KISS CASE MOTHEI^ LEAVE
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Spaulding, Peors^n
For C-RAdvice Uirit
Attorney C. O. Pearson and Asa
T. Spaulding, both of Durham
were among some nine North Ca
rolinians appointed to the state ad
visory commission on civil rights,
It was revealed this week.
The group held its first meeting
Ifi Durham on Tuesday afternoon
{ind set about to organize and pro-
These committees will serve as ing and Todd, other members of
adjuncts to the Civil Rights Com-j the North Carolina unit of the Com
mission created by Congress in mission are J. McNeil Smith,
1957. Several others have already Greensboro attorney, chairman;
been appointed and are at work. . Mrs. Margaret Vogt, Wilson house-
In addition to Pearson, Spauld- St* SPAULDING, p«0* S
MIMMr
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Appeal To Be Sought From Ruling
Denying Release of 2 Youngsters
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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 4 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2^ 1959 PRICE: 15 CENTS
Raleigh Funeral Home Mgr. Dies
HAPPY TO BE HERE — Smilti
Robert F. Williams, Sr., left, presi
dent of the Monroe N, C. branch of
NAACP to the Association's Exec
utive Secretary Roy Wilkinf, cen
ter, and North Carolina State Con
ference President Kelly M. Alex
ander. Williams initiated campaign
to free two pre-teen ag« young
sters sentenced to reform school
because one of them was kissed
by a white girl piamate. The ease
is still in North Carolina courts.
Trio gathered at Association's an
nual fellowshp dinner recently at
Belmont Plaza hotel. New York.
NEW YORK — Tli« National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People will appeal the rul
ing of a North Carolina judge who
refused to free the two young
boys involved in the Monroe “kiss
ing” case, Robert L. Carter, the
Association’s general counsel, an
nounced here this week.
Meanwhile the families of the
youngsters, David (Fuzzy) Simpson,
age 8, Hanover Thompson, age 10.
were resettled in Charlotte, in
600 At DCNA Meet
More than 600 persons filled Un-|
ion Baptist Church's auditorium I
last Sunday afternoon to hear the
annual report of the Durham Com
mittee on Negro Affairs. I
Tiie assembly took part in a'
brief vote which clccted three j
members to the Committee’s board
Promotions at N. C. Mutual Listed
Firm's Progress in'58 Reported
of directors.
It also heard reports from the
Six persons were promoted in
I the high echclon of North Carol
ina Mutual life insurance company
five major subcommittees of the i
n K»«nf uiifnmul»\/ Tr/ttn '
DCNA and a brief summary from
ommittee. chairman J. 11. Wheeler
of what to expect from the orga-
lization In the coming year.
The massed assembly then hoard
former committee chairman J. S.
nual stockholders meetin? earlier
ihis month, it was revealed this
week.
Information made public this
week also showed that the comp-
Stewart say. “if you’re interest in « have topped the $60
the future of your chddrcn and accord mg to the re-
k«ur«iter. leu#* meeting.^
* **^ '''*«^’'netir1ng ^resfdft^ W- X Keiine-
PEARSON
vide itself with an agenda.
In addition to Pearson and
Spaulding, one other Negro was
appointed to the nine-man group,
lie is Attorney Curtis Todd of Win
ston-Salem.
The committee is similar to
ITiosfto be appointed In alt ttnr 49
states of the union and' the terri
tories of Hawaii, Puerto Rico and
the district of Columbia.
this committee
Wheeler’s brief peek at the or
ganization’s future plans took the
place of a full dress preview for
the committee scheduled by exec
utive secretary C. E. Boulware.
Boulware requested that his state
ment be witheld because of the
length of foregoing proceedings.
Reports from the subcommittees
were m*de by L. ft Frasier, etvie-
committee; F. B. McKissick and N.
B. White, economic commitee; El-
SM DCNA, page •
dy, Jr., made the report in one of
his last official acts as head of N.
Ushers announce Plans To Finance
$50,000 Home for Unwed Mothers
Under the leadeship of A. O.
Grady, its newly elected president,
the Durham Ushers Union announ
ced this week the institution of a
program to raise through mem
berships a total of $200 per month.
The money Mr. Grady stated will
go toward helping to make the
monthly payments on (he Ushers
Home at Franklinton.
The property was purchased by
the Interdcnommational Usher As
sociation of North Carolina a little
over two years ago at a total cost
of $50,000 and will eventually be
used for a home for aged minis
ters, ushers and unwed mothers.
In announcing his program for
the year, Grady stated that he
hopes other ushers unions through-
to the state will fall in Ime witi
his program wnich he feels will
make it possible to pay for the
property within a few years and
get the home in operation.
Prominent Belmont Woman Dies
BKIiMONT — Funeral for Mrs.
Pearl Davis Keid was held at Mt.
Pleasant Baptist Church, Belmont,
Monday, January 19 at 1 p. m.
with her pastor, Ucv. Thomas Boyd
officiating.
Mrs, keid died at a Charlotte
llo.spital Friday at 7 a. m. follow
ing a short illness, she was daugh
ter of the late Joe and Amelia Da
vis, well known citizens of the
community. She was owner' and
operator of a grocery store at her
home in Rankin Height Section of
Belmont.
Her many activities in the church
and community endeared her to
the people and she was widely
known throughout the State. As
first secretary of Reid High
School P. T. A. of the city, she
was able to interest many, mem
bers in joining and working with
the school. Her church work in
cluded teacher of Sunday School,
Superintendent of Extension De
partment, organizer and first pres
ident of the Usher Board, member
of the deaconess board, President
of The Lydia Missionary Circle. She
was a member of the county-wide
Missionary Society and was presi
dent of the Ushers Union of Wes
tern, N. C,
Surviving are a son and daugh
ter, Mrs. Bernice Reid Reev^es, for
mer teacher of Reid High School
and McAlister Reid, mason, both
of Belmont, three grandchildren,
Barry Reeves, Business Adminis
trator, in Chicago, Joseph, a stud
ent at Howard University, Wash
ington, D. C. and a granddaughter,
Barbara, a student of Reid High
School, Belmont, one sister, Mrs.
Jane Grier, of Belmont and many
other relatives and friends.
MCNEILL
Funeral Held
For Owner of
Durham Firm
Funeral services for Prentice 11a-
•old McNeill who died at Lincoln
■lospital at 7.15 p. m. Monday
vere slated to be held at 3 p. m.
Thursday at St. Mark A. M. E. Zior.
Jhurch. The Rev. R. L. Speaks, wili
officiate at final rites. Burial will
follow in Beechwood Cemetery.
A native ol Benneltsville, S. C.,
McNeill had lived in Durham for
the past 35 years.
He was proprietor of the Royal
Cleaners on Pettigrew Street, a
business that he organized in 1929.
He had been living in semi-re
tirement since an illness several
years ago. Although known to be
in uncertain health when he en
tered the hospital at 2:30 p. m.
Monday, McNeill was not thought
to be fatally 111.
His parents were th6 late Thom
as Jefferson and Henrietta (New
ton) McNeill. After attending the
Bennettsville schools, McNeill lived
10 High Point before moving to
Durham.
His survivors include his wife,
iMrs. Gladys Holloway McNeill of
the home, 1504 Fayeteville Street;
two sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Pearson,
Gibson, S. C. and Mrs. Wilma Er
win, Philadelphia; and four bro
thers: Ozie, Philadelphia; Jeffrey,
Newport News, Va,; James, Tampa,
Fla.; and Rhodes, Durham.
Sea MCNEILL, Pa^ 8
C. Mutual, largest Negro owned
business in the world. Kennedy,
A'ho remains as board chairman,
A^as replaced by A. T. Spaulding as
)rcsident.
The promotions saw three per
sons move up in the official staff
of the company and two others
raised from administrative to of
ficial staff positions. Another was
promoted to the admiinstrative
staff.
fi/; if.' B$aneU, ff., was prom
to the position of Actuary and
sistant Secretary and elected to the
board of directors. He was form
erly Associate Actuary and As
sistant Secretary.
W. J. Kennedy, III, was elected
Controller.
Ronald C. Foreman was nam^
Associate Controller. He had pre
viously held the post of Assistant
ontr^ller
Moved up to the official staff
were Mrs. Geneva L. Hawkins and
A. E. Spears, Jr. Mrs. Hawkins,
who had been assistant to the Cash
ier, becomes Assistant Treasurer.
Spears was named Assistant Con
troller. He formerly held the title
of Assistant to the Controller.
A promotion from chief book
keeper to Assistant to the Con-
troler saw Mrs. Gertrude Taylor
move up to the admiinstrative
staff.
“We have every reason to be
proud of the achievements of our
company as a substantial unit of
the life insurance industry' in our
nation,” Kennedy told the stock-
iiolders in iiis farewell report.
He had just completed detailing
the financial status of the firm
vhich showed it had netted a pre-
nium income of $13 million and
reached the 250 million mark in
msurance in force and admitted
4ssets of .$60 million.
“To the American Negro,” Ken-
ledy said, “North Carolina Mutual
s more than a life insurance com
oany. It is a symbol of the ad
vancement of Negroes despite ec-
inomic, civic and political injus
See PROMOTIONS, page ■
Liiwicnci' 'riidnipson l.iglU-
ncr. proinincut Isalctf'li funeral
hoiiic inana^'iT, difcl at Duke
ht»s|)ital \\ cdiK'S'lay cvcuiiiy.
|an. 21.
He was stricken Monday morn
ing at his home and taken to St.
Agnes hospital in Raleigh on Tues
day. On the same evening he was
transferred to Duke hospital in
Durham wnere he died. He was 40.
Funeral services have been
scficduled for Friday, Jauary 23, at
ihe Davie zaei- rresoytenan
Church. Thp Rev. Robert Shirley
will deliver the eulopy.
A native of Raleigh, Lightner
was well known throughout the
See LIGHTNER, Page 8
Sears Agrees
To Hire After
N. Y. Protest I Edmonds Quits
Bennett For
Post in Conn.
Edmonds
homes ••cared to tfeeai kjr Kcfly
.\iexander, president of the NAACP
n North Carotiaa. Feede, new
^umiture and ciothing wen also
supplied by the NAACP to Mn.
Svelyn Nicholsoa Thowpac* and
ler five children and Mrs. Jeasie
Simpson and her four ckfldren.
In anowmcine the ■•laciHaii
'he families, Alexander tmU:
hepe t* d« • •
ly rehabilitation so ttwt tfc* state
will ha¥« no excuM far nrt rstafi»-
ing Hanover and Funy I* tiMfr tm-
•nilies. We are getting jobs far fcctli
of the mothers," The new hewiai
are near an eiementary id>eel and
St. Paul's Baptist Church.
Following Superior Court Judge
Walter E. Johnston's denial of the
NAACP petition for a writ of ha-
l)eas corpus at the conclusion of
the hearing in Wadest>oro, on Jan.
12, the .\ssociation’s attorneys of
record. Conrad Lynn and Frank
Reeves, witheld comment pending
study of the record.
Later in New York, NAACP Gen
eral Counsel Carter said that fur
ther legal action would t>e taken to
sccure their release of the boys.
At the hearing, Robert William.s.
president of the Monroe NAACP
branch, testified that Hanover ami
David had been denied their ctm-
stitutonal rights in that they were
See MONROE, page 8
N. H. Bennett, Jr
Founders Day
At 2 Schools
Prom TIMES Dispatches
Founders Day exercises have
been scheduled at two colleges in
North Carolina.
Dr. F. D. Patterson is slated to
deliver the key address at a Foun
der’s Day program at Barber-Sco
tia College on Sunday afternoon,
Jan. 25 at three p. m.
The school will be observing its
92nd birthday.
On February 26 at ten o’clock,
Kittrell College, the 73rd Found
er’s Day celebration program will
be held, featuring Dr. Rembert
Stokes, president of Wilberforce
University, as main speaker.
The school’s • mid-year convocar
tions being heW jointly at the
celebration.
NEW YORK — The Sears Roe
buck Fordham Road and 149th
Street department stores in the
Bronx, have agreed to employ Ne
gro sales persoinel following three
weeks of picketing by the Bronx
branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored |
People, Herbert Hill, NAACP labor
secretary, reorted Friday.
The picket line was withdrawn
after agreement was reached at the
conclusion of a series of confer
ences of NAACP loaders with the
GREENSBORO — Beginning 1
February 1, The Reverend Dr. Ed-1
win R. Edmonds**presontly engaged *
as Professor of Sociology at Ben- i
nett College, will assume duties as .
Minister of the Dixwell Avenue j
Congregational Church, New Ha
ven, Connecticut.
While employed at Bennett Col-
Pictured above and below are
three of the six persons promoted
during the annual stockholders
meeting of the North Carolina Mu
tual life insurance company.N. H.
Bennett was elected Actuary and
Assistant Secretary. W. J. Ken
nedy, III, was appointed Controller
R. C. Foreman was elevated to the
post of Associate Controller. See
page three for pictures of others
promoted.
store's personnel. executives and j lege. Dr. Edmonds served as Presi-
with Commissioner Elmer Carterident of the Greensboro Branch of
oTthe StalirC»KWl1SiTori Ag^instlthe NAACP and as Chairman of
the NAACP State Conference of
Branches Membership Committee.
Under his leadership, the
Greensboro Branch membership
more than tripled in si*e. He was
previously employed as Professor
of Sociology and ChaplaiA at Dela
ware State College. In addition, he
has held positions as Program Di
rector with the Greater Boston Sol
diers and SaHbK tyr^antzattoirrB
Resident Supervisor with the Na
tional Youth Administration and
as a teacher in the Adult Ekiuca-
tion Program in San Antonio, Tex
as.
A graduate of Morehouse Col
lege, Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Ed
monds received his S. T. B. from
the Boston University School of
Theology and the Doctorate of
Philosophy in Social Ethics from
Boston University.
An author of several articles in
sociology. Dr. Edmonds has been
See EDMONDS, page 8
Discrimination.
Ark. Schools
Law in Test
NEW YORK — A move to have
Arkansas-^law which periytted,
Governor Orval Faubus to close
the Little Rock high schools, de
clared unconstitutional and to re
open them on an integrated basis
was initiated this week in the fed
eral courts by attorneys for the
Negro student.
Thurgood Marshall, director-
counsel of the NAACP Legal De
fense and Educational Fund and
Wiley Branton of Pine Bluff, Ark.,
filed a motion accompanied by a
supplemental complaint, asking
the U. S. District Court of Arkan
sas on Monday to take the action.
WarrerhHalHax
Group Barred
From Courthouse
WELDON — A meeting of the
tri-county Progressive Civic Union
has been scheduled for the First
Baptist Church at Roanoke Rapids,
according to Union spokesman at
torney James R. Walker.
The meeting will ope« Thursday
at 7:30 p. m.
The Progressive Civic Union is
a civic organization comprising Ne-
groee from th»-. three counties of
Warren, Halifax and Northhanp-
ton.
Prior to Christmas, the group
was denied use of the Northhamp
ton County courthouse. Walker
said.
Representatives from the Union
were told they must l>e taxpayers
or citizens to use the courthouse.
Walker stated.
The XTiMon se^’^ To arouse Ne-
gre citizens to the duties of assum
ing fUU citizenship, the Wetdon
attorney said. Formed recently, it
has been active in urging Negroes
to register and vote.
Attends Meet
GREENSBORO — President Wil-
la B. Player of Bennett College at
tended the sessions of the Associa-
ition of American Colleges in Kan-
|sas City, Mo., last week, and will
> See ATTENDS, pe«e ■
Senate Move Helps Little
W. J. Kennedy, III
R. C. Foreman
NEW YORK, — Because of their
roles in putting through the so-
called compromise cloture rule, Se
nate Majority Leader Lyndon John-
on of Texas and Minority Leader
Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois
“must be held accountable for the
fate of civil rights legislation in
the 86th Congress,” Roy Wilkins.
I NAACP executive secretary, as
serts in letters to Senators Paul
Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, Cliff
ord Case and Jacob Javits.
The letters dispatched express
on behalf of the Association ap
preciation of the efforts put forth
by these senators in “sponsorship
of the bi-partisan resolution de
signed to effect a meaningful
change in the Senate filibuster
rule.” The Johnson resolution, the
NAACP leader points out, “will
not alter, except in microscopic fa
shion, the situation which obtain
ed under the old rule,’ as indicated
by Senator Richard B. Russell's ob
servation that the new rule is just
about as effective as the old one.
Under the old Rule 23, it was
necessary to secure the vote ef
two thirds of all senators te step
a filibuster. The new Johnson rule
provides for cloture by a vele ef
two-thirds of the senators present
and voting. Furthermore, it af
firms the concept of the Senate as
a "continuing body" the rules of
which carry over from one Con-
See .SENATE, page 8
Elks $100,000 'Massive Assistance'
To Pupils Drive Declared Success
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Negro
Elks’ “Massive Assistance” camp
aign to raise $100,000 to finance
scholarships will be successfully
concluded on January 30. So stat
ed general George W. Lee, Grand
Commissioner of Education of the
Improved Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks of the World as he
discussed the coming National Ci
tizenship Banquet at Philadelphia’s
Broadwood Hotel, where scholar
ships will be awarded to outstand
ing students.
“Financing scholarships is an old
story with the Negro Elks,” he
said. “In the past quarter century
our Department of Education has
raised a million and a half dollars
and given out more than eight
hundred scholarships. This money
has come from rich and poor in
Negro Elkdom, and is a concrete
evidence of the capacity of color
ed people to help themselves.”
“Right now,” he continued, “we
have fcMty-six. students on our
scholarship roll in American, Ca
nadian and Mexican universities.”
Far-flwng Expert
Behind this annual effort Is a
far-flung and influential 60-year-
old Negro fraternal group with 1,
300 lodges and 1,000 temples. The
general public hears too little a-
bout but it is most effective in
citizenship building. There is an
Elks lodge almost every sizeable
V. S. colored community. The dol
lars for scholarships are raised
throughout the year in a variety
of ways from membership collec
tions to mass meetings and turkey
raffles. It all leads up to the great
annual banquet where bright
youngsters are haaded checks by
Grand Exalted Ruler Dr. Robert
H. Johnson enabling them to fet
a higher education.
The L R P. O. E. W. scbolardup
program has been highly praini
by such diverse personalities m
President Dwight D. Eisenhowgr*.
Vice Preeideat Richard M.
Postmaster Geneni SnnuMHkMl
Maryland Governor Theodor* Mkr
Keldin, U. S. Repraentalhgt
seph Martin. CarreQ
les Diggs and Adaia C.
Uordacai W. JohttMB.
Howard Univenity: Or.
See ILKt. p«t» •