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Negro Leader H Phmijf& Million ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ o ★ ★ ★.★ * * ★ ★ ★•★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 1 43 Nominated For Carolina Times Subscription Contest $ ' * ,- » 1 W JH '^^h FIRST LADY AT ASHEVILIE SCHOOL (Ashville, N. C.>— The nation's First Lady, Mrs. Lyndon Johnson (I) sits in a classroom at the Edwards High School's Adultsßasic Edu Spaulding And Julian Head Drive For Mammoth Fund New York—Philanthropic "history was made here this week when 49 of the nation's leading Negro business and professional men and women pledged to raise $1,000,000.00 for civil rights litigation by next April. It selected the NAACP Legal Defense and Edu cational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as recipient because the LDF serves as the legal arm for the entire civil rights movement The new organization is called the National Negro Business and Professional Committee in Support of the Legal Defense Fund. Asa T. Spaulding, presi dent of North Carolina Mutual Life Ih&utahce Company, Durham, N.C. and Dr. Percy L. Julian, president, Julian Labora tories, Oak Park, Illinois, who called the unprece dented meeting, were named co-chairman. Spaulding said that the nationally noted business and professional leaders came to New York across the entire country on five day notice, conferred four hours, and pledged the $1,000,000.00 during the next 12 months. Each of the conferees- N. C. Usher to Hold Annual Mid-year Session April 1 Scene of Meet Set for Home In Franklinton The 43rd Annual Mid-year Session of the Interdenomi national Ushers Association of North Carolina will be held at the Ushers Home on Highway No. One, near Franklinton, Sunday, April 1. The meeting is scheduled to get under way promptly . at 12 o'clock noon with de votions being led by Chap lain Thomas J. Broadnax. Following the period of devotions, the Mid-year Session, proper will begin with opening remarks bv L.E. Austin, president. The annual Mid-year ser mon will be preached by the Rev. Alex Chambers, pastor of St. Joseph C.M.E. Church, Chapel Hil l Chambers is a native of Lorman, Mississippi. In addition to having received his A.B. degree from Still man College of Los Angeles 0 State College, he has done further study at Fuller Theo logical Seminary and Duke University. Rev. Chambers will preach at 12:30 p.m. Music for the worship hour will be furnished by the Ushers Choir, under the di rection of Prof. A.C. Artis. Dinner will be served in the Ushers Home dining room by the Granville County Ushers Union. cation Course here Tuesday, night, March 14 as Mrs. Mil dred Smith (R) continues the class. Mrs. Johnson finished her tour of education areas in . iSyffiitii... . L Insurance company officers real estate executives, businessmen, doctors, and lawyers—then signed a personal pledge of SI,OOO each. Gustav Heningburg, as sistant to the president of the LDF, who worked closely with Messrs. Spaulding and Julian, said that "this marks the first time in American history tha{ Negroes have banded together under Negro lead ership and pledged to su port a Negro cause at this level of giving." ■r * REV CHAMBER? New Committeman Dr. Rembert E. Stokes, president of Wtlberforce University, Ohio, has been appointed a member of the National - Urban League'* advisory committee on Ed ucation. the state with this stop and then went to Nashville, Tenn. where she joined the President the following day. (UPI Photo) NAACP Legal Action Gets Results in S.C. Columbia, S.C.-A boy cott of classes and a planned inarch on the State Capitol by South Carolina State College students was called off Thursday, March 16, when three campus leaders were reinstated pending a court hearing on a show cause order. the cotirt filed by the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Color ed People in U.S. District Court, charged that the three students were su spended without a proper hearing and were denied the due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The three, Joseph Ham monds, president of the NAACP State Youth Con- See ACTION page 2A Miss. Parents Boycott All- Negro School Hazelhurst, Miss.—Civil rights leaders ,jn this Southwest Mi s ss i ppi community have vowed to continue last week's boy cott of all-Negro Parrish high school until their demand for the ouster of Negro principal A.J. Dil lon is approved. The school boycott, I which started March 15, I resulted in the withdrawal by parents of some 1,600 1 of the 2,000 students from the school. Charles Evers, Missis sippi state field director i of the National Associa tion for the Advancement j of Colored People, said ! parents in thfe community had become "disenchanted with Mr. Dillion because of the overcrowded situa tion in the classrooms, the absence of an active Parent Teacher Associa tion, and charges that funds donated by parents have not been accounted for." Mr. Dillion has denied the charges and said that during his tenure at the school, improvement! have been made in classroom construction. He also said the school's books are Sor BOYCOTT 2A Clw Cargiw Cimf a VOLUME 44 No. 11 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1%7 PRICE: 20c National Council of Churches Scores Handling A. Powell Congress Urged To Adopt Code Of Conduct NEW YORK, N.Y..March 9—A major unit of the National Council of Chur ches releaxed today a re solution and statement critical of Congressional handling of Adam Clayton Powell and urging Con gress to adopt an "impar tially enforced" code of ethical conduct for its members. The resolution recog nized that "many members of its constituent com munions believe that the handling of the case of Adam Clayton Powell by the House of Representa tives demonstrates a denial of his rights as a result of racism." It said that the procedure used against Powell "has been applied only in cases of represent atives of unpopular mino rity groups" and cited the three such cases: Confe derates in the 40th Con federates in the 40th Con - 'g- Mormon'- m 1899, and a socialiat in 1919. The "explicit code of ethical conduct" asked for would cover "raising and disposition of cam paign funds, conflicts of interest, public account ing for committee expendi tures, travel at public ex penditures, travel at pub lic expense and personnel hiring policies." In releasing the state ment, the Rev. Dr. Tru man B. Douglass, a vice; president of the Council and chairman of its Divi sion of Christian Life and Mission, which issued to day's statement, said that the findings of his unit were the result of over two months of intensive study. The statement was to have been considered by the General Board of the Coun cil on February 24, but lack of a quorum in the final session of the Board's four-day meeting in Chicago precluded act ion. Dr. Douglass is exe cutive vice-president of the Board of Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ. See POWELL 2* AWARDS WBRI PRESENTED to three local businessmen here last Thursday, March 16, by The Durham Business and Profcssonal Chain, at its An nual Banquet, for having achieved singular success in the development of their re J* pP GETS CIVIC AWARD PLAQUE , —Howard Fuller, Durham Ope ratio Breakthrough official is shown being presented a Spe cial Civic Award Plaqtie by Rev. Philip R. Cousin, pastor NYC Helps Place New Jersey Enrolee In West Point WASHINGTON, D.C.-A former Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollee who re ceived a congressional ap pointment to the Air Force Academy, but mistakenly thought it was for West Point, recently discovered he will be going to West Point after all. It was the climax of a happy set of confused cir cumstances which have fol lowed Truvillus Hall 11, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, since that day, mbre than a year and a half ago, he joined an in-school project of the Neighborhood Youth Corps at Atlantic City high school. The 18-year-old youth who is currently an Army PFC at the Army Signal School at Ft. Gordon, Ga., was first recommended for ap pointment to a military academy by his NYC work counselor and supervisor, Mrs. Ada McClinton, who had received a request for nominations from former Congressman Thomas C. McGrath, Jr. McGrath, now general counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban De- Seo WEST POINT spective enterprises. The pre sentations were made by W. A Clement, Vice President-Field Operations of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, on behalf of the Chain. From left to right, Preston Johnson, owner of Purhnnt. I of St. Joseph's AME Church on behalf of The Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs. The occasion was the annual meet ing of the Committee held at the West Durham Baptist Funeral For Mrs. Rosa Suitt Held at White Rock Sunday The funeral of Mrs. Rosa Davis Suitt, was held Sunday, March 19, at White Rock Baptist Church, Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch, the pastor, delivered the eulogy. Mrs. Suitt, daughter of the late Warren Davis and Callie Minor Davis, suc cumbed at Lincoln Hos pital, March 17, following an illness of several months. She was educated at Mary Potter in Oxford and Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh. She taught a number of years at Creed moor . A longtime member of White Rock, she was active in many organi zations and served as a member of the Philathea Sunday School Class, District No. 7, Deaconess Board, Hattie E. Shepard Missionary Circle, Dorcas Club No. 2, and The Year Wholesale Grocery Company and Piedmont Music and Vend ing Machine Company: Clem ents, E. L. Easter, owner, Sun ny's Ice Cream Company and William E. Fuller, owner of the Corner Grocery on E. Proctor Street. Church here Sunday, March 12. The award is given annually to a local citizen for distin guished service in community organization and to the race in general. (Photo by Purefoy) •» 4L, * \ wm K MRS. SUITT Round Garden Club. She was married, to the late Isham Suitt, To his union two daughters were born, Mrs. Inez S. Jones and Mrs. Lou S. Barnes, both of Durham. In addit ion to her daughters, she is survived by three sis ters, Mrs. Irene Mitchell, of Durham. Mrs. Zula Law rence, of Creedmoor, and Mrs. Mary Hunt, of Ports mouth, Virginia; four grand children, Beverly Jo, Jo seph, Jr., Isham and Pres ton Barnes; Many relatives and friends. Interment was at Beech wood Cemetery. LDF Backing Thorpe Eviction Case in D. C. Washington The NAACP Legal Defense and Edu cational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is representing a Durham, N.C., mother who received a 15-day eviction notice from a low-income housing project but was not told why she was being evicted and was refused a hearing by the Authority. The case, which is being heard by the U.S. Supreme Sec- THORPE 2.} Many Being Named in Race For Big Prizes At press time Thursday a total of 43 persons had geen nominated for the Carolina Times fourth big annual Sub scription Contest which gets officially underway April 3. The number nomnated so far is the highest ever named in any Subscription Contest the Carolina Times has staged in the past .according to L. M. Austin, Contest Manager. Aus tin, who is brother of the pub lisher of the Times, stated that the large number of nominees of a Subscription Contest is not always an indication as to how many will become active. Aus tin stated further that it has been his experence that about one-fourth of the nominees named in a contest usually be come active. With still more than another week to go before all active contestants are scheduled to make their first report on April 3 the number of nominees may even double the highest number ever named for a Car olina Times subscription con test Austin stated. As it now stands interest is fairly zooming in several points of the state as well as locally and there is every indication that the contest will be one of the biggest and most suc cessful ever staged by the Caro lina Times. At stake are three big top prizes which include a brand ' new 1967 Mustang automobile as the first prize; a brand new Westinghouse Color Television set as the second prize and a brand new mink stole as the j third prize. | Persons nominated up to i press time Thursday are as fol lows: ! Miss Dorothy Armstrong | Gastonia, N. C. '*Miss Barbara Byers Clover, S. C. Mrs. J. W. Jeffries ■ Mebane, N, C. Mrs. Beatrice Batts Wilmington, N. C. See CONTEST 2A Ten Medical Scholarships Await Negroes Ten four-year medical scholarships to qualified Negro men are available beginning in the fall of 1967, it has been an nounced by National Me dical Fellowships, Inc., and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To qualify for a National Medical Sloan Foundation Scholarship, a student must have demonstrated outstanding achievement in college, been accepted for admission by a medical school, and be a U.S. citizen. Interested Negro college students, who plan to enter medical school in the fall of 1967 may ob tain registration cards and other information from the premedical advisor, or from the offices of Nat ional Medical Fellowships, Inc., 5545 S. University Ave., Chicago 37, Illinois. Amounts of the scholar ships vary according to students' needs. Each scholarship is for four years, provided that the student maintains required standards. The deadline for registra tion is March 1, 1967. No registrations will be ac cepted after that date. The medical scholarship program is designed to help relieve the critical shortage of Negro physi cians and surgeons. It is financed by a substantial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Nat ional Medical Fellowships, Inc. The latter organi zation, which devotes it self to assisting Negroes with their medical careers, administers the scholar ship program', accepts re gistrations, distributes ap plicationsblanks, and se lects candidates.
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