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/ 3 Suits Challenge State Voting Laws
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DFATH PLUNGE THWARTED Mrs, Melrose Sherman
r+rwn«fles with police officer John Gocke, who is he:
backfiL the railing of the Whitehurst freeway » W«h»3-
ton. from which she recently attempted to jump. Ten en to
General hospital for observation, Mrs. Sherman blamed a
nagging husband" as her reason 'or the c ••«••• «*.
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■ Man Asks 50 G f s
For Son s Death
Twins Save
Pal Drowning
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PITTSBORO When 13-year- j
old Lonnie Rone, known to be a j
good swimmer, began shouting
for help after attempting to swim
across a neighborhood pond, one
of hi? friends passed it. off as a
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Rut, when Alonzo and Alphon
so Johnson, 17-year-old twins,
saw Rone going down for the se
cond time, they knew that it was
* no gag, swam out. to him and
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NAACP’s Spingarn Medal Goes |
To Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson j
bulletin:: i
NEW YORK Announce
ment that the Spingarn Med
al will be awarded to Jackie
Robinson, star of she Brook
lyn Dodgers, and pioneer in
the major league’s swing to
ward integration, during the
annual NAAC'P convention at,
San Francisco, was made
here this week.
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ER'S PRIZE Teacher* often
give, but geidum get prizes.
North Carolina Colcge stenogra
phy teacher John V. Turner Is
an exception. Turner, shown
here with one of his former
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LOUISBI7RG - A $50,000 law
suit, was filed in the Franklin
County Superior Court, here .Fri
day by the father of a 20-year-j
! old youth killed ’ a Franklinton |
; police officer on the night of
! March 5.
1 Sherwood Perry, who was a.p- j
pointed administrator of his sons;
• estate by J. W. King, Clerk of the.
! court, just minutes before filing
the suit, is askiny $25,000 com
pensatory damages and $25,000
punitive damages from C. P Gib- .
son, the officer. ‘For the wrongful
death’ of his son.
Gibson has 30 days in which to’
, file an answer to the. suit.
In his testimony of the
shooting in March Gibson
! i charged young Perry with as
!
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j SAN FRANCISCO iANP' - ;
| Ways and means of accelerating
! community action to secure deseg
| regation of public facilities and in
stitutions will be explored at the
47th annual convention of the NA
ACP which opens here Tuesday.
June 26
The six-day convention, ■ hich
will attract some 800 delegates
from all sections of the country,
prise-winning students. Mrs. Vi
vian Tapp Stevens, holds a gold
cup awarded for second best
stenography class in whole U.S,
A. Esierbrook Ren Company a
warded the pries to Turner and
made special citations to stu-
Ligen Grads [
Doing Well 1
MIC State | !
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RALEIGH “They treat usj;
just like anyone else."
That's the way that Edward!;
Carson and Manuel Crockett, 19-1",
,56 Ligon High School graduates, |L
referred this week to the way j
they have been accepted by white |
! students at N. C. State College i
here where they have been en-1
rolled as undergraduate engin- j
eering students, since June 5. The ;
fact that they are the first of j
their race to attend this branch j
i of the University of North Caro- j ;
! Una apparently hasn t made any
; difference with administrative
i officials at the college cither. j
Carson and Crockett., both 17, j
; were accepted as freshmen in e- j
iectrical engineering for the sum- j
mer session. A third youth, Wal-j
j ter Van Buren Holmes. 17, of
; Durham has been accepted for
the fall term as a freshman in
! mechanical engineering, with an
j option for aeronautical engineer
-1 ing.
TWO MORE PENDING
Two other applications for the!
j fall, term are pending. Both of jj
the" Raleigh students are living j
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i will be held in the Civic Auditori
i urn. It will open formally on Tues
; day evening with a keynote., ad
dress by Thurgood Marshall, the
Association’s special counsel and
hies of the battery of NAACP
lawyers who argued the historic
school segregation cases.
Executive Secretary Roy WiIk
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dents in his class. Mrs. Stevens
is secretary to the busines mana
ger at North Carolina College.
Turner, an alumnus of NCC. re
ceived master's degree at Bos
ton University. He is the son of
Mrs. Tulia Turner, 1002 Oberlin
Road, Raleigh,
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State News
Brief
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SCOUTS GET LAND
CLINTON —A deed to a tract;
of land was given the Negro Boy
Scouts here Tuesday morning at
a ceremony at City Hall. The
Scouts will use the land to erect)
a. hut. Participating in the event,
were Mayor Robert I. Powell; Po-1
lice Chief E. L. Crummle; Tusca
rora Council vice-president, W. F.
Shuford and three Negro Scout
officials. Dr. D. J. Sammons, Dr.
W, E. Merritt and Profess»r O.
A. Pupree', principal of the Samp
son County Training School.
GETS MANSLAUGHTER TERM
RALEIOH —Otis T. Blake, 35,
who allegedly fatally shot Gai
ther Allen on July 4. 1952. was
sentenced in Wake Superior
Court to five years for man
slaughter last week. Blake fled
to Florida after the incident. He
was arrested recently in Ocala,
Florida by FBI agents and re
turned here for trial. Blake claims
he is an ordained minister and
ha, *s held pastorates in Florida,
TO REMOVE BODIES
BURLINGTON The re
moval of bodies from the a
bartdoned race cemetery at
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j IT MATTERS NOT HOW
j SMALL THE AD, JUST
KEEP YOUR NAME BE
FORE THE PUBLIC.
CALL ...
4-5558
FOR YOUR CLASSIFIED!
Say Laws |
Aim To Curb
i
Negro Vote !
RALEIGH (Special> Three j
suite, all attacking North Caro-!
lina voting laws, were filed this |
week In Halifax., Northhampton j
and Wake Counties, according to j
Herman L». Taylor, local attorney,
who is one of three lawyers ask- 1
ing rulings on the laws.
The Rev. Ernest Ivey, race j
minister of Littleton, has fil
ed a $50,060 damage suit »-
gainst. T. W. Cole, registrar
in the Littleton precinct,
charging that Cole unlawful
ly failed and refused to regis
ter him. This suit was lodged
te the V. S. District Court in
ik sleigh.
A sophomore at North Carolina !
College, Durham. Alexander Fai
son, who hails from Seaboard in
Northhampton County, is suing
Mrs. W. L. Taylor, a registrar,
and contends that the state law
which requires a person to read
and write to the satisfaction of
the registrar is unconstitutional
and aimed at curbing the Negro
vote. This’ suit was filed Tuesday
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AMEZ AREA
, BUDGET MET j
BALTIMORE Th® Philadel
phia Baltimore Conference, AME
Zion Church, in its final reports
of the 128th Annual Session rea
ched a new high when .t was re
vealed that the 1956-57 budget,
$24,500 had been raised-
The Reverend A G. Dunstan,
pastor. Wesley Center Church, of
Philadelphia, reported that he
did not receive notice until June
7. that he was to raise an addi
tional $715. He, however, report
ed that he was successful in rais
j ing same, thereby leading the ar
i ea in annual collections.
Full Reports Made
The new budget was apportion
ed on an increased budget, for
j the entire denomination which
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Whammy Catches
2 Auto Racers
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RALElGH—Charged with rac
ing their automobiles at a speed
of 84 miles an hour, Ralph J.
Marshall of Route 3, and Donnie
Patterson, of Holly Springs
Route. 1 were ordered to pay a
fine of SSO and costs each in City
Court last week.
They were caught by a wham
my in the 900 block of South Wtl
; mington Street, police sa.y
| WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
I Desegregation Front
i SEES INTEGRATION WITHIN
25 YEARS
WINSTON-SALEM Accep
tance of complete integration
in public schools was predicted
within the next 25 years by Dr.
Rose Browne, chairman of the
department, of education of North
Carolina. College in Durham, here
Sunday.
j Addressing the opening session
of the American Teachers Associ
ation Region HI meeting at Win
ston-Salem Teachers' College, Dr.
Browne called integration in
schools in accordance with the
May 17, 1054 decision of the U. S.
Supreme Court, the "big crisis’
in. education today.
Among the basic issues In ed
ucation today, she listed the right
of teachers to join organizations.
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SUMMER SIESTA Hosea .
Waddell seems to have lost in- ;
terest in his newspaper as he j
dozes in the shade of a tree on j
the lawn of a Raleigh service 1
Raleigh To Re Host
To Masonic Groups
RALEIGH The 12th District |S
Lodge, F, & A, M., Prince Hall as- j n
filiation, together with ladies of; 8
the Eastern Star, will hold their; a.
annual meeting here Saturday,
July 7, Widow Son No. 4, Excel
sior No. 21, and Mentoi No. 55, |a
will be hosts to the, district meet- j |
mg. ! 1
The meeting will open at 10.00 ;|
A.M. The Masons will meet in the! 9
Masonic Hall. 427 S. Blount I
ORWBAPTIST
LEADER TO COURT
CHICAGO (Special> —Dr. Jo- I
seph H. Jackson, president of the I
National Baptist Convention of 1
America, Inc., and seven co-de- J
fendants were ordered by Super- 1
ior Court Judge Frank M. Padden |
this week to show cause on June |
28 why they should not be pun- |
ished for defying a court injunc- 1
tion issued January 5, 1955, re- |
storing former trustees, deacons |
and more than 500 members ex- I
pelled by Jackson to membership |
in historic Olivet Baptist Church |
which Dr. Jackson pastors.
I ON THE j
ion Front j
a merit, system that fairly evalu- I
ates teachers of all races alike [
and classes for the. "gifted” Negro
child as well as for the "retard
ed” child
COMMITTEE TO PROBE S. C.
COLUMBIA, S. C. All but
three members have been chosen'
for a special legislative govern-;
or’s committee that, will probe j
alleged NAACP activities at 3. C. I
State College. 1
, Lt. Governor Ernest, F. Rollings
i announced on Saturday the ap
i point,ment, of three state senators
. to the committee. The governor
' has already named three to
the. committee. It remains now
■ for Speaker Sol Blatt to appoint
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station. Waddell, who is well
known to most Raleigh folks, re
sides at 9 Saint Augustine’s Ave.
(STAFF PHOTO RV ('HAS.
R. JONES).
Street and the Eastern Star will;
meet, in the Tapper Memorial;
Baptist, Church, corner of Blount;
i.nd Cabarrus Streets.
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CONFERENCE SPEAKER
Dr, Lester B. Granger, of New
York City, executive secretary
of the National Urban League,
as he addressed one of the ses
sions of the religious confer
ence held at St. Augustine's
College here last week.
Dies After
Fall Into
Saw Blade
.RALEIGH — Willie Thompson,
42, local sawmill worker, was lit
erally sawed in half in an accident
last week at Ray's sawmill, off
Highway 9R near Wake Forest.
Wake County coroner Marshall
W. Bennett reported that, Thom
pson was killed as he attempted
to reach across a huge circular
saw in an effort to operate a ‘log
tripper” which holds the log near
the saw for cutting
He slipped and fell into the
whirring blade. Fellow workers
say that the saw cut off his left
i arm and then ripped into his bo
i dy. Death was in, tantaneous.
Funeral services were held at
the Mt Pleasant Church near
i the Falls so Neuse, with inter
ment. in the church cemetery.
Thompson is survived by a 14
: year old son
Medics Pick
Tar boro Man
CHARLOTTE- Dr. V. Quigless
of Tarboro, was named president*
elect of the Old North State Med«
ca! Society here las' week.
Dr Rudolph M Wyche of this
city, retiring president, presented
the gavel to his successor Di. L.
R Swift, of Durham as the clos
ing session on Thursday
Ohers elected wc-re. Fust vice
| president, Dr W E. Easley,
j Whiteville. second vice-president,
IDr W C, Shanks, Burlington;
! recording secretary. Dr. S J.
i Cochran, Weldon, secretary
| treasurer. Dr. W T Armstrong,
: Rocky Mount, and editor of the
| Journal, Dr. Catherine B. Mid-
I dleton, Raleigh.
New members placed on the
executive committee, include Dr.
1 Clyde W Donnell. Durham; Dr.
R. E. Wimberley, Raleigh and Dr.
I G. Wesley Allen, Fayetteville.
Earlier. Dr J. W V, Cordice
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ODDS-ENDS
I Bv ROBERT G. SHEPARD
i News that two Raleigh Negro
ji youths have enrolled at N. C.
i State College here is very wel
come news. To these fine young
men. Manuel Houston Crockett,
and Edward Carson, go the dis
tinction of being the first Negroes
to be enrolled as undergraduate,
students in a state supported
school that had barred Negroes
; for over eighty years. Ligon High
j School shares in this honor for
I! giving these young men the type
I of Instruction that qualified them
I to successfully meet the entrance
requirements of State College,
j Both of these Items are re
! tated and significant but of
far greater significance is the
fact that now the way has
been opened* for one Negro
youth to receive the type of
training that will prepare »
them to make the contribu
tion to society that has before
been denied them. North Ca
rolina has long paraded the
j: lie (bat educational values in
‘ this state were equal, a state
ment that is so fatse that not
j even those who shout it the
1 loudest believe one word of it.
I The “equal” counterpart of N.
C. State College is A&T Col
lege in Greensboro, Aside from
the fact that there are many
courses offered at Kite that
i are not even mentioned at
A&T.
Negro graduates cf A.&T Col
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