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BECOMES FIG Dr. Alien Knight Chalmew, the churcli on Stiaday. Pictured R. T. Lewis, the Rev. Donglas professor at Boston University’s! here at the Informal meeting Moore, pastor of Asbary Temple Divijiity school, was guest at an with Dr. Chalmers are, left to' Methodist, Dr. Chalmers, Dr. E. informal assembly of men' of St. Joseph AME Church last Satur day prior to his two addresses at right, H. M. Mlchaux, E. J.i P. Norris, the Rev. M. C. Swann, James, Attorney W. G. Pearsoi^l St. Joseph’s pastor, L. W. Smith, 11, O. S. Frasier, Maurice Glenn,! L. E. Austin, F. D. Marshall and Dr. W. E. Farriisofi. Former treasurer and currently NAACP board member, Dr. Chalmers’ two addresses at St. Joseph’s were heard by large andlt^ncn. —Photo by Rivera Fire Snujfs Out Lives Of Five Enactment Spurs' NAACP, Seawell Hodges Talks VOLUME 34 — NUiMBER 42 DURHAM, N. C., SATURD%, OCTOBER 18, 1958 Criticized Peorsall Plon PRICE: TEN CEINTS Maggs At Covenant Sun. MAGGS Scholarship Fund Talks To Occupy Hampton Alumni The North Carolina Region of the National Hampton Alumni Association will hold an Execu tive Committee meeting at the YMCA on Bloodworth Street in Riiicigh, on Sunday, October 19, at 11:30 A.M. H. V. Brown, National presi dent of the Hampton Alumni As sociation will address the group. Other national officers expect ed to t>e present are, N. B. White, first vice-president; Mrs. Fannie T. Newsome, state chair man of the Alumni Scholarship Fund; J. J. Henderson, member of Hampton Board of Trustees; C. H. Williams, chairman of the See HAMPTON, page 8 Dr. Douglas B. Maggs, profes sor of Law at Dulce University, will address a Men’s Day pro gram at Covenant Presbyterian Church Sunday evening at six o’clock. Details of the program were disclosed by Dr. C. E. Boulware|, t chairman of a committee in charge of the event. Boulwaf^ said the Men’s Cowicil t^Qhurch is sppnsor- 1^ the i««ram. Ma^gs created a mild siensa- Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clement, tldn ln thiswrefl Whenauring the prominent Durham couplc, are summed iigislative the fourth husband-wUe Trade hedc^ljtigW on the Pear^l Plan hft Week cowunlttee heads to be w- tMtlfied., agHin^t th»-r.jpropaBrt»4- »>*■***’ ^ .sv—t, ca)&. “Dr. Maggs represents a voice of sanity in civil rights in out section jof the country where prejudice and passion threaten, to destroy our way of life,’’ Boulware said in announcing the program. Maggs will entertain questiorisi from the audience following his address, Boulware revealed, freshments will be served after the program, he added. The Duke teacher possesses a distinguished record as a teacher and advisor to the Roosevelt and Truman cabinets, • He began his career as a teacher in 1927 ani came to Duke in 1930. But between the years of 1938 and 1947, he ser ved steadily in various capaci ties for the U. S. Government, holding at one time the position of special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General. Maggs was trained at the Uni versity of California (A.B. and J.D., 1922 and 1924, respective ly) and Harvard University (S.J.D., 1926). He became an as sistant professor of law at the University Of California in 1926. See MAGGS, page 8 North Carolina Baptists Open Conventiw In Gastonia Oct. 28 GASTONIA The annual convention of the North Carolina General State Baptist Convention will open at St. Paul Baptist Church here on October 28. The convention will last for three days. John W. Fleming, spokesman for the Baptist, made public the convention details this week. “Touchstones of Christianity: Stewardship and Evangelism,” is the theme of this year’s conven tion. A three day program fea turing addresses, sermons, work shops, and forums will be built around the theme, Fleming said. The convention’s key address will be delivered by the Rev. Elluot Mason of Toledo, 0,hio Pastor of Third Baptist in To ledo, the Rev. Mason holds de grees from Dillard and Oberlin and has pursued advanced study MASON University’ president’s address. at, the University of Edinburgh. 3^^ an address by the Lott Carey Another Edinburgh scholar foreign Mission Convention, will addre.ss this year’s Convrti-'president—are also on tap for tion, also. He is Dr. Robert Sey- the convention, mour, pastor of the Mars Hill Baptist Church at Mars Hill. The State Baptist convention Regular conventions features is presided over by the Reverend the president’s address, Shaw P. A. Bishop of Rich Square. ments are co-chairmen of the committee on arrangement for banquet, one of the ten (vents to be held during Tr(^e .Wecki. •^lUvera Photo Pretty Girls, Hula Hoop Platoon Figure In Trade Week Planning Some of the city’s prettiest hoop parade pi«- -nightly infltfuetion ki- the lemi- toons figured prominently in ad vanced plans disclosed this week for Durham’s 16th Trade Week. Trade Week is an annual pro gram sponsored by the Durham: Business and Professional Chain. It’s observance is scheduled dur-. ing October 26 through Nov. 1. “These are really pretty girls,” Mr. and Mrs. James Byrd, co-chairmen of the Miss, Trade Week contest agreed as they pre pared to send their contestants through a second week of train ing for the contest. An innovation was made in the Miss Trade Week contest this year. Selection of the win ner will be made on the basis of poise, charm and talent rather than according to number of tickets sold for a Trade Week program as has been the custom in the past. The contest will be held dur ing the talent night show for Trade Week. It’s date will be announced later, the Byrds said. Some 27 girls are already in AMYETS Officers To Be Installed Installation services for new officers of the Robinson-Brown Amvet Post 510 are scheduled for Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at five. City Councilman J. S. Stew art will deliver the main ad dress. The post’s top officers, who will *e inducted at, Sunday’s ceremony, are Comm'ander, W. E. Ricks, first vice commander, Herbert Williams, second vice commander, Ollie Garrett, third vice commander, Raphael Clark, Adjutant, Richard 1 Pippin, Fi nance Officer; F. B. McKissick, Judge Advocate; E. S. Stray-> home, Public Relations officer; R. L. Kearney, Chaplain; Ellis Jones, Jr., Provost Marshall; Lee Lassiter, Surgeon-General; Lee Gamble, and Historian, Daniel Sampson. The public is invited to attend the service. the contest. They are ^ing given nine graces by ex-professional models Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Mamie Weaver. Information on other events scheduled during Trade Week along with the announcement of the remainder of the Trade Week sub-committee chairmen, were released this week. ★ ★★★ * North Carolma's laws govern ing assignment of pupils evoked statements from three key figures in the struggle over school desegregation in the state in the past five days. NAACP Secretary Roy Wil kins, speaking before the state NAACP convention at Raleigh last Sunday, called upon North Carolinians to challenge the state’s pupil assignment laws. He inferred that they offered no compliance with the federal court rulings in the matter. Sunday night, State Attorney General Malcolm Seawell. Wilkins’ statements brought a quick reply fro mState Attorney General Malcolm Seawell who said the NAACP official’s words indicated that the NAACP in the state is aiming at destroying the act “through federal means rather than abiding by state laws.” Earlier, Seawell had praised the state’s machinery for con-* trolling desegregation and said0f schools in North i^pi'olina were closed, it would bw the fault of Negroes who pressed too hard]K QfOHN McDANIEL sits in front of chjirred ruins of his home in which his wife and four chil- However, in the process of children perished. >— Photo Courtesy Charlotte Observer. praising North Carolina’s plan for limited integration. Seawell criticized action of Virginia and Arkansas in closing public schools. This brought Governor Luther Hodges into the act on Tuesday. The Governor ordered Seawell to shut up about what Virginia. on^, tne charred ruins re- Arkansas or any other southern mains of a Charlotte home in. Mother And Four Children Perish In Blaze Which Destroys Home For Family Of Eight In Charlotte states are doing, interferring that what the rest of the South did about desegregation was not Seawell’s business J^odges added that he fictivdly supj^rts North C^oliiWs pupil 'assignmiw!i"''ta^. At mid-week, the statements of Willcins, Seawell and Hodges a|l added up to remind North Carolinians that the Pearsall Plan and accompanying legisla tion dealing with assignment of schoof children, has really be come the focal point around which the issue of * school de- segregatlon wtttUe settted^ this state. The matter of hula hoop pla toons belongs to the Trade Week parade. According to the parade committee, two platoons of youngsters whirling hula hoops will be stationed in the parade’sf line of march. Some 35 units from the Chain'state NAACP convention in are expected in the parade, the 1 Raleigh last week-end. committee reported. As usual, it He accused North Carolina will be held in conjunction with in his speech of “standing still See TRADE WEEK, page 8 I See SCHOOL, page 8 Already, two federal court ac tions have been halted by the plan. Currently, a third one making a fruntal assault on the plan is underway in Middle Dis trict Court. It was brought by mothers of two Durham girls seeking to transfer to a white school. Wilkins’ attack on the Tar Heel legislation which prompted Seawell’s rejoinder, and. in turn. Governor Hodges’ orders to his Attorney General, came at the closing session of the three day Meharry Specialist One Speaker At Lincoln Clinic For Physicians Mrs. Birdie L. Rolfe will de liver a paper on “Physiology of the Kidney 'and Kidney Function Tests” during Liricoln Hospital’s 13 th Annual Post Graduate Clinic on October 22, 1958. Mrs. Rol'fe, the former Birdie Lucille Scott of Atlanta, is as sociate professor of physiology at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee. She received the B.A. degree from Spelman College and the M.S. degree from Atlanta Uni versity. She formerly taught biologv at Spelman College and Virginia Union University. Among Mrs. Rolfe's scientific publications are “Androgenic Effects From Percutaneous Administration ini Castrate Rats” and “Transfer of Sodium and Phosphorus across the Mucosa of the Urinary Blad ders.” Mrs. Rolfe holds membership in Sigma Delta Epsilon Gradu-i ate Women’s Honorary Scientific Fraternity, American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, R. F. Boyd Medical So ciety Auxiliary, Auxiliary to the National Medical Associar which four small children and their mother burned to death in an early morning blaze in Char lotte on Sunday. Dead are Mrs. Lucille McDaniel, 40; James, 8; Mabel. lU /ktndra, 7; and Ahjd^ g; • ■ ■ ' • The five were burnt to death in a fire, reported at 6:45 a.m. Sunday which completely de stroyed the four-room frame hous^ on Sharon-Amity Road occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John McDaniels and their eight child ren. The bodies were found hud- m died next mother, on the floor alongside the twisted remains of a bed in one small''room. During the fire two of the children awoke in time to run to their mothers side for protection but not in time to get outside the burning house. Volunteer firemen, on the scene shortly after the blaze •tfroke out, said that there was nothing they could do to save the victims. Three older .children dashed to safety—one carrying the baby of the family. Outside, John McDaniels the father, tried unsuccessfully to get back into the house through doorways which belched flames. ^ As the fire raged two of the McDaniels older girls ran screaming from the house. Greta, 20 raced actoss a railroad to a nearby home crying “The house is on fire' and mama and them are burning up”. Meanwhile Johnsie Mae, 18 dashed across the Highway to the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stroupe and begged Mrs. Stroupe to call firemen. Mrs. Stroupe immediately alerted the county police who called the ROLFE tion, and Delta Sigma Theta So rority. Her paper will be one of six talks to be conducted by leading medical authorities during the* day long clinic. The session is sponsored jointly by Lincoln Hospital and the Old North State Medical Society. OakhurA Vlunteer Fire I^-j partment. ' | There was nothing we could' do. The roof had already fallen! in. The walls were starting to cave in, even though we arrived: some 10 or 15 minutes after the smoke w$is sighted said Oak- hurst Chief George McHanus. The frantic father. John Mc Daniels poked through the re mains of the little house. Mr. McDaniels reported Jhat he was chopping kindling on a nearby hill to make a fire to warm water to go to church. When he noticed the flames he said “I dropped my ax and ran in the Demonslralioii Not Called Off NEW YORK A recent report that the Youth March for Integrated Schools would be called off was declared Friday to be without baads. “I wish to state categorically that these reports are totally false,” declared A. Philip RaA- dolph, a chairman of the March in a special statement read to the Steering Committee. “The March will be held on schedule oa Saturday, October 25. “Jackie Robinson, who will DUNCAN Livingstone's President At St. Mark Sun. Dr. S. E. Duncan, President of Livingstone College, will lie the guest speaker at the 11 a.m Men’s Day iservice at St. Mark AME Zion Church on Sunday, October 19. During the day men will be in charge of Church Activities. Before being appointed head of the College, Dr. Duncan served as Supervisor of t he Secondary Schools for Negroes in the state of North Carolina. An outstanding churchman. Or. Duncan has served on many General Conference Committees. “Man’s Role in an Integrated Society” will be the afternoon panel discussion during the annual Men’s Day Celebration. . J — .... . .1 while the evening program will lead the Mareh. i^ns me in sin-| , worshirservice and cetely urging that the people of our commanlty, Negro and white, do all possible to have their children meet us la Wash ington on October 25. I financial report. The Rev. R. L. Speaks is pas tor of St. Mark, liie pi^aUc is invited to attend. indina Few t room. 1 couldn’t get to her. There was fire all over inside.” The walls were on fire. The wallpaper was burning. “I ran back out and around to the window in my bedroom. That’s where my wife was steep ing. I broke window Out tried to get in. There was tm See FIRE, page 8 Consolidation Teavy Backers Few outspoken supporters for merging Durham city and coun ty schools have beea uncovered as the date for a final decision on the issue nears. In the mean time, at least one organizalian has gone on record against the proposal. The matter will l>e decided by voters at the polls on Novemt>er 4. Most Durhamites have been conspicuously neutral on the issue. Many of them say they haven't made up their minds yet. The reason most often given for the lack of an opinion on the subject is insufficient infonna- tion. Many frankly admit tb^ don’t know enough to make a decision. One resident confided that lie does not have enough InfonM- tion now to form an opinion aiad that he would probably aat make up his mind until he Js inside the voting booth. The Durham City Classroan Teachers Association, an orgaQi* zation of whUe teacher^ dtt, however, vote overwhelmii^^ against the proposal at a' iMat> ing on Tuesday. Their vote came after hMiirilt a talk against the merger by superintendent Lew Hann^fL Hannen had e«rlier told a . side PTA that the county shtmfa be urt>anized before 1 iiii mmp- ; tion is attempted. ' Indecision of individual i^||||> zens mirror the attitude oi ! ham officialdom. With tlwji ception of the school no city officials nor have taken a stayd 099 1 R. N. Harris, city sdMM^ I member, expressed the this week that the bou4 not take a position on ter. The board did, cide to consider tli> appointed a lift flmliig, mittee. The fact-findi«| pi>sed of Watts Ql John Tate See CO*
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