SHELD
lC. M^al IJnveils New Office Building
VOLUME 40 — No. 2
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1983
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PRICE; IS Cent*
Body of Mother Musing Since
Dec. 20 Found in Yadkin River
WAR E»D REPORTS — J.
M. Stcwari (ttvnding pr«-
skknt of Mutuiil ScTing* and
Loan Association, and John H. ,
Grewlh of 20
Percent Noted
In '62 by Bank
A Kr i.vth i«te o; slightly more
than 20 percent for Mechanics
and Farmers Bank was reported to
stockholders at the annual meet
ing of the financial institution in
Durham on Monday night.
John H. Wheeler, president ol
, thc^bank, delivered the report on
the bank’s operations last yeai
duriifg his annual ^address ti
stockholdprs. (
A large number of the firm’5
stockhulders were on hand for thi
meeting, held in the bank’s main
lobby on Parrish street.
The stockholders elected one
new director, William J. Walker
while I'eturning the others to of
flee. Re-elcctcd as directors wer»
Dr. Clyde Donnell, I. O. Kunder-
burg, H. N. Harris. C. A. Haywood,
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., E. II Merrick,
T D Parham, J J Sansom, Jr..
J. C. Scarborough, A. T. Spauld
ing, C. C. ^pauUliug, Jr., A. E.
Spears, J. S. Stewart, J. E. Strick
land, J. H. Wheeler and C W
Williams.
(Ste related story this page.)
Ihf report siiowed tiial. tho
baulc's sKietij inu'easud to more
thaa niillioi) dqiing thc^year
Assets at Hie end of lOtil wore ro
poned .lit, fa0.112,3»|i^.
The increnuc represented an ov
crall ;;rowth cf 20.8 percent.
. A big factor, in tli€ survey, ol
Jast years opcraUons wa.s tht
•opening of tlie Charlotte brunch
The now unit, ioCatfd at Beal.tie&
Ford Koad, was formally opened
last .spring.
Wheeler pointed out that 4'i
percent of tlic total increase in
amtrt gain.«i jn 1!^ wa.s recorded
by thc'Charlotip branch.
Taking a louk toward the future,
Uie bank presidont revealed hopes
jeachlng a goal of $20 m'l-
tn^^iwits by 1965.
"AltkfNlp/ last year’s earnings
wav iijlfttly uiiffer that j)Osted in
See OROWTH, 6-A
WhaaUr (right) ol Maohaniet
and Farmers bcnk, ara shown
dallTarlqg annual raports on
tha oparations al lhair ilinu
A'
NEW K. C. MUTUAL HOME
OFFICE — Hara is the archt-
tect's conception of how thf
new homa office building for
North Carolina Mutual Lifa
fforkTo Start In Spring
On $5 Million Structure
■vere missmg
ind the woman’s purse, coat, and
in^ shoe were in the car. A skirl
'jelonging to the victim was later
pulled from the river.
WALKER
WJ. Walker, Jr,
Elected Director I
At Bank Meeting
William Jay Walker, Jr. was
elected to the board of direc
tors of Mechanics and Farmer.':
Bank at the firm's annual stock
holders’ meeting held in Durham
Monday night. |
Walker wns the lone new
ftiember eleetcd to the Board be
the stockholders voted to return
tjlie incumbent directors t^ of
tice again.
Re-elected were Dr. Clyde
Donnell, chairman I. O. Funder
burg, R. N Harris, C. A. Hay
wood, Raleigh; W. J Kennedy.
Jr.,. E k Merrick, T. D. Par
ham, J J' Sansom, Raleigh, J.
C. Scarborough, Sr.. A T
Spaulding, A E Spears, Char
lotte, J. S. Stewart, J' E. Strick.
land, Raleigh, Dr C. W. Wil
liams, Charlotte, and J. H.
'wheeler. |
Walker, 53. replaces the late
Dr. L. E. ^McCauley, of Raleigh.'
on the iSoard Dr. McCauley
died last year. {
The new bank director ie a
See WALKER, 6-A '
during the annual n:eetings of
the two in.!.itulions held in
Durhem early this week.
—Photos by Purefoy
Mulual^aviflgi
Assets Increase
By is Million
Assets of Mutual Savings and
Loan Association of jlurham, in
creased by $316,995.40 during
1962 to a 4otai of $5,212,473.43
at year’s end. the Institution an
nounced at the annual share
holders’ meeting iietd 'Tuesda'y
night.
John S. Stewari, President of
the Associatipn stated that the
new mark represents a gain ol
6.48 per cent 'from assets re
ported at the end of 1961.
According to the institution’s
1962 Annual Report, net sav
ings gains recorded during the
year totaled $264,828.25, bring
ing total savings held by. the
association to an all-time high
of $4,250,792.19. .
The association also reporied
record dividend payments ol
$*158,668.08, based oir.a dividend
rate of 4 per cent.
The Annual Report also re
vealed that the association’s
mortgage lending volume rose
to a record $4,654,345.31 in
1962, approximately 9.86 per
cent above "the volupic of Ihc
previous year.
“The stronger mortgage lend
ing activities of our associati,£n.
and for the sayings and loan
business as' a whole, in the face
of a relatively modest national
demand for housing, inc^cate
that our associaiions arc steadi
ly reinforcing their leadership
,in„this field,” Stewart said.
ke forecast a slight increase | partment of Religion and Philoso
in h'
Ronda Woman
Apparent Auto
Mishap Victim
RONDA — The body of ^ young
Negro woman, who had bew miss
ing since December 20, Was re
covered from the Yadkin River
near here early Sunday.
Friends identified the body
found trapped by a large sub
merged tree as that of 21-year-old
Billie Bailey Dobbins of ..Bt. 2,
Ronda.
The young mother of one child
hnd been the si;bject of a .seareh
by as many as 125 volunteers from
nine different rescue squads since
th^ csr she reported driving .sub
mersed iii the river Decerijbet' 21.
near the ^linj||pan^'Ro4SiM'id|o
Coroner- *M. W. Green said' a
.ormal -inn^uest to determine the
cause of^deatli would be hold.
Positive identification was made
■jy two of Mis. Dobbins’ close
friepds.
Mrs. Dobbins’ husband. ■ Rufus,
a truck drh'er, was on a run to and New York City architects,
West Virginia, wtien the car was with M. A.-iHam of Durham as ^
'ound. The vehicle’s ignition key.s j associate, prbvision can be made;
nri’e door was open * for parking 300
Insurance company will look
after it is completed. Tho I
building is to be erected on
lha southeastern corner of tha
Chspel Hlll'Duka street inter- |
section in Durham. Street
shown in front of the stzuctura
(center foreground) is Chapai
Hill, and one at the right is
South Duke street.
LAURINBUM The arrnt of
tw:, Megr» •"
tcalisK N* *»lved a Laur-
inbiirc mysterj.
WlK> waa fcwitilfl 4 sumptiuris ^
two thofy brieli lMi»? !■ » fa.ihton-
able white ieetkm
.Mi* Tr»»f«iH«f 54. and
Miss iWty Pohrtim » W«-re accus
d, o# aleallnt; th* ovrr a
Icn? period of 8rOm a s-ift
whtr* one ot them employed
Thj(j|^‘ were lirfieved to fc® inv''st
jpg R in L«1nb«Br*’i myster)
mansiniL
ReaidkDta of th« neighborhood
where the home was beinj bniti ^
did not knoM who owmed it. F,n
month* it has been source of ru
mors- here.
The ftolstoB siaten pwrrhasptt
‘He lot for $8,000 through a white
agent, KHtfees said.
Police Truemiller Pnlston
was emplojred as a cook and maid
by the of the theft. C. H
Morris, a Wagro nadertakeri The
fficers gavo thi* account oi Uw
arresta:
For months, Morris anspccted
that j|u>ney. taken fronr,
the safe in ^?resid*ncc. on the
second floor ot his buainass e^
tabiiJbment, the B. Morris nuier
I al Home
Friday, while Wdini; in a claw’t
he undertaker iwpehed his BMif*
-pen the eomWnalion lodt on the
■iafe. He jumped from cower, grab
bed the maW and'’c»U«d poUc*.
Under questionin?. Miss Pols
ton implicated her' «i*ter> wlr
•vork* as a maid in Mie Seiattand
(county) JWepi'wial Hocpitzi an^
she was arrested.
The total cost of the project is will consist of 12 stories. Only the'^ard of' *1^?'litr
expected to be in the $4 to $5 two other buildings in Durham Bishop* of the ArME Zion dhurch . , , e-viral boxn and sultcasc'
million range. I rre taller, the Hill building, ol Its semi-annual meeting which Sttttcasc,
As planned, designed, and. 16 stories and the Jack Tar
New Office to Be
City^s 3rd Tallest
Norlli Carolina Mutual
Insurance company's new home
The architectural design of
JNorth Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company’s new home
office, a twelve-story sculptured
concrete building featuring a
unique structural concept has
been unveiled.
According to A. T. Spaulding
President of the firm, copstruc-' office will the third tallest
tion is scheduled to begiaf tp tift Durham, fwheii c^rnpleted.
Siwing ql 18H3 on th^Y%»;| ABcordingiao a»eha«ct's-^lans- _
Aorea’.’.slte,»t- the 'CdrAer-of.wl|litireJ»a*e4 Aljit,w«*k-b»- the B^h^-Kaynippd Jones,
Chai^l Hift and Duke StTeotjCj office in 0krhi)m, the buildfng-Fj^^^PiSfc- to I*
Tarheel to Be
Senior Bishop of
AMEZ Chur^^
engineered . by Welton Bec-
ket and Associates, Los Angeles
hotel, which has 14 stories.
White House Press
Aide at High Point
HIGH POINT — The Annual
Dinner Meeting of the Cart
Chavis Memorial VWCA will be
held on Monday, January 21.
The guest speak f for the oc-
cassion will be ANDREW T.
HATCHEfl, Associate Press Sec
retary to tlve President o‘f the
United States.
Hatcher has had ti very in
teresting and successful career
both as Educator, Editor, and
politician. .
two and three-level parking
structures placed among the
trees on the south side of the
site.
“The high rise structure will
enable us to make the most de
sirable use of the site and at the|
See BUILDING, 6-A |
“I
$100,000,000 Error |
The Carolina Times was guilty
of $100,0(10,000 error in re- |
portitag a story in last week's' [
edition on the year-end meet- {
lings of three Durham fin
ancial firms. The article re- !
ported that North Carolina '
Mut|ial had assets of $172,000.-
000 at the end °f 1961 I
while the firm's reports actual- |
ly showed assets of $72,000,-
000.
North Carolina College Campus
To ba C-D Fall-out Shelter Area
Sit^Mfig
Could Become
F|r-Reaching
GHEENSBORO — An audi
ence was told last week at A
and T. College that if the Su-. ^
preme Court renders a decision'
favorable to defendants in the'
famed ‘’sit-in” • cases, it will be
the most far reaching civil
rights decision in the history ol |
the country. |
The speaker was J. Kenneth'
Lee, Greensboro attorney, who
delivered the main address at
Harrison Auditorium on Tues-1
day morning, January 8. His ap-1
pearance was one of a series of
lectures entitled, “Significant
Issues of Our Times,” being
presented at the' coll^pge this
year. He spoke on the subject' . „ , . .
; .. ,1 smce 1956 4S a likely choice to
from the perspective of a! ''
lawyer. |
Detailing the developments in
full of new clothliC-
The a#ste*s were charged with
"rand larceny and hcM in the
county jail u»der $10,000 bond
pending a hearing aroand Janu
ary 1&.
will be held at St. Luke AME
Zion Church 7th and Church
Streets, Wilmington, N. C. Dr
A. J Blake, Pastor, January S-
12, 1963
He will succeed Bisop 'W. J.
Wall. sorved tite ^a•t-
six months. It is expected that."
Bi.shop W J Walls will again
assume the duties as secretary
which office he has held for a
number of years.
He was elected both chairman
and secretary at the July 19S3
rneeting and Bishop H. T. Med
I ford was elected to serve as sec-
; retary while Bishop Walls waa
; the chairman.
Ministers & Laymens Associa
tion will elect officers and it
is felt that Dr. E. Franklin
Jackson, Washington, D. C. i here this week that it will
would be re-elected as president.' tinue it* afloela to
The office of the first vice-pre- students gein
sident was vacated by the death while schoola ^
of Dr. S P Perry a short time | Th*
ago. This office will be filled at through'tk*
the W'ilmington meeting. Dr. G Legal Dei
W McMurray, Birmingham. Ala ' here tluh 'Mffll Jlsr
bama, who is the executive sec- be^
retary, is expected to be re- ley,
elected also. Dr I. B. Pierce. stcM
Indianapolis, Ind , treasurer ia
Thw
succeed himself.
NAACP Issues
Policy Stand
On l^redMi
I
NEW YORK — la ilM waka ^
of JaoMs More«Hlh‘* Ihra^ to
withdraw team th* UaivetaitT ol
Mississippi. k» NAACP aa
. North Carolina College has
entered into an agreement with
the office of Civil Defense, with
approval f^bm the North Caro-
Shaw U. Dept.
Head Succumbs
Supreme C;purt hearing of Wrlj^ht-MichBUX
Marriage Annulled
revealed this week.
the
Una Department of Adminstra- the “sit-in” cases, he told the
tion, to use areas on the cam- audience that more than 100 ■
pus as fallout shelters. j lawyers, both white and Negro,
The college’s role in this many of them considered ex-1 COLUMBIA. S. C. The
phase of the nation’s defense perts -in constitutional law> cnarriage of Miss Beverly Ami'
program was announced recent-1 were in Washington last Nov- Wright and Henry M. Michaux.
ly by President Alfonso Elder, ember to collaborate oa ' the jj..^ of Durham. N. C.. was an-
In making the announcement, cases which involved more than bulled here last month, it waa.
Elder also said the campus com- 1,700 arrests.,
mittee, chaired by Business He described court decisions
Manager William Jones, woul^ which deny that ownership of
work with the Durham Civil property gives fh^ owner the
RALEIGH — Funeral services Defense office in training and
fdr Dr. Moses N. DeLaney,. 45, organizing shelter personnel
wi^l be held here Sunday at the Serving on the committee Witn |
IVftirfin Street Baptist Church at Jones are Robeirt Duncan. Ale-
12:15. i xander Gardner, Marion Thorpe,
DeLaney, chairman of the De- James Price. Charles Alston,
See sit-in; 6-A
ousing and . mortgage lend
ing activities during the coming
year.
All of the firm’s officers and
directors were re-elected for the
year. Thft^ officers are E. R. Mer
rick, clfairmaqr-of the board oit
directors; John S. Stewart, pre
sident; Dr, Clyde Donnell, vice-
president; W. J. Kengcdy, Jr ,
vice-president: G. W Logan,
Sec ASSETS, 6-A
phy, died at his home on Satur
day at 508 Doby St.
and R. P. Randolph.
The follow(ing areas wiy be
used for Civil Defense on the
A Memorial services was' campus: Annie Day Shepard
scheduled to be held for him al Dormitory (Shelter; Basement
Shaw University on Wednesday ,'Rec«eation Room); Old Senior
at noon. j Etormitory (Shelter Location;
DeLaney was a native of Sum- Basement Recreation Room);
merton, S. C. tind received his Home Economics Building (Shel.
formal training at Morehouse ter Location: Basement); Infir-
Collegc (A. B.), CogAte-Roch- niary (Shelter Location: Base-
ester Divinity School (B. D-), ment Storage Room); Faculty
See DELANEY. 6-A 1 See HCC. 6-A
Daisy Bates '
Seeks Divorce
Mrs. Daisy Bates,- state pre
sident of the NAACP during the
1957 school desegregation crisis
in Little Rock, Ark., has filed
for divorce against L. C. Bates
Her suit alleged Bates had
treated her with “abuse; con
tempt. and studied ncglecf”. As
editor-publiBher of the Arkan
sas Gazette, a Veekly news-
See DIVORGE, 6 A
\
Judge Legare Bates granted
the annullment in an order
entered on Dec. 21. B|. Perry
Columbia attorney, represented
Miss Wright, who was plainulf
in the action. I
The order by Judge Bate*'
granting the annullment raad in
part: [*
’ "... the marriage was never^^
consumniated and that hj
Son of false-and fraudulmt
presentations in regard to
marriage relations and by
wn of fact that, said
have never lived togctiMr
man and wife that said
should be annulled aatf .11 i ^
ordered that the
tract entefod into betwwn
Sea ANNULLED; t-A