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SCHOOL STRIKE
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—$em« 44 Durham firms were
fiven United Fund plaques at
the Fund's annual meeting at
the Washington Duke hotel last
Thursday. Pictured above are
representatives from five of the
44 firms which earned the
plaques for having more than
80 percent of their employees
contribute one hour's pay for
12 months in the last fund
campaign. Left to right, ab*ve,
are Joseph ’Beabee, United
Fund official. Dr. Herbert J.
Herring, manager of the past
UF campaign who presented the
awards, R. C. W. Perry, North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company; Mrs. Ruth Hampton,
Lincoln Hospital; J: C. Cham
bers, Lincoln Hospital; H. M.
Michaux, Jr., Union Insurance
and Realty Co.; and David L.'
Harrison, Mechanics «nd Ftrm*
ers Bank. ‘ ’ '
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^OmE 32 - NUMb1;R 7 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959 1*RICE: 15 CEN^
Brooks Hays Sermon
AtWhite Rock Sunday
Brooks Hays, fonucr eoiiRress-
man from Arkansas anil president
ttt the SoiilluTn Baptist Associa-
lion, will (Ifliver a lav sermon
tit White Kock Uaptist Church
Sumiuy.
Hays will speik durin« the
churi-h’s reKular 11 o’clock a.m.
worship hour.
Ho was scheduled to be heard
in an addre.ss at Shaw University
on Friday morninti.
l'’or several years a leadinu
Ijgptist churchman. Hays bccamc
widely known for his attclnpt-s To
mediate the Little Ilock school
crisis in the fall of 1957.
It is ficnerally believed that
his role in the controversy cost
him his seal in the conRress. He
Wiu defeated last November by
ardent segregationist Dale Alford
in a write-in campaifin.
Hays’ rise to political promi-
to Congrcsa
antirhM
'cat
nence came during the mld thir
ties. In 1936, he became a Demo
cratic National Committeeman
He wais elected
194^ an(j Mjr^
by Alford.
Ik will be introduced Sunday
by Asa T. Spaulding, a trustee at
White Rock.
Special music for the services
will be furnished by the church s
senior c^oir.
The Durham Business and I’ro-
fewional Chain will be special
CTiCTtf^of ttii ^ureh srt 4^c etcn-
inR services Sunday, starting at
7:30 p.m. Special music will be
rendered by Mrs. Margaret
Goodwin, and the gospel and
male choruscs.
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Acts To Break
I^IWalkout
SNOW HILL — Observers be
U«ve that the decision of Greene
county school tioard to reopen
sttifce-baund Negro schools rep^
resents a "power play" on the
part of the board to force stu
dents back into the schools and
end the strike.
A waUc-out of Negro studentf
had closed all Greene County
schools since Wednesday.
The board of education voted
Wednesday night to reopen the
schools Friday under the same
conditions prevailing Monday be
lore the walk-out.
Observers interpret the phrase
“under the same conditions pre
vailing Monday" to mean the
school board had not made com
mittments to satisfy demands of
the striking students
At last reports, county school
officials and striking students
were unable to come to an agree
ment
If schools open as scheduled
Friday, all absent students would
. charged with absentees and
subject to whatever penalties
might accrue. If students fail to
yiild and continue the strike in
the face of schools reopenings,
thty could miss enough time to
be t^tained in the same grades
next year.
The strike got started on Tues-
dsy when all but two Negro
.drivers refused to pick up stu
dents on their routes.
(See STRIKE, Page 8)
COX
Funeral Servkes for Oak Grove's Rev. W. F. Cox,
litriKudtfenty, WiimHeM In Durham Sat.
Final rites for the Rev. Will
iam Francis Cox, prominent Dur
ham minister, will be held Sat
urday at noon at the Ofik Grove
Free Will Baptist Church.
The Rev. Cox died at Duke
Earn Cash
FOR YOUR CHURCH
SHOP WITH MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN
The Carolina Times
Durham church goers who want
to earn easy extracash for their
churches have only two more
weeks to take advantage of the
money-making offer provided by
the Carolina Times its ad
vertisers.
The TIMES will give $50 to the
church or church group which
turns in the large.st ^imber of
purchase slips from any of the
merchants uilverti.slng in the t'ar-
olina Times at the end of Feb
ruary.
The purchase slips-’ must bo
dated no later than February 28,
and they must come from mer
chants currently advertising in
the TIMES.
The slips must be turned in to
the TIMES for a verification be-
iore a bonus can be awarded.
Following is a list of some of
merchants advertising in this
week’s issue of the TIMES:
A and P Super Markets
N. C. Mutual Life Ins. Co.
East End Grocery
Regal Theater
Mutual Savings and Loan Aun.
Henderaon's Grocery
Cut-Rate Super Market
Davl* Baking Co.
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
Katz Bros. Grocery
Kenan Oil Co.
Keeler's Super Market
Liberty-Purlty Steres
Alexander Motor Co.
Burthey Funeral Heme
Rigsbee Tire Sales
Colonial Stores
Winn-Dixie Super Market
Sanitary Laundry
Montgomery and Aldridge
Hunt Linoleum and Tile Co.
M. H. Head and Son* Coal Co.
New Method Laundry
Hudson Well Co.
Southern Fidelity Ins. Co.
Durham Builders Supply
Amey Funeral Home
Hospital early Tuesday riiorninp
following a sudden seizure, lie
was 59.
The Rev. II. R. Heaves, general
moderator of the Cape Fear Con
fcrence of the Free Will Baptist
Church of North Carolina, will de
liver the eulogy. Other leadinp
mini.sters and laymen from the
Free Will Baptist conference,
other Durham churches and Oak
Grove will take part in the ser
vices.
Dorcas Lodge 460 Masons will
be in charge of the funeral ccre
monies.
The Free Will Bapti.st leader
was stricken late Monday even
ing and rushed to Duke Hospital
where he succumbed a few hours
earlier.
(See COX, Page 8)
First for N. J.
M0NTC:LAIR, N. j—Mrs. Bess
ie Givens Marsh, a 1928 graduate
of Knoxville College, was recent
ly appointed to the Montclair,
New Jersey Board of Rducation
by Major William L. Dill Jr. Mrs.
Marsh’s appointment marks the
first time a Negro has been pick
ed to serve on the board.
Active in YWCA, PTA, and
church work, Mrs. Marsh is pres
ently president of the Montclair
YWCA, she has been a member
of the national board of the YW
CA since 1962, and has served that
board as a vice president of the
commlunity division and as a
member of the Eastern Region
leadership team.
Her husband, Leo li. Marsh, also
a graduate of Knoxville College in
the class of 1928, was formerly a
member of the Montcair Planning
Board and is a member of the
staff of the National Board of the
YWCA.
The Marshes have two daugh
ters, Galela Elizabeth who is a
ninth grade student at Montclair’s
Hillside school and Frances Leola,
a teacher of voice at Southern Uni
versity in Baton Rouge, La.
JEFFRIES
Veteran Farm
Agent to Retire;
Honors Planned
GREENSBORO—J. W. (Jeff) Jef
fries, veteran farm exteosioH
worker, is scheduled to retire af
ter 36 years on February 28.
Amez Gifts
To Livingstone
ver $80,000
; SALISBURY — Some $83,205.71
.^4 been tiemed^ over to i,ivings
•iSne’ Cbftpiii (j>om AME Zion
!hifrcimen t,|iroughout the de
nomination’s 11 districts, it was
repMte^, here Tuesday.
Ahnoiihcement of a quarter
million dollar drive to rebuild
the college’s auditorium which
Was destroyed by fire was also
made Tuesday.
These developments came dur
ing the annual pi|grim_age of AME
Zion churchmen to the school to
celebrate the anniversary of Dr.
CharUs Joseph Price, the school’s
founder, 'This year’s ob.servance
marked the 105th anniversary of
the founder’s birthday.
Memorial services for the
school’s founder got underway at
10:30 when student-sponsored ser
vices were conducted in the Hood
Theological building auditorium
by Henry Moses, student body
president.
These services came to a close
with the placing of a wreath on
the grave of the founder, located
on the campus.
The announcement of the fund
drive to replace the school’s au
ditorium came from Bishop W. J.
Walls, senior prelate of the de
nomination and chairman of the
school board of trustees. Walls
said that a 3250,000 fund drive
was definitely underway to
place the building.
He disclosed that a sizeable
Tight-lipped police authorities tion. of such acts.
expres.sed fears here Thursday
afternoon that publicity given to
) bomb threat hoax at Hillside
high and Whitted Junior high
ichoois Thursday shortly past
ioon would set off a chain reac-
I peared more annojrcd thaa war-
Police would give out little in- ried over the threat homt and
formation and declined to discuss termed it as the work at diagmn-
with the 'TIMES any aspects erf tied students or pranksters,
the incident, which resulted in the An unidentified caller wkoae
evacuation of the two schools. ' voice was described as that of a
However, schools officials ap-t (Sm HOAX, Paf* •)
STUDENT LEADERS—These
students were among the lead
ers attending the annual meet
ing of the Southeastern Rfgion
of the Beta Kappa Chi ScieHtiflc
Honorary Society held Saturday,
31 at AAT College.
i from left to right:
Joanne Raiford, Greensboro, the
president of the Bennett Col
lege chapter; Andrew Rodrig
ues, Boston, Maea., preslJewt of
tite Sowth CareUna Stat« Col
lege chapter am4 Pnd H. Whit
lock, Winston Salewi. praeident
of the AAT College Cha|i»er.
CHAJNS HAP CUT BLISTERS
Father of Three Children Found in Chains,
To Face Charges; Kids 5 Days Without Food
LILLINCJTON —The father of
three children who were found
chained together in an unkept
Sheriff WWe Stewart and Rural
Policeman J. S. Byrd Sunday at
the shack where his tliree chil
room Sunday will be made tofarsn were fmmd 1wmreH»y ctetaaf^ Mary t«W Sheriff »awart tfaat
stand trial.
Ru.ssell Allen, 35, was taken in
Id custody by Harnett County
in a junk-filled room.
The children, Mary Lee Allen-
12; Geraldine, 10; and Jerry, 8;
Mothers Must Tell Children What
Jewish Mothers Said -Golden
The second largest sum report
ed in the annual gift of the AME
Zion church to Livingstone Cot
> was turned in from the
fourth district of the church.
A total off S13,4«3.50 was re
ported from the fourth district,
which consists of some five con
ferences Including Central Caro
lina.
The first district, which report
ed a sum of $14,930.43, turened
In the highest amount.
sum of fthis amount has already
beeii subscribed.
Jeffries’ planned retirement! Dr. S. E. Duncan. Livingstone
was disclosed as friends of the | president, accepted the $83,000,-
farm extension service worker raised for the school and
promised the institution's sup-
service
made plans to honor him.
S. J. Hodges, chairman of a
committee working out arrange
ments for - itonoring Jeffries, re
vealed this week that a dinner will
be held fofr the retiring agricul
ture worker at A&T College on
Saturday, March 7.
A native of Alamance County,
Jeffries is currently Agricuttural
Agent for the Western Diatrict o#;
the State.
porters that the gift would be re
turned through the services to
humanity rendered by the school
graduates.
Dr. W. J. Trent, Sr., Living
stone president - emeritus «who
served from 1925 until 1958, was
one of the several school and
church officials who took part in
the services. He recounted the
difficulties , the Institution strug
gled under as it developed
thnniih the-early years.
(See AMEZ, Page S)
GRKENSBORO — “The Negro
mother for the next 30 years must
say what Jewish mothers said to
their children: ‘Get and educa
tion,”’ a famous Jewish author
told an audience of Negro college
alumni here last week.
Harry Golden, author of the
recently published "Only in
America” and editor of the Caro
lina Israelite, delivered this ad
vice Saturday night before the
Mational Alumni Council of the
United Negro College Fund.
He was one of several outstand
ing authors and educators to ad
dress the 13th session of the
UNCF alumni, held on the camp
us of Bennett College here last
Saturday and Sunday
More than 240 delegates at
tended the two-day meeting which
featured three workshops and
heard addresses from Dr
is no way in the world to keep
segregation. Prospective students
will be seeking the best educa
tion possible and we must be able
to supply it.”
An added feature of this year’s
meeting was the crowning of
“Miss UNCF," Miss Ida Robinson
of Wiley College, an honor ac-
crded the Marshall, Texas institu
tion for having the highest per
capita gifts of any UNCF student
body.
(See MOTHERS, 1>age •)
told authorities tiiat they hal
been without food from Monday
to Friday.
they managed to free themaelves
Friday and atole off to a neigh
bor’s home lAerc tb«y got their
first food i* five days. Hieir
father fotwii them, howevor, and
put them back into chalna.
The cbildnn were turned over
to the welfare department follow
ing their diacovny.
Allen told arresting officers tie
had tied the childraa np bccause
“he couldn’t do angrthing with
them." He said they had stolen
money and food, and that he had
them in chains only since Fri
day.
However, Sheriff Stewart said
scars on the arms of the chil
dren and blisters indicated they
had been in chains for some
time.
Allen liTcd at the three-room
shack with another woman. Irene
Geddie and her ten children and
his three.
This Country's Founders Started
African Nationalism, Bond Avers
Nationalism in Africa was made
Ben- in America,” according to Dr.
jamin Mays, UNCF president. Dr. Horace Mann Bond, president of
William J. 'Trent, Jr., executive the American Society for African
director of the Fund, and Gold- Culture.
en.
Speaking before the Satinrday
night banquet which was attend
ed by some 400 persons of both
races, Golden urged the Negro to
take his cue from the Jew anc
turn more and more to educatior
to prepare himself for living to
day and tomorrow.
“Education proved to be salva
tion of the Jews. The Negro moth
er for the next 30 years must say
what Jewish mothers said to theii
children: ‘Get an education, be a
doctor, be a scientist,’ ” he de
clared.
Earlier during Saturday’s sess
ion, Dr. Mays had branded “stup
id” the idea that support of
UNCF colleges means perpetua
tion of segregation.
“If our product is good,” Maya
stated, “and our doors open, there
Dr. Bond addresed a forum au
dience at North Carolina College
Monday on “Nationalism in Africa:
Its Implications for America.”
“Nationalism in Africa was
made in America,” he said, “Its
jriginal ancestors were the men
;vho pronounced that all men were
.'reated eqaul, and endowed by
Jieir creator with certain unalien-
ble right—life, liberty, and the
>ursuit of happiness.
In the hands and minds of Jef-
'erson, and Franklin, these words
became living flames that have
burned through the centuries, and
in this century have found a new
fervor in the hands of the Ameri
can-trained Africans who thereby
have inspired the whole continent
to assert these rights for
Dr. Bond, presently dean of tlM
Sehool of Education at AUaalalaieL
University, is a farmer president
of Fort Valley State College, Ga.,
and Lincoln University, Pa. He at
tended the recent all Africa Peo
ples Conference at Accra, Ghana.
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