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THREE N. C. CITIES TO DESEGREGATE
National Meet
Of Teachers
Opens At NCC
Some 800 educators from 31
states are expected to attend
the 54th annual meeting of the
American Teachers Association
at North Carolina College, July
28-30, according ,to ATA Presi
dent T. R. Speigner of NCC.
President Eisenhower, Govt
ernor Luther Hodges of Northf
Carolina and high representa
tives of the U. S. Department
of Health, Education, and Welt
fare have already sent greetings
to ATA for a successful session.
"Conserving Our Humin Rei
sources Through Adequate, Eq'
uitable, and Elffectlve Educa-i
tlon” is the theme for the year
The conference starts In Duke
Auditorium Simday, July 28>
with a memorial service at 4:00
o’clock. Th» speaker will be
President C. V. Troup of Ft.
Valley, Ga.
United Nations Mediator
Frank Porter Graham, former,
president of the University of
North Carolina, is the keynote
speaker at the first public ses
sion at 7:30 p. m. (July 28).
U. S. Presidential Assistant
Robert B. Gray of Washington!
will speak at 11:00 a. m. Mon
day (July 29). Gray’s speech
is sponsored by the NCC Sum
mer School in co-operation with
the Principals and Supervisors
Section of the North Carolina
Teachers Association.
The state-wide (N.C.) Princi-
pals-Supervisors eighth annxial
conference will meet in coU'
junction with ATA this year.
Dr. Deborah C. Partridge,
professor of education at
Queen’s College, Flushing, N.
y., and visiting professor of ed
ucation at the University of ITi
Unols, is the principal speaker
lor the Monday night public
•essioa at 7:30.
One of the highlights of the
conference is the Tuesday
morning professional symposi
um starting at 0:(K) o'clock li^
^*"*iwke Auditorium .
“Current lEovemants and
sues in Education Today” is this
year's symposium tc^ic. Dr.
Helen G. Edmunds, professor of
history at North Carolina Col
lege, will serve as coordinator.
Discussants will include Dr.
Samuel A. Madden, Director of!
Field Service, Virginia Statej
College, Petersburg, Va.; Dr.
W. J. Kennely. Jr., Pre^dent
of N~. C. Mutual Life Insurance
Co., and Member of the Board
of Higher Education in North
Carolina; and Dr. Aaron Brown,
Director of the Phelps-Stokes)
Fimd Project, New York.
Dr. John W. Davis, former
President of West Virginia
State College, will be the ban->
guet speaker at 7:30 Tuesday
night in the college cafeteria.
In addition to the addresses
of noted speakers and panel dis-i
cussions with some of the na-*
lion’s leading educators, the
conference will present elghl)
special workshops.
They will be devoted to out
lining ways to improve condi
tions in educational administra-
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DR. J. W. DAVIS
DR. FRANK GRAHAM
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Pupil’s Parent Is Warned
Court Dismisses Action
Tennis Court Trespass Case
Fails To Alter Jim Crovi Rule
VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 30
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1957
rRICE; TEN CENTS
DR. T. B. SPEIGNER
DR. JOSEPB TAYLOR
Hall To Leave
Hillside Band
Phllmore Hall, director of
the Hillside high school band
in Durham for the past 12
years, resigned his post Mon
day to accept a position in
Fairfax Coimty, Virginia.
News of Hall’s resignation
came aa a mild shock to Dur-
Clinton Jury
Action Disputed
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The OOBviotioB of segrega-i
tionist John Kasper and six oth^
Tennesseeans for contempt
of a court injunction ordering
desegregation, of the Clinton
high school added fuel to the
southern argument in the Sen-i
ate for a jury trial amendment
to the civU rights bill.
An all white jury shocked
Kaspar’s defense attorneys by
returning a verdict of guilty
against him and six others in
the’ trial which had taken oi^
added significance because of
the Senate debate over civil
rights.
A jury of ten men and two
women took three hours and 50
minutes to return the verdict.
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ham residents who have
watched the band develop un
der Hall’s leadership into one
of the premier musical or
ganizations of the region.
No comments on the band
leader’s resignation was forth
coming by Wednesday. The
wife of niHng Hillside prin-
cipal H. If. Holmes told the
TlMBS by telephon* WedoM-
day that she was'certain that
he regretted Hall’s impend
ing departure.
It^was not cleat as to wheth
er Hall’s resignation had
been accepted by school au
thorities as yet. but it ap
pears as if final acceptance is
just a matter of formality.
Hall told the TIMES that
he had been satined in his
work in Durham, but that be
was leaving to accept a more
lucrative offer.
It is reported that the new
job will pay the Hillside
bandmaster between $1500
and $1000 per year more than
his present job.
Hall's new job will not en-
taU the duties of leading a
band. He will be primarily a
teacher in instruments for the
County school of Fairfax.
The band leader came to
Hillside In 1945 at a time
when the school had been
without a full time band
leader for a number of years.
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Open House
To Kick-Off
'Y' Observance
The Harriett Tubman Branch
of the YWCA will hold a spe
cial Open House celebration
from 6:00 to 0:00 p. m. Stmday^
The Open House program li
the first event In the Y’s Unit
ed Fund Week observance.
Tne of the other highlights
of the week will be a speM
Family Dinner program fron\
6:00 to 8:00 p. m. Thursdi^.
Aitet dinner, guests ahd
friends are Invited to a Blocl^
Dance from :00 to 11:00 p.m.
on Umstead Street.
Other events in the week lon|(
program will be announced lat^
er.
Some of Durham’s most prom-
ntf
IQ CUV CXUX61UI EU “
with the YWCA to sUge this
year's program.
Chairman of the Open House
program is Mrs. Lennle-Marie
Muse.
Associated with Open House
activities are Mrs. J. W. Mc-
Cllnton, Mrs. Lillian Buchanan,
Mrs. Iris Lawrence, Mrs. Corine
Morrison, Mrs. Vlrgle Jones,
Mrs. Leona Smith, Mrs. Charity
Rivera, and Miss Alice Cobb,
the general chairman.
The North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company will,
be on the scene of special dis
plays during the week.
Uri. O. P. Emenon, Win«ton.i,a fitld trip on which tht took nationals in reor were visited
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Saltm native who is currently
abroad teaching in Japan, is
pictured hene with a class paus-
teO for a /mo moment* for pho-
iographert during the course o/
the cla*$ to Japanese homes (o by the clan. At extreme left
observe tht country's homfjis Yatuko Immaaura, librarian
life. The above picture was tak-' of the school at tuHich Mrs. Bm-
en in the lobby of a Japanese j erson teaches. She served as in-
hotel. Homes of five Japanese terpreter for the trip.
Not To
School
For N.
'Duree North Carolina cities
moved to provide for limited
desegregation in public schools
this week in an apparent at
tempt to "'nintiiin substantial
•egregation.
Tuesday night, school boards
et Winston-Salem, Charlotte
end Greensboro voted to admit
e total of 12 Negroes to pre
viously all white schools this
full The action marks the first
instance of desegr^tion in
Tar Heel public schools since
the Supreme Court order to de->
•egregate.
nie concession made by the
three school boards to limited
desegregation was seen as a
necessary sacrifice which must
be made if the state plan tor
preserving substantial segrega
tion is not to be overturned by
a federal court.
Prior to Tuesday night’s ac-.
tton, the three boards had held
e series of secret meetings to
discuss the issue. In each case,
the school boards explained
that their actions were foUow~
lag the provisions of the Peer-
sell Plan.
Earlier this summer, some of
the leading architects of the
plan stated ttut some deeegre-
ii^ MCMnrx In
Move Seen
Cs Pearsall
Boost
Plan
order to defend tlie constitu- pointed out that white parents
had the right to appeal for
transfer of their children from
any school to wliich Negro stu
dents had been assigned.
Negro students reassigned by
the action of the boards are as
follows:
ilonality of the scheme in court.
CoL William T. Joyner of
Raleigh, one of the key figures
who drafted the plan, told a
meeting of lawyers soipe time
ago that the sacrifice of admit
ting a few Negroes to white
schools would be worth the op
portunity it would present the
state of keeping substantial seg
regation.
The Pearsall plan was admit
tedly devised by state leaders to
prevent what they termed
‘mess integration.”
In no cases were all of the
requests by Negroes for trans
fer to white schools accepted by
the three school boards, Win
ston-Salem approved of the
transfer of one while rejecting
two; Green^ro admitted six
and turned back one, while
Charlotte opened the door to
five and refused 85.
The action was heartily de-
noimced in Greensboro and
Charlotte by leaders of the pro
segregationist Patriots who ac-
cused the school board members
of “hreaUng down the white
race,” and predicted “dire
percusaicms.”
Statements by the school
boerds following their actloos
Greensboro; Josephine Ophe
lia Boyd of Psigah Road; from
Dudley high to Senior high;
Harold McDuffie Davis of
Broad Ave., Elijah Herring and
Russell Herring of Finley St.,
from Lincoln Junior high to
Gillespie Junior high; Brends)
Kay Florence and Jimmy Flor
ence of Finley St. from Bluford
to Gillespie elementary school.
Denied reassignment was
Charles E. Davis of Broad Ave
nue, from Dudley to Senior
high.
“Charlotte: Dorothy CouaU'tA
Beatty’s Ford Road from West
Charlotte to Harding high; Wil
liam Hamilton of E. Liberty St.
from York Road junior high to
Alexander Graham; Dolores
Huntley of Boundary St. from
York Road to Alexander Gra
ham; Glrvaud Roberts of Me
Dowell St. from Second Ward
to Piedmont Junior high; and
Gustavas Roberts of McDowell
high.
Winston-Salem: Gwendolyn
Yvonne Bailey of Thurmond
St from Atkins high to Rey
nolds high.
Before the three school
boards were a total of 55 appli
cations. Some 41 were rejected
and two were withdrawn.
In each instance, the school
boards emphasized the fact that
their actions were based on pro
visions of the Pearsall Flan.
Spg»klng for the Winston-
Salem school board, chairman
E. T. PuUta, Jr. said:
“The school board, realizing
the importance of the Supreme
Court decision of May, 1B54,
has been constantly studying
tlie question for the past two
yean. We have done ail we
know to do. This is the great-,
est problem that ever faced the
boud and the most important
decision it has ever had to
make.
"The board has made a
thorough study of the United
States Supreme Court deci
sions, the Pearsall Plan, the As
signment Law of North Caro
lina, and the recently submitted
applications for change of as
signment. Baaed on this study
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RALSiOH
A Negro parent who has ap
plied for admission of Itis child
to a white high school here and
the school board which is about
to consider the request received
letters this week warning
against desegregation of the ci
ty scliool.
The letters bore no name and
were signed: “The Executive
Committee of the Wake County
Patriots.'' They were addressed
to Joseph Holt of Oberlin Road,
and the Raleigh school 4>oard
Holt has applied for reas
signment of his son from Li
gon iiigii, an ail Negro school,
to Needham Broughton, a wiiite
high scliool located in the Ober-
iin Road vicinity. The school
board is expect^ to taite up
the request on Aug.
The letter to Holt was the
milder of the two. It simply
implied tiuit he had no right
to ask for admission of his stu
dent to the school.
"it lias been reported tliat
you have entered an application
for the admission of one of your
children to a high sciiooi main
tained for yrhlte ctiildren,” the
letter read.
''We suggest that you with
draw that petition for admis
sion.
“White pepple are glad to
help pay for the education of
your ciiildren. They are not
iiappy, iiowever, ak>out your
trying to push into their
schools. These schools are ani
extension of tiieir liomes, pro
vided for the training of their
ciiildren. We would object
equally strongly to allowing
wliite people to intrude into
your.school and home.
“We should like to liave con
ditions of peace and good mtIU
to continue between wliite and
Negro people of this region.
Your act helps to destroy
tliat good wilL”
The letter to the school board
was far stronger. It liinted at
ptMsibie resistance to any at
tempt of the board to desegre
gate the school by accepting
Holt's transfer request.
“We should not consider our
selves under any moral obli$a-
tion to help tlie courts destroy
our schools and undermine the
morals of our ciiildren," ttie let
ter to the board said in part.
Attempts to identify the
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Cautioned
Integrate
source of the letter proved tm
availing. Although it was slgn.i
ed as coming from the Wake
County Patriots, all known
members of the organization
disclaimed any knowledge of
the letter.'
Atty. James Pou Bailey, Jes
sie Davis, and J. C. Bethlne of
Raleigh, admitted one time
members of the Patriots of
Wake County, all sUted that
they knew notliing of the
source of the letter and Indi
cated that the organization had
ceased to function in Raleigh.
The organization was formed
In North Carolina In 1955 foli
lowing the Supreme Court de
cisions on public school segre
gation. Its purpose was to main
tain “the purity and culture of
the white race and of AnglO'
Saxon Institutions.''
Dr. Jolin Hunter
Appointed Dean
At Va. State
PETERSBURG, Va.
The appointment of Dr. John
McNeile Hunter as Dean of
Virginia SUte College was ani
nounced today by President
Robert P. Daniel. He succeeds
Dr. J. H. Robinson who retires
as Dean but will continue his
responsibilities as Vice Presi
dent and Professor of History.
^Dr*^Hunter has served as Act
ing Dean of the College on two
previous occasions when Dean
J. H. Johnston was away for
advanced study during the aci
ademic years 1831-32 and 1034-
35.
He came to the faculty from
a position as teacher of physics
at Prairie View State College,
Texas. Joining this faculty in
1925, he l>ecame Head of the
Physics Department in 1927
and Chairman of the Sclence-
Mathematics Unit, 1930-40; and
in 1939 when the State Board
of Education authorized cours
es for the master’s degree to
be given at Virginia State Col
lege, Dr. Hunter was appointed
by the President to serve as Dli
rector of the Division of Gradu
ate Studies, In which capacity
he has served most admirably
to this time.
Dr. Hunter has been entrusti
ed with several assignments of
administrative responsibility In
cluding Supervisor of Instruc->
tion for the Enlisted Service
Men’s S^ool, 1942-43, and In^
stltutional Representative oC
the Engineering-Science-Man'
agement War Training Pro-
cram, lt4S-l»45.
J. Vi. HILL
School Official
Altemls hsIHute
J. W. HUl, registrar at Dur
ham Business School, is curr
ently attending an Advance
Study Instltnte for business
school executives at Chicago.
The institute will run July 25
through July 27.
The art and technique of sell
ing business education is the
major problem which the insti
Itute will take up. It Is support.^
ed by the National Association
and Council Business Schools
and the American Association
of Commercial Schools and Col
lege.
STOKHCMM
ATLANTA, Oa.
A regional secretary ot the
National Association tor the
Advancement ot Colored Peo
pie warned today 'that the ra
cial climate in the South looks
like “the calm belore the
storm.”
Prosecution Fails
To Prove Case
Against Riley
The Issue of segregation on
Durham's recreetlonal areas
remained unchanged here
this week as an action which
could have developed into a
test of the legality of the poli
cy was stopped when a Re
corder's Court judge dismiss
ed charges against a young
. Negro stu'jent who had play
ed at a white tennis court.
Judge A. R. Wilson dis
missed the case charging Jo
seph Gilbert Riley with tree-
passing at Forest Hills tennis
courts after ' the prosecution
failed to make its case.
The Judge stated that ha
was trying the case on the
simple charge of trespass, and
when the prosecuting witness
failed to establish rounds for
trespass, It was thrown out of
court.
Riley was arrested on July
11 at the tennis court by Lt.
Harold Bowles and Capt, C.
G. Rosemond. Warrant charg
ing him with tite offense was
signed by C. R. W«q^ city
recreation director. '
Apparently the only ^wit- ~
ness whose testimony could
have proven trespass was
Capt. Rosemond's. Acco-a!"^
to Lt. Bowles' testimony,
Rosemond made th.: i/ .
Riley alone after tli- t, 'i
them had gone to iii.-  . ,
on a call from recreim/.n i
rector Wood.
h was brought ■,
that the charge against Riley
could only be sustained by
proving that he was warned
to leave before being arrest
ed.
Capt. Rosemond was not
summoned to testify. It was
reported that he wb« out of
town.
Lt. Bowles stated that he
couldn't say for sure if Capt.
Rosemond warned Riley tu
leave the court before arrest
ing him.
Dismissal of the cuse place:i
the issue of the city's sogre-
tion policy back in the lap
of the City Council, which
far has failed to take action.
Winston-biem
Woman Teaciies
Japanese Pupils
WINSTON-SALEM
Mrs. Otha Pannell Emerson
of 817 Norfolk Street, Is at
home for a few weeks between
school terms at Itazuke Depend-
tary School In Winston-Salem,
ents School In Itazuke, Japan
on Kynshu Island. Mrs. Emer
son, employed with the United
States Air Force, is one of two
Negro teachers at the school
which ranges from kindergar
ten to twelvth grade classes.
There are 30 teechers on the
faculty.
She left the States last Au
gust, 1950 to teach an Interra
cial class of students, who are
children of American service.^
men stationed In Japan.
A former teacher of the first
grade at Carver Crest Elemen-,
Mrs. Emerson also teaches first
grade students In Japan. She Is
graduate of Atklns> High School;
receiving her B. S. degree from
Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege and a Masters degree from
A & T College In Greensboro.
She Is the dau^ter ot Mrs.
Irene Pannell and the late John
Pannell.
Mrs. Emerson will again
leave the U. S. In August to
reeume her teerhlng duties to
Japan.-Her class eonsMa et twe
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