NAME OF HOUSING PROJECT IS PROTESTED
WRITER INVESTIGATES, REPORTS
The Football Situation i
At Shaw: Cause, Effect
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week The Carolinian pre
sented to its readers the Shaw University administra
tion’s viewpoint regarding the football situation at
the University. Meanwhile, Carolinian feaure writer
James A Shepard was carrying out his assignment
to find out what actually was taking place at the
Baptist Institution here. The following is what he
learned
BY JAMES A. SHEPARD
RALEIGH ln wriMtnr this story, attempting to give
•the public, th ■ pertinent tacts concerning the athletic
situation at Shaw G/mersity, and more particularly that
phase of the situation relating to football, an all out ef
fort has been made, to ascertain the facts of the matter 1
and to report those facts without, bias
When th eannouneement ocmi
on Sept. l.lfh that there would be
no football a? Show this y-.-ar, the
effect was it bomb had ex
ploded. Vi startling wo- the ,<n
nciuiyttnent And immediately the
ruraors -and rotnitei i vmot> vegan
to frill die air.
Some were to the • ffeci th-d the
president had ordered the wi nitr
ation because he did not line foot*
bstl. others add the business man
ager had .actually cut off the funds
needed to carry on Kie program
and there were yet others who
chilmed that the alumni had re
neged on its promise to give the
athletic program financial backing
These rumors were : u> conflict
sag and some of them os absurd
that the CARQI.INTAN decided, as
a public service, it ’.\ould yet tin.
facts and pres-nt those ivc to
Its readers. This reporter was as
signed »h** arduous »»k of assem
bling the facts and •making the re
port. An attempt will be made to
appraise the conflicting report; >••-
reived and an evaluation, in line
with the basic concepts of these
reports will be attempted.
It, should be understood that fun
damental!'', this story concerns it
self with the views, expressions
anu conclusions of those directly
involved in the matter.
Football has been a , art of Shas*
University for so long a period.
There are few who can remem
ber when Shaw did not field a
team. Time was. back in the days
when 'bis reporter held down the
Robbie's Homer
First Os Series
DEADLINE FLASH
BROOKLYN, N. . V ißy Wine-)*-*.
Tdckie Rob ; nson, star of tlw Brook
lyn Dodgers baseball club got t f
first *his -a homer -of the !902
World Series which got underwaj
at fitobott’? Field here Wednesday
she Dodgers l on the same by -*
■i to 2 eot.nt.
Playing in his third World
Series, the fit et-footed Dodger
second baseman garnered his fo-.tr
fcagger as the £. ; -st man dp in th
lest half of the second inning and
AGED WOMAN IS
FATALLY BURNED
AT LQUiSBURG
LOUISBURG Two versons
vers injured. one fatally. '‘rimer*
fire destroyed their small frame
dwelling here Sunday morning
M>-s. Rosa Spivey, about 80, died
in Franklin Memorial Hospital
Sunday morning at 9:15 o'clock of
burns reccedin the fire.
She was carried from the flam
ing house by her 19-year-old grand
son. Wilson G!-rin Davis, who
lived next door. Hr- suffered burns
on one band in his re.sc-uc effort.
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NCC GRADS HONORED--At j
left is Miss Berlin- Mae Ray, 1952
graduate of the North Carolina j
College at Durham, who has j
b*en awarded a special scholar
ship in the Department of Drw -
■it.a at Western Reserve ewer
sity in Cleveland. Ohio, Mias Say
sms graduated Magna Can* j
Unde In .June, 195-3. She is the j
daughter «{ Mrs, Marie iUttt* j
router oust on the sbn v varsity
squad, the idea of uvl'Ang paid to
piny football v, as i.inkomvn. You
played the game foi Uui ’honor
end prestige involved and because
of your love for it. Who you ’.'.vie,
nlu re you. cam from nor any oth
er consideration did not influen;-e
the couching -niff If you hud the
splits stamina and the mental a
bility needed, you cut e dn- t'am
ofh* rwi-you. did not. It e- ]nst
!.-■ simple as that.
Circumstances, conditions and
tone -.rave combined -nu joined
forces in bringing ~» radical change
in the athletic policy >u m’lttv
i.'.haolr. inch.idihr ,Sieve
AlfeiOUdl there Wee ; mor uo.es
in ir.y nay, Vv - new; known a
poorer one than l was and still
0111, flic *‘oiicep t today is that a
poor any should have financial on
courngement to help him develop
into a good football player
Tin.- idea may or may not have
helped the crime. We k.umv, how •
ever, from all reliable reports
that ecau.e of this new idea
Sham University has no football
today.
Jlo attempt is being made her*
to unduly criticize Shaw foi adopt
ing the obey of subsidizing foot
ball pin vers Shew did not initiate
, that policy but undoubtedly fei*
Met to maintain the prestige and
dignity it wanted to uphold, it bad
to follow in the wake of the othot
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at the expense of N. Y Yankee
huiier, Ailic Reynolds.
Robinson’s cion* sent the Ivj
hurtiiny 365 feet into {he rigpt
l’ied stands after the Yankees h»-
d.an htuler ran up a 3 ball-two
-trike count.
Getting the second hit of the
series was Roy Cam-pane]!*, Brook
lyn catcher who lined a ball into
r-ght field for a single following
Robinson’s homer. Cempanella was
out in an attempt to steal second,
however.
Naming Os Rocky Mount
Housing Project Draws
Protest From Group
ROCKY MOUNT (Special To
Carolinian) - The naming of a
Negro hou-i/»K project to be built
here in honor of u late local No
-ro resident has been protested
l > the Civic Forum, U-adiw race
organix..tion here, do-mite the fort
ii.at the --election of the name foe
; h proposed development was
! £:,‘iefion«‘d by the local housing
authority.
In it.-, initial meeting of the cur
rent yeai- staged here last week,
’ln forum went on record as op
posing the naming of the proposed
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j strong id 707A Bern Street, Now
Bern, (N. ft. Another North Oa
; enlitia College graduate, Miss
j Carolyn M. Smith, lest »Iro of
New Bern, was recently elected
I to I*l Ijunbds Theta, national
honorary society, after main
tainitur # straight "A"’ average
j »t Boston University, Miss Smith
| u now teaching at St. AOgWc
| tfne’s College in Raleigh,
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- Joe i>.,n li, HrooKiy n Dodger
mound star. was selected by
Mo direr Manager < hartie Dressen
to pitch .he Opening game of the
t'l.vf World Seri* forthe Brook
i>» team Wednesday. Black who
tsm* up io the National League
champs team this season, has ay-
OFF THE r*- 5 MfflWH!
SCOREBOARD
LAST WEEKEND’S SCORES
A & T 33 Allen V 1
N. <’. College !<i St. Aug’s 0
Winston-Salem S 3 - Kentucky
State 3
Virginia State t> Term. State 0
W Va. State 12 Va. Union 9
HIGH SCHOOL
Raleigh 25 R»ck\ Mount 9
ifo- Games This Weekend, See
Page k. Section 2)
* ~30-tu>it pr,ir- honor of the
i Ist-, Week* Armstrong, form-.-*
Bcnool osai-.tor ;• nd church org ,n.t
--: -'i, -and ■ ol I've prominent
i iscick- 'ion::; re.-!-a mts
The forum, in oppn-utig the
naxTing, announced its inim
tion to call upon the lot i"
• housing author it* to recon
sider its action in arbitrarily
naming the project for the late
Mr. Arm strong-.
The forum. el *• ■ den A. M.!
<Tuffy 1 Bryant prerid.-'ot, cor.- j
tests the authority assumed by the
tuihofity in naming the project ir, j
•hanoi of h mao who m.-y— or i
may not he reu-tisontative of!
the race hen;
Pi-0-cm - to tb< lo.e: V action
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BOND PROPOSAL
ODES NOT FAVOR
NEGRO PJIOHT ,
BY I AMES -V SHEPARD
RALEIGH A new bond pro-;
nasal its the amount of $2,230,000
'• ili soon be presented to tb» j
County here for’
T- expansion of the Raleipb Pub
lic Schools
The bond money, if approved I
j would be used to erect thm> new]
-vbib; elementary schools, a junior
high school for whites and for
improvements for one Negro]
•■school
II is understandable that with
. the eve. increasing v-Tiite pftpula-
I'Hon there is sn evo" tetcrefcsffttg.i
1 r.ede for more school space tt>!
car.* for its school needs. And it |
is not thinkable that Negroes;
j would refuse to Support a bond t" \
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jn h i-i) ~•! relief rot s for the ’
Rodgers ~,ti times He started a
yamc against Boston list week. ,
and lost the try Brooklyn catch
er Roy i ampmelhi was named
for the hack-of-the puilr chores t,
tor th.- opener, and second base- (
man Jj« kie Robinson was Ist the
rtpcni.nc game lineup also-
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RALEIGH LAWYER:
GIVEN HONOR ;
RALEIG'H Mio.rsey Ucntimi *
1,. Taylor, noted Un-:.) civil i-ig'h;.s, >
attoiDey, i.-c, .-.-i > honored by be- t
■jog one oi in.* tw. lawyers vlccied i
;s' nm ov-.-r T>i-- i.'-Ciutr*, bv *h, :
' ivinal 1 n Guild. ..n ~ (
. lion A pr..,-niTi«.r,l white c l Nr
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I SECOND GENERATION GIB
' s*ON GIRL- COMES TO N. C.
j COIXEGU — MUsk Fheriby Chris
i tine Gibson (center) of 1) 12 East
Martin Street. Rsteigh, is a ae- I
(nod generating Oihsnn matri- .
THE CAROLINIAN
IOC K—pKevtA. 10C
t Wa,’y>YW u«'j *J«T
VOLT'MN XI
In Raleigh And Goldsboro
MURDER MARKS END
TO TWO ''MARRIAGES"
GOLDSBORO IAN
SAYS HIS WIFE
SHOT HERSELF
PolitT Hold \lan In
Death: Suicide fair
Sounds Inemlihilt*
GOLDSBORO A »2-> ear-old
'''-ml :s in vise tolii im’rs’uyitiu:-
OUt. is> 'bat his t'O.mmon-la'.v wife
Killed hi ruTi after enjo' a
'"•var’v breakfast with him Sttndav
rni'Miini: >- being b>vld m Jail here
on • charm of nurdvr
Char'!:.’ Park? .vai..; r.iurr.od ,
wah the shuts l : n slaving <• f his,
i>?’ ’iniJi-iHV' spouse Mira Mattie
Garner 3ft
Ofto-ors a'• that tia:;. lound t.is>■
woman dead of a shotuun wound.
in th@ if sid. of the face uvon
i iVc.-f ’ 'a l in. report s th. t a woman
had -kitiod h. ]f at Parks’ N.
Geo.-tit Si extension -home here
'hhi; off reel's : that Parks told
T»Ts tftat his vdlftfi* La •. wife
va- .t the table r-atins break
fast with him when suddenly she
got o, went into .mother room,
*ot the ihotimn and shot -herself.
Pmfcr furthei said that the
•voman bad 'riven no indication of
what she planned to do and ’hat
the two wer.-.- discussing to
church when she allegedly left the
mom to lake h.-r own life
Port further aid 'hat h* toid
the woman that she had "gone and
hot" ; • --elf and that -he caught
her in hi arms <s she was about
to fall.
i fivcb is a tin:' officers sm that
the evidence tn sens-d b- tin .">-
.-.fion oi tin hodv. -t,.. fi.ii-i-d
th.-tn i'i hold the man
I S (.iHU'i’e.'-srntui In
lie Speakers During
V (t»lle»r Series
TREfhiHAM -- Two United Staler,
coiW«R.!.nen an- amonii ’be s, w.-.k
.-viii-dul.’d tor North Carolina
CiT-.V'/s fall forum series
Kv*-nts a iiUolh-w the general
theme. ••Politics and How It Af
fects You and Me.”
In keeping with the nd«- parl'i
sari forum coituniUco's aim of ore
si ntiiig speakers rupresentirii.' a
variety >i volition! arid economic
opinions, represent itivt-s of the
country U iv.% major parut.s will
address tt-.e NCC students and fa
cility
Speak Hi} foi the Jx-ii>i*era! ii.
it ominued on (fi4i;e • 1
at North Carolina Col*
leg'** this quarter. Shown with
| Miss OiOstwi art* her pa-rents, Mr.
i and Mrs. S. T. Gibson, who stu
j 'died mathrmatick with Or At
j fan no Rider, president of NCC,
Nl r MBER U- KARMIC H. NORTH CAROLINA WEEK PN'DING OCTOBER 4. 1952
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1 VU!L SUM NO I K NAACP
SEs*S|o\'S—Mv* ('•instance Mot
lev, left, anti ASiss 1 iieillc Black,
right, will he two of the mans'
kt yinite . \rt-olives who will play
I active roles when the Thl ;il»
titiai Convention ot the North
, Carolina Conference of N.YAI. P
Injection c! Race issue
in Hospital Deliberation
Opoosfrißy Former Medic
HA I ANIKs A SHI S’AIM)
KAI.EIGH E*h , D. Hiir k-. ■
r -.b’T #i>ok(- out f.o- tail <-onsid
' board W’mi - : the W. kv County j
jrii D • J S Mlt.-lv.-ni'r, rctH t'd
Tvii<”> ■ ohysii : . look Dr. Hamil- 1
j- U jthl !u v Fisher 1«i tiihk foJ
'i'i m •unN the vxi'o r-.ruK* into the,
tv.eeiir, ii« ! i i ; >: ('Otisiderniior.;
Wake i oum.v i iHr.i'-n.- proposal.
YU C Hui’d a now hospi- ; .
t...! it St Agn-t; .Did expand the
'aciiliies it Fits: >r whclher to
bi.iici a new cmmty generni ho.<-
I itill for ,1! races, is now a mat
l: i lor tot ••■•"ijiy commissioners
to decide and the hearing. Tasting 1
Ovei two hour.-' ;:!tend'-d by well j
.-■'* -1 * i'!o j.-er.-i >ris. i ■;■(' >di iced a lot!,
■»; orator,' but tailed to 'produce a',
c■-. . oil' fvojr: the «immissionors '
Th-.- ai-iUU o! lords was over ,
' in:iic;t.'. !•; In lor of tin St I I
A -e: R.-x proposal but tbe ‘
weight o: eviiiencc in ard-' to ,
fact:,, a- on the side of the gen- ~
i r al iiospitai. idea
The l.c.'ii inc. took it-. course, with . i
t-'ustv- s mid rcPi'i'seritativc-s from ,
S'. Agn-c. aiid R> x recounting Jh> •
great erviecs their institutions''
it 'ontimx-d on, page 8i
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when Dr. Elder was a professor j j
and dean of the college's til- j;
sion of orts and sciences. Mr. j
: Gibson is executive secretary of :
: the Atmf Compan? of ;
j i{*Ue%h. 1 1
pp«a
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Branches is held in High Point,
NC, Oetohee 17 and IS. Mrs. Mot
ley is assistant special counsel of
the N’A t( I‘ and will conduct a
workshop on the legal program
of the organisation during the
session. Miss Black, membership
secretary of the national body Is
to conduct x workshop or. the
technique* of building member
ship for the state branch
C-M
driver kiUB) w
ear missis a r\e
i iI.INN Richard Massey. S 3-,
' .-a . -old r-sidoni Os BunuF vel,
R-.,n, i, ■•;-,■■ killed instantly and
tv,.» etii ". person received minor
ii'i.ii.wH's Sundry mornina when the
far M .:>»•> v. as d-iving failed tn
r. oka .j ■ orve.
Hamti: Coronet Grocer C il a
dersoti hi. d Slat Patrolman Pau !
Lucas saiii the accident happened
is M.isvey was divit..*. s>>ntn on the
Old V', . fir-.-r tlimiles sooth*
v.f-M i>l Benrili--, G
John Roper, -i uas.-vnvi'i' who
I'scav- d injury, ertitnfcl'ri the ear;
Wa-i B'l to *ls t. i;e tin hOus
Massey e.ceived head in.iuvi’G and ;
died oo Tnattv Two others were.
taken to ... Fa-•■*levilit- hospital
Ooi on-i Henderson tided nn in ,
00-sf i- : 3'Ci ni , 1 i y Hii'.l liCiG M-fr j
:• ■pi fill hi - . .V.’ti de.it'll I
MW ST\BI»EI> TO |
DEATH ATPARTA ;
ST A N TON SB ITRG - .fames |
Best. 44-year-old resident of near j
Stantonsbura. w:is arrested at mid- j
nil hi Saturday and placed in &» •
Wilson County tail without privi- !
Tee of eonri. for Tie stabbing of
■ Char'iie Bynum. 28, at a party at
*he Bynum home near Stantons
tunt.
Detail" of the near-fatal siarbins; j
<-nuld rial he learned but Bynun, ■
is in a critical condition in n Wil- j
. on hospital. Two of hie ribs war* I
•severed by the knife, on the left •
side near his back, and his left;
Jung ore; collapsed »- a result rtf
the wound.
PEDESTRIAN DIES !
AFTER BEING HIT j
SOUTH MILLS A South Mills j
man was killed warty last Satur- :
day night when he was struck j
while walking on TJ. S. 17 a half j
riffle south of South Mills.
The dead man is Allie Roy j
Sfokley, 3f>. log woods worker, i
Driver of the car that hit Stokley i
was Alexander Williams, 'Eliza* \
bet*h City, Route 3
Wiliiarn- told investigating State
Highway Patrolman E P. Cooke i;
RALEIGH WIFE
FATALLY BEATEN
WITH BED RAIL
Brag;* St. Resident
Slavs Spouse Alter i
Drunken Argument
RALKIGH A 40-vear-old mar.
has been bound ever for trial ba
te c Km Wake County Superior
Court charged with the murder
: f hi# 3fl-year-oid wife.
Edward 'Finch, who resides on
Bi'K-? Street here, is accused by
local police officers of beating bis
wire. Hannah May. to death with
•> bed railing Saturday morning.
’Y'iiw officers contend that
I inch not only beat, his wife bm
i si'.y and Fatally with the railing.
■•u; ah; • plunged the weapon into
l ! ’-‘ town. 1 : part of the victim’s 3b
bomea
itivi.'- u sailing officers, Jehu
>’ ‘inri Samuel Clarkson, rd
w'-ded that Finch toid them HrSt
■ <■ bad arrived a* his home about
■ i-ru .:!>; F iday in a drunkened
.'.umiition and lay down across the
d from which the rail was taker
A '.'.bile later, finch said, hi*
''ire fame home also in a drunketi
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j-SsNEWf 1
gmne m T
"^•BRIEF
'-b.il S’okoiy staggered out into th®
load in front of him and another
v«r va- approaching, which pi»-
end him from swinging to th*
left. Cooke indicated no chatgu#
v o'.ld be preferred
OAK liliAI). THREE
HI RT IN WRECK
ELIZABETH CITY—One man is
dead and three are in Albemarle
: Hospital as a result of a two-car
collision one mile south of Pew
oil's Poinl post office Saturday
night shotty after 6 o’clock
Dead is Preston Bo we. 31. of
; Harbinger. Injured are Walk/w
. (Pete Jones. Jr.. 15. of Harbinger,
, James Riddick. Jr., of Powell's
Faint. 16: and Sam Norman. 52. of
' Mamie The . condition of ail three
;-. atients ■■• as listed is fair Tat*
: 1 uesdav.
Bowe ••• ns driver of one of the.
| ears and the other was driven by
: Hiddick Roth cars were total
'."reck*
Highway Patrolman O L. Wise
j and Or»i. Ernest Guthrie are in*
j • estigating the accident. So Mr. »»
• ’-Larges have been preferred.
i SLAPS DKPI TY IN
TiRA NYU IE. FLEES N
OXFORD Officers pressed a
••ourch Tuesday for an unidenti
j fled man ’.(anted for assaulting a
! Granvi!!-.- County deputy sheriff.
! 'Deputy Sheriff R E. WoodUftf
j if Onk Hill township said he waif
: truck in toe face by the man
j while attempting to arrest him,
•e, ■ charge of drunken driving,
j VTiodlivf stopped the fugitive's car
j ‘<n a dirt road off Highway 68
Woodlief gave r-’isse after th*»
| mnn .-pod away in his ahtomobii*
j but was unable to overtake him
| TENANT DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
HENDERSON Gid Hfirgrm-’e,
luge about. SO, caretaker at the fartn
:of EHxabeth Harrell, was found.
dead Saturday near the Stodift
v. here he lived at the farm. dsn.
oner F. B. Eight visited the -scene
ana made a personal investi«tatires.
concluding that death resulted
a heart attack.