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Justice In Sight
For nearly 100 years, certain elements
of whites have been murdering Negroes
allegedly for one reason or another. This
has been vividly brought to attention
during the modern civil rights struggle.
What “stinks” to the high heavens is
that nothing is being done about it. and
the apparent failure of the federal gov
ernment to do much more than gather
facts and information is flagrantly
brought to our attention.
Just recently, however, there shines
through the clouds a ray of hope that
justice will be done in Mississippi. The
Supreme Court of the United States and
FBI agents in Mississippi recently struck
simultaneously at Ku Klux Klan vio
lence in the South. This is what took
place:
The Supreme Court reinstated Federal
charges against three law officers and 14
citizens, reported to be Klansmen, charg
ed with conspiracy in the murder of
three young civil rights workers at Phil
adelphia, Miss., in 1964. It additionally
approved the prosecution, under Federal
civil rights laws of six men, three of them
Klansmen, who had been indicted in the
murder of a Washington D. C., Negro
educator on a Georgia highway during
the same year District judges had dis
missed indictments in both cases.
Apprehending men whom the FBI be
lieves to lie guilty of the vicious crimes
is commendable. However, in long-range
thinking, the Court’s decisions will be
more important in making the homes
and highways of the Soutn safe for civil
rights crusaders, as well as for other citi
zens who venture to challenge local cus
toms or opinions.
Just what was the situation in the
Mississippi case? The Supreme Court
was confronted with the issue of whether
Economic Highlights
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM
LOCAL WELFARE
As the old adage tells us, “Nothing is
constant but change”. And, nowadays,
changes of vast significance can and do
place in a remarkably brief period of
time.
Not so very long ago, it will be re
membered, the skies, in the view of most
people, were bright. The economy was
setting record after record. The federal
government had effected tax reductions
of substantial si' and more were ex
pected. Prices had been relativevly sta
ble for years, and no one seemed to fear
any serious wave of inflation. There was
even talk of a balanced federal budget
in the foreseeable future. We were in
volved in Viet Nam, but only on a token
scale, with a small number of U. S. ad
visors aiding the South Viet Nam mili
tary. And various people in influential
positions were forecasting the war would
Short, Short Editorials
According to the National Industrial
Conference Board, 10 years ago, less
than one family in 10 had an annual in
come in excess of SIO,OOO, measured in
today’s dollars.. Now more than two out
of every 10 families are in that bracket,
and it is estimated that by 1970 over a
third of the nation’s families will reach
or exceed it.
“The importance of the advertising in
dustry in the economic development of
our country is well-recognized and, more
specifically, in the development of use
of new @nd .better drugs. Practicing phy
sicians receive a substantial part of
their education concerning drugs through
the medium of prescription drug adver
tising. This indeed, is basic and under
lies the Federal law which places respon
sibility on the sdevtising industry to pre
sent factual and undistorted information
to the physician. Furthermore, the pre
scription drug advertising provision of
the law actually is a recognition of the
importance of such advertising in the
entire area of medical care in the United
State®, 1 ” says Joseph F. Sadusk, Jr.,
the old civil rights laws of the Recon
struction Period cover offenses by pri
vate citizens or only by officers acting as
agents of the State, In general, the prin
ciple has been that only official injustice
was subject to federal prosecution.
As the Court saw it, *.ie - + private cit
izens indicted in the swampland execu
tion of the civil rights workers were act
ing “in woeful concert” with State offi
cers and therefore could be prosecuted.
Government attorneys alleged that offi
cers arrested the three young men, jailed
them until nightfall, and then handed
them over to the lynch mob.
The Lemuel Penn slaying on a Geor
gia highway presented more complex is
sues. No involvement by an officer was
charged, and the six accused men are
allegedly guilty of pursuing and shoot
ing the Negro Army officer on the high
way, as he was driving back to Wash
ington from duty as a reserve officer.
Without doubt, he was a random target
for Negro-haters. A majority opinion of
the Court contended that the Constitu
ion protects a citizen against a private
conspiracy to deprive him of his right
to use a public highway.
Many die-hard Southerners hold that
such a decision by the Court serves to
bully them. But, if our federal laws have
any real meaning, it is this: “Klu Klux
Klansmen execution squads cannot be
permitted to go free simply because they
were not given deputy badges by coop
erating sheriffs.”
North Carolina has given the KKK a
hard way to go for a long time. And we
think that the U. S. Supreme Court
made its decision upon sound law or
Constitutional principles. It gives power
to the strong arm of good law officials in
the South.
be successfully concluded fairly soon.
It just isn’t like that any more.
The economy, of course, is still boom
ing along. But just about everything else
has changed. Take, for example, the
matter of taxes. The Administration’s
budget formally anticipates a deficit of
only $l.B billion. But no one now thinks
that this is anything but an excessively
rosey picture. Swelling domestic expen
ditures, plus the costs of the Viet Nam
war, have totally altered the situation. ,
And, we musty h ive seen only the begin- j
rung of t&ese costs. The President has
just signed a bill authorizing a supple
mentary appropriation of $4.8 billion
for military purposes, primarily in Viet
Nam. More heavy increases of this na
ture seem certain. The level of U. S. ,
troops in Viet Nam, according to Gen
eral Westmoreland, the commander,
may have to go to 400,000. This event,
in the view of most authorities, will
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M.D., writing in Current Therapeutic
Research.
According to a new survey, the cost
of finding, developing and producing oil
and gas in the United States during 1963
totaled $6 billion 706 million. This was
before making any provision for federal,
state and local income taxes, payments
of intern - principal on debt capital,
or payments to owners as return on their
investment in the business.
Accidents are now the fourth largest
killer in this country, the American
Medical Association reports. Only can
cer, heart disease, and stroke kill more.
Also, accidents comprise the largest sin
gle cause of death among children, teen
agers and young adults. Up to age 34,
accidents consistently cause more deaths
than cancer. About 10 million persons
are accidentally disabled each year, and
this represents by far the largest single
use of hospital facilities,
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THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. 25. NO. 20
HUSBAND’S VIETNAMDEATH
STUNS YOUNG WIDOW HERE
Brother Was
KiKedOn
January 25
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Few people ever have to ex
perience grief in the passing of
loved ones just two months and
five days apart in a war.
A 26-year-old widow and
mother of two small daughters
is now going through this stage.
Her brother, Pci. Charles E.
Alston, 24, was killed in Viet
Nam war action on January
25. Her husband was killed in
action in the same war on March
30. The two men had seen each
other in Viet Nam and only
lived about one block apart.
Specialist Fourth Class Lee
Arthur Moore, Jr., 27, died
a hero last Wednesday. He
was shot in the chest, while
on a combat operation, accord
ing to the telegram received
by his wife, Mrs. Hattie Mae
Alston Moore, of J-15 Washing
ton Terrace,
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee A.
'(Enama) Moore, Sr., of 318 Fish
er St., young Moore was on
(See VIET VICTIM, P 2)
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Meredith Is
Coming To
Saint Paul’s
LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. -
James Meredith, who was the
first known Negro to be ad
mitted to the University of Mis
sissippi at Oxford- and did so
(See JAMES MEREDITH, P. 2)
From Raleigh s Official Police Files
THE CRIME BEAT
BY CHARLES R TONES
Coupi® Uses
Axe, Hammer
Lonnie Upchurch, 48, of 201/2
McKee St., told Officers P.
G. Jones and R, F„ Perry at
5:23 p, m. Saturday, that he and
his wife, Mrs. Luemmel Up
church, 45, had been drinking
and she became angry and cut
him on the left side of his neck
with an axe. He said he then
retaliated by striking her over
the head with a claw hammer.
Upchurch suffered an 8-inch
long laceration on the side of
his neck, while Mrs. Upchurch
exhibited a laceration on the top
of her head. Both were ar
rested and charged with en
gaging in an affray where dead
ly weapons were used.
The Incident took place at
’heir home.
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY. APRIL 9, 1966
VEEP SECOND I.AIJY AT NCC - Vlce-Prestde.it Hubert Horatio Humphrey and Mrs. Humphrey
who visited North Carolina College last Saturday, are shown with three of the college’s students
in Durham. From left are Mrs. Humphrey, Christfcmna Brown, senior of Louisburg; Humphrey;
Mildred Hardy, senior of Enfield; and Charles Daye, president of the NCC Student Government
Association. Humphrey attended a luncheon at the college and made an address in McDougald
gymnasium on the campus. The Vice-President came to Durham to dedicate the new North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company building last Saturday.
Dr. Cheek’s Inauguration As 7lh
President Os Shaw Set April 16
Three days of activit ie s
centered around the Centennial
Inaugural Convocation at Shaw
University, will mark the cele
bration of the college’s 100th
year and the inauguration of
Dr, James Edward Cheek as its
seventh president.
According to Lenoir H. Cook,
chairman of the Centennial-In
augural Commission, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, April
14-16, will be devoted to the
observance of the occasion.
Highlighting the full schedule
of events will be the Convoca
tion ceremonies on Saturday,
April 16, celebrating the one
hundreth anniversary and the
inauguration as president of the
university the first alumnus
so honored to head the institu
tion, founded by the late Henry
Martin Tupper in 1865.
Keynote speaker for this e
vent will be Dr. Earl J. Mc-
Grath, former U. S, Commis
sioner of Education, now execu
tive officer of the Institute of
Higher Education, Teach er s
W l-ATHKi:
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Temperatures for the next
five days. Thursday through
Monday, will average two to
seven degrees below normal.
Normal high and low tem
peratures for the period will
he 70 and 45 degrees. Preci
pitation Is expected to total
one-half of an inch, occurring
near the end of the period.
Youth, 17, is
Beaten By Two
John Merrick Williams, 17,
of 1827 Rock Quarry Rd., re
ported to “the law'” at 4:25
p„ m. Saturday, that Billy Hin
ton, 19, of 11 Lincoln Terrace,
and Frank Lee, also 19, of 5
Mecklenburg Terrace, pulled
him from a car and beat him
about the face.
The victim said the car was
being driven by Albert John
son, 17, and he knew no rea
son for the attack upon him.
Young Williams told the of
ficers he did not want to take
any action on this until he talk
ed to his father. He suffered
bruised lips and other facial
injuries as a result of the
assault.
(gee CS!M« HEAT, P. S)
JUmmb
Killed In
Car Wreck
Airman First Class Alegnon
Thomas White, m, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold O. White,
formerly of Raleigh, but now
living in Newport News, Va„ was
killed Sunday, April 3, in an
auto accident in Germany.
White, 24, a graduate of Hunt
(See AIRMAN DIES, P. 2)
AIRMAN WHITE
PRICE 15 CENTS
College, Columbia University.
McGrath is the author of the
recently published book The
predominantly Negro Colleges
and Universities in Transition.
Following the keynote ad
dress and his induction and in
vestiture as the seventh chief
administrator in Shaw Univer
sity’s historic 100 years, Pres
ident Cheek will deliver the In
augural response.
"Education For Global Re
sponsibility” is the Centennial
Inaugural theme.
The Convocation will begin at
2 p. m. in the Raleigh Mem
(See DR. CHEEK, P. 2)
Highlights
OfNCTA
Confab
Jack Greenberg of New York
director-counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Education
al Fund, spoke at the final
assembly of the North Carolin
a Teachers Association in Ra
leigh, Friday, April 1.
He told the Negro educators
that resistance to Integration is
now manifested by "ludicrous
efforts ir. deception,” where
segregation is maintained “un
der a guise.”
Referring to the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, Greenberg said
“The government is merely
enforcing a law it was compelled
to pass. . . (The law) is not
a self-starter. It needs a push
in the communities.
On the positive side, Green
berg told the assembly that ci
vil rights has done as much for
education since 1954 as Sput
nik.
Education was stagnant until
1954,” he said. “After that,
the ‘separate but equal’ theory
caused authorities to upgrade
(See HIGHLIGHTS. P. 2)
Church leader Goes To
Viet Mam For Easter
NEW YORK, N. Y. - A prom
inent Negro church leader left
here last week to join the Na
tional Council of Churches*
Easter preaching mission to U.
S. troops In Viet Nam.
The Rev. Dr. J. Oscar Lee
of New York City, secretary
for program services of the
NCC's Division of Christian
Life and Mission, accompanied
Bishop Reiitten H, Mueller,
president of the Council, and
On Rights
Program it
Auditorium
Four Americans, including
three Negroes, will participate
in A Conservative Civil Rights
Seminar ir. Raleigh on Saturday
April 9th. The all-day program
on the truth about the civil
rights movement will be held
at the Memorial Auditorium,
by the TACT (Truth About Ci
vil Turmoil) Committee of
North Carolina.
The first speaker will be
Leonard Patterson, a Negro who
joined the Communist party in
1928, After attending various
Communist training schools in
the United States Mr. Patter
son was sent to Moscow for
one year of intensive training
at the International Lenin
School. In Moscow he was
indoctrinated in the Communist
position on “self-determina
tion” for Negroes and was
groomed for leadership in the
planned racial agitation today
known as the civil rights move
ment.
Mr. Patterson was a close as
sociate of Arvo Halberg, alias
(See COMMUNIST, P. 2)
Would-Be
Suicide At
Ok Hill
While on routine patrol at
7;55 last Sunday, Officers J.
S. Carroll and N, S, Lockey
reported they saw James Mo
ton, 48, of 1615 Poole Rd,, lying
in the middle of the street,
in the 1600 block.
Moton allegedly told the cops
he “had heart trouble”, so
bystanders took him to Wake
Memorial Hospital for treat
ment.
However, after a thorough ex
amination by physicians on duty,
it was revealed that “there
was nothing physically wrong
with him.”
After further questioning,
Mr. Moton told the physicians
and police officers he was trying
to hurt himself, and that he
would kill himself the next time.
The officers said Moton was
in the street waiting for a car
to run over him.
He was admitted to Dorothea
Dix Hospital for mental exami
nation.
0
J. R. HAYWOOD
Over 500
N. C. Elks
To Raleigh
,/unious t,. Haywood, Exalted
Ruler, Fidelty Lodge #277 and
general chairman of the com
mittee for the 1966 meeting of
the N. C. State Convention,
which will be held here April
30-May 4, announced this week
that plans are complete for a
successful meet.
Mr. Haywood says that the
social aspects will exceed any
ever held. A gala Cabaret
Party is planned at the Elks
Home, 618 E. Davie St. for
Saturday night, April 30. Music
will be furnished by Bobble’s
All Stars. A Jazz Concert
is planned for Sunday night,
(See OVER SOO ELKS, P. 2)
the Rev. Dr, Fred S. Busch
meyer, secretary of the United
Church ol’ Christ on the two
week mission.
Together the churchmen will
represent home churches of the
30 Protestant and Eastern Or
thodox member communions of
the National Council to U. S.
armed forces stationed In Thai
land and South Vietnam.
A minister of the United
(8s?» c.EUBCH UEAJDKB, I*. S)