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Shaw University Homecameing Events
jnflSE . , is J. E. .iis.li Istonprmditpp in, p'npripr’!
.Day speaker on having been given the degree of Doctor of Humane
j-y Letters. Upper right- President Cheek crowns Miss Barbara Sue
?^f r ßullock, “Miss Shaw University” for 1966-67. In the center are the
W0 1 - *'” l in Homecoming festivities that took place at half time, 1-r,
v '--J "Vcharles G. Spellman, Willie Morgan, Mrs. Joyner, attendant to Miss
v a'M-' Nunn, standing next, who was “Miss Alumni,'* Dr. L. c. Rid-
WssM -.‘"JK, Miss Janice Brown, who was “Miss Homecoming,” Misses
feapMfe Bullock and Shelia. Ray, Daniel Burrell, Jr., Miss Barbara
jSSf- Bullock and Dr. K. V. Cheek. Lower left -- Daniel Burrell, Jr.,
I© on with .solemn admiration as Miss Barbara Sue Bullock places
?3fr >:\ wreath on the grave of the founder, Dr. Henry Martin Tupper.
‘v •• MWi** Lower right The drill team that tried so hard to cheer the Bears
to victory to the homecoming game, at Chavis Park.
VeferanPasfor
Traffic Victim
p Death claim ed the life of the
Rev. Early Duncan Pretty, well
known Raleigh c h u r c hman and
landscaper, 81, Sunday after
noon as he alighted from a bus
on highway 401 and attempted to
make his way home.
The police report revealed
that Rev. Pretty got off of the
bus and walked in front of an
oncoming car, driven by an en
listed man. Marvin L, Kelly,
stationed at Ft. Bragg. The
soldier was not held pending the
outcome of the inquest that will
be held Wednesday.
Persons who knew Rev. Pret
ty said it was a custom of the
venerable man to get off of the
bus at that point when return
ing from Kenly where he pas
tored the Baptist Church. This
trip was the routine but proved
fatal.
Rev. Pretty was born in Gran
ville County, April 2, 1885, and
left the land of his nativity and
journeyed to Beckley, W. Va.,
during the "coal rush.’’ It
was there he met Miss Jose
d phine Williams, wooed, courted
' and married her. He then de
cided to move to Raleigh and
35 years ago heard the call to
preach and joined Fayetteville
Street Baptist.
He made quite a reputation
as a landscaper and was known
to have kept the yards of many
Raleigh citizens in fine shape.
He leaves a wife and one bro
ther, Daniel of Zebulon. Funeral
arrangements were not com
plete at press time.
Potts Maps Blue Print
For Small Colleges
FAYETTEVILLE - Dr. John
F. Potts, president, Vohees
College, Denmark, S. C., pre
sented blue print for predomi
nately - Negro schools here
Sunday afternoon, where he was
the principal speaker for the
dedication of three new build
Sentence Suspended, Put On Probation:
* Ray Charles Gets Years For Dope
- BOSTON - Blind jazz singer
Ray Charles, who pleaded guilty
a year ago to charges of pos
session of marijuana and her
oin. was fined SIO,OOO Tuesday,
given a suspended sentence of
five years in jail and put on
four years probation.
Doctors testified that the 35-
DR. P. R. ROBINSON CITED FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCOUT
ING - Shown above presenting a plaque to Dr. P. R. Robin
son, Acting President of St. Augustine’s College, is Mr. Fred
E. Reiber, President Elect of the Occoneechee Council and
General Manager Meter Division Westinghouse Corp. Mr.
Reiber commended Dr. Robinson for his effective leader
ship during his two years as Chairman of the Wacaunot
ka District pointing out the manj areas of progress and
achievements during his tenure of office. He also acknowledg
ed Dr. Robinson’s acceptance to continue to serve as a mem
ber of the Council’s Executive Board. Mr. Wallace Wood,
Scout Executive of the Occoneechee Council (L) was present
during the presentation.
Johnston County Gives
Mute Benefit Os Doubt
SMITH FIELD - J. D. Griffin,
49-year-old mute, might not
have been able to outline with
words at a preliminary hear
ing here Monday night, on the
cause of the death of Mrs.
ings, on the campus of Fayette
ville State College.
The veteran educator was
alarmed over the fact that such
designated schools had so far
to go and so little to go with.
He said if the schools were to
(See JOHN POTTS TELLS, P 2)
year-old Charles, a resident of
Los Angeles, has "kicked” nar
cotics addiction voluntarily un
dergoing hospitalization and ex
tensive psychiatric and psycho
logical tests.
Charles was arrested in Oc
tober 1965 as he got out of his
private plane at Logan Interna-
Helen Holmes, but he w'as able
to grunt and gesture enough to
convince court officials to the
extent they reached the conclu
sion that they did not have e
nough evidence to prove that hp
did not kill the woman in self
defense.
Griffin was lodged in the
Johnston County jail about mid
night Nov. 22 and charged with
the murder of the Holmes wo
man. His arrest was due to
many attending circumstances.
He relayed the first news of
the incident to one of the sup
ervisors of theSmithfieldLum
ber Company, about 11:25 on the
night of the murder. He is
said to have made the super
(See JOHNSTON COUNTY, P. 2)
tional Airport after a flight from
Canada.
During a hearing a year ago,
Asst. U. S. Atty. Edward J.
Lee recommended Charles be
fined SIO,OOO and be sentenced
to two in jail. But the
late U. S. District Judge George
( See HAY CHARLES. P. 2)
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Dr. Mays leaves Echoes At Shaw
SBI Asked
To lid in
ire Probe
GOLDSBORO - In response
to a request by Wayne County’s
sheriff, John Adams and SBI
agents, John Edwards and War
ren Campbell an inquest will
be held Monday, 4 p. m., Into
the jail deaths of Eari New
kirk, 31, Goldsboro man and
Arthur Morgan, who were found
dead In a cell of the Wayne
County Jail Sunday morning.
The two men are said to have
been arrested when they flagg
ed a sheriff ’s department patrol
car, thinking it was a taxi
cab, Friday night. They were
given a ride to the jail and
charged with public drunken
ness. Nothing was heard from
them after being placed in jail,
until early Saturday morning,
when jail attendants visited
their cell.
The two were found dead and
autopsies on their bodies are
said to reveal that they died
accidentally from carbon mono
xide asphyiation when a mat
s See TWO BURNED, P. 2)
Alabama Officers Add Foley Chides
Another Death Victim False Ghetto
WETUMPKA, Ala. - The hoa
ry head of police brutality rais
ed its head here Sunday when
the body of James Earl Mot
ley, 33, was taken from the
Elmore County Jail, reportedly
"covered in blood.” The FBI
entered the case Tuesday, in
the hope that it could deter
mine from whose hands the
man received the beating that
caused his death.
The finger of guilt pointed at
law enforcement officers who
are alleged to have beaten Mot
ley, after arresting him on a
drunken charge and resisting
arrest. This is a running ac
count of the horrible incident
as reported by one of the na
tion’s news services.
Sheriff Lester Holley, who
was out of town at the time of
Motley’s arrest, said he did not
know whether Motley died of a
Student Prey
To "Con’Men
The glibness of a con man’s
tongue proved too much for
Howard Leon Exum, Shaw Uni
versity freshman, last week,
and as a result Exum is $21.00
poorer.
According to information fur
nished by the complainant, in
the hope the police might re
trieve his lost cash, revealed
this story, that captivated him.
He is said to have been walk
ing in the 100 block of E. Mor
gan St., after having left a
cleaning establishment, when a
man believed to be about 40
or 45 years old came to him
(See SHAW MAN PREY, P. 2)
The Crime
Beaf
UnwcmtedGuest
Sleeps In Bed
Mary Watson Branch, 615 E.
Davie St., complained to police
that she had an unwelcomed
guest break the lock off of her
bedroom and proceeded to sleep
in the bed. She said he was
sleeping in a room in the rear
of the house for sometime and
she had tried to make him move
out of that room. She avers that
she got little cooperation in her
endeavor,
(See CRIME BEAT, P. 3)
North Carolina ’« Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N. C . SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1%6
PLUGS STUDENT FREEDOM - David Harris, student body
president at Stanford University, spoke to North Carolina Col
lege students tn an informal forum Wednesday, Nov. Oth.
Harris, a major speaker for the Symposium ’6O program at
Duke University, told freshmen at his university recently,
“If there is anyone who has the right to speak out in this uni
versity, that has the right to examine this university, it'si
the student.” An active member of the Stanford Committee
Against the War in Viet Nam, Harris did field work in Missis
sippi for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in
1964, is active in the National Student Association and in
migrant protests in California.
beating, but added: "Ho wasn’t
beaten in jail.”
"When I have a report, every
one will know It,” Holley said.
William Varner, Mot let’s
step - father who raised him
from the age of four, said
flatly, "My son was beaten to
death.” Varner charged an
autopsy already had been per
formed on Motley when he ar
rived at the Rose-Geeter Fun
eral Home Sunday. "They had
his body wide open when I got
( See DIES IN ALL. JAIL, P. 2)
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EDITORIAL FEATURE
The Thought Exchange
By Gordon B. Hancock
THE HIGH COST OF POOR
JUDGMENT
Within recent years, since the coming
of Franklin D. Roosevelt to power, the
Negro has made a determined assault
on the forces of segregation, and those
principalities and powers designed to
limit the Negro to second class citizen
ship. That the Negro has made phenom
enal advance is a fact that is no longer
debatable, but an acknowledged fact of
major importance. As if through many
years, toils and snares, the Negro has
already come and the same forces that
brought him safe thus far will lead him
on into an uncertain future. “How Far
The Promised Land?” was the title of
Walter White’s valedictory publication.
Just how far only God knows, but we
do know that these critical and crucial
times call for seasoned and carefully
considered judgments by those who pose
as leaders. It was the height of poor
judgment for the Negro to suppose that
the Negro’s fierce and sustained attack
on the forces of segregation would not
be met with a determined, and at times
brutal counter-attack by whites who are
just as determined that we shall not rise,
as we are determined to rise above the
Developers
WASHINGTON (NPI) - "White
liberals” who want to make the
ghetto in their own image have
been charged with "cultural ar
rogance” by Eugene P. Foley,
former, assistant secretary of
commerce for economic de
velopment.
Foley, now a federal consul
tant, charged that these "lib
erals” seem to insist "that the
ghetto must develop in their i
(See FOJ EY CHIDES, I*. 2)
level of second-class citizenship. Ne
groes must not therefore be dismayed
or discouraged, when at sundry times
they seem thrown for a loss! Jt has been
said that a man who comes back for one
more round cannot be whipped. All the
Negro must do is to keep coming back
for that “one more round.” The costs
of poor judgment will come tremendous
ly high from now on. When Dr. Zelma
Watson as a member of the United Na
tions rose and applauded at the wrong j
time and place, her commission was re
voked and her demotion ensued. With
out this error she might have gone down
in history as one of the world’s greatest
women, for her ability was unquestion
ed. When Lindbergh, a world hero, went
to Germany and saw Hitler’s hordes
goose-stepping along Urter Den Linden,
he wanted President Roosevelt to back
down, and so advised the uselessness of
trying to resist Hitler. Roosevelt did not
back down; but asked Lindbergh to hand
in his commission, and thus was Lind
bergh consigned into a kind of living |
oblivion. The high cost of poor judg
ment. When young Bond, a youth of
great promise had at a tender age been
(See FEATURE, P. 2)
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Motivated
WASHINGTON (NPI) - Negro
politicians turned their atten
tion from Nov. 8 triumps to the
victories they expect to log in
the next elections.
' Flint (Mich.) meanwhile, be
came the largest city to elect
a Negro mayor, and late e
lection returns indicated that.
Negro candidates across the na
tion increased the number of
high offices that they hold.
At. the same time, Georgia's
Julian Bond, repeatedly denied
his seat in the state legisla
ture, appeared to have a chance
of being seated at last.
In Baltimore, Clarence M.
Mi chell, 36, who was just elect
ed to the State Senate, said he
was “seriously considering"
running for mayor or president
of the City Council In 1967.
Several Negro candidates
were talking of taking top ad
ministrative positions in Ba’-
timore after a massive Negro
vote in. Maryland showed what
(See ELECTION AMBITIONS, P. 2)
New Respoi
Attend New
RALEIGH - Addressing him
self to the subject, "Desegre
gation - An Opportunity And
A Challenge,” Dr. Benjamin
Elijah Mays, told a Shaw U
niversity Founder’s Day au
dience last Friday that "Few
Institutions, if any, have done so
much with so little and so few."
Some 1,000 persons gathered
in Spaulding Gymnasium to hear
Dr. Mays, renowned orator and
president of Morehouse Col
lege, Atlanta, Ga. The occasion
was the 101st Convocation of the
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1 Bishop Dies;
2 Deposed;
Cops End Fuss
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The re
cent meeting of the 59th session
of the Annual Convocation of
the Church of God in Christ,
at which it is reported there
were 11,000 persons, there were
some unusual happenings.
Death marred the meet when
Bishop Wm. Morris, Los An
geles, Calif., succumbed to a
heart attack that he had been
warned about, but had decid
ed to wait until, his return to
the West Coast before being
hospitalized.
Perhaps the most unpleasant
part of the Convocation w f as the
unfrocking of Bishops O. T.
(Bee BISHOP BRAD, P. 2)
isibilities
Advantages
university, and Dr. Mays was
the Founder’s Day speaker. At
the close of the Convocation, he
was presented the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Humane Let
ters.
Dr. Mays was introduced by
Dr. James E. Cheek, University
president who also brought
Founder's Day greetings to the
audience.
Speaking to the trustees, al
umni, faculty and student body,
the speaker cited the accom
plishments of Shaw grads say
ing, “Your graduates have done
well in these one hundred
years” since the founding of
the university.
"Few men could have done
what your president has done for
(See DR. MAYS LEAVES, P. 2)
w MATH i:
Temoe-atii-es for the next
five days, Thursday through
Monday, will average from
three to nine degrees above
normal, espertaiiy In the west
ern section. The normal high
and low for Raleigh will be 5S
and 35 Gradual warming re
mainder of the week, turning
cooler about Monday,
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AWARDED CONGRESSION
AL MEDAL OF HONOR - Wash
ington: Pres. Johnson has ap
proved the awarding of the na
tion's highest military medal -
the Congressional Medal of
Honor -- to four Army He
roes of Viet Nam. One of the
heroes is Spec. 5 Lawrence
Joel, Fayetteville, (shown in file
photo), a medic who continued
to aid the wounded for 24 hours
even though he was wounded in
the leg and hip. (lid PHOTO*