HARNETT CQUNTY
MKED TEICNERS KET
Mrs. Moss
Hearing Sept. 20
New Charges
Ciio^0
V(MLUME 31—NUBIBER 41
DUBHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MTT. M, 1954
PRICE TO CENTS
Besieged Tenants To
Stay In Federal Houses
CHIC^O.I
CHICAGO, TT.T.
Twenty Negro familiss re
siding in I^umball Park
Homes here have announced
their intention of remaining
in the federally-owned hous
ing project in spite of con-
stwt acts of lawless violence
against them.
In a joint statement re
leased this week by the Chi
cago NAACP bran^, the Ne
gro tenants declared:
“We wish to mmke it abnnd-
antly eleax t«^ tbe commnntty
la which we live, the elty of
Chleafo — Its citlieos and of
ficials—that Trumbull Park Is
our home, for better or for
“It Is here that we will rear
onr children/’ the statement
continued, “send them to
school, and as good citisens
shoulder our responsibilities in
helping to better our commun
ity, city and nation.
“The forces of bigotry, law-
lessnc)M and Igorance shall
not deter us from this resola-
Uon ... In short, this is oar
home, our community, and we
are here to stay - - come what
ever.”
Trumbull Park Homes has
been tbe scene of repeated bomb
ings and otlier violence by hood
lums since it admitted Negro
families last year.
The first Negro family to
' move into Trimibull Park - - the
Donald Howards - - moved out
of the project last spring.
Anotlier Negro family, the
Johnsons, recently moved out
because Mrs. Johnson’s poor
health was worsened by the
Trimibull Park atmosphere of
See BESlEO£D, Page 8
Shown above is Walter E. Rieka being congratulated by Judge Clifton Moore after )ie-
ing sworn in as an attorney during the present term of Durham County Superior Court.
Reading from 4eft to right, Attorney J. H. Wheeler, president of the Mchanics and Farm
ers Bank, and at his left is Attorney M. H. Thompson, dean of the Durham Bar,..
Attorney Ricks is a native of KJng Mountain, North Carolina where he attended high
school at ^he Lincoln Academy. After graduation he entered Morehouse Collge and in 1947
received his degree in Business Administration.
In World War II he served in the armed service for three years and was overseas
with th^ 92nd Infantry eighteen months. After finishing Morehouse he attended law
school at Howard University from wliich he obtained his LLB. degree in 1952. About 11
months ago he was employed at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank in the T;nst and Book
keeping .departments.
He is married to the former Miss Antoinette Brown of Atlanta, Georgia. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Ricks of Kings Mountain.—Staff Photo By Joe Davis.
Nan Who Robbed
Taxi Driver Held;
Bond Set At $S00
RALEIGH
A 25-year-old man who hlrfed
an East End taxi driver of Dur
ham to bring him to Raleigh
last Sunday night only to rob
him upon arrival in the city,
was bound over lo await trial
in the Waite Superior Court by
Magistrate H. A. Bland here
Monday.
Deputy Jfake Turner, who ar
rested Obie Carrington, who
lives on route six near Raleigh,
stated that Carrington had ad
mitted talcing $4 from Gilbert
Peaks, the cab driver, after the
latter had taken him to near
his home in Wake County. Ac
cording to Peaks, his passenger
iiad him to turn off on a dirt
road and stop at a vacant house.
After he had stopped the cab
Carrington placed a knife or
some other instrument against
his throat and told him to hand
over his money. Peaks stated
he gave him $4 and Carrington
ran.
It was upon the description
furnished by Peaks that Deputy
Turner was able to apprehepd
Carrington in front of the home
of Frank Evans who lives near
Hickory Grove Church.
The defendant has been
bound over to the Wake County
Superior Court under a bond of
9000.
Baptist Convention Gives
$1,000 To NAACP Fund
ST. LOUIS, MO.
The National Baptist Con
vention, U.S.A., in annual ses
sion in Kiel auditorium here,
voted today a contribution of
$1,000 to the NAACP Freedom
Campaign and to establish an
annual Freedom Sunday in
Baptist churches throughout
America in honor of the Su
preme Court decision outlaw
ing segregated public schools.
Freedom Sunday will be ob
served in Baptist churches on
the Sunday directly following
May 17 each year. The Court’s
decision on school segregation
was issued on May 17 this year.
The delegation directed that
collections taken in Baptist
churches on Freedom Sunday
be contributed to the Fight for
Freedom campaign of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
It specified that the monies be
sent to the president of the Na
tional Baptist Convention, USA,
who will forward the total to
the NAACP.
i The Fight for Freedom cam
paign seeks to abolish all racial
discrimination and segregation
from American life by Jan 1,
1968, the centennial of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
The Baptist delegates took
these actions following an ad
dress by Thurgood Marshall,
NAACP special counsel who
successfully argued the case for
See BAPTIST, Page 8
Top officers of the Supreme CouncU of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in session at the
Waluhaje Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., to complete plans for the 41st Grand Conclave to be held
in Atlanta, Droember 27, 28, 29 and 30.
Scheduled to be a mammoth a&ai^ the theme of the Conclave will be “America’s
Challenge: To Implement School Integration by Understanding and Treating Prejudice.”
A one day workshop will be centered around this theme.
Seated left to right are:v Howard Davis, Second Vice Grand Basileus, Washington,
D. C.; John F. Potts, Grand Basileus, Denmark, South Carolina; and Herbert E. Tucker, Jr.,
First Grand Basileus, Boston, Mass. Standing left to right: H. Cal Moultrie, National
Executive Secretary, Washington, D. C.; Ellis F. Corbett, Editor-in-Chief of ORACLE,
Greensboro^ N. C.; J. B. Blayton, Grand Keeper of Finance, Atlanta, Ga.; Walter H. Rid
dick, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Norfolk, Vs.; Carey Jacobs, Grand Counselor, In-
^anapoUc, Indiana and Jamea Bohannon, Grand Marshal, Atlanta, Ga.
Against Former
Durham Woman
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, form
er resident of Durham, who is
fighting again “new charges”
by the Army that she is a
communist, will get her hear
ing on September 20.
According to the Army, the
major new charge against
Mrs. Moss consists of a report
that she had been given t
Communist Party member
ship book, number 37269 for
1943. This charge, along with
six other ones caused her to
be suspended again from her
$3,335 'clerk job without ^ay.
She was allowed 30 days in
which to file answers to the
charges.
Mrs. Moss will give her
af^uments at her hiring
which is scheduled to be at Ft.
McNair. Twice before this
middle-aged woman has ap
peared before other lo5ralty
boards on substantially the
same charges and both times
w^ cleared and reinstated to
hefejglj.
flCT attorney, George E. C.
Hayes, says that these latest
charges against her are the
same as before He has admit
ted that one or two new de
tails such as the book number
had been added but still he
felt his client would be clear
ed as before.
Pictured here are some of the outstanding personalities who attended the recent
meeting of the National Insurance Association held in Durham. Shown in a leas scriaaa
moment than attended the various institutes, panel discussions and sectional meetiags.
Reading fromJ|Bft to right they are: N. H. Bennett, member of the local steering conM^-
tee and actuary at the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; J. A. Dixon,
salesman for the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina; W. A. Clement, fhalnw
of the local steering committee; Lionel Hampton, popular bandmaster of national and inter
national fame; C. L. Townes, NIA President and A. T. Spaulding, Sr., past president of
NIA and chairman of the program committee.—Staff Photo By Joe ^vis.
Twenty-Seven
llew Facility
Members At NCC
DURHAM
President Alfonso Elder this
week announced 27 additions
to the staff and faculties of
North Carolina College.
The new staff members were
expected at the September 13
meeting of the faculty and staff
and are scheduled to be at their
posts at the start of classes on
September 23.
Dean George T. , Kyle an
nounced the return of five
teachers who had been on leave
of absence to study in several
U. S. and foreign universities.
Returning teachers include Mrs.
Marion Cordice Parham, chair
man of the art department, who
has been m Japan for the past
year; Dr. Ruth Horry, professor
of French, who studied in
France on an award from the
Fund for the Advancement of
Education; Miss Gladys Cooper,
associate professor of home eco
nomics, who was at the Univer
sity of London on a Fulbright
Fellowship; Leroy T. Walker,
professor of physical education,
who studied at New York Uni'
versity; and Mrs. Mary McLean
Townes, who studied toward
the Ph.D. in biology at the
University of Michigan on a
General Education Board fel
lowship.
Included among the recent
appointees are Miss Paula I
Bickham, new director of the
Nursery School and Mrs. Lattie
M. Campbell, R. N., director of
the Department of Public
Health Nursing. Miss Bickham
received .her undergraduate de
gree at Tuskegee Institute and
an M.A. degree at Michigan
State College. She taught at
Southern Christian Institute
and at Southern University be
fore coming . to NCC. Mrs
Campbell received her nursing
education at Freedman’s Hospi
tal, Washington, D. C., and the
B. S. and M. A. degree at
Teachers College, Columbia
University.
In addition to work in nu
merous hospitals in various
parts of the country, Mrs.
Campbell formerly served as
associate deai^ and associate
professor of nursing at A. and
T. College, Greensboro.
Among the new teachers are
Robert C. Leathers, B. S. Hamp
ton Institute, M.B.A., New
York University, commerce; Dr.
Frenise A. Logan, A.B. Fisk
University, M.A. and Ph.D,
Western Reserve University,
history; Mrs. Sherma Hough
See TWENTT-SEVEN, Page 8
Sciieduled Objection To
Unsegregated Teacliers
Gatliering Fizzles Out
W.L ADAMS, GASTONIA, MAKES
GOOD IN FIELD OF INSURANCE
'From agent to special repre-
•setative of the Winston Mutual
Life Insurance Company is the
record of W. L. Adams, resident
of Gastonia.
It was just 20 years ago when
Adams took up his work as an
agent in Gastonia for the Com
pany he now serves as a special
representative and with the en
tire state as his territory. For
seven years he worked as an
agent when he was finally pfo^
moted to assistant manager of
the Charlotte District of the
Asheville unit. Later he was
promoted to manager of the
Charlotte District and served in
that capacity from 1947 to 1952
when he was promoted to his
present position.
In his work as a special repre
sentative of the Agency Depart
ment of the Company, Adams’
work from time to time calls
him into every city, town and
hamlet in which the company
is doing business or has an
agent.
He is a member of St. Ste
phens A.M.E. Zion Church of
Gastonia and for 10 years
served as superintendent of the
Sunday School. He is a Mason,
W. L. ADAMS
Elk, Pythian, and American
Woodmen.
During the recent meeting of
the National Insurance Associ
ation which met in Durham, he
was a member of the steering
committee, representing his
company that was co-host to the
convention, with the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
Spaulding, Jr.
Gets Promotion
At Metropolitan
NEW YORK
Asa T. Spaulding, Jr., aon of
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Spaulding,
1608 Lincoln Street. Durham,
was recently transferred from
the Actuary Procedure Plan
ning Bureau, Mathematical Ma
chine Division, in the Metro
politan Life Insurance Com
pany Home Office in New York
to the Personnel Staff as d Pre
liminary Interviewer for em
ployment.
Young Spaulding, a 19 year
old graduate of Hillside High
School and Junior Business Ma
jor at Morehouse College, At
lanta, . Georgia, earlier this sum
mer had experience with the
UNIVAC, the electronic com
puter sometimes called the
“Brain" because of its speed
and versatility in mathematical
computations. There are only
seven such machines in opera
tion in the Countrg.
This is young Spaulding’s
third summer in the home office
of the Metropolitan. In the in
terview preceeding the change
in his assignment, the employ
ment manager said to him:
‘*You have compiled on ex
cellent record, shown a great
deal of initiative, courteous
SPAULDING, JR.
LILUNGTON
A group of white teachers
of Harnett County who stated
here Monday night that they
would refuse to attend a non
segregated teachers meeting
scheduled for the school audi-
toriiun Tuesday aftemoim,
evidently decided to change
their mind. Out of a total 78
white teachers in the county
62 were present. Forty-three
of the Negro teachers were
present.
The meeting was called by
the supervisors of the county
school system, one of which
is a Negro. In a letter to the
teachers the supervisors stat-
cre ItxAing for-
ward to seeing primary teach
ers of both races at the meet
ing. White and Negro prin
cipals of the county have
b^n meeting together for
years.
G. T. Profitt, superintendent
of Harnett County School, said
that no report had reached him
that the teachers would not at
tend the meeting. However, he
stated that one of his principals
said that “some of my teachers
aren’t intrested in the races mix
ing together in a school meet
ing.”
Scheduled for the meeting,
according to the letter, was a
discussion on practices, new
materials and the total primary
program.
Miss Bessie Mae MassenglU,
one of the supervisors, stated
that, “attendance may have been
even better than usual for a
teacher’s meeting today.”
The teachers sat together
without any segregated pattern.
One group of Negro teachers,
about 15 in number sat together,
termingled with the white teach
ers all over the auditoriimi.
Miss Massengill also stated
the remainder of the 43 were in-
that “the meeting was so suc
cessful chances are good that
ombined meetings will be held
again in the future,” It will be
up to Superintendent Profit
whether or not the future meet
ings wiU be unsegregated, die
said.
See HABNCTT, Page 8
and friendly cooperation with
your co-workers, so much that
it has been noticed by your
team captain and section
heads".
He plans to return to college
in the Fall.
Other Spaulding children
have been recently cited aUo.
The 15 year old daughter, Pa
tricia Ann, has received a pla
que from Camp Atwater, East
Brookfield, Mass., for being the
“Best Mannered" person in tflc
Camp this season. An eleven
year old son, Aaron Lowery,
was voted by his camp mates at
the State P.T.A. Camp at
Bricks, N. C., the best “oil
round camper" and received the
State P.T.A. Award for same.
Local 208 Gives
Y'
rriffr
A donation of $100 to tht
Harriett Tubin«n branch of th»
YWCA was made this wMk by
Local 208 of the Tobacco Wor
kers Union it was announced
here Wednesday. Th« donaltow
was made to aid the “Y” in til
ing the basement floor of tlie
new wins.
At the same meeting dele
gates to annual meettna of tJk*
AF of L, teeme elected. TM|f
were R. S. Sttwart, J. Wttd
Pratt. Guy MoMyek, C. J.
Coy, and Montell Lawrmn.