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I Jackie Robinson First Athlete To Get W.iVLRicli Named To N. C Mutual Board William M. Rich, superintea- dent of Lincoln boipital, was elected to the board of directors and D. C. Deans, Jr. was ap pointed agency director of the North Carolina Mutual Life In- WILLIAM M. RICH O. C. DEANS, JB. surance company in a special meeting of the board Wednes day. Recent death of two of the firm’s high ranking officers, A. J. Clement and O. W. Cox, made the selections necessary. Clement died in April and Cox died two weeks ago. Both were board members, and Cox was also agency director. Wednesday’s action brings the strength of the board up to its mandatory number of nine members. At the conclusion of the meet ing, N. C. Mutual President W. J. Kennedy, Jr., expressed com plete satisfaction with the ac tion of the board in filling the vacated positions. Rich had no prior official connection with the firm. How ever, Deans has been a long time firm official and is a mem ber of Its board of directors. He had been summoned to duty in the Jiome office early last year to assist the then ailing G. W. Cox. The new board member, Rich, is a native of Westmoreland County, Va. He has been super intendent at Lincoln hospital since 1934. Rich received his formal education at Hampton Institute where he earned the bachelor’s degree in 1909. A year later, he returned and re ceived an additional degree from the institution’s business school. Like Rich, Deans is also a Virginian, a native of E:ssex Coimty. He received his formal training at West Virginia State College and went to work in the campaign headquarters of H. D. Hatfield who subsequent ly became governor of West Va. (Continued on Page Eight) Speaker Tells KiMCIass^ Jo Defend Ideas Of America KITTRELL Dr. Frank 'R. Veal, newly elected president of Allen Uni versity, told the graduating class of Kittrell Junior College at the school*B t»th commence^ ment, “Whenever a people per mit that in which they believe to die, they die—they become extinct.” "Whatever you believe in, your faith and your foundations, your aspirations and desires, will have to be defended con stantly,” Dr. Veal told the grad uates. He warned that “anything that Is alive is in constant Jeo- paody. Where life it present, death lurks about. Life and the essential values of our way of life—the basic things that A- merica stands for—are being threatened,” Dr. Veal cautioned his listeners. The speaker called upon the graduates to be ready and wU- .ling to stand up and defend'the ideals and the spirit of America. “That which you sincerely be lieve in you will fight, to pre serve," he said. In conclusion, Dr. Veal ad monished the young graduates not to let others have more con cern and more faith in the fu ture of ^ the Negro than they have. He said that the gradua- tloB ceremony signUied th*t tb«{-' graduates have' had the right answers for many questions, but pointed out that it is even more important that they have the right answers in the future. “’The right answers, a flrefHroof faith and the determination and courage to defend your convic tlons are the values which make men in life’s no-man’s-land,” Dr. Veal stated. The commencement was pre sided over by president R. W. Wisner. Bishop. Frank Madison Reid, chancellor of the school and prelate of the Second Epis copal DistEt^ of the AME Church, spoke about plans to revitalize and rebuild the Junior college which he said is so vi tally needed in this critical period of educational transition in the South. Dean Nathaniel Gaylord as sisted President Wisner in the presentation of diplomas, certi ficates and awards. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Award Negro Medics May Join White Society In N. C. VOLUME 32—NIJMBER 25 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1956 PRICE 10 CENTS Business Won’t Be Hurt By Integration Progress Speaker Tdls Twelve Durhamites vere sin gled out tor recognition by the National Recreation Association for their jBontribntlons to Dur- grwwtb in Moreatlon. The certificates in a special cere mony which preceeded the City Connoil’s regalar meeting Mon day night at City Hall. Left to right are John Barry (back to camera), editor of the Durtuun Snn who presMited the awards, John H. Wheeler, William .Rnf- fin. Judge Manhall T. Spears, JEl^er, Mrs. WUllam "li.' McCarthy'' ceived the award for her fathN, Fred C. Owen, Mrs. George P}rne, appearing for her mother, tion to program. Business League Competition Key Desegregation will not be the determining factor in the fail ure or suecess of any business, declared one of the South’s pio neer Negro bankers at the 10th annual North Carolina Negro Business League convention in Durham this week. Failure or success will de pend on “the individual firm and its ability to adjust and not to the progress of integration,” said L- E- Milton, a former cabi net c^mitteeman and current- icad far ^ president of Citizens Trust Durha»W^«r^ ... . .. Mrs. Mamie Dowd Walker, John A. BuohaDan, Steed Kollins, Al len Aldrige, who received the award fitr his father, Dewey Bfptrboro ^nd W. J. .tSenneOfj .^1]. Jtripf Spmnt Hill who wai* was not x^resented. Dentists Fight To Get On State Policy-Making Body CHARLOTTE Present efforts of Negro den tist in North Carolina to gain admittance to the alT-white North Carolina Dental Associ ation is not an attempt to crash into a social fraternity of white Tar Heel dentists, the retiring president of the Old North State Dental Society said here last week. Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who stepped down as head of the state organization of Negro den tists explained that the white dentists’ group, the North Card- lina Dental Association, is virtu ally a state agent and makes state policy controlling the prac tice of all dentists within North Carolina. Hawkins said that the North Carolina Dental Association, chartered in 1898, has been em powered by the State legisla ture to elect the North Carolina board of dental examiners, as sess taxes and approve or re ject applications for license to practice. In view of these state powers, Negro dentists contend that the North Carolina Dental Associ ation controls the practice of dentistry in the state The Negro dentists’ organiza- Frank G. Burnette, right, re cently appointed Imperial De puty for North Carolina Shrin- ere, la shown here reeetvlag a puigae tor merltoriaa MTrlee froai L, riMlar, lUeslrlees Potentate of Dnrham’a Zafa TAmple No. 1?S. Barnette aer yed as Potentate ot the Dwham Temple from ItSt threogfa ItSS. He was taeeeeded In the poet by Fraaln. Presentation To Be Made To Dodger Star At Season's End NEW YORK New York at a later date, pro- For the first time, the coveted bably after the close of the base- Spingam Medal, awarded an- ball, season, nually to a Negro American for | The Spingarn Medal was in- distinguished achievement, will. stituted in 1914 by the late J. E. be presented to an athlete, Spingarn, then chairman of the Jackie Robinson of the Brook lyn World Champion baseball team, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, announced here last week. The n>edal was awarded to Jackie for “his superb sports manship, his pioneer role in breaking the color bar in or ganized baseball, and his civic consciousness,” particularly his work in the efforts to curb Juve nile delinquency. Joining the Brooklyn Dodgers as an in fielder in 1047, he l^ame the first Negro major league base ball playert * Customarily, presentation of the award is made at a public meeting during the NAACP an nual convention. However, due to the Dodger schedtde, Mr. Robinson will be unable to at tend the convention which meets in San Francisco, June 26 throu^ July 1. Presentation of the award will be made In NAACP Board of Directors. It is a gold medal awarded “for the highest or noblest achieve ment by an American Negro during the preceeding year of years.” Since Mr. Spingarn’s death in 1939 the medal has been con tinued under terms of his will which set up a trust fund “to perpetutate the lifelong interest of my brother, Arthur B. Spin- gam, of my wife, Amy E. Spin- garn^ and of myself in the achievements of the American Negro.” Arthur B. Spingarn has been president of the Associ ation since 1939. The award to Jackie Robinson is the 41st. Among previous Spingarn Medalists have been Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Marian Anderson, Judge William H. Hastle, . A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Carl Mur phy, Dr. Channing H. Tobias, Roland Hayes, the late Walter White'and the late Dv. Louis X. Wright. tion has indicated that it will take legal steps to force the white dentists’ group to admit Negro dentists. Court action appears as the only alternative. Dr. Hawkins said, revealing that negotiations between the two groups on the matter for past eight years have met with no success. “We have exhausted all reme dies,” Dr. Hawkins said, “and the courts seem to be our only way out now.” Dr. Horace Thompson, presl' dent of the white association, said that no Negroes were in the white association because none had applied for memberdiip. Hawkins explained that in or der for ^ dentist to apply for membersiiips in the state associ ation, he must first be admitted to a district or county unit of the state organization. District nnd* County units require that al! applicants must be approved by two white members before their applications can be acted on. 'n ths past. Hawkins indicat ed, white society members have been instructed not to sign ap plications of would-be Negro members. In some cases, Haw kins revealed, white dentists have been told that if they vouch for a Negro applicant, thev would probably be repudi ated or forced out of the organi zation. This procedure, Hawkins said, works to eliminate Negro den tists in the South from member ship in the merican Dental As sociation, because membership in a state organization is a re quirement for affiliation with the national body. A full rights and privileges committee proposed the court action as the next step by the group to gain admittance to the North Carolina Dental Associ ation. its recommendations were approved unanimously by the 65 dentists who were in atten dance. The committee is compoeed of (Continued on Page Bight) Miltoq and Harry W. Ket- chum, director of the Office of Distribution of the U.S. Depart ment of Commerce, both stress ed the fact that competition re mains the heart of American free enterprise system. They were heard at the final session of the business league’s two-day convention held at North Carolina College. The convention was locally spon sored by the Durham Business and Professional Chain, the Durham Housewives’ League and the North Carolina College Commerce Department. “Integration is not going Uo make very many of our business men more or less alert, and it is not going to give them more or less market than they have now,” Milton asserted. Milton said that business ope rated by Negroes fall into two classes (1) Those that exist be cause of or related to segrega tion and (2) Those which exist in spite of segregation.” “We can only hope that dese- giegation gradually spe^ra,tes the men from the boys and gives efficient units the opportunity to operate in an atmosphere not as paralyzing in phychological effects as is segregation.” Some 300 persons, including (Continued on Page Eight ) Alexander Faison, North Carolina College student who was refused permission to regis ter at Seaboard for the May piimary, will be the plaintiff in a suit filed against the registnt' lion board by Attorney James B. vValker of Weldon. Walker also revealed early this week that a .;uit seeking to challenge the l)rohibition of “one shot” vot ing be instituted. The suits are the result of registration trou bles in eastern North Carolina prior to the May primary. South's Teachers Jein^NAA^ Despite Curbs NEW YORK In spite of punitive measures adopted in some southern lo calities against teachers who are NAACP members, many Negro teachers in the South have join ed the Association during its • jpring membership campaign. In making this announcement here last week. Miss Lucille Black, NAACP membership sec retary, said teacher enrollment in the State of Florida “proba bly leads the nation.” More than 300 teachers in Jacksonville. Fla., alone have become NAACP members during the campaign, she noted. In Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia and other southern states. Miss Black con tinued, “hundreds of colored teachers have expressed their interest in the desegregation fight by paying memberships and making contributions.” South Carolina recently made an anti-NAACP oath a condi tion of employment for all teaching positions.' A similar measure was adopted in Ala bama, applying only to Wilcox County. ^ Negro Doctors Hear News InConYentkm CHAHLOTTE Negro {riiysicians and sur geons will be admitted. to “scientific” membership to the previously all-white. North Carolina Medical Society before the year has past. At least, this is the opinion of Dr. Donald B. Koonce, Wil mington, president of the NCMS received by the Old North State Medical Society in annual ses sion here at Johnson C. Smith University June 12-14. Dr. Koonce, in Chicago, attending the annual meeting of the A- merican Medical Association, stated that only a “technical question was holding up the final annoimcement. He ex plained, in a telephone inter view, that certain word changes in the constitution of the NCMS first, had to be cleared up by a committee charged with the assignment. Ihe news came as a surprise to delegates in attendance at the meeting of the Old North State group, who had received no news following the last annual meeting of the white group held in Plnehurst in early May. News sources were silent on the pas sage, this year, on second read ing, of the original decision to admit Negroes introduced at tlie 1954 meeting of the group at Pinehurst. The telephone interview alio revealed that the site ai the meeting of the 1957 conventicm of the North Carolina Medical Society has been switcned irom .Pinrirarst to Asheville. ^r# stdted- that PhlitauiBt wi*- not too receptive to ent r-.ain- ing convention* which Included Negro memb^ihips. The latest development brought the Old North State Medical Society a step nearo' tfae goal lB-it» efioita hegim some six-years ago. Dr. Murray B. Davis, High Point, had served as chairman of a liason commit tee, working on the project dur ing the entire period. Along with members at the Old North State Medical So ciety, the latest decision was hailed by another leader in the medical profession. Dr. Roy B. McKnight, Charlotte surg;^on and president of the Tri-State Medical Society, comprisaig Virginia, North and South Caro lina, who presented a scientific paper at Wednesday’s session of the Old North State group, commended the action. "Both Negro and white physi cians will gain by the admission of Negroes to the NC^MS”, he said. He told the group that ex tremists who mi^t term the action a defeat or victory are all wrong. "No one is victor,” he concluded, “for all will gain.** Dr. J. W. V. Cordice, Durham, was presented the “Doctor of (Continued on Page Eight) and UUr«U R. W Principals In KittreU Col lege’s commencement exereisca are pietnred here. Lett to right are Dr. Frmak Yenl, newly tes ted president of Allen Univer sity who dAlvwed tke llnnis ad- drsss, Blihep Frank M. Rati.
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