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Plan Called 'Undemocratic, Unchristian, Unworkable’
Scenes from the public hearings conducted by the joint
session of the North Carolina lef^lature are shown here.
The sessions, telecast by at least three leading stations and
carried by several radio stations, attracted much attention
in the state. So many persons were present for the hear
ings that they had to transferred from their original site
at the hi^way building to the City Auditorium in Ra
leigh. In the above panel at left. Dr. H. Shelton Smith,
member of the Duke University Divinity School, and John
H. Wheeler, Durham banker are seen conversing.^ Dr.
Smith, representing the North Carolina Council of
Churches, and Wheeler, spokesman for a state committee.
both spoke against the Pearsall proiposals. Panel second
from left shows Dr. Douglas Maggs, professor of Con
stitutional Law at Duke University, speaking against the
Pearsall proposals. Center panel shows Bishop H. B.
Shaw of the A. M. E. Zion Church and Reverend J. R. Fun
derburk. Bishop Shaw also sp^ in opposition to the
proposed private school and tuition grant plans. Wheeler
is shown in next panel addressing his remarlu to the
gathering. In last panel, State Attorney General William
B. Rodman (center) appears interested in what’s going on
at the speaker’s platform. Persons to his left and right
are unidentified.
VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 29
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 28,1956
PRICE 10 CENTS
National Meet
Of Sorority Set
ForDurliain v
Lambda Chapter of Tau Ga:
ma Delta Sorority will welcome
to Durham delegates from nine
states expected to attend the
Annual Bo«le to be held Augvist
A welcoming party is sche
duled for Wednesday night for
the delegates who plan to ar
rive early. Registration will be
held Thursday morning at 8:00
In the Education Building on the
campus of North Carolina Col
lege. Headquarters, and all
business sessions will also be
held on tha-aampus..
The theme for the Annual
Boule will .be "A Woman's Chal
lenge in a Changing World.”
The public meeting will be held
in B. N. Duke Auditorium on
Thursday evening, August 16,
at 8:00 P.M. At this time the
Sorority will award Its annual
scholarship to a 1056 graduate
of Hillside High School and pre
sent a check to the NAACP. The
principal speaker for the public
meeting will be Dr. Lubie
Thompson, Pharmacist, of Chi
cago, Illinois.
Other Greek letter organiza
tions in the city have volun
teered to ^provide entertainment
and courtesies of various kinds.
Also included on the calendar
of events are: tour, luncheon,
picnic, banquet, and a formal
air conditioned dance at the city
Armory.
The closing activities will be
the Sunday morning worship
service at St. Mark’s AME Zion
Church.
The hearings on the Pearsall proposals
by the joint session of the North Carolina
legislature drew record throngs at Raleigh
early this week. The hearings were ori
ginally scheduled for the Highway Com
mission Auditorium, but after it had been
overcrowded at the first session, it was
moved to the City Auditorium. The above
scene shows a part of the huge tlirong in
front of the highway building during the
first session of the public hearings.
Holy Churcti Confab
Scheduled For Durham
Some 250 members of the Mt.
Calvary Holy Church of Ameri
ca will convene in the 26th
North Carolina Convocation at
the Mt. Calvary Holy Church in
Durham for seven days, begin
ning Sunday, Aug 29.
The state convention will last
through August 5.
Bishop Broomfield Johnson,
founder and head of the deno
mination, will deliver the key
note address at the opening ses
sion of the convention.
The denomination includes
some IS churches in North Caro
lina with an approximate mem
bership of 1000. Rev. F. Yelver-
Sdiooi Plan is
Denounced By
N. C. Pythians
JACKSONVILLE
The 51st annual convention of
the North Carolina jurisdiction
of the Knights of Pythians and
the Court of Calanthe unani
mously passed a resolution op
posing the efforts of state offi
cials to circumvent the decision
of the U. S. Supreme Court out
lawing segregation of the races
in public schools.
The resolution read: "The
Slst annual session of the
Knights of Pythians of North
Carolina goes on record as ex
pressing unfavorable views of
the stand taken by Gov. Luther
R;. Hodges and ^ Pearsall Ad-
isory Committee, and those
presume to take concem-
ing^race relations as proposed
for % special session of the North
Carotina legislature balled to
convene this week.
“We express a growing con
cern Bs to the feeling of the
citizens of both races with re-
ferenc;,e to the appropriation and
expenditure of public funds,
paid to individuals for not ad-
ertng to the U. S. Supreme
Court decision banning segrega
tion of the races in public
schools."
The John A. Mebane of Tar-
boro is Crrand Chancellor of the
N. C. Pythians. Mrs. Clara Nes-
by at Winston-Salem is Grand
Worthy Counsellor of the Court
of Calanthe. The report of the
committee was read by the Rev,
R. H. McDowell of Charlotte.
The Pythians and Calanthe
completed' a three-day meeting
which'''begun Monday evening
July 16th and ended Wednesday
afternoon. The convention voted
to meet in Charlotte in 1957.
short shrift
CHURCH LEADS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
LANCASTER, S. C.
Governor Timmerman and
bis cohorts might l>e rolling up
sentiment for segregation in the
Palmetto state, but it remained
for the church to lead the way
when daily Bible School, spon
sored by Mt. Tabor AME Zion
Church, Rev. J.A.H. Moore, pas
tor, and the members of 'Ty
ler’s Grove, a local white com
munity, was held.
There were eighty-three stu
dents enrolled and there was an
average daily attendance of
seventy. The studies included
Bible, arts and crafts, and rural
church life. Mt. Tabor is a part
of the Lancaster District, pre
sided over by Rev. S. S. Higgs.
DR. J. H. HUGHLEY
TO SPEAK
Dr. J. Neal Hughley will con
duct the morning worship ser
vice of the Community Church
of Chapel Hill on Sunday, July
29, at 9:30 a.m. in the Forest
Theatre. A musical prelulte will
begin at 9:15 and in case of rain
the service will be held in Hill
Music HaU.
Dr. Hughley, Professor of
Economics and College Minister
at North Carolina College, Dur
ham, will speak on “The Religi
ous Consciousness,”
UKE DURHAM IDEA
Two foreign ‘dignitaries, A. Z.
Ghaffari, deputy director of the
Community Development Or
ganization Of the Iran Govern
ment and M. I. Himeidi, Chief
Field Contact Officer of the Jor
dan government who. visited
Durham Tuesday were so im
pressed by the health survey
conducted by the United Fund
Better Health Foundation in
Walltown that they requested
semi-annual progress reports be
sent to their governments, if
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BISHOP JOHNSON
ton, pastor of the host Mt. Cal
vary church in Durham, said
this week that there will also
be visitors from many churches
of the denomination in areas
outside the state.
All sessions of the conventions
are scheduled for the Mt. Cal
vary church in Durham, which
is located at 1319 Glenn Street.
Among the items to be taken
up during the convention are
seeking ways to widen the
church’s activltlea In education
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GARREH TO
PRESIDE AT
NAT'L CONFAB
Dr. York D. Garrett, proprie
tor of the Garrett’s Biltmore
Drug Store of this city, will pre
side at the 10th Annual conven
tion of the National Pharmaceu
tical Association which meets in
Detroit, Mich., August 2-4. He
is the general president.
Of the approximately 1,000
Negro pharmacists in the nation,
250 delegates are expected to
attend the Detroit meeting. Dr.
Garrett, who has been a phar
macist in North Carolina for 35
years and who has practiced in
Durham since 1933, said that
Negro pharmacists own and
operate over 600 pharmaceuti
cal businesses , in the United
States. Dr. Garrett own’s stores
in Tarboro and Durham.
The program this year wiU
consist of papers dealing with
scientific advancements, com
mercial problems and public re
lations. Noted authorities in the
field of pharmacology and re
presentatives of internationally
known drug companies will dis
cuss new trends, new drugs,
and new methods of merchan
dizing.
In the presidents message.
Dr. Garrett called attention to
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REV. A. L. THOMPSON
Plan Tribute For
Minister Of First
Calvary Cliurch
Special services celebrating
the second anniversary of the
Reverend A. L. I'hompson as
pastor of the First Calvary Bap
tist Church will be held here
July 26 through 29.
Ministers from Durham and
sunounding areas will be guest
speakers at three days of special
programs in recognition of Rev.
Thompson’s two,years at First
Calvary. ,
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Soions Stunned By
Violence Of Attack
L^DERS IN
MANY FIELDS
JOIN PROTEST
RALEIGH
North Carolina legislators, all
but ready to give approval to
some form of the Pearsall plan
to maintain segregation bi the
schools, were taken aback Tues
day by a series of telling blows
delivered on the plan by various
citizens from throughout the
-atate.
The heavy assault on the plan
came Tuesday afternoon and
Tuesday night as a Joint session
of the General Assembly held
public hearings on the propo
sals.
Perhaps the most stunning
attack during the hearings was
delivered by Dr. Douglas Maggs,
professor of Constitutional Law
at Duke University and one time
assistant Attorney General of
the United States.
Maggs appeared before the
legislators Tuesday afternoon
for the American Society of
University Women and proceed
ed to tell the legislators that the
Pearsall proposals would not
stand the simplest constitutional
test, discriminated against white
pupils more than it did Negroes
and charged that the state had
no leadership in the question. _
He was questioned at some
length at the end of hiS remarks
by legislators who had just been
told by Attorney General W. B.
Rodman that the Pearsall pro
posals would meet constitution
al tests.
It was in the midst of ques
tioning about his ideas as to
what the state should do to meet
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Economic Suicide Is Predicted By
Group If Plan Becomes Law
RALEIGH
Representatives of a Negro
Committee of the State’s 100
Counties representing a cross-
section of citizens organizations
throughout the Stale, appeared
before the special session of the
State Legislature Tuesday nigh'
to protest adoption of legislatior
proposed by the Governor’s Ad
visory Committee on Education.
John H. Wheeler, Durham
banker, wh6 served as spokes
man for a similar group d^ng
the 1955 legislature’s debate on
school laws, served as spokes
man for the group.
Asking that the legislators
support a plan o! compUanci
with the U. S. Supreme Court
decision of May 17, 1954. out
lawing segregation in public
schools, Wheeler, speaking for
the group said, of the bills peA-
ding before the special session:
the plans descrilsed and autho
rized by these bills will actuall>
undermine and destroy the pub
lic system which North Caro
lina has supported wholeheart
edly and which we have spent
more than sixty years in de
veloping to its present state of
excellence.”
BAD FAITH
Wheeler described the bills
recommended by the Advisory
Committee as “unsound, im
practical” and failing, he said,
to “comply with the Mandate of
the U. S. Supreme Court with
reference to segregation in the
public schools."
The bills were described fur
ther as “efforts of bad faith anc
defiance.” They are obviously
not intended as a device for im
proving the efficiency of the
ANAPOlOGYIOOURREADflS
(AN EDITORIAL)
Forgive us, dear readers, for oiu' last week’s editorial
entitled “WHITE FOLKS BUSINESS.” Although we felt
that Negroes should have no part in any scheme to cir
cumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling in segregation in the
schools^ we did not know that so many ^ you were in
terested in voting against the Pearsall plan, win or lose,
sink or swim. If we were wrong in. suggesting that Ne
groes should have no part in the referendum to be held on
the plan September 8, as the avalanche of telephone calls,
letters and telegrams indicate, we humbly apologize. We
thought we were right in holding that it seemed stupid for
any American citizen to have to vote for upholding the
schools,” the spokesman said.
He added, “they are in direct
opposition to the Mandate of the
Supreme Court of the United
States and shows evidence of
bad faith and defiance of the
supreme law of the land”
DOOR STILL OPES
Wheeler told the legislators
tiiat Negroes had iieen ignored
by Governor Luther ^ >jg
Advisory Comnfiittee and he
charged that with one fourth of
the Negioes in ui. _ .
— i.oii, the failure to* see’.t ct>-
operation among Negroes had
jeopardized an amicabie sol.i'
tion to the desegregation of the
schools.
He made it plain, iiaw've;.
that Negro groups did^^’t y-t
feel the door had’ been con.-
pletely closed to inter-group co
operation on school matters and
other areas of interracial coo-
cem.
However, he indicated that
Negroes would not be satisfied
with anything less than t-J
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Dr. M. C. Allen
To Speak At
Durham Church
Dr. M. C. Allen, President of
Virginia Theological Seminary
and College at Lynchburg, Va..
will deliver the annual Wo
men’s Day address at the Mt.
Vernon Baptist Oyirdi. Sun-
United States Constitution and the United States Suprone
Court, which is what voting against the Pi
would in reality be.
tes aupi
earsall
plan
The numerous telephone calls, telegrams and letters
which we received from all over the state as well as from
outside the state prot^ting the stand we took in the edi
torial is an indication that Negroes are everywhere be
coming vote conscious and are more determined than ever
to express themselves at the ballot box, whatever the con
sequences.
At the time, we perhaps did not realize that in
you to refrain from taking any part whatsoi^er in the
scheme fomented by the little, defiant, ^te-bellum
of Nortti Carolina that we were at the same timo
you to stay away from the polls.
So, we are glad to reverse our stand on the matter, and
will be in there now on in an effort to arouse as many Ne
groes to vote in the referendum as possible. Especially
are we willing to do so after the public hearinffiheld by
the joint session of the legislature in Ralugh tiiis we^
disclosed so many fine and upstanding white ^tiaans who
•re equally oiqpotwl to th« Pearsall monstrosity.
day afternoon, July 29, at 4.00
p.m. Rev. E. T. Browne is pas
tor. The theme for the d.-iy is
“Meeting Today's Challenge
Through the Strength and Cour
age of Christian Womanhood.**
Dr. Allen, an outstanding
■dtolar, minister and educator,
is highly regarded and widely
known for his achievements
and contributions to the fields oi
education and religion.
He wlU also speak Sunday
morning at eleven o’clock at the
Ebeneser Bm>tist Churdi. Hla
address there will be at the r«f-
ular Simday morning servtea.
Ttke church is located on GImbb
Street Raw. J. A. Brown la pa»'
tor.