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"Getting Tired Os Police Brutality-” G. Frinks Detectives, Policemen Listeners Golden Frinks, addressing an enthusiastic crowd of some 200 young people Tuesday night at the edge of Nash Square (across from Police Headquarters), and a captive audience of some 20 police officers, including Detective Major Robert E. Goodwin, declared, '‘We’reget ting tired of police brutality here arid I’m about ready to use this.’’ At this point, he .. raised !is right fist and re ceived a roar of approval from the young people. Mr. Frinks had stood quietly around the crowd as about four , young school age persons told of their witnessing the alleged beating of Mrs. Sara Jane Davis, 36-year-old resident of 907 Fayetteville Street, reportedly by Officer Jimmy Max Glover, 28. at about 6 p.m. on Wednes day April 30. The group also sang, “Freedom, ’’ then return ed *o the walnut Terrace area. The officers stood idly oy, their police cars at the ready, although blocking the entire left lane of W. Hargett Street at its intersection with S. Mc- Dowell Street. Mayor Travis Tomlinson, specking earlier in the day Tuesday, said, the policeman “could have used better judg ment’’ as he and the chairman of his Human Relations Com mittee made a joint statement Tuesday afternoon. The Relations Committee, concerned racial problems, re commended to Tomlinson and to City Manager William H. Carp er that the local police depart ment “lie requested to review Its policies and procedures governing arrests in sensitive areas in the community.” These remarks were aimed at easing the unrest which has gripped the City of Raleigh since Monday night when it was marred by the fire-bombing of four businesses, one of which, a flour mill on S. Blount Street, Vas completely gutted by fire, which local police claim was deliberately set. Arrests were made early (See CIO! O! V FItIWKS. I*. 2) Love’s Lane Scene Os Gunplay Marshall Barnes, 35, 319 Love’s Lane, no stranger to “the law'” himself, was “clear.” this time as another man, his neighbor, took a pot jphot at him from _ a quite close jaSppSf?®* distance. Mr. Baines re ported to Offic- 1L or L ! . \\o- jfcy-’ inf macl: at 12:31 a.m. Sunday, that Johnny Gog gin, 47, fired his HSpSHm shotgun out - side Barnes’ house and stated. “If someone comes out here, I am going to kill him.” Barnes said Goggins, then laid the .12 guage sawed off shotgun in the window at 319 Love’s Lane and everyone in the house ran out. Goggins then left and went to his own house, 314 Love’s. Witnesses to the incident said they heard another shotgun blast shortly, inside Goggins’ house. The shotgun was found by Of ficer Womack in the back yard of the suspect’s home, under a mattress. Barnes said Goggins fired she weapon at him when he was on the street, ‘ and I ran into my house.” Goggins was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Witnesses were listed as Miss Mary Malloy and William , Lawrence Barnett, both of 319 Love’s Lane. * ”*»• ■ • - I % j|reiggnraj|BS||jß3» \ Sgnglgpjg^y^'' EEC CHIEF SWORN IN -Washington: President Nixon poses with William Brown of Philadephia who was sworn in May 6 as chairman of the Equal Employment Op portunity Commission Ln a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Brown, replaces Clifford P. Alexander who resigned several weeks ago and criticized the Nixon Administration for blunting his effort to assure eflual employment opportunity, Hoiva rd Lee A First For Dixie Chapel Hill Gets Black Mayor THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 28, NO. 28 After Beating Wife, Father I i HL s $L<?4 3Ljkjji %,jPfl 9 m » jjjp Jp mft §§ pjOy &&&& Mrs. Cofied, Lightner Two Candidates Win Say Mayor Was Once A Dropout CHAPEL HILL - At one time, about 18 years ago, this u niversity was dubbed, “The most liberal Southern town in America.” On Tuesday night, Howard Lee, a 34-year-old Negro, with 2,401 votes, became the first mayor of a North Carolina town in this century, and he is be lived to be the first ever in Chapel Hill and the South. His opponent, Roland Giduz, local newspaperman, received 2,003 votes. Giduz has spent more than 12 years on the Town Coun cil here. Lee is director of employee relations at nearby Duke University in Durham. Chapel Hill is the home of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, and the local campus is the oldest land-grant Institution of higher learning in the United-States, having been provided for in the North Caro lina State Constitution in 1776, the year Declaration of Inde pendence drawn up. The corn erstone of its first buildingv. as laid in 1793, and it opened its doors to the first students in the Fall of 1795. Mr. Giduz, who is 43 years of age, conceded defeat in a visit to the jam-packed head quarters of Mr, Lee. The several hundred Lee sup porters, black and white, were overjoyed and near pan demonium prevailed. Returns were complete from four of the town’s six pre cints, and Lee ! eld wide mar gins in the other two. He even carried Giduz’ home precinct, East Franklin, by a vote of 444 to 438. Declaring that lie had run an error free campaign, the jubi lant Lee told newsmen; “I’m just so happy I can hardly talk. It’s the greatest feeling I ever had.” Negroes, comprising an esti mated 10 to 20 per cent of the town’s population, went to the polls in unprecedented numbers and spelled the difference in the-outcome, Lee said. I felt it I took all the black vote I would run neck and neck with him,” he said, “But I did better than I expected with the white vote.” L.-e, who is director of em (Sce BI.AC'f MAYOR. I> 2) North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N C.. SATURDAY. MAY 10. 1000 FIRST BLACK N. C. MAYOR, WIFE, SUPPORTERS-Chapel Hill: Voters here gave North Carolina its first Negro mayor of a predominantly white community when they elected Howard lee (C) May 6, to head up the city. Lee, son of a share cropper, won out over veteran Alderman Roland Giduz, and said his election would “really shake up the system.” Lee, shown here with a group of supporters early May, has his around his wife, Lillian. (UPI). Senior Named To West Point Academy ROPER - Leslie J. Hedge betl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hedgebeth of Ply mouth, was notified Monday of his appointment to the United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York. Hedgebeth, a senior atWash fington County Union who was nominated by Congressman Diggs of the 13th Michigan as 9th Alternate, spent Fort Bragg in HEDGEBETH March whG “* he took academic, physical apti tude and medical examinations necessary for qualification for the appointment His notice stated the results of the exa m inations with respect to qualification with his statusbe- YAAGs Set First Meet Here Thurs. A new group of young men and women, calling themselves YA AC (Young Adult Action Group), will hold their initial session on Thursday, May 6, at 8 p.m. at the Chavis Heights Recreation Center. A spokesmen for the YAAGs said its purpose is community development and securing re creational facilities for black people sn the Raleigh area. Officers of the new group are Lucen Smith, president; Cato Sander, vice president; and Joseph Heckstall, minister of information. The spokesman said a large crowd is expected to be on hand. He also made it clear that only young adults between the age of 39 and 30 years would be welcome. ing “Fully Qualified and entitl ed to Admission” and “Final (See TO WFSV POINT, P. 2) DR. NATHAN WRIGHT, JR. Or, Wright Heads Aha Department NEW YORK - The State U niversity of New York at Al bany announced Thursday the appointment of the nation’s leading Black Power theoreti cian as Professor of Urban Af fairs. Dr. Nathan Wright, Jr., was organizer arid planning com mittee chairman for the 1967 and 1968 National arid Interna tional Conferences on Black Power in Newark and Phila delphia. In addition to the pro fessorship, Dr. Wright will serve as chairman of the newly organized Department of Afro (See HR. 'HI' HT. P 2) SINGLE COPY Lie Dean And Mortician Winners Mrs. Elizabeth Bias Cofield, 49-year-old dean of women and associate professor of educa tion at Shaw University, and Clarence E. Lightner, 47-year old mortician of Raleigh., ran first and second, respectively, for seats on the Raleigh city Administrative School Unit (Ra leigh School Board) and the City Council, here in Tuesday’s mammoth voting. In her first bid for public office, Mrs. Cofield led all of the eight persons seeking seats on the School Board, receiving 7,628 votes, Mr. Lightner, run ning closely behind George B. Cherry wijh 9,190 votes, tal lied 8,536 votes to place sec ond for the City Council. Iri some previous years, the top vote-getter was always elected Mayor if he chose to (Sec 2 CAVO'n.VTKS. P 2) Baptists Os State Meet Here Some 500 delegates from throughout North Carolina at tended the one-day annual ses sions of the General Baptist State Convention, held at the Martin Street Baptist Church here Tuesday. The Rev. Dr. Paul H. Johnson was host minister. Taking part on the program and bringings to the Capital City were Dr. Wendell C. Somerville, executive sec retary of the Lott Carey For eign Missionary Convention; Dr, James E. Cheek, president of Shaw University; and many others. \ report by the annuity com mittee and a statement by the Rev. Dr. C. L. Sherrill, execu tive secretary of the conven tion, concluded the first ses sion. The afternoon meetings were (See STATE BAPTISTS. P. 2) Bruce Ivans, Jr, Faces Kidnaping Charge In City Miss Julia Marie Washington, 20, 413 W. South Street, told Of ficer W. E. Freeman at 1:22 a.m. Monday, that she was ab ducted from 319 Fowle Stieet at gun point, by Bruce Evans, Jr,, 18-year-old resident of 721 E. Davie Street, She signed a warrant charging kidnapping. Miss Hazeieen Occletree, 21, of the Fowle Street address, told the same cop that young Evans pointed a i isle at her in her house. She signed a warrant, charging breaking and entering. Evans was apprehended at the intersection of New Bern Avenue and Tarboro Road. The .22 calibre Marlin rifle with a 24-inch barrel, blue in color, was confiscated. It was found in the trunk of Evans’ 1961 Chrysler. Police said Miss Washington told them she was at the Fowle Street residence when. Evans broke into the house, pointed (See KIDNAPPINn RAP, p, 2) A** ‘ E *™- RS LOCAI LN ' LsTL:H ' s living ROOM - The 1964 Olds mobile shown above, crashed . o t ie living loom at the residence of the Rev. Benjamin S. Foust, pastor of the St. Paul JME Chinch, at about 9:4a p.m. Sunday. It was driven by Mrs. Katie Dunbar Scott of 805 E. Lenior Street' M«o reported to investigating officer Gabriel Sanders that she was driven off the road at 2224 Sftnn el » f °V Roa i » Uy a n °fhei car. Damage to the house was placed at $2,000, while the officer set * BOO . m damages o the Oldsmobile. The minister and his family are said to have been at church services at the time of the incident. Mrs. Scott was charged with careless and reckless drivu" This pnoto was taken slioitlv after the vehicle entered the house. No one was injured. rink SWADE ARCHIBLE . , .cuts own son Ardiible Facing 2 City Raps The old saying, “Train up a child in the way Ire should go and when he is old he will not departed from it,” was not be ing practiced by a Raleigh man early Sunday morning. Jerome Nathaniel Arehiblo, about 19, 549 E. Hargett Street, reported to Officers at !2;0: a.m. Sunday, that his father, (Si c C l TS SON'S »» ■>) &4 iN? f FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE COPS accuse woman Police Officers Jimmy Max Glover and Lonnie Thomas Wil son charged Mrs. Sara Jane Davis, 36, 907 Fayetteville St., at 6 p.m on Wednesday, April 30, with assault on an officei - Glover-after she was allegedly being placed under arrest by the cops on a charge of lar ceny from the person, ob structing a police officer and assault ing him. Glover declared in his police report that Mrs. Davis "struck me with he; fist in my face. She also bit my left arm and left It swollen.” Wilson’s testimony was es sentially the same as Glover’s, but he added, “She started curs ing and hit me with her elbow and kicked me all over my legs.” Although he listed no injuries on the police offense report. The incident is expect ed to quickly come to Dial as it lias created racial ton tion in the city, mainly charges of police brutality. * * * CLAIMS SEX ASSAULT, CHANGES MIND Miss Joyce Marie Plummer, 1721 E. Edenton Street, told Os - ficer Cordealious Troublefield at 3:20 a.m. Sunday, that she was sexually assaulted by Lar ry Eugene Rroadie. She also declared the Incident occurred about 11 p.m. Saturday, but she did not report it until the next day. After talking to the suspect it was brought our that Joyce Marie has “been having rela tions with Rroadie for about three years.” She admitted this and added she had become pregnant by him in the past. The complainant also stated that she has had sexual rela tions with two other males. She and her parents decided not to prefer charges against Broadie, but the assault charge remains on the police blotter. (Sec f'RIMX nr VI J». M cK issick: Soul City Foes Against Him DURHAM - Floyd B. Mc- Kissick, developer of Soul City in Warren. County, said Fri day at North Carolina Col lege’s annual Awards Day ceremonies that the people who oppose Soul Citi are the ones who opposed him in North Caro lina when he was fighting “to achieve what some people call integration.” McKissick said he thought it strange that the forces who opposed integration now op pose the concept of “a black city for black people. “T think there are people who will oppose anything because someone propose it, McKis sick said. McKissick described what he called “the semantics of racism --the language the man use to divide and conquer.” He said the word “separatist” is an example of this language, used to attack any movement which inspires black pride. “The real separatists are those white People who years ago moved to the suburbs with the monev they got out of Harlem.” McKissick warned NCC's academic award winners that they “shouldn’t think they are Roy Wilkins Hosts Black Militants Here Over 41,500 was raised here Sunday, May 4, at the Annual Freedom Day Rally as Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo r SWEEPSTAKES 7 4764 $lO 379 S2O $2.50 ■ Anyone haying current PINK tickets, dated aas 7. iftfi 1 wilu propitr numbers, present same to The CAflfU INl\\' office m.l receive amounts listed above from the SWKK .‘KTAKKS Feature r — ~ ~ ir 1 • - *""*.-■**• ", . „ -h , r| —||, ! ||,|| lM , fl ■ Mrs. Greene Wins Sweepstakes With the words, “This is the first time I have ever won any ting,” Mrs. Doris Greene of T 25 E. Cabarrus Street, ac cepted her third prize as a CAR O L INIA N Sweepstakes Promotion winner. She did her grocery shopping .t the National Market, E. Mar tin Stieet, last week, received ticket number 5 517, worth $2,50, brought it to the offices of this newspaper and receiv ed her cash award. To lie valid this week, tickets rnuct be pink in color and dated May 3, 1969. Ticket number 7, first prize, Is worth *2O; number 379, sec- any better than anyone else. The white man is convinced that you are just like the rest of us un fortunate blacks. "You are black whether you (See MoKISSICK I*. 2) FLOYD B. MCKISSICK pie, was the featured speaker. More than 2,000 persons heard him speak at 3 p.m. at the Ra leigh Memorial Auditorium. (Sec ROV Wit KIN’S !>. Temperatures durint; the pe riod. Thursday th run till Mon day. will average near normal tn the North Carolina mountains and nhoyr normal rixculii e riawimr hinhs are expected In aver,tec in the unper 70s in Use mountain- and R” to R’> de«n . elsewhere. lows m in will be near 5f in the mountains, i mh ini; to the upper its elsewhere It " ili be warm Thussdas and Friday, intuitu; ronler over tip weekend. lit! 1 lalnrni'U; to warmer temneratnres al the nul ot the period. Prccipilaiion will average mure than tltree-tnor! its of an inrli In the southwest portion of the mountains, and between one-half and three fourths of no inch elsewhere ocrntriiv; wid-ly i-.cattercd showers or thundershowers in the western portion on Thin day and aitain I’ridai boruinitn. more numerous over tlie -.tale on Saturriav. Another period oi showers '■ exported .01 Mtiiul.w. ond, $10; while number 4764, third prize, will bring its hold er $2.50. Patronize businesses which advertise in The CAROLINIAN. They appreciate your patron age, Kindly inform them that you saw their rds in this news paper. Sweepstakes advertisers may be found on page 12 of this week’s CAROLINIAN. Look them over. Visit these mer chants as well as other CARO LINIAN advertisers, and be sure to »ell thorn that you sav. their ads in this newspaper. (Sec • SWEEPS! AKCS. J» 2,
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