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After Meeting With School Authorities, NAACP To Go To DC On Board’s Stand ************************* SLUM HOUSING CLAIMS 2 Tenement Building Collapses CHICAGO-(NPI) - The haz ardous conditions prevalent in ■ltem housing' was depicted in a tragic way early last week when two wreckers in a building un der demolition were buried un der the rubble of a collapsed roof. The victims wore LaFayette Jones, Si (2017 W. Washburn* Ant.) and Marion Skinner, 36 (608 Tripp). The men were jinxed under debris on the fifth fleer of the six-story building. The gruesome discovery was made by Miss Dorothy Lucas, 8617 W. Washburn*, Mis® Lucas and the mother of one of the vietisft®, Mrs. Helen Janes, had gone to the demolition site in search of the men because they had bees missing for three days. Miss Lucas climbed to the fifth floor and saw a leg pro turding from the wreckage. She ran screaming from the build ing and attracted the attention of policemen in a passing squad ear, Fir erne®, were summoned and the bodies removed to the Louise Burg hospital. Police were told that the men were employed by the Joy Wreckage company which ob tained a city building depart ment permit last May 19 to wreck the building. % gP'v REV. BENJAMIN S, FOUST Ligon Seniors Will Hear St Paul Minister BY RICHMOND STEWART Rev. Benjamin S. Foust, pas tor of St, Paul A. M. E. Church here, will speak to J. W. Ligon High School's 241 seniors when he delivers the baccalaureate sermon in the school’s audi torium Sunday, June 6, at 3 p. m. Lawrence Wilson, president of the senior class, will be the commencement speaker the fol lowing Monday at the William Neal Reynolds Coliseum on the campus of North Carolina State University. The seniors begin their march into the Coliseum at 8 p. m. It is customary at Ligon that a noted dignitary (Speak at commencement every other year while the senior class president handles these duties on alternate years. Rev, Foust was born in Ai na anee County, North Carolina in November, 1932, where he attended the public schools and graduated. He has also gradu ated from Kittrel! College and Shaw University, and has at tended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds the A. B. and B. Th de ” OrdaLnea to tne Methodist j ministry in 1957, he pastored churches in Laurinburg, Aber deen, and Pittsbcro, before be coming pastor of Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Raleigh. He is also the assistant of the Western North Carolina Con ference of the A. M. E, Church and secretary of Christian Ed ucation for the Second Episcopal mm mm. mtvm, *>. s> THE CARQLINJAN VOL. 24. NO. 30 STRIKE SELMA ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★ MAN BEATEN, ABDUCTED, FREED Son Os Pastor Victim CRAWFORDVILLE, Ga. - A SCLC team prepared to atep up voter registration and com munity action activity here last week in the wake of the brutal beating and abduction of a white staffer by local racists on Thursday. Tony Scrnton, a 25-year-old minister’s eon of chewalah, Washington, and graduate of Washington State College, was snatched from his car by five local white mss and beaten about the head, neck and knees with iron pipe* after an SCLC team led a group of 55 local citizens in desegregation dem onstration*. Scruton, a member ofSCLS’s Summer Community Organiza tion and Political Education Project (SCOPE), was later turned over to the local sheriff by hi* abductors. After holding Send cm in protective custody for several hour®, the sheriff released him to SCLC officials with a stern warning that he should get out of Taliaferro County or stay at the risk of being killed. Semite® Ignored the warning. Two other white SCOPE staffers, A1 Luthmers, of Chi cago, and James Gibson, of Atlanta, also were arrested, charged with transpassing and jailed over night under S2OO bond. Willie Bolden, veteran SCLC staffer and leader of th* team, was not arrested. The SCOPE team is an ad vanced party of workers who under the direction of Hoses. William® will spearhead a. mas sive attack on diafranchise aient, educational deprivation and poverty in seven southern states this summer. Th* ranks of th* battered team have been re-enforced by nine other worker® who will <®e* BBATBN, P. t\ International Masons Meet In Reidsville REIDSVILLE - The becona Baptist Church of Reidsville, was toe scene cf the Grand Lodge Convention of Interna tional F and A M. Modern Masons last week.. Highlighting the two-day ses sion was the address of Dr. William V. Beaks, Supreme Grand Master of the Fraterni ty. Bantes said he believed Amer icans should not isolate the aged from our Society, “Many are alert and interested in being as useful a® possible in spite of retirement, ’ he said. “1 hare the highest praise for the passage of the Older Americana Act of 1965, be cause It provides for the estab lishment of an administration on aging in the Department of Health, EducsHen. ands I fare, } * be said. tm MASONS, p a> North Carolina s Leading Weekly fl 1 WAS COMMUNIST SPY FOR THE FBI - Mrs. Lola Belle “Holme®, a staff assistant for the Chicago Urban League, appears as the first witness in Chicago last Friday before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She told the body that she was a spy, posing as a communist for the FBI from 1957 to 1963. Her career ended when she testified against Claude Lightfeot, head of the Communist Party in Hllmoia. (DPI PHOTO), City, County School Boards Contrast Sharp BY STAFF WRITER While the Raleigh School Board rejected a plea from Negro citizens Tuesday after noon for a “more realistic plan” of assigning pupils to schools on the new basis of integration, County Superin tendent, Fred Smith and the entire Wake County School Board was attempting to face the Inevitable rfiange, brought about by the CMI Rights Law of 1964, with realism, although admitting “a problem Is being caused by transfer pleas.” The NAACP was represented ALERT COPS PREVENT BOGALUSA CHURCH BURNING - Shown outside the Ebanezer Baptist Church In Bogalusa, Louisiana last Thursday, are interested onlookers. An attempted Are burning took place there the night before. Alert police officers nabbed two white men with a two-gallon can of gasoline. One of them told police they planned to set Are to the Negro church where James Farmer, CORE'S national director, held a rally Wednesday night. (UP! PHOTO). RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1965 at the local board’s meeting by several militant leaders, headed by President Millie Dunn Veasey. Board Chairman, Maurice Thiem told representatives of the NAACP delegation, along with other persons who pro tested the location of th® new F. J. Carnage Junior High School, now being completed in the Rochester Heights- Bilt more Hills area, that “the U. S. Dept, of Health, Education and Welfare had approved the (B*e CSTV. COUNTS', P. Z> PRICE 15 CENTS Men Lay In Street; Save Jobs SELMA, ALA. - 38 Negro workers walked out of the Can tralla Farmer's Co-Op. last Friday. Central!* Is one of the largest fertiliser manufac turers In Alabama with Its main office located in Selma. They employ 38 Negroes at $1.28 per hour, skilled or unskilled, and four white men who act at foremen. A few days ago, John Bolden was told by his foreman, Horst Dunkin, to punch his card and leave, because Its tried to make unloading a truck easier by turning It around. Dunkin said that “Bolden is one of them smart niggers.’ ’ However, Bolden was not a lone; five of hlsfellow workers, Ernest Johnson, Herbert Clark, Jimmy Moore, Sam Smith and Julius Topp told their foreman, Dunkin that he really had no reason to fir© Bolden and that they were walking out in pro test. During the last few weeks, 18 men have been laid off and when the sis walked out,' th* company called six of the 18 lald-off men to replace the strikers. These six later Joined (See SS EMPLOYEES, P. S ) Bogalusa Mayor Announces New Policy; Farmer Hails It BOG ALUS A, La. - Mayor Jesae Cutrer, Jr., in a radio address, announced a new' poli cy on community desegregation last week, and CORE National Director James Farmer, speaking an hour later to an h h* ' ~J r A -*v 7 * AT ST. AUGUS'IIME’S COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT President James A. Boyer, ntjiu congratulates the Rt, Rev. Richard H. Baker, Bishop, Diocese of North Carolina, after con ferring upon him the Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Mrs. Richard H. Baker (center) and Mrs. James A. Boyer, partically hidden, are shown standing by to witness the presentation, Sunday afternoon at Saint Augustine’s College's 98th annual commencement. St. Augustine’s Grads Hear Rare Challenge From Bishop The Right Rev. Richard H. Baker, Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina spoke at the 38th commencement exercise of saint Augustine’s College Sun day afternoon. He told the 121 graduating seniors, and other educational leaders, “I see leaders of campus life who have risen to positions of in fluence In the classroom, on the athletic field, from the speaker’s platform, In theatri cal productions: Boys and girls whose courage, Industry, sense of duty have compelled them to lift their heads above the crowd around them supporting the structure that makes an insti tution of higher learning some thing more than a factory of knowledge, but an educational Institution of higher learning, training men and women for the rough and tumble at liv ing." “It is often thought, he said, “that people who hold positions of leadership were mysterious ly endowed with a full set of characteristic# that made them eligible.’ “I suppose, noted the speaker, “that we cannot avoid the fact that some peo ple have been around them. We must not forget that there are many people who weigh over two hundred pounds and are over six feet tall who do not use their unusual phy siques to creative ends.'' “A person presiding over a meeting of the student body has Off-Duty Cops Stupe NY Picket NEW YORK, N. i. -Marching in civilian clothes, over 136 off-duty cop* picketed for more than two hours Sunday night in defense of Lt. Thomas R. GCHgan, who has been the tar get ©f civil rights demonstra tions since July 16, 1964. A New York County Grand Jury and a police department Review Board absolved Giill gan, a white man, of any blame In the fatal shooting of 15-year old James Powell, a Harlem Ne gro youth. (See OFF-DUTY, P. S) overflow rally at Ebanzer Bap tist Church, said; “You are on the threshold of the great est breakthrough In any South ern city to the past live years/’ ‘•The mayor had fins words and we must applaud them. But now we must ee® to It that the deeds follow the words. The fight Is not ended—the most difficult part la ahead. You must hold your movement to gether.’ Shortly after midnight on the previous day, two whites were arrested for attempting to set afire the church where Farmer spoke. The mayor’s new policy was an outcome of a negotiations session May 16 with represent atives of the Bogalusa Civic & Voters League and CORE. It has the full support of the community affairs committee, which Includes 24 business, labor and professional leaders, la his radio talk, the mayor promised that all city ordi nances requiring segregation (See MAYOR, *». 2> weather! Temperatures for the neat five Say*. Thursday through Monday, will average near normal. Ths normal high and low tempera tures for the Raleigh ares will be, B*~Sl. Warm weather win con tinue through Monday with little day-to-day changes. Precipitation will average three quarter* of aa inch or lets, mostly as widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers, Thursday through Saturday, becoming more numerously Sunday and Monday. already won tire support he or she needs as evidence by the votes cast by the members of the student body In the elec tion. This, he warned, was not done in a vacuum.” “Few people, he said, “have bean put In elective offices just because they are considered to have the brains and the know how. The people who vote for a candidate for office gen erally have had demonstrations from the candidate that he cares enough to learn names, consi der feelings, recognize the needs of, accepts and encour ages other people." During the course of his speech, Bishop Baker warned the youth of his audience re l(Ka! Psvthokgist Tells YW Os Kelmd&tim in a recent meeting of th* Adult Activities Committee of the East Raleigh YWCA Vorla G. Bailey, psychologist In the Special Education Section of the North Carolina State De partment of Public Instruction, told the group that interest in the problem of mental retard ation has grown very rapidly in tha last fifteen years. He said educators have become more comecieua of the needs of children of retarded mental development than ever. More special classes for three chil dren are being provided, and more than 800 classes for men tally retarded children have been provided in tha State of North Carolina and more such classes are continually being provided. Mentally retarded children may be separated into two groups, the trainable men tally retarded and th* educa bl« mentally retarded. Th* classification of educable men tally retarded children refers to those children of school age who are developing intellect ually at about on® half to three fourths the rat* at average children and who are retarded to the extent that they are unable to make satisfactory progress in the regular school program. “It Is Important that children of retarded mental develop ment, as well as ether chil dren, be allowed to go through the growing stages, learn to t* j along with other individuals, learn to respect property rights, learn to respect the | rights of others, sad learn to give and take with ether chil- j dree m that at the adult level he too can participate in th* activities of th® community and do some things for himself that th® average person does for himself. From Raleigh’s Official Police Files: THE CHIME HEAT BY CHARLES R. JONES Ufj TkMtand o** Aaoflicr Ron s Wffs : Alexander rors, <«o, o» ovJ ? Smithflsld Street, reported to Officer* John Baker, Sr., and Otla Hinton, Jr., at 2:30 a. m. Sunday, that he and Mrs. Doro thy Delores Isaacs, 32, were ; In Staten’B Case, 319 S. East j Street, whan Robert Bernard j Isaacs, husband of Mrs. Isaacs, came to and “began to push her around/’ Fort declared Isaacs told him, “he would blow my heart out,” He also report edify had a pistol. i©der a towel, to his hand. Officers searched the taxicab Isaacs was driving, but didn’t find the gun. The Isaacs reside at 624 8. moodwsrth Street. He was “hauled off” t o Wake County Jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. peatedly of the importance of dedication and hard work as they enter their chosen pro fessions. Degrees were conferred upon 121 graduating seniors at Saint Augustine’s College by Pres ident James A. Boyer, during the 98th annual commencement exercises Sunday, May 30. Graduates from Raleigh are as follows: Hester Monk A dams, Emily J. Barnes, Vir ginia L. Burt, Eleanor Edwards Duell, Jo Ann Gorman. Corne lia Hubbard, Susie Lee Hinton, Shirley Bowser Hunter, Jean ette Jones, Lucille Whitfield Lang, Janice Marshall, Mary (See ST. AUG., S». *) For these reasons, special classes for educable mentally retarded children have been and are now being organized, where children of approximate ly the same age, same capaci ties, and with similar achieve ments can learn together in a classroom situation. Mr. Bailey closed by saying, “The low academic abilities of mentally retarded children as well as their other handicaps, may limit the range of their opportunities, but does not necessarily prevent them from making good occupational and community, adjustments.” He urged the entire community to Join hands, and work toward helping the mentally retarded person achieve status In the community. NEW DEADLINE! Because of the recent instal lation of the Offset Printing process at The CAROLINIAN, and because we are anxloos to please oar .reading public by having ihe newspaper printed at an earlier time, a new deadline for new* and photos goes into effect with the pcblicaMon of this edition. The new deadline far all news and picture* is Monday, June ?. at 5 p, m. for appearance in the newspaper dated Satur day, June 12. AH hometown news writers and persons hav ing club news, personal items and pictures, are urged to pat them in the mall no later than Sunday afternoon, or have them In the office of The CAROLINIAN on Mon days at 5 p. m. Material re ceived later than the afore mentioned deadline wilt be considered for publication tn the following issue of this newspaper. This is a perma nent deadline. Kindly observe it. 'Lifts Podcstbook As Wonoi Helps Others Mrs. Eaxnie Mae William*,- 34, of ME S. Wilmington Street, told Officers R. B. Callahan and H. K. Wall si 8 a. m. Sat urday, that she stopped at the intersection of Idle wild and G&kwood Avenue* to see If she could be of help to a couple involved In a wreck. As she appr cached the other car, Mrs. Sallie Oakley Banks, 41, of 1502 Cross Street, stole her poefcstbook, she declared, Mrs. Williams said the purse contained valuable papers and $22 to cash. She signed a warrant, charg ing larceny and receiving and Mrs. Banks was arrested and placed under a bond of. S!QG, case OtSSCK *ya&T, **. 3)
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