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Elks End Meeting
HIGHLIGHTS OF STATE ELKS’CONVENTION HERE - Shown
are the principals who took part In the 46th Annual Conven
tion of the Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of
the World, who convened in Raleigh from Sunday, May 1,
through Wednesday, May 4. Top photo shows Exalted Ruler
of Fidelity Lodge Number 277, Julius R. Haywood, who was
als. convention chairman, left, going over the four-day pro
gram with, from left, the Hon. Hobson R. Reynolds, Grand
Exalted Ruler, Philadelphia, Pa; S. T. Enloe, State presi
dent, Shelby; and Alphonzo A. Vance, district deputy, Raleigh.
Bottom pictures shows Brother L. Hatton, of Henderson,
State director of education for the Elks, presenting a plaque
to Judge Reynolds on behalf of Baxter Council, Number 127
of the Fifth District, for distinguished service. A luncheon
at the Carolina Hotel also honored the Grand Exalted Ruler
Tuesday at 1 p. m.
EDITORIAL FEATURE
There was a time when fraternal or
ders charted the course of the Negro in
many walks of life. About the turn of
the century, and perhaps before, there
sprang up many. They furnished a bond
between disturbed Negroes. They could
meet and give vent to their feelings. All
of them are said to be based on the Bi
ble None are devoid of the principle of
brotherly love.
Sn the early days of their existence
men clung to them almost as determind
!y as they did their religion. Many of the
top boys forgot about the salient prin
ciple'. brotherly love, and many of them
died from the top. Now comes the space
age and those that survived are now at
tempting to create new images. There
are those that offer scholarships for wor
thy children. Others support certain
charities. All of these are worthy pro
jects.
Ihe Masons of North Carolina gave
the NAACP “Freedom Fund” $4,000.00
Sunday. The Elks, meeting in Raleigh
this week, increased the budget in order
to do more for charity, education, civil
liberties, economics and health. We are
happy of this desire to help humanity.
We certainly are happy to know that the
Elks are beginning to eye the economic
vorer s /vi ino oriouio 00 rrfvqr©
With the pending May 28th primary,
there will be thousands of newly regis
tered voters. Many will be voting for the
first time. And of course, the office seek
ers will guide and direct as many of the
old and new into his or her camp as
possible. This is the American way.
However, with privilege comes added
responsibility.
The responsible citizen should make
a definite point of finding out for him
self who in his or her opinion are the
best candidates for the various offices.
There are too many people who are cart
ed to the polls and told how to or for
whom they should vote No argeement
can remain untarnished if the people are
like robots who follow the beckoning
of politician for a token of any kind, in
cluding the well-known ride to the polls,
except in the case of old age, sickness or
infirmity' of some sort.
An intelligent and well-informed pub
lic is one of the greatest political needs
in America today. Too long has the lazy
minded voter allowed himself to be used
by the ward heeler. In fact, there is little
difference between illiteracy at the polls
by the voters and indifference to know
ledge of the candidate’s record and qua
1200 See
Nat’l Head
Os NAACP
BY J. B. BARREN
Some 1,200 NAACP members
and friends of freedom, coming
from areas as far removed
as Hickory and -Rutherfordton
on the west, to Currituck Coun
ty on the east, gathered here
in Raleigh Memorial Auditori
um Sunday afternoon to greet
Kivie Kaplan, recently-elected
national president of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
and the sixty NAACP mothers
W'ho helped to raise the $11,692
reported for freedom fighting.
S6OO of this was from the
Sunday public collection.
Top winner among the moth
ers was Mrs. Cleo Young, of
Charlotte, who reported $1,610.
Winner for the small town
branches was Mrs. Annie P.
Hart of Siler City, who turn
ed in SBB7. Both were crown
ed by President Kaplan and
posed for photographs with the
former NAACP Life Member
ship chairman who has enroll
ed forty-two members of his
(See ELKS END, P. 2)
status of our people. To talk about our
plight and do nothing about it is pa
thetic.
We are not going to change our image
very much until we pull up our econom
ics. We need to take a new look at our
income and our outgo. We have a habit
°f begging for what we need and paying
for what we want. We also fail to budget
our liabilities and in many instances bar
gain for more than we can pay for. This
makes us prey for the loan sharks and
sometimes drives us to deperation.
We understand that the Elks have in
vested about $15,555,000 in housing pro
jects. We feel that they studied the in
vestment properly, and certainly people
have to live in houses and the Elks saw
the need and did something about it. It
looks as if they are headed in the right
direction. We would like to see some of
the others decide to enter, more fully,
into the field of economics. There are
many opportunities opening up. Many
chain stores have started since some of
the fraternal orders begun and are now
showing big profits. There are many oth
er businesses that have sprung up since
they started and are showing profits. Wf
are wondering where the fraternal orders
are going?’
lifications to office.
Whenever any office seeker obligates
himself to any particular individual or
group, he is certainly responsible to
them for his actions and thinking. Here
is one of the pitfalls which prevents any
office holder from being free and inde
pendent in carrying out the duties of his
office and promises to the people of in
tegrity and forthrightness. And until the
office holder is freed by the public whose
responsibility it is to turn a cold shoul
der to those who would make political
campaigns popularity contests instead of
a serious selection of candidates by in- <
dividual voter consideration, there will
remain political exploitation at the ex
pense of the public.
The public must think more about
how and who makes laws, raises taxes,
creates policy, determines economy, de
clares wars or promotes peace. And. a
bove all, who might control these peo
ple who are elected to office. In any e
vent, there is a good chance that should
the public vote control the destiny of the
office holder, there are many benefits,
yet to be had which Mr. and Mrs. John -
0 Public must effect with their own
private minds.
S. 1 iitl&e
Charts New
State Mans
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
The 46th annual session of
the Improved Benevolent Pro
tective Order of Elks of the
World created a new image as
it met here May 1-4.
The welcome program, held
at 3 p. m. Sunday set the
tempo and the delegates got off
to an inspirational start. Dr.
Otis E. Dunn, chaplain, pre
sented a very impressive pro
gram as he memorialized the
bills and daughters who died
during the year at 4 p. m.
Rev. D. L. Blakey in his
civil liberties address, point
ed to new horizons in that
field and told the audience that
no longer could the Elks mere
ly ask for first-class citizen
ship, but they had to qualify
for same, He also warned of
the “Uncle Toms,” who could
easilv undermine and program
that the Order might initiate,
on Sunday night.
Monday sessions featured re
ports on the work of the Ex
alted Rulers, Junior Herd and
Veterans Departments. Dr.
Dunn presided over the Charity
program at 3 p. m. He also
awarded certificates to per
sons who had aided the Charity
program. CORE national chair
man, Floyd B. McKissick, went
into the details of economics
at a program presided over by
H. T. Atwater, who heads that
department.
The health program, pre
pared by Dr. J. E. Jones, was
(Sec 1200 GREET. P. 2)
Mo Motive
Given in
Shooting
The motive triggering a shot
gun attack on a Raleigh man
Monday has not been establish
ed.
James Thomas Dunn, 39, of
1209 E. Edenton St., reported
to Officer B. C. Nipper at 12:26
p m. Monday, he had left his
house and started down St. Aug
ustine’s Avenue, but decided to
stop and chat with Angelo Mc-
Clain, of 9 St. Augustine's Ave
nue.
Dunn said he was planning to
go on down to New Bern Ave
nue, when Raymond Williams,
49, of 13 St. Augustine’s Ave
nue, came out of his house,
pointed a rifle in Dunn’s di
rection and fired.
The bullet struck Mr. Dunn
on the left hand, knocking him
to the ground.
“The lav ! ” was then called
and Williams, who admitted
shooting Dunn, was am >ted
under a bond of S2OO, on a
charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. He refused to give a
reason for the shooting, nor
could one be obtained from the
victim.
Dunn was treated at Wake
Memorial Hospital for his
wound.
The gun, a .22 calibre rifle,
was retrieved from under Wil
liams’ bed and taken to police
headquarters.
Temperatures for the next
five days, Thursday through
Monday, will average 2 to 6
degrees below normal. Normal
high and low temperatures for
the period will be 78 and 58
degrees. Rather mild weather
will prevail during the first
part of the period, but it will
become cooler toward the end
of it Precipitation will ave
rage one-tenth of an Inch or
less, occurring as showers to
ward the end of the period.
From Raleigh's Official Police Files
THE CRIME BEAT
BY CHARLES R JONES
Boyfriend Uses
ChairOn Woman
Miss Barbara Virginia Mc-
Kinnon, 24, of Rt. 1, Wendell,
told “the law” at 9:53 p. m,
Saturday, that she and her boy
friend, Melvin Scott, 25, of the
same general area, were “fuss
ing,” wher. he suddenly picked
up a chair and hit her on the
head with it.
The Incident took place In the
300 block of S, East Street.
Miss McKinnon, who suffered
bruises on the forehead and
right hand, refused to sign an
assault with a deadly weapon
against her “friend./’
A motive for the assault was
not forthcoming from the vic
tim, or from Scott.
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VOL. 25, NO. 24
Gwrdiwoman Jailed As Drunk; Dies
"FREEDOM IS NOT COMING
soon; j. farmer declares
Ex-COUE
Chairman
Predicts
NEW YORK (NPI) - One of
the nation's top civil rights
leaders has foreseen "a long
er haul than we thought neces
sary, ’’ in the Negro's fight for
freedom.
James Farmer, former di
rector, Congress of Racial E
quality, in a book entitled
"Freedom -- When?” takes a
pessimistic view of the pros
pect of freedom coming now,
"We are learning,” he said
after five years of CORE lead
ership, "that freedom will not
be now... We are settling down
for a longer haul than we thought
necessary.”
Farmer drew on a 2,000-
year-old Jewish source as in
spiration for his views on the
course of the rignts move
ment.
The former CORE director,
who now leads a literacy pro
gram, made repeatedreferen.ee
to the words of an ancient Jew
ish sage, Hlllel, rendering them
thus'
“If we are not for ourselves,
who will be? If we are only
§ r ourselves, of what worth
are we 0 If not now 1 , when?”
The last sentence was likely
the inspiration for the title of
his book.
The poor, he pointed out,
must share in the decision
(»«« Kx-coas *bab. p. tj
“FLIGHT SURGEON OF THE
YEAR” - Las Vegas, Nevada;
U, S. Air Force Flight Surgeon,
Capt. Frank W. Berry, Jr., of
Rock Hill, S. C., was present
ed the Malcom C. Grow Award
as USAF "Flight Surgeon of
the Year,'* here recently, Capt,
Berry, 28, assigned to Davis-
Monthan AFB, Arizona, won the
award for “dedicated perform
ance as a doctor, humanitari
an and benefactor, ” both In the
United States and Southwest
Asia. (UPI PHOTO).
Students, Others
Fight, On© Cut
Police Officers P. G. Jones
and R. F, Perry reported at
9:04 p. m. Saturday, that as a
result of an argument between
several St. Augustine's College
students and some outsiders,
Issac Alexander Austin, 20, of
615 E. Hargett Street (a stu
dent) was struck on the head
by a thrown bottle.
Austin said he didn't know
who threw the missile. He
was treated at Wake Memori
al Hospital for a cut on the
right side of the head.
No arrests were made in the
incident which took place at the
corner of Hill Street and Booker
Drive.
(*ee CRIME BEAT. P, 3)
North Carolina s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY. MAY 7, 1966
BEATS, RAPES THREE WOMEN, ONE DIES - Philadelphia:
John Burgess, 23, tries to break away from policemen
follow ing a homicide hearing April 26, stemming from the beat
ing and rape of an elderly woman, 79, her daughter, and her
15-year-old granddaughter. Burgess and the two others,
originally charged with rape, face' murder charges because
the 79 year-old grandmother died later. (UPI PHOTO).
Pastor, Friends Say
Woman Didn’t Drink
DURHAM - Durham's police
department figured in another
tragedy here last week when a
member of the force, 1. T.
Blalock, white, was called to
West Main Street, at Five
Points, to a bus to eject a
woman, who police records re
port as failing to leave the
bus. Upon arrival, Blalock
is said to have ejected the wo
man and proceeded to take her
Teachers Must Push For
Faculty Desegregation
WASHINGTON, D. C. -Where
desegregation of school facul
ties Is concerned, “we cion''
have time to be Negro or Cau
casian -- we only have time
to be good teachers.
“Furthermore the time for
buck-passing on this issue has
run out."
These statements by Assist
ant Superintendent Howard E.
Row of the Delaware State De
partment of Public Instruction
at Dover, and Classroom
Teacher Thelma Davis of Grif
fin, Ga., underlined the urgency
of the two-day Regional Con
ference on Faculty Desegrega
tion held here last week for
some 200 educators from five
states and the District of
Columbia,
Sponsored by the National
Education Association In coop
eration with two of Its affi
liates, the District of Colum -
bia Education Association (DC
EA) and the Arlington Educa-
Over 5,000
To Church
Convention
DETROIT - Over 5,000 dele
gates and visitors are expect
ed to attend the annual Churches
of God In Christ International
Youth Congress, to be held here,
June 30 through July 4.
Bishop Louis Henry Ford,
of Chicago, COGIC Internation
al Public Relations Director,
said headquarters for the gi
gantic youth meeting will be
(Bar OVER 5,000. p. *)
to jail. He booked the woman
as being drunk.
Th“ woman turned out to be
one of the most highly respect
ed women in her neighborhood,
Mrs. Minnie Lee Council, 516
Mason Street and a consistent
member of Mt. Vernon Baptist
Church. She, according to the
police record, was placed in
jail at G;3O p. m. and was
(See WOMAN DIES. P 2)
lion Associatioi (AEA), the
Washington meeting was second
in a series of four regional
NBA conference- supported by
funds from the U. S. Office
of Education. Coordinator of
the conferences is the NEA
Subcommittee on Human Rights
of Educators. Mrs. Harriet
F. DeMond, president of DC
EA and Robert W. Bogen, exe
cutive secretary of AEA, co
(See TEACHERS MUST, P 2)
Mrs. Woods Colobrarates ICMIs!
Yr. With Friends, Gifts Hero
BY STAFF WRITER
Her bed neatly made, the
room In complete order, Mrs.
Caroline Woods was sitting in
a rocker in her bedroom with a
coal fire burning when a CAR
OLINI \N newsman entered her
dwelling Wednesday morning of
this week. She lives at 815
E. Hargett Street.
Mrs. Woods, who celebrated
her 100th birthday on Sunday,
May 1, is a gentlewoman, and
seems to have an uncanny mem
ory. She recalled several Inci
dents, personal to the writer’s
life and explained in exact de
tail names, places and other
vital statistics.
She attributes her long life
to "the mercy of God Almighty.
In the living and dining rooms
were at least fifty birthday
cards, telegrams, a beautiful
two-tiered cake with "100" on
top, a check for SIOO from the
employer of her daughter, Miss
Odell Woods, with whom Mrs
(Sep ICOTH BlßT’f’
PRICE 15 CENTS
Mom Tells
Os Local
Refusals
BY CHARLES R. JONES
An unwed mother oi seven
children has appealed to news
paper support in her attempt
to get decent housing for her
family.
Miss Rosa Mae Quick, 35, of
124 N. Fisher St., wrote a let
ter to the editor of a daily
newspaper, which was published
Monday.
,Thls newsman interviewed
her this week to get a story.
The apartment in which she
and her children live is in a
state of near collapse, needing
many repairs. It only has two
bedrooms, and a kitchen and
bathroom, therefore she and
the children sleep in over
crowded conditions.
She took us on a tour of
the residence, which is a du
(Bee MOM TEI.LS, P, i)
Hammocks
Pilgrimage
Set May 21
\V. R. Collins, Hammocks
Beach Expansion Director has
announced that the Annual Ham
mocks Pilgrimage Day Activi
ties have been scheduled for
Saturday, fa ay 21, at the Ham
mocks in Swansboro. The pro
gram will begin at 10:30 a, m.
Dr. Rudolph Jones, chairman
of the Operations and Promo
tions Committee will preside
over the business meeting.
The welcome message will
be given by Mrs. Gertrude
Hurst, whose influence made
the gift of the Hammocks to
the North Carolina Teachers
Association possible. “The Oc
casion” will be given by E. B.
Palmer, executive secretary of
the NCTA,
Bringing greetings will be
NCTA President S. E. Duncan;
NCATA President Elect Rudolph
Jones; NCACT President, Mrs.
Dorothy B. Jackson. Dr. George
Shipman will represent the col
lege; Cahin B. Johnson, the
principals; Mrs. Dorothy Good
son, the supervisors, and Mrs.
Maude F. Freeman, the retired
teachers.
Dr. J. H. Wheeler will re
port on the financial condition of
the Hammocks Program. A
brief report on Expansion ef
forts will be made by W. R,
Collins.
Entertainment to follow the
program will include tourna
ments in Bridge, Whist and Pin
ochle. A special feature will
be a showing of Emma Fash
ions from The Emma Jane
Dress Shop of Raleigh.
A portable TV with stand
will be given away as a special
(See PILGRIMAGE, P. *)
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