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GREENSBORO PLANT IN BIAS COMPLAINT ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Durham May Be Host To Natiomil Business League Conference “MUGGERS” WEREN’T NEGROES Segregationists Get The ‘Red Face’ The following letter by Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louis ville, (Ky.) COURIER- JOUR NAL appeared, on February in the Washington POST and TIMES-HERALD: My wife’s piece in This Week Magazine about our being “mug ged” in (Washington) and the round up on crime — “Fear in the Street of the Nation’s Capi tal” in the U. S. News and World Keport for Feb. 14 — have ]^o- duced a spate of letters addrew- ed to us. Some of them are In dignant over crime in the Capi tal, some are sympathetic, and some from my less ardent ad Keiitiedy Is New Treasurer Of Durham Firm W. J. Kennedy, III, was elec ted treasurer of Banicers Fire Insurance company at the firm’s 38th stoclcholders’ meeting in Durham last Wednesday and Thursday. Kennedy succeeds E. R. Mer- riclc who retired from his office at the annual meeting. Merrick had served as treasurer of the organization since 1934. A report made during the meeting showed that the com pany’s assets totalled $330,085.- 58. Some $266,203.16 is compriS' ed of policyholders’ surplus. (Please turn to page Eight) mirers in the South, think that only poetic.. Justice was., done when ■ Negro„ hit me_ in the head. Hut Is what disturbs me a- bout both pieces.' It never occur red to my wife to say that they were white boys, and the piece in the U. S. News and World de port leaves the implication that they were indeed Negroes. They were n«t. There were five of the young thugs; three stayed in the get-away car and two “mugged” and “yoked” us, whatever the expression is. All ot them were white; three from Asheville, N. C., one from South Carolina and on* from Maryland, Just over the District line. All of them had good eld English names common to tho South; all were products of good old segregated Southern., white schools. I’m sorry to discomfit those who seemed pleased to have me hit in the head, but 1 did want to set the record straight. Be sides. I would never admit that a Negro could hit any harder than a white boy. •HiE Truth Unbpio£e& VOLUME 34 — NUMBER 12 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1958 PRICE: TEN CENTS 'One Must Have Something To Soy ’ John R. Larkins, Consultant to the North Carolina State Derartment of Pnblic Welfare, is pictured here (center) with Ghana’s United States Ambassador D. A. Chapman (left) and Chapman’s assistant, M. Estebar (right) during a reception given by the African envoy at the Shoreham Hotel Terrace Room in Washington recently. The reception celebrated the first anniversary of the creation of the independent state of Ghana. CHICAGO Children bearing names of famous, historic Negroes can me a distinct handicap in living their own lives, according to an article in the April issue of EB ONY. Interviewed in the article Prayloe Joins Front-Runners Voting in the CAROLINA TIMES Beauticians Popular ity Contest reached an all time high this week with Mrs. Eula Steele still holding to the lead and Mrs. Callie Daye still running a close second as of last week. The most spectacular gain was that made by Mrs. Ethel- ene Prayloe who climbed from 32nd place to the third po sition which was h6ld last week by Mrs. Victoria Moore. Mrs. Prayloe nosed out Mrs. Moore by the slim margin of one ballot or 15,000 points. BONUS VOTES This week all contestants will have the opportunity to boost their standing with bonus votes worth 500,000 extra points for each subscription secured to the CAROLINA TIMES. The bonus coupon is located in the contest announce ment of the CAROLINA TIMEIS on page four. Contestants securing subscriptions to the CAROLINA TIMES will need only to write In the name and address of a subscriber and mail oi- bring it to the office of the CAROLINA TIMES, to gether with the price of one year’s subscription, which is $3.00. As the_ contest enters the third week the voting is ex pected to reach an even higher intensity. One thing is cer tain, the free airolane round trip to the National Beauticians Convention in Miami with one week’s hotel expenses paid is going to be won by a contestant who stays in the battle and works hard until the vtery last moment. The dark horse whisper which continues to be heard was somewhat quieted this week by the sudden rise of Mrs. Pray loe. The talk continues however, and it is believed that there is still a possibility that some lesser contestant may be wait- ing in the bac)(jground for the last two or three w'eeks only to surge forward and walk off with the prize. . This week’s relative standing of contestants is as follows^- Mrs. Eula St^le 2,460,000 Mrs. CaUie Daye 2,300,000 Mrs. Ethelene Prayloe 2,000,000 Mrs. Odell LMke —: 1,985’000 hinif Daye Mrs. Josephir .1,975,000 Mrs. C. D. Ashford l’675[000 Mrs. Victoria Moore : 1,675,000 Mrs. Beatrice Moss I Ll!46o]oQ0 Mrs. Willie E. Watkins 1 [375,000 Mrs. Irene Jackson 1,'145’000 Mrs. Syminer E. Daye i’ms’qoq Mrs. Pecola Jones 1,115,000 Mrs. lola Goss I'lis'ooo Mrs. Earlie Grandy i|ns’nnn Mrs. Willier McKeithan L...l!ll5[000 Mrs. Classic Brown 2. 1,005,000 Mrs. Thelma Hill Miss Mary Foust Mrs. Catherine Lunsford . Mrs. Alice Payne Miss Montez Bates Miss Blanche Scott Miss Rosa Henderson Mrs. Henrietta Bates Mrs. Hazel McKoy Mrs. Elveta Monroe ....1 Mrs. Margaret Minor (Please turn to page Sight) 990.000 975.000 975.000 975.000 945.000 915.000 875.000 875.000 875.000 875.000 875.000 were the descendants of such famous persons as Booke(i‘ T. Washington, Osc^r DePriest, Walter White, Duke Ellington, C. C. Spaulding, Robert R. Mo- ton, and Paul Robeson.| Speaking of their being nam ed for the famous, almost all a- greed that it invokes a handicap on thqm. Booker T. Washington, III, wlt& liye Qquiet life to him self sa}^-^‘A man to allQwed 'to show himself in his own shape and stature, whatever that may be.” According to R. R. Moton, Jr, and Jape White, the public ex pects a great deal of you, and often causes loss of one’s own identity. C. C. Spaulding, Jr., admits that a famous name ~will open doors, yet he maintains that “af ter getting inside a man has got to have something to say.” Spaulding is currently general counsel and the newest memt>ei‘ of the lK>ard of directors of North Carolina Mutual, the in surance firm which hii father directed from infancy. SPAULDING Refusing To Upgrade Vet Workers rr Little Rocl( "Do Notliing Policy Cited •NEW YORK Information that soldiers assign ed to Central High School in Little Rock “are said to be op erating under order to do noth ing in case of a disturijance eX' cept to observe it,” is character' ized as "astonishing” by Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive se- cretjiry, in a letter to Wilber M. Brucker, Secretary of he Army. In his letter, dated March 14, and released Friday, Wilkins re counted the continuing harass- ments to which Negro students attending Central High School have been subjected “by a small core of resisters among the white students,” and expressed the opinion “that the duty of the troops extends to the halting of overt acts which have the effect of vitiating” the orders of |i fed- (Please turn to page Eight) On UKC Tak Joseph A. Beebe, III, staff as sistant to the Durham United Fund, served as one of the con sultants at the March Working conference at the University of North Carolina school of Pub-, lie Health. A graduate of Johnftton C. Smith University,^ Beebe receiv ed his master’s degree in Public Health at North Carolina Col lege in 1954, and has since work ed as Health Educator for the Better Health Foundation and staff assistant to the director of the Durham United Fund. The March Working confer ence, is an annual program con ducted by University ot North Carolina Sc&ool of P a b 1 1 a Health. WASHINGTON, D. C The North Carolina plant of a huge industrial Icosporation and a local of an AFll-CIO union are charged with collMioB to-xle' ny jtb eqttaUty to-Negro worif- ers in a complaint filed with the President’s Committee on Gtov- emment Contracts by the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of ColoreS People. The complaint, fiftd by the Association’s labor secretary, Herliert Hill, on March 5, alleg' National And Local Business Officers To Meet Plans for holding the National Negro Business League conven' .tion in t)urhamthis summer are scheduled to be discussed in meeting l>etween league and Durham Business and ProfesS' ional Chain officials Saturday. A six>kesman for the host Durr ham Business and Professional Chain said this week that Em mer Martin Lancaster, executive secretary of the National Negro Business League and the Rev. J. S. Penn, a member of the Lea gua*s board of directors, are to meet with Durham Business and Professional Chain officers to lay plans for the convention here. The League’s convention is set for late August. If arrangements are worked out during Saturday's meeting for liolding the League's nation al convention in Durham, it will mark the first time that the city will have played host to the af fair. Boston was the scene last year of the league convention, which attracted more than 2,000 prom inent Negro businessmen from throughout the country. Slated 4o meet with Lancaster and Penn in Durham Saturday are Durham Business Chain of ficials J. A. Beebe, III, Lincoln Harrison, Thepdore Speight, J. H. Wheeler, Miss Sarah, Mrs. J.- DeShazor Jackson. W. G. Rhodes, R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., W. J. Kennedy, Jr., J.^J. Hen derson and L. B. Frasier. State Teachers Convene Friday (Please turn to page Eight) RALEIGH The 77th Annual Convention of the North Carolina Teachers Association will feature addres ses by two of the nation's out standing leaders in governmen tal and educational affairs. The Convention is set in Ra- Iqigh, March 27, 28, and 29. The keynote address Thurs day evening March 27 will be given, by Mr*, yVmetta Ct^yial lace,"President"of the Tennei Education Congress, in Memori' al Auditorium. Mrs. Wallace haa had wide experience as a teach- ecr, worker in civic organizations Women’s National Organiza-i tions, and other national, social and inter-cultural organizations. E. Frederick Morrow, Aide to! President Eisenhower, and Ad- for the Special Projects Group in the Executive Offices of the Presi- (Please turn to page Eight) es that the North Carolina works of ihe Western Electric Com- p^tny, located at Greensboro, ctfnspired with Local 3062 of the 6!ommunications Workers of A- ^ meliea, AFL-CK>rto violate the mlnlstratlve “Offtccr seniority rights of Ne;gro work ers and to restrict such workers to menial job classifications. Hill filed the complaint on be half of seven NAACP members in Greensboro. Four other membefs ot the Greensix>ro NAACP complained of discrimination by two other large employers in the iity — Cone Mills, a textile company and the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. These companies, as well as Western Electric, are operating under government contracts which forbid racial or religious dis crimination in employment. The NAACP charged that the Cone Mills permitted Negroes to work only as sweepers, labor ers, janitors and f^ders. An in vestigation by Hill failed to re veal a single Negro employed as a weaver, loom operator, loom fixer or frame hand in any tex- Ex|ject 300 For Press Meeting Some 300 students and teach ers representing more than sixty high schools • in the Carolinaa and Virginia are expected to at tend the Third Annual Campus Echo Publications Conference at North Carolina College on A- pril 11. Featured speaker and chief consultant tor the day - long meeting will be R. O. Mensah, press attache in the Embassy of the new state of Ghana. Mensuih, will address the op ening sessions, which wUl' be (Please turn to page Eight) MBS. WALLACir First Civil Rights Suit Coining Out Of Mississippi In Court sjJACKSON, MISS. Mississippi’s first civil rights suit to reach the courts since the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the School Segregation Cases was filed here in the United States District Court on Friday, March 14. Th^ action challenges amend ments to the state constitution and laws which, in effect, deny Negroes the right to vote. It was filed by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys in behaU of Rev. H. B. Darby and pther Negro citizens of Jeffeprson Davis County. The action also challenges Mississippi’s new anti NAACP laws which prohibit the giving and receiving of financial aid and furnishing of legal services without charge in law suits. Vio lations of these statutes cons tate a crime punishable by a prison term of one year. Rev. Darby on two occasions tried to' register in Jefferson Davis County in order to vote in Mississippi elections. On each occasion the registrar of voters required him to take a written examination. This examination included a requirement that tho prospective voter give a “rea- (Please turn to page Eight) Business School Gets New Heine Durham Business College was scheduledHo begin moving from its present location to a new home on Fayetteville strqet late this week. The schobl will take over the old Pearsontown school build ing at 2635 Fayetteville street which was abandoned as ^ a school by the County early last Fall. It was revealed early thisi week that the school had nego- giated a lease for he building from the County Board of Edu cation. The school leased the wooden frame building for one year at a cost of $100 pe^ month County Schools business. mana ger Leste^ Smith said. Smith pointed out that the County Board of Education was not authorized to grant leases for periods greater than 1 year. Durham Business CoUejge’s new home was abandoned as a s^ool by the County early last (Please turn to page £igbt> An artist’s conception of the old Peursontown Scho^ building which will home of Diurham Business College is seen in ttw abu>'tf dxvwiiiff.
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