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VOLUME 38 — No. 37 DURHAM, N? C., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1M2
RETURN REQUESTED
PRICE i 15 Cent*
23 Are Nominal In Carolina
Times Big Subscription Contest
1963 Falcon Is
First Prize In
Annual Event
MAR3HAI.1.
TWO OUTSTANDING postal
•mployees, Samuel J. Sim-
moni, left, and Henry L.
Dixon, light/ were among
•teven memberi of the Pott
Office Department to receive
special recognition Friday for
ku|>eiiox work ^rtormancv in
wri»9 »?•*
training progrcms which ex
ecuted President Kennedy'*
executive order recognizing
employee unions in the feder
al government.
Postmaster General J. Ed
ward Day at a special cere-
mony.:JUi .the Depaxtoent pre-
highest honor that can be ac
corded a postal employee, to
Mr. Simmons, one of three
members of the Post Office
Department’s Appeals and Re
view Board, Bureau of Parson
nel, and a Superior Aecom-
plishnMBt Award to Mr. D1-
Suprefne Court Justice Hugo Black
Orders U. of Miss. To Admit Negro
WASHINGTOW — Supreme
Court Justice Hugo L. Black
Moi}day ordered the ^Universitj^
of Mississippi 'to admU .^ames
H. Meredith, M, Negro as a stu-
d^t this fall.
Registration lof the fall sethes-
ttr is Sept. 19. The term opens
Sept. 21.
Meredith could not be reached
for comment.
At the university Chancellor
J. p. Williams declined to com
ment.
Black, in a two-page opinion,
set aside stays issued by U. S.
Circuit Court Judge Ben Camer
on of Meridian. Miss.
Cameron’s stays had halted or
ders of the U. S. 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals—of which
Cameron is a member—calling
for admission of the Negro to
the white university.
After Cameron’s rcpwated stays
had blocked the federal appeals
court ruling, Meredith took the
case to the Supreme Court,
Black, in his written opinion,
taid he agreed with the Circuit
Court that the stays issued by
Cameron "can only work fur
ther delay and Injury” to Mere
dith.
At the same time, he said, the
immediate enrollment of Mere
dith "can do no appreciable
harm to the university.’
In addition Black took the
See ORDERS, page 6-A
TWIN giTt GIRL
IS ADMITTED TO"
WAKE FOREST
WINSTON-SALEM — Patricia
Aim Smith, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Willie E. Smith of Ferrell
A.venue, has been admittfed as
♦ full time frestoBh day stu
dent at Wake Foi^t College
^4r^. She will Uvp at home
while attending 'classes st the
college.
Edward Reynolds of Ghana, a
sophomore, will live in the dor
mitory on campus. He and Mliss
Smith will be the first Nlegroes
admitted as full time students
working toward degree at Wake
Forest College.
Miss Smith is a graduate of
St. Anne’s Academy, of Catholic
High School here. Her ambition
is to become a lawyer.
A total of 23 persons had been
nomins'ted by Wednesday noon
of this week for the Carolina
Times annual subscription con-
te.st scheduled to begin of
ficially on September 24. By
naail and personal appearance at
the office of the Times, the
nominations have been coming
in from all over the state
well as locally.
At stake inr, this year’s con
test are three big prizes which
In^ude j^)p^ ,new ,1963 Fg
and $300 ctish as th#iniird prixe.
Twenty per cent commissicMt
will be paid to non prize win
ners.
Although the contest does not
get underway officially until
Saptomber -34 when th» first ro-
ports on sut)8criptions secured
b^ contestants will be received
thefe is evidence -that many of
{hoTC nominated have already
begun working and will be
Veady to; hand in thdr first re
port the week of September 24.
Those nominfatcd up to Wed
nesday noon are as follows;
Mrs. Mary J. Stricklin, Kin
ston.
Mrs. Marian Crutchfield, Dur
ham.
Miss Buby Devine, Durham.
Mrs. Maudie Dickerson, Mar-
garettsville.
Mr. Marvin German/ Green
ville.
See CONTEST, 6 A
0
If ClarkMn.
b*lla A. JolVMoa, ArieniivlU*,
Ala.; Msffgle Ledbetter, Break
lyn, ft. Y.i Qwrsldlne Rich
ardson, Wllsom JosepMne M.
Woods, Atlanta, Oa.
rowi Anne ' it. Allen,
Louisl|br8> Emllr J- Carrlag-
ten, Durhami Mattie B. Fisher,
Kinston; Ester Odell Jones,
Scotland Neck; Joanna Neal,
Charlotte. Third row: Jennie
REGULAR MORNING SERVICE AT 11:00
Rev. B. J. Nolen Homecoming
Speaker at St. Joseph's Sunday
ELECTED TO HOME MISSION
BOARD—Rev. J. R. Menley, pas
tor of Frist Baptist Church in
Chapel Hill was elected to the
Home Mission Beard of the Na
tional Baptist Convention at the
82nd Annual Session In Chicago,
Illinois, September 4-9.
Douglass Home National Shrine
JFK Sips Legislation Making
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Pre-1 dent Kennedy said that Fred-
sident John F. Kepnedy signed I erick Douglass was “an out-
legislation Wednesday which will I standing leader of the move-
make the home of Frederick ment for the abolition of slavery
Douglass a national shrine and .and an articulate spokesman
a part of the park system of the
National Capital.
This act of the President
cljmaxes a long effort on the
pairt of the National Association
Sunday September 16, will be
the traditional Homecoming at
St. Joseph’s A. M. E. Church:
Rev. Melvin Chester Swann,
Minister.
At 10;IS, the Sunday School
lesson will be reviewed by Dr.
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman
of the Board of Directors, North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
The regular Morning Worship
Service will begin Bt 11:00 Rev.
B. J. Nolen, editor of the
Chri.stian Recorder, the official
organ of the A. M. E. Church,
will be the guest speaker.
Music will be furnished by the
Senior Choir, Joseph Mitchell
directing and Mrs. Minnie W.
Gilmer at the console.
Rev. Nolen is a native of Hot
Springs, Arkansas; was licensed
to preach" at age 8; admitted to
the Western Arkansas Confer
ence at age 11; and ordained at
age 23. He is a graduate of
Langston High School, Shorter
for racial equality.”
At the ceremony in the White
House at which the j President
signed the measure were Sen-
ator Philip Hart of Michigan. I College, Wilberforce University,
C^ioi^ Women’s Clubs and House Speaker John McCor- and Marshall College of Hunt-
President, '*T«rs. Rosa L.' mack, Mrs. Rosa L. Gragg, Con-1 ington, West Virginia. His pas
te honor Frederick ’ gressmah Charles C, Diggs, Jr. | torates include (lurches in the
F-i... abolitionist hero' of Detroit, Mrs. Mary E. C. j Third, Twelfth, (Ninth and Sixth
was born a slave and rose; Gregory, Chaiman of Uie Dou- Episcopal Districts. During this
to international fame. i glass Trustee Board and Joseph period, he built many churches
In Signing ih* meas.irt Presl i ? See DOUGLASS, page 6-A | and psrsonagei He has serred
as dean of Shorter College and
Campbell College. In 1959 he
was elected Editor of the South
western Christian Recorder and
Editor-Manager of the combin
ed papers in I960.
Homecoming Sunday Is also
known as Family Day at St.
Joseph’s. Following the Morning
Worship Service, the entire con
gregation will retire to the As-
sembiy Room in the Education
Building for the Annual Home
coming dinner.
The afternoon scrvice will be
gin at 3:30 The guest speaker
will be Rev. P. B. Walker,
Minister of Bethel A. M. E.
Church of OreeDsboro. He will
be accompanied by his choir
and congregation, other visiting
ministers will be Rev. F. A. Me-
Iver, Apex; Rev. A. J. Holman,
Hillsboro; Rev. T. P. Duhart,
Chap^ Hill; and Rev. J. F.
Epps, Durham. Sach minister
will be accompanied by mem-
laers of bis congiegationr.
A highlight of the Afternoon
Service will be presentation of
tl^e "Ideal Family Trophy" to
the William Oilmers, who reside
at 503 Fowler Avenue In Dur
ham. The presentation will be
made by Mrs. C H. Ntxon.
'»i li^irsil
nMmlvUl their diplemas
Sunday daring commencement
exerciM held at Russell Mei
mortal C. M. E. Church. They
are I. to r.; first row, At-
temerell Smith, Garysburg;
Albany Leader
blasts National
Baptist Presklent
ALBA^rV, Ga. — Dr. W. G.
Anderson, young leader of the
of “Albany Movement” leveled
a broadside at National Bapti.st
Convention president, J. H.
Jackson of Chicago. The latter
had recently denounced Chicago
area clergyman for thoir parti
cipation in a prayer pilgrimage j mlttee stated at a press confer
Hobart Taylor, Jr. Named to
Committee on Equal Employment
WASHUN/GTDN, D. C, — Pre- crimination* at times he stated
slrient Kennedy named Hobart
Taylor, Jr., Negro of Detroit,
Monday to head the reorganized
Presidental Committee on Equal
Employment Opportunity. Tay
lor wiii have the title of opera-
ing chief.
The new head of the com-
to this southwest Georgia City
As a result, some 30-odd pastors
and religious leaders of great
er Chicago were arrested and
jailed. Jackson, reportedly
temed the participation as "an
act of hypocrisy,”
In reply. Dr, Anderson de
clared, "He’s a disgrace, not
only to the Ntegro people.
ence here today that as execu
tive vice chairman of the com
mittee he expects to get results
but will not undertake to solve
anyone’s racial or religious pro
blems.
He also stated he Intended to
see that every citizen has a
rU;':l t ^ “ Job based oh his
a',)ility, whether Catholic, Jew,
to the human race. He’s a Miss-, Negro, white man
issippi boy who’s been away so woman. All of these face dis-
long that he has no idea wliai, i
the Negro in The Deep Sout ia
up against,”
The young osteopath immedi-
ately sent a strong worded tele-1
gram to the Albany delegation |
attending the National BapHit
Convention in Chicago, Dr, ^
Anderson stated, "His (Jack
son) philosophy of preparation
not protest is not the solution
to the race problem. It is to be
condemned as incompiple.” He
further encouraged other men
of the cloth in the telegram ad
dressed I to the Rev. James
Grant, to abstain from activitief
conterprosed to the Freedom
struggle in the South.
PAPER SAYS REDS
ARE SOUTH BOUND
NEW YORK — A recent edi
tion of the New York Journal
American said that the top
four colored communists in the
nation will be assigned duties
in the south.
The newspaper listed the
four as James Jackson, Claude
Lightfoot, Benjamin David Jr.
and William Petterson. All
hold high-ranking posU in
party.
First-Grader Asks
To Attend White
Element'y School
WINSTON-SALEM — The
parents of a first-grader hove
applied for the admission of
their child to all-white North
Elementary School on the
ground* that they live closcr to
North School than they do to
all - Negro Kimberley Park
School, and that transportation
from their home to North is
more accessible than available
transportation to Kimberl^^
Park.
The Personnel and Assign-
ment Committee of the City
School Board was scheduled to
meet Tuesday afternoon to con
sider the appUcatlon. The com
mittee’s decision will be in the
form of ■ recommendation to the
the ’ full school board, which has
f'nul My on alignments.
further.
Taylor previously held the
position of special counsel of the
committcc and helped draft the
executive order which Initiated
the committee soon after Ken
nedy was Inaugerated.
He has been executive as
sistant to Vice President Lyn
don B, Johnson, the chairman
since June, He will continue in
that post along with hi* posi
tion as operating chief of the
committee.
The position Taylor now hold*
was formerly held by Jerry
Holleman who resigned several
months ago when it was dis
closed that lie had accepted a
handout of $1,000 from Billie
Sol Estes.
Senators Ervin
And Jordan Join
In Opposition
WASHINO’TON — Following
a year’s delay, Thurgood Mar-
shsH's nomination to the 2nd U.
S. Circuit Court of Appeals was
confirmed Tuesday,
The final five-hour battle
against confirination fought in
vain on the Senate floor was
spearheaded by southern Sena
tor OUn D. Jcrtinston, D-S. C.,
James O. Eastland, D-Mlss., and
Strom Thurmoqd, D-S. C.
Manlwll.
(Northern Mmocrsts aafi Re
publicans Joined forces to back
Marshall as k man eminently
qualified for the Job and the
tqtal vote opme In -M-IS for con
The only argutnknt the south
erners could came up with was
that Marshall, as former chief
counsel of the NAACP, had been
too much an advocate of civil
rights, and lacked other types
of legal experience.
Marshall has been serving on
the 2nd Circuit Court, covering
New York. Connecticut and
Vermont, stnce Octot>er 23,
1U61 under a recess appoint
ment, President Kennedy first
submitted Marshall's nomination
September 23, 1961 and resub
mitted it on January IS, 1962,
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REV. E. T. BHOWM, pastor
of Mount Vernon Baptist
Church of Durham whe was re
cently returned from the Lett
Carey Foreign Missionary Con-
ventioi; which met la Wash
ington, D. C. Kmr. Browne -
a delegate to the aaauai ses
sion where he reports a sum
of ever S3S,000 was raised for
foreign miisiona.
New "Daddy
Visits Charlotte
Headquarters
CHARLOTTE — It was re
ported this week in the daily
press that Bishop Walter Me
Cullough, who succeeded the late
flamboyant C. M. (Sweet Daddy)
□race as leader of the House of
Prayer for All People, visited
the red. white and blue Char-
lote headquarters of the religi
ous sect Sunday.
Bbhop McCullough, a slander
man with sideburns, glasses, aiM
niustache, has the kmg finger
nails, flowing hair and elabor
ate dress of Daddy Grace.
He also seemed to have his
flock of three miliion Negroes
well in hand, too. “Mb’s just
like Daddy Grace. Just like
him In every wmy, he’s -^nder-
ful,” murmered Janie Hicks, a
gray-haired menUjer of the
Grace NuAwa’ Corpe, which
carc* tor perfone become
lU during the Mrvices.
The day4oi^ program includ
ed 0 moraiMs l»pUsmal service,
a colorful pamd* and setviqes.
at the brifhtlf painted House of
Prayer for a^ ChBr
kJtte. A biiiM^ through
out muck of (W^iaur’s activities,
SwMfC DMot died in
eitriy 194Mip^^loai!h, of Wish
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