Housing Tenants, City Official In Stormy Meet
Sunday Kick-off Drive For Lincoln Hospital Nets $25,000
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VOLUME 44—No 48 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1967 PRICE: 20c
Otis Redding Meets Death In
Airplane Crash In Wisconsin
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SIO,OOO FOR HOSPlTAL—lm
perial potentate, John Henry
Hester, of Atlantic City, N.J.,
and Commission, Dt. Wilhel
mina L. Means of Detroit,
Michigan are pictured present
ing a SIO,OOO check to Dr. J.
T. Shubart, past president of
Negro Att'y Appointed Judge
Of Miami Municipal Court
Orlando Native
First of His Race
To Such Office
MIAMI, Fla.-Attorney Donald
Wheeler Jones has been appointed
a City of Miami Municipal Judge.
He is Miami's first regular Negro
municipal judge.
Jones, a 31-year old native of
Orlando, Fla., is married to the
former Carole Madison of Fort
Worth, Texas. They have a two
and a half ye(ar old son, Donald 11.
(She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Madison, 1029 East
Ramsey St., Fort Worth. His moth
er, Mrs. Dorothy Wheeler Holmes,
resides at 6107 Reed St., North
Englewood, Md.)
Jones completed his undergra
duate work at Morehouse College
in Atlanta and received his law
See APPOINTED 10A
LFD And NEA File Suit In
Behalf Dismissed Teachers
Court of Appeals
Asked to Uphold
Reinstatements
CINCINNATI, Ohio-The U. S.
Court of Appeals here was asked
today to uphold a lower court
ruling reinstating several Negro tea
chers, discharged when their stu
dents were transferred to integrated
schools.
Attorneys of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc. (LDF) are representing Negro
teachers from two southcentral
Tennessee counties.
The LDF legal effort is being
supported and financed in part by
the DuShane Fund for Teacher
Rights Committee of the National
Education Association.
Avon Williams of Nashville,
Tennessee, LDF cooperating attor
ney, told the court today that Ne
gro teachers were clearly discharged
because of race.
See TEACHER 10A
the National Jewish Hospital
of Denver, Colorado. The hos
pital in Denver is one of the
several awarded grants annual
ly from the Tuberculosis and
Cancer Foundation of the Im
perial Council Shrine.
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Negro Councilmen Back Demands for Dismissal
Of Durham Housing Authority Dir. C. Oldham
A stormy meeting Tuesday
night between some 80 tenants of
local public housing facilities and
officials of the Durham Housing
Authority, resulted in the suspen
sion of several evictions. It was
argued that eviction notices had
been sent to tenants after unfair
rent increases had been made by
the Hojjjing Authority.
A list of demands made by the
tenants was presented at the four
hour meeting that included the
demand that tenants who have
"been overcharged for rent, receive
cash money repayment," and that
rent for public housing units not
exceed $65 a month, irrespective
of the income of the tenant.
The Chairman of the Housing
Authority Board said that his com
mission would "go over and adjust
rental rates," but he felt that it
Since the year 1950 many
other hospitals, universities
and colleges throughout the
country have received grants
from the Imperial Shrine to aid
in the search for a cure for
tuberculosis and cancer.
would not be possible to establish
S6S as a maximum monthly rent
- Another demand made was that
reinforced by warnings. Negro at
torney, H. M. Michaux, Jr., said:
"January 1 is a new month and a
new year. You have the opportuni
ty to correct this situation. But
the time is fleeting, there is a hot
coal burning in your hands." He
urged the Housing Authority to
take prompt and fair action.
Councilman, J, S. Stewart, who
ittended the meeting with Councfl
■nan C. F.. Boulware, told the
Authority that Durham needs a
'top qualified black person to be
In the estecuUM position of the
Housing Authority," This was fol
lowed by criticism of Director,
Carvie Oldham, and demand for his
resignation. "You can't have an
investigation by just talking to Car-
Tragic Mishap
Stuns Nation's
"Soul" Fans
MADISON, Wis. Otis Red
ding and six members of the
combo, The Bar Kays, were
killed Sunday in an airplane
crash near Madison, Wisconsin.
The private plane of the sing
er crashed into the waters of
an icy lake as it approached
the airport. Trumpet player,
Ben Cauley, was the sole sur
vivor. Killed were Redding; the
pilot, Richard Frasier; Red
ding's valet, Mathew Kelly; and
musicians, Jimmy King, Ron
Caldwell, Phalon Jones, and
Carl Cunningham.
Redding, 26, earned his repu
tation as a rhythm and blues
singer in 1961 when he was a
vocalist with a groupi called
the Pinetoppers. His first hit
was a song called "These
Arms of Mine."
Ervin L. Hester. Program Di
rector of Durham's radio sta
tion WSRC, who knew Redding
well, commented that "every
thing Redding did in personal
performance was an all-out
See REDDING 10A
Dixie Senators
Plan School
Desegregation
WASHINGTON, D. C.—With
their customary tenacity, South
ern Senators are undertaking a
new campaign to undermine
Federal efforts to compel school
districts to desegregate.
The new attack takes the
form of amendments being pro
posed to the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (ES
EA), presently being debated
on the Senate floor.
Unless public opposition to
these amendments is expressed
soon, this threat to enforce
ment of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964—the section
that authorizes the Department
See SENATOR 10A
vie Oldham," Stewart said, and
"when trouble starts in this town,
it is going to be the responsibility
of the Durham Housing Authority.'
Several times during the mee
ting, Oldham's statements were met
with shouts of "liar."
In defense of the Housing Au
thority's rent policies, Board Chair
man Carl Harris pointed out that
many of the rates, such as the 20
percent of income minimum, are
'determined by state and federal
laws. Nevertheless, he stated that
rent scales would be reviewed.
In response to demands for
Oldham's resignation, Harris said
Oldham is "one of the best ad
ministrators In the country," and
that dismissal "would set the hous
ing authority back at least two
yean or more." "It would be a
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MEDAL PRESENTATIONS
(Saigon 7AF) —Air Force Chief
of Staff, General John P. Mc-
Connell (left), congratulates
Sergeant Joseph Mack, 30, of
Spring Lake, N. C., after pre
senting him and Captain Jo
A&T State U. Senior Fatally
Stabbed At Greensboro "Y"
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seph K. Glenn (center), 32,
Fayetteville, the Silver Star and
the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The two airmen were cited for
their heroic action in saving
their damaged C-130 Hercules
aircraft during the battle of Dak
GREENSBORO-Samuel Ro
nald Cotten, 21, a native of Ports
mouth, Va. and senior at A&T
State University, died here Friday
afternoon of a stab wound in
flicted by a 20-year old Greensboro
youth.
The wounding occurred on an
outside basketball court of a local
YMCA where Cotten had gone to
play after classes. He was pro
nounced dead at the university
infirm try.
Police are continuing a search
for a man identified as Ralph Eu
gene Oliver, wanted in connection
with the slaying. Police said he is
not a student at A&T.
Cotten was a son of Mr. and
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AT RECEPTION Dr. Albert
N. Whiting, center facing cam
era, greets a guest at a recep
tion that was given the new
North Carolina College presi
SRC Scores Public Assistance
To Needy In Southern States
Poor Barred From
Adequate Aid By
Harsh Standards
ATLANTA, Ga.—Public As
sistance regulations in the
southern states seriously re
strict the amount of aid avail
able to the needy and effect
ively bar many needy persons
from welfare rolls, according
to a special report issued re
cently by the Southern Re
gional Council.
Even with the fair adminis
tration of welfare regulations,"
the report says, "the poorest
and most needy persons would
not receive aid commensurate
with their needs." The report
says that "the relatively and
absolutely small amount of ex
penditures for public assistance
is due not to the lack of need
but rather to harsh welfare
qualifications and a lack of
See SCORES 10A
To. Three other crew members
received the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross for their efforts in
flying the C-130 back to Cam
Ranh Bay Air Base.
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dent by the Durham Chamber
of Commerce recently. Flank
ing Whiting are, left, T. M.
Patrick, president of the Dur
ham Merchants Association, co
Urban League Director Utters
Warning to Insurance Industry
NEW YORK—The life' insur
ance business must move quick
ly to fulfill its promise of in
vesting $1 billion in America's
slums, if it is to gain the con
fidence of the people it is try
ing to help, Whitney M. Young,
Jr. told a meeting of leading
life insurance executives this
week.
Mr. Young, executive direc
tor of the National Urban
League, said, "For millions of
people in our urban ghettos,
belief in your commitment
must wait until the buildings
are up and the evidence is
there."
Speaking at the annual meet
ing of the Institute of Life In-
See YOUNG 10A
Full Support of
30-Day Effort
Is Stressed
With $103,000 as the amount
to be raised for Lincoln Hos
pital, the kick-off effort of the
30 days campaign got off to a
good start at Mt. Vernon Bap
tist Church here last Sunday
afternoon, at 4:00 p.m. with
over $25,000 cash being raised
in the initial effort.
The meeting was presided
over by N. C. Mutual President
A. T. Spaulding, chairman of
the campaign, who led off
with enthusiastic remarks and
urging every segment *of the
Negro community to back the
effort to the limit so that the
campaign would go over the
top.
Other speakers on the pro
gram were Dr. Clyde Donnell,
chairman of the hospital's
Board of Directors, Dr. Rose
Butler Browne, retired instruc
tor of N. C. College and L. E.
Austin, publisher of the Caro
lina Times.
Music for the occasion was
furnished by the Mt. Vernon
Senior Choir under the direc
tion of Mrs. Annie Belle Fogle
and Mrs. Ruth McCollum.
Other participants on the
program were Maceo Sloan,
campaign co-ordinator, J. H.
Wheeler, president of Mechan
ics and Farmers Bank and Rev.
E. T. Browne, pastor of Mt.
Vernon.
Sloane announced this week
that a progress report meeting
of all campaign division chair
men will be held Saturday, De
cember 16, at 11:00 a.m. on
the second floor of the N. C.
Mutual Life Insurance build
ing.
SHORT SERMONS
A saleman can't help gather
ing a decent quota of orders
if he will expose himself -to
enough buyers.
Statute laws never can be
made to supersede economic
laws.
sponsor of the reception, and
Chamber president Allen T.
Preyer, Jr.
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YOUNG