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IPIW THE CABOUNA TIMES SATTTIDAY, JUNE 21st, 1941 1941 m / f a SCENES AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW MT. VERNON BAPTIST CHUKCH SUNDAY. JDNE 15th. The picture at the top center is that of the Ibrv. H. .Tko—t, imstor of Mt. Vernon Baptist church at the.begrinninK of his fifst in the new edifice opened to the public here Sunday mominf at tfc» en o’clock services. The photo at the left shows a part of the crowd that jammed every inch of the spacious auditoriuii. TIm l*lc*y which can be seen at the top of the picture was ato filled to capacity. At the left is a group of visitors from the First ^ptist ehnrek at Wia- ston Salem where Rev. Thomas pastored several years aco. Tkc v^tan standing (reading from left to right) are: Mrs. J. W.‘'P!>i8ky, Mr.‘ Paia* ley. Miss Thelma ffones. Attorney W. A. Jones, and P^rmdU The bottom picture shows the choir of the chuixh. Roanoke Island Pilgrimage Planned ‘For July 8th Mnnteo —• Extensive plaiii) for a Negro day pilgrimage to Roa noke Island on July 8 have al ready been made, it was annuonc ed Sunday. Di/atinguiahed guests, including Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell Richard Wright air^d the most prominent' educators in the Ea«t have been invited. The tenative program would begin at 1:00 in the afternoon being made by D. Bradford Fear ing, producer of the playi “The La'it Colony” and Dr. H. L. Trigg, I'resident of Elizabetli City State Teachers College, who served so *well in the state de partment of public instruction at Raleigh. St>eeial arrangements will be made to feed the. gueujts during the day, Fearing said, a Bpeeial host committee to be appointed on tthe island. During the night the guests will see Tlie L^st Colony. Coast guardsmen from the Pea II (land Coaisft Ouard Stataion, the only Negro coast guard station in the United State.s, will give a life saving demonstration during North Carolina - college, will de liver the main address. ori^er areas on the post. with a fish fry for the the afternoon guests. The Norfolk ExceWorj The pilgrimage has been en-! Band, 50 other jubilee singers Idorsed by Governor J. M. Brough from Virginia and Miss Nell ton. State Superintendent of Hunter of Durham, who will Hchook, Clyde R. Ervin and the direct group singing, will-pro vide, late Dr. W. P. Few, formdr presi iflusic. {dent of Duke univensity. Plans for the pigrimage are! Dr. J. E. Shepard, president ot‘ Fort Bragg Gets Twenty New Chapels - - - Ft. Brag^ — Contracts for construction of 64 uiohiiization type buildings, and 20 regimen tal chapels, including one for Negro!s, ’have already been a- warded, Lt. Col. Lawrenre L. StimpHon, constructing ([uarter- nuuster, announced Tuesday morn! „ , -kt ’ Rocky Mount — The Old North 'State Medical, Dental and Phar- The chapels, each seating 3(i0 Society, Inc., the nien and each wij:h a pipe organ, Negro Medical St>ci€ty in ^represent Ft. Bragg’s ^lare in j^e world, closed a three day the army’s 5o0 unit churt-li eon-4eggjon },,re Thursday e\-ening struction program throughout the ^^jth the Annual Ball, held at th^ be placed in the .^ield artillery ministrator of the NYA in North Rejwrter, were re-elected with replacement training center and ^Carolina. The speaker was intro- acclamation. Both men abo cnd- otfhers will be placed in various duced by Dr.,J. B. Davis, Record ed their 24th consecutive year ing Secretary and Oliicial Report without mi-Kng a. meeting and er for the Society. jbheir 21st as officers. ^ 11 1- 1 i I,- Among the pi'ominent white Mr. Bond fully lived up to elaborate introduction as he totdi . , , _ __j , The Old North State Medical Dental And“*"‘”?" Pharmaceutical Society Ends Meet 'of the work and objectives of his in unmisitakable lasi^isted as esaytist were: Drs. A. L. and speaker Daughtridge, Rocky Mount Sanitarium, Koent tern^ Among other things, the| j speaker told ot he vast amount parkview Hospital, New of money already expended Battle, Surgical Service, Negro youth as well ««may ,ho^plM, J. M. Whitaker, be expected to come. More than^ ^ 100 colord workers are/under ^ Specialist and John Smith Secretary, Treanurer, State Phar Mr. Bond’s supervi.-iion and his work ha.S' gained by leaps and bounds during the three year of his adminLsitration. During the election of oificers Dr. R. E. Wimberly, Raleigh Country. Five of the chaPels will be located in the Ninth division (tt Community Center. _ The meeting opened Tuesday evening, June 10, with a program Ft. Bragg, five for white troops featured by an address by J. and one for colored troop«i will Percy Bond, assistant to the Ad- maceutical Society. Excellent papers were read by Society members as follows': Dr. M. B. Davis, connected with High Point Clinic, Dr. R. S. Halli Pharmacist, was ™mously Edson E. dected president elect. Dr. Clyde Charlotte and Doctor Donnell of Durham who has iierved the society as Secretary- Treasurer and Dr. J- B. Davis of Louisburg, who has served simi larly as Recording Secretary and Johnson C. Smith University Graduates 121, Largest Class In The History Of, Jhe Institution ■L. E. McCauley of Raleigh. Valuable information to the doc tore was furnished in the gener al di»iCussions that followed each pai)er. more interested in interesting our own health problems and creat ing means and method^) of solv ing them. Since it the firet con ference of its kind ever held in this country, it represents to US| a real challenge for study and in vestigation for doing Conatruetive health work in our res|>eetive communities, he told the confer ence. Dr. Car| V. Reynolds, our own State Hea1:th Officer, said “Dr. Hughes, was the first in this conn [try to attach a Negro to his de partment. He had the vision of a propEet, of the po=eibilitiee and potentalities of Negfroee doing health Avork among their own people.” I “Hence it must be said hi* was the first to open the door to the Negro ili public health. Although several states have followed Ifce [example of North Carolina in iWng Negro workers, the state ing the Jajrgefiit N«rp perseanel of any state ia the union. “There are-a fall time.pliyai- cian, a well trainadi hwttb# di*W- tor, six d«Jtwt»,- pa»t time pbysieiaas aaj'SDiilassca^’i^ - .1 , Bbmbers of the 1941 graduating class of Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina. The class was the largest in the history of the Jhstitution, numbering one hundred and twenty-one.^ Tl^s class contains some very promising young people, who by reason of their advanced education » will be expected to shoulder a fair share of burden in'this period of world crisis, a timie of great impmi: in the progress of their race. State Health Dept. Has Largest Negro Personnel In The U.S Durham — North Carolina’s health department has the lai^est Negro personnel -of any state in the union, Dr. Walter Hughes ot the North Carolina board oft health told the School Jilealtli Coordinating Service at its iie- cond st^iool in health here Sat urday. The school opened here Friday and i? being held in coo.peration with North Carolina college. It is a conjt>int activity of the State Board of Health and the State Department of Publb In struction. The Conference is being at tended by representatives of many Southern fitates and heads of State Board of Health divisions) Duke university and the Univer sity of North Carolina are asatsit ii;g in the instructor. While the school hs.n didactic features. Dr. Hughes said, it still holds the distinction of hav- ts^ Hen's a sood hoi wrathei habit—eat wtadr. A diet of lif^t tbouteh ooorahicMt foodi wiU help TOu ihnxiiik the (ummcf with a miiuinam ^ hot weather disootafortv, ' " '// And HMMter (op4 ta mm is lo iasisi oa StyU Wkmttl fat wmWmt tmml ¥e»—tbis , ■wde for tnatriai Im crmat, its opiM iK aawdaws yxM mtkg di*ki«w Apik's i«Hid lot aaadhpckM*. —ofdcr teie** fmn waiHMMtel wsmummm RO'tA. b
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