PACE NARCOTICS RAP Three women arrive at Federal Court in Hartford in police eue
iody. They are part of a group of 14 persons arrested as narcotics peddlers in a series of redds in sev
eral Connecticut cities, (UPI VHOTO ).
Judgment, Restraint Pay Off
In Tense Flare-Up At Club
According to information receiv
ed from many of the people who
attended the dance given by the
alumni of Shaw University, at
Charcoal Town House, Saturday
night there would have been se
rious trouble bad the affair been
open to the public.
Members of the Shaw alumni
are former students of the school
and represent a segment of citizens
Kinston Celebrates
Segregates, Insults
KINSTON—This eastern town, lo
cated in the money-making tdbsrrn
section of the state, is celebrating
its bicentennial this week. It has
used tbs poses. radio and all other
media to ask that visitors from ev
ery where, including foreign coun
tries, bo afforded the best In hos
pitality. Itt Negro citisens were
not only Ignored, but insulted.
It was learned from reliable sour-.
cee that Attorney Harvey Beech,
along with James Cogdell, was call
ed in when the idee wat first pro
posed by one Colonel Lewis. They
were made members of the Board
and Mr. Beech was named vice
president.
A call to Attorney Beech reveal
ed that he had been invited to one
meeting of the committee, but be
ing busy was not able to attend.
He stated that he had not been in
vited since. He did say that he had
been In contact with Colonel Lewis.
He is quoted as having told Col
onel Lewis that unlew Negroes
cculd have full partidoation there
would be no participation.
The lawyer is said to have pro
tested any reference to slavery,
whether by float, boat or carriage.
The word got around that a float
had been built depicting the grue
some era. The Negro citizens Im
mediately protested end Colonel
Lewis is said to have told them
that the floats were built by a com
mercial firm and that he had no
control.
Prof Sees
New Day
Looming
DURHAM—North Carolina Col
lege students attending vesper
services Sunday were told that
the time will ootne when white
people who hurl curses at Ralph
Bunche, Thurgood Marshall, and
Martin Luther King. J— will
thank their lucky stara that such
men exist."
Dr. McLeod Bryan, profeaaor of
Christian ethics at Wake Forest
College, said that though these!
men were “ridiculed, vilified, and
HOSTISW" w >*c» »>
ODDS-ENDS
n JAMI.B A SHEPARD
«0; that men weoM serve the
Lord!"
COLO - STUBBORN
INDIFFERENT
The facial spotlight has recent
ly been focused upon Mississippi
but so far as we am see. the only
difference between North Cora
lina and Mississippi in their at
titude toward Negroes is a degree,
when you take a look beneath the
gurfaoe. that degree is not too big.
r mmt Saturday night, right here
In the Capitol City of North Caro-
Hm the lid was taken off at that
degree. For no significant reason
that that whites resented
the presence of Negroes In that
part at the city, had you been in
the area of S. Saunders Street and
Pecan Read that ivantng. you
who have the foresight to forestall
trouble when they see it brewing.
They were in attendance along
with their wives, sweethearts and
hiends. In many instances they are
raid to have Ignored the jeers and
insults coming from a mob of
whites.
It is out now—every since it was
reported that Negroes had purchas
ed the club, on South Saunders St.,
The Negroes did not stop there
but took the matter to the City
Council and were assured that
when the parade moves through
Main Street to Grainger Athletic
Field Thursday, there would be DO
such float. t
The insult came wheta Colonel
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Common Law Wife
Kills Mate In Bed
DURHAM—When a common-law
wife gets mad she can be as death
dealing as a wife you pay for if the
murder of Luther Hedgepeth. W.
Rt. 6, can be used as s yardstick.
Mr. Hedgepeth’s common-law
spouse, who gave her name ss Liz
zie Crowder, is alleged to have got
ten so mad over their relationship
that she took the 12-gauge shot
gun, went into the rofom where he
was lying on the bed. about 7:30
pm.. Saturday and blasted away
at him.
The woman did net give a co
hesive account of the killing, but
is said to have told arresting offi
cers that they quarreled over do
mestic matters. After the shooting,
she is alleged to have gone to a
neighbor’s house and told what toe
had done.
The couple is alleged to have
been living together for about 18
year*, but have never taken time
to go to the alter and be legally
united No children are said to have
been born to the couple. They liv
ed on the Fletcher Chapel Road,
about six miles east of Durham
Sheriffs deputies arrested the
woman and took her to the Dur
ham County iail. where she la be
ing held pending further investiga
tion.
Sheriff Mangum said tost from
Nation’s Integration
WASHINGTON. D. C.—With too
cloao of the 87to Congream, Jaw
makers wended their way* bock
home to concentrate on reelect ion.
Many of them will find mixed emo
tions about integration.
In Albuquerque. New Mexico.
Ohmer Ahmed, from Somali. Afri
, ra. says that he had to leave the
University of New Mexico, because
he could net find a place to stay
on the campus He attended toe
university lest year and was ap
parently rleaaingly housed He
went to New York for th* sum
mer and kwt that place
Four per* m* are alleged to have
called the director of student af
fairs Sunday and tod him that they
would rent Ahmed an apartment.
In Martinsville. Vs.. Miss Hazel
Ruth Adams. 17. cracked the walls
of segregation and walked into the
classroom of Patrick Henry Col
lege Monday. She lives in the rural
section of Pittsylvania Counts She
is a transfer student from Virginia
State College She wan the right to
attend the school tlwough court
proceedmfi-
Martin Luther King told a mixed
audience of 2JMO people, ta Win
ston-Salem that 'the real ebaHangs
facing Ami* firms’* is ta to* voting
rights of aoutnern Negroes
The Atlanta minister said "test of
tax million eligible Negro voters ta
ths South, only eoe and a half
there have been rumblings and
whispers that there was an element
of white people who did not want
the Negroes to have it It is report
ed that they were of a hate ele
ment of the white race and even
though they had made threats, it
was believed that nothing would
happen.
The pay off came Saturday night
The parking of cars in the lot of
a drive-in Is said to have been the
excuse given by whites for making
trouble. Due to «* tone crowd
r<nd the limited barking space, it
became necessary for late comers
to park wherever passible.
It was not long before it ares an
nounce*/that cars were bettet tow
ed away. This caused some Bf the
people, attending the dance, to be
come alarmed and when they Went
out they found this mob of white
people lined up across the street.
Negroes are alleged to have form
ed on the opposite sMe of the
street in defiance of the white peo
ple.
When K was reported that ow
car had been overturned and saw
rcoramm on mu •>
the place where toe body was
found and its condition, it was evi
dent that Hedgepeth was in bed
when the fatal shot was fired. They
are reported ss living to a two
room farm house.
State News
Briefs
WARREN WOMAN RILLED
WARREN COUNTY—A 41-Year
eld woman. Mias Lucy Offer of
Baltimore. Md.. waa killed when
the car in which toe was riding
ran Into the aide of a train at a
crossing near Macon in Warren
County.
DCRHA MAN ARRESTED Df
NEW YORK
DURHAM— Durham police de
tectives said that David Alphnso
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million were registered to vote."
He mid the "mast segregated
school of toe week la the Sunday
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CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
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Carolina Power A Light Co.
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Mechanic* A Parse*r* Beak
The Capital Coca-Cola Co.
CnAS
Sumu/cmcnn Pros act* Co.
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Scar*. Boobocb A Co.
Amettam OroSN Co.
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At Shaw Homecoming Dance f
NEAR RIOT AVERTED
CITIZENS ASK MAYOR TO +
REOPEN SWIMMING POOLS
The Carolinian
VOL. 21. NO. S 2
Tobaeeo Co. Shows Way
Seek
Equal
Policy
Members of the Council on Hu
man Relations asked Monday tost
Mayor C. W. Enloe and the pity
Council reopen Pullen Park and
Chavis swimming pools, oloted
since last summer as a result of
demonstrations by Raleigh stu
dents.
In addition, toe Human Relation*
group requested the Mayor and
Council to form a committee so
"deal with potential racial prob
lems in the Raleigh area."
Mayor Enloe replied tost a de
cision on reopening toe pools would
come before summer. He added that !
a negotiating committee, auch a*
the one auggested by the Human
Relation* group had been formed ;
two years ago, but “extenuating
rircumatancea” limited any action ]
by the committee.
One member of the Human Ha
lations committee. Jtev. Oarer Mc-
Cloud of Raleigh, said toe oatej
•hint tntevferring with the’ flute-'
tibns of the committee was dis
agreement over who should serve
on toe group.
Dr. Howard Miller of N. C. State
College presented a statement call
ing for “the reopening of swim
ming pools next summer and in ad
dition a plean for the desegregation
of all publicly-owned facilities
which will result in their continued
usage, not tn their being closed.
“That the City Council enforce
Its announced policy of non-dis
crimination In the hiring of city
employee*, securing an amendment
to toe city charter, If necessary"
The City Council received toe
suggestion of the Human Righta
Council, and promised that the old
committee would be reactivated un
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In State Meeting
NAACP SUPPORTS TWO PARTY SYSTEM
DURHAM Kelly Alexander,
president of the North Carolina
Conference, NAACP branches,
closed the annual meet of the or
ganisation at Mt. Vernon Baptist
Church on a ringing note of a
two-party system In the state.
He traced moat of the evils that
beset North Carolina and the
south to the fact that a bigoted
one-party (Democrat) had be
ootne so docile and disrespectful
to the changing world until It had
saddled Its dtlsenry with a de
spotic hate that wag devesting
to Its future.
He told the audience that Oor.
emor Sanford should be told, In
no uncertain terms that had it
not been for the Negro vote he
would not have been elected. He
■aid that Negro leaders should let
Mr. Sanford and other politicians
know that they were dissatisfied
with brooms and shovels and that
the only way this could be done
was by changing political parties.
He pictured Mr. Sanford’s pat-
Ooa Watch Shop
Ct—**r Floiiet
Cootrai Eros Store
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Deluxe Betel
Carolina BoilSer* Cor*.
■Mgeway Opttrlaa*. tec.
Warner Memo rial*
DtUoo Motor* Ptaaae* Co.
Pepet Cota Bottling Co of Baloigk
PACE II
Capital Puntatoeo A SppWaoce Co.
Adame AppMaoee Co
Tow* A Country PurMture
Better Brahe Shop
Mr Walter Chevrolet Co.
Weaver Bros. BaatMer. Inc.
Vtatet Spray Aute Wash
too on cm
Eteeete'lhaotre
Proeaettea
Capital Margate More
PAOE M
pigsty • wissiy
Steal Opera! Dr* Co.
Robbs lea* Service
Aral Beatty Co.
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CLVUII JOHNSON ERWIN JON s
Two Men Charged in
“Noah Ark” Robbery
1 Two Raleigh men, held In Wake
County Jail under 12 .MO bond
Vald Tuesday thc.t they aggrl
framed’ on chartin' of oreakidii
Into and robbing Juke boxes
at fteah's Ark. a candy store on
T&rboro Road.
Clyde H. Johnson. 25 and Erwin
Jones Jr.. 24. were bound over to
Superior Court on charges of
breaking, entering and laraeny.
Both men pleaded Innocent to the
hearings Friday.
Officer D. 8. Allen testified that
Pass New Picket Ordinance
EDENTON— Integration leader*
here are pondering over what to
do about a new city ordinance
which requires pickets to register
and get a license before holding a
demonstration.
The new law, passed last week
ronage as a gross Insult to the of a segregated office on Hargett
Negro people of the state. He de- Street
cried the fact that there were no He praised the young people
Negro engineers, no Negro clerks, (they made up the bulk of the au
no Negro anything, beyond that dlence) for the part they played
Woman Dies
In Car Wreck
WADESBORO Mrs Betty
Jean Lowery Reid of Winston-
Salem was killed Sunday night
when she was thrown out of an
apparently speeding car which
went out of control on a curve
and overturned. The mishap o
curred at midnight Sunday on N.
C. Highway 742 approximately
three miles south of Wadeeboro.
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I HVi
II ■ ■ m mm >
m: fS&v’" 1 B I
NAACP PRINCIPAL*—« how n In thi* group of Picture* are per
spbs who were principals at the anneal meet, held In Durham last
wash. The picture on the left is that of the officer* of the Youth
Grasp of th* state. L-r. Brae* Saiaee. fletd secretary; Walter Riley,
trees ore i; Vivian McCoy, secretary; Cuytana Horton, president, and
Mrs. Alma Taraer. advisor. Upper right show* Rev. W. H. Poller,
protadißl of lb* Dwhsm Breach; Leslie Carter, assistant In the de-
Edaeatton end W>lfare who delivered the prta-
RALEIOH, N. C.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1962
i he found Johnson and Jones tn-
I site Noah’s Ark. He said Jones waa
stendHq beside ft smashed Juke
< bos -AUi his i suds fUi or Client*.
. Johnson was near the Juke box
with a tire tod in Ms hand. Allen
1 added.
But both men said they were
, picked up by police about a block
, from the candy store. They said
their car had broken down and
, they were on the way home.
Johnson said the officers got
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by the Kdenton Council requires
pickets to notify the Town Clerk
.14 hours prior to picketing The
law also require* that pickets pur
chase a |IO a day "picketing li
cense.'’
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ln focusing attention on the in
equities of the state. He also ad
monished them that they would
have to be prepared. He criticized
the education that the Negro had
been receiving In the state and
was loud in hi* denouncement He
said that competent people were
hard to find to fill positions of
efficiency and responsibility.
“Negro college graduates can
not spell, write nor speak correct
English. This la due to the fact
that they have not been exposed to
an educational system that tea
ches these fundamentals. In thn:
: true form " We must have it an
the only place to get It Is to get
j it where the white students get It.
he thundered.
"•ftvtTvryg n«rp tv
U. J. Reynold Co.
Heads South In
Job Integration
WINSTON-SALEM - The R J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company is be
ing acclaimed as toa model firm
for desegregating a businew that
began in toe South end has operat
ed there since Its beginning.
The program was tried when the
company opened a 132 million
plant, in April IMI. All of its fa
cilities were made available to all
the workers. Including the cafe
teria. and there was not ■ sem
olanre of Incident It announced,
a* t- to* plan worked
it would be put in operation at
toe downtown plant.
In February of this year the pro
gram went Into effect in all of the
company's Winston operations. It is
estimated that Negroes represent
35 percent of the employee* of the
company—totaling about 12.000.
In tn account of the situation, ths
New York Times said that “the
ftevaelds complex represents ere
i%;»e r \ extensive programs of
Industry desegregation by a home
grown Southern Industry "
Whites end Negroes hold the
same Jobs at the same pay on the
same production lines It was said,
and waif Negroes work as fore
men or salesmen in the field. No
figure* were given for the letter
categories.
Mrs. Evelyn M Halreton, who Is
one of several Negro Inspectors
who checks the work of both white
and Negro worker* on a night shift,
told Times reporter Hedrick Smith:
"I was ■ bit skeptical of being
transferred here at first.
"Some of the other worker* were
a little rhltiy to begtn with But
It s all worked out now and the
cooperation Is wonderful ”
The Times gave this further ae
rount:
L > #*. '4 * ** 'T RMVbi
V-, si Jim'
I '
of the North Carolina Conference. Bottom right is a ptotnre «f the
Youth Conference of Durham. These young people hare haaa tew
work harass In fighting discrlrelnation In the Bull City, ta plsbst
Unco, sit-in demonstrations, voter registration and mam protoada. It
is to be remembered that Durham wst the first city In the sdhdu
where demonstrators went to Jail. This group is compsstd of adndsttea
from North Carolina College. Durham Business Ached gag ftp.
Abater's Beauty Ached.
PRICE 15c
The company has had a pregram
to upgrade Negro#* tor about 10
years. Desegregation of produc
tion lines began in April IMI, with
the opening of a modem $32 mUlton
Whitaker Park plant
The plant had an Integrated pro
duction line from the start Doeeg
legation then spread through the
remainder of Reynolds’ 115-acrs es
tablishment
"W# got very little kickback," mid
a company spokesman. “What little
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Dies By
Own Hand
WINSTON-SALEM— It is being
called euietdo In some quarters, it
is being tanned accidental death
by others however, there is no
doubt that Joseph J. Barnet, (12.
2131 E. lJt hStreet. it dead from
a wound Inflicted by himself, Mon
day afternoon.
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WKATHER
Th# five-day weather forecast
for the Selfish area beslnnlng
Thursday Oct. It and continuing
through Monday, Oct. It, Is »s fol
low*:
Temperature* will average I ta
1 degree* he low normal, the high
and low temperatnre* II - SS. Cool
er Thursday through Monday.
lUlnfell will avorate near one half
Inch or mart during th* period.