Baptists Split On Shaw
IBV. WALTER J. TIERNEY
Priest To
End 23-Year
Tenure Here
Altar 23-year* et dedicated aarv
lea to the Raleigh area, tee Rev
Walter Jeratne Tierney, rector of
Si Monica’s Church and had of the
school. hade farewell to- the city
Tuesday.
Rather Tierney haa been aaslgn
ed to a parish in Detroit, Mich, and
ia scheduled to aaaurae Us new du
ties there Sunday.
“It is difficult to put into words
how I feel about leaving,'* Father
Tierney said during an interview
with The CAROLINIAN.
“You Just can’t brush away 33
yean of your life and leave it at
though it were nothing. But it's a
matter of obedience—when you're
called, you've got to go”, he said.
“Life in Raleigh has been very
interesting and satisfying. I’m go
ing to miss tee people here—and
the parish. In some way I wish I
didn't have to leave,” he added.
Father Tierney, who has been or
dained a priest for 30 years, has
had numerous other assignments
before coming to Raleigh, but says'
there is something special about his
assignment here.
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INFAMOUS DOOR This to
what has been termed the “In
famous Dear- to the one toilet
and bathroom at the Lexington
Memorial Hospital available to
toaUvtotten!
Note that there fe no sign to in
dieato what the room ia used* for.
Five Hurt
In 2-Car
Collision
A two-car collision at Cabarrus
and East Streets late Monday night
resulted hi the hospitalisation of
ftvo person*—-tour white and one
Negro.
Treated at Wake Memorial Hos
pital for multiple injuries was Abe.
Lucille Alitor-. 411 Haywood St.
Treated et Rex Hospital ware
Mrs. Esther Maseengiil of 2910 S.
Saunders St ; Jimmy David Rouse
and Glenda Fay Rouse of 3710 New.
bold St; and Bobby Green Jonee of
Fuquay Srpings.
Escaping uninjured was William
Massengill of 2510 S. Sounder St.
Also escaping injury was Bobby
Ray Stuart of Rt. 1, Vafina.
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Duo Held In
Infant’s Death
rocky MOUNT A young
Rscky Mount couple who admitted
wiling their infant son ia order to
collect S1&000 insurance haa baan
held without privilege of bond on
a charge of murder.
Police identified the couple aa
John Rruffin. 3a and his wife. Peg*
gy. 20.
Rocky Meant Police Chief 1. I
Nichols said the couple confessed
planning the h*»mg before their
month and a half old infant was
born He said the couple told police
they were in deep financial trou
ble and needed the money.
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THE CAR Oil NIAS
North Carolina's Leading. Weekly
VOL. 21, NO. 3S RALEIGH, H. C„ SATURDAY, 1962 PRICE ISa
Registration Is Successful
37 INTEGRATED
Johnson
Denounces
Threats
BY BILL SLATER
Just aa in a mystery movie, the
Shaw University situation’s plot
thickened this week as develop
ments occurred so quickly that
one needed a scorecard to keep up
with who’s ahead.
Developments occurred as fal
lows:
1. A statement* released earlier
this week by the executive board
of the General Baptist State Con
vention of North Carolina asked
the executive committee of Shaw's
board of trustees-to rescind their
action in discharging the school's
president, Dr. Wtllilun R. Strass
ner or else suffer the consequen
ces of losing the convention’* sup
port.
3. At least two officers of the
convention's executive board told
the CAROLINIAN that the decis
ion wasn't to their thinking and
asked that their names be with
drawn from the resolution.
3. Meanwhile, a representative
from the truatoe board to the
general convention released an
answer to . the convention’s reso
lution to the affect that the eon
sSfELs’
would be well for the Baptist body
to contribute more support rather
than threaten to taka away what
ever support it gives.
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Defense Secretary Urged To
Dishan Biased Guard Units
In a telegram to Defense Secre
tary Robert S. McNamara. Tues
day afternoon, AlexanddY Barnes,
Director of Public Relations and
Social Service, AMS Zion Church,
urged him to disband all segregat
ed units of the National Guards in
an effort to pare the number to the
quota he asked the governors con
ference to oker, at their 54th meet,
in Hershey, Pa., this week.
The message was as follows:
Lexington
Negroes Ask
Equal Care
LEXINGTON - ~The unrest a
mong Negroes about alleged con
ditions at the City Memorial Hos
pital hat not abated and from all
indications it ia a long way from
being settled.
C. C. Wall. Sr., chairman of the
Board of Trustees, told The CARO
LINIAN that he had received' a
letter from Mrs. G. Z. Sullivan,
heed of the hospital committee of
the NAACP, and countersigned hr
B. T Thomas. Rev. Charlie Leve
rett, Mesdames Minnie Cooper. Ma
bel Edwards and Charlie Everett.
The letter set forth the following
changes:
—Stopping all racial segregation
in the hospital.
—Removing all signs in or about
the hospital that designate race.
—Permitting Negroes to occupy
rooms and use all facilities on a
non-segregated basis in the imme
diate future.
Mrs Sullivan and various other
NAACP members have been cam
paigning for desegregation of the
hospital for more than 15 months
Mrs. Sullivan did not say what
•he KAACP's next step would be
following the letter.
The NAACP. thru its field re
presentative. Chas. A. McLean, is
said to have entered the fight and
promises to see that race citizens
get a better break.
The story of the hoapitaL built in
19M. is a little different from nu>ny
of the other hospitals now in the
news. Wall stated that it waa built
by funds raised by public spirited
citizens, both white and Negro. The
policy is made by the board and
no outside agency can dictate The
chairman further stated that be felt
that Negroes received the some
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FIVE INJURED Five penmns were injured to the maaah-up
Monday night as an automobile going toot on Cabarrus St. was hit
by an auto going north on East St. Poiaans were treated at Rax and
Wake Hospitals. All are in fair to goad condition*. 1
Several Hundred Names
Added To Raleigh Books
latest reports op tha registration
drive now in progress hare indicate
remits below th* expectation of its
sponsors**. -
This drive, sponsored by the Ra
leigh Citizens Association (RCA)
and participated in by an integrat
ed group of college student* work
ing under the auspices of the Na
tional Student Association, (NSA)
Honorable Robert S. McNamara
Secretary of Defense
Washington, D. C.
In view of the fact that your de
partment is on record for complete
integration of the armed forces and
since there are many states, includ
ing North Carolina, that do not per
mit Negroes to be members of their
National Guard, I would like to
urge ydu, in your official capacity,
to issue an order disbanding all
segregated units of the National
Guard. Thia would enable you to
bring the quote to your desired
number.
Alexander Barnes, Director
Public Relations and Social
Service, AME Zion Church
It is to be remembered that th*
;>olicy of membership in the Na
tional Guard, in Norte Carolina,
has long been an issue and Negroes
have repeatedly asked that it be
changed, but their pleadings have
continuously fell on deaf ears. No
governor has been inclined to re
move th* barrier and Negroes xr*
not permitted th# opportunity to
serve their state or their country,
as a member of the National Guard.
W EATH K H
Th* n*« «ar weather teraeate
tor th* Ratetsh arm tostuta*
Thar*g*y. Znly S. sag emtteatas
throafh Meager, Jely *, I* •• fel
low*:
Tenoeratare* win average * to
S gegree* below eeratal, high sag
lew t« ib errata res wtU average eaar
V aag m. features mowers are
•xeecteg most of the perieg. wtth
rainfall sheet a half taeb or mar*.
STATE * BRIEF
HELD DT SHOOTING
BEAUFORT A 23-year-old
man was charged with manslaugh
ter here this week following the
mooting of his 13-yeor-oIS cousin.
Leamcn Sharp* was being held In
lieu of SSOO bond as a result of the
death of his cousin. Ora Lee John
son at Sharpe's home. Police said
th* two werr toying with a pistol
which went iff
KILLED JN ACCIDENT
GARLAND Two person* were
killed and eight were wounded m
a two-car eolltaten near here Sun
day. Th# deed were Mary Link. 61.
both of Rt 1, Garland.
has todate resulted in tee fOgJstrs
ejaarts*!*fe
than 23 percent of the number of
persona contacted tb data.
So ter the registration efforts
have been centered in precincts 34
and 35. Precinct 34 is one of the
new precincts formed by reducing
the area of precinct 30.
When asked to comment on the
apparent lack of enthusiasm for
registering. Dr. Grady D. Davia,
president of RCA Mid he did not
think that the Negroea here really
understood the significance of this
registration project Dr. Davis Mid
he would toko it upon himself to
toy to enlist more local people In
actively taking port ia this cam
paign.
The student group plans to be
in Raleigh through August 3. Be
fore they leave they hope to cover
all the area* in which Negroes live
ia Raleigh.
Man’s Death
Charged To
Brother
Th* brother of a Winaton-Salem
man who died Sunday in Maryland
has been charged with his murder.
Jimmie Green Gamer. 23. a na
tive of Winston-Salem, died et 2:30
a. ns. Sunday at Bradbury Heights,
Md. of a shotgun wound in the side.
His brother, Robah Ellis Garner.
Jr. was char god with first-degfree
murder. In a preliminary hearing
Monday ia Maryland, his ease was
continued until July 34.
The Jimmie Gamer family lived
in o seeond fioer apartment in
Bradbury Haights, and his broth
er's family ttvdb in tha downstairs
apartment ad the same building
Princ* Oaargas Geunty detectives
said there had bom hard feelings
between the two families for about
two weeks. He Mid tee trouble be
gan whan Jimmie visited North
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HELD ON ASSAULT
DURHAM - Three Durhass
teenagers -wert held for question
ing this week in connection with
an alleged rape of • Negro woman
in a wooded area here this week.
Th* teenagers, whose name* were
not released, were picked up after
they were found to fit the descrip
tion given police by the raped wo
man.
STILL MISSING
JACKSONVILLE - Marines and
civilian* continued the •ear-h for
Arnold Humphrey. S3-year-c4d Ne
gro missing since Monday after
noon PeMee mid Humphrey * tea-
32 Rejected
By Raleigh
School Board
The Raleigh Board of Education
this week in assigning sane 37 Ne
gro pupils to prodominitely white
schools, apparently did not give as
thorough a study into the reassign
ment requests as it would want tha
public to bolievs. as all the reas
signment* were reportedly made
within rn hour's time
In a closed session Tuesday, the
board approved the requests of 37
Negro children while overlooking
the requests of 32 others.
According to reports, the reas
signment* cam* in less than an
hour after the closed session. Whe
ther much study and consideration
went into the reassignment* is
questionable.
Bulk of the transfer* were from
I.igon High School to tee now W
G. Enloo School which will open
ita doors for the first time this fall
There were 36 transfers.
A total at nine students wars
transferred Bom Oberlin School to
Daniels Junior High. Two student*
who came from the recently annex
ed Method arm worn assigned to
France* Lacy Elementary School
The reassignment* bring to 48 ter
total number of Nogm shildren
who will be attending trodtionolly
white schools this fall. Nine stu
dents attended Integrated achools
last year.
The reassignment* were made
following the board's regular ses
sion Tuesday. Members of tee press
and other interested persons were
excluded from this session. Offici
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Robeson
Man Dies
In Firs
LUMBFUTON - It 1* bad to
com* back to your home and find
it burned down, but it must be ev
en worse to come beck and find
tee remains of a friend in the ruins.
That happened to Richard Hum
phreys Saturday morning when he
returned to his home on Rt. 1, St.
Pauls. He found that fire had de
stroyed the building and that the
body of Arthur Campbell had been
found besid* the bed. In a front
i oom
No one atoms to know how the
fir* started. Clarence Sinclair wae
believod to have been in the house,
but an investigation proved that he
was not there. The incident is eald
to have shaken him so until ha
was not able to shed much light on
the fit*, nor his whereabouts.
A neighbor. Rayford Lowry, is
said to have saved some of th* fur
niture, but was not ewer* that
Campbell was in the house.
School Case
To Be Heard
This Week
RICHMOND. Vs Durham.
Caswell County end Charlottes
ville, Va.. school cases now in U. S
Federal Appeals Court will be re
hashed again, as the 4th U 8. Cir
cuit Court of Appeal* has schedul
ed reargumenta in Ui# school ra
cial segregation canes involving di
putas over pupil assignment case*
The case* will be heard here on
Monday in a one-day special ses
sion
These cases were previously arg
ued during the appellate court’s
June term at Aibevilie. but no o
ptoiont ware given.
Chief Judge Simon E Sobeleff of
Baltimore, who ordered the re-arg
umentt gave no detailed reason for
action His order laid only ' for
reasons appearing to tha court’.
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YOUNG AND ELDERLY REGISTER Above pictures show members of the registration campaign
signing up Raleigh eitteens of all ago brackets. Top photo show* Mrs. Mabel Winter*, special registrar,
administering the oath to Mr*. Agnes Gee, «S, *f 664 W. Lenoir St. This is the first time Mrs. Gee hoe
registered after spending most of her life In Raleigh. Bottom photo shows two students wtth th* rogls
tratton campaign registering Mrs. Mary M. Cleaves, center, of Tit 8. West St. Students are Nancy Pea
lek of Lontaville, Ky. and Percy High of Raleigh.
“It Won’t Happen Here, ”
Says Local Hotel Manager
If Paul Pqpls, ntoMgor of Heart
dt Raleigh Motel, is at ddlhrmined
at he was stern to Thf CAROLIN
IAN Tuesday, Negroes will .never
deep in that place, as tong as he
is in charge.
In response to e telephone Inter
view in which he was asked If Ne
jrroes spiled for accommodation at
the Heart of Raleigh Motel what
t happen, he replied empheti-
It will never happm hers."
newspaper was trying to **-
the reaction of Raleigh mo
i the program of CORE,
known as “Freedom Highways"
which calls for the integration of
motels. TTic organization, meeting
in Miami. Fit, this week, singled
out North Carolina as one of the
states test it was going to tost.
A representative of Holiday Inn
said that the policy, at it affects
Negroes, varies is to locate. He
Mid that it was not the policy of
the Ralcich Unit to serve Negroes
Sleuths Trap
74 Persons
In Booze Raid
CHARLOTTE A crackdown on
illegal whiskey Mlling in Mecklen
berg County resulted in th* arrests
of 74 persons by Alcoholic Bever
age Contral law enforcement offi
cers last week All of the arrests
came within a two-day period.
Three Negro officers, working
undercover for the ABC board are
credited with setting up this mas*
crackdown. Th# three, who## names
were not released, have boon laud
ed for their fine work.
Henry Bevert. * membr of ABC’s
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CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
Bin FROM THEM
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Merten'* Cask Otara
Buffalo Binary Shay
MltrhtU'a Bastaerant A Dtala* Boom
I AGE S
Central Dree Star*
Community Florist
Sor.-m Opketstery
Goo*nun * Lagla* fhey
o**l Wstrh Shop
: ■ M. Teens Barewar* Ca.
Heat G*a*ral Tin Co.
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Budsoa-Belk
. Inline • Transfer A Greeery
Sooth*re Bell
Mechanics * V* reran Beak
rlrestoe* Star**
Tire Sales A Oervtc*
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Who total* EUctrV Supply, tec.
Baletth Pure Me re Ce.
Sevee-Up BeMUas Ce.
Oaletfh Ft tat A Wallpaper Ce.
O t. Tucker Bros.. lac.
American CregH Ce.
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Streed t Peattac Ce.
Dnan’i Xtae Sarvto.
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AAP Peed Store*
1 CareUaa Fewer A Light Ce
and ha knew at arty planned ehangt
in polity- c
Ha was swap* of tha fact anal'
Negroes lira in the north sector at
th* Greensboro unit When ssked
what would happen if Negroes ap
plied he Mid that he did not know.
The repreeenUtlv* of the Alamo
Mid that he had not been face to
face with th* poblem and would
NAACP Youths Send Picket
Lines To Atlanta Hotels
ATLANTA <UPI> Picket lines
were organized Tuesday by the N
AACP national convention in pro
test against Mgregsted hotel faci
lities hers.
Shortly after the 53rd NAACP
convention adopted s resolution
authorizing the picketing, a large
segment of th* delegates • mostly
young people - were called togeth
er by Herbert Hill, the whit# labor
secretary of th* organization. He
assigned picket groups to most of
the downtown hotels.
Th# Atlanta Hotel Association
insisted that most of the available
rooms were taken up to two year*
ego for a fraternal lodge conven
tion which coincided with the N
AACP meeting. But the racial or
ganization contended that aome cf
ita delegates had been turned down
after their ihservations had been
accepted.
Th# resolution provided for
peaceful picketing in keeping with
■ll local lawns, and therefore would
be merely * protest expression. In
■n addiets prepared for the morn
ing genet si session. Clarence Mitch
ell, director of the Wsahington NA
ACP bureau, urged Negroes to
launch a “wede-in" but Mid he
was referring to “ wading into po
litic! and swimming to freedom
with th* ballot."
, Hangar* Ceerrste FroSuri, Co
X g. Quinn Pvraitur, Co
• Branch Banking A T-nst Co
Washington Tarries Apts.. In-
PAOE 1*
1 Deluxe Hotel
Carolina Builders Supply
gigfsway's Optic tans tne.
Warner Moanmsnts
riilon Motor rtaaaes Co.
Pepsi-Coin Boutins Co of Raleigh
f lood worth H. Tourist Bern*
'.even-tip Bottling Co
PAOC II
Auto Discount Co.
Wholosol* Motors
R. B. Hokes' Concrete Contractor*
Major Ptnanc* Co.. Inc.
Mary Carter Paint Co.
Joy * American Grill
Cntrad Boat*urant A Equipment Co.
Capital Vacuum Store
: Capitol Bar rain Store
Per*-C roes Ceramic TUe-Olata Co.
I*voa-llp Bettltas Co
Meal Boating A Plumbing Co.
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Uncola Theatre
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Pigfly-Wtngly Store*
Acme Realty Co.
RalotfO Fonora' Boms
Salolgh Seals** Co.
fisher WhoUaal* Co, Inc.
Joßnsos-Lomk* Co.
Johnson wss, swart at ta* situation
not gssturo or opinion; Howard
and mM -that in asms sections od
ths nation Negro** wniro tervbf
The represontetive SsUl Bit thsro
was nothing in the cards that indi
cated a change here.
The CAROLINIAN teamed that
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He asked Negioes to support •
coalition "civil rights party”. "If
you are a Democrat nnd have g
chance to vote for a civil rights Re
publican, remember only you and
God will know how you marked
your ballot." he said. "U you are •
republican and have a chance to
vote for a civil rights Democrat,
make a present to Abe Lincoln by
supporting a friend of freedom."
The white president of NAACP,
Arthur Splngarn, said today that
"full application of civil rights in
inevitable because Negroes art now
willing to die to achieve them”.
He urged the youngr generation
of Negroes to 'he petlent because
inevitably the laws are going to be
enforced."
Spingurn arrived at the conven
tion headquarters in Atlanta's huge
municipal auditorium late Mondey
to find uniformed pickets wearing
Nazi-type swastiakas and carrying
placards proclaiming that "tha
head of the NAACP ts a Jew."
The pickets, identified aa Harry
Earle Blair of Arlington, Va., and
Camden. N J.. and Lawranca
Smith, of Washington, both mem
bers of the American Nasi Society,
paraded quietly for a couple ot
hours and then stored their signs
and left the scene.
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ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
In all tby ways consider Him"
SELFISH, PETTY. CHILDISH
MEN
In the happy state of affairs,
now threatening the very exist
ence of Shaw University, it ia tea
aoparent that God is NOT being
nnsidered.
The threat of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Baptist Con
dition to withhold furher contri
'.ution* to the school unless Stress
tier is retained as the Shaw's preei
oent reminds us of our boyhood,
make any difference if the kid who
sandlot baseball days. It did not
owned the bell couldn't find home
plate with a search light unless ha
was allowed to be the pitcher, he
would put the ball in his pocket
and there wouldn't be any ball
game.
This childish controversy is be
ginning to focus attention on the
real stature of the principles in
volved. We have never
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