FIGHT ON SCHOOL SEGREGATION RENEWED
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DR. HELEN EDMONDS
MAKES EPOCHAL SPEECH
IN CARVER HIGH
MESSAGE
MORE JS CERTAIN to be
heard of the brilliant, and
highly qualified 1). Helen
Edmonds, professor of Hist
ory at North Carolina Col
lege, who is a recent author
and has attained the covet a!
B, A., M. A., and Ph. 1) de
greens for undergraduate and
post graduate scholarship ol
-’the highest standard.
Heir commencement ad
dress to the 71 graduating
s-enicars of Carver High
School, the largest Negro se
condary school in the world,
was a masterpiece. . .a gem
of wisdom, flawless diction,
eloquent p» esentatii < in, and
persuasive logic.
% . i DR. EDMONDS d plured
>;he decline. <>f good manners,
and urged that I hero be a
new era of good manners,
which sir; stated, should be
cultivated "for good man
ners’ sake."
She also stated that too
many-gains distinction bv
getting on the “bstidwa: on ’
of those who have • Rained
she explained, get ahead hv
tagging alung, by associa
tion with greatness.
SHE POINTED an a ecus-1
itog finger at another tvpe •
which b' 1 Sieves that, distinc
tion is best gained by a neat
•appe-sranre. This entetfory.
she asserted. believe
'‘clothe* make the man.”
At tills point, she said the
nersons who gain distinct'in
l>y corstribulinf-w . . are the
progressive and «• olid of chx
t&cjt-r. Contributions, in the
sense she used the term,
meant service to the com
znunity, useful#***, tireles-*
! - ha**'! work for the general
welfare. These types are
Hrid «~onced«d.
DR EDMONDS urtred th-'
’■Carver seniors to nl
wsvs keep before them as an
Incentive, tw.o b'cbc oues
(Comtnned im p&ee 8)
"I I-.KS ISAM M.l FOR WRE ?, K
VV'yi \ OS —Hitb Attorney Har
old Epps as his Segal counsel,
Willie Williams, of Winston-Sa
lem. \ C seeks to win ,ju !t t;-
meiit in .1 damage suit to Haiti
a substantial sum as a rebate for
the expenses he incurred when
badly wounded in .» recent auto
Denies NAACP
Head Speaks For
Negro Majority
HALKUeH Covi-: 111ji Ket'i
colt, during his reguior m us von
‘‘‘•net- this week, deei; i red that
Nt i’iufS will iu>:« util if the} lul
c.Vv tiuf pjograjii of thc State
.ha/ich t'i Hit* National Association;
oti the Advaneemeiit of Coioied!
People. whose pi* *sidt*nt, Kells*
Alexander rvve*iied during the i
roup’s annuo) meeting at Spring
Hope* we are on lot* maicii to j
eliminate st-grcgatain in the field i
d education. Tlie attack is now be- j
ii,u made at the hi _‘h school and j
t-h iie iiluj v school levels ”
The Governor inferred that
Mm .
HONORED AT RALEIGH —•
Or. Nancy B. TVoolridge, grand
basiicus ot the Zet* Phi Beta so
unity anil professor of English at
Haxapics institute. Va-, •was host
accident in which lie holds the
defendant guilty nl the mishap. •
The final hearing in the case lias
not hern docketed. In addition
to broken teeth. Williams re
ceived bruises and lacerations
which he reveals made surgical
treatment necessary. vVHTit.lt-
SI'OON choio.
li<- had learned from "Negio
le i(lei s” in the state that "Ne
gfoes iu North Carolina, just
tiitii t nam In efuulnate segre
i;:t(itkii on the high school and
grammar school levels."
lie added that Negroes 'ought to
I the implication of what is will
mean to them "
CITES ECONOMICS
Tile Governor averred that Ne
ro I, achers would lose out in
.hen profession should segregation
ai; eliminated. He also intimated
that P-ss lands would bi utilized
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"red at Raleigh last weekend hv
the Raleigh chapter of the soror- !
ty. Be. Wool ridge is toe daughter i
of the Kev. O. S. Bullock, pastor
<>f Raleigh’s First. Baptist Church.
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V~ —I CM'o*Clujuf •• - | / weekending june ie. 1951
/ Uta * . 1 ?. VOLUME XXX NO. 27
ILLEGAL DOPE USE CHARGE
FACES ROCKINGHAM MEDIC
Credits Prevent Ist Negro ’s
Entry Into NCState College
HA LEIGH -A local hh'h school
teacher was denied admission to
summer sessions ai North Carolina
State College here this week sole
ly because he lacked credits When
those credits are gained, it was
earned he will be admitted
Washington High School and aE
Albert T. Whitaker, instruc
tor at Wasiiingtou High School
and a resident of it'll) Elling
ton Street here, applied for ad
mission to 'he traditional!''
w hite school here in persuit of
nweieur engineering curricu
lum. His lack of essential cred
it in calculus, however, pre
vented his admission
According to Dr. D B Ander
son. associate dean of the college.
Whitaker will study calculus at
North Carolina College. Durham.
: during tlie summer and will apply
" r tftt admission to tHel6£sr"coTler'e '
during next season's academic vpar
Whitaker, a graduate of local
school and Hamilton Institute was
>ne of ih<- first Negroes in the state
eekine admission to the University
if Not til Caiolina at Chuoei Hill.
Because of circumstances orior to
he recent court decision admitting
■Jeoroes to UNC, he was rejected
He says that because of his prox
imity to the local college and be
cause of other aspects including
•tirriculum. he sought admission to
; 'State
Johnston 4-H
Group Victor
SMITH FI ELD. Johnston Coun
:iy 4-H Club members won the
i Southeastern District 4-H Rotat
ing Trophy at Warsaw last week
nd for making the highest num
ber of points at the Federation,
i l‘he club members were in coinoe
i it ion with members from 13 coun
! ties
Nannie Closs and Ruth Spells of
i William M. Cooper junior club in |
layton won first place in the giris ;
; team demonstrations Kenneth Car
rol and Curtis Arrington of John
iion County Training School sen
i ior club in Srnithtield placed sec- I
ond among boys, giving a demon,
strut ion on balanced r ation for hogs
Kula Mae Best of Richard B Bar- !
risen senior club in Selma took
aart in the dress revue and Henry
devells also of Richard B. Harri
son senior club took part in the
good glooming contest. All attend
the state 4-H Short Course in
Greensboro at A and T College !
luly 23-28
Crawford Wanted
Public Office
From Boyhood
By LUCIUS JONES
WINSTON-SALEM ln order
to be of maximum service to the
youth and adult Negro community j
“f the Twin, City, the Rev. William
R, Crawford, at an early age had
an inspiiavion to be a first-class
. citizens and an active participant in
municipal and state politics. He
dreamed oi some time holding an
important fxtblic office
When he was in boyhood, he
wanted to be a Boy Scout, but. at
! that time, there were no colored
'.reaps, but. when he finished West
Virginia State College, this chance
of boyhood development blossomed
out when he was a volunteer lead
er for a group of boys at the Pat
terson Avenue Branch YMCA. He
also directed a boy scout troop at
St. Paul Methodist Church.
FOND OF WORK WITH BOYS
The Rev. Mr. Crawford’s interest
In character-building kept his serv
; ing as an adult leader of boy,
scouts and helped to build in him- i
Self the qualities which later has
made him a successful candidate
(Continued on Rag* ii
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»I A STEM 1.1 BK Alt IA N S—These
three coeds received the Master
of Science degree in Library Sci
ence at North Carolina College in
Durham during Commencement
NAACP Will File
New Suits On All
School Levels
RALEIGH —At least three suits
fui equalization of educational op
uurluiiities lor Negro children are
oeing projected in North Carolina
counties this week.
These actions ue being mapped
for Davidson. Lee and Cumberland
counties
Negro citizens in Favettevillr, top
citv of Cumberland Countv inti
ualfc that court action t< to be con
sidered if the Fa vet lev i lie citv
school board tails to head a petition
asking equalizations of high schools
in that citv before the beginning
of the next school term.
WOULD ENTER WHITE SCHOOL
4 nriition tendered tti» I
school group by the Yoon*
iUtu s Civic. Co-ordinating' fom
luitlee reveals that efforts to
have .Were students enrolled
in the white high school will
he made »n Sente ruber if the i
Negro high school is not made j
eouitl to the white bv that time.
Ten noted differences iji the
schools are listed on She pe- j
fition hv the srnun.
IN LEE COITNTV
Lee County officials, where Sail-'
hied is the principal citv. learned
this week that a suit is to he filed
in Federal Court in Greensboro
asking the end of segregation in
the couniv'e schools Conrad O !
Pearson, chairman of the leu a! re- |
dress committee of the State NA-j
ACP save that the Lee County ac-I
tion will follow closely on the til-.
ing of suits against Davidson Conn- I
tv and the citv of Lexington Lee ;
Countv has n si neb- high school
for Nei/ro student- while five may '
be utilized for whites
DAVIDSON ISSUE
Even though nn enualization suit
is positively slated against David
son County school officials and the
Lexington citv board, complications
are being realized in the unexpect
ed refusal of a Thouasville school 1
principal to suipport the. action j
which is being made under NAACP j
auspice.*,. i
C. C. Griffin principal of
ThttinasviUti's Cfenrcto Street i
School, s%y* 'that progreat; In
exercises <in June f. Left to right,
the librarians are .Mae Bertha
Bryant. Rocky Mount: Lillian J.
Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; .ind Os
celieta P. McCreary, Raleigh.
his school has been ‘'satisfac
tory". that thrre is no NAACP
(.'ranch in Thouiasvilie "as far
as he knows”, and that he has
no intention of seeking NAACP
aid in etfort to better school
conditions lor Negro children
and under his administration
tContinued on page 8)
FALLING TREE
SMASHES HOME
j GOLDSBORO. Stromi wimi
that accompanied a heavy rain <lid
nattered damage in Wavne County
kriauv night .
On tlie William Royaii farm
near the State Hospital, wind blew
down a tree uuon the home o!
I Dave Crawford, tenant farmer
‘•ornoletely demolishing the house
! Crawford said he had been nm
| niua from the tree for two years
when the woods around the house
burned, and a fire truck from
Goldsboro was called to save th#
oig oak. The wind Friday night
s(,lh ,t into several Darts.
Durham Men Die
In Auto Accident
LAPIATA. Md„ Two Durham
N. C. mtri died fioiii in j uric- '•of
fered wht-ri a pick-up truck crashed
into another vehicle
State tjolice identified them
Gideon Toinsette, 27. and Lonrue
Johnson, i 3. A third man Sandw
Watson, 27. of Fairmont, was hos
nitßlizfd wit ha unstable broken
Ul’e".
Toinsette and Johnson were t'o«-
oitalized following the crash Sat
urday but died about 24 hours later
State police reported the three
man were on the rear of the truck
when it careened off the road, cam*
back and smashed into an automo
bile. Neitfcsr driver w*s iniurwi.
Dr. F. D. Quick; 3
White Persons
Held For Narcotics
FBI Engineers
Crackdown
WINSTON-SALEM (SPEC
IAL' Dr F D. Quick of Rock
ingham N. C., is the only Negro
and one of four physicians of North
Carolina arrested and placed un
tie]- si,ooo bonds in connection with
urn cracking of a Winston-Salem
dope ring in a smashing raid U-d
by Federal Narcotics Agent W. T.
Ktkinson of Greensboro. N C
ILLEGAL ACT
Dr Quick was apprehended on
a charge of 'writing unlawful
prescriptions foi narcotics”. Mr.
Atkinson stated Tne warrant was
reived in the colored medico by
Fred D. Lomax, chief deputy. of
Marsha) William D. Kizziah
Quick was given a hearing Mon
day before United States Com
missioner Fred Bynum of Rocking
ham. Ttit- physician posted a SI,OOO
bond for appearance in the Rocking
ham term of Middle District Court
in September.
DRUG STORE OWNERS NABBED
Prescriptions said to have been
wiitten by Dr. Quick, according to
the agent, were filled at the Wau
gh ton Drug Store, where the rn
owners are John R. Walters, 47,
and Ransom Carswell Jr., 31, and
the pharmacist is James F. Rhodes,
38. ail of whom were arrested
Wednesday monring,. making a
total of five apprehended in the 1
alleged dope ring They had to
post $5,000 bonds for release.
GOT EARLY CLUE
The officers said they obtained
Ia he lead on Dr. Quick from pre
scriptions seized at tile drug stole
They informed that the files of
Carolinian Scooped
Nation By 2 Weeks
On New Carver Head
WINSTON-SALEM-(SPECIAL) - The CAROLINIAN
Newspapers, published by Paul K. Jervav. ‘scooped the
i nation’s white and Negro press by two full weeks on the.
. Principal E. E. Hill, secretary of the Winston Mutual Life
■story about Dr. William Henry Watson succeeding Former
■ Insurance Company, as new principal of Carver High
, School, largest colored secondary school in the world. The
front page ‘scoop in the May 26 issue of the CAROLIN
IAN Raleigh, N. C.. and the hometown WINSTON-SALEM
CAROLINIAN, here, was uncovered and written exclusive
■ l.v for Jervay publications bv Lucius (Melancholy) Jones,
' editor-general manager of TtTh CAROLINIAN Newspap-
' i era.
Evui when Superintendent Ralph
Britnley of the Forsyth County
Public Schools withheld the facts
from the metropolitan and weekly
press. The CAROLINIAN News
lap- rs had complete Information
and, as a special service to the
Winston-Salem public which at the
time was deeply concerned whether
a fit successor would replace the
highly competent Former Princi
pal Hill, released the story two
weeks ago.
The original facts presented by
Editor Jones included the educa
tional background of Dr William
Henry Watson. 37 native of Ports
mouth. Va.. who received the Ba
chelor of Arts and the Master of
Arts degree from Hampton Insti
tute and the Doctor of Education
; degree from New York University,
RICH EDUCATIONAL BACK- *
GROUND
It was also revealed that Dr.
Watson had served four years as
principal of the 39-teacher Samp
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r>*:pl. “/ Uejt-“*t F'l'UtV
!*ltori> <>t F-»0 After smashiug
at North Korean troop movement*
nt>Hi the Manchurian border, Ist
Lieut. Andrew? Johnson, Jr., of
CJrceitsboro, North Carolina, one of
several Negro pilots who flies an
F-80 Shooting Star fighter against
the Red army, returns to hi* hom*
base. Johnson has chalked up an
enviable number ot sorties, and
claims the F Htl is “the best
I’v* *v*i been in.”
prescriptions is being checked
thoroughly for more leads. The sec
ond doctor arrested was Dr M. ei
Boucrs r Winston-Salem Tues
day afternoon who posted a Sl,Out
(Continued on page 8)
> i Training School of Clinton, N.
C He taught several summers at
North Carolina College and is al
ready doing the same thing this
summer He also taught in the
eastern shore of his native state
Virginia, for four years, at Carver
H »h School, Mount Olive, and was
r nopal of New-bold Training
S hooJ. Dover. Delaware, and also
taught in the public schools of
New York City.
Married. Dr Watson is the fa
ther of one* child and his talented
wife is supervisor of Sampson
County Negro Schools. Superin
tendent Brimley in discussing the
appointment of Dr. Watson es the
new principal made the following
remark:
' Vi/e are fortunate in securing
Dr Watson. He has a record as an
able and conscientious school man.
We are expecting Carver School to
make great progress under his
leadership.' p