Dr. Price Named Moderator Of National Church Body ELECT PRICE TO TOP POST Dr. Hollis F. Price, president of LeMoyne College, was being hailed this week by local and national leaders following his Hits Small Towns 1 election as moderator of the United Church of Christ's General The manner in which school desegregation is being carried Synod. It is the denomination's highest honorary position. out in some small towns is costing scores of Negro teacher» their He will sit as a non-voting mem­ jobs. It has become a rather alarming situation and recently ber of the executive council and prompted several leaders to call an emergency conference in At­ preside at the United Church of lanta. Christ convention in 1067. He also will be expected to visit local con­ Memphis educators last week the way-Losolly, at thfe atatg lord gregations and districts of the learned of the plight of eight Ne­ and in Washington. We art .got church during the next two years. gro teachers in Morrilton, Aik. who going to let qualified Negro teach­ are now Jobless because the all­ ers down.’’ The United Church of Christ, Negro Sullivan High School was result of a merger in 1967 of the Crocks said he understands about closed when all but four of its , 184 5500 southern Negro teachers face Congregational ChrlstJ&n Churches students applied for enroHment to and the Evangelical and Reformed the loss of Jobs as all-Negro sebhbia the all-white Morrilton High School are closed and.Negro pupUs.shift­ Church, has an overall membership In Atlanta, K. B. M. Crooks of of 2,000,000. there are about 400 ed to white schools. ’ A the National Urban. League’s Organizations meeting" in AUa«a members In Memphis. Southsm Regional Office charged similar situations are taking’ place Local affiliations of the denomi­ F - (CoMtertd national are First Congregational in Holmes and Monrqe «unties in Florida; Monticello and Searcyl Church and Second Congregation­ al Church. Dr.. Price is a member Ark.; Asheboro, Hendersonville, and deacon oLthe latter. Morgantown, Kings Mountain, Washington and Method, N. O., and The Rev. John Charles Mickle, In Maddock. Hersey, Ltabock, minister of Second Congregational, Odessa, El Paso, Midland and Big said: “Dr.. Price is a man who Lage, Texas. never seeks office and always thinks there’s a better one for the Job." Meanwhile, scores of Memphians who teach in nearby rural schools Following his eleotion to the post, in Tennessee, Mississippi and Ark­ the LeMoyne College president said: ansas are concerned about the "I hope that two years from now, present trend. Many of them al­ ACCOMMODATIONS MANAGER - Wallace C. Hamilton, New when a new moderator will be elec­ ready are seeking other jobs in anticipation of their school doors ¿deans supervisor of Jehovah's Witnesses, is assistant accom­ ted, you’ll be giad that you elected me, and I hope that I will be glad being locked. modations manager of the "Word of Truth" District Assembly to High School for students. I was elected." In Morrilton, school officials de­ be held at the Coliseum, July 29-August 1. His secretary is Mem­ cided to close the all-Negro school Other fund - raising projects will He was elected last Thursday at and send all Negro students to the phian, 18-year-old Carita Anderson. Include a public concert by the the General Synod convention in all-white school after most of the band, solicitations among business Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel. He Negro students showed a preference firms and solicitation of sponsors was recommended for the post by for the white school. by members of the band. the nominating committee and Officials said the Jobless Negro MISS GEORGIA MAE TAYLOR A mass meeting of Manassas stu­ nominated from the floor. The teachers might be hired at the dents and Manassas alumni also seconding motion came from Dr. white schools If there are any open­ will help spark the campaign. Arthur Gray of Chicago, chair­ ings but they emphasized very Mr. Hulbert aid the Elks want man of the nomlnatlong commit­ strongly that there is no need for to show appreciation to Manassas tee and a former president of Tal­ Memphis Coed Now A Cute additions at this time. "for its long participation and co­ ladega College, Talladega, Ala. The One of the Jobless teachers, Clem­ Wallace C. Hamilton, New Orleans supervisor of Jehovah's operation in local Elks projects." election was by acclamation by the Hi: said it is also a chance to pub­ ent 8. Bmith, 29, has filed suit in SAMVEL JAMES Witnesses, has been assigned the post of assistant accommoda­ 738 delegates. American Stewardess On U.'S. District Court at Little Rock licize Memphis and its good race tions manager for the huge "Word of Truth" District Assembly relations. Dr. Price is the first Negro to desegregate the faculty of the to be held at the Coliseum, July 29-August 1. He will also be one moderator of the General Synod. white school. He contends that the Other leaders in the project are school board anticipated desegre­ Memphian Joins q of the key speakers of the convention. LeMoyne College Is under the Flight Duty Out Of Chicago Lt. George W. Lee, general chair­ wings of the American Missionary gation and hired extra white teach­ One of the biggest problems of already been spent In this feature. man; L. B. Hobson, principal of Association, a unit of the United ers so that no new teachers would the conclave is the housing of well He mentioned Memphis hospitali­ Manassas; Emerson R. Able Jr., Church of Christ. Miss Geòrgia Mae Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. have to be employed when deseg­ Kaihy Dunham's regation was implemented. over 10,000 delegates irom 30 states. ty has been exceptional, but due to Manassas bandmaster; Frank Scott Taylor, 536 Gilleas Road, has won her silver wings after com­ Hamilton reported that it lias been the great number of persons ex­ Nat D. Williams and A.C. Wil­ President Price Is a member of Crooks said in Atlanta: "We are the Long Range Planning , Com­ pleting the courses of training at American Airlines' Stewardess necessary to organize hundreds of pected, a real need for accommo­ liams, publicity; Miss Rose Cavi­ going to fight this injustice all mittee of the United Church of Witness workers to go house -to- dations still existed. To lighten the ness, Mrs. Georgia V. Purvey, w. College at Fort Worth, Texas. Troupe In Paris f house to list rooms for paying dele­ C. Weathers, J. L. Gaston, exalted Christ. She has been assigned to flight duty out of Chicago, III. Born Two southern Illinois University gates and some 2500 hours hav» I (Continued on Page Four) ruler, Bluff City Lodge 96; Calvin in Shelby County, Tenn., Miss Taylor was a 1959 graduate of Following his election to the high LB J Will Give Aid students, one of them a Memphian, Railings, exalted ruler, Robert R. post, Dr. Price flew to Washington, Church Lodge 1477; Mrs. Gertrude Geeter High School in Whitehaven, Tenn., and attended Le­ and the daughter of an SHI pro­ D. C. to Join a committee of Mem­ Moyne College. To Fired Teachers fessor will spend a year in Paris, Dukes, daughter ruler, Anna S. phians supporting Shelby County’s NEW YORK - In his address France as dancers and actors 1» Church Temple 695; Mi’s. Lillie bid for the Atomic Energy Com­ ■ <-. During her intensive, 6'A-week course at American's unique Scdtt,.-daughter -ruief, "Hattie Lee test week to 11,006 delegates at­ a musical show being staged by mission’s atom smasher. He re­ Stewardess College, Miss Taylor studied some 100 subjects rang­ Katherine Dunham, noted danctr, Temple 1095; Clalborn Lodge 1474; tending the annual convention of turned to Chicago Saturday to be ing from theory of flight and meteorology to food service and choreographer and visiting profes­ Inside Memphis William Thomas, Mrs. Irma Stld- the National Education Association Installed as moderator of the con­ makeup technique. She has brown eyes and brown hair, stands sor of dance at MU. liiim, Mrs. LaBlanche Jackson, J. vention. in Madison Square Garden, Presi­ D. Williams, J. A. Beauchamp, five feet, five and three-fourths inches tall, and weighs 119 dent Lyndon B. Johnson told of a They are Melvin Taylor of Car­ LONNIE F. BRISCOE, member of the Memphis and Shelby Whittier Sengstacke and Dick Dr. Price came to Memphis in pounds. fellowship plan for elementary and bondale, Ill.; Samuel James, son County Planning Commission, has been named southern sales ’Cane’ Cole. 1940 to serve as dean of LeMoyne secondary teachers which he said of Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. James, and was named president of She would assist Negro teachers, who manager for Metal Arts Co., Inc. The Rochester, N.Y. firm manu­ Mr. Hulbert is executive chair­ ¡395 Thomas, Membhis, and Mill man. college in 1943. are dismissed as a result, of de­ Anne McLeod, dauhgter of Prof. factures college and high school jewelry. segregation, to acquire needed skills Archibald McLeod, chairman of the * * * ★ for new and challenging Jobs. sju theatre department. ’ 26 FAMILIES He said he has directed the com­ THE PRESS-SCIMITAR, at long last, has begun capitalizing Mr. James is a 1991 graduate of the 'N' in Negro. missioner of education “to pay spe­ Manassas High School. ★ * * ★ cial attention, in reviewing desegre­ All three young dancers per­ gation plans, to guard against any formed, under Miss Dunham’s di­ THE REV. LAWRENCE F. HAYGOOD, minister oF Parkway HIT BY BLAZE pattern cf teacher dismissals based rection, in the recent BTU produc­ Gardens Presbyterian Church, was a member of interracial teams on race or national origin." tion of Gounod’s Opera "Faust.” "When an integrated school sys­ "This should be a, rtal experi­ attempting to worship at white Presbyterian churches in Mont­ woman sat in a chair on the sidewalk early Saturday tem requires iewer teachers than ence for the three talented young gomery, Ala., June 20.