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■■ ■ ALL HEART Pretty Brenda Lyons of Lexington, a co-ed at North Carolina College at Durham , is a collector of “hearts," especially on Valentine's Day. In the above photo, she is shown faith tokens from three hopeful NCC males. Pie lii re Salule To Scowls Scoutmaster Thomas Chavis, Troup 159. Boy Scouts of America, Fayetteville Street Baptist Church, is explaining ’ Boy Scout Week ’ plans tor the 52nd anniversary of scouting in America with members ©f his troop. This is one of the largest and most active troops in the Wake. Division. Chavis received the Silver Beaver Award in 1961. Mm David R. Coker, who was one of the original founders of ce«rating, 52 years ago and attended the first meeting held in Chicago She visited Troop 159 teat week and told the boys how pleased she was Is greet them. She made the trip from Hartsville, South Carolina. She. is shown with members of troop 159. Physical fitness is one of the attributes of good scouting. These hays are members of the swimming team at A&T College, which de feated Tuskegee Institute last week, to the tune of 42 to 45. Standing right Is Robert Howard ’6l graduate. Ligon High School. He is an Eagle Scout, with Troop 104. These scout executives are shown as they made plans for & special program that will be held at Tapper Memorial Baptist Church, Blcmnt and Cabarrus Streets. 11 ;00 A. M. Sunday. Rev. D. N, Howard. District Scout Executive and pastor of the church, will deliver the sermon L-r: Thomas Chavis, Mrs. Delia High, Mrs. Geraldine Fattishaw and Jobrsnir M. Fettiford It is very necessary for scouts to meet and get the proper infornia tton to carry out the plans of the organisation. These boys are shown as they attend a class in advancement. They arc working on the “Pi oneering Merit Badge’’. It is one of the reguirments to become an awmL Fir Cl. LX* ,a«DI ° oa ? a 9 - W scouting Increases 4 4a «e THE COROLINIAN VOL. 21, NO IS Local NAACP Head Says Recreation Act Unfair Challenges Recreation Practices Things are far from what they ought to be at the new recreation building in Chavis Park the Ra leigh City Council was told last Monday. According to Ralph Campbell, local NAACP president, the Ra leigh Recreation Commission has instituted some practices at the new recreation building at Chavis Park which are unfair and dis criminatory. Campbell protested the practices as not being in keep ing wdth democratic principles. In an interview with The CARO LINIAN, Campbell said that be «CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Negro Named To Orange County Board Harold Webb, Principal, Ceoar j Grove School, Hillsboro, has been appointed to the three-member Orange County Board of Public Welfare. Appointment of Webb is significant for reasons other than that he is believed to be the first of his race to serve in this capacity in North Carolnia. Webb, long a leader in Hillsboro community affairs, has been the principal of the 540 pupuil Cedar (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Two Couples Arrested On Morals Charges LENOIR Racial mixture came to the fore Tuesday when i two white sisters and two Negro men were arrested on what police I termed as “moral charges ” Mrs. Evelyn Joyce Bowman, 19, and Mrs. Nancy Catlene Cannon, both of the Hanan section of Cardwell County, and Plez Whittington, 27, and Vester Scott, were arrested for having lived Lockheed Ups Negro Employment 26% WASHINGTON <ANP' - The Lockheed Arcraft corporation, the first defense contractor covered by aWhite Ho'ise agreement to end ra cial discrirrimaiion in hiring, has stepped up tt s employment of Ne gores by 26 per cent in six months. Last May 25, Courtiand Gross, at that time Lockheed presidenl sign ed a "Plan for Progress" with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, chairman of the President s .Com mittee on Equal Employment Op portunity. The move was made to ODDS-ENOS BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD “To this is our God. we, have waited for Him.” SHARING THE SPOILS The old adage. "To the victors belong the spoils", is strickly ad hered to by all political groups. Right or wrong, this concept is so interwoven into the fabric of A merican political life,' it has become an accepted truison. Negroes in areas out side the south nave been included in this spoils patronage system. Within the south, the story has been dif ferent. During past years, the Ne gro himself has oeen, in a large measure, responsible for being left out when the political pie was be ing cut and served. The past histo ry of Negro voting in the south re veals the sad spectacle of so called Negro “leaders” selling out other Negroes for s few paltry dollars. tCONTENDED ON PAGE Z> North Carolina's Leading Weekly ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE - Jacob Davis points to area where he was working when explosion in gasoline tank trailer blew out of end where he is standing, Doctors have said it is al most impossible that Jacob escaped with only minor injcrics (UPI TELEPHOTO). insure equal job opportunity with out regard to race, creed, color or national origin The "Plan for Progress' was de veloped by the Committee and com pany management following the filing of complaints of discrimina tion by the NAACP on behalf of 32 Lockheed employees at. its Ma rietta. Ga„ plant. Since the Lockheed signing. 20 more of the largest defense con tractors have signed Plans" with the Vice President. Similar agree ments are scheduled to be signed at the White House this week by j 29 other concerns with Govern ment contracts. Commenting on the Lockheed ad vances last week, the Vice Presi dent said: “Not only has the Lock heed plant at. Marietta. Ga., pro vided substantial and heartening (CONTINUED ON PAG*. *) GA To Install Officers Toe full program for the annual installation - mass meeting of the Raleigh Citizens Association has just been made public. This meeting which will begin at 3:30, Sunday afternoon. Feb. 11. at the First Baptist Church will be charge of George Newell, Program Director of the association. The program is as follows: Sing- | ing by the congregation; Invoca- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE i) RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1962 I together. They were also charged I with breaking, entering and lar ceny. The preliminary hearing for the four has been set for Tuesday in Comity Recorder’s Court. The women are separated from their husbands. Mrs. Bowman is the mother of two and Mrs. Cannon the mother of one. Sheriff J. R, Reynolds told the CAROLINIAN that, he found hotel receipts for the four as they had registered as man and wife in the Plaza Hotel in New York City Further investigation revealed that they had been living in and around this section since Jan. 15. Evidence showed that they had been living in a cabin that only can be reached by jeep. Whittington and Scott wore ar rested Sunday in a car; the two women were arrested on Tuesday. CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS - Bin from them PAGE 2 Horton's Cash Store PAGE 3 Mother A Daughter Anderson's Upholstery Shop Mechanics A farmers Bank Town & Country Furniture PAGE 5 Hudson-Folk FGrd's PAGE 6 Public Servtri Co. ol N. C. Thomas food Market Johnnon-Uambe Firestone St- res , ■l. B. Brown Major Flnanee Co American Credit Co. Auto Insurance Service Wlmberley Electric Co. T. C. Oiocery WAG Upholstery Company Nina's Grill The Fahrle Shop Garry’s Cut-Rate G;o. & M! ». Mechanic* A Farmers Bank Stephen’s Appliance Company Mann's Furniture Company Dunston's Texaco Service Carpet, Center Capital Vacuum Store Charles Store Hunter’* Grocery Browning Barber Shop Jov's American Gr”l Raleigh Paint A Wallpaper Co. Edenton Street Cleaners Capital Bargain Store Peebles Grill & Hotel Washington Terrace Apts., She. Unit Increase Largest In US Scouting The 27,598 members of the Occo neechee Council will join the na tion's 5,000.000 Cub Scouts, lioy Scouts, Explorers, and adult lead ers in observing the 52nd Anniver sary of the Boy Scouts of America from Feb. 7 to 13. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Congratulates Negro Press NNPA Meets With JFK WASHINGTON President. J, F. Kennedy was commended for "magnificent leadership’* by the National Newspaper Publishers As sociation here last weekend during the Association s annual mid-Win ter Conference. A delegation, headed by NNPA- President John H. Sengstacke, Chi cago 'FU.t Daily Defender, visited with the President at the White House pledging support of his pro gram and offering assistance in get ting the Department of Urban Af fairs and Housing through Con gress. Accompanying Mr. Sengstacke were John H. Murphy. 111, Balti more. Afro-American Newspapers; Thomas W. Young, President, Nor folk (Va.) Journal and Guide; Dr. Carlton C. Goodlet, San Francisco Lives To 104 "ignoring Pains” CHICAGO (ANP) Mrs Sa fari Mcl enore, 104, who was born a slave in Mississippi died last Meek in her home here. Mrs. McLemore, a widow, did farm work and picked cotton in Mississippi and Arkansas be fore coming to Chicago in 1040. Relatives said she attributed her long life to ignoring "little pains". She lived with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso McLemore. She also leaves three other sons, Herman, Richard, and Henry Thomas; a daughter. Mrs. Mary Jackson; 24 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. WEATHE R The live day *.#ather forecast tor the Raleigh area beginning Thurs day, Feb. S, and continuing through Monday, Feb !3, i* at follow*: Temperature* wilt average near normal, colder - ver the weekend, Rain fall about a quarter of an inch, toward or during the week end. i Buffalos Companj A Builders I PAGE 1 i Auto Discount Company Auto Insurance Service I Auto Discount Co. Weaver Bros Rambler Sanders Motor Co., (Used Cars) f'orrcll Coal Co. Standard Concrete Product* Co. PAGE 8 Colonial Stores R E. Quinn Furniture Co. First Citizen* Bank & Trust Co Taylor Radio & TV Service PAGF q Capital Ice and Coal Co., Inr. A*P Food Store- Branrh Banking A Trust Co. Dunn’s Esso Service PAGE 10 Pepsl-CoJa Bottling Co. of Raleigh ! Watson's Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc. 1 Jillon Motor Finance Co. jSevest-SJp Bottling Company Carolina Builders Co£> Ridgeway's Opticians, ’in*-, Blcodwortb St. Tourist Home Deluxe Hotel Warner Memorial, PAGE 13 Lincoln Theatre PAGE 16 Joe Murntck Promotions Ptggly Wiggly Acme Realty Company Raleigh Seafood Company Central Drug Store Raleigh Funeral Home Hunt Genera.) Tire Company - 4 * \ * . $| S * * A FIRST ln a ceremony at Pearl Harbor, a Negro naval of ficer became the first of his race to take command of a combat sired U. S. Navy ship is the Pacific. Lt. Cdr. Samuel L. Gravely , 39, of Richmond. Va., assists outgoing skipper Cdr Robert Fried man (!) to cut a ceremonial cake. (UP! TELEPHOTO) PRICE 15c Sun-Reporter; C. C. Deloie, Lou isiana Weekly; John Kirkpatrick, Fast St. Louis fill.) Crusader, and E A Sweets, St. -Louis American. Andrew Hatcher, Associate White House Press Secretary, was pre sented the organization’s Russ wurm Award for outstanding journalistic achievement. The Pub lishers announced the 135th Found ers Day of Negro newspapers to be observed Friday. March 16. while the 24th National Negro Newspa per Week is set for March 18 to £4. Arrangements for these observ Seyro History Week Feb. ##-#7 WASHINGTON. D. C. Con- ! gressman Charles Diggs, in keeping with the wishes of Mrs. Christine Johnson, president, Afro-American Heritage Association, asked Presi dent. Kennedy to proclaim the week of Feb. 11-17 as Negro History Week, here Tuesday. Mrs. Johnson began "Gentlemen, we have appealed to the govern ments of the world to take note of Negro History Week. Wt feel strongly that it. would he most em barassing if EO-'-ernments of the world speak hut on this-occasion, while our government remains si lent. Former Major Jackson Now Lt. Col. L. L. Jackson FRANKFURT, Germany Ma jor Leonard L Jackson, plans and Crowd Pays Respects To Or. Rosamond WILMINGTON A large crowd of citizens of both rac<’:* gathered Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at. Chestnut St. Presbyterian Church to pay final respects to the late Dr. Sylvester Roosevelt Rosemond, nol - ON PAGE ii ? IMssfcJ! | {mgr m in PR. S, R ROSEMOND ances are being handled by a com mittee of Mr. Young, chairman, N NFA Public Affairs Committee; Sidney Smith, New York. Director Amalgamated Publishers, Inc and Moss H Kendrix. Washington, D C, The Moss H. Kendrix Organi zation. At tbr White House the publish ers. in a prepared statement, told the President they support bis i f fort to establish the Department of Urban Affairs because of their great interest in the neglected ur ban areas of the country. ■‘An extended history of distor tions, misrepresentations, omissions and falsifications about Africa and about Afro-American citizens" was unusual' and compelling circum stances And she emphasized lo the senators and congressmen, "Ob viously, from the letter, the Presi dent can act with or without a re solution from Congress." In the meantime the African-A merican Heritage Association has appealed to the non-racist nations of the world to take note of Negro History Week and asked that they (CONTINUED ON PAG® D Operations Division Officer, Quar termaster Section. Headquarters V Corps, was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel He was formerly co-owner of Hayes-Jackson Electrical retail '■tore in Raleigh, prior to entering the service. Lieutenant Colonel Jackson (Mit ered military service on .January 5, 1941. after attending Leva- Insti tute in Chicago, 111 The Lieuten ant Colonel's last assignment was at Fort. Lee. Va., with Headquar ters Quartermaster Training Cent er. While there he received the j first Oak Leaf cluster to the Army's | Commendation Medal for periods of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) - State News | —l\ Briefs MANS DEATH RULED ACCIDENTAL GREENSBORO Coroner R B. Davis, Jr. handed down a ruling of accidental death i.n connection with a pedestrian fatality in which the man was hit by two cars. Anderson C. eater, 31-year-old man died Sunday night of head and chest injuries. Authorities said Gester was first struck a glancing blow by a car driven by Assistant City Fire Chief Fre Trulove. Gester was knocked (continued" ON PAGE ti
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