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N. C. NATIVE TAKES OFFICE IN N. J. 4 "" ' ' North Carolina'* Leading Weekly VOL. 26, N 0.4 SB trt&aL, Bb JBt t&asuxM ajSfe EM k&k* JSLwJpP 9Pm fisM. SB jKSr® jy^^SK J. H. Jackson Visits Watts Denounces Leadership LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Dr. J. H, Jackson, president, Na tional Baptist Convention, vi sited Watts this week and is reported as saying he found an encouraging situation, in stead of the bleakness and de spair that some people had pic tured. He took a poke at Mar tin Luther King. He was caustic about King's work in Chicago and said that he had made trouble in and a round the Windy City. He left the Impression that things would have never gotten out of control had Kind not agitated the situa tion by calling marches and making stringest demands upon officials, responsible for poli cy making. The perennial Baptist leader is to be remembered for a stormy fight in his organiza tion when there were those who tried to oust him, as its head. It is believed that many prom inent Baptists, including King, became dissatisfied and with drew their support. However, his group is said to still be the largest of several Baptist groups in America. Jackson is quoted as saying that he expected to see a run down section, shambled homes, dirty streets and garbage in fested alleys and a frustrated people. Instead he is said that he found a happy people, beau tiful homes, well kept yards and clean alleys. He felt this was a long cry from what he had understood from persons who led the fight for Watts. Wheeler Heads Corporation For Housing HIGH POINT - John H. Wheel er, president of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, with main offices in Durham, and two branches there and one each in Charlotte and Raleigh, wa s e lected here Saturday to head the newly - formed Low Income Housing Development Corpora tion. The corporation is set up to make better housing available to low-income people. It will serve a great need, not only for Negroes, but will seek to make better housing possible for all persons who have not « been able to have better homes. The organization grew out of the North Carolina Fund, with which Mr. Wheeler has been very closely connected. At Its beginning it received $376, 426 from the federal office of Economic Opportunity and $61,- 671 from the N. C. Fund. The fact that some of the state’s outstanding business men were elected along with Wheeler bids fair to much more money being available for the program. (See WHEELER HEADS. P. 2) Nab rit Quits United Notions For Howard U. WASHINGTON, D. C. - Pres ident Lyndon B. Johnson ac cepted the resignation of James M. Nabrit, Jr., here Wednes day. Nabrlt is president of Howard University and was on a year's leave to serve as Deputy Per manent United States Represen tative to the United Nations. The head of America’s larg est predominantly Negro Col lege has been called upon to serve in many governmental ca pacities before and since he was elected president of Howard U niversity, but this is the first time he has given up the reins. It is expected he will return to Howard and steer its vast ex pansion program. The university is making ela borate plans to celebrate its 100th anniversary, Nabrit will be on hand to make his contri bution to this outstanding e- RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1966 TEACHER DRAWS TERM Sentenced To 20-24 Months In Shooting i.AURINBURG - EsauSameul McCaskill, 50-yr.-old voca tional agriculture teacher was placed In the Scotland County jail Tuesday, in preparation to beginning a 20 to 24 months prison term for the shooting of Willie McNair, one of the two Negroes on the Laurinburg po lice force, last May. McCaskill was given the sen tence after having found guilty by a Scotland County Superior Court jury, consisting of nine men and three women. He was given the sentence by Judge Henry McKinnen on Dec. 8, with the understanding that it would be a work-release sen tence. This means that he will be permitted to work during the day and jailed at night, or on weekends. The trial created much in terest, due to the two princi pals. There was some senti ment that McNair Invaded the privacy of McCaskill home when he followed him to arrest him for alleged speeding charge. There was another school of thought that McNair received two blasts from McCaskill’s shot gun while he was snoop ing around the rooming house in which McCaskill lives. The house is available to teachers who work in the area, including women. (See TEACHES DRAWS, P. 2) ft 9^ klsanfwßmWFlK' * • * SURVIVES “EL” TRAIN DERAILMENT - Chicago: Her bert Norris, 27, one of about 25 passengers Injured here Dec. 7 when 2 cars of an 8-car “El” train derailed, Is attended by Sister Adele Marie in Mercy Hospital. One passenger was killed in the accident which came during morning rush hour. Authorities are trying to determine if all-night rain caused unusually slick surface on rails. Norris Is suffering from back injuries. (UPI PHOTO). From Raleigh’s Official Police Files THE CRIME BEAT Slap On Face Brings Arrest According to police records Nancy Wallace was not too pleased over the fact that she was slapped in the face by James Lee Kearnsey, 45, of 441 Fowle St. Even though last Wednes day was not such a hot day it seems though that Nancy and Jambs got into an argument at about 5;50 p. rn. and James became heated to the extent he chose to give vent to his feeling by applying his hand to her face. Not only did Nancy resent his slapping her, but she made a hasty trip to police head quarters, there she attempted to avenge the hurt and soothe her pride. This was done by taking MBS sirin'' * Contributes Much To Ft. Bragg Bee. FT. BRAGG - It goes without saying that Miss Florence Smith has contributed more toward making the life of soldiers who come here enjoyable than any one person at the Fort. She has been director of Service Club 3, since 1941, RTC Area. Her efficiency in this work here has vaulted her to many positions, which she has served complimentary. Her ability to handle recreational programs enabled her to accompany a number of students, from Palmer Memorial Institute, Se dalia, In 1936, to New York’s Old Town Hall, to participate in a recital. Miss Smith was one of the first directors to accompany (See RALEIOHITE, P. 2) out a warrant for assault and battery. The opinions of the law sought out Kearnsey and he was locked away under a SIOO.OO bond. Clarkson Charges Underwear Theft Comes now one Sam Clark son, 1805 Oakwood Ave. and re ports to police that some per son, of not too good of an in tent, did without his permission, take, steal, or without authoriz ed Instructions from the proper source, enter a 1956 Chevro let coach, which was on the lot of North State Motor Sales, 318 E. Martin St. on Dec. 6 and depart with some under shirts. The value of same was not given. (Bee crime beat. p. 3) PRICE 15 CENTS 17' * HP King lo Leave U. S. np T) 1 o Fen CR Book ATLANTA, Ga. - A national news agency reported here Tuesday that Martin Luther King plans to take two-months vacation to an undisclosed place, outside of the United States, to write a book that will go Into the progress of ci vil rights and give his reac tion on the white backlash and black power. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference an nounced the Nobel Peace Prize winner was planning to leave the country during the sabbati cal, probably to the Bahamas or some other place "where it’s warm and there is plenty of sun.” King said he wanted to write the new book because “there is an uneasy feeling in the civil rights movement that we may have lost our sense of direction (See KING TO LEAVE, P. 2) Interracial Party Irks Onlooker Raleigh police are perhaps baffled over the incidents that broke up a wine drinking party between a Negro man and a white woman. The police records reveal that George Lee Gervin, of 201 S. East St., and a white wo man, Mary Elizabeth Ray, 33, were having a chat in her a partment, 117 1/2 S. Bloodworth St., Dec. 9, after both of them had Indulged in drinking some wine. Rex Wright, of the same S. East Street address, appeared (See INTERRACIAL PARTY, P. 2) |W KATH i/li Temperatures (or the next five days, Thursday through Monday, win average 2 to 9 degrees below normal. The normal high and low (or Ra leigh: 52 and 31. Warmer, turning cooler over the week end. Precipitations will aver age from JS to .8 of an Inch with periods of rain or scat tered showers mainly during the weekend. EDITORIAL FEATURE The rhought Exchange By Gordon B. Hancock THE SAME OLD FLANK ATTACK! For several days recently, our news pages have been laden with accounts of the attack on the Warren Commission Report pertaining to the assassination of our great and lamented John F. Ken nedy, the brightest gem in the political diadem of the Twentieth Century. The Warren Commission Report has in no way been invalidated by its assailants, and in the absence of anything resem bling invalidating evidence, it is to be suspected that the attack has bren cook ed up by the same indirect foes of the Negro’s fuller freedom. This means that the attack is the Old Anti-Negro South’s continued means of fighting the hapless Negro as a part of its spite work against the nation for freeing the Negro in the first place. Although beaten to its knees on the battlefield, the old Anti-Negro South keeps on fighting, and will be fighting for another hundred years- This fight is engineered by some of the keen est i inds of our times, so keen that they can discern the shame that would fol low an open attack on the Negro; hence they resort to the apparently more ef fect! - methods of a flank attack instead of a .rontal one. This is a dangerous Charged In Killing Os 23-Yr.43ld Raleighite Funeral Rites for George Thorpe, the victim of a Sunday morning shooting, by a 22 rifle, in the hands of Walter Lane, in front of 208 Spence St., were slated to be held at First Bap tist Church today (Wednesday), at 4 p. m. with Rev. C. W, W'ard officiating, with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery. The unfortunate incident, as reported from a reliable WALTER LANE source, unravels like a western novel. Lane is reported to have gotten off to a bad start on Saturday when he was ask ed by Mrs. Nellie Grace Ham to pay a debt that she alleged he owed. The money was paid to Mrs. # Ham in the presence of police officers, who are said to have been summoned by Lane, to quell any disturbance that could have arisen over the money. Lane had hoped to have had a hearing in City Court Tues day, but after having been taken out of jail, it was found that the hearing would not be held. The cause of the shooting is still baffling. Lane alleges that he was sitting at his breakfast table, with friends, about 10:30 Sunday morning and there was a sound at the door. The sound was responded to by Mrs. Queenie Williams. She alleges that she told Lane that Thorpe was at the door and was told to let him in. Thorpe is alleged to have brushed past Mrs. Wil- ISec LANE HELD, P. 2) Poison Mind Costs SSOO And 1 Year LOB ANGELES (NPI) - A 41- year-old welder, convicted of plotting to poison every Negro in the country, has been fin ed SSOO and placed on proba tion for five years, provided he spends one year in county jail. Herman Lee Henry, white, was ordered by Superior Judge Maurice T. Leader to seek psy chiatric help. He had been found guilty of plotting to mail poisoned food stuffs to Negroes all over the country. He was convicted on two counts of solicitation of murder. strategy and it is terribly effective and gaining converts to the South’s way of thinking all the time and the world over. Whereas the hapless Negro tries the frontal attack methods and invites open opposition from the most brazen of the anti-Negro elements and their organi zations, the more powerful anti-Negro Old South resorts to subtleties and strat eger-.s. And, so instead of attacking the Negro openly, they attack Franklin D. Roosevelt and his great Eleanor, for their attempts to integrate the Negro in to American life. The Roosevelts were hated with a vitriolic hatred because their policies meant the ultimate libera tion of the Negro. Their procedures led the Negro to hope for and expect full citizenship. Roosevelt died a hated man and so did his dear wife. Then came the great John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who made no secret of the fact that the Unit ed States government was throwing its weight on the side of full citizenship for Negroes. How the Old South hated Ken nedy, and when it had created an at mosphere of hatred that was conducive to his assassination, it is no wonder that the school children in Texas applauded the news of his deeth, and what went on (See EDITOBIAIU FEAXUKE. P. 2> -1 AbeL y : ' * ' • - -^Ov^^jKWgEwgKgMjSjfflfe''.i* *£k*kv& -•. :>< , f .;; v f ** ~ gA&frr Cs- : j|^S^flqK«BßifHSi^^ l .dlj^iy ,, vp^, KENNEDY, MCKISSICK CLASH - Washington; Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (left), D-N. Y., chats with Floyd B. McKisslck, head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) during a break In the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee's December Bth hearings on urban development. Kennedy, a frequent defender of civil rights causes, clashed with McKisslck during the hearing over the "black power” concept. Kennedy accused McKisslck of hindering rather than helping Negroes with his “black power” advocacy. (UPI PHOTO), | ‘ SWEEPSTAKIS NUMBERS' 1 I WORTH $125 WORTH S3O WORTH S2O \ Anyone having current WHITE TICKETS dated l/ec. 10, 1986, with proper nwmbers, prcaent same _ ATTY. ISAAC G. McNATT Alabama Attorney General Feels God And Time Will Bring His State In Line Richmond Flowers, Alaba ma's Attorney-General contin ued his battle against his state’s power structure, here Friday night, when he spoke at the ban quet of Southeastern Lawyers Association. He was not undaunted in his belief that if he continues to talk loud enough and long enough that Alabama will come to its senses and revamp its policies to the aid of the impoverished and to the Glory of God. He charged that the poverty stricken areas were inhabited by Negroes and it was not by accident, nor by the will of God, but by an infamous plot; on the part of white people who defied all laws of brotherhood and the mandates of God. Mr. Flowers was conscious of the fact that Negroes had come to believe that the laws of some states were enacted a gainst the Negro and in many instances where the law gave him his rights they were ig nored by the administrators of (See ALA. ATTORNEY, P. 2) Carolinian Sweepstakes Soaring To New Heights Your opportunity to hit the jack pot in the CAROLINIAN Sweepstakes has never been greater. If you happen to have a white ticket, dated Dec. 10, and bearing the number 540, you have won $125.00. This kind of money would come in very handy for Christmas. If you have 1900 you will get paid $30.00 and 2100 will get you $20.00. Be sure you go to one of the stores listed on the Sweepstakes page and ask for a Sweepstakes ticket. Miss Shirley McNair won SIO.OO because she had the tic ket that bore # 5747. Peace Keynotes Philly Church Meet On Ouster .PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Thou sands of members from twenty states, scores of ministers and bishops converged on Philadel phia, Tuesday and Wednesday, and held a dynamic and clear ly audible meeting in support of embattled Ozro T. Jones, Sr., seniorbishopofTheChurch of God in Christ. Ku Mux Man Pranks Still Haunt Areas 01 Statu It could not be determined whether Governor Moore's de cision to take a closer look at the Klan in the state touched off a series of cross burnings and flagrant disregard for law and order or not. It is certain that there has teen a rash of incidents that take on the Klan image. In Wadesboro, an automobile belonging to a Negro soldier, who married a German white girl, was dynamited as *t stood Tar Heel Attorney Sworn In As Solon BY PETE HOLDEN TEANECK, N. J. - The towns people got an opportunity to see its first Negro sworn in as a member of the city council re cently, when Attorney Isaac G. McNatt, who hails from Fay etteville, by Township-Attorney Jacob Sneider. Teaneck is located about 15 miles from New York City, di rectly across the George Wash ington Bridge. Even though he was served as a councilman since last spring, when he was appointed to serve out the term of the late Robert Henderson, he is the first Negro to be elected in the 71-yr. history of this north ern New Jersey town. .He was a candidate for the office in the last election, but was beaten in a close race, by Mr. Henderson. He took seven of the township’s 16 e~ lection districts and beat his nearest opponent, Lawrence W'olfberg by 719 votes. This is considered a big history for this town. He is a Republican. (See N. C. NATIVE, P. 2) The whole thing is an easy matter. You go into a store that has tickets and say, “I want a Sweepstakes ticket. I know you have them because I saw your store listed on the Sweepstakes page.” The per son with whom you will be talk ing will be happy to give you a ticket. If you desire, and the management certainly hopes you do, go into all the stores listed and tell them you saw where they had Sweepstakes tic kets. The tickets for next week will be dated Dec. 17 and you can be a winner in time for Christmas. This meeting marked the first massive effort on the part of followers of Bishop Jones to “restore peace and constitu tional government to the church” after Bishop Jones was supposedly ousted by the church’s executive committee at the 59th Annual Convocation (See PEACE KEYNOTE, P. 2) in front of his parents’ home. Police are said to have informa tion that three cars, driven by white men, were fired upon by Negroes, after the dynamiting. None of the shots hit the tar get. Charlotte was- the scene of another house bombing, it was reported. This time it was the home of a white trucker v/ho was charged with non-cooper ation when he refused to aid in (See KU BLITX KJLAM, P. V)
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