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ON MONITOR S CITY OF THE WEEK .. |
F. J. Carnage Speaks For Integration
Carnage Supports
School Integration
By CHARLES R. JONES
RALEIGH ln a nationally
broadcasted radio interview Tar -
day afternoon. Fred J. Carnage.;
local attorney and the only Nr-;
rro member of the Raleigh School;
Board, indicated his complete ap-j
proval of the Supreme Court, de- j
cision outlawing segregation in i
the nation's public schools.
Carnage thus became the first, j
board member to voice sanction I
of the historic ruling.
Phil Ellis, commentator for
radio station WPTF, interview
ed the lawyer „%$, a feature pi j
AS? v BVeckday’ series. Raleigh j
took the national spotlight
t his week after being chosen
as 'Guest City of the Week* !
hv the National Broadcasting
Company.
Raleigh Discusses Integration";
was the title of the program. El
lis’ first query to Carnage was:
Are vou in favor of desegregation
of t.lie public schools? The attor
ney replied:
"Took An Oath"
"As a lawyer I took an oath to
uphold the constitution of the:
United States. Tine Supreme
Court decision is now law and !
should be complied with " j
Citing the ecils of segrega
tion, Attorney Carnage said.
State News
—IN—
Brief
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SENTENCED ON 5 COUNTS
APEX —Charles Williams. 33. :
local man. was convicted in the;
Apes Recorder’s Court, here on j
s five law’ violations, one of which
landed him in jail The defendant
was placed in jail to await trial
on four counts but that appar
ently wasn't enough for him. He
stole a. braille watch from a fel
low prisoner. Frank Christie. The
watch reportedly belonged to i
Christie’s blind son. After leaving ;
jail. Christie discovered that he;
no longer had the watch. He re- j
ported the loss to police and the !
watch was discovered on Wil-1
hams. The man received long sen- i
tences on each of the five charges !
which were lodged against him, ;
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OBSERVANCE ENDS AT SHAW
RALEIGH—The observance of
Negro History Week at Shaw Uni
versity was concluded Friday
when Samuel S. Mitchell, Raleigh
attorney, spoke at the regular
vesper hour in the University
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Wha t *s Happen trig
On Desegregation Front
WLL NOT CONSIDER
ALABAMA GRADUATES
ALBANY, N. Y.—Assemblywo
man Bessie Buchanan has intro
duced Into the New York State
legislature a bill to deny recog
nition to graduates of Alabama
University, including all certifi
cate holders from the school until
tht institution opens its doors to
Negroes and guarantees their safe
ty.
Mrs Buchanan's bill was intro
duced immediately following the
recent racial outbreak at. the 125-
year-old school.
M *■ *
■PROTEST .TIM CROW
CONVENTION SITE
FHILADEIjPBXA—Be- end bus*
fgh
"Children should have a bet
ter understanding of each j
other. The American Negro ;
hay suffered under the present 1
j setup."
i "My pastor "as turned away I
if i m a. white restaurant in which i
j he had been invited by a white
! ministerial body, simply because
i he was a Negro. People with much
| darker skin are admitted to such
j public places." he said.
Jim Crow In North
The lawyer was quick to point;
; ou't that segregation is not con-j
j fined to the Sc. ;j. He recalled anj
j incident at a motor court in a!
| northern state- to which he ap- j
• plied for accommodations. "Al- !
|
j ATTY. F. ,f t'ARNAGE
NAACP To File School;
Suits In Eight States |
i ATLANTA School suits in|
I eight "recalcitrant" Southern j
j states will be filed by the NAACP!
’ before June 1. the organization
| announced here Saturday.
| Thurgood Marshall, chief eoun
| sel, said that the NAACP has
i been asked to file suits in one or
S more areas of Alabama, Florida,
i Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Virginia.
Mr. Marshall’s announcement
came at a press conference which
he and Roy Wilkins, NAACP ex
ecutive secretary, held as a cIi
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| Your Lucky
Day May Be
EVERY DAY
When You .. -
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RALEIGH. N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25. i«M
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N LIGON GAGERS WIN CAGE
i EOl RNEY—The Little Blues of
' J. W. Ligon Junior-Senior High
j School Raleigh, non the Bull
i City Invitational Basketball
| Tournament last, Saturday night.
Ligon Cagers Win |
Bull City Tourney \
DURHAM The Little Blues
of the J. W. Ligon Junior-Senior
j High School. Raleigh, won the
! Bull City Invitational Tourna-
AXE BLOWS PUT
1 IN HOSPITAL
GREENSBORO Saturday
might, well have been called “Axe
Day” in this Piedmont metro
polis as two persons were hos
pitalized with axe wounds and
! two others were held as their as
-1 saHants’ !
! Walter Dorsey of 516 E. Wash
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| loads of Negro members of the
I Veterans of Foreign Wars 1 .'ft
! Philadelphia Tuesday for Wash
j ington, D. C. to protest against
a proposed national convention
to be held by the VFW in Dallas,
Texas, this September.
According to Dr. Adolphus
IV. Alexander, Sr., a Philadel
phia member of the VFW, the
picket line was formed in front
of the Washington Sheridan
Hotel where congressmen and.
other political notables are
scheduled to honor VFW Com
mander in Chief Timothy .1.
| Murphy at an annual ban
| gueL
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The locals defeated Chapel ;
Hill's Lincoln High School.
Members, of the team, standing
| from left to right are Ellon
I'horpe, Ha>mond Henderson,
i John Leach. James Woods, M.
1 C. Hill, coach; Emmett Gill,
ment championship at Durham
Saturday night with a victory |
over the Lincoln High School Ca- !
gers of Chapel Hill. The final
core was 45-37.
Ligon's players racked up
IS points in the third quart
er, following a half-time tic
of 20-20. However, the Blues,
receiving a 14-point perform
ance from John Leake, found
the range and started to leave
their opponents.
Before meeting the Lincoln
.’•quad, the Ligon aggregation roll
ed over the Hillside Hornets of I
Durham by a soei e of .63-48
Thursday night in the first round j
and downed the Jordan Sellars
High School quintet of Burling
ton 49-40 in the semi-final round;
Friday night.
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CITED—E. F. Corbett, right,
director of public relations, A&T
College and executive secretary
of its alumni association, was
ICC
NUMBER 32
! Janie,* Patterson, Thomas Ad*
! cock and Robert Boyler. Play- i
ers kneeling from left to right
are James Bass and William
Hall.. The trainers are unidenti
fied.
ASA T, SPAULDING
A. T. SPAULDING
/MCA SPEAKER
! RALEIGH —A. T. Spaulding,
vice-president and actuary of the
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last week cited for outstanding
service by the Raleigh-Wake
County Chapter of the AAY Col- |
lege Alumni Association at its j
The lucky car last week wan
the one bearing the tag num
ber *WIT-342. If the owner of
that car took It 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 num
ber will be taken from any ear
bearing a N. C. license
The numbers this week arc:
X-93022; *CX-4295; WIJ-343; j
R-5349; X-J517; and R-3872.
Union Men
Said Cause
]
Os Rumors
!
By ALEX ANDER BA RMS
RALEIGH Organizers for the ;
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and;
Butcher Workmen of North Amer ■ !
ica caused a star In labor circles j
here last week when it was rumor- j
ed that a number of employees of j
the Watson Seafood Company had !
fired quite a few of its workers j
.for .union activity-.-.
An investigation toy the CARO- j
LINIAN revealed that about 201
persons had been laid off at thej
local seafood and poultry plant!
due to a. reorganization process!
that is now underway. Mr. Wat-;
son. owner, said that the labor!
| activities had nothing to do with:
| the laying-off of those persons;
j and that the most of them Vied i
been requested to return to work!
this week.
He further said that the
management harl decided to
change to a. two-shift da.y, in j
an effort to meet the nevv ;
hour law that will go into rs- j
fee! March 1. “It is true that
we fired two persons for fail
Ing to comply with the work
ing rules of the company" said
the, owner.
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Debate Set
i
On Schools
I
Four prominent, North Carolin
ians will debate the anti-segrega
tion decision of the Supreme:
Court at the sixth and final ses- j
sion of the Institute of Religion
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Ligon Student Fined
For Hitting Teacher
RALEIGH—-James Surles. 17,1
of 119 N. Swain Street, who plead
ed guilty to simple assault upon
M C. Hill, teacher and basket
ball coach at Ligon High School,
was sentenced Friday to 30 days, j
annual dinner held in Raleigh
February 10. Mr*. John Brown,
left, makes the presentation as j
C. H. McLendon, president of the 1
chapter, looks on from center. !
J.
/ETA SPEAKER SUNDAY
j Mr*, Irma B. Thompson, of
Newport Nnvs, V;«„ president of
the Virginia Teacher Associa
Don. who will be the principal
j speaker at the If am. service
j at the First Baptist Church on
i Sunday when the Zrta Phi Beta
|W. T. Gibbs Named
J /• ■'; r . Ij^j
GREENSBORO (Soroal The
j Board, of Trwtre.- of . ,-;e Agrtcul
i tural and Technical CO of
■ North Carolina. Greensboro,
j unanimously approved Warmoth
; T. Gibbs as the new president of
' the institution, at a meeting held
jTuesday
Gibbs had been acting pit t
; dent of the institution an.ee Jan
-1 nary 5. following thf ri-e n oi
! Dr, Ferdinand D, Bluiord. form
| er president,.
The now president 'the
former dean «f the m bn tl i>!
education and science at la !
Ho ha* been a member of thf>
i
j WARMOTH T. GIBBS
| the term being suspended upon
payment of a fine of $lO and
costs and good behavior for two
years.
Surles was also ordered to pay
; $4 for repair of damages to Mr.
! Hill’s eyeglasses,
j At the request of Dr. W. H
; Watson. Ligon principal, Mr. Hill
had reported to Surles’ mother
that the youth was "cutting
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Alabama Awaits Court
Decision On Miss Lucy
TUSCALOOSA. Ala. <ANP) —;
A feeling of frustration and un- j
certainty hangs over the Univev-1
sity of Alabama campus as the!
Autherlne Lucy desegregation ease:
awaits a hearing' next Wednesday,
Feb. 29. in Birmingham
In the two weeks that have!
elapsed since rioting and mob
violence interrupted the 26-year-1
old Negro coed's studies, a large!
majority of the students and sac- j
ulty members at the university!
have gone on record condemning 1
such lawlessness and pledging to ’
prevent its recurrence if Miss
Lucy ret urns as a student.
The young Birmingham woman
was barred from classes for safe-;
! ty reasons Feb. 6 following n se
ines of egg-throwing, rock-hurl- j
ling demonstrations against her;
sorority celebrates its annual
"Finer Womanhood Week.” A
feature of the program will lie
(be presentation of a plaque to
•Mrs. Vivian I. Brown, named
Raleigh’s "Woman of the Year"
b.v the combined scoial and
civic organizations of thr city.
( :ryi!\ ,ir><-c |ji“S, and faj
named dean in ia?r-t.
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housing Plan
Urged Here
UALEiGH Support of the
i Raleigh Housing Authority's plan
| for a 300-unit low-rent housing
i project poured in. this week from
| many quarters;,
| Letters endorsing the Author*
i ity's plan came from a score or
| more of the city's leading citizens
| among them:
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9DB3ENDS
| By ROBERT G, SHEPARD
| '■wwngr.Kwtegfft-.« r-v ywanuat.rgagasg:
Tt. has now been about 2 weeks
since representatives of several
Negro organizations here sent a
letter to the Wake County Com
; missioners protesting that body's
action in appointing a white man
to the seat on the Wake County
Hospital Authority made vacant
by the resignation of Mr. J E
Strckland. the lone Negro member
of the Authority,
; No word ot acknowledgement
! has come from the County Com
'! mission era nor is it likely that
: even that courtesy will be ex
’ j tended to the Negroes of this
.' county.
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. j In all probability, the much
[ discussed low rental, 3-million
| dollar housing project, will be
: | built on the site first proposed
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presence on the campus.
Charge “Subterfuge”
Charging that mob violence was
a “clever subterfuge” on the part
of the university to bar her
classes because of her race, ivtiss
Lucy has asked the court to order
her return plus the privilege of
dormitory and cafeteria facilities.
Attorneys for the 125-year
old school have announced
that the bitter segregation bat
tle will be carried to the Su
preme Court.
Dr. O. C. Carmichael, uni
versity president, told a special
student convocation last week
that the issues the univer- ’
sify facer has become “not
segregation ®ersr.s Integra lion,
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