Local Boy
Drafted By
Cleveland
Grid Team
Word reached here Wednesday
that Charles i Bobo) Hir.ton, form
er Ligon High School great, had
been drafted by the Cleveland
Browns, off of North Carolina’s
campus and that Lou (The Toe)
Gro7.a was in Durham Tuesday to
offer him a contract that was in
the neighborhood of $15,000 per
annum.
Groza told a
luncheon meet
ing that the man
agement of the
Browns had
watched Hinton
for sometime and
when his name
came up the sec
ond time, they
claimed him. It
is understood
that he is also
being sought by
HINTON.
the Dallas team ana also a Cana
dian club. Both are said to ready
to raise the ante.
Hfnton, the Ith player to be
plucked from Coach Herman
Riddick’s flock of Eagles, is
rated to be one of the top play
ers of the college teams and is
expected to give a good ac
count of himself wherever he
goes.
He plays tackle. He w ill gradu
ate from the Durham school in
June, where he has majored in
physical education.
Absence
Halts Trial
SMITHFIELD—The long arm of
the law failed to reach out far
enough to bring in three wtnesses
in the trial of Clarence Terry, who
is charged in a rape-burglary case,
so that the case could begin in
Superior Court, Tuesday morning.
The three witnesses were list
ed as Hedrick Corbett, Earl
George and Robert Brunson,
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Death Comes To Pair
In Lovers Lane Auto
LOUISBURG—One dare not at
tempt to predict the text that the
Rev. A. L. Morgan took Wednes
day when he delivered the eulogy
for John Johnson, local tavern
keeper, who was found dead in his
car Saturday afternoon after hav
ing been overcome with fumes
from a bad muffler, at the funeral
Wednesday, held at the First Bap
tist Church.
One can venture to say that
he did not use, “The wages of
sin are death and the gift of
God is eternal life". Mrs. Ophe
lia Johnson, the widow, told
the CAROLINIAN' that she was
of the opinion that it was a case
of what she thought was a “lit
tle cheating - ' on the part of her
husband, with another woman,
Mrs. Esther Lewis, who also
succumbed to the ill-fated
fumes.
Hunters, who came upon the car
with the glasses tightly closed and
the engine running and the heater
going, told investigating officers
that they found the woman in the
back s/at unconscious and the man
dead at the wheel. The.woman was
not dead, but was given little
chance to recover and died at a lo
cal hospital Saturday night.
Mrs. Johnson, who had been
married to Johnson for 35
years, said that she reached the
vicinity of the car just in time
INTEGRATIONISTS BEATEN Pmi Negro mtegrationista wen beaten by a group of
white wen at the- bm station in McComb, Miss., last week. A special federal court recently order
ed the terminals integrated. The three men and two women were dragged from the terminaTs
white waiting room after sitting at a lunch counter. The man being thrown around hare wm head
ed tot a taxi. (JJPI TELEPHOTO).
LguJ. b Jille , Ky» cora^
Charlotte’s Finest
Restaurants Mix
LOVERS PERISI
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VOL. NO. 21. NO. 7
Segregation
Falls At
Queen City
CHARLOTTE —lt has been re
ceived by the believers in the
Christian religion that the pray
ers of Che righteous availeth much.
This verse of the great was made
a reality here when local restau
rants lowered the barriers that
kept Negroes from their tables.
The movement took form when
it was announced that a trade fair
was going to be held here. Civic
minded people wrote President
Kennedy, conferred with the may
or and many other people on open
ing the city to all persons.
They pointed out that there
would be people of many col
ors and that it did not add up
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to see them bringing the bodv
of her husband out. The car
was said to have been parked
in a wooded section of a road
which led to Mitchiner’s Pond,
located about 5 miles from
town. It was not learned how’
long it had been there, but he
was last seen about 1 o’clock
Saturday morning.
Mrs. Lewis is said to have been
not too well in recent days and
had been in and out of the hos
pital. Johnson is also survived by
one brother, Charlie Henry, who
lives fit Mebane and a daughter,
Mrs. Johnnie Williams of New
York City. Mrs. Lewis’ funeral was
scheduled for Thursday. She is al
leged to have some children sur
viving.
WEATHER
T T
The five-day weather forecast
for Raleigh, beginning Thursday.
December 7lh, and continuing
through Monday, December Jlth,
as follows:
Temperatures will average 4 to
3 degrees below normal. It will
be warmer Friday and colder Sat
urday and Sunday Monday is ex
pected to he cooler. There will be
tittle or no precipitation during
the period. Normal high and low
temperatures will be SS and S 4 de
grees.
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1961
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GREETED BY FRIENDS 22-year-old Jerome Smith, one of the five Negroes who was
beaten by a group of white men at the bus terminal in McComb, Miss., last week is pictured at left
with bandages on his face as he is greeted by friends shortly after fas arrival via bus at a New Or
leans bus station. ( UPI TELEPHOTO').
€ 'rutnp'jAeqmiitMi If §§ Judge*
Receives Stistfjinij Rebuke
Church Case
Postponed
By Jurist
The much-heralded trial of the
quabble between Bev. Mrs. Mable
Gary Philpot and officials of the
AME Zion Church, which was re
turnagle before Judge William
Bickett in Wake Superior Court
room, Tuesday morning had to be
postponed until a later date, due
to the fact that the sitting-judge
was not present and Attorney Her
man L. Taylor was not available.
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Willie J. Crump, well-known in
Raleigh, was acquitted by Judge
Pretlow Winborne Friday on char
ges of assaulting a policeman and
disarming him of his pistol, in City
Court, for his alleged part, in the
Memorial Auditorium melee, Oc
tober 30.
He was the fourth person to
he tried for the all-out distur
bance that has caused the city
officials to take the second look
at dances being staged at the
auditorium. The defense put
several witnesses on the stand
and succeeded in proving to
Judge Winborne that Crump
did not commit the acts for
which he had been charged.
Arthur Williams proved to be the
chief witness for the state, but his
evidence was torn down by City
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Monroe Defendant Promised Aid
MONROE—Conrad Lynn, counsel
for the Committee to Aid the Mon
roe Defendants today (Saturday*
made public a demand that Attor
ney General Robert Kennedy re
vealed the current status of the
State News
—IN—
Sriefs
SOLDIER DIES. WIFE CHARGER
WILMINGTON—Mrs. Mary Lou
ise Stephenson, 26, has been charg
ed with the murder of her soldier
husband, Joseph E. Wood, 27, ac
cording to police. The Fort Bragg
paratrooper died early Friday at
James Walker Memorial Hospital
from a single stab wound in the
chest, according to reports.
HIT AND RUN DRIVER
KILLS MAN
SCOTLAND NECK—Louis Law
rence, *2, became the second hit
and run fatality in Halifax County
in less than a month when he was
Struck down about 5 a.m. Sunday.
The mangled body was found by a
passing motorist.
The victim suffered broken bones
in both arms and legs, a crushed
chest and part of his head was
gone, said State Patrolman W. L.
Murphy.
MORE N. C. STUDENTS
ENROLLING
RALEIGH More and more
fiKWTINUKB'oN’ PAGE S>
2 Lawyers
Awaiting
Sentence
GREENSBORO Two Raleigh
lawyers, S, S. Mitchell and Her
man L. Taylor, were among the
mapy defendants who faced Judge
Edwin M. Stanley in U. S. Middle
District Court here Monday.
Lawyer Mitchell plead guilty
to failure to file returns with
in lawful time limits for the
(CONTINUED ON PACT 2)
FBI investigation of the near-fatal
beating of Freedom Rider Richard
Griswold in the Union County jail.
000 S-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
“Those who govern should
govern wisely.”
NO ANARCHY, JUDGE!
During the recent trial of a Ne
gro man charged with assault upon
a white policeman during a flare
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CAROLINIAN !
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Thomas Food Market
PAGE 3
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Tire Sales & Service
Brook’s Appliance Co.
Firestone St- res
Pine State Creamery Co.
PAGE 3
lfut!son-Belk Eftrd’s
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
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Village Pharmacy
PAGE 7
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Auto SBscount Company
Weaver Brothers Rambler
! Buna's Esso Service
■First Citizens Bank ft Trust Co.
•Johnson-Lam be Company
PAGE 8
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R E. Quinn Furniture Co
Taylor Radio & TV Service
C Karl Uchtnas
PAGE 9
A&P Pood Stores
'American Credit Company
Business
Meeting
Closes
in 0. C.
WASHINGTON North
Carolina businesses were repre
sented at the Small Business Con
ference held in the St&tler-Hilton
Hotel Thurday, Friday and Satur
day,
It was called by the Department
of Commerce and the Small Busi
ness Association, in tire hope that
a clear “image" of what small
business is like and what, it needs
could be drawn.
Commerce Secretary, Lu
ther Hodge*, opened the meet
with a banquet address on
Thursday night. He laid much
stress on the vast market that
the new African countries re
presented and told the audi
ence that the United States
must use every avenue of its
resources to solicit this mar
ket. He told the business peo
ple that they had much to of
fer and forget them to make
every effort to become a part
of the effort being made to
attract this market.
Banker Lorimer Milton. Atlan
ta, Ga., was the keynote Speaker
Friday morning and discussed the
matter of capital to finance Ne
gro businesses. He dwelt on the
fact that too many Negro busi
nesses failed to really study the de
tails of a business and therefore
wtre failure before they began the
business. He stressed the fact that
|
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Raleigh
■Host To
NC Masons
a North Carolina Prince Hal! Ma
sons will open its official session
Tuesday noon at Shaw University.
Clark S. Brown. Grand Master,
Winston-Salem, will preside. One
thousand delegates and visitors are
expected to attend.
Governor Terry Sanford wil!
he the featured speaker at the
public service held Tuesday
evening in the new Recrea
tional Center at Chavis Park.
It wilt be the first, time in the
history of Prince Hail Masons
that the governor has address
ed an annua! communication.
The invitation to Governor San
ford. Mr. Brown said, was designed
to bring the governor and Prince
Hail Masons closer together and t®
better acquaint them with the am
bitions and concepts of each other.
He praised the governor for having
appointed several Negroes to
boards and declared that, this ar
gured well for more favorable con
sideration on the part of the gov
ernor if these appointees served
well in tiheir positions Mr. Brown
was recently appointed to mem
bership on the hoard of director*
of Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege.
The Lodge of Sorrow', under the
direction of The Reverend A C.
Cooke, will be held Monday eve
ning in the University Church,
with the Rev. D. J. Marrow, grand
chaplain, delivering the eulogy.
Music for the service will be ren
dered by the Masonic and Eastern
Star's combined choirs. Mrs. Celia
J. Wortham will direct the choirs.
Widow Son No. 4, the fourth
oldest Prince Hall Lodge in
North Carolina, of which Sam
uel Boyd is the worship master,
will he constituted a* an Oc
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 81
PRICE 15c
Lynn indicated that the tim
ing of the committal of self
confessed assailant Howard
Stack to a mental institution
shows an obvious attempt on
the part of local authorities to
sidetrack the investigation of
possible civil-rights infringe
ment
Lynn, well-known civil-rights
lawyer, based these charges on
oral statements of Warden Reid of
the Union County jail in Monroe,
North Carolina, that the alleged
"fit. of insanity” occuring in the
course o fthe FBI investigation was
a police-staged "fake” designed to
make it appear that Stack was in
sane at the time he attacked the
young Freedom Rider in his ceil.
Branch Banking Sc Trust Co
Hunt General Tire Company
PAGE 1®
Pepsi-Coia Battling Co of Raleigh
Watson’s Seafood & Poultry Co„ tot.
Billon Mot-' Finance Co.
Seven-Up Bottling Company
Carolina Builders Corp.
Ridgeway’s Opticians, Inc.
Bloodworth St. Tourist Slor-e
D 'tX* Hotel
Warner Memorial*
PAGE 11
Mechanics ft Farmer* Bonk
Capital Ice A Coal Company, Inc.
Public Service Co. of N. C., Inc,
PAGE IK
Electrical Wholesalers, toe.
PAGE 13
Lincoln Theatre
PAGE IS
McLeod, Watson A Lanier
PAGE I®
Piggly Wiggly
Rhodes Furniture Company
8. M. Voting Hardware Company
Acme Realty Company
Raleigh Seafood Company
Raleigh Funeral Korn®
World In Pictures
The men shown above are members of the Past Master’s Council
of the I2th district. Prince Hall Masons of N. C. They will be host to
the 91st session of the Grand Lodge next week.
A scene at McComb, Miss, where five freedom riders were badly
beaten and dragged from a bus terminal, when they tried to make
democracy work as proclaimed by the constitution.
Dr. Alphonse Elder. North Carolina College, is telling the new of
} ficers of the N. C. Conference of Negro Colleges what, their duties are,
| They will administer the affairs of the organization tor one year.
Bubbles proved the real element in showing the vivacious Beryl
Cunningham in the bath tub in Rome. She is enjoying a bath, taken
as relaxation from her busy schedule as a law student, London Univ.
The picture on the left shows a handler working with one of the
S chimps that are readying for orbit, The picture on the right shows
ROTC Major L. D. Spencer, telling A&T College goodbye, as he retire*.
African educators who toured the campus of Shaw University re
cently. They talked with members of the student body and the faculty.
They are said to have had an interesting visit at the Baptist Institution,
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The activities of the track dd not stop the fanned track star Wttsta
Rudolph from choosing a husband, she Is shown here with her mat®,
1 William Ward, worn she married secrete!?, in Franklin Tena,