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UIMBERTON TAN REmtm es ,in |P>«TWtb UwiiiiBeB^ VOLUME 35—NUMBER 12 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, l»5f PRICES Session Starts Thursday North Carolina Teachers Open Yearly Convention In Raleigh RAI.EKJH;—The North Carolina Tcachcrs Association will hold its 7Hth annual convention in J^aleigh Thursday, I'riday and Saturday, March l‘)-21. A larjfc attcndrince yf the nienibcrshp is cxpcctcd because the Association will be considering an expanded program of jjrofessional services which has been under discussion for the past two years. ].)r. J. I.. lUiford, a J>ast president of the National luluca- tion Association anl Superintendent of Mount Vernon. 111. city srhools. whv led the N'ational fulucation .Association in ex pandin}' its jirofessional i)rt>grain will speak at the opening public session Thursday ‘ evening BUFORD Mrs. wiluiams Funeral Rites Durham Teacher Funeral services for Mrs. Mar tha Hester Williams, retired sehopl teacher, were held Satur day afternoon, March 14 at two o’clock at the New Bethel Baptist Church. , ' Wlliltiwi tH»4 Thufti^ty. March 12. The Reverend L. W. Reid, New Bethel pastor, olHciated. Grave side rites at Beechwood Cemetery followed the church service. A natlva .of Granville County, Mrs. Williami was a tMcher in both Durham city and Granville County schools. She taught for 43 years in the Durham syitam, at Lywn Park and Hickstown b«- for* kiar ratirtmant in 1945. Mrs. Williams was born in 1874, (Sm funeral. Page 8) in Memorial Auditoriuni. The second public session of the | c9nvention, Friday evening, in Me morial Auditorium will bring Dr. lulius A. Thomas, director of in dustrial relations for the National Urban League. Thirty-six professional interest groups will be, meeting through out the day on Friday. Prominent educators will be featured in many of these sessions as speakers and Speaks Friday RAL.EICH Mr*. Vivian Carter Mason, form er preaWent of the Natlenal Coun cil of Negro Women, will be the main speaker for the Elementary Teachers Olvisien of the North Carolina Teachers Association at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh at 10:00 a. m. Friday. "Your Community Goes to Col lege" is . her topic, according i to Mrs. G«illVVa R. Cheek of Durham, c^’ir«mi1t of the Clementahr partmewt. In addition to Mrs. Cheek, other officers are Mrs. Mary Perkins of Salisbury, vice chairman, and Mrs. Ruth Lawrence of Tarboro, secretary. Mrs. Mason I* a nationally kndwn social worker, educator, and public relations counselor. She served as NCNW president from 1954 to 1957. consultants. In the two public sessions meet ing in Memorial Auditorium. G. H. Ferguson, state department divis ion head, Dr. Charles F. Carroll, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Dr. W. L. Greene, ^4CTA Executive Secetary will present discussions of educational (See Tf ACHERS, Page •) Earn Cash FOR YOUR CHURCH SHOP THESE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN The Carolina Times Interest in the Carolina Times church bonus contest gained new momentum this week, according to the contest manager. A wave of inquiries on rules of the contest and mounting num bers of purchatic slip^ coming in to the office were reported. The contest is now in its seventh week. Oak Grove Freewill Baptist Church pulled lown the $50 bonus for the first month’s prize. An other bonus of $50 will be award ed at the end of March and other subsequent months. 'Hie contest is open to any church or church group in the city. Groups interested in enter ing should simply save all of the purchase slips of cash register tapes they receive from merch ants who are currently advertis ing in the TIMES. At the end of each week, these slips or tapes should be turned in to the TIMES office. To be counted, purchase slips must bear a date from the weejc in which the merchants advertised in the TIMES. The group'" turning in slips totalling the largest sum of pur chases will win the $50 bonus. This week, purchase slips from the following merchants arc eli gible; Public Hardware Quality Peed Market Winn Dixie Super Market W. C. Lyon flardware Alexander Motor Co. Montgomery and Aldridge Kenan Oil Co. A and P Super Market Mechanics and Farmers Bank New Method Laundry Speight's Auto Service Colonial Store* Hudson Well Co. Kroger Store* Rig*bee Tire Sales Sanitary Laundry Amey Funeral Home Cut Rate Suppr Market Hunt Linoleum and Tile Jack*on'« Grocery Mutual Saving* and Loan ____Keeler*|^ Super Market^ Burti^V^IPuneral Home ' ^ Southern Fidelity In*. Co. Durham BulMert Supply IS ciorTS — iir - MKb. MmSON Militant Press Said Vital To Race's Progress William O. Walker, president of the National Publishers Asaocia- tion, told a Press Week obser vance at North Carolina College^ Monday, ‘‘No racial g«>up of peo ple anywhere in the world yince the development of nev^papera have attained their, free^ora improved their status withWl the aid of their own militant jnress." ■1 Walker spokes •* NCC com memorated the 13ii»d eiwlver* *ary of Freedom'* Journal, fir*t U. S. new^papei' pufcllaherf. by Ncgroe*. He I* puWi*Her CALL and POST of C»eVi»*ond Ohio. “The Negro press can make the adjustment in this transition to integration by continuing to voite the aspirations of our people and.i at the same time, providing them with a superior product in an open; competitive market,” the notM publisher said. At a special luncheon in his honor. Walker, e former Clty^ Councilman in Cleveland, said "Ballot* and iudiciou* u*e o^ our spending power" can change the status of the great mas* of minorities. WCC President Al' fonso Elder, Durham City Ceuv* cilman J. S. Stewai^, and R. N. Harris, member of the Durham City Board of Education, were among luncheon gueats. He credited the Negro pres4 Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard Uni versity, will be the prin cipal speaker at the vesper service of Saint Joseph’s A. M. E. Church, Sunday .March JV at 5.(JO p.m., it was jrannoiiiK'cd here lliis ueek the Rev. Melvin L ii e s I e r >S\vaiin, pastor. The entire jiro^rani will be .K^iven in honor irl the Xorth Carolina .Mniuril Life insur ance C'on)i)any oii the occasion of the company',s sixtieth an niversary celebration. THOMAS Human Relations Institute To Be Held At Smith CHARLOTTE An Institute on Human Rela tions and Intergroup Undcrsiand- ing has been scheduled for April 6 and 7, at Johnson C. Smith Uni versity, according to an announce ment made by Dr. Rufus P. Perry recently. Dr. Perry, President of the University, said it* purpose Wfill be "to provide careful and cri tical inve*tigation for the pur pose of clearing away miscon ceptions, separating fact from fiction, and bringing out in broad perspective what is re quired and what most needs to be studied for better human relations." Th(> Institute is one of the first of Its kind to be held in this area. Dr. Frank P. Graham, former president of the University of North Carolina and Special Am bassador of the United Nations, will be one of the speakers of lthe Institute. Addresses wilKalso be delivered by: Dr. Liston Pope, D^'an of the Yale Divinity School; John C, Ben nett, Dean of the Faculty, Union Theological Seminary, New York City; William Urewer, Editor, THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY; Will D. Campbell, Associate Exec utive, the National Council of Churches. Anna Hedgeman, Former As sistant to the Mayor of New York City; Moiell C. Hill, Pro fessor, Columbia Uni.ver*ity; J>*car Let,. JExeceutive Director, Departmenf'^T fCTclai an^TCul- tural Relations, National Coun cil of Churches. rights gains and lashed out at hostile critics of the Negro press. "Tft thf M^Mlled 'teflfgeAtsla* ffaMl' 'alf i of fault wiHi Neyre wew»pajp(er*, I direct thi* question: Wkere would you be if there were no Negro pree*. Np group* have profited mere than the eruaed- ing of th» Negro preai than our white collar and pcefetslonal groups." f! Slates Services For Holy Week A series of special events will feature Saint Joseph’s A. M. E. Church’s observance of Holy Week, it was announced this week by Saint Joseph’s pastor the Rev erend Melvin Chester Swann. One of the feature* i* a week of nightly *ervices which will hear the Reverend Sidney Wil liams, Jr. of Newport New*, Virginia. The*e aervice* will *tart on Monday and continue through Thursday. On Friday, tlie Allen Universi ty choir will be heard in a pre Easter concert. The observance starts at the church on Sunday With the regular morning worship service. The Reverend Swann’s sermon for Sunday is “Triumph With Tears.” Special music will be furnished by the senior choir under the direction of Joseph Mitchell. Gliest soloist with the choir will be Robert Howie, senior music major at North Carolina College. On Sunday evening, the choir will be heard in it* annual Palm Sunday recital. The choir will *ing, "The Living CHrl*t," an Ea*ter Cantata, and other pea* siontide muaic. Soloi*t* will be Mrs. Katie Smith, Ml** Mary Scurdy and Edward Hud*on, Subjects of the Reverend Wil liams’ nightly messages, to be heard beginning Monday, are “The Danger of Fniitlessness"; “Con dition of the Temple,” Tuesday; “Oh, Bethany!” Wednesday; and “Echo from the Room,” Thursday. John Hunter will direct the Alien University choir in it* recital of 'The Seven Laat Words" at. the church on Friday. A pageant at sunrise on Easter Sunday morning, a Sunday School presentation and special services and music ^ the/Ihorning worshipj on Easter Su^diiy are tlie e^dmi- WHEELER REV. SWANN DR. JOHNSON lor Mutual's 60th Anniversary Howard President Sets City Speech TwoOtiienAre AppoRrted As VoteOfficen LUMKOtTON Tbc Lttflibtrton CHr CMOcil Thnndar appointed a Negn T9g»- trar aad twa Necro cleetioa mnt- agcTS in ward afai, largest Mero reaidcntial area In the city. AppointMl rtglatrar U the Mgr Eagne Burna, active in dvic af- fain for arraral yean Th* etoe- tioa nuBMgtn art Jamea Gravea, retired eitljta. and Mn. Beaaie Powell, retirad icbooi tcacber. Appotntcment of the Negro elections officiais for tke newly created ward six, located In S«uth Lumberton. i» • “flnt” fer tbia ar«a of the state. The Rev. Turoer. th* new regia^ trar, is pastor qf the First Baptist Church and and haa taken a lead ing rtrfe in many civk affairs for the past ten years. He is one of the organiaen of the Citixena Civic Comniittee, a focal political action group, and is an official of the NAACP. He ran nnaucccofully for the city school board laM year. (iravrs. one of the two electiona (See LUMBfRTON, fage •) . The proj^runi will be i>resi(l- wHh many of the Negro’s ’ civil;' , i l ^ i n n t i XJver by Dr. J. 11. \\lieek r. president of the .Me^ianicfi;: and Fanne^s I’.unk , for the^ |)r(iCrani f^c fiirni.shcd I;)- the Senior C^ioir of St. Joseph, tinder the dii'ection of Josc])h T. Mitch' ciir.* JEFFRIES HONORED John W. Ja^iMetr left, reMfed^ February 25 ’after 37 year* with th* A&T College Extension Serv ice wai honored on Saturday, March 7 with a luncheen at Collegat'^ With tM htMferae ari Mrs. Jeffries, D. S. Coltrane, a»« sistant State director of the Bud- iina Eat anal aw Sarvfa%'t^ mf RaMgh. Hundreds Pay Tribute To REV. WILLIAMS Funeral Held For Prominent Raleigh Man RALEIGH Funeral services for one of Ka- leigh’s most well-known citizens, Willie P. DeVane, were held Fri day, March 13'“al the First Baptist Church. DeVane, who came to Raleigh shortly after the turn of the century, died suddenly Sunday, March 8. Burial wa* in the fam ily cemetery in Wake County. A native of eastern North Car olina where he grew up and at tended public school, DeVane be gan work for the city’s electric utility company when he came to' Raleigh in 1905. The firm be came Carolina Power and Light Company in 1908, and DeVane worked as transmission linesman from 1908, except for a brief per iod of seven years, until his retire ment in 1955. He lived in Pennsylvania be tween 1929 and 1935. His survivors include his wife, Mrs. N. P. DeVane; two daughters: Mre. G. D. Jeffries of Burlington, and Miss Alvese DeVane of Hick ory; three sons: W. V. DeVane of New YOTk; Wade and C. E. of Ra- .6)gh;' biie granS^Ild, one daugh- ing levents in the Holy Week pro-j ter-in-law, five sisters and one gram. | brother. State Agent GREENSBORO — Several hund red citizens from throughout North Carolina last Saturday paid honor to John W. “Jeff ” Jeffries, form er assistant State Agent for the A&T College Extension Service who retired last month after a term of 37 years of service. They were guests at a luncheon sponsored in his honor by staff members of the local Extension ijroup. The affair, held in Murphy Hall at the college on March 7, featur ed a main address by Dr. I. O. Schaub, Raleigh, former director of the N. C. Extension Service and dean of the School of Agriculture at State College from which he retired eight years ago. Referring to the honoree. Dr. Schaub said in a humorous vein “years ago the successful appli- (See HUNDREDS, Page 8) NEWS ROUND-UP (Condensed from TIMES MRS. BELVIN MITCHELL of the Durham Ushers Union who is heading the local campaign to raise funds for the Ushers Home in Franklinton. Mrs. Mitchell is a member of the Usher Board of; the Fir*t Calvary Bapti*t Church. Under her leadership Union succes*. meeting with great moved into the musical spotlight as ^taember Mn Gaxella Beebee Kka rttvrmd TALLADEGA, ALA.—A. Knighton Stanley, senior firoas Greenv boro, N. C. has been awarded a Woodrow WOaoa fellowship for uate study in philosophy at Boston University . , . KKW YOf Young, “president of modem jazz tenor saxapboniats,” diad i way hotel of a heart attack this week a fe^ bouts after retumiq^ frtJtn Europe. The “Prcz” of the 1936 Count Basie band from New York, where she completed a coarse of traiaiag pcafariac her for the position of WELCOME WAGON hostess. Mn. BetfKc. who resides at Route 3, Fayetteville RoaiL is one at Wekomc Wagon’s more than 5,000 hostesses making nea^ one milUoa calls a year on families in this country. These calls, made by Welcoaoe Wagon spon sors, are made on si>ecial occasions, such as births, engagements, an- niveraries, and when new families arrive in the conununity .. « FBONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA—From Mn. Anne Braden, SCET meBber. comes this note: “Negro students have been receiving some vicious and in sulting leltcirs. Because their names have not bees wMaUr publicised in the press, they have not been receiving message of support—aa did. for example, the Little Rock students whose names were widely pub licized Below is a list of the names of these cbildrea. Won’t you divide this list among your friends and see that each of tbeae children gets at least one letter of support, recogniiing their courage in pioneer ing for a better, more democntic world?” Here are the students' names: Gwendolyn Baltimore; Deloris, Faye and MarybeUe Cotaman; Louise and Suetta Dean; Rebecca Fletcher: Cuetta and Frank Grier, Barbara and John Jackson; Betty, James and John Kilby; Charles Ltfris; Archie and Matthew Pines;' Ann, Dorothy and Geraldinf Rhodes; Ste phen Travers .... Winners in the three divisions of the state high school typing contcst sponsored by the N. C. Teachers Association at North Carolina College last week are Laddie Bell, Fayetteville; Mont rose Johnson, Reidsville; Lenwood Ward, EUiiabeth City; Marindo Thrower, Wise; Patricia Geer, Asheville; Jeannette Melvin, Fayetteville; Ruth Banner, Concord; Margarette Teacher, Rose Hill; Laura Monroe, Fayetteville Doris Marie Watkins, Shepard high scho|>l junior, won Wake County spelling championship in ^nals at Ligon high in Raleigh. . . . NEW YORK—Opinion is making the rounds that Roy Campanella's boy. David, is l>eing made an example with an unusualy rough sentence for his admitted part in a drugstore, robbery. Specu lators say that other boys with worse offenses and records get off with lectures while David has reform school term facing him for one of fense Mrs. Ludmilla Van Soml^k ratamed Tuesday Evaatag from Atlanta, Ga. where she attended Southern W*g»ftn»| Confaraae* of Women's League for International Peace. . . . , . Mn. Ilel« Sneed, Shaw University senior from Gamer, has been winner of Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She Is a scieaee majir Mrs. Louise Sawyer, se^tafjr of Durhaw #efca*lgk 41. .ui.. , week that the Baha’s New Year will be ohaafwd at ♦he monthly Ingram of raiaing ^ . cw-« o v ‘ the qJiti of Hi Durham CTsher* sl Spr'^ Bahama uae the ing of New Year because of the syasb^ Spring denotes
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