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TAYLOR UNRUFFLED
BY GOVERNOR
Gives Rebuttal
loGov. Hodges'
Press Remarks
FIRST PLACE WINNER IN THE CAROLINA TIMES MINISTERS POPULARITY CONTEST, Bishop S. M. Ceassr and
his wife, are shown (center foreground) with members of the Bishop’s chiirch as the couple prepared to enplane from
Winston-^alcm for a ten day vacation in B ermuda, first prize in the TIMES contest.
H'^niETRUTH UNBRiS^
North Carolina College’s
James T. Taylor appeared un
perturbed this week following
criticism from Gov. Hodges over
the fact that he made public a
request that the Governor re
commend a change in the dis
bursement of the state’s escheat
money.
Hodges had rebuked Taylor
fa- his press conference last
lihursday for releasing to the
press a letter he had sent the
Governor asking that the present
policy of alloting all escheat
money to the University *of
NpVth Carolina be changed to
permit all of the state supported
jLnstitutions of higher learning
to, share the fund.
(continued on page 8)
J. T. TAYLOR
Durham Group At Kerr Lake
Hadn't Expected To Cause Stir
Members of a picnic party
from a 'department of. the
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company expresied
surprise this week at the stir
which their trip to the govern
ment-owned Kerr Lake recre
ation preserve aroused.
Some 110 persona frem Dnr-
ham and Raleigh Joameyed U»
Satterwhite Point, one of the
recreation areas In tlie hnge
7.SM square miles Jeliii H.
Kerr Dam site in the Beanoke
basin Saturday aftemeon for
a picnic given by tbe Matui’s
Ordinary department
POISON SUSPECfED IN DEATH
VOLUME 34—NUMBER 33
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 16. 1958
PRICE: TEN CENVB
NAACP
Secretary Denies
7 Year Delay Edict
ROY WILKINS
Capital Set
To Receive
Elks Confab
DRAWS FIRE
FROM JACKIE
In a hiimeographed copy of «
letter to the New York Times
circulated to the press this week,
Roy Wilkins, eecretary of the
NAACP, denied a New York
Times story quoting him as ap
proving Judge Hutcheon’s order
to delay the start of integration
in Prince Edward County, Vir
ginia schools for seven years.
The Times story brought sharp
criticism of the NAACP secre
tary from NAACP board mem
bers Jackie Robinsoa^and Judge
Hubert Delaney this week,
i Wilkins’ letter, addressed to
the TIMES city editor, explained
how his comments on the de
cision resulted from a misunder
standing and asked the TIMES;
to correct the error.
According to Wilkins letter,
the TIMES asked him for a com
ment on the decision, informing
him that the judge’s order read
that integration be completed by
1965.
With that understanding, Wil
kins said he told the TIMES “we
might give a statement of re
gretful acquiescence rather than
one of condemnation.”
On the same afternoon, Wil
kins went on to say, he' saw a
story in another newspaper
which said ^the Judge ordered
the start of Integraticm delayed
until 1965. He said he immedi
ately called the JIMES and told
them that if integration were to
begin rather than be completed
by 1965, his statement of ap
proval wfiuld be “foolish and
should not be carried.”
WASHINGTON, D. C.
"All things are ready. Come”
is the word from Herbert Ei
Jones, general chairman, and his
several coihmittees who are ar
ranging the entertainment for
the thousands of visiting Bills
arid Daughters of the Improved
Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks of the World (IBPOEW)
expected here August 23-30 for
the 60th annual convention of
the Order made famous by the
late J. Finley Wilson.
. Morning Star Lodge No. 40
and Columbia Lodge No. 85,
with their respective Temples,
are joint hosts to the interna
tional fraternal group which
boasts a membership of near
700,000.
The convention opens with a
pilgrimage Saturday, August 23,
to the famed John Brown Fum
located 60. miles west in the Wes#
Virginia - Maryland momtains president
for a dedicatory service. I^is is Carolina»^eachers
in recognition of the great abo
litionist who captured the fede
ral arsenal at Harpers Ferry,
Va., (now West Virginia) in an
abortive attempt to free the
slaves in 1859-for which he
(John Brown) was later hanged
alot\g with 21 others. The
IBPOEW owns' the 255-acre
farm which has since become a
bone-of-conteijtion among cer
tain disgruntled factions of the
Order. . •
The week-long program will
have headquarters at Metropoli
tan Baptist church, 225 P St.,
N.W, Shiloh Bap^ftt Churchi »th
apd P Sts. N.>Y i ind 10th Street
Baptist' Church, 10th and R Sts.
N.W.
State Workers
Honor New
College Prexy
A committee of state em
ployees, headed by Mrs. Ruth
Lawrence Woodson, sponsored
a luncheon in the Home Econo
mics Building, North , Carolina
College, Tuesday morning, in
honor of Dr. S. E. Duncan, for
mer head of Negro high schools
and now president of Living
stone College, Salisbury.
The honors were shared with
He said he was assured by the
TIMES that the language of their
dispatch was that th« Judge's
order read that integration of
the Virginia county schools
wot|I9 be completed by 1069.
■ WilfeUMi'
tinued, on the following morn
ing, the TIMES story carrying
his approval of the decision re
lated that the conditions of
Judge Hutcheson’s order was
that integration be started in
(continued on page 8)
LENOIR
The possibility that'poisoning
was the cauae of death of a 30
year old oiiise who died sudden
ly at her home Sunday morning
was raised this week.
An antopay was ordered per
formed on the body of Mrs.
Billie Barnette Forney and the
tion in Raleifh.
The nurse after leaving
the Caldwell Memorial hospital
Sunday morning. She had been
employed at the hospital tor five
years. She was a graduate ef
Kate Sittings in Winston-Salem.
A doctor who performed the
antopsy indicated that resnlta
contents of her stomach SMt tot showed the possibility (rf poison-
the State Snre^n of Inveatiga-1 ing.
Daring the conrM at the af*
temoon, some white vlsttan
to the area complaiaed ot the
presence of a large group ot
Negroes at the porfc and re
quested Vance Cooiitjr Sheritf
E. A. Cottrell to take aetioa.
AceerdlBg t* pnm npmitm
Sheriff Gettreil replied to the
complaints that he had
power to act. Be Md tmm
plaining whites that the Kerr
Lake Dam and adjeteiag r»-
jcreation areas are lecated ea
government property.
Many of Monday's daily
newspapers reported the fact
of the visit by “a lar|(e group
of Negroes” to the recreation
site. The syndicated story alan
reported the conunenta of
Sheriff CottreU.
R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., laead ml
the Mutnal’a Qrdinary depart
ment, teld the TimS tUs
week that in addttton to Ua
gronp, thbre were atter
groupa of Negroes frem Bar-
lington, HenderM* and Ox
ford, maKing use ef pienie
shelter, N*. 1, and fl
(continued on page 8)
EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK
”WHsrpRiCE martyrd6m?
EDITOR’S NOTE : The jolloibing excerpt is taken
from an editorial in the Cleveland Call and Post for
June 21. The Call and Post editorial expresses very
effectively some sentiments we have long held.
In the light of the reports coming out of Little
Rock, Arkansas, the National Association for the A(i-
vancement of Colored People may be wise if it gives
Mrs. Daisy Bates a basket of grocercies instead of the
Spingarn Medal she is to receive along with the nine
Little Rock Central High School students.
Mrs. Bates won’t be'ablje to eat,tUe medal.
« «
The white people of Little Rock, egged on by
segregationists, are squeezing the Bates out of busi
ness, and Negroes in Little Rock seem strikingly un
concerned.
4i * .
If Little Rock Negroes lose their press, they will
indeed have lost the battle for educational opportun
ity. We would call the situation shocking were it not
for the fact that we know too well the misery price
niost Negroes are willing to pay for freedom.
Every Negro publisher worth his salt is aware of
this peril in the course of militant journalism. The
amazing phenomena is that the vast majority of the
Negro press remains militant at all.'
In fact, it grows increasingly hard today to find
any Negro newspaper waxing successful which does
not put the interests of its readers above and beyond
the profit motive.
We know exactly what the Bates mean by the
apat,hy among their readers. Most Negroes think that
the price of the newspaper entitles them to civil rights
insurance. They seldom communicate with Negro
j editors or publishers unless their personal oxes are be-
Asrociation and a member of the, jjjg gQ^ed. A bare minimum of Negro businessmen sup-
Reidsville city school system for. ■ i. . i ^ j ^
a number of years. I Consistent advertising, and a con-
(siderable segment of the so-called Negro intelligensia
of'^coS'”'p‘rTsirnts'°’"sT^^^^ wouldn’t be caught dead with a copy of a Negro news
paper on its reading table.
Negro publishers sometimes get acquainted with
them when some dirty bigot tosses a bomb through the
window of their swank new home in a restricted neigh
borhood.
Then, as the Negroes of Little Rock will leam
when they lose their newspaper voice, they discover
that freedom is not free.
And that ofttimes the only dam between them
selves and the flood waters of second class citizenship
’s the badly-printed little colored weekly that keeps
on fighting—even when it doesn’t pay off in profits.
principals, teachers, PTA heads,
Ag-teachers and Home Econo
mics teachers. Dr. Duncan was
praised for the contribution he
has made to the educational
system of North Carolina and
was assured of the unstined sup
port of all present as head of the
A.M.E. Zion institution.
Dr. Duncan expressed his
gratitude for having been en
abled to serve the state and its
people. He emphasized the fact
(continued on page 8)
The apjiointment of Attorney.
M. E. Johnson to the Law School
faculty of North Carolina CcH-
Ifega made public this'.week*
Johnron, whi has practiced in
Durham for the past several
years, is a graduate of the NCC
Law School.
Anniversary Of
Durlian) Church
Pastor Slated ,
Services noting the fourth an
niversary of the pastorate at
First Calvary Baptist Church of
the Rev. A. L. Thompson have
been scheduled for the church.
The services will be held Sun
day afternoon, Aug. 17, and on
the following Sunday afternoon,
Aug. 24. Both services will start
at three o’clock.
Dr. C. E. Mc^ester, pastgr of
neighboring Morehead Avenue
Baptist Church, will be the fea
tured speaker for the first ser
vice, Sunday afternoon. Music
for the occasion will be furnish
ed by the Morehead Avenue
(continued on page 8)
Greensboro
Two More
The Greensboro board of
education voted to admit two
more Negro pupils to all white
schools at the beginning of the
new term in September.
At the same time, the board
turned down applications
from 11 other Negro students
seeking to transfer from aU
Negro to white ijchools, and
permitted two white students
to transfer from a school to be
attended by Negro sUidents.
•fhe board voted to attow
Reginald and Regina McCoy
to transfer from the all Negro
Bluford elementary school to
Gillespie Park, Reginald wiU
enter the third grade,, and Re
gina Is a second grade pupil.
The acceptance of these two
students brings the total of
Negro students attending
white schools in Greensboro
to seven.
The Education Board last
year admitted six Negro stu
dents to previously all white
schools. Five, who attended
Gillespie Park, will return,
and a sixth, Josephine Ophelia
Boyd, was admitted to Senior
high. She was the first Negro
to graduate ^om a Greens
boro white high school.
Greensboro last year led the
way in the state's program of
“token integration.” Charlotte
and Winston-Salem were the
only other cities which per
mitted Negro pupils to attend
white schools. Charlotte white
schools accepted four Negre
pupils and Winston-Salem,
one. ■
The Charlotte and Winston-
Admits
Pupils
Salem school boards had not
acted on transfer applfa»tions
early this week, but it is ex
schools in Charlotte. Wuston-
pected that the four N^roes
will be reassigned to white
Salem’s, sciiool beard is adie-
duled to act Friday, Aug. 18.
The scene at the CkecMtaoro
school board meetiag at which
the vote to admit l^egin piq>ils
to white schoola was cate tiiis-
year compii^^ to ^id TVar's
seasioa.
Four Negroes and tbur mea^
bers of tiie Ku Khix Klan atr-
teMed the sdbool board se»-
sion Monday night. None of
them spoke. Last yMT, a large
gathering of whitaf harassed
the school board dtartag its de
liberations on accenting the
Negro pupils.
EIGHT WIN FREE TRIP TO NIA — Because of their ability to sell iastmuice daring a tea
week North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance statewide ccmtest, eight of these utMly-attixed
men won a free trip to the National Insurance Association which met in CohunWa, O. Anc.
5-8. Among the Greensboro district salesmen, three debit managers won all mt the three
statewide awards given to that group. Another winner, not shown, Staff Managn F. A. Fam-
seur, had left earlier. Before boarding a Columbus-bound plane at the Grecaakere - H%li
Point airfiort, the men were wished a bon voyage by Abner Lee, Assbtant to A^anfs Direc
tor. Shown from left to right are Agent C. T. Snipes, Greensboro District Maaager N. L.
Cii'egEi Agent J. C. Stricklin, Abner Lee, Agent J. W. Martin, Staff Manager H. H. Craw
ford, Piedmont Airlines Captain Gaither, Agent R. Reid, Raleigh Otstrict Maaager C. C.
Smith and Staff Manager D. S. Coley.
Early returns from New
York’s Cangre^ional race be
tween Adam Powell and City
Cooncilman Earl Brown indi
cated that Powell was well on
his way to a one sided victory
over his opponent. Oldest Negrc
Congressman, Powell was:
thought to have faced a crucial
test in the election since Tam
many Hall and the ..regulai
Democratic organization refused
supirart for Powell and backed.
Brown instead. His decisive vic
tory over Brown may be the
beginning ot the relaxation of
Tammany control In downtown
New York, many observers be
Ueve.
House Probers Declared
Aid To Segregationists
NEW ORLEANS, La.
A leading integration ist of the
South has accused the House
Committee on Un-American Ac
tivities of “joining hands with
Messers Griffin, Cook and
Harris of Georgia to destroy and
drive from the South any per
son or organization working for
full citizenship for Negroes."
In a telegram to Congressman
Francis Walter, chairman of the
'ull committee, Aubrey Williams
if Montgomery, Alabama, preai-
lent of the Southern Conference
Educational Fund, Inc., said,
‘The statement by the House
Un-American Activities Com
mitted; of which you are chair-
■nan, that it did not come to At
lanta last week to harass white
oouthemers who dare to stand
up for the rights of Negroes, is I met and welcomed,, and enter-
not support^ by what the com- tained by these officials and yoai
mittee did in Atlanta. | accept tlielr welcome and hoept-
“When you come into any one. tality you become pertlflesil
of these deep South states and crimlnis in what they are doing*
consort with men like Attorney | Your committee did just that.
General Eugene Cook, Gov.
Marvin Griffin, men who have
by word and deed, day in and
day out, defied the Government
of the United States and are em
ploying every power of the
office they hold to harass and if
possible destroy and drive from
the South any person or or
ganization which stands up for
the right of aU cituens regard
less of color or nationality, as
guaranteed by .the Constitution,
which you as members ot Con
gress have a peculiar responsi
bility to ui^old: when you are
“If the truth
Williams eoqtinaed. “I dare tmf
the staff of irour rnmmiHia
headed by Richard Arens va* la
constant teuch with men like
Eugene Cook, Uarvin Griflttai^
Ray Iterria. all pf whom boaak «f
having gona to Little RodE aa
put the idaa in Faubus*
opposing totagration ta
Little RioA atliDols.
“Fttrtfattrmgce”, stated
ama, “y«Mi aidl^enaed Gtel
den, a man against whaaa
charge ot commoniaaa
CeontiMMd on pafa t)