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Leaving Soon For Mississippi
Students To Aid Evers
Students
* To Miss.
0et.29
WASHINGTON, D.C.-
Approximately 90 Ho
ward University stu
dents will leave for
Mississippi on Oct, 29
'o assist Charles Ev
- rs in his campaign
to become Governor of
that state.
ihi eiuit ;i- will participate
i i i>olideal education, orien
t: e io:: and awareness project
:•! nnsiacd by the Howard Uni
f' or.sit\ Political Science So
rer . They will take part in
a (lo.ir-to-uoor campaign, con
d ict voter education seminars,
1 distribute campaign litera
ture. Main will serve also as
pell watchers.
Reese Stone. Associate Direc
ts ol' Student I.ife, and ad
visur to the Political Science
Sociotv explained that the Po
litical Science Society’s project
is designed to counteract the
• rowing apathy among Black
students toward the American
(See STUDENTS TO, P ?,)
Concern Is
Rising in
Rape Case
RICHMOND, Ya. - Public con
cern is rising about the case
X*" of Thomas Wansley, a young
black man who lias been in pri
son for the last nine years for
allegedly raping a white woman.
* There is a. campaign on foot to
Wansley’s supporters oeiieve
that he was the victim of a wave
of hysteria that swept Virginia
in 1962--at a time of intense
civil - rights struggles in his
hometown of Lynchburg and
elsewhere in the state.
Wansley was 17 when he was
arrested in December, 1962, af
ter what was described as "the
most intensive manhunt" in the
A story of Lynchburg, He was
charged with raping Miss Annie
Carter, who was 59 at the time.
An ail - white, all - male jury
found him guilty and sentenced
him to death.
Movement lawyers became in
volved in the case and won a re
versal from the Virginia Su
preme Court in 1964. A se
cond trial, in 1965, ended with a
hung jury and was declared a
mistrial. In 1967, Wansley was
again and sentenced
'to life in prison.
The U.S. Supreme Court re
fused to review the case in Jtine,
1970,
Wansley’s lawyers -- Philip
Hirschkop of Alexandria. Vs..,
and William M. Kunstler of New
York--are continuing the legal
struggle by filing a motion tor
dwcisxatory judgment and ape«
IM* CUttCKKM «, p,
North Carolina*§ Leading Weekly
RALEIGiTn. C. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1971
After Jaguar Club "Fuss, 11 Man, 25
AIITHUII N. HARTSHCLI; JAMES E. MEDLBJ^
Dr. Robinson Issues
Sincerity Challenge
"Whether we are able to sur
vive during this decade or this
century, will in my opinion, de
pend upon the sincerity of the
Pill County's Blacks
Say Frinks 'Welcome’
j
In a regular meeting <>f tlie
Pitt County Coalition at York
Memorial AML Zion Church,
Tuesday, October 12, 1971
when the matter came up about
1 wSea WXLUAMS, WIFE W HONG KONG- H«OR Koogj
American elvl! rights leader, Rev, Rosea Willems of At
lanta, G#, ( and his wife return here October r? after compiei
ire a ,4 nu !"^?„ O .Lr i ?r l *? fiftMand China, The couple said they
on a goodwlL brotherhood 5 * around the world trie
(UPI)° re<l ky the Southern Christian Leadership conference.
national leadership of this coun
try to create a more just, hu
mane, economic and social or
(See ROBINSON. P. 2)
Golden Frinks and the SC'LC
in Greenville and Pitt County,
It was unanimously agreed that
Golden Frinks and the SCLC
(B** G. ERINKB, P. 2)
Under Treatment At Hospital
SINGLE COPY 15C
Medlin Is
Held In
Shooting
Raleigh police ar
rested 26-year o'‘
James Edward Mednh, *
508 Alston Street, a
round 5:30 a.m. Sun
day and charged him
with assault with a
deadly weapon with in
tent to kill after 25-
year-old Arthur* Na
thaniel Hartsfield, 213
Linden Avenue, was
shot in the forehead
with a ,22 calibre pis
tol at the Jaguar Club,
1825 Rock Quarry Rd.
The shooting is alleged to have
climaxed an argument between
the two men inside the Jaguar.
Hartsfield, who was rushed to
Wake Memorial Hospital, told
Officer D. W. Martin at 5:15
a.m. Sunday, that, he was shot
by James Medlin "while inside
the club." He also said it
(See MEDLIN HELD, P 2)
for -Sergeant
Chosen in
Spring lake
SPRING LAKE- For the first
time in the history of Cumber
land County, a Black has been
appointed temporary chief of
police of this city.
Billy H. Manning a retired
Army sergeant major, was
Picked recently to succeed
James Farrington who resign
ed. His appointment is tem
porary until the Town Council
(See BLACK COP, P. 2)
INQUIRING REPORTER
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BY STAFF \\ BITER !
Uo you think restaurants and other licensed
establishments should be allowed to sell beer on
Sunday?
Miss Jan Is Strong,
Raleigh
“1 think so because no one
should be able to dictate whether
or not you can do certain things
you want to do. It should be a
freedom of choice."
Mrs. Martha Saunders,
RaisigSh
"No because Sunday Is a day
we should respect as God’s day.
We have six other days to the
week to sell beer or do any
thing else but 1 think Sunday
should' b® set aside as a day
for religious ceremonies,"
Mr*. Inez Price,
BEATEN BY UNKNOWN ASS AII ANT- Robert Pago, elderly
resident of Harwood I .ano o>etween S. Haywood and S. Swain
St roots, is shown on tin ground, whore ho was apparently
Newsman Interviews Man Attacked As He
Walked Toward Downtown Raleigh Sat.
BY W. A, "PETE’* WILDER
“I don't know who or why they hit me,”
said Robert Pago as he lay on his hospital
bed early Wednesday morning of this week.
He said that he hud left Ins home on Haywood
Lane and headed for the business district. He
tamld not remember how many persons were
Robert Page, and elderly man,
was slugged by an unknown as
sailant or assailants Saturday
morning, between 10:00 ■ Ib-lO
a.m. on a much travelled path
a* the back ol The CAROLIN
IAN.
A passer-by, or rather a "a
passer through" saw Mr. Page
lying In his own blood at approx
imately 11:40 a.m., and sum
moned police help.
In a short span of ten minutes,
police officers and ambulance
were on the scene doing double
■ A'tv,
Pag.? v s nppai ently m bis
way to E. Davie St,, when he
was attacked. Ho was knock
ed backwards and his shoos were
in southeastern and southwest
ern angles. At the hospital he
was given first aid until a full
Deplores
Strategy
Os Nixon
Washington, ixc. - Presi
dent Nixon should stop playing
musical appointments with the
Supreme Court and dignify the
Court once again with appoin
tees of quality. President Nix
on may get to Peking and to
Moscow, he may even get to
the moon, but if he succeeds
in his apparent effort to de
grade the Supreme Court, he
may very well be remembered
for subverting American civil
rights and liberties.
The incessant politicking sur
rounding Court appointments is
an apparent effort to .satisfy the
demands of Nixon’s Souther:;
strategy and out finesse George
Wallace. It would appear that
Mr. Nixon’s consistent polio'
of appointing Southerners with
unsatisfactory civil rights re
cords would confirm allegations
that he promised the Court to
the South in 19C8 in exchange
for support from Southern Re
publican state delegations.
Though the evidence is still
circumstantial the case grows
stronger with each new appoint
ment list. The absence of pos -
sible conservative nominees of
quality and stature would seen:
(Sec DEPLORES, P. 2)
Raleigh
"I think they should be able
to sell beer on Sunday because
they sell it every other day. If
they don’t sell it on Sunday at
these places, people will have
other outlets to purchase beer
anyway."
Donald Small,
Raleigh
"Yes, because there are not
many places to go on Sunday
and I think people need some
means of relaxation and this
will be away to relax."
Miss Carolyn Heath,
(*«• WET SAY. I*. 8)
examination could be rendered.
As late as Tuesday evening,
attending physicians reported to
the CAROI/INIAN that they naa
found lacerations about the face.
He undergoes another examina
tion for broken bones in his face.
Mr. Page could not be interview
ed by this reporter, but his con
dition was listed as "fair."
(See ELDERLY, P.
Are Blacks
Becoming
Extinct ???
Two black authors will ex
amine the possibilities of gen
ocide in America m Black Jour
nal Tuesday, October 26, at 9:30
P.m. on Channel 4, WUNC-TV.
Both w riters -- John Williams
and Samuel F, A’otte -- believe
black Americans are threatened
with genocide and will explain
the foundation for their fears on
the Public Broadcasting serv
ice program.
Williams deals fictionally with
the theme of genocide In his
novel "The Man Who Cried I
Am." Yottc, a former associ
ate editor of Ebony, and of
ficial of the Office of Econo
mic Opportunity, documents
what he calls "existing factors
of genocide" in The Choice:
The Issue of Black Survival
in America.
A otto, now a W ashington cor
respondent for Newsweek, has
cited "essential aspects .of
genocide" In our society:'’...
(See ARE BLACKS, P. 2)
Stale's SCLC Seeking
$70,000 By Dee. Li
The North Carolina Chapter
ol the Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference hats announc
ed Phase I of an intended fund
raising campaign designed to
raise s7O,000 between October
! and December 1!.
Church bodies and auxilaries
of over' denomination, commu
nity organizations, private or
ganizations, SCLC county so
licitors and county boosters all
ha', e boon asked to commit
themselves to the fund-raising
task.
Also an important part of the
Phase 1 fund-raising banquet
is benefit '-to be held in
November.
The state chapter of SCLC
has reorganized much of its
philosophy and objectives to
meet the needs of the commu
nity, thus creating a more re
levant body to deal with con
ditions that have long been neg
lected.
In order to deal with these
neglected conditions, more
services must be created.
Therefore, in order to create
and develop these services for
the poor and disadvantaged, a
more elaborate financial struc
ture has been developed,
Bobby Jones le, executive di
rector ol the N.C. SCLC and 0,
A, Dupree is president.
Those objectives of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference are introduced by the
statement: SCLC has organized
a comprehensive program that
will meet the needs of the Black
community, It includes; I, Edu
cation; a. Professionals will be
trained to serve as counselors
knocked senseless by one or more attackers. The gentle
man was on his way downtown around 11:30 Saturday morn
ing when the incident took place. He is still confined to Wake
Memorial Hospital. (STAFF PHOTO.
STUDENT HUSTLED OFF TO JAIL- St. Petcrburg, Fla
An unifentified student at Dixie Hollins High School is led io
paddy wagon after allegedly stabbing Deputy James ‘Town
send (helmeted officer-at left) in chest during racial outbreak
October 13, Townsend was treated and released from a hospi
tal. Police arrested 15 black students. (UPI),
Mother Says Government
Should Grant Amnesties
LOUISVILLE, Ky-Mrs, Vir
ginia Collins, mother of a black
draft resistor, says the govern
ment should grant amnesty to all
persons punished for opposin
tho way and the draft.
She told an audience at the
University of Louisville that
"more than half a million men
and women have been jailed,
exiled, Indicted, fired from
jobs, or otherwise disabled for
fighting against these two
evils.*’
for the Black family, b. Para
professionals will lie trained
in counseling parents and youth
in health problems. 11. Poli
tical Action; a. SCI C will pro
mote workshops for voter re
gistration. b. SCLC will assist
disadvantaged families with free
legal counseling services. 111.
Economic Development; a. SC
LC will seek to improve small
businesses and will provide
professional counsel for the es
tablishing of new businesses,
b. SCLC will serve as place
ment bureaus that will assist
in providing jobs for the job
less, IV. Creativity; a. Pro
grams will be sponsored by SC
LC to encourage creative ta
lent, literature, art, science and
industrial education, b. SCLC
will employ directors and train
ers for a large scale education
al program throughout North
Carolina, V. Financial Thrust:
a. $70,000 Phase I fund-raising
drive in a statewide program
effort, b. Fund raising programs
(See SCLC SEER. P. 2)
In The Sweepstakes
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
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For All Your Sporting Goods Needs
Mrs. Collins’s son, Walter,
is serving a five-year sentence
in federal prison at Texarkana,
Texas, for refusing to be draft
ed by in all-white draft board
in New Orleans, La, He has
been locked up almost a year.
(Sec GRANT AMNESTY, P, 3}
? * * <Bj dyjnSH
• EDITOR’S NOTE: This column
or feature Is produced In (he pub
lic interest with on o|m towards
eliminatin', 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 position to he Judge or iu
rv. We merely publish the facts
as we find them reported by the
arrest in it oiflcers. To keep out of
The Crime Heat 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.
COPS INV ALUS nUMb
Detectives E. Curtis Wins
ton and C. J. Williams ob
tained search warrants and in
vaded the home of Miss Ann
Wall, 29, and Cly de Ruffin, both
of 221 Smithfied Street. Apart
ment 3. un the evening oi Satur-'
day, October 16, the search
warrants were executed by Re
cords and Identification and Lt,
Williams, and a quantity of her
oin and cocaine were found on
the pesori of Miss Wall. She
was arrested lor the posses
sion of heroin and cocaine. A
bond of $5,000 was posted by
Bondsman Willie Glenn and her
trial date has been set for
Wednesday, November 17, at 2
p.m. in Wake District Court,
(6@e CRIME BEAT. P. Si