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VOLUME 31 — NUMBER 4t DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY DECEMBER 10,1955
PRICE 10 CENtS
Race Ignored Again On
New School Bond Plan
Pictured above are top officials of the Most Worshipful | of Wilmlncten, grand master; Clark S. Brown, Wlnston-
Prince Hall Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons-ef North Salem, depvty grand master; Rev. C. W. Lawrence, Greena-
CaroUna. The group will hold Hs 85th convention in Dnr- j boro, grand secretary; and George A. Moore, New Bwn,
ham on December 12-14. Left to right are Ge«rge D. Carnes, grand treaanrer.
Some 5,000 Masons To Meet
In Durham For Convention
Masons To Hold
State S^ion
December 12-14
Over 500 delegates and visi
tors are expected here next
week when the 89th annual
i;oininunication of the Prince
Hall Grand Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons of North
Carolina will convene here Dec.
12, 13, ahd 14, according to W.
A. Clement, chairman of the
convention steering committee.
Host lodges for the annual
session are Doric Number. 2B
and Dorcas Number 460.
With the exception of the
public program, which will be
held at Hillside High School
auditorium at 8:00 p.m., Dec.
13, and the fellowship banquet
which will follow in the
school’s cafeteria at 10:00 p.m.,
all of the sessions will be held
at St. Joseph A.M.E. Church.
Beginning with a meeting of
the Deputies at 3:00 p.m., the
Monday session will end with a
Lodge, of Sorrow at 8:00 p.m.
At high noon on Tuesday, the
opening of the Grand Lodge,
proper, will take place.
The public program on Tues
day will include two-mlnute
speeches of welcome by Mayor
S. J. Evans of Durham; Mrs.
Amanda B. Wallace, represent
ing Itestern JStar Prospect
Lodge, No. 370; Mrs. Margaret
Minor, representing Eastern
Star Drusllla Chapter, No. 10;
J. S. Moffitt, representing Host
Lodges, Dorcas No. 460 and Do
ric No. 28; Dr. Alfonso Elder,
representing Educational Insti
tutions in Durham; and Dr. C.
E. McLester, representing The
Durham Ministerial Alliance.
Bishop Hubert Bell Shaw of
Wilmington will respond to the
speeches of welcome.
Music for the occasion, will be
by the North Carolina College
Choir under the direction of
Samuel W. Hill.
Remarks will be hetird from
Dr. George D. Cames, Most
Worshipful Grand Master, Ju
risdiction of North Carolina, F.
& A.M. He Twlll be introduced-
by Deputy Grand Master Clark
Brown.
Rev. T. H. Brooks, superin
tendent of the Oxford Colored
Orphanage will report and ap
peal for the Orphanage.
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Three Durham attorneys were recently awom in as practicing members of the Supreme
Court bar. They are shown here In front of the Supreme Court building immediately fol
lowing the ceremony vdth George E. C. Hayes, Washington, D. C. attorney, who intro
duced thbm to the courit. Hayes b seen standing in center forenound. Standing in rear,
from right to left, are Mrs. J. H. Wheeler, attorneys J. H. Wheeler, C. O. Pearson and F. B.
McKissick.
Negroes Not Consulted As Plans Are Mapped To Vote
5 Million In Bonds For Durham City, County Schools
The fervent plea made by the
late Dr. James E. Shepard, C. C.
Spaulding, and other Negro lea
ders of the past and present
who have from time to time
begged for Negro representa
tion on the City Board of Edu
cation, loomed large on the
horizon thiS week when the
city aifd county boards of edu-
Halifax Asks Integration By 1956
HALIFAX
Setting next September as
the deadline to achieve integra
tion of the races in the public
schools of Halifax Coimty, the
County Chapter of the NAACP
last Monday requested the
County Board of Education to
work toward that end.
The request, made in a mi
meographed statement present
ed by W. W. Harvey, County
NAACP president, was read in
to the record. The statement
gave two reasons for the neces
sity of Immediate Integration.
J'lrst, it insisted that the main
tenance of a dual school sys
tem is a waste of money; and,
second, it deplored the sending
of Negro school children to
other school districts to attend
segregated schools.
The statement asserted that
the petitioners expected no vio
lence If desegregation is at
tempted and expressed the be
lief that HaUfiix County is not
an area in which there is a
general disrespect for law and
order. "It is our opinion,” the
statement went on, "that the
law enforcement officials wiU
assist the school authorities in
complying with the law."
cation in a joint meeting agreed
to enter into a school building
bond election to the amount of
$8,175,000.
In spite of the large number
of.Negro voters in both the city
and county of Durham, as well
as taxpayers, Negro citizens
found themselves again on the
outside of both the plans for
the election and the expendi
ture of such a tremendous sum
supposedly for all the schools
of the city and county.
Among several leaders ques
tioned as to NegrcT representa
tion on the seven-member com
mittee appointed to determine
the exact amount of the issue,
to work out a system of division
of funds, and to ask the Coufllty'
Commissioners to call the elec
tion, it was discovered that Ne
gro citizens found themselves
on the outside and not even al
lowed to look in.
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Body Of NAACP
Unit President
Found On Farm
»HULENBURG, Tex.
Another deep south NAACP
unit otficial fell victim to a
barbarous attack this week.
The body of Herbert Johnson,
60 ye«r-old president of the lo
cal chapter of the NAACP,* was
discovered badly beaten and
bi^ed at his farm some 20
mUes west of here Monday.
Late Wednesday there were
no details as to how long John
son had been dead before his
body was found nor any infor
mation ai to police had
been able to uncover as to who
his assailants were.
Sherlf Xi. O. McGinty said he
was unable to establish a mo
tive for the slaying.
Hu|^ Simpson Tate, Dallas
lawyer and president of the
Texas NAACP, was not avail
able for comment as to what
action tke NAACP would take
by way o| conducting an inves
tigation of the slaying.
Observes believe that this is
another i|i the pattern of slay
ings of deep south NAACP offi
cials by pro segregationists in
the ho^ that it will kill the
effectiveness of the organiza
tion.
List Of Groups
Against Hodges
The'Ust or organizations op
posed to Gov. Luther Hodges’
plan for voluntary segregation
of Noift Carolina’s schools con-
ttnuedltto grow this week with
the amtion of the New Hope
Miasiooary Baptist Association
«ddl9&its to the pla^
. In ^ iprep«fa* i«*t«faient
mkde public by Its secretary.
Rev. J. H. Jones of Smithfield,
the Baptists stated:
“The New Hope Missionary
Association is greatly disturb
ed and disappointed that the
(Sovemor would ask us to defy
and or disomy the ruling of the
Supreme Court on segregation
in the public school system.
“Therefore, let it be known
this group is resolved to sup
port wholeheartedly the ruling
of the Supreme Court’s decision
on May 17, 1954 and May 31,
1955 through every avenue that
is open to us to prove that we
cannot and will not comply to
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Lawyers To Meet
Forty-four Negro Lawyer’s
across the state from Murphy
to Manteo will meet in Durham
for business and their first an
nual elaborate Ball on Demem
ber 10th.
The North Carolina's Associ
ation held Its first anniversary
meet in Greensboro last June
and all officers were re-elected.
The September meeting was
held in Greenville where it was
decided that the December
meeting be a combination busi
ness session, banquet, and
dance, for their wives, sweet
hearts, and friends.
The business session will be
gin at 4:30 P.M. and the ban
quet and dance will commence
tit 6:30 P.M. at the Algonquin
Club house.
X\( GBOTE
VIST CUIIRCH
BLCOME
The sign that disrupted a peaceful Chur ch meeting and turned a band of baptist wor
shippers into a unruly mob last Sunday is shown here. Miss Bertha Perry, center of the
disturbance, is seen here talldng to TIMES editor C. M. Ross. Miss Perry, 71-year-old sooal
worker and retired Shaw University teacher was literally thrown out the Oak Grove
BaptistvChurch last Sunday when she went t o find out what disposition was to be made of
the sign. It was taken from its place across the comer from her house and placed in her back
yard. Inset at bottom shows the church, located some four miles from Wake Forest on the
Louisburg highway. ,i>-
Ousted From White Church Services
'Bounced’ By Baptists,
Woman Pities Church
rORSSS-
No bitteruess, only Christian
pity is the feeling a little old
Bible reading lady has for a
band of Baptists who tossed her
out of their church in this de
nominational stronghold last
Sunday after she had gone
there to return a piece of chur
ch’s property.
“I only pitied them, for they
acted like heathens," said Miss
Bertha Perry71 year-^>ld so-
clal worker and retired school
teacher who was bodily thrown
out of the Oak Grove Baptist
Church, a white church located
some four miles outside of this
“Baptist hollow”, seat of the
state’s largest Baptist college
for whites and center of much
of the denomination’s activity.
This soft-spoken, pleasant
little lady, a wisp of woman
hood at 89 pounds, had gone to
the church to ask what should
be done about a sign directing
visitors to the church which
had l>een removed from its
place and laid in her backyard.
But before she could explain
her mission, she was grabbed
by one of the numbers, dragged
to the door and pushed down
the front steps with the warn
ing never to come there again.
“If you were a man. I’d
knock you down. I wish you
were a man; I’d kill you,’’ the
bouncer threatened as she stood
in the church yard Miss Perry
said.
Early this week, she raid she
did not plan any legal action as
the result of her rough house
treatment. “I pray for them and
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ChargeThat NC's Negro Delegates
To Confab Pro-Jim Crow Refuted
A rebuttal to the charge that
North Carolina’s Negro dele
gates to the recently concludec
White House Conference or.
Education were pro segrega-
tioniste eeme this week trmr
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., one of the
members'of the State’s delega
tion.
The charge, attributed to
NAACP secretary Roy WilkinE
claftned that Negroes appo:ntei
to the Carolinas delegatioiic
were known to be in symp»i.:hj
with the states’ segregatior
policies.
Kennedy, very active in Nortl
Carolina’s political, educationa
and civic affairs, replied to the
ciiarge in a prepared statement
for the TIMES this week, f
“I am not in sympathy with
segregation policy of the offi
cials of the State of North
Carolina or Miy other state. 1
have stated publicly and pri
vately tiiat segregation laws oi
any and all states should be
repealed.”
He went on to say further
that if the statement attributed
to Roy Wilkins is “authentic;
Roy Wilkins, like many other
humans has made a big ims-
take.”
The North Carolina Mutual
president servsd on the State’s
34 member delegation which
included Atty F. J. Carnage,
member of Raleigh’s school
board; Mrs. Ida Duncan, presi
dent of the NCTA; Mry. P
Foster, NCTA official; Mrs
Mary Holliday, president of the
Congress of Colored Parents
and Teachers; It.^ Jones,~ar-
rector of A4T C'l
cultural and Extension Service;
and A. L. Turner, dean of North
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Final Rites Held
In Charleston.
ForMrs.Clenietrt
CHARLESTON, S. &
Death came to BIrs; Sadie K.
Clement, 80, Monday, Nov. 38,
alter an illneea lasting over a
period ot ten years. Mrs. de
ment, the wife of Arttiur J.
Clemei^^ Sr., a member at the
Board of the N. C. Ifutual Life
Insurance Company^ died at her
home, 517 Rutledge Avenue.
B4rs. Clement, bom May '5,
1875, was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs WiUiam Jo
seph Jones. Sbe was educated
at Avery Institute, a private
school established by the ^
merican MissicMiary So.-iety for
the education of Ntgrrcs soon
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Shown here are members of the North Carolina Masons
Grand Lodge Convention steering committee wiiich made
plans for the organization’s 85th state meeting, to be held in
Durham ^cember 12-14. Host Lodges for the. convention
are the Doris Lodge, 28, and Dorcas I^dge, 4S..
In the picture above are, seated from left to ri|^t, J. W.
Wheeler, N. B. White, J. L. Mofitt, Nathaniel WaDur, Dor
set! Williams, William A. CWnent, Clyde Biehardae*. Ma
mie L. Lyons, Edgar Alston, and R. Kelley Bryut, Jt,
Standing left to right are Wallace Hintan, Fra^
Odell Fields, TheodM* fright, Marvin Nnim, Pwey
Hulen Allen, C. C. Turner, David Gilmore, Biijah *—it. W.
E. l^tfield, Bonnie HawUas and H. M. Mlchaox.