Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Priests preached no sermons last Sunday in the Roman Catholic diocese of Raleigh, N.C. Instead, they read a letter from Bishop Vincent S. Waters ending in one stroke all racial segregation in the Catholic churches of his diocese...
...merger was anything but Newton Grove's idea. Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, a Virginian by birth, ordered it in a letter read from the pulpits of both churches on April 19. The tiny farming community has been in an uproar ever since. "Why did the bishop do it?" asked 74-year-old John Monk, nephew and namesake of the founder of Newton Grove's first Catholic church, and plenty of his neighbors agreed with him. They petitioned Bishop Waters, and many of them said they would take their worship elsewhere...
...also a new school of dentistry, a school of nursing, and the hospital is building a 75-bed psychiatric wing. The state, the Federal Government and local communities have cooperated in the building of 71 general hospitals, 35 health centers and 33 nursing homes. At the state capital in Raleigh last week, the North Carolina House of Representatives approved a loan fund of $50,000 a year for medical students and nurses willing to take extra work in psychiatry. The rest of the bargain: borrowers will repay their loans by serving in North Carolina mental hospitals...
...being parties to news suppression. Next day, by voice vote, the North Carolina legislature rammed through a law legalizing closed appropriations-committee hearings. Argued State Representative Oscar G. Barker, onetime Durham Herald staffer: "The law will set democracy back not less than 100 years in North Carolina." Said the Raleigh News & Observer: "This law is designed to serve the darkness. It should have been entitled: An Act to Reiterate the Doctrine 'The Public Be Damned...
Died. Joseph Raleigh Bryson, 60, teetotaling Democratic Representative from South Carolina since 1939, leader of the dry forces in Congress who tried to put the nation on the wagon during World War II; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda...