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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
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PLAIN TALK
BY AL HARRISON

She clipped the story out of the Tribune, attached
dollar and mailed it to
1t didn't surprise me- She no longer lives here but
it's evident her heart is the progress of Tabor City
The dollar for the March of Dimes and the
story about Jack Fipps singing WTAB for
donations.
If We're just one-half thoughtful and able to
find ways of making people feel as the former
Mary McGougan I'd want to live 800 more years.
She lives in Fostoria, Ohio but takes more interest
in what happens here than most of the people who
make it their hometown.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
SHE JUST WASN'T HER OLE SELF

The Yam Festival committee meeting last week
just didn't right. Something missing When
Doris Carroll came in few minutes late, everything
seemed back in killer.
Yet Doris didn't say two dozen words during the
entire meeting. Most unusual my only comment
(and that was to myself.
Found later she visited the dentist before max
ing her appearance at the meeting.
| like it better, Doris, when you possess normal
dental health and say what you're thinking. You're
one of the few I've ever met who had the courage
and it couldn't be bad habit because people link
your name with practically everything good that hap
pens in the community
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01

For a brief PERIOD Of time, The area was flooded
with words about Boys Home. Then, quickly it
started, it ceased Last week word that the
North Carolina State Welfare group had placed its
stamp of approval on the project. This pleasant
Boys Home had a semblance of being county
wide affair when the initial move made. closer
look the slate directors leaves wondering if
countrywide means Tabor City. Chadbourn Evergreen,
Cerro Gordo, and the other if it just
WhiteVille.
| have no objection to restricting affairs of Boys
Home to Whiteville folks. There some excellent
men in that progressive town Yet, other Columbus
towns have capable men who equally talented.
If it is to be considered countrywide project, it is
my suggestion that it be in than Just
Making it countrywide would tend to insure success
Of great program.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
HE JOINS THE CROWD

Mike Vaughn, likeable representative of Investors
Syndicate who used to travel this territory dropped
card from his Wilmington home
Good to you named Wright ole man of the
year. When are you going to make Mrs. Todd Queen
For A Day?"
Thanks Mike. Your name has been added to the
thousands who feel the way
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
Minute Sermon
Prepared by Department of
Bible
Presbyterian Junior College
Maxton, North Carolina


From January 81, for three
days, until February .. the
trustees Of the Consoli lated
Presbyterian college. will be
meeting in Raleigh hearing in
vitations from each of the sew
cnteen communities which are
inviting The new campus to its
Location. They expect to reduce
the possible sites to three or
four, and after careful study. 70
make a selection on March Is
II is is an important decision
and they Tccd The prayer of all
interested people.
The moderator OF the Synod.
Dr.. Charles G. Mcclure has is
sued a call e. prayer as follows:
Whereas. the Synod Of ,'orth
Carolina at its annual mcc,ino
in July 1858 merged three of its
educational institutions and APP
proved the plan Of using these
merged ones as a nucleus for a
great Consolidated College TO be
located in the eastern part Of
North Carolina. and
Whereas. the Synod has pIac-
cd upon the Trustees Of the
Consolidated Institution ire
m7ndOus responsibilities such
as determining the location Of
the college. financing it, secur-
ing its faculty. and determining
its purpose and ciriculum. and
Whereas, the success Of the
project is impossible without the
bic ssing Of God.
II, therefore. as Moderator Of
the Synod, designate Sunday.
January 90, 1856, as a day Of
prayer for Gods blessing upon
this Institution and upon its
Trustees, and ould urge every
minister to lead his people in
fervent and frequent prayer on
this date.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01

are going to live or that service to
mankind that we are going to render.
At SO the time draws near for action.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
Barney GIuzer's Column


- HaEr4eu couple III me
oackWoooS hao oeeh arguing
LOT 'nree weeks win 'he VIE
uolhs al me 'aINtilS ana ''e
NhoU' 'oo') /" disgust '"e VIE
called IN her motner-in-law to
see II the elder statcSWoman
could bulge her rcialitrant
son. The first thing the mother
did was to Whap her son over
the head with a two-by-iour
plank. The lad didn't bulge
His mother wnaIkcd MIN again
with this mUrdcrouS bludgcon
until the young wife protested.
Hey, you amin 70 kill my
mani" Guess you don't know
nuthin' about my SON" SCoffcd
the older woman. First off.
you gotta get his attention"
Glen I1gleS. my Rcscda
editor, saw a young boy read
ing a magazine in a drugstore.
Guess what he was reading,
smiles Glen" Sintown, L. S.
A (the little deviD.
Ding dong bell. barney's in
the well, who put him in? last
weeks cat story, that's who.
The mewing and yowling Of
the cat species last week was
nothing compared to the deaf
eninG miauw set up by solicit
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
Carriers Column
By-W. Horace Carter

With the Tabor City Rotary Club the planning stage
setting scholarship deserving desire
to attend college reminded of testimonial made last
week by Holt MCPHERSON editor of the High Point Enterprise
Mr. Mcpherson made the during a conversaypl
at breakfast meeting the board directors of the C
The McPhesons have children their and
they decided make effort do all they could for
deserving high school graduates who could not finance their
through college.
time. they several through col
ege Some of them married and doing we'll Those
students have practically accepted McPhersons
angels in disguise and will forever be grateful.
the exceptional student they helped m
the grade and dropped of school, has been making regular
payments to hquidatc the loan
Mcpherson made his through Rotary
and that organization has the fund 1t has been
which made by the student the
this service to mankind and so would we here we make the
steps to get this scholarship fund in operation
last suggestion PTA of cy-the drainage
of the school grounds is still in need of attention.
We have been fortunate in having much weather
this school those days raining
floors the new building have taken lot Of wear
and tear from the mud and water.
building represent a huge invest
men The should protect that investment
ing adequate surfaced walks between buildings. the
county won't do anything then effort should exet
ed the local level -
paragraph of several weeks ago, the
file play gymnas-
deserves to have facilities IT is minor expense bur
basketball goals should the Fairgrounds
better athletic competitors in the future would be
The washing machine that badly at
the school is on the to being taken Of local
is in the of
They need dryer with it,
around
., "
.;nr ~ ate alo aEataoie now " tie ehiiofeh
"a'4t'e iSii ''a''S Deioie ed'is a' the cafeteria.
would tho Roostor,s CI,, +oLo
ceed effort to eradicate school problems And they have
everybody's problem '
is in Tabor among
something that Will increase the farmers income when b
starts taking his loss on tobacco Everyone is aware that the Local
the farming industry and prosperv
~
linus every INDIVIDUAL OF
H. STANDS 10 gam Inc farmer proSperS That's the big topic OF
conversation ana interest at fever pitch 10 make
open up new markets for additional farm commodities.
dead to be buried bv North Caronians Tabor v nertaLa
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

Negroes Give
YMcA $4,000

Montgomery, Ala. = Negroes in
this city, despite outstanding
trouble in the current bus situation,
have raised $7O,411 in a YMCA
drive for new building.
Many of the contributors report
edly had to be bailed out Of Jail
on charges of boycotting buses be-
fore they could contribute to the
campaign.
The announcement, by Dunba.
Reed, said Negroes went over their
goal of $4,000 by $20,411 at the
Victory Dinner on the campus of
Alabama State College.
This money comes exclusively
from the Negroes Of Montgomery
to match money from the City Wide
Campaign to build a new building
which will cost 5000, 900. The city
wide goal of 81, 139, 900 was passed
when $1,142,O00 was reported.
From this amount, four buildings
will be built, one of the will serve
Negroes. The top leadership in the
campaign was as follows: r. B.
Binion, general chairman; DR.. H.
Council Trenholm, chairman, Pat
CONTINUED on Page Severn
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French Probe
Charges OF
African Colonies
Slave Trade
Say Negro Girls
Under Is Bring
Top Prices

VERSAILLES, France, Mar. s.
Officials in Frances African col
onies are investigating charges
that Negro girls under Is from
their territories bring from 200, 900
to 400,O 900 franms each (about $3.50
to $1,140) in Saudi Arabian slave
markets.
The investigation has been re-
quested by the Consultative As
sembly Of the French Union, which
last week heard a first report on
slave traffic in French Africa. 1t
adjourned its debate on slavery to
await results of the investigation.
Emmanuel la Graviere, reporter
on social affairs, told the Assembly
there was flourishing slave traffic
in men, women, and children from
French Equatorial Africa. French
West Africa, and the French Cam
eroons to Saudi Arabia and the
Yemen.
Hundreds of black French citl-
zens are sold in Arabian slave mar
kets every year, he said. A fit man
brings about 10000 francs (about
$43O).
Recruiting Described
M. la Graviere said slaves were
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Ala. Interracial
Committee Warns
OF Violence
SAYS Law And
Order Transcends
Other Issues

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Mar. g.
Peaceful settlement of racial prob
lens through persuasion or re-
course to the courts is urged by a
group of white and Negro leaders
here.
The interracial committee of the
Jefferson County Coordinating
Council last Thursday adopted a
resolution cautioning against "vio-
lent utterances" which might stir
up racial strife.
The committee is made up Of Is
white and Is Negro members.
A statement approved 34-1 called
on white and Negro citizens ITO
proceed peacefully in all their ac-
tions, to avoid violent utterances
and to rely for settlement of their
controversies on persuasion and on
recourse to the courts"
"The issue of law and order
transcends every other issue before
our people," it continued. "Unless
we can maintain law and order,
there can be no hope of achieving
any of the ends for which the COM
mittee was organized, or, indeed,
of maintaining the foundation ct
our civilization"
Henry p. Johnston, president OF
the group, said the committee was
formed in. 1850 Ito see what could
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Prophet Jones Off
Air Until Trial

Detroit, Mich. Mar. 6 - DR..
James F. (Prophet) Jones' regu-
lar Monday morning broadcast Il
to 2 a.m.) was not heard over
Radio Station CKLW this week.
Failure of the Prophet to make
an appearance following his ar
raignment in Recorders Court last
week or a morals charge prompt
ed local Detroiters to inquire: is
he through? What is his present
status?" And other similar ques-
tions.
A check with Radio Station
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Fisk University Embarked Upon
$1,750, 900 Ed-Reorganization

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Fisk Uni
versity has embarked upon a ST.
10000 educational reorganization
program, it was revealed here by
DR.. Charles S. Johnson, Fisk pres
ident. A 100000 initial grant for
the program from the Fund for
the Advancement of Education
was announced simultaneously.
Fisk's plan is expected to change
many aspects of traditional campus
life. The program, which will be
campus-wide and more compre-
hensive than anything heretofore
attempted by an American univers-
ity, is designed to reorganize cam
pus life for more effective learn
ing, to utilize fully the latest ad-
vances in technology for instruc-
tional purposes, to gear the uni
versity for the predicted increase
in enrollments that is expected to
flood all educational institutions
within the next few years, and to
stabilized the increasing costs OF
education.
Plans call for augmentation
over q three year period, to begin
Immediately, and the construction
Of three major buildings.
Latest Teaching Aids
Professors, who have been teach
ing in much the same manner for
over a century, will be provided
with variety of aids designed to
facilitate the learning process and
to enrich teaching. These include
iContinued on Page Seven)
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State NAAcP
Delegates Get
Cordial Reception
In Call Upon
Sen. EastIand
Washington Civil
Rights Meet Ends

WASHINGTON, D. c., March Z
-(DSN)-In spite of the fact that
the three day Conference on Civil
Rights sponsored by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People here Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday opened on
the note sounded by Clarence Nit
chell, head of it's Washington Bu-
reau, that Senator James 0. East
land, of Mississippi was stink
ing albatros" hanging around the
neck of the Democratic Party, two
Mississippi delegates attending the
Conference were given a Every COR
diaW reception by the Senator on
their visit to his office here.
The two Mississippi delegates
Continued on Page Seven)
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African Colonies
.MayPut Portugal
Under Scrutiny
OF United Nations
Admit Practice OF
Forced Native Labor

CAPETOWN, Africa, Mar. g.
Mozambique and Angola, two little
known African colonies which many
people still have to check in the
atlas, are likely to mean lot
more to the West soon.
Hidden in Africa's vastness, al
though together bigger than Ger
many, France, Spain, and Italy
combined, they belong to Portugal.
And Portugal recently joined the
United Nations.
AS result, diplomats here fore
cast that the two underdeveloped
territories, whose native admins
tration has long been the subject
of speculation, may soon share the
glare of international scrutiny
from the UN which has lately IL
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

Washington, D. c., Mar. 81.
s. Senator Thos. c. Hennings, Jr.
3D., Mo-, Chairman of the Senate
Subcommittee on Constitutional
Rights, announced here today the
Subcommittee approval Of four
bills to strengthen Federal protec-
ton of civil rights. The bills are:'
~ A bill to protect the voting
rights of all citizens in Federal
elections and primaries; (2) bill
to establish new civil rights en-
forcement machinery in the At
torney Generals office; 81 one to
extend protection against bodily
attack to all members of the armed
forces; and (4) a new anti-lynching
bill.
The four bills with accompany
ing staff reports, also approved,
which explain their scope and pur-
pose will be sent Immediately to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Diggs.PoweII In Agreement On
Work Stoppage Qualification

hour of prayer on the date men
toned as a means Of giving moral
support to Negroes in Montgomery,
Alabama, who have been waging
since last December successful
boycott against local segregation
policies applying to bus companies,
and, as we'll, to Negro leaders in
the boycott who have been subject
ed to wholesale arrests recently by
Montgomery officials in an effort
to break it.
Diggs urged that in connection
with taking time off for prayer
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

Washington, D. c. March 8 =
Congressman Charles c. Diggs,
Jr. (D-Mich.), in letter yester-
day to Congressman Adam Clay
ton Powell, Jr. (D-N. ", and a
telegram to the Rev. DR.. Joseph
Jackson, president of the National
Baptist Convention, expressed his
agreement with Powelps clarified
ton that the national hour of pray
er movement, set for March %, does
not represent a proposed work
stoppage.
Powell and other leaders have
called upon Negroes to join in an
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
DESEcREGATI0N I'M ST. LOUIS
HAS NOT BROUGHT INTEGRATI0N
SAYS REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
CHRISTIANS AND jews
Says The Hardest Fight Against
Prejudice Still Remains
Urge Avoidance Of Frontal Attack
On Community Mores =

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 6-"De-
segregation, the removal of physi-
cal barriers between groups, has
not yet brought Indignation, the
natural association Of persons as
individuals, not as members of
special groups" here declares Vir-
gil Border, Regional Director of
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews.
Although firmly committed to
equality for all, Mr.. Border be-
lieves an important factor in the
change of opinion was the avoid
ance of a frontal attack upon COM
munity mores.
Careful timing brought US
series of small victories that quick
ly compounded into major achieve
ments il. the fight against preju-
dice" he explains.
Although this record, praised as
far away as Bombay, is encourage
ing, Mr.. Border believes the hard
est part of the fight against preju-
dice remains.
Gains in the drive against preju-
dice in ST. Louis were recorded
Continued on Page Two)
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u s. SENATE subcommittee ON
CIVIL RIGHTS APPROVES FOUR
STRENGTHEN FEDERAL
PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS
Request Bills Be Placed On
Committee Agenda
Senator Hennings, Sub Committee Chairman
Issues Statement Urging Passage OF Bills

the Judiciary Committee, with the
subcommittee request that they
be placed on the Committee agenda.
Senator Hennings said the first
three bills and accompanying re-
ports were unanimously approved
by the Subcommittee, of which
the other two members are Sem
ator Joseph C. O'Mahoney d.,
Wyo.) and Senator William LANCER
r., N. d.. The bills, he said,
were approved two weeks ago, and
the accompanying reports Friday.
With respect to the new anti-lynch-
ing bill, approved by Senator Hen
nings and Senator LANCER, Chair
man Hennings said the Sub-com-
mittee took cognizance Of the fact
that similar legislation was report
ed to the Senate in five previous
sessions of the Congress.
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

New York, N. Y. = The parochial
schools of New Orleans will accept
Negro students "just as the night
follows the day." although the
Catholic hierarchy's policy is far
from unanimous among Catholic
leaders, The Reporter Magazine
said today.
In a study Of integration ef-
forts by leaders of the Catholic
clergy in New Orleans, Louisa
Dalcher, staff member of The Re-
porter, reports that Archbishop
Joseph Francis Rummel has taken
a position directly opposed to that
of legislators who would include
Catholic schools in the state segre-
CATION laws. On February 18th ne
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

WASHINGTON, d. c., Mar. 81
This wave of racial terrorism now
sweeping the United States is
hurting US in Asia more than any
other thing, recently stated Am
bassador John Sherman Cooper.
Back in the states for consulta-
ton with State Department Of
ficials the U. S. Ambassador to
India addressed the Women's Ma
tional Press club at its regular
luncheon held at the Mayflower
hotel last week.
Following the question period
Ambassador Cooper told the AMP
that few people of India realized
that the racial situation in this
country is improving in some areas.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Saw Deseqreqation Doesn't Bring Indignation
First President OF
Security Life Ins.
Company honored
Unveil Plaque Citing
DR.. L. T. Burbridge

New Orleans, La. Mar. 5 - A
memorial plaque In memory of the
late DR.. Leonidas T. Burbridge, was
presented recently to Flint-Good-
ridge hospital by the deceased fam
lily, friends and associates.
Located in the hospitals lobby,
the bronze plaque was unveiled by
Mrs. f. Lyons Baker. 1t paid tri-
butte to DR.. Burbridge as dis
tinguished physician and medical
pioneer, business and. civic leader
and a devout churchman and re-
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Rep. Powell
Denies Call For
Work Stoppage
Says Wire Service
Misguided Statement

NEW YORK, March 5 - Con-
gresham Adam Clayton Powell
denied calling last weekend for a
work stoppage among Negroes to
protest Montgomery, Ala, bus seq
regation.
Mr.. Powell declared that wire
services have admitted they mis-
quoted him concerning the idea.
The following is the text of tele-
gram he released to the Atlanta
Daily World:
Work stoprage idea completely
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Say Wife Being
Used As NAACP
Guinea Pig

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March g.
The estranged husband of second
Negro woman who tried to enter
the University of Alabama charged
today she is being paid $500 per
month by the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
People.
Edward Hudson in an answer to
the divorce suit Of Polite Ann Hud-
son called her an NAACP guinea
pig"
"The complainant is in the en-
ploy, or on the rolls, of the NAACP
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

New York City, New York
National Negro Newspaper Week,
annually observed by the National
Newspaper Publishers Association,
will be recognized by special
half-hour radio broadcast on the
National Broadcasting Company
and affiliated stations at 1890
EST on Tuesday, March Is.
Featured on the broadcast will
be Acknowledgements public figures
and representatives of the publish
ers association discussing the
theme of the 1866 Newspaper OBJ
servance, "The Negro and the Dest-
my of Democracy"
Included will be Thurgood Mar
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
RACIAL STRIFE HURTING U. S.
IN INDIA SAYS AMBASSADOR

They only hear about government
officials planning ways to legalize
segregation and discrimination.
Once upon time ambassadors
to foreign countries could explain
away the question of segregation
by saying it was not approved or
supported by the government.
That cannot be said today when
those people are aware that state
government officials are not only
supporting racial segregation but
are demanding that it be main
tanned by law. This situation is
very difficult for American diplo-
mats to explain.
After returning from the band
Continued on Page Ski
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10
Morgan Student
To Sing In Paris

BALTIMORE, Nd, March g
Outstanding scholastic perform
ance at the Fontainebleau School
of Fine Arts, Paris, France, has
earned Robert J. Wilson, senior
at Morgan State college, a two
year scholarship at the Ecole De
Musique de Paris and an invitation
from the French government to
sing in the "De Lulli" opera in
Paris this summer.
The French government an
nounced recently that it has aw-
arded the premiere Accessti
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

Chicago, March - United Ma
lions Undersecretary Ralph Bunche
this week assailed those who label
supporters of Negro rights as Com
munists.
"This serves Communist pur-
poses admirably but it will not
deter the Negro" he remarked.
He said the best answer to Com
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-10

Washington, D. c., Mar. g.
neutrality-suspicious. Charles c.
Diggs, Jr. (D-Mich.) told Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Attorney
General Brownell in telegram
today that the arrest of Clarence
Mitchell, Washington Representa-
tive of the NAACP, and Rev. Hor-
ace Sharper, in Florence, S. c.,
last night "is a part of a develop
ing pattern of terror tactics" He
hkened this latest arrogant de-
fiance" of the Federal Government,
to that displayed in the recent
wholesale arrests in Alabama. The
Congressman told the President
that he had sent telegram to