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MEREDITH FACES POWELL Local Teacher Killed In Crash The Carolin J!j|pi| I I ———■-- ; - i '- ' ■ ■■•''■' '-.' - ■ ■ ■' ■' :..-:-^^-l—--i ——l VOL. 26, 3BQ. IS DR. ROBINSON ELECTED PRESIDENT Whitney Young Says Negro Must Fight For Rights ~ JAMES MEREDITH Or! ftigftfer PkM As Umkm C@m!ks@te NEW YORK - It lb a long ways grom the steps of the University of Mississippi ad mission building to the halls of the Congress of the United States, but James Meredith thinks he can do just that. He had the following to say when he faced newsmen here Tues day, after agreeing to run, as Republican, for the seat, held by A dan'. Clayton Powell for 22 years and vacated by congress last week. Meredith conceded he might he scorned by Harlem Negroes in opposing titeir udknowiedged hero, but “I faced the people of the state of Mississippi. How then could 1 be fearful of my fellow Negroes?” Meredith, 33, said in accept ing the designation to run a gainst Powell in the special 18th District Congressional e lection that he thought he would make a better c ong re s s m a n than the high-flying Powell. “I think the people deserve more than they are getting. Whatever influence Powell had he no longer has,” Meredith said. At the outset of bin uphill campaign, there was an Indica tion Meredith would employ the theme of "good verses evil” as a central issue in the race against the trusted congress man, Harlem’s flamboyant preacher-politician for more than two decades. A poll of the 18th Congres sional District by the Opinion Research Carp, of Princeton, N. 3,, commissioned by WCOS TV News, indicated that <52 per cent of the votees would vote for Powell; 25 per cent said they had nest made up their minds. The rest reported no opinion. WEATHER SMomtonm for- ttee aexS: fm S»ys. ®fe.aviwS*y Shnuigh Wwiassr, wtfl «y«5938«* nkm aofHsal. P.&*t etal ftoy Wms Sti|fe at, Tuerawl nis&t (Sate tow ®5 wsaawr wlil to! tSitowsg fey k wtfswSas ieesaS fflwasgfc Mae psstoS. fhw- was uaml J-* we fwt «f m HatSk, mmtu&ag m msd* turns »■- Am stensw toe p&ri sS -irnmiH srwaft. Sf. Atjg. Star Attacked - - OFHCETS HOSE IS MtOfflt -aaiss.fi Dad MrfKie, who mmv-md the IMfr-fW St. At* fcsMtajf&Stl taam, was the vie &m of as assault Bwxiday night that resulted m a police offilo «r gatttag hi* nnse broke. MesCie alleges that te. visaed IstryTs Frosty Bar, onC»lwn»d Am,, rn&r Kill St., tor the parposs? sf tearing uome food. JVortft Carolina’s leading- Weekly SLEIGH, 58, C., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1967 Meredith, the 3 3-year -old law- student and Air Force vet eran who in 1962 became the first Negro to be admitted to the University of Mississippi, was named late Tuesday after noon by local Republican lead ers as their candidate in the April, 11 election. The state introducing Mere dith said in part: ‘-’The Republican leaders looked for a candidate w’ho would represent all that is good ir. out political and governmental system; a man who would con duct himself on a level of prin ciples important to the people of the community - above self advancement." The choice of so well-known a personage as Meredith was particularly surprising since it had bee a widely predicted that the GOP would have trouble finding a Negro of statute to make the race against Powell, whose ouster has acted as a catalyst to solidify virtually ail of the major Negro organiza tions in his support. Klansman Defies School CARTHAGE fUK) - A Ku Kiux Klansman said in a suit Monday that it is "a form of tyranny" to force his son to attend a public school class taught by a Negro. W. T. Barber of Aberdeen is seeking to have Judge George M, Fountain of Moore Superior Court order his son, Frederick Alan, 13, reinstated at an a berdeen school.. Young Barber lias been under suspension periods since Sept. 15 for refusing to attend a health class taught by- Nathaniel Carter. Carter, a coach who also in structs classes in health arid physical education, is the first Negro faculty member at the school. Barber, in a writ seeking to force the reinstatement of the boy, said fcfc son "is physically and psychologically usable to attend a class taught by a Ne gro teacher, ” The school officials said the ( i«m SEUHimSXSf, >?. 8) He aOeges that when the tod was ready and bad hem gtesa to him that Larry Elite attenjpt ed to piflk a fjgtot wMi him, but fee ratoafl to (mm mypart, Elilts, IS, who liw&s at E» 32 W&shtoiftan Terras**, Is al leged to tee to mo» test MC&ie as hs headed tor Attetasan Dormitory and .1s»l Battle For Eight® Far From Won ROCHESTER, %. Y„ - ‘ "Ne groes must aggressively fighito expand opportunities and to take advantage of them when the fight Is -won, * Whitney M. ‘Young, Jr., executive director at the Na tional Urban SLeague, told & University of Rochester audi ence recently. Speaking at the third off the University*s Frederick Doug lass Sesquicerrtennial Lecture* Young said that “Negroes must prepare them sei ves for the nau tradltional jobs which are be ginning to open up and they must learn to use their economic strength to holster the economy of the ghetto, thereby creating mere jobs and more money,” Young noted, however, that the ultimate responsibility for solution as the racial problem plague the country must lie with the white community. ‘"The present position as Ne gro citizens is one which is the result of a determined effort by the rest of society to ex clude them,” he said. "The Negro has received an extra ordinary amount of assistance to get to Where he is today, the position at the lower end of the socio-economic scale; he Is going to need at least as much help to get aid of it.” Young said that “although the past several years have brought gains to some Negroes, the po sition of the masses of Negroes is worsening. Statistics show thai segregation in schools and in housing is increasing and that the Negro is slipping further behind. In ghettos like Watts in Los Angeles or Bough in Cleveland, median income act ually declined at a time when ccm auras, ?. m Sicclccfeiii i AJMiifi NATCHEZ, Misfi. (NPI)-The slaying of a local civil tights leader threatened to offset gains made alter 19 men were in dicted In three other Mis itssippi civil rights killings. Meanwhile, leaders across the country warned of further racial unrest. In Natchez, the FBI, stepped into the slaving of Wharlest Jackson, 37-year-old former NAACP treasurer, who v.-as killed when an explosion ripped through the cabin of his pick up truck. He was driving home in hea vy rain 10 minutes after fear - ing work at the Arm strong Rub ber company. Charles Evers, NAACP state field secretary, charged that Fmm Raleig:ti% Official 'Mmz Files mi mm mat Stallings Cut By 1-1,. Hinas James Lee Hines, 21, 547 £. Hargett Street, w&sremand ed to jail in the charge of using life knife on the body of Oihc Stephens Stallings, 25, of 313 SL Tar-boro Street. From information furnished police an argument, which was topd to have told him he was gofe* to toast him. The fosu»fe*tbaU player says that whm they reached a dark toot that EEfe his him arid tie Ml, iaais®' hfcs grip m the toad. Warn WsXESe .get «p he alleges that he made Si -for the building.. E.Uls Is alleged to <*»£ mm,», Zi PRICE 15 CENTS. glifefftF v OR, P„ R. RGHBJSC® Robinson To Head St. Aug. The Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Fra ser, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, and Chairman of the Board of Trus tees tiff St. Augustine‘s College has announced the 1 appointment of Dr. Presell R. Robinson, President of the College, ef fective immediately. Since last May, Dr. Robin son has been acting president of the college. Be succeeds Dr James A. Boyer, Who re signed last year to return to the English teaching faculty erf the school. During the 1966-C7 school Dr. Boyer lias been at tending graduate school. He served as president of St. Aug. beginning In 1955. Dr. Robin son has been at St. Aug since (gee ROBINSON, p. Z) the firm “harbored” Ku Klux JGan members who might be responsible for the Jacks o n slaying. The killing recalled the bombing of a car belonging to another Armstrong employee, George Metcalf, local NAACP president, in 1065. Metcalf, who still walks with a limp after being injured in the explosion, also charged that Klansmen worked at the Arm strong plant. The Jackson slaying came only days after 19 men, includ ing a sheriff and an alleged Ku Klux Kian leader, were in dicted in the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss. Among those indicted were (See JffiWSJSSERPI, 9. ZS the result of a domestic mis understanding, on Mon da'-, &- bout 1i:43 pjtu, ai 300 S. ‘A' -.d Place, Hines is alleged to have used a kitchen knife on Stall ings and to have inflicted a 1/2** wound in the victim’s chest and to have opened a laceration 11/2” deep or. the right elbow. Hines was placed In jail in lieu of a 5300.00 bond. f»nssi«ts Sfolmn Fags Maryland Gaie«, 20S Ydle wiid, related to police how, upon Ms arrival as GaierJ Tavern, 406 E. Bsvle SL, to Thursday, he feumi ttiact the look had been pried from the front door sad that some pennies had hmu tatoo from the cash register. He also said that sttmt a carton and emAvStt «f elgaraties tad Iwjen removed. <»«** tjmmt nmm, 9. s> Accident Victim To Be Buried Thursday Funeral services fear Miss Mary Sue McClain, 125 S. Pet tigrew St., who was killed when tier car went out of control on the Old Creech Road about midnight Saturday, will be held from St. Paul ASffiE Church, Thursday, 4p. m. Rev. B„ £, Foust officiating. Music will be furnished by the Ktttrell College dee Club and resolution s from Kittrell Cdlege will be read by Dean Woodard. She wdli be interred at Carolina Bib lical Gardens. I Miss McClain Is said to tew teen killed in stantly and t-wo companions Slier mar! William s and W3SM* M. Winters, were taken to Wake Memorial Hospital. WfMams. is reported as having received cats in the face, while Winters was believed to have required treatment to Ms leg and back. Investigating officers opined that the car trawled 247 feet after it left the road and finally stopped in a pine tlucket. The death victim, 23, grad uated from Si. Col lege in 1965 and has bean teach - ing physical education at Ktt trell College. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James McClain, at the Petti grew Street address. 'Williams is still confined to Wake Memorial Hospital and was reported In a semi-con scious condition on W ednesday. Winters was released this week. Williams related how he and Miss McClain were riding to the front seai of her 1965 2- dcor hard-top Skylark Bilick find Winters was alone in the back seat:. They were travel ing north on Creech Ed. and Miss McClain bit a soft should er and the car went into a spin. Williams also said that he ted been going constantly with Mass McClain and that they had planned to announce the wedding date soon. Sweepstakes Somebody failed 40 go to the right store tills week and there fore there were no winners. Certainly there should he three winners each week and if you, the reader, would pick up your ticket at each store we would (»®e JWHDBWHtMBM, Jf. R> Neshoba County Sheriff Law rence Rainey end Sarn Holloway Bowers, Jr., identified by the FBI as the imperial wizard oi' the secret White Knights of the Ku Kiux Klan. Bowers also war indicted last year in connection with the i SWEEPSTAKES MUMMERS l 4612 5190 4400 ! WO*THS7S WORTH S3O WORTH S2O § Anyone Swvlaj current CJRI3SN ticket#, Stated Starch 4 1697. with proper number* ssotne « to The GA3KXLINIASSI office and receive amounts itoted above frorr. fn* feature EDITORIAL FEATURE The Thought Exchange By Gordon B. Hancock NEGRO LEADERSHIP CHALLENGED An Ops r Letter Gentlemen : This letter it directed specifically to you, Dr- Martm Luther King, A. Phillip Ran dolph, Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and A. Clayton Powell, because you are the acknowledged leaders of the Negro race. There are many would-be leaders, but you are the accepted and »hkn,owledged leaders because of year .hard won respect pi the race. You ha ve been weiglited in the balance end not found wasting in rrumcc and anility. Cucfissagssfcjags hfcvt cottspir ed to promote you to a lead ing. leadership of a atricken race, and ao m crucial and critical hour, to whom shall we turn & sat to jnm? Thaw mt tnvJfoplymg' evidmeo 48m the eml rfgfate in tsast ;j$ Negro’# commaadablle •&« fun eemhip fsm mtsm&et taigbmy and its leaders have been vksdicstcd. But it is oS>- vioua that a reverse reaction has set in ®™ points to ■CHARLES W„ -JOEDAS lonian’s TmMemt iih Ended With 6m Blast Charles Win to n Ser dan, whose life span ended about 11:30 sl. m., Tuesday, when he received a load from a 12-gauge shotgun, from the hands of. Ed ward Warren Jeffreys, White grooeryman, in the chest, was a symbol of the much biblical atoonftic®, '"The wages of sir is death.” Persons who saw him walking wesa or, Martin Street minutes Ceng. Adam Powell To Sue For Seat Washington, bl c.- l«*»i forecasters and admirers ot deposed Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, anxiously a waited tbe filing of a stofc by Rowell's attorneys here Wed nesday, in one of the Federal courts. Persons close to him, ac cording to a release from Chi cago feel that things have brightened considerably for the YW€A Meet Explores Expsmma Potential Construction otf snewniodeni buiidtog is planned to replace tbe present dilapidated struc ture now housing the East Ra leigh ©ranch ETC A on Davie St. Property has been acquir ed to the 500 block of East Har gett St. for a new building. The new facilities wiD include a multi - purpose room and stage, which will be used for gyro activities, social civic and educational meetings, Y-Teen dances, and other community uses. A large kitchen, with pantry, will tie used for serv ing groups and for teaching fcomemaking skill s. Three meeting rooms will be used for clubs and class gr oups. Pro vision wfil ilso Ire made for a dual -purpose craft s and dorm - itory room, staft and adminis trative offices, and a lounge. There will be ample provision for future expansion and off street parking,. To relieve chronic over crowding, supplementary space the conclusion that the Negro is being thrown for a loss, and herein lies the pity and the danger which is a titantic chal lenge to the Negro race: and unless cer tain trends can be changed the Negro is in for great tribulation. A noted Jewish Rabbi recently appeared before a Sacra mento, California audience and declared that segregation throughout the nation is becoming more widespread and threaten ing’ Now comes from Paul Anthony, Ex ecutive Director of the Southern Regional Council, the most powerful interracial at gankatiem in the South and nation, with fee somber statement: “White Southern ers have gone through an incredible revo iKtiosi. Their whole society and all its pat reras have changed and with, considerable justification, many are proud of the- way in which they have accommodated to ttm chiWAfr, They have changed structuae*, a«sq»ted laws and become accustomed to radicci tokenism.. Nqsw they arc impst ient, embittered defiant aad canim&A that rosrt would he demanded. This is because f»*ft vxxsmss. **. before the incident occurred tel] hem be waited ostensibly along the side walk with his head partially covered with a coat, Ms trousers disheveled and his shirt out. He is said to hate gotten within about 50 fee: of Jeffrey's store arid stop ped, gestured and made a com plete about face. The store is located at the corner of M ar ise* r. ev coag/ essman - minister, which gives Mm a jubilant attitude as be :ev«ls in the comfort off his Binri;! Betreat. Here are ex cerpts fruit, the release. There wasn't much for Pow ell himself to do but wait and let others turn him into a martyr as he called the shots in between domino gamuts. While waiting, he received the good news tiiat he was loved is ranted to a rundtiwn office building on South Blount. How ever, the growth oi' the pro gram and thfc physical dec!ioe oi the building have produced a full scale facilities crisis, An addition to the Central YWCA building ou Joses Si., to include an indoor swimming pool, gymtorium,, and woman’s fSe*- We* P 25 Harry Golden To Undergo Surgery CHARLOTTE. (CPS) - Har ry Golden was to undergo sur gery here today to relieve a bile duet obstruction. The 63-year-cIC author-edi tor has bear, to Charlotte Mem orial Hospital since Dec. 26 when tie was admitted lot e mergency gall biaddei surgery, Son Richai d Goldlnit si, said (Bee H OOLSSTK. P. 2) NCTAMeet To Be HeM Next Week Durbar., NueiS; Carolina *l3l be the scene off tbe S6tii An nual Convention of the North Caroline Teachers Association, which Ms been set soar Thurs day and Friday, March IF, and 17. The sates of the Convaa f ion are the Oaatral Civic Out er, tbe Jack Tar Hotel and Motor Lodge. Hillside High School and North Carolina Col lege at Durham. ffip gjf&L jjfr. ; aHnZI t • SaSPB f&gf* a ' CR, 'GROVE Tbe theme off! t h e i s divftdaall Commitment tel Pro ffes steszl E »celSe«ce.** Dr. Harry E. Groves, presl-i dent, Central! State TJniverstoy! will deliver the] or. Thu:sday at* 6:15 p. m. at the first general assembly to the .auditorium of The Central Civic Cejalei, DP. MURRAY | Cte Friday, Marefc 17, at 5:15 j p. an. also in the [auditorium of | tt* Cetera! Ci [ vie Center, Dr,. (Paula Murray, f consultant so r | tte Equal Eaa |ptosmeat Op portunity Com- I mission, Wasfc . teg-ton, D.C.wiH he the keynote speaker. Dr. Murray is editor and compile: oi stake laws oc Ea«e and Color, published by the Vomae's Di vision, Tbe Methodist Church, to 1951; and author off Human Rights USA; 1946-1966. She is a native of Durham. «** *m j». ?) more than evei back home and that much of tbe Nev,- York court judgement against him had been lopped oft. Powell broke into a smile and exclaimed * •"Beautiful, ** wheai told that the New York Stare Court of .Appeals had rul ed ie did not have to pay a $100,090 penalty imposed by a lower court in the defamation of character suit brought by Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow. Powell's exclusion from Con gress had its cons cA&tions. Tire Bimini vacationer could be comforted by the fact that all the Negro representatives vot ing on his ouster backed him. Anjong those voting against exclusion were Democratic Peps. Jo!in Conyers, Charles Diggs, butts from Michigan, Pep. Augustus Hawkins, Cal hum la, and Bep. jo) m N. C. Nix, Penn sylvania. Rep. William Dawson (Ell.) did not vote on the Powell ous ter. Powell could reflect an ttie moral support teing given hint by his eonstiuitent,, Negro leaders and otters. Harlem was said to tie so lidly behind him. The communi ty “is shocked and angry at tbe action taken on Congress man Powell/’ said “a slap in the face 'if every black man in t.he country..” National Urban League Exe cutive Director Whitney Young, Jr., said tire Powell mister was '“Shocking*' to that it “denies U.< basic right of his consti tuents to representation off their own choosing. ’* A PMllip Randolph. A.FL-CIO Vioe-presidest, called coag tsw r&mm*, r n Killed For Dollar Bet TAR BORO - Robert Cobb, Jr. 44 _yr. —old common laborer was given a preliminary bear ing here Tuesday, to the slay ing erf Leroy Blake, 66, S&tur daj night, as the result of an argument over $3.90 in a card game. The evidence given at the hearing revealed that Cote and Blake were engaged to a card game and the argument, started over failure off Blake to pay off, what Cobb termed a just bet. Blake is said to refused and Cote) set an him with a knife. Cobb is alleged to have slashed Hake's face several, times and than to have cut his throat. When officers reacted tbe scene they zre said to have found Blake lying on hie face and his throat cot. Edgecombe coro ner, J, G. Baby, ruled that Blaise died as the result of having been stabbed to the throat. The result of the hearing was that Cdte> was ordered ted a an a charge of first degree mur der and committed to ja.fi, with out the prtvfiage of band, sub ject to tow nest term of Edge combe Superior Gettrt, CoMs is said, to have ted many ewcouiner* with toe ’Taw” and to have spent quite MWe» time to the -atopioy of the state., witters pity, for vartaas ssttd sundry vicSstiaas. Wake is said to have been retired and ms aitstained by monies received from the §e»snmumtm
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