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.*»ve33 sjj« |3&«gßpan,- %&$ <gj*pißra Wi fr^^^fSw§^ mKgjßMmß^B^»^^. .JS JFSjkfsSijy NbiA '%y an &X s .-£& jSa i : jyjyjffijS^SM^SKS^Sfaafa '&?£, > **ssSa £3Ek , in T u * FRISKED IN FLORIDA - Ft. Lauderdale, Fla,: A local police otticer is shown frisking a youth Sunday night after race riots Hared up in the Negro section. One person was shot and eight were hospitalized with injuries. Cars were set afire and widespread looting took place. All was reported quiet on Wednesday of this week. (UPI). JDemo Official Warns Nixon On Do-Nothing Minorities Stance WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Nixon Administration’s do-nothing and back ward moving approaches to civil rights and urban development will bring “repercussions” against the Republicans at the polls in 1970 and 1972, a top Democratic official predicts. John Dean, Director of the Minorities Division of the De mocratic National Committee, described the GOP Adm inistra tion’s lag in dealing with mount ing urban-racial problems as ‘'criminal.” He pointed io im mediate needs for action to cope with the “massiveness of the 3 [v.sing crisis, the massiveness f social ills in the ghettos and the conditions of schools.” Commenting in a recorded in School Boycott Underway In Fayetteville, County FAYETTEVILLE - Fayette ville cit y and Cumberland Coun ty schools are now in the midst of a massive boycott by students and a sit-in by white parents. Final plans for the boycott of county schools were drawn up at a meeting on Monday night of the Cumberland County Con cerned Parents Association, held at Memorial Auditorium. The meeting attracted sev eral hundred parents, repre senting the seven school dis- Omega iFnt Aids Poor In Mississippi FAYETTE, MISSTJn keeping with one of the cardinal prin ciples of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, -uplift,’ Ellis F. Corbett, Grand "Basileus of the 25,000 member fraternity, gave Mayor Charles Evers and this litiiv. delta town a lift, when tie visited here recently. Mr. Corbett presented a check for $"00 from the fraternity as a donation fi’om the national ad ministration. Mayoi Evers was happy over the fact that members of the organization saw fit to aid him in his struggle to keep the (See OMEGA fK \T, P. 2) “LISTEN TO YOUR LEADER'* - College Park, Ga„: Ful ton County Sheriff Leroy 3iynchcotr.be points to NAACP official Morris Dillard and urges a crowd of demonstrators to listen to their leader following a shoving incident at the Eva L. Thomas high school. Far the second time August 29 the sheriff and deputies moved into the school carrying out a court order to evict, students from the closed school building. The Negro Students are protesting closing of the school in the pr edominantly Black neighborhood, (UPX), terview, Mr. Dean said that in recent travels around the coun try he had found the “reaction to Nixon is so severe” among members of minority groups that some people- - ‘ ‘particular ly young black people”--who were “turnedoff” of the re gular political process will come back in” to do something about it” at the ballot box. Mr. Dean, who was appoint ed by Democratic National tricts in the county. Spokesman for the CCCPA, James D. Person, said a set of boycott instructions were drawn up following a meeting of the group on Friday at Mas sed Hill which attracted some 1,400 persons. This boycott is being staged primarily to protest the busing of many students and to call for the return of the freedom of choice plan, which involved sev eral thousand white students at Tuesday’s opening day of school Meanwhile a Concerned Par ents Organization confined to the City of Fayetteville was making plans for a sit-in by parents at various high schools. Spokesman for this organiza tion based their opposition to school borad plans on what they termed racial imbalances at several schools in the city. In another development Mon day, Mrs. W.T. Moore treasur er and spokesman for the Fay etteville organization, announc ed her resignation because she said she feared for her family’s safety. A Hillsboro Street gro cery store partly owned by Mrs. Moore's husband, -was picketed Saturday by a group of Negroes protesting the activities of the Concerned Parents Organiza tion. STUDENT SAFETY The county boycott instruc- ;n Committee Chairman Fred R. Harris last June to fill the Mi ll oil ties Division director ship formerly held by Louis Martin, spoke from a back ground of executive service with the national Urban Coalition prior to joining the DNC staff. The 38-year-old political of ficial earlier served with the U. S. Information Agency, the State Department, and the U. S. Office of Economic Op portunity. "No one in the Administra tion is really doing anything, taking any new initiatives in the field of housing, any new- ini tiatives in the field of edu cation," Mr. Dean said. "Ithink the pullback is massive and I think it says very clearly to the black people that this Ad ministration is not prepared to do that much for them." Forecasting that "it will bring repercussions" in the 19- 70 and 1972 Congressional and Presidential elections, Mr. Dean said; "I think there is a feeling that with the kind of people he lias surrounded himself with, and with his own track record, that (President Nixon's) Ad ministration is literally incap able of responding to black people and minority people in this country.... "You know, it doesnt' take a great deal of sophistication to see what was attempted with (Attorney General John) Mitchell's thrust at the voter registration program. And people who read the newspapers know how Strom Thurmond is related to the school desegre gation slowdown, (See WARNS NIXON, P. 2) Temperatures during the pe riod, Thursday through Monday, will average near normal. Day time highs will be in the low 80s in the North Carolina moun tains and the north coast, and mostly in the mid 80s elsewhere. Lows at night will average in the upper 50s and lower 60s in the mountains and mostly in the mid-to-upner 60s elsewhere. Gen erally mild temperatures wilt prevail over the weekend. Pre cipitation will total one-half inch or mere, except near one Inch on the south coast, occur ring as scattered mostly after noon and evening showers and thundershowers. — , The Crime Beat FROM RALEIGH'S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE STABBED IN CHEST Lerov Alonzo Mathless, 41, 315 Fowle Street, told Officer Gien Westbrook at 3:09 p.m. Saturday, that he was walking on Fowle Street when five young colored males came up to him and asked him for his money. He said he did not have any and they attacked him, he de clared. One of them stabbed him in the chest with a pen knife. Mathless said when the boys saw the blood after the stabbing, they did not take his money. Although the officer's report stated that the complainant had been drinking, Mathless said he could identify his assailants ts lie saw them again. * ■* STRUCK IN FACE Hubert Thomlinson, 38, 1300 S. East Street, Apt. B, report ed to Officer R. Clayborne at 8:07 p.m, Saturday, that Hubert Montgomery, 36, 1807 S, East Street, struck him In the face with his hands. Thomlinson .signed an assault and battery warrant and Mr. Montgomery was placed ir. Wake County Jail under a bond of SIOO. The inci dent occurred at Thomlinson's house. tSec CRIME BEAT, P. S> Rowland Slain In February Open Trial In Cabbie’s Death k? k ? >-, t-, 4xsx4%*t% N?<Tt«N<N Kd N* J\? .•■ ? < 4 ~\ *sa * / v v \r~* V* t ■ S New Wake Poverty Board Head Says We Aim To Work Closely With All ■ ■- ■. ■■■■- ••• ••' •' •. ."-.a-.---.-- •■ -■■■•■- ".. . ■■■■■■■""-■■ - VOL 28, NO. 45 Prominent Wake Native ' Kid ’ Henderson '■'. ; ■ . ■ xVxhsh# Sh^xf- Hyde Blacks Ask Gov. To Investigate G. Frinks Youth, 19, On Trial In Slaying As Wake Superior Court ended its session on Tuesday, six jurors had been chosen for the trial of a 19--year-old white Knigthdale youth charged with murder in the February 5 fatal shooting of a 47-year -old Negro cab driver, Charles David Rowland. Thomas Cary Maddox is charged in the pistol death of Mr. Rowland who lived with his invalid mother at 418 Montague Lane here. _ Jurors seated Tuesday were William E. Felts, Jr., president and general manger of Audio Center Inc.; Mrs. Sophia H. Clayton, a housewife; Car -1 D. Drys, employee of Kroger Family Center in Cary; Fred Allen, a retired fanner of the Holly Springs area; Mrs, Jean (See SIX JURORS, P. 2) Atti&m Os Leader Are Questimed ENGELHARD - More than seventy-five Negro leaders in this Hyde County area are ask ing a state investiga tion of Golden Frinks, State Field Secretary for the Atlanta, Ga.- based Southern Chris tian Leadership Confer ence. Earl Bryant of Englehard wrote a letter to North Caro lina Governor Robert Walter (Bob) Scott on August 18, asking that Attorney General Robert (Set G. FRINKS, P. 2> SWEEPSTAKES 1255 1510 2504 S2O $lO $2.50 Anyone having current ORANGE tiCKets, dated Aug Sj, 1968. with proper numbers, present same to The CAROLINIAN office and receive amounts listed above rom the SWEEPSTAKES Feature Jones Wins Sweepstakes Klmbrell Jones of 206 Garner Road, visited Hudson-Be 1 k's 208 Shop on Fayetteville Street last weekend and received lucky ticket number 800, third prize, worth sls when he presented It at The CAROLINIAN. Mr, Jones said ha had never won the Sweepstakes before. To be valid this week, tickets must be orange in color and dated August 30, 1069. Number are: 1255, first prize, S2O; 1510, second $10; and 25- 04, third, $2.50. North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1969 SINGLE COPY 15c j \ i 4^^ ; aw f affjßSß j v. | ON WAY TO MURDER TRIAL - Nairobi: The alleged assassin of political leader Tom Mboya, Nahashon Isaac Ngenga Njoroge, is handcuffed between two policemen upon his arrival at court here September 1 to stand trial. Mboya’s death has stirred up old tribal rivalries in Kenya. (UPI). Health Association For Poor Sought Here Recently, plans were begun bv the North Carolina Committee for Racial Justice to organize a group of indigenous members of the Black community of Ra leigh, into a Health Association, The new group which goes under the name of “The Community Health Association”, is large ly comprised of sincere young adults who feel that certain conditions which exist In the Raleigh area need to be in vestigated and acted upon in an attempt to maintain an accept able health standard. The Com munity Health Association has prepared a list of priorities which are issues th: group feel must be acted upon immediate ly. 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 or. page 10 of this edition. Look them over, then visit these merchants as well as other CAROLINIAN adver tisers, and be sure to inform them that, you saw- their ads in this newspaper. The most important project to be undertaken by the CHA will be the establishment of some type of free medical serv ice, advice, or treatment center for members of the Black com munity which should be staf fed by local doctors or nurses who will donate their services. “We realize that free time seems to he scare among mem bers of the medical profession, but if they are as dedicated to the task of combatting di sease as they are supposed to be, I’m sure they can find enough time to spend an hour or two in preventive treatment (See SEEK HEALTH P 21 PSYCHOLOGICAL^JCMFRGNTATION - Washington: Black psychology students had * quiet confrontation September 2 with their white professional elders and won a round in their demand for financial and educational help. Members of the Black Student Psychological Assn, face members of the American Psychological Assn, (right) as Gary Simpkins, a student at Calif. State College at Los Angeles and acting chairman of the BSPA (pointing, Bth from 1 est), addresses the A PA. (UPI) friend’ Held For Murder BALTIMORE, Md. - Walter ‘Kid’ Henderson, 43, a native of Wendell in eastern Wake Coun ty, North Carolina, was shot to death here on Monday, August 18, in the back room of anight club. Police are holding his ‘pal’ in connection with the murder. A popular and prom inent. sportsman in Baltimore for many years, Henderson was re portedly shot four times, twice in tire face and two times in tiie upper chest. Henderson was the proprietor of two night clubs the Lexington West Lounge and the Roosevelt Case, Being held for murder is Irv ing Lee Wilson, who lived in one of the houses Henderson owns in the 2600 block of W. Lafayette Avenue. He also had other ex (Sec HENDERSON, P 2) Only $412 Taken, Says Dr. C. Ward The Rev. Dr. Cnarles W, Ward, pastor of the First Bap tist Church, 101 S. Wilmington Street, Informed The CARO LINIAN last weekend that the amount stolen from the business office was $412, not SI,OOO as previously reported by the custodian of the church. “We made deposits in two church accounts Monday,*’ Dr. Ward said. “One was in the a rnount of $356,25, and the other was in the amount of $227,85, making a total doposi* of $584.- 10.” On M ondaj of last week, (See DR. WARD, P. 2> Mrs. Allen Asks Aid Os Public Editor’s Note: In an exclu sive interview with Mrs, Doro thy Nixon Allen, who was ap pointed to her present position last Wednesday night a CARO LINIAN newsman was given the following information: “I shall always tie grateful to each person who supported me in becoming the Executive Director of Wake County Op portunities, Inc., but each per son must realize that their support must not stop there. It is very important that each person in the city, county, and state, if possible, do everything they can do improve the image of Wake County Opportunities, Inc., and help us reach each per son who needs ttie service of this (See MRS. ALLEN, P. 2) * '? A”' MRS. DOROTHY N. ALLEN FSU Grad Wins King Fellowship FAYETTEVILI E- Jack Gravely, a 1967 graduate of Fayetteville State University, lias been named a Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow for the aca demic year 1969-’7O. Word of Gravely’s appoint ment was received by Dr. I). W. Bi sh op, professor-chair man, Department of History and Political Science at the university. The King Fellowships are administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, designed to add trained leadership to com mur ities and institutions. King Fellowships at $270 a month supplement G. I. bene fits, over and above tuition which is absored by the gradu ate of professional school at tended. The combined monthly minmum income of S4OO offers a real option for additional training rather than immediate employment. Gravely plans to use his fel lowship to attend law school at either Howard University, Washington, D. C., or Boston University, Boston, Mass. The grant provides for full support over two years for graduate and professional study (See rSU GRAB. V, 2)
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