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MAN, 71, ft BANK ROBBER? - 11^11 -S H,-1 d. VOL IS. NO 52 SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1959 RALEIGH. NC, PRICE 12c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15e Staggering Number Os Slayings Recorded + + + + + 4 + + + *4* Boy, 12, Gets 35-Year Prison Term Wife Waits In Grocery Store For Her Arrest Wake County s violent death to!! continued to soar to slag Earing heights this week as a Zebulon woman was lodged m tail •Sunday charged with the sidewalk death of her husband Saturday night. He died enroute tc St Agnes Hospital here Mrs Dorothy P Holder war nr- i n-st.-d bv Zebulon officers. She | is charged with shooting her hut.- ; band. Needham Holder 36. after! a fracas which occurred about I 10 00 p m Mrs H°!det, nho was Hock «d tVake County .tail, al j legpfijy admitted shooting her husband when the.v had a “fUSS" in which she said he rame after her with a knife. Scene of the shooting was the sidewalk at the intersection of Citizens Implore Tigers To Stay As a result of the announcement j ' by the Raleigh Tigers of their in- I' fentions to move their league fran chise to another state, a group of local sports fans converged on Dove Music Co. team headquart ers to discuss, with Arthur Dove, the possibilities of keeping the team m Raleigh The group, comprising fans of the Tigers who never missed a home game, offered to campaign year round to build up attendance at ; home games and to support the 1 Standing Room Only As Ligen’s PTA Convenes .t c Washington, president of the j \v Ligcn Jr-Sr, High Par ent Teachers Association, wel comed approximately 450 parents and teache.i s Monday night as the first meeting got underway in the school's cafeteria ivs»s Matting toon 1 ftwly, a? 3gat!l tbp of Lifon students •ndtcated their desire to «r©rk with the « i hoo! I« 2,5 so Iwcro'’? 1 the fdnrat!'? processes Last reas the PTA ?6CSi r 6d an award foi th. r •arrest membership Mr Washington's foresighted hess had already placed him one PIC PARTICIPANTS AT THE ELKS’ GOODWILL ■ Rsbit Atwater, Mrs. CJarrif Norman George Letlow. Ct*«is, Herman Mitchell, Chss. (tramp. From left i Jimmie Walker, Miss Bessie Wallace, Alfred Brown, row, E. € Harris, l«. Fhomaa. Mr. L. S- WBm is i fete t» Iffedwn 1® sfete community, i Ftand’ile Street, and Barbee Ave ; nuc. The weapon, reported-tc have ; been used in the killing, has not I been found However, a search is | stii) on for It Ihr woman us\ arrested in a secrecy v|o*t nearby by pn lire ('hief Willie Hopkins and a domestic court officer Sue was quoted as saying tlvi ! she '»ad been ‘ waiting" for offs 1 cers to enme for her team in its pfforts to get improv. ed park facilities Their enthusiasm was so great that it was bard sot Dove to explain to them {hat (tic de rision to move had not been a hasty one but league members were reluctant to playing games tn Raleigh where their share of the gate usually did no* equal expenses. Dovp also stated that the league had voted it's approval of the (CONTtWBD ON PAGE 21 stop ahead in his guiding role H<= had already appointed committee members during the summer and they were ready to report. Mrs. E B Cofield began the reporting of the different, committees by read ing a beautiful poem The committee report* in cluded plans for helping the exceptional child and a bud get of SIOOO.OO which was a mended to include Stoo for a testing program and MOO for awards and scholarships in mathematics and science H E Brown, principal, at Leg - on made the closing remarks and introduced the teachers. CONFERENCE From left t« right in front row. , , L S. Wilcox, Mrs. Kli/abelh Pugh, Mrs. Bessie So right in back row. .fames FhiHips, ffßiott Reddick. A. A. Vance. .Hudson Phillips. .1.1. Melm, ,1, mar- | shown receiving s Few for his many years of w*rv. i i ■si SPECTED THIEF SHOT Robbery inspect Itoitttd Baxtei Its. is brought out of New York's Pennsylvania, station in a wheel chair late September 13th. after he was shot in thf tec bv a police man in a bullet-studded chase through the station. The chase began in the nearby Greyhound Bus Terminal, where police went to pick up Baxter upon a tip given to 8 private guard that the youth was the one who had stolen a girl's wallet in the terminal s waiting room last week It was reported that Baxter bolted when he saw the police arrive, and Patrolman James Miecisch took up the chase after spot t*ng him and recognising him from the description that had been j radioed HIP! PHOTO I. Aged Mai Robbery * NINETY SIX. S C A man. ho claimed to be 71-years-old but looked younger, was arrested Fri day and charged with being the grotesquely-dressed gunman who robbed the Ninety Six branch of the State Bank and Trust Co., Thursday of $11,577 All but $8 of the loot was recov ered Nathaniel .fones, a native of Greenwood who recently returned there from Wmnfield, La . was tak en before U S Commissioner .lames R Hill at Abbeville Friday i n Held In Ofßank afternoon and pleaded guilty upon arraignment of a bank robbery charge Hill I'tdered Jones held and i er 120.00A bond, the amount recommended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and be ess lodged in the Greenwood County Jail He will probably be removed to the county tail at Greenville within three davs to await trial in t>. S District Court Roy K Moore agent in charge of the Charlotte, N C. office of the. FBI. said Jones was arrested about noon Friday at his home in Green wood by an FBI agent Harold Fort son of the State Law Enforcement (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2} Dr. Larkins Pens A New I Book Here S> John R Larkins, consul tant, North Carolina, State De partment of Public Welfare, ha? written another book to be re leased by the Irving-Swam Press on November 1 ' Patterns of Leadership Among Negroes 1 ' attempts to answer such questions as the following <l> Who do the Negroes consider as their leaders? »2.» What are the social characteristics of the lend ers? 'J* What do the leaders con sider as the major problems con fronting the members of their group? (CONTINUED Os? PAGE $) '- HERE | Say Youth Confessed NASHVtLLE Tent!?- A 12-year | olri boy Tuesday began serving a 35-year term at. the state prison bare, for the rape of a seven-year old V hlf.c Eli'! James Westmoreland of Na r h ; vilip pleaded guilty to charges of ! !‘apc in criminal court here Mors Westmoreland (dd the fury hr raped the girl at knifepoint i !*'d June after he lured her !«- • %a a vacant lot near bet home. The jury turned down a plea b\ Assistant Attorney General Howard Butler that Westmore land be given a 25-year-sent enre. The iorv deliberated about five minutes before increasing the penaly another 10 ypars. Tire sentence was described by courthouse observers as the stiff esi given n youthful offender in more iban a decade. ftSVa RolilstS The Reverend 1 Met? Rollins is visiting Shaw University and St. Augustine’s College to inter pret to student* the 18i.li Ecumeni cal Student. Conference on the Christian World Mission which will bring together 3,000 students from 100 different countries s round the world The Reverend Mr Rollins will address students and faculties of Shaw and St Augustine’s on their respective campuses on the fol lowing schedule Friday. September 25, at 1000 am., Green leaf Audi torium of Shaw University, Friday, September 25. at 8.48 pm, in the St Augustine’s College Chapel Sunday, Sep tember 2?, at. 8.30 pm »« Shaw University Vespers in University Church. Rev. Rollins will also meet, with student* in classes and will hove personal conferences with those students who are interested in Christian Missions on the foreign field. Rev. Rollins, who is a staff re- | presentative in t -rc field of race j (COKIIMUED ON PAGE, V) StFV. J. M, ROLLINS STERNO DRINKERS' HEADQUARTERS ’TOOLS”,—The shove seems show where some «f this I rtty’s drinkers of ’•Canned Heal." (Sternoi hang out, and the “tools" that thev use in preparing the notent concoction. Photo above was taken this week off the ftitfl block of l Martin Street St shows where (he men sleep after partaking of Sferr.o. Left inset is a eloseup of (he "heal”, inset on the right was taken at (he "melting poi", where Sterno is "fixed" for drinking. Entire have begun a rrark down on the men who pass through private property to get to the '‘headquarters.” t STAFF PHOTOS BV CM AS. R JONES). “Canned Heat” Drinkers Infest BA' CHARLES R JONES "Canned Heal ‘ drinkers in the East Raleigh area are now search ing for new climes following sev eral crackdowns by police. Bleary-eyed ronsutrr" of the ‘‘heat” better-known s.s Sterno. have been staggering out of a ’'jungle” near city property for the past three years. It selis for about 30 cents per can Officers of the Raleigh Police Department have recently been a lerted and are making periodic checks on the area, located on j property adjoining (he now aban- j doned City Garbage headquarters j off F ktartin Street. During the course of a day some IT so 25 white drunks are seen ; entering ’ Hoboland" and remain j for as long as six hours some- i times physically unable (o move, j after drinking the "heat " According <o the instructions on cans of Sterno. it is in be used as a fuel «nly and, said one toi-ai storekeeper, "That's Y ancey’s Studying ASHEVILLE Some 25 stu dent* from Yancey County, who refused to attend Negro schools to which they were assigned her*, be gan classes Monday in a private school and a makeshift classroom at a church in Burnsville Pour hoys and three girls eu ro! led in the Alien High Krhoo! a private school form erly limited to girls. They be gan classes at the same time a bout, 21 students began attend ing a makeshift school at the Griffith Chapel Methodist Church In Burnsville. The school program is being sponsored by the Burnsville Fdu- | fCONTSNtIF.B ON PAGE 2> B * f &OY& discover body CHARLOTTE Three young bovs. playing in a cemetery late Sunday, found the body of a wo man in a burial vault where she had apparently been placed after being beaten to death Police ysid the unidentified wo man. about 43, bad been bludgeon ed. D» VF. M. Summerville. Mecklenburg County Coron*-n, (GOmmiQl ON PAGE 30 » . r>.rl)V what they IV,r (i lot I The area where the stuff is pre pared is heavily v-poded with ve : ry tall grass concealing a small clearing On one side of the cleared-off Harry Ashmore, An Editor, Resigns i LITTLE ROCK. Ark A Pulit ; zer prize winner here resigned his! editorial position on Tuesday to asume a. new post as political consultant in California Harry S. Ashmore resigned after 12 years as executive ed itor of the Arkansas Gazette to accept his new appoint ment as consultant tn the new Center for the Study of ?>pnwratir Institutions • at BAPTIST LAYMAN HONORED I W. \>areiti. tight, a- staaaeh Bwmhw of Ihe First Baptist Chorrh her* was honored bv the eea gregatiow during Homecoming services last Sunday for ?.i years as rhatrman of the church's trustee board. *Th« presentation was mads by W. C. Davenport, left. (See complete story on page 2) :=^AR6um^^ ADVERTISERS —BUY FROM THEM , *«*«> t&-¥f?xpsr | PACE $ , ! O K Clothing Co ! Sorton's Cash Store jPAGE 3 i *La!e!g*i Cnmmlsstos Im I Town A Country Tire Serine i Johnson-Jjnsbe Co. Gem Watch Shop \ AAP Super Market® i The Capital Cocs-Cols Bottling Co. 1 Mechanics A Farmers Bank | PAGE S John W. Winters A Company ! Electrical Wholesalers, tnr I fUtfelsh Savings A .Loan Ass n Hndsow-Belk Company Speedy Wash PAGE * Colonial Stores. Tar Bunt General Tire Co , M* C Karl Tlchtman l-CP Bottling Co N C Product Co Acme Realty Co Modern Finance Co R F Guinn Furniture Tailor Radio A TV Ssrvlr,* Standard Cinder Block Co. PAGE - AA P Super Markc** cirst-Citfrens Bank A Trust Co. SatirtC® of Raleigh i i area, large bricks ar r - rla-ed t— ' stst-hev noon "'hirh th* i? j probably played Soot i!i<iir3 t<£ d j i hat many a ran of St*mo has fCONTINUED ON PAGE ?■} Santa Barbara, California "M: Ashmore has been offered a position of national importance to the communications industry which he could not afford to past up,” J N Hetskelh president and editor of t,h Gazette, said ui an nouncing; the resignation addin?' "He served his newspaper and this state well during a difficult period Hls decision to accept the (COMINf.'ED ON PAGE *1 , PAleigh Peun A Wailpaps* Co S M Younf Hardware Co 11, A. W Tire Co, I PAGE S I wpf«! | Pepsl-Cola BotUisj C? | Cavecea® Insurafiff- Ajeh' • i Warner Memorials | Bunn's Esso Sendee i Ridgeway Opticians I Carolina Builders Core ! Watson's Seafood Co I Fayetteville Street Baptist Churcfe ! PAGE 11 ! Cooper's Bar-B-JJ : ’"AGE IS ■ Rhode*. tn? ! Basie Si Cota Lsts*<it"m« | Consolidated Credit Orr Mood System Industrial F>rV i Firestone Stores i Paleigh Fttaera! Horn* : PAGE !* Kehlitjc Midas Muffler Shops PAGE IS lire®* City hsasß ts State Elnanre Co tUfeigh Seafood f" Famous Bakery Co
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