Senator Edmund Muskh Bksts
Nixon’s'Dixie Strategy'
Will Receive Coveted Award Fri
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VOL. 30, NO. 48 RALEIGH, N C , SATURDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1971
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MRS. NATALIE WIMBERLEY
Gels Nafl
HonorFrL
Mrs. Natalie Wimberley, a
home economics extension a
ger.t in Wake County for the past
twenty-three years, will re
ceive the eovted Distinguished
Service Award at the National
Association Extension Horne
Economists meeting In Miami,
Florida on October 1, 1971.
As -in extension agent, Mrs.
Wimberley has given leader
ship and educational training
to adults and youth through
Extension Homemaker Clubs
and 4-H Clubs in Wake County.
She has an outstanding re
cord of accomplishments in de
veloping and implementing
strong home management pro
grams for families of various
income levels. Helping dis
advantaged people in a rapid
ly urbanising county, Mrs.
Wimberley has worked closely
with the Raleigh Housing Au
thority, Wake Opportunities,
Headstart, GROW, WIN, and
other organizations.
Mrs. Wimberley received her
B. S. Degree from Bennett
College and has completed
graduate work at N. C. State
(See Coveted P. 2)
Calls Upon
Blacks To
Help Own
WASHINGTON, D. C.- Con
gressman John Conyers of
Michigan said last week that
blacks must overcome their
reluctance to support a black
man or woman for President,
Moat people would think that
blacks were the biggest fools
In the world if they continued
to run for governors, mayors,
and Members of Congress, btsi
looked in the mirror and dis
. qualified themselves from posi
k liens of national leadership.
In remarks prepared for the
Black Coalition of New Haven,
Connecticut, Conyers stated
that the entire country should
now bo put on notice 'hat we
are no longer satisfied being
black leaders, but have resolv
ed to take our 'rightful place as
national leaders, Clearly, if We
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Raleigh’s Mrs. Natalie Peebles Wimherley
North Carolina’s Leading IF eekly
Unofficial
Candidate
Hits Nixon
CHATANOOGA, Tenn.-
Hitting hard at the Nix
on Administration for
its many policies and
promises which he said
have been broken, Sena
tor Edmund S. Muskie
told an integrated Chat
tanooga, Tenn., audience
that “no southern stra
tegy can divide a black
worker from a white
worker when both share
the common emptiness
of unemployment and
when each is a partner
in the failing and frus
(See SEX. MU3KIE. P. 2}
Blast At
Attica To
President
NEW YORK - A strong condem
nation of “the wanton use of
force" at Attica State Prison
has been sent to President Nix
on and other government offici
als by member of the Coali
tion of Concerned Black A
mericans.
Twenty persons, acting as
officials in a variety of pro
fessional, civic, and church
groups or as private citizens,
signed telegrams protesting
the actions at Attica, N. Y.
t#ee ATTICA FORCE. .V. 21
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TEACHER.. MAKES STARLING DISCOVERY- DETROIT: *
Ever wonder what happened to that old lunch pail you used
to lug to school every day? Well, when Mrs. Dorothy Week
ly, first grade teacher at suburban Romulus Harrison Ele
mentary School, routinely accepted the battered lunch pail
offered by Charlie Wilson, one of her six -year-old pupils,
slip realized, with a start it as her own lunch pail she car
ried 13 years ago, still bearing her maiden name on the In
side, Result Charlie has a new lunch pall and Mrs. Week
ly has an old memory back. (UPI),
Zi&nites
fee dyFor
City Meet
With all the districts confer
ences over and delegates elect
ed for the annual session of the
Central North Carolina Confer
ence, AML Zion Church, which
will be held at Rush Metro
politan Church, November 2-7,
it is expected that many inter
ested persons will be in attend
ance.
(See ZIONITES, K i)
INQUIRING REPORTER
THEY SAY
BY STAFF WHITER
How libera] do you think President Nixon
will be in making* his two appointments to
the Supreme Court?
Miss Barbara Mann
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Seek 'Bo’
In Attack
On Morris
BY STAFF WRITER
Raleigh police officers
are seeking a man who
holds the unlikely nick
name of ‘lk)’. He is
being sought because he
allegedly battered the
head and face of Fred
Morris, Jr., 32-year
old resident of 611 Hay
wood Lane (off S. Hay
wood Street).
Mr, Morris told Officer D.
R. Turnage at 11:50 p.m.-Sa
turday, that he and another man,
whom he didn't know, were ar
guing inside a laundromat, lo
cated in the 400 block of E. Da
vie Street, and the other man
picked up a wooden straight
back chair and struck Morris
several times on the head with
it.
He said he couldn't identify
the man because he had never
seen him before. Morris re
fused to say just what the ar
gument was about, but insls
(See MAN S HEAD. P, 2)
‘‘Normally, I don’t think Nixon
will be liberal in his selec
tions. However, if he does,
it will be only because he is
a likely candidate for the presi
dential nomination and for him
to be liberal in bis selections
would be the ground work for
securing gome votes.”
Mrs. J.N. Harris
”1 don't think Nixon will be
liberal in his selections be
cause it is not normal for him
to be liberal in anything he does.
He has not been liberal in mak
ing his other decisions and I
don’t think this will be anv dif
ferent,”
Lewyn Hayes, Jr,
*‘Mr. Nixon being basical
ly conservative, will probably
follow through with his right
wing influence. However, past
performances on the bench Is
an indication that the appoin
tees sometimes take a liberal
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SUSPECT WOUNDED IN COP KILLING - JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: Jacksonville policeman J.H.
Moon was killed September 27 in a gun battle with a suspect who grabbed his pistol while Moon
wts attempting to arrest him. The suspect, Calvin Wilbert, In s wounded In the foreground
while another patrolman, G.P. Matherson, receives aid for a shoulder wound, * UPI).
Dr. Dorothy S. Williams
Tarheel Named ToHUD Post;
Former Professor At Shaw U.
V. ASHINGTON, D.C. - Appoint
ment of Mrs. Dorothy Slade Wil
liams of Greensboro, N.C., as
Director of the Program De
velopment Division, in the Office
of Community Planning and
Management, was announced to
day by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
As a member of the staff of
■Samuel C. Jackson. Assistant
O'c: of ary for Community Plann
ing and Management, Mrs. 'Wil
iams, in addition to developing
-did recommending programs,
will analyze legislative and re
search problems. She will also
provide liaison and coordination
ith the Office of Research and
Technology on matters related
to research, and with the Of
fice of General Counsel on le
gislative matters,
Mr. Jackson said that he was
confident Mrs. Williams would
make a valuable contribution
to the Department.
“I shall rely on her especial
ly in the fields of research and
NBl Prexy
tbids Meet
Oi; freeze
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Ber
keley G. Burrell, president of
the National Business League,
met for nearly two hours Mon
day with President Nixon to dis-.
cuss the effect of the currenF
wage-price freeze and to pro
vide input for Phase n which
begins on November 14, 1971.
Burrell was the only Black
among the eleven industrial,
financial, and business lead
ers. He stated that minority
businessmen feel that since they
have been exempt from profits,
they should also be exempt
from controls and taxes. "Nev
ertheless, he continued, an ex
emption places an awesome re
sponsibility upon the Black
(See NBL PRJEXY. P.
CRIME
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This eetusnn
or feature lx produced its the pub
lic interest with an aim towards
eliminating Its contents Numer
ous Individuals have requested
that they he given the considera
tion of overlooking their listing:
on the police blotter. This we
would like to do. However. It is
not our nosltion to be judge or ju
ry. We merely publish the facts
as we find them reported by the
arresting officers. To keep out of
The Crime Beat Columns, merely
means not being registered by a
police officer In reporting his
findings while on duty. So sim
ply keep off .the “Blotter" and
you won't be in The Crime Beat
BEATEN OVER T. V. SET
Mrs. Mabie Cora McDougal
42, 313 Pugh Street, told Of
ficer C, R. Smith at 7 p.m
Wednesday, that Charles Sul
livan, 37, had taken her tele
vision set, and she went tc
1132 Walnut Street to recover
it. The woman said that when
she left Sullivan’s apartment,
he approached her and struck
her about the head and face.
She suffered bruises and a
brasions of the head and face,
was "hauled off” to
Wake County Jail, where he
was charged with assault on a
female.
legislation/’ he said. “Mrs.
Williams’ experience in ver\
extensive, particularly in re
lation to the problems and needs
of minority groups."
For two years prior to rive
hud appointment Mrs. Williams
DR. rOROTHY S. WILLIAMS
was Dean of the School of Ur
ban Sciences and Distinguish- J
Proffossor of Ur bar. Tic. cos at
Shaw University, Raleigh, N,C.
From 1965 to 1969, she was an
assistant professor at North
Carolina State University, and
before that she had taught at
Agriculture and Technical State
University in Greensboro, N.C.
In all of her academic positions,
Mrs. Williams has beep
primarily occupied with re
search activities.
A native of Reidsville, N.C.,
Mrs. Williams was graduated
summa cum iaude in 1944 from
Livingstone College, Salisbury,
N.C. Two years later she took
a Master of Arts degree from
Bond Is
Poverty
Overseer
ATLANTA, Ga. - Julian Bond
has accepted the presidency of
the Southern Povery Law Cen
ter, a Montgomery-based or
ganization seeking legal re
medies for Inequality and injus
tice to poor people.
Georgia legislator Bond, who
gained national attention first
when he fought the state body's
refusal to seat him and again
when he led a challenge dele
gation to the 1908 Democratic
Convention, Is one of Vmori
ca’s most prominent black
spokesmen.
The Southern Poverty Law
Center lias brought suit on be
half of poor people when pov
(See BOND HEADS. 9* 9\
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chairman of the black-oi lented National Democratic Party of Alabama, and Maryland State
Senator Clarence Mitchell, (It) were late arrivals at Chicago's O'Hare-Port Hotel September
24, where black leaders from around the country met behind closed doors in what was descrxfc
ed as a caucus to chart a course for Negroes In the 1972 Presidential election* Most ©* those
arriving for the two dav meeting refused to say why they were there. (UPI).
Atlanta University, and in 1961,
she received the degree of Doc
tor of Philosophy from the Uni
versity of Southern California.
Her doctural dissertation was
entitled "Ecology of Negro
Communities in Los Angeles
County, 1940-1959.'' Published
in 1961, it is still cited today
for its accurate prediction of
rioting (as exemplified in the
Watts section of Los Angeles
in 1965) if black ghetto condi
tions were not involved.
Mrs. Williams is President
of the North Carolina Socio
logical Association. In connec
tion with her educational acti
vities, she has traveled widely
In the United states, Canada,
Europe, West Africa, ana in
South America.
Mrs. Williams lives in Wash
ington, D.C.
Ambassador
To Niger
Is Appointed
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. John
C. Reuihardt, a career foreign
servtc > officer with the U.S,
Information Agency (USIA), has
been nominated by President
Nixon to be U.S. Ambassador
to Niger.
Dr. Reinhardt, 51, a resident
of Bethesda, Maryland lias serv
ed with USIA since 1350, in
cluding assignments as Assist
ant Director for Africa and his
current post as Assistant Di
rector for the Far East. In
Niger, he will succeed Am
bassador William C. Trueheart
who is being reassigned as fa
cultj adviser at the Air Univer
sity, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama.
Dr. Reinhardt, formerly of
Knoxville, Tennessee, is a 1935
graduate of Austin High School,
lie earned as A.D. degree from
Knoxville College hi 1930 and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Wisconsin be-'
tween 1946-50. He also studied
at ine University of Chicago.
Dr. Reinhardt, who served in
World War II as a lieutenant in
the U.S. Army, was a professor
of English at Virginia State Col
lege and also taught at Atlanta
University and North Carolina
State Teachers College before
joining USIA. Since 1956, he
has served it) years overseas
with USIA on assignments in
the Philippines, Japan, and I
ran.
Earlier this year, Dr. Rein
hardt received the Career Serv
ice Award which is presented
annually to 10 outstanding civil
servants by the National Civil
Service League. In recognition
of his outstanding work with
USIA, ho was cited for "con
suinate skill as one of Amerl
(See AMBASSADOR. P. -2)
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Rev. Ward
New Head
Os NAACP
ihe Reverend Dr.
Charles W. Ward, Sr.,
pastor of the First Bap
tist Church, 101 S. Wil
mington Street, has been
elected to head the new
ly re-organized Raleigh
NAACP.
Serving as vice president will
bo Mrs. Sarah Davis, Other
officers include Mrs. Una Hol
land, secretary; Mrs. Max’garet
Ransdell, corresponding secre
tary; Mrs. Harvleigh White,
treasurer: and Ralph Campbell,
executive secretary.
Executive Committee mem
bers are Rev. A.J. Calloway,
Mrs. 1... Page, Miss V. Irving,
L. Haywood, Dr. T.W. Jones,
J.A. Shepard, W, Sunderland,
Mrs. S. Frueud, J.J. Sansom,
Jr., Mrs. W. Veneer, Attorney
S. Mitchell, E. Carson, Mrs.
H l.ogdii, J.M. Holloway, Mrs.
D.J. Knight, S. Cameron, and
Mrs. E.M. Cudiden. All offl
c is and members were install
ed by M. Davenport.
In addition to setting up a
membership committee, the
group voted to authorize the
submission of a grant request
to the government as a com
munity group.
' t Speakers fron the Raleigh Cit
izens Association and the Pub
lic Schools gave reports on the
. status of equal educational op
,. portunities in the schools. Many
, areas of concern were present
; ed before the NAACP.
The Raleigh Citizens Associa
tion spoilsman spoke of many
, areas of need within the city
and finally ended with some
comments on the upcoming bond
issue, -set for voter acceptance
or rejection on Tuesday, Oc
tober 12.
Dr. Ward lias been pastor of
First Baptist Church since 19-
59, having taken over the post
from the late Dr. Oscar S.
Bullock, who retired and went
to Hampton, Va, to live with
his daughter, Dr. Nacy B. Mc-
Ghee, a professor at Hampton
InsHhjt.fi,
xatc NAMtU TO. Jp. 2)
PTA Week
Will Begin
October 4
CHICAGO, 111. - National PTA
Week, October 4-10, will be ob
served by more than 40,000 lo
v PTA WEEK, P. J)
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HUEY P. NEWTON IN COM
MUNIST CHINA - HONG KONG:
Huep P, Newton, a Black Pan
ther party leader awaiting trial
on a voluntary manslaughter
charge, entered Communist
China September 28, A govern
ment spokesman said Newton
and two other Black Americans
crossed the Hong Kong - China
border in the early afternoon
to catch a train for Canton.
Newton is scheduled to go on
trial in Oakland, Calif., Octo
ber 12 on charges resulting
from the slaying of policeman
John Frey in 1968 in a Pan
ther-police shootout. (UPI)t