Raleigh Area Blacks Oppose Low-Rent Housing
BREATH OF LIFE-New York: Fire officials gave first aid
to a badly-injured victim of the explosion and fire at Ryan’s
Case oii Park Row here, Dec.. 11. The incident, believed caus
ed by leaking gas, injured at least 5i persons, 12 critically.
Knight Says TheACLU
Bringing Only Realily
C .J C J
ASSOCIATION DIRNOTION
E A LEIGH HUMAN RELATIONS
COMMITTEE
BY Hi: I KNIGHT
. "A. C. L. U. ma; have
▼ 'rough; fear •( the hearts of
white.-.- v.itt, politically active
sons or daughters about %.re
+ press:ve legislation but we as
Blacks have been under this
form ok Human Oppression for
vear s.' ’
It was apparent last Wednes
d night at the V,ake County
C. apter of the American Civil
I d'ertie- Union meeting, held at
t! ■ County Courthouse Building
tl .* whites have become con
cerned about '‘repressive leg
islation.’' • But to what end,”
i- the question asked by the
t hick who attended. Rev. Leon
V » >.'• • it ; the Committee for
Racial Justice, and Ralph Bay
lo! of Wake County Opportuni
ties *lllO., were among the
blacks in attendance. “The no
knock lav . w ire tapping and pre
trial detention is aimed at us”
sta f ed the Blacks.
Tlie fact that these things
could he made the law of the
lam.: Is wha» has most whites
upset. T is law will affect young
white- whose form of political
a. - ion isn’t “American like.”
.ik ‘1 is is upsetting many white
parent.- throughout the Nation.
r T< Blacks it’s a reality of
being poor and black. W hile the
local Chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union had a valid
point in showing these laws to
Dr. Picott
Is Honored
By Seminmy
mCHMi.ovij, Ya.-J. Rupert
Plcot- assistant directo . Af
filiate Services, Division of
L iehi Services, National Educa
• i r vssociation. Washington,
L. . was honored this week
a’ tl ■ Virginia Seminart and
College.
Amid pomp and ceremony
usual at college founder’s day
exercises, Dr. Picott was a
' ' led the College’s degree by
tt.- president. Dr. M, C. South
erland.
% Tin itation of Pi . Picott’s
.-.iid, ‘the degree is granted
because you have set a new
fScc HR IM( <ITT ■!)
SANTA CAME E ABLY-Orlando, ki».: Jeanette Jones, 8-vea.r-oid Orlando girl, who had Mr
Arm blown off by a nody ..gets a doll from Arnold Leman, right, of Hollywood, Ha. a
paraplegic since birth. Lerman dresses as Santa and visits youngsters who are hmi-iteaoped
fjyjically in a nine state area. His wife, Larine, left, is tomwn as *''SnewrfJafce" and helps him,
%/ %/
be "Drohihition Jaws’’they fail
ed to deal with the local issue
of Magistrates and Judges who
use or condone evidence ac
quired by the forms of the laws
(Sec KNIGHTS SAYS, P 2)
DEADLINE!
since The Carolinian plans
to go to press or, Tuesday, De
cember 22, all writers of home
town news must have their items
at the offices of the newspaper
by this weekend. The deadline
for all local news and photo
graph,s is no later than Mon
day morning, December 21. No
news and photographs will be
accepted for publication In next
week’s edition after the stated
time.
Oldest
Ex-Barber
Is Dead
Prestly G. Mitchell, 98, 717
E. Martin Street, a retired
barber and renown Raleigt
churchman, died at Wake
Memorial Hospital at 12;30 a.
m. Sunday . He is believed to
have been the oldiest retired
barber in Raleigh and Wake-
Count;..
One of the city’s oldest ac
tive deacons, he served for well
(over fifty years in this capaci-
ISee P G MITCHELL,!.. P 2)
PRESTLY G. MITCHELL
1970 Democratic Gains May
Be Our Losses, Bond Says
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The car o l ini an
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
VOL 30. NO 7
Hold 2 hr Murder After They Allegedly
Dr. Miies Mark Fisher
Noted Minister Dies
Rises Set
Frl. Far
Dr. Fisher
RICHMOND, Va.-The
Pew Dr. Miles Mark
Fisher, who foi more,
than thirty years, serv
ed as minister of the
White Rock Baptist
Church in Durham, N.
C., died here Monday
at the awe of 71.
The Atlanta, Ga. native re
reived his early training in Chi
cago, 111. In 1918, he graduated
from Morehouse College in At
lanta and studied theology at
the Northern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary in Chicago. He
earned both the master’s and
Ph. D. degress in Divinity at the
School of Divinity of the Univer
sity of Chicago. The Doctor of
Divinity degree was bestowed
upon him by Shaw University,
(Sue DR. FIS.IER. P. 2)
OthJob Work
haded By
$7 Million
NEW YORK, N. Y.-Director
of Progiam Operations, Adolph
Holmes announced recently that
the National Urban league’s
On-The-Job Training Program
has signed a new $7 million
contract from the Manpower
Administration of the Depart
merit of Labor to place an ad
ditional ",,422 disadvantaged
persons in training slots hi the
next 12 months. Monies are
committed to 29 League Af
filiates already operating OJ7‘
programs.
‘‘Even in these recessionary
times when non-Leagues pro
(Sec ON-THE-JOB. P 2)
RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19.' 1970
JAMES W. YEAR GIN
Year gin
Cited At
Dinner
BY CHARLES G. IRVING
James W. Yeargin, 111] Fay
etteville Street, was honored
at a testimonial dinner Tues
day evening. Dec. 15, at the
Sir Walter Hotel for hls
manv contributions to the civic,
economic and religious life of
the city, state and nation. Tues
day, was his birthday; he was
89 years old.
Among those who spoke of
his contributions were; Dr.
Nelson H. Harris, of St. Au
gustine’s College, former Di
rector of North Carolina Sum
mer School Teacher Training;
E. L. Raiford, Secretary of the
Bloodworth Street YMCA;_ W.
Raymond Jones, representing
(Sec YEARGIN IS p ;.*>
North May
Yet Show
The Way’
ATLANTA - The North may
yet show the Soutl the v/ay to
ward school integration de
spite having its share of the na
tion’s racism, a Southern Re
gional Council report said Sun
da; •
“It is a common saying nov.,
in North as well as South,
that, ironical!;, the South may
show the North how to make
integration work/' the report
in the council’s monthl; pub
lication South Today says.
“Put turn that around. What
If the North unscarred by 16
years of battle with the federal
government and the courts,
takes the lead and p! ows the
Souti, how integration, that
step into Camelot beyond de
segregation, can be achieved?
Despite vast stretches of North
ern segregation and doiens of
districts where nothing is work
ing, there are indications that
In some districts this is ex
actly what is happening.’
The Council’s report, based
upon inspections of integrat
ed non-Southernschool systems
from Maryland to California,
compares what is taking place
elsewhere with Integration tn
ttie South, It says Southern seg
regationists are right in saying
there is just as much racism
in the North as in the Kouth,
's*•« n&msk may, v* v/
lan, 46,
Slashing
Victim
Two Wake County men
we re ordered bound ov
er for act ion by the Wake
County Grand Jury last
Thursday after a hear
ing on a murder charge.
Bond was set at 55.000
for each of the accused,
but both were still being
held in the Wake Coun
ty Jail as of Wednesday
morning.
Leonard Ea r 1 Winston of
Route 3, Zebulon, and Samuel
Rudolph, Dunston of Route 1,
Wake Forest, have been charg
ed in separate warrants with
cutting Henry Mason Holden’s
threat and slashing both his
arms on the night of Oc’.. 24,
near the Jonesville Communi
ty. which is about miles east
-of Wake Forest.
Holden, who was 46 years old
and lived at Route 3, Wake
Forest, was found in the center
(See THROAT SLIT. P 2)
UNCFGets
75Gs From
Burlington
NEW YORK, N. Y. -The Burl
ington Ird jtries Foundation of
North Carolina, recently grant
ed $75,000 to th,e United Neg 'o
College Fund’s 1370 national
campaign, it was announced last
week by Vernon E. Jordan. Jr.,
the College Fund’s executive di
rector,
Mr. Jordan, who accepted the
check here, from Burlington’s
president Ely R. Callway, Jr,,
stated that his grant was the
largest unrestricted corporate
gift to *he College Fund in its
history.
“T: is grant.” saidMr.Jord-
(See I'NTF OPTS p. 2) (See BUD\ '.V.UINs C 2)
CABBIES, TAKE NOTE-Chicago: Dr. Antonio Scommegna,
(P.) Chief of -Obstetrics and Gynecology, Michael Reese Hos
pital, holds model baby as he instructs Chicago cab drivers
E»ec. 14 on what to do if a baby begins to be born in their cabs.
It is believed that this Is the first time anywhere, that a hos
pital devoted a day to the instruction for cab drivers or,
the birth of babies. (UPI).
SINGLE COPY 15c
GRID STAR SHOT-Philadel
phia: Philadelphia Eagles de
fensive back Nate Ramsey, 23,
was shot and wounded by an
unknown assailant Dec. 14 on a
busy west Philadelphia Street.
Ramsey was rustiea to Miseri
cordia Hospital where he was
admitted in serious condition.
Police said he had been shot
in the chest. (UPI).
US Housing
Body Warn
Pres . Nixon
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Presi
dent Nixon was warned last week
that only his unequivocal public
commitment could resolve the
"grave ambivalence” about
"Federal action to enforce open
housing and foste open com
munities” in his Administra
tion.
The National Cnmmitte a
gainst Discrimination in Hous
ing (NCDH called on t ' Presi
dent personally <• commit his
Administration to 'a compre
hensive and uncompromisingo
pen housing and open comn uni
ties policy.’’
NCDH recommendations for
Presidential action suhm itted to
the White House Dec. 8 and n :<ri<
public today h; t • Co;. 'tte» .s
'Build la Other Seetbns, ’
Group Urges € mmil Body
Bi-Racial community problems were being
pondered by the City Council’s Law and Fi
nance Committee Monday, after a meeting with
i group of southeast Raleigh citizens.
Fears of sprouting low-rent housing, emerg
ing problems of overcrowded schools and safe
ty were discussed with the body by eight rep
resentatives of the area.
‘‘More specific actions” to
deal with these problems was
demanded by the committee,
Ectward Carson, a spokerr.an,
said. "The City Council hac
failed to bt involved and con
cerned about us.
"Most of thenrotesting grouj
members live ui middle-class
and upper-class homes.
This group of citizens had
specifically sought a policy of
no further low-rent housing in
this area of Raleig! (south and
east) until an equal amount of
units have been built in other
sections of the city.
Additional protection of chil
dren in the Aycock, Enloe and
Clarence Poe School districts
was also asked for because of
potential racial incidents. "The
number of school children on
school buses should be curbed to
prevent overcrowding,” the;'
declared.
"We can’t interfere v itn the
fights of landowners, ” Coun
cilman Torn Bradshaw stated.
Clarence Lightner, the only
Black on the committee, stated,
'We can be sure we’re doing
ail we can for southeast Ra
leigh,” He directed a study of
overcrowded school buses, with
City Jim
Craw Ilf
By Court
NEW YORK, IS’. Y.-Ir a de
cision handed down last Mon
day. the U. S, Court of Ap
peals for the Second Circuit
upheld a lowe. Federal court’s
ruling whicl ordered city of
ficials in Lackawanna, New
York to take affirmative action
to permit the construction of a
black - sponsored, low - income
housing development in an area
of the city almost exclusively
white.
The NAACP l.egal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.
(LDF). whicl represented Ken
nedy Park Homes Association
the black, non-profit housing
corporation -- in the U. S.
District Court at. Buffalo and
again in the court of Appeals,
feels that the decision is a
major breakthrough for all
black-sponsored housing proj
ects In its opinion, the court
said that any lav,, ordinance
or action (by a government
body) whether or not racial-
P. motivated -- whicl has the
effect or discimlnatlng against
a minority is unconstitutional.
Kennedy Park Homes As
sociation was organized in 19GB
b\ concerned black citizens in
a last-ditc! attempt to provide
some decent housing for Lack
awanna’s blacks. Past city ac
tions had rezoned the over
crowded ghetto from residenti
al to industrial use, and Beth
iebem Steel’s plant expansion
to that area not only contribu
(Set JIM none p 2)
NAACP Os
Bull City’
To Elect
DURHAM The December
monthly meeting of the Durhan
Branch of the NAACP will lx*
held Sundn at *1 p.m. at the St,
Mark AMI 7. lon Churc! on
Roxhoro Street. This meeting
could prove to he quite interest
(See NA/il * TO P. 10)
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the locations of participating
businesses in The CARO
LINIAN'S Revised sweepstakes
Promotion.
Lucky numbers this week are
as follows; Number 03905, is
valuable In the amount of 525
worth of furniture at Carter’s.
the possibility of a city ordin
ance to curb the number of stu
dents on each bus.
Following is the text of the
statement, read by Mr. Carson
to this committee on Monday of
this week:
Mr. Chairman and Commit
teemen.
e, the citizens of East and
South Raleigh, heiieve that you
know of out problems and that
you sympathize with us. But,
w hat we would like to know from
you; is simply, what are you
doing to assist us in sieving
our problems'?
We feel quite let-down by the
council for; 1. failing to com
municate with us, 2. failing to
involve itself in a potential
dangerous social-upheaval, 3.
(See AREA BLACKS P 2)
Bond T alks
Dangers
0f1970s
ATLANTA, Ga.-" The 1970
elections may spell a iongw
term loss for black voters na
tionally, despite impressive
gains, primarily in the South/’
That is the conclusion reach
ed by Political Associates, an
Atlanta, Georgia based re
search group headed by Ga.
State Representative, Julian
Bond.
Bond notea umi me Novem
ber 3rd elections, generally
considered a victory for the
Democratic Party, and the re
sult: of the 1970 Census "In
dicate population shifts and
political trends and changes
that may not favor black vot
ers.”
'While black voterr have
been almost slavishly devot
ed to the Democratic Party
since the Roosevelt era, and
while the Democratic will In
most instances control state
legislative and Congressional
redistricting due in 1971, the
nine states where losses will
occur far outweigh the five
states where gains will result
in terms of black ability to
influence the mood of politics
and elections’’ Bond said.
North Dakota, lowa arid Wis
consin will lose one House seat
each, hut black voters are a
negligible factor In these states.
In New- York and Pennsyl
vania (2 less seats each), Ohio,
West Virginia, Tennessee and
Alabama (one less seat each),
black voters stand to lose In
fluence.
Pennsylvania s two-seat
(Sev BOND* GIVES. P. 21
CRIME
BEAT
I -on l.ue H * ■ ■' •
ATTACKED OUTSIDE HOME
Miss Norma Jean Murphy,
17, 222 Fowle Street, told Of
ficers F. D. McLamb and B. M.
Perry at 11:14 p.m. last Tues
day: "I went out of my house
and was grabbed from behind.
I couldn’t tell who had me. I
sav. a beer mug coming, but I
ducked too late and it hit me
in the head. He then released
me and I ran. The cops’ re
port stated; "Subject appeareS
to be hiding the truth on wno
l ilt Ikm . She was riot sure in her
statements.” Miss Murphy suf
fer a deep larceration on the
back of her head
(See Crime Beat P. 3)
Inc.., 19 E. Martin St reet; 03002
ip also valuable to the amount
of s2s at Herron Brothers
Furniture Company, S2S K. Wil
mington Street,
The Sweepstake* Bpatllght
this week is at?. Williford's Gulf
Berates, 1210 New Bern Awtmw,
where the people there take sare
of all your car needs.
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