ARRESTED IN HOUSTON - The vivacious performer Eartha Kltt who was held for two hour.
In Houston, Texas, Monday when she insisted on helping a man who was fatally-stricken in the hall
of an apartment building.
Bull City
Policeman
Charged
DURHAM - Walter M.
Barnes, 44, veteran police of
ficer of the city's police de
partment, was charged with as
sault and battery, by an A&T
College student, Sunday night,
for what he alleged w'as the
promiscous beating he receiv
ed at the hand of the officer,
Saturday night, in McDougald
Gymnasium, on North Carolina
College’s campus.
The warrant was sworn out
by James N. Perry, who list
ed his wife, Mrs. Inez Perry,
and James Finger as witnesses.
Barnes is scheduled to appear
in District Court, Feb. 10.
Perry is reported to be one
of the many persons who took
part in a free-for-all between
players and fans in the final
minutes of the basketball game
between NCC Eagles and the
A&T Aggies.
According to information,
from a reliable source, Tues
day morning, Barnes will have
the support of Police Chief W.
W. Pleasants. He is reported
as having the following to say:
“We’re going to talk with
NCC officials and see who is
in charge of the conference.
We want to find out what can
be done to put a stop to this
foolishness,” he said.
Chief Pleasants said there
were five Durham policemen
on duty in the NCC gymnasium
Saturday night.
"But that’s not a drop in the
(See P.
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EDITORIAL FEATURE
The Thought Exchange
SULLIVAN-ISM VS. POWELL-ISM
When Booker T. Washington came up
on the leadership scene a half a hundred
years ago, with the industrial education
concept, and built Tuskegee to imple
ment that concept, he was one of the
world’s greatest social prophets in dis
guise. He had a program! He clearly saw
and plainly expressed the idea that there
were no near-cut ways to the Promised
Land of full American citizenship! His
course as a leader was copied from the
Bible for when Israel finally escaped from
Egypt and had crossed the Red Sea, there
lay before them a near-cut to Canaan,
which would land them in the Promised
Land at most within forty days. But
Moses being led of God, took the round
about way through the Wilderness that
delayed their entrance to the Promised
Land for forty years. The round-about
way of the Wilderness was due not to
God’s unwillingness but to Israel’s un
preparedness for the occupation of Ca
naan. with its walled A1 and Jericho. It
took forty years to prepare Israel to as
LT. L. A. OXLEY
Lt. L. A. Oxley
Speaks At
Univ.Of N. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Law
rence A. Oxley, director of spe
cial projects for the National
Council of Senior Citizens,
spoke Monday before the De
partment of Politics, School of
Liberal Arts, University of
North Carolina at Raleigh.
Mr. Oxley discussed tne pari
played by the 2,000-member
National Council of Senior Cit
izens in winning Medicare
health insurance for the elderly.
The National Council of Sen
ior Citizens was a major fact
or in the legislative campaign
that resulted in enactment of
Medicare in 1965.
(See OXLEY, P. 2)
sault the walled cities of Canaan and to
grapple in deadly combat with he coura
geous Canaanites with their terrible and
towering big men, the Anikim, who had
frightened ten of the twelve spies sent to
spy out the land. Israel needed the forty
year preparation and intensive training,
such as they never could have had had
they taken the near-cut. Soon one W. E.
B. Dußois arrived on the leadership scene
fresh from Harvard, with one of the first
Ph.D.’s ever handed a Negro. Although
he had no program, he opposed Washing
ton’s program and cast serious doubts
upon its validity. Washington said that
the vote followed preparaion for citizen
ship. Dußois said that it preceded and a
great battle was joined! The Dußois phi
losophy left room in the Negro’s thinking
for the notion that there was a near-cut to
full-citizenship; Washington’s teaching
did not encourage such thinking. After
three quarters of a century, the Negro
race stands almost exactly where it stood
when Dußois and Washington argued
(See EDITORIAL, P. 2)
Powell To
Get Nod
From GOP
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Ef
forts to ascertain whether Con
gressman Powell was in Wash
ington Wednesday for the com
mittee appearance, at which he
would have his say, proved fu
tile up to press time. It u-as
reported that he would be there
and would have his lawyer with
him, Republicans who voted to
not permit him to take the oath
seem to have had a change of
heart and say now that they
see the whole matter in a dif
ferent light.
An influential Republican said
Monday Adam Clayton Powell
could proabaly win back his
house seat if he agreed to pay
back the government for any
personal trips he took at the
taxpayer’s expense.
This new formula for ending
the Powell controversy was
spelled out by a GOP member
of the nine-man select commit
tee that is trying to determine
the "fitness” of the once-pow
erful Harlem Democrat to serve
in Congress.
The GOP committee member,
who asked not to be identified,
said he hoped Powell would
answer all questions put to him
by the panel. If he does, the
Congressman said, and it turns
out that Powell used a
congressional airline credit
card to take some vacation
juants as has been charged the
next step would be obvious.
He could concede that he
abused his authority and that he
(See POWELL. P. 2)
m
Wake Sheriff On Spot In Co.
EARTHA KITT LANDS IN JAIL
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VOL. 26, NO. 12
STUDENTS DENIED
NAACP Head
Takes Issue
With Rights
Application
CHARLOTTE - Clarence
Mitchell, head of the Washing
ton Bureau of the NAACP,
charged in a speech delivered
at the conference of state
tranches, which was held here
Saturday, that N. C. solons
were dragging their feet.
He began by tracing the rec
ord of southerners as it relat
ed to civil rights legislation,
beginning in 1964 and thru 1966.
He said that 8 southern mem
bers of the House of Represen
tatives voted for the passage of
the 1964 landmark legislation.
He pointed out that 20 southern
members of the House voted for
tlie 1965 Voting Rights Act. He
said that there were 8 southern
members of the House who
voted controversial occupancy
bill in 1966. He also said three
southern senators opposed fil
ibustering, by voting for clo
ture in 1966,
‘‘l expect that in the near fu
ture we shall again be engaging
in an effort to pass a civil
rights bill in the 90th Congress.
It is my opinion that we shall
again have the support of south
ern congressmen and also some
southern Senators.
I mention these matters be
cause lt is important for us
to realize that the South is no
longer a solid mass of opposi
tion to progress in the area of
cicil rights. Unfortuanately,
the State of North Carolina, at
least in Congress, is not in
step with the movement for
(See NAACP, P. 2)
Council Set
For School
On Religion
E.L. Raiford, YMCA execu
tive was recently elected first
vice-president of The Raleigh
Council of Churches and in
stalled by the Reverend J. T.
Youngblood, pastor of the Hill
yer Memorial Christian
Church, retiring president oi
the Council.
Other officers
elected were
Wade Hawkins,
presidnet; A, L.
Finkner, second
vice-president;
and Jimmie j
Washburn, trea
surer.
The Christian ]
Education Divi- |
sion of the Coun
cil is sponsoring
RAIFORD
a School of Religion at the
(See RAI’fORD, P 3)
98 Y r .-Old W oman Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. I
rene J. Massenburg, 98, were
held from Mt. Pleasant Baptist
Church Wednesday and burial
wa c in the Mt. Pleasant Ceme
tery. She died in her home
1518 Oakwood Avenue, Saturday
night, after an extended illness.
Rev. Herman Forte delivered
the eulogy.
From Raleigh’s Official Police Files
THE CRIME BEAT
Vacant Apart.
Scene Os Fire
The Raleigh Fire Depart
ment was called to 1315 Oak
wood Ave., about 1:30 a. m.,
Sunday to investigate a fire.
George Eugene Brown, 409 Hill
St., is reported to have return
ed home about 1:30 a. m, and
to have heard water running in
the house next door and also
heard footsteps, which indicated
that trips were being made up
and down the steps.
Lawrence Bradley, Gould
Hall, Supt., could not account
for anyone being in the apart
ment, due to the fact that it had
not been rented since Jan. 28.
The investigation revealed
that the fire department went
to 411 Hill St., in answer to
a call, and found that a party
had been staged in tjie apart-
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGIH. N. C-, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY-*4t 1967
Nat’l Star Held
For Kindness Act
HOUSTON - Singer Eartha
Kitt, who said she was trying
to help a fatally stricken man
who had collapsed in an a
partment house, was arrested
Tuesday night and charged with
"failure to move on” at the
order of police.
The singer was released from
jail about two hours after her
arrest when friends posted a
$25 bond.
Her case was set for Feb.
16 in city court and Miss Kitt
said she would lie back to con
test the charge. She is cur
rently appearing at the sash
NEW YORK MOTHER BEARS QUINTUPLETS - New York:
Holding four cigars, Lionel Harris, 31, kisses his wife,
Hildarene, 31, Feb. 2nd at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, where she
gave birth to quintuplets late Feb. Ist. One of the babies, a
girl, was stillborn. Three girls and a boy survive. (UPI
PHOTO).
King To Aid Pastor
in Contempt Fight
GREENSBORO - Martin
Luther King’s Southern Christ
ian Leadership Conference as
sured Rev. Frank Williams,
convicted in a Guilford County
Court of contempt and given
a prison term, that it would
support him in his appeal to the
Mrs. Massenburg was con
sidered one of the landmarks
of the St. Augustine’s area of
the city. She often pointed
out the spot, now part of the
campus, where she lived when
she first married.
She was a graduate of Shaw
(Sec 98-YR.-OLD, P. 2)
ment and a fire had been start
ed on a sofa, causing consid
erable damage to the floor and
ceiling of the apartment.
It was also revealed that entry
'was made to the building thru
a window, which is located near
the front door. There was no
indication or identification of
the intruding participants.
Hub Caps Stolen
While In Church
Ephriam Johnson, 2211 Lyn
hur st St., told officers that while
he was away from his car, that
he parked on a parking lot at
10:30 a. m., Sunday morning and
returned to at 1:30 p. m., while
attending church on S. Wil
mington St., some one took his
hub caps from his 1967 Olds.
He valued the loss at $l2O.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
ionable Cork Club in Houston.
Miss Kitt said she saw the
man lying on his face in the hall
of the apartment and because
she had some nursing training,
decided to help in any way she
could.
She said the officers standing
near the body told her the man
was dead.
‘‘l asked them if they were
sure he was dead, and they told
me ‘Lady, just stay away, get
away.”
The singer said she asked
them how thev knew he was
(Hep NATIONAL. P 2)
United States Supreme Court.
The Rev. Andrew Young of
Atlanta, the SCLC’s executive
director, said Saturday in a
statement received by a defense
fund committee for Williams.
“I wish to express my sup
port for the position taken by
Rev. Frank Williams in a court
case involving members of his
church. American courts have
long held that clergymen do not
have to divulge confidential in
formation they receive as pas
tors. This is a basic protection
of the necessary confidence be
tween a pastor and his church
members. Now that the Su
preme Court of North Carolina
has refused tp reverse the con
tempt citation I urge Rev. Wil
liams’ church members, his
(See KING, P. 2)
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As lER LOOTING - Chicago: Young girls look at camera cases discarded in snow here Jan.
28 after youths looted truck at left, which was abandoned during recent snowstorm. Bands of
Negro youths are still looting the west side here in defiance of heavy police patrols. Police ac
tion has been stymied because of deep snow, but officers are out on foot. More than vO looters
have been arrested in area which was scene of racial rioting last summer. (LPI PHOTO;.
PRICE 15 CENTS
Seven Denied
Meal Service
At Seaboard
1 rain Station
The hoary head of railroad
discrimination raised its head
here Sunday when seven Shaw
University students were de
nied service in the restaurant
at the Seaboard Airline Rail
road Company, according to in
formation by one of the stu
dents.
The incident was as much a
surprise to the management of
the railroad company as it was
to the victims and representa
tives hastened to tell the CAR
OLINIAN that the company com
plied with the law of the land
as early as 1955 and was happy
to do so.
The affected students, Rich
ard D. Martin, Sidney Twiggs,
Daryl Sills, Dwight Winn, Don
ald Brent, Kenneth Sparrow and
Dwight Johnson are alleged to
have entered the restaurant a
bout 12:45 Sunday morning, in
quest of some food. A spokes
man for the seven said that be
fore they had been able to sit
down, a white woman pointed
to a small place, around the
side of the building, and told
them they would have to go out
there to be served. 'The boys
allege that they walked out the
door and left the premises, af
ter having been told that.
Persons who remember seg
regation days know that there
was once what was termed a
"cubby hole” that was used to
serve people of color, but con
stant visitors to the station say
they have seen no sign of forced
(See SEVEN, P. 2)
Furniture
Customers
Win Prizes
Both of the winners, who pick
ed up Sweepstakes winnings, at
the CAROLINIAN office, this
week, received their lucky tags
at furniture stores. Miss El
cina Johnson, 711 S. West St„
had ticket number 7721, which
she got grom Carter’s, Inc.
Mrs. Sarah Barbour got ticket
number 4910 from G. S. Tuck-
er & Brother.
Miss Johnsor
received $75.0(
for her winning
ticket and Mrs
Barbour got sls.
When asked how
she felt in wan
ning, Miss John
son said, “I feel
good. I’ve nev
er won anything
before. I am
going to give
(See FUFNIT’ RE, P. 2)
Farmer Sees Trouble
WASHINGTON, D. C. - James
Farmer, founder and promoter
of CORE took a close look at
segregation here this week as he
came here for a speaking en
gagement. The militant
Methodist preacher saw two
areas of the civil rights move
ment that might get worse be
fore they got any better.
He did not paint a bright plc
Pleasant
Censured
In Recent
Reprisals
Sheriff Robert Pleasant found
himself in a quandry Monday
when he had an opportunity to
reflect over alleged statements,
attributed to him in the recent -
Klan-scented episode of burning
a cross and pouring oil into
a well, near Knightdale, last
week.
The Wake County sheriff is
charged with having said that
his office had more serious
matters than cross-burnings to
investigate. Wake County’s top
law enforcement officer said
“that this statement has come
back on me several times.”
Sheriff Pleasant is credited
with making, according to his
political friends, a more ser
ious blunder than when he in
troduced Jim Clark, from Ala
bama, and is alleged to have
said that Clark was the type
of sheriff that was needed ev
erywhere.
The matter of the Cross
burning and the pouring of kero
sene in Isham High’s well, has
become a serious one, in view
(See PLESANT, P 21
4$ tat*
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MR. JAMES R. HIGH, SR.
Respected
Citizen Passes
The last chapter in the life
of a man who is ssid-*to have
risen by his own bootstraps
was written at Martin Street
Baptist Church, Wednesday, 4
p. m., when Rev. P. H. John
son gave the eulogy for James R.
High, Sr., who died at Wake
Memorial Hospital Sunday.
Mr. High was born in Ra
leigh, Jan. 24, 1909 and receiv
ed his early education at Cros
by-Garfield School and has re
(See P. 2)
WEATHER
Temperatures for the next 5
days, Thursday through Mon
day, will average much below
normal. Daytime highs are ex
pected to average In the 30s in
the mountains to the low and
mid 40s elsewhere, except
around 50 on the lower coast
and S.E. half of S. C Highs
at night will average 12-23 de
grees in the mountains to
around freezing on the coast
with mostly 20s elsewhere.
Cold weather turning much
colder about Friday and Sat
urday with moderating tem
peratures the early part of
next week. Precipitation will
total to 3-4 of an Inch or
more occurring Thursday pro
bably as rain, snow or sleet
in the mountains and the in
terior sections of the Carolinas
and mostly rain elsewhere.
O
BARBOUR
ture for school integration due
to the fact he felt that many
of the northern cities would still
be burdened with the evil be
cause of its ghettos-structure.
He could not see real integra
tion of the nation’s schools
until segregated housing pat
terns break.
He did not embrace black
(See FARMER. P. 2)
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