PAGE TWO
CHURCH LEADERS
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had been torn from bodies
were common objects. Scream
ing women and terrified men ,
were seen crawling from the
wreckage crying. “Some one
plfcase help me!”
The roost touching story was
%old by Willie Solomon. 40, of
Florence S. C He told of how the
words of warning rang out, “Look
out/' and how he swung from a
rail at the top of the canvas that
covered the truck. He told of how
!he landed amidst dead bodies and!
injured persons. He described it j
as the worst sight he had ever j
seen.
The wreak is a climax to one
of the worst systems found
any where in the world, ac
cording to Alexander Barnes.
Public Relations Director, A.
M. E. Zion Church. He brought,
the matter to ihe attention of
the National Counci! of Chur
ches of Christ in America., at
a. meeting held in the Ritz-
Carlton Hotel, Atlantic City,
N. J., May 9-11. He told the
conference of church leaders
that living conditions, health
and sanitation was sorely ne
glected for these unfortunate
people. The conference agreed
to enlarge its program so that j
they would be included.
The local mishap shows the j
need for immediate relief. The i
parsons are collected in extreme ;
poor stricken areas of the south
and are hauled about in trucks
from place to place. Eastern North
Carolina, extreme Western North |
Carolina, the Tidewater section
of Virginia, Eastern shore Mary
land, Southern New .Jersey and
even some of New England is a
haven tor persons who ply theii
trade by hiring these people to
harvest diversified crop.-.
These workers are lured from
their homes by "bosses" who, tel:
them they will furnish transpor
tation, shelter and food and also |
pay good prices for their services.:
It is very easy for these under
priviliged people to set out for the !
“Land of Milk and Honey". The
highways leading from the South
are. often pictures of several men
women and children, all herded
in trucks, where they sleep and
eat.
The children are faroilar sights
alone the highways that run
through truck farms and berry
patches playing along side tire
thoroughfare and the older per
sons. resembling an a:my. are
busily engaged in the harvesting
of whatever product is found in
that ares.
A recent survey showed that
in many instances they are neve
ar abie to make enough money to
pay for their promised transpor
tation and shelter. Persons who
talked with survivors of this mass
murder said that they were told :
that they very seldom got enough
money to buy decent, clothes The.
survey showed that some of the
men kept their clothes on so j
long until they were so stiff-from
sweat and grime that they would j
stand up without being supported
after being taken off
The “bosses" are. said to
make contracts with persons,
or firms, to house the products
for a certain price, about
which the workers had no
knowledge. The workers are
supposed In be paid b.v the.
‘‘bosses The CAROLINIAN
could not ascertain just what
action might be taken to pre
vent another such castrcphe
and whether or not plans were
being made to look after the
health, social welfare and ed
ucation of the children of the
vitesms of the practice.
Barnes said that he was going
to take it up with the welfare
committee of the National Coun
cil of Churches of Christ in A
xncrica and is said to have suit, a
telegram to Miss Edith Lowiy.
New York City, who has charge
of that phase of the work.
STATE BRIEFS
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gun blast fired by his brother
in-law. Eh Easterling. The
shooting occurred at Easter
ling’s home, about two miles
from here The shooting was
allegedly the climax of a Bi
ble reading and fsrayer session
by the two men. There was no
evidence of drinking, officers
said,
PLAN WEEKLY LECTURES
RALEIGH Beginning Sun
day. June Id. the Baha’ Is of
Raleigh will present weekly lect
ures for the public at. 2402 Van
Dyke Avenue, at 7 pm Sunday's
subject will he “Death —A Mes
«m*er of Joy,’’ and the speaker
will be Mrs. Margaret Quance.
FIGHTS BUS JIM CROW
COLUMBIA A Columbia
woman began her third day
to court Monday against city
bos segregation. Mrs Sarah
Mae Flemming Brown twice
before has appeared in her
ease for $25,000 against a bus
company. She contends that
ehe was made to move by a
bus driver when she occupied
a seat vacated by a white per
«on, was hit as she tried to
leave the bus by ihe front door
and wa* forced to leave by the
•enter door. Federal District
Judge George Bel! Timmer
man ruled the first time that
she had no case »nd the m
nontf time he also ruled again
et her because he said the
state law requiring bus seg
regation was valid at the time
®f the incident.
RUMMER CAMP FOR BOYS
RALEIpH The Bicodworth
Street YWCA summer day camp
for boys will begin June 17 and
will continue thru August 17. it
has been announced The hours
us operation are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00
p,m. daily and all boys 8-14 are
invited to register with Curt An-
I demon* boys work secretary at
the “Y'\ Activities for the stay—j
|home camp will include <a> table
I games, table tennis, checkers,
j bowling, shuffle board, dominoes:
j (bl leather craft, plane end ship
■ modeling; •'c *■ body building ex-
I ercises: vreisht lilting, pulleys,
■ punching and striking bag drills,
[horseshoes, <d> educational - visit.-,
[to natural and art museums, TV ■
and memie shows, informal sing
ing and devotions. Occasional
planned picnics will be held at
Reecty Creek State Park,
gov."hodges
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the responsibility upon itself to
kill them "
Two weeks ago, Kelly M. Alex
ander, president of the North
Carolina, NAACP Branch, appear
ed before the Appropriations Com
mittee of the legislature and urg
ed the members to kill the bills so
| that “North Carolina won’t fol
low other Southern states in seg
! regation legislation."
HOLD MOTHER
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t»v go on a fling in the Black
Bottom section of Grifton.
The dead child was a ihree
months-old twin boy. He was dis-
I covered on a bed in the Willough
by home, Cause of the infant's
death has not been determined.
Officers went to the house Sun
day after receiving word of the
I death. They found the seven chil
dren and one other, who did not
! belong to Mrs. Willoughby, hud
i died around the kitchen stove try
! ing t.o cook some food.
The oldest child, a 12-year
old girl, who Is almost blind,
was trying to rook biscuits and
warm sonte green plumbs for
dinner.
This girl reported to officers
that the twin died Saturday.
The children’s father is dead,
Mrs. Willoughby was arrested
previously on an abandonment
charge in another county accord
ing to reports.
FIRSTGRADUATE
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Several other Negro students
; arc now attending the school, io
j cated on Hillsboro Street.
Ligon Principal
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE It
years, has been appointed
principal of Ligon.
Jesse O. Sanderson, super
intendent of Raleigh Public
Schools, made the announce
ment Tuesday, following a
meeting of the school board.
Brown, a 44-year-old native of
Wilmington, received the B.A. de- 1
gree at A&T College, Greensboro,
in 1935. He holds the M.A. degree
from New York University < 1946 1 |
and has done additional study at
the University of Pennsylvania,
North Carolina College, Durham,
. and New York University,
Mr. Brown has been assistant
director of the principals' work
shop conducted by NCC for the
past three summers. He is also a
i director of the N. C, Teachers
Association.
For six years Brown served
as principal of the Tar Heel
Elementary S hool in Bladen
County and after that became
print inal ol the Hertford High
School, Perquimans County,
where he served for five years
j prior to going to Central,
i Sanderson said that his wife,
: librarian at. the Whiteviiie School.
I was named to a librarian’s posi
j tlon for the coining school term,
i a native of Luniberton. she re
i ceived the B. S. and M. S. degrees
in library science at North Caro
lina College.
A new auto mechanics teacher
was also announced by Sanderson
sen. He is John H. Banks, who
has been teaching at Goldsboro's
Dillard High School.
S INTEGRATION
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j afternoon deadline Tuesday for
1 reassignment to white schools in
! Charlotte under a state pupll-as
| signmenl law designed to prevent
| school integration.
The morning mail brought four
more applications to city school
i officials, railing the total number
I of requests to 38. Thirteen appli
i cations were received Monday
I The deadline for turning in ap
| plications for transfers was 5:15
! p.m. Tuesday.
* The 1955 state law give* lo-
I ca! school boards the final de
cision in assignment of pupils
to particular schools as a
means of keeping the races
separate, but it gives pupiis
the. right to request certain
schools.
| The requested reassignment*
! for the Negroes involved eight
i previously all-white schools. Most,
I applicants said the white school
I sought would be nearer to their
| homes than the Negro school pre
| vlously attended
NATION^SELKS
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that an effort is being made to
win the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., into the ranks of the new na
tional fraternal body,
Anderson stated, “if Dr,
King w iil lend us his great
talents and leadership ability
! we will gladly assign him as
j grand exauited ruler of the
new organization."’
For the first time too, it was
learned that no “Johnson IBPOE-
W" official can be an officer of
either the Grand Lodge or a sub
ordinate lodge of the order for at
least two years after joining, and
no person with a prc-Communist
record can become a member'
KLANWIZARD
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE II
erature on “Racial Mofsgrrliza
tion.”
Edwards criticized splinter
Klan groups and singled out
Bill Hendrix, Florida Kian
! leader. In reference to Hen
drix’s statement that Catho
lics could join the KKK, Ed
wards said “The Klan is not
and has never been open to
Catholics.”
Edv ards and J, H. Bickloy, the
Grand Dragon of the South Caro
lina Klan, addressed the group
from a stand in front of a blaz
ing cross in a deserted field 20
miles cast of here.
WOMAN’S'COLLEGE
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
and plan to return this fall, said
! Pierson
'' ’
BENNETT MERMAIDS—Four
ming class at Bennett College
perch on diving board of tbe
Hayes-Taylor YMCA pool for
this shot. Left to right: Misses
letta Jones, Hallandale, Fla.;
Ada Lomax. Totiylianna. To.; Ve
ronica Dean, Miami. Fla., and
Jzrlta Kicks. Philadelphia.
Pierson said Miss Smart and
Mrs. Tillman have been assigned
single rooms in upperclass dormi
tories, but that Miss Patterson |
has not been given a room as yet
BONUS MONEY
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i Money participation began Thurs
day May 30. and will end at mid
night, Wednesday, June 26.
j In cider t.o win Bonus Money
: participants must patronize ad
! vertisers who are listed on the
front page of the CAROLINIAN
| each week, save purchase slips or
1 receipts and turn them in at the
end of the Bonus Money period,
which will be announced one week
before the deadline.
HOLD SOLDIER .
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1 have grown out of remarks made
by Stewart's Negro companion to’
; a white, couple in the club. The
| army has refused to identify
; Stewart's companion or the cou
i Pie.
It was learned that. Stewart’s
companion later apologized
for his remarks hut Brown
and Stewart continued the
argument and liter went nu ( -
side the club to continue it,
’ | it was reported.
Brown died almost' instantly of
i “several stab wounds." the army ■
said
Stewart fled after the stabbing :
end a general alarm was issued
to civilian law enforcement agen
cies in the area The soldier was i
| later arrested at his trailer borne !
j which he occupied with his wife 1
I and family.
,I_ ! ■
HOLD TWO MEN IN |
FATAL STUBBig
WHITEVILLE-— Two men were
. ! being held here Saturday in con-
, nection with the stabbing death'
| of Dan Darwin, 56, Friday night
i Sheriff J. R. Pridgens said the
i man was fatally stabbed with a
! pocketknife at his home, one mile
i southwest of Tabor City.
The Sheriff's office said Andres
McClure, 20, and Ervin Caimi
chale, 28. were being questioned
in the slaying which reportedly
, occurred during an altercation be
, tween Darwin and McClure
The cost of going to college to
day u a heavy drain on the aver
age family's resources. Insure ,
your child's education by putting !
aside regular sum* in LT. S Sav 1
mgs Bonds. j
sfdsdfs
School routines change like
everything else and our grand
parents would hoivilv rficognizn
this "boys-and-girls” game-play,
mg scene as an approved and
organized school activity.
It’S Pekin, Illinois, 1957 The
charming ladies ar e tSe glamor
ous twins Marcia arid Marlene
'' block a ith them are the twins j
Dirk and Ken Kr-ttelJ. Checking i
the fun is Howard He.rnra, Piny, j
i ground Supervisor in the P-kin
ocnool bystem. The game is Spill
! and Spell.
| Buy Savings- Bonds
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A&T AI i’MM GETS NEW
HEAD -- E. E. Waddell. Albe
marle, left, retiring president of
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Bib INI SCHOOL CROWNS
QUEEN Mrs. Isabelle Roberts
of Durham, is shown being
crowned Queen of Durham Bus
iness, School tor the year 1957,
by Mrs Futh Shephard, queen j
of la-i year. Mrs. Roberts won
out over nine other contestants i
by raising the most money. The
climax for the contest featured
a formal dance u here the w inner
and runner-ups were announced
by Attorey H A. Marsh. Other
contestants, pictured from left to
right, are: Miss Alice Wilkins
of Rocky Mount; Miss Sarah
Horton of Apex; Miss Lury H-sr !
Hs of ("reedmnor; Mr* Roberts
and Mrs. Shephard.
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They’re learning spiling and i
enlarging vocabularies under th«
modern system cf making eduea
t'on fun. Spill and Spell is the
notion s newest adult game craze,
piayH by everybody from teen
to grandparents,
'■lr. Hanna believes that »hi ß i
same gives the player the initio
live to want to know more words i
so that he can win the game. Spill
and Spell will he used on all Pekin
puygrounds this summer nr, part
Os the approved recreational pro. !
gram. * j
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plans with Howard C. Barnhill,
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Two Ministers File
Bus “Mixing” Suits
ATLANTA Two Atlanta min
isters Monday filed suits in Fed
eral court to test the legality of
Georgia and Atlanta laws requir
ing segregation on city buses.
Thurgood Marshal!, chief
counsel for the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People, filed the suit
in behalf of the Reverends
Samuel VV. Williams and John
T. Porter.
The suit asks a three-judge
court to issue an injunction halt
ing segregation on buses and
trolleys and then declared state
and city laws calling for such
segregation in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.
S. Constitution.
Defendants in the suit were
named as the Georgia Public Ser
Wake 4-H Teams
* To Enter Contests
V.'ai, County will enter 4-H
boys ard girls teams in competi
tive 4-H activities Wednesday.
June 12, at: the District Federa
tion to be held at the Sampson
County Training School, Clinton,
North Carolina.
The boys judging testa® to
judge -wine and poultry 5s
composed of Robert Leach,
Wside McClain, Donald McCoy,
STEEPLE- JACKING — When * wind whipped the old
„,p, from the flagpole at Fort C.reely, Alaska, and made it imtsos
sihle to climb the pole to thread a new one. a helicopter
proved into unusual service. Sergeant First Class George A Rieh
e*-paratrooper, of Chagrin Fads. Ohio, descends for the job
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vice Commission. Atlanta Mayc
,: William B. Hartsfield, Atlanr.
| Police Chief Herbert Jenkins an,
| the Atlanta Transit Systems, Inc
Williams charged in the suit
that he was Jailed with six
other Negroes in January of
this year When a number of
Negro bus riders tested local
bus segregation laws. He said
he was treated “as an ordina
ry criminal,” when he refused
to take a seat in the rear of
; j the bus.
Porter said he was abused once
because he refused to move to the
: rear of a bus, and that an Atlant*
. bus driver closed the door on hire
when he tried to leave through
the front rather than the roar
■ i door of the bus.
. all of Route 3, Raleigh, and
Charles Brandon of Route l
Apex.
Hoys team demonstration will be
given by Larne! Jones and Don
ald Hodge H Route 2, Wendell.
Girls to represent in the con
test are Mary High of Knightdalt,
Dairy Food Demonstration; and
Moo Pro’ette. of Route 2. Wen
dell, Bread Making Demonstration,