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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 22
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATUHDAY, JUNE 1, 1957
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State NAACP Head Addresses Legislature
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James Q. DuPont Shaw University Finals Speaker
Aiiti-NAACP Bills Will Not
Stop Struggle For Equality
Says Kelly M. Alexander
RALEIGH
Kelly M. Alexander, presi
dent of the N. C. State Confer
ence of Branches, NAACP, ap
peared before the Corporation
Committee of the House of
Representatives here last Tues
day, May 28, to state NAACP
reasons for opposition to three
bills the purpose of which is
hamstring the work of the or
ganization in the state by pre
venting its operatioh.
Stating that judicial and leg
islative attacks in the South,
(such as proposed by bills No.
984 and No. 1133, now before
the committee, and No. 1137)
seem to be based on the opinion
or assumption that the NAACP
is responsible for the * contro
versy over racial segregation
and discrimination, Alexander
denied that the NAACP is the
source of such friction. He said
the organization is “but one
small, although significant; ex-
jgressioo ^ the.
^^9ind^«r« Qj|
against* beuig ouf
and set apart because of the |
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MRS. VIOLA TVRNEB
AARON DATE
North Carolina MutuaiElevates Two
Officers Miglhfositioiis
Although no official an
nouncement of it has yet been
made,, the Carolina Times learn
ed from a reliable source this
week that two officials of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance C!k>mpany, have recent
ly been elected to top positions
to fill vacancies that will occur
in the company’s official staff
come July 1, because of retire
ment.
Scheduled to retire are E. R.
Merrick, vice president and
treasurer, and D. C. Deans, Jr.,
vice president and agency di
rector. Merrick has rounded qut
nearly a hall century wUh the
company, having started as an
agent back in 1910. Deans has
served a total of 37 years, hav
ing become connected with it
on June 19, 1920.
Merrick will be succeeded by
Mrs. Viola Turner, who prior
to being elected to fill the post
vacated by him, was assistant
treasurer. Deans will be suc
ceeded by Aaron Daye, who has
the position of assistant
secretary since 1946.
Nixon Says 'Ike'
Will Press For
Civil Rights Issue
Roy Wilkins, NAACP execu*
tlve secretary, announced here
today thal Vice President Nixon
told him in a recent letter: “The
Administration will continue to
press for the enactment of its
civil rights program during this
session of Congress.”
The letter from the Vice
Pretident was dated May 10.
Mr Nixon’s message to the
NAACP lead^ atoo asserted: “I
asnire you of the Adminis
tration’s continuing and. pro
found intmst as well as active
vigilance in the days ahead of
what I know we both want—
eQtial opportunity and equal
rights for -all.”
The Vice President also re
iterated his conviction'“that ra
cial Intolerance and violence In
country feed 'Bed propa
gandists raw material.”
The letter was sent in re-
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Noted Nurse
To Study Arabic
At John Hopkins
BEIRUT LEBANON
Miss Mary Lee Mills, is on her
way back to the United States
after a five-year assignment as
Chief Nurse of the United
States Operations Mission to
Lebanon. She returns by way of
Rome where she will attend the
International Congress of Nur
ses.
A native of Watha, North
Carolina, Miss Mills has been
awarded the Decoration of the
Cedars for “valiant and gener
ous services as advisor the the
Ministry of Health of Lebanon.”
This honor, she holds in addi
tion to a decoration received for
five years of service prior to her
last assignment, given through
the U.S Public Health Service
in Liberia, West Africa.
Holding the rank of Lt. Col.
in the United States Army, a
painting "of Miss Mills in uni
form, made by Betsy Graves
Reyneau, hangs in a place of
honor at the Harmon Founda
tion in the City of New York.
Miss Mills, a graduate of New
York University in Nursing
Educatloi}, last year received
additional honor from Tuskegee
Institute, when U. S. Congress
woman Francis P. Bolton, one
of the trustees of the school,
ppnferred on her the honoring
degree of Doctocate of Selene*.
Lt. CoL Mills is the first Pub
lic Health officer to be decorat
ed by two foreign governments-
Llberla and Lebancm. Miss Mill*
left Lebanon lut BBtuntojr^
May 26, for Rome; and after
attending the nurses conference,
she will fly via Amsterdam to
New York.
Man Dies Afler
Becoming III In
Twin City Jail
A 52-y6ar-old Winston-Salem
man, stricken in a City Jail
cell, died at a local hospital
Tuesday, May 21st at 9:40 a.m.
The victim, James Naylor, of
746 Moravia Street, was arrest
ed Monday,. May 20th and
charged with larceny, after
Worth and Jessie McLeod,
named him as an accoinplice in
the theft of equipment and ma
terials valued at $2,000. The
McLeods were bound to Superior
Court in their trial Monday at
Municipal Court. v
According to JaiL Sergeant,]
jjj jn
Opening of court ^and was taken
to Kate Bitting 'Reynolds Me
morial Hospital, where he died
in about one hour later.
Forsyth County coroner, Dr.
V. M. Long, attributed Naylor’s
death to natural causes, and said
that Naylor Was an alcoholic
and had been hospitalized re
cently.
At the 92nd Commeneement
Exercise of Shaw Univeralty,
held Monday, May 21, W. i.
Kennedy, Jr., Preheat of Hw
North Carolina Mntoal Life In-
snrance Co., was awarded the I of Trustees and Treasurer of the
Doctorate of Laws Degree. The School. Center is Mr. Kennedy,
above photo taken during the I at the right. President W. R.
oocksion shows at left, Asa T. | Strassner.
Spaulding, member of the Board
W Reginald Parker, a mem
ber of the 1957 Hillside High
School graduating class, Is one
of 17 students selected from va
rious sections of the country to
receive certificates of admlwiw
to Harvard University, Cam>
bridge, Mass., and Regional
Sebolarshlpa from the Assodat-
ed Harvard Clubs.
Parker, 17 years of age, wlM
plans to study medicine, la a
member of the White Rock Bap
tist Church, and lives with his
parents in Durham.
NEW YORK
Martin Luther King, Jr., the
yoiing clergyman who headed
the dramatic and successful
Montgomery, Ala., bus protest
movement of 1955-56, has been
chosen as the 42nd Spingam
Medalist, Roy Wilkins, execu
tive secretary of Ihe I^flmal
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, an-
nouced here today.
Hie medal, awarded annually
to a Negro American for dis
tinguished, achievement, will be
presented to the Rev. Dr. King
at thp Association’s 48th annual
convention -in Detroit, June 29-
30. The presentation is scheduled
for the night of June 28.
At 28, Dr. King is the young
est person and the first active
clergjrman to be awarded the
medal. Described as "dedicated
and selfless,” he Is cited for
“his creatiye contributions to
the Fight for Freedom and his
outstanding leadership role in
the successful Montgomery bus
protest movement.”
Dr. King, the citation asserts,
has “become a foremost ex
ponent of the Ghandian philoso
phy of non-violent paralve resis
tance. He has not only preached
the doctrine of, ‘Love your ene
mies’; he has also demonstrated
the efficacy of this Christian
faith.”
The Spingam Medal was in
stituted in 1914 by the late J. K.
Spingam, then chairman of the
NAACP Board pt Directors. It
Martin Luther King
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Atkins High School Finals To End
Tuesday With Over 200 Graduating
Never Be Satisfied
With Best Work
Graduates Told
KENNQ>r GETS ILD. DEGREE
WINSTON-SALEM
The senior class of Atkins
High School will begin, com
mencement activities Fi'iday,
is a gold medal award “for the
highest or noblest achievement
by an American Negro during
the preceding year or years.”
The oldest award in this field, it
is also regarded as the most
coveted.
Since Mr. Spingarn’s death in
1939 the medal has been con
tinued under tenns of his will
which set up a trust fund “to
perpetuate the lifelong interest
of my brother, Arthur B. Spin-
garn, or my wife, Amy E. Spin
gam, and of myself in the
achievements of the American
Negro.” Arthur B. Spingam Inic-
ceeded his brother as president
of the Association in 1939, a po
sition he has since held continu
ously.
Among previous Spingam
Medalists have been Dr. Ralph
J. Bunche, Marian Anderson,
Judge William H. Hastie, A.
Philip Randolph, Thurgood Bar-
shall, Carl Murphy, Dr. Chan-
nlng H. Tobias, Roland Hayes,
Jackie Robtoson, the late Wal
ter White and the late Dr. Louis
T. Wright.
May 31»t, at 8 jpjD^ with tjje
aiinual Class Night. A play, call
ed ‘‘The Enchanted Mirror",
adapted from the one-act play
of the same name, by Mary S.
Kelly, will be presented, featur
ing Zcola Baldwin as Aunt Sue,
who recalls her days at school
through the mirror.
Others to take part in the
play will be: Ida Patterson
“Memory”; Howard Shaw
"Ghost of Yesterday”; Laura
Mauney, Jane; Gwendolyn
Newton, poet; Constance Howie,
statistician; Talmadgc Fair, the
voice; Lynda Hill, giftorian;
Ralph Harris, prophet; Richard
Davis, testator; Ruth Moses, so
loist; Hazel Pratt, dancer and
Barbara Rlcc, pianist.
Theatias Kelly, valedictorian
George Hill, Class president and
Katherine Feemster, salutato-
rian, will also take part in Class
Night cixercises.
Commencement exercises w. ill
be Tuesday, June 4th, at 10:30
a.m., in the school gymnasium
Dr. Vernon John, director of
the Maryland Baptist Center
and School of Baltimore, Md.,
will speak to the graduating
class of two-hundred.
Final Meet Of
Durham NCC
Alumni, June 3
The Durf^am Chapter of the
NCC Alumni Association will
hold its final meeting of the
academic year on Wednesday
night, June 5, at the W. D. Hill
Recreation Center on Fayette
ville Street at 8:00 pjn., accor
ding to an announcement re
ceived from President William
A. Mardi, Jr.
All Committee Chairmen will
be presented for discussion.
An Important item on the
agenda for the Wednesday meet
ing Is a report on the Alumni
Picnic, tentafliiely. slated it^LieM bdng sworn In with •Omt
June 22. Howard litts, Chair- nieaibers of tte eity^ rnllng
man of the Program Committee, body. Conneilwui Barkar wh*
will present tiie picnic slate for |,»r«Tt-*‘ Ward 4
dlscussfam.
Gastonia’s thrae-tipne eenncil
man Natliaalel Bnrfeer is shown
defeated ids opponent almost 7
to I. in point of service, he is
the senior member of tke eon-
cU and kas bm appoUi^
Mayer Forgnaon, stswding to
Mr. Balkar’s rigM, to aeroral
Important committees. ,
Ward 4, the predominantly
Negro Ward, voted.the largeat
HkttM of penow on elsetton
day last week.
Graham Speaker
At Unveiling Of
Shepard Statue
The program for the cere
mony unveiling the statue of
the late Dr. James E. Shepard,
founder and first president of
North Carolina College, jwas an
nounced here today.
Dr. Frank P. Graham, United
Nations Mediator, will be the
principal speaker at exercises in
Duke Auditorium at 4:00 o’clock
in the afternoon.
The public Is invited to hear
Dr. Graham \nd to witness the
unveiling in tkb JwamflataM*
terwards ft the itatue.
Cast b:^' the noted' sculptor,
William Zoracfi, the life size
bron*e statue is located in the
ciKle fronting, the college’s Ad
ministration Building.
Dr, Alfonso Elder, President
of NCC, will extend grectingti
to the group.
Dr, C, D. Carnes, Gran(| Mas
ter. Prince Hall Lodge of the
Free and Accepted Masons of
North Carolina^ will make dedi
catory remarks at the statue.
The Masons in cooperation
with the James E. Shepard Me
morial Foundation provided
fiinds for the statue.
Dr, Carnes will present Mrs,
tarolyn Smith Green, Dr. Shep
ard's grand daughter, who will
formally unveil the statue.
James T. Taylor, Executive
Secretary of the Shepard Foun
dation, will present the Statue
to NCC. R. M. Gantt, local at
torney and Chairman of the col-
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RALEIGH_
The Ninety-second graduation
class of Shaw University was
presented a "Pattern for Suc
cess” in the main speech de
livered at Commencement exer
cises on Monday May 27, by
James du Pont deNemours and
Company of Wilmington, Dela
ware. The speaker charged the
group to try to fill a need in
services in which some signifi
cant contribution can be made,
to have Job know how, listen to
older heads, meet competition,
beat competition and if you
lose—don't blame it on the free
interprise system. He urged
them to strive to improve end
lessly and never to satisfied
with their own best work as
there is always something to be
learned.
Ha
■Utus ill tba community.
In concltulon iio said, "try to
tlia boat of your ability to treat
paoplo right. If you are the
owner or manager of a business,
give it your personal attention,
talM calculated risk In every
thing you do; and holp kaip
America free for Amarimis.”
The speaker ^was introduced
bx Dr. William R^ StrassMr,
president of Shaw University.
The opening prayer was given
by the Reverend Paul H. John
son, minister, Martin Street
Baptist Church and the closing
prayer by the Reverend A.
Jackson Ryans of Charlotte.
Music was furnished by the
University choir. Evangeline
Forbes, soprano of Raleigh was
the featured soloist.
The honorary degree of Doc
tor of Divinity was conferred
upon the Reverend Armster
Jackson Ryas, minister, Ebene-
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LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK
The People’s Voice
Editors Note—For the benefit
of those who participated In the
public opinion poll last week,
we have an article on the cause
of Juvenile delinquency by Dr.
A. Richardson, from the
Twin City Sentinel of May 22.
According to the Richardsoh
report, a group of scientists
working at Harvard University
have discovered ten factors that
cauK Juvenile delinquency.
Space does not permit us to list
the ten factors in their entirety,
but according to Richardson’s
article, all ten points were in
dictments of the home.
Of course, in this column last
week, not only were we deal
ing with Juvenile delinquency,
but, adult delinquence ^ also.
With the scientific report point
ing to the home, that must be
the starting point.
Thanks to you who partici
pated in the poll last yeek. This
week, our subject Is: Do You
Think We Are Pursuing The
Right Course Toward FuUIllIng
The Supreme Court’s Decision
Handed Down May 17, 1954..
Desegregation of Public Schools?
And—Do You Think Something
Should Be Done More Urgently
Toward Complying With The
Decision?
Amos A. Ingram of 1005 N
Highland Avenue, barber, had
this to say; “I feel that we are
taldng the right course. As wo
all know, with a problem of this
type, it takes time; a lot of hard
work, plus patience.”
Emily Payne, 4119 Carver
Road, housewife; “I think we
might be pursuing the right
course; but, I think we are let
ting too much time lapse and
time Is a precious thing. 1 real
ize that segregation is an old
embedded custom for Negroes
and whites in the South. Dese
gregation is something with
which both races will iiave to
adjust. But as time has already
proven, a society is always re
sentful and will not act with a
new change of ideals until for
ced.”
Leo J. Thomas, 213 North
Highland Avenue, (textile wor
ker); “As far as I am concerned,
we are pursuing the right
course. I feel that moving too
fast on any project arid especial
ly one of this nature, is dange
rous. Every phase of it should
be carefully studied and weigh
ed so that when we attempt to
Uke action, there will not be
any draw backs.”
Mrs, Milton Cason, Jr., 21-B
Columbia Terrace, housewife;
“The Supreme Court’s decision
Was handed down May 17, ’54,
ou'tlawing segregation in SUte
and Eederal supported schools.
It Is now May 25, ’57, which is
three years and eight days since
it has Ijecome law. During this
period of time, most offirials of
the State, county and city, have
used every legal means to get
around the Supreme law, in
stead of trying to make some ef
fort to obey it. I feel something
should bo done more urgently.”