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Reward in T^ 5 !" ! r< - rlnUn ' c °- Ambush Slaying Os Tan Deputy FAMILY OF MURDERED BOGALUSA DEPUTY—The grieving family of slain Negro Deputy Sheriff O’Neal Moore, view picture of Moore at their home last Thursday morning. Moore was killed and another Deputy, Greed Rogers was wounded when they were ambushed and shot in their patrol car by another passing auto late Wednesday night. Shown are: Mrs. Maevella Moore, Sheronda, 9 -months, Tressler, 3 l/2, and Reginla, 7. Not show is Veronica, 9. (UP! PHOTO). Bogalasa’s Mayor, Police Chief Decry Visit if Act, Seek More BOGALUSA, La . (NPI) -- -rA Negro deputy sheriff was shot to death last week, apparently by . white racists, in a bold ambush r near here. The victim was identified as Mrs. Cofield To Preside At Jack-Jiil Talks NORFOLK, Va. Delegates from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina will attend the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Reg ional Conference here June 18 and 19 of the Jack and Jill of A merlca*. Inc. The organization, with chap ters In most of the 50 States, is primarily for supervised so cial and cultural activities of sub-teen and teen-age girls and boys. Headquarters for the confer ence will be the Admiralty Mo tor Hotel, on Military Highway, with the mothers of the Norfolk chapter serving as hostesses. f The theme of the conference will be “World Demands—Jack and Jill Plans,’’ The two-day (See MRS. COFIELD, P. 2) Medics, Dentists, Pharmacists, Auxiliaries Planning Confab CHARLOTTE An outstand ing array of prominent physi cians, surgeons and dentists will appear as clinicians and guest lecturers ar the annual conventions of the Old North State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Societies, and their Women’s Auxiliaries to be held simultaneously here at the Queen Charlotte Hotel June 15-17. Heading the list appearing be fore the medical group are: Dr. Walter Booker, professor pharmacology, Howard Uni versity, Washington, D. C,, and Ur. Clarence L. Gantt, assist ant professor, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chica go. Other clinicians are: Dr. Claude A. Frazier, allergist, 'From Raleigh’s Official Police Files: THE CRIME BEAT BY CHARLES R JONES Stipend kn®tks, Both Ar* him Miss Senora Elizabeth Wat son, 23, of 307 S. Bioodworth Street, told two cops at 9:43 p. m. Monday, she went to visit her mother at 627 1/2 E„ Har gett Street. Shortly after her arrival, ac cording to the report, her step father, J. V, Hedgepeth, jumped on her and st ruck her with a Pepsi-Cola bottle. Both received slight bruises and cuts on the left sides of ' their tfeads. The officers arrested the pair and placed them in Wake County- Jail, charged with engaging in an affray. It could not be ascertained Just what triggered the daugh ter-step-father battle, but it has been advanced by a reliable source that “bad blood” had run between the two for some time. O’Neal Moore, who was shot In the head as he and his partner, Creed Rogers, drove along a highway just north of the city. Rogers was Injured in the at tack. Governor John J. Mc- Kelthan, in deploring the act, has oftered a $25,000 reward for others Involved In the plot. Being held for murder In the brutal slaying was Ernls R. Me- Elveen, 41, of Bogalusa. Sheriff J. C. *Kntppers, of Walthall County, Miss., said the suspect was arrested in Tyler town, Miss., 25 miles north east of Bogalusa, and was l>e ing held on a murder charge. He refused to waive extradition. Authorities said the Nego deputies were shot tromatruck that passed them near the com munity of Yarnado. They were hired to Sheriff Dorman A. Crowe to patrol Negro areas. This move had brought angry reaction from the Ku Klux Klan In the area. The slaying brought added tension to the Bogalusa area. Earlier, mobs armed with clubs and pipes attacked Negro civil rights pickets and Colum bia, the town’s main street, re sembled a battlefield until police arrested 28 persons--!5 whites and 13 Negroes. Asheville; Dr. James B. Lan dis, clincal investigator, Smith, Cline and French Laboratories, Philadelphia; Dr. John A. Ger gen, assistant professor, De partment of Psychology’ and Neurology and Mrs. Ethel M. Nash, assistant professor of preventive medicine and as sociate in obstetrics and gynec ology, both of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston- Salem, and Dr. William A, Whiteside, Dr. Monroe T. Gil mour and Dr. Robert Payne, all internist, and Dr. Malcom Mc- Call, cardiologist; Dr. Frnachis Robiseo, cardiac surgeon; and Dr. Fred H. Allen, Jr., neu rologist; Dr. Fred N. Mitchell, pediatric cardiologist, and Dr. (See MEDICS AND, IP. 2.) Mm Helds Wife k% Hubby Bents, Kicks Mrs. Jeahette Fleming Clind- Ing, of 904 Manly Street, in formed Officers W. E. Kidd and B. G. Lassiter at 2:13 a. m.Sat urday, that she was Inside the Club 54, corner of S. Blood worth Street, when her husband, Lycoe Cole Clinding, of 506 E. Hargett Streei, started beating her in the face, knocked her down and proceeded to kick her in the stomach with his feet. She also stated that J. C. McCoy held her as her husband beat her. Mrs. Clinding was treated for bruises, scratches about the head and face, plus two blacked and swollen eyes. Clinding declared the reason he beat his wife was because "she came at me with a drink bottle.” He was jailed, while the cops sought McCoy. Both are charged with assault and battery._ (See OUMX BEAT, P, S) At least four persons were injured and a total of 48 ar rested In four days of scrim mages. (See DEPUTY SLAIN, P. 2> UNCFTias Distributed sl3 Million NEW YORK The distri bution of sl3 million by the United Negro College Fund to 32 of Its member colleges and universities was announced Wednesday by Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, the Fund’s presi dent. The money—derived from the proceeds of a one-year devel opment fund campaign launch ed by President Kennedy In 1963 -- will be used by the In stitutions to help construct campus buildings and renovate obsolete structures. A part of the allocation will also be used to strengthen basic curriculum, and supplement en dowment funds for faculty ex pansion and scholarship aid. To date, the Fund has receiv ed and distributed $lO million in unrestricted capital gifts ob tained from the development campaign -- the $3 million dis tributed today and $7 million in 1964, One-third of this total sum came from a Ford Foun dation matching grant, and two thirds from contributor pay - (See SIS MILLION, T. 1) USDA wa Hire 1,500 b Sumer WASHINGTON, D, C.—The U. S. Department of Agricul ture announed last weekend that It will hire at least 1,150 boys and girls for the summer to provide them with jobs and work experience, as request ed by President Johnson in his Youth Opportunity Program. Secretary of Agriculture Or ville L. Freeman said USDA a gencies are to contact their lo cal State Employment Security Offices and begin hiring Im (3ee USDA TO, P. S) Local Man Receives Marketing Post With Coca-Cola Company The Capital Coca-Cola Bot tling Company, local bottlers of Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola products, announces the ap pointment of Eugene McCullers as its .Special Markets Repre sentative in the Raleigh area. McCullers is a native of Gar ner 'where he attended the pub lic school and graduated. He also attended Shaw University where he received the Bache lor’s of Art Degree In Busi ness Education. While a stu dent at Shaw', he held member ship in the S. N. E. A., the NAACP, the Business Club and the Kappa Alpha Psl Fraternity. Following his graduation from the university in 1962, McCullers enlisted in the U nited States Peace Corps. He has recently returned from Panama where he served with the Department of Commerce and Industries as a field work er. In this capacity he or ganized and managed coopera tives. Before his assignment in Panama,, he underwent a physical training program in 271 ARE TRANSFERRED TO LOCALWHITE’SCHOOLS THE COROLINIAN VOL. 24, NO. 31 Four Drown In NC River EDITORS, PUBLISHERS SET 2STH MEET ~ " DR. E. B. TURNER imhertmt Minister Sleeted LUMBERTON - Veteran member of the Lumberton City Council, Dr. E. B. Turner, was elected Mayor Pro-tern by the City Council last week after he received the highest vote in a contest by eighteen candi dates for eight seats on the council. Dr. Turner, a graduate of Shaw University and the'Shaw Divinity School, Raleigh, holds a Master of theology Degree from Midwestern Graduate Bi ble School, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from Friendship College. He is Moderator of the Lum ber River Missionary Baptist 1 Association, a member of the executive committee of the Gen eral Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, chairman of the Board of the United Christ ian Education Fellowship, and pastor of the First Baptist church, of Lumberton. He Is married to the former Miss Georglanna McNeil, of Clarkton, and they are the pa rents of two daughters: Andrea Lisa and Rosalvn Arlene. Puerto Rico, and a classroom training program at the Uni (See LOCAL MAN, P. S) EUGENE MCCULLERS . , . joins Coca-Cola Firm Appeals May Be Made By Parents Here Some 27i Negro students’ap plication for transfers to here tofore predominantly white schools In Raleigh have been ap proved for the ensuing school year. These figures were released Tu'esda; afternoon by city school officials. The assign ments were Indicated by schools, rather than race. Leading the number of Ne gro students, who were reas signed was Hugh Morson Junior High School, to which 105 stu dents have been scheduled. In cidentally, according to Raleigh Schools Superintendent, Jesse Ormond Sanderson, Sr., Hugh Morson will only operate for a bout two months into the 1965- 66 school year. No mention was made of the_dispersion of these (See 271 PUPILS, P. 2) White Oak River Takes Boys’ Lives SWANSBORO The White Oak River claimed four Negro 4-H Club members Tuesday a bout 5 p, m., while they were swimming during an outing of the group In a spit located eight miles west of here. Rescurers recovered three of the bodies Tuesday night, and efforts continued Into Wednes day to locate the other youth. Bodies of Kenneth Sutton, 14, of Pamlico; Thomas W ilson, 14, Warsaw; and John Ellis Moore, 9, of Pamlico were recovered, while Chessle R. Wilson, 11 years old, of Galloway's Cross roads, was still missing. Two youths were revived at the Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville. They were Frankie Clayton, 11, Route 1, and Billy Harris, 14, both of Faison. Clayton was released In “good condition,” while young Harris was admitted In “fair condition.” Officers said the youths were swimming with several other (See RIVER CLAIMS, P. 2) Cotton Choppers Wdk Off Loud owi®d if Senator INDIANOLA, Miss. Fif teen cotton choppers walked off Senator James O, Eastland's plantation in Dotldsville, Miss issippi to participate In a strike in Indlanola, last week. They are the first workers to leave Sena tor Eastland’s bind. There are now over 400 workers on strike In Sunflower County and over 100 In the Delta. All of the strikers are members of the Mississippi Freedom Labor U nlon, They are asking for a minimum wage of $1.25 per hour. The same scene is repeating itself in many counties in Mississippi. Negroes who have been harrassed all their lives (See COTTON, P. 2) RALEIGH. N C.. SATURDAY. JUNE 12, 1965 CARL T. ROWAN LESLIE CARTER, JR. JAMES FARMER J. M, CURTIS Sorority Sends Wires, Protests Teacher Firing BY LUIX VIRGIL OVERBEA WINSTON-SALEM Near ly 200 members of Sigma Gam ma Rho Sorority passed reso lutions last week to send tele PICKET AGAINST SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT— Chicago; Pickets protesting against local schools sunt. Beniamin Willis, march outside McCormick Place last weekend trying to attract the attention of President Johnson on his arrival. The president spoke before 6,000 persons at tending a SIOO-A-Plate fund-raising dinner. About 150 pickets were confined to the area, feet from the entrance. There was no violence, (UPI PHOTO). grams to State School and gov ernment officials denouncing the reported firing of Negro teachers In North Carolina be -—-(*«* SIGMA GAMMA, JP. 2) PRICE 15 CENTS Louisville Hosts Silver Anniversary > IYU I ! , K<. --Over 250 1 5* 1 1 ■, publishers and ■ ■? i .HI join ney to Lou s'. s int - Juno 16-20 : . Anniversary Con ; 'tt- National N‘-ws j I mi =1 Is! ■ i , A ssoc. ition, ■lll In .u some of A 1' uiSiu; , 'tills figures l . < • 1 I . Rowan, Di . Infoin: ition A- I ini ; Lisle (.’artiM, Jr,,As.sis • oil 111 i-ctor, Anti-Poverty James Farmer, Na tional Director of CORE; J. Mon* on.ei", Curtis, Director At.:erica): Press Institute; Bar- Bingham, Chairman, Inter n Don Press Institute; Kentuc ky Governor Edward T. Breat liill; Louisville Mayor William • I). Cowger; Jefferson County | Judge Marlow Cook and Maurice Henry, Kentucky Press Associ ation President. Other convention speakers are: Norman Issacs, Executive Ist, 2nd Graders To Shaw University Shaw University will conduct its first annual Summer Insti tute on Modern Mathematics for children entering the first and second grades in the public schools in September. The Institute, under the di rection of George Thomas, Sr., associate professor of mathe matics, and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Cofield, associate professor of education, will run for a period of four weeks, beginning along > with the opening of the regular summer session at the unlver ' sity on June 14. Patterned after the national program, “Proj e c t Head Start,” the Shaw program will (See TO SHAW V., P. 2.)
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