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VOLUME 34—NUMBER 36 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1958
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Bank Names New Unit Officer
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Much-HiDnoie4 Lincoln Grid
To Address Hofpital Finals
Hospital To
Hold Graduation
Rites Monday
A much honored alumnus of
Lincoln Hospital will deliver the
commencement address for the
hospital’s nursing school gradu
ates it was announced this week.
Miss Mary L. Mills, former
chief of a U. S. medical mission
in the Middle East and twice
decorated by a Middle Eastern
and African country, will speak
at th^ exerciiM to be held at
White'* ft(J«t^pT!lsf TfiSrffiT'
Mpnday night, September 8, at
eight o’clock.
Some 12 Lincoln nursing
school students will receive di
plomas at the exercises, accord*
ing to Miss L. Z. Williams, su
perintendent of nursing at the
hospital.
The commencement speaker,
Miss Mills, is a graduate oi Lin^
coin hospital and a former head
of a U. S. Public Health Mission
to the Middle East.
Since her graduation, she has
completed work for the Certifi
cate of Public Health Nursing in
the Richmond, Va. Medical Col
lege and has earned A. B. and
M. A. degrees at New York Uni
versity. She also studied at Bei
rut College for Women in Bei
rut, Lebanon. /
For five years she was chief
nurse of the U. S. Public Health
Mission at ;> Monrovia, Libeitia.
She was also chief of a similar
mission for the Lebanon ICA for
See HOSPITAL, page 8
Sansom Returns
To Head Bank's
Raleigh Office
Officials of Mechanics and
Farmers Bank anounced Mon
day the election of J. J. Sansom,
Jr. as Vice President and Man
ager of the Bank’s, Raleigh
North Carolina office located at
.13 East Hargett Street.
They also announced the pro
motion of J. E.Jl^ickland to the
position of SenWr Vice Preaident
Sansom, who is 40 years of
age, is a native of Atlanta,
Georgia and a rich back
ground of expeoence In the field
of banking. From 1939 to 194"?
he held the position of Assistant
Cashier at the Durham office of
Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
after which he served for four
years as a member of the faculty
of the North Carolina College
Law Sfhool.
Since 1951 Sansom has man'
aged the Wachovifi Bank and
Trust Company’s Third Street
Office In Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. Under his management
the branch experienced consid
erable growth.
^ i H. Wheeler,. President
Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
said that “ the addition of Mr.
Sansom to the staff at our Ba-
See BANK, page 8
The first husband-wife team I chairmen for the Durham Bos-
ftir Trade Week is Mr. and Mrs. | iness and Professional Chain
/oseph A. Beebe pictured here Trade Week, to be observed Oct.
The Beebes will serve as overall { 25 through Nov. 1 in Durham.
Husband ■ Wife Teams To Chairman
Annual Trade Week Program
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Beebe
have been selected to serve as
overall chairman of the Durham
Business and Professional
Chain’s annual Trade Week ac
tivities.
Announcement of the selection
W the Beebes to head this year’s
«vent was made by Chain presi
dent L. B. Frasier who explain
ed that husband-wife teams will
be appointed to head the various
Trade Week committees.
Frasier also revealed that the
week of October 25 through No
vember 1 has been set aside by;
the organization to be observed
See TRADE WEEK, page 8
A contigent of Boy Scout lead- row, James Jones, Chat Perry,' Mrs. Thelma Perry, B. C. W.
ers and Boy Scouts of-Troop 55
of Durham are posed here In
front of Thomas Jefferson’s
home at Monticello during a trip
made to the Skyline Drive and
surronndlng areas last week.
Shown In the picture are front
Owen Justice, Joseph White and
Ronald Reed. Second row, same
order, are James Brown, Charles
Spauldhig, m, William Mc
Dowell, Nathaniel White, Jr.,
Robert Perry, and Day F. Reed,
Jr. On third row are D. F. Reed,
Perry, Mrs. Jean White and N,
B. White, Scoutmaster of Troop
55. During their trip the group
visited the Caverns at Luray,
Natural Chimneys and Natural
Bridge. White Rock BapiLit
Church Sponsors ’Troop 55.
Johnson
To Head
Re-elected
Elks
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The 890 official delegates to
the 60 the annual grand lodge
convention of the Improved Be-
Mvolent Protective Order of
fiks of the World overwhelming
ly reelected Dr. Robert H. (our
Bob) Johnson as exalted ruler
for. the next two years. The elec
tion followed a well-organized
campaign b y administration
forces over a period of many
months to overcome the opposi
tion of certain forces seeking to
gain control of the Order.
Theodore Smith of Brooklyn
got the floor, following the nom
ination of Robert Johnson by
Hobson Reynolds (which was
eloquently seconded by J. Lu
ther Sylvahn), and nominated
Jesse Vann of New York for the
grand exalted ruler’s post.
Following a huddle of grand
lodge officials and a noisy dem
onstration on the floor, the vote
was called for by past grand ex
alted ruler T. Gillis Nutter of
Charleston, W. Va., the presiding
officer.
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Death Of Rev. Isaacs, Leader
Ousted From South Mourned
NEW YORK
The death of Rev. ^Alfred Isa
acs, pastor of the Union Baptist
Church here, deprives the NAA-
CP of “one of our most outstand
ing co-workers in the fight for
freedom,” Roy Wilkins, NAACP
executive secretary, said in a
telegram of condolence address
ed to the church's associate pas
tor, Rev. Oliver Brooks.
Isaacs, a former leader of the
NAACP in Orangebui^, S. C.,
died here on August 22 of a
pointed oiit, “one of the Asso
ciatlon’s leaders in Seuth Car-
oltoa who resisted succesfuUy
the economic boycott and repris
als of the White Citizens Coun
cils against Negroes active in
the fight for school integration.
His leadership at a time when
the Negro in the South those
with whom he was associated.”
At his funeral on August 26,
the NAACP was represented by
Gloster B. Current, (director of
branches, who extolled the late
clergyman as “a great preacher
in the propheiliip tradition of
Isaiah, Jeremiah and Amos, con
cerned not only with the social
h«9CL^aibnent. He waa,^ WUiriiia. jsconomic and spirltuaL
of his people, but willing to cru
sade and fight for the justice
and t^ie truth in which he firm-
See ISAACS, page 8
was some protest over
11 for a standing vote
was voiced in Smith's
See :iOHNSON, page 8
Jackie Of
Ike's Comment
V WASHINGTON, D. C.
■ "^‘We are at tire crossroads in
our fight for civil rights”, Jack
ie Robinson, former baseball
star who is co-chairman of the
NAACP life membership com
mittee, told the more than 3,000
delegates to the 59^th grand lodge
convention of the iBPOEW meet
ing here at Metropolitan Baptist
Church on R Street.
Robinson sSid it was “quite a
shock to hear President Eisen
hower say we must educa'te the
people into compliance of the
mandates of. the U. S. Supreme
Court's decision on segregation.”
“Hbw in the world can we do
that”, Jackie asked, “if we are
going to continue to educate
them separately in a Jim Crow
school system?”
The popular baseball star said
“We (Negroes) must take the
bull by the horns and unite to
fight our own battles to get our
civil rights”.
Large Enrollment Forces
Session At W. G. Pearson
w.
D. mu, Jr., (above), son
of Mrs. Ethel and the late W. D.
Hill of 1202 Fayetteville Street,
is scheduled to work as a re
search technician in Chemistry
at the Prarie View A and M Col
lege in Prarie View, Texas under
a Welch Foundation grant. ISiii
graduated from North Carolinii
College in 1956.
sdMol.
Karri* aaid be oLJiiMr-
proponl becauK bm
thMach reiKXT*tion wm
ry. He pointed out that I
ing had been abendone#
for a school Jor whites m
the approaches to the
from the Negro sectiom
“intolerable.” _
A new school ior white^^B^
ren who formerly atlai4l4
Morehead has been opeoaA «
Amette Avenue.
All of the streets lesKUng
the Morehead school frooi tl*
Negro sections are upaved, Hhr-
See SCHOOLS, page 8
Montgomery
Leader Charges
Police Brutality
MONTGOMKRY. ALA
The Rev Martin Lottier Kiac
said Montgomery police roughed
him up when, they arreetcd hirlfc
Wednesday on charges of “loiter
ing.”
King said when he was taken
to the cell he was “kicked in'*
by arresting police wbo took
him in custody in front ot the
move. The third grade enroU-j Montgomery City Hall where he
ment at Pearson this year is 202. waited to attend a hearing on
The school only has provUions charges against a Negro ^ h«i
for half of that number during' Rev. Ralph D. AbCT-
its regular session. nathy, leader with King in the
N drive against discriminatioft in
Cheek revealved that the en- the city.
roUment has been split in half The Dexter Aveniw Baptiak
and about 100 students assigned Church minister said ttiat when
to the morning session and an officers accosted him for the ar-
equal number enrolled in the rest, they '“tried to bnak my
afternoon class. arm, they grabbed my caOar ana
Harris told the ’TIMES that tried to choke me."
the problem of overcrowding Me was jailed for about 19
and the possibility of a double minutes and allowed to Sigh a
session was before the Educa" $100 bond for appea—ca in
tion l%>ard as early as July. In City Court Friday to inw»i i the
August he said the Board decid- loitering charge.
to inaugu^te a double ses- Police Chief G. J. Ttiquirnlbnl
ih aijter d^ussion_jyith s^dd JSJ^g was arzeattd.
its of the'^ptis to be involttf twice refused to more
iand Pearson principal Cheek. ficers ordered a cipwd
Harris faiformed the TIMBS the city hall to breait
that the school board had the proximately 50 pavlaBa
choice of renovating the vacant outside the building waiting A
Morehead school or of transjpiort-' chance to get in for the Abema
ing some of the children to the thy trial. ,
WalHown school. $ Police CommiaakMcr Clyde
He said the Board of Educa- Sellers curtly denied KingTa
tion had a proposal before it to cliarges of police bmtalKy. Sri-
renovate the Morehead School
at a cost of $18,000 and use it
A measure to cope with over
crowded cooditiona at the W. G.
Pearson Elementary School here
has met with general disfavor
from parents and school officials,
it was learned this week.
Opening of the public school
term in Durham Wednesday re
vealed that double sessions have
been Instituted at the Pearson
school to take care of overcrowd
ing. •
Pearson Principal N. A. Cheek
pointed out that a high enroll
ment in the third grade made it
necessary for school authorities
to assign half of the third grade
students to a morning session,
running from 8:30 to one p. m.,
and another half to an afternoon
session, running from one until
six p. m.
’The solution was regarded as
a poor one by school officials and
parents alike. It was learned that
protests have come from several
of the parents of third grade
pupils who must attend the af
ternoon session.
Superintendent Lew Hannen
describNed the measure as a
“poor” solution to the TIMES
Wednesday.
Skhool board member R. N.
Harris said it was the “lesser of
two evils” from which the board
had to choose.
According to Cheek, some 200
students are affected by the
lais,. a. memaer oittie Vkitc Cit
izens Council, said Klbg waa
to alleviate some of the crowd- treated as anyone else who is
ed conditions at the Pearson i arrested.
Wilkins Urges Ike To Oionge
Opinion On Integrarion Pace
CHICAGO
Addressing the annual con
vention o'f the National Bar As
sociation here, Roy Wilkins,
NAACP executive secretary,
called upon President Eisen
hower to examine the snail-like
pace of inteKfallon to date” with
a view to revising his opinion—
“not to urge overnight action
but to. urge reasonable and
steady progress in accord with
NCC Coath Returns With
Praise Of Island Cagers
Floyd Brown, head basketball
coach at North Carolina College,
returned to Durham last week
full of praise for the abilities
of Puerto Rican basketball
players.
Brown has been in San Juan
for three months as coach of one
of the Island's basketball teams.
His team, the San Juan San-
ton (Saints) captured the Island
championship in a play-off,
“There arc no finer basketball
players than in Puerto Rico,”
Brown told a luncheon Tuesday
at the YWCA.
“The only difficulty in their
not being able to crack the
American professional ranks is
in their size. Usually, they are
not large enough to interest pro
ieaaions! ^waeri^"-
“The big men in our league
could outplay the average big
man I've seen, and the litile men
could out fastbreak the best Ive
COACH FXOYD BROWN
seen.”
Brown explained that the “big
men” in Puerto Rico are rarely
over 6’ 4”.
The N. C. College cage coach
admitted that he was surprised
at the lack of training habits ex
hibited by the Puerto Rican bas
ketball players. He said he was
shocked to see some of his play
ers drinking and staying out late
at night. He later discovered, he
said, that tney were accustomed
to such habits and that the habits
had little or no apparent effect
on their play.
Enthusiasm for basketball in
Puerto Rico is high, Brown as
serted. He explained that all
their games were played out of
doors, on courts assembled in
parks used Baseball during
the Puerto Rican diamond sea
son.
Few games were rained out,
too, he added, although play at
night was often halted to sweep
frogs off the floor who had been
attracted by the lights.
All the basketball in Puerto
See BROWN, page 8
law.”
' In his address prepared for de
livery to the lawyers on August
28, Wilkins cited the President's
press conference admission that
he “might have said” privately
that the school desegregation
program should be slowed down^
Eisenhower made his state
ment in answer to a reporter’s
question on August 27.
This position, the NAACP
leader said, is “incredible." In
formation on the slow progress
of integration, he asserted,
“must have been kept from him
by his advisers. The record is
there for ready inspection and
judgment.”
Noting that “next door to the
White House in the State of Vfar
ginia not a single kIknA haa
been integrated in the tour and
a half years since the Supreme
C^Mirt decision,” Wilkina
“Does BCr. Eisenhower
that Virginia should move
slowly than ttais?” He cited rix
other states in which “not a
single school has been totegr^
ed” and three in which “eotr
token integration” baa
place.
‘^n Little Rock only He
gro children were invtdved out-
SeeIKE,pageA
Democratic Party Head Says
Ike Undermined Desegregation
WASHINGTON
Paul M. Butler, Chairman ot
the Democratic National Com
mittee, this week charged that
President Eisenhower had ser
iously undermined efforts at
peaceful school intogration in
his unwise press conference
statement earlier this week.
“By acknowledging* publicly
that he favored a slower pace to
ward school integration," But
ler declared, “President Eisen
hower has clearly indicated that
he will exert no moral leader
ship on this important national
problem thus undermining res
pect for the Supreme Court de
cision.
“Such lack at laadenhip from
the highest office in the land
can only serve to aaaaurage law
less force* to deCy the law at the
same time that it aoriously un
dermines those who are tiyiac
to peacefully carry it ouf*
The National Chainnan. in
his statement referred to tb*
presidential press cooferene* oi
Avgust 27, when President
enhower acknowledged
that he may have told
that racial integratifln te Mbipli
should be proceeding at a
er pace. ' a
“Throughout the
and months whan mml T —
ship by the P
been a powerful taelar tfr
ing about orderly
integration, the
dined t» state hip irtMMir
issue. It It unfoftuaala j
he did reveal
he gave aid ami
of the land.”