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Fllffi STATION BIDf “LAGGI ★ ★ ★ it ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ More Expecte(UDCO]SA ★ ★ ★ ASSOCIATION SCEN^i-^The dinner table spread under a shady arbor is a familiar scene to church-goers in t^e New Hope Missionary Baptist Association* Here delegates to this year’s Association, 88th in the organization’s histoi^, ar« shown taking part in thl|8 lighter side of the Association’s activities. Shiloh Baptist Church at Morrisville served as host for the convention last Wednesday and Thursday. I VIM nevvsss fAKI^ th(» Mission«ryJ^aptiBt.Ai4eslj|tienV SKth meeting last Wednesday and Thojrsday at ^iloh Baptist Ch^h near Morrisville show officers of th« Association and members of tlie Woman’s) Auxllltiry. Officers of the organization, pictured at top, are, front row, Mrs. A. L. Filmore, president of the Woman’s Auxiliary; Sfri. Alma Lasviter, vice-president of the Auxiliary; the Rev. J. -H. Manley, vice-moderator of the Association; the Rev. James Stewart, moderator; Dr. C. E. McLester and Dr. M. M. Fbher. Sccoad row, same order the Reverends L. W. Reid, George Bige low,/N. A. Trice, f. R. Burt, J. H. Jones, host pastor; and Dolphus Clark. Third row, left to right, ar« T. R. Speight, member of the banking committee; R. N. Whitmore, member of the executive board; W. A. Mayo, executive board member; the Rev. W. H. Fuller, auditor; and 'the Rev. C. L. Lassiter. At bottom are shown members of the Woman’s Auxiliary Alabama's $160,iWO Contempt Fine Against NAACP Is Lifted By Ruling Of The li. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, D. C. The United States Supreme Court Monday set aside a $100,000 contempt fine lev ied against the NAACP by an Alabama jurist for the organization’s refusal to Real Estate Men Meet In Raleigh Sat. The annual nte^ing of the Carolina |Real Estate and Buil ders Association will be held in Raleigh next Saturday, July 12, according to a press statement this week from W. P. Diggs, publicity chalrmanfor the or- ganlzation. Dlgg's' statament said thd meeting will be open to all pet-i sons Interested in real estate and “its importance to the security of the family today." Registration for the meeting is scheduled for ten o’clock Saturday morning at the Blood- worth Street YMCA. One of the primary purposes' of CREBA, Diggs said, is to channel information concerning real estate matters to membersf of the organization. The statement also revealec{ that the assoolatlon is In the (jiidst of a membership drivei. scheduled to end on Dec. 31. “It is hoped that the member ship will have increased by JtOOii percent by that time,” Dlgga said. “Anyone interested in join ing Should write Carolina Reai £stat^ and Builders Association in care of W. P. Diggs at 814 FayettejirlUe Sfc” he concluded. produce membership lists, jfustice John M. Harlan, speaking for the court, said Alabama cannot force the NAACP to produce its membership Hsts because such lists are immune to state scrutiny under the 14th amendment. MONTGOMEHY, Ala. The State of Alabama's suit against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been postponed pen ding a ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court on whether Cirr cult Court Judge Walter B. Jones should' be disqualified from hearing the case. Postponement of the case fol lowed argument before the Su preme Court on June 24 on a petition for a writ of mandamus filed by Robert L. Carter, NAACP general counsel, and NAACP attorneys Arthur D, Shores of Birmingham and Fred Gray of Montgomery. Previously, on June 20, thg NAACP had sought to have judge Jones disqualify himself on the ground of prejudlcei against the Association. Assert ing that he had “neither bias for the state or ijrejudice against the respondent,” Judge Jones re fused to withdraw and ordered the trial to proceed oyer the vigorous objections of NAACP counsel. Questioned by Carter, the judge admitted that during his campaign for re-election in the spring, he had made attacks upon the Association including the statament that he would de liver a blow from which the NAACP would “never recover.” Nevertheless, he maintained that he was “legally indifferent.” Judge Jones is the same judg^ who held the Association in con tempt in June, 1956, and levied; a $100,000 fine against it for Its refusal to turn over to the state the names and addresses of NAACP members and contribu tors in Alabama. The Assocla- (continued on page 8) Bombings In Georgia And Ala. Continue Bombings of Nefrro hwne* and chnrcbes in the deep Sooth eontlnoed this wetk with blasts at BlrmfaiglMni and Colombas, Ga. A bomb exploded early 8u|l- day, shattering windows uid cracking plaster of tlie Rev. r. L. Shnttlesworth’s Bethel Bap tist Chnreh and damaging home next to the chnrch. An explosion at' Cohiaibas early Tuesday blasted a Nigro home on the fringe of a wiitte neighborhood. No wie was InJniM in the two exptoiteas, altl^gh ttlHiB ha— fas Oii|i»b«SrJii^o«M0. pied b>y Mrs. Esale M. illlson,i an Army sergeant, liis wife and their two childrea. Police say the dyna^aite was thrown into the home around 1Z:30 Tuesday morning. Mrs. EllisoB said she booght tte home ia April fifom a white owner and moved in a month ago. The Bombing of* Rer. Slmt- tlesworth’s chnrch was the second dynamiting of the church in leas than two years. No arrests have been made In the bombings. Duncan Given Welcome At Livingstone SALISBURY Dr. S. E. Duncan, newly elect ed president, lilvingstone Col lege, the/- capstone of education for the A.M.E. Zion Church, formally took over his duties here Tuesday, 11:00 A.M., after a brietf welcome ceremony by the faculty of the Sununei* School and Dr. W. J. Trent, whom he succeeds. The ceremonies took place outside the office of the presi dent when members of the facul ty, bearing placards, with varied welcome greetings on them. Dr. Trent, who was named president-emeritus, upon his re tirement, in 1957, spoke for the group and told how pleased he (continued on page 8) Applications for firemen’s jobs at the new fire station on Fayetteville Street to be manned by a Negro crew were lagging hre this week, according to L. B. Frasier, chaiiman of the Civic Conunittee of the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs. In a statement to the TIMES, Frasier urged “all jronng men between the ages of 20 and 30 who are desirous of becoming firemen for the city to file applications with Chief C. L. Cox of the Durliam Fire Department im mediately.” / He pofaited out tliat appHcatioas fluwM letter and addressed to Chief Cox. Frasier said that early expectatlMa wards of 75 or more applicants would IS* station jobs. Only 3t or 4t have s* te ta he said. Recently completed at Fayetteville aai MmAL the new foe station, no four, was locatoi !■ flw *5* section after a long period of campaigeieg hf Am Oii^ ham Committee on Negro Affairs. I VOLUME 34—NUMBER 27 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1958 PRICB: TSN ca&RS Go Slow, CR Head Says MRS. LUCILLE Z. WILLIAMS (extreme left), superintendent of nurses at Lincoln Hos pital, beams with pleasure as she accepts from Mrs. E. B. Pratt one of a lot of thermo wa ter pitchers presented the hospital last week by Durham’s Alpha Zeta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Looldng on with AKA Basileus Mrs. Pratt are Sorority members Mrs. L. I. Riddick and Mrs. R. E. Lewis, members of the organization’s health cotamiftee whicB sponsors a preseHtattgg to the hospital animally. The sorority the hospital with water pitchers.for each private aAd semi-private room. NAACP's 49th Convention To Be Concerned With Many Of Problems Which Beset First Meeting CLEVELAND, Ohio. When the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People held its tenth annual, convention here in 1919 there were 285 delegates from 34 states. Attendance at the 49th annual convention which opens in the Public Auditorium here next Tuesday (July 8)>ls ex pected to exceed 1,000 delegates from 40 stated. The 1919 meeting was the first national convention of the Asso ciation in Ohio. The organiza tion returned to Cleveland in 1929 and met in Cincinnati in 1936. The convention has not since met in this state. At the earlier meeting in Cleveland and, to a lesser ex tent, at the second convention here in 1929, the prime concerni of the delegates was how td combat the crime of lynching. In 1919, there were 83 victims of this crime, including 4 white persons and 2 Mexicans. By 1929, the number was down to 12. Not since the 1930s havo Ijmchings been a major topic at an NAACP convention, due toi the decline of the crime as the result largely of a sustained an^ militant NAACP campaign to rid the nation of that evil. Desegregation, No. 1 Problem Of prime Interest to the dele gates meeting here next week will be the drive to accelerate desegregation of public schools in the South and efforts to en large the Negro vote. The Inten sified desegregation drive of its recent origin dating back tp May 17, 1954iWhen the United States Supreme Court handed down its historic decision banning segre gation In public education. Thurgood Marshall, the attor-i ney who has led the court battle for civil rights, will speak on the legal aspects of the Fight for Freedom, The Spingam Medal, awarded tmnually to a Negro American for distinguished achievement, will l>e presented to the nine children who broke the color, line at Little Rock’s Central High School last S^t., and to Mrs. L. C. Bates, their mentor, and president of the Arleansas State Conference ot NAACP units. Delegates AUGUSTA, Ga. Kappa CHiapter of Augusta. Georgia and Theta Chapter of Aiken, S. C. will co-host the annual Boule of Tau Gamma Delta Sorority which will con vene in Augusta, August 14-16. Attending from Lambda Chapter of Durluun will be Sorors Evelyn Gilliard, Ruth G Reaves, chapter basileus; L. M Harris, Southern Regional Di rector; and Lizaie M. Crews. Barksdale Leaves N. C ColleflelPost DR. BARKSDALE Dr. William Harrison Brown, a specialist in evaluation, test ing, and human relations, will become dean of North Carolina College’s Graduate School on September 1. North Carolina College Presi-i dent Alfonso £Uder said last week his nomination of Dr. Brown to succeed Dr. Richard K. Barksdalei the retiring dean, is subject to approval of t^^e col lege’s trustees. A native of At lanta and holder of B.S. and M.S. degrees from Atlanta Uni versity, Dr, Brown earned his] Ph.D. at Ohio State University. Dr/Barksdale, )he first full time dean of the NCC Graduate School, is resigning to become chairman of the Department of English at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. He received his A.B. at Bowdoln College, and master’s degrees from Syracuse and Harvard Universities. His Ph.D. was also earned at Har vard. Both Dr. Barksdale and Dr. Brown came to NCC in 1949. Dr. Brown, professor of educa tion, was later named director ol the Bureau of Educational' Re search * and Dri Barksdale, pro- fessor of English, became chair man of the Provisional Graduate Faculty. As chairman of the Pro visional Graduate Faculty, Dr. Barksdale served as assistant to br. William Watley Pierson, dean of the University of North Carolina Graduate School and acting ^ear\_9f the NCC graduate unit. Dr. Brown is author of some 50 articles on testing, evaluatior^ and human relations. He serves on several national educational research committees, and is cur rently coordinator of the Phelps Stokes Project on 'TmprovementI of Instruction.” In 1957, Dr. Brown was Leo Franklin Memorial Lecturer at Wayne State University in l>e- troit. Prior to Joining the NCC staff, he tau^t high school science and mathematics in Ralefgli;' Knoxville, Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga. Aftwwards, he taught at Alabama State College, At^ta University and Speknan College. For a time Dr. Brown was a re search associate at Otiio State University. DK. BBOWH IMt Will Not Enter Atk. Case EAST LANBBVG. KCH. ‘*You can’t main haste aod successful," Civil lUgtits Om- mission ciialmuui Gordosi Ttf* fany said here tills w«A la an* nouncing tiM organintlBB's In^ tentlons to stay out of the littla Rock icliool integratiaa prob lem. •. He disclosed tbat tte com* missioa decided aAer rcvftewtng the June 21 order of Pedan4 Judge Harry Laml^f aat to terfere” with t^ Jaigtfa ocdsr suspendtaig intqmttai at thq Aricansas iciiaal tor two and eaa lialf years. “We don’t intent i» hitarim' with legal procedares.’* ha 4 A Jonner Nnr stat« atfcowr Geticr^' said the commiMldtf had re> ceived enthuaiastic teapoMM ta its work, iNit addtjt inteiiMH to treed softly Ut fWda o4 anti-discriminatk* mdkm. Publishers Hear. na Official, i Cite Colleagues FHUJkXmJPBXA, Pa. The story of tha natiipa o4 Ghana was tooo^it to tlM atte»« tion of Negro pnea bgr that country's Antibaawdor to tiha United States, DaaM A. dtaix man, during u ktteraatkmd banquet last week tn Philad* piiia. Speaking before tfie Natipna] Newspaper PuUirihera Aaaoci- ation at Hotel Beetamin Frank* Un, Ambasssdoa Obapman gava to his audience, hiciuded. in addition, to tha press, repre* sentatives of forelpi d^lomatia corps, officials oC Mfe city an4 state, and well-kiMfWn dtiaens, a firstiusid accoqad of lUs na tion’s deshres and Aipiratkins. Gliana, one of the newesi memlMn at tha British Com* monwealth and tlil member of the United Natioaik is ktcated tn the east of Liberia On the West Coast ol Africa. B bas an esti mated populatkm « 4,691,000 and an area of tM43 sqnara miles at tVftlory. Ittch in mine ral wealth. iwangartjUr, gold and bauxite. GlMna’s edl^orts incinda the above items, cocoa and dia monds. It imduees S5 to 40 pea cent of dw world’s cocoa outpirt. Mrs. Daisy Bates, co-publirties of Tha Arinnsas (Uttie Rock> State Press, and Alex Wilson, Memidiia (Tenn.) IH-State Da- fender, wsra igsakfrs and honorees at the aesodatlaeM awards dbmer. Hwit rtfHnai| went to The Oevalead Call and Port. The PIttstNtfth Oamim Journal and GuidOk I i iiilllrtt Defender. Loiliiliaii WntOr, The Chicago miwrlsij Um Angelea Seatinel, linian. Ohio iTtnttMd. and SUte Nm>A year at* president Courier Carter, vica: NaivUe Louii Axttm-
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