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ny. c OH” In ju s : fitim "o Football Star CORE MEMBERS PICKET REDSKINS Members of the Congress of Racial Equality picket the Washington Redskins during their football game with the New York Giants last week at District oi Columbia Stadium. The pickets are protesting the Washington Redskins' failure to hire Negro players. (VPI TELE PHOTO). Cop Killer Loses Plea To U.S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON’ The United States Supreme Court on Monday refused a hearing for Mc-Uott Faust. 12, sentenced to die for killing a Fharlotte policeman. NEW COUNCILMAN—Rev. E. R. Turner, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lumberton, who has been named by Mayor H. A. Hedgpeth to till unexpired term of Councilman AVade 11. Spearman, first Negro elected last spring to serve on the city’s governing body, who resigned last week because of physical inability. The new appointee, foi 14 years pastor of First BapUst. is a graduate of Shaw Univers ity, the Shaw Theological Semi nary and holds a master of the ology degree from Midwestern Graduate Theological School, Indianapolis. Indiana. Bids Opened For Biitmore School Bids for fhf B;!tmnif Hiils Elr mentary School, located on Ca'lo way Drive in Rochester Heights, were opened by the Raleigh Citv School Board on Tuesday. 1.. P. Cox and Company of San ford submitted the low bid of $245- •WO so" the general contract Other low bias were submitted (CONTtNCEO ON PACK 2) 51 College Students, Arrested For Picketing, Turn Down Bail KNOXVILLE. Term Fifty-one college students arrested for pic keting two downtown white movie theaters refused bond Tuesday and rocked the city jail with a choral rendition of Negro spiritual* One white man. identified a« Clarence Edward Riggs, also was arrested when the students appear ed suddenly in front of the the aters Monday night and blocked traffic or O' - -*' -• Kr'' , 7Tv*!? r ‘ s matn busines zthoroughfare. There «h no violence, but police said the mass picketing attracted “sightseers am) white boys —some of them itching i<* start something." The students listed their home address as Knoxvil) t College Dr Tames Colston, prclsdent of the j Counsel for Faust had asked the | court to review the July 1, 1960 | conviction, declaring that the state did not produce evidence of pre ! meditation of murder in the shoot 1 ing of Patrolman Johnny Annas. Annas was slain with fi bul lets from a serv ice gun after he and fetlow officer. Jack Bruce were disarmed trying to break up a knife fight in the Negro section of Charlotte on May 21, 1960. Unless Faust's lawyers try fur ther local proceedings or Governor Sanford grants executive clemency, Monday's decision means that Faust will die in the gas chamber. — School Transfer Petition Denied A petition of Gilbert Allen Hun *er to be transferred from. Saint Monica's School to the seventh grade- of Daniels Junior High School was denied by the Raleigh City School Board at its meeting ■ on Tuesday. Hunter ha: a sister at Daniels i and had applied once before but ; was asiened to Oborlin School. Ministers’ Session Opens NAACP State Conference GOLDSBORO—The annual con vention of the North Carolina Con ference of th< NAACP which open ed h< re on Thursday has a star i c tudded four-day program which ! will be climaxed on Sunday with an address by Roy Wilkins, national i secretary, who has just rounded out j 30 years with the organization A minirtf :'s conference opened the activities on Thursday under j the joint direction cf Dr. Grady D. i Da- is. dean of the Shaw Univer -ity School of Religion, and the Rev O. .! Odom of New York, na | iional church secretary. A banquet ! marked the close of the conference i day. The convention organisation meeting vtili be held on Friday morning at lft-30. at which time i Kelly M. Alexander, state presi j dent, will sddrcvx the delegates, i Friday afternoon will feature ■ college, said he knew in advance iof th« students action and approv i ed of it. | "They are young people trying jto secure thtir rightsf and they j went abixit it the way they felt , 5 tin ■i« »: -it™,. -.Cli-bCI lUl'ti—,—t tor llaleigh. beginning Thursday. O ioisti 22 and continuing through Monday, October IG, is as follows: Temper,uurtfc will average about two degrees above normal. Warm weather will be followed by cooler temperature*. begnslßg Friday and (onHnuing throughout she week end. 'There In a chance of Shower* on Thswliv sml again Saturday. I Normal blah ansi low temperatures ! will be Si end 51 degree*. BIAS A TTACKED A TAIRPOR T II II VOL. 20, NO. 51 If Hiiri li Srhool Bus Wreck Vehicle And Truck Crash At Whitakers WHITAKERS—A school bus, car tying pupils of Whitakers High School collided with a truck at a rural intersection near here on Thursday afternoc*. causing in juries—none critical —to 11 occu pants. Trooper W. C. Keeter said that the bus, driven by Kinchen Carl 'iayior, 17, was proceeding west on XC 44 when it was involved in a collision with a flat bed truck driv en by Bernice Williams, 32, oi War* renton. iayior, who received bruises and abrasions, was treated in Rocky Mount Sanitarium. Wil liams, along with his passen gers, Joel Reed, 29, and Jamea Johnson, 29, received bruise* and lacerations. They were treated at Enfield. Otuer bun occupants, all of Whit akers, receiving bruises and abras ions, were; Richard Jones. 13; Jas. Puree. 17; Lisa Pierce. 16; Billy Jones, 17; William Jones, 3rd, Id; (CONTINUE® ON PAGE 2) Williams Plans Radio Contact HAVANA. Cuba <ANPi—Robert F. Williams, integration leader who fled a? ost for the alleged kidnap ping of a white couple, has an nounced that he hopes to reach his fellow Negroes in the South with his thoughts through Fidel Castro's propaganda radio station. Williams, 36. of Monroe, N. C.. has been granted political asy lum in Cuba because American Negroes "are mistreated and persecuted as animals,” the gov (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) workshops on “Effective Branch Operations. Membership and Fund Raising," with Charles McLean, and "Developing Effective Youth Branch Committees" with Herbert L. Wright, National Youth Secre tary. Ruby Hurley will keynote the convention on Friday evening. Saturday sessions will feature such outstanding personalities as John M Brooks, National Voter Registration Director, Richmond, Virginia who will direct a work shop on "Legislation and Voter First Deputy Named WINSTON-SALEM Eld ridge D. Alston, 33-years-old newspaper de livery truck driver, has been nam ed Forsyth County's first Negro deputy sheriff, and is to assume hi* duties on Friday. would be best. - ' Colston said Knoxville College t* a private institution with 585 students. It i« affiliated with the Presbytcriar church. Knoxville and Knox County schools were desegregated a year agfo under a grede-a-year plan, and most downtown lunch counters and variety stoi es were desegregated last year after sit-in demonstra tions. The motion picture houses "however, remained segregated. “This is the first time anyone has been arersted," said the Rev W. T. Crutcher, who is eo-chalrmrin of the Associated Council for Full Citizenship. “We've bear, trying to negotiate with the theaters for the past five icwrmtwo on i'Aot. «> mssr. 't "!■ ssw,: . ezrr-r r.v’rer h ; •••'.- >=* • .-;Jaak, i j. |jj REST ROOMS AT AIRPORT —shown are the two rest rooms at the Raleigh-Durham Airport . which are designated for “white ASpi i men,” top photo, and "colored • ■*' men,” bottom photo. The racial : . ” designations have sparked the '■s£§s&s kd? % 1 B sending of telegrams to Presi- 5 * dent Kennedy urging him not i BwC-mfmi?.c.-MMi- a 1.". * J S to visit the state as he planned * I | Thursday. ; - . State News -IN— Brief 12 MONTHS FOR ASSAULT RALF.IFGH Herbert Coleman, 35, of 339 W. South Street, was sentenced on Thursday in City Court to 12 months on the roads on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Coleman, who is also awaiting trial on a first degree murder charge in the Sc*pt 17 knife death of Wiilie Watkins, 26, was sen tenced on charges of assaulting Tommy Guyton, of 616 S. East St., Aith a pistol on the night of the Watkins staying He has noted an (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z) Registration.'' Herbert Hill, Nation al Labor Secretary, will discuss “The Negro Wage Earner: Discrim ination and Opportunity in Employ ment' and will also address a spe cial Freedom Fund Dinner on Sat urday evening Attorney C. O. Pearson, Slate Legal Chairman, will direct a workshop on the Legal Program of the NAACP. Special fueit (CONTINUED ON PAOk i> SCENE AT RAPE TRIAL Pauline Kathleen Sims, 22, points to Anthony Thomas Davis (extreme right, in dark glasses) and identifies him as the man who taped her in her hotel room in a Dallas, Tex., hotel. Mtsa Sims, from London, England and a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) had been placed in the hotel by the NAACP after coming to Dallas to raise money tor CORE. (DPI TELEPHOTO). RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1961 Foster Heads College Fund NEW YORK—Dr. Luther H Fos ter, president of Tuskc-gee Institute, has been elected president of the United Negro College Fund Vic-prcsident since 1958, Dr. Fos ter succeeds Dr. Benjamin E Mays, president of Morehouse College, At lanta, as head of the national or ganization Fourth president of the Ala bama Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1831. Dr. Foster has guided Tuskegee increasingly in cooperation with America’s overseas projects. Dr. Foster completed undergrad uate study at two southern schools. Hampton Institute and Virginia State College. He earned his mas ter's degree at Harvard University and hi? Ph D. at the University of Chicago. (CONTINVeTT ON PAGE 2} Rest Rooms Segregated At Rafeigh-Durha m Airport A Negro youth group was told Tuesday by Raifieh-Durhatn Air port Manager Harry Boyd that rac ial discrimination is not practiced at the- facility. This statement was refuted, how ever, when a photograhper from The CAROLINIAN took pictures the same day of the rest, rooms at the facility marked “white men" and "colored men.” The Durham youth and col lege ehaptrrs of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People sent a telegram to President John I . Kennedy who is scheduled to arrive at the airport Thursday on his way to the University of North Carolina at Chape! Hill. "This airport has been a leader ;nd a pioneer in treating people without regard to race, color or creed Our philosophy has been ope of no discrimination " Boyd said. Segreealon -dens are posted on rest rooms because of state laws, the manager said “l know of no attempt to enforce then:.'’ he added. “The restaurant has served col ored people on the same basts that Church Turns Students Away ORANGEBURG, S. C -“Go wor ship with your people.” These were the words which greeted two students from Claflin College <Methodist) when they at tempted to attend services at the Central Methodist Church on Sun day. An unidentified man who met them at the church entrance utter ed the words as she barred their entry Later, Orangeburg Mayor Clyde S Pair came out of the church and confirmed the refusal. The students were not identified. 2 Firms, State Agency Face Discrimination Charges WASHINGTON—Charges of ra cial discrimination against six pri vate companies, a labor union arid a state agency—-three in North Car oiin—were filed Tuesday with the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Supporting the eight complaints brought by the National Association for the Advancement, of Colored People, were 30 affsdavits signed by persons who claimed they were discriminated against, because of iheir rare if has served whites since 1946 or 1347. I believe." Boyd continued. A large number of telephone calls followed the telegram to Kennedy. The director of the Federal Avia tion Agency was one of the callers (CONTINUED ON PAGE/ 2> Sweet Daddy’s Successor Says Election Legal WASHINGTON (ANPi - Elder Walter McCullough, who contends he is the rightful successor to the late Be hop Charles M (Daddy' Grace, has appealed District Court Judge George Hart's order invali dating his election The notice of appeal from the order was filed last week by Attor ney F:-ank Reeves. fudge Hart found the election illegal recently, ordered a new one and appointed William P. Bryant, attorney, as receiver of the ebnrch Ihe United House of Prayer for Ail People of the Church on the Rock of the Apo stolic Faith. Issues Restraining Order The judge also issued an injunc tion restraining Elder McCullough and others from holding themselves out to be the head of the church pending a new election. At the time of the judge's ruling, attorneys for Elder McCullough and 11 elders, indicated that they planned to file- the appeal. Meanwhile, there ‘till pends for disposition a petition filed by Elder John W. McClure, through his attorneys, King David and Julius Robertson, asking that Elder McCullough (CONTINUED ON PAGE TO Named in the complaint* were Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., Durham; Douglas Aircraft Co., Charlotte and the North Carolina Stale Employment Se curity Commission, at Durham. Also named were the Atlantic Coast. T ine Railroad and the St Louis-San Francisco Railroad Co., the Brotherhood of Railroad Tram men: the Western Electric Co.. Nashville. Term., and AVCO Man ufacturing Corpoßation, Nashville Tenn. Separate racial seniority line* at the Liggett A Myers plant restrict employment opportunities, accord ing to complaint? filed bv 32 Negro •ordoyce- Similar objections were filed against Douglas Aircraft. The complaint against the N C State Security Commission charg ed that the commission would not accept a Negro worker’s application tor a job "open to white workers only," CAROLINIAN - ADVERTISERS - PAGE 2 Horton Cash Grocery Capital Bargain Store PAGE 3 Casco (Solomon Bevis) Electrical Wholesaler*. Inc. Fisher Wholesale Company Tire Sales &• Service PAGE .■> Kfird's (A Division of Hudson Relk> Mechanics & Farmers Bank Thomas Food Market Public Ferule? Co. of v. C.. Inr. PAGE 6 Conso'.nlated Credit Corporation Smith Coa? * Oil Company S. M. Voung Hardware Company Carolina Power A Light Company PAGE 7 Auto Bi-xount Company FACE X Colonial Stares C Kail nightman ft K, Qtitan Furniture Co, First fifteens Bank «s Trust Co Tire D!f;irth»itors Taylor Radio & TV Service S v ' J * *, : In ?• >■’ M ri F F I ip it. I?, F WILLIAM FOSTER . dies after accident Grid Injury F. | ®g« atal io Siriiii Star CHARLOTTE A sophomere student at Johnson C. Smith Uni versity succumbed on October 5 to injuries received in football practice two we.'its earlier William Foster, a five foot, fen inch, 186 pound Guard, from lndtanola. Pennsylvan ia suffered an injury from a freak accident when he made a tackle and fell on an other player's heel on Septem ber 26. His condition was not considered serious, hut he was committed to the hospital for observation. He remained in the hospital two weeks under treatment and died unexpect edly on Thursday. Funeral . vice • were held at the Unvcrsitj for a sorrowing (CONTIM KD ON PAGE 2l PRICE 15c ODDS-ENDS BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD Christ said Give you them lo eat." 11!F GOVERNOR SPEAKS It -hmilQ be heartt ' leg 'o all the citizens of North Carolina that Governor Sanford ha.- < -on fit to •peak out agau.-t the pa!lorn of employment npportunp'.es in tils state which the majority of the state’s Negro citizen are denied the chance to earn a decent living. The govfinor, peaking at a news conference in R„l<; ;h last week, did not label this employment de nial ns job discrimination. There v.realty r.i< ru-r o' foi hi . to do so Hi* appeal lor a more equal distribution of employment In this state was directed to those w ho profess to he interested la the economic advancement of North Carolina The governor wisely pointed out the impos sibility of this aisle ever realis ing It? economic potential white one-fourth of It* citizen* weeo denied the opportunity of mak ing their fullest eontrlhniion because of their inability to se cure gainful employment. It is significant that Gov Sanford did not align hirnsclf with the mis guided group w’en frequently ex press a desire for the creation ot a type of Indus*vy suitable for Ne gro employment. In asking for a (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) PAGE 9 ; AAP Food Stores Capital 're A coal Company. Inc. Branch Banking A: Trust Co ; Firestone Sti res New Biltmore Utils Beauty Salon j PAGE 10 ! Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Raleigh i Watson's Seafood &. Poultry Co.. Ine. I Dillon Motor Finance Co. ’ Seven-Up Bottling Company i CeroHna Builder? Corp Ridgeway’s Opticians, Inc. i Bioodworth St Tourist Home : Deluxe Hotel Warner Me., trial* 1 PAGE 16 - Acme Realty Company | Dunn’s Esso Service I Hunt Genera! Tire Company 1 Pig Ely Wiggly Raleigh Seafood Company Raleigh Funeral Home Raleigh Savings A Loan Am’R i Rhodes Furniture Company 1 Lincoln Theatre
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