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| Thomas Elkins, Jr., was to be tried on November 13th for the aleged rape of a 23 year old Negro houswife who was babysitting his children. The woman testified that, after babysitting, Elkins drove her to the University of Virginia campus and assaulted her instead of taking her home. | ||
| Reports that the Star City Council of Garden Clubs held a flower show on October 19th. The theme of the garden gala was "The Wedding."The article has a complete listing of the clubs officers and memebers. | ||
| Reports that the Virginia Medical Society "loosened its color line slightly" by unanimously adopting a resolution that allowed Negro doctors to attend its "scientific sessions...when held at a location permitting the attendance of mixed racial groups." | ||
| This short article reports that a middle district federal court upheld the right of North Carolina University law school to restrict its enrollment to whites only. Four students filed suit against the University. | ||
| A letter to the editor concerning one of the cover stories in the September 29th issue. The reader rebutts the Tribunes comment that both Egypt and Israel "were sold on the folly of fighting it out." The author claims that Egypt "and the other Arab countries," were the ones to blame for the "full blown war." | ||
| Reports that Dr. Elizabeth Durham was denied a fair civil trial because there were no Negroes on her jury. In fact the Chancey Court in Roanoke never allowed Negroes on its jury and Dr. Durham's lawyer called the whole process "prejudicial." | ||
| Reverend H.H.Waid, the pastor at Roanoke Virginia's Central Baptist Church, was given a $500 stipend as well as several personal gifts on the 11th anniversary of his pastorship. Reverend F.E. Alexander was scheduled to minister to his congregation while Rev. Waid was absent. | ||
| This article is a part of the continuing coverage of a Martinsville rape case. Vernon Frith was arrested on September 8, 1950 for the assault of a Negro housewife. His legal representatives were W.R.Broaddus, Jr., and Will Joyce attorneys at law. | ||
| A letter to the Charlottesville public concerned with giving advice on how to organize community action. The author takes the chest x-ray campaign to prevent TB as an example.The author goes on to detail the organized and systematic way that the x-ray committee went about educating the public to make their work a success. | ||
| Rev. T.B. Wright, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Kingstown, Virginia, visited Polaski and Petersburg, Va. to jold two five night revivals in which he "converted" 75 people, sixty of whom were adults. | ||
| This short announcement reports the newly appointed members of the Minister's Wives Alliance, based in Roanoke Virignia. Ms. D.W. Heath was elected president for the 1950-1951 term. | ||
| Reports that Revrend R.B Evans formerly of a church in Ohio is taking over the pastorship at the Charlottesville Church of God in Christ. The Revrend moved with his wife and eight children to a house on Henry Avenue. | ||
| This column which usually appears on the editorial page as a small news commentary, highlights several of the day's top issues in a large column on the fromt page. The notes include commentary on the national ambitions of the NAACP, the importance of local activism, various pieces of local news. | ||
| In this article, the author asserts that it is not ingrattitude that persuades the Negro to vote democratic, but his knowlege that a vote cast for a democrat id "his first step toward first-class citizenship." The author goes on to note the many small progresses of the Negro since F.D.Roosevelt took office and concludes by stating that "if the Negro today is obligated to any political party, it is the Democratic Party." | ||
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