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Goldsboro Man, Eager To Demonstrate, E ’ :t n Mr< ' • rlr,tln ' KILLS HIMSELF 'PLAYING' ROULETTE JAMES CHANEY, OTHERS REMEMBERED - The Rev. Jamas Farmer, national director of CORE joins Mrs. Fannie Lee Chanev, her son, Ben, and granddaughter, Toni, in Philadelphia, Miss., last week during memorial services held for the three civil rights workers slain near this town June of 1984. Mrs. Chaney’s oldest son, James was among the trio killed while investigating the burning of the Mount Zion Baptist Church here. (UPI PHOTO). Was Attempting To Show How Another Mm Died GOLDSBORO - While trying to show a visiting couple how another man killed himself two weeks ago by playing Russian Roulette, Zollie Grumpier, 35, killed himself at his home Sun day. The death was ruled sui cide by police. Killed on Sunday, June 20, was Charles Griffin, also a Negro. City's Teen Dems Hem Cmmilmm The second of a series of workshops and rallies was held Saturday, June 28 at the home of the Teen-Dem advisors, 1609 East Davie Street. City Coun cilman John W. Winters was guest speaker, Mr. Winters spoke on "The Teen-Agers’ Political Role in the Communi ty.” He stressed the need for youth participation, Ha urged the group to involve them selves political and lie well read. By reading one can be aware of what is going on in the community,” he stated. Out-of-town guests Included Miss Cheryl Brown, Wash ington, D. C.; Miss Phoebe Moore, Goldsboro; Ray Light ner, Virginia; and Miss Eve lyn Coleman, a rising senior at Jordan Sellars Jr.-Sr. High Sfflhool in Burlington. Miss Coleman is president of the Teen-Age NAACP Chapter in Burlington, and was a delegate to the Teen-Deni Convention, Lawrence Lightner, vice - president, Welcomed the follow ing new members; Ray Hay wood, Gilbert Hunter, Rom on a White, Phyllis Noble, Samuel McClain, David Mack, Dennis Davis, Samuel Spencer, Floyd styae Williams, Nina O-Dodd, Luke Williams, Patricia Staten, Carole Taylor, Emm it McNeil, Debra Taylor, Breeds McNeil, Patricia Taylor, Ruby Jones, Melvin Palmer, Clinis Noble, Walter Solomon, John Hilliard, Brenda Sutton, Ernestine Rob imoo, Debra Lightner, Malinda Allen, Diane Haith, Randy Ta (See TEEN-OEMS, P. 2} From Raleigh s Official Police Files; the crime beat BY CHARLES R TONES Tusssng' Female Throws Mug Daniel Aubrey Brewer, of 8 Mecklenberg Terrace, told the «ass at 2:05 a. m„ Sal., that he usd Albert Lewis Whitaker, 25, of 814 S. Boundary St., were drinking beet at the Latin Casino 598 S„ Boundary St. when a **fuss w started with Mrs, Jose phine Elizabeth Austin, 31, of 12 Lincoln Terrace, Brewer declared the woman threw a beer mug, hitting him on the left eyebrow, causing a two-inch gash. Whitaker was cut on the left arm by the same beer mug. Both Brewer and Whitaker were treated at Wake Memorial Hospital for their wounds and released. Mrs. Austin was taken to Stg. C. M. Gilstrap, of the Goldsboro Police Department, stated Grumpier was in his liv ing room with H. A. Gaddy and Mrs. Ruby Lee Gaddy, of Mount Olive. "I’ve played It before. 11l show' you how it is played,” Gaddy declared Crumpler told them, He then went upstairs, said the two witnesses and returned with a .22 calibre revolver which he appeared to take bul lets from when he entered the room. The Gadcbys said he then plac ed the pistol to his right tem ple and pulled the trigger twice. It snapped each time. The third time he pulled the trigger, the gun fired, literally blowing his brains out. Crumpler was pronounced dead on arrival at Wayne Memorial Hospital. Sgt. Gilstrap stated Mrs. Crumpler was in the kitchen at the time of the shooting, and he quoted her as saying she heard laughing in -the liv ing room and finally a pistol shot. Funeral services were held this week for Crumpler. Pepsi-Cola Appoints Fitzhugh BY ALEXANDER BARNES NEW YORK CITY - Pepsi cola Bottling Company moved higher in the realm of hiring competent people when it an nounced this week that H. Nay lor Fitzhugh, veteran In the field of commerce at Howard University, has been chosen by the company as a vice president. He replaces Har vey Russell, the first Negro to hold such a position with the company. Mr. Russell move* into the area of policy' maMng and planning. Mr. Fitzhugh brings to the company a wide experience in commerce. He has been at (See PEPSI-COLA, P. 2) Wake County Jail, where she faces two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Says Woman Broke Window Miss Elizabeth Clayton, of 815 S. Boundary St., Apt. E, told Officers Ralph Clayborne and L>„ Brinson at 11:35 a. m. Saturday, that a woman she sknows only as “Jab-" came to her apartment and broke out a window pane in her bedroom, then threatened her with a small automatic pistol. The woman stated she was going to sign a warrant for “Jab’s” arrest. The cops were unable to get any more infor mation, other than the would-be assailant is about 36 years of age. (See CRIME Be AT. P. 3) ? 01e Miss* Hires Negro Prof.; HEW Satisfied THE CARftLINIAN TOL. 24, NO. 33 TOLBERT HEADS WORLD BAPTISTS NC Teachers Sue For Jobs C. CLYDE FERGUSON law Dean On U.N.’s Rights Body WASHINGTON, D. C. - Dean C. Clyde Ferguson, Jr., of the Howard University School of Law was elected this week to a three-year term on the U nited Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimina tion. The Sub-Commission is a 15-inember unit of the UN’s Human Rights Commission which conducts studies of mi nority group discrimination throughout the world and pre pares reports on the subject for use by the UN. As U. S. expert on discrimi nation and protection of mi norities, his official designa tion on the Sub-Commission, Dean Ferguson replaces Morris Abram of New York, who re cently was appointed by Presi dent Johnson to the Human Rights Commission. For the (Sep LAW DEAN P. 21 DR. GRADY D. DAVIS Dr. G. Davis Studying !n California The Rev. Dr. Grady D. Davis has received a National Science Foundation Fellowship to pur sue post-graduate study in a Summer Institute in Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. The institute runs eight weeks, from June 28- August 20. Dr, Davis left for California, Sunday, June 27 Dr. Davis is pastor of Union Baptist church, Durham, and visiting professor in psy chology at Shaw University in Raleigh, He holds the A. B. degree fiom Shaw University; the B. D. degree from Andover New to ! Theological Seminery, Massachusetts; and the Ph, D. degree from Boston University, (S"? mt DAVIS. P 2) North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 3. 1965 Veep Was Choice Os 25 Million MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Dr. William R. Tolbert, Jr., 52- year-old vice-president of Li beria, was unanimously chosen as the new president of the World Baptist Alliance here Tuesday, June 29. The Al liance convention was packed with Americans and foreigners, as the 25-million member body chose its first Negro presi dent. The Rev, Dr. Tolbert was figuratively swept into office by acclamation as the 20,000 delegates to the convention yell ed their approval. A bomb threat was the only mar to the meeting as many thousands of the delegates were evacuated from Convention Hall Tuesday night after a crank telephone caller warned of a bomb that had been placed in the auditorium. No bourn vias found. The delegates were un aware of the phone call. As Dr. Tolbert became the first Negro to ever head the 121 -nation Alliance, chur c h leaders hailed his selection as a “breakthrough, something re volutionary.” All but three million of the body’s members live in the U nited States. Three-fourths of the delegates were also Ameri cans, The Rev. Juan Soren, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the re tiring Alliance president. Dr. Tolbert outwardly was unmoved by the significance of his election. "I haven’t given it much thought,” he said. "You see, we are not really racial con scious in Liberia. I will work very hard to do the best job possible.” Having served as vice-presi dent of the WBA for five years, Dr. Tolbert has been Vice- President of his country for 14 years. MAGAZINE Due to circumstances beyond the control of The CAROLIN IAN, the supplementary maga zines promised our readers last week has not arrived, and no word had readied the manage ment as to why it is late. Until such information is re ceived here, we are at a lose for an explanation, other than we have heard nothing further from the distributors of “The National Scene,” Q9SSES33I Temperatures for the next five days, Thursday through Monday, will he normal or a few degrees below normal. Nor mal high and low temperatures will he St and 86 degrees Rain fall dtirin' sh* 1 will ave rage 1-th to 7-10ths of an Inch. Scattered showers are expected about Thursday, and again a round the end of the period. Segregation s Funeral Is On The Horizon:’ Dr. King WILLOW SPRINGS, Ohio fNPl')- ‘ ‘Segregation is on its deathbed and the only question remaining is how costly segre gationists will make the funer al,” declared Dr. Martin Luth er King, Jr,, in summing up the racist.! situation during an address at Antioch college’s commencement exercises last weelu However, he said, stivmgm civil right* laws are still need ed. AT WORLD BAPTIST MEET - Liberia® Vtc®-Pr»®Utat Dr. w. R. Tolbert, center, listens closely as he is named new president of the World Baptist Alliance in Miami Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 29. On his left is Mrs. Josa Soren, wife of the outgoing president, end on the right is Dr. Tolbert’* wife. (UPI PHOTO). Three Teachers Begin Legal Action Vs. Board HENDERSONVILLE - Three Negro teachers began legal ac tion in Asheville Monday against the Hendersonville City School Board, bj claiming their jobs are in jeopardy as a result of integration. The teachers', along with the North Carolina Teachers Ass ociation with head-quarters in Raleigh, filled a petition in U. S. District Court seeking an injunction against the local school board. If granted, the order would restrain the board from dis missing or attempting to dis miss or refusing to hire teach- Federated 7 Clubs Hold 56th Meet BY VIOLA T. BISHOP ELIZABETH CITY - A largw delegation from all over North Carolina gathered at Elizabeth City College, here for three days last week to attend the 58th Annual Convention of the North Carolina Federated Clubs. The session opened •with the Executive Board Meet ing and a special dinner oa Thursday night, followed, by «®s® welcome program in the Moors Auditrolum. On this occasion* I music® was rendered by tbs* lunlor choirs of Olive Branch 3aptlst and Corner Stone Bap tist chureffeaa and Mins Sarah M. Everetts, After welcome greetings* from the several religious and civic bodies of the city, the ecsngregaMos Mstsned to a dy namic addrcß* from Mr*. Ge neva Hamilton* Chairman of "Operation Boot Strap”, Golds (Sew MTH ANNUAL, V 2) '•Although law may not change the hearts of men, !i dess change the habit* of men,” Hb told the graduates and some 1,000 persons in the o~ pea-sdr amphitheatre that Ne groes "shall win our freedom in America because the goal of America is freedom.” The Nobel Peace Prize win ner amended his call for addi tional attacks on racial in > justice, by urging the 298 gra d, nates to join movements on poverty and war. PRICE 15 CENTS ers and other Hendersonville school personnel on account of color or race. The plaintiffs are: Miss Doris Yvonne Greene, Mrs. Mary Ann White and Mrs. Grace Cham bers, along with the NCTA. They are all employed in the local school unit. This action came less than two months after the local school board, in effect, abo lished segregation in schools throughout Henderson County. The Rev. H. L. Marsh, a colored Methodist minister here, was appointed to the school board. He took office on Thursday, July 1. The board also voted to change the predominantly Negro Ninth Avenue School from a first through twelfth grade in stitution to a full junior high school. It could not be ascertained just when the District Court at Asheville will take action on the suit. CHAINED TO COURTHOUSE - NEW YORK; Unidentified msn tries to walk through asirmtoa of the Federal courthouse at Foley Square where demonstrators had chained themselves Sms 23rd. Members from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNCC) attempted to block the entrance to the court, demanding federal intervention to protect civil rights workers in Jackson, Miss, The demonstration started shortly before S a, m. last Wednesday. (UP! PHOTO). Female Employed In Jackson JACKSON, Miss. - In a move unprecedented In State history, the board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher con firmed the appointment of Dr. Marlon Myles, a Negro woman, who arrived here Sunday to as sume her duties as assistant professor of pharmacology and research at the University <sf Mississippi Medical School.. According to university news media, the action to accept Dr. Mvles was made final last Thursday and went into effect Immediately. However, some reports al leged that the board was sharp ly divided over adding a Ne gro faculty member to the In stitution where the admission of James Howard Meredith to the University of Mississippi at Oxford In 1962 resulted In campus riots and some mur ders. Since that time, several Neg-ro students have been ad mitted to the main university campus at Oxford. (See ‘OLE MISS’, P Z) hs. Dabbs Keynotes St. Aug. Talks “You need to know the basic values you have and how South erners feel, their attitudes to ward the South,” James M. Dabbs, noted author and lectur er on the South, told a special session of the Desegregation Institute participants at Saint Augustine's College today. “It Is Important for all of us, cer tainly teachers, to understand, as well as we can, the basic motives and the basic values of this southern culture,” he said. “Basically noted the speak er, the south is a creation of whites and Negroes working together. The South is chang ing very rapidly every' day. We are moving from a folk and farming society into an urban Industrial society, and this means a radical change,” he said. During the course of hi* speech, Dabbs outlined sever al distinct characteristics of Southern directness. 1. The south is a land of Indirection and of terrible di rectness. This Is practiced in an effort to agree with one another. The south Is a vol cano and we have been living on the slopes of it for many years. W'e learn to be com placent, which I feel is cowar dice. We have a sens® of persona] reserve, nobody knows who anybody Is and nobody (B** DABBS HEARD. P. 2) Hiffy ilk' lilil i’i-d*. ;• te'V"; ' • is m Mat - m JTM BROWN FACES SEP TEMBER TRIAL - Jta Brawa, star fullback of the Cleveland Broves, world football cham pions, entered a plea of Inno cent last week to charges of beating Miss Brenda Ayr**, 18, top photo, in a motel room, Brown, who Is married, was released on Ills own recogni zance,'- to appear for a jury trial at hi* request, on Sept am ber 20. CUPI PHOTO). NC’s Vo-Ag Invites Rep. Kornegay GREENSBORO - Horace R. Kornegay, Congressman from the Sixth District of North Car olina, will keynote the annual conference of North Carolina Teachers of Vocational Agri culture at A&T College, July 5-9. He will deliver the main ad dress at the opening general session on Tuesday, July 6, beginning at 9:30 a. m. The conference, to be con ducted from the theme, “Ex panding Opportunities and Re sponsibilities for Vocational Education in Agriculture,” will feature several other speakers during the five-day meet. The list includes: A. G. Bullard, Raleigh, State supervisor of Vo cational Agriculture; Dr. E. M. Norris, agricultural teacher trainer, Prairie View A&M Col lege, Prairie View, Texas; El- Moore, U. S. Department of Agriculture economic reaearch specialist, Washington, D. C.; H. G„ Beard, acting director of Vocational Education, Ra leigh, and D. Richard Wenner, coordinator, Rural Force Com (See VO-AG, P. 2)
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