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Tornado Lifts Home: 3 > Persons Escape Injury One Pol see Ilegsi. Reports 30 Car Thefts In One Night THE COROLINIAN VOL. 19, NO 19 *sQ(s Simtiimiss Jain Chain Strike: CAPITAL CITY OUST Charlotte’s Cops Seek Car Thieves CHARLOTTE—At least 30 pea pie reported to police last Wednet,- j day that articles were missing from j * their automobiles when they came out of the Coliseum Tuesday night after seeing the Harlem Magicians in actios Police said a group of hoodlums pilfered the sport fans' cars white they were parked in the to? Traffic Captain James 8. Stegall caught four youths in the parking lo I. Judge Howard Arburkle s*m teneed Pan! Mcllwatoe, Jr.. 16. to * year la prison last Thurs day for bis part to the thefts. Bureau Sgt, Tommy Ginn, said (eomiNDiro on page p Starke Quits U. . Os Fla, GATNBVTLLE, Fi3. One o! | the only two Negroes enrolled at. the University of Fiends has dropped out of school, according to official reports on Saturday. George Starke, » law stu dent and the first Negro to enter the school, had been on academic probation. However, that nor say ©llrer reason was not given for hi* not register log for the spring semester. Th® 38-year-old vete ran waa in his second year of law school- Esther M Langston, a medical student, is she only Negro now at tending the school. Her grade* are described aa satisfactory. CURRENT, EAST PRESIDENTS IN SESSfON The president end pit presi darttsi of the Funeral Directors and Morticians Association of North Carolina, Inc., met here last sThttrsday at the Raleigh Funeral Horne. They were also in sesston with the Emhfatners Board oi N. C. &t the Capital Club Building. Left to right, front row. are: Percy Rivera, Winston-Salem ; C. A. Haywood, Sr., host mortician, Raleigh; L. E. Garris, Fayetteville, current president; C. C. V- Stokm, Sr*, Rocky Mount; and L. B. Haizlip, High Point. Center tow, left to right: A. R. Kelsey, ' Salisbury; C, H. Morris. Leurinburg. Back row, left to right: P. L, Shepard. Oxford, arid Georg? B, lAtm, Kinston . (Staff Photo By Cm as. R. Jones). * North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C . SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1960 .< :- ;-' k: "?<' iw jml ji j TO COMPETE EOF NATIONAL AWARDS The above three students of Ligon High School, along with one not present lor photograph , will compete lor national honors in an art awards protect in New York soon. Their instructor is shown, second from right, reading congratulatory letter. They were among 100 North Carolina winners of Gold Key Awards this week. Over 1,900 en tries were nidged and 149 winning pieces of art were selected. From left to right are: James Herndon. Miss Barbara Arm Harp, Miss Mable C- Bullock, art instructor at Ligon, and Walter Dav is Not photographed is Bennie Mack, Three other students, Ken neth Catmady, Norman Dolby and Brenda Cooke, of Ligon re ceived certificates of merit (STafk Photo Bv Chas. R Jones). Durham White Woman Wouldn’t Know Rapist DURHAM A white ma.rripd woman charged here on ‘Friday that she was raped by two color ed men she cannot, now identity In the meantime, police are hold ing three young men for question ing in connection with the inci dent. The 36-yewr-old woman said she was coming from the grocery store with her 6-ytar-old daugh I ter when two men approached 1 her arid asked for directions to 3 j Du i ham street. She. said ©or grabbed he? by the throat and pulled his j handkerchief over her face, j They dragged her down an j embankment ok the side of the ! sidewalk, polled her across < CONTINUED ON PAGE Si Six Raleigh Stores Scenes Q[ Lunch Counter Strikes M A YOR WILLIAM G. ENLOE ISSUES STRIKE STATEMENT BY CHARLES R. JONES The "sitdown strike” at lunch counter* ?tt several North Carolina cities reached Raleigh Wednesday morning. Promptly I*t 10:30. some 300 silent students, from Shaw University and St ; Augustine’s College look seats at food countess it! Wooltvorth'a, S. H. Kress, McClellan’s, Walgreen’s and Eckerd’s Drug Stores, and Hudson -Belk Department Store. White, pa-trofe, who usually oc cupy most of the seats during this I time of the morning, promptly va* ! rated them . The counters at McClellan's and Hudson-Belk closed down. A sign reading. ”Restaurant temporarily closed” was dis played st McClellan's. Lights j were turned off at the facility, but the students continued to sit. So me read, others talked MAYOR S STATEMENT Raleigh has long been proud of Its friendly and cooperative race relations and has valued highly the contributions of Sale Os Facility "Wrong' JACKSONVILLE, Fla Four men said Friday a move to sell two city-owned golf courses rather than integrate them was "an art, of subterfuge” and asked that, the I sale be stopped. | Federal, court last April ordered the courses d segregated The city I then closed them. Shortly after, a ! private group, Deerwood Club, Inc., j began building s private course, j which will open late this summer, i The petition filed Friday said ] golfer Fred A. Chioto, now In Use process ©t baying Use city | fCONTBTOKB ON PAG® 36 j 1 State News -IN— Brief —— r -| .1■! IIMH. “MOTHERS’ MARCH” NETS 5300 RALEIGH —THe "Mothers' March on Polio,” conducted here recent ly, netted SSOO of the total $llOO raised for this project. Mrs, Lillian Freeman, an ex-president of the ,T. W. Ligon School FTA, headed the "march.” A fashion »bow and organizations raised the re asoning 5600 Many Raleigh mothers donated their time and efforts to task? the "Mot hers' March" a huge success. «• V * * LOSES CONTROL OF CAR, DIES STATESVILLE— An 18-year-old Catawba County Negro was killed this week when he lost control of his car as it crisscrossed a high way and overturned. The victim. Pleas Hinton Johnson, Jr., of Hick ory, was desd on arrival at States ville Hospital. A companing, John Franklin Bruner, also of Hickory, (CONWiioik -ON FAG* 3> 3 Harnett | Residents Uninjured LILLINGTON—A tortißdo with winds sounding "Like g. freight train” threatened to blow away a house here when winds unrooted it and carried it about 30 feet Saturday. Thomas McCormack, his tsdto and brother. icnstH* of the house, reported that they were "pretty scared” but that no injury had come to them < CONTINUED ON PAGE 2> PRICE 15c Shay.- University *nd Saint Augustine’s College, Ti is r®=> erettable that, some of our young Negro Students would HMs endangering these rela tions by seeking to change a long standing custom in a manner that ir s!l but destin ed to fail. We are insyntpaihy with the merheants involved hi that they, to operate profitably must follow this custom over which they have no control, f strongly urge a more serious study be made from a realistic viewpoint, by the leaders and par ticipant- of this action and sin cerely feel that this unfortunate situation can be immediately cor rected I realize this must be. done Son a voluntary basts, even per -1 haps to the extent of ye tiding cer tain sought facilities in order to continue other more valuable re lations long enjoyed between all races In our City. As Mayor, i offer my services to the extent of my abilities and au thority to all persons involved. W G. ENLOE, Mayor Tiie management at McClellan’s (CONKOTTBU ON PAGE 3) 5 Other j Cities j I ~ gy • f • • | htnking m: james pursy, m. CHARLOTTE ~ ‘Youth is on. ; the March la th« Carolines ~ W* witnessed the march staged Tues day in Charlotte when a group of Johnson C. Smith University stu dents visited the F. W. Wool worth, S. H. Kress and McClellan stores, took seats at the lunch counter and decided that they would not move until they were served. After the students occupied most of the seats and remaining at the CCOtmNtrBD ON PAGE *) Senators denounce «$ droops ATLANTA—Georgia’s senators denounced the NAACP, the U. 5. Supreme Court and federal civil rights legislation Monday night at the end of a long day of speech making in which they pledged themselves to “defend the south ern way of. life.” gens- Richard Rased! and Talmadge addressed an estimated 3,000 cheering segre gationists at & plats rCfctrSSNUKQ os PAGE Ti Sin k e S [treads Over N. C, RALEIGH SCE V F Qh SITDOWN" PROTEST—The too top photos show Raleigh college students waiting to hr served at two of the sis lunch counters which were the targets of “sit down strikes ' here Wednesday, Some 300 Shaw University and Saint Augustine's College s tu denta were involved Bottom photo was recorded at Durham Monday and shows North Carolina College student* striking St the F* W* Woofu-orfh Store there. (Local Photos By Chas. R. Jones Durham Photo By TJPD State Supreme Court Asked For New Trial In Abortion The Stale Supreme Court was , asked Monday to order a. new h'isi ! for two Charlotte women, one a ! county public health worker, con victed of performing an abortion. Mr* Florence Stallworth, employed to the Mecklen burg County Health Depart ment, and Mrs Geneva Phiffer Hoover, a restaurant worker, appealed to the high rourt. to *ef aside their conviction* aid prison terms ’The lawyers argued that (he Inal court erred in permitting a state ment signed by Miss Juanita Re sell, who said they had performed i the- abortion on her. to be entered i Present Integration Plan, Judge Advises Knoxville KNOXVILLE. Term.—A federal judge Monday told the Knoxville City School Board to present a plan for desegregation within two months Judge Robert L. Taylor set April § as the deadline for sub mitting a, B! a« He deferred actios spec a petition by a. gross as Negroes for a court i order and fnjwsrWon against further' segregation ?« city ! sohoale I The Negroes asked »n injunct! oft | to prohibit the school board from j refusing to admit 17 student* to ail-white schools. There is no pub lic school integration in Knoxville at present and no plan has been formulated. School Board Attorney Frank Fowler told the court the beard did not feel it could submit a de segregation plan unless ordered to do so by the court. Taylor said he was toot or dering anything, but April 8 I* the date.” H* said he was rsot denying the petition for an in junction and restraining order WASHINGTON, !> C.—Elder Walter McCullough of this city wm warned as successor to the late Bishop Charles Matniei "Sweet Baddy” Grace last week. Some 21S elders of the House of Prayer for AH People gathered here In a. call session j to select a permanent successor i t»r Grace. The South Carolina- j horn McCullough had heen ap- j pointed temporary chairman of the church’s council following Bishop Grace’s death January j Vi in California I in the con'd record, i The women were convicted dur- I >ng Un: April term of Mecklenburg Superior Court and were sentenc ed to a year each in the state pris on for women, Detective John Severs of the Charlotte Police Department testi fied he raw the Stallworth woman enter the Hoover home shortly af ter Miss Roreli and Geneva Hoov er went inside He said he found the three in the house with surgi cal instalments that Miss R02e.1l said were used in the abortion. Mia* Rorell testified she bad (CONTINUED ON PAGE Ti , but simply "withholding action on H until the (desegregation) plan Is submitted ” i The Knoxville School Board has I turned down previous requests for voluntary desegregation of public schools. j Nashville, Term., has had a court j approved school desegregation i pja n to effect, for several years. Negroes In Memphis have asked city school officials for a report on desegregation plan studies and j have Indicated they may seek j court action if s satisfactory plan j for Memphis is not put into effect. I CAROLINIAN '-—BUY FROM THEM PAGE a Horton's Cash Store Southern Auto Finance Company Joseph Winters Promotion* PAGE a Famous Battery fire Safes « Service Company Mechanics & Farmers Bank Watson's Rtstaurant. Firestone Stores. Inc. Correll Goa! Company PAGE S Hudson-Belk Company Capita! Coca- Lola Bottlta* r o Carter’s, Inc. .lames B- Shepard, a«!tor Jerome s Tourist Home |PAGE S ! Colonial stores, ia«. : R E. Quinn Furniture Company j tay’or Radio & ini' Service C, Karl JUtchmsn ttieiu rti Finance Company PAGE T I 1. V s-ines, Esso Oil A&P Food Stores, Sue. fftrij’s a' Raleigh i Speedy Wash PAGE S Slc-'Nj’»«rt9> Street Tourist Heme : Ridgeway Opticians ENTERS POLICE ST A* TlON—Wsrrsn Sutton , 20, of Chester, Pa , enters a New York police station on reh* 3rd. Ha and Mrs Dorothy Lehohner. 18, * freshman at Alfred Uni versity, were found at a Tttrtea Square movie house Feb 2nd holding hands She is being held on a wayward minor charge to keep her from her basketball star boyfriend after she tan »- way from, her parents* (UPS PHOTO). ' _______ i Carolina Builders, tec. Caveness Insurance Company 1-UP Bottling Company OPljb Motor Finance Company Watson’s Seafood & Poultry Co. Bankers Fire Insurance Company Warner Memorials The Peusl-Cola Bottling Company PAGE i! O'Neal Motors, Inc. Consolidated Credit Corporation PAGE 12 Carolina Power A Light Company | I* * W. Tire Company ! First-Citizen* Bank & Tran Co. ! Federal Acceptance Corp. I Ambassador Theatre I PAGE 11 i Harmon-Dale, tee, ! PAGE IS S. M. Toung Hardware W*r« | Odom Cut Rate Clothing i Southern Wholesale Furniture Co. I Hunt General Tire Company j Branch Banking & Trust Company ' Gen; Witch Shop j Stassdara Cinder Block Company ( Acme Realty Company | Seafood Company ! Raleigh Funeral Rome | Bunn's Esso 3erv leant*? I Smith Coal * Gil. Company,. far.
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