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RISE TO TUI OCCASION—These wen rise f„ wave dollar bills in
response to a call for funds at a mass meeting of Nocrocs at Atlanta,
Georgia. last week. Local leaders in Atlanta called the meeting to dis
cuss the implementation of a recent federal court decision lhal ruled
segregated seating on Atlanta buses to be illegal. 11/I*l TEIiiI'HOTO!,
At 2nd Annual Institute:
Public Relations Directors
laud Weekly Newspapers
BV CHARLES K JONES
CHARLOTTE The Second
Annual Public Relations Institut.-
wag held at Johnson C. Smith Utn
sity here last Friday and Saturday.
» <h Moses S. Belton in charge.
Public relations directors from
many sections of the United States
were in attendance. Representing
ihr CAROLINIAN was Charles R. i
Jones, managing editor.
The college newsmen praised the j
weekly newspaper for its handling j
of news and photo releases "When ;
fie chips arc down, we can always j
depend on the weekly jn get our i
news before the public, it was do j
dared."
After conuderins ih» imcrrlaip- ■
Les of other news media, the val- i
up of ihe weekly publication was i
Lt cessed as ''mValuaftls’' to college j
PR. directors. The weekly press j
was also praised for carrying more |
"f the colleges’ releases than an- !
near in the daily newspaper and 1
other media.
Registration began at !):a.m.
Friday, followed by the opening
Two Dixie Governors Vow “No Mixing”
Patterson
Takes Over
In Alabama
MONTGOMERY Au John •:
Patterson "no compiomise” !
on the integration issue Monday |
as he was sworn into office as Aie- |
bama\ 49tb governor.
The 37 year-old Patterson.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
Cat” Burglar Caught;
Held In A Durham Jail
DURHAM - Potii-e say h month
long reign of looting by a "rat '
burglar has ended v iih the an* •
of a slight, pom pad oil rod matt. •
The apprehension of Paul .Sin k
Cadletr. 20. Durham on a street
cdtner on thf night of Jan. JO cli
maxed a city police-'* idr ain't for
the elusive burglar.
Offirern said S irtlrll rot,
fessrd <f* more (hin '!5 bun;lit
' CAROLINIAN -
ADVERTISERS
BUY FROM THEM
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GU'i ,*• >* Br Mt < oiop *r v
Tire Till :, son o'r
Mr .John W Win*e,'.
rtaiej~u Loan V .otlfinn
I’AGfc «
crroli’ia Pi>w»’ A LtslU f'tuopHlt.'
Ca mulls Bakery
Rali-ith Funeral Hotnr
K E. Quinn I itrr.trtn«■ < „
First-Cfttzens Bank A; Trust to,
New Lincoln Cat*
Wise Domes, Inc.
Davlr Street Lorn laundromat
PAGE: 1
Sanders Motor Company
Capital Loan Company, Im
Hamilton Grocery
Ualeidlt Seafood < otnp.nn
ttollte Vaughan ( it,
tAGE *
olontvl Store'
(Worn Cut Hate rtf,nr*
i ,113 CJ t, cUJVJCE* 1 ™ * * * ■ *
S2O-‘2*i6 *>« Fir tat wt.«
Lotiisvilife » Ky«
| session. The Rev. J. A. Gaston, pro
i motional officer of Smith U. s
I School of Theology, gave the invo
cation. followed by words of wel
,’i»rn,.- by PreSHtotß R P Perrv.
The first discussion centered a
round ''College Public Relations "
i Participating on fhis panel were
j Dr. (marks A Ra,. N. C. College,
j Durham; Joseph J Bradby. U? v mi
| lon Institute, Va.; Dr. H. 1. Fontel-
I lio-Nantou, Fayetteville State Tea*
1 chcr? College: Ellis F. Corbett Adt
j T College, Greensboro; and O. K.
I Beatty, Livingstone College. Soli.--
i bury. All are directors of public
I relation?,
: ‘ Publicily W ith A Pin-porp." was
j discussed by Gilbert Alien, DPR. i
| Wiley College, Marsh,ill Texas. |
| The afternoon session opened at j
j 2:15 with “The Daily Press and ;
! College News Release? " being dis- j
j citf'f-ed by R. L Young, managing
j editor of The Charlotte News; and |
t Earl Heffner, night city editor of i
The ChatioUc Observe!
(CONTINUED O.' PAr.jr 2> 1
Publishers To Meet
J INI INN.-VI !, Ohio— The Na-
I lona I Newspaper Publishers As-
M'l idtion w ill hold a hoard and
membership meeting here. J.m,
Vi -1.
iliiiiam O. llalkcr, president
of the association, stated that
on Saturday. Jan. 21, the pub
lishers w ill nicei jointly with the
Summit Meeting Committee.
't (his session. Ate. Walker
said plans will he worked out
for following op the Summit
Meeting held in Washington, T),
C., hast May.
Roih meetings will be held at
the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel.
lie* Jtmf attempted hr tt r£l?t r r «>•.
in dip Ninth Durham are* disr
iog a a I day period loot a
mounted to about N!7O
i.tft ( apt W K Gisivfi said that
resident-• of the burlarirrd area
!wd taken turns pal rolling the
streets at, night, packing shotguns
vide? and pistol?..
'We hope those people ran get
soine rest and sleep nov ' he said.
Mr. C K<u! I ii limin
raj lor Radio A TV Service
si.imtard I'totivr rttock in
.'lodi rn rinanrr * o.
ftalrlgh (.’onfinVv mo Moi.ist 1
S. ,'t Young Hardware
•• V ! *)
A A p Super Markets
i n Pned system Industrial Bank
f!al«i ;li TV Sn ■ lie
sulli? •in :, Groi pry
iv't.r tn
Woodworth SI Tntn-i-.t 8.,m»
i|f.,ier Veil Coinpany
i ivonrw (osoranrp Agcnr.v
PfDst-J'ota Bottling Co, pf S(,a|.-ijh
C-retina Billtdpr.s Coip
Wat.sun's .Seafood A Poultry Co., lor.
ttmsteed Transfer Co. A Food store
nil.on r,lf tor Finnoce Compaov
llimn'l Esso Service
ItidceWM- s Opttriens
Warner Mem or ills
Bell, SI Hotel
VAC I 1$
Croie Really Com pa ns
White oil company
No C. Proill.let.s
Wake Ctiianee Coinji.iiis
: Mechanics' A' tanners Bank
! wimbei loy Electric CompaiP
| Kearney's Grip ery
i Martin Street Self-Service Laundry
NAACP Holds Two Big Meets In Slate
mt' MQwy North Carolina *s Leading Weekly
VOL. 18, NO. 17 SATURDAY, JANUARY 3d, 195$ RALEIGH, N. C. PRICE 12c IN N.UTeLSEWHEReTsc
Almond Moves Swiftly In Virginia
Accused Os Killing White Woman-
Youth. 16. Held In Secrecy
Arsonist
Must Face
EC Trial
WINS' TON-SALEM Police
said Monday a capital charge of
arson would be placed against a.
30-.vcar-old man in connection
with a fire in an inhabited dwel
ling.
Detective Sgt. Baily Howard
.said Tim McNair, Winston-
Salem, would be charged with
(be Saturday night fire in his
home in which right occu
pants escaped injury. He
could he sentenced to dir in
(be ras chamber, f convicted.
Howard said McNair lived
downstairs in the two-storv dwel
ling. The officer said McNair was
accused of stealing sis quarts of
liquor by James Hall, A tenant
upstairs, and that McNair was
"beater, up" by the man. McNair
(CONTINUED ON PAGE II
E. Rollings
Sworn In j
At Columbia
j
COLUMBIA, SC. South Caro- j
hna inaugurated Ernest F (Fritz t !
' Holdings as its 80th governor Tues
j day and the young Charleston
| lawyer pledged to resist al! efforts
I to integrate the races in the Pal-
I metto State.
In taking the oath to uphold the
constitution of the United States,
Rollings said he followed the con
—
(CONTINUED ON PAGE I)
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IN sH.sr.Aflf. Mrs. Evelyn Thompson, right, sobs dcsparingSy
mi the shoulder of weeping Mrs. Jonpip Simpson at Wadesboro last
week alter a judge refused to upset a juvenile court ruling that sent
their two little boys to a reform school for kissing a white girl. The
boys are David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson. 10. Attorneys for
(he N.A.A't r. who sought to have the hoys released, said the derision
would be appealed. H IM TELEPHOTO).
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BLOK FOWLER
. . . faces new charge
Fowler Out
On Bond In
Shooting
William 'Buck! Fowler. 30S L«
1 Street, this city, was charged with
| assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill Tuesday, in the
shooting of Mrs. Aibertine Connet
Richardson, who reportedly lives
| in the 900 block of S. Blood worth
: Street. PovTea's record includes
j over SO arrests since 1037 He will
: face trial on February i in City
j Court.
Fowler is charged wilh using a
.38 eaiibre pi.sto) to short ihc
victim in the left upper and
: lower leg and striking her a
I hout the head with the pistol
with intent to kill.
Investigating the case was Offi
cers Norman Artis, Alfred L.
Grigsby and C. J. Senwetkert,
Officials at St. Agnes Hos
!»ital listed Airs. Richardson as
“resting nicely” Tuesday night.
The incident is alleged to have
taken place around 11 a.m. Tues
day. Fowler's bond of S2OO was
• paid Tuesday afternoon by 3. w
<CONTINUED ON PAGF 2)
‘Resistance’
Laws Ruled
Out In Va.
RICHMOND, Va, Gov J,
Lindsay Almond moved swiftly
thus week to rebuild Virginia's seg
regation defenses, shot full of
holes by federal and stale courts.
Almond, shorn of his bawd
powers to combat integration un
der the “massive resistance” doc
trine, worked to complete thr
makeup of a special legislative
commission to consider new safe
guards. He also scheduled an un-
Precedented “report to the sta.U; '
broadcast to tell Virginians where
they stand.
Nine schools under federal
court orders to desegregate were
closed last fall by the governor.
Monday's decision by ? three
judge federal court and the Vir
ginia Supreme Court of Appeals
removed them from the state's
jurisdiction and returned them, to
local school boards.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
Ambulance,
Automobile
In Collision
The intersection of Tarboro and
Martan Streets was the scene of a
crash between an out-of-town amb
ulance carrying a patient hi labor
In the hospital, and a 1951 Mercu
ry as 10 a. m. Tuesday,
Both vehicles were practically
demolished,
Mrs Ida Johnson of Fuqua y
Springs, identified as tho patient,
did not appear to be injured in the
collision, although it was alleged
that her premature,baby was still*
born at SI. Agnes Hospital,
Ralph McDonald Jones, 30, of
TU, 2. driver of the Mercury, was
admitted to Rex Hospital for X-ray
of the back.
Police officers *bd Jones was
headed north on Tat born and
James Wright, Jr„ of Fuqua y
(CONTTNUET* ON PAGE S)
Exploding
Coal Stove
Hurts Pair
GASTONIA A «tov» in a coal
company office building exploded
Monday, shattering the legs of a
truck driver and blowing his
young assistant through the door.
Trucker Clarence Patterson, 26,
and 17-ye«r-old William Stewart
were listed in “.serious” condition
al n hospital immediately after
the accident Mrs. Otis Hord, ope
rator of the Dixie Coal Co., also
was in the firm's building but
escaped unharmed
Patterson told aothoritles he
stove "'warming mv lees" when
thr hlitxt shattered the office.
Patter*on was knocked to the
floor end Stewart was hurled
through the doorway
Patterson said that whoa he
found he was unable to walk
he crawled to the nut side. Fire
consumed the interim of the
building.
Firemen said the blast apparent
ly was the result of cowl gas and
a back draft in tile stove.
Hospital authorities • aid M had
not been decider! whether Palter
son’s legs would have to he ampu
tated. Stc.vart suffered novel o cuts,
abrasions and bur ires.
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J. C. BENXINGI lILD
• , , killed for sister
‘BudMungro
Killed; Man
Bound Over
Leßoy (Bud) Mungro. 200 block
of Camden Street, was allegedly
slabbed to death at SOS Love'.
Lane last Saturday night. James, j
Cleveland Bctmingfleld, accused of
the, fatal deed, was bound over to :
Wake Superior Court for trial
Monday. Ho received a prelimi
nary hearing in City Court.
Mutism, 46, was reported slain;
about 9,15 Saturday night in the I
i
(CONTVNTJI'O ON PAGE 2>
L, Lightner
Confined At
Duke Hospital
______ i
La wrence Thompson Lightner. j
president of the Lightner Funeralj
Home, Raleigh, is confined to
Duke Hospital, Durham. His con
dition is alleged to tie “critical.”
(CONTINUED ON PAGE t)
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IHAMMI PA' IVTOONSHINX —■ Framed between two .fliart furs of lYlconshinc whiskey, Woodrow
llimter sits in tJiarlottc lasi week wiih a “woe is me" expression on his face. He whs allegedly driving his
truck the wrong way on a nne-wa.v street when police stopped him. The trouble really began, though,
when, according In police reports, olfieers found IR gallons of Moonshine in the trunk. D PI TU l
PHOTO).
Youngster
is Hid For
Safekeeping
OWING,S, S, C. A 16-year-old
youth was being held in the
penitentiary at Columbia for fate
keeping Monday in connection ;
with the fatal beating of a 74-year 1
old white woman wufo .? shovel.
Laurens County Sheritl c.
LV Weir said Lawrence Childs.
Jr., had been charged with
murder in the Friday after,
noon death oi Miss Cariic Ms
/.ahrth Stoddard. who «a,
known an "Aunt < aerie." (<I
residents of this Laurens Coun
ty Community.
The body of Mu-s Stoddard wa
found lase Friday about. 1“ feel, .
from the back doorstops of her
white, two-story frame house.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE ft
Hold Four
In Two NC
Robberies
j WILMINGTON —• Police Chief
J. J. Fadrick announced Mond-p.
; bight that four mm being held
]nn burglary charger at Laurin
| bill's, bad admitted the I.'c> Jan
holdup of a service station here,
Padrick identified the men a.-.
Charlie Walti r Campbell, 36.
James Nicholson. 22. and James
Bostic, 22. all of Laurinburg, and
Herman Bowden, 26, ot Wilmim:
ton. Padrick spid they had Iren
chatgod with armed robbery and
assault on A. T. Watkins, operator
of the service station
’’adrick also said that Earl
Frank Davis, 32, of \\ toning -
ton and Samuel Davis, 21, of
Wilmington had been charged
with conspiracy in connection
with the robbery. Earl and
Samuel Davis were held here
while (he others were in ihr
f CONTINUED ON rxGP •)
Raleigh And
“Bull City”
Host Talks
1 woof the state s top NAACP
olficiats spoke iu Raleigh nrd Dm ■
un last Sunday .ss the two cities
staged meeting ,
hr. !•:. I dmonris. prf*C
d!!ii of Ihr CtrinMuito branch
ant) professor ,-h Urnnrtt ( <»).
' * here, ' iHikr before. Ih*
Italcjgii branch and arfmon
i.bcrj (hr .tijoiriin- ).i cuniinur
•n fight f<n equal rights in
e very phase it) American life,
•he program held a) the
Martin Street Baptbt (liarth.
Presiding at this session was the
Rev. C P. Meadows, president of
Use local branch.
Carl 10 DeVanr, professor of
Shaw University, and a. membei
al the branch, gave a report on
('.romiNVKn ON PAGE t)
15 UNI'ST WILKINS
. . . found dead
aieart Attack
Claims Life
Os Wife
WASH INC TON, D C .1 F,i -
. ne.-.i Wiikins. Negro memlxv of the
i ‘ wil Rights Corun:! .on n-. i a
; ->)| IV,rr Unit For.; ,-j .: ■■ 0 f T^ a .
j hot, '-vms found dead in h;s hviie
| Here Monday. He was IH.
Wilkins apparently dud from a
heart attack.
Wilkins was named A . Unt i,,.
hor Secretary lot hii -nuttional Af
fairs in March. 1!;,V! IP- resign'':!
irom (hr labor post lasi Nov cnbr
Hc was one of tin- eng mat
members named to in-- ij %; i
i> ! , 'fins Colon.itv-i-Mi :,( : op h\ Con
fcnN'pMiKn on page n
State News
Brief
GOLDEN HI HI I EIHD \EV .7
RALEIGH - Harry Golden o
Charlotte, editor and publish! ;
of The Carolina Israelite, and an
ihor of “Only In America, win
: peak in Shaw University's Greet •
leaf auditorium Tuesday, February
-'i. at 8 p.m., according to infor
mation received from Dr. John
Hodman Larkins, who is arrang
ing the program.
(continOeo on paiu. two)