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Manv Notables Expected At N.C. Branches NAACP Sessionw"

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KELLY M. ALEXANDERPresident North Carolina State

Conference NAACP BranchesMRS. RUTH MORGAN

Vice-President

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ATTY. CLAYTONVice-President

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ATTY. SAIWMIE CHESSVice-President

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REV. CARROLL FELTONVice-President

ATTY. C. (>. PEARSONGeneral Counselor

MRS. BEATRICE BURNETTRecording Secretary

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.

Registration will begin at 7:30'a.m. and continue throughout the 1day. The opening program of the

session will include a Memorial Ser-vice tor all deceased member, sincethe 23rd annual meeting, at 10:00a.HL, with Rev. J. T. McMillan, chair-manjOf the NAACP Church Commit-1

tee, presiding. The memorial servicewill be led by Dr. Carroll M. Felton.All plenary sessions will be held inthe University Ballroom and will beopened to the general public.

From 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.,

organization and business meetings

will be conducted for ministers,

youths and Branch delegates. WithPresident Kelly Alexander presidingthe minutes of the annual sessionwill be read by Mrs. B. G. Burnett,

secretary of the State Conference.Reports of the Organization Com-mittee will follow.

Highlighting the Friday morning

session will be the president's annualaddress to be delivered at the close of

jthe Plenary Session. Presentation ofnational, 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-

versity Ballroom with Dr. A. D.Moscley, president of the DurhamNAACP Branch, presiding.

The keynot address will be de _

The keynote address will be de-

livered by Clarence Mitchell, DirectorWashington Bureau NAACP. Mitchell

will be introduced by Durham City

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

National Director of NAACP Bran-

ches and Field Administration. The

remainder of the day's session willbe consumed with routine programs,committee meetings and reports,

climaxed in the afternoon with an

address by Attorney. Derrick Bell,

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Mt. Vernon Host To Southern Rapt. MeetGardner TaylorTo AddressPN6C Session Clue Carwip Cun£o

VOLUME 44 ?No. 45 DURHAM, N. C.?SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1967 PRICE: 20c

DR GARDNER TAYLOR

President PNBC

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REV. CHAS. A. CHIRRY

Regional President

REV. E. T. BROWNEHost Pastor

The 1967 session of the SouthernRegional Convention of the Progres-

sive National Baptist Convention willbe 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. \u2666illiams, South Carolina; Rev.R. M. Joseph, Alabama; Dr. S. A.

Owen, Tennessee; Dr. O. H. StinsonGeorgia; 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 bedelivered 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 inpreparation for the session.

See MT VERNON page 12

Dr. Ellen Winston And Dr.Rose Butler Browne Feted

GREENVILLE Two of

North Carolina's most outstand-ing women were honored inGreenville Sunday,

19, during the Seventh Anniversarv Celebration of theNorth Carolina Joint Councilon Health and Citizenship

Receiving a Special Awardof Honor, presented by Dr.Walter N. Ridley, president ofElizabeth City State College,was Dr Ellen B. Winston of

Raleigh.

Dr Winston was born inSwain County where she was

reared and attended the public

schools Her undergraduate de-gree was obtained from Con-

See FETED page 12

DR. WILLIAM C UPSHAWCongress President

DR. V. L. BOOTHSecretary, PNBC

DR. G. K. OFFUTTCongress Ex-President

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FraternitiesAttacked ForBias Policies

CLEVELAND?Th e Masons.Eagles, Elks, Moose, Oddfel-lows and other orders devotedto fraternity and fellowshipwere 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 ShrineLuncheon Club, a branch ofthe Free and Accepted Masons,

by Howard M. Metzenbaum, anational vice president of theAmerican Jewish Congress andchairman of the board of I.T. T. Consumer Services Corp.

Mr. Metzenbaum, a 50-year-

old lawyer and former Ohiolegislator still active in Demo-cratic politics here, said hedid not question any individ-ual's rights to associate withany 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 setsas one of its standards for admission 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 thegreat fraternal orders of thecountry."

In addition to the Masonicpolicy of excluding Negroes,

Mr. Metzenbaum also said

that:The Eagles, a fraternal order

that supports liberal causesand numbers nearly one mil-

lion members, admits only

members of the Caucasian race.

The Benevolent Protective

Order of Elks limits its membership 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 excludeNegroes as well as "Chinese,

Polynesians, Indians, hal f-See FRATERNITIES page 9

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Durham YouthPresident UNCFrosh Law Class

Kenneth B. Spaulding hasbeen elected President of theUniversity of North CarolinaLaw School's first year classfor the academic year of 1967-1968 Spaulding is the firstNegro to hold the position ofclass president in the history

of the university which is theoldest state supported LiberalArts institutions in the Nation.

Spaulding plans to initiate a

program which will lend itselfto better communications be-tween the Negro and whitecommunities, so as "to breakdown 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 thefuture development of the

South.Spaulding is a cum laude

graduate of Howard University.

Last year, he served as Presi-dent of the Political ScienceSociety and received a grant

from the Howard University

Citizenship Project, a political

education program, for the firstsemester. He served as an administrative assistant to theCity 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.

Court Aids Retarded YouthInterrogated By Policemen

Alexander and McLean to BeOpposed For NAACP Posts

ATLANTA Conviction of a 12year old mentally retarded youth,!jailed on charges of arson after four

I hours of police questioning, was re-

versed here this week by NAACPLegal 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 his1 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

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DURHAM MAN IS PROMOTED TOCOLONIAL WAREHOUSE FOREMAN

RALEIGH Promotion of

William S. Gunn to Warehouse

Foreman for Colonial Stores, fInc. has announced by

R. L Belvin, Vice President of .

the Company's Raleigh Divi-sion. In his new position Mr. jflVGunn will supervise the pro-duce and dairy operation at tColonial's District center in

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ham. and has been associated

with Colonial various post-

since 1946. He is married IHof l -Jv

which are attending school.See GUNN page 12 OUNN

Fireworks MayFly at AnnualDurham Meet

The election of officers to be heldSaturday 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 ofNAACP, Rev, Banks has included inhis platform the following program:

See FIREWORKS page 12

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Sullivan, Jackson, Joyce To

Address "Neighbor" Confab11

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JACKSON JOYCBHeart Attack FellsCharacter 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

RALEIGH-Dr. Leon Sullivan,

Founder and Chairman of the Board

of the Opportunities IndustrilizationCenter and Pastor of the Zion BaptistChurch, Philadelphia, will be the key-

note speaker during a two-day StateGood Neighbor Council Employment

Forum scheduled to be held Novem- Iber 29-30 at the Robert E. Lee Hotel j

!in Winston-Salem. His address will j1 cap the closing session following a jluncheon on Thursday, November |30.

. Other nationally known j

lities scheduled to address the con-

ference include Commissioner Sam-uel Jackson of the Equal Employ-ment Opportunities Commission ofWashington, D. C., and Robert &

Joyce, Program Associate in theSee ADORISS page 12

I check for the building fund |of the church from Mrs. Dew-

jey Williams, representing theclub. The Effort Club presents

i the annual check on its "RaceI I

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 jBethel Effort Club's annual 1

I Progress Day," for which, thisyear, Dr. Hugh Gloster, presi-

dent of Morehouse, seated at

left, was the speaker.(Photo by Nottingham)