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IHOM DOUBTS STORY VSMERrFWHOKUEDSON AMBASSADOR 10 GINEAU NCC Prof Named Envoy Dr. John Howard Morrow, newly Donnnated ambassador to Ginuea said late this week he had received no word on when he was to appear before a Senate committee for con firmation. Dr. Morrow was nominated by President Eisenhower last Thurs day. Scheduled io take up duties as chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at Atlanta Uni versity in September, the 48- year- old professor will be given leave of absence from the University to take the job. “I have no idea when I will be asked to appear befprfc the Senate committee,” Dr. Morrow said. ‘I’m still wating on communication from them." He said the news of the. nom ination wag a surprise to him. Ambassordial nominees must be confirmed by the Senate There has been some speciriatioh predicting coolness on the part of | the Senate committee to Dr. Mor row’s appointment. A wire service story pointed out that because of Dr. Morrow,’s relationship to the White House, the Senate Foreign Relation committee might take a dim view of his nomination. Dr. Morro»'’s brother, E. Fred eric, is a special assistant to Presi dent Eisenhower. The new ambassador-designate was a member of President Eisen hower’s Committee on Govern ment Security which went out of existence over a year ago. He has travely wid in Europe Canada and Mexico. Dr. Morrow c*n^ to North Car olina in 1054 as chairman of the department of Foreign languages in 1954. He replaced Dr. Raleigh Morgan who resigned to join the Cultural Affairs Division of the U. S. State Department. A sative of Hakensack, N. J., Dr. Morrow is a Phi Beta Kappa grad uate of Rutgers University. He re ceived the M. A and Ph. D. degree from the Uni\^ity of Pennspl vania. At the end of 1948, after a summer’s student at the Sorbonne, University of Paris, he was award ed the “certificate avance.” Morrow began teaching in 1921 at New Lincoln junior high in Trenton, N. J. He taugh at Borden town Institute from 1935 to 1945, then served as head of the depar tment of Romance Languages and professor of French and Spanish at Talladege College from 1945 to 1A54. He went to Clark College in 1954. (See MORROW, PageS) 1111^0 VOLUME 35—NUMBER 23 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE f, IfSf PRICE: IS C£NTS Claims Man ngry Taxi Driver Kills Policeman where he got a .38 revolver! from under his matress and picked up some carlridces. He; drove back to the cab stand and | waited in his cab for Mas.sey to he went into the stand at 625 East Market street and got a coat. He draped it over his arm to conceal the revolver he car- With Deputy By C. E. NISIIT . ’ Greensboro — The mother of a man who was shot to death by. a sheriff’s deputy here May 20 ralsr ed questions this week to this life- porter over circumstances sur rounding hers son’s death. Deputy sheriff Frank McAdpo, who' shot ^ 09 year ■ old llevbert Hughes of 4409 Railway avenue, said the man yvas killed as the result of a scuffle between the two. However, Hughes mother, Mrs. Sadie Hughes, of 4400 Railway Ave, in an interview with this reporter this wc!ek questioned the possibility of a scuffle between the two men. Mrs. Hughes, who was holding her son in her arms when he died, said the deputy removed a lighted cigarette from her son's fingers after he had been shot. ‘How can a man scuffle with 1 lighted cigarette in his hand,” (Sm mom, •) ATH AI^D 7TH IN BROWN FAM ILY ORADUATE —Mr. and Mrs. }«*rs« W> Brown Mat«d, ctn* tar) watriMd TuwuNiy at the tii^ itev4int:i of tn*!)- fraAiatkd from colleg*. Stand- tog af extrema left it Oliver W. Farmer Watciies 6TH,7THKids Finish CoHege George W. Brown, Bladen Coun ty farmer, and his wife Mrs. Betty Brown may have set a record for North Carolina parents. They watchcd Tuesday as the sixth and seventh of their children graduated from college. The scene was North Carolina College’s 4 8th commencement where Betty and Oliver Brown re ceived bachelor of science degrees. Betty’s was In Commerce. The eighth child, Revenda grad uated as valedictorian from East Arcadia high in Acme last week. Another son, William D. Brown, 6TH, 7TH, Pag* 8) I Brown, and extrema right, is I Betty Brown, both ef whom were I awarded bachelor's degrees. The I ^wngtst of t^e, Brown family, Rtvanchr (iccon^l^'om tcft, tfan- rflhg) graduated from high school last week. Others in ths picture are Mrs. fhelma Brown (seated, extreme left) and Mrs. Ruby Brown McAllister (seated, j;x!rrme right) an^ Mtrtin Clark (third from ’left," ttandln^; a 4- friend of the family. BURTHfcY PHOTO Over 800 Receive Degrees in A and T, NCC Commencement Earn Cash FOR YOUl! CHURCH SHOP THISE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN The Carolina Times Winner of the $50 prize in the Contest for May is Oak Grove Freewill Baptist Church that nosed out Mt. Vernon by only $275.15. A total of $17,712.82 was turned in for Oak Grov» with $17,437.67 being turned in for Mt. Vernon. Trailing Oak Grove and Mt. Ver non were White Rock District No. 108 for which u total of $12,802. 02 was reported. June will mark the final month of the concest which will not be run during the summer months but is expected to be resumed the month of September. Remember all you have to do is save your slips each week for pur chases made with Carolina Times advertisers and bring them to the Times office on or before noon on the first of each month with the name of your church and total amount of slips reported. The church having the highest number of slips from Carolina Times advertisers only will be donated :ii50 Advertisers eligible this week are as follows: Ward's Op«n Air Market A & P Super Market Kenan Oil Co. Speight's Auto Service Montgomery and Aldridge New Method Laundry Colonial Stores Hudton Well Co. RIgtbee Tire Sale* Durham Buildert Supply krogei Store* Sanitary Laundry Amay Funeral Home Burthey Funeral Home Cut Rat* Super Market Mechanlct and Farmer* Bank Mutual Saving* and Loan Hunt Linoleum and Til* Southern Fidelity Int. Co. Broadway Taxi Co. . N. Life Jnt. Co. Scarborough Fun«ral Hem* Th* Buildfr Neadx IJlflO atujenis undergraduate, graduate and pro fessional degrees at North Caro Una College and A&T College com mencements this week. Final programs for A&T, and N. C. College were held on Tues day. With some 470 graduates, A and T had the largest number of grad uates. In addition to undergrad uates degrees, A and T awarded 117 Master of Science degrees. J. Spencer Love, Burlington Mills board chairman, delivered the fin als address for the exercises. North Carolina College awarded its third Ph. D. degree in the his tory of its graduate school at its 48th commencement propram Tues day morning. Mrs. Beulah Beatrice Carr of Winter Haven, Fla, re ceived the degree in Education. Some 350 odd other undergrad uate degrees were given at N.C.C. Federal Judge William II. Hastie, NGC commencement speaker, ex plained the changing picture of Negro leadership in America today and a vised the graduates to adjust to the change in order to be effec tive leaders of their world. “We shall never again see a re cognized spokesman of Negro America, be he a Frederick Doug lass or Booker Washington. There are lots of us who can and do speak for ourselves, both in gen eral terms and in relation to spe cial interests. And that number Cpl. Joe D. Massey, 44, a Vet eran of twelve years with the Greensboro Police' Department was shot and killed by six bul lets early Sunday morning, by taxicab driver Joseph Herring. The 31'yeari)ld Herring, of 1501 Julian street, said he was angry with Massey for giving him a traffic ticket. He shot Massey as he sat at a besk in a service station writing a police report. Cpl. Massey was one of the first Negroes to be hired by the city in tlie poiice depart ment and tiie first officer kill ed in tiie line of duty since 1023. Detectives and Coroner It. B. Davis, Jr., said the slaying was one of the most cold-blooded and clear-cut first degree mur der cases tliey have ever in vestigated. Herring who si,:;ncd a state ment and clamly re enacted the shooting said, “I’m glad he’s dead and now it wont take me so long to die in the gas cham ber.” ’ Ma.ssey wrote Herring a tic ket Sunday morning for obstruct ing traffic while unloading a ^senger Jj}, Woclr of East Market,'Street. 'The passen gers said there was no argu ment between the two at that CEREMONIES CHAT time. After unloading one passen ger, Herring called Massey and said he wanted to talk to him but Massey walked away. After delivering the other passengers Herring drove to his home, ^5but two miles away, ried in his hand. He then looked across the street and saw Massey in a service station. Herring said there were several by-stanrters make rounds. After 15 minutes at the station and he did not want to shoot them so he wait ed. When *hey left ne stepped inside of the »ervi»*’ station} (S** POLICEMAN, Page 8) MASSEY Spencer ^ Love, chairman of the board and i president ef Burlington Indus- ' tries chatt with Dr. Warmoth t Gibbs, president of A.&T. college. | The eccashm was graduation cx- ercitet held at A.&T. Monday. Love was the principal speaker and also received an honorary degree. Shriners to spend $500,000 in Race Menlbsrs of the Durham Zafa IjClubs Convenlioii Program Is Listed John H. Wheeler, civic and busi Tempi*, 170, shriners and Daugh- leader, will deliver the princi ters of Itis have set in motionaddress at the convention of plans to spend at least $25 each i Carolina Federation of Gar with Durham Negro merchants during the week of June 15-20.! ^he convention opens in Dur This action is part of a nation wide Negro business promotion being sponsored by the national shrine organization. The week of June 15-20 hat been designated 'Salute to Negro Business Enterprises Week" by national Imperial Potentate Book er T, Alcvander. Shrine units throughout the country are expected to take part. Coal of the national promotion it to get shriners to spend a half million dollars with Negro busi nesses throughout. the country during that week. FIRST WOMAN RECEIVES PH.D AT NCC—Mrs. Beulah B. Carr of 501 Avenue T, N. E., Winter- haven, Fla., is scheduled to be the first woman to receive a P.HD degree in education from North Carolina College. Speakers Listed for Finals Program at Business College Arron Day, Jr., vice-president of North Carolina Mutual life hisur- ance company, and tlie Kev. S. P. Perry, formerly pastor of a Dur ham AME Zion church, were listed ham on Sunday and will continue The baccalaureate speaker. Rev, Perry is pastor of Hood Temple! AME Zion church of Richmond, Va. (See FINALS, Page 8) constantly increases. Our concert- this week as main speakers' for ed voices are making intelligible I Durham Business College’s finals and harmonious sounds. W e don’t exercises, need scloists as we once did,” the jurist asserted Day will deliver the commence President Alfonso Elder intro | address on Monday, JuneB. duced the speaker and conferred program is scheduled for 11 degrees. Candidates for degrees' Perry willj, were presented by Dr. George T. ^Peak at baccalureate services on Sunday afternoon, at four. Kyle, undergraduate dean; Dr. William H. Brown, dean of the graduate school; D. Eric Moore, dean of the school of library sci ence; Dr. Lucy S. Morgan, director of the department of public health education; and Dr. Albert L. Tur ner, dean of the Law school. Dr. James M. Hubbard, Sr., sec retary of the NCC board of Trus tees, made the traditional presen tation of Bibles to all graduates. (See GRADUATES, Page. 8) Both evercises will be held in the auditorium of the college. , Durham Business College’s finals program gets underway on Friday, June 5 with the senior class playj at eight p.m. at the school. “Flight to th(¥’ new Horizon” is the litle of the presentation. On Saturday, Alumni Day, class reunions for 1956 and 1957 will be • held. ! REV. PERRY Hubbard Quits As County Agent After more than 36 years in the state agriculture extension work, J. C. Hubbard, county agent for Durham, is retiring. Hubbard is stepping down from his post as of Jime 30. He will be replaced by Carl Dubois Hodges, currently County Agent for Northampton County. Appointment of Hodges i made by the Board of County Commissioners. A native of Preston Md. Hub bard has held the post of Dur ham County agent since 1941. He started in extension farm work in 1921 as agent for Bertie County. He is a graduate of Hampton (See HUBBARD, Page S) through Tuesday, some 200 dele- ;ates from Garden clubs through- iemble for the tenth annual state out the state are expected to as- meeting. Wheeler’s address will be the highlight of the convention’s pub lic program, scheduled for Mon day night at Pearson elementary shool auditorium. The program for the three day convention, featuring workshops, exhibits and horticulture specia lists, was announced this week b/ Mrs. Roxie Davis, chairman of the convention planning committee. Some of the city's key civic and business leaders as well as state Garden club officiads will take part in Monday evening’s public program. J. S. Stewart city councilman, L. B. Frasier, president of the Dur ham Business and Pro.Wssional Chain, and the Rev. C. E. Mc- Lester, pastor of Morehead Avenue Baptist church, will take part on the program. Mrs. Davis, convention commit tee chairman, and Mrs. J. R. Red- iding, president of the State Fed eration. will also be on the pro gram. Mrs. Redding will deliver the presidential address on Mon day. The convention opens on Mon 5e* CONVENTION, Pag* •} WHEELED Ask Acceptance Grads Ok Moron’s Quit Offer IIAMPiON, Va.—Meeting in the shadow of Dr. Alonzo G. Moron’* offer to resign as president of Hampton Institute, the college's alumni association voted. -W to 45, to “petition the Board of Trustees to accept the president’s resigna tion without delay and to proceed to the election o4 beat qoatffmd person availaUe to adminlstet' the affairs of Hampton.” This action was taken during the annual business meeting Saturday afternoon on the college campos in the 43rd annual reunion of the alumni as.^ociation. The attitui* icpritwd Ni the resolution wat in contrast tm tw** sages from a dozen aliNnni chap ters suppertiw the current admin istration. * Other resolutions adopted called for "the return to the philosophy of the training of the head, heart, and hand in a modem atmosphere and that development of religious and moral principles be an in tegral part of the program of the college.” WILL SUPPORT BOARD Also that “members of the Na tional Hampton Alumni Associa tion pledge their unqualified sup port to the board of trustees in this crisis, realizing that the board is constituted by competent and dedicated men and women who will at all times act in the best interests of the college.” Chairman of the resolutions com- (See MORON, Pa«* ■) McKissick on AMVETSUnH WASHLNGTON —F. B. McKis sick. 209 1/2 W. Main St., Durham, has been appointed to AMVETS’ national constitution and by-laws ccmmittee by Dr. Winston E. Bur- dine, national commander of the World War Il-Korea veterans' or ganization. Dr. Burdine explained that this major committee considers all sug gested amendments to the AM VETS national constitution and by laws, and recommends action for adoption by the national coavee- tion. The 1968 nation'il will be hdd August 26-30 in Grand RapkU, Mich. McKissick, a former state Leg islative officer of North Carolina AMVEtS, is a member of AM VETS POST'lflO here. An attorney, of MeKiniek 4 Berry, he is president of the Soatlb eastem Lawyers AsMciatioa and a member of the APhlA fntMaity. He is also secretary td the anc»- tiv* committee of the Nortk Can- Una State Confereace of KAACF branches and a nemlwr «l ite redress committee, la aMitiMi, h* is vice presideat aori ■■■nlwi iirm i-hairmaa pf the DaihM teMdi the NAACP.
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