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Baptist Church, which h.-.s an
all-white Jtn'.rnhr f ship, loralwl
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Race Woman
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TAKE FOREST Deseguega
* s,;. f . . -d too much for Rev.
D\\ Watts and the members of
!-■ r-.irv.-h Son- ’
yv Mi t i" iha Perry, j
f - rnc? . .iris economies teacher at i
Si-Hw University, decided that she j
won id elt end the little white rural J
r-h nvh. which has attracted many, i
who would like to have their j
spiritual strength renewed, with a j
huge sign which read. “Welcome !
To Oak Grove Baptist Church," j
and the 71-year-old woman was|
pushed, shoved and finally ordered j
off the grounds by the pastor. i
Miss Perry did not say whether i
she was inspired by God to test j
f thi- faith of ine minister, or the |
worshippers, but did say that she j
whs not sent th.-re by uny outside i
agency and that she went there !
believing that the sign meant!
What it said.
Mie arrived at the church
late and finding no usher at j
the door, carefully made her
way to the front anil with the
services in progress, she pro
ceeded to take a scat about
(our rows from the Iront.
There was no immediate dis
approval of her presence and
everything is believed to have
gone well until some of the
worshippers rcognized her as a
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BOY/2, KILLED
BY COUSIN, 5
WAKE FOREST—WhiIe his
mother prepared his bath, j
David Lucas, 5, lifted a shot- j
gun and blasted his cousin,
Willie Lucas, 2, to death as
tho# played in * bedroom of |
the Lucas home on Route 2. j
David then picked up ihe
bleeding corpse and dragged I
It to the front porch a short
distance away. Assistant Cor
oner T. S. Rhodes gave aver- j
diet of accidental death.
What 5 Happening
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On Desegregation Frontj
NAACP Eyes South’s -
Registration Laws
NEW YORK Attorneys for
the NAACP were reported this
week to be studying North and
South Carolina laws to determine
whether the organization must
register as a “foreign” corpora
tion or a group Influencing public
opinion.
Integration Issue
Nixes School Bonds j
RUTHERFORDTON -- A pro-j
posed $1,500,000 school bond is-j
sue which v ould permit the con- j
.struction of three senior high i
schools was defeated by .Rather- j
* ford county voters in a, specialj
election here Saturday.
Proponents of the issue had ex- j
pected easy sailing but the segre- i
Ration issue, plus the prospect of j
Increased taxation and consoli- ]
dation spelled its doom. i
, on the Old Wake Forest Louis
burg Highway, in Franklin
( ounty. The membership was
thrown into almost pandemoni
um Sunday, when Unis* Bertha
Lorry, Wake Forest woman, vis
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A&T PREXY ILL
GREENSBORO Dr. F D. |
Biuford. about 65. president of the j
Agricultural and Technical College
nf North Carolina at Greensboro. J
was admitted to L. Richardson
Hospital here Sunday. His condi
tion Wednesday morning was re
ported by attaehees at the hospital
as “fair.” It has been reported that i
Dr. Biuford suffered a heart at- !
tack. He is known to have been
the - victim of a heart attack two
j years ago.
j COMMAND PERFORMANCE
RALEIGH Carl W. Smith,
director of dramatics at Saint
Augustine’s College, told the
j CAROLINIAN Tuesday that
j his first production of the
year, “Wuthering Heights,” !
staged December I, drew such
; hearty acclaim that he is pre
paring to present the power
ful, dramatic love story again
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; Integration Asked
In Halifax County
HALlFAX—lntegration of the
county’s public schools by next
September was requested of the
County Board of Education here
Monday by the Halifax County
The lucky car last week was
the one bearing the tag num
ber ‘X-2325. If the owner of
that car took Jt to Damn's Esso j
t Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streets, here in Ra- j
| ie<gh, he received a free grease
! JOb,
! This will happen every week j
j Watch for your tag number. If
j it follows the asterisk, you will
: get the grease job. The num
i her will he taken from any car
bearing a N. O. license.
' The numbers this week are: j
! R-3872; tt-5714; X-5185G; j
i X-46852; R-5249; and 946-347.
i I
i iWMßßli'illHii I " H 1 n H Wlllif *iHHIIPILi ill in '* vtym
ited the morning service to tell
the pastor. Rev, Dwight Watts,
or one of the deacons, that a
like sign, that hangs near her
home, had been knocked down.
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Convicted ;
01 Perjury
GREENSBORO — Convicted on
Saturday by a Guilford Superior
Court, jury on charges of induc
ing a witness to lie under oath,
Samuel S. Thomas nnri fhyvtoo
Strickland, professional bondsmen,
were scheduled, to be sentenced
on Thursday by Judge L. Rich
ardson Preyer
The men, who had both plead
ed innocent, were found guilty on
two counts of conspiracy and sub
ornation of perjury. Thomas did
not take the stat 1 but Strickland
sought to deny virtually all of
the testimony offered by the
state’s key witness, William Har
vey Taylor.
Taylor, who simultaneously was
indicted for perjury, pleaded
guilty on Tuesday to the charge
but no disposition has yet been
made of his case.
According to testimony, the
cases originated when Taylor was
arrested on liquor charges after
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GATE CITY DEATH
BLAMED ON DRINKj
GREENSBORO— Following an
autopsy performed by Dr. W. W.
| Harvey, Guilford County coroner,
i it was ruled that the death here
last week of Leon Underwood. 34-
year-old railway employee, was
due to acute alcoholic poisoning
probably aggravated by an over
dose of a medicine used to ward i
off sleepiness,
Underwood was found about
9:30 a.m. on Sunday lying across
his bed in hr: apartment at 1405-B
| Gorrell Street. Tt is believed that
!he died some time on Friday.
! James C, Blair told police that j
jhe and Underwood had been j
! drinking Thursday night after at- j
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, NAACP chapter.
W. W. Harvey, president, of the
chapter, made the request in a
mimeographed statement present
ed and read into the record. Main
tenance of two public school sys
tems. the statement pointed out,
was a waste of money. It also pro- i
tested sending Negro children out j
of the district in which they live!
to attend segregated schools in j
other sections of the county.
There was no discussion on the!
request which the board said that |
• it would “take under advisement." j
! Integration Plan
I To Law School Body
PHILADELPHIA When the
Association of American Law
Schools holds its convention in j
Chicago later this month it will!
i receive a proposal which would ’
! exclude from membership law j
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SEEK HODGES ‘GHOSTS’
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VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955 NUMBER 11
Ministers Favor Hospital '
RALEIGH The Intnrdenom-,
• (national Ministerial Alliance, lnj
i its regular weekly meeting at the |
| Bioodworth Street YMCA, ..decided
I that the bond issue for a general
! hospital should carry and tha 11
i their several congregation® would j
| do well tu vote for it.
This decision could very
j n el) be the balance of power
that is needed to get the issue
i through, according to many
j local people. The Negro vote
I lias given both the proponents
and opponents much concern,
There were those who felt
that integration. would he the
key U‘ the entire matter,
j The question was discussed by
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FREEDOM BELL TO DR.
WOODRIDGE West-Berlin’s
governing Mayor Dr, Otto Suhr
left) presents Dr. Nancy Wool
ridge, vice president of tiie Na
tional Council of Negro Women,
Teacher’s Wife Among
3 Dead In Car Crashes
RALEIGH A school teacher’s
j wife and a serviceman and his j
i infant daughter were among per- •
i sons killed in weekend auto acci-
I dents.
Mrs. Patsy Saulton Alston,
22, of Littleton, an expectant
mother, and wife of Wiliam
I>. Alston, 26-year-old school
teacher, died in a Burlington
hospital about an hour after
i a pickup truck collided head
on with the car in which she
was riding Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred at 2:45 p.
m. on Highway 70 near Burling
ton, Reports are that the truck,
driven by H. L. Bowman of Belle
J Tillery School
! Burned To Ground
I SCOTLAND NECK— The six* I
: room Tillery Chapel School, a
! frame building near Tillery, was I
j burned to the ground, in an early
j morning blaze last week
The fire spread so rapidly j
that efforts of two fire fight
ing units were of no avail, :
Cause of the lire had not been
determined this week but there
were reports that the fire
started in the upper portion
of the northeast corner about
at a point where electric pow
er wires entered the building.
Pupils will use the building
j formerly occupied by whites be-
I fore consolidation with Scotland
Neck and Halifax units.
, the ministers and it was decided the body who A* lt that Negroes |
| that the health of the county was should get art iron-clad ruling j
at stake. There wen members of from the Hospital Author ity that j
Boiling Springs Boils ’
BOILING SPRINGS A threat
to withhold all financial support
of Garner-Webb College if it ad
mits a Negro student was made
here Sunday by more than 200
member; of Trinity Baptist
Church
Last Friday, John W. Logan of
Forest City, a graduate of New
Hope High School at Ruthrrfor
ton. wrote the school requesting
permission to apply for admission
as a day student, for the second
semester
Dr. M. A. Huggins, executive
Inc., of Hampton, Va„ with a
| minatore model of the Freedom
1 BeU. Dr, Woolridge I# the
| daughter of Dr. and Mrs, CL S.
I Bullock of Raleigh.
mont, wm attempting to pass an -
other truck, when it collided with
the car driven by Mr. Alston.
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THREE CHILDREN
BURN TO DEATH
BUURGAW— Three small chil
dren, at home alone, were burned
to death when fire swept through
their home here last. week.
Dead are Roy l; Ernest, 3:
and Lawrence, 4, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Brown. The moth
er was returning home from vistt
: ing two blocks away when she
| saw the house ablaze.
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ADVERTISE
THROUGH
CLASSIFIEDS
secretary of the North Carolina i
Baptist Convention sr.id at Rr.-j
leigh that Logan's request is the;
first such request by a Negro at j
a Baptist College in this state, |
Last month, the convention, j
meeting in Asheville, left the mat - j
ter of admitting Negroes up to j
the trustee boards of individual I
Baptist institutions. The execu- j
tivc committee of the Gardner-!
W,;bh trustee board will name a j
special committee on Dec. 12 to]
study the request and report to'
the full hoard in February,
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ODDS-EN3S
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| BY ROBERT O. SHEPARD
j In his radio and television ad
dress last, week, the governor is 1
quoted as saying that there are
several prominent Negro “1 ead- j
ers" in North Carolina who art
supporting his “voluntary segrcga- j
tion plan,” He added that he was j
not at liberty to reveal their j
names, however.
This week, four Raleigh Negroes j
who have never assumed the tit It- ;
of “leaders” although the whin
press has so named them, asked ;
Mr. Hodges to tell the people oi i
tins state who these "prominent
Negro leaders” are L.. W. L. >
Greene, Dr. Grady Davie the Rev. j
Otis Hairston and the Rev. O. L j
i Sherrill, all prominent in the lift
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; Playing Cowboy,
j Boys Hangs Self
! WASHINGTON, N. C.—-Funeral
! services were held here Tuesday
|at Yatesville Free Will Baptist
i Church for Leonard William Mor
| ids, 9-year-old third-grader, who
1 was accidentally hanged while
! playing cowboy at his borne 16
miles from here on Sunday.
The youngster, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hertford Williams,
i who live on Highway 32, had
been lumping from a tree to
1 a seat beneath it with a rope
i around his neck. He apparent-
I iy missed the scat and his
i neck was broken, according
| to Coroner Booner Paul who
I investigated.
! Paul reported that an older
| brother found the boy’s body ap
l proximate!* 15 minutes after the
! accident.
I there would be no discrimination
j a! the health center. There were
I others who felt that, this was no
| time to quibble over principles,
I but the matter of making the rnon
‘ <\y available was the necessary ob
| j active.
j The Negro vote will be watched
i very carefully due to the urgent
| need for proper hospital facilities
| in and around Raleigh, There was
| much discussion as to what would
| become of the staff of St. Agnes
I Hospital and where the Negro doc
| tor would figure in the proposed
| hospital. It was decided that ibis
was a matter of policy arid that at
■ (be right lime it would be thrash
! ed out.
Ask Hodges
For Hames
Os “Ghosts”
A request that Gov, Hodges I
name the ‘‘prominent colored
leaders” who are backing his “vol
untary segregation” plan for the
slate's public schools was made
of him this week, bv four officials
of local and state organizations.
The question as to who these
“ghost” leaders are was contain
ed in a statement released by W.
L. Greene, executive secretary of •
the N. C. Teachers’ Association;
O. L. Sherrill, executive secre
tary of the General Baptist State
Convention; O L Hairston, presi
dent of a local P-TA Council and
Grady D. Davis, dean of religion;
at Shaw University.
In his recent radio-TV address |
| to the citizens of North Carolina, j
I Gov. Hodges made reference to,
| retrain unidentified "leaders” who j
reportedly are working for his
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HIT WITH BRICK, HE
FIRES FATAL BUS!;
WILKESBORO — Howard Eu-j
| gene Blllips, 32. of Route 2, Ron- i
| da, is dead and Gaston Curry j
I of Route 2, Wilkesboro, is in jail |
I here while police continue their |
j investigation.
| According to police to whom:
Curry surrendered, the man toidj
them that he fired in the darkj
j a number of times in the direc-j
I tton from which a brick was
; thrown at him as he was leaving j
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FIND GRAVE ”
j DIGGER DEAD
BOONE—The body of Harve
Whittington, 64-year -old 1
grave digger, was found lying
face down beside an open
grave in which he had been
working about 5;30 p.m., Fri
day. _ i
Authorities say that Whit
tington, a handy man who j
' worked often for funeral
homes, apparently suffered a
j heart attack about I pm.,
| about an hour before his body
; was discovered.
Leaps From Electric Chair,
: Cheats Death 20 Minutes
i COLUMBIA. S. C.—lt took six there was going to be no trouhk
ior seven men 20 minutes to get Goodman told reporters, “Bn*
I Clay Daniels. 26, back into the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
! electric chair here Friday after -—rrr^.„
bhe leaped from the chair while MAN, 76, BLOWS
:| guards were strapping him In. ntn'iin * vs
Daniels and his brother, OFF HIS HEAD
i f f 6 '. 24 ; MW WAKE FOREST-A verdict
P r ttSEFtoJF Their &££% The «3h7ltaS
HE— - -»- sps sr? ■£& as
Willie was the first to be exe- j * shotgun as he sat la hts
cuted, going to his death quietly. b^ 0O ?“ ab ®"‘ JJ* J*^ k •
murmuring "I hone I am saved. ! He tried to do it Uat week.
Clay walked meekly down the! said his wife, but we caught
corridor to the death house, ac- j him in lime. Assistant Coroner
• ccimpanied by Capt, Fuller Good-; T. S. Rhodes rendered the ver
• man, Dr. M. Whitfield Cheatham, diet. Horton, It is reported.
> two lipu tenants and a rbaplfiin ! had deiponddiii
“He sat down in the chair like i ill hddtb.
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MISS ANNIE I*. WYNN
Race Girl
Piaces 1 st
In Contest
RALEIGH - Miss Annie W
; Wynn, 15, of 708 S Slate Street,
decided several weeks ago that
she would enter her first contest.
She w;r informed last, week that
.-.fie would receive a $25 check and
a chance at national honors for
; having composed the best dis«ee»
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DR. ( . B. MIDDLETON
Woman MD
New Editor
j RALEIGH. N. C.
i Succeeding Or. W T. Arm -
1 strong of Rocky Mount as editor
i iu-chief of the Journal of the
| Old North State Medical Society
\ is Dr. Catherine B. Middleton of
; Raleigh, who was elected recent
i ] y
j Dr, Middleton was graduated
j from the Howard University Col-
I lege of Medicine with distinction
Sin 1944. Prior to returning ha
j North Carolina, she completed &n
; internship and residency at Har
| lem Hospital, New' York, and scrv
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1 GUNFIRE HALTS
CLAREMONT RITES
| NEWTON— Catawba County «•-
i fleers are holding: warrant* Ml
! two men after gun fire mom»-
j tartly disrupted a funeral service
i at Claremont Thursday afternoon.
I Otis Clark is wanted on charge*
|of carrying a concealed weapon
; and assault while Eckard Hun
i .sucker is wanted on charges at
i affray. Police say that the mm
| became involved in an altercation
j following services at Liberty Hill
; Baptist Church for Mrs. Jennie
| Hunsucker, 79. while the funeral
| procession was enroute to th*
graveside.
Officers are holding a .38 pis
tol which a spectator said that
he grabbed from Clark's hand.