VIOLENCE LOOMS OVER HOUSING PROJECT
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Tb» tacky car fast week was;
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1 that ran- tens it t«> Dunn r- base
j Service, corner Cabarrus and
\ Blood worth Streets to Raleigh
!he received a free grease job. j
This will Happen every week, j
i | Watch for tour tag number. If i
j it follows the asterisk, yon will j
* get the grease job. The nun!-;
! her wit) be taken from any car
i bearing a S'. C. license.
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Pearsall Amendment Vote Assailed
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Durham Youths Held
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Sentence In
Mixed Crime
CHARLOTTE Justice took
a sudden turn here Tuesday when :
Court Judge J. C Rudi
' sill decided that he would not
sentence Tommy Miller. 23. Fort •
Mills, ft. C., after he was convict,-
*rd for bavins helped a white v.o-
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I Stale News
I Brief _;
s CONVICTED IT WENDELL
WENDELL Miss Lucy Jane
Daniel 42. of Eagle Rock, N. C..
was convicted in Recorder’s Court
here of drunken driving Thurs
day. She received a six-month
s ente nc r, suspended on con
dit,ion that she pay a SIOO fine
and court costs and not drive a
car for a. period of one year. Also
tried was Horace M. Powell. 24,
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VOLUME 13 K A LEIGH. N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1956 NUMBER 51
RT ALEXANDER RAPNTS
DURHAM Teenage mur
derers claimed two live over the •
weekend here, both in the same
community, when Bnhy oeene
Roberson, 17, and John Hender
son, the same age, were the vic
tims of pistol wounds, fired by;
Alonzo Taylor and Harry Lee
Tate, both 13.
The killing of Roberson was
the result of another of those ;
“unloaded suns ', according to
investigating officers. Accord
ing to Police Id, J. B. Samuels,
four youths met at a “Juke
joint”, known as Willard Bro
dies Grocery, located at Proc
tor and Ranisc.v Streets. The
foursome decided to have
some fun.
The time was about 12 Noon,
Saturday. One shot was fired in
wild west fashion, from an Italian
made gun Then the fatal shot
was fired. Tate is said to have
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WHATS HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
WORK BEGUN ON NEW
DANVILLE 111 SCHOOL
DANVILLE,Va. - Despite th<
troubled atmosphere which hangs I
over public edutcaion in Virginia, j
; local school authorities are pro 1 ,
reeding with the building of a!
new Negro high school, not far;
from Danville's three-million
i dollar white high school.
Bulldozers this week began!
j clearing the site The John Langs-1
I ton High School which opened l
youth's determination to prove j
that he will not settle tor any
j thins short of first class citizen- j
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School Integration Spreads
Despite South ’s Opposition
last week is already overcrowded.
The white .school was scheduled
to open on Thursday and there
has been some apprehension here
lest some Negro parents seek to
enroll their children there.
IN' TE(Hi A TION O itD E R
URGED IN VIRGINIA
DANVILLE, Va. Representa
tives of the NAACP appeared be
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ship The fact that the parents
! of Iht children of Swain Coun
| tv. who pre'if-nted themselves
j lor admission to the Swain
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NASHVILLE, Term. Public
school desegregation will he in
effect this fall in 723 school dis- j
; tricts and school units in ninp
Southern and border states and
the District of Columbia
This fact was revealed this
• eck. by the monthly Southern
i drool News, published by a
• nap of Southern editors and ed
cators.
, Tiie first week of school in
1356 saw additional districts
in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri.
Kentucky, Maryland and West
Virginia opening classrooms
to children of both races. Some
schools in these slates and j
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County High School, on the first
day of school are backing them, i
must be encouraging as evident- j
■ ed by the way they are leaving >
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ALONZO TAVI.OR
ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT Q. SHEPARD
Hardly any person in North
Carolina expected the Pearsall
‘school-closing” plan to be de
feated. All of the resources of the
state were behind it. What it act
ually cost the state's taxpayers
Time will tell what it is likely to
cost, the children of North Caro
lina through loss of educational
advantages.
Out of the negation upon
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the school. The picture on the.
left shows the ehildrep in the of
fice ®i the principal, with their
Says 'Giiost"
Os Plan Will
Hauat State
FOUR OAKS—Passage of the
Pearsall Amendment will “haunt
the schools and progress of North
Carolina with ghosts of tricky
tacticts, democracy denied, and
opportunities lost,' Joel A. John
son, outspoken critic o f the plan,
declared here Sunday.
Said Mr. Johnson:
.von, outspoken critic of the plan.
Green to Governor Hodges last,
i year will haunt a conscience and
j history ol North Carolina be
cause these words are even more
! frightening now.
“We in North Carolina have lost
the way for a time,” Johnson went
j on. “but we will find the. way : we
will discover what a. simple thing
i good faith is and how easily good
faith eases conflicts and tensions,
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Girl, 12, Missing
(Over Week, Sought
RALEIGH -- Mrs. Josephine
Miller, of 617 Hicks Alley reported
to police Saturday that her ward,
Mary Patterson, 13-year-old
schoolgirl, had been missing since
. ust Sunday
She was still missing when the
CAROLINIAN went to press Wed
nesday.
The girl apparently disappear
ed after attending Sunday School
i at the First, Baptist Church, cm
! ner of Wilmington and Morgan
parents where they were told j
they would not be admitted. The ;
j picture ob the right, shows a fa- I
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FAILS IN TRY FOR \V-
T ION AS. CROWN Althea
Gibson far murti i> ••hnwn
rrturn'nc across the court for <
point as she played Airs. Neil
llopman of .Australia in Ihr
opening match of the National
Tennis Championship at Forest
itii’s. N. 1.. last week. Althea
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RALEIGH A threat to use
dynamite, if necessan to block
■ a proposed housing project near
1 Caraleigh war given to the City
, | Council this week by Willis F.
Holding on behalf of some 1.217
1 signers of a petition protesting it.
Holding, who stated that hr is
> a property owner in the area, said
i that it doesn’t matter to him if
the project is built. A few minutes
earlier, he had received a rebuff
?; from City Manager W. H. Carper
: who said:
l “The city can't designate areas
. j by race.”
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Streets.
Mrs. Miller described
her as follows: five feet, two
or three inches tall, weighing
135 pounds and wearing an
Oxford gray dress with white
enllar. white shoes, white hut
and carrying a white pocket
:<>ok,
Any person with information s
the whereabouts of the girl is
.-red to contact the local police
■ epartmen t
' thee, walking away from the ]
; school, tollowad by two chll- |
j dress. The white student* look j
lost m hft bid for the f.rn«*n to
Shirley Fry of Akron. Ohio,
'unday. She won over Althea
6-0 and fi i ft was the third
triumph of the year in four
meetino for the steady Mies
i>y over Miss Gibson, who hoo
t'd in heroine thr first Necro to
win a. maim ft. y net tiii«
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RALEIGH Dr. 'Robert M
Roll, 56, prominent local dentist,
was stricken by a cerebral hem
mora.ge in his office Monday night.
At the time of the attack he was
administering to a patierit at 427
S. Blount Street, where he prac
tices dentistry, and was due 91
the Seaboard Railroad Station
• here he was to meet a former
-iassmate. coming to the city for
! visit.
At hough he wan rendered
helpless, the drntisf. never
hint, consciousness and «5
riven aid by the patient, who
‘as n*d been identified, and
!.. f Rivers, manager of the
New Colon ide. which is local
i in the same building as Dr.
Bril's office. lie was rushed to
Saint Agnes Hospital where
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00 but sank# b* demonstration.
Sw,i.» County ha* no school de
signated as a Negro High School.