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STUDENTS RETURN TO CLASSES —Despite racial disturbances. Negro students are
• ; ;i.o - -vn above returning to classes at the white, high school in Clinton. Tennessee Tuesday
morning The town was torn by strife last week when the colored pupils sought entrance
and Hie National Guard had to be called out to quell the disturbance and are standing on
' alert now The white students lining the walk made no attempt to molest the student'..
Whits fcisters Here Oppose
Pearsall Plan For Scliosls
EA.LEIGH The Rsetgh Mims
Association (white! at it,
gular September meeting Tues
day morning passed the follow
in | motion:
That the Raleigh Ministeri
al A social ton »° on record a*
iHis.it, etably opposed to the
Fcar sail Flan for Constitu
tional amendments regarding
the public schools
" That the. Association real
firm its position stated after
the Supreme Court pr, v.jnn
Students Brave Mob
Violence In Tenn., Tex.
Mob violence, threatening Ne- -
gro children whom federal court?
had ordered admitted to previous- ;
; Stale flews
Brief
Ft »I* Vv VICTIM WOMAN
ELiZA BETH CITY - Mrs Lil- |
tie May V'tiichard, 22. of 1116 South j
Pitt £ir«:r!, is believed to have been j
the pafse-r'ser riding In a car with
t Wilber iiasberry when his tractor
i toiler crashed into a tree and
* burned Friday morning Rasberry
and ii.s passenger ware trapped in I
the. cab and their bodies were !
burned beyond recognition One !
pl r and the Oates County
' orojirr j ;y, Eason, examined !
t hr - chai ed bones at Twilford ? j
Funeral Horne and it was estab- I
lizhcU that they were those of a j
v oman and a man. The mother of I
n young woman said that her ’
.'.3U*ntii iviO been missing since!
Thursday and friends told nor that s
she war- UN- >.een getting into the j
truck cab with Rasberry at Green- j
'■'iiie. Patrolmen reported that the i
driver apparently fell asleep.
REGISTRAR FILES REPLY
JACKSON Mrs. YV. 11.
T-ivlor, Seaboard registrar, has
replied to a lewsuit filed by
Weldon and Statesville attor
ney James It Walker, Jr., in
behalf of Alexander Faison
charging that Faison was "not
* resident of the Seaboard
voting precinct.” The com- 1
plaint, charging *hit registra
k tion irregularities bad or- |
cur red ir. Faison’s rase, was
i filed on June 16, 1956, ran 13 !
pages in length and charged j
also that two sections of the
State constitution were not tn
accord with the. V, S. Consti
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in Mav 19M;
1 And that the Association
urge all the riUr.ens of North
Carolina to vote in the crim
ing referendum."
The resolution passed in Mippurt
of the Supreme Court derision in
1934 reads a? follow?- The ft a
leigh Ministe'-ia) A.-soriattop a[ ,1-
regular meeting May 25.19 M ex
presses its gratification that Uv
decision of the United Rum - i-u
--prpmrpm * Court viih 'osp.-rt to nor
segregation in public schorc; has
L all-white schools ir. two south
ern states, was being held. ir.
check tins week by force of arms.
In Clinton. Tenru a normally ;
peaceful town of 4,000. national
guardsmen, supported by tanks, I
were keeping order as all of the lg |
eligible Negro student,? attended |
classes at Clinton High ’School. j
The jeers which greeted the nine
who reported before the holiday.
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AN OFT-REPEATED SCENE
Students arc shown entering
the Washington Junior High
School Tuesday morning tp be
gin another year s work. Thou
brought, through *b e interprets
tion of the law, into clear focu*
the Christian position of the. equal
ity of- all men in the sight of
God. and pledges its prayers and
support, to those whose crave re
sponstbilities involve the piacn
cai application of the recent ju
dicial decision to the present sit
uat'on in our state
it further pbulges itself to seek
to bring the life and testimony of
the chinch into more complete
ha nr, -.nv v ith the mind of Chr'st
or> thsr- matte!."
Zion Women
Received By
World Body
LAKE JUNALUSKA. N T C
Tbp Assembly of the World Fed
eration of Methodist Women an
nounced this week that the Wo
men's Home and Foreign Mis
sionary Society of the AMS Zion
Church. Mrs. Abbip Clement
Jackson. Louisville. Ky.. president
was among the eight new units
admitted at its meeting which
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i sands of pupils enrolled in the
I Raleigh Public Schools on op
ening day and more arc expect
ed before the end of the week.
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4 Dead Over j
Long Labor
iDay Weekend
RALEIGH Four person* met
violent deaths over the Labor Day
weekend—one on the highway
one by drowning, one by fire -and
a fourth was shot, to death.
At, Roanoke Rapids, Dor Hines
58, was killed instantly late
Saturday When his car overturn- ,
ed on a, rural road four and a half
miles southwest of that city.
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|Eastern N. C* Fair Opens
! First Showing in Wilson
WjUSON - Although a down- were that, total attendance would
! pour of rain on Monday blanked b * in the ncigboboihood of 50,000.
out .he first day of the Eastern Toe week-long event, now' in
North Carolina Five-County Nr- • progress at Lane Strep* Park, is
gro Pair, indications by midweek the first of an antlclpatd series
j WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
i _ I
! Desegregation Front
j GRADUAL INTEGRATION
IN LITTLE ROCK. ARK.
FORT SMITH Aik. (ANP> -- j
I A three -point plan calling for ;
1 gradual integration of Little Rock ;
schools last, week was upheld by
’ h federal district court.
The. plan, which calls for the ;
integration of Negro and white
students in the schools beginning
i around Sep!., 1957. was contested;
■ in a suit brought by the NAACF,
| which sought to have the board i
i speed its effort in eliminating seg
j rogation
| According to Supt. Virgil Bios- j
: som. the board's plan would be ;
| carried out in three phases: 1 High I
' school, grades, in, li, and 12. 2
i Junior high, grades, 7, n, and 9
and Elementary, grades ! !
JOINS WORLD FEDERA- j
TION Tbi* group represent*
! the nffirial family of the Wo
imui i Horne A Foreign Mission
ary Society, I.M.E. Zion Church
It was the first of right neiv no
ils in he accepted In the Meth
odist Women’* World Federation.
L-F front row, Mrs, Willie O.
A's'nrk. Washington. D. C.
treasurer: .Mr* SaUte V. More
land, Rock Hill, S, r. recording
secretary, Mr*. Emma B Watson,
Lancaster. S- executive sec
retary; Mrs. Elsie G. Keyes,
Washington. T) vice-presi
dent; Mrs. .Abide Clement Jack • j
son, Louisville. Ky., president:
2nd row, an unidentitieri mis
sionarv worker; Mrs. Daisy F.
Rudd, New Haven. Conn., citair
m;m. Life Members Council:
Mrs. Juanita Ad|ah*>*\ W<*stbury.
V. Y„ «r*rri»ry Mi's.
i
; through B There would be a lapse
• of three years between phases.
Overall, ihe plan calls for in
tegralic-n to begin as soon as a
: new high school is completed -
approximately around September
1957 and for complete integra
tion in 5 to 10 years.
Twenty five per cent of Little
Rock's 21,726 students are Negroes.
; The schools at present are opera!
mg under the old jimerow setup.
j I
VA. GOVERNOR WOULD
CUT OFF STATE CASH
I RICHMOND (ANPi •- Gov ;
Thomas B. Stanley last week gave
j the Virginia legislature his plan
for continuing segregation in the '
! I
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i Charlotte flasieritr, f'htckamao
ga, G;*, Superintendent, Buds of
Frnml.se: Miss Tula Brown, Eds
tor. Women's Column; Ird row,
Mrs. S. K. May, supervisor, First
District; Mrs Willie Mae Bice,
supervisor. Jcconri Oistriet; an
other unidentified worker; Mrs,
S. Mae Slade, supervisor Third
Oistriet: Miss Ramona Jones, su
pervisor, Fourth Oistriet; 4th
row, Mrs, R. n Shaw, supervis
or, Sixth District; Mrs Suia
Stewart, supervisor. Eighth Dis
trict; Mrs- Savannah Medlord.
supervisor, Fifth District; Mrs J.
' W. Brown, former supervisor;
Back row, Mrs. J. W. Cauthcn,
supervisor. Eleventh District;
Mrs. O. E. Tucker, supervisor,
Tenth District and Mrs C ('
Coleman, supervisor, Twelfth
Oisi riet.
of annual fairs sponsored by Hen
ry Ellis Post No. 17 of the. Ameri
can Legion.
‘llie fair committee was or
ganized more than a year ago
because of rejection of Negro
cxiiihite at white county fairs
Its expected initial presentu
Hon last year was prevented
| hy hurricane*
! Actually s’x counties are repie-
S -ented in the educational, live
| stock and produce exhibits, one
i having affiliated after chartci ing
, of ihc organization as "five-coun
ty.” They are Wilson Nash, Pitt.
Edgecombe. Wayne and Greene.
The lure of more than S2OOO in
premiums drew a wealth of varied
exhibits, which were judged at
noon Tuesday.
in addition to these prizes, a bi ,
cycle was offered, on a free, draw- ,
ing, to the lucky ticket holder
; among school children attending
on Children's Day, Thursday. .
Formal opening ceremonies
took place Tuesday evening,
u-ith Or G. K, Butterfield, \
Wilson* Negro alderman, as
principal speaker. He was in
troduced by James C. Best, j
commander of the sponsoring |
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Whites Frighten
Long Hill Group
I LO>g HILL, N c - A group .
) of N'cgxo children approached the
: Long Hiii white elementary school :
| Wednesday morning of this week,
j apparently to seek enrollment,- but
! left hurriedly when some white
parents started towards them.
Sheriff L L. Guy of Cumberland
County reported.
The Negro children, accompan- '■
>ed 05* one man left the ir rc
in a car, Guy said. There was m
; violence.
The sheriff also said tha* the
! Negro mati parked bis ear in
! front of the school -and start
rd to 'talk across the road to
the school. "Somebody made
after him tvhen he walked
across the road towards the
school and he started running
] Guy piloted one of the white
i parents as saying.
* So far as could he determined.
I this is the only incident of its
: kind to take place in North Caro
lina this school year
School Head,
Spurned By
Wife, Suicide
FAYETTEVILLE -- Roscoe C
Simmons, 46. principal of South
Harnett, Higly School near Bunn
Level, was found dead at the
home of his mother Tuesday ]
morning, an apparent suicide
Friends believed Mr. Simmons'
failure to effect a reconciliation
Kith his estranged wife was re-'
sponsible.
His mother. Mrs. Maggie
Simmons, found him stretch
ed across his bed. about 1.15
a. rn. He bad been shot
through the head with a .32-
raliber pistol She had gone
to his room to check when
Miss Katie Broadway, a mem
ber of his faculty, phoned to
Gay she suspected something
was wrong,
Mr. Simmons had called her a 1
toiv minutes earlier, Miss Broad-;
way reported, to esk her to pick
up other teachers living in Fay
etteville and take them or, to
school.
He asked her further, she re-j
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Says Church Must Take
Race Relations Stand
LAKE JUNALUSKA Bishop
William C. Martin, Texas, put j
the job of race relations in Amer* ]
tea squarely up to the church oh '
, Monday morning when he. ad-1
dressed the World Methodist
; Council on the ‘ Sufficiency of,
j the Gospel,”
i He began by telling of the I
| many things the church could do. j
He finally said that the only way J
; he could sum up the true spirit j
|of the sufficiency of the gospel i
; was in these words, “What would
! we. like for our fellow citizens to
! do unto us?”
It was then that he went into
j the racial situation a? it, affects
i our nation. He said that discrimt*
i ns tin i wa s one of the worst Wots
ion America and that the minis
ters of the churches should have •
Bob Johnson
Refloated
Elks' Head
Be J B BARREN
Member Press Committee
57*1-1 IBPQEW Convention et
Los Angeles
IOS ANGELES, Calif —The as
pirations of a New- York real es
tate man. Jesse Vann, to become
head of the 57-year-old IBPOEW
organization this gear were
crushed Tuesday morning by ar
avalanche of standing votes foe
the relection of Dr Robert H.
Johnson as grand exalted ruler.
It was apparent that the "Bob
Johnson Boosters Club." organis
ed over the nation to support the
man who in 1352 took up the
mantle of the late J Finley Wil
i son, had done effective work in
marshalling their forces t,o nn
without, unduly antagonizing those
included to support the Vend
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ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
~xntsisz*mmwsKtwßaaian-
Free Radio and TV time has
been offered local Negro leaders
to speak against, the 'Pearsall
Plan." but they decided they
1 could do more good by refusing
its use. In reaching this deci
sion, Negroes here took in con
sideration the wave of terror and
violence that paid agitators of the
while supremists are engineering
in other localities In the South.
Although practically all local
Negroes holding a position of
■ leadership are unalterably oppos
ed to this ill-conceived scheme to
• evade the law, they are deeply
1 conscious of their responsibilities
■to do everything within their
power to help preserve law and
: order. At a time when violence
and terror have taken the place
; of reason anti restraint, and eon
i tempt for law and order is th*
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the conviction and the courage
jto take a stand against it. He
] said that the church could not
! remain silent, when one-third of
! the nation's population was not
1 getting a square deal. This is
an appaling number and a sad
commentary on the church." said
j the prelate.
He spoke n' a that are
| now taking m Mansfield
| Texas, end C .won, Term. He was
i cosni 1 . -i, of the fact that Mans-
I field was in hie area He sale'
j that his ministers should get in
to the fight and show that things
now going on were against thi
tenets of the Christian religion
He closed by saying t'na,t th*
f’hyrch should, bft pcnitfciifc o rr t*
j this situation and many others
I that a> e now being practiced.