Bishop Wiggins
Dies In Minn.
MINNEAPOLIS (ANF» Bishop
John C. Wigging, Sr, pastor of St
Paul's Church of God in Christ died
suddenly bora Sunday, Doe. 1C
Ho hid recently returned (ran
the atwaal convocation of the da*
nomination held in Mcmphia, when
a now aanior bishop had been nam
ed to preside over the church offi
cial council, to succeed the late Bi
shop C. T. Mason, founder of the
church.
Death came suddenly to bis
homo as he was preparing to leave
for Sunday service .
Elder Higgins had been in poor
A Not —Too Merry
Christmas In Miss.
JACKSON, Misa-For thousands
of Mississippi Negroes particular
ly those who have tried to exercise
their voting rights—Christmas IMS
was not particularly marry.
Some 20,000 active in voter reg
istration who have been dropped
by local officials from lists of those
eligible to buy federal surplus com
modities.
As a consequence, Dave Dennis,
COBB field secretary, has filed a
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hselth for several years but con
tinued to carry on actively for bis
congregation.
Bishop Wiggins was made presid
tag bishop of fit# Church of God
In Christ in the stats of South De
hota several months ago.
He came to Minneapolis in 1333
from Si Louis where he was bora
He founded St Paul’s church in lb
-35.
Bishop Wiggins is survived by
bis widow, Roberta 8.. a son, John
C, Jr, a sister, Mrs. Minerva Moore
of St Louis, two brothers. Central
of St Louis, and Willie of Clark*-
dale. Mias.
formal protest with Secretary of
Agriculture Orville Freeman and
Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
CORE National Director James
Farmer has supplemented this with
a wire to Attorney General Ken
nedy pointing out that "this is the
type of reprisal to be expected
through discriminatory use of local
option in dispensing federal funds,
goods and
Ih addition, Dennis asserts, -Many
people who have attempted to reg
ister have bean harassed to the ex
tent of toeing their lobe. Fhmffics
have been thrown off their forma.
Some have been pressured finan
cially. Also, this year more than
U percent of the cotton was har
vested by automation, which meant
that manpower waa cut tremen
dously."
To bring at least soma cheer to
the destitute, the Council of Fed
erated Organizations, which in
cludes CORE. SCLC. SNCC and
NAACP, Initiated a program of dis
tributing Christmas packages to
naedy Mississippi families.
The government dt Madagascar
proposes to held an international
fair at Tamatave from September
1-31, with emphasis on ths emo
tion of small Industries to handle
local products. (ANP)
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LEADS AST WOMEN'S COUNCIL—These are ths newly elected officers of the AST Col
lege Women's Council. They on, from left to right, Mines: Catherine Ramsey, Jackson, presi
dent; Betty Price, Madison, secretary; Patricia Lawson, Danville, Va., vice president; Mary Hill,
Philadelphia, Pa., treasurer ; Genevieve L. Jones, Bronx, N Y., assistant secretary; Ethel Turner,
Moyock, chairman, Awards Committee, and Yvonne Setter, Hickory, chairman, Program Com
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IN RESPONSIBLE POST James Lawrence, a 1957 graduate of Atx f College, now an an
alyst-chemist with the U. S. Pood and Drug Administration, Washington, D. C„ returned to his
Alma Mater recently to interest student majors to soak employment with Ns agency. He explains
Ns job to Dr. L. C. Dowdy, center, acting president, and W. I. Morris, right, ANT placement di
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College trustee board, attends the first meeting of the board. Ha is welcomed by, from left to
right : Robert H. Frazier, Greensboro, chairman; Dr. L. C Dowdy, acting president of the college,
and E. E. Waddell, Albermarle, vice chairman.
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5. C. Supreme Court
Reverses Convictions
COLUMBIA. 8. C. (ANP) The
State Supreme Court baa tor the
third time within a month over
turned the convictions of Negroes
sweated in anti-segregation dear
onstrations in Sumter.
The Supreme Court held last
weak that recorder's court at Sum
ter lacked jurisdiction to convict
two Negroes because the Negroes
had not ban arrested by city offi
cers.
Joehua Prioleau and Alma Gregg
were convicted In recorder's court
of roetsting arrest after their arrest
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BALPOH, W. O, SATPBBAT, JA3HMSE $, Mffi
in ISM bp aa agent es ths Mato
Law Enforcement Dtvtston and the
Sumter Cbunty sberifTs office.
The supreme court noted that
the Sumter ordinance makes It un
lawful to Idndar, hnpcSo. raetot
arrest or otherwise tntorfor —*tb
any police officer es this city while
In discharge of bis dutr."
In rover ring ths oonvtcttoa. the
Supreme Court sett If such an eO
sense occurred, “It was aa offonee
against the ramiasa law, not an*
compassed by tanas at Ms ordt*
nance, sad the caeacdar had as
jurtodtotton.- ' ~
Supreme Court had set satis Ms.
mawtottons of twa groups as No-
Mow tor brooch of the psora lit
high court bold foes tocte dM net
bear out ths charge as hrsoeh es
tow. P * tiTT ><,>
the breach ef*paw
■ Stoop of Negrooi at Boch HM
demeastratora wura aotav
ignored pottos erdmt to
Prioleau and Bw Gragg be«
hwa Maryad crigtoaßy with p|
radiag without a Mam, w wm
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The circuit court upheld ht'lb
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