Controversy Over Hrmg Of Teacher Unsettled
C. V. Aitchelor, Pulitzer
prize - winning cartoonist, Is
the author of the wdely
known "Inviting the Under
taker” cartoon series which
has for years appeared ex
clusively in the New York
DAILY NEWS. The Carolina
Times is among a select group
which has been chosen by the
B. F. Goodrich Safe Drive
League for nationwide syn
dication of these ianfcus
drawings in support of Presi
dent ^enhower’s Commit
tee for Traffic Safety capi-
paign toward highway ac
cident prevention.
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No Reason Uncovered In
Suicide Hanging Of Man
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Construction Worker, Hangs Self
From Boxcar With Baling Wire
No cjiuse had been revealed
early this week in the aulclde
of a 08 year-old Durliani man.
Richard Brittlon, cocuitructlon
worker of 700 Glenn Str^t, was
found dead behind the Armour
and company on Peabody
^street early Sunday evening.
His body was discovered by
a group of children returning
from a movie at the Regal thea
ter.
Britton hanged him^U with
a piece of wire suspended from
a box car, Coroner R. A. Horton
reported.
According to sheriff S. G.
Belvin, the body was first dis
covered by five children who
had attended a movie at the Re
gal theater and were on their
way home. The sheriff said the
victim was “half sitting” in a
crouched position. He had loop
ed a four foot peice of galva
nized wire to a grab iron on a
refrigerator car at the rear of
the Armour and Company on
Peabody Street.
Firemen were summoned but
were unable to revive the man
with a resuscitator.
Sheriff Belvin said Britton
was wearing a blue work shirt,
blue serge trousers and a new
pair of shoes. He had a wallet
but no money and had placed
his cap-on the hood of an Ar
mour truck.
Police patrolman D. A. Schlltz
drove past the meat packing
firm about four p.m. and raw
Britton sitting in front of the
building.
FuneAil services were con
ducted for the suicide victim
in Durham early this week.
VOLUME 32 —NUMBER 27
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 7, 19C6
PRICE 10 CENTS
'TuUi^Jl^rea, Aiotia, Tax.,
field consultant for the Na
tional Probatik>a and Parole
Associatioit, lei^ is ahown
her* at North i^oiina Col
lege last week with Dr, Char
les E. King, director of NCC’s
third a*"'!i>(l Javeile and
Probation ;:A’9cers’ institute.
MeCrea, H^o commuted
tween Durham and Rale||^
where state amncias i
studying plaiu for a stat*
wide system of domestie rala*
tions courts, said NCC’a
instituta “is i^que in its em
phasis of a program of grow
th and !..jprovement for tbw
in-service worker in Juvenile-
and demestic delations situa
tions.” NPPA, the Mary
Reynolds Babcock Founda
tion and NCC Summer School
were co-sponsors of the in
stitute which attracted seven
teen representatives from
four states.
Florida Boycotters
Said "Unreasonable”
SERIES OF MEETINGS FAIL TO
CLEAR ISSUE IN TWIN CITY
WINSTON-SALEM
The controversary which
has been stirred as the result
uf the firing of an Atkins high
school teacher went un-
1 esolved this week as a group
of ministers held a closed
meeting to hear testimony.
A mass meeting sometime
ago at ^e Goler A. M. E. Zion
Church failed to settle the
controversy and, as a result,
a closed meeting was held
this week for those who did
not wish their testimony to
be made public.
*Rev. K, O. P. Goodwin,
Montgomery Bus
Driver Force
Cut In Half
MONTGOMERY, Ala.
Before the historic bus boy
cott begah against the Mont-
.ijomery City Lines last Decem
ber 6th, the company employed
70 drivers. In a new economy
move this week, it laid off 21
more drivers—leaving the num
ber yet employed by the com
pany to 37 drivers.
More busses have been taken
out of service, too. Office per
sonnel ha:, been cut to the bone
so that there are only five on
the payroll and this Includes
office workers as well as main
tenance personnel. The mana
ger, J. H. Bagley, mad* the new
announcement as. to how hard
the six months eld boy^tt has
hit tha
president of the Public Affairs
Conunlttee, stated prior to the
closed meeting that “a lot of
rumors have been heard, but
I’m Just interested in the facts.”
Rev. Goodwin also stated that
his committee hadn’t had* a
chance to fully analyze the re
port of the firing which it had
received.
One of the centers of the con-
troversey appears to be J. A.
Carter, principal of Atkins high
scliool.
Much discussion was center
ed around the alleged “cold
atmosphere" which some ob
servers seem to feel exists Ije-
tween Carter, some teachers,
parents and students.
Career has been accused In
some quarters of being evasive
and aloof to parents who present
him with problems regarding
their children.
when
to the
TALLAHASSEa:, Fla.
Gov. LeRoy Collins sharply
iticlzed Negro^ leaders here
^is week for being “terribly
lort sighted and unreasonable”
m refusing to comprise in their
demand for an end to legrega-
tion on the city buses.
A boycott of the
touched off here in
Florida A and M studeo
two co-eds were arret'
fined tor refusing to mo'
rear of the bus.
The boycott quicklj^ spread
from the school campus to the
entire community and a boycott
of certain merchants of the
city was threatened last week.
The Tallahassee Transit com
pany, oiierators of the bus lines,
were forced last week-end to
suspend all operations of buses
in the city. The only means of
transportation now are by taxi
cabs.
The case against the two co
eds was dropped In the hopes
of averting a long, stalemated
boycott such as had developed
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New Head Of
Nursing Named
At N. C. College
Mrs. Helen S. Morse of
Pittsburgh, Pa., is the new
head of the North Carolina
College Department of Public
Health Nursing.
NCC President Alfonso
Elder and Dean George T.
Kyle announced Mrs. Morse’s
appointment last week. She
begins work at NCC on Sep
tember 1.
Mrs. Morse, 38, Is a native of
Atlanta, Georgia. She received
the B. S. In Nursing Education
at the Medical College of Vir
ginia and is scheduled to receive
the M. S. In mental health and
public health from Yale Univer
sity in September.
The appointment of the new
nursing edu^or tills a vacancy
created by Hhe death here oi^L
Jatwav7 .4», 1S5S of Vrs.
M. Campbell.
From 1048 to 1050, Mrs. Horse
served as school health nurse in
the Virginia Department o^
Health. She was public health
nursing instructor at Florida
A. and M. University from 1B62
to less.
Among other smployment ex
periences have t>een positions as
administrative Nurse, U. S.
Army Nttrse Corps, Staff Nurse,
Georgia Department of Health,
and Public Health Nursing Sup
ervisor, City of Philadelphia.
In addition to her studies at
the Medical College of Virginia
and Yale University, Mrs. Morse
has received a certificate in mid
wifery from Tuskegee Institute
and she has done special study
at Virginia Union University
and Florida A. and M. Univer
sity. She was also public health
coordinator at Florida A. and M.
, The above Uluiloa of,j
timmiMy ^sion of Ifie Wi
em Norfh Carolina Confi
0bce of the A. M. E. Churek
Md at St. Joseph’s A. M. £.
0iurch in Durham on ^t
t
Tu^^,, June 6. At th* topllPrciate of llie WotoSi B^-'^Bmham I^tria; Bev.TJ.
tf) a group of the o£Scials, del- copal District, Bishop Frank j Williamson, Presiding 0der,
egates and visitors gathered Madison Reid and the Pre- Giccnsboro District; Bishop
on the steps of the Church siding Elders of the Confer- iieid, Rev. G. S. Gantt, Pre-
ence and host pastor. From. siding Elder, Raleigh Dis-
left to right they are Rev. tiict and Rev. D. A. John-
J. D. Davis, Presiding Elder, t i, pastor, St. Joseph’s.
during the session. At the
bottom are the Presiding
rivate Schools Plan Assailed
Ex-State Solon CaHs For
N.C. To Begin integration
MRS. HELEN S. MORSE
MURDOl, SUICIDE CLAIM UVES
OF THREE IN LOWED PIEDMONT
Vkdence claimed th^ lives
of three persons in the south
western portion of the state
over the week-end.
Twt) Graham street neigh-
Irors of Concord were the ^c-
tims of an apparent murder-
suicide late ^turday.
On Friday night, a young
wife died in Ruth^ord ho»>
I^tal as the rewilt of knliV
Wounds Inflicted by her hus
band. ,
The bullet-ridden bodiM of
ptra. Mamie Bell, 34, and
Autie Love, ex-convict, wvre
discovered on a lonely, pri
vate country Uum roM off
morning by a couple out pick
ing blackberries.
Sheriff J. R. Roberts of
Cabarrus said Mrs. Bell’s body
had two bullet wounds in the
chest, one In the right wrist and
a fourth in the back of her head.
The Sheriff also said one bul
let entered Love’s throat, rang
ing upward and possibly caus
ing another hole which was
found in his head.
An unofficial ruling of mpr-
der-sulcide was given in the two
deaths.
Both Mrs. Bell and Love were
married and had chlldrei by
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N.Y.DemsWant
Strong Plank
NEW YORK
The Democratic State Com
mittee, as its named 24 del
egates at large to the na
tional convention, promptly
adopted a resolution calling
for a strpng civil rights plank
in the ’56 Democratic plat
form.
The Democrats declared
that “the welfare of our coun
try depends upon an unequi
vocal stand on civil rights as
stated in the ’52 national
platform to which must be
added the recomition pf the
Supreme Court’s decision in
the school segregation ruling
as the law of the land."
Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. was
named as a delegate along
with Mayor Wagner and
Senator H. Lehman, who are
reported for Stevenson for
Pr«Bid«nl
CHAPEL. HILL
What has been widely con
sidered as the strongest attack
on dov. Hodges’ plan to main
tain 'segregation in the state’s
schools came this week from a
former state senator and promi
nent political leader.
In a speech here Monday
night, Irving Carlyle, Wlnston-
Saleni aiiomey, called for de
feat of the proposal to adopt
private schools supported by
tax money in an evasion of the
Supreme Court’s school desegre
gation edict.
Carlyle proposed that the
state make a start at showing
“good faitli^ in compiiance
with the Court’s order by begin
ning to integrate at the first
grade level.
His attack on the proposal to
set up private schools was the
third made on the plan in the
state within a week. Last week
in a speech at Raleigh, R. M. Al
bright attacked the plan to close
the public schools and establish
private, segregated ones as a
“local option which might be
come a time bomb to destroy
the public schools.”
4k>r •» '
’The North Carolina Parents
and Teachers Association passed
a resolution in a Greensboro
meeting also last week opposing
the proposal to repeal the state's
compulsory attendance law.
The plan to set up private
segregated schools in the place
of public schools was part of the
Pearsall CJommittee’s report
presented to the governor fol
lowing the Supreme Court's re
affirmation last year of Its rul
ing against segregation in public
schools in 1934.
It is similar to the Gray plan
in Virginia whereby the state
constitution may be amended
to allow the closing of -public
schools in "intolerable situa
tions.”
Gov. Hodges has called for
a spt'cial session of the legisla
ture this summer and has asked
It to center its attention on tlie
Pearsall report with the Idea of
passing legislation providing for
a referendum to amend ihe con
stitution to permit the setting
up of private schools and tiie
abandonment of public schools
The Pearsall report advises
that the General Assembly be
empowered to “provide public
funds for financial grants to
any child assigned against the
wishes o^his parents to a school
in which the races are mixed.”
In addition to outlining a
Powell SayS'
integrate Nblw!
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
made the statement this week
that Negro schools would have
to become integrated immedi
ately if Negroes as a whole
wanted the white schools open
ed up to them.
Powell’s comment foUov/ed
his latest run-in. He had been
asked to pose with Maxine
Perryman, a student at Missis
sippi Vocational School, who re
presented this year’s Miss Cot
ton from the Memphis, Tenn.
set-up.
Powell refiised and was re
buked* by letter from Dr. J. H.
White, president of the Missis
sippi school who said; “There
will always be a need for all
Nagro institutions.”
To this Powell answered: “In
an Integrating society, the Ne
gro cannot ask that which he Is
not willing to give."
TIMES Publisher To Speak At
Gastonia Elks' 32nd Anniversary
GASTONIA
Moloch Lodge Number 468
of the IBPOE of W. wiU hold
a special program in celebra
tion of the thirty-second an
other participants will in
elude Rev. J. A. Belton, pastor
of the host church; J. A. Hol
land, chaplain and charter mem
ber of the lodge; City CouncU-
niversary of the founding of man N. Barber; Principal T.
the local lodged. /Jeffers of the hi^ school; Gen-
L. E. Austin, publisher of
the Carolina Times, Durham
will deliver the main address
to the group Sunday afternoon
at 5 o'clock at the St. Stephen’s
A. M. E. Zion Church here.
Exalted Ruler J. Q. Falls wiU
preside over the program and
will present the distinguished
guests, Including Mayor Leon
Schneider of the city of Gas
tonia.
ial Gene Potts of Charlotte and
District Deputy George F. Spen
cer. The Way makers Chorus
will furnish the music.
F. E. Parker, director of mu
sic at Higiiland High School,
will play the organ prelude and
will accompany the group in
group in the singing of the open
ing song.
A reception will be held lor
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plan for gradual compliance
with the Supreme Court’s rul
ing, Carlyle expressed doubt as
to the legality the private
schools plan.
It is “extremely doubtful’*
that support of private schools
with tax money would be le^al,
he pointed out.
The Winston-Salem lawyer
was delivering a lecture i'^re
Monday night on the subject,
“The Present Crisis in Our Pub
lic Schools.”
His plan for gradual compli
ance with the court’s decision
would include the integration of
public schools on the first grade
level first, and conunencing in
tegration in the high schools on
a quota basis, with Negro stu
dents selected in accordance
with their education and char
acter qualifications.
He also advocated bi-racial
advisory school committees in
every administrative school
unit, and another statewide t>i-
racial advisory committee.
Extra eurricular activities of
a group nature should be con
trolled by local boards, to be
allowed or banned as the board
sees fit.
“Incidents associated with
violence or passion between
races in any given school should
be subject to immediate and
severe disciplinary measurea.,’*
he said.
« Carlyle said the Pearsall ^
port Is tMsed on a premtaa
is not entirely tenabte. That
premise, he said, as stetad by
the committee 1> “w» an d
the unanimoua opinioa that the
people of North
not support mixed T»it«
is to say we beUtra It the
schools were integratad In Ihia
state, the General AMnsMy,
representing the people, womU
withhold support to e dagne
that the result would ceriaialy
be the ruin and eventual abaaa-
dooment of the acfaoolBL
Carlyle said ft doaa not tal
low ttiat a “majority
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