REGISTRATION TROUBLE
VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 20
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAT It, 1956
PRICE 10 CENTS
Registration Protest
Fine For Lawyer
Judge Lectures To Man On How
Good County Has Been To Race
Brings
J. s. Stewart, chairman of the
Durham Committee on Negro
Aifairs, is shown receiving a
plaque for a life membership in
the NAACP at tHe NAACP
freedorn rally at Ralegh Memo~
rial aotfitorium lot. Sunday.
Kell]/ Alg^nder, president of
the State Conference, makii$ the
presentation while Thurgood
Marshall, chief counsel for the
NAACP’s Legal and educational
Defense Fund, looks on. Mar
shall was chief speaker at the
rail]/. As the fan in the noted
lawyer’s hand indicates, it woa
i' hot day.
Tar Heel Students Receive^
13 Tuition Grants To NCC
The Scholarship Committee
at North Carolina College last
Tueiaay annminced the award
ot 13 ot 30 cash scholarship
grants covering Iwo thirds tuit
ion costs lor the 1056-57 school
year. Each grant has a cash
value of $100.
R. D. Russell chairman of
the Scholarship ( ommittee, an
nounced the awards. Persons in
terested in scholarships should
contact Russell at NCC.
Interested students may apo-
ply for the 17 grants which have
not been awarded.
Among the recipients of the
grants, available to qualifying
graduating seniors of state high
schools, are Ida Ruth Battle,
Lincoln High School, Chapel
Hill; Prendis Odell Beni^ett,
Sampson County Training
School, Clinton-; Arthur Allen
Boseman, Dillard High School,
Ck>ldsboro; Frederica Elizabeth
Crowell, G. C. Hawley High
School, Creedmoor; Nettie Pearl
Oarrett, Merrick Moore High
School, Gastonia; Cynthia De-
Jptds Jarman, Jones High
iSchool, Trentonf Elsie Mae
Jones, Henderson Institute,
Henderson; Samuel Fleming
Scott, HiUslde High School,
Durham; Erma Faye Sutton, Ad-
kln High School, Kinston; Wel
don Eugene Humphrey, George
town High School, Jacksonville;
Regina Loretta Wiggins, Calvin
S. Brown High School, Winton;
and Delores Victoria Wither
spoon, West Charlotte Senior
High School, Charlotte.
Rowland Co-Ed
Gets Readers
Digest Award
ROWLAND
Daniel M. McCrae, valedic
torian of the graduating class at
Southside High School, has beert
given the annual award of the
Reader’s Digest Association foi*
students who by their success
ful school work give promise of
ataining leadership in the com
munity.
He will receive an honorary
subscription to the Reader's Di
gest for one year ttnd On en-
gravel certificate from the Edi
tors, “In recognition of past ac
complishment and in anticipa
tion of unusual achievement to
come.”
JACKSON
Attorney James R. Walker of
Weldon was fined flOO for traa-
passing and given a suspended
sentence on charge* of disorder
ly conduct here Wednesday. '
The charges grew out of a
complaint brought by W. !•.
Taylor, operator of a Grocery
store at Seaboard where Wal
ker had gone Saturday to pro
test the disqualification of Ne
groes seeking tu register. The
store was being used as
registration office and Taylor’s
wife was serving as registrar.
An appeal was immediately
filed by Attorney Samuel S.
Mitchell of the firm of Mitchell
and Taylor ot Raleigh, handling
Walker’s defense.
A large crowd, made up chief
ly of Negroes, packed into
Northampton’s Recorder’s court
to hear the sentence imposed by
Judge Ballard S. Gay. The
Judge also took the occasion to
lecture to Walker on how good
the bounty had been to Negroes
in Uie past 91 years, that out
side forces were stirring up dis
sension between the good white
and .colore# f^lks and tb«t the
c^tfnty UKouMbft ata»d>iMMt.
Walker has beeh. a key ti^ure
in getting Negroes to register
in this area and is managing the
campaign of four office seekers
He is also one of the leaders of
a recently formed eight county
political action organization.
Walker told the TIMES that
he had accompanied Alexander
Faison and Mrs. Maggie Garris
to the store Saturday dfter they
had complained to him that they
were Hmfairty refused registra
tion.
Walker disagreed v^th Mrs.
Taylor, the registrar, on the
fairness of the examination be
ing used, and nt that point, her
husband ordered Walker out of
the store.
Faison is a former Air Force
Sergeant who is now a student
at North Carolina College. Mrs.
Garris is a practical nurse.
Solicitor Perry W. Martin of
Rich Square had - asked the
maximum penalty so that others
in the commimity would know
not to try the same thing.
Alexander Faison, freshman
at North Carolina College, was
refused registration at Seaboard
last Saturday because the’regis
trar did not like his pronunci
ation of the words, “municipali
ty," "deficit," and "biennuallj/.”
Faison is shown leafing through
a dictionary, probably a good
thing to have at the Seaboard
registration office.
IN SEABOARD
Unborn Baby
Made Member
Of NAACP
\ NBW YORK
The picture ot a wiasome
four-month-old baby girl whose
father took out an NAACP
membership for her before She
was born appears in the current
issue of The Crisis, official jour
nal of the NAACP.
Little Anita Eugenfa Amos ot
Milwaukee, Wis., was bom last
Christmas Day, but her NAACP
membership was taken out
three months previously, in the
name of "—Amos.”
Her father, Preston Amps, ex
plained when he secured the un
usual membership:
"I believe so strongly in the
NAACP and its objectives that
1 hereby apply for a member
ship for my unborn child...I do
this in hope that it might help
to win for the child the respect
and dignity to which each hu
man being In Am^ca is en-
tiUed...
“In doing this, 1 have but one
regret. That regret is that I can
not afford to give the child a
life membership in the
NAACP.”
NCC Freshman
Denied Ballot
A North Carolirla College | gjvtcp:, he went to the ptore
freshman told the TIMES this , alone. Mrs. Taylor, he said, gave
Some 400 To Get DMraes
As NCC Reveols Finab
North Carolina College’s 45th
Commencement activities start
here at 8:00 p.m. Friday, June
1, with the annual Clast Night
exercises. ^
Senior class president John
Hall of Oxford will b^ in charge
of the program. It will be held
in Duke Auditorium.
The annual meeting will be
held in the Education Building
Auditorium at 10:00 ajn. Sat:
June 2. Other aliunnl activities
including installation of gradu
ating seniors and the festival
will be held Monday. The sen
iors will be guests of the Dur
ham Ch«i>ter of the NCC Alum
ni Association at the festival.
This year’s senior iclass play
has been set for Saturday^ June]
2, at 8:00 p.m. in Duke Audi
torium. Robert and Migpon
McLaughlin’s “Gayden” to the
production. Zelphia Gray of
Pinehurst is the director.
Several events 'are set for
Sunday, June 3. The first is the
Dean of Women’s annual break
fast in the college cafeteria at
9:30 a.m.
Dr. William Holmes Bordm,
pastor of the Wheat Street Bap
tist Church, Atlanta, Georgia,
will deliver the Baccalaureate
sermon at 4:00 p.m. in the
Men’s Gymnasium.
President and Mrs. Alfonso
Elder will hold Uieir annual re
ception for graduating seniors,
parents, their friends and rela-
ttives, faculty, and alumni at
their home, 1902 Fayetteville
Street at 5:p0 p.m.
A special commencement re
cital will be presented at 8: IS
p.m. Sunday in Duke Auditori
um.
Closing but activitie/'for t^e
year will be. the annu^ com
mencement address. Dr. Karl
W. Bigelow, noted Columbia
University Professor of Educa
tion, will be the Speaker in the
Men’s Gymnasium at 11:00 a.m-
Tuesday, June S.
Some 400 candidates for un
dergraduate, graduate and pro
fessional degrees are expe^ed
to hear Dr. Bigelow.
MISS FRANKIE V. ADAMS
Women's Club
To Convene
In Fayetteville
SALISBTOY
Over 1,009 women are expect
ed to attend the 47th Annual
Meeting of the North Carolina
Federation of Negro Women’s
Clubs. The meeting is scheduled
for Fayetteville May 17-20. It
will open with a reception for
the Executive Board members
given by the host clubs of the
Eastern District of the Federa
tion, Thursday evening. May 17.
The Federation will hold its
business sessions all day Friday
May 18. The first general ses
sion has been scheduled for Fri
day night with the welcome ad
dresses by the Mayor, members
of the Chamber of Commerce,
Dr. J. W. Seabrook, and leadipg
white and Negro citizens.
Workshops for adults and
girls will be held Saturday
night. Miss Geraldine Langhom,
a blind artist, will present a mu
sical and dramatic recital. There
will also be exlilbits of hobbies
of the women.
The meeting will tclose on
Siinday, May 20, with members
of the Federation visiting and
speaking to the congregations
of various churches at the morn
ing services, throu^out the
city. The final general session
is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at
which Mrs. Rose D. Aggrey,
President, will preside.' The
principal address will be given
by Miss Frankie V. Adams, Pro
fessor of Social* Work, Atlanta
University, Atlanta, Georgia;
and the response to her address
will be made by J. R. X^rkins,
State Department- of Public
Welfare. Mrs. Jennie D. Taylor,
Regional Director of Delta Sig
ma Theta Sorority, will intru'
duce Miss Adams. ,
week that he was refused regis
tration at his home town of Sea-
aboard last Saturday because thfe^
registrar was not satisfied with
his pronundatitm of the words
“municipality,” "deficit,” and
M«mu«Vyi'’
Describing the examination
given him by Mrs. W. L Taylor
4as resembling a quiz in an
English class, Faison said that
the registrar told him after he
had read approximately one-
tidhtml of a typewritten page
that he had pronounced too
many words incorrectly to be
eligible for registration.
Faison said he had gone last
Saturday to his precinct regis
tration place, which had been
set up in a store run by Willie
L. Taylor. His wife served as
registrar.
After being denied registra
tion, Faison revealed that he
sought liie advice of Attorney
William R. Walker who ac
companied him on a return trip
to the registrar. The meeting
between Walker and Mrs. Tay
lor resulted in Walker’s being
charged with trespass and for
ced to face trial Wednesday.
Faison told the TIMES that
the first time he sought to re-
Complaints Noat b East As
Justice Dept. Probe b Mried
him a typewritten sheet which
be said appeared to be a tract
written on the State constitu
tion. He said that it was a very
;poor second ot third carbon
copy had bee^ wo well
worn put nlbi^t the- WWi»4ipwe charges by Walker,
were dflfticult to sCe. '''GoiipUe* TWmed by McLean li*
Do you know how many
rooms there are im the omirt-
house of your county?
Not important, you aay. But
if you were a Negro and Bviag
in Jackson, your to vote
may depend on your atriUty to
answer that qucstian.
This question was the basis
of just one of many rhary
made against registrars in seve
ral eastern counties this week
for using illegal and unfgir me
thods to deny registralioo to
qualified Negroes.
The charges came from At
torney James R. Walker of Wel
don and Charles A. Mclisan of
Winston-Salem, field secretary
for the NAACP.
Estimates of the number of
qualified Negroes denied regis
tration illegally in the east
from Atty Walker and McLean
amounted to nearly 50 peisons,
including college students and
school teachers.
Just wiiat counter action was
being planned to permit quali
fied Negroes to register was not
clear at press time.
Earlier, the possibility tiiat
the Justice Department night
be called in to investigat* the
flare-up of registration trouble
in the eastern section ei the
state was given conaidemtion.
But a federal injunction setting
aside the regibli'ation in eoim-
ties under quehtion apyarrd
more likely, especially in view
of the fact that registration
boolu have closed for the May
26 primary.
McLean hinted that this type
of action may be adopted when
he declared that the situation
left Negroes no cuoice except to
seek Federal Court action if the
State Board of elections fails to
correct the situation.
McLean has filed complaints
with Raymond B4axwell, aecre-
tary of the state board of elec
tions who said written reports
would be asked .from the coun
ties involved.
First rumblings of registra
tion trouble ii the east came
three weeks ago from Attorney
Walker. Each successive Satur
day .of registration has produced
He said that be was told to
read aloud while the registrar
followed him wiln the original.
(Continued on Page Eight)
PamUctf, CtwrtttHk, PKt. Hert
ford, Parsoo, Boks. GtwaiwiO*
and Hyde.
McLean's ehargw
merous and ip«riflc.
them were the Jotlowing:
A NorthMnptoa registrar wbo
appeared to be latoxicated at
Jackson turned down ptnoim
because they couldn’t tdl how
many fttoms ttiere wet* Ib th*
courtbotise.
Mrs. Spivey la West Bowan
took two hour* to register one
Negro and adviaod thesn to tell
others how hard it was to get
on the books.
llrs. Vincent of Wast Gaston
advised Negroes who could read
well enough that the State
Board of elections would have
to pass on their requests in
register. She also uses her tmm*
to register persons, and men
feel that they will be arrested
for trespasajng if they retnmed
to her honoe after she has told
them to stay away until tli*
the November registration
period.
At Seaboard. Mrs. Taylor
took 49 minutes to register •
college graduate.
At Lewiston in Bertie county,
Claude Britton turned down 29
or 30 person;, including high
school graduates and veterans
who had voted in service. Brit
ton also required Negroes to
know by memory parts (rf the
Constitution and name all the
counties making up their Con
gressional district.
In Bladen County, Negroes
were required to read the en
tire Constitution.
In Camden county, Mrs. God
frey refused several persons af
ter they failed to take dictation
given by her at a speed much
too fast.
At Hayesville Township in
Franklin county, Richard Winn,
registrar, told a Negro he
couldn’t register because he was
left handed.
In Greene county a Negro
seeking to reg".Ver was asked
what side he would be on if the
NAACP rose against our pre
sent government
At Creedmoor. in Granville
County. L £. Harris, runts-
trar, refused to register Negroes
which'Yegistwirs had unlawfully because they couldn't satisfy her
denied‘4qualifled Negroes regis-1 in reading and writing the Stat^
tration ' include Halifax, North- Constitution. Said M-'s. 11.x.
ampton, Franklin, I4ash, Bertie, 11 have r^isteied the teaci e j
Tyrell, Bladen, Jones, Camden,| (Continued on Page Eight)
dean of the school of Religion at
Howard University, ujill be the
final speaker in the North Caro
lina College vesper series spon
sored by the coUeoe Sunday
school and the McLean dormi-
tory council. Vespers" services
are at 4:30 p.m.
Dr. Wilson was bom in Nyrth
Carolina, at Mcxlon, and attend
ed the Mary Potter High School
at Oxford. He received his basic
degrees at Lincoln University
and earned the Matters and
Doctor'f degrees from Colum
bia. He is a member of a num
ber of reliffioii.1 and educational
organizations, and for many
years has been a top echelon
official in the YMCA. A fre-
.qitent lecturer, he serued uHth
many religious and educationkl
institutions abroad.
(Mympk Funds For Calhoun
Lagging; Only $150 In ’Pot’
Less than $500 has been col
lected for the Olympic tryouts
fund for NCC Irack stars Lee
Calhoun, hurdler, and Charles
McCullough, high jumper. So
licitation procedures are being
radically revised. Predictions
are for ultimate success with
new procedure."'.
That was the word at mid
week from the solicitation com
mittee at the college, The two
stars won their respective
events at the CIAA Champion
ships in Baltimore last week.
The committee’s goal is |1,
800. Calhoun’s time in the 120
high hurdles was his all-time
low of 13.8. McCullough and
Morgan’s Bob Barksdale jumped
6-4 to tie for first place.
A Calhoun-McCuUough Day
rally netted hardly $150.
Committee spokesmen say
‘enthusiasm is high, but con
tributions are low.”
Reason for the present lag is
attributed by some to “so many
calls for funds from so many
sources.” NCC’s own Scholar
ship 'Committee is soliciting at
this time. In faculty members’
mail this week also went seve
ral other Vequssts for worthy
causes.
Committee backers predicted
a “new look” in soliciation pro
cedures after this week. The
deadline for funds is May 29.
“We’re not discouraged at the
present modest showing, be
cause we believe that the people
of Durham are going to rally to
the support of these two splen
did athletes wbo have brought
outstanding recognition to our
community,” said the conmiit-
tee’s chairman, C. A. Ray.
Meanwhile, Ray reported
plans to call a “re-evaluAtion
meeting for late this week.”
Cheerful aspects of the bleak
picture was the campaign oi^
ganized by the Lettermen’s Club
to conduct a house-to-house
canvass among local NCC alum
ni.
N. B. White, president of the
Durham Business and Profes
sional Chain, urged all member
organizations to cooperate in
the drive. Dr. S. B. Fulbright
and Miss Hazel £. Clarke of
NCC redrafted their lists and
planned a concentrated canvas
sing. L. A. Merritt, deputy
chairman, said the committee
was broadening its contacts.
Student leaders Charles Hol
land, president-elect of the SG,
his vice president, Juli^us L.
Chambers, and Robert Perry,
Echo editor elect, urged stu
dent organizations to foUaw
through with their pledges.
J. E. Parker and Mrs. Willa
L. Lewis were in charge of the
Calhoun Day ce’ebration which
brought enthusiasm for the pro
ject to a new high.
Memberstiipe yere continu
ing to pour into the “Calhoun
McCullough to California” club.
Blue badges denote member
ships available for a minimum
of fifty cents. They are avail
able to students and towna^
people alike.
Durham Man To Take Reins
When Medics' Society Meets
About 150
geons and
CHARLOTTE
Physicians, Sur-
Pharmacists, all
members of the Old North State
Medical Society are expected to
be in attendance at the sixty-
ninth annual session scheduled
to get underway in Charlotte
June 12th, 13th and 14th. The
The meetings have been sche
duled for the new Theological
Building on the spacious John
son C. Smith University Cam
pus.
The State Society is composed
of a membership of 169 physi
cians and surgeons and phsmaoa-
cists scattered throughout the
State of North Carolina in the
100 counties. During the ses
sions some ten scientific papers
will be presented and there will
be approximatdy 29 drug ex
hibits and five technical exhi
bits.
According to officers of the
Society, the primary funetloa of
the meeting is to destlmlnate
scientific information through
I^tgraduate medical education
1# scientific sessions and exhi
bits. Legislation affecting the
society and the practice of medi
cine in the Stata will be con
sidered in the business »awi»pt
scheduled for Tuesday night at
the opening session. A second
business session has been sche
duled for Thursday morning at
which time the new officers of
the Society will be inducted into
office. Practically all of the
scientific sessions will be bald
on subjects of interest to both
the general practitioners and
specialists.
'The annual 7oint session of
the Pharmacbtts and Physicians
is scheduled for Wednesday
aftemocm to be followed by a
smotew' on Wednesday ni^t
The principal spe«k«' for the
Joint Session is Dr. Howard
McClaine, Jr., Dean of the
School of Phamacy of the
Florida AUf Univendty, Talla-
hassee, Florida.
Dr. R. U. Wyche of Char
lotte is Preaident of the Soelaty.
He will be succeeded during tha
session by Dr. LeSoy SwttI aC
Durham. Praaident-Bad
citation as Ooctor-«i'tlM-T«v
will be presented to the aawt
nee on Tuesday night at the fkat
buslncM aaislon. Dr. Bite B.
Toney of Oxford, was tte IOM
recii^t Tba name «1 th« UM
nominee has no:
putiUc by, the Co