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J.A. Brown Edges Wiliiams To Hold Contest lead
Bonus Votes Cast After April 9
Will Be Given Double Value
Th« firct week of the closing
period of the Carolina Times
Miniiters Popularity Contest
found tha standing of the con-
teaUnti eveii a little tighter than
lut week's tabulation. Still in
the lead was Rev. J. A. Brown
«f Durham who continues to
hold to the top position although
by the smalt tn^gin of only
. 1,000 pointR. The only other
major change was that Rev. W.
L. Williams of Weldon who
nosed out Rev. M. C. Swann of
Durham for the second position.
DOUBLE VM.UE FOR BONUS
BALLOTS
Wltfi only onp more week to
g«. thft Contest Manager an
nounced thJIs week that double
(credit for all Bonus Ballots
out 4urlng the final week of
the contest jvill be given begin
ning Monday, April 9 and end
ing midnight of Saturday,
.Ajwil 14 /when, the .contest of-
.flcially closes.
OFFICE OPEN UNTIL
u MIDNIGHT APRIL 14
He fdso wishes to infor^ all
'f«ontestant8- that the office of the
,-C«roll6a Times will remain open
iijnttlt midnight of the closing
Jiight In order to take care of
all contestants and their friends
and supporters who wish to cast
last minutes votes for their
favorite ministers.
Tabulation of the ballots will
be made the following Monday
by' a special tommlttee of two
ministers not participating In the
contest and one layman. An
nouncement of the winners of
the three roundtrip prizes will
be made in the April 21 issue
of the'Carolina Times when the
actual standing of each con
testant will be published.
With only one more week to
go the balloting is certain to
increase in momentum and size.
To take care of the large number
■ of ballots that are expected to
be cast during the final week
the management of the Times
has securcd additional tabulation
help that will be on hand the
last two days and final night of
the contest.
Ail contestants not having a
minimum ol 400,000 points have
iaeon dropped-from this week’s
tabulation as not being a pos
sible contender for one of the
three prizes.
Relative standing of contest
ants this week is as follows:
.“^v. J. A. Brown, Durham 1,976,000
W. L. Williams, Weldon 1,975,000
M. C. Swann, Durham 1,899,000
Johnny W. Barnes, Durham 1,682,000
Edgar W. Love, High Point ^ 1,479,000
Wilson W. Lee, Statesville 1,366,000
J. C. Gray, Durham 1358,000
A. J. Holman, Hillsboro .1,229,000
C. R. White, Durham 1,220,000
Morris T. Mitchell, Baltimore 1,115,000
R. L. Speaks, Durham .. 1,002,000
A. T. Smith, Durham
G. H. Brooks, Hillsboro
J. A. Stewart, Durham
Walter Yarborough, FrankUuton
y. E. Brown, Durham
%. P. Harris, Durham
Durham .j,,
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L. T. Di^e, M4^ane 596,o66
J. M. Vinsoii, Roxboro
S. G. Duflston, Louisburg
A. W. Lawson, Durham
W. Jr Hall, Brooklyn
T. C. Graham, Durham
Louis Wade, Oxford
D. F. Brown, Durham
Livingstone, Norfolk State
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AME Zion Mourns Church Editor
CHARIXXTTE —; Described as
a man who so.uglit his help from
Ood, Dr. J. Van CaUedge, 57/
«fdltor, Church School Literature,
A. M.. E. Zion Church, was
Mlogiz^ from GreeAville Ta-
i^nacle Church, Friday after
noon, by Bishop W. J. Walls,
with Bishop Felix S. Anderson
presiding.
■ Dr, Van Catledge succumljed
In his office, suddenly, Mondey,
March 26, as he was preparing
a treatise on mission preaching,
Which was to be used at insti
tutes, to be conducted this sum
mer, by the A. M. E. Zion
Church. His offices were in the
Publishing House, 2nd and
Brevard Streets, where he edit
ed the literature.
Bishop Walls pictured him as
a man possessed with the cour
age of his conviction.
Bishops D. C. Pope, W. M.
Smith and W. W. Slade took
part in the ceremonies, along
with Dr. A. P. Morris, Dr. S. E.
Duhc
Cilie,
can, president, Livingstone
|ege,^where Dr. Van Catle>dge
was a member of the faculty,
having served twice, read resolu
tions from the college. Dr. J.
W. Eichelberger, secretary,
Christian Education, spoke for
the Christian Education Depart
ment. Dr. G. W. McMurray,
Birmingham, Ala., Dr. Van Cat-
ledge’s home Conference, in
Alabama, and the Minister’s and
Laymen’s Association. Dr. J. C.
Hoggard, secretary. Foreign Mis
sions, made tiie aciuiowledge-
ments for the family.
Rev. M. S. Cutherbertson,
pastor of Greenville Tabernacle
Church and Rev. K. Melvin
Taylor, Clinton Chapel A. M. E.
Zion Church, assisted in the
funeral arrangements. Drs. A. P.
Morris, J. S. N. Tross and W.
R. Lovell, along with D. M.
Andrews, R. W. Sherrill, and
Lenny Barnes were active pall
bearers. Alexander Barnes, Dr.
E. S. Hardge,
INSTALLATION P RIN Cl-
PALS — High State and adu-
cational officials paxticipatad
on Sunday, April 1, in tha
formal installation of Hanry
W. Parker, jaft cantar, as naw
siiparintandanli of tha Mortison
Training School at Hoffinan.
With tha honoraa ara. from
left to right. Biaina M. Madi
son,, N. C. commissioner of
corraction, and Hugh Cannon,
, director, N- C- Dapartni#«t of
Administration, who daliTared
tha main address, both of Ra
leigh, and L. C. Dowdy, ant
ing president of A. and T. Col
lege, GraeiAboTo, who pra-
sented a citation to Parliar, an
slumout ol lha Collaaa.
Va. Civil Rights Leader Wins Moral
Victory in Contempt Case
Br SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENCE
HOPEWELL, Va. — The Rev.
Curtis Harris, civil rights leader
here, was found technically
guilty of contempt of Virginia
leclslative committee, but his
lawyers called it a victory.
In an unprecedented court
room situation, the Circuit
Court imposed ^o fine or
sentence. It simply told Harris
to answer the committee’s quest
ions the next time he is called
bafore it.
Observers said he is not like
ly to do so, in view of his pre
vious refusal to answer.
Attorney Len Holt, of the
Norfolk firm of Jordan, Dawley
and Holt, which represented
Harris, said the court’s verdict
was “a great victory for the
civil rights movement in Vir
ginia.”
“It wa.s not the astuteness of
Harris’s lawyers that won it,”
Holt declared. “Rather it was
the people of Virginia - with
their voices, with their pro
tests, with their bodies in the
courtroom.”
Harris, who is president of the
Hopewell Improvement Associa
tion, had been summoned before
the Virginia 'Committee on Of-
'fcnses Against the Administra
tion of Justice. The committee
is a relic of Virginia’s massive
resistance and has recently been
investigating integral i on is't
groups again.
Along with other leaders of
the grass-roots civil rights or
ganizations, Harris refused to
answer the committee’s questr
ions. He contended that the com-
See MORAL, 6-A
Parker Installed
As Training
School Head
HOFFTMAN — A recent
graduate of A. and T. College
was last week formally installed
as superintendent of the Mor
rison Training School, here.
Henry W. Parker, 30, a 1955
graduate of A. and T. College,
who last ummer assumed the
post at the State supported
youth training center following
the death of Paul R. Brown,
who had headed the institution
for 15-years, was officially in
stalled and cited by his Alma
Mater in ceremonies held' here
on Sunday afternoon, April 1.
In accepting the post, Park
er said, “I will act always in
the best interest of the students
See INSTALLED, 6-A
CHICAGO PUBLISHER SAYS
Negro Schools, Press, NAACP
Essential to Freedom Quest
RALEUGH—“The elimination of
the Negro College in the fore^
seeable future would spell doom
for the Negro in his quest fot
freedom,” said John H. Seng
,stacke. Publisher and Eklitor oi
the Chicago Daily Defender as he
spoke to Shaw University Students
and faculty Friday.
^ngstacke claimed that the Ne
gro College, the Negro Press and
the NAACP are the most unap
preciated institutions by Nogroes.
“Yet,” he declared, -‘This insti
tution—^this collection of colleges
and universities which trains Ne
gro young men and women, stands
today as the-symbol of the black
man’s yearning for 1 no.vledge, tha
See ESSENTIAL, 6-A
S. C. Students
Case Taken to
Supreme Court
NEW YORK — NAACP
Legal Defense Fund attorneys
asked the United States Supreme
Court this week to hear the ap
peal of 187 Negro studenta who
were convicted last year in an
anti-segregation . demonstration
in Columbia, South Carolina.
The students, many fron
See^CASE, 6-A
1?
Described By
Eye-Witness
A 32 year old Durham teach
er was scheduled to face a pre
liminary hearing in Recorder’*
Court Friday morning on charges
of manslaughter in connection
with the hit-and-run death of a
nine year old boy.
He ia Zollie Thomas Saunders,
of Rt. 3, a member of the
Fayettaviile street school faculty.
Saunders was anrasted at hla
0^ lata Saturdagr ^ht and
hnri^ witb the daafb of
wm of
BOO late Saturtey and onlarad
to appear far the preliminary
hearing Friday,
Young Godbolt was struck bjr
a car Saturday night shortly b^
fore eight O’clock as he walked
along the shoulder of Fayette
ville itree! near"5arton avenue.
His body was hurled approxi
mately 60 feet by the impact
and landed in a nearby ditch
filled with two f^et of water.
He Was pronounced dead on
arrival at Lincoln hospital. Hos
pital atithorities attributed death
to a broken neck.
A witness told police the
death car was a 1961 white
Chevrolet, and said the right
front fender of the car struck
the youth.
Police reported that Saunders'
See HIT-RUN, 6-A
NEW UNION LOCAL — Of
ficers of a naw union local,
organised by workers ia tlia
Durliam sanitatioii dapart-
menl. ara pictured liara fok
lowing cdmplation of tha or
ganisation recently. Tlia new
organisation is tlia Durham
City Workers local IIM, »f
tha Anariaan Fadeeatien of
State. CoontT and Muncipal
Employees. Officers pictured
on the front row. left lo rigiit, ^
ara Clifton Worslay, treasurer;
l.aa J^inson axacutiva board
membar; Theodora McLaurin,
board memliert Rooaarelt Na
than, assistant sacratary. On
tha badt raw. ia tha same
order, ara lias Tiiompxon, pres-
. Uent; Weldon Rigsbee. trustee;
aurtkuu Hart, sergeant-at-arms;
l»nA Utah Webb. l>oard mem*
]>er. Tlie movement to or
ganise a local of tlia union
loUowed a strike last year
by dty garbage collectors.
phot* by Purefoy.
Desegregation
Gets Push From
2 U. S. Sources
Pi)^ lie school desegregation
recf>iv«!d new impetus from two
different quarters of the federal
goverment this week.
The executive branch, through
Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, of
Health Education and Welfare,
ordered all funds cut off from
segregated achools which serve
U. S. service men.
A federal judge in New
Orleans upset Louisiana’s plan
to hold integration to a trickle
and ordered the first aix grades
Integrated at the t>eginning of
the next school term.
Secretary Ribicoffs action,
which was announced last
Saturday, would affect an
estimated 1,600,000 children liv
ing in impacted areas which
receive federal funds. jOf this
number, 45,000 are in states
where large-scale segregation i>
practiced.
Actually, Ribicoff’s announce
ment said beginning next Sept
ember, segregated schools would
be declared unsuitable for tea
ching children who live on mi
litary baaas. The federal support
these sclwols now reeeive for
such teaching will be halted.
The announcement was made
before the House Education sub
conunittaa, chaired by Demo
crat-Adam C. Powell, of New
Set DXSEOREOA’nON, »-A
BURNETT GETS TOP
SHRIITE POST — Frank O.
Burnett (right) receives tha
certificate of appointment as
Imperial Deputy at Large of
North and South Carolina and
Virginia from Durham shrine
officials 3. Fred Pratt and H.
C. McAllister in ceremonies
recently. Burnett, who was
formerly Imperial Deputy of
North CaroUna. was promoted
to the naw post by tha Nation
al Bliriaars arganiaation. ^ratt.
is Deputy of the Oasis of Dur
ham and McAUUter is Illustri-
oua Potentate of Zafa Temple.
17g. of Durham.
MEDIATION BODY “ EXHAUSTED”
Carolina Theater Controversy is
Now; Strictly A Legal Fight
OiTS AfSIGNMENT IN AFRICA
Thomas E. Roberson, North C«-
rellns College grsduste hss been
given a special ssslgnment, his
'second, in Afrlcs by tha World
Health Orgsniiatien. He will
serve three months as consul
tant hi Health fducstlon to the
WHO regional office in Afrlcs.
Rol>erMn esmed the master of
science degree in Public Health
•t NCC in 194«. He went to
Afrlcs for WHQ on a similar as-
slgfwnent (n 195S, when he
worked largely In Liberia. Rob
erson Is scheduled to return to
the U. S. in June.
Jwitcial
This waa made olear at mid
week when the city’s mediation
body for racial troubles formal
ly announced It was at the “end
of its rope” in the matter.
Chairman Paul Hardin, of the
Human Relations Commission,
foHowiHJ“ IhS' group’s le-
gular April meeting here W^-
ilesday that the committee’s “has
.exhausted any function we can
perfomit^ In the issue of segre
gation at the theater.
The Committee had tried for
the past aeveral months to bring
both parties in the dispute over
segregation together to negogi-
fite the Issue.
The youth chapter of the
NAACP has been asking for an
and to segregation at the movie
house foar the past several
months. It l>egan by petition
ing the City Council last fall
to act.
The City Council passed the
issue to the Human Relations
Commission, which. In turn,
asked owner Charles Aber
crombie to meet with the
NAACP to negoglate the issue.
Abercrombie refused l}ccause,
he said, the question of whether
See ■THEATER, 6-A
Walker Renamed President as
CIAA Honors 3 Living Founders
Birminsrham Strikes
Back At Boycott
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Bir-
mingham reacted sharply this
week to plans by Negroes to
stage a boycott of the city
stores in protest against segre
gation and racially discrimina
tory practices.
Officials announced that the
city would withdraw support
from the county surplus food
program for the needy.
Negroes comprise nearly 96
per cent of the persons feceiv-
ing aid from this program.
“We’ve got to- do something
to nip this Ijoycott in the bud,”
Mayor Arthur J. Hanes was
quoted as saying after the
three-man City Commisaion
voted unanimously to with hold
the city’s (45,000 share of the
$100,000 program.
City Commissioner Eugene
(BuU) Cortdor mad* the miftiom
See BOYCOTT, §-A
WASHINGTON, D. C. _
Uvingitone College and the Nor
folk Division of Virginia State
College were formaUy admitted
(to ItiC Central Intercoilleglate
Athletlo Aasooiation this week
end.
AcCeptaooe of'the two schools
brl9gs to , tile total number
of sclioola in the eonterence.
Action on their requests for
entrance was one of the many
issues tackled by the conference
at its SOth anniversary meeting
here this week-end.
L. T. Walker, of North Car
olina t!oUege, was re-elected
president.
O. C.‘-Singleton, of Virginia
State, resigned as treasurer and
was replaced by T. H. E. Jones,
of St. Paul’s. Singleton had been
treasurer afiice 1M7.
The grevp also paid tribute
to the three surviving founders
of the omnization, Charles R.
Fraser, of Raleigh, N. C.. J. W.
Baroo, ot Virginia Union
v«rait|r^. «l4 CbailAs M.
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