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i Jiii. x ,n iX.u LciDor»..torics TUO Cljatburn Rd. vynstoti-rblf.-n, K. 0. 7/PO/b«». • •' ' ' Manv Notables Expected At N.C. Branches NAACP Session w " * ill . mm s is* KELLY M. ALEXANDER President North Carolina State Conference NAACP Branches The 24th annual session of the North Carolina Branches of the National Association for the Advan cement of Colored People will open here Sat the Jack Tar Hotel on Corcoran Street, Friday, Nov. 24, and continue through Sunday, Nov. 26. Mt. Vernon Host To Southern Rapt. Meet Gardner Taylor To Address PN6C Session The 1967 session of the Southern Regional Convention of the Progres sive National Baptist Convention will be held at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church "here, Nov. 28-30. Programmed for the three-day meeting are many outstanding minis ters and laymen. Among them are Rev. OJ N. Conner, Florida; Rev. J. C. ♦illiams, South Carolina; Rev. R. M. Joseph, Alabama; Dr. S. A. Owen, Tennessee; Dr. O. H. Stinson Georgia; Rev. W. L. Hobbs, Alabama;! Rev. R. M. Lee, Florida; Rev. J. J. Johnson, North Carolina; Rev. J. 0. Rich, South Carolina; Rev. W. J. Hodge; Kentucky and Rev. S. B. Kyles, Tennessee. Highlighting the 1967 session will be thq address or sermon to be delivered Thursday at 8:00 p.m. by Dr. Gradher C. Taylor, pastor of Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Pastor of Mt. Vernon, the host church, is the Rev. E. T. Browne, jk'ho has left no stone unturned in preparation for the session. See MT VERNON page 12 mmt i p-- -u- ■ t iViH mag .X- I^JVI SPAULOINC Durham Youth President UNC Frosh Law Class Kenneth B. Spaulding has been elected President of the University of North Carolina Law School's first year class for the academic year of 1967- 1968 Spaulding is the first Negro to hold the position of class president in the history of the university which is the oldest state supported Liberal Arts institutions in the Nation. Spaulding plans to initiate a program which will lend itself to better communications be tween the Negro and white communities, so as "to break down the old myths and trans form them to new realities." He pointed out that the Ne gro has an important and de manding role to play in the future development of the South. Spaulding is a cum laude graduate of Howard University. Last year, he served as Presi dent of the Political Science Society and received a grant from the Howard University Citizenship Project, a political education program, for the first semester. He served as an ad ministrative assistant to the City Manager of Durham in 1966 (summer) and in the sum mer of 1967 he served as a re search analyst in the U.S. De partment of Justice. MRS. RUTH MORGAN Vice-President Registration will begin at 7:30' a.m. and continue throughout the 1 day. The opening program of the session will include a Memorial Ser vice tor all deceased member, since the 23rd annual meeting, at 10:00 a.HL, with Rev. J. T. McMillan, chair manjOf the NAACP Church Commit-1 Clue Carwip Cun£o VOLUME 44 —No. 45 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1967 PRICE: 20c Dr. Ellen Winston And Dr. Rose Butler Browne Feted GREENVILLE Two of North Carolina's most outstand ing women were honored in Greenville Sunday, 19, during the Seventh Anni versarv Celebration of the North Carolina Joint Council on Health and Citizenship Receiving a Special Award of Honor, presented by Dr. Walter N. Ridley, president of Elizabeth City State College, was Dr Ellen B. Winston of Raleigh. Dr Winston was born in Swain County where she was reared and attended the public schools Her undergraduate de gree was obtained from Con- See FETED page 12 Court Aids Retarded Youth Interrogated By Policemen ATLANTA Conviction of a 12 year old mentally retarded youth,! jailed on charges of arson after four I hours of police questioning, was re versed here this week by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, (LDF) attorneys. The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled J on grounds that the youth's confes sion was not voluntary since his I interrogation took place without le \ gal counsel or knowledge of his 1 parents. "This ruling," according to LDF j : Assistant Counsel Michael Meltsner, | j "establishes that the police have a j heavy responsibility to insure that; i the constitutional rights of juveniles] s arc protected before questioning! them." "The courts from here on will See YOUTH page 12 11 ANNUAL JCHECK PMSiNTIO , j —Dr. Jerry Drayton, pastor of | ! Winston-Salem's New Bethel ; Baptist Church, one of the | | city's largest, receives the New j Bethel Effort Club's annual 1 TBJL MM ATTY. CLAYTON Vice-President tee, presiding. The memorial service will be led by Dr. Carroll M. Felton. All plenary sessions will be held in the University Ballroom and will be opened to the general public. From 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., organization and business meetings will be conducted for ministers, jj^k ■k . H DR. WINSTON DURHAM MAN IS PROMOTED TO COLONIAL WAREHOUSE FOREMAN RALEIGH Promotion of William S. Gunn to Warehouse Foreman for Colonial Stores, f Inc. has announced by R. L Belvin, Vice President of . the Company's Raleigh Divi sion. In his new position Mr. jflV Gunn will supervise the pro duce and dairy operation at t Colonial's District center in Mr. Gunn of Dur- ■ ham. and has been associated with Colonial various post since 1946. He is married IH of l -Jv which are attending school. See GUNN page 12 OUNN I check for the building fund | of the church from Mrs. Dew jey Williams, representing the club. The Effort Club presents i the annual check on its "Race I I ■i \Jr % ATTY. SAIWMIE CHESS Vice-President youths and Branch delegates. With President Kelly Alexander presiding the minutes of the annual session will be read by Mrs. B. G. Burnett, secretary of the State Conference. Reports of the Organization Com mittee will follow. Highlighting the Friday morning OR BROWNE I Progress Day," for which, this year, Dr. Hugh Gloster, presi dent of Morehouse, seated at left, was the speaker. (Photo by Nottingham) H KMH REV. CARROLL FELTON Vice-President session will be the president's annual address to be delivered at the close of j the Plenary Session. Presentation of national, state officers and guests will follow. The Friday evening program will be in the form of a Mass Meeting to be held at eitht o'clock in the Uni Fraternities Attacked For Bias Policies CLEVELAND—Th e Masons. Eagles, Elks, Moose, Oddfel lows and other orders devoted to fraternity and fellowship were urged this week to re examine their policy of ex cluding Negroes from member ship. The call came in an ad dress to the Cleveland Shrine Luncheon Club, a branch of the Free and Accepted Masons, by Howard M. Metzenbaum, a national vice president of the American Jewish Congress and chairman of the board of I. T. T. Consumer Services Corp. Mr. Metzenbaum, a 50-year old lawyer and former Ohio legislator still active in Demo cratic politics here, said he did not question any individ ual's rights to associate with any person of his own choice. 'RM*MSsm*nt Needed' "But there is a distinction between organizations and in dividuals," he continued, add ing: "When an organization sets as one of its standards for ad mission the applicant's race, or religion, fairminded Americans have to say, 'Why? Is this in tentional? Or is it yesteryear's thinking?' "There is something wrong, and a reassessment is needed, in connection with the atti tudes and policies of all of the great fraternal orders of the country." In addition to the Masonic policy of excluding Negroes, Mr. Metzenbaum also said that: The Eagles, a fraternal order that supports liberal causes and numbers nearly one mil lion members, admits only members of the Caucasian race. The Benevolent Protective Order of Elks limits its mem bership to "white male citi zens of the U. S." The Loyal Order of Moose is open to all "male persons of the Caucasian white race." The Independent Order of Oddfellows specifically exclude Negroes as well as "Chinese, Polynesians, Indians, hal f- See FRATERNITIES page 9 Heart Attack Fells Character Actor HOLLYWOOD Charact j er actor George Woodfield, who appeared in films and ! television shows, died Nov. 10 j after suffering a heart attack. Woodfield, 50, was un der I contract to Walt Disney ATTY. C. (>. PEARSON General Counselor versity Ballroom with Dr. A. D. Moscley, president of the Durham NAACP Branch, presiding. The keynot address will be de _ The keynote address will be de livered by Clarence Mitchell, Director Washington Bureau NAACP. Mitchell will be introduced by Durham City DR GARDNER TAYLOR President PNBC DR. WILLIAM C UPSHAW Congress President Alexander and McLean to Be Opposed For NAACP Posts Fireworks May Fly at Annual Durham Meet The election of officers to be held Saturday afternoon will see President Alexander opposed for his post by the Rev. W. E. Banks, prominent young minister of Thomasville. In offering himself for the presi dency of the N. C. Branches of NAACP, Rev, Banks has included in his platform the following program: See FIREWORKS page 12 Sullivan, Jackson, Joyce To Address "Neighbor" Confab RALEIGH-Dr. Leon Sullivan, Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Opportunities Industrilization Center and Pastor of the Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia, will be the key note speaker during a two-day State Good Neighbor Council Employment MRS. BEATRICE BURNETT Recording Secretary Councilman J. S. Stewart. Following the address presentations and an nouncements will be made. The Saturday program of the 1 Convention will include plenary ses sions, highlighted with an address by , Gloster .B. Current of New York * \ REV. CHAS. A. CHIRRY Regional President DR. V. L. BOOTH Secretary, PNBC \ / BANKS mwm- IHL JACKSON Forum scheduled to be held Novem- I ber 29-30 at the Robert E. Lee Hotel j !in Winston-Salem. His address will j 1 cap the closing session following a j luncheon on Thursday, November | 30. . Other nationally known j National Director of NAACP Bran ches and Field Administration. The remainder of the day's session will be consumed with routine programs, committee meetings and reports, climaxed in the afternoon with an address by Attorney. Derrick Bell, Sec NOTABLES, page 12 REV. E. T. BROWNE Host Pastor DR. G. K. OFFUTT Congress Ex-President FIELDER JOYCB lities scheduled to address the con ference include Commissioner Sam uel Jackson of the Equal Employ ment Opportunities Commission of Washington, D. C., and Robert & Joyce, Program Associate in the See ADORISS page 12
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