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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
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VOLUME 29 —NUMBER 32 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
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Confer On Air Force ROTC At A. And T.
Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of A. and T. Col
lege, is shown (seated center) discussing with
ROTC officers the plans for the college’s Air
Force ROTC program which will begin at the
college in September. Officers shown in the
photo are, left to right, Lt.-Col. Henry R. Sand
ridge, Lt. Calvin Hubbard, Maj. Vernon Punch
and Maj. Elmore Kennedy. The establishment of
an Air ROTC at A. and T. will bring to four the
number of such programs in the nation’s Negro
colleges. Other Air ROTC units are located at
Howard University, Tennessee State A. and I.
and Tuskegee Institute.—Photo Courtesy Greens
boro Daily News.
Williamston Negroes
Tire Of Inferior Schools
Williamston —Disturbed over
the very unequal facilities exist
ing between white and Negro
schools in Martin County, a del
egation of Negro citizens appear
ed before the Board of Educa
tion Monday and requested that
segregation be abolished in the
county schools.
Sopkesman for the group was
Herman Taylor, attorney of Ra
leigh, who read an eight-page
petition in which it was charged
that discrimination existed in the
distribution of funds for white
and Negro schools.
Attorney Taylor charged that
the discrimination followed the
pattern of the whole state of
North Carolina of providing
superior schools for whites.
The petition is now being con
sidered by the Board of Educa
tion and it is expected that a
reply to it will be forthcoming
within several days.
Twenty-one persons mostly
from the Robersonville and
Parmele sections of the country
signed the document.
Although it was not openly
indicated in the petition, it is be
lieved to be forerunner of a fed
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Passes Board
Mrs. Ernestine S. Bynum,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Scarborough, Sr., who was noti
fied this week by the State Board
of Embalmers, that she had suc
cessfully passed the examination
for licensed embalmers. Mrs.
Bynum will be associated with
the Scarborough-Hargett Fu
neral Home.
Two Housing
Projects Here
Get Approval
Durham families seeking low
cost dwellings moved one step
nearer in their search as plans
for two housing projects here
were approved this week by
President Truman.
Announcement of the approval
was made by L. H. Addington,
executive secretary of the Dur
ham Housing Authority.
One of the two projects is the
“McDougald Terrace” develop
ment, to be located in what is
now called the “College View”
section. It will include 247 units.
Addington stated that ap
proval of the plans clears the
way for the Housing Authority
to apply for funds to purchase
the land for the projects and to
continue with architectural
drawings.
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Testimony Of Woman Charging
Man With "Long Distance" Attack
Here is the exact testimony of the complaining witness in the Yanceyville case, first
brought to the public attention by the CAROLINA TIMES when it published in its issue of
July 7 the amazing account of the trial, conviction and sentencing of a Negro farmer, Mack
Ingram, to two years on the road for looking at a white woman.
The case was appealed and is now in the hands of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Miss Willa Jean Boswell, the
prosecuting witness, being first
duly sworn, was examined and
testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
by Mr. Horton, Solicitor
Q. Your name is Will Jean
Boswell?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where do you live?
A. On Route 1, Yanceyville.
Q. Out on 62?
A. You turn off 62 at Bush
Arbor Church.
Q. On the 4th of June, 1951,
did you have occasion to see
Mack Ingram? If so, where and
under what circumstances?
A. He was coming out this lit
tle direct road and I was going
down the Highway to the to
bacco patch to work, and he
stopped up there at the “Stop”
sign, and as I got off the road,
he came up the highway and he
kept watching me, and when I
got down in that patch of woods,
he turned, then pulled to the
side of the road and stopped, and
I ran through these woods be
cause I was afraid, and he got
out of the car and when I got
out of the woods—I had gone a
bout 50 or 75 feet, I saw him
coming right at this woods, and
I kept on going, walking fast,
and he kept on coming, and I got
a pretty good ways ahead of him
and he stopped and stood and
watching you?
Q. He was standing there
watchin you?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When you turned off the
highway into this piece of woods,
how far did he take that car
down the road before he stopped
and jumped out of the car and
followed you?
A. I think they said it was 68
steps from the road I turned off.
Q. Did he have his eyes on
you all of the time?
A. He was going real slow and
had his head turned watching me
the whole distance.
Q. After he got out of the car,
was he watching you?
A. I don’t know, I was com
ing through the woods.
Q. Did he cut through the
woods ahead of or back of you?
A. He cut through the corn
field.
Q. He was not in any woods
at all?
A. No, sir.
Q. Did it frighten you?
A. Yes, sir
Q. You were fearful of what
might happen?
Mr. Upchurch: This is a serious
case for my clinent, and I will
ask you not to lead her.
Judge Vernon: Don’t lead her.
Q. From there, did he follow
you in the same direction and
distance you were going?
A. I cut through the short
way, and he went around the
woods. If I hadn’t run, when I
got there he would have been
15 or 20 feet from me—but I
ran.
Q. You were scared and ran?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When did he stop, if he did
stop?
A. I wouldn’t say how far he
went, but he went on where the
road forks, ones goes one way
and one the other. He stopped
right there.
Q. Did he speak to you at any
time, or you to him?
A. No, sir.
Q. There was no conversation
between either of you?
A. No, sir.
Q. What did he do then after
he got down to where this road
forks?
A. He stopped and I kept on
going.
Q. Where did you go?
A. To the tobacco patch—my
two brothers and daddy and
granddaddy were there.
Q. How close was that to
where Ingram stopped?
A. It was a right good ways.
Q. Could you see them?
A. I didn’t see them until I
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A&T COLLEGE GETS AIR ROTC
Program Begins
With Opening
Of Fail Term
Greensboro — The first Air
Force ROTC program at a state
Negro college and the fourth
such one in Negro colleges in
the nation is set to be inaugurat
ed at A. and T. College here
with the commencement of the
school’s regular term in Sept.
A staff of nine men, including
four officers and five enlisted
men, has been authorized to set
the program in motion.
Staff officers will include
Maj. Elmore Kennedy, Jr., Maj.
James P. Goss, Capt. Robert
Friend and Lt. Walter Harley.
Maj. Kennedy, who will serve
as professor of Air Science and
Tactics for the program, pre
viously served with the 39th Air
Depot Wing in Alaska. Maj.
Goss will report to the college on
August 27 after completing ser
vice with the ROTC program at
Boston University.
The establishment of the pro
gram at A. and T. was handled
by Maj. Vernon Punch, here on
temporary leave from the AF
program at Tuskegee since June
6. He will return to Tuskegee
Sept. 1.
The Air Force program at A.
and T. is certain to lure more
males to A. and T. College. The
male enrollment at the state’s
largest Negro institution was up
wards of 2,000 last year. This
year’s male enrollment may well
reach the 3,000 mark, what with
a regular ROTC program already
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Althea Here In
Exhibition Sun.
Althea Gibson, one of the
top ranking female tennis
performers in the nation,
will play in exhibition here
at Algonquin Tennis Club
Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
Several other top ATA net
stars from South Carolina
and North Carolina are ex
pected to perform here Sun
day with Miss Gibson.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
State Buys Jim Crow PH.D
Plan At N.CC For $271,00
Hundreds Visit New Building And Loan Quarters
A small portion of the hundreds who thronged
the Mutual Building and Loan Associaation’s new
office building Friday, August 3 is shown above
as the 30-year-old financial institution held
formal opening for its new quarters at 112 West
Parrish Street. C. C. Spaulding, venerable presi
clent of the Association, took the occasion of the
firm’s 30th anniversary and opening of its new
office to express appreciation for the “confidence
and cooperation” of the organization’s many
shareholders and friends.
Youth’s Confession Frees
Man Jailed For 4-Year Term
Mr. And Mrs. Mack Ingram Await Appeal Outcome
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Ingram, above, await the
outcome of Ingram’s appeal to the State Supreme
Court from a two year sentence handed him by
a Caswell County Court for “long distance” as
sault on an 18-year-old white girl.
Ingram, father of nine, was accused by Jean
Boswell of attempting to assault her on June 4,
and the Caswell farmer subsequently received
a two-year term after a short trial in Caswell
County. Miss Boswell admitted during the trial
that he never got closer than 75 feet to her.
Ingram is free on $1,500 bond and is using his
time to harvest a good tobacco crop so that his
large family may have something to live on if his
appeal fails. The NAACP has indicated that it
will defend Ingram if they find he was not given
a fair trial. In the above photo Mrs. Ingram is
holding their youngest child, 11 months-old Lar
ry Junius.
Youth Slays Girl Friend, Wounds Seif
Greensboro — A 22 year-old
youth killed his girl friend and
seriously injured himself in an
attempt on his life here Wed
nesday morning.
Police issued a murder war
rant for Edward Brevard who
late this week was in serious
condition at a hospital where
he underwent emergency sur
gery.
Brevard confessed that he did
the shooting.
The victim was Miss Ella Mae
Smith, 20, who was employed at
a West Greensboro restaurant in
residential section, near where
the shooting occured around
7:30 Wednesday evening.
Brevard admitted that he shot
her with a 16 guage shot gun
and then turned the gun on him
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15-Year Old
Boy Overcome
By Conscience
Raleigh — The confession of
a 15-year-old boy that he broke
into a Charlotte Laundry and
shot at the night watchman and
manager, brought freedom Mon
day to another prisoner at the
State prison, who had previous
ly been convicted of the crime,
and was facing a four-year term.
In a long distance telephone
conversation with Paroles Com
mission T. C. Johnson, a
Carolina Times representatives
was told that Isaac Washington,
who was only 15-years-old at
the time the crime was commit
ted, made the confession which
freed Leroy Wiley, 25. Wiley
had previously appealed the sen
tence to the State Supreme
Court, but later withdrew it.
He was convicted in Mecklen
burg Superior Court last March
for breaking into the Arrow
Laundry and shooting the man
ager and night watchman who
surprised the robber at the scene
of the crime.
Washington again made the
confession to Deputy Warden
Bruce Poole because he did not
want an innocent man to suffer
for something he did not do.
Washingtoon again made the
confession to Foil Essick, assist
ant Paroles Commissioner. He
told Essick he had not met Wiley
before he saw him in jail.
Wiley was brought to prison
on July 17 and released on July
27.
NOTICE OF CHAIN
MEETING
The regular monthly meet
ing of the Board of Directors
of the Durham Business and
Professional Chain will be
held Wednesday, August 15,
1951, at the Biltmore Hotel.
All members are especially
urged to be present.
Gray, Gantt
And Elder
Lead Fiasco
Raleigh—North Carolina pur
chased a doctor of philosophy in
education for Negroes for less
than $300,000 this week. The
fire-sale priced, segregated, Ph.
D. program is to be installed at
North Carolina College.
After hearing request for
funds from UNC officials, Atty.
R. M. Gantt, chairman of the
board of trustees at the local in
stitution and from its president,
Dr. Alfonso Elder, the Council
of State voted to appropriate
$271,220 from the State’s Emer
gency and Contingency fund for
the program-.
Under the Council’s decision
to approve funds for a Ph. D.
program at the local institution,
NCC will receive $114,000 each
year of the current biennium to
improve its undergraduate pro
gram and master of arts courses.
An additional $43,000 will be
available for the next fiscal year
to provide courses leading to
the doctor of philosophy degree
in education.
While serious educators over
the country either gaped their
mouths in astonishment or
“snickered” in ridicule at the
idea of a Ph. D. program at the
local institution, and UNC and
state education officials chuck
led in their beards at their latest
success in halting the movement
of integrated education, North
Carolina College was shoved
one step closer to the dubious
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Trustees May
Quit; Group On
NCC Enlarged
Rumors to the effect that the
three Negro members of North
Carolina College’s trustee board
are seriously considering resign
ing were making the rounds
here and in Raleigh this week.
The rumors held that the Ne
gro trustees felt that they and
the entire NCC board were being
reduced to the roles of “yes
men,” serviley passing on policy
that had already been worked
out in “smoke-filled rooms at
Chapel Hill and Raleigh.”
The Negro members of the
board are Dr. C. C. Spaulding
and Dr. J. M. Hubbard, Durham,
and Dr. Robert M. Hendrick,
Asheville.
They could not be contacted
for comment at press time.
Meanwhile in Raleigh, Gov.
j Scott announced Wednesday
that he had doubled the com
mittee of the Greater Universi
ty of North Carolina for hand
ling problem of expanding grad
uate work at North Carolina Col
lege.
The new members of the com
mittee, appointed by Gov. Scott
at the request of the trustees of
the Greater University, all
white, are R. I. Mintz, Wilming
ton; A. H. Harris, Raleigh; and
J. G. H. Geitner, Hickory.
Other members of the com
mittee are J. Hampton Price.
Leaksville, Kemp Battle. Rocky
Mount; and W. Frank Taylor,
Goldsboro.