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A rqument Ends In Gun Negro Businessmen Buy Big Woolworth Store In Harlem HL ; ■ V 1 H 1 H WH ■ |6J i!■ HARLEM PLUS—Principals in ■ sale-leaseback project involv ing a Woolworth store on 129 th Street in New York's Harlem view an artist's render ing of the store after it was ■old to a group of Negro busi $2 Million Project Purchased By N. Y. Blacks To Aid Community Ownership Of Major Store is Being: Arranged NEW YORK - F. W. Wool worth C. has announced a unique sale-and-leaseback ar rangement that will transfer ownership of one of its major stores in Harlem to black citi zenship, with the objective of benefits to the entire Harlem community. This was achieved through the combined efforts of a group of social, financial and black leaders including Harlem Freedom Associates; Carter, Berlind, and Weill, Inc., investment bankets; the Equit able Life Assurance Society and the American Federation of Musicians. The entire project, when completed, will be valued at \ more thiui $2 million. It ln , volves property located at 208- .220 West 125 th Street. The land and completed store is being sold to newly formed Harlem Freedom Associates. The rental income enabled the purchaser to finance the pro ject. First-mortgage financing of $1,575,000 was provided by the Equitable Life Assurance Society as part of its partici pation in the billion-dollar inner-city investment program of the life insurance industrv. Additional mortgage financing is being provided bv the Ameri can Federation of Musicians. Harlem Freedom Associates said it plans to convey the land to the Canaan Baptist Church, 132 West 116 th Street, and that the church will appoint a committee of black citizens as trustees to advise on the use of the futufy ipcome for all of Harlem. Harlem Freedom As- (->ee PROJECT 12A) X\ ness men for the eventual bene fit of the community itself. In the picture, left to right are Robert C. Klrkwood, Wool worth chairman; Rev. Wyatt Walker, Canaan Baptist Church; Funeral of Mrs. Annie Neville Held in Rocky Mount Sunday ROCKY MOUNT - Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Lee Whitehead Neville, wife, of An drew A. Neville, and daughter of the late James and Nellie Whitehead, were held Sunday, December . Isi at 2:00 p.m., at Mount Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Rocky Mount, Rev. James H. Costen, pastor of the Church of Hie Mastre Atlanta, Georgia, delivered the eulogy. Mrs. Neville died at her home Thursday, December 12,' after a lengthy illness. She was the principal of Lincoln Elementary School, prior to which she had served in the Rocky Mount City School System as a Classroom | teacher, speech therapist, and secondary school supervisor. Mrs. Neville was a graduate of Booker T. Washington High 3 #9!* \N \ Vifl VHf Mfe ' JEjLLsZm CARMICHAIL SPEAKS AT A. &T INSTITUTE— BIack Militant Stokely Carmlchael and wife singer Miriam Makeba relax on Hew Slogan Given By Black Solidarity By John Phelps Durham's first Black Christ mas observance was given a new slogan - "Harambee" -at last Sunday night's msss meet ing of the Black Solidarity Movement. Dr. Lavonla Allison, a North Carolina College professor and main speaker for the meeting, applied the Swahlli word, "Harambee," to the current Boycott and the Black Christ- James F. Oates, Jr., chairman of Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S., and Clar ence Jones, vice president of Carter, Berlind and Weill, in vestment banking firm. tUpi MRS. NEVILLE I School, Brick Junior College and Shaw University. She re ceived a Master's Degree in Supervision and Administra tion from Teacher's College (See NEVILLE 12A) AAT State University campus prior to his address there last week. Carmichael's talk inau mas season. She translated the word to mean In English, "Let's pull together." By the end of the meeting, other speakers had joined Dr. Allison In echoing both the idea and the word itself. Rev. Philip Cousin, pastor of St. Joseph's AME Churcji and the final speaker on the program, closed the meeting by saying, "Let's make these last few days meaningful days. . .As Or. Allison said, 'Harambee.'" CteCawsSa ffinws VOLUME 45 No. 50 1)1 ItHAM, N. C., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1988 Negroes Ask Supreme Court For Control Of Their Schools LDF Attorneys Seek Relief In Top Tribunal.. * AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - The LDF today, in an inpre cedented move, asked the U. S. Supreme Court to strike down a Georgia school board selection system and pave the way for Negroes to play an effective role in shaping poli cies and practices affecting the education of their children. Attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) charge that the school board selection sy stem in Taliaferro County, Georgia, near Augusta, has for 50 years denied Negroes repre sentation on the county school jurors. These grand jurors select the school board members. That school board members must be "upright and intelli gent" voters In the county and own property is the only state criteria for their selection. In the jurisdiction statement filed in the Supreme Court today, LDF attorneys labeled the selection procedure arbi trary and said that until a suit was filed, members of the board have been selected only if they were white. A 72 year-old Negro man with a third grade education recently became that first Ne gro to serve on the grand jury, despite the fact that Negro bisuness and professional peo ple reside in the county, LDF attorneys pointed out. (See SCHOOLS 12A) gurated the University's recent ly formed Center for Afro-Asian Studies. Mis. Ann Atwater, the "wrap-up" speaker on the pro gram, joined the chorus by referring the audience to St. Paul's second epistle to Timo thy in the New Testament, where he refers to "keeping the ffcith," and to Job in the Old Testament, who "held on" even when the going was toughest. "I don't ate how any Christian could Not support the Boycott," she declared. (See SLOOAN 2A) |y^ETfrUTH~~JfrgßlotfEO^j ArrhKfl M BOYS' CLUB BOOSTERS President-elect Richard M. Nix on exchanges greetings with William J. Kennedy, Jr. (right) of Durham at recent meeting of the Boys' Clubs of America national board of directors in Judge Dismisses Suit Brought On Behalf Attorney Steel By NAACP N. Y. Highest Court Upholds Ruling: Of Org-anziation NEW YORK - In a four page opinion handed down, Dec. 13, New York State Su preme Court Judge Irving It Saypol dismissed a complaint filed against the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People seeking to restore Lewis M. Steel to his former position as NAACP as sociate counsel. "There is no basis, real or apparent, for intrusion by this court into the internal affairs of the NAACP," Judge Saypol ruled. The complaint against the Association was filed by Wil liam H. Booth, a member of the Association's Board of di rectors, and three New York State and local NAACP of ficials - Donald R. Lee of Buffalo, president, state con ference of branches; Lloyd (See SUIT 12A) Final Regulations New Federal Gun Law Announced By IRS Dec. 14 GREENSBORO - TTie pub lication of final regulations under the new Federal gun law was announced today by the Internal Revenue Service. They will appear in the Federal Reg ister of Dec. 14,1968. The new gun law doe# not prevent sportsmen from buy ing firearms and ammunition in the states in which they reside. However, the sale and delivery must cQnform with state and applicable local laws. In addi tion, a retail purchase will usually have to be made in per son and the buyer will have to show sufficient identification, such as a driver's license, to his name, address and age. The major restriction on altt in the new lew forbids residents of one state from buying firearms, but iot am- New York. Kennedy, rice president of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, is a member of the Boys' Club board which named Nixon honorary chair man of the 800 Club-800,- Earl Arfis Named Deputy Oasis Durham by Imperial Potentate Ear) T. Artis, past potentate of Zafa Temple Number 176 of Durham has recently been ap pointed Deputy of the Oasis of Durham. Artis is a graduate of North Carolina College at Durham and received his M. A. degree from New York University. He was created a Shriner in 1946 at the Arabian Temple No. 42, New Bern and is a charter member 6f the Rofelt Pasha Temple No. 175 of Roc ky Mount. He has also held several other positions in the Shrine, including the Chief Rabban and Potentate of Zafa Temple in Durham. Artis is a member and Sup | erintendent of the Sunday munition, in another state. One important exception to this rule permits a resident of one state to buy a rifle or shotgun, but not a handgun, in an adja cent state if certain procedures are complied with. 'Oie pur chase can only be made if the buyer's state of residence enacts legislation that permits it to take place and the sale is legal in both states. A sworn statement in a prescribed form must also be forwarded to the chief law enforcement officer in the purchaser's place of resi dence and be acknowledged by him. Licenaed collectors, who are limited by the gun control act to transactions in curios and telUs, wiD'find in the regula tions the tests for determining whether a gun falls into this (See OUN LAW ISA) PRICE: 20 Cents 000 member youth-guidance or ganization. Looking on are (1 to right) A. L Cole, new board chairman, and John L. Burns, new president, both of Green wich, Conn. ft ARTIS School of the West Durham Baptist Church and a member of its trustee board. He is also an active member of Doric Lodge No. 28 of Durham, and (See ARTIS 12A Washington Seeks Medicaid Project for D.C. Washington, D. C. will be one of nine cities in which public hearings are being held this month to seek ways of im proving the medicaid program, according to Bernard B. Mc- Custy, Regional Director, Re gion 111, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Wel fare, Charlottesville, Virginia. The hearings will be held December 23 and 30 at Wash ington, D. C. Medicaid Is the Federal (Sec MEDICAID 2Aj TURNER Jerome Turner Shot to Death Near Hi School Jerome Desverny Turner, 25-year-old resident of 514 E. Nelson Street, was shot through the heart and killed here around 3:30 p.m. Mon day, Dec. 16, on Concord Street near Hillside High School. Arrested and charged with the slaying, about half-hour later, was Howard Ezekiel Harris, 51,, a tailor of 318 Booker St. Bond for the slayer was set at SIO,OOO. Turner was a tile setter. According to Lt. R. S. Mor ris, detective of the Durham police department, Harris was holding in his hands at the time he was shot a double barrel, sawed-off, 12 guage, loaded shotgun. Investigators who arrived at the scene of the killing stated there was no weapon of any kind on the body of the dead man,i according to Deputy Sheriff W. A. Allen. Detective Frank McCre? is reported to have located two unused shotgun shells in Turn er's car which was located parked in the adjoining block. He was expecting whoever re moved the shotgun from the See SHOT 12A NAACP Board Rejects Steel Reinstatement NEW YORK - Efforts of a minority of the Board of Direc tors of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People to re-open the case of Lewis M. Steel, dis missed NAACP associate coun sel. were turned back by a 25 to 10 vote at the recessed meeting of the Board here, Dec. 9. Steel was dismissed by the Board on Oct. 14 after publica tion the day before of an arti cle by him in The New York Times Magazine in which the United States Sufrtme Court was accused of "condoning or overlooking the ingrained prac tices which have meant the See BOARD 12A X\
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