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DURimM CATHOUCS TO RACE BIGOTRY * * * ** ir ¥**¥****:¥*¥* * * * * Monroe Boys Are Denied Releose NAACP To Take / 0’ igssaizgLrsMgist, VOLUME 35—NUMBER 3 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1K9 PRICE: 15 CENTS Firm GiAis .4 Million Sc*n«t from the annual meeting of Mutual Savings and Loan Amo- elation are shown in these two picture*. The firm's annual meet ing was held Tuesday night. At top, F, V, Allison, assistant secre tary, if seen reading the report of last year's operations ro assembled shareholders. Seated, left to right, are the Rev. W. H. Fuller, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist' Church who took part in the proceedings, E. R. Mer rick, president of the firm, and J. S. Stewart Secretary-Treasurer *of the association, in trattom picture two of the company's executives are 'seen with secretary Stewart admiring trophies they received from the firm. E. R. Merrick is shown at left with silver engraved tray, given him for service rend ered the organization for several years. W. J. Kennedy, Jr., member of the board of directors, displays cup he received. Kennedy is last of the original board of directors of the company. — Rivera photos. U. s. Supreme Court To Review Case Of Six In Greensboro Golf Trespass *~?f.«BHINGTON, — -Tlw United Stales Supreme Court an nounced Monday that it will re view the convictions of six Greens boro men fifihting a North Carol ina court charge of trespass for playing on a city maintained gtlf course. The case reached he high court when the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the conviVtio5s ai»d jail sentenced of the six. meted out by a Guilford County Superior Court. The six defendants are Phillip Cooke, Leon Wolfe, George Sim kins, Jr., Joseph Sturdivant, Sam el Murray and Elijah Herring. They were arrested in 1955 after See GOLF, page 8 The Rev. J. H. Jones (inset) islville, Virginia at which he will be shown here along with picture of formally installed as pastor on the Shiloh Baptist Church of Oan-jjan. 25. Dr. Arnold Hedgemen for mer assistant to New York Mayor Robert Wagner and currently as* sociate editor of the New York Age, will speak for the Alpha Kap pa sorority Founder's Day prog ram Sunday, Jan. 25 at First Bap tist Church hn Wilmington. The service will open at 11 o'clock a. I Lynch Installed At 93 Year Old G'rsboro Church GREENSBORO — The new min ister of the 93 year old Providence Baptist Church on Soutii Dudley Street was formally installed in spccial ceremonies field at the church on Sunday aiicrnoon, Jan- ary 11. Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch became the twenty-first minister of the church at the observance. A graduate of Shaw Ui^iversity of the A. B. and B D. degrees, he is a graduate student at Southeas tern Baptist Seminary at Wake See LYNCH, page 8 Durham Native Accepts Position At Leading Danville Baptist Church Tliei Rev. John Henderson Jones of Chapel Hill will be installed as pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church on Danville, Virginia in a formal cere mony on Sunday, Jan. 25, it was announced this week. Program for the installation was i^i'do public in Durham this week.' The Rev. A. L. Thompson, pas tor of First Calvary Baptist, also of Durham, will deliver the main address for the installaton. Special music for the service will be rendered by the First Calvary Baptist church choir. Two prominent Danville Baptist ministers and leaders of Shilol) Baptist will also take part on the program. The charge to the church v»ill be delivered by the Rev. C. R. Me- Creary, pastor of Danville’s First Calvary Baptist, and the Rev. J. P. Griffith, pastor of Union Bap tist, also of Danville, will make the charge to the pastor. Greetings from the church will be extended the new /pastor by Fletcher Harrison, a ^ember of See ACCEPTS, ^ge 8 REV. THOMPSON The annual meeting of the Mu tual Savings and Loan AssoeiaitioD held here Tuesday evening in Uie auditoriuin> of the N. Q, Mutual Life' Insurance Cothpany disclc^ed that the Association has booiuied its assets by $368,554 climbing from $3,^,129.95 at the begin ning of the year to $3,911,WS.9S .on December 31, 1958, cxpefieneiag^ one of the best years, in its. his tory said, J. S. SteWart, Secretary- Treasurer. Stewart said his' institution now hokis mofe savings and setyes more customers than ever before, and expects to attract even more saver customers in the coming year. “If the recession of 1958 did nothing. else,” .he saidi “it rowle people conscioiis of the value oi saving. Many individuals and t»m ilies stepped up their savings prOg ram so as to build a sizeable cush ion to tide them over any financial distress that might result from a deepening of the recession. We have every reason to briieve that now that these people have learn-^ ed how easy it is to save and how Profitable in terms of the. earn ing they receive, they will cop tiaue (o save at an expanding ... The savings and loan executive summarized Mutual Savings and Loan Association's 1958 operations as follows; 1. Savings increased to a grand total of $3,076,808.57 at the end of 1958 for a new high. 2. Dividend payineqts to silvers for use of their funds totalled $100,407.33 or 2.96 per cent ihore See page six for story on Alexan- jfler's election to the NAACP na- tienal b«ard of directors. L. B. Frasier Is Renamed Head Durham Chain L. B. Frasier was re-eletced pres ident of the Durham Business and Professional Chain at the organi zation’s annual election meeting held last Sunday as the group voted to retain almost the entire slate of last year’s officers. The only change in last year’s slate saw H. M. Michaux, Jr., elect ed to fill the post of Chain Bulle tin editor, held by Dr. J. Lincoln Harrison who left the city last fall to accept a teaching post in Tex- A long-time member of the or ganization, Frasier is an executive of North Carolina Mutual Life In surance company. The group also voted Sunday to elect three groups of members to the board of directors; / The full slate of executive offi cers elected include Frasier, presi dent, J. W. Hill and Mrs. J. DeSha- zor Jackson, vice-president; R- Kelly Bryant, Jr., secretary; Mrs. L. M. Harris, assistant seeretry; J. J. Henderson, treasurer; Charles Ray, publicity director; J. AL Bee be, promotional director; D. F. I See FRASIER, page 8 Otin in 1957. i ing to $3,414,757.81. S. The home mortgage loan port- 4, Reserves have been expanded folio was increased' by $274,319.34 to $382,944.91, and now exceed the •r 8.74 per cent in 1958, bringing reserves at the beginning of 1958 Oie total of home loans outstand-1 See GAINS, page 8 Hurder-Suiclde Ruled In Death Of Martinsville, Ya. Wife And Husband MARTINSVILLE, Va., —Martins ville police this week were contin- ■ing their investigation into a mur- State NAACP Head In City Sunday Night Kelly M. Alexander, president *f ^ North Carolina NAACP and a S«n1iir 'af the board of directors, will speak in Durham Spnday evening. Alexan^r’s appearance here will be at St. Joseph Church at sev en p. m;, sponsored by the Third Sunday Evening Forum Commit tee of ^he Church. . Mrs. _ Josephine Strayhorne, chaimiin of the Forum Committee, released news j)f Alexander’s speech here. She also explained that the For um Commitee plans to invite a number of outstanding individuals to speak for its progr^im. Sunday night’s is the first in the series. dcr-suiicde which occured here Sat- rday night. Police reported James Willie Wimbish, 47, Negro, and his wife, Mattie Wimbish, 47, were found dead in ther two-room apart ment in West End, of gunshot wounds. City Coroner Dr. J. H. Irby ruled the deaths murder and suicide after examining the bodies at a local funeral home. Wimbish is believed to have shot his wife twice in the side and right arm and then fired a third shell from a double-barreled shotgun in to his neck. Police learned that the Wimbish woman had left her husband Christmas Day, but a reconciliation apparently had been reached. . Speaker CHAPEL HILL — Bradbury Seas- holes, Ph. D. candidate at the Uni versity of North Carolina, will speak at the St. Joseph C. M. E. Church Sunday morning during the regular 11 o’clock worsnip service. Music will be furnished by the Youth Choir, the C. Y. F choir and the St. Joseph’s all-girl quar tet. CATHOLICS SIDE NEGRO PLAYER IN CITY GAME Segregation reared its ugly head at the Immaculate Catholic School here on January 7„ when a Negro member of the school’s basketball team, Ellis D. Jones, III, was barr ed from participating in a game against a local public school, the Carolina Times learned this week. Coming on the heels of the Dixie Basketball Tournament, played in Raleigh during the Christmas holi days in which Negro players from state colleges and universities par ticipated without incident, the barring of Negro players from a (See CATHOLIC, Page 8) Mrs. Magnolia Leak was install ed as president of the Durham Housewives League in a ceremony at4he Laague's New Year's dinner recently. Mrs. Leak succeeds Miss Sarah D«tsen as head of the wom en's service organization. Seashole’s appearance is p^rt of the church’s regular monthly youth services, observed each third Sunday at the ohtu’ch. Pictured here is Mrs. Evangeline Vann, new Home Economics Agent for Durham County. She was ap pointed January 1 to fill the post vacated by the retirement of Mrs. Estelle Nixon, who had served as Durham County home agent for nearly 25 years. A native of Wilm- ington, Mrs. Vann is a graduate of Shaw University. Before coming to Durham, she wis assistant home agent for Sampson County. Case Through Higher Court WADESBORO — A Superior Court judge Monday denied a re* quest for release of two Monroe boys, sent to the sUte reformatocy for kissing a white girl. Attorneys for the NAACP, who had sought a writ of habeas cor pus for David Simpson. 8, and James Thompson, 10, indicated they would seek an appeal in a higher court. The case has attracted worhl- wide atention. Hundred letters have reportedly been sent to Gov ernor Hodges’ office at Raleigh criticizing Union County officials for committing the youngsters t» the training school for Boys at Hoffman. The two youngsters were sent to the school on the decision of Juvenile judge J. Hampton Price, after they allegedly kissed a white girl. Judge Walter E. Johniton relied heavily on the decision of Judge Price in denying the request Monday. He based his denial on the fact that Judge Price had cited a ser ies of charges against the twu See MONROE, page 8 Is Yours Here? Your automobile license plate number may be listed below. If it is, you're in fer a free, crisp one dollar bill. to present your registration card at the TIMES office by noon Satur day. TIMES employees nor their rel atives are eligible for a prize. Here're the numbers: BC-9462 AX — 1421 BB-M03 BA-3445 BC-7S93 BB-6023 BC-9163 BD-1032 COMPROMISE SAID FRAUD WASHINGTON — A vote for Senator Lyndon Johnson’s resolu tion to provide for cloture by a two-thirds vote of senators present “is a vote against civil rights,” Boy Wilkins; executive secretary of iBe National Associaton for the Ad vancement of Colored People, warned today in identical tele grams sent to 30 Republican and 39 Democratic senators. Adoption of the Johnson resolu tion would revert to the filibuster rule of 1917 under which it was never possible to secure a two- thirds vote for cloture, the NAA CP leader told the senators. “As you prepare to cast your vote,” he asserted, “please note See FRAUD, page 8 Members of the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs' Executive Committee paused during planning session for Sunday's annual meet ing of the Committee to pose for the photographer. The meeting will be held at Union Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. Shown here are, standing, left to right, W. A. Marsh, Jr., W. A. Clement, J. S. Stewart, J. H. Wheeler, Guy Mazyck, L. B. Frasier, F. B. Me- Kisskfc, N. B. Whit* wmI C. E. Boulware. Seated in tfc« same ar^ er are M. Hu«h Thompson, the Rev. James Brown, Mrs. Jeeephine Strayhorne, Mrs. Hazel Weeks, J. Fred Pratt, C. O. Pmtimi and El lis Jones. Annual Meet Of Durham Committee On Negro Affairs Slated For Sunday, Jan. 18 At Union Baptist Church The Durham Commitee on Ne gro Affairs will hold its annual “Report to the people” mass meet ing at the Union Baptist Church on North Roxboro Street on Sunday, January 18, at 4:00 p. m. Presiding over the meeting will be the Committee's Chairman, J. H. Wheeler; and music for the oc casion will be rendered by the sen ior choir of the host church, of which Mrs. D. V. Reeves is direc tor. Reports on the program and achievements of the Conmiittee will be given by L. B. Frasier and J. Fred Pratt; the economic com mittee by F. B. McKissick and N. B. White; the eduction committee by W. A. Clement and Reverend James Brown; the legal redress commitee by M. Hugh Thompson and WA. Marsh; and the political committee by C. O. Pearson and Ellis D. Jones. Election of “memhers-at-large** to the Executive Committee will be held and a short summary will be made by C. Elwood Boulware, Executive Secretary of the Com- ^mittee. As a preiuue to tke ^ning of tke meetins at 4:00 p. m. a short band concert wil be Kiven by the Hillside High ScIkm4 Band, and the invocation will be given by the Reverend R. L. Speaks, pas tor of the St Itok AM£ Zuut Church. Other persons twrticiiNitlag on the program will be Rev. Wm. Fuller, pMtor of Ht Zia Baptist Church aad president DwbMi Chapter. NAACP; R. N. Hanis. member of Durham (Sty Sctait Board. J. S. Stewart, at the Durham City CoomU. The closing myer aad dictloa will be gtrai btr iK. A. S. C^oaai, pMtii# ai tk» Church. Attewi thJc -tltilf r Tke pobtte Ii 1mII*4
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