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■■a**.. """' ■*- FIRST MOTHER AND BABY OF YEAR - Mrs. Florence Wilson Coe of Zebulon, Route 3, beams her happiness as she holds her newborn infant son. who was born at 1:55 a.m. on New Year’s Day. In last week’s CAROLINIAN, many of the city’s businesses advertised in this newspa per’s annual promotion to give awards to the parents of the first baby of the new year. Mrs. Coe’s son weighed in at five Dounds civ ounces. The Coes are the parents of two otl r chil dren. (STAFF PHOTO BY P. R. JERVAY, JR.) Now Labor Official Raleigh Native John H. Brown, Jr. Addresses New York Youth Council WASHINGTON, D. C. John H. Brown, Jr, a native oi Ralei-.h, N. C., Deputy Na tional Director, Apprentice ship Information Centers Pro gram. U, S Deparlm: nt of Labor as the cues: speaker for the New York Youth Council at their December mectin<; embracing the Bar it rn Ana The Cojncii, com posed of a cross- section of the Harlem area represents 14,000 youths of the area. .Mr. B ov.n addressed him self to the subject, “Voca tional Opportunities in Ap prenticeship.'' He encouraged ihe youths to avaii themselv es of tlv many opportunities which arc opening up for mi norities He encouraged them to seek additional information and services through the Ap prenticeship Information Cen ter m New Yck, the Workers Defense Apprenticeship Out- SEDFREff' ill Convene Workshop in Jackson JACKSON, Miss. - Local black elected officials and others concerned with eco nomic planning will meet at the Hotel Heidelberg here January 14, 15, and 16 for a regional workshop on bringing jobs, money and skills to Jefferson, Claiterr.e and Wilkinson Coun ties. The weekend event is being conducted by SEDFRE, the Scholarship, Education and De fense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc., now in Its tenth year as the non-profit training and technical assistance arm of the civil rights and community de velopment movement. Kenny Johnson, Economic Development Director of SED FRE. rioted in announcing the workshop that the Hon. Maynard Jackson, Vice Mayor of Atlanta, will be the featured speaker at the first session Friday night. May o r Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss., will speak Sun day morning* "Os the 50 people expected to attend, 35 will tie elected of ficials from Jefferson, Clai borne and Wilkinson Counties. In addition to Vice Mayor Jack • • wi ji) tnc party - Columbia, s. p.: p»ui e. Burris and Gladys W #> Branson were married Tuesday, Jan uary 4 on a downtown’Columbia, S.C. street corner as about 100 persons looked on. The ceremony was held on the side walk to allow Charles Wright (tar right) to attend, Wright Is a peanut salesman on the corner and could not take time off to attend the wedding so the couple brought the ceremony to him. (UPI). JOIIV H. SHOWN. JR. son and Mayor Evers, the parti cipants will have the benefit of the expertise of a wide variety of resource persons, govern ment officials and five of SED ER E’s top sass," Mr. John son said. (See st;.!KK. r 2) Is It Too Late?" Set February 8 “Is It Too Late?", a live 90- minute Black Journal special designed to "allow the Black community to speak collective ly’’ will be presented on PBS February 8. According to executive pro ducer Tony Brown, the special is "an experiment in the use of television as an instrument of positive social reform." At this time, leading Black spokesmen who will parti l»ec ’IS IT', P. 2) rach Program Mr Brown told the vote as that, the AIC had s t up a Ma son representative organiza tion so that they can get ap prenticeship service through any of the Employment Serv ice Off. ces in Great' N< •• York The speaker was introduced by Robert Williams. Fvecotv Os fie; > oj .> , i. ion in New York. City WM l aps B. Spivey For Work Mrs. Bertha Spivey, veteran employee at Wake County Me morial Hospital,, has teen named "Em- Year." An- |||j|Pf|| nouncement of the honor was made at the hos pital's annual party for em ployees held in hospital’s caf eteria, where g Mrs. Spivey * work. MRS. SPIVEY Hospital Administrator William F. Andrews announc ed the award and noted that. Mrs. Spivey was selected after she was nominated bv her fellow employees. The final selection was made by a three judge team of people from outside the hospital. A first cook in the food serv ice department, Mrs. Spivey has worked at the hospital for almost six years. She is a resident of 1078 E. Pettigrew Street here in Raleigh. Runners-up in the competi tion were Mrs. Virginia M ild er and Mrs. Marie McLean. All three winners were pre sented with saving bonds as prizes and Mrs. Spivey also received a handsome plaque. Preceding the award cere monies, the hospital employ ees enjoyed a special dinner which featured a menu ransr (Secjtas SI’TVEV P 2) INQUIRING REPORIER in STAFF WRITKH What is your opinion of the Raleigh city school system merging with the Wake Coun ty school system? Mr. Leon Sawyet, Raleigh "I think if the two school systems came together, they would be tetter equipped to g ive the children a tetter education. Os course the merger will have its advantages as well as its disadvantages but 1 think the advantages win out weigh the disadvantages In the iong run." Miss Dorothy Lewis, Wake Forest “l will vote In favor of the merger of the city school svs (fee THEY SAV, P 2) pVrupi•' i °lu?sSirK, l.pt, P s *, B»x 1T36 Imi. tnrlllj X, ICy. 4«2fi To Remove Charges Against Three <j % <z ix y: -u - v : <•: -f:r<£r <x <x At Fayetteville Black Officers Await Hearing wm ■fi Wmk m SWm W mm mgSm : 'v* .. . North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL 31, NO 10 RALEIGH. N. C . SATURDAY. JAN. 8 190 SINGLE COPY lSe Raleigh Man, Woman Victims As A? ,*# M vmcrm *§ lAS oIK kiZ SMB cSS |$ X -S ** BP JR? ... ills’ ';■« *6 If * |si 55 ’»•.. yte v # f & * «« 4b *dpP m 11 <«yy«s #>* fe“ fes M *hSI »$ »i ■a " ' *s* w- #» » % K# J 3 S fM** M@k mmH in |tt ®- - vt f; I | M«| f| §j§ it gt II II p m BT* Jg II m ** -? 4'-* V*: -Ji ■ - ijC ifulL raS tkA 1* i pis &l fe -W %*. it it lt*'L«#fcJp JL •■ w inr .*'-?v >V* ?:**r*? |t?i“ jflr J t. .fx-* yi. Y ;' r ,: -■ . Analyzing Legislation Caucusßeg iri s P robe Policemen Claiming Jim Crow FA YETTE YILLE- Nine Black police of- F rs of this city who tiled u suit against the city of Fayetteville for discriminating in its hiring practices now awaits a hearing on the matter. The Fayetteville City council in a special session last Wednesday, voted to have City- Attorney Harry Stein solicit legal assistance in defendingthe city in a suit. Stein filed answ (Sec r-O) H 1 >sl N. I> 2) Newsom Is Named To Board CHARLOTTE - Dr. Lionel H. Newsom, president of Johnson C. Smith University, has been elected a member of the Char lotte Board of North Carolina National Bank. The announcement was made by Yates W. Faison, Jr., sen sor vice president of NCNB and chairman of the bank's City Board here. Newsom, a Texas native, is a former president of Barter - Scotia College in Concord. He is a graduate of Lincoln University of Missouri and in 1965 was selected for the Lin coln University Alumni A c.hievement award. He earned his master’s de gree at the University of Michi gan and completed work on his doctoral degree at Washington University. He is a director of the Char lotte Cham ter of Commerce, a trustee of the Mint Museum of vrt and a inember of the board of visitors of Davidson College. In The Sweepstakes SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK JOHNSON 4.AMBE COMPANY For All Os Your Sporting Good Needs I 4 , > A tSt yAST JgPPi f> FIREFIGHTER SAVES CHILD FROM BURNING HOUSE MILWAUKEE: A fire fighter carries a child from a burn ing home on Milwaukee’s north side January 4. Three of the nine children of Mr. and Mrs. Leamor, Austin died in the fire, which gutted their two- story home. The victims were Dana, 5; Sonata, 3 and Deon, 3. Five of the other children ; were treated at a hospital and releasee. (DPI). Black Caucus Tells Os Investigations WASHINGTON, D. C. - A legislative investigation serv ice to analyze legislation and interpret the guidelines of en indorses Freeze On State Jobs WENDELL - The chairman of the State Government Reorgani zation Committee Tuesday en dorsed the decision to freeze some state job vacancies which have existed as long as 60 days, In a speech to the Wendell Rotary, State Representative Allen Barbee, democratic can didate for Lt. Governor, hail ed the department of admin istration’s decision as being "in the best interest of the state. "The exemptions from the freeze were entirely appropri ate," Barbee said, "in view of the personnel needs in mental health, prisons, lav; enforce ment and higher education," (Sec ENDORSES. P. 2) acted bills, and to identify and monitor pending bills was an nounce 1 by the Congressional Black Caucus, according toHo war i Robinson, Executive Di (Ste t Ai ri s p 2) EDITOR’S NOTE Thts column or feature is produced in the pub lie interest with an aim towards eliminating its contents. Numer ous individuals have requested that they be jtven the considera tion of overlookim; thei* listing on the police blotter. Thii we would like to do. However, it is not our position 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 Heat Columns, merely means net being registered by a police officer in renortinn his findings while on duty. So sim ply keep off the “Blotter” and you won’t be In The Crime Beat. BEATEN IN DAYLIGHT Ervin Junior Toomer, 23, 13- 42 Crosslink Road, told Officer Robert T. Jones, Jr. at 5 p.m. last Sunday, that he was walk ing east on L. Lenoir Street, in the 600 block on the right side, at about 3 p.m. that day when eight colored males start ed beating him up and cutting his arms. Toomer declared he did not know any of his attack ers. He told the cop that he would let the department know when he found out theit names so that he could sign assault with -;i deadly weapon warrants against them. The officer said, ”1 asked him if he could give my descriptions and he said he could not." Toomer suffered a laceration on the left arm and several scratch marks. (see CRIME BEAT, P. 3J (ops Hold Two Men On Haps It is not the fault of two men that their ■■ ictims are sull alive ■' re, Tera man and 1 yo; ■ were gunned down during the week. |j[ Dne man is in jail now, and another is report edly being sought in the shootings. Charlie Mangum, 25, 505 Ca mel Street, Clayton, informed Office) a. C. Holt, Jr. at 6:53 a.:. . Saturday, that he heard a knock on the door at 1403 S. 1 Wilmington Street, and theper ; son on the other side of the Ij dooi said he was the police. . Mangum said he then opened the door and “saw who it was <See TWO MURDER. P 2) U.S. FIRST LADY VISITS LIBERIA’S BLACKS-MONROVIAr In top photo, Newly-inaugurated, Liberian President WUliam Tolbert, Jr., accompained by Mrs. Richard Nixon, waves to spectators lining the motorcade route during the drive to the Executive Mansion following his inauguration as the nation’s 19th Chief Executive here January 3. Mrs. Nixon is repre senting her husband, the U. S. President, at the ceremony. In bottom photograph, Liberian President William R. Tol bert oi. presents America’s First Lady, Mrs. Richard Nixon, with ihe nation’s highest decoration, a cookie-sized medallion known as the Grand Cordon of the Most Venerable Order o i Pioneers during the ceremony here January 4. Mrs. Nixon, representing the U. s, President at the inaugural of Liberia's 19th Chief Executive, departs for Ghana January g for a two* day gooawni tour of the former British colony. (UPI). Minister Says Civil ItightsNil The Rev. Renjamin Chavis, organizer for the North Carolina- Virginia office of the Commission for Ra cial Justice of the U nited Church of Christ, has 'filed a petition in U. S. District Court for the Eastern Dis trict of North Carolina seeking to remove to Federal Court crimi nal charges brought by the city of Wilmington against himself and two other.persons. in the petition, filed Tues (St'e BIN CHAVIS P. 2) Newton’s Story To Be Told NEW YORK, ,v Y. - We’ll try to work within the system when we can, but it is harder and harder to do. We’re all slaves today, really,” says Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther party, who has just been cleared of a manslaughter charge. New ton is writing a book about his life and his political philoso phy which Hareourt Brace Jo vanovicb will publish in the fall of 1972. The book describes his child hood in Monroe, Louisiana, and Oakland, California. Newton explains the importance of books in his life and tells how, I Set NEWTON'S P ■>) \UL Aids Delivery' *y In Albany ATLANTA, Ga. - Should keep ing a mobile vegetable vendor from going bankrupt and obtain ing certification for him to re deem federal food stamps be re ported under economic develop ment or health and welfare? Bill Warmer, Executive Di fSee NHL AIDS, P 2)
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