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VOLUME 16 RALEIGH. N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JULY 6
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Say Youth
Passed Eight
‘Bad’ Checks
After phasing over SIOO worth
of "rubber" checks s 16-year-old
boy rtra* charged here with eight
counts of forgery last weekend
when he admitted ‘hanging pa
per" at several grocery stores,
police reported.
T« n local said the
youth was nabbed a short
lime af»er he had offered
companion a dollar if > cash
at i f would have been th*
ninth forged check.
The store’? personnel had been
warned of the forgeries and noti
fied police
Personalized check? were used
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£ion College
Struck By
Hurricane
GREENVILLE. A.-a Hurri
( n* Audrey seems to have -.pent
:’s fury on Lomax-llannon Col
let 11 located here As a result, t.be
entire plant vafjjed at more than
•l':•••) 000 00 was almost destroyed
Friday.
f '-hop William Stewart, pre
.-•-ding prolate, of the area. Dr.
,f \i Eirhclberger, secretary
of Christian Education, and
Hie Christian Education
Bond AME Zion Church, ar
rived here today and immedi
ately went into conference to
plan for repairing 1h e
damage.
The winds struck the girls'
dormitory and reduced it, to
shamble- in a matter of minutes,
tearing the roof away completely
and playing havoc with all of the
woodwork, .including doors and
windows. Even the brick walls
fell a? the winds ripoed through
the building.
The J W. .A]stock Memorial
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Man Held In
Cop s Death
COLUMBIA, S, C. Policeman
C. w. Watford, Jr., died Sunday
from two bullet wounds .in the
nead after attempting in arrest, a
Negro who also critically wound
ed his brother.
Listed tn serious condition at a
Columbia, hospital with two bullet
wounds in the back was Carroll
Dubard. brother of the man who
allegedly killed Watford.
Carroll told police Sunday night
shortly after he was wounded :
with Watford "my brother Har- i
rison did the shooting."
Watford answered a call
Sunday night and was taking j
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77? is Week $ A dvertisers
Morly'Stc“T hantS td ° W * re CAROLINIAN Bonus'
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Security Market
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J'oihei A Oj lighter Scores
Koseoe-Grifttn shoe Comp.-my
Wliinmt' Garage
Ghlrken In Th? B>tx
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BJis Kathryn Slwpard
(Summer School Clinic)
Carolina C"l»*neri
Bu£son-Be!k Company
Gem Watch Shop
8. M. Yount: Hardware Co
Mr Alston Ml Veil] (Got tpr Salei
Gondra-’.n » ioijles Shop
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Armi Realty fompanv
Southern Furniture Cnmpano
Eirst-r Hirer;, Hank A Trutt Company
Mr. Elvis Rand
National Art Shop
T ev.'is Radio 4- TV Clink
Twin Ton Oil Service
fiveila Bcautv collece
Edward * Shoe Store
N. ( Products
Carolina Power -V l.lphi Companv
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The Heod System Industrial Hank
Bookers Cleaner'
Tire Distributors, Inc.
Washington Terrace Apts.
Capital Coca.c o i a Bottling Co. Ine.
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Bloodwn-th SI. Tourist Home
Heater Well Company
C»vene- ! Insurance Agency
Bunn’s Esso Service
•arollna Builders Coro
tfc'.tfon's -satood & Poultry Co Inc.
Imisfead Transfer Co & Food store
onion Motor FUuutce Company
Ridgeway s Opticians
Repsl-Cola Bottling Co. of Haitian
Jlteelujiic* * Farmers Bank
f -f + + + + 4. 4. j
Terminal Bias Sait Filed
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J MEMBERS OF MW PRISON COMMISSION Two member?
n> (be newly-created Stair Prison Com mis' '■>» are shown above tak*
; in P tbp oa *b of office from Chief Justice of the N. C. Supreme Court
: .1, Wallace Win borne. Left to right are Edgar Durgamis tiid Dr. M.
| B- Lt-rvis of High Point. Other members not shown are Mrs. Melville
Broughton. W VV. Shape and Linn D. Garibaldi.’ 'UNITED press
TELEPHOTO), ;
Bonus Money Winners’!
Names Are Announced
; Winners of Bonus Money for
: | the fourth month (June) have
been selected. The month ended
last Wednesday at midnight and
j the fifth month of competition
(July) opened Thursday. June :’7
j and will close Wednesday. July 31 1
j at midnight.
Winners of CAROLINIAN Bon
us Money for the fourth month
; are: first, Mrs I-l R. White. Me
! fbod. $358,07; second. Mrs T %
Kec. 125 Lincoln Court. $35116
; third, Mr*. L R Murchison. C-6
! Washington Terrace, $227.48:
{fourth. Mrs. Thelma Keck, its s
: Pettigrew Street, $208.68 Those
persons who will receive, $5 awards
, Warner Memorials
; Deluxe Hotei
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Conn-Gower Pontiac (ojiiiup
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Ambassador Theatre
Hunt. General Tire Corajpans
j *-■ E Quinn Furniture Company
I Southern Bell Telephone C»
j John Askt n Painter A r»i>rnr(,,r
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j Sieve’s Place
i Timstail’s store
I Vealt’s Shell Service
j Stephens Supply Company
j Hudson Belk Company
j Twin City Radio K Appllatic e Co
Afarlna Wholesale. Builders Supply
I Wake Insnranc.- Agenrs
I Tom Ashworth's Tire service
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Collin’s Taxi
; f rusei Mobil In
j Hick Fryer Shoe Service
I Keith’s Super Market
Chevrolet Service fompans
Hollow ell's Cash Food Sim.-
Edward's Pharmacy
General Laundry \ Cleaner lm-
Smith's shoe Shop
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Mr. BivU Rand
Kramer’s Jewelers
] Payton Funeral Home
j Famous Bakery
1 Town at Country Furniture
Carolina Typewriter
R“stfu! Pints
!Mr C. Karl Lirhtnun
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i Public Service Company ol N C
j Raleiih Funeta! Heme
f Electric. Wholeiileri Inc,
Burt’* Gjr’j-e
I Firestone Stored |
' arc a? .follows: Mrs. James T. I
. Johnson, 815 Coleman Street,,'
, i $l9O-88; Mrs. N. L. Perry, 1105 s. ’
i i Person Street. $178.54; Mrs. Del-'
mar Jones 1316 Beauty Street,
, $141.16 and Mrs. Elizabeth Davis.
607 Quarry Street. $127.93.
Winners are asked to pick up
their awards at the CAROLINE :
AN office Saturday before noon. ':
Beginning with the fifth
month there are five weeks in
which to compete.
If you have not already he-
Ri'ii saving your purchase,
slips nr receipts, do so loria.v
so that you, too, may share in
the big awards.
Rules Governing Promotion
In order to win Rumis Mon*
participants must pateo- I
n*W The CAROLINIAN’S ad
vertisers, who are listed on
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Dr. C. H. Tobias \
| NAACP Keynoter j
DETROIT (ANT • Dr. Chan
nine H Tobias sounded the kev- '
note of the NAACP's 48th con
vention here Wednesday by de
claring that the organization i.s
1 confronted with a grave and un
■ preccdented crisis, especially in 1
j the South,
j Nearly 1,000 delegates assemb!
ed in Detroit, for the "most mo*
; merit,ous session in the organiza
tion's history. Events were sched
uled to windup last Sunday with
policy addresses by Roy Wilkins,
j executive secretary, and Thur
good Marshall, chief legal spokes*
I men.
Jackie Robinson also was to
appear nrs the closing program
before an anticipated 15,000
persons in Olympia Stadium.
Dr Tobias, chairman of the
NAACP’s board of directors,
viid the crisis faring the 19 .
ftnciaijon stems Trent the Su
preme four*' decision ban
| nine segregation in public
j sc.hoo’k.
Tiie Intent of such attacks, he
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Greensboro Faces Suit
GREENSBORO >'ANPi The
Greensboro-High Point Airport!
here was hit by a segregation!
suit in federal court last week in j
a move that looms as a test case, I
challenging the legality of segre-1
gated dining facilities for Negro!
arid white persons.
The action was brought in
to l\ S. Middle District court
here bv a New York resident.
Mrs. Margaret S. Brisbane,
bhe named the airport, mem
hers ot the airport go'-erniry
body, !h<- manager of the ®w
port restaurant and the ..ir
port manager as defendants
>n the case.
Mrs. Brisbane’s position com - !
Plains that she attempted to cat !
n the airport restaurant last Feb.:
3. but was refused service. She i
said she was told that, the res- j
taurnnt served whites only. The 1
Brown Retires, Smith New
Manager Os N. C. Mutual
Carter Charles Smith. Jr., was
installed as manager of the Ra-,
Icigh District of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Thursday. June 27, by William
j Clement, CLU. Associate Agency
! Director Smith succeeds A. E.
! Brown, who retired as manage 1
j July 1. Brown came to Raleigh as
| manager in 1944. He developed an
j outstanding agency. Today it
; ranks No, 10 among the com
| pany's 30 agencies. Brown has
completed 28 years of service with :
N. C. Mutual.
Smith started hi* career
with N C. Mutual as cashier
in 1929 in the Charlotte Dis
trict. In 1933 he was named
Assistant District Manager of
the Durham District, fn 1946.
1951. 1952 and 1955 Smith
A. K. BROWN
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! complaint charge* that “the;
j plaintiff and those similarly sit-}
| '.rated are threatened with ir- I
! reparable injury by segregated
| eating facilities."
She asked th* court to en
ter interloctory and pee
manent injunctions restrain
ing the defendants from mak
ing any distinction based upon
color in regard to service »t
♦be airport ”
The suit was filed by NA.ACP |
legal redress attorney Conrad O
i Pearson of Durham, and several
j other attorneys including NAACP
! chief counsel Thurgood Marshall
| of New York.
Tlie petition Is the first of its j
i kind in this state and stands as a j
; test case attacking the legality of!
segregated eating places at. the
airport.
gained recognition bv his com
pany for outstanding staff
performance.
Clements says. “N. C. Mutual!
has great confidence in Smith’s!
training, leadership and persona'll
efficiency qualities. The same!
high quality of service which the j
company has rendered the insur- j
ing public will be maintained.”'
Smith has just completed a spe- !
cial course in Agency Manage ;
ment conducted at the University!
of Connecticut.
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Body Found
Weighted In j
S, C. River
CRADBOURN The body of
Mrs. Henrietta Simpson Lucas, 42
who disappeared more than a
week ago. was discovered Satur
day in the Waccamaw river, be
tween Loris and Ocean Beach, S.j
c.
According to officers ihe bo
dy of the woman was weight
ed down with iron which ap
parently had been lied to her
hy wire.
She is survived by one child, a
two-year-old daughter.
Assisting in the investigation
are South Carolina officers.
Mrs. Lucas was described as be
ing a hiahly respected woman
and no clues have been uncover
ed in connection with her death.
Veteran Physician
Dies In Rocky Mt
BY B BARREN
ROCKY MOUNT Death
claimed the life of Dr. Peter W.
Burnett, the city’s oldest physi
cian in point, of sedvice, irrespec
tive of race, eaily Monday morn- j
ing.
A native of Martin County
(Oak City), Burnett had serv
ed the community for more
than fifty years as a leading
medico and waa beloved by
countless numbers of al! races,
as poor health forced his re
tirement early this year.
Funeral rites were schedul
ed for Mi. Zion Baptist, j
Church, where he was a dea
con, Wednesday afternoon
Immediate survivor?. Include the i
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FtEC-TTIOV JEST CASE PRINCIPALS s hnwt> here are the principals ip *be Dr** *«* nf North
Cwolib*’j new elections, registration lan Mrs Lena* se I miter. 41. left aai Mr.- Mary E»e« Edward* 3$
nght Both !os‘ their appeals »r Jackson N f last Friday before, the Northampton County Board of tW
tisns They have appealed to the board from .1 refusal of Mrs Helen H Tailor, Seaioard precinct
» «»*' s ”* eJr names on bonk? for preparation m a special coast, y election on f rt -t 3 ‘ lames
R WjJht h their attorney, b shown seated between the *«rp ivomer* 'L’NITTB PR.* aftPHO t O~
FACES IN
THE NEWS
oawffiaw ■yiHiMPi pumartanrgenara-rrysw y. k
SETS PRECEDENT—Hr. Pre
roll R. Robinson, (loan of Saint.
Augustine’s College, Raleigh,
was unanimously re-elcrteci for
another three years as Dean of
the Summer School of Rciiiri
ous Education for Youth of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
which is heid annually at tiie
Voorhecs Junior College, Den
mark, S. ('. Dr, Robinson is ttie
first person to serve more than
one term as dean.
NEW MAYOR OE RALEIGH
W. G. Enloe. a member of the
city council for four years, was
chosen Monday as this city’s
new mayor, succeeding E'red R.
Wheeler. Enloe won the post m •
er opposition from auto dealer
Guy Rawls.
FUNERALIZET) IN CITY
Miss Cocheise Ellis of Raleigh j
was eulogized at the first Bap
tist Church here. Tuesday of this
week at 3:30 p.m. with the pas
tor. Dr. O. S. Bullock, officiat
ing. Burial followed in Mount
Hope Cemetery Miss Ellis, who
was well-known throughout the
city, is survived by her mother.
Mrs Sal* Ellis,: father, Clarence
Ellis, «ni three brothers,. Ed
ward. Alfonzo and Herbert EUl*, ! 1
Row At Service Station
Ends In Three Killings
FILBERT, o C - Three broth-*
ors from Clover wore shot to
j death Sunday a* a Filbert service
! station in York County after an
j argument
The dead were identified a:
| Monroe Conner. 26. Walter Cen
! ncr. 21. and Howard Conner Po
i lice were holding Jimmy Ellison
! 21. in connection with the slay
-1 ings
York County coroner A Y t--.-
lie said the Conner brothers had
Chapel Hill Schools To
Be Segregated In ’57- ’SB
CHAPEL HILL -- The Board of i
Education here rejected an op- 1
plication from a Negro parent.
Preston Weaver, ashing that his
son be permitted to attend ?
“white" school here next fall.
Superintendent C. W. Dav
is said the board merely ar
cepleri a recommendation ,
made Monday night by a com
mittee of its members rielegal- ;
ed several weeks isn to study
the application.
The acceptance of the mm
mitten';., recommendation that,
the application be denied. Davis'
; said, way unanimous by the
; board's six members.
Weaver was unavailable for
comment.
Weaver may appeal the decis
to the board if he desires.
Should the board refuse to
change its decision. Weaver
would have to turn to the courts'
to gain satisfaction.
The meeting, which lasted
I some three hours, was open to
the public, but fewer than
half a dozen persons other
than board members were in
attendance
Davis said most of the meet
tog was taken up with other
routine inattars, and that
there was very little discus
sion on the pupil transfer ap
plication
1 Rejection of Weaver’s applica
tion means that Chapel Hill!
schools will remain fully segrc-l
gated for the coming year. Weav-j
rr's application was the onh- i
such plea filed before the local
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Two More j
Women To
wc-u.n.g, j
GREENSBORO Officials at!
Woman's College here said Mon
day that two more Negro girls hadj
been accepted for admission a:;
! students during the IDN7-58 aca
demie year.
The two are Arezelma Eltz- i
a both Amer.v, 12. of Durham
and Claudette Treva Graves.
17, of Rf. 6. Greensboro. An
other Negro, Margaret PM
tarson of Lenoir, was accept
ed last month.
Miss Amery will study Interior
decorating and Miss Graves will!:
major in .sociology.
College officials said five
other Negroes had applied for
admission in the fall hut had
not met entrance requirements
nr had tsol completed applica
tions
The firs* two Negi oe students i
in the history of the institution
were enrolled last September and I
will return this fall They are Mrs I
Bettye Ann Da-ns Tillman of
Wades boro sad Elizabeth Jo Smart |
cl Raleigh, i
argued with Ellison Saturday and
• Ellison we- cut wtth a knife He
said yesterday, the three broth
ers. two unit'd with guns and 6ns
with a knife. ad v anted on’ Ellison
after the argument was resum'd
at a service station
Leslie said Ellison killed all
three with .3 single shot shotgun
! reloading each time
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ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G>. SHEPARD
j STATE’S RIGHTS. Non that
I Pres. Eisenhower at. the recant
i governors conference in Williams
-1 burg. Va , has to; red the hot po
' tato of state rights bark into the
laps of those who have contended
most for it, it will be highly inter
esting to see what the consequenc
es of this impact will be.
The president told the assembled
governors in no uncertain terms
that state rights are intermingeab
ly linked with state responsibill
; ties, one cannot be used without
the other He also reminded the
; state executives that there would
be more encroachment by the Fed
eral govrnment, upon the domain
iof the individual states unless
these states speedily recognized
: their responsibilities and acted to
! accept them
The not. so indirect implication
of the president’s remarks were
that the Federal government
could not stand idly by and see
the needs of American citizens
neglected simply because the in
dividual states refused to recog
nize those needs
Although Mr. Eisenhower was
addressing the governors of ail ths
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State News
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Brief
MAN SHOT IN I.EMBERTON
LUMBERTON F. Cleveland
Thompson, 32, of Fairmont, was
shot to death early Monday on the
Wall oca farm near here alleged
ly by a white man According to
Sheriff Malcolm McLeod. Bill
Merritt. 35, of Fairmont, was ar
rested and charged with first de
gree murder. Thompson was shot
in the back and head and Merritt
said he used a shell loaded with
buckshot The. sheriff described
the incident as a “drunken brawl"
mid placed the time of the shoot
ing at about 12:30 am. Thomp
son; body was found lying be
side his car where he had fallen.
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ROY. ■), DROWNS
ABERDEEN Robert Me
rimmen, s>, drowned in a farts
pond near here Sunday while
swimming with three cotu
navions. Coroner Ralph Speed
identified the victim, who was
visiting relative* with hi* mo
ther, Mr* Dorthea MeCrim*
raois, of 'Rout© 8, Fayettevti-.g,
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