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VOL. 25, NO. 11
St. Aug. Sets 99th Founder’s Day
Loco! Man Tries Su icidt i, I Die s
R. Davis
Succumbs
In Hospital
A 37-year-old Raleigh man,
who tried in several times Mon
day night to commit suicide,
died Tuesday morning at Dor
othea Dix Hospital, where he
had been taken for observation.
Police Officer w. G. Arnold
reported about 9 p. m. Monday
that he received a call to the
home of Boyd Edward Davis,
of 1223 A Holman Street, (Wal
nut Terrace).
Upon arrival, the officer was
informed that Richard Moses
Davis, of the 1300 block of Hol
man, had attempted suicide in
several ways.
Mr. Davis is first said to
have run into the path of a
moving automobile, driven by
a New Bern Avenue man, but
was apparently unharmed by the
car s
Failing at this, he is report
ed to have gone back into bis
apartment and drank a bottle
of Listerine. Then he took
several pills (type unknown).
Apparently in desperation to
do away with himself, Richard
Davis drank an entire bottle
(Bee COMMITS SUICIDE, P, I)
NUL Project
Head Is
Announced
NEW YORK Chester H.
Jones, former executive direc
tor of the Columbus affiliate,
was recently appointed field
supervisor of Project ENABLE,
at the National Urban League’s
headquarters office, it was an
nounced Tuesday by Whitney M.
Young, Jr., executive director
of the nationwide inter racial
community service and social
work agency.
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North Carolina s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1966
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REV. HOWARD HONORED IN CHICAGO - B®si wishes
for a successful and productive term of office was extended
Rev D. N. Howard, Sr., center, newly-elected president of
the Chicago alumni chapter of Knoxville college, by Dr.
James A. Colston, president of the institution, during a re
cent installation banquet at the University of Chicago Center
for Continuing Education. At their left if Mrs, Arnetta G,
Wallace assistant director, field staff, Women’s Community
Service, who served as installation officer. Rev. Howard
is a Boy Scout executive in the Englewood area, and former
staff member of the weekly CAROL INIAN newspaper, Raleigh,
N. C. (NPI PHOTO).
Raleigh Native Heads
Board Os N. Y. Bank
BY PETE HOLDEN
NEW YORK - George L,
Jones a New York mortician
and native of Raleigh, N. C.
was elected chairman of the
nine member board of direct
ors of the Carver Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association, the
largest Negro ovmed bank in the
state of New York recently.
The action was taken during
an annual meeting of the above
mentioned bank board in its
275 West 125th Street main
offices. Mr. Jones succeeds
A. George Daly, M. D., in his
new post,
ANNUAL REPORT TO BOARD:
Joseph E. Davis, president
(ice ■m&mmm masw*. p. »>
GEORGE L. JONES
Alfred Baker Lewis Is
Heard By Local NAACP
Alfred Baker Lewis, of New
York City, the National Treas
urer of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, spok* Thurs
day night, Jan. 27, at a meet
ing of the Executive Commit
tee of the Raleigh branch of
the NAACP at Peebles Hotel on
the topic of, "The War on Pov
erty/’
"Poverty Is not wholly a
racial problem," said Mr. Lew
is. "The worst pockets of
poverty are in the Applachian
Mountain Region, and they are
almost solidly white. But Ne
groes do suffer more from
poverty in proportion than do
whites, and would gain more
from making the war on pover
ty a real and successful war
instead of just a skirmish, which
is all it is now. ,
"Better relief is needed as
part of this war, and we will
get It in part by the Medicare'
bill so far as concerns those
who are old and ill," he de
clared.
"But particularly we need
more jobs, especially for Ne
groes and young people whose
rat® of unemployment is alarm
ingly high. Automation is cutt
ing into fobs In Industry, and
the technological revolution in
agriculture is doing the same to
PRICE 15 CENTS
Planned
Activities
Revealed
Saint Augustine’s College will
hold its 99th Founders’ Day
observance Feb. 8-13.
The observance will get un
derway Feb. 8, at 10:30 a. m,
with regular college assembly.
At 8 p. m. on the same even
ing the college choir, band, and
ensemble will render a joint
concert in Emery Health and
Fine Arts Center.
On Feb. 9, the St. Augustine’s
Falcons will be hoststo the Win
ston-Salem Rams in a basket
ball game in Emery at 8 p.
m. There will be an organ
recital featuring Raymond C.
Boese, a specialist in organ
music and a member of the mu
sic faculty of the University at
Redlands, California, Feb. 9,
in Emery Building.
Mr. Boese taught at Earlham
College, Drake University, and
St, Olaf College, and has serv
ed on the faculty of church
music institutes. A Fulbright
scholar, Mr. Boese has played
recitals in Europe as well as
the United States.
A symposium on Feb. 10, at
3:30 p. m. will be presented
(See ST. AUG.’B, P. 7)
Notables
Banquet
Monday
The Hammocks Notables
Benefit Banquet, scheduled by
the North Carolina Teachers
Association, sponsored by the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and North
Carolina College at Durham,
was re-scheduled, because of
snow, from Wednesday. Jan, 26,
to Feb. 7, at 7;30 p. m. at
the North Carolina College Ca
feteria.
Persons who have already
registered their pledges, and
paid the one-fourth of the
CSe* BANQUET SET, P. 7)
important lines cf farming, And
this is happening just when a
larger number of young people
(See ALFKED LEWIS, P. 1)
From Raleigh s Official Police Files.
THE CRIME BEAT
BY CHARLES R TONES
Says Youth, 18,
Attacked Her
Miss Jewel Marie Spence, of
14*53 Sawyer’s Lane, told "the
law" at 7:25 p. m. Friday that
Johnny Leach, Jr., 18, of 1447
Sawyer’s Lane, came into her
house.
The woman declared he
struck her in the eye and on
the jaw with his hands and
fists, and finally knocked her
on a tied.
Once on the bed, the com -
plain ant stated, Leach began
slapping her around, "And he
felt of me some," she report
ed to Officers c, D. Gilbert
and M. L. Stephenson.
Miss Spence, who suffered
slight bruises, signed a war
rant charging assault and bat
tery on Leach.
Katzenbach
To Charlotte
For NAACP
BY J. a HARREN
CHARLOTTE - The Annual
N. C. NAACP Winter Meeting
of Branch Officers scheduled
for Feb. 4-6 will feature some
of the top names on the ros
ter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Col
ored People along with U. S.
Government officials who will
Inform the NAACP leaders on
their rights and how to obtain
them in order to impliment the
poverty conditions prevalent a
mong the underprivileged mi
norities,
N. C. NAACP president Kelly
M. Alexander, Sr., announced
that U. S. Attorney General
Nicholas B. Katzenbach will
make his first appearance In
Tarheelia under the auspices
of a Civil Rights organization
to deliver the closing address
on Sunday afternoon.
The theme of the leadership
conference will be focused on
“How To Obtain The Most From
Governmental Assisted Pro
grams.” on the community le
vel,
I eaders will include: William
M. Seabron, Asst, to the Sec
retary of Agriculture; Theodore
M. (Ted) Berry, Director, Com
(See ATTY. GEN., P. 7)
File Suit
Against Co.
For Bias
WILMINGTON - Attorneys of
the NAfcACP Legal Defense Fund
TbusdSfaty filed federal suit a
galnsl the Wallace Sewing Ma
chine Company, Wallace,
charging employment discrimi
nation under the Civil Rights
Act of 1964.
Negro plaintiffs are Annie
Lois Brown and Doris Ann Mc-
Gee of Wallace and Gladys
Branch and Annie Dolores Rice
of Rose Hill.
Legal Defense Fund attorneys
have asked the U. S. District
Court for the Eastern District
for a preliminary and perma
nent injuction restraining the
Wallace Company from “main
taining a policy, practice, cus
tom and usage of withholding,.,
equal employment opportuni
ties.”
The Legal Defense Fund com
plaint stages that the Wallace
Company maintains an Industri
al Training program to train
prospective employees to be
sewing machine operators.
Civil rights attorneys asserts
the company select people from
a list of drawn up before July
2, 1965. This was the date
the employment section of the
Civil Rights Act went into ef
fect.
Hence, the names on the list
before that time are all white.
The Negroes applied August
10, 1965.
The Negroes were denied en
try into the training program
and subsequently filed com
plaints with the Equal Employ
ment Opportunity Commission.
The Commission found “rea
sonable cause” to believe the
Wallace firm in defiance of Ti
tle YU. The sewing concern
did not show evidence of al
tering its policies w'ithin the
time period allotted.
This cleared the way for to
(See FHLE SUIT. P. 7)
Slips On Ice,
Slashes Man
Richard Ward Crites, 21, of
1457 Sawyer’s lane, told Of
ficers P, G. Jones and R. F,
Perry at 12:26 a. ifi. Saturday,
that he was sitting in an auto
mobile in the 400 block of S.
Bioodworih Street about 11:30 p.
m. Friday,
Young Crites said he then saw
a tidier, dressed in fatigues,
slii* cm some isce and fail to
the ground,. He said the sol
dier became angry and started
arguing with him,
Crites said the man finally
cut him under the left chin with
a knife. Eighteen stitcites were
required to close the wound.
The soldier was not identified,
<Bee CRIME BEAT, l», 3)
Another
Only Son
Is Victim
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Another Raleigh fatally now
shares the same heartaches
and sorrows which befell a
Biltmore Hills household less
than six weeks ago, and whose
only son was buried on Christ
mas Eve,1965.
The death of Private First
Class Charles Edward Alston
(also an only <~on), who turn
ed 24 on Dec. 23, 1965, has
shocked his family immensely
and brought a personal loss to
this newsman, who had known
and admired Charles all his
lose.
Mrs. Mary Frances Alston
Lane, of K-5 Washington Ter
race, whose mother, Mrs. Mag
gie Blalock, lives at 214 Cam
den St., received the first of
three telegrams on Tuesday,
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PFC CHARLES E. ALSTON
Jan. 25, from the Defense De
partment, informing her that
her son was missing and be
lieved to have been aboard the
C 123 Transport Plane, which
crashed into a mountainside in
Viet Nam, while carrying am
munition and explosives. All
(See ONLY SON, P 7)
National
Baptists
Map Plans
CHARLOTTE (NPI) - When
the National Sunday School Con
gress of the National Baptist
Convention, USA, Inc. held its
annual sessions in the Coliseum
and First' Baptist Church June
20-26. "Christian Education
and the Challenge of Change'’
was the theme.
(See NAT L BAPI.STS, P. 7)
VV E A T H K K
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ii —nrri i
Temperatures for the next
five days, Thursday throueh
Monday will average seven
decrees or more below normal
Normal high and lorv tem
peratures will be 38 and 17
Quite void weather will occur
most of the period, with some
moderation in temperatures
about Friday and i?ain to
ward the end of the period
Precipitation will total one
half to three-fourths of an
Inch or more, occurring to
ward the end of the week.
PRESIDENT CHATS WITH HI'S NEWEST JUDGE APPOINTEE - Washington: Preside Lymtais
Battses Johnson chats in his office last week with Manhattan Borough president*Mrs. Ciwssi&aee
Baker Motley, after he named her to be a U. S. District Judge. The 44-year-old Democrat will
be nominated by the President for the bench of the U. S„ District Court for the Southern District
of New York. She Is the first Negro woman ever chosen for such a post. (UPT PHOTO},
FUN IN THE SNOW - These three Raleigh youngsters toon
advantage of the long school holiday brought on by the more
than ten inches of snow that fell In the Raleigh area last
week, to engage in a snowball “fight.” Left to right are:
Dennis Dublin, Irvin Knight and Anthony Knight. This bit of
snow fun took place in the Chavis Heights area early this
week.
Rocky Mount’s Credit
Union Worth $ 110,000
ROCKY MOUNT - Although
still operating on a modest
basis,-this city’s Atlantic Cre
dit Union, which was organized
in 1932 - during the Great
Depression - reported at Its
Annual Meeting that it held on
Dec. 31, 1965, total assets
amounting to $110,478. This
showed an increase of $15,590
over the 1964 report of $94,-
888.
The total of 420 members
has increased over 1964 by 25.
Cash on checking In banks a
mounted to $7,300, while sav
ings accounts were $5,215, with
total loans outstanding in the
amount of $97,662.
Since North Carolina (State)
operated Credit Unions are per
Nation Set For Massive
Job Opportunity Drive
BY H. J. MCFALL
The national problem of Ne
gro unemployment and other
related matters involving the
poverty-stricken In the United
States were highlighted during
a series of meetings last week
by the educators, politicians and
religious leaders.
Most agreed that discrimina
tion, segregation and employ
ment bias were all contributing
factors that h*.ve caused Ne
groes to face poverty.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
(D-N. Y.) offered a four- point
plan of action to help elimi
nate poverty among Negroes.
--Push for large urban re
newal--not Negro removal--but
projects which embrace more
than housing. These must in
clude large parks, recreation
al centers and facilities for
small businesses.
—An inundation of Manpower
Administration prog-rams, such
as on-the-job training projects.
--A greater coordination be
tween the various manpower
programs and the War on Pov
erty job programs, such as the
work experience programs, Job
Corps and the Neighborhood
Youth Corps.
--Designation of Harlem as
an economically—distressed a
rea by amending the Public
Works and Economic Develop
ment act, so that the area,
as one of the country’s most
important communities, can be
gin to receive the necessary
federal aid for both urban re
newal and human reclamation.
Powell announced that federal
legislation would soon be in
troduced creating a unified and
expanding job training pro
gram. He indicated that if the
U. S. Employment Office, which
is heavily subsidized by federal
funds, accomplished its aims
by finding jobs for the under
employed and the unemploya
bles— most of them black peo
ple—Negroes would not have
the highest unemployment rate
In the nation.
mitted to lend up to 90T of
the shareholders investment in
the organization on his own
endorsement; and a full 100 per
cent with additional endorse
ment or colateral, Atlantic
Credit Union has bean able to
put to usuary part of its pro
fit over and above operating
expenses and the payment of a
four per-cent divident to share
holders. Shares total $96,556.
Gross profits were $4,827,
and a reserve fund of $7,381
was maintained. Total income
in interest and insurance fees
amounted to $7,777.11. Total
expenses, Including office and
wage of two employees amount
(Sefc CREDIT UNION. P. 7)
Powell Is chairman of the
House Labor and Education
committee, which handles anti
poverty legislation.
In a recent message to the
nation, President Johnson
pledged to rebuild whole areas
of the nation’s cities. The
task was placed in the hands
of the newly appointed Secre
tary of the Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development,
Robert C. Weaver, who became
the first Negro cabinet mem
ber in U. S. history.
Adding strength to the job
endeavors, the U. S. Civil Ser
vice commission announced
more than 136,000 applications
to take the office and science
assistant . examination for
summer jobs in government
have beer, received.
(See NATION SET, P, 7)
Dr. Player
Quits Bennett
After 35 Yrs.
GREENSBORO - Dr. Willa B.
Player, president of Bennett
College for the past ten years,
has resigned her position, ef
fective Tuesday, March 1.
On that date she will assume
position of director of the Di
vision of College Supports in
the United States Office of Edu
cation, Department of Health
Education and Welfare, with
offices in Washington, D. C.
Dr. Player came to Bennett
35 years ago. Here she held
her only position of teacher, for
25 years, and president.
She succeeded the late Dr.
David D. Jones, who served as
Bennett’s president for some
25 years.
Dr. Chauncey G. Winston,
dean of instruction at Bennett,
will take over as acting pres
ident of the all-women college
upon Dr. Player’s departure.
Dr. Player was the Women’s
(8«« »r. PLAYS&, P. 7>