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PRINOPAL CHARGED WITH MISUSE OF FUNDS
Goldsboro Asylum
Loses 2 Physicians
Account Bios Pay
CK>LDSBORO
One white physician resigned
his position in the state hospital
for Negroes here last week
when he discovered that the
salary paid physicians at the
Negro institution in which he
was employed was less than
that paid physicians in similar
institution maintained for white
inmates.
This discriminatory policy
maintained for years against Ne
groes in all walks of life in
North Carolina became the focal
point of attention this week and
precipitated numerous editorial
Attacks by the white press and
individuals.
The physician, Dr. C. R.
Brown, discovered ^e discrimi
natory practice through a news
paper account of the resignation
of Dr. W. C. Taylor, assistant
superintendent at Dix Hill,
white instit^ion for mental
pattnMa. Dr. Tvylor resigned his
post at a salary of $7,080 per
year, to accept a similar position
in a hospital in New York State
at a higher salary and better
working conditions.
Dr. Brown’s resignation came
after 18. years of service as a
member of the State hoapital
staff. The institution In which
he was working at the time is
considerably larger than that
which paid Dr. Taylor a higher
salary. Both men held the ranks
of assistant superintendents, and
the Institution In wnich Dr.
Brown worked housed 2900
patients against a much smaller
one at Dlx Hill
Dr. Brown’s salary was only
between $6,800 and $6,400 pa:
year. The superintendent at Dix
Hill gets a salary of $9,000 per
year. The superintendents at But-
'ner and Morganton get $8,400
per year, while the superinten
dent at the Goldsboro institu
tion gfts only $7,900 per year.
When Dr. Brown discovered
the differential in the salaries
of the institutions, he protested
to State oflScials who in turn
laid a proposal before the bud
get bureau to increase the salary
by $1,000 per year. Still labor
ing under the ancient philoso
phy that ....egroes and those who
work in the capacity, even as
physicians for Negroes, do not
need the same pay as those do
ing the same work for whites,
the budget bureau cut the pro
posed salary $180. Dr. Brown
wanted equality and nothing
more, so ha resigned his posi
tion, leaving the hospital of 2900
patient, capacity in the hands of
igp" See Goldsboro, Page Sight
30
Ask Continuance
Of School Suit
CHAPEL HILL
A continuance of the case
against the Chapel Hill Graded
School trustees has been re
quested by both the plaintiffs
and the defendants In the
school discrimination suit here.
The school officials have been
charged with failure to provide
equal school facilities for Ne
gro students. The suit has
been set for September 23 in
the Durham term of Federal
Court.
This continuance order was
filed Tuesday by Judge J. J.
Hayw.
Durham Host To
Annual Clinic For
Football Mentors
Some fifty-five Negro football
officials and representatives o
Dr. E. T. Brovnie, pastor Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Dur
ham, is shown playing the role of an African Chief, on a Panel dis-
onssion by persons who made a recent pilgrimage to Liberia. This
scene took place in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. Pltte-
Negro coUeges and high' schooU PeMwylvania, on Wednesday night, at the 55th annual i
throughout North Carolina are
expected to attend the annual
clinic of the Piedmont Board of
Officials at North Carolina Col
lege Saturday morning.
Leroy T. Watter, profsaor of
physical education at Nortli
Carolina CoUoffe and com
missioner of the PBO, is in
charge of the foil day seeslo—■
■egtetratioB and diseassloa
meetings will ke held in Boom
o( tke oeOsifs Msbm
Hall. BegistratleB riarti at •
a. m.
Walker says the meetings and
demonstrations will be open to
operators of public address sys
tems at football games, sports
publicists and fans wlu> are in
terested in new changss In foot
ball rules.
Participants in the elinle ia-
clnde Walker who will dia-
cnss new mle changes; F. O.
Barnette, Dorham, ctaaagea
affecting referees; B. D. Arm
strong, Bocky Moant, assist
ant commissioner of the Cen
tral IntereoUeglate Athletle
Association, changes and am-
plres; P. B. Williams, coach,
Washington High School, Ba-
lelgh, changes for head Unee-
mea; and A. H. Peeler, prta-
el|^, J. C. Price Blementary
School, Greensboro, field
Judges and new rulings.
At 2:30 Saturday afternoon,
See Durham, Page Bight
sien, the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention.
Prom left to right are: Reverend E. H. Boney, Bichmond, Vir
ginia; Dr. A. J. Payne, Baltimore, Maryland; Attorney Washlag-
ton, D. C.: Mrs. A. J. Payne, Baltimore, Maryland; Beveread G. W.
Thomas, Roxboro, North Carolina; Reverend K. O. P. Goodwin,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Reverend R. L. Taylor, Ricimiond,
Virginia; Mrs. Ellen S. Alston, Raleigh, North Carolina; Mrs.
Alberta Finch, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Reverend Glow, Pittsi-
bargh, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Carter, Richmond, Virginia; Mrs. Spen
cer, Toledo, Ohio; Dr. G. O. Bollock, Washington, D. C.; Dr. A. W.
Brown, Richmond. Virginia; Reverend Samuel Ballock, Boston,
Mass., and Dr. C. T. Murray, Washington, D. C.
Head On Crash
Fatal To Two
lnS.C. Wreck
Pictured above is the photo of
Dr. Lacy H. Caple, Lexington
dentist, who has been added to
the staff of the Lexington
Memorial Hospital. The other
Negro physician added is Dr.
Tamer H. Dennard.
REPUBLICANS TO STAGE
RALLY FRIDAY NIGHT
The Durham County Repub
lican Club will hold an organi
zational meeting in Recorder’s
Courtroom at the Courthouse
Friday night at 8:00 P. M.
GROUNDBREAKING FOR IWO
MIUION DOlUR HOUSING
PROJEO HELD SB>1ENBER (
Ground breaking ceremonies
tor a low-rent housing project
that will be erected at a cost
at over $2 million dollars was
held here Thursday, Septem
ber 4 at 3 o’dock.
The projeet whieh will be
known as MeDoagald Terraee
ii named for the late B. L.
MeDoagald, Darham leader
and noted business num. Hie
flrst spade of dirt was turned
by his widow, Mrs. B. L. Me-
Dongald.
Present at the ceremony
were Mayor E. J. Evans,
Mrs. NeU Aldred, Authority
auditor; J. Leslie Atkins, Jr.,
J, J. Henderson, Hsrold Stal
lings, Mrs. -W. E. Seeman,
'Authority members; L. H. Ad
dington, executive director of
the Authority and William
Muirhead, Authority chair
man. Approximately 2(To pet-
sons were in attendance.
The projeet will provide liv
ing quarters tor >47 families
and has been badly needed In
Darhaas for a long aaasber of
years.
The principal address was
Kg* See Project, Page Bight
HARDEVILLE, S. C.
Fred Evans, 32 and Thomas
Myers, 26, both of Beaufort.
Were killed instantly late Sat
urday night, August 30, when
car in wliich they were
crashed head-on into a
truck trailer about eight miles
south of here on Highway 17.
It is reported that the two
victims were enroute to Bean-'
fort from Savannah, Georgia,
during the rage of Harricane
“Able” wiiich swept this
vicinity Santrday night. How
ever, it was not determined
whether the storm caased the
wreck.
A HardeviUe mortician, R. M.
Stiney, said that both men
were thrown from the car and
Myers was caught under the
large rear tandem wheel of the
trailer and dragged under it
for some distance before the
truQk stopped sicidding.
The en^e of the ear was
thrown 30 feet from the scene
of the impact. The car was con
sidered a total loss.
Considerable damage was
done to the truck and traUer
by overturning. The driver of
the truck sustained shoulder
injuries and was hospitalized
fqy See Head, Page Eight
UST RHES HELD R)R WILUAH
IHONAS WILIUMS AT WHITE
$OCK BAPI. CHURCH SEPT. II
Citizens Angered
When School
Misses Rating
William Thomas Williams,
son of the late Charles and
JoseplUne Williams succum
bed at Lincoln Hospital Mon
day, September 8 at 12:1S
o’clock, following a brief 111-
nm.
Mr. Williams was born Jan
uary la, 1869 in Cliatham
County. He attended the pub
lic schools of Chatham Coun
ty and Shaw University, Ra
leigh.
In early manhood he became
a member and later ordained
a deacon in the First Baptist
Church, Apex. In 1895 he was
married to the late Miss Rosa
L. Willis. To tills union three
sons and five daughters were
bom, all of whom survive.
Kg" See Wiliianis, Page Eight
BY L. E. AUSTIN
BURLINGTON
Charges and countercharges
were thrown right and left here
last Monday night when a group
of citizens of the Pleasant Grove
School community met in the
school auditorium to bring char
ges against the principal, W. I.
Morris, for misuse of school
funds. In addition to patrons of
the school and several members
of the faculty, also present were
M. E. Yount, Superintendent of
Alamance County Schools and
Mrs. Maude H. Ivey, Supervisor.
The meeting was presided
over by James Jeffries, who re
quested J. W. Jeffries, State
Farm Agent and member of the
school committee, to present the
Superintendent. During Mr.
fount’s talk he disclosed that
tlie patrons of the school had
been requested to pay $2.50 pei
ciiiid, which if properly ap
propriated would have been
enough to have the school ac-
WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS
DR. CHARLES C. SPAULDING TO
TO BE MEMORIALIZED IN JUNIOR
DAIRY CATTLE SHOW SEPT. 25-26
DURHAM
The Seventh Aimual Com
munity, County and District
Junior Dairy Cattle Shows are
scheduled to be held Sep
tember 25-26 at the Merrick-
Moore School and the Durham
County Home beginning at
10:00 A. M.
The shows are being present
ed by the 4-H Ciab, New
19^ See Spaulding, Page Eight
Negro Docton
On Lexington
Hospital Staff
LEXINGTON
The Lexington Memorial
Hospital has announced its
approval of the addition of
two Negro doctors to its medi
cal staff.
The announcement came
Wednesday from E. Clyde Hunt,
hospital administrator, following
a meeting of the tnistee board.
The new additions. Dr. Lacy
H. Caple, who becomes a mem
ber of the dental staff, and Dr.
Turner H. Dennard, admitted
to general practice of medicine
at the iuMpital, had been form
erly recommended by the hos
pital medical staff.
Hunt, in a general report, dis
closed that the hospital now has
26 graduate nursees on its staff
with four more employed to re
port soon. Tliirty-two is the ap
proved number and the hospital,
according to the report, is con
tinuously progressing toward
reaching that goal.
credited. He stated that the
county was willing to match
dollar for dollar in each com
munity and that the Pleasant
Grove School had collected $1,-
700.00 from patrons to assist
toward accreditation,, but was
unable to pay because the funds
had been exhausted. "When I
investigated further to ascertain
who had paid their fees, I dis
covered that a total of 1,948.00
had been collected but only
$300.00 liad been paid in the
first part of the year and that
by the end of the year only
$900.00 had been paid.” This,
the Superintendent said, forced
him to iiave to hold up the pur
chase of books for the library
and other facilities needed *o
have the school meet accredita
tion requirements.
He stated further that a good
many purchases made by Prin
cipal Morris had been mad" a*
retail prices when they
have been wholesale p.ic^. ii
the gootto had been bo ^gh
Jirough the county school sys
tem. He said all the fee? had
been kept in one bank account,
for the lunchroom and other de
partments of the school Instead
of in separate accounts
$I,3M Deficit
“When I discovered tliat there
was $1,300 due on June 30,
from the operation of the lunch
room, I was forced to presen*,
the bills to the Board of Educa
tion, who instrurted me to noti
fy the school rommittee, prinsi-
pal and chairman that the biUs
must be taken care of by Jan., 1,
1953, and that no funds could be
used out of operating expenses
of the current year.”
Following Mr. Yount’s talk,
Wiley Swann a patron of the
school and deacon of a local
church stated that he represen
ted support of the principal and
his group did not deny that bills
haven’t been paid. He stated
that the group he represented
had great faith in the principal
because of the good work he
had done in the community.
Nothing Dishonest
The Superintendent aroee
again and' emphasized that he
did not feel there was anything
illegal or dishonest in Principal
See Citiaeas, Page Eight
Tks annual banquet of the Interdenominational Ushers Union
of Durhaas held recently in the dining room of the Educational
BnlUUag at Salat Joseph A. M. I. Chureh was a gala affair. The
above shows around SOO ushers and guests seated at the table. Dur- {the pastor of Saint JooeiA aa4 his wtfe. Bovercnd and Mrs. D. A.
Ing the prooess, C. B. Noel, prealdent of the Durham Ushers Union, I Johastra. State PresMant L. B. Austin aai wtto ani itfcsrs lor-
introdueed prominent mombers and offieials of the loeal Union, viee for tbo oecasion waa yreviJsd by asssabsrs of the looai