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J J wFA^'-& Jp'4 4' v'j 1 ■•■•;•;1l f •'• ■ ~ ' <i f •. ''-#xvv fll 1 S^lK-J X i'.fß|.:p?'"l | 1 T - <-' ; : ?sV : ' xL.' v v' ;' V . • ' _. %&£+*&.„ s^H WAITS FOR 'NEGRO' AMBULANCE Ei£ht year-old Mary Louise Butler lies critically injured after being struck by a truck in a Montgomery, Ala. downtown street. A 'white' aml”- lance arrived at the scene moments after the accident. bu£ waited nearly IS minutes for a 'Negro ambulance to arrive before takir.g the child to a hospital. The girTs mother (rear) is comforted bv passers -by as they await arrival of the ambulance. I r- s—— Wait For ‘Negro Ambulance Almost Costs Ala. Girl’s Life MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP) - In this Alabama town, widely known for its strong white suprem acy and segregation practices, even mercy requires a certain color. An Negro girl, who lay injured in a street about 15 minutes while a white ambulance driver watched and waited for an ambulanef“BSr Negroes f» arrive, ,i as improved Thursday but still in HAM AND EGG WINNERS—M. T. Upchurch, left, pre terits trophies to Larry Williams, 14, center for the “Best Ham” and McKenton McClomb, 16, for the “Best Eggs” in the county at the recent Ham and Egg Show and Auction held at Smithfield. The boys are members of the 4 -H and NFA organisations in the county. This is the first year 4 -H members have won the award. Introduce Week Long Easter Services Here St Paul AME Church here is the and his congregation from Rush scene of one of numerous Holy Metropolitan Church headed the Week services being held in this services. area m commemoration of the Wednesday night s services were Easter theme conducted by the Rev. D. N How- At 8 p. m. each evening beginning &rd and congbegaticn from Tuppcr Monday, tnc following ministers, . Memorial Baptist Church, their choirs and congregations con- . On Thursday, the Rev J. Oscar ciucted setvices I McCloud and the congregation from On Monday, the Rev L. S. Penn. (he Davie Street Presbyterian pasior of St. Paul AME conducttu . church- led the services. services j Tuesday mrht. Rev. T. H. Harris I (continued ok pag» ?> McCLOI D HOWARD HARRIS HARASS PENN Herman Riddick Named Coach Os Year DURHAM —North Carolina Co!- 1 Iccc s football coach. Herman H i Riddick. hMt*-™ seated aa BK -CIAA Coach of the Year Word o Riddick'* selection came this rWk from the CIAA Comnnisflon ers The tfftfek NCC PM tor received the haadaome serious condition: ■The child, Mary Lois Butler, was struck by a truck Wednesday, and 15 minutes elapsed before the white ambulance company took her to the hospital. Officer Roy Parnell said that <no*ver Si'hx i'r amijulang: cfcrted a whi'lr mtiroomparS-. “probably thinking the child was white." f Trophy-Clock, symbol of the honor, from Vernon “Skip" McCain. I*6o winner, at the Central Intercollegiate Athlet ic Anwiithn’i annual meet ing in Washington. D. C-. re cently. Riddick garnered the honor by winning the 1961 CIAA grid cham ! Principal Says Notes Forged , lAgon SUSPENDS STUDENTS I The Carolinian I - -- .. M North Carolina's Leading Weekly VOL. 21, NO 24 RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. APRIL 21, 1962 PRICE 15c 121 Candidates In Race Interest Increases As Sansom Enters VINSON RESIGNS 18-YEAR POST __ _ Gives No Reason For Action ' / George D. Vinson, for 18 years |; pi incipal of the Riley Hill School jn the Wakclon district, declined to mment on his sudden decision to ' °sign his position this week. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) Upon arriving and finding tho victim to be a Negro, Farnell seid that he suggested a Negio ambu lance be dispatched. , "We waited, thinking every min ute a Negro ambulance would show \T r - Fe-'inM sold. qr*'f when Re cant, » *(*• ke«Hpi» '>lv- - cnj the white ambulance it he wmrto do me a personal favor and take the gh-h - f ‘ "The driver saM he would be fflad to and backed the ambulance up and took the victim to the hospi tal.” Farnell said. The ambulance driver said he ad ministered first aid while waiting (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z» Three Put Out Os Church NEW ORLEANS— The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Or leans Monday excommunicated three segregationists who. opposed the archbishop's orders regate all Catholic schools In the archdiosese next fall. The three are Mrs. B. J. Gal lot. who claims the Bible advo cates segregation: Leander H. Pe rez. Sr., a political leader who urged contributions to the church be stopped: and Jackson G. Ri cau, head of the Bouthem Louisi ana Citizens Council The Archdioses made the an nouncement at a siiecial news con ference last Monday morning. It said the spiritual penalty could be remitted only by the archbis hop or by his delegate. The announcement said: (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Spaulding Gets Merit Award DURHAM— Presentation cere monies of the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute Su preme Award of Merit will be held at White Rock Baptist Church here Praiday Site of the presentation cere monies was changed from the Jack Tar Hotel because of the wide public interest and the expect* d large turnout. Asa T Spauklirg, recipient o’ the award this year, said that a d‘nner at the Jack Tar limited to 100 persons would exclude too (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) pionship and finishing third in ( | the Associated Negro Press week ly grid poll. In the process, hj compiled a record of seven wir>-.. two ties and no losses. This is the second time that Riddick has been honored as “Cl-. ' AA Coach of the Year". The Nor- 1 -. folk Journal <k Guide bestow‘-d 1 * *B S S^ if*,' *< (^H|^Hl * M' &«•' * : '9VS i '"fek I • I Al IV. SsANSOM First Negro To Seek Comm. Post , We need capable people to ‘ wumagv cut to the 4 t«.v >•: util ’•ariflfi’' need' efcpnbte rttamagshicpi tpi any buzmcii. . . wfth this % mind, I ha#* agreed to submit my® If to tfab judgment of the Citizensiof Wakß County as to whether they would want my ser vices as a Cbunty Commissioner" In announcing his carjrtUfecy for County Commissioner, J, J. San som made the above stat|ftient here this week. Sansom. vice president and man agr of the Raleigh branch of Me chanics and Farmers Bank. Friday became the first Negro ever to tile for the Wake County Board of Com missioners. Sansom filed as a Dem ocrat in District Two. He is one of 121 candidates seek ing office in yie May primaries. Sansom will be running against . 'ihomas R. Allen, WaynC W Brown, James L. Judd, and Rommie Un church, all Democrats Two persons from District Two will be elected A native of Atlanta, Oa . the can didate is a graduate of Morehouse College and® holds a law degree from North Carolina College. Before cormng to Raleigh in t'l.Vi. he served as law professor at North Carolina College Law School and manager of a Wachovia Branch Bank in Winston-Salem. He is marrii d to the former Vi vian Merrick of Durham. She is a nriemoer of the Shaw University faculty. They have four children. Joseph Merrick. 18. Beryl Vivian. 16. Sarah Genevic, 11, and James Edward. ; Add—TO SANSOM STORY Other candidates filing for .the pri maries include Republican John W Thedick and Democrat John It. Jordan lor Stale Senate Democrat* Thoma* D Bunn. John S Log* ln*. A A. McMillan and W. Bently Womble and Republican* P Floyd Booker*. Mr». E 5 Johnson and Lawrence Harria for House of Reprc- j tentative* Democrat J. Russell Nipper, unop- i tvmed for clerk of Superior Court j Democrat* Walter G t-asater. Robert .1 Pleaaant*. Clarence G Leggett and Republican J. H Steinbeck for sheriff, for County Com miaei oner*, District One. Dem* Woodrow W Cox. LUliam F Gilliam. Rilph K Sevmour. Berry 5 Tesh and W Hal Trentman: District Two. D-m* Thoma- R Al ien. W’ayne Brown. James L Jurid. 1 Prmms F Upchurch and J J. Ssn J wm: District Tbret*. D-tn* W C Ha l le> Sr,. J F. Harris. Troy Howard r 'E Smith. Mr* Ethel B Tipton. Mat llpM Nt *n -IN PAGE ft | WJCATHE^ —— . The five day weather forecast for the Raleigh srea. beglnnlQ" Thursday. April l*. and rontlnatnc through Monday, April 2J, la *• foDowi: Temperatures wHI average ahout S to • degrees jbrtow normal, ram falls win avtmge a quarter to a half torh. occurring about Mon day. the lUnor upon h m)in 19*6 Aloiig the Riddick * 6! Eagle Vjued allotted their oppo nents then won the loop rusmjjj/crown with an xt enure of 202 9 yards per game In 17 seasons at North Carolina (CONTINUED 0 N PAGt n Stroud’s Job Still Vacant No one has yet been named to fill the vacancy left by W. T. Stroud, former manager of the Wal nut Terrace Apartments, according to Housing Authority officials this week Stroud resigned his position last week as manager of the apartments for an undetermined reason, and housing officials refuse}! to com ment last week on the resignation. f\ G. Turner, assistant director of tM? authority told The CAROLIN IAN this week that there have been (CONTINUED ON PAlit t) DR. JOHNSON Fight Without Hate, Says Dr. Johnson Dr. Mordecai W Johnson, Presi dent Emeritus of Howiird Universi ty addressed more than 400 faculty and students at St. Augustine's Sixth Annual Honors Convocat’on Wednesday in Taylm Hall "I appeal to you, not alone as members of St. Augustine * Honor* Societies, but as leaders of tonioi v, you and you alone can change tne boundaries of Human limitn tions all over the world." said Di Johnaon. "Be ye prepared for these changed boundaries and only through specialized hlghei educa turn with a philosophy to fight the r vil iiabits of man without haling the man. can we cal) ouiscJvc,- Christian Scholar s " (tONTJNLKII ON FAGk 2> ODDS-ENDS HV ROBERT G MIF.FARD “He la «•( here. He ia risen." CHRIST IS NOT AMONG THi; DEAD LUKE 24 2-6 And they found the clone rolled away from lh<- sepul chre. And they entered in md found not the tx-ny of th< Lord Je sus. And it came to pam »> they were much perplexed there .bout. b< hold, two men stood oy them in shining garment-: Arda- tru-y were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, lh"v mi,4 unto .hew, why seek yc the living a mong the dead’ He is not here but if r iaen. The small group of d» .out -wo men who had followed Christ to trie Cross, came early in the rr<■ n ing. after the Sabbath had pa to anoint the body of their Cruc; fled Lord T.ev were both mysti (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2> ON LIBRARY BOARD The Wake County Commiaaioners Monday named Mrs. Nora E. Lockhart, Principal of the Cw» by-Garfield School, above te the Board of the Richard B. Harri son Public Library. Mrs. Laek whe lives at 115 8. Tarboro Road w'll fill the unexptrrd term of the late Dr. L. E. Mc- Cauley which win expire ea Sep tember I, 196 T. General Integration Sought By Parents, Says Judge DURHAM Durham parent* who appealed Ihcir integration suit lo ihr United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals are really seek ing general desegregation of the Durham City Schools, Judge Edwin M Stanley of the North Carolina Middle District Court said Monday. After reviewing the history of two ca.v s which he conlidalod for trial and ruled on July 20, 1061. that more than half of the .students had not exhausted State administrative remedies' before recking federal court relief, he declared: "All that if being sought is a de y-tiuntion bv the rourt that the Dur liam City Schools are tM-ing npeiat llon a racially discriminatory ba -i and injunctive relief. ‘They simply want nothing more oi les* than < general order of de segregation. and in seeking such an Raleigh Police Continue Search For Hold-Up Men Raleigh police are still on the lookout for two Negro men who »ho robbed a Leesville storekeep er at gunfioint of about *l6O Tues day evening Robert Ward who operates ; Ward's Store gave officers this' account of the robbery. The men. one about 22. the oth- \ er around 50, came Into the store a* Waid was preparing to close. The bandit* ordered two soft drinks and wanted to know if Ward had any beer They then told Ward they wanted some thing to eat The grocer got out some butogna and some crackers j arid returned to the counter. The younger man stepped a- 1 .AROLINIAN ~~ ADVERTISERS BUT FROM THEM rAi.i 2 llufUifiS < <*nli ftOir/ M« liifHl Hatton / l.aniPi »' *< f 4 Hl*n<J«*fd ( onrrete V ttdui It to Me< hanif » A: fdfinfft PA«efe i Ililrt-onHelk tflld a pAOfc * Hi*- Va bri« Hht»p NeHUhlßf Roftftni to iMinoton* Ip»jmo nervier H'rphrn i Apf'lan* Cwmpdri) \i mp Rp*ft) I o RxlMfH hirtMiirf Co. H»un-lp Bottling ( o W 4f O I phfiht/rv Co. B'»Y»jiIo»* f tin pan* A BuiUJrr® 1 Bargain flforr Rdfpifh Paiuf A Waflpafwr < o. Idr4, f*lnfll»tug A Hratini < o * 4j#ii*i Vitutitn Ru»f* fi H. Br<»« ln»- \uUi !n«tir»n»e JKftPe *lr W*l*ir t hrwolrf f » HilHeh Furnitur fttore 1 Wm» BM Rimblcr fMHtiuni Company PACK • Eligible To Return Thursday Twelve Llgon High School stu dents, most of them seniors, were suspended from school for a five day period last week when It was learnt d that the atudents had sign ed the r parents’ names to dotes re questing that they be excused from school. H. E. Brown, principal at Ligon, said he suspended the students af ter he discovered the notes had been written and forged by stu dents. He said they would be eligi ble to return to school on Thurs day. Names of the students were withheld. It had been reported by fairly reliable sources that some Ligon High students had periodically missed days from school to attend "wild'' daytimo parties. There was no substantial report to show that the suspended students were a par*, of this group. Duvis did say. however, that no (CONTINUED ON PAl.t ft N. CTs Big Businesses Under Fire Discrimination In employment in several North Carolina big busi nesses may be under fire, us this ! week, a presidential committee cracked down on two companies accused of racial discriminations by directing special investigations be fore the firms may receive any more government contracts. North Carolina businesses undet fire were not named, but the com mlttee indicated that there were several which held government contracts. Tuesdays action was the first such action taken by the President's Committee on Equal Employment opportunity to enforce the federal government's non -discrlm history clause in its contracts. (CONTINUED ON~ PAGE t) order they completely ignor* every court decision construing the North Carolina Assignment and Enroll ment of Pupils Act. ". . . Since the minor plaintiffs • the Negro rtudentsi have clcariy demonstrated that they are not In terested In a protection of their in dividual rights undei the Constitu tion of the United Stale-, apd do not desire that then mdirtdusl lights be determined and enforced by the court, the court i* left no al ternative other than to dismiss the action." He said it was likely that hi* court would have disagreed with ttic school board’s decision on Homo of the reasslgnnu nt appliea tions, but that the plaintiff* “have steadfastly refused to give the court (CONTINUED (IN PAGE 2) round the end of the counter »nd said, "Give me your money ... or I’ll blow your brains out.” Wh.te the youngpr man tv Id the 88 cali ber revolver on Ward, the other bandit went around the counter ' and got the money out of the cash I register. The on* with the gun then told Ward to !a« down on the floor. The two men ran out of the store. go( Into a dark colored sedan and aped p.wny Three unidentified youths, sit ting In a car neai the store, aus !|ucted somi thing was wrong and gave chase. The youths were un ! able to catch up with the fleeing bandits < olonlaJ (Mores K-*l»*U;h Puncrsl Horn* mr K*-4lt> l orniunv * K Quinn Furniture to Muni (central Itrp t orniuny *t. IH *: h Seafood C oni|»*ny pa fik 9 Aa I* hMKt flti»r< • Dunn* Kmo (M-mH* ( rnirr I Irrjilonr St mi 4o* Mu mirk* Promot ion» » oulrr » Nu'»rry pa«,»; id pp|»hi -Cola Boil line Co of K4leigh Dillon Motor Finance t o Hrwn-1p Mottling l ompany Carolina Bulldm Corp Bidiirnav'i Optician*. Im Blood worth Bt TourHt Mornr Deluxe Hotel H j rn»*r Memorials PAOF If t online Power A fight t » Thiiirui R<*d and HMfe food Hhfe I.Uhtner* Ftrneral Home » M. Young Hardware Centra! Drag fterr P%OE 1C Plglv Mlrgly Charles Department More Security Market 'il!!!8«| JHI JgSi&P *BpB mm ■ IB B B J. L. CHAMBERS UNCHonor Society Taps Chambers CHAPEL HILL Julius L*. Chambers, senior law student at the University of North Carolina, be came the first Negro student-to he tapped into membership of the Or der of the Golden Fleece, a Univer sity honorary organisation, Monday night Chambers, of Mt. Gilead, was one cf 18 UNC students inducted into the organization. 1 A graduate of North Caroltca College, he has been one the top students in the UNC law school for the past three years. Last var he was named editor of the E.iw Re view. an honor which is usually >e served for the top student in the senior class. Monday night's ceremonies mark, ed the *>9th year of the honorary or ganization. J. MeNeil Smith Greensboro attorney, addressed the dinner for students and alumni members of the order after the lap ping ceremony. Dr. Parker To Head NC Teachers Dr. Lafayette Parker of Winston- Salem wss elected President of the North Carolina Teachers Assooje-. tlon, succeeding retiring PresidAt W. R. Collws of Smithfield as the Association ended a three day con vention here Saturday morning. Other officers cloned Include W G* Bpcrs of Chifk|tU. Otecprosi diO«E Mr*. Geneva M, Bowl# .«* Mttrfruesboro, secretary; and Or Nelson H Harris of SHow Qgjeertl* ty, r#-ePlcted treasur'd*, V Tlie Convention meet in again n"XI a salary of SH.OOO so ♦H.rtflO for an ! executive secretary and authorised the Executive Committee to name an executive secretary within 30 to 80 days Elected te the Executive Commit tee were W K. McNeil of Lumher ton. Mrs. Jeanette Morrison aud Mrs. hdnn Smallwood 9# . ' ’ ■pr ■ w >"■* W / j i a*,;.: - - *-• A FIRST—M Us Ama 1y * Keane. 24. presently In her fin* ml year of law aehool at the Uni versity of Michigan, will become the first Negro lawyer for the New York f'rm of Hughes. Hub l ard. Blair and Reed. A spokes man for thr firm said that Miss Hearse was selec'cd because jl her "very escellent record.” State News -IN Briefs _ SOUGHT IN. SLAYING WINSTON-SALEM A wararnt for murder was drawn here tjjjp v<ck for 19-yeri-old Mtchafi Shannon, accused in the slsylSl cf Willie Urvi Sawyer. 25. of Wtor- Lton-Satem. Police allege Shamtgß shot Sawyer with a .25 pistol.*" CHARGED WINSTON-SALEM —A Si year-old woman waa charged with manslaughter here thla week In connection w'th tk» auto slaying of her mother-Iw lIIINTWVtO ON PAGt I)
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