2,500 Home Demonstration Women In Session Herd
+ + + + + + + + +
SUGAR’ RAY WINS BOXING TITLE AGAIN
Miidleweight
Fight Wen By
Bay Rsbinssn
Br ALEXANDER BARNES
< 'H 1C AGO STADIUM
if>:4b P. M There is a mad
rush for seats, due to the fact,
that the place has been sold out
long ago. Scalpers are not making
much headway and the crowd rj
noisy.
JO-50 Cameras begin dir
king and history is made as
Wendell Smith, the first Neg
ro ever to aid in the broad •
casting of a championship
fight takes his place in the
broadcasting booth
-10;-55 The announcer begin.-:
to pick out. the celebrities and
the world knows that the big boys
in the sports world are on hand.
10:59 Referee Frank Slkoia,
begins last, minute instruction and
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RAT ROBINSON
NC Teachers
la City For
Convention
In IPS? session of ■ the North
Carolina Teachers Association is
scheduled to get underway here
Thursday, when the more than
3000 delegates will hear President
5 D, Williams call his last annual
session to order.
Very little fireworks are expect
ed a., the meeting, due to the
fact that the voting is ail In and
and it is definite that C, J. Bar
ber is the president-elect,. He had
no opposition and when his name
was proposed by the nominating
committee it meant that he would
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Dr. Hampton
Renominated
To NC Board
GREENSBORO-JDr. William M
Hampton, physician and city school
board member, was appointed last
Wednesday by the City Council to
serve & four-year term on the
Board,
Dr Ham plot' a. former mew
her of the City Council, said:
*T ua grateful to be given the
oonortunby to serve.**
Declining <* answer a state-
Kent of Councilman Tom
Brown. Dr Hampton ssld he
«a* happy to serve and added
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KE r V OSTTF TRACT In ynxAing Must Jean Lwtofemgar, second 'pv*« teacher from
Amas, few, <ss 1908 Tacrchtw of the Ytm" of the Whit® House recently. Presided Eisanhewec
revealed Shot his fcr»ori?e leadser « John Hunt with whom ha is shown. 0 dwuv*
Lh« war. mg* t» Columbia University after the conflict. and won a Mortar* mtt a PhK
m is now at Teaehars* College flaHs-brngfe.. N. V.
m 8 ill : „ I Ill—- Mill 'll! mill
VOL. 17, NO, 7 b
Harris’ Political Drive Begins
Hh"t’Hh4*4* + "f*4"
Knife Killer To Prison
WakeManTo
Prison For
Knife Death
Calvin Baker, 33, of Wendell,
was sentenced to serve from three
to five years in State Prison for
the March 23 knife slaying of
Leroy Dumas, 28, also of Wen
dell.
* * * *
Criminal Court Judge Willi
am V, Bickett sentenced the
man after the state accepted
a plea to manslaughter,,
* * * *
Baker had origmaly been charg
ed with murder.
Sheriff's Deputies L. W. Kelly
and R. H. Linton said the stab
bing occurred at the Chicken
Shack near Wendell about mid-
Saturdsy.
* * 0 *
tin ton said witnesses report
ed i <j? two were engaging in
SCONTCNtIKn ON PASS 21
Judge Allows
Bonds For 3
Klansmen
CHARLOTTE Judge Zeb V,
Nettles has relented and has freed
three Ku Klux Klansmen on
bond pending their appeals from
prison sentences he handed them
last week.
Lester Francis Caldwell, Grand
Wizard of a Klan splinter group,
pointed $4,000 bond Monday. He
ted been setnenced to five to 20
years for conspiracy ar.d attempt
ing to dynamite a Negro school
here.
(CONTTNUEP ON PAG® Ti
Boy, 8, Disappear
JACKSONVILLE, N. C.
Sheriff's officers hunted Sun
day for a little hoy who left
home Friday to go to school
and has not been hoard from
since.
Officers said Pel? Cor, dress ■
pd in blue jeans, a blue jac
ket and cap, left his home in
th* Piney Green Community
east of here at m, to
walk to school
School authorities said young
Fete never arrived. The child
resided with his mother and
several sisters and brother*.
RALEIGH, N. C SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1058
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LIBRARIAN FOR A BAT j
Helping to launch the first na - ;
tional booh week. New York i
State Governor AvereU Ham
man (center) turned librarian !
briefly. He. is shown checking 1
Dixie Vote Drive To
Begin in ‘Bull City’
DURHAM Durham, North
Carolina, has been chosen as the
site for tho first conference on reg
istration and voting, a drive being
spearheaded among Southern Ne
groes by religions leaders and of
i State News fi
Brief |
KITE CONTEST MELD
RALEIGH The fifth grads of
the Mary K. Phillips School held
i a Kite Contest, on Monday, March
I 24. at O'SO a. m. toe. field of nine
| entries toe following winners wore
! inwwßCßl! Beat flying kite, Ed
fl-nvTVwrtwn ny T».\fig r n
mit a. book to F.arlSene Alarphy,
If, of Staten Isa lad. They arc
in the bookmobile in the public
library plaza, {United Press
Photo.)
, ficfai* of the NAACP. Tbs meeting
j has been set for April 9.
According' to the Reverend
; Douglas E. Moore, local drive
chairman, the Durham meet
ing will bring together several
hundred iministen, in North
Carolina for the purpose of
‘‘consecrating and preparing
themselves for a new dimen
sion in Christian responsibil
ity.”
\ A goal of 250,000 new Negro w-
I ter* in North Carolina has been set.
The Reverend Dr, Martin Luther
King, president of the sponsoring
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, has been listed as one
of the principal speakers. Dr.
King, who won fatoe in his lead
ership of the Montgomery, Ala
bama. bus boycott, said at his
home yesterday that, he hopes the
meeting in Durham will serve as
a model for similar “crusades for
citizenship"' to be conducted a
rrong Negroes throughout the
South.
InterdeacwiJnstional in scope, to®
Durham crusade ha* been >ndora
ed by ell of the major religious
d .nomination* among Negroes in
North Carolina. Several planning
{CONTTVtJEn ON RAGE 3>
Abortionist Tried
I.H.UNGTON .Judge Clar
ence W, Hail Friday sentenced
Mr*. toes Byrd to the Wom
an’s Division of State prison
for three to five years. A jury
returned a verdict of guilty
against the Dunn resident for
allegedly performing an abor
tion on a young while woman
from Fayetteville,
Counsel for the defendant
immediately filed notice of ap
peal to the Supreme Court
First Week .Popularity Contest Standings
REV. R„ W. BUTTS, Jsmwnnlte ?o
Piney Grove Disciples Church
REV. H. W. CUNNINGHAM. Raleigh BO
First Congregation Chinch
REV. ROBERT L, SHIRLEY. Raleigh 20 i
Davie St. Presbyterian Church
REV CLYDE B. WALTON. Garner 20
St. Amanda Church
REV. h. B. PENN, Raleigh ; 10 j
St, Paul AME Church
REV. R V, HORTON, Pittsburgh .... .. 10
Mitchell Chapel A.ME3 Church
CONTEST ENDS. JUNE 12, I V,n
PRICE 12c IN N. ELSEWHERE 15c
Supporters
Os Educator
Meet At ‘YM’
By STAFF WRITER
| . Approximately 30 persons as
sembled .at the Blood-worth Street
YMCA Tuesday night and took
turns i» winding, the mainsprirf
of the organization that will
“power" the campaign efforts of
Dr. Nelson H. Harris who hfi>,
"thrown his hat in the ring” for
a seat in the N. C. General As
sembly from Wake County.
If elected, Or. Harris, pro
lessor of education at Shaw
University will be the first
Negro assemblyman from Wake
County since the period of
North Carolina “Fusion Poli
tics- 18*0 to 189!?. during which
tone 'Tastes B Young served
, two terms as a representative
At the Tuesday night meetnvr.
'» nds of Nelson H. Han
rw ' *’in" elected % secretat
Mrs. Irene Steward, and a treas
urer, Dr. D. M. Jarnagin. Attorney
icovTiNt,'t;r> on PAr;y i>
Garner Group
' I Will Appeal To
Superintendent
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
GARNER— The situation which
grew to such magnitude at the
Consolidated High School, located
here, according to interested per
sons has not becri relieved and a--
a result, a committee is going to
call upon the Superintendent of
Wake County School? this week
and see if a satisfactory agreement
can bo reached.
'The meeting is the result of some
of the leaders calling upon the
school head, in an effort to save
what many term a bad situation
The Superintendent is said to have
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ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G, SHEPARD
i
WELCOME TEACHERS - All
of Raleigh extends toe heartiest
of welcome to the North Carolina
Teachers Association. Meeting
here after an absence of one year,
it- Is welcoming an old friend back
to one's midst. Raleigh, the caru
tol city, as well as the education
al eapttol of the state, ha:? mum
to offer this state-wide group of
educators.
They can be assured that what
ever we have we are willing and
anxious to share it with them It
is to be helped that from toe
depth of our welcome and th;
I sincerity of our greetings, our
; teachers will look forward each
! year to coming to Raleigh for
i their annua! meeting, Wefcwme
j Teachers!
A CHALLENGE AND A
TEST The candidacy of Dr.
Nelson H. Harris for a. seat in
(be North Carolina General
Assembly m a representative
from Walt* County, pres--»>to
both » challenge and * test
(CONTTNCS ON PAG IE J>
vl ■ t jl^
it nft fll
HfcßO OF TRAGIC URL
Head Nurse Sheila Kchoe, of
(33-25 155th Street) Flushing,
N. V., checks on the condition of
fire hero Eddie Wine, 35, inf
125 tv. 118th Si., N. V. C.i, who
HDC Women Face Traffic Problem
As Meeting Gets Underway in City
Twenty-five hundred women in i
I one place at one time can pose I
many problems, but when the pn- ;
lice step m and make parking a
probierr, then you do have some- i
j thing. That is exactly what hap- |
: pened at Raleig’s Memorial Audito- i
: rium when the 16th annual session j
' of the State Cnvmrjl rs !
the Negro Homo Demonstration
Clubs got underway at 10.30 Wed
■ ncf-d/sy morning.
Arsonist Is
Sentenced To
7 To 10 Y rs.
William Stokes, 67. was sen
tenced to serve from seven to ton
years in prison before Judge WU-;
ham Y. Biekett in Wake Superior
Court Wednesday on charges of
] attemtped arson,
Stokes, whose address was li--r
--; ed as 802 Dover Place, had orig
-1 inaily been charged with arson, a
capital crime in this State, for
the February 12 torching of an
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Big Pastors’
j Contest Into
Second Week
SI'AHTER: TAKE YO 0 R
MARK. . . GET SET ... GO!
Six ministers take off and are
i beginning to warm up for the
j long grind ahead in the third:
| Ministers Popularity Cord e/■f. j
j sponsored by the Carolina!?.
The contest opened March 26
arid will close June 12, Minister.-'.
ICON !TN (JED ON FA<.p ?)
Final Week |
Begins In
i !
Bonus Money
|s*a ■ l
| Ti:r final week of The CAROL- i
j IN IAN'S big Church Bonus Mon-!
ey program began Thursday, j
I March 2'., and end* at midnight!
i Wednesday, April 2
i The current month consisted I
of six weeks.
Many new churches have
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1 reeled For Wounds
*’red Perry. 37, of Route 2,
* Wendell, was treated and re
leased frcmi Si, Agnes Hospi
tal late Saturday night for pis
tol pounds he allegedly reeeiv.
rd at the Down Beal Club near
SSebulon.
ft. H. I inton and I W- Kel
ly, sheriff's deputies. said Per
ry was tmahlf to identify the
person who shot him.
He was hH m the left aiiMe M
with a 12 caliber bullet. dur- |;
'*tt a fight. he allegedly told
offieers. ! '
was injured in the five-alarm
fire that swept through a loft
building in lower Manhattan
March 19th. lie was critically
injured when he volunteered to
help man a life net, and was
Early parkers had already
stacked their cars away long
before (he women began to ar
rive but the poNcc put up
chains at all the entrances and
ChurcN Bonus Money Rules
tgr
Alt pure ae , : or reci.mt:- pi r sente, cl to your church must corns ft vrj
stores advertising in the CAROLINIAN.
Each week carries a date in the Bonus Money period. Purchases eligi>i|
must come from the store during the week the ",jd" appears
No purchase slips representing a business. should be' submitted Ail receipt
must come from individual pure!- ases.
All churches in Raleigh and v.’ake County are eligible.
All purchase slips must bear the name a I the stove Ireiri which the our
chase was made.
All pur. um sitps should be submitted tn the name of the church: am
should be i , the oilsce of the CAROLINIAN the Monday following close o
Bonus period.
in order that smaller churches may have an equal opportunity tn share i
the Bonus Money the following regulation is expedient: No church oi <-«g
20fi mu.-.bers will be awarded Ist Bonus Money consecutively, i.e. should
church of 200 or more members receive Ist Bonus Monty after the first peri ic
it would have to wail until the third Bonus period to be presented Ut a.v.t
again, except where a church has 200 or less members, then it could win >b
Bonus awards consecutively. However, this does not mean that second an
:hire] awards cannot be sought consecutively. Consequently every church greu
has the opportunity to secure an award every period.
No purchase of over S3OO from any one merchant during a week tan b
coui'ied.
There is a celling of Sir, per person a week for grocery purchases.
In the evem of the .same amount of purchases by more than one entry. th
award will be divided.
Weekly purchase totals should he shown on each packet and total placed i>
the outside of the envelope carrying the period's entry along with name an
address.
Bonus money earners will be announced in the Issue following the clruitt
ol each period.
All cm,; remain the property of the CAROLINIAN.
All tallying is litial when the names of the Bonus Money earners are an
nounccd in The CAEOI INIAN, and no responsibility is accepted by this n«f*
paper beyond (hat point
No receipts from banks will be considered, except payment on mortgage*, j
CAROLINIANS MINISTERS
POPULARITY CONTEST
Begins Thursday. March 2d: Ends Thursday, -tune 12. 1358
Pastor’s Name ,
Address ........ „.... —*.
Name of Church
COUPON WORTH 19 POINTS
Clip this coupon and a« many a-s you can t&tbar for your
pastor and -end it to THE CAROLINIAN each week At the end
of the contest period, the minister having accumulated She mott
points will receive $200.00 'two hundred!. Second, an entire
wardrobe, consisting of suit, shirt, tie, hat, .shoes and socks.
Third, tied wrist- or pocket watch. Listing? will be made. each,
week. Send in your coupons so that you; paator will gel his
weekly rating.
All. COUPONS mm reach THE CAROLINIAN w later that,
Tuesday of each weefc. Address THE CAROLINIAN, MS E. Martin
street, Rdeith, North Carolina.
This Week ’$ Advertisers
The listed be
Money Stores.
CAGE *
Tip Top food Stores
Pate 3
Oarsleish Furniture l o.
Mother & Daughter Styrr
Capital Coca-Cola Bottling lav
The Bargain Bex
Electrical Wholesalers, tor
Mr John W Winters
Wyatt-Ouarlea Seed t o.
CAGE S
Carolina Power & Light Company
First-Citieens Bank A Trusl Company
Hudvon-Belk Company
PAGE 6
Colonial Stores
Ftrsr-Citteeng Bank A trust Co
Civella Beauts College
Gem Watch Shop
Mr. C. Karl Lichtmsn
PA Os, 7
R, K. Quinn Furniture re,
O. K. Clothing Co.
Famous C3kery
Ualeigh Funeral Home
A. & P. Super Market
R. M. Young Hardware.
PAGE S
Blood worth St, Tourist Homt
Mechanic* & Farmers Bank
Heater Well Company
Caveness Insurance Agency
PepM-Col* Bottling Co. ot Raleigh
Carolina Builders Corp.
Watson’. Seafood & Poultry Co Inc.
lirastead Tranaler Co. & Food Store
Billon Motor Finance Company
Bunn’s Esso
struck by a woman who hsrl
jumped from Hie fourth stoiy
of the burning building. He !»
shown here in the emergent j
ward at Bellevue Hospital Mat,
20th. iUnited Press Photo,
the- visitor--, upon arriving,
would drive ssp to the chain*,
and after seeing "Pc! lee Re
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low are CAROLINIAN Bonus
, Ridgeway's Optician*
1 Warner Memorials
Deluxe Hotel
PAGE 9
( aroliaa Butt?, Company
1 -riders. Motor Compaai
Jo-re. 4- Bailey Furniture Co.
i PAGE 12
! Ktmhit 11, tn».
| The Hood System Eadttifrtal Eask
j Acme Realty ' emptily
I N. C. Products
Hunt amoral Tire Competiy
PAGE li
Harm Wholesaler*
McLeod 4 Watson
.1,1. Fallon
The Hood System tnd«*trtai Ba. Mil
I PAGE IS
1 Ru refit Seat Cover Center
trn„)d Jacob Vogue
i Dillon Supply Company
! r’rrmoy's
Ounri i E«so Service
N. C Mutual Life Insuranre Co
PAGE 16
Nile Congo Drive-In
| Fisher Wholesale
; Goodman's
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co tot.
Mechanic* * Fanners Bank . , t
PAGE IT
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Maus Piano X TSm ...
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