New African State Is Admitteci To UN
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SPAULDING N. C. MUTUAL PRESIDENT
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VOLUME 34 — NUMBfiR 51
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 20,1958
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Thpodpre F. Koop, .director of an address at Shaw University vice president and general man-
CBS Newn and Public Affairs! earlier in the day and spent a* »ger of Radio station WDNC;
(fourth from left) is shown here part of the afternoon in Duriiam.| Koop; W. J. Kennedy, Jr., North
at a luncheon civen for him at
North Carolina Mutual life Iff-
suranvc company’s home office.
Tiic CBS executive was In the
area last Friday and delivered
Seen in the above picture at the
luncheon are (left to riKht, coun
ter clockwise) Carl T. Council,
(baek to camera) Durham Her*
aid publisher; Franic Jarman,
Carolina Mutual president; E. J.
Evans, mayor; A. T. SpauidinK,
North Carolina Mutual presi
dent; and J. S. Stewart, city
councilman.
Schools Rating
Unit Admits 14
Negro Colleges
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Fourteen predominantly Ne
gro colleges were admitted to
full memlTership in the Southern
Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools at the organi
zation’s annual meeting hefe re
cently, it was disclosed this
week.
The action canie at the close
of the group’^j 63rd annual meet
ing here.
The 14 schools admitted to
full membership had already
received approval.
Admitted were Barber Scotia,
Concord, N. C.; Johnson C.
Smith University, Charlotte,
N. C.; Virginia Union Univer
sity, Richmond, Va.; Tennessee
State A and I University, Nash-
(continued on page 8)
Vole Law Needed
MILWAUKEE, WIs.
^ The refusal of Alabama offi
cials to submit vftiqg records
to Uie Civil Rights Ctatimissloa
“ifj sufficient testimony to the
nation 'to justify enactment of
lurUier oivU rlfbta lawi hir tlM
Coiigrcfs at the Session opening
on Jan. 7,’/ Roy WUklns, NAACP
cxectttiv^ secretary, JWM here
last week in an address at the
annual dinner meeting of th«
Milwaukee branch of the Na
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
KuctiToBeDone
In Securing Equal
Jobs - Thomas
There remains a great deal to
be done in the problem of se
curing equal job opportunities
in this area for Negroes, an Ur
ban League official said in Dur-
iiam last week.
Julius Thomas, acting execu
tive director of the League, told
a meeting of Durham business
incn last Wednesday that al
though there had been .jsome
(,'uins in the movement for equal
jub opportunities, there are still
iDuny difficulties to overcome.
One of the greatest hurdles,
Tliuinas declared, was the
ainuutit of work to be done in
obtaining jobs and preparing
youth to iiold jobs in non tradi
tional areas of employment.
He was speaking before a
group composed of members of
the Economic Committee of the
Durliam Committee on Negro
Affairs and the Board of Direc
tors of the Durham Business and
Professional Chain at the Bilt-
niore hotel.
Tiiomas, who is director of In-
dustriakRelations for the Urban
League, was enroute to Raleigh
to deliver an address before tne
annual meeting ,of the North
Carolina Council on Human Re
lations, an organization which
is quietly at work in the state
oti the problem of equal job op
portunities.
The man behind the Council’s
efforts in this area, Mays Behr-
man, was also present at the
meeting ^ast |Wednesday and
outlined some proceddres
necessary tor obtaining jobs in
iMin traditional areas of em
ployment.
Behrman pointed out that
some employers in this area
have already indicated a will
ingness to hire on the basis of
merit, realizinii, he said, that
a policy of hiring the best em
ployees is sound economics.
North Carolina Mutual Life
(continued on page 8)
First Ne^ro Elected
Wertz Heods Charlotte
Bi-Rofial Ministers’ Body
(ear For Safety Of Witnesses
In Alabama Vote Investigation
''-1? ' ..J^W ¥©syC;,. p.Go^itu^^ly; .
Roy Wilkins, executive secre- ting rights of Ne^^o citizens in
tai^ of flie National Association'^ Alabama to' Warriht Institution
CHARLOTTE
The new head of the recent
ly formed interracial Meck
lenburg County Christian
Ministers Association is the
Rev. Dr. James F. Wertz, pas
tor of one of the largest Bap-
tjst churches in the sta^.
■The Rev. Wertz was elected
president of the organization
at its monthly meeting held
here last Tuesday.
He is the first Negro to pre
side over the Association,
formed last year.
The new president is pastor
of the St. Paul Baptist Church,
one of the state’s largest with
over 3,000 members.
Principal speaker at the
meeting at which the Rev.
Wertz was elected was the
Rev. R. L. Speaks, pastor of
St. Mark AME Zion Church of
Durham.
The Mecklenburg Christian
Ministers Association was for
med two years ago when the
all-Negro Ministerial Alliance
and the all-white Charlotte
Mecklenburg Ministers ' As
sociation merged.
Wertz was one of the key
figures in the formation of the
Association. He represented
the Negro ministers in talks
leading to the merger and
served as first vice president
of the merged interracial or
ganization.
March Against
Massive Defiance
PITTSBURGH Va.
Two Negro Civil Rights or-
ganlcatlons called Monday for
a mass pilgrimage of Virginia
Negroes to the State Capitol In
Richmond, on the 95th anniver
sary of President Lincoln’s
Emancipation proclamation, to
protest ^e State’s “Massive Re
sistance” to Integration.
The NAACP and tbe Congress
of Racial Equality termed the
planned demonstration a “Pray
er pilgrimage” and said they
felt” compelled to act not only
because of the federal court (de
segregation) decisions, but pri
marily due to our moral obliga
tion to those children now lock
ed out of class rooms.
Some 13,000 Virginia students
have been displaced by the clos
ing of nine public schools under
State anti-integration laws.
He succeeds the Rev. Law
rence I. Stell of Trinity Pres
byterian Church as president
of the Association.
, Rev. Wertz is a leading
figure in state and national
Baptist circles. He is a mem-
ber of the executive board o£
the General Baptist Conven
tion, Lott Carey Foreign Mis
sion Convention,, chairman for
district six of the Genera)
Baptist convention of North
Carolina, field worker for the
Educational Convention of
Northern South Carolina and
Western North Carolina, Cor
responding secretary of the
Baptist Training Union Con
vention.
He has been active in civic f
and religious activities in the j
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WERTZ
French Abstain From Voting As
New Country Seated In Council
NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL’S FIRST FAMILY—Asa T.
Spaulding, newly elected president of North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, is pictured here witli his wife Mrs.
Elna B. Spaulding at their home on Lincoln Street in Dur
ham. The Spauldings are parents are four children.
for the Advancement of Colored
People, hatf'called upon tha U.S.
Attorney General William P.
Rogers to provide protection for
the “physical safety of those Ne
gro witnesses who haye recently
appeared before the Civil Rights
Commission sitting in Mont
gomery, Ala., to testify con
cerning the disfranchisement of
Negroes in that state.”
,Jn a letter dispatched to the
Attorney General, Wilkins said
that such action by the Depart
ment of Justice “is vitally
necessary lest other Negroes be
discouraged from assisting fede
ral agencies in making similar
inquiries in the future.’*
The NAACP leader expressed
the opinion that “the testimony,
so far adduced at the hearings
in Montgomery, has revealed
sufficient infringements of the
of injunctive proceedings against
the Alabama registration offi
cials...We earnestly urge that
such action be taken by your de
partment without undue delay.”
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
The General Assembly Friday
^accepted the New Republic of
Guinea to membership ^_in the
United Nations. Thus Guinea
becomes the 82nd member of
the UN.
Her Ambassador Diallo Tolli
was escorted to his seat by the
UN Chief of Protocol, after ac
tion on a Resolution jointly
sponsored by Iraq, Ghana, Japan
and Haiti was acted upon with
out objection. The Security
Council had recommended
Guinea’s admission at its meet
ing on Dec. 9th with 10 Mem
bers of the 11 Member Council
voting in favor of admission,
none against and one abstention
(France).
In the General Assembly,
Assembly, France intervened to
state that she would not vote
for the admission of Guinea,
neither would she vote against
it, she would abstain. Her objec
tions had already been stated
in the Securities Council and
they remained.
There she had said, “that
many questions remained un
answered, Among those which
her Ambassador Oeorge-Plcot
raised were, “France was sur
prised at the discuMions and re
ported planned action between
Guinea and Ghana. Too many
questions remain unanswered to
now recommend the admission
of Guinea. Guinea had advanced
far in the organization of her
Government, but not far enough.
In welcoming the Representa
tive of Guinea, Diallo Telli af
ter he had taken his place in the
assembly, the President, Dr.
Chas. Halik (Lebanon) remark
ed that every time a new mem
ber was admitted to the United
Nations, the Organization itself
gained stature. He wished the
new Country a happy and pros
perous future and noted that he
had been moved to learn that
Guinea’s Constitution under
took observance of the Univer
sal Declaration of Human
Rights.
Speeches of welcome
made on behalf of 46 Nations,
including the United States,
many of whom are also paid tri
bute to France for its policy with
regards to Guinea, a policy that
enabled Guinea to attain its in
dependence.
Ambassador Diallo Telli
thanked the Delegates, in the
name of thePeople of Guinea, its
Government and its President,
for the sympathy and support
given to Guinea’s application for
membership into the UN, and
expressed thedetermiination of
his Country to perform the obli
gations of membership in the
UN.
The Ambassador has been ser
ving as a Special Envoy for
Prime Minister Sekou Toure,
(continued on page 8)
Edward F. Morgan, award
winning national broadcast com
mentator for the American
were; Broadcasting Company, used his
hand to make a point during dis
cussion at North Carolina Col
lege last week. At one of the in
formal sessions Morgan held on
the NCC campus he was _re-
united with A. M. Rivera, Jr.,
who, as correspondent for a
Pittsburgh newspaper, journey
ed with Morgan and other news
men who followed vice Presi
dent Richard Niiion on a good
will safari of Africa two- years
ago. Last year when the ABC
newsman visited NCC,,*. his
broadcast which emanated frwn
the NCC campus contained
glowing praise of the school and
its president. Sponsored nightly
by the AFL-CIO, Morgan’s is re
garded as a voice of liberalism
from the nation’s capital.
—^NCC photo by Gibson
iCold Weathef-
Claim's Victim'
In Greensboro
GREENSBORO
■ The body of a 32 year-old
Negro^ laborer was found off
Spring Garden Street Extension
in Greensboro early Monday
evening.
The man .was identified as
Gilbert Carter, Jr. of 309 Samp
son Street. It was reported that
he died of exposure from the
cold weather, by Coroner R. B.
Davis, Jr. ^
Davis made his ruling after a
consultation with Dr. Allan B.
Coggleshell, a medical examiner.
Carters death was said to be
the first, from exposure In the
Greensboro area since cold
weather began.
He was last seen on Sunday
night, officers investigating the
case reported. *
The time of death was fixed
t>etween 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. on
j Monday.
The body was found beside
tlie railroad track behind- the
Pomona Foundry.
Police said that there was
no evidence of foul play.
Kennedy Remains
As Firm’s Advisor
Asa T. Spaulding was elected The amuacement of SfMUl-
president of North Carolina Mu- ding's eitetion also revealed
tual life insurance company at that Kennedy, president of Um'
the firm’s Decemiier Board of firm for the past six ye*rs,
Directors meeting, it was an- retirUig effective Jan. 1.
nounced Wednesday afterffajon.'- The firm’s public relations of-
A spokesman for the company tice revealed that companv'
said the board meeting at which policy requires its executives U>
the election came was held retire after a certain age. The
Wednesday morning. | public relations ixlfieer did not
Spaulding succeeds W. J. Ken- ’ disclose tije age at wftKb retire-
nedy, Jr^, who will remain with ment is required/ Kennedy is
the firm as chairman of the 69.
board of directors and advisor! The new prcsicfent oi North
and consultant. | Carolina Mutual started as a
Spaulding's election made him’ supply clerk during sumaoer va-
the fifth president of N. C. Mu-1 cation as a college stod^t and
tual, largest Negro-owned life joined the firm as a regular
insurance firm in the world. | home office employee on March
There was no statement as to 31, 1924.
who would replace Spaulding asi He iiad been trained at Na-
vice-president and actuary, the! tional Training Sciiool in Dur-
post he held prior to Wednes-!ham (now North Carolina CoK
day’s announcement.
His election came as no sur
prise to observers close to Dur
ham’s Negro business complex.
He had long been regarded by
many people as the likely suc
cessor to Kennedy.
lege), and Howard Univenfljr.
Spaulding ot>tained two le»ves
of absences to study further at
New York and Michigan Univer
sities, earning the Masters de
gree in mathematics and ac-
(continued on page 8)
N. C.'s Senator Ervin Backs Bill
To Make Bombing Federal Crime
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Senators John F. Kennedy
(Dem.-Mass.) and Sam J. Er
vin, Jr., (Dem.-N.C.), called
upon the 96 other memtiers of
the next Senate.) to join them in
sponsoring legislation to make
the bombing of educational fa
culties, houses of worship, busi-
estatotishments or commu-
eiai^rs a federal crtwinai-
ofliens^.
In a letter to their colleagwes
in the Senate of the 86th Con
gress, the two legislators point
ed to a rash of dynamitings of
public and private institutions
throughout the nation and stated
there is reason to believe these
crimes were “interstate in
character." — —
They noted that the'. Federal
Bureau of Investigatloa, while
assisting local authorities, has
been “handicapped by lack of
authority to initiate its own in
vestigation into these acts of
violence.” The Senators stated:
“Both local and federal authori
ties must cooperate if we are to
eliminate these vicious attacks.”
Senator Kennedy, who intro
duced a similar bill in the Sen
ate earlier this year, said in an
accompanying statement:
“Recent bombings in Teiyies-
UtVlN
see, Georgia, West Virginia and
Illinois give a new imperative
to this legislation. This vicious
defiance of law and order is di
rected at the whole community
in each state. I will urge the
Senate to act promptly on the
bill Senator Ervin and 1 are in
troducing,”
The Kennedy-Ervin Bill re
cognizes that explosives used in
bombings travel in interstate
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Resumption Of Hearing In Durham
School Suit is Again Delayed
A second hearing in the Dur
ham school integration suit was
again delayed when federal
Judge Edwin Stanley called off
a hearing scheduled for Monday
in Durham because of bad
weather.
The hearing had tieen set for
state and local school officials
to present objections to ques
tions raised by plaintiffi in the
suit.
Judge Stanley, hearing the
case in North Carolina’s Middle
District, put the hearing off until
Action On Appeal Of Greensboro
Golf Six Expected In Early January
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Early January has been set as
the date for expected action on
an appeal of six Negroes con
victed in the Greenslxjro Gilles-
Park Golf case, by the United
States Supreme Court.
The appell^ts, who maintain
the case is one of racial dis
crimination were convicted of
trespass charges and sentenced
to 30 days in jail. The finding
was upheld by the North Caro
lina Supreme Court, and the
appeal is from the court.
The complicated issues in
volve alleged double jeopardy,
l).S., Middle District
Court declaratory judgement
that is contrary to the conten
tion by the State of North Caro
lina that racial discrimination
is not involved.
The appellants were original
ly indicted on Greensboro Muni
cipal Court warrants for l>aving
violated Section 14-134 of North
Carolina’s General Statutes.
The warrants charged that the
appellants unlawfully and willi-
fuUy trespass on Gillespie Park
Golf Course.
The defendants are Philip
Cooke, Leon Wolfe. George
Simkins Jr., Joseph Sturdivant,
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Monday, Dec. 22.
At the last hearing, attorneys
for the two mothers who are
suing lor admission of their
daughters to all« v/hite schools,
presented a list of questions
which they wanted answered by
the defense.
At that time, the defense con
tended that the questions were
irrelevant, but were (Mrdered by
Judge Stanley to accept the
questions and file objections at a
later hearing.
Stanley was scheduled to bear
these objections Monday.
The case is considered as a
major test of the state’s Pupil
Assignment Act and Pearsidl
Plan, which plaintiffs in the suit
contend are designed scdely to
preserve segregation or limit de
segregation.
There has t>een some differ
ence of opinion among state le
gal officers and attor
neys over the effect o ttie rv-
cent U.S. Supreme Court de
cision upholding an Aiabaniu
placement law to NtMih
Candiaa*a.
State officers believe tlif high
court's ruliBt strcngthaas th»ir
position. Hemrevet. attonMjrs re
presenting 4be tw* mothaf in
the case issusd a
lowing the
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