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Lo::l £ tfillc, Ky, con- 4 Restaurant Refuses Service •• Zion Bishop Attacks Delaware Jim Crow ‘Y M* Members 9 Drive Begins Names Os Chairmen Revealed Th* annual membership enroll ment of the Blood worth Street YMCA will begin this week and continue through June 23 it has been announced by Cecil H. Flagg, general chairman. Associate chair men are: A. E. Brown. J. C. Raines and Dr. N. H. Harris E L, Raiford w 'li serve as executive secretary for the campaign. A general meeting of campaign workers will be held at the "Y" on Friday evening. May 26 at 8:00 o r ock for the issuance of materials sin instructions. All campaigners have been urged to attend, The campaign colonels for the drive Include: Lex Colson, W. {CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Wilmington Restaurant Is Target WILMINGTON* Delaware - Tha 134th annual session of the Phila delphia-Baltirnore Conference. A M F Zion Church the first ever .held here, will eo down as one of the most remarkable for the cause of freedom ever held This will he due to the f ac t that (lie pi psidin c prelate. Bishop R L Jones and the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) mm | it -fcfe. BISHOP READS LETTER OF APOLOGY - The above picture shows Bishop R L. Jones. 2nd Episcopal District. AME Zion Church, who presided over the IMth annual session of the Philadelphia-Baltimore Conference, at Wilmington. Delaware, last week, as he reads a letter of apology from Mayor John E. Ra hiarg, who looks on. The apology was made as the result of a tele gram sent him by the conference, protesting the refusal of a Wil mington restaurant to serve them. Mayor Bib,an also vowed to use the influence of his office to make, it punishable by fine and/or imprisonment to deny any person service due to race or color. Bishop Jones is a North Carolina resident. CAROLINIAN —— ADVERTISERS BUV FROM rHEM PAGF a Horton* Cash Storo Shoe Mart Green's Cleaner* Sky View Drive-ln PAGE 3 Mechanic* A Farmers Bank Bon some Roofing to Gem Watch Shop PACK S Rudson-ffelk Co. Garri s (iil-Rat.' Grocery A Mkt Raleigh Ha'mgs A t.oan Association John W. Winters Co, Diamond Wash PAGE « Gnion Finance Co l.lghtne r Funeral Home Carolina Power A l ight to. MrGellan's Stores to. Midas Muffler Firestone Stores Doie Music Co. Cerreil Coal Co. PAGE 1 Sanders Motor Co. Used Cars O'Neal Motors, Inc, Sanders Motor Co. Thomas Food Market PAGE- S Colonial Stoics. Inr, Washington Terrace Apts K E. Quinn Furniture Co. Modern Finance Carp. Caw-renee Bros. Canlial Vacuum Store PA'-E S AA-P Food Store* TSma Library ifmxai issue Ms Very important. Giro it Your A hi. j|F VOL. 20. NO. 33 Charlotte Scene Os Fla reaps: RIOTING JPRFADS. TO N. C. Committee On Libraries Opens Office An information, campaign and i xhibit headquarters was opened Thursdav in Raleigh by (hr Ra leigh by the Raleigh-Wake County leigh-Wake (7 otin t > Citizens (' om m i : lee for Libra r y Im provement. m the building former ly occupied by K ess which has ontraives in the first block nf bold Fayetteville and Salisbury Streets, Ribbons were cut at 10 am. by chairman R Ma> ne Albright, with others on hand represenbng (he fCONTINUED ON PAGE 2) The Piradilly M liella Beauty College ! W T. Grant to I -American Credit Co j Branch Banking A Trust Co I S M Young Hardware j PAGE 10 Ridgewa' s Opticians, Inc. | .-Cp Bottling Co. i Billion Motor Finance Co. ) W atson Seafood A Poultry i Bloodworili st. Tourist i Deluxe Hotel i Warner Memorial* 1 Pepsi-CslJ Bo'tllng Co. of Raleigh | PAGE 11 Peebles Gr<l! A- Motel | F. W, Woolworth Co. iTown A- Country Furniture ; Capitol Bargain Store | PAGE S 3 i Electrics! Wholesalers. Inc. j Sunshine Bakery i Seven-Dp Bottling Co. j PAGE 15 Fine's Men’s Shop ! PAGE 16 Pis si.v* Wiggly Cameron-Brown Co. Standard Conrrete Products Co. First Cltttent. Bank Trust Co. (Lincoln Theatre Taylors Radio * TV Service Raleigh Seafood Co. Acme Realty Co. Bunn's Esso Service Raleigh Funeral Home Hunt's General Tire Co. BU R/V tb-Osj i RUS Passengers who were atsoard a Greyhound bus sit disconsolately out • side the gutted hulk of the vehicle alter it was burned hv a howling mob of whites outside Anne ton. Ala _. last week. A moh met the bus carrying a bi-raaal integration, st group, stoned it and slashed the, tires and then followed the bus out of town and tossed gas bombs in it when it stopped for repairs. (UP! TELEPHOTO) Hecklers, Including Tar Heel, Break Up NY N A AGP Rally M. NEW YORK (ANPi A small group of hecklers demanding an end to Negro pacifism broke up a Harlem rally last week marking the seventh anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's school d» segre gation ruling. Eggs were thrown at Roy Wilkins. Jeers, chants and shouts drown ed out speaker after speaker, in cluding Roy Wilkins, executive sec retary of the NAACP A clergyman was struck by an egg Wilkins gave up after a few min utes of trying to shout over the din, and the rally came lo a noisy close. The agitators started their heckling soon after the meet ing started They demanded that one of their number, Rob ert Williams, be permitted to speak. Wi’haqj/i wag called to the ros FIRST TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S These are the first persons so receive honorary degrees as St. Augustine's College initiated a program of award' ing honorary degrees at its commencement exercises here Monday. Pictured between Bishop Rich ard H. Baker, chairman of the trustee board , left, and D>. James A. Boyer, college president, right, are: Plummer B. Young, Jr., receiving the Doctor of Humane Letters degree for his father; Gerhard Mennen Williams, who received the Doctor of Laws degree; Judge Hubert Delany, who was award ed the Doctor of Laws degree, and the Rev. Rickstord Myers, awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree. RALEIGH, N. C , SATURDAY. MAY 27, 1961 in -i a'rj the heckling topped as !lw began, describing himself a* a j Slate News - IN— L Brief 1 FAYETTEVILLE AWARDS DAY ; rAYETEVILLE The guest | .speaker at the Annual Awards Day j ceremonies at the Fayetteville State i | Teachers College on Wednesday, j | May 24 was Herbert E Brown, (CONTINUED ON PAGfc 8) 1 suspended member of the NAACP chapter in Monrop, N. C. 'I am tired of being oppressed," he said. ‘ I am going to meet vio lence v ith violence." Williams described the NAACP as a pacifist organization and said “we are not pacifists, and we don't at tempt to turn the other cheek." The jeer and shouts resumed soon after Williams left the rostrum. The band played “the Star Spangled Tanner" for a second time in a fu tile attempt to restore order. Among thr subsequent speak ers who roulrin't be heard was Mrs. Daisy Bates. NAACP chairman in Little Rook. Ark., at the iime of the school de segregation ertsi* in that city. After Wilkins was shouted down, Ihe Rev. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., pss (continued on" page 2> Mecklenburg City Scene Os Clashes CHARLOTTE - Police reported Wednesday of this week that about j 1~5 Negroes and whites gathered I near Johnson C. Smith University i m sday night, but no injuries were reported. The crowd was dispersed with the aid of Dr. Rufus P. Perry, university president. It had been repotted earlier that » group of students from the university would inin the "Freedom Riders" testing interstate segregation in bus travel l in the South. The "Riders’' are now I preparing to leave Alabama and TPOftTtNTJBn ON PAG* n : Native if Raleigh is Appointed SPRINGFIELD, TIL Governor Otto Kerrier last week named Claude E. Whitaker, Jr., a native of Raleigh, N, C , Albert G Preibis, both Chicago attorneys, and Adolph B Nesbitt, of Belleville, Illinois, to : membership on jpfvfWHk ;*'f the Illinois In djßLs- . f dustrlal Cotrums * Atty, Whitaker %V* and Mrs - Claude Sgt. T E. Whitaker, Sr., School there and milt AKER Shaw University (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Ligun Star Chooses 11. ! Os Minn. William Crockett, peob«fctfT *h« j "hottest” name in North Carolina i high achooi athletic circles, has agreed to go to the University of Minnesota this fall after weighing i propositions from many colleges j and universities in the South and the big ten, Crockett, % natural athlete, excelled in four sports, foot ball, basketball, baseball and (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) State Dept Official Is Finals Orator Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Gerhart. Mermen Williams, challenged the graduates at St. Augustine's College to join the battle for freedom and human dignity at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. He is an ex-governor of the state of Michigan. I Urging the 70 graduates to ’take (CONTINUED ON PAGE *> JAMES SThU'AK'I , . . wins at AAC meet h. i PRICE ISc Fastest Runner In State: Sanies Stewart Oi Ipn Wins Honors At AAU J.: g t Ligon sprinters tames hieuait and William Crockett pioveri sznrt to be the two fastest runnei in North Carolina wnen they panic in first and second in the 100 yard ODDS-ENDS BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD , "WILL AMERICA M( <MT FOR THE NEGRO?" We want to emphasize in the be ginning that we cannot in the Hast, subscribe to the teaching:- of t • self styled. "Black Muslin VCiat we have heard and ,-een of them cause us to classify (he grow? a. religious fanatics. There are times, however, when the mnsi fanatical will make statements calculated to provoke profound, rational thinking. For example, last week a spokesman for the Mu lint group was asked during a TV interview, would the Mits bins fight for America. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE M ANOTHER PLAN THWARTED—Rev. B. Eelton Cox. bit of High Point, the spokesman for the. 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