KING COLE WON'T TACKLE SEGREGATION
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THE CAROLINIAN
Candidate To Fight Ineligible Ruling
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BULLETIN
ATLANTA— Saying that he
"would not go to Atlanta for
a million dollars. Singer Nat
iKing) Cole called off a per
formance scheduled to be held
here Tuesday night.
A spokesman said that Cole
felt that Atlanta is too close
to the Alabama line and to
Birmingham where he was at
tacked last week.
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BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT
RALEIGH—"i a like to forget
the whole thing.”
Thab in a nutshell, was the re- ;
action of Nat (King) Cole to the j
attack made upon him last week j
in Birmingham.
The singer, who was e« j
tiiosiailcaliy received at his
Friday night concert here dur
ing two performances at the
city’s auditorium, told report
ers that he preferred to "cru
sade in my own way" for bet
ter race relations.
In response to a query from a
CAROLINIAN reporter, Cole said
that he would continue to appear
before segregated audiences in
the South.
"Although 1 don't believe in
segregation,” he said. “I don't see
how 1 can do anything about it. i
I can't change? the situation in a
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NOT GOING TO BUCK THEM
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outstanding Negro artists had re
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State News s
I Brief
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ARREST ARSON SUSPECT j
WASHINGTON, N. C. - Robertj
A. Griffin, sought by police since j
May 16, 1955, was arrested for a j
minor offense in Newark, N. ,T i
recently and, following a routine j
fingerprint check, has been iden- i
tified as a suspect in an arson i
case here in which Raleigh Mit
chell of Washington died Newark
l officials have notified Philip Hall, j
police chief here, that Grifin has |
signed a waiver of extradition and;
will be brought to Beaufort Coun- j
ty this week by New Jersey offi- j
rials.
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j at the Raleigh •Durham Airport
J to «U an at Use Me
! cnorist Auditorium here Friday
j wigM, Cole, who hat; command'
| ed front page headlines since
Warrenton
CandidateTo
! Fight Rule
WARRi; NT ON Thurston
Brown, 39-year-old local mor
! tician. has indicated through his
i campaign manager that lie intends
; to fight to get his name on the
ij Democratic primary ballots of the
Ii three counties of the N. C. Sen
lj ale’s third district.
Brown, who made history
j last week by announcing that
he intended lo run for State
Senator, was notified last
week by the Warren County
Board of Fleticons that he is
| not eligible to enter the
primary as a candidate. The
elections board refused
! Brown’s application on the
S rounds H »• no
eligible this year due to a 1 il
lation agreement between the
i
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IWO MEM FILE
i IN BRUNSWICK
| CHARLOTTE For the first
time in' the history of Brunwick
i County, Negroes are seeking high
; public office, subject to the May
26 Democratic primary.
It. J. Hardee will run for I
Commissioner and C. C.
Drown for the school board.
Both own small farms.
While the Negro registration
! normally represents no more than
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being assaulted in Birmingham,
Alabama, last week, is ®bo*,vn
taking tp tie woman. He received
tremendous, ovations from to i«
Raleigh audience.
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THEY RAISED GRAND
CHAMPS Pictured are the
Grand Champion winners in
the 9th Annua! Ham and Egg
Show held at the Perkins River
side Warehouse, Snilthfield* last
9th Ham & Egg Show
Exhibits Prize Foods
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SMITHFIELD—The ninth annu
al Ham .and Egg Show became
history Friday when ''Snoxie ’
Stephenson auctioned off the last
of the prize hams that were en
tered.
The MSS edition was the
biggest and best that has been
heid and the rafters of Per
il in s' Riverside Warehouse
rang with cheers and the buy
ers vied with each other over
the coveted part of the hog
Thieves Rob
School Safe
FAYETTEVILLE— Between $2.-
000 and SB,OOO was reported miss
ing after the office vault in the
administration building of Fay
etteville State Teachers College
was ripped open shortly before
dawn on Wednesday,
The college records office was
also ransacked and a safe there
was opened, but it contained no
money. The office was checked
by a night watchman at 2 a m.
Delay GirTs Bid
At U. Os Virginia
FREDERICK, Va.—The Board
of Visitors of the University of
Virginia ha a refused to act, upon
an application made by a Negro
girl for admittance to Mary Wash
ington College here on the grounds
that the application was “incom
plete.”
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weekend. David Richardson,
Route 1, Wendell, poses with
his champion ham which
brought $357. Mrs. Esther M.
Mitchener of Route 1, Smith- |
field, shows off her dozen eggs
which sold for 537
I that has made. L. R ’'Ham’'
I .Johnson and his 1200 ho*
raisers known throughout the
world.
The second most enjoyable part of
tiif show was the banquet which was
held on Thursday night, when more
than 500 persons, of both races, sat
down to a typical Johnston County
barbecue The bankers came and
brought their wives and daughters.
The townspeople, with parts of their
families and the farmers, whose fam
ilies had helped to make the show
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LUMBERTON— When John j
L. Regan drove off for a date, J ;
Sunday night, he didn’t know
that his wife was lying on the
back seat of his ear.
But when Regan picked up'
Miss Colene Mitchell at 'he
home, he discovered that his i
wife, Addle, was there—armed ]
with a butcher knife. Eight |
stitches were required to close!
the wound when Mrs . Regan j
whacked him across the neck. I
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I DEATH TOOK. A HOLIDAY— !
The above photo, takes shortly
after a northbound Atlantic
Coastline Train struck a late
mode! car on Fayetteville’s main
LUCKY AUTO OWNER
The lucky car last week was
the one bearing the tag num- j ;
ber *X-J517. If the owner of j
that ear took it to Dunn’s Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streets in Raleigh
he received a free grease job.
This wilt 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 car
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
R 5349; WW-125; R-3872;
’WP-343; CX-4295; and X-192.
Hold Jilted i
Lover After i
Woman Dies
ST. PAULS Charged with
murdering hie girl friend after >
she married another man, David
McAllister, 45, was bound over to
Superior Court for probable cause
on Monday.
Judge Herman Bri&son in Re
corder’s Court, set bond at $20,000. i
McAllister is charged with
having fatally shot Mrs. Ro- ;
setia -Jackson Gillespie, 25,
about 7:45 p.m. on Wednes
day. only a few hours after
she had been married to Henry
Gillespie, a rival of McAllis
ter for her affection.
Mrs. Gillespie, mother of seven !
children by a previous marriage, j
XRS shot, through the heart as she J
sat in Gillespies’ home. Accord
ing to reports. McAllister came |
there with a .22 caliber rifle and
ehot her when she told him that,
everything was over between
them.
ESTHER OF FIVE
SLAIN BY WIFE
WILSON James Harington,
34, father of five children, is dead j
and police are holding his wife. 1
Pearl, also 34, in connection with j
his death, here Sunday,
j Harrington was shot above the
right eye with a blast from a sin- i
gle barrel shotgun. He died in- 1
stanlly. Neighbors heard the shot
and summoned the police.
What’s Happening
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On Desegregation Front
Churchmen Say
Segregation OK
ASHEVILLE—An article signed j
| by 44 Southern Presbyterian lead-!
i ers in the April issue of Southern i
! Presbyterian Journal says that j
.“there is nothing morally wrong!
i in segregation," j
Stating that the problem has
I three aspects—legal rights, spir
i itual values and social implies
! tior.s—the clergymen say that,
these "should not be confused.”
“To force social contacts, in
the name of ,Chrisrtianity, where
| street last Friday afternoon, !
shown the damage to the ve- !
fefele. The ante was driven by
Mrs. Hattie Branson Harden,
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A QUEEN IN THE SPRING—
Miss Delate Thomas, who hails
from Itoxboro, pauses between
classes at Saint Augustine's
1 College here, to pose for a eam
ertnan. The lovely Miss, a senior i
business education major, was
in Baseball:
What Stars Did
On Opening Day
N. Y.—On the ,
opening day rs "America's favor- j
; ue pa-Atimc," (the baseball sea- I
: son). Don Ncwcombe was blasted ;
early and. Brooklyn’s world cham- !
pionship flag raising ceremonies I
c e ruined as the Philadelphia j
Phillis romped !o an 8-6 victory
hi Ebbetts Field Tuesday.
Last season the Dodgers won
their first ten games,
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inauguration Set
RALElGH—lnauguration of D:
James A. Boyer os' the seventh •
president of St. Augustine's Col- i
lege will take place on Monday!
morning. May 21. at 11 o’clock, I
it was announced this week.
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j such contacts are not desired, can their children to segregated or
i compound our problems, not solve integrated schools,
j them,” the churchmen wrote.” As The law would recognize mi led
I the problem affects the church classes —now’ specifically prohib
they say that “where local cir- ited by the state constitution—
cumstanccs dictate interracial but no child would be compelled
contacts, they should be accepted to attend school with students of
in a Christian spirit,” the other race. It applies only to
* * * I grade schools and high schools,
Ala, To Have Three j Georgia Teachers
Kinds Os Schools j Call For Integration
MONTGOMERY, Ala Gov.! AUGUSTA. Ga—A call for in-
James E. Folsom signed into lav.’ j tegration in the state's schools,
a legislative act giving parents
a “freedom of choice” in sending! (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
! 35, of Route 2, Faison, and own -
I ed by Sgt. Vestas M, Beamon,
i 1131 Terry Drive, Fayetteville.
! Mrs, Darden and Beamon’s wife,
! the only other person In the car,
chosen campus “May Queen”
recently and .rill reign over
festivities at the Episcopalian
college on May 1. Miss Thomas
is the daughter of Mrs. G. W.
j Thomas of Roxboro. (STAFF
PHOTO BY CHAS. R. JONES).
DEw-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
| There are some aspects of the
! report of the so-eaiied Advisory
Committee on Education" that
can truthfully be called both in- ,
suiting arid startling.
The premises of this repoiM.
"the people of North Carolina
: will not support mixed schools,'
| could more properly be stated to
say, the politicians and th c
os! neb minded "leaders” in North
Carolina are determined not to
| allow the people of this state to
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jumped to safety when the :»nt»
stalled on the tallroad tracks.
No oer wn injured, (STAFF
PHOTO BY DMAS.. 1. jO&ESU