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Segregation Looms At New Raleigh-Durhom Airport
IBPOE Re-elects
Old Officers In
One-Sided FIglit
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
, The avalanche of confidence
goodwill and experience, plus
more than 52 years of service
to the cause of the Improved
Qen^volent Protective Order
of Elks of the World-proved
too much for the youthful for
ces seeking to ^slodge the
veteran Grand Lodge Secre
tary Judge William C. Hues-
ton of Dee Cee. On the losing
end of this one-sided “fight’’
which proved to be no contest
at all, was courageous Trezz-
vant W. Anderson, Dee Cee
newsman and former head of
the press department as well
as “advisor” to Grsind Ruler
Robert H. Johnson.
“Over Before It Started"
“The fight was over before
it started”, was the way one
loyal Bill was heard to state
the results of the unanimous
reelection of the venerable
Secretary following the defeat
of a motion by Anderson for
ces to speak to the grand lodge
on their contentions of mis
management, excessive spend-
iniLand the like.
Immediately following the
loss of that motion, Hueston
was reelected with wild ac
claim, and the Wednesday
morning session was, for all
practical purposes, adjourned.
That, in effect, was the main
part of the convention; lor
which many people had jour
neyed hundreds of miles, hav
ing llttle-if any-doubt that
their favorite "father of the
oratorical contest and educa
tional department" would b«
reelected.
Civil Liberties director Hob
son R. Reynolds of Philadel
phia made his department’s re-
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Baptist Lapen
ToMeetSept.MO
In Memphis
MEMPHIS, TENN.
The National Baptist Lay
men Convention operating
under the authority of the Na
tional Baptist Convention, In
corporated will convene in
annual session meeting in the
■Uis Auditorium at Memphis.
Each State Laymen Convei^
tion is vieing with each other
in a State Contest helping to
create a nationwide promotion
program, bringing into the de
nominational work a larger
number of red blooded men
who are willing to stand up
for Christ and the great pro
gram of Christendom. . Each
state organization will contri
bute $200 for the financing of
ibia woi]L_HQn. Allen Jordan,
Brooklyn, N?w York, Presi
dent, states that men of the de
nomination must be prepared
for the new Social Order as
the church and denomination
need strong men to meet this
new condition.
Jas. E. Qayle, of New Or
leans, Executive Secretary of
the laymens Movement, an
nounces that the Educational
Department will function on a
larger scale at the Memphis
meeting for the trainlxtg at
layme^ through the study
course classes and credits will
be issued for the work done
in keeping with the require-
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Fraternity To Pay 100
Life Memliersliips in 2
DBEGREUII0NIUIIS6EI
UNDERWAY IN ELEVn STATES
NEW YORK
Summer’s end heralds the
end of segregated schools in
many southern communities
which had awaited the May
31 Supreme CoOrt ruling be
fore moving to comply with
the Court’s 10S4 ^ct holding
segregated public schools to
be unconstitutional.
The May 31 decision order
ed "deliberate speed” in de
segregating schools.
An NAACP survey on the
southern school situation, com
plied .the. last week of August,
shows that in 11 of the li
states which previously en
forced school segregation by
law, some positive action has
been taken to comply with the
no-segregation rule.
In five of these ll"' states,
the desegregation move was
made after the May 31 Su
preme Court order. In the six
other presently desegregating
states, one or more communi
ties had initiated school de
segregation following the May
17, 1954, decisimi. The Dis
trict of Columbia followed this
pattern.
The five states where com
munities awaited the May 81
Court order before imdertak-
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N. C. Ushers
Close Best Year
Of Entire History
To Pr^nt Holand
Hayes October 9
KtNSTON
What is believed to have been
the moat successful annual meet
ings in the history of the Inter
national Ushers Association of
North Carolina came to a close
here Sunday morning, August
28, when the Rev. O. L. Sher
rill, executive secretary of the
State Baptist Conventicm, cli
maxed the Slit annual meeting
of the organization with a most
forceful sermon at eleven o’
clock.
Following the sermon of Rev.
Sherrill, 18 scholarships were
awarded student* who are plan
ing to attend varlons colleges
throughout the state and nation.
One scholarship was awarded to
a young woman wbo will take
nurse training and three other
scholarship* weva awarded to
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A number of Air Force
ROTC instructors represent
ing several North Carolina
colleges and universities were
recent visitors to the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Cha
pel Hill. The meeting was a
two-day problem conference
to discuss ROTC
programs that had coffne about
because of recent changes in
courses of study at a number
of the schools represented. All
persons attending the meeting
were from this state except
two who were from Alabama.
Instructors attending the meet
are shown above. Front row,
left to right, are Maj. SS.
W^ite, Duke University, Dur
ham; Lt. Roy M. Canfield,
Duke;’'Maj. 3. D. Lynn, Ifni-
versity of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill; Col. G. J. Smith,
UNO; Dr. C. B. Todd, Head
quarters, Air Force ROTC,
Montgomery, Ala.; Dr J. L.
Godfrey, UNC; Lt. C. W’. Hol
loway, Tuskegee Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala.; CWO O. M.
Robinson, A and T College,
Greeruboro; Capt. J. G. Bar
nett, East Carolina College,
Greewfille; and Lt. O. P.
Hedgepeth, N. C. State Col
lege, Raleigh.
Second row, left to right, are
Maj. H. B. McCullough, N. C.
State; Maj. T. A. Wilson, A.
and T.; Maj. J. W. Barnhill,
Duke; Maj. J. B. Myers, Duke;
Lt. H. R. Selfridge, N. C. State;
Lt. R. A. Gray, UNC, Capt. J.
M. Crane, Eajit Carolina Col
lege; Maj. T. T. Gilchrist,
UNC; Capt. A. J. Lewis, Tus-
kegee; and Lt. W. R. Cook,
Duke.
CASE OF THREE STUDENTS
SEEKING ADMISSION TO UNC
TO BE HEARD SEPTEMBER IITH
GREENSBORO
Judge Johnson J. Hayes of
WiUtesboro last Tuesday filed an
ord» setting the trial date for
a suit brought last June to fQrce
the University of North Caro
lina to admit Negroes to Its un
dergraduate schools. The trial
will begin September 10 at 10
a. m. in Greensboro before a
three-judge federal court.
The presiding jurists will be
Judge Hayes, presiding jurist of
the Middle District Court in
which the suit is pending, and
Judges Morris A. Soper and Ar-
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Roland Hayes, Intemation-
ally known singer, who will
be presented in concert at the
Memorial Auditorium in Ra
leigh, Sunday, October 9,by
the Interdenominational Ush
ers Association of North Caro
lina for the benefit of the de
partment of Charity of the or
ganization. Tickets are now on
sale by local usher groups
throughout the state.
12-YEAR-OLD
TAKES $16,OOOIH
TV. PROGRAM
NEW YORK
On the night of August 23,
little Gloria Lockerman, 12-
year-old Baltimore Junior High
School pupil, spelled her way
into the heart of America and
a prize of $16,000, as a nation
wide television audience look
ed on. Last Tuesday night, one
week later, appearing on the
same program, the CBS Tele
vision quiz show, "The $64,000
Question”, the little girl decided
to take the money in hand rath
er than risk it in a gamble for
more.
Gloria had been given a week
to decide whether she wanted
to try for $32,000. There were
indications at first that her
parents and grandparents, with
whom she lives at 1342 Druid
Hill Avenue, Baltimore, would
permit her to "go all the way”
should she desire to do so.
Gloria’s parents live in Phil-
aedlphla. They are James Lock
erman and Mrs. Vivian Single
ton. Mrs. Singleton said, “She
has notiling to lose, since she
started with nothing, and since
she has been assured of a $4,000
scholarship, whatever happens.”
Her father said,“I believe in
shooting for the moon if you
can jump a picket fence.”
Her grandmother, Mrs. Ber
tha Key, proliably thinking in
line with the philosophy tlutt
“the bird in the band is worth
more than two In the bush,”
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LOS ANGELES, Calif.
A resolution calling upon
its 100 graduate chapters to
take out $500 life member
ships in the NAACP was voted
here Monday by the national
conclave of Omega Psi Phi fra
ternity. .
Herbert Tucker of Doston,
Mass., newly elected Grand
Basileus, said the resolution
provided $50,000 to be paid
by Omega chapters over a
two year period.
The resolution was proposed
by the 12th district of the fra
ternity, which includes Los
Angeles and other West Coast
NAACP
Years
chapters.
Los Angeles immediately
announced that its $500 had
been raised and would be sent
to headquarters in New York
at once.
Omega Psi Phi is the second
national organization to con
tribute chapter life member
ships to the NAACP. In 1954,
58 chapters of The Links, Inc.,
a national womens’ organiza
tion, completed payment of
$29,000 to the NAACP. In
that effort, the Los ' Angeles
Omegas, were first in the na
tion to pay in lull.
Negro Citizens
May Protest
Jim Crow Signs
Wm. G. Black
Succumbs In
N.Y. Hospital
NEW YORK
William G. Black, 47, the
nation’s foremost Negro adver
tising executive and president
of Interstate United News
papers, Inc., died early Satur
day morning in Sydenham
Hospital, New York City, after
a prolonged illness.
As head of an organization
that served as the national ad
vertising representative of the
largest blo!k of Negro news
papers in the world, Mr. Black
was largely responsible for
making national advertisers
conscious of the vast potential
of the Negro market.
At an early age, Mr. Black
showed unusual enterprise in
spiling advprtising spaCC in
Negro newspapers. While a
student at Howard University,
of which he was a graduate,
he joined the advertising staff
of the Washington Tribune
and distinguished himself as
one of their foremost sales
men. The quality of his work
attracted the attention of the
publishers of the New York
Amsterdam News and he sub
sequently headed the advertis
ing department of that news
paper.
Later, Mr. Black moved on
to the New Jersey Herald
where, as advertising man
ager, he was able to bring
many important advertisers to
that newspaper.
Wlille still in Washington,
Negro citizens were rocked
back on their heels in Raleigh
and Durham this week when it
was learned that the new Ra-
'tigh - Durham Airport now
nearing completion will follow
the Jim Crow pattern, although
federal and municipal funds
went into the erection of the
building. The new pattern of
segregatioB is scheduled to g'>
into effect despite the fact that
very little if any Jim Crow
policy has been followed at
the old airport now in use.
Although it has not definite
ly t>een decided, it is believed
that a group of repreaentative
Negro citizens of RaMgh and
Durham will ask for a hearing
before the airport authority
headed by Attorney « .
Patton of D;
In Durtiam, where the Com
mittee On Negro Affairs usual
ly handles all matters pertain
ing to Nejpftes of the city' and
county, a special committee
headed by L E. Austin, Caro-
’ina Tim«s Publisher, was scat
to look into the matter of segre
gation at the airport. AnaUn
stated here Wednesday that be
has already asked-'fbr a hetlug
before the airport officials and
that he will ask Raleigb citizens
to join him when the time of
the hearing has been revealed.
D. C., Mr. Black found Flash
Magazine, the forerunner -ci
Negro picture "Tgaiinni
Some fourteen years ago the
owners of Ihterstate United
Newspapers, having heard of
Mr. Black’s reputation, secur
ed his services as sales man
ager. An indefatigable worker.
Black plunged Into his new
work with characteristic en
thusiasm. At a time when Ne
gro newspapers subsisted lar
gely on small mail order and
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Final plans for the 1955
contiention of the National Ne
gro Business League were
made in Houston last week
when NNBL president, Horace
Sudduth, seated second from
right, met with the above com
mittee from the Houston
ChamUer of Commerce, which
will host the October 5-7 ses
sions.
Seen seated with Mr. Sud
duth, Cincinnati businessman,
are, left to right, J. H. Jemi-
son, committee chairman. Dr.
S. J. Cullum, Chamber presi
dent, Roscoe Cavitt, NNBL
secretary and Houston cham
ber eieecutive head. Miss Mo-
bet Kilpatrick, Mr. Sudduth
and J. E. Robinson, meniber of
the NNBL’s board of directors.
Carolina Collgee Eagles “ato-
Standing imniediatcly back
of above identified committee
people are, left to right. Or. A.
S. Arnold, Mrs. F. A. Robin
son, Hobart Taylor, L. H. Spt-
vey. Rev. M. M. Pierson. Mrs.
M. L. Porter and C. H. Matner.
On eievation are Mr*. Lvrena
Boliver, N. Dudley, Mrs. Ho
bart Taylor, Dr. Jonet Broum,
L. Lonceiin. Jtokey HUlinrd.
Rev. Fred Burtom s«d A.
Bitndooe.