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Firing Oj Negro Teacher' ln Df&wely Integrated Schools Protested
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Stewart Re elected To Council Seat By 2-1 Margin
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dfTk 6* OFFICE The above
#|Wo was talon during the iwtar
ifnk jn lartmony of the new City
members elected on last '
to*/- 1
IF' '' "* •' S
Incumbent Piles Up Big Lead
jpver Opponent In Election
J6hH fa.' Stewart, President of
lstu*r Savings »nd Loai Associa
ti«j; defeated textile exe
am J. by over a
May 15 t» retain
"post' rwi the Cijjpi,-Council from
ffft MjhljM Ward for the third con
secutive
electcd to the Council in
189Jf* SllWwirt was re-elected in
wMlWat opposition. In the
«W>s election, Stewart polled f>.-
against Lee's 3,095. Al
.tilffliWh had the backing of the
iqMlticaU-y powerful Durham Com
Negro Affairs, Stewart
pftft potted heavy votes in virtually
ail of fWc predominanty '.vhitc pre
'jfit the May 1 primary Stewart,
aljptyi AHth incumbent Mayor
also re-elected in
UcC v M«r election, and political
Jack Preiss, Duk? Un ! -
\krsjty aocioJogiM, came through
v#Uh. bitter total votes than all
tjVir deponents combined. The
NftgiT 'itouncilman's supporters
clpttA.l* ballots for him.
JJffcaifcd by Stewart in the pri
mary wiftte David Stith, lgpal bus ! -
n'css college head, and Lee. Stith
polled votes to Lee's 1,775.
The three-time elected council
jnari sdid in a pre-election an
nouncement that he had been en
couraged by "friends and sup
porters represent ins a lartre cross
section of the commiipitv. includ
ing .many varying intArelrts " It was
unquestionably this hrftnd cross
section of support that returned
h{m to the Council.
"Widely regarded as one of thr
' Sea STEWART Pag* 5-A
St. Mark Honors
Oldest Mother
Of Church
Several events were held at St.
Mark AME Zion Church, Sunday,
May 9, as part of Mother's Day
observances.
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-At the 11 a. m. worship service,
Mrs. Grace Holmes, secretary of
the Women's Home and Foreign
Mission Society, was speaker. Mrs.
Tetsy Sittton, the church's oldest
mother, was honored. Mrs. Min
nie AltfOn and Mrs. Alice Cook
were ahto honored and presented
gifts by l|rs. Hazel CovinTtnn. gen
ial chairman of the- activities.
A b*iby contest was the after
noon frtfturt. On the program was
aVi . adJj&tSs by Mr 3. Willie Brad
gfier. Alt evening program, Mrs.
P. A. Johnson! also a missionary
hade*, Avas speaker.
Saturday. The oath of office was
tiveh by Altcn J. Knight, (left)
~lerk of Durham County Superior
' lourt. Others in the picture from
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DR. KING
Biihop Dunsfon, Dr. J. E. |ing
fo be Livingstone Finals Speakers
SALISBURY— Final plans arc
ready for staging the 83rd annual
Commencement at Livingstone Col
lege May 28 through June Ist. and
every indication points toward a
record-shattering Series of events
in the annual convocation.
Approximately 110 randir'ates
for degrees will be 'treated to four
days of tremendous observances
and rallfes in their honor. The
colorful academic procession fea
turing doctoral go'vns from many
universities and reflecting several
institutions' colors for academic
Babies In the conteit fr* ahawn
above being hald by th* ! r parants
on the front row,, s from laft
r)itV?t " »r* " John 8, Atl4n, 'tWrd
prize * inner; Lst.tia M. Salter
, •' H I
teft to right 4t! John 5. Stewart,
Pawl £lford. Mayor R. W. Ora
bsrrk, Eugene V/. (tarlton, Cha*.
L. Steel Md Jack J. Preiss.
BISHOP DUM .
scholarship will be scpn on Sunday
for the annual Bt&Alaureate Serv
ice at 3 P.M., ajain on Tuesday
at 10 A.M. lor the dedication of
the new Walls' Center of the Hood
Theological Seminary, and finally
at 2 P.M. on the rfame day for
the final commencement service
when degress will be awarded.
Bishop Alfred G. Dunston, Jr.,
supervisor of the Twelfth Epis
copal area of the A- M. E. Zion
Church which includes Nigeria,
West Africa, will deliver the an
Se* LIVINGSTONE Pr-,e 5-A
f|»Jd , first prfce winner aiv'j
Milter, wand pri*a win
ner. fin b>ck r«w, left to rlgHt.
Sharrla Barbae. "
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VOLUME 42 - N0719 DURHAM, N. C.-SATURPAY, MAY 22, IHS ~ " PRICETIS Cent.
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE
Law School Dean Sues Eckerds
Drug Store For -$150,000.00
Says Death of
Wife Caused by
Wrong Medicine
Dr Albert* Turner, Dean of the
North Carolina College School of
Law, filed a §150,000 suit in Su
perior Court Weclnscday against
ickerd's Drugs, Inc., and a phar
macist, F. W. Lynch, for the al
leged wrongful death of his wife.
According to the suit, on Jan.
4 Mrs. Dssa Clements Turner sent
a prescription written by a phy
sician to the Eekerd's store in For
est Hills Shopping Center where
Lynch was pharmacist. Instead of
the medicine prescribed for a
sick stomach, the suit alleges, the
pharmacist prepared another medi
cine tabled "for sick stomach."
The suit continue to state that
on Jan. 4 Mrs. Turner took sever
al doses of the medicine recieved
from the store, beliving it was the
medicine prescribed. The prepa.
ration she recieved , according to
the suit, "was not only unsuitable
for the curing of Mrs. Turner's
malady, but was destructive and
rMngerous to her health and life,
and was the approximate cause of
her prolonged illness and subse
quent death on March 16."
15-YEAR-OLI) BOY
HELD FOR SETTING
FIRE TO SCHOOL
GOLDSBORO A 15-ycarold
boy, who told police "I want to
go back to training school so I
can get something to eat and a
place to sleep," was charged with
,rson in the $300,000 weekend fire
it the School Street Elementary
School.
The youth was picked up by
Goldsboro authorities. In an oral
report Police Chief H. A. Lane
quoted the youth as saying he was
mad at a teacher at West Elm
•lunior High School. The accused
Is enrolled in the school.
See ARSON P»ge 5-A
ire Hlliry Sherrlll, Alicia R. D»n
. >»*. Jennifer F. Perry, Loeiou*
Lester 111, and Gregory McNeil.
Not *hown are Gregory Woodi and
CR COMMISSION
BACKS FEDERAL
VOTE MEASURE
WASH.. D. C.—The U. $. Com
mission on Civil Rights, today re
commended that new Federal vot
ing legislature include provisions
abolishing literacy tests in »ny
form and eliminating the pole txx.
The Commission urged assignment
of Federal poll watchers and di
rect registration of apjrticpnfs by
Federal examiners in areas, where
such examiners have befen ap
pointed 1
In its 74-page report "VOTING
IN MISSISSIPPI, released receritly
the Commission also recommended
that the President explore use 6$
the resources of Federal
to encourage registration and, v'4t->
ing. The Commission propose*
that Federal facilities and ( personal
ncl bo utilized to improv* the dirf'
S«a COMMISSION Pa« 4 S-'A V
Protection of Negro Teacher In Integrated Schools
Is Discussed at ICCR Meeting In Washington
"FREEDOM
UNION BAI'IST IHURtftf Jss« MAY 23
i '■ ' >. 4Sri
T"he Durham NAAIU*. 1
wiH hold ai'Freedom Stlnd:ȣ.' xh->
servance at Union Baptist Church
celebrating the llth inmivejfsary
of the Supreme C)iirt decfstoh; w
May 17, 1954, Sunday, May ft fit
3 p.m.
Speaker on the program, com
memorating the Court's '■ ruling
which stated "that in the field o'
public education the doctr'ne of
•separate but equal' has no place',
will be the Rev. Dr. Edwar 1 .1
Odom, church secretary of tlv
NAACP.
Re v. Odom maintains lbison
contact between the association
and religious groups throughout
the courftpy. He interprets the
NAACP to these groups and seeks
to enlist their cooperation in the
NAACP's projects for the Improve
ment of interracial relations.
Rev. Qd4m completed his col
lege wOrk at Morris Brown Col
lege and holds graduate degrees
from YaJe University Divinity
School and Columbia University.
From My IB he was minister of
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich,
Conn. t»Mhg the last year of his
pastorate Ke was president of the
loc'hl bra#M!h of the NAACP.
From I*4B-51 he was member
of the faulty at Wilberforce Uni-
Rof Wilkins to Receive Eight
Horary Decrees This Summer
NEW YORK—Roy Wilkins, exe
cutive director of thf National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, will deliver
the commencement address at lons
College, N'cw Rochclle. N. Y.. on
June 5 at which time the college
will confer an honorary degree
upon him..
By the end of the commence*
mrr>t sea°on, Wilkins wl'l h*v
■dd n d e'?ht honorary dccr-v\« to
his growing list. On .Aprl 24. ORV
•ind Uriivfr'siiJ', RoChcstftf," Midi.'.
canTerrcd the Doctor of taws de
m
l ■ . JMto
■ > z '\ ~ V T "WT •
v VNOtfUWOOD
The etova tyio memfcers of tke
North Carolina ColUgt faculty are
recipients Founda
«bn HjJ itudy at Wesleyan
University fM| »ummer. On the
le«t,k Gef«\i*£Underwood and on
fwst j»f minist»'»
• m-.t instructor at Payne 'Theologi
arfd afterward as
) Te-ajijOf (rfpeteftts. Rev. Odoni is also
i a UmjlM ant'
t minisfyfr »-at M»rri.s B.rpwr
a 'former dean of
Tiif n e r Theological Seminary
! \vWoh'.'.'.i* ' yth.. the col-
it* FRIffOOM DAY P««« 2-A
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10 JAILED IN CONN.
IN UNITED
PARCEL PROTEST
HAJtTFORD, Conn. Ten per
sons who Arrested during a
demonstration protesting the (lis
criminajofy hiring policies of the
tfnlfcedPsrrcet jprvice y*te **-
rjigned in Criminal Court here
last Monday, May 17. The hearing
was contMiued until May 28. All
are free on SSO bail.
The ten, officials and members
ot the National Association for
the Advancemolft of Colored Peo
ple, the North End Community
Action Project (NECAP) and the
Cohnecticjit . Rate and Religion
Action Commission (CRRAC)- were
arrested Friday, May 14.
3rec upon the ftfAACP loader
In addition to lona College,
■lhdr institution-! scheduled to
jive hiin *an hoporary degree are
\tlanta l)n ; varsity. Atlanta. May
11; Howard Unjinpity, Washing-
June'♦;•. Notre Dome tiniver-
Jty, Nott;c ln)„ June 6;
jwarthmorc XoHcac. Swaithmore,
?a.\ June Aljinhatt.in College,
lev. York ,City.. June 8: and M d
'lebtrry (jollsjc'f Sflfylle.fiurv, Vs..
Jane ll. 1 1 '
I
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NIXON
th# right George Nixon. Both are
iftaduate* of NCC and instructors
of social science. Nixon is a form
er national president of the Nort'h
Carolina College Alumni Associa
tion.
WASHINGTON A resolution
teachers inj schoo'l systems newly
integrated finder the Civil liights
Act of 19(54 was adopted thjs week
jy persons attending a regional
iV'i'tinS called the Ij'adorshio
I '(inference on Civil H'ghts. The
.jrieeting was htlj in the Sheraton
'ark Hotel.
> fThc resolution was a response to
•lersonal experiences related to the
meeting bv two parl'cioants. W.
'lister Hanks. Executive Se'.T'tarv,
Vlrgin'a State Conference NAACP,
»nd Dr. J. Ruppert Picott,
live Secretary of the Virginia
Teachers Association and presi
dent of the American Teachers As
sociation.
The incidents they described
were actions taken by schools di
visions in Wise and Giles counties.
However those attending from
oth e r states said a pattern
•similar to the one existing in Vir
ginia had manifested itself
fn their states.
The resoliit'on e\nress'.'l the
See TEACHERS Page 5-A
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MISS WItHTMENIA REUBEN,
d?«Wit»r of Dr. »nri Mrs. O. R.
Reuben of MerrN Col'etn In Sum
t'er, S. C., bus t>»*n nrm»d v're
p'es'd»nt ef the Duke Univ«-'.»r
YWCA for the 1?fl5-6o school
yezr.
.•)?? Cftry r"7? "')
1200 Volunteers
Recruited For
Vote Campaign
NEW YOKK— More than 200 ap
plications have In-en received tor
the NAACP summer project in
t+\ree southern states, Gloster 15.
Current, the Association's direc
tor of branches and field adminis-
tration, has announced.
The Association is recruiting
young people to spend eight weeks
this summer in Alabama, Missis
sippi and South Carolina assisting
local NAACP units in stepped-up
voter registration drives and in
other civil rights projects such as
tutorial work and school desegre
gation. The NAACP is seckin?
800 to 1.200 volunteers to partici-
pate in the program.
According to Miss Althea T. L
Simmons, coordinator of the sum
iner program, applications have
been received from Alaska, Ha
waii and Canada as well as from
the West Coast. Midwest and the
East. NAACI' branches in the non
■wtrtiern states have beon spon
soring task loree volunteers to
send to particular branches in Al
abama and Mississippi.
In South Carolina. 1 000 mem
bers of NAACP youth groups
have pledged to conduct a door-to
door voter registration campaign
in cooperation with the task force
volunteers. I. DeQuincey Newman
NAACP field director for South
Carolina, will be in charge of the
project in that state which gets
under way on June 7.
Administrative offices for the
summer project will be set up in
Jackson, Miss.; Birmingham. Ala.;
and, Columbia. S.'C.. In Alabama,
arej> offices will be established in
Anniston, 1-luntsviUe, Mobile,
■ Montgomery, Sheffield. Tuscalop
-1 sa anil Tuskegee. The project will
! in that state. June 21. The
| Alabama project '.vill be under
| direction of W. C. Patton. NA ACP
Set VOLUNTEERS Pag* 5-A
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NEWMAN
Allen U. Grads
To Hear Cecil
Newman May 24
COI.LaIISIA, —According to Pres
ident Howard K. Wright, Cecil B.
Newman, outstanding newspaper
personality and civic leader, will
deliver the Commencement ad
dress at Allen University. May 24,
2 P. M.
Mr. Newman was educated in
the public schools of Kansas City
and was later married to Launy
Quincy. Me is the father of one
soli, Oscar H., editor of the Twin
Cit Herald, Minneapolis, Minn.
Newman is presently, the edi
tor-publisher of the Minneapolis
Spokesman and the St. Paul Re
corder.
Other portions: board member,
! Minneapolis NAACP; United Na
' tion Organization: Hennepin Coqn
ty Health Ass'n; Phyllis Whcatly
Settlement House; M'nnesofa
'>imeil fir Civil and Human
!Vnb?-. M'nneapoli? Boys Club;
an Town Hell:
•3 —trr Minneapolis lnt'.'rfaith
»jv "■**">'tt."v u n r '"-*Ti
'j-'drd m»mh"r Minneapolis Urban
' T,e>)C!>r: r»Mnb«r. Governor's Hu
-vi ni-hts C"m'i»'«sion: trustee,
Minrnrp'n I'f'td NofJTO Co')"Te
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