Quarter-Million Posters Out For R. Williams
Violence 3Mars Convention:
Baptists Re-Elect Dr. Jackson
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VOL. 20, NO. 48
M. C. Farm Agnti Fire«i
Commissioners Relieve
Boodie Os Duties In Pitt
GREENVILLE—Ja.rr.e-s M. Boodie,
farm agent of Pitt County, has been
fired by the county commissioners
and the home demonstration agent
has been suspended.
Action made by the commission
ers followed a recommendation by
H. M. McNeil, district agricultural
agent.
Rev. Deßerry,
Ex-Raleigh
Pastor, Here
'“Thu* city has changed tremen
dously since 1 lived here 35 years
ago,’' the Rev. Perfect R. Deßerry
of Chicago, El., told. the Carolin
ian this week.
“People era living to better
homes, they have more employ
ment opportunities and the school
system has more than doubled since
I left here in 1928." he continued.
“It i* quite gratifying”
The Rev. Mr. Deßerry will
be remembered by older Ra
leigh residents a* the man who
was responsible for the build
ing of the First Congregational
Church at the corner of Manly
and South Streets. He served
the church until he left in 1926
for Chicago,
A native of Mt,. Gilead, the Rev.
Mr. Deßerry was graduated from
the theological department of Tal
ladega College, in Talladega, Ala
bama and came to Raleigh in 1911
from Kings Mountain where he had
been serving as chaplain of the
Lincoln Academy.
It was there that he met and
married Mrs. Dulcie Deßerry and
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REV. P. XL DEBERRY
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ADVERTISERS
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Horton Cash Grocery
Method Watson and Lanier
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Jolmsoti-Lambe Company
Tows & Country Furniture
Casco (Solomon Re vis)
Mother and Daughter
Browning Barber Shop
Standard Concrete Products Co
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G. S Tucker A. Bros., Inc.
Jeffreys Food Market
Public Service Company
Marilyn Shoes
Butler Shoe Store
Johnson's Jewelers
S. M. Young Hardware Compar.v
Carolina Typewriter Company
Capital Bargain Store
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Colonial Stores
C Karl Lichtman
Tire Distributors
Taylor Radio & TV Service
First Clttaerss Bank A Trust Co.
R. C. <Qulrm Furniture Co.
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flut'P Food Stores
Freerar i'.aSfc Ice Cuam
Billon Supply Company
Stephenson Music Cempanv
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tvty Taylor Company
Ftaher Wholesale, tor.
Tire Sales & Service
Mechanic * Farmers Bank
Discount Csed Furniture Company
ft. C. Finance Corporation
Ftleijrb Tire Terminal
Daniels
W. V. Grant Company
Betty Gay
HeCiolten Store*
LUhtaer Fun oral Home
RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1961
Boodie was dismissed because
of * is failure to maintain the
high standards required in ful
filling his job and example as
outlined and implied in the
I discretion of his job.’
Mrs, Amelia Capehart, home a
gent was suspended, subject to fur
ther investigation into the opera
tion of the farm program in Pitt
County.
This action by the commis
sioners now leaves the county
farm agent's office with only
one agent, «
A third person. Mrs. Grace
Cheek, the assistant home econom
ics agent, submitted her resignation
Tuesday to take a position in Rich
mond County.
Discrimination
In Reverse
Is Charged
! RICHMOND, Va. < ANP) A
1 group of white employees of Rail
vay Express Agency of Virginia,
line., in Richmond, filed a court
j suit here last week charging the
I firm and their union with dis
| crimination against them in fav
or of Negro employees.
The employees are Richmond
'employees of Railway Express and
are members of Patrick Henry
’Lodge No. 2163 of the Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks. Freight Hanllers, Express
and station Employees.
The white employees contend
the consolidation of two seniority
roosters “was abitarary and cl -
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ODDS-ENIS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
i
!
“Wisdom is better than ru
bles.”
ARE WE DOING ALL WE CAN
ABOUT GETTING JOBS?
Negroes should know by now
that rights, equality, justice and
freedom are not going to be given
to them as a matter of course.
As far as the white man is
concerned the law of the land
providing justice and equality
That Is, it dops not include or
cover him. The whites have
used every device possible to
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P. psi-Coia Bottling Co. of Raleigh
Watson's Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc.
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
Seven-Dp Bottling Company
Carolina Builders Corp.
Ridgeway's Opticians, Inc.
Bloodworm St. Tourist Home
Deluxe Hotel
Warner Memorials
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Sanders Motor Company (Used Cars)
Sanders Motor Company (New Cars)
Auto Discount Company
Lincoln Theatre
; Thomas Food Market
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j American Credit Company
Carolina Power A Bight Co
Branch Banking A Trust Co
Goodman’s Ladies Shop
James Thomas
Community Florist
Centra! Drug Store
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Pcpsl-Coia Bottling Co. of Raleigh
Dunn’s Esso Service
Dixie Lean
Weatherman’s Jewelers
J C. Penny CO.
'*nio* Finance Company
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' Johnson-Litjnhe Company
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| Plggly Wiggly
j Hunt General Tire Company
i Dunn’s Esso Service
j Acme Realty Company
' Raleigh Fv. teral Home
| Lawrence Brothers Company
[ Champion Atlantic Tire Censer
iLong Meadow ”«m*
; Joy’s American Grill
ißiileigh Seafood Com
ALLEGED COP-KILLER HELD ~~ Frank Lott, 29, alter
ed Hew York cop-killer, looks from behind bars at police head
quarters last week. Officers said Lott, an ex-convict, shot and
killed Patrolman Francis Walsh when the policeman arid his part
ner surprised Lott robbing a Harlem grocery store. (UPI PHO
TO).
2,000 In Attendance At
12th Chatham County Fair
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
PITTSBORO The 12th annual
Chatham County Fair got under
way with a bang when a.n approxi
mated crowd of 2,000 attended the
opening night, Monday, The entire
INTEGRATE SCHOOL PEACEFULLY• —Negross and whites are shown ns they enter A
tneha Earheart Elementary School in Dallas, Terras last week. This marked the first time that
both races have attended classes together in what was the country's largest segregated public school
system. No incident* occurred. (UPI TELEPHOTO').
town and community turned out
for the parade which preced the
opening of the gates. The parade
was reported as gala with many
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PRICE 15c
F3I Issues
Information
On Suspect
WASHINGTON.” D~ C—A quar
ter-million “wanted” posters have
been distributed by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation for Robert
E. Williams of Monroe N C and
have been circulated across the na
tion,
Williams, described as a “con
troversial leader." has beer, in
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Rights
Report
Given
That Negro participation in the
administration of justice to North
Carolina is “insubstantial.” is the
substance of a report released this
week by the North Carolina Civil
Rights Advisory Committee,
The report which represented
75 per cent responses by state,
county and city officials to c
questionnaire from the commit
tee headed by McNeill Smith,
Greensboro attorney, cavers all
areas of the state.
It is pointed out that until the
1930’5, no Negro served as police
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WEATHER
The five-day weather forecast
for Aalelch, beginning Thursday,
September 14th, and continuing
through Monday, September 20th,
is as follows:
Temperatures win average >
few degsees above normal Ap
proximately one inch of rainfall
is expected, ft should continue f?
be warm and fair during most of
the period. Afternoon and evening
showers are forecast and should
result in one-half inch of rain for
the period.
VIOLENCE AT BAPTIST CONVENTION ,4 hand-clapping. hvmn-singing Nation a'
Baptist Convention erupted into a brawl last neck in the Municipal Auditorium. K an< as Cirv
when one faction of the group tried to gain a spot on the speakers' stand. Here one member of the
delegation lies on the floor after being pushed from the stage. Mayor H Roe Bart-e was * urn own
ed from Citv Hall and urged the delegates to settle then difference* oearefulh (UPI TELE
PHOTO)
Minister Suffers Fracture Os
SkuM, Dies As Baptists Meet
KANSAS CITY. Mo. (ANP>— D |
Joseph H, Jackson of Chicago, fol- !
lowing an ail-night election here, j
was returned to the office of presi- j
dent of the National Baptist Con- ;
vention. USA, Inc But the religious i
body's, fist Annual Session was mar
red by the death of a Detroit rrun- I
ister who suffered a head injury j
during a riot involving supporters I
of Jackson and the Rev. Gardner
C Taylor of New York
The Rev Arthur Garfield Wright ;
64. died 7 hours after he suffered j
a skull fracture when he was push- I
ed or fell from the platform, in :
what was later termed an accident, i
Rev. Wright, also a. prominent
business (nan to Detroit, plung
ed five feet from the podium
to the floor, landing on bis
bead. He remained in a coma
and died after doctors at Me
norah Medical center perform
ed emergency surgery in an ef
fort to repair brain damage.
| Integration Proceeds Peacefully In
j Raleigh Schools, Throughout South
Integration of three local high
schools went off without incident
as Raleigh's 25 schools opened last
Wednesday.
Five Negoree were enrolled
at Daniels Junior High, three
at Broughton Senior High and
one at Murphey Elementary
School. A second Negro child
assigned to Murphey Miss
Carolyn Washington, did not
enroll. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Washington J
of 705 E. Edcnlon Street.
At Chapel Hill, 34 Negro young
sters are attending predominantly
white schools as a result of ». new
policy assigning first graders strict
ly on the basis of geography,
' Under the plan. 26 firt-graders
are attending Carrboro School. Es
tes Hill Elementary School and
Glenwood School.
Thirteen Negro boys and girls
in Grades 4-8 are attending the
previously all-white St. Anthony’s
Catholic School at Southern Pines
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Defendant
Sentenced
In Burning
Included- among the cases dis- i
posed of in the Wake Superior |
Court last week was one involving I
a man sentenced for burning a j
barn
Judge C. W, Hall is presiding ;
over the current term of the crimi- j
nal session
Lawrence Douglas Jones, 25, |
laborer, pleaded guilty to burn
ing a barn and was given two
to four years imprisonment. The
incident is believed to have oc
curred alter & quarrel vcun the
owner of the structure.
Other cases disposed of included
the foil owing:
Alphonse Carrington, 26, laborer,
pleaded guilty to larceny and re
ceiving. and Emmitt Band Phipps.
23, pleaded guilty to receiving
stolen goods (the cases consolidated
for trial), 18 to 24 months imprison
ment ar, to Ccrrlr "tl2 to 1 s
months imprisonment as to Phipps.
Howard Joseph Pestick, 30,
btickmason. pleaded guilty to
drunken driving, four months on
roads, suspended one year on con
dition he pay I*oo fine and costs
(driver’s license automatically sue- j
pended for year); Henry D. San- (
derfora. 31, breaking and entering j
atsd larceny end receiving, one to j
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DR. J, H. JACKSON
. and Sister Catherine Leonard, prin
cipal, reported that “things are
i working out just fine." The children
formerly attended Our Lady of
Victory, a small mission school in
a Negro neighborhood.
Student boycott* which have
plagued two Warren County
Urban League
Conference
; Held In Ohio
DAYTON, Ohio-—A need to rec
ognize that the Urban League as .a
movement is “at war" against prej
udice discrimination was voiced at
the close of the National Urban !
i League Conferneec by Whitney M !
Young, Jr., executive director-elect
of the organization, last week
Mr. Young, who on Oct 1 will j
succeed Lester B. Granger in the j
post, the latter has held for twenty !
years, spoke at the annual banquet i
of the 361 NUL Conference, He ad
dressed s crowd of more than 500 |
that overflowed the facilities of the j
| banquet hall. More than 100 persons
| jammed the adjacent corridors to '
1 listen to the banquet speakers—Mr i
■ Roung; George L P. Weaver, assist
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State News
i
—IN—
Brief
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GIRL KILLED IN COLLISION
GOLDSBORO—Miss Rosa Ellen j
Fort, 17. of Goldsboro, Route 5, was
killed Saturday night on an unpav- ;
ed road in a heaa-on collision, 10 j
miles west of hero. She was ridinr I
in a ear driven by her father. Clin- j
ton Fort, when it collided with an |
auto operated by Marvin Goodwin | ‘
of the Raleigh Highway. Goodwin !
suffered a fractured leg and cuts |
on the forehead. His mother, Mrs. j'
B. C. Goodwin, a passenger, sui- | !
sered laceration of toe legs and j -
fact.
TRAVELING "wHISKET STILL j i
FOUN D | i
GARNER Highway Patrol- jj
.fCOWm!3Sr“6w PASS(t »
PROMINENT IN DETROIT
The Rev Mr ffnr.'. -= = tor of
M? Harmony Baptist Ovu: was
reputed]v the second i: ':ur N r --0
in Detroit
He owned a mortuarv. and an n
| surance and ioan firm oea. :.z his
! name.
j Highly aot-'-e jn chor-h -u-wh
j work, the Re 1 Mr Wricht is sur
\ ived by hi? - and - b whter
ELECTION DELAYED
THf. nb?'- ■■ " 'i ac]■■“•?s *■/*«•
nation because of 'he - ear-long dis
pute between Tati ; ■ ar.d d v lo:
; over the tr’f of p. -i -. ■ -?
[delayed fw ft • -
credentials tommy Dr A
I Holmes. p-’'v 0 i Ff'eo Baptist
| ChJMTh here mas ar-p'nr'e 1 m
[lion monitor by the Jac son counts
| court.
I Starting Thu - 'v- -■ ;■ • _ the elec-
I tion ended F; u ' ' u J s - Uh
j Jackson rec-.;v::u 2.T1.2 v ">-s to
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, Schools were *3:d to hv. e end
ed on Monday. Ateor-mig to
Supt. I. R Peeler, the Snijw
Hiii rural school which had
been boycotted in a campaign
for better school facilities has
been closed and the 45 ‘indents
transferred to the Hawkins
School, three miles away.
Peeler said that ail but one stu
j dent transferred by the Warren
| School Board from toe seventh and
eighth grades at the Afton-Elberon
School to the Macon School show
ed up for classes on Monday
An Indian couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Simmi Maynard were told that
they must continue to send their
five children to the Les Max veil
Indian School near Fayetievuie, to
1 which they must travel 7.-’ miles a
| day round trip The;, sought to
transfer them to Wade Elemental y
j School (Negroi t- o miles from
• their home in Dunn, near the Ear
-1 nett County line
In other parts of the nation, the
1 school integration picture was as
i follows:
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Workshop
Planned By
Laymen
Persons who attend toe Lay
| men's League Workshop, which will
i be held at the First Baptist Church
| Sunday at 7.30 p.m., ieel that it
: will prove quite interesting and
! should be helpful tc the city.
The meeting will be presided
over by D. M. Jarnigan. D R
Ingram will read the scripture and
C A Levister will pra'
The general topic. “Wrongs and
Remedies m Four Areas of Our
Lives' will be broken down into
lour sub topics. The first sub topic
deals with conditions in Domestic
and Family Life. This will be led
by Judge Mason Thomas.
Prof. Charles Robson, Department
of History, Shaw University, will
ieaa the discussion on Problems in
Human Relationship. Attorney
1 toll &Li v, m chair trie
panel on Conditions in National and
International Areas. This discussion
will cover practically every phase
of civic responsibility and civil
rights.
The Conditions in Spiritual
Areas, dealing with the churches,
will have M. E Brown as toe chief
panelist. The discussion will ex
plore the fact of striving for me
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