TUB UAJtOURiAII WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1359 I ligoii High School Items j NCT COUNSELOR SPEAKS AF LIGON BY RICHMOND STEWART W J Holloway, former court selbr artd acting principal at Ligort High School and now director of personnel at North Carolina Col lege. was the main speaker at a colorful ceremony to install th# student council officers, held in the school's auditorium. Mr. Holloway, who left LigOn to attend the Uni versity of Illinois to complete the requirements for his Ph.D. spoke briefly.on “The Impact Os Chang ing Society Upon Youth." The counselor spbkO first, of the many Ligon graduates doing well at the college in Durham. He con tinued by speaking Os the present responsibilities On the shoulders of the students as a result Os uncon trolled pOwers and its effect On America, due to technological ad vancement. Mr. Holloway stated, “our pro grarnsnirr not in many instances prepare students in the wake of advancement.”- "The changing names in the headlines are sym bolic Os a rapidly changing world." “Man s adventure into outer spare ha* opened up a new world for ex ploration. ‘ HafnptOn Haywood, senior a* Lie on. Save the introductory remarks for the program b> reporting on his trip to Williamsburg. Virginia. lasi week to a stnriOht council pre sentation. The officers up for in stallation were presented by G 1. Fox well, assistant principal, to H. F Brown. principal. Mr. Drown made the installation official. The officers installed were: Bet tv V. Stevens, president: William Crockett, Ist vice-president: Dei sm John'on. 2nd vice-president: Pa tricia Gill, assistant secretary: Al - Mann, secretary; Annie ,10an W’lson, treasurer: and Joseph Ginns. parliamentarian. P'at form guests included M>'s. Sadie Griffith, cast president of th* Thompson School News Mrg. R L. B; - aydt's sixth grade flar-s of Thompson School present ed * program entitled. "A Review of etcher and United NatiOns.” The c'a.'s highlighted some of the imnciriant events of October such as: Discovery of America known as CoHitnbii? Day. ftirth rtavs of Pi-rsidCnhe that occurred in Orioh A r. Fire prevent ion Week. UaMcwcen. and United Nations Dav. For United Nations Day. some of the countries were represented by winm''dances and narrations. The pupil* attired in proper costume? representing the following rn I n. m.. the junior choir of Shady j Grove Free Will Bapitst Chur'!.. Snow Hill, will participate in The i regular Sundav afternoon worship | hour The public is invited. O'P.crry School's dance group nart.icipated in a PTA latent pro } -ram at Carver High School. Ml 1 O'ivo Mon '’ay. Oct. 5. 19.19 ; M,. Owens. District Scout F.xc ! cutive, met with O'Berry School Scout Troop Committee. Monday, i Oct. 5. to sri up a training program ! foi committeemen and Scout Ma*- | tors of Troon 114 which will start | Monday. Oct. 12. for a three week j period | Members of the department of ! training and education attended ! the Southeastern Rcgmp of the A ! mcrican Association on Mental De ficiency in Raleigh on Oct 8-Kl A GRID yLTTJRF DEP A RTMF.NT OF CARVER HIGH SCHOOL Magazines were given to O Ber ry School by the agriculture de ; partment of Carver High School l of Mount Olive, under the direc tion of Mr. A. L. Fox. agriculture : teachrtr. The staff faculty, and student body of O'Berry School extend our ! sincere appreciation for ihe tre I in one of the 62 countries where I that kilter is being fought; 5c provides the penscillin need ! od to cure a child of yaws, the crip -1 pling illness for which 27 million ; people have already received treat ment in 27 countries with UNICEF help; 10c will provide about 50 glasses I of milk for the children of large ! areas of the world where this S health-giving food is considered n | luxury. it is hard to believe that of the 999,000.000 children in thp world, two-thirds are sick and hungry, few have even the cru dest health services and mil lions die yearly when a little more knowledge would save them. UNICEF is supported by volun tary contributions. The Rev. Janie? Bushee. assist i an! paster of Pullen Memorial Bap tist Church, is head of the drive. ' mendnus effort and support given !by Mr Fox and the Agriculture ' Department in securing magazine? | for our students. O'Berry School had its first basketball competition October 22 'as Richard Costner, scoring 21 I points led his team to victory over the Wild Cats from Four Oaks. Trailing 13-9 at half time, the Falcons from O’Berry School put ; on the steam with Costner leading the offense and' Ambrose Joyner the defense to a final score 34-2 1 I Leading offensive player for j Four Oaks was D. Sovlos and the j defensive standout was C. Barfield I Miss Mattie M. Stitt was hostess |to I.es Souers Club member* i Thursday evening. Oct 23. at tiv I home of Mrs. Channie M Barnes on East Spruce Si. After the busi ness session four rounds of Pinocle were played First, prize. Mrs. Ru by fnman; 2nd prize. Miss Tereasa Middleton' 3rd prize. Mrs. Lillie Swann, guest prize, Mrs. R Me- Keithan. Members present Mos dames Addie Thornton. Dorothy Burton. Irene Jackson. Janice Mr j Neill. Betty Joyner. Geraldine Hud i son and M'ssrs Mamie L. Hoskins Margaret MeKcithan. A delicious repast was served. Sunbeam Temple No 447 I.R.P O Ens W. celebrated its 19th anni versary Sun . Oct 13 at Mt. Cal -1 vary Baotist Chmch on Denmark St. Smith Chanel Male Choral Group of Ml. Olive, N C. rendered the program Mrs Cora Hateher of 11! W. Pine St. continues to improve from her j recent illness Mrs. B J Daniels of Newsome Street is confined to her home by ! illness. We are happy to report that Mr. C 1 Bland, who was appointed ; principal of the Virginia Street | School, succeeding the late Mr. R C Christian, is doing a fine job and is much liked by his faculty members and his many friend* are j wishing him success in all of his efforts. The Rev. B R. Richardson left Sunday evening to ait.end th* Easl ! orn Area Briefing Conference in Evangelism in New Jersey October ! 26. 27. This conference is sponsor j cd by the Division of Evangelism, j United Presbyterian Cbureh, USA Thp Dillard High School football team journeyed to Greenville. N. ! C. to battle the team of Eppes High iru v ctiviN \Jt\ i a “FIRST” BY HOSTING TOURE (CONTINUED PSOM PAG# I> The Guinea President i* one of the unpredictable leaders in Afri can affairs. Because of his report ed hostility toward France and his apparent “middle of the road” poi se. he is eyed with skepticism and interest. Born in Faransh, Guinea, the 37- year-old statesman left school at an early age and studied indepen dently Hi? formal training was ac quired during the terms spent at the School of Koranic Studies in Kankan. Guinea and George Poiret Professional School. His career began when be held a position as clerk in the post of fice administration of Guinea. In 1945 he wasaappointe e Secretary General of Postal Union of Guinea. Since then he has held various po sitions in the Guinea governement and took a leading part in the for mation of the Autonomous General Confederation of Labor. He has served in the French National As sembly and as Mayor of Conakry. His leadership is largely re sponsible for the achievement of the Independence of Guinea in October, 1958. His present positions, apart from being president of the Republic, are President of the Council of Ministers and Secretary Gen eral of the Democratic Party of Guinea. He is also charged with Foreign Affair* and Na tional Defense. The Republic of Guinea covers an area of 94.901 square mile* lannrox j imately the size of Colorado* and has a population of about 2.507.000 inhabitants: 9.500 are European*. Som* 50 Americans reside here a* missionaries. “I PLEAT) NOT | GUILTY,” GR AVES I tells judge (CONTINUED FROM PAGF D ing bis capture after s crowd began gathering near the county jail. Graves has denied any connec tion with the crime He wa.= brought here Thursday arid lodged in the county jail. SURRENDERS TN W AKE CO, KILLING (CONTINUED raOM PAC-Sl ti life If he cam* out of th* woods, where he had hidden sine* Saturday. | Dowd was killed when a single i shot from a .22 calibre struck him | almost directly between the eyes. | FACHJTIES"OF~ $. C. AIRPORT DENIED JACKIE (CONTINUED FROM PAG# il ing room an his arrival, and again when h* left. Billy Fleming nf Manning, chairman of the state NAACP committee reported ' that*Ui? airport manage! and a. city policeman were waiting for them to he seated. "When we were seated, the man ager came over and told us we 1 would have In leave—that we could I not sit there " The Rev. H P. Sharper of Flor ence, first vice president of the state NAACP. who was in the group, told the manager he was comfortable where he was and that he would not move. Fleming said, “we refused to go into the colored facilities." Robinson urged Greenville Nr | (jroes io register and vote "1 won der what would happen in Groen * ville if all of you went down to vote?" he asked. I. H. WHEELER. STANLEY HOPE IN NAVI, POSTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE D where he resides. In 1956. he was a panel member for a sninosium conducted by the College Fund in j New York City, with the Honor j able Chester W. Bowles, as princi pal speaker. INEGRAION CASES NOW ON DOCKET (CONTINUED FROM PAGE U dure* under - th* North Carolina Pupil Placement. Acts. Th* lawer* argue, in seek ing! an extension, that recent decisions by Judge Edwin M. Stanley of If. S. District Court here cite aperitif details for the first time in stens required to constitute exhaustion of sd admtnistrative remedies so the matter msy be taken to federal ( court j Two school integration suits in- I volving the Greensboro School Board cOme up for pre-trial confer ences under motions bv the board Pt asks dismissal of ihe suits on grounds that the children involved have beer, assigned to the schools they wished to attend as set forth on their assignment or reassign ment applications. One of these suits has been ex panded. however, because of the merge of a Negro and white school located on the same property, | School. Friday, Oct. 23. From the size of th* score. 22 to 0. it was | likened to the time when Rom* j burned while Nero was fiddling. Better hick nrtxt time Tiger*. A musical tea was sponsored bv the East End School Sunday eve ning, Oct. 25. with many id at tendance. A musical program was rendered by individuals, group*, and organizations, *ll of which w»S enjoyed immensely. Mr. Jessie Williams, s U S pos tal employee of Philadelphia, Pa . is visiting his mother, Mrs. Bettie Williams and other relatives on Poplar Street. Mr*. Emma Tart has returned frOm Stamford. Conn., where she visited her sister who hai under, gone major surgery. She is now Claude Barnett, Journalist, * r 1 Named NCC Founder’s Speaker DURHAM The Dean of United States Negro journalists, will deliv er North Carolina College's 12th annual Founder’s Day speech on November 3. Ciaude A. Barnett of Chicago, director of the Associated Negro Press, will speak ai exercis es memorializing the late Dr. James E. Shepard. Barnett, globe-girdling chief of the biggest independent new* gath ering agency in he country, will talk in Duke Auditorium at 11:00 a. m. The distinguished journalist who recently returned to the United States from Africa, i* expected io he accompanied by his wife, glamorous singer Et ta Maten, After the Duke Auditorium memorial service Founder's F»ay principals will participate in the traditional wreath-plac ing at Dr. Shepard’s grave in Reechwoori Cemetery. “Competc”ce-Not Color important To Africans,” AST Audience informed GREENSBORO—An audience at A&T College was fold last week that competence and net color is the thing that Africans respect in those who come to aid them. The speaker was Di. Williim E. Reed, dean of the A&T School of Agriculture, just returned to duty last week after a two year leave He had served tis chief of an eight man team of American specialist* conducting a project for the In ternational Development Services in Ghana. West Africa on soil and water conservation, a land plan I tiing program and the control of blood diseases in cattle. USHER-CHOIR MEMBER IS | SLAIN HERE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE !) #r the plight of his four chil dren, left motherless by the bullet, outweighed what, he thought the jury might say when he faces the charge of being responsible for his wife’s death, rouid not be ascertain ed. Mr. Jefferies set and listened to the last words and even follow ed h ;r body to the cemetery where he heard the “Ashes to Ashes" arid “Dust to Dust". He kept the stoic look that he has had ever since the shooting as he told the CAROLINIAN newspaper about the incident and his family, Just before the funeral. He was quite cooperative and never at anytime showed and remorse or fright. He answered questions freely He showed no signs of having been mad enough to go to the bed and take a .22-caliber pistol from under the pillow, and due to the fact that there had b>n a misun derstanding about a recent trip to Washington. D. C. Neither did he appear so disturbed that he would grapple over the fata! gun to the extent that it, would ex plode ana kill his mate. Whether he was still trying to dodge tiie alleged bottles or the j reported knife in the hands of his I spouse did not react in his face or in his demeanor. I He related how he married the woman in 1944. who then was the mother of three children. He also related how the union had added ' (our more, making a total of sev | on. H* said that she was Miss Ad eline Hcckaday and had been ! reared in Wake County. He said 1 that her father was dead, but her mother, Mrs. Ada Hockaday,, lives and apparently they were on good terms. Mr Jefferie* tried to find a picture of his slain wife and even tried to gel one from her mother. The interview was earned on in the kitchen of the home in which the shoot ing eecnred and quit# a few members of the household chimed in or iooked on. Mrs. Jeffries had been a menv *-.#>?; of Maple Temple Church for i -about seven year* and was quite jg- i-v* She was a member of the j Floi aJ Club. Maple Temple Chor us and Usher Board No. 2 1 ST, AUGUSTINE’S : SENIOR DIES • SUDDENLY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) j He graduated from Charity j High School, Rose Hill and ii sAid | to have matriculated at A&T Col- ] j lege before entering the Episcopa' i i school. He was a veteran of U. S j Military f*bi cos. | G. F. NEWELL” ! PRESIDENT OF TEACHERS HERE (CONTINUED PROM PAGE l) ! urer, D. R. Ingram, i The state executive secretary of I classroom teachers. Mrs. F.rfna C. | Richards, brought greetings from ' the state headquarters and r\- I quainted the teachers with varj. j | ous national materials that are *- I vailabie through her office. State Briefs . (COVITNUKrt «•»»» PAGE ») , Ahead." Dr. Larkins compared the conditions of the world in the | formative years of the PTA and at j the present time, noting that be i tweeen 1897-1959 “the world has ' completely reversed itself— all Asia | has broken into our awareness j with cataclysmic impact " G. V. ALLEN AT MJAW I “T*V,» Wilt ftArlin 0V,8,l ! nail il|||| | | |TI lilllllll nil* M. Jtlh CLAUDE A. BARNETT In making his first public ap pearance since his return, he spoke at the observance of United Na tions Day. The program, sponsored by the International Relations Club was held in the Harrison Audi torium on Tuesday. October 20. fie made ib# statement in answer to the question on whether those African nations which had gained their inde pendence had any preference as to race of those technical workers being sent to them He said that color is rela tively less important in the na live African. “In his marrh in is not (he long ranged problem.’ declared George Venable Alien, di rector of the United States Infor mation Agency, in his address *0 students and faculty of Shaw Uni versity on Friday. "Morp import ant. is the fact that there has sud denly happened the awakening of the great masses of people in the underdeveloped world." People of India, Africa and other foreign countries have, in the past been unaware of what has been going on in Un rest of the world: but now due to mnrirrn methods of com munication, they arc awake and want to become a part of the 20th centurs. They arc not going hack to sicep, and w# have an explosion on our hands, h» warned. They are demanding to join the. :10th century, and it w ill be a measure of the quality of the United States as to how u* meet that, demand. SEARCHERS RECOVER ROrtV WTLMINOTON Coast Guard searchers Tuesday recovered the body of a man who drowned Mon day while coon hunting with two companions in a 14-foot skiff The body of Sam Jenkins, .tit. was found some 300 yards north of the bridge across the northeast Cape Fear River The boat over turned in rough water and Jer kins’ two companions, who had life jackets, reached shore safe’;-. Dr. KoElman Speaker At Hampton HAMPTON. Va - Americans are growing up in what is the most important part of our national per sonality our capacity to under stand and respond So the feelings and expression* of others, both ir. our own and in other cultures." Dr Edward C K oil man. director Os the division of general educa tion at Hampton Institute, declared last w#pk at an all-college assem bly Old bourbon , 3 ..0 W niSICOV TtfKWS WXmtJWA eOM»Skhr uwuNeatur-«, Kentucky The Barnitt’s are expected to b« : house guests of NCC President an* | Mrs. Alfonso Elder during then i stay. They are leaving Durham aft#- the service for Washington where the will be among guests honorin’ M Sekou Toure, President of th« Republic of Guinea. President Elder will introdur Barnett at the Duke Auditorium program. Others participating in the ex Orcises include Dr J. Neal Hugh ley. College Minister; the piece marching band under the d rection of R H. L. Jones the T< ■ voice mixed chorus directed h- Samuel W. Hill and Robert Kor negay. President of the Student Government Association. ! Barnett founded the Associated ! Negro Press in T 919 i In addition to his work a' an in j tcrnational journalist and news ex I ecutive he is a trustee of Tuskecc* wards greater freedom th* African of today is msr* ib (crested in prop!# who can bring about effective results.” he said. The speaker stated that Mi-Min ers who go to Africa are fare with three problems which mu?’ he overcome before substantial re sults can he obtained. These ih eluded the- differing language 1 used in each of the nations mak* communication difficult, the artifi cial divisions within nations and difficulties in dealing with repre sentatives from other advanced na (ions already at work within thee countries Mrs. Harwood, Eighty-Seven. Passes Here Last. rit*j for Mrs Flvirtc’ Dun Norwood, 87. who succumbed 1 an extended illness Monday nigh will be held from the Chapel i Si. Augustine's College. Thul'Sd.? at, 3-.?0 P M with Father Jo' ph N Green, Jr., presiding. Mrs Norwood wbo has resided Raleigh since U-Hfb lived a! 3 Heck Street jvit.h her sort ,l»! She. is sai-1 to have rendered !o years of service to St Ainuirtlr and her counsel and assist. iw the girls of that institution t known to have been invaluable She was also very active In *' fraternal life of the city, ha-,, been the first Daughter Ruler i the local Elk women She m • considerable contribution* to *' development of that group Ph was also the first president es th local Women's Auxiliary of M American Legion. She became interested In the Legion due to (he fa<-t Hie' her Sate son. Charles Norwood, is reported to have been the firs! soldier r,f color to fall in the line of duty, during World War I. If is t« h" re membered that the Inca! chap ter is named in his honor. Mrs. Norwood was born in tL Ncu.se section of Wake Count' and .spent her early yo.tr* there where she married Charles T Norwood who preceded her In death by 15 years. To th* union was horn three so tv-. Th* thu’d of this trio now resides in Wash ington. D. C ALLAN MIMS, n c o r r o n a t r,n (-OKI) SALES and SERVICE Telephone 2-SI9I 2ZS rARBORO AT. ROCKT MOUNT. S. r.