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Sit-Inners And Fla. Vacationers Differ
Easter
Pickets
irk Cops
JACKSON. Miss <ANr> Mili
tant Negm rollrge students de
manding their rights as citizens
i'Helv'd a new front in t.he sit-in
war last wf's hv -taging a demon
si ration m a public library here.
Their peaceful action was in
sharp contrast to (he riotous
demonstrations staged by white
students In Florida demanding
that they he permitted to guz
zle beer and pet on the beach
es alt night long.
The efforts by the youths to life
Library facilities was the first such
move by a Negro group on public
facilities, with the exeeptton of at
tempts b> two to enter white col
ieges and efforts last year to use
public beaches at Gulfport and Bi
loxi.
Pohre fired tea- gas bombs and
wielded clubs to break up a march
by .to students toward the city jail
to protest the arrests of the state's
first sit-in demonstrators.
No one was seriously injured al
though several students reported
bring struck by police clubs
The melee occurred when the
students had marched 10 blocks
f"om the Jackson State College
campus and found their path block
rd by police patrol cars and 30
policemen deputy sheriffs and con
stables.
The student*. seeking to
demonstrate in front of the
jail, ignored polire orders to
disband Polire then began
swinging clubs to disperse the
group. Several tear gas bombs
were fired and the students
scattered.
The nine arrested were released
from jail under SI,OOO bond each.
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Vvoman
Held In
Murder
WILMINGTON—A woman wo*
charged with murder here last
week in the death of a wealthy
white businessman. Officers said
she lived for four months within
40 feet of the decaying body.
Wilmington Police Chief
J. J. Padrick said Miss Lillian
Harris. 36. who lived in a
Sunday School room of the
abandoned church .where the
body of Nathan Sonsky was
found March 22, admitted
stabbing him on November 18.
The chief said with the arrest
c f three Negroes, “the case is
closed.’’ But Padrick said that
more than $5,000 which Sonsky
apparently carried with him is
unaccounted for.
Miss Harris was quoted as say
ing that Sonsky, who loaned mon
ey extensively, came to her room
on the morning o! November 18 to
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WEATHER
■ -s-. _ .
The five-day weather forecast
(or Raleigh, beginning Thursday,
April *, and conttnutng through
Monday, April 10, is at follows:
Temperatures will average six
to ten degrees below normal. Nor
mal highs and lows will be «8 and
« It is expected to continue cool
with frequent minor day-to-day
changes. Rain will be moderate
and will be in, the form of inter
mittent shower* throughout the
period. Precipitation i* expected to
average one-fourth to one-half
inch.
C A ROLINI AN ———-
ADVERTISERS
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PAGE-*
Horton's Cash Store
PAGE i
Bests Home*
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
PAGE 5
Hudson Belk
t'ivella Beauty College
Sunshine Bakery
Town A Country Furniture
Electrical Wholesalers. Inc.
Raleigh Sating* & Goan Ass n
PAGE 8
Carolina power A Light Cn.
Ilove Music Co.
Johnson Lambe. Inc.
I-awrence Bros. Co.
Tee Off Club
S. M. Young Hardware Co.
Firestone Stores
First Citizens Bank A Trust Co.
PAGE t
O'Neal Motors
Thomas Food Store
Terrace Realty Co.
PAGE *
Colonial Stores
Washington Terrace
C. Karl Lichtman
Modern Finance Corp.
R. E. Quinn Furniture Co.
Remember To Cast Tour Vote in The April SS Primary. It Counts!
% t
N. C. ESSAY WINNER
Miss Faye Yvonne Eaton , 14-
vear-old daughter of Mr. and
Mm. J. W. Eaton. 123 S. Tar
boro St. here, was recently noti
fied that her essay, “ Approach
ing The Democratic Idea!,'' has
won first place in the Jr. High
School Division in the sfafe.
Miss Eaton is a ninth grade
honor student at the Washing
ton Jr, High School, and vice
president of the student council.
Council
Aspirants
Total 29
Two more persons paid their fi ! -
ing fees Tuesday a! the Wake Co.
Board of Elections office to swell
‘he number of persons seeking
seats on ter City Council to ’0
nere. Those who met the Tuesday
noon deadline \> ere Mrs Reva
Rothrock and Mrs Mary C. An
drews.
A primary election on April IS
will cut. the field of candidates to
14 Thp general election will be held
May 39
Five incumbents a'-e seeking re
election to the Council. They in
clude Mayor W. G. Enloe, Robert
Sessoms. Paul Hoover, James W.
Reid and John Coffey.
John \V. Winters, local real
estate broker is the only Ne
gro in the Council race. He has
the endorsement of the Raleigh
Citizens Association.
Others seeking election are:
Mrs. Jane Moser—The first to
officially enter the race. Raleigh
housewife and mother of three
boys, married to a local archi
tect. active in the Young Demo
crats Club and in the Garden Club.
Woodrow W (Wood.vi Cox—an
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Homemakers
Set Confab
For City
DURHAM The North Caro
lina Association of the New Home
makers of America will hold their
annual state convention at Me
morial Auditorium in Raleigh, Ap
ril 8. it was announced here last
week by Mrs. Marie C. Moffitt.
chairman of the home economics
department, at North Carolina
College and NHA State adviser.
Nearly 5,000 delegates from the
state's 146 NHA chapters are ex
pected to attend.
Miss Mabel Evans, field staff
nutritionist In the Consumer
Service Department ctf the A
merioan Institute of Baking, will
be the chief speaker and consul
tant.
The topic of her keyncst addreas
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PAGE »
Standard Concrete Product* Co.
AAP Stores
Taylor Radio A TV
Correil Coal Co.
Bankers Fire Insurance Co.
Lawrence Bros. Co.
Raleigh Funeral Home
Cameron-Brown
PAGE t®
Ridgeway's Opticians, Inc.
7-L’p Bottling Co.
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
Watson's Seafood A Poultry Co.
Bloodworth St. Tourist
Deluxe Hotel
Warner Memorials
Pepßl-C'ola Bottling Co. of Raleigh
PAGE II
B, F. Goodrich
PAGE iS
McLeod Watson A Lanier
PAGE IS
Raleigh Seafood
ilnnt General Tire Co.
Lincoln Theatre
Dunn's Esso Service
Acme Realty Co.
Rhodes Furniture Co.
Branch Banking & Trust Co.
Piggly-Wlggly Stores
MMSUSSI H
VOL. 20, NO. 26
If r ahe torn ntissi oners Meet;
Citizens Views Heard
Complaints
Aired By
Local Group
Complaints were aimed Tuesday
against a memorial in front of the
Wake County Ccourthouse which
has water fountains label'd "white
and "colored".
These fountains and signs
designating rest rooms lor
w bites and Negroes nere de
scribed as a "defacement of
public property” and "an af
front to Wake County's citi
urns.”
The protests were made by a
group of Negro citizens appearing
before the Wake County Board of
Commissioners.
Opposition was also expressed by
(he delegation to "unfair and
"discriminatory" employment prac
tices at the new Wake Memorial
Hospital and the fact that there is
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Mawonw*
>lasirr*
Will Mvi'i
NEW ORLEANS Plans were
announced this week by Grand
Master Amos T. Hali, Tulsa. Okla
homa. president of the Conference
of Grand Masters, Prince Hall Ma
sons, that the annual sessions of
that body would be held in Seattle,
Washington, at the Masonic Tem
ple, 29th and East Cherry Streets.
May 12, 13. and 14.
Meeting at the same time
will be the annual business
sessions of the supreme officers
of the Knights of Pythagoras,
which will be held at the same
place May 11.
Workshops will bp held this
year at the conference for
Grand Masters. Grand Secre
taries, Grand lecturers, Chair
men of the Committee of For
eign Correspondence and Past
Grand Masters.
Reports will be received on the
fight against clandestine Masonry
over the nation and the expansion
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WUMttMMItKM - cw ...
injured victim after an explosion blew out the front of a near
north side night dub in Chicago last week, killing one person and
injuring at least 37 others. Fire officials said the blast was caused
by a bomb. (UP! TELEPHOTO).
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH N. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1961
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GUN - TOTING SOUTHERNER G. W. ‘ Red' Hydrick
(back to camera) Carrying a gun in his hand, chases Negro Thom
as Armstrong outside the Municipal courthouse, March 29th. at
Jackson, Miss. Armstrong tried to enter the courthouse for the
trial of nine Negroes on a sit-in demonstration and was turned
away because the courtroom was full. Armstrong mumbled some
thing as he left the building and the officer began to chase him. Hy
drick joined the chase, pulled a revolver, and began beating Arm
strong on the head. Armstrong was taken to a doctor bleeding.
The police arrested Hydrick on an assault and battery charge.
(UPI TELEPHOTO).
Alabama Is Target As
Tuskegee’s Prexy
Flings Ultimatum
TUSKEGEE (ANP) The presi
dent of Tuskegee faced with the
threatened loss of state funds be
cause of the institution's concern
about civil rights issues, met the
challenge head-on last week and
issued an ultimatum of his own.
Dr. L. H. Foster, Jr., said that
unless more stale money is avail
able, Tuskegee must discontinue an
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Onced-Jailed
Sit-Inner
Visits City
Miss Betty Stevens, a student at
Spelman College. Atlanta. Ga., who
was jailed in February, along with
several other sit-in demonstrators,
visited Raleigh during the Easter
holidays.
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ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
“Seek and ye shall find.”
LET'S HOLD 'THE LINE
Several weeks ago v,’e began a
campaign here designed to obtain
more favorable consideration in the
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Mass Rally
Planned At
Auditorium
BY J. B HARREN
This city's Memorial Auditorium
will be the scene of a giganiic Ci
vil Rights Mass Meeting Sunday
afternoon, May ?. at 3 o'clock when
the North Carolina Conference of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACPi will present ihp noted
civil rights lawyer. Thurgood Mar
shall. as featured speaker for the
annual ' Freedom Day Celebration”
rally.
V C. NAACP president, Kel
ly M. Alexander and field sec
retary Charles A. McLean, a
long with other state and local
leaders, are planning for an an-
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I laiiiiirrf
SSv Soldi«*r
Specialist 4th Cla.ss Lorenzo
Wilder, stationed at. Fort Bragg,
claimed he was turned away when
he attempted to secure a room at
the “white” YMCA on Hillsboro
Street here Monday night
Ralph Campbell, president,
of the local NAACP branch,
and a member of the Raleigh
Citizens Association. said
Milder was refused a room at
the Hiilsboro Street YMCA.
Wilder told Campbell he was re
turning bo Fort Bragg and decid
ed to stop over in Raleigh for a
night's rest.
When he was refused a room at
the YMCA, Wilder telephoned
Campbell and told him he was very
disturbed. The serviceman said
his amy post, contributed to the
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Force B- 32 jet bomber which crashed and burned in a rural area mar Denton, /V. C. last Friday.
The fiery wreckage war, scattered over several acres. A spokesman at the Dow Air Force Base,
Maine, where the big S4C bomber was based, said one crewman was known dead, two survived
and five were missing. (UPf TELEPHOI'O).
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WILL SPEAK AT FIRST NAACP DINNER Mrs Rubv
Hurley, above of Atlanta, Ga., southeastern regional secretary ol
the National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colmed People, w ill
be the speaker for the First Annual Freedom Dinner to hr held at
the First Baptist Church here Friday. April 7. at X p. m. The din
ner will be in memory of the late Dr. W. /. Greene, e\ecuti\e
secretary of the N. C. Teachers Association and chairman of the
education department of the local NAACP.
PRICE ISc
* .
Washington Residen ts
Given Right To Vote
WASHINGTON (ANFi The,
34 percent Negro populated District j
of Columbia won the right to vote |
in presidential elections last week i
without the aid of Dixie
The refusal of most southern j
states to go along with the 38 others ’
needed to ratify the constitutional :
amendment giving District residents \
the vote, emphasized the racial im- j
plications of the issue.
Residents in the nation’s rap
ttai gained the right to vote for j
(he first time in history vh*o
Kansas ratified the 23rd A- i
mendmetit to Ihe Constitution
The district has an estimated
.vm.ooo eligible voter*.
None of thp hard core southern !
states bad a hand in the action
that gave the district the ballot i
President Kennedy issued a
statement calling the decision “a
major step in the right direction"
and urging Congress to rivp Wash-
State News
Brief
NCC HAS OVER Si 60,000 IN
GRANT AID
DURHAM Grants in excess of
'-160,000 for student aid and special
j projects in the 196! summer school
session have been made to the |
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incton residents home rule—which
they do rot hsvp no"'
“ft is equally impoitant . he said,
“that resident.*! of the District of
Columbia ha\p the net to select
thp officials who govern the
District
Bomber
Crashes
In N. C.
DENTON An -\ir Force B :>■<
bomber with eight men aboard ap
parently exploded in flight. Thurs
day night and crashed in flames
near a group of trees.
The bodies of two and a por
tion of a third body were
tound by searchers. Two of the
men survived. The others were
missing Tuesday, hut deep mud
and a cold rain slowed a
se/rrh lor them.
The Aii Fom detachment at
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base,
near Goldsboro, identified throe
crewmen listed as missing as.
Capt. W B McMullen. 37, air
craft. commander of Bad Axe,
Mich.: Capt. R. M Mmeanroth, 31.
radio navigator, of Christiana, Pa.;
and Staff Sgt. .1 .?. Full/.. 29. gun
ner instructor, of Tracy City, Tenn
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