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VI f LFt THE HRE Looking at sonic of tin beloiigings, nine
'car-old Gloria f*can Truitt weeps at Chatanonga. I'cnn.. attei hei
home arid two others were riam.iseri hy fire. The blaze broke out hi
Hie Truitt liciiir and spread to houses on either •ddc Minds with
gu.st"- up In 55 mitrs an hour whipped through the cit damaging
fm’rr lines and knocking down trees. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHO-J
TO).
Washington Terrace Fire
Claims Life Os A Chi
A 1 ■• o-tnonfii-dd baby girl died
Monday at- a fire swept
l.vcwgh her home at K b Washing•
ion Terrace just, befor*- noon.
The peath of Polly Linda Austin,
daughter of Mr. and Mr? ■ • oar.
Austin. was' attributed to Miff-" v
* h- ?h« ■'»> found dead •« hen Ra-
P ;b firemen arrived at the- ?cen*
cf the fire.
* * * *
Carolvn Yvonne Airtin Fnl
h s sister, suffered severe hunis
on her arms and legs and is be
ing treated at St. Agnes Hos
pital. the origin of the blare
had not been determined at
press time, but it seas specu
lated that it might have, start
ed in the kitchen. An oven and
Sheriff Testifies As KSan
Boss s Trial Starts In NC
LUMBERTON—The B»v. Jsm?
W. (Catfish! Coles trial got under
way here Tuesday with the testi
State News
—IN—
Brief
WINS FIRST PLACE
RALEIGH Quevie Thorn psor
18 see cf Mr and Mrs Charlto:
Thom peon, West End. North Car
oliaa won first place recently i:
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AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY The above cone was photographed at the back door of the bom's
of Air. and Mrs. Lyman Austin. K-5. Washington Terrace. Monday after their daughter Polly Linda,
two-months-old. suffocated to death during a fir- 3 Polly's ’A.ter. Carolyn Yvonne, is being treated at.
St. Agnes Hospital. The children's mother wav lie .l led at the hospital lor burns and released (STAFF
PHOTO BY CHAS, R JONES).
oor ijn|l t>f an elerfrir ulm-i
up,? found burning.
The jfi'ide of pse ap.art."»*n- I
j "•-;- env fcv the iue de.-pite I
| eftprt; o* fn -pien Four P.uoi-,?. • ere l
1 ien' to the feecste
Both children were reported!'.' \xi
i her! v h»n M * t'.-e at ~:.. :ir -‘ - c c;
! shortly before neon
M's Viis*in. the mother of
ttie children, hj> reported hv
a, neighbor to have been out
i side the apartment in the court
j lawn when the fire started,
j She was suffering from shock j
and reporter! in no condition
I CONTINUED CM PAGE ?)
ps mony of the .Sheriff cf Robeson
r- County that, he warned Cole that j
i- the. Indians weir upset over tus
- plans to hold aKu Klux Klar. Ral- j
lv near Maxtor
A large group of Indians routed
the Klan after the rally began in
an open field. Th» Grand Jury in
t dieted Cote for inciting gas riot in
volving Indians.
Sheriff Malcolm McLeod was the
only witness for the State.
Testimony began in the, af
ternoon after an all-white, all
mate jury was empaneled in the
morning Four Indians were, fits
missed from the panel of ju
*w. One Negro was also ex
eused
The sheriff said the Klan had
,n come to the scene heavily armed
r * H« testified that * couple of day
ln 1 prior to the rally he and two high- j
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DR. NELSON HARRIS ENTERS RACE FOR HOUSE
THR CAROLINIAN
VOL 17. NO. 24 RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1958 PRICE 12c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c
Rev. Hamans Wins Contest
Garner Mass Meeting Called As
300 PARENTS PROTEST
Parents Air
Views During
Garner Meet
HI CHAKLES P JONES
G.SRNEF Some 500 parents
: gathered at, the Wake Baptist
1 Grove Church here Tuesday night
and voiced protests against tne
administrative policies allegedly
being carried nut at the Garner
Consolidated High School.
Chaired by the Revs. Clyde
It. \\ alf on and Irvin Davis,
the. meeting sot underway at
j 7 .0 p in. with the announce -
nvnt that the new FTA would
be formed that would “In
rti'de th !> parents of the stu
| den-;, attend) ig the pchnn! ra
ther than the Afa.riwtt PTA.”
This statement was made hy
the Rev. Davis. The school
now has two Parent-Teacher
Associations.
. . » *
The uni'.'t ihnt reached a cli
t »h» Tue dav night meet
:nv - reported to have started
wt-.en. raJ<=te;.|n workers si. the
srur.nl walked oft the job *e«enl
avefcr. ?>n -if) pi Wirtg placed u*t
••’<• ••??,-.•. j.j.'r of a teacher
An orner from Mat* officials teas
•■' r - A M irriott, onncipal
(•■ the -*l'Ool. as the reason for
.the change >n case ten a manage
j merit.
Rev. Davie listed the croup's
grievances a? follows; cafeteria
problems, gymnasium problems,
bus uregularities and ihe absence
iof extra -curricula activities.
He said tire new PTA would
; petition Marriott for better condi
i ions in the above-listed areas or
■we will withdrew our children
[rout the school as a, last resort.”
Afariott,. who was contacted
\? < due-day morning for his
irtc of the incident, labeled
ihc meeting Tuesday night, ae
illegal,” He said that there
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Life - Tenner Ib
: Wounded At Cary
A Negro hfe-tet m prisoner was
treated in Central Prison hospital
Saturday for a leg wound received
when he was shot by a deputy
warden.
OH ci 1 -aid the convict War
thaw MilPr, 35, was being trans
ferred to CVnt’ al Prison from the
Folk County Prison Farm near
Cary (or reclassification when he
slashed a guard with a knife.
When The Negro advanced on
Deputy Warders L. R Temple h*
as ;hot in the left thigh The
j wound was described as "not sen*
' ous ”
1
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tS» i'V \ * ' *
PORTION OF PROTEST CROWD Some of the 300 parents who jammed the Wake Bapli'-t
Grove Church. Garner, Tuesday n. hi to protest alleged conditions at the Garner Consolidated School
and form a new PTA are shown above. The parent., plan to present « petition to the rnineipal >< their
nevt. meelinp, sehednled nnt week. STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS. R. JONES)
Rev. T. C. R. sans Gets Sgrprise
Win As Ministers’ Contest Ends
Like, a grand slam bom-run Rev j
T. C. Hamans shocked all-comers j
in a final effort, to win first, prize I
of SIOO ;n the Ministers Popular- i
if.v Contest which ended Monday, j
March if).
It was a remarkable
that overtook Rev H W fun
iiighatn. pastor of First t’on- |
Sfregaiional Church Raleigh,
and who bad held th» number
one spot since the first week of j
the contest.
Rev, Hamans r- the pastor of i
Manly Street Christian Church !
and he entered the contest after it j
had been running four weeks,
Second prize, a botany suit, was
won by Rev. M W. Morgan, pas
tor «f First African Baptist church
Girl, 3, Plays With Matches,
Causes Deaths Os Three Kids
Robert Terry Back In
News- Fingers Wetzel
SANFORD Negro hitchhiker j
Robert Terry pointed one- again !
last week to Frank Edward Wet- !
zel as the driver of a 1957 black j
Oldsmoblle the state claims earn- j
ed a lone killer who gunned down :
Final Week Popularity Contest Standings
REV., T. C. HAMANS, Raleigh ... 13,1.10
Manley Street Christian Church
REV M. W. MORGAN. Goldsboro 10.710 1
First African Baptist Church
REV. H. W. CUNNINGHAM. Raleigh . 10.140 j
First Congregational Church
REV. U R. BOOKER, Ruxboro • 4,6j0 I
Jones Chapel Church
REV. ROBERT L. SHIRLEY. Raleigh m 1
East Davie Street Presbyterian
REV. R. W. BUTTS, Jamesville ... <MO j
Piney Grove Church
REV. F. D. FULLER Guilford m I
Reynolds Chapel Baptist Church
REV. O a STOKES. Wendell 444!
Riley Hill Church
REV, L. 8 PENN. Raleigh 289 ,
St. Paul AME Church
RiJ.:v s. P COOK, Klttrell m
Holland Chapel Church
REV. JOSEPH . AMES. Jamesville . . 199
St. Galilee Disciples Church
REV, EUGENE BLACK, Guilford i2C
Raleigh Cross Roads AME Church
REV. M. L JOHNSON. Guilford IDO
Persimmon Grove AME Church
REV. A. R WINBORNE. Plymouth 70
Chapel Hill Church
REV. T. B. HOYLE. Elizabeth City 30
Church of Christ
REV. O. S. BULLOCK, Raleigh 30
First Baptist Church
REV. J. W. JONES. Raleigh 20
Fayetteville Street Baptist Church
REV. L. C. CHAPMAN, Kmston .. 10
St. James Free Will Baptist, Church
CONTEST ENDED MARCH 10. 1958 I
I Goldsboro, who polled s total of
i 10 ”10 vote?
Rev. H. W Cunningham. Ka
i ieigb. placed third to win the
i Gleneagle topcoat, with 10,710 j
i votes.
Eighteen ministers • entered
the seronri Mtinsters’ Poputari
i t.v Contest. Nearly half of them
began participation after the
contest bad run four weeks.
| The next, contest period will be
gin on March 20 and will end May
i 12. A list of the prizes will be pub-
I Hsbed next week. «
j Churches that anticipate enter
ing the contest should organize a
news boys' club, so that, your pas- j
*or an mak® a Sputnik take-off ;
the first week.
j two state highway patrolmen.
I The state sent the nervous young
i lay preacher to the stand in Lae
j County Superior Court in an s.f
(CONTINUED ON PAGE Z)
This is the second ministers pop
ularity contest sponsored by the
CAROLINIAN The first ended De
cember 21 and the Rev. J. W. Jones
pastor of the Fayetteville Street
Baptist Church here was the vic
tor.
Remember to dip the coupon
from the front, page of the paper,
fill it in and forward n immedi
ately -to The CAROLINIAN. 513 K.
Martin Street, Raleigh, Coupons
will appear in next week's paper.
The Carolinian wishes to thank
'each church member, pastor, and
church who took part in the Sec
ond Ministers' Popularity Ccniest.
You are invited to participate in
the next contest, which begins next
week
CONOVER —Three children died
Monday in a lue apparently start
ed by a fourth child who was play
ing with matches
The mother of one of the
victim carried Serena Finger,
3. from th* burning 10-room
trams house hut did not sc® the
other three children in th?
room. Tiir three victims -us
Gregory Finger, Z. Teresa Ab*
ernathy. 2. and Anita Sims. 1.
Hospital authorities quoted .Se
rena as saying she was playing
(CONTINUED ON PAGE W
Fourth Week
Os Church
Bonus Opens
The fourth week of the Church
Bonus Money Program began on
Thursday, March 13, and end' at
midnight. Wednesday, March 20.
, There are six weeks included in
this mouth and it will come to a
close on April 2 at midnight
A new rule, which will affect
churches participating is that
those rhurrhes with 200 or less
members may win consecutive
first place awards, but church
es with over !00 members will
have to wait, according to the
rules listed on the front page
of this edition until a sub'e
nuent bonus period to become
a first place winner. This dors
not mean that a church with
over 200 members cannot win
'•rcond. third and fourth place
every time.
Many new ‘'hurchr- are now
(CONTINUED ON PAGE V.
Educator
Files For
House Here
Hy STAFF WRITER
Dr. Nelson Herbert Harris, di
rector of teacher education at Shaw
University and director of the nm
fCONTiNIiKP ON FA(U: *)
Medics Say
Campy May j
Walk Again
GLEN COVE. N Y \n -•
eouraging hospital bulletin thr
week renewed hope thvt r,iUber ;
Roy (Tinpaneiia c( ihe An
geles Dodger.' ms;, yet walk a
gain.
The administrator of Community
Hospital here, whet e Caibpanc !ia 1
n-ir Iv'.'n confined since hi*- auto
mobile accident. Jan 28. staled that :
the Dodger star's "general condf- i
tion shows some improvement" I
during the last two week?.
This wa? the first bulletin issued
by the hospital since Feb IP. At
(CONTINUED ON PAGE ’)
1,000 Hear Rep. A. Powell
In NAACP Talk At Durham
.■YURH*,>t -- "th- FowsH ?tp- t
-ndmisn' win not aHow iafothev |
Jim Crow school to be built <n this !
count*'. • Rep. Adam Clayton j
Powell. Jr ID- NY) told 1,000 per- !
sons attending the openi <s cere
monies of the Durham NAACP
Origin Os Fire Which Burned
Mine Homes Still A Mystery
Investigation has led lota! au- . - —— —er rz.
thorities to conclude that nine va- !
cant houses, located in the south* j ffl Cj! J|»
west, section of Raleigh, ur.-t off U ®* Iwf'l feJ
Fayetteville Street, apparently were ;
deliberately ?<■» afire. Monday This g, ROBERT G. SHEPARD
area is designed for a Fedr, d Hou- |
sing project and work is -edu!
ed. to start m the next few » -ek* I HELPING OUR YOUNG PEO
PLE: We hold no brief for the de-
B H. Carper, City Manage', j trader'- and pessimistic denoun
said (hat h» and f iic ( hlef . , are forever knocking our
.tack Heeler had drrifiH rat- young people, and who would
lie? that- destruction of the i, p. e you helicve sha 4 ih p pr-£-
wooden homer, hy fire would ,ril, generation of youngsters art
((CONTINUED ON PAGE I) I (CONTINUED OH PAGE, 2)
Church Bonus Money Buies
All purchase slips or Krt.-.p?- presented to your church > 11st com* b*oa
stores advertising m the CAROLINIAN.
Each week carries a date in the Bonus Money period Purchase* eligible
mud come from the store during the week the • ad ' app« »rs
No purchase slips ropre anting a bustness should be submitted AU receipts
must come from individual purchase::.
All churches ip Raleigh and Wake County are eligible.
Ail purchase slips must, beer the nerve of the store Lorn which the pur
chaise was made.
All purchase slips should be submitted m (he name of the church; tad
Should tie in the office of toe CAROLINIAN the Monday following else* et
Bonus period
In order that smaller rhurche* may hair an equal opportunity to share In
the Bonus Money the follow mg regulation is expedient Ho church of over
SDO members arill he awarded Ist Bonus Money consecutively i e should *
church of anr, or more members receive Ist fcootn vionev after the tvrst period,
it would have to wait until the third Bonus period to bn presents! Is*, award
again, except where a church has 200 or less members, than M could ww. top
Bonus awards consecutively However, .bis does no' m»an that. *»eond and
third awards cannot he sought eonsccutiveh’ Conseouently every church grsug
has the opportunity to secure an award every period.
No purchase of mer SSOO from any one merchant Curia* a week css be
counted.
There Is * celling of $33 par person * week for ernte*y piucha***.
I" the event el the same amount of purchases by more thru one entry, th*.
award will be divided.
Weekly purchase totals should he shown on each packet and total placed OR
*>« outside of lbs envelops carrying th* period'* entry along with name and
address
firmu* money earner* will be announced U) the Issue following the ejesteg
ttf curb period.
All entries remain (be property of Tbs CAROLINIAN
All tallying in final when the names of the Bonus Kuan earners are as*
not!need in The CAROI-fNIAN, and no responsibility Is accepted by (hi* hew*,
paper bevond lhal point
No receipts frov. banks will be < op-.idered. except payment on mortgages
This Week, ’s Advertisers
The merchants listed below are CAROLINIAN Ss?fl is
Money Stoirs.
PAGE J
handers Motor Co
Dr. Catherine Middleton
PAGE I
Lite Insurance of Georgia
i Mother A Daughter
1 PAGE J
Hudson-Belk Company
Raleigh Funeral Home
Electrical Wholesalers. Ui r
The Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc
Firestone Stores
Washington terrace
PAGE 6
Gus Russo— Hattirs X Cleaneis
Winston Mutual Life Insurance Co.
R E, Quinn Furniture Company
| Carolina Power A Company
O. K. Clothing Company
PAGE 7
Carolina FHtitk
•Joyce & Bailey Furniture Company
PAGE *
i Colonial i>'ore'.
First i bttens Bank a trim t nmparty i
I A M Voting Hardware company
Gem tv.rt.rti Shop
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Sfi&. <■&? v fA , -w <#»•>
.|>\s S& JKJf : ..JM
OR. NELSON HARRIS
Government
Official To
Speak Here
The honorable J. Ernest WilMss..
assistant se ictary of labor, Untted
States Department of Labor, will
speak at, Shaw University ta
Greenleaf Auditorium Friday. Mar,
21, at 10:00 a. m.
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wpk o**-
4 t^|.
J. ERNEST mLKINS)
j (-•o :V -.- • 3 drr t here ’Monday’
j night.
When the federal school eo»*
trurtion bill comes before Cob*
sress this west- •* s going to have
DOMINOED ON PAGE 3»
Civelia Beauty College
N C Products
PAGE !»
\f. P Super Marl-eu
r\GE in
Gloodvorlh St lonrist Horn*
Mechanic* 4 Farmers Bank
Heats? Wet! Company
cave nets Insurance Agency
Depst-Col* Bottltec Co. of Raleigh
Carolina tluilders Corp.
Watson's Seafood 4 Poultry Co . Lne.
limstead Transfei Co. A Food Stor*
Dillon Motor Finance Company
Dunn’s Esso Service
Rldsewa.v's Oplirtan*
Warner Memorials
Deluxe Hotel
PAGE 13
Famous Bakrrv
Miss Phern Swift
PAGE Ik
Rhodes Furniture Co
trine Realty Company
I Hunt General Tire Company
Mr C Earl Utchman
The Baud Sv stem foduftrtal Bank