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Many Notables Slated For NCM Dedication April 1-2 ■- r V V. P. HUMPHREY The culmination of a unique success story will occur in Durham, N.C., April 1 and 2 when the dedication cere monies for the new Home Of fice of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. are held. Outstanding leaders in gov ernment, business, education, communication, labor, litera. ture and the arts, religion and sports will be on hand for the dedication event of the largest State Trooper Found w Not Guilty" Of Attempted Rape; Husband Bound Over On Assault With Intent To Kill N. C. Mutual Dedication Edition Wkt Carolina Ciaws j VOLUME 43 No. 13 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1966 State Teachers To Hold Annual Convention March 31 - April 1 RALEIGH—The 85th Annua) Convention of the Noijth Car olina Teachers Association will be held in Raleigh on Thurs day and Friday, March 31, and April 1, with main sessions at the Raleigh Memorial Audito rium. The theme of the Con vention is "Free to Teach" Dr. Willia mJ. Trent, Jr., assistant personnel director of Time Inc. and former head of the United Negro College Fund, will deliver the keynote ad dress on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. in the Raleigh Memorial Audi torium. On Friday at 11:00 a.m. At torney Jack Greenberg, direc tor-counsel, NAACP Legal De fense and Educational Fund, will speak to the Administra tors and Supervisors in the Southern Room of the Memo rial Auditorium. He will also deliver the main address at the Second General Assembly of the Convention Friday eve ning at 8:15. Dr. John W. Davis, special director, Teacher Information and Security, NAACP Legal De fense and Educational Fund, Inc. will speak to the Elemen- See TEACHERS 2A m m>~* **■ BLTI WINTERS Mechanics & Farmers Bank Add Three To Board Of Mgrs. Appointments of three out standing civic and business leaders to the board of man agers of branches of the Me chanics and Farmers Bank in Raleigh and Charlotte were an nounced here this week by bank president John II- Wheel er, Durham. John W. Winters, serving his third term on the Raleigh City Council, has been named to the Raleigh board. Representing Charlotte on 9 mr r'" CONNER Negro life insurance company in America. John T. Connor, Secretary of Commerce and Robert C. Weaver, Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development will par ticipated in the event. Secretary Connor will be introduced by former Governor and Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges. Assistant Secretary of Labor George L. P. Weaver; m m / TRENT KEYNOTER FpR THURSDAY —Dr. Wm. J. Trent, assist per sonnel director of Tim* Inc., and a former head of the Unit ed Negro College Fund will de liver the keynote eddrew on Thursday, March 31, at 115 P.M. In the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium l on the occasion of the 85th Annual Convention of the North Carolina Teachers Association. #p® LONG the branch's board of managers are Lem Long, Jr., owner and president of Long's Mortuary Service, Inc., and Secreary- Treasurer of Long's Mutual Burial Association, and Malachi L. Greene. Greene is owner and operator of Greene Bro thers Flooring Company which operates in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Car olina. At the Raleigh branch, Win f i ,« #* i ife^i Lvd ROBT. WEAVER Assistant Secretary of Com merce Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer, Brigadier General R. Wetherill, Chief of Staff XVTII Airborne Corps of Fort Bragg represent ing the Secretary of the Army; and John A. Lang, Jr., Admin istrative Assistant to the Sec retary of the Air Forces, De partment of the Air Forces, Washington, D C., representing the Secretary of Defense, Rob ert S. McNamara, have also % - y DAVIS TO ADDRESS PRINCIPALS— Dr. John W. Davis, special di rector, Teacher Information and Security, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, inc. will speak ttf the Elemen tary School Principals, Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Southern Room on the occasion of the 85th Annual Convention of the North Carolina Teachers Asso ciation. triM v GREENE ters joins a board of man agers now consisting of Wheel er, I. O. Funderburg, cashier, J. S. Stewart, J. J- Sanson, J. E. Strickland, and C. A. Hay 'vood. Long and Greene join a Char lotte board that includes Dr. R. P. Perry, A. E. Spears, vice president, John H. Moore, C. H. Beckwith, R. C. Robinson, in addition to president Wheel er and Funderburg, cashier. * jf A A, CEO. WEAVER accepted an invitation to at tend. President A. T. Spaulding said when commenting on the upcoming dedication, "This new Home Office building is more than an office building. It is a symbol of Negro enter prise and of what can be ac. complished by a minority group in a democracy and under the free enterprise system. It also stands as an eloquent witness PRICE lsc "'" GREENBERG WILL SPEAK FRIDAY At torney Jack Greenberg, direc for-countel NAACP Lrgtal Da font* and Educational Fund will apeak to the Admlniftra tor» and Superviior* on Friday. April 1, at 11:00 a.m. In the Southern Room of the Memo rial Auditorium. Hb will alio deliver the main addreia at the second General Aisembly of the 15th Annual Convention of NCTA on Friday evening at 1:15. Former Durham Citizen Now Highest Ranking Negro in Navy NORTH KINGSTOWN, BI A soft-spoken native of New port News, Va., and a former resident of Durham has been appointed the Navy's first Ne gro captain in over a century. The 46-year-old officer, Thomas David'Parham, Jr., is a gradu ate of North Carolina College and was promoted at Quonset Point Naval Air Station Mon day, March 21. The Navy's first captain was Robert Smalls, a harbor pilot •*ho, in 1861, directed a Con federate ship into Union hands and as a reward was named skipper of the captured vessel. Ordained in 1944 and com missioned as a lieutenant (j.g ) the same year, Parham was graduated also from Western Seminary in Pittsburgh. He said his Southern background and accent have been an aid l in establishing rapport with seamen from the South. His ac cent, he said of Southern sail ors>J'makes them feel at home. It mak«s me understand them easily," he said, "and they can understand me." Military service, added, has *n equalizing effect on men. "When you come out of an environment with hostility and BRIMMER Ito the indomitable determina tion of the American Negro to ■ake full advantage of his op | -jortunities to win his way in i Amerircan life with dignity and lonor." One of the features of the will be a sympo sium which will trace the Ne gro's achievement and his con. tribution to American life . . . past, present, and projections into the future Key people in Judge Purcell Finds Probable Cause in Case In Recorder's Court Tuesday "probably cause" was found against Hubert Junious- John son on charges of assault with intent to kill a state trooper who allegedly tried to rape Johnson's wife. The trooper, E. R. Kirby, was acquitted of attempted rape by Judge W. C. Purcell •*ho heard the case. Johnson, who had posted bond of SI,OOO, remains ndei bond until trial in Superior Court. Testifying for the prosecu tion, Mrs. Johnson said Kirby called her Monday morning, March 14 to ask if she had called him. She said she an swered "no" but said she want ed to see him about selling a car and transferring the title. About 11 a.m., she continued, Kirby came to her Cornwallis Road residence, and as he was sitting on the sofa, shortly after arriving, suddenly the lights went out. She stated since none of the switches she tried worked, she assumed *the pc/wer lines were being worked on. A nurse employed at Duke Hospital, Mrs. Johnson said Kirby jerked her bra off and started kissing her, unzipped her slacks and bodily carried her to the bedroom where he continued fondling her after removing her slacks. She said she was highly shocked and next remembers hearing Kirby cry out as he was being cut by her husband who was using a grass sickle as a weapon. Mrs. Johnson, while being cross-examined, stated that she See TROOPER 2A PARHAM conflict, and come into one where that is not the custom, you tend to act accordingly." thus, he noted, Southerners tend to love their prejudices behind. Parham was released from active service in 1946 and from that year to 1951 he pastored Butler Memorial Presbyteriar Church in Youngstown, Ohio Since returning to active duty See PARHAM 2A ■ %* M MOORE j government, business, educa | tion. communication, labor, lit j erature and the arts, religion and sports will* participate in the symposium. When discus sing the symposium. Spaulding said, "It is our feeling that 'he positive as well as the nega tive image of the Negro should He projected from time to time since the whole of his life in America has not been confined I to the ghettos, nor all of his 196 6 NATIONAL BASKET BALL CHAMPIONS—The Tex. •i Western University basket ball teem of El Paso, national chempions for 1966. Front row, left to ripht: Willie Worsley, Installation For White Rock Minister Is Set For April 24 Installation services for the Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch, as suc cessor to Dr. Miles Mark Fish er as pastor of White Rock Baptist Church, will be held as part of the Church's 100 th Anniversary Sunday, April 24, at 5:00 p.m. Dr. Carlyle Marney, senior minister of Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, will preach for the occasion. Dr. Fisher pastored White Rock from 1933 until' his re tirement in 1964. Previdus pas tors include Dr. W. L. Ran some, present pastor of First Baptist Church, South Rich mond, Va., 1931-32; Dr. Dr. James E. Kirkland, now pas tor Union Baptist Church of See INSTALLATION 2A Last Rites Held Wednesday For Delaney Leonadas Markham Funeral services for Delaney Leonadas Markham, 58, were held Wednesday afternoon at Saint Joseph's A.M.E. Church with the pastor, Rev. Philip R. Cousin, officiating. Markham, the son of the late Mrs. Maggie Markham and the grandson of the late Rev. Edlan D. Markham, the founder of the Saint Joseph's A. M. E. Church, departed this life last Saturday. Born and educated in -Dur ham, Markham was a lifetime and devoted-member of the St. Joseph's Church where he was an usher and a member of the Berean Bible Class. He was employed in the American Sup pliers Department of the American Tobacco Company. He leaves to mourn a wife, Mrs. Sylvia Markham of the mm vA Wk SPAULDING | efforts to perpetrating crimes On the contrary with his limit. I ed opportunities, he has dem onstrated his power to become | ".n a#set in many fields; and, j 'n many instances, has raised I himself "by his own boot straps." j The symposium will cover the following subjects Govern ment, Public Policy and Po litical Action; Education. Busi. ness and the Professions; Re Bobby Joe Hill, Orsten Artis, Togo Ralley, Tony Harper, Da vid Palacio and Jerry Arm strong. Back row, left to right: Nevil $k REV. LYNCH I MARKHAM home; one. son, Robert Edian Markham. Durham; two daugh- See MARKHAM 2A GOODLOE ligion; Literature and the Arts, he Communications Field; La 'ior and Sports. Leading au thorities from each of these fields 'wilj participate in the symposium, and position papers will be presented summarizing : he findings for each of the seminars. The formal dedication cere mony will be held Saturday, April 2. There will be an Un- See NOTABLFS ?4 Shad, Harry Flournoy, Willi* C«ger, Louis Baudoin, Dick My »r», David Lattin and Bill Clingan. (Clingan and Harpar ara no longar on tiam.) Free SSO Cash For Churches Or Auxiliary Save Purchase Slips From Carolina Times Advertisers . RECEIVE *SO EACH MONTH FOR YOUR CHURCH OR CHURCH AUXILIARY The Carolina Times will do nate each month SSO in cash to the Church or church auxiliary in Durham saving from it* members and friends the high est number in dollars and cents of cash register receipts or cash purchase slips from advertisers in The Carolina Times listed below: Alexander Ford A and P Stores Central Carolina Farmers Colonial Stores Johnson Motor Company Rigsbee Tire Sales Sanitary Launderers and Cleaners Mcßroom Rentals Union Insurance and Realty Co. Sav-More Stores Model Laundry Sam's Pawn Shop Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. Long's Florist Weavers Cleaners Mechanics and Farmers Bank N. C. Mutual Life Ins. Co. New Method Laundry Thought of th« We*k: Men re tire on pensions but did any body ever hear of a married woman who was able to retire from housework?