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. School integration Problems j I lot Too Serious To Handle I H y> oper u*.\ the New i Oil >•» •->; r d Trii..a.n«‘ has j&chctfu -1 u vro A s «*!;.•• *« * A wtt h ■■ * r*; r?v.On Monday a>l d. . . j,j-- iy.-.i toe fi.:vj;7 v/:‘l have as ,i* mj^ct ]>■ .-•;•>> . }<■; ~f r _ ih ;j_ f , U. 8. />.. Mj.ne of •.n ■; o -1 "3 ; 'S ■ ; t; 0: VU’V 30<i t.’-vic . Crii'de OS 'p&.’f j.C.’ tioo Tip r.: v ‘ to at 8 p m. on tfc* It. 1 u Hunt-* C01j?..:,. j?..:,.- vi.il ‘ , Ot voted tO ••T'SOUS* sioa o.? progross *c»w;?rdi- .siue n • ’ -r «r linmir- TT" ", tv ;..i i*f»@Bsracf2» v :**,-»* & PROTEST INTEGRATION A tense crowd of whHe os.it v*’* of MHfwd, IMkinfe gsthered to •« 0.-!*b fictd re**.tntf> to hoar Bryant W. Bo” >V ; to keep tbrir ehddren oat of aehocil rothej than how to the recent Supreme court dectragainst <()• ei m, nation m public achooh- Bowie* w president of th« National As ociation for the Advancement of V, hit* Peep!'* Milford, with a population of STOP, of vhf. rn 2,000 are Negroes, was the «ctn of nmi it bitterness and threats of violence after Bowie* address, < > ew'tjpress f*h©to > * Healthy Ba!i? test Oilers SSOO a- Wp. ■ I! «K'ri IS • i IP >M i II - I k I %L I&>±M I M| I Ff | WEIGHING IN _ Bernard Wingers, Jr., 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Bernard Rogers, Sr., is shown above observing his v. eight in connection wilh the Healths - Babv Contest now >• - Lib rarian Honored i DURHAM—Mrs. J. C. McLen an.. librarian oi Ligon Junior- Senior High School. Raleigh.' has iccentSy been inducted into Pi Lambda Surma Library Honor Society at Syracuse University. Mrs, McLendon is also Execu tive Secretary oi the Association, of North Carolina High School Library Clubs. She complet ’d her work ’for the M L.S degree at Syracuse Uni versity, August €. Mr, McLendon received her B. degree from North Carolina College in 1846. She received a citation from N. C, Negro Library Association for her outstanding work in ptoneer : the founding of the High School Library Association. She has contributed articles in her field to the Library Science Review and other publications. Mrs. McLendon makes her home in Raleigh with her husband. C. H. McClendon at 121 South Tar boro Road. ,NC Woman Lands Police Job mj WASHINGTON This quaint little eastern iown was ail ears this week when it was announced that two women had been named to the police force. The fact that the two race wo men were named was a Utile un- ! usual, in view of the fact that no j women had ever been named to '"f-n sn the schools since the ,Y,- 17th Nup-ome Court «d< msion tfruttihg the • r id of racial sefcr«- j i.»uo: in <?ds .ation. Oo r--.gr.-s ••> intertr-nt.'.-n Hue fornm concern itself ,*.h r/;-!l ;■■■*•,,es the r. Cit;:ng Os : the £vtp>««w» "v. a fat a l * tiie south is eet.rerrtcd -a- ■ . ions, with tile south s r< t.-.u-f s j N.i rtceuns ihe pv. • i.n.e.’t !.:;•• the hOCii.na With re to the 3*aci< fsh;n aviiinoie i tor vxploiiing th.se resource*. The peogi am will open v ith a ctramatizalion of the tight aga. • i • MMVM<4I» r ' * 'tWynMIHHRS:»'f. jag -vN-j I underway in Raleigh and sur rounding cities. Looking on is Dr C 6 Middleton, local phy sician in whose office young Rogers was examined. STAFFOTO BV (HAS. K j JONES. , ' MRS JOYCE MCLENDON Keclcvcf Honor the law enforcement group, Mesdames Richard Thompson and Emmett Little were given the honor of being the first two of the fairer sex. to be sworn. The two will work at school I crossings as part of their duties and Mrs. Thompson is scheduled to check downtown parking me .segregation that led to the Su- ! j.retne Court decision, presented 1 : by . central figures The he- i ■ -.nr its meaning for Ihe •u ri wi!J • e discussed by ! Hairs \#ii>t;OJv. executive edi- j lor id the ‘ Little Rock. A. k , ; a d author of the re fori > . i ... u study. ' The Ne* 1 ;ro and. -he schools.'* sponsored . v *: * F- i Found;-.! on for the Ad va;:c '•uen: of JEducation. .'ho fjoh'-.s r.n.ources for meet ing the 'haii'-Dge posed by the :■ •.•• '•UK (~’i rt op;::, •■) w.u be tCONTINUED ON PAGE 13) cai KSMmw. -i - -M- . ■taniwae-; a® ! An all-out. effort is being made, starling this week to find trie : heithiest baby in the Raleigh area whose parents art readers of The i Carolinian. To the infant chosen. 1 for tlrU honor will go a cash prize' [of S3OO, In a special announcement ap~ - pearing elsewhere in this paper. . the Carnation Compar.v of Los i Angeles. California, gives readers full details of the First Annual I Hometown "Healthy Baby Con rest.” an unusual venture for the ■furtherance of research on its famous brand of evaporated nvlk. Over fifty years ago when the Carnation Company was formed, research became a mator part of i jt» program Ts has served as a means to constantly improve its : product as a safeguard to mil i lions of infants Today this Car : nation research program has a mong its facilities one of the most i remarkable farms in the world. Carnation Farms near Seattle, Washington, are known to dairy farmers everywhere as the home of a famous herd of 600 Holsteins j from which has come nearly half ; of the greatest butterfat and milk ! producing cows of all time. In : addition. Carnation has a re -1 search laboratory, second to none. This laboratory helps maintain rigid standards which have given both parents and doctors complete ; confidence in the Carnation brand. Because >o many babies have been and are being reared on tar nation formula, this contest has. been instituted to discover some of these fine youngsters who have thrived on Carnation Miik. This is a contest restricted to 1 Raleigh and surbubs. It is one of j CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) MEAN SPEAKS AT SHAWJMV. Charles A McLean of Winston- I Salem, field secretary for state ; chapters of the N.A.A.C.P. spoke i to Shaw University students in i Greenleaf Auditorium Wednes | day. He said that North Carolina j j as a whole is beginning to accept ; i the N.A.A.C.P. as never before, j primarily because of integration 1 | ie the schools. He pointed out that integration i l is going oc in fields other than I . education; and cited a plant m > Win stop-Salem where Negroes I are employed on a higher level l I then as laboiers. McLean thinks ; that integration will extend job ' opportunities for Negro youth in i j many areas. “Our job,” he de- j ciared. ‘‘is to get the parents of j i both racial groups to let us a- : ; lone." He informed that through the N.AJLC.P. there- arc scholarship funds up to $3,- (X Mi a year available for post graduate work, aad for high school graduates. | He urged the- students to en- : ! courage tnc N.A.A.C.F. as they | ! return to their communities. The speaker was introduced by j Carl F DeVane, chairman of the ; divr >on of Social Sciences at j SShaw. David Stevens, a senior i and prsiden. of the group presid- I ed. ters. It could not be ascertained as to what Mrs. Little would do ! to .round out her full time duties, i This is believed to be the first, time that Negro women have been given full police duties in the state. There has been one Negro mars on the force for (CONTINUED ON BAG® 13) i Colliers Features Ligon School MAGAZINE LAUDS DR. W. H. WATSON I IN RECENT ISSUE The current issue of Collier s has a feature story by Alan Baton • entitled "The Negro in America : Today” in which Raleigh';* Ligon High School was featured. Recalling his visit with Dr. Wat son, principal of the -new J. W. Jigon High School, Author Patou writes: I visited one of the is w Negro High Schools in Raleigh.- My visit was short, but I have j been a teacher nearly sil my life, land if this v.as not a first-class school, I was deceived. Tii© pin jcipai was Dr. Watson. who I was ; Li’d let*-? - was the j*;.-'b**st'pp.>d Tlf ' ;VV U'w (' [ V 1 • 'Vie- oaw-uaij?*fr« i»tr, p/t&Hi***& »i-- - preme Court de« ision, which Dr, -Watson predicted mould bring ■school segregation l« a» end." “The changes won't he mi dr--tic as many people fear.” Dr. Wct . mmi «a* quoted as saying. ''What is there to be afraid of? hn't tb-.s a fine school? Our teach?)s at; trained every hit a- «*-11 a- mb:?*- teacher--. Whether flit- ;>r- te > ing white ebßdreti t«r Neg».-> ; ren. they mill gi'e th« ■( !*■ -(. 1 (CONTINUED ON IMf-L 13 j— - - ! —a. The Carolinian I _ _ __ : VOLUME THIRTEEN RALEIGH H C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY OCTOBER 9,135 d ' NO. X XXXII 4 jjgftjjwWWp y*S ay 1 . H(; rj. *’•< ' ‘ ;• JL;'. ( jp;' -f; .»• ' j-r f- - * l , 4 ‘ : '■■y ■ V M v . ifc' . .1 ,:k tfe * LijP%lßa*i« u ink 9 *“e*«WK STAV AWAY' Bryant W. Bowles, fiery president of the National Association for the Advancement of White Beoph j is shown as he urged a crowd in Milford. Del. recently to keep their children home from school until the issue of segre gation versus integration was resolved. Bowles formed bis group this year in opposition to the NAACP. He claims a mem- 1 j bership of 5(1.1KK) (Newspres# > Photo) I j State News Briefs .um At mi flimnon NnmiM* raiwnmraun imvire,' WIFE hSiOT SPOUSE HELD j LUMEEETON - Mrs Lm-.-s ; Bell, 21. of Lumberton, Rt 5, is * in fair condition at Robeson Me | mortal Hospital from gunshot i w'oundß, and her husband. Gec/gc J A. Kelt, 26. is being held 1r jail I charged with the shooting w inch ] occurred earlier this week Mrs I Be!) sustained would* to her ’ right shoulder, neck and head i from a double barrel ahotgi, ti. The gur» has not yet been re- I covered. Bell was arrested at the i hospital at about 2:30 a an. and j charged with assault with a j ! deadly weapon with intent to j ! kill. SB I tl hosoital by an unidentified man. Ef-»F.n»-y MAN KILLED FAYETITVILLr. - A 60-year- j ; old local rmdrnt died in a he*- i <CONTINUED ON PAGE 13: i ****** ****** ****** m ieitf lit Fistel Murdei wm* ffff Officers of the Raleigh €iti- Association shown above ere Mr. L C. Hish, treasurer; President (Kei-.> George A. Fteher, and Mrs. Minnie Free man, secretary. The Rev, CHURCH MONEY LIFTED FROM PLATE SUNDAY j >-'a!tb By Which Men Live”, I theme of the Rev Teetanaoh Cor- ] xielius Hamans, .past-or of the' Manly Street Congregational-i Christian Church, surely fell on] deaf ears* last. Sunday during the I Morning services. Just after ser-! vices a vigilant check failed to re-j veal the collection plate with ap proximately $103.00 The amount of s!h take has been arrived at through a check of: the regular congregation who i»di-. vidually vouched for their respec-i live contributions. No one seems to know just how the money was taken. The Rev. Hainan* has pas tured this church for the past 22 years and during all of tills time il has been the practice to place the collections under the table in front of the pulpit until alter the services and then one of the dea cons. carries it to the church office where A is then counted. On last Sunday following the benediction and while the con gregation quietly filed out so did the plait- containing the money. Hardly a minute passed before the extensive search, began. It has] been reported a check v, as among the offering and it is hoped the; "borrower” of religious money will! be appj thended, CITIZENS LOSE iIM CROW FIGHT Members of the Raleigh Citi ' zens’ Association are reportedly ! very disappointed in the fact that j Negro teachers, of the city, open- ] j jy disregarded their written ie- j ; quest to refrain from attending | * an "Oper House” affair, sponsor- ! : ed by the Wachovia Bank and j ] Trust Company. last Thursday ] Os the city's approximately 136 race instructors, it has heps reported that there were 6” in attendance The local citizen? group, which j is beaded by Rev. George A ( t ishcr. allegedly sent typed let- | ‘ ters to all teachers in the city j j school system, urging them not j ; to attend the Open House be- : cause it was to be segregated. ! It was brought out that Ha* • leigb’s whit? teachers a tended an ! Op«u House at Wachovia Tues- i ‘ riay niglit of last week. The letter, { | which was signed by Rev. Fisher, j j reiterated the fact that the move ; was “A deliberate a tempt on 1 j tnc part of the bank to continue j I segregation practice* in -the light j [ of the rapidly changing structure • I of affairs.” A <A RO LINT AN reporter, whe was ot> th< scene i> the teachers entered Wachovia, i noted that several who had previously related to the Hr- ! leigh Citizens Association that they would not hr in at tendance, were among the first to arrive. | Several civic organization?, are j alleged ly alarmed ns to how to [ get Raleigh's Nc~ro teacher* to i j 'abstain from being a part ol i Jiin Omnv moveraetm.. j The *ucent invitation of the j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) Fisher authored the recent letter sent to Negro teachers of the Raleigh public schools re garding ihe controversial open house for teachers on a scgre• v ■■ m* - % *» W &M l x” f -«»- - j y-;' '.*r- FIRST CLERK SWORN IN HERE Orrin Ray Haywood. 29, is shown abort on the right being congratulated by Raleigh postmaster D Staton Invent*., follow-ing his appointment as the first Negro clerk in recent Church Founder Buried In Nash By J. B. HARKEN ROCKY MOUNT—Death claim - : ed this city’s oldest- active minis | ter. Bishop Corr.elious Remus Whitley, early Sunday morning, following a prolonged period of illness, thus ending a fifty-year ; ■ preaching career, which had its \ I beginning in the remote areas of j the deceased’?, native Greene County, near Snow Hill. APOSTOLIC BISHOP 3S YEARS The R5-year-«ld Rev, Whitley had been Vice. Bishop of the Apcw | tolir Church of God, Inc., for 35 years and was in change, of four churches at the time of his death aftho he had not been physically able to carry on the services, hand- . j in.g these duties over to his son, j the Rev Fiisah Whitley, who con ducted the extensive business af fairs of the industrious Bishop Whitley who was reputed to be rather wealthy. Members of the family decline that compliment, preferring to say only that their ! father “was a good liver." BURIAL AT SPRING HOPE ! Burial will be at Spring Hope for the minister who started preaching with the United Holi j ness Church of America, later ] withdrawing and building his first I Apostolic Faith Church at nearby Spring Hope, which church he ! served until hk death, along with; Booze Causes Youth’s Death LAGRANGE Whiskey is be | Jieved to have been the cause o i 44-year-o)d Ben Kittreli foiling Albert Harris, ,T>\, tjo to dr-r>tn here Saturday night, after an al ienation. The killer is reported to have been drinking. shortly before the killing., Hams is said to have gated basis as sponsored by the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company. In response to the letter sent, fill responded, while a like number were non eommitaL ’S&* hdfwsfev Wb« . -V -Wcr-.OTiWOTIi history at the local post office. Th c swearing-in ceremonies were hold in Inscoe's office last Thursday morning. Hay. wood is the son of Mr. and Mr*. C. A. Haywood, kr„ 736 S. East ■Street. He attended Washington the local church which had its beginning about 1826. Recently, alterations were begun on this structure. Whitley also served Rocky Chapel church at Simms, in Wilson County, and a church in Norfolk, Va BISHOP GRANT CONDUCTS KITES Senior Bishop R. C. Grant of Baltimore, was scheduled to con duct the funeral services, at the church here and in Faith Hope Apostolic church, in Spring Hope, Bennett Dedicates Building GREENSBORO Three new building? were dedicated on the j campus of Bennett College Tues day evening by trustees faculty, students and friends which were reported io cost more than #300.- 000 00. The money for the buildings was given to the school by the United Negro College Fund, of which the college is a participat ing member. A Fine Arts Build ing. a new Faculty and Children's House were turned over to the college in a formal ceremony held m Pfeiffer Chapel. Dr. VS. .1. Trent. Jr., exer.o- j tivr director of the fund. In delivering the principal ad- ■ objected to the language Kittreli •was using and showed his dis- : satisfaction by striking the older i man ir> the fare. Kittreli is said to have not turned the other cheek, but pullet his “blade' I trom his pocket The strtement r- said to have further revealed that Kittreli lunged toward Har- 1 SOLDIER KILLS WORKMAN AFTER VISITING job | GREENSBORO That ever | present wr ■. an showed up a | murder scene here this week ' when Wi.'.'iam E. Blocker went to ; a loading t attor.a &l.‘;n«lay and : , a..• j . > »■.. 1 to death. Pulley, according to fellow worker* was going a brut tn* chores when Blcek'-r arrived. Pulley* compa.’i'.'ds totd a.- resting officers that there was no intirra!. .n on the part of the k;*ler xuui there was any dif j ference between the two and ; when Pulley was felled by the bullets, thty stood in amazement The "woman a»*ie' crept into the kniiiing tvhen offi cers revealed that the two wen h til had word? about the dead man's wife. It was not ascertained whether there had been an affair between the killer and the wife of the victim. Pulley is said to be a soldier stationed at Ft. Bragg and v*. here on furlough He W3s held :n jail or: a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent- to kill. It appears that only one shot ■ was fired High School and Shaw Univer sity Married to the former Miss Pe&rlnte Smith of Eliza bethtown, he is the father of two children. STAFFOTO BY ; CHAS. K. JONES. during this week. SVfU IVORS Surviving, besides the widow, who was the former Miss Mary Jane OrimsJey, also of Greene County, are five children and sue • grandchildren. The children are: Ninevah Whitley, Mrs. Cornelia W. Greene, both of New York City, Mrs. Madie W. Hassell, Mt. Ver non, N, Y.; Mrs. Carrie W Davit, New Haven,. Conn, and Rev. Eli sha Whitley, Rocky Mount drew said that more ihs.e had been given to the school out of the 2i> mil lion that had been raised for SI private southern colleges- The speaker took time out to ■ tell the audience that the ruling of the Supreme Court did no! mean that such institutions would not continue to serve a great pur pose. He felt that Greensboro would always have in Bennett College an institution that would offer the best in education to all who found need of its facilities. He did not say what races would ; accept or reject Ben net l s faciii ; lies. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 181 ris, knife in hand. The knife is ktlfcwi to have slashed hie jugular veto ;>n<? Harris Wed to death be fore medical aid reached bis, The affray happened at a local store and drew several spectators, who looked on in honor Kittreli SCONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
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