Man Held As Poison ‘Booze’ Seller
+ + + + + + + + + + + + 4* +
District NAACP Pledges “More Dynamic Action”
HUSTLED OUT U. N. security guards aided by United Press International stall photo
grapher Joel Landau (second from left ) escort a Negro demonstrator from the Security Council
chamber Feb. 15f/i. Landau suffered a severe forehead gash during the wild melee in which Negro
demonstrators from the gallery interrupted the Security Council's Congo debate. The demonstra
tors were protesting the slaying of former Congo Premier Lumumba ( UPI PHOTO).
Winston-Salem Resident To
Face Judge In Whiskey Case
WINSTON-SALEM —Milton Da
vis, Jr„ of Winston-Salem, believ
ed to be the seller of the white
whiskey drunk the day before by
* prisoner that died on his way to
a Central Prison unit has been
picked up. according to the Prisons
Department.
A gallon of white whiskey
was found in Davis' residence
and tests are now being con-
Chairmen
OfUICF
Drive Named
NEW YORK—B ice Barton has
accepted the national chairmanship
of the United Negro College Fund's
1961 appeal, John D. Rockefeller
3rd, chairman. UNCF National
Council, has announced.
Mr, Barton, chairman of the
hoard, Batten. Barton. Durstine &
Osborn advertising agency, heads
the UNC’F campaign for the third
successive year.
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Begins Term
Edw in McKee Freeman of
Sl9 E, Hargett Street withdrew
his appeal of a City Court con
viction of operating a lottery
and began serving a six-month
prison sentence, The judgment
was amended by Judge Pretlow
Winborne to provide that Free
man serve his time at the VTake
County Home, reportedly be
cause of hi* advanced age.
Freeman is said to be near 70
years-old.
- CAROLINIAN —————— —
ADVERTISERS
g —— BUY FROM THEM
PAGE, 3
Horton t t'»*h Si,re
Thomas Food Mkt.
,!oe Murnick Promotion
PAGE 3
Walker Martin, Inc.
Turner's Florist
Hove Music Co.
Lawrence Bros. Co.
CAGE *
Electrical Wholesaler*, Inc.
Raleigh Loan Office
Hudson-Belk Co.
Sunshine Bakery
Mechanic* & Farmers Bank
PAGE 6
Cameron-Brown Co.
Carolina Power & Light Co.
Public Service Co.
Firestone stores
Modern Finance t'orp,
ft. S. Quinn Furniture Co.
& M. Young Hard wait Co
PAGE 7
Weaver Bros., Rambler
Kir Walter Chevrolet Co.
PAGE %
Colonial Store*
®r»oks Appliance Co,
PAGE »
AttP Foot! Store*
Correll Coal Co.
First Cttlaen* Bank &- Trust Co
The Capitol Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
PAG® to
•leodwortb St JMuri< Some
The Standard Printing CD*
220-i’se 3, First St*
lou.i sjlll 6 1 Ky, comp
ducted io determine if it is poi
sonous, the department added.
A hearing is scheduled for Feb
ruary 2S,
John Perkins, 4s. of Winston-Sa
lem, died on his way to prison
Monday He had been sentenced to
30 days on a vagrancy charge in a
local court. Perkins was being
transferred, along with another in
mate. Alonzo Lawling, from For
syth County Jail to Stokes County
prison unit.
ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
“By their fruits ye shall
know them."
FRAUD AT CITY HAUL: If a
recent news item in one of this
city's dailies is true, one of the
cheapest frauds ever conceived is
being carried out at the new city
hall
Some time ago the Raleigh
Citizens Association made in
quiries at City Hall regarding
segregated rest rooms. The Ne
gro delegation was assured
that proper step# would be
taken to eliminate this illegal
practice. The delegation was
assured that no discriminatory
markings would he used in the
designation of rest room fa
cilities.
According to the news item al
readv referred to, the promise to
avoid any racial designations on
the doors of the rest -rooms at city
hall has been kept. The doors of
the public rest rooms are simply
marked M arid W and a room num
ber.
The employes on the second floor
where the public rest rooms are all
located hare allegedly been in
structed to refer all Negroes to a
certain numbered rest room and
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
Ridgeway's Opticians
Carolina Builders t orp
i ( aveness Insurance Agency
7-Up Bottling ( o
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
i‘i pal—Cola Bottling Co. of Ralelvh
Warner Memorials
Deluxe Hotel
r.AGE a
•loe Mitrnlrk Promotion
PAGE 13
Shoe Mart
Hooker's Cleaner*
Major Finance Co.
Hofmann Furniture Cn
Seven-Up Bottling Co.
Charles Dept. Store
j Nelson's. Inc. »
•toy's American Grill
; Capitol Bargain Store
G. S. Tucker Bros.. Inc.
I Browning Barber Shop
American Credit Co.
! PAGE ]«
Taylor Radio A TV Service
! Raleigh Seafood Co.
Acme Realty Co,
Dunn's Esso Service
i Branch Banking Ac Trust f
, Hunt General Tire Co.
I Washington Terrace Apt*., Inc.
i Ambassador Theatre
Standard Concrete Products Co.
i Karl Llchtman
1 Major Finance Co., Inc.
He complained of being sick
1 and said he had been drinking
liquor prior to his conviction.
He was treated by a doctor,
who ordered Perkins to a pris
on hospital. He died just before
reaching the prison.
Davis was identified b\ Law ling
| as the seller of the whiskey Per*
j kins drank, according to the Pris*
| ons Department,
9 Charged
In Walk-in
At Greenville
BY J. B. HARKEN
GREENVILLE S C.—The 9th An
nual Southeast NAACP Regional
Conference closed here Sunday on
a high note of optimism following
the arrest here Saturday of nine
youths who were attending the
NAACP youth meeting as they
''trespassed' on a public park.
The alleged "'trespassing' - occur
red during a driving rain when the
youths sought to use the Cleveland
Park, which Police Captain L D
Cothrane told the w nter was a
public facility. Six officers were
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PILE suit ALAI:, >T P R ESI D EN 7 KENNEDY A group of Virginians filed suit in V. S
District Court last week asking for a fiat ban on Federal aid to segregated schools. The suit nam
ed as defendants : President John F Kennedy Treasury Secretary Dillon and others in the Fed
| era! government. It asked the court to issue injunctions to stop distribution of funds to schools which
i have not integrated. Two of the plaintiff'-, Leonard W. Holt, Jr., left and John A. Goldett, Jr,, both
Jo/ Norfolk , Va. me shown after tiling the suit (UPI TELEPHOTO).
.'.A,;.;,. 1 .".'.'AAAAA'J.'A A,^.,. : .... i..
VOL. 20. NO. 20
Sit-In Convicts Begin Work
Oa. Attorney
Challenges
Delegates
BY J. B. HARREN
GREENVILLE. S. C— In his ad
dress to the Awards Night Ban
rjnet of the Pv. Annua! Southeast
Regional ’ \ACP Conference held
in the Ghana Motel Dining Room,
attorney Donnell L Hollowel! of
Atlanta, Ga . chief counsel in gain
ing the admission of Hamilton
Holmes ;)po Charlane Hunter into
the University of Georgia, railed
upon colored people for “More Dy
namic Action" in stepping up the
pace of working for complete first
class citizenship for all Americans
irrespective of race or creed.
After a brief recap of the events
(now well-known to the world)
leading up to the triumphal entry
and reentry of the students as the
first of color to grace the campus
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) '**
Old North
State Medics
Plan Meet
GREENSBORO—The Old North
State Medical Society will hold its
74th annual convention at A&T
College on June 13-15, returning i
here for the third straight, year, j
Details for the upcoming conven- 1
tion were worked out at a meeting
of the Executive Committee con- j
ducted here at the local El Rncco
Club last Sunday afternoon, Peb- j
ruary 12
Dr. C. D. Watts, Durham sur- j
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Ambassador
WASHINGTON, D. C. Clif- ;
ion R. Wharton, 61, now minis
ter to Romania, was named
Monday by Ihresident John F.
Kennedy to be ambassador to
Norway. As ambassador. Whar- i
ion will hold the highest rank i
a Negro has held as a career !
diplomat in the United State*. i
RUSSIA URGES RECOGNITION OF GIZENGA RE
GIME—In a forma! statement, the Soviet Union called last week,
for recognition of the government of Antoine Gizenga, shown a
above. as the “legitimate government of the Congo." Gizenga was
Vice Premier i nthe original government of the late Patrice Lum *
umba. At the same time, Russia said it would no longer recognize
Dag Hammarskiold as Secretary- General of the United Nations
and demanded his removal. ( UP! PHOTO).
Alleged Slayer Os Teacher
Released On $25,000 Bond
KINSTON Winston Phillips, a
Durham resident charged wit the
murder of a Kinston school teach
er, was released from jail Friday
under a bond of $25,090.
Phillip* was charged with the
murder of Mrs. Ruth Graham
Tillery, former teacher at the
Adkin High School. He had
RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 55, 1961
been held in jaH since Decem
ber 27. 196(1
At a hearing last week in Golds
boro, Judge Rudolph Mint* of
Goldsboro found insufficient evi
dence to hold Phillips without priv
ilege of bof.d.
The bond was posted by four
men: James Gray of Wilming
ton, $12,500; Dr. P. 11. W’iliiam
sori of Gastonia. $3,090; M. A.
Gates of Durham, $9,990; and
{CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
ilr.W caver
3lmci Inio
Apartment
WASHINGTON <ANP>—Housing
Administi'ator Robert C. Weaver, a
strong advocate of slum clearance
programs, said last week he had
moved into an urban renewal a
partment house because Tm put
ting my money where my mouth
is."
Weaver is living in an apartment
in the heart of the capital's South
west renewal project.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE Vl
Cab Driver
Hobbed Here
Calvin Murray of 2739 Laden
Street hcie and driver for the Yel
low Cab Company, told police last
weekend: ‘The man pointed at me
what looked like a 45 caliber au
tomatic, and told me to hand over
my money."
This is the manner in which Mur
ray described to officers how an
armed passenger took S4O and his
billfold when he asked the man for
the cab fare.
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Taken Out
Os Solitary
Confinement
ROCK HILL. SC Eight sit
in demonstrators, released from
solitary confinement late Monday,
returned to their work details
Tuesday at the York County Pris
on Camp.
York Count; supervisor, .1.
Ed Allen, reported that the
eight railed for him and Pris
on Superintendent Charles C.
Maloney late Monday and
said thew were ready to return
to work. He said all eight were
then released from solitary
confinement and were hark at
assigned jobs.
They were among 13 demon
strators who chose to go to jail
rather than past bail following
conviction in anti-segregations
The prisoners refused to work
reportedly and were placed in sol
itary confinement last Friday.
They received their first full meal
Monday after two days of bread
and water. The disciplinary action
was the second taken against the
sit-inners, said Maloney.
The eight jail“d include field
secretary Thomas Gaither of the
Congress on R a c i a 1 Equality
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Person Is
'‘County Os-
The Year”
GREENSBORO —Person County
ha* been named winner of the 1960
North Carolina "County of the
Year" award for rural progress.
The sward is given annually in
the county in which the Negro pop
ulation has in the past year con
tributed the most impressive gams
to the overall development of the
county. With the honor goes the
William Poe Memorial Cup, named
in honor of the late editor of the
Progressive Farmer, the Raleigh
publication.
The announcement was made
late Saturday by Dr. William E.
Reed, chairman of the Rural
Progress Committee and dean
of the School of Agriculture at
A&T College. A&T College
sponsor* the project.
Person County won out in elim
inations over three other North
Carolina counties which placed in
the following order. Orange, Dun
lin and Bertie. A total of 71 coun
ties participated in the campaign.
The decision was reached follow
m » tabulation of ballots cast by
members of the Committee who
visited each of the finalist counties
for examination of statistical re
port® and on-the-spot observations.
Th» winning county, in the unan
imous opinion of the judges ' had
demonstrated the most impressive
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SCCollege
Picketed By
19 Students
WHITE S. C. COLLEGE
ROCK HILL, S. C.—Coeds from
Friendship Junior College here
sought admission to Winthrop Col
lege Friday, were refused, and then
picketed ihe South Carolina state
supported college for white wom
en.
Nineteen Negro women pic
’ keted in from of the school
with signs proclaiming their
right to enroll at the coliege.
A car. containing several coeds
who said they had intended to en
roll at Winthrop, had been turned
away earlier by campus police.
Some twelve students, at the i
same time, also from Friendship, i
staged anti-segregation demonstra- j
lions at lunch counters in two I
downtown drug stores, 1
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V &
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MISS BARBU! \ ADAMS
Ligoii Pupil
First In
Typing Tzzl
Mi-s Barbara Adau - • ,*
! Ihe J. W Ligon High Si ■
|ed first hi acmv (of . • . >
f hundred, twenty-five yui-v: i
l all over th.» eastern <• •. . i f
North Carolit'a to win !'■ . t
typing contest for the ..... .... I
group.
The contest involving ap
proximately 160 students and
twelve schools y<js In .1 at
Alary Potter High Srhnn! in
Oxford. Nile ytiii now < . ntp
for state honors it the i nm
tnercial Dav Program on Much
IT at North Carolina <
Miss Adam., who rani, ;.y
a senior class of one bund' ■ .1 lifts
four, is an excellent slue ■ i and
would like to become a • • <■■■ v .
She is the daughter of M t ,-
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State News j
Brief
I
ANNEAL JABBKRWOCK AT
COLLEGE SIPPOKTS I)RI\ F
FAYETTEVILLE The 1--
etteville Alumni Chapter of th*
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. I. c,
staged its Seventh Annual Jabber
woek at the Fayetteville State
Teachers College Friday evening.
February 17. The performance
was entitled, “The Best of Broad
way.” Funds from the effort go to
ward the college expenses of some
worthy high school senior The
person who v ill be so honored thu
year has not yet been chosen
The queen, who was respon
sible for the greatest amount
of money, its Carolyn Black of
Fayetteville who received a
beautiful wrist watch and the
runner-up was Minerva tone*
of Clinton, who received a
lovely Princess ring.
"Queen Black” was crowned by
Attorney Arthur Lane, bast leu* ml
the local graduate chapter of the
Omega group and the awards
were made by Hazel G Caldwell.
President of the local Alumni
chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority.
HR GRIFFITH SHAW ORATOR
RALEIGH “Where our gene
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WEATHER
The five-day weather forecast
tot Raleigh beginning Thursdav,
February 23. and continuing
through Monday, February 2S. to •»
follow s:
Temperature* will average lb de
grees above normal. The normal
high and low temperature* will be
56 and 36 degrees. Rainfall will
average one fnrh. occurring at the
first of the period and again on
Monday. There will be a tin*
warming trend at the first of the
period, continuing through Mon
day..
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