Stanford V Warren
Public lihraiy
fayetteiri
Vote Case Heads
For High Court
JACKSON anoHerman Taylor of Raleishf ca«e will be do
When Lee Calhoun was given the key to the
cities of Durham and Gary, Indiana after winning
the Olympic hurdles championship last fall, he be
gan to think that his days as the most publicized
student in the history of North Carolina College
were nearing an end and that he would soon re
turn to the relative seclusion of student life at the
Durham institution where he was pursuing a de
gree in Physical Education. But the quiet-spoken,
lithe young athlete did not reckon with the stay
ing power of athletic fame in these days of high
pressure collegiate athletics. Thus, when word of
his marriage to his collie sweetheart leaked aH
the way to the ear of a New York television show
producer, plans were instantly set in motion to
beam the star’s wedding ceremony coast-to-coast
via the electronic magic of the television camera.
Lee and his bride-to-be, Miss Gwendolyn Ban
nister of Pinehurst, accepted the offer and last
Thursday were mairled before millions of view
ers on the NBC-TV “Bride and Groom” Show.
They received some $2,500 in gifts and a two week
honeymoon in Paris.
Picture at left shows the couple with Lee’s
father, the Reverend Cary Calhotm, who officiated
at the ceremo4iy. At right is a scene from the wed
ding reception last Simday in Pinehurst at the
home of the bride. Left to right are the new Mrs.
Calhoun and Lee, the bride’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Morrison. Certain that his televised
wedding would put an ahd to his career as a sup
plier of news headlineSt found out that the
issue of his amateur standing, injected into the
wedding plans by the AAU, is going to keep him
alive as “hot” newspaper copy for some time to
come. The AAU acted Tuesday to officially dis
qualify him as an amateur. Lee had already in
dicated he would api>eal such a decision, an act
which makes certain that folks around here have
not heard the last word yet on an Indiana yoimg-
ster named Calhoim.
ON SWIMMING ISSUE
KKK Threatens Monroe
Prominent Physician Receives
Menacing Call From Klan
A ctfse testing the coniti-
tutlonality of the state literacy
test for voting is ready to move
into the State Supreme Court.
Last week, a Superior Court
Judge denied an appeal by*
plaintiffs seeking to have the
state requirement declared in
valid, thus forcing the action
into the state high court.
Judge Malcom C. Paul ruled
in Superior Court here last Fri
day that Mrs. Louise Lassiter,
plaintiff in the action, was not
qualified as a voter of North
Carolina.
Mrs. Lassiter had refused to
submit to a literacy test when
she applied for registration be
fore a Seaboard registrar earlier
this year. She was refused and
subsequently appealed the de
cision to the election board,
where she was also turned
down.
The case originated back in
the Spring of 1056 when Mrs
Lassiter and other Negroes were
refused registration by Mrs.
Helen Taylor, registrar of a
Seaboard precinct.
They were refused registra
tion on the grounds that they had
failed to pass the literarcy test.
Attorneys James H. Walker of
Weldon and Samuel Mitchell
Taylor of Raleigh
instituted action in federal court
against the registrar where, in a
preliminary memorandum, the
court struck down the section of
the State constitution which pro
vides for the test.
However, before th^ case
reached hearing, a new law was
passed in the state legislature
providing for a series of appeals
from a registrar’s refusal aU the
way through the state judicial
system.
The federal court ruled that
the plaintiffs would have to pur
sue the remedy of the new law.
Friday’s action by Judge Paul
marked the third step in the re
medial process provided for by
the new law.
The plaintiffs are contending
that the literacy test is uncon
stitutional since the federal court
memorandum struck down the
constitutional provisions for it
Attorney Walker told the
TIMES that the appeal to the
State Supreme Court would
probably be scheduled sometime
in September.
Mrs. Ellen Edwards, also of
Seaboard, was a party to the first
two steps of the appeal process.
However, only Mrs, Lassister’s
name was used in the Superior
Court hearing. Mrs. Edwards’
case will be postponed for a fu
ture court hearing.
Negro Woman
Is Slain By
White Farmer
WILLIAMSTON
A coroner’s jury, after a few
hours deliberation here Monday
found L. B. Moore, white tenant
farmer had committed a crime
less than first degree murder in
the fatal shooting of Mrs. Rellie
Biggs and the discharging of two
or three shots into the body of
her husband, and held him for
the Martin County grand jury,
under a $15,000.00 bond.
There have been several stor
ies as to why the irate white man
took the life of the mother of six
children and continued his
wrath upon her husband. Evi
dence alleged to have been given
at the trial indicated. that there
had been trouble between the
children of the two families.
Sherifff Rawls is said to have told
the jury that Moore called him
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MONROE
Following an attempt of Ne-
gro citizens to use the one
swimming pool owned and ope-i
rated by the city here last week
threats have been made against
a local physician and other
prominent Negro citizens by the!
Ku Klux Klan.
Following a mass meeting
held on last Wednesday night
by the local T>ranch of the Na-
School Board
Jim Crow System
Attorneys who filed requests
for 14 Negro parents to permit
their children to be assigned to
unsegregated schools declined to
comment on the decision of the
Durham School Board to make
its regular assignments on the
basis of race for the coming
school year.
Attorney C. O. Pearson, one of
the lawyers representing the 14,
told the TIMES that they had no
comment to make at this time on
the school board’s action.
Some two weeks ago, parents
of children in the Roxboro
Street, and Club Boulevard sec
tions petitioned the School
Board to not to assign their chil-
dred to segregated schools as
they had been in the past.
In its meeting Monday night
the board adopted pupil assign
ment regulations which call for
no changes in the established
pattern of segregated assign
ments. _
The regulations explained that
Durham children would be as
signed just as they have always
been, “except when petition is
made according to the stipula
tions included in the regula
tions.”
The regulations were prefaced
with the explanation of their
purposes, “to promote the order
ly and efficient administration of
the public schools ... effective
instruction of . . . health, safety
and general welfare of . . . pu
pils.”
tlonal Association for the Ad'
vancement of Colored People,
Dr. J. A. Perry was qalled over
telephone, presumably by mem
bers of the Ku Klux Klan and
threatened.
The physician told a repre~
sentative of the Carolina Times
that the person making the
call and threats stated that he
was a member of the KKK and
that members of the Klan were
coming to get him.
Dr. Perry stated he attached
little significance to the threat
and that it did not frighten him.
In spite of the threats, Negro
laulni. vdtb IJie mMtion ot
fxre' sending firm and iiitend
I bringing legal action to secure
I use of the pool.
Among the one or two Negro
leaders opposing an attempt to
use the pool is one Rev. C. C.
Johnson, pastor of the Elizabeth
Baptist Church of Monroe^ Rev
Johnson preached what many
have termed the greatest “Uncle
Tom” sermon to his congrega
tion last Sunday morning that
has ever been heard in this seC'
tion of the state.
Rev. Johnson said,
“’This is a white man’s world.
The white man has got the guns
and all you can do is shoot one
shot and nin.”
His sermon is authoritatively
reported to have met with
strong resentment on the part
of the majority of Negroes of
this section.
J. L. HUMPBHEY
Jefferson L Humphrey Elected To
National YNCA Executive Council
WmSTON-SALEM
Jefferson L. Humphrey, 4
member of the faculty at Car
ver Consolidated School, In this
city, was elected vice-president
of the YMCA National Young
Adult Assembly which con
vened July 29th through August
2nd at Blue Ridge. Mr. Humph-
rey was alao elected National
Pro-Prlmus of the Y-Phalanx
Fraternity of the YMCA.
A product of the public
schools here, he received a
B.S. degree from Winston-Sa
lem Teachers College and a
Masters degree from New York
University. At the Patterson
Avenue Branch YMCA in this
dty, Mr. Humphrey is a mem
ber of the Adult Program Com
mitted Boy’s Work Committee,
YM-YHCA Co-Ed CouncU, Pri
mus (President) of Alpha Chap
ter, Y-Phalanx Fraternity. On
the state level, he is vlce-pre«i-
dent of the North and South
Carolina Laymen’s and Secre
taries’ Conference and a mem
ber of the E&ecutive Committee
of the State Older Boys Confer
ence of North and South Caro
lina.
Jefferson Is the husband of
the former Bliss Vera Macon.
They reside at 603 Morrison St.
He will fly to Newark, N. J., the
morning of September 13th to
attend his first Executive Coun
cil Meeting. Mr. Humphrey was
the only Negro elected to the
Executive Coimcil of the YMCA
Naticmal Yoong Adult Aasemr-
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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 32
PRICE; TEN CENTS
17,1957
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY,
DR. EDMONDS TO BE NAMED!
An attempt to sobstantlate
unconfirmed reports that Dr.
Helen O. Edmonds has reeelv-
ed a high level government ap
pointment were nnsnocessfnl
this week.
Professtor of history at North
Carolina College, Dr. Edmonds
recently returned to this leonn-
try after a six month stay In
Europe where she lectori nn-
der the sponsorship of the
State Department.
This was her second speaking
tour of Europe.
Dr. Edmonds Is highly re
garded in national political
cirelee. She seconded the
nomination of President Elsen
hower In San Francisco In
1»6«.
Though people in Raleigh have long since grown ac>
customed to the presence on Hargett Street in the downtown
business district of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank (the
bank has been there since 1922) and though scores of them,
on the pretext of doing business there Thursday morning,
took the opportunity to wander through the high-ceilinged,
airy banldng room and gaze at the modernistic interior
when the bank opened for business in Its newly renovated
quarters, hundreds more returned later that afternoon for
the formal opening, heard brief addresses by bank officers,
sipped punch and took a guide tour of the two and one half
story building. Perhaps it was the spell of reassurance cast
over them by the quiet yet dignified and commanding man
ner in which President J. H. Wheeler (who is equally at
home behind hb bank President’s desk, arguing a case in
court, whipping through a Mozart composition for violin
or swinging a tennis racket) presided over the ceremonies.
Perhaps it was the aura of solemnity and seriousness in
duced by the figures of board chairman Dr. Clyde Donnell
and Raleigh board management chairman Dr. L. E. Mc
Cauley. Or maybe it was the splendor of the newly reno
vated, ultra modern building which surrounded them, it
even could have been the idea of permanence and security
(surely precious commodities by any Judgement these days)
conjured up by the dim but Inescapable memory that the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank was one of only two banks in
the city which withstood the financial storms of the great
depression. At any rate, they came, grown-ups and small
fry alike, as is shown in first picture looking toward the
main entrance from the inside of the lobby. Picture at left
ihows principals in the formal opening rites, Dr. McCauley,
Dr. Donnell and President Wheeler.
Calhoun Gives
Swimming Pool
To Boys Gub
Lee Calhoun’s televised wed
ding brought a windfall to John
Avery Boys Club in Durham.
Nearly ready to enter its new
club building on Branch and
Proctor Street, the club’s gym-
nasiimi equipment was fairly
adequate to begin with. Now,
thanks to the Olympic’s star’s
generosity, the cliA will get an
Esther Williams brimming pool.
The swimming pool was orig
inally a gift to Calhotm and his
bride, Miss Gwendolyn Bannis
ter, who were married last
Thursday on the NBC-TV “Bride
And Oroom” Show.
Calhoun turned the pool over
to his Coach, Leroy T. Walker
who immediately passed It on to
the Boys Club.
Walker, who brought Calhoun
along from a clumsy high achool
hurdler to the best In tha Iwsl-
ness, called Boys Club executive
director Lee W, Smith JiM be
fore the show went on and got
his approval in accepting the
gift
Smith, who was plMMantfy
at the qncjqMcted tom
of food fortune, told the TDflS
The ftr$t woman of her race
group to t>e certijlcated by the
California State Committioner
of Corporations, at a Mutual
Fund* Broker, Miu Thelma Lu
cille Barnhart, wa* recently ap
pointed by Wiley E. Daniels,
District Manager of the Lot An-
gelet Branch of Gill-Harknett
and Company to terve a* an
agent for the local branch. The
plucky young woman before
coming here two yeart ago, too*
secretary to the President of
North Carolina College, At Dur
ham. She is an advanced tteno-
type student of the Bryan
Schools. She it a part-time tec
retary in the late firm of Loren
Miller and Edward Carter Mad
dox. The latter, it her brother.
The 33rd annual session ol
the Interdonominational Ushers’
Association is scheduled to con
vene in Durham August 22-25,
it was announced here Wednes
day by L. E. Austin, president
of the organization.
The Durham Ushers Union,
of the association, is host to the
he was delighted at the surprise
gilt. He said be knew nothing of
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Durham Stage For
State Ushers Meet
convention wlUch will be iuld
at St. Joseph’s AME Church on
Fayetteville Street. Approxi
mately 500 officers, delegates
and visitors are expected during|
the session.
The convention will begit^
promptly at 10 o’clock Thurs
day morning, August 22 with
State Meeting Of Women Baptist
Convention To End In Twin City
WINSTON-SALEM
The Woman’s Baptist Home
and Foreign Missionary Con
vention of North Carolina,
Auxiliary to the Baptist State
Convention, Inc., concluded its
73rd annual session Friday, Au
gust 16th. The convention lias
been in progress since Tuesday,
August 13th, at New Bethel
Baptist Chturch on North ’Trade
Street. Dr. Jerry Drayton is
pastor of the host church.
More than 1,400 delegates are
attending the convention. This
year, the convention's theme la
“Missions and World Peace.”
Their objectives are Home Mis
sion, Foreign Missions and
Shaw University.
Mrsi M. A. Home of Winston-
Salem who is in her eighth
eighth year as president, de
livered her annual address on
Wednesday, August 14th. Mrs.
Home emphasized the three ob
jectives of the convention,
pleading with the vast audience
to "do more in these particular
fields.” Addressing the young
people, she told them to "hava
an idea or pattern of what they
want their lives to be” and that
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the opening smion being taken
up principally with registration
of delegates and appointment of
committees. The Thursday af
ternoon session will be devoted
to routine matters and a meet
ing of the Board of Trustees of
the association.
Thursday evening a public
program will be held at the
church with many outstanding
professional and business men
and women of Durham extend
ing words . of welcome and
greetings.
Among those appearing on
the program will be J. S. SteW'
art, member of the Durham
City Council and secretary-
treasurer of the Mutual Saving*
and Loan Association; Rev. A.
S. Croom, pastor of Union Bap
tist Church, Rev. D. A. Johns
ton, pastor of St. Joseph’s AME
Church and president of the
Durham Ministerial Alliance;
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., president at
N. C. Mutual Life InsurancA
Company and Dr. C. 1. Boul-
ware, secretary ot Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs.
Music will be fuRiitlMiif by
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A. J. HAMMONDS
Widely Known
Sports Figure
Stricken Fatally
WmSTON-SALEM
Funeral services for Andrew
J. Hammonds, known widely
throughout this area as a sports
promoter, were scheduled to b*
held here Thursday, August 10
at the Howard Robinson Fune
ral Home Chapel.
Hammonds died at Kate Bit
ting Reynolds Memorial hospi
tal here last Sunday, August 11,
at 6:45 p.m.
His death came Just one we^
before th« all-star classic which
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