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PAGE TWO Threatening: Calls (CONTINUED FROM FACE It The incident, according to state ment? made bv Peebles, grew out of s wreck Saturday in front of Weinstein's Grocery involving Wil liam Campbell, 2203 Everett Av enue, colored, and Mrs H. .1 Weiller, 2721 Dorchester Street, white. Campbell reportedly was backing out of a driveway in an effort to turn his car around when the collision occurred. Peebles said he and two other men, who were sitting on a nearby poreh, went to the scene of the ac rident. Three white men came up and W F. Hagwood, 43 white, of 3151 Stanhope Ave., who was al legedly ‘painfully beaten" advised the woman to notify the police Mrs Weiller, claiming that *be wa« already late for an appointment at the Raleigh Durham Airport, sought to ex change. addresses and telephone numbers with Campbell so that the matter might be straight nied out later Peebles said that as the woman attempted to hand Campbell a pencil and some paper on which to write, Hagwood again insisted that "*he law” he called in. At this point an unidentified rare man is reported to have told Hagwood to “keep your nose out of this.’’ The white man allegedly reached in his pocket and said 'l'ii cut your head off,' The colored man reportedly looked in some bushes and found a bottle. Follow ing another exchange of words the crowd, which had gathered by this time left the scene, Hagwood go ing into Weinstein's Grocery and th« two other white men taking refuge in Hagwood'? car in from of the store Five minute? later the action is said in have gotten underway a gsin Hagwood came io the front door of the grocery store and yelled, "You black s-o-b. If you want, to fight come nrj over here." These remarks were directed at the man who had advised Hag wood to ?tay out of the incident. The two men advanced on each other A fight ensued in which rocks were 'flying around like raindrops ' Hagwood is raid to have taken refuge behind a door of his car until the rocks stopped flying, ''.-hen he is reported to have started running south on Oberlin Road. He was allegedly caught, held down by his hand? and knees and beaten by Robert Lewis of 6i& Oberlin Road Lewis has been charged with as sault v-iih a deadly weapon and damage lo property A man believed to have been TV, D. Doyle, white, who was ons of the occupants of the Hagwoou auto said, according to Peebles, *TII kill all of these black s-o-t s. ' He alighted from the car as Pee bles ''•-'as standing on the sidewalk' and appeared to be advancing c-n Peebles >n s menacing manner with a knife in hand. Peebles pick ed up a rock instead of a gun a,-, has been reported, and made his would-be assailant throw the knife back into the car He then -reached into the vehicle and took" the knife Peebles, a vpt« an of ? t-2 years in the U. S Navy during World War 11. ?v.v he went home. When he returned minutes late- the po lice hadjurh-'ed and he was earned to jail and booked. The first telephone calls threatening Peebles, were re ceived at the home of his bro ther. Nelson Peebles, who also lives on Oberlin Road as How s r d does not have a telephone. A man, posing as a lawyer, asked (he address of Howard and after receiving this inform ation, informed Nelson's teen age daughter that he was fi ». l.ng to heat her uncle when hr a sain met him In the street Two other calls were also made *o the residence during the da v. On Tuesday, while Howard was ar work, an unidentified man is said to have crime to the residence looking for him. Mrs Peebles, who was sitting on the porch informed the man that her husband was not in She said that she looked at him for a iong time and he inquired why she was staring. The wo man informed her visitor that she wanted to be sure that she would remember hint if she ever saw his face again The Identity of the man is still a mystery. Two of the a itnesves h> ii,e accident last Saturday arc al leged to have ‘‘vanished" from the Oberlin seetlon shortly aft er Peebles’ arrest. Peebles, who manage* the Lassi ter* Hardware baseball team, Is th# father of four children. Mil'll. I COUNTRY Gentleman SMStfUSD LONDON DRY GIN 90 moot D&tifW from 100% Groin Settled By i A. DOUGHERTY'S SONS, lot.. Distillers Philadelphia, P*. 1 ODDS & ENDS | .(CONTINUED 1 BOM PAGE 1) | that this state or no state could .resist the Supreme Court and get j away with it, he so angered the I hide bound politicians and reac ! tianai ics who make up this state's | lawmakers that they left, the sub jeer, at, hand and began asking ; him about his ancestry and who i was sponsoring his appearance The thing the N. C. legislators i disliked most of all was to be told : that they were being led down j a blind alley, that all of their | efforts were directed toward frightening and intimidating Ne groes and that nothing they were proposing would stand up under ' the scrutiny of the Federal Courts. ! There are many lawyers who are I members of North Carolina’s gen- I oral assembly but it is doubtful i if they ever learned as much about thj power of the U. S. Supreme i Court in their law school days as they did Tuesday afternoon in Raleigh's City Auditorium i Some one should tell Wake s Senator James Poyner how Ne groes in many instances, when 1 compelled to choose between two j evils, try to choose the evil that 1 appears to them to be the terser. In a statement giving his reasons for opposing school integration, j Mr. Poyner said last week that | he was sure that Negroes in Wake ; County did not want their schools • integrated because although they | knew he was opposed to rntegra- I tion in the schools the Negro 1 voter?: during the recent primary gave him an outstanding major ity over his opponent. Mr. Poyner ;? correct in stat ing he received more votes in the predominately Negro precincts than his opponent but the Ne gro voters had to choose between him and his milder expressions against integration and his op | ponent’s more extreme express ions Mr. Poyner should rid him self of any feeling that the Ne groes who voted for him were 1 voting for continued segregation. They were simply trying to choose i the lesser of two obvious evils When the school evasion meas ures that the special session of ; the N C. General Assembly are j brought, before the Federal Courts, ii. would seem that one outstand i ing fact would be sufficient to ; have them all thrown out as ille gal. That fact is they were con ceived arid passed without the : knowledge, consent or approval of over one-third of this state's citizens. North Carolina has the ; largest Negro population of any state in the union. All Negroes in this state pay taxes, either direct ,ly or indirectly. It is not at all improbable that Negroes in North Carolina pay proportionately ■ • more for She suppon. of the state's public schools than is paid by ! the whites. This probability comes about because the public- schools of this state get their support from the 3 percent salon tax. This rax burden falls most heavily upon the. Negroes of this state. Practically all of their income is spent upon taxable items Being ■ financially unable to purchase his • needs in large quantities, his re peated purchasing of essential items compels the Negro to pay as high as ten percent in sales taxes alone Despite the provable, fact, that the Negroes of this state pay more ! than their share for the support | of the public schools not one Ne ; gro was consulted by the 'powers that be' when they huddled to gether to devise ways and means of defying the U S. Supreme Court. Not one of th« proposals the special session will pass has any merit because they are all based on tire erroneous concept of racial superiority, the right of a self-conceived “master race” to deny equality and justice to* an • oiier race, ail in violation of the laws of God and the Constitution of this country. However, it would seem ar afore stated, that one simple, but po. er;m conclusion. taxation without representation. • should be sufficient to overthrow all of the studied efforts of this state's politicians to Keep the Ne gro “in his place 4 ' In a statement on the evils of se.-.rivition last wee!;, this column cited an example of two u. S. Armed Forces members on duty (Hie at the local recruiting sta tion being forced off of a soft ball team because the Recreation De ourtment of this city denied the of i.h? yDying fields to teams that had Negro players. This week there is another ex ample that also concerns the Arm ed Forces An 18-year-old Negro girl, Miss Joyce Capper of New Bern found herself the innocent victim of the South’s segregation. Miss Capper volunteered for serv- ;with the Navy in her home : town of New Bern and was sent I here for processing. She brought I w!t h her from the recruiting serv ! io Hew Bern, requisitions for sleeping accommodations at the j Sir Walter Hotel. Knowing noth i Ing about the all-white policy at the sir Walter. Miss Capper sim | bIY did as she was directly by her I New Bpr 'n recruiter, presented her I requisition to the desk clerk at j the hotel. ! When informed by him that his ; hotel did not accept Negroes, Miss , Capper asked for and got the man ia ger. This man also told her she ; could not stay there and sug ; jested she try the Negro hotel r, n | Hargett St. There she was told : she must seek accommodation elsewhere because that hotel could i honor Navy requisitions. By this, time Miss Capper was so thoroughly disillusioned that she was willing to take the next bus Rested she go to the Negro YWCA, back to New Bern. Some one sug i The "Y" was successful in getting : a Place for her at Bloodworth ! ist lourist Home .The man&ge j ment there had no way of knciw i mg how or where It would get its i money but it knew that, here was j a distressed girl in a strange city who wanted to serve her country 1 and was having a hard time try i ing to get a chance to do so. . . . ! _lt was good for the Attorney | General to get/ hie ears plane j back by the. Rev, Mr. J. R, Fun j derburk for using the term "Ni jera” in referring to Negro chil dren at/ha public hearing on the ; Pearsall evasion proposals before j i a joint session of the N. C. (Ten- j ieral Assembly. Any man who can! 1 ! say “Zero’' or “Nero'' can say Ne - j gro, if he wants to, HOUSES NEEDED i (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) | and Builders Association. J Ray said tha; while there has ' j been a general tightening of; , j mortgage money available to Ne- j ' i gro home builders it is believed | : to be a temporary situation. H M, Michaux of Durham was ! elected president, during the one -1 j day convention. Named to serve ! i with him during the coming year I'were E. B. Johnson and Hugh j Smith, both of Winston-Salem | vice presidents; Clarence Win- I Chester of Greensboro, secretary;; R F Lee of Wilmington, treas urer. and Leandev M Hill of Win-; ston-Salem, executive committee chairman. A second speaker. F. Henry Wil-! liams of Jacksonville. Fla. secre tary of the. National Association of Real Estate Brokers, spoke or. the, growth and development of that : organization. Earlier in the day. the real es-• (tare group heard Scott Noble, as sistant state director of FHA. and ! Richard E. Thompson, real estate • agent, both of Greensboro, speak ' : on ‘ Housing Trends and Outlooks” | during a panel discussion. Reuben i‘Clay of Richmond. Va . racial re ; lations officer of the FHA, was : moderator. ,; ‘Mortgage Lender? Look at Mi nority Housing” was the subect of a second panel discussion, with | Dr. J L. Stuart, chairman of the ' A&T College business department-,; as moderator. Participants were Ernest Scarborough of the local Home Federal Savings and Loan: Association, and W. Avery Jones : ! attorney for Winston-Salem Mut- 1 ual Life Insurance Inwrrance Co. DESEGREGATION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) DAD OF 9 WON'T GIVE UP INTEGRATION TRY CHAPEL HILL -- “If at first, you don't succeed, try. try again" has been adopted as his motto by Preston Weaver, father of nine children here. Mr Weaver sought to enrol) ''one of his sons in the all-white , i elementary school here only to be told that his application was "too; late." Such applications, accord-! . ing to the State Board of Educa tion. must be made 60 days before the school term opens. !. However, the local shoe shop ,„ repairman let it. be known he , plans to apply for one of his - ; dren to attend a white schom in i 1957, and that the application ; won t he "late" either, MORE NEGROES WENT * : TO COLLEGE IN '55 RALEIGH Although more' whites and Indians stopped their formal education after gratiua . tion from the state's high schools. , m 1355 than in 1954. a greater percentage of Negroes enrolled in , college m 1955 than previously Nile H. Hunt, coordinator of; 1 teacher education, released the figures last week He said that he ! covered 97.5 per cent, of white ■ graduates and 97 6 per cent of . Negro graduates in a school sur vey He explained the figures by saying that the more recent , study covered a larger percentage of students. In 1954, he pointed , out. only 70 per cent of white ;! schools and 49 percent of Negro j schools replied to questronnaries ; DIXIE LABOR UNIONS PROTEST INTEGRATION BIRMINGHAM. Ala. A •‘manifesto’’ signed by labor leaders, from 10 Southern states gathered here last, week charged i that the AFL-CTO is setting the stage for “bloodshed, riots and murder by trying to "ram inte gration down the throats' of Southern unions The document, composed b;- leader? of the Southern Aire rail Workers. Inc charged the AFL CTO with 'aiding and abetting • the complete integration of the i white and colored races oter the objection of both' andusingß mth• Southern union monet for that purpose. The SAW is see km y to form a Southern Federation of L„bor land divorce from API.-CTO, II i charged lurther that James B. Carey chairman of the AFL-CTO civil right? committee, has order ed Southern unions to "integrate , or ret out.’’ VA. GOP COMPROMISES ON CIVIL RIGHTS ij ROANOKE, Va. Foiled in ■ ! their efforts to run through an ,! attack on the U. S. Supreme ; Court, staunch segregationists in ■; the Republican. Party of Virginia •j had to be satisfied with a com* , i promise on civil rights, ; Meeting here Saturday, the state GOP convention said in a ■ j compromise resolution that, the i! Republican party of Virginia be - ■; licves in the Constitution of the, .; United States and the Constltu -; tion of Virginia" and the enforce - • | ment of all laws validated bj • these constitutions Republican National Chairman Leonard Halt who delivered the ; mam address declared that he ! believes that “at least four South ern states" will vote Republican :: in this fall’s presidential election.” LOVERS’ LANE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1> who is being held in High Point city jail without bond , The case broke Monday morn- 1 i ins when a toy pistol used by the youth was found covered wt-h | ; leaves in the area near the Old Gold Mine where Crump allegedly hid before confronting the two couples with a rifle. Toy Gun Recognized Deputy L. 11. Bergman who lives in the area said that he recognized (he play gun as one which he had seen Crump play with. On further inquiry, neighbors Os Crump tqld of- j ; ficers that (he youth fre quently carried a rifle. Sheriff John E. Walters then obtained a search warrant forthe 1 youth's house and there found a' dark green hood in Crump's coat pocket similar to the. one describ-; • ed by the holdup victims. It was! Highlights Os Maggs’ Statement No "Negro" public school will be closed. Under Section 1 of j Bill No. 4. the only schools that can be closed are those “which; may have some enforced mixing of the races No white child,! : surely, will seek admission or be assigned to a “Negro” school, j : But Negro children will seek admission to “white” schools. Only “white" schools therefore "may have some enforced mixing of j the races": only they can be closed. For a like reason. Bill No. S‘s relaxation of the compulsory School Law will permit white parents but not Negro parents, to withdraw their children from public schools which are still open ; Under Section 1 of Bill No. 5 a parent may do this only, if against his wishes, his child is assigned “to a public school attended by a child of another race ’’ Some white children will be so assigned-; - : it seems highly improbable that any Negro child will be. Private schools can be operated , i lawfully and will qualify their! pupils for education expense j grants only if the schools are res- j dilated and supervised by the; . State Board of Education and on-! : ly if they meet, the public school’s! , high standards with respect toj the grading of instruction, the ; courses of study for each grade j ; and how those courses are con- i ducted, promotion of pupils, and , i the qualifications and certifies-1 tions of teachers. Because of these somewhat hid-1 den but nevertheless clear require-1 I mer.tr of Bill No. 3, we are pro- j tected against substandard pri- j vate schools. But these very re- ; - quirements make it almost cer- j ; tain that most white children j whose public school is closed will j j be unable to get an education ex-. ' per.se grant or even an education. | These, then, are my reasons for; believing that even if the pro- j gram recommended to you by the Advisory Committee were const!- ; iutionally valid it. would not! achieve what you have been led : to believe it would achieve. If the program if adopted, discrimina- ■ i non against, and denial of all op-j port-unity for education to, white j children will be its principal re- ■ ; suits. j The program would remove the 1 restraints which our present State ; . Constitution and statutes, in or- ; ! der to assure an adequate edu cation to every child in North, Carolina, wisely impose upon the The program permits white par ents to remove their children from school and permits the vot ers in particular localities to close ''white” public schools even . designed to cover his head to his; shoulders, with only two holes cut for his eyes. Walters said that Crump, .un de; questioning. confessed to ; holding up Janies Sweeney of 19 Rilbro Stret. and his companion j Pearl Barber of Raligh n the early morning of -July 14, leaving Sweeney tied to a utility pole taking $27 from his person, then driving off in his ca; with the woman He also admitted. Walters con-, Unued, to criminally assaulting, 'the Barber woman twice She was. released from the car about 4 a m near Siler's Store on Freeman Mill Road, several miles from the mine Crump is also reported to have j confessed to holding up Roland i I R, Mills, of Winston-Salem and ; jan unnamed Greensboro woman | who were parked in the same spot | about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. • In Crump’s house, officers said that, they discovered a quantity of I fishing tackle, an outboard motor,! a TV set and radio, ail of which j they identified as being stolen! property. They said that. Crump : was to he charged with burglary in connection with (he reported thefts. TROOPERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) he had arrested on a disorderly conduct charge The threat to Webbs safety came shortly a ftp! the shooting, when Yelverton was pronounced - dead at the office of Dr. E T Tenddenfieid Jr., where he was; taken for treatment Meanwhile Webb's radio call i for assist unce had been answered ; Ijy about a dozen highway patrol- ; men. who managed to keep the. crowd m check. The shootings occurred near midnight out-due Crook Hornes; case, where Webb had answerd a call to quell a disturbance be tween Mir;. Strickland and Eddie Ash by. According to Webb’s account he arrested the voting woman : and placed her in his patrol car. : Someone on the opposite side of ; the car handed her a knife, he as serted, and when he stepped back. to avoid possible trouble, he was; struck over the head by Yelver- | ton Thereupon, Webb admitted, | he began shooting. Yelverton received a fatal wound in (he, chest. One shot struck Ward in the left ley, and another hit Miss Strickland in he chest near her left arm pit. Webb contends that he was shooting in self-defense, claiming that after Yelverton was shot Muss I ; Strickland started toward him : with a knife, although no such' weapon could be found. The bui-; lei. that hit Ashby was a wild shot intended for her. Dr. Beddenfielc! reported that he. heard members of the crowd gathered at his office voice de ; termination to kill Webb, after ' they learned that. Yelverton was dead. Th troopers arrived before ! they could take action, Deputy Sheriff W. R. Pridgen at first announced his intention r o swear out. a. warrant charging Webb with murder, but Sheriff J. • W. Thompson of Wilson County L?ter ordered any such action de layed for completion of a more thorough examination, ; STATE BRIEFS (CONTINUED FROM P ACE 11 orarv Society ACCIDENT VICTIM CRITICAL RALEIGH •- Fred Donald Wu- j isms, 52, .•>; .Price Street here, is ; reported as being in an ' improved | condition”, but still on the cutioa! ' list a:, a result of injuries received i THE CAROLINIAN ! though there is no private school; ; which the white children could; j attend and even though, if there; ! is such a school. the locality pro- \ ; vides no supplement to bring the j inadequate State education ex-, ; pense grant up to the amount of ; that school's tuition fee Negro children, however, will | not suffer; the program does not, : permit localities to close ‘ Negro"; ! public schools an does not permit. ; a Negro parent to withdraw his, j children from school. Well-to-do! j whites will be able to secure edu | cation for their children. Most , white North Carolinaians in these 1 (localities will be financially un ! able to do so. Negroes if they wished, could iseck to frustrate the program in; ; a different way any locality • j where an “app. ed” private I ; school was in operation. They! ! could, it is almost certain, ob tain a court order .reeling that' school not. to reject any applies ; tions for admissions because of race or color. The recommended program vio j iates the constitutin' el rights of; j whites even more ’early and : i more flagarantly than it violates 1 i the constitutional rights of No ! groes. When a locality votes to close a "White” public ehool the Negroes in that locality can still I go to the "Negro” p lie school. Even in the unlikely •.•»nt, that I there should be. in the locality, a , private school good er. ■ to ne approved by the State Board of Education, its physical facilities and equipment will surely not be as good as those a vs.table to the Negroes ; in a two-car smash'.ip on Western : Boulevard Thursday nigui Willi ams was „ passenger in a ear driv en by Paul Pope. 3:i. of Nazareth, who was heated for a cut lip and ; released. TEEN-AGER KNTI'ES MAKE i GASTONIA —A. V McGill, ! a teen-ager jailed here Friday night an a charge »f drunken es* knifed a cellmate leaving •he victim with wounds that required 150 stitches to close j According to Police Chief A. V. McGill there was no imme diate explanation for the inci dent. The ?9-ye ar-nld victim, Clyde Hall, is reported in crit ical condition at a Gastonia hospital HIT BY STRAY BULLET BURLINGTON A 55-year-oid ! man. apparently the innocent vie- j : tim of an argument between anoth | er man and his wife was shot in 1 the leg here Friday night. Cal Fcr -1 guson was treated at a local hos; ta! for a leg injury which he u ; reived while walking through, a field on the outskirts of Buriirp i ion Police are holding Carl To rein. 25, of Route !. Graham in connection with the shooting HODGES PLAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE H “Very few of these while children,” he ex'piaind. "will he eligible for the ‘education expense grants' provided by Bill No. 3. Very few of these white children, in fact, will he able to find any school which they can attend." John H Wheeler, Durham banker, who setved as spokesman .for a Negro Committee of 100 ; ! Counties, urged the legislators to support a plan of compliance with; 1 the U. S. Supreme Court decision i of May 17, 1954. pointing out that lift bills pending before the spe i dal session will actually “under- ; mine and destroy the public school system which North Caro lina has supported wholehcaited - ly and which we have spent more than 60 years in developing to its present state of excellence.” Mr. Wheeler deesrtbed the bill? ! recommended by the Advisory ; Committee as “unsound and im j practical” and “efforts of bad j faith, and defiance ’ j Commenting on. the effect of the proposed legislation on the [children, teachers, and public ! school system, Mr. Wheeler said;. J i'i) The bills fail to take into! account the influence of the pro posed action upon the quality of i education provided for North j Carolina’s children: <2 > The bills ; seek to make parents shoulder the responsibility for making the ; decisions as to who shall attend ’ school with their children; <3> ! The bills saddle citizen? >vith the; i responsibility of deciding whether! : nr not democracy can be rejected I at will by Individuals, Singling out the tuition as pect of the proposals for at tack, Mr. Wheeler said: “One j of the basic premises in the present tuition plan is that no child shall be forced to attend a school attended by » child of another race." Call ing this premise unsound, he added. (1) "It provides for separation of the races in de fiance of the Supreme Court, Cl) It discourages even grad ual compliance as rerom- ! mended Liy the Court and re quested by Southern States, ! and (3) It has been held by the Court that separate schools can never be equal.’’ ; Wheeler told the legislators' that Negroes had been ignored by l Governor Luther Hodges' Advisory Committee and he charged that with one fourth of the Negroes in the state's population, the failure to seek cooperation among Ne- 1 | Wake Baptist Sunday School Convention \ Condemns Stand OfNC On Desegregation Dr Grady TV D»vis. chairman of ; ! the Wake County Baptist Sunday j | School and B T. U. Convention j | released the following statement, 1 . adopted at the annual meeting | I held at the Riley Hill Baptist, J Church last, week. to the CARO- : LINLAN Wednesday morning' The enclosed report on the state ! ! of our country adopted at the an- , miai session of the Wake County \ j Sunday School and B.T. U. Con- j | vent ion. .July 22. has bpen author- I | ized to be released for publication | The convention has a constitu- 1 ency of approximately 3.500 ,1 uly 22, 1956 1 We. your Committee on the Stair i of our Country, wish to make the : following report: In trie year of our Lord 19.16, wr. 1 ■ find ourselves in the least devel- ; j oped section of the world s richest I and most powerful nation In oir I stale we have the nation's largess I proportion of people living on the land. We are not far from having j the nation's richest land, inhabited j by the poorest people. Our nation, region and State are ' undergoing industrialization and j developing an urban way of life. ! ! This lias too little meaning for the j mass of the membership of our : ; communion, because of the tradi- ; tional pattern of discrimination and employment opportunities throughout, including publ i<: service agencies, the developing ; industry, business and promotional | services in voluntary organization The greater portion of the mem -1 bership of our communion live in ; those benighted areas of our com ! monwealth, where the right of suf j frage is still virtually denied to the. descendants of those freedmen, who once were chattels. This 1 but one example of the widespread | corruption prevailing in the ad- . | ministration of public affairs in ' our State. Since the r.'jvil War ihi learned membership of our one parti government has given roost of its talent and energy to legs! circumvention and nul lification of that basic law of the nation guaranteeing human equality to all citizens of thr state The party leaders have hy illegal trickery and corrupt groes had jeopardized an amic able solution to the desegregation of the schools Door Not Closed He made it, plain, however, that Negro groups didn’t, yet. feel the door had been completely closed to inter-group cooperation on 1 school matters and other areas | of interracial concern ! However, he indicated that Ne groes would not be satisfied with anything less than full compli ance with the mandate of the J’ I S. Supreme Court. | At one point In his prepared re marks Wheeler called attention to the presence of only 12 Negroes in the personnel among 87 state boards, commissions, and agencies ,ha vine the responsibility of de , term mine policies and making , regulations concerning virtually every phase of life In North Caro lina. He listed such agencies as ; having 1.100 persons in total per sonnel. Why No Negroes? “'We respectfully submit that it is hard to conceive of the ap pointment of an Advisory Com mittee to the Governor and the Legislature without the inclu : sion of representative Negro citi zen.' on the Committee:." the Ne : gro leader said. Carl E. DeVane. chairman of the legislative commission of the North Carolina Teachers Associa tion. urged that the Stale Board of Education "should have autho rity and power t> issue regulations' : governing the detailed operation i of the state school system" and that ihe board should lie guided i by the recommendations of pro \ fessional educators and that the principle of integration in school attendance ‘‘must be established as official policy and that any and all delays in the initiation of its establishment are harmful." Dr H Shelton Smith. Duke pro fessor. told the legislators that he knew they had made .up their , mind.; ;»■ to \v at they were going to do and tb. fact that they kh holding hearings would h«ve no effect on (hern. He declared, however that he would he derelict in his du ty and traitor to the Christian principles, which the N C. Council of Churches espoused, if he did not say a v ord in i protest to the nefarious bills He cautioned that the bills were not only un-Christian, undemocratic, bo! said that they were morally wrong. It was hard for him to see how i men subject to the influence of the I many churches in North Carolina, : could even frame measures that would deny any segment of the | state's citizenry its rights, granted by the Constitution, because of the i color of its skin. Bishop Herbert Bel! Shaw, of the A. M. E Zion Church, told the legislators that he was glad to be ; permitted to appear at the pro | longed funeral of segregation The bell is now tolling (he demise of one of the stale's worst monsters. 1 ended the prelate. Bishop Frank Madison Reid A At. E. Church, denounced the bill's bad Influence on right and justice He Invited the, sa lons to study the record of states that had practiced de segregation and that they would find that God had smiled upon them far more generous ly than he had those states that practice segregation, i Dr. P. A. Bishop, president, Gen eral Baptist Association, left no doubt in the mind? of the lawmak ers that he and 300.000 more Bap tists in the state were against the bills. The Rev T P. Duhart, Chapel i Hill, appeared as a representative of the Ministerial Alliance of Chapel Hill and told the body thei all the. ministers of his mixed as sociation were definitely against i the bills WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JULY 2*. 1956 | administration, developed ». power structure, based on the. j theory of white supremacy, the I results of which have set up a special system of caste, diets- i i ions of the population intim ! Mating and exploiting the one for the benefit amt aggranrtizr | menl of the other : Corrupt lawmakers have inter- I j posed their statues to block the : i operation of the constitutional Jaw j for the benefit of all, for example. ! the Southern Manifesto, In educa- 1 j tion. they have legislated ' Separate I : but Equal." They have enforced th« ! separate, they have, not provided : the equal. This abuse has been ■- | en more flagrant in providing pub | lie accomodations other [ schools, and in the areas of ! non: ic opportunity and po I privilege. This corruption has spread deep- j | and deeper into the pattern of | • church and community organ ir. a- ! i lions to the extent that the 11:00 ■ j o'clock hour of our Christian Sab : bath has become the time when ! ! separation o[ man from man and j man from God is most complete | We ihus profane the body of Christ ; ! in a mockery of pride, caste pref. ; ! erenco and unrighteous traditions : which denies the spirit of Christ an 1 causes wonderment. wv of the Wake Baptist Sunday I School and Training Union Con- ! ; vent ion are organized and ope,-at- j j ing to foster a program of t.'hxis j tisn Education. Os no less intpor . lance to out membership are the ' organization and operation of our public education in our state I in the way of good citizenship. We | know from our Christian persua- j j sion that an integrated system of public education will be better m organization and operation than ' any racially segregated system. We ; are convinced that, only in an in : Jegrated school system can our : i youth learn to be efficient in the : . understanding and practice of goon j | citizenship, and helpful community | relations Therefore we offer the following recommendations: j (1) That our governor should' give leadership in the immediate establishing of the principle and ; ; policy of an integrated program of public education on our state. O That, we urge the governor of our state to • consider his propos ’ BEY’S\ 1 \ GIN pil£|' ( AC ) FIFTHS 52.05 Utfl® ' PINTS 53.25 | tONO j^* ,v /f* * j "r'r - :"': *•».« — 61 i BEYS DISTILLED iON 00N 08V Ed 90 PROOF 100% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS W & A SM BiV, LTD , CINCINNATI, OHIO ..Jake £*au«/elsefi along! When you go on your picnic, you'll want the best of everything. So, don't forget Budweiser . . . lots of cold, golden Budwei;>er. The delightful corn* pan ion of good times, fine food «and pleasant company everywhere! 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(station designed to preserve the j "tradition” and practice of segre ; gated education for our youth, (Si That It is the duty of the i governor since he had alreadj I Invaded this province, to bring : together representatives of "ALL" the people concerned with the effort of the Supreme Court's decision against sesre | gallon in education; and pro vide them with honest legal counsel along with the services of competent educator*, to guide their thinking Inward feasible beginnings of Integra tion in the schools. 1 4 1 Thai wo urge *he momber ! sh;p o r this convention to sc-: aside : ?>< ’-aoie mnmont.-: of .PRAYER f.-- j our governor and hi? trusted sd ! visors and members of the legis ; lature. that they may receive v eL.'-jjn trot:; on- Heavenly Father I which will enable them to see a ; hove r,arrow prejudices and sinful i traditions, and find the will of God I in human relations and ! (3) That the membership of this : convention be urged to exercise ; the Christian means of non-Go : lence, lo* e, faith and good judg ment to accomplish the ends of j first class citizenship ! if !i We recommend that copvs of this statement be sent directly to (he governor, lieutenant govern or, speakers of the House, ell news papers and other mass media of ; communication Respectfully submitted, Grady D. Davis, chairman Miss I,attic Mae S Lana. Miss Marie Watson. Miss Ro sa L Young, secretary and R.ty- I monrl Newkirk Powell Aide Begins Tax-Evasion Term NEW YORK (I AN Pi -Mrs Hat tie F Dodson secretary to Rep Ad am C Powell, surrendered here : last week to begin her seven-month I sentence for income tax evasion Convicted last May of evading ' 85.000 in taxes and’ getting $2,000. in illegal tax refunds. Mrs. Dodson 47 will serve her term in Women ? Prison at Aides , on. W V.a She jl. so paid a SI,OOO fine
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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