Doctor of the Year Named by North State Medical Society
Dr. Edson E. Blackman of Charlotte was named Old North State Medical Society's doctor of the year at the Negro medical society convention in Greensboro. A 1917 Meharry Medical College graduate, he has practiced over four decades, formerly in Raleigh, and is a Barbados native.
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Greensboro
Edson E. Blackman
Charlotte
Old North State Medical Society
Negro Medical Society
Blackman
Meharry Medical College
Nashville
Tenn
Raleigh
Barbados
British West Indies
Charlotte Medical Society
R. Stillman Smith
Macon
National Medical Assn
Ex-Convict Charged With Murder in Powers Slaying
Fur man Andrew Ricks also known as James Jones, 34, charged with murder in Deputy Sheriff J. L. Powers’s death in Lee County North Carolina. Ricks wounded in a posse shooting and hospitalized at Central Prison Raleigh. Powers and officers were checking a woods area for a suspected man accused of stealing food.
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Ton
Raleigh
Powers
Here
North Carolina School Bus Drivers Vie For Scholarships
Sixty top state bus drivers travel to Chapel Hill to compete for 1400 in scholarships on UNC campus. The event ends after elimination rounds across 30 districts with a boy and a girl from each district. State finals include a written test and driving, with 100 scholarships already earned by each finalist and 500 extra for state champions.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina
Blue Fingers Convict Youth in Pool Locker Theft
In Asheville North Carolina Danny Earl Gross sixteen admitted in police court that he stole a dollar from a wallet in Recreation Park locker room on June first. He claimed the bill turned his fingers blue. Detectives testified wallets were pilfered and described a blue powder test. He was charged with larceny and to be sentenced by Judge Sam M. Cathey.
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Asheville, N.C
Danny Earl Gross
Recreation Park
Danny
H. F. Holland
Sam M. Cathey
Degree of Training for Gifted Children Emphasized
Dr Thelma Gwinn Thurstone told a UNC School Week program that each child deserves a degree of training matched to ability and level. She added gifted education means higher level work but not necessarily superior overall education for the gifted. NC administrators and teachers attend the three day program ending today after Dr Robert Havinghurst spoke.
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Chapel Hill, N.C
Thelma’ Gwinn Thurstone
University of North Carolina
Thurstone
UNC School of Education
North Carolina
Robert J. Havinghurst
University of Chicago
Dismissed Minister Stricken After Pulpit Disorder
In Columbus Georgia Rev Robert B McNeil a 44 year old Presbyterian minister who was dismissed from his pulpit after months of racial tensions collapsed with a heart attack Doctors said the attack followed days of pressure from the dispute McNeil had written an article calling for creative contact between readers of different races to ease southern racial tensions The church First Presbyterian faced internal dissension over his views and he was dismissed last Sunday
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Columbus, Ga
Robert B. McNeil
First Presbyterian Church
McNeil
Negro Educator Applauded at Flint Dye High School
Dr. Alvin Loving, a University of Michigan Flint faculty member, received a standing ovation after being invited to speak at Flint Dye High School graduation following a racial controversy. The valedictorian abandoned her speech in tears to praise seniors for their stance as 61 graduates listened.
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Flint, Mich
Alvin Loving
Loving
University of Michigan
Flint
Flint Dye
Sealed Report From Grand Jury on TV Quiz Shows
New York General Sessions Court sealed the grand jury presentment after nine months of inquiry into television quiz shows. Judge Mitchell D. Schweitzer kept the report impounded, allowing until June 26 for arguments on acceptance. No shows named.
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New York
General Sessions
Mitchell D. Schweitzer
Louis M. Hacker
Schweitzer
Hacker
School of General Studies
Columbia University
County of
District Attorney’s Office
Ten Year Old Girl Killed In Auto Crash Near Kings Mountain
Patricia Ann Carpenter, 10, died after being struck by Marie Sumter Davis, 18, of Columbia, S C, while returning from a store with her brother. Davis faces a manslaughter charge with $1000 bail set for a July 10 preliminary hearing in Recorder's Court.
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Shelby
N.C
Marie Sumter Davis
Columbia
S.C
D. R. McKinney
Patricia Ann Carpenter
Milo Carpenter
Kings Mountain
Billy
McKinney
Steel Wage Freeze Fight Deepens in U.S. Steel Talks
The United Steelworkers and industry remain deadlocked less than three weeks from a strike deadline. Industry offers eight contract changes to raise efficiency while USW rejects as industrial blackmail. If no deal by June 30, 500,000 workers could walk out. Current wages average $3.03 an hour.
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New York
United Steelworkers of America
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Three Children Die In Fire In North Dakota Trailer Park
In Ray North Dakota three children Rodney Brenden five Debra three and Larry Dean Slater five burned to death in a metal incinerator used as a refuse burner near a trailer court. Sheriff Leroy Lutz said investigators believe the blaze started from sparks or embers after possibly a fire set with matches. The incinerator stands about 12 feet high and three feet in diameter and was located a half block from the nearest trailer. The children were missed around 10 30 a m and found about an hour later on a windy day. Parents of the dead children reside in the trailer park.
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Ray
N. D
Rodney Brenden
Debra
Larry Dean Slater
Leroy Lutz
Lutz
Itch Me Not Ad Promises Quick Relief at Cecil's Dry Store
An old ad touts ITCH-ME-NOT for instant drying and relief from eczema ring worm insect bites and surface rashes. The product is advertised as usable day or night and is available at Cecil's Dry Store and Thomasville Drug.
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Cecil's
Thomasville Drug
Flint suburb cancels speaker over race after citizen protest
The school board in the all white Flint Town suburb rescinds an appearance by Loving after citizens objected to him as a Negro speaker. Trustee Glen Hutchins notes the motive as racial bias influencing the decision.
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Loving
Glen Hutchins
Flint
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