Bloodshed Hits
Ga. Over Jim-
Crow Protest
Al-EANY, Ga. Leaders of the
effort to integrate this southern
towp have abiding faith in the say*
in*. “Prayar changes things”, how
ever they are confronted by a group
which says, "Prayer is alright in
a prayar meeting, but not worth
anything in a bear meeting.”
The non-violent leaders, headed
by Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr.
D. Abernathy, have not relented
lh their effort to make 'democracy
work. Over 1,100 protestors have
bean arrested since December. Ma
ny of them, including King and
Abernathy, are still In Jail and re
fuse to leave until they have been
•dwred that integration is here to
protestors have abiding faith
to prayer and evidently have vow
ed like Christians of old that their
God will deliver them. On Tuesday
twenty-one of them held a meeting
at Shiloh Baptist Church and under
the influence they seemed to have
gathered in the meeting, they
marched directly out and onto the
odtlte municipal library, where
they wan refused admission. They
•hewed no sign of having boon
weakened by the refusal and drop
pad to their knees and began sing
tog and praying.
Another group, led by an Albany
Sorter. Thornton Price, gathered
under the shadow of “Old Glory"
at city hall and began singing
hymns. Police are said to have wait
ed until Price finished reading a
passage from the Bible and uttered
a prayar, afterwhkh the crowd waa
ordered to move on. Five of them,
all women, refused to move and
they were led to Jail and booked
on a disorderly charge.
Those who seemingly think that
•Us was s bear fight and that pray
ar is not the answer were also
meeting.
Police Chief Laurie Pritchett ap
pealed to a federal judge Tuesday
to "protect this city from riots and
mob violence” by ordering and end
to racial demonstrations and autho
rities jailed SI more Negroes who
Salisbury Will
Integrate Public
Schoalt In Fall
SALISBURY Three Negro
children will attend previously all
white Frank B. Johnson School
hare M i' September. . v
Th* Salisbury School Bo4rd as
signed ike threw CMMann of Mr.
atd Mrs. H. K Taylor from the
Monroe Street School tor Negroes
to .the John School' Tuesday night,
marking the first integration in the
public schools of Salisbury.
At the tame time, the board de
nied three other Negro families re
quest for reassignment.
Registration Director
Wants To Be Free
* BY JAMES A. SHEPARD
la u exclusive interview with a CAROLINIAN mmeataUw,
Miss Dorothy Dawaon, director of the re |i at ration project now In
ite final week here, diaeloeed the fact that freedom for heraelf and
ail American* both black and white la her prime interest in life. To
bar, Ctril Rights is a 2-way street.
Talking with this Texas born and reared young freedom fight*
ar, one is mightily impressed by her depth of sincerity, her forth
right frankness and her nnyellding devotion to the cause to which
' she has devoted so much of her young life.
This soft spoken, unassuming 24-year •old, real American, has
had, far ana of her age, suite a remarkable career. Born tn San An
tonie, Texas, where she attended high school. Miss Dawson sub
si iqaantiT attended Mary Baldwin College In Va., the graduate
school of the University of Texas and the Harvard University Di
vtnttj
She has taught English at the University of Texas and was, for
a tints, assistant YWCA director at the University of 111. In be
tween. she spent one summer in the Soviet Union ae an exchange
student.
Dorothy Dawson gives the Ho to them white Southerner* who
my that the fight for Civil Bights is provoked and stimulated, sole
ly by outsiders. It was during her high school days in Texas, ac
cording to Mis* Dawson, that she began to notice and bsooms sen
earned about the difference in the treatment of Negroes and white*.
She says she could see then that Negroes were fed from one spoon
and the whites from another.
White a student at Mary Baldwin Coßega. surrounded by South
- tradition and mores, the conviction that the democracy faa
pUed in the American Constitution was Just s* many meaningless
words as far as their implementation went.
Itl was after her return to the Univarsity of Tans that Mm
Dawson decided that neither she nor the American Negro was fme.
Even though by this time. Negroes, through court action, had
won. the right to attend the Un'vcrsity of Texas, all of the school’s
facilities except Its rlsosrenms were closed to the Negro students.
Mbs Dawson, almost single handly went to work to do something
about thorn conditions. When the incident tnvotvtag the Negro
student. Barbara Smith, who was den'ed the chief role in an opera
given by the music department of the anlvcrtity. bemuss It re
quired her Mi Ini with a white youth, Mies Dawson was instrumen
tal in heteteg to raise over (400.00 to help M'as Smith pursue bar
In m'nets. Miss Dawson worked with both CORE and the
NAACP in helping to raise money to aid students who were Jailed <
la the South for their sit-in activities.
During her student days at Harvard, under the ritsdew of
y*arel Halt, Mm Dawson still carried on her crass di for frudsm.
As chairman of the Student* Civil Rights Movement in Boston.
M—» she succeeded in raising over U. 000.00 for tho aid sf the
students who were an tho battleground in the South.
Currently. Mim Dawson Is Assistant Director. National Students
ilmsrdstiin Southira Projects In Human Bdat’sno. with head
quarters la Atlanta. Go. The NSA in conjunction with the Raleigh
C!tissue Association, is sponsoring the current Negro registration
project hero.
Dorothy Dawson Is captivated, motivated and stimulated by
and with a desire for freedom. To her. froidim of the individual is
Ige nut Important thing in life.
~H«* sou I bo free." she asks, “when I am restricted in my
a_*iiuisnlr In my suirlstin in my work and even In my church.”
uhs save rite was threatened with arrest In Atlanta simply luinu
jrae la the i smpo or of some Negroes. She has boon evicted
twmm an apartment bsesnse Negroes vMtod her there. Miss Dawson
that Negroes ar* denied more of the baste rights that are
iiiorttf other Amor can tit terns and she Is determined to excretes
al of her energies, talents and efforts in helping thorn to break
tUroogh Uw waßs sf dlsorlw nation now blsrhtng thair way. but
rcojmxrrD ow pagu r>
sang and prayer neer the city hall.
Pritchell, the first of 39 witness
es the city planned to send to the
stand to back up demands for an
injunction, sand the “most violent"
demonstration to occur in Albany
to date was held only hours after
another federal judge lifted an ear
lier restraining order such
protests.
The police chief testified before
Federal District Judge Robert Elli
ott It waa Elliott who handed
down the earlier restraining order,
but Federal Circuit Court Judge
Elbert P. Tuttle vacated toe order
last Tuesday on a legal toahnieality.
The bear fighters wart aided by
toe sheriff last week when he in
flicted a wound on the head of At
torney C. D. King, that required
several stitches to cloee it The aged
sheriff Mid that King was disturb
ing the orderly processing of busi
ness in his office and that he order
ed him out. He is alleged into a
stand and pulled out a walking
cane and hit him on the head- The
law enforcement officer seemed to
have no remorse over having hit
the lawyer and proudly posed his
action for photographers.
It was also reported that a white
youth who was a member of tbe
protesting group, was beaten up
while in jail. King la alleged to
have been investigating this when
he visited the sheriff.
Governor Vandiver Mid that he
would use every member of the
National Guard to keep down any
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Ask Suspension Os Cop
With Five-Day Experience
fWho Killed Negro Youth
SILER CITY On Thursday
afternoon, July 26. over 200 citizens
of the city filled the courtoom of
city hall here to request the firing
of suspended officer Joe Kucinlc.
A motorcade of about 37 cars car
tied most of the citizens to th* city
halL Erwin Wombles, president of
the local branch of the NAACP and
Guytann* Horton were the spokes*,
men for the group.
After prayer by Mr. Wombles.
Miss Horton asked the mayor. Don
aid L. Paschsll, to apeommend that
Kuejnic be dismissed horn the po
lice force. She continued, “I doom
it necessary that #ia city dismiss
him in order to redeem itself in the
eyes of its citizens."
Wombles followed Miss Horton
saying. "I concur with what Miss
Horton has said." He assured the
mayor and other city officials pre
sent that no one was angry. “But",
Farmer Fitted 4*ooo
FRENDS SEEK AID
THE CAROLINEW
VOL. at. NO. 39
vWPf-Jtr '^r v - 'iMi
u “n* *fs' jeeh&P fu
he said, “I need not to remind you
that this was the fourth such inci
dent. We don't want it to get to
tho place whore things get out of
hand."
Mayor Pagghall explained to the
body that he and the commissioners
felt they could not pre-judge this
man. “It is my opinion that he had
broken the law." H* further stat
ed that the law has been followed
to th* letter. If b* is bound over
for grand jury, Kueinte will be dis
m rased
The mayor assured the group
that an improvement of the petie*
deportment was in process prior
to the shooting of White.
When the mayor ask for ques
tions, Grady Horton, local truck
driver asked. "Why the city could
not hire a colored policeman or
two?" Chief of Police June Moody
said, “Me and the sheriff had
planned to hire a Negro."
ODDS-ENDS
BT BOBEBT G. SHEPARD
"Blessed am th* pure lu heart.”
WHAT AN IMAGE!
Nowadays, this country is vary
much concerned < at least it says
that it I*> about the type of image
it presents to the world. It pretends
that its chief concern is over what
th* Afro-Asian nations will think
of the United States.
Os course this is highly Import
ant because within a year, these
nations membership* in the United
Notions have reached a total of
94 nation*. This 94 is out of a total
membership of 106 combined na
tion* of th* world.
This country is keenly awsre of
the fact that in the present and
ever increasing power struggle
with Russia, it needs and must have
all th* friends it can get. The Unit
riowtiwtivw ow msi n
mfltßftjf- fijtfj" "*'''
MUTES MISBEB TURN—to wtet miM ton been • Milena ae
aMeai early Mania y warn tor at Creech Reel u< Reek (hurry Rear,
the Mm afleyca that he was Jaet iilitoi atone aat net attiring
where he vaa gator ani ■‘aeal a tom. It nae then that the IMS M*r
«aa charged wMh Miteg aatfer the toftansea aat Ttogfl Baraa Lewie
naa treatei at Wake Mewartol far aaaMlple tojarlea.
North Carolina ’< Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4. 1963
The meeting concluded with a
request that Mr*. Josephine White,
the widow, be officially notified
by, the city that her husband had
been killed.
The citizens were aroused by the
recent shooting of Graham Negro.
Melvin Verneil White, by Police
Officer Joe Kucinic. White, who
was a nested by Kupinte on tha
charge of public drunkeness. was
picked up at toe carnival on July
14.
Whits was shot when he ijte* “«.•]
ed to flee. Officer Kucinic to*
Chief of Pblice Moody that White,
who failed to stop when he shout
ed, was hit by a ricoaheted bullet.
White died 90 minutsa later In the
Chatham Hospital. However, Mel
vin Alston who was arrested tlong
with White testifies contrary.
Attorney General Stresses
Need For Trade Training
To Insurance Delegates
LOS ANGELES, Calif The ad
dress by Attorney General Robert
P. Kennedy was the highlight of
the National Insurance Association,
which was delivered at the Sutler-
Hilton Hotel July 26.
The justice hood had the follow
ing to say:
A high percentage of the drop
outs coma from Negro and other
minority groups. A recent study of
youth employment problem* in
New York City shows that while
the overall unemployment rate for
high school graduates and school
drop-outs is between 18 and 20 per
cert, in some low Income minority
neighborhoods, the nurrtber of un
COORDINATING COMMIT
TEE—Shewn in this picture are
ike persons responsible for ee
erdlasting tha werk as tha Sto
ient Registration Committee
that hat bean working hart to
tal meat of the sammer. Front
row; l-r, Mtoe Dorothy Dawson,
director; Mias Brenda Dean and
Mfaa Sharon Jeffrey. Back.row,
Mias Kathryn Calhoun. Bay
Rachael and Traoay Rogers.
Quadrennial
Opens At
Livingstone
SALISBURY Bishops, general
officers and members of toe policy
making boards of the AME Zion
Church began coming into tha city
Tuesday far a two-weak stay. They
will review toe work of tha denom
ination fat* tha past six months and
hold toe quadrennial General
Church School Convention.
The boards met Tuesday and
prepared certain plant which they
wilt submit to tha Board of Bishops
for its approval. The bitoope also
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employed-out-of-school-youth* Is as
high as 70 per cent.
Preeldent Kennedy recently said:
“Our youth ere our greatest re
source and the (octal and economic
Implications of protracted unem
ployment among the one million
young job seekers today th* many
million* who will enter the labor
force in the next few year* demand
Immediate attention end action."
Mystery Shrouds Prostitution Case
CHAPEL BILL A meeting be
tween tour whit* undercover s
gents tor th* Btato Bureau as In
vestigation and tour Negro**, tw#
man and two woman allegedly took
place at a whit* residence at to*
edge as town last weak according
to police reports. Th* tour Negro**
war* arrested end aharged with an-
VV HATH K K
The live-Say weather forecast
for the Raleigh area hegttiaiag
Th eraSer, Assart Z, an* eenttae
tag tbreegh MeoSay. Assort S, Is
as fellows:
Teosoeratere* win average near
era Rttle hetew hemal. Practpt
tattoo Wit] he oMSerat# te heavy,
eecarrteg as wisely scatter#* er
thaw*sr showers maialx la the lat
ter part of yerie*. °
Work Release Prisoner
Breaks, Shoots In-Law
Ervin Anderaon. Neuae man. mrr-
Inga priaen aentence at Camp Polk,
for aaaeult with a deadly weapon
and breaking and entering deea not
Mem the least bit disturbed for
having taken leave from his duties
aa a prisoner of the date and de
cided to go home Thursday.
Upon arriving home be found his
children, but his wife was believed
to have been at work. Ervin, from
his celt in the Wake County Jail,
told The CAROLINIAN Wednes
day that he had been having trou
ble wttn his wife and her brother
Clifton Thorp.
Anderaon came upon Thorp and
after some consideration discharg
ed the gun In his direction. He is
CORE Mixes
Eateries
Overstate
DURHAM Gordon Carey, pro*
gram director for the Congress as
Racial Equality, told The CARO*
LINIAN toat It waa proud of its
batting average la the state and fait
that it was batting well over 800.
Durham has been the object of
an almoot continuous picket since
Monday night, when the line was
formed at two Eckerd's drugstores,
located in the Forest Hill Shopping
Center and on downtown's Main
St. It to to bo remembered that
this chain waa one of toe first to
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Craven Man Faces 2 Years
In Prison Or s4,oooFine For
Allegedly Protecting Home
BT ALEXANDER BARNES
VANCEBORO Defense lawyers, relatives and interested
friends are working frantically to save a Craven County farmer and
log wood operator from having to pay a $4,000.00 f i n e, or serve a
two-year prison term for what they term protection of his home a-i
gainst what he is said to have thought were midnight marauders;
when he shot at white man.
Tbs story began on the night of January 22. when Mrs. Car
rie Bryant wife of tbe eoavioted man, Ray Washington Bryant,
tayt that She was maths n in Mr farm heme, whan to note •f
<M stopping 61 nirtnl ears, to front of the home, disturbed her.
tbe My* that sty went to a window and discerned several men
coming, from the direction of tha ears, toward her home.
She reported tha man having
veered from tha path to tha house
to another building, located same
distance from toe houaa. whieh they
I urge you to interest yourselves
In this problem, whkh la so bra
portent to th* future well-being of
our youth and our country. As man
who hava been successful you can
command attention and respect
Businessmen In every community
working with social, educational
and religious organimtions ees
(COWTUruin ON PAM If
gaging in a prostitution operation
as an unknown) extant.
Student* at to* University of
North Carolina. located hare, wars
allegedly involved, but pottos
claimed that information earn*
from other sources than students
Those arrested ware Mi ease Ella
Mae Rica. 30. and Lucille Rios, 31,
sisters, both at Sanford, aharged
wrlth engaging in prostitution; Rob
ert Quick. 3B and Walter Dub*. >l.
Both men were charged with pro
curing prostitutes Walter Duka is
also a Sanford native. Duke, to* on
ly one of the tour arrested who la
married, lives In Chapel Hill Offi
cers said Duke's present occupation
Is not known, but ho formerly
worked as a janitor and in other
capacities at tha Unieerrtty of
North Carolina All of the defend
ants wer* released an hood and
alleged to have borrowed a oar
from the Roberta and Blnekwatl
Amoco Service Station, where ha
was a work-release employee. This
means that he Is allowed to work
during the week and is confined
over the weekend.
He is said to have called tie sta
tion and told them that a wheel
ran off. near Gresham • Lake He
further had his wife to verify this
allegation over the telephone.
It is also reported that he went
to Nello L Teer Rock Quarry, off
of U S Highway. No 1. about 4
p. m and called hie brother-in-law.
Mying he wanted to talk over a
rcornnuKp on root n
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PRICE IS*
MYSTERIOUS FIRE Shown it this picturt it tht result
of a fir a to a storage building on a form, locatod about four milaa
from Vmnoaboro, which it run by Ray Washington Bryant. Tha
causa of tha fira hat not boon de tor mi nod. Bryant facta a $4,000.06
fine, or a 2-year prison farm for thooting in tha diroction of tht
houaa, whan hit wifa told him that tha taw some man walking to
ward it, about 10:45 P. M. Tha victim of tha thooting fumed out
to boa whito man, Grovtr Lancaster, Jr., who it now a mombat
of tha Craran County Board of Commissioners. (Sot ttory).
used to store things in. Sh* is said
to have called her husband and he
took his gun with him to tha door
and shot several times and went
back In the house.
It we* not long before there was
a burst of flam** In tha storage
house She waa not able to deter
mine why the flames and why the
man had come on the property The
Bryants allege that they were skep
tical of the men. In view of the ma
ny things that had been happening
throughout the country They are
sold to be active NAACP worker*
Mrs. Bryant further alleges that
a voice waa heard at the door which
asked for some buckets to carry
water to put out th* fire She says
her husband told th* caller that he
did not set the fire and he was not
coming eut to put It out Mrs Bry
ant says that both she and her
husband were fearful that this was
a ruse to get her husband nut Tha
collar is alleged by Mrs Bryant tn
have said, "You shot the man who
(eornurrxD on paob d
ar* slated to stand trial on Tues
day, August 14. in Recorder'! Court
at Chapel Hill Bond for Quick and
Duka was set at |Sofl earn and S2OO
each Bar the Rice women
According to police, the arrerts
are believed to have been the first
such arrests made in to# history
as this university town.
Detective Howard Pendargrsph
CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
Bin FROM THEM
Bartons Cash Store „
Better * Dsufhter
Tewa e Country furniture
Mitchell's BestauraM * mains Boom
PAOB I
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Central Drag Stars
Seheson-Lambs Ce.
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Doan’s Esss Mnits '
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Them** Be 4 A White feed Store
PAGE (
Celeelal Stars*
PAOB a
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Gem Watch Shop
Breach BaakUif A Trust Ce.
Tire Bales A Service
Better Brake Shop
Standard Coer rets Predarts Ce.
Wsshlestae Terrace Apts., Inc.
PAOB Id
State News
-IN-
Briefs
OFPICERH WEEK
HIT- BUN DRIVER
OXFORD An unabated search
continued Wednesday for the mo
torist who early Sunday struck
John Robert Overby, farmer of Ox
ford, leaving him near death on N.
C #6. a mils north of Oxford.
Investigation indicated that a mo
torist rounded a curve on th# left
of renter, mowing down Overby,
a pedestrian, and never (topped to
render asslalsnce.
COLUMBUS MAN DIES
OF WOUNDS
WHITEVILLE - A Cerro Gordo
msn. knifed July B at an Ever
green barbecue died Monday end
another man ia being held without
privilege of bond on ■ charge of
murder.
(contbucis oaf moi at
of th* local police department was
interviewed by Th# CAROLINIAN
T'uesdsy afternoon tor latest de
velopments In th* case. He was
tipped oft about tha prostitution
operation by sn anonymous Inform*
er. Th# in'orrpar had acquired a
Chapel Hill telephone number
(cowtcvurw ois pam n
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Carolina Banders Carp.
Bldsewsy’e Opticians, tor.
Warner Memorials
union Mater Co.
Seven-lip Bottling Ce.. of Bsletfh
Bslelfh Paint A Wsllpsper Ce
Thomas Bed A White food Store
PAOB Jl
State Dlstrlhutlnf Corp.
Wholesale Motor*
Capital Bergsla Store
Capitol Vacuum Store
Semes B Anderaon Co.
Seveo-L'p Bottllag Ce.
Carpet Center
Stephenson Ante Sale*
Thomas' Bed A White Ororary
Major finance Ce.. lac.
W T Great Department Burn
Auto Discount Ce.
J. C Pennev Co
loj l American Grill
Baleish ComnUasieß Beuae
Midas Muffler (hop
Charles Stores
frosty Kina
Community Drug Store
PAOB II
Lincoln Theatre
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Better Brahe Shop
PAGP la
Buffalo Battery Shoe
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Bhodes furniture
Piffiy-Wissiy
Bhode-. Furniture
Bunt General Tire Ce. ■
Baleish funeral Berne
Bslelfh Seafood
Arms Beatty Ce.
>. M Teona Bardwase Cm