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HEADLESS CORPSE FOUND
Three members of /forth
Carolina Governor William B.
Unutead’M committee to ttudy
the ettablUhment of a four yesr
collegiate nwrting program in
the Tar Heel State are thoum in
Durham recently with official*
from North Carotina College
and Lincoln Hospital. State
Senator Warren R. Williams of
Sanford, extreme right, it chair
man of the committee. Other
members of the committee arc
Hei4^ Holmes, administrator,
Bowman-Gray Hospital, Win^
ston-Salem; second from left,
standing; and Miss Ruth Coun
cil, State Board of Health, ex
treme right, sooted. Also shown
here Are le^ to right seated:
Mrs. Lvcille Z. Williams, Super
visor of Nurses, Lincoln Hospi
tal; Miss Jeanette S. Jackson,
Director of Public Health Nur-
sintr at North Carolina College;
and Miss Council. Standing, left
to right are Director William
Rich, Lincoln Hospital; Holmes,
N. C. College President Alfonso
Elder; and Senator Williams.
The North Carolina Legislature
appropriated $200,000 for the
program. The proposed program
has already been criticized be
cause of what critics term its
tendency to extend segregation
in education.
One Killed, 4 Hurt
In Henderson Crash
HENDERSON
' One mai) lost his lilf and
four others were badly hurt
when an automobile in which
they rode ran «rt «l « mirvc,
plunfed down an embwnkmttit
and crashed into a tree.
Killed in the accident, which
occured shortly before noon
Sunday, was Juniu^ Osborne
Carroll, 27 year-old Vance
county resident. He was pro
nounced dead on arrival at a
hospital here.
Of the four others Injured,
OUle Roscoe Eaton, 19, waa eoa-
sidered the most seriously hurt,
^flis condition waa termed “criti
cal” by authorities at the Jubi
lee hospital, where all of the
accident victims were rushed.
Others injured were Johnnie
Johnson, 20, driver of the car,
‘Benjamin Allen Carroll, 24,
and Samuel Carroll, 22. The
Carrolls are brothers of the man
killed in the wreck.
Johnson, of Oxford, was char
ged with reckless drivlng^ by a
State highway patrolman. He
received lacerationf of the head
and shock. Benjamin Carroll of
Route 2 received a fracture of
the left arm, his brother, Sam
uel, of 598 Winder Sti^t in
Henderson, received cuts on the
neck, back and legs, and Eaton
suffered internal injuries.
Highway patrolman A. C.
Grey who Investigated the acci
dent said that the car approach
ed a curve near the waterworks
liere on the Vicksboro road at
an apparently high rate of speed,
went out of control and finally
stopped against a tree after | The five men were on their
plunging down an embankment, way from the Rock Mill swim-
The car was completely de^ ming pool at the time of the
molished. . I accident.
Twin Sgts. Baymon, 1^ and
Namon Barke of Sallabary, are
sqoad leaden for Company F
of the S2nd Infantry Regiment
in Korea. Namon'i'Wlfe*Lor-
aine, lives on Route 7, Box
115, and Raymond’s wife, Ber
tha Mae, lives on Route 7, Box
108—U. S. ARMY PHOTO.
State Baptists Scliedule Meets
For Raleigli And Wilmington
A & T.'Grad Is
First Race Cop
In Bennettsviile
BKNNETTSVILLE, S.C.
A June graduate of A. and T.
College at Greensboro became
Ihis city’s first Negro policeman
when he was sworn in last Mon
day. '
The new policeman Is Eugene
Copeland, Jr., 2B year-old Ben-
•^ettsville resident who received
* degree in business administra
tion from the North Carolina
itQhool in June.
Copeland began duties Mon
day patrolling the "Gulf” and.
, other Negro sections of the
town soon after his oath-taking.
He was elected to the police
force by the city Council last
week.
Copeland is the son of Eugene
Cdpeland, Sr., and lives just
off Main street near the city
limits.
WILMINGTON
The Sevehty-Second Annual
Session of the State Sunday,
School and Baptist Training
Union Conventions of the Gene
ral Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina, Inc., will
convene August 4-6, at the Cen
tral Baptist Church, Wilming
ton. The Reverend R. Irving
Boone is host pastor.
The theme is, “Christian Edu
cation and Christian Service:
The Root and the Fruit of Chris
tian Living.” Mr. O. A. Dupree,
Principal of the Sampson Coimty
Training School, will deliver the
theme address. Other speakers
appearing during the three-day
session are: Dr. O. S. Bullock,
pastor. First Baptist Chiwch,
Raleigh, N.C.; The Reveren^
Melvin Creecy, pastor of three
rural churches in Rich Square
area; Dr. P. A. Bishop, Presi
dent of the General Baptist State
Convention of N. C.; ’The Rev.
O. L. Sherrill, Executive Secre
tary of the convention; Mr. M.
J. Morris, President of the
Northampton County Sunday
School Convention; and Mr. E,
M. Butler and Mr. J. T. Haw
kins, Presidents of the State)
Stmday School and Baptist
Training Union Conventions re-
spectlv^y. Mr. John R. Liarkins,
Consultant on Negro Affairs for
the state, haa also been invited
to speak-to the convention.
RALEIGH
Baptists from aU lectlons of
North Carolina will assemble in
Raleigh on Friday, July 17, for
history-making meeting in con
nection with the current expijn-
sion program of the General
Baptist State Convention.
Highlighting the occasion will
be the cornerstone-laying cere
monies at the new Baptist head
quarters building, a sixty
thousand dollar edifice, now un
der construction at the comer of
Wilmington and Lenoir Streets.
Presiding at these services will
be Dr. P. A. Bishop of Rich
Square, prejident of the conven
tion.
Others participating on pro
gram will include: the Reverend
R. Irving Boone of Wilmington,
chairman of the executive com
mittee of the convention; Mrs.
M. A. Home, president of the
Woman’s H. and F. Mission con
vention, auxiliary to the gene
ral body; Dr. O. S. Bullock of
Raleigh, veteran member of the
executive committee and mem
ber of the board of trustees; the
Reverend O. L. Sherrill of Ra
leigh, executive secretary of
convention; Dr. R. J. Davidson
of Charlotte, who will deliver
the principal address; together
with various other local church-
and a.wociational leaders.
Of very large impo/tance will
be the financial reports coming
up from the local churches, the
district conventions, the asso
ciations, and from individuals
from throughout the state.
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South Carolina Threatens
Another Integration Suit
Beaufort County
Scene Of Attack
On Segregation
COLUMBIA, S.C.
While most of the South
waits with anxiety ti Supreme
Court ruling in October on thei
legality of state supported Jim
crow education, the South
Cuollna NAACP made plan*
here to strike another blow at
the dual system.
James Hinton, {president o^
the State NAACP branches, said
here early this week that the
organization would seek court
action to open Beaufort County's
white schools to Negro pupils.
He said that a group of pa
rents whose children now at-,
tend the Robert Smalla School
in Beaufort had agreed to act
as plaintiffs in a suit seeking to
open Beaufort’s white schools to
Negroes.
It was the NAACP ot this
state wHlch backed the now fa
mous Clarendon County schoo^
suit, the first in recent times to
sue for integration in public
schools. That case is the one now
on the Supreme Court docket
and from which the South
anxiously awaits to bear.
Hiqton told the press this
week that state NAACP offi-
ciaUs were schedule# toi,^eet
this week with a group of Beau
fort citizens who are to a^t as
plaintiffs In the projected suit.
He said ftirther that the petition
would probably be presented by
attorney Harold Boulware
Columbia.
In the meanwhile. South Caro
lina, already committed to a ex
tensive school building program
in hope»of satisfying ttaeeoiHto
with separate »iuallty, has ear
marked vast sums in school con
struction funds.
In Beaufort County, where a
large number of one to four
teacher schoola prevail for Ne
gro pupils, a 13-14 room
addition to the Robert Smalls
school got underway recently.
When completed, this addl-
ti(«, a separate building, will
replace the numerous one, two,
three and four teacher schools
now spread out over the county
and serving Negro pupils.
This addition, work on which
was started late last Spring, has
been opposed by several groups
because of its reported inade
quacies. It is alleged that the
new addition will not contain a
gymnasium, library, auditorium
nor cafeteria. Opponents of the
addition say that when it is com
pleted, Beaufort city and coimty
Negro students will all be forced
to use the same library, gymna
sium, auditorium and cafeteria
facilities which are now located
at the Robert Smalls School.
It has been further reported
that even these particular facili-
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Pair Arrested
For Drunkenness
In Ctiurch
LUMBERTON
Drinking at a church altar re
sulted in fines and jail sentences
for two men this week.
Lumberton police arrested
two men asleep and drunk in a
church here last Monday. On the
table before the altar, police
found a half-gallon jar' contain
ing almost a pint of “canned
heat,” an alcoholic drink made
by dilution and straining.
■fhe two sleepers, Alex Mc
Millan and James McQueen,
were hailed before the court on
charges of public drunkenness,
vagrancy and manufacturing
whiskey.
Officers found the two men
snugly curled up under the
chtirch carpets.
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAmilSG WEEKLY OF THE CAROLII^AS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1S79.
VOLUME 30—NUMBER 26 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1953
PRICE 10 CENTS
N. C. Delegation At Miami Beach NEA Confdb
Nerth Carolina educators had a large rraresentatlon ai the National Edacation Association
Convention June 28-July S at Miami Beach, nerida. “We Pledge Allegiance” was the theme ot the
convention at which Mrs. Sarah S. Caldwell from Ohio preaided. The incoming president was
WilUam A. Early, Connty SuBerylsor oL ChttlUun Schoelstoawi CkwtKia.
Itodd'delegatoi llMMnd Ink Eva Onhaili, Mts. O«rendolyncuudaakato, Mrs. IHarflu
MeKinney, Mrs. Gladys Moreland. Mrs. A. E. Spears, Dean MeKlnney, Joaeph Belt«m, Dr. Edward
Brown, W. H. Moreland, A. E. Spears, Dan Cunningham, I. T. Graham, C. L. Blake, President of
the State Association, W. G. Byers, State Co-ordinators of NEA. Delegates not shown were Mrs. E. S.
Randolph, President of the Local Association, Mrs. Cerdelia Stiles and Mrs. S. P. Sasso.
WINS DERBY
Toung 12-year-old John Mal
loy of Durham was a disap
pointed- lad about this time last
yesr.'Sehad lost in the finals
of the Durham Soap Box Der
by. But his disappointment
was softened by the fact that
he was beaten by his brother,
Edward. ’This year, with Ed
ward out of competition,
young John was not to be dev
nied. Despite the faet ttat the
race was cancelled la Dwhnm,
he competed in Winston-Sa
lem and won that city’s event
last Thnrsday beere a crowd
of 9,000 at Bowinaa Gray
Stadlnm. So, on Aagnat t. he
will represent Winston-Salem
at the national raee In Akreo,
Ohio.
Sukkle Vktim's
Body Discovered
In Reidsville
REIDS VnXE
The headless body of a Rock
ingham county tenant &rmer
wlM committed suicide waa
found near here Friday.
The partially decomposed, de
capitated corpse was identified
as William Taft Neal, 43 year
old ftirmer on the Lawrence
Watt farm at highway 158 near
Reidsville’s city limits.
Neal’s body was discovered
in a clump of woods on the Hub
bard street extension lying on
a .12 guage shot gun. County
coroner M. P. Cummins ruled
suicide. Cummins said hat Nei.
had apparently put the gun in
his mouth and thtn squeezca
the trigger, for most of his hea j
was tom off by the blast.
The headless corpse vas
found about 10 o'clock Friday
morning by V’:llit;n A'
year-old resident of Chestnut
St^rwho had taken several dogs
to the woods to train them for
hunting.
The suicide victim had last
been seen at home on Tuesday
morning. Sheriff Leon Worsham
said that his family reported
that he left home early Tuesday
carrying a double-barreled .12
guage shotgun, the weapon
found beneath his body.
Sheriff Worsham reported
that Neal’s family said that he
had been acting strangely re
cently.
No motive was given for the
suicide.
Funeral services were sche
duled to be held last Sunday
at the New Center Methodist
Church at four p.m.
JOHN MALLOY
The above contingent of Boy
Scouts from Durham and
Chapel Rill left last week for
the National Scout Jamboree
at Irving Ranch near the New
port Harbor area in Southern
California. The Jamboree will
last through July 23.
The above Scouts and Scout
leaders are, left to right, Ron
ald Schooler, Thomas Cheek,
Arthur Caldwell, Scoutmas-
master of Chapel Hill Troop
107; Oscar Williams, James
Morris, Kelly Bryant, Jr.,
Scoutmaster of Durham Troop
187; Bruce Caldwell and Sam
uel Jones. Schooler and Mor
ris are Troop 55 members and
Williams and Caldwell are
Troop 187 members. Jones be
longs to Troop 107 of Chapel
Hill.
Some 50,000 of the nation’s
Boy Scouts are attending the
jamboree. The scouts had to
travel a combined distance
equivalent to 8,716 times a-
round the earth and are ex
pected to consume 90 freight
car loads of food and sup
plies.
EUND DEQUES! FOR PAIIK SUSHED BY »
PER CENT BY ASHEVILLE aiY COUNaiNEN
ASHEVILLE
The City Council last week
approved a municipal budget of
$3,627,311.71 for the fiscal year
1953-54. Ilf is the largest budget
in the city’s history.
The new budget . includes
$5,000 for some expansion work
to be done at Riverview Park,
the only city park availaMe to
Negroes and located near Wal
ton Street.
City officials had estimated
that $25,000 was necessary for
needed expansion and improve
ment at the Negro park.
The City Council at its bud
get session disapproved the
$25,000 figure and appropriated
instead the amount of $5,000,
which according to City Mana
ger J. Weldon Weir, would per
mit some expansion work at the
park including doubling the
aithletic field area and providing
additional picnic facilities.
Riverview Park was recently
the center of much conununity
interest, it having been pointed
out as' being deplorably inade
quate for serving the approxi
mately 15,000 Negroes of this
city who are forced to use this
park.
The City Council at its week
ly meeting also went on record
as opposing, "for the purpose of
developing facts,” any boost in
bus fares as proposed by the
local bus cqmpafiy in its appli
cation to the State Utilities Com
mission.
the issue led by Rev. James M.
Bus Transportation Company,
has requested permission from
the commission to raise fares to
15 cents from 10 cents, and to
sell trip tokens at two for 25
cents.
The city will be represented
by Corporation Counsel Robert
W. Wells, in a hearing to be con
ducted by the State Utilities
Commission here in the County
; Courthouse August t at 10 A.1I.
Housing Ruling
Made By Judge
In Indiana Case
EVANSVILLE, Ind.
Exclusion of Negroes from
occupancy of dwelling units in
a federally-aided low rent hous
ing project here has been bann
ed by a ruling handed down by
Judge William E. Steckler of
the United States District Court
in response to a suit brought
against the Evansville Housing
Authority by attorneys of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
In his ruling handed down on
July 6, Judge Steckler, for the
first time in any case, held that
approval of segregation in the
project by the United States
Public Housing Administration
“violates the public policy ot
the United States." He further
held that the local housing au
thority’s policy of enforced se
gregation “violates the rights
securM to the plaintiffs and
other members of their claw by
the equal protection and due
pmc^ clauses of the f ourteenth
Amendment” and of the vete
rans’ preference and eUgttdtty
sections of the National Hew
ing Act of 1949.
The judge's eleven-pM>
ings of fact and coaclutioas
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