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MORTICIANS’ “WOMAN OF THE YEAH” Mrs. Jennie K. Morris (right), cboicii “Woman n;
‘be Year” by the National Funeral Directors J Embalmers Publication, receive-, a IfI.SR H imiltn :■
M --• tch Award from Mrs. Oliva D. Ffirhardson. Mr- Morris. Philadelphik mortician «»> ri<c*J *nr > - • -
B®pl*»- service in her profession and outstanding work in c!vi« affair? during the 21st Annual Na
tional Funeral Directors i Mortician* Convention in New York city.
Rapist - Killer
Held At Wilson
WILE-ON Elijah Burgess
$2. «-as held without bond
Tuenday pending grand jury
action on charges ot raping
> 10.-3) ooman and murdering
h«r e-pcori
Eiiri en waived piehm.n
sry hearing Monday and was
ordered held for (be Aug 25
'ertn of Wilson County Superior
Court Police said he had enn-
! f • d both crimes after his
arres.i here last week.
Miss Essie Mae Artis, 4b, (olri
officers she was raped by a
man who shot and killed her
escort. Chester Joyner, 41 as
fhe.v at in a parked car a* a
lover • lane near here the night
c.f July 28-
Bur g ess was arrested after a
house ■ to-house search ordered
bv sheriff *. U Thompson
Ihe -heritf said the murder
’* ■? scon was found at Burgess'
home.
State News
—IN
Brief
NO DOPE ARREST HEARING j
GREENSBORO Sgt Wiliie !
H>cks of Fort Bragg, charged with *
telling narcotic:, waived prelim- i
inary hearing Friday before U. S. j
Conunissioner L Herbin, Jr. and
was bound over to the Middle Dis- i
trlct Court to trial Hicks was re
leased under a $1,500 bond.
The 34-yeas-old man, who if at
tached. to a medical unit, at Fort
Bragg was arrested here Thursday
night while making a delivery of
heroin and marijuanna to an un
dercover agent of the Federal Bu
reau of Narcotics
MAN HURT IN TRUCK WRECK j
GOLDSBORO Roscoe Raj.
of near Dunn, had both legs
broken and suffered laceration*
of !he. head and a back injury
HorJnesday morning when hr*
sk’fcup truck smashed into a
eonrrete bridge abutment a*
ft riling Creek on N C. 103, a
boul id mile? west of Golds
boro A rescue unit from the
Goldsboro Fire Department took
him *o the Wayne Memorial
He-pita I where he was reported
holding his own."
State Highway Patrolman Willie :
Rogers said Bay was pinned in the ;
cab and that two trucks were used j
ts pull the cab apart and free him !
Ray was quoted as saying that he i
ft OVrP.Tf n ON PAGE 2) ■
( INCHES FROM DEATH Ffc. Thomas Mitchell (left) of Latasdfit. O , and 5-Sgt. Thomar H Sharp
jp? Philadelphia, Pa... sit in the truck which the»y were riding in Beirut. Lebanon August 1, when bullets
■ U'id by snipers killed a sergeant riding in the truck with them The. slain soldier was identified as Sr!.
Terr** % Mottles. 3®, of Ohatse, Fla, The Army mid the vthitrv actideniiy entered a “No Man's” .section
’J Sksirut. (Newsptfcsa Photo).
•phe sf andar & Pr int. i g 0 *
S. First St#
Louisville,
Co upleSen ten ced
In Morals Case
Mrs Ruth Solomon. 31. s Raleigh
j white woman, and Billy Hill, 3?.
I also of ihis city, were freed Tues
| day on charges of fornication and
adultery, but received prison sen
j fences after pleading guilty to in- ;
j decent exposure. The case was fn
i ed in Wake Superior Court
Presiding over (be present
term was Judge Herman Clark,
who allowed a defense motion
that no evidence, was put on by
the State to support the forni
cation and adultery charges.
Mrs Solomon wps handed - year
j ;n Woman'.'. Prison, while Hi.il re* J
! reived lg months
Both were arrested or May 27 :n
! ~n establishment known ?> Mack's .
i Tea Room en Cross Street Two po !
; lice officers testified Monday that ■
, Mrs Solomon and Hi’! were caught 1
Lott Corey Convention
To Richmond, Va, In Sept ,
RICHMOND. Va.—According ft*
the Reverend. Wendell C Somer
ville. executive secretary, the Six
ty First Annual Session of the Lott.
Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Con- I
vention will be held with the Fust j
African Baptist Church, Richmond. |
Virginia, September 2-5. 1355. The
Reverend V. B. Williams is the host
pastor. He will be assisted, by the ;
various pastors of the city in en- ;
tertaining ihe convention
Preceding ibr offcii.il <>nr«
tng of this histone missionary
convention. a mammoth pre
convention musical program
mil be held in the Belgium
Building on thp campus of Un
ion University, Monday eve
ning, September J. Professor
Admit Two To “White”
Schools At Greensboro
GREENSBORO • Two Nr urn
children were admitted to a pre
dominantly white school hern by
action of the Greensboro Board
of Education Monday, while oth i
Negroes who had made transfer
requests were rejected
Reginald McKny and Con
stance Regina McKoy. chil
dren of Mrs, Luvater McKny,
were (he ones admitted to Gif ■
lespie Tar!. Elementary School.
Last year they attended the
Blufnrd School for Negroes.
During the 1857-1958 session,
five Negroes were admitted to the
Gillespie Park Elementary School
and Junior High School. I‘ is re
m bed together during j raid on
the place about, noon
The judge aa id the evidence pre
sented fey the State didn't meet the
lecjnicements of lav needed to
prove fornication and adultery. The
’aw provider that, habitual vioia
tion must be proven
Mark Bunch, operator of (he
Tea Boom and Mis* Etta
Brown, an employe, pleaded
guilty «n operating a bawdy
house and aiding and. abetting,
and were handed 16-mouth pris
on sentence??, snsnendrfj ««
condition thej psy fines of SSO
and costs.
Through hit attorney. Bunch a
iirecd not to try to reopen the bu
siness, which is. now padlocked un-
CtSONTTNt’ED ON PAGE 31
W, E !’.)tterr-r?r! of Norfolk,
Virginia b (’irrenttv training
a chorus of one hundred votr.es,
consist ns of tinny of the lead
ing singers of Richmond and
vicinity.
The executive board of the con
j vention will meet on Tuesday, Sep
-1 ember 2nd, at Fiist. African Bap
| list Church Dr W. L. Ransoms,
Richmond. Virginia is chairman of
| the board and Dr J Harvey Ban
• do!pt«. Washington. D C. is vice
chairman.
The highlight of the session will
be the report of the executive sec
rets rv It if stated bv Dr Somer
ville that tlie r uncut fiscal year
tCONTINttrD ON PAGE 21
•. ported that four ptipijr. will return.
• ; A fifth student failed
Two Negro pupils. Alone Mattt
* son and Gloria Jean Blair, re
-1 j qucsled tran-slms from the Negro
r i Dudley School to the white Senior
High By a vote of 6-1 their ap
j plication? were denied. However.
I Dr. William Hampton Negro
; Board member, dissented with the
j dec: .ton,
Nine othei Negro pup Us wanted
i to transfer from, the Booker T.
I Washington School to all-white
schools, but their requests were
:! turned down.
IJ
■ 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE J*)
MEN PROTEST “SACK” DRESS
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
VOL. 17, No. 16 SATURDAY, AUGUST 16. vm RALEIGH, N. C. PRICE 12c IN N. C~ EtSEWTIF.RE lsT
Seek Roadhme Killer
Youth, 15,
Found Bead
!n Auto !
LOUI3BURG A police search j
is unden? y for a Negro coed- j
house operator who will be cues- :
ironed m connection with the bru- !
U1 killing of a youth. 13, last Sat- j
urdav night
Coroner Raymond Wood has '
identified the deer! youth as Wilke i
Lee Richardson of Lomsburg. EFD •
2 The boy war. found m a blood
stained ear rear the Silver Slipper, i
i roadhouse near Centerville, 1?
miles east of Loussburg; Wilke j
Boone }° is Operate; of the . i)y , j
bllppr-r.
The number one suspect is Boone '
ra-cordißg to the police
It? dewrihing Richsrd son's j
(CONT.NIIED ON PAGE 1 1
Males Tired
Os Looking
At The fi Sac.k M
yew VOLLC—A. group of effemi
nate European dress designers' «
accused of rdottih'g'' to 'de-empha
sue the feminine charms of Ameri
can women when they created the
sack: dress a prominent psycholo
gist charges
Dr Edward C Harris promi
nent Negro clinical psycholo
gist addressing a. charm class at
Ann Prince’s Broadway mod
eling school, said that the mass
pretest? *»f husband* and sweet
hearts has resulted in the sack
dress being junked by mil
lions «f women who suddenly
realised that on them this h''\
Ills' - - type of gown looked hid
eous and war one of the re,
sons wb? their men had stop-
(CONTtNUED ON PAGE 8)
Hearing
Held For
Haliwas
WAR RENTON - - Thr Warn n
County Board of Education list
ened Monday night as attorney.,
sought to prove that a group of
citizens seeking stole funds for a
private school are Indians by an
cestry.
The Warren County court room
was crowded bv over 35 persons
for the hearing on the request of
the group, described as HaUnra
Indians, for assignment, of their
children to an Indian school.
Members of the board of educa -
tion ; rotn neighboring Halifax
County, where some of the Hall
was live, safe m informally on the
hearing.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
Congregational Church Wins Bonus Money !
Top Church Bonus Money thi:
month will be awarded to the
First Congregational Christian
Church which reported a, total of
$1,683.00 in purchase slips. Fuat
prize is SSO 00.
The Davie Street Presbyterian
Chure h, reporting $1,041 20
wound up in second place. Prize
for second-place winner is $25.00.
Third prize of $15.00 goes to the
Fayettevihe Street Baptist Church
which reported $260.21 in sales re
ceipts
The new Church Bonus:
Money Month begins Thuiv
day, August 14, and endt at
midnight, Wednesday, Kept em••
her 24. The month will be
comprised of sis weeks, (here -
by giving more churches, a
chance to enter and try for
lep Bonus Money.
Contest rules are found on page
2 of each edition. Read the rule a
carefully, arid look on the front
oage each week for names of
CAROLINIAN advertisers Patro
nize these merchants and turn
vour receipts or purchase slips
over to a representative m vour
church every Sunday morning.
The awards regularly given
to winning churches are SSO,
first; $25, second. sls, third,
(CONYO4UHI ON FAGS 2j
Kerr Reservoir Now
Open To Alt Races
j IllL IB® a..
I fe. W r* m # 1 ! 11
j * .... {
HP ;■ *“ MMfe :
*
ihrtf conventions join golden \nmversary salute ... it* -aw »,e--.. . f
America, the National Bankers Association, ;<nd the National Busbies* L* - irue. jo-..-.i
harn . iVierhanlcs and Farmer* Bank on it- 59th annive.r ir.v in Duiliam on 4«s?r.i I. With .wej ••
I million in resource?- hank has grown from outfit authorized w»*h jto nip m capital iund m init; }<-.,■
I Hieue are John If. Wheeler, president; N. B. White, chairman of Sic •■•in- Committee .-ir,
three national eonvention*; L. B. Frafser, president of v C. Riisiner.N league ar. - ! »fee ?>»!*!» »m ni j: ..n
amt Professional Chain; and Miss Sara Poison, president of Durham chapter of Hon cwPes >,«. [
America.
N. G. Teachers Association Asks For
Equal Distribution Os Escheat Funds
j DURHAM The North Caro
| Una Teachers' As:Tv, a Negro or-
I garuzation. has railed for a con
i stitutional amendment, to allow
I escheat funds to be distributed to
j all oi the state's institutions of
j higher learning
j _ Escheat funds, derived from
I heirless estates, unused bank de
| posits and similar funds, now go
j exclusively to the three bmtche:-
| of the Consolidated University of
j North Carolina.
Prof. James T. Taylor of North
| Carolina College here urged the
i chance in a letter to Gov. Luther
| H Hodges
Taylor, chairman of the legis
i lative commission of the teachers
i association with a membership of
j S.OOO. said that the constitution j
j should be altered so that the funds I
j can be apportioned equally to all |
i state colleges instead of just the i
’ Consolidated University.
He said the funds amount to i
| “several hundred thousand do!-!
Mars’’ and are used by the unfver- j
| sity lev provide scholarships for j
! needy and promising students.
CAROLINIAN ———
ADVERTISERS
I
NBSBMBISsSr
iPAGE is
; O. tv Clothing
; Marry c. Phillips Real Estate
; PAGt .1
I Creative Home; Corporation
| Capital Lorn Co Inc.
Mother <4i Daughter
PAGE &
j Tb» Capita! Cora-Cots BottUn; Co., Inc,
; Hudson-Belk Company
; Mr. John W Wenter!,
,PAGE S
Town & Country Tire Companv
I Webrter .5 Biks Parhoa- G ■ ill
Brooks W Poole
Famous Bakery Company
Posse Jewelers
State Finance Company
Security Realty Co.
I Firestone Stores
I VitbiHstwi Terrace Ape
I st,, Ai!tusHn* t College
!PAGE V
| F»=!)'.'!' Motors, list:.
' Joyce A Biiiey Furniture Company
: mnou Mo tot co.
i PAGE S
i Colonial Store a
j 8. M Touhf llardwat# Co
Mr C. Kari Llchtma-i
I lUvtd G. Alien, Coatr.
j Taylor Radio A TV Company
I N.C. Products
! Gem Watch Shop
'‘Since tliese funds are derived
from the estates of anv North,
Carolina citizen with non-exis-1
tent, heirs, it, appears only just j
and in accordance with the non-!
No Charges ,4s Official j
Os State Injures Youth
Highway Patrolman D. M. Dy- i
son said Saturday that he had [
: completed hla investigation and;
no charges will he made in the |
case of a 10-year-old youth, who j
was struck Thursday afternoon by j
a. cai’ driven by the chairman o,
the State Boar I of Education.
Willi am Dallas Herring, 4:3,
white resident of Rose Hill, dr>y- j
itiK a 3935 Packard, reportedly j
struck Joseph Riley of Route I. :
Garner.
Riley's condition continues j
to be listed as fair, according |
so authorities at St. Agnes
BUY FROM THEM
, Raletsh mineral Home
i PAGE 5
A. A P. Super Markets
| Crosu. Poultry
: Ambassador Theatre
R E. Quinn Eurnltura Company
Poole’s Pie Shoo
i Goes Russos Hatters * Cleaners
! Bolden ice Cream
First-Citizens Bank A- Trust Co.
PAGE 10
Rlood-AorttN St Tourist Homo
Mechanic, A Partners Bunk
Heater WeU Company
Cavenesa Insurance Agency
Pepai-Coi* Bottling Co. oj Raleigh
Carolina Builders Corp.
Watson's Seaiood & Poultry Co , lac.
Winstead Transler Ce. A Fori more
Dillon Moior rinanra Company
. Dunn’s Esso Service
i Ridge way a Opticians
Warner Memorial*
Deluxe Hotel
PAGEJU
I %. K. SCres* Co.
! PAGE SS
! The Hoot System Indust.i. i and
P>g?ly Vtiggiv
A fas Realty Company
New Lincoln Cate
! Electrical Wholesalers, Inc.
Lowe* Grocery
J Perko Cleaners
■ di.criminatory tradition* of our:
| democracy that these funds be ap- \
| portioned on an equitable basis to!
i all of the state's institutions of i
I higher learning 1 wrote Taylor. j
Hospital, where he « . ■> aid to
be suffering front bead inju
ries. Voting Riley is the son of
Lcßov Riles of the Garner ad
dress.
The accident occurred jury
north of Cleveland School Road
as Herring was to Dh ? !,
to keep HO •.i'O-’-
evnor Lo.miiv* v, : - ■ tba
officer said
Herring 3:, alleged to have told
officer Dyson that he war, headed
north on Htghway 50 when he taw
the boy arid a playmate on the
left aide: of the road.
Another car, headed south had
just parsed the youngsters when
young Riley dashed from behind
the vohieln and iruo the path of
Herring’s automobile.
(CONTTMILIJ ON PAGE 2)
ATTEND PHARMACEUTICAL CONVENTION -- Dr.. R E Wim
barley, dr.. left, and J. I', Hamlin were among the North Carolina
Pbirmacißb attending the convention of the Nationa! Pbmna'tuthal
Convention ic Tiftsburgh Pa last week, Accompanied by Mrs ft t
Wimbtrlev, a member of the Woman'.'. Auxiliary. the b >< 4,1 group ar
rived m Pittsburgh Monday night of last week and departed for fti-
Fiidav UlOfflir.?, Tire. j M ffv.
Dg*. Wtmh£?l±y> chaplain nf t.r> ~ ■sfpfyp- 4 iM&t. *pptwa-
ptrsoAF* *«« & ixu£u&&£ ph%i 'fr&is-
And children ‘
REP. AI*AM f'LAYTOif POWELL
Powell Is
Victorious
In Harlem
]
j -*-*n Pov-t'.i, j r „ o': '&*-
j fested Earl Brown. ,1 Tamnianv
i Cnngr w : , T»>-rday.
i £<r-f f»f *?«"'' f )>f:- - 4 ■.. I
resfc.fi:- fcy rn.ir, twrziln nt „
! ff> f jft Art r*.n -.•? i c-.r *i/ f •''
Ottt of -* i Os H* ir< VZ'A r l«.jn
Sheriff Hill
Not
At Kbit loLo
fezy oei. may
continue to u-e the recreation
areas of nearby Satie; v hit:? Point,
on ,?ohn H Keri. Reservoir with
no feai of wferff-rencs from
Vance County authorities
B herd! * A said
y?<,r.,l l* y ih . { ';;■■ ) . -j,
to bar the Negroes from the
ri i ',vea,tl«>n aie.-m, fftc-mefleciiy
intended for use of whit' on
b, hecabse *n, rimuerty i -
owned hv the {■•••leva! *lO
- and no t irial --egreg*-
tlop vs periyip fed
Co ft! ell -aid he had recev. ?.J
several complaints ihst ’arse
number?, of Negroes had made ik 2
of the pieme sheltei s and swim
{COr.Ts? l r !!!) ON FACE 2)
Attorneys
Argue In
Holt Case
! m JLUfCCS 80Ilf..WARE
| Tnlking ineftireb'e'. hoarse at
: tanm. evos. ed vr=i'ha! swords last
: Friday ae they diieruiecj t-heir
I sides in case of Joseph Hiram
j Holt. -Jr , vthe Ralc-ign .-c-ho-'l
; hoard ay <-fa! arguments before
■ | Federal Judge Edwin hartley of
• the V- B. Ra stern District. Court.
The Holt case is jfce first, tnie
j eration test in Raleigh and will
no doubt Met the precedent for the
j entire State.
I Young Holt .15, previously at
tempted to obtain a court order
, which would permit him to enroll
| m the all-white Needham-Srough
ton High Schoci. The boy has
j been, denied entrance twice by a
{CONTf.VI.IRO OS PAGB 3)