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HEAVY NEGRO REGISTRATION IS PUSHED
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VOLUME 41 — No. 18
DURHAM, N. C, 27702, SATURDAY, M'AY 9, 1964
PRICE: 15 Centi
§70 Million In Life Insurance
Is Goal Of Negro Companies
REV. EDWARDS
Costen
REV. COSTEN
REV. PERRY
• BcV. C. R. Edwards, pastor of
tKe First baptist Church of Fay
etteville, "was declared the win
der of the big Grand Prize, a free
flrplane round trip to the Holy
/|»nd, in the Carolina Times third
jriinual Ministers Popularity Con
test here this week.
' iilunning second in the contest
fc'ftd winning the free airplane
round trip to Bermuda, was the
Mfv. J. H. Costen, pastor of thb
rttst Presbyterian Church of
Kocky Mount. The third prize, a
airplane round trip to the
New YorH World's Fair, was won
Ky Rev. R. «W. Perry of Saiiford.
'The auditing committee was
eimposed of F. V. Allison, Secre-
taary, Mutual Savings and Loan
Aisociation; Rev. Z. D. Harris,
pistor of Oak Grove Frec.vill
Baptist Church; and William J.
talker, Secretary of the Bankers
P i r e Insurance Company. The j
statement of the committee ’vvas |
•f follows;
The final week of the contest |
S»w the four top contestant!), I
liirhich included the Kev. Hendei-
8M Amey of Durham, put on a
Mkiding burst of speed, an ef
fort that lairly overwhelmed the
ftaff of the Carolina Times with
rtlbscriptiohs and ballots from
j^actically every state in the na
tion, as well as North Carolina.
' All in all the contest during
See CONTEST, 4A
Henderson Physictait^eks Seat
In North Carolina Senate Race
SISTER OF MISS
ELVIRA WATSON
i)IES IN BROOKLYN
' Word was received here this
*reck of the death of Mrs. Lora
Horrison of Broklyn and former
Durham citizen, Mrs. Morrison
i sister of Miss Elvira Watson
9t 440 E. Pettigrew St. succumb
ed Tuesday, following a lengthy
inness resulting from a compli
cation of diseases.
' The fuljeral was held in Bro-
^lyn, at '8 P. M. Tuesday, May
■ In addition to Miss Watson,
)*r*- Morrison is survived by
Ber husband, Chas. Morrison of
'Brooklyn.’;
' Miss Watson, the proprietor of
■ local restaurant, left Durham
WMday for.. Brooklyn to attend
-the final rltee of her sister.
HENDERSON — Dr. Jambs
P. Green, Henderson physician,
announced his candidacy for a
scat in the North Carolina Sen
ate, this week, subject to the
May'30 Primary Election.
Green received his education
at Henderson Institute, Johnson
C. Smith University and the
Meharry School. He is the hol
der of an “A” teaching certifi
cate, having met the require
ments for teachers and having
taught Chemistry and Biology
in Warren County. He has also
had considera'ble Post-Graduate
Hospital training in several hos
pitals throughout the nation and
abroad.
Dr. Green, a member of the
Cotton Memorial Presbyterian
Church, is married and the fat
her of two children.
In announcing his platform,
he stated;
In the next few years our
will inevitably encounter major
problems relating to education.
See PHYSICIAN, 4A
OR. GREEN
CHICAGO — The two billion
dollar Negro-owned segment of
the life insurance industry will
sell seventy million dollars
worth of protection to U. S.
fapnilies during the period May
llt.16.
trhis goal was announced by
willliam A. Clement, CLU, pre
sident oj the National Insur
ance Association, in proclaim
ing the 30th Annual National
insurance Week, Clement is vice
Mutual Life Insurance Co, of
Durham, largest Negro business
in the country, with $82 million
in asssets.
More than 8,000 'life insur-
anct agents and 2,000 home of
fice workers will take part in
National Insurance Week, Cle
ment said. From Monday, May
II, through Saturday, May IB,
each one will wear a colorful
badge carrying the slogan “Secu
rity Is As Close As Your Life
Insurance Agent” and the dates
of iNI Week. The badge alsc
pictures an insurance agent talk
ing with a typical young Negro
family.
The same theme is carried
out in 140,000 pieces of printed
material distributed among ag
ents and in insurance offices,
Clement said. Over 135,000 bro
chures telling what life insur
ance is and how it works to
provide death benefits and liv
ing benefits will be placed in
homes by agents.
National Insurance Week was
initiated in 1935 at the sugges
tion of A. J. Ruffin of Rich
mond Va., as a means of pro
moting the value of thrift
through insurance, and to bring
the average protection of Negro
families closer to that maintain
ed by whites. It is promoted
through posters and brochures,
home visits, advertising and
publicity among 47 Negro-own
ed companies.
These companies have more
than two billion dollars of in
surance in force, and own assets
over 350 million dollars. They
See INSURANCE, 4A
CLUB HOSTS TRACK MEN—
The Durham One O'clock Lunch-
•on Club had as guests at Its
regular Tuesday meeting at the
YMCA April 28 the North Car
olina College Eagles Track
Team. Ceached by Leroy T.
Walker, the team won five first
place trophies in the Penn Re
lays in Philadelphia the previ
ous weekend, and Norman Tate,
‘ a “member of the Eagle squad,
was voted the outstanding col
legiate performer at the 70th
annual event.
The star-studded squad will
participate in the CIAA cham
pionships at Virginia State Col
lege May 8 and 9.
QiurclLJlfficers Bar
Minister From Pulpit
The hearing in Recorders
Court iiere of the case of Rev.
Z.D. Harris on a charge of tres
passing, scheduled for Thursday
morning. May 7, was continued
this week and is expected to be
heard following the trial of the
civil action against the minister
on May 24,
A temporary order however
was signed here tUia week by
Superior Court Jud^« Raymond
B, Mallard, restraing Rev, Har
ris from occupying the pulpit of
Oak Grove Freewill Baptist Chu
rch, located at 801 Colfax Street,
Under the temporary order
Rev. Harris is directed to appear
in court on May 24 »nd show
cause why he should not be per
manently restrained from the
church and its parsonage.
Rev, Harris was arrested last
Sunday morning while in the
office of the church. At tlie time
of his arrest Sunday School was
in process and police officers
found Rev. Harris locked the
study. A key furnished by the
janitor of the church made it
possible however lo open the
door where Rev. Harris was lo
cated.
The action was brought i y
the Board of Trustees oi UaK
Grove Freewill Baptist Ciiurcn
against Rev, Harris and charged
that it was being brought “be
cause of the misconduct of the
New Law Firm'
Formed by Burt
And McKissick
Atlorne.vs F. K. MtKi.ssick of
Durham and M, C, Burt. Jr. of
Burlington, have organized a firm
j for the general practice of law, it
was announced here this week.
The attorneys will engage in the
genera! practice of law under the
firm name of McKi,ssick and Burt
with offices at 213 12 W. Main
St., Durham.
McKissick, a native of .\sheville.
lia.^ practiced law in Durham
for a number of years, lie attend
ed Morehouse College, North Car
olina College and the University
o( North Carolina and holds the
A.B. and tlie LL.B, Degrees.
Burt has practiced law in Bur-
and other officers of the church | llngton for lour years. A native
was held on May 2 and that mo- j of Hillsboro, he received the A.B.
tions were pas.sed to discharge and LL.B. degrees from North
Rev. Harris as pastor effective | Carolina College,
at once. It was agreed to pay i ^ veteran civil rights advocate
him Ihree months salary, I ana attorney, McKissick was elect-
See BAR, 4A | Sec FIRM, 4A
Voting Power
In Warren and
Halifax Raised
ENFIELD—The first Freedoni
Day in rigidly segrepated Halifax
County resulted in registration
of 500 Negroes to vote, raising the
total in the county lo over 2,000,
This was done in the face of
delaying tactics by registrars and
harassment by 'police. The latter
included setting off of a .stoncli
bomh in police headquarters after
the polling place was moved
there from Its regular location.
'in some places it was as had
as anything in Mi.ssi.ssippi," said
John R. Salter, Jr., field organiz
er for the Southern Cenference
Educational Fund (SCEF). Salter,
who organized protests in Jackson,
Miss., last year. Is aiding the
Halifax Voters Movement in the
registration drive.
More Negroes are running for
orfice in Jfalifax County than in
any county in the South since Re
construction. Bleven are seeking
county-wide offices and one is a
candidate for Congre.ss.
tJELAYINO TACTICS OF
REGISTRARS
—“Sfilter snid- U>a^n-M>m»-ylacis
registrars took half an hour to
register one applicant. One regis
trar took three hours for lunch.
In another place, the registrar re
fused to tell applicants^^whether
they were registered or not. Sal
ter noted that this is a familiar
tactic in Mississippi.
He said tliat protests have been
I sent to state officials and to the
1 Ju.stice Department in Washing-
I ton. Very intensive legal action in
the ];>deral Courts js also likely,
he added.
I Two more Freedom days are
I plaiuied before the May 30 pri
mary election. These ‘Aill be on
■May 9 and 16, as registration
books aro open only on three Sat
urdays before the Primary and
general elections.
Doug Karris of ihle Student Noil
violent Coordinatirig Committee
(SNCC) is also assisting in the
drive.
REV. HARRIS
defendant and the misuse of hR-
office as pastor of the Church”,
The complaint stated that an
official meeting of the Board of
Trustees, the Borad of Decaons
Masons Donate
$3,000 to N. C.
NAACP Fund
RALEIGH—Some two thousand
NAACP workers and friends, com
ing from as far west as Asheville
and from the east to Panteso and
Wilmington area, braved threaten
ing weather to travel the 290 miles
each way to see and hear Mrs.
Myrle Evers, the courageous wid
ow of Medgar Evers,. Mississippi
NAACP leader who was ruthless
ly slain last year because of. hit
dynamic civil rights leadership
ability. Tarheelia was not disap
pointed, for Mrs. Evers made glad
the hearts of the 48 ‘Mothers’
(special guests of the Fight for
Freedom program who had raised
several thousands of dollars fer
the NAACP in their home com-
See MASONS, 4A
Liberian Official to Speak at North
Carolina College on May 11
Mother Charges
Ga. White Man
With Abduction
Miss Angie E. Brooks, assis
tant secretary of state of the Re
public of Liberia, will present
a forum address at North Caro
lina College Monday, May 11,
at 10 a.m. in B. N. Duke audi
torium.
She will discuss the United
Nations Trusteeship council at
the assembly, to which the pub
lic is invited, and she will con-
MILDGEVILLE, C^. — A Negra
RONALD WATKINS
MISS BRENDA BROOKS
MISS CAROLYN WALKER
Three Hillside High School Students are Named
to Attend Governor's School In Winston-Salem
ThrM Hillside High School
•tudentl, all juniors, have been
aelect»d to attend the Governor’s
School ’ at Selerti College dur
ing the six weeks session, June
9 throul^ July 31'.'
■ 'The.'#tadentfi were selected on
UM' tMfli of •utstanding achieve
ment in cultural aspects of learn
Ing, and will join other highly
talented students from through
out North Carolina for the all-
expense paid six weeks training
session this summer.
Miss Carolyn Walker, seven-
tfen year old coed of 11-3 hr>me-
room, and daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. LeRoy T. Walker of 2408
Red Oak Avenue, will attend
the special school of the Per
forming Arts with emphasis on
the dance.
Miss Brenda Joyce Brooks,
See StiioeNTS 4A
duct classroom discussions with ! mother of two teen-age bojs, v^ith
students and faculty members
from 1 to 3 p. m.
Holder of B. A. and LL.D. de
grees from Shaw University,
Miss Brooks earned the M. S.
in Political Science and Inter
national Relations and the
LL. B. from the University of
Wisconsin. She studied interna-1 ‘o ^-s home where he asked
the aid of an official of the
NAACl’, has sworn out a warrant
for the arrest of a white man who,
she charged, abducted her and
her sons.
The mother asserts that the
man .stopped the car in which she
and hor sons were riding and took
tional law at London University
his wife if the two boys w?re the
and earned the D. C. L. at the | had allegedly whistled
University of Liberia, Monrovia.
Assuming her present post in
1956, she served also as assis
tant attQrney general of Liberia
from 1953-1958. During the
President's absence from the
capital in 1958, she conducted
affairs of the government.
In addition to holding posi
tions as a member of the Gen
eral Assembly of the United
See LIBEftlAM. 4A
at .her. The man's wife reportedly
said they were not.
Leon Cox, executive secretary
of the Atlanta NAACP branch,
who journeyed here to assist the
mother, declined to identify her
or the man for fear that either
might be subjected to harassment.
The man was released on bond.
Cox, said, pending a hearing by
the grand jury which meets in
July in this rural eoitimunity 130
miU? s/'ijt!; rtf
S. C.-NAACP to
Hold Mid-Year
Meet May 15
COLUMBIA, S. C. — The South
Carollaa TTbnfcrence of Branches,
NAACP will hold its Annual Mid-
Year Conference May 15-17 in
Charleston, The C h a r 1 es t o n
Branch, and "Vouth Council will be
hosts to the three day meeting.
The Mid-Year Conference will
highlight the tenth anniversary of
the U.S. Supreme Court decision
of May 17, 1954, the annual
NAACP,‘.'Woman of the Year Con
test,” and workshops on Equal
Employment Opportunity, Voter
Registration, implementation of
the Supreme Court decision on
School integration, and a projec
tion of NAACP Branch, Youth
Council and College Chapter pro
gramming..
The Mid-Year Conference will
draw upon State and National
government officials and State
NAACP Conference officials for
consultants and discussion lead
ers.
Leaders for the session on equal
employment opportunity will be a
representative from the office «f
the State of South Carolina Com
mittee on Technical Education,
Charles H. Jenkins, Personnel
Branch U. S. .Treasury Depart
ment and Internal Revenue Serv
ice, Jacob R. Henderson, Field Di
rector of the Area Re-Development
Administration U. S, Department
of Commerce, and L, S. James,
Field Worker of the South Caro
lina Council on Human Relations
and'co-ehairman of the Education
Committee “of the State NAACP
Conference;
The Session oq implementation
of the U,S. Supreme Court decis
ion of outlawing racial segrega
tion in public schools will be led
by Attorney Matthew J, Vtxtg,
■ MBr.T, 4jL