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MRS. BROWN
Librarian
Gets State
Position
Mr*. Don* T. Littlejohn Brown,
librarian at Dillard High School,
Goldsboro, for the past 15 years,
has been recently appointed to the
Library Services Staff of the State
Department of Public Instruction,
Raleigh, as a consultant. Her head
quarters are in Raleigh, but she
will work with school libraries
throughout the state.
Before going to Goldsboro
as librarian in 1946, Mr*.
Brown served as teacher-librari
an at Eastman High School,
Enfield She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. O, Littlejohn
of Asheville, and is married
to Eugene A. Brown, a native
of Morehead City, and princi
pal of the Dudley Elementary
School in Wayne County.
She was graduated from Ste
phens-Lee High School, Asheville.
She received her AB degree from
Shaw University in English and
Social Studies, her BS in Library
Scence from North Carolina Col
lege, and the MA in Guidance and
Personnel Administration from
New York University, where fur
1, ther study has been done.
Mrs. Brown is * member of the
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Teachers
End 80th
Convention!
The 4.500 delegates to the 80th
session of the North Carolina i
Teachers Association were given
« challenge bv Dr. J. M. Nabrit
president of Howard University.
Washington. D. C., Friday night
when he told them that they had
* big obligation to strengthen the
tier of American democracy.
The school head pointed to
the fact that the signs, com
ing out of Washington, recog
nising the ability of Negroes
to do a. job. in any field of en
doaver were encouraging, but
he warned that the Negro must
re-evaluate himself and this
ran only be done by a closer
look on the part of his tea-
ehers.
Dr. Nabrit has an enviable re
cord as a cml righter and he at
tempted to pass some of his ex
periences on to the audience. He
told the delegates that no lime wai
ever more appropriate than now
for the teachers of the state to
pick up tile cudgel and march to
ward the utopia of first-class cit
izenship for all persons
• The U. S. Supreme Court's 1954 ■
decision ordered the states to pro
ceed with deliberate speed . . . 1
North Carolina under its gover
nors had certainly avoided the
mistakes of other States. It has
attempted to do something . , .
"But six years after this decis
ion only 22 students have been in
tegrated in North Carolina and
telly one in Raleigh ...”
“Do not be deceived This is
not integration.’’ he raid “You’re
not getting equal education.” This
remark drew' loud applause.
. Negroes in North Carolina
h/.v* not made enough applica
teone to transfer to whit* schools
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V *■ C. TEACHERS HOLD CONVENTION HERE Past presidents of the North Carolina
Teachers Association are shown here during one of the public meetings of the NCTA here last
weekend. They, along with others not shown, were honored by the body at its SO th convention.
Shown speaking in inset is W. R. Collins, Smith field, who wm re-elected as president.
Me Sure To Cast Your Cate Mm The Apr it MS .Primary/. Mi Countsl
Fight Breaks Up Talks:
Violence Mars Baptist Meeting
Minister
Accuses
Man, 72
NEW YORK ' ANP> Bitter
ness between followers of Dr. J.
h. Jackson of Chicago and Dr.
Gardner C. Taylor of Brooklyn,
leaders of rival factions of the
National Baptst Convention. USA,
Inc., resulted in violence at the
Baptist Ministers Conference here
last week.
“HE COULDN’T TAKE IT”
“1 beat him in a debate and
he couldn’t take it!"
This was the way Rev.
James R. Moore, for more
than 30 years the pastor of
Amity Baptist Church, Ja
maica, Queens, explained why
he ended up on the floor dur
ing the meeting.
Despite this. Rev. Moore
said that he holds no bitter
ness against his reported as
sailant. 72-year-old Rev.
Thomas Harten. vice-presi
dent of the Convention.
According to many of the more
that 150 ministers who were pre
sent in the auditorium Rev
Moore, a former president of the
New York Ministers’ conference,
was speaking and urging the two
nval factions in the local Baptists
to get together and stop feuding.
Rev. Harten, however, report
edly accused Moore of being one
of those responsible for the split
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Dr. Graham
Talks On
Youth Move
ROCK HILL. S C Dr. Frank
Porter Graham, former president of
the University of North Carolina.
Chapel Hill, sneaking here Tuesday
in a city lorn? known as a focal
point of racial sit-in protests, de
clared;
The Southern vnutb move
ment in the lawful petitions for
the same service for the same
price did not have its demo
cratic origin in Moscow, but in
Carpenter's Hall. Philadelphia,
on the Fourth of July, 1776.
“Its farther headwaters are in the
Judean Hills where the Carpent
er’s Son taught, and died for the
equal freedom and dignity of all
peoples as children of one God and
brothers of all people "
Dr. Graham now a United
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oddTinoT
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
“Render unto Ceaaur the
things that are Ceaaar’s and un
to God the thing* that are
God'*.”
“HE IS RISEN”
Holy Week, culminating in the
spiritual celebration of our Lord's
j resurrection, fires our imagination,
j rhrs our souls and rekindles and
I reaffirms our trust in deathless
Truth.
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THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. 20. NO. 25
NAACP Youth Councils To City
Infant-Killing Charge
Nets Mother 12 Years
Convicted
By Federal
Tribunal
FAYETTEVILLE Mrs. Freda
Mae Coley. 25, who was convicted
in Federal Court here last week of
kicking her 22-month-eld daughter
to death in the living room of their
Ft. Bragg home, received a 12-
yrar sentence Friday from Judge
Algernon Butler.
The jury deliberating the
rase, after listening to Army
and FBI investigators, stayed
out less than half an hour be
fore returning the verdict of
guilty of second degree murd
er
The sentencing wa« one of
the final art ions of a one-w eek
term of court.
Court attaches said Mrs. Coley,
wife of Sergeant First Class
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Site For
School Is
Approved
The Wake County Board of
Commissioners Monday gave their
approval to the Raleigh School
Board’s proposed purchase of a 17-
Garner Road for a new junior high
school in the Rochester Hcights-
Biltmore Hilts section.
School Superintendent Jesse
O. Sanderson said the hoard
does not actually have any
building plans for the school
yet. “The need is there".
Sanderson said, “hut we don’t
have the money right now."
In a letter received by the com
missioners Monday, Sanderson
stated that the Board of Education
has successfully negotiated with
four of the five owner of the land.
The commissioners granted the
board authority to deal with the
fifth provided the total purchase
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ASPIRING POLITICIAN JAILED Detective Captain Thomas Smith, right, and Police
Chief Maurice Fitzgerald, center, question Norm amen, left, at the Anbury Park, i V. J. police sta
tion last week. Hansen, of Monmouth Beach, N. J., wa# booked on a charge of possessing lottery
tickets lor the Irish sweepstakes. Harman. a railroad ticket agent, is also a possible candidate (or
the state assembly in Monmouth County. (UPI PHOTO).
Weaver Explains Aims As
Government Housing Chief
NEW YORK Dr. Robert C.
Weaver declared this week that
his job as Federal housing chief
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I — C ARGUN IAN ————
ADVERTISERS
,11 r t„„ RIIV FROM THEM—
PAGf S
Horton s Cash Hut'
Maxwell Gairirn Center
PAG*. 3
siou'hcrn Bel!
.J. ,1. f allen Co , Iflr
first Citizens Bank ft Trust to.
Carolina Power ft Light Co.
PAGE &
John W. Winter* ft Co
Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Bankers fire insurance
Lawrence Bros Co.
Dove Music Co.
Raleigh Savings 4 Loan Assn
Huh son Betk Co
PAGE 8
Llghtner Funeral Home
Sunshine Bakery
s. M Voting Hardware
C. Karl LU'htman
Coloolal stores
Washington Terrace Apt
Macon's Barber Shop
Modern finance Corp
R. E. Quinn Furniture t *.
Central Drug Store
PAGE 7
AS P Food Stores
Mechanics A Farmers Bank
Lawrence Bros. Co.
Surefit .Seat Cover Center
Eiectrieal Wholesalers, Inr
Cameron-Blown Co.
PAGE A
Bloodworth SI 1 r Home
Ridgeway's Opticians
Carolina Builder* t'orp.
Caveness Insurance Agency
7-ljp Bottling Co.
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
Pepsl-CoSa Bottling Co. Os Raleigh
! Warner Memorials
; Deluxe Hotel
! PAGE 9
Brook* Appliance Co.
Sir Walter Chevrolet C
! Harris Wholesalers, Inc.
O'Neal Motors, Inc.
RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY. APRIL 1, 1%1
j ' is not 1o take rare of a future Lit
j tie Rock or New Orleans, but to
' clear out alum* and increase the
Capital Jre ft Coal Co.
Carolina Typewriter
By rum Lumber Co.
Wake Tire Co.
•lames H. Anderson ft Co
Pittsburgh mate Glass ( n
Hudson Belli
Mother 4 Daughter Stores
Shoe Mart
Joy’s American Grill
Mitchell Printing Co.
j Watson's Seafood ft Poultry Co
j Sky View Drive-In
! Sanders Motor Co
lease Jones Sausage Co.
G S. Tucker Bros.. Inc
Capital Bargain Store
Raleigh Furniture Co.
Slate Distributing ( orp
Heiltg-Levine Furniture Co
Central Drug Store
PAGE 10
McLeMana
PAGE 11
O'Neal Motors. Inr,
Carolina Snick Co.
PAGE 12
Standard Concrete Products Co.
Arme Realty Co
Dunn'* Esso Service
Raleigh Funeral Home
Huni Genera! Tire Co,
< orrell Coal Co.
Tavlor Radio ft TV Se.vire
Raleigh Seafood Co.
Branch Banking ft Trust t
Plggly Wiggly
Rhodes Furniture Co.
Wyatt Quarles
PAGE IS
Lincoln Theatre
Firestone Stores
Be vis Homes
Umstead'* Grocery ft Transfer
Ambassador Theatre
CAM Promotion
Gus Rrasso** Batters ft Cleaner*
Gem Watch Shop
supply of housing for 25 million
American now living in sub-stand
ard dwellings"
In an article in the. current
issue of Look Magazine, Weav
er stressed that his task in
Washington is "to enforce, not
create, housing programs."
Weaver, whose appointment by
President, Kennedy touched off a
heated row in the Senate, told the
magazine:
"President Kennedy has given
me his confidence, and if I didn't
have confidence in him, 1 wouldn't
([CONTINUED ON PAGE 31
TONE’S Inside
The CAROLINIAN’S regular
sunplement. TONE, appears In
this edition. Many Interesting
stories and pictures can uc
found in the magazine, Read
ers are sure to take interest in
such stories as; “Is The Ne
gro a Vanishing American?’’,
‘Tk> You Get The Most Out Os
Traveling?’’, “Education In
Russia” and many others, all
of which are in the current
TONE.
W HATH K K
The five-day weather forecast
for Raleigh, beginning Thursday,
March 30. and continuing through
Monday, April 3, Is as follows:
Temperatures will average slight
ly below normal. It will be cooler
Thursday, with a warming trend
expected during the weekend.
Normal high and low temperatures
will be 87 and «. Occasional rain
is expected Friday and Saturday,
with precipitation averaging three
fourths of &n inch or more.
Shaw Will
Be Scene
Os Confab
The NAACP Youth Councils and
College Chapters Executive Com
mittee announced their sponsorship
of a career Direction Conference to
be held at Shaw University on A
pril 8. All high school and college
students as well as adults in t.h.
state are invited to be present at
the conference which will convene
for registration at 8 a m.
Mis* Rosytn ( beagle. Pre*j.
dent of the NAACP Youih
Councils and College Chapters,
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
137 Found
Guilty In
S. C. Case
COLUMRIA. S (.’. Trials on
charges of breach of the peace, a
rising from an anti-segregation
demonstration at the State House,
were completed Monday with the
conviction of 137 persons,
Frederick C. Hart, white,
former University of South
Carolina student from Wash
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KNEELS rN PRAYER As a member of the honor guard
stands alongside a catafalque (rear), Congolese Army Chief Gen
Joseph Mobutu kneels in prayer during a Congo Requiem mam.
Memorial services were held for the 15 officers and political fig
ures excuted in Stanleyvill in reprisal for the staying of Patriot
Lumumba. (UPI PHOTO),
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O R. rorK
0. R. Pope
Cited For
Service
ROCKY MOUNT The «m*wi
citizenry of this railroad town*
from the Mayor down, made ah
attempt to prove that a prophet Is
with honor in his home, when Pro£»
O. R. Pope and Mrs. Pope arrived
here last, week.
They were met a* the rail
road station by Mayor Allan
Mims, School Board Chairman
George R, Edwards and Rev,
and Mrs. Kemp Battle. Thf*
began a swirl of events that
did not end until they hoard
ed the train for the trip bark
to Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday.
They were feted by many of the
schools. Special luncheons were
given at the O. R Pope School,
which bears, his name, the Booker
T Washington High School and
:n the homes of many friends.
The crowning event was held at
the home of Elk Head, K. P Bat
t !f, on Sotiu’day night. Mi’s. An
nie Battle who teaches at the
Pope School and is head of the
Mizpah Temple, TBPOE of W., a
long with many of the daughters
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State News
Brief
CITIZENS ASSOCIATION TO
Mlfl HERE
The Raleigh Citizen,' Association
\< ill hold its bi-monthly meeting,
Thursday evening. March 30 at the
Bloodworth St. YMCA at S p m.
KcMilts of the ma-ss meeting
held at the Marlin St. Baptist
Church "ill be evaluated. Tlans
for a stepped up campaign a
gainst the chain grocery snore*
that have failed to make any
job concessions, will he decid
ed upon.
Association members will also he
brought up to date regarding the
job situation at the new county hos
pital which ts slated to open here
next week.
Inasmuch a* the association
sponsored the candidacy of
John W. Winters for a scat on
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