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lATUROAY. NOVIMMK 4 WM igh Court Orders Ala. to Give NAACP Hearing Action im as Step Toward Reopening Organization in Ala. I -- NEW YORK—One more step to ward returning to activity in the State of Alabama was made pos- ' libie this week by a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that Alabama courts must give the NAAC? hearing by January 2 or Federal courts will hear the case. The NAACP has been barred since 1096 from soliciting mem bcrs or contributions or from carrying on any program of acti vity in Alabama. A temporary in junction halting the NAACP was issued by a state court, but since June 1, 1056, the state courts have refused to hold a hearing on th» merits of thes case. Robert L. Carter, general coun sel of the NAACP, who devised the attack and directed the strate gy in the Alabama case, comment ed that the latest Supreme Court ruling on October 23 is one “to make certain that state authorities do not continue to frustrate the NAACP’s five-year effort to test the legality of the injunction.” . In calling for Alabama to give the NAACP a hearing, the high court cited a 102 ruling which as serted; "Th* (Centtifut4dn) rccfuir#* Hiat every man thall haV* th« pretaction ef his day In court •nd Hi* b«n«fit of fh« g*n«ral law—• law which haar* b«fOr« it cend*mn«, which precMds net arbitrarily or caprlcleucly but upon inquiry, and renders |udg> ment only after trial." The Supreme Court ruling was hailed by NAACP Executive Sec retary Roy Wilkins as a “signifi cant victory n the Association’s struggle for survival against the determined assault of the Dixie- crats. It is a great tribute to the tion. skill, persistence and sagacity of Robt. L. Carter, our general coun sel, who has three V times carried this case to the Supreme Court despite the apprehensions of some who thought it a fruitless under taking.” The case originated on June 1, ^ 1056, when the attorney general ^ of Alabama, without prior notice ‘ to the NAACP and without a hear- i ing, secured a temporary restrain ing order banning ajl NAACP activities in the state. The Association filed a motion f to dissolva the temporary injunc tion, whereupon the state filed a motion to require the Association to submit certain documents, in cluding the names ^nd addresses of all its members in Alabama. Fearing that disclosure of the required information would lead to reprisals, harassment and at tempts to intimidate NAACP mem bers by threats and economic pres sures. the Association refused to reveal its members’ names. On being ordered to do so by the court, it refused to comply and was found in contempt and find $100,000. The effect of this action was to bar the NAACP from a hearing on the merits of the case until the contempt action bad been settled. Eventually, in 1057, the Supreme Court heard the case. In its de cision handed down on June 30, 1058, the Court, for the first time, ruled that the Fourteenth Amend ment guaranteeed the right of in dividuals to band together to fur ther lawful objectives without be ing required to have their iden tity made public. This, the Court affirmed, is a constitutionally pro tected right to freedom of associa- A&TtoMarkSchool's 7Otb Birthday Nov. 7 •'f GREENSBORO — A. and T. Col lege will mark 70-years of service at the annual Founders Day ex ercises to be held here on Tues day, November 7. The indoor services, set for the Charles Moore Gymnasium be ginning at 10:00 A.M., will fea ture a main address by Dr. Lewis N. Pino, director, Undergraduate Science Education Programs, Na tional Science Foundation, Wash ington, D. C. , A well knowrt organic chemist and science education specialist, Dr. Pino came to the NSF in Ifi^p and was elevated to his present post early this year. V> A graduate of the Univers.ity-of Buffs!# in New York and from whicif he received the Ph.D. de gree iit chemistry, he has taught at Atfegheny College and served as dnMi at Colorado College. Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, fifth prestdent of the College, said the obeervtnce will pay recognition to the founding fathers and to thoee who have contributed to the growth and development of the institution. TiMr program begins with a for mal military review by the Joint Corps, Air Force and Army ROTC cadets, to be held on the ROTC Drill Field, adjacent to the gym nasium, beginning at 0:00 A.M. ATTY. . Engineer! Attack A&T President To Speal( Nov. 8 At Hillsl)oro HILLSBORO — Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, president of A. and T, College and past president of Vir ginia Union University will be the principal speaker at the Orange County Teachers observance of American Education Week in Hillsboro, November 8, at 8 p.m. in the Central High School Gym- torium. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Dr. Proctor is the holder of the A.B. Degree, Virginia Union Uni versity: B.A. Degree, Crozer Theo logical Seminary, and the Th.D. i Degree from Boston University. tee. Proctor’s recent travels include a study tour of European Bap-, tist Communities in Switzerland, France, Germany, Polan^i, Czecho slovakia «nd Soviet Union. Cur rently he has been lecturing at several of the nations leading uni versities. The 1061 observance of Ameri can Education Week by the Orange County Unit of The North Caro- Una Teachers Association marks the third such program presented to the public in recent years, fea turing an outstanding educator of North Carolina. PROCTOR tive Board of The Southern Re gional Council, General Board of The National Council of Churches, National Committee 1960 Whi|;e H6use Conference of Children aiid Youth, and member of the North He is a ^ember 9f the C^oU^^tg .ii|^hj}o]’’. Co^ii^ Agronomists at North Carolina State College say it is much easi er to .increase average corn yields from 20 to 50 bushels per acre, as Tar Heel farmers have done, than | to increase them from 50 to 70. They are cpnvinced it can, be done, hoMev^i individual grow ers in the state are making up to 150 bushels per.-acre. NEW COMMANDER — Mayor William Goode, right, will short ly take over the helm at A. and T. College at profeitor of mili tary science and in command of the Army ROTC Dctachmen. A native of Norton, Va. he re ported recently at the College following an assignment in Ger many. He talks with Major Lawrenet O. Spencer, currently in (ftarve af ttie detachment, wtio is ta b« aeaeigned la a new post in Calarado. New Bennett Dorm Is Named for Mrs. Cone GREENSBORO — Trustees of, the board was the authorization of | necessary to get this matter to the Bennett College in their annual I a study covering the deevelop-1 devolpmenl committee of the board meeting Saturday named the new $400,000 residence hall for Mrs. Laura Cone, of Greensboro, who retired this year after serving on the board for almost JO ye^rs. "The choice was unanimous," said Dr. F. D. Patterson, board chairman, "and was in recog nition of Mrs. Cone's long years of service as chairman of the committee on' buildings and grounds In many ways as a trus tee." Among. oMkcr actions takeI^ by 7yearold ^ Kentucky Bourbon »095 $^so WFIFTH Ml 'Greater Efforf NCCs Theme For Second H alf of Century ^ ment of Bennett College over the next 10-year period. The study would consider the trend of enroll ment, expansion of physical plant j w i t h 4beme, and requirements in terms of en- Learning,” Df. under the chairmanship of Dr. Hen ry Hitt Crane, of Detroit, Mich. Following her annual report, “Commitment to Player was com- dowment and other resources tojmendei o» the excellence of the support any decisions which might program of instruction, this ex- be taken. I panded stuileiit body aad basic re- President Willa B. Player has; sotin*s of the coHe«e which haive been authorized to initiate steps I taken place daring the past ye^. Mississippi Must Be Our.^ Next Civil Rights Target, Urges King At about this saiiie tirae; 4ast year. North Carolina College was beginning it’s “Golden Anniversary Year” with a proud boast of past accomplishments. As the start of classes for 1061 heralded what of ficials have termed “the opening of our school half century.”' there was evidence of an entirely new emphasis. ‘‘We are justly proud of our past,” President Alfonso Elder said in an opening address to faculty members, “but we must be even more mindful of newer challenges men. in the decades ahead.” The NCC chief executive called' upon faculty members to give students better instruction on how to learn and how to think, to in crease the quality of what is to be learned, and to insist that students meet higher standards of achieve ment. This same theme ran through presidential messages to new stu dents during orientation and was contained in a special message ad dressed to returning upperclass- jH*Oa 0I8TILUN8 OlktFMNKFOKT, K£»(TUCICY . 7 YEMS . tt 0it66f BUDDING "EGG-HEADS" AT NCC—Illustrating the current "more werk and less play" em phasis at North Ceroima College at Durham is this quartet of freshman, all honor high school graduates, taking adventate of every available moment to "bane up" for cUtsreem werk. Rtvlgw- j Ing the dey** leeaen before enter ing the celtoge's gate are Audrey Bowden of Charlesten, S. C.; Anita Guess, Merrisville, N. C. Herace Richardson, Wilson N. C.; and Brenda Lyons, Lexington, N. C. Several factor^ are ihvolvetl':’ t1>e greater ckmand for competence in an increasingly technological soci ety; 'an attempt to h^lp define Governor Sanford’s “quality ed- -ucation” program for colleges and and schools in North Carolina; the pursuit of excellence for its own sake. Bat especially compelling is the concern all administrators at the college are expressing over the coRisistent failure of Negro students, en the whole, to measure up to standards of academic and intellectual achievecent set by students throughout the country. Although mindful of the well known relation between cultural background and performance on standardized tests, the NCC presi dent feels the time has come to launch a full scale attack on the problem. To explain that the majority of Negro students come from culturally impoverished families of low income, he feels, is not to provide urgently needed solutions. As speaker after duriitg the an- intellectual achievement set by complishments of NCC a notable proportion of its graduates obtain advanced degrees; students qualify for scholarships and fellowships in national and regional competition; the college was one of the first predominantly Negro colleges to be admitted to full membership in the Southern Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools and is known throughout the country as one of the best colleges in this category - President Elder express ed the view that “we may be victims of too much praise.” Praiseworthy progress, he says, is too often determined by com paring ourselves with ourselves and with no one else. The college can not be satisfied, he believes, until its students, on the whole, are competing successfully with stu dents from institutions through out the country. Referring to the sit-in demonstra tions of last year, President Elder told the faculty, “If we can some how guide our sudents to feel as strdiigly abdut imiAediate acadAnkic qu«lit3^ ai ttie^ ftel iMut et&ei forrfas of inequality, then I believe that a giant step will have been taken in solving the problem of inequality in academic perform ance.” “In this, rapidly Integrating society of ours, the graduates of North Carolina College must com pete intellectually with students from all other colleges in the country for jobs and opportunities. This competition is growing tough er each year. Not to compete suc cessfully as individuals with the best trained minds will result in relegation to lower forms of jobs and opportunities.” ATLANTA, Georgia - (attack on segregation must con centrate on Mississippi, Dr. Mar tin Luther King. Jr. told the At lanta University Center Town JHeeting last week. In answer to a "question from^ the floee, “Mississippi stands as a symbol of resistance. If we can break seg regation there, other places will fall.” In his address the chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said that he would never be satisfied until justice and freedom are realities -for all of God’s children. “We are interested in complete integration, and we will not be satsfied until we have it,” he add ed. “Token integration is little more than token democracy—it’s really a new kind of discrimina tion.” Explaining the philosophy o^llon• violence. Dr. King said it is based The next I on the principle that the means must aa pure as the ends and on tbe cptlsiMeat refusal to do Injury to anothv. Of,.ciTil jdi^bedience, he said “We are not trying to evade the emer, who practices uncivil dis- uto6dieneer*'vi)!^ining just laws as those i^, line with the mcK^ law of the onverse and unjust laws (hose inflicted oa the minority by tb« but not applicable to the nnjority, 'he said man should obey only just laws. Everything . Hitler did was “le- gai,” he said, everything the re- Mlti^ N^garians did ‘HUegal.’* Later he said “Morality may not be legislated, but behavior can be (Cgulatad. A law won’t make a iiian fovt. pie, but it can keep him tnm lynehiBg me.** IntehwtiMMdly, he saM, the world fijppt anlVoiee between noa- vialenae Mn-ezistence. • A III “^^^^^A/ways a phone at hand in a home that's Telephone-P!ann^ft New Svace-Maker phone fits cdmost af^fuihere This compact new color pbone by Gen Tel makes room for itself wherever you want it —in tba kitchen, bedroom, den, any part of the house. When installed, the dial and receiver hook can be set ia tiie pMition handiest for jren- You’ll find there’s room in your Ij^e for a Mmpaet SP^CE-MAKER* «zt«nsion phone. Order yours «i our businaM offica today. (Remember, the i phdte eoets iar Imi tku lha ffm
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