasing only I the following perfunctory state ment: "Reports recently released about the closing of the North Carolina College Law School came as a complete surprise to the College's administration. "We have not been informed about any of the recommenda tions of the Advisory Budget Commission. It is our under standing that the recommenda tions of the Commission are confidential until presented to the legislature in February, 1967. We do not feel that we should try to preempt or sec ond guess the report of the Ad visory Budget Commission. "If it is true that such a rec ommendation has been made, we feel certain that at the ap priate time the Board of Trus tees of North Carolina College will make known its position. "At the present time, we are busy with the largest enroll ment in the history of the North Carolina College Law School, a f otal of 51 students." That is the administration's official the matter at this time. NCC Li»w School Dean Daniel See LAW SCHOOL 2A V&// ' \ W RECEIVES TOP SCOUT AWARD— W. A. Clamant. ripht, former Dictrlct Chairman of Cheyenne Leaf Boy Scout Dis trict of Durham, la shown aa ha received tha Silver Baavar Award, tha higheat award that ' N. C. Mutual V- P Given Boy Scouts Silver Beaver Award W. A. Clement, CLU, vice president-Field Operations of North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company received the Silver Beaver Award of the Boy Scouts of America. The award, given by the Oc coneechee Council Boy Scouts, is the highest that a local coun cil can bestow upon a volun teer. The presentation of the Sil ¥Jf /' J V «P^iWß A POINT OF INTEREST—Nov eIist John O. Killens, left, lis tens to Mrs. Viola Turner of Durham following a speech by him Tuesday at North Carolina College. Also an essayist and screen writer, Killens. whose visit was the colle9e's Eng-I Virginia NAACP Calls For Federal Anti-Klan Action Last Rites Held For Thomas David Parham, Sr. Dec. 15 The funeral of Thomas David Parham, of 1509 Ridgeway. who died at a local hospital Dec. 15. was held here Thursday, Dec. 15, at Covenant United Presbyterian Church; the Rev. J. A. Cannon, presided. Parham, age 74, son of the late John Thomas and Ella Epps Parham, was born in Peters burg, Va., where he received his early education. A graduate of Kittrell College and the law school at North Carolina Col lege, Parham had worked con tinuously in the field of com merce including over 40 years at the Mechanics and Fanners Bank, retiring this year be- See PARHAM 2A a local council can battow upon a voluntaar. Making tha presentation at a luncheon hald ) at tha cafataria of North Ciro lina Mutual Life Insurance Co. is Nello L. Taar, Jr., left, inv ver Beaver was made recently during a luncheon at the cafe teria of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company by Nello L. Teer, Jr., immediate past presdent and a member of the Executive Committee of the Executive Board of Occonee chee Council Boy Scouts. Clement was out of town when the award was to have been given him at the district lish Club, spoke on the subject, 'The Writer and Human Rights.' Mrs. Turner, retired treasur-j | er of the North Carolina Mu-j tual Life Insurance Company and now a member of its board I iof directors, is a longtime | friend of Killens' mother, both gfc- PARHAM mad lata pa*t praiidant and membtr of tha axacutiva com | mittaa of fha axacutiva board of Occonaachaa Council Boy Scouta. Looking on it Mrs. Cla mant. recognition dinner Nov". 7. N. H. Bennett, Jr., vice president-Actuary of North Car olina Mutual and District Chair man of the Cheyenne Leaf Dis trict presided at the presenta ton. Henry W. Gillis .District Scout Executive of the Chey enne Leaf District was in charge of arrangements. The citation presented reads: See CLEMENT 3A hailing originally from Macon, ' Georgia. Left of Killens is NCC Eng i lish instructor Gregory Kannar stein. Center is Dr. Charles A. Ray. chairman of the college's Department of English. —(NCC Photo) RICHMOND, Va—The Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People in Virginia has called upon the U. S Department of Justice to take steps "to afford law-abid ing citizens of Virginia proper protection under Federal law" against Klan threats and \io lence. In a letter, dated Dec. 6. to i Acting Attorney General Ram sey Clark, W. Lester Banks, Virginia State NAACP execu tive secretary, and David E I.ongley. state chairman of the public relations committee, cit ed "the failure of Virginia's officials to take steps to curb the Klan, or provide adequate See ANTI-KLAN 2A 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 it* members and friends the Mgh est number in dollars and cent* of cash register receipts or cash purchase slips from ad vertisers in The Carolina Times listed below: Alexander Fstfd Appliance & TV AAP Stores Appel's Freezer Locker Baldwin's Belks Colonial Stores Bot. Co. 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