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ANOTHi'SCHOOL SUT ftfD Ilf Can y~n«^.UTMltelBI>iaEgy The Staaford L. Warm Public Library will b« cloMd to the public Mo«' day, January 30. ta ®r* der to complete th* pro- ceaa of movink into the Annex to the Library. Entered m Second ClaM Matter at tin* Post Office at I>urhain, North f.'arolina, iinilt-r Ai-t if Marpli FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS The above photo is testimony I urged to contribute as much as i the institutions provided for of the unbiased work being done i it is possible to aid sufferers that purpose out of funds raised by the March of Dimes move- j from the havoc of infantile through the March of Dimes ef- ment. The campaign is now in | paralysis. The kiddies above are fort, full swing and every person is I taking their treatment at one of' Wihon Citizens In Equal School Law Students Refused Sue Fight; Third Suit Filed In Eastern City WILSON Wilson’s patience weary Ne gro Citizens Coiiniiittee this week resorted to Eastern District Federal Court in an effort to eqiializt' educational facilities in this city and county. Citizens Conunittee repre sentatives Dr. U. (). Barnes and Dr. D. C. Yancey, a‘Companied by M. Ilufrh Tliotiipson, Durham civil rights lawyer, filed the charges here Tuesday; they named 32 city, connty and State education board nieii)b(‘rs in their suit charfiinff discrimina tion against the Negro school children in tJiis urea. T/ie Durliuin suit that was scheduled to be heard in Dur- lium, during tltis month was postponed at t he request of coun sel for the ddi‘ndants on ac count of the illiifss of Attorney William B. Umstead. The suit was filt'd with Fed eral Clerk Eva L. Yancey. It will, in all probability be heard before Federal Judge Don Gil lum in the April term of court. Action in the Wilson suits Wiis taken only alter the Citizens’ Committee had e.\liausted pos sibilities of negotiating amicably with city ailil county education officei's. Wilson City and Coun ty chose to become i)arties to the suit in contrast to nearby Elm City. Elm City school officials last month capitulated to the petition of Negro citizens anil agreed to “make a step toward equalizing facilities for whites and Negroes.” The suits in this area are re garded loeally' as further in dication of .\egroes’ determina tion to obtain their lawful rights under the Federal ami State this have been filed in Durham and Wiisliington comities. (Edi- constitutions. Earlier suits along tor’s Note: The Durham suits, schedult'd for hearing in Middle District Court in February, have been [)ostponed until April ilue to illness of Defense At torney W. B. Uniiitead). Wilson County’s 21 schools stand to gain most from the suits. All of the schools are wooden, fraule structures, with out water, \eli, »r toilet facili ties, and unai'credited. There are no lunchr(K»ms, amlitoriums, or gymnasiums in any of the schools. I Quoting results of a survey conducted of conditions between white and Negro sehools several months ago, a comnjittee s|)ok(‘s- man r*vealcd th(>si> discrepancies in the Wilson City Schools: The Negro sehools have n total en- rollmeJit of 2,01)2, as against 2,.‘153 for whites. Property valuation for the Negro school units is $248, 2H.^); whites, $(i02,- 900. Property valuation per pupil among Negroes is .$145, h>r whites $349. Only one of the city’s Negro stthools is accredit ed ; all FIVE of the white schools nre aecreclited. Three Ne gro schools have no auditorium facilities. All white schools have completely furnished modern auditoriums. The white schools all have Die mod(>rn Innchrooms, wliile only tAv'o N('gro sehools have lunchroom facilities. Negroes have proposed at APPOINTED Dean Albert L. Turner of the North Carolina College Law School who was appointed to a !33-member committee for the improvement of courts in North Carolina. Other Durham men appointed were former Superior Court Judge Marshall T. Spears, Dr. Wiley f'orbus and Acting Dean C. L. Lowndes of the Duke University Law School. (‘ounty level the consolidation of the 21 schools into two union high schools with completely UKMlern e|uipment. At press time this week, city and county officials had filed no answer to the suit, but it is ex pected that an effort will be made to deny the charges. ISADOR OGLESBY COMING Isador Boyd Oglesby, Lyric Tenor, former Durhamite and N. C. College Professor, will be presented in concert by the Dur ham Chapter of Hampton Alum ni in B. N. Duke Auditorium, Wednesday, February 8. UNC BARS NEGROES FROM LAW SCHOOL The six North Carolina law students who were denied ad mission to the law school of the University of North Carolina are planning suit in Federal'Court against the Chapel Hill school. Attorneys for the six plaintiffs are said to.be in the process of interveifing this latest suit with tire Epps-Glass suit against the Law School maintained for whites. Harold Epps, Asheville, and Ilobert D. Glass, Belmont, law students at North Carolina College, had been denitid ud- miiwion to the iTriiversity’s Law School earlier. Acconjpanied by Attorney Franklin Williams, their N. A. A. C. P. representative, the six students field en masse at Chap el Hill Friday, January l3 in the otBce of the Dean of the Law School, Henry Brandis, Jr. The formal rejection came in the form of letters from Brand is’ office. Dated January 16, the letters stated that the state “maintains its Law School for our Negro residents at the North Caroluia College at Durham.” Students denied admission are William A. Marsh and Richard Powell, Durham; Floyd Mc- Kissick, Asheville; erry Milli ard, Fayetteville; Solomon Re- vis, lialeigh ; and James Lassiter, Rocky Mount. Epps told the TIMES this w’eek that action in the suit in itiated by the six is being held, pending an answer to an appeal to the l^NC Trustee Board made by the six students. It is reported that Attorney General Harry T. McMullan has asked that the Epps-Glass suit, originally scheduled for hearing (Please turn to Page Eight) VOLUME ?8—NUMBER 4 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JAN. 28th, 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS The Hillside High School Band will hold a parade Saturday morning, Jan uary 28 at 9:30 A. M. for the benefit of the March of Dimes Campaign. To Canvass Homes In Polio Drive CoL 4 ★ C College Health School Approved ★ ★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ir if ir Saint Paul Prexy Retires Polio Forces To Make Hard Drive Attorney W. Frank Brower, Division Chairman of the March of Dimes drive reports that al though the organizations and citizens are rallying to the crisis, response to the appeals will be necessary to see through 1950. He said that the 45,000 cases of polio last year may be ‘only a drop in our bucket of sun.shine unh‘ss we give a pound of prevention.” He pointed out that this state has received more benefits from the National Foundation that it has given. Dr. lliilph McDonald, State Chairman, at the beginning of the drive emphasized that this year’s apipeal emphasis is on prevention ratluMr-thaji on CHre> of infantile paralysis, which has ravaged North Carolina twice 1944 and 1948 in the last de cade, and has tauten heavy toll other years. At the regular meeting of the Executive Board of the local NAACP, a cheek was presented to the drive, and the whole heart ed support of the organization was pledged for “such a worthy (Please turn to Page Eight) SCENES AT BUILDING AND LOAN MEET Pictured above are a group of shareholders and visitors to th« annuaKiilMting of the Mutual fiuifding and Loan As sociation held here on January 10. Those in the picture were in attendance for the first time at a meeting of the Association, and were asked to pose with President C. C. Spaulding and Secretary-Treasurer J. S. Stew art. Reading from left to right, sitting, they are: Rev. G. W. Troublefield, Fred Edwards, Pinkney Gerald, Mrs. Jessie Atwater, Mrs. Ch/^rles' Stewart, Mrs. MStide Thorpe, | Mrs. Bessie Dunston and John H. Williams. Standing, from left to right, they are: Fred Cuttino, J. S. Stewart, Secre tary-Treasurer; C. C. Spauld ing, president; John Coone, Noah McCliamb and John L. Stewart. Pictured below are the share holders listening to the annual report of the secretary-treasur- er, J. S. Stewart. Russell Quits Post On Account III Health LAW^RENC’EV1LLE, VA. Dr. J. Alvin Russell, Presi dent of St. Paul’s Polytechnic Institute for twenty-one years, because of ill health, has retired. Dr. Russell’s retirement was ef fective October 28, 1949, hut his announcement ha.s been with held pending the election of a successor by the Board of Trus tees. Now that the Board of Trus tees has looked arounl for avail able educators aiul has set the date for the election of his suc- (Please turn to Page Eight) N. C. College Law Dean On Court Improvement Group Hu\ LEIGH Dr. Albert L. Turner, dean of till! haw School of the North t-'arolina College at Durham, this week became the sc^cond member of the college’s staff to receive an appointment from Governor W. Ki‘rr Scott. At his regular Friday press conlVrenee in 1ht“ State (Capital here. Gov. Scott named Dean 'I’uruer to a thirty-three member committee for improving justice in North Carolina. President Alfon.so Elder of North Carolina ('ollege, who is Gov. Scott’s appointee to the State Resource Use Education Planning Board, was named last Summer to the Governor’s Ad visory Council of the Employ ment Security Commission. Dean Turner has represented the State on past occasions at Freedom Day celebrations in Philadelphia. His apjiointment to the committee for the im provement of justice was made simultaneously with the an nouncement of the appointment of the dean of the law school at Duke University to the .same body. Well known in Southern edu- catioiml circles,. Dean Turner who holds the Ph. I), degree from the University of Michigan received his legal training at Western Reserve University. He is holder of mirnerous academic honors and he has cojitributed to s«>veral ‘dueational ajid legal publications. He is a former registrar at Tuskegee Institute. Other Durham men appoint ed to the connnittee which repre sents a cross section of the State’s business, professional, farm, labor, and educational groups are former Superior Court Judge Marshall T. Spears, Dr. Wiley Forbus, T)hysician and chairman of the State Medi cal Society Committee on Ijegal Matters; and Acting Dean C. L. Ijowndes of the Duke Uni versity Ijew School. It is understood that Dean (Please turn to Page Eight) Local Mutual Building And Loan Association Reports Gains In ’49 Dr. Allen E. Weatherford, professor of recreation and sociology at North Carolina Col lege, who has been appointed to the staff of the North Carolina Recreation Commission. Doctor Harold D. Meyers is director of the commission. Dr. "Weather ford will give part time to the position. The 28th annual shareholders meeting of the Mutiml Building and Ijoan Association was held in the cafeteria' of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Tuesday, January 10. The meeting was presiilcd over b^^ the president C. C. Spauld ing, who gave an eiitliusiastic account of the activities of the Association during the past year. Mr. Spaulding also heaped praise upon the fine spirit of cooperation which the Associa tion is enjoying from sharehold ers, as well as its ofticers”and staff. The anniuil report to the [shareholders was read by J. S. |Stewart, .secretary-treasnrer. Mr. Stewart called attention to the fact that during the past year Mutual Builduig and Ix)au had made over 200 conventional loans amounting to approximate ly ^500,000. Said Mr. Stewart the Associa tion experienced during the year a gain in mortgage loans made of $207,000 or an increase of 20 per cent over that of 1948. The gain in saving accounts a- mounted to $113,329 or 11.48 REV. McDOWELL DIES Rev. S. L. McDowell, B. Th., D. D., who pastored White Rock Baptist Church in Durham from ' 1924 to 1930, died Monday, Jan-; uary 23 at Nashville, Tennessee. | Funeral services were held Wed nesday, January 25 at Sylvan Street Baptist Church in Nash-' ville, of which he was pastor. , At the time of his death. Rev. McDowell was a Professor at the | American Baptist Theological Seminary at Nashville. Surviving are his wife, a daughter and three grandchil- dren. ji j The following telegram was' sent to the family by the local i White Rock Baptist Church: i “Heartfelt sympathy to all of | you in the homegoing of Dr. S. | L. McDowell, a great pa^or, an DREAM OF FOUNDER COMES TRUE t*resiiiciit Altonsij Elder au- : nounced here last week the ae- ;creiiitatioii of Nurth ('aruiina A’ollegf's Program of Study iu ' Public Health Nursing. .Vci-reditatiou of the Durham i college V iKtiigram marks the sw- I iiiul time in the South that a Ne gro institution has been so de- ■ sigiiateil. The only other school juf its kind in thr South is the I St, Phillips SehtM»l of Nursing I in liichmund. 1 In annuuneing the aeeredita- tion of the pri>gram, Pn'sident ! Elder siiid it "marks another ! step in fulfilling the ilream of : the total health pn>«rain of the ^ , late Dr. James E. Shepanl. informed teacher and a loving White Rock Baptist Church of; Esther P. Ili-nry, di father. His Directory of the Durham still stands.” i r^^tor of the |>rograni. bring per cent. Assets inereas*'d $175,- 000 with over $30,000 b«>ing paid oxit to shareholders in the form of profits. The reserve of the j worke^l untiringly to Association was increased $20.- bout its accreilitation,” Dr. Eld- 000 or 40 per cent over that of er continued last year. Prior to Dr. Shepanl’s death (Please turn to Ptkge Eight) (Please turn to Page Eight)
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