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Supreme Court May Decide Sit-In Issue Within One Week Ruling Os Tribunal Expected NASHVILLE. Tenn An it ** bsmey lor the NAACP told sia;» Negro leader? a legal precedent for settlement of the sit-in issue may be decided in a case before the L. S Supreme Court next week Mrs Constance Motley. NAA CP attorney from New York, said the case involved Negro students arrested and convicted of trespassing in the white rest aurant of a Richmond, Va bus station. Mrs Motley told a state meeting of the NAACP Saturday the s'u dents were arrested not for violat ing any segregation law. but for trespassing "This brings up the question of whether or not the state can en force a private restaurant s dis crimination and if so is the state m violation of the 14th amend ment Mrs Motley said the question of the sit-ins could be ignored by the high court, however, and the case decided on the basis of « hether de nial of service constitutes a burden on interstate trade X. t. C leric: Drowns While Fishing »T H M. JOHNSON CLINTON - The Fes D M Mitchell was drowned last Tuesda while fishing at Six Runs River Funeral sen ires were held Sunday. October 2 at First Baptist Church. Clinton Officiating we e the Revs M Newkirk and J L White Rev Mitchell _ was pastonrg St - Stevens Church the time of his 8 death. Surviving WgpP W t are his wife. Mrr , ™ tMT J t Estell B Mitchell JBjp| ' of the home, one ||fSRL Jfi'jSm daughter Mrs. Ed'* srd Young of Trenton. N J ; one fos’er sor., Mr Ethan Doug- REV >f! t CHEI.L lass Mitchell of Washington. P C. one sister Mrs Emma Chess of Reading. Pa , four brothers, Mr. (COVTtN't Erv OIT PAGE T, State News Brief 4 0 ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM PUQUAY SPRINGS The Ann ual Wake Count*- 4-h' Achievement Day Program is set for Thursdav. October 2? at the Consolidated k School of Fuquay Springs of which W M McLean is principal The program w ill be made up F «f 4-H demonstrations, skits, summaries, singing and other activities. Medals, trophies and certificates of honor will be a fCOPTtNI ED ON PAGF ?> j- CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS BUY FR ° M FHEM PAG* i So.-ton s Ci*h Store Mother & Daughter Stores PAGE o Budson-Belk Amburn Pontuc. Inc Southenr Bell Te! A Tel Co PAGE S Colonial Stores. Lot. Usher Wholesale First-Citizens Bank A- Trust Co. Modern Finance Corp * 8 C?uton Furnture Cn Tsyior Radio A TV Service C Karl Uchtman PAGE 1 Eflrd s of Raleigh Tfcempson-Lynrh Co 0 SUietgh Savins* 4- Loan Ass’n The Capital Csca-CoJa Bottllni Co. Weaver Textile. Co. JfAGE S JgJpi'-jod worth St. Tourist Bom* f *4Bf* w *y' Opticians Carolina Builders Corp Caves ess Insurance Agency 1-Vp Bottling Co. Diiiojs Motor Finance Co. P«psl-Cola Bottling C«. of Raleigh Warner MessnnaJ* Fayetteville gt. Bapfctit Church Deluxe Sotoi P46S 10 Kimbrtrtl** PuralCur* Co. »A6Jt 15 jr-t' i t ft i ' LIGHTER MOMENT lndian Prime Minister Jana hartal Nehru (left) and Ghana Premier Kuame Nkrumah enio\ a laugh at Nehru's suite in the Hotel Carlyle Sept. 2bth After the meeting with Nkrumah. Nehru met with U N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Nehru reportedly was set tn throw his ujpport to Hammat'-kinld in the face of the Sen jet Union's attempt to oust the Swedish diplomat in New York (UPI PHO TO). NAACP’s J. B. Barren Challenges Ministers Editor's Vote The following remarks were prepared for de livery to th» Rock' 'fount Min isterial Alliance at its opening meeting of (he 19WI-61 season October 7. A CHALLENGE TO OCR LI AMEKSHIP BA L R HARREN ROCKY MOUNT October P 19119 is the date on the present Charter of the Rocky Mount NA ACP The number of members on that charter is 75 So far as I know, the \< i -.ter r- the only person whose name has been on the membership list continually since that time 21 yoat s A.s we approacn the 21st anniversary of the organisation of our local NAACP unit we have !e- ; -- than one hundred mem be '■ s m a city with a colored population of o'er 12.000 and 10.000 mo’-p within a 15-n lie radius containing some 75 churches in all P' • t>c recent years 1 nave pe®n repeated!' told that my outspoken Publishers Open Drive For Nationwide Voting WASHINGTON D C <ANP> The National Newspaper Publish ers Association has launched a na tionwide registration and vote cam paign unde: the leadership of Carl Murphy, publisher of the A fro-A merman new. -paper? and a Demo cratic ejector of Maryland it w-a announceri. bv NNPA Resident John H Snngstacke. last week. Sengstarkr. ptifclivlier of the Chicao Defender, in a letter to (he newspaper* of the Aseocia tinn wrote: We are asking vou Sander* Motor Co Sanders Motor Co—t*ed Care FACT 12 Standard Concrete Products t o Gem Batch Shop Atme Realty Co Raleigh Funeral Home Hunt General Tire Co. Dunn's Esso Service N C Slate Fair ! Bankers Fire Ins Branch Banking 4 Trust Co Brooks Appliance Co Amfcassado' Theatre i Raleigh Seafood Cc | Lake Wheeler Marine Service I P4GF 13 i FI Patio Trampoline Center i fade 14 j Griffis Food Store ! Stephens Appliance Co Goodman's Ladies Shop Mechanics 4: Farmers Bank Rhodes. Inc The Spot Club j PAGE 1* i Carter’s. lr ; Electrical Wholesaler* tar. i Carolina Power 4 Light Co. ! United Rent-All* ! Sunshine Baker? ft M. Young Hardware 0 St Clothing Co. i Firestone Store* utterance s a? an ard«n f NAACP worker and ne" c reporter ha'e served to alienate some of our ministers from whatever participa tion they might have been inclined to give in recruiting NAACP mem bers or promotion of the prog’am I come tn vou, today, to sav that t regret that such has been the ease I regret that our spi ritual leaders hare not seen fi< in forgive me even as ! have forgiven some of them for strong utterances publicly spo ken. Christianity teaches that we should continually seek for giveness of our fellow man in order to he forgiven ourselves I fee! that the clergy should be willing tn grant lavmen the same freedom of expression which they themselves enjoy when they get in the pulpit Having given 21 years of service to the promotion of the NAACP « <CONTINUED ON PAGE SI to help organize a campaign de signed to give added stimulus nationwide to the many door bell ringing efforts already underwav by the various mass organisation*." Calling for editorial support., Sengstacke stated: We hope that, in your newspaper efforts to stim ulate maximum participation in the forthcoming election, vou will find it possible to make at least one S dramatic editorial appeal to your | readers to register and vote St. Agnes Receives j $25,000 The Wake County Board of Com missioner? gave St Agnes Hospi tal $25,000 Monday in order to keep it in operation until Negro patients \ can be admitted to thf new Wake i Memorial Hospital, which is now almost complete The Board of Trustee? of St. Ag nes had recently said that it could not continue operation unless help was extended by the county The bodv further stated that the hospital is so deficit-ridden that creditor* have threatened to cut off credit unless debt* are taken rare of. The 825,1500 came from County ABC profits to care for indigent patients at Rt Agnes. On a recommendation from W. F. Andrew's. 'Wake hospital admini strator. the commissioner* agreed 1 (CONTTMtf*» m FACE W, 17th NAACP Convention: Hundreds To Guilford Meet THE COROLINIAN VOL 19. NO 52 Handed 10 To 15 Years Here: Lye-Tossers Tried Must Find Site For Sessions GREENSBORO Hundreds of delegates and other interested persons are expected to converge on this city Thursday, October the 17 for the Annual N. C State Conference of NAACP Branches state convention. The sessions will last through October is Kellv M Alexander, st-ate presi dent. will preside over the meet ings. At CAROLINIAN' press time AA efhiP'hav no niecfhig place for the convention had been found. However, officials of the slate group are confident of securing a suitable site A centroversr alleged!' >we tvst week ov»r (he use of 'he City Auditorium here The opening mass meeting will (CO* TLN*. ED ON PAGE T> Govs. In Unusual Places ATLANTA Georgia s G(w Ernest Vandiver attended church services in Hot Springs. Ark. b e ing the recent Southern Governors Conference and heard a sermon delivered nr anti-Catholicism. Earns Bryant, democratic nomi nee for Governor of Florida at tended a news conference and ti.'d reporters he could not ' intelligent ly, morally nr physically" campaign actively for tne national democra tic ticket. Miss. C.nv Ross Barnett at tended a White i lli/ens Coun cil Rally and Inld a gegrega tionixt audience the noith should get behind independent electors in the Nov. 8 presi dential election in a show of (CONTINUED ON PAGE « TAKING SIDES Metropolitan inohee ha We with an unruly demonstrator in front of the Hole! Theresa, New York, last week. Fighting and egg-throwing broke out between pro and anti- Castro forms milling in front of the Cuban Pram erf's hotel m the, Harlem section of New York {UPi PHOTO). North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1960 NIXON ON BEALE STREET Vice President Rrrhard M Ntxon greets a group or children tn Memphis W. C Handv r aik. sept 2 1th A ! e r.vuatt -r> of Tennessee Negro Republican Leader George Lee, Nixon stopped hr * car on famous Beale Street to speak to supporters m the park named after the late Father of the Blues ( UPI TELEPHOTO). ‘We Will Stand In Line’ - Rev. Shuttleworth BIRMINGHAM. Aia lntegv anmst Rev. F L Shuttlesworth ;atd Negroes "over most of tlm south would stand m lutes ai courthouses today in an effort to become registered voters. Rev. Shuttlesworth said the Board of Registrar* here was taking mostly whites and even took *«me from near the end of the i’- e. "We are determined to regi ster and vote." he said. He also said a smaller table fm Negroes was being used here an i Negroes felt, it was discriminatory since it slowed the registration pro cess He sad petitions would be filed with the Justice Department claiming discrimination We are protesting, he said ,r a telephone call to Unites Fm International. Probe Crash In Cemetery «V NORFOLK, Va. Authorities launched a full-scale investigation Tuesday to determine the cause of a private plane crash at a South Norfolk cemetery Saturday night which took the lives of two (COVTtNtTEO ON PAG* M Separate Cases Net Jail Terms Wake County Superior Court was the scene Monday of the sentenc ing of two persoens convicted or. charge* of throwing lyp into the faces of two other person? Both received terms of 10 to 15 years Soy Williams, 31, who is now serving life in Central Prison for rape, was found guilty of throning lye into the fare of William T Sawyer, another prison inmate. Sawyer claimed that he lost .V per rent of the vision in one eye and 20 per rent of the vision in toe other He said he was watching te levision in the prison recreation hall when William? thrpw the lye at another prisoner and part of :* went ntrv his face Mis* Yvonne Hill. IS. of R*. leigh. was sentenced for throw- Ing lye water into the face of Mis* Peggy Harrington while Mis* Harrington was asleep in her home at 301 1-2 West South Street. Miss Harrington said she lost th» icht of her left eve Miss Hill ad mitted dissolving two boxes of ]vp in a sfiiart of water and throwing o into her face She rlaimed M?*? Harrington had burned her with an iron On el iin Iron: Rochester’s Decision Is Awaited NEW ROCHELLE N V The NAAOP Tuesday awaited a reply from the New Rochelle Hoard of Education on its demand for a meeting to discuss policy differ ences between the groups. The NAAOP said the demand for the meeting was a follow op to the 'damage" Co the city'* reputation paused hy the widespread publicity of "de fact segregation" in New Ro chelle public schools. A group of Negro students have tried unsuccessfully to emolj m predominatly white schools during the past two weeks Herbert C Chsh. supt of school* said he felt parents of the students should see that they return to then predominatly Negro school ' where they belong and then it will be time to talk things m pr ’ The city has contended the N»- gore* cannot transfer from their own district to other schools Accidents Claim Ten In 3 Haws * Two multiple*fatality accidents, claiming a total of five, lives pushed North Carolina's weekend traffic death) toll to at least 10 last, weekend Two youths 2O-year-old Paul -lames Lewder of New London and IH-year-old .Fames Ran Side* of Albemarle were killed early Sunday when their car missed a bridge, dropped off the highway and overturned. Officers reported that the accident was caused by drunk driving The wreck occurred on C. 43. one mile west of Mount Pleasant Odis Bryant, 17. General Mae .vrthur Perkins, 14, and Virallne Sykes, all from the Columbia, N. C . area, were taied early Saturday when their speeding car crashed into a parked truck on tJ. S. 54 Bypass inside the Columbia City (coMTtNinn on e n n t - ANSWERS CHARGES SP/4C Johnnie L*e Jackson, of 'he 8 6th signal battalion of the 82 nd Aitborne Division (above), has written a letter tn reply to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro » speech about the plight of the American Negro, lackson shown Sept. 29th, wrote e pow erful renunciation of the Cuban leader s charges about the fre*'- ment of Negroes in the United States Jackson is stationed at Fort Rragg. N C. (UP! TELE PHOTO). “Torch” Trial Begins William T. Phelps. 22. white ed Portsmouth, Va . went on tm) Tuesday m Wake Superior Court He is charged with murder in the fatal burning of a Central Prison inmate Samuel Avon, 25. Negro ol Raleigh Selection of » Jury began Tuesday after the defense fail ed in a move to gel the defen dant committed in a mental institution for a 30-day ex amination Phelps, s convtct at Central, is <COKTTW'EI> ON PAG* « QDDS-ENDS 8Y ROBERT G. SHEPARB "Ttimi mercy endtsreth N***- ever,” THEY CAN DO IT • The recent announcement that the Baptists of this state hav» pledged them selva* to pay off th« indebtedness of Shaw University should be welcome news to every one. The real significant fact, behind this significant announcement ut the fact that the 1-4 million plus Negro Baptists in North Carolina can fulfill this pledge. Those responsible for working out the details of this momentous mo*’* have duly concerned themselves with the outlines and plans neces sary for the success of such a large undertaking It would be most presusntiou* for us to attempt to offer any sug gestion to those chosen to organise and conduct this great financial campaign Because it would be pre sumptions we shall make IN at tempt. to do so We would, however, beg >» be allowed to m&fce as obser vation or two. It »9 tns« that Shaw University i* behind *» its indebtedness to the ten?* tut almost 5300.W0.0h. That te » let of money. Bat. that i* ®«4 wdsad is really wreog with Shaw, seoOTENCBn m m PRICE 15«
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