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First Negro Prexy Os Inter racial Group:
REVWAI SCLER ;Y
Baptist
Minister
Heads
Group
Raleigh passed another milestone
in race relations here this week
when Rev. C W. Ward, pastor. First
Baptist Church, was elected to head
the •Raleigh Ministerial Association,
t.t interracial orgaruzation.
Christian circles hailed it as a
major step in bridging the gap that
has separated the two races. There
are those who feel that the church
is the place to recognize men and
measures first and say that when
this practice becomes the rule that
the capital will ire a better place
in which to live.
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REV. C. W. W ARD
They point to the fact, that many
o' the white churches have failed
to recognize the ancient principle
of the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. They relate
the fact that a white man walked
out of a ioca l white church, with
a bible in his hand and told two
would-be race worshippers that he
v. ould like to see them on the
streets of Raleigh and he would
use his truck to run them down.
Otner officers elected were: Rev
George Hale. St Timothy Episcopal
Church, vice-president; Rev. Col
lins Kilburn. United Church, secre
tary; Rev. Frank K. Bastian. First
Evangelical Reform Church, treas
urer. The executive committee is
composed of Rev. D. S. Leader,
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THROWN OUT CORE rntmbrr Sim Otnuy, , . —I
victim, being thrown out of the door of the Phoenix Hotel, Lex
ington, Ky., Dec.. 8. Lexington CORE has maintained picketline t
and sit-ins at the hotel since negotiations broke down following
the refusal of the Phoenix Coffee Shop to serve Negro members of
the Boston Celtics.
$3 Murder Nets Death
KINSTON—It took only one hour
and a half for a Lenoir County jury
to find Jesse James Arnold, 35, and
George Dixon guilty of a first de
gree murder charge here Friday
eight and they face the gas chain-
Gov. Asks Masons 9 Aid
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VOL. 21, NO. 8
A&P Boycott
jCailed Off
j HIGH POINT—The High Point
j Chapter of the NAACP called off
a threatened statewide boycott of
• A. and P. super markets following
I promotion of a Negro to the posi
tion of cashier in an A and P.
Store here Saturday.
The NAACP had threatened rhe
boycott to back up its demands that
A and P hire Negroes in such
jobs as cashier after several days
of picketing in High Point.
The A. and P. Company and man
agement in High Point declined to
comment after the deadline set by
the High Point NAACP last Wed
nesday, but the Rev. David K.
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Lawyers
Fight
\ Sentence
CHARLOTTE Charles V. and
IP. H. Bell, attorneys for Mellot
; Faust, sentenced to die for the
slaying of a police officer have not
gh’Ph tip their fight to cave him
from the gas chamber.
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Chicago t*rofessor Warns
hCi Una Si dlents
I ber for a crime that netted only
| 53.00, on Sept. 10.
| According to SBI agent, John
I Edwards, the two planned the rob
j bery and dressed in khaki pants
j and high top boots and went to
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North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1961
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QUESTIONS BELLHOPS James Edwards, Negro (L),
questions bellhops after entering a segregated hotel in Jackson,
Miss,, Dec. 17 th, to attend a $!00-a- plate Republican dinner. Na
tional Republican Chairman William Miller was featured speak
er Hotel personnel told Edwards to leave, and a state Republican
leader termed his invitation “a mistake." ( UPI TELEPHOTO).
DURHAM—A University of Chi
cago professor said at. North Caro
lina College Monday that Negro
BU L 1 E T I N !
The CAROLINIAN received
word, at press time that Dr.
Nathan A. Scott, who is alleged
to have made a speech at North
Carolina, (See story! had a
comment to make about the
story. This newspaper attempt
ed to get the comment, but fail
ed. It was told that officials of
North Carolina College deny
any responsibility for the re
lease of the story.
Peace Corps Asks
For New Recruits
WASHINGTON, D C. Peace
Corps called a number of news
paper publishers and Land-Grant
College presidents to Washington
Monday to determine what might,
be done to step up the recruitment,
of Negroes Into its service,
It was very definitely pointed
out that the service offered a fine
opportunity for young Negroes to
get the necessary training and ex
perience that would fit them for
foreign service and to take their
places in industry and commrce
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State News
Briefs
CHARGES DROPPED
Charges again a young Raleigh
man were dropped in City Court
after Solicitor Carl Churchill stat
ed the prosecuting witness was not
"worthy of belief."
Rayford GordoA was charged with
taking a pair or shoes valued at
SIIH6 on November 11 by Evans
Mims, of 706 Jamaica Drive.
Churchill said, in announcing
that the court would take a nol
pros in the case, stated, "I don't
believe a word he says. He's up
here all the time Someone’s always
picking on him.”
Furthermore, Mims was in my
office recently asking that the
charges against Gordon be drop
ped.
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college students should now leave
the picket lines and return to their
books.
Dr. Nathan A Scott, Jr., him
self a Negro, made the comment
in answer to a question following
his Forum address, in which he
advised students to be “tempered
by the confidence that righteous
ness and brotherhood will ulti
mately prevail "
Scott is associate professor of
theology and literature in the Uni
versity of Chicago School of Di
vinity.
In his formal address, the speak
er declared that the "violent reac
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ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
"God glvetb ib* teerea.se"
OF DEEP SIGNIFICANCE
The news last week that four
Negro colleges in North Carolina
had met the accredition require
ment of the Southern Association of
Colleges and consequently are now
on the accredited list of that body
's truly of deep significance.
The North Carolina institutions
are Livingstone College in Salis
bury. Elizabeth City Teachers Col
lege, Elizabeth City, St. Augus
tine’s College and Shaw Univer
sity in Raleigh.
In an age when quality and ex
cclle”'’o have become the criteria
of "erfrrmance for all groups, Ne
groes jould hardly afford the cost
ly luxury of inferior and inade
quate training and preparation of
fered them in too many of their
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Youth, 17,
Charged
Following a hearing before Mag
istrate C. M, Satterfield Thursday
night, Neal Smith, 17, of Garner,
Rt. 1, was bound over for trial in
Wake Superior Court on charges
of attempting to rape a 12-year-old
Garner girl.
Smith is alleged to have forced
his way into the girl’s home on
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A TTY. HERMAN' L. TAYLOR
Dr. Grady Davis
Speaks At
Guilford
GUILFORD COLLEGE—Dr. Gr»-
dy D, Davis. Dean of the School
of Religion, Shaw University, Ra
leigh, told the faculty and student*
of Guilford College, Saturday, that
the goal to the image of social re
form lies between a critical analy
sis of one’s self and a motivation
to activate a more dramatic and
dynamic participation in the im
mediate arena of social change
He said that it had become in
creasingly clear that we had cata
pulted into a period of overnight
revolutions, unparalleled in human ;
history. The changes now taking j
place had removed the old orders
of society and new ones are strug
gling to be bora. He warned that
human beings are rapidly divesting
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CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
PAGE 2
New Biifmore Hill*
Capita! Bargain >re
Johnson-La tnbc
PAGE 3
Triangle Specialty Company
American Credit Company
Central Durg Store
PAGE 4
Hudaon-Relk Efird’s
Pine State Creamery Co.
PAGE 6
Woods 5-HK Store
Washington Terrace Apartments, line.
Usmieui Transfer A Groce.y
Firestone St' rps
Capital Ice *. Coal Company, Inc,
PAGE 7
Su refit Seat Cover Center
Ughtner Funeral flmne
Auto Discount Company
J. C. Penney’*
Sanders Motor Co. (Used Car#>
PAGE S
Colonial Stores
Taylor Radio & TV Sefvte*
K E Quinn Furniture Co.
PAGE 9
&&P Food Stores-
Branch Bankin* A- Trust Co
raralvigh Furniture Company
Standard Concrete Product*. Co.
Governor
Solicits
Political
Help
Governor Terry Sanford took his
political “savvy” to more than 600
diners Tuesday night as he spoke
to the annual banquet of the Prince
Hall Masons. North Carolina Juris
diction, at the new Chavis Park
Recreation Center.
The North Carolina governor
seemingly smarting over his defeat
at the polls in November, admon
ished the group to vote next year
for those legislators who had the
courage, in the 1961 General As
sembly to approve his proposal to
extend the sales tax.
He notified them that the primar
ies, to determine the picture of the
1963 legislature would be coming
up in the spring and he lauded the
plaudits of those who supported his
lax measure and commended them
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Taylor
Found
Guilty
GREENSBORO.— Due to the
fact that Attorney Herman L. Tay
lor of Raleigh, was found guilty,
by a federal jury', of charges that
he filed a false and fradulent in
come tax return in 1955. he now
face® sentencing In two cases. by
Judge Edward M Stanley, on Dec.
20.
The lawyer plead guilty to fail
ing to file during the required
time limit last week, but demand
ed a jury trial on the other case.
He was represented by Attorneys
Major High and Kenneth Lee of
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Employment
Main Emphasis
Os Citizens Ass’n
The general problems of human
relations involved in getting per
sonnel for employment, finding
suitable employment, and keeping
the personnel on the job w r as the
main emphasis of the Raleigh Citi
zens Association at the regular
meeting at the Bloodworfh Street
YMCA Thursday night.
The general employment situa
tion in Raleigh was discussed and
Negroes were urged to join the
Young Democratic Club in which |
there are now only about five
members.
High on the agenda for the next
meeting will be election of offl- :
cera for the coming year and a
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PRICE 15c
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The five day weather ferae***
for Raleigh and vicinity, beginning
December 14th end continuing
through Monday, December 18th, U
as follows
Temperatures average 3 to S de
grees below normal. Rather cold
meat of the period. Rain falls about
the, weekend will as-erage sfcont a
half Inch.
BU\ FROM THEM
New Bittmore Hill* Beauty Salon
PAGE 10
Pepsi-Coia Bottling Co. of Raleigh
Watson’s Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc.
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
Seven-Up Bottling Company
Carolina Builder* Corp.
Ridgeway's Opticians, Inc.
Bloodwortb St. Tourist Home
Deluxe Hotel
Warner Memorial#
PAGE 11
Mechanic* & Farmers Rank
Carolina Power & Uigbt Co.
Xhoma* Food Market
PAGE 12
Town & Country Furniture
Major Finance Company, Snc.
Horton’s Cash Store
PAGE 13
Uinroln Theatre
PAGE IS
Pie Ely Wiggly
Hunt General Tire Company
First Citteeu* Ranh & Trust Co.
Raleigh Funeral Home
Acme Realty Company
Raleigh Seafood Company
S. W. Voong Hardware Company
Dunn’s Esso Service
Community Florto
i Smith Coal & Oil Company
World lit Pictures
North Carolinians attending Small Business Confab held recently
in Washington, D. C. Fifth from the left is Luther H. Hodges, foitner
Governor of North Carolina, now Secretary of Commerce.
Pauline Kathleen Sims 2d. a British subject and a member of
CORE'S "Freedom Rider" movement is shown testifying in Judgf
Henry King’s Recorders Court. Anthony Thomas Davis a 258-pound
Negro, who was freed of attacking her in a Negro hotel Sept. 28
liilfc# s,. V s ’ i®JSifei
A scene showing African educator* admiring an As ’ - h >.:-<er but
ton worn by an AAT co-ed. Dr. Samuel !> Proctor, President of the
College looks on from the right.
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“Freedom Riders" chat with police officer after fho were leered
and cursed by an angry crowd of some 600 white persons upon their
arrival hi McCornb, Miss., from Baton Rouge. La.
Ligon High School’s Mathematic Honor Society is shown here.
[ There are 21 members in the MHS this year.
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Ernie Davis of Syracuse University proudly displays the 1981 Hcit
man Trophy awarded him by some 840 sportoe asters arid writers across
the country. In 27 year of this award, Davis is the first Negro to m
eeive this honor.
Miss Calletha Matthews reigned as “Miss Debutante” at the See
ond Annual Debutante Baii held recently In Clinton. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Matthews of Sampson County.
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Sticking his finger through the empty space of his glasses la 3«hx
Oliver Emmerich. Editor and Publisher of th>- Enterprise-JoUTKaI, Me-
Comb, Miss. A hurley oil field worker struck him for allowing out-of
town newsmen to ocver racial disorders in McUmi,
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