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VOLUME 34 — NUMBER 40 DURHAM, N. C., SATUBDAY, OCTOBER 4, t»58 ^
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Chance For Quick Aiction in
integration Case RM Out
Another Delay
Pushes Action
To Dec. Or Jan.
Beautiful Lulu Guerrero, 21,
will be seen u a show-virl
regular on “The Jaokle Gleason
Show,” over the CBS Television
Network, startinf Friday, Oct.
3 (8;30-9:«'« PM, BDT). LuIh,
who is a Grace Del Marco nuxlel,!
plans a sinking career. At pre
sent she roM
nights and lives in tile Bronx,
N.Y., with her nutther.
Anniversary And
Shepard Servjce
At White Rock
A special service commemo
rating the 92nd anniversary of
White Rock Baptist Church and
for the James E. Shepard JjXe-
morial Scholarship Fund will be
held at White Rock Sunday
morning at the regular 11
o’clock worship.
White Rock’s pastor the Rev.
Miles M. Fisher, will speak on
“Tlie Old Time Religion.”
The late Dr. Shepard was a
member and officer of White
Rock.
The scholarship fund, estab
lished in his honor, has received
contributions for the past several
years from memorial service at
the church.
Rev^ W^'Fi Cox, Prominent Durham
Clergyman, Suffers Heart Attack
A long and involved series of
legal manuevers appeared im
minent as the trial of Durliam
school integration''suit was ptost-
poned here last week until late
this year or early next year.
Postponement of the trial;
came as the result of questions
filed by attorneys for the plain
tiffs in the action.
Defense counsel, attorney
Marshall Spears and assistant
state attorney General Ralph
Moody, requested and received
a delay in order to prepare
answers' to the questions.
Although the exact ^ture of
the questions was not deCn-
mintd—plaintiffs attorneys werfe
given until Oct. 10 to file them— ’
it is believed that they deal with
■HWer-aHprtleir ‘ tB 'tiw baelt4
ground of the Pupil Assignment | Attractive Vfcrlia Valeria
Act and Pearsall Plan. | Lynch, North Carolina high
On the basis of the plaintiff’s school typing ciiampion. Is
original contention, the suit was
intended to chalknge th? T h.';
Bau'ptan, the stTte’s macftineryJM^J^yneh fa rwlly her
fo7controlling desegregation. «feoiia wm^r at NCC. Sl^f
The questions which came up •dvanUge of the colleges
during the hearing last Friday «celeration program^
we beHered intended to drav^
the Pearsall Plan* and other *»“«Mer Mr.
legislative enactments into the ‘
suit as one of the issues involved **'•
See INTEGRATION, page'8
ite«rsci«rs
The Durham Association of
Classroom Teachers’ recently met
at Lyon Park School. The infor
mal meeting primarily was de
signed to welcome additions to
the city school’s teaching staff.
Mrs. Geneva R. Cheek, presi
dent of DACT, presented to each
new teacher present a packet of
souvenirs and gifts from local
merchants and businesses. Thp
recipients of these gifts included
Zollie Sanders, Misses Shirley
Day, Wiihelmenia Hughes, Edith
C. Williams, Shirley Y. Parker,
jnd Mesdames Willa C. Bryant
and Mary Kate Baldwin.
NEW YORK
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King is “one of the world’s few
Christians,” Arthur B. Spingarn,
president of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of
Colored People, said here last
week.
Spingarn was standing imme
diately behind Dr. King when he
was stabbed by Mrs. Izola Ware
Curry in Blumstein’s Depart
ment Store in 125th Street on
Saturday, September 20. The en
tire nation was shockcd by the
attack.
“It is ironic,” the NAACP.
See INJURY, page 8
Durham’s Third Ward Coun
cilman, ‘J. S. Stewart, is pictured
third from right with member*
of his family and officiate of
White Roclt Baptist Church ad-
mirtaf sliver tray presented hhn
by the Church during a special
service in his honor last Sunday.
Left to right are White Rocii
pastor the Rev. Miles M. Fisher,
Janetta Stewart, Mrs. Stewart,
Stewart, Mrs. K. M. Cromartie,
leader of the college view dis
trict which sponsored the sei;-
vice, and James Stewart, Jr. .
—Rivera photo
' The 'condition of the Rev. W.
F. Cox, prominent Durham
tninister, was described as
“critical” by Duke hospitpl au
thorities late Wednesday.
The Oak Grove Freewill Bap
tist Church pastor was taken to
the hospital Monday night, after
suffering what church oiEficials
said was a heart attack.
Duke authorities declined to,
comment further on the nature
of Cox’s ailment, and his physi
cian, Dr. C. D. Grandy, was un
available.
However, Jethro Ashford,
chairman of ttie Oak Grove tirus-
tee board, told the TI9|ES
Wedqesday that the minister had
sutfered a heart attac)(.
Asitford sai^ he was Informed
of this through Dr. Grundy.'
drove up to the chuvch for' a
meeting Monday higllt.
Ashford said that Cox’s attack
was first discovered, Inimembers
^ See COX, 8
Drive To Open*
(late City Assn.
Gathers Steam
■ GREENSBORO
The campaign to establish a
new federal savings and loan
association here received a big
boost last Monday night as sub
scribed deposits of more than
$33,000 were signed up at a
mass meeting.
The meeting, held at the U-
nited Institutional B a pt i s t
Church had as principal speak
er F. B. McKissick, Durham, at
torney and president of the
Southeastern Lawyers Associa
tion. He told the audience of
nearly 500 persons, mainly
members of the church, that
Christianity is no longer a once
a week process. “It is an ideal
in day to day living, supporting
those civic endeavors which aim
at Improvement of those less
fortunate and the community in
general,’’ he said. “This effort,”
he continued, “deserves your
support and gives the people of
Greensboro opportunity to rac-
tice and important phase of
Christian living.”
McKissick was introduced by
James L. Lassiter, Winston-
Salem attorney and an official
of a Winston-Salem life Insur
ance company. Other speakers
who made brief remarks includ
ed: J. W. Goodloe, secretary-1
treasurer of a Durham insur
ance firm; J. S. Stewart secre-
tary-treasurer of a Durham fed
eral savings and loan associa
tion; Dr. J. A. Tarpley, princi
pal of the local Dudley High
School and Rev. C. W. Ander
son, pastor of the church. Vance
H. Chavis, principal of the Lin
coln Junior High School, presid
ed.
E. E. Smith, temporary
chairman of the Organizing
Committee, told reporters
City and Fire Department offi
cials who took part in a briefing
of the first Negro fire company
are shown standing outside of Manager R,
Fayetteville street station at man J. S. Stewart, Fire Deport-
which the new company will be. ment Captain J. A. Miller, L. B.
based. Left to right are City I Frasier, captain H. E. CKBricai^
W. Flack, Council- and Fire chief C. L. Cox.
I —Kit era photo
First At UNC
CHAPEL HILL
Miss Bernadine Booker be
came the first Negro to serve as
a campus officer at the Univer
sity of North Carolina when she
was elected last week to her
dormitory council.
Miss Booker, a Greensboro
resident, was picked for the
Kenan dormitory council.
A graduate student in educa
tion, Miss Booker is a transfer' the area were on hand to wit^.
City's Leaders Take Note Of Precedent In Briefmg Of
Recruits At New Fire Station To Begin Training Period
Durham’s first Negro fire
compiany in 40 years receiv
ed its initial briefing from city
and fire departmeiM officials in
a bsief, informal ceremony at
the newly constructed Fayette
ville street fire station Wednes
day morning.
Approximately 40 residents of
student from Fisk, where she re-'
ceived an undergnM|ftate degree
in music.
ness what city officials designat
ed “a historic occasion.”
Assembling of the Negro fire
crew marked the first time since
has employed Negro firemen. i City Manager R. W. Flack set
It brought to a close several I the tone,
years of efforts on the part oti "We want you to conduct
..i-i..
**Confelerate Sickness'’
early 1600’s th^
Negro citizens to have the city
establish a Negro-manned fire
station.
It also brought to two the
number of city departments
now employing Negroes in of
ficial capacities. Earlier, Negro
policemen were hired.
Remarks of civic officials
who talked to the new firetnen
recruits took note of the ^rece-
the city 1 dent-setting event.
Racial Bigotry Described
-■ .Washington, D. Cl
An official of the National
Medical^, Xsso'cialibn "deicrlbM
race prejudice this week as mass
mental illness which he termed
“Confederate Sickness.”
Dr. ■ W. Montague Cobb, pro
fessor at the Howard University
medical school and editor of the
NMA journal, made this obser
vation in a paper prepared for
the NMA journal.
Pointing out that mental ill
ness has become recognized as
the nation’s number one health
problem. Dr. Cobb stated that
over 16 million peo|)le, or one
out of every ten, are affected by
it, with more than half, of the
NCCSchool
Given $10,1
By HEW Dept.
North Carolina College has
been awarded $10,570.74 to pay
the expenses of three students ih
graduate Public Health Nursing
for the current school year.
The United State Public
Health Service provided the
money as part of its pre-bachelor
traineeship program.
Recipients are Mrs. Lula Al
len, Jaclisonville, Fla., Mrs.
Ruth Amey, Durham, N. C. and
Mrs. Dorothy Harris of Tuske-
gee, Ala.
Announcement of the award
was made today by NCC Presi
dent Alfonso Elder and Mrs.
Helen S. Morse, chairman of the
Department of Public Health
Nursing.
This is the fourth grant for
NCC. Grants for years prior to
1957 amounted to some $38,000.
The NCC program in Public
Health Nursing is one of three
such programs in the South for
that graduate nurses. Other South-
$33,675 subscribed deposits sign- ern programs are located at.the
ed up by charter memliert at University of North _ Carolina,
the meeting brought tlie total up Chapel Hill, and George Pea-
to $186,355. necessary to o^n- body College, Nashville, Tenn.
ing t)M iiutitutioQ. H« faid .thati
the Committee hopes to reach
the goal by November 1-.
The gratit‘Wlll administer-*
ed by^ the Detiartmeht of Health,
Education and Welfare.
hospital beds In the country oc- ness or prejudice Is nationwide,
cupled by mental patients at a a^ has given the United States
coH^ of ^ovef fbur mTnion' dollars a ‘Cold'War’’at home wtrile wag- Lawson and- captain J. Ar
a year. .'ing a ‘Col^ War’ abroad.”
Commenting on race preju-! He advised adherence to Lln-
dice, the physician said; coin’s prescription: “ ‘With mal-
“The nation is afflicted ... .^ ice toward none, with charity for
with a special type of ^nass men- all’ that we excise our well
tal Illness. This ma^ mental ill- markfed mental cancers.”
yourselves as diplomats,” he ur
ged, “because you are inaugur
ating a new status in the lo
cality.”
“This is an historic occasion,
we're all proud of you, and we
want you to do a good job,” City
Councilman J. S. Stewart told
the ten recruits.
“L. B. Frasier, official of the
Durham Committee on Negro
Affairs—the organi»tip» wiuc%
gavie beavi^ support to the af^
fort to procure a Negro-mannod
station—asserted:
“This is certainly a satis^^iag
and most gratifying day ior our
community. We’ve looked for
ward to this day for a long
time.” V
Fire Department officials onl
hand for the brlefinc included
ciiief C. L. Cox, assistant chief
Miller and H. L. O’Brient.
Chief Cox reminded the man
of the standard of efficiency they
would be expected to uphold
and explained that it would re-
See FIREMEN, page 8
MCLEAN
March Delayed
NEW YORK
The knifing of Dr. Martin Lu
ther King, Jr. has forced a post
ponement in a youth demonstra
tion for desegregation, planned
by Negro leaders for Washing
ton, D. C.
A. Philip Randolph, labor
leader, and Jackie Robinson,
organizers of a “Youth- March
for Integrated Schools," an
nounced jointly here this week,
the postponement of the demon-,
stratlon.
“Dr. King has been closely
identified with the conception
and i>lanning of the March, and
intended to be In the line
march,” they said.
The new date for the demon
stration Is Oct. 25.
Students from major uplverst-
ties from New England to Balti
more, Md., are expected to take
part In the march.
WRIGHT
HUKLEY
Four National Officers, Including
Wilkins, To Be In Raleigh Oct. 9-12
By J. B. Barren
RALEIGH
The Martin Street Baptist
Church will be the scene of the
15th annual Convention of the
North Carolina Conference of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple and Its College Chapters and
Youth Councils October 9-12,
according to State President
Kelly M. Alexander of Charlotte
and Field Secretary Charles A.
McLean of Winston-Salem.
McLean returned from
tern North Carolina this week
end where he has worked inten
sively in reviving dormant
branches of NAACP and organ
izing new units with, what he
said were, “encouraging re
sults.” Alexander has just at
tended a national NAACP board
meeting in New York where he
has lined up ‘top’ NAACP offt-:
clals to aid In the conduct of tbfc iT .
conferences program here. i
Barley, S^tcheU and WUktaf|‘
Besides various seminars aMj
workshops to be conducted |H
national NAACP leaders, jjif
public ^ill have the
ity to see and hear the
ing top-flight civil rights
ers at eveping mass
t h « Martin St
Baptist (Hiurcfa,
headquarters.
The Rev. Edward
Jr.. NAAC^ diurcht
speaking ’Thuraday
Ruby Hurley,
al Director, Atl—ta,
note speaker, FridMF
Clarence Mi
NAACP-a W
Saturday a
See BiyiaSt