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/I ^ miwrtl iiMsgaraai-aigi Lester B. Granger, executive secretary of the Urban League chats with St. Augustine’s Col lege President Dr. James Boyer, on school’s campus following his address there. Confederate Underground Possible Is Gov’t Asleep On Bombers? BY ROBERT SPIVACK WASHINGTON, D. C. The Confederate Underground Back in the days when Joe McCarthy was running around loose in this town, it was the custom for one newspaper correspondent or another to asit President Eisenhower just what he proposed to do about the man and his methods. The President invariably shrank from any conflict with the Wisconsin windbag, although everyone “knew" that Ike dis approved of everything Mc Carthy symbolized. When McCarthy had just a- bout run his course and the fight was about two thirds over the President administer ed a couple of light blows. Ike’s press agents immediate ly began to exploit the “wis dom” of The White House strategy. It was all part of a plan, they said, to give McCar thy “enough rope to hang himself.” Well, McCarthy did just that — but along with him a lot of other innocent people ^ were also hanged. * * « * Now we are witnessing the spectacle of a group of bigots who call themselves the “Con- ifefderate Underground” going around from city to city sett ing off dynamite explosion in front of Negro Community centers and Jewish Synagog ues. It’s all part of their pro gram to drive “integrationists” out of the South. And once again we find the (Please turn to page Two) Annual Elks Convention Plans Listed The 38th annual convantion 61 the North Carolina Association of the Improved Benevolent Pro tective. Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW) will be in ses sion here May 11-14 with the Rev. Kemp P. Battle of Rocky Mount, State President, presid ing over the male lodge and Mrs._ Letitia Smith, Daughter- E 1 k PrbSflerit; HIcTtofy, Tn charge of the women’s division. Fawndale lodge No. 363, the Rev. Otis E. Dunn, president; and Rhododendron Temple No. 573, Mrs. Sallie Acker, Daugh ter Ruler, are joint hosts to the convention and have promised the dedegates a gala affair while here. The convention opens with Memorial Services Sunday at 11 A’clocfer'ln tlifi Chuirch With Stat* Chaplain Rev. Otis E." Dunn delivering the eulogy. The Civil Liberties program directe|d by Rev. A. Moseley will feature an address by grand director of civil liberties Hobson R. Rey-* nolds of Philadelphia. Sunday night a 100-voice com bined choir will join with other musical. groups in a Musical •TCon^rt ’ directed by W. T. Grimes of Rocky Mount, Asst. Grand Music Director of the Southeastern Region. Monday will feature business sessions and the address of Pres ident Battle, and Gastonia City Councilman Nat Barber will speak on Economics. Warren G. Cabaniss is director of Econom ics. Dt. lola Frazer will direct a (Please turn to page Eight) Voting Sfarts For Contest TWENTY-FOUR MORE BEAUTICIANS were nom inated this week from Greensboro and 17 from High Point in the CAROLINA TIMES BEAUTICIANS POPULARITY CONTEST which gets under way in Guilford County this week. There are/4iow a total of 92 beauticians nominated. Voting in the contest begins this week and will continue for six weeks ending at noon, June 16. All that is necessary to vote for youf favorite beautician is to clip the BLANK COUPON on page four, write in her name and mail or bring it to the office of the (CAROLINA TIMES, 436 E. Pettigrew Street, Durham or 308 N. Chestnut Street, Winston-Salem; Each vote wflf count for 5,000 POINTS and a person may vote for a beautic/an as many times as he or she desires. The blanks will be numbered each week and will be good up until WEDNESDAY AT 11:00 A. M. of the following week they appear in the paper. Blanks coming into the office after that time will not be credited to a beautician. At the close of the contest, the beautician having the highest number of points will be declared the winner of the FREE AIR PLANE ROUND TRIP to the Beauticians Nation al Convention which meets in MIAMI, FLORIDA, August 3-9. Persons wishing to secure extra copies of the CARO LINA TIMES may do so at the Half Moon Cafe on East Mar ket Street in Greensboro and at the Washington Street Phar macy on Washington Street in High Point at 10 cents per copy. Beauticians nominated up to Wednesday noon of this week are as follows: GREENSBORO Miss Inez Morehead Mrs. Willie B. Heggie Mrs. Ethel Garrett .... Mrs. Ola Giles Mrsj^ladys L^le Mrs( Elizabeth Spleman MfsuiCatherine rs. Ethel CuijmingBam ... (Please turn to page Eight) 5,000 5J000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 Can’t Find Job, Twin IMan Commits Suicide Ousted 14 Year Vetemv Father Of VOLUME 34—NUMBER 18 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958 PRICE: TEN CENTS Daisy Bates Coming To Raleigh ★ ★ ★ ★ QUIT OR BE HRED Goodloe Issues Proclamation S. C. Bid For Control Seen In Ultimatum COLUMBIA, S. C. An ultimatium to be fired or resign reportedly issued to three white Benedict College teaches ;™;‘“^ocr;t7on P^esldent^r W. this week was viewed here ^ Goodloe. qualified observers as another^ Goodloe, an executive o« move in the state s campaign Carolina Mutual Life In- Little Rock More Jobs, Homes Six Kids, Turns Shot €ni On Self WINSTON-SALEM A despondent, jobless war vet eran, William Covington of 1107 E. 2nd Street, father of six chil dren, took his own life hera Monday morning. May 5 by fir- ing*the full blast of a shot-gun into his chest. The. body was found sprawled across the door w^ of the home, by Emert V^.iams, a neighbor. The suIliw. of Covingtort brought to four the tragic death “More Jobs and Better Homea Through Life Insurance" is tha theme of National Insurance week, whose celebration was touched off nationally by a pro clamation from National Insur^ bring the private Negro colleges under state control. The ultimatium was the latest in a series of developments af- surance Company in Diirham, set aside the week of May 12-17 for the observance. . ^ ^ * t. I His proclamation explained fating the status of six teachers ^ at Allen University and Bene dict College. Five of the six are white. Or. Lewis Smith, head of the division of htunanities and pr6p fessor of English at Benedict, was quoted at saying last week that, he wag told by Benedict Prsldent Dt J. A- Bacpates that h« and hi. would have to resign day. May 6 or b« fired the next day. (Please turn to page Eight) Press Talks On Desegregation WASHINGTON A national press institute on school desegregation will be held here at the Willard Hotel on May 24 under the auspices of the Capital Press Club, it was anounced thin week. A number of journalists from across the country will take part in the program. Among other things, the participants will dis cuss ways by which the press may further help to facilitate the implementations of desegre gation. Among those who will take part are; George Schulyer, P. L. Prattis, and Robert Ratcliffe of the Pittsburg Courier; Robert L. Riggs, Louisville Courier-Jour- nal; Eustace Gay, Philadelhpia Tribune; Howard Woods, St. Louis Argus; Samuel Hoskins, Afro-American newspapers; Ed win Tribble, Washington Even ing Star; Moss H. Kendrix, pub- (Please turn to page Eight) vance is to “spotlight the impor tance of services rendered to over five million poMpyholdera throughout the country and to assist them in bringing to the' public a better understanding of the value of life insurance . . . how it can help people . . . get ' pre qi|t of the good ttainf^ q; A statement from the NIA by Winfred Bryson, Certifeid Lifd Underwriter at Morgan State College, said: “An American moves slowly in the direction of integration, many thoughtful individuals wonder how much econbmid power the Negro market would have if its funds were concen- J. W. GOODLOE In Instltutkmii ibia* ' He managed. ^*If the Negro markeit spent as large k portion of lt» income with Negro injuarance compan ies as Canadianj spent with their companies ... the Negro could pur^ase • greater command O' ver Monomic i^oods and services while he is purchasing protect ion against the loss of income.” CME's Must Face Issue Of Bishops' Service On Governing Organization At Freedom Rally RALEIGH Mrs. L. C. (Daisy) Bates, lead er of the Little Rock school de segregation movement, is sched uled to address North Carolina NAACP’s annual Fund For BYee- dom rally here on Sunday, May 18th. The rally, at which state NAACP officials hope to attract some three thousand, will be held at the Raleigh Memorial' Auditorium at three p. m. Also at the rally is expected to be the top officials of the> state NAACP organization, in cluding president Kelly M. Alex ander of Charlotte, Charles Mc Lean, field secretary; Newton L. (Please turn to page Eight) DETRIOT, MICH. . One of the major issues ex pected to face delegates to the General Conference of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church which got underway here Wednesday (May 7) is the question of the make-up of the Bench of Bishops for the next four years. According to church law, two of the denomination’s elder Bishops, the Rt. Revs. Arthur Ha'mlett and H. P. Porter, were retained on the Bench by vote of the last general conference past the retirement age. Pre - conference speculation was split as to what action might (Please turn to page Eight) School To Cite Honor Pupils The Hillside High School fac ulty and student body will ob serve the school’s annual honors! and awards day program Friday, May 9, in the school auditorium at 11 o’clock. Dr. John H. Morrow, Chair man of the French Department at North Carolina College, will deliver the principal awards day address. Students who have exemplified excellency in areas of scholar ship, athletics, and school lead- (Please turn to page Eight) Value Of Hospitals To Be Stressed Week Two of Lincoln hospital'ir nur ses, Mrs. Lnotlle Z. Williams (extreme left) and Mrs. Mildred Parker (second from right) are briefed by North Carolina Col lege Public Health Nursing Di rector Mrs. Helea Morse (seat ed) before their departure for field work on federal and state scholarships. Mrs. Williams Is di rector of Nursing at Lincoln. Others in picture are Junia Jen kins of ^eetujboro and Misa Doretta Burch of Charlotte. If a statistical check wi made of the buildings most of^en passed in Durham, Lincoln hos pital would probably rate high on the list, especially of those in the southern section of the city. Similarly, if a check wera made of the institution most of-* ten in the mind of Duriiamites, the hospital would no doubt rank far down on the list. To the average Durhamite, Lincoln Hospital is much liice the weather, to be complained of if its uncomfortable but general^ ly to be taken for granted. But to the individual who sud denly comes down with an ill ness—and to his family—Lin. coin is no longer something to be taken for granted. Quite often (Please turn to page Eight) CoIfiiis^LaiMed For Bomb iStand TAMPA, FLA. The Florida State NAACP will give “aid and 'Support” to Jacksonville Mayor Haydon Burns and Governor Lailoy Col lins in their eifforts tt discover those responsible for t)ie bomb ing of-» Jewish rentair.and aa all-Negro school in Jacksonville on April 28, the Rev. A. Leon Lowry of Tampa, state NAACP president, announced here today. He praisgd the mayor and the governor for “taking a forth right stand in organizing law enforcement officials to find out who the culprits are.” Lowry characteriased the bombings as “a stab in the back of the United States Constitu tion by culprits who have no respect for any form of law and order.” (Please turn to page Eight) coont Inr th0 weokcnd in Win^ WILLIAM COVINGTON Forget Parties PITTSFIELD, MASS. The northern Negro can and should use his vote to help fight the batle against southern seg regation, Roy Wilkins, NAAC^ executive secretary, asserted here last weeit. He maintained that a small (Please turn to page Eight) ICnL likdier Mae Covington, wifk at tke daad man and the expectant mrtlxr ot a seventh child, told a Tlmaa reporter that, ”It'» beyond aae. 1 can’t believe it. Hila rooming he didn’t seem out of tte ordinary; be seemed his usual self. Of course, be got up early aad wort into the kids’ room and got tbe gun and brought it into oar bedroom. I didn’t pay any attention to that because we were always moving things around and I didn’t Uiink we had any sMIm.” “He told me to take the baby, that was riclt, to tlw doctor and come back b7 my mother’s house on Belew» Street and stay there until he emaxm tar me. He was to go to tte U. S. employment Office and stop at B. J. Reynolds Employment Office to see if eitlier had Jcribs available.” “He seemed depressed some what for tia* last few nontiis and naturally be wouM because* we have six diildren and I’m expecting aiwtber. He hadn’t been able to find a Job since he iiad been out of the army. He was only drawing $26 per week in unemtrfoyment insurance, bu4 I didn’t think be would go tof the extr«*B».” When asked why site thought her husband was deprewed, Mrs. Covington said: “He tiad been in tbe army for 14 years where be had planned to malce a camr ot it. Recently the army devised some new L Q. test. If yew pasted, you could stay, if yon tellad, you charged. H* fidled and was dis^ ciiarged Oeeasaber 13, l^T in a rouCh pari of tbe recession (Please turn to page Bight) State Shrine Convenlion io ¥k Serious Business Witli Ught Frolic RALEIGH The state’s shriners are all set to converge on the capital city here for their tenth annual con vention May 16 and 17. Noted for thier convention hi- jinks and frolicking, the ShrBl- ers’ meeting this year will have its usual share of comedy and merriment but it will also get down to serious matters during the two-day meeting. The organization’s many so* cial welfare programs are expec ted to come under surveillance by the convention. The most widely known of the^ projects is the national TB and Cancer Fund. In recent years, it has been supported on a state level by the East-West all-star high school football game. (Please turn td page Four) St. Jrim Baptist Church mem bers are shown leaving the building (top photo) following services rededieating the struc ture last Suday. 1> bottMn pic ture, church’s paster, the Be« L. M. Gooch, (standing) addres ses congregation during iMrrlee. Slightly ever a year age, tlM iMttayed hf iiairfttt at aoariy » taint' ad IB mU Mrtl.
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