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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1819.
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 30
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1951
PRICE TEN CENTS
Pittsburgh Agents Of N. C. Mutual Win Trip To Home Office
The Pittsburgh Agency Organization of North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company visited Durham last week-end. The
Organization qualified for the trip as the result of outstanding
performances in various phases of the Company’s work during the
first six months.
The above picture shows the group standing before the chart
ered bus which brought them to Durham. Kneeling left to right:
L. B. Frasier, Regional Supervisor; D. C. Deans, Jr., Vice-President
Associate Agency Director; Debit Managers Sirmons, Mosley; As
sistant District Manager George Sparks; Debit Managers Trent,
Gary, Boykins; Special Ordinary Agent Phillips; Assistant Manager
Davis; Debit Managers Griffith, Wright, Whitaker, Levy and Dar
kins.
Standing left to right: Cashier-Clerk Carroll; Debit Managers
Batch, Philan, Thompson, Lewis; R. Bolden, Finance Department,
Home Office; District Manager J. D. Lewis; Debit Manager Wash
ington; Assistant Cashier-Clerk Poindexter; Assistant Manager
Maude Hawkins; Debit Managers Holmes, Hawkins, Ivory, Nel
son, Alexander, Posey; Assistant Managers Abies and Campbell;
W. A. Clement, Assistant Agency Director, and G. W. Cox, Vice
President-Agency Director, standing in the door.
While in Durham the group spent Friday visiting the various
deartments of the Home Office; a Mutual Family party at the Al
gonquin Club on Friday night; Mrs. B. A. J. Whitted entertained
for the ladies at breakfast Saturday morning; sightseeing tour
Saturday afternoon, and a Winners’ turkey dinner at Mrs. Whit
ted’s Saturday night. The group returned to Pittsburgh early Sun
day morning after a very enjoyable visit to Durham and to the
Home Office of the North Carolina Mutual.
Wind Fountain, Washington—
One hundred teen-age Girl
Scoutts, representing various
nationalities and races from
fourteen countries gathered here
for' three-weeks international en
campment, are devoting much of
their time to discussion of the
economic and social problems
underlying conflicts among
people, in their efforts to devise
ways in which they can further
promote good human relations.
Florence Miller, young Negro
girl from Chicago, who traveled
in Europe last year, summed up
the feeling expressed by many
other campers by saying: “We
appreciate and understand each
other and our different problems
by meeting and getting acquaint
ed. Living together, eating to
gether, and discussing likenesses
and differences, will help our
charaacter development in such
a Way that we will become better
thinking and reasoning citizens
of the world.”
An American Indian, Mary
Penoi Conover of Oklahoma
City, declared that “nations
could work together as well as
campers do”; and Norma Beach,
white, of Chevey Chase, Md.,
commented: “It is understand
ing that we need so dsperately
to develop.”
“How often we classify the
beliefs, the customs, and the
actions of other nations unfor
giveable wrong,” Miss Beach
said, “And how often in our
history, have we forcedly im
posed ‘the American way’ upon
others, believing that our way
was not only the right way, but
the only way.”
According to Barbara Burris,
white, of Kansas CCity, Fo., al
though only a few girls can have
the opportunity to take part in,
this international camp living,
“those few can, by sharing the
experience with others, help to
break down the walls of intol
lerence among nations, races,
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Chapel Hill
Council To Hold
Mass Meeting
The Reverend K. O. P. Good
win of the Mount Zion Baptist
Church, Winston-Salem, will de
liver the principal address at
the Mass Meet
ing celebration
of the First
Anniversary of
the Council on
Negro Affairs
of Chapel Hill
and Vicinity,
Sunday, July
29. This ser
vice will be
held at the
Rock Hill Bap
tist Church at
4 p. m. The
Reverend J. K. Maniey ls yasiui
of the host church and first
president of the Council.
Officers for the incoming year
are: the Reverend D. W. Roston,
president; Dr. Charles Thomp
son, vice-president and treasur
er; Mrs. Esther Atwater, secre
tary and Mrs. Lula Nicks, as
sistant secretary.
Members of both races are ex
pected. James Riggsbee and Miss
Velma Perry are co-chairmen of
the program committee.
Appointed
Dr. W. J. Trent, president of
Livingstone College, who has re
cently been named to the Board
of Education of Salisbury. Dr.
Trent is the first of his race to
serve on the board in that city.
Salisbury Appoints First Negro
Man To Board Of Education
Salisbury — Dr. W. J. Trent
president of Livingstone College
here, last week became the first
Negro to be appointed to the
City School Board of Salisbury.
Dr. Trent fills one of the va
cancies left by two members
whose terms had expired.
The appointment of the na
tionally known educator to the
school board, came on the heels
of recommendations made by
the PTA to the City Council
that a Negro be appointed to the
board.
The PTA group, however did
not submit the name of Dr. Trent
as a possible appointee.
Dr. Hubbard Gives Minority
Report On Ph. D. Meeting
Dr. J. M. Hubbard, Durham
dentist and only alumni member
of the board of trustees of N.
C. College, let it be known here
this week that he never was in
favor of adding Ph. D. courses
to the curriculum of N. C. Col
lege.
In a prepared statement for
the press and released following
the meeting last Wednesday,
July 18, Dr. Hubbard gave four
principal reasons why he oppos
ed the move, all of which appear
to be of sound reasoning and in
direct contrast to the official
statement issued by N. C. Col
lege trustees in which it agreed
to inaugurate the Ph.D. program
in September 1952.
Dr. Hubbard’s statement is as
follows:
The question of adding a Ph.D
degree to the curriculum of N.
C. College at Durham has
been discussed by the separate
Trustee Boards and a joint com
mittee of the two Boards for sev
eral weeks. I have not been able
to agree with the idea and pur
pose of the Ph.D. degree at North
Carolina College and have so
expressed myself through all the
discussion of the matter. I have
disagreed mainly on these
points:
1st. Because of the orgin, pur
pose and intent of the idea, to
deflect qualified Negro appli
cants from registering at the
University of North Carolina in
any appreciable number.
2nd. I feel that in the face of
court decisions of educational
equality for all, as brought out in
the recent decision of the law
school at North Carolina College
that any decision on the part of
any committee or board to cur
cumvent such action is only a
delaying measure, to be broken
I down by futher law suits in the
Opposed Ph. D.
—Dr. J. M. Hubbard, Durham
dentist and only alumni member
of the N. C. College trustee
board who opposed the inaugu
ration of Ph. D. courses at a
meting of the board here last
Wednesday. Dr. Hubbard’s full
statement on the matter appears
on this wek’s front page of the
Carolina Times.
future.
3rd. The Negro race has not
produced enough students with
experience and discipline at the
doctoral level to make available
sufficient personnel to head up
and supervise a Ph.D. degree
course at North Carolina College
The visiting professor idea as
experienced in courses leading
to the masters degre has been
very unsatisfactory.
4th. It is admitted that the
undergraduate and the graduate
courses up to the masters level,
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Nine Teachers
Register For
NEA Meeting
Washington, D. C.—Nine Ne
gro teacher-leaders and students
were among the approximately
70 leaders registering for the
6th annual Institute of Organi
zation Leadership being held at
the American University, July
23-August 17, under the sponsor
ship of the National Education
Association and the University.
Leaders of Negro teacher or
ganizations in Arkansas, Ken
tucky and Texas, and students
from colleges in Florida, Georg
ia, Louisiana, Maryland, Penn
sylvania and Tennessee are par -
ticipating in the four-week
workshop.
The NEA granted full scholar
ship assistance to each of the,
students, except the one from
Pennsylvania, where Ernest
Berry, Jr., Cheney (Penna.)
State Teachers College student,
is attending the institute under
a grant from the predominantly
white Pennsylvania State Educa
tion Association.
As president-elect of his
state’s Future Teachers of Amer
ica Association, young Berry
heads the nation’s largest state
FTA college organization. Penn
sylvania has 24 college and uni
versity FTA chapters with al
most 2000 members.
Recipients of NEA in-college
scholarships are Edwin H. Ham
ilton, Florida A. and M. College,
Tallahassee; Carolyn Gladden,
Savannah (Georgia) State Col
lege Janie Powell, Southern
University of Louisiana, Baton
Rouge, and Magdalene Carney,
Tennessee A. and I. State Col
lege, Nashville. Schorlaships
were available to FTA chapters
in the District of Columbia and
Virginia.
Professional leadership per
sons at the workshop include
Frank W. Smith, executive sec
retary, Arkansas Teachers As
sociation, Little Rock; R. L.
Dowery, president, Kentucky
Negro Education Association,
Shelbville; and O. A. Rowe,
Texas State Teachers Associa
tion. These participants are
sponsored by their state associa
tions.
Transportation for the student
scholarship recipients were cov
ered by their institutions, while
their NEA grants will defray
tuitions, books, lodging and
other incidentals of the four
week institute. All are housed at
the American University.
"PAGE ONE AWARD”
PROGRAM FRIDAY
1951 Recipients Of “Page One Award”
Pictured above are three of
the participants in the annual
“Page One Award” program to
be held here Friday evening at
eight o’clock in the Hillside
High School auditorium. Read
ing from left to right, Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, noted business leader
Lt. Ellison C. Wynn> Korean
War Hero and C. O. Pearson,
outstanding North Carolina at
torney and leader. The principal
address of the occasion will be
delivered by the Honorable Wil
liam L. Dawson, of the First
Congressional District of Illi
nois.
Lott Carey Executive Secretary
Raps "Restrictive Covenant" Of
North Carolina Real Estate Company
Washington, D. C. — The ex
ecutive secretary of the Lott Ca
rey Baptist Foreign Mission Con
vention blasted a North Carolina
real estate company here last
Friday for its policy of restrict
ing properties it was selling at
Kill Devil Hills to the “white
race only.”
,In a letter of straight forward
contents, Dr. Wendell C. Somer
ville, who is a Negro and execu
tive secretary of the convention,
blasted the Avalon Beach Realty
Company for awarding him a;
“full size lot” in Avalon Beach
on which he might build, hold
or sell, and then inserting in the
letter that the resort is restrict
ed to the “white race only.”
The second letter which Dr.
Somerville received from the
realty company on July 20, ad
vising him that he was the re
cipent of a lot in Avalon Beach
was as folows:
AVALON BEACH REALTY CO.
P. O. Box. 51
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
July 9, 1951
Mr. Wendell C. Somerville
Rt. 1 Box 122
Como, N. C.
Dear Sir:
We are pleased to inform you
that in conjunction with our 19
51 advertising campaign you
been selected from your district
to receive an allotment of a full
size lot in Avalon Beach, Kill
Devil Hills, North Carolina.
Instead of spending all of our
advertising money in newspap
ers and on the radio, we have set
aside an allotment of full size
lots with all shore privileges,
and are alloting them to people,
in several sections. We think that
as a result of you aquiring a lot
here, your friends will also pur
chase lots in Avalon Beach. This
is not a free lot plan. We are
making these allotments because
we fell that word of mouth is
the best form of advertising we
can devise and plan from which
we both benefit.
You are not required to pur
chase an extra as all lots are
full size. You may build on this
lot or sell or hold.
Avalon Beach is in the fast
developing Kitty Hawk, Kill
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Odd And Ends Dishes Needed
Reverend E. T. Browne, pastor of Mount Vernon Baptist
Church, stated this week that plans for entertaining the Lott
Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention which meets here
next month are shaping up nicely. Reverend Browne stated
that he highly appreciates the spirit of cooperation that is be
ing exhibited by the people of Durham in offering to help in
any way they can to make the convention a success. He stated
that the greatest need now is dishes to be used for the church
dining room. Persons having odds and ends dishes who
would like to contribute them to the church are asked to call
the Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 5-0331 or the CAROLINA
TIMES, 5-0671. Dishes donated to the church will be called
for.
U. S. Supreme Court To
Hear Clarendon South
Carolina School Suit
Charleston, S. C., With the fil
ing of a petition of appeal in the
United States District Court here
Friday, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People entered the second stage
of the fight to abolish segrega
tion in the public elementary
and secondary schools in near
by Clarendon County and there
by set a precendent for the total
abolition of segregation in public
education.
The Petition, filed by Thur
good Marshall, NAACP special
counsel appeals from the major
ity opinion handed down on
June 21 by a three-judge federal
court, upholding a provision of
the South Carolina Constitution
requiring the separation of the
races in public schools. The NA
ACP suit, brought in behalf of
Negro school-age children and,
their parents residing in School
District No. 22 of Clarendon
court on May 28-29, challenged ]
the validity of the state’s con
stitutional provision and sought
a decision declaring it in viola
tion of the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the United States Con
stitution. With Judge J. Waties
Waring dissenting, Judges John
J. Parker and George Bell Tim
raerman concurred in sustain
ing the right of the states to
impose segregation of the races
in public education.
VITAL STEP
The petition filed today is a
vital step in an effort to place
squarely before the United,
States Supreme Court the issue
of the validity of states’ consti
tutions and statutes requiring,
segregation. Recent decisions, as
in the Sweatt case, the petition
points out, tend to undermine the
doctrine of “separate but equal ’
formulated in the famous Plessy
v. Ferguson case. The NAACP
notes that these decisions, to
gether with current social trends
have created “serious and wide
spread question as to the legali
ty and the duration of segregated
public elementary and high
schools.” Such doubts, the petit
ion asserts, “the Supreme Court
should settle by a definitive de
cision as to whether racial sep
aration in public elementary and
secondary schools is a constitu
tionally possible pattern which
may serve to guide the future
^endeavors of scholars and school
officials.”
RACIAL LAWS ILLEGAL
The appeal is based upon the
• contention that statutory classi
jfications based solely upon race.
|or color violate the federal Con
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Mayor Evans To
Welcome Cong.
Dawson To City
The Durham Press Club’s biggest
“Page One Awards” program
will get under way here at 8:15
o’clock Friday night in Hillside
High School Auditorium. Radio
Station WSSB plans to broad
cast parts of the proceedings.
Mayor E. J. Evans of Durham,
will introduce the main speaker
who is U. S. Representative Wil
liam L. Dawson of the First Con
gressional District of Illinois.
Representative Dawson, a na
tive of Georgia, and a former
alderman in Chacigo ,is the Na
tion’s highest ranking Negro
Democrat. He is regarded as.
one of the ablest counsellors in,
the Democratic High Command
around President Harry Truman.
Page One Awards this year
will go to Dr. C. C. Spaulding,
noted business man and disting
uished national figure in public
service activities; Conrad O.
Pearson, chairman of the NAA
CP’s Legal Redress Committee,
and Lt. Ellison C. Wynn famous
Durham hero of the Korean
War.
Among the participants in
Friday night's program are
Press Club President L. E. Aus
tin; J. A. Tarpley, who was Lt.
Wynn’s high school principal;
Samuel J. Battle, Police commis
sioner of New York; the North
Carolina College Summer School
Chorus; the Rev. H. H. Hart and
the Rev. J. A. Cannon.
Lt. Wynn also is scheduled to
receive a token of appreciation
from the citizens of Durham. I
O. Funderburg, commander of
the Weaver McLean Post No.
175 of the American Legion, is
presenting this token,
j Cooperating with the Press
Club in the Friday night pro
gram are Long’s Florist, the Ser
vice Printing Company, the Car
dozo McCollum Sound Engine
ering firm; Radio Station WSSB
and numerous other local firms
and citizens.
A distinguished list of patrons
took advantage of the club’s
early offer for patrons’ tickets
to the third annual Page One
Awards Program.
The awards have been given
in the past to Federal Judge W
H. Hastie (1949); and Durham
Lawyers M. H. Thompson and
J. H. Wheeler (1950). Awards
are based on contributions to the
advancement of the American
ideal of democracy.
Primitive Bapts.
To Meet In Tern,
Tallahassee—President W. M.
Scott is calling all loyal primi
tive Baptist Convention in Chat
tive Baptist ministers, deacons,
delegates, members and friends
to meet in the 44th Annual ses
sion of the National Primitive
Baptist Convention in Chatta
nooga, Tennessee, August 22-23
at the Friendship Church. The
theme that will be unraveled
during the session is “Tlv
Church Meeting Today’s Needs
In A Changing World.” Able
ministers and delegates will be
on hand to aid in the crusade
Inspiring addresses and uplift
ing spiritual sermons will be de
livered.
Host Pastor, A. M. Syler, 1334
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