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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY IS. 1957 " ——- M. .ijc, i rgwwraurm nwn fißtjawMMßCwwwaMMWw«iwiiuaiui'tiß*iw ROCKY MOUNT 1 - win mi mwasttsßt Maaiaw i NEEDED A HARRIET TUBMAN ROCKS’ MOUNT - History re- | fr.ids that the famous colored wo- ; man Harriet T Tubman, who was j both, engineer and conductor of i the famous Underground Railroad' j *hru which she captured' and led ! *o freedom move than three bund- j iwl slaves m*’ er took "no” for an answer once she set her heart, and hand to a task of freeing slaves j It Is written that even when a slave became scared end pan icky and wanted to turn back. I Harriet would stick her trusty pistol in his 'or her hack and tell the weakening slave, to go forward as she directed or be ' killed on sh» spot We did not read that she had to kill any in prevent (heir falling into : tiie hand? of the enetm- and thereby disclosing her plan of operation. When we see so many wr->k- ; kneed colored educator.- preach* ■ ers and Cadillac drivers <mo?< .-■? I them are no- paid for >et * v.v j wish if was possible fo> a modern j Harriet Tubman DRIVE the N- 1 g?o to tb? freedom hf WANTS, bu 4 I is AFRAID to STAND UP md | When we invited an audience e! nearly 200 church h»mu»te»r.«. last to attend Jackie Fcbu : v-n Day Mar 19th in R«io;?h's Muni cipal Auditorium end help raise 1 some money for FREEDOM, a I high school principal spoke up md i said there ha? already b**n a j donation sent from this commun- ! tty' W« thanked him. But after : talking with said principwi private* l It w« found that ONLY issi fr-v i dollars the price of s good fifth j of whiskey had gone up to NA ACP from an ares where there are j MORE Negroes than whites living, j We reminded him that ho should j b* making a larger individual do- j ration than that to the cause of ! FREEDOM himseU a lone. Oh. for j Hopping About ! TARHEELIA By Jay Bee Aytch PRESBYTERIANS TO OMAHA POCKY MOUNT Representa tives of the Presbyterian Church ir the United States of America (Commonly called northern') have converged this week on Omaha, Nebraska. for the General Assem bly of the Church which is com posed of a ministerial and a lay commissioner* from each of the denomination* Churches through out the USA. Alaska, Hawaii and ether -foreign countries where mis sionary work Is maintained. RICHARDSON AND MILL HR Representing the Cape Fear Pres bytery were the Rev Backmon R. Richardson, pastor Shiloh Presby terian Church. Goldsboro; and El der John Maxwell Miller of Cal vary Presbyterian Church. Wilson. N C Also soinr from Cape Fear and Dial 6-S9O) PERKINS COURT For Colored Tourist s VS No. 301 Rt. 3, Box 600 ! North Rocky Mount. N. C j ALLAN MIMS, INC. . FORD SALES AND SERVICE 725 TAR BORO SI. ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Telephone 2-3191 UMMaMßrnniiMi mn iMwoMMorT ~ nn iiinnni mm it I I W ELCOME TO W I L K I ITS TASTY SHOP I j Phone 3-553* 2!« E. Thomas SI. Rocky >tt j i A Mighty Tall Meal Sd For Your Money S style and | Delicious | thtr fine [ ifel L 534 West. Thomas Street | a Harriet Tubman! In this fame community eco nomic reprisals have iv-wn used against Negroes because they dared t > sign a school integra tion petition last --car. Signifi cantly. Die pastor of <hr con gregatloji did NO ! even r\ ho the need oi attending the Free dom Fund drive after we made it. Could it be because his wife teaches, too? Sunday, the 13th, will tell in a ' very large measure what and how | strongly the Negroes of Tarheel's feel about this thing called FREE- I DOM and EQUAL .TOR OPPOR- I 'I UNITY Let «*s T>Hr down DEEP Into i our POCKET'S and bring up the j Slh.fifth ?o hadlv needed by our N C NAACP to keep up the fight for us. tvs MUST have it: j I.et us turn out STRONG, MAIN OR SHINE to show the legislature that AVF ARE j MOVtNfi ON”' th' 1 freedom anti-N A ACE' hiM? V r >. we nee,) a Harriet Tubman to NTAKt- the timid o»,cs among us march op and pav this money (nr f reedom and demo cracy for a*l Son'll unions' us will have b^^rj in the mountain-top with the Pray er Ptlgrimag* *o Washington. D C Cd then on to Raleigh to help Crop the fire of freedom burning I by the weekend Won't you .loin j and h®!p save the dav for NAA- j CP m Tarheel ia with your pro- j i rc« sod four dollars and not 'ust c-rie dollar, too' Freedom is NOT cheap and we MUST stop Playing it for cheap'. It takes .MORE than more nickels, dimes and the odd change to purchase Freedom. IT takes dollars, more dollars and more registered voters who will take the time to vo*e without expecting to he paid by the candidate i this city was the Rev Jam"? R Costen. young minister of the Mt Pisgah. Presbyterian Church. Rocky Mount, whose native home it Omaha, and whose mother, Mrs. Mary L Costen resides at 2717 N, 281 h Avenue. Rev and Mrs, Cos ten (formerly Miss Melva Wilson) left Sunday for Spartenburg. S. C„ where Mrs. Costen and the two children will visit in the home of her father. John T Wilson u hiU her husband is away. Mr. Costen will join hi? father in-law i Wilson) and the Rev. Franklyn Johnson, commissioners I from Karficld S C P res byte vy ! for the motor trip to Omaha They i will be away two weeks. MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION I DINNER The Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian j | Church Missionary Association con- i ducted what was termed a very ! successful chicken dinner last week with the net proceeds amounting k> sll.l Th« committee included j Mesdaib.es Annie L. Neville. Chiir j mars; Sal!i« L Armstrong. Mary H. i Walker (at whose home the din- i | ner was held) Melva W Costen. j Ora H Parker Miss Katie Bunn [and Mrs. Goffney MRS, MAMIE STATON INTERRED i Funeral rites were said from j Harts Chapel Baptist Church Sun | day, May 12, for Mrs, Mamie Sta | ton of the West Edgecombe corn- j i reunify Rev. D 1,. Lawrence is j T-.i.tnr -T-, |,|,|, , ■ iiiiiiit. in, | MODERN AGE Beauty Salon Mabl*: Oxf»ndm« Dunn, Prop. ■ i E. Thomas Si, Rocky !Vft. | ‘■atwswwr*,-- WELCOME TO MUTT DAVIS’ j WHITE SWAN i m ' DIAL 355-1 j l Mtk-s East of Enfield, H C. I ~nxgzoram«ii»aggai atwiwuiw nrwn-ifTifirTrriirwwrKtrrw* u pastor of Harts Chapel where the deceased had been a member for 23 years Immediate survivors include nine children. 30 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. Clar Cox, Elm City; Mrs Elmars Sumter, Rocky Mount; Mrs. j Rlith Hinton, Tarboro: Miss Ora Mae Staton. Tarboro; Mrs. Joseph ine Battle. Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jesse and William Staton. Tarboro; Wil lie C. Staton. Tarboro and Charlie j I Gray Staton. Newport News. Va. j DOUGLASS FAMILY VISIT? Brief visitors here last week ; were three generations of the Dr. Junius D Douglas family of Hen . derson. but formerly of this city. Those hue. included Dr. Junius | D. Douglas, Sr , Dr, J. D. Douglas, i ; Jr. 1 noth druggists) and Junius D j i Douglas 3rd Also Mrs. J. D Doug- ! I las Sr and grandson, Alonzo The senior Douglas was this city's ! pioneer race druggist and his name ! still lives vn the minds and hearts I of all citizens who knew him when | here and even since. The store i he built to fame is still called | "the Douglas corner". Mr. Douglas i says he is 33 years old taltho he j looks only 65 1 and has practiced j j pill-pushing 53 years since he left; i the old Leonard Medical School at ) i Shaw University, Raleigh, in 1904. j ■ Prior to that he had finished South ; Carolina State College, Orange - j burg, in 1393 Douglas is a native jof the Bennettsville. S. C area, j Mrs Douglas if a native of Edge ! combe, Co WAIL ABLE TEACHER Had 3 p'eassnt chat with Mrs Carrie Joyner Savage. Rt 1. Bov i I 21. Hobeood. N. C. ftelephone 3137 1 ; who report? that she lost her tea- j clung contract a few days before | school because her husband had ; ugned a NAACP school petition j j circulated in the county Some : principal who believes tn demo i oracy wilt be clad to contact Mrs ] Savage, who, still has no* lost her | faith. Tie Rm- J Williams. AMD minister of Bethel, was a visitor j in <he citv last week. ELKS ORATORICAL TTINNFR The winner of the 3rd district i TBPOEW iFlks’ Oratorical Con-j test at Robevsonville « East End I High School May 6th was Edward > Rountree, senior student from Ral- j oh Johnson Bunch? high school, j j Weldon: a representative of the j I Progressive Elks Lodge. No 1330 i leek Faison, exalted ruler, Sea j board N C ] Second place winner was Bobby I Herdy. Bethel Other speakers : were Aulandev Andrew? East End 1 School, and Pauline Gainer. also ! of East End School Rountree will ) represent, th? district at the S’aie j Association to Kinston on May 21st ! Should he win there h» v? ill com- I net? for the regional honors and a j SIOOO Elks scholarship against si- j milar winners from South Caro- j lina. Georgia. Florida and the Ba- j hama Islands J. R Harren, Rocky j Mount, was director of the district j three contest. N W Slade is prin- | cipal of East End School, host to i ! the contest. Dr. A. H George, dean of theo- i logy J. C Smith University j Charlotte, was guest speaker a» ! Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian Church He was accompanied by j Mrs George and Miss Carol Wil i son sister of Mrs Melva Costen j Drs. Frank Stackhouse and Ar- j j thur March. Presbyterian. USA, j I missionaries from Africa and Pak i istan. respectively, spoke to Pres | by ter ia ns of this area last week on j the needs, hopes and aspirations I of those whom they have served I )ri those areas, ft was pointed cut that, the so-called primitive people keep abreast of racial happenings in America through their radio and newspapers; and they no long-'' er think that all Americans are Christians as they once did Hear Wilt Will Leave ! Kansas Soon | BUFFALO. N Y (ANP'i— Ru | mors that Wilt the Stilt' Cham h beiJain will leave the University J of Kansas next year to join the j Harlem Globetrotters were con j firmed by Dr Forrest tFhogt A'- j Jen, retired basketball coach at the I University of Kansas, under whose | tutorship Chamberlain entered the U, of K. i Asked about the reports that ! Chamberlain was headed for the I Trotters. Dr Alien ansu eved em ! phatirally Yes" He indicated | Chamberlain no longer feels obli- I gated to the university, saying. • "Wilt made more than SIOO,OOO for the University of Kansas last year. He thinks it is time he made a little for hiS'iS' ls. And he will get $20,000. not $15,000 (as was report ed) when he turns pro. Why you can't, blame the boy, pan you? GRANDMA LIZ, Do you know youi Arithmetic? ADDITION: 364 783 365 214 178 209 SUBSTRUCTION: 864 769 592 316 546 159 ANSWERS SEt ‘ESJK T-tS iJNOIXOVHXSaig j HS , 133 '*tS -KOIAHHiV j KINSTON ~ BY TETTA E DUNN S2B Lincoln. St... Telephone 3260 The Adkin High School Concert | Band received a B II" or Ex- j cellent” rating at the State Band Festival which was held in Greens ! boro, earlier this month. The band, placed in the B group by its dir ector, J R. Banks, played two se lections; “Concert Overture in G j Minor" ana “The French Quarter, | before an estimated audience of j 1.000 students. Many compliments were received by the group for their spiendid performance. Tile Science Club of Adkin High ; School held its First Annual Seie- ! nee Fair. Wednesday May b from ! | 2 to 4 p rn The purpose of the i j fair was to create a more ? ivid j knowledge of the importance of ] science in our everyday living. The activities included an assembly pro gram and a discussion on the '‘lm portance of Science In My Career." : A visit to the Auto Mechanics j Shop where exhibits' were display- • ed, a social hour and awarding of , prims. Approximately twenty pro- | jects were entered by the Adkin I j students. : An essay and poster contest were j | sponsored at the J. H. Sampson i j School last week in observance of j “National Music Week." Particular ; emphasis also was given the music ; book shelf in the school .library, j Members of the committee were Mrs J H Cogdell. Miss A. J Chap- > Hri and Mr? L G Ja-mon The annual Pre-Sclv.o.' c'nii fr > i children starting to school ■> >opi . 1 \?-as held the fu-'i •?--({ w V!v at | ; Sampson Rchool. Th? primary dan j ce groin: i-f the sche r 'l ent^rta-n-rl , i the tot? and refreshment? were ; j served i The Senior Clas* of Sa'/annah ! High School presented u* Anhiia' ; play at 3:15 p m, Thursday m the : ! school cafetc; ia | The production When- -h-.-« -- j A Will’’ was a thr?* ac* play filled | I '*uth thrills fun ®ud pathos Members of the oast *> ere A Dr* 1 Freeman. Flora Lee Dunn Malco ; | Daughety, Bonnie Chapman. Wil j bert F Dawson. Vera Lee Adair:-. J Mary Elisabeth Sutton, Kenneth | Fverett. t.«s!ie Brinson. R-rnh! | White. Christine Stevens and Ethel 1 | Frizzell I The 1957 Lenoir County 4H Club i j Dress Revue with ?4 partin’nant? was held Thursday night at th? • J H. Sampson School Mr? Vie. ! toria Black Bynum is the Count? I Home A,rent. Partiripatinr in the apron parade j were Essie I>. Kins. Addie Far- j row. Hazel Susrs Marshs Suggs. I and Sherfci? Kinsey. Junior ;n-| I I dresses were modeled by Bertha | | Davis Margaret McLawhorn. Ad -1 die Farrow. Agnes Turnase. Iris | Humphrey and Holland Hawkins. | Modeling school girl dresses v-pt-e i senior girls Doris Isler, Irene Mai- I [ nor and Shirley Miller j Modeling dressy dresses were , S n'or club members Je-ssie Jones. | ! Edna Dunn Hatty,- L. VJhites and j | Ruby McLawhorn. Partv and for- I l mal dresses were modeled by sen- i ) ior club members Mary Alice Co- J I pies, Evelyn Morris and Mary But- j | ton. Horne Ciub t'v mhovt, o mo deled dresses were Mrs Blanche | Edrvards. Mrs. Helena Aldridge and I Mrs Rosa Sutton. Winners were: Aprons Essie D. ! King: junior girl dresses. Bertha I Davis: school dresses. Irene Main : or; dressy dres? Edna Dunn. na,-t --dress. Evelyn Marsh, formal dross * Mary Sutton Judging the revue were Mrs W I F. Lofton. Mrs. T, E B*rry. Mr? ! ! D M Barnett and Murphy i Prizes were donated by Kinston | merchants. i Mrs. Marie Roland., her mother | and William Anderson returned j here recently after visiting rr-ta ! Hves. Mrs. Laulah Dandridge and Deh-is Patterson in Norfolk. Va Mr Jessie Dove and his little ; -’aughter. Janice Cheryl of Wash- I metori. D C. v>«ited his si.s(“rs MICCAC Flcir —r\A ti’--*.? f t, i Misses e.lsie - and Etta Dove of Oak Thompson ' Tidbits By Beth By Y. Elizabeth Dunn i T N C r'VTlfrYii*' i A few months ago WISP, a Iocs! | radio station went oil the air for i a v esfc and then > j eturned v<*h j s ''now sound" This sound con ; aif.ted of all Negro announcers and j disc jockeys This station is local - ; ed in the heart of the business dis trict and is on the air Monday through Saturday from 6,00 A M. until midnight and on Sunday front 6 A. M until 8 P M To give you a greater insight ; i,!n the lives of the four announcers who are employed daily, w? are offering, with slight variations, brief biographical sketches of th«- radio station personalities which we received recently, "Norman Stateman hr; born in tadio for many years, starting in 1348 with WK NS here in Kinston. At that time he sold advertising as well as produced shows "He i-- raid to be the very first Negro Disc Jockey in Eastern Carolina " From the beginning Stateman has been popular both with the Negro and While audience. Hr comes from Metuchen, N, J.. has an extremely pleasant voice and excellent clear diction. In 1343 hr went to WFTC as the late night Disc Jockey where be became known as "Late man Stateman ". "We find that his appeal is just as great though as our ‘ early man. ’ In 1953. from radio here in Kin ston Stateman went to Raleigh as a reporter for ‘The Carolinian" w’th circulation in this section The •31 year old announcer is married, has one child, has business school j training and spent four years in I the European theatre of Operations | during World War 11. In connect-' ! ton with his writing ability, he iMK CAROLINIAN Street here on a recent week-end. Mrs .1 A Harper has resumed her duties at the J H Sampson School after being recently hos pitalised at Parrott Memorial Hos pital. The talented Miss Frances Groom and Earl Mumford presented a joint recital at the Adkin High School Friday night. The promis ing young college students are sen iors at Virginia State College and «erc graduated four years ago from the Adkin High School here. Miss Groom, pianist, and Ivlumford vocalist '.- ere well received by the enthusiastic audience Mr George "Latte" Loftin of F South S» was critically ill last week at the Lenoir Memorial Hos pital. Scholastic Honor Roll for the fifth The following Adkin High School reporting period was released re cently by (he principal, C B. Ste wart. 7-J Ray Rake- Theresa Bryant. Joyce Chapman. Derita C.ogdell. Al bert Daniels. Shirley Dawson. Lois Miller. Caro'.ybrt Mnye, Carolyn Mumford. Melvin Parker ,Lhi;tht Parker Ernes! tne Reddick Oddis Smith, Carolyn Spruill and Norma Sul ton 7-T Janice Coward, Edna Brewer. Joan Edmondson, Gloria Kotnegay, Julia Parks. Brenda Smith. Arletha Watson and Jar qurlyn Bell 7-M Alice Brown Austin Groom Brftie Kciward". Amanda Houston Rosa Loftin. Susie yTu. 'er I.oue.tta Olds Lillie Perry and Melvin Soeisht 7-W - rteoia A,lcir ! dgn Ceryt.-t --me Cox. .Jacqueline Groom, File Daughety. Cecil Dudley* Raclv-l Jenkins Solomon Henderson Hat tic Joyner. Jesse Loftin Catherine: Murphy, Mabel Rhem. Harold Ro berson. Earlene Spp’irr Brenda Sutton end Geraldine White S-W Evelyn Brown. Hilda Smith and Carol Sutton SB H - Evelyn Jen-kin 4. Edna Jenkins. Clarence Ktrkman end Vernell Kppce S H Marsha Baker. Wijford Basden, Mildred Carney Diane Carraway. Secrete Dixon. Jove.- Dunn. David Edwards. Alone- Rhem and Curtis Shaw , 8-T - Lula Amoroso, Jr,an Bry ant Willm Bryant Leo Bnma-w. Renee Cogdell. Henry Dudley. Mary Jones. Sarah Jones Edna Martin. Edna Ma* forks. lit! *'n Mumford, Janice Spencer, Thelma Sinton and Haynes Streeter. 9 A ! Arlans Rosen boro 9 A 2 Melvin Bel!, Mitchell Bradshaw- Emma Garner Gerald ine Ingram. Charles Jackson. Carl Leonard- Melvin Patrick. Sudie Payton. Kellis Parker. Verms Rho des. Cecd Rich. Robert Reddick. Ulysses Moye. Mildred Nobles ! Lloyd McNnit and Barbara Grant 9 A 4 Louise Hood LaVerne i McAllister and Evelyn Hood | 10-A Novella Aldridge, Doris ; Clark. James Davis, Ira Frazier, j Dempsey Hardy, Norrece Rhodes. | Danhnne Simmons and Elizabeth I Stanlev, , !0 A 1 Priscilla Battle Wes i ley Brown. Jam-’s Faison. 1 afav j ett.e Frazier. Blanche Graham mri Alton Jackson 10 A 9 Mildred Herring and j Clifton Mattocks j 11 A— Marjorie Langston. Nellie i Rhem. Johnnie Smith and Ruby ! Powell 11 A 1- Carolyn Aldridge. Eva Atkinson. Eddie J Baker, Otis Clark. Barbara Knmegay. John Moore, Miriam Moseley, Lewis p. land. John Stevenson and Roger ! Stevenson J t! A2 Elizabeth Edward.' j HAS Aaron Sutton. 12 A— Roenell Bryant Sh--1- | don Drnom. George Dunn. John j Dove. Bessie Foster, Marsha” Tr i Vr. Charlie Jarmon. Veronica Lof* j f ’.n. Jessie Sutton, Edith Sutton, j Gwendolyn Rhodes and DalLii *tm . | has had sene poetry published We find him a well rounded radio personality, plus a hard selling an nouncer ?rjcl very i iti.c his program?. to fit. hjs | res His style is slanted towards i both, adults and teen-agers before i R 30 and then to the adult audiert | cr- for the rest, of the shift He does i an excellent job of setting to both j audiences as well ns pleasing them musically, j Taking over at 12.00 noon ■ s Joe ! Noble,'., Jr. vho as the sketch stated, "is a n'ophytp tn radio but has caught on like wildfire" He bad done no commercial brood • fasting before beginning with WI ST ”.loe Nobles was born here in 1934, was graduated from Ad kin High School where he was active in music and shorts An accom plished musician on piano and drums, Nobles until leaving Kin ston for Business School in Dur ham. N. C , managed a band he had formed. After business college hr worked in New York and Wash ington. D C as a clerk typist 'His trademark on the air is “Happy Boy" Joe Nobles His friendly approach and sincerity make him one of -our most valu able assets." His sale approach is a ,-oi t of “back door" one He was one of some 45 people wo auditioned be fore deciding on an announcing staff. Extremely well appearing polite, a really hard conscientious worker, he has budt. up a poteni afternoon audience In our case he >5 our best announcer tor teen agers. He is one of those men who takes a very personal att ttute to- Attack On Church And Labor Leader's Home Inspire Civil Rights Efforts By Harry Levette for ANP LOS ANGELES iANPi Facts brought out by fbe bombing "of a church in Bessemer, Ala . a? well as (hr home of a Negro labor lead er. of the United Mine Mill and smelter workers, to convince local Negroes that the enemies of the race will stop at nothing, and that even m California similar deeds of violence ate possible. Local leaders immediaely re doubled their efforts to take part in the greatest step, in the fight for Rights that has ever been launch ' ed. A Los Angeles Planning Co re mittee has been set up, with Rev. Nnris Curry of Phillips Temple C, M. E Church acting as chairman. and Spencer Wiley of the UAW-CIO as director. The rommitee suceeded in get tins the Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution proelaitn Jug May 17 as a day of pray er ; A delegation under the leader ship of Rev. M. F. Alitchel? of Cosmopolitan Christian Church will visit the Citv Hal! tr* re finest a similar resolution from Anti-Bias Group Steps Up Program With Firm Policy WASHINGTON. D C —Recent. | steps, by the P; widcnt ? Commit ! too on Government Contracts to jsi lengthen its compliance pro i gram and to open a regional of ! tier- will result >n greater progress {toward the elimination of racial i and religious discrimination m ; employment on Government con • tracts, the Committee .-aid today. Aire President Richard Nix on, Chairman of the Commit tee has asked the heads of the 28 principal Government contracting agencies not to award additional contracts to contractors who hive given “clear and convincing evi dence" of their failure to com* pH with the nondiscrimina tion clause in contracts they have concluded previously, the j Committee has announced. | The Vice President a iso asked ; that in determining the award of j contracts to businesses and in i dustries which have not had pre vious contracts file Federal a , goncMs consider whether the | 1 prospective i contractor has an I employment, record which indi ; cates he will be able to conform to the requirements of the stan dard- nondisorimmation clause.” The clause provides that there shall be no discrimination a gainst, employees or applicants j for employment for reasons of rac° religion, color or national — ——- ———-———— —- | wards the stations sponsors mak ; mg it a point to visit. freaqu»nt !y in order V be able to ad lib properly about their products. ANDREW HERRING 1 "Andy is well known in this ■ area as "Nervous Andy," due to ■ -op ;,v f that, tor the past two years plus he has been the Disc Jockey no Emcee on WISF's first pro cram slanted entirely towards the Negro audience The. name of the how is and has been The Ner -1 vesus Hour " Until AVISP's advent | into all Negro programming, this , progr am had been two hours in ' • length. Now we have Andy on the 1 air for four consecutive hours ! daily 3:00 10 9.00 p m Monday j ' through Saturday Andy began hn career in radio j j by taking a home course in radio j : ;n 1941 when he began broadcast- j i *ng as a member and Emcee, of a : . then popular gospel group. This 41 year old Herring is ex- j ■ tremely well thotighl of. is a mem hei of .several local civic and fra ; temal orgaqnizations. is a leader in j his church and has a voice with , . genuine and appealing smile in it. His fan mail has grown tremen dnul-v since our change in pro cramming-policy He is our largest j mailman.' with about 75 to 80 j : cards and Setters daily. ; Thomas Dunn" is our nigh* man s 1 heard nightly until midnight He ? j i a map that nor only we, but the j = j entire cotnnnutiy. thinks highly of. I ;i ; Most of his life has been spent - here and hr also served with the | - Signal Corps -n the army as a ra- | - dto operator and a cryptographer " j s, Dunn a graduate, of Shaw Uni- j | versi'y, is a teacher during the j - i day at Ad kin High School While i s j tr college he served as Emcee and , i ! toastmaster at the majority of large i | civit and social functions. His ori j maty hobby ik collecting records He doe.t an outstanding job on ) bis bite night shift is careful snd j I methodical with a tremendous con- | ■ 1 srientons attitute toward# his work ■ | to” At first we were a bit skew : bra! about altering for even one i t hour our rb.vlhm and blues and t | rock sod roll policy However, rot : cnlv ha# Dunn been able to in - | crease our night time Negro au- I j diene*- with this “offer sort of mu ■ j sic but be has shown us an appre* -j ciable increase in our white list I ! oners judging from the mail ronnt. | By the way. Dunn also does our ■ I one ard only local nows cast daily ■ at fi p. nr He craiheis. edits, writes • i .nd delivers this news strictly for * j and about the Negroes in our area In leas than two months, we un derstand that this 15 minute pro gram i* religiously listened to by the majority of our listeners These character sketches were re j rently released bv (he manager, ?nd were presented to you through ; 'his eves," and as he phi ss“d it The name of the lovely lad.” to «hom I paid tribute in ibis coi- j 1 umn last ■ 1 c“! '--.as erron"ousH'l omitJ'il She is mv mother. Mrs T. j 1 O Dunn of 528 Lincoln St. snd I ) tm .her last born! i the City of Los Angeles , Another delegation under the I leadership of Rev. Arthur A. Peters I of Victory Baptist Church is trav- | tiling to Sacramento May 6 to meet I with the Governor, to request, that ! May 17 be proclaimed a day of ! prayer throughout the state Rev. Curry stated that every minister in the community is be ing requested to take part in this Prayer Pilgrimage, either by send- ; mg one or more delegates from j their church, or by making a con- j iribution The same request is he- - mg made of all the labor organi zations. and the NAACF branches are. whole-heartedly behind the project Spencer Wiley has completed ar rangements for chartering buses and planes from Los Angeles to j Washington. The buses wilt leave i Los Angeles at 10 A. M. May 13 j They will travel the northern | route. Bus fare for the round trip I <s s7l. The planes leave Los Anse- ! !«•« 19 P M. May 15 Plane fare j round trip is $159.50. Mr. Wilev I asks that everyone interested in { going to Washington call Mrs A, C j 1 B'Jbrow, AD 15189. as scon as pn | • j origin. The provision c? -r vo j ship and on-the-job training and 1 j rates of pay as n-i; as initial | hiring Ear Le.", during a series of tnset ; mgs the Committee held, in Chi cago April 90 and May 1 Mr i Nixon announced the establish ment of a regional office m Chi cago, to cover the .-fates of Illi nois.. Indiana, Michigan and \V, •- ! cousin. Tire four-state region was ! selected as the location of the Committees first, office outside 1 of Washington because the area has the largest concentration of j Government connect work in the | Midwest The office will serve the ; Committee as a working lia ison with Government ro n trading agencies. Govern ment contractors, labor orga nizations and social agencies concerned with the elimina tion of discrimination in em ployment. The Vice President announced L that Miss Margaret Garrity v ill be Regional Directoi Bes or' t joining the Committee m Wash ; ington in September, 1955. USED ... | ; ! 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The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 18, 1957, edition 1
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