North Carolina Newspapers

CLASSIC MA Y DECIDE C.I.A.A. TITLE I I? sj" \ *"' ~d mtm i J\>- .jj jl m. i p»3; * I lH Hf iJjlf! IE /| » * j|&s ™p Wl .f «a iii» *** P Jt^ NCt'S DELE GAX E S TO STATE STUDENTS ASSEMBLY —The above pictured persons, were chosen to represent North Carolina. I ollege, Durham, at the 17th annual legislative assembly held in Raleigh last week. Two of these studeuts were elected to office in the interracial group. Negro Students Win Posts In Interracial Assembly RALEIGH Two Negro stu dents representing seven of the 27 colleges registered at the 17th State Students Assembly were e lecteu to office in the interracial body's meeting here last week. Miss Yvonne Scruggs, a junior from Butftlo. N. Y., at the North Carolina College at Durham, and Wade Kornegay, Mt. Olive sopho more at NCC. are the officers Miss Scruggs copped! two jobs. She was named secretary-treasurer of the Interim Council, the assembly's planning agency, and she was fi lleted recording secretary of the House of Representatives. Xorr.e gay won die assistant sergeant-at arms' spot in the House. Hi canard Fuller, Pisgah Forest student from Wake Forest, was verted in as president of the Interim Council. Mitchell Saiid of Greenville k the new president of the Senate and Kenneth Pent- : of Gastonia t* sne new speaker for the House. The seven Negro colleges were active participants in all phases of the meetings. Several of their bids pa-tsed both houses. NC'C s bill to make ail counties “wet ’ passed both houses. Livingstone’s bill to increase ap propriations for the Air Force pass ed both houses with an amend-; rnent. It requested that recent $5 billion appropriations cut be re stored. A. and T. succeeded in getting through a resolution in both hous- i State News Briefs WHITE GI FREED SYLVIA. N. C. Pfe. Jerry Wilson, a 21) year oid white Camp LeJeune marine, was acquitted hern laM week on a elite ge of raping a 16 year old white girl. The court was cleared of specta tors for the hearing. OFFICER DISMISSED FT BRAGG-- Lt. John C. Sloan, Battery A. 758th Field Artillery, has been dismissed from the army by an army court martial board as a consequence of his involve ment in the case of a Negro lieu tenant who was convicted of rap ing ? white corporal's: wife. Charg es against Lt. Sloan were that he was drunk and disorderly and failed to abide by the customs of toe service. A native of Geci. S. C„ Sloan was a constant compan ion of the Negro officer TV TALK RALEIGH Robert Sehenkkan. director of television tor the con solidated University, said in speech recently UNO's up-coming Channel 4 would be used by all North Carolinians, for it is ‘ a state resource” and “an act of faith.” MOB DEC AI JOHNSON TO SPEAK IN DURHAM, JAN. SI DURHAM Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard Uni versity, will deliver a vesper mes sage at North Carolina College, on Sunday, January 31 at 4:30 p. m. Duke Auditorium wilt be the scene of the speech. J WHEELER ILL DURHAM. N. C. John 11, Wheeler, president of the Mechan ics and Farmers was hospi talized at Lincoln Hospital here over the weekend. A hospital spokesman said Wheeler was 1 brought there for examination for an ailment that is believed to be minor, ACCIDENTAL DEATH Jim Willie- Joyce, 30, acci dentally ns a result of an unavoid able auto crash, a jury ruled here last week in acquitting Harvey Donald Ferris, 28, Route 4; Reids- FiUe, of negligence. EZlWSSiScirfch First Sfc. Louisville 2, Ey* Miss Yvonne Scruggs, junior, Buffalo. N. Y. and Wade Korne gay, both pictured, were elected to office Miss Scruggs copped two jobs. She was named secre tary, treasurer of the interim council and recording secretary of the House of Representatives. Kornegay won the assistant ser es that Congress should not en act a national manufacturers' tax was voted favorably by both hous- The A and T delegation also received a certificate for excel lence in preparation and presenta tion of their bill on FEPC in t F ,r enate. It was one of the most fore the student legislators. The: 1 hotly debated issues to come be- j bill passed the House and the ■ Senate passed it with an amend-, rnent calling for the creation of NCC And A & T In Crucial Grid Battle GREENSBORO -- Twelve senior - football stars representing seven North Carilina Cities and five out of staters -will be in the lineups of the A. and T. and North Caro ; Una College football teams here Thursday at Memorial Stadium. i Kickoff time is 2 p. m. The annual affair, billed as "The ! Carolina Classic”, is expected to attract upwards of 10,000 fans. It will be the season’s finale for : both clubs. A doubleheader cage uH will oe the night feature. The football game also has championship possibilities. A win Cor either club would possibly ! i bring (he CIAA loop crown to! - Tarheelia. Singing their swan song for Bill! ! Beil's powerfull Aggies on Thanks- i riving Day are these two Caro linians: Spencer Gwynn, Reidsvillej end, and George Johnson, Thomas-j ; ville, pack. NCC, A. and T„ St. ' Augustine's and Winston-Salem J ! Teachers College are slated to play! i in the new A. and T, Gym's cage 1 contests. Tarheels on Herman Riddick's! rejuvenated eleven aie these lumi-; Continued on Page 8 ■” 'jzjL, "MISS SHAtr V.‘ PIECES , j WREATH ON FOUNDER’S | GRAVE Miss tiara J»*an Mar- I risen, junior, of Gastonia, N. C. 1 places the traditional wreath on [ i tine grave of Henry Martin Tup- i gee ut-at-arm spot in the House. Twenty-seven colleges were rep resented at She assembly. Negro colleges represented were Liv ingstone, Shaw, St. Augustine's, Johnson C. Smith, A. and T.,- Wimton-Salem Teachers College i and NCC. a commission without power to enforce fair practices as the ori ginal bill's wording intended. Negro colleges sending delegates to the meet were Livingstone, A. and T., Shaw, NCC. St Augustine’s, and Johnson C. Smith. Other col leges represented were Appala chian, ACC. Davidson, ECC, Greensboro College. Lenoir Rhyne, Meredith, Mitc-Jcli, Pembroke. Sacred Heart UNC, Wilmington, High Point. Duke. Wake Forest, Belmont Abbey and Catawba. NO Preacher Travels 300 Miles Weekly HENDERSON —The Rev. George j ; Tharrington of Henderson, who has; j travelled a distance between here | land Maxton for the past eight j years that would equal a distance! around the world four times, has also had his fair share of this But Christian faith keeps the pas tor going. world's work and worry. In addition to travelling the 300 miles roundlrip between Henderson and Maxton every week-end, the minister also holds down two other ; regular jobs. H - has a responsible Continue J on Page 8 per, tonrnlei of Shaw Universi ty at graveside ceremonies held last Friday morning on the campus. Others participating ori Thin program were president William R. Strassner, and Dr, A. It. Johnson of Raleigh. j?S|;lg% ■>■'■■ ' : .v■ ’ : : • -■'■' '■ ■ ' ■■■ ' -•■ VOLUME 12 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1953 NUMBER 50 TWO FATHERS MURDER SONS Integrated Colleges Talked Educators Opposed To Merger : l RAI.EIGH lntegration of the! S state's higher educational institu tions at either racial or adminis trative level was opposed here this week by spokesmen for Negro and white colleges, i At beai mgs starting Tuesday in I the Library of the State Education . Building, Dr. Paul Reid of Western - Carolina College SB id his trustees j “informally discussed” eonsolidat ! ing teachers’ colleges with the uni versity system, but he said, the ; trustees believed distant boards - would riot be adequate replace i meats for "local interest'’ that in ■ dividual boards now have. Following up Dr. Reids, opposi ; lion to the administrative aspects. 1 of possible steps to integrate tire s.nailer teachers college with units of the Greater University of North, .Carolina (UNC. Chapel H-.U. State j College. Raleigh, and Womans'. j College. Greensboro), Dr. F. D.- Bluford of A. and T. College told I toe commission he believed a need 1 for Negro college* would continue j to exi« regardless of acsministra ! tive changes in the present .set , »P. . ! Dr. Bluford said he saw little ; effect for A. and T. <th* state’s - : agricultural and technical college. < ! which supposedly models itself a-f- J •e- |ic State College, tf *w j S. Bt»prer*.ei court eliminates! [ segregation. There has been recur* j I rent talk- of fl> combining all white ’ units under one administrative | board and all Negro units under ! another: and (2) combining she i units, white and Negro, together. | and former legislator, who is chairman of the commission, asked Victor Bryant, Durham lawyer Dr Bluford’s opinion about the pos sible effects of the elimination of segregation in the state's colleges Dr. Bluford said, "One or two Nt i groes might enter white colleges, Continued on Page 8 THREE YOUTHS DIE IN FREAK I ! ACCIDENTS | j * CHESTER, S. C. Farm trac-• > tors figured in the deaths of three I persons in the Carolinas last week. I Two young brothers, Robert Lewis Douglas, 9, and his older brother J. C. Douglas. 14, were, killed here last week as the trac tor J. C. was driving turned over on the highway and mashed both \ lads to death. In Camden, N. C.. last week, a j tractor indirectly contributed to; the death of .John H, Harris. 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A., H. Harris of South Mills. Young Harris and Ezekiel Mer- j oer, 13 year old son of Mr. and \ Mrs. Bradford Mercer, decided to' ride a tractor to the woods where they planned to hunt. After they reached the woods, the Mercer boy- got down and turned around to see young Har- ; ris cl imping down. He got his gun's hammer caught 1 or. the trac tor and shell filled with No. 6 ; shot discharged into Harris’ throat' | and chin. He died almost instantly. - The d-ad Douglas children were i J the sonr of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie | | Douglas Mr. Douglas is an ern-1 i ployee of the Duke Power Co,' | at Great Falls. Continued on Page 8 Woman Attempts Suicide Once; Succeeds 2nd fun m J 15, HARKEN ROCKY MOUNT - A Rocky Mount native for many years a resident of the District of Coium-' bia. left her domestic job there Monday ta a mood oi. despondency ■ind returned to her relatives here 1 where she made an unsuccessful attempt to kill herself by cutting i her throat with an old butcher* 1 knife reportedly. Following this! the woman Mrs. Jessie Mae! Copt :z of 3305 Woodland Road,, N. - . Washington, (where .-he j lived on the lot of her employer | where she had worked more than | WmM&g. & lllk' SlMiHWri 'imMl .. " ! *£gi¥ )s&■ j* ipw pWBE‘: I >•:'. 1 - ,G,i - - JraDilt , Ti-nbiSJtfiX m.K . - : •- . .igstSStu,, ®2K, V. y MAMIE FLAYS HOST Mr*. Dwigltt D. iSwahoMr ptond HoM i» wmbtn of the KtUitml Council at Negro W omen &t a recent White House meeting. M On kit of Miwnw m Dt Mary M B. Ihuiic pryMdcDS NMf.to of Belhufu-Coektn&A Lolifi«r, imm! « IKrlso, member ot Ow XCVW Chtmoßue tmt* ;*« over the emmUg j»>«i-n«yed to WashJ»i»t*® tec She mtanami iw«lm« wwfe sh- Vim l*d*. prese Photo.? Demand End To Segregation 4 Attackers ace Trial In Durham u. , i.-iM tour Oid :c Coun ty men charged with criminal as- I sauit upon a young Chatham Coun. ; ty divorcee will be tried here in ; tiie January term of Superior j Court. | The four, now held in county jail without bond, are Willie Shaw, | 24; otha Roberts, 19: Claudius Par i rish, 20; and John Brooks, 26. They are charged with assault ing Mrs. Hope Sinus Lloyd. 28, and severely beating her youthful com panion, Elton Burgess ol Durham. Assistant Solicitor R. Bruce White said Shaw is the man who allegedly criminally assaulted Mrs. > Sims. The alleged incidents oceured • last August 20. TAGS* ON "SALE Automobile license plates for J 954 will go on sale in Ra leigh -ud throughout the state on Dvrember *• 'll licenses must be displayed on ears by- February 1, according to an announcement from the Li , cense Bureau earlier this week, Motorists are urged to buy their plates before the Janu ary 31 deadline. NEW TB FACILITY WILSON - Frank Turner state - engineer has accepted the nt 403 I oed wing ;,i the Eastern N C. jSinUoriu.in here. The new budding ] which cost some $2,740,133.73 pro ; vides four limes more space for j colored tubercular patients than 1 formerly six ye;'!!') was laken to a local Hospital and treated for the wound FOUND DERANGED There, is reported, hospital authorities found the <vninan mentally deranged and railed city health and police officials So take over. Alter contacts with an aunt, Mrs. Valier Pow ell who «•»' unabir to cam for the patient (following the suicide attempt in her 'home', Mrs, Coppage *vas plated in the city jail about 6 P. M. Wednesday slight am! was Continued on Page 8 Segregation and other forms of race bias cropped up throughout : tho nation iest week and wore va- j riously assaulted by groups andj individuals. The National \ssocia tion for the Advancement of Co lored People was as usual in tne! forefront of the fray Leading the list of outstanding j legal moves was the NAACP's bis- : torio brief field with the Supreme j Court attacking racial segregation in public schools, A battery of j NAACP lawyers, headed by Tfaur-; good Marshall, demanded an im medlata end to segregation, hold-! j ing in their argument that “the ‘ i substantive argumem . , . is wheth- j jer a state can consistently With ! the Constitution, exclude children,: s solely in the grounds that they! are Negroes, from public schools! | which otherwise they would be ; ' qualified to attend:” There are five cap/?* before the 1 ; court concerning the constitution-] j aixty of racial segregation in pub- ] ; lie schools. They represent eases j ; previously tried in South Carolina, ] I Virginia, Kansas and the District! ] of Columbia, charging violation I i of the Fourteenth Admendment to j ; the Constitution. Delaware is also: | represented in the school sun. Although no one dared predict j ; the exact stand the high court would take, practically everyone] ! agreed that this historic brief' sounded the death knell for racial j segregation in public schools in' tho south. The new Secretary of Labor, James P. Mitchell, gave President ] Eisenhower credit for she “sue- j Continued on Page 8 J&' ‘ M:- :}- 1 BIJ.AAiiSS CLASS AT UfiON SCHOOL VISITS LOCAL BANK ; Approximately 159 students i of the 1. W, Lifroa Junior -enior ' White Cop Slaps Negro In Goldsboro (■ : DSBORO Police here and |in 1-i u Point had more than cas f ual brushes with irate citizens : over the state last week. Two Goldsboro police were | charged by a white man and a ■ Negro with unnecessary rouifh : ness following traffic arrests. Ro | land Rhodes, operator of a drive ! ill grill, and Leroy Clark, colored j merchant, brought the charges a : gainst two Greensboro traffic po j licemen. Rhodes was acquitted in Wayne j County court on the speeding j charge. The Goldsboro board of aldermen dismissed the charges of i alleged brutality against the po~ j lice officers. Clark charges he was slapped j and was not. allowed the privilege ! of arranging bond. His case was i aided bj; the United Organization, ] local colored civic group. Arresting officers charged Clark ! with, drunk driving. A scuffle en ; sued when he was asked to turn I the contents of his poeketbook Continued on Page 8 High School visited the Mechan ics and tanners Bank last week in observance of “Know Your Rank Week.” J. E. Strickland. 'Dads Kill Sons With Gun Blasts ! RALEIGH Gins and a dog : were among the reasons a white j and Negro father gave this week I for the killing of their sons. ! On November 30, the Durham j CoUnty Grand Jury will be \ sentf.-d the case of Lonnie Bradsher Cousins. 47 year old tenant farmer j an former Duke University foot ; ball Coach Wallace Wade's farm. ! that claimed the life of his 22 ] year old son. Sylvester Cousins , who ail- godly fired a fatal shot 22. The younger Cousins was alle-'i ediy slain after he defied the or Bers of Wads, now commission-r of two athletic conferences, ana ; i*is father and brought “sense girls’ to hie Wade farm In Raleigh at midweek. Ernes-i D. Wall, 67 year old partially para lysed white to, , keeper, was sched uled to explain to a coroner s jury , the evv iii.- that lea up to the* ■ fatal shooting of his son DeWtU ; Wall, 32 Both fathers apparently hied Continued on Page 8 t* tScribb lings * $ R! imiGHI HU LLS WILSON W- * J J For some strange reason 1 can t get the printer to put -paces b< ! twee-v .he various items in this ■ column. It's hard enough to wnH ! a column without making it sjard ! ro read, in deference to my reso lution of week before last, how ever, instead of getting angry 1 srn trying one more time: PLEASE, MR. PRINTER. PUT A LEAD OR ASTERISKS WHERE YOU FIND ASTERISKS IN THE COPY!!! *« « - ] WARNING When my neighbor’s small son wanted an air sun for his birthday, his father was firm ly against the idea, saying, “As long as I am head of this fami ly, you are not going to have 1 any kind of gun.’’ "Yes sir. and if I get a gun." the boy replied, “you are not soing to be the head of this e family.” !** * * - j I was pleased to see that the - ] Wilmington chapter of my fraUv -1 nity dc-sigr.sted Tom Jcrvay “Cil 1 i /en of the Year.” As a tribe i : . -jJervays have always been in t!' - forefront of any fight for stu i principles, community betterme: '! and the underdog. One of the mo;: C vivid recollections from my child f; hood is that of the publisher or E this pape-r clobbering three bill lie ■jail larger than ho, for picking o>. • a smaller boy. The record show > I j that he can fight as well with a II newspaper as he could with hr • j fists. While it cannot be said that , i he ever hunts trouble, he certainly j gets chummy when it sits in his :! lap. \ \ FOR SMART PEOPLE cl Without looking in the djetion- Continucri on Pag** 8 I vice president of the bank is j shows addressing the class. Mrs. Janice W. Robertson la the teach i cr and is shown with the group.