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VOLUME IS RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1965 NUMBER 8
Racial Identity On Ballot Outlawed j
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Auto Plunges Into River:
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Husband, Asleep
At Time , Escapes
TROY The sheriff’s office
here j.s continuing its investiga
tion into the fii t.h of Mrs Louisej
Lecrand. 22-vear-old wiie who 1
BAPTIST > TOLO
COURT’S EDICT
TO BE ACCEPTED
ASHEVILLE- A statement call-;
in? for "acceptance” of the U. S.
Supreme Court's decision on pub
lic school segregation was given;
to delegates attending the Baptist j
State Convention here.
The committee on social service j
and civic righteousness in its re-;
port to the convention said
"We have accepted the decision
of the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States . . . and we shall meet i
the responsibilities placed on out
communities . , . ”
But the committee also wrote
in its report that- “we think it is,
unwise to assume that the com
plex problems of rare relations
ear) be solved by federal com
pulsion . . ’’
Observers . «ee a conciliatory,
noie In tire statement in view of
the conventions’ action last year,
in recording itself as accepting
the Supreme Court's anti-segre
gation decision.
Patriots Seek To Poll
Loopholes On NAACP
RALEIGH The Patriots of marflv in influencing public
North Carolina. Inc.'s general opinion or legislation to reg
:'ounsel, complained here Mon- ister and tile a statement of
day that the N. C. NAACP is income and officers,
noring two laws of the state of General counsel C. L. Shupins
N T ort.h f Greensboro, asserted in a let*
} had Eure, Secretary of State : Pr addressed to Etire that the
informed the attorney that he vaACP should register under the
would pass the complaint along ;nv and als» is subject to the
!f * the NAACP s executive secre- • -orporat-ion art requiring foreign
tarv. Roy \Viikins, of New York . nrporations to domesticate here
7he Patriot# registered w ith , n order to transact business in
rare only last week under the North Carolina,
seldom used law the 1947 Shaping said the NAACP has
Gray Act, which require* or-
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HOMEWAKD BOUND Sponsored by the Nigerian government,
the** leading African agriculturist* arrived In the United States *«
week* ago to study oar agricultural advances. They visited five state*
and a number of Mrs during their stay. The African expert* ar«
thews bcwmlir.* « plane at. the New York International airport *"*»**
ft tris to hmtn »<d ratwro home. (Nowajwees Fhotri
. was drowned early la : Friday:
I when the auto she was driving;
i plunged into the Pee Dee River;
near Mt. Gilead.
lames Legrand. her husband,:
who said that he was asleep in i
the car. escaped. His wifes’ body;
•.vac pulled from the backwaters
of the river by Deputy Sheriff j
Bob Reed.
The car left the road near Lilys |
Bridge, five miles west of Mount!
, Gilead before plunging into 15 j
; feet of water. It was completely!
t submerged. Sheriff Reed said that j
tie spotted the vehicle by the tail;
! lights which were shining up
through the water.
Using a lightweight rod. Reed
' snagged Mrs. Lt grands' clothing
! and pulled the body •:«h..»*t It
| was about 30 feet from shore and :
• about 10 feet from the car. The.
door on the driver‘s side, Reed.
said, was found open.
The body was recovered at 6
a m but Mrs. Lef.rand’s watch J
had stopped at 1:1:30 a.tn. the :
. estimated time of her death. Ac
cording to Mr. Li* a rand, his wife
was singing in Wadesfcoro Tliurs
• day night and then drove to Badi
to pick him up
Funeral services for Mrs. Le
grand were held on Sunday
Sheriff Reed told the CARO
LINIAN late Tuesday that because
of a number of reports received,
his office is sfil linvesligating.
although a verdict of death by
drowning has been rendered
fjhehtyj
TnCIIHRS WAI.KHI) WAV FROM THlS—Three school teachers, all men. narrowly escaped
'■t iili H-riri.i' night when the late model ear above, driven by W. A. Rainbow, Raleigh resident, collided
with an auto 1 wen by S atin- Jone* of near Garner, The accident occurred on the Poole Road, one mile ■
outside the eilv lint its. Jones who is reported to have been at fault, Is In a serious condition at Saint
Agues, l ive other oecucurits of bis car were also hospitalized. Rainbow, who teaches at the Wash
ington Junior High School here, was accompanied by Eugene began and Joseph Waters, both of whom
teach in Wake County. Ml three escaped serious injury. (STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS R JONES,
Farmer, 76, Burned To Death
!
As Fire Razes 4 - R oom Home
RALEIGH Allan Holloway. 7fi
, year-old Widower, war, burned to
] death lute Friday as fire destroy-'
! ed the four-room house in which ]
I he lived near the Wake County-1
Durham County line
His body was found in the |
ODDS-ENOS
BV ROBERT C». SHEPARD
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The recent story detailing the
wide cap betweaen the vocational j
offerings of the Durham and the •
i Raleigh Public Schij-’l;- should be
of mo;f than passing interest to]
all the citizens of Raleigh and i
especially the Nrgto citizcns.
It seems, according tr> this re- ]
vealing article, that when a stu-1
dent finishes high school in Dur- j
ham, that student could have ac- '
quired a skill while there that i
would enable him to earn a good :
i living from t even if no further j
| formal education was possible,
j The fact that, the per capita in- !
come in Durham is considerably]
i higher than that of Raleigh, should !
; not be used as an excuse for not I
I offering greater vocational oppor- ;
j tunities to the youth of Raleigh, j
j Fact . . that miserable fact should ]
act as a stimulant toward grcatei :
I efforts in this direction in order j
i that this economic gap might be
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What’s Happening j
(On Desegregation Front j
IReidsviHc NAACP
|Asks Integration
REIDSVILLE A petition call
ing for an end to segregation in
the local public schools was sub
mitted to the Rridsville School
Board by the Rev. A. D. Owens,
president of the NAACP branch
here.
The petition carried 'the names
sos 48 citizens It was submitted
(on Oct. Pi to C.C Lipscomb, su
perintendent, of local schools, who
I advised the Rev. Mr. Owens that
blackened ruins of she ashes on.
Saturday by Wake County Sheriff;
Robert Pleasants, deputies and j
Wake Count v Coroner M. W. Ben- j
nett.
Relatives, living in sight of Hoi-j
■loway’s house, told officials that]
! they spotted a "bright light” a-'
; bout 10 p.m. Friday shortly after!
Mr. Holloway had returned to his]
1 home from a tobacco packhouse
where he was employed.
Rescue efforts by relatives Elon
; Adams and Jeff Holloway were
frustrated by the speed of the
; fire which was apparently start
ed bv an overturned kerosene
lamp. A neighbor, Mrs. Lukie
i Lynn, reported that Mr. Holio
ways' heat-ei had been in bad
shape for some timp prior to the
i fire.
After the death of his wife three
: months ago Mr. Holloway lived
iPTA Congress Slates
Session At Wilmington!
WILMINGTON The N C nearly three decade* of un
j Congress of Colored Parents and selfish service to children and
; Teachers will assemble in the 28th youth.
j annual convention at Wilmington. Mrs Ethel Right. National
| Friday and Saturday, November Representative and Jeancs Su
-18-19. with headquarters at. the j pervisor, Troup County Schools,!
; WiJJiston Sr. H.S. ]La Grange. Georgia, wall address
The convention w ill reaf- ! the session Friday evening using
firm its allegiance to the pro- j the. Theme Topic—‘Meeting To-1
gram of child welfare that ha* j -
been developed during the ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
:that hi 1 would present it to the <
board at its next monthly meet-]
| ing
Charles McKinney, chairman of i
'! the beard, raid that the board j
’ | has the petition “under study.” j
Sen, Lehman To Push!
! For Equal Rights
! NEW YORK Sen. Herbert 1
ij H Lehman <D.. N.Y.i announced]
• ] this week that hr will press for]
> a five-point program in the nerttj
i session of Congress to assure. Ne-1
, alone He is survived by a daugh
i ter, Mrs Thelma Thompson of
|Rt. 1, Raleigh.
| Man Killed As Car,
Truck Collide Here
RALEIGH—Jas. (Bo' Autry 41. :
of 716 S. Dawson .street became 1
; Wake County’s 52nd traffic fa - j
! tality of 1955 when he attempted
I to pass a car on E. South Street
' and smashed head-on into a j
| truck, Monday nigth.
Investigating police officers L
C Baker and R L. Randolph re
: ported that Autry was dead on :
| arrival at. Saint Agnes Hospital i
The man's left, arm war severed
by the collision and he received
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i groes and other minorities "equal i
: human rights
Among the points listed are a
I compulsory Fair Employment I
j Practices Commission, a ban j
] against Federal school construe-1
tion aid to communities which
; try to ''avoid, evade and defy”;
! the Supreme Court decision out- j
| tawing racial segregation in I
schools and Federal legislation ro
j curb conditions which “made pos- I
) sible such tragic and rhameful i
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iThe lucky ear last week was ;
the one bearing the tag num- ;
her ’R-5249, If the owner of j
that car took H to Dunn’s S sso
Service, corner Cabarrus anti j
Woodworth Streets, here in Ka - I
leigfc, he received a free grease j |
job.
This will happen every week i
Watch for your tag number. 11 i
it follows the asterisk, you " ill ,
get the grease job. The num- 3
her will be taken from any car s
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week ares
946-147; X-46862; iX-51856: R
-3872; X-2325, and R-f> 1i !.
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Racial Tags
On Ballots
Now illegal
Washington An Oklahoma
law requiring Negro randidu-e'
for public office io !■» identified
is such was knocked off the suii
ute books by the U. S Supreme
Court hern on Monday.
The high court refused to inter
fere with a decision of the XT S
Court of Appeals at Denver hold
ing the ballot law unconstitution
al. The appellate court .-aid thr.t
it was a denial of equal treat
ment to label "Nett) o' on the bal
lottos Nemo candidates
Oklahoma’s constitution pio
Tides that the term "white
race" shall include not only
that race, but all other races,
except the Negro rare. This
the appellate court said, was
“a direct discrimination be
tween members of the Negro
race and members of the white,
yellow, and other races, all
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Vance Co, F
Nix Hodges
HENDERSON The Vance
County Ministers’ Alliance m a.
regular meeting recently disagre
ed with Governor Luther H. Hod
ges plan for "voluntary'’ segrega
tion arid stated its views on tin
school problem in the following
letter received by the governor
last week:
Honorable Luther H. Hodges,
Governor of North Carolina,
Executive Mansion,
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Governor Hodges
The Vance County Ministers'
Alliance in its monthly meeting
in Henderson on Monday. Novein-,
her 7. 1955. adopted the following
■ resolution
Whereas the people of North
Carolina have been called up
on by high state officials to
continue voluntarily the prac
tice of racial segregation in
the public schools of the state
despite the fart that such seg
regation has hern ruled un
constitutional and unlawful
by the highest court of the
nation, and despite the tart
that ecclestiastical authori
ties of all the major religious
bodies have officially branded
it as sinful, and
Whereas the Negro citizens of
ROCKY MOUNT
PASTOR BURIED
ROCKY MOUNT--Funeral scr
; vices were held here Wednesday
for Dr, R W Underwood, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, who
died in Memorial Hospital at
Chapel Hill on Monday following
a critical illness of several weeks,
i Pastor at First Church since
i 1940. lie previously had held pas
; (orates at Benson. Southfield,
j Goldsboro, Wilmington and Lnuis
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ST KICK «V AI'TO Graham Blue. 6fi. of Laurmburg. was
stricken by an epileptic seizure while walking along Highway 15.
just outside Luurinburg last 5 bursday. and fell headlong onto the
highways where he was struck by a passing auto. Blue suffered no
serious'phvsiral injury Blue, a World War 1 veteran, refuses to re
main hospitalized. STAI j f PHOTO BY TACK MITCHELL)
Man Asks $60,000
After Losing Leg
GREENSBORO A suit, for
$60,000 was tiled in Guilford Su
perior Court last week against the
i opeia tor of a local funeral home
| and an insurance company.
Defendants in the suit brought
! by Sam Davis arc N, F Hargett
| and the Textile Insurance Com
! pany fit High Point
Davis charges that he re
reived severe leg injuries la st
year when a Mcßae taxicab in
which he was riding was in
volved in a collision with a
1 nitcd cab. Both companm-.
he says, carried insurance with
the High Point firm
He was taken t.n I, Richardson
Memorial Hospital, he vn
where his physician began work
ai an effort to save his let:
His complaint charges that Mr.
Hargett., "through ■> scheme to;
: deceive and defraud.” urged him
1.0 dismiss* h:*.* physician and have
the hospital here in ordci to net
liealnnni at Chapel Hi 1 ..
Tt 15NED AM AY
His complaint eonunues that
.was taken bv Hargett Funeral
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Ministers
»’ J€ Plan
i North Carolina. as well « those
i, of all other states, haw- by stnet
- ly honorable and lawful proecd
■; ure labored for many years io
•j r. ' themselves of thin most grie- :
■ vous, humiliating, and unjust as-i
:; fliction to which they have Iv.Uu: -;
to b>-en involuntarily and wrong
fully subjected, and
Whereas the in posal that
our people now voluntarily
abet the continuation of (his
vile practice is a. gratuitous
affront i<« uur intelligence, to
our honor and integrity as
11 civilized human beings, and
to our loyally as lau abiding
; citizens.
! Be it therefore resolved that we j
i hereby record our total rejection;
| of any proposal of voluntary peg-,
■ regal ion in public schools or in
any other institution maintained;
; either wholly or in part by pub-1
lie, funds, whether such institution j
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KICKS FF A FUSS flanked hy deputy *hrr<ff Ben Edmacds
(light) accused killer Richard O, Carpenter t» led tote China#*’*
Criminal court, recently. The prisoner, an trial for the murder «< *
Chicago detective, refused to dean u*» or dry** op, road hod tm be
dragged t» handcuff* imd lag iron* in the courtroom. where he WedwiS
and screamed until subdued by depntlwu (Nawsprem Phot*;
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»’ASTON* DIM i >S MERGER
CH M-'LOTTE The acting
nf the Interdenomina
tional (•'.-• * Alliance 1 irre said
S;, ; ... . k th**t 'ns group would
v > iconic an oppnr:unity to work
or. a possible merger with the
all-wi ; rlot-te-Mecklenburg
Vinc-cncl Association. The as
socmion voted 44-14 In favor of
a recommendation to appoint a
comiiuoiv i.o meet with the Ne
mo body 1.0 consider a merge).
rhi Rev Thome. Jenkins said
me a.-. ..kmV action would no
..., nice! uili the approval of
the alliance.
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\i> I.sCAPK TRY GOOD
MAXTON Clinton Leach
of Maxtnn who escaped from
the local iml in his second at
tempt l riday night is still at
large after bloodhounds lost
hi- (raii at nearby Alma A
feu nights before Leach had
f iied in an escape try m spite
of breaking the window pane*
in his ceil and attempting to
burn the housing. Leach was
awaiting trial in Superior
Court on a charge of breaking
into a local case and taking
about 540,
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Charge Man Raped
His Daughter
WASHINGTON, N. C -Arrest
ed on complaint of his wife, Oliver
Cobb. 31. is being held without
rsond on a charge of raping his
12-year-old daughter.
Cobb denied the charge but i-h#
girl (old county solicitor Junius D.
, Grimes. Jr., that her father had
! raped her. Doctors at Taylor Hos
! pifal :aid that, an examination
showed that the Ctrl had been
1 subjected to an assault.