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NKRUMAH VISITS QUEEN Kwame Nkrumah. Primp Min
•ster of Ghana, vtjiffs Qur.cn Elizabeth and Princess Anne at Balmoral
Castle, August 12. The African leader offered his congratulations to
♦he Queen who is expecting her third child. This is the first photo of
the Queen since palace sources announced her pregnancy. 'The Queen
♦ old Nknunah that, because of her pregnancy, she would be unable
to make a scheduled trip io Ghana. (TJPI PHOTO).
Dr , Harris Goes
To 111. For 1 Year
Dr Nelson H Harris. chairman
of ‘.ho division of education at
shs.'v Univeisity, has been grant
ed a. year's leave by Dr. William
R Strassner, president, to serve as
visiting professor of educatidn at
the University of Illinois. Urbane.
Illinois.
Di Harris will bp She first
Negro to serve as professor in
the School of Education at the
University of Illinois- He will
♦ each two undergraduate corn
?.«* and one graduate course
He holds the A.B degree froin
Union University. Rich
mond, Virginia and the .A M and
PhD degrees from the University
of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Micni
g sn
He sened sot approxiiwat?!*
11 vq veats as r s upn vi«o»'
jen liigh schools in Nor Hi * if
nHtm nn les'e from Sha w Vlni
-1 ersttr.
H r r it s member of Pf Os.mm 3
ftOS ITT ! VD ON’ F AG*
Integration Over Bead
Body,’ Alabama Gov. Says
ATLANTA <ANF> While the
U S. court of appeals in New Or i
leans was being asked to rule on
e Federal District court order to i
end racial segregation in local pub- |
Uc schools. Gov John Paterson of !
Alabama was doing t o thingr
f !«♦ he signed into la’*’ a
will permitting s«v school
fiifs2.t6n.6d h ith '.ntPpratlon,
ithdran ffesn city. cousit\ a.iud
STRONG MAN SUBDUED
WINS!ON-SALEM Officers frying to arrest a heavy.jet
mm on a window-breaking spree in a residential area fought for
45 minutes before they were able to restrain him
Patrolman O, M Reid said the man "seamed to go crazy ' when
he was cited at City Hall after his mother railed on officers to
arrest him Reid and Patrolman toe Master* went u ith the man s
mother to a Negro residential ar c a "here he was reported bteak
inr doors and windows
ON THE WARPATH Brandishing sticks, native woman demonstrate in v'ok»t fashion at Ivono,
Joatli Africa. More than 1,500 women participated In the demonstration against an increase in the poll fax
eaposetf fey the. government. The demonstration was dispersed when police reinforcements arrived- CUPI
RABHATELEPKOTOI,
DF N. V R \RK!S
<p fea'*h ?M !i! *
rrhnnls. and form
jo Independent school district
withip itself.
At the same lime h*= public!’,
i declared that if a school m Ala
bama is integrated, it will be over
my body" The governor .evidently
i inched the word dead" in that
familiar ohrase
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Murderess Os 1940 Faces New Rap In
Front Yard Death Here
N. C. Ushers Close Sessions
THE COROLINIAN
VOL- 18. NO 48 SATURDAY. AUGUST 29. 1959 RALEIGH N C. PRICE 12c IN N. CL: ELSEWHERE 15c
Attacker Claims Mistaken Identity
Girl. 15. Gang War Victim
Raieighites
Elected By
State Ushers
Pour Rilfiighites «:ere elected to
top-ranking office:- in the Inter
denominational Ushers Association
of North Carolina at the associa
tions thirtv-fifth annua! session
August 20-23
The newly-elected officer?
are f-rege Johnson of 340 if
Cabarrus St., member of the
*' = u?f.ee board .fames O'Neal p?
696 E Martein St., first rice
mesldent. Miss Margaret Wal
lace s "3 r Davie St., record
me secretary, and Mr Frank
'Gant «f Washington terrace,
district supervisor for district
No 2.
L, E Austin of Durham is state
i •■'resident
Some 300 persons from all over
♦he -fate attended the annual af
fair at the Rush Memorial AME
| Zion Church The program featur
■! ed addresses by many prominent
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Funeral
Directors
;
Convene
CHICAGO The National Fun
eral Directors and Morticians As
| sociation. Inc., ended their four
| day meet on Thursday night with
I the President's Ball in the Grand
! Ballroom of the Hotel Sherman.
| attended by hundreds. All in all it
! seem- as though the visitors to the
"Windy City” had fun in spite of
I their strenous business meetings.
! and judging by the attendance
| this was the most successful eon
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North Carolina's Leading Weekly
MISS « A* s M"F JAMES O’NEAL
.er lEcretarv - • » Ist vice-president
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GREGG JOHNSON
. trustee board
New Bern
School BdL
Admits IT
A record number of 17 students
have been admitted to the prev
eusty all-white Havelock school in
New Bern, according to reports
received from the Craven County
School Board on Tuesday
On the same day, Durham s City
School Superintendent announced
that some 200 applications for reas
signment to white schools had
be/m received The number is the
largest m any one North Carolina
city to datp
The 17 children to the H*’e
l«ck school ale from nine lam
Uses of personnel a* chert’
Point Marine Air Station and
had to meet certain conditions
and requirements" of the
School Board
The children had to attend Neg
ro schools more than 20 miles a
way during previous years. This
caused uneasiness among Negro
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Freni Hop!, ¥sc Asks !MCP
For A “Mixing” Compromise
■FRONT ROYAL, V* _ A com- :
promise is being sought with NA- i
ACP attorneys by a 5-member com- j
mittee named on Monday by War- j
ren County leaders in connection l
with school integration here Both j
parties will meet late this week
A * the same time, the Warren
County Educational ■ Foundation J
met to determine whether to con- |
timie its private school system this I
fall in the face of integration at
the County's only public high
school.
Os Woman
MONTGOMERY, Ala An Ala
bama legislative committee is con
sidering a bill which would fire
the woman librarian who placed
a children's picture book about a
rabbit's wedding in a library here.
The subcommittee of the stale
house segregation screening
committee was appointee*) las*
«eek to draft the bill Rep
Kim Thomas, chairman of the
segregation committee. fc a id
his group recommended chan
eps In qualifications so thaf *he
library director had to be a
native, of Alabama
The bill is expected to be intro
duced during the regular session of
the legislature later this month If
successful, it would m effect fire
Miss Emily Reed of Asheville. N
C. director of the Alabama Public
Library Service
ouy bite ror
Country Club
In Alamance
GREENSBORO Negotiations
will be completed by * group here
before Nov. 1 for the purchase of
a country dub situated on a 120-
acre spread of land in Burlington,
according to an announcement by
Attorney J Kenneth I,*»e
The Burlington Industrie? Coun
try Club on the Ruffins Mill
Road located some three and a
half miles out of Burlington will be
owned and operated by a corpora
tion of businessmen as of Nov t {
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The foundation Ijaa expwtsd
% registration of IPO fa? pH
r*tf tuition hut only S3O hare
registered up to now
In ths midst of ail ibis, the
Warren County SefcooS Board
*aid it was considering a vol
untary gradual desegregation
plan for west year in return
foe withdraw! of the Negroes
from the white public school
thia fall,
4ca*msroS”o!r page »
Innocent Girl Slain As
Rival Gang Opens Fire
NEW YORK. N Y—A 15-year
old gir! was shot, down fatally on
Manhattan's lower eastside on
Sunday night and seven other
person were wounded by mem
bers of two street gangs, one pre
dominant l,v Negro and the other
Puerto Rican.
The shooting occurred in a. clash
of violence betvven the two hood
lum groups the Negro ''Sports
men” and the Puerto Rican “For
syth- - Street Boys '
A voung streef hoodlum ad
mitted on Monday to the kill
! Yancey
To Meet
BURNSVILLE The Yancey
i County Board of Education may
decide next week what action it
will take on appeals by the par
ents of children turned down In
their bid for transfer to all-white
schools here.
The one-room, one-teacher
Negro school here was ran
demised and closed a year ago
and the children last year at
tended Negro schools al Ashe
ville, to miles away.
The board rejected the applica
tions for transfers last week and
held a hearing on the appeals
Friday Board members said they
wanted to study the record of the
hearing before announcing a de
] cision. -The board originally had
I assigned the Negroes to the Ashe
! ville -schools they attended last
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Shriners
LOS ANGELES, Calif The
nation ? Shriners ended their six
day convention here last Saturday
after one of the most enlightening
and enjoyable meetings in their 68-
year history.
More than 5.000 Nobles, delegates
from some 150 temples of the An
cient Egyptian Arabic Order of
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—IN—
_ Bne i
MBS, UGON AMONG WINNERS j
RALEIGH Mrs. C B Ldgon j
of E. Lenoir Street, a, teacher at |
the Lucille Hunter School here, j
entered a "Nemo The Tiger" con- j
test, white visiting in Washington, j
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SIT STAFF WRITER
Wake County chalked up its ninth killing m recent week*
I Sunday when Mrs Rosa Matthews ftriffin, allegedly pumped a
I .32 bullet into the stomach of Nelson Pope, 45, 621 Price Street,
j Method
Mrs. Griffin, 45, of the 500 block of Cannon Street, is charg
ed with shooting Pope after hr reportedly was heating he*
Lawrence Upperman, 31, of 5. j
Saunders Street, who at tempted j
to aid the woma.n, was gashed on !
the right thigh by Popp At. this
point the shooting is said to have
taken t lace
The woman received a, preli
minary hearing in City f’ourt
ing of »he girl In the mean
while, police picked up 29
other youths who, It Is belie*'
ed, were Involved in *h«* out
break
It is alleged that the outbreak
began when the Sportsmen tres
passed on the Forsythe territory
A 23-yenr-oid man. who said be
was walking with his wife when a
group of teen-agers attacked him
was stabbed in the back However,
he. denied any gang connections
with the incident. ’
The. violence is said to b? Mir
first serious outbreak since an
Episcopal minister arranged a
“truce" between the two gang - ;
about two years ago
TROUBLED LIFE Bis body covered with welts and bruise- th.i
eight-year-old boy was under hospital care Aug 18lh. and his moth:*
and stepfather were in custody charged with cruelty Lt Richard
Murphy of the Youth Aid Bureau barged Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Williams with mistreating the bay. who is Mrs. Williams' child b>
another marriage, Murphy reported finding dog collar marks on th*
lad's neck, as well as the many bruises. There was no evidence th*
youngster, named Melvin, had ever been to school, Murphy said th*
parents admitted tying the boy with a rope the past two months "to
keep him out of trouble,” in Newark, N. J, < UPf TELEPHOTO)
CAROLINIAN
BUY FROM" THEM _
PAGE ?
O. e. clothing Company
Horton s Cash Grocer
Odom Cut Rate Clothing
PAGE J
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc
Goodman's Ladles Shop
City Finance Co
Raleigh seafood Market
First-Citizen's Bank Trust Co
Wholesale Motors
PAGE 5
II ud son-Be Ik's
Mechanics and Partners Bank
Town a.ms Country Tire Co-
Famous Bakery
Gem Watch Shoo
PAGE S
Colonial Stores
Hunt General tire Co
Seren-Up Bottling Co.
Mr C Karl Litehiwar
8. E Qutun Furniture Ca
Modem Finance Corporation
Capital Paint & Wallpaper Co
Taylor Radio and TV Service
5 M. Toung Hardware
Standard Cinder Block Co
PAGE 1
A A P Super Markets
Eflrd’s of Raleigh. Int
Raleigh havings & Loan Association
Speedy-Wash
Union Finance Company
PAGE 8
Deluxe Hotel
Pepsi-Cnla Bottling Co
Warner Memorials
Capones* Insurance Agent',
Pann'i Esso Service
Ridgeway Opticians
Carolina Builders Corn
Watson's Seafood Co
Fayette ville Street Baptist Church
Tuesday and was bound over
under $5,000 bond
Mrs Griffin was arrested by Pa
trolman Norman Artis,
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|
NELSON POPE
■j # , shot it? yatc?
Elks At
ATLANTIC CITY Thu lir.ri:
seaside resort rolled out the F«d
Carpet Saturday *o extend 1 el
come to the Elks of the world s
they arrived in regal splendor
attend then Grand Lodge comer
tion which continue? *o Saturda .
August 29
Headed b' Robert H John?- 1
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PAG* ft
Farina Parmer: Exchange
Ihe Elmo Compan
Ashworth’s Inc
I Injury Motor Co
Keith Tractor XsnpleasaA a r
Hudson-Betk Company
Fuquay-Yarina Tobacco Market
PAGE 10
Mack's sc-10c-2Sc Store
; Neel Deal Warehouse
Big Top Warehouse
Skeeter's Clothing Co.
Ransdel! Brothers
!iv in City Radio Co
PAGE 1!
Goldleaf Warehouse
PAGE !2
1 artet's Inc.
the Hood System Industrial Sank
Gas Russos Hatters ii Cleaners
Acme Realty Co
Consolidated Credit C^rßcritlcn
Washington Terrace .A^»tts:est&
Raleigh Funeral Home
Firestone Stores
PAGE IS
Wise Homes Inc.
| N. C. Products
Bfcllentine's Auto Beauty Shop
Public Service Co. of N. C In;.
PAGE li
Mac's Esso Servlcente*
Schlitr
PAGE IS
i Midas Muffler Shops
! PAGE 1?
Stephens Appliance Ce.
| Electrical Wholesaler*. In;,
i Cooper's Bar-E-Q
I PAGE 18
%. ». Kress & Ce
Davie Street Cola tjUßutrettrsat
i Civol'9 Beauty ftaloa