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VOLUME so — NUMBER 18 DUIUIAM. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAT IS, 195S
PRICE TEN CENTS
Weak Reply In
Hospital Charges
Some $841,000 worth of new
buildinxB were dedicated «t
Lincoln Hospital in Dnrham
iast Sunday as approximately
1,800 persona fathered on the
hospital lawn to hear a dedica
tion speech hj Duke Universi
ty’s President Hollis Edens.
Top photo diows Dr. Edens
addressing the gronp. Second
photo shows Lincoln Norses
Glee Club. Lincoln Hospital
prior to addition with annex
seen ^rom North is seen In
third photo.
Fourth idioto pictures, left to
right, hospital drectw W. M.
Rich, W. J. Kennedy, Jr., mas
ter of ceremonies and chair
man of building committee;
Dr. Edens, and Dr. Alfonso
Elder, North CaroUna College
President who introduced Dr.
Edens.
Bottom photo shows Dnrham
County Manager, Oeorge
Kirkland and turning over
kejrs to new building to Dr.
Clyde Donnell, trustee, presi
dent irf thft.hospltal. See story,
this issue. Staff photos by
STANBACK.
Grievances Aired
in Meeting Wliicli
Bars Tiie TiMES
ASHKVILLE
Mrs. Virginia Holloway, Ipcal
beautician, restated her charges
of mistreatment as a patient by
thcf nursing personnel of the
Victoria Hospital at a meeting
of the grievance committee (rf
the hospital board held Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Holloway had previously
made charges of negligence in
attention to her needs and ver
bal abuse in a signed statonent
dated March 25, foUbwiag her
discharge from the hospital
having been admitted some ten
days prior. The beauty shop
operator had also charged in
liier original statement that the
hospital refused to re-admlt her.
According to one observer
{M^sent, the attractive 29 year-
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VoteonAstieviiie
TVi^roposai
is
ASHEVILLE
The decision on whether
wired” television service
shall be permitted in Ashe
ville was delayed indefinitely
as a result of a court order
signed by Superior Court
Judge Zeb T. Nettles prohbit-
ing balloting on the question
as was scheduled for the gen
eral election held Tuesday.
Judge Nettles’ order follow
ed a hearing held Saturday
in the Buncombe County
Courthouse. A group of radio
station operators and TV
sales and service sought the
injunction on the grounds that
the City Council’s procedure in
submitting such a question was
not according to the State statute
governing the same; and on the
groimds that information con
tained on the ballot was not suf
ficient.
Defendants in the case were
the City Council and the Muni
cipal Board'of Elections.
Judge Nettles’ order prohibit
ing a vote on the TV issue this
past Tuesday was appealed to
the State Supreme Court.
As a result of the failure to
get a vote on this issue in the
general election, it is not known
at this writing whether Com
munity T-V System, Inc. will
continue its efforts to secure the
right to operate suclwa service
here in Asheville. “Wired” TV
is a service of signal distribu
tion offered to TV set owners on
a fee basis for the alleged pur
pose of “offering better and wid
er reception" to those who want
to subscribe to such a service.
Such a service as offered by
tile Community TV System is
being opposed paritcularly by
those planning to operate TV
stations and by some TV sales
and service dealers in this area.
Should the City Council and
the Municipal Board of Elec
tions win their appeal or change
their procedure to meet the ob
jections of the plaintiffs, it is
possible that the issue would be
submitted to voters in a special
election.
Efforts To Clear
PW's Suspected
Of Red Leanings
NEW YORK
Permission to interview re
leased Negro prisoners of war
at the Valley Forge Hospital
in Pennsylvania Imuj been re
quested by the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People in a tele
gram to Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson. ,
Upon their return to this
country the men assigned to
the Valley Forge Hospital,
among them a number ra Ne
gro soldiers, were originally
the victims of a seemingly of
ficial suspicion that they had
succumbed to the Communist
propaganda while in the custody
of the enemy. The accused men
have hotly dened this allegation
and have asked vindication.
White cited the statement by
Pfc. Roger Herndon that “the
Communists tried to show us
they had something, but they
had nothing compared to wlurt'
we have In the Unted States.”
This statement by Hemdoa,
the NAACP leader said, “is ail
the more remarkable in that
in his native Florida he would
be denied many rights of
dttoendilpp.'*
The NAACP, White told Sec
retary Wilson, “wishes to ascer-
certain the facts and do what it
can to prevent injustice being
done men who fought valiantly
for their country.”
GROUP BUSTS
FIRING OF
YMCA HEAD
• ASHEVILLE
The local branch NAACP
has gone on record as “con
demning the unjust and un
reasonable action” which the
Committee of Management of
the Market Street Branch Y.
M. C. A. took in dismissing its
executive secretary, Hugh A.
Johnson. Johnson was reliev
ed of his post on March 27.
The action taken by the
NAACP was contained in a
resolution adopted by the
branch in its regular member
ship meeting held last Sunday.
Reverend M. R. Donald is presi
dent of the branch NAACP.
The resolution as adopted
stated tliat Johnson was “dis
missed for the sole reason that
he was an outspoken and mili
tant fighter against discrimina
tion and segregation.”
Johnson is co-chairman of the
Buncombe Coimty Committee
for Negroes and also an execu
tive committee member of the
local NAACP.
Johnson was recently appoint
ed the Director of CAROLINA
TIMES’ Western North Carolina
Bureau with offices in Asheville.
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Fate Of Doomed Four
Up To Gov. Umstead
Scenes from the Sixth Dis
trict Omega Psi Phi regional
meeting at Columbia, South
Carolina, April 24-26 shows:
1—Dr. Matthew J. White
head of Washington, D. C.,
keynote speaker at Sixth Dis
trict Regional Conclave Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity held at
Columbia, South Carolina,
April 24, 25, and 26.
2—John F. Potts, First Vice
Grand Basileus, Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity presenting
plaque to Attorney J. Alston
Adkins of Winston-Salem, N.
C. tor outstanding contribu
tion to the FraternJ^y.l
3—Ralph M. Gert of Rock
Hill, South Carolina, present
ing plaque to John H. McCray,
Editor of LIGHTHOUSE AND
INFORMER for his crusade
for freedom in South Carolina
Civil Rights fight.
4—Miss Cynthia Brown of
Henderson, N. C., second
priie winner in^ Omega Sixth
District Talent Hunt Hnals
held at Columbia. South Caro
lina, April 26. Miss Brown was
a candidate of Zeta Al^ia
Chapter of Henderson and Ox
ford, North Carolina.
N. C. WEBSTER
Ex-A. & T. Off idol Indicted
On 23 Embenlement Raps
DW15 COUSINS, SPEUa, AND
BROWN SUTED TO DIE ON »IN
RALEIGH
The fate of four men now
awaiting execution on death
row in Central prison here is
left up to the State’s Chief
Executive.
Unless • there is a com
mutation of the death sen
tences imposed on Bennie
and Lloyd Ray Daniels, cou
sins, Raleigh Speller and
Clyde Brown by Governor
William B. Uxnatead the four
are scheduled to die in a mass
execution in the State’s gas
chamber here on Friday, May
The date of the execution
w^ actually set \^en Federal
Judge Don Gilliam signed t>a-
pers vacating stays ol execution
he had granted for the quartet
some time ago.
While the stays were in ef
fect, lawyers for the doomed
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GREENSBORO
N. C. Webster, long-time
bursar of A. and T. College,
was indicted here Monday on
23 counts of embezzling $116,-
121.18 from the college cof
fers.
Webster, 51, served as bur
sar of the college for some
30 years up until his dismis
sal last month for “irregulari
ties” in his office. The indict
ment, returned by a Guilford
County Grand Jury, covers
only a five year period, how
ever.
Last Monday evening, Web
ster rested in the Guilford
County jail under a $15,000
bond, after having been ar
rested at his home at 219 North
Diidley Street. His trial is sched
uled for a special Superior Court
term here June 1.
^ Webster’s indictment cornea
as a climax to a three-months
intensive investigation of the
college’s finances by a team
of auditors out of the office
of State Auditor Harry Brld-
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Saiisiniry's Rose Aggrey Elected
New Head Of Women's CIuIk
ELIZABETH CITY
Mrs. Rose D. Aggrey, promi
nent North CaroUna educator
and civic worker succeeded
Professor Ruth G. Rush as state
president of the North Carolina
Federation of Negro Women’s
Club last week.
A cash tokm of “grateful ap
preciation for seven years of
Itig^y successful and meaning
ful service" was given outgoing
President Rush, former dean of
women and now psychology
professor at North Carolina Col
lege, Durham.
Mrs. Aggrey, former pro
fessor at Livingstone College
and later Jeanes supervisor of
schools in Rowan County with
headquarters at Salisbury, had
been active in federation work
for many years. She was editor
of the organization^ Journal, a
job she will continue to hold un
til a successor is named.
The new federation president
is the widow of the late Dr. J.
K. Aggrey, noted missionary
educator.
An 11 point resolutions’ plank
calling for the integration of
Negroes and women into all
phases of state and national life
was adopted by the organization.
As released by Miss Rush of
Durham, the federation’s retir
ing president, one of the chief
points in the anti-segregation
plank stated: “Resolved, we go
on record as. definitely opposed
to segregation in- schools, public
carriers, public Ubrarles, r«»-
taurants, hospitals, parks, hotels,
tourists homes or eabkis and qefl
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