Hate Blamed For Burning Os Fayetteville Homes
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WANT HANDS HELPED—-Bertha Akira, a 25-year-old teacher
frtMß Tanganyika. Airica. is shown upon arrival of New York'#
Idlewild airport, on route from London to Mount Holyoke Col»
te Massachusetts, She’ll study child guidance there for a
yea?, <ts a result of transportation furnished by o group of
Amertean college girls. She also has received an award from
the Vccn Leer aod Atlantic foundations to cover all expenses
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3Homes Burned
In Fayetteville
FAYETTEVILLE—The burning
cf three small, empty frame dwel
lings in the Massey Hill section
near bske is believed to have been
motivated by racial prejudice, the
owner of one of the houses, said
Monday night,
George Bell, owner of rme of
3 HOMES BURNED
the houses, said that a Negrro
family ha.d been scheduled to
move into the.. dwelling Monday
morning but if was burned to the
ground Sunday night,
E, C. Hill, owner of two
house#, one of which was des
troyed by fire and another
severWy damaged, said that
he hid not planned to move
Vr-r-ws in. He has offered
sinn reward for information
leading to the conviction of
the persons responsible.
All of the 'houses were purchas
ed at auction and mnvd from an
other section of town They wore
Man Slain In
Firing Pit
FORT BRAGG Sp. 3-r Robert
T Wilson, 21, a paratrooper, was
found fatally wounded in a firing
range pit nn this Army reservation
post last week,
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Carolinian Plans Big Outing For |i
News Carriers At Jones’ Lake
RALEIGH Carriers of the
CAROLINIAN throughout eastern
North Carolina will have the treat
of the *eason on Monday. Aug. 27,
in the form of a grand all-day out
ing at beautiful Jones’ Lake.
They will spend the day
heating, fishing swimming,
and faking part in whatever
other outdoor sports their
hearts and youthful energv
®?r cal) for.
_ r.''en the grownups among CAR
OLINIAN representatives will find
a variety of pleasures to their lik
ing |
Best of all, everything will he j
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
JUDGE DELAYS HEARING
ON GA LAW SCHOOL CASE j
ATLANTA .< ANP >—U. S. Dis- i
trlct Judge rank A. Hooper has
further delayed Horace Ward's
fight to enter the all-white Uni
versity of Georgia Law School.
He declined last week to set i
July'3o as a hearing date for *
Ward’s entrance suit, virtually!
ending his chances for this year.;
since new students are accepted 1
only in September.
SEGREGATION CAN COST
OHIO SCHOOLS HEAVILY
COLUMBUS. Ohio (ANP) ;
The State Board of Education
here was told last week that it
has the authority to withhold;
state funds from any school dis- i
trie or board that permits segre- I
?ation.
A tty. Gen C. William O'Nc-ili
pointed out that “the revised code!
of Ohio forbids distribution of!
state funds to school districts i
The Standard Printing C®*
220-226 S. First Sit,
Louisville,
e being prepared for occupancy at.
- i the time of the fires,
nj Chief P. A, Reeves of the
n I Pearce's Mill Fire Department
e. said that, the fires "must, have
d been deliberately .set." and refer
red. to a, ' strong odor of kern
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i|Man, Woman !
Held In Juke 1
; i
Box Murder
-1 ;
NEW BERN - Albert. Sutton.
; i 33. of Farmville and his girl ■
friend. Miss Bernice Evans, 26, of j
| this city are being held in Craven i
! County jail charged with the. fa- 1
• tal knife-slashing of a Florida
' man here Saturday morning,
I William Louis Seals, 36, of;
| Lakeland. Fla , died on the ope-!
j rating (able at Good Shepherd,
j Hospital after being disembowledh
; allegedly by Sutton, at, Henry j
1 Singleton's Bloomfield Street store
at 1:30 a.m. The victim’s abdo- •
I was ripped open from side to!
■ side
■
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free, including transportation to
and from the famous resort, food
and refreshments.
Qualifying for the big outing
wi) be simple and easy, through
moderate increases in sales over
the five-week period beginning
next week.
The CAROLINIAN manage
ment has agreed to open the
festivities even to new carriers,
under terms that any boy. girl
or adult can meet with very
little effort.
Details of the qualifying contest
j will be in the hands of all present
i carriers before the end of the week.
f which have not conformed with
i the law.” He added that the term
embraces the equal protection
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IT MATTERS NOT HOW
SMALL THE AD. JUST
KEEP YOUR NAME BE
FORE THE PUBLIC.
CALL...
TE-4-5558
FOR YOUR CLASSIFIED.’
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l - RALEIGH. N. G WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1956 NUMBER 43
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Carolinian Sees Hodges On Schools
NO Governor
Reveals Plans
For Jim Grow!
By ( HARLES R. JONES
RALEIGH This states three
iop exponents of the voluntary ‘
i segregatior,' plan hold an open ais
: mission Saturday with members of I
, the press, radio and television in j
; the Hall of the. House at. the Capi j
to!.
Governor I.other Hodges. At- j
tnrney General William B |
Rodman and Thomas .*. Pear- '
sail. Chairman of the Advisory j
Committee on Education, out
lined hills which they plan to
present a! the Special General
Assembly Session on July 23.
The purpose of the conference ;
; was to explain to the public the
i steps that would be taken to ahgttfe.
■inn the public schools in the event '
; haf the Negroes tr North Carolina j
■ decide not to segregate themselves j
"voluntarily . an act which wuoid •
pe in direct violation to the ruling
of the u. S. Supreme- Court out
lawing jim crow in the public
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NAACF Saves !
Membership List
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP)~-
The NAACP won somewhat of a
moral victory in Alabama last,
week when it was not, required to
show its membership files, al
though Circuit Judge Waite:' B
Jones issued a court, order direct-!
mg the civil rights group to show
part, of its activity files.
Attv. lien. John Patterson
of Alabama had tried to force I
the organization to provide j
a list of names of ail con- 1
trihotors and the amount giv
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3 j and new carriers may get all ne- !
1 cessary information by phoning, j
! writing or calling at the office of j
? j the CAROLINIAN, 513 E. Martin j
i ■ St. The. phone number is TE 4- j
r 5553. |
5 Here is a chance to wind up the j
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TO DEDICATE MOiNTSMKRTS—Cknv Senjcomn tX Dkmis (Bat.X left po&eg with
ofhftr tnembars of the Baitfc* Monuments axmmvmtm aboard the S/S United Staten, on which
they cailftd recently to dedicate sek 0. S. aaiHtOTf cemetery utOHumerite it* three countries.
In addition to Gett Davis, the member* are (L to t.h Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid. Mrs!
Theodore B. Roosevelt and Leslie Biffo* former secretary of She Senate. {ftEVVSPKESS
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PRETTY FOR THE SPORT
OF IT The beautiful lines on
the low slung sports car above
had rivals in the line of Summer
School beauties perched on the
snazzy chassis on North Carolina
Rat Poison
Kills Girl, 2, j
In Goldsboro
Ry HENRY C. MITCHELL
GOLDSBORO -- Mattie Lee ;
Flannagan, 2-year-old daughter’
of Mr and Mrs. Jasper Flaruia-j
gan. 603 School St., died at 1
Wayne Memorial Hospital Sat
urday, after eating rat poison by
mistake.
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College’s campus last week. Miss j
"NOD Summer Queen” is shown
,\t left with her attendants Left j
to right: Miss Bessie Massey, j
Monroe, N. C. (queen), Mrs. j
| Dr. Rudolph Jone New
Fayetteville President
FAYETTEVILLE ~ Dr. Rudolph , «
•lonti. teacher and dean of the |
institution since 1952. was ijairtea %
: President of the Fayetteville Slat" I
Teachers College when the Board I
i of Trustees met, on July It to se- §
lect a successor to Dr. J Ward I
; Sea brook, The action of the Board f
1 saw History repeat itself, for in I
! July, 1933. Dr, Seabrook war ele* t;
1 valed from the deanship to the 1
presidency of the college and has I
held the position since that time, p
Th* newly-elected successor to j
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i Theresa Savage, Fairhope, Ala.;
; Mrs. Irma Hosier. Gaffney, S. C..
, and Miss Mary Oxcdin, Rocky j
| Mount. Beauties reigned during j
Summer Picnic, activities last I
I week.
ODDS-InDiT !
j By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
I \
I mamurnKmanmaKomanmuri »
When Southerners say that seg
regation Is good for the Negroes,
they are saying that Negroes are
something less than human be
ings because segregation means
deprivation To take things or to
deny to one group the things con-j
sidered necessary and beneficial j
for other groups and then to say j
that these denials are good is not j
only unchristian but is barbaric,!
heathernish, short sighted and,
costly.
An ex'arnple of the "beneficial" i
efforts of segregation that the |
Army may deny, but which is |
based on such reliable informs -;
tion that it. will have to be ac- ’
eepted until disproved:
i On one of the Great Armed
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*Unloaded ? Cun
Is Death Weapon
(Special to Carolinian!
SANFORD - Said lo have bren
angert d because her husband stay
ed away from home ail weekend
and refused t,r, tell her where he
had been Mrs. Lorraine Perrv. 2°.
shot, him '•> death here Sunda;
ntglu
The v.cttm Paul Pcrty. ,33, was
shot in his right side as he sat in
a chair eating a canteloupe. He
slumped lo the floor and v- as dead
on arrival at Lee County Hospital.
Sheriff I) E. Holder reported
that Mrs. Perry told him that
her husband told her that a
32. caliber pistol wouldn't
shoot' 1 because if had no bul
lets He said that she polled
ihe trigger three times before
ibc fatal shot was ftrrd.
Mrs Perry was taken to iat!
shortly* after the shooting and col
lapsed in a roll She was then
“NAMES”
In The
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NEW BOARD MEMBER ;
John H, Wheeler, Durham presi- |
dent of the Mechanics and Farm- ;
crs Bank, was added to the. Gem
era! Board of the AME Church
last week during the three-day j
meeting of the Bishops’ Council
and general board of the Church, j
at. a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, j
(Se? story this issue).
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NAMED TO RECREATION j
COMMMISSION -- Allen E. j
Weatherford who was recently i
named by Governor Luther j
Hodges to the N. C. Recreation i
Commission, Weatherford be- j
came the, second Negro to hold j
this position when he succeeded ;
W. J. Kennedy of Durham. The j
new board member is chairman I
of the department of physical ed
ucation and recreation at North
Carolina College, Durham, (See
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The lucky rar last »<ek *•»» !
, the one bearu-.c sh e ;«,* narc- !
■ bftr f 1-3518. If the ownur of |
■ th-it car took if to i-ujiu * Ksee
I Service, ranter Cabarrus e.nfi
; Blood worth .Streets in fUlel** ■
! he receiver l a fr«e areas* ;>cb,
Th» will happen every «eefc.!
[ Watch for jour tag Dumber. If
! ** follows the asterisk, vow wt|j
: k«t the sroase Job. Th- rum-;
hep will he taken fr«’in any car
bear in* a N. C, license.
The number? this week - v r<>
WP-342; -H'VT. 125; (~K-4“95; ,
■ . VX-?ftfi4, 14-3812; A- /Y-4?’2, :
" n to L<?c County Hospital for
r, tre«l ment and Monday afternoon
- moved to the State Mental Hospi
d
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| CAUL PERJI.V
i State Hews
_ Brief
’BATTLE BETWEEN
BROTHERS’
RALEIGH—A ‘battle between
the brothers’ baseball game is
scheduled to be held kt the Pony
League ' Field. Saint Monica's
Catholic School Sunday afternoon
at 3 p.m. at. which time the 1955
state champions, t,he Amvets, will
tangle with the 1956 Amvet squad,
which sports a, 10 to 0 record. Last
year’s champs are coached by
Robert. Umstead while Wallace
Umstead is the pilot of the ’SB
team The latter team will com
pete in the interracial tournament
at State College on July 30
A » *
SEES 'TALKING GHOST’
WINSTON-SALEM John
Darby of this city reported t«
police Saturday night that he
saw a ' talking ghost” in hi*
mom. The. spectre ransacked
the man’s room, but didn't
steal anything According to
Darby, b* went to his room,
found 'he lock knocked off
the door there but couldn’t
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N. Y, WELCOMES
ALTHEA GIBSON
NEW YORK < ANP>—New York
ast, week opened Its heart to Al
- Gibson, the tall, lithe Har
em Negro girl, whose exploits on
he tennis court in India, Asia,
md finally Wimbledon in Eng
and. won her worldwide fame, as
he came home to a gala city wel
ome.
Althea, who lost in her bid
to win the single® champion
ship, but became the first of
her race to win a Wimbledon
title, was to he honored along
with other members of the A*
merican team in s ticker
tape parade down Fifth Ave
nue. Mayor Wagner and a host
of city dignatarics, as well as
officials of the United States
Lawn Tennis Association and
the American Tennis Assoel*,-
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