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Battle Between Brooklyn AMEZ Minister, Trustees Unabated
N.C. College Gets Million Dollar Student Union Building
New Structure
To Contain
38,986 Sq. Feet
North Carolina College will
add to its physical plant a sl,
020,000 student union building,
William Jones, chairman of
the college's interim commit
tee, announced recently.
To be located on Fayetteville
Street between George and
Nelson streets on property re
cently acquired by the college,
the building will be tvo-story
with split-level entrances. It
will contain 38,986 square feet
of space and will be construct
ed of reinforced concrete with
brick and concrete exterior. A
spacious paved parking lot is
planned adjacent to Fayette
ville Street to serve the build
ing.
The fully air-conditioned
structure, which will also be
equipped with the latest mod
ern food service equipment,
will have a variety of modern
service and recreational facili
ties.
The ground floor 'A'ill con
tain a post office with 1500
boxes, a book and supply store,
beauty and barber shops, a
cafeteria and dining room with
terrace, a snack bar, and ping
pong and billiards rooms.
On the upper floor will be a
large lounge and multipurpose
room for lectures, concerts, and
dances; office space for the
college's Student Government
Association and for student
publications, a general adminis
trative office area, music and
recreation rooms, and television
See TRAINING 2A
Teacher Files Action Against
Weldon School Board
Superintendent
Also Included in
Court Charges
HALIFAX Mrs. Verta M.
Pridgen, a teacher with 22
Buche ElemqtnGGßKd mtmoa
years' service at Ralph J.
Bunchc Elementary School, has
filed suit in Halifax County Su
perior Court against B. Paul
Hammack, superintendent of
Weldon City Schools, and all
members of the school board
charging that the failure of the
board to renew her contract
for the 1966-67 school year is
part of "an effort to reduce
faculty integration."
She charges "the best quali
fied and highest trained Negro
public school teachers" are be
ing systematically eliminated in
view of the possible integration
of school faculties in the fu
ture. .Mrs. Pridgen holds a
bachelor's degree from Shaw
University and master's degree
from Columbia University, and
a graduate certificate to teach
elementary grades in North
Carolina.
Grand Opening Mutual Savings
To Continue Through June 24
Mutual Savings and Loan As
sociation, which held its for
mal opening at its new $200,-
000 headquarters at 112 W.
Parrish St., June 9, is contin
uing its grand opening period
with open house activities
which will end on June 24.
Participants on the dedica
tory program were John S.
Stewart, president of the as
sociation and a member of the
Durham City Council since
1957; R. Wensell Grabarek,
Durham mayor; the Rev. Lo
renzo Lynch, pastor of White
Rock Baptist Church; J. W.
Goodloe, executive vice presi
dent and secretary of North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Co.; J. H. Wheeler, president
of Mechanics and Farmers
Bank; and William J. Kennedy,
retired president of North Car
olina Mutual.
Goodloe and Wheeler are
members of the association's
board of directors, and Ken
nedy is the only living person
who signed the firm's original
charter in 1921 when it began
business with 5425 in assets.
Current assets are in excess of
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6 Months Boycott Stores In
Mississippi Won By NAACP
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NCC'S INTERMIN COMMITTEE
—Members of the North Caro
lina College Interim Commit
tee, the group now conducting
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MRS. PRIDGEN
The suit was filed by James
R. Walker, Jr., veteran civil
right attorney of Weldon, who
stated that the suit is a test
case challenging the legality of
self-perpetcating school boards
and the statues vesting arbitra
ry discretionary power in pub
lic school superintendents. He
stated that this is the same
constitutional attack filed sev
eral years ago against voter
registration laws which re
quired reading and writing to
the satisfaction of the regis-
See TEACHER 2A
$6.5 million, and in 1965 over
sl.l million in loans were is
sued.
Other officers of Mutual
Savings are F. V. Allison Jr.,
secretary-treasurer; and Mrs.
Josephine S. Strayhorne, assist
ant secretary.
Tellers are Mrs. Windell
Haith, Miss Annie M. Ander
son, and Miss Louise V. Free
man.
Among pioneer officials of
the association were ,R. L. Ilc-
Dougald, founder; C. C. Spaul
ding, first president who served
also for many years as p(reii
dent of North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Co.; and F. L.
McCoy, the first secretary
treasurer.
McDougald was led by his
interest in promoting home
ownership to found the firm.
Home loans are still among
Mutual Savings' prime busi
ness transactions.
The, new headquarters of the
association, which opened for
business 45 years ago operat
ing out of one 'window in Me-
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administrative affairs at the
institution, are shown confer
ring. Left to right: Dr. William
H. Brown, professor of educa
Dr. Earlie Thorpe Men's Day
Speaker at Union Baptist Sun.
Union Baptist Church, under
the pastorate of Dr. Grady D.
Davis, will observe its annual
Men's Day program Sunday,
June 19 dufrng the 11 o'clock
worship service.
Dr. Earlie E. Thorpe, acting
chairman of the Department of
History and Social Science at
North Carolina College, will be
the guest speaker for the oc
casion. The Male Chorus of
the church will render the
music. The theme for the pro
gram is "Men Keep Marching
Dr. Thorpe a native of Dur
ham and the East End com
munity graduated from Hillside
High School and North Caro
lina College. After he received
the Master's of Art Degree in
Social Science with a major in
History from NCC in 1949, he
was awarded the Ph.D. Degree
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ARCHITECT'S DRAWING of
North Carolina College's pro
poiod $1,020,000 (tudont union
Officials of 18 Insurance Companies in Meet
NEW ORLEANS Eighteen
lield management officials of
Negro owned life insurance
companies are completing two
weeks of intensive training in
the Tenth Institute In Agency
Management at Dillard Univer
sity here.
The Institute is sponsored by
the National Insurance Associa
tion, and is in its second year
at Dillard.
Calvin Vismale of Chicago
dean of the Institute, said that
tion; William Jones, NCC busi
ness manager, chairman; and
Dr Helen G. Edmonds, dean of
the Graduate School.
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DR. THORPE
in Social Science at Ohio State
University in 1953. Thorpe
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building. Th# two-ttory fully
• ir-condl»ion#d building will
havo iplit Uval ontrancoi and
each participant will receive a
certificate of achievement at
the end of the course. Local
company officials and the New
Orleans Council of Insurance
Executives, headed by Marcus
Neustadter, will take part in
the concluding ceremonies.
Vismale, who is a charter
ed life underwriter and assist
ant agency officer of Supreme
Life Insurance Co. of Ameri
ca, is assisted by Octave Lilly,
Jr., agency officer of People's
Fayette Firms
Yield to 19
Demands
FAYETTE, Miss. A six
month N'A ACP sponsored selec
tive buying campaign that se
verely hurt business has ended
with a joint statement of agree
ment issued by Charles Evers,
state field director for the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vencement of Colored People,
and Mayor R. J. Allen
The NAACP's local branch in
Jefferson County, headed by
Ferd Allen, had submitted a
list of 19 demands to the Mayor
before initiating the protest.
All the demands have been met
Evers reported at a news con
ference here, June 8. Last De
cember, the NAACP won a
similar victory in nearby Nat
chez.
The granted demands include
the addition of qualified Ne
groes to the city police force
county sheriff's depart
a program for desegregation of
public schools, employment of
Negroes in frontline office po
sitions, desegregation of court
rooms and other publicly-o'.vncd
facilities and selection of Ne
groes for jury duty. Also a
commitment to improve roads,
street;, and lighting in Negro
neighborhoods.
A! this time, the stores in
Fayette have been fully de
segregated and Negroes are
employed in many establish
ments.
Speaking for Fayette, Mayor
R J. Allen says, "What we
need now is a little bit of for
giveness on each side. I would
like to see Jefferson County as
a place where the white and
colored work together. Let's go :
forward as friends."
WHITE ROCK
BIBLE SCHOOL
STARTS MONDAY
Vacation Bible School will
begin at White Rock Baptist
Church Moniiay, June 20 and
continue through Friday, July
1. It will be in session each
morning from 9 to 12 noon.
Mrs. Evelyn B. Drake will be
directress of the school. Loren
zo A. Lynch is pastor.
• spacious paved let adjacent to
Fayettevllle Street to serve the
building.
Life Insurance Co. of La., and
Edward W. Robinson, Jr.,
agency officer of Provident
Home Industrial Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of Philadelphia.
The Institute covers subjects
ranging from recruiting and
training life insurance agents
through finding prospective
customers, record keeping and
public relations.
Students represent 11 com
panies in nine cities. They are:
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PUSHED FROM HIGHWAY—
(Hernando, Miss.) —As they at
tempt to take up James Mere
dith's march at the point where
Meredith was shot, civil righti
leaders (fom left, starting with
second man) Floyd McKissick,
Dr. Martin Luther King, and
Stokely Carmichael are pushed
Church Squabble Hearing
Set For King Co. Court Jun 20
SAYS FORMER ST.
MARK PASTOR
IGNORED RULES
BROOKLYN, V Y —The Su
preme Court of King County
Monday. June 13. invalidated a
prior court injunction restrain
ing the Rev. Ruben L. Speaks,
pastor of First AME /.ion
Church, and Robert I'owden.
chairman of the board ;>f stew
ards, from utilizing church
funds on deposits at three fin
ancial institutions.
The injunction had been is
sued by a Brooklyn court Tues
day, June 7, following a suit
against the minister by the
board of trustees and Darrell
A. Shavers, treasurer and mem
ber of the board of trustees,
chary ing mismanaging of the
church's finances. Bowden was
co-defendant in the suit.
Atty. Edward L. Johnson,
counsel for the plantiffs, told
The Carolina Times Wednesday
it should be emphasized that
the litigation "is not to be
interpreted as casting any as
persions upon the integrity and
honesty of the minister." The
bases of the trustees' complaint
was that Rev. Speaks bypassed
proper authorities in relation
to church affairs, he said. On
none of the several accounts
which the minister used, said
the lawyer, was he the sole
signatory.
The complaint which leJ to
the court injunction cßsrged
that Rev. Speaks: diverted
some $37,000 from the trus
tees' account into an account
in the name of the board of
stewards at First National City
Bank; held several fund-rais
ing programs such as women's
day and men's day and gave
no account of $63,000 raised
at thes£ activities; borrowed
$2,000 in the name of the
church and deposited it in the
stewards' account; endorsed
illegally a check from the City
Mission society for $1,500
drawn to the First AME Zion
Church.
Shavers was one of four vet
eran trustees of the church not
reinstated to their positions by
the pastor last month and who
subsequently, along with some
other dissident members of the
congregation, requested Bishop
Herbert Bell Shaw of Wilming
ton, to remove Rev. Speaks
from his position. The bishop
refrained from taking action
stating he would consider the
request "if the matter is put
to me officially."
He said, in addition, that be
fore acting, he would need to
confer with the New York pre
siding elder and the Quarter
ly Conference, lawmaking body
of the church. The conference
opened session Tuesday at the
First Church. Bishop Shaw is
presiding.
The King County Court, in
declaring the restraining order
nuu and void, ruled the case
should be heard in open court
on Monday, June 20, before an
official, impartial referee. The
from a Mississippi highway by
state troopers, June 7. McKis
sick. of the Conc.ress of Racial
Equality (CORE); Dr. King; and
Carmichael of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com
mittee (SNCC), led about 20
men down the Mississippi high
way where James Meredith was
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REV. SPEAKS
referee, Murray Steinhrink, j
will hear the arguments and
pass judgment.
Among other charges broug.it
against Rev. Speaks in the ori
ginal complaint, were allega
tions that he diverted $106,000
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GOLDSTON CARTER
Carter and Goldston Named
St. Joseph's '66 Co-Fathers
"Father's Day" will be ob
served at St. Joseph's AME.
Church, Sunday, June 19, 1966.
The sermon will be delivred
by the Rev. Philip R. Cousin,
Minister, subject. "Our Modern
Quandary." Music will be fur
nished by the Senior Choir,
Joseph T. Mitchell, directing
with Mrs. Minnie W. Gilmer at
the organ.
St. Joseph's is honoring two
Fathers of the Year. The bal
loting revealed a tie between
J. Elwood Carter and Everett
L. Goldston.
J. Elwood Carter was born in
Reidsville, October 7, 1914.
Eduction: Elm Grove Elemen
tary School; James B. Dudley
High School; A. and T. College,
Bachelor of Science degree in
Biological Science and Agri
culture; Vocational Trade
School, Cincinnati, Ohio; U. S,
Navy Diesel Engine School,
Hampton Institute; Boston
Technical School, Cleveland,
Ohio; A. and T. College, Mas
ter's Degree, in Agricultural
shotgunned June 6, but Missis~
sippi state troopers promptly
shoved them off the pavemant
and to the road shoulder. After
a short conference, the civil
rights leaders and their com
patriots resumed their march,
walking on the shoulder.
(UPI Photo)
Rev. ( has. Coleman
W. Durham Men's
Day Speaker Sun.
West Durham Baptist Church
will observe Father's Day at the
I! a.m. service June
lit. with the licv Charles Cole
man. Dean of Men at Shaw U.,
delivering the message.
liev Coleman is a iraduate
of Shavv University with the
A I!, decree and Andover The
ological Seminary with the H I)
degree, and is if candidate for
the Ph.D. degree at the Univer
sity of Chicago, lie held a pas
torate in Montreal, Canada,
before returning to Shaw.
Also scheduled in connection
•Aith Father's Day is a program
Educational Building
planned for 7:30 p.m. in the
Members of the Father's Day
committee are Lee E. Jones,
chairman; Milton Love, Sidney
Gunn, Kenneth Johnson, ancf
Henry Jarmon
Science Education.
His affiliations include;
Secretary Berean Bible Class,
Secretary of Class Leaders
Council, Class Leader, Boy
Scout Neighborhood Commis
sioner, Troop Committeeman
at St. Joseph's Church. Mem
ber of the Board of Directors
of the Carolina Times newspa
per. Member of the Durham
Business, Professional Chain,
Executive Committee Chain In
vestment Corporation—Durham
Chapter of North Carolina Hu
man Relations Council One
O'clock Luncheon Club Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity and
Agricultural Technical College
Alumni Association.
Carter is currently employed
as Director of the Advertising
Department of The Carolina
Times. The Carters have two
children and reside at 2110
Concord Street, Durham.
Everett Leon Goldston was
born May 25, 1926 in Durham.
Education: Durham City
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