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REPORTED IN HIDING—Miss Autherine Lucy, who is
alleged to have gone into hiding after being threatened for at
tending the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. The Supreme
Court is expected to issue another ruling in the famed case
on February 29.
Alabama Coed Said In
Hiding After Threats
* BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Miss Au
t.hrine Lucy, 26-year-old coed sus
pended from the University of
Alabama last week, has left her
home town for an undisclosed
retreat after being threatened, ac
cording to reports.
Associates of Miss Lucy, w ho
is the first Negro ever to enter
the century old university,
claimed that she was not
frightened array by the threats
hut has gone away to recup
erate after the ordeal of the
past several days.
Miss Lucy was the central fig
Raleigh Groups Send ;
Letter T o Authority
RALEIGH--Four Raleigh organi
zations and an attorney joined for
ces this week in voicing their dis
approval of the refusal of the
Wake County Board of Commis
sioners to appoint a Negro to the
place on the Wake Hospital Au
thority made vacant by the recent
itedgnalion of a prominent local
race man.
T h e Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance and the
Raleigh Citizens Association
submitted she names of Dr. W.
Taft R, Turner Pays Fine
For Assault On Local Man
State News
—IN—
Brief
PRISON ACCIDENT HELPFUL
RALEIGH A woman prisoner
has won her freedom from the
state penal institution at Raleigh
because a. knife slipped. The
Board of Paroles announced last
week that Mrs. Minnie Irvin. 33,
was injured while, working at Wo
man’s Prison. She was sentenced
to four years from New Hanover
County in June, 1953, for man
slaughter. While working in the
prison’s cannery a knife slipped
and she lacerated the second,
third and fourth fingers on her
right hand. Her sentence was
commuted to time served because
of "injury received in the line of
duty.”
DISCUSS RACE PROBLEM
DURHAM "An intcgraI
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WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
Race Issue Halts
Bidding On Bonds
CHARLOTTE A New York
banking firm on Monday told the
Mecklenburg County commission
ers that it will not bid. on a three
lnUlion-dollar county school bond
issue because of the segregation
factor.
Threat of legai action on segre
gation in the county is said to
have caused the Bankers Trust
Co., of New York not to have a
representative, present. The mon
ey is to be used to build segre
gated schools in the county.
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ure in a riot staged on the cam
pus of the university last. week.
The car in which she was riding
was stoned by students and non
students.
Petitions are allegedly being
circulated among the faculty and
students at Tuscaloosa, which is
located 56 miles from here, ask
ing that the coed be invited back
to school in order to uphold the
reputation of the institution.
A University spokesman is
quoted as saying that he has not
heard of the move to invite Miss
Lucy back
L. Greene, executive secretary
of the North Carolina Tea
chers’ Association, and the
Rev. Paul H Johnson, pastor
of the Martin Street Baptist
Church, to ihe board upon the
member’s resignation.
The following letter was sent- to
the Wake County Hospital Author
ity:
503 South Wilmington Street
February 10, 1956
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RALEIGH Taft R. Turner,
45. 217 S, Tarboro Street, well
known businessman, was taxed
the costs of court, here recently
when he answered an assault and
battery charge, alleged to have
been committed on Milton Mc-
Donald. 410 S. Haywood Street
an employee of the Raleigh Ho
tel.
Turner related (he whole
story to the CAROLINIAN
Wednesday. He alleges that
McDonald alienated the affec
tions of his wife in 1953, to
1 the. extent that they are no
i longer iiving together. He.
further stated that the ac
, cused man and his wife, Mrs.
Mamie Nell Turner, were prin
cipals at a party given in his
• home while he was in Florida
in 1953. This led to the alter
cation which finally landed
i Turner in court.
1 He told of having met McDon
> aid in the post office on January
30. He alleged that McDonald
> made some remarks that he re
- sented and it was then that he
■ slapped him twice. The two men
left the post, office, but this was
not the end Turner says that he
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VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N, C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1956 NUMBER 21
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Teacher Faints As Superior Ms
Cop Halt
Angry Mob
Os Pupils
B.v ALEXANDER BARNES
I RALEIGH Local school of
j ficials found themselves with an
i other headache when they arose
Wednesday morning as the result
of general rioting by students of
Ligon High School and Hillside
High School. Durham after a
basketball game held in the gym
of the local school. Tuesday.
Police told the CAROLIN- I
IAN th.T the" Terc called in
Lii ._■> 'i 10:64 i'.M. and « nert
they arrived at a very dark
section of Alston Street, near
the school, they found about
200 children, whom they were
! told were students of Ligon, in
a high state of confusion. They
said that they found 20 win
dows broken out of two of the
buses that were carrying the
Durban) students. They furth
er stated that the rocks and
I stones that they found near
| the buses and in the. buses
; came from the Ligon side of
| the street.
| The officers further said that
i they were hard put to stop the
j mob Urai. was gaining in momen
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Has Heart
j Taken Out,
j Sewed Up
GOLDSBORO Following a
delicate heart operation perform
ed by staff surgeon at Wayne
Memorial Hospital. John Wood
ard, 20, was reported in fau* con
dition Tuesday.
The man was brought to the
hospital early Sunday morn
ing with a stab wound in the
chest. A knife blade had pierc
ed his heart. The surgeon, who
asked to remain anonymous,
! cut into Woodard's chest and
| lifted out the heart. While a
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SITE OF PROPOSED HOUSING UNIT Above is’an
aerial view of the site of the 300-unit housing project, which
js currently causing city officials much concern. The Raleigh
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MRS VIVIAN TONLV FROWN .
Mrs. Brown
“Woman Os
The Year"
RALEIGH - Mrs Vivian
Toney Brown has been named
Raleigh’s “Woman of the Year"
for 1955 by the combined social
and civic organizations of the
city.
The. formal presentation of a
i certificate to Mrs. Brown will
I take place at services slated for
jthe First Baptist. Church Sunday,
j February 26. Soror Irma R
| Thompson, a member of Zeta Phi
| Beta Sorority, the sponsoring or
ganization, and president of the
Virginia State Teachers’ Associa
tion. will be the featured speaker.
Mrs. Brown is president and
owner of Harris Barber College
which has been rated as the best
institution of its kind in North
Carolina and throughout the
South; a graduate of Shaw Uni
versity and former principal
and teacher in the public schools
of Wake and Halifax Counties.
She also serves in numerous |
other important roles, in addition j
to her heavy administrative du- i
tics as president of the Barber
College.
She is an active mem
ber and Auditor of the
Fayetteville Street Baptist
Church, a member of the Ze
ta Phi Beta Sorority: Past
Illustrious Commandress of
Rabaia Court No. 67, Daugh
ters of Isis, three times elected
to the. Board of Management
of the Sojourner Truth YWCA
and chairman of its Finance
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Witnesses
ITell Story
Os Fainting
By CHARLES R. JONES
RALEIGH- -Several s?xth grade
eye witnesses have definitely
placed a woman, whom they be
lieved to be Mrs. Eunice S. New
ton. in the class room at the time
their teacher. John Hamlet, “pas
sed out’’ last Thursday morning.
This revelation was in strong
contrast to a statement al
• cgedl.T issued by Superinten
dent Jesse O. Sanderson Mon-
IP day, which said, in effect, tha?
Mrs. Newton, a supervisor, en
tered the room and found the
man sprawled on the floor.
“Mr. Hamlet was standing in
the back of the. room talking to a
lady. All of a sudden he said, ‘l’m
going down,’ and fell to the floor,
i When he didn’t get up I ran from
the room.’’
These were the words of a pupil
at the Crosby-Garfield School.
| describing, to a CAROLINIAN re
i porter the much-discussed few
: minutes that elapsed between the
j time Hamlet was calmly conduct
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| Funds Missing At Ligon? !
i PRINCIPAL
i INTERVIEWED
,
RALEIGH The local press re
ported last week that an unknown
"Mrs. Smith” had called in to re
port that a teacher at the Cros
by-Garfield School had fainted
in his classroom after being “yell- j
ed” at by another teacher.
When asked by a reporter from j
the CAROLINIAN for a statement |
concerning thig allegation, Mrs. i
j Nora E. Lockhart, principal of'
the Crosby-Garfield School, where
the incident was reported to have
occurred, repeated the answer she
had given the press last week,
that, there was nothing in the in
cident, at her school that she de
emed "newsworthy".
Mrs. Lockhart went on to say
that it is not an uncommon event
for a teacher to become ill at
school.
In view of the public allegations
concerning the matter. Mrs. Lock
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Housing Authority indicated Wednesday that it plans to stand
firm by its original decision to develop the site, despite a pro
test by some SO home owners.
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Mbb BEAUX ARTS *s6’—The ISth Annua! Beaux Arts ball of
the National Urban League Guild brought out a recow! crowd of
Eastern seaixtard socialites to the Savoy ballroom recently. Highlight
of the colorfuj costume affair was the. crowning of “Miss Beaux Arts
1956,” Marian Barker (center! by Guild president Moltie Moon, righ!
and last year's winner, Trudy Wideman. The prize includes a lucrative
modelling contract. (Newspres* Photo).
RALEIGH An investigation
is reportedly being conducted in
to an alleged misappropriation of
funds in the athletic department
of the Ligon Junior-Senior High
School.
A janitor at the school and two
students have allegedly accused
J. C. Morgan, an instructor at
Ligon.
students and the janitor, is
students and thejanitor, is
said to have met with Dr. W.
H. Watson, prinicpal, and su
perintendent Jesse (). Sander
; son, in two meetings Monday
to decide what disposal should
he made of the case.
The reported fund shortage
came to light on February 8 when
an observer is said to have noted
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Stassen Says The South Is
Big Factor In Disarmament
WINSTON-SALEM Harold E.
Stassen, in response to a ques
tion put to him by Alexander
i
ODD3-ENDS|
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
:|
' j There is every reason to believe
j now that the 300 unit. $300,1)00.00,
I low-rental housing project will be
| built on the site orginally chosen
[ or it will not be built at all.
| The latest word from the Hous- j
j ing Authority is to that effect and
i that body has the final word on
j the matter. If the Raleigh City
, j Council refuses to reconsider its j
: disapproval of the site selected b.v ;
Ihe Authority, the project is a ;
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Barnes, CAROLINIAN newsman,
said here Saturday that the
South’s position on the color ques
tion is a serious problem.
This statement was made
by President Eisenhower’s
sperial assistant on disarma
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School Management Needs To Act
An Editorial
The disgraceful behavior of some Ligon High School stu
; dents, after a basketball game which Ligon lost to the. visiting
team from Hillside High School of Durham, was the climax so
far to a series of incidents of one kind or another which reflect
no credit on the management of the public schools of Raleigh
which at this time are designated as Negro schools.
The incident following the basketball game cannot be dis
missed as simply a kiddish prank. The conduct was not only
exceedingly unsportsmanlike; it approached the vicious, invol
ving injuries to guests and results that could easily have been
more; serious than they really turned out to be.
This occurence and several others of recent days seem to
point to the conclusion that there are some loose, screws in
the supervision and management of affairs in our public school
system, especially as concerns our “Negro” schools. Some
investigation and action are indicated, on the part not only of
the officials immediately in charge, but on the higher levels of
administration of our public schools. The CAROLINIAN
is sure that these authorities could net be indifferent to the sit
uation. The CAROLINIAN is even surer that the Nefro
citizens of Raleigh are not indifferent to it.
The lucky car last week was
(he one bearing the tag num
ber "'R-3872. if the owner of
that ear took U to Dunn s Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streets, here In Ra
leigh, he received a free grease
job.
This will happen every week
Watch for your tag number. If
it follows the asterisk, you will
get the. grease job. The nuns*
her will be taken from any ear
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
' WU-342; X-51856, H-5714. X-
J 517; R-5349; and X-93022,
Axe Slayer
Jailed la
Bed Killing
By ALEXANDER ‘BARNES
DURHAM John Livingstone
told Sheriff E. G. Br-lvm and other
officers here Sunday morning of
one of the most, gruesome mur
ders ever committed in this coun
ty when he told how Nathan Mor
gan, 49-year-old saw mill worker,
came to an isolated house, Rt. 1.
Bahama section, late Saturday
night and inflicted two fatal
blows, bashing in his victims head.
The murder is believed to
have been committed betwstn
9;30 and 10 00 P.M, in the
i house where Morgan, his wife,
Grade, James Guess and Liv
ingstone lived. According to
information furnished the of
ficers by Livingstone there had
been a drinking party at the
home in the early pari of the
evening. Morgan is said to
have quarrelled with Guess
and to have left the house.
Guess is believed to have re
tired for iiie night and was
i unaware of the,fact that Mor
gan was so enraged that he
would return.
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JACKSONVILLE
I MAY INTEGRATE
ITS CHURCHES
JACKSONVILLE Possibility of
integration in local churches lo
omed bright here following a
meeting of some 40 Negro and
white ministers here Monday.
A meeting called by the
white Jacksonville Ministerial
Association, was held in the
First Presbyterian Church and
| attended by 30 Negroes and 10
j whites. It ended with a lunch
eon in a private dining room
of a local restaurant.
The integration problem was
I concidered in all of Its phases, in-
I eluding intermarriage and joint
worship services. The. conferees
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Old Fort School
Case Up Feh. 29
MARION Hearing on a peti
tion to enroll Negroes in the white
Old Fort elementary school is
scheduled for Feb. 29 in McDow
ell Superior Court here.
The petitioners have appealed
to the court from McDowell Coun
ty Board of Education denial of
the request on January 5.