Parents Seek NAACP Aid in UNC Entry Attempt
Gordon Gray Speaks Out
Ins policy of the Trustee Board
it. affects the admlwlon of Ne-'
pro students was brought to the
p .Mention o.t Uic Fivecutive Com-;
of the board b. re by Gov-:
don Gray president of the Great-!
o' Univerrsity us the result of;
three ibjrhtnn boys having made.
"a a i tempt to enroll In the Chapel!
H::l institution last week
At tor uoy C. O. Pearson, who
had been failed into the case by
the pavor.fr rd Leroy Benjamin’
i-ra.sc; and Ralph Kennedy Fras
er, brothers, and John Lewis
.Braude ti. who are alleged to have'
•n.iei'ed the aid of the NAACP,
it; getting- their rhildre.i register-!
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“Daddy” Grace Will Erect
Huge Structure At Raleigh
By CHARLES R. .IO\FN
Followers of Bishop C M
■; ■'••■ ' T? j • ’ Grace spcvC'd
j .ipsrtay tl.a: the joClorhly
n-.li !-;•:<•* had ... r■ uc o '.
ih••• o: ■ up prir.ts ;-.u
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!. iao -f. >ry b-ulding" to :n
--;>!afo ;r.c s,rf>c;:.t ' House of Prnv
b.H'A.uj m ... -vacant lot <*U E
South Sir rot,
!u* liny slrnclure which
n -.I . iic cost several
Carnation Baby Contest:
Judges Chosen: Date Set
W-.o will ty the winner in the:
nn.d Annuel B':, - own Carim
«cr. Healthy Baby Csnteat?”
This is the big question being
e.sked by the parents and friends
c-j the myiy entrants from all
ever the city.
Only the fudges know tbe
answer arid their choices will
he announced Thursday, May
26 at 8 p.m. in the Auxiliary
Auditorium, of the First Bap
tist Church here.
Twenty lucky youngsters from*
among the children of readers of
Firebug Admits 3 Arsens
CHARLOTTE—Frederick Quick, >
20. a grocery delivery doy here,
has lived up to his name in that
.he had police puzzled as to who
get fire- to three race churches
last week.
The boy allegedly admitted to j
police Monday shat he was the j
culprit who set the churches a
blase. One of the fires was set
wit|j matches and pages from a
B ole, which was in a Church of •
God building he is afiliatsd with.
Quick was quoted by of
ficer* as saying tha the set
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DUCTKD INTO ELKS The
Kev. Louis M&rcton T!: omji- |
wa, pastor of the Saint Mat
thews AME Church E. Davie |
ttaicji served its turn ;
ed, told the CAROLINIAN, thc.i,
'he war; going to exhaust, every;
• remedy possible. He said his next
; step was to make Rental applies-1
■ tion to President Gra r
Speculation has it that the
university president tumped
the gun on. Mr. Pearson by r«- j
staling the policy of the Trus
tee Board to the special ' ora
mittee. He set out that NT- |
groes were not to be admitted
to the institution ;«t the un
dergraduate level. He said
the applications were reject
ed in accordance with the
trustee policy that Negro stu
dents are eligible lot atimis
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hundred thousand doSE.fs
will contain a main awsihom
am. cspcciaHy acstlgned tor
shouting acc./rdin?, the
! builder, a rooming Louse,
cafeteria, kitchen and o'" s
Eiders B. F Grier am* A B
i-Valson Charlotte bo"-
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of drowijvg ;i r , • -.
and v,i-i o ... i baj(-b I■■ * " ' -
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THE CAROLINIAN wil b"
lected to share ii: 6b*-o .
prizes. To the first pr.re v.: ■.<
will go 5300. Other ,av. r:
elude SIOO to the Bvitcmd
winner. SSO to the third prtae ■.''in
ner, and $5.00 each to the next
seventeen finalists.
The f.remer.r;?.-u-. job of screen
ing all entrant'-, has beer, j.lkc -d
in the hands of five prominent
! local citizens:
Dt. K W MfOow: !1. Or C
B. Middleton, lueai physic
ians; Mrs. Otis Robert,son,
the fires on three different
days in churches in the north
-1913 GRAD MAY
HEAD ALUMNI
Dr. Joseph E Brown, a Baaw
University graduate in the eh ;•■.
as 1913. and one of the top ath
letes of that day. is the choice
far President of the Shaw Uni
versity National Alumni Associa
tion, by the committee on nomi
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church for the 35ib Annual
Meeting of the N, C. Elks As
sociation, wag ‘nducu-d into the
Elks Sunday morning as an
honorary aiemtwi. An photo i
sion only to graduate and
S profe£.-.ionnl schools, and then
only when similar facilities
| are not available in the state
; for the Negro race.
| Pearson said further that he
j would have but one other re
-1 course xf he should be turned
! down by Gray. He would then
| ask the chairman of thr uitsi.ro
j board tc adm:t them and should
! they fail ho would then seek re-
I lief from the federal courts
i As vec went ‘ o press it was found
I that there were two other boys
! who sought admission. One is
lO.irroii Willi.-., the son of the late
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. were xo f tilt* proi.* »
. plans to •‘•Sweet TlW.idy.' B H
Dinars, pastor of tn< : >ica! cYpip-p.
whs -dx», vvehe-iuiod to
, trip.
: : Upon npyreval ir.f El'.dvrs said
- 'hat »1.-. v would w-'w'in irmuedi
■ at ly on tin? new feutiding.
V r : ■ star? ' I ’-,: uw; do ■ ’
the old structure Monday monjv
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GO.VfiN? tO O „ TiQ i3i
and ■ Pat* t; :r.: c sehoot
.. and ■ t J’’ AL.cc i
.Doses, retired school teacher.
R-suiix ■■■: the Lna:
be ;r; d !a Ii " June 4 edi
ct c v.-:g:. t nian tog. in
i' r u ■’■ ■"of a. ■ top m: f-e
iinahs’ r-h : ■.. are asK-xi not
to phiii. s o. results until after
: i;i: < i ■ v.. have beer.
•vni~oi : ’ \c:i ’ . r >i? xnfoti)fs2i"
jtion not he vcia .acd hy the
i judges ur.al ev n ».<:• press on
i that da a:
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west wm section ol Chariotte
because T drinking and
whiskey was talking to me
; and told me to do it."
: The fires cud a total c: r.a et e;h“
! mated at 32.000. So one was hurt
| however.
Quick has beeu charged with
three counts of arson, a felony
outiishabic upon conviction by
Imprisonment lot from two to
forty years.
The prisoner is s; Qnas n h.> re
.: ceive a preliminary hearing in
i City Court this week
front left to right are: Julius R.
Haywood, District Deputy, Al
phonse* Vance, Exalted Killer;
K -v. Thompson, and an uni
deniified Daughter and K, f.
Battle, State President.
The Carolinian
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VOLUME 14 . RALEIGH, N. C, WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. MAY 21. 1955 x NUMBER 34
Johnston County Leads With
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Bond Denied
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By ALEXANDER BAKU ~
County Court Housf Snob'-'
fietd- According to SI r J; 3
Ttor.iy Jolwiston Count > - v
' hrg it: worfit murder wa;•• 't ; 1 v
: lory, v.ith two murders :..■■■
weekend and the- Lui. J of
- h.'<i soldi' r on W<: lr.*.--dn'
who .v; to have besi; mar: c.d
Saturday., havin', met las i > ■■
as tbe result of the firing i : it ad
of buc :. from a r .;
hand of an ira - ..* Selina ' wv.
Tlie most recent ki11.:.: w;-:s•
Gold lo :hv CAROLINIAN Iron*
: :;e ce . of the Clayton .. di on
Sunday nftorv.Don Walter Jester
•paitiallv paralyzed 51-:;'
: man rv. fed the inwiit* by •
; iny. "My cup runneth ov-.H«
’ reiated how Wiiiiam Howard
■ ooci ;• 'rad ;vX
20 yr-are. ile said that he had
reached the coic ■ r-’w-e .'•'.
thot it wag either his life n th-<
death of Good&on.
The ifouhlf began*.- accord
ing t« .leeter, who is married
»« Good son's sister when
tioodson and Consvcal!;; H
came through his ‘ard at.d
■eemingij were in argv
,cnt It was Dirn sbat le.-te?
old Goodsoa oot to start a
1 fsgiit in bis lard. Goodsozt is
said to have slapped Hood at
this jwim. Jeeter ..-ays that be
told Good so a th?t he v.oold
cot he able to Evp as long as
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LUCKY ALTO OWNER
ihe lucky car ia<i week aas ;
the one bearing the tag nmn- :
her X. 66102. li' the owner of !
that car took if to Dunn's Esso j
Service, corner Cabarrus and 1
Dioodworth Streets., here in Ra- j.
j ieigh, he received a free grease !
! Job.
| This will happen every week. !
i Watch for your tag number If ‘
; it follows the asterisk, you a ill
| pet the grease j u b. The Dam
: her v. ill be taken from any car
- bearing a X. C.' license
The numbers this week are: !
i X 93146; X 45579; X 94887 -A: 13- !
! 321; 71690 and D 2324.
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Will Name Four Buildings
At Kinston Girls’ School
Pla.rir to name and dedicate
four buildings at the State Train
; tog School for Negro Girls, Kin
! ston, Sunday, May 22 have been
! announced by J. R. Larkina, Sec
-1 retary. Advisory Board of the
: State Board of Correction and
! Training.
The buiidings are to be
named in honor and memory
of the late Senator-Governor
J. Melville Broughton; Dr.
Charlotte Hawkins, Brown,
President Emeriia. Palmer
Memorial Institute; Mae D.
Holmes. Superintendent of
! the school; and the. N. C. Fed
I eration of Negro Women's
Clubs.
Several of the founders and
! members of the Federation were
i pioneers in the movement to be
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UNDERTAKER, GUESTS BOG
XV TIMS
! Lawrence Lightner. popular
, Raleigh funeral director, and sev
eral companions were. Struck with
• eggs thrown from a moving auto
| mobile here last Friday night in
j front of Lightner’s Funeral Horne,
; 312 Sinithfield Street. The morti
i cian said that he was getting out
jof his car about midnight when
j the eggs were thrown. Detective
Lieutenant W. G. Maddrey. who
I investigated, said that, three men
drove by the funeral home as the
I group was emerging from the car
| and piteched the egs. The car, a
! gray 1850 Plymouth, sped east on
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: GASTONIA —Robert Pharr Jr.,
27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Pharr, Sr. 826 N. York Street,
has beta invited by the director
of Vpe New York Times Youth
Forum M;Dorothy Gordon, to
appear on a program to be tele
vised io- r the DuMont network
on Sunhiv. e1.,.-. 1)3. front 12 to 1
: p.m. The program is designed to
ascertain student's opinion of de
segregs lion.
j Young Pharr is hi New York
this week where the program >&
being put on film for the broad
cast later this month. Atlanta
University president, Dr. Rufus
E. Clement., win be the guest ox
the program,
The Gastonia student is
she only representative from
North Carolina, on the pro
gram. lie is a senior student
at the Highland High School
here, where be is a member
of the baseball team, the
Student Council and the
yearbook staff. Pharr form
erly served as vice-president
of the State Association of
St« dent C ouneits.
Mr. Pharr was sent to New
York by the North Carolina Con
gress of Colored Parents and
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gin a training school for race
girls. Later the members of this
organization established support
ed, and operated the first train
ing school for girls at Efland. N.C.
The principal address is
scheduled to be delivered by
Dr. Ellen Winston, Commis
sioner of Public Welfare,
Others participating in the
program are C A. Dillon,
Chairman, and S, E. Leon
i ard. Commissioner, Board of
Correction and Training; Mrs.
Rose I), Aggrey, President,
N. C. Federation of Negro
1 Women’s Clubs; and Super
intendents of Correctional
Schools from New Tort, Vir
ginia, Delaware, and Mary
land.
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CHILD KILLED ON TRESTLE
ROCKY MOUNT An 8-year
old boy, trapped on a trestle, was
killed by an Atlantic Coast Line j
train Monday night. The youth 1
was identified as James Arthur j
Wiggins of Rocky Mount. It could
not be ascertained as to why the !
boy was on the tracks.
CHARGE HITCH-HIKER WITH
MURDER
SALISBURY Charles f. j
Brooks, 21-yar-oW Reading,
Fa., soldier may live because
of a hitch-hiked ride from
Concord to Winston-Salem. It
is expected that Brooks v ill
offer this as an aHbi when be
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Crowds
Watch
Oils Strut
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Public Relation* t ! on;. '■
Vs'n iBPOfAt
:: Haloi.jhite?. turned out m droves
to *ee the "Hill, ’ >nd Dsu K ':
put on their usual Hineo
'• Wednesday :-.ften n:>r< s<-v
--. oral bands and nvsuciti-rt v ’ tbs
•; started from tin ok; '
'! Fw’ld- Tavtx at anr Ns .•• V,v. •
nue. ar.d weuckd feeir v. ■ to
Uhe 1,1.e0n Jr. un-T-uy High
! School. at exactly* 3 p.*a. .
Fidelity Lodge V- 3D. N. -
le.igh. led the proeeysion and
there was a spirit of merri
ment as the troopers, vied
with the majorette* anci drum
majors. They really hit their
stride as they rounded the
capUoi grounds and hit down
*■ * fee Siicet. ’i/M: slat
-1 walks were filled and pr-r-:ons
of both race* and front all
walks of life cheered and ap
plauded as the g.vri. s inns < .ante
off.
Grand Officers Here
j Grand Exalted Style; Johnson
, was expected here Wednesday in •
time lor the r.J". Grand ind:e
officers already here iticlr.ov
Grand Dauyht;'--Etil. Nett;<:• C
, Jackson. Staten. Islaßd. N. Y.l Xh.. 1
. Bertha McCandß-ss, Past Greuti
Dt Ruler and the < wumur. i
■ upon whom h-r- beer, conferred: |
‘ the honor of Past Grand Excited j
Ruler: Dr Reoa Jefefison. Atlan
,; tic City. N. j who - h*dg‘ v-m
, be host to the natter. U co/u-' ra- ;
jl lion in August: Judes V- C. H-«- ■
ston, Washington, 1). C., Grand -
; Secretary and founder of the j
■ Elks cducauonal arcs oratorical
on ram i
’following 'top' Elks officials: Har
ry Heuston. asuoruet to nronro
■ secretary; Dr. J. E. Jones, £ ii»-
beth City. N r . c . ir ac G the und
i ical department ir, the southern
region v, he.::; a.. h: R. •
■ hanta. Julunds arid stale Lit. Pre:- s
ider.t Letitia Smith cf Hicxvr s
M Sunday
I Memorial service;; vere obsorv- 1
‘led Sunday for departed '‘Bills"
j I and Daughter;-:. This v- ao. toilov
1' ed by a pjfereant f>v the "/omen's
I department. Monday saw fee reg
j istration of delegates and the a-
I warding of degrees Monday
| night's welcome program at fee
! St. Matthews AME church on £..
Davie Street featured addi'essc-s
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HOME OF RECLUSE Pic
tured above is the home ot
.John Bariinijr R? who was kill
ed last week by a white youth.
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Ml. BDW VICTIM—V/s.krio
Howard Go'-idson who v.ar kdi
ed by hi* bcather-io-hi *v»
i. ~ .Ichi-r, as k kernt ;» Cky ■
tt*.n Satarda; .:. W. Gnvdsau ;
believtx! to have been afivam
•rs a oars -Lr, when be was
DhsG
MENTAL PATIENT
tiffisr piiE
GOLDSBSStO Mrs. Fi-ar.'-c
v.rVich Wnods. 33. of Nash County
of frsc "ed sk'dl here
Mo)id V s-.Mi r sh-‘ n - u sE’.'-ted
by Mi.vs Sally May Russ. 48. of
Durham County at about 8:00 a.
as. Sonclay
Dr Ira Long, superintendent of
the Cratr'- HcKijjta! here, said
Monday that he could Bud nr
yvil'' ncc of xi'-y.llgtit'c;- in the fa
ir] stamping of the woman rn-.:-n
--ta! rsaOeni,
He further staled that his
svestigati.'o showed attend •
anls were there when the we
nan was stomped but the in
cident is fiifki to bevc hap
f,;!.aed so fast thai they were
v»t able to prevent if,
i’he Russ v.oxKan, af;o"t-dly ad
mitted in 1946. is clasified p a
schizophrenic who is subject to
.dden penods of violence. Dr.
Rung said she "went oft all at
c.r” and beat the other womui)
"ithoui being provoked.
Miss Christine In ah, an at
tendarit. said Miss Russ show -
ed ;:o si.ons, of . evcitement
when she was fed in her ward
at 8:15 a an. .Sandaj. This was
some 45 minutes before the
fatal incident.
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The barn-house combination Sr,
located two miles from Clayton
■* rw' v. isolated. Fonevas services
lur the maun were scheduled to
Tragedy
Strikes At
Soldshoro
Bj HE.VRV C. MITCHELL
GOIDBBORO :MIB) - • Elroy
Cra-Afmd 30. and Felix Lynn 35,
oath bricklayers, employed by the
K- F. Tfiv’cr Co., were injured
when their .scaffold collapsed
while working »t cl. Pau- Metho
dist Church or. S. John Street
.here in Goldsboro this week Both
men are .in Wayne Memorial H-. -
fatal cud om is i eporb-d to be
mn serii *u,s cofiditiaa.
The two ’.vorc •A'>irk,ng inside
!,h. ; ;Mu the ; caifold on
vhifil they were 'U-.-r.dxng collaps
ed The i; en fell shou*. JO feet
ia»«i:ng -ost above fee entrance
of the church.
vrlausiy Iniured wa>- ( mw
F, was not removed
un:jl aiio*:2 30 minutes after
she joetdenf - It was neces
sary for workers to remove
boards from the Inside of the
v rpls in order U» get to him.
An examination at Wayne
Memorial Hospital showed
feat <’raw;'«rd st;l'»ered a
5 f .•;•'•< are of (he sknT and
bi uises of the bod:». He un
, derweat surgery M<vtt da y
'light and, barring <-o m plica
.ns. i* cvpecivd iu recover.
Lynn received a head inury
: i the Tight arm- Hit. ost -
■; ditiun !:•• not serious,
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, V'ance Records Ist
i Traffic Fatality
HEifeOEESON V; rjc« CoJiUky 3
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.’ttty yxit , whc-i: Ot;.s Macci■
;..c 87 of HiSSkoboro (.f ; .c ;
died, k, Jubiiec Hospital Sunday-
The man is Kijd to cove rooeiv
:ed a skull frachtre and other In
jyriei. when a sru/H pickup truck
v in ccllßion with a freight
- truck about < ■■■ ' S.iiiuda/ cl io
; intersection of -the Dabney Road
> sjid the U. S. 158 Highway by.
- fuss.
According t« investigation
1 by the big Ji way patrol, the
pickup tru. k < -iven by Per
ry Overby, ,<f Koute 5. near
Hicksboro, ran through a stop
sign and s cashed into the
ire.ight track of the Manches
ter Board ; nr! Paper tom
party of Richmond, Virginia.
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be held Wednesday afternoon of
this week. Nt'AELOTO »Y
DBAS. K JONES,