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VOLUME 42 No. 27 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, AUGUST. 7, 19«5 PRICE IS Cent.
8,000 Registered By
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NCM PRESIDENT VISITS NUR
SERY Just beck from the
White House Conference on
Education, President Asa T.
Spoulding, of the North Caro
President Announces Fair
Employment Meet Aug.l9-20
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Presi
dent Johnson announced Mon
day that the first White House
Conference to plan fair and ef
fective administration of Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 will be held at the De
partment of State August 19-20.
Title VII, establishing ( the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission under the chair
manship of Franklin D. Roose
velt, Jr., went into operation
July 2, this year.
The Conferences will bring
together in a series of work
shops the EEOC Commissioners
and key staff members with
more than 300 representatives
of employers, unions, employ
ment agencies, public and pri
vate organizations, state and lo
cal fair employment commis
sions to discuss the various
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St. James In Winston-Salem to Host Fourteenth Annual AM E Session of Christian Education Convocation August 10-13
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Governor Dan K. Moore to Head Welcome Program for AME Gathering in Winston-Salem Starting Tuesday Morning
WINSTON-SALEM—The 14th
Annual Christian Education
Convocation of the Second Epis
copal District of the AME
Church will be held at St. James
AME Church, Aug. 10-13, ac
cording to the Rev. Melvin
linn Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
observes progress being made
by his grandchildren Pamela
Spaulding and Frederick Moore,
(center) at College View Day
18,000 are Expected at Elks
Annual Session in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A tot
al of 15,000 Elks, coming from
all sections of the United
States, Canada, Jamaica. Trini
dad, the Bahamas, Barbados,
and the Panama Canal Zone,
•#ill march in the Grand Lodge
Parade, starting at 12 noon,
Tuesday, August 17.
.Given the green light by the
Philadelphia Police Depart
ment, headed by Commissioner
Howard P. Leary, the Parade
will assemble on Broad Street
north of Diamond. It will then
march south on Broad, past City
Hall, to Fitzwater Street, wheel
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Supervisor Mluionary
Chester Swann of Durham, con
vocation director.
Approximately 1,000 persons
are expected to attend the meet
ing from throughout the dis
trict, which consists of the
states of Maryland, Virginia,
Nursery. Also soon In the pic
ture are Elijah Fisher, IV (left),
Mark Eubanks (right) and Mr*.
Virginia W. Alston, Director of
the Nursery.
right and march past the Elks
Center, at 16th and Fitzwater
Streets, continue to 17th Street,
and disband.
Brig. Gen. Elmer C. Butler
will be Grand Marshal of the
Parade. Also in the line of
inarch will be detachments of
Ihe Pennsylvania National
Guard, Mounted Park Guards,
and the Police and Firemen's
Band.
Last year's Grand Lodge Pa
rade. in Miami, Florida, con
sisted of four divisions, com
prising 12 brigades, with 90
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HON. DAN K. MOO*!
Governor, N. C.
North Carolina and the District
of Columbia. Prelate of the dis
trict Is Bishop George W. Ba
ber.
Governor Dan K. Moore and
Dr. Maurice A. Dawkins, asso
ciate director of VISTA, will be
NAACP!
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States '
Figures Cover
Only the Period
Ending July 28
JACKSON, Miss.—The num-
of registered Negro citizens
in Mississippi has increased by
2,300 and by 1,025 in Alabama.
And, that's not all of them, ac
cording to Miss Althea T. L.
Simmons, co-ordinator for the
three-state voter registration
Summer Project of the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. In a
report released this week Miss
Simmons said the figures cov
ered only the period ending
July 28. NAACP efforts in
South Carolina accounted for
4,700 new voters being added to
the ballot books in July, she
disclosed.
Between July 14 and July 22,
Negro voter registration in
Jackson exceeded white regis
trants by a 17 to 1 ratio, Miss
Simmons reported. For that'
•veek, she said, the City Clerk's
I office reported registering 173
Negro citizens and 10 white
persons. An additional 80 Ne
groes were registered in a
single day. Statewide, Negroes
were registering at a rate siy
times that of white citizens dur
ing the period.
Other Mississippi cities where
Negroes became "First-Class Ci
tizens" included Hattiesburg—
-246, Clarksdale—4l3, Green
ville—26o, Madison County
200, Natchez—4oß, Vicksburg—
-25p, McComb—lßo, and 160 in
other areas of Forrest County.
In Alabama, where some local
registrars are still trying to
force Negro applicants to take
a literacy test which Federal
Courts have ruled unconstitu
tional 736 persons were regis
tered in the are which includes
Henry, Dale, Barbour, Russell,
Macon, Lee and Bullock coun
ties.
In the region which encom
passes Lauderdale, Colbert,
| Laurence, Morgan, Limestone,
| Franklin and Fayette counties,
197 signed up. Only 57 Negro
citizens were successful in the
area comprised of Madison,
Jackson, Cherokee, Dekalb,
Marshall and Winston counties.
A total of 773 adults were
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REV. J. T. MCMILLAN
Host Pastor
i speakers at Tuesday's welcome
program at the Robert E. Lee
Hotel. The Governor will also
be a dinner guest of Bishop and
Mrs. Baber and the Rev. and
Mrs. J. T. McMillan. Rev. Mc-
Millan is pastor of St James.
Flames Sweep Through Home
Of Aged Couple Causing Death
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WILLIAM A. CLEMENT, CLU,
Vice President and Agency
Director, North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company
was the featured speaker Wed
nesday, August 4, for the State
Baptist Sunday School and State
Baptist Training Union holding
combined sessions at the Shlloh
Baptist Church In Winston-Sal
em, with Dr. R. M. Pitts, serv.
Ing as host pastor.
Clement was introduced by
T R. Speight, Durham business
man, religious and civic leader.
Clement has been connected
with North Carolina Mutual for
more than 30 years.
MURPHY FIRST
NEGRO POLICE
RESERVIST
David J. Murphy, 29 has be
come Durham's first Negro po
lice reserve officer. Murphy has
o6mpleted his training, and has
been officially sworn in as a
reserve police officer.
Murphy is a graduate of Hill
side High School, and a local
Business College. He Is employ
ed as a janitor at the North Car
olina Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
He resides at 405 East Corn
wallis Road with his wife and
children.
Tutorial School Holds Commencement Program
WELDON—A commencement
program, open to the public is
scheduled to be held Thursday
evening, August 5, at the First
Baptist Church, 305 West Third
Street, Weldon, to mark the
completion of the six-week Tu
torial School which has been
meeting there. The time will be
7:30 p.m.
This experimental school,
staffed entirely by volunteers,
has been sponsored by the Hali
fax County Voters Movement at
the local level, and by the
American Friends Service Com
mittee (a Quaker religious or
ganization) at the national and
regional level. Final classes will
be held the following morning,
Friday, August 6.
John Turner of Roanoke
Rapids is in charge of arrange
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REV. S. S. MORRIS
SpNkir, Keynote Worship
Among other events on the
program of the four-day event
are s youth retreat directed by
the Rev. Larnie G. Horton and
the Rev. Benjamin S. Foust,
missionary Institute, headed by
Mrs. George W. Baber; a miriis-
APEX—Fire of an undeter
mined origin took the lives of
three persons here last Monday
when the flames swept through
the frame home of an aged
couple, Mr. and Mrs. Junie P.
Walden, both of whom were
burned to death in the confla
gration. Also succumbing to
burns sustained in the fire was
a daughter of the couple, Mrs.
Magnoha Stewart, 48, who died
at Memorial Hospital Monday
morning at 8:30.
Funeral services for the three
victims was held jointly at Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, near Apex,
Monday, August 2. Officiating
were Rev. T. R. Cole, who de
livered the eulogy; Rev. J. H.
Jones, Rev. Paul Bright and
Rev. J. A. Stewart.
Surviving Mr. and Mrs. Wal
den are five daughters and t'>vo
sons. The daughters are: Mrs.
Ronnie Morrison, Mrs. Flonnie
Thomas and Mrs. Doris Evans
i f Apex; Mrs. Anr.etta Reid, As
bury Park, N. J., and Mrs. Mag
nolia Stewart, Newark, N. J.
The sons are Zonie Walden and
Sam Walden of Apex.
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Bates Sick In
Little Rock
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Mrs.
Daisy Bates, heroine of the
Little Rock school desegrega-
Jion struggle of 1957, is report
ed to be improving in the Ark
ansas Baptist Hospital here.
Stricken while in the midst
of a statewide NAACP voter
registration campaign she had
organized, Mrs. Bates was re
moved to the hospital on July
10.
As president of the Arkansas
State NAACP, Mrs. Bates was
the leader in the successful
drive to desegregate Little
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ments for the evening pro
gram. Invitations have been
sent to many persons in local
churches, schools, and govern
ment. The program '*4ll include,
first, a series of presentations
by the students themselves, ty
pical of the work of this pro
ject at the different age levels.
Then local workers who have
aided this project in a varie'tfy
of ways will be recognized.
Finally an address will be giv
en by Dr. Elizabeth Wright,
chairman of the department of
Bible and religion at Queens
College in Charlotte. She is one
of three volunteers sent here
by the American Friends Serv
ice Committee, to work with
the Halifax County children
who plan to transfer into inte
grated schools this fall. The
MRS. R. W. WISNIR
Episcopal District Pres.
i ters' seminar, with the Rev.
Walter L. Hildebrand as dean,
and a laymen's workshop, under
the leadership of Vernon D.
Cowan.
The youth retreat will feature
an oratorical contest and talent
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Young Woman Succeeds In
Studies Following Court Orders
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REVEREND MELVIN CHEST-
ER SWANN, Director of the
Fourteenth Annual A. M. E.
Education Convocation to be
hsld at the St. Jamas A.M.E.
CJtqrch, Wintton-Salem, Aug.
10-13. Rev. Swann will also in
troduce Gov. Dan K. Moore who
will be the featured speaker on
the Welcome Program to be
held Tuesday evening at 8:00
c'clock.
other two volunteer workers are
Miss Stephanie Shaw, a high
school teacher of English and
history in California, and Dr.
Lee Kleiss, a professor of chem
istry at Simpson College, In
dianola, lowa.
At the commencement pro
gram many Halifax County peo
ple will receive recognition for
their active participation in va
rious phases of the school.
These participants include: Mrs.
James Bobbitt, L. Frank Bow
ens, Dr. and Mrs. Salter Coch
ran, Augustus Cofield, Miss
Betty Grace Cofield, Thomas
Cofield, Miss Zenobia Cofield,
Mrs. Glenda Davis, Miss Flo
Denny, Rev. A. I. Dunlap, Mrs.
Julia Exum, Mrs. Beulah Gal
loway, Rev. Joseph Garlic, Miss
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Missionary Installation Sp««k»r
program; the missionary insti*
tute will direct attention to
"The Pastor in Mission," and
hold a panel on "Merger of the
Negro Methodists," and the lay
men's workshop will seek ways
of improving lay assignments in
AUGUSTA, Ga.—An Augusta
hij.'h school girl has completed
a summer study of algebra,
thanks to a battery of NAACP
f.oual Defense and Educational
Fund lawyers and a federal
court.
Pamela Weston, who just
completed the tenth grade of a
private school near Augusta,
was dissatisfied with her pre
vious nl?ebra and want
ed to repeat the courses in
hopes of doing better.
The Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals ordered the Richmond
County School Board to allow
the girl to "enroll in such
courses in Algebra I and Alge
bra II as are now being offered
to white students."
The Court granted the appeal
of Legal Defense Fund Attor
neys John H. Ruffin Jr. of Au
eusta, Donald L. Hollowell of
Atlanta and Jack Greenberg
and Derrick A. Bell Jr. of New
York, who for more than a
vear have been waging a court
battle to integrate the county's
school system.
The Legl Defense Fund law
vers appealed a decision by the
U. S. District Court for the
Southern District of Georgia
•vhich refused to grant a pre
liminary injunction to prevent
the school board from closing
the course in white schools to
the girl.
Miss Weston had enrolled in
summer algebra courses at all
Negro Lucy C. Laney High
School in Augusta, but the
courses were dropped from the
curriculum there when she
turned out to be the only en
rollee. When she sought to
transfer to sessions in a white
school, officials told her she
would have to hire a private tu
tor because the county's deseg
regation plan did not apply to
summer sessions or to the 11th
grade.
The school system desegre
gated grades four, five, six and
twelve during the past school
year.
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MRS. MILVIN C. SWANM
Director, Y. D. P.
the church.
Dr. G. McLeon Bryan, profes
sor of missions and Christian
education at Wake Forest Col
lege, will be speaker at • Wed-'
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