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The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-04-28
HEART ATTACK CLAIMS
A VISITING SPORTSMAN

John A. Woods, 81, of Yancey-
vile, died at s:O5 pm. Monday
IN Manteo, in the office of DR..
w. w. Harvey, Jr., where he had
been taken for treatment, follow
ing sudden heart attack while
sojourning on the beach at Mays
Head. He had come to Dare Coun-
ty with party of IL on fishing
trip, which included the former
Sheriff of Caswell County. The
body was taken to Twiford's Flu
neral Home and was then sent to
Yanceyville for funeral and burial.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-04-28
CARSON DAVIS BREAKS HIP

Carson w. Davis, 83-year-old
Manteo businessman, is in Leigh
Memorial Hospital, Norfolk, Va,
receiving treatment for a broken
hip, and is reported to be recuper-
ating satisfactorily. Mr.. Davis
slipped in his home Monday night
as he arose from the dinner table.
His daughter, Mrs. J. R. Meikle,
of Cramerton, is at his bedside.
, 1961-12-20
Guest Editorial
IN ST. CROIX

AT TIL same time that millions of Americans on the
continent are spending millions of dollars to build Fall-Out
Shelters in every plot of land, a small group Of officials in ST.
Croix are offering to give away millions of dollars worth of Fall
Out to this Island. This Fall-O Out will land on every roof in the.
western half of this island and be washed into our cisterns
gradually turning our drinking water red. How much OF this
reddish dyed water can be drunk by a human before it kills
him should be tested out before any bauxte-aumina plant is
brought here. Maybe the hackers of the Harvey Alumina.
plant, who are prominent government officials, will still de-
eide to go ahead if the test kills only a few, After all what is
the loss of only a few lives, thousands of homes and ciSternS,
and the western half of this island, compared to the pie-in-the-
sky benefits they promise us.
THE LANE they want to give for the location of the
aIumina plant is near the center Of the island on the south
shore. Ninety-five per cent Of the time the vino blows Il to
Is miles per hour from that point over the western halt OF the
island. If, as they claim, most of the red dust drops within
a half mile of the plant, there will still be enough to ruin our
csterns and drinking water from our roofs, to make the west
en half Of the island an extremely undesirable place to live
within a year.
IN H FACE of the dangers of such a plant, one person
wants the plant SO badly, that he wildly accuses anyone who
opposes him on the question, using race-hat1ed or any other
extreme argument that in the heat Of his temper he thinks will
squash his opponents. What, one wants to know is: What has
race, creed or color got to do with the question, when we all
face the loss of our homes, from the smallest shanty, through
pubhc-housing to the costiest dwellings? Think it over. Let
your conscience be your guide, as one ardent hacker is fond
of putting it. Turn thumbs down.
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Baseball
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been in bloom since 1866.
A report states that Mrs. Mich.
olson at one time received a sun
of money from the club as appease-
ment. She was reported by friends
as saying that the sum came to
81, 900. Circuit Attorney Quentor
Gansloder said he is investigating
the allegation.
Police also arrested Mrs. Nichol-
son for stealing by deceit and
fraud. Detective John Weingart
said that she opened a charge ac-
count at Scruggs Vandervoort and
Barney in Covington's name, and
ran up charge Of $1,O11. The
account was eventually closed be-
cause just one payment Of $40 was
ever received. Mrs. Nicholson was
released on bond Wednesday. A
warrant was later refused.
Hospital Examination
She was taken to city hospital
number one and examined by DR..
George Hallinger who referred her
to DR.. James Milech for psychiatric
treatment.
Police said Covington is married
and currently residing at 3446 N
18th street in Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin. The 29-year-old athlete is q
native of North Carolina, and
presently lodging with his team
at the Chase Hotel. He is being
represented by Attorney Sheldon
Grand.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
Sen. Byrd Calls
III. S. School Suit
3" Fantastic Move

Richmond, Va, Apr. 2S.-Sena-
tor Harry Flood Byrd (D) of Vir-
ginia says Attorney General Rob
ert F. Kennedy's proposal to force
open Prince Edward County, Vir-
ginia's shut down public schools
"is fantastic and completely un-
realistic"
Senator Byrd, in a statement
Thursday from his Washington
office, urged Attorney General
Kennedy to reconsider "such in
temperate and ruthless action"
The senior Virginia senator said
the move was an attempt "to pun
ish an entire state because the
action of one county displeases the
United States Attorney General"
Mr.. Kennedy, in a motion filed
in Federal District Court here
Wednesday, asked the court to pro-
hibit state support of any public
school in Virginia until Prince Ed
ward schools are reopened on a
desegregated basis. The schools
were shut down two years ago
when federal courts ordered them
desegregated.
/ Senator Byrd said the action
proposed by Mr.. Kennedy twill
sow the seeds of intense bitterness
throughout Virginia and the South
when unity is needed as rarely be-
FORE"
Meantime, Gov. J. Lindsay AL
mond, Jr., set up an emergency
meeting for Friday with top-level
state officials to consider the
Prince Edward crisis.
Cali should anticipate a decision
that would rebound to the common
good" Governor Almond said.
He told newsmen he had mot
approached the question" of a spe-
cial session of the state Legislature
cup to this point"
But, he said, he desires ITO pre-
serve public education and the to-
tai cause of education in Virginia.
Meantime, an attorney for the
Prince Edward Board of Super
visors said county officials would
be pleased to join IAN appropri-
ate conference" with Attorney
General Kennedy and state Off
Gals about the schools.
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o. NJ and he has reopened the port of Matadi for UN
supplies Though the opponent of the centralized regime
bequeathed to the Congo by Belgium, he presses
loose confederation accepted in principle by the Tanana
rive conference These positive developments be well
coined.
In contrast, President Tshombe who employs many
foreign (mainly Belgan) advisers and military per
sonnet, rejects the United Nations demands Relying
on his own economic strength he insists the fmiest
kind of confederation if any, in order to preserve his
own political independence. Beyond that he may we'll
nuture ambitions to replace Mr.. Kasavubu as Presi-
dent. -
Irrespective of these differences there can be no
excuse for his hgh-handed arrest long demanded by
the Sovets in retaliation for Ex-Premier Lumumbas
murder He delegate to conference in Kasa-
vubucontroled territory and such had at the very
least the right to safe-conduct.
AS the General Assemby's own resolution says
there be solution in the Congo without recon-
Citation 1t is the urgent task of the United Nations to
work toward that end and correct this latest in the
series of rash actions to which all Congolese leaders
seem to be prone.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
UNcF Announces
May Schedule
For Abe Choir
Breakfasts

New York, April 26.-The choral
groups of Clark, Bishop, st. Paul's
Colleges and Shaw University are
scheduled for the May broadcasts
of Negro College Choirs," heard
over the ABC Radio Network. The
weekly programs feature the stu
dent choirs of the member colleges
Of the United Negro College Fund.
The Clark College Philharmonic
Society ATLANTA, Ga.) will be
heard May z. ]. deKoven Killings
worth is the director.
The choir of Bishop College,
Marshall, Texas) under the direc-
ton of J. Harrison Wilson, will be
heard May Ia.
st. Paul's College Choir claw
renceville, Va.), directed by Roland
L. Allison, will present its program
May 81.
Shaw University's Concert Choir
raleigh, N. CO. will round out the
months programs on May %. Har-
ry Gil-Smythe directs the group.
NEGRO College Choirs" origi-
mates from New York City for the
ABC Radio Network. The dates
listed above are for WABC-N. Y.
Sundays, 7:30-7:55 a.m.). In other
sections of the country, ABC affil-
lated stations carry the choral Sc
ries on varying dates and at diff
ferent hours. Check local news
paper listings for airline in your
area.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
WILLIAMS STRESSES NEED FOR
MORE AID TO AFRICAN NATIONS

Hampton, Va, April q, 1861
G. Mennen Williams, assistant
secretary of state for African At
fairs, stressed the continued need
for material aid to all African ma
tions at a seminar on "African
Nations In The World Community"
at Hampton Institute, Saturday,
April %.
In the third and final seminar on
Africa Today, DR.. Hugh Clos
ter, director of the seminars in his
Introductory remarks explained the
interest Hampton Institute has dis
played in African affairs. He cited
the number of African students
who have studied at the college,
President Holland and DR.. Martins
recent trip to Sierra Leone to
study the educational system there,
and the African Institutes held dur
ing the summer at the college.
America must extend "the hand
of friendship in terms of material
aid" to the new African nations,
though mot in terms that would
bankrupt us or stagger the imagin-
atom, Williams said.
Private enterprise should be en-
couraged to lend much of this ma
terial aid but it can't do the whole
job" particularly in filling Africa's
need for roads and educational IA
cilities, the assistant secretary said.
"This is our opportunity to give
our brothers a chance to realize
self -fulfillment", Williams said.
Difficult as the problems are,
there is hope that, given a hand,
the Africans can do the job-and
will"
Emphasizing a statement made
by DR.. Holland, president of the
college, who said in his introduc-
ton of Williams that "Africa can
not be lost to the Western tradi-
ton by default, the assistant Sec
rotary said, "In terms of the cold
war, what terrible thing it would
be to have continent lost to
freedom"
In a press conference following
his address, Williams, who returned
last month from a six-week trip to
Africa, said he doubted that the
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recent Cuban invasion and Presi-
dent Kennedy firm stand in its be-
half would ALLEVIATE Africans.
This country's advocacy of self
determination and its support of
the Cuban rebels "are not neces-
sarily incompatible" he said, and
Africa's own problems are so vast
that whatever happens in Cuba is
but "a part of the political spec
trum" to Africans.
Williams said the Peace Corps
has captured the imagination of
the African people" and that he
was highly gratified at the uni
formly good job being done by
foreign service employees.
E. M. Debrah, Counsellor for the
Embassy Of Ghana in Washington,
one of the afternoon speakers at
the seminar pointed out that when
the leaders Of the under-developed
countries accept Soviet aid, or
Western aid, they do so with "their
eyes wide OPEN"
Africans are bewildered when on
attaining independence they are
confronted with the cold war prob
lem and asked to choose sides.
"Why should we not allow anyone
who wants to be our friend to
justify that friendship in our own
eyes,, he asked.
He emphasized the fact that in
spite of the large sums of money
which the West has given to assist
under-developed countries there is
still great need for more capital
in Africa and Asia. eff Soviet as
sistance is offered, why should an
Independent country refuse to ex-
ercise its sovereignty to consider
the Offer" he said.
The kind of economic society that
Ghana has decided to build is a
socialist society, the speaker stated.
eve wish to emphasize, however,
that we are determined to work
out our own pattern of socialism
adapted to our own needs and based
on our own traditions. In our So
cialist state" there is room not
only for public ownership but also
private ownership" he said.
American Interests and Activi-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
Youth Corps Debut

The American Peace Corps (for which we still pre-
fer the original modest title of Youth Corps)
has its first mission under contract. 1t should be
good one to start
team of 20 surveyors, four biologists and four
civil engineers to assist the of Tanganyka
In surveying for feeder roads to bring farm produce to
market aid in grading main roads, and teach surveying
to Tanganyikan students The young American voun-
teers expected to receive their training and oren
tation this summer They to spend years on the
job.
This African project is aptly chosen. One of the
key lessons of other development programs is that
nation bent undermining its economy needs good
transportation system before industriazaton agri
cultural expansion take place. The teaching aspect
of the American mission also makes sense since Tan
ganyka repeatedly would otherwise have been produc-
ing only two fully trained surveyors in the next
five years.
Technically, then the corps planners have chosen
well for their debut 1t remains for them to prove they
can be equally discreet in having their initial team &C
cepted skilled helpful Individuals rather than as the
subsidized propagandists that anti-American
groups will try to make Africans If Washington can
minimize fanfare and boastng there is no doubt that
the earnest young technicans will succeed in winning
friends by being both friendly and useful The Christ
ian Science Monitor.
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Justice Dept. 80.
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school," Mr.. Kennedy said. "Tney
are unable to. Court orders are
being circumvented and nullified.
Therefore, we have brought this
action to protect the integrity of
the judicial process of the United
States"
Since public schools were closed,
approximately 1,400 white children
in the county have attended private
schools financed by the state of
Virginia, the county and by con-
tributions from private citizens in
lieu Of taxes, the motion said.
There are no public or private
schools for the approximately LOO
Negro children in the county.
The motion asked the court to
enjoin county and state officials
"from failing or refusing to main
tain in Prince Edward County a
system of public free schools"
Injunctions also were sought
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
Negro Motorist
Green Book
Celebrates Its
25th Anniversary

New York, April 29-America's
oldest guide for the Negro traveller
celebrates its 18th Anniversary
with the 1861 Edition, which has
just been published. Recognizing
the problem Of the Negro traveller,
Victor H. Green, a farsighted man,
started the Green Book in 1886
with only 10 pages. Guiding Trav-
elers to places friendly to them on
long trips, the usefulness of the
Green Book was soon valuable to
public libraries, the Travelling Aid
Society, leading gas companies and
the Negro travelling public. Besides
national listing, The Green Book,
offers hotel and other accommo-
dations for Mexico, Canada and the
Caribbean.
Victor H. Green, the publisher,
passed away in October, 1860 but
the book was published by his
widow who felt that the work Of
bringing information to the Negro
traveller was needed and should be
continued. It was Mr.. Green's hope
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
Robert Harris
In Concert
.Atjaekson
College Sunday

Robert Harris, Professor OF
Piano at Jackson State College,
will appear in . Schubert-Liszt re-
cital Sunday, May Z, 1861, at 400
p. m. Mr.. Harris, Z member Of the
College Music Faculty since 1866,
is well known for his superlative
technique and individual style.
While still in public school, Mr..
Harris was . student Of DR.. Robert
Markham Of Baylor University.
Later, he was = student Of Helen
Hagan, well-known concert pianist,
while . scholarship student at
Bishop College.
He is . three-time fellowship
recipient in the Juilliard Graduate
School, and il also . former Rosen-
wald Fellowship winner. Mr.. Har-
ris has been . pupil Of Josef and
Rosina Lhevinne, Oscar Wagner,
then Dean ct Juilliard; vittorio,
Giannini, Bernard Wagenar, and
Frederick Jacob.
The public Is cordially invited to
hear this gifted young artist.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06
New Conflict In The CONGO
The New York Times

The prospect of an amicabe settlement in the Con-
go has dimmed again because of the outbreak of wide
open conflict between President Kasavubu recognized
head of the Congo state and President Tshombe of Sc
cessonist Katanga. The conflict assumed ominous pro-
portions when Mr. Tshombe who controls most of the
Congos wealth, walked out of summit meeting
OF Congeese leaders only to be arrested by President
Kasavubus soldiers.
Behind this dispute both basic issues and per-
sonal rvaries President Kasavubu has made his peace
with the United Nations He has accepted it's demands
for the withdrawal of foreign personnel not under the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06

against public support Of the PRIV
ate schools in Prince Edward Coun.
ty and against public support o,
any public schools in the state un.il
public schools are reopened in the
county.
The motion to intervene wouid
put the Government on the side OF
the Plaintiffs in the case, origi-
nally brought in 1852. The Prince
Edward case was one Of the four
in which the United States Su-
preme Court overturned the sep
arate-but-equal school doctrine IN
1854.
Various Negro students have
been plaintiffs while they were OF
school age.
Monday the plaintiffs were
granted permission by the District
Court to file an amended supple
mental complaint asking that pub
lie schools be reopened.
Defendants named in the plain
tiffs' complaint are the county
school board, county treasurer and
Board of Supervisors, the state
board of education and the state
superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
The Government motion was
brought against these defendants
and also against the state of Vir-
ginia, its comptroller and the
Prince Edward School Foundation.
This foundation was incorporated
privately incorporated in May,
1859 to operate privately elemen-
tary and secondary schools, two
weeks after the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit directed that the county's
high schools be integrated in the
fall of 1859.
The motion asserted that the
county Board of Supervisors then
stopped levying taxes for schools
and that the foundation urged
property owners to donate sums
saved by them on account of the
reduction in tax levies" for the
operation of the private schools in
1959-60 school year.
The foundation charges tuition
for the present school year, the
motion stated-$240 for elemen-
tary school students and 1866 for
high school students.
The Board of Supervisors in
creased taxes for the current year
and reimburses parents 800 of the
tuition chage, according to the mo-
ton. The State of Virginia pro-
vides another $125 for each elemen-
tary pupil and $3.50 for each high
school student.
t'The maintenance and operation
of the schools of the Prince Ed
ward School Foundation on a raci-
ally discriminatory basis, with the
financial assistance of the county
and state, circumvents this Courts
order requiring the public schools
of Prince Edward County to be.
operated without racial discrimi-
nation" the motion said.
This is the first school segrega-
tion case in which the Department
of Justice has sought to intervene
as a plaintiff, Mr.. Kennedy said.
On March II, the Department of
Justice sought and received per-
mission to participate as an active
amicus curiae in four Louisiana
school suits.
Prince Edward County is one of
five places where public schools
were closed following court de-
segregation orders. Schools were
closed for the fall term of 1858 in
Charlottesville, Norfolk and War
rem County, Virginia, and for the
1883 school year in Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Public schools have reopened in
these four places. In Warren Coun-
ty, private schools continue to OPP
crate and they enroll about half the
white student population.
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ties in Africa were outlined by Ed
ward w. Brice, specialist in Fun
damental and Literacy Education,
u. s. Office Of Education, who was
the last afternoon speaker.
Pointing out the urgent need in
all of the newly emerging African
countries for economic and social
progress, the speaker said "the
political liberation Of the countries
Of Africa is perhaps, for the United
States ,one Of the great facts in our
struggle for peace and unity In the
world" -
DR.. lBrice stressed the fact that
the Africans ask for strong belief
in the fruitful operations accru-
ing from q free society.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06

ney, the Pastor of Parish Street
Church, who resigned his post as
Vice-President of the Baptist Sem
mary after the sit-in incidents has
reconsidered and was back at this
post this week.
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME-
LAFF: Two Of my fellow Parish
Street businessmen with nothing
but business on their minds, stand
ing out on the sidewalk talking
with me and straining their necks
to see as far as they could see two
of those sweet young things stroll
ing the Ole Avenue in those short,
short shorts. :.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: Idle
ness is the refuge of weak minds,
and the holiday of fools.-Lord
Chesterfield.
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that the change IN attitude Of Am
orleans towards discrimination
would someday render the publica-
ton Of this book Unnecessary. Mr..
Green never lived to zee that day
20 the Green Book continues to b
published.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06

NEWS TIDBIT: Rev. S. L. Whit
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-06

GOOD NEWS: The report we got
that some fellows had got them
together and quIeted the feud that
erupted between julius Mitchell
and Luke Farmer out at the Elks
Rest the other night that was about
to lead somebody to the graveyard,
hospital, and state prison.
Evening star., 1961-10-05
DEAR ABBY
It's All Relative, Dear!
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

DEAR ABBY: A certain
girl and I married brothers.
When she introduces me to
people she says, This is my
husbands sister-in-law." To
me I am as much her sister
in law as I am his. What
do you think?
PUZZLED.
Your SISTER in law" is get
ting down to the fine tech.
nicalities. According to Web
ster's unabridged dictionary
a "sister-in law" is the sis
ter Of ones husband or wife;
also the wife of ones broth
er; sometimes, the wife Of
ones hus b a n DIS or wife's
brother. / presu me the
sometimes" means when you
want to bring the relation
ship closer, which obviously
Is not the case here.
4 4
DEAR ABBY: My birthday
is soon. I will be II years
old. l want to have about
eight children to my party.
My mother said she would
give the party, and l am very
happy about it, But there is
one thing that is spelling it
for me. My mother says l
am not to tell anyone that it
is my birthday because she
doesn't want them to buy
presents. Now, Abby, l think
Evening star., 1961-10-05

that presents are most of the
fun of a birthday party. How
can I explain this to my
mother?
UNHAPPY.
Your mother is very
thoughtful to be cOnsiderate
of the guests pOcketbOOks, but
l agree with you. Presents
are great fun at a birthday
party. l hope she recOnsid-
ers.
DEAR ABBY: 1 am a IT.
year-old high school senior.
I've been dating a certain
girl for about four months.
For a while I really was crazy
about her. The luster has
worn off now, and I don't
care to date her any more. l
don't want to hurt her. l
don't want to tell her out
right, and I don't want to
keep her wondering and wait
ing. What would be least
painful to her?
NO BEAST.
If you have made no COM
mitmentS to her (such as
asking her to go steady, just
start dating another girl or
two. If you had an under
standing" and she dated only
you, tell her that you want to
date others, and she should,
too.