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BREATH OF LIFE Fireman John Hanlin aids 21-year old Mrs. Dolores Davenport with mouth-to-mouth breathing, after she was felled by smoke inhalation in early morning fire raging through top floor of three-story residence in Brooklyn, N Y., last week. Mrs. Davenport was hospitalised for turtHer treat ment. A Fire Lieutenant also was felled by smoke. The blase was brought under control within a ’ PI PHOTO) JL /" V? SIP •" 4. 4 t t ... * 4 FIRST IN N. C. Two-year-old Cyretha Charlene Irving last week became the first in North Carolina tp subscribe to a Junior Life Membership in the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. Flanked by her parents, Mrs. O phelia Irving and Charles G. Irving, Jr., her membership was tak en out last Wednesday. Mrs. Irving is head librarian at St. Aug ustine's College, and Mr. Irving is associated with the Irving- Swain Press in Raleigh. They reside at 533 E. Lenoir Street. Charges Insurance Co. Discriminates FAYETTEVILLE An attorney for a Fayetteville family this week charged that a national automobile insurance company use* discrimi natory methods In paying injury claims. D. I-acy Mcßryde, in letters to the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, charg ed that 'date Farm “makes a prac tice of discriminating against Ne groes bv paving and offering to oay them less than it pays and offers to pay other peopl# who are like wise injured* Mcßryde asked the U S Civil Right* Commission together with other organizations to investigate the riat'.er ’’to the end that these policies of discrimination may be STATE « BRIEF REPRIEVE CHANTtI) BURLINGTON Mack B. Tr.on.pson Burlington bondsman and real estate dealer, has been c ran ted a temporary reprieve uy C.ov Terry Sanford from serving a fix-month sentence for Ille gal posses 'ion of whiskey The rt p irve will last till May 21 Thompson was sentenced on Dee. 17 160 for possession of 21 pints of taxpaid whiskey for sale The whiskey was found in hi* supper clu'o in Mebane. WAIVES HEARING WINSTON-SALEM JOHNY I. Hitch Thrower Says Pastor Shot Him WJN'TON-SALEM The Easter Sunday-Monday weekend in Win -5,0r-Salem was marked by vu>- k A minister, the Rev / R Caver, x, out on 1500 bond in connee uon with x toe shooting of Mack Era exposed and dealt with as a right eous and indignant public opinion will require." The complaint revolved around an auto accident last December in which five members of a Fayette ville Negro family were injured. Requiring hospital treatment were Winnie Dobbin, Amy Dobbin Hiom aa. Margaret Thomas. Delores Thomas and Mae Hazel Thomas. Their automobile collied with a truck owned by the Cashwell Re frigeration Company of Fayette ville. The Fayetteville Recorders Court ruled the driver of the truck was at fault. The company is insur ed by State Farm. According to Mcßryde, the insur f CONTINUED ON PAGE « Gentry, 34-vear-old Negro waited j hearing Tuesday in municipal court on a murder charge. He is enargvd with f-tallv beating Osborn Ja.vls last Thorsdar. CHARGED GREENSBORO - James Lee Me I Coy. 25. of Greonffboro was cha r g- ! ed this week with assaulting an in- 1 former in a narcotics case McC.<y v.-as accused of assaulting the gov- > emmetr wi’n-’ss last week in a pool hall after discovering the man t'ad cooperated with federal narcotic* ; fctwmurrED on page t> Tier. 44. Rev. Caver will face a Mu nicipal Court hearing Wednesday. May 23. Police say that the minister shot Frazier following a rock throwing incident Rev. Caver said FVazier * ’ •'<p Governor Names 8 Negroes To JDYC The Carolinian North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 21, NO. 25 RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1962 PRICE 15c “IDidn’t Intend To Kill Him ” Feud Ends h King + + + +' + + + + Medics Held On Dope Rap Cooperated In Large Chilly Sale PHILADELPHIA <ANP> Two high living luxury loving physici an have been charged with the il legal said of large quantities of narcotics by federal agents who seized them last year. The two. Dr. Eric R Clarke, 49, and Dr. Horace R. Johnson. 5.1. were acoUEcd of cooperating With each dner in the sale of the drugs. Their bond* of $25,000 each were reduced to $18,600 when they pleaded they could not raise them. Johnson’s Cadillac and Clarke’a Thunderbird were impounded. V. S. Commissioner Edward 6. Furia called them “worse than mur derers tor breaking and flaunting their oaths as doctors." The arrests were made in Clarke's office by U S. agents from the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. U. S. Agent Albert R. Brennan summarized the case before Furia In the Federal Building. Brennan said the two doctors on April 4 sold 2.973 dolophine hydro chloride capsules and about an ounce and a quarter of cocaine hy drochloride to the agents, John Ri pa and James Cockerille, for $2,000. Brennan said the drugs were di verted from legitimate medical channels, and cost the doctors less than SSO. Brennan said there were three prior sales, two of which were con fCONTINUED ON PAGE 81 Opportunity To Work Shown The Raleigh Branch of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People this week urged Negioes to apply for jobs with the Raleigh police and fire de partments. Ralph Campbell, president of the local chapter, said that applications are now being accepted. In addition to these two city de partments, Campbell said the NAA CP is also urging Negroes to apply to the Carolina Power and Light Company. Bell Telephone Company, the State Department of Parole and probation. Coming Glass Works. Kellogg ITT Communica tion Division and the Westtnghouse Meter Plant. He said applications are being ac cepted at all of these places. In svbseouort editions of The CAROLINIAN, a list of city job titles and salaries will be liste(J. The list will also be posted in churches and various other business places i 1 '■■iiiwfcjgii ‘mi WEATHER Tti five-day weather forecast (or (hr Raleigh area, heclantag Thursday. April ». aad rontlnnlnc through Monday. April M, la aa follow a: Temperature* will average * «o ( degree* above normal and rain fall arornd a half Inch Thnraday through Monday The normal high and low temperature* 7S and M. Mild temperature* with rhance* of •raftered shower* everyday. threw rocks at his home shortly be- j fore midnight Easter Sunday. Rev. Caver is accused of asaault w-rh a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Frazier is in the Kate Bitting ; Reynolds Memorial Hospital with a I I - ilt W JF m ■ | m;' JACKIE ROBINSON . NAACPTo Hear Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson, foimer Brook lyn Dodger great and first Negro to be elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame, will be in Raleigh Sunday, May 6 for the NAACP Freedom Day Celebration at Memorial Auditori um. Robinson, now a member of the NAACP national board of directors and vice preident of Choc Full O’ Nuts Restaurant Chair, will be key note speaker for the affair. In addition, he will crown some lucky North Carolina matron “Mo ther of the Year". The affair is sponsored by the North Carolina branches of the N AACP Everyone is invited Adnvs sion is free. May Day At Shaw May sth May Day at Shaw University has been set for Saturday, May S. The main program will begin at 2 p m in Spaulding Gymnasium and will feature acrobatics end dances on the theme "Carnival”. A variety of dance creations by students will be highlighted. Genevieve Johnson, a freshman of Valdese, will reign over the fes tivities as May Queen. Her attend ants will be LaVerr.e Blackwell, a junior of Burlingtoh, and Kayre tha High, a junior of Zebulon. The court will include Cory Woods; a senior from Preston Ma ryland: Pauline Watkins, a senior from Wake Forest; Patricia Haves, a sophomore of St. Albans. New j York; Matyrc Latta. a sophomore j from Ralelg/i: and Annette Walker ! a freshman from Durham. This event is sponsored bv the Physical Education Department of Shaw University. Mrs. Vivian San som. William Spann, and Robert Jackson are directors and choreog raphers of the show. Studert it'.st- j ants arc Willie Stone and Carolyn \ Mack, physical education majors (gunshot wound in the chest His condition is fair. He said “the Rev" shot him Rev Ccaver denied the sbootir.g. but a j 32 caht«er revolver was found on ] bis bed. Argument Results In Shooting “I didn't intend to kill him, but I was trying to protect myse f. I'm really sorry Un whole tiling happened.’’ With remorse In hi* voice. • 20- year-old man who faces the poe eiblllty of the got chamber or life imprisonment, aolemly spoke these words to t reporter thu week. From his cell in Wake County Jell. Green Howard. Jr.. 1194 B. State St., was telling of evanta lending to the gllling of Ms It* year-old brotfer.jp 1»% alter » ■family rucm Lu*. Frksy ..rjut, Howard is being held In Wake County jail without privilege of bond on a charge of the murtler ol Eugene Edward Perry, 17. Cary, a high school senior. He is rcheduled for a preliminary hear ing sometime this week. Relating his story. Howard said it all started because of an argu ment between his wife and him self. “After our argument Friday morning, my wife went away and stayed most of the day. She later returned with her mother, Mrs. Mary Wright, who was trying to make her leave me. "1 asked my mother-in-law to leave my house, but she told me to put her out. I didn’t bother her. She went out and called her hus band,” Howard said. (CONTINUED ON PAGE I) Prominent Couple In Auto Mishap WINSTON-SALEM A promin ent Winston-Salem couple was hos pitalized at King's Mountain Hos pital in King's Mountain early last Tuesday morning Their automo bile was involved n an accident, and they spent more than an hour seeking help. The victims were Mr. and Mra Harvey Elwood Staplefoote. Mr. Staplefoote Is adult aecretary of the Patterson Avenue YMCA Branch. Mrs. Staplefoote is a public health nurse. Both ere prominent In Win ston-Salem civic and church activi ties. They were on their way home from en Easter weekend in Atlan ta. Ga. With Mr. Staj-lefoot at *h» wheel, their compact automobile veered off Highway 1-85 five miles South of King's Mountain, rolled down a hill and smashed Into a pine tree. (CONTINUED ON PAGE *> CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS Bin FROM THEM page i , „ _ Public Service Co of N C. Horton * Cash Stors ( ommualtr florist Thomas' Red and Whit* Pood Stora PAGE S Plreaton* St rrs Johnson-Lambe Co. PAGB S Hudton-Bc ik - Eflrd* Hunt General Tlr* Company Gem Watch Shop Southern Purnltorr Wholesale Co. Rhodes Exterminating Co. !PAGE * C araletgh Purnttor* Store PAGE S i Colonial Store* 1 Raleigh Pnnersl Homo 'rme Realty tompanv R E. Quinn Purnltur* Co. PAGE » iA*P Pood Store. 1 Standard Coot ret* Product* Co Mttm: OMEN HOWARD, JR. Juveniles Arrested In Break-Ins **4h trie afreet*, of tofcjti Ps eon*, most at them Juveniles. Raleigh po lice believe they have cracked a ring of junior* burglars in this a rea. Detectives this week arrested six juveniles and two adults In connec tion with some 15 burglary and brcak-lns In the Raleigh area In volving approximately SSOO. Bound over for Juvenile autho rities are Clarence Keith, 14. 903 E Jones St.; Archie Harding. 14, 910 E. Jonee Street; Tommy Lee Fvans. 14. 506 1-2 Rose Garden Lane; Purvis Gtllis, 14, 918 E. Jones St.; Albert Jones, Jr., 14, no ad dress available; Caalena McClean, 15. no address available. Placed under SSOO bond for a Su perior court hearing was Edward I,ee Harris, 18, 1501 New Bern Ave Released on hi* own recognisance for a Superior Court hearing was Charles Steel, 20. 415 W Edenton St. The juveniles have been charged with a series of burglaries and break-ins, the major ones being Newton's Grocery, 507 Halifax St on April 13 In which $l6B plus mer chandise was taken. ODDS-ENDS BT ROBERT O. SHEPARD PONDER THE PATH OF THY FEET OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES It U human nature to seek and welcome opportunities. We want opportunity to do well In IS of our human endeavors, to succeed and to gat ahead la the vast and sometime* complex areas of life. What about opportunities to aerveT As a racial group, wa should be- In to think more and more about opportunities to serve other*. And. we must do more than think, we must work to put our thinking In to action Too long have we Ignored our opportunities to serve our commu nities by voting, manifesting in terest and taking part in elections (CONTDSPED ON PACE *> ■ M Touag Hardware PAGE Id __ . _ Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Raleigh Oil lon Motor Ptnaaro Co. Seven-Dp Bottling Company Carolina Builder* Carp. Ridgeway's Optician*, Me. Blood worth St Tourist Home Oelua* Hotel Warner Memorials PAGE II Fowler's Nursery Mechanic* * Farmer* Bask Carolina Power * Light C* (.mstead's Oroeery * Transfer Dunn's Esao Service Center PAGE f Lincoln Theatre Joe Mumirk's Promotions PAGE IS Plggly Wlgfly Raleigh Seafood Company Security Market-, Rhode* Purnltorr Company iA , j i K -A ’ JHt A,;; . ' JgjjuM H|PHpP^|ijjW v V ■■ H MRS. ALICE HSIWWWjL hi , m DR. JOHN R. LARKINS DR. ORADT D. DAVIS Three Raleighites Among Selectees Eight Negroes were appointed to the Governor's Commission on Ju venile Delinquency and Youth Crime this week by Gov. Sanford. Two of them are Raleighites Accepting appointments to the Commission were Dr. Grady Davis, Shaw University professor of Reli gion and Dr. John Larkin, consul tant. State Department of Welfare. Larkins was also selected to serve on the President's Advisory Com mittee on Youth Crime. Other Negroes named lo the Commission Include Earl Whltted, Goldsboro attorney; Rev J. R Mc- Cray of Elisabeth City; Mrs Alice Hannibal, a member of the Kinston City CWinetl: Robert Person of the Mecklenburg County department of Welfare; A. H. Bryant of Rocky Mount end Mr*. E. M. Spellman of Also tog .’ fcl Ol! Center at 802 Fayettei)jjie St.. Honeycutt Clean ers, 608 'New Bern Ave.. and the Auto Electric Service at 515 Hali fax Street. Included were several laundromats. Steel and two of the Juvenile* were also charged with receiving stolen goods. Detectives Sgt. H L Moore said Holiday Crime Shows Increase The Easter weekend this year was marred by violence which kept Raleigh policemen busy around the clock In addition to numerous ac cidents which ran the state (tenth toll In the 20's and many minor law Infractions, several Raleigh Ne groes were hospitalized or requir ed medical treatment. In one case, a 19-ycar-old hotel employee wa* spparently accident ally shot In tha face and Is In cri tical condition at Wak* Memorial Hospital this week. Ha Is Wilbert Signal of the 500 block of Bloodworlh St., an em ployee at the Sir Walter Hotel According to police, Signal wa« Shot in the fare by Clyde Streets, 88. of the 600 hloork of S Blood worth St while Streets was display ing a pistol he had bought Streets told police the pistol ae rldentally discharged He said ha did not know It wa* loaded Wit nesses to the accident confrimed his statement, II TO DEDICATE CHURCH—Dedication of the First Church of God. 1297 East Edenton Street, Raleigh, is set lor Sunday. Ap ril 29, 1962. The pastor. Reverend Mrs. Nancy Ford, will be in charge of the morning worship at 11:00 o clock Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock the Service of Dedication will be held. Reverend Herman L. Counts, Prolessor of Theology at Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N. C.. will be guest speaker. Others parft cipatmg on the program are Dr. Paul H Johnson, pastor of the Martin Street Baptist Church; Reverend Mrs Mamie H Watspß, of Darlington. S. C.; Mrs. Virginia Dowling ol Darlington; Rev erend Willie Amerson. pastor of the Church ol God. Durham, and Mrs. Sara Blackman, of Bennettsville, S C. Elisabeth City. The Board's major function is to study delinquency and youth crime in the state and to make recommen dation* to the Governor. They will alsc set up centes to train persons involved in youtk correction. A total of 80 persons were named to the Commission which held its first meeting at Chapel Hill on A pril 24. Blaine M Madison, State Ccm mlssioner of Correction Is head of the body. Another appointment last week was that of Attorney Fred Carnagl to tha Governor's Committee on Protocol. Carnage was one of twelve persons appointed. He Is the only «CONTINUED ON VAOS that Evans and Keith were tha first to be arrested Monday after Evans' fingerprints wire found at the grocery store lots*' . The at rest of these two led to the apprehension of the ethers the sergeant said. Other investigating officers in cluded P D Gilbert, R. L. Bunn, and R. C. Covington. At presstime. Streets was being held bv police without bond r>Hv.* leges pending the outcome of Sig nal's condition. In another case. Roosevelt Rich ards sustained a cut throat for an Easier present ns a result of a fight in (he 14(VI block of Onkwood Ave Police are hnldlnr Wllll»r> Well of Raleigh in connection with the cutting As a rrsult of anolhei fight in the 800 block of S East St., a 24- year-old man was hit In the head with a hatchet allegedly by his irirl friend Charged with an affray with a deadly weapon are Walter C John son. who cave hi* residence as YM CA. and Mi" Bessie Dunn of the (,0C block of S F.ast Street. Poller reported Miss Dunn struck Johnson over the head with a hat rhet after Johnson had threatened lo cut her with a kitchen knife- Both are being held for court ac tion
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