With Edenton Teacher
FATHER OF TEN DIES IN AUTO
2 Killed
InMoming
Car Mishap
EDENTON - This quaint little
eastern town was schueked Sat
urday morning when it was an
nounced that two of its citizens
had been killed in an early
morning auto mishap, in which
the driver missed a curve and
ran into an abutment.
Thomas Leary, 42, gasoline
attendant, and father of 10 chil
dren, and Miss Ella Herring
I.llioti, 30, a teacher in the D.
F, Walker School, were both
killed, when the car in which
they were riding, early Satur
day morning, failed to round a
A curve as the two are said to
have been returning to the city,
from a cluh, where they are said
to have spattec)
There were no eye witnesses
{o the accident and investigating
officers were not able to de
termine the cause of the fatal
mishap, it was reported that
the front door was torn off of
the car.
Miss Elliott is a native of
F ayetteville and has t>een a
member of the school system
ior one year. She taught an
IV class at Walker. The fun
eral was scheduled to be held In
Fayetteville Thursday.
Mr. Leary is well-known,
having lived here for a number
of yeai s. The oldest of his
ten children is said to be about
17 years old. His funeral was
slated to be held in Bertie
County Wednesday.
MISS NORRIS
Durham
Teacher
Classroom
Fatality
DURKvM - Miss Miriam
I,aura Norris, 3G, a teacher at
Whitted Junior High School, for
the past seven years, died sud
(See TEACHEtt, P. 8*
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FREEDOM DAY PRINCIPALS - (Left to right* Ist row,
Mrs. Lawrence wife of the Honored Guest, SpectaMst/6
Lawrence Joel, Distinguished Guest and the only living Ne
gro to receive Congressional Medal for Gallant Service In
the U. S. Army; Specialist Lawrence Joel, Dr. P. R. Robin
son, President Si, Augustine's College, who introduced the
principal speaker; The Honorable Clarence Mitchell, HI, of
Baltimore, Senator in the Maryland House of Representa
tives, principal speaker, Mrs, Millie Dunn Veasey, President
f of the Raleigh Branch of the NAACP; Mr. Edward Muse,
Life Membership Director of the NAA.CP of New York; Rev,
1 Frank Hutchison, Minister The Davie Street United Presby
terian Church, Raleigh; Dr, M. M. Adams, Youth Director
and long time Civil Rights Worker In the North Carolina State
'Conference of NAACP Branches. (Back row) Mrs, L. L»
Graham, Vice President and State Conference Field Work
er; Kelly Alexander, State Conference President of Char
lotte; Mrs. John 0, White, State Conference Life Member
ship Chairman and Charles A, McLean, Field Secretary* who
planned and directed the Rally, which was the most mc
ceesfol rally In the history of the Conference.
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Better Known As Cassius Clay
MUHAMMAD COMMG
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North Carolina *$ Leading Weekly
VOL. 26, NO. 25 RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY. MAY 13, 1967 PPTr -E 15 CENTS
Raleigh Man Charges
Johnston Jail Cruelty
Vandalism HHs East St.
Robinson
Asks For
Med. Aid
Mrs. Jacob Robinson, wife of
Jacob Robinson. 44, of 867 Ha
dley Rd., charges that her hus
band is being held in the John
ston County jail under baa cir
cumstances and with no regard
for his life.
Mrs. Robinson alieges that he
was taken there Saturday night,
after he was arrested for the
death of a 17 months old white
child, as ;.»e result of a wreck,
in which his car and that of the
dead child's father, were in
volved.
She alleges that her husband
was the last one to be taken
from the wrecked cars and that
he remained pinned under the
steering wheel of his car for
some considerable time and
when he was taken out, he was
carried to Wake Memorial Hos
pital, under heavy guard She
further alleges that when it was
found that the child was dead,
he was whisked to Smlthfield,
without proper medical atten
tion and placed in jail.
According to her, he is sore
ly in need of medical attention
and law enforcement officers
have refused to heed his or
her piea to get a doctor. She
says that the wound, that re
quired stitches, at Wake Mem
orial, has not been looked at, or
treated, since Saturday night,
(See JA3L* F. B>’
COLUMBIA, S. C.: Pickets stand guard at one of the entrance to Allen University’s campus
May 8 which resulted in a 100% boycott of classes. The students in background took turns, dur -
ing the day, blocking entrances to the campus. Students are boycotting classes in protest to
action taken by the school’s board which resulted in the resignation of the white dear., at the pre
dominantly Negro university. (UPI PHOTO).
NAACP To Pash Vote CmmAm
The State Conference of the
NAACP, which met here in its
Freedom Day observance Sun
day, went on record as waging
two wars one to implement
voter efforts and to do what
ever it could do prosecute the
war in Vietnam.
Sl#te ffcwf
At St .Iff.
The campus of St, Augustine's
College was the scene of a
shooting Saturday night that re
sulted in four persons being
Charged with assault, with a
deadly weapon.
it has teen reported that
there is an under current that
has teen going the rounds, which
breeds no good feeling among
students who live in Raleigh and
those who live on the campus.
It is also reliably reported that
we. m«i., ». n
Kelley Alexander told the 1700
persons, In attendance, that the
organization must redouble its
efforts to get Negroes regis
tered and that it could not stop
there, they had to be voted,
before it would count. He call
ed upon every local chapter to
take an active part In all the
affairs affecting their respec
tive communities.
The war effort was intensi
fied when Sp/6 Lawrence Joel
said he considered it an honor
to serve his country and to do
a job. He said very little a
bout the plaudits he had receiv
ed for his act of bravery, in
the line of duty, when he sav-
Swmpstakes
Gaming In
P^&hrity
Somebody did not go to all
the stores listed on the Sweep
stakes page last week. This is
evidenced by the fact that there
was only one winning ticket
picked up.
Mrs. Naomi Turner, 655
Coleman St., picked up ticket
#7825 at Tucker Furniture Co.
arid got $15.00 for it. You could
have been a winner, perhaps,
(BSe« SIWEEFSTAKBBjP. S)
From Raleigh's Official Police Files
mi cam but
IwMwmuMwwiiineivn
Man Statuses
Cut By Girl'
Charles Andrew Hood, 39,
524 S. Blood worth St., finally
made up his mind, after having
been slashed in a family brawl
that involved him, his wife and
step-son.
Hood alleges that he and his
wife were having an argument
about 6:20 p.m, and his wife's
son, John Lawson, 17, be
came involved. In some way
Hood is alleged to have re
ceived a 3" cut on the left
side of Ms face. He would
sign no warrant for this, but
when his wife cut him about
8:30, the same night, and the
police came agate, it was more
than Hood coaid take and he
signed a complaint.
ed 13 of Ms comrades, while in
throes of enemy fire.
Senator Clarence Mitchell,
HI, of the Maryland State Leg
islature, keynoted the program
with an appeal for a rededi
cation to the tenets of the NAA
CP and to see that every man,
regardless of his station in
life, would get those rights
guaranteed by the constitution.
The Prince Hall Masons,
headed by ClarkS. Brown, made
a $2,000 contribution to the or
ganization. The members of the
Eastern Star, affiliate of the
Masons, also made a report on
holiday seals, which is a pro
ject, sponsored by them, to
raise funds.
Mrs. Florence I. Irving was
given special honor, as the
“Mother of the Year.”
WEATHER
Temperature* fur tht tteart
five (Says, Yfcur*dK7 Sh rough
Monday, wiU average above
norma! except for near nor
mal over the eastern part* of
Worth Carolina. Daytime high*
are expected to average a
round Ms in eastern North
Carolina sad mostly Is the
lower and add Ms etsc-where.
Lows at night will average S 6
to fS© carsept around 87 to Si
in the mountains. Slather
warm Thursday throng* the
weekend. Turning cooler again
about Monday. Precipitation
win total less than 1-d of a»
inch, occurring as scattered
showers or thunder showers
about the early part of next
week.
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Hubby Cut In
3-Way Fuss
Donald Yarborough, 717 S.
West St., was cut up and then
shaken up when he found out
who cut him up Thursday night,
after his refusal to accompany,
what he thought was three girls,
home.
Yarborough reported that he
was talking with three; girls
and one asked him to go home
with her. He refused the invi
tation and “she” cut him on
his left forearm.
The cutting seemed strange to
the victim, but after he was
treated and made an investiga
tion, he found that they were
not girls, but boys dressed as
“girls.”
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HERE
Ex-Champ
Expected
May 20th
The dethroned champion of
heavy weight boxing, Cassius
Clay, who plead not guilty to a
charge of evading the draft and
will have to face a court of
law, placed Raleigh on his tour
ing agenda, as he takes to the
road to expound the tenets of
his acclaimed Muslim religion.
Muhammad Ali, (his religious
toga) will visit here, next week
and is expected to use his talk
ing talent to extol the virtues
of the religion, as he preaches.
He will also visit Durham.
Even though he has been
stripped of his title, Clay is
said to be seeking three fights
outside of the United States, be
fore he answers the charges of
draft dodging.
Those who know the history
of champions and the army are
calling attention to the fact that
Jack Dempsey was charged-with
the same offense. They argue,
however, that Dempsey's fail
ure to answer the draft, was
mere ignorance, supported by
misinformation. When Demp
sey came to trial he was ac
quitted in ten minutes.
In the meantime Sports Ac
tion, Inc., says that it will be
gin an elimination contest to
determine the successor to
Clay’s crown. The bouts been
tentatively set up to begin July
Youthful
Offenders
Arrested
Raleigh police moved swiftly
Wednesday morning and by 30
o’clock had rounded up seven
of a gang rtf youthful vandals,
who terrorized E. Martin St.
and S. East St., Tuesday night.
The gang is said to have
started at the Matador Club in
the 400 block of E. Martin St.
at about 9 p. m. and to have
continued on a glass breaking
and general marauding expedi
tion until about 9:30 p. m.
They stopped a.t Jeffrey's
grocery, Martin St., and East,
and proceeded to break out two
window panes, on the East St.
side of the building. They are
then reported to have stopped
next door, Irving-Swair Press,
where they broke about six
sections of jalousie window.
It is believed that they then
moved into E. Davie St., through
(get VANDAL*, B> 8)
WEEKLY
LEGISLATIVE
REPORT
NOTE: This is the twelfth
of a series of weekly summaries
prepared by the legislative staff
of the Institute of Government
on the work of the North Car
olina General Assembly of 1967.
It is confined to discussions of
matters of general interest and
major importance.
* * *
The Gmeral Assembly
passed through another week
of hyperactivity, leaving ob
servers gasping in a moun
tainous wake of paper. Mon
day was the last day for regu
lar Introduction of local bills,
and it brought the greatest flood
of new bills in history, 126
in all, 105 of them being local
bills. This far outstripped the
previous one-day high of 91
scored on the corresponding
day of the 1965 session. Af
ter a blessed grace a few local
bills began to trickle in with
Rules Committee approval
Wednesday. By today a total of
15 locals had been introduced
since the deadline,
ShlftLng gears following the
local bill avalanche, both houses
moved full tilt Tuesday into
public calendars that have log
jammed awaiting resolution of
the East Carolina anti brown
bag issues. Since Tuesday
each body has churned out a
number of public bills every'
clay with the Senate concen
trating on an accumulation erf
motor vehicles and highway
safety proposals, and the House
dealing with a variety erf mat
ters.
Several developments stood
out in the week’s efforts. To
day the House completed pass
age of the abortion bill (SB
104) after two days of wide
ranging debate led toy the Mil's
! * PHOTO NEWS-ft,
SOfTH VIETNAM: pMUpa
Schuyler, famed American pia
nist who was working as a war
correspondent, was killed May 9
in a helicopter crash in Da Nang
Bay. Miss Schuyler had been
working in Vietnam as a cor
respondent sos the Manchester
(N, K.) Union-Leader. She was
the 10th American news cor
respondent killed in Vietnam.
(UPI PHOTO).
GUESTS OF NAACP - Tills is the family erf Sp/6, who were
guests of the State Conference of the NAACP Sunday. The hero
made a short, but impressive address to the "delegates at
Raleigh Auditorium. L-r, the son, Mrs. Joel and Joel.
■ ELECTED - Dr. Jot' J. John
son, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church on North Main St.,
Fairmont, was elected to the
Fairmont City Council on May
1, 1967. He received the high
est vote of all his other seven
opponents, lor one of the two
vacancies on the Council. He
becomes the first Negro ever
elected to any position in the
city. The city is unique be
cause it lias three races: Ne
gro, Indians and white.
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MARYLAND SENATOR - Clarence Mitchell, m, and his wile,
who attended the NAACP Freedom Day Rally, Sunday. Mr.
Mitchell Is a member of the senate of the Maryland Legisla
ture. He keynoted the meeting and urged a rededication to
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STTBENT AMD PARENTS - Freetown and mspbamores on
the North Carolina College campus Is Durham flayed hosts to
their parents to the annual Mother-Daughter, Father-Son
weekend Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7. Shown here are,
left to right., John P, Crumpton, Sanford, and ins sophomore
son, William P. C rum.pton; Mrs, Marfan B, Glama, Raleigh
-,nd daughter, Josephine Glenn, a freshman.
JUDGE COMES HOME -
Judge W. Veargin, Jr., a na
tive of Raleigh is in the city
visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James W. Veargin, Sr.
Judge Veargin spent his early
life here and expresses deliglrt
over the way he found things,
on coming back. He was quite
active in the affairs of the em
pire city and was rewarded with
a judgeship.
HEADS PRESBYTERY - On
May 2, 1967 at a meeting erf
Fayetteville Presbytery (U. S.)
in Raeford, the Rev. Mr. R. A,
Massey was elected moder ator.
This is a "first'* in the his
tory of this predominantly white
organization. During the 353rd
stated meeting, the new mod
erator handled a very heavy,
important, and history-making
docket. He is the pastor of
College Heights Presbyterian
Church.