$2,500 Picked From Merchgrits Pocket In diMrch
iWhite Children With Negro
^rlodl
D*pt
Vivacious Vivian n •
--^center), mailroom clerk in thi
Hollywood office* of the Na
tional Broadcasting Company,
was named winner of the net-
^work't “Mi** NBC Hollywood"
auty contest at the Annual
Employes’ Outing held recently
at the San Fernando Valley
Country Club. Mis* Towns i*
flanked by runner-up Phylis
Krebs, left, and Delores Cot'
tese, third place winner.
J
Aged iVlan Goes
To Worship But
Loses Saving
tures Ousted From School
VOLUME 31—NUMBER 51
DURHAM. N. SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1954
PRICEI^ CENTS
Churches Ask Support
For U. S. S. Court Ruling
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SOUTHERN PINES«
Seventy-three-year old Joe
McCauley Chapel Hill left
$2,900 at the Ebon ^Methodist
Church here a couple of Sun
days ago, but not in the collec
tion plate or as a gift to fur
ther missionary interprises.
Somebody with whom the tfged
^ deacoo. of the Hickory Grove
Baptist Church of Chapel Hill
would like to form acquaint
ance, with a spirit all out of
harmony with the Golden Rule,
slipped McCauley’s wallet con
taining^ tw^ve one-hundred
dollar bilis, seventy-^o one
dollar bills, four five-dollar
bills, and several tens and
twentys out of his pocket while
he was engaged in worship.
McCauley as well as the police
would like to know who did it.
The Hickory Grove deacon
had come to the Ebon Chur;h
to attend a Methodist Confer-
■ ence with a friend. They arrived
■t tlis ChuTfh'about noon, at
which 2,000 persons were pre
sent. Inside, McCauley took off
his overcoat; and a lady near
by selling religious pamphlets
of some kind said he could put
the coat near her. McCauley
did as he felt his hip pocket to
make sure ills wallet was there.
Giving himself to the atirvice
in progress, McCauley became
engrossed in the service. Sud
denly, he thought of his wallet
and again patted his hip pocket
to make sure it was there. It
wasn't. That was the stunning
message that was flashed to his
brain when liis exploring hand
failed to detect the fat bulge
that was there ten minutes be
fore.
A pocket that had been but
toned and fastened with a
safety pin was empty and the
savings of many years gone.
Even the safety pin had vanish
ed.
McCauley who runs a little
store in the Bethel Church Com
munity in Chapel Hill explain
ed how h^ happened to carry
the large sum to the Southern
Pines Church. He had been
keeping it in his house, but was
fearful to do so on the days he
was robbed because “I ^dn’t
know but maybe my shack
might bum down while I was
gone. I hadn’t had that money
only a little bit, when I got paid
some owing me."
The chances of the money be
ing restored seem slim Indeed
or even the apprehension by the
police of the person who ex-
^tracted the savings of many
years from the pocket of a good
old Baptist deacon who, after
losing $2,500 while In the act
of worship, probably wishes he
'had skipped Church that par
ticular Sunday.
At any rate, the Baptist dea
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STANCIL HALL
DUeHAMNAN
IS HERO IN
TUG DISASe
Coast Guard Stewart Stancil
Hall, son of Mrs. Bessie Hall of
805 Simmon Street, took an ac
tive part in the search and res
cue of the survivirs of the tug,
Bertha R., in the Gulf of Mexi
co recently, the Coast Guard
noted yesterday.
Stancil Hall who has served
in the Coast Guard for several
months was reported 0 have
applied artificial respiration to!
one of the victims for se4en.
continuous hours. The Govern
ment memorandum didn't say
whether the victim recovered.
Stancil Hall went to school
here in Durham and attended
Church and Sunday School at
the Oak Grove Free Will Bap
tist Church.
NEW YORK
Pronouncements of the Na
tional Council of Churches of
Christ in the U. S. A. and of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
caUing for support of the Su
preme Court’s decision banning
segregation in public schools
were hailed by the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People as indications
of the important role of the
church in the fight against ra
cial segregation.
Meeting in Greenwich, Conn.,
this week the Episcopal church’s
national council unanimously
adopted a resolution calling up
on its various units to help pro
mote “a wide, whole-hearted
and genuine realization” of the
Court’s ruling which was term
ed “just, right and necessary.”
Previously, t the National
Council of the Churches of
Christ, holding its third bipn-
nlal assembly In Boston, Issued
a declaration which, among
other things, asserted that “it
is the responsibility and oppor
tunity of each local church 1|p
create the attitudes essential u>
carrying out this decision. “The
declaration “deplored all efforts
to circumvent the Supreme
Court decision” and called up-
“all Christian churches to
help make the transition from
a segregated to a non-segregat-
ed society not only in the public
schools buf throughout the
community, in such matters as
housing and especially in the
life and practice of the church
itself.”
At this assembly the Council
elected Bishop D. Ward Nichols
of the AME Church a vice pre
sident of the council and named
him vice chairman of its execu
tive committee. Congratulating
Bishop Nichols on his election,
Roy Wilkins, NAACP adminis
trator, said: “In your new office
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M
Shape Of Nose
Causes Sheriff
To Dismiss Group
Minister Ousted
For Support Of
Integration
SHELLMAN, Ga.
Shellman Baptisi Church ous
ted its young minister after he
hailed the Supreme Court rul
ing againsjL segregation. The
minister, nev. Henry A. Buc
hanan, 32, had stated that ii the
town does not abide by the
Supreme Court decision it
should “secede from the United
States."
On making his pro-integra
tion sermon just last Sunday,
most of the tiny church’s con
gregation walked out. Mr. Buc
hanan flung charges of “pre
judice” at his congregation ano
Port of the family of Allan
Platt, whose children were
borred from the JoWte school
here by Sheriff Willis McCall,
who contends they have Negro
blood. Seated in the front are
the parents, and in the rear are
Linda, 9, Laura Belle, 13, Vio
let, 6, ond Esther, 10. There
were three boys attending
church at the time this picture
was made. The family attribu
tes dark skin to Indian ances
try.
Annual Orphanage Drive Nets $1,800
OXFORD
The Annual Granville County
Drive for Funds for the Colored
Orphanage was held Sunday,
December 12 with W. J. Ken^
nedy, Jr., President of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company Durham, North CarO'
lina, as speaker.
The program was held at 3:00
Honepoon Will
Be Spent In Jail
LA SPEZIA, ITALY
A mother-in-law’s refusal to
allow her daughter, a new
bride, to sleep alone with her
husband resulted in the young
couple ^receiving four months
in jail for brawling. The groom
admitted he had lost his tem
per, when the older lady re
marked: “I don’t Intend to let
my daughter sleep alone with a
man.” The lady also insisted
that she share the couple's bed
or that he sleep alone. And' on
the second night she placed the
younger sister in the couple's
bed.
P.M. in the Orphanage Audi
torium, with a large attendance!
by citizens of Oxford, Granville |
County and Durham. From the i
subject: “A New Look at the |
0:^hanage”, the speaker im-'
pressed his hearers with the
need for continuing all efforts
to develop the type of institu
tion which will aid children to
prepare for present day living
He expressed the idea that an
orphanage of this Jcind to do
good job with children must be
different from the tjfpe of insti
tution that was acceptable years
ago. Special music was render
ed by the Orphanage Choir un
der th« direction of Mrs. M. P.
Hoke and^ the Band under the
direcUon of N. L. Edwards.
A total of $1,800 was realized
from this effort. Leaders in the
effort to provide the funds
were: George W. Tyler, Gene
ral Chairman, S. H. Royster for
Northern Granville County,
Robert Amos and H. M. Bullock
for South Granville; Melvin
Tyler, Dr. H. V. Hicks, Mrs. M.
G. Owens and Mrs. C. H. Mc
Ghee for the city of Oxford.
Rev. T. H. Brooks, Superin-
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toid them he intended “to shake
the dust of Shellman from my
feet.”
Chicago Now
Has NO,!
CHICAGO, m.
Citing that the growth in
Chicago has been among the
non-whites, Francis M. McPeek,
executive director of the Chi-
cago Commission on Human Re
lations, then stated: “Even
conservative estimates place
the non-white population at
around 650,000.”
In the photo above, the Chapel
Hill churchman and merchant'
reflects the philosophic calm he
expressed in the words, "The
Seventy-three-year old Joe
McCauley,' a deacon in the
Hickory Grove Baptist Church
neor Chapel Hill, who was rob- . , _ ,
bed of $2,500 at Southern Pines next time I go to oi^ of these' Sfound hanging with his neck
while attending a Methodist
Church Conference along with
two thousand other persons.
Justice Worked
Fast In This Case
SAN ANTONIA, TEXAS
A 29-year old man acciden
tally hanged himself while try
ing to steal, coins from a 35-ft
wishing well in a church garden
children have tossed into it
through the centuries. The vic
tim, a cotton field worker, was
meetings, 1 won't take nothing
but my pocket knife and iwenty
five cents.
wedged between the heavy iron
grill which covers the well and
the edge of the well.
McPeek, on speaking before
the Commission’s ninth annual
awards luncheon warned tliat
Ctiicago must be prepared for
many more thousands of new
comers in the months ahead.
On the prospects these new
comers face, he told how it’s
still difficult to gain employ-
ment in some fields for non
whites. He charged that 90 per
cent of Chicago’s firms “dis
criminate in employment.”
There Are Some
Women Not Too
Hard to Please
LOS ANGELES
The husband of a Los Angeles
housewife was lonely or some
thing; for, while his wife was
out of town, he ran an ad in a
newspaper’s personal ad column
which read: “Man, 53, old car,
no loolcs, no job, no qualities, no
money, no' hero, no nothing,
seeks congenial companion to
go ptacw and do things in pur
suit of happiness.”
Thirty women responded,
some replying as follows:
“Looks is only skin deep,” and
‘I will mother my man.”
MRS. MATTIE M. SUITT
MOUNT DORA, TLA.
Sheriff WiUls McCall n in
the national spotlight again be
cause of his stand on race. The
Sheriff in 1951 directed the at
tention of the nation upon him
self when he shot two hand
cuffed prisoners who allegedly
raped a white woman in Grove-
land, Florida. One of them,
Samuel Shepherd, died as a re
sult. The other, Walter Lee Ir
ving, is now in jail in Rai!ord,
Florida under sentence of death.
One of two other Negroes in
volved in the alleged crime, a
16-year-old lad at the time, U,
now serving a life senteiira m
Belle Glade, Florida; and the
second, Walter Thomas, was
shot to death by a sheriff's
posse near the point where the
alleged crime was committed.
Now, once more the spotlight
turns on the Sheriff 'McCall
who has taken upon himself to
play the role of the antiiropolo-
gist, thereby touching off an
other explosive incident when a
family of children were barred
from the white public schools
here only on the strength of
the Sheriffs belief that they
have Negro blood. These same
children had previously attend
ed a white school in Holly Hill.
S. C., where they were regarded
as white.
The irony of the situation is
that the school board let ttiis
act be committed without bear
ing or invettigation beforehand;
everythiog rested * moely on
Sbeiitf McCall’s belief; conse
quently the Lake County School
Board suspmded the children
from school October 21 “until
further investigation."
Supervising School Principal
D. D. Roseborough says it is up
to the Lake County School
Boai? '^efSer to reaSBl HtC
children of Allan PUtt who
Roseborough says “seem to ba
of an apparently mhwd
The Platt children, rang
in age from 6 to IS, wex« i
pended from school October
after the school board said
had received a series of cc
plaints. d
Roseborough said school a
cials at HoUy Hill, South Ca
lina wrote him in reply to a i
ter that the Platt children
tended a special elemenl
school when they lived at
HUL
Boseborough said the
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Funeral Held For
Mrs. Mattie M.
Suitt Wednesday
The funeral of Mrs. Mattie
Morton Suitt, age 78, 'waa^held
at the Covenant Presbytertw
Church here Wednesday after
noon, Nov. 15, at three o’clock.
The Rev. J. W. Smith, Jr., pas
tor, officiated. He was assisted
by Rev. Fred Hunter, pastor of
St Titus Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Suitt’s death came as
the climax of an illness extend
ing over a period of four
months, the most of which
time she was confined to her
bed at the home of her daugh
ter^, Mrs. James M. Husband,
620 Dunbar Street.
She bom in Clarksville,'
Virginia, the daughter of Mr.
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The Tree Was In
TheWrongPlace
UNCF Begins
Distribution Ot
Half Million
NEW YORK
The United Negro College
Ftmd is currently distributing
$500,000 ^'its 31 member col
leges and universities, W. J.
Trent, Jr., announced today.
TlUs allocation is the second
distribution of money raised in
the Fund’s 1954 campaign for
annual operating purposes, and
brings the total received by the
participating colleges to date
to $850,000. Final grants wiU
be made after the official cam
paign closing on ITecember 31
The money is used by the
Fund’s member colleges for
student scholarship aid. teadi.-
ing and science laboratory
equipment, fSculty salaries, li
brary books and personnel a»d
student health programs and
other yearly operating expenses.
The 1954 UNCF campaign is
being conducted in 83 cities and
towns throughout the coimtry.
including the communities
where the 31 member coUetss
are located. National campaign
INVERCARGILL, NEW ZEA
LAND
Kenneth Blackmore, a 19-
year old youth, escaped from
prison and fled 140 miles to
where he thought he had found officers heading this year's ^
safe refuge In a tree. Only one peal arc John W. Hanea, finui-
thing was wrong; he discovered cial vice-president of OU*-Ma-
too late that the tree was in the thieson Chemical Corpmition
backyard of the sergeant Alex and Dr. DeWitt T. Burton. Su
McRae, the officer detailed to perintendent ot Um Wsy.ke
look for him. Dtognortic Hospital In Dettalt