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Tar Heel Y&athis
Pres. Kennedy. Local Judge Threatened
Ex-Patient
Writes Note
To President
FAYITTEVILLE—Robert James
Evans. 19, a former mental pa
tient, was charged last Friday with
threatening the life of President
John F. Kennedy in a note written
at the bottom of a draft board no
nce
The threat was mailed to the
Selective Service Board No. 16,
located in New York City. The
Board had ieeued the notice to
the yonth. who t» the son of a
hart-time minister and janitor.
Evans was committed to the State
Hospital for Negroes at one time,
bwt was released last year.
Agents of the Secret Service
•aid the note said: 'Why don't
war start the 20tb of this month
iJan. 90—the date of Kennedy's
tnaugvratton) with Kennedy
the vtettm. I don't dig him. If
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NAACP Os
Region In
S. C. Meet
y
BY J. B. HARM NT
GRKKNVILLE. S. C.-This Pal-
Wietto State textile city is working
hard to see to it that the 9th An
nual NAACP Southeastern Region
al Conference meeting here Feb
ruary 16-IS is » success and an in
spiration to freedom-seeking race
citizens.
Some five hundred adult and
youth NAACP officers and mem
bers are expected to take part in
th® four days of seminars, panels
and mass meetings to be held at
the Springfield Baptist Church, 602
East Mcßee Street.
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, Atlanta,
ft*-, Southeast Regional Secre
tary, it director of conference.
AHo will he ably assisted by the
Rev. A. Leon Lowry, president,
Florida NAACP Conference;
and Atty. D. L. Hoiloweli, chief
•oonetl ha the University of
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VM’Youth
Will Hold
Talks Here
PSam for a state-wick' YWCA
Youth Conference to be* held in
Raleigh, April 31. 22. 23 were dis
cursed at the Bloodworth Street
YMCA on Sunday. The three-day
meet will be co-sponsored by the
“Y” and the J, W. Llgon High
School,
Aremnd 16® youth leaders
*nd their advisors from VM
CA’s and schools throughout
the Mate attended the plan
ning session and discussed
plans m presented by H. E.
Brown, Principal of the high
school and E. L. R&iford, gen
eral secretary of the “Y”
The conference theme adopted
tor the meeting is “The Role of
Youth on the New Frontiers" and
adult leaders in various fields will
serve as resources for discussion
groups. Other features will in
clude the opening session with a
mtlonaly known key-note speak
at, business sessions, sedol events,
banquet, city tour and conference
. wrmon.
Local ctt.isens will be requested
Vi open their homes to delegates
who will come to Raleigh for the
conference. Accommodations for
around 300 boys and girls will be
. needed.
This Youth Conference was or
ganised in Raleigh around 30
years ago and has met in annual
session since its beginning.
Smith Hosts
PTA Sessions
At Charlotte
CHARLOTTE ~ PTA workers
braved the snow, sleet and ice to
attend the 1961 sectional PTA
workshop held at J C. Smith Uni
versity, Saturday, Pcb. 4.
Delegates re-evaluated and re
constructed goals, explored meth
ods and ways of achieving appro
priate solutions to many issues,
problems as well as opportunities
as attention was focused on the
provocative and timely conference
fheme: "From Responsibility to Ac
tion Through Quality Parent-Tea
cher Associations,"
Eleven PTA units were enrolled
and the fuel for the one-day con
ference was generated, by the par
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WIKK
HARRASSED—AppeaI of the
breach of peace conviction of
NAACP Field Secretary Phil
lip Savage will be heard this
week. Savage was jailed while
securing first-hand information
on food, clothing and housing
needs of Haywood and Fayette
County, Tennessee Negroes. He
is still on duty in the crisis area.
Jurors
Indict
Terrell
WINSTON-SALEM --An indict
ment uas returned by the Forsyth
County Grand Jury this week a
gainst. Andrew I. Terrell, former
business manager of Winston-Sa
lem Teachers College, charging him
with 26 counts of pmbezzlemert
and forgery.
Terrell, who acted as business
manager of the college for 32
years, was charged with em
bezzling $2,273 from 1957
through 1959. The indictment
also accused him of obtaining
$1,176 by forgery from 1952
through 1959.
The indicti:' ° t was returned
Monday by th- t and Jury, short
ly after the ci .."t t nu of crimi
nal court began Court officials say
Terrell's trial may be taken up dur
ing the current two-weeks term.
Terrell resigned as business man
ager of the school after shortages
were found in its books. Ten war
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Perry Howard!,
{■OP Leader,
Given Rites
WASHINGTON <ANP) —Burial
services were held here Monday
for Perry W. Howard, Sr., long
time Republican National commit
teeman from Mississippi who die 1
in his sleep last week. He was 84
Howard, according to aides in his
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NEW MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT Do
mestic Relations Court Justice Edward R. Dudley (left) is sworn
in by Mayor Robert Wagner at City Hall. New York. Jan. 31 sr,
after the former was chosen Manhattan Borough president by a
4-2 vote of Manhattan City Counci/men. Dudley was the per
Fisherman’s Death Is Big Mystery
. mli i i i i i
VOL. 20. NO. IS
Three N. C. Cities Involved
Indians ‘Mix’ Schools
10 Indians
Move From
Dunn Area
DUNN Ten Indian students,
barred from white schools here,
have enrolled in white .-chools in
Raleiah, Greensboro and High
Point, rather than attend schools
in Sampson County, it was reveal
ed this week.
Attending Femdale Junior High
School at High Point are two of
the students. Two attend St. Pius
X a Catholic school in Greens
boro. and six more are attending
Cathedral Latin High School in
Raleigh.
All are living temporarily with
white families in the t-lnee cities
while their cares are pending in
the courts.
Indian students In Harnett
Co. became knokn nationaI
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‘NAACP Day’
Endorsed By
15 Churches
Ralph Campbell, president of
the Raleigh branch of the Nation
al Association’ for the Advance
ment of Colored People, reported
this week that fifteen Raleigh
churches will take part in "NAA
CP Day" observance Sunday. Feb
ruary 12.
Local ministers have assur- j
ed the organization full co
operation in the celebration of
the 52nd anniversary of the.
NAACP, said Campbell. Al
though a list of the churches
could not he obtained from
the NAACP president, it is be
lieved that most churches in
the city are involved.
S; akers at the churches will be
’mbors of the Alpha Kappa Al
pha Sorority and the Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity of Shaw Uni-,
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STAGES GUN BATTLE—Tellius Fitch, center, is held by Patrolmen Charles Leary, left,
and Edward Skrovnski at the Elizabeth, New Jersey police station last week. He was arrested after
he staged a gun battle with police from his apartment tn a public housing projest. On « patrolman
was slightly wounded. Fitch was subdued with tear gas. (UP! PHOTO).
Ex-Teacher Edward Dudley
Named Borough President
NEW YORK (ANP) A judge
who claims he was accorded his
first respect as a man by wnites in
New York is now Manhattan’* top
executive.
ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
‘‘God has not given us th®
spirit of fear."
SOME GAINS: The current fight
on the local scene to bring about
a better distribution of job oppor
tunities is stepping up its pace.
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sonal choice of Wagner, who pitted his political prestige against
that of Tammany leader Carmine De Sapio. The latter favored
Assemblyman Lloyd E Dickens for the post. Dudley, 50, and
Dickens. like discredited former Borough President Hulan lack,
are Negroes. (UPI PHOTO).
RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1%1
This happened when Domes
tic Relation* Court justice Ed
ward R. Dudley was elected
president of the Borough of
Manhattan, succeeding Huian
E. Jack, convicted on conflict
of interest charges.
Dudley, a native of Roanoke, Va ,
said he had never been accorded
the respect as a man until he spent
a summer in Long Island manag
ing a club for wealthy white busi
ness executives.
They called him Ed instead of
"boy ’ or "George” to which he had
been accustomed in the South,
Was Bitter Contest
Dudley’* election to the $25.-
000 per year job ended a leng
thy and sometime* bitter con
test for the post. It also wu a
I victory for Mayor Warner over
hie Tammany foo. Carmine De
Sapio who had suported Lloyd
E, Dickens, an lMemhlymtn,
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State News
—IN—
, Brief
WAKE COUNTY TEACHERS
MEET
METHOD The Wake County
Teachers Association met Wednes
day, February 8, at the Berry O'-
KMIy High School here. The res
sion began at 4:30 pm. Each com
mittee of the association reported.
E L Sanders, Sr., president, pre
sided,
FUND-RAISING LICENSER
GRANTED
RALEIGH—During the month of
January, licenses were granted by
the State Board of Public Welfare
to thirteen organisations to conduct
fund-raising campaigns through
public solicitations for the support
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Storekeeper* $
Bunn Fatal;
Wife Injured
—Reuben Mel
vin. 39-year-old man was killed
and hi* wife wa* critically burned
wfwsn fin* struck their frame house
in tit# Turnhtll Community near
here Monday.
M«lvin of&eratedf a *ma!l
•tore in the area. Hi* 3!-year
old wife, Mr#. Flora. Mae Mel
vin, wa* burned critically oy
er User entire body. She also
received a deep gash in the
arm when she dived through a
window of the atnieture.
Roy Robinson, a neighbor, at
tempted to enter the house to res
cue Melvin, but was driven back
by flames.
Origin of the fire could not be
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Night Spot
Death Case
Unsolved
WHITEVELLE A fisherman
from Louisiana,, home between
seasons, died of s bullet wound
during a shooting spree at a night
.spot near Whiteville early Satur
day.
Roosevelt Frink, 30, of the
Chad bourn area was the vic
tim. Investigators say he died
of a bullet wound in the body
which was inflicted during a
fight at the "Black-And-Tan,"
one mile west of Whiteville or»
the Pinektg Road, sometime
after midnight last Friday.
Law enforcement officers in
Columbus County are still investi
gating, under the direction of
Sheriff Ben Duke.
A native of Columbus County,
Frink, had been working as a fish
erman out of Louisiana for several
yean.
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STATE S ONLY NEGRO WOMAN LAWMAKER Oem
oersc. Mm. Bessie Allison Buchanan (a have), assemblywoman
from New York City’s 12th District, ts the first Negro woman to
serve in either legislative chambers in the State's 187-veer history.
(UPI TELEPHOTO).
r* CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
.——— —BUY FROM THEM
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Lisk Clothing Co
Capital Ice Sc Coat Co
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The Capital Coca-Cols Bottling Co.
First Citizens Bank A Trust Co.
Shoe Mart
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Hudson-Bcik Co.
Town A- Country Furniture
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
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Tnrner'a Florist.
Carolina Power & Light Co.
Brooks Appliance Co.
Correli Coal Co.
Firestone Store*
Sunshine Bakery
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Eureka Beatty Co., Inc.
Sire Sales Sc Service
O’Neal Motors, Inc.
Atlantic Seafood
Dove Music Co
Thomas Food Stora
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Colonial Stores
Lawrence Bros. Co.
K. E. Ruins Furniture Co.
Six Months
Added To
First Term
Jesse Lee Hinton. 20, who wm
found guilty in City Court Monday
of intimidating a witness, had his
sentence increased minutes iater al
ter officers said he threatened t)
judge
City. Court Judge Pretlow
Winhnrnr was told by Det Set.
W. F Crocker that Hinton said
"Anythin* the judge ran give
me. |'lt »e that he gets it hark
doubled. I'll see that the judge
gets taken rare of"
He was involved in a rase
with Norman .liies. local gro
eer. whom one witness said
threatened him “'.At Capone
style" rreentlv. This u ituess
M ONTINTIft ON t’Atil .‘I
NORMAN tills
PRICE 15c
/- ’ •• .V ,v,v «. I /.V
WEATHER
The five-day wrather fore
cast tor Raleigh, beginning
Thursday, February ft and
continuing through Monday.
Fohruarv 12, is as follows;
Temperatures will average S
degrees below norma! There
will he a slow warming trend
during the first ot the j>ci ind
and a little eolder about Sun
day. Normal high and low tem
peratures will be 5? and .22.
Precipitation will he heavy and
will average about an inch.
Clearing is expected Saturday
and Sunday.
Modern Finance Cnrp
iavlor Radio a TV service
< Karl Lichlman
Washington Terrace Apis,, Itn
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Cameron-Brow n Co.
Public Servile t o n( N ( lie
Sky view lirive-tn
AA P Ennd Stores
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Woodworth Si Toiii-p Hume
Ridgeway's Opticians
Carolina Builders corp
: t'averies* Insurance Agency
; 7-Up BotHing Co.
Oillon Motor Finance t>
I’epsi-Cola Boitllnii Co. oi Batei- li
Warner Memorial*
Deluxe Hotel
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I Raleigh Seafood Co
1 Dunn’s Esso Service
tune Realty Co.
Branch Banking & Trust i
! S. M. Young Hardware Co
Hunt General Tire Co.
| Standard Concrete Product* Co.
j Ambassador Theatre
1 Major Finance Co.. Uw.