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1 Accredited Person County Race School Probe Explosion At Howard U. WASHINOTON , A Federal Secvrltjr Afeaey rroap WM tiie explosion here whieh lut week killed fpar worknien who were moTlac potwMlpm and godlnm ehlorate at How ard Unlverrity. 'pePiodlcal jjoite Univ Libr^ FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS ■Btered as SeoMd Cla« Matte* at the Pact Ofllee at Durham, North Oaroilna, uder Aet «f Blareh 3, Itlt. VOLVm S«—NVBOm 14 DVBHAII, NOBTH CABOUNA, SATCKDAT, APBIL 5th, 19SX PBICB TEN CENTS NAACP Seeks 2 Million Dixie Voters Negroes Will Attend White Schools In Del. DR. HAUOBIE L. BROWN DB» BBNEST MANNASSE DR. ALVIN Wr ROSE NCCs Drs. Rose, Mannasse, Brown Receive Ford Grants Three North Carolina College professors were named re cipients of fellowships from tte Ford Foundation, it was Itn- nounced this week by the presi dent of the Foundation Educa tion program. The three are Dr. Marjorie L. Brown, acting chairman of tBb department and professor of mathematics; -Dr. firnest Moriz Mannasse, professor of German and philosophy; and Dr. Alvin W. Rose, graduate professor of sociology. Over $1,400,000 in fellow ship grants were made to 246 college professors from 160 schools in 42 states by the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education. The grants, reputed Campbell To Give Address At J. C. Sifiith CHARLOTITE Dr. E. Ray Campbell, secre tary of the Division of Higher Education of the Board of Chrisr tian Education, Presbyterian Church USA, will deliver the Founders' Day addr^ at John son C. Smith University on AprU 7. Dr. (Zfimpbell is a graduate of Yale University and has served as secretary of the Yale Chris tian Association, traveling sec retary for the Ctudent Volun tary Movement, secretary of the Council on Theological Educa tion, member i>t the Executive Board of the National YMCA and a member of the Executive Committee on the National Council of Churches of Christ in USA. DR. JABIES LAIIRET Dr. J. Laurey Gets Medical PostAtHoward WASHINGTON Dr. James Richard Laurey has l>een appointed professor and head of the Department of Surgery at Howard University, it was announced here last week. Dr. Laurey succeeds'the late Dr. Charles R. Drew, who was (Please turn to Page Sight) to be amoong the most lucrative made in higher education, af ford recipients with a present salary tax tree, for a year’s study. This year’s recipients were selected by a board of 16 college presidents and officials from a group of 1,158 applicants. Clarence H. Faust, president the Ford FaswUy Fellowship program, who made the an- no.uncement of the winners of the awards, stated that this year’s grants are being made as a part of the Fund’s program aimed at strengthening liberal education in the United States. Dr. Brown, professor of ma- ^ematies at NCC since 1949, was granted a fellowship to complete research on ‘‘One pa rameter subgroup in the full linear groups of order N,” and begin preparation of a monO' graph of “Elements of Topolo' glcal Groups.” A native of Memphis, Tenn., she has studied at Howard and Michigan Universities. Dr. Brown holds membership in the American Mathematical Society, among other groups, and has contributed articles to the Ma thematical Association . of A- fnerica and International Con gress of Mathematicians publi cations. A study of the “Place of the German poet, Stesangeorg;,” is Dr. Mannasse’s fellowship project. Dr. Mannasse, who has t>een professor oi German and philosophy at North Carolina College since 1939, is a native of Dramburgh, Germany. He has studied at the Uni- (Please turn to Page Elghf) By R. C. Forkmak, Jb. WILMINGTON, DEL. In what may prove to be 9 historic ruling, a court of chancery here on Monday ruled that Negro elementary pupils may attend heretofore white schools in two suburban school districts. Chancellor Holland J. Seitz held that education facilities for Negroes in Claymont and Hockessin school districts are inferior to those provided for white pupils. • Claymont is six and one- • half miles from Wilmington. It was near here that General George Washington stayed in August of 1777, while waiting to leam the dcstinatloB of the British Army which had land ed at Elk Bivcr, Bfaryland. • Hoekesidn'lies fhre mllss off highway 41 whldi mns from Wilmington to th« Dela- war^PenusylTSBla ita*. Henry Lee Moon, Public Rela tions official for the National As sociation for the Advancemnt of Colored People, called Ch^- !t*ellor Seitz’s rulttig “miidt couraging.’* In a telephone interview with THE CAROLINA TIMSS» Moon said: “This is the first r^ vic tory in our campaign to destroy segregation- of American pupils in ei^entary and high schools. We are convinced that segrega tion in elementary and high Plans Made To Inform Plants Of Contracts CHARLOTTE The first step in a program to bring defense contract informa tion to the attention of small plants operated by Negroes in North Carolina was taken at a meeting ‘Thursday in Duriiam. iPour prominent Negroes, named on a committee by Em- mer Martin Lancaster, adviser on Negro affairs, U. S. Depart- Commerce, in Wasiung- ton, mett hi the board of dtltetors room of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Conferring with them will l>e Edward W. Wjtt, of Charlotte, district manager of the U. S. Department of Com merce and National Production Authority for North Carolina, The Thomas Filling Station near Roxboro provides space for three classrooais of the Lee Jeffers School, one of Person County’s 21 onaccredited schools. A nnmber of papUs who attend the school are shown in the bottom picture. Notice the drinking facility, the pot-bellied stove, and the col lection of “books” against the wall. (Other pictures, page Seven). schools U at least as unla^^ as in graduate schools and unl-^- Nicholson Jr., small versities.” ibusmess specialist HE FURTHER SAID: “Three Commerce-NPA. with the Office of Carolina and Virginia are being appealed to the Supreme Court. Other similar cases are being presented in Georgia and Miss ouri. Chancellor Seitz’s decision will be a valuable precldent in (Please turn to Page Eight) Annual Business Conference Set WASHINGTON The Seventh. Annual Con ference on The Negro in Busi ness will be held here April 17, 18 and 19 under the sponsorship of the U. S. Department of Com merce. Elmer Martin Lancaster, Ad viser on Negro Affairs to Secre tary of Commerce Charles Saw yer, is directing the program, the purpose of which is to fully Inform Negro businessmen o{ the technical information and, business facilities | available to them from the Department of Connmerce. Lancaster said the meetings also provide a forun> for the discussion of common problems and economic trends affecting small business es tablishments owned by Negroes. White House llsn’t 'Final Solution’ tive political factor in the South,” he asserted, “iTie Ne gro vote will have to be vast ly expanded. If Negroes are to' have Any influence in g(^vemment, |if they expect to get Congress to pass civil rights measures, they must vote intelligently, consistent ly and in ever-incMBsing numbers. Our goal for 1952 is 2,000,000 southern Negro voters Taking the Issd in this cam paign; the North Carolina Con- in the soutium states, White' lertnce of NAACP Branches said in making his announce- held a conference in Charlotte ment. “To become an effec- on March 22 attended by 300 NEW YORK Setting a goal of 2,000,000, Walter White, executive sec retary of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Coloren People, last week announced the launching of a opn-partisan drive to double the present number of Negro voters in the South before the November election. According to the best avail able estimates there are now about 1,000,000 Negro voters delegates from all sections of the state. Kelly M. Alexander was«amed chairman of the state registration and voting commit tee. Committee chairman were also chosen for nine of the state’s twelve.,, congressional districts. In an address to the North Carolina conference, Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAA- CP’s Bureau, warned against the tendency to look tp the White House “for the stHutlon of many of our problems.” Under the American system of government, he said, “the White House is not the final answer. Here in f^orth Caro lina where you have the right break a major part of the to vote, you iiave the power to backbone of the Dixiecrat movement. Because you send two senators and twelve con gressmen to Washington, you ha^e the power to break at least 14 scions of the Dixie- President, whoever he may be. You can win only by get ting out the vote.” The _ Durham committee named by Lancaster is headed by George W. Cox, vice presi dent and .agency director, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Other members are T. R. Speight, chairman, Board of Directors, Durham Chain; J. H. Wheeler, vice president and cashier, Mechanics and Farmers Bank; and Professor C. T. Willis, of the Commerce Department, North Carolina College. The Durham meeting is one of tliree announced by C. Roy Mundee, regional director of Commerce-NPA in Richmond. The other two were scheduled to be held in Richmond and Balti more. Judge A. R. Wilson Files For New Term As Magistrate Judge of Recorder’s Court A. R. Wilson, this week ended all speculation as to his future po litical aspirations by filing for » new term of office. Wilson, a veteran Durham, lawyer,.said Ust night that “if elect^ I shall continue to con duct court in an efficient and business-like manner, always striving to serve the best in terest of all the citizens of Dur ham Counjy.” The incumbent originated the $1 parking ticket plan and the multiplying system of fines for habitual intoxication. The $1 parking ticket plan, is for the - convenience of the parking violator who can pay the $1 fine at Police Headquar ters within 48 hours in lieu of going into court. The system of graduated fines for drunkenness works like this: first offense, $5 and costs; second, $10 and costsp third, $20 and costs; fourth, $40 and costs; fifth and additional cases, $S0 and costs. To prove the merits qj this crat backbone. You cannot win merely depending on thet^lan he can refer to actual re- bords as follows: 1946-47, 2,840 cases of drunkeone^; 1947-48, 2,941 cases; 1948-49, 2,498 21 Schools Are Sub-standard By W. R. Blake ROXBORO What might be considered one of the most pronounced cases of discrimination against Negro school children under North Carolina’s ‘separate but equal’ school system came to light here recently when representatives of The CAROLINA TIMES discovered, on a routine visit to Person County, that in addition to the operation of only one accredited school for Negroes in the entire county, several actually have no dlrinking or running water of any kind and in one instance three or more classes (of one Negro school) are being taughi ii^a filling station building. THE THOMAS BILLING STATION building, located near Roxbdko, houses three 01 this school’s classrooms. The filling station-store shares the near side of tlie building, and the three class-rooms are located on the far side, of the building. The three classes were once housed in an annex to the main school building. The annex, which was really a Camp Butner barracks building moved from the deactivated camp site to the school property, was demolished in a storm in February, 1951. Although the storm occured during a school day, the students providentially were not at school l^ause the conditions of the roads were such that school busses were prohibited from making their regular trips to' pick up students. THE TIMES’ REPRESENTA’TTVE also discovered two one- teacher schools and five two-teacher schools for Negroes in the County; the remainder, numbering 14 in }all, make a total of 21 unaccredited Negro schools in the entir^ County. The only ac- credtted schoot for Negrow is the aebaol department at the Person County Training, a high and elementary school in the city of Roxboro. This, added to the 21 schools just mentioned, actually make a total of 22 schools that the county is operating for Ne groes, all of which are unaccredited except the high school men tioned above. A sharp contrast to this most deplorable sitnatlon is to be found in the white school system where the Coanty has sne- ceeded in doing away with one-teacher and most of the two- teacher white schools and where ont of a total of elevoi schools only two are unaccredited, the Cannlngham and East Roxboro schools. The one-teacher Negro schools of Person County are Pine Hill and Siloam. The two-teacher schools are Woodsdale, Woodbum, Union Grove, Hester Grove and Brown Hill. ‘THE WHITE ACCREDITED SCH^aOLS are Roxboro High, accredited in 1925; Mount Tirzah, accredited in 1927; AUensvUle, accredited in 1943, Bethel Hill^ccredited in 1941 and Busby Fork, accredited in 1928. ^erisviHe and Bethel HiU have elementary departments, the latter of Which were accredited in 1930 and in 1928, respectively. The other accredited white elementary schools are Ca-Vel, accredited in 1946; Helena, accr«dited in 1940; Hurdle Bdills, ac credited in 1943; and Longhurst, accredited in 1946. • In all. Person County employs a total of 75 Negro tcneh- ers who teach a total of 2,744 papils, and a total of 12t white teachers who teach a total of 3,7(8 pnpUs. In other words, for about every 29^ white papils there is a teacher, while for about every 36^ 'Negro pupils there is a teacher. Here again is a deliberate robbery of the Negro cl^dren’s right to ««nal educational advantages as provided for them nnder th« laws of North Carolina. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS the sad plight of the Negro schools in Person County. You have got to see it for yourself to believe that in this day of modem educational opportunities such conditions actually exist. You have got to see Negro children trying to leam in a filling station buUding; you have got to see the outside toilets, the mud surrounding thfc Lee Jetters main school building and the mud all over the floors of the classrooms, in spite of the strenuous efforts of mud-weary students and teach ers to keep up some kind off appearance of classroom neatness. You have got to see Negro children drinking water that has l>een hauled from the white school and placed in a big tin can for them, to believe that civilization in North Carolina can aptually produce such a condition. You have got to see them doing janitorial duty and lugging coal to put in an old fashion pot-bellied stove in an effort to keep warm, to believe your eyes. THEN YOU have got to travel only a short distance where you wUl see a beautiful brick, steam-heated structure with fulltime janitorial service and a gymnasiimi for whites, to understand that you are in a county where discrimination has reached the point of being vicious, if not criminal. In Roxboro. the bells toll in white churches on Sunday mor*-“* ing and white folks, including members o the Person County Board of Edncation, go to diurch the same as other people, and listen to long-faced ministers tell'about the Fatherhood oC Ood and the brotherhood of man. WBKN representatives of The TihUS told SupertaAe^dant of SchooU, R. B. Griffin, that it appeared that Wi Board ci tion was trying to force Negroes into court to (it bettor se6#el facilities for their children he merely smiled eonttdmtljr as tf he was satisfied that they did not have the courage or the atoae. 1952 Durham County Cancer Drive Begins The 1952 Cancer Drive for Durham County began here this week. Dr. Charles Watts has been iappointed co-chairman of the local unit which has also as drive officials, Mrs. J. L. Stew art, Public Health Educator; and I. O. Funderburg, Assistant Cashier, Mechanics and Far mers’ Bank. (Please turn to Page Eight) cases; 1949-50, 2,419 1950-51, 1,956 cases. JUDGE WILSON Judge Wilson reminds that since July, 1951, the office of Judge Of Recorder’s Court, by an Act 0/ the General Assembly, has been a full-time position. “For that I have had to re linquish my law practice. ,1 hold court each morning while most of my afternoons and some (Please turn to Page Eight)
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