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Intensive Drive
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By N. C. Women
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VOLUME 41 _ No. 3«
DURHAM, N. C.—27702 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1964
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Greensboro Will Host
NAACP 21st Session
Georgia State
Senator To
Speak in Graliam
graham—^LeRoy R. Johnson
^irst Negro elected to the dcorsih
Senate in 92 years, will address c
$S •00 per plate Get Out The Vot(
blhner at the Central High Schoo';
Cafeteria, Graham, on Saturday
October 3rd at 6 P. M.
The dinner is sponsored by the
Alamance County Committee on
Civil affairs in cooperation with
other civic and religious organiza
tions on Alamance County. W. 1
Morris is chairman of the special
iffairs committee which is hand
ling arrangements for the affair
Senator Johnson, prior to his
^iMtionTto flw Senate; had serv
•d as a Criminal Investigator in
the office of the Solicitor General
tJf Fulton County, Georgia, be-
Cftming the first Negro so employ-
M in southeastern United States
In 1962, he was one of ten citi-
i*»s in the United States to re-
teive the Russurairm Award,
frresident Lyndon B. Johnson ap
pointed our speaker a Special Am-
(iflHedor to represent the United
States at the Independence Cere
miSit^s in Zanzibar, Africa in De-
" ctmber, iW3.
J. w. Jeffries^ president of
the Alamance County Committee
on Civic Affairs. The Get Out
The Vote Dinner Will kick off the
fall voter registration drive in
Alamance County. •
Nat'l Director
Keynoter For
Oct. 8-10 Meet
PROFESSIONAL CHAIN MATE-> The booklet Included greetings, j freshmen
RIALS—Approximately 900 North facts about the community, and Samuel P
Carolina College freshmen and special coupons redeemable at
n«w students who began orien- various firms holding member-
tttion activities recently received berrhip in the Chain,
fact-filled brochures, compiled I. O. Funderburg, third from
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Ttie Na
tional Council of Negro Women
has pledgert to sell 6.000,000 Civil
Rights Christmas cards by Decem-
hfr 3, 1964. It was announced this
week by Horothy I. Height, Na
tional President. She said the de
cision was made at a special sum
mit meeting with representatives
oi* affiliated councils at Holly
Knoll, Capahosic, V'irginia during
the weekend.
The Christmas card is designed
to express the unity theme and
it portrays a unique Freedom Tree
laden with the elements of the
Civil Richts Act of 1S64. An ori
ginal drawing of the card was
pre.sentod to Mrs. Ffabwrt H. Hum
phrey, wife of the Democratic
Vice Presidential candidate dut-ing
while NCC President ! a dinner in her honor. The cards
Massie examines the ! were designd by William Feaman,
by fhe Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain, welcoming them
to the city.
material and N. B. White, a mem- aitist of St. I^yuis. Missouri and
bir of the Chain's board, watches, will be di.strihuted by Liberty As-
The students are, from left: El- .'■ociates of St. Louis,
nora McMillan, Fayetteville; Bar- , Attending the summit meeting
GREENSBORO —The 21st An
nual Convention of the North Car
olina Conference of the NAACP
will he held here October -810
■»ith headquarters at the O. Henry
Hotel, 101 Bellemede'Street.
Dr. George Simpkins, president
of the Greensboro branch, has in
dicated that leaders are expected
from every part of the state to
discuss the theme of the meeting,
“The political F'uture of the Ne
gro," and to develop strategy for
the implementation of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
Gloster B. Current, National
NAACP Director of Branches of
New York (’ity will keynote the ■ with Mrti. Willie U. Bradshcr
Mrs. Watson, Dr. Edmonds, St.
Mark Women’s Day Speakers
The women of St, Mark AMI’
Zion Church will observe their
Annual Womans Day Sunday,
Scr>t''m’v. .■ 2T. Commencing with
Sunday School at 9;00 A M.
Morning worshrp begins at
GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY
Shown left to right at they break
the ground at the site on which
th'3 new Mt. Calvary Holiness
Ch >f eh is to be ere.l^d are;
Willie Robinson, superintendent
of Sunciay School, anl ■ member
of the building committee; Mrs.
Isabel Dunn, a donor, and Bishop
F. Yelverton, pastor. The care-
mpny wias held Saturday, Septem
ber 19.
Convenlion on Friday 8 p.m. in
the Saint James Presbyterian
Church, on Ross Avenue.
Curient was appointed Director
of Branches in September of 1946.'
He has supervision of field serv
ices, youth membership program
and orcanizational activities of
more than 1000 branches and 500
youth groups all over the coun
try. Current is one of the most
outstanding civil rights leaders on
the .scene today. Current also is
siip'ervis'or of tlie reglon-
See NAACP, 2A
presiHtng. Mrs. Emma B. Watson.
President of the Woman's Home
ivnd Foreign Missionary Society of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, will be the guest
speaker for the occa.sion. Her mes
sage will be centered around the
Woman’s Day theme—“Courage to
be. strength to do, faith to be
lieve,"
Mrs. Watson is a graduate of
the Public School in Pennsylva
nia; ^punt Union College, Al
liance, Ohio; Kentucky State Col-
Continued on page 4.\
le.'t, president of the Chain, is bara Alscn, Richmond, Va.; and Was Dorothy 1. Height, President
shown distributing copies to two Cecilia Jones, Washington, N. C. \CNW: Miss Susie Moore, Women
I I Home and Foreign Missionary So-
~ ' ciety of AMR Zion Church; Mrs.
I Pauline Stewart, Women Mi.ssion-
: ary Council of CME Church, Wash-
I ington, D. C.; Mrs. Mildred Boone,
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Peters-
1 burg, Virginia; Mrs. Juanita Don-
I (I ridge. Order of Eastern Star
‘ Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Naomi
Pride, Howard University Wom
en’s Club, Washington, D. C.;
' -Mrs. Ruth Booker, Sigma Gamma
I Rho Sororit;^_Washington, D. C,;
I .Mi.ss ' Catherine Cowell, Grand
i Basileus, Lambda Kappa Mu So
rority, NeA- York City; Mrs. Tliel-
: nia Daley, Delta Sigma Tlieta So-
! rority,—BalUnv>re^, Maryl«fi4; Mrs.
i Marion H. Jackson, lota Phi Lamb-
j (la .Sorority, Washington, D. C.;
^Mrs. Ethel James Williams, School
i of Soe-ial Work, Howard Univer-
I sity, Washington, D. C,; Mrs. Fos-
j tine Riddick, Chi Eta Phi Sorority,
' Hampton, Virginia; Miss Conchi-
I ta N'akatani, NCNW Staff, Wash-
I ington, D. TT.; Wiss Ruth A. Sykes,
i NCNW Staff, Washington. D. C.;
Miss Margie Costa, NCNW Staff,
! New York City; Allan ‘ Mdasky,
I Liberty Associ«tM, 'St.'Louis, Mo.;
J Robert Hughes, St. Louis, Mo.;
I Les Flegle, Litjertyj^sspdates, St.
" I i.ouis,Mis.s»uri and Willilim Fea-
j man, artjrt^„^l^.. Loiiis, liil,
j —
EDMONDS
MRS. WATSON
Groundbreaking Ceremony For
New Mt. Calvary Cliurch Held
Mrs. Moiitez Bates Still Leads
In Times Bisauticians Contest
Mrs. BESSIE rigsbee mason.
Whose funeral was held Sunday.
September 20 at Mt. Olive Baptist
Church. She died September 17
After an extended illness. See
ttory^pave SB.
MAHALIA JACKSON TREATED
AT CHICAQO hospital FOR
Meart ailment
CHICAGO—Gospel singer Ma-
halia Jackson is being treated for
i heart ailment brought on by
exhaustion, physicians at Little
Company of Mary Hospital last
^eek stated.
Miss Jackson was admitted to
the hospital Thursday. Her condi
tion was described as “good.”
A series pf elctrocardiograms
disclosed a marked improvement
In her condition since she was
brought in, a hospital spokesman
Was reported to have said. Also
Itatlng that she would probably
remain there for some time.
The noted gospel singer, 51,
Was married this past July to Min-
ters Sigmond Galoway, 47, a Gary,
Ind., Building Contractor.
On Saturday, September 19,
ground breaking ceremony was
held at the site on which the now
edifice of the Mt, JDalvary Holi
ness Church is to be erected.
Bishop F. Yelverton is pastor.
Appearing on program in be-
’ half of the city was J. S. Stewart,
^ City Councilman; the Ministerial
Alliarce, Rev. V. E, Brown, and
the community, Wilson Barbee.
Congratulatory remarks were
given by Rev. Z. D. Harris, pastor
of Oak Grove Free Will Baptist
Church; Bishop L. Conyers and
Bishopi W. A. Jones.
Other pailicipants on the pro
gram were William A. Reaves who
■sajig a solo and Rev. D. A, Peace,
who prayed the dedicatory prayer.
Mrs. Isabel Dunn was honored
for having donated the highest
sum of money to the building
project.
The new church will be located
at 1319 Glenn Street.
DULUTH NAACP HAS 50
PERSONS TO go FOR
100% REGISTERED
DULUTH, Minn.—A voter regis
tration drive by the local blanch
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple has netted 150 of the 200 un
registered potential Negro voters
in this city. Two months ago, a
survey revealed the unenrolled
persons among a total 400 who
were eligible. William Maupins,
branch president, has pledged a
goal of 100 per cent registered be
fore the November elections.
DR. THIBODEAUX
TO CONDUCT
RALEIGH REVIVAL
RALEIGH—Dr, G. H. J. Thibo
deaux, Director of Evangelism of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, will conduct revival at
St, Paul AME Church here Sept.-
2V-0ct. 1.
On the opening day (Sunday)
services will be held at 11 a.m.
and 7 p.m. Monday through Thws-
day the program will begin at
7:30 p.m.
Ministers and choirs of the
churches of Raleigh and vicinity
are being asked to assist in the
revival according to the Rev. Leon
S. Penn, St, Paul's pastor.
Bonnie Logan, Winner In Local Tennis Tournament
FATHER OF NCC
INSTRUCTOR DIES
IN ATLANTA, GA.
Claude E. Sullivan, father of
North Carolina College instruct
or, Mrs. Sophia Brown, passed on
September 19 in Atlanta, Ga.
Sullivan, who retired from the
U. S. Post Office in Atlanta in
1953 served as president of the
Atlanta Postal Mliance for sev
eral years. His efforts toward
equal opporunity for all postal
employees regardless of race are
monumental in Atlanta.
He is survived by two sons,
William and James, two daugh
ters, Mrs. Sophia Brown and
Mrs. Mabel Harris, and by his
wife Mabel.
Bonnie Logan, Durham’s .sensa- ment in Fore.st Hills, N. Y.
tional 15-year-old tennis star.l Miss Logan is the daughter of
swept to an impressive victory Mr, and Mrs. George Logan, Jj'.,
here Sunday afternoon on the and the granddaughter of Mr. and
Forest Hills Tennis Court, defeat- Mrs, George Logan, Sr. She is a
ing Sandy Boatman, graduate stu
dent of Duke University 6-3, (H)
to claim the city-county women's
single’s championship.
The match had been postponed
to give Miss Logan an opportun
ity to play .in a previous tourna-
I tenth grade .student at Hillside
High School.
The match here last Sunday
brought to a close the City-County
tennis tourney.
CORE BANK DRIVE
WINS PACT FOR
HIRING 8,000
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—A 100-
day-long statewide- action cam
paign resulted In an agreement
between CORE and the Bank of
America, world's biggest bank,
under which 8,000 Negroes and
Mexican-Amerlcans will be hired
within the coming year.
Still being negotiated are CORE
demands for hiring by the bank of
a skilled human relations director
to administer the new job pro-
Tam and for a clause stating that
'he bank will not enter into sub-
ontracts with busine.sses which
discriminate.
“There are two major by-pro
ducts of the CORE-Bank of Ameri
ca projects, “Sherman Gerke, San
Francisco CORE’S public relations
director points out in an article
in the Sun Reporter. “First is the
fact that other banks have ‘volun
tarily’ started hiring Negroes in
See CORE 5A
BONNIE IN ACTION
There 'Aas strong evidence this
week that the race in the Caro
lina Times fourth annual Beauti-
ticians I’op'ilarity Contest is. go
ing to be a nip and tuck affair
betv.een the live nr six top con
testants. When reports from the
five leading contestants were tab
ulated Wednesday noon of this
week, they revealed that al
though -Miss Montez Bates was
holding on to the top position by
a slim. margin there were four
other contestants right oh her
heels.
Running a close second and
third to Miss Bales were Miss
Gloria llaTikins of Southport and
Mrs. Nancy McKoy of Lillington.
Another conte.stant that began to
! show signs o£ being one of the
front runners 'Aas Miss Victoria
Moore of Durham.
Although the contest is now en
tering its third week there were
two new' nominees this week,
Mrs. Dai.sy M Coleman of Rocky
Mount and Mrs. Helen McCollum
of Burlington.
Friends and eii.stomors of beau
ticians desiring to vote for,a favo
rite may do so by clipping the
regular vote coupon from their
copy of the Carolina Times and
writing in the.name of the beauti
cian, Each regular coupon prop
erly signed and mailed or brought
I to the Carolina Times, 436 E. Pet
tigrew Street, counts for 1,000
points. Each bonus coupon, which
must be accompanid by .$4.12, the
price of one-year subscription,
counts for 15,000 points.
First prize in the contest is a
mink stole, second prize, an air
plane round trip to Bermuda and
(he third prize, an airplane round
Continued on page 3A
Virgini^^B^
Lawy|iJid
For ligM
RICHMOND,’, Vfi.-—A concert^
drive to t-egls^r-Negro voters, in
the expc/tstive ’-Fpurth Congjes-
sional District beginning;‘to
produce results. The drive, un
der 'A’ay for several weeks, is
being conducted by civil rights
organizations on behalf of S. W.
Tucker of Emporia, chief legal
coun.sel for the Virginia State
Conference of the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored PeQple.
Tucker is running as an inde
pendent against Rep. Watkins
Abbitt of Appomattox, state
Democratic chairman, in the 18-
county, four-city Fourth District
which covers most of Southslde
Virginia. The district takes in
what is sometimes called the
slate's “black belt.” It had, !n
1960, 113,400 white adults and
89.900 Negro adults.
Only 61,100 whites were regis
tered and about 16,100 Negroes
in the 1963 State Board of Elec
tions tabulation. However, Levin
Nwk Davis, board secretary, said
reports of heavy Negro registra
tion activity have been coming
in lately from his Fourth Dis
trict registrars.
Both the NAACP and the
Southern Chri.stian Leadership
Conference are working together
on the effort along with various
local civil rights groups and stu
dents and adults from the entire
central and southern Virginia
KOREA'S 4-H CLUBS
Korea has the second largest
number of 4-H Clubs in the world;
-42,000 clubs with a membership
of 650,000. Ironically, the number
four (also the word for death) it
considered unlucky by Koreans.
A Voteless
Hopeless People
People is a Registration To Op en Oct. 10
A Voteless People is a
Jopeless People"
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