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BARBER LOSES UFE IN FRE Bishop Shaw, Billy Graham On TV Tues. NEW YORK CITY A new insight into the Christian faith is scheduled to be seen Tuesday, Jan SC, over ABC-TV, 10-11 PM, EST, u hen "The Great Conversation", featuring prominent churchmen throughout the world, including Bishop Herbert Bel! Shaw. AME Zion Church, Wilmington, N C. Ecumenism—or Christian unity is the theme of the film, which fo cuses attention on the quiet discus sions. activities and statements of ecumenists. It shows further con crete and \ i.-ihic signs of Christian unity in action. The picture was filmed in Rhodes and New Delhi, in connec tion with the World Council of Churches and the World Methodist Council Bishop Shaw is one of the vice presidents of tne World Me thodist. Council. He appears in the film with a fellow North Carolin ian. Billy Graham "The Great Convcr atior.' fea < CONTINUED ON PAPE i) NC Mutual Agents Top Million DURHAM Two special ordin ary agents of the Newark Distri'l established history-making records as representatives of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1961. Mrs. Carm* n E. Saunders achieved a Paid-For ireord of $1,025,000 while Archie C. Callaham s total was $1,013,250 the first time that the firm nas had individual sales records to reach the million-dolla.r mark Mrs. Saunders was first employ ed by North Carolina Mutual m December of 1959 with Paid-For production of $517,000 in 1960. She Was a winner of several company sponsored trips and awards during the same year and has qualified for the President' Cup of 1962 Both Mrs. Saunders and Calls ham were supervised by sta r s Manager Ivory Brandon, with F. A l'amseur serving as manager of Hr .iewark District- C'allaham w;.* Iran ferred to the company's Lu> Angeles District on Jan 1, .1962. Students Criticize Officials ATT. SNT A Ga - The Student. Nonviolent Coordinating Commit tee tins week pioterted strongly ,-g in i the actiot of Georgia school si mini-Stratots aetmg hand in baud wth !o a! officials tn intimifiate ''■‘egroes 11 no only v .uit to first class citizens'' SNCC referred to recent expul sions of college and high school •students in Dawson, Albany, and I eesburg, Ga. In es'-h case, stu dents were indefinitely suspended after they pannpatrd in some type of civil right? acti' ;ty. in Albany, more tr. ,r, 40 students w are suspended from Albany State College by President W H Dennis after they participated in snti-se * ‘egalion demonstrations Tn Leesburg. 16-; ear-old honor rtttdent Charles Wingfield was ex pelled by Principal J. M Mixon after he aPsed th* principal to sup ply better equipment foi the school. In Dawson. Rochester Patterson was expelled from Carver High School by principal E E. Sykes af ter he held a noon-time meeting of students and talked to them about voting and civil rights Patterson had been arrested ear lier in rn Albany sit-in and his mo- Tii-r. Mrs. Carolyn Daniel houses ‘ NCC voter registration workers Sue nay been active in voter regi stration also t-NCC ! ‘.old Secretaries Sherrod end Cordell Reagan said that a de finite pattern of intimidation by school officials exists in South Ga. “Such tactics usually oust only in police states," Sherrod said. Family Plots Approved In National Cemeteries Approval of a policy under which * tingle gravesite will be assigned in Ibe National Cemetery System si the time of death for the burial of a military decedent and his eli gible dependents was announced this week by the Department of Defense. The police becomes effective on Fr-b. 1. 1361'' Existing regulations have per muted the assignment of 2 grave Si. U. Shuts Down •^: :<y-+;yy.::-:;^ VOL. 21. NO, 1 \ y •; ■ 5 ••; e^/ag^S-%\.ftgg^CTa^^pv-Hv. , ii-O ?., .■mmSßl .' ■>:••. ••ißßSs^'iS..*v <>V„ ... '- . V: iSOOSiSS ,\ *•• ' y. * r^'- : - *.■ m ? SCENES OF FIRE AND TRAGIC DEATH' Shown a bo\ c air scenes of the barber *hop in which Ernest Lofton. ,Jr. lost his life. Top left , Lofton, (r) the inside of the shop , bottom Explosion Heard For Slocks BY J. A. SHEPARD Mrs. Lofton says, “Daddy loved life." Ernest Lofton, Jr., Raleigh barber, whose burned body was removed from his barber shop in the Delany Bldg., on N. Tarboro Street, early last Sunday morning, was buried following* funeral services at the Fayetteville S t r e e t Baptist Church, Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 24, in the National Cemetery here in Raleigh. OR PARKER Alpha Kappa Alpha In 54th Celebration Dr. Marjorie Holloman Parker. Supreme Bastleug of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Inc., who is a form er native of Wiriton. N C and now resides iri Washington, D C, will be the guest speaker at St. Paul AME Church on Sunday, Jan. 2K. She is the daughter of Rev and (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) $ it* denis OJeered i%i«i sites foi the burial of a service member, his spouse, and his other eligible dependents. Because of the increase since World War If in the number of persons legally eligible for burial in national cemeteries, the Army has been studying ways of prolong ing the availability of burial space m the cemeteries by adoption of ««XSNTINTO» ON PAGE North Carolina’s Leading Weekly Police havr determined to their own satisfaction that fin I which followed an explosion in the 5-unit store building on N. j Tarboro St., was deliberately set. Lofton has not been charged by the police with starting the fire which indirectly led to his death. They feel, however, that circumstances relative to Lofton": financial difficulties may have led him to attempt burning the build ing in which his barber -hop was loc.itcd in order to collect the $3,000 fne insurance coverage he carried on the shop's equipment CAROLINIAN -—LB.— ADVERTISERS j BU\ FROM THEM PAGE 2 Hortons Cash More Thomas rood Market PAGE 3 5 M Young Hardware Compan Fin*st-iiji Si res Johnson Lambe Co. Carter's, Inc ! Mechanic* * Farmers Bank j PAGE 5 i Hudson -B»lk Pflrd s i Raleigh having* & Loan Awnriatfott ! Capital jre and Coat Co tnr. Toon A c ountr Furniture I Washington Terrace Apts.. Inr ' Peebles. Grin A Hotel rite Fabric Shop ; Long Meadow Farms tar. iPAGE « (Larry's Cut Rat* Gro * MM ; Raleigh Paint <5 Wallpaper ( n i toy's American Gri'l 1 Browning Berber Shop j Capital Bargain Store i Charles Store i Carpet r enter j Capital Vacuum Store Buffalo* Company A- Builders I Mann's Furniture Company j Stephen s Applianee Comnanv | Mechanic A Farmers Bank Nina’s Grill I Odonion Street Cleaners W A G Upholstery Company | Hunter's Grocery ! Dunston's Texaco Service ATLANTA. Ga. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit <ee announced this week that Reed College in Oregon has made avail able several scholarships for stu dents who were farced to halt their education as a result of their involvement in the southern civil rights struggle. The enlWe’s 'Sit-in Scholarship Committee” said that grants rang ing from SIOO to $2,200 will be made available to students who qualify for admission to Reed as freshmen or as transfer students. Limited loans and campus work opportunities will also be made a vailable. (CONTtNtJED ON PASS 8) RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. JANUARY 27, 1962 left, next morning viewers, and (r). the Delam Building in which the shop was housed Center photo r ; a recent picture of Lofton —STAFF PHOTOS BY LLOYD lEFFERIES According to the police Lofton was served with a claim and dc [ livery warrant at his place of bu | siness last Friday It is reported (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) PAGE t j Into Discount Company PAGE S ( nlonial Stores a. E Quinn Furniture Co j Taylor Radio <v TV Service First Citizens Bank in Trust to PAGE » i AaP Food Stores j Putin’s Esso Service B'anch Banking A Trust Co l ntred Rent-Alls St «ndsod Concrete Products to. Auto Insurance Service ! Hunt Genera! Tire Company ; r \OF )0 Pepsl-Cota Bottling Co. of British Watson s Seafood A Poultry Co., Inr DtHon Motor Finance Co. i Seven-Up Bottling Company Carolina Builders Corn Ridgeway’s Opticians. Inr Blood worth St. Tourist Home Deluxe Hotel Warner Memorial* : PAGE 1? Larry’s Cut-Rate Gro A MM PAGE 13 ; Lincoln Theatre | Ambassador Theatre P IGE 16 RhodPS Furniture Co j Raleigh Seafood Company j Plggly Wiggly j Raleigh Funeral Home | Acme Realty Company 1 STATE BRIEF PANEL MEMBER RALEIGH Dr. ?• R. Robinson, dean of St. Augustine’s College, has been requested to serve as a member of a pane! dealing with superior college teachers. The pa nel is being held in conjunction with toe annua! meeting of the A merican Association of College,' of Teacher Education in Chicago. Feb. 14-16. ~ * 0* s in; browm. Gov. Sanford Names NCC's Dr. Browne DURHAM Governor Terry \ Sanford has appointed Dr Ros» B | Brown* of North Carolina College jto the Governor's newly created Commission to Study the Needs of | the Mentally Retarded in North | Ca; olina j Dr Browne, who is chairman of (the NCC department of education, j accepted membership on the Com (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) FACULTY RECITAL HELD AT A&T GREENSBORO The facility recital series held last week at. A&T College featured Charles Bhie. as sistant professor of music, in an organ concert. An ensemble from the A&T Choir sang with Blue on several chorales. Blue joined the A&T faculty two (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3!) Largest S^gSoiiool Closes BATON ROUGE. La. The se mester break at Southern Univer sity. the largest educational insti tution for Negroes in the nation, will perhaps be one of the longest in the school's 82-year-histoiy. Dr. Felton G. Clark, president, announced that the state-support ed university was closing its doors indefinitely because of racial dem onstrations. Dr. Clark told the 4,- !W students of the decision when hr addressed a special campus con vccation of faculty and staff mem bers. Clark -aid the shutdown was ne cessary because students and facul ty members "were subjected to constant harassment and intimida ion. which was seriously disrupt ing normal routine. This included, in some instances, vandalism an« property destruction, the extent, of which has yet, to be determined.’ Many v iewed the shutdown and (CONTINUED ON I'AGf .•) Mother CutTo Death Mrs Hattie Watson of 4 T.ee St. I was rut to death in her Walnut Terrace apartment a her nine | children stood helplessly by about , fi:2o Friday evening. With blood in every downstairs oom In her apartment -even on i the bread she had to feed her chil -1 firen —she struggled to the back door of Mr-. Mary Primrose, close ; friend of hers at 13 Lee Street, op ined the door, ,-howcd Mrs. Prim rose her wounds and asked her u> j cal! an ambulance. Mi - Primrose raid she could not ook at Iter friend closely and that 1 Mrs V. at-on lin ed the door behind ter and in suite of her efforts to ■ ip hr to her feet, contained on | he floor of ihe hack porch until j 'he ambulance arrived. Her arms had been slashed bom : iter sboukiorf to her elbow -. tfcore ‘were deep wounds: on her checks, tod her nose wa- cut off (CONTINUED ON I’Al.I i> Eighty-One SIOO Bills Found CLINTON Eight-one MOO bills were buried under a jv r-nnmon tree and a Negro •iaughterpen worker led. the officers to the mo ney. Sheriff VV. 1). Hall said Levcrn Damon. 117. of Dismal township, i onfesseri to tor theft of sll,lOO in cash from a secret hiding place al j pome of his employer Christmas ) day Damon was jailed on theft charges. Damons employer. Carlton C. Martin, was away from home at the time of the theft and did not find that the money was missing for some time. He notified office’s last. Friday. Damon, said officers, had work ed for Martin for the past nine years He accounted for about sl.- 0% of the amount taken, having used it to buy a new car and to pay funeral expenses for » rela j live. The sheriff said about $2,000 j was not accounted for. The money had been buried und ‘e: the persimmon tree about. 200 vards behind Damon's home. PRICE 15c WEATHER Tit* five d*v »nlhn fnrerxsf for H.-ileigh beginning Friday. January 25 and rontlnutne through Monday, January 28 is as follows: Temperatures will average near or somewhat above normal, with not mm h dar lo day changes, nor ,! high 52 and normal low ,14. Showers likely first half of period, the extreme smith portion else where mainly Friday and Saturday will average a quarter to one half of an inch. ODDS ENDS BY ROBERT G. SHEFARD '*l will fear no evil.’’ WHY THE FEAR: YVIIY IHE SECRECY? Recently when The CAROLTN -lAN attempted fp ni»t together bits of more or less factual evidence concerning the reported resignation of a Raleigh public school princi pal it was rebuffed at practically every turn. Persons who had been shouting the matter from the ve ry house tops, clamed up tighter than a drum when asked for some particulars about the matter. Even the person most eoneerend. and, total ignorance concerning the | who was contacted first, professed ! matter. (CONTINUeIToN PAGE 2) World In I*ir<uros CHAMP AND NATION’S HEAD—Heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson (It calls on Pres. Kennedy in connection with Bis Brother Week. Patterson told the President a big secret—the challen ger—he w ill fight for the crown next June, i EPI TELEPHOTO). AIHI ~i kafirl VIOLENT ONES Violence erupted on the Sludebakcr- Pack ' ard picket line as an auto, driven by Sludebakrr-Packard President Sherwood Egbert, was halted on the way out of the plant One arrest was made and Egbert was later arrested on a complaint that he chal lenged one of the pickets to a fist 'fight. ATI TELEPHOTO). . —. 1 ... FAMILY AFFAIR NAACP employees belonging to the NAACP Chapter of Local 1 707. CSYL. Ml.-CIO. have purchased an NAACP Life Membership. Shown here receiving tluir plaque from Roy Wil kins. Executive Secretary is, Mesdames Janie Butts. Lillian Lyttlc, .... .... ....... BAILING OCT l5 Parents shown postin , inwi.-i < bii ign's Burnside Police Station, after Hire were arrested for parimipating in a “Study -In” at a South Side elementary school, f'hey were charged wl<b lottsi-iiie ir**l ni i ppoiOi i | 'f. • ,1 I ’ I | ' \ LAND AND PI.OPLI Dr. It C. Webb, “nd (mm iHin dean of agriculture at North Carolina YAT College, is shown taking part in a panel discussion at the National Conference o! Land and Peo ple ree«nt|y in Washington 1* C. (I SDA PHOTO). I ydLk- % HOT HORN Louis Armstrong and his hand blow up a storm ! at Sun Valley. Ys his golden notes floated up toward Baldv mountain Satehmo ad libbed. "My hut (hese chops are eo|*j." The hand was 1 filming “Winter Carnival at Sun Y alley" which will appear over ABl las a YY estinghousp Spectacular |rb. 33. ■ I PI T* M”HOTO). ADDS ONE MOKE Ernie Davis, famed Syracuse hark, adds one more honor to his collection when he received the “Outstanding Coi lege Back” award recently in Washington’s Sheraton Park Hot©!. Also shown with their trophies are .John Bateman. Rutgers, outstanding I college coach and Paul Hmnmic Green Bay Packers, outstanding er. (CPI TELEPHOTO'
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