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* ; *r> 'JR * *) * y, " ,' :^*j"' '* THINKS HUSBAND WAS BEATEN TO DEATH IN ARMY » New York: With her two-year-old (laughter, Stardell, Mrs. Jose L, Concepcion holds a letter from her husband, a Marine recruit wTiu nas Oe'en listed as accidentally drownud at boot camp in Parris Island, S. C. The young widow, shown here during September 22 interview, said she believes her hus band was beaten to death in the' stockage. Mrs. Concepcion said her husband was “an excellent swimmer and he wrote me they were beating him.” (UPI). NAACP iiils Boy, 16, Held In Robeson Rope RED SPRINGS-On Sept. 15, a 16-year-old negro schoolboy, Willie Lee Murray, was ar rested on the top of his house at 211 Richardson Ave., Red f Springs, and accused of rap ing an 11 year old white girl. His widowed mother of 0 children, a member oi me Red Springs Branch NAACP, appealed to her branch to ard her in securing legal repre sentation for her son, who is * Two Cited At State In City Two Physical Plant em ployees at N. C. State Univer sity have been presented awards for outstanding service. Mrs. Marion McCoy was named “Outstanding Custodian of the Year” and Robert Moore received the “Outstanding Foreman of the Year” award. George F. Lynch, NCSU buildings superintendent, pre sented the awards. He noted that Mrs. McCoy , ' custodian of the first floor of the Schaub Food Science Building, has only been em ployed at NCSU for 16 months. “It is unusual for someone who has been here for such, a short time to win such an a wards,” said Lynch. “Mrs. Mc- Coy had made an excellent im pression on everyone.” Moore, mail crew foreman, has been employed at NCSU for 11 years. He supervises a crew which handles mail from every academic building on the campus and the crew makes about 90 stops a day, he said. '•He is one of the Physical Plant's most devoted em ployees” said Lynch. The selections were made by a committee of Physical Plant employees which received no minations from anyone within the Plant. More Winners Announced • InRCA’s Album Contest For the second straight week, ten additional persons have been chosen as winners in the RCA Choose Your “Hit-Of-The-Week” Con- test, v The following persons will receive, absolutely free In the mall early next week, free re cord albums, featuring RCA*s top recording stars: Miss Rosllnd Bynum, 2714 S. Roxboro Strpet, Durham; Miss Wilma Lois Turner, Route 3, Box 522-E, Fayetteville; Mrs. L. B, Hawkins, 1507 5. Rox boro Street, Durham; Miss piiipsuKls 1 I 1255 2002 3055 | { S2O S2O $5.00 I O Anyone having current BLUE tickets, dated Sent. 27, 1889. with £;! ft proper numbers, present same to Tnc CAROLINIAN office and ;.':i f receive amounts listed above from the SWEEPSTAKES Feature. ;X .■’’x-x^kW&X'XNkXkk'X'X-X'XkiXkkrX'kkXk&kkkkkkkkWttkkkkkkk’x-X'XvXvX': l ;’’!' No Winners In There were no winners in last week’s CAROLINIAN Sweepstakes Promotion, there fore the amounts of the prizes have increased. To be valid this week, tickets must be blue in color and dated September 27, 1969, known to be retarded and other wise handicapped but has no previous criminal reconi. Alton Pittman, the branch leadership and membership chairman by offering both moth er and son the support of the NAACP and called Charles A. McLean, Field Director and Kelly M. Alexander, NAACP State President. Legal counsel was secured immediately pre paratory to a prelimir ary hear ing set for Sept. 29 which was moved from Red Springs to Fairmont. McLean went to Red Springs to investigate and help the branch prepare for the defense. The first mass meeting was held Sunday night, Sept. 29th and was well attended. McLean praised the unity demonstrat ed by the county-wide repre sentation and enthusiastic sup port voiced for tiro defense. About S2OO was raised to start a defense fund. There were representatives there from the various church denominations in Robeson County for the pur pose of organizing a county (See BOY. 16. P. 2) Afro Center Given Labor Dept. Grant WASHINGTON-The Depart ment of Labor lias announced a grant of $3-5,456 to the An acostia Afro-American Culture Cente-, Inc., Washington, D. C., a non-profit corporation owned and operated by resid ents of the Anacostia communi ty. The year-long grant provides a combination of classroom and on-the-job instruction designed to equip trainees with the skills necessary to obtain positions of responsibilit’, in business, and to provide the communi ty with a source of skilled per (Sec AERO CENTER. I\ 2) Cneryl Stewart, 314 E. Alston Street, Durham; Sonnie Lee Harris, 1103 Magnolia Drive, Durham; Miss Rosa Marie Tay lor, Route 1, Box 188, Wen dell; D. F. Reed, 118 Mason dale Avenue, Durham; Charlie Tomlin, 2606 Atlantic Street, Durham; Daniel W. Smith, 622 Massey Avenue, Durham; and (See RCA ALBUMS. P 2) Sweepstakes Number 1255, first prize, is worth S2O; 2092. second, worth S2O; and 3055, third, will bring Its holder the sum of $5. Patronize business which ad vertise in The CAROLINIAN. (See SWEEPSTAKES. V. 21 But Students Still Met Satisfied NC School Boycott Suspended Kilgore To Address State’s Masons 99th Meet Plannedln Charlotte CHARLOTTE - Fea tured speaker for’ the 99th annual communica tion of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, North Carolina, when this body convenes in Charlotte, October 6-8, will be Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., pastor of Second Bap tist Church, Los Angeles, California, and recently elected presi dent of the American Baptist Convention (first Negro to serve as top executive of this predominantly white na tional organization). A native of Woodruff, S. C., and for many years, a leader in educational and religious work in North Carolina, Dr. Kilgore is held in high esteem by his many acquaintances in this area. He is especially re membered for his outstanding leadership services and execu tive secretary of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, which position (See DR KILGORE, P 2) Bladen Co. Students Are Upset ELIZABETHTOWN - Lester Powell, student leader at the Bladen C ent ral High School Elizabethtown, and the majori ty of black senior high school students in that school, started organizing the , hole student body preparatory to boycotting the school and closing it this week. They said the school had been stripped of the qualified Negro .teachers for certain grades and they were to white schools; that the teachers left had to teach classes out of their field. Some teachers were alleged ly so embarrassed that they volunteered to tell the students that they didn’t know any more about the subject matter than the students and they would be learning together such as physi cal Education major teaching English, biology major teach ing French, artists teaching algebra or similar out-of-field teaching. Several subjects re quired to graduate were schedu led at the same hour, making it impossible to attend classes and consequently graduation was impossible unless a stu dent remained in high school throughout normal college years. The principal would give them no consideration. They said he told them that their parents would receive the same recep tion. The students started boy cotting the school on Friday and called upon the local NAACP branch to help them get relief. Ralph Brown, branch president, and other branch leaders in cluding Rev. Cheek and Rev. Martin called upon Messr. Kel (Bee SUSPENDED, P. 2) STOKES WINS CLEVELAND PRIMARY-Cleveland; Mayor Carl B, Stokes, first Negro to be elected mayor of a large American city, claims victory in Democratic primary for renomins.- tion Septemlver 30. Stokes, flanked by wife, Shirley, at left, faces a tougher light for general election from Republican Ralph Perk. (UPI). THE CAROLINIAN North Carolina s Leading Weekly VOL. 28, NQ~49~~~" RALEIGH. N C.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1969~~ SINGLE COPY 157 Raleigh Man Held Without Bond After *&<!*## ###& Must Keep Affirmative Plan’ Contractors Warned CLEVELAND ' ABSAMS ~ Alleged Rapist A Repeater? The cries of a three -year-old little girl here early last Satur day morning, freed her mother from the clutches of an alleged rapist. It was too late, however, for the mother claimed she had al ready been ravished. Mrs. Anna Mae Lyons, 21, 201 Dorothea Drive, told Of ficer J, D. Narron at 2:12 a. m Saturday that Cleveland Ray (See MOM CHARGES. P. 2) Foyferls To Aid Romney WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secre tary George Romney, U. S, De partment of Housing and Ur ban Development, an (See ROMNEY. AIDE, P. 2) Contracts Director Is Heard WASHINGTON - Government contractors and subcontractors will be ineligible for Federal contracts if they do not keep on file written affirmative ac tion plans for achieving equal employment, the new director of the Labor Department’s Of fice of Federal Contract Com pliance (OFCC) has announced. OFCC’s new director, John L. Wilks, said his office will strictly enforce the July 1, 1968, regulation .that requires Federal contractors and sub contractors with 50 or more employees and holding con tracts of at least $50,000 to keep these plans on file in their establishments. He said that OFCC surveys show that many contractors or subcontractors do not have af firmative action program on file when they are visited by compliance Investigators. Government contractors and subcontractors, the OFCC Di rector stated, must have on file written programs which analyze all major job classi fications at their facilities and explain why minorities are un der-utilized In any given job class in terms of tnelr avail ability. The programs on file, Mr. W'tlks added, must make com mitments to numerical goals and targets, with timetables for their achievement, correct any deficiencies turned up by company officials, and list data supporting both the analyses and revised vrograms. The support date should include job pro gression line charts, seniority rosters, applicant rejection ana hire ratios indicating min ority status. Under Executive Order 11246 the OFCC is responsible for ad ministering the Federal Gov ernment’s program of equal opportunity among contractors (See CONTRACTORS. P. 2) OCCUPY STATE ASSEMBLY BUILDING-Madiscn, Wls.. Fathsi- James Groppl (third from left) leads welfare demon strators from the state capltol. Some 300 demonstrators oc cupied the Wisconsin state assembly building for nearly ten hours before leaving peacefully. Governor Warren Knowles earlie'r had oroered units of the Wisconsin National Guard to the capitol. (UPI). Racial Justice Committee Official Blasts Bob Scott Editor’s Note: The following release was made available last week by BUI Land, an official of the Committee for Racial Justice, with offices at 410 E. Martin Street: In a recent letter to Gover nor Scott from the Committee for Racial Justice we inform ed him of the fact that we had been investigating certain facts surrounding last year's camp us unrest. In that letter, we made certain suggestions to Governor Scott in his future dealings with Black colleges, From Raleigh’s Official I Police Files BEATEN AT STATON’S Frank Thomas Alston, 53, 426 S, Haywood Street, told Officers N. A. Carter and B. E. Tucker at 1:41 a.m, Satur day, that he was at Staton’s Case, 319 S. East .Street, when a colored male, wearlngablack sweater, hit him in the face and kicked him for no appar ent reason. Mr. Alston was un able to give any description of his assailant. Investigative notes revealed that Alston was iak€m to Wake Memorial Hos pital for treatment of a one half Inch laceration of the nope by James McCutcheons, 41 1 Watson Street. * * * ASSAULTED IN PARK Miss Helen Louis Stanley, 20, Room 605, 100 W. Martin Street, reported to Officer R. Clayborne at 9:31 p.m. Friday, that she was in Chavis Park on Chav is Way with three color ed males, when one of them put his hands around her neck and smarted to assault her. The woman said they spotted a po lice car and ran. She said she could Identify one of the assail ants. t’EP » crime beat I*. 3> Black students, and the Black Community. Because of the fact that Governor Scott has not responded to any of our sug (See BLASTS SCOTT, P. 2) WEATHER Temperatures during the pe riod, Thursday through Monday, will average above normal, ex cept near normal along the south coast. Daytime highs will average in the upper 70s in the mountains and in the low 80s elsewhere. Lows at night are expected to average in the low SOs in the North Carolina moun tains and the mid to upper SOs elsewhere. There will be little day-to-day change in tempera tures. Precipltaton will total one-half to one inch with local ly heavier amounts, mainly in . the western portion, occurring as rain and showers mostly oh Thursdnv HAPPINESS IN ATLANTA-Atlanta: The Atlanta Braves dres sing room was combination Fourth of July and New Years Eve here September 30 night after the team had just won the West ern Dlvison title by defeating the Cincinatti Reds by a 3-2 score. Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen (L) and Braves Rico Carty appear to be doing some kind of dance following the win as fans paraded all over the city, (UPI), FACE KIDNAPING RAPS New York: Pauline Coleman (top), 57, and Constance De- Zonie, 39, were arrested by the FBI and charged with the kidnaping of three-year-old Tondelayo Jones Mom the lawn of her Harlem home September 25 and also charged with trans porting the youngster to Char leston, s, C. The child was found, unharmed, in Charles ton September 28 has been re- Arned to New York. The FBI said the women took the child at the request of Mrs, Irby Jones, of Charleston, no re lation to the little girl, who paid them SSOO. The duo was arraigned on a kileaping charge her September 29, the FBI said. (UPI). GOP And Blacks lii Session WASHINGTON-The Repub lican National Committee will talk to Blacks and heritage groups in Newark, New Jer sey, on October 6th and 7th in the second session of its Listening Program Chairman Rogers C. B. Mor ton said, “We feel this will give us an excellent oppor tunity to talk to these two very important and often neglected groups. The Republican Party is interested In broadening its base and Listening Program will help us do this.” Under the direction of Chris tie Todd, daughter of former New Jersey State Chairman Webster B. Todd, the Listen ing Program is a new project (See GOP. BLACKS, P. 2) Mrs. Stokes Succumbs At Age 105 Mrs, Hattie Williams Stokes, who was featured on The CARO LINIAN’S front page when she celebrated her 105th hirthdayon Saint Valentine’s Day, died here last Tuesday at her home, 320 Mapel Street. Funeral services were con ducted from the Manly Street United Church of Chrsit Mon-, day afternoon with her na=*or, ,H,„ MRS. STOKES. P■ V
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