"MIT, WHAT A BIG NO'» i; v.: . —v„M Kurt Wofuituu’ tr,, his first look at loro
real. live horses at an nut ins last week with 40 other city children at Staten Island. N, Y The outing naj
seonsored bv a New Tork City newspaper and the Community Councils of the City of New York, fIJPI
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1,000 Baptist Women To
Raleigh For Convention
At least a thousand persons will
fc* expected at Shaw University
•:n August 11-14, attending the
Seventy-Fifth Annual Session (Di
amond Jubilee' of the Woman’s
Baptist Home and Foreign Mis
sion Convention of North Carolina,
auxiliary to the General Baptist
State Convention. Inc The theme
for the occasion will be ' Called -
Commissioned - Kept " Isa 42 6-7
The various meetings and
programs will he held on Shaw
University’s East Campus and
the Tapper Memorial Baptist
Church On Tuesday evening at
8:40 p m Dr. A J Ryans, pas
tor Ebsneier Baptist Church.
Charlotte will deliver the ann
u;! convention sermon Wed
morning at 10:30. Mrs M A
Horne president of the Con
vention will be featured in an
address.
Wednesday afternoon a+ 230
Miss Delores McGrier, president.
Junior-Young People s Department
New Housing Project
To Rochester Heights
A housing project which will e
re-ct 77 three-bedroom br;ck homes
for Negroes is underway in Ra
leigh The project will provide
homes, for Negroes who have been
forced out of dwellings
ir. the city.
According to Thomas Hilde
brand* vice president of Cam
eron- Brows Realty Co th*-
development will be located m
Rochester Heights, off the Gar
ner Road
Laurinburg Will Host
Three August Meetings
The State Baptist Sunday School
Convention <7cth Annual Session')
end the State Baptist Training
Union Convention (59th Annual
Session) of the General Baptist
State Convention trill meet with
the Solid Bock Baptist Church,
Lsurinburg, the Reverend C. J
Cooper, paifcr August 4-6
Fitting Christian Education. In*
t" the Total Church Program" is
t.’« r nerd theme for all sessions
T.-.rough s'multaneous clinic? fo
r-’nir rddrerse? reports, and ser
mon r the theme **-ill be developed
Aca Spaulding, president of
*>-«. tare'lna Mutual LIU In
surance Company Durham.
.Redevelopment Os Harlem’s
12Sth Street Considered
!‘EYORK. IT Y—A proposed
elan for the redevelopment of the
125th Street area of Harlem, in
cluding facilities for transporta
tion recreation, -business, educa- I
tion. and housing, was outlined on i
July 21 at the New York TJniver- j
sity Graduate ' School of Public j
Administration and Social Service
The plan is the resuit ni a
nine-month study conducted
h’- studer.tr, in the School's ad
vanced urban planning design
elans taught by Robert C.
Weinberg, adjunct professor of
■ will address her group during its
; session Wednesday evening has
| been designated as Foreign Mis
sion Night A pageant; "Planks" in
the Program of Progress W. E. H
and F M. Convention will be pre
sented in GreenleSf Auditorium of
Shaw University at 7:30 p. m and
Dr. M. L Shepard, pastor. Mount
■ Olivet, Baptist Church. Fhiladel-
I phia Pa . will deliver a sermon at
8:45 p m.
On Thursday morning at 10.10
the group will hear the Eev. John
Fleming. Director of Christian Ed
ucation. General Baptist Conven
tion of North Carolina. Raleigh
His topic will be Our Human Re
lations Today " Thursday evening
is Shaw Night. The Rev. Thomas
Kilgore, pastor. Friendship Baptist
Church. New York City, will de
liver a sermon at “ 30 p m.
Dr Ellen S Alston is exe
cutive-secretary of the conven
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The homes, with an estimated
selling price of $9,000. will he sold
without down payments, he said,
adding that monthly payments on
the 40-year FHA loans will be a
bout SSB
Persons forced to leave low
cost housing projects because
of increased income will also
be eligible for the homes.
Paved streets and city utilities
and services have also been plann
ed to enhance the development.
I will give the featured address.
Professor C C. Paschal! of
Ktttrell will lead the Sunday
School CUnics, Attorney J. A.
Lassiter of Winston-Salem, the
BTU Clinics; and Miss Miriam
Ricks of Rocky Mount, the Va
cation Bible School Clinic.
Messengers are expected to at
; tend from churches throughout the
state. E. M. Butler. Wilmington, is
president of the Su n d a v School
j Convention J. T. Hawkins. Dur
ham. is president of the Baptist
Training Union Convention
A cordial invitation is extended
to the public.
urban planning. It was tarmu
lafed with the knowledge and
cooperation of the District 10
(Harlem) Planning Board
established by the Manhattan
Borough President’s Office.
Preliminary studies of the com
munity’s social, historical, and eco
nomic background were made by
the students. The area, which runs
from 123rd to 127th Street and
from the Hudson to the East Hav
er has a population of some 600,-
(COWTKNtnSD ON PAGE 2)
SPECIAL SECTION
The Promotions Department
of the CAROLINIAN wishes to
announce that beginning with
this week’s issue it is paying a j
salute to the farmers of North
Carolina. It is also pleased to
announce that a special feature |
<ui Laurinburg Institute is be- j
»ng run in connection with the j
salute See pages 13, 14. 15 and
16. Watch for your county. J
Ex-Union
Proxy Is
Seek Aid
MONROE Ousted NAACP
leader Robert. F. Williams, who
recently lost an appeal for rein
statemeant, in the organization, has
a second appeal on the way But
this time it is not. for reinstatement.
Williams wants the. NAACP
to intervene in the. refusal of
the Monroe City School Board
to accept applications from bis
two sons, Robert. V. Williams,
Jr., and John C. Williams, for
reassignment tc white East
Elementary School.
When notified of .the Board's
action. Williams announced that
he would "appeal directly to the
(CONTENT)E£< Oh PAGE 2)
State News
—IN—
Brief
LI. AND MRS BURROUGHS
PARENTS
FRANKFURT. Germany A 8-
pourtd boy was born to Lt. and
Mrs. Frederick D, Burroughs on
Saturday, July 18, according to a
report received from Mrs Vivian
T, Brown, of Raleigh, who was J
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PLAN SHRINE CONVENTION—Hard at work mapping plans for the 58th annual Imperial Coun
cil Session of Prince Hall Shriners In Los Angeles, Aug. 1.6-22, at the Embassy Auditorium are members
of the convention committee, Nobles and Daughters of Los Angeles' Egyptian Temple No, 5 and Egyptian
Court No. 5. Chairman of the group is Police Lieutenant Roscof (Rocky) Washington (seated 2nd from
left), who also is Imperial Assistant Chief Rabban of the 15,000-mensber fehrine organisation. Others
seated are; Illustrious Potentate Kenneth S. Washington Sr, (seated center); Illustrious Comm and revs
Imogens P. Clay; Imperial Deputy Os The Oasis Ann E. Powell; and Daughter Sallle Ann Wright of the
publicity department. More than 5,000 visiting Nobles and Daughters from all over the U. S. are ex
pected to attend the five-day Shrlaer’s confab.
Young Girls Swept
To Deaths In Storm
THE COROLINIAN
VOL. IS, NO. 44
Williams’ Sons Now NAACP Cases
Kill Cousin In Churchyard
to-Ruiuier Flees Cargo
jArgument
Oversmokes
i Proves Fatal
j
GALAX Va One youth
was in iai.l and police sought an
other Monday for the knife
I slaying of their cousin during an
I argument over a pack of ciga
rettes and matches at a church
picnic.
Joe Bryson. IF of near Galax,
was stabbed in the chest during the
fight Sunday at Tol'n-ei Chapel
Church, about six miles south of
here.
Officers said Bryson and his
cousins. Willie and Lawrence Brv>
, son. about the same age were arg
uing over ownership of some ciga
rettes and matches.
The victim 3nd Lawrence Bry
son were armed with switchblad*
. knives, police said, and Willie
Bryson had a paring knife
Wiilie was treated for knife cut;
■ and was jelled at Independence
; Lawrence Bryson escaped
I
Many Raps
Follow Big
I - G* j
i : Accident
I
| RAEFORD Two youths, one!
without a driver’s license and the
other with an expired license, were
arrested on Sunday for their part
in an accident here.
Thomas McCrae of Newark.
, N. J, and Lei an Stewart of
Albany. Ga.. were charged with
speeding in excess of 75 miles
per hour, reckless driving, lar
ceny and wilfully racing as .
ier being involved in an ac
cident near here.
McCrae's car overturned after
• skidding sideways down a highway
j near here. Stewart's car hit a j
I fire hydrant inside the city limits. !
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
SATURDAY. AUGUST 1, 1959
STRIDES TOWARD FREEDOM Roy Wilkins,‘executive secre
tary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, left, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, premier of Eastern Nigeria, walk to
the speakers’ stand at the Polo Grounds, New York City, where a
mass mee*mg was held recently The mass meeting climaxed a scries
of meetings held dunng the NAACP’s 50th anniversary IITI PHO
TO),
Accuse Four Plaintiffs.
In Palmetto Golf Case
CHARLESTON. S. C. Four
Negro men h*re were accused of
‘acting “in a concerted effort" to
harass and embarrass the city
The men—John H. Cum
mings, John E Chisholm. Rob
ert Johnson and Beniamin
Wright—asked on July 6 for
! a hearing before a three-judge
RALEIGH, N, C
Federal Court in connection
with their being barred from
using the city’s golf course last
year,
They charged that they o*ere de
; mod use of th r - municipal golf
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£-r mp*
-scape try
Thwarted
WINSTON-SALEM A 26-
year-old felon tried to escape
from the Forsyth County Prison
Camp Thursday on the basis of
playing hide-and-seek inside the
compound with guards.
Alton Hayes of Greensboro,
serving some 36 years for a
number of convictions, includ
ing crime against nature- and
larceny, bid inside a building
where asphalt is mixed at the
camp while guards instituted
an all-out search and the high
way Patrol broadcast an es
cape alert
However, guard Reed George
discovered him perched on a ledge
near‘the ceiling of the building a
bout 45 minutes after the search
started. Hayes came down meekly
at the guard's order.
Goerge said this was Hayes’
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PRICE 12c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c
Say ‘Grip’ Watson Hauled
174 Qts, Os Illegal Booze
Sorn* $348 worth of Stump ;
Hole' (white lightning' whiskey]
will he poured down the dram
soon because William 'Crip) Wat
son of the 1100 block of S East St.
couldn't, run fas' enough
Driving a late model auto
mobile. allegedly containing
174 quarts of -the llleti! home.
Watson was spoiled by Offi
eers T T Street and J E Daye.
both of whom knew him
He is said to have taken off in
his car and turned into East Street
Avenue near Chavis Park
Watson reportedly jumped from
the auto arid started to run How
ever, after he had gore approxi
mately 50 feet one of the officers
called him by name When he
heard this, he stopped as he knew
he was "in trouble ”
] (CONTPTED ON PAGE 21
! Five Dead After
Two-Car Coll Ison
MYRTLE BEACH. S C Five
Negroes were killed Sunday in a
two-car collision near Myrtle
Beach, bringing South Carolina's
weekend violent death toll to at
least 10
The Highway Patrol identi
fied the five kil'ed on U. S.
Highway 17, one and a hall
miles north of Myrtle B c arh as
Hezikiah Erwin, 7.7, of Flo
rence, Miss Jean Blanche. Rob
inson. 19. of Florence; Sirs.
Youth Robs Mom,
Given Four Years
GREENSBORO A l?-year-old
youth was sent to a correctional
school Friday until he is 2*l for
breaking probation by stealing $6
from his mother's purse
Moses Campbell of Guilford
: -CAROLINIAN
BOV FROM THEM J
PAGE 2
Hortons Cash Store
Washington Terra's
Hr. C Km Liehtman
PAGE 3
Odoe; Cut Rat* Start
Mechanics A farmers Back
Winn-Dixie Stores. Inc.
Pebllf Service to ot N. C.. tr.c
City Finance Company
Raleigh Seafoou Company
Umstead's Transfer Co.
Dav-.c St loin Laundromat
Sure-Fit Seat Cover Center
PAGE 5
Hua.i-n-Bclk Company
Electrical Wholesalers, Inc.
John W. Winters and Company
Kaklgh Savins.. & Loan Association
PAGE 6
Hurt General lire Company
7-Up Bottling Company
Capua Paint & Wallpaper Company
Modern Finance Company
H Quirn. Furniture Company
S M Yount; Hardware
Standard Cinder Block Comuanv
raylor Radio & TV Service
Colonial Storey tne.
PAGE 7
Speed’.-Was! Inc.
A&P Super Market
N C. Products
National Insulation Company
Kids Pulled
Down Four
City Blocks
GREENSBORO •- Two your.*
colored girls were swept four
blocks to their death Monday in a
creek swollen by afternoon thun
dershowers
Guilford. County Coroner S.
B Davis, Jr, ruled both drown
ed accidentally, said the
creek was running fast enough
"to overturn a. boat" because
of the heavy rains which hit
this area about 2 n m. and
continued through the after
noon.
The victims were Doris Jean
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If',; c
WILLIAM tCRIFi WATSON
, . face* booie rap
Eloise Wright Jones 23 of Fls
rence. Eugene C- Williams S 3,
of Conway and Guriev Gra
ham 26. of Conway
Patrolman C M Met'? of Ocean
Drive said three other* were in
jured in the crash Tim names of
the injured and the extent of their
injuries were nor. immediately a
vailable
A 38-year-old Aiken man. Hernt
(CONTENDED ON PAGE 2)
; County had received a five-year
probation term, along with a
j younger brother, for stealing S2S
I in November from a post office
! contract station safe
I
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3j
Famous Erkery
Tows C Country Tiro Sends*
Carolina Power i. light Com par.
Gem Watch Shop
PAG? S
Deluxe Bote!
Pops* Cola Bottling Co.
Warner Memorials
. Caroness Insurance Agent,.
Dunns Esso Service
Ridgeway's Opticians
Carolina Builders Corp.
Watson's Seafood Co.
Dillon Motor Finance Co,
Fayetteville S .. Baptist Church
PAGE 3
Sanders Motor Company
Cooper s Bar-B-Q.ua
PAGE 11
Sehltt?
PAGE 12
Ambassador Theatre
PAGE la
Firestone Stores
Gus. Russos Hatter* fc Cleaners
The Hood system Industrial Bank
Raleigh Funeral Home
Acme Realty Company
Central Drug Store
Consoiidateu Credit Corp.
Southern Bel!
Wallter-Martin, tec.
I Stephens Appliance