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STILL UNABLE AND ALL THAT SNOW OUTSIDE: Onfe H^mpt^n Imtitnt* co^d diacovered in her I allege’s swimming pool, a way to overcome two Janaary hazards: the tenalons of mid-year exaininations and the rigors of a chilling inch snowfall on the Tidewater Vir^nia campus. Lottie Gerst, junior from Durham, North Carolina, proves her point here. Exams evidently proved but a temporary barrier to her being able to get back in the swim; as for being chilled—that never was a problwn, not to, Lottie! In addition to a number of campus activities, including singling and sports, she is a serious sttkdent of the modem dance. Lottie is the daughter of Mrs. Mabel C. Gerst, who recently moved from South Boston, Virginia, to Durham. i t 'Improving,' Say Duke Doctors Dr. Leroy Russell Swif^, prominent Durham physician, who was shot at his home late last Thursday, was still un able to talk at mid-week. A Duke hospital statemmt listed tthe physician’s condi tion as “fair.” Dr. Guy Odom, chief of a team of neurosur geons who worked on the wounded pbysician, said he was “doing as well as can be expected.” According to Sheriff E. G. Belvin, Dr. Swift’s wife re ported that the shooting was accidental. Thet Sheriff said his deputies were told that the 46 year-old gynecology spe cialist shot himself accidental ly while showing her how to operate a pistol. However, the Sheriff awaited word this week from Duke doctors to the effect that he conld talk to Swift. The bullet entered the physi cian’s ri{ht temple at the eye level halfway between the eye and ear and ranged downward into the throat, affecting his breathing and speech. Duke doctors performed a I yihiWTM VOLUME 34 — number 6 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS Martin L, King In Greensboro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ At Bennett GREENSBORO Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., dynamic leader of the historical bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, will speak at Bennett College, February 11, at 8 p.m., under the auspice of the local NAACP branch. Dr. King, who heads the Mont gomery Improvement Associa tion and more recently the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is also pSstor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. Winner of the NAACP’s Spin- garn Medal for 1967, the 28- year-old minister, whose speak ing engagements have him con stantly on the move from coast to coast, will be making his only Greensboro appearance of the year. The meeting, which is expect ed to draw a statewide audience to the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel, will be presided over by (continued on page 8) Founder's Day At Livingstone SAILSBURY The ^04th birthday anniver sary of the late Dr. Charles J. Price, founder and first presi dent of Livingstone College, will be observed Wednesday, Feb. 12, along with the formal opening of the remodeled Carnegie li brary when the college pays its annual tribute to the founder at special services. It will mark the 63rd found er’s day for the AME Zion sup ported school. All of the regular college ac tivities will be suspended on Wednesday and special services will be held in the college audi torium at 10:30 a.m. and in the afternoon at two p.m. A feature of thp day’s ser vices will be an address by Bis hop W. C. Brown, presiding bis hop of the Second AME Zion district. The _BlahQplfl._ address, will come during the afternoon (continued on page 8) DR. M. L. KING Congress Urged To Halt Aid To Defiant States WASHINGTON, D. C. Testifying before a House sub committee on general education, Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAACP Washington bureau, today urged amendment of exis ting school aid statutes to re quire, as a condition of receiving such grants, that the states be in compliance with the anti-segre- gation rulings of the United States Supreme Court. Already, Mitchell told the committee members; the federal government has spent more than $192,000,000 lor construction and operation of segregated schools under Public Laws 815 and 874, which provide federal aid to schools in defense impact ed areas. In order to halt such expendi tures, the NAACP spokesman said, the states should be re quire to submit plans to the federal government, with a clear commitment that “school fa cilities of the state are open tOi all children without regard to race...; except that if a state plan does not so provide, it shall not prevent payment of funds SUthotiS.td un^er state County Wins Over Five Finalists In Annual Rural Progress Selections GREENSBORO Duplin County was named the winner of thA^.^un^y of the Year” Award"iOf ijui^l progress in the State during 1967. The announcemtot was made by Dr. G. F. Rankin, chairman of the State Rur^ Progress Cam paign with special reference to Negroes and acting dean of the School of Agrtsolture at A&T ;he move- College, 4^1 mcnt. ' The comiwnion award, con ducted among the white rural population of the state, was won by Henderson County. It is sche-> duled to receive 91>000 in the contest sponsored by the N. C. Board of Farm organizations. The award, fSOO in cash, is given annually to the county in which the Negro rural popula tion has contributed the most impressive gains to the overall development of the county. The cash prize is being given by Thomas A. Morgan, New York City, a former native and farm operator in Vance County and who recently retired as chair man of the executive board of the Sperry Gyroscope Company In New York. DupUn County jypn out over five-other'fihjalisi counties, in cluding: Any>n, Richmond, Robeson, Hamatt and Rocking ham. A total of 71-counties com peted in the original elimina tions. The evaluation committee, headed by Dr. Rankin, visited each of the six-finalist counties last week and arrived at the de- (continued on page 8) Drive To Enlist Clergy In Bias Fight Opens A movement to enlist the full weight of ministers behind the strug^e for civil rights is sche duled to get underway in Dur ham next Wednesday night at St. Mark AME Zion church. The Durham meeting is just one of a series of 21 meetings to be held throughout the region on that date in which local minis terial groups will be sought for their participation in the civil rights strug^e. Designed “Crusade for Citi zenship,” the movement is an outgrowth of a project of the newly organized Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference. The Conference is a *region- (continued on page 8) DR. LEROY SWIFT tracheotomy on his to re lieve pressure on his wind- fipe and permit him to reatbe easier. ' Sheriff Belvin told the Times Wednesday that doctors be- Ueve Swift will have recover ed sufficiently to talk by the end of the week. The Sheriff fihdleated that he plans to in- Srrt^ate him concerning the ooting as soon as doctors Ay he is able to talk. Dr. Guy Odom, Duke nenro- ibrgeon who is in charge of Doctor’s Wife DesoAes Shooting As Acddentai cerery wMdd be ewflst# WIFE OPTlMIS’nC Mrs. L. R. Swift told the TIMES this week that her husband expects to returm to his practice at his office in Durham around the first of March. She said the doctor had been allowed to get up and added she was “very hap py” at reports of his pro gress. Dr. Swlift’s recovery, told the TIMES Wednesday that Swift was “doing very welL” “He’s beginning to sit ap and there is some improve ment in the paralysis whieh he suffered.” The ballcA wound caaaed what doetora believe a temporary paralyaia of some members mi the pby- sician’s left side. Dr. Odom said be would not care to comment “just now” on whether Dr. Swift’s re- aaeagli t* alWw irfai ta retarm t* Ua practtee in Darhaak ‘Wb laaek toe early te thtak 9t that It’s g^ag te take seme tkM before aay eff thia earn k« «atermlned, and I dean thisk we caa be e—csraeJ skeat It at tbe aMaMat,” Dr. Oden aaid. Deagiaa Kay ef lay and Seaa raawal heme, whe rMhad the deeter te tke hesyttal. said he received a call "beiweeai 1:30 and two O’eioek” Friday morning, and added that whca they got te the Swift heaie, tiM doctor waa lytaf i> the bathroom floor la hla pajamaa. Dr. Swift is one of Durham’s leading physicians. He enjoys a well eetablished private practice and is dilef ef Obate- triea and Gynecology at Li»- coia hospitaL He is alw active in state and natjenal ledieal affairs. He has been practicing Im Durham since the early Fer- tlea.. Virginia Refuses New Bid For Names List RICHMOND, VA Officials of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People in Virginia have turned down the state’s la test ^orts to secure the Associ ation’s lists of members and con- tribators. Contending that the legislata- tlVe committee which demanded the NAACP records had expired Njjv. i, 19^ the Virgbiia with a subpeona requiring pro duction of Association docu ments on January 27. Meanwhile it was learned that only two of the ten-man com mittee had any prior knowledge of the demand by the committee chairman, James M. Thomson. The subpoena was served on W. ■Lester Banks, executive secre- tary of the Virginia State NAACP on Jan. 21. Some mem bers of the committee, according to The Richmond Times Dis patch, agreed with the NAACP that the committee had ceased to exist. Moreover, Banics said through his attorney, Oliver W. Hill, “the scope of the demand constitutes a plain violation of rights guar anteed to the Association and its members by the First and Four teenth Amendments to the Fede ral Cp^istitution.” Previously, on Jan. 20, the Virginia State Supreme Coiu-t upheld the right of another le gislative committee to require production of the names of NAACP memtiers and contribu tors. However, the following day a special three-judge Fede ral District Court ruled that two Virj^inia laws designed to com pel disclosure of the names were Unconstitutional. NAACP lawyers in the state are now seeking, in the State Supreme Court, a stay of its mandate of Jan. 20 pending review of the issue by the United States Supreme Court. State Baptist Leaders Voice Support Of Shaw University In $$$ Campaign By R. IRVING BOONE RALEIGH Impetus was ^iven the recent ly launched fund raising cam paign for Shaw University, cur rently sponsored by the Gei\eral Baptist . State , Conventla» oA ......... fHlMM H January 16, when some fifty-odd Baptist leaders, representing cross-section of the state, as sembled in a three-hour session in the West Campus at^torlum of this hiatoric BaD||M institu tion uid wilhuiisawiiRr balled LARRY WHITE, 611 East Second Street, Charlotte, is one of two North Carolina high school juniors who will represent the state when the Williamsburg Student Burgesses convene in the historic Virginia city on Feb. 9. The Burgesses will remain in aession through Feb. 12. A new educational event for yoimg people sponsored by Colo^al Williamsburg, the Student Burgesses will bring together outstanding high school atudents from coast to cohst wiA th^ counterparts from thirty- five foreign countries to dis cuss “Democratic Leader ship in the World: A Chal lenge to Youth.” BISHOP RICHARD ALLEN , MRS. 3ARAH ALLEN Founder Of A. M. E. Church To Be Honored In Rites At St. Joseph's Tribute will be paid to Rich ard Allen, founder of the Afri can Methodist Episcopal Chiurch, at St. Joseph’s AME Church in Durham on Sund^, Feb. 9. Th8 Reverend Melvin Chester Swann, St. Joseph’s minister, said Miss Beverly %Wright will comment on the life of Allen during the regular 11 O’clock Sunday morning Service. In a statement released to the TIMES this week on the obser vance Sunday, Rev Swann said; “The beginnings of the Afri can Methodist Church' go back to the jrear, 1787 in the city of Philadelphia...Richard Allen was first founder and chief pro moter. His purpose was to pro vide a church where men might worship and have fellowship in complete freedom and eq^iality. “...The AMK church cannot be understood apart from Richard Allen.” “Richard Allen was the pri mary prophet-patron of hia race’s prayer for freedom, the t>roponent of its educational and religious betterment.^ He waa also the progwiitOr its ambi tion; the Inspiration of its en deavor. His achievements form' ed the ethically dynamic basia of his life whieh was a source of power for hia race’s perpetual upward trend.” ffllttee iw the tSMA^.'lOO drirw on behalf «f Christian educatkni. Characterized by harmony, eamestneas of purpose, and spirit of keen inter^, this meet- was described as “prophetic ofi far-reaching results toward the realization of the campaign goal, and in fur^efance of the great Cause of wliich Shaw Univer sity is a Uving SymboL’-' An address by the Reverend J. W. White of Asheville, general director of the campaign, point ing out the imi>ortanae of the drive and appealing for full- fledged cooperation, was warmly received. A motion by the Reverend H. C. Dixon of East Wilmington, president of the North-East Cape Fear S. S. Convention, endor sing the plans as presented, waa accorded enthusiastic reception and unanimously adopted. Others who spoke on the pur poses and importance of the campaign included: Preaident W. R. Strassner of Shaw Univer- (continued on page 8) MISS ELSIE AUSTIN Baha'i Leader To Address Event In Durham Sun. Miss Elsie Austin, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, will deliver a public address here Sunday at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium North Carolina College’s Educa tion Building. The address is part of a Bro> therhood Week observance. Among the sponsors are tbe NCNW, the Women’s Interna tional lor Peace and Freedom, tne 'liiational L,eague of Women Voters, and the Ba ha’i World FatOu Miss Austin, who formerly served on the National Adminia- trattve Board of tbe Baha’i World recently returned to^ the Un«i States after a four 3nea^ Stagr m AMca. In cbarga of the Suadajr after noon inrognun at NCC are Mrs. Josie PoweU, Mrs. Inex Jones, and Mrs. LudmOa Van Sombeek. Several foreign women are expected to be among the guests whokwill be honored at Brother- hoodtHea on Sunday. Tbe public is invited to attend the tea and the accompanying round table following Miss Austin’s vee^ Formerly a member of the board of directors and chairman of the Legal Committee of the NCNW, Miss Austin is a past president vt Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and a former trustee of Wilberforce State University. She holds M. A, LL3., and LL.D. degrees. An attorney by proteaaion. Miss Austin once served as As sistant Attorney General of Ohio, and consultant with the U. S. Office of Emergency Man agement, and the National Labor Relations Board. While in Durham, Miaa Au»- tin will make her headquarteia (continued on page 8) Shown hbov* k Wm CoTiacton, IttwaokM 1 receiving thh Key to the City ol DnirihuB froaa J. S. I Durham City Ceundlman, dnrlac ^ gama played at Worth CaroHih Cail>g j_ liat ^iurday night betweea tho Winatea-Salaaa the North CaroHw College Eaglea. Th* ko/ « behalf of Mayor E. J. Evawu
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