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Congressmen Protest Bond’s Deninl
Husband
Os Sis ter
Arrested
BY STAFF WRITER
A local physician examined
a 14-year-old girl last Friday,
informed her and her mother
that the child was pregnant, and
the girl’s 42-year-old brother
in-law is now facing a charge
of rape.
Mrs. Lila Gill Pulley, of
706 Oakwood Ave., brought her
daughter to police headquart
ers last Saturday at 12:30 p. m.
and informed the officers on
duty that the child had been
raped in August of 1965, when
she was only 13 years of age.
Clanton Hunter, 42, of 313
Waldrop St., was arrested and
charged with raping the girl,
who became 14 on Dec. 27,
1965, Hunter is Mrs. Pulley’s
son-in-law.
The young girl, whose name
this newspaper prefers not to
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Dr. king
Expresses
Indignation
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following
is the complete statement, is
sued in Atlanta last Wednesday
by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, as regards his
feelings on the failure of the
Georgia State General Assem
bly to seat Rep. Julian Bond,
26-year-old publicity director
of the Student Non-Violent Co
ordinating Committee:
"It is incumbent upon me
today to express my indigna
tion for the State Legislature’s
unconscionable refusal on Mon
day to seat Rep.-elect Julian
Bond. In estimation, the State
Legislature’s action was un
fortunate, unfair and unjust. I
feel that this move by an inte
gral part of Georgia’s lawmak
ing machinery was both poli
tically unsound and morally un
justifiable.
“The right to dissent, like
the right to worship, is indeli
bly etched into the framework
of this nation’s democratic gov
ernment. Furthermore, the
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From Roieigh s Official Police Files.
THE CRIME HEAT
BY CHARLES R. TONES
’Fuss' Over Rent
Money, One Hurt
Mrs, Alberta Caldwell, 47,
of 204 Selwin Alley, told Of*
fleers R, E. Keeter and O,
C. Pratt at 8:59 a. m. Friday,
that Glen Gore, of the Blood
worth St. YMCA, 600 S. Blood
worth St., came to her home
around 4 a. m. After being
there a few minutes, he start
ed a "fuss over some money
for rent,*®
The woman said Gore then
pulled out a knife and stabbed
her In. the chest. She suffer
ed a one-inch mark on the left
side of her chest,
Mrs, Caldwell promised the
cops that she would come to
police headquarters and sign
a warrant, charging assault with
a deadly weapon, against Gore.
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RALEIGH. N. C, SATURDAY. JANUARY 22, 1966
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INNOCENT SOLDIER HURT IN STREET DISTURBANCE -
Birmingham, Ala.: An unidentified Negro soldier, an onlooker
who was caught in the rush and clubbed by police during a
melee in downtown Birmingham Jan. 13th, is helped away from
the scene by two companions. The outbreak occurred when
about 150 Negroes blocked traffic at a busy intersection
during a civil rights demonstration. The soldier apparently
was not hurt seriously. (UPI PHOTO).
Deputy Director Os Urban
League Speaks Here Sat.
The annual meeting of the
North Carolina Council on Hu
man Relations will be held In
Raleigh Saturday night, Jan.
22, at the Erdahl-Cloyd Union
of North Carolina State Uni
versity. The featured speaker
will be Mahlon T. Puryear,
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MAHLON T. PURYEAR
Woman Admits
Stabbing Mate
Albert Evans, 51, of 2207
Everette Ave., (Oberlin) in
formed "the law’® at 11:59 p.
m. Saturday, that his wife, Mrs.
Bernice Bailey Evans, 46,
stabbed him in the back after
a quarrell.
Mrs. Evans admitted stabb
ing her husband, but no motive,
triggering the argument, was
advanced. She was placed in
Wake County Jail on a charge
of assault with a deadly wea
pon.
Mr. Evans suffered lacera
tions on the right side of his
back. He Is believed to have
been treated at Wake Memorial
Hospital for his wounds.
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Deputy Director of the National
Urban League. For many years,
Mr. Pur year was a contractor
in Winston-Salem, his home
city. He has taught and held
admlnstrative positions lr. Del
aware and Arkansas and was
personal counselor at the
Wright Areonautics Corpora
tion. In addition, Mr. Puryear
served as assistant field di
rector of the American Red
Cross in Aberdeen and Okinawa.
He has been with the Urban
League since 1951 in Industrial
and Vocational Field Service.
As an expert in job employ
ment, he took a year's leave
of absence to coordinate Tuske
gee Insitute’s Technical Edu
cation program in Indonesia*
He brings to the Council his
experience as a member of
New York State Manpower
Council, and as Consultant to
the United States Department
of Labor. Puryear is a grad
uate of Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va.
The North Carolina Council
on Human Relations isprimari
ly an Education Organization,
organized along conservative
lines. It endeavors to pro
(Bee USBAM LEAGUE, P. 2)
Notables’
Banquet
Set For Wed.
The North Carolina Teach
ers Association has finalized
the program plans in connec
tion with the Notables Bene
fit Banquet which has been re
scheduled for Wednesday, Jan.
26, at 7:30 p. m. The event,
sponsored by the Mechanics and
Farmers Bank, the North Car
olina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
and North Carolina College at
Durham, will be held at the
college cafeteria.
The banquet speaker is Jo
seph M. Hunt, Jr., chairman,
North Carolina Highway Com
mission, who will represent
Gov. Dan Moore. Recognition
of the honoree, Mrs. Josephine
Sharpe, will he made by Mrs.
Geneva Bowe, NCTA Secretary.
"The Occasion,®’ will be dis
cussed by Dr. S. E. Duncan,
president, North Carolina
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House Seat
WASHINGTON, D, C. - John
Conyers, Jr. (Dem-Mich.) last
week announced that he and
twenty-one other Democratic
Members of the House of Rep
resentatives have sent a tele
gram to the Governor of Geor
gia and to the Speaker of the
Georgia House protesting the
refusal of the Georgia House to
seat Julian Bond. The text of
the telegram follows:
We strongly protest the de
nial of Julian Bond of his seat
in the Georgia House on the
basis of the unpopularity of his
political views on one of the
great issues confronting our na
tion.
The right of every citizen
to voice public dissent is a
keystone of our democracy. To
destroy that right by ref using
(Sm CONCHBXBIMBN, P. 3)
Dr. Cheek
Joins Hall
Os Earner
GREENSBORO - Jackie Rob
inson, Baseball’s Hall of Fam
er, and the first of his race
to crack the color line in ma
jor league baseball, last week
challenged A&T College stu
dents to take the lead in con
ducting a nationwide voter reg
istration drive. Dr. James E.
Cheek, president of Shaw Uni
versity, Raleigh, also was
heard,
Robinson, now chairman of
the Board of the New York City
Freedom National Bank, de
livered the main address on
Sunday afternoon at the final
program of the A&T observance
of Men’s Week. The obser
vance was sponsored by the U
nited Men’s Congress, a student
organization.
The program developed into
one of tribute to A&T and the
four then-freshmen students
who, on Feb. 1, 1960, set in
motion the famed student sit
in movement which later en
veloped almost every college
and university community in the
nation.
He presented a massive sil
ver cup, given by his bank,
in recognition of the leadership
afforded by the students and the
college in the drive for racial
equality. Dr, Lewis C. Dow
dy, president of the college and
who introduced Robinson, ac
cepted the trophy and said that
it is to be placed in the trophy
case of the new student un
(See HALL OP FAMES. P. 3)
Presbyterians Pledge
To Win Men For Christ
BY J. B. HARREN
Nearly two- score United
Presbyterian Men - predomi
nantly laymen - braved rain,
sleet and light snow to attend
a Promotional Meeting of the
Cape Fear Presbutery’s Men’s
Council to pledge, anew, their
determination to return to their
respective churches and revi
talize the lagging work of the
United Presbyterian Men’s
Council in the presbytery and
the Catawba Synod last Satur
day,
Host to the meeting was the
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FIRST NEGRO CABINET MEMBER SWORN IN - Washington,
D. C.: Dr, Robert Clifton Weaver is shown on the left with
President Lyndon Johnson Tuesday, Jan. 18, minutes after
he took the oath of office as the first Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development at a White House ceremony. Here,
after the ceremony, the President extends his congratulations
to Weaver, who is holding his Commission of Office in his left
hand. Dr. Weaver became the first Negro in American his
tory to ever hold a Cabinet position. (UPI PHOTO).
WEAVER BECOMES
CABINET “FIRST”
WASHINGTON (NPI) - Dr,
Robert Clifton Weaver has be
come the first Negro in the his
tory of the United States to be
named to the President’s cabi
net. He now heads the newly
created Department of Housing
and Urban Development, having
taken the oath of office Tues
day, Jan. 18.
In naming Dft Weaver (he has
a Ph. D. from Harvard), Pres
id nt Johnson praised “his high
1 * >l of .'ntegrity and ability.”
The .orrr.tr administrator of
the Housing and Home Finance *
agency—the main unit in the
new department~~has been in
the top echelon of federal gov
ernment since 1933, when he w-as
a member of the “black cabi
net” of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Born in the nation’s capital,
58 years ago, he moved from
his first governmental job as
adviser on Negro Affairs in the
On The Positive Side
(AN EDITORIAL)
Whether Raleigh will continue to have a Negro citizen on
the governing board, the City Council, will be determined
first by who will offer, and whether the entire city will support
a Negro candidate as It has Councilman John W. Winters,
who is a 3-time office winner.
News is that Councilman Winters will offer for a House
seat, thereby taking himself out of contention for another
(See «>N THE POSITIVE SIX)®, F. 2?
Mothers Plan Massive House-To-House
March Os Dimes Canvass Here Tuesday
Mrs. E. C„ Murphy-Wake
County Mothers’ March coordi
nator, and Mrs. Violet Pullen,
Mothers® March chairman, an
nounce final plans for the door
to-door canvass beginning at
7 p, m. on the night of Jan.
25.
"We really ought to call it
the March for children®’ agreed
both Mrs, Murphy and Mrs.
Pullen. These two women will
coordinate the efforts of hun
dreds of volunteers, visiting
area homes on behalf of the
March of Dimes. "The Mothers'
March always has been for
children’’ they explained. In
the beginning, it was to make
it possible for them to live
free from the fear of Polio,
Now, the program includes a na
tionwide net work of hospital
affiliated centers where birth
Davie Street United Presby
terian Church where the Rev.
Frank W. Hutchison is minis
ter and T. Joseph Culler Is
clerk of the session. Others
of the local church active in
making the program a success
inlcuded Charles Irving, Sr.,
D. H. Keck and young Keck;
Clifford Brown, Robert Turner
and Heuston Jones, Atty. Fred
J, Carnage of the local church
was chairman of the program
planning committee which num
bered among its members, _the
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Interior department, through
many dealing directly with
housing, and 10 years later found
himself director of Negro man
power in the War Manpower
commission.
During the post-war era, he
served as rent administrator
for New York state, and as
chairman of New York City’s
housing and redevelopment
board.
In 1960, he was named by
President John F. Kennedy ?s
adminlst:' 1 or of ♦he Federal
Housing and Home Finance a
gency.
His appointment to a cabinet
post finally ends maneuverings
which began in 1963, when Pres
ident Kennedy had tapped him
for the position. However, of
ficial assumption of the post
had to be delayed because Con
gress did not establish the de
partment until last year.
(See »Xt WEAVES, P. 2)
defected children can receive
the best care and treatment
available. And, while provid
ing this assistance the March
of Dimes through research
grants is .spearheading the
search for means to prevent
birth defects.
The volunteers, both men and
women, young and old, civic,
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MORE TROUBLE IN BIRMINGHAM - Police officers in Birmingham, Ala, struggle last Wed
nesday to remove demonstrators from the pa h of a car which they attempted to block at the
City Hal? there. At one point, the auto, which was driven by a white youth, was covered by some
500 demonstrators. The plate on the front of the vehicle carries the words, “God Loves You.”
(UP! PHOTO).
Advertisers
Employee,
Officers
Heroes
Jack Poole, a 58-year-old
resident of 309 N. Carver St.,
turned out to be the hero of
the day Tuesday as he pro
vided the license number of a
car driven by Ginnada Thomas
Wheelous, 46, a white ex-con
vict, arrested early In the
morning in connection with the
$4,099.50 robbery of the North
side Branch of the First Citi
zens Bank and Trust Company,
on N. Person Bt.
Mr. Poole, who was washing
windows at the Per son St. Phar
macy, stated he was attracted
to W'heelous’ car because the
man was running out of the
bank in great haste,
Poole, whose father, the late
Mr. David Poole, founded the
Raleigh Safety Club here many
years ago, is married and the
father of two daughters, both
of whom are graduates of St,
Augustine’s College.
He is the former member of
the Johnny Minter Orchestra,
having played trumpet for over
30 years in various musical
aggregations around the area.
His information regarding the
1966 Ford Galaxie was relayed
to police headquarters, and F.
I. Denton, who was at the desk
ordered the “Signal 1000” e
mergency plan put into effect.
This plan allows every exit from
the city to be blocked almost
immediately after a bank robb
ery.
Two veteran police officers,
Joseph Winters, Sr., and T.
T. Street, Jr„ were cruising
on S. East St., when they re
ceived the radio call.
They preceded to their pre
determined position- the city
(See 3 LOCAL MEN, P. 2)
One Held
In Armed
Robbery
Willie Lee Perry, 27, of 226
S. East St., told Officers N.
S. Lockey and B, W. Peoples
at 1:24 a. m. Saturday, he was
walking hc.nc t‘. -ough a sho t
cut, (an alley behind Stat(«n’s
Case, 319 S. East), when he
was attacked by three colored
males.
Perry stated one of them
held him while the other two,
armed with a knife and a pis
tol, threatened his life and “re
lieved” him of his wallet, con
taining sls.
Clyde Edward Ruffin, 19, of
806 E. Davie St., was later
Identified by Perry as the one
who held him. Ruffin was ar
rested and placed in Wake Coun
ty Jail. He said he knew
nothing about the robbery and
didn’t even know Perry.
Ruffin declared that he, his
brother, Frank Ruffin, also of
806 E. Davie, and two other
young men had been together
all night.
The officers took Perry to
(See ONK WBUi, P, 2)
service and patriotic clubs and
church groups, as a whole or
as individuals, will be seeking
contributions to speed the work
against, the nation’s largest kill
er and crippler of children.
They will also carry a mess
age "of hope and significant pro
gress in the fight against birth
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CHECKING FOR DRAFT
CARD ~~ Atlanta: John Lewis,
head of the student Nonviolent
Coordinating Comm itte ($-
NCC) checks his wallet for his
draft card last week In re
sponse to newsmen’s questions.
Lewis, who suggested early this
month that American Negroes
avoid the draft, refused to show
newsmen his draft card until
photographers agreed not. to
take a picture of the card. His
statements set off legislative
controversy when Rep.-elect
Julian Bond, of the Georgia
General Assembly, endorsed
the statement and was refused
his seat, (UPI PHOTO).
Mrs. Allen
Receives 2
Invitations
Mrs. Dorothy Nixon Allen, of
12 Brtm<='>'ick Tnrrace, has re
ceived two recent honors. She
has been Invited to be one of
twenty neighborhood action
leaders from several North
Carolina cities to attend a spe
cial workshop from Friday, Jan.
21, to Sinday, Jan. 23 In Dur
ham. On Tuesday of this week,
she was invited to serve on
the Mayor’s Advisory Comniit
r tee.
The workshop is being held
* in conjunction with three
ers In the country, under the
auspices of the National Asso
ciation of Social Workers, to
gather information from neigh
borhood action leaders as to
what works and what does not
work in solving neighborhood
programs.
Mrs. Allan's letter was sign
ed by Morris H. Cohen, direc
tor of Training, North Caroli
na Fund, and workshop coordi
nator for the NASW project >n
Neighborhood organization for
community action.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio,
Mrs. Allen came to Raleigh
20 years ago. She is a pro
duct of Cleveland’s Central High
School.
She was asked to attend this
workshop because of service
rendered, past and present, in
church, civic and charitable
organizations in the city.
She lias been associated with
the YWCA, Junior Woman’s
Club, World Fellowship Group,
first president of the Amecias,
a group sponsored by ttie Zeta
Phi Beta Sorority, NAA CP,
membership co-chairman, U
nited Fund, Chavis Heights Di
vision, Heart Fund leader, has
served as both president and
vice-president of Crosby-Gar
field School’s PTA for two
years, and assistant secretary
of the Ligon PTA for three
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