LIGON GRAD TO ATTEND WOMAN’S COLLEGE MISS ELIZABETH SMART Ligon Grad lOf2 To i EntorW.G, RALEIGH The president of j J. W. Ligon Junior - Senior High j School s class of 1956 made, history j this week, when she was accepted ! ge a freshman at the alL n, bite Wo ■ rrsn r College of the University of j North Carolina. Mir-s Eii’-abetb Jc Ana Smart If. daughter of and Mrs. Monrc* Smart, 504 S. ■ £■ aunders Street, R.3.leigh- and i yt;•; _ Wcfi ■$•*. o?n? Tillman> 19. of Wadesboro will begin stud* its it the college in Septem ber toward t bachelor s>f arts d •**£'*’■£?•. They will he room mates Ir* fchaw Halt, a freshman dormitory and will share the raise bathroom. These young ladies were the os- j .? .ones accepted out. of a total ci r Negro women who applied I at the institution Two of the ap- j on casts failed to complete their I State News! j . ! i “»'— I Brief J PASTOR SAPS SENATORS I GREENSBORO The Rev. John ! W Fleming, director of Christian j Education for the General Baptist i State Convention of North Carol!- • na, was the featured speaker at a ;c;nt state Sunday School and Training Union meeting of Bap tists nere last. week. During Ins eddress he blasted three U. S. Se** eiors Erv-in (D-N.C.I, Eastlaiiu (D-Miss i and McCarthy R-Wis.‘ a.c doing ' dastardly acts" ana hold ing “Unchristian principles" which ire destroying the Christian con cept of community.” About 400 del- W6T6 present SLATER OF IN-LAW FREED CLINTON _ Lloyd Baggett. ; 22-year-old tenant farmer, was acquitted in the Sampson j County Superior Court Tburs- j day for the shotgun allying last January of his brother-in- j law, Flevd Jones In freeing i the farmer Judge Malcolm Raul ea!d he did no*, fee) that % jury would convict him. The defendant w-s so over come 3* the verdict that he was unable *o talk for a considera ble length of time. Baggett was charged with shooting Jor»e« to death on Sunday. January (CONTINUED ON PAGE THAI rnirnW men court, WILKINS SAYS CHICAGO (ANT'—Roy KM fcins. executive secretary of the NAACP and chairman of the Lead ership Conference nr. Civil Rights, told the platform committee of the Democratic National Convention Friday that its platform will ix. “higniy unrealistic, morally and politically,” if it. fails to recognize end pledge executive and Segislu tive action to implement the U. S Supreme Court ruling against pub lic .school segregation Speaking before a packed aud.- rnce in the Mayfair Room of the Black-stone Hotel, where a IS-man committee has been hard at woik all week drafting thr party* plat form, Wilkins declared: “In the face of ertremist re sistance on the part of a min ority which sets its archaic prejudices above loyalty to our 'CONTINUED ON FADE TWO) MBS, BETTYE TILLMAN i credentials while three did -iq?. measure up to the scholastic re quirements The director of admissions at Woman’s College Mies Mildred : Newtn. said that Mis? Smart and i Mrs. Tillman were informed of j their eligibility to attend MCUNC 1 by letter cn Monday A federal court ruling 1* re j sponsible for the admission of the women, Last September it was ruled by a federal judge that the Consolidated Univer sity of North Carolina must j process the applications of hopeful Negro undergraduates. ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO |Civil Rights Plank | Asked Os GOP, Demos i i | NEW ORLEANS Five hun j dred and fifty citizens from all of \ the 13 Southern states signed a pe tition t.o the platform committee ■ of the Democratic and Republican I parties urging a firm stand in su,.- . port, of civil rights. The petition, stating that ”iru federal gov nment has a clear du ty to guarantee to ail Southerners the rights and privileges of full ci tizenship,” was presented to the platform committee of the Demo cratic Party in Chicago August P, by Dr. James A. Dombrowski, Ex ecu live Director of the Southern ; Conference Educations! Fund Inc. j j Th» same petition will be pre ■,; - : l i!*'?' WALKER GETS ENCOURAGE MENT—Photo shows Atty. James R. Walker, Jr., of Weldon, (ten ter> receiving words of encour agement from two of the nearly i 300 race eitieens present during the second day of trial at Jack sos in Northampton County last j week for allegedly "assaulting a | U | 10c i oe | I VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 18,1956 NUMBER 47 Argues Own Case, Father Gets mM S','*? jgj&LH **p' WfM Sml* W%& ■&{/*' fe" L >•,\.:ii ■4- 4r 4 'k 4 4r 'k ic it 4c ★ 4r it 4c 4c -hr it k 4r it -4 4c 4 it 4c it 4c 4r 4r 4 4 4r 4c 4 Two NC Teenagers Drown Over Weekend Bundle Kin j| Strangled || To Death ; l I !l IVAGHINGTON —The brother- :j ! in-lew of Dr F-aiph Bunche,: I ! United Nations official—Roscoe j ’ • W Har- 1.“ f>s-year-old local real- h tor v •.- foiind strangled t,o death (i •in hi - nff’cc in ».he Odd Fellowsi: i Halt here Monday I Harris the brother of Mrs i B'inr.he wa? h-m'-'i and reused i . and his wallet was missing. Os- j finals reported* that he normally j carried about 550 on his person. I Discovery of the body was' made by Hams' wife when she; arrived a* her husband’s office| with his lunch He wa-s last seen: entering the building around 9 ,10 :3m by the janitor Deputy Coroner Richard Rosen berg said that the body .bore no!-; I marks Vs violence His assailant, i ;or assailants used a towel as a j | combination gag and blindfold.! ; Harris’ feet and hands were - hound with rope I Police said that they have called 1 several persons for questioning : ’ but no arrests have been made.j, ! 'lt takes a little time.” one of*! final said. sented to the Platform Committee ; of the Republican Party DIXIE TERROR CITED The petition said “Disturbing e- j vents have occurred recently in the j South which put in peril the basic ! freedoms of great numbers of tba j region’s people. Southern legislo i tures and state courts have harass- ■ od and proscribed eminently re- I pc ctable organizations. Prospective j voters have L m denied the right , to register or have, been stricken from the rolls without just, reason. J "A Catholic Archbishop has been ! defamed and threatened, and uu- I [. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) < female" when he protested rig- i ously to a white women ft sis | trar over the denial of voting j privileges d®ns design of a Holly weed record company's building captures the fancy, and imagination of congrssrwonsan Mebl® Dove, the first female wmwwKqc of Africa's national legislative assembly. Miss Dev®, dmiag frey visit in the United States, hm ©xprasned great in- i imam in »®«r mwldtaeteraJ deelgm lor dwellings, sdbessis md ; te® bK&estte, ©BEWSFBESS PHOTO) I race; Gloria Hinton daughter «f Mrs Mabel Hinton SSI E. Ca barrus Street: and Demiie.se Pei ry. daughter of Mr. and Mr-- fohn A. Perry, S Edgecombe ler race Miss Hinton is a sophomore at N C College, Durham, while (he oihet l«-o young ladies a* (e-rnl I,icon School here. STAFF PHOTO BY ( HAS n. JONI is the ho?) pastor. He. will be as sisted by the vhs.ous pastors aid .; churches of Winston-Salem in i j providing entertainment, for the . | delegates of this unique Conven j tion. •I (CONTINUED FROM fAGF \ | LttCKI AUTO OWNER ’ ' The lucky ear lasi week w»£ ! the one bearing the tag num | her *CY-3STJ. If the. owner of ! that car took I*, to Dunn s Esso ; Service, corner Cabarrus and ; Blood worth Streets in Raleigh | he received a free grease job. This will happen every week. Watch for your tag number. If it follows the asterisk, you will cel the crease job. The num- j her will be taken from any car! bearing a N. C. license. The numbers this week are; ! 2T-43?.,?.. F-3?T ; . X-192: *AL-| [ 2950; R-. 1572; and WW-125. ; Father Held Knife On Her CARTHAGE- A 53-year-old man, William Wesley McLaugh ,Un . war- ,e-r-fenced to eight to’ 12 ; years in pris-on here Monday on ■ 3 charge of incest, involving h:s . 16-year-old daughter Martha ! Jane ! Although a true bill was return* !p d .(or rare s: , w?U as for incest, 1 Solicitor M. G Boyette raid that he did not push this charge be cause he felt, that the other cov ered the situation fully. On sug gestion of judge f. Eto n Phillips, the rape -a;., no), pressed. The girl, who is mentally re tarded. took the stand and fcal tlngiy told a. -tort of how he. ; iCONTITWEP OS' F-iGE TWO- Q ht an! KTa ala # vbllDyi r l|4Ht In Old Fort Is Renewed RICHMOND Vs. Plaintiffs r. ’lie celebrated Old Fort (McDowell County. N. C school case thr cek sought a mandatory injure ■ion to force U. S District Judge Wilson Warlirk of Asheville tc take immediate, action on their three-year -old petition Their attorneys. Herman L. Tay lor and Samuel S Mitchell of Rs. High, o n Wednesday filed befor 'he fourth Circuit Court of Ar pea!;, here an application for (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO More Suits May Follow Va. Victory RICHMOND. Va. (AJSTPi ls keeping with the Arlington County desegregation decree NAACP law yers are expected to file suits aeon to end racial segregation in other Northern Virginia communities. Edwin C. Brown. Alexandria (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO' Bv ROBERT G. SHEPARD In the elevation of Mrs Aims Williams to the principalship of toe new elementary school now under construction on the Melbourne Road, the school board acted to give recognition to a person who has efficiently served many yean as an elementary teacher in tb: Raleigh public schools. This new school which .joins the campus of Si Augustine's College, should be n model school because it. will serve as a practice-teacher (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO I IT MATTERS NOT HOW SMALL THE AD, JCTST KEEP YOUR NAME BE FORE THE PUBLIC. CALL... TE-4-5558 FOR YOUR CLASStFISpi