VIETNAM-BOUND SOLDIER SiAtN WMISS.
'SORE’ LOSER USES
BOTTLE, GETS GUNS
‘Mad’ Over
Lost Hand
Os Cards
BY STAFF WRITER
Walter Dunston, 23, of 220
Bledsoe Avenue, told Officers
Otis L. Hinton and E. Curtis
Winston at 1:43 a. m. Tuesday,
May 10, that Alexander Wil
liams Goode, 24, of 6 Frank
lin Terrace, William Robert
son, address unlisted, and him
self were playing cards at 529
S. Blount Street.
Du.nston declared Goode "got
mad because he lost a hand of
cards and started to argue with
me.”
After a few minutes, stated
the complainant, Goode picke 1
up a bottle and struck Dun
ston on the head with it.
He said Goode then went
home, vowing he would return,
and did, armed with a shotgun.
However, during his absence,
(See ‘SORE* LOSER P 2)
EDITORIAL FEATURE
With the May Primary yet two weeks
off, there is ample true for every poten
tial voter to equip himself or herself with
sufficient information about candidates
seeking office. They tell you of their rea
sons for running for office. They tell the
publbic their background and training
and qualifications. Each one places be
fore the public his or her history when
the office is sought. If the candidate is
seeking re-election, his record in office
is public information. These facts
should, in a large measure, determine
how a voter would select officeholders.
An informed public is yet the best
protection of its many assests. Schools,
highways, rivers, buildings, policies, tax
es, etc., all belong to the public. We pay
the freight, so to speak, for the offic
holder to earn his living and make our
Mistaken Judgement
There is no doubt about man being
human and subject to error. There are
times when mistaken judgment can end
in tragedy. This is what seemed to have
hapened in Durham last week when ar
resting officers took what turned out to
be a very sick woman to jail instead of
taking her to the hospital.
The incident has stirred Durham and
it is believed that an investigation is in
the making. This newspaper feels that
an investigation should be made, due to
the fact that it could serve to prevent
such a tragedy from happening again.
The woman is alleged to have had an at
tack and the officers immediately charg
ed the woman with being drunk and car
ried her to jail and after detaining her
for some time decided that she needed
hospitalization.
We do not say that policemen should
be doctors, but we do say that a police
man should have enough common sense
and be versed enough in handling sick
people to discern the difference between
a drunk person and a sick person.
No doubt had the woman been earned
to a hospital she would have received
medical attention and her life might
have ! _en saved. The charge was per
mitted to stick and even though the
woman died her case was called in Re
corder’s Court Monday morning and
the decision of the judge was “Called
and Failed.” The matter did not stop
there, a Durham radio station, that car
ries a program known as “Speak Up"
got some comments on the tragedy
Monday night and there were those who
regretted the incident very much, but
one woman told the radio audience that
the woman was drunk and that the rea
son why she did not appear in court was
that she died as the result of being
drunk.
The deceased woman was a highly re
spected member of Mt. Vernon Baptist
The Ins And Outs Of Free Speech
Representative Adam Clayton Pow
ell’s charges against the national draft
deferment tests say much more than
many would want to realize. The out
spoken advocate of full rights for Ne
groes, was quoted as saying in Wash
ington Tuesday, in an interview, that
the national draft deferment tests
“should have a swastika on the top.” He
is reported as saying further: “First,
we provide an inferior education for
black students. Next, we give them a se
ries of tests which many flunk because
of an inferior education. Then, we pack
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Now
PCIKETS DIDN’T STOP HIM - Los Angeles; Draftee Ronald
Joy kisses his fiancee, Miss Colette Mackey, left, goodby,
as pickets march in front of Army Recruiting Station last
week. "I think they are crazy,’’ said young Joy, “I’m being
drafted for two years and might have to go to Viet Nam and
they are making my morale even lower.” Thirty
pickets demonstrated against, the Viet Nam War, but failed
to disrupt the induction operations. (UPI PHOTO).
laws, protect our lives, guard our health,
train our minds, enlarge our transporta
tion system, develop our communication
and all the other many sundry elements
involving a Democratic society.
With all these and more at stake,
when anyone marks a ballot, there
should be complete realization of the
great responsibility which is associated
with going to the polls and voting. This
demands that we become more alert,
more aware and intelligent as to how
and for whom we vote. This privilege is
your personal secret to share as you so
desire by your own free choice. Think
upon these things, be ready to cast your
ballot come May 28, for the candidate
whom YOU believe best fitted to serv
as a public official for all the people arm’
under all circumstances, without regards
to favoritism.
Church and had an impeccable record
as a Christian. She is said to have been
known as an “Angel of Mercy” admin
istering to the needs of those less fortu
nate that she. Her pastor related that
she carried herself at all times as a
Christian woman and there was never
any evidence that she drank or had any
habits derogatory to Christian princi
ples.
We think that the citizens of Durham
and the Police Department w'ould be
direlect in their duties if they permitted
this matter to go unnoticed. The arrest
ing officers should face the people and
tell what caused them to reach the con
clusion that this woman was drunk.
The family should demand an expla
nation from the hospital (Lincoln) and
even though the woman is dead her good
name should be absolved of the charge.
We go further and say the police record
should be changed so that the blot will
not. remain to embarass the family any
more than it has already done. We know
that what has been done cannot be un
done but we also know that every thing
possible should be done to clear the good
name of this reported good citizen.
We know the police have a job to do,
but when they rush in, head long, with
out due consideration and take - snap
judgment they are not only violating the
principles of inquiry but they are breed
ing disrespect fqr law and order. Police
should be the last to violate the rights
of any citizen. This type of police action
has touched off more riots and racial
disorder than anything else, Durham
could have easily become a “Watts” if
some one had lost his head and turned
on the next policeman he saw. Mistaken
judgment is bad in every phase of life,
but when done by a policeman it can
fan into a flame that destroys life and
proper. ty.
these academic failures off to Viet Nam
to be killed. He is quoted as saying fur
ther that the tests “are reminiscent o f
Hitler’s twin system of eugenics and
education—weed out the intellectually
deprived or socially undesirables by con
scripting them for common fodder."
It is ironical, the advantages the ins
have over the outs. Had young Julian
Bond been in office, possibly he, like
Rep. Powell, would have a more open
public mind, to his overtures regarding
the draft.
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Wendell Man, 20,
Look*' Oil lhra Horror
THE COROLINIAN
North Carolina ’s Leading Weekly
VOL. 25, NO. 25
Urban League Attacks Housing Bios
Dr. Stephen Wright New UNCF Head
Patterson
Replaced
In UNCF
NEW YORK The appoint
ment of Dr. Stephen .J, Wright
as president of the United Ne
gro College Fund was announc
ed Friday by William T. Gos
sett, chairman of the Fund's
Board of Directors.
The Fund’s new president is
currently president of Fisk U
niversity, Nashville, Tenn„ and
has served as a faculty mem
ber and officer at six southern
colleges and universities. He
will assume his responsibilities
as president of the Fund on
July 1.
Dr. Wright succeeds Dr,
Frederick D. Patterson, who
now becomes honorable presi
dent of the organization.
The United Negro College
Fund is a federation of 33 in
dependent, fully accredited col
leges and universities joined to
seek financial support through
a nationwide appeal. During
the past two decades, it has dis
tributed more than S9O mil
lion to assist its member in
stttut ions.
In announcing Dr. Wright’s
(See UNFC HEAD, P. 2)
NeSmith And
Family Given
Farewell Here
The Rev. Samuel NeSmith,
pastor of the Wilson Temple
Methodist Church for the past
two years, has been transferred
to Aiexanderia, Va„ and will
become pastor of the Roberts
Memorial Church of that city,
E. L. Raiford, lay leader, of
the church, presided at a fare
well reception in his honor
Tuesday, May 10 at 8 p. m.
which featured remarks by Mrs.
M. D. Veasey, president of
the local NAACP Chapter, the
Reverend W. B. Lewis, presi
de* REV. NESMITH. P. 2)
Temperatures for the next
five days, Thursday through
Monday, will average two to
six degrees below normal.
Normal high and low temper
atures for the period will be
7# and 5S degrees. It will turn
warmer Thursday, but rather
coo! weather will prevail dur
»g the remainder of the pe
riod. Precipitation will total
six-tenths of an inch or more,
occurring as showers, mainly
during the first half of the pe
riod.
From Raleigh's Police Files
THt CRIMt BtAT
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Sleeps In Chair,
Wakes-Robbed
Solomon James Dozier, Jr.,
of 704 Jamaica Drive, told Off
icers Norman Artis and James
E. (Bobby) Daye at 1:53 a. m.
Saturday, that he had been
drinking whiskey and decided to
“sleep it off.’
Dozier declared he went to
sleep in a chair upstairs at
204 1/2 W, South Street, woke
up sometime later, reached in
his back pocket and found that
his wallet, containing $9, was
gone.
The “woozy” complainant,
said he then asked Pete Wo
mack, who lives at the 204 1/2
W. South, room No. 3, about it.
Mr. Womack, however, said
he knew nothing about the
money, only that Dozier came
upstairs and went to sleep in
a large chair in the big main
hall.
The whereabouts of Dozier’s
money was not known at CAR
OI INI AN press time.
RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. MAY 14. 1966
ALABAMA’S NEW GOVERNESS SHUNNED BY VOTER - Clayton, Ala.: A Negro woman,
left foreground, with a marked sample ballot, turns away from Mrs. George (Lurlean) Wallace
as the new Alabama Governess talks with white voters at the polls last week. Running as a ‘‘stand
in’’ for her segregationist husband, Mrs. Wallace polled more votes than all of her nine male
opponents combined, to become the third woman in the history of the United States to head a
state. (UPI PHOTO).
NUL Program To Be Financed By
One And One-Half Million $ Grant
NEW YORK The National
Urban League will mount an at
tack on segregated housingpat
terns in a three-year demon
stration project in up to eight
cities, Whitney M. Young Jr.,
Executive Director, announced
Tuesday. The program will
be financed with the aid of a
$1 1/2 million grant from the
Ford Foundation.
Several cities of varying size
are making preparations for
participation in the project.
Cleveland, Ohio will be the first
city to initiate the program,
and will raise 1/3 to 1/2 of
Training,
Education
Criticized
WASHINGTON, D. C. - The
employment - unemployment
situation of the nonwhite work
ers is improving, Secretary of
Labor w. Willard Wirtz told
the Joint Economic Committee.
However, Mr. Wirtz pointed
out, as the instance of flagrant
discrimination diminishes, the
effects of undertraining and in
ferior education emerge more
sharply. The Manpower De
velopment and Training Act and
(Sep TRAINING RAPPED, P. 2)
Injures A Cop,
Goes To ’Clink’
Police Officers Bobby B.
Coats and J. L. Denning arrest
ed Richard Cooper, 44, of 423
Montague Lane, Sunday after
noon after being called to the
residence on a peace distur
bance report.
Once at the scene, the cops
said, Cooper was not only dis
turbing the peace, but was pub
licly drunk, resisiting arrest
and assaulted Officer Denning,
by injuring his hand. The offi
cer was treated at Wake Mem
orial Hospital for a wound on
his right hand, requiring 3
stitches, then Cooper was
“hauled off” to Wake County
Jail on these multiple charges
and booked under a S3OO bond.
Mrs. Gastonia Brooks, 44,
same address, was also ar
rested on a disturbing the peacd
charge after Mrs. Mildied Tur
ner, owner of the house, signed
i warrant.
'See t'K MS BEAT. P 3‘
their operating budgets through
matching funds. Half of Cleve
land's budget will be met. by
U. S. HOUSE CANDIDATE
SHOT— Chicago, 111.: Fred
Hubbard, 36, was wounded by
an unidentified man last Thurs
day while working late in his
campaign office. Hospital of
ficials say he is in fair con
dition with a bullet wound in
the shoulder. Hubbard is chal
lenging veteran Congressman
William L. Dawson for the city’s
First Congressional District
seat in the U. S. House of Rep
resentatives. Both are Demo
crats. Dawson offered a re
ward for information leading
to the arrest of Hubbard’s as
sailant. (UPI PHOTO).
Abandonment
Raps Facing
Two Mothers
Two Raleigh police officers
last week signed child abandon
ment warrants against two
young mothers after three young
children were left unattended.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mas
senburg, 22, of 313 Idlewild
Avenue, reportedly left home a
bout 6 p. m. Saturday, leaving no
one in charge of her four-year
old daughter.
The officers who first made a
report of the incident at 7:40
p. m„ remained on the scene
until 8;45 p. m., then were told
by Mrs. Josephine Kirk, Wake
County Director of Welfare, to
take the child to 520 Dorothea
Drive, which they did, then sign
ed a child abandonment warrant
against the mother.
In another case, Mrs. Mary
Louise Brooks, 24, same ad
dress was charged in a separate
(See ABANDOVMEV'T, P 3)
PRICE 15 CENTS
the Greater Cleveland Associ
ated Foundation.
The project will have four
major areas of operation.
Storefront offices will be open
ed In slum areas. Staffed by
professionals in the field and
aided by volunteers, these off
ices will serve as local clear
ing houses for information for
families who are in of
more adequate housing or who
wish to move intobetter homes.
Counseling will be provided to
such families and the offices
will assist them in plans to im
prove their housing or to move
into other neighborhoods.
Another aspect of this phase
of the program will be to ac
quaint Negro families with the
range of housing choices a
vailable to them and with the
advantage of finding homes in
integrated neighborhoods. Ne
(See URBAN LEAGUE. P 2)
Features Os Hammocks
Beach Outing Revealed
Saturday, May 21, is the date
set for the members of the
North Carolina Teachers As
sociation and their friends to
participate in the Annual Pil
grimage Day Celebration at the
Hammocks in Swansboro.
The day of rest and recrea
tion by the sea will include
the following extra features:
Three card tournaments-pino
chle, whist and bridge. Mrs.
S. E. Duncan is chairman of
' X rcor nf Today
wiiii sim
HER SON A WINNER AFTER 100 YEARS - Mrs. NfcftCy
G. Arms, of Montgomery, Alabama, is shown In her home
last Wednesday looking at a campaign poster of her son’s,
Fred Gray, who became the first Negro to win a seat in
Alabama Legislature in 300 years. Gray, a noted civil rights
leader, is also an attorney at lav.. fUPI PHOTO*
Probe Os
61 Death
is Urged
ATLANTA, Ga. - The At
lanta-based Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SN
CC) has asked the United States
Department of Justice to “in
vestigate and prosecute” the
persons responsible for the
killing of a Negro man and the
beating of a Negro soldier en
route to Viet Nam, in Rolling
Fork and Blanton, Mississippi.
The shooting and beating oc
curred April 27th in Blanton.
Mrs. Unita Blackwell, an ac
tive member of the Freedom
Democratic Party, reported
that 61-year-old James Smarts,
a local Negro, was shot and kill
ed by Money Montgomery, a
local white man. Mrs. Black
well said Montgomery shot
Smarts in the hip and stomach
when the elderly man asked
to borrow money from Mont
gomery.
The beating . occurred April
28th when a Rolling Fork po
liceman beat Jimmy Lee Mat
thews, an asthma victim who
left his automobile after the
policeman halted him. The in
cident was reported to Mat
thews’ draft board, who report
ed they were helpless to aid
him.
A telegram from SNCC here
asked the Justice Department
to “investigate and prosecute
those responsible for these
senseless acts and insure they
do not occur again."
(See VIET NAM, P, 1)
Shot 7
Times h
Stomach
BY CHARLES R. JONES
A ferocious young gunman,
known only to friend and foe
alike as “Billy," pumped sev
en bullets Into the stomach of
a Wendell native last Saturday
night as his Identical twin bro
ther looked on In horror. The
slaying took place in Brooklyn,
New York.
Cornell Silvers, 20, whofilves
in Wendell, but works at Al
Smith Buick Company on Fay
ettevilie*Street here, was a sad
and lonely person as he was
interviewed by this newsman
upon his arrival from Brooklyn
early Monday morning.
The slain brother, Cordell
June Silvers, of 225 Johnson
St., in Brooklyn, was In Wake
County last week this time,
after having spent his vacation
in Wendell with his brother
and other relatives. Cornell
returned with him Friday r.lght
to spend the weekend in Brook
lyn.
Relating the incidents leading
up to the slaying, Cornell said:
“I lived in Brooklyn until a
year ago, when I decided to
come back home. When Cor
dell was here last week, he
mentioned that a boy in Brook
lyn had been trying to pick a
fight with him and he didn't
know the reason for it,”
The pent-up youth went on
to say that on Saturday night,
{See TWIN BROTHER. P. Z)
the tournaments. Persons who
plan to participate in these ac
tivities should contact Mrs.
Duncan at Livingstone College,
Salisbury,
A 19 inch portable TV with
stand will be given away as
the main door prize. Several
additional prizes will be given
away on tickets deposited by*
persons w'her. they register.
Mrs. Mae Rudd Williams, sup
(See HAMMOCKS BKACB, S». S)