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Blueberry Pickers From Ne w Bern Area . Migrant Workers Appeal To Shaw ‘Million Dollar Salesman’ Aids Poor To Help Drive Os The SCLC CHICAGO - A former Olympic track star is still setting a record breaking pace for his race as a salesman for Freedom and security through his work with i The Southern Chri stain Leadership Conference, Although he has sold more than a. million dollars worth of Insurance annually for the past 12 years, Cirilo IV'cSween, the nation’s top black agent, now - spends almost 50 per cent of his time as SCLC treasurer. Hu succeeded the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy as chief financial officer of the major civil rights organization after Rev. Aber nathy was elevated to the SCLC presidency when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was billed in Memphis. McSween, the first black mem ber of the 1 .ife Insurance Mil lion Dollar Roundtable, believes all businessmen, scientists, teachers, etc., "should help their poot and less fortunate brothers prepare for a better future,” He will meet with key officials at SCLC’s annual convention in Charleston. S. C., August 13- j 16, to help map strategy for the current second phase of the Poor Peoples Campaign topro vide more jobs and income in disadvantaged and under privileged areas throughout the nation. As chief economic advisor to Rev. Abernathy and Rev. Jesse Jackson, national di r rector of SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket program, Me- Sween started a new “Attune mcnt Committee” program to involve alt elements of every community in “The Move ment,” “Since the businessman and professional worker benefits lSec AIDS POOR, P. 2) Carmichael Speaks Os Seizure LONDON - (NPI) - Black- power advocate Stokely Car michael has come up with a novel way to move against the United States--seize a base in Africa. Carmichael, who is allegedly jinked with Kwame Nkrtimah, Ghana’s president-in-exile, In a revoluntionary alliance, de clared on television that he would use Africa as a base to launch a global struggle a gainst white domination. The former SNCC leadm has kept silent during a year-long self-exile from the United States in Guinea. Breaking his silence, ht said he had given up hop'- of estab lishing a Black-pov ■ : base in the United States “Say, the B! ick people seiz ed Alabama ” he said, “We would be - ‘ ■ ■ holding it, we would n< be able to de velop and expand, mat’s why my polities too! me to Africa. We can seize a base here.” Seizure of a base in Africa, i tie explained, “is a move a s (See CAHMIICHAKL, P, 2) NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF OIRLSNATION - Secretary of De fense Melvin R, Laird poses with Miss Jane Harrison, Wick 's*. liffe, who was elected vice president of the 1969 American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation. Miss Harrison and other young ladles, representing the fifty states, attended briefings by high level Department of Defense officials at the Pentagon In Wash ington, D. C., last Thursday. (DEPT, OF DEFENSE PHOTO). 11 11 I — fi - AH North Carolina s Leading Weekly VOL. 28. NO. 41 RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 9. 1969 SINGLE COPY ISc Mother Explains Why Alleged White #### <£r # # As Alumnus Os The Year’ Elks To Honor Farmer Official Os HEW ‘Alumnus’ MEMPHIS, Tenn. - James Farmer, the new Assistant Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare, has been chosen “Alumnus of the Year” by the Depart ment of Education of the Improved, Benevo lent, and Protective Or der of Elkso f the World. George W. Lee, Grand Com missioner of Education in col laboration wdth Hobson R.JRev nolds, Grand Exalted' Ruler, announced the Farmer selection this w'eek, by saying, “Mr. Farmer, who rose from an humble birth in Atlanta, Geor gia, to become a moving power in the civil rights struggle, w’as destined from birth to be come a great leader. His de stiny was given to a big boost along the way when he was granted an Elks Scholarship that enabled him to go on to colleged aii.er finishing high school. He won his scholarship by successfully participating i.i an Elks Oratorical Contest. ‘The subject’, he recalled,‘v/as something about the Negro and the Constitution,’ “It was through this motiva tion that Mr. Farmer and on ward and upward until he be came one of the outstanding leaders of the Neg o revolu tion. Mr. Farmer, serving as key adviser on urban affairs to HEW Secretary, Robert Finch, is one of the founders of the Congress * or Racial Equality (CORE). He was its national director from 19S1 through 1966. He led the first freedom ride, and he spent 40 days in a Mississippi jail as a result. After his resignation as national director of CORE he headed a national literary program for the Center for’ Community Ad ion Education. Later, he taught social wel fare at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and courses in the civil rights revolution and the New 1 Left in relations to the black revolution at New York University. He isthefirst Negro {See JlAg rAIMKH. P. V) '* V, JvTH!” ■BSm ’ HEAD-ON COLLISION KILLS SIX - Beaver Falls, Pa: Four men and two women were killed August 4 in this head-on collision two-miles east of the Beaver Valley Interchange of the 29- year-old Pennsylvania Turnpike. Work crews are shown below clearing the wreckage. (UPI). $500,000 Contract To Firm Owned By Blacks Announced WASHINGTON. D, C. - “Serv ing a $500,000 contract is the kind of job we at the National Business League welcome for our members,” said Berkeley G. Burrell, president of the largest membership organiza tion for business and economic development in the black com munity. Burrell was making a simul taneous announcement last week in Washington with Phil Gayton of Seattle, Washington, Project Director of the Seattle Busi ness League, of a $300,000 a- Temperature* during the pe riod, Thursday through Monday, will average near normal. Day time highs wii! average in the low to mid 80s in the North Caroline mt nntains and on the north e -ast, id in the upper SO- elsewhere. lows at night wii! he mostly in the low 60s in the mountains ami the upper 60- and low 7t s elsewhere Temper atures v 111 be mild Thursday, with .t warming trend expected over the weekend. Precipitation will total near three-fourths of an Inch in the mountains and less than one-fourth of an Inch elsewhere, occurring as widely scattered thundershowers, most ly in the mountains, over the weekend SWEEPSTAKES S4O $5 $7,50 Anyone bavins current GREEN ticket-,, dated Austi". f I%') with proper number*, present same to The f.AUOMM v\ niii', uni receive amount shsted above from the b AEEI'SIAKts Jeanne Ptrcy Perry Wins Sweepstakes Percy Perry, 1516 l/2 Creech Roa,., Garner, was a lucky man last week. He visited General Sales and Service Com pany, 106 S. Wilmington Street, where he received ticket num ber 2504, second prize, worth $25 when he presented it at the offices of The CAROLINA©!. Mr. Perry is a previous win ner in the Sweepstakes Pro motion. To be valid this week, tickets, must be green in color and dated August 2, 1969. Number 8, first prize, is now worth S4O, 132, second, worth greemeni between the West Coast Fire Service, a minority business neaded by Leonard Aaron of Seattle and Alaska, and the Atomi" Energy Com m.ssion Contractors, B-E-C-K Contractors and Praker Dril ling Company. The contract is for fire pro tection service on Amchitka Island, Alaska, and AEC test site. The project grew out of NBL’s management and tech nical program. Project Out reach, operated of the Washing ton office where Mr. Burrell met with AEC executive and in structed the Seattle staff to “give priority assistance” to complete informal commit ments made at an NO! Head quarters conference. Mi. Aaron is a veteran fire man and has ex. ans: ' 1 experi ence in systems and manage ment of fire prevention in Hie islands of Alaska. The award ing of the contract to a minori ty enterprise is the result of long preparation and nezotia tions with government and pri vate officials in Seattle and WisiiLiglon. D. C, The terms of the contract are for 13 months and is one of the $5; and 751, third, will bring its owner the sum of $7.50. Patronize businesses which advertise in The CAROLINIAN. They welcome and appreciate your calling on them. Kindly inform them that you saw their ad in this newspaper. Sweepstakes advertisers may be found on page 12 of this edition. Look them over, then visit these merchants as well as other CAROLINIAN adver tiser 3) and be sure to inform them that you saw their ads in his newspaper. largest minority agreements for the west coast area. District Judge North Carolina Governor Robert Walter (Bob) Scott made state history on Tuesday when he appointed a 28-year-old Charlotte man to the post.ton of district judge of the 26th judicial district. Attorney Clifton Johnson, who is now serving as assistant solicitor of Mechlenburg Coun ty's 26th judicial district, is the appointee. A native of Williamston. in Martin County, Johnson was once associated witt: the Dur (See DISTRICT JUDGE P. 2.) FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE CUT WITH AXE Joe Henry Bryant, Jr., 26, 1107 Smithfield Street, told Of ficer O. T. Perry at 1:22 a.m. Moul;..y, that he and Ellas Evans "3, "27 s. Blount Street, were engaging in an affray at the corner of S, Blount and Bragg Streets, and Evans struck him with • an axe. Both men were charged with engaging in af fray with a deadly weapon. A wi ness was listed as Walter Lee Upperrnan, 1105 S. East Street * * * STABBED IM CHEST Luther Johnson, 22, 625 New Bern Avenue, reported to Of ficer Otis Hinton at 10 p.m. Friday, that he had a “fuss” with Willie Short, 25. He said Snort tried to strike him with a flashlight and he (Johnson) cut Short in the chest with a knife. Warrants were drawn against both men, charging them with engaging in an affray with a deadly weapon. Johnson wsts treated at 'Wake Memorial Hosp. il for a lacera tion of the upper right chest. A witness was listed as Miss Betty Byrd, 408 Dakar Street. The incident took place at the intersection of 3., Person and E. Martin Streets. (See CRIME BEAT. P. 3) Br. Cheek Promises To Assist - A group of migrant farm workers, all of whom are black, who have been on strike a gainst Craven County, North Carolina blue berry operators and have testified before U. S. Commit ee Hearings, brought th£ir case :'o the N. C. State Friday, Au gust 1. They asked Shaw University and Dr. King V. Cheek, Jr., president, for assistance in helping then, to obtain justice throng!, s*ate officials. Dr. Chee.-. .r. •* with five spokesmen for the group in his office for approximate!one hour, and later listened to the group of some 200 blue be i r pickers on the universit . ’ s campus Members of the group pre sented the president with a “peace offering” in the form of a Dasbiki, which he prompt ly put on the addressed the group Welch came from the New Bern area by bus and truck. Cheek told the poorly paid workers that “A* a time in our nation’s history when we are at the peak of wealth and affluence and when we have just expended $24 billion in a moon launch, we should bov our heads in shame for stand ing silent whole an\ American suffers from the lack of food and shelter. He said, “The strength of a country cannot !x j shown in the flexing of its muscles on a battlefield of a foreign land, or in the scientific achieve ments from a Lina; landing. The spirit of a country is its people. If we fail to respond to their basic human needs, we have failed as a nation.” The president said that as a University that has committed itself to resolving human suf fering and problems, we cannot sit silently in the face of out (See MIGRANTS. I* 2) D.Stith SpeaksTo NCGOP’s DURHAM - DavidStitli, Presi dent of Southeastern Busint as College, and the new addition to the Republican ranks will address two GOP groups this week in the state. Monday Stitt, was the lead of? speaker for the North Carolina Federation of Teen-Age Repub licans now ir, session on the University of North Carolina Campus at Chapel Hill. Ontei s speakers will Include; Ohio Congressman Donald Lu kens, Rep. J unes Holshouser, State GOP Pari\ Chairman, Rep. Charles Taylor, House M Ino rll y Leader, Senator, Geraldine Nielson and Senate; Harry Bagnal. On Thursday night, St it h will ■address the Wake Count-. Re publican Club ai (tie WRAL- Television auditorium in Ra leigh. Mrs, Putt; Amburgey of the Wake County Republican Part;, will be in charge of the Ra leigh Program. Stith said the basic theme of both talks will center a round his personal reasons for joining the Republican Party, as well as, why the Republican Party should make an all out effort to attract more Negroes to 1* s ranks. extreme right, president of Shaw University, meets with spokesmen for the migrant farm work ers in his office. W. L. Riddick, director of university extension is shown, second from right. (See story). HKCKf.hR GOT s TO JAIL - Passaic, N. J.: Policemen rush a heckler to a n n ;ng police van ’ ere late August 5 after a sma’l number of Puerto Rican and black youths remained m the street in defiance of a p.ny. general curfew m effect for the first time. But police reported the situation was “under control” this city of *B,OOO where gangs threw fire bombs, looted stores and smashed windows August 3 and August 4. (UPI). Says Man l rged Kids To Fight Two Here m ANTOINETTE FOXWELL * 1 \ountz 'A ilnm Icmice tttenugers ;il— h’u.’CuK got a taste last week of the racism th:t ! is present in the Raleigh area. This is ;he story that M>\s. Elsie Womack told of having taken place last Saturday afternoon. 1 am on Womack, 13, son of Mr; Womack, George Akins, 13, and Matthew Akins, 1-4, de cidec! around three o’clock last Saturday afternoon to go to the Zipco Service Station on High way 401 South *o put some air in their bicycle tires. While they were doing so, an unidentified white man came out of the sen - ice station with a bov and . girl who ippeared to be pre-school age, and instructed the little bov to “beat the Negro oys up.” He then pointed George Akins out to the boy and told. im to it him first with his hands and then with a big stick. The little white girl re~ portedlv hit at Lament Womack, who ran across the highway, hack to his horn •. The little girl is then said to have hit at Matt new \kins, who also tan 1 ome. Tht man then took the stick anti began to chase ttie -wo hoys, Mrs. Womack said. When they arrived home,'the hoys informed theii pai, --is of what had happened, and a group of four concerned adults, in cluding Mrs. Elsie Womack, returned to the servii e station. J\heu the parents assert the nan if ha- ra.s struck their child ct. hr j plied according to Mrs. ick, “Hell, t ah. m s oof all of you sons-of-hitches.” The mar then struck at one parent, whereupon a fight ensued. A crowd of sixty to seventy people gathered, including two unidentified white men who "a t front the neighboring barbecue restaurant a n d t r i e d to “team up” on the black men. All three we: e severely beaten, and the man who had started the inci dent t eeeived severe cuts a— Red Carpet Treatment For Shriners BALTIMORE - (NPI) - The “red carpet” is ready to be rolled out to welcome the Prince Hall Shi friers and Daughters of Isis when they' arrive for the Impel ia i Council's sessions, Aug. 17-22. Dr. John Hasty Hover of Atlantic City, N. J„ the Im perial Potentate, will be at the helm, arid preside over the Conv en 11 o n of the Impe: ial Divan, which will be among the preliminaries leading up to the official opening of the con taec RED lAhi'Ei, y 3) bout the head as a result of being beaten with a board con taining nails, Mrs, Womack in formed us. It was not knov. whether the following incident had anything to do with the altercation at the service station or not, but at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Larry Dwayne Jones, white male, M 5 N. Woodworth Street, reported to Officer w. F. Freeman that he was struck by a colored (Sec HK.VI EX HI R|; |>. ■>) INC Mutual To Aid In JOBS Act DURHAM - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany has been named as one of thirty-nine companies in six C. S. cities tna- will hire and train 571 dlsaovantaged jobless persons in 3c different oc cupaiural skills under the Job Opporb’nbies in the Business .Sector (JG3S) .urogram. Societal > ot Labor George P. Shultz has sot up procedure® enlisting the resources olpri '? f e industr'. in providing jobs and training for the hard core unemployed. Unde r the se procedure-:, funds will be provided to ! elp companies oifset the cost of tecruiting. :euedial education, oouns iing, on - the-job t raining, supportive services sucl as minor med'eal care and trans portation where needed; and a production differential based on what an average untrained dis advantaged worker produces during the training period. North Carolina Mutual’s part of this p.ogram will be in Chicago where a total of 40 trainees will be hired as in surance underwriters at a cost of *106,400. The contract will run for 2 years and the on the job training period will consist of '-2 weeks According to Edward J. Hal facre. NCM assistant agency director and company coordlr tor for the project, the d. v -1 opine-nt of the 40 recruits .1 consist of three phases. Phase 1 will be a two-week training period at Marion Business Col lege in Chicago. Approximately 12 persons are scheduled for the first class with subsequent o rientation groups of similar size aimed for within 6 week after the initial class has start - (SetNt MUTUAL, J». 2J ITTTITHM lirTlT«glTa-«WT-ir»n-TTC-»--~~