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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 29 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 1», 1959
PRICE t IS CENTS
Throngs Pay
Last Respects
To Bill Jones
A crowd estimated at 1,000
* persons crowded White Rock
Bapiist Church last Sunday aft
ernoon to pay final respects to
William H. (Bill) Jones, pro
prietor of the College Inn, who
died suddenly on July 9.
Every seat in the auditorium
was filled and all available
standing rooni was occupied for
the funeral service.
An estimated additional 200
persons who could not get in
side the church passed the bier
at one stage during the service.
The church seats approxi
mately 800 people.
“The greatest tribute to the
life of Bill Jones is in the fact
that these many people stopped
to come here today to pay their
final respects,” the Rev. Miles
Mark Fisher said in the eulogy.
Jones, whose College Inn had
become a part of the city’s life,
died at Lincoln Hospital after
being stricken by a heart at
tack.
In addition to the large nuiO'
ber of people attending the fu
neral, hundreds of messages of
sympathy were re{>ortedly sent
from throughout the area.
The family received over 100
* floral designs and some 112
cars were required in the fu
neral procession.
Funeral arrangements were by
Bui'lhuy Bruthei'S."
REV. THOMPSON
Refusal Of Bunchs
Brings Resignation
NEW YORK—CBS News report-1 Immediate speculation iollow-
Gd early Wednesday that the ing the CBS report was to the
president of the West Side Ten- effect that a formal invitetion
lis' club, the organization which { would now be extended te Bunche
refused membership to Dr. Ralph | and'his son.
Junche and his son because of I Lajg iggt week, It appeartd thatt
heir race, has handed in his i-es- gjui, standing pat on Ifa
ignation. > j action turning down membership
The club^ whose Forest Hills for the Bunches. Club president
Jtadium haj traditionally been the^Wilfred Burgland, who was quot-
iite of Ihe Davis Cup play, inter-1 ed as having told Dr. Bunche and
national tennis championships, his son th^ were not ellgibte be-
lad drawn the wrath of several
•jroups for its action.
Durtiam Church Sets Events
For Pastor's 5th Anniversary
' Three days pf special services Baptist of Bladenboro previously,
at First Calvary Baptist Church ^ During his five years tenure,
will be held next week-end in ob-! the physical expansion program
servance of the church’s pastor, | besun under the late Rev. Hart
the Rev. A. L. Thompson.
The overall program for the
special anniversary , services was
released this week by program
c&ainiHtn Jbvia 41aBkii|. ^ ^ .
The services Avill be held on
Thureday, July 23, Friday, July 24,
and Sunday, July 26. The Thurs
day and Friday programs staK at
eight p.m. and Sunday’s program
is at three p.m.
Main speakers for the three
services will be prominent Baptist
ministers from the Durham area.
To Appear on TV
GREENSBORO—Pviv VM-nen
L. McRaa will appear on tha
Ed Sullivan Ulcvttlon show on
August 30. Ha will ippaar u a
mambar of tha "Jamaican*."
Thay recently placed third In
the vocal group category of tho
All-Army Entartalnmant con
test hald at Fort Balvolr, Va.
Pvt. McRae is tha grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. McClen
don of 1005 Llncolii Streat,
Greentboro and a 195( gr^du*
i|ta of Dudley High School,
The Rev. J. A. Brown, pastor of
Ebenezer, will speak for ‘.he open
ing service on Thursday. Friday’s
speaker is the Rev. J. H. Jones,
formerly of Chapel Hill and cur
rently pastor of Shiloa of Dan
ville, Va. The Rev. C. E. McLes-
ter, pastor of Morehead avenue,
will deliver the major address for
the finaf service on Sunday.
’The climax of the series will
come during the Sunday after
noon program when Haskin will
make a presentation from the
church to Rev. Thoippson.
Thompson became pastor of
First Calvary in July, 1954, suc
ceeding the late Dr. H H. Hart.
He had pastored at Bryant Swamp
Friends Team Survey of Job
Practices to be Ready Soon
Dr. J. Oscar Lee and represen-^White'of the committee, in coop-
tatives of the American Friends
has been virtually completed. In
June, the mortgage on the church
building was burned in a special
ceremony.
OUier^hyaieal' itNpi«vel«teRt«
fected 'during Rev. Thompson’s
pastorate include installation of
several conveniences, including
gas and a public address system,
a ladies lounge, repair of the cool
ing system and installation of new
tile and rugs for several office
floors.
The program of the church has
also broadened. “Three ‘ new” SiiiT
day School classes have been add
ed, a music school was opened in
1958 to train young people of the
church, and several special annual
(See CHURCH, Page 8)
cause of their race, had kept
quiet on the issue.
However, his ■ resignation as
president was reported on Wed
nesday.
Th« incident roachod tha pub
lic attention late laat wo«k
when tha fact that BwncH«'t IS
year-old *on wat turood down
by tha club wat raVaalod.
The invitation to join had come
from George Agutter, tenjiis in
structor at the club. ^
Agutter maintained this week
that he did not know t)iat the
youngster was a Negro. He s«|d
he merely asked the youn|ater to
LEARNS MARCHING
—Larry Scwrlock, left above,
who is drum major for the Hill
side High School Band, has just
returned from Lafayette, In
diana, where he attended Mid-
West Music Camp. The camp
was held on the campus of Pur
due University for high school
iTrum majors ana ma]orettet
during the week of July 5-11.
The purpose of the camp wat te
acquaint students with the latest
trends in marching bands and
drum majoring. Scurlock is a
senior at Hillside, and is pic
tured with his Band Director,
Joseph T. Mitchell.
iri. 15, Ctaims Assault; Doctor
Says Exam Hnds No Evidence
BELMONT — A white textili
mill worler was charged here
Monday with attempted ri(pe of a
15 year old Negro Sir!.
He ia Billy S. Brewer, 43. who
was charged and held without
bond for a preliminary hearing
Thursday.
The girl, Etha Janis StecU:.
charged that the man raped her
at home after she let him into the
house on the pretence of getting a
drinic of water.
Brewer flatly denied the charge.
It was also reported that a phy
sician who examined her stated
that there was i|o evidence of
rape.
According to the girl, she was
done and in pajamas at her home
''hen Brewer came to the door and
isl(ed for a drink of water..
She said that she let him in,
'ie raped her.
Brewer was picked up in less
than an hour by Belmont police.
He later told chief Frank Carpen
ter that he went to the girl's home
but only to get a drink of water.' Reid, presiding bishop of the mc-
~)nd Episcopal district ot the
BISHOP REID
Outspoken ANE
Bishop to Speak
in Durham
The RL Rer. FranJr Madison
WORK TO BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER
Substance To Protect Against
Fall-out May Be Lotion Form
Hampton, Va., Dr Rufus P. boratory phase would taka. But,
Perry, distinguished North Car- "we now have a substance," he
. olina educator and chemist an- said.
. 06,- terry's five higo ^hool
will begin an independent and scieiiKe teachers who are atten-
^upll.
"It never eccurrod to . me"
that he was « Negro, Afewtter
said. I honestly didn't know,"
In the wake of the refusal,
several groups condemned the
club. The Town Tennis Club, with
a membership of millionaires, had
votea Bunche an honorary mem
bership in protest to ihe West
Side CTuVs acCion.
The City of New York had be
gun searching ' records to deter
mine the matter of public li
censing were involved in the West
(See BUNCHI, P^ •)
Tarheel NAACP Unit Selected
One of Country's Outstanding
S.C.*NAACP*
Official Quits
Service Committee spoke before
North Carolina College's Human
Relations Institute this week.
Of the nation’s churches Dr.
Lee said at midweek, "Our
churches' are far too conforming
and too far from transforming”
spiritual lives of Americans.
He is Executive Director, De
partment of Racial and Cultural
Relations of the National Council
of Churches of Chffst In the U.S.
His work carries him often to
far corners of the globe.
On Negroos' rasponslbllltios
in tha intogration movamont,
Dr. Laa said: "Integration It a
two-way straot. If it It wrong
for white paobi* to dltcrlmi-
nata agalnit Nagro paopio and
Negro institutions, it is equally
wrong for Nagre people to dit-
criminata against white poople
and white inttitutiont."
Dr. Lee sat in on a panel ,dis-
cussion Wednesday afternoon and
heard a special Friends Service
team report on a job trend sur
vey.
The survey is sponsored by the
Durham Committee on Negro Af
fairs. F. B. McKissick and N. B.
NEW YORK —Prizes totaling
$755 will be divided here between
18 NAACP branch and state con
ferences during the Association’s
50th anniversary convention, July
13-19.
Presentation will be made at
the annual Freedom Fund Report
Dinner, Thursday, July 16, in the
Grand Ballroom of the Waldrof
Astoria hotel.
They are the Thalheimer awards,
established by Dr. Ross P. Thal
heimer of Baltimore in January,
eration with the committee’s 11941. The awards are provided 4or
chairman, J. H. Wheeler, have an annual grant made possible
b6ep key planners in the sur
vey.
Members of the team who
spoke at NCC Wednesday were
Rocky Bauer, Seattle, Wash.;
Cheryl Schooler, Durliam; Dick
Ramsey, Kentucky; ^Jorence Ir
vin, Raleigh; Pauline Young, New
York; Mrs. Corinne Mabrey, Dur
ham; Ernestine Forschmiett, Se
attle, Wash.; Jan Osborn,* Berke
ley, Cal; and Sarah Herbin,
Greensboro.
“Durham’s industrial and civic
NEW YORK, Rttitnatlon of
Ray. Houtton D. AndorMn, South
Carolina flald socrotkry of tho
National Astoclytlon for tho Ad-
vancoment of Colorad Poopio, wat
announced thit woak by Roy Wil
kins, axacutlvo t«crotai*y.
AAaanwhila, Rov. ‘I. O. Nawmim
by a legacy bequeathed to Dr. I Spartanburg, will earry On tHo
Thalheimer. ^ Attociation't activitiot in tho
Top prize of $100, for branches 1 • •'•Pl'eamant it m^o.
without paid staff, will go to theNtwman it prtaidont^of tho
South Carolina Statt Conforonco of
NAACP branchos.
O
Norfolk, Va., unit. This group
backed parents who filed the suit
which broke the back of “m’assive
resistance” in Virginia.
It compelled review of students
denied permission to attend pre
viously white schools and con
ducted worl(3hops for parents and
children prior to desegregation
leaders have be^ most courteous,! schools,
cooperative, an(k hospitable,’,’ was^ Norfolk branch also operat-
the concensus among the. speak- Junior-senior high
era at NCC. school at a cost of approximately j vice-presidenrof”the
The team’s members have been $1,000 monthly. They uulizfed re- s„uihem Conference Education
Bishop Love Hits
Anti-Court Laws
BAL'nMORE, Md.—Bishop Ed
gar A. Love, Bishop of the Baltl-
I more Area of the Methodist
interviewing local employers re
garding trends in job opportuni
ties for Negroes and workers. Pri
marily, the group's interest is in
Negro workers.
Miss Irvin said she attributed
the “cooperation and courtesy” to
careful planning at the local level.
tired and substitute teachers.
Second prize of $50 for branches
without paid staff will go to the
Wichita Kansas unit. It was out
standing during the year in ef
fectively fighting employmenf^ dis
crimination and police brutality.
Honorabla montion in thit cat-
Before the students came to! ogory will go to th* Hartford,
Durham, DCNA members and the Conn.,, Battio Craak, Mich.,, and
Rev. Warren Carr, chairman of Grtontboro. N. C., branchat. Each
(S«« FRIEND, Pagt >} | will roceive .$25,
Southern Conference Education
al Fund, sent a personal letter
to members of the United States
Senate protesting legislation
which would curb the Supreme
Court and establish state sedition
laws.
Enclosed with the bishop’s let
ter was a copy of a statement by
southern Negro leaders, including
the names by states, of all qf the
hundreds of signer «f >the-aUte-
(Sea HITS, Pag* »)[
organized search in September
from radioactive, fallout.”
Sjr. Parry, who finished a
flvf^ay lactura series hera to
nify in connection with Hamp
ton Instituto't eight-week Som-
futif Science Institute, said the
fiji^ed product which is the
t»f ht» search "might
well take the form of an ingred
ient of a lotion," which can be
to the body in "much
Hw aame manner that sun tan
lot.i«0 is."
Psr. Perry said he has been
working by himself for two and
a h«\lt years, “on paper,” with
the program of personalized
[protection from radioactive fall
out. During thjs time, he added,
the woric has been largely theo
retical.
He will start actual labora
tory work' on the problem in
September, he., ^aid, experimen
ting with^ a substance which
ke declined to. name. said
this phase, of the Search-will
take place in Charlotte and
that he has alVeady assembled
a Staff of two other chemists
who are presently residing in
Charlotte. “The staff will not
expand beyond the three of us
for awhile.” he said.
Dr. Ptrry Vlid not indicate
hew long h« expected the la
ding the Summer Science In
stitute on grants furnished by
the National Scieiip,-e Founda
tion, cbvered the chemistry of
nuclear reactions and radioac
tivity. The lectures also dwelled
on the peace time use of radio
active fallout. In his final lec-
twe today, i»e told ti»e 73 teac
hers that the uses of radioactive
isotopes, more commonly refer
red to as “radio tracers,” are
literally numberless.
Dr. Perry became the sixth
president of Johnson C. Smith
University in 1957. Prior to this
he served 14 years as vice presi
dent of Langston University,
Langston, Oklahoma, where he
was alsq professor jof chemiMxy
From 1947 to 1955 he also ownet
and operated the Perry Drug anc
Chemical Company in Oklahoma
City. He served at Prairie View
College, in Texas, from 1927 to
1939 as professor of chemistry
and head of the Natural Sciences
Division.
He earned the bachelors de
gree at Johnson C. Smith in
1925, the masters at the Uni
versity of Iowa in 1927, and the
docorate degree in 1939. In 1956.
Johnson C. Smith '• >nored him
with a doctorate of Laws.
Dr. Perry has done consultant
(Seo FORMULA, Page »
NEW PHYSlflAN—Dr. Robart
K. King, native of Florida, has
movod to Durham to opon an
offle* for tho gonorai practice
of modicino. A graduate of Ho
ward and Meharry Modical Col-
logo, Dr. King and his family
'hovo'4«ko«i up 'rotidence' at 620
Duproo ,»tr*8t.- ’ '
TIMES Adds Promotion Editor,
Sets Plans for Expansion
As the first step in a gigantic
expansion program which will en
gulf the entire state of North Car
olina and reach over into South
Carolina L. E. Austin, Presi
dent and Publisner of THE TIMEIS
has obtained the services of Al
bert E. Hart of New York City,
one of Americas best-known jour
nalists, writers and promoters. Mr.
Hart arrived in Durham last
Wednesday night and assumed his
new post on 'Thursday afternoon
level officials of United Publish
ers Inc., owners and publishers of
THE TIMES.
In his capacity, as assistant to
the publisher Mr. Hart will inter
ject his ingenuity and know-how
into the job of expanding all de
partments of THE TIMES. He will
.'ontuct several high-powered pro-
n(ftions designed to increase ad-
.ertising and circulation, will mo-
Jerqi^e and streamline every de-
par upeni or THE TliuDo will write
eatjures, introduce new innova
.ions to satisfy the taste of ever.’
,ype of reader ana will enlarge The
TIMES coverage so that our paper
will be read in every nook and
,'orner of thi$ state and will con-
Juct a training course for new
journalistic aspirants.
Despite the fact that he was
ilricken with iniantiie paralysis
it Ihe age of two years, Mr. Hart
las climi>ed to the very peak oi
the journalistic, public relation
and promotions field.
His first journalistic effort en-
ailed positions as correspondent
or the Norfolk Journal & Guide,
rhe Philadelphia Tribune and the
'3hfcago Defender. He edited the
(3s« TIMES, Pagt •)
HART
\.M.E. Church, will be main
speaker at Men’s Day terviees at
imanuel Temple A. M. E. Church
on Sunday, July 26.
The Rev. Nathaniel fjayloi'd,
,>astor of Emanuel, will preside
>ver the program, which will be
held at three p.m.
Bishop Reid is one of the
A.M.E. Church’s most outspoken
opponentj of racial segregation.
.4e was a leader in the movement
which ultimately led to the Su
preme Court decision outlawing
racial segregation la public
schools.
The suit which brought the his
toric ruling came from the Clar
endon County's Liberty Hill
A.M.E. Church, one of the church
es under his jurisdiction when he
ptesided over the sertnth district.
He was instrumenUl jn orgM-
izing the action.
In 1^6, he was one of several
Negro leaders who spoke before a
public hearing of the North Car
olina legislature opposing enact
ment of the Pearsall Plan, a state
remedy for school desegregation.
Reid came to North Cartrfina in
1953 when he was asripied to the
second Episcopal district. He re
sides at Kittrell, where he i^ also
?hancellor of Kittrell Junior Col
lege.
The A.M.E. prelate was elect
ed to the bishopric ia 1940, after
] successful career as pastor in
iCentucky and Missouri.
William It Fitxgerald and
Janws Mil% are in charge' of the
ilanning for the Men's Day pro-
n^m at Emanuel.
Located on Kent Street, Eman
uel is one of the city’s oldest
churches. It was organized in the
West End school and establiaiied
at its present site in 1888. Charles
T. Fitzgerald, who attended tlie
church as a boy of 12, is its oldest
'iving member.
Blast Jimcro
NEW YORK— The American
Newspaper Guild has issued a for
mal protest at the segregation of
New York PTOt reporter T^ Pos- j„|y jond •» Spolman
Collog*. Atlanta.
Keynotes Heel
Dr. WHIIafn St«Mrt. Nalton, pr*.
fottor ttf thoology and daon ot
tho lacwlities at Mer>ard Univer-
lity, will dollvar Mm owning ad-
drots at the tauHwiiji loadar^ip
Inttitul* ow Nan Vlalant
tanca t* SeeroeeHen, Wodnoiday
ton at the Tallahasse, Florida rape-
trial last month.
Poston was lorced to cover the
trial from the balcony of the
;ourt house at Tallahassee.
In a resolution passed by 300
convention delegates, the Guild
said:
“Over the past few years, as the
conflict over racial intefpration
has intensified, there have been
continuing incidents of professi- I" a«Hlon tMa aMi«r aMraWi
onal newspapermen being sub- j ®r. Nattan will
jectetd to indignities and hindered j dkwsaloii
in the performances of their d«- grou#» at H*oy Mplire the
ties by obsolete and inhuman prac-1 woiAI*a4 a»d tthiaal
tices of racial discrimination. noit-vlelwtt retiataMk
Ho will diaciits ‘'TIm Ptiilaaephy
and SMitcal Ro«ta of Naw Vt-
olafieo'", and will analyae tbo c«i»-
tributient of ChrMlanlty, and tha
philotophia* Oandhl. Thmrmmu,
Tolttoy and oHior*, !• the
mant *f now »lalanc a* a NMral
and MCial