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BBBBMMiM—m— : ~-*' I • ■EC^Mv&n.i* + £w| '-i ■ tv ~> ,4'siv : J»y \ ’ $1 ***>--;:yiftHF,*■... \: s v w, & •-' ' #' ;*J, ' •>V y-» .' v ' .Jty + > * '-,' -y_ •■ x - •** ’T J .f •S* |4i Dr. Kenneth Williams To Be Installed At IV. S. T. C. «mmOH-S«U» —Dr. Ken- Beth ltaynor Williams will be ln> ■tailed aa president dr Winston- Salem Teachers College at an In auguration ceremony at 3:90 om Sunday. Hovember 11 on Campus The program, scheduled for the Whitaker Gymnasium, will climax a three-day aeries of activities. attorney Winfield Blackwell, chairman of the Board of Trus tees, will install Dr. Williams. Fol lowing his Installation. Dr. Wil liams will deliver an address en titled: “Winston-Salem Teachers College Meets the Challenge of Higher Education." Activities will begin Friday, No vember 9. Dr. William A. Archie of Raleigh will address a public meeting in Fries Auditorium on “Higher Education Meets the Challenge of Change." He is di rector of the North Carolina State Board of Higher Education. Registration of delegates and guests to the inauguration will begin at 7 p. m. Friday and con tinue from MI am. on Saturday and stem 13:99-1:45 p. m. on Sun Hr. Ben £. ' *J¥ptv Negro 9 Talks At UNC CHAPEL mLL “There is no ouch thing as the ‘new' Negro'', declared Dr. Beniamin Maya pre sident of Morehouse College, to begin a two-day lecture series Monday et the University of North Carolina. “These seme Negroe have been fighting for freedom for 343 years, when the first load of slaves were brought to America." Mays was disputing claims that the recent wave of lunch counter sit-ins and protest marches signaled the arriv Edenton Arrests Eight In Picket Law Ordinance ■DENTON—The validity of tbe new ordinance which waa pasted hen sometime ago will be tested when eight persons will be tried for violating same. Tre Rev. Fred H. LeGrade. re gional representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Council and pastor of Provi dence Baptist Church, along with eight ethers will face charges of “Better Life For Farm Families,” Thane Os Meet A Southern rural conference on the theme: "A Better Life for Farm Families" to be held at Frankllnton Center. Bricks. N. C.. an November 14-11, waa announc ed today by the apaneor. the Na tional Sharecropper* Fund. Prominent government and pri vate agency officials concerned with rural development, farmers and other “graas-roota" people will meet to discuss what practical steps low Income families can take CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS BUT FROM THEM PACE 1 Nortons Cash atom pact a Aptatonte Cewtar. tar. rfam »_ Bans Suwstera Mathsnli ■ A raraMrs a»t tba Capital Coca-Cola NtaiHst C*. pans e Vise Sates A Srrrte* rtrestan* Stars* BaMgh Fatal A fsßpwsr C*. e, i* i LlLlMu'lutam 0» race s raMSI Sl*** SLjtßatan nTf"«T-- <vv '■' M ! |E. H|Nm DK. KENNETH WILLIAMS al of a new Negro. To a capacity crowd at UNC'i Garrard Hall, the Atlanta. Ga.. scholar cited “freedom fighters" from Harriet Tubman to Dußois. He disputed the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, Negro edu cator. that the Negro'a freedom lay in the “use of his hands.” ‘‘No single philosphy, including that of the sage of Tuskegee, holds the answer in the Negro's struggle for equality." Dr. Mays said. He said the "real change" in the violating the law. which they hold unfair and unconstitutional. They were arrested as they picketed in front of a drugstore owned by John A. Mitchiner, may or of the town. Mitchiner has been the object of lntegrstionists for sometime. It is the belief of many that tbe law was passed to stop Negroes in their protest for equal accommodations by local firms. tp remain in farming and earn a decent living, to obtain other em ployment near their homes, or to gain skills necessary to secure permanent jobs elsewhere. The purpose of the conference, according to the National Share croppers Fund, is two-told; to bring information about government and self-help development programs to the rural people who need them most, and to give the officials re f continued on rasas n (MnS'i Grocery A Traaafer bra gilt* Shop i.nlau i UStei Shop ' Sew* test, rsoi i# pail gjjut Elder* ay OpOrUM* r fne Warner Maaaartala DOl** Motors Wi—as C*. re**t-c*u Batata* c*. *t Walrus page II -Catenas rawer A UgM C*. Wsihtaslu Terrace Apt*, tar. grata g**Mp C*. nme as. ntate CTiman Cjisstai rwei on, lee a c«*t c*. Better Bnteßta ****** **** Lisfctaer't rwacral B*mc Jirttatr PtsmaHsa Iterate risfiy - wtsfty WhiCn rarwitarr Dtata* Base ferric* Bata olsiuMln C* Cctaral Drag Starr day. This will take place in the Alumni and Public Relation Buil ding. The college will be host to tre delegates at a football game at 3 p. m.. when the TC Rama meet the Fayetteville State Broncos, and at a pre-inaugural ball at • p. m. Saturday In the Whitaker Gymnasium. Guests will attend a pre-inaugural breakfast at 9 a m. Sunday In the Kennedy Dining Hall. On Sunday the prooeaslonal will be organized at 1:45 p. m. In tbe Blair dministration Building and proceed to the gymnasium at 3 >ls. Dr. Williams will be honored at an Inaugural dinner In the Kennedy Dining Hall at 4 p. m. following the ceremony. Dr. Lafayette Parker of tha col lege faculty is chaismim of the in augural planning committee. Dr. Williams, who served aa act ing president during the 1961-63 school year, succeeds Dr Francis L. Atkins, son of the founder of the college, served 37 yean as tU president struggle occurred at North Caroli na College in 1943, ythen he and five other Negroes formed the Southern Regional Council. “Other organizations had been formed earlier,- but the SRC was the first attempt at equality orga nized by the Negroes themselves.” Dr. Mays lectures were sponsor ed by the Binkley Baptist Church of Chapel Hill. On Tuesday night he demribed the role of the church in the racial struggle. Leaders of the movement are said to have planned another pic ket for Wednesday. The ordinance carries a fine of (300 and thirty days in jail, if found guilty. It al so specifies that persons wishing to picket must apply for a license 24-hours in advance and pay a license fee of 110.00 per day. In view of the fact that picket ing has been the weapon used by labor and other dissatisfied or ganizations effectively, the case will be watchA with great inter est. The tough ordinance was brought into focus since Negroes have been picketing for flrst olass citizenship. Btatesvllle is al so said to have such an ordinance. Alleged Killer Eludes Posse, Later Gives Up NORTH WILKES BORO Floyd Saner. 34-year-old man. wanted for killing one brother and seriously wounding another, walked into the sheriff* office Sunday and calmly gave himself up. to face the char ge*. The trouble began early Saturday night when Saner is alleged to have entered a case run by two brothers. Neil and Worth Furgeson and their father. It is reported that Saner was causing trouble in the place and the proprietors attempted to call him down. This said to have made Saner “untane" and he left the pplace net too leisurely and did return. When be got back, he is alleged to have started firing He felled Neil mor tally wounded, from a bullet that went through hia head Worth was wounded in the sheet end the left ahouVer He was rush ed to a Winston-Salem hospital When the smoke cleared from the small caliber pistol, need by Saner, he is alleged to have gotten into a light Bo irk and to have driven a ny. A pome was formed and be waa hunted intensely, twit waa able to evade all searchers and nothing was reported seen of him until he walked mi and gave op He Is new awaiting a bearing on the charges. RCA Opposes Sin.lrvin The Caro anian VOL. 21. NO. 2 Faces $19.303.19 Shortage INDICTED AGAIN 4* ♦ ♦ + + ♦ ♦ + Alleged Rapist Defends Self Stumps Jury Fur Hours; Loses Tilt A Wake County Superior Court Jury ran Into a different kind of defense lawyer Tuesday when It listened to a case In which a 19- year-old alleged prison escapee, Robert Lee Thacker, spumed tne offer of the court to appoint a lawyer to defend him and served as his own mouthpiece. B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N-! THE CAROLINIAN learned Jnst before press time Wednes day that the Jury returned a guilty verdict In the robbery ease, against Thaeker. but had had not been able to agree on the attempted rape charge- II was stIB out at t P. M. , 9utf£r was being tried for rob bing and attempting to race a 41- yrar-old white woman, in her stord, at 600 Olenwood Avenge. Sept 30. Mr*. Ray Elelda Cash told her story to the Jury of how the boy entered the store and ask ed for a uniform. She alleges that she went to the back of the store to get one and that he grabbed her and started beating her She that he threw her to the floor, chok'd her and. threatened to kill her. She simj* alleged to have aaid that he tied her hands with a shoelace and lifted her aklrt above her waist. It was not made clear what she was doing while he was getting tn« shoe lace nor whet defense she of fered while he was tlelns the shoe lace. After she was tied she alleged that he went to the cash register and took $73.15. He then came {CONTINUED ON PAOI t> White Baptists Favor End To Death Penalty A special committee named by the Baptist State Convention (whftel to study the matter will recommend to die body Nov. 13-19 that it goes on record as favoring abolishment of capital punishment in this State. This action gave strong support ♦o opponenets of tbe death penalty in the Tar Heel State. If capital ODDS-ENDS BT JAMES A. SHEPABD “The first shall be last * NEW FACES Negroes everywhere must have fait a sense of pride during the peat several days. During several television scenes of the United Na tions in action on the Cuban crises, Negro representatives from the Af rican states were show consulting and being consulted. You do not have to be an elderly person to remember when this wan not the case. As a matter of fact, let* than 30 years ago this was not the ca«e. Taken at its full meaning, this present day of Negroes to positions of authority in world affairs is simply a facet of the never ending cycle of history The modern white man particu larly the American white, would hove It believed that he has ruled the roost since time began History does not beer him out in this. An thropoUgists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the an cient black man was enjoying a high state of civilization when the ancestors of tbe boastful Anglo- Saxon* way* primitive savages. Sin. the seou'ge of mankind was the cause of tbe downfall of the block ama's civilization. Sin has cauood the downfall of more than It is to be hoped that by now both the Mark man and the white man have learned their lesson*. Have learned that power belongs to God and dial He allow* man to ex ercise power only as lung as it is exercised equitably and justly. (cenwcia on rset n North Carolina *s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C . SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 3,1962 BISHOP REID Bishop Dies; To Be Buried In St. Louis * Washington, dc. Church circles were shocked to learn Sun day that Bishop Frank Madison Reid had been stricken, shortly af ter delivering a sermon in Havre- De-Grace. Maryland, and died be fore he could be removed to a hos pital. <s The prelate's body was brought here. It will lie in state at Metro politan AME Church, M Street, be tween 15th and 16th, from Wed night until the funeral, which is slated to be held at 11 a. m. Thurs day. It will then be taken to St Louis, Mo., where It will lie in state until Saturday, when he will be buried by the side of his Intc wife, who preceded him in death about four months. Bishop Reid presided over the (CONTINUE!) ON PAGE t) punishment is ended. It would mean the end of the gat chamber which is the method of carrying out the death sentence. The Convention's Christian Life Committee urged the full conven tion to work to create a "climate of pubic opinion" in North Carolina against capital punishment The committee asked that Baptists ex press themselves against the death penalty before any legislative hear ings on the subject. The committee said: "Among en lightened, civilized people every whore there Is an Increasing sense of abhorrence to the voluntary de struction of human beings " (CONTINUED ON SSOI n p "H*"**'' iiAME mi ii ■ t tutor It WITHDRAWN This it a picture of troys ■u.vtng.et ®» Mte*. wbtaw theywere Masted to pretoet Jaates H Meredith open order from Prrrldewt J. F. Kennedy Amoy toie greap are MStakrii es the lllsalnlM' National Guard Abeot **e hundred Military policemen and Ito supped per wsasi rrstainrd as prntoelion for Meredith. h Baptists In 95th Annual Sessjm WINSTON-SAIJuT Baptists from throughout tbs state began converging on the etty as eerly as Monday to attend the 95th session of tbe General Baptist Convention, presided over by av*. M. Pitta The Laymen's League, chaired by Frank Marshall began Monday It got down to bustneaa Immediate ly and began dlacussing every phase of a layman's activity in the church. It's Independent aeaiioni closed at 11 a. m. Tuesday. The General Convention w- * | called to order at 3 p. m. Tuan)' One of the highlights of the con vention will to the addreas of the president He Si expected to Atari a course that will enhance the wort In the state. Dr W C. Ronaerville. Washing lon. D. C.. head of the Lott-Caret Convention, will addreas the meet He *vitl report on the work of his department and enlarge on the theme, “The Christian Watchword." All attention will bo turned to fCONTINOKn ON PAOB I) Witnesses In 2-Day Convention About 47 delegates rom the Ra leigh South Unit Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses will attend the three-day circuit convention In Wilson, Friday. Saturday and Sun day. Nov 2-4. according to a state ment made here by Joseph H Wu ks, presiding minister The meeting will be held at the Elvle Street School Auditorium. More than 500 witneaaei from 16 rnngregationa in the state are ex pected. Sessions will begin Friday even ing. Nov. 2 at 6:45 p. m. and con tinue through Sunday. Nov. 4. until (CONTINUED ON PAOB t> W E A T H E It Thr fivr-day waathrr forrrart lor thr Balrlsh area beginning Thursday. November I and ran tinning through Monday, Novem ber a la aa follows Temperatures still avsrssr S ta S dr trees below normal with somewhat warmar about Sunday nr Monday. Balnall will b* mode rate Inland sertlon. to heavy a long Ota roast orearlnf early In lha period and asaia about Mon day. PRICE 15c mm ' m J/m RAV. H. R. REEVES . Reeves Faces ‘New” Evidence * * ■ - SNOW HILL - Die 94th annual •eshone o tha Neath West Confer en«A of the United American Free Will Baptist. Divisions of "A" and "B" are bringing forth more infor mation as to how the Rev. H R Reeves is alleged to have embezzl ed more than $19,000.00 from the tenomination. The CAROLINIAN learned at the "A''- Division confab, which met at Shady Grove Church, near here Oct. 25-28, that the Rev. Reeves wai indicted on new evidence, as late is Thursday for embezzling an ad ditional SB.OOOOO, of the denomina tion's funds He is awaiting trial, at Kinston and Greenville, or the al teged theft, mlaapproprlation and fOONTINUBD ON PAOS (» Negro Woman Represents) . U. S. At Hemisphere Meet LOUISVILLE. Ky Mrs Clar ence P. Jackson returned here this week from a trip to the Ba hamas where she represented the World Federation of Methodlat Women, held at Trinity Methodist Church Nassau, Mrs Jackaon, general president. Womans Home <fc Foreign Mission ary Society, AME Zion Church, ta the first woman of color to repre sent the Methodist women at an International conference. She Is one of the top figures in the move, ment. The meeting began Otcober 21st and ended on the 29th It was the first time that such a meet had been held in the Bahamas It brought delegates from the Pro- Civil Rights Stand Brings Firmness The Raleigh Citizen# Coaußttfta lest week went on record aa MM publicly oppoeed to the n ilnljs of Sen. Sam J. Erwin to the O.K Senate. The Azaociatlon tosh MB position because of Sen BprtflJi long uncompromising stand dur* ing his stay In the Senate, against all the Civil Rights proposals (hat have been presented to that Mr. Tbe Association felt toot the OMR way effective protest ean ho dbSHE by the Negroee in this stato. wham Sen Erwin have coneistontty of fended, is tor them to vote tor too Mr. Greene, who la apposing too incumbent ft - win. The Association also wont an re cord as being in favor of oil of the proposed constitutional amend ments with the exception of A* mendment No. $. The following notice has ham sent to key Individuals and groups throughout the stato. (omimwi on Coroner’s j Decision f Questioned;: QRKENSBORO - Cltiaens mo ■till In the dark about tl>e death of a local man who was shot foot times by a highway patrolman Saturday. ' The mystery wee not cleared lip entirely when the inquaet was hsld Tuesday. A Coroner's jury heard the evidence and was deadlocked ea the verdict. Coroner R. B. Davis. Jr., dismiss ed the Jury and ruled That the kitt ing was jusUftshl. The hsadUai of the matter brought many differ ancea of opinion in logoi circles. The fact that the Jury reported tour times that U cdbld not reach a verdict. J. t.\£a.|n3" dri-vr.wta -tot ffy LHMtfW iwtfulmav rhe etfear alleges Cat he *«imeb jiutted# to diseofg defective turn slgtfbl. f Pace alleges that Rutledge struck him. Rutledge is alleged to have run and It was while he was et temtpting to get away that he wiU reported as having been shot. AWAITING MURDER HEARING THOM AS V ILL* —Ralph Ever hart. SO. who shot and fatally wounded a man Saturday. Is a waltlng hearings on a murder charge in recorder's court hare. Everhart shot Jesse Mzlttn. alias Jesse Maxwell, 2s. at Ever hart's home with a 22-caliber pis tol. Maxton died rn rcaite to the hospital with wounds of the chest j and neck. Coroner Milton E. Block tald Maxton died as a result of 1 the pistol wounds. vincial Synod of the West Indio* and Americas. There were also representatives from England, fed by Dr. Dorothy Farrar, former vice-president of the Britikh Methodist Church waa also In at tendance. Mrs. Jackson reports that the sessions were not only Inspiration al and enlightening, but waa a true demonstration of Christian fellowship She visited the ChurCD maintained by the Missionary De partment of her denomination, pastorrd by the Rev. A. C. Rojfr State News. -IN— Briefs MHAW DIKURREH WORLD PROBLEMS In its second senes of programs on current world problems the So cial Science Department of Shaw University entertained two sup- Jects: "The University of Missis sippi Crists. Its Moral and Social Implications" and "The United Nations and World Regional In terests." The forums were held in Oreenleaf Auditorium The first panel consisted of fac ulty member* Participating were. Charles B Robson from the de partment of social science and co author of "The Angry Black South". Dr Wilmoth A. Carfer from the sociology departmosst and author of “The Urban Negro in the South", and Robert D- Hooper from the department M religion and philosophy. Students made up the seooCß panel. They were: John Howaiky Junior from Richmond. Va.: wham subject was "The U 8 . Ua Alum and the UN": Charles AlessnDD Earle, a senior and president jg I the student body from Jamaioa ON the subject "Latin Amertaa a«B (cosnMwm pans at ZZ