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FOF STUDENT Miss O
megrose Paulette Thomas, a
hove, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Paul L. Thomas, of Lexington
received an honorary plaque for
the se.ntor having maintained
the highest scholastic average
for the past two vears at Cathe
dra! Latin High School last
week Miss Thomas was also
honored as the top-ranking stu
dent m the local chapter of the
National Honor Society. She re
sides with her grandmother, Mrs
Ida Thomas of Method.
Two Shoot,
. Both Die
in Durham
DURHAM A nightspot-owner
and a 22-year-old man believed to
have staged a senes of weekend
robberies. shot each other to death
early Sunday m a gun battle
Jesse Janies Perry sought by
police on charges of robbing a taxi
driver Friday and holding up a
produce stand Saturday, was hit
by three shots Sloan Branch. 33.
owner of the Cap Social Club
died of a single head wound
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Parents-T eachers
Plan Convention
' State News
—IN—
Brief _J
TKADE SCHOOL SETS FINALS
RALEIGH The Home Eckers
Trade School will hold its 1960
commencement exercises Sunday.
June 12 at 1 p. m. in ‘he Home
Eckers' auditorium of the Trade
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.... ntix i . ... >J. ; . Horn’m
Indianapolis, Indiana, cuddies a toy animal as her pain-wrecked
body wastes ay/ay from the effects of cancer, which doctors say
kill her in m lew months.{UM TELEPHOTO).
f .
line Coach
At St. Aug.
Takes Post
Dr William R Strassner, pre
, sirient of Shaw University has an
! nounced the appointment of Rob
; ert Herman (Stonewall! Jackson
! of Mineral, Virginia, as instructor
! m the department of Physical Ed
ucation and head coach at Shaw
University.
He was formerly line coach ai
Si Augustine's College here.
Mr. Jackson received the R.
S. degree in lUSO from A and
T College and the M. F. E. de
gree in 1957 from Springfield
College, Springfield, Mass.
He has traveled in Europe.
1 the South Pacific. South Ame
rica and various states of the
United States in the armed
services, and as a professional
football player.
1 Mr Jackson has held previous
| positions as follows; teacher-coach
> Johnson C Smith University.
Charlotte: New York Football Gi
• ants: Playground director. Recre
! ation Department, Washington, D
! C ; and teacher-coach at St. Aug
j ustine's College. Raleigh
| He is married and is the father
I of two children.
R. H. “STONEWALL" JACKSON (
Hundreds of delegates from 15
states which comprise the mem
bership of lhe National Congress
of Colored Parents and Teacher
will attend the ." ith annual con
vention which will be held at Ben
ariict College and Allen University.
Columbia, South Carolina, June
19-32. 1960
Mrs. Corma Mowery Past Presi
dent of NEA will bring the keynote
address and the closing challenge
—"ln Pursuit of Quality" will be
delivered by Dr. John W Davis.
President Emeritus, West Virginia
elate College.
Mrs. A R. Kight. National
President, will preside at all ses
sions and other PTA leaders and
officials will assist, in the program
activities during the three day
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THE COROLINIAN
VOL 19, NO. 35
3 Drink ‘Canned Heat.' Die
! Or. Duncan j
Orator For !
Ligon Grads
One hundred fifty graduates
j heard Dr Samuel E. Duncan at
i Ligon High School's commence- j
men exercise Saturday night at;
' Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium at
8 p. m Dr Duncan is a formei j
; stale supervisor of Negro High j
Schools in North Carolina and is ;
presently serving as President of 1
Livingstone College in Salisbury
Walter Davis, with a 97.3 aver- !
age led the graduates as valedic
torian and Joseph Holt as saluta
torian.
Names of the students gradual uig as
j released by the principal's ofiice are
Charles Eavcaid Alston Robert Lee
Benton. Marcus Hanna Boulware. Jr.
John E.i:i Blanch, lames Brew ington.
Samuel Lei Brndte Dorses' Mitchell
: Butlei BiMjrj', Harvev Cox. Jr . Wal
ter Ed waul D ous. David A Dolbv
Norman N Dolby. Clarence Thomas
Ford. Ira y airier. Edwaui Lee Free
i man. Thru ,as Rhoden Freeman Jr .
j William A' oei i Freeman, Bobby Louts
Gardner .lames Leon Giles, Robert
Lawrence Graham
Claude Waite- Gray, Robert Thomas !
Harris. Albert Hav-kins, William Hamp- |
ton Haywood. James Felton Herndon, 1
Lindsay Carl Hiahsmith, Charles Ed-'
ward Hill. James Edward Hinton. Louis
M. Hmton. Joseph Hiram Holt. Jr .
James Edward Horton. John Davis
Johnson. Louis Johnson, Quincv Lee
Judkins Bennie Arthur Mack Charles
Lewis Manuel. Lynwood Monroe, Dav
id Connell Myeri. James Oakley Nor- j
ns Ji Stephen Kenneth Oats. Jesse i
Lee Olds. Jr.. James Thaddeus O'Neal. |
Jr Labey Ralphine Partin, Jr.:
James Eddie Pattishaw, William Al
len Robertson 111. Paul Smith. Jt ,
Columbus Donald Spencer. Ben Joseph
Thomas, E* vin Theodore Thomas.
Charlie Watkins, Jr., Joseph Eugene'
: Weldon. Earnest Leonard Wilkins. Jr.
i Charles Edward Williams. Isaac Wil
liamson, Jr.. Vernard Wilson
Patricia Ann Andrews. Elnora I Aus
tin Effie Maxine Autrv. Lossie Oc
tivia Avery. Rachel Barbour. Doris:
Bean. Mortice Oliva Bernal. Bonnie!
Tran Booker. Virginia H Buchanan.
Barbara Ann Burrell Emily Marie
Byrd Wilhelmenia Campbell, Betty
Lou Chavis. Yvonne Antoinette Clark
on. Ifirie Eunice Cne, Geraldine Cov
melon, Vivian Delores Cox. Brenda
Marie Curtis. Carolyn Oddessa Deb- I
nam Deinris Geraldine Debnam. G'oria :
Jean Debnam. Annie Mae Duel!,
Thom wine Louise Farrar. Jeannette i
Mane Gil! Katie Mae Glover. Jo Ann
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*lVepin<* TenT
Viriini Ilf A
White Youth
FAYETTEVIILLE A 16-year
old white youth was hpld under I
$5,000 bond Monday pending the
j outcome of an inquest, in the death
| of a Negro soldier he said he shot,
i when he caught him peeping
through a window of his home
Constantine Masnuras told
officers Charles Johnson, a j
soldier stationed at Ft. Bragg, i
was standing outside the Ma
snuras home early Sunday
looking through window*.
Officers quoted the youth as j
saying he fired a 12-guage shot- j
; gun through a window. The blast j
(struck Johnson, who staggered a- i
| bout two blocks to the home of !
I friends.
! He was sent to Womack Amy i
i Hospital, but. died about five hours
after the shooting.
CAROLINIAN i
ADVERTISERS
'mammy
I P.sGE 2
! Horton's t'3»h Store
Town and Country Furniture
PAGE 3
| Bankers Eire Insurance Cn
i Pittsburgh Piatr 61 ss Co.
i 8, M. Young Hardware
1 O. K. Clothing to.
• G. 8. Tucker & Bros.. Inc.
PAGE S
Federal Acceptance Corp.
Firestone Stores
Raleigh Savings & Loan Association
! Miidson-Beik
| Montgomery Ward .
!PAGE H
! Cameron-Brown Co.
i Thomas Komi Store
I Carolina Power A- Light •
| Branch Banking sod Trust i .
!PACE 7
i Consolidated Credit Corp.
'Sir Walter Chevrolet to.
! PAGE *
i The Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
j Modern Finance Corp,
i R. K. Quinn Ft!rn!sure r*>.
| Taylor Radio & TV Service
l C Karl Llcfetman
t CWorn Cat Rate Clathin*
NOW SHE'S A GRADUATE Carlotta Walls. 17. looks at her picture m the 1960 \earhcx<k
of Little Rock's Central High School, from which she graduated June 2nd The picture at left
show’s Carlotta (arrow) being escorted across the school grounds hv armed troops in September of
1957. after the federalized Arkansas National Guard & Army Paratroopers were ordered to protect
Negro students integrating Central High (UP! TELEPHOTO).
Mayor’s Committee Os City
In Term. Approves Sit-Ins
OAK RIDGE. Tenn Sit-in
demonstrations at six restaurants j
were staged by groups of Negroes
Saturday with the approval of the
Mayor's Committee on Race Rela-
I lions.
j The Negroes were turned away
from two of the restaurants, hut
received service in four others
where sit-ins were staged
j Tht effect of the orderly demon
strations was unclear One propri-
Cross Bums
In Yard Os
| N. C. Home
CHARLOTTE Charlotte po
lice were trying to find witnesses
Monday who saw a car parked in
! front of a Negro's home where a
! cross was burned Sunday night.
: Die wooden cross was burned
! in the yard of Alexander Rollins.
I the only Negro family in that
i block of North Davidson Street.
Rollins was unaware of the
cross burning until police
knocked on his door. Hr said
the burning could have been
done by the person who was in
a car in front of his home and
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, Colonial Stores
!PAGE 9
! Etiro’s of Raleigh
i First-Citizens Bank and Trust to.
i Famous Kakerv •
! Carrel! Coal Co.
A&P Food Stores
; PAGE 1«
Ridgeway’s Opticians
Carolina Builders Corp.
Ceveness insurance Agency
5-lip Bottling CO.
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
Pepst-Coi» Botitn.g Co. of Raleigh
Warner Memorials
Fayetteville St. Brplist Church
Deluxe Hotel
Blood worth st. Tourist Home
j PAGE 11
Me hanks and Farmers Bank
, B. F. Goodrich
; PAGE 1«
Standard Concrete products Co ‘
Gem Watch Shop
Palelffh Seafood Co.
Acme Realty Co.
Raleigh Funeral Home
Gunn’s Kssto Serviewssetef
Muat'g General Tiro Co. I
Sthisdl** Furniture
t
Close Cote Records In Ala.
RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, JUNE 11. 1960
etor. Mike Cappiello, said he serv* i
I ed the Negroes "For the Mayor and
his committee." but said he would
MRS. C. RETCH EN ABBOTT
Women’s
flubs In
Session
Mrs Gretchen V. C Abbott. Con
sultant of Southern States. White
House Conference of Children and
Youth, Washington, D C„ told a
genera! session of the Federation
of Negro Women's Clubs that the
recent Golden Anniversfe -rv, White
House Conference on Children and
Youih was a hard working one. It
was also the largest number of
people to participate in any of the
| six Whitee House Conferences on
| Children called by Presidents of
j the United States since 1909.
I She advised the group that the
I purpose of the Conference was "to
! promote opportunities for children
! and youth to realize their full po
j tential for a creative life in free
dom and dignity "
The conferees cant from all
56 states and the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa.,
and from ”8 foreign countries,
They Included representatives
from all areas of interest in
Amerioui life. Mr*. Abott e®-
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not do so again until the town
was "Inn per cent" integrated.
There were no arrests or dis
orders during the demonstration:-
The Mayor's Committee, headed
i by Dr. William Pollard, a national
ly known atomic scientist and E
i pisropalian clergyman, indicated
satisfaction with the effect of the
; nt-ins. The committee met Satur
day to discuss the effect of the
l demonstrations.
'mu*
i
■Barred
||ln State
! MONTGOMERY, Ala - A cir
cuit judge berred the U S. Justice
department from inspecting voter
registration records in anv Ala- j
hama county, and Gov John Pat- i
terson hailed the action as an end j
to retreating"
Circuit Judge Walter R.
.lone* issued a temporary in
junction shortly after 11. S. At
torney General William Roger*
asked for access to voter regi
stration record* in four south
ern counties to check for possi
ble discrimination:! against Ne
groes.
"I am pleased that Judge Jones
| has enjoined the federal snoopers
i from meddling into things here in
| Alabama that are none of their
| business,” Gov. Patterson said in
I Mobile "The time for retreating
j has come to an end. More power
| to Judge Jones,"
i Chief Assistant State Atty. Gen
! Nicholas Hare asked for the in
| junction. Judge Jones set July 7
j for s hearing on whether to make
| the injunction permanent.
! The injunction was the second !
; asked for in Alabama in an attack :
lon the nation’s new civil rights i
j laws which gave Rogers the pow- 1
; er to demand access to voter regi- i
| stratum records on grounds of su- '
I spooled discrimination,
A Selma circuit judge grant
| ed a, temporary injunction s
gainst the Justice Department ;
May 26 when Roger® demand
ed access to Wilcox County j
voter registration records, but
the Fr-derai Government ask
ed that a. hearing oss 3 peraut
fCONTHfliwii ON PAGE i) i
‘Heat’Claims
Trio Within
Four Cays
WINSTON-SALEM Drinking
“canned heat" was blamed Mon lay
in the death- of three persons hen
within within four days.
James J. Staples died Sun
day night at a local hospital
after undergoing treatment
for drinking Vanned heat "
He was admitted Sat., the dav
that a similar poisoning claim
ed the life of Eugene Edring
fon. 36. (Hirers quoted Ed
rington as saying he drank
with Staples earlier lasi week.
Mrs K 'x Burns Young 34
died Thursday. ..'.runs Forsyth
County O troner B. E Pulliam -aid
he. suspected thp woman died from
drinking moonshine containing
lead salts, hut withheld a ruling
pending a blood ,m.*h - •
Police, however, listed her death i
1 ax resulting from consuming can
: ned heat,
i Jflifc Reid, a 59-year-old Negro
!
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Youth Is ¥
Girlfriend
| NEW BERN Henry Thomas
Drew, 16-year-old Dover youth
died m a Kinston ho pital Sundav
of a bullei wound he received Hat
urday al the home ol his teenage
! girlfriend.
Officers said (be shooting
occurred a! the home of Miss
Ruth Marshburn in tort Biro
well Thp girl and two other
youths. Kimhrel! Chapman and
Truman Harry Harris, said
they did not know Drew was
wounded until they heard him
rail for help
Police were unable to que lmi
Drew before his death.
His friends said he walked a
mile to his home and picked up
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QUITS CUBA DEAL Joe Louis, former heavyweight
i champion, holds a press conference in New York last week. H«
; revealed that he has severed all connections with the Cuban Tou
rist Bureau. Louts also revealed that he has warned the pubiia
reiations agency in which he is a partner that, he will withdraw"
from the firm unless the Cuban account is dropped. (VPI PRO*
i TO). .
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AMRASSADOR TO CITY—
The Honorable George Arthur
Padmore, above, Liberian Am
bassador to the United States,
will speak at St. Augustine's
College on June 15. at 8.00 p.
| m. The former Assistant Secre
tary of State of Liberia present
ed his credentials at the United
States Department of State on
April 7, 1057. Ambassador Pad
more >s an initiated member of
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity .
Slashing,
Robbing
Trial Ends
CHARLESTON S C iANF' -
Four Wi-ro youths received a
com hi it ci sentence of 30 years at
Viet,m of the attack was 24-
ary la ‘ lot an attack on *
whit*- man m what Judge Thomas
•’ His- , (idled the most gnie
cime • me" he ns:- com in mn*
tact with in .-0-years of la expe
rience
Victim of the attack as 24-
year-old Grady McMakin of John's
!
(continued on rant: zi
Til led in
I’s Yard
ODDS-ENDSI
BV ROBERT G SHEPARD j
1 , *
"The earth is the ord s—"
WHAT A DIFFERENCE
A song has been written about
'lie difference a day mak c s. nos
\v( want someone to write a song
nr something about the difference
1 hundred miles can make.
Winston-Salem is something ov
> a hundred miles from Raleigh
Rut would one think that the dif
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