Dr. Homer R. Dehnani ('Imirman .4s
PRESS RUN THIS WEEK 9,500
Raleigh Enters Task Force
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Charles Evers Speaker .4s
McKissick Feted Here
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
VOL. 32 .\0. 27 R.'VLEIGH. N.C.. WEEK E.NDING S.\TURDAY, .MAY 5. 1973
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SHOOTINGS MAR WEEKEND
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Top-Notch Oratorm Set As
DR JACQUELINE RENEE WESTCOTT
Elks Plan Many
('.oiifab Speakers
Ul’RMAM ■ Fred D. Alexander, Mayor-Protem,
Churltxie. and one of the state's leading; fraternal men.
• 1! open the annua! meeting of the Improved
Hont-Milont Protective Order. Elks of the World, when
h ad(i'’t'''ses the delegates attending the Civil Liberties
I# 'rratn, k p.m on Sunday. May 6. at the Elks Home,
\Uif>n \\t»nue.
l)t .lacgut'Une Kenee Westcott. N.C. Commissioner of
''<•« :.il SerMces. will speak at the “Elk of the Year”
M.toipitx. (t) l>e held at the Downtowner Motor Inn on
'^.ii4ir«id\. Mav ") Dr, Westcott. a native of Goldsboro,
■ - VM irn in at Kalei»;h on February 5 of this year. The
I I.ih«rlie*i Department is headed by Alexander
■> wht> piined (he order in 1923. It has been the
'hdox o| the organization and has worked very
5mm Iv with the \ AACP. in the fi^ht to gain hrst^calss
.ti/ennhin for blacks.
their civil rights activities.
Mr Alexander has been a
member of Charlotte’s City
Council for a number of years.
He is frequently called upon to
represent the state’s largest
city in matters pertaining to
city government. He was
Grand Secretary of the Prince
Hall Masons for a number of
years and is now Endownment
Secretary of the Eastern Stars.
Lawrence “Skip” Miller,
Raleigh, a member of Chapital
City Lodge No. 277 and
(See STATE ELKS,
Dentists In
Regional
Meetings
WASHINGTON. D C. - Arm
ed with comprehensive recom
mendations to improve the
quality of denUl health in the
Black community, the National
Dental Association is presently
holding regional meetings
throughout the country to
develop support and a time
table for the implementation of
the wide-sweeping recom
mendations.
State Elks Slate Convention
HF STARTED INTERNATIONAL WATERGATE
l\VEsri<;\TI()N • Washington • Pictured It Frank Wills, the
securil> guard at (he International Watergate Complex, who
discovered the break in at Democra ic Party Headquarters there
last .hme. 11 PI)
Graham Recalls
1st State Crusade
BY EARL MASON
Woman, 19,
Victim At
Lion’s Den
A Raleigh man and a local
woman have been charged
with the weekend shootings
of two members of the
opposite sex here. The man
is WilLe Earl Watson of E.
Lenoir Street, and the
woman is Mrs. Agnes
Meeks Watson. 25, 563 E.
Cahamis Street.
When the smoke first cleared
late Saturday night, Willie Earl
Watson, was stretched out with
a bullet wound from a .32
calibre revolver in his stomach
at the residence of Mrs
Watsor She was later charged
with aassalt with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill. The
gunshot wound suffered by
W'atson was in the lower part of
his stomach.
The man was taken to Wake
Memorial Hospital, where his
(See SHOOTINGS. P. 2)
C. Evers
Here For
FRED ALEXANDER
It is to be remembered that it
was the ('ivil Liberties Depart
ment. under the leadership of
Dr. A. D Moseley, pastor. Mt,
(jilead Baptist Church, that
began the suit which broke
down segregation on trains It
was under (he auspices of the
department that Barnes visited
the home of Grand Dragon Ku
Klu.xer. Robert E Jones and
chalienged him to a debate. It
I*- also to he remembered that
tile home ot Alexander, along
With that of his brother, was
iximbed. while the two families
slept, allegedly because of
DidnH
Hurt Boy:'
C!ity Tutor
In the April 21 edition of The
-AROLINTAN. an article ap-
leared under Crime Beat,
vhich contained a charge
DR. HOMER R. DEB.-
Dr. Debnai A
Others In
Task Force
Under the auspices of the
City of Raleigh. South Raleigh
was organized in April of this
year to improve existing
conditions in the subdivisions
of Rochester Heights, Biltmore
Hills. Lynhurst Manor. Idle-
wood. South Gate. Gatewood.
Kingwood Forest and Fox Fire.
Nominated to this group ^s
Task Force Chairman was Dr.
Homer Romega Debnam of the
Biltmore Hills area.
M. D Jarmond was nomin-
Trade Fair
The North Carolina
Minority Enterprise Trade
Fttir, the first in the state,
got underway Tuesday.
May 1st and ran through
Wednesday. May 2nd. 1973
at the Raleigh Memorial
Auditorium and the Sir
Walter Hotel, here in
Raleigh.
Sponsored jointly by the
North Carolina State Office
Outreach, funded by the Office
of Minority Business Enter-
nnv TPM PAT4II V P'''“ ^ ® Department of
^Y, ten, fatally hHOT - Commerce, and North Caro-
State Government, the
ClIffortGloverwasfalallyshot trade fair brought together
^ f black.white, and Indian owned
Shea .April 28 who mistook the private business enterprises
boy and his stepfather for from throughout the country to
.™!.' promote better business rela-
more job
they were walking to work,
.Acting N.A. Flly Police opportunities
nade by Dexter Jeffries ated as Task Force co-ordina-
igainst .Mrs. Omega Sanders, Dr. Debnam is a native of
who was alledged to have Raleigh, where he attended the
ihoved a desk into his back Raleigh public schools, receiv-
twice because he was leaning cd his B A degree from Saint
back This charge has been Augustine’s College, and the
proven erroneous and lacking Juris Doctor degree from
specifics The Raleigh Detec
tive personnel has declared the
charge invalid because no
probable cause was found. “If
Dextor’s back was injured, it
was not injured in my class",
said Mrs. Sanders in an
(See CITY TUTOR, P 2-
See TASK FORCE. P. 2)
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Herrs < (.• chats with friend here. Berry lost both legs in Vietnam when he was 19. and regrets the
loss oiih because it prevented him from doing second tour of duty. He’s married to his high school
Nwri-thf-ait and Ihev expect their first child June 1973. (UPh
£1)1 loK NOTE lhi» f olumn or fraiure
li pr durrd in ihr {tublir inirr<»l «lth an
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ibry hr fi\rn ib« contideralion o(
atrriookina ibrtr ll*ling on ibe pollrr
bloiirr. Thi% M ( would like lo do How over,
It U net our uokition to br iudgr or jary. W’t
mrrrly ,'iihluh thr lacit a« we find Ibrm
rrporird by ihr arrrtllni oHIrerk. To krvp
out of fhr Crimr Bra, Tolurnnk. mrrtly
mranv not briny rrgikitrrd by a poller
offirrr in rriiorimg hiN findlngt whilt on
duly NO kimply krip off thr "Blollrr" and
you won't br in Thr Crimr Brat
III SBKNDNOT XRRESTEI)
Mrs George K. .Alston, wife
ot the owner of a service
station-grocery store, located
at 1130 Smithfield Street,
intiirmed a newsman early
Saluidav. that her husband
was not arrested in the
shnoiing recentlv of 20 year-old
Clarence Edwnnl Smith. 534 E.
Leiioir Street, who claimed .Mr.
.Alston shot him in the leg. and
Smith has been threatened
with action by the Raleigh
Detective Df-partment Mrs.
Alston .stated that “the
detectives came here last
Saturday but mv husband was
not arresltd The\ left him
here and (iwrge g(*t another
man to drive him down to the
niagisirafe h nfticH where he
poNied bond of $20<». which was
cut ilown to SKK) after the
ofticer-s found out the true
(a- Geroge disarmed Smith
and shot Smith with a gun.
Smith-s sister came up here
la^t week and tried to gel my
husband to take up the
warrant, saying she would pay
back any money mvolved. My
husband saw Smith ringing up
the cash register.’ ended .Mrs.
Alston’s statement.
See CRIME BEAT. P 3i
Commissioner Donald Cawley
.April 29 condemmed the
lodging of a murder charge
against the patrolman, saying
he should have been charged
with homicide instead. (UPI)
‘Volunteer
Army Won’t
Be Black’
GREENSBORO-An .All-vo
lunteer Army won't end up
all-black, one of the nine black
generals predicted here last
week. Gen. Julius Becton said
it would be “foolish” to think
that only low income and
minority groups will fill the
ranks in a/i all volunteer army.
Becton. deputy commander
of Ft. Dix, N J., said the new
army would attract a “broad
cross-section” of society into
its ranks.
He said life in the armed
services would be similar to
civilian life in that the “same
minority groups would have to
compete In the same w ay in the
'.See VOLUNTEER. P 2>
Appreciation
Cash Won By
MaiiAnd Woman
Winners continue to increase
in The CAROLINIAN Appre
ciation Money Feature
Last week two more winners
added their names to the
growing list of winners. Mrs.
Majone Banks and Mr, James
R High are the latest additions
to the weekly feature of this
newspaper’s winning list.
Mr. High lives at 1909 Bates
Street His name appeared in
the A&A Auto Part advertise
ment A&A Auto Parts, located
at 515 Hillsborough Street,
gives wholesale prices to
see APPRECI.ATION. P. 2i
for minority
North Carolinians. More than
forty-five businesses were
(See MCKISSICK. P. 2)
RALEIGH NATIVE GETS
OAK LEAF CLUSTER - Air
Force Master Sergeant Ches-
ter Debnam. Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Chester Debnam. .Sr., of
219 Walker .‘street. Raleigh,
won the Oak l.eaf Cluster
recently, in .Alaska, where he is
now concluding his final four
years on a 20-year enlistment
plan. A 1937 graduate of the
John W. I.igon Senior High
School, Sgt. Debnam is
married to the former Miss
Dorothy .Martin of Greensville,
(ja.. and they have three
daughters. He has won several
other citations in the.Air Force,
including “.Airman of the
Month.” The citation cites
Debnam "for distinguishing
himself by meritorious service
as a non-comniissioned officer
in charge of the RDM ARC Fire
Department. Civil Engineering
Squadron" recently. This is a
rare and coveted honor for
.Master Sergeant Debnam. who
is a member of the Watts
Chapel Baptist Church. Rham-
katte, where his father is
chairman of the Deacon Hoard,
and the Rev. Dr. Frank B.
Weaver is pastor.
Evangelist Billy Graham
ptTsonally gave his upcoming
Central Carolina Crusade a lift
by coming to Raleigh last
Thursday to meet with mem
bers of his local committees
and also to talk with members
oi the news at a press
conference held in the Senate
Room of the Sheraton Inn in
Crabtree Valley.
Speaking atout his first
crusade in North Carolina
since 1951. Graham projected
that a crowd of 25.0(Xl a night at
Carter Stadium would be
considered a success. The
Central Carolina Billy Graham
Crusade will be held Septem
ber 2.3 30
Graham, who chose to limit
his questions and answers to
the upcoming crusade at the
news conference but entertain
ed some other questions not
dealing with the crusade, said
he considers his recent trip to
South Africa as one of the
brighter developments in his
movement.
"On my trip to South Africa,
there were any where from one
half to one-third of the persons
attending the nightly meetings
were black and there was total
intergration. I witnessed
blacks and whites sitting
Abernathy^
Miss Davis
To Rally
CHICAGO, in. -‘Rev. Ralph
David Abernathy. Angela
Davis and Dolores Huerta of
the National Farmworkers
Union head (he list of speakers
at the May 12 Chicago rally
against racist and political
repression. The rally is being
held in conjunction with a
weekend conference at the
Pick-Congress Hotel in Chica
go. to found a new national
defense organization against
repression.
Workshops at the conference
are .set to discuss programs for
(he new organization in the
areas of repression and labor,
repression and the military,
prisons and prisoners, repres
sive legislation, immigration
and naturalization, repression
of political groups, and police
(See ABERNATHY. P. 2)
together at the various
meetings during the crusade.
Things are changing very
rapi(ily in South Africa, ” the
North Carolina native stated.
Graham, who conducted a
crusade in Greensboro in 1951
when a special building was
built to house the meeting, told
of his experience at a
dedication ceremony for Gary
Player’s baby. ”1 dedicated
Gary Player's baby at his
home in ^uth Africa and he
had both black and white
guests there for the religious
service.”
In response to a question as
to why he was allowed to go to
South Africa after once being
denied the privilege, Graham
said. “In talking with the
people over there, they seem to
(See B. GRAHAM, P. 2)
Rape Try
Fails In
Raleigh
A young girl of 18 years was
rescued from a sexual assault
on Thursday, April 26, when a
report was made to police that
screams were being heard
shortly after 2 o’clock a m. in
the 300 block of S. Swain Street.
Police, answering a call,
placed by Miss Emily Reddick
of 306 S. Swain Street of
Raleigh, reported seeing a
young male running down
Martin Street. Upon investiga
tion, they found Miss Marilyn
LaRue Herndon, frightened
and upset.
The teenaged Miss Herndon
told authorities she was
walking alone down E. Martin
Street, when a man came up
from behind her and forced her
behind a house where he
threatened her with a knife,
saying he would kill her if she
didn't undress before him. She
said the assailant then began to
strangle her and was attempt
ing to undress her. She stated
she had screamed and was
released when her attacker
heard the sound of police car
sirene.
The girl was found to have
(See RAPE TRY. P 2).
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
HUNT GFNFRAL
TIRF. (X).
For Dependable Tires At Reasonable Prices
EVERS. MCKISSICK MEET IN KALEIGH • Kalelgk - Floy^
McKissick (I.i is congradulated May 1 by Charles Evers, Mayor of
Fii\ cttc. Miss., at a banquet in McKlsslck's honor here. McKissick
is fiiundcr and developer of .Soul City, a new town. The banquet
uas held in connection with the State Minority Enterprise Trade
Fair. UPli