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Heir To “Daddy Grace’s” Title Comes To Durham
"DADDY GRACE" SUCOES-
SOR IN DURHAM — Biihop
Wmltar McCollough, hair lo
lai* Biihop C. M. "Sweat
Daddr" Oraca conduct! taiv-
ica in Durham during a riiit
Saturday. "Madam" Clara Mc-
CoUough, hli wlia, U aaatad at
right. Two of tha four girls
utad to fan tha Bishop and his
wifa during serrlca can ba
saan in tha photograph, as wall
as larga portrait of tha lata
"Daddy Graca," at tha raar of
tha rostrum.
VOLUME 38 — No- 22
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1M2
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County Commissioners Run-off
Decision Awaited In Durham
McCollough Trying to Blend His
With Late Cult Leader
Bishop Walter McCollough, of
Washin^on, D. C., heir of the
late “Daddy Grace” paid a fly-
one of the
THE NEW MADAM — This U
McC«iU9UsdL -wiia. of^lha auc-
1 cassor lo "Daddy" Graca.
Youth are Race
Relations Best
Hope-Mrs. Bates
Mrs. Daisy Bates, heroine of
the lfiS'7 Little Rock school in
tegration struggle, sketched a
gloomy picture of race relations
in this country, but pointed to
the emergence of militant youth
as a bright spot in the picture.
Speaking in Durham on Sun
day before an audience celebrat
ing the eighth anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s ruling on school
segreation, Mrs. Bates said:
“Today, five years after
Little Rock and eight years after
the Supreme Court decision,
we are still facing a sick and
confused world.”
liie woman who personally
faced violence and danger in
Little Rock for several months
during the fall of 1M7 and the
winter of 1958, admitted that {
■he had been discouraged over
the pace of progress in race re
lations.
“But I’ve been most encour
aged by the large army of
young freedom fighter’s in this
country,’ she declared.’
Mrs. Bates, who was catapult
ed from an obsure post as presi
dent of the Little Rock NAACP
unit to becoming one of the
most widely known women in
America after her leadership in
the 1957 school integration
struggle in that city, addressed
over 300 persons attending a
meeting at Fisher Memorial
Tabernacle on Piedmont Ave.
Several of the ci^'s civic,
business and religious leaders
took part in the celebration of
the anniversary of the Court’s
ruling.
Pointing out that America has
become a symbol of freedom to
enslaved and downtrodden
people in many lands, through
out the world, Mr*. Bate* pro
ceeded to measure the extent of
See YOUTH, page 6-A
on the last leg of a tHumphal
tour of the southern area of
"Daddy Grace” empire.
McCollough arrived in a motor
cade of three cars, including his
personal, chaffuer driven air-
conditioned Cadillac limiousine,
waved to followers gathered out
side the chtrrch, iDcated ffMWX-
boro and proctor . Streets,
preached for several ihiiiUtes,
then drove away.
Approximately 200 of the
faithful turned out to greet the
new leader.
McCollough, who had only re
cently emerged victorious in a
federal court battle over the
rightful successor to “Daddy
Grace,” had just come from
Greensboro, on the northern leg
of his tour of the southern
churches.
The tour was launched to
celebrate his court triumph as
leader of the religious move
ment.
The Durham stop was part of
the trip which had carried from
Washington, D. C. to Savannah,
Ga. and back. On the way, the
McCollough entourage stopped
to visit “Daddy Grace” church
es at Norfolk, Va., Greensboro
Charlotte, Columbia, S. C.
Savannah, Ga., Augusta. Ga.
Spartanburg, S. C., Gastonia
Concord, Salisbury and I>urham.
Included in his entourage was
his wife, “Madam” Clara McCol
lough, the “Sons of Grace,” his
private secretary. Miss Delores
Beal, eight female singers, and
his three sons, Charles, 21
Jam^s, 17, and Walter Jr.
Charles severed as his chauffer.
The new leader of the “Daddy
Grace” movement appears to be
striving to merge himself in the
minds of the followers with the
image of the late Bishop C. M.
“Daddy” Grace. 1
Many of the old “Daddy
Grace” rituals are kept in the
conduct of the church services.
Bishop McCollough’s remarks to
the flock here Saturday were
punctuatetd at each climax by
a blairing, brass ensemble,
a feature characteristic of the
“Daddy Grace” services.
He dresses similarly to the
late “Daddy Grace”, and wears
long curls on the back x>t his
head and long, curved side-
bum*.
Four young girls dressed in
white were placed on the rost
rum to fan McCollough and his
wife, who sat just off to the right
of the rostrum, during the en-
See McCOIJOTTGH, wge 6-A
Boulware Fails
To Capture
Clear Victory
Whether or not Durham will
get its first Negro member of
the County Commission appear
ed to rest in the decision for a
run-off of a former incumbent
who failed to get enough votes
to retain his seat in the County’*
primary election held here Sat
urday.
Dr. C. E. Boulware, North
Carolina College professor and
prominent churchman, finished
fifth in a ten man race for the
County Commission Saturday.
But he failed to get a majority
of the votes case, permtttlnjr
flnbhetf^Mh,
tOULWARB, B-A
Action Starts In
Savannah; Loop
Has Asheville
.SAVANNAH, Ga. (Special)
Twenty thouaaod leaflets blanket
ed torrid ;^vannah, Ga. on Sun
day mprmng as the first atep in
an ail out boycott against the
Savannah Wtute Sox, the pace-
setting 8 in the South Atlantic
(Saliyj League.
The boycott was called as a
“last resort” to end unfair gud
discriminatory practices against
Negroes perpetrated by the
Savannah club.
W. W. Law, president of the
Savannah Branch and the
Georgia State Conference of
Branches, National Aasociation
for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACPJ, sUted at the
initiation of the boycott that
“Negro support on the play field
and In the segregated bleachers
has been the life-saving factor
for the Savannah team and the
Sally League at large. We iiave
tried to negotiate a peaceful solu
tion Ui tihis unfair treatment
situation but the door has been
slammed in our faces. We have
no other recourse than to ask
Negroes to stay out of Grayson
Stadium (the home of the
Savannah White Sox) until such
time as they are treated like
human beln^.”
GRIEVANCCS OUTUMED
Following are the grievancea
perpetrated against Negro ^-
gnity by the Savanna
BM BOYcerr,
In Tar Heelia
RALEIGH—
Two Negroes running in se-
]^rate Denrocratic primnry
elections in North Carolina
Saturday failed in their bid« for
office.
J. J. Sansom, prominent Ra
leigh banker, fitiished third in
a three man field in a race to
represent Raleigh’s District 2
(southern Wake) on the County
Board of Commissioners.
Sansom polled 3,Z15 votes.
The winner, business-man farm
er Jamies L. Judd, Fuquay-Var
ina, received 6,708 votes. Fin
ishing second was Wayne V.
Brown, a businessman of the
, See ELECTIONS, page 6-A
«EtS HONORARY DOCTOR OF
OkMS DBORBi—Jobi» 4yiva«-
tar Stawartr Prasldant, Mutual
Savings and Loan Association,
Durham, was cited by Dr. Wm.
STEWART, MRS. TURNER
R. Stratsnar, |>rasidant, Shaw art at tha Ninaty-iavanth Com-
Uwlvarslty, a* an "ImHyMtfa) of nteiicemenl Bxarctsas at Stiaw
graat statute in tha fiald of University on Mandsy, M«y 26,
buiNiass." Tha dagraa. Doctor of In Ralaigh Mameriil Audlto-
Laws, wad eonfarred upan Staw* rium.
Two Durhamites Get Honorary Degrees at Finals
LUCAS
Oxford Principal Gets Vacant
Position at Hillside High School
John W. Lucas, principal of
the Mary Potter high school, of
Oxford, was appointed this week
to replace Harold M. Ho^es as
principal of Hillside high school.
City schools superintendent
Lew W. Hannen, who made
public the selection of Lucas
this week, was pleased over the
choice. “I thitik he will make a
real contribution to education in
Durham,” he said.
Lucas is a native of Rocky
Mount, e^and graduated from
Washington high school and
Shaw University. He received the
M. S. degree in Education'
from North Carolina College
and has completed additional
study at New York University.
He is one of North Carolina's
See OXFORD PRINCIPAL, 6-A
’Two Durhamites, prominent in
the national business and civic
world, were picked to receive
honorary degrees from leading
educational institutions during
this commencement seasons.
John S. Stewart, president of
Mutual Savings and Loan As
sociation and a pioneer in the
city’s civic affairs, was given the
honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws at the Shaw University
commencement on Monday.
Mrs. Viola G. Turner, teasurer
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, is schedul
ed to receive the Doctor of
Laws Degree from Morris Brown
College in Atlanta on next
Wednesday, June 6.
Stewart was presented his de
gree by Shaw President Wiliipm
R. Strassner at that school's 97th i
finals exercises held on Monday :
See DECREES, 6-A |
A Mistrial Is
Declared In
Gastonia Case
GASTONIA — An all white |
jury could not agree on a
verdict here late Saturday and a
first degree murder trial in
which a prominent white phy-
sicinn was charged with killing
ihi so £ a Negro patient end-
eu  mistrial.
jury foreman reported
at.Cl ten and half hours of de-
Iterations that it was unable to
reach a verdict. The split was
first reported 1^3 in favor
of acquittal. Later, It was re-
See GASTONIA, 6 A
TURNER
. . . to gat honorary dagraa from
Morrlt-Brown on Wad., Juna 6.
Canpip Pays
Off4Chart^
CHAXLESTON, S. C. — The
NAACP • spearheaded selective
buying drive here ha* resulted
in the hiring of Negro sales per
sonnel by at least seven down
town merchants.
Employment of Negro cashiers
and clerks by these stores was
called "the biggest l>reak-
through of Negroes Into white*
collar jobs In the city, and pro>
bably in the state,” by Charles
Wickenberg writing In The
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer.
The NAACP drive, under
leadership of J. Arthur Brown,
state conference president and
Rev. B. J. Glover, local branch
president, has been under way
for seven weeks.
The Charlotte Observer, a
major southern daily, reported
that the NAACP campaign, “is
the first sustained Negro effort
to desegregate employment, and
has had more success than the
sporadic lunch-counter ‘sit-ins’
In the past two years.”
Daily newspapers here have
been ignoring the NAACP drive
to secure employment and equal
treatment of Negroes by the
local merchants.
Brown explained that plc-
See CHARLESTON, 6-A
NCC^ Hillside Seniors Ready For ^^Big Day^^
SOME 350 TO GET SHEEPSKINS AT N. C.
COLLEGE FINALS SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Commencement activities are
scheduled for Saturday and
Sunday, June 2-3 at N6ittlr bar
olina College, President Alfonso
Elder announced this week. " ■
Beginning with the annual
meeting of the NationalAlumni
Association Satwday morning,
the finals celebration will reach
its climax Sunday afternoon at
3:00 o'clock when author Harry
Golden delivers the 37th com
mencement address. ‘Hie exer
cises will be held In the R. L.
McDougald Gjrmnaslum.
Approximately 3 SO students
are expected to receive under
graduate, graduate, and profes-
'lonal degree* from Prefident
Elder.
The Alumni Association meets
Saturday morning at U>:00 in
the Auditorium of the Ekiucation
Building with National Presi
dent George Nixon presiding.
The annual commencement play
will be staged Saturday night
In the B. N. Duke Auditoriunt
beginning at 8:15. An invitation
is extended to the public.
Activities begin Sunday
morning with the Dean of
Women’s Breakfast for grad
uates at 0:00 o’clock‘in thie Col
lege Dining Hall.
Following the 3:00 o’clodc
commencement exercise, Presi-
See N. C. COLLEGE, 6-A
Durhamite To Be HIGH SCHOOL TO AWARD DIPLOMAS
TO 228 GRADUATES ON FRIDAY NIGHT
MRS. .MOFF'TT
Honor^ At Bennett
Collesre Finals
Bennett College will honor
this week as an “outstanding
graduate” Mrs. Marie C. Mof-
fitt. Assistant State Supervisor
of Home Economics Education
in the Departbnent of Public
Instruction.
Mrs. Moffitt, who is also act
ing chairman of the department
of home economics at Nor*ii
Carolina College, will receive
her award at the All-Bennett
Luncheon, a new commencement
feature.
As an undergraduate at Ben
nett, Mrs, Moffitt majored in
frr HFNNFTT nag«> (»-A
Members of the senior class
es at North Carolina College,
and Hillside high school were
eagerly awaiting the “big day”
in their school careers, which
is scheduled to come up this
week-end for both groups of
students.
Hillside's seniors will recleve
their diplomas in graduation
exercises to be helcHit the school
on Friday night June 1 at eight
o’clock p. m.
NCC’s finals cxercise* will be
held on Sunday afternoon at the
college gymnasium. (S|ee details,
this page.)
Some 228 Hillside students
DTP. expected to get their sheep
skins at IViday night’s program.
The senior vespers *ervice waa
held last Sunday at the school.
The Rev. A. L. Thompaon, past
or of Firft Calvary Baptist
Church, delivered the address.
Jeannette Walker, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Walker,
Jr., of iB04 Dupree St., and Leon
Creed, son of^Mrs. M. B. Creed,
of 1306 Roarwood St., wiU esd-
uate as the top honor atudanta.
Walker is valedictoriMi of flts
class, and Creed is the aaiuta-
torian.
They, along with tfa(«e oCher
student leaders, wlU give i _
es at the commencement
See HILLSIDfl, ft-A