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Gloria Ueciies i .ot 1 o
Continue On W in Spree
"T think the Lord has be?n very
'. ;■ tr wordy intoned by Mrs. Bertha
Ks ,: jo ar.rtmni.hrt <"- Olori.:- Lock
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!<•' *-i. OH O Mil l: HONOR,! n
AJpbonra a Vancr 72b s prr
■'r ~ .'’H '.css elected >o the
•'■'■'nd Lode? President's Council.
7 r!tan rook place at the \’„-
' Convention which was held
-'la'-fir Cir.v Ks« .Jersey la.p
’■ ■ The duty of the council is
’•e ar h r :,f the Grand Exalted Rut
in ="' ideal and national affairs
•■•o'err.m? the Grand Lodge. Ms.
'.•-.rrr t;.. r Exalted Ruler of Fi-
Lodge h?rt. 277 here. He has;
-‘•rved in this office fore years.
r*a t, y. .'. Lodge Nteni. e No. 55 xy rj
a deacon at the Manlc.v Street
Chr--tian Church here
WOMAN' STABS HI RRV
wn SON A family riis
r-uh resulted in (be stabbing
~f Tohimbos Hunter. 38 by
Sin wife last Wednesday night
•inH physician* have
'■'•pressed tittle hope of his
f.pri iving. Mr*., Irene Hunter
b-it hern lodged in the Wilson
County .fail, without homl.
pen din c the outcome of Hun
ger’* rendition. Police said
th-?t *hr svji! n«t bf charged
with murder until the nut
"'tT,» lit his condition js
knnu-n. The Police F'cpart
nteiM'f hospital report describ
ee! Hunter’s wounds as "%e
--rere" in (hr left renter
"f the chegl and stomach
•fjijnds. The wound' were a(-
frovTJvr r n nv rtr.t n,
Petition Asks Opening
Os Old Fort School
OLD TORT Aftei five t hi) dm-,
*«r® refused admission tr> the
white public school here last Wed*
nesd&y. their parents filed a pe
h’tlon with the McDotvei! Counts'
board of education requesting
their immediate admission
Acting on behalf of their own
children and on behalf of other
children and parents simttiarly
situated, the petition requested
'he board to issue a directive, or
der or mandate to the school su
perintendent and principal of the
rchool requiring them forthwith
to admit children of petitioners
and other Negro children similar
ly situated.”
They also requested that a hear
ing: on the petition hr held with
out delay in order that the chil
dren may have the advantage of
r Jblic education in the local pub
]•'• school during the school year
Farmer Shot As Climax
To Year-Long Feuding
a r e*. - -■» * . -
YOUNGSVILLE Percy Bov
Eaton. 32-year-oid farmer of me.
1. Youngsville was the victim tn
a shootme scrape as the result
of a year-ion? feud betewen two
neighbors.
According to reports bv Frank
lin County Sheriff C. W. Perry.
Pa tor was shot, in the back, sev
eral times with a 22 rifle by '
Claude Green, age 44. at, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday at Green's residence.
Toe victim's condition was con
sidered ‘mure critical" when ad
prtted bur the CAROLINIAN
learned at pres, time that his con
ftition was much improved. ,
mnan. that pot an end to the
question in msru rclcvisior •
try '■ the $32 OOf qii t >i f.
day nitht. The Sie.OOO that Gloria
•■ton wi!i tie into a trust fund for
Gloria won the hearts of tele
vision audiences two week.- ago
when .opt"? 1 5 od the .foienvin?
tarlanßsm. For this word rA won
sß.o*o, Fo, v t wfyk trir)<\.er of v.cvp
monies Hal March presented the
tiny contestant with a sentence
which contained -cvcrai words
equally as hard as the ss.oofi w<
had her-.-. She emerged victorious
and was told to go home her
winnings of $1 <5,000 and return
Tuesday nitrhi. with her decision
a ONTis rnr> on r u.i m
Police Hold Boy, 16,
In Stepfather’s Death
Lee Thomas Rivers. IS, \- being
held without bond in Wake Coun
ty jail charged with stabbing his
stepfather. Harmon Sellers to
death after tbr latter ailcgedlv
made a pass at Rivers’ sy-ter
Gladys.
Witnesses claimed that Sellers
knocked the youth down with a
whiskey bottle hut i.-- 1 his balance
and fell onto an open switchblade
knife
Rivers told officers that he was
lying on his front porch about
. 1:20 am. Sunday when his si -
te; woke him up and told him that
Sellers, who had been drinking
"as trying to make her have an
affair with him.
In a signed statement. Rivera
said: ‘I told Harmon to loan- her
alone and that I wanted to
some sleep. I woke no later and
Harmon was still cussinn and
raising cane I got up and darted
to get a drink of water My knife
was lying beside me because I had
hem cleaning my fingernails.
NffIDYOUTH.It,
IN RIFLE DEATH
MATTHEWS Held without
bond for a preliminary hearing in
Charlotte this week is Alexander
Ray, 17. of Route 1, Matthew?;, who
was charged with murder in the
rifle slaying of Kenneth Alexan
der, local resident.
Early or: the morning of August.
37, Alexander, operator of a
Smoke Shop in the "Tank Town"
Section of Matthews: was shnt to
death m his shop.
Police officials, have alleged that,
because there had beer, trouble
between Rev and Alxender. the
H’ONTiNrrn on pagf id
Seemingly, the feud had been
going or, between Eaton and
Green for about a year, since Eat
on had reportedly used profane
language in talking with Green’s
wife. ■
It war alleged by Green that
Eaton came to his yard brandish
ing a pistol last Saturday after
noon Eaton refused Green's warn
ing to leave and kept walking to
ward the house.
Green's admission of shooting
Eaton "several timet'' in the back
led to his arrest under <• charge
of assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill,
The Carolinian
VOLUME 14 RALEIGH, M C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. IQ.SS MUMKP.P -io
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/ Vl Will I « ■**•* —wtwr—w, **********,.,**,*! 4
hu^ To JP^i*\,
** - is pi ■*? -ar * •* *jir
i 4 rrest ()f Couple Solves
_ __
Teachers
lixGov.’s
Approximately 100 race teach'
•. •• ■' l curia'll: leadership ron
fn -it Shaw University m.M
Thill da;. a:r! }■ ids declared
t'numcieic'.'s opposed to voluntary
segregation m the public schools
•is advocated by Govcrnc: Luther
Hedges ; add:'c>s;ne rhr educae
■ here Friday.
The Governor !o!ri the group
'hit the problem now facing
1 1) citterns, white mri Negro
Mitke, ino! otic of «*nns<iti|>
f '«n.. i eight'., it k ope of vo v
( ovriNTm on r ten j|t
"I picked up *hr knife and
" anted to put .■ m my pocket
when Harmon cp,rrv ; over and
orabb- hri me around my neck and
.shoulders,"
He said that they tussled and
Sellers hit him on the nose with
1 a whiskey bottle, and linen stum
bled onto the knife Sellrs.7 was
rushed tn st Agnes Hospital
about 2 a m. but was pronounced
dead on strive).
What's Happening
On The Desegregation F i ont
I V-s AH To Disclaim
N A A < P Mcmbership
KINGSTREF. S C.— Roosevelt
Barr, a dry cleaning plant em
ploy* e. who says that he was for
merly a member of the NAACF.
bought advertising space in the
weekly Williamsburg County Rec
ord last week to announce that
lie no longer is a member of the
oj ganizmion.
In his advertisement.. Bair said
that h- ha.- not been affiliated
fds
TELEVISION PANEL AIRS
VlEWS—These men narticipatfd
in 3, televised panel discussion on
ibe subject "Fines North t'sm-
Hna. Want Integration In Pub
HII I! \ M (, RL.tiCK
Ad Agency
Presisden
Succumbs
Nt W YORK, N V - Wiljaar G
"iack. 47, one of the nation s f a
mo-- 1 'Negro .advertising executive?
and president of Interstate Uni tee
Newspapers. inc„ riled early Sat.
urcay morning in Sydrn’ro'm Ho.- -
pita', after a prolonged illness
K ONTIMTII ON PAGE tit
with 'he NAACF since Jan, 1. 1956
and that he "has not been and
is not now responsible" for the
activities of the NAACF
White citizens of the county
have formed ‘‘citizens commiteesf"
to fight the school desegregation
movement sponsored bv the N A.
A. C P
Attend in Texas
ALICE- Tc\ France Lee
White and Lonora Tisdeli. both
17. are believed to be the. first
i lie Education?" The program,
I sponsored by the Raleigh Chi
rr us Committer was allegedly
j sparked bv Governor Hodges’
recent proposal that Negroes In
Estranged
Rsiosville -■ A S?.v,,H
w-infpr! for to< j a,te minder
of hi:- wife, fo 1 . ■■d on y Pork
ingham County f»rtr hocked
in ; po **e heaoquov*-! * Mon
day afternoon
HOl t v ;~rin Ci.rrrTi'f. o *s¥ep
■ f the Reidsvflle City Sums Dr
?-*■' men*. "Delos*, he'd without
ooi'd i-i ina murder charge in <he
• ■iy S's i r,o say ? ii;if
Off W fp f n r; f' 1 V'*}; .: r; ::j,; r
on S.'if’.jrday nigh!
> -i'py :(>'d
s>«f eraJ quarre-.* sod Mir Cur*
re*;;-' tess -laying with her
# >': ■ Pi»fk o■ T’ ip
fry- Street where the assault
look iiiaco The wijfßan died of
sever* ■«.? wounds about the hold.
tilyrin.-c gft.p; tr, ri ,
and office** had sough* him dur
ing the weekend Early Monday,
they got a iead. went to a farm
near Madison a-.d found the fogi
five He had hired out a - * a farm
hand and ass helping to fii! a
bion w;(b Ichacro
Cun oner ra m p peacefully H r
f‘dd police *hst he did del know
that hi” eßTrangpri wife dead
until h* read about in the daiiy
rewapapec- He said that he bad
■Mended cowing to Rejdsville tn
rur render aft* ■ r had finished
flivng Ihp ham
Negroes to register at. q formerly
all-white public school m Texas,
when they signed up to attend
Alice High School
They are among eight or ten
Negro seniors who will attend the
school.
Stanley School
Board Faces Suit
STANLEY Fifty adult citizens
of Stanley last Monday filed a pe
tition demanding that Stanley’s!
North Carolina attend segregat
ed schools on a voluntary basis.
From left to right are A. VI.
Klvi-1-r, I r tliirbam Herman
i L. Taylor. K-B.lfigh: the Rev. o
se#? 4 '
wr
S. I -
fa
% A
F- ■
FIIWARII 'SMO VXfiRKWS
. , . nabitnei its u ,ek> NV.mnt
:«• j»ssswvsr;
m * '
W««. S.R.H niRTII
. . , sbaros irmiriir rap
white school be opened to Ne
groes.
The Rev P H McDowell, p;r -
idem, of the NAACP chapter here
filed the petition with the Gas
ton County school board and the
Stanley school board. He said that,
the petitioners would wait or..*
week for an answer. "If the pe
tition isn’t acted op favorable
within that lime." he .stud, ‘‘we"’
file suit against the tw- L-uxis.
• CONTINUED ON PALI 11 l
A. Fisher. Raleigh I •<te
svari, Durham; Carl rtrVam*.
Raltiyb, and S.-imur! Mitcbrli,
fairish (STAFF PHOTO BY
CM AS K .IONEP'
t'he Jarkv r*r last > r cck was
the one hearing the tig num
tte e ■ X'Mti :■)>'. Ji (i owner of
He. , car took it in Damn's Esso
fry fee ' orrter Cabarrus «nd
Hi .!■. nrth Sttci’ts. here in Ra
leigh. hr received * free grease
job.
vetii Icippcn ; very seek.
Watch tor vour i%g number. If
i'i i 'itovrs the notvri'k. ' jn .vitt
get. t: e gi'•'Kip job The nttm
lirr wul by taken from jn\ car
(-.pii .ig n '■ r license.
The numbers thi* week are;
i jtl; V-lilS; X.46»tf!2, *R.
SH7S \ ' M. and X 'Ethl
In i d 01'
Si* < HAff! i S fi tOSTs
Tim tjn.viivrd ''r’:i, o ■ ;, r , [w...
, sod Skeleton" took on new sight!
here D. tui'miy with the .■■•rrmt of
Eawf-ud ' fjjiyk->" Andrews. 35-
yf:ar-i’.)d Ruin;: h -nun believed i.i
be the murderer of .lanirs Wli
;:oih 25, whose decayed remains
I wore exhumed frotr a sholkiv
| grave n bin own backward I .ns!
' Apro
“Smokey" and Mrs Cur
fir, 43, also ri Raleigh have both
boon oharKCd with firs' deyr;:;
murder and were hound over to
Wake Rtjpono! f'■ in here Ron
da; ,
The "*t((Hl«Wtir type rare
was opened here on the first
h'tmday in Apr?! after a him
■ f rw tits ring op a hone in tVit
««»’* havkyard at MS f'uw
berfc) ml Avenw I’ol ire ivcre
summoned to the scene and
as the entire skeleton war ex ■
amifseri there was no id ri r '-r
any doubt as in the format
taxi driver’s whereabouts.
It. >vo.: '.earned : r Andrews
its; the i;r.t man ;■- :n Wll r
alive as they had engaged in an
argument on the nu:];; of Sep
tember 1!>. 1054 A fight ensued, i
Wilson «va ; injured and i!-
ler.cdly accompanied to Saint, Ag
nes Hnapu.il by Andrews The dead
man is known to have been treat
ed and released from (he ho.epit.al
but ;;; ••< -sons could not he traced
furt her.
Police began an intensive search
for Andrews, who had disappear
ed. He was finally captured in
: Rocky Mount, last- Thursday night
and carried to Halifax where he
wa booked for questioning about
a wave of break-ins in the area
An filer* FBI agent recognized the
fugitive as the man wanted here
find held him until Raleigh De
tective Set J. H. Bowers and Lt.
TOVTINTKFi ON PAGE ID
T l O. N HOWARD
TO SCOOT CONFAB
14 rv?r-• ■;berv as the Occoneeehee
Council Professional Staff will at
tend the Tenth National Training
Conference Jot Scout Executive?
to bo hr id at the Ijruvcrsiiy of
Mich) car Ann Arbor, Michigan,
September 2-6
Nesriy 3000 full time profession
al leaflet v of St''',tting will meet
to work details for the launching
of a four-:.'-.r program known as
"Onward F r God And Mv Coun
try' starting .binary i. in.V>
Rev. D N Howard, Sr.,
Wake Di'ision Executive and
assistant to the pastor of the
'CONiI.M Kn OK PACE ID
Television Panel Says Race
Won't Accept School Plan
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lAK cVfi ONE GLANCE at the
* utlus i'; ;i shake datsrr-r Vida
dp s'ur w.i-. Mearing while do
ing her to -oM«ge. Polk* Chief
Ohm lex ' s on nj.-hi d bark-tar*'
ihe EBmc.ten a:; n*ll *e
Hf o<fp. *if! \ ( nnd »old the
; m artist th;il -b< ** outd h* ■ *
n y rv r* rif t o* r I -■ grt
ifr.- i.'vi f*u hriny n> f> scaii-tity
gsrb Appearing as ? feature
■t! u'ft.u; ** uh the B'eei-t. 1 -
L'lrn.i --b*.*;, i *, ,* :-. foigring is*
.n>j(!i, tjie e\nUr. dinrer lee!*
Lh ;*i'-irr ,0l o friiured *h
b*>w -it-r 1 0. ( ardionts qtiarf-e!.
limßi) U,■ *’ *i. !i rll f Whittier
VVjtlM' -a r*f! Hc\ h.trta. fU' ,
,i»fi lull, Junior f,r n i
ODDS-ENDS
K't i.'innn r. HEFARB
L-i. 11 -x, ; ir a prepared speech
before the Second Annual Leader
ship Conference if she N r
i ohc hp v s A ■ so.. 1?< t '■ on '* i Shav TTn 5 -
versity, Governor Hodges d*?scnb~
c-d the group a- the ical leader*
of tije N-gro rare and urged that
group to support his so-cajleo
volunbri school segregation pis n
The next day ihe Governor re
reived h: reply in the form of ?
rnsoli.it :.in adopted by the teachers
jn wh-'-n they flatly rejected h.r.
propose!';
7 would s®erc th.-it the signi
ficant thing in ail of tm? y. the
fact, thj.it, Hodge ■ and Co. hare
gone on! of thr’.r wav m lambast
ing the NAACP as false loaders of
the Negroes m this siate and have
a.-sorted that the NAACP in no
wise represented the thinking "f
North Carolina Negroes Now
thai (I’.p group whom the Governor
hi-msd f publicly h ■- called lire
real leaders of the Negro race has
openly lefur-cd to sii:;rnpe to the
policy of continued segregation
proposed by him. thereby aligning
itself with ‘hr stand already taken
by the NAACP, rhe Governor and
ail who think and fpe-1 ;;s he don s
should know that Negroes in. this
:--ta>e intend to be the good citizens
they have always been and will
continue to fight in uphold the
Constitution of the United State*
The "real" leaders have said they
(CONTINUED ON r'ib.F n>
BY CHARLES * JONES
i A panel discussion. * ports dred
by the Raleigh Citizens Oommit
tee Monday night, made clear the
foci ‘hat the Negro community
will not tolerate voluntary segre
gation in the public schools as
"it would constitute an indictment
of oil the people in North Caro
lina ”
The group, which aired its
views over station WNAO-TV con
sisted of. The Rev. G. A Fisher,
president of the citizens' commit
tee. who acted as moderator:
Herman L, Taylor and Samuel S
Mitchell, h-cal attorneys, Carl T)»-
Vane, university professor here<
-L S. Stewart. Durham business
man and Alrx M Rive’- a Jr„
Durham newspaperman,
The rjuevtbm "Will ultimsto
mieera»inn bring about men
grrliraMop of (he races*" m.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE II)