Fsraier''Y" Official Killed In Va. dash
J. W. O’Kelly Buried
After Virginia Wreck
RALEIGH—James Walter O'-
Kelly, former Boy’s Work Secre
tary at the. Bloodworth Street
VMGA, was Killed Instantly last
Friday when tie was involved in
of ms
death, was em- MR. O’KELLI
ployed by the Virginia Welfare
Department as a Case Worker.
He had also held positions as fol
lows: principal and teacher in
Durham County and as Parole
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WILLIAM GASS
. * , killed by hammer
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LOTTIE MAE GASS
. , . she started it
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HENRY TAYLOR
, , . faces rpurder charge
Hammer
Killer To
. High Court
RALEIGH The chief suspect
In Raleighs first murder of the
year, which also proved to be one
of the most unusual ever recorded,
was bound over to Wake County
Superior Court Monday by City
Court Judge Albert Doub.
Henry Taylor. 30. of 3 Lee's
Lane, is accused of killing Wil
liam Gass, 28, a neighbor, with
a hammer early Saturday
morning. He will remain in
jail until the date of the trial
as no bond was allowed by
Judge Doub,
The billing is said to have
been the result of a "drinking"
spree” which erupted into a
fight over a dollar bill.
According to information found
by police, Louise Williams report
edly a half-sister of the slain man,
who gave her address as 323 S.
Haywood Street, was fighting with
Geraldine Johnson. 410 1-2 Cannon
Street, over the ownership of a
dollar bill.
Miss Johnson is said to have *e
r :used Miss Williams of stealing
the morysy from her and the fight
y ensued, Taylor apparently did not
want any fighting going*on around
him. He reached for a weapon to
rjuiet things down and came upon
an axe, The axe was wrested away
from him by someone, but the man
Dished to the kitchen and picked
up a hammer.
Miss Williams it said to have
h’*n struck in the stomach
with the deadly weapon,
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j and Placement Officer lor th?
i New Hanover Industrial School
I for Boys at. Hanover. Va.
| A native of Raleigh, he war
! educated m the public schools of
j this city and at Shaw University
| where he received a degree in
; 1928 and subsequently did grad-
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Jacksonville
Host To State
Grand Confab
By J. B. HARKEN
TARBORO—-The Rev. John Al
exander Mebane, Grand Chancel
lor, Knights of Pythias, North
and South America, Europe, Asia,
Africa, and Australia: Jurisdiction
of North Carolina, has announc
ed in an official proclamation
that the Grand Lodge will con
vene in Jacksonville, North Caro
lina, July 16-18 or, “until busi
ness coming before said conven
tion shall have been finished '
The part of the program open
to the public will consist of the
memorial services for departed
members of the grand lodge and
grand court: welcome program
and the parade at 3 p.m. Wed
nesday.
The churches of the military
city are cooperating with the Py
thian Union Lodge No. 96 in en
tertaining the state lodge ses
sions, Mebane sad.
OFFICERS
Officers of the grand lodge
beside grand chancellor Me
bane include: J. Archibald
.Joyner, grand keeper of re
cords and seals, Farmville;
Mrs. Clara W, Nesby, grand
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HEART ATTACH IS
FATAL FOR NATIVE
CHATHAM MAN |
By Guy tana Horton and
Alexander Barnes
PTTTSBORO With iear-dim
med eyes and emotions that she
could hardly hold back Mrs. Clau- 1
die Cotton, related from the dining
room of her typical Chatham :
County farm home how her hus- j
band, Emory Cotton, spent his lasi. !
hour, Tuesday morning, with a
doctor, members of the householu \
and neighbors, standing by hope- I
lessiy.
She related how he left home
In the best of spirits for his
day of work at a local plaining
mill and how he. came back
home, after having been
stricken as he fed the plainer.
She said that he was able to
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CSTEELV SILENCE At United Steelworkers headquarters
is Chicago, union official* stoically pore with picket signs,
prepared in advance hr the nationwide else) strike which
began a! midnight ok June 30.
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VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N, C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956 NUMBER 42 ;
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FI It ST- H AND INFORM A
TION —Miss Althea Gibson of
New York, who * earned oil h
Angela Bmlon of England to
capture She women's doubles al
Althea Wimbledon Winner
State News;
Brief
ACCUSED OF HIGHWAY I
ROBBERY
GASTONIA— William Thomas!
Craie, 20-year-old local man, was;
charged with highway robbery j
here last week, Buford Carpenter, j
a taxi driver, reported to police |
that the man robbed him at pis-1
to! point, of his money pouch, i
which contained sls. Craig was!
arrested by officers, who used '
Carpenter’s description of the
man.
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i Wimbledon. England last Sat
urday is shown above explaining
to an admirer the fine points of
tennis. Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich.
WIMBLEDON, England - Ai- i
thea Gibson, who learned to play!
| tennis on the streets of New'
York City, became the first Ne-I
!wo in history to win a Wimble- j
' don title, the most coveted in all l
! tennis. Saturday when she team-;
;ed with Angela Buxton of Eng-1
j land in the woman's doubler to |
; whip Pay Muller and Daphine:
; Seeney of Australia with a 6-1, 8-!
| 6 triumph.
Miss Gibson lost to Shirley
Fry of St. Petersburg, Fla. and
Vic Seixas of Philadelphia in
her hid to capture the mixed
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BOY, 3, FOUND
DEAD IN ICEBOX
FAYETTEVILLE Three
and-a-half-year-old Venter re
Ray Patterson was found dead
in a discarded ice box here last
week
The child was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A 2 Patterson. Mrs.
Patterson says that she last
saw the child about 1:30 p.m.
on Tuesday and. when he hod
not turned up by 3:30 p.m.. she
started a. search and found
him in the upright refrigerator
He had apparently crawled in
and closed the door behind
him.
‘VIPS’ Sentenced Here For
Fighting At Chavis Park
RALEIGH City Court Judge
Albert Doub sentenced eight local
youths, known to he members of
the 'VIPS’, a club organized at
the J. W. Lieon Junior-Senior
High School, to suspended road
sentences last Thursday morning.
The teenage group had been
arrested following the savage
beating of Leon Alston, 17, of 426
S. Haywood Street. Young Alston
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
LOUISIANA PUTS BAN
ON MIXED ATHLETICS
BATON ROUGE. La—A bill
banning ail racially mixed athlet
ics in the state has been unani
mously approved by the legislat
ure and sent to Gov. Earl K.
Long.
The hill prohibits both pro
fessional and amateur racial-
1 wife of the U.S. ambassitdor,
j seems quite interested in the
1 art of the game. They are. shown
‘ on the tennis courts of the am
; bassabor’s residence in London.
ODDS-EXDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
Although Gov. Hodges and his
band-picked Advisory Committee
on education have stated em
phatically that the people, mean
ing, we suppose, some white peo
ple, had rathar abandon the pub
lic schools than have them inte
grated; many prominent individ
uals and organizations, during
the past weeks have differed
sharply with the confident state
ment of the governor and his
group. The tenor of the state
ments made by these people who
do not want the public schools to
be used as political footballs by
ambitious office seekers, indicate
that there is nowhere the unani
m&nity of opinion against inte
gration that the die hard segre
gationists would have every one
to believe,
The statement of Dr. Charl
es Carroll, State Superinten
dent of Public Schools, to the
effect that he is supporting
the objectives of the Pearsall
Committee because no one else
has offered a more, “realistic,
workable proposal,” must have
sorely disappointed the thon
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was reportedly on his way to s
revival meeting at “Sweet Daddy''
Grace’s church, corner South and
East Streets with his brother,
Robert (Bobby) Alston at the
time of the assault.
Leon, testifying in the court
room, said “ft was a good club
when it began, but the boys
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ly mixed sports and could en
danger the big-time sports
schedules of several Louisiana
schools and affect the Sugar
Bowl at New Orleans.
Visiting by touring major lea
gue baseball teams presumably
would fall under the ban, also
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White Man
Mum In Jail
About Crime
WENDELL—Worth Pennell, 25
year old white man of Clayton,
Route 1. has been charged with
the rape of a 15-year-old Negro
girl and is being held in the Wake
County Jail without privilege of
bond
The man wa s arrested
Thursday afternoon near
Wendell by State Highway Pa
trolmen and Wake County
Deputies (', C. Dean and W.
E. Watkins. They also charg
ed Pennell with stealing the
ear in which the alleged at
tack occurred
Pennell is reported to have left
home Wednesday afternoon to go
to the home of Mrs. aNncy Ether
idge of Wendell, Route 2. There
he is said to have told the girl's
parents that he wanted to hire
the daughter to stay with his
mother.
Mrs Etheridge lei. her daugh
ter go along with Pennell and
when the young lady returned
she reported that she had been
carried about eight, miles from
her home where Pennell turned
off a. road into the woods and
raped her
She said Pennell brought
her back io the main road
after the attack and forced
her to walk the rest of the
way home, arriving aboul K
p.m. Wednesday. Deputy Dean
was called immediately by the
victim’s mother.
Sam Brady, a friend of Pen
nell’s, is believed to be the owner
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AME ZION CHURCH
COULD ROCK
WORLD CONFAB
NEW YORK ~~ The official fam
ily of the A. M, E. Zion Church is
much concerned over the forth
coming meeting of the World
Methodist Council meeting slated
for Lake Julaluska, September
Ist. and there is a growing senti
ment that it might not be repre
sented
Bishop W 3 Walls, in an Inter
view here last week, said that this
concern was motivated over the
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Maryland Superintendent Tells UNO
Audience Hew Integration Works
CHAPEL HILL— John H. Fisch
er, superintendent of public in
struction in the city schools of
Baltimore. Maryland was the key
note speaker at the University of
North Carolina Moday night, July
9.
Mr. Fischer chose as hi? topic,
"Desegregation in the Baltimore
Schools; A Two Year Report
Excerpts from the address, which
was delivered before an unsegre
gated audience, follow.
“I appreciate sincerely your in
vitation to participate m the. series
of meetings. In discussing the sev
eral aspects of the Supreme Court
decision on desegregation you arc
dealing with a problem that pre
sents many difficulties This you
know without any reminder from
me.
“All that I shall shall try to con
tribute t.n yot.tr discussion is a re
view of our experience during the
past 2 years in Baltimore. I bring
you no advice. I am not. at all sure
that anything we have learned will
apply to any other school, system.
Whether any part of what we have
learned is relevant to any com
munity represented here tonight,
each of you will have to judge for
yourselves,
“I shall try to stick close to
the facts. If yea detect some
feeling creeping Into this re-
DF
Lee Calhoun Os NCC
Wins Olympic Berth
Bv RIEL JOHNSON
CHARLOTTE Worn the track
and field artists from all rorner* i
of the. globe gather in M< 2 nurr-c. i
Ausf; Ija in November , tnc I-06 :
Olympic games, sports fans fio,.y !
the two Carolina? will hr rooting :
for a quiet, unassuming youngster i
by the name of Lee Calhoun.
A mi; tor at North Carolina
College in Durham, Calhoun c
one of the world's tnosi giv.
ful hurdlers, with one of the
world's most imposing record
of achievements.
Lee conqurcd the burciif s with |
increditabJe ease this season, after i
making his debut a--. ,;n g, mazing j
freshman in 1952 Hr hoi,if the !
Central Intercollegiate Athletic |
Association record for the 320 hi or
hurriiers and the 220 lot* tvw
and the. Carolina Open record for
the 130 high
Raleigh White Minister
Hi ts Adv is ory Co rn mit le e
RALEIGH - • The Re\ Gaylord
B Nnvee. pastor of the United
Church, Hillsboro Street here, at
tacked. the proposal of (he Advis
ory Committee on Education which -
would allow the closing of public i
school in certain situations in ic-va
districts.
He spoke on the subje-t,
“The Two Roots of Freedom ’
during his regular morning
worship Sunday morning and
heralded the schools as one of
the roots of freedom “These
schools are in danger in North
Carolina”, he said.
The minister said "There, are |
those who feci that, the danger :i. .--
in a legally enforced integration
which will result in a groat ini- ;
poverishmentof our school system !
as the legislators slash their appro - :
priations for the schools. The pre- i
ventive, however", he continued, !
“the safety valve chosen by the j
Advisory Committee on Education. I
is such a drastic proposal, that it !
is, in my judgement, and that of
many others, a clearer and more i
present, to our public education; ;
the proposal that local communi- j
tics he given the right of abolish- j
ing their public schools ’’
In conclusion, the Rev.
Noyce, said “Our public schools
are a root of our freedom that j
we cannot afford to lose—in j
any community, anywhere, if
we are, faithful to our calling >
port I can only say that there
is a limit to the cold-blooded
objectivity you can reasona
bly expect, I am telling you a
bout ihe town ire which f was
born and raised, as were my
parents before me. I am report
ing on the school system in
which 1 received my own ed
ucation and in which I have
taught for twenty-six years,
"But 1 shall do my best to avoid
embroidering the tale and 1 shall
be grateful for you; indulgence
when I slip.
“What has happened in Balti
more since May 17, 1954 cannot be
separated from the earlier history
of the city Neither can these e
vents be examined without so'me
knowledge of the nature of the ci
ty itself. We are a community of
about a million people The cor
porate area of the city includes a
bout 90 square miles. Its industry
and commerce are broadly diver
sified and many of the city's eco
nomic activities are related to the
port,
“About 28 per cent of our people
are Negroes. This percentage has
been steadily increasing. It was 19
per cent n 1340. The public, school
system enrolled this last year a
bout 150,000 children Os these a
bout 62,000 or 41 per cent were Ne
groes-
I.KF CALHOUN
Calhoun -SMpru’l tbs 120 high
hurdirn m Baltimore last May in
the except son ally fast time of 15,3
seconds for a new CIA A mark
The old record was 14.5.
Moments later he covered f. h -
220 low hip dies in the, swift tiine
of 23 - seconds for a new meet
fi u'k. The.' old standard was 24.1
The slender Eagle star was two
seconds faster in the Carolina O
pen in Durham on May a as he
sprinted ovoi the 220 low* hurdles
in 23 2 seconds to set. a neve rec
ord, thus m r:.:;u; i.h e old mark of
2 ! )
< i’houn has funned second
in only two meets thiv year.
Ife placed fourth once and
came home- ahead of the field
(r, If? V*~i?t.. prior to roropei
inf in tbc Olympic trials last
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in ibis free land
The Rev No eg* ts well-known
locally as- a ‘'liberal’' white mims
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Sampson Man Slain
CLINTON - Ossie Fennell, ?>9, of
the Shanghai community near
Delway, was jailed here Sunday
night, in the murder of Howard
Lamb, 52. of the same section.
Ira and IVorth Locke; man,
sheriff s deputies, said that the two
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IT MATTERS NOT HOW
SMALL THE AD, JUST
KEEP YOUR NAME BE
FORE THE PUBLIC,
CALL...
4-5558
FOR YOUR CLASSIFIEDJ
Works
Baltimore is often called the
most southern of the northern ci
ties and the most northern of the
southern ones. Our friends front
Pennsylvania northward look up
on us as Southerners and thos*
from south of the Potomac call usf
Yankees. Living as we do between
the Potomac and the Mason and
Dixon Line, we sometimes aren't
sure how to classify ourselves.
"Many of the cultural pat
terns of Baltimore reflect the
South more than they do the
North, A number of the most
active leaders of the city are
Southern by birth or back
ground. Some n f our most
prominent families have their
roots in North Carolina and
Virginia
' Politically the voters of the city
and the rest of Maryland show up
on the registration books as pre
dominantly Democratic The bal
ance m elections frequently shifts,
however, as it has in- recent years
with the result that, several of our
major elective offices are current
ly occupied by Republicans, We
are still very much a border state
and for that reason our actions and
reactions are not always easy to
predict.
‘Our Negro families live prtn
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