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/"■ \ Ministers Unite On Registration Proj ^ ^ ^ ' ★★★★ Blazing Oil Truck Cab Turns Into Fiery Tomb For Youth REV. D. £. MOORE CLARENCE MITCHELL REV. E. T. BROWNE DR. MARTIN L. KING REV. M. C. SWANN CHARLES McLEAN Contest Lead MRS. CAliLIE DAYE took over the top position this week in the CAROLINA TIMES. Beauticians Popularity Con test with a jump from fourth position which she held last 'week. Mrs. Daye oow has 12,900,000 points, which nearly douhles the nuiSftbier she )ra4 last we^. Twiling close behind Mrs. Daye laj&r^ 04)^ W MBk^AshfordPs heels is.JSfes. Eulai 8^1e with total of 12,470,000. ' .r With only one more we«k to go the contestants akre gird ing for the home stretch.' So close are. the top contenders running that the management of the CAROLINA TIMES would make no predictions as to who would win the free plane round trip with A week’s hotel expenses paid to the Beauticians Convention to be held in Miami, Florida in August. I It ia -believed^ however, that -the winner is going to t>e1 decided by BONUS VOTES as well as regular votes and that neither by themselves will Be sufficient to take the prize. instead of closing the contest midnight of April 13 which is on a Sunday the manager of Uie contest has decided, after conferring with several of the t(^ contestants, to close the contest at noon Monday, April 14. This announcement is made with the hope that all contestants will be governed ac cordingly. THE CLOSING TIME OF THE COM I'EST WILL POSITIVELY BE NOON MONDAY, APRIL 14, instead of midnight, April 13 as previously announced. As the contest nears t|je closing days whispeVs continue about a dark horse throwing in enough regular votes and enough bonus votes in the last week to outdo any of the pre sent top contestants and walk off with the prize. As it now stands anything can happen and the winner will not be known until the final count is made on April 14. This week’s relative standing is as follows: Mrs. Callie Daye ... Mrs. C. D. Ashford Mrs. Eula Steele . Mrs. Rosetta Harris ! Miss Daisy Carmon Mrs. Odell Leake Mrs. Beatrice Moss Mrs. Willie E. Watkins .. Mrs. Classic Brown Mrs. Ethelene Prayloe Mrs. Irene Jackson Mrs. Victoria Moore Mrs. Josephine Daye Mrs. lola Goss Mrs. Symineir E. Daye — Miss Janie pousin Mrs. Thelma Hill Mrs. Alice Payne Mrs. Esther Bland — Mrs. Julia Perry ——; Mrs. Wilher McKeithan Mrs. Pecola Jones — Mrs. EarlieGrandy Miss Ma^ Foust Mrs. Catherine Lunsford Miss Jwntez Bates — Mrs. Cora M. Byrdine Miss Daisy Hawley Mrs. Elveta Monroe Miss Rosa Henderson Mrs. Hazel McKoy Miss Blanche Scott Mrs. Notie Curry Mrs. Lillie Wells Mrs. Margaret Minor .... Mrs. Henrietta Bates ... Mrs. Pauline B. Cates Mrs. J. N. Love Mrs. Jessie Nunn Miss Lenay Williams Mrs. W. D. Jeffries — Mrs. Hattie Geer Miss Lula Hill Mrs. Estelle Freeland (Please turn to page Eight) ~/|'|00.000 '"^J'^Aooo T ?'fj5,000 J’^^0,000 — 5,960,000 5.915,000 o’«^5,000 — 3,515,000 f’£f5,000 "■ ^'990,000 — 560,000 — j.550,000 "" , ’f^5>000 jf.420,000 — ^>315,000 I ’oo^’OOO }>220,Ooo — }>220,000 ~~ ^>060,000 — 965,000 965.000 950.000 930.000 •905,000 ^05,000 ®90,000 f75,000 ^30,000 ■015,000 645.000 645.000 590.000 390.000 ^95,000 345.000 Many Leaders Of Several Faiths In Common Front Beliind Movement A rare display of interdenominational unity will be re vealed here next Wednesday when several hundred Negro ministers of different faiths gather for the Church Leaders Conference on Registering and POLITICS WAS THE TOPIC of discussion when Presidential Assistant E. Frederick Mor row, the Rev. R. A. G. Cooper, Goldsboro native and pastor of Oakland, California Cooper A. M. E. Zion Church, the Rev. Randolph and Attorney William Dixon got together for this picture. Morrow had just addressed the Convention of the North Carolina Teachers Asso ciation in Raleigh last Friday. Voting. SpaiisoXed jointly by. North Carolina interfaith leaders, the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence, the meeting is designed to instruct ministers in the techni ques for organizing their con gregations into voting units. Baptist moderators, Methodist Bishops, and other denomina tional leaders have endorsed the Durham meeting, and many are expected to take part in the in stitute. A Baptist, the Reverend Dr. Martin Cuther King has been listed as one of the main speak ers. King, who. is president of the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference, says he hopes the Durham meeting will servo as a model for such conferences throughout he South. Methodist Bishop Edgar A Love wired “One hundred per cent endorsement I'lof any move ment to get more Negroes to register and vote in North Car' olina. Ciru^dt heartiest' endorsement and sup port,” wired Bishop W. Yancey Bell of the Christian Methodist Church. Bishop Raymond L. Jones of the AME Zion Church has asked all AME Zion ministers to “de liver a message on good citizen- ship.” “I am insisting that our ministers get their congregation to register and, above all, to vote, which is our practical mes sage for the times, the bishop continued. Two Baptists, one Presbyter ian, and a Seventh Day Adven tist Church have been chosen as sites' for the four training insti tutes for ministers. These in clude White Rock Baptist Church, Ebenezer Baptist Churcy, Covenant Presbyterian Church, and the Durham Sev enth Day Adventist Church. St. Joseph’s A. M. E. Church, of which the Reverend Melvin Chester Swann is pastor, will be convention headquarters. A dinner meeting will be held' at Mt. • Vernon Baptist Church, of which the Reverend E. T. Browne is pastor; and the masS' meeting, featuring an address by the Reverend Dr. King, will be held ^t St. Mark A. M. £. Zion Church at eight p. m. Wed nesday. Reverend D. R. Hedley, pastor of the 1st Bapt. Church of Win ston-Salem and R. L. Speaks, pastor of St. Mark AME Zion (Please turn to page Eight) ■tm0 I'TheTwuth UnbbI^ed"! VOLUME 34—NUMBER 14 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958 PRICE: TEN CENTS Kids Carry Burden Of US Courts Alone Roy Wilkins S^ys Army Answer To NEW The failure of the Army to pro tect Negro students In Little Rock’s Central High School pre sents “the incredible spectacle of the. government of the United States placing the burden of en forcing the orders of 4ts courts upon the slender shoulders and "Hie 'yoUng hearts of eightrteen- age Negro students,” Roy Wil kins, NAACP executive secre tary, charges In a letter to Wal ter M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army. The partial text of Wilkins’ letter, dispatched on March 27 and made public here today, fol lows; We are in receipt oJt a letter of March 21 from Mr. John W. Martyn, written at your request, asserting that the Federalized troops around Central High School in Little Rock, Arkan sas , are not operatifg under orders to do nothing ii) the case of a disturbance except to ob serve. The record contains forty-two incidents over an eighty-day school period with mild discip linary action having been taken in only a very few cases. There trno record of action by mili tary personnel after the with drawal of the Federal troops either original or in the form of assistance to school authori ties. If this be the Army’s interpre tation, then we are confronted with the incredible spectacle of the government of the United States placing the burden of en forcing the orders of its courts upon the slender shoulders and the young hearts of eight teen age Negro students. One Acquitted, Anotlier Draws 20 Y^rs For Separate Slayings I "f" ~ ~A slashed suit of men’s cloth ing and a rusty fork figured in the outcomes of trials of two persons for murder in Durham this week. The clothing belonged to the Matthew Lee Tyson case and cost him 15-20 years jail sen tence''as the result of his con- i viction ol second degree mur der. V The fork was part of the Mar garet Tapp Howie case. The wo man won acquittal on the mur der charge. An employee of the Veterans hospital, Tyson claimed that he (Please turn to page Eight) Resignation Of Durham United Fund Director Brings Expressions Of Regret; Body Said Builder Of Amity The resignation this week of Ed Graef after ten years as di rector of Durham’s United Fund brought comments from many prominent citizens from both races on the ideal of interracial harmony which the Fund’s many ageneics and associated organi zations had developed. One observer said, “one of the by-products of the Fund’s work has been to create a solid basis for interracial harmony, based on the reality of people from' both races with common inter ests working together for a com mon purpose. “In fact,” he went on, “Thia outgrowth of the Fund’s activi ties has, been to do quietly what the interracial committee is now attempting to do openly. The resignation of Graef alsoij brought expressions of regret) and praise for his work with the Durham agency from many to the city’s top citizens. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company I*resident, W. J. Kenedy, Jr. said. “Graef’s training and exper ience in the field of-administra* tion of social agencies together with his genuine interest he manifests in the growth,and de velopment of the federation of social agencies in our commun ity, both in 'the matter of fund raising and administration, have merited the gratitude of the people of our community.” Similar statements of praise also came from Hollis Kdcns, Duke University president; John Wilson, president of Wright Machinery company; Parks Al exander, one of the heads of last year’s United Fund drive; Mary Semans, first United Fund pres ident; Dr. James Seman, presi dent of the United Medical Re search of North Carolina; Hal Crain, 1955 campaign manager for the Fuild; HenrJ^ Stoever, manager of the Durham Ameri can Tobacco company operations and a Fund vice president; and Harmon Duncan, president ol television station WTVD. Graef is leaving the city on May 1 to accept a job with Pittsburg, Pa. social agency. SAM JONES, Boston Celtics rookie, proved his worth to the professional Boston basketball team last Sunday when he came off the bench for a stirring 16 point, all-over-the court performance to lead the Celtics to victory in the second of a seven game championship series with the St. Louis Hawks. In his rookie year with the Celtics, Sam has seen 594 minutes of action in 56 of the Celtics’ 72 games, scored 190 field goals out of 233 attempts for a 42.8 average, sunk 60 of 84 foul shots, grabbed 160 rebounds, and scored a total of 260 points for a 4.6 points per game average. He was rated as one ol the best all around players to come from North Carolina College. AnottierDies As Vehicle And Train Collide RALEIGH A blazing fuel oil truck cab, smashed and twisted from a col> iision with a three car paasen* ger train, became a. fiery tomb for a nme or 10 year eld youth here late Tuesday aftemon. Juniotis Hester, a passenger in the truck loaded withi,076 gal-> Ions of inflammable fuel oil, was burned to death trapped inskle the truck cab after it coUided with a Southern west bound C^oldsboro-Greensboro train at a South Blount street crosing. The accident occured about 5:30 p. m. Driver of the truck, 18 yea® old Charles Arvin who wa4 pinch-tiitting for his father, alsa died in the wreck. He waa thrown clear ol the truck on impact but bis body was char red by exploding fire wiiich en veloped the area following th« crash. Police reported tiiat the train's engineer, C. R. McClin- tak, said the truck crashed into tiie oncoming train after pulling around a car wtiich bad stopped at the crossing. Early Wednesday, the car had not been located by police, how ever. Hester’s body waa removed from the twistad, burned out truck cab oply after several minutes when firemen replaced the truck’s inflammable contents with water. Minutes belQK |he accident* . the two youngsten bad super vised the loaiSng of kwoMtlfr, high test and regular gas from the Sinclair OU company load ing platform, adjacent to thek railroad tracks. Young Arvin, substituting for his father who delivers fuel foe Sinclair on a commission basis, ■had been working after school for six months at the firm’s ~Bk>ont striiet uperatiuus, a'^plank official said. Tarheel Prelate I To Address Outdoor Service SUMMIT, N. J. The Rt. Rev. Herbert Bell Shaw, presiding Bishop of tbei sixth AME Zion district, ia scheduled to address the anmin| Easter Sunrise service of Ber-> gen County, largest outdootf Easter service in the east. It was axuiounced here thto week. The service has attracted crowds up to 20,000 on the New Jersey hillsides in past years. Sunday morning’s service is ex* pected to draw some 14,000. A resident of Wlfanington. N. C. Bishop Sliaw will b« the first Negro to address the famed out door sunrise service. Last Respects Paid To Handy, Blues Composer, And Mrs. A. B. Spingam NEW YORK National leaders paid tribute to two outstanding Americans who died last week. W. C. Handy, 84 year old “father ol the blues,” died at Syndenham hospital here Friday after a brief bout with pheu- monia. Messages of regret came from national figures all over the country as well as outstanding musicians. Included among those sending messages were Presi dent Eisenhowef and Mayor Robert Wagner. A wire also came from the NAACP. Dignitarias were also iM-esent and sent messages to the funer al ol Mrs. Arthur B. Spingam, held in a private service here on March 24. She was the wife ol NAACP president Arthur Spingam. Worthy's Visa Bid Rejected NEW YORK, N. Y. The American Civil Ijiberties Union disclosed today that Se cretary ol State Dulles finally had rejected the passport appli cation ol newsman William Worthy, Jr. The civil libertira group said that a suit to regain the pass port promptly will be filed in the Federal District Court TIMES Publisher Among Speakers At Press Talks L. E. Austin, publi^ier of thQ Carolia« TIaMS, Ourtuuaa, NL C., will deliver the principal ad-* dress during the honor awards ceremonies at the Third Annual Caaspaa Beha Publics tion^ Con ference at North Carolina Col> lege on April 11. The conference begins at t o’clock in the Commoce Build* inc a^ NCC. Widely known and in demand aa a spaakar, editorials have hMB qa reprinted in throughout the coi newqwpar, tba rirwliMi widely heralded Igr i edltortal pidlcy, (Plaaaa turn to
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