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VOLUME 29—NUMBER 38 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 22nd, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
Over 1200 delegates, visitors
and officials to the 57th Con
vocation of the Southern Dis
trict of the United Holy
Church of America flocked to
Durham and to host church
Gospel Tabernacle, located on
Piedmont Avenue, for sessions
of the Convocation which got
underway here last Sunday.
The convocation will end this
Sunday. In the above photos
are shown officials and mem
bers of the Holy Church meet
ing.
Standing, center, in TOP
PANEL is Bishop W. M.
Clement, president of the con
vocation. Seated in the fore
ground at tables are, left to
right, Reverend Mrs. E. V.
Tatnell, Reverend Mrs. Jo
sephine Parks and Mrs. Craig.
Southern District Bishops J.
W. Jackson, E.'B. Lyon, J. R.
McLaurin and W. M. Clement
are shown In SECOND
PANEL.
THIRD PANEL shows mem
bers tff the Finance Commit
tee, who are, left to right, Mrs.
C. J. Branch, Mrs. Zanie Car
ter, Mrs. Minnie Lee, Miss
Lillian Fisher, Mrs. Mable
Holt Barnes, Mrs. Daisy Law
son and Reverend A. F. Cohen.
The group of officers and
members of the convocation in
! FOURTH PANEL are, left to
! right, front row, Reverends
! R. D. Brown, H. Henry, S. D.
■ Pigford, J. W. Wooten, B. B.
j Dunn, A. M. Silver, Moses
Bullock, M. C. Berry, J. A.
Forbes, and N. M. Midgette.
Back row, left to right, are
Reverends R. C. Turners, G.
W. Hairtson, W. L. Palmer, J.
C. Thomas, J. H. Shiver, W.
H. Hayes, A. W. Scott, L. G.
Young, L. C. Choate, R. T.
Jones, H. W. Fields and A. W.
Lawson, pastor of host Taber
* nacle church. — Staff photos,
| Stanback.
AME Zion Mission Meetings Ended;
Testimonial On Tap For Official
Siler City — The Durham
District Mass meeting of the
Woman’s Home and Foreign
Missionary Society met in an
nual session at the Oliver A. M.
E. Zion Church, located about
six miles from here, last week,
with Reverend W. W. Long,
presiding elder, in charge.
The meeting was largely at
tended reports of the general
meeting that was held in Win
ston-Salem, August 4 were lis
tened to. Mrs. S. P. Perry, who
was the delegate to the meeting
told of the expansion program
of the women of the Zion Church
and outlined work that is to be
done by the women on the Dur
ham District.
Durham — Reverend S. P.
Perry, who has been selected
chairman of the W. W. Long
Testimonial Committee, an
nounced here Monday that plans
are almost complete for a testi
monial that will be tendered
Reverend W. W. Long at Mit
chell Chapel Church, near Apex
in early November in recogni
tion of the 25 years that Rev.
Long has served as presiding
elder of the Durham District,
A. M. E. Zion Church.
The veteran minister was ap
pointed to heed the district
when it was set apart 26 years
ago. He has served throughout
its existence, ministers and lay
men who represent the more
than 25 churches on the district
plan a gala event for the oc
casion. Complete plans will be
announced when the district
meets in annual session at the
Mitchell Chapel Church, Oct. 3,
4 and 5th.
Lillington — The annual meet
of the Conference Workers and
Missionary departments of the
Raleigh District, presided over
by the Reverend G. F. Madkins,
closed the most successful meet
ing of its history here Friday
night after a three day session
which was held at Wesley Chap
el Church, Reverend J. D. Pip
kins, pastor.
The highlight of the meeting
was when Mrs. Mable Gary
Philpot presented to the confer
ence nine young men and one
woman who had answered the
call to preach and were asking
admission to the conference. The
fact that such a huge job of mis
sionary work had been done by
here brought much applaud
from the audience. These young
persons were each allotted a
given time to preach short ser
mons and made lasting impres
sions on the conference.
FAIR TO OPEN
HERE MONDAY
John H. B. Mayes, President
of Durham County Colored Fair
Fair Association disclosed late
this week that everything was
ready for the grand opening of
the Colored County Fair on the
American Legion Fair Grounds
off the Oxford Highway Monday
night.
Mayes further stated that this
year more than a thousand dol
lars in prizes had been set aside
for premium.
A complete live stock show
has been added including every
thing from hogs to poultry and
cattle; had been added to the
exhibits. The entire cattle and
livestock barns of the American
Legion has been taken over to
house the live stock exhibits.
As in the past the large exhibit
hall will be filled to overflowing
with everything raised on the
farm from field crops to canned
goods, also there will be great
displays of fancy work done by
women - on the farm ranging
from needle work to rugs.
In an effort to give the people
of the county a worthwhile Fair
Mayes further stated that free
parking has been provided at
the rear of the Fair Grounds and
that'a ticket booth will be erect
ed there so as to keep the patrons
from having to walk any dis
tance to their cars.
Confed Banner j
•* 4 Sweeps
United States
Washington — Communism
and the anti-Truman spirit
were reported here this week
to be the reason for the Con
federate^ flag fad now sweep
ing the country. Although it
was definitely known in some
southern areas that the Con
federate flag fever was pre
cipitated by southerners’ re
sentment of President Tru
man’s Civil Rights fight, it
was not determined before
this week just why in strickly
Truman strongholds flags of
the Confederacy were also be
ing used for many and sundry
occasions.
In several instances it was
discovered that the flag was
being flown as more of a
burlesque than for sentimental
reasons.
Started At Chapel Hill
An effort to trace the source
of the fad disclosed that it
started in Chapel Hill back in
1947 when the University
football team engaged a north
ern opponent in an intersec
tional game. Up to that time
demand of the flag was con
fined mostly to the Daughters
of the Confederacy organi
zation. A month after the UNC
football game the University
of Virginia eleven also used
the flag as an emblem in one |
of their encounters with a
northern foe.
12,000 Flag's Sold
Some indication as to the
growth of the Confederate flag
wave is seen in the announce
ment of one of the nation’s
largest flag manufacturers
that it had sold this year over
12,000, and that orders for ad
ditional flags were so numer
ous that it had not yet caught
up.
The Communist angle is be
lieved to be an attempt of that
organization to seize every
possible opportunity, however
small, to divide the country
at a time when unity is man
datory. Strategy of the Reds is
to seize some apparently in
nocent organization or muve
: nent through which they niay
work quietly to bring about
discord.
Little attention was paid the
fad in official circles until U.
S. Army fighting outfits re
turning from Korea were seen
flying Confederate flags on
Army tanks, guns and other
equipment.
One outfit the Alabama re
servists of the Fourth Heavy
Howizter Battalion, one of the
largest state groups returning
j from Korea, not only raised
i a flag of the Confederacy, but
j the band played Dixie as the
j transport arrived.
Just how or when the fad
will cease cou\d not be deter
mined this week. It was be
lieved, however, that it had
not yet reached its peak.
Ask Court To
Have Fla. Admit
Negro Students
Washington — The United
States Supreme Court last week
asked by attorneys for the
NAACP to instruct the Florida
Supreme Court to issue an order
to the University of Florida to
admit five young Negro men
whose applications to the pro
fessional and graduate colleges
of the university have been de
nied.
The NAACP petition for re
view of the case by the high
court followed refusal of the
Florida Supreme Court to order
the university officials to admit
the Negro applicants for courses
in law, pharmacy, graduate agri
culture and chemical engineer
ing. The Florida court twice re
fused to issue the order on the
ground that the university of
ficials had passed a resolution
contemplating the establishment
of these courses at the Florida
A. and M. College for Negroes.
The refusal of the Florida
court to issue the order,
the NAACP petition main
tains, is contrary to Supreme
Court decisions. The NAACP
lawyers, Robert L. Carter, of
New York, Horace Hill of Day
tona Beach, Florida, asked the
Court to grant the peition and
to demand the case without
argument to the Florida court
with instructions to that court
to order the admission of Negro
applicants.
Two Kiiled, One Hurt In
Train-Truck Smash, Fire
What started out among
Southern teen agers as an in
nocent fad of displaying the
Confederate flag, has sudden
ly spread throughout the na
tion, even reaching United
State Military establishments.
In the above photo taken near
Fort Bragg, a Negro Army of
ficer is seen questioning an
other soldier concerning the
display of Rebel rallying ban
ner on an Army truck j Scenes
like the above have been
duplicated in Army posts all
over the country.
NCC Greets 600 Frosh;
19 Added To Facutly
New Students
In Orientation
Orientation and registration
activities are in process at North
Carolina College here this week
for some 1,600 students.
Starting last Monday at nine
o’clock, the orientation program
proceeded through Friday. Reg
istration starts this Saturady
morning in the Men’s Gym
nasium at 9 o’clock. Mrs. F. M.
Eagleson, registrar, introduces
a new registration system on
Saturday.
A week of physical exams,
tests, campus ours, and social
events kept the new comers at
a rapid pace.
Officials Greet Newcomers
High ranking administrative
and student officials participated
in the orientation program. Dean
Albert E. Manley interpreted the
orientation program to the new
students on Tuesday. R. D. Rus
sell, counsellor, and Calvin Nor
man, Jamaica, N. Y. junior, wel
comed the students. Norman is
president of the North Carolina
College Student Government.
Student Government. Personnel
deans and division head admin
istered the various tests.
Dr. Alfonso Elder, president of
the North Carolina College, who
is currently directing the com
pletion of a $4 million dollar
building expansion program, is
scheduled to be among the
North Carolina College officials
who will greet the freshmen and
new students at a tea in the
campus’s Senior Bowl at 4:30
Sunday afternoon.
Body Of Pfc. Carver
To Be Shipped Home
The body of Pfc. Willie Car
ver, Durham lad who gave his
life fighting in far off Korea,
will be brought back to his na
tive hometown for burial.
Pfc. Carver’s family was
notified late last week by the
Memorial Division of the Quar
termaster that his body is now
on the way back to this country.
Two Leaves Granted; Fifteen
Full-Time Teachers Hired
President A. Elder recently
announced the addition of 19
new members to the teaching
staff of North Carolina College.
Fifteen of the teachers are
full-time. Four of the instructors
are part-time. Two faculty mem
bers who had been away study
ing on leaves of absence re
turned. Two other professors
were granted leaves of absence
for further study. Four other
staff additions were announced
for the secretarial' staff and one
for the operation of the new
steam heating plant.
The fifteen new fulltime teach
ers include: Arthur C. Banks,
Jr., (M. A., candidate for the
Ph. D.), Political Science; Carol
C. Bowie (Ph. D.) Psychology;
Gladys E. Cooper, (M. S.), Home
Economics; Edward V. Ellis, (M.
S. P. H.), Public Health; Mrs.
Ruth C. Flowers (Ph. D.),
French; Marcus A. Hairston, (M.
S.), Biology; Raymond W. Hop
son, Physical Education (sche
duled to receive Ph. D. upon
completion of dissertation in
August); Robert A. John (Mas
ters in Music, candidate for D.
Ed.), Music; Sybil Marie Jones
(J. D.), Law School; Charles E.
King (Ph. D.), Sociology; Ed
ward Strayhorne, (M. A.), Com
merce; Ray Thompson (M. A.,
candidate for D. Ed.), Counsel
lor-Teacher, (In-service Teacher
Guidance); Ross E. Townes (P.
E. D.), Physical Education; Ed
ward N. Wilson, Jr. (M. A.)
Art; Willia M. Woods, (M. A.),
Physical Education.
The part-time teachers named
include: Mrs. Alice Farrison (B.
A.), English; Mrs. Claretta
Sampson, English, M. A.); Mrs.
Josephine Clement (M. S.),
Home Economics; and Harold E.
Johnson, (M. S. in Commerce),
Commerce.
Added to the secretarial staff
were Marion E. Henderson, (B.
S. C.) Mrs. Gloria Hubbard
(Secretarial); Ethel L. Taylor,
(B. S. C.), and Mrs. Ruth Nor
man.
William White (B. S. C.) was
named property officer and
Clyde B. Thorpe was appointed
chief engineer in the new Cen
tral Heating Plant.
Professor Raleigh Morgan of
the Department of French and
Miss Ila J. Blue of the Depart
ment of English returned to
NCC after advanced work in
their fields at the University of
Michigan. Professor Morgan
completed the dissertation for
his Ph. D. and passed the final
oral examinations. The degree
will be formally conferred at the
convocation.
The two professors on'leave
of absence for further study are
Benjamin Hudson of the Depart
ment of French who is in Paris
on a Fullbright Fellowship
award grant and Brooklyn T.
McMillan of the Department of
Public Health Education. Mc
Milland is studying at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
In announcing the additions
to the teaching staff, Dr. Elder
said “We are continuing to try
to bring to the North Carolina
College at Durham men and
women with the highest profes
sional training and ethical con
cepts.” This year’s additions to
the staff, while youthful, are
versatile and many of the teach
ers come with rich teaching
backgrounds in other institu
tions. Several have had valuable
able related experiences in the
Armed forces and in private in
dustry.
Prof. Banks of the Political
Science department studied at
St. John’s, New York and the
the Johns Hopkins University
where he is a candidate for his
Ph. D. He has taught at South
ern, Morehouse, Atlanta, Texas
State, Fisk, and at Cleveland
College, Western Reserve Uni
versity. ^
Dr. Bowie has had extensive
experience in clinical and
diagnostic center as psychologist
in Illinois. She formerly taught
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Dudley — Two persons were
killed, one seriously hurt, six
teen freight cars burned and a
mass of railway equipment re
duced to ashes and rubble when
a 40 car freight train crashed in
to an empty log truck as it stall
ed on the tracks near here early
last Friday.
Flames, which started from
the wrecked truck’s gasoline
tank, licked over to several
tank cars carrying gasoline,
touching off a roaring inferno
which turned 16 of the 18 de
railed freight cars into h&t twist
ed metal and ashes and de
molished the nearby home of F.
H. Thompson.
Clinton Spencer and Lawrence
Cobb of Goldsboro were killed
almost instantly when the fast
moving Atlantic Coast Line
freight, drawn by two diesel en
gines, plowed into the log truck
in which they were riding.
Samie Cox, also an occupant of
the truck, was treated at the
Goldsboro hospital for serious
injuries. Raymond Waddell, thfe
fourth man on the truck, barely
leaped to safety as the double
engined juggernuat bore down
on the truck.
The crew of the train escaped
injury.
As the log truck, owned by
Penn Lane of Goldsboro, stalled
before the onrushing freight, it
crashed into it, knocking it
against a switch which operated
a siding at the crossing causing
the siding to close. The engines
and one or two cars tried to stay
on the main track, but 18 other
cars immediately behind tried to
go on the siding and were de
railed.
The accident was described as
the worst on the Wilmington
Rocky Mount stretch of the ACL
line.
Billows of thick, black smoke
billowed skyward for several
hundred feet as five or six of the
tanks cars, carrying gasoline
ticketed for Goldboro, caught
fire and burned fiercely for
nearly half of the day. Fireman
from Mount Olive and Golds
boro could not work for several
hours because of the intense
heat from the raging blaze. All
they could do was to wait until
the blaze died down.
Before the flames died down,
however, the home of F. H.
Thompson was burned. It was
located near the tracks.
Engineer D. C. Sessoms of
Wilmington, who piloted the
trained, expressed the opinion
that the truck would have clear
ed the track and avoided the
collision if it had not stopped
before the crossing and then
tried to go ahead.
Fayetteville Lad
Gets $4,000
Catholic Grant
Fayetteville—Lawrence Mur
phy, a June graduate of E. E.
Smith High School, received a
scholarship of $4,000.00 from
the Catholic Scholarships for Ne
groes, Incorporated which is un
der the patronage of The Most
Reverend R. J. Cushing, Arch
bishop of Boston.
The $4,000.00 scholarship re
cepient graduated from E. E. „
Smith High School with second
honors, and is a member of St.
Ann’s Church of which Rev.
Reverend Wm. P. Ryan, O. M. I.
was Pastor.
Lawrence Murphy, known to
all as a very studious and well
liked young man, left recently
for Fordham University, New
York City where he will do his
college work aided by his covet
ed scholarship of $4,000,000.