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I Fish Causes Fight “COMPANIONSHIP AGENCY” LICENSED THE CAROLINIAN VOL, 19. NO 1 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 1959 RALEIGH N C Woman *s Slayer Confesses- Cemetery Mystery Solved Ex-Con Held In Cemetery CHARLOTTE An escaped con vict ’> =£ eharjfed Tuesday with the murder of a 75-year-old widow whose body was found three weeks ago in a cemeterv burial vault Dst Capt W A McCall said E J Davis, 32 of Charlotte, who es caped from the Haywood County Prison Camp six days before the body was found, had signed a Statement confessing the crime "WeVfr got concrete evidence Davis is the mas we want ' McCall said He said Davis was sestesced Ls. Charlotte in 1350 to 17-2* years for assault wi*b intent to commit rape and rob bery. The body of Mrs Toy B Cooper was found in a burial vault m a cemetery in the Negro section of town A 14-year-old boy who en tered the vault door on a dare from playmates. found the woman sprawled or the floor of the vault Serf. 20 McCall said Davis was arrested by Belmont police the day after the woman was killed as an esca pes Charlotte police questioned fCOIvTfNtJEfI ON car-e Z) Youth , 2 Others Killed BENSON A young white cou ple and a Negro youth were killed Saturday night when the Negro's car. trying to avoid a stalled auto mobile. slammed head-on into the couple’s vehicle Kiled were Donald Blackmon. 13, and his wife, Mary Francis Black mon, about 15 both of Ft 3. Ben son and Marshal! Covington. Jr, 33. of St 3. Dunn Two other per sons were injured including 14- m.on.th-old Jerry Covington who un reported in serious condition at s Dunn hospital Highway Patrolman lohn Mcsre said he had no* been able to determine who was dri ving the ear in which Cedee ten w«* riding An airman In the ear William Peacock of Pone Air Force Base was tak en *o. W’esaack. Arms Fo«p<*j! it Ft Bragg for treatment et ON FAC-? ?> Slayer Os Pair Will Face Jury Trenton, n. c. —a man charged with the rifle slaying of two white men in Jones County wil be tried m Craven County be cause the defendant felt he "would not get a fair trial' in the area of the crime. Jones County Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens. Jr. consent ed to Robert Earl Halls request Hal signed sn affidavit saying he for * change of venue Thursday could not receive a fair trial in Jor.es County. Stevens said the ?2-year-«ld Negro would probably be tried at Use itext regular term of . ' Craven Superior Court. The | fatdfetssente charging Hall with SL£ yitmnttvm osTmm • •—■ TARBORO WRECK FATAL FOR 7—Seven persons were killed and 2 others critically Injured in a head -on collision near Tar boro last Wednesday night,, The auto at right, carrying eight persons, crossed j the center line and hit (he auto at (est, carrying one occupant (ITPI TELEPHOTO I. Billy Graham Raps North, No t So uth On Ra ce Iss u m I WHEATON. II! Evangelist Billy Graham accused the north and not the south Saturday ot hav i i mg the nation's most severe racial ! problems j Graham, speaking before 300 per ' sons at a Laymen's Conference j marking the 100th anniversary of | Wheaton College, of which Graham i is an alumnus, said race problem? are moving from south to north ' ATTENDS SENATE HEAELVG Fenner baseball star Jackie Robinson IMt) !e greeted by Senator Thomas C Hennings in New j York before the start of the second day’* session of the Senate «rt>- | committee to investigate juvenile delinquency, Hennings is chairman |of the subcommittee. (UPI PHOTO), He did not amplify the statement Graham also touched on a m:m --j her of other subjects among them —Unions If three unions, the electricians. longshoremen and teamsters unite and fall into gang sters control they can shut down she entire nation.'' 1 —Hope Hope is biologically and psychologically essential to man, yet we are living <n a world with out much hope ” —Populations Exploding popu- ' tations around the world have i caused economic authorities to pr«- ; , diet, the world is on its way to be coming an 'anthill civilization, a global sardine. ” —Education. “Th® Soviet Union tried progressive education and gave it up It took them 15 years ' to discover it was unworkable - LITTLE BLUES SET HOMECOMING Ligon's Little- Blues wii! enter- i tain Eppes High of Greenville, N ! C, Friday night at their 21st home- : coming game. Coach “Pete” Wil- j lisms stated that he expected a tough game from the visitors. He further stated that Eppts had a good passing attack so we are sure to see a lot of throwing Ligon beat the Bulldogs of Epps? High last, year by the score of 38- 12. This year Eppes has lost 2 and | Ligon one game. However, previ ous records and scores will mean j nothing in this game as both team? have discovered in past years The Little Blues, came out of i their last game with few injuries j so it should be at. top strength. The ] Bulldogs will no doubt be on the j look-out for James . Stewart and j William Crockett, a couple of low j flying Little Blues who can easily | decide a game. RALEIGH’S. NCC ALUMNI SET | DANCE The Raleigh Chapter of the j | North Carolina College Alumni As | sociation will give a dance Satur j day October 10. following the St j | Augustine's-North Carolina Col- j j lege football game, It will be given i : at the YWCA Extension, 427 1-2 S i | Blount Street, beginning at 8 p. m. | and continuing until 12 midnight, j Music will be furnished by Otis j Curtis and the Three Duces * | MRS. HENRIETTA WOODARD, Ft i SUCCUMBS ; | HOLLY SPRINGS Hffrs Hen- j {CONTmCJEE ON.TAC-E PRICE 12c IN N. ELSEWHERE 15c Woman Shot In Argument Over Fish GREENVILE, Miss. Two whit* men were iailed here Monday in connection with the near-fatal shooting of * Negro woman follow ing a ouarrel over the price of fish Felice said witnesses teirf them the two men Travis tones of Greenville and Ernest Scarbrough of Victoria Fes, were selling fish near the home of Emeree Me-Ge s Sunday and became, embroiled i« «s arru men*, with the McGee woman «wer their prices Tte* two men left police said, but returned a short time later with a shotgun, Witnesses told police Scarbrough handed the gun and a shell to Jones, who loaded the gun and shot the woman. She was hospitalised in sen out; condition with wounds in the ab domen and right arm Durham To Host rstmHAM *FRE ACHING -.WITH POWER" will be the theme, Union Baptist Church, Durham is October 27-29th are the dates. New the place for the 92nd Annual Ses sion of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina This three-day session is exreot ed to attract messengers from Bap tist churches throughout the state At the present time this will mean representation for 300,000 people in 1.700 churches. Highlights of the program tn | elude sermon*, addresses, pane-1 : discussions, and reports. The feat* i ured address will be given by Dr. | T. J Jemison. recording secretary of the National Baptist Convention. 1 If. S A Dr William Strassner, pre sident of Shaw will be the featured i speaker on “Shaw Night.” Wednes i day. October 28th. Dr. W C. Som | srville will give the address on ! Foreign Missions, Thursday mom ! mg. October 29th. Os unusual interest to the mes -engers will be the election of a ! new president to succeed the late Dr P A Bishop, whb served so ; long and so well Dr O 1, Sherrill executive see the major goals of the annual ees (CONTINtrrB ON PAGE S> Va. Courts Acting On Schools RICHMOND. Vs The Vfergitefa Supreme Court and the Fourth U S Circuit Court of Appeals opened their October terms here Monday, In Washington, the FT, § Su preme Court else re-opened for business wit*» three Virgin ia racial cum on if* crowded Socket. An appeal eoncerahog Alex andria, where three school* have started token integration, 4* the only desegregation care before the circuit, court. The State Supreme Court hears arguments this week e-r a state of a ieo 9 ] technicality, has clouded sponsored test, case which, because fsoram ok PAm » Charlie Neal, Others Spark Play In Series Ex-Raleigh 'Player In ] limelight | | LOS ANGELES, Calif— Charlie' i Neal, former star of the Raleigh. | N C Tigers whacked a home run j last. Friday that set the Los Angeles j Dodgers in the win category. I —. -m*--*-j The. Dodgers | had been defeat ..d Thursday by the C h i c a e o llr Sox. 11-fl. •* n Chicago. The. second § arne was * ,■ .3*B&j|||Pp| also played there : "*' an pi a y e rs l T. have been in the | limelight since; ‘be beginnmg of i 'he series. James J I -’union Gilliam NF.AL of the Dodgers ' set a series record Tuesday when j he got four hits for five times at j bat Dodger catcher John Rose boro has also been very murk I in evidence in the games. Rose boro hit a homer in the playoff against the Milwaukee Braves, w hich was orm of the deciding factor in the' Dodgers’ victory. The Dodgers now hold a 3-2 lead 1 m the senes and play will be re sumed 'n Chicago Thursday, Manager Walt. Alston told new? ! ; men tuesday after the game that he intends to. end the series with a j victory a* the next game The second series win for the Dodgers was accomplished when Carl Furillo hit a single in the seventh inning. (CONJtNtIEE nv PAG?:: 2> Rountree’s “Companionship Agency" Granted License To Operate In The City BY GLEN MITCHELL 1 The number of unmarried per j sons single because of not find | mg suitable companions will dr crease, so will the divorce rate if | a Shaw University student who re ceived permission for a. license from the Raleigh Citv Council on Monday gets his ' Companionship Agency’ on the go Twenty-three-.vear old Mai achia Rountree, a senior «*u deni asked the Raleigh City Council to gran* him a license to establish a "Companion ship Agency", the main pur pose of which will be to help students and non students in finding desirable mates and to : •. sjy • ■„ \ , H | n y" s. .. iljfff MALACHI ROUNTREE . f gets license Say 2,880 Districts '‘‘’Mixing** I - —■ NASHV®.LI, Ten» - Somtfcewi 'School Mew*, in its Septensfcfcr edi tion. said 762 of 2.880 school dis tricts in southern and border states and Washington, D. C. have some integration The publication, put out by Southern Education Reporting Ser vice, also took note of dynamiting® in Little Rock, new* integration in Florida and the Federal Court's approval of Arkansas’ pupil place ment law's. Three hias-te In Little Rock tel September were connected with in tegration One of them shookthe city school board office School integration made fur ther news t« Arkaass* when the Eighth V. f* Circuit Court of Appeal* in St Louis upheld the wtete.’s pupil placement plan in a, decision on the esc* of Bolts,rway High School near Pine Bluff The Southern School News, also said Dade County became Florida’s first to desegregate schools Twen ! ty-fjv* Negro children went to a 1 formerly all-white school at the Homestead Air Force Base and a Miami elementary school. - 4inßi „ . . . ... ~,.a. ■a~ • , • - WORLD SLRIEL tiTARS - Three ®t the stars of *he 1959 World Series baseball games are shown above. In Grp left photo is James (Junior) Gilliam, Dodger third beseman, who set a scries record Tuesday in the number o! hits during a. series game On the right is John Roseboro, Los Angeles catcher, whose home run again?* the Milwaukee Braves during the playoff, was the deciding victory Fac tor in bottom photo Charlie Neal, Dodger second baseman slides into second base during the first series game. White Sox shortstop Luis Anarieio, is on 'he left | guide persons to * better ah- . rulto? R-cuntre* could • apes derstandhag of courtship, | hi* agency by paying a S2O license through the circulation of fee . | leaflets on the subject. ! "1 fee] that this i?«nr can * I Ths Council granted his re- ! serve the purpose of eliminating . : i quest,. Cit.y Attorney Pa.u! Smith Ithe incompatible mama re? be »l ’ ' i j SCEF Protests Action Against Tenn. School By StaH Writer i From the quarterly meeting of j the North Carolina commit.te of j friends of the Southern Confer ence Educational Fund held Sat urday. October 3. came a strong | protests against segregationist, ac tions which have resulted in the ; clo? \g of the. Highlander Folk School in Monreagie. Tenn . and the plight of 28 Negro children I who are boycotting school in : Yancey County this fall because ; of t-lto daily 80-mile round-trip ; they would have to take in at ■ tending the nearest Negro school. j Dr Alexander Moseley of Weldon | is chairman of SCEF's executive | committee The official protest issued in connection wjfh the High lander Folk School is as fol lows i "We protest the persecution I of Highlander Folk School in I Monteagle and of its edca tien director, Mrs Septima (CONTBitnEB FROM EASE V) CAROLINIAN ——*— —— ADVERTISERS BUY FROM THEM PAGE ? Raleigh Seafood Ca. O K Clothing Co. Rountree Companionship Agent.v FAGS 3 Kress SDeedy-Wa.efc tnc. Atlas Sewing Cent*? Wopd's ' FffiE 5 Raleigh Savings A Loir Ass " G S Tucker Bros Hudson-Belk Company Hamlin Drug Company PAGE- S . Colonial Stores. Ice. Acme Realty Company Standard Cinder Block Ce > Taylor Radio Si TV Service i R. E Quinn Furniture Co. ' Modern Finance Company Raleigh Commission Roues PAGT 7 A&P Super Marks* , Famous Bakery Baker’s Shoe She?? Reliable Loan Cc. • Walnut Barber Shop G. A W. Tire Co. EfiriSC* ot Raleigh Jeaoi Barber Shop PAGE 8 Associated Finance @e+ Standard Cinder Block Sc. Ready -Mixed Concrete Os. Mims Plumbing A He*tins ft®. Moore’s Electric So. Ham its &seei Metal ft®. PAGE 9 S M. ’Ktosaipioa Co. i Ssey’t Drive-In Mwleat . Stater Finance Co. Casfleberrj -Hodge Hardware Taylor & Mitchell, Attys. i PACK » Deluxe Sote! ! Peps!-Cola Bottling Ce. 1 Cav*s«sa Insurance Ajentp ! Warner SJeauori*!* DR. A B MOSELET SCEF Chairman Duns’* Ssee Servic* Ridgeway Opticians Carolina Builder* Soap. Watson’s Seaiood Cc, Fayetteville Street Ba-pfttet Church PAGE !J Consolidated Credit Ooop. | Cooper’s Bar B-9 i Capltsi Bargain Store i PAGE IS | State Ftnanc< Cc. Hunt Genera! Tire Co. I *-UF Bottling Co ! Mr. C Karl Licktmas ts. C. Product Co. I Davie St. Coin Laundromat PAGE « Raleigh Furniture ftompar.v PAGE U Firestone Stores Vash-Steele-Warren Red 4: White Grocer* Store Dixie IsOiv. Company Umstead’* Transfer e«ap«®p j Dunn’s Eaao Service Joe’s Sport Shop First-Citizens Bank * 9smgt S&- ! Carolina Power * l3*Ht CoKg&sy ; PAGE 15 ; Mechanics * F* smews Kwe* Shoe Mart Raleigh Paint Sc WsfipaasM- Ss. Gue Russo Hatters Sc CinsesaiS* Washington Terrace Ay*», Cdosa Cut Sale Store Mr Joseph Winiew Stephens Appliance @or PAGE 17 Ambassador Thes.tr® ! PAGE IS i Beklits i PAG*. W ! Midas MnhHer PC-.r/c* j PAGE J? EinbrsE’s | S. M. Touss Hard®?®?* %. I Tows A Country ®& IRMH | WKJX Eroa&uu&m m, ! Patug&r. c»f* - -n-»Tin-- 1 i n ii rr*mi i i nsirr titi mu iri tii mi» in —i
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