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iairm film Laboratories * « - ' „ i Cliatbam Rd. Fla. White And Negro Teachers * ★ ★* * * * ★ * * ★ * ★★ ★★ U JBT JffHRSOM SUCCUMBS m i A JKA w'f wVw w« ±-'l VfiV Kfl ■ PARTICIPANTS AND PLAN NERS IN WHITE ROCK'S IN STALLATION SERVICE —Dr. Carlyle Marney, senior minis ter at Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, fourth from right, delivered the installation service for the Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch, third from right, at 122 Organizations Represented at Installation White Rock New Pastor Here Sun. r Apr. 24 Representatives from 122 re ligious, civic, business, educa tional, and fraternal organiza tions attended installation ser vices for the Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch as pastor of White Rock Baptist Church Sunday, April 24. Dr. Carlyle Marney, senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, delivered the installation address as Rev. Lynch became White Rock's 14th pastor to climax the church's observance of its 100 th anniversary. At morning services Sunday, Dr. Minnie T. Forte, director of the Board of Christian Edu cation, spoke during the Sun day School period and J. W. Goodloe, chairman of the trus tees, delivered a lay sermon during the 11 a.m. services. Mr. Lynch succeeded the dis tinguished Dr. Miles Mark Fish er as pastor of White Rock on September 1. Dr. Fisher retir ed last January 1 after 32 years in developing White Hock into one of the nation's outstanding churches. A native of Oak City, N. C. Mr. Lynch is a fourth genera tion preacher. He was licensed See LYNCH page 2A Free SSO Cash For Churches Or Auxiliary Save Purchase Slips From Carolina Times Advertisers MCIIVI SSO BACH MONTH FOR YOUR CHURCH OR CHURCH AUXILIARY The Carolina Times will do nate each month WO in cash to the Church or church auxiliary In Durham saving from It* membert and friend* the high est number In dollar* and cent* of caih register receipt* or caih purchase slips from advertisers In The Carolina limes listed below: Alexander Ford A and P Stores Central Carolina Farmers Colonial Stores Johnson Motor Company Rlgsbee Tire Sales Sanitary Launderera 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 Floriat Weavers Cleaners Mechanics and Farmers Bank N. C. Mutual Life Ins. Co. New Method Laundry Registration Books Are Now Open ... Register Now.' "A Voteless People is A Hopeless People" W' ' White Rock Baptist Church here last Sunday. Also pictured are some of the principals In planning the event that at tracted several hundred people last week. Left to right are W. J. Kennedy Jr., chairman of the Greater White Rock Com LAST RITES HELD HERE SUN. FOR MRS. SADIE P. WHITTED AT W. ROCK The funeral of Mrs. Sadie Pratt Whitted, 87, was held at White Rock Baptist Church here, Sunday, April 24, at 12:30 p.m. The Rev. Lorenzo Lynch, pastor of White Rock offici ated, with pastoral remarks be ing given by the Rev. Miles Mark Fisher, pastor emeritus. Mrs. Whitted was born in Danville, Va., having moved to Durham after her first marri age to the late William Charlie Pratt of this city. Mr. Pratt succumbed in 1920. She was married to James A. Whitted in 1920 until his passing in 1935. Mrs. Whitted attended the public schools of Danville and was a graduate of Hampton In stitute. Following her gradua tion she taught school in Dan ville. For over 50 years, she was a member of White Rock where she formerly served as a mem- Merger of Separate Teachers Organization to Be Consummated Jul. 1; Will Be 60,000 Strong MIAMI, Florida The all- Negro Florida State Teachers Association voted overwhelm ingly to combine forces with the traditionally all-white Flo rida Education Association, then listened to Florida Gover nor Haydon Burns hail the move. The action on April 22 at Bayfront Auditorium becomes effective July 1, 1966 when the two organizations 'will merge and be known as the Florida Education Association, Inc. The two groups held separate conventions in the Greater Mi ami Area on the same dates (April 21-23) and voted on the merger proposal simultaneous ly. He outlined a four-point plan of his own that included rais ing the minimum teacher pay to $5,000 a year; doing away with the national teachers' ex aminations; encouraging teach er retirement programs with adequately programmed bene fits; and finding funds to pay teachers on an appropriate scale. Twelve districts of the FSTA represented by 531 delegates voted for the merger 520-11 after debating five articles on the agenda for three hours. At the same time, on Miami Beach, the FEA was tabulating its ballots and announced the results as 2,037-181 just five minutes after the FSTA an- See MERGER, 2A mittee; J. W. Goodloe, chair man of the trustee board; Mr. Lynch, Dr. Marney; John H. Lucas, deacon and chairman of the Installation . Recognition Committee, and Roy p, Trice, vice chairman of the deacon board. IkvJ MRS. WHITTED ber of the senior choir and several other auxiliaries of the church. Surviving are two sons Edgar and Emmitt of Durham and See MRS. WHITTED 2A 1 - ''-Br '• pt MBL •] 1 m ft m HhW. H|BK9hi^^H WINNER of tha Color Tola vision Set given away at the 1966 annual Mid-year Session of the Interdenominational Ush ers Association of North Caro lina at the Ushers Home near Franklinton, Sunday, April 17, was Miss Evelyn Jones of Fay LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTE RS CONDUCTING REGISTER AND VOTE CAMPAIGN FOR DURHAM AND VICINITY The League of Women Voters is now conducting a campaign to encourage area citizens to register to vote. Citizens may register at their polling places from 9 a.m. to sunset on the Che Car§i|a Ciiws VOL. 43 NUMBER 18 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1966 PRICE 15c 200,000 Negro Votes Are Expected In Ala. Primary NEW YORK Live, direct reports on the Alabama pri mary Tuesday, May 3, will be gin NBC news' comprehensive television coverage of the 1966 election year, climaxing with the first Election Night cover age in color Tuesday, Nov. 8, it was announced today by Don ald V. Meaney, Vice President, News. Coverage of the Alabama pri mary, with NBC News corres pondent Sander Vanocur as anchorman, will originate at WSFA-TV, NBC's affiliate in Montgomery, and will be pro duced by Frank Jordan, Man ager of Election Planning, A team of NBC News correspon dents in Montgomery and other Alabama cities will bring view ers significant developments in live reports interrupting regu 1a r scheduled programming. Flashcaster reports also will be used that night. NBC News will attempt to project the winning candidate after 9 p.m. NYT when all the polls in Alabama will have closed. Vote totals making such a projection possible will be fed to NBC's election head quarters in Montgomery by re porters assigned to key voting districts. A special program summariz ing the results of the primary will be presented that night on the NBC Television Network from 11:15 to 11:30 p.m. NYT. The Alabama primary will be the first real test of the ef fect of the 1965 Civil Righits Act on Alabama politics. Ex perts predict that 250,000 Ne groes will be registered voters at primary time and that 200,- 000 of these will vote. The total vote is expected to be between 800,000 and 1,000,000. attavllle. Miss Jones was de clared the winner when her ticfcet stub was pulled from the box, containing several thous and others, by Sharon Pretty, (right), granddaughter of Mrs. Louise Harvey of Durham. Pre sentation of the TV set was following days: April 30, May 7, and May 14. Along with the registration requirement, a person to vote must: i •be 21 years of age or older ■ w\ M t i "THIS IS YOUR LIFE SUR PRISE VlSlT"—Heilbronn, Ger many Miss Mary L. Keith, Recreational Specialist of the Special Services Club here at Wharton Barracks, arranged a "This is Your Life" program for a soldier stationed here. What Miss Keith didn't expect was that when she requested the soldier's mother to send pictures, the mother said the Durham Woman Arranges Surprise Visit to Gemany for Soldier's M other in 'Life' Program HEILBRONN, Germany—Sp4 Stephen H. Reed, a medic of Seventh Army Support Com mand's 595 th Medical Clearing Company was the most surpris ed man at the Wharton Bar racks Service Club last night (April 19) when he learned that he was the subject of the eve ing's "This is Your Life" pro- See MOTHER. 2A | mid* by R»v. R. V. Horton, second from right) of Pitts j boro, f«ther of the Association. , Receiving the set on behilf of Miss Jones, who wis not pres ent, was Rlcherd Cogdell, (left) president of the Feyetteville Ushers Union. by Nov. 8, 1966. • have lived in North Car olina one year or more by Nov. 8, 1966. • have lived in his voting See VOTERS, 2A pictures would come and so would she. Miss Keith is the daughter of Mrs. Alice Neville, and the , granddaughter of Ernest Keith I of 45 "F" Lawson St. Durham, N. C. She took the precaution ' of seeing that the soldier's I mother was "hidden" until the end of the program when the surprise guest was brought on stajie to the astonishment of ! WIFE OF BISHOP GIBBS MOTHER'S DAY SPEAKER FOR ST. JOSEPH'S Mrs. Alethia F. Gibbs, wife of Bishop C. A. Gibbs and su pervisor of the Missionary De partment, Seventh Episcopal District, AME Church, Colum bia, S. C.., will be the guest speaker for a Mother's Day ob servance Sunday, May 8, at 11 a.m.,). at St. Joseph's AME Church. Mrs. Gibbs was born in Charl eston, S. C., but moved to Jacksonville, Fla. at an early age. She is a graduate of Stan ton High School of Jacksonville, Edward Waters College of Jacksonville, and Metropolitan Business School of Jacksonville. Long active in civic and re ligious work, she is a member of the Interdenominational Min- See GIBBS, page 2A Baptists Meet in 1-Day Session in Reidsvilie REIDSVILLE The General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina will hold its One-Day Session at the Zion Baptist Church, Reidsville, May 3. Rev. E. L. Kirby is pastor of the host church. The purpose of the meeting is threefold: (1) to serve as a source of inspiration, bringing spiritual renewal through wor ship and fellowship, (2) to bring reports up-to-date as a sort of gage for measuring how 'wall the Convention's propsed acti vities are being fulfilled, and (3) to raise money for our ob jectives. The worship begins at 10:00 a m. The .Reverend J. A. Davis of Ahoskie will deliver the ser mon. Rev. J. W. White is president of the association and Rev. 0. L. Sherrill is Executive Secre tary. her son. The surprised Specialist Four Stephe H. Reed is shown with his (From left to right) mother, Mrs. Gaulda Reed and the three Special Services women who arranged the entire thing: Nan cy J. Elgin. Service Club Di rector; Patti Gray, Recreation Specialist; and Mary L. Keith, Recreation Specialist. (U.S. Army Photograph—Donovan) i MRS. GIBBS PHILLIP GEARY SLATED FOR NCC AWARDS DAY PROGRAM A Pennsylvania-born, Boston educated, United Nations cor respondent who spent five years among th e aboriginal Santals of India and has been on expeditions in the African Cameroons, Ethiopia, Colum bia, Cyprus and Tibet, will be the speaker at North Carolina Colleges' Awards Day Program Friday, May 6. The speaker, Philip Geary, has been named to replace Mrs. Esther B. LaMarr, special as sistant to the administrator of the Veterans Administration, Washington, who had been scheduled to address the con vocation which begins at 10 a.m. in the college's McDonald See GEARY, page 2A Noted Football Mentor Passes In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA Harry R, "Bis Jeff" Jefferson. 66, long lime college football coach in Virginia. North Carolina antf West Virginia, died in Phila delphia Sunday (April 24). Jefferson retired last year as the first Central Intercolle giate Athletic Association (CIAA) Commissioner, in which he coached at four institutions continuously from 1925 to 1957. Revered as one of the na- tio n' s outstanding college coaches and athletic directors during the mid-twentieth cen tury. the fabled mentor coach ed at Bluefield (W Va.l State College from 1925 to 1934, with the exception of a two-year stint (1930-32) at A and T College, Greensboro: Virginia State College, 1934 49; and Hampton Institute. 1949-51 He was Commissioner of the CIAA from 1961 1965 Hi s Bluefield teams were National Negro champions in 1927 and 1928 and his Virginia State football teams were CIAA champions in 193fi, 1938, 1939, and 1945 A native of West Virginia, "Big Jeff" attended public schools there before entering Ohio University where he re ceived his degree with a major See JEFF, page 2A Elks to Hold 1964 Session In Raleigh RALEIGH Health, educa tion and welfare will be the main issues that will be dis cussed by delegates to the 1966 session of the State Asso ciation, Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, which will meet here May 1-4, There will be public sessions Sunday, beginning at 11 a. m., when the body will attend regu lar services. At 3 p.m., Rev. A. Dunn. Chaplain will conduct a special memorial service for those who have passed during the year. Sunday sessions are slated for Mt. Sinai Holiness Church, E Martin St. Rev. D. L. Blakey, pastor, Kyles Temple A. M. E. ZLon Church, Durham, will keynote the meet Sunday, 8 p.m., at St. Matthew A.M.E. Church, E. Da vie Street, when he speaks on "An Elk's Responsibility in the struggle for Civil Rights". A combined choir, from the Dur ham church, will furnish the music. S. T. Enloe, president, Shel by, will open the business ses sions at 10 a.m., Monday. The Daughters of Elks, headed by Mrs. Letitia Smith, will begin their business at the same time. A special health program will be presented Monday night by Dr. J. E Jones and his assis tant. GEARY
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