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VOLUME 41 — No. 25
DURHAM, N.C. 27702, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1964
PRICE: 15 CrnU
OFFICIALS of the North Caro
lina Mutual Life Inauranca Com
pany and Lincoln Hospital gath-
•r for completion of tha appli
cation for a Group Inturanca
Peniion Plan for the hoipital.
Seated from left, tfiey ara: N.
H. Bennett, Jr., Vice Pruidont
and Actuary; Dr. Clyde Donnell,
Chrirman of the Board of
Trustees, Lincoln Hospital; F.
W. Scott, Lincoln Hospital Ad
ministrator. Standing. Larkin
Teaslay, Assistant Actuary, Tliad
B, CailUrc!, C L U, Assistant
Agency Director-Training; North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Convpany, J. H. Whcoler, Vice
Chairman of the Board, and
Chaiiman, Finance Committee,
Lincoln Hospital.
—Hhofo by Purefoy
ACCORDING TO REPORTS—
Students Receive Thousands In
Funds For Medical School Study
$97,500 Given
To Eighty-eight
Young Scholars
As Pastor 01 Saint Mark
Mrs. Minnie Hartsfield Named
DR. LARKINS
John R. Larkins
Is Speaker In
Home Dedication
Dr. John R. Larkins, o£ the
Korth Carolina Slate Depart
ment of Welfare, will be the
keynote speaker at the formal
opening of the Ushers Home
for unwed mothers Sunday,
June 28, at 1:30 p. m. in Frank-
linton.
Mrs. R o X i e Small, who
formerly operated a home for
aged in Pittsboro, will auperv’tsc
the facility and maintain rest
dence on the premises.
The home will be operated in
connection with the Usher?
rtome by the Interdenomination
al Ushers Association.
Due to limited faollitics, the
number of women to be accom-
inodated has been initially
limited of five or six. However,
plan.s are being made to provide
additional space to increase ^le
home's capacity in th^ future.
Music for the occasiott will be
provided by the Durham Ushers
Union Chorus. L. E. Austin is
president of the Interdenomina
tional Ushers Association.
All Ushers and iiiterestcd
persons are invited to hear
Dr. Larkins and witness iiie
dedicatory service.
WASHINGTON D. C. — Mrs.
Minnie Hartsfield, who has been
with the Veterans Administra
tion's Nursing Service since 1939,
has been appointed Psychiatric
Nursins Specialist for the Nursing
Appraisal anii Program Develop-
m'-nt Division in Washington,
D. C.
She is the first Nepro iNur.sc to
be named to a top position on the
central office staff of Director of
Nursing Cecilia H. Ilaugc.
A graduate of 'luskiiRO'.' Insti
tute. Mrs. Hartsfield receivcU her
Master's Degree in Nursing Educa
tion at Columbia University.
Mrs. Hartsfield was a.ssociatcd
with the VA's Re.scarch program
in Chicago before joinin’’ Miss
Haufie's .'.tsff on July 1, 1.9R4. Pro-
viouvily she had been at the Dan
ville, 111., Salisl)ury, Downey 111.,
and Tuskegce VA Hospila'.s.
CHICAGO, in.. — Grant#
totaling $97,500 made to 88 Ne
gro students to attend mcdical
school were announced tSiis
week by Dr. Franklin C. Mc
Lean, Secretary and Treasurer
j of National Medical" Fellowships, i
Inc., and Professor Emeritus,
Department of Physiology, Uni
versity of Chicago. This is the
largest number of awards made
by National Medical FeTTow-1
ships. Inc. in its 18-year history.;
In commenting on their pur- j
pose and significance, Drj. Mc-1
Lean said, “In authorizing these!
grants, the Board of Directcrs
of National Medica^ FeliowstTtps, i
Inc., seeks to demonstrate that ^
the qualified Negro applicant
has opportunities for acceptance
in mcdical school equal to
those of qualified white apph-
conts. The 08 winners of 1964-
05 scholarships and grants-in-
aid will study at 40 U.S. medical
schools. In 1947 the:^ were only
MRS. MARSH
Senator Hubert Humphrey Urges
NAACP Delegates to Support CR
Rites Held For
Mrs. Margaret
Marsh on Wed.
' funeral servic^S^~wcpe held for
Mrs. Margaret WagstafT'-S^arsh,
the wife of James Arthur Marshr
Wedne.sday at 4 p.m. from the SI
20 predominantly white medical; Joseph s AME Church with Res’,
schools that had Negroes enrol-C Tester Swann officiating,
led. We feel some progress has followed
been achieved.”
Ten of the awards are the
covetcd • four-year NATIONAL
MEDICAL - SLOAN FOUNDA-
See MEDICINE on page 4A
Beechwood
Cemetpiy.
Mrs. Marsh died at. Duice'Hos
p^al Satiir'iay night. t>he was bcfrh
•in Dui'iam, and Aas graduated
See MARSH, page 4A
REV. SPEAKS
Hcv. R. L. Speaks, pastor of
Saint Mark AMEZ Church, lo
cated on Soutii Roxboro at
Pickett Sirec'ts, is slated to
leave as head of the Church
very .soon, according to reliable
reports.
It is said that Ilev. Speaks
will join the AMEZ Conference
of the Stale of New York, upon
his leaving Saint Mark. The
name of the churcii of whicli he
is to assume pastoral ■ duties in
New York, is to be announced
JACKSON, MISS. — Follow- at a later date, accordig to re-
ing NAACP requests to the U. S. ports.
Department of Justice, Jame.sj Rev. Speaks is a native of
Middleton was appointed the Lake Providence, Louis ana" and
f rst Negro U. S. Deputy Ma:-1 received his early training in
MISS. GETS FIRST
NEGRO DEPUTY
U. S. MARSHAL
shall in the State of Mississ p-
pi this week. No Negro has
ever held this position here be
fore.
Last June at the time ol Med-
gar Evers’ funeral, his brother.
Charles Evers, now NAACP
Mississippi field secretary, con-
that city.
On receiving his A. B. De
gree from Drake University,
Des Moines, Iowa, he did fur
ther study at Drew Theological
Seminary, Madison, New Jer-
sery, and was appointed pastor
of the Sa int Thomas AMEZ
suited with Attorney General Church, Somerville, New Jersey,
See MARSHAL on page 4A I See SPEAKS on page 2A
Durham Negro Police Patrolman
Conducts Interviews for Thesis
Police Patrolman J. E. Allen of tional programs of the eighteen
the Durham Police Department Jargest cities in North Carolina,
and part-time graduate student at with those of eighteen capital ci-
North Carolina College has made ties located in various geographi-
visitations to the large.st twenty cal regions throughout the United
cities in North Carolina, and Cha- States. Nine large non-capital ci-
pel Hill, to hold oersonal inter- ties will also be included Jn the
views with the Chief of Police in study.
each city. Allen’s thesis is entitled The study was commenced dur-
“A Comparative Study of Recrea- ing the 1963 summer session at
tion Programs Sponsored for Law N. C. College and is expected
Enforcement Officers and Their to be completed by the end of the
Pamili^.” pre,sent 1964 summer session.
Alien is comparing the recre*- See OFFICER on page 4A
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Sen
ate Majority Whip Hubert IT.
Humphrey (D-Minn.) this week
urged members of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People to as-
sit government at all levels to
help make the new civil rights
law work.
Humphrey, floor manger of
the bill that passed the Senate
last Friday, said he would 1 ke
to see all organizations in the
civil rights movement “spending
as much time in the halls of
government as on the streets.”
' I would like to see them in
vited to give their advice and
their help in translating the
provisions of the Civil Rights
Act from words on the the sta
tute books into living realii?es
in our cities, in our states, and
in our nation.” he told the
NAACP annual convention.
"I believe the key to our suc
cess is a living, working part
nership between white and Ne-
^rtr-Amer lean s. ”
Humphrey suggested tha'
participants in the civil rights
movement work actively for
better educational facilities and
.eolist Jin. th*.. war ^against po-
;; '
.‘■In the'-ptls't the
been that the self-skcrlflce. of
See HUMPHREY on page 4A
DR. PERRY
DURHAM POLICE PATROLMAN
Jm E. Allen inttrvitws Chief
T. M. Dtvis of th* Raleigh Pa
llet D*parhn*nt «f part of hii
study of r«creation*l facllitie*
of polic* departments through
out North Carolina and tha
United States, for law enforce
ment officers and their families.
Allen, who is also a part-time
graduate student at North Caro
lina College, is writing a thesis
entitled "A Comparative Study
of Recreational Programs Spon
sored for Law Enforcement Of-
cers and Their Famllltes."
Photo by Purefoy
Moore Snakes
!n the Lake!
Warning!
Moore Snakes
In the Lake!
THERE ARE MOORE SNAKES IN THE LAKE THAN THERE WERE WHEN YOU
VOTED ON MAY 30. FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL GOOD CITIZENS OF NORTH
CAROLINA WE ADVISE: NO MOORE SWIMMING—NO MOORE FISHING!
No Moore vXoating
lUST SAY A PREYER iUNE 27
Dr. Rufus Perry
To Attend Church
Meet in Germany
CHARLOTTE — Dr. Rufus
P. Perry, president of Johnson
C. Smith University, has been
appointed one of' the delegates
to the Nineteenth Genefal
Ccjncil meeting of th» pi'e.'iby'-
torian World AlUance. T*ti
meeting will be held in Frank
fort on the Main, West Ger
many.
Dr. Perry will be one of s’x-
t|v delegates from the Un'ted
Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.
The meeting will begin on Au
gust 3 and will close on August
13. Dr. Perry is to attend a
meeting on Sunday, afternoon.
Augurt 2. with the delegation
from the United Church.
At the 176th General As.semh-
ly of the United Presbyterian
Church, Dr. Perry was elected
to a three-year term on the I
Board of National M’ssions. The
Board carries responsibility for
a mission program in the United
Statt-s and the West Indies. He
was also appointed to the De
partment of Ministerial Rela
tions for a three-year term. A
further appointment for a three-
year term makes Dr. Perry a
member of the North Ameri
can Alliance Area of the World
Presbyterian Alliance.
In addition to the responsibi
lities which Dr. Perry has been
called upon to discharge for the
Church, he has been asked to
serve his stfcte. Governor Terry
Sanford has selected him as one
See PERRY on page 5A
Federal Court
Orders End to
'Private' Schools
NEW YORK, N. Y. — A major
breakthrough in school integration
look place yesterday when a feder
al district court put an nd to pri
vate" .schools and tnition grants
often utilized by southern commu
nities .seekir.g to avoid integration.
.ladk Greenberg, diroctor-coun-
sel. NAACP I^egal Defense Fund,
which won the ruling, today ap
plauded that order, which “closes
the door on atte npts at ending the
‘,'54 .school ,segregation decision
via the school closings ai d tuition
Srant tactics.
I
“We wih n.ove quickly to apply
it wiienever sucii efforts at school
integration evasion occur any
where in the south, whe^e we,are
currently pressing 82 separate
school integration actions in 14
states.
“This decision wil’. alter tlie
.southern school integration pic
ture in hard core ares,” he said.
The ruling referred to oame
down yesterday in the U. S.
Di.strict Counrt for the eastern
district of Va. Judge ^ohn D.
Butzner Jr. said that the Surry
County school board ma^ no
longer process or approve "any
applications from persons, re
siding in Surry County for state
or county scholarships for use
in any school that discriminates
in admission and education ot
pupils on the basis of race.”
White students In Surry Coun
ty have been attending “pn-
vate’*^ schools on scholarship,
while Negroes attended theit
all-colored “public” schools.
StSS: THOMAS
Youiig Educator
Receives Grant
For Duke Study
Mrs. Shirley T. Thomas, a
teacher in the Cha riot te-Meck-
lenburg School System, has
been granted a scholarship to
attend the Summer Institute in
English at Duke University.
The InstUute sponsored by
the University Department of
English in canjunction with the
State Department of Public In
struction will convene fi-om
June 10 - July 15. The syllabi
in Literature, Linguistics,, and
Composition is prepared under
See THOMAS on page 4A
Asa Spaulding Named to Board of
Directors of W. T. Grant Company
NKW YORK — Asa T. Spauld- Bank and the Mutual Savings
ing. President of North Caro- and.Lpan Association, and is
lina Mutual Life Insurance chairman of the Board of the
Company of Durham Nortih Bankers Fire and Casualty In-
Carolina, was elected a Director surance CoiAp«hy, all of Dur-
of W. T. Grant Company, the ham. He is a Trustee of Howartl
1090-store national merchan- and Shaw Universities and Of
dise retail chain, at a meeting of the National Urban Leagues,
the Board of Directors held Spaulding, who is the father
here this week. of four children, is a member
Mr. Spaulding is a Db:ector of the White Rock Baptist
of the Company he heads and Church in Ourhiaa.
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