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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 22 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1J57 PRICE: TEN CENTS
State NAACP Head Addresses Legislature
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James Q. DuPont Shaw University
Anti-NAACP Bills Will Not
Stop Struggle For Equality
Says Kelly M. Alexander
RALEIGH
Kelly M. Alexander, presi-dent
of the N. C. State Confer-ence
of Branches, NAACP, ap-peared
before the Corporation
Committee of the House of
Representatives here last Tues-day,
May 28. to state NAACP
reasons for opposition to three
bills the purpose of which is
hamstring the work of the or-ganization
in the state by pre-venting
its operation.
Stating that judicial and leg-islative
attacks in the South,
(such as proposed by bills No.
084 and No. 1133, now before
the committee, and No. 1137)
seem to be based on the opinion
or assumption that the NAACP
is responsible for the*contro-versy
over racial segregation
and discrimination, Alexander
denied that the NAACP is the
source of such friction. He said
the organization is "but one
small, although significant; ex-pression
of the dissatiefaction
that members of the human
race, have felt through
ages against being singled out
and set apart because of the
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MRS. VIOLA TURNER
Man Dies After
Becoming III In
Twin City Jail
At the »Zn« Commencement
Exercise of Shaw University,
held Monde;, May 17, W. J.
Kennedy, Jr., President of The
North Carolina Mutnal Lite In-
AARON DAYE
North Carolina Mutual Elevates Two
Officers To High Positions
Although no official an-nouncement
of it has yet been
made, the Carolina Times learn-ed
from a reliable source this
week that two officials of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In-surance
Company, have recent-ly
been elected to top positions
to fill vacancies that will occur
In the company's official staff
come July 1, because of retire-ment.
Scheduled to retire are E. R.
Merries., vice president and
treasurer, and D. C. Deans, Jr.,
vice president and agency di-rector.
Merrlek has rounded out
nearly a half century with the
company, having started as an
agent back in 1910. Deans has
served a total of 37 years, hav-ing
become connected with It
on June IS, 1820.
Merrlek will be succeeded by
Mrs. Viola Turner, who prior
to being elected to fill the post
vacated by him, was assistant
treasurer. Deans will be suc-ceeded
by Aaron Daye, who has
held the position of
secretary since IBM.
Nixon Says Ike'
Will Press For
Civil Rights Issue
Roy Wllklns. NAACP exec*
tive secretary, announced here
today that Vice President Nixon
told him in a recent letter: "The
Administration will continue to
press for the enactment of its
civil rights program during this
session of Congress."
The letter from the Vice
President was dated May 10.
Mr. Nixon's message to the
NAACP leader also asserted: "I
can assure you of the Adminis-tration's
continuing and pro-found
Interest as well ss active
vigilance in the days ahead of
what I know we both want—
equal opportunity and equal
rights for all "
The Vice President also re-iterated
bis conviction "that ra-cial
intolerance and violence in
this country feed Red propa-gandists
raw material."
The letter was sent In re-
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Noted Nurse
To Study Arabic
At John Hopkins
BEIRUT LEBANON
Miss Mary Lee Mills, Is on her
way back to the United States
after a five-year assignment as
Chief Nurse of the United
States Operations Mission to
Lebanon. She returns by way of
Rome where she will attend the
International Congress of Nur-ses.
A native of Watha, North
Carolina, Miss Mills has been
awarded the Decoration of the
Cedars for "valiant and gener-ous
services as advisor the the
Ministry of Health of Lebanon."
This honor, she holds In addi-tion
to a decoration received for
five years of service prior to her
last assignment, given through
the U.S Public Health Service
In Liberia, West Africa.
Holding the rank of Lt. Col.
in the United States Army, a
painting of Miss Mills In uni-form,
made by Betsy Graves
Reyneau, hangs in a place of
honor at the Harmon Founda-tion
in the City of New York.
Miss Mills, a graduate of New
York University in Nursing
Education, last year received
additional honor from Tuskegee
Institute, when U. S. Congress-woman
Francis P. Bolton, one
of the trustees of the school,
conferred on her the honoring
degree of Doctorate of Science.
Lt Col. Mills is the first Pub
lie Health officer to be decoraT
ed by two foreign go vernmems-
Llberia and Lebanon. Miss Mills
left Lebanon last Saturday,
May 26, for Rome, and after
attending the nurses conference,
she will fly via Amsterdam to
New York.
A 52-year-old Winston-Salem
man, stricken in a City Jail
cell, died at a local hospital
Tuesday, May 21st at 9:40 a.m.
The victim, James Naylor, of
746 Moravia Street, was arrest-ed
Monday, May 20th and
charged with larceny, after
Worth and Jessie McLeod,
named him as an accomplice in
the theft of equipment and ma-terials
valued at $2,000. The
McLeods were bound to Superior
Court in their trial Monday at i saj -
Municipal Court. I\W V • IV
According to Jail Sergeant,
sBBBBslsk
seriously
opening
to Kate Bitting Reynolds Me-morial
Hospital, where he died
in about one hour later,
Forayth County coroner, Dr.
V. M. Long, attributed Naylor's
death to natural causes, and said
that Naylor was an alcoholic
and had been hospitalized re-cently.
Finals Speaker
Never Be Satisfied
With Best Work
Graduates Told
KENNEDY GETS LL.D. DEGREE
sun.rice Co., was awarded the I of Trustees and Treasurer of the
Doctorate of Laws Degree. The I School. Center is Mr. Kennedy,
above photo taken during the 1st the right. President W. R.
occasion shows at left, Asa T. I Strassner.
Spaulding, member of the Board!
Rev. Martin Luther King
isSiSpjNaffled Spshgarn Medalist of court and was taken (^ ^^F
W Reginald Parker, a mem-ber
of the 1957 Hillside High
School graduating class, is one
of 17 students selected from va-rious
sections of the country to
receive certificates of sitmltsdasj
to Harvard University, Cam-bridge,
Mass,, and Regional
BeheUrships from the Associat-ed
Harvard Clubs.
Parker, 17 years of age, who
plans to study medicine, is a
member of the White Rock Bap-tist
Church, and lives with his
parents In Durham.
Final Meet 01
Durham NCC
Alumni, June 3
The Durlfam Chapter of the
NCC Alumni Association will
hold its final meeting of the
academic year on Wednesday
night, June 5, at the W. D. Hill
Recreation Center on Fayette-ville
Street at 8:00 p.m.. accor-ding
to an announcement re-ceived
from President William
A Marsh, Jr.
All Committee Chairmen will
be presented for discussion.
An important item on the
agenda for the Wednesday moat-ing
is a report on the Alumni
Picnic, tentatively slated for
June 22. Howard Fitts, Chair-man
of the Program Committee,
will present the picnic slate for
discussion.
NEW YORK
Martin Luther King, Jr., the
young clergyman who headed
the dramatic and successful
Montgomery, Ala., bus protest
movement of 1955-56, has been
chosen as the 42nd Spingarn
Medalist. Roy WlUclns, execu-tive
secretary of the National
Association for the Advance-ment
of Colored People, an-nouced
here today.
The medal, awarded annually
to a Negro American for dis-tinguished
achievement, will be
presented to the Rev. Dr. King
at th-* Association's 48th annual
convention in Detroit, June 25-
30. The presentation is scheduled
for the night of June 28.
At 28, Dr. King la the young-
■st person and the first active
clergyman to be awarded the
medal. Described as "dedicated
and selfless," he Is cited for
his creative contributions to
the Fight tor Freedom and his
outstanding leadership role in
the successful Montgomery bus
protest movement."
Dr. King, the citation asserts,
has "become a foremost ex-ponent
of the Ghandian philoso-phy
of non-violent passive resis-tance.
He has not only preached
the doctrine of, 'Love your ene-mies';
he has also demonstrated
the efficacy of this Christian
faith."
The Spingarn Medal was in-stituted
in 1014 by the late J E
Spingarn, then chairman of the
NAACP Board of Directors. It
Atkins High School Finals To End
Tuesday With Over 200 Graduating
' H1NSTON-SALEM
The senior class of Atkins
High School will begin com-mencement
sctlvities Friday,
Is a gold medal award "for the
highest or noblest achievement
by an American Negro during
the preceding year or years."
The oldest award in this field, it
is also regarded as the most
coveted.
Since Mr. Spingarn's death in
1939 the medal has been con-tinued
under terms of his will
which set up a trust fund "to
perpetuate the lifelong Interest
of my brother, Arthur B. Spin-garn,
or my wife, Amy E. Spin-gam,
and of myself In the
achievements of the American
Negro." Arthur B. Spingarn suc-ceeded
his brother as president
of the Association in 1939, a po-iltion
he has since held continu-ously.
Among previous Spingarn
Medalists have been Dr. Ralph
J. Bunche, Marian Anderson,
Judge William H. Hastie. A.
Philip Randolph, Thurgood Mar-shall,
Carl Murphy, Dr. Chan-ning
H. Tobias, Roland Hayes,
Jackie Robinson, the late Wal-ter
White and the late Dr. Louts
T. Wright.
May 3Ut, at 8 pm, with the
annual Class Night. A play, call-ed
"The Enchanted Mirror",
adapted from the one-act play
of the same name, by Mary S.
Kelly, will be presented, featur
Ing Zcola Baldwin as Aunt Sue,
who recalls her days at school
through the mirror.
Others to take part in the
play will be: Ida Patterson a»
"Memory"; Howard Shaw ai
"Ghost of Yesterday"; Laura
Mauney, Jane; Gwendolyn
Newton, poet; Constance Howie,
statistician; Talmadgc Fair, the
voice; Lynda Hill, glftortan;
Ralph Harris, prophet; Richard
Davis, testator, Ruth Moses, so
lolst; Hazel Pratt, dancer and
Barbara Rice, pianist.
Theatlas Kelly, valedictorian,
George Hill, Class president and
Katherine Feemster, salutato-riiin,
will also take part in ('la.
Night exercises.
Commencement exercises will
be Tuesday, June 4th, at 10:30
a.m., In the school gymnasium.
Dr. Vernon John, director of
the Maryland Baptist Center
and School of Baltimore, Md.,
will speak to the graduating
class of two-hundred
Graham Speaker
At Unveiling Of
Shepard Statue
The program for the cere-mony
unveiling the statue of
the late Dr. James E. Shepard,
founder and firat president of
North Carolina College, was an
nounced here today.
Dr. Frank P. Graham, United
Natlona Mediator, will be the
principal speaker at exercises in
Duke Auditorium at 4:00 o'clock
in the afternoon.
The public is invited to hear
Dr. Graham 'and to witness the
unveiling in the xmr%
terwards at the i'taiur
Cast by (he noted sculptor,
William Zoracb, the life slxe
bronze statue Is located in the
circle fronting-the college's Ad-ministration
Building.
Dr. Alfonso Elder, President
of NCC, will extend greetingi
to the group.
Dr. C. D. Carnes. Grand Mas-ter,
Prince Hall Lodge of the
Free and Accepted Masons of
North Carolina, will make dedi-catory
remarks at the statue
The Masons in cooperation
with the James E. Shepard Me-morial
Foundation provided
funds for the statue.
Dr. Carnes will present Mrs.
Carolyn Smith Green. Dr. Shep-ard's
grand daughter, who will
formally unveil the statue.
James T Taylor. Executive
Secretary of the Shepard Foun
dation. will present (he Statue
to NCC R M Gantt. local at
torney and Chairman of the col-
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RALEIGH
The Ninety-second graduation
lass of Shaw University was
presented a "Pattern for Suc-cess"
in the main speech de-livered
at Commencement exer-
Ises on Monday May 27, by
James du Pont deNemours and
Company of Wilmington, Dela-ware.
The speaker charged the
group to try to fill a need in
services In which some signifi-cant
contribution can be made,
to have lob know hpw, listen to
older heads, meet competition,
beat competition and If you
lose—don't blame it on the free
Interprise system. He urged
them to strive to Improve end
lessly and never to be satisfied
with their own best work as
there Is always something to be
learned.
status In the community.
In conclusion he said, "try to
the boat of your ability to treat
people right, if you are the
nor or manager of a business,
give lt your personal attention,
take calculated risk in every-thing
you do; and help keep
America free for Americana."
The speaker was introduced
by Dr. William R. Strassner,
president of Shaw University.
The opening prayer was given
by the Reverend Paul H. John-son,
minister, Martin Street
Baptist Church and the closing
prayer by the Reverend A.
Jackson Rysns of Charlotte.
Music was furnished by the
University choir. Evangellne
Forbes, soprano of Raleigh was
the featured soloist.
The honorary degree of Doc-tor
of Divinity was conferred
upon the Reverend Armster
Jackson Ryas, minister, Ebene-
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LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK
GastoaU's three-Urns eeaacll-maa
NatksnUI Barker Is shows
hats fcstef swsra In wtta ether
members ef Ike city's rails*
aedy. Ceaacllsaaa Barksr wks
Ward t I
defeated kia s»p——t slmosl 7
U 1 In petal ol service, kc Is
Ike senior member ol Iks coun-cil
sad ass keen appointed by
Mayer Fsigasss, sUndlai to
Mr. Barker'! rigkt, Is several
Important committees. .
Ward 4, the predominantly
Nsfrs Ward, voted the larfeat
□ umber of peravttb oa lIssMssi
day last WSSk.
The People's Voice
Editors Note—For Ihe benefit
of those who participated In the
public opinion poll last week,
we hsve sn article on the cause
of Juvenile delinquency by Dr.
F. A. Richardson, from Iks
Twin City Sentinel of May tt.
According to the Richardson
report, a group of scientists
working at Harvard University
have discovered ten factors that
cause Juvenile delinquency.
Space docs not permit us to list
the ten (actors in their entirety,
but according to Hlchardson's
article, all ten points were In-dictments
of the home.
Of course, In this column last
veek. not only were we de»l-ng
with Juvenile delinquency,
bul, adult dellnquence also.
With the scientific report point-ing
to the home, that must be
Ihe starting point.
Thanks to you who partici-pated
In the poll last yeek. This
week, our subject Is: Do You
Think We Ars Pursuing Th«
Right Course Towsrd Fulfilling
The Supreme Court's Decision
Handed Down May IT, KM..
Desegregation of Public Schools!
And—Do You Think Somethlni
Should Be Done More Urgently
Toward Complying With The
Decision?
Amos A. Ingram of 1008 N.
Highland Avenue, barber, had
this to say; "I feel that wa ars
taking the right course. As we
all know, with a problem of this
type. It takes time; a lot of hard
work, plus pstlance."
Emily Payne, 4119 Carver
Road, housewife; "I think we
might be pursuing the right
course; but, I think we are let-ting
too much time lapse snd
time Is a precious thing. I real-ize
that segregation Is an old
embedded custom for Negroes
and whites in the South. Dese-gregation
Is something with
which both races will Iwve to
adjust. But as time has already
proven, a society is always re-sentful
and will not act with a
new change of Ideals until for-ced."
Leo J. Thomas. 213 North
Highland Avenue, (textile wor- '
ker); "As far ss 1 am concerned,
we are pursuing the right
course. I feel that moving too
fast on any project and especial-ly
one of this nature, la dange-rous.
Every phase of it should
be carefully studied and weigh-ed
so that when we attempt to
take action, there will not be
any draw backs."
Mrs MUton Cason, Jr., 21-B
Columbia Terrace, housewife;
"The Supreme Court's decision
was handed down May 17, '34,
outlawing segregation in Slate
and Federal supported schools.
It Is now May 25, 'S7, which is
three years and eight days since
it has become law. During this
period of time, most officials of
the State, county and city, have
used every legal means to get
around the Supreme law, In-stead
of trying to make some ef-fort
to obey it. I feel something
should be done more urgently."