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In N, C.
VOLUME 16
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Cancer Victim To Prison For Murder
PICTHER
ONLY SURVIVOR —Howard |
Willingham 2f!, of Tailor, Miss.,
i« attended by nurse a* hr lies
in critical condition In hospital
Bonus Money Program Into Third
Week; Complete Rules Are Listed i
From reports received at ft.<,,
CAROLINIAN’* office <*t pres*
Km« the Bonus Money program, i
which entered its third week
Thursday, 'has created more inter
est than ever before
The third we*k will and at mid
night, July 24,
More persons from the Ita*
teigt-Wake ('entity area, bar*
indicated a desire to partial- j
pate and !t is carpeotod that
competition for the ten top »-
wards this month will he clos
er tbits before.
Have von started caving
Your purchase slips « receipt*
yet? If not. ft is rn( too J?l»
T/? is Week *$ A doe rtis ers
The merchants listed below are CAROLIIA\N Bonus
Money Stores. w
PA'." t ?
Tip Top Pood Stores
C. Kir! Litrhm.ni
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(arolina Typewriter
Merhimc* Farmers Ernk
Bitty G« y
Kirn cur, Bakery
i lertrlr wholesalers, Inr
< inf A 1 ’ley Insurance Agency
Mn K Shepard
v a gs: s
(idwant’s shoe store
liudson-Belk Company
V.'illiarur' Gatacr
North Carolina Mutual Life Ins Cc.
S ftf Vountr Hardware Co
Stephen* Appliance Com pan i
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Firestone Store*
illin' Garage
Bent'll Pb3«* Motel
Kranifr* lewelerj
Mr. Kil ls Ram!
H.3lei;h Funeral Horn*
Cii’ell* Beauty College
V/ishington Terrace Ant>
Worn We Inc
Good maos's Ladles Shop
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Conn Gower Pon.ti?< C.ompem
Carolina Buick Company
Sanders Motor Compinv
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Carolina Power V Light Company
National Art Shop
Twin inn Oil Ser'V*
<Joh» Arksw Pam!er A Decorator
Lewis Radio it TV Clinic
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A&E Super Markets
**'EEK EUDiNG ••' JULY ?n !957
at Oxford, Miss., July 7th. Wil
lingham is lhe only survivor of
auto collision in which nine per
sons were killed wfien two cars
to start right now
Ccomplete rules governing the
Bonus Money Program, which a
wards S!3O to ten persons monthly,
are listed here;
BONIS MONEY RILE
Purchase slips or receipts' c ?r
come from merchants advert Line
in Tire CAROLINIAN the tveok
the advertisement appears.
Any person or family at the
same address is eligible to use the
total purchases marls from the
homes Only one name should be
used in submitting entry ,
No purchase of over S3OO from
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| Raleigh Seafood .Company
i The Coca-Cola Bottling Co , In'
I Town A Country Furniture
Tire Distributor;- Inc
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j Slcodworfh st. Tourist Home
: Heater Well Company
! c iveness Insurance Agency
; Dunn's Esso Service
Carolina Builders Cr-rp
1 Watson’s Seafood d Poultry Co lm\
I I'niMeart Transfer Co St Food Store
Dillon Motor Finance Company
Ridgeway s Opticians
I Pepsi-CoU Bottling Co. ol Raleigh
Warner Memorials
Deluxe Hotel
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Spoil's Tourist Home
Vasina Wholesale Builders supply
Twin City Radio A: Appliance Co.
Hudison-Belk Company
i Western Auto Associate store
j Stephens Supply Company
] Apex Cleaning Company
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| tlollowell's Cash Food Store
! Dirk Fryer Shoe Service
j Edward's Pharmacy
j Crmer Moto- Co.
j Wake Insurance Agency
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j N. C. Products
j Acme Realty Company
l R. E Quinn Furniture Company
j Gem Watch shop
' Hunt Genera! Tire Con?pad-'
I The. Hood System Industrial Bank
I First-Cltizeua Bank U Trust Company
Ambassador Theatio
! collided head on. The crush may
he the nation's worst traffic ac
cident of (lip fourth of July
week end. iUNITED PRESS
TFUI PHOTO;
; Whitakers
Wh i les May
J End Bias
j WHITAKER - - The first tert of |
North Corojina's Pup I Assignment !
j d signed, to meet the threat I
i of racial integration in schools,
j may come from white students. !
R G. l'ayne of Whitakers,
spot i - >n.ir» for a group of !
white parents said attorneys
are preparing papers for a test |
of (he law in Edgecombe Sit- ]
perlnr rnifrt.
; ' The law passed by (he J 955 Gen* !
| oral Assembly, delegates to Inca! i
| school beerds authority for the as- j
| signment of pupils in schools un
i dor t.h> 1 'njunciioncfsS bEKMT
| der their jurisdiction,
i In effect, it allows boards to as
j sign tv hit® pupils to white school?
j and Negro Students to Negro
I schools.
j The Edgecombe School Board,
acting under the law, assigned 26
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jNCM an Confesses |
2-Yr.-0!d Murder !
MOOHt.N ViLLE. Authorities,
who unearthed a skeleton from a i
| sawdust pile Wednesday charged
1 a Negro laborer with murder in
j a cage worthy of detective fiction.
F,l banks White, 43. of Rt. t.
I Moores?’die, "'as charged with i
I murder and lodged in the Moores* \
; v;lle jail. Hr wo:- held m the death
of Albert Co'iufr.buß Mill? M who 1
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NUMBER 4? |
Charlotte Resident
Gets 15-20 Yr. Term
Special To CAROLINIAN)
CHARLOTTE "I think h°
has killed two women--certainly
he has killed this, one.” a Judge
Knightdale
Man Killed,
Son Is Held
KNIGHTDALE 1 ' H
stand if any longer.” sobbed James
Edward Young, .It . iT. who is
charged with the death of his fa
ther. James, Sr., early Monday
mottling a: their home here.
JAMES F YOUNG. Jr
. , , killed father
the youth was arrested *■•
round 4:30 a m for the shot
cun slaying of his 42-year-old
dad. who worked as a farmer
and carpenter's helper, and
was released at noon on th»
ssmt day.
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AT OPENING OF HIS TRIAL
—.Segregationist John Kasper
(center) chats with unidentified
man in Nashville, Temt prior to
the stall of his contempt trial.
Harper and 15 others are ac-
R I
■ told a Charlotte businessman, las*
1 ’ week.
In a crowded, tense court*
room here Thursday, Judge
ban K. Moore sentenced Mar*
cin Gilliam, one of fhp city's
most prominent Negro “busi
nessmen, from IS to 20 years
in prison,
Thof one of the most in
teresting and most talked
( about trials in the annals of
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A&T Staffers
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Mb Nabbed;
|No Charges
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT
GREENSBORO—Doctors Leon
ard i Boodah) Robinson and Ver
| non -Johnson were allegedly ar
rested without charge and held
; without communication in the
i Hart County jail in Hartwell. Oa
; by Sheriff C I. Whitaker and his
two deputies.
Both men are members of
(he faculty of A&T College
and were enroute to New Or
{ leans to visit the family of Dr.
; Johnson. Dr. Robinson stated
in an interview that he and
Dr. Johnson were entering
Georgia from the South Car
olina side about four o'clock
in the evening, driving thirty
miles per hour in a convoy of
weekend traffic when they no*
Heed an officer parked in his
car on (he opposite side of (be
road.
They had not gone far before
they heard a siren screaming be
hind them. When the car reach
ed them, the officer motioned for
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I oust'd of conspiring to prevent
i orderly Integration at the high
school in Clinton, Term Oh
servers debate in Congrc*? over
civil rights legislation. (UNIT*
I ED PRESS PHOTO!
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SEEK L BRAKY ADMIT
TANOE The. four persons
shown above are the principals
jr. an attempt, in gain admission
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ALFRED T. NEWKIRK
, , . se'-r flying award
Air Force
Award To
j
A. Newkirk
r.v STAFF WRITER
: POPE AIR BASE—In one of the
most solemn military ceremonies
- performed in North Carolina in ,
: recent years. Alfred Tennyson
' Newkirk of Raleigh was awarded
: the coveted Distinguished Flysn • :
Cross by the United States Air .
Force The Cross was given re- ,
cently by direction of the Pro-!- .
j dent of the United States.
Newkirk, a Wilmington na
tive, and Shaw l Diversity ,
graduate, distinguished him
self, according to the citation,
“b.v extraordinary achieve
! ment while participating in
a serial flight as gunner of a
i B-2fi attack bomber of the
. Third Bombardment" during
I the Korean Conflict
I On the night of February 10,
j 1953 Airman Second Class New
i kirk displayed outstanding 'air-
I man.ship and crew coordination
| while on armed reconnssance
| over the enemy's main supply
routes, north of Singye, Korea
In the target area a large
enemy convoy was sighted and
immediately brought under -
attack. Despite ha? irdoiv- <er
| rain and poor visibility due
to the weather, a vri**, of ,ag
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Minister Gives Testimony
In Trial Os John Kaspo \
I KNOXVILLE. Tenn - The Rev.
| Paul Turner told » jury of Moun- ;
I taineers Tuesday about the fiuht I
!he had with segregation!.«ts after |
i he conducted six Negroes to school ;
j through ? jeering, hooting crowd
I Turner u-nc expected in he the
j State News
-IN-
Brief
I
CHILD KILLED BY TRUCK
WALLACE Bobby Junior
Wells. 7, was killed instantly Fr,
day when he was struck by a log
truck on a, rural road near Teach*
ay. The Lmck driver, James Ed
ward Washington, failed to stop
after the accident He continued 1
for several hundred yards strik
ing. an empty truck parked near;
th<= toed Washington is being i
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1.0 the all while Smithfield Pub
lie Library. From left to right
are Rev. John H. Rryanl Mrs
Florlnc Smith. Kcv frank .1 Mat
Jolmstogi LibraryTast
Ssene; Guilford Bows
BY CHARLES K. JONES
SMITHFIELD—"We don't loan
books i.o n rs.”
This firm and derogatory
statement was attributed to
the librarian of Hie Smithfield
Ptthlir Library b.v four well
known residents of the small
tobacco town as they sought
admission to the main reading
room of the establishment
Monday.
The Revs .t H Bryant and
Frank J. Matthews, both of whom
hold pastorates in Johnston
County. Mrs. Florine Smith and
Mrs. Beatrice Penny. Smithfield
natives, were denied permission
to borrow a book or to read in the
library
The four immediately bend
ed for Raleigh where the re
firal was turned over to Hip
!ODDS-ENDS
l
i By ROBERT G. SHEPARD j
I J
THEY DIDN’T COME A drunk,
crazed man, who lived in a small
farm house near Knightdale had
been terrorizing his wife and fami
ly all day Sunday Sunday evening
a call was made to the sheriff's
office by a member of the family
asking for help. Because the
drunken man was a chronic: of
fender and his wife always plead
ed for his release when ever he
was jailed, the officers refused to
answer the. call for aid. Around
four am. Monday, the man was
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D. C. Virgo Succumbs
At 72 In Greensboro
GREENSBORO —David Clatke
Virgo. 72. widely known educator,
died, here Sunday night, following
a Ion? illness funeral services
were conducted Wednesday at 10
a m at. the 'oral Baptist ETA
am at the local Episcopal
Church
most important witness yet In the j
trial of .John Kasper, a soldier of
fortune for segregation, and 11 re- i
sident* of Clinton. Term , charged
with interfering with court-order- I
ed Integration of the high school
Th« jury already had a vivid |
picture of the Rev Turner and
two other white men walking the [
Negroes down to senool from ' Fo
ley Hill," Clinton's Negro district
iast December 4.
Wilriessts vedeiday picked !
out six of the (Minton defend
ants as participating in the
shown of ,- N r-Lover" i
calls to the white convoy. But j
Kasper, with whom conspir
acy nnr.t he proved on the
part of any of ihe others, was
not directly connected wiih
tills episode in the testimony.
"I am surprised at (hr Govern
ment's concept of Kasper in this j
ease," said defense Chief Robert. I
L. Dobbs. "They are getting far- {
tber and farther away from hint " j
On the otherhanri, TI 8 Attv i
John C. Crawford assarted there '
already exists the "strongest link j
between Kasper and the rest "
"The record is full of Kasper's j
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rttews :ir»d Mrs. Beatrice Pen
nov. They were refused admit
inncc tn the library Monday and
b;i yp con. ai{ Her] Hnlrich lawyer
law firm nf Taylor rod Mit
chell for a possible suit.
Monday's attempt to test * :s
lavs governing the patronage of
the city library was the -e.cond
attempt by the Ke v Mr. Br
who tried to borrow a. book on
Match 20 of this veer and was
referred to the countv library,
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52 Asking
MmltXmm
At Old Fert
Faieigh attorney Herman L.
Taylor, of the law firm of Taylor
and Mitchell, «oid The CAFv-
IJNIAN Wednesday morning r hat
62 applications had been filed by
parents of students seeking ad
mittance to the Old Fort Elemen
tary school located in McDowell
nount v
The students involved are re
quired to travel approximately
16 miles per day to school.
Ittorney Taylor said that
<he applications were mailed
Tuesday and should have been
in the hands of Superinten
dent Frank C. Taylor by non.
The Old Fort School case has
been in the courts several tunes
in the past two years, following
previous attempts by parents i.o
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Mr. Virgo is survived by his
wife, **. - i'rirri. jr Virgo. srtd
one daughter. Mis* Sarah Clarke
Virgo, both of the home.
He assumed residence in Greens
boro following his retirement from
Saint Augustine's. College, Ra
leigh. in 1915.
Born in Jamaica. British
West Indies. November 21,
I?R4. Mi Virgo attended Ja
maica College in 1906. Tuske
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State's Cops
In Meet A t
Goldsboro
BY ,» B. HARKEN
GOLDSBORO Fifty mam*
bm oi the North Carolina Law
Enfoictuiieiu Officers Association
gathered here for their fifth an
nua! convention being held in the
Dillard High School auditorium
July 50-13. elected retiring vice
president C. W. Hickman of «
Greensboro as their new presi
dent, for 1967-58. Officer Jo#
Gwinn, Winston-Salem, was
chOac;; as vice president after
some animated balloting.
Other* elected were: 8. A,
Venn. Winston-Salem, secre
tary (3rd term); H, G. "Baud' 1
Harris, Sanford, chaplain; and
V* T A maker. High Point,
parlimentarian In re-electing
Frank Price of High Point
treasurer for a second tern,
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