Local Group Purchases Old N.C. Mutual Bldg.
■ ■ M .. ll WrM
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER—Miss I
Carolyn Martin, Hilliidt Hljh
School graduate of 1965 re
colvos a three yaar scholarship
from Lincoln Hospital School
of Nursing whoro she will an
tor In September. Tha scholar
ship was mada possible through
PRESIDENT JOHNSON
Names Local Doctor
To Special
Dr. Charles D. Watts. Vice
President and Medical Director
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company was select
ed by President Lyndon B. John
son as one of a committee of
twelve individuals to submit
nominations for the post of Sur
geon General of the United
States Public Health Service.
Dr. Watts was officially noti
fied of the appointment on
Thursday, August 26, by Dr.
John W. Gardener, Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare.
In stressing the importance of
the committee's assignment, Dr.
Gardener said, "It is the Presi
dent's deep conviction "which
I share that the fulfillment .of
individual aspirations and our
achievement as a Nation rest
finally on the health of our
people."
Representing the National
Medical Association, Dr. Watts
was also in Washington on Mon
day, August 23 for a briefing
session -«th Wilbur Cohen, Un
dersecretary of State, with re
gard to various commissions
that will be set up under the
medicare program.
Dr. Watts who is engaged in
private practice in the City of
Durham, is the Associate Di-
'Breakthrough'
Group to Use
Old NCM Bldg.
Rumors to the effect that the
old home office building of
the N. C. Mutual Life Insur
ance Company located at 114
West Parrish Street, has been
purchased by the Mechanics
and Farmers Bank were being
widely circulated throughout
the city this week. The bank
has occupied the ground floor
of the building since its erec
tion back in 1921 and its offi
cers gave notice at the begin
ning of the erection of the new
home office building of N. C.
Mutual that it did not intend
moving ita main office from the
Parrish Street location. When
questioned by representatives
of the Carolina Times thia week,
the bank's officials would neith
er confirm nor deny reports.
The Times did learn, how
ever, this week that renovation
of the old N. C. Mutual build
ing has already begun and that
when completed three of ita
floors will be occupied by the
uptown offices of Operation
Breakthrough.
The Times also learned from
. a reliable source that the bank
will operate an office in the
new home office building of
N. C. Mutual pt-imarily to pro
vide service for its 280 or more
employees.
Conflicting with rumors of
the bank's purchase of the old
home office building was the
report that instead a holding
see NCM BLDG. 2A
(ha "Margaret Ann Mills Loan
Fund" given in honor of Mrs.
Margaret Mills by har daughter,
Miss Mary L. Mills, a graduate
of Lincoln Hospital School of
Nursing. Miss Mills is presently
serving as an American Consu
late United States Operation
DR. WATTS
rector of Surgical Service at
Lincoln Hospital. He was one
of the six local Negro physici
ans admitted to the staff of
Watts Hospital on August 18.
He is a diplomat of the Ameri
can Board of Surgery, a Pel
low of the American College of
Surgery, was the first Negro
medical man in North Carolina
to be certified by the American
Board of Surgery; and is a
member of the Board of Direc
see WATTS 2A
FUNERAL FOR DR. McLENDON HELD
IN RALEIGH TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
RALEIGH —Funeral services
for Dr. Charles H. McLendon,
who died Saturday, August 28,
at Wake Memorial Hospital, was
conducted Tuesday at 4 p.m. at
the Wilson Temple Methodist
Church of Raleigh by the Rev.
S. E. NeSmith. Burial was in
Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Prior to his illness, Dr. Mc-
Lendon was professor of edu
cation and director of teacher
education at St. Augustine's
College. He had also served as
principal of the Washington
High School of Raleigh, and
the G. W. Carver High School
of Mount Oliye.
Dr. McLendon received the
B.S. degree from North Carolina
A. and T. College, Greensboro,
the M.A. degree from Colum
bia University, and the Ed.D.
degree from N. Y. U.
He will be remembered for
his dedication to the cause of
education, and the kind, gene*
rous, and scholarly manner in
which he presented himself at
all times.
Dr. McLendon la survived by
PO BEGINS J-MAN TASK
FORCI TO RIINFORCI
JOB IQUALITY
LOS ANGELES—The estab
lishment of a three-man roving
task force to reinforce equal
employment and promotion op
portunitlea among postal work
ers was annunced here by Post
master General John A. Gro
nouaki.
This was part of a package
of equal opportunity measures
announced by Gronouski before
the delegates of the National
Alliance of Postal Employees.
Mission to Viet Nam.
Miss Martin is tha daughter
of Mrs. Winnie Martin, 30-D
Ridgeway Avenue. Left to right:
Miss Carolyn B. Martin, Mrs. L.
Williams, Director of Nursing
and F. W. Scott, Administrator,
Lincoln Hospital.
Enrollment at
NCC May Top
1964's Figures
As North Carolina College
prepares for its 54th school
yea?, admissions of freshmen
and new students are 300 above
last year, Willie L. Bryant, the
college's registrar, revealed
Wednesday.
Admissions through Septem
ber 1 totaled 1289. On the same
date in 1964, the college had
admitted 971. Bryant estimates
that the college's enrollment
for the fall semester will slight
ly top last year's figure of
2700.
Orientatiog, of freshmen and
new students begins Wednes
day. September 8, and will ex-'
tend through September 15. Re
turning students will register
Thursday through Saturday,
September 16 through 18, and
classes will begin at 8 a.m.,
Monday. September 20.
his wife, Mrs. Joyce Caldwell
McLendon, two brothers, H. T.
McLendon, Jr., of New York
City, and S. R. McLendon of
Greensboro.
DR. McLINDON
EDWARD BOYD
REGISTERS A
HOLE-IN-ONE
CHAPEL HILL Edward
Boyd, athletic director for the
City of Durham, scored a hole
in one on hole No. 17 at Fin
ley Golf Course here Tuesday.
Boyd played in a threesome
with Floyd Brown and Charles
Stanback.
Boyd, In recording his first
ace, drove his four-iron shot
180 yards in the cu? on the
17th hole. Brown, head basket
ball coach at North Carolina
College, shot a 80 to take in
dividual honors among the
trio.
16,000 Registered
Ck Carffliga^Ciiii^g
VOLUME 12 No. 31 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1965 PRICE: 15c
Kelly Alexander To Keynote
Birmingham, Ala. Meeting
NEW YORK—Kelly M. Alex
ander, president of the North
Carolina NAACP State Confer
ence and a member of the
Board of Directors, will deliver
the keynote address at the spe
cial two-day NAACP conven
tion in Birmingham, the morn
ing of September IX.
The regular quarterly meet
in? of the NAACP Board of
Directors will be held Sept. 13.
Of particular interest be
cause of the recent Los Angeles
riots will be an address by The
odore Berry, director of Com
munity Programs of the Office
of Economic Opportunity. Ber
ry will speak at the plenary
session on Saturday, Sept. 11.
Other features will include a
report by Miss Althea T. L.
Simmons, NAACP secretary for
training, on the NAACP sum
mer voter registration program
conducted in Alabama, Missis
sippi and South Carolina. Miss
Simmons was coordinator of the
highly successful project.
A workshop on implementa
tion of the Voting Rights Act
will be conducted by Clarence
Mitchell, director of the
NAACP Washington Bureau.
Workshop consultants will In
clude John Brooks, W. C. Pat
see ALEXANDER 2A
Former Durhamite In Race
For Mayor Springfield, Mass.
Reports have been received
in Durham that the Rev. Char
les E. Cobb, former Durham
resident, and now the pastor
of the St. John's Congregation
al Church of Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, has entered the race
for Mayor of that city along
with seven other persons who
have announced their candida
cies.
In addition to being the min
ister of St. John's, Rev. Cobb
has been active in the civil"
rights movement since going to
Springfield and is considered as
I a leader in that field.
Rev. Cobb is a native of Dur
ham and graduated from North
Carolina College with a B.A.
degree. He.received a divinity
degree from Howard Univer
sity and was ordained a min
ister in Boston.
He received a master of sa
cred theology degree and com
pleted residential requirements
for a doctor of theology degree
at Boston University.
A former dean of men and
chaplain at Kentucky State Col
lege, he was once managing edi
tor of the Carolina Times Char
lotte editor.
Since his arrival In Spring
field in IBSI, he has served on
the executive committee of the
former Citizens Action Com
mission. H« is a member of the |
National Association for the
President Johnson Picks Dr. James Nabrit, Shifts H. Taylor
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Spe
cial)—President Lyndon B.
Johnion announced T u e•d ay
the appointment of Dr. James
Nabit, president of Howard
University, as U. S. Represent
stive to the United Nations
Security Council.
He named Hobart Taylor, Jr.,
of the White House staff to
membership on the Board of
the Export-Import Bank and
chose Clifford Alexander of the
White House staff to succeed
Mr. Taylor as sssoclate special
counsel to the President.
President Johnson told
newsmen: "As representative to
the Security Council, with the
rank of Ambassador, I am
Native of Virginia Named Mgr.
Woolworth Brooklyn Store
NEW YORK—Samuel L. Pow
ell has been promoted to the
position of store manager by
the F. W. Woolworth Company
it was announced by C. M. Dale,
Ne'*' York regional vice presi
dent. Effect|ve August 24, Pow
ell became manager of the
Woolworth store at 1244 Fulton
Street, Brooklyn, Dale said.
Powell joined Woolworth as
a stockman in a Kings High
way, Brooklyn store in January,
1956. He was promoted to floor
man in July, 1959 and trans
ferred to the 13th avenue unit
In 1960 he became a recognized
management trainee and was
promoted to assistant manager
of the Fulton street store. For
the past several years he has
served as assistant manager in
.other Woolworth stores in Man
hattan and the Bronx.
Powell is a native of Empo
ria, Va. and graduated from
the Dunbar High School in Bal
timore. He also attended the
Pan-American School of Art
and served fpur years in the
REV. COBB
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple.
He is the recipient of the
1958 New England Regional
Conference NAACP award, the
Pastors' Council Award, the
annual award of the Brother
hood Club, Greenfield and was
chosen man of the year of the
New England Region, Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity in 1954.
He is married to the former
Martha Kendrick of Washing
ton, D.' C., and is the father of
four children. The family lives
at 117 Buckingham Street.
naming the noted president of
Howsrd University, Dr. James
Nabrit, Jr."
The President continued:
"I sm also pleased to sn
nounce this morning the ap
pointment of Mr. Hobart Tay
lor Jr., as a member of the
board of directors of the Ex
port-Import Bank. Mr. Taylor
has been associste special
counsel to the President since
May of 1964. He was previously
Executive Vice Chairman of
the President's Committee on
Equal Employment Opportuni
ty and has largely directed
our efforts with the large cor
porations snd institution of this
country in our plans for pro-1
POWELL
in the service Powell married
United States Air Force. While
the former Lucy Toussaint, also
from Brooklyn. They now re
■ side at 461 Van Buren Street in
i Brooklyn.
Mrs. Norma Royal Completes
NFEA Advanced Study at UNC
Mrs. Norma M. Royal, newly
appointed Supervisor of Ele
mentary Libraries of the Dur
ham City Schools has complet
ed the NFEA Institute for Ad
vanced Study in Educational
Media sponsored by the Bureau
of Audiovisual Education, Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, in cooperation with
the School of Library and the
school of Education. The Edu
cational Media Institute was
supported by a contract with
the U. S. Office of Education.
The six '.veeks institute empha
sized graphic arts, programed
instruction, and in-school tele
vision. While a majority of thi
36 participants were from N.
C., there were participants from
Florida, Massachusetts, Wash
ington and Puerto Rico.
Dr. Wesley Meierhenry, as
sistant dean of the College of
Education at the University of
Nebraska, delivered the open
ing address on "Psychological
Considerations in the Use of
Educational Media." Classes
were taught by local staff mem
bers, assisted by a number of
visiting lecturers and the pro
gress.
''Will you plesse stand, Mr.
Taylor?
"He will be succeeded as my
associate special counsel by
snother talented young lawyer,
who holds degrees from both
Hsrvard and Yale, and now
serves as deputy special assist
ant to the President, Mr. Clif
ford Alexander Jr. Mr. Alex
ander has recently reached the
tired old age of 32. Will you
please stand, Mr. Alexander,"
The President reported thst
27,385 Negroes hsd been re
gistered in the deep South
since the passsge of the Voting
Rights Bill. He also announced
that Deputy Attorney General
ATTY. H. E. FRYE
JOINS NCC LAW
SCHOOL STAFF
North Carolina College Presi
dent Samuel P. Massie an
nounced this week that At
torney Henry E. Frye, assist
ant United States attorney for
the Middle District of North
Carolina since January. 1963,
and the first Negro appointed
to the post in North Carolina,
will join the North Carolina
College Law School faculty
effective September 1 as pro
fessor of law.
Attorney Frye, 33, a native
of Ellerbe, North Carolina,
graduated from A. and T .Col
lege summa cum laude. He re
ceived his legal training at the
University of North Carolina,
from which he was awarded
the degree Doctor of Law
(J. D.) in June, 1959
As a student at UNC, he
served on the staff of the
North Carolina Law Review,
contributing three articles for
publication. He was admitted
to the North Carolina State Bar
and the Federal Court in No
vember, 1959.
Frye served in the general
practice of law in Greensboro
from 1959 until his appoint
ment to the District Attorney's
office in January, 1963.
A member of the South
eastern Lawyers Association,
see FRYE 2A
.fc is kSm - I
MRS. ROYAL
fessional staff of the State De
partment of Public Instruction.
Among the out-of-state speak
ers were Dr. Jerrold E. Kemp
of San Jose State College, Dr.
David E. Willis, of Portland
State College in Oregon, Dr.
Vernon Gerlach of Arizona
State University, Dr. Arm and
see MRS. ROYAL 2A
Ramsey Clark is proceeding to
Los Angeles with a special task
force to work on problems
created by the riot.
In discussing the progress in
registration in the South the
President stated the following:
"The Attorney General and
the Chairman of the Civil Ser
vice Commission have just re
ported to me what I think la
a truly remarkable story. In
the IB days since I signed In
to Law the Voting Rights Act
of 1065, which I recommended
to Congress and they promptly
enacted, already a total of 27,
385 Negroes in 13 counties in
three Southern states have
see NABRIT 2A
NAACP Scores
Major Victory
In Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss.—A total of
16,804 Negroes had become re
gistered voters this summer
through the efforts of the
NAACP, according to Miss Al
thea T. L. Simmone, coirdina
tor of the project.
In addition, Federal regis
trars assigned to three Missis
sippi counties, Jones, Leflore
and Madison, have registered
8,370 persons since they opened
their offices earlier this month.
These figures, however, do not
include those persons regis
tered through NAACP efforts,
Miss Simmons said.
The NAACP scored a major
breakthrough i n Clairborne
bounty where intimidation had
been extremely successful in
limiting the number of persons
attempting to register. In three
days this week, the NAACP co
ordinator reported, NAACP
•vorkers were successful in
registering 200. Prior to the ap
pearance of the NAACP only
50 persons, 1.2 per cent of the
3.969 Negroes of voting age,
had been registered voters.
Indicative of the success of
the state are figures by county
the NAACP Summer Project in
breakdown. Included in the
nearly 17,000 figure racked up
in July and August are Hinds
County, 2,350; Adams County,
2,550; Warren County, 1,721;
Lauderdale County, 2,225; For
rest County, 1,725; and Wash
ington County, 2,064.
B&C Associates
Named Carl
Byoir Affiliate
Robert J. Wood, executive
vice president of Carl Byoir
and Associates, one of tha
largest Public Relation firms in
the world, today announced
that B and C Associates of
High Point will become an af
filiate of that firm" effective
September 1.
In addition to the services of
B and C Associates, under the
affiliation, Robert J. Brown,
president of B and C Associ
ates, will become a member
of the Plans Board of Carl
Byoir and Associates, Inc.
Mr. Wood making the an
ouncement from his Ney York
office said, "It's obvious that
the desegregation movement
•will continue to accelerate for
many years, and this movement
is certain to create both prob
lems and opportunities in the
public relations field for many
corporations.
For that reason, we believe
this new affiliation will place
Carl Byoir and Associates, Inc.
in a much stronger position to
provide our clients with ex
pert advice and counsel in this
highly specialized area during
the years ahead.."
B and C Associates wag start
ed in December of 1960. It
has established itself as a
leader in researching and ana
lying the Negro Market B and
C Associates has represented
and counseled several clients
of Carl Byoir and Associates,
Inc. for the past four years.
Mr. Brown received his train
see B ami C 2A
STEVENS GREETS
GRID HOPEFULS
AT N. C. COLLEGE
Jame Stevens beg»n his new
head coaching job t at North
Carolina College Tuesday when
he greeted some 47 football
candidates. The Eagles will
hold two a day workouts (or
the next two w«eks in prepara
tion for a nine game CIAA
schedule.
Stevens succeeded Herman
H. Riddick as head football men
tor at the institution this year.
The Eagles will workout daily
at 9 a.m. and again at 3 p.m.,
on the practice field at North
Carolina College. Two a day
drills will continue until classes
start September 20. The Eagles
will open their schedule Sept
29 against Allen University in
Columbia, S. C.