Spauldmg Denies He’s NCM HeaH
DURHAMITES SPARKLED IN SEVERAL
phases of a joint convention of three national or
ganizations held in Durham last week. Meeting
at North Carolina College were the National
Business League, National llousewives’ League
and the Nation^l/jgankers’ Association, from whose
sessions scenes shown above.
. Picture at top left is an all-Durham affair as
Dr. Lincoln J. Harrison, member of the Durham
Business and Pj^essional Chain and editor of its
organ, receivepK life membership from Chain
officer N. B. Whife (extreme right). Others in pic
ture are L. B. Frasier, left, and Mrs. Harrison.
Center panel. Governor Luther Hodges is
shown making remarks to a banquet session of
the joint conventions, marking ene of the few
times during his administration that he has ap
peared before a prodomiiuintiy Negro organi-
zption of consequence. At the Governor’s left is
J. J. Henderson. On his right are J. H. Wheeler
and Mrs. Jessie Locker.
Right panel, presidents of the three national
bodies which met in joint convention exchange
pleasantries with A. T. Spaulding, prominent
Durham business cxecvtive. Left to right are Dr.
Frederick Patterson, NBL president; Spaulding;
Mrs. Jessie Locker, Housewives’ League Presi
dent, and M. C. Martin, president of the Bankers’
Association.
Bottom, left panel, J. H. Wheeler (right),
president of Mechanics and F'armers Bank, pre
sents plaque to Ernest Booth, retiring senior vice
president of Wfcbovia Rank for his “38 years un
selfish contributions to the whole industry of
banking.”
Curved inset shows Urban League secretary
Julius Thomas addressing a luncheon of the con
vention.
Center panel, two Atlantans, one emigrated,
f>re reunited duting the convention. At left is J. S.
Stewart, Durham City Councilman and prom-
ment businessman formerly of Atlanta. Standing
beside him is Mrs. Nettie Archer, cashier of Cit
izens Trust of Atlanta and a member of the Bank
ers’ Association.
The wry humor of Durham service station
operator Thedore Speight evokes laughter from
convention delegates during one of sessions in
curved panel. Speight is a high ranking Durham
Business and Professional Chain official. Shown
seated at the table are W. J. Kennedy, Jr. and
A. T. Spaulding (far left) and Dr. Patterson fore
ground.
Last panel shows officers of the National
Housewives’ League, who are, left to right, Mrs.
Christina Fuqua, Detroit, past president; Miss
Sarah Dotson, president of ttie host Durham
league and third national vice president; Mrs.
Jessie Locker, national president; and Mrs. J.
DeShazor Jackson, who was cited by league dur
ing its sessions. — Rivera.
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VOLUME 34—NUMBER 32
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DURHAM, N. C., SATUBDaV. AUGUST 9, 1958
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FRICE: TEN^ CENTS
Report Says
J>r®s. Picked
At Election
Durham Bonk Saluted By
National And State Groups
Durham’s Mechanics and Far
mers Bank observed its 30th
Dlrthday on August 1 and was
enthusiastically saluted by three
nalional convention, local digni
taries) church and educational
interests.
Dr. Clyde Donnell, chairman
of the barilc’s directors, John H.
Wheeler, president, and I. O.
Funderburg, cashier, accepted
tributes from the bank’s friends.
More than 300 persons attend-'
ed a Thursday morning break
fast honoi-ing the bank and its
staff from Durham and Raleigh
branches.
Earlier, during a presentation.
Four Banks Cited
Four of tUe nation’s banks
were cited at a three convention
banquet at North Carolina Col
lege here last week.
Cited for 50 years service and
commended during its Golden.
Anniversary on Angust 1' was
the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank of Durham and Raleigh,
chartered in 1907 and in opera
tion since it opened for business
on August 1, 1908.
In addition to Mechanics and
Farmers, other banks honored
were the Consolidated Bank and
Trust Co. of Richmond, Va.,
which has been operating since
1903; CItlsens Savings Bank and
Trust Co., Nashville, Tenn.,
1904; Crown Savings Bank,
Newport News, Va.
ceremony part of the National
Bankers’ Association, Sam T.
Castleman, senior vice presiden
of the Wachovia Bank of Dur
ham, presented Wheeler ai
special plaque attesting Wacho
via’s high regard for the cour
teous, distinguished and efficient
service Mechanics and Farmers
has rendered since 1908.
Afterwards, Wheeler" present
ed Ernest S. Booth, retired
senior vice president of Wacho ■
via and Castleman’s predecessor
with a citation for his “38 years
of outstanding and unselfish ser
vice to the whole banking pro
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Housewives' Honor Twenty-Five
Twenty-five members of the | Mrs. Helen Malloy,^Detroit; and
National Housewives League Mrs. Christinna Fuqua, Detroit.
were cited here at North Caro
lina College last week for meri
torious service to the twenty-
five year old organization.
In a general session at Dur
ham’s White Rock Baptist
Church, the women’s group paid
tribute to the late Dr. Albon L.
Holsey of Tuskegee, Mrs. Fannie
B. Peck of Detroit, first national
president, and Mrs. Christina
Fuqua of Detroit,
past president.
15 years: Mrs. Hortense Ho
well, Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Estclla
L. Crosby, and Mrs. Ella M.
Martin; Boston; Mrs. J. De
Shazor Jackson and Mrs. Mag
nolia Leake, Durham; and Mrs.
Verna Smith, Louisville, Ky.
10 years: Mrs. ffesse D. Locker,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Ernestine
Mahon and Mary M. B. An
drews, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs.
immediate j Pearl Bell, Mrs. Enora Plato and
Mrs. Agnes Mansfield, Louis-
The leaguers also lauded the|ville, Ky.; Mrs. Callie B. Daye
work of Dr. Eartha Mary Mag
dalene White of Jacksonville,
Fla.
Among members cited by the
organization and their term of
and Miss Sarah C. Dotson, Dur
ham; Mrs. Hannah Williaihs, St.
Louis, Mo.; and Mrs. Ruth J.
Jackson, Birmingham.
5 years: Mrs. Addie Duff,
service were; 25 years: Mrs. j Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Anna Lee
Fannie B. Peck, Detroit; Mrs. Janes, Cincinnati: and Mrs. Lu-
Nannie E. Black, Detroit; Mrs. cille Jones, Detroit.
Gertrude J. Tolbert, Detroit; I
N. C. Mutual's Goldsboro Office
Head Is Transferred To Wash.
Effective July 1, E^ton Rey
nolds Williams was transferred
from the Managership of the
Goldsboro District to the posi
tion of Executive Assistant
Manager of the Washington Dis
trict, the second largest district
in the Company’s system.
Williams was employed as an
agent by North Carolina Mutual
April 15, 1933; was promoted td
Assistant Manager in 1934 and
to Manager of the Goldsboro
District in 1937. He has served
on the Company’s Advisory
Council and for approximately
15 years was chairman of the
Motivation Committed of the
Vorth Ctirolina Planning Com
mlttee,
He is a native of Florence
South Carolina, and a graduate
■)f Livingstone College of Salis
bury, North Carolina; the Life! Agency
Underwriter ’Training Course; ation.
R.^^ILLIAMS
and the 162nQ School for Man
agers of the Life Insurance
Management Associ-
J. E. CALDWELL
Gate City Man,
9$, Succumbs
GREENSBORO
John Edward Caldwell died at
his home at 627 South Ashe
Street, Greensboro, on Thurs
day, July 31, after a long illness.
He was 95 years of age.
A native of Guilford College,
he was first employed in saw
mill work; then with the rail
road for thirty years, and later
as a shoe repairman. For 45
years he operated a shoe shop
pn Lewis Street until his health
became impaired more than two
years ago.
Caldwell was a member of St.
Matthews Methodist Church. He
was an officer of the church, and
for many years served as
Treasurer.
Survivors include three sons:
ReV. Glbert H. Caldwell, Sr.,
Greensboro; Prof. L. H. Cald
well, Brooklyn, N. Y,; Willie
Caldwell, Pennsylvania; one
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IN ALASKA
Miss Diana S. Dent, chainnan
of the House Econondcs Depart
ment at North CaroHna College,
will attend a workshop on “A
Study of Alaska and its People”
at th« Vniversity of Alaska in
Fairbanks, August 11-15.
After the workshop Miss Dent
will visit Mrs. Dorothy Brandon
Faison, an NCC alumnae,, who is
a home economics supervisor in
a Fairbanks school, and later
tour points of interest in Alaska.
Asa T. Spaulding denied em
phatically Thursday morning a
report that he had been elected
president of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
A usually reliable source re
ported to the TIMES late
Wednesday that Spaulding, vice-
president and actuaiy of the
firm, had been elected to suc
ceed W. J. Kennedy, Jr.
Kennedy has reached the re
tirement age.
However, Spaulding told the
TIMES Thursday that “there is
no truth” to the reported elec
tion. He added further that he
knew “absolutely nothing about,
it.”
Sp>aulding’s outright denial of
the report was the first positive
reaction the TIMES received
Earlier, high level N. C. Mutual
officials maintained a close
mouthed attitude concerning the
report, refusing to deny or con
firm it.
The TIMES source also re
ported that Kennedy has been
retired by Spaulding’s election,
he will remain as chairman of
the firm’s board of directors. In
actual practice, this will be a
new position since the com
pany's president has in the past
acted as chairman of the direc
tors.
Spaulding is widely known in
local and national business,
civic and religious affairs. He is
a cousin of the famed business
genius the late C. C. Spaulding
who helped to establish the be
ginnings of Durham’s Negro
business complex, and was him
self the I first president of the
N. C. Mutual.
Funeral For
Ex-Durhamite
Funeral services for Cornell
Boulware, former Durham resi
dent,- were held Wednesday
afternoon at the Mt. Olive AME
Zion Church at 3:30 p.m.
Boulware died on July 30 in
Chicago where he had lived
since leaving Durham approxi
mately 12 years ago.
The Reverend J. Z. Siler, pas
tor of Mt. Olive, conducted the
funeral services. Interment was
at Beechwood cemetery.
Son of Arthur Boulware of
New York and Mrs. Cornelia
Boulware of 2802 Mulberry St.,
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Rites For Knife Victim
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Hodges Addresses
Group In Durham
North Carolina's governor Lu-1
ther Hodges expressed his in
terest in the state!s economic j
welfare in an address before a |
joint conventiori banquet forj
three national organizations j
here last week. |
Speaking to the National'
Business, National Housewivea
League and the National
Bankers Association convention
banquet at North Carolina Col
lege last Thursday night, the
state’s chief executive said:
“My one ambition is to do
fearlessly whatever I can in my
humble way to raise the per
capita income of all the people
in North Carolina.”
During his remarks he noted
that North Carolina is currently
forty-fourth in per capita in
come among the states.
Hodges and his daughter
Nancy, who now makes her
home in Pakistan, listened to
part of a speech by Phillip Ham
mer, outstanding economist of
Atlanta, Ga.
The Governor’s remarks to the
banquet marked one of his rare
appearances before a predoml-'
nantly Negro audience. The last
address he made to an all Negro
audience of consequence was at
A and T College in 1955.
Hammer, the banquet's main
speaker, pointed- out that the
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MARGARET L. BOSTICK
MELVIN BARBEE
Funeral services for Melvin Barhee, 38-year-oW Durham
resident who died from a butcher iinife wound, were held
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at tlie Scarborough Funeral chap-
el.
Barbee was slashed across the chest with a butcher knife
at his residence 504 Lincoln Avenue Friday night by Mar-
garet Louise Bostick of the same address.
The Reverend C. W. Eaton conducted the final rites for
Barbee Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Barbee’s assailant. Miss Bostick, has been
charged with murder and held for a grand jury hearing.
At a preliminary hearing Monday, she pleaded “self
defense,” and offered no testimony. She had earlier told in
vestigating detective Frank McCrea that she stabbed Barbee
after h« ladvanced ou her.
WINNERS OF THE CAROLINA TIM^ BEAUTICIANS POPULARITY CONTEST are
shown boarding airship for flight to Miami and the National Beauticians Convention. Mrs.
Willie Smith of Greensboro (center) was winner in the Greensboro-HIgh Point area, and
Mrs. Callie Daye, right, won first place in the Durham area. At right is Mrs. Onnie Rog
ers of Durham who accompanied the pair.. First prixe in the contest was a round trip and a
week’s hotel expenses at the Miami convention. — Riirera.
Lott Carey Sessions In Richmond, Va. On September 2
WASHINGTON, D. C.
According to the Reverend
Wendell C. Somerville, Ebcecu-
tive Secretary, the Sixty-iirst
Annual Session of the Lott Ca
rey Baptist Foreign Mission
(i^Oftvention will be held with
the First African Baptist
Church, Richmond, Virginia,.
September 2-5.
The Reverend Y. B. Williams
is the host pastor. He will be
assisted by the various pastors
of the city in entertaining the
Convention.
Preceding the official opening
of this historic Missionary Con
vention, a pre-convention musi
cal program will be held in the
Belgian Building on the cam
pus of Virginia Union Univer
sity, Monday evening, Septem
ber 1. Professor W. E. Patterson
of Norfolk, Virginia is current
ly training a chorus of one hun
dred voices, consisting of many
of the leading singers of Rich
mond and vicinity.
The Executive Board of th«
Convention will meet on Tues
day. September 2, at First Afri*
can Baptist Church. Dr. W. L.
Ransome, Richmond, Virginia
is Chainnan of the B«>ard and
Dr. J. Harvey Randolph, WailH
ington, D. C. is Vice-Chainnan«
The highlight of the WBwtfin
will be the Report of the Execu
tive Secretary. It it stated by Dr.
Somerville that the current tia-
cal year shows a marked to-
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