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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 37 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1»59 PRICE: IS CENTS
74 Sign Up For TIMES Contest
C-R COMMISSION *
Asks Federal
Registrars
The Commission on Civil Right* Tuesdiy handed a report
to the President and Congress that recommended the appoint
ment of Federal registrars wherever it can be shown that
mfcmbers of minority groups are being denied the right to
vote.
Three ofithe six commissioners proposed a Constitutional
amendment that would further protect the voting rights of
Kegroes and other minorities.
* The proposal for the amend-*voting requirement^ other than
ment, put forth by Chairman John
A. Hannah and Commlssioneri
Theodore M. Hesburgh and tJeorge
M. Johnson, would extend univer
sal suffrage by limiting State au
thority to the establishment of any
New Legion
Head Promises
To End Bias
NEW YORK — Affir/nltg hit
Mnvictien that th« "•iitntlal r«-
|uirtmtnts for •ligibllity in tha
Amarican Ltfllon" should not b«
addtd to by a tubtidlary organlza*
tien,' Maiptin B. McKnaaly, nawly
•lactad commandar of tha Lagien,
hai pladgad "immadlata action"
^tewardt lha alimination of racial
dtacriminatien in tha 40 A S, a
Lagien auxiliary which now hart
Nagro vatarant from mamBarahlp.
In a talagram to NAACP Exacu-
tiva Sacratary Roy Wllkint, Com
mandar McKnaally promisad to
"appoint a eommittoa to moat with
tha 40 A 8 to ditcuts and clarify
and to bring to a propar conclu
•ion this conflict." Tha talagram
to Mr. Wiikini, datad Aug. 31, was
See BIAS, Page 8
REV. SMITH
Cliurcli Marlts
80tli Year
The climax programs m a series
celebrating th? 80th anniversary
of the establishment of New Beth
el, Baptist will be held at the
Church on Sunday, according to
an announcement this week from
the Rev. L. W. R«tid, church pas
tor.
The Rev'«Rei;a stated that guest
speakers will be heard at two spe
cial programs Sunday ending a
See 86th, PaRe 8*^
those pertaining to age, residence
and legal confinement. It would
also prohibit any p««on, as well as
any State or th^ Federal govern
ment from denying a citizen's
right to vote.
Tht raport eontidar* thrao araas
of civil rlghtii dlwrimination In
It asked tliat the'Commisal^.^tf
extended, be permitted to set up
an advisory and conciliation serv
ice to help local school officials
develop plans for the transition
from segregated systems to de
segregated systems. And it sug
gested that the Commission serve
as a clearing house for informa-
lion. about procedures used in^
segregation.
In housing, the report urged that
the Federal Housing Administra
tion and the Veterans Administra
tion strengthen their present
agreements with cities and states
having anti-discrimination housing
laws by requiring that builders
using FHA and VA machinery
agree in advance, in writing, to
abide by those laws.
I> also asked tha Prasldant to
Issua an' axacutivo 'ordar directing
ail Federal agencies to shape their
.policies in accordance with "the
wee k-long observance of the
church’s anniversary.
Attorney Floyd B. McKissick,
prominent layvyer, will speak at
the regular 11 O’clock service.
The Rev. H. Albert Smith, pastor
of Shady Hill Baptist, of Roxboro,
will address a special one O’clock
See REGISTRAR, Page 8
Big Prizes to
Be Given Top
N.C. Beauticians
MR. ROWLAND
Carey Laymen’s League,
The Rev. E. T. Browne, pastor
of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, de
livered the eulogy at Sunday after
noon’s funeral services. Burial
rites were conducted at Beech-
wood cemetery.
The deceased had been a mem-
ter of Mt. Vernon Baptist for 30
years and was active in many
phase of the church’s life. He
lived at 825 Ridgeway avenue.
Born on May 17, 1905, in Milton,
son of the late Henry and Mary
M'itchell Rowland, he came to Dur-
in 1921.
On April 13, 1937, he was mar
ried to the former Mrs. Annie B.
Peeples, who survives him.
Rowland bbgan work at North
Carolna Mutual life insurance
company’s home office in 1043. He
was employed by the firm at his
See RITES, Page 8
A total of 74 beauticiaaa were
nominated in the Carolina Tiipei'
Beauticians subscription and pop
ularity Contest this week at presa
time Tuesday noon. Nomiiiations
were cbntinulng to come in from--
all sections of the ^te and winl
be listed in next week’s issue.
Several beauticians were nom^
nated by friends from two to six
times. One received 11 nominat
tions, but the contest manaipr, A.[
E. Hart, stated that it was against
I'he rules ta designate by name how
many timas a particular be)uti-
cian it nominated.
Voting in the contest will not
get undeway until the September
IB issue of the Carolina Times
when a coupon will be published
and remain in each issue of the
paper for the entire six weeks of
the contest.
’/riendt, relative* and customer*’
of a baaifl'lelan may yet*
Wi>lr» tawrtOr -at di
^iclii
cdu^idn' from a copy M tha Caro
lina Timet and writirtf the name
of their favorite beautician on it;
''hen mail or bring it ^ fha Con-
tett Msnagar, Carolina ‘^imtt, 436
Eatt Pkttigrct-v Straet, Durham,
N. C.
In addition to the regular cou-
T.ott Don votesj extra bonus tqtes will
be given for each subscirotion ob
tained by or for a beautician dur
ing the six ^eks of the contest.
Renewal of ^d subscriptions will
count the same as a new subscrip
tion.
Those nominated up t* press
time this week are as follows:
Miss Hazel Ragland, Aiiglef
Miss Janie Graham, Maxton
Mrs. L. M. Reece, Laurinburg
Miss Margaret Pemberton, Rock
ingham
Mrs. Ophelia Thompson, Aber-
d-n
Mrs. Flossie Fergerson, Pinehurst
Mrs. Lula Therdgill, Southern
Pines
Mrs. Inex Goodwin, Fayetteville
Mrs. Iona Clay, Greensboro
Mrs. Ethel Harvey, Fayetteville
Mrs. Ema Peterson, Clinton
Mrs. Mamie Mack, Dunn
Miss Cleo Howard, Roseboro
Mrs. Helen Plater, Sanford
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman, Greens
boro
Mrs. Willie Smith, Greensboro
See CONTEST, Page 8
MRS. LENNON
Police Mal(e Quid( Arrests of It Youngsters;
Burton Scliool Damage is btimated at $2,000
Shock was the reaction registered by Durham citizen's thi'i week to a rampage of raa-
dalism in which II young boys, ranginj; in agts fnnn 7 to 14 brought $J,000 worth of dam-
We Saw It Coming
Last. Rites Held
For Prominent
Baptist Layman
A capacia ;rawd Mt nicrfc thaQ
1,000 i|aidi*Wtjgi
Tommie Lwjis Rowland, protntaenrt^^y sim^yielipping the
Durham Baptist layman, at -Mt.
Vernon Baptist Church last Sun
day.
Rowland was fatally stricken
suddenly at Charlotte last Thurs
day, September 3, as he attended
the Lott Carey Foreign Mis
sion convention. He was 54.
MISS BENNETT
NEW YWCA STAFFERS — Pic
tured above are two n*w addi
tions to 11»e Harriett Tubman
YWCA staff in Durham. Top It
Mrt. Claire Lennon, of LeOrange,
Ga., veteran educator who begint
dutiet as residence director. At
bottom It Mitt Shiriey Bennett,
of Bracey, Va., • June graduate
of SiiMiMtt Collew. Mitt Bennett
■ it atittant-Frvgram Director and
ram Director an«
Tee**-Age Health, Physical Eduaa- |4 _
I age to Burton elementary school.
I The vandalism occurred over the Labor Day w eci-eiil. on Sunday and ilonday. By mid
week, six of the younggters had»
' had been confined in the County HiJLIl 1 UKlALj
detention home and five others
returned to their parents but a-
waiting actioi by the juvenile-
court.
Quick apprehension of the
youngsters was made through
the swift work of Detectives
Frank MtCrae and C. I>. Cox,
who drew praise from the De-
partment for their swiftnes in
solving the cate.
They were notified of the acts
on Tuesday morning and had
placed the youngsters in custody
by Tuesday aftertioon.
All of the youngsters lived in
the Bur'ieit school area, and all
but two i^ended the school.
E. W. Mldgette, Burton school
principal, told newsmen he was
“shocked’*'o leam that the young
sters had taken part in the wild
wrecking party at his school.
Similar exprettiont came from
other tchool official! and cit-
iient throughout (he city.
Dr. Walter Brown, newly elect
ed president of the school P. T. A.
said, “how can react but with
horror and alarm and wonder a-
bout contributing factors to such
behavior?
However, he said he expected
the PTA's program for the year
would reflect its concern for
the impllcattont of problertM
raited by the incident.
According to Detectives Mc-
Crae and Cox, a group of fiwe
youngsters entered the school on
Sunday evening, did minor dam
ages and Uft after taking some
frwik tfce
tion and Recreation Director.
See SHOCKBD, Page 8
Mt. Vernon Plans Addition
Of $150,000 Education Plant
}
_y,ernon Bap^ Church,
located at 1000 South Roxboro
Street, will erect a new education
al building, it was announced here
Monday by the pastor, the Rev. E.
T. Browne.
The present main building was
erected in 1941. It houses the canc-
tuary, pastor’s study, church office
and a basement which is used for
Sunday School and other church
auxiliaries. The need for an edu
cational building to provide reli
gious and recreational training
for the young people of the church
has long been felt Rev. Browne
stated.
The total cost of the new struc
ture will be $155,000 and is to l>e
erected on the vacant lot adjoin
ing that on which the church
structure is located. Work is ex
pected to begin October 1 and is
expected to be completed in little
less than a year. M. A. Ham is the
N. CINCLUDED
Mass Attack
Illiteracy In
To Be Waged On
Four Dixie States
BRASSTOWN—The first mass
attack on illiteracy among adults
in this country will be made in
the Carolines, Alabama and
Eastern Tennessee soon.
It vt^ll be made by The Lite
racy Moyement in the South
east with Alabama cooperating
and will offer more than one
million adults an opportunity to
learn to read and write or to
re-Iearn skills they may have
forgotten.
The lessons will be given as a
public service over a special
group of 10 commercial tele-
vition ttationt which will cover
North Carolina, South Carolina
and the eattern third of Ten
nessee. The state educational
network, with three telecatting
outlets, will cover Alabama for
the Alabama Literacy Move
ment which will begin at the
tame time.
The movement, an outgrowth
of the highly successful pilot
program over WBTV in char-
Hotte last winter, was announced
iy Mayes Bshrman, head of the
Literacy Division of the John C.
Campell Folk School at Brasstown,
and director of the Literacy Move
ment in the Southeast.
Between now and January when
the first lesson will be presented
by the participating commercial
television stations, hundred.s of
volunteers workers will be needed,
to cover So wide an area.
“And - there is every reason to-
believe that they wi^l volunteer”,
said Behrman. “E^erience, first
over the educatijnul station in
Memphis, Tenn,, and last winter
over WBTV in Charlotte, has
deary demonstrated that adults
who missed the opportunity to
learn to read and write early in
life still want to learn.”
“What is equally important,”
said Behrman, “the experience has
shown that the modem medium to
television can be used with com
plete success to teach reading
and writing to adults. This re
presents a major break-through in
the technical problems of teaching
adults.”
“This movement^” Behrman
said, “will give adults their second
chance.”
In the area to be covered —
North Caroling South Carolina,
Eattern Tennett^ apd\Aitbama—
there are mor^^Vlun eiU. million
adultt(35 years of age or over) who
are clattified as functional liliter-
atet. Thit meant they have fewer
than five years of public schooling
and, generally, have great diffi
culty with even the mott elemen
tary readnig or writing.
One person out of every five in
the area, then, has difficulty with
effective reading or writing.
There are more than 200,000
adults in the same, area who have
never had any formal education.
In North Carolina, nearly four
adults out of each 100 have had no
formal education. In South Caro
lina, five per cent of the adult
population missed school. In Ala
bama, 4.5 per cent of the adults
did not get to go to school at all
and in Eastern Tennessee the per
centage is 2.7.
/I
architect and S. 0, Gantt and Son,
When completers the educa
tional building wil^ be one of the
finest in the city with three stories
that will house a chapel, Sunday
School rooms, oflkes and other
departments necesaary for a well-
rounded church prpgram.
Rev. Browne took over the pas
torate of Mount Vernon January
1, 1948, following the resignation
of Rev. J. H. Thomas. Since com
ing here the church has grown
numerically and spiritually. Dur
ing his pastorate a farm has been
purchased which is used at times I
for picnics and other church out-
See MOUNT VERNON, Page 8 |
In our is.sue of Satunlay. Augu:^t 1 we endeavored to warn
the people of Durham in a front page story that the Hayti
section of the city was ht-coiniiig infested with gangs of young
)(ilitnis. W’e fiid this because we felt it was our bounden duty
as law-abiding citizens to not only upbjid the law hut to do
our i)est to aid police by alerting them as to what we had dis
covered to be a fact. In spite u( our warning, there were many
citizcn.s who “pooh poohcd" the story as being e.xag^rated.
Thanks to Durham’s police department, for the most part
immediate action was taken to halt the trend toward dWre-
gard for law and order which we round to be existing in setQC
sections of the city of Durham.
It U ^he duty of a newspaper to keap ita Royara aa tk*
pulse of its constituency so that it may know wWt ia foiac
on among sdl segments. Unless it ckiea thia, it eiMMot iatar-
pret correctly the feelings, attitodea, hopca and aspir*t*i na»
of the people it endeavors to senre. Bacsnaa wc 1un« doaa
this very thing we saw coming the typa of rabid vaedaBaaa-
which occured at the Burton F.lementary SdooL Not os^
this, we now predict that unless thia city oMkaa aa emasssyla
of the eleven youths who were involved there will ba aaora
such acts to follow.
Practically vvery Negro section of Durham is already
sprouting gangs of irres|)onsible youngsters who have no le-
gard for adults, law and order or the church. Although, for
the nio.+t part, such groups have not quite' reached an organized
state they do roam the streets and operate in numbers the
same as organized young hixjdlums in larger cities. We think
this was definitely proved in the Burton School caee as it has
been in some others about which we have bean informed.
We do not attempt to say here who or wli^ ia raspatwiUa ^
I for the vsuida^.sm which occorrad at Barton rViaa iilai j
Sdltoot. Our gref^est concern, idtd that of 4vasry raapartahla
ciOlzoi of Qvrham, should be to put forth every effoi^ to sea
to it that it does not hsippen again. Wbaterer remady it takea
to halt the trend toward lawlessnass wfaicb exista ■matu
certr.'n segments of Durhsun’s young people abouU be ap
plied and applied with due diligence immediatciy. Aa an
exsonple for others, the youngsters wha did tba ihuaga sit
the school and all others should be made to underataad that
they cannot get away with such condoct withoat Mffcriag
With this in mind we call upon every individual agen^* ipr
good in the city of Durham to cooperate with our policc der
partment by reporting even the slightest case of lawlessnesa
or disregard for the law wherever and whenever it occurs.
TmTlred of You... "Wife Tells
Hubby Before Firing Fatal Blast
By ALBERT E. HART AND
CHRISTINE KELLY
Roosevelt Worthy, 52, was sit
ting serenely on the baekporch of
Lincoln Hospital to Graduate 9
Nwses in Exercises on Friday
MftS. OSBORNE
Commencement plans are now
being completed by the Lincoln
Hospital School of Nursing for its
Fifty-fourth rraduating Class
The four days of activity begin
Friday, September 11, with a re
ception at 8:90 P.M. honorin,' the
members of the graduating class
at A. B. Duke NurseS’ Residence,
Asistant Director for General Ad
ministration. National League for
Nursing', will deliver the Commen
cement address Monday, Septem
ber 14, at White Rock Baptist
Church at 8:15 P. M.
his home at 1918 Lutheran SL,
Greensboro, last Sunday moming.
It was a rainy dismal mining and
this large metropolitan city wa*
just gettiog into the swing of th
windup of the long Labor Day
weekend.
Somewhere nearby a cfaorch beQ
clanged through the miaty gloom
calling the faithful to worship.
But most citizena went al^d. rest
ing watching television eating
Sunday morning breakitst. B a-
cause of the inclemaacy of tha
weather it wa^ a bit quieter thaa
the average sabbath neom.
Suddenly a loud retart shattered
the gloomy quiet. Neighbera
The finals speaker received her| j^rugged the noua o« as aa auto
formal traning at Columbia Um-| or a cJap of thua-
versity, where she earned the bach-
elor’s and master’s degrees.
Mrs. Osborne has had broad ex-
The noise came froB • shotgna
perience in institutional and public! fired by Lillie Mae Bynum Wor-
health nursing. She has been on; thy’s reported commoa-law wifa.
staffs at the Harlem and Lincoln |
hospitals, of New York, Freedman’s i
of Washington, D.C., and Homer G. j
Phillips hospital, of St. Louis. Mo.
She was a consultant with the Na
tional Nursing Council for War
service during World War II, as
sistant director for General Ad
ministration of the National League!
for Nursing since 1954. j
She is life member of the NAACP |
and the National Council for Negro i
Women, active in a aumber ofj
other community organizations and;
a meml>er of Alpha Kappa Alpha i
sorority. ;
Some nine graduates are to re-i
ceive nursing diplomas at the ex
ercises. Graduates, and their home
'terinlnatinf MCn^Xi September t«wn», are Maurice Otelia Blount, i
14. ' } Suffolk, Va.; Ruby Bell Barden,
Mrs. Estelle M. Osborne, ft. N., See HOSPITAL, Page 8
The man was rashed to Riehaid-
son Hospital where he died aa
hour later.
According to police reports
Lillie Mae Byntun had been caU-
ing herself “BIw. Worthy” f«
several years. However, she said
on Sunday that she was aat B^I-
ried to Worthy, oScers aid.
Police said she aad Werthy had
argued before the shootiag. They
said Worthy accused bar of taking
money aad “spaadiag it oa other
men.’*
FoUowiag Um arguaant. oartrt
said she retaraad ta Iba baafc
door with the gun. patalad it aat
and pulled tba trigger. Juit hefoM*
firing. aceenliag«la aSMta, ab*
told Wortbir “rm al
accusing me aC tU^ I
S«T MMBOO. Pa«B a