WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957
Say D. C. School Kids Go Hungry; Want Free Lunches
ft ATM!-'KING OF THE KEAN—A Ku Kiux K kinsman watches a
firry cross burn at Cleveland. Tonn.. recently. Some 1,500 to 2,000
Klan -men gathered for the beginning of a conclave which a Klan
official earlier had expressed the belief would attract about 10,000. ,
Members from Tennessee, Mabama, Georgia and North Carolina
were in attendance. (UNITED TRESS PHOTO).
Winter Quarter Honor Roll
Announced By Bus. School
DURHAM The Registrar’s ,
office of the Durham Business I
Schoo’ announced the Honor Roll ;
for the winter quarter. The list :
includes six students on the *A” i
Honor Roll and twenty-eight stu- !
cents on the “B" Honor Roll.
The “A” Honor Roll consists of !
•tuoents Woo made an average '
of 2,75 and above.
The “B” Honor Roil consists of
students who made, an average of ;
2.00 to 2.74,
In the order of scholastic j
standing; the "A” Honor Roll i
lists the following students; Ed- j
ward Howard. Conroe, Texas, j
Elsie Mayo, Rocky Mount; Mary ;
Crosby, Sumter. South Carolina: j
Madie Lewis, Goldsboro, North !
Carolina; Lessie Thornton, Ox* j
ford, Isa bell Roberts Durham. j
In the order of their scholastic ;
standing; the. “B” Honor Roll)
Hampton Grads
Plan Meeting
At Bricks, N. C. i
HAMPTON, Va. The North
Carolina Conference of the Na- i
tional Hampton Alumni Associa
tion •-vflj bold its regional meeting ;
f" at Bricks N C. on April 6-7. ac
cording to Mrs. Fannie T. New- ;
some, '2l, of Rich Square, confer- .
enre president.
Re presen taive? from chapters in ;
Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro, Bur- I
lington-Graham. Charlotte, Win-!
ton - Salem, Wilmington, Rich
Square. New Bern, Elizabeth City, !
Henderson, Coastal Plains, Clinton.
Statesville ,ar,d other Norih Caro
lina cities are scheduled to attend
Principal speakers at the tv.-o
day moot will be Dr. William 11.
Martin, Hampton Institute Dean of
Faculty, and Major Walter R
Brown treasurer of the N. H. A. A
Also expected to address the
Alumni are Dr. Alonzo G. Moron,
'27, Hi President, and Mr. Dos-,veil
K Brooks. ’2l, N.H.A.A. president. |
SRM3D HTSfOHIC MQWENT Waving a greeting to Iriwtd* j
at he c!tJw.ai.b-j.iU»t heir, o ftyuze ert ialematiotiat Airport is \>t,
A. Ch«sl« Cksrfc, •Jtecuti'n* director oi the African MeUtodiet ;
Lpisoopal Church's Heme and Foreign Masaionory dept, who
j ( wm amang the hundre-da oi Americga laedors who witewosed the
ffl} oi Sis new aatitm d {Neweprswe Phgte).
, lists the following student;*: Ruby
Thompson, Raleigh; Charity M
: Sammons Clinton: Annie Bell
j Springs, Morgan ton; Ge!o is>
! Campbell. Fayetteville; Edith
' Langston, Suffolk. Virginia; Ber
' ,ha McAdoo, Mebant; Alice Wil
! kins, Rocky Mount; Betty Me-
I Lean. Sanford; Edna Poole. Van
; ceyville: Margaret Woods. Tay*
• lors. South Carolina; Yott.ic Tea*
! chey, Tf-achcy; Dorothy Weaver,
| Chapel Hill: Ethel Younu. Bur-
II ington; Quintine Page, Durham;
; Lucille Burnett, Chapel Hill: Car-
I ILsta Daye. Burlington: Georgia
: Kearney, Henderson: Mary Stray
! horn. Trenton; Doretha McLaugh
j lin, Sanford; James Atwater. Dur
i ham; Ruth Cornwell, Chester,
South Carolina; Lourine Kearney,
i Henderson; Charlie Booth. Chap*
'el Hill; Lorelfa Hackney. Chapel
i Hill- Shirley Umphre.v, Apex; An*
i nie Oakley. Oxford; Irene Hcdg*
jpeth, Halifax; Mamie Fuller,
i Burlington; Rufus Benny Finlay
son, Durham.
In 1955 North Carolinians import -
j ed more than 750 million pounds
j of milk in the form of cheese e
; vaporated milk, butter, dry milk
| and other dairy products.
... But if any man he a wor
shipper of God. and doeth His
will, him He heareth.—(St,
| John 9,31.)
So many of us, in bewilder
ment ami misunderstanding,
often seek to find a quick
‘‘short cut.” to our Heavenly-
Father's love and mercy. But 1
the Bible is a never-failing
; guide, and Jesus tells us the
straight, sure way *o reach
God through devotion and
prayer.
Sen. Humphrey Stresses inconsistency
Os Sending Food Abroad To Foreigners
WASHINGTON (ANPI -- It is,
incredible that in a country of
America's abundance, children!
should be neglected within the j
shadow of the nation’s capitol, j
declai cd Sen. Hubert Humphrey \
(D„ Minn > last week.
In a speech on the senate floor,!
Tuesday, Humphrey stressed the |
inconsistency of this country i
sending urplus food through the i
nation and the world to combat i
hunger, when it exists in our own j
backyard I
The statement was based ;
upon a news item appearing I
in n Sunday paper which ,
Humphrey said “shocked”
him when he read that young- i.
NCCProf |
[Runs For [
Council
| DURHAM -- James T. Taylor.!
professor of psychology at North|
j Carolina College, last week < an
■ pounced hi;- candidacy for the
Durham City Council from the
i3rd ward.
The post is being vacated by
; E N. Harris, Durham business
( man and first Negro to serve, on
! the. Durham City Council.
After Harris' announce
ment that lie would not seek
the post. ,f. S. Stewart, execu
■ live secretary of the Durham
' Committee on Negro Affairs.
with the endorsement of the
committee, placed his name in
nomination.
'
J. T. TAYLOR
Siewart and Taylor will be ri
ms for the 3rd Ward’s nomina
tion and election.
Taylor is a native of Wilson
and one of the first graduates of
j NCC.
; He received the B.S. and M.A
degrees at Ohio State where he
also did pre-doctoral work in psy
j chology.
The NCC professor is a
former president of the State
Teachers Association and dur
ing World War If was in con
trol of a divisional OPA Office
} in Durham.
He is also the executive sec
■ rotary of the James E. Shep
ard Memorial Foundation.
In addition to his various edu
i cational posts Taylor has been an
j oft quoted spokesman on inter*
j national affairs from lecture plat
j forms and from newspaper
columns throughout the country.
f MU “'NG
f WITH
MULLER
iy l«fn« M. Muller
TT^
There has been i design change in
home appliances recently that should
have very special appeal to the ladle*
Relieve it or not —to give * modern
look to an old kitchen no longer in
volve*- tearing down or ripping out!
No carpenter or even mechanic is
needed—it's as simple as sliding out
'lie old appliances and slipping in the
“Sheer Look!”
“Sheer Look''” That's the name giv
en to the new Fngidaire line of free
standing appliances with the Jerk,
straight lines and square corners! Re
i cause of the functional clean-cut lines
| of these refrigerators, ranges, laundry
I equipment, etc., they fit in and adapt
well to any standard cabinet* we miv
already have—giving the impre--ion of
bring actually built-in!
Not only are tbev trimmer and ‘-i*e
space—hitt they blend to perfection
with any style, kitchen. \nd. talk about
down-to-earth practicality these *p
pliances, which have that look of to
morrow in their styling, can he *e
lected piece by-piece, or if ihi budget
permits, ali at one time.
we don ! have to dream about a n- w
fare lift tor our kitchen. either, be.
cau*e anything we want is available
now at cur local dealer. And. he ran
! be most helpful too with your planning.
* * *
And, w hile sic'r-- in the kitchen,
here's a dressing ihal will add rip
to o tossed snlad
you might like
to try-— •it’* cm*- ’'kQ/ . 1
| of onr favorites.
Mt cup of olive \l Yj '
oil, V* mp of a/
blue cheese r~' -iff
1 (eru nt bfe with
i fork), I table. =s_uf_J—
spoon iejtv-o piiec, !close of
g irlie (crushed), I >4 tablespoons
! vinegar, salt and pepper .mes J a *J,
j of Bleak snore. Mix ihorcushiy.
i Boa apjietit! ,
sters are going hungry in ,
Washington and there is no 1
school lunch provided for the
elementary schools.
Humphrey urged the chairmpn
of both the District of Columbia i
committee and the senate agri
culture committee to immediately
undertake a thorough investiga
j tion of this intolerable situation,
i “We cannot hold up our heads if •
| we do any loss”, he emphasized. !
| The article, which Humphrey i
l had placed in the Congressional ■
; Record, gave a vivid description j
j of how "hunger haunts the young 1
jin Southwest Washington.” In j
! this area, which is heavily popu- 1
ila ted with Negroes, the writer
| stated that hunger “can be seen
i at every step”.
| She points out horv it is seen
; in the “’istless bedy of a
| old whose hands and head droop i
[forward after he delivers his |
■ mother’s note which says. Can 1
! —* ——
Baby Mistreated,
Parents Arrested
i
MEMPHIS (ANP)-—-Brutal mis
j treatment of their 15-month-old
: baby girl borught the arrest of
[ Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Brown here
i last week, on charges of assault
with intent to murder.
The child, Charlene, was
taken to the hospital in criti
cal condition. Medical exami
nation disclosed that her
front teeth were broken off
almost at the gums; sores
l and scars were on the body
chest ami head; body scales
from being placed in exces
sively hot water, malnutrition
and dehydration.
The report also said that a
Dr. B, C. Robeson To Be
Smith Founders’ Speaker
CHARLOTTE Dr. Benjamin C.
Robeson will be the Founders'
Day speaker at Johnson C. Smith
University on April 7. The pro
gram w ill be dedicated to the me
mory of the laie President Hardy
Liston.
Dr. Robeson was a classmate of
Dr. Liston, having graduated from
the local university in 1911. As a
student he was a star athlete in
baseball, football and tennis. He
was Chaplain of, the old Fifteenth
New York Regiment which be
came the famous 369th Regiment
j of World War If.
' | He has served as pastor of E
" j v ans Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion
; Church, Fayetteville, North Caro-
II
f!
;! Top Musical Battle Held;
\ Calypso Steals The Show
BY GLADYS P. GRAHAM
BROOKLYN (ANP>—- The
! musical rhythm battle of the year
| will be staged by Loew s Theatres
! on Easter Week, whenna Rock m'
Roll stage show will be offered at
Loew’s State Theatre on Broad
’ way, and a Caribbean Calypso Fes
] tival will be seen on the stage of
Loew's Metroplitan Theatre in
downtown Brooklyn. A first run
motion picture will be presented
at each theatre in addition to the
stage presentations.
“Jocko" (Douglas Henderson)
WOV's “Groovy Ace From Outer
Space' and his Rocket Ship Show,
will head the Rock ‘n* Roil stage
show opening on Friday, April 13.
at Loews State Theatre, which
will also feature The Jive Bom
bers. Mickey and Sylvia The
Heartbeats. Lewis L.vmon, The
20 Grad Courses
Offered At H. I. |
! Summer Session
HAMPTON, VA 2O graduate
and SO undergraduate courses will!
be offered during the 1907 Hum
mer Session of Hampton Institute,
as announced by Dr. Kuril M. Glos- |
for Director of the JIJ Summer
Program.
The Graduate Session will offer
courses loading to the M. A de
gree offering courses in the Tea
ching of Reading, Audio-Visual
Aids; Social Foundations ,of Edu
cation; Human Development in
Childhood and Adolescence: Inor
ganic Chemistry; English Litera
ture from the Anglo-Saxon Ppnod
to tin Restoration: Modern Alge
braic Concepts; The Contemporary
South; and some fifteen other Sub*
jects, in English, the natural scien
ces. the social sciences and educa
tion.
Undergratuete courses include:
Child and Adolescent Psychology;
Principles of Guidance; Organic
Chemistry; General Zoology: His
tory and Philosophy of Educa
tion; English Literature; Science
for Children; College Algebra;
State and Local Government:
Child'-en's Literature; Backgrounds
and History of American Civilisa
tion: along with some 40 other ed
ucation and liberal arts courses
Further information roo,» be ob
tained by writing to the Director
Summer Session, Hampton Insti
tute, Hampton. Virginia.
THE CAROLINIAN
, you lend me two car tokens to go
! to the welfare’?”
A few social workers in a
neighborhood settiment house
are able to feed a handful of
these children but the Dis
trict of Columbia provides no
hot lunch program for the ele
mentary school children, and
makes no use of available sur
plus food for families on re
! lief.
j One volunteer worker, Mrs.
I Lawrence S. Lesser wrote a let
j ter to School Supt. Hobart M.
; Corning pointing out that;
j “With all the surplus food that
j is being sent abroad ... it seems
. . . wicked and incredible that in
the shadow of the nation’s capitol
young children should find it
necessary to be at night scaveng
: ing in garbage pails for food. This
i situation could be partially aile
i via ted if those children received
at least, one adequate meal a day.”
beating of several months ago
had resulted In fractures of both
legs, that the legs had healed im
properly for lack of medical at
tention.
Brown accused the mother
of knocking the baby’s teeth
out by throwing her on the
floor and “stomping” her.
The mother accused the fa
ther of administering the
beating which resulted in the
broken legs.
Police were called in after a
relative of the mother complained
that the child was being mis
treated.
I lina. He also served as pastor in
Patterson, New Jersey, before ac
cepting his present assignment as
pastor of Mother Zion A. M E Z
in New York City.
Since Dr. Liston died in office.
Dr. J. W. Seabrook. acting presi
dent said: “It seems fitting that, in
stead of the festivities w’nich would
be appropriate for the 90th Anni
versary of the founding of the uni
versity, the Founders' Day this
year should be a memorial to the
late Dr. Liston who did so much
for the university in the last nine
years. - ’
The Memorial Service will be
held at 4:00 o’clock p m Sun
day. April 7. 1957, in the Univer
sity Church.
Clovers, Jo Ann Campbell, The
Diamonds. Ella Johnson and two
Rock ‘n’ Roll Bands. Googie Rene
and Band, and Buddy Johnson ar.d
his Orchestra. The screen attract
ion will be “Fury at Showdown’’
starring John Derek.
Goeftrey Holder, the 8 foot 8
inch Trinidadian actor, dancer and
singer, and Tito Puente, “the king
of Island music” and his Orches
tra, will top the all-star Caribbean
Calypso Festival at Loew’s Metro
politan Theatre, Brooklyn, also
starting on Friday, April 19. The
exciting stage revue will feature a
company of 60 well known Calypso
entertainers, including Lord Flea.
Maya Angelou Boscoe Holder,
George Boreland. Helen Ferguson,
La Verne French, plus 16 Geof
frey Holder Trinidad Dancers The
screean attraction will be "War
Drums.”
No one is more aware than the
booking department at. Loew's
Theatres that, they are competing
with themselves Rock ‘n’ Roll, or
Calypso? Which is the more popu
lar musical attraction at the mo
ment? Will Loew's State with a
Rock ‘n’ Roll show, or Loew’s Me
tropolitan with its Caribbean Ca
lypso Festival attract the greatest
audiences? Do teen-agers prefer
Rock ‘n’ Roll to Calypso? Will
Calypso atract a more adult au
dience - the type of patrons who
found Calypso so fascinating
when they first heard It in the
West Tndies? Will Calypso even
take Ihe place of Rock ‘n’ Roll
with the teen-agers?
Rock 'n' Bol! has been around
for quite a while, and is steadily
increasing in popularity.
Calypso the insinuating, rhy
thmic folk music of the West In
dies, has been one of the chief
tourist attractions to the Islands
since the 1930’5, and has caught
on like crazy in this country dur
ign the last few months
The week of April 19 will tell
the story - - Rock ‘n’ Roll at Loew's
State or Calypso at Loew's Me
tropolitan?
leigh was in the city recently* She
was the house guest of Mrs. El
nora Sanders, 1608 1-2 Poole Road.
The purpose of the Soil Bank
Conservation Reserve Program is
to help maintain farmers’ net Je
rome at the same time he is re
ducing hi. planings of cash crops
and practicing more conservation
on the land.
Broiler production increased 29
per cent in 1968. !
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j ■ ' -- w * . -A- -W.*' % IMP— ■I - J -
[ HONORS IUY PRINCIPALS
\ Principals participating in llic
Honors Day Program held it A
■ | TEENAGE TRAVEt-LERS - One of Amorim's top vocal groups, the "Teenagers," board e Pam
Am Clipper in New York, earouts to London. During their 12-week tour of Britain, fr,ay'll opfwar
in Liverpool, Manchester. Scotland, and finish with a two-week engagement at the J anted Lcndn
Palladium. Ranging in age from 14 to 18 years, the Mew Ys. kts* are {left to right): Shore: rr
Comes, James Merchant, Joseph Negroni, Herman Santiago and Frankio Lyman, Dirn ; ~* it '‘"-»
Frankie, Slue youngest, is leader cl the group. (Newspress Photo).
;! Bennett College Senior Day:
ißr. Player TeSis Senior Class
To Malts Education Purposeful
j GREENSBORO A challenge
t to make their educataion purposo
j ful was .given o i.-i :..i> s of tin
» senior class at. Bennett College by
i President V/iii.i 'B Play , E ll . V
afternoon
" The occa; mn was Ihe annual.
Senior Day prog: .•••u in Pieiffer
S Chape) during wl ivh • -inh* rs o:
j the class received their caps :.nJ
j gowns from tin ir aistci class -the
. sophomores
1 Congratulating the .seniors upon
. having reached this ’'mil*.alone'' in
-) their careers. President Player
s said: “Between now and com
d men cement, get ah of the addi
j tional knowledge thal you can:
make the most of every re sou ice.
;! Drunk Charges Dropped Against
-
; Howard’s Dr. Margaret Butcher
r
More Than i
1,500 Girls i
Expected j
i GREENSBORt > - The ‘ mi
Carolina Association of Now ■
makers of America will hold its 1
annual Stale Convention here a ! ,
A & T College on Saturday A
pci 1 6
More than 1,500 girls, student". ;
in high school Vocational Home Ec
onomics and members of the 160-
ehuptors located throughout the !
State are expected to attend the j
meet. The session begin promptly j
at 10:00 A. M , in the Richard 8. ’
Hai rs?on Auditorium
I)r. F lent mil* s’, Klttrcll. heath
Home Economics Department.
Howard University, Washing
ton, I). will deliver the key
note address Ollier features
of the one-day meeting in
efude: the presentation of de
gree., and award, the annual
rjoif coolest, election of hide
officers and several sorlal af
fairs.
i Officers of the New Homemakers
i Include' Margaret Patterson, Le-
I row, President, Lula Goolsby, Mo
<fe’f College last Tuesday, includ
ed from left to right: Or Hobart
Jarrett, professor of English,
J thal you may lat-r meet success
fully the challcnco of life.'
President Player pointed to
Kwame Nkrumah, premier of the
! new nation of Ghana and to Dr. !
; Martin Luihcr King, leader of the ;
i .-uec&sful peaceful bus boycott in
| Montgomery, Al.. a>, products of
■ -.mall liberal arts colli ges, such as !
Bonneti. who have tr.*-t life'* chui
i lengcs.
"The same challenges that faced
i them.'' she declared, “also faces j
you. It will require dedication on
! >our part to make your knowledge !
; real so that you, too, may achieve.” j
Dr Ghouncey G. Winston read I
j the names of 11 seniors who at this j
! scholarship. Miss Marie Annette
t WASHINGTON -lANP) Drunk
and. disorderly conduct charges
I were dropped against Dr. Margaret
j Just Butcher. Tuesday, by Assistant
jU. S. Atolrney Henry Fitzgerald
I Mrs. Butcher, a professor in the
j English Department of Howard j
university and former member of
| the D. C. Board of Education, was
j arrested after a disturbance at the |
Kasper Wins Freedom On
Promise To Be Good Boy
KNOXVILLE, TENN -iANPi— ,
I For the fourth time in hi- life, j
j white supremacy advocate John j
j ckaville. Vice-president, Pcarlctn: \
j Meyers, Wadcsboro, Secretary,
j Gloria Boyd, Leaksville. Treasurer; |
i Thomasine 1 omenta, Durham, Re- |
i porter; Nellie Hill, olurnbio, Par* j
liamentarian and Vivian McCoy, j
’ ill!ngton. Historian.
Mrs. Marie C Motfltf, Durham
is, State adviser to the group.
Do not over fertilize your to- ■
bacco Determine the analysis and
rate per ace of fertiliser used
through soil testing or other infon
matinn available as a result of to
bacco rest tar ch.
PAGE SEVENTEEN
I Bi'nncU College; J. iit. Marteena.
dean of faculties and .fames K.
'she, Marihei, highest ranking
' student, both, ot A&T College.
point are leading their class in
Slaughter, of Newport, Ky„ is prs
,-cntly No, l followed in order by
the following:
Grant E Dungee. Greensboro;
Moymo J. Kllcrbe, Cheraw. S. C’.;
Geraldine Parrish. Glendale, Ohio,
Cu:iM -lo Welkins, Danville, Va.;
Ann M. Stewart. Roidsville; Caro
lyn M. Ingr: m. Durham; Doris A.
I.anie: Bath. N. C.; Dorothy A.
Hanis. Greensboro; Jean Ren wick,
Statoville. and Nancy Hudson.
; Roseland, Va.
At 6:30 p. n>. the seniors were
i i.iiestr, o( the sonhomoros at a
banquet in the David D. Jones
Student Union which was follow
ed by a dance.
National airport on October 28
At a hearing in the U. S. Com
missioner's office in Alexandria.*
Va., this week, Dr John D, Schul-‘
fz, a psychiatrist t* sufied that
Mrs. Butcher was under a serious
mental strain when the incident
occurred.
Mrs. Butcher who is resting at
Friends Hospital in Philadelphia,
was unable to attend the hearing,
Kasper ws« arrested last week for
'.:,u ling up ttmibic in Die Clinton
i high school integration picture and
| tor tin first time he was released
from :1 under $7500 bond and a
i promise io be a good boy.
Kasper '.von his freedom after
p’utilising to etuis'- "no inconven
| ienco if granted liberty. At the
i si'jrm time he pleaded with Fed
i oral Judge Robert L. Taylor to re*
| 'lttC'i the size of his bond. U, S,
District. Attorney John C. Craw*
I ford wanted the young segrega
| tionist'g bond set at SIO,OOO.
Kasper is already under SIO,OOO
| Pond pending appeal of an earlier
conviction on for interfering with
integration at Clinton high school
Judge Taylor said the bond
would be set. after Kasper talked
with his lawyer. **.