UMIVERSITY UBRARY WHITE HOSPITAL REFUSES phi^VwlueinBeB^ VOLUME 36—No. 2S DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1960 Return PesUgi GuarantcMi PRICE: IS CENTS U. S. AMBASSADOR RECEIViS BEAUTICIANS — Vliillna U. S. Amb«(Mdor J^n H. Whitney in th* London 'Ci«haMy R«c«nt- ly war* 4/ memb*riy.of th« United Beeuty School owner* •nd Teeehert Attociatien, A Na* tionai, organioation «f Negro ikttuty. OiMrators and Instruc- tori Headquartered in Chicago. Tmlve countries in Europe and the Middle East were vitited by Association members to learn tho habits and customs of For-, eign Beauticians. Standing next to Antbassador Whitney is Mrs. Margaret S. Joyner,. natiiMSI supervisor. Mrs. EariieS Qrandy, of Durham N. C„ w>|* one .of the 47 beauticians making the tour. YOUTH if ic ir if it See Cotmiiiis 7 attd 8 Civil Rights Marchers To Walk On GOP, Demo Conventions IN MEBANE Half Millioj^ Dollar School Is Dedicated GRAHAM K eieremony Junn 5 launching a tie# consolidated Central High School just outside Graham was attend ed by more than 300 people. Considerable progress has al ready been made on the school which will cost $673,000. N. L. Gre^g. Greensboro district manager of the North Carolina Mutual lilc Insurance Company was guest spealcer. He was intro duced by J. K. Malone, Chairman of the Citizen.^ Committee. J. W. Jeffries, vice-chairman pt the com- mitee presided over the occasion. O^her program participants w e i‘ e highranicing sophomores Willie McBroom of Pleasant Grove and John Thompson of Graham; the Garham Glee Club under the dhreetion of Mrs. Alice Foye and the Pleasant Grove Union Glee Club under the direction of Mrs. Anna Ingram. The sixteen-membec Citizens Committee which successfully ne gotiated with the County Board pt Education for the new school included, in addition to Messrs. Malone and Jeffries, Francis Pacic- ingham, Marie E. Foreist, McAllis ter Everett, Lawrence Cranpton, Henry Jones, the late John Love, Tom Anders^on, Wiley Swann, Dave Carr, Thomas Enoch, Ray mond Leath, Ralph Coble, and Leon Ratliff. ADVERTISERS OF THE WEEK Tho 'firms listeii below are your friends and thty apprMlate your trade: Alexander Ford AAR Markets Biltmore Hotel A Orill Boone Drug Co. Colonial Stores Durham Builders Supply C«. Praxler Realty Ce. One Hour Martlniiinf Kenan Oil Co. Hunt Linoleum 4 Tile C*. Liberty Market Mutual Savings ft Leah Ass'n McGh^ Coal Co. Midas Muffler Co. Mechanics A Farmers Bank New Method Laundry North Carolina Mutual Life ins. Company Rigsbee Tire Sales Southern Fidelity Mutual Ins. Ce Service Grill Speight's Auto Service Union Electric So. Union Insurance ft Realty Co. Winn-Diitie Stores Kroger Co. * Th* Wee Shop White Youth Draws 6^ Years For Rape Attempt on I I^Year-Old RrV. STEWART . Moderator lEWHOPi:; ' ■ \ f t> HALIFAX A 17 yer.r old white yotth was given a .six to eight yediy prison sentence here Monday after fading ^lty’ l» attempted wipe year ol ' Jamies Illgjit'^ Joynir drew the sentence fMfli Superior Couh judge ‘H. Hoyle Sink MolMay. He was. given th^ sentorici; after his attprneys interuppcd the ttial to change the plea. Jpyner had enter*4-1 pka-of not fuilty. But after the stiit* presented its ease, Willi*«i RMs- 36-Church Baptist Association To Convene in Durham The 90th annual session of the New Hope Baptist Association will meet in Durham next week at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Announcement of the conven tion in Durham was made this week by the Rev. James A. Stew art, moderator of the association. Some 36 Baptist chur'ches from four countries will send dele gates to the convention. New Hope embraces Wake, Oran^ie, Durham and Chatham counties. The' convention will open Mon day, June 27 and continue through Thursday, June 30, All' sessions of the meeting will be held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church at 2215 Fayetteville road. The Rev. William H. Fuller is host pastor. Taking part in the conv«ntion proceedings will be the Asso ciation's three ma|er auxiliaries. The Sunday School, the Baptist Training Union and the Wom en's Missionary Auxiliary will conduct their annual ineetings ' at the convention. The opening program, Monday night, will consist of welcomes from various civics, religious, business and community organiza tions to the convention. Business meetings will be conducted on Tuesday morning. The Rev, Stewart will be heard In the moderator's annual' ad dress at this session at 10 o'clock. The Baptist Training Union will hold its first session on Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock. On Wed nesday morning the Sunday School convention will be in charge. The BTU will reconvene on Wednesday afternoon. Its session will be followed Wednesday night by the Sunday School convention. Thursday, final day of the con vention, will be devoted to the Women’s Missionary Auxiliary, Rrst l^legro Firm Opens On Wall Street NE\ir YORK This week mark ed the opening of H, L. Wright & Company, Inc. at 09 Wall Street, the first Negro-owned brokerage firm with offices oh the street in ternationally i famous as the heart of the financial district. The company, headed by Harry L. Wright, was chartered by New York Shete In January, registered by the Federal Se curities Exchange Commission in February as a broker-dealer to engage in a general Invest ment business, and has obtain ed membership with fhe Nation al Association of Securities Deal ers, Inc. The firm’s operations will be directed toward Uie development of a substantial wholesale iMuid business with insurance com panies and other institutions own ed and operated by Negroes and will also engage in the retailing of select issues and the under writing of securities. In its underwriting activities, the company plans to devote the major portion of Its efforts in spearheedin^ pi;ivate American Investments In undefdeveloped countries, particularly the newly See FIRST, 6-A or, iiii attorney, had^^e plea ehargn«^ tlit guilty. Wttn^es for the state, jnclud- Ittg t|'e girl, tqld of how. the *at* tack |Kai ir(iide upOn bw,on May tsien- view Wttion; ' The, sto^ was corroHrated by the firl’s mother and two’ others. Defflnstrations To Sir^s Need For Strong Stand NEW YORK — All presidential candidates. were informed Thurs day .that Negfoes and whites will march fn ii massive demonslration around the Democratic and Re publican Party Convention de manding ,a clear stand on Civil Rights, A. Phii^ Randolph, president of fhe ^Wherhood of Sleeping Car PoP^^ AFL-CIO, and the Rev. M^jBiv^^uther King, Jr,, president ^ me Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference, an nounced that the demonstrators will demand that both parties and all candidates repudiate segrega tionists within their ranks or any political !klliances with segrega tionists. In a pr^ conference, Randolph and Kif^ announced that during their many travels across the country, numerous inquiries were made of them concerning the equivocation of both parties on the issue of Civil Rights. In response to tjfose repeated demands that somelniing be done this elwtion year to get the politic^ parl'ies to recognize that the Negro people want free dom new, they had wired promi- • nent community leaders, Negro end white, in Los Angeles aitd Chicago, asking their coopera tion in the or^gnization of a "maro* .om -THi coiiym- tlONS-MOVEMkNT FOR FREE- “ OOM NOW " PRINCIPALS IN TESTIMONIAL —As a prelude to the 6pe»ing of the annual North Carolina Corvterence of the Methodist Church meeting in DuriiM this week, local citizens gave a tri bute to the Rev. Douglas Moore, pa«t«r of the conference's host church Asbury Temple Tuesday liil^t. Mere, tho Rev. and Mrs. Moore are shown with BiiAep Edgar A. Love and Ross Townes, of Asbury Temple, at tiiey ar^ rived at tiie church Tuesday night for tt>e affair. See iMARCHERS, 6 A Rev. Moore Paid Tribute on Eve Of Methodist Cmference Opening Delega^s from approximately 100 Methodist Churches in the North Cardina Conference of the Central Jurisdiction began: iirriv- ing in Durham Wednesday for the annual conference. The conference opened Wednes- dM ^tei^oa r^s- A.MPnE, Church for the'*"6'p«iirig afterAoon session, y ' , , Scene of th^ four day eonfer^ei is St. Joseph’s, instead of Asbury Temple, as had been previously Itniiounced. A highlight of the conference was to be the celebration of hoAy communion by the Rev. Edgar A. Love, presidiD^Jt|»hop of tb« lialtimoBjp^^^j^'^^^^r^e Bia|to'0 Love arrived In Durham fUesday night to take put A a ^ti|tl|moniat service for the Rev. E. Moore, pastw of host Asbury Temple, Moore, who is leaving for a mission post in the Belgian Cod- See METHODIST, 6-A Hospital Admits ''Error;'^ Youth bies From Fractured Skull PLANNING ST. JOHN'S DAY— order, are Benjamin F. Smith, the program for S;. John's Day celebretlon in Durham Sunday are, left to right, seated, wo»»filp- ful master Otis Thorpe, co-chair man J. W. Barnes, co-chairman William Fitzgerald, and C. H. Evans. Standing, in the seme order ,are Benjamin F. Snillh, Thomas Hollard, Jesse Boyd and Frank Adams. DR. PAYNE HILLSBORO MAN TOGETlVi.D.FROM BELGIAN SCHOOL HILLSBORO — Dr. S. C, Payne and family, of Hillsboro, are pt'e- paring for a return trip to Bel gium July 1st, He is to receive his degree in medicine from the University of IfOuvan, Belgium, Dr. Payne is residing in Detroit, Michigan, and has been interning there at Woman’s Hospital, He attended Virginia State Col lege, University of nilnois and the University of Louvan, Bel gium. He is married to the former Miss Jean Allen of Winston-Sal em. They have four children. Je#- ry, eDan, David and Philip. Two Groups of Durhamites Will Attend National NAACP Meeting Two delegations of Durhamites arc scheduled to leave the city this week for the national NAACP convention in St. Paul Minnesota. The convention, 51st in thi or ganization’s history, opens on June 21 and continute.- through June 26. Sixteen youngsters, from three youth chapters in the city, are to leave by bus Friday night. They are representatives of chapters at Durham ,Business College, North Carolina College and the city youth chapter. The students will be accompa nied by Misses Juanita Crowe, Dorothy Waller and Mrs, Melvin C, Swann. I, O, Funderburg, treasurer of the Durham chapter, is the adult organization’s official delegate. Other adults expected to attend are attorneys W. A, Marsh. F, B. McKissick, C. O. Pearson, chair man of the state NAACP legal redress committee, and the Rev, W, H,^ Fuller, president of the Durham chapter. NCC SUMMER ENROLLMENT OVER 1,200 MARK More than 1200 students enroll ed for summer work at North Carolina College- ttsis week. This exceeds the 19S9 merk of 1123. Summer School Director J, H. Taylor said Wedn^Sday,'“The prin cipals' workshop will bring us about 38 persons," NCC officials indicated the possibility Utat "about 1,300" students would bo onrolled b^ fore the endi of all classes on August 6. In session at NCC now are .the six week workshop session, the regular nine week academic term, and these speeia} workshops Alco holic Education, June 10-20: Au dio-Visual Education. June BJuly 17; Counseling and Guidam»r June 13-July 22: Reading Clinic, June See NCC, 9-A SMALL CHARLOTTE — A 18 year old Negro yooth badly hurt in a]^ automobile accident died at a Ne gro hospital after he had been re fused treatment a few hours ewli- er at a white hospital here. Jimmy Small, of Gastonia, was taken to the all-white Memorial ho^ital here Monday after suf fering severe injuries in an ac- VICE CMmMANDER — Dr. Ben jamin F. Smith, commaiKler ol tile' WoaveivMeLMn Foot No. 17S of Di^am also a member of the faculty Of North Carolina Coilese, was ooe of six North Carolina Department vica com manders installed in special American Lagien intfellation Mremoniee, hoM ifi Charletteu N. e. on Sunday. Juna IMi IMO. Smith was wnanimousty electe*! commandar •( Divkian Six (Na> gr# Division of tiw American Lotion in North Caralina), at tha North CaralfaM De^i Imewt Convention which was h«td in Aslwville, M. C. May «2-24 im cident. Hospftal authorities there re fused admission and the youtb was transferred to the all - Negro Mercy Douglas hospital where he died. Officials of Charlatia Memori al Tuesday admitted ttiat an "error" was mada in refusing treatment to Snail. Small was injured Monday in aa accident at Gastonia which took two other lives. He sustained pos sible skull fracture and a broken leg. He was examined' a* Gastonia hospital then entered rushed ta Charlotte (pr traatment by a kirein speciaKct. At Charhatta Memorial he waa anierad re moved without trealmspt to the Negro hospital, Mwrcy Douglas. He dM tliere shortly afterwards Officials of Charlotte Memorial explained Tuesday tiiat the hoa- pital’s policy is to treat ati critical ly injured persons. It was admitt ed that the employee who order ed Small removed was in errwr. The position and name of the employee who made the “enroc“ was not avaUabk. TIMES PUBUSHER SLATES SPEECHES IN NEW ENGLAND L. C. Austin. PuMlsher aC Tba Caroltna Times, win deliver two addresses Sunday, June IB, udi a third, June 22. Oa Sunday at ll.flB AM Wt. Austin will deliver the Mn’s Dty Address at the SL Jetai's gational Church la Massachusetts. Sund^ ewwlag 7:») he wiU driver the See SPBAim^ fjA: Buy From The CAROLINA TIMES Advertisers... They Value Your W

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