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The v.t n printing Ci>« “No Let-Op In Freedom Fight:" Marshall ■ * JP; ragfe*’ * J ;*sa£-4& -';M&£ ?WV* ■■ " '• - jgSSfel&^.+A . ‘i v 2* •&?-$. • &*&?££,> -. iui&. ..^^.gasßag,.... ■ .Lirni• l f|JF^ s ( |fe^^^»l‘araiyg@;^3»'t iter-*.--^y>:-• ?*&.<■ ;%<.•• <f *-'-'<|^^-' : *sSfe‘ 71 -Ny<*v V' Sf# ■ffjffiff** *■ '#* > <££%-> IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII^IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII^^^IIIII^IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII^QIIIIIIII^I^^ ' - J^jjt %jjjr^'' : tfs Daughter Elks Boost Mrs. Adams For Prexy WASHINGTON (ANP)—The Lu thermae E. Adams Boosters of the Greater Washington, area held their kick-off meeting recently at the home of Mrs. Irebeila Howell. Purpose of the "boosters" clubs which are being formulated around the country, is to inspire support ODD S-ENDS BY ROBUST G. SHEPARD ■'ThoK aniiointest my head with nil.” THE NEED AND VALUE OF LEADERSHIP We believe that the eternal and Divine Mind leads and directs man kind through men. It is an apparent fact that man needs that leadership and direction. It is also apparent that for every area of living. God has prepared men to assume the leadership need ed The need and the value of leader «hip in the area of politics were ably demonstrated last week in the election of Raleigh's first Negro City Councilman. Let it be forever remember ed that the election of J W. Winters to the city counrii was not achieved by accident or mere ehanre. The Mind that created the universe, that cre (CONTINUED ON PAGE Ti CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS PACE i b,;iuii b Ca'.o store Lni' i),n j .ueatre Vowier A; Daughter Stores PALL * Lav. ienie Bros. Mechanics <v tarmers Bank Diamond Hash No. 1 A 4 Elizabeth M. Nutting PAGE i Mutlson-Belk A- Lftrd's Carters, Inc Baieigh Savings &- Loan Assn J. W. Winters & Co. The Pit ad illy PAGE £ tdghtner Funeral Rome Johnson Larnbe. Inc. Tee Off Club Sunshine Bakery Community Florist Bankers Fire Insurance Co. S. M. Young Hardware Co. Firestone Stores PAGE ? Weaver Bros. Rambler Sanders Motor Co. Senders Motor Co—Used Car* PAGE 8 Washington Terrace Colonial Stores Lawrence Bros. Modern Finance Corp. for Mrs. Luthermae E Adams as grand daughter ruler of the Elks. The Washington area dub is be ing headed by Mrs. Mary L. Grant Sprigg;. grand trustee of the IBP OE of W The Washington group has joined ranks with some of the New York "Daughters" and those fi om New Jersey and many West ern and Midwestern States in sup porting Mrs Adams. In correspondence sent to mem ners around the nation, Mrs. Alma D Rice, of Berkeley. Calif., presi dent of t!ie "Boosters" pointed out that never in the 59 years of the or ganization's existence “have the tenacles of Eikdom reached across (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Mother’s Day Observance Is Planned Praise and Honor be unto Our Mothers" is the theme of the Mo ihers Day procram to be sponsor ed by the Student Christian Asso ciation of Shaw University in the University Church at Vespers on Sunday, May 24, at 5:30 p m. Tributes of appreciation will be (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) BUY FROM THEM It E. Quinn Furniture Co. t Kan Uchtmati PAGE 3 i orrell uul Co, Branch Bunking & Trust Co. A,CP Stores Electrical Wholesalers, Inc. Dove Music Co. ruandard Concrete Products Co Cameron-Brown ( rntra! Drug Store PAGE 10 Ridgeway's Opticians, Inc. 1-Up Bowling Co. Dillon Motor Finance Co. Watson's Seafood A Poultry Co. Blood worth St, Tourist Deluxe Hold Warner Memorials Pepsl-Cola Bottling Co. of Raleigh PAGE 11 Thomas Food Store Lawrence Bros. Co, PAGE 16 Taylor Radio & TV Raleigh Seafood Acme Realty Co. Dunn's Esso Service Raleigh Funeral Horn. Hunt General Tire Co, First Citizens Bank A Trust Co. Lawrence Bros. Co. Pigsly*Wiggly Stores Ambassador Theatre IV AAC P FREEDOM RALLY SCENES Shown in above photo is a group of thirty-four NAACP mothers, who spearheaded a financial effort which brought in more than SIO,OOO in freedom funds at the annual NAACP Freedom Rally here last Sunday Thurgood Marshall, NAACP chief legal counsellor, is shewn in nhnto at left addressing some 3.008 persons during the Rally (/ B HARREN PHOTOS). Legal Chief Os NAACP Heard Here Speaking tn an audience nf 3.000 eager listeners in the Memorial Auditorium here Sunday afternoon, Thurgood Marshall, ace NAACP general counsellor, warned those who oppose the "Strides Toward Freedom" by the American Negroes that the freedom fight of NAACP is "not a Negro fight"; but. a fight for all America and the cause of world brotherhood and respect for human dignity, "Mr. Civil Rights", fas Marshall i< affectionately raliedn said: "We 're - out tn save the souls of Amer ica; not black souls, but white souls.” Marshal! said the U. S. Su preme Court and the Constitution of the United States has given the Negro every weapon he needs to fight for his equal place under the sun except one. And that one the Negro must supply himself. That is determination to act out his role of implementing what the U. S. Supreme Court has defined as his legitimate rights. “The only way you'll get in tegration of schools is to get up out of your soft seat and do it yourself: and stop waiting for the courts or officials to do it all," Marshall declared, adding, “North Carolina has got to de cide which way it's going—to push for what the Courts have (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) I'af rolnian As lacked In Counlv • State Highway Patrolman Chas. Smith was attacked last weekend by a group of Negroes, reportedly, as he attempted to arrest one man on a charge of drunkenness. The officer allegedly stopped at Neuse Cross Roads on U. S. Highway 1 North, when he no ticed a drunken man near the busy highway. As he tried to get the man into the car, sev eral persons are said to have gathered around him. Smith said the persons started kicking and hitting him. He drew his gun and hit at one of his at tackers, but the weapon was knock ed from his hand, he reported. Tne crowd is said to have grown, including white and Negro. Smith said he couldn’t get to bis car to radio for help, but. a passerby got in touch with the Highway Patrol There were some 300 persons gath ered around Smith ai one time, it was reported. Five patrolmen, three deputy (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) N. C. Medics Set Limit On Admittance ASHEVILLE —Members of the Noith Carolina Medical Society this week accepted a committee report recommending that Negro physic ians be limited to scientific mem berships in the state group and county societies. The action reaffirms the stand of the Society's House of Delegates. The proposal also means that full membership in the Society will not be offered to Negroes. Only four colored physicians have accepted scientific membership (CONTINUED ON PAGE gj TOP CONTESTANT Miss Brenda Kee, representing the Raleigh Chapters of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, won first place in She Sixlh District Finals of the Talent Hunt Program heid in Columbia, South Caro lina recently. Miss Kee. an honor student a< John W. Ligon Juni or-Senior High School, will re present the Sixth District in a National Talent Hunt Demon stration in Washington. D. C., this summer during the Fra ternity's National Conclave. Her winning selection was a piano rendition by Brahms, Rhap sody in B Minor. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Thom as E. Kee Library Discussion Is Planned All citizens of Wake County in terested in bettering the inadequate l'brary facilitie sos Raleigh and Wake County are being invited and urged to attend a meeting Monday, May 15, at 8:00 p m., in the audi torium of the Oeidenial Life Insur ance Building in Cameron Village. The meeting is sponsored by the Raieigh-Wake County Citi zens Committee for Library Im provements, of which Raleigh attorney R. Mayne Albright is chairman. Its purpose is pro motion of the library bond and tax referendum scheduled for June 8. Passage of the two issues will provide a main library building and funds for a recommended Wake County Library System. Albright and the steering commitee planning the meeting urge all friends of the libraries to make a special effort (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) State News Brief _ WOMEN VOTERS ENTERTAIN RALEIGH—As soon as the final tabulations assured John W Win ters a seat on the City Council, members of the Raleigh Women Voters' Council set into motion pre* sranged plans for a victory cele bration in his honor, last week. The doors of the YWCA Extension br. Blount St. were opened to all who wished to share in this jubi lant moment. Mr, Winters arrived after a bit o? delay due to his visit to the WRAL studio for pictures and TV appear cance. He was warmly welcomes! and congratulated by the many friends present This group of women has a year round program dedicated for the sole purpose of encouraging the citi (CONTtKUED ON PAGE 2) + + + + + + + AtXorth Carolina Col losses Ch ambers Was Ace Stude n t THE COROLINIAN VOL. 20, NO. 31 Victim Believed Drunk: 3 Cars Strike Body m Vehicles Drag Body 181 Feet DUNN—Thre automobiles struck the body nf James Monroe Clark, 47. who was killed Sunday near Byrd's Pond, south of Bunnlevel. Occupants of one of the cars re ported what had happened to Dunn police, but the other two cars did n't stop after having hit the body. Highway Patrolman Paul Lu cas said the dead man wa* ap parently lying near the center line of the highway at the time he was struck. Officers concluded from t.he physical evidence that he was probably In a prone position, propped on one elbow and had a fruit jar of liquor in his pos session. It was not learned Just how Clark came to be in the center of the highway. Lucas said it appeared that the first to strike Clark was a 1980 Mercury driven by Raymond Ear! Wood. 24, manager of Rickvs Grill in Dunr,. The Mercury was going north, carried the body 142 feet down the road in the west lane of traffic. A second oar then carried the body back the other direction 39 feet, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 The five day weather forecast for Raleigh, beginning Thursday May 1!, and continuing through Monda%. May 15, is as follows: Temperatures will average 2 to 5 degrees below normal. High and low temperatures are expected *o be 19 and 56 degrees. It will be cooler Thursday and Friday, with a warming trend prevailing Satur day. Sunday will also be rooter, area Sunday with precipitation Showers are ex-peered over the amounting to one-half inch. High Court Gets Local, Other Cases WASHINGTON —~ Two hmeh counter sit-in appeals reached the United States Supreme Court last weekend from Raleigh and Dur ham, N. C. The Raleigh oases were appealed by two students from Shaw Uni versity. who were convicted of tres passing at a lunch counter. They were sentenced to 30 days in jail. The Durham cases were appeal ed by five Negro students from North Carolina College and two white students from Duke Univer sity. They were convicted under a state trespass statute after an in cident about s year ago at a de partment store lunch counter. Five of the students drew sen tences ranging from 15 to 30 days. Judgment in two of the cases was continued. The Supreme Court already has agreed to hear arguments during (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2T> Worker Killed GARYBBURY Ernest Artis. 3?, of Lucama, was killed Mon day morning while working ad jacent to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad tracks near here. Ru fus Britton, coroner of Halifax County, said Artis was dead on arrival at Roanoke Rapids Hos pitfl.l. Britton said Artis appar entiy died of electrocution. He was hauling logs at the time of the accident, North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C , SATURDAY, MAY 13. 1961 lUUHWHj I NAMED EDITOR OF UNO'S “LAW REVlEW"—Pictured above is Julius LeVonne Chambers, a rising senior law student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chambers, last j week, became the first Negro to ever be named ditnr nf “ The Law Review" at the university. This honor is reserved for the top hmot student in the class. (See story on page !). SIOO,OOO Church Drive Underway At Smithfield i SMITHFIELD— The pester, offi- , | cers and members of the First Bap i list Church are in the midst of a : drive to rebuild the church, which was destroyed by fire on March 1 They report that the drive is coming along nieeiy and it is believed that work on the new structure will get underway soon. The cost of the new build ing is estimated to cost approxi mately $100,000,00. The towns- RALEIGH'S “FAMILY OF THE YEAR" The John W Winters family, above was nam ed Raleigh's "Family of the Fear" this week by The Family Service Society. Winters, who h&adi a real estate and building firm here, last week became the first Negro tn Raleigh's history to hr elected to the City Council. Lett to right, seated are : Naomi, Winters, Seanne. Mrs. Winters, Re hacco and Roland Winters. Standing, left to right, are: Donna and Michael Winters. Not present were the other two children , Mrs. Frances IF, Carter, and John WJr. people, of both races, are re sponding with exceptional in terest, The Junior Chamber of Commerce has carried on an extensive waste paper drive, with ail of the proceeds going to the building fund. Facilities at Johnston Countv Training School have been made available for meetings, along w:tn (CONTINUED ON PAGE T) First f!e<?ro Named Editoi Os “Review” CHAPEI, Hi! I,- .1 hi ii,.. 1 P Von re Chambei . "*, b-'o-'-n-m-' f- t ne gro to edit the North Carolina Lav.' Review at the University of North Carolina hem last week when he was chosen for the highest studegt honor at the UNC Law School. He is a 1953 graduate of North Caro lina Coil- re at Durham, and holds the M A decree from the Univer sity of Michigan. There arc .15 Negro students among the 8.500 students at the university Four of them a* lend the Law School, which 'X composed of .: ( 1 -t-ibont'-. Chambers is a natj.» n( Mount Gilead, near Charlotte. When asked t > conirnent nn lv selection, the soft-spoken Chambers replied: (CONTINUED ON PAGE: 2> “Family Os The Year' Named Here The John W. Winters family of !<O9 E Hargett Street, was named this week by the Family Service as Raleigh's 1981 ' family of (be Yeai " Mr. Winters, who is a real estate broker and builder, became the first N< gro to be elected to Raleigh's City Council last week. Married to the former Miss Ma rie Montague of Raleigh, Winters is the father of eight children Th« family attends Saint Monica's Cath olic Church. Other members of the Win ters family include: .Mrs. Fran ces W. Carter, ’O, who resides ill Pittsburgh, Pa ; John W. Jr , 18. a student at Franklin-Mar shall College, Lancaster, Pa.; Michael Charies, 14: Donna Faye, 13; Naomi Regina, 9; Re becca Joyce, 7; Rrsiand Edward, 8; and Seanne Marie, 2 1-2. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) PRICE 15c
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