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The above photo shou>$ W. J.
Kennedy, Jr., pre«id«nt o1
North Carolina Mutual Life In-
turance Company, delivering
the dedicatory addreu at the
Morrlton Training School Sun
day when seven new building*
were dedicated and named for
prominent persons of the state.
Others on the platform are from
left to right and seated, D. S.
Coltrane, Assistant Director of
the Budget; Mrs. Rose Aggrey,
president, N. Federation of
Women's Clubf and Mr*. J. S.
Brown, educational director.
Morrison Training School.
Over 400 Attend Rites
Held At Training School
HOFFMAN
Over 400 State officlttls, edu
cators, social workers, religious,
civic and Irateraal leaders from
New York, Massachusetts, Vir
ginia, South Carolina and
throughout North Carolina at
tended a program to name buil
dings at Morrison Training
School, Hoffman, Sunday, April
23th.
Seven buildings were named
in honor and memory of Mrs.
W. T. Bost, former Commission
er of Public Welfare; Supt, P.
R. Brown and his wife, Mrs. J.
S. Brown; Hon. D. S. Coltrane,
Asst. Dirwtor, State Budget
>-Bureau; Commissioner S. E.
Leonard, N. C. State Board of
Correction and Training; Ver
non E. Crowder, a member of
the Training School’s staff for
20 years; Lonnie Perry, who
was killed whUe in the act of
performing his duties in con
nection with the School’s pro
gram; and the late Thad L.
Tate of Charlotte. Mr. Tate
A Boy** xbov6»-
ment in 1914 which resulted in
the establishment of the insti
tution.
The Honorable C. A. Dillon,
Chairman, State Board of Cor
rection and Training, extended
greetings and welcomed the
visitors to the School. He em
phasized the progress that bad
been made in the Correctional
School program, and spoke in
glowing terms of the work be
ing done at the School.
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., Presi
dent, N. C Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, spoke on "A
New Look at Morrison Training
School.” He cited the progress
made at the institution under
the administration of Superin
tendent Brown. He was high in
his praise of the contributions
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Dr. Trov H. Thompson, pro
minent physician of Burlington,
who was successful in the Pri
mary Election held Monday,
April 20, as a candidate for the
Burlington City Council, Dr.
Thompson ioill be in the run-
^ to be held Twsday, May S.
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Against
Times Publisher Compromised
VOLUME 31 — NUMBER 44
DURHAM, N. C., SATUBDAT, APRIL 30,1955
PRICE 10 CENTS
Negro And White D.C
Colleges IVIerged
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Washington's two city opera
ted teachers’ colleges—one Ne
gro and one white—^have mer
ged though, it won’t be official
until July.
This is how it will work. The
president of the white school—
Winson Teaches' College—^Dr.
Walter E. Hager, will become
head of the combined school.
The president of the Negro
school—^Miner Teachers* Col
lege, Dr. Matthew J. White
head, will become one of the
three new deans, 'nie other
two deans will be the registrar
of Wilson and the dean of stu
dents at Miner—^Dr. Paul Carr
and Miss Hope Lyons respec
tively.
I^. Ha^ has been advocat*
tng^lhat m schools be nwiygrf
since 19S0. Then last fall'his
school enrolled 36 Negro stu
dents on dropping its racial re
strictions.
Miner’s prexy, Dr. White
head, is 47 and came to the bead
of the school two years ago. He
was at North Carolina State
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Here are a few more of the
many babies that have filed for
Carnation’s Second Annual
Healthy '^Baby Contest. Many
^pictures came in too late for
this week’s issue of The Caro
lina Times and will be publish
ed next weekr Those above are
as follows, Top-^Micheal Duane
Rojiers, son of Mr. William G.
Rogers, n-F Wabash Avenue;
KarenDenice Burnette, Daugh
ter of Mrs. Willia Mae Burnette,
32-C Braswell Street; Center-
Annette Marie Thomas, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Thomas; Jacqueline A. McNair,
dattffhter of Mr. and Mrs. Alton
McNair. 1211 N. Hyde Park
Avenue; Kenneth Ray Hughes,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John £.
Hughes. 808 Pine Street; Casi-
mir Kay Brown, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Brown, Sr.. 402 Law
son and Montee Brovm. son of
Mr. and Mrs. JE. L. Brown. 402
Lawson Street.
ONLY IHItS MORE Wffl(S
TO HIE FOR CARNAIIOM
"HEALTHY mV CONTEST
A late bulletin from the Car
nation Company reminds our
readers 'there are only three
more weeks to go in Carna
tions Second Annual Hometown
Healthy .Baby Cont^I All en
tries must positively be post
marked no later than midnight.
May 14th. Every baby who is
cute and healthy-looking has
an excellent chance to win.
Little girls, little^ boys, chubby
babies, tiny newborn babies.
(Editor’s note: Elsewhere In
this iwper you will find a free
official en^ blank and com-
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Mother-Daughter
WeekefidAtNCC
Sat. And Sun.
One of the special features of
the Mother-Daughter- Weekend
will be a recital solieduled for
April SO, 1988 at 8;S0 p. m. in
B. N. Duke Auditorium.
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Find Negro
Naaied Official
Ofiinging Group
lilrs.. C. Ruth Edwards, pro
fessor (ft voice at NCC, has been
elected secretary-treasurer at- ■
the Neath Carolina Chapter of
the liiitional Association of
Teachers of Singing.
The NCC professor, who serv
ed in 1S53 as a meml>er of the
NATS'a regional planning s^-
sion, served in 1954 as chairman
of oau^ of Ihe ;|ftemom sessions.
•'iSxf. was elected af
regional meeting held last
week at Queens’ College, Char
lotte, North Carolina.
She is the first Negro to hold
an office in the association’s
Southern region.
In addition to serving as sec
retary-treasurer effective for
meeting next October, Mrs. Ed-
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Mrs. Anna Arnold Hedge-
man, assistant to the Mayor of
New York City who will be
Woman’s Day Speaker at St.
Joseph’s jUfE Church, Sunday
May 22. Mrs. Hedgeman was
formerly assistant to Oscar R.
Ewing, of the Health Education
and Welfare Department of
Washington, D. C. She is also a
former teacher, welfare worker.
Y.W.C.A. Executive, Civil De
fense Executive, lecturer and
volunteer worker in many civic
and religious organizations..
WiHdiis Says Negroes
Disgusted With Demoaots
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.
Negroes are “disgusted” with
the do-notUng policy of the
Democratic^ontrolled 84th Con
gress on crucial civil rights is
sues and are coming to believe
in electing nortbem Republicans
to take away the power of the
southern Democrats, it was a-
serted here last week by Boy
Wilkins, executive secret^ of
the National Association for the
Advancement of C«>lored People.
In his first public statement
since his election to the top
NAACP post on April 11, Mr.
Wilkins maintained that Ne
groes “are tired of tfae stubborn
attitude of southern Democrats
and some believe they should act
to take away the majority of
power from Democrats, who
have abdicated to the southern
wing.”
Mr. Wilkins, who grew up in
St. Paul, addressed a midwest
regional conference the
NAACP oa April 17.
He said the southern argu
ments before the Supreme Court
during the hearings on imple
menting the anti-segregation
school decision “sounded like
1870.”
The southern spokesmen, Mr.
Wilkins declared, “are still liv-
inv in the past when they con
trolled the destinies of Negroes.”
Other nntinnai officers of the
NAACP who spoke at the three-
day midwest conference were
Edward R. Dudley, special as
sistant; Robert L. Carter, assist
ant counsel; Oloster B. Current,
director of brani^tes; and Madi
son S. Jones, special assistant lor
housing.
JOHN AVERY BOYS' CLUB TO
HAVE BRICK PARTY MAY 1
A Brick Party for tfae benefit
of the John Avery Boys’ Club
will be held here Sunday, May
1. Sponsors of the affair which
is Tseing held to secure donations
of bricks to aid in the erection
of a new home for the Club, to
be located on Branch Street, will
be Radio Station WSRC, ac
cording to an announcement
made here Wednesday by J. S.
Stewart, chairman of the build
ing committee.
Stewart stated that repre
sentatives of the Club will be
stationed in various sections of
the city from 4:30 p. m. to 7:15
p. m., Sunday and tliat a tele
phone call to 5-0062 will bring
a ready response of a repre
sentative to a home, business or
church for the purpose of regis
tering the name and address of
the donor and the number of
bricks he or she wishes to give.
Bricks may be purchased in
amounts of 100 or more at the
following prices: 1,000 at $32,
500 at $16.00, 250 at $8.00 and
100 at $3.20.
Present location of the Club
is 508 Fayetteville Street. Its
director is Lee W. Smith, who
for the past several years has
done much through his leader-
sliip to decrease juvenile delin
quency in the city by furnishing
for boys wholesome influence
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Dr. Roscoe C. Giles, noted
surgeon from Chicago, will
serve as guest clinician at the
spring meeting of the John H.
Hale Surgical Society. The
meeting is to be held in Union.
S. C., on May 4, ot the Com
munity Hospital.
Dr. Giles, a Diplomate of the
American Board of Surgery, is
a member of the surgical staffs
of Provident Hospital. Chicago;
Cook County Hospital. West-
side Veteran’s Hospital and the
Alexian Brothers Hospital and
he is assistant professor of sur
gery at the Chicago Medical
School.
Union Baptist
To Move Into
New Church
The Rev. A. S. Croom, pastor
of tfae Union Batist Church, has
announced that on Mother’s
Day, Sunday, May 8, the Union
Baptist Church members will
move into the new modem
church building on Roxboro
Street
On ttie site of the old church
building on Corporation Street
a brief cereskoaf^'ivill be held
iietween nine and ten o’clock. At
ten, the congregation wUl march
to the new church home where
brief services will be held be
fore the group enters the build
ing.
T^e program for the day, fol
lowing these feature, wUl con
sist of services of praise and
gratitude, a brief message wUch
will be followed by house in
spection and the serving of tea,
coffee, ice cream and other
edibles.
To Name New
'Rec'Center For
Noted Minister
The Durliam City Council in
their last session held Monday
night, April 18, paid a signal
honor to the memory of the
late Rev. T. A. Grady, and gave
very tangible evidence of ap
preciation for the service he
rendered in this city, when it
passed a resolution officially
designating the community
building to be erected adjacent
to the Burton School as the T.
A. Grady Commtmity Center.
The name had been suggested
to the City Council by the Bur
ton Community Civic League.
The body took notice ot the
fact that the former Ebenezer
Baptist Church minister had
during his life time worked
“tirelessly and faithfully to se
cure appropriate and adequate
recreational facilities for the
commtmity, and on several oc
casions had appeared before the
City’s Governing Body urging
the securing and developing of
parks" and recreational facilities
for the people in the East Dur
ham area where his church was
located.
Because of this service, the
Govmiing Bbdy felt that it
was befitting to give the new
Center the name of the Rev. Mr.
Grady as a public recognition
of his contribution “to the spiri
tual and general well being of
the people of his community.'
The $2QJM0 Ubel sidt against
L. K. Aurtin, pabUaiwr of tbe
CAROLINA TDCrS came to an
abrupt end here TteMtey OMini-
ing when the case was settled
before trial with Austin agreeing
to pay to tlie Kev. N. A. Trlee
the sum of $500 for damay,
The cliarges of libel against tte
TIMES publisher came as the
result of an article which ap
peared in the April X issue of
tlie TIMES last year in iMcb it
was reported that tbe Rev. Trice,
wtio at the time was owner of
an imdertalcing establishment fai
Durham and Fuquay Springs,
had refused to preach the fii-
neral of a memtier of one of fais
churches in Durham because he
was not allowed to bury tbe
body.
Replying on information fur
nished Tsy the Rev. E. T. Browne,
pastor of the Moxmt Venum
Baptist Church, W. A, Amey,
owner and manager of tfae
Anney Funeral Home and Fred
Watson, stepfather of the de
ceased, Miss Francis Elliott, tiie
article was published in the
TIMES in good faith and with
the belief that the informatimi
fumi^ied the TIMES was true.
According to Austin a few
days prior to the TIMES AprU
3 edition of last year the Rev.
E. T. Browne came to the office
of the Carolina Times and in
formed him that he could do the
Negro mibisterial profession a
great service in Dtirham by ex
posing a condition whiob he,
Rev. Browne, felt was a dis
grace, if true, on all of its mem
bers, or words to that effect. He
then told Austin tiiat it had been
reported to him tiiat the Rev.
N. A. Trice had refused to
preach the ftmeral of a member
of ids church because he was
not allowed to bury the body.
He was then asked by the Times
publisher wfaere he cotild get the
facts in the case, whereupon
Rev. Browne advised him to sae
the undertaker W. A. Amey, v/ho
handled the funeral and is the
owner and operator of the W.
A. Amey Funeral Home, located
at 401 Pine Street
Austin stated he finally went
to Amey who advised him that
the information as reported was
true and that he would
to Fred Watson, the stepfather
of the deceased as soon as he got
off from work which was in the
evening. Amey and Austin call
ed on Fred Watson as agreed,
and then residing at 111 Pied
mont Avenue, who informed the
publisher in the presence of
Amey that the Rev. Trice did
tell Irim that if h could not bury
the body of Miss Elliott he could
not preach the funeral.
The Times publisher later in
quired of Amey if Watson was
reliable whereupon the under
taker stated that he knew tire
man well and on several oc
casions had loaned him money
and he had always paid him on
time and as he promised. And
furtlier that he had buried his
mother. Austin told Amey,
“Well his record is certainly bet
ter than mine.’*
After trying repeatedly and to
no avail to reach tbe Rev. ’Trice
at the funeral parlor of the min
ister, then operating under tfae
name of the Mims and Trice Fu
neral Home on Alston Avenue
and at his home, 1302 ^uth
Street, tbe staff of the Times
finally gave its approval for
publication of tbe article.
When later confronted with
tfae denial by tbe Rev. Trice and
his threat to bring a libel suit
against the TImea Watson was
against the Times, Watson was.
Austin and as t>efore repeated
the cbarfe against the minister.
However, several we^ later
when he was requested to meet
with Attorney M. X. Johnson,
busineaa manager ot the TImea
and the newapapor'y faiwyer, he
refused to do so and dianged
his story. | .
ThJa newspaper feek, there
fore Ita owes tbe Bev. Trice a
retractioii ot tbe stmry as pid>-
lisfaed in its April 3 edition, la-
spite ot tfae fact the managemeat
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M.
Saturday Is The Last Day To Register For The
Durham County School Boiid Election