ttryi SMOKIN&tED TO WAKE MAN’S DEATH os<-- ■ ••••^ isl- TjEsSffig§K& : v&xgsS*- -?0s . ■•■•••/ffipBBg. * : ' •4'' > \. >. £v ffitiSHPi HI AvS£&«®W©WpP*3w«4& :^ : y< 9| ■ '>>■ - ||r BgpgjgaPg^^ ;igEB3jKPv f ||k23: MSSim s|&. PLANNING CRUSADE --Bishop W. M. Smith, left, and R. L. Jones, chairman and vice-chairman, Committee on Evangelism, A. M. E. Zion Church, go over plans for a de nomination crusade that will begin Ash Wednesday and close Easter Sunday. It is expected to begin in Houston, Texas and continue throughout the nation, with special emphasis on “visiting evangelism,” which includes a census on the re ligious life of the family. Zion Church Planning Evangelistic Crusade MOBILE, Ala. - Bishop Wil liam M. Smith, Mobile, chair man, Committee on Evange lism, AME Zion Church, an nounced plans last week for an allout cresade by the denomi nation to begin with Ash Wed nesday, Feb. 23, and continue through Passion Week. He and Bishop R. L, Jones, Salisbury, N. C., vice chair man, have alerted every pre siding elder to organize each district so that the program can be made most effective. Bishop Smith has begun in his area and is receiving reports as to how the program is pro gressing. Bishop Jones is beginning a publicity campaign throughout his episcopal area that is sche dule to begin !.. llouril.v. ; as ana spread to Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and thence to North Carolina, Bishop W. A. Stewart, who From Raleigh s Official Police Files. THE CRIME BEAT BY CHARLES R. JONES Girl Beaten By Sister’s Hubby Miss Delores Jones, 18, of 425 S, Swain Street, told “the law” at 4;20 p. m. Monday, she was \ isitine at her sister’s house, 1001 E. Davie Street, when her brother-in-law, Jim my Earl Williams, 21, asked her to leave. She said before she could get her coat, he started beating her with his hands and fists, caus ing bruises under both eyes. Miss Jones signed an assault and battery warrant and Mr, Williams was “hauled off” to Jail by Officers Otis L. Hinton and E. Curtis Winston. Mrs. Elwyna H. Holt Dies In Hospital; Was Teacher The mother of the first Ne gro ever to apply for admittance to an all-white school in Raleigh is dead. Mrs, Elwyna Haywood Holt, 55, of 1018 Oberlin Road, suc cumbed at Wake Memorial Hos pital Sunday. She had work ed in the public school sys tem of North Carolina, either as a teacher or principal, for the past thirty-three years, D&ugSiter of the late Milton Denton Haywood and Mrs, Lu cille Grant Haywood, Mrs, Holt was educated in the public schools of Wake County and graduated from Washington High School. Later, she was awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree from Shaw University. She was married to Joseph Hiram Holt on Christmas Eve, 1932, and to this union was born one son, Joseph Hiram Holt, Jr., who during his sophomore year at J. W. Ligon High School was the first Negro to apply National Urban League Launches New Program NEW YORK, N. Y. - The Na tional Urban League, In cooper ation with the Agency for In ternational Development of the Stats Depart m ent launched Friday, a new service program to provide training in communi ty developments to visitors coming to this country under the auspices of the Agency. The announcement was made jointly by Whitney M, Young, Jr., the Leaftse's national executive di- presides over three confer ences in North Carolina has al ready begun a program in the eastern part of the state that he hopes to follow from Sun bury to Carthage. The presiding elders plan to group the churches In given areas and have these groups join in a central meeting place, but they will also prepare evan gelist material to be used In canvassing and witnessing. Texas will be formed for house to house canvas and the results will be tabulated and used as the basis for the drive. The Public Relations Depart ment, headed by Alexander Barnes, is aiding in the pro motion a d piblicity. Dr. E. 3. Itardgrf,* director, B»w j k m | w i j V V. t ' - MRS. ELWYNA H. HOLT rector, and David E. Bell, AID administrator. This service will give the vi sitors a better understanding and appreciation of life in the United States, While emphasis is being placed on helping visi tors from Africa and South east Asia, the service will al so be available to other visi tors, Young said. Young also indicated that the (See URBAN tXAOV «, P. *) * * * 4 4. 4. 4L 4 *** * * ***** ***** St. Aug. Chaplain Has No Commenl On Church Act ipistupal Vestry Cuts Off Funds Father Edwin Smith, chaplain at St. Augustine's College here, had “no comment" Tuesday as the father of the only Negro student attending Ravenscroft Elementary School, from which financial support was withdrawn Sunday by the vestry of Christ Episcopal Church. A separate board of trustees will be set up by the vestry. Ravenscroft is located at 616 Tucker St., off Glenwood Ave nue. Furthermore, if Ravenscroft If not operated as an Episco pal school, the facilities and buildings on the campus will revert to Christ Church. The enrollment of Father Smith’s son recently brought on a controversy within the church several months ago. He is the first and only Negro stu dent ever to attend. There are 169 white students attending. The headmaster of the school, the Rev. W, M. Rosenthal, plans to continue at the school, but has given up the position as director of religious activities of the church to become priest (See CHAPLAIN, P. 2) Says Man Had Been Drinking Miss Marion Williams, of 1014 Mark Street, reported to Officers Lindsay Godwin and C. R. Stinson at 5 p. m. Saturday, that her boyfriend (name not given) was watching television ... her h~me Friday at about 10:30 p. m,, when James Shep pard came into the house. The woman said Sheppard “started calling her bad names.” She declared she ask ed him to get out of her house. At this point, Miss Williams admitted slapping Sheppard once in the face, and she said they “tussled” for awhile, then he slapped her on the left side of the head and picked up a fire poker at her boyfriend, whom Sheppard proceeded to push out the back door. The relationship between the complainant and Sheppard could (Sea BEATS WOMAN, P. 2) CORRECTION Mrs, Cassie E. Spence, of 632 Cumberland Avenue, who was raped on Friday night, Dec. 31, informed The CARO LINIAN this week that she had not seen her attacker, Jonathan Alexander Granger, 33, Lynch burg, Va., earlier that day, as was reported in the paper, but had seen him working in front of her home last Summer. She also said the reason for her kitchen door being open was because she had just come in from feeding her dog, and for got to lock the door. Granger was bound over to Wake Superior Court for trial after a preliminary hearing in City Court where medical evi dence and the scratches on his face served as reason to hold him in the crime. A Superior Court trial date has not been set. . tmmmA, * 3'S lfflß 1 g - -w~ Bk. TAR HEEL B NATIONAL WINNER - Donna Warren, seen sorting clothing, learned last week that her report, ’“Making Christmas Brighter for Unfortunate Children/* has been submitted to the U. S. Department of Education, due to "Interesting topic and evaluation,*’ Assisting Donna in a clothes-mendlng project in home economics at Sampson High School are Joyce Robinson and Marcia Faison, Donna Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Odell Warren, of Clinton. THE CAROLINIAN * North Carolina's Leading Weekly 9 - _ 4- -T- VOL. 25, NO. 10 RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1966 PRICE 15 CENTS Beals Woman, Attacks Boyfriend ************ * * * * * * * * FARMER PLEADS FOR UNITY Ex-CORE Head Asks Cooperation NEW YORK - At its Thurs day Community meeting, As sociated Community Teams, Harlem anti-poverty agency, heard James Farmer, former national director of the Con gress of Racial Equality, and presently director of a nation al anti-poverty organization which is to deal with prob lems of Negro education and employment, explain how “the civil rights movement and the anti-poverty war must act in concert - and complement each other.” During his speech before more than 200 ACT’s Harlem Domestic Peace Corpsmen, the former rights chieftain explain’, how civil rights gains •• j-t be put Into pet sportive with the fact that Negroes are ‘ ‘three times more unemployed than white people.” Farmer explained because of civil rights victories in the South we can stop and get a “hot dog or a hamburger,” but this is a shallow \lctory for a man who “works from sunup to sun down for $2.50 per day”. Turning North, Mr. Farmer stated that the money now be ing appropriated for the war on-poverty was no where near enough. “We want to esca lade the war-on-poverty. One (See FARMER ASKS, F. 2) Support For Hammocks Is Increasing Support for the Hammocks Expansion is increasing, W. R. Collins, Hammock Expansion Director, announced Tuesday. Early in the drive for expan sion funds by the North Car olina Teachers Association for the Hammocks development, the Craven County Unit, NCTA led the state by pledging $45 per teacher for the project. This unit held the lead until Jan. 25, when a check for $550 was received from the Caswell County unit, NCTA as a spe cial donation on the Hammocks project. This amount is extra and above the S2B minimum ac cepted by the teachers of the (See HAMMOCKS, p. *) “WELCOME TO WAR”Vung Tau, South Viet Nam: An American soldier, of the 25th Divi sion, smiles as a Vietnamese girl welcomes him with a floral wreath Jan. 18 at Vung Tau, some 40 miles south of Saigon. U, S. military strength In Viet Nam climbed to more than 190,000 men with the landing of fresh troops from Hawaii and Okinawa. (UPI RADIOPHOTO). Dr. €. A. Chick, Ex-CAROLINIAN Scribe, Succumbs In Fayetteville FAYETTEVILLE - Dr. Cla rence A. Chick, Sr., a retired professor who taught at Fay etteville State College from 1938 to 1962, passed away on Jan. 18, at the local Veterans Hos pital after an illness of three weeks. For many years, Dr. Chick wrote a weekly editori al column for The CAROLI NIAN entitled "In This Our Day." Dr. Chick was a native of Union County, S. C. and was graduated from Benedict Col lege, Columbia, S. C. and Col umbia University Graduate School. Prior to serving at FSC in the area of economics and social sciences, Profes sor Chick taught at Benedict College and Virginia Union. He was also an ordained minist er with an intense interest In serving rural churches, name ly pastorates in Virginia and at Red Springs, N. C. Lately he was ministering to the St. Pet er and Piney Grove Baptist Churches of Hoke County. Vitally interested in the civic, political, religion, service, fra- " jL ''l DR. CLARENCE A CHICK Testimonial Banquet Will Honor Kelly M. Alexander CHARLOTTE - Kelly Miller Alexander, Sr., president of the North Carolina State Con ference, NAACP, will be hon ored by friends and NAACP coworkers at a "Testimonial Banquet" to be held in Char lotte, at the Queen Charlotte Hotel on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p. m. Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAACP'sWash irsgton, D. C. Bureau, will be principal banquet speaker. The banquet will commemo rate Mr. Alexander's service of: 15 years as an NAACP Na tional Bear'd Member; 20 years as president of the North Car olina NAACP State Conference and more than 25 years as an active participant and leader in the fight for human and civil rights for ail people. Alexander is a native of Char lotte, where he attended the pub lic schools. He holds a B. S. degree from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and is a gradu ate of the Renouard College of Embalming in New York City. A successful businessman, Mr. Alexander is president of the Alexander Funeral Home, Inc., and the Alexander Mu tual Burial Insurance Com pany, both located in Charlotte. Recently, the Alexander home, along with three other homes of civil rights leaders in Charlotte, was the target of bombs planted by persons or temal, and collegiate endeavors of the community, Dr. Chick ‘lent a helping hand and mind’ to a number of Board of Di rectorships, viz. Mayor’s Bi- Raclal Committee; Fayette vllle-Cumberland Civic League and/or Association;UnltedSer vices Fund, compiling the larg est amount of money in history from Region HI; USO: Cumber land Community Action Pro gram, Inc.; American Red Cross (for over a decade); Col lege Heights Credit Union; a recent trustee of the Fayette ville Technical Institute; First Baptist Church. In addition Rev. Chick was a former president of the N. C. College Conference In 1957, as well as a consultant to the Com - mlttee on International Rela tions of the National Education (See DR. CIIICK, P. 2) persons unknown but believed to be members of racial hate groups. None of the families involved in the bombing were KELLY ALEXANDER hurt, A reward totaling over SIO,OOO has been donated by the Charlotte community and others for the capture of the party or parties responsible. Holding memberships on the National Board of Directors and the Life Membership Commit tee of the NAACP, Alexander serves as chairman of the Na tional NAACP Voter Registra tion Committee, chairman of the NAACP Southeast Regional Ad (See TESTIMONIAL f. 8) Body Is Found In Trailer ZEBULON - Rufus Weaver, 61, of Rt, 4, north of here, was found burned to death early Sunday. Smoking In bed is be lieved" to have been the cause of his death. The charred remains of Mr. Weaver was identified by As sistant Wake County Coroner Truman S. Rhodes, as Coroner Marshall W. Bennett was re cently released from a hospi tal after undergoing surgery. The fire department received the call of the trailer fire, according to Fireman Windell Perry, about 5:30 a. m. and when the truck arrived on the scene about five minutes lat er, the trailer was almost burn ed up. The trailer, valued at SI,OOO was a complete loss, according to Perry. Rhodes said the body was completely burned. They only identified it as being Weaver by a broken leg, which he had sustained earlier. The assistant coroner said he believed Mr. Weaver had been smoking in bed, dozed off and dropped the cigarette. The body was found lying on top of the springs of the bed with sev eral quilts. It was taken to (Sec MAN DIES, P. 2) ‘Neighbor’ Council In Greenville BY J. B. HARREN GREENVILLE - About one hundred Negro and white mem bers and observers of the North Carolina Good Neighbor Coun cil gathered here at Eastern Carolina College, Jan. 21, for a meeting of eastern area town and community officials in terested in the promotion of better interracial relations and Job and educational opportuni ties for minorlHes. At least forty per cent of the assemblage was colored, with the staff being equally divided between the races. Highly respected David S. Coltrane, State Chairman of the Good Neighbor Council, (origin ally created by former Gov. Terry Sanford) is the sturdy guiding genius who has helped to bring order out of chaos in several critical confrontations in Tarheelia. Dr. Leo Jenkins extended greetings on behalf of the college. Then followed a seminar on Law Enforcement with Hwy. Patrolmen, City Po lice Chiefs and Sheriffs parti cipating. Irving Tranen, Communi ty Relations Service, U„ S. De partment of Commerce, and his assistant, Abraham Venable, a long with Andrew M. Sechest, of the same department, set the tone of the seminars dur ing the afternoon sessions- fol lowing dinner in the college din ing room. This writer did not arrive in (See GOOD NEIGHBOR, P. 2) Publishers Set Meet In Capital WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Annual Mid-Winter Workshop of the National Newspaper Pub lishers Association will beheld in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27- 29. Highlighting the meeting will be addresses by Attorney General Nicholas Deb, Katzen bach and Dr. Robert C. Wea ver, newly named Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The publishers will concern themselves with editorial, cir culation and advertisement pa nel discussions. Participants of the editorial panel will be Roger B. Sarguhar, editor, Montgomery County Sentinel; Ben Gilbert, manager-editor, Washington Post; James Wil liams, editor-Washington Afro- American, Circulations panelists are: Ha*-ry Gladstein, circulation di rector - Washington Post; Charles Davis, circulation di rector-Afro-American; Robert Robinson, Philadelphia Tr i - bune. The advertising Afro- American Newspaper; Joe Brown, publisher, Denver Blade; Balm Leavell, publlsh er-Chicago Crusader; D. Parke Gibson, marketing counsultant; and L. H. Stanton, of New York City. The publishers will also fi nalize plans for their annual Rus swarm Awards which will be made In March on the anni versary of the founding of the first newspaper, Freedom * s Journal; the annual March ob servance Os Negro Newspaper (gee mmusimm, s». t)