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CHLHOUN WMS M OLYMPICS Lovely Martha Flowers, teen as “Bess" in the recent adapta tion oi George Gershwins "Porgy and Best" which played 29 ctmntrici of the world includ ing Russia, will be heard in a concert in Winston-Salem at the Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege gymnasium -on Monday night, Dec. 10. A Winston-Salem native. Miss Flowers got her start in the TuHn City singing to the accom paniment of her father, Rev. Thomas Flowers who says he is -right prottd" of hi* daughter. Since embarking on a serious career in music, she has won the Marion Anderson Award,, a John Hay Whitney Fellowship oTid the Walter W. Maumburg Award. Her appearance in Wiriston-Salem will be sponsor ed by the Phi Beta Sigma fra ternity. Wfnston-Saiem Husband Beats Mate To Death WINSTON-SALEM A 54 year old factory worker who aibnitted to beating his wile with his fists, kicking her and then hitting her several times with a steel chair, is be ing held for Riurder in connec tion with her death here last Friday. Charged with murder as re' suit of the death oi Margie Transou, alias Margie Transou McCollum, Is her common-law husband Melvin William Mc Collum of 305 East Eighth St. McCollum was anested Satur day morning. McCollum admitted to police that he beat the Transou woman in a fight which started Friday as the result of an argument be tween the two over another wo man. The wild death struggle which raged back and forth through all the rooms of the house and which finally ended in the yard, left the dwelling a shambles. Members of. the Transou wo- {man'() family said McCollum beat the woman into unconsci ousness on the outside of the house and then took her back Inside, threw her down, locked the house and left. (Please tiun to page Eight) Piedmont Teachers Hear Howard Prexy To HIGH POINT Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, Praddent of Howard University, wlU deliver the keynote ad dress at the twentieth annual convention of the Piedmont Dis trict Teachers Association, Fri day December 7, in William Penn High School gymnasium, here at 4:00 p.m., according to an announcement made by Dr. Theodore R. Speigner, President of the Association. In keei^ing with the conven tion th^e, “Ab Educate People Move Freedom For ward”, two outstanding educa tors are scheduled to address the Leadership Training Work shop. They are D». W. L. Green, NCTA Executive Secretary and W. 1. Morris, NEA-NCTA Field Consultant. The division of classroom teachers has prepared a pro- for the morning work- conference. “Bridging the Gap Between High School and College” is the theme for the college divi sion. The principal speaker will be-Dr. William H. Brown of North Carolina College at Dur ham. Dr. J. A. Tarpley, principal of Dudley High School in Greensboro, will address the di vision of administration and supervision. Several distinguished educa tors in the area of specialized education will participate in the Division of Specialized Educa tion during the morning and af ternoon, among whom are Dr. Ralph L. Wooden,' Industrial Education Department of A&T College at Greensboro and Henry Catching. Among the distinguished col lege professors who are sche duled to appear on sectional programs jtvhich begin at 1:30 p.n^ are*; Dr. J. S. Himes of North Carolina College 4t Bar ham; Dr. James Dillard of Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege; Walter Carlson, Jr., of A&T College; Dr. George L. Johnson of Winston-Salem Teachers College; Dr. Ray Thompson of North Carolina College at Du'nam; Dr. Arthur (i’lease ttim to page Eight) Pictured above is Margie Transou, 30, alias Margie Transou McCollum who was beaten to death last Friday in Winston-Salem by her com- mon-law husband, Melvin Mc Collum. She died at a Winston- Salem hospital shortly after ar rival from fractures of the low er jaw, and left arm, cuts on the forehead and gashes on the left side of her head. McCollum is being charged in the death. See detalU; column three, this page. Official Dies In New Bern NEW BERN George Azel Moore,: resident of 305 Jones Street, and Grand Treasurer of the Masonic Or- ^r^oniorth CaroIIha ' died at Good Shepard Hospital here Tuesday, November 27 at 12:05 p.m., as the result of a cerebral hemmorage. Moore was stricken while at tending the North Carolina Con ference of the AMS Zion Church which was convening in Jacksonville. He was rushed to the hospital here where he suc cumbed within a few hours. He was bom and reared in New Bern and had lived here all of his life. His wife who sur vives is the former Miss Susie E Leath, also a native of New Bern. In addition to holding the position of Grand Treasurer of Masons of North Carolina Mr. Moore was also treasurer of the North Carolina AMEZ Confer ence and head of its department of Christian Education. His pa rents were the late John and Rosana Moore of New Bern. The funeral service will be held at Clinton Chapel AMB2 Church Sunday, December 2 at 1:30 p.m. with Bishop H. T. Medford of Washington, D. C., officiating. The Rev. W. C. Sappe is pastor. In addition to his wife Moore is survived by three daughters, (Please turn to page Eight) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bus Boycott Turns To Nationwide Non-Violence Call Top National Leaders Meet On Idea Dec. 3 MONTGOMERY, Ala. A move to turn the force which sustained the near year long boycott of buses here by Negroes into a nationwide pas sive resistance movement was seen this week in the schedul ing of an institute on non-vio lence by the organization which sponsored the boycott. Officials of th» Montgomery Improvement Association, the group formed and headed by Rev. Martin Luther King to di rect the boycott, announced this week that Rev. King will lead an institute on “Non-Violence and Social Change” here from DMwaber 3-8. i At the-tame time, it re vealed 'that R^. King isnied. an appeal-to the SO,000 Negroes of Montgomery to “rededicate themselves to noh-violence in their struggle for dignity." Some of the country’s most outstanding liberals and lead ers from many fields are ex pected to participate in the in stitute, according to the associ ation’s statement. Among tbem^ are Lillian Smith, noted south ern author. Rev. Gardner Tay lor, Miss Nannie Borroughs, and Rev. Glenn Smiley. Sometime before the end of the bus boycott Itere, the feel ing had been expressed by many especially liberals who came to see the boycott in action, that the passive resistance princi pal behind the boycott should be extended into other areas on a national scale. Rev. King, boycott spokep- man who travelled all over the country speaking on the boy cott, was insistent in his belief that the passive resistance tech nique should be employed in all areas of thf struggle by Negroes/ (Please turn to page Eight) Lee Calhoun, North Carolina College junior from Gary, Ind., became the second Negro ath lete to win a gold medal for first place in the Sixteenth Olympics as he streaked to firwt place in the 110 meter hurdle* Wednesday. His time W€U 1$A. VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 47- DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1956 PRICE: TEN CENTS Baha'i Speaker 'Matthew W. Bullock, Bos',on, Mass., attorney,' will speak in Durham at the regular Friday night meeting of the Baha’is on Nov. 30 on the subject of ‘‘Re ligion, the basis for World Peace.” Attorney Bullock North Carolina native. 77» meeting will be held at Van Sombeek home, 1903 Essex road. Quakers Reveal Plan To Aid Desegreation STARTS ALL OVER Norfley Whitted beat the clock by 15 minute* last Satur day and collected $3 for his licmse number AW 2871, which appeared in this space last week. If yours is one of the three be low, you can pick up $1 by showing up of TIMES office with registration card by noon Saturday. AW 2440 AY 0522 AW 5914 Grid Race Ends In 3-Way Tie GLOVENUIA BASS The race for {he football championship in the ClAA end ed in a three way tie, according to unofficial standings comput ed at the close of the confer- encfi^s^^enoh. North Carolina College, Mor gan and Delaware wound up with identical Dickinson rat ings of 24.16 to clal^ a share of the crown. The NCC Bugles posted a 5-0- 2 (won, lost, tied) record for the season. Delaware and Mor gan had identical 5-0-1 records. It is believed that tiiis is the. first time i^ the history.of the conference that a football title has been shared three ways. There has been no official re ports from conference statisti cian Leroy T. Walker as to final outrome of the ctmference race as It concerns the top three teams. However, * standings of the rest of the confermce is pretty well settled. Defending ohampion Mary land State wound up in fourth place, St. Augustine’s fifth; Bluefield, sixth; and Virginia Union, seventh, to round out the first division. Second division teams, in or der of their ranlcings, include A and T, Shaw and Fayetteville (tied for ninth); Winston-Sa- lem, Hampton, Howard, J. C. Smith, Virginia State, Lincoln and St. Paul. Sources close to ClAA offices in Durham say that there Is the possibility that an interpreta tion of the rules may be applied which would give North Caro lina the title. Walker, confer ence statistician, declined to speculate on this possibility. Already, North Carolina Col lege, Morgan and Delaware have laid claims to the title through their publicity offices. In deciding games on Thanks-1 gan stopped Virginia State, 25- giving Day, North Carolina I 6 in Petersburg, Va.; and Union College defeated arch-rival AI mauled Hampton, 31-0 in and T., 20-0 in Durham; Mor-1 Hampton, Va. Plan To Tax NAACP In Georgia Hit NEW YORK The Niitional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as a non-profit organi zation, has been exempt from the payment of federal and state income tax, Roy Willdns, executive secretary, observed in commenting on action by the Georgia state revenue officials who, on Nov. 21, instituted le gal action to collect such taxes from NAACP units operating in the state. The NAACP, WUkins de clared, “is not a profit-making organization, is so recognized by the federal government, the governments of New York State and other states. Not until the action against our organization in Texas last month was this question ever raised. Georgia had not previously requested payment of such taxes. Nor do we believe that the, state levies income taxes against the Boy Scouts, the YMCA, the Red jCross and similar non-profit or ganizations. We doubt very much that Georgia requires payment of this tax by the White Citizens Councils and (Please turn to page Sight) FRANK BRADSHER Contest Winners Prizes for the winners in the Carolina Times first college Scholarship Contest were sche duled to be presented at a for mal ceremony at the Roxboro elementary school auditorium Thursday night, Nov. 29. First three prize winners, in order, are Glovenula Bass, Alexander Brandon and Frank Bradsher. Speakers for the program in clude L. E. Austin, publisher of the Carolina Times, and Jesse W. Gray, contest manager who will award the prizes. Ministers from the sourrounding area are also expected to participate. Miss Bass won a $250 award to be applied to expenses at the college of her choice. Brandon won $150 and Bradsher, $100. The program was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the school audi torium; GREENSBORO The American Friends Ser vice Committee announced Monday the appointment of a committee to guide its- recently established program, on the public schools. Members of the committee, ainounced by B. Tartt Bell, Executive Secretary of the Ser vice Committee’s Southeastern Regional Office in Greensboro are: G. McLeod Bryan, Winston Salem, Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest College; Marc Friedlaender, Greensboro, Pro^ fessor of English, Woman’s Col lege of the University of North Carolina; Joseph S. Himes, Durham, Professor of Sociology, North Carolina College; Mrs. David D. Jones, Greensboro, wife of the late president of i Bennett College; James Mat-' tocks, High Point, attorney; W. I. Morris, Burlington, Field Re presentative, N. C. Teachers Association; W. Carson Ryan, Chapel Hill, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of North Carolina; and David Stanfield, Minister of Spring field Friends Meeting, High Point. The new program. Bell said, will work with those individu als and organizations in North Carolina communities who are seeking constructive compli ance with the Supreme Court decision making school segrega tion illegal. “The program will try to help local comn unities work to ward community supported de segregation,” he said. “We start with the assumption that local interracial efforts must be co operatively undertaken as first steps toward this goal.” John W. Alexander of Chapel Hill, former teacher and busi nessman, will direct the pro gram. During the next five years the program will make avail able to North Carolina commu nities a service of information and counselling on school inte gration, Bell said. “The committee appointed to day will seek to draw on the ex perience of other areas that have faced the same problems. Our focus will be principally on local areas since each must make its own decisions on school integration based on knowledge of special local con ditions.” Bell emphasized, however, that because of the finality of the Court decision and chan ging world conditions all com munities would sooner or later have to face up to the is.sue The American Friends Ser vice Committee, a Quaker or ganization, has conducted work related to its religious concerns (Please turn to page.Eight) J. S. HIMES NCC Star Blazes To New Games Mark -Special to the TIMES— Melbourne, Australia Spaulding Acts As Chairman Of U. S. Delegation Word was received in Dur ham this week that Asa T. Spaulding, member of the Uni ted States delegation to the UNESCO conference in New Delhi, India, has been appointed to serve as temporary chairman of the delegation in many in stances. .According to ir formation re ceived this week, Spaulding has substituted for the chairman of the delegation during four of the plenary sessions ci the gene ral confererxe. In addition, he represented ^he delegation in the debate on the right of Nationalist China to vote in the confe'.ence. The vote was 33 for, 19 against, and 7 abstentions. Eighteen repre sentatives were absent from the meeting. During the month long conference, Spaulding has voted for the delegation on tour other occasions and serves as .■spokes man for the United States in the Technical Assistance discussion in the Program Commis^on. | The conference opened on ’ Nov. 5 and is scheduled to end Dec. 5. Spaulding is expected to re~ turn to the country between Dec. 10 and 15. His wife accMii- panled him. Lee CaUioun. gazelle I; s sprinter from Gary, Indiana, blazed to a hew Olympic games record here Wednesday as he won the finals of the 110 meter high hurdles. Calhoun broke the tape in the time of 13.5, an eyelash ahead of the favorite, Lt. Jack Davis of the U. S. Navy. Jod Shankle, Duke University grad uate student, placed third ta give the American team & cttta- plete sweep in the event. Calhoun’s winning time of 13.5 broke the previous Otym- pic mark of 13.7, established at Helsinld Ijy« Harrison DUkurd and Jack Davis. The North Carolina College junior thus t>ecame the second tan athlete to win a gold medal. Chaises jDumas, world record holder in the high jump, won that event on the opening day of the games here last wedK. “An overwhelming desire and the ability to lift himself up for the “big” races is the real rea son for Calhoun's victory,” Le roy Walker, coach of the Olym pic star said in Durham attar recfiving news of his pu^'a surprising win in the Olymptea. “Lee wanted to win, and b* has the knack of putting out hit best efforts tor the tMBOKkuH races," Walkwr said. The head track at N. C. College said that ww not overly surprlsad at Calhoun’s victory over Jack - Devis. who himaeU baa a Ume of 13.3 in the 110 hurtftM up tor consideratioa as a world'a record. ^!be iact that Davia had aant ckMe h "Me 1953 OlympiGtt mm (Pleaae turn to pa
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