SUICIDE ATTEMPT THWARTED Pairolman Benjamin Fish
nan takes 13-year-old Mabel Bryant downstairs from her Bronx. Neu
fork apartment recently after a one-hour ordeal during which she
Jangled from a window and threatened to jump several times Mis
Br.'ant was taken in an ambulance *o Linrofn Hospital. Woman at
:ight is unidentified. tlTl PHOTO)-
Irate Man Slain
Over Ruddy* $ Wife
GARTSBURG A man was kill
ed at pmnt blank shotgun rang*
Monday when, according to vit
rhe reached for pistol dur
ing a ’violent quarre)
W iiihm Heary Massenburg,
t Garvsbort N«|r«. surren
edred to sheriff s deputies at
the scene of the slaying. M-isa
t-sb'J’i claimed he shot Gar
land Vinrenf ?.f> in self-dcfeitue
". hers he tried to keep Vincent
'STATE » BRIEF 1
CLINTON MAN SHOT WITH RICE
CLINTON An argument over a $2 debt had strange consequences
recently One man had to be treated by a physician for nee kernels
in his right shoulder and the other had to post bond for S3OO.
. Odell Parker, 31-year-old resident, has admitted filling a shot- i
run shell with rice and peppering neighbor Raymond William;. 22. i
when he didrt’i repay s $2 loan, Parker is scheduled for trial at the
August 26 session of Sampson General Court.
PLAINTIFF FAILED IN PROBE
«ILNON Miss Essie Mae Artis, 36. who was allegedly raped I
late Na(>nda> night night by an unidentified man. has been placed
in the county jail here, the Sheriff’s Department announced W.
R Pridgen, chief deputy, who is handling the ease, said the de*
nartmenf had two reasons for jailing the woman
He said that she has been placed in the custody of the ,iad for
he own protection as a material witness for the State and be
cause the department feels she has failed to tell officers alt she
knows Miss Artis was in a ear with a man identified as Chester A.
Joyner, 4X, also of Wilson.
BOO y FOUND IN SAMPSON HOUSE
CLINTON The badly decomposed body of Levy Stevenson. 65,
was found Wednesday in a tenant house on a farm owned by Barvev
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M'}-. ««*
OFF TO JOIN COLLEGE ALL-STARS John Baker, Jr . North
Carolina College's all Cl A A tackle from Raleigh. N. < . h shown i
hoarding an airliner recently for Chicago, where he will play with !
(he College All-Stars at Soldiers’ Field on August 15. Baker and John !
Simpie. Mai' land State College back, are the first stars from pre- j
dominantly Negro colleges to earn all-Slar berths. Baker Is, the son I
nf John Baker, Sr., veteran Raleigh policeman 1
| from beating Mas r -enhurg‘s i
wife- Bessie, 23. The incident j
occurred on a neighbor s porch |
J Witnesses told office!? that Mss- j
j senburg fired '‘hen v incent geach- j
| ed for ?. weapon in his. hip pnckel. j
| Massenburg gave deputies a pistol !
I which be said be took from Vm- j
| cent after the shooting.
Vincent. wa,s a resident of nearby !
i Gum berry. N C*.
KASPER MAKES PLANS
■ ■ —M. Q -L. i IA I\
j VOL. 17, No. 45 SATURDAY, AUGUST 9. 1958 RALEIGH. N. C. PRICE He IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c
Lake Death 'Accident'
i + + + + + *f Hh
I Leaf Season V ioience Flares
! Rules On
iFataiitf
i Wake County Coi peer Marshall
| W. Bennett told THE CAROLIN
IAN Tuesday afternoon that there
teas app.wenlt.v no foul play involv
■ <ri in the death of Willie Perry.
,j 30 ".'hose body wag recovered
i floating in Longview Lake last Fri
day.
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AMONG THE BAPTIZED A crippled woman is helped from the waters off Orchard Beach, Bronx.
New York. July 30, after, she and other members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect were baptized in a
j mass ceremony, The baptism-b,v-immersion rites, in which 7,130 new member-ministers were taken into
! the fold, was bclleeved to he the largest In modern times it PI PHOTO),
Patterson, looker And Martin Re-Electeil
Presidents As Three Conventions Close
DURHAM—The president* of 3
national conventions were re
elected here at North Carolina Col-
Bonus Money
Month Ends;
Headline Set
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IAN’S Current Bonus Money Pro
gram ended Wednesday, August 6.
at midnight Th® deadline for sub- I
mitting purchase slip? and receipts
to the Carolinian office is Monday,
August 11,
Watch this newspaper for an
nouncement of the next Bonus
Month,
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front page each week for names
of CAROLINIAN advertisers,
Patronire these merchants and
turn your receipts or purchase
slips over to a representative in
your church every Sunday
morning.
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winning churches are; ?r»0. first
525. second; SJS. third; and $lO
fourth. j!
The receipts should be submitted
to the offices of The CAROLINIAN 11
at the end of the Bonus Money per- | j
iod They aie counted and awards ]
are give?: to the churches which j'
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MAAN VsNAACP
GREENSBORO The Mutual Association of American
Negroes, Inc . recently organized here, plans a most daring pro
gram of six projects for raising the status of Negroes in this are?.
May be. in its long-arm reach, it may touch the lives cf
non-whites on a nation-wide scale..
Probably the largest plan of the MAAN at present is a pro
posed private night school for Negroes. The curriculum will he
j designed to reduce illiteracy among Negroes through instruction
| in reading, writing, arithmetic, personal hygene and good citizen
i ship.
Samuel S Thomas, founder and executive secretary of the
. j organization, said the MAN hopes to work out arrangement
. i with A&T College to use certain facilities for the trade and do
. j mcstic courses.
Among the other project', envisioned by the organization are .
(!) A Christmas season campaign sot $50,000 to build a
| swimming pool here for Negro children;
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lege, last week Dr. F D Patterson (
was re-nsm?d as president of the j
National Business League.
Mrs. Jessie D. Locker of Cine in- •
nati, Ohio, and M. C Martin of
Danville, Vi, wore renamed as
heads of the National Housewives
League and the National Bankers
Association respectively,
Mrs. Christina Fuqua of Detroit,
— — CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
FROM THEM
PAGE 9 Lowes Grocery
A. & P. Si;pet Markets j page .<
TajJo. Radio 4 TV r,impair ; KitM-ClUr.eru Bank & Trait Co
E'ttrd’s ot Raleigh ; Caroline Motor bale.
Ambassador Theatre PAGE .1
Cross Poultry ; State Finance Company
Ponie s Pic .simp j Capital Loan Co., Inc.
PAGE to ! Mr John W Winters
8100-jwortO St. Tourist Home Security Realty Co.
Mechanics A Farmers Bank PAGE s
Heater Well Company Hudson Beik Company
Cave ness irisurani« Agency PAGE s
Pepst-Cola Bottling Co. n( Raleigh Borden lie ( ream
Carolina Builders Corp. Nelson-,. Lnc
Watson’s Seafood A Poultry Co, lnc. a. e Quinn furniture Compan
llmstead Transfer Co, A: Food Store Allied Aluminum Compan;
Dillon Motor Finance Company Riii,ct> Window C,
Dunn’s Esso Service TV Service 4s Appliance Company
Ridgewav’B Optician* Pigsty Wlggiv
Warner Memorials raioiinn Powei 4 Light lompi"'
Deluxe Hotel PACE 7
PAGE 11 Motti,” Conii'im
Wayside Furniture IP Auio Super Market
Fatnour- Bakery Company i O’Neal Motors, hie.
Brooks W Poole Carolina Buirk Company
S. H. Kress Ui Co. I Joyce <*>. Bailey Furniture C'>mp.’inv
Betty Gav i Dillon Motor Co.
PAGE IV j PAGE H
The Hoot System Industrial Bank (Me C Kart Lichtman
Eottou’? Cash Store David «. Alice. Conti,
Acme Realty Company i N.C Products
New Lincoln Case Clvelia Beauty College
New Fuqujy The I* re Gem Uafrh Shop
Atlas Sewing Center Raleigh Funeral Home
Electrical Wholesalers, lnc colonial stores
Perko Cleaners | S. M. Young Hardware Co.
Surety Exterminating Compan 'Town & Country Tire Cnmpaat
i former National Housewives Lea
gue head, was .-elected t« head that
group during Mr? Locket's pres
• emu* in Liberia next, year.
Durham a Mayor E. J E'-am and
| North Carolina Governor Luthei
H Hodges were among dignitaries
greeting the three conventions du
ring the week long meeting in Dur
ham.
I TAKBOKO (SPECIAL) -Some
: think it. was the intense heat of
the weekend. Others shake their
| heads in doubt. But each year as
the ’Tobacco Season’ starts in eas
tern North Carolina I'July and Aug
ust* violence also beams to flare |
with asosrted crimes from cuttings :
to killings, largely attributable to j
the ‘extra money' comma into the !
! hands 'of agricultural workers and
j tobacco employees.
KILLED OVER \ QIAFTER
At. nearby Leggetts community. |
j seven wiles north of here Sam
j Dancy, age i? 5, ivas the victim of a
| fatal shooting near mid-day Sun
! day white congregations worship
ped in two churches less than 300
yards away.
Edward .Speight. Jr , age 25 as
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Race Baiter
Make Speeches |
WETUMPKA. Ala. Race bait- j
• cr John Kasper was taking it easy j
j this week at a Southern plantation .
j near here,
Kasper, doing some "fishing,
j thinking and resting' after eight
! months in the federal relormutoiy j
j at. Tallahassee. Fla «a*d he was ;
i looking for-vard n> hi: trial in
Nashville. Tout, on riot inciting
charges as a means of ‘exposing
the filth and dirt, in Nashville City
politics.”
After making preliminary ar
rangements for Hi; September trial
i in Nashville, Kasper said he was.
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i Attorneys j
To Appeal
;. Va, Case
\ RICHMOND, V- _ AAA CP *l
- lorneys said Tuesday they planned
i to appeal a federal court derision
that added .-.even years to then al
ready four-year-old fight to end
segregation in the schools of
| Prince Edward County. Va
) U, 8 District Judge sterling
- i Hutcheson ruled Monday that the
t county must comply with the sup- .
i re me court's- desegregation ruling
’ of 1954' at the bc-gitining of thd j
. chool year for 1365 ’’
The derision was lauded by
state officials white .VAACP
s ; attorney Oliver VP. Mill of Rich
mond issued only a terse ‘no
comment” w hen asked his plans
on a possible appeal The deeds
; inn to uppeal e;ime liter.
■ j Hill, representing Negro plain- !
| tiffs in the case, had asked Hutch?-
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" WAKE MOTHERS FEATURED AT DINNER These five ladies, whose combined ages tolled ttot
years, were, guests of honor last Thursday afternoon as Mr .Ruth Morgan of near tv so'Ml hw.t«s! them
at a dinner in honor of Mrs. Rosa Perry Seated, from left to right, are Metdames India Strirkla’id, 86,
Fosa Perry, 67, and Gu.von Perry, 83. Standing, left to right, Me.sdamr.s Ellen loud, 91, and Lizzie Burns,
' 74 (STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS. R. JONES).
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ENTRANCE-—"MISS NORTH CAROLINA” Miss Betty Lane.
Evans. "Miss Vortb Carolinai wheeled through the lohh', at Net*,
ark - N J- Airport by a .porter or* her arrival last Tuesday. Betty, *-vho
hails from Greenville, will represent her staff in the “Mi: • .America”
beauty contest at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September.
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CAEKBOHO Action <" , n rea.- -
signmertt applications from Negro
pupils seeking admission to » white
elementary school jwie «ill bn tak
pn by the Orange V runty Board of
Education on August !.!.
A munbei of t'fjjipsts hr reat
signment forms h 3? been received . *
by the board but Supt G. Paul
Carr declined to say whether any !
Negroes were invoiVed.
A spokesman for the Negro group \
said. Probbaly two or three Ncs*->
parents have requested the Corn -
Pro’Segregation Group Snsii
CHARLOTTE- The Re v.- Mm;!
trie Moore. Jr a hading episcopal :
minister here, said Thursday that :
pro-segregation movement within
(he Diocese of North Carolina is a
"very smalt minority,” we hope i
The minister added that he doe:- 1
not think the movement has ‘’the :
support of 100 many leaders of the !
chore...- ”
Known m ''Concerned Church
men, the movement van made pub- i
list, last Wednesday night by i* ;
treasurer. Phillip N. Alexander of j
Charlotte
Alexander reported that the
organiration will irc'iit the or j
rramsed .1011 ebßTh .financed
afivf of i'ltegrationi ,t v, ithin
.buirh l J f j-,phi -ital
I >.*.«£ *rt Hh rat<*. t;ih y l ‘
Lnr-, Wcbh Chmfrr of HilCh-v ;
■Hi i? the rhsii 'i --r> of the Com ( :•?>- :
•-/J Chu v.i'men ‘H? a ‘on of >v-
Im. Kt Re. .!-• K Ch
jt re iovmer L - S-rjo of tic -
Tiw Rev Moore r-fgt that Char
lotte clergymen plain no iramed*-
«te action concerning the move
ment.
"I have talked to several nf rr
r.brcther clergy this morning’* he i
paid, ‘and they, like myself, arc
distressed about this. Rut ve don't :
plan any meeting at this time,
Alexander, who bis been
i’iese.lv associated with the Wee
klenhuiif Patriots oi 'North Car
olina. Inc., 3 oro-sesremation I
organiiratlpß, indicated She c»n- 1
it is !br>m;bt that the 'nj’tiir!V
of iwe'-Mise Im hind the tersest*
nil! depend apod »be results of
the referendum held on Angus,
:* to decide whether the Ca.tr
l‘oro hi boo? Administration
v’iU merge With Use Chape!
* Hill tjchool Distrirl.-
rand their children to the Chsir;
B?fl schools. since Ihej e are nobs
in Carrboro A v;0 twi pupil tui
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fbsircbmrys I* in :- - {■,
counter the diocese stated ra
sitwa that enforced segregation
is un-Christian.
The Churchmen believe AIexan
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in Holt
Federal Judge Cdv—, ?,*. SUnii- -
hear i,n>' .juirvrits ,n tho' J"-
Hiram Holt agatet is
iialeigh School Board hm-e on A.u-
Frotn the evidence pre?e«tM in
thswe argumentr -?kd that »» a pre
vious court hearing the judge- will
'iinounre h.- linn! dr-t’-mn on
!loft's application to jilichd the s]].
mte Needham Bwmghtcdi High
N; hoof.
Briefs are expected to be filed
on Anguj-t 7 hv Holt's attorney*.
tlerm-iM Taylor and Samuel Mitch
ell. and attorney-- ,T C. B. Ehring
haur Jr., and Thomas Fills. repre
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