DOTH CLAIMS 2 0T STATE'S LEADERS
FIRST OF RACE AT GA. TECH. — Three Negro students,
the first to enter previously all-white Ga. Tech, leave the infirm
ary at. Ga. Tech, after their physical examinations. All newsmen
were barred from the Ga. Tech, campus by Ga. Tech. President
Edwin Harrison. The integration of the university was without
incident. (VPI TELEPHOTO).
Rites For Mrs. Aggrey
2P. M. Thors. !n Salisbury
.. '-aw* -
MISS YARBROUGH
Ligon Girl
Passes 1 st
Merit Test
Principal Herbert E Brown of
l W Ligon High announced Wed
nesday, that Marilyn Yarbrough a
'anior, has beer, given recognition
for her high achievement !n the
initial gtage of the seventh annual j
National Merit Scholarship compe- j
tition.
She has been named semifinalist 1
n the 1961-152 Merit Program as a i
result of her outstanding perform- !
ance on the National Merit Sehol- j
#rship Qualifying Te<u.
Sh* ranks aiming approxf- I
iwatclv 1ft,1)9 seniors through- j
nut the country who attained
semifinalist status through their
high wire* on the qualifying
examination, a test of ednra- i
tinnai development given last I
March in more than 15.00!) high
schools.
Tbs semifinalist group is com- |
nosed of the highest scoring sttt- 1
dents in each state United j
States territories Each semifinal- !
ist now mme* a step closer to win- I
nine a four -ear Merit Scholarship 1
to the cohere of hir. choice
The annual progr .ro jg conducted j
bv the National Merit Scholarship |
Coroporntion. a non-profit organi- 1
ration. Its president .John M 'Sirs!
""his nation's future fntel
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Editor improves
Charies Jones, managing editor I
of the Carolinian who was taken j
to Wake Memorial Hospital Mon- i
lifiy fencing n sudden h* 1
his home, was reported much better j
and resting comfortably at Carolin
ian press time Wednesday.
Dr. James Thomas, attending
physician, said that Mr. Jones had
responded favorably to treatment.
The physician said that, barring
any unforseen development, Mr. j
v fones should be released from the j
(hospital within the next several 1
! SALISBURY Funeral rites
for Mrs. Rose Douglas Aggrev are
scheduled to be held from Sol
dier's Memorial A M E Zion
Church, Thursday. 2 p m. noth
Rev. a. E. White presiding and
Bishop W J Walls delivering the
eulogy.
Mia Aggrey .succumbed to an
ex-end-d i!irv<G Monday after
noon . m the Rowan Memorial hos
pital She had been in declining
health ‘or sometime and spent the
past two weeks in the hospital.
She was born in Portsmouth
Va . and received her early edu
cation at the Chestnut Street Ara
d< my She received her bachelor’s
decree from Shaw University and
did further study at Hampton In
stitute and Columbia University j
She had an extended career as
a teacher and supervisor of edu- 1
cation She taught in Virginia and
Livingstone College Tn 1927. she
became Jeanes Supervisor of Ro
won County.
She married Dr James E. K.
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MRS. AGGREY
Ipl ANNOUNCES TFANK OF
m 1 1.Epipp Sf^°rS7r Ts JTa a ‘
jjfc? ustine-B Collie hi shown *n»ktat
81 *aiMwn«ni*iit on Mo«day tb#i
|g| Episcopal Cl.nrcn has riven the
f| CoUtte f 150,960 for a HerJth
P Fins Arts Center. iGrattorinw).
■ TM* ImSldinr will he swefl for
S eon vocations, iyeeum prnjrtmt,
*nd for the health and physical
* def * 4,Wl prostTain. The United
Thank Offcrfej fe eteen fey ta®
t ■ k'^m women of the Ej»teco|#*U Church.
Kidnaper Os Girl, 19, is Captured
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VOL. 20, NO. 49
Hall Execaiion Os Boy
Ex-Convict
Nabbed In
{Farm House
ROXBORO A 32--year-old
i man, an ex-convict, accused of
kidnaping a 19-year-old girl and
threatening to kill her during a
I four-day flight from the law was
apprehended here last week.
The wounded, kidnaped girl,
| Ruby Brandon was with the want
j eo man, Sam Evans when two dep
uties nabbed him after he alleged
ly broke into a tenant house to
steal food and clothing.
The girl said Evans hit her
with a shotgun, threatened to
kill her and forced her to have
intimate relations with him
during their four days of hid
ing out. according to Person
County Sheriff C. C. Hole
man.
Holeman said he had charged
Evans with assault with a deadly
weapon in the shooting of the girl
and that other charges wouid be
brought.
MAS FARM WORKER
Evans who worked on the farm
of Harbret. Bray 14 miles north of
Roxboro. hud been the obiect of a
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IC r Orders Ban
On Bus Jim Crow
' -
WASHINGTON—RaciaI disc-rimt- i
nation on interstate buses or in j
their terminal facilities was out
lawed here Friday by the Interstate
i Commerce Commission.
Acting on a petition filed May
29 by Atty. Gen Robert F Kenrie-
I dy, the commision published rules
: which:
1. Forbid interstate bus opera
| tors from segregating seating on
the basis of race, color, creed or
national origin.
2 Prohibit interstate buses from
segregating seating on the basis of
race, color, creed or national origin.
3. Prohibit interstate buses from
using terminals where waiting
rooms, rest rooms, lunch counters
and other facilities are segregated
on such a basis.
Kennedy's petition was submitted
to the ICC 15 days after s fire
bomb was thrown. into a busload
of "Freedom Riders' on May 14
near Anniston, Ala
Gets $12,500 Post j
ST. LOUIS (ANP)-Mayor Ray
mond R. Tucker last week appoint
ed Chester E Stovall, 55, director
of welfare He is the first Negro
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THREATENED BY OLD ZONING LAW Mrs. Pml
Gierman ( center) is threatened with prosecution under a 40-year
old zoning law that prohibits two families from living rn a one
family house. Mrs. Gierman, in a church-sponsored program rook
in Mrs. Elizabeth Masingila, 23, of Kenya (right), and her son.
Jack, five months. (VPI TELEPHOTO).
State News j
-•IN
Brief
NEW READER SERVICE
The Richard B. Harrison Public
Library has a SRA Reading Ac- ,
celerator which may be borrowed J
for the purpose of helping adult I j
readers Improve their reading a- j
bility.
The Reading Accelerator pro- !
vides a reading situation in which
a moving shuttle travels at a con
stant rate down * page of printed
material. The shuttle may be ad
justed for different speeds, de
pending on the material being
read and on the individual's abil
ity to read at the beginning of the
training period.
This new service should serve as
an incentive for patrons to cul- ;
fclvate good reading habits, encou- ;
rage good phrasing, effective eye :
movements and increase the span
of peception.
* * * »
YWCA CONDUCTS HEALTH
CLUB
The Sojourner Truth Branch, j
YWCA, announces the opening of :
Ite new health club at the "Y” ex- :
tension, 427 S. Blount Bt. Classes
will be held each Wednesday eve
ning beginning at. 8-99 p. m
Among the many health i
i
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—CAROLINIAN - ■ - - -
ADVERTISERS
—“— '^ssssssssssr" —” Bm FROM them
PAGE S
JSortca Cash Grocery
Joe Murnick Promotion
Thomas Pood Market
Lincoln Theatre
PAGE *
Mother & Daughter
Standard Concrete Products Co.
B. F. Goodrle’
PAGE 4
S???:!tMJi!-B?!!c’
Fisher Wholesale Company
Mechanics 4c Farmers Bank
PAGE S
Carolina Power & Light Company
S ft!. Toiiiig Hardware Company
Capita! *ce A Coal Company, Inc,
€a*eo {Soloujob Be vis)
PAGE 7
Sanders Motor Company (Used Cars)
Weaver Brother* Company
Auto Discount Company
Siet tries! WSasJeaalers, inc.
PAGE g
Cdloßlai Stores
C. Mjst} t-Jefemuts
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1961
Nashville
Pickets Rib
Gov. Sanford
Governor Terry 7 Sanford of
North Carolina was one of the 17
governors singled out by Negroe
pickets at the opening session of
the Southern Governors Confer
ence being held in Nashville,
Tenn. this week.
Negro pickets carrying pla
cards which signified their dis
approval of the racial stands
which several Southern Gov
ernors have taken in their
respective states.
The sign directed at Gov. San
ford read. "Remember Monroe.”
This obviously had reference ‘‘to
the recent racial disturbances in
Monroe, N. C. which ended with
Robert Williams, militant Monroe
Negro, escaping with a fugitive
from justice tag hanging over his
head.
Other placards carried by the
pickets were directed toward the
state civil rights practices in
South Carolina, Alabama. Missis
sippi and the other southern
states.
SUPPORT UNITED
FUND!
I Tire Distributors
.Taylor Radio & TV Service
First Citizens Ban!-; & Trust Co.
|R. 52 Quinn Furniture Co,
IPAOE 8
!AiP Food Stored
; Branch Banking it Trust Co
! PAGE 18
| Pepsi Cots Bottling Co. of ftaleich
i Wiisw a’d Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc.
1 Dillon Motor r luaace Co.
i Seven-lip Bottling Company
j Carolina Builders Corp.
j Ridgeway’* Opticians, Inr.
! Blootiworth St. Tourist Home
j Deluxe Hotel
] Warner Memorial*
[PAGE 5i
i A rme Realty Company
j Dunn’s Esso Service,
i Hunt Genets! Tire Company
i finely Wisely
! Lawrence Brothers Company
j Raleigh Stained Company
1 Kaieigli Funeral Soarn
NAACP Strategy Gains
Postponement, Oct. 6
ATLANTA (ANP>—A fast, stra- ■
tegic move by the NAACP last
week saved the life of a 15-year-old j
Monticello (Ga.) boy scheduled to j
die in the electric chair Friday :
(Sept. 22) for killing a 70-year-old
white farmer.
The postponement followed a
motion filed by the NAACP for
a new trial which will be held
on October 6. The Association's
motion was grounded on an on
the-spot investigation which re
vealed that:
1. No Negro has served on a jury
in Jackson County, where the crime
was committed and trial held, for j
more than 40 years.
2 The court-appointed, attorney
failed to raise pertinent constitu
tional issues.
3. There is a possibility that per- |
sons other than trie young boy were
involved m the murder.
The slaying took place in Monti- -
cello. Ga,, following « quarrel last j
June between Preston Cobb and |
Local Ass n
To Continue
“Boycott”
The Raleigh Citizens Association
at its mid-month meeting held at
the Bloodworth St,. YMCA Thurs
day evening. Sept 21. decided to i
continue its campaign of "selective |
buying" which was begun here last 1
spring. This campaign was direct
ed against chain food stores.
Taking notice of the fact that al
though some minor gams were
made, the effort to have Negroes j
refrain from making purchases, in j
chain, food stores which refused to
up-grade Negro employees had not !
been successful, it was decided that
a new approach to this problem I
was doubtless needed.
. I
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HAACP Plans Slain ,?f«w
GOLDSBORO The Oodsboro
Branch, N.AAOP, Is making all- i
out, preparations for the annual
convention of the N. C. Confer
ence of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
Pec-pie (NAACP) which meets here
October 12-15.
This will mark the first meeting
of the civil rights body in this city
and the first in Eastern Tarheelia
in several years.
State president Kelly M. Alexan
der. Charlotte, and Charles A. Mc-
Lean, Winston-Salem, field secre
tary, have announced a full four-
ODDSEHDS
BY ROBE«T G. SHEPARD
•*Thon wili keep him fn per
fect peace whose mind is staid
on Thee.”
SENSIBLE AND REALISTIC
The recent request of the Civil
Rights Commission for faster ac
tion on the school desegregation
problem is both sensible and re
alistic.
Almost 8 years have gone by
since the U. S. Supreme Court said
that segregation in the public
schools was unconstitutional and
called for its end. Yet in spite of
that ruling, only a fragment of
this segregation has been ended.
The idea now proposed by the
rights commission that each state
where school segregation exists
submit a desegregation plan to the
federal courts within (5 months will
certainly mean an eventual end of
this un-American evil. It is note
worthy that the commission in this
<.v, vv approach u- recognizing 2nd
calling for an end to school segre
gation to schools in the North,
South, East and West. This is note
worthy because this vicious and
undemocratic practice in one form
or another is carried on in every
region in this country.
It is to be hoped and prayed for
that the Congress will speedily a
(COKXIffS}EO*oj7 FACIE 2}
Frank Coleman Dumas, the white
farmer.
FOUND GUILTY IN 45 MINUTES
An all-white, all-male jury' de
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Ask N. C. Scions
To Support
Marshall
WASHINGTON —Senators Sam
H Ervin and B Everette Jordan
of North Carolina have been asked
by Kelly Alexander, chairman of
the state NAACP, to vote for the
confirmation of Thurgood Marshall
as a member of the Second U S.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Marshal! was nominated Satur
day' by President John F Kennedy
just, as Congress headed into the
closing hours of its 1961 session
(coNTi? talon page z>
ATTORNEY MARSHALL
! day program beginning with thp
i ministers' conference Thursday,
October 12, under the .toint direc
tion of Dr. Grady D Davis. Shaw
'University School of Religion,
dean, and the Rev O J. Odom.
New York., national NAACP church
'^ t , ,
CHANGES SIGN Metropolitan Opera Soprano Lucira
Amara end four youngsters (left to right: Roberto Garcia. 6;
Charles Selig. 10, Sheryl Sullivan, 11 and Kenneth Lee, 101
change Times Square sign to Inter faith Square. This is in prepa
ration for Inierfaith Day ceremonies on the 30th Annual Inter
faith Day., Sunday. Sept. 24 at the Mall in Central Park. Sidnei
Z. Seartes, president. Interfaith Movement, Inc., announced tb*
I Interfaith convocation will be a memorial to the late Secretary
general of the UN, Dag Hammarskjotd. Mayor Wagner will pro
claim Interfaith Day at City Hall on Friday, Sept , 22nd, at 10:1 s
A. M.
Funeral Held
Tuesday
! WILMINGTON—Historic S' Ste
, pkens AME Church was bedecked
I in mourning, the high, the low. the
| rich the poor, the halt and the
| Isme came to common grief here
\ Monday when the ;-?t rites were
i held for the churchman, the frater
i nal brother, the humanitarian and
the commoner. Di. George Downs
i Carnes, Tuesday, 2 pm
1 The Rev C L Su-phons. ;.. ui
. elder of the Wiimmgtor. Di»-
j trict, was in charge of the last sad
j rites and d:s; layed a sombre ex
i pression that toid the huge audi
! cnee. which filled every space m
i the church. That one of the Tail
j cedar of Lebanon" had her;; t ;t
1 down.
Due T o the prominence of the
I ceased, both in cnurch and state,
j many persons journeyed to the port
I city to pay their last respect. Speak
-ler after speaker extolled him for
h:s virtues -ir.d lamented tit' fact
that he was no more The opening
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rtF CAF NFS
Man Held On
Two Charges
Os Forgery
Probable cause in the char:® of
forgery was found against Jnsepo
Smith. 33. of 1022 Walnut Ten ■'
after he had received a pv"lin ■
ary hearing from a local Justice
|of the Ppace.
Smith was charged w>ih two
separate counts of forgery. H- is
alleged to have forged the nan - '
of Luther Wilson of Bern, . d S>
on a check m the amount of
. 50. He is also charged with :>• . .n :
the name of Charles R. Wi'eou of
[Strain Street, to a check m the
amount of $47.50.
Constable W. H Emorv. who
Smith .tailed under $! .000 hope
Smith was bound ovc- bv >he Jus
tice of the Peace for trial
i Wake Superior Court
PRICE 15c
secretary The ministers wui be
feted at a banquet a!, the close of
their conference dav.
The convention organization
w ill be held on F riday morn -
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