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FAMILY OF THE YEAR--
Several members of the Joseph
Whitaker fAmlly, 807 Manly St.,
posed for this photo shortly af
ter being named Raleigh’s ‘Fam
ily of the Year,’ by the Family
Service Society. This family was
seilecfed because of its devotion
to home, cooperation, and
church and civic activities.
Shown seated are Mrs. Florins
Fired Zion Editor
Restored To Post
State News
—IN—
Brief
ELKS CONFAB UNDERWAY
TARBORO A parade, feat
uring ten bands, highlighted Tar
Heel Elks’ 26th annual conven
tion here this week. The parade
started at 2.30 p.m. Wednesday
and the procession ended at the
local ball park where a game was
played between a group of former
high school players and the Pa-
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What’s Happening
On Desegregation Front
INTEGRATE NOW,
CHARLOTTE TOLD
CHARLOTTE City school
board members had “no com
ment” Monday regarding a rcsc
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Dr. James Alexander Boyer is
shown in left photo delivering
| Whitaker and Mr. Joseph Wtait
i aker, parents. Standing are Roh
| ert Whitaker, 22, who is in the
I Air Force, and .lorean Whitaker,
j 16, Ligon School student. Ab
i sent were Joseph, 24, U. S.
j Army; Ralph. 18, Air Force;
j Rosebud. IS, a college student;
I and Albert. 15, who attends pub
j Jic school here. (Staff Photo by
! Chas, R. Jones).
I PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The dele
gates of the 35th quadrennial ses
sion of the general conference of
the AME Zion Church gave the
bishops another rebuff here on
the eve of the closing of the 15-
day meet when they elected Dr.
W. R. Lovell to edit, the Star or
Zion, official organ of the church.
The fiery editor was suspended
in March for permitting what was
termed a "scurrilious” article to
be printed in the publication. He
was subsequently fired by the
Publishing Board. The Board of
Bishops sustained the Board. The
editor offered himself for the post
and led a field of candidates to
victory.
The mandate from the delegates
means that, the editor will resume
his post :n Charlotte N. C . at the
close of the conference. The bis-
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iution by the Parent-Teacher,
Council for a "definite plan” for
desegregation.
The group, which called for a
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Full Integration
In ’63—Marshall
WASHINGTON Lifting of
all legal barriers to integration
b.v 1363 was envisioned by;
Thurgood Marshall, special
counsel for the NAACP, in a
televised interview on the pro
gram “Youth Wants to Know.”
here Sunday.
Setting the 100 anniversary
of the Emancipation Proclama
tion as a target date, Mr. Mar
shall added: “That will not re
move all the problems. Enforce
ment of integration decrees will
still have to be worked out on
a local level.”
j his inauguration address shortly
j after he was installed as the.
The Carolinian
VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N. CL WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 26. 1956 NUMBER 35
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Native Son
installed As
St. Aug. Head
By (’HAS. R. JONES
RALEIGH With the usual
pomp and dignity associated with
the inauguration of a college presi
dent, Dr. James Alexander Boyer,
4L was installed as the seventh
president of Saint Augustine’s
College Monday morning.
Dr Boyer, thus, ascended,
officially from a. position held
by his father for many years,
as dean, and became the first
alumnus of the college to serve
as its president.
Bishop Edwin A Penick, of
ihe Episcopal Diocese of North
Carolina and chairman of
Saint Augustine’s board of
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AMI’S ELECT
FIVE BISHOPS
MIAMI. Fla (ANP)—The 35th
Quadrennial general conference of
the AME church, nearing the end
of its sessions, early Tuesday com-
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ST. AUGUSTINE’S GRADS—
Shown are a portion of the 38
students who were candidates
| seventh president of Saint Au
j gustine’s College. In center
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DELEGATES TO DEMO -
CRATIC CONVENTION
Shown are the Negro delegates
from the Sixth District attend -
Man F reed In Slaying
Os Three-Hour Bride
LUMBERTON—David McAllis
ter, accused of killing his girl
friend three hours after she mar- i
fieri another man, was acquitted)
by a jury in Robeson Superiori
SUICIDE’S TOE
PULLS TRIGGER
WILSON Funeral services
were held here Wednesday for
George B. Speight 36, who com
mitted suicide .Saturday night, by
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for the bachelors degree at Saint
Augustine’s College Tuesday
morning. The seniors heard a
photo. Bishop Edwin A. Penick, j
Sr., president of the college's j
in* the Stale Democratic Con
vention held at the Raieigh Me
morial Auditorium last Thurs
day. From left to right they are
-Court last week on his contention
| that the shooting was accidental,
j Mrs. Roeeita, Gillespie was shot
jto death on April 11, three hours
I after her marriage to William Gil
■ lespie, as she lay across the bed
i with her new husband,
| Gillespie testified that McAllis
ter came to the home, threatened
f the woman and finally shot her.
McAllister in his testimony, said
| that he had come to pay Mrs. Gil
lespie for some work that, she had
done in the tobacco beds of his
landlord. After paying her, he
said, he. picked up a .22 caliber
rifle which he had loaned Mrs.
Gillespie to return it to his home.
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stirring address hy Dr. Edwin
A. Penlck, Jr., of Randolph-
Macon Women’s College.
) board of trustees, presents a
j certificate to Dr. Boyer and con-
Fred Hines, J. H. Wheeler ipart
ly obscured). N. B. White, J. S,
Stewart and Macro Sloan, all of
Durham. (Staff Photo by Chas.
R. Jones).
Last Rites
Held For
Miss Jew ay
WILMINGTON —Funeral ser
vices for Miss E. Gertrude Jervay,
long-time teacher in the public
schools of New Hanover County,
were held Monday afternoon at 4
o'clock from the Chestnut Street
Presbyterian Church, with the
Rev. B H Baskerville, minister,
officiating.
Interment was a
in Pine. Forest. . JijipffiNßljßL &
Cemetery. ;•
Miss Jer va y WV' »,
died in Sharon fiai cl "mm
Hill, Penna., Frt- Mm v~ r jjßFr
day morning, at. fflfc, '~T J
the residence of mm- <
Dr. and Mrs. T. W *'•
C. Nurse. an
aunt and uncle
in-law.
Assisting the
Rev. Mr. Basket--MISS JERVAY
ville were Revs. J. Ray Butler, •
minister of Ebenezer Baptist,
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MORE VOTING
DENIALS TOLD
RALEIGH—CIose on the heels
of denials by election board chair
man in six Eastern North Caro
lina, counties of charges that 1 Ne
groes have been improperly turn
ed dewm by registrars, the NAACP
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gratulates him as new president.
The Boyer family is shown in
right photo. From left to right
Gate City Hostess
Faces Murder Rap
GREENSBORO -•- A Saturday
night drinking party, an uninvit
ed and “bothersome" guest and
an irritated hostess combined to
spell murder here last weekend.
As a result, James Sloan, of
225 N. Gilmer Street, is dead and
Miss Mary Frances Miller, 29, of
207 S, Gilmer Street, was ordered
held for Guilford Superior Court,
on a charge of stabbing him to i
death with a. knife.
Women Close
Annual Meet
FAYETTEVILLE The 47th
annual session of the North Caro
lina. Federation of Negro Women’s
Chibs closed here Sunday after
a three day meet, at Fayetteville
State Teachers College, with the
Eastern District as host.
The sessions began at 9 A.M..
Friday. Mrs. A. B. Byrd of Rocky
Mount, led the devotional service.
Reports from the officers were re-
I ceived. The first session closed
with the appointment of com
mittees,
The Friday afternoon session
featured reports from clubs
throughout, the state. The Friday
night session was devoted to wel
come exercises.' The Rev. C, E.
Perry delivered the invocation.
Mayor George B. Herndon spoke
in behalf of Fayetteville. He was
presented by Councilman Harry
E. Groves. Mrs. Maggie Bethume
sang a solo. Dr. J. W, Seabrook.
Superintendent C. Reid Ross. N,
,J. Suttles. E L Hauser, Rev, E. A.
Armstrong. L. B. Gibson and Mrs.
E. L. Elfmon .joined in the wel
coming of the many delegates
sna visitors.
Mrs. Rose D. Aggrey, president
crowned 'Miss Eastern District”.
The Rev. L, J. Shipman, William
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Teachers Quit As Defy To
Anti-NAACP Pledge
ELLOREE, S. C.-Rather, than
sign a statement that they are
not members of the NAACP, 18
teachers at the Elloree Training
School here have resigned and
three others refused to sign or re
sign.
The 1956 Genera! Assembly en
acted legislation barring NAACP
members from state, county, mu
nicipal or school employment.
Seven of the school’s 21 teach
ers signed the pledge, inserted in
are Mrs. Emma. Perry Boyer,
Esther Alethea Boyer, their
daughter, and Or. Boyer.
j LUCKY AUTO OWNER
The lucky car last week was
the. one bearing the tag mint-
I her MVP-342. Ts the owner of
that car took it to Dunn’s Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streets in Raleigh
he received a free grease job.
This will happen every week.
! Watch for your tag number. If
j it follows the asterisk, you will
j get the grease job. The nam-!
1 ber will be taken from any car;
; bearing a N. C, license.
• The numbers this week are; 1
j R-387-: “CK-4295 WW-125:
j X-192; R-5349; and XX-2884.
At- a hearing before Judge Wil
liam M. Poteat, in Municipal-
County Court, Miss Miller testi
fied that, she had told Sloan that
she "didn't want no boheration."
but that he grabbed her and tors
her blouse.
She then reportedly grabbed s
knife and told Sloan th a t she
would “stick" him if he persisted.
Sloan did. and she did. she de
clared.
Sloan, bleeding profusely, ran
out. into the street where he col
lapsed, He was dead on arrival
at L. Richardson Memorial Hospi
tal where he was taken, as a re
sult of the loss of blood from his
severed jugular vein.
Detectives quoted witnesses as
saying that Miss Miller placed her
arms around Sloan as though to
hug him and that he then scream
ed. “I’m dying!" and ran out. of
the house.
Miss Miller denied that, she
placed her arms around Sloan,
fiaying that he came uninvited to
the house.
ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
When the Negro voter goes into
the voting booth Saturday, May
26th, to cast, his vote in the state
Democratic Primary, he will b®
facing one of the most difficult
problems of his life time. The bal
lots presented to him will contain
a list of candidates for offices
ranging from governor to town
sship constables but he will not
see listed the names of many can
didates who have spoken one word
in fovar of upholding the basic
law of this land, the U. S. Consti
tution.
Heading the ballot, to suc
ceed himself as governor, the
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| the teacher employment, applica
tion for next year. The other
tiirep. were out of town
M. G. Austin, Elloree school
superintendent, said that, several
of the teachers told him that they
were not NAACP members, but
they “objected to signing any
thing that expressed their person
al opinions on such questions."
Austin, who passed out, the ap
plications last Friday, gave the
teachers until May 31 to sign or
resign.