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Citirens Oppose
MdV^m
Bll TO SIERLQE UNWED M01HERS
#*
i^rineipaU In a v*»|>«r scrvict
at St. Jeieph ^ME Church lait
S«^Kiay hfld in connactien with
P* calabration by North Car«-
llm Mutual Lifa Insurance Com-
'I:
Mhy it* Mth annivarsary are
pictured here. Left ;to right arc
J. H.. Wheeler, Asa T. Spauld-
Inti, president of the firpi, the
|lav. Melvin C. Swann, St. Jo
seph pastor. Dr. Mordecai John
son, president of Howard Uni
versity; the Rev. E. T. Browne,
president of the Interdenomi
national Ministers Alliance; and
W. J. Kenned Jr., retired N. C.
Mutual. prMj^ent ahd present
chairman ef th* beard «f direct
tors.
UCC Chemist
L'Vt.- Ezra Totten, chainnan of
ttni Chemistry department a(
Kprth Carolina College, was
i4ni«d to receive a grant of $8,000
fw post doctoral study, it was an-
E^pUneed by the colIcge News Bu-
Ihi«i4 this week.
Dr, Totten will do independent
Wi!n»lTh at Stanford University,
i^alO Alto, Calif.
y'The Chemistry professor came
’t» North Carolina College in 1949.
ii« hiceived his training at Knox-
College, Iowa University and
tUe University of Wisconsin.
! lie has contributed articles to
j^ofessional journals, the latest of
virbich was “Synthesis 9f U-Taga-
posic Biochemical Oxidation Uy
,)un| .’.improved Chemical Method”
f|^ ^he' American Chemical So-
^ 1W3, he received a grant cff
tif^OOO from the Wright Air Do-
Vcij^hicnt Center to do research
li, plastics.
NX Employs
Host NCC Grads
The Placement Bureau at North
Carolina College today announced
tfmt 85 members of 1958’s grad'
Mating class of 357 are employed
in North Carolina.
' The next largest number of
^Aduates is located in Virginia
where 14 are employed or en
gaged in further study.
Other NCC alumni of the 1958
class are distributed as follows:
Georgia, /New York City, Michi
gan, South Carolina, Washington,
D. C., Florida, Rhode Island, Mary
land, Illinois, Alabama, Delaware,
Massachusetts, Tennessee, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio.
She Was 116 or 119
Funeral Services Are Hi^d
For Durham's Oldest Residehi
MRS. WiaOtNS
New World To
Need Better
Hom^Hayj
kALEKlH--“Bctter homes will
be needed for tomorrow, ijccausc
tomorrow’s work! will be one of
“true democracy and equality,”
Dr. benjamin Mays told the 17th
annual state council meeting of
Home Demonstration Women here
Wednesday.
Addressing the convention on
TCi Tficihff," "Todsy’B tiomc Btrilds
Tomorrow's World,” Dr. Mays
said home for “this new world
should be economically secure,
free from poverty and ignorance,
alive religiously and, conducive to
the development of pride and
ideals.
From homesj he said, "comes
the spark that make littlf boys
and girls great men and women.”
Some 27 Durham women were
part of the gathering of approx
imately 3,000 here for the council
meeting.
During the sessions, a $200
check from Home Demonstration
Agents throughout the state was
(See MAYS, Page 8)
Funeral services for Mrs. Mag
gie Wiggins, believed to be Dur
ham’s olde.st resident, were held
Tuesday, March 31 at Amey Fu
neral chapel.
Mrs. Wiggins, whose age was
given at 116 and 119, died at her
residence at 3155 Miami Boule
vard on Friday, March 27.
At her death, her age was listed
4 at 116. However, three years ago
ihe TIMKS carried feature and
picture of licr as the city’s' oldest
resident. Her age then was listed
as 110.
She was born in Granville Coun
ty ni the second quarter of the
IfUh century and was an ex-slave.
The ilev. Ix'e Melvin officiated
■it tlie funeral services Tuesday.
Her survivors are one son, Hen
ry Holloway of Wilson and two
daughters: Mrs. Mittie U«t^oway
Tuomu.
line, Doth'of Durham.
Earn Cash
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The Carolina Times
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is
the winner of the March Carolina
Times church bonus. A check for
$50 will be presented to the
church on Sunday, April 12.
• Mt. Vernon is the second church
to win. Oak Grove Freewill Bap-
tiqst won the first $50 bonus in
the contest.
A new bonus period starts for
April with this week’s issue of the
TIMKS.
The bvnus Is available to any
chut'ch or church group In Durham.
Interested groups should save all
purchase slips or cash register
.utpos from firms which are cur
rently advertising in the TIMES.
The «Ups or register tapes must
be turned in to the TIMKS office
each Saturday by six p.m.
To be counted, slips or tapes
wust bear the date of the current
jyssk. They ma^ al^^come from
merchants who are adverting in
the TIMES during that week.
The group turning m slips or
cash register taipes totalling the
largest sum will win the bonus.
This week, purchase slips or
cash register tapes from the follow
ing merchants arc eligible;
Winn Dixie Super Market
Alexander Motor Co.
Colonial Stores
Montgomery and Aldridge
Kenan Oil Co.
A and P Super Market
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
New Method taundry
Speight's Auto Service
Hudson Well Co.
Kroger Stores
Rigsbee Tire Sales
Sanitary Laundry
Amey Funeral Home
Cut Rate Super Market
Hunt Linoleum and Tile
Jatkson's Grocery
Mutual Savings and Loan
Keeler's Super Market
Burthey Funeral Home
S^fierh Fidelity Ins. Co
Durham Builders Supply ,
Ward's Open Air Market
2 Spot Restaurant
interracial
Education Meet
At Duke Mr.
More than two hundred princi
pals and strperintendents through
out the State have been invited to
attend the fourth annual confer
ence of the Coordinated Statewide
Study of Educational Administra
tion, which will be held at Duke
University, April 13-14. Dr. Virgil
Rogers, nationally known dean of
the School of Education at Syra
cuse University, will discuss “De
velopments in the Improvement
of School Adrninistration on the
National Level” and will also be
speaker at the Monday night ban
quet, according to Dr. Ray Ains-
ley of Western Carolina College,
chairman oi ihe program commit
tee.’ President Hollis Edens will
(See EDUCATION, Page 8)
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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 14 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1959 PRlCEt IS CENTS
Ruling
Could
Testimony In
integration.
Suit Closes
Oral argiunents in the Durham
sclhool integration suit came to a
ol()»c in Middle District Court
herjp^ Tuesday, and current indica-
lions' are that a ruling may not
be forthcoming in the case until
inid-stamer.
Judge Edwin Stanley, after
inari{igt testimony Tuesday, gave
iltonitys for both sides ten days
fter liweipt of transcripts to pre
pare findings of fact and conclu
sions.
Witl^ the current backlog of
ranscriB|.s due in Middle District
Court,! u is expected that the
ichool case transcripts may not
be available for a month or two.
k is customary for another time
per|od to be granted after fUing
of findings of facts and conclu
sions for a brief to be prepared by
(See RULING, Page S)
In School
Be Months
Case
Away
Annual Stateluting of Ushers
Will Hear Mcl^issick and Eaton
FRAT^KUNTON ^ The tT^erv
Hbinr Be? th^
sccnc Sunday, April 4, of the 39th>
Annual Mid-year Session of tKe In*
terdenominatiotial Ushers Associar
tion of N. Carolina, it was officiit^
ly announced this week by the
president of the Association, L. BL
Austin of Durham. '
Highlighting this year’s session
will be a sermon by the Rev. 1C
D. Eaton, pastor of the Penn
Avenue Baptist Church of Oxford
and an address' by Afiomey f. &
McKissiek at Durham. Music for
the occasion Will be furnished by
the Durham Ushers Union Choiic^
The opening session of the meet
ing is cxpected to take place at 12
o’clock noon. Most of the opening
session will be taken up with or-
(See USHERS, Page «)
McKISSICK
Program on April 19
Dr. Helen Edmonds Will Be Featured Speaker
As Emmanuel Church Observes 3rd Women's Day
Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, graduate
professor of history at North Car
olina College and well known au
thor and lecturer, will be the prln
cipal speaker at a Women’s Day^
service at Enunanuel A. ,M. E
Chiu-ch on Sunday, April 19.
The program for the event was
made public this week by spokes
men for a conunittee in charge of
arrangements for tlie observance.
Dr. Edmonds will speak at Em
manuel’s regular 11 o'clock morn
ing worship, feature event of the
Women’s Day activities.
A pfogram has also been plan
ned for the evening service, at
f:30 p.m., it was stated this week.
Main speaker for this service will
■()e announced later.
Special music for the morning
lervice will be furnished by a
choir selected from women of the
church and organized especially
for the Women’s Day observance.
Mrs. Australia Easterling and
Mrs. Doris Fitzgerald are co-chair-
t^CTTiarTlfipTjvA^ll planning ’ for
the observance. This year’s will
)e third such program for the
church.
Feature speaker for the pro
gram, Dr. Edmonds, is | mucb-
travelled lecturer and author. She
^as made two overseas trips for
the U. S. Government, one to West
Germany for the State Department'
id another to Liberia as Presi
dent Eisenhower’s special fepre-
y/ th«
Ce
sentative for dedication of that
country’s capjtol building.
Siic became tlie first woman in
history to second the nomination
of a presidential candidate when
in 1956 at San Francisco she sec
onded Eisenhower’s nomination.
(See EDMONDS, Page 8)
, TAYLOR
Taylor Gives
Teacher's Case
To Lawmakers
posals by the North Carolina
Teachers Association for legisla
tive enactment was presented to a
session of the Joint Appropria
tions Committee of the General
Assembly Tuesday.
James T. Taylor, North Caro
lina College professor and chair
man of the NCTA Legislative Com-
mtsgimr,~Tnady the presentatienr
Included among the proposals
were recommendations for pay
raise of teachers and relate)! bene
fits, employment of additional
administrative personnel for
schools, and establishment of grad-
ulate programs at more state-sup-
ported schools.
In February, Taylor released a,
list of proposals designed to pro
tect teachers who' took strong
civil rights stands. Among these
were proposals for re-establishing
teacher tenure and recommenda
tions for making intimidation by
violence or tiireat 6f violence in
communities in process of deseg
regation a criminal offense.
NCTA executive secretary W. L.
Greene said following the dis
closure of the proposals in Febru-
(See TEACHERS, Page 8)
As Scions Consider Bill
Hearing on Measure Draws
Ripple of Racial Feeling
RALEIGH—A slight ripple of
racial feeling coursed through
hearings on a controversial bill to
sterilize unwed mothers of more
than one child.
“One of every four of your race
born in North Carolina is ille^ti-
mate. You ought to be conceched
about it.” Senator Jolly, pointing
his finger at the Negroes in the
Hudience during one part of the
hearings.
“Which race," came the retort
from the audience.
“The colorcd race,” the Senator
answered.
At that point, four Negroes in
the audience rose to protest the
Senator’s remarks, but were ruled
out of order by Son. J. Cariyle
Uutledg^, chairman of the Sehate
Health Committee conducting the
h«u)rings.
'' if^ tfTe'Tartrt overtone waa dK-
ly 6nc of many mixed in discus
sions on the bill as it reached pub
lic hearings in the Highway Com
mission building Wednesday.
Arguments based on religion
and medicine were made by sev
eral opponents to the pn>posed
legislation.
The bill would give the State
Eugenies Bo«>w>- authority to- clas».
ify certain unwed mothers as
‘grossly delinquent then order
them to be sterilized.
It was attacked in the hearing
(See OPPOSE^ Page I)
LYON.
Gets lie in
Hubby's Death
Mrs. Lilli* Mm Lyon, 21-year old
mothei^, Btiuma. was giveis 4
life term prisott semence by Su-
periar.Coutt- iadge^Leo.. CsiT fol
lowing her tritl in the Durham
County court Friday morning.
MlTS. Lyon pleaded guilty to a
charse ef munier in the death of
(See GETS Pa*e i)
DR. EDMONDS
THE REV. GAYLORD
Tarheel NFA
Members Set
For Observance
The North Carolina Association
of New Farriers of America with
a membership of more than 9,000
will observe National N.F.A. Week,
April 5-11, in their respective
chapters and communities.
They will be a segment of the
more than 47,000 other N.F.A.
youths, who are celebrating this
week in fifteen (15) southern
states.
■ The purpose of the observance
according to W. T. Johnson, SUte
Executive Secretary and Natioiial
Executive Treasurer, with head
quarters at A. and T. College,
Greensboro, two fold — it brings
the public each year some facets
of the N.F.A. program, and at the
(See NFA, Page 8)
BIGGERS FUNERALIZED
S. P. and Joseph Biggers oT Dur
ham. He is survived by numerous
other relatives.
NEWS ROUND-UP
(Condmsed from TIMES Dh^etchM)
ALl NOT WELL IN GHANA—Alfrej rhendly, Washington Port
correspondent now touring the African eovmtnes below the Sahara,
reports that Prime Minister Kwame Nkntmah is wipopular with Uib-
al chiefs whose powers. Friendly says, hft ba» crushed. Friendly writes
that Ghana is moving in the direction opposite of the democracy it
was supposed to have developed at its birth two yeirs age .....
OVER $35,000 PROM A OiNNERI—Gross iocotte from the fourth
annual Freedom Fund dinner sponsored in Detfwt hy that city’s
NAACP branch is expected to exceed the record high of $3S4)00 netted
from last year’s affahr. A total of $32,796 has alrei^ been reported,
Arthur L. Johnson, branch secretary reported, with iome ticket money
still not in CAJMFAIGN AGAINST CAPE JWM CROW IN«IGMTH
MONTH—The Diamond Department Store of Chari«ston is still hold
ing out in the face of an eight month sit-in camiMigB conducted by
members of the local Congress of Racial Equality (CORB) to open the
store's restuarant to Negroes. Most of the lunch coiinters in Charles
ton stores have decided to accept Negro patrons aiaee the beginning
of the protest last summer, but Diamond’s still refuaee. Owned by As
sociated Dry Goods of New York, it Is die city’s largest
KENNEDY TO SPEAK AT UNCF COMVOCATIOM-Scnator John F.
Kennedy, one of the Democratic 1060 presidential hopefuls, will be
a speaker at the United Negro College Fund’s National Convocation
in Indianapolis on April 12. RobeiK l>a[mster. WaU Street Journal
executive, and Eli Lilly, head of the Etl LBly Coflvany, will also be
there NEW YOlIK BALKS ON AWn^lAS—Koy Wilkins, NAA
CP Secretary, had a few harsh words the failure at New York's
legislature to enact the MetcaU-Bakar anti-diacrimiMlioa housing
bill. The measure would have banned racial or tdilgioua discrimina
tion in sale or rental of private hoaaiag throughout th« state. Tht
legislators went home on March witt the hill stiU in commit e
ON THE DURHAM SCINB ... f^U HAM^A Wgar^nired haa
is the grand prize to be given at the feMaa School PTA feattvifi •’->
Apiril 20 at the school. Several other. prilM will kt glxf to hotiLrs
of* winning ticket numbers, entertaimi^l aiid tasty foou re also is
store DANCI CONfclKT—A Md T Mrt . erUl Can-
lina College dancers will be seem in a Jaint coaiecft #t NCC’s atidt*
torium on Friday, April 17 RAY ANO HOItfty MM FLO«IOA>-
Dr. Ruth N. Ilorry and Dr. Charles repwsetiiM^ WhrMk
GASTONIA — Funeral services
for James Biggers were held hare ijj,. Colleee at tht Iftth mntlnir nf
rarch 31. rae ■Wo0»«
in Tallahassee. Florida . . . .
2226 Fayetteville street spent Iba
with her son and his family.