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SLAIN INMATE’S MOM $3,000 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL FLAN ALREADY "GUTLESS” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ VOLUME 33 — MUMBER 3 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19,1957 PRICE; fEN CSMTS NAACP CASE BACK IN LOWER COURTS HANDS State Supreme inston'‘SalemTo Honor Man Spaulding To Speal( At Affair On January 25 Dowd auft Ourlev aireet* in "^(cation sar- vitw Services oi W. OOODLOE and the remairUng $ervie»* in ihe.nrtu were announced thit Mutual At S Million, Names Goodloe V-P The North Carolina Mutual life iiMurance compaay taai) reached a total of S3 millloiv doUant in aasets, accordiag to its Prealdent’a annual report to policyholders lart week. N. C. Mutual president, W. J. Kennedy, Jr., made the annual report before aasembled policy- holderi at the firm’s home offiM in Durham Monday. Following the annual meet-i ing, J. W. Ooodloe, secretary, was elevated to the post of a vice-president. Progress of the firm from its origins in 1809 to the present day was traced by President Kennedy in liis address. He also reported on htghlitfits of tiia past ymr’s operations. Kennedy said that operations during tile year showed a pre mium Income of $12 milUon and insurance in force of nearly 1230 million. "We have every reason to take great pride in the achieve* m^nts of our company as a sub* stantial unit of the li£e Insur ance industry in our nation,” he skid. ‘To the American Negro, North Carolina Mutual is more than a life insurance ceir^Mny. It Is the Qrmbol of his advance ment in qrite of economic, social civic and political injustices. "Those of us astembled here todtey reiye^t more than 7|K),000 policj^lders of tba company in nine states ud ^ District of Coltunbia. TV> thia (continued on page 8)^ consecration for Gilead Baptist church building will continue Friday, Jan. 18 and run through Feb. 1, it was announced this Week by Bev. Harold Roland, pastor of the church. Initial services were held in tlie new structure last Dec. 23. Some ten ministers from Dw- liam churches and an official of tlie North Carolina Mutual life insurance company will speak at the dedication series. Friday night’s services ' will be conducted by the N. C. Mu tual. Aaron Day, Jr., assistant secretary of- the firm, will de liver the principal address. He will speak on _"The Negro church, Its Present and Future Challenges.” Music for tills service will be furnished by the Young People’s choir of the church. Speakers to be heard during the remaining services in the se ries are as follows: Jan. 21, Rev. A. S. Croom, pastor of Union Baptist Church; Jan. 22, Rev. W. M. Fuller, pas tor of Mt. Zion Baptist; Jan. 23, Rev. J. H. Peppers, pastor of St. Paul Baptist; Jan. 24, Rev. C. E. McLester, pastor of More- head Avenue Baptist; Jan. 28, Rev. E. T. Browne, pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist; Jan. 30, Rev. W. F- Cox, pastor of Oak Grove Free Will Baptist; Jsih. 31, Rev. R. L. Speaks, pastor of St. Mark AMEZ Church; and Feb. 1, Rev. F. Yelverton, pastor of Mt. Calvary Holiness ^ureh. Choirs of the above churches will render music at tlieir re- H>ective services. Construction was begun on the new church edifice last March. It was completed in December at an approximate cost of $11S,000. Located at Dowd and Gurley streets, site of the old church building, the new edifice has a 500 seating capacity sanctuaryf and a 226 capacity basement as sembly. In iiddition, there are 17 rooms for educational and administrative purposes. The building is constructed of red brick and solite blocks. The interior of the sanctuary is finished in white sand plaster with a ceiling of acoustic tile. It is decorated with a special gum wainscoating. The choir and bal cony are equipped with opera seats. It contains a combination heating and air conditioning unit and facilities for installa tion of a public address system. Plans for the new edifice wcsre drawn by Dr. W. H. Robin son. George Boykin, contract(«, sui>erintended ^e construction. The church's buUding com mittee, which had charge of overall plans for the building, included B. B. Rogers, chair man, John Li. Holloway, A. L>. Tucl^ Mrs. Martha Nance, William Cook, David Gilmore, Samuel. Walkier and Lewis Owens. Court Returns RegistrationCase RALEIGH North Carolina gained a slight edge in its running battle with the NAACP last week when it won a /uling from the State Supreme Court on a/technicat issue. ‘ The high court ruled, in keep ing with the state’s contention, that an action filed by the NAACP fighting an order that it register under two statutes, was improperly filed, and remand ed the case to a lower court. The opinion, written by Jus tice R. Hunt Parker, said that the secretary of state and the attorney general are not pro perly co-defendants vmder the two causes of action filed singu larly by the NAACP. It upheld a Wake Superior Court ruling ttiat the actions b» saiwrately. R. Merrick, president of Savings and Loan At- tooj^ion, is shown here addrett- annual meeting of the firm’t thaH^holdert in Durham last week. Seated are J. S. Stewart, $ecretarv-treaturer of the firm and F. V. AUison, Jr., assistant secretarv-treaeurer. it Aowml Wsstiiig hun firm NAACP to register on ehi^ed in or public opinion. expenditures -1 industry; incrrasedr spen^ng by lose, and now holds more WINSTON-SALEM Plans are fast taking shape here for « special program next Friday night to honor this city’s outstanding man of 1096. Officially known as the "Young Man of the Year" award, the honor will be given at a banquet at the Patterson avenue YMCA Friday, Jan. 25. For the past several years, the Junior Chamber 'of Com merce has sponsored the affair, citing the city’s outstanding young man of the year. This year, however, the Jaycees de cided to pool its efforts in the project with the Business and Professional Chain in an effort to gain wider interest for the project. A secret committee composed of members of both organiza tions has been at work tor seve- fftF weeks" processing -nomina tions for the award. Their se lection will be announced by Mayor Marshall Kurfees at the banquet Friday. Principal speaker for the oc casion will be Asa T. Spaulding, globe-trotting vice presiident of the North Carolina Mutua^life insurance company. Spaulding/wnsetl' was re cently the ^Mipient of an honor in Durham from that city’s Business and Professional Chain. He recently returned from a one month stay In India where he In loss, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the In auguration of Liberia's Pre^l- d^t William V. B. Tubman m REMEMBER ME PoUo strikes withoat regard, te age, race, creed w emor, March of DimM funds pvevtde for polio patients withent re gard to age, race, creed or eolor. SiMilB, age one year, wftc' sMeken In June 1SS6. wie wui learn to walk. Her future eais Is gnaranteed by the 19S1 March of Dimes. Share In her cat and fntnre. Join tiie M&roit Dimes. NCC(^Wins Readers Digest $50IMFirst Prize A 10 year old NCC sopho more from Chinquapin, is the winner ^ a |900 Readers Dl- gntjurirc. An addi,Uonal tSOO wlirbe given to NCC’s Scholaa- ship fund. Gertie Lee Chasten, daughtaB of Mr. and Mrs. john Chact^. a farm couple with elj^t chttd- The NAACP claimed it was not doing business in North Carolina and its actlviUee arie such as to bring it under in terstate commerce which pro vides it protection under the U. S. Constitution. / (continued frotx. 1) IKE ASKED to TOUR SOUTH ATLANTA, Ga. Negro leaders meeting here last week-end |n a series of workshops on th^ technique of non-violence in the racial strug gle appealed to Preslitent Eisen hower and vice presiMnt Nixon to come to the South and call for compliance with the Su preme Court’s desegregation ru lings. The text of a telegram mat to the chief executive at the end of the meetings said, in part; “We ask you to come South immediately to make a major speech in a major southern city urging all Southerners to abide by the Supreme Court’s declsioi^ as the law of the land. This wire came at the end of one of the two meetings last week in Atlanta. The first was sponsored by a group of Negro ministers and the second by the Fellowriiip,of RecondUatlon. I^lnga. ahd serves more i^mlllM than at any time In its 35-year history, J. S. Stewart, Secre- tary-Treasurer, reported at the firm’s annual shareholders’ meeting last week. « Stewart, in releasing the asso ciation’s annual report, said the institution’s steady growth was due to serving a growing num ber of people. “For 125 years’’, he said,’’ the nation’s savings and loan associations have con tribute to commuiUt^ thrift and home o'wnershipi by’provi ding a safe, convenient and pro fitable place for savings, ai^ by granting sound liomte toaoty’ Among highlights of the in stitution’s 1056 operations were the following: 1. Net savings increased by $564,4.62, or 34.61 percent, in 1056, bring total savings to |2,857,04d.02. ^ . 2. iW association’s savers re ceived a total of $88,128.25 in dividends, 28.71 ^rcent more tiian in 1098. 3. The association expanded its home mortgage loan portfo- Uo by $388,160.78, or 19.80 per cent, in 1096. Total home loans outstanding now amount to $2, ^8,330.76. 4. Reserves were increased to $281,024.08, Exceeding the re serves on hand at the end of last year by $20,784.76, or 11.81 percent. Stewart forecast continuance of a liigh level economy in 1097. Meiiri>ership bicreosing In Spite Of Attacks On NAACP In Dixie NEW YORK Membership in the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored PeH>le reached the 350,000 mark la 1096 de spite the ban on operations in the states of Alabama, Louisi ana and Texas, Gloster B. Cur rent, director of branches, re ported at the Association’s 48th annual meeting here this wedc. >“T1ie extra efforts of NAACP units outside of the South,” Current said, "offset the loas In those states” and as a result the total membersiiip was increased by about 40,000. During 1096, he continued, new local NAACP units chartei^ included 46 branches, 42 j^th councils and 13 college chiqDters in t3 states. By the end at the year there were 1,913 local units in 44 states, the District of Cotanitbia and the Territory of Alaska. Current reported that bran ches in 12 cities ^enrolled more ♦l»»n 9,000 'meml>ers eadi in i096. Leading this list was De troit with 18,204. Los Angeles with 14,106 was seoond foUaw- ed Iv Cleveland, 18,101, btbars in this group included; New York (ManiiattaB only) 11,871; Baltimore, 10,000; WaAington, 0,628; Philadelphia, 0,187; Chi cago, 8,724; Cincinnati, 6,461; Atlanta, 9,863; St. Louis, 9,901; and Brooklyn 9,183. "Hie Association's youth pro gram under direction of Her bert L. Wright," Mr. Current re ported, “adiieved a membership hl|^ of 24,490 during lj»96. The division succeeded in obtaining a nwnber of scholartfi^ to belp joung people wlio were ousted from southern colleges t>ecause of their activities in the desegregation campaifn and others who needed help to carry on tiieir work.” Miss Marion Stewart, of tiie life membersiiip drive, report ed a total of 982 n»w life mem- ben enrolled during 1096, u compared with 486 in the pra- viottt year and 280 in 1094. In- creaiMd activity among the bimciies to secure life members was also reported by Miss Stew art TMs increased activity lias stimulated recruitment otT life memlMrs. ^ federal, state and local govern- ments for puBBi' wofta; mefr arj schools and highways; full em ployment; and a high* rate of consumer .purchases of goods and services. The assticiation officials pre dicted a hausing market in 1057 "equal to or slightly better than that ai 1056. He poin^d out that the housing market Ls being’ sustained by "an intense deiire on the part of the public for bigger and better homes, a rising rate of dispensable per sonal income, and a continued high rate of family migration.” OnN. C. Acfs tn W^OfVarCai The question North Carolina’s puiJ^ir ailsl^n-' ment laws are constitutional ap peared of little moment in the opinion of several attorneys thib week who have followed closely the legal battles over school de segregation in this area. The state’s pupil assignment act was placed in the spcMllght once again this week-end «:> the result of a ruling on a Vir ginia school assignment law by a federal Judge, U. S. District Judge Walter E. Hoffman ruled last Friday at Norfolk that Virginia’s school laws designed to maintain the state’s segregated pattern is “unconstitutional on its face.” Immediately, speculation arose anew In North Carolina as to the constitutional validity of similar laws enacted recentij to maintain segregation. Attorney General George B. Patton was quoted by several press services soon after the Virginia ruling that the North Carolina pupil assignment act remains unaffected >by Judge Hoffman's Virginia ruling. Commenting on N. C.’s iiew school laws, Atty. Gen. P«tton waa, quoted as saying, i^'in my opinion’ there is nothing on its face that appears unconstitu tional.” Reports went on to quote Pat- estate of the deceased prisoner. | ton as saying that although i(udge Hoffman ruled that Ne gro plaintiffs would not have to exhaust administrative reme dies under the Vii^inia pupil asi^ypuiient statute, all a dm inis- State Found Guilty In Deatli Of Eleanor Rush RALEIGH The mother of Eleanor Rush, who died In Women’s Prison while gagged and bound to a cliair, was awarded $3,000 as the result of court action brought on belialf of the dead woman. Hie State Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state Is re sponsible for the death of Miss Rush. She died at the prison in August, 1094. The high court’s verdict Fri day sustained pr^ous n^gs by the State industrial Com mission and a lower coUrt that the girl died as the result of "negllgeBce” by prison emr ployees. Tlu $9,000 was granted to the "I am very excltedT fchd thrlU- d" Bald Miss Cl^sten. She will use the money to tuition apd fees for -n,irly oth^r farm tamiUes. -0 closely knit unit, tarougn team -they- Kave been afaia- ia_ aiicate two other slsterr, Mrsi ,/ilSi0 C. Janet and Mliw Esther i actwell, Ga. The two older sisters finished A iind T College in Greensboro, Jones in 1048 and Esiber in 1095. Esther has been the NCC coed’s sponsor thus far this year. She will get relief next semester (continued on MMe •O'AUKIIi Her mother, Mrs. Genevw Gould of Albermarle, Is ad ministratrix of the estate. Miss Rush died Aug. 20, 1094 from a oeck dislocation, causing rnmprMsinji of tee spinal couittr Officials said die was tied to a\ chair and gagged vhea he b^ came unnily and woidd not quiet down. A coroner’s Jury, which clear ed the state of blame In her death, ruled that her struggles against It cauped her death. Subsequent investigation, how ever, discovered that she was injured while being gagged, firlday’s rtUing by the State (continued on page 8) t^tlvrtlfcedlSs would have to be exhausted in North Carolina. However, well Informed le gal opinion was expressed this week to the extent that all of ttie "guts” have been removed from the state’s pupil assign ment acts designed t* maintain segregation by a d^lslon ren dered by Judge John J. Parker. It was ex{dained that Judge Parker ruled that while (contlnu«d on page 8} HowardChaplain Dr. H. A. Ferrell At NCC Sunday Rev. H. Albion Ferrell, chap- . lain to Canterbury Hous»T-th» ^ Episcopal student center at Howard University—^wlU spaak at North Carolina College’s ves per service* here on SuateF- Time for tiie wrvictf Ik at 8:19 p.m. at B.N. Duke audi torium. Rev. Ferrell will q^eak on the subject, “From Maiqr, One.'* A former teacher in New Jer sey, Rev. Farrell was diaplata^ to the Cheyney State Tjm'|(|pi College in Pennsylya»l|fMi^ t! coming to Howard.. ^ He is a gradu^ of ■ay State .^•Moers Oolk the FhiladtMA D^laUjr 'Md ha»-4Bi>» I at T«||pla VnhwaHar-
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