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V«L«ME 42 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1965 FRICEt 15 C««U
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Dr. Clyde Dorinell New
N. C. Mutual Chairman
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|tnrtual Meeting Of
DdNA Set For Jan. 31
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annual report to the people
tlMting of tli# Durham Committee
Negro Affairs will be held
ihlMtf, January 31, at 4:00 P. M.
If tilt Ebenezer- Baptist Church
If which the Reverend James A.
ir»'*n is pastor.
7-fihfhHghts of Qie meeting will J
I# >faunary reports concerning
activities of the five sub
ft>JU&jtteei on Legal Redress,
Civic Activities, Poli- j
HcfcJ Action and Economic Life
by their respective chair-1
fca# WiHlam A. Marsh, Dr. How-
Fftts, L. B. Frasier, Ellis
afld N. B. White. The re
4iiw Will be followed by a short j
|ji|resp; by the general chairman
J»H H. Wheeler.
hIH address, Wheeler will
Ifjr ! jidded stress upon the impor
ta'nce of the several areas in j
Sh '.the subcommittees are ope-
point out additional prob
which. (ace the community;
Urhbm in 1065, call for great
er numbers of citizens of Durham
to givi volunteer service for the
benefit of All.
Awards will be made to certain
civic groups whose 1964 activities
have been judged to be of meri
torious quality.
Presiding over the annual meet
ing will be the Committee's Execu-j
tiye Secretary, Dr. C. E. Boul
*«re. The invocation will be giv
en by the Reverend A. D. Mose
lejr, President of Durham Minis
ter's Association. Special music
will be rendered by the choir of
the host phurch with the closing
remarks and benediction by the
kftst pastor.
9R. BOULWARE
BPEAKER FOR
SUNDAY AT NCC
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"WhM is the Pric# Tag on Your
Life?" 'will be the topic af an
hy a rUllaf elder af the
Cavoaat Baited Presbyterian
Church, Br. C. Elwaod Boulware,
Sunday at a #:SO a m wership
service i« B. N. Duke Auditorium
at N*rth CaroUh# College.
Haider af the| Bid.D. degree
tram Ctluaabia i UWverSity, Baul
ware iis a member af the North
Car*)iut Adviaairy Committee oa
Ataxic few »** executive
secretary af tkf Catawba Syaad
Cauacil U Uaited Presbyterian
Ihm.
HI iS associate professor mathe
matics at NCC, «nd it former presi
dent a! the DUrfiam City-County
rtA Council. Jji• • •
me •.KQraniP.. wll be list
ia»the first semester series.
DR. WATTS
Vice Pres. and Medical Director
Nathan Garrett Named to Bank
Board of Mechanics and Farmers
Nathan T. Garrett, 33 year old
Certified Public Accountant and
Controller of The North Carolina
Fund, has bsen named to the
Board of Directors of Mechanics
and Farmers Bank. J. 11. Wheeler,
President of the bank announced
that Mr. Garrett's election was
pursuant to authority granted by
stockholders of the bank for the
Board of Directors to fill the va
cancy incurred by the death of
R. N. Harris, a local fire insurance
executive.
Also elected at the annual
meeting of Directors on Jan. 7
were the- following officers: Clyde
Donnell, Chairman of the Board
of Directors, J. H. Wheeler, Pres
ident, R. R. Mprrick; Vice-Presi
dent, C. A. Haywood; Vice-Presi
dent and Chairman, Raleigh Boa
rd of Management, J. E. Strick
land, Senior Vire-President, Ral
eigh Branlh, J. J. Sansom, Jr.,
Vice-President and Manager Ral
eigh Branch, A. E. Spears, Sen
ior Vice-President and Chairman,
Charlotte Board of Management,
I. O. Funderburg, Cashier, Mrs
ViVian R. Patterson, Assistant
Cashier, David L. Harrison, As
sistant Cashier, Walter S„ Tuck
er, Manager of the Charlotte Br
anch and Assistant Secretary,
Walter E. Ricks, Trust Officer
and J. C. Scarbourough, Jr?, As
sistant Trust Officer.
After service in the United
States Army, Garrett entered
Wayne State University in De
troit, taking a graduate course im
bussiness administration. In 1961,
he obtained his C. P. ,A certifi
cate in Michigan, while workiag
with the Richard H. Austin, C. t.
A. firm in Detroit.
Garrett returned to Durham ia
1962 to practice accounting. Siace
that time he has participated ia
A native of Tarboro, North Ca-I Durham civic projects including
rolina, Garrett attended public I United Fuild (1964 Southside Clia
schools in Durham, graduating in | See OARfcg fT, 4A ,•
Scriptos Half Million Dollar
Contracts Under Investigation
ATLANTA, -An Atlanta com
pany under fire from Negro strik
ers and civil rights groups may
lose ene-half million dollars in
federal cantracts, the Student
Neavialent Ceerdinatiag Commit
tee (SNCC) said this week.
SNCC Chairman John Lewls
said the General Services -Admin
istration (GSA), which har.jJUes
purchasing for the federal gov
ernment, was reviewing "all of
the details" connected with two
one-year contracts totalling $514,
000 held by Scripto, Inc. of At
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1948 from Hillside High School.
He then earned a B. A. degree at
Yale, graduating in 1952.
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Lewis said GSA Acting Admin
■ istrator Lawson B. Knott, Jr. told
i him in a December 24th letter
"we are now collecting all af the
details in corlnection with the cam
tracts which we will maka avail
i able to the President's Committee
On Equal Employment Opportun
i Ity."
The SNCC Chairman said Ward 1
I McCreedy, Director of Contract
». Compliance for j the President's
, Committee, told him in a Dqcem-
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Retired Medical
Medical Director
Named at Meet
Dr. Clfd« Donne!!, retired Med
ical Director of North Carolina
Mutual- Lift Insurance Company,
pis named Chairman of the Board
Of Directors during its- annual
ftieetinf held at the company
Homa Office here Monday, Janu
ary IX. Dr. Donnell jucteeds W
J. Kennedy, "Jr., former President
of' the ceakpany she retired from
the Beard after having beeif con
nected with the company for 49
years. _
Dr. Donnell was also employed
by North Carolina Mutual in
as medical director, and in 1920
hi was named to th*- Board of
Directors
- , In IM9, he was named Senior
Vl«e President and Medical Di
rected He retired from this posi
tlsn en January 1, 1960, but has
retained aotiv# membership on
thf Baa I'd »f Directors since that
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-A native *f Greensboro, North
Carolina, Br Bennell received to#
*.S. tfegrae In I#W from A. and
P. College and an A.B. from How
ard University in 1911. In 1915
he received his M.D. from Har
vard • University. His hospital
training was received from Mas
ts General Hospital, Bos
ton City tteipltal, Boston Lying
tn, Peter .Bent Brifham, and the
Bostofc Children's Hospital, and
he pursued post-graduate work at
Harvard,ln X-Ray and Physiothe
rapy. ,
. Dp. Donnell is also Chairman
4{ th* Board of Directors of the
ifeckJUllc4 hnd farmers Bank; Vice
Pt-esijfettt ,«f the Mutual Savings
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Bdbby Nathaniel Smith's Bond Set
At $f ,000 In Traffic Death of Boy
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'A JSO-yfear-olJ Durham man.
Bobby Nathaniel Smith, of 712 S.
Alston * Avenue, Was bound over
to the grand jury Wednesday in
connection with the traffic death
pf Curtis Charles Ellerbee, 10, of
619 Ramsey Street.
Judge W. C. Purcell of Superior
Court found "probable cause" for
manslaughter charges and set
bond at f1,006 pending trial in
Superior Court.
Smith was driving an automo
bilar which struck the Ellerbee
youtk about 7:30 p.m. Friday on
Faytttevllto Street near Ray
Place. He was pronounced dead on
arrival at Liicoln Hospital.
Smith's atterney moved that the
east fca dismissed because of the
lack »f state's evidence "to show
toy negligence" by Smith, who
pleaded innocent and lid not
testify- The motion was denied.
Pattftimai E. C. Wallace said
Smith teld him he (Smith) was
d'riyint about 25 miles per -hour
wile* the youth ran into the
Street. "He said he was blind
ed by the lights of a southbound
r»r," the officer stated, "and
didn't see the child until just
prior to the impact."
Wallace testified that Smith
told him he brought his car to
• halt "•about 35 feet" from the
place the youth was hit
Aicvrrfifcjf te Ann Atwater, a
witness whe testified at the pre
liminary hearing, "The car was
g«ing real last „ . . about 50 miles
«n .hoar;, and it kept going for
o»e whole block before he stopped
titer h|ttlng th'i child. And there
)W»r# ,00 other, cart approaching
him (Smith) from etheir direc
tion," >ha MM.—
Chicago
Nation's Largest
Enrollment
NEW YORK,— Memberships in
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
totaled 452,423 as of Dec. 18, Glos
ter B. Current, the Association's
director of branches and field ad
ministration, reported at the NA
ACP annual meeting here, Mon
day, Jan. 4.
This total, Mr. Current Said,
may be increased by from 10,000
to 15,000 when memberships rece
ived in National Office during
the last two weeks of December
are fully tabulated.
Included in the total are 360,
500 branch memberships; 65,000
college chapters and youth coun
cils; nearly 16,000 life members
and subscribers, and nearly 11,
000 membership at large.
Chicago,with 24,660 members is
the country's largest NAACP
branch followed by Detroit with
21,740. Other large branches in
clude Cleveland, 16,900; Phila
delphia, 12,500; Baltimore, 9,400;
Washington, D. C\, 9,065; Pitts
burgh, 8,475; New York (Upper
Manhattan), 7,91 a; Brooklyn, 6,
323; Memphis, 6,300; Cincinnati,
5,200; and St. Louis, 5,100.
The, cutback in membership la
st year, much of it in the large
cities, may be "accounted for by j
the fact that NAACP community'
leadpfs were involved in major
activities as lobbing Tor passage
of the civil rights bill and in
vote campaigns," Mr. Current
voter registration and get-out-the
saiJ. Al.s.i, he pointed out, ""some
of the larger branches were en
gaged in the promotion of the
NAACP-sponsored ciosed circuit
television spectacular during the
spring months."
NAACP branches throughout
the country, Mr. Current reported,
were engaged during the yefo in
a 'Aide range of prograjp/ictivi
cess to public accommodations,
school desegregation, testing ac
eese to -publle attuiiwdatlohg,
opening up new job opportunities,
working for open occupancy pit
terns in housing, breaching rac
ial barriers in health facilities,
investigating the causes and seek
ing to end riots in northern cities.
Despite "violence, oppression
and murder" in Mississippi, Mr.
Current reported that some prog
ress was made in that state in
'.Federal employment, better tre
atment in Jackson downtown sto
res and re-establishment of Negro
white communications ... in seve
ral cities.
"Dr. Aaron Hehry (NIftACP state
president), Charles Evers state
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CHARLES ELLERBEE
CR Commission
To Hear Vote
Denial Cases
WASHINGTON—The U. S. Com
mission on Civil Rights announc
ed today that it will hold a hear
ing in Jackson, Mississippi, begin
ning February 10, 1965. The Com
mission will hear testimony con
cerning denials of voting rights
to the State's Negro citizens
and discrimination in the adminis
tration of justice.
In accordance with the statute
governing the Commission's hear
ings' the hearing in Jackson will
begin with an eecutive session
during which persons who may
be defamed, degraded or incrimi
nated by testimony to be present
ed at the public session will have
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The above photos were taken dur
ing the 43rd annual stockholders
matting of the Mutual Savings
£.nd Loan Association held here
Tuesday evening, January 12. At
th* left, F. V. Allison, secretary
of the Association, is shown read
Mutual Savings & Loan
Now Over $6,000,000
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I)R. C. E. BOULWARE AND McCOLLUM
TO ATTEND NAT L SCIENCE SEMINAR
Two North Carolina .College
professors, Dr. C.' E'.wood Boul
ware and Irvin A. McColium, both
of the Mathematics Department,
will attend a two-day National Sci
ence Foundation seminar Thurs-j
day and Friday, January 21-22 in I
San Antonio, Texas.
The seminar, set up by the
Foundation, is for the benefit of
persons who will supervise NSF
secondary science and mathoinat
ics programs during the summer
Johnson C. Smith
To Host Public
Relations Meet
CHARLOTTE J. C- Smith
will be host to tiie Eignth Annu
al College Public Relations Insti
tute Here Thursday ana Friday,
January 21 ; 22.
Mosps S- Beiton, Director of
Piiblic ' Relations at J. C. Smith,
who will serve as director of the
Institute, says, the purpose of
this Public Relations Institute will
be "To Improve The Image Of
The Predominantly Negro Coll
eges." The Institute will use as
its theme "An Educational Focus
For Our Times-"
Representatives from 85 coll
eges are expected to attend the
two-day Institute which will be
held on thf campus.
Dr. Broadus Butler, Assistant to
United States Commissioner on
Higher Education Projects, Dr.
Albert NV Whiting, Dean of Mor
gan State College; and Richard K.
Fax Special Assistant to Deputy
Under-Secretary for State Admin
istration have been itemed as key
speakers for. the meet.
Dr. Whiting will address the
assembly Thursday morning at 10
o'clock. This program will be fol
lowed at 12:30 P. M. with a lunch
eon at the Excelsior Club", with
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ing the minutes of the previous
meeting. At ths extreme right is
J. S. Stewart, president of Mutual
Szvings as he made his report to
the stockholders in which he an
nounced gains in resources of
over $400,000. Seated at the left
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DR. BOULWARE
' of; 1U65.. Its major purpose is the 1
exchange of ideas and informa
tion among directors who will pro-1
mote similar programs over a
large area of thy nation.
Dr. Boulware will direct the j
NOC secondary science and niathe- '
matics program, scheduled for the
six-week period June 7-July 17, j
1965. McCollum will teach mathe- i
matics in the institute. An enroll-j
ment of 45 high school juniors is 1
expected for the program. 1"
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Oriel H. Leak, - High Point po
lice officer is believed to be the
first member of his race, to be
invited to serve as a special detect
ive during the inaugaration of a
president of the' United States.
The invitation was extended by
Washington, D. C. Police Chief
Layton.
In addition to serving on the
High Point olic* force. Leak is
active In High Point civic affairs
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Childre are vise these days at
such tender ages, that those par
ents who wish to have an odl-fas
hioned heart-to-heart talk should
schedule it before the sixth
birthdsy. ' '"
is Mrs. Jossphine Strayhorne, as
sistant secretary. Seated at the
right is the Rev. L. H. Wade,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Oxford who delivc:sd the in
vocation.
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1964 is Another
Year of Progress
For Institution
The 43rd annual Shareholders
1 meeting of the Mutual Savings
and Loan Association was held
in the auditorium of N. C. -Mut
ual Life Insurance Company here
Tuesday evening, January 12, with
President, John S. Stewart, pre
siding. Precding the opening of
the session, invocation was offer
ed' by the Rev. L. H. Wade, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
of Oxfor —
Mijiutcs of the previous an
nual shareholders meeting were
read by F. V. Allison, Jr. Se
cretary-treasurer of the Association.
In his annual report to the
shareholders, President Stewart
stated that 1964 proved to rbe an
other year of progress the
Association with its assets in
creasing lightly over $400,000.
This, he stated, brought the
Uil resources of the Association^
to $0,104,233.27 for a rfew high.
Total saving balances were re
ported by the President to amoUnt
of $5,010,625.63 at the close of
the year.
Stewart announced that in keep
-ing-wit!) the- present practice of
other savings and loan associa
' tions in this area, Mutual Saving
will pay dividens on a quarterly
basis in 1965.
-During the meeting, President
Stewart called attention to the
i passing of R.*N. Harris a member
| of the Board, and a faithful ser
vice he had rendered the Assoc
iation during the years he served.
A moment of silent tribute to
Mr. Harris was then called for
by the President. j
The shareholders re-elected the,
following members to the Board:
E. R. Merrick, Clyde Donnell, J.
W. Goodloe, C. C. Spaulding, Jr.,
J. H. Wheeler, J. J. Henderson,
T. D. Parham, W. J. Kennedy, Jr.,
G. W. Logan, J. S. Stewart, H. M.
Michaux, A. T. Spaulding
The shareholders elected a new
member to the Board, F. V. Alli
son, Jr. secretary-treasurer of tbe
Association. Allison is a, native of
Emporia, Virginia. He holds a B.
S. degree from Hampton Institute
and a MBA degree from New
York University. During World
War II he served as Army Air
Force Inventory Clerk and Squad
ron Clerk from 1943 to 1946.
Since that time he has held pos
itions at. Hampton Institute as
Budget Clerk an invoice Auditor.
At present, in addition to his pos
ition with Mutual Saving, he is
treasurer of the Durham Com
mittee on Negro Affairs; past cap
tain of the United Fund; trea
surer, Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain; director and trea
surer, Durham County Chapter
American Red Cross. He is also
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