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BISHOP WALTER "SWEET DADDY" MC CULLOUGH, Spiritual leader of the 3-million member United House of Prayer For All People on reviewing stand during Band . Photo by Peeler Competition last Sunday at the religious sect s 50th Annual Holy Convocation. Mrs McCullough and grandchildren also enjoyed the musical performance House Of Prayer’s Holy Convocation Attracts 8,000 ay James reeier Post Staff Writer A crowd, far in excess of the 8,000 expected, was present for the concluding day of activities of the 50th Annual Holy Convocation of The Mouse oi rrayer ror All reo ple in Charlotte last Sunday. According to Mrs. Claude Wilkcrson, wife of the Mother House of Prayer pastor, Bis hop Walter “Sweet Daddy” McCullough baptized more than 1.800 persons last Sunday liaises #5,100; Sets 33rd^ Convention I III a 90,lUUIUna raising drive to his credit, Kelly M. Alexander Sr. will go to Wilmington next Thursday for the October 14-15, 33rd Annual Convention of Branch es of the NAACP. - Alexander, president of the N.C. Stale Conference of Branches, will head the con vention which will be head quartered at the Wilmington Hilton Motor Inn. A recent statement from the confer-, ence said its theme is “Utili zing the Black Vote for the 1 Realization of Equality and Justice." The convention comes at a time when NAACP officials across the country are trying to raise enough money to avoid destruction. A Missis sippi judge has awarded 12 white merchants in Port Gibsorr, Mississippi $1.25 mil lion in damages for holding a 10-month boycott against them in 1966 and 1967. About $5,100 was raised in Charlotte at Ml Carmel Bap list Church, Sunday, October 3. Keynoting the 33rd Annual Convention will be Clarence Mitchell, Jr., noted and cele brated Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau, on Fri day evening, 7:30 p.m., Octo ber 15th, at the St. Stephen AME Church. He has served in the Washington Bureau of NAACP for 30 years. He has Kelly Alexander Jr. ■ NAACPpresident been Director of the bureau since 1950. Mr. Mitchell is one of the great fighters for civil rights and human justice in the history of the United States. .On January 26, 1976, Demo cratic and Republican leaders of the United States Senate, and House of Representatives offered resolutions honoring Mr. Mitchell for 30 years of legislative service and "ex pressing gratitude for his con tributions to the enhancement of life in America." The reso lutions were passed in both Houses. President Ford also sent a message of commenda tion. during the Annual Mass Bap tism injhe church pool at the rear at the church; and appa rently the Spiritual Leader of the 3-million-member sect and his aides passed out more Blessed Holy Water than in previous years. Mrs. Wilkerson also said more bands than had been expected participated in the band competition in the after noon. Richard Maxwell, Titus Ledbetter, Marvin Davenport and Donnell Cooper were jud ges for the band competition. They awarded First Plactin the band division to Virginia’s House of Prayer Band and First Place in Drum and Bugle competition of New York state’s Bugle Corps. During the band competi tion, members from local churches displayed paper ban ners depicting the growth of the church from its tent-hous ed beginning in 1919 to the present Byzantine structure on Beatties Ford Road where the Holy Convocation was held. Numerous vendors plied a wide variety of wares to sati ate appetites during the long day of activities. Eatable i tems offered for sale included water melon, hot dogs, hot sausage, fired chicken, cakes and pies, soft drinks, pickles and snowballs, to mention a few. For the band competition, the final activity of the day, Church Leader Bishop Walter "Sweet Daddy” McCullough wore an impecably tailored, -vested white suit, with matching tie and handker chief, and white hat and white shoes as he occupied the re viewing stand with his wife, grand children, attendants and other members of the church heirarchy. Ia* U * s III 9 > a tc m in " FURNACE ud HEAT PUMP g U SERVICE v 3 W WE SERVICE G.E., CHRYSLER, BRYANT, YORK, < 5 TRANE, CARRIER, LENNOX AN6 OTHER MAJOR 2? J BRANDS OF FORCED AIR HEATING AND HEAT ® PUMP SYSTEMS. AT ROSS & WITMER, WE REPRE- m w SENT ... 186 TOTAL YEARS OP EXPERIENCE • 61 IN THE SERVICE BUSINESS ^ u ROSS & WITMER INC. g 5 392-6188 I 5 CC T620 ROZZELLS FKRRY ROAD W III. SERVING CHARLOTTE SINCE 1945 • * 33IAM3S * 33IAM3S * 331AM m * Ends 131-Day Fast Rev. Chavis Returns To McCain Prison Unit Special lo The Post Rev Benjamin Chavis. Jr., the imprisoned North Carolina civil rights leader, was re turned to McCain Prison Unit for tubercular and mentally unstable prisoners on the morning of September 28, af ter a 31 day fast to protest his treatment in prison, said a statement released by the Na tional Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The Alliance, which has been leading the defense cam paign of Chavis and his co-de fendants known as the ‘Wil mington Ten', charges that the North Carolina authorities are willfully conspiring to kill the 28 year-old minister of the United Church of Christ "This is barbarian,'' said Charlene Mitchell, Alliance executive secretary. -Rev Chavis is wrongfully impri soned in the first place. After threats on his life by guards at another prison, they placed him in McCain among tuber cular prisoners and those with mental problems. When he fasted to protest those condi tions they isolated him in a prison hospital When he ended his fast they returned him to McCain. We can only conclude that they are will fully conspiring to kill this - Rev. Benjamin Chavis .. Imprisoned leader heroic leader." The Alliance is urging that letters and telegrams be sent lo Gov James Holshouser, State Capitol. Raleigh. N.C. 27602. demanding that Rev (havis be. transfered to a Normal prison environ ment They ask that copies be sent to the National Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression, Room 804, 150 Fifth Ave., New York N Y 10011. Chavis, who is a vice-chair person of the Alliance, has been held in recent months at Central Prison Hospital in Raleigh. He ended his fast on September 7. the day after the March For Human Rights and Labor Rights in Raleigh, at which thousands ot demon strators demanded the free dom of the Wilmington Ten The Ten*, besides Rev Chavis. ■ are eight Black former high school students and a white mother of three, who are sentenced to 282 years in I prison for defending a church in Wilmington's Black com munity from a four-day armed siege by the Ku Klux Klan and other groups during the school desegregation struggle Dr . Helen C Othow, Rev. Chavis’ sister, said ' The Al liance is continually urging all interested persons to continue the fight to free the Wilming ton Ten. who were convicted on framed up charges. Also please write to the members of the Wilmington Ten. " For further information a boUt their addresses and about how to join the North Carolina Alliance, write Dr Helen C. Othow, 13(H Hunter Oaks Lane No. 1, Charlotte. North Caro lina 28213. 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