College heads Spurn A. & T. Presidency
7 Jailed In
Dope Raid
RETDSVTLLK - Seven persons
havft been arrested and a half-mil
bon dollar cache of marijuana has
nfjn raptured in the big.ueft dope 1
crackdown in North Carolina his- '
torv.
The raid wap made on the tenant ,
farm home of Floyd. 72. and Ossip
Williamson, fift. iast Thursday by I
local police officers, sheriff's de- |
r-crtme.nl. officials and the SB!.
Officers also found a plot in Wil
liamson's yard set aside for grow
ing the dope Mi. Williamson said
that the first brought marijuana
'•end in 1934 and had s -own the
u red in her yard since that 1 m r
VOLUME 15
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18 Violent Deaths Mar Holidays
Cop’s Blazing Gun
Kills ‘Contact’ Man
State News
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VAIS'CF- BOV ?AT ALL V SHOT !
HENDERSON Robert Wii-1
Hams, 14. son of Mr-, and Mrs.!
Norman Williams, was fatally shot
near his home on the Henderson-
Fpson Road Tuesday afternoon.
Gproiyr F. B. Might said a shot
gun held by John E. Perry. 16.
in some manner discharged, with
the load entering the boy's right.
side below the arm. He died in an
ambulance enreute to Maria Par- j
ham Hospital. Hight. reported that
the two boys and James A. Perry,
twin brother of John, had been
hunting and were going out again i
*t the time of the accident. II
occurred near the home as the
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Found In Woods Unconscious:
Case Os ‘Drugged’ Pitt Giri
Still Remains Top Mystery
BIASED tTftt” CHIIEF FTRF/ttnpast and unbellevftig, "Fire'
Chief John H. AMerson hold* his hud at a Aromatic session ot the
I-cs Angeles Board of Fire Commissioners. which ffrert him from hi*
office recently. The action by the hoard climated a hitter controvert*
over Integration of Negroes in the fire department Ald*r*nn opposed
Integration on the around that it would Impair the efficiency of the
department The NAACP challengs* Aldemon, and foept S4se nffiMKH*.
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i CHARLOTTE--Local police this
) week were continuing a probe m-
Ito an alleged prostitution rim:.
! following a gun battle between an
| cfficci- and a Negro in which tire
j Negro was shot to death,
j Police Lieut. Neal Forney rmp
j tied his gun into Lawson Gaston.
| 28. of the 909 block Burton Sfrc.
last. Friday night after Gaston
j had reportedly made contact, with
i the officer for a prostitution ring.
At the time nf the initial
■ contact, the Negro did not
I know Lieut. Forney was a po
liceman. Another Negro man
! who accompanied Gaston to
the isolated meeting place be
tween South Mint ami South
Graham Streets told Gaston
that Forney was a policeman.
The second man got away
while Lieut. Forney was firing
into Gaston
Gaston’s identity was establish
ed through the FBI records. Fun
eral services were set for Tuesday.
Lieut Forney said he had been
investigating the existence of an
alleged Negro prostitution ring
operating from an un-,spotted
headquarters in the general area
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RALEIGH, N ( WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31. 19.55
A & T President:
j
| Thousands
\ Pass Bier Os j
Dr. Bluford
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GREENSBORO - Funeral ser-
I vices fur Dr Ferdi.” • d C. Bij-'l
j lotd. president of A&T College, I
I who died at. a local hospital Dec. j
i 21 were conducted at the Richard
B. Harrison Auditorium on the
college entfipus Friday afternoon.
The brief and simple rites, be- |
ginning at 1:00 o'clock, were con- j
ducted under the supervision of I
Rev. Cleo M. McCoy, director of I
religious activities at the college.'
The eulogy was given by the;
Reverend J. W. Tyncs, pastor of I
the local Providence Baptist
Church in which Dr. Bluford
held membership for a long num
ber of years. S
( haries A. llines, chairman j
of the college trustee board j
and a close confidant of the
I deceased, gave brief remarks. I
j The scripture was read by the
Reverend .1. C, Melton, local
minister, and Dr, Mordecia
W Johnson, president of How - 1
ard I niversit.v, Washington,
D. C., delivered the prayer.
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GREEN'VILLE The mysterious
veU surrounding a ‘drugged’ and
unconscious young woman found
on a wood path behind the Pitt -
Greenville Airport Saturday still ;
hangs heavy in this area.
After repeated talks with the
woman, sheriffs deputies report-1
ed that they are still unable to;
piece together the full story be
hind the circumstances in which
she was found.
Eon Etta Eason has been
established as the name of the
young woman. She told offi
cers that she was 24-years-old,
and that ther home was in
Tarboro. Miss Eason also said
that she had bern visiting a
family of “Ytkinsons” in the ;
Greenville community.
When Queried on what hap
pened to her. she replied that she I
did nol know. The woman re- j
ported, from her hospital bed. J
that the last thing she remember
ed was trying to thumb a ride on i
the Bethel-GreenvTic highway j
lose Saturday. She said that she}
was trying to catch a ride to Be- :
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Find Body \
Os Man, 70,
In A Ditch
WASHINGTON. N. C. E<l-|
ward Manning, 70, was found ]
dead Friday in a ditch leading off |
Jack’s Creek in Washington. The
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ASIAN EDUCATORS AT BEN
NETT-Di. Willa B. Player, left,
president-elect of Bennett Col
lege. Greensboro, looks on ad
miringly as Mrs. Ki-Horig Cho.
principal of Changdok Girls’
High School, of Seoul, Korea,
Hold Husband In
Slaying Os Wife
NEW BERN--James (Friday) f
Barbei. 38, is lodged in the Cra
ven County jail without privi-j
lege of bond following tiie butcher ]
knife slaying of his 33-year-old
wife in the kitchen of their frame
dwelling Sunday.
The man told officers that
he was cooking himself some
breakfast during the late
morning hours on Christmas
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
Voluntary Parks
Segregation??
CHARLOTTE- City park offic
ials are studying the idea of ask
ing local Negroes, to adopt a “vol
untary segregation” policy in the
use of local parks, it was an
nounced Tuesday.
The Parks and Recreation
Board will meet Jan, 9 to discuss
desegregation plans, taking into
consideration the recent Supreme
Court decision that .segregation
in public parks is unconstitution
al
Meanwhile the local NAAOP
Branch ha,; a case in court to
challenge the validity of “revert
i signs autograph for Miss Renuka
' Mukerji, right, president-elect of
Women’s Christian Co 11 eg e,
Madras, India, during recent vis
i ist to the Bennett campus,. Five
j other Korean women, all srhooi
! principals, were In the visiting
group.
Day and! that he failed to hi*
wife, Mamie, who was else
where in the house
According to Barber, she cur vd
him in reply when she entered
the kitchen and he plunged the
knife into the left side of her!
body.
Mrs. Hazel Jones and Mrs. SyI
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/V IS#®? &k ?:V‘l V C '.-'MV/V-fT"-. •‘Nj'
or' clauses inserted in deeds leas- j
' inn park areas to the city.
These clauses say the lands will
| revert to the owner or heirs if
i they are used by non-whites. The
! State Supreme Court has sustain- 1
j ed the clauses.
i Seeks Anti-Bias
Rider To A Bill
WASHINGTON— Senator Her-!
bert H. Lehman (D.-N.Y.) re-1
1 cently announced that he is go- ]
ins to prepare an anti-segrega-j
tion amendment to the Federal j
! School Cornstructiori Bill.
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NUMBER ! I
Week End
Violent deaths—lß of them in
volving Negrof;:-- marred she holi
day season for the Carolina*.
There were 11 deaths from
! automobile accidents of one sod
: or another: three person. weir
* shot to death: one stabbed f.-tal
; ly: two persons died in tires and
■ one man was hit by a train
Thief |w-rfcon- in a .family «<*
seven riding it' the same eat*
! were killed near Bland. V.t„
when their car went off (he
highway and tumbled 300 feet
down a mountainside They
had been to a funeral in Gas
tonia, N. C.
j The other four persons were ir
! good condition in a Bland ho. v,.
| tai. Dead were: Mrs. Alice Wit!on
i 40; her daughter, Lasonia, 3; and
| Mrs. Lethia Shelton, 44. All were
! returning lo Dctrm! Mien.
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, BY ROBERT G SWEPARO
; A Tale of Two Ci! os. In Atlanta.
I Ga, last week, all of the municipal
j owned go if courses -were opened
i to Negroes. According to report ,
: several Negroes availed themselves
of the opportunity. There were
"no incidents.” The mayor of At
lanta is quoted as saying that m
view of the U S, Supreme Court's
decision outlawing segregation in
public parks and other play areas,
the City of Atlanta was left with
the choice of either opening its
golf links to Negroes or abandon
ing them. He said he considered
the latter course of action unwise.
This was Atlanta, Ga , the state
whose governor made national
headlines some weeks ago when he
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‘Vfft CIVU, RIGHTS' WEvv:.~.Tti.rr -i Mit . at*, i. »d <■(tom Lmal Cetane taiarfamnlC
(right) smiles clown upon his Hawaiian-born bride,, n. former NAACP swrctarf, folkmtag » uvodwwt
wedding ceremony in Now York recently. At left is NAACI* executive! *Mwt*q>, Roy Wilkins. «,«<£ «uy^ :
str*. Norm* Marshall, mother «f the distinguish**) lighter for rlsdl right* WowgpriM* Photo).
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EN DOUSES MARCH OF
■ ups'—fiiving lire support to
ti March of Dimes, Jan 3-” L
•Mr' George U’ilittcd of tVs.li
ingt >n, I) ( . The former Mi s
Bur mu V. .Aden of Durham
national program director of
Jack and Jill o( America, said:
Mn (Iftllpwp Prpxip*
j *‘J hav •• no d(v w-hr. it will he."
| said Charles A Bln-- . Green;;- 1
| boro Tuesday night, when asked
| who will succeed the late Dr. F.
if). Biuford as president nf A&T
j College.
I Mr. Hincr is chairman n f the
i Board of Trustees of the college.
He said several applications
for She post had been reeeiv
i ed. He admitted, however, that
none of them bad come from
•any Negro college president
presently employed as a col
lege president.
Speculation arose immedi
ately that no. if anv Negro
college president had ambi
tious for the lucrative post,
due probably to fear of hav
ing to become a supporter of
Governor I.other F. Hodges
and his voluntary segregation
| policy.
Dr BiufordN salary was between
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The lucky ear last week was
the one hearing the tag num
ber X- 5! 856. If the owner of
that ear took H to Dunn's Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streets, here in Ha
leigh, he received a free grease
job.
This still happen every week
Watch for your tag number. If
i it follows the asterisk, vou "ill
get the grease ,iob. The num
ber will he taken from any car
bearing a N. C. license,
j The numbers this week are:
<146-147. R-5249: X-46852; X
j 2335; R-3872; and K-5714.
"'.us is v. hat the March of
Dimes mean- to me —a March
in which it is the duty of every
itJ/f'H in America to participate
t-a tlie verv fullest of his ability
in order to assure for every po
lio victim the best possible rare
for :.s long as needed ”
In F, <yetteville:
owes: -*—*’#*r*m**‘**» inmiiir ■ wr-uraw I'lnwwm'vraw fi>
FAYETTEVILLE A federal
court jury, following more than
two hours of deliberation, return
ed a verdict of guilty of rape a
galnst 'Thomas Hayes. 30-year
old cx-soldiei who was tried on
charges of criminally assaulting
a 16-year-old local girl on the
I night of February 11.
.fudge Don Gilliam sentenc
ed the. man to a life term.
The girl, now 17 testified
that her attacker dragged her
from a dirt road when an at
tempt to rape her was unsuc
cessful, to a wooded section
near the Smith hake area of
Fort Bragg, a military reser
vation.
A set of fingerprints produced
by the government was the most
concrete evidence presented dur
ing the four-day trial. The print*
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