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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 23
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1957
PRICE: TEN CESTS
Teacher’s Slayer Tries To Hang Himself
Miss Carolyn In^am, daufh-
ter of Mrs. Bernice Ingram,
1213 FayettiivUle Street, Is
shown here as she fets degree
from PresldMit Will* B. Player
at Bennett College commence
ment exercises on May 21. Mlsa
Ingram had previously reoeived
the Dayld D, JonM leadenhip
award.
$10,000
Effort In
NEW YORK
Since January 1, a total ol
$10,000 has been allocated by
the NAACP to an educational
campaign to register voters in
the southern states. It was an
nounced here recently by Roy
Wilkins, executive secretary.
The worls is being done in
Georgia, Virginia and in a small
section of Mississippi. A pro
gram is scheduled to get under
way in South Carolina in June
and In North Carolina later in
the year.
The state organizations ol the
NAACP are handling the pro
gram on the local level. Virginia
is adding>« man to its state stall
by vote ol its executive commit
tee and part of the expense wUl
be met by a grant ol ?3,000
from the national headquarters.
In the intensive registration
period in Georgia in March and
April just prior to the election
there, local registration clinics
were assisted in the amount ol
$2,500.
A staff man will be added to
the South Carolina state organi
zation, according to Rev. J. M.
Hinton, state president, and a
grant of $3,000 will he made by
the national otiice, Mr. Wllkios
said.
The North Carolina program
will be a careful one In Con
gressional districts and will be
imder the direction of Kelly M.
Alexander of Charlotte, state
NAACP president.
“These are purely education
al, non-partisan campaigns, Mr.
Wilkins said, and will feature
the giving of information and
instructions to voters on how to
register. No work will be done
for any political party and the
campaign will be in-the handi
of NAACP members or in non
partisan activity.
“We believe that practical
work must be done to get voters
on the rolls as a matter of good
citizenship and for this rea^n
our state units are translating
tbeir determination into action.
“Our funds for this work are
limited by the demands being
made fbr other aspects of our
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N. C. College Graduates 365
Pumps Slugs Into
Body of Teacher,
Attempts Suicide
WILSON
A few hours after he had
pumped two bullets from a .32
caliber rifle into the body of a
pretty, young Wilson school
teacher here early Saturday
morning, a North Carolina Col
lege graduate studient attempted
to take his own life after he had
been arrested and jailed on a
charge of murder.
Dead is Miss Jean Willett
Bryant, 22, seventh grade tea
cher of the Darden High School,
who .was shot once in the head
and once in the hip.' She had
been employed at the school lor
the past two years.
The student, R^lph Gay, who
being held
ding
bond pcn-
prell4iinary hearing
which, according to Chid of
Police Albert Privett of Wilson,
will probably be waived by his
attorney.
The Carolina Times learned
that Miss Bryant was killed
about two e^eloek Saturday-
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$1500 Scholarship
Given Ligon
High Student
RALEIGH
Ernest Eklward Ratliff, Presi
dent of the Ligon'High School
Student Council and fourth
ranking honor student in the
class of 145, was granted a scho;
larship of $1,550 to Colgate
University in Hamilton, New
York fpr the 1957-88 academic
straight scholarship and four-
hundred fifty dollars ($450) It'
a work scholarship. This scho
larship is renewable. Ratliff has
had a disting^uished high school
career winning many honors
and prizes.
In 1956 he won first prize in
the World Peace Speaking Con-
t6st;’^e~ also’' served -as sports
editor of the Ligon Tatler,.
President of the National Honor
Society and member of the foot
ball team for two years He is
planning to major In English as
a stej^ toward a career in Jour
nalism.
I Lillian Elizabeth Carnage,
valedictorian of the graduating
* class, won a $500 renewable |
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Nearly 5,000 Hear Dr. H. Thurman,
Noted Minister, In Finals Address
Dr. Howard Thurcan warned the graduates to "defy the tra-
James E. Shepard Statue Unveiled
RALPH GAY
The photoa above are those of
Ralph Gay and Mto Jean Wil
lett Bryant, principals in a Wil
son murder and attempted sui
cide last Saturday. Oaj, the
MISS W. BRYANT
slayer, has completed require
ments for a Masters Degree at
N. C. College. Miss Bryant, the
victim, was a teacher in the
Darden High School of Wilson.
Baptist School In Wake Forest To
Admit Negro Students In 1950
CHICAGO, ni.
Racial bars at the Southeast
ern Theological Seminary at
Wake Forest, N. C., came tumb
ling down, although belatedly,
last week in Chicago by action
of the schSOl’s trustees. This
puts the Southeastern Seminary
in line with the other Baptist
ministerial schools that have al
ready integrated.
The change was effected by
the decision of 25 of the Semi
nary’s trustees in a meeting held
to deal with the problem. The
actlSii, talt«H br
vote, provide* that the Wake
Forest Institution open it* door*
in the fall of 1998 to qualified
Negro student*.
utuadnunirr'2-lo-n
Durham,
its own property at the time ot
the admission of Negro students.
Five of the 30 trustee* of the
seminary were not present at
the meeting.
A new chapter was written in
tli9 develppm«it of^ C
lege here Saturday when the
bronze statue of the late Dr.
James E. Shepard, the schools’
founder and first president, was
unveiled. The statue which
stands In the circle in front of
the Administration building of
the college was viewed last
week and this week by thous
ands of visitors and friends uf
the school during the com
mencement program. The at>ove
photo was taken, following the
unveiling. T^ose In the picture
from left to rlgfil ariTJ. T. Tay^
lor, executive secretary of the
James E. Shepard Foundation,
sponsors; William Zorach, sculp-
turer; Dr. G. D. Carnes, who
succeeded Dr. Shepard as
Grandmaster ot Masons of North
Carolina, and Mrs. Carolyn
Smith Green, granddaughter of
Dr. Shepard, who did the un
veiling.
Dr. W. J. Trent Forced
To Give Up Livingstone
Post Due To III Health
North Corolina College gradu
ates here Tuesday that “the in
tegrated order of things to come
will not accept the old alibi of
race" as any explanation for in
dividuals to fail in their life's
ambitions.
“It is significant,” he said,
“that the Southern Association
of Secondary Schools and .Col
leges has abolished the old dis
tinctions of “Negro” schools. In
the very near future all schools
will be expected to meet the
same standards.”
“Competition to meet the
standards of the new day will
not accept race as an excuse tor
failure,” he warned.
Dr. Thurman, tabbed by
“Life” in 1953 as one of the
"top 12 preachers in the United
States,” spoke at NCC Tuesday
on “The Present Criais.” J^ree
hundred and sixty five candl-.
f«tnlli*s and ‘Visitors riearly
filled the ...(tilDOO aeat-capacity
Men’s Gymnasium to hear the
famed cleric.
Sunday’s baccalaureato preach
er was the Reverind E, Deedom
Alston, rector of the Churcti of
Our Merciful Savior of Luuis-
ville, Kentucicy.
The Rev. Mr, Alston advised
dition of ‘odd man out' anil flee
the smothering embracc of con
formity.
He cited Jesus' two auestiOns-
“Whom do men say thnt I am?”
and “Whom do ye say that I
am?” as questions whose an
swers “will make your life.”
The baccalaureate speaker is
an alumnus of North Carolina
College in the class of ‘35.
Among the 369 recipients ot
degrees was Solomon Shannon,
professor of education at Touga-
loo College in Mississippi, who
was grant‘d NCC'p second doc
tor of philosophy degree. Dr.
Walter Brown, placement offi
cer at the college, received the
first Ph.D. at North Carolina
College in 19S5.
In his filial* speech on TuM*
day, Dr. Thurman defined crlal*
as a “condition...growling out ot
tension between tv
o(b^r to ttxpanii, it> develop."
“All growth, he continued, “1*
a re*olving of tensions between
these two things." “To tfie Self,
growing in maturity mean* de
veloping techniques for negoti
ating the expanding time inter
val between wish and fulflll-
nent. '
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LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK
THIS WEEK’S SUBJECT: “Do You Think We Are
Taking As Much Advantage Of The Opportunities Offer
ed In The Business World, As Did Our Fathers And
Grandfathers?”
(a) “Do You Think This City I* Still Recognized As
A Leader In The Negro Business World, Making
Progress Comparable To Other Cities, Such As
Gastonia and Atlanta, Georgia?”
(b) “Do You Think We Might Be Living Off The
Prestige Of The Older GeAeratlon?”
SALISBURY
The educational career of one
of North Carolina's leading per
sonages came to an end here
Tu^day, when Bishop W. J.
Walls, chairman of the Board of
Trustees, Livingstone College,
with tear filled eyes, announced
the resignation of Dr. W. J.
Trent, who has served as presi
dent of the capstone of learning
for the AME Zion Church, at
its 75th commencement cere
monies.
Here Sunday
Rev. S. P.|
Perry, of Rich
mond, Va.,
mer pastor
St Mark
Because the seminary at the
present time 1* holding chapel
service* in the Wake Forest
Baptttt Church which U does
not own, a provision In the form
of a resolution *tipulates that B. B. Felder, pastor, Mr*. E. M.
the school sliall be operating on Ford, Captain.
wi
preach Tueada;
night, Jtme
at Mt. S
Baptist Chi
just acros*
Road from
Merrick Moore
School, Fl*h Dam Road. Rev.
CONGRESSMAN ADAM POWai
SUFFERS MIID HEART AHACK
Bishop Walls told the throng
that gathered at the close of the
Diamond Jubilee celebration
that President Trent, on advice
of his physician and close asso
ciates, had tendered his resigna
tion as the head of the institu
tion that he has served since
1925. 1’he prelate said that the
Boar^ had accepted the man-
. date-reluctantly aad bad npmed
Prof. J. H. Brockett to ierve as
acting president, until Dr.
Trent’s succe**or is named. A
committee was appointed to
seek a person for the Job.
Dr. Trent came to Living
stone in 1925, the fourth presi
dent of the college, and has
made an anviable record. He
came at a time when the school
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NEW YORK
The condition of Representa
tive Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,
was reported as favorable last
Monday at New York Hospital
Cornell Medical Center.
The 48-year-old minister col
lapsed while preaching at his
church, Sunday, at 1:10 P.M., to
2,000 persons attending the ser
vice.
Leaving the church, Absynn-
nian Baptist, the Rev. Mr. Po
well was driven immediately to
tiie hospital. "Exhaustion” and
‘possible heart attack” were
given as the reason for the col-
lapse ■'
Further test* are being con
ducted by the congressman’s
doctor, and no final • statemen*
of the cause of the colUpse will
be made until they are com
pleted.
'Twice before Representative
Powell has had what was
thought to be heart attacks, but
examinations proved the heart
WILLIAM J. STINSON, Manager of Fourteentli Street
Shell Station: “Frankly speaking, we are not doing as
well with what we have as the older generation did. -We
are living on a bed of ease; opportunities are plentiful
from all angles. Not only for the heir who inherits a
fortune, whether largo or small, but for the newcomers
to this town as well; rich or poor, opportunities are here.
One of our faults is that most of us are not staying on the
job as we should and some of our businesses are run
haphazardly.
Now you take cities like Atlanta, the segregation pat
tern is more strictly enforced there, and in order for the
Negro to enjoy the comforts of certain things, they have
to build them. Of course, most any citizein here will
point a finger of pride at the bus company and insurance
company that’s operated here by our people; and they
are something for us to be proud of. They are things
that the older generation started, probably with very
little capital, so every individual has a chance to con
tribute something.”
TOM PERRY, President of Local 248 Transport Work
er, 832 Rich Square: “I do not think we are doing as
well because the people are not cooperating as those
older people did. Most individuals seem to be trying to
live for themselves and to*do anything we must unite.
We seem to think what the older generation did will last
forever; but we, the younger generation will have to
keep the ball rolling in order to keep up with such places
as Gastonia and Atlanta.”
• ilw
CONG. ADAM POWELL
was not involved
Rep. Powell, a -.ard worker,
tias taken part m a number of
public exercises lately and had
complahied of not feeling well,
but attritnited hi* condition to
exhaustion.
AUTHOR C. fiANNER, Assistant Clerk ABC Store
System, 1349 Undei^ood Avenue: “To tell the truth it
really makes me 'atiuunied whenthiidr abotit this
seriously. We are not doing what we should; not with
what we have at our disposal. 1 think some of us might
doing pretty well, but the most of us are sitting back
and brag^ng about what has been accomplished 25 or 30
years ago. We do not expect to keep up with th»e other
cities when we do not have a program to stimulate new
ideals and then cooperate together in carrying them out.
Most of the people who are already in business are not
concerned abput the public for no more than what they
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