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Goal In Sight As March Near Capitol OLD MAN FACES RAP FOR MURDER IN CITY THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 24. NO. 20 I. Ml Tfris 200 Cary Man Dies After Slashing BT STAFF WRITER In an ironic twist of fate, neith ;>r the victim, nor his alleged murder er has previous Raleigh - Wake County jail records, according to officials of the City-County Identi fication Bureau Wednesday of this ■week. Henry Bumper*?, 77, of 14- #1 1-8 Sawyer's Lane, was ar rested Saturday afternoon and charged with th«* murder of a man during a fight here early Saturday. Albert Mason 38, 111 Boyd Street, Cary, ttie victim, was pronounced dead at 2:30 p. m. by physicians, at Wake Mem orial Hospital, a victim of shock and loss of Wood. Several long and deep cuts were found on the victim’s face and the back of his neck, but none had reached any vital organs. According to detectives, the* two (CONTINUED ON P. GE 2) „ 15,000 Ai State HDC Meet Here More than 15,000 North Carolina Home Demonstration Club mem bers began converging on Raleigh Tuesday for a one-day State Council Meeting of Home Demon atratioin Clubs. The 23rd annual event was held at the J. S. Dorton Arena on the State fairgrounds. It began at 10:00 am. Wednes day. Guest speaker was .Tohn H. Wheeler, president of Mechan ics and Farmers Bank of Durham. Raleigh and Char lotte. (CONTESTED ON PAGE 2) Method’s Post Office Dedicated; Many Present Method’s new' Post Office vs* dedicated Sunday afternoon, March tl, at 2:30 p. m. Inclement weather required that a portion of the dedi cation ceremonies be held indoors in the Berry O'Kelly High School auditorium. The flag-raising cere mony was performed in front of the Post Office with the Honorable Harold Cooley presenting the U rtited States flag to Mrs. Harve leigh White, the postmaster. The aimed service color guard raised ikt flag to complete the dedication. Mayor James Reid gave the Welcome address and speakers were 4th District Congressman, the Honorable Harold Cooley, and Regional Director oi the Rost Office Department, the Honorable C. Hanks Gladden. The master of ceremony duties were shared by the dedication committee co-chairmen, Kcve. Charles W. Ward and Ralph Fleming. A solo was tendered -by Mrs. Hortense Fleming, The I.lgon High School Band pro vided music, under the direc tion of J. L. Edwards. The dedication ceremonies were proceeded by a luncheon at the State College Faculty Club. The luncheon and eermony was attend ed by Post Office officials, citizens of Oie Method community, and the general public. Mm. Wnm U <tt>« »s«gm , l*W % North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. MARCH 27. 1965 ■' v ' '% JMpi f LurrUKU .UcA.t.wcn, ,>*4. Two Outstanding U.S. Figures To Shaw Soon Two oiitstanding young men in the field of business and govern ment will deliver major assembly speeches at Shaw University on Mareh 26 and 29. On Friday, (the 26th), Rod man C. Rockefeller, vice-presi dent of the Internaiona! Basie Economy Corporation, will ad dress the faculty and student body, and on Monday (28th), Clifford L. Alexander. Jr., De pute Assistant to the President of the United States, will de liver the principal address. The public is cordially invited to attend both of these programs, which will begin at 12:00 noon ir. Greenleaf Auditorium on the Shaw University campus. Rockefeller, the oldest son of New Fork's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, Is. like hi* fath er, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Shortly after graduation, he entered the Army a* a commissioned offi cer in the Ordnance Corps. Upon his discharge from military service. Rockefeller joined the A merican Overseas Finance Compa ny (now Transoeeanic-AOFC Ltd., a subsidiary of IBEC» after a year AT METHOD POST OFFICE DEDICATIuu —Shown above, shortly oefote the t, J. S. Post Office at Method was dedicated, are some of the principals who participated. Left to right are: the Honorable C. Banka Gladden, regional director of the Post Office Department, Atlanta, Ga.; Mr#. Harvefeigh White, poeAmmtar oi the new facility; and the Rev, Ralph Fleming., who, along mth thi t Aki. Cfltafiftw W. Ward, mevad m « op-chairman of the dedication program. (See story). Ik ***»»' S' Kv/i-atsA KuthtttLLEß of postgraduate study a( the Colum bia University Business School. He (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) From Raleigh’s Official Police Files: THE CRIME BEAT BY CHARLES R. JONES “Breaks Bad” in House, Gets Shot Isaiah Whitaker, 38. of 1310 Poole Road, reported to Officer C. C. Heath at 11:43 a. m. Saturday, that he was in his own home with members of his family when Gra ham Harris, 49, of 107 N. Fisher Street, “dropped in." After a few words, stated Whitaker, Harris produced a wine bottle and threat ened to “go upsids his head” with it. Whitaker stated be then pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and shot once, hitting Harris in the lower stomach. The bul let also nieked the little finger on Harris’ left hand before entering the stomach, He was admitted to Wake Memorial Hospital, where his condition was described as sat isfactory Wednesday morning of this week. W'hitaker was jailed for engag ing in an affray with a deadly Bi-Raeial Body Hears Candidate BY JAMES A. SHEPARD Virginia K. Newell may or may not be elected to the Raleigh School Board this year, but it would be hard to convince the 200- odd persons who heard her speak at the Bloodworth Street YMCA last Friday night, that she should not be elected to membership on that board. The March 19th affair, sponsored and promoted by the Blood worth Street “Y’\ w,s considered the kick-off of Mrs. Newell’s campaign to become a local school board member. The large, racially-mixed au dience. was both enthusiastic and receptive. Mrs. Newell, a professor of mathematics at Shaw Univers ity, and a former math in structor at I.igon High School, evidenced during her address, (CONTINUED ON PAG® S') weapon. The same charge face* Harris when he is released from the hospital, Man Admits Breaking Both Os Wife’s Arms Officer B. C, Nipper, of Raleigh's Police Department, was called to Wake Memorial Hospital at 11:37 p. m. Sunday. Upon arrival, he talked to the nurse on duty, who told him that Mrs. Sandra Epps, 21. of D-6 Washington Terrace, had come in with both arms brok en. Mrs. Epps refused to talk, except to say that she and her husband, Elijah Epps, “had a fuss." Epps, who was also at the hospital, told the cop he had broken his wife’s arms at their home. A domestic court warrant was signed by Nipper, and Epps, 25, was placed under a bond of SIOO. (CONTINUED ON PAG* St Dr. Bunche Joins King At Selma Editor’s Mote: As The CAR OLINIAN prepared to go to press Wednesday, news reach - ed the desk of the managing editor that the marchers “struck out in overcast wea ther. planninr to walk 16 r riles to the city limits of Mont gomery by evening.” This will put them within four miles of the white-domed State capi ioi building, site of a huge civ il rights rally Thursday. SELMA (NPir—The controversi al an oft-delaved five-day Alabama Freedom March, covering the 53 mile® between Selma and Montgomery, the State capital, was I launched Sunday as six homemade I time bombs were discovered in the ; Negro community of Birmingham. More than 10,000 marchers, led !by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., i ar.d under the watchful and protec : uve eyes of Air Force helicopter crews, armed soilders, federalized national guardsmen, FBI agents i and U. S. marshals, began the his tone trek early Sunday aftemoor, after holding prayer service outside a Baptist church. In Montgomery, Dr. King Is slated to try to get to Gov. George C. Wallace and band bitn a list of grievances, which, in ettect, will say, "Let My People Go." As the huge crowd stepped off eight abreast in the be ginning stages of the march Dr, King was flanked by such outstanding personages as Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, a fellow No bel Peace Prize winner and a veteran of top-level United Na tions service; Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, president of the borough of Manhattan, New York; Dr. Ralph Abernathy, a long-time trusted aide, and famed comedian Dick Gregory. Also in the front ranks were j other distinguished members of the clergy from sll over the nation. Closeup in the line of march were Charles Evers, field score ! tarv of the NAACT* in Mississippi, whose brother. Medgar. was slain in ambush while serving in the same capacity; and Chicago aider man Robert H. Miller. Miller left the line of march late Sunday in order to be present at a meeting of the Chicago city council. He was scheduled to fly back to Alabama to rejoin the march. Miller said local law officials were a "pathetic-looking lot” as the march got underway. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Clubwomen Os Nation Set Service WASHINGTON, D. C. The Na tional Association of Colored Wo men’s Clubs, Inc. will conduct a national service of devotion and dedication in the headquarters building in Washington, D. C. on April 16 at 4 o’clock. According to the announoft merit made by Mrs. Mamie B. Reese of Albany, Georgia, na tional president, the special Good Friday convocation will draw Federated Club women irotn all of the 40 affiliated states for a ceremony of re dedication of persona! services and prayers for those who lead in the bloody struggle for Civil Rights and Human Dignity. Leaders in this service of rever ence along with XTCWC officers, will be top representatives from Protestant, Catholic and Jewish (CONTINdSToN PAG® 2) PRICE 15c Plans Made For City’s Participation In EGA Plans for a city-wide community under the Economics Opportunity Act were discusssed at a public meeting at the Blood worth Street YMCA on Tuesday night. E, L. Raiford. YMCA executive, presid ed and presented Mrs. Virginia Sherril of the E. O. A. staff and Muss Louise Kcslex of the Method ist Board of Missions, now work ing with the adult elementary edu cation program of the Holding In stitute. Other# who spoke during the meeting included, Mrs. Virginia K. Newell, chairman of the »- (Suit class registration who pre sented several members of her committee; and Dr. W. A. Gaines, of St. Augustine’s Col lege, who presented is number of students who will work on Hie leadline For later Registration Is Monday! :3ZS& -Jvy%g»*fr&r s&'x «||gftf?V *, *- la. ?:y yfe ffSttite; YCff£ ' :^/ . -V ' «.'% ;? V' \ . -^V. ~>^\, ON WAY TO MONTGOMERY Garlanded leaders, (top photo), headed the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. last Sunday. Left to right, wearing Hawaiin Leies, presented by a group from Hawaii, are; the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., and former U. S. Ambassador Dr, Ralph Johnson Bunche of the United Nations. Drs. Bunehe and King are the only U. S. Ne groes ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Photo on right captured one-legged Jim leth erer of Saginaw, Michigan, who came to Selma to join some 5.000 persons on the 50-mile jaunt to the Alabama capital city. \l - he was on crutches, Le therer said he planned to walk all the way. See story. (UPI PHOTOS). CAROLINIAN Will ‘Cover’ Ala. Marching In order that readier?; of The CAROLINIAN might have first hand information on tfhe historic march from Selma. Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, which is scheduled to end Thursday, it will have veteran newspaperman Alex ander Barnes, on the scene to cov er (he happenings. Baines is scheduled to arrive In the civil-rights torn capital Thurs day morning and will be on hand for interviews with the principals, including Governor George C. Wallace. He expects to join the March outside Montgomery and trek back to the capitol, where the march is scheduled to end. Say Killer Os Malcolm Was Cheated NF,W YORK (NPD Norman 3X Butler, one of three men indict ed last week in the slaying of Malcolm X, received a check in the amount of SIO,OOO with a note attached: “For a good job well done." Joseph Williams.-attorney for Butler, confirmed that he had received a check but that It ’was a phony drawn upon an account closed in 1962. The ac count had been held by the Martens Progressive Labor Party. Butler, now held without bail in city prison, was unemployed at the time of his current arrest and was free on SIO,OOO bad in the January shooting of Ben Brown, a New York corrections officer. Brown, an alleged Muslim, had split from the national organiza tion to organize a mosque of his own. Mai com X, former Number Two man in the Black Muslims, had broken from the sect also to form his own movement. Indicted with Butler before State Supreme Court Justice Abraham L Geliinoff, was Thoma* ISX Johnson, 29, New York, and Thoma* Hagan, 22, Paterson. )V. J. Butler pie*-£t**d Smnoeegjt to charges of willfully killing Malcom % “with a shotgun and (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z> the student training program at the YMCA and at oher Institu tions. Rev. Prank Hutchison discussed plans to request a larger Negro representation on the county ad visory committee, appointed by this Board of commissioners. The Bloodwort.h Street YMCA will serve as an area center for registration for various progams. Boys and girls, ages 16-21, out of school or unemployed who desire to apply for the job ccirp and learn a trade while earning money may secure applications at the "Y". Adults who desire to register for basic elementary education classes at Holding Industrial Education Center may also register and se cure further Information. v •- >. '> Reynolds Foundation Will Give NC Colleges 100 G*s WINSTON-SALEM—Through its special steering committee, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation reveal ed Tuesday that nominations by high school principals of sen : or students who are to be conside ed for scholarship awards have been received from all parts of North Carolina. A resolution approved by the Foundation on October 19, 1964 rec ognizes the nead for stimulating g?* C -( tv tVi ' >. WEATHER ft ‘ Temperature* for the next five days, Thursday through Monday, •will average around 3 degrees he low seasonal normal. Northern North Carolina will be cooler Thursday through Monday and over the remainder of the area about Friday and continued rather cool remainder of period. Precipi tation will he heavy and will oc cur mainly on Thursday and Fri day and again around Sunday. A mutmt will average 1-inch or more tn most sections. CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS — --- BUI FROM THEM PAGE 2 Horton’s Cash Store Security Market PAGE 3 The Remnant Shop M. K. Jackson Taylor Radio and Electrical < « Williams Grocery PAGE 5 Hudson-Belk-Efird * John W Winters and C<> Correll Coal Co. PAGE 6 James Sanders Tile Co Raleigh Seafood BHtmore Hills Amburn Pontiac. Inc. Cross Poultry Co. Ivey's of Raleigh Branch Banking and Trust Co Hudson-Etelk-Eflrds of Raleigh Newsome Roofing Co. Pepsi-Colst Bottling Co. Hannon Motor Co. Ready Mixed Concrete Co. PAGE 1 Carolina Motor Sties Rawls Motor Co A a moo Transmission Kelly Auto Sales 66 Auto Sales Weaver Bros Rambler, Inc. Perry"* Grocery and Markri PAGE St CstlCittlaJ Star*. qualified Negro high school grad uates to continue their education The resolution also points out that the granting of four-year scholar ships is a worth while and proper way to encourage and assist needy students to complete further studies leading to a college degree. The special bi-racial commit tee, appointed by Mrs. Mary Nancy- Reynolds Verney. Pres ident ol the f oundation, has been working with Bennett and Livingstone Colleges in formu lating rules governing the scholarship selection process The Committee is alo charged with the duty of choosing the twenty-four student* who wiil receive scholarships. The winning group of nominees will be composed of nine female students who will enter Bennett College in the fall of 1965 and nine male students who will enter Liv ingstone College at the same time, nl addition, the Foundation's grant (CONTTVIiED ON PAGE 21 London Oil Co I Acme Realty (. n ' It. I Quinn Furniture Co. PAGE II | A and P Store* ; Estates Builders Co | Goodman - Ladirs Shop I Factory Outlet sportswear | PAGE 10 i Carolina Builder* Corp. ! Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Ralci.b ' Ridge wav's Optician. Inc. | PAGE It i Baker’s Shoes White’s fill Co., Inc. Mechanics and Farmers Bank i Community Drug stor* KWIX Nelson’s Wayside Furnituira Hum General Tire Co. PAGE IS | Carolina Power and Light Co ■ The Fabric Shop ; Wilson-F'errel! Furniture Co. ! Lincoln Theatre ! PAGE IS ! Red Wiggler Tackle snd Bait Shop ! Smltty's Bait, and Tackle Shop (taper'* Market PAGE 16 Ring Cole Motel ! Tire Sales and Service ! rCX Service Stores \ Rny’r; !PrSve-tn Cleenere I o men's Bwo K*rvU»
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