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The regular meeting of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
EDWARD a MUSE
sponsored jointly by the Ra
leigh Ministerial Alliance and
the NAACP, will be held Sun
day at the Rush Metropolitan
AME Zion Church, E. Cabar
rus Street, beginning at 7 p. m„
Main speakers for the event
will be Edward B. Muse, NAACP
National Life Membership As
sistant, New York; and David
S, Coltrarie, chairman of the
North Carolina Good Neighbor
Council since Jan, 18, 1963,
Mr. Muse, a brother of Mrs.
A. M. Peebles, of 721 Calloway
Drive, this city, will be the 7
p. m. speaker, and will meet
with members of the executive
committee and other interested
citizens.
(See NAACP TO, P. 2)
Symphony
Orchestra
Acclaimed
BY STAFF WRITER
The mild-mannered maestro
of the 92-plece Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra was inter
viewed in his Carolina Hotel
suite here Monday afternoon.
Just by talking to Stanislaw
Skrowaczewski, one would
never guess that he controls
the wonderful music rendered
by one of the world’s great
est symphony orchestras.
Shaw University’s Centennial
Festival of the Arts was of
ficially launched with the pre
sentation of the svmohony orch
(See SYMPHONY, P. 2)
Dr. Boone
Nat’l Youth
Day Orator
ELIZABETH CITY - Dr, R.
Irving Boone, college minister
and a member of the Modern
Languages faculty, Elizabeth
City State College, will be guest
speaker at a national youth as
sembly on Christian Education,
at the Methodist Cathedral, New
York City, Tuesday, Feb. 22,
He will speak on the subject,
“College Youth and Today’s
World.”
A native of Murfreesboro, he
is a graduate of Shaw Univer
sity and North Carolina College
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"HI. MR. PRESIDENT” seems to foe what little Miss Amy Wilkins is saytag to the nation's
- Chief Executive In Washington last week after her father, Roger Wilkins, 33, left, introduced
i *® r Pf#Md#nt Lyndon B. Johnson, following his swearing in at a White House ceremony as
director of the Community Relations Service. At right Is Roy Wilkins, executive director of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who is Roger’s undo, (upi
PHOTO).
THE COROLINIAN
VOL. 25, NO. 13
U. S. Government Ads Against Shims
NC Bishop Discusses Equality
DEATH CAR FOR FIVE TEENAGERS - Douglas, Ga„: Shown above is the death vehicle in
which five Negro teenagers lost their lives late Sunday night, Feb, 13. Killed in this car were
Bobby Wayne Jordan, 11; Johnny Douglas, 18; Johnny Jordan, 14; Laruth Ellis, 15; and Wilfom
Ellis, 12. All were residents of Coffee County, Ga. This car attempted to turn off the highway
and was struck by a car driven by Freddie Dean, 18, oi Alma, Ga. Dean also was killed. A
third car crashed into the pile. (UPI PHOTO).
Stop Talking, Begin Taking Moves
To Remove Blight From inner Areas
NEW YORK (NPI) - Govern
ment officials across the coun
try stopped talking and start
ed taking action to remove the
blight of slums from their in
ner cities.
In New York, slum dwellers
whose apartments lacked heat
were put up at the Astor, one
of the city’s best-known hotels,
at reduced rates.
‘‘l don’t think this sort of
thing has ever been done be
fore,” said Mrs Ann Roberts,
executive director of the city’s
economic opportunity commit
tee.
The slum dwellers said some
Harlem apartment In which they
lived were so cold they could
see smoke coming out of their
mouths. The city was planning
legal action against the land
lords of these apartments,.
in Los Angeles, a plan was
announced to lease 1,000 vacant
apartments from private own
Temperatures for the next
five days, Thursday through
Monday, will average two to
six degrees above normal.
Norma! high and iow tem
peratures for the area will be
5S and 32. It will be cooler at
the start of the period, with
some warming expected by
the end of the week, and a
change to cooler temperatures
at the end of the period Pre
cipitation will average three
fourths to one inch, occurring
M rain damn# ts»* weekend,
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1966
ers and sublease them to low
income families and senior ci
tizens.
Following formal city council
approval, the Housing Authority
applied to the U. S. Housing
and Home Finance agency for
federal funds.
Moving low-income families
into middle-class neighbor
hoods, said Miss Sylvia A. Yus
ter, housing authority chair
man, will allow them to avoid
the disadvantages of low - In
come housing developments.
J. Conyers Asks LBJ To Aid
Persons Evicted From Farms
WASHINGTON - Congress
man John Conyers, Jr. (Dem,-
Michigan) has asked President
Johnson to rush emergency as
sistance to ''the hungry, the
homeless and the helpless peo
ple” who have been evicted this
winter from Mississippi planta
tions. In a letter sent to
President Johnson on Saturday,
Conyers cited a study by the
Delta Ministry, an affiliate of
the National Council of Church
es, stating more than 10,000
members of Negro sharecrop
per and tenant farm families
will be evic’.ed by the end of
the winter. Many of the evic
tions have occurred on planta
tions where there are strikes
for better wares and working
In Atlanta, city officials took
the first step to rid a shouth
west area section of slum hous
ing. City building inspectors
declared at least 11 houses
jammed along two adjoining
streets in violation of Atlanta’s
housing and slum clearance
code.
The action was taken after Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., visit
ed the area in sub-zero weath
er and found living conditions
there “appalling.”
(See GOV’T ACTS, P. 2)
conditions. The average farm
worker in the Mississippi Del
ta receives thirty to forty cents
an hour.
Earlier this week seventy e
victees entered the shut-down
Greenville Air Force Base ask
ing for food, jobs and land, but
were removed by military po
lice. Terming it “heartless
to force these seventy people to
leave the base without any ef
fort being made to respond
to their plea for help,” Con
yers suggested the base be us
ed as a temporary housing and
food distribution center. Some
two hundred of those who had
hoped to live at the base are
now staying near-by in tents.
The Greenville Air, Force Base
was deactivated a year ago and
negotiations are now underway
to have it used in the poverty
program as a job restraining
center.
Citing this incident as just
an illustration that “there are
thousands of desperate people in
Mississippi this winter,” Con
(See REP. CONYERS, P. 2)
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ALBANY. N. Y. - Governor
Rockefeller announced last
week the appointment of Jackie
Robinson, the Hall of Fame
baseball star and business
executive, as special assistant
to the Governor for community
affairs,
“I am delighted to have Jackie
Robinson on my team,” Govern -
or Rockefeller said. “New
Yorkers and Americans
throughout the nation know of
his reputation for unquestion
ed Integrity. Because of this
and because he is the kind of
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Episcopal
Prelate At
St. Aug.
“Equality of opportunity is
made meaningful for the Negro
by his inequality of condition,
this is the conclusion reached
by Bernard Harleston in an
article entitled Higher Edu
cation for the Negro. The Rt,
Rev. Thomas A, Fraser, Bis
hop of the Diocese of North
Carolina, told his audience Sun
day on the occasion of St. Aug
ustine’s College’s Ninety-ninth
anniversary celebration.
"The inequality of condition
in the area of education is clear
ly spelled out by the vicious
circle of poor high school edu
cation producing a poor student
for a poor college education,
which in turn produces a poor
teacher qualified to continue
the poor elementary education,
...!d round and round we go in
a vicious circle," stated the
speaker.
“It is interesting to note that
Negro institutions educate the
majority of Negro students who
go to college, and of the 123
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Teen-Derm
Wii! Hear
W. Latham
The Capital City Teen-Dems
will meet Saturday, February
19, at 1609 E. Davie Street,
from 3:30 to 5;30 p. m. All
Teen-Dems are urged to attend
this important meeting. Teen-
Dems Thomas Williams and
Skip Quick, chairman of “Poli
tical Seeding and Weeding in
Precinct 35” will give all the
What’s, Who’s, When’s, Why’s,
Where’s, and How’s, in the
Capital City Teen-Dems Proj
ect 1966 "Seeding and Weed
ing.’’
Wiley Latham, chairman Pre
cinct 35, will speak on "Teen-
Dems and Voter Registration in
Precinct 35." Mr. Latham is
the first Precinct chairman to
request the Capital City Teen-
Dems to work in the precinct in
the important work of locating
and relocating registered and
unregistered voters in order to
protect the votes of all citizens.
Club president, Miss Claudia
Reid said, "We are delighted.
We hope more precinct chair
men will call upon the club
to work. In this way, we can
(See TEEN-DEMS. P. 2)
Dr. Elian Winston Will Speak
In State For Churches Council
Dr. Ellen Winston, Commis
sioner of the Welfare Adminis
tration of the U. S. Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare, will be the keynote
speaker at the state wide
Churchmen's National Legisla
tion Seminar for North Carolina
at West Market Street Method
ist Church in Greensboro on,
Tuesday, Feb. 22. The seminar
is being sponsored by the North
Carolina Council of Churches,
The Rev. Jack Crum, Raleigh.
Director of Christian Social
Action for the Council said the
purpose of the meeting was to
help churchmen and women to
understand the issues before
Congress and to help them par
ticipate in our democratic pro
cess. Church people of all
denominations will be welcome.
Rev. Crum is receiving reser
vations at his office in Raleigh.
Dr. Lewis I. Mad docks,
Washington, Secretary of the
Council foi Christian Social
Action of the United Church of
Christ, will lead a session be
Pair Went
On Trial
Feb.l4
ELLAVILLE, Ga. - A 14-
year-old boy went on trial for
his life on Feb. 14 because he
killed a policeman who was
hitting his brother with a club,
Charlie Hunter shot Night
Policeman John A. Hardin to
death last Nov. 13 on a dirt
road about a mile outside the
Ellaville city limits. The boy
said he feared that Hardin was
about to kill his brother Willie,
19,
Judge T. O. Marshall, sitting
as judge of Juvenile Court, turn
ed t!ie boy over to Superior
Court for trial on a charge of
first-degree murder, Marshall
is also judge of Schley County
Superior Court.
He was to preside at the trial
of Charlie and Willie Hunter,
who is also charged with mur
der. The state was expected
to ask that ttie brothers tie
electrocuted.
Attorneys for the Hunters are
challenging the system of jury
selection in Schley County. They
say that it results in the ex
clusion of Negroes, who make
up 56 per cent of the popula
tion of the county.
Concerned citizens in South
west Georgia have formed the
Hunter Defense Committee to
try to free the youths. Slater
King, president of the Albany
Movement, is chairman. He said
the committee hopes to include
persons In other parts of the
nation who have voiced concern
about the case.
King pointed out that Officer
Hardin and another man stopped
the "unter brothers on the road
outside Ellaville, although the
policeman’s authority did not
extend beyond the city limits.
The man with Hardin was
Identified as Kerrnit O. Green,
a foreman with the Georgia
Highway Department who also
acts as" county jailer. Sheriff
William Marcene Ellis testified
(See BOY, 14, S>. 2)
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AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S FOUNDERS’ WEEK SERVICE - Principals who participated in the Saint
Augustine’s College Ninety-Ninth Founders’ Week observance are pictured above. Reading from
left to richt are: the Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Fraser, D. D., Bishop, Diocese of North Carolina;
Dr. James A. Boyer, president of the College; The Rev. William F. O'Neal, Founders’ Day preach
er, and Harold Wright, M. D,, prominent surgeon from Jamaica, New York who served as Found
ers’ Day Banquet speaker.
James Farmer, John Lewis Spend Time
On Campus Os Winston-Salem State College
WINSTON-SALEM - Both
James Farmer, national direct
or of the Congress of Racial
Equality (until March 1), and
John Lewis, national chairman
of the Student Nonviolent Co
ordinating Committee, were
guests on the campus of Win
ston-Salem State College last
ginning at 10 a. m, on domes
tic issues. He will discuss the
Taft-Hartley bill, the anti-pov
erty program, the minimum
wage bill, civil rights legisla
tion, reapportionment, comer
(»** tiU WINSTON. P. 2)
DR. ELLEN WINSTON
mom. news
Hr. ART BROKEN MOTHER CONSOLES CHILDREN - Nash
ville, Tenn.: Mrs. Marie Annette Langley consoles two of
her small children, Joel, 2, and Laura Ann, 4, after they es
caped a fire which killed three persons here last week.
Listed as dead were Nina Holder, 1, daughter of Mrs. Senora
Holder; Allan J. Langley, 1, and Sarah Langley, 4 months,
both children of Mrs. Marie Langley. (UPI PHOTO),
NA AC P'S MITCHELL ADDRESSES TAR HEEL TESTIMON
IAL DINNER - Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington
NAACP Bureau, is shown recently addressing the Testimonial
Dinner given by the North Carolina State Conference of
Brar ches, at the Queen Charlotte Hotel, honoring Kelly M.
Alexander, president of the North Carolina State Conference
of Branches, NAACP. Shown with Mr. Mitchell is Rev.
W, E. Banks, chairman of N. C. State Conference Church Com
mittee and chairman of Testimonial Committee,
week.
Farmer was the vespers
speaker, ushering in the obser
vance of Negro History Week
on the campus; and Lewis was
the mid-week assembly orator.
"What will be your reply
when your grandchildren say
to you ‘What were you doing
during the current civil rights
revolution?”
This question was posed by
Mr. Farmer, of Racial Equali
From Raleigh s Official Police Files.
THE CHIME BEAT
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Denied Cash, He
Attacks 'Friend’
Miss Mary McDougaid, of
549 E. Hargett Street, Apt.
10, informed Officers Norman
Artis and James E. (Bobby)
Daye at 10;44 a, m. Saturday,
her boyfriend, Henry Weldon,
33, of 556 E. Davie Street,
assaulted her after a “fuss.”
The reason for the assault,
she declared, was that she re
fused to give Weldon "some
money which he asked me for,”
She signed a warrant and her
boyfriend was arrested on an
assault and battery rap. The in
cident took place on the side
walk in the 500 block of E.
Davie Street. She suffered a
laceration of the left side of
the face, and abrasions.
ty ir. a talk to the students
of Winston-Salem State College
last Sunday.
Reviewing Negro history dur
ing the past decade, he told how
the Negro revolution began with
the 1954 and 1955 U. S. Su
preme Court decisions ending
segregation ii piblic education,
continued through the Mont
gomery, Ala. bus boycott and
gained momentum from ihe Feb.
1, 1960 sit-ins by three college
(See FARMER, LEWIS, S*. Vi
Held By Two,
Struck By One
James Andrew Privett, 24,
of 1U 6 Pender Street, told
Officers W. C, Stone and W'.
A. Thomas at 9;10 p. m. Fri
day, that Arthur Calvin Woods,
35, and Frank Woods, 32, held
him while Mrs. Dora Smith
Woods, 45, struck him in the
head with a bottle at 320 N,
State Street.
The Woods trio was jailed on
a charge of assault with a dead
ly weapon, and placed under
bonds of S2OO each, while Priv
ett was taken to Wake Memorial
Hospital, where he was treated
for a laceration of the left side
of his head, which was one and
one-half inches long,
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