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Raleigh Residents Figlit Proposed Race Housmg PrajM PKTOL SUYIIKSaaiTlim Funerals Held For Teenagers GUNPIAY yTWi^PwTwbiiMifeBQ^ VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 36 THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, IfSt PRICE: 10 CENTS Couple Was Estranged School Principal’s Suicide Blamed On Ante’s Rejection fayetteVille A reported refusal by his wile of attempts to reconcile differences which had kept them apart was blamed this week for the suicide death of Ro«coe C. Simmons, 4B year-old principal of the South Harnett high school. Funeral services for the vic tim were held at the St. Luke AME church here last Friday. Rev. W. T. Holland, pastor, of ficiated. Simmons was discovered by his mother, Mrs. Maggie Sim mons, streatched across his bed about 7:46 ajn. with a .32 cali bre pistol wound. Police unofficially termed the slaying suicide. Simmons and his wife had been estranged for the past several months. Reports say he tuntojmn* 8) Was Stevenson Asked To Stay From Harlem? NEW YORK, Th« first story thA 4ot out after a closed session of VIP Negroes with Mayor Wagner at which newspapermen were ask ed to leave, was that a warning had been issued fof Adlal Ste venson to stay out of Harlem— at least for the time being—be cause of the weakened Civil Rights’ plank the Democrats had put up. It was also noted that Steven son was due in New York Sept. 8th weekend for a whirlwind series of talks and that no meet ing in Harlem was scheduled. So the story was bolstered that Adlai actually was thumbed by certain Negro Democrats. No names were called for no names were known except Man hattan Borough President Hulan Jack who with 25 "Negro lead ers” gave out the warning. This weekend those who were known by this writer as present, have denied ever issuing such a warn ing. They claim the reports as "exaggerated” and “vicious” de signed to embarrass Stevenson. Some say that there was a misinterpretation probably giv en to a proposal that had been made at the meeting for Adlai to speak In Harlem Tuesday night. They stated that there was no time on this trip to work up a suitable recajftion. ^veral other suggestions were proposed as having Stevenson Just make a stop off In Harlem or maybe other predominantly Negro areas and shake some hands, etc. Top members o/ Lincoln's hotpital nurses graduating class are pictured here as they re ceived prizes at the nursing school’s commencement exer cises this week. Left to right are Misses Dorothy Collins, Eden- ton; Laura Britton, Andrews, S. C.; Sarah Saunders, Durham; Emil]/ Watson, Goldsboro and Mable Ray, Spray. Shown at far right is Miss Eleanor Jimmison, member o] the Lincoln hospital nursing alumnae, who awarded prizes. UNCOIN HOSPITAi GRADUATES FIFISN FSOM NURSIN6 SCHOOL IN COMHENCBIBn RITES Some 15 students of Lincoln hospital’s nursing school re ceived diplomas last Monday night at formal commencement exercises in Durham at White Rock Baptis^church. This was tie 51st class in the history of th^hospital’s school of nursing. W. J. KennedlL^r., president of North- Carolinff^l^tual Life Insurance company,'Delivered Multiple Member Rev. Wendell C. Sommerville, executive secretary of the Lott Carey Convention, is a “plural” member of the NAACP. Already member of three NAACP chapters, in Washing ton, D. C., Virginia and North Carolina, this week he forwar ded memberships for five other persons to the Durham branch of the NAACP. “I could wish that you would use this...to arouse other Ne groes in increasing the financial strength of the NAACP in its battle against the .Un-American forces that are endeavoring to destroy our democratic pro cesses, he wrote with the en closed memTserihips. the commencement address. He was introduced by Dr. Clyde Donnell, chairman of the board of trustees of the hospital. Diplomas and class pins were presented the young graduates by Mrs. Lucile Z. Williams, di rector of the school of nursing and head of the hospital nursing service. Miss Elenor Jimmison, mem ber of the hospital school of nursing alumnae, presented prizes to five outstanding grad uates of the school. Other participants on the fi nals program were Rev. T. C. Graham, pastor of West Dur ham Baptist church who gave the invocation, and William Rich, director of the hospital. Special music for the services were furnished by Mrs. Mar garet K. Goodwin and the Mt. Gilead Baptist church Young People’s Choir. Baccalaureate services for the class were held on last Sun day at the Covenant Presby terian Church. Members of the graduating class who received prizes for outstanding records were Miss Dorothy Collins of Edenton, who received the J.W.V. Cordice prize for excellence in theory and practice in operating room techniques and the Lincoln Hos- The group shown above is part of the delegation of the AME Zion Church which attend ed the World Methodist Council, held at Lake Junaluska, Sept. 1-12. Left to Rtcrht, D. W. An drews, Rev. S. J. Smith, Mrs. F. C. Spurgeon, Dr. F. C. Spurgeon, Dr. W. S. Dacons, an unidenti~ fied minister, Mrs. C. C. Cole man, Bishop R. L. Jones, Bishop W. J. WalU, D. P. Wisdom, Bis hop W. C, Sroton, Bishop H. B. Shaw, Mrs. Savannah Medford, Bishop H. T. Medfoni, Bishop S. G. Spottswood, Bishop and Mrs. C. i'ubanks Tucker, Bis hop J. D. Cauthen, Mrs. Sula StewaHf Rev. L. J. Baptists, Dr. F. S. Anderson, Alaaondsr Bar nes is shown kneeVng. pital School of Nursing Alum nae prize' for being the neatest student; Laura Britton of An drews, S. C., the Leo G. Bruce prize for maintaining the high est scholastic average for three years; Sarah Saunders, of Dur- |iam, the Bettie Hawkins Carter prize for being the most “technically competent nurse; Emily Watson, Goldsboro, the R. P. Randolph prize for being the "most courteous”; and Mable (Please turn to page 8) ' ON SUNDAY PROVES FATAL Two separate incidents of gun play resulted in the deaths of two Durham teenagers here last Sunday. For Bobby Gene Roberson, one of the victims, last rites were held at White Rock Bap tist Church at four o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. Rev. M. M. Fisher, pastor, officiated. Funeral services for John Henderson were held at two o’clock at the Johnson Ray Funeral Home, Rev. J. C. Cross, Methodist minister, officiated. Both youngsters were seven teen years old.€They died Sun* day from pistol wounds. Being held in connection with the shootings are Harry Lee Tate, 17, and Alphonso Taylor, 19. Both have been charged with murder. Preliminary hearings on charge of murder against Tate were scheduled to be heard in Recorder’s Court Wednesday, but because two witnesses in the case had not been summoned, the hearing was postponed until Friday. Tate is charged with the fatal shooting of Roberson. ’The two witnesses were Fred erick Harris, 17, of 613 Ramsey Street, and Marlon Holloway, 17, of 503 Mobile Avenue. Shortly after the shooting, they were booked and held by police as'material witnesses, but were later released. , Hama claimed owiwfhip of the death weapon, a new .22 calibre automatic Beretta,^ an Italian make. He told policy he found it behind a building a week before the fatal shooting. According to police reports, the four youths (Harris, Hflllo- way, Tate and Roberson) i^ere at Willard Brodie’s combination grocery store and juke joiHt at the corner of Proctor and Ram sey street about noon SiAday when the shooting occurred. They were playing with the pistol, and when one of them fired a shot outside the place, they thought the pistol ' was empty. The pistol was 'fired again and a bullet struck Rober son in the forehead. He was ta ken to Lincoln hospital and im mediately transferred to Duke where doctors said he died while being taken in. Tate, who admitted firing the fatal shot, told police it was an accident, that he didn’t know the gun was loaded. (Please turn to page 8) Opposition Thouglit Sufficient To Kill Project In The Capitol City RALEIGH A group of white residents have raised opposition to a prO' posed housing project for Ne groes on South Saunders Street Just beyond Caraleigh, it was disclosed 4arly this week. And this objection to the housing project plans may be enough to kill the whole Idea. First disclosure of the opposi tion came when the matter was laid before the City Council Monday. It was learned that a number of white residents of Caraleigh and Carolina Pines have signed a lietitkm and filed it with the city manager W. H. Carper, opposing the erection of the proposed project. Plans for the new project were submitted by E. N Rich ards, a contractor-entreprenuef who has been associated wi^h several residential develop ments here. He submitted the plan for thb project on August 29 to City Planning Department. The project would include 117 lots on a 44.4 acre tract south of Gilbert street and^wn the east side of Saunders street, planning director A. C. Hall said. In discussing the plans, Rich ards has been quoted as saying that the houses for Negroes would be in the |10,SOO-$12,000 price range, and would contain three iMdrooms and bath. They were to ije constructed of brick veneer and financed through FHA and VA. Willis P. Holding, spokesman for the white citizens of the area who oppose the project, appear ed before the council Monday night to state that group’s side of the case. He said residents of Caraleigh and Carolina Pines are. opposed to a Negro section being located between these two white areas and Hertford Vil lage on highway 15-A. Holding said that some of the residents of the area who op pose the project, reportedly 500, wanted to be heard before the councU. But Mayor Wheeler refused to admit that there was a case or sides to the matter at all. He told Holding that “we don’t have any right to hold a hearing on it. The race issue has no business befor the Council," he asserted. , Holdii^ had earlier told the Council that Caraleigh property owners wijuld not give permis sion for an eastern outlet to highway 70 and 15-A, South, through their property. The only other autlet is through city- owned prop^y. Holding said, at the water filtering plant. Mayor Wheeler admitted that the Question of an outlet through city property from the (Pleaae turn to page 8) ALPHONZO TAYLOR BOBBY GENE ROBERSON m,. JOHN HENDERSON NAACP Head Addresses Baptists Ike Hit For "Weak Stand” In School Integration Riots DENVER, COLO. President Eisenhower was severely criticized by NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wil kins for failure to exercise strong leadership for law and order in Tennesse*- and Texas school integration riots here last week. Wilkins was addressing some 15,000 delegates to the National Baptist Convention. Commenting on last Wednes day’s Presidential press confer ence, the Wilkins’ speech says that Gen. Eisenhower “did not L R. Swift, Durham Surgeon, Is Named To Intemational Body Dr. Leroy Russell Swift, or- ganizei^of North Carolina Col lege’s Student Health Services Department and director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Lincoln Hospital here, will be made a fellow of the International College of Surgeons in Chicago on Thurs day (Sept. 13). Fellows of the ICS must show evidence of having engaged in the practice of surgery for a suf ficient time to have acquired maturity of experience and high standards of surgical compe tence, their professional work must be devoted entirely to 8 surgical specialty. Several years Ego, Dr. Swift became the first Negro medical man in the South to be certi fied as a diplomat by the A- merican Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was also listed then in the Directory of Medi cal Specialists. Dr. Swift has been associated with NCC since 1942 shortly after receiving a master of pub lic health degree at the Univer sity of Michigan. He is a native of New York City, who received his under graduate and medical training at Howard University. After com pleting an'internship at City Hospital and Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., he received a Rosenwald Surgical Fellowship. His studies av the Uni^ ersity of Michigan were sponsored bj the Rockefeller Foundation. The new Fellow of the Int«rr national College of Surgeons i.s president of the Djrham Aca demy of Medicine .and th£ .Old North State Medical Society. Officials of the ONSMS say it (Please turn to page 8) Is Your Number Here? There were no winners last week, and this week the prize jumps to $2.00. If your automobile license number is one of the follow ing, bring your regbtration card to the CAROLINA TIMES office before noon Saturday and get your two dollars. This week’s num bers are: A X - 8 1 8 5 Z W - 8 4 9 5 A Y - 2 7 3 7 contribute very much to tiie cause of law and order. In the same sentence he criticized both those who use violence to defy the law and those who ask com pliance with the la^. We do not believe there is any “middle ground’ between law and defi ance of law.” The veech refen to the Preti- ient as “the oM mu .ithout iavorlnc your mt mine, and without Inteftetiv with the ligfata of the atatM^ could a moral time for tte nation in this sorry mesa.” Recalling events oi the p. ..i. several days. Wilkins in his ad dress says further of the Presi dent; “The - newspapers, radio and television are full of riot ac counts in his own land. Gover nors have called out troops. Men have been hung in effigy. A Guardsman has been stabbed. ^AU- the aattoo- la wlehli^ !■ shocked horror at men war upon children and upon the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the bedrock o tin constitutional protectian oi every citizen—and tram tiia >Vhite House hardly a word. “It is incredible, but true, that the President of the United States is a««umtng a *nautral’ position In a contest.Jn whi^ lawlessness is running riot.” The Wilkins' speech cries action of Texas Governor Allan Shivers in connection with ;>chool integratioa diaturfaancM at Mansfield, Texas, and asserts that the governor "did not measure up to the of his office. He did send in Texai tiangers, but he instructed *»»*»»» :o move out any Negro who applied to the high schooL” Delegates to the nineteenth annual convention of the Na tional Housewives League of America are shown in St. Louis, Mo., during a pause of their dis- cttssions of convention’s theme, "Meeting the Demands of To day’s Trends.” Officers of the leaffuc are, seated, left to right, Mrs. Ella M. Martin, Boston, financial secretary; Mrs. Nan nie E. Black, Detroit, recording secretary; Mrs. Estella Crosby, Boston, second vice-president; Mrs. Pearl Bell, Louisville, first vice-president; Mrs. Jtsae D. Locker, Cinciimati, presidewt; Mrs. Christina Fuqua, Detroit, chairman of board of trustees and immediate past prMtdtnt; Mrs. Ruth J. Jackson, Btrmtag- ham, treasurer; Mrs. WilUams, president of St. Louis chapter; and Mrs. Arena J. Bun. W^uMngrton, O. C., parUm- mentmrian. Othets included in picture ore Mrs. Inn Minor, Chapel Mill. N. C., and Mr». Sarah Dotson, Durkam^ If. both of whom took very parU im Ikt
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