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VOLUME 14 RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ID. .-953 NUMBER 50
Enroĺment Up In Raleih's Schools
A ; . C Prejudice May farce
Race Bias Causes Home
I rouble In Carolina Town
B* ALEXANPMB BARNES
SOUTHERN PI NES- -Souther n
*tedition, inflamed by a desire of
a retired race couple to live where,
they had money enough to buy.
4 came ftoe to face vyi;,- common
-r r>• economy her? Tuesday and
Mil have until September 15th
to determine whether it will bow
rn ?.nth century progn ■?? or write
another blight upon the history
of North Carolina.
The whole Thine happened hr
cause Mrs. Louise Was- Spence,
white home-owner in an aii-wi •
subdivision known ns Kenwood.
sold a modest frame house, to Mr
and Mrs Martin Wrote after • '
could not ret any of the white
peop> ?n huv. Mis Spence r eia-t*
r,~ hew she warned to sop tr.e
house due to unkept promise by
the mao who built sod sold if to
her Hmry I. Gtaves.
Mrs. Spenc*' sought the
White* and after much dis
cission rntnpleferi ihr sale.
The rotipie contemplating re
tirement ume to North Car
olina sometime ago and began
looking for a place to spend
their last yea rs Air While
had been an emplnvr of the
post office in New York, while
Airs. White was r< wial work
er in Jamaica- New York,
where the- liveri
"7"j.npv • rv- tf* .
nr no BERT ft > HEF AKO
Th decision op the part, of the
Foe Mr G. A Fisher and his
group -not. pi present Negro stu
dents lor admi' i-on to the >cPools
nearest them was a good one and
reflects much credit upon all con
cerned
In new of the fact tj-.a* the
Supreme Court- has ruled unani
mously that, segregation in the
public schools is unc-onst, ut.ional,
the only place where any type of
demonstration ss needed is in the
courtroom
Parading innocent N rro chil
dren to the school.- nrw used ex
clusively by whites can result in
both psychological and physical
darnasri? to student Bno sponsors.
No good cars b<® hut 3
great deal of bad fer ng car be
engendered I
Caithness restraint and dig
nity should be the v itch word of
Negroes during ♦.her" trying days
when the dark force- of evil are
determined to cre~ e incidents
and compel Negi oe to commit,
acts of aggression that will nullify
all cl their gains
Negroes do not need to use
any type of threats, They do
nos need tn make any empty
demonstrations. Ah they peed
*o do new is trust in Almighty-
God and keep their issue alive
in <he Federal Courts.
It would not see n in the inter
est of the best re relations for
the Salvation A • to acquire
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“Buried” orpse
Is Still Alive
BLACKSVILI.IE. S C.—A lo
cal woman who was ' dead"
and buried 40 ye: : ago is still
alive today, ac rding to a.
story in the A igusia tGa.)
Chronicle
The woman. ien only 30
suffered an attack of epilepsy I
and was pronounced dead hv
a local physician About a foot
of earth had been shoveled on 1
her coffin when a sister, who
was late for the funeral, ar
rived and pleaded to have one !
I last, look at the deceased- !
■ According to the story, the
f coffin was opened up and as 1
the lid was raised, the "corpse”
sat upright in the coffin and ! 1
mourners fled in all directions !
Many of them have since died, M
hut Essie the dead" woman, 1
Is etlll much in evidence and ;
able to work- j]
where Mr. White way horn but
found that it offered no rnch*r»t
aseht for them. Thev then visit
ed Winston-Salem, but the Cam
el City" too had no alluring fea
ture;' It was then that they went
to Southern Pines. The a:: from
the pines and the cordial:*' of
the people, according to Mrs. :
Whir led them to V,,'h."e t::*»r
the. would be able to in ; fsvm ,
there anc *h*y decided u settle
be re.
Or c ■h-M"' minds v -re made
up '."ic r fc<... ;r. looking for a lot. 1
or which they could build the
house of their dream- They
found the spot. b ,: h. re ;? where
i trouble be ran. The spot was
among people of thei: hue, but ■■
was '-non found that the title to
the proper: y was "clcud.v" and
‘.hoy were given Their money hack.
Thev then bought wo other lotc
for which t-i-wi -') rh
They then sought a cntltrnntor
but the cos* ,-d building what they
wanted turners out to V jrrn
hiihit/iic
Forlornrd and saddened they*
returned to New York almoat die
illusinned. t.o, a;t foe develop
ments T.ncv were soon coo.;-
hv M* Spence and r : .-rrpn.-r
off, - Th-n potential future
neighbors wo-e rmf aware of what
-rONTINi ill ON FAGS if
OXFORD When a pick-up
■ truck ran off an embankment
and turned uprsde down in a :
e.vqek Saturday afternoon, Willie
Winston. 40, was killed
Th* accident occurred about 2
p m a> Johnson> Creek bridge,
about '.even miles northwest of
Stovall. Two other occupants ~
Enoch O. Smith and John Moss
! —were unhurt
Reports show that the mrr
said tn have been drinking were
headed toward Stovall in tne
■ truck owned by Smith's father.
The road was* muddy and wo
from heavy rains. Winston was
pinned under the truck and death
was due to drowning.
Investigating officers say that
Smith wa,- driving about so min
utes before the wreck and that
( the v e it some question as to
whether Winston was driving at
the time of :hr erridant
Rights Council
End Job Bias F
WASHINGTON—The American
'Council on Human Rights has
written to President Eisenhower
: commending him for calling a
meeting of Ipadev- of indust,!'
to discuss fair employment on
government, contracts but also
urging the President *.o call the
following month a meeting of
governor? on the same subject
: Reminding the President that
he had talked earliet in iflfi3.
about, a governors’ conference on
fair employment. Aubrey E Bob
in.son. Jr.. ACHR director, obsei v
; ed that such a meeting would he
l in line with the President's pol
icy of voluntary fair employment
and solution of employment prob
lems within the states
Mi Robinson added, ' Although
the Council stands strongly for j
Federal fail employment legtsla
tion v'ith “of*?nf ’
we also urge the use of every pos
sible means to eliminate racial 1
discrimination in employment "
In three additional letters on
civil rights matters the council.
1 Urged the Honorable Fran- 1
cis E Walter Chairman of the |
Un-American Activities Commit
tee of the IT. s. House of Reprr- j
sentatives, to conduct immediate
ly an investigation of the Ku Klux 1
Kla n-—anti- N ogro. anti -Ca tholic.
and anti-Semitic and thus clear
ly subversive
2. Urged Defense Secretary 1 ■
ft "
Li*,
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COl I'l-E MAY SELL HOME—Mr. and Mrs. Martin I. White.
showi: in bottom photo, toid a CAROLINIAN reporter this week
that thev would sejl their home lop photo, rather than live In *
neighborhood where the-, were constantly tormented by threats and
unfriendly neighbors Ih s Whites planned *0 move ip<o Ihelr re
reptiv aeqinred home In Southern Fine-.' exclusive Kenwood section
this week hot >fUo eonferring with attorneys snd friends dismissed
shis derisiot! and decided to seb
1 Presses J o
Charles E Wilson to reverse his’
decision to continue s contract, j
resulting ir. -segregating schooling i
on the military posts at Fort)
Meade Maryland, and Fine Bluff.
Arkansas.
3. Requested President Eiaen- ;
roNTiM ED on nr.f tl* !
What ’s Happening
5 Dixie S<alc«
Try Integration
NASHVILLE. Term.—Th* Sep
tember Issue of the Southern
School News reports that at least
352 school districts and counties
in eight Southern and border
stater, began the school year with
Negro apd white ,'Mren attend
ing mixed classes.
The News listed desegregation
progress in:
More than 6b' school districts
In south and west, Texas
Eighty-eight districts m Okla
homa including Oklahoma City
with a heavy Negro population 1
UNC SUIT TO BE
HEARD SEPT, 18
i ;
GREENSBORO (ANP‘ A
i three-judge court will decide next;
week whether the University of
i North Carolina will be permitted :
to kpep its present policy of dis
crimination against Negroes on
; the undergraduate level
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At least 10 counties and four
of the larger cities in Kentucky
Forty-four out of 55 counties m
: West Virginia
One hundred and fourteen dis
; triets in Missouri out of 244 with
Negro enrollment
Opposition to desegregation was
found to be stiffest in Alabama.
Georgia. Louisiana, Mississippi.
North Carolina. South Carolina
j and Virginia,
Fire Signer Os
Integration Note
GREENSBORO—A white man
who signed a letter to the local
board of Guilford School near
—IN—
-11 RALEIGH HOST* WITNESSED
| According to a statement, made
Shore this week by Herman Gill,
iSr presiding minister of the lo
fi cal Jehovah's Witnesses church
group, a 3-stat,e three-day circuit
! assembly of the see; will be h«~id
I here this weekend. Sessions rr
I j slated to begin at 7 p.m Friday
Hand continu through Sundav nr
I 6:30 p.m. The discussions wiU in
i chide problems and progress in
termingled with skits and demon
strations On Sundav the assem
bly is scheduled to hear a public
discourse by the distrir servani
H L Brissett The session." will
Ibe held at, the Raleigh Safety
! Club. located at 700 Branch St .
| Gill said that, the entire public
[! is invited to hr in on the meet
ings
1 ASSISTANT It A. HERE
[ .lames M. Yeargin. Asistant
j District Attorney of New York
j City, spent the first week of
his annual nrir month vaca
tion here with his family last
week. Attorney Ycargin. s.
native of Raleigh, has marie
hi* home in New York City
for approximately 25 years
sod Is now rounding ou* !R
v<>ars as Assistant mYriri A*
lorney of Manhattan Conn
ty. A feature of his visit here
was a family dinner held at
the family home. 111! Fay
etteyili* Street, YYednesday
I Ajb laformal smoker, held foi
lowing the dinner brought to
gether some of the city's most
well-known personalities Dr
Foster P Paynr. Charß* G
Irving, Sr.. R. Herndon Toole.
Dr. Nelson L. Perry, M C
Davenport, W Henry Peace
i Dr Nelson H. Harris .lame
E. Lytle. « H. Hurdle. Dr
J. T. Hamlin. Robert E. Jones.
Logan Delany. Rohert S Tur
ner, Harold White. Lawrence
l.lghtner. Le» O. Reid. James
I 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE U)
Guilford College suggesting into- 1
, gr&tion m the seboool has been
, | fired from his part-time job and;
| another offered to resign because |
|of protests received by his ra
; plnyer,
George Mcßride was fired from
' his two-hour-a-day job at the
J Guilford Broom Works and John (
’ i Coltrane told R G. Hardin, own- 1 ■
1 er of the Hardin Oil Company, i
I that he would quit after Hardin ! ,
! received several phone calls urg- j,
' ing that Coltrane be fired. • .
Mcßride, and Ccltra,n p were: i
i among 34 signers of a letter to
| the Guilford school board which i
said in part we believe it
both jusrt and wise for our local
The lucky rar list -.seek sva*
ihv one hccirtnr Hie tag uurt>
her ’'R-3872, If the owner of
♦ha< car took it to Dunn’s F-sso
Service, comer Cabarrus and
Bleodsvorth Streets, here in fit ■
tpigh, he received a free greare
lob
This will happen every week
Watch for vour tag up in her. If
it follows the asterisk, toil will
get the grease job. The num
ber will he taken from any ear
bearing 1 a N. C license.
The numbers tins work arc;
X-«-IJ4fi: X-*«««?; R -531 If) ;
X-2324: N-SJBSR and X-5715.
Hv STAFF WRITER
For the firs; rime in many
enrollment irt nil of Rnlcigh's f:v
. Negro schools ha* siur.vn a suh•
Istantial increase c. it the r>; e
ccetlinc ye:','. Fov srv'r-,: yr a;
there was s noticeable tlecrcasc in
the Nenro school populaticn but
| this year's upward swing ic m
• dicativc of moio stabjiUy :«mc,nc
I the Negro populace as well as
a sense of more security.
Perhap* th' most epuspieu
otis gain was at the (Pact (in
I School. This M-bonl. tha? at
one time, served a large and
thriving Negro wnmnmilj,
had during Ihc pad years,
suffered such a drop in en
rnllmcnl. that it «a>. feared
it wowiri sotin h( Jiscontinijcri
Nn« with an enrollment of
over ?0O from a lov of I*o.
there is evrrv indication that
a new era i- being ushered
in for lhat fit., old common
iroNTtM !r> on rvu n
How You
The Delir
Hi RF\ S. M. 'i HOMI’SON
’ I: inu ; t be understood at ;.h(-
outset that iuvnril*' delinquency
, ir; fundamentally a spiritual prob
lem inasmuch as it involves con
duct of the human personality
and will never be solved very e*
fectively until solved sptriiuallv.
and r ot b
rrform j ! > r .•
idua's can read-
R.er Thompen fly help to solve.
The problem i? twofold, t< in
volve? both prevention and rpr-ia
| mation: but before we can sue
i cessfully meet the problem ;n
i either of its important pharos we
j ought to know some of the oau.- os
! that created the problem in the
I first, place Apart- from its being
| basically a spiritual issue, the
more near-at,-hand cause* are
.purely social, social neglect h r re
discover the caunes
The causes may be classified
as follows; <1 ; family ncclert '2<
community reelect, ‘3' church
school committee to admit Negro
pupils from this school district, if
and when the\ make individual
application "
They Want Name?
Off Petition . . .
HENDERSON Fifteen resi
dents of the Nutbush section of
Vance Countv have asked the
board of education to remove their
names from a po*ii,jor> delivered
to the board three weeks ago
seeking desegregation in the pub
lic schools
They are raid to have taken
the position that the county board
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miŝs
Vt 4RBOOK I DJTOR .Vi,
Pherihy Christine Gibson is Un
new editor „f the North faro
iina t’oilrge yearbook. The
Figlr. Miss Gil:s f, n. the daughter
of Mr. anri Mr ' T. Gih'-or. ot
it if; Last Jtjrtsn street Raicigrt,
Court Upholds Will of
Wake County Woman
The w ;ll of Mr Harriett Smith,
a former race rcr,toon■ of i|*,e Pap.
t her B; arch Town.'-ru; of Wake
County, who died in IVo-mbf•:
of ib,53, ar upheld ;;- valid by
. a iurv m Wake Countv Superior
j Court last Frida"
Mrs. Smith, accorrtin:: to the
.niiv’s findings hud rufliricni
menial capacity to exetate a \ •;>«
last will and wa« i.orior no pres
-1 sure e'ne!'i the will v.e- '.vruten
i-. j q .[ a
V tobacco : s»'no known o
the Hialo* k Place, consisting
of approxiniatciy g?. acres ami
ca Uteri at >V .0 Oft was report,
cilv Irit to tiitee sons anri
sum* ot cash wa trti ;fbr
oilier children Th<- rhiWi'en
1 receiving Hie ea-.h 11 lege ply
brought Ihe action rcnlc.f tru
: Can Help to Calve
JR
iqueney Problem
neglect The chief ca uses there
fore of iuwr.iie de'.inqucric'. lie
in the failure of one or more ,-f
these responsible social croups to
provide for child;ft: the ftv.r.cs
t.hst would make possible the nor
ma’, satisfaction and exercise d
all the unfolding r.vinci' and
. growing lacultie.- of ie adoie*-
ernt peuionahty.
My observation ha: h-’n ; .va 1
the < < for mo v de’itio K.:r
among .luvcniics Ikt chiefly ,t,
wha lhry have missed rr-t.het
than m what they have acquired
Broken homes where children are
deprived of the opoprHtnity to
live a norma! family life and
communities that do nos, provide
the kind of things conducive to
the v hoU",oirie dev-ejopmcrit of
youth and Christian? who make
tip the ehurchly congregations
who jre indifferent to the spirit
iroMtSTßl) ON PAGE i 1 )
Teachers Adopt Budget,
Plan Activities For Year
Principals and teachers of Ra
Inch'.' five Negro school? met at
the T. W Lfgon Jr -Sr High
School last. Monday morninc in
a. dual session. The first cession,
lasting from 0:30 until 10:IS was
a meeting of the Raleigh Unit.
North Carolina Teachers Associa•
tinn, presided over by Mrs. Nora
j Lockhart, umt president and prin
| cipal. Crosby-Garfie’d School.
A special program arranged by
the program committee, includ
ed piano selections; by Mr Emily
M. Kelly, singing. America the
Beautiful" by the assembly. Pray
er by the Rev, Mr. Howard Cun •
! ningham and welcome remarks
from Dr. Eunice Newton. Helping
; Teacher in the Negro schools
D; w, H Watson, chairman,
i budget, committee, presented hi
group's budget, for the year This
budget which proposed a $5.00
.per capita tax. was adopted. The
I budget carries an allotment of
! $75 00 for the eufrt, speaker at
'■ the dinner meeting to be held in
February; $75.00 to be used for
flowers telegrams, sympathy and
condolence messages, gifts for re
tiring teachers, etc. The Social
i Commit tee was allowed $226 to
be used for service and refresh
ments for the remaining five
meetings. $5,00 for the Publicity
Committee. $16.00 for secretarial
supplies, $5.00 for group mum
; bership. NEA $lO oo for expense
i of delegate to Regional meeting
r a sfnior at V C < Sr»
\nt~r sbr vvj|,fi rrl mcd pdlttJ? ei
fho yfarbooK Miss G*b9 ati
worked on fh»' f• ts of the ?cl
1e u r n p w•p l pr r <b * C ampy ?>
E < b o.
the will
The or veston- "T-re Mrs El'e!."
McPherson Dene- arid John Me -
Pherson children of the decs ?. -
bo . and Rober t a Whue a srand *
daughter, while the defendant?
w cYc - Smu h execut-ei. an-
Mr? SmiUn':- "PI rremded
house-hold ;.ind kitchen furniture
i n t h ■;•■ [i ■■■ })c v V i nr ni ldren : Orcaj
Smith, Gattis Smith. Arthur
Smith. John McPherson and Ellen
Harnni‘ton 1?.so r o Ellen Hit*
rH zs brirsi n-orth ‘SP9T7O plu?
m;- 5 ; rer.ee • -a". So 00
c•o v' rivi’ p, j > r> v pan r, _i i >
Mixi g N:t
G al, s^ys
Physician
Hhv.l POINT— A local Negro,
physician told the school board
her.- la : week tba* eliminating
'■ •••-■--
and white schools can lead to
.rtttemont of the public- school de
;:r;!Tration issue without con
troversy
Hr ;. Til M , til P Davii -I'ho
rieclarnd I,h ■■ t ?i\ c r r talking ' with
. number of pcof my race"
if pVTrvi.TT) ON PAGE 11)
m Ashebaro m December and
$250 00 to help defray expenses
. of a d‘-lr rare to NEA convention
i to be held in Oregon next June.
An interesting feature of the
meeting war a tape recording of
the highlights of the recent. NEA.
convention in Chicago, mad*- by
J w Eaton, principal Washing
ton Jr.-Elementary School and
this year's local delegate to the
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