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^ Expected At Shers iiHeef In Raleigh Swidoy REGISTER Jl£l •'HE BOOKS ARE NOW OPEN **A VoteleMB People i$ A HopeletB People** |pWraiimi''b»iSe^ PRICE 10c PAY NO MORE VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 34 DURHAM, N. C, SAVtJBDAT, AUGUST 25, 19M PBICB; It CBffB GOP MAY PITCH SOUTHERN STATES Kittrell College takes On New Life Under Bishop FJM. Reid A The abore photos are scenes Fifth Annual Religious Educational Retreat held at Kittrell College last week at which more than 1,000 persons gathered for the four- day session. Top phoib Number 1, shows Prudent R. W. Wisner pointing out the new gymnasi^. now under construction at the school. Center photo. Number 2, dhows directors of retreat in an informal discus- KITTRELL Over a thousand men, wo men and children of all ages flocked to the Fifth Aimual Reli^ous Educational Retreat at Kittrell Junior College last week. Ministers, high church offi-r cials, young people and grown-ups attended work- s, clinics for ministers, picnics, sermons, pageants and muaical programs at the venerable educational institution. The delegation was composed primary of representatives of the Second Episcopal District, which includes Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina, but visitors were present from New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Tennessee and Michigan. L. E. Austin, publisher of the Carolina Times was elected president of the Alumal Asso ciation aad Immediately an nounced plans to raise for the collie. Fledge bMk* were qalakly gobbled bioiis of the college la at- tendapice at the Betreat/iiad Founder’s Day, February 14, was set as the final dlate tor making rqrarts at which time the desired goal of 9101,000 Jta expected to be readied. Austin pointed out to the sien with their leader, Rw, C.C. Scott. ers are from left to right, Mrs. Leolis Q. Brown, Mrs. Dorothy Swann, Mrs. Gladys Wisner, wife of the president and Rev. S. E. Guiles. Bottom photo. Number 3, shows the new episcopal residence now under con struction on the campus. Oflier photos of Retreat on back page. Montgomery Boycott Minister To Deliver Ushers Annual Sermon ~ RALEIGH When the S2nd annual session of the Interdenominational Ushers Association of North Carolina opens in Oreenleaf Audltorltun at Shaw Univer sity here Thursday, it will bring together the largest interdenominational religious religious group in the state. Listed on this year’s program are many outstanding person alities of local, state and na tional note, Including the ^v. S. S. Seay of Montgomery, Alabama who was failed, to gether with 20 other Ne|^ ministers of that city, because of the leading part they took in the bus boycott. Rev. Seay will deliver the annual sermon Sunday afternoon at tluee o'clock at Ligon High School. Other noted persons who will address the convention are Mayor Fred B. Wheeler of Raleigh;. J. R. Larkin, State Welfare Director; Dr. J. O. Plummer, Raleigh Physician; Dr. W. R. Strassher, president 6f Shaw University; Rev. 0. L. Gidney, Raleigh Ministerial Alliance; Mrs. V. T. Brown, Mrs. N. E:. Lochart and Attor ney E. A. Solomon. Highlights of the annual session will be the public pro gram, 'Hiursday evening; the Ushers Institute Friday morn ing under tlie direction of Mr*. Ruth Morgan of Wen dell; the program of the Arts and Crafts Department and the Junior Department Satur day afternoon, Mrs. A. B. Massenburg is president of the former and Miss Norma C. Mc Coy Ui president of the latter. On Friday night the presi dent’s annual address will be delivered. Saturday morning, August 25, the First Aid Department will have its annual program and make it’s annual report. Slec- tion of officers will be at 1:00 p. m. Saturday. Saturday eye ing at eight the annual Ora torical Contest, Mrs. Susie V. Cooper, Director, will be held, followed by awarding of prizes JOHN R. LARKIN by Mrs. E. K. Hughes of Fay etteville. Music for tile various pro grams will be conducted by tbe Fayetteville Street Baptist Church Choir, Manley Street Church Choir, Mrs. Margaret^ Chavis and Miss Ernestine* Laws . Principal officers of the As sociation are L. E. Austin, Durham, president; -C. A. Langston, Raleigh, vice presi dent; Mn. M. J. Copleland, Greensboro, recording secre tary; Mrs. Ilsther Haywood, Raleigh, correspondence sec retary, Durham, treasurer and A. D. Clark. Chapel HiU, chap man of the Board of Dilators. Alumni Of AME School Launch $100,000 Drive tance oTprivate schools ai^ that strong efforts will be made to encourage the denomination to support the vitalization of Kit trell. He stated further that the white Methodist Ohnrches in North Carolina, Instead of abandoning any of the several colleges they already liave in the state, were planning to establish three new ones. (Please turn to Page 8} FLOYD BROWN GEORGE E. TILLETT Floyd H. Brown and George E. Tillett, 1956 and 1953 graduates of the N. C. College Law School, re spectively, who passed the the State Bar Examinations recently. NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION TO HOLD 3IST SESSION IN N.Y. REVEREND S. S. SEAT NEW YORK The National Bar Association will hold its 31st Annual Con vention in New York City from August 30 through Sep tember 1. All sessions, except the public session, will be at the Hotel New Yorker, the Convetition Headquarters. The program, as announced by Lawrence R. Bailey and Edward J. Cambridge, co- chairmen of the convention committee, will Include such well-known speakers as Prof. Herbert Reid, Howard Unlv erslty Law S^ool; Roy Wil kins, Executive Secretary NAACP; Prof. Robert McKay New York University Law School; Louis K. Poliak, Pro fessor of Law, Yale Universi- (Please turn to Page 8) Still No Takers $4.00*Thi8 Week-$4.00 b yonr Auto Lieeiuie Number listed Below?? If 80 bring Auto Registra tion Card to the Office of The Carolina Times be fore noon- Saturday and get your four one dollar bills. AY-7455 AY-9612 AY-2276 Grambling Gets $5 Million For Improvements By 0. J. NICHOLSON GAMBLING, LA. The Louisiana State Board of Education has approved a $4,700,000 expansion program for Gagibllng College. President B. W. E. Jones made the annonncement last (Please turn to Page 8) Republicans Making Bid To Regain Negro Vote Lost To Demos In 1936 AMEZion'sOpen Big Gathering In Asheville ASHEVILLE High officials of the A. M. E. Zion Church began arriving here Sunday for the 1056 Con- nectional Council meeting of the A. M. E. Zion Church, which opens here August 22, at 11:00 a. m., with Hopkins Chapel as host. The meeting is scheduled to last for four days and will O]^ with a scruon and the serving of the Holy Cobubiui- lon ef the Lwrd'a^ Atwraaicsit. The Rt. Rev. W. W. Slade wlU preside over the opening ses sion and will, then turn the gavel over to Bishop Ray mond Jones, who will serve as chairman of the Board of Bishops until Janaary. The meeting is scheduled to be a busy one, due to the fact that much of the unfinished work of the general conf ereilce will be completed. Much inter est is being shown in the se lection of the Judical CoimcU. This body was brought into ex istence at the general confer ence. There will be five min isters and four laymen select ed. There will be no bishop on the Council. The general con- (Please turn to Page 8) DR. HELEN EDMONDS NCC Professor To Second Ike's Dr. Helen Edmonds, pro fessor of History at North Carolina College, is sched uled to SMOlid the nomina tion of President Eisen hower at the Republican National Convention now in process at the Cow Palace in San Frandsco, Calif. Dr. Edmonds left Etarham by plane Tuesday morning and will be in attendance at the GOP Convention until it closes. In a final effort to win back the Negro vote wtiich it lost in 1936 and in spite of the contention by many observers that it is definitely plannii^ to hold the gains it made in Southern states in the cam paign of 1952, those in the know at the Republican Na tional Convention say that the GOP will finally ditch the Southern states in its bid for Negro support in the No- veml>er election. A close inspection af the Se- pnbllcaa platform will die- close that It is not so nnieh te keeping with Sonthem think ing as It appears on the sns^ face even ttongh the CIvB I Rights Plank is agaUst the nse ' of fore* in one place. N an other It pledges the ee»«t*ee* of the avU rights bOI which was killed by Sontkem Sen ators at the last sessioa »i Con gress. The GOP promt’s^* tf that clause in the civil rights bill which gives a commission the “power to subpoena witnesses and records in investigation of a denial of the right to vote and ‘unwarranted pressures’ aimed at denying basic ri^tta." broad that a witness might be snnunoaed from his home to Washington or elsewhere aad held at his own expMise for a wholly unwarranted complaint made by persons whose Iden tity he did not know. It woald give the National AssociatlM (Please turn to Page 8) CANCER WARNING The Food and Drug Admin istration has Issued a pnbllc warning that the Hoxsey treat ment for internal cancer dls- trihnted by the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics at Dallas, TetaS, and Portage, Pa., Is worthleai aad may be dangerons to those who rely npon It Instead of ob taining competent medical treatment. All persoas who may be considering the Hoxse treatment are advised to secure a copy of the warning notice. Write to: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION Washington, 25, D. C. This warning is an official notleo of the United Stataa Oovsmment Pictured above are scuies at the TZod annual session of the Womoi’s Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Conveatioii, held this month. At the top reading from left to right: Mrs. EUni S. Akton, executive secretary of the ConvMntioii; iba. M. A. Home, Wfaiston-Salcm, pnaiAMt, who Is serving her sevantt yaai^ Bfrt. A. B. Johnson, gaMgfc, heokkeepert' Bottom fhete shows a soctloa vt Um >delefation ass—>Med In tke Meant Vara mi Bap&t Chttr^ Revetead E. T. lhraw—» Mtor. The ^legates represented tlka feasaie manhera in 17M cfcarchea of tiM Baptiat denominatlea located hi Na«^ Rna.
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