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VOLUME 30—NVBIBBB XI
DURHAM. NORTH CABOLINA,-SATURDAY, JfULT l»th, IfSX
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Educational Tragedy
N. C. COLLEGE TO OFFER Ph.D. DEGREE
Popular Minister Resigns Post^
® 'Shape For Higher Degree
By Opening Of School Year
REVBiEND JAMES A. CANNON
ACCEPTS PASTOtAIE LARGE
CHURCH IN DEIROIT, MICH.
The Rev. James A. Cannon
has resigned as pastor of Cov-
venant Persbyterian Church and
as Minister to the North Carolina
College at Durham. He will ac
cept the pastorate of the Bethel
Community Church of Detroit,
Mich. The Bethel Church has
recently been organized In sub
urban Detriot.
The Covenant Church wlU
hold a special congregational
meeting on Sunday, July 27 to
act upon the pastor’s resignation.
The Presbytery of Yadkin of
which the minister is a mem
ber is expected to meet in the
Covenant Church on August 1
to give the Rev. Mr. Cannon a
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letter of dismissal to the Pres
bytery of Detroit.
The minister and his family
are expected to be in Detroit
by August IS. The Carolina
Times was unable immediately
to appraise the effect of the
popular '^Unister’s reaction on
the Durhaijli^ community which
he has served with such distinct
ion for the past several years.
One significant reaction, how
ever, did come from North Car
olina College where a spokes
man said NCC President Alfon
so Elder had accepted the col
lege minister’s resignation with
“deepest regrets.”
In the minister’s Covenant
Church, reaction was said to
have been mixed.” The liberal
minister is said to have incur
red the wrath of some of the
conservative church members
who are said not to be regretful
of his leaving. Another portion
of the membership, however, is
thought to be' opposed to ac
cepting his resignation.
One State Presbyterian fol
lower said; "It is highly signifi
cant that the Rev. Charles Jones
(white Chapel Hill miniater who
believes in the equality of men
of all races) and the Rev. J. A.
Cannon should both find it ex
pedient to leave North Carolina
at the same time.” Both mini
sters are known as liberal ex
ponents of a “social gospel."
The Rev. Mr. Cannon receiv
ed both B. \ and B. D. degrees
from Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity of Charlotte.
In the years that he has lived
In Durham he has held the fol
lowing positions: Member of the
Durham Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance; Member of
the Advisory Board of the H«r-
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Dr. Daniel To
Speak At Manteo
Perfonnance
Manteo—Dr. Robert P. Daniel
president of Virginia State Col
lege will be the principal speak
er at a special observance honor
ing Negroes during the perfor
mance of the “Lost Colony” here
Friday, July 18.
The speaker, a nationally
known educator, was formerly
president of Shaw University,
Raleigh. Dr. S. D. Williams, pres
ident of the Elizabeth City
Teachers College, is chairman
of the special committee on ar
rangements for the annual ob
servance.
Officials of the “Lost Colony”
Negroes are welcome atalL
performances, but, traditionally
one day each year has been set
aside especially for Negroes in
the same manner that other
groups in the State have special
days.
The historical pageant depicts
the settling of North America by
English colonists late in the six
teenth century.
Paul Green, celebrated North
Carolina playwrite, wrote the
pageant which recounts the birth
of Virginia Dare and other sig
nificant events in the early his
tory of the North American con
tinent.
A list of outstanding Negroes
have addressed the annual ob
servance usually held in mid-
July. Some past speakers in
clude the late Dr. James E. Shep
ard, founder and first president
of the North Carolina College
at Durham; Dr. Thomas Pogue,
dl^tor of the division of dra
matic art at Tennessee State Un
iversity; John R. Larkins, con
sultant on Negro work in the
North Carolina Department of
Public Welfare, and Dr. Alfonso
Elder, president of North Caro-
ina College, Durham.
D.C
Society Opens
Doors To Race
Washington, D. C.—^The Dis
trict of Columbia Medical Soc
iety last week announced that
for the first time it will admit
qualified Negro physicians to
membership. The announcement
climaxed an intensive three-
year fight by a committee of
the D. C. Medico-Chirurgical
Society headed by Dr. W. Mon
tague Cobb, professor of anatomy
at Howard University and chair
man of the National Medical
Committee of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
This breakdown of racial bar-
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Showa aboye are twenty-two mambera of a special group of North Carolina Colltfge Sommer
School stad^nta wko last we^^taished slass w«rk in driver teacher eduoa^on.
Two two week eonrse was eondacted Jne SO through July 11. •
Enrollees inolndett teachers, and supervisors, high school principals.
The course at NCC was one of several offered in this state as part of a state-wide safety m«rve-
ment on North Carolina highways.
Negro Leaders To Moke
Demands On Democrats
For Strong Civil Rights Plank
Chicago—As the vanguard of
the delegation to the National
Democratic covention to be held
here next week began to arrive
here over the week-end, the one
big question on the lips of most
of them is, what will the party
do about a civil rights 'plank
in its platform?
Since th^ Republican Nation
al Convention closed with only
a shadow of the civil rights plank
that Negro and liberal white
voters had expected—and that
without a fight on the conven
tion floor—^the civil rights issue
now looms larger on the Dem
ocratic horizon than ever be
fore. p
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People has termed the GOP
civil rights plank "essentially
a states right plank.”
“Whether it attracts any im
portant support among Negro
voters,” Mr. Wilkins said, "de
pends in large measure upon the
Mhd of platform the Democrats
adopt in their coming national
convention.”
Meanwhile NAACP officials
and other civil rights advoc^s
prepared to return to Cjdcago
to urge the Democratic National
Convention to adopt the nine-
point civil rights plank previous
ly submitted to the Republicans.
Walter White, NAACP execu
tive secretary, is scheduled to
appear before the Democratic
platform committee on Thurs
day, July 17.
Speaking not only for the*
NAACP, but also for the 54
national church, labor, civic,
professional and fraternal or
ganizations which comprise the
Leadership Conference as well
as for Negro organizations, Mr.
White will urge the Democrats
to incorporate in their platform
vMande J. Taneey, Professor of
Health Edncation at North Caro
lina College here, retamed to
Durham recently from the Uni
versity of Michigan where she
was awarded the Doctor’s degree
In Education last month. Daugh
ter of Mrs. L. B. Tancey Of >18
East Green Street, Wilson, N.
C.,. the young NCC professor
formerly attl^nded Barher-Scotla,
Knoxvtlle"tnd North Carolina
Colleges. In addition to teach
ing at North Carolhu College,
she has also taught at Knoxville
and Barber-Scotla colleges. She
has done special research at the
marlne-llfe laboratory at Woods
Hole, Mass. Dr. Tancey, who has
been a member of North Caro
lina College’s faculty since 1949,
wrote a dissertation entitled "A
Study of Some Health Miscon
ceptions of Prospective Teachers
in Negro Colleges in North
Carolina."
, forthright civil rights plank.
The plank to be submitted to
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Last Rites Held
For Editor Of
Charlotte Post
Charlotte—Last rites for Hen
ry Houston, 75, founder and
publisher of the Charlotte Post,
weekly newspaper of this city
were held at Grace A. M. E.
Zion Church, July 16 at 4:00 P.
M. The Rev. A. N. Gibson, offici
ated.
Mr. Houston’s death came as
the climax to several years of ill
ness. He succumbed at Good Sa
maritan Hospital around 11
o'clock Monday morning.
He was born at Paw Creek,
the son of Amzie and Frances
Houston. At the age of three he
moved to Charlotte where he
lived the remainder of his life.
He attended the Charlotte
public schools and later became
Studying In
Mexico
Ushers Prep For
Twenty-Eighth
Meet In August
The Interdenominational .Ush
ers Association of North Caro-
announced this week that plans
are going forward with rapid
strides for its 28th annual ses
sion which will be held in Char
lotte, August 21-24 at the St.
Paul Baptist Church of which
the Rev. James F. Wertz is pas
tor.
Mrs. Susie V. Cooper, director
of the Oratorical Contest held
each year paid a visit to the of
fice of the president this week
and reported that the largest
group of contestants ever to take
part in the Contest is expected
to be on the program when the
Contest is held on Saturday
night, August 23 of the Conven
tion.
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR
I WINNERS
Winners in the Oratorical
Contest this year'will be award
ed three scholarship prizes to I
the college of their choice. The
first prize will be a scholarship
of $100 .second prize $75 and
third prize $50.
The subjects for this year’s
contest are “Frederick Douglas”
for bays and “Harriet Tubman’’
for girls.
DR. MARSHALL SHEPARD
TO PREACH
On Friday night. Dr. Marshall
Shepard, former Recorder of
Deeds, Washington, D. C., and
now Recorder of Deeds of Phil
adelphia, will deliver the annual
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printer in the establishment
of the Western Newspaper Un
ion during the years it main
tained a publishing plant here.
About 40 years ago he found
ed the Charlotte Post and re
mained its editor up to two
years ago when he retired from
active service on account of his
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Miss Lennora Jeffreys, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Jeffreys
of 1928 Cecil Street, who is now
in Oaxaco, Mexico doing work
on her Ph. D. degree. Miss
Jeffrejrs attended Hillside High
School, Winston-Salem Teach
ers College, where she received
her Bachelor degree and N. T.
University, where she received
her Masters degree. While In
Mexico she is residing at the
Hotel Monte Alban.
ELECTRICAL UNION CHAUENGES
THREE SOUTHERN STATES
Di. W. J. Trent
Leaves On
Trip To Europe
New York—The Civil Rights
Committee of the International
Union of Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers, CIO today
challenged three Southern con
gressmen to follow in Congress |
next year the mandate on civil
rights legislation which would
be given them by unbiased ref-
erendums to be held in^their
districts at the expense of the
CIO union.
The lUE-CIO challenged Rep.
John Rankin (D-Miss) and two
other Southern Congressional
opponents of civil rights legis
lation to govern their Congress
ional voting records on the basis
of “either a comprehensive poll
or a scientifically determined
cross-section to be conducted by
a professional independent agen
cy’’ to determine how their con-
stitute^ts feel about such civil
rights legislation as poll taxes,
anti-lynching and Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission.
The challenge was contained
in a resolution passed unanim-
North Carolina College will
definitely offer a Doctor of Phi
losophy Degree in educartion, the
Carolina Times learned here this
week. Work in this particular
field wiii began at the opening
of the college for the 1952-53
school term, according to Dr. W.
W. Pierson, acting dean of the
graduate school at N. C.CoUege
and Dean of the graduate school
at the University of North Car
olina. (Dean Pierson is not
twins.)
Dean Pierson told the Time*
over long distance telephone
that a committee is now working
in "basic requirements” for the
^siablishmtnt of the degree. He
a'so stated additional library fa
cilities \vill be added and that
the plans are not quite com
plete.
He also told the Times repre
sentative that Dr. A. K. King,
assistant dean of the graduate
school at UNC, will be granted
a leave of absence to devote full
time to the work.
An inquiry at the NCC Newi
Bureau brought forth this state-
■jwcnt:—‘‘*Th« tntttaos wid in a
recent meeting here that detail
ed announcements concerning
the doctoral program would be
made at a later date.”
Announcement of the decision
to establish a PhD degree evok
ed varied and simdry remarks
from several persons questioned
here this week. The majority
opinion seemed to be that N. C.
College, with its very limited
library facilities, is not even
yet ready to give a first class
masters degree and that Univer-
'ity officials are making a scape
goat of the local school in an
ffoit to avoid having an influx
of Negro students at UNC seek
ing graduate work in the field
of education.
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Chain To Hold
Important
Meet Sunday
The Durham Business and
Professional Chain will hold an
important meeting here Sunday
gift of the AME Zion ChUrch and i afternoon at the W, D. Hill Rec-
' reation Center at 5 o’clock. In
New York,—Dr. William J.
Trent, president of Livingstone
College, Salisbury. North Caro
lina, sailed today on the Hol-
land-American liner Zuiderkruis
to visit England, Scotland,
France, Switzerland and Italy.
Dr. Trent's European tour is
Livingstone Alumni in recogni-
college and a $750,000 building
campaign was successfully com
pleted.
■’While in Scotland, Dr. Trent
oiuly'taV'the'comiiat^^rt itsj^ visit the home of David
two-day session held in Wash-; Livingston^ mi^^ionary
ington, D. C., July 14 and 15. It
tion of his 27 years of service, j addition to the regular routine
during which period Livings- | oi business, plans for the hold-
stone achieved full accreditiza- j in« of a business institute and a
tion as a four-year Liberal Arts' reception for the new and old
nnn hniWino members of the North Carolina
was directed to Reps. Eugene
Cox (D-Ga.) and Graham Bar
den (D-NC), in addition to Rep.
Rankin.
”rhe challenge to the Southern'
Congressmen charged that the
representatives from certain
Southern states "do not and can
not represent the sentiments and
covictions of the majority in
their districts” because poll
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explor- i
• er and humanitarian for whom |
the college was named in 1880. {
The great schools of Clasglow |
and Edinburgh, which produced ;
many of the world’s outstanding
theologians and biblical scholars
are also on Dr. Trent’s Itinerary.
An authority on world history.
Dr. Trent will visit the historic
places of England, including
Liondon’s Westminister Abbey,
St. Paul’s Cathedral and tte
House of Parliament as well as
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College faculty and the public
schools of the city and county,
will be discussed.
Several important committees
for the ensuing year will be ap
pointed and other important
matters will be discussed.
All members are urged to be
present and on time.
ANNOUrfCEMtNT
The OawieU D«/eiu« Com
mittee will meet Monday night,
July 21, 8 o’clock at tiM Jmit
Room, Committe* m«mbtrs
the public are cordiaity iwvttsd
I to attend.