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HILLSIDE GRAD MEETS DEATH BY DROWMN ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2,000 Citizens Hear Waiter Wliite For Thirty-One Years The OuManding Weekly Of The Carolinaa Entrred as Second Clan at the Poat Offlee at Uarham, Nvrtb Owellna, under Act of Maroh S, 1171. VOLUME 31—NUMBER 25 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1954 - PRICE 10 CENTS Two Negro Grads At White Tennessee College Nied Senices JACK AND JIUS TO OPEN NINIH BegunlnDaimlle annual CONFERENCE FRIDAY Va. Churches DANVILLE, VA. Integration practices have be gun on a wholesome basis in several Danville churches ac cording to a recent anrtbunce- ment made by white ministers of the city. No discord in the congrega tion has’been evident since the doors of the churches have been opened to persons of color. Several Negroes attended a reli gious film showing at Mount Vernon Methodist Church, one of the largest white churches in the city recently. Oh other occasions, Negroes seen in the congrega tion at First Presbytetrian and First Baptist Churches. White ministers of these churches have been preaching for some time on segregation and have taken the stand that Christian fellowship does not endorse the closing of church doors to persons on the .basis of “tnelr race." - Two Teachers Get Prison Terms CHARLOTTE Samuel Moore, former presi dent of the Carver Junior Col lege, and Kenneth Diamond teacher of Second Ward High School, received sentences of one of two years and two to thr^ years respectively, in the state prison after having been convicted of participating in a (Please turn to Page Eight) The ninth annual session of the Jack and Jill of America, Inc., opens a three-day meeting at’ North Carolina College Fri day night June 18. The pro gram is open to the public with out charge. Some 30 Durham children will give an operetta, Engle- bert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” at 8 o’clock Friday night in NCC's Duke Auditori um to get the session started. The Law Building will be the scene of a business session Saturday morning at 9 o’clock. The Dining HaU of tte North Carolina Mutual Life insurance Company will be the scene of the afternoon meeting on Satur day. Saturday night’s banquet session, featuring Dr. Alberta Turner, national president, as the main speaker, will start at 7:30 Saturday at the Algonquin Club House. An informal dance will honor the delegates in the Women’s Gym at- ^ p.m. Tha-local insiir- ahce firm will host a luncheor for the delegates at 2. o’clock. Afterwards, at 2:30, one of the meet’s main features, a sympo sium on the conference theme, will be held. A business session will conclude the program in the Law Building at 9 a.m. Sun day. “Appraising Family Life in a Changing World” is the theme for the convention. Dr. Gelo McHugh, assistant professor of psychology at Duke University, will serve as chair man of the symposium. Other participants are; Dr. George Fisher, Raleigh, “Spiritual Values for today’s Families;” J. M. Schooler, principal, Whitted DR. GELO MoHVOH School, Durham, “Cooperation Between Home and School for Effective Education”; and Dr. Catherine Middleton, Raleigh, pediatrician, “Keeping the child WeU". Dr. McHugh wiU discuss “Building Healthy Pe^naliQes in our Children; R. D. Russell, NCC guidance counselor, "Set ting Economic Patterns in Family Life”; and Mrs. Mary Duke Semans, member of the Durham city council and mayor pro-tem, "Putting Social Life In Its Proper Perspective.” Officers of the hostess Dur ham chapter are; Mrs. Mollie Lee, president, Mrs. , Olga Barksdale, vice president; Dr. Ruth Flowers, recording secre tary; 'Mrs. Betty W. Goodloe, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Dorothy Phillips, treasurer; and Mrs. Edna Lambeth, reporter. NASHVILLE, T.ENN Two Negro girls—the first in the 62-year-old history of Scar- ritt College were among the 57 students graduated by the Me thodist school here June 3. They are: DeLaris Lee John son, Orangeburg, S. C., and Le ila Marie Robinson, Austin, Tex. Both were awarded the de gree of Master Of Arts. Scarritt is a senior and gra duate college operated by The Methodist Church to train missionaries and other church workers. Miss Johnson and Miss Robinson were admitted two years ago, the first Negroes en rolled by any of the several white colleges here. Scarritt trustees adopted the policy of inter-racial education in March, 1951, stating that the institution is “the only Metho dist college specializing in the advacu^d Rrep^tion of young men and women wJio have^ de3l- cated their lives to full-time service in the un-ordained work of the church." Miss Johnson received her A.B. degree from the South Carolina State A. and M. Col lege, and plans to teach Navajo Indian children in Farmington, N. M. At Scarritt she was trea surer of the student council. degree from Huston-Tillotson College in Austin. She was edi tor of the Scarritt yearbook, and was recently commission ed a deaconess of The Metho dist Church. She has been as signed to the staff of the church’s Sager Brown Home and Godman School for Negro children in Baldwin, La. , Some of the children of Dur ham who uHll appear in the op- peretta, "Hansel and Gretel," which opens the Jack and Jill Ninth Annual National Conven tion at North Carolina College Friday night are shown. Front row, left to right, art, Michael Bfaddock, Gretchen Sampson, Dianne Dawson, Harry Edmonds, Judith Brown, Phyllis Morgan. Floyd Brown, and Jimmy Younge. Second row, Joy Beale, Jill Morgan^ Thomas Sampson, Frank Rus sell, Jan Stanback, Booker Spaulding, Carol Phillips, Eliza beth Phillips and Carolyn Wal ker. On the third row are, Earl Phillips, Jane Sampson, Greer Gadsden, Leeta Smith, Joyce Pittman, Brenda Thompson, Leon and George Creed, and Howard Wright. Fourth row, Carol Morgan, Leroy Walker, Billy Clement, Gregory Kyle, Maxirie Barksdale, Betty Jo Goodloe, Helen Davis, Harold Flowers, and William Jones. Shown on the fifth row are, Elaine ond Perry Lambeth, Ro bert Beale, Catherine Burnett, and Richard Taylor. Sixth row, Leonard Davis, Andrew Bur nett, Charles Stanback, Louie Pitttman, Peggy Thompson, Jimmie Lee, and Beverly Wright. Not shown are Richard Barksdale and JSric Moore.' Dr. David Jones Awarded LLD. At Syracuse U. SYRACUSE, N. Y. Dr. David Dallas Jones, a dy namic personality who has be come one of this country’s out standing educators, was awar ded the honorary degree of Doc tor of -Laws here recently as a part of Syracuse University’s 100th commencement program. For Dr. Jones, president of Bennett College in Greensboro, it marked yet another'singular and distinguished honor that has come to him inV recent years. The LL.D degree award ed by Syracuse will be his third honorary degree. Others have been given by Wesleyan Uni versity and Howard University. For a man who, after gradu ating from Wesleyan in 1911, decided to go into social work (Please turn to Page Eight) Scenes of the NAACP week end conference featuring Wal ter White, executive secretary of the organization are shown. In the top photo, F. B. McKis- sick, Durham attorney and chairman of the program com mittee, is shown greeting Mr. White upon his arrival at the Durham airport. ~ The^center photo skews some^ of the local and state reyresen- tatives of NAACP Branches on the lawn near the Algonquin Tennis Club House where they gathered last Saturday after noon for personal consultation with Mr. White and to make re ports from their respective branches. At the botram is o scene of the informal luncheon held inz. doors at the Algonquin Club House with the national execu tive secretary. Mr. White is shown in the center at the far end of ihe table relating bits of humorous incidents he has ex perienced during his travels all over the world. Mr. White made his public address at White Rock Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Neuse River Claims Life Of Ricliard Hall Sunday DB. DATID D. JONBS Ms Foundation Donates $1,000 To Shepard Fund The Doris Duke Foundation has donated $1,000 to the James E. Shepard Memorial Founda tion’s scholarship program, ac cording to Professor James E. Taylor, executive secretary oi the Shepard Foundation. Mr. Taylor’s announcement said the current gift “makes a total of $7,000 the Doris Duke Foundation has contributed to the James E. Shepard Memorial Scholarship program”. • The scholarship program is a memorial to the late. Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and first president of North Carolina College. According to Taylor, the scholarship program has “help ed 26 North Carolina high School graduates to attend N. C. College”. Sttidents who qualify must come from the upper tenth of their classes in North Caro lina iiigh- schools. The Shepard Memorial Scho larships were not awarded dur ing the past year because of a “lack of sufficient funds”, a foundation spokesman said this week. It was pointed out, how ever, that scholarship winners who were members of the past year’s freshmen class will con tinue to receive scholarship aid during the coming year. Officials of the foundation expect to be able to resume the scholarship program during the coming year when applicants for the 1955-56 school year will be invited to compete for the awards. Tragedy struck the home of I Durham neab«.the Red Mill Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Umstead Bridge with a friend, according at 406 Hunt Street shortly af ter 6 o’clock Sunday evening when news that their 17-year- old son had drowned in the Neuse River was related to them. Richard Hall, Jr., the victim was swimming in the river ap proximately eight miles from to reports, but suddenly dis appeared when the friend turn ed to look for him. R. A. Hor ton, coroner, said death was due to drowning when the body was recovered by members of the Durham Life Saving Crew at 8:10 Sunday night. Young Hail, a high school graduate, had received his di ploma from Hillside High School only si:i days prior to the fatality. In an interview with his parents, a Times re presentative was'told that Hall liiiU made tenative plans to leave soon to take a job in De troit, Mich. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Union Baptist Church with the Rev. A. S. Croom, pastor, officiating. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and'Mrs. Wallace Umstead; Mrs. Lula Hall, paternal grand mother of Durham; Mrs. Della Peoples, grandmother of Dur ham; an aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Henderson of Harrisburg, Pa and three cousins. Miss Delois Peoples, Marie Evans, and Ran dolph Murphy. Wilberforce President To Speak At St. Joseph's Men's Day Program Men’s Day will be celebrated ■ learning in America, having at St. Joseph’s A.M.E. Church here Sunday, June 20 with Dr. Charles L. Hill, president of Wilberforce University, Wilber force, Ohio, as the guest minis ter for both the morning and evening service. Dr. Hill has been president of Wilberforce since 1947 and dur ing his administration the insti tution has made considerable progress. Wilberforce is one of the old est Negro schools of higher been established in 1856. It operates under the auspices of the A.M.E. Church. Dr. Hill is considered one of the greatest preachers in the A.M.E. Church and a large au dience is expected to hear him both Sunday morning and Sun day evening. Special music for the occasion will be fiurnished by the Senior Choir No. I of the church. Rev D. A. Johnston is pastor of the church. NAACP Sec'y. Warns Against Complacency Speaking to more Uian 2,000 :;itizens of North Carolina Sun day, June .13, at the White Rock Baptist Church in Dur ham, Walter White, executive secretary of the National Aimo- ciauon for the Advancement of Colored Pwple, said that the local NAACP Branches are neither threatening nor t>egging in petitioning local school boards to take immediate step* to abolish racial segregation in .schools under their jurisdiction. Mr. White's speech at the public mass meeting Sunday culminated a weeicend confer ence of NAACP leaders from all cities in North Carolina. At a luncheon meeting held Satur day afternoon at the Algonquin Club House, reports were made by al4 state and local represen tatives. Eighleen citizens of Durham and other parts of the State ap- piiei for life membersliips in the organizatfion by making *niiial payments on the fee, wnich is $500. Tho^e subscribing were: J. S. S;ewart. Dr. L. R. Stvift, G. W. Logan, Attorney M. Hugh Thompson, Dr. Robert E. Daw son, J. C. Scarboiough, Sr., all oi Duriiam; Kelly M. Alexand er, president of the N. C. State -V.-iACP Branch, wjio completed his payments; T. C. Jervey, Wilmington; Dr. Daniel C. Roane, Wilmington; Dr. J. S. Simmons, president of the Old North State Medical Society; Dr. Romeo H. Lewis, Clinton; Bishop R. L. Jones, Salisbury, N. C.; Attorney J. Kenneth Lee, Greensboro; and Dr. Watson Fowler, Fayetteville. Others are Dr. J. D. Douglas, Fayetteville; Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, Burlington; Dr. L. W. Upperman, Wilmington; aad Dr. W. E. Merritt of Clinton. Following is an exerpt of the addref^’ delivered by the :VAACP executive: . “There are persons in the South who advise that we sit tight and do nothing imtil the United States Supreme C^urt formulates decrees implement- its historic decision of May 17. Ift effiFHMBg the principle that public school segregation is un constitutional, the Court said that it would not hand down the implementing decree or decrees until after hearing fiuther ar gument by our attorneys and the attorneys of states next' fall. The Court did not rtile that no action was to be taken meanwhile. Indeed many locali ties, including Fayetteville, Ar kansas, St. Joseph, Mo.; Balti more, St Louis and the nation’s capital, have already ordered integration to take place not later than the opening of the 1954-55 school year in the fall. In other communities such as Greensboro, in this state, the boards of education are de veloping plans to comply with the Court’s ruling. The State of .West Virginia has abandoned the color bar at its instituiion.> of higher education aui lu.’ state superintenJeat ot s.-'.u.-.i has called upon cjunty b jar03 to “reorganize and re.icijajt their schools” in complifn ; with the Court’s rulinj. A com mittee has been establish,:^ i;i Arkansas to develop plans for integration. The ruling of the Court n clear and unmistakable. gregation, the Court held, d-c; prives its victims "of the equal protection of the laws guaran teed by the Fourteenth Amend ment” and, accordingly, is un constitutional. Efforts to evade this ruling, to sneak around it in some shady, illegal way, will merely result in waste of time, energy and resources. The com munities which have already moved to comply recogniTe thi» will have no part of the con spiracy to subvert the Court’s ruling. We of the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Colored People also recognize that the sooner the require ments of the decision are met, the better off the South and the country as a whole will b«. Accordingly, the leaders of our southern units met in Atlanta the weekend following the de cision to map a plan of action to facilitate desegregation of the puMie schools. Your repraaeDtativ«s at thftt conferance gave aober delibera- tunvto INia
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