TO MODEL VOTE OAN^GN
HIGH STEPPER shown here is Joanne Dark who will repre
sent Carver Consolidated School in the second Majorettes
Clinic to be held in Winston-Salem Saturday. Inset is Valeria
Eccles, also from Carver, who^ will take part in the affair,
which is expected to attract high school band majorettes from
throughout the state. — Staff Photos by Miller.
Big Vote For
Beauticians
Voting in the CAROLINA TIMES Beauticians Popular
ity Contest w^s heavier this week than it has been since the
opening^, So neavy was the voting that the management of
the paper found it necessary to call in extra help to assist in
tabulating the avalanche of coupons and bonus ballots that
flooded the office up until noon Wednesday.
\Vlth only two more weeks to go, there were indications
that the voting during that time would be even heavier. One
beautician made a most significant statement this week
when she said, “I may not win, but I am going to run fast—
and run ail the way.”
This Week’s coupon is No. 4, and persons voting for their
favorite beauticians dre urged tofiet tl^eir |;)aIlots in ^he mail
or crfftce the CAROLINA 43Q SI,
before noon next week. BONUS VdfES may be maiU|[lbr
brought in at any time up to the close of the contests|M-
night, April 13.
This week finds MRS. EULA STEELE still clinging tp
the lead and Mrs. Callie Ashford up from sixth place to Sec
ond, a position held last week by Mrs. Callie Daye. Mrs. Daye
is now in fourth place.
The most sensational gain this week was that made by
Mrs. Rosetta Harris of Roxboro who advanced from 37th
pl«€e-t» third. ■ fa Mrs. Harris the dark horse that has been
expected to appear on the scene?
All contestants who had a standing of less than 100,000
votes were discontinued in this week’s listing. The relative
standing of contestants this week is as follows:
Mrs. Eula Steele 6,675,000
Mrs. C. D. Ashford .c 6,485,000
Mrs. Rosetta Harris 5,590,000
Mrs. Callie Daye jl 5,405,000
Mrs. Odell Leake 5,275,000
Mrs. Beatrice Moss : 3,9.')5,000
Miss Daisy Carmon 3,975,000
Mrs. Willie E. Watkins , : , 3,645,000
Mrs. Ethelene Prayloe : 2,745,000
Mrs. Classie Brown 2,405,000
Mrs. Josephine Daye : ■..2,005,000
Mrs. Victoria Moore ?. 1,750,000
Mrs. lola Goss '.1,745,000
Miss Janie Cousin 1,560,000
Mrs. Alice Payne : 1,545,000
Mrs. Thelma Hill 1,520,000
Mrs. Syminer E. Daye 1,340,000
Mrs. Julia Perry _1,315,000
Mrs. Willier McKeithan 1,220,000
Mrs. Pecola Jones 1,160,000
Mrs. EarlieGrandy * 1,160,000
Mrs. Irene Jackson 1,145,000
Mrs. Catherine Lunsford
MiSs Mary Foust
Miss Montez Ba^es
Miss ;Blanche Scott
Mrs. Esther Bland
Mrs. Elveta Monroe
Mrs. Notie Curry
Miss Rosa Henderson
Mrs. Henrietta Bates
Mrs. Hazel McKoy
Mrs. Margaret Minor
, 1,035,000
1,015,000
915,000
915,000
905,000
905,000
890,000
- 875,000
875,000
875,000
875,000
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New Dance Fad Helps
Tennessee Win NAIA
NASHVILLE, TENN.—“The Stroll,” a popular new dance fad, Was credited with help
ing to make Tennessee State the National Basketball Chdm^ions for the second straight
year. ,
The assist Coach John B. McLendon’s cagers received from the dance was recounted by
Tiger ace Richard (Skull) Barnett before an enthusiastic victory celebrating crowd which
greeted the Tennessee team on its arrival from Kansas City,
Barnett revealed that the team built up its spirits before each game by singing and
doing the “Stroll.”
The “Stroll" has been des-
J. ERNEST WILKINS, Presidential Assbtant, h pictured above (third from left) with efrfc
leaders of Durham who presented him with key to the city during his visit here last week.
Left to right are R. N. Harris, school board memi^r and former City Coancilman; Am T.
Spaulding, North Carolina Mutual ex«cntive who introduced Wilkins to a Durham aad Ba*
leigh audience; Wilkins; Mayor E. J. Evans, who presented key; and J. S. Stewart, Council*
man bnm the Third Ward.
cribed by soihe dance experts
as a modernized version of the
“Square Dance,” set to a Rock
and Roll beat.
More than 2,000 wildly cher
ing students and fans greeted
the two-time NAIA national
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Query Florida's
Putting NAACP
In Riot Act
NEW YORK
A recemt order ' of Florida
Governor Leroy Collins instruct'
ing sheriffs in his state to ban
Ku Klux Klan demonstrations
calculated to incite riot or dis
order was hailed last week by
NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins, who asserted that
tl}e order tould not logically be
ccmstrued to apply to the NAA
CP which operates by lawful
and peaceful means.
In a telegram to the governor
dated March 14, Wilkins noted
thftt Collins’ order to sheriffs
included the NAACPr
Such an inclusion “implies
th4t we, like the Klan, have a
record of disorder and mob ac
tion outside the law,” thes NAA-
official not^d.
nor that the NAACP will cmi-
tinue its “usual activities” in
Florida and asked the state of
ficial to “clarify your instruct
ions sq that an individual sher
iff may not interpret them as
permitting him to prevent legal
and orderly assemblies and
other activities of this Associa
tion in various localities in Fla."
Florida Probe
Body Attacked
NEW ORLEANS, LA
Aubrey W. Williams, presi
dent of the Southern Confer
ence Educational' Fund, Inc.,
has charged that the commit
tee of the Florida state legis
lature, headed by Charley
Jones is fundamentally viola
tive of law and the Constitu
tion of the United Statea and
of the duties of good citizen
ship.
“The legislature which cre
ated the committee,” Wil
liam stated in a letter to Flor
ida ^itors, “went far beyond
the limits of constitutional
power to pass legislation for
the purpose of nullifying that
decision.
“Therefore, we do not be
lieve that the committee is in
vestigating facts for the pur
pose of carrying out proper
le'gislative duties, but is mere
ly undertaking to embarrass
certain individuals and groups
in order to frighten them out
of their efforts to support
and obey the law of the land
as stated by the Supreme
Court.
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Race Asked Ta
Rally To Victims
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VOLUME 34 — NUMBER 13
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1958
PRICE: TEN CENTS
FRED TAYLOR
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MRS. TAYLOR
Mrs. Lillief Mae Taylor waived
preliminary hearing Tuesday
morning in Recorder’s Court
and was bound over to the grand
jury on the charge of murder.
She is out on bond of $1,000
pending the jury’s investigation
of the murder of Fred J- Taylor,
29 years old American Tobacco
Company employee.
According to investigating po-^
lice, the couple were engaged
in a whiskey party at her home,
(Continued on Page eight
Boycott Of Seven
Stores Sought
By Jobs Group
The natwn’a capital, rnora
one half populated by Ne-
groqp appeared all set or a on€t
day boycott of seven designated
stores who have refused to meet
requests of a committee seeking
employment of Negro personnel.
'^ursday was the target day
for a comjJete boycott of the
seven stores by the Committee
-oiv E^ual Employment Oppor^
tunities.
Efforts to negogiate or stall
the boycott were fruitless early
this week. The Rev. E. Franklin
Jackson, chairman of the jobs
committee, said his organization
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Founder's Event
At Fayetteville
FAYETTEVILLE
The annual Founders’ Day
Celebration at the Fayettqville
State Teachers College is set for
SuiMay, April 20, accoring to
Dr. Rudolph Jones, President.
The occasion will draw many
alumni and former students to
see the improvements that are
being made; predicted Orlande^
F. Hudson, principal of the Leo
nard Street School in High
Point, and President of the
General Alumni Assoiation.
Dr. J. Vard Seabrook, Presi
dent Emeritus of the College,
will be the principal speaker.
Dr. Seabrook serv^ the college
for a period of 34 years — elev
en as dean and twenty-three as
President of the College.
A full program of activities
has been planned.
TIMES '"'ENS HOUSE
Residents of the area have been invited to
inspect THE CAROLINA TIMES newly ren^
ovated nUnn office building mid neuly in$ttdl-
ed equiffneiUfd an **OPEN HOUSE** to be
Induded in the renovation teas the opening
of a gecond floor.
A Duplex press, installed in February, made
the renovations necessary. The press has been
used to print the TIMES since early February.
The building will be open to the public from
12 noon until nine p. m. on April 4.
Dr. Martin King To Address Meet
On Methods For Vote Drive April 9
Durhaih, has h^en chosen as
the site for the first conf^ence
on registration and voting, a
drive being spearheaded among
Southern Negroes by religious
leaders and officials of the NA
ACP. The meeting has been set
for April 9.
According ^ the Reverend
Douglas E. Moore, local drive
co-chairman, the Durham meet
ing will bring together several
hundred ministers in North Car
olina for the purpose of “conse
crating and preparing thmselves
for a new dimension In Christ
ian reponsibillty."
A goal of 250,000 ne^w Negro
voters in North ■ Carolina has
been set.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Lu
ther King, president of the
sponsoring Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, has been
listed as one of the principal
speakers.
Dr. King, who won fame in
his leadership of the Montgom
ery, Alabama, bus boycott, said
at his home this Week that he
hopes the meeting in Durham
will serve as a model for similar
“crusades for citizenship” to be
conduct^ among Negroes
throughout the South.
Interdenominational in scope,
the Durham crusade has l>een
endorsed by all of the major re
ligious denominations among
Nqgrow in North Carolina. Sev
eral planning seasfons ''in Dur-
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MEMPHIS, TENN.
The hope that Negro citizens
of Tennessee “will rush to con
tribute to the rebuilding of he
(boml>ed) Jewish center in
Nashville” 'was tfapressed by
Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive
secretary, in an address prefiar-
ed here Friday at a mass meet
ing of the Memphis branch of
the’ Association.
Unrestrained violence against
Negroqs stems from defiance of
law and order and leads inevit
ably against others, Wilkins
pointed out. Those who preach
defiance of the Supreme Court
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Do Nothing Orders
Denied By Army
N*W YORK
The Pentagon lias denied
“that the federalized troops on
duty in Central High School (In
Little Rock) are operating un
der orders to do nothing in the
case of a disturtiance, except to
observe.’’
The Army position was set
forth in a letter to Uoy wukins,
executive secretary of the Nat
ional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
who previously bad reported ta
Wilbur M. Bruckor, Secretary
of the Army, that he had receiv
ed information from Little Rock
“that the soliders on duty at tha
school are said to be operating
under order to do iMtUag in the
case of a disturbance, except ta
observe it.”
In his letter, of March 14,
Wilkins cited 42 incidents of
harassments, intimidations and
violence directed against Negrd
students attending Central High
School by 30 identified white
students within a period of 80
school days.
Replying through his admin
istrative assistant, John W.
Martyn, on March 21, Secretary
Brucker made no reference to
these incidents. Hovvenrer, the
Army de^red, tlw report tfaal
the troops were operating under
“do nothing” order “is not cor
rect.”
BEST HIGH SCHOOL typists in the state are
pictured here with prizes they received after the
state-wide contest held in which they were select
ed, their teachers and NCTA officials who spon
sored the event at North Carolina College. Left
to right are John V. Turner, North Carolina Col
lege professor who served as chairman for the con-
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test; Beverly Davis, Rocky Mount; Barbara Walk
er, Burlington; £inwood Ward, Washiiigton; Miss
Mildred Harris, Washington; Ruby Hagan, Rocky
Mount; Montrose Johnson, Reidsville; Argretta
Honor, Wise; Miss M. L. Armond, Wise; Harriette
John^n, Fayetteville; Thomasanne Wilfcins, Rop
er; Valeria Lynch, Enfield; Mrs. Mitchell, Enfield;
and Dr. L. J. Harrison, chairman of the host^North
Carolina College Commerce Department.
Valeria Lynch won first place among stu
dents with three semesters or more of typing;
Argretta Honor was first in the two semesters
class, and Linwood Ward won, top honors in the
first semester typists.
Coming Age Requires Faith,
Government Aide Asserts
The coming age of automation
and scientific advance will re
quire living by a “Philosophy of
Faith,” a Presidential aide said
in a speech at Raleigh last week.
In his speech to Shaw stud
ents, Wilkins said that with he
age of automation and scientific
advance has come also a period
of stresses and strains m thq
He was J. Ernest 'Wilkins, t personal and social relations of
holder of the highest la^y office ^people all over the country
in the Methodist Church and
highest placed Negro in the Eis
enhower administration.
Wilkins was in the area for
two appearances last week. He
spoke before a subscription ban
quet at North Carolina College
Thursday nght for the Durham
Business and Professional Chain.
On Friday, he spoke to Shaw
University students.
Later Friday, he returned to
Durham and was guest of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance firm. ^
A new age cannot be manned
by maladjusted citizens. A rem
edy for our emotional and psy
chological disturt>ances can be
prescribed by. an Cturistian by
referring to the teachings of the
Bible — the Philosophy of
Faith,” the world Methodist
leader said.
He told Shaw students they
must devote themselves to the
pursuit of pure science* “lor li^
the coming world you will (ind
no color problems If you pre
pare yourselves in the scientific
area. The world will take you
on the basis of your qualifica
tions rather than of your race.*^
The hope for a better world
of the future^ he said, rested up
on the dedication el all people
to make “our country and' the
free world a place where social
justice, human brotherhood and
faith in our creator will r^gq
ov*jr all.”
Wilkins, a practking atorhegfl
in Chicago, is the Cither of thrna
sons aU of whom are described
as pofiwssing genitia nMataUly,
His oldest son, J. Krnest,
earned a Ph.D. d^pee ftwu tMk
University of Chicago at
a physicist with i Mew
firm Two other soat Miteted
Univervity of WlwtHrin. al
and 15.