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;H ! :~J Good Luck in the New Year It's time for pitching wishes that the New Year will be a ringer of success, with plenty of real good luck, for you and your family in every possible way Many tkanli fiot your patronage! VOLUME 46 No. 1 -SIOO.OOO Suit Filed In Students Killing B ml S ' A" T Lit HP &tm ■ til mi *1 ATTORNEY GINKRAL RAM- CLARK received the NAACP Freedom Award at the : Baltimore Branch life Member- t •hip Dinner, at the Sheraton Belvedere Hotel. Clarence Mit chell, Director of the Washing Director Reports Crime On Increase In United States FBI The The FBl's Uniform Crime Reports, a compilation of sta tistics submitted voluntarily by local and state police agencies, discloses that for the first nine months of 1968 crime in the United States increased 19 per cent over the corresponding period of 1967. These figures were released today l»y Attor ney General Ramsey Clark. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoo ver pointed out that violent crimes as a group increased 21 percent nationally. When view ed individually, these crimes showed 32 percent increase in robbery, 17 percent in forcible rape, 15 percent in murder, •nd 13 percent in aggravated assault. Each category of the more voluminous property crimes recorded increases with thefts over SSO in value up (See FBI page 5; ' igirflF vP mmr f' SOTH NAACP LIFE MIMBER CHIP FOR KAPLANS— -NAACP Executive Director Roy Wil Role of Religion in Solid South to Be Discussed at Duke U. What role does religion play -if any-in keeping the so-called solid South really solid? And is the "solid South" an identifica tion that soon will be no more? discussions centering on these thoughts will open the Jan. 9-11 conference here on ton Bureau NAACP, presenting the award, praised Clark for his outstanding leadership as the government's representative in courageously pressing Con gress for the passage of the ' Bryant Calls for Support of Black Solidarity Boycott at Meet By John Phelps A prominent civic and busi ness leader threw a strong chal lenge Sunday night, Dec. 22, at "that small segment of our black community with tired black blood" who fail to give their full support to Durham's Black Solidarity boycott. R. Kelly Bryant, Jr. an exe cutive of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., issued the challenge at last Sunday's mass meeting of the Black Solidarity Movement, held at St. Joseph's AME Church on Fayetteville Street. (Sep BRYANT Daize S) kina, center, presents NAACP Life Membership plaque to Dr. Alexandra Gilden Kapi a n, "The Bible Belt in Continuity and Change" at Duke Univer ty. The gathering l'or educators and Theologians is sponsored by the Duke Center for South em Studies. Dr. Samuel S. Hill Jr., pro fessor of religion at the Univer Che CanjfijU Cinws k .mm \ mmmmmmmm* 1968 Federal Civil Rights Act which includes Fair Housing and increased criminal penal ties for those who intimidate and deprive colored citizens of their civil rights. mm BRYANT daughter-in-law of NAACP President Klvie Kaplan and Mrs. Kaplan, left, ( as her hus sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will open the con ference at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, with an address, "Reli gion and the Solid South." Offering a commentary to the remarks will be Dr. Edward A Tiryakian, professor of So DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1969 Couple Asks Investigation Into Dynamiting Of Home Parents, Child Barely Escape Death Attack PKEVILLE, Ky. - Alan and Margaret McSurely have asked for a federal investiga tion of the dynamiting of their home near here Dec. 13. The McSurelys and their year-old son, victor, narrowly escaped death when the dyna mite bomb missed their bed room window. It hit the side of the house instead. The McSurelys charged in affidavits filed with the U. S. District Attorney that the dy namiting was a part of a con spiracy against them on the part of coal operators and poli ticians in Eastern Kentucky. They said the conspiracy, de signed to prevent organization law in 1967; the law was later declared unconstitutional. The dynamiting came a week after the Kentucky Un- American Activities Committee (KUAC) held another in a series of hearings here. The McSurelys are field workers for the Southern Conference Educational and (SCEF), which has been under attack by KUAC. Mrs. Anne Braden, associate director of SCEF, sent tele grams of protest to Gov. Louie B. Nunn and State Sen. Scott Miller, Jr., chairman of KUAC. She charged that "this crim inal act (the dynamiting) was provoked by the fear and hatred generated by your Com mittee. In Eastern Kentucky, this Committee is serving only the interests of the coal opera te DYNAMITING page 9) band look* on. This is the 90th NAACP Life Membership for the Kaplan family. ciology at Duke and now involved in research into the historical role of religion in societal change. Hill, who also serves as diairman .of the religion department at UNC, has specia- See RELIGION page 9) ■t IB ■ ' v Wr' • •■•»• •«J* CARVER PROCLAMATION Pittsburgh Mayor Joseph M. Barr and Dr. Alma Illery, founder and president of the National George Washington Carver Commemorative Day Assn., display the mayor's pro clamation setting aside the week of January 5-11 to honor the famed Negro scientist and humanitarian. The nation's first Carver Week was observed in Pittsburgh 25 years ago. Be tween them is Miss Kim Smith, a sixth grade student in St. Richard's School, who sold Ma LDF Asks Supreme For Hegro To Die For Burglary Only Man Under Death Sentence In United States 4 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U. S. Supreme Court today was asked to review the case of the only man in the United States now under a death sen tence or burglary. Albert Bobby Childs, a Negro from Buncome County, North Carolina, was sentenced to death in 1965 after a jury found him guilty of rape and burglary. Childs' case is being sup ported by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. In its Supreme Court brief, the LDF challenges North Ca lina's lack of (Standards for jury sentencing determination and the simultaneous deter mination on the issues of guilt and punishment. The LDF will seek to have Childs' sentence reversed if and when the Court agrees to hear the case. Neither a wise man nor * brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait (or the train of the future to run over him. —Dwight D. Eisenhower yor Barr a set of special Car ver stamps, depicted in the in sert. Bebind them are Roy E. Kohler, Carver Week co-chair man; Rev. J. A. Williams of Pittsburgh's Baptist Temple, a general co-chairman; and John Cicco, Carver Week chairman. Mr. Cicco is deputy superinten dent of the Catholic Diocesan schools of Pittsburgh and Mr. Kohler, manager of Special Projects, Public Relations De partment, Gulf Oil Corporation. About 600 people will attend c S. C. Teacher One of Finalists for Look Magazine Annual Award SUMTER, S. C —Look Maga 'rine has picked Mrs. Agnes Hilderbrand Wilson as one of five finalists for the National Teacher of the Year award. The South Carolina instructor be lives in treating every student as an individual. • The national teacher of the year award is presented an nually to the teacher "who can best instill intellectual curio sity and a love of learning in students." The first Negro ever to be chosen South Carolina Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Wilson, is an •instructor in French and jour nalism at Lincoln High School in Sumter. George Cureton, first grade teacher in Newark, N. J.; Ar chie W. Demmert, sixth grade teacher at Sitka, Alaska; Bar bara Coleman, language arts and head of the English De partment at Miami, Fla ; and Richard A Hanson, mathema tics teacher and football coach at Burnsville, Minn. Mrs. Wilson moved to Sum ter in 1947 with her husband, the Rev. Thomas E. Wilson, now dead, to take a joh in a rural school in the county system. She told the 12 members of the senior class that she would help them prepare for college if they would promise to go. w 0 t^ose we hoo« *eroed in the post ...a most 0 JJzJ' beautiful New Year the annual Carver Week lunch eon January 8 in Webster Hall to hear Dr. Bennetta B. Wash ington, Director of the Wom en's Centers of the Job Corps and wife of Washington, D. C„ Mayor Walter Washngton. Oth er activities during the week will include special programs in both parochial and public schools, and student exhibits, some of which will be displayed in windows of the Union Trust Bldg. and the Gulf Bldg in downtown Pittsburgjr, MRS. WILSON - (See TEACHER page!) ▼ She tutored and encouraged them. All entered college in the fall. The awardee believes that that "late bloomers" are among the most interesting challenges (or teachers and that finding the "elusive key which opens their door to learning U a prize to be cherished." Mrs. Wilson, a 1000 Fulbright Scholar at the Sorbonee, Paria, holds a bachelor degree from Allen University in Columbia and a masters degree from Temple University She has also studied at the University of Missouri and Rutgers Uni versity. PRICE: 20 Cent* Action Brought Against S. C. Highway Comm. COLUMBIA, S. C. - The first of a series of suits seeking payment* of SIOO,OOO damages to the estates of three young Negroes killed at Orangeburg last February was filed in the } United States District- Court here, Dec. 18, by Matthew Perry, special counsel of the ! National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. The students were killed, re- I portedly by State Highway i patrolmen, during a protest | demonstration on the campus ! of the predominantly Negro ; South Carolina State College. I The State Highway Depart -1 ment is the defendant in the suit. Some 30 others were in -1 jured in the conflict. The state j NAACP rallied to the support I of the students, orpnizing a i withholding of patronage cam- I paign in Orangeburg and px>- viding legal assistance, j The decision to file the I damage suits followed Mure to prosecute anyone in con > nection with the killings and I filed on behalf of Mrs. Rether i. Middleton, mother of Delano f Middleton, 17, who was killed, i Perry said that suits on be half of the estates of the other slain youths would be filed j 'within a week. Personal injury 1 suits are in preparation for 18 students who sustained injuries } during the conflict NAACP Annual Meet Set For N. Y.Jan. 13 NEW YORK. - Executive Director Roy Wilkins will report to the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeofA on the "state of the NAACP" at* the Park Sheraton Hotel here, Monday morning, Jan. 13. Wilkins will report on the various activities of the Association during 1968 covers ing programs carried out by the several NAACP departments, significant achievements, mem bership and income figures, and highlights I>f branch actions. He will also indicate major programs and activities for the year 1969. The results of the election of members of the Board of Directors will also be an nounced at the annual meeting. The meeting will be pre ceded by the annual fellowship dinner to' be held at the New York Hilton Hotel. The dinner and the meeting an attended by NAACP leaden and repre sentatives torn ail sections of the country. "After year* ef living the coldeat realities I stfß to ll eve that one naps wtefaMr sow* and that to sow is the best of all iavastaaafli Joseph W. Martin, Jr. . - •
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