HUNDREDS ATTEND RITES FOR DR WILLIAM
LAW RENCE GREENE Shown above are pictures taken at
the funeral Sunday of Dr. W. L Greene, executive secretary of
Throng Attends Last Rites
For ACTA Leader In City
THE COROLINIAN
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
VOL. 20, NO. 21 RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. MARCH 4, 1961 PRICE 15c
Winters Seeks Council Post
Bights Body Wil Meet
JOHN W. WINTERS
CORE Sued
By Theatre
Operators
LSEXENGTON, Ky Lexington
CORE and seven of it* members
mere named in an injunction suit
filed last- week by the operators of
the Strand Theatre to prevent
atand-ms.
The theatre, owned by the.
irhlne Circuit, contends that
stand-ins by CORE members
•'have, created a situation of
danger and unrest that is likely
to result in injury or blood
shed, if permitted to continue.'
Charges Dismissed
Three days before the injunction
w as requested, six CORE members
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Mom Waives
Hearing In
Two Deaths
. WINSTON-SALEM Mrs Jean
ette Christine Higgins. 21-year-old
mother, waived preliminary hear
ing Monday and was bound over
to Superior Court on charges >i
manslaughter in the deaths of her
two small children.
The children suffocated at their
home February 19 while their mo
ther was reportedly out on a date,
officers said.
The woman, who is separat
ed from her husband, arrived
home soon after firemen bad
found the dead children, Vic
toria 3, and Richard Lee, t.
They suffocated from a smould
ering mattress in the bathroom.
Mr*.. Higgins told police that she
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Aspirant’s
Platform
Revealed
John W Winters, local contractor
and builder, announced Wednesday
his intention to run for a seat on
Raleigh? seven-member City Coun
cil. Winters made his announce
ment official by paying his filing
fee Wednesday afternoon.
A native of Raleigh. Winters
has been engaged in the build
ing of homes in the Raleigh
area for the past several years.
His work in this field has at
tracted local attention.
In addition to his building ac
tivities. he is the sales agent for
Raleigh's first low cost, FHA fi
nancial housing project for Ne
groes. Realizing the need and the
desire for homes for persons with
higher incomes, Winters has just
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ODDS-ENDS
BT ROBERT G. SHEPARD
Tn all thy ways consider
Him."
SHARING RESPONSIBILITIES:
In announcing his candidacy for a
seat on Raleigh s City Council John
W. Winters points to the fact, that
all of this cit s citizens must share
in its responsibilities.
This is true in more than one
way. Although far too many of our
I group shrink their responsibilities
|by failing to register and . vote,
i failing to take part or be interested
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While N.l'.follrg*
To Admit ( oiigoicw'
DAVIDSON <ANPi— A Presby
terian college, Davidson, which re
fuses to accept American Negroes
Rcleighite
Gets “Gold
Key' 1 Award
Miss Mattie Ruth Davis, a senio*
at the J. W, Ligon Jr.-Sr. High
School here, received the Gold Kev
Award for her accomplishments in
the field of art last week at Wom
an's College, Greensboro.
WFMY teieivsion station in
Greensboro held a specially teIe
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the 11 ,000-membcr North Carolina Teacher « Association. Left
photo shows a portion of the huge crowd waiting to enter the
Martin Street Baptist Church, scene of the funeral. Fallbear
jjj ' y
HELD IN STABBING
Freddie Green, 18 -year-old sup
| ermarket porter , is being heir] in
tail in Memphis, Tenn charged
with a fatal attack on a 13-year
old white girl, whose body was
: found in the basement of the
1 supermarket last week. Police
j said the youth admitted stab
bing Miss Sharon Vaiden, of
j Olive Branch, Miss., when s he
re- Dd his advance s. ( UPI
I TELEPHOTO).
as students, in a surprise action,
voted last week to admit three
Congolese students for the fall se
mester next September.
Meanwhile. Wake Forest college
in Winston-Salem, at the urging of
its students, voted to admit an Af
frican student, but first voted to
admit American Negroes
In order to admit the three Con
golese students. Davidson which
has an enrollment of approximately
3.0tf0 had to raise its limit of for
eign students from 16 to 19.
It now has students from Eng
land, The Netherlands, Germany.
Switzerland. Sweden, Argentina.
Colombia, South Africa, India and
Austria.
The action at Wake Forest re
sulted when students raised funds
to provide « scholarship for an
African
To Discuss
Reports On
Equality
GREENSBORO—The North Car
olina ( Ail Rights Advisory Com
mittee v .11 hold a meeting Satur
day at 2 p ui. pi the courtroom of
the Duke University Law School
in Durham.
Headed by McNeill "smith of
Greensboro. tbe committee will
receive renorts of its standing
committees studying equal pro
tection of the law for all citi
zens in North Carolina with
rc-pect tn voting, education,
housing, administration of jus
tice, and employment.
Smith said the meeting is open
to the public and complaints if anv,
will be received.
He also said that, aP complaints
should be iri writing and that vot
ing complaints are required by law
to be both in writing and under
oat h
Oral statements will be received
as the agenda permits, Mr. Smith
stated
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i
TAKE PART IN EXERCISES—Wearing full Camouflage paratroopers of Gen. /oseph
| Mobutu's Congolese army cross river in a rubber raft during exercise* in the bush outside Leo
i poldville recently. (UPI PHOTO).
er* are .seen In oe refer photo hiking the casket Into the church.
The family of (he fate aducMtonai leader re ehown in nght pho -
Dr. Greene Served State’s
Teachers For Sixteen Vrs.
Hundreds of persons packed the
Martin street Baptist Church to
overflowing here Sunday at 1 p m.
to attend the funeral services for
Dr William Lawrence Greene, ex
ecutive secretary of the North Car*
o T arbors Asrociatioi>
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Dr Greens picrumhed ea! - -
Friday a’ L rcoln Hospital. Dur
ham. after » I’ness of a few days
The Ret Paul ff Johnson,
pastor, officiated. assisted hy
Dr William R Strassner, pres
ident nt Shaw t niversitv: Dr.
Grad' D Davis, dean of the
school of religion at Shaw, and
the Rev. Charles W. Ward, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church.
Dr Greene, a native of Frarikitn
County, served as. principal of the
By Citizens:
Evaluation
Session Is
Set Thurs.
j The R.dovfh Citizens Association
| will hear reports of and evaluate
| the progress being made in the
current selective buying movement
now in progress here u f hen it meets
at the Blood worth Street “Y’\ on
Thursday night, March 2nd.
This movement which w dfevset
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Northampton County Training
School for four vea s and principal
of the Nash County Training School
for fourteen years He joined the
family of Shaw University as in
structor in mathematics and physics
and was recently appointed to toe
Board of Trustees of that institu
t ion
In tbit he was elected Executive
Secretary of the North Carolina
Teachers Association, a position he
held until the time of hts death
Among hi« many educational,
civic, fraternal and religion*
affiliations include membership
in the following North Caro
lina Society for Research. N. C.
Advisory ( ounril on Teacher
Education. National Education
Association. North ( arolina
Teachers Association. Phi Bela
Sigma Fraternity. Raleigh (Hi
re ns Association, Raleigh ( oun
rii on Hamati Relations. Ra -
leigh Chapter Followship of
sou thorn Churchmen. Editor.
North Carolina Teachers Rre
■■ •id IHe n.cmbfct of !i«\
N.A.ACI®.
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Mother, 2 Children Stage
Auto Sit-In As Bank Acts
SAN FRA NO SCO (ANP>— Mrs.
Donald A Lewis took a page out
of the book of the militant Negro
-Indents of the South hei e last
week and staged a sit-m to prevent
the repossession of her automo
bile
A tow truck had already hitched
up the cat pro pa' a tore to hauling
it. away when Mrs Lewis and hi
' .>o rhilriien tumped in the car and
refused to budge
Tor spur hours, hank officials
and a policeman pleaded with
Mrs. Lewis to leave the car.
she rolled up the windows.
-WEATHER
The ftve-dav weather forecast
for Raleigh, beginning Thursday,
March 2. and continuing through
Monday, March S. is as follows.
Temperatures wilt average i to S
degrees above normal It will be
somewhat warmer Thursday and
warm Friday and Saturday. Cool
er weather will prevail Sunday
and Monday Occasional rain is ex
pected Thursday and again on
Saturday, averaging about one
half to three-quarter* nt an inch.
t o. Hundreds of persons from all over the state wore present at
the rites. (STAFF PHOTOS BY CHAS R. JONES)
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MRS. BEI.A PON TF. TO CONDUCT IVOR; x ' HER!
- Final plans lia\e hern confirmed fm the t rhe / *
Economics Division ol The North Carolina Tea h‘-• 1
which will he held Frtdai . March }l. at !'' o> '<*« '• >■ ■" t' °
Shaw Vniversitv l-t’esf Campus Auditorium at Rap- I U •■■n
m£ with the dn i -'on ' theme "Nfu f '-’n -V ’ '' ■
T* MN-.n 1 ", H vt vi ■•••'- -.t
will he featwed as tfuest commit ant ’ >' ’ ’T 1 a
, Inthmf workshop
smoked, read a maarine and i
(snored flvm The Iwn t*nv* j
plaved in (he hark teat.
Hodges Says
He Must Now
Serve AH
BV ALICE A. DI'NNIGAN
WASHINGTON f AND' Secre
tary of Commerce Luther H Hodg
es tolrl a group of North Carolitv !
lans last week that he had now he- i
run to realize that in his position
he must serve all people |
Speaking at a banquet given at
the Sheratnn-Park hotel by the
North Carolina Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, the former gover
nor of that state- said it took him a
little while to got accustomed to
the fact that he rat not serving
North Carolina alone but all of the
people
A« proof of his realization
that all people mtiat he served
equally, the Commerce Secre
tary spoke highly of his newly
appointed assistant director of
public Information, Franklin
Whittaker, formerly with the
Pittsburgh Courier. Secretary
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CAROLINIAN ———
ADVERTISERS
PAGE *
Horton s Cash Store
CAM Promotion
PAGE 3
( ommunity Florist
Winn-Dixie Stores
Lawrence Bros Co.
Southern Bell Tele A Tel Co.
PAGE 5
l.ightner Funeral Home
Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Central Drug Store
Hudson-Belk Co.
Marons Barber Shop
First Citizens Bank A Trast Co,
PAGE S
l instead* Grocery Store
Turner's Florist
Washington Terrace Apts., Inc.
Appliance Center
Correlt foal Co.
Martin St. Laundromat
S. M. Young Hardware Co
Sunshine Bakery
Tirestone Stores
Mechanics A Farmers Bank
PAGE 7
O'Nr-ai Motor. Inc.
PAGE S
Colonial Stores
Washington Terrace Apt'
Taylor Radio A- TV Service
Modern Finance Corp
R E. Quinn Furniture Co.
Mrs Lewis s>!d sh- had made a
payment la-! w k and wa* on', v
une payment 'hr*ml
.lohn Hdl. th-* tn-.t tiiick dri’-er
was unconre i nod
■ ! dew, t . . e S- d t: 1
' rprk crisis a l ’, .-j 'mv and some
body is going in pav Inc i!
\ hank official apnus'cd a- d
said h<-' tv a s respnrp. ibln for the
v hole thing
State News
Brief
INI ANT S Rom OISCOVLRF.iI
WILSON —The Nads of a prema
ture baby v, as found in the city
disposal rewage plant No ? hr »
Friday afternoon Mon working at
Ihe plant, located on the Statons
burg Rood f■■ nd the body m th*
water and notified officers and Dr.
R F, Goudy, • t.v-county coronet
The identity of the infant, had nor,
been made known at press time
EUTENSION AGENTS TO MFRT
GREF.NsBORO —Th* North
Carolina State Negro F x tens ion
Agents Association will hold it*
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PAGE »
Gem Which Shop
I AAP Fond Stores
Hurricane Feme Co
I Cameron-Brown Co
j Blanch Banking A Trust i
Hunt General Tire Co
; Kaleteh Seafood Co.
i l aw rent e Bros Co.
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I Bloodworth St T-»tiT Rome
I Ridgeway-- Optician;
Carolina Builders Corp
Caveness Insurance Agency
7 Up Bottling Co
Dillon Motor Finance Co
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. ol Raleigh
Warner Memorial*
Deluxe Hotel
CAGE IZ
Thomas Food Market
PAGE 1.3
Ambassador Theatre
; t A M Formation
PAGE IS
Ttaleigh Mutual Burial A»s n Int
A-me Realty Co
Ititnn's Esso Service
t-hodcs Furniture
i X.trl Llrht.man
Standard Concrete Produts*# Co
Dote Music Co
Major Finance Co,, teic
. Gus Russo Harters * Chunter,'