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NlassNC Lightning Deaths Set New Record Jury Frees One Defendant: Woman Jailed In 3 Wake Murders ' ::: ■■■ : ' : ;^''-,:V '■■ : - ■■■ VOL. 20, NO <5 welav Man Mia "Killers” & tSBiMH DR GERALD EDWARD? < * . by roverntw A&T Prof Given Top Atomic Job aUXNSBORO - A •cientii* it A&T Colley has been named to th* Advisory Commission on Atom ic Energy for North Carolina Dr Gerald A Ed'" ards professor and chairman of the A&T College Department of Chemistry was nam ed to the post non by Governor Terry Sanford at « press confer ence held tp Raleigh on Wednes day, July 12 Dr Edv ards. formerly of Durham, came Mi Ail College in 1966 and ha* held the poet tin re that time He holds the Ph D degree from the Univer sity of Buffalo. Buffalo. N T •where fee majored to rfeemis tsn and istoored to mathemaf . (CONTENDED ON PAGE 2) New Trial Date Set By Jurist MONTGOMERY. Ala —A federal court hearing to determine wheys «r Freedom Riders should be ban ned as Alabama was continued Monday until August 22 Judge Frank M Johnson Jr . listened to arguments by l\ S Justice Department aUnrnevs and Montgomery city officials to determine n-hether be should enjoin sponsors of Che “Free dom Rides’’ from continuing the campaign to this state (CONTINUED ON - PAGE SO CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS —SUV FROM THEM PAGE 2 oiiasbiee Bakery Ateclusits a Farmers Bank Horton s Cash store Lincoln Theatre Ambassador Theatre LACE 3 Town & Country Furniture Hospital Care Ass'n Wholesale Electric Supply tor. into Discount Co. PAGE a S M iouiis Bard ware Hudson-ltelK Co electrical Wholesaler*, Cur Raleigh Ravings a Ena* Aswetation PAGE £ Firestone Stores Martin MUiwork Co The mas F cd Market PAGE 1 Sanders Motor r '». PAGE t Colonial stores tee first CltUams Bank & Trust C». S S. i£ulm» Pumittm Co. Slayer Os Third Mate Sentenced Two Wake Count\ «•« *n ?■* no"- facing trials for murder and a third woman received l'-2'i vears m Wake County Superior Court last week Air* Alonia Cofteir! Cooper was tailed without privilege of bond Sunday after the alleged midnight slaying of her Hos j friend. Mrs Cofield, 24 resides »f 1002 Walnut Street. She was jailed without privilege of bond in the slaying of John Daniel Abram 47, of 606 Jamaica Drive here She told officers that a- a gu ment ensued following a party vhicfc the couple attended in Method for her mother Her trial . is scheduled for this week Jn another murder case, Mrs, Vi da Faison. 41 mother of five chil- , • oren, who resides a* Wendell. Rr. ; 2. is charged with the fata] shoot- j mg of Frank Hodge. * male ac- ; ouaintance. last March She testi fied in Wake Superior Ceun Tues day morning She charged Hoc with cussing and raising sand on the night of the shooting (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 ODDS-ENDS BT ROBERT G SHEPARD Keep yourselve* in *h» love m God ' WHAT IS THIS” What is, it we are hearing these ' days about the Carolina Power A Light Company trying to exclude itself from the Presidential Execu tive Order that its Negro employ ees must be treated like human beings along with its Indian. Chin ese. German and other employees. Isn’t it rather disgusting ♦hats putting it mildly ior a company enjoying monopoly in its field of operation, should be trying to “raise the roof” simply because it is asked to stop discriminating against American citizen* because they arr black . The company, through its spokes- i man, is quoted as asking 1 What "•ill happen if it attempts to en force this non-discriminating order j in Eastern North Carolina and in South Carolina It seems here that 'he power rompany is saying tha’ the people fwhite people we pre sume 1 m Eastern North Carolina and in South Carolina have been granted some special right to ex ■ end and perpetuate segregation, discrimination. intolerance and bi as Who gave these people this right. Mr Power Spokesman’ Who ran give any group of people in this country the right to abuse and abridge the rights and privilege* guaranteed to all this country's citi i zens by the federal constitution, fCONTINUED ON PAGE 8) , Tire Distributor* .PAUL » Ah.p Food Store* i imtrnc-B.'twii Co Branch Banking A Trust Co. PAGE 18 1 tcooo worth st Tourist Ridgeway's Opticians Iso. I'.-Bp Bottling Co. 1 Dliliea Maioi Finance Co. ! Watson S -a i oo« A Poultry ! Deluxe Utotel ; Warner Memorial* ; Pepsi-Cols Bottling Co ol Raleigh : PAGE Ik PtEgiy-Wiggly i Taylors Radio A TV tenw Raleigh Seafood Co. I Acme Realty Co Bma'i: Es»o servie* I Raleigh Funeral Bom* ; Hunt’s General Tire ( n i W.’ashincteP Terretc Ape*., tea. i Standard Concrete Prim net* Co. ! t,«i " retire Bros : C S£*¥l Lteh&msK RALEIGH. N C SATURDAY. JULY 27 1%1 wt , - 4 f - MAYS MATE WANTS 3 2 r G's —This picture was taken of Mr s Marghente May s. wife of the hi sheet paid baseball player, after she *farted proceedings to collect 53,500 monthly for bed and board for herself and her son It ha « been rumored that due to the action Willie cannot draw bn check from the San Francisco man agement, cannot draw any money from his hank and m stmp’e words he is going to have to use something else tor money Attorney Comments On School Suit Filed Here Bt CHARLESR JONES Attorney Samuel S Mitchell was contacted by this reporter Tuesday : for his version of the ruling hand ed down Monday by federal distr.rt . tudge Algenon Butler on a request ! by the parents of 66 Negro students for a three-judge court to hear a ! civil suit filed June 10 against the Ffaic.g'n School Board protesting NAACP DELEGATION AT WHITE HOUSE—A delegation from the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People poses at the White House fuly i 12 th, after conferring with President John F. Kennedy. The NAACP leaders are (left to right) Bn | hop Stephen Spottswood. chairman of the hoard Arthur Sprmgarn. president and founder of the '■organization, and Roy Wilkins, NAACP excutive secretary The. delegates told President Kennedy ; that the “absence of a clear call from you' for civil rights, legislation this year has fees n a source of ! dismay to those working for it. (UPI PHOTO ) j segregation Mitchell rave his answer to s quest ion which has confused many 'ocal residents Will there be a hearing relating to the nut’’” His statements follow There has been quite a bit of confusion relative to what Judge (CONTINUED < N PAGE T) One Survivor Relates How Eight Died CLINTON - A new -eccrd for ’Tiass i?i ? lischtr.inE >tonr* *a'3? S-.E * near ~r-r c isi*' \if*£k a? ■fright persons ri.ec when a single bolt of Lghnr:ng sashed tnrough a cracked door of a tobacco barn F ' f of those k:;lled were teenagers Five of the dead Vesro uork ers from C! r*o:n. four of whom ‘■a ore teenagers A strapping. 2. r * pound. 16-vear : old Negro youth as *ne only ?ur* \ i'.-or of the nine the barn Thoagh stunned momenta- i’v b v the electrical charge, -c escaped {COS TtVUED ON PAGE 2) $220 Ham Given To L. Hodges The CAROLINIAN is be:to talk ed abcjr throi.-citout the state and in many parts of 'he nation, due to the fact that it extended its pub lic relations ;r.to the Ur.ted Siatet government last week as it joined with the Exterior, Department of • Agriculture a.no presented a 14 1-2 pound Johnston County ham to Secrets ;v oi Commerce Luther H Lodges, n his commodious office, in Washington. D C, Friday The feat «as acclaimed as one of the biggest promotion project* ever affected by a Nor.h 4 arolina race institution ft is to be remembered that Secretary Hodges i% now the key man in American business (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 WEATHER l The five-da.-, weather forecast for Raleigh beginning Thursday, July »o. and continuing through Monday. July 24. is as follow* Temperatures will average above normal with no important day-co das c hinges expected Normal high and tow temperatures will be S 5» and to degrees. Rainfall is expected earh day *hroughou' the period and will occur afternoon and evening thundershower!- Prertpi tation is expected in the amount of three-fourths ot an inch I ,< A T SCENE OF LIGHT N1 N G i DEATHS —S/town are pictures taken a ■ the scene of eight lightning death * la*t Wednesday afternoon. Top left photo shows the lone survival Eugene Dsughtrv It 1* Right picture at top show* part of crowd and police officials gatherd at the scene of the traged >. a toha<co barn near Clinton Center scene shows an unidenti hed «pectatoi inspecting the cur*r* or. which the eight victims are <aid to have i been leaning at the time oi the traced)' ■ The heavy clouds which accompanied s he storm are shown m bottom picture The barn is at left of photo The eight person . ftve Negroes and three whites, were anoar en.tly elctrocuted »« a « ngle bolt of light ning knotted -•*<« door from the harn. at J struck the curers It was reported last u eek \ that thus mass efc.trocutior *ef a world re- j cord for mass death* m thn manner The j victims had taken refuge from the storm ir j •he barn after working outside with to- ! bacco A police official, who was one of the first to arrive on the scene *aid alt eight appeared to have beer asleep and none bor- ' burns or bruises Sampson Counts re s; dent* wer* stunned by the tragedy No in quest was planned by the coroner as acci dental deaths were ruled for all. PRICE 15c PIC United Holy Church Meeting Held The welcome program -f the | 44th annual session of the Home & ; Foreign Missionary Convention. ' United Holy Church of America. : Inc. Southern District, not only proved quite interesting, but war unique to convention goers, due to the fact that it was held in less than on* hour and a half at Provi dence Holy Church. Tuesday night Bishop J A. Forbes served as the program chairman It be | gan with Ernest Ma: ••rbu r at the console The service opened w ith the choir of the First Con gregational Christian Church singing Crown Rina Cord of All Rev. Ella Yarborough r*ad the scripture Rev. Bessie Campbell ! offered the prayer. Mrs Bernice Upchurch welcomed j the contention nr behalf of the j church. Mayor W. G Enloe told the [convention that righteousness; be i gins in the bea u ana that genuine I missionary work was the fruit of I discipline which produces people !of character, love, harmony and : peace j Rev. 0 N Howard, speaking for | the Ministerial Alliance, told of : : she inspiration that the Raleigh | churches would receive by hairing |th* missionaries come to Raleigh ]Dr Ellen S Alston spoke for the i Baptist Missionary Convention of ** 'VZ\W& the state and pledged their sup port to the work which the visitors .v> to Mr? V E Lockhart jnr* i:rr-f State News i ! Brief i _____ VCC ALUMNA RECEIVES. D£ GREF AT RUTGERS DURHAM Miss Portia Jean Burt, a 1957 magna cum laude grad uate of North Carolina College at < j Durham, received the master of sci ence degree from Rutgers Univer ! sity at the college's 195th annivnr : sary commencement A native oi Hillsboro. Miss Burt received be? undergrad uate degree in home economic? i at NCI" She it the daughter of Mr and. Mrs Comae! M Burt of B.iiiSborts . i iCO.VTtVt SC OK PA&t t) n t*J:ng 'he r 'hat the edu ration of children for tomor iov'f world in 'he present crisis that ’ rov !i ; ' v -w a Tremendous ore. bn' pe.-ior.-- dedicated to the '■b. i~ sre dt-c:c to their ■ -. and would or the job C A He • ocd. Sr represented h i sines? and told the convention that »he bufine:-- people of the city •» c"« not only welcoming them, but were begging them *o visit with them H* a:••urea them that they would receive the wannest recep tion the* had ever received if they expressed a dr:-,re *o purchase their ware? Alexander Barnes also -pr-k* for business and told the orr. r r 'ha re prune purpose of (COVTINVED OK PAGE r> —————————————————, 0 Arrested Six Negroes have been arrest ; ed and released on bonds of i ilfrfi each in i oiumbus, G*, tar I failing to move to the rear of a city bus The arrests came Mon day v hen & Negro leader «a* told by the city commissioß that ! | his request that lb* city *•*«*- ; j tartly end segregation is buses > ! i was "still under study ” 1 ! .... _
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