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STUDENTS STAGE ‘SITDOWN STRIKE"—The above, students are some of the North
Carolina AH&T College students who were refused service at a lunch counter reserved for white cus
tomers at Greensboro Tuesday , The students staged a “sitdown strike' at the F. W, Wool
worth Store. Left to right are Ronald Martin. Robert Patterson and Mark Martin shown seated at
the counter. Several white persons appeared at the counter, but left when they saw the colored
students, (UP! TELEPHOTO).
Students Strike At Luneh Counter; j
Prexy Gs A&T College Comments j
SPECIAL TO THE CAROLINIAN
GREENSBORO This so-called
Gate City of the South got a real
taste of non-violence here Tuesday
afternoon when a group of stu
dents. alleged to he member o f the
A and T College, food a 'leaf
Woman Unknowingly Eats
With Killer Ql Husband
DANIELSVILLE, Ga Accord
ing to Sheriff Dewey Seagraves.
Leo Appling. Jr 34, killed his
uncle, Robert Upshaw. 76. from
ambush and then calrniy ate
breakfast with toe slain man's
widow.
Seagraves said he jailed Appling
on a charge of murder. The Sheriff
gave these details;
Appling rot up before dawn
Hodges Speaks At Harvard
On Tarheelia Integration
CAMBRIDGE, Mass Gov Lu
ther H Hodges of North Carolina
has termed his stale's approach
to Integration a "recognition ol
the simple fact that, to have pub
lic schools, we must have public
support of those schools."
Hodges noted Friday niehi
that about 59 Negroes have
been admitted to previously
all-white schools in his state
without court action. He said
his major concern during the
early days of North Caro-
IV TROUBLE AGAIN- .*» > • (right), it.
year-old stepson of former Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, is
shown with an unidentified companion at court in New York
Jen. 26th. Appearing before Magistrate Benjamin Schor in Ado-
Sstcenf Court, young Campartelfo was ordered jailed pending a
hearing on Feb, 3rd on charges of petty larceny, ft was David's !
third arrest in levs than a year Schor said he wanted the. young- j
ster to "see what the inside of a jail looks tike" (UPf PHOTO), i
| out of Ghandi's book" and decided J
| that if their money was good e- |
| nough to be exchanged for books !
' and papers in the F W Woolworth .'
Store, it. was fair exchange for j
food.
They came into she store well- j
aud walked six mtics to tb»
ho>n<’ of Upshaw, his unde bv |
marriage. He 'ay in wait tints!
Upshaw finished >«f chores i
and came out of the barn, then
allegedly killed him with a
22 rifl« and bid the body uw
der some hay
Appling then went to the house
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3J
lina'? gradual integration was
, to maintain a pubiie. school
system and Saw and order
during what happened to be
an “ever-darkening crisis,”
Speaking to s Harvary Univer
sity law forum, Hodges conceded
(he solution was not easy.
Long regarded as a "moderate"
on the integration question, Hod
ges expressed hope that congress
would not upset, the “delicate bal
ance" achieved in North Carolina
in solving school integration- “We
; dressed and equally demeanored.
| They took their seats at the coun- j
ter and waited to be served. They j
did not sit together and vowed to !
remain there until served.
The clerks very methodically .
evaded the w»»*ld • be diners.
Their action did not daunt j
them apparently and eves i
•hough they arc said to heve \
hern studying For forth-coming i
exams they held on nniST 12:3d j
V M. They left at that Bans,
but vowed to return,
The action of the students seem
ed to have stooa r? the manager
and many other persons in Greens
; boro. The manager, h. C. Harris
: had no comment as to the policy of
' ’he store, but is alleged to have
i said they could sit there.
The students refused to give
| their names, according to reliable
reports The reason for this was
not readily explained An investi
gation by college officials is said
to be underway.
(CONnNOTD ON PAGE T)
nrp meeting t.hp individual prcb- !
lerns a-5 tlipy arise and we hope S-o |
(COKmWVEI* ON PAGE 2)
State News
—or—
Brief
DURHAM —A SI-year-old Dur
ham man suffered multiple frac
tures Friday eight ■when a South
ern Railway passenger 1 train struck
his automible at a crossing inside
the Durham city limits
Officers said Robert Merrick,
who was delivering a rental car to
(COWWOTB GW PAG* S>
- CAROLINIAN —“j
ADVERTISERS
! —-wr — BUY * Rm THLM
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Mur'ou s Cash Store
PAGE 3
Walsoii's ittataurant
Electrical Wholesalers, tnr
Jerome s Tourist Home
Walker-Martin, Inc.
PAGE 5
Hudson J9eik Company
I firestone stores, me
, Mechanics <s farmers Bank
Southern Beil Telephone * Telegraph
j James E. Shepard, Realtor
i Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
' Johnson-Lam be Co.
; PAGE 6
i Carolina Power & Light Company
t* & to. Tire Company
federal Acceptance Corp
| Capital Ice & Cos! Company
j Community Florist
famou Bakery
S PAGE 1
1 Consolidated Credit Corporation
Carolina Bulck Company
Stephen* Appliance Company
PAGE *
Cotumai Stores. Snc.
Acute Realty Company
Motion! Finance Company
St. ML Q«uui Turpiture company
Tay'ssr tcadfe A. TV Service
I C. RiitS. lAtchman
RAGS l>
AAP Food Shires, Isic.
SfSrtfs o f State If h
' J. C. 51- taws, Essij OH
MAN, 34, AMBUSHES UNCLE, THEN EATS
BREAKFAST WITH UNSUSPECTING WIDOW
THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. 19, NO. 18
Richmond Native Edits Red Paper
Tr&llef§ Jhncidkgni Iftrofoc#/ iVhij** Crjr(«
Jail 64 Boys In Bus Riot
(‘The Worker’
Selects New
Editor In NY
| NEW YORK—A communist
• Negrc* leader from Richmond, Va
I has been appointed editor of the
! communist weekly newspaper.
The Worker, the publication an
nounced last week
James X. txi>%*mu <3. wha
led as latemna? student del*
egaticci demanding school de
segregation in Richmond at
the age of IS, wit! replace John
Oates, who resigned the edi
torship of the newspaper and
his membership in the com
munist party two yearn ago.
The newspaper’s announcement
described Jackson as "a mem
ber of the national secretariat of
the communist, party and the
chairman of the party’s southern
regional committee."
Jackson has beers a member of
the communist party since 1931
and in 1959 he represented the U.
8. communist party a? a visitor to j
the 21st congress of the common- i
Ist. party of the S«viet Union, the:
announcement said.
I (UONTtNUED ON PAGE *» |
NAACP
\ Meets
In State
BY J. B. BARREN
CHA ELOTTTS—M edgar W Evers,
NAACP field secretary for the j
State of Mississippi, addressing the
special mass meeting of the mid
winter NAACP * Tarheelia Sfete
and Branch Officers here Sunday .
afternoon, told of what, he termed
injustices that are most prominent,
along with others "less prominent'
in his state.
(CONTINtne® ON PAG® gs
First,-Clttafin* Bank A Trust Co,
Macon's Barber Shop
Correll coa! Company
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Blow, worth Street Tourist Homo
RlUgewaj Opticians
Carolina Builders, tar.
CavctKss Insurance Company
7-IIP Bottling Company
Pllira Motor Finance Company
Watsoa’s Seafood * Poultry Co.
Bankers Fite Insurance Company
Waraer Memorials
.the Pcpsl-Coia Bottlinf Company
PAGE II
Mother A- Daughter Store*, Ine
Southern Auto Finance Company
Wholesale Electric Supply, Inc,
The Shoe Mart
Joseph Winter* Promotions
PAGE 13
Ambassador Theatre
PAGE IS
Rannoo-Dale Inc.
PAGE l«
Standan Cinder Block Company
Gem Watch Shop
Raleigh ReafooJ Company
Spe.Hlv Wash
Rolelgh Funeral Home
l>unn\i Esso Servlcsater
Smith Coal & 01! Company, lire
Branch Sanliag Ar Trust Company
j E„ M. Young Kardwsra Stew
Runt General Tire Company
; Ko«)*v ern Wholesale Furniture Co
! RsKsigh Paint A Wallpaper Co
1 Odom Cut Re to cloth s«s <
RALEIGH, N C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY" 6. i 960
t %y\ |jj
REFUSES TO FILE TAX RETURN—Miss Eroaeanna Rob
inson, 35, a social worker, is carried from a V. $, Marshals van
and into Chicago's federal courthouse fan. 77 th, for a hearing on
charges that she refuses to file an income tax return. She refused
to walk arid was brought info court. Miss Robinson , an Art In
stitute graduate and former athlete, said she would not pay taxes
because a. large part of it goes for armament. Judge Edwin Rob
son sent her to jail for an indefinite term (UPI TELEPHOTO).
Clifton Sills, President Os
Credit Union, Succumbs
Pinal rites w,pre conducted from
ills Martin Strefc Baptist Church
here Wednesday at. 4pm for Clif -
ton Sills, 62, who died at St Agnes
Hospital Sunday
Mr, Sills, who resided at
fill Gatling Street, was well
known in Raleigh as a charter
member and only president o?
the Wake County Credit.
Union, which was formed in
1948; treasurer of the local
chapter of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People; a trustee
of the Martin Stret Baptist
Church; president of the
church’s usher board, a mem
ber of the church for 10 years,
and & staunch Macon.
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4
CLIFTON SILLS
. He was. employed by the city of
Raleigh for many years
The Rev, Paul H Johnson, pas
tor, delivered, the eulogy and inter
ment, followed in Mount Hope
Cemetery.
A native of Cartel!a., Mr Sills
■rCOWTINtrED ON PAG® X)
BREADLINE Migrant farm workers, many of whoso crops wars virtually tfxz&toysd dur
ing several days of near-freezing weather in south Florida, tins up lot food last week- Stoat* 3,900
workers stood in breadlines to obtain their ration.*. ( UP! TELEPHOTO ).
PHILADELPHIA - Police rounded up 64 colored bov*
! Thursday following a riot aboard a trolley rar ;n which three IS
j year old white girls were molested 4n d their clothing torn.
Nine of the boys, all students at Daniel Boone Disciplinary
| School, were held a.s the ringleaders. Some of the pupils had gone
| to the aid of the girls during the melee
The three girls were treated for
j shock at Sf Mary’s Hospital and
| later Identified their aseshaute, *t
police headquarters
Police said the firs* two victim
were mauled arid stripped of some
of their clothing after the pupils,
entered the trolley following dis
missal from their classes- The two
girls, screaming in terror, manag
ed to get off the trolley arid at
tract a police car
Jet Strikes Home,
2Persons Killed
MILLS ROOK. Ala. Ma.vhan
Long, 70. and his wife, Mrs, I no
ise Long, 65, were killed last
Thursday night when a T 33 Jet
trainer plane crashed into a
house near this central Alabama I
town.
Their five room frame house j
was destroyed by fire when she |
plane hit the ground and nco- j
eheted into it..
“Uncle Sam" Steps In On
“Daddy" Grace's Estate
WASHCTNGTON The govern- terest for 1945 and 1946
raent Monday filed $5,966,000 in The 18-year-old eelf-utyl
tax lien# against the estate of C. ed „ hos Mmd of thf> world( *
M (Sweet Dandy) Grace, w h c founded Rouses of Pray
ua! leader who died in Los Ange- ff „ ?Hie * sfnuis alon# the
?e S hwt monthi and was buried in Eastera seaboard, mm under-
New Bedford, Maes , after a cross- sfood to have toft «a astet#
country funeral. valued at «SMOMM.
i The Internal Revenue Service n dled of fceaH &neam fa *
said Iht lto were tHvi in 13 t hoßßltal m
. and the district ot Celum- Weßt Cmst bwjj aiders gg
bia. to protect, an assessment, of
$5,966,000 in back taxes and in- fCONTENDED <W Mfll 9
The third girl boarded! tha
trolly about three block* away
and immediately was given tbe
same treatment, tieorsjs .1,
; j Willis, '*B. (be 'roller avers
ion, began clanging his hell to
summer! police.
>! Police entered the trolley and
; rescued the girl. Other reinforce*
; men's arrived later and herded
i the pupils into police wagons.
The pilot Lt Col, R. H, Tura
qnist oi Andrews Ail Force Bose,
Md , parachuted safely from the
stricken plane and landed about
!a mih and v. half from the crash
j scene He was not Injured,
j Turnuuist. who was alone in
i the pln.nc, bud slopped to refuel
j at nearby Maxwell Air Force Base
| and was <m route to Randolph
i AFB, Texas
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