The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, June 25, 1955, Image 1

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; - 4 " ^ Tgfl VOL. XXX.?NO. 25 _ to I - 3 ? ~ Supreme Com Cases Fccuseu ac 1 m 7"?0 DELEGATES MAP CIVII. EIGHTS ACTION PROGRAM AT ATLANTIC CITY, GOV: MEYNER ADDRESSES CROl'P ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.? (ANP).?The r,(5th annual NAACP Convention opened hero Tuesday with some 750 delegates, fi'?>in :>0 slates and the District of Columbia i?i attendance. The six-<luy moot will close S* P !<v afternoon with a mass u> > In* address cd l>y the Assocgi.Ion's now executive secretary, Roy Wilkins. Methods of implementing t h e the Supreme court's ruling of May 31 which ordered a * "prompt" start' toward school integration will be given major attention p t the convention. In addition to the school segregation issue, delegates will consider civil rights programs in such fields as legislation,'employment, housing, transportation and recreation. * Tuesday's opening was spotlighted at the Atlantic (jity High school auditorium convention headquarters with a memorial meeting for 'WaUer "White, the organization's late executive secretary. Joining in paying tribute B. SpiUg^rn, N A A CP's nat ional president; Dr. ('banning To bias, national hoard chairman; Miss L. Pearl Mitchell of Cleveland, speaking for the membership, and Wilkins, who spoke f<S1 the national office staff. GOVERN OK ADDRESSES CONVENTION ??New Jersey-'s Gov.- Robert B. Meyney addressed the opening session of the convention welcont ?ring the delegates. oh-behalf of his state. William F~ Sehnitzler, secretary-treasurer of the A.F. of L.j and Thurgood Marshall, NAACP'S special counsel, also addressed the (Opening session. Proceeding t h p convention opening, the NAACP legal staff r held un ail-day sesaiojfcViMonday I > with members of th^Egfksbciation's national legal dwWffli'Ttee and lawyers working with NAACP units on legal and state levels. The pro-convention session was , devoted to a discussion of the legal techniques necessary to'put into immediate effect the High ? Atlanta Sets Up B w m * - Map Integration I ATI ANT A (A NT I- The Atl.i it Lit I'oard of Kducatim following a motion by Dr. Unfits II. Cle1 ent, lone Negro board mom bur, I: si week voted to set up a special committee to study a desogra1 on plan for the public schools 1 -re. Action went into ^effect when "vl rank 1 in Uodgers, board member, i oycd that a recent petition filed I v parents following the United } rates Supreme Court decree ; hould be given to" an appropriate ( nnmittee for study and referred ! ack to the board. i, Devercan.v MrCfalrln'i1: fnnnar 7|I'jnt of. the board ruled that t h e i nnmittee should be the personnel flj r . .. FMlfy GHAD PREi AIR FORCE he yas Rraduatad in as at. West Point miliityr Lewis C. Olive of referred a commission Force. Olive was aphe .institute h^ReEi ton Powell. (AXP) tiling In School NAACP Conven n Court's latest anti-setrrenation n linn in public education. 'I'lie Wednesday afternoon ses: ion was addressed l?v Dr. Tobia Thy di tinn'iislied national boar liaiiinaiy..- reviewed development 'since be first proposed the "Fiji! lor Kreedoiir campaign at th ' St. Louis convention ami iritl ) .-a tod the tasks uhi"H lie ahead. !>1-H-K(;ATTS D1SC1-SS 1 l'CM " A TT ION j ,r.h< i--(!ny morning, . conventio i. ;v'e av scheduled to disetp 1'gal n ;<? implement the Si ! reive court's decision. The role ? ''e Ne'rro {earlier in tlie rhi f -<*y;.'gated to. iute^ra-U a-1 < id 1 dins is also aiMn|i t' 1. 1 Loading this discussion will It : 'let! r t 1.. Carte \A..V? assistant counsel, a n Tr. John W. Davis, heard of't h XAA? i' d'partaient of teacher ii formation and security, i Thursday's afternoon sessio will he devoted to a d-D '-o^.a'^a < I "The Role of the TiifoF i nn'n i Id f fee ting' School Integration Some 1M major CadO union, fr; ' tcf.nal delegates will noin; \y i t Convention delegates in a gener; discussion of this pri\I?lmw. At a special dinner Thui'sda evening' awapds will he prcser.tc to Association l>vln< lies whit brought ahout significant. civ rights advances in their local coi immities during' ID" I. Also at tl lelegales on the progress of I li X A ACT Fight for Freedom ran patgh, Which' see1ts~ to underwrii tin* association's civil rights worl "Special Assistant Fdward M.. Dm lev wttt- piesent ll:e report". , rilKSKNTATlON OF SHXGAR AWARD / Carl Murphy, editor-in-ehii . and publisher of The Afro-Amer . can newspaper of Fait imorerMY Will he presented the Spingai j Med^l al' spetytl cere ironies do . i ing the Friday evening sessio He will he the 40th winner of tl "Citation which is presented eat year to the person making an ou standing contribution to race pr< ' gross during the year. ---Resides wefpmi?dcsegration tl , Continued on page 7 _ ody To >lans ' aii'i rule.-; committees. A suhst Lulc motion_ empowered the?or< sident t<i ;i))])?int a "substitute coi ! mittcc to work with the prohlen j The petition reeommen<le<i f o study, was filed over .the sitfni t tuje.ut ALty. A. T. vValden. E. I .Moore, S. S. Hohinsou, It. K, TJu I mas and nine Xejrrn parents. I was sent to superinteinjent Ii J J arret I and the. Atlanta Hoard o Education, June d. The matte | however, was not brought hefoi the Imard until the monthly hoai j meeting here last week. Thei were 15 Xejffoes and h? white .)>t sons present when the petitm ' was read in the hoards'.*? ehan hers in City Hall. B 1 ^ -S, L. A. (WHET <;KTS COMMIS! ION AT WEST rOINT Gilbert R. Ratchman oF D Angeles was commissioned a lie> tenant in the U. S. Army infai try during ceremonies at Wei j Point military academy t+irmrp I he National Guard. (ANT) i- . ?f)t 3 | AME Missionary - Society To Meet . | July 9-14th V-! WASH INCITOX - (A NT > The ",j. third quadrennial convention, o f ; i.';c Womt'ii's .Missionary Society; S AMI** ohiirch. will hi> .hold hoi o ]\ July ! -1 1. (leiural sessions will lie-hold ir. ! Metropolitan and Turner AME I "In:ivher, with special programs i it I'line a r e n a on Sunday anil ; iriffiih stadium, Wednesday, the | .1.1th. -.About' 1 ,-nnO ..-delegates are ex! oevted front all sections of the T*. .1 >.. faiviid'i, Mexico and several. P j south American and African conn \ 'Vies, sa'd Mrs. Anw K., Heat.'i, -criotv president. African conn|'lies expected to send delegate* i j include Belgian Congo. Gold. Coast l Liberia.-Natal, Nigeria, Orange. r i ^ ? <(l j sierre I.eoonne, Swaziland, -Trans ! aal and Zambezi. e ) ... j j. The society, believed to be the I Vul.'st organization "of Negro women in the I'. S., was founded in P j 1S27 by Mrs. .Richard Allen, wife I of the church's first bishop. Its .v j first members were wives of se^ ^ j ven ministers who met regulurly I j to perform such tasks as mending 'heir -husbands'?clothes,?Judpingj them to prepare for trips, and the I like, it wasn't hrtig before t h c *j | society began to take' on ethci ^ .'luucli responsibilities. .. , In 1S74, the women raised $000 |i) \o send tlu? church's first mission, ary tit Africa, and hy?18H1, they [ 'l:)11 nihru limn t)l)() to i piinsor missionaries and othoi 1 haritable projects. During t h e l<; pest-do years, the-society lias ex^ oetided soup.* ,400,bw for those* I purposes. __j l!iKh'?i'< nt tin' convontiuu-wilL he Mrs. D. Ward Nichols, New York: and Mrs. Frank M. Reid, Colmivhin. S. ('.. wiveapof the hishjps now presiding over the AMR j~ "Second Episcopal district. The (lis ^ l-ii-t. comprising Mnrylnnd. Vie. '* Jnia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia, has been, with* _ (:t a presiding officer since t n o j leatli of Rishop L. H. Hcjjiming. va.v of Washington. Hostess will <e'assisted 'by Mrs. I. A. Miller uui Mrs. Dewev Robinson, wives >- . . ' if . ministers whose churches will muse'1 he convention. li Other society officers are Mrs \rlishia Jordan, T.os Angeles; and Mrs. -M iry L. Parks, Chapipaign, 'I., program committee; Mrs. " YaneS'Oi \ ar.liou c, Texas, seore:iry: Mrs. Ruth Ricks, Charleston. W. Ya.. Mrs. Raymond Taylor. '.ouisviUe, Ky. and Mrs.-Jdn R. I'olk, AlaTfania, assistant socrotait's: and. Mrs. Romayne I'ortlock, '* NVW' York, hadtre coilTmitteo. f V\lrs. l-.dith Itryaii, rmlfnnore. is n charue of puldie relations, as11 d-ted liy Mrs. C.leo H. Cove, Sj*n ' '/rancisco; Mrs. M. K. Thornton, Jackson, Miss.; Mrs. .lanie It. Kji'v'"person, .TicTcsouvilh*, l-'la.; Mrs. Orctlvi'T. Hatcher, Monrovia], I,i" 'u-ria; and Mis. Charlotte C. a Wriirht, Philadelphia. In charsre of * officers and eomniitteo rcjMirts in ' Mrs. Janie Wilkinson, Kansas ' City. Mo; kits, Mrs. 11. A. Adams. *' Columbia. S. C.; conference hrineh p omposit reports. Mrs. Hirdie I.. '* Farmer. Oklahoma: ehaplnio-r-h'.ii ^ man of worship coinmiitee, I ?r. T" Martha .1. Keys, I.onisville, Ky.; and associated members',. Mrs. Catherine (\ Heminjjway, Wish-?iiHftoH. 1 >. -C:? ?* ; 1 I/ i >s J- Lt. Col. Greonn II. Whito i- USAU Chaplain it 11.c V. A. st Hospital, Columbia, S C., will ?]o +r Ills mirier Active Military Duty at Fori Ronning, Ga. in July. I1 Y palmetto 1 OLIMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNK 25, 1<] Eishcp F. M. Reid,A Voice Crying In The Wilderness ? ^R jBPPfeiP ~ ^Ve li:,' e .rrved is Past or, pT^siilin.u" Klder. u-nili-r the ft?l lowing" admit:1 "t v.' ii'-ys: Ui-ho,.* lae. Turner. < ??p( i11. ('h.iptielle. Beckett, Iluis;. Ku!!.--'\:>, Williams. .Johnson, rlipper, ami Beid. ami l?c*lit?vc it or-not" V.e ha v e' ifot "Twit msrcd sari: phrnoinin'aT tt)o(k\rn ntiraeles as _iV4^- v-rmivi:4?!iy i;,;.., x'.-.i, |. er\inu irmt ho wilderness or By any -.ultmni-tiiitimi that . would compare with tile expansion nnijrrain of.Bishop T\ M. ilt'-i l. Some one would say Unit .his' jrreat preaching, sweet ; 'my'ny, n.mdt learninir. <'ivie-le-rder. champion of .ileseffreKMtion and ,! Integration made hini nfail, hut he says "it-was my "experience on n1y L ih.ma s road." !'e pite tin- fact. thai the T'ii Kpisi-opal District is - .,.n..;o?i .1.. 1 U'i. i <-c.mh the -.linenags. tv.i^u-.-.Uaiiil:mLOi n.-d?Ly?the? | utvate.-1 d'o..yV. in the history of this DDtrict, with the greatest ' s t 1.rnd;'. l-a?-h kjmwn to the i-Ktiv'ies, 't!ii< Voice continued to travel 1 rhioayhoiit t!: . 1 >istriet .--elli.'o A!h ; Dnivcr.-dty, and his expansion j ou .-.im- Ui the people anil iBspiriny the pastors to Build, remodel, I utd r en orate tl:eir churches as well as Allen University, i. tint 1'B.hop e-nnplete one Buifdintr-he would so(m~~comgT t hick. stating that lie had dream and that he. wanted such a build-^ j ing reniodelod. So muc h. that hr was called, the Dreamer. ( At tins the i - d r?;r Viidi i.s. Pastors", and laymen started a i whispering V. i:up..itrrtT r j Time lo vaI.e. tin the Uishop and turn his dreaming into night| na instead I i:i likf Mango s (ihost he wo.itId not down. A" a cotvpi utilise lie started a fellowship fund in-till his eonfer tict's and -ending monthly ehcckf to all the-disabled pastors .vho ejii'iM r..>< : it;:, on because of age and lading health, and that I 1 brightened i;i_ corner. . lie is o pi oe e.-tsivi , affable, a financial wizard, and a spiritual dynamo. \>hh a .ivari to s rw 4 he present ago fulfilling his calling.. v,e ref.t-cd to a!!fT*-~'.K- eliui'Iies t'> give him gifts or banquets for! 1 him and ids < icettly wife.'- i .< ? Katlie.r lielp d< cr\;ng students and build up Allen 1'Diversity, and I make it .one an. ."g the be . ; of cbui'di .related colleges. 'Mi,' g'od id-boh ref to accept all the honors for the accom .iis'nnTeips of .Mien Ih.ivei sitv. lie ! ?!... sbaii t'n- honors with President Samuel II. Iliggins, who' <as. .IsfU-o glorio'.:- years ;..s Prc-ident of- Allen I niversity. -Hv-~h"< "TTtr":;J-e i y w lib 1*js Ilishop. He"Ts~;among thy" most out- ~ stai.Po-ji bp.-tan dr.g presidents to be found any where, among ' ' |? '. acln':, I'i'oyrt-^.-ivi'. lior.Vst., drpoFnlaldir ' w.iM viiic" 1 ) < >.< m-'i of f ft ll ' : i < ; !< If.,, voiic of (;...J. 1 hey ti.iu!-; Mi.diop's ' jt*|."?vh' i ;i! .< c.'n !, 'of puo-jro ?* - Karl, wan!. 1 ' :.t ?.- a s: rvant of the duitvh anil sub- ' _. j?":' to 'i.ir. : ; ' ' " v I !?. < .aj'tiv. tla? o! ; Sovonth' Kpis.opal l)is:;in 1 oiifw.. i- (i.V?; o\;; faith. ONK l!AI'- 1 :'IS\! AN!? n\;; klSLj'!' r!j.\NK alAlHSOX UXID. 1 i '!' v ' vol, lr-t Ha- furuotrfjli'<t \v(; fuijrot." ' . . I' illO.MA '-'. S'orn'taiy of Trustor. Hoard Mini V:,i:. i-r.-!'. v. , WKKBKBm MISSION TO VU'KSUl'KG, IOIIN li \MII I ().\ t.RADl VTKS ( MISS. MAN. i iu)m \\ i:s r point One I'f li r. licds : wu!c:> re- native, of Ykk.slnirg, Miss., was i ( ?vinir^m"i,!ir.i-sip i-i ?t TcHmnlCs one of hundreds of cadets a t it West L'.vUil^vaiS -iLih!. IIatmllon West Point-Military academy who of Washington, i>. Appointed received commissions in ceremonto the famed military academy ies at the 153-year-old institute l y veteran Conn. William I., haw- recently. A former senator from | son, Hamilton selected the ijifiUXr, .Missouri; James P. Kt*n, named : try as his choice of services i n John X. Hrown to West Point, whi-h to serve. (ANI'i (ANP) -cabet >55 i i'II /TW&fi'""%. y w ' ' '&. $E5Bl ? jt**^ |9 . . :.^H V" >yl v>.^| AG N KS 111L I) P: r DR A NI) ?WILSON Teacher of'fTeneh Language at Lincoln High School, Sumter, S. C. where she also,serves as director of school publications. Received grunt under Fulhrig-ht Act, which will provide for study ami travel in France during t h e summer. Is one of . twjpnty' five teachers of Freficb to lie so honored from a group of more thhn thirteen -hundred who applied. Summer Seminar will include five weeks of study at Sorbonne in Paris. with short stays at Nice, Pau, and other points of -historic in-' terest. Group will sail on ship United States Friday, 24amL will return early in September. Mrs. Wilson was informed last Fall by the Teacher Exchange Ser vice of the U. S. government that she qualified for a Teaching Fellowship under the Fulbright Act, which would have taken her into a French classroom in France for .in entire school term as teacher >f English Language and Litera' tin- During thiv time) nhe wouldhave been replaced by a teacher from France who would have taught French Language and Litera ure over .here. Due to administrative difficulties, this opportunity ' onId not he nrroptod _ Grantee is the wife of Rev. T. E.' Wilson, minister of Second Presbyterian Church, Sumter, S. Her .mother is ..Mrs. Agnes Progdon Hilderbrand of Orangeburg. Her father was the late Rev. Dr. B. F. Hilderbrand. She was educated at Allen University, where. ;jhe received the Bachelor of Ai ts-degree, and Tern pie University from which she reeieved the .Master's degree. She is a member of Zeta I 'hi Beta sorority. WHITE DAI.LAS I'ASTORS GROUP ELECTS NEGRO TO COMMITTEE POST - ]>ALI,AS--( AXP) - Hid DaTTa's Pastor's association (white)' announced last week that Rev. Mer roll 1). Hooker has hecn elected to the five-man executive hoard >f the holy. The association <>>en?d its membership to Negroes ljw<t year for the first time. >y any organization, group or Rev. Hooker was not -sponsored forcjes from its-own side.. He is pastor of New Hope Baptist "luirch. ?.^^BnnnHHnni WEST POINT COMMISSIONS . CYRUS C. CASSELL OF DETROIT A newly commissioned lieutenant in th? U, S. Ai^?^eee-4s-C-yrtis C. Cassells of Detroit, Mich., Cassell* was one uf many cadets t o he graduated from West Point military academy recently. H e was appointed to the famed institute ty George T>. OTJrien," former representative of Michigan. (ASP) , 'J. I~Dr. Lincoln C. Jenk Twentieth Anniverj of Union Baptist CI Honored for 19 Years of Baptist Educational and M Years as Secretary of the Honored for nineteen yeans of service as Secretary of the Baptist Educational Missionary and Sunday School Convention and '28 years of service as Secretary Of the Gethsemane Association of S. C. On Monday nijjht June 20, 1955, j a program was .held at Union % Baptist ?hurch honoring Dr. L.~C. Jenkins for his 20 years of service- ? as pastor of> Union i Bapt. Church, nineteen years as Secretary of the Baptist Educational, Missionary, | and Sunday School Convention of | S. C. and twenty-eight years of service as Secretary of the Gethsemune Association. The Church was beautifully decorated and Dr. Jenkins sat upon a chair adorned with white representing the life he has exhibited during his many years of service. Among his pulpit guests were: s Dr. J. A. Bacoats, President o f Benedict College; Rev. J. P. \ Reeder and Rev. Maxie S. Gordon. 1 Friends and associates came < from various parts of the State 3 and brought greetings to Dr. ' i Jenkins. , . e Dr. Jenkins is rated as one oft the top ten ministers o f South I : Carolina. Wherever there is a c call for mission and education, his name head the list. He is also a s member of the faculty of Benedict ( 1 College. " It has been said that "Dr. Jen- i kins is the symbol of real Christ- > Tan leadership." Many have been I inspired by his dynamic spirit, i His achievements have been amazing, :?: ??: -? With the many positions h e i J holds, he is nevertoo busy for hia : church and members. All of h i s 1 I members are individuals to him. 1 j Whenever they need help, spirit- / l uaHy or therwH^?' Dr. Je*klns Ministers Pledging I Morris College Em By William McK In a determined effort to end the Morris College by Thanksgiving of State arc sending pledges to the Of A partial list as of press time w Rev. R. W. Stallings Rev. H. P. Sharper Rev. H. H. Harvin Rev. L. W. .Williams Rev. 0. R. Reuben".1 U- Rev. N. L. Bush?. . .?- ? Rev. G. A. Sellers Rev. H. E. Hardin Dr. L. C. Jenkins.. Rev. W. J. Burgess Rev. W. A. Johnson Rev. J. S. Hall. Rev. G. G. Daniels $200.00 Rev. Wm. McKinley 1 The Plan to raise the money adop follows: $175,000 THANKSGIVING GOAL T MFA'T THIS PI.AN WAS AnnPT MAY CHURCH ASSESSMENTS: 50 CHURCHES " AT $500 c 100 CHURCHES AT 250 e 100 CHURCHES AT 150 e 500 CHURCHES AT 50 100 UNIONS AT SO Earl AI.UMXI ASSESSMENTS: 200 ALUMNI AT 100 cacl 100 ALUMNI AT 75 eaol 50<i ALUMNI AT 25 ct T5 A RTI ST L A Y M EN ASSESSM EN1 200 LAYMEN AT * 100 eacl 10000 LAYMEN AT 25 e > TOTA1 Tliis is the last year to complc Jamaica Agog Ovei Knighting of Bustai i . By Wilhert E. Heming o 1 KINGSTON, Jamaica?(ANP) 1 When Britain's Queen Elizabeth ? II recently conferred a Knighthood bpon William Alexander Busta- * Trmmte, the Whole country talked ? J for a day al>out the ex-chief minis 0 ter of the island^ and leader of the v Jamaican Labor party. In the political field, the award # has been considered one of t h e s | greatest stimulants to have been given any man whose chances o ? tl becoming the first prime minister - PRICE: N? ins Celebrates 4 ;ary As Pastor v\> / lurch .y ;^| Service as Secretary of Tf ? issionary Convention and 2^ A .. Gethsomane Association m ,N. Srai? I "' ' .. v' it their service. ; His record of 19 years of ser- . ice as Secretary of the Baptist Educational Missionary and Sun- .. .; j lay scnooi convention and 28 .> ?/ rears as Secretary of-the Gethse- r nane Association speaks for itielf. Anyone holding:, a position hat long must be well qualified, ie holds various other positions >ver the Strlte. He was cited as being: the aniwer to a prayer, a mandate from jOcT, a message of hope from resus Christ, and an eoho of .God learing glad tidings to a lost vorld. " We "pray that he will be with u? nany many years. ^ The Honoree is making plans to ittend the Baptist World Alliance in London, England, July# 16-21, L955. While there he will visit ~ the Holy Land and'many?other historical biblical spots. The anniversary program was vivan .in tVio iriioeoat nf fkta irin iirx?? ftuviyiv ot'p* , j T??y mOO on $300,Sjft3^jS^nt,drive of | this year; yDigjaOjfSgjMLycf the ???-.<__Armter,' 'Si c!^j Sum tar, S. 1?-_-.Sqmter, S. C. I --.Marion,' S. C. J . {*$ Mulling, S. C. 1 -A* Colombia, S. C'. V Florence, S. C. T \V Bowman, Cblumhia, S. C. ted by the state Convention is as "O COMPLETE THE ENDOW' ED HY THE CONVENTION IN *3 ach _$ 26,000 , ach 26,000 ach V 2M00 , % each _____ .26,000 * ??6,ooo" " ( ~ <jo'oo? - h 20,000 ' . ti <7,500 ich .12,500 ... L-? "t \ " 7"< 40,000 *~''X 1 iJO.OOO > ,<?h r____ 25,000 ' : ; .:JV % V , ' 4^,000 x'' ^ k ?"i^r- $175,000 te th? Endowment. 1 P .' _ ? ? ^ ^ O"- ~ 1 nante ; v||| :o?W. r norland prop^SS*^ wovdtTbir' j ,