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"We Have Been Model Lawabiding
Citizens", Says The Conference.
"Let lls Be No Less At This Time."
Ihe ministers of Roanoke and vicinity, who have kept
conspicuously quiet during the past turbulent months of
racial adjustment since the United States Supreme Court
handed down its decision on segregation in public schools,
spoke out this week like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
Shocked by the skillful political maneuvering of the chjef
executives of our State to circumvent the ruling of the
■ highest court of our nation, the “brethren of the cloth,”
I rose up in righteous indignation to throw their mighty
strength against the foes of the law.
.A* the regular weekly meeting Monday, the greater
part ol the time was used in the discussion of the actions
taken in the special session by the legislators concerning
the Gray Commission report. The ministers unanimously
agreed that solutions to the many unanswered questions
- raised by the opponents of the Report should be clarified
bince neither the Governor nor members of the Commission
a\ e made the slightest attempt to give answers which
are pertanent to the plan’s operation, it would be unreason
able and unfair to expect the electorate of this State to
go to the polls and vote for its adoption. Therefore the
ministers felt morally obligated to lend all possible as
sistance to the obtaining of this information. To that
end, they are launching an informative campaign designed
to point out our Christian, patriotic and lawabiding duties
as worthy citizens of the great State of Virginia.
The ministers further took the position, that any effort
to circumvent or by-pass any law of our land established
thiough constitutional processes is a dangerous course to
pursue. It could establish a custom of obeying only the
liiws which we find pleasant. That would lead to destruction
ot government by law and replace it with government by
mass emotion which would be a most dangerous alterna
1 tive.
high churchmen, these men are clearly convinced
of the hypocrisy of those political schemers and their de
termination to disobey the ruling of the highest court of
the land. 11 the proponents of the report are unable to
give the answer to the numerous questions, or if thev are
tearful of doing so, the voters would tlo irreparable harm
to vote for its passage,” says the Ministerial Conference.
Catholic Church May
Close; Priest Threatened
Over a period of almost two
months dispute has raged at
Ouf Lady of Lourdes Church
in Ertha, Louisiana, over the
acceptance of a Negro priest.
The priest is Father A. M.
Labbe. The bishop is Rev. Ju
les B. Jeanmard. The church
has 2,500 members, and Rev.
Teanmard threatened to ex
communicate any members
guilty of violence.
The bishop also threatened
that any others threatening
violence, or spreading mali
cious gossip “to interfere with
the ministry of the priest in
charge of Our Lady of
Lourdes Church, or with the
teaching of the catechism to
children of this parish, as
ordered by us, will be au
tomatically excommunicated
from the church without fur
ther notice.”
Threats against the prieyst
of the church, Father A. M.
Labbe, have caused him to
obtain the services of a col
lege student as his bodyguard.
The priest said that infor
mation that he was in danger
was relayed to him by friends.
He had received no letters or
threatening calls, I
The priest also said that he
had been followed by various
groups when he went out, but
found out some of them were
seeking his protection.
About 650 whites and 75
Negroes had been receiving
instruction with “no trouble”
until November 14, when the
priest was forced to suspend
the integrated class. He said
that beginning with Decem
ber 5, the class would be con
ducted as before.
Erath. located in Louisiana,
Cajun County, is an area in
which there has been less ra
cial trouble than anywhere
else in the state. Rut a recent
pronouncement that parochial
schools in the state would be
desegregated when the time
is more suited for a total
break with community tradi
tion created a tense situation.
Reporting on the beating of
the teacher. Father Labbe
said Mrs. Lula V. Or*man was
beaten last week in part of
4he church as she was going
to say the Rosary. Three
women were present, but only
two assaulted her.
A crowd of nearly 7.000 at
tended the Soul Stirrers An
niversary program held in the
Chicago Coliseum, she said,
with other engagements at
tracting similar throngs.
“Tn the past, the South has
been the most lucrative ter
ritory for Cospel singers, hut
surpr?«?ngtv enough, the East
and Midwest are now corres
pondingly as good. Mrs. Cum
ber declared.
“Tn her opinion, the field
is an increasingly fine lot of
fro^h new talent, and this
plus the tremendous resurg
ence hack to Cod in America
today, foretells a snlendid fu
ture for singers of the great
Gospels.”
Herald Attractions, which
News From The Churches
High Street Baptist Church To
Present Concert December It
The Radio Choir of High
Street Baptist Chuivh will
• appear in Concert on Sunday,
December 11, at 7:30 p.m.,
in the main auditorium of the
church.
The December concert is an
,annual event of the Radio
Choir. This year the members
will use the proceeds to help
make Christmas for the
“Shut-in” at the South West
Convalescent Home.
Members and friends are in
vited to attend the concert,
which is being presented in
the true “Spirit of Christ,”
that is, in order to bring hap
piness to those shut-in. Some
of these people may not have
families to remember them at
this season. With that
thought in mind, the com
munity-at-large is urged to
attend.
Addison High
School
A Christmas tradition
dating back to the birth of
Christ will be renewed Sun
day afternoon (Dec. 11) when
the 90-voice Addison Choir
presents portions of “The
Messiah” together with many
carols of various countries.
The concert will be held in
the school auditorium beginn
ing promptly at 4 p.m.
The Oratoria, written by
George Frederick Handel in
24 days during portions of the
months of August and Sep
tember, 1741, has been used
by most singing groups to tell
the Christmas Story.
Seven soloist will perform
under James Thompson, Jr.,
High Street Church
To Honor Ushers
High Street Baptist Church
will honor its Usher Board
on Sunday, December 11, at
the 11 a.m. Worship service.
Rev. F. G. Sampson, pastor,
will conduct the special cere
mony which will pay tribute
to this organization. Rev.
Sampson’s sermon will be de
livered on the subject, “Signs
of Greatness.”
The Usher B'-ard consists
of five Usher groups. Those
are, namely, the Junior, In
termedia* e, Senior Adult Men
and Adult Women. All
Ushers will be seated to
gether in their uniforms dur
ing the worship service.
Music Will be furnished by
the junior and senior choirs,
and the Gospel Chorus.
director, Donald Pullens at
the piano and William Nabors
at the organ.
Soloists are Norma Smith,
Carolyn Charlton, Shirley
Preston, Sopranos; Yvonne
Brandon, Florence Spencer,
Altos, and Harold Deane,
tenor. The choir will open
the program by singing ex
cerpts from the Messiah and
with Hallelujah Chorus. The
remainder of the program
will feature carols of many
countries.
The choir has been working
hard for several weeks in
order that their first con
cert will be a success. “The
Messiah” is said to contain
music of both the simplest
! and most complex nature but
Sweet Union
Baptist Church
The Ladies’ Working Zeal
Club, Mrs. Rachel Lee presi
dent, will present a program
at the church, Sunday the
llth, at'3:00 p. m. Rev. P. T.
Travis, of Gary, W. Va., will
preach. Mrs. C. C. Williams
will offer a reading. Mrs.
Florence Fields - Woods will
render an organ solo. Other
musical selections will be ren
dered by the Sweet Tones of
Israel.
Great Future
Predicted For
Gospel Singers
Hollywood—Mrs. Lillian
Cumber, Herald Attractions,
Inc., Gospel booking agency
executive predicted a greater
future for Spiritual artists
than ever before, following
a recent business trip to
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City, Dallas and other key
centers of Gospel concert act
ivities.
“There are unprecedented
demands for the Pilgrim
Travelers, Bro. Joe May, the
Original Gospel Harmonettes,
the two blind groups, the Car
avans and other artists hand
led by our agency,” Mrs. Cum
ber stated.
all of it is “on the highest
plane of inspirational beauty.”
The choir will sing “The
Messiah” from a chapel back
ground admist lighted candles.
The Madonna and ferns. The
art department has worked
out appropriate scenery which
expresses Winter Wonderland
[for the singing of the carols.
Workshop Director, Charles
J. Smith, 111, will serve as
Director of the Sixth Annual
Florida A.&M. University In
terscholastic Press Workshop
that will be held on January
28-29, 1955.
4000 Negroes
Vote Bus Boycott
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 6—
About 4000 Negroes voted at
a mass meeting last night
to stay off the city buses un
til a satisfactory arrangement
is worked out in a squabble
over Jim Crow seating.
The crowd jammed into a
Baptist church for the rally
that came after the first day’s
boycott of the buses,; to pro
test the conviction of a seam
stress who refused to take a
Jim Crow seat, was called “90
percent effective.”
The immediate cause of the
boycott, Mrs. Rosa Parks, 42
was fined $10 in Recorder’s
Court yesterday. She had
been arrested by a bus driver.
News For
Veterans
Fall enrollments of vet
erans under the Korean GI
Bill have broken all past re
cords of the three-year-old
training program, and probab
ly will pass the 700,000-mark
before the end of the year,
Veterans Administration an
nounced.
Incomplete r e p or t s from
schools show that nearly
615.000 Korea veterans were
in training November 1, VA
said. This represents a 36
percent increase over the
451.000 enrolled a year ago,
and also is well above the pre
vious peak of 603,000 veter
an-trainees, reached on May
1, 1955.
VA predicted that by mid
December, when completed
fall figures are in, the total
number of veterans training
under the Korean GI Bill
mav surpass 700,000.
GT college enrollments
made the largest stride over
the past year, VA said, ris
studonts on November 1, 1954.
to 341,000 this year—a 50
percent increase.
Enrollments in schools be
low the colege level rose 20
percent, from 148,000 to
178.000. GI farm training
Mrs. Cumber heads, is the na
tion’s largest booking agency
with far flung operations in
nearly each one of the 48
states and abroad.
More Students Burning
Over Georgia Ban
I Atlanta, Dec. 6—Students
at Emory University and the
University of Georgia, anger
ed because a new segregation
sports policy will hurt Geor
gia teams’ reputation s,
burned Gov. Marvin Griffin
j in effigy on two fronts last
! night.
They were the third and
■ fourth institutions in the
I state to burn the governor
in effigy since Mr. Griffin
j asked the State Board of Re
i gents to prevent Georgia
| Tech from meeting Pitts
burgh, which has a Negro
player, in the Sugar Bowl.
The demonstrations broke
out a few hours after the
regents, who govern the uni
versity system, adopted a
compromise racial policy that
will allow Tech to play in the
Sugar Bowl Jan. 2, but proba
bly bar state supported
schools from future games
with Negroes.
500 in Demonstration
There was fear that the
new policy would doom both
Georgia and Georgia Tech,
which together have been to
14 major bowl games in the
past 15 years as national
football powers.
Some 500 University of
Georgia students, who usually
save their wrath for rival1
Tech in sports competition,
held a sympathy demonstra
tion late last night on the
Athens, Ga., campus and
burned the governor in effigy.
About the same time, some
25 persons burned an effigy
of the governor on the library
steps at Emorv Universitv.
1
a Methodist-supported college
in Atlanta, which fields no
football team.
15 Arrested
Athens police took into cus
registered a 40 percent in-1
crease, going from 25,000 to
35.000. On-the-job training
increased the least—a 13 per
cent rise from 53,000 to
60.000.
This year's sizeable boost in
the number of Korea veteran
trainees more than made up
for the continuing decline in
the number of World War II
veterans still training under
the original World War II
GI Bill. VA said.
On November 1. 1955, only
78.000 World War TI veterans
were enrolled in G I training—
less than half the total of
169.000 in schools and train
ing establishments a year ago.
today about 15 Georgia stu
dents as they turned their
demonstration into a panty
raid after their march down
town and the effigy burning.
Shortly after Gov. Griffin
asked the regents to take ac
tion against Tech Friday,
some 2000 Tech students
burned the governor in ef
tigy at least six times,
marched on the State Capi
tol and then demonstrated
in front of the executive man
sion.
Students at Mercer Uni
versity, a Baptist-supported
school in Macon, Ga., also
burned the governor in ef
figy.
Loudon Avenue
Christian Church
Has Organ Series
Mrs. Wood presents Medi
tation Hour.
A series of organ programs
will be presented to the pub
lic beginning Sunday, Decem
ber 11th, and continuing each
Sunday evening through De
cember. The service is de
signed for silent worship
through song and prayer and
meditation. The audience is
requested to enter into the
spirit of worship in the man
ner which best answers your
specific need and urgency. If
your heart is burdened, and
humming with the organ will
lift the ?are and weight, do so.
If you should feel the desire
to kneel in prayer, or want
only to sit and meditate upon
the goodness of a loving and
merciful God, that too, is
your priviledge.
Request numbers will be
played in the order in which
they are received. They may
be given to the ushers at the
door; and they will be heard
on the following Sunday.
Too much emphasis cannot
be placed upon the necessity
of absolute quietness, since
it is easily understood, just
how disturbing any conver
sation would be.
The program, which will
be held at Loudon Christian
Church, will last from 6;30
until 7 p.m. Come and enjoy
the wonderful message of
love as you sit and listen to
the gospel in song.
Mrs. Florence Fields-Woods,
minister of Church music
organist and choir director
of the music at Loudon Av
enue Christian Church, will
conduct the series.
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Orange Avenue
YWCA
The Y-teens of Orange Av
enue YWCA will participate
in their annual Dedication
Service and Christmas Can
dlelighting Ceremony on Sun
day, December 18, at 3:30
p.m.
During this ceremony, the
Y-Teens World Fellowship
project of scrapbooks to be
sent to Y-Teens in foreign
Prelude To
Christmas
Poem
I am your friend, and my love
for you goes deep.
There is nothing 1 can give
you, which you have not
got;
But there is much, very much,
that, While I cannot give it,
You can take.
No heaven can come to us un
less our hearts find rest in
today.
Take Heaven!
No peace lies in the future
which is not hidden in this
present little instant.
Take Peace!
The gloom of the world is but
a shadow.
Behind it, yet within our
reach, is Joy.
There is radiance and glory
in the darkness,
Could we but see, and to see,
we have only to look.
I beseech you to look.
Life is so generous a giver,
but we,
Judging it’s gifts, by their
covering,
Cast them away as ugly, or
heavy or hard.
Remove the covering, and you
will find beneath it
Living splendor, woven o f
love, by wisdom, with
power.
Welcome it, grasp it, and you
touch the angel’s hand that
brings it to you.
Everything that we call a
trial, a sorrow, or a duty,
Believe me, that angel’s hand
is there; the gift is there,
And the wonder of an over
shadowing Presence.
Our Joys too: be not content
with them as joys.
They too, conceal Divine gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and
purpose,
So full of Beauty—beneath
it’s covering,
That you will find earth but
cloaks your heaven.
Courage then to claim it: that
is all!
But courage you have: and
the knowledge that we
Are Pilgrims together,
Wending through unknown
country, home,
And so, at this time I greet
you,
Not quite as the world sends
greetings,
But with profound esteem and
with the prayer
That for you now and forever,
The day breaks, and the shad
ows flee away.
(Fra Giovanni—1513 A. D.)
countries will be dedicated.
This project, chosen by the
Teen-ager’s to strengthen the
fellowship of women and girls
over the world, is being car
ried out by Y-Teens in 430
cities of the United States.
The speaker for the pro
gram will be the Reverend
Mr. Frederick Sampson, of
'he High Street Baptist
Church.
The YWCA Membership
narty will be held on Thurs
day, December 22, from 6-11
p.m. This gay, festive affair,
open to all members of the
YWCA, will be highlighted
by a Pot-Luck Dinner,
Christmas tree decorating and
caroling, period of games,
dancing and fun for all age
groups.