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"Agnew If fiivls Unde Terns As Block US Imim ’ ’
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“PROTIC'I IiAI.I-.IGII - POl.lt i i- NTi-.tn MM H - “Zai
ona says” protect our pullet . The protect us. Too many
have- l)oen killed already. One of then could be your son.”
So says the sign of Zaiona. a night club entertain r appearing in
Raleigh, who decided to ‘‘capltoli/c’ on a little publicity
with a stroll in front of the Capitol filoino in the background)
down Fayetteville Street of the Capitol City. Zaiona's theme
apparently appealed to the Raleigh policeman who strolled with
her maintaining order. fUPI).
Abernathy Agrees
With Sims Statements
Two weeks ago Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
slated while visiting independent African nations
that Black American leaders should be more
conservative and lake no'i-s from the African
leaders he was meeting.
Rev. Ralph Da\ id M . i mtby,
president <it 11 n• Soiri '-in( hi
t i.tn I iMil' i ship (.'init i - in’’ v
1h( . .‘.ml ijK'*£' 1
former acting i>x< cutf%c >!’-
rector ul the N'Utot. il I’. l Dm
I.e.irate. Dltll issued it.de|; , I,
m response tills week
“Spiro T Agnew, : n o'a
si mill lim Mock H> 1■! ok ;
• ss, has in? lilted (lit ' i
Black leadership and all Black
Tw§ J ehns’
| Views On
t Assembly
North Carolina’s two B'aek
inembet S 111 the Gelie) il As
sembh talked viporousp. .d ent
♦hi s session o! the General As
sembly.
Rep. .Tor Johnson, D-Robi so.
Countj talked enthusiasticall;.
about his firs' session "t tin.
Assembly, Johnson said. ‘-Tb.i
ll ic hi If lit Os tin session hid to
lie the passage of the bill to
establish equal opportimit. e;n
plm meat I'm pet ,p], a a,t\ r.ir. ,
creed, color, or sex, Johnson
\V,.s tile alltll'i' ot the I'll!.
Il provides for equal employ
ment practices in North Caro
lina. Tills is tin first bill of this
nature passed n tin south.
Th(» hill was passed without
debate in tile Senate and t, v , s
later tm.uuir.ousp. passe i j..
House
‘•Another bill that has receii -
* <’<l little public it,. ” Tohlison
(See TWO SOI OS’S. l> ;>)
HIJACKER FATALLY SHOT - Jamaica, N. Y.: The latdy of Richard Obcrgfell, wno attacked a
TWA jetliner July 23, is curried into Jamaica Hospital after an FBI agent armed with a high pow
ered rifle shot and killed him as he stood at the end of a runway at Kennedy Airport, A TWA
stewardess, Idle Maria Concepcion formerly of l.os Angeles, was being 1 hold hostage by the hi
jacker, but was not Injured. Oberglell was the first hijacker to be fatally shot in the U, 8. (UPD.
1 "" i'li in America. Heapparent
-1 th . , not think that Blackpeo
pi* should complain altout ra
-1 ism, oppression a;ft injustice,
A be r Hat lit said.
"Tile black leadership of this
1 '.aiion has tric'd very hard to
ike this i decent and just CO
*’ii t., at a time when Blacks
*re fed up with the present
( i m ! - stem oi exploitation led
b ~ i epressive and reactionary
\diiiinistiation,’' lie continued.
‘•Black people generally have
been teaching the entire nation
• hat human dignity and iroe
<l 111 ,o‘( all about.
“It is regrettable that Mr.
\ new dot s net h,t\i Hie capa
<• it \ to under;stand tills.
“.Spiro T Agnew is ill reality
tile biggest complainer in ,\-
n.eriea. He complains about a
free press, contitutional dis
se.at, cb.il ri lits and basic free
doms.
“Mr. Acnew s. is that Black
•pb should taki constructive
action. I lielievc the most con
st met tie action Black people
can take is to help remove
(See AGNEW WANTS, P. 2)
2 Drink,
1 Shot
In Melee
Drinking apparently brought
i■ nt tin ‘'t rue perst uiality*" of one
) kitten Drive man Sunday after
noon, while .mother suffered
•tmshot wounds during a one
sided melee between the pair,
Paul Theodore Stewart, 40,106
(See ONI: SHOT, p. 21
rkxyxi-n-
Burke New ligon Jr. High School Principal
THE CAROLINIAN
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North Carolina*s Leading Weekly
VOL. 30, NO. 39
Raleigh WamaaJahd
yjytyj-tx
City Plays Host August 2-4 As
Eastern Stars Gather
Over 400
Expected
In Raleigh
Over 400 delegates
from the 1,200 mem
bers of the North Caro
lina Grand Chapter,
Order of Easter Star-
Prince Hall affiliate,
are expected in Raleigh
August 2-4 for the or
ganization’s annual
state meeting.
Tho delegates attending will
represent the 260 Eastern Star
chapters across the state.
Former Davie Street United
Presbyterian Church pastor,
Rev. J, V. Smith, now with the
Seventh Street Presbyterian
(Sec EAsTEaN, P. 2)
Port City Is
Gripped
ByStrHe
WILMINGTON - Azaleas,
ships, pretty girls and Iteach
es used to be the words des
cribing one of the southeast's
oldest port cities until racial
problems that have lieen mount
ing exploded Into a series of in
cidents.
Sniper fire, murders, and
numerous sorts of civil disolied
ienco have been occur ing for the
last two months In the coastal
town.
Over 40 people have been in
jured by gunshot wounds. Sev
eral murders have gone unsolv
ed including the recent mur
der of two white guards at
Williston Junior High School,
formerly a Black senior high
school.
During this period a student
organization, Black Youth
Building in the Black Commun
ity fBY BBC j, has started its
(See PORT CITY. P. 2)
"rAleighTß'c.. week ending Saturday: juEY'TT;'T97T'"~
.'.'•fV'T U
KIDNAP VICTIM SHEDS TEARS Ok JOY-JACKSON, Mich. -
Miss Marilyn Epps, 14-year-old resident of Detroit, is shown
above, shedding tears of joy, following a two and one-half hour
ordeal at the hands of an alleged murderer. A wooded area, some
four to five miles from the Southern Michigan Prison, was the
scene of an intense manhunt Monday of this week before con
victed murderer, William Gal ling, Jr., 28, formerly oi Detroit,
was captured Mondav afternoon. Marilyn, surrounded by state
troopers, emerges from the woods unharmed, but shoeless, af
ter the ordeal. (UPI).
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fQVIRim REPORTER 1
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BY C. WARREN MASSENBURG l
QUESTION: With integration of all Raleigh and
Wilke County Schools going into effect this year
for the first time, do you expect any measurable
degree of trouble?
Mr. Oscar Allen, 004 Cum- wrong.
berland Street.
I tell you the truth, if we
don’t get Christ in nu ■ lives,
something bad is going to hap
pen to all of us. We need to
get in Sunday School and church.
If we do this there will be no
problem getting along'with one
another. You know both Black
and white have got the devil in
them. This is what’s going to
cause the trouble when we have
it.
Jennie Williams, South Hay
wood street*
I really don’t expect much
trouble. I’m sure that, with
>iuie, most of our problems will
k" away, I believe everyone
should be as one. If we put our
tiust in God, we will not have
any trouble. He (God) does no
Are Prisons in
US Now
Political?
NEW YORK, X. V. - Increas
ingly, American prisons are be
coming schools for political re
volutionary consciousness, ac
cording to George Lester Jack
son, when interviewed recently
in San Quentin prison by a. re
porter for The New York Times.
Jackson is one of the '‘Soled.id
Brothers’’ and got fame for his
best-seller book, “Soiedtd Bro
<f«« PRISONS IN. P. *»
Virginia Wall, Gilliam Lane.
I feel that if everyone will
cooperate, everything will run
smoothly without any distur
bances. If we look at everyone
on the same level, there cannot
be any trouble. After having
(Set* THEY SAY, P. 2)
CRIME
BEAT
I i ulil IGib'it h'*- Official
WPI I’nln c. Files
ROBBED 01' VALUABLES
Matthew Mac Sanders 110 ft S.
Bloodworth Street told Officer
B.W. Hamilton that at 12:03
’'■’ednesday two colored males
came to his house, and stated
they wanted to use the tele
phone, according to official Po
lice reports. The reports show
that Mr, Sanders stated he led
the two subjects into the other
room, and one of the subjects
grabbed him by the throat and
got his billfold from his luck
pocket. The reports Indicate
that at this time Mr. Sanders
called for help. The other sub
ject .“pulled out” a gun and told
the subjects sitting in the liv
ing room to keep their seats,
according to police reports. The
two subjects then ran out of the
from door with $85.00 “in valu
ables” as shown by the reports.
(See CRIMJK BEAT, P. J)
~ SINGLE COPY 15c
Man, 25,
Blasted
In Chest
A Raleigh man re
mains in •‘fair” condi
tion at Wake Memorial
Hospital this week after
being sho* near the heart
by a woman believed to
be his wife, at about 12:15
a.m. Monday of this
week.
Douglas Carroll Goodson, 26,
1127 S. State Street, Apt.
10, was found “lying on the
porch*’ at the apartment of Miss
Irene Beatrice Green, who, in
turn, called “the law.”
According to reports by Of
ficer Ralph Clayborne, Goodson
had been shot in the left chest
(See MURDER IRY, P. 2)
Survey To
Determine
More Cabs
Raleigh's Mayor Pro Tern
Clarence E. Lightner presided
at a Monday afternoon session
of the City Council’s Law and
Finance Committee, when it was
decided to make a survey of
the city’s taxicabs before grant
ing an application to Norwood
Peacock Peacock, Seabrook Rd.
(Kingwood Forest), who runs two
cabs now on the Cardinal Cab
lino, to obtain an owners’ per
mit (franchise).
Officer H. K. Martin, inspec
tor of Raleigh’s taxis, explained
the rules and regulations for ob
taining owners’ permits. He said
that there are nineteen cab
companies in the city with a to
tal of 14.3 taxis. However, he
said, thirty three of thorn are
now paikcd “because there is no
(See SURVEY TO. P. 2)
BULLETIN!
Mrs. Watts
Dies Here
Mrs. Garnello Watts, widow of
I)r, Maurice L. Watts, of 1109
E. Davie Street, died around 7
a. m. Wednesday of this week.
A retired school teacher' in the
Raleigh Public School System,
Mrs. Watts was a native of South
Carolina, but spent much of her
younger years in Wilkes Bar re,
Pa. Mrs. Wattswasamemlier of
St. Paul AME Church for many
years. Funeral arrangements
were incomplete at CARO
LINIAN press time.
AME Zion
leaders
Plan Meet
BUFFAX.O, N. Y. - Accord
ing to Information released by
Bishop Felix Anderson, sec
retary, Board of Bishops, AME
Zion Church, the leaders of the
denomination will converge on
Buffalo July 29 for two gen
eral meetings The Coimec
tioual Council and the quadren
nial meeting of the Woman’s
Home and Foreign Missionary
(th*# AMP '(ION, |>. ;m
Others Also Assigned
To New School Posts
Johnnie E. Burke was named the new principal
of (lie John \Y. Ligon Junior Hi ghSchool here
Tuesday afternoon as the Raleigh School Board
held its July meeting at the offices on Devereux
St reel.
Mum Raleigh black citizens
lum boon interested In know
ire just who would succeed Her
bert E. Brown, veteran principal
of Ligon when It was a Junior-
Senior high and .iftor It became
a seuioi high school. Burke has
Sf-mv.'d as assistant prlnicpal
- '>
f|
r
i ■s:
' -
R. -i! N'.\ n . . BURKE
See Need
For Black
Lawyers
DURHAM-The need of more
black lawters was stressed at
tti* July nn-etinv of the NAACP.
Attoriievs M. i . Johnson, \V. G.
Pear .soir, C. C. Malone and Le-
Marquis IJi*Jarmon were par
ticipants of a pam d, which had as
a theme, ••'Tile application ofthe
law.’
The fact that the NAACP had
traditionally fought for the right
and just application of the law,
was pointed out that all of the
rights, so inn;, denied the black
man, came through the proper
interpretation of the lav. and the
mandate to see that it is pro
perly administered.
(See ATTORNEYS, P. 2)
X In The Sweepstakes X
| SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK 8
X !' (>l Spectacular, Yd Reasonable Merchandise rV
AFRIC ANS JOIN N. C. MUSLIMS Al DINNER-The Pan-Al
t'lean athletes were hosted by Muhammad’s Mosque 34 in Dur
ham at a dinner July 17. The Secretary General and Presi
dent of the Supreme Council at fiiports Os Africa, Genya
Aordla is pictured above (left) with Kenneth X, minister of the
Raleigh Mosques. After Minister Kenneth X extended a warm
welcome to the African delegation, Introductions and presenta
tions of tli) outstanding feats of the international track and field
stars v.i-re enthusiastically aoplauded.
to Brown since 1964. Brown is
now associated with St. Augus
tine's College.
A native of Hertford In Perqui
nans County, Mr. Burke attend
ed Hertford High School, where
Mr. Brown was his prlnicpal.
The new principal received his
Bachelor of Science degree, with
a major in mathematics at Shaw
University, the Master of
Science degree, majoring in
science, at A & T State Univer
sity, Greensboro, has done fur
ther study at Ohio State Univer
sity in the fields of math, science
and educational administration,
at A & T and North Carolina Cen
tral University, Durham, and is
currently enrolled In the doctor
al program in the education ad
(Bee J. MURKE, P. i)
'BiH City’
f Together’
0* s€kmk
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
Durham--Due to the fact that
the Bible says "the lion and the
lamb will lie down together”
many Durham citizens watched
with grave reservations when it
was announced that C. P. Ellis,
accepted leader of the Ku Klux
Klan, and Mrs. Ann Atwater,
staunch leader of militancy,
were made co-chairmen of the
Durham Charette, which faced
the school situation head on.
There were those who said that
a lion and a tiger had met and
wondered what the result would
be. The results are that both
came out unscathed and with ve
ry kind words for each other.
The two, under the direction of
Bill Riddick and J. I). Lewis,
worked out the mechanics and af
ter much discussion and in a few
instances some ‘‘eussin’’ the
more than 400 persons, of both
races, rich and poor, parent,
teacher, principal, county com
missioners, the two boards of
education, city councilmen, stu
dents and a few hecklers, came,
up with what many styled the
most hopeful program to save
(See BULL CITY’. P. 2)