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NAACP’S WILKINS THREATENED
Man Cries Self To Death
Over Assassination
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The Caroli n i an|
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
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VOL. 11. NO. I RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1963 4>RICE ISc
LOCAL AMPUTEE TO FACE TRIAL
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Girl, 11, Sees Dad Pump 5
Bullets Into Mother Here
Victim, 47,
Died Asking
Mgreq
ate Griffin. IS. DM “fWt
«wr* lr m mu U-vwr^|
faßghlW M tea trigger man wtati
viuffMf Um of hg With
ftaTSSttoTtto officers stated.
Ortffta took wfltoi In bis nitln
town of Clayton, la Johnston Co.,
■hm la was Hwabewtod Sotur-
MatbSdtatbe Wake
County Job without privilege of
bond end wffl face a preliminary
hearing in CMr Court on Monday.
Deoatabcr 1«.
Be woctad on a etty garbage
truck bare for {May years, and
«M bettered to ham deserted Ua
family several month* ago.
Atoarta said Orff fin ‘told my
motttar to epea the front door,
and then poshed Ms tray inside
the apartment and shot at her
five times.**
"My mother told me to ran and
get tbs other children and she ran
with me out of the apartment as
my daddy Bred two more bullets
at bar.**
Mbs. Griffin was found bleeding
from the ehest and mouth on the
outside of the apartment building,
when officers arrived.
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“2nd Mother” Os LBJs
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Children Is Honored
WASHINGTON (AND—A lend Although tee. attempt «m
Negro woman was singularly bon* mil to bMotamW seal
ered on Thanksgiving eve os she Mrs. Zephyr Wright. H was to
was quietly escorted into the House M #tbo . tmr Mrs. Wright—Tor
gallery before President Johnson mtu 1$ years s mtiinluir
spoke, and seated directly behind m the Johnson hsaaihaHl staff
the first Lady of the land, Mrs.
Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson. (cowriwunt ON page X)
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ATTEND JOHNSON’S FIgST ADDRESS TO CONGRESS
Seated in gißery daring President Jahnsan’s first address to the Joint
eeaataa at Cangreas last week are, left ta right, front raw: Misses Lsey
Baines and Lynda Bird Jahwaan, danghters of the new FnaMeat;
Mrs. tot m Tshnsnn Mrs. WDhn White and Mrs. Zegbrr Wright,
n member at the Johnson hmuehald staff. In second row, I*l te right,
am: Mrs. Robert 8. McMaamra, Mrs. C. Doaglas Dillon. antdenUfied
man. New Task’s Mayer Robert F. Wagner, and Secret Service man.
Directly behind Mayer Wagner U Governor Carl Sanders at Georgia.
(OTI PHOTO).
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Or. Ralph Abernathy To
Keynote Dinner Friday
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REV. DR. RALPH ABERNATHY
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Ilia treasurer of tbs Bouthem
Christian Leadership Conference,
the Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, of
Atlanta, Ga., will be featured
speaker here Friday night. Dec
ember g. 7:30 pm.
The eeeaaton wfll be the 3rd
Aw—i Freedom Day Dinner
and will be heM ta aunty of
the lata Bor. J. W. Jones, who
paetarad the Fsyettevffle St.
Baptist Chnreh for 33 yean.
The totag ream es Saint Ang
nstine’s College Wiß be the site
es the affair.
The Raleigh Branch of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
headed by Ralph Campbell. Sr.. Is
the sponsoring organisation. Offi
cials of organisations, churches
and dubs have Indicated that a
representative will be In attend
ance at the dinner.
The nattonally-famous speaker,
a leader of the civil righto move
ment. along with the Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., who is president
Os the SCLC, Is ourrently serving
as pastor of the West Hunter St.
Baptist Church ta Atlanta.
Dr. Abernathy it president-t
--ndrtua es the Montgomery Im
provement Association ta Ala
bama.
, A gTßdaata of Alabama
State College. Montgomery, the
training In the fipertmwi es
seeMegy at Atlanta Unfvere-
Hy. He is a member es many
ebrle and —eial srgentmrinne.
Dr. Ellen 8. Alston, executive
teammmm ow use 9
Faces Trial
In Wendell
Court Thurs.
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Road waa arrested, on ounoay No
vember 17. and charged with fol
lowing too close, improper regis
tration an no operator’s license
after bis rar was Involved In a
collision with Berry Douglas Per
ry, 31. 339 8. Main Street Wake
Forest Perry Is white. •
The incident task piece fear
mOee aarth es Fstrigh ea V.
8. Highway NO. 1. Damage to
SOS and to Perry’s at 8125. He
wfli be tried Tharsday. Dee
er*s Cenrt
The arresting officer. Mate
Highway Patrolman Charles Smith
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Snipes Cited
To Court In
Knifing Case
William Beverly Snipes, who wiH
he IT your* old on December M.
was cited to court Monday around
1 pNL ipM charged with engujUlp
in an affray with « deadly weapon
(a tails) an Edwin McKee Frew
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WILLIAM BEVERLY BNIFES
.., faces kaife rap
man, about 54. The alleged Inci
dent took place at 608 Coleman St.,
at about‘ 3 pm Monday. Fifteen
stitches were required to do— the
wounds In Freeman’s face.
Snipes, a veteran of the Ke
reaa Conflict was arrested at
his hem, 1595 Dtlleon Street
(near fMhianaMe Maonna Ac
res eaetlan es the rity) by Pe
hee Officer* W. E. Kidd and
Jimmy K. Pierce. Snip— last
beta hi* leg* while serving In
the Army. Both officer* have
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Gov. Taps 2
Leaders To
Top Posts
Governor Terry Sanford lari Fri
day appointed State Senator Carl
W. Meerm of Fair Bluff and Ashe
ville attorney Ruben J. Dailey. *
Negro to the State Prison Commis
sion.
Senator Near— will eerve a
term expiring Jane 99. IMI. He
wSI —eceed Jam— M. Parrott,
Jr. of Kinston. Attorney Dailey
will serve a term expiring Jane
19. 1995. He seeeeeds the tote
Dr. Marrsy B. Davis es High
wa_^_4
Twin*.
Senator Me a re* was born Sep
tember 10. 1907 at Fair Bluff. He
l cueuueu uieii a«u u,u -.-J.
years of college work at Mars Hill
College- He completed his college
education at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
1951. He served three terms on the
Columbus County Board of Edu
cation.
He has served on the Board of
Trustees of Mars Hill College foi
19 years and was chairman for lour
years. He is owner and Operator of
a ’farm supply business at Fair
Bluff, a fertilizer manufacturer, and
an automobile dealer at Lumber
ton and Fair Bluff. He is married
to the fonfter Margaret McQueen
Bracy and they are the parents of
two daughters and a ton.
(CONTDVOgD ON PAGE Z)
Gets Police
Guard After
Two Threats
new YORK <ANF>—Th* Nor
York City police assigned a police
euard to NAACP executive secre
tory Roy Wilkins last Friday after
three death threats were phoned
to the NAACP National office.
One of the sellers reportedly
said. “Kennedy's gene, and Wil
kins a next,** while east her
setd,"Yen “re the mother one
Although
tP efftelsls have received at
staffers felt precautions should
he taken, and psMee were call
ed.
The calls came within a few
hears after President Kennedy's as
sassination.
Detectives were assigned to pro
vide a 34-hour guard around the
NAACP executive secretary.
A spokesman for Police Commis
sioner Murphy refused to comment
on whether any other local Negro
leaders had received similar threats,
er if they had assigned guards to
sky other civil rights leaders in the
New York area.
“He Loved
Kennedy:”
Wife, Mom
fPHILADMLFUA (AMP)—A »-
year-old truck driver was so deep
ly saddened by the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy that he
dried himself te death, it was re
ported last week.
Authorities ruled, however, that
the man's death waa “natural."
Ri Waa Acekto Pis dr a. a
track driver fW a steal eeaa
pmy. srhe > »ied f) frem the time
Tand futd^'tfT'gHef T ta’tta
haana Sf Ms ailsgad gtrl drisnd,
Mrs. Memto Allan. N,
According to a report, Piadra had
received the newt about Mr. Ken
nedy Is Ocean City, N. J„ whan
a man approadpsd him and asked:
-Did you hear Ibat the President
was shotr "Nw" replied Piadra to
curprise.
The unidentified nan then said,
"that was good shooting.” At that
Piadra becetne so infuriated, he
stopped the man’s face and shout
ed: -Don't talk that way about my
President."
Ptedra’i agger than taiWed te
grief and ha kept crying eut S
gabs aad again, "They killed
him. they killed toy President.
I want to dto ton” Seme M
bears later. Piadra had getton
bis wish. He died, atoe report
edly of Ms grief.
Mrs. Allen said that Piadra, upon
returning to Philadelphia, first vis
ited her at Jefferson hospital, whera
she was recuperating after giving
birth to a four-pound, eight ounce
baby girl. She said Ptedra kept re
peating. “They killed my Presi
dent. I want to die.” He made the
same tearful expression to the nur
fgg.
When Mrs. Allen was releas
ed from the hospital. Ptedra
vtotted her again to her heme—
and ha was still crying. “I want
to die. I want to die,” he kept
repeating. His body quivered as
ha cried, so great was his grief.
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SCOOL TO BEAR NAME
Ati—aey Fred J. Car-,
iuft, Uto tone Negro member es
the Board of Education of this
rity. was singularly honored
Tuesday afternoon when the
Board voted unanimously to
name a school In his honor. The
new "Fred J, Carnage Junior
High School,” which will be lo
cated on 8. Haywood Street, to
expected to open In September
es 1995. Carnage will become the
third Uvtng Raleigh person to
be honored. The others are:
farmer Mayor WlHam G. Enloe*
and Mtos Franc— Lacy. The
veteran —bool beard member,
urfce, at first offered the only
objection, told a CAROLINIAN
newsman. Wednesday, "I accept
it with humility.”
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DISCUSS CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION Roy Wilkins, left, executive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is shown tost Friday conferring with President Lyn
don Baines Johnson, in Johnson's Whits Monas office. The discussion iisnesrnsd the Into Prsstdiut Ken
nedy’s civil righto legislation, now In Congress. (UPI PHOTO).
“Other Nations Look Upon Us
With Mixed Emotions:” Proctor
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, presi
dent of AftT Collage, Orssnuboro,
addressed the Saint Augustine's
Outage "family” at the College's
reguar assembly, Tuesday, Dgoam
bar S.
"The United States has be
come Um gmatost power of
the world. Other nations took
upon Americans with mixed e
motions, realising that base Is
Defense Against Sneak
Attack Could Be Hindered
NEW YORK - If an enemy
launches a surprise air Attack a
gainst the Unttsd States, at toast
ana officer at Strategic Air Com
mand headquarters may not be
able to get to bis post on time.
The reason: Jim Crow.
At Offutt Air Force Base, the
SAC nerve center 13 miles south
of Omaha, every man presum
ably can be at his post within IB
to 30 minutes to help mount a re
taliatory punch.
Bot Capt. Michael King, a
Negro member of a SAC In*
telligence unit might need as
much as sft minute* to answer
an alert.
According to an article In the
current issue of Look Magastne, It
takes King about BO minutes to
UN Human Rights Day
Planned Here Tuesday
Miss Kathryn Potter of Durham
and Mrs. Carolyn Wootten of Ra
leigh will be the principal speakers
at an observance of Human Rights
Day to be held on Tuesday, De
cember lWh, *t 2402 Van Dyke
Avenue, at 8:00 P. M. The public
la invited.
The theme of the program will
be "Human Rights—A Search for
Personal Freedoms.” Programs oo
this theme are being sponsored by
members of the Beha i World Faith
in more then one thousand Ameri
can communlti—. The speakers will
present their views on the mean
ing of personal freedom* followed
by an open discussion during which
questions may be asked. An "In
ternational Coffee Hour” ’will fol
low the formal program.
The Universal Declaration of Hu
man Rights was adopted by the
Say Slaying
Was Result
Os t Extre*~‘.<ts'
S3B
WORTH, Tex— (ANP)
The assassination'of President Ken
nedy was not the direct result of
fanaticism. It w— not totally the
thinking of a man like Lee OewaW.
who was slain he w— being
groomed as a prime suspect es the
assassination. #
It w—, instead, the result es ex
treme "right” propaganda built ■*>
over the months and weeks of crit
icism against one of our nations
most American-minded executives.
* The atmosphere promulgated and
cr—ted by the General Walkers, the
Joe Pool—, the Goldwater faction,
the Morning News and other ex
tremists. created the atmosphere
for his assassination.
We. as Texas, .bung ear beads
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strongest country In the world.
Thus, the United States has
reached Its point of no re
turn," ho said.
"Undeveloped colonies of Africa
an beginning to tin of colonial
ism. The people of thes countries
do not like to taea the foot that
than are people to tbs world who
have a mortgage on their souls,”
get to the beef from OmaJtab Me-
KsJfc»3‘ “* v*"
In a real alert, with his foot
Jammed to the floor, he might
make it to M. A
Well wtthto a 18-mtouto ra
dius of th* base Is Capehart. \
a huge development where
many Air Force men and th-1r
families live. In December.
1901. King applied for a house
there.
"They told me I was No. 381 on
the waiting list.” he told Look..
‘I checked again at Capehart
the other day. I'm 430 on the list
now.” -
Looks report on King is part of
a special 30-page section appear
ing the magazine on the problems
of the Negro In the North.
United Nations on December 10,
1948—]uri 15 years ago. It stat
in its pr—mble that “recognition
of the inherent dignity and of the
equal and inalienable rights of all
members of the human family Is
the foundation of freedom. Justice
and peace in the world.” This is
a basic principle of the Baha'i Faith
and has been since its beginning
pver 100 y—r» ago.
As an organisation with accred
ed observers at the United Nation*
in the non-governmental section,
end twice cited by the U. S. Com
mittee for the U. N. for it* effort*
In furthering the principl— of Ih*
United Nations, ths Behai’s feel that
ovriyon# has a rital stake In Hu
man Rights Dey.
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ho stated that the American Ne
gro has reached a point of no re
turn in the re-integratlon efforts
being made here in the United
States.
During the text of Ms ipeetfi.
he challenged his audience -to
stand tall and walk v children :©f
God and to mas*. *er> Viy ooonl
IHIHIk IH|H
DR. SAMUEL D. PROCTOR
*.. speaks at. St. Augustine’s
City's Zetas
To Host As. C.
Chapters Sat.
Omlcron Zeta Chapter of the
Zeta Phi Beta Bororily win host
the North Carolina State meeting
of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Saturday, December 7. which will
be held at St. Augustine's College
The theme la, Zeta Paoea the Fu
ture.”
Soror Augusta White, regional
director, will preside and Soror
Nora E. Lockhart, national Tamle
(treasurer) will be the main
speaker.
Zetas from throughout North
Carolina will be In atiendanoe:
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