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POWELL MEETS KENNEDY—Rep. Adam Clayton Pow all, ( D.-N.Y.), left and President-Elect John F. Kennedy talk to reporters following *heir meeting last Wednesday at Kennedy's Georgetown home. Powell said he and Kennedy agreed to push for speedy approval of federal aid for schools construction and legis lation to liberalize the minimum wage law. Powell is slated to be come chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. ( UPI TELEPHOTO). House Post For Powell Recognized WASHINGTON (ANP> Presi- A % dent-elect John F. Kennedy last week recognized fiery New York Congressman A. C'avton Powell v the chairman of the powerful House committee on labor and edu cation. The recognition came in the form nf a conference between the two men on how to expedite Kennedv's hope of raising the federal mini mum wage requirement and ex panding federal aid to education Powell, who was divorced last '•reek by his pianist wife. Hazel Scott, has been under fire by south ern Democrats who felt he should not be chairman o? the committee though seniority entitled him to it. Powell foe* had pointed out that he deserted the Democrat ic ranks to sunporl Fisenhower in 1956 and that certain charges of misconduct including an un settled income tax evasion charge, made him ineligible. However, one of the principal (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ( Guilford Sit-Inners Convicted GREENBORO The trespass cases against A&T College students, hanging since last April 21, were finally settled here last, week The students. 45 in all and in cluding # few from nearby Bennett. College, were ordered by Guilford County Superior Court Judge Rob ert M. Gambill to pay costs of court for which the county is liable. The costs amounted to s surprising low figure of from 811.25 to $10.65 each or a total of $470.90 Superior court costs usually run (CONTINUED Obi PAGE 2> , The weekend weather for^ca-t, N beginning with Thursday. Decem ber 8, is ss follows: Cooler Thursday and Friday and S» continued rather cold through Mon day. Precipitation will be more than normal, averaging s half-inch end occurring mostly around Sat urday. but intermittently Friday through Monday. CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS BUY FROM THEM ~ TAGE i Horton b Cash Store Brook*. Appil.nte to. Griffis Food Store PAGE 3 The tapiul foca-fola B< t tlrrtriral Wholesalers, In PAGE 5 Huoson-Bclk Co. PAGE 6 Colonial Stores f'list- Citizens Bank A Truu l o C. Karl Lirhtman R E Quinn furniture Modern Finance Cosp. PAGE T Tire Distributors. Inc Eiird’s of fti!c-igh B'okes Institute Appliance Center M xwel! Garden Center 4 WAGE 8 Eloedwovth St. Tourist Home R’dgeway’s Opticians Carolina Builders Corp. Caves ess Insurance Agency 7-Up Bottling Co. Billion Motor Finance Co. Prpsl-Cola B Ailing Co. of Raleigh Varner Me Mortals Deluxe Hotel PA< F. » Major Finance Corp. Sti hgh Savings & Loan Ass'n Mam-Uaklw Co \cw Feature Beginning with the December 24 issue of The CAROLINIAN, a supplementary magazine sec tion will appear once each month. The magazine TONE covers many important issues of the day and carries many feature stories. The first edi tion will spotlight the plight of Fayette County Negroes in Tennessee. The story is entitl ed, “The Saddest Christmas Story.” Also included are stori es on New York’s Hudson River and an answer to the question of “Who Is the most con traver sal figure of jazz? Be sure to look for this section in your CAROLINIAN. Parents Notific J FSYKTTF.VILLE The president of Fayetteville Stbtu Teacners Col lege. Dr. Rudolph Jones, has offei ed an alternative to students who are not satisfied with the food at the institution. His actions were reportedly (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Raleigh Citizens Association Will Elect Officers Thursday The Rev. John W. Fleming, chairman of the Raleigh Citizens Association is urging residents in State News -ns— Brief LOUISBURG Approximately 700 4-H Club members from four teen of the organized clubs in the county packed t.he gymtorium of the Gethsemane High School last Tuesday to attend their 19th An nual 4-H Achievement Program Tim Deck, a senior 4-H Club ■ lember from the Gethsemane High chool presided Dr. H T McFad en, pastor of th° Presbyterian Church in Louisbure and a retired 4-H teacher-leader gave the invo cation The purpose of the Achieve ment Program was given by Evelyn Clemons, of Gethsemane Senior Club Emanuel Dunston. 4-H president of Riverside High School Senior Club introduced the speaker. W. C. Cooper. District 4-H Club agent for (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Firestone Stores United Rent-Alls PAGE 10 Ml Phens Appllanri Co '■ C. Pi-niter 8 M Young Hardware PAGE 11 Weaver Bros. Rambler PAGE S 2 Siandard Concrete Products Co Branch Banking A JTust Co. Hum General Tire Tfc). Rhoden, Inc. Dunn's Esso Service Raleigh Funeral Home At me Realty Co. Raleigh Seafood Co. Gem Watch Shop Ambassador Theatre AGE 13 Mechanics * Farmers Bank hankers Fire Insurance Itcbby's Supply Co. Sunshine Bakery Capital Ice 4- Coal Co. Cnrrell Coal Co. t'ove Music Co. PAGE 16 Srrc-Fft Seat Cover Center 1' ‘.f E 1< McLeod. Watson A- Lanier PAGE IS ( arolina Power & Light Co Maas Piano Co. Came rod-Brow n Company Kennedy And Powell Confer Five States Involved As Southern Buying Boycott Looms Planned To Remain In Field Until Snow Fell ROANOKE Va - Welfare off'.- j : ciais Monday reviewed the case of an elderly couple who spent six months living in a trash-strewn field near a busy Roanoke intersec tion. Found in the field Sat. were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Parker. Mrs. Parker. 74. told authori ties they had olanned to “stay up there till the snow got too deep to move.” Parker, who is 65-years-old. said : they had lived in the field since ! I a-l May. He said he had tven un able to get work for a year because of a bad back. When the plight of the couple was discovered they were taken !o a hotel. Several persons chipped in j $lO so that they could buy food the Raleigh-Wake County area to attend a special meeting Thursday night at the Bloodworth Street YMCA. beginning at 8 p. m Rev. Fleming, in a release to The CAROLINIAN this week, issued the following statement. ‘Our PROBLEMS have not been solved. We are still con fronted with problems of job opportunities, adequate hous ing, hospitalization, improve ments in education, representa tion on the policy-making le- Masons Plan Convention In Winston Dec. 12-14 BY R, IRVING BOONE WTNSTON-SALEM With the them*. ’ Prince Hal! Ms’-ons Reach ing New Frontiers in the 60s" and with a program of progress geared to explore increased areas of serv ice the Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of North Carolina approach es its 90th Grand Communication, to be held in Winston-Salem, Dec 13-14 The grand master of the 85,- WR).member jurisdiction of N. C. is Clark R. Brown, promi nent “Twin City” businessman and efvlc leader. Elected last Dec. as successor to the veter an and resourceful fraternal leader 1 . Dr. G. D, Carnes of Wilmington. Grand Master Brown set hinjseif immediately to a vigorous program of con tinued nrogress. The record of new ventures and significant achievements during the initial year of his administration is both an inspiration and a chal lenge to the entire craft. ‘GET OIT THE VOTE" CAMPAIGN With a keen analysis of basic Woman ’s Body Discovered In Virginia Woods PETERSBURG, Va.—The body of a woman, an apparent victim of foul play, was found Monday under some leaves in a woods about seven miles from here. Dinwiddle County sheriff’s deputy W. A. Caudle said the hands of the woman were bound behind her back. The victim was described as In her 40's and weighing about 183 pounds. «co*mNuiiTon" mm s* Elderly Couple Survives 6 Months In Trash-Strewn Field Near Street xxxx-iWxvX'XX'X-x-'vX TX xXvXxxxXx X:S:X:x£x : : : : : :':ft : :*: : :-s : x : xrcX:t:X:ytt:X:S:S:X::;X;:£::X;:;:x:x::X;:x::X:x;xSxX:X::;X:y£:&:::x^^ VOL. 20. NO. 9 Clothes were provided by the Sal vation Army. The only protection the Park ers had from the weather was rags, old blankets, and a plastic car cover. An iron bed, given them by friends, kept them from the ground. Serving as * eoueh was an old car seat. Their food came from handouts and they rooked it on a stove made from a pile of brieks. Parker said they had lived in the .'if id before, but moved to a house last winter. They were forced to leave the residence last spring. The couple applied for welfare benefits last November 23. Autho rities said thev had no idea the Parkers were residing in the field. vcl. and in many other arras. ''Because of tins situation there is a need to revitalize the Raleigh Citizens Association which showed so much vitality during the height of the “sit-in" movement. "Therefore, al] interested people are asked to be present at a special meeting of tho organization at the Bloodworth Street YMCA. Thurs day, Dec. 8. at 3 p m The agenda will deal with the election of OFFICERS contemporary needs. Grand Mast er Brown has utilized the influence of his high office in encouraging efforts toward first-class citizen ship To this end earlv in th* year, he initiated a get. out the vote' (CONTINUED ON PAGE PRIEST JEERED An unidentified Roman Catholic priest is jeered hy two women, above, as he walks toward the Frantz Elementary School, New Orleans. The priest, who s aid he was just an observer, was shoved and cursed last week when he accompanied the Rev. Andrew Foreman and his daughter, Pamela Lynn, from the school ( UPI TELEPHOTO). | A ' - /Bpf ' ,Jk . ,'4-f J& <w s lis&4k - UNAWARE OF CONFLICT Six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges, unaware of the conflict caused by he? attendance at a previously all white elementary school, stands smiling in the door way of her home in New Orleans last week. She returned to the school last Monday after a week-long holiday . (UPI TELEPHO TO.) Campbell Remains At Local School In Its regular meeting Tuesday iHternoon the Raleigh School Board refused to act. on a petition from 400 white parents asking that 7-year-old William Campbell be transferred from Murphey Ele mentary School. Young Campbell {* the first Negro student ever assigned to a white public school sod. at present, is the only colored pu pil in a former Raleigh white school. He h» the son of Mr. RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1960 and Mrs Ralph Campbell, !*r, of E. Edenton Street here By its failure to take any action on the parents' request, the Board let stand the Campbell child’s as signment to the school. In November, the parents of Murphey students petitioned the Board to reassign the vouth on the ground that his presence, at Murphey was not in the best in (CONTINUED ON PAGE W “Don’t Buy” Proposal Supported By Students CHARLOTTE—Sfcudents repre- - AACP chapter* with an estimated membership of 32,000, decided Saturday to carry out boycott of .stores in five southern states dur ing 1961. In a closed meeting, held aft Johnson C. Smith University, the 255 students planned a “Don’t hay where you can’t work’’ campaign lor North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Teuuease# and Flori ; da» j Herbert Hill, national labor sec retary far the NAACP, and Kpokefi , man for the group, would not di I vulga the names of cities where | the buying boycott* (called selec | tive buying by the NAACP> will be i instituted. The decision to get involved in p nployment wa* the major action tt come out of the conference, Rill said. Lunch counter demon- Taylor Ready To Quit LOUISVILLE (ANF»—While Dr. Gardner C. Taylor of Brooklyn, pipcted president of the National Baptist Convention. USA, Inc., by one faction has offered to give up (he office for the sake of unity, hoard members and some 650 pas tors of the 5.000.000 member con vention have other views In resolutions passed here, last week, the board called upon Taylor’s opponent. Dr. Jo seph H. Jackson of Chicago, to: j. Drno his claim and to with• draw court action In Philadel phia. (CONTPIPgP ON PAG* W Wake Wreck Kills One, Hurts Five Bam Hodges. 40, of Gamer wa* khled and five others Injured Sunday in a head-on collision eight mile* north of Raleigh on U. S. 401. Hodge wa# pronounced dead on arrival at St. Agnes Hospital early Sunday morning, according to Pa trolman Jack Jones. Driver of the ether vehicle was Alfred Fuller of Rt. 8, Ra- SsStzfc. Fuller wa* attempting to (CONTINUED ON PAGE T) ” ’ I NC Extension Worker Giver Natl Award TUSKEGEE, Ala. R. L. (Bob) Wynn, an extension dairy special ist at A and T College, Greensboro, N. C, was honored here Monday night as the winner of the Profes sional Agricultural Workers Serv ice Award. Wynn, who ha* spent 15 years helping farm families in North Carolina raise their level (coMxnron on pav.j g> isi ration* wtfl be eontanued, he ;added. Asked what other weapons b»- (CONTINUED ON PAGE D ADDRESSES MEET—T ho Rev Ralph D Abernathy, pres ident of the Montgomery, Ala. Improvement Association and successor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equal ity last. week. He called for a program of non - cooperation with what he called the evil in fluence of segregation. (UP I TELEPHOTO). Extortion Attempt Revealed HENDERSON Two 15-yeef* o’d youth* face hearings this week in Juvenile Court on charges of attempting to extort 825 from Mrs, Ernest Walker cf Henderson. Archie Green and Melvin Har grove were arrested Saturday night. Green told police that he. got the idea for the extortion plot from a program which he had cecn on television. The woman reported that her car wa* ransacked Thurs day night while it was parked near the hospital here. She found a note on the. steering (CONTINUED ON PAGE S) ODDS-ENDS BY ROBERT G, SHEPARD “Ye shall know them hy their fruits." ‘THE WIND OF CHANGE’’ Speaking before a hostile South African audience last spring, Har old McMillan, Prime Minister ei England, informed those white su premacists that the “wind of change was blowing over Africa, blowing in a new' concept of the dignity and equality of all mankind ” We, in America, are aware, of the extreme racial view* held (CONTINUE® ON PACK ** PRICE 15e
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