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White Rock Baptist Church Pur DurhamHostfo Ushers 42ndAnnuai Session McKissick to Address Meet At St. Joseph's ') The 42nd annua! convention of the Interdenominational Ushers Association of North Carolina, with St. Joseph's A M. E as the host church, will convene here August 25-28. The -RevAphilip R. Cousin is the host pastor. The opening session will get undeway- Thursday, August 25 at 12 o'clock "noon *ith a pe riod of devotions led by Thomas J. Broadnax, chaplain of the Association Following the dc votions the convention proper will begin with L. E. Austin, president, presiding, during wliich time appointment of eon vention committees will he made and instructions given to delegates. The Thursday afternoon ses sion will be presided over by J. T O'Neal, vice president, at which time minutes of the pre vious sessions will be read by the secretary, Mrs. Margaret Ransdell. A meeting of the Supervisors is also scheduled The Thursday evening ses sion, in the form of a welcome program, will be presided over by Clyde Moore, president of the Durham Ushers Union. Ap pearing on the program will be the Rev. Henderson Amey who will read the scripture and " f fer the invocation and the Pilgrim Wonders of the Orange Grove Baptist Church who will furnish the music. Others appearing on the pro gram will be Luther Barbour, mayor pro tem of Ourham; Dr. Vernon E. Brown, president, Ministerial Alliance, Ellis D. Jones, Durham Committee On Negro Affairs; T. R. Speight, Chairman Board of Directors, Durham Business and Profes sional Chain: Atty. I.eMarquis DeJarmon, N. C. College and Durham Ushers Union, Miss Sandra Philpott. The Friday morning session will be presided over by Vice President J. D. Rooks who will lead the officers and delegation Sec USHERS 2A Funeral Held for Mother of White Rock Minister PALMYRA The funeral of Mrs. Carrie Burnett Lynch, 60. vidow of the late Rev. Augus tus C. Lynch, was held at Jones Chapel Baptist Church of Pal myra. Wednesday. August 24 at 3.00 p.m. Mrs. Lynch was also the mother of Rev. Loreno A. Lynch, pastor of White Rock Baptist Church of Durham, who delivered the eulogy. Mrs. Lynch became suddenly ill Friday. August 20. while visiting her daughter. Mrs. Dorothy Baker, in Philadelphia, Pa., and succumbed at the Presbyterian Hospital of Phila delphia the same day. She was born in Palmyra, the daughter of the late Sydney and Lucy Burnett. During her life, she was active in the re ligious and civic life of the Community where she served as Superintendent of the Sun day School of Pittman Baptist Church, treasurer of the Ladies Auxiliary of the community and several Parent-Teacher As sociations. Surviving, in addition to Rev. Lynch are two other sons. Oliver of Tarboro and Burnett of the home. Five daughters also survive. They are: in addi- See MRS. LYNCH 5A ll| * . L. E. AUSTIN President VOLUME 43 No. 33 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1966 PRICeT is^ N. C. C. Requests $3.9 Million For Biennium I. O. FUNDERBURG (right)] cashier of the Mechanic* end Farmers Bank, is shown being i presented a silver tray here] Monday night by R. Kelly Bry-! ant in behalf of the Durham N. Y. C. School System Hiring Discharged Negro Teachers APPLICATIONS FOR FALL TERM BEING ACCEPTED NEW YORK—New York City's school system is receiving ap plications from Negro teachers in the South who ave lost their positions because of school de segregation. These applications are being accepted for the Fall term pending final approval by the NDEA and the Office of Health Education and Welfare to contiue Operation Reclaim which was launched last fall Purpose of the program is to utilize the talents of displaced Negro teachers from the South for the benefit of the New York City school system Under Operation Reclaim, the southern teachers are giv en special training with the assistance of Federal and other funds, to prepare themselves to take examinations for teach ing positions in the City school. To date, about 50 par ticipants have secured teaching assignments in the school sys tem. During their training the teachers receive stipends to help pay for City living costs. Operation Reclaim was estab lished by the New York City Board of Education on recom mendation of Dr J. B. King, Executive Deputy Superintetf dent of Schools. Requests for applications for the 1966-67 session should be sent special delivery to Carl Erdberg, Director of Operation Reclaim in Room 313-F of the See N. Y. SCHOOL 5A St. Joseph's AME Church Site 1966 Annual Convention of N. C. Ushers Association " w r" - Slh HL ■■: J. T. O'NEAL Ist Vice President | Business end Professional Chain. the Housewives League and the t h Mechanics and Farmers Bank] 11 as a token of the esteem in ■' which he is held by hit fellow * citizens in Durham. Funderburg . f iih McKISSICK Atty. Floyd B. McKiiaicfc. (I.) former Durham resident and National Dlractor of CORE, will dalivar tha annual address for tha 1966 meeting of tha Inter denominational Ushers Associa tion Convention which opened Former St. Augustine's Pupil Named to N. Y. School System NEW YORK Hillery C.tj Thome, Acting Director of the i City school system's Central j Zoning Unit since February, j 1964. formally takes over as j Director this fall under appoint- 1 ment by the Board of Educa tioir. He is a resident of St. Al bans, Queens. Born in Barbados, British ■rp J. D. HOOKS 2nd Vice President has resigned hi* post with the local bank to accapt a position as executive vice-president of the Gateway National Bank of St. Louis. Mo. flr H jfl■pMj K| MPS COUSIN her* Thuraday morning at St. JoMph'i A.M.E. Church. Tha sassion it scheduled to close Sunday, Auguit 28 with tha an nual itrmon being dalivarad by Rev. Philip R. Cousin, (right) holt pastor. West Indies, and brought to Harlem when he was nine months old, Thorne has served Ne-.v York City's school system for 22 years in increasingly responsible positions. Both of Thome's parents had died by the time he was eight years old. He attended PS 89, See PUPIL 2A BURCH COLEY Treasurer 56th Academic Year to Begin September 8 North Carolina College offi-1 eials last Wednesday requested 53.943.000 in capital improve ment funds for the 1967 69 hi ennium during a visit to the campus by the Slate Advisory Budget Commission. William Jones, NCC business 1 manager and chairman of the interim committee administer ing the college until a president is selected, said this amount is needed to cover adequately the needs of an expected student enrollment of 2,787 by the end of 1969. The college now enrolls 2.449 students. Given first priority in the request were repairs to the men's gymnasium, renovation of the fine arts building, re pairs and construction of roads and parking areas, air-condi tioning of six building" which receive year-round use, and re surfacing of tennis courts and repairs to the track. Next in priority were major renovations or additions to buildings. These included land purchases totaling $200,000; an addition to the home economics building, $122,000 installation of a clock system, $18,000; an addition to the current storage building, $35,000; an addition to the maintenance shop, $43, 000; and campus planning, $25, 000. New construction projects recommended were a communi cations building, $1,269,000; a president's home, $72,000; a healt science building, $750,000; and a new athletic field, $560,- 000, See REQUESTS 2A Funderburg Given Salute Program Mon. A program in the form of a salute to I. O Funderburg, cashier of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Durham, %vho has resigned his position to ac cept another as executive vice president of the Gateway Na tional Bank of St. Louis. Mo., was held at the Blair House here, Monday, August 22 at 7:00 P.M. Funderburg, who has lived in Durham for the past 18 years, was extolled by the va rious speakers present as one of Durham's finest citizens and young businessmen. The Salute to Funderburg was sponsored by the Durham Business and Professional Chain, of which he is presi dent; the Housewives League and the Mechanics and Farmers See FUNDERBURG 2A #■- fe ,-4 flv> £Jr' js, Vir •? • i&gE—Mi WILLIAM NICKLES Member Board of Directors PASTOR ACCEPTS DEED—The Rev. Lorenio A. Lynch, pastor of White Rock Baptist Church, is shown accepting the deed to a new six-acre site |ust pur chased from M. L. Vickers on Local Church To Locate In Southern Section Of City (Ps \ % f .... H. M. MICHAUX. JR PASS LAW EXAM—Among the 173 passing the examination to practice law August 2, 3 and 4 were H. M. Michaux, Jr., and Eric C. Michaux brothers. H. M. Michaux is a graduate of the N. C. College Law School and his brother Eric attended both the N. C. College Law School and Duke University. Neither of the brothers will Roy Wilkins Praises AKA for Giving Assistance to NAACP LOS ANGELES "Negroes are Americans, citizens of the United States; their identity is here, as Americans . . separat ism isn't going to got us very far," NAACP Executive Direc tor Roy Wilkins told delegates attending the 42nd annual con vention of Alpa Kappa Alpha Sorority here "Behind the headlines, the flamboyant speeches and the catchy, emotion-laden slogans concocted by what are loosely called civil rights leaders, the people have to go on doing the things that must be done: get ting jobs, establishing homes, rearing families, educating children, safeguarding health, relaxing in recreation and building a competence." Mr. Wilkins spoke at the afternoon session, Wednesday, Aug. 17. He urged delegates represent ing this oldest Negro sorority to continue helping the Negro American forward as they have been doing for years, "and, most important of all, let its women continue to be wives FRED HINES Treasurer, First Aid Department which a new edifies for the church will be erected in the j near future. Other members of I the building committee are | left to right: James A. Haw kins, Woodrow Brown, Jr., Mrs. I ftl ERIC MICHAUX engage presently in the prac tice of law. Eric who is a com missioned Ist Lieutenant in the Air Force will serve four years in the Armed Service while his brother will be engvaged in the operation of the real estate and insurance company organized and operated by their father H. M. Michaux the past 35 years or more. and mothers in the kinds of j families that assume the re-1 sponsibilities of citizenship for | themselves, and that inspire! and aid the march toward in | dependence and citizenship re- J sponsibility in others " Mr. Wilkins lauded "our | Greek letter societies who are i staunch and substantial support- I ers, financially, of a variety of civil rights activities. We in the NAACP are proud of the support, over many years, of the national body and of the local chapters of AKA." It was during the NAACP's re cent annual convention in Los Angeles that Miss L Pearl Mit chell. an NAACP vice president I and life membership coordina- | tor for AKA, reported that I within the past two years her j group had raised a total of | 534.152 25 in life memberships] for the NAACP Vers* of the Week: Imagi nation does more than accele rate material progress; it cre ates more satisfying human re lationships. —Ray Giles Hr MRS. S. D. CATES Supervisor Junior Department Bessie Doby, W. J. Kennedy Jr., E. W. Midoette. Mrs. F. L McLean. J. S. Stewart, C. C Spauiding. Jr., Haskell Hudson F. V. Allison and Roy Trice. Church to Be Located on Fayefteville Rd. Announcement was made here Wednesday, August 24 of the purchase of a new site for the erection of a new plant for White Rock Baptist Church Rev. Lorenzo A Lynch is pas tor and W .1 Kennedy. Jr . is chairman of the building com m it tee The parcel of land, consist ing of over six acres, is locat ed on Favetteville Street in the southern part of the city, ad joining the Reechwood Ceme tery area. Purchase of the property was made from the Vickcrs family, August 23. Relocation of the church has been made necessary because of the proposed East-West ex pressway project of the Urban Redevelopment Program now under development in the city White Rock is one of the oldest churches of the city, having occupied its present lo cation since 1890 when the first unit of the present structure was erected The entire mem bership at the time was 300 It now has a membership of around 1200 . A program for the erection of a new church was begun by Or Miles Mark Fisher who was the pastor from 1933 until his retirement on December 31, 1964 The church will observe its 100 th anniversary during the month of October. Report Shows Negroes Lead Hwy. Accidents RALEIGH—Negroes hold 12 and one-half percent of all the driver's licenses in North Car olina, and are involved in 26 percent of all the fatal acci dents. These percentages were dis closed in =*3 study by State Motor Vehicles Department sta tisticians of accident figures for the first seven months of See REPORT 2A OTHA BLAYLOCK Sergeant-At-Arms
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