DR. PROCTOR TO NIGERIA
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DOUBLE CELEBRATION Mrs. Suzie Smrfh, mixed she
celebration of Christmas and her \o~th birthday. Mrs. Smith does
not wear glasses and hasn t a '‘single false tooth . All she wanted
for Christmas was a chair to sit in while she does her quilting.
(UPI PHOTO).
Local Barber Faces
Trial For Robbery
According to local police offi
cers, Donald G. Wilson. 26, opera
tor of a barber shop at 826 S. Fay
etteville Street, will have a tough
time shaving the charges filed a
gainst him Tuesday morning for
W. M. Cooper
Acclaimed
SMITH FIELD —Educational cir
cles are beaming with delieht in
Ihe fact, that William M. Cooper
was the first Negro named to the
Hampton Institute Trustee Board.
Mr. Cooper made a spl* ndid rec
ord here, as the head of the John
ston County Training School, from
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Abernathy And King Draft
Petition To President JFK
ATLANTA, Ga.—At a press con
ference, held recently by Rev.
Ralph D, Abernathy, it was re
vealed that he and Dr. Martin Lu
ther King, while in jail in Albany,
drafted a request to President Ken
nedy, in the interest of Negroes in
‘Mickey Mantle’
Is Sentenced
For “Dodging”
Clarence Fields, alias "Mickey
Mantle Alexander," was called out
in U, S. Eastern District Court by
Assistant District Attorney Alton
D. Cummins, last week.
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Fire, Suicide And Car
Deaths Mar Christmas
During the Christmas season,
many years ago, there was a pho
(jograph record which blared forth
with this admonition, “Death
Slight Be Your Santa Claus”. Cer
tainly there was evidence of this
!>eing time throughout the state
this year.
No particular section of the
state was immune. Here in Ra
leigh, Bashford C. Ryals. 437 Da
kar Street, was hit by a enr ir> the
~9§jgHr TBBMr *p«|| <w> •’sajw
iM Happy New Year
breaking, entering, larceny and re
; ceiving.
| Tire officers had reason to be
lieve that Wilson took time our
| from tonsorial work to break into
Caraleigh Furniture Company, on
'November 30, and carry, fetch or
"toat" $496 worth of merchandise
therefrom.
He is also charged with having
purloined 14 cases of whiskey
from a Wake ABC store on Dec. 3.
The officers are not sure that ne
will not be charged with other
break-ins that have happened here
in recent months. They are inves
! tigating eleven such crimes. They
I have arrested five persons as the
result of the investigations.
Others arrested and charged
with two or more of the 11 break
! ins were: James Frazier, 20, of
1 322 Battle St., Matthew Holiday,
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America and all citizens of the na
tion. Below is a copy of the pur
ported request
.1. That the President issue at
once by executive order a second
emancipation proclamation freeing
all Negroes from their present
state of second class citizenship.
For until the government of this
nation stands as forthrightly in de
fense- of democratic principles and
practices here at home and presses
as unceasingly for the equal rights
of al! American citizens as it does
in aiding foreign nations with arms
and ammunition and the materials
of war for the establishement and
defense of human rights beyond our
shores, then, and not until then
can we justify the claim to world
leadership in the fight against com
munism and tyranny.
2. That Negroes and other inter
ested citizens including college stu
dents on Christmas vacations. Join
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j 1200 block of Smithfleld Street
Friday night. He was dead upon
| arrival at Wake Memorial Hospit
al. He will be buried Thursday.
In Fairmont, Billy Jones, t 10,
had his Santa Claus in jail due to
| the fact that he lured a 16-year
! old girl from her home, while she
1 was baby sifting and assaulted her,
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TThii cakol Inl a v
VOL. 21, NO. 10
Death Ends Fend
A&T Prexy
Sworn In
At Corps
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Dr. Sam
uel DeWitt Proctor, 40, president
of A&T College, Greensboro, will
be sworn in at Peace Corps Thurs
day, as Peace Corps Representa
tive to Nigeria.
Dean L. C. Dowdy has been
named to head the famed North
Carolina educational institution foi
the two years that Proctor will be
away.
Dr. Proctor will administer Peace
Corps activities in the most popu
lous nation in Africa.
Sargent Shiver, Director of the
Peace Corps, cited Dr. Proctor’s
"rich gifts of personality, educa
tion end imagination” in announ
cing the appointment.
A native of Norfolk. Va., Dr.
Pi actor has an extensive back
ground as an educate- clergyman
and administrator.
He enioyed the distinction of be
ing one of the youngest college
presidents in the South when he
was named chief administrator at
Virginia University, Richmond. Va.
in 1955. He resigned in 1960 to ac
cept the presidency at North Caro
lina A&T College. Greensboro.
Dr. Proctor is an ordained Bap
tist minister, graduating from the
Crozer Theological Seminary, in
1049. In 1959, he earned hit Ph.D.
at Boston University and joined
the teaching staff at Virginia Un
ion, where he became president,
six years later.
He was given a two-year leave
of absence, by North Carolina A&T
College, to accept the Peace Corps
assignment.
Dr, Proctor is married to Bessie
Tate Froctor. They have two sons,
Herbert, 14, and Timothy, 12. His
family will accompany him to Ni
geria.
Dowdy takes over the ton post
at A&T, after having served as
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Youth Held
For Assault
In Monroe
CHARLOTTE James Hannon
Thompson, 14. one of the defen
dants in the famous "Monroe
Kissing Case” of 1958, was ar
rested and turned over to juvenile
authorities, by police ’ detective.
Henry C. McOraw, Sunday night,
and charged with sexually attack
ing four youths, ranging from
four years to eleven years old.
McOraw said he would confer with
Juvenile authorities before deter
mining how many charges would
be placed against Thompson.
The conviction of Thompson,
who was 10 years old at the time
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ADVERTISERS
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Horton’s Cash Store
Thomas, food Market
PAGE 3
Roscoe-Grlffin Shoe Co.
Central Dru| Store
Capital Bargain Store
PAGE 5
Hudson-Belk EfirU’s
Carter’s Furniture Company
Firestone St- res
United Rent-All
Standard Concrete Products Co.
Capital lee & Coal Company, Ine,
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Heillg-Levine
Raleigh Furniture Company
Seven-Up Bottlin. Company
Capital Vacuum Store
Wiison-Ferrell Furniture Co.
Wood's S and I#c Store
Adler’s Children Shop
W. T. Grants
Shoe Start
Consolidated Credit Com.
Thomas Food Market
J. C. Penalty's Co.
Gus Russo fetters & Cleaner#
Capital Bargain Store
Browning Barter Shop
Major Finance Co.. Ine.
Charles Store
Winston Mutual Life Insurance CM.
<5, 8. Tucker Bros., Inc.
N. C, Finance
Larry's Cut Rate Grocery tc Maries
day’s American Grill
Peerless utumert f:
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1961
ANTI-SEGREGATIONISTS ARRESTED A white youth, one of a group of about 250
demonstrators arrested in New Orleans for parading without a license, lips in the bottom of a pa
trol wagon awaiting the ride to jail. Practicing "passive resistance," he refused so walk, so he was
put in bodily by officers. (UPI PHOTO).
Two Brothers Held For Part
In Fayetteville Street Brawl
Very few people have found out
that there are three sides to a ques
tion, where there is evidence is to
be given, The side of the accuser—
the side of the accused and the
right side. That is where the judge
is going to have to ponder when
the case of Charles Merrit, 714 Mc-
Dowell Street is heard in court.
The case stems from the fact
that Charles alleges that he went
W EATHER
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The rtve-Cay weather forecast
beginning with Thursday, Dec. 28th
and continuing through Monday,
Jan. 1,1962 is as follows:
Temperatures will average near
normal, some normal temperatures
for comparison: Asheville 49-30,
Charlotte and Raleigh 51-34. Co
lombia 57-35, and Charleston 51-. PS.
turning colder Thursday and Fri
day, warmer over the weekend and
colder again about, Monday. Pre
cipitation will average aboil! one
half to a quarter of an Inch, ap
pearing tonight ant! early Thurs
day and again Sunday and Mon
day.
BUlt FROM THEM
Long Meadow Farms
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Auto Discount Company
fames H. Brown
Weaver Bros. Rambler
PAGE 8
Colonial Stores
St. E. Quinn Furniture Co.
Taylor Radio A TV Service
PAGE 9
A&P Food Stores
Hunt Genera! Tire Company
Branch Banking A Trust Co.
Auto Insurance Service
Carolina Power & Light Co.
PAGE 10
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Raleigh
Watson’s Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc.
Dillon Motor Finance Co.
Seven-Up Bottling Company
Carolina Builders Corp.
Ridgeway’s Opticians. Inc
Blood worth St. Tourist Home
Deluxe Hotel
Warner Memorials
PAGE a
Unrein Theatre
PAGE W
Capital Sports Enterprises. Inc.
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Raleigh Seafood Company
Dtuta’a Esso Service
First Cltiren* Bank * Trust Co.
PiggSy Wiggly
Mechanics & Parmer* Sank
»• W. Tout* Hardware Company
Raleigh Funeral Home
A™? StssSty Cuntpany
into the South End Grocery Store,
Fayetteville Street, at "Fayetteville
Crossing” about 10:30 Saturday
night and picked up some tanger
ines and when he attempted to pay
for them, the owner, Franklin S.
Watkins, white, proceeded to lock
him in the store.
Merrit further alleges that when
he saw what was happening he
told the "boys” to get his brother.
According to his report, his broth
Philadelphia Ministers Plan
Congested Job Boycott
PHILADELPHIA-The more than
400 race ministers who live in and
around Philadelphia displayed race
leadership, in the field of civil
rights, here last week when more
than 200 of them met at First Af
rican Baptist Church, 16th and
Christian Streets, at 10:00 p.m.
It is to be remembered that the
ministers of the city have exhibited
a concerted drive against firms,
stores, and businesses that have
consistently discriminated in the
hiring of Negroes to jobs and posi
tions other than menial
The drive has proven highly suc
cessful and has been styled as the
“Selective Patronage Program
Committee”. The committee oper
ates without a chairman, or any
form of organization. A spokesman
stated that it was the mast power
ful unorganized group, doing a real
organized job, anywhere. The fol
lowing comment was made by the
spokesman, “There is no place for
denominational prejudice in this
movement. We are all Christian
ministers striving together to make
Prisoner Leaps To
Death In Acid Vat
Why Frank T. McFaddn sudden
ly decided to jump into a boiling
vat at Central Prison, Thursday
morning, might never be known,
but it is an established fact that
had it not been for the quick ac
tion of some of hi* fellows, he
would have boiled into bits, in a
few moments.
| er, Percy, was not long coming.
| However, when Percy arrived he
| could see Watkins tussleing with
his brother, with a gun in one hand,
j It was then that Charles told Pe v cy
to break the door down, but by
that time the “law” had arrived
and of course Charles was hustled
off to jail. Charles did not know,
at. that time, why he had been
detained or had been hit across
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Philadelphia and vicinity a better
place for us all” Every denomina
tion, operating as a religious body,
is represented in the movement
and a part of it..
A successful protest drive was
conducted against such firms as
Tastykake Baking Company, The
Friehofer Baking Company, Gen
eral Baking Company, Pepsi Cola
Bottling Company. Coca-Cola Bot
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ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
“He will show thee things to
come.'’
HAPPY NEW YEAR. 1961 has
been a good year for all of us.
There has been some sorrow, some
disappointment, some loss but the
joy, the fulfillment and the gain
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Prison officials told the CARO
LINIAN that the temperature of the
contents of the vat was 188 de
grees, at the time McFadden dove
in. Persons working with him had
him out of the caldron in approxi
mately 10 seconds. This, however,
did not save nis life and he suc
cumbed Monday, after he was re
ported as improving nicely.
Coroner Marshall Bennett term
ed the death suicide. Prison offic
ials said that he had been a model
prisoner and they had no reason to
offer why he wanted to commit
suicide. The only reason they gave
was the fact that when he was seen
standing on the vat that persons
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World in Pictures
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BATON ROUGE, 1,a., Dec. 15th: An estimated 2.000 students from
Southern University (all members of CORE! are shown in photo flee
ing from street, as police and deputy sheriffs used tear gas to break
up a demonstration by them.
VATICAN CITY, Italy: Dr. I. H. Jackson ileft), President of the
National Baptist Convention, converses with Pope John, 23rd, during
his audience with the Roman Catholic leader, here, Dec. 20th.
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JACKSON. Miss.. Dec. 14th: Prisoners from the Mississippi State
Penitentiary, arc shown packing sand hags in an attempt, to save
ITowood. a small industrial community, where more than 800 families
have been left homeless, from the rising waters of the Pearl River. .
While the Pearl River continues to swell, a Mississippi National
Guardsman (shown in left photo) receives a baby boy from his father
unto an Army duck, in rescue operations conducted there. (In right
photo) headed for the Riveria shown just before their departure from
Idlewild Airport, hoarding a TWA Jet, are singer Harry Relafonte,
wife Julie, daughter Aderienne, 14. David, 5, and newest arrival, Gina,
where he, will be fulfilling a four and one-half week engagement.
NEW ORLEANS. La.: An estimated 300 Negroes, who tried to
march on the State Office Building, in downtown New Orleans, Dec.
18, are shown as police paddy wagons are loading them to he booked.
The marchers according to CORE were to protest the ‘unjust arrest'’
of the 73 Negroes on Dee. 15, at Baton Rouge.
A Brooklyn longshoreman, Wallace Weaver, of Bayside, L. 1.. N. Y.,
appears to be caught fa the spell of Christmas as he gazes at a Na
tivity scene, that was displayed on pier numbers two, in Brooklyn,
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