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J. W. Ligon, Principal, Brown Suffers Attack H. E, Brown, principal, Ligon 5 mor-Junior High School, was 'ospitalized Sunday, at Wake Me morial Hospital, as the result ol a mild heart attack that he suffered while attending a banquet at. Wash ington Junior High School, Decem ber 13 Mr. Brown remained at his home jutil Sunday, when upon the ad vice of his physician, he entered the hospital. His condition is re torted to be fine and that he will be out of the hospital on or about January 3. He is said to have suffered the same kind of heart attack as that suffered by former President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice-Presi dent Lyndon Johnson. It is believ ed that he will be able to resume his duties, as head of the local school, in about two or three months, George L. Foxwe]l, assistant principal, is now in charge of Lig on School and it is reported, from CEMETERY A MYSTERY /VEvV FOUND BABY CEMETERY A Guilford County Deputy Sheriff is shown as he in ****** one of the makers found on many of the spots of a tract of land said to fee owned by If. E Hargett, Greensboro funeral director- Th> s part of the trad yielded five bodies Monday and a 'ourf ordw sent county officials bach Wednesday, in an effort to determne whether more bodies been interred there. 7 he bury mg of the. bodies is clouded in mvstcrv. No one seems to have known of the cemetery and wonder if the Irody of a modern Moses might be interred there in what could be termed Guilford county's “Land of Moab". Greensboro Undertaker Held For Alleged Fraud Try GREENSBORO —This is known as the gateway to the South, but Monday brought a new exprienee to the city, when the word got around that file bodies of infants had been discovered in a cemetery located about fitfecn or eighteen miles from the city, near the Ran dolph County line, and there were indications that there were more bodies interred therein. The trouble started when Na thaniel Hargett, 32-.vear-old mor tician. was spotted driving a wrecker into the 12 acre tract of land. Real trouble started for him • Iso when officers arrived they found a Renault automobile wedg 10?) Year Old W liman (*eis (lirislmas Wish STONY POINT. N. C (ANPI —A 109-year-old former slave's desire io have a television set of Her own will he fulfilled in %r form of a, Christmas gift. Mrs. Harriet Parker, who Pegards watching TV programs •s her favorite pastime, said re Local Colleges Launch Building Drives Shaw I'diversity Seeks §2 million Dr. William R. Strassner. presi dent of Shaw University announ ced that, in its first semi-annual Meeting which was held in Novem ber, the University Board of Trus PKOPOSEB WOMEN’S DORMITORY reliable sources, that everything 1* up to schedule and that the affairs are b <«•* bundled, H. E. BROWN ed in a big hole. The car had been reported stolen. Mr. Hargett is now out on bond, to answer a charge of giving out false information. He also faces a charge of at tempting to destroy the car in or der to collect the insurance. He is alleged to have told arresting offi cers that he found the car there and was about to bring it back to tow n, with the hired wrecker, " hen he was seen by them. It was reported that he was alone with the wrecker when officers found him. The officers reported that a ; search of' the land revealed that (CONTINUED ON CAGE cently that her Christmas wish was to have her own set before she dies. She said she has to visit her family and frieuds 4e order to see programs. W. Blaine Beams, 65, of Cher (OONTCNUED ON PAGE *) tees adopted plans for an extensive capita] improvement program, looking toward the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the institution in 1965. The program Merry Christmas ■ ...... < ■- .......... *• . - ' ' ' North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 21, NO, 9 | Zion Church To Study Punishment According to a telephone inter view with Bishop W. J. Walls, sen ior prelate of the AME Zion Church, and considered the titular head of the body, the question of abolishing capital punishment will get consideration when the Board of Bishops meet in Birmingham, Ala., January 10. The prelate recognized the grav ity of the question and said that he felt the entire church should have an opportunity to discuss it and then make a pronouncement. All of the bishops will be in at tendance at the Birmingham meet (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ODDS -ENDS BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD "Unto ns a Child is Bora.* NO ROOM IN THE INN "And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him in (CONTINUED - ON PAGE «) includes two new dormitories and a combination cafeteria-student un ion building, A special committee, composed of trustee* and promi (CONTJNI7E© CM PAGE RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1961 Jiiilste Fines Taylor 40G 9 s Pickets Me leased ALBANY, Ga.—The 553 persons who threw this southern Georgia town into an uproar last week and were thrown in jail, due to the fact they persisted in singing hymns and patriotic songs agreed to a trace, after Dr. Martin Luther King, Rev. N D. Abernathy and Dr. W. G. Anderson met with of ficials of the town. The arrested persons had first decided to remain in jail, not even making bond, until the bus and train stations were integrated. The city officials, meeting with r leaders, decried the fan that iff'i situation was causing much incon venience to them. The feeding of the threat of more people joining in the fight posed a tremendous problem in this city of about 45.000. Tlie meeting was the first break in a stalemate that resulted in the Albany unit of the National Guard being placed on a standby alert in the wake of mass arrests of Negro demonstrators. Mayor Kelly said the meeting between three Negroes and three white persons was delayed for a short time when Dr. W. G. Ander son, also president of the Albany chapter of the NAACP, charged that a jailed Negro, Charles Sher- Girl’s Assailant Still At Large I-oca! police officers are contin uing their search for a brownskin man who is said to have attacked Miss Viola High. 17, Sunday night as she walked from a store located at Lenoir and Swain Streets, to her home, about 8:30. The Ligon High School senior told the CAROLINIAN that, she was walking along the street and that the man passed heir. She said that he turned around and came back and without saying a word began to choke her. It was ttien that she attempted to fight him off. She was not very successful and did not remember anything that happened until she recovered I (COWWUI® on moe a Si. Aug. Sells BricksF or Education Mrs. Augusta B. Turner, chair man of the Capital Improvement Fund Drive, at Saint Augustine's College, announced today that the drive to sell bricks to “Build for UJIKS svr BKICKS TO, CDVCATIt>N~Tht Hrtt —Mr - ... — —. Sflm V 4ti^Ustms * Colh & wa * bought by the Links ot the Wilson , Rocky Mount and TazboroChaptor of Links, Inc., Mrs. Mae E. Graves, president, Others shown, left to right: Mrs. Jennie D. Taylor, Tarboro; Mm. Sallie Armstrong, Rocky Mount; Mrs, Nancy T. Bowens, Scot land Neck; Mrs. Bessie S. Wilder, Scotland Neck, Mrs. Grace W. Artis, Recording Secretary Wil son j, Mrs, Thelma M. Hines, Wilson; Mrs. AddieD. Butterfield, Wilson; Mrs. Norma E- Darden Wihon, Miss Ethel L. Hines, Treasurer, Wilson; Mrs. E. Mae Graves, Greenville; Mrs. Vera G ohmfa, Wilson; Mrs. Flossie H. Barnes, Wilson, and Mrs. Juba Delany, Raleigh. * ! rod, was beaten in the Terrell County jail at Dawson. 'We checked out that report," Kelly said, “arid found that Sher rod was in perfect health. ''To demonstrate our good faith and that we wanted to negotiate in good faith, Sherrod was brought to the Albany jail where he was available for inspection He defin itely had not been beaten or mis treated.” The mayor said the committee agreed "there will be no further clem mst: aliens, that rail and bus t<-,- ■>*!« be desegregated, and that irdt -■!**< 1 committee he erected. B rhe.-w-aid iespouse cf the white persons who met with them was "not satisfactory." No physical conflicts have been (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Ministers Send Wire To President J. F. Kennedy The Raleigh Ministerial Alliance j at its regular meeting this week ' spnt the following telegram to ; President Kennedy in protest tc j the recent treatment of Negroes in Albany, Ga. and the other parts of the South. Acocrding to D. N. Howard, j president, of the group, the minis- j ters feel that the President can ease the problem by an executive order. ON PAGE S) 2-.» Y T ear Prison Term (■iven In Slaving Case James Theodors Herndon, 48, wm sleeping peacefully at 805 Bragg St. on November 17 when an argument between Josephus Jolly and Jethro Wilson began to rock the house. The noise proved not to be enough to rouse Herndon, but the Education" was officially opened Saturday, in the Cheshire Lounge. The first twenty brick* were bought by members of the Wilson, Rocky Mount and Tarboro Chap MARCH IST DEADLINE j GREENSBORO Attorney Herman L. Taylor, Raleigh, was sentenced by Judge Edward M. Stanley, in United States Middle Court here Wednesday, on two charges i of violating federal income laws, to pay a total of $20,000. He was ordered to pay the fine and civ il tax liabilities, along with in terest, which would add up to more than $40,000, on or before March 1, The case attracted widespread (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) y, - njflfc Temperature* wttl average below normal. Turning cold during the first of the period and continuing rather j cold through Monday. Normal high | and low for comparison: Asheville, 49-30; Raleigh and Charlotte, 51-34. Columbia 57-X5: Charlotte 51-39. Precipitations will be heavy, oc curring during the latter half of the period. woman of the house, Elsie James, did. She shook him awake and told him that Josephus and Jethro had "broken bad" and needed quiet* ing Herndon told Jolly, the chief eg {CONTINUED ON PAGE I) ters of Links, Inc Mrs. E. Mae Graves, president. Greenville, stressed the importance of building for education. Mrs. Eth- I (CONTOfuSS" ON" PACK 2) World In Fidurcs Igpi&sgpg Police squelch unidentified “Dixie-singing” Albanian who ap parently became inspired by hymns sung by Negro demonstrators in front of the City Hal! in Albany, Ga. Over 60 Negroes demonstrated by kneeling, praying and singing hymns. U. N. Assistant Secretary General, Ralph Bunche (right), reviews honor guards of the Congolese troops on his arrival on a factfinding mission in Leopoldville. Shown with him are (left to right): Congolese Army Chief Gen. Joseph Mobutu; U. A. Military Commander Gen. Sean McKeown; and Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula. While bystanders watch a fireman carry unconscious Thomas Al lison, 6, from an apartment in Brooklyn, N. Y. The bn' was over com" by smoke when a fire broke out in his apartment. The Allisons lived on the fifth floor. L : Over 60 Negro demonstrators sine and pray in front of she < Cs Wail in Albany C»;> for iust v<*rrfi» •in the H >*i-uv mit i f.irr j Riders ' A score ot policemen form t a protective cordon to forest.* II any possible violence. Several were ai rested after "es using to disperse when ordered. PRICE 15c “It ■' The two birds praise the generosity of this man as they perch on his arm. A third bird enjoys a quick lunch from the lips of the man That goes to show that a bird won’t mind working for his food President Samuel Duncan. Livingstone College, is shown as he wel comes an African visitor to the campus of his school. The Nigerian educator is said to have been favorably impressed and expressed much gratitude for the part that the AME Zion School hats played in the edu cational program of his country. | U. S. Attorney General Robert, F. Kennedy holds a brief press eon ference on his arrival in Columbia, 8. C. Kennedy was there to meet Shown above are the first two Meg-roes ever to join the Whit* House Police Force, Secret Service Chief Jame* J. Rowley (left) swears j * ®*»W M. C*Md, Jr., 25; Kenneth O. Beckwith, 28; and John g, Payne, Jr., 26, All wear* recruited from the Washington Folios Fore®,
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