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Dm wwDBirr UBwmr, YOUTH KILLED INSTANTLY AS SPEEDING AUTO CRASHES Hillside Senior Hospitalized With Serious ln]uries From Accident THOMPSON . . . Killad On* youth was kilM and pthar Mrieusly in|ur*d wh»n th# spMding automobil* in which they war* riding hurtled Aut of control and down an am* banlcmont tarly Thursday at Hi* Durham city limits. William Douglas Thompson, 17, of 607 Mangum stra«t was killad instantly in tho smash-up. His companion, 18 yaar old William Bowling, of 41-E Ridge way avanua, was reported in "earlous" condition at Lincoln hospital where he was taicen after sustaining severe injuries. Beth were Hillside high school studeniv. Highway patrolman Pfc. Chas. Phillips, who investigated, said BOWLING Iniured the accident tooK place about 12:30 Thursday mprning. See WRECK, page frA FREED ir ' w ir 'K w w X w Vanderbilt Univ. Faculty Quits Over Negro Student’s Ouster an I^TheTRUTH UNBBt5EQ?^ VOLUME 36-rNo. 23 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1960 RC'turn Post:ge Guaran^eed PRICE: 15 CENTS ATLANTA, Ga,—Dr. Mtrtin Lu ther King, Jr., was acquitted late Saturday by an all-white male Jury of perjury charges in connection With his 1956 Alabama income tax returns. The jury returned fhe verdict aftar three hours and 45 min utes deliberation. King \vas the first man in Ala bama history to be tried on such charges. Commenting on his acquittal in Ms sermon befo^ the Ebe- nezer Baptist Church Sunday, fhe famous Baptist -preaoiler •aid the jury's action may bo "the dawn of hope" lor iust treatment of all colored citizens ; In the SoKth. ’'Sometititig happened that t^is jury wid no matter bfpf mueh they suppress me, they t4ll See KIWf, page tt-A Durtlam For Funeral rites for Oeorge'Wash bigton Stepiiens, Jr., of ^2 Powe atfeet, were held" Tuesday after noon, May 31 at one ^ o’clock at tllfi_West Durham B^'ist Church. The Rev. T. C. Q^aham, West Durham pastor, officiated. Burial was conducted at l^echwood cem etery. r Stephens died, at his home on Saturday evening at 6:30. He was bo^ in Durham, son of the late- pioneer merchant of West Durhaip Community, George W. Stepheirt and Mrs. Boah Steph ens. He was trained in the public schools jJf Durham and at North Carolina College. He had been employed at Duke hospital for a long number of years. Stephens led an active life in church and community affairs. He joined West Durham Baptist at an early age and was a mem ber of the senior choir, the Bro therhood Qub, and district 2 of the church. Very recently he headed a gfoup ADVERTISERS OF THE WEEK The firms listed below are yevr friends and they appr#ci»l* your trede: AlexMHler Ford AM* Markets Biltmoi^ Hotel A Orill Boone Drug Co, Colonial Stores Cock-Cola Bottlint) Company Durham Builders Supply Ce. Praxier Realty C«, One Hour Martinizing Kenan Oil Co. Hunt Unoleum * Tile Ce. Liberty Market Mutual Sjvinfs A 4.un Ass'n Mc6h.>e Coal Co. Midas Muffler Co. Mechanics A Parmors Bank New Method Laundry North Carolina Mutual Life Ins. Company Rigsbee Tire Sales Southiarn Fidelity Mutual Ins. Co Service Orill Speight's Auto Service Union Electric Co. Union Insurance A Really Co. Winn-Dixie Stores West Durham Lumber Co. Pepsi-Cola R. C. Cola Julie's Kroger Co. Health Biii To Be Aired By Old North State GREENSBOBO—The Old North State Medical Society, the Old North State Dental Society and the respective women’s auxiliarit# will hold their annual meeting; here at A&T .College, June and 16. ." The meets, set to begin on Tuw j. day evening al 8:00 o’clock, air^ expected to draw more t(hn 500 persons, the larger turnout to the;hi»t}ry o the four groups. The mudl i^scussed contnb* yarsial subject of health iAsuj. anc|) fo^ the a||4Kl i»lll gei,^ lattAN* ft the Oieeflng. . , ^ lce>n^ Wlfch will M livered bj^ fer. Eugene A. GiMs, regional medical disecttfr for the Department of HeaBh, ^ucation and Welfare. Dr. GilHs will address a joint banquet eat for Wednesdav eve ning. His talk, entitled "Health Trends," is expected to make special rffiVenee Td th* Pwmitf Bill. An out^nding array of pro minent physicians and dentists will present scientific papers be See MEDICS, .page 6-A McKISSICK Dr. C. E. Stewart To Pastor “Mother Bethel” in Phila. PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Charles E. Stewart, noted minister of Philadelphia and former pastor of Union A.M.E. Church at 1415 N. 15th Street has been appointed pastor of Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church at 123 W. Upsol Street ac cording to Bishop Geo, W. Bar ber, presiding prelate of the First District. Dr. Stewart will replace the Rev. John,D. Briglit who was elevated to the bishoric at the 1960 A.M.E. General Conference which met in Los Angeles, California last month. See PASTOR, page 6-A BROWN TELLS NEW YORKERS Indignity Hurts More Than Physical Pain-Durham Leader (jitrham Youth Make History: Bfst to finish White School STEPHENS which sought additional recrea tional facilities for his neighbor-i hood. He was married on April 26, 1942 to the former Miss Mary Williamston, of Yanceyvillo who survives him. His other survivors inciuJe four See STEPlHENS, page 6-A Du^am youn|^(%,%ere acheduled malqs paoff schoql history iii ci^ X^riMay lir^' Seurteck. iifrere to receive tWt dlplj». liia* as the first Negro graduftfes of Durham high school the school’s eommencemept exercises. About 400 other bu^am high students were slated W graduate at the exercises. McKissick and ^urlo^ were IWo or tFe Tirsrftve; NegiH) sta- flents admitted Ko previously all white schools U the city, last year ander the state’s plan of token lesegregation. See HISTORY, page 6-A ,■}“, ■' !"5 Two Durham Teachers Retire Two veteran Durliam public later received her undergraduate school workers retired at the end I degree from Bennett College. In of this yearns school term. They j 1916, she began her career in are M.s. pirepa Watkins, super] public school teaching in Greens- visitors for elementary schools of the city, and Mrs. Sallie E. Harris, teacher at Llltle River. They have put in a combined total of 92 years in^public school work. Mrs. Watkins, who lives at 1218 Fayetteville street, was honored by the Durham teachers and princi pals in ceremonies at Pearson school last week. Mrs.'Watkins was trained at the Bennett College high school and NEW YORK — Sit-in protest leader CaiHs Brown, here on an overnight speaking engagement this waek, took time from his crowded schedule- to drop into a m i d-Manhattan Wooiworth store. However, the North Carolina College student wasn't interest ed in making a purchase. He asked the manager what his chain was doing to settle its discriminatory practices through out the South. The manager re plied coldly that he didn't know what young Bro.wn jwas speaking about. But his main purpose in visit ing New York City was to ad dress the Department of Wel fare NAACP branch, and receive boro. • She came to Durham in 1930 as a teacher of the sixth grade in the former East Durham school, now Burton school. .She was transfer red to East End school in 1938 and to Whitted in 1948. In 1950 she assumed the posi tion of supervisor for elementary instruction for Durham schools. Mrs. Harris, who had taught in the public schools for 48 years, was also honored on her retire ment. She was guMt of honor at a special banquet held at the Lit tle River school Tuesday. Members of the Little “River faculty presented her with a trav eling bag. See TEACHERS, page 6 A a quick tour of ‘he nation's la^|^ est city. He met Mayor Robert F. Wag ner at City Hall, Welfare Com missioner James Dumpson, NA ACP Execxutive Secretary Roy Wilkins and toured the Associa tion's Nat'onal Office. "Dignity is something many Negroes, as well as others, are willing to go without in favor of material things," Brown told the social workers. See SIT-IN LEADER, page 6^A Two Graduates Return Degrees To Tetm. School NASHVTLU2, Tenn.—O11I7 two members of a 16-man facnlty were left at the Vandnrbilt tTni- versity Divinity School this week in the wake of a mass resignatioii over the school’s expulsion of a i Negro student. I The -Rev. Jam** M. Lews**, I was dismi»s«4 this sprlnf bt- I cause he took part in wMh ! demonstraHofM here. I The school refused, after re- ' peated petitions, to readmit him to I the summer sf^ion. Ten faculty memben. includinc i the dean and assistant dean, tamed in their naignatiom this week when it became apparent that Law son would not be readmitted this summer. In a«Mition, fourteen students quit th« school and three eMiera who had graduated said tlwy would return tlieir degrees. The new, million dollars Vui- derbilt Divinity school has IS fac ulty members. Two had already re signed, and with the ten new re signations. only two faculty mem bers are left. These two indicated See VANDERBILT, page 6-A GETS DOCTORATE—Mrs. Min nie Lee Forte, of 1612 Merrick Si'reet, who received the Ph.D. degree in Education at North Carolina College's 49th com mencement last week, is shown here with Dr. Walter Brown, NCC faculty member who re ceived the first doctorate under the NCC graduate program. Mrs. Forte wes the fourth student to earn a Ph.D. degree from NCC. NCC Faculty Member Becomes First Negro Woman Grad of NCS HONORED ON RETIREMENT^ Mrs. Parepa Watkins (left) re ceives a gift from Mrs. R. L. McRackan, director of elemen tary instruction of Durham pub lic schools, during a ceremony at Peerson school honoring Mrs. Watkins on her retirement. Dur ham teachers arid principals also gave Mrs. Watkins gifts, in cluding a portable television set. HARRIS Miss Hazel Virginia Clarke, in-i structor in commerce at North! Carolina College, received the master’s degree in Occupational Information and Guidance from the Graduate School of Education at North Carolina State College in Raleigh on May 29. She is the first Negro woman to receive a graduate degree from this institution. Miss Clarke's thesis was "A Comparison of Two Groups of 100 Male Alcholics and 100 Male Non-Alcoholics." The study was directed by Dr. Roy N. Ander son, professor of Occupational formation and Guidance in the School of Education. Miss Clarke lives at 402 Price Avenue, Durham. She has accepted temporary summer work as leader of a pro ject of the American Friends So ciety at the Pineland Hospital and Training Center, Pownal Maine. Miss Clarke is a native of Willow Grove, Pa. She received her B. S. degree at Bluefield State College and earned her M. S. at* the University of Penn- See Clarke, page 6-A Twin City Congrahilated For Opening Lunch Counters to All WINSTON-SALEM—The NAACP 1 natpr for Atkins aad Carrw High cc^ratuiated it^^uji^ ajf^adultl^cltaviai^ «t«^ «• Cad Ufathews and leaders TW^^fof -fheir Tiile Dr. F, W. ^acksoi^W the Wlarfo^ bringing about desegregMion of Salem NAACP executive eammit- lunch counters in this city’s ma-; tee, Herbert L. Wright, the Asao- jor downtown drug and«variety! ciation youth secretary, said in stores. ! part: , Counters that reopened on an "We are pleased thef intelli- integrated basis. May 25, iiv eluded, those at S. H. Kress & Co., two F. W. WoolworHs Com pany ytores, H. L. Green Com pany attd Watttreen's dF«HI stdr«. ^ ASiimeSs who In a telegram to Don Bradley, | freedom certainty ew« an NAACP student protest leader at Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege, to Patricia Tillman, an At kins High School student co-ordi- gence and sanity has prevailed and democracy is now fhe ordor of the day at hwchrooms and soda fountains in your town. All dierisK i great debt of gratitude to eeery eno of you for this most iipertawt advance for demorcacy.** WASHINGTON — Ezell Blair, slated to go on trial her« June 1. one of the “four freshmen” fromj Muss is one of 18 denoHtratioB ASeT College, of Greensboro, whose! leaders expelled Soathem sit-down at a Wooiworth store last 1 University. He is currently anrviitc as assistant field sectelary oo Um NAACP national oflfec aUC. February triggered the southwide protest against segregation was honored by the Capital City Press Club here last week-end. Others honored at the affair were Mary Maddox, Anacostia High school student, of Washing ton, Lester Granger, executive ili- rector of the Urban League, L. F. Palmer, Memphis newsman who was arrested for trespass while coverfhg a sit-down demonstration, and Mrs. Agnes Meyer, author- lecturer. CLARKE REPORT CREDITS NAACP FOR COUNTER DESEGREGATION ATLANTA, Ga.—NAACP acti vity is credited with the achieve ment of lunch counter desegrega tion ' in two Texas cities in a de tailed 21-page special report issu ed this week by the Southern Re gional CounciL The study was made for the Council by Dr. Kenneth Moriand, chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology at Randolph-Macod Woman's College at Lynchburg, Virginia. It reports on lunch counter deaecregation in Corpus Christi, Galveston and San Antonio. HEW NAACP YOUTM AIDS FACES TRIAL AS LSADHI BATON ROUGE, La.—Donald T. Moss. NAACP staff member and former sit-in protest leader ia PRESBYTERIANS IMOORE STUDENT DEMONStRATlONS CLEVELAND, MUo — The non violent and orderly demanstratioas against racial se^ngation led tf southern students icceived en dorsement from the Genetal As sembly of the Presbftetiaa CSmrdi, convening here for d^i. When laws favo^faM; racial dis crimination ‘'violate the lav of God, peMeful and orderly disobe dience" is justifiable, a resotatkm passed by the body stated. NAACP UNIT NOW IN BILOXI. MUSS. BILOXL MiM.—The newest NA ACP branch has l>eeD n tihHiImt here this week and intagrailin leader Dr. Gilbert Mason riedad president, Gloster R. Ctnmnt. II AACR director oi hwrhaii, ported. Biloxi is the sita tt tka attack on Nefroe* irlMa a^ tempted ttt nse pidriiely beaches, built bgr 17. S. Aongr gineers. Eii^ Nagoea gunshot mnda. GuilpaH HAMCf Felix H. Diim «ai the Bilaad Nagra ing the ctWik Be ««■ . Dr. MaaMi. m Buy From The CAROLINA TIMES Advertisers... They Value Your Tn
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