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ATED SUTOR SUrS tOVER m lyThPriHUTH UNBWr^ED VOLUME 34—NUMBER 5 * DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS Wake forest Admits NCC Student? ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ministers Tal(e Issue Witli f Ruling In ke Cream Bar Case Action Held Insult To Firm's Neighborhood A Methodist ministers organi zation in Durham this week is sued a statement criticizing the State Supreme Court’s ruling in a case involving the Royal Ice Cream bar. The State Supreme Court rul ed recently that a group of Ne groes who refused to leave the side of the establishment reser ved for whites wdre guilty of trespass. The Court had accepted the case on an appeal by the defen dants from a lower court de- ciston which had also found them guilty of trespass and hik ed the origirtal fine; In a thre# point censure of the Court’s opinion this week, the Methodist Ministers Fellowship charges that the ruling “contra dicts the spirit of the Supreme •Court decisions outlawing segre gation...is an insult to the com munity in which it is located,” and added that businesses which .are sunpoited by Negroesi (Continued on page 8) Fear Of Living Characteristic OfAge-Dr.Mays GREENSBORO Addressing 400 persons at the 19th Annual Hayes Taylor YMCA Banquet, Dr. Banjamin Mays, brilliant educator and President of Morehouse College, of Atlanta, said that we live in an age in which we fear living, the Christian religion, and im plementation of democracy, yet, history has proven that our greatest fears are of things that never happen. ^ Historically, he continued, men feared the teachings of Jesus, the questioning of Socra tes, the experimental science of Roger Bacon, and the daring of Susan B. Anthony. Yet, the things feared most about these persons never actually happen ed. Referring to the present. Dr. Mays stated that many Ameri cans fear the Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation. Fifty years from today, though, (continued on page 8) ’'m ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Wedding Date To Be Funeral Selma School Shooting Shocks Area Residents MRS. L. L. GRAHAM of Burlington, preitents a $2,000 check to NAACP Executive Sec retary Roy Wilkins-at the Association’s recent annual dinner at the Belmont Plaza Hotelin New York. The check was from North Carolina State NAACP for the Association’s Fight for Freedom campaign. Standing at Mr. Wilkins’ left is Gloster B. Current, NAACP direc tor of branches. DR. BENJAMIN MAYS Medical School Official Denies Admitting Senior A Wake Forest College of ficial told the TIMES Wednesday that the school had •'"definitely not” admitted a North Carolina College student to its school of medicine. Dr. J. Maxwell Little, director of admission at the Bowman- Gray school of medicine at Wake Fore^ College, admitted by tele phone to tlie TIMES that it Had received an application from a N. C. College student but added that it has not been accepted. A signed story appearing in the Feb. 1 issue of the Campus Echo, student newspaper at North Carolina College,- said that David Morgan, a Winston-Salem senior pre-medical student has been accepted by the Baptist College. Written under the signature oil Annetta Benton, the story said that Morgan would become the first Negro to enter th# school if he decides to matriculate in September. It told of how Morgan has worked for the past six summers as a surgeon’s assistant |n Bap tist hospital, a division of the medical school at Wake Forest. “It seems to me we have an, application from a student at the school over in Durham, but I can't say definitely whose ap plication it is. I do know for cer tain that we have not accepted any applications for admission from a North Carolina student,” Dr. Little told the "nMES Wednesday. Speculation as to when and ii! Wake Forest would admit a Ne gro has been mounting in the past few years in the state. Seve ral .denominational schools in the area have voted to admit' qualified Negro students. How ever, no such action had been taken at Wake Forest. t^evivat Seen For Va. NAACP hi Wake Of Favorable Court Rule NEW YORK — NAACP members in Virginia were calle(J upon to rally once more to the support of the Association as a result of the decision January 21 by a three-judge Federal court that three Virginia laws requiring the filing of membership lists by the NAACP are unconstitutional. Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary, said the decision will be followed by a stepped-up member ship campaign. The three laws struck down by the court in a 2-1 decision were passed by a special session of the Virginia General Assembly in September, 1956. The laws were aimed so directly at the NAACP that they became known throughout the state as “NAACP laws.” The Federal court refused to pass on two other laws aimed at the NAACP, saying that they were too vague and am biguous and should first be in terpreted by a state court. “Now that this court has up held our belief that we should not be required to reveal the names and addresses of NAACP members,” said Wil kins, our supporters in Vir ginia can have less fear of reprisals and shoold rally to the cause. “There is still a ruling of the state supreme court which will have to be dealt with, but we believe the chances of winning the final point are very good. Our people in Virginia need not be afraid.” The court ruled on the Vir ginia statutes in response to suits filed last year by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple and the NAACP Legal De fense and Eklucational Fund. In th* argument heard last September and October, Ro bert L. Carter of New York, NAACP general counsel, and Oliver W. Hill, NAACP attor ney of Richmond, represented the Association. The Legal Defense Fund was represented by Thurgqod Mar shall of New York, tiiie Fund’s continued-on page 8) L. E. REYNOLDS Tarheel Moves Up In Elkdom GREENSBORO L. E. Reynolds, former North, Carolina Elks State President, State Insp>ector, Assistant Educa tional Director to Regional Di rector Albert Bethune and Past Exalted Ruler of Old North State Lodge, Greensboro, was recently commissioned by the Grand Exalted Ruler, Dr. Robert (continued on page 8) SELMA The vengeance of a mad lover spread its venom over the Rich-' ard B. Harrison High School and left this little farming town al most breathless after Frederick L. Potts, Science teacher, sent f6ur death dealing bullets into the body of Miss Lois Ernestine Tomlinson, Librarian, here oi^ Tuesday mdming, just as the bell rang signalling the start of class es. The entire event reads like a cave man story, where a jilted lover armed himself with a pis^ tol and strolled into the Library of the school. He told arresting officers that he had warned his lover that if she spurned his love, he would stop at nothing less than death to avenge himn self. Parks had been seeing Miss 'Tomlinson for sometime and it was understood ' that he had hopes of marrying her himself. He had divorced his wife toi le^ve him free to pursue Miss Tomlinson. ’The fact that she had sent out invitations inviting her friends and associates to witness her marriage to Walter Simmons, on February 8th, at the Piney Grove Baptist Church, at 2 P.M , was apparently more than Parks could take. He alleges that he walked into the Library of the school and when she told himi that he was not good enough for he^, started shooting. Four of the bullets fouod their mark, one to the heart, one to 'the breast and still two others entered her shoulder and hip. ^ Pairks t))gQ }as|i^ ,t^ hia .sac made a suddenTieparture in ttie' direction of Raleigh. Upori arriving in the capital city, he (continued on page 8) NCC Vespers The ReV; 3. Neal Hughley, North Carolina ColRge minister, will speak at the college’s vesper service Sunday afternoon at 3:15 p.m. He will speak on “Christi anity faces a world in revolu tion.” ' Sunday’s service is sponsored by the graduate and senior wo men of the college. Next Sunday’s service at the college will feature Dr. A. C. Howard, professor of English literature at the University of North Carolina, who will talk on “Jesus as a Story Teller.” Quarter Million Drive For Shaw Opens Feb. 5 By R. Irving Boone RALEIGH Some 500 Baptist leaders and hundreds of Shaw University alumni are expeqted to gather at Shaw’s campus here Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock to open a quarter million dollar drive for the Baptist institution. A kick-off dinner at Shaw will formally open ‘What many Bap tist leaders over the state have termed the denomination’s most significant meeting of the de cade.” Some 300,000 members of the State Baptist Convention pled ged their support of the cam paign at the convenUon this summer. • The Convention’s fund drive goal of $230,000, earmarked for education, represents an amount above the Convention’s regular budget for this item. The Master plan of this cam paign makes provision for full '^rticipation on the part of the combined forces of Baptists, alumni, and friends, and it anti cipates the co-operative action of the various organized de nominational units, including the auxiliary state lK>dies, the associations, the district conven tions, and the local congrega tions. FREDERICK POTTS ... spumed... LOIS TOMLINSON ... killed ... WALTER SIMMONS ... bereaved... Wes, Craig Agree Loss Of Campanella Woull^Hurt A Lot” ROY CAMPANELLA White Posse Slaying Termed Legal Lynching MERIDIAN, MISS. The slaying of 38-year-old George Love by a posse of some 25 men and boys in Ruleville, Miss., on . January 8 has been characterized by the president of 'the Mississippi State NAACP as “a legal lynching.” C. R. Darden of Meridian, the NAACP state president, noted that a report from Medgar Evers of Jackson, NAACP field secre tary for Mississippi, stated that the fatal bullets entered Mr. Love’s body from the rear. For this reason, Darden con tinued, a strong possibility exists that Mr. Love did not fire on the posse, ,as was stated in at least one press report. “He might have been running from the mob or else he was forced to turn his back wliile shot down,” Darden pointed out. The NAACP state president also called attention to the fact that the posse included boys 16 (continued on page 8) Threats Won't Stop Litigaiipa, “When you lose a guy like Campy, it’s going tp hurt a lot.” “I can’t see how they can replace him this year.** These were the opinions on the expected loss of Roy Campanella to the L. A. Dodgers as the result of his automobile accident from two major league play* ers who have played with and against him in the ‘*big time.” The first statement came from Roy’s teammate and, often, bat- tery-mate Roger Craig. Wes Covington, star outfield er for the world champion Mil waukee Braves provided the scGond oi^nion. . Dtwiiam yjjrtiinc thAr families. The stocky Los Angeles Dod gers catcher was given a chance of resuming his playing career by the head of a seven man team of physicians who worked on him for four hours following his accident early this week. However, early indications.are that the h^viest hitting catcher in ijaseball history wiU be lost to the Dodgers at least for the sea son. Many speculators believe that the accident will bring the brilli ant receiver’s playing career to an end. Campanella suffered a broken neck and temporary paralysis early Tuesday when his car skidded on wet pavement in a curve and crashed into a tele phone pole. “It’s going to have quite a lot of effect on the Dodgers this year,” pitcher Roger Craig told the TIMES when asked what he thought the effect of the loss of Roy might mean to the team. “Even when he wasn’t play ing, he was a great help to the team. Of all the major league players I know, there are none who love the game and love to play more than Roy. “He helped the team tremen dously, especially the pitchers. He always seemed to take a per sonal interest in young players, especially pitchers. When I came up, he s^med to be personaUy interested in my development, (continued on page 8) ATLANTA, Ga. Thurgood Marshall warned pro-segregationists that threats and intimidation wiU not pre vent Negroes and other “good Americana” Ikom resorting to the Mersl courts in their ef> lort» to oRain their ctmstitu- tional rights. Questions could very easily be raised as to the cotirse at action which Negroes should have followed immediately af ter the Supreme Court render ed its decisions in 1954 and 1955 in the school segregatioa cases, Marshall said. The campaign of massive re sistance in Virginia, the un yielding opposition in states such as Georgia and the un precedented physical opposi tion by the Governor of Ar kansas, however, now leave no doubt as to the course of action which must be follow> ed at this time, he said. Marshall, who is dlrector- counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fuad, spoke at the annual banquet of the Georgia State Confer^ ence ol NAACP Branches In Atlanta. He told the gathering that there were those who predict ed that integration could not come about. “To them we saj! .(continued on page 8) Outstanding figures in national affairs are shown hMe in a kaMa witk Richard Nixon onf problems affecting minorities. Left to right ar« JaBMS NaMt, asc of Howard University; Attorney Her^rt E^flicker, grand baslleus •! CoMga N Phil nity; Nixon; Attorney H. Carl Moultrie, national executive scrrvtary «it tlw Onaga nity; Dr. Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse Collqpe; aad BiMKh Bkkajr, | manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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