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: x '%*. :ijfr Jy£ : j i j ~• W iPwß^a^wWfewwS? eat rf-gfigpy a « jMfflMMpKpMß|> " ®@ ‘ *'- I |PaBB3SI GIVEN WAKE COUNTY HONOR - Pictured above is Mrs. O. H. Roberts, left, as «hn «•.?» presented a plaque hy the Wake Count', Teacher *■ Association h.r thir(\ years of valuable service, in the schools nf Wake Count \ ( . A. Robinson. President of the Association is shown making the pro nlation. Local NAACP Retains J. Williams As Prexy Hi CHARLES R -JONES ‘l T!i r Raleigh Chapter of <tie N. f Conference of NAACP Branch es re-elected all of its officers for _ 1 joiin mu i» ms .in. ..... .NAACP president STATE • BRIEF CLEARED IN BRIBER V CARY Mrs. Mma .Boyd, 25. ot Cary, was cleared m the local Recorder s r otlit Tuesday of affpmpt.mg to bribe Police Chief W. A JHpa.rkmnn or a. driving charge December 4. She was freed during, a preliminary hearing Mrs Boyd who resides at. 116 Ferrell Street here, was tom d guilty, however, of a careless and reckless driving charge and orr.ered to pay $25 and cost Attorney Robert, McMillan- Jr., represented the woman. Sparkman .-.aid that after the arrest Mr Boyd approached him and asked him to use hi? position as chi to art the charges dropped. \fSGIES •TTIRISTEN" NEW COLISI ! 3J GREENSBORO.-The AAT f'otlcse Aggies "christened" (CONTIM CI! ON PAGE 21 Sen, Herman Talmadge To Introduce Schools Plan WASHINGTON lf no more! objections arise against, a consti tutional amendment new being j Wife Slain GREENSBORO A ’fiM'jr. «W mar> wan rh at-cert with mur der Thursday after fellitic op Hoe he hiUod his wife because of her drinking- Frank Small, held without hunt! tn city jail, walked Info ♦he- tvLdice station Wednesday niihf ind surrendered. His 33 year-old wife, Annie, died from multiple xfab wounds. SARTORIAL SWITCH — King George Rat'idi 111 of Toro, West Uganda, h a. changed man {at right) an he sails for home aboard the Queen Mary, Dec 10th. When he arrived iri Manhat tan, Nov. Ist, the African monarch was attired in more unusual style (left). (UPI PHOTO). ‘ithe coming .year, except the ■;* ; ... tary. John Williams. Jr,, is presi dent Meeting at the Martin Streei Baptist. Church Sunday at 3 p. it>.. members of the organlza Hon heard a dynamic a dr! res*, hi the Rev. Charles W. Ward who spoke on the subject. “What Price Freedom?" The Rev, Ward admonished oe ! listeners to fight for "’tit is right, | and urged the men of the colored race to stand up fin the rights of j the women. Citing instances in Macon, On where hr formerly post ore rt a church, Rm Word painted a bright picture of wtial the tv.-gri eon achieve by diligence and non violence. Presiding at thr meeting »» | President Williams j ,\ secretory will be decided upon i during die firs! of the year. | Other officers rc-olpcb'd wen the ’ Rev C P Mi adov - 'ice president: Clifton Sills, treasurer; Ralph Campbell, Membership sec* | retary: entertainment W F Petcr fCONTINFFB ON P.M.t !> reworded for re- introduction at the, next ser-Mon of Congress, states will gain exclusive control iovr-v public schools in. the future. | Ser. Herman Talrnarice ■ D-G-a. l ] will rr-introduce the amendment I each' durim tlv next session of Comr.f r -s, his office announced on i Monricy »,a*i session. the amendment was introduced by Talmadife :in<l Sens. Harry F Byrd am) A. Willis Robertson of Yir t-tnia. (.htrn Hill and Inhn 1. Sparkmau of Alabama: Olin !v .Johnston of South Caro lina, .tames O. Eastland and John Sfennta of Mississippi, (rnvrtMW ON PAG? '*) ignore Va. Law: Court + + + + 4*4*# Rural Wake Woman Raped ly IA ly M. rth Carolina's Leading Weekly PRICE 12c IN N C.: ELSEWHERE 15c VOL, IQ. NO It SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1959 RALEIGH, N, C. Cemetery Murder Trial Before Jury HODGES SPEAKER AT ST. AUG. Mecklenburg Trial Opens; Jurors White CHARLOTTE An all * white male jury was seated Monday to heat the trial of a convict charged with the cemetery rape-slaying ot aii elderly white widow. Mrs Foy B Cooper. 78 The ly jurors were chosen from a iOO-member special venire after attorneys had examined 36 venire men The remaining mtititm of tSm ventre «rrr ordered hi Judge Hugh Campbell to re port back to court Tuesday s ot selection of an alternate juror. Attorneys spent the day in choosing .jurors for the trial in Mecklenburg County Superior Court. The s late will introduce evi dence in the slaying after the al ternate juror has been seated. (CONTINTTKD ON PAGE 4) 2 Fight: Cop Is Victim SARALAND. AJa A policeman was -ho! io death and another of ficer was wounded Sunday night in a gun battle at Saraland Town Hall between police and a man whose wife was charged wi«h pos session of illegal whiskey. Hie husband was then shot and killed by the owner of a hunting and fishing shop nearby Saraland Patrolman Norman 1,. Read, 34. a veteran police officer, was Head on arrival at crONTWTJED ON PAGE ?> tzy Kiluif JkeiiiMn tvv Bluff Superintendent !• *>• Jlwdow* w«* discharged on Tuesday by (Sic State Prison Owtnlssion, The Cotnmtetiion'* In vcxtlgation "rlcarly Mlabllshwl thol personnel laxity wa« the chief reason" foi the cm ape of ‘!0 convicts, Including 4 Negroes, last week. Major Mack It. Hubbard, a ion-ranking custodial and training officer at Ontrui Prison, replaced Meadows immediately. Director IV. F. Bailey In explaining the laxity responsible for Ihe break said: “This laxity included failure in utilise properly and lusriict adequately the custodial personnel, failure to check the bars of Individual eelis. the failure to lock each security door . . and the fa Pure lo hold th«rod*h melodic shakedowns of segrega• lion cells.” Norfolk Can disregard Pup:! Placement Edict NORFOLK Va -- The Norfolk School Board lias been told it can ignore Virginia's controversial Pupil Placement Board in consid ering future applications from Ne groes for white schools. Federal District Judge Waiter I Hoffman ruled Wednesday that the three-member State Pupil Plaee ment Board's policy of denying all such applications was unconstitut ional. "Tlie malady «f massive re sistance lingers on," Hoffman commented. Wake Victim Says Youth Raped Her BY ALEXANDER BARM'S Wake County Courthouse—ln an effort to get. the facts, the writer is behind bars and seated v ith a !7-year-o)d lad. who is being held without bond, for raping a 40- year old woman Edward Curtis. Jr., without tor. Witch concern and no hesi tancy, relates h»nv he had a, desire to give venf to his feel in go and went, over to the home of Mrs 'Letha Jones. St. 7. just about midnight on Dee. S, Curt!* told the reporter shat he vm lured to the place by baring heard the other boy* l» CAROLINIAN —— —— ADVERTISERS — Bm FROM mm — PAGE t Sesltest Ice Cream CompMiy Horton’s Cash Store PAGE 3 Winn-Dixie Food Stores Nash-Btee!« -Warren Famots* Bakery Central Pharmacy Tony Associates PAG* 5 Rnfison-Belk Company First-Oltlrens Bank & Trust Co The 3. W. Winters Company Page « Carolina Power & Light Company L <t W. Tire Company Restful Pine* Country Cluh * Motel Umstead Grocery &• Transfer Co. Capital tee «• Coa> Company Gem Walch Shop Kaieigh Seafood Company Raleigh Funeral Rome Rafeish Paint A Wallpaper Co. PAGE 7 Weaver Brothers Auto Sale* Consolidated Credit. Corporation Stephens Appliance Company. Inr Carolina Bulck Company W». V e -t; - D rt ve - It Harris Barker College Cooper’s Bsr-B-Qm Joy’s American Grill Fov.r-n s Nursery PAGE 8 Colonial Stores. Ln<\ Standard Cinder Bloch Company R. E. SJuinn Furniture Company Modern Fhiance Company A'•me. Realty Company Taylor K'tilo Sc TV Service C. Karl LJfrhman He said the adherence G* *, State tan ijjy student assign ments "would he futile whea the exclusive power of place ment and enrollment I* invest ed in the Pupil J’laceinrut Board.’’ Twenty • two Negroes attend formerly white schools here In cluding 4 admitted by the Place ment Board itself when Hoffman threatened the agency with con tempt of court, ♦he wasnranffcr folklng about his victim. He related how he knew that her husband, Nick Jones, was s short distance away, with some of the neighbors Curtis said that fcs kn e w Mr Jones would not be ! coming home soon and that this i was a fine opportunity for him to ! realize his desires. He alleges that, 1 he went »o the home of Mr* Jones i and tapped lightly on the outside i door and thought that he heard a j voice saying, "Corne in “ He elan alleges that he walk* froNnvtmis from pack r> iPAG? * Bust Reisers.! Tire Cenpap Davie Street Cote rjauridrotaai Kflrd’s of Raleigh A4-F Food Stores, fisc Raleigh Savings * t«a« AtwdaM | Tiia Capita! Coca-Cola Bottling Co. PAGE iO j Blood worth St cent Tourist Some Ridgeway Opticians Carolina Bonders, Otc. Caveness insurance Company "-UP Bottling Company Dillon Motor Finance Company Watson’s Seafood & Poultry Co Bankers Fire Insurance Company Warner Memorial* The iVpsi-Coia Bottling Company PAGE il 1 4. Fallon Company, tnr. Electrical Wholesalers, Ibc. G *s. (Mlai Company Stephens Appliance Company S. M. Young Hardware Store Gus Russos Hatters & gleaners J Speedy Wash | Washington Terrace Apartments ’ Odom Cut Rate Clothing ] Wood's 5 and 10 Cent Store I PAGE IS Ambassador Thesstr* : PAGE IS ; Dima’s Esso BwrvJcetrter Jerome’s Touriat Home ! PAGE 16 i Mci,Fod & Watson ! Paul’s Washerette Carter’* Inc. ! Mechanics A- Farmers Bank 1 Firestone Stores, Inc. Trip Abroad nv MARCUS H, BOtfLWA P P At tho invitation of Hi** Forum Committer, Governor Luther Hod ges chatted with the students of tit, Augustine’s College for a short white ttKoui hi 9 ' trip to the Soviet Union along with nine other gov ernors last. June end July, Governor Hodges was speaker at, a special convocation which was held m Taylor Hall at 11:30 a. m. The itpy topical observations, at cording t© the Governor were that ill the Russians are a highly Intellectual, healthy, educational and cheerful pro plr, and that (21 there Is no Immediate sign that the Sovi ets will revolt for the people have so much more now than they had under the C'rars. fCONHWSEO ON PAGE 2? Worker HT\ 9 ¥ Dies In CHARLESTON; S. C _ Charles ton officials said last week a 44- year-old workman was killed in s cave-in during repair work on s broken downtown water main Charleston County Coroner Jen kins Csuthen identified the worker as Ben Edward* ei Charleston Heights. Cautnen sa i d Edward’s neck was broken during tha mis hap fallow workers testified that fCOMTSWUE© ON F'AG-h 2) NATIONAL PREXY ATTENDS LOCAL HOTEL MEET— Region 3 of the Nahonmdi \ Hotel Association met at Starksvilia here last Wednesday. Business ol importance was trbnsacteo and a banquet followed. Seated, left to right, are: C. H. Williams, regional president; Mrs. Helen Starks, regional secretary; Mrs. Bonnie McEachin, 2nd vice-president; and T. R. Hagans, nation a! president. Standing, left to right, J?. A. Math ham, chairman of the hoard’. Miss Faye Henry; Mrs. B. Ludlle Paige, national secretary; N. A. .Eggleston: W. E. Brooks, national treasurer and ( /. H. Ward. Not present lor photo was Charlie Mason ol Chapel Hill. (Stake Photo By Cna*. i R, Jones). GOVERNOR HODGES AT ST. AUG. —Governor Luther H Hodges, left, is shown shortly after conducting an informal chat on his trip to Russia, with St. Augustine's students last Fri day. On the right is Dr. James A Royer, president of the college In the left background is an aid to the governor. Miss Lightner ¥eep Six Llgon High School students were among the more than three hundred from throughout North Carolina meeting at Highland High School, Gastonia, December 8-11, during the ninth annual conven tion of the North Carolina Aw on ation of Student Councils. Five 1.-igon High student took an active part in this convention Hampton Haywood, a t.igon senior, an outgoing state president wei corned Miss Barbara Ughtnei, a Junior, into the position of vice president of the stale association \k vice-president, she will serve, as chairman of the sum nter workshop project, and will represent the stale at the Twenty-fonrlh National < o n ferenee of Student Councils at Jaaesdllr. Wlseonsip ip .tune. tUNt. Other Ligonltes partfcl patlne were Viola High .lames Johnson and Delete Johnson (cnminin) on pag*-; n IJS Te Tt ci F Beating Charges ROANOKE. Va.—Fifteen colored teenagers including five girls, faced charges of beating four i white* including a child in a crowd watching a downtown Christmas parade last week The Negroes w ere charged j Wednesday with maliciously > assaulting Charles Gra-yblll. 20, Farm Owner Comments On Tuesday’s Crops Voting Wake County joined other North Carolina and United States farm ers Tuesday in overwhelmingly consenting to assess themselves 10 cents a bale in (hr next three years to continue a cotton promotion program. The ccdhplete vote in North Car olina was 20,141 for the issue and 1,301 against it Commenting on the »p --oroaeblms vote Monday night was Garre** Laws, of Game' well-known Wake Count y fans# owner and agrienltnre teacher at the Berry O'Kelly School, Method Mr. Laws said: "Wr are dr ’ |j| miss MinrrNHi and his Hi-year-old wife, Rrpp da Mrs Gayhilt said she iv:u kicked in the hark ami knock ed unconscious and her hus band was slruek in the fare. Mrs. Tiiomm- Sconia.s and her 14 H ONTtNI EU ON PAG I :* f finitely r oner rued with Nr groes voting in our area. f CONTENT ED ON PAG 1 •> I ons COLtIMBM The search continues for two Negro con licts who used a dtimrt true'* to escape from a Richland roonty work cans ear*y Tbm ■ | day. Police say 20-year old James Keith Robinson and IR j year old Floyd Goodwin escap ed from a work del ail. Roth men are serving IS-year sentence? for armed robben.
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