CLAY APPEALS 5-YEAR TERM
Con 168 Out
Fighting
BY DARRELL MACK
HOUSTON - Former heavy
weight champion Cassius Clay,
contending he is a Black Mus
lim minister and not subject to
the draft, was found guilty in
Federal Court Tuesday of a
voiding military service and re
ceived the maximum sentence
five years in prison and a
SiO.OOO fine.
Clay stood rigid and taller
than his three lawyers, staring
straight ahead while an all
white Jury announced its verdict
of guilty after some 20 minutes
deliberation and then again min -
f utes later while U. S. Disst.
S Judge Joe- Ingraham pronounced
the sentence.
"It’s just what 1 thought,*’
Clay said of the verdict. "It
hears out the teachings of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad
and the mighty Allah.'
Clay's lawyers said they will
appeal to the U. S. Supreme
Court if need be.
Ciay had once said a person
could not get justice in a white
man’s courts.
Did he expect to get the
maximum he was asked.
'*Oh, yes, I thought 1 would,”
the deposed champion said.
Clay said be would stay in
Houston a few days, free on
bond and then go to San An
tonio, Tex., or Hawaii or Puer
to Rico. He did not expand
on those travel plans.
There normally would have
been a pre-sentence by the
judge, but Clay asked that this
be waived.
"I’d appreciate it if the court
i will do it now, give me my
1 sentence now, instead of wait
ing and stalling for time,” Clay
said.
„ To Assist
Beginners
In Area
Nine schools, in Wake Coun
ty began Head Start programs
Monday, while six began in Ra
leigh ; riday, The city pro
gram will end August 11, while
the county program will end on
August 14.
The city schools are: Lucille
Hunter, Crosby-Garfield, Mur
phy, Washington, Thompson and
Barbee.
In the county they are - Fu
quay Varina High School, Apex
Consolidated, Riley Hill Ele
mentary, Knightdale Elemen
tary, Rolesviile Elementary,
Garner Consolidated, Jeffrey’s
Grove Elementary, Swift Creek
Elementary and Bebois Ele
mentary.
The city program will pro
vide pre-schtol help for 475
to 500 underprivileged children
who will enter the first grade
in September, The county pro
gram will include about 645
Children.
Instruction will be provided
by 43 teachers and 43 teach
ers aides in the county and 31
teachers and 3!teachers aides
in the city.
Head start is a federally-fi
nanced program whose purpose
is to provide help and enrich
ment for culturally deprived
children who will lie of school
age in September. Most -of the
children involved are six years
old.
SWEEPSTAKES WHIRS
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to The OStMQUffIASS efbtice him receive listed above fesen Use BWB£&XAj£iu> iaattwa.
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There was still the f&fiur©
of two psople to go to toe right
store last week, bseaus® there
ws only ewe winner, while
there could have feese throe.
Miss Ger&tdtee Lassiter, M„
5, Fuqtsay gprfcsgs, drew SBO
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few 8324. {ls® got it from
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up, St wsw worth sni
f 1111 remained wtew IS was ttnd
30 more dollars were missed.
This money will be added fete
Yok etoedltl j<sta toe crowd
»• sod go to am of fee Store* and
* p.td»: op the right number. You
tara seed of fee feisgs, sold
by -these stores, so why passag
fee epportunlty of eMf **«
ton money, by »w* intyfeg from
thsee stores, fi would Is® a fine
Jfel to ferny from a* many as
few® as y&u pumtmei am . The
_ '•fefetof tickets are in the stores
HEAD START BEGINS HERE
THE CAROLINIAN
VOL 26, NO. 31
1 DIES IN ATLANTA
Brings SIOO,OOO Suit
REFUSES TO MOVE OR - Attests; Negro girl battles with
Negro police®*® who arrested her when she failed to obey
an order to move css as police tried to dear an area in the Dixie
Hills subdivision June 20. At least four persons were shot
one of them fatally - to sporadic gunfire which punctuated
the riotous evening. (UTi PHOTO),
Woman Charges Bad
Treatment By Cop
ELIZABETH CITY - A Mur
freesboro woman filed a
$100,OfX) civil rights suit agates*
a policeman at the Eastons U.
S. District Court here Monday.
Mrs. Esfla Jones, 55, charged
officer Dorsey Brabble afMur
froesboro violated her civil
rights of! March 19 when fee
arrested her for public intoxi
cation.
In papers filed Monday, Mrs.
Jones charges that she was
"severely assaulted and detain
ed. .. in violation of her civil
rights. 8 ' The action further
alleges that Mrs . Jones was
arrested without “just cause
and severely injured because of
her race.*’
Mrs. Jones seeks $30,000 for
sad you shots] d ptek town up.
The tickets for this week are
yellow asd dated 3m» IT. Tfe®
numbers sad values are a® fol
lows! 5792 is worts S2S; StTO
te good for S3O and TO hsss
s4© Mafing a® it,
WEATHER
sraaa® (KWHOM WH®*
too will «tnw«g» Ami jsmup.
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North Carolina'» Leading Wmkly
RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1967
special and general damages,
and $50,000 for punitive damag
es.
The papers were filed by Cm -
rad 0,, Pearson of Chapel Hill,
one of Mrs. Jones’ attorneys.
Her arrest touched ofi de
mands by Murfreesboro Negro
es for the suspension of Brabble
but the Town Council refused.
This is the second such case
filed to the eastern part of the
state against law enforcement
officers. Two Elizabeth City
women have charged that they
were manhandled by two offic
ers when they are alleged to
have gone to their home to serve
a warrant. The former sherifi
<j«t by iwOmetod ptatoe with riot sticks aftor a near riot erupted daring * ■ ,! «sSc~te f * % a group of
women reetptente of city welfare outside fee Grow I'M Welfare Office te Boston** SUaflmry
eestton 4mm ‘2. Hundreds of persafes mostly yoangetora, arrow vodka and btoSns ifenkf 1$
policemen. -Borne »D persons have tom arrested. QBVt PHOW).
Policemen Charged
With Terror Reign
BY DAVID BUCHOIZ
ATLANTA - Gun battles be
tween rioting Negroes and
gun -armed police engtediaihe
Dixie Hills ghetto Tuesday
night. One Negro man was kill
ed and at least three other per
sons wounded.
One of the wounded, Mrs.
Catherine Duncan, 51, claimed
she was shot when a police
officer opened fire with a shot
gun into an apartment house al
ter a cherry bomb exploded at
his feet.
Police Supt. J. F. Brown
denied one of his men fir®! the
shot.
The blast Mo the a.parf.mcat
killed Timothy Ross, 41, and
wounded Mrs, Duncan, 9-year
old Reginald Rivers and Marion
Ward, 34. Condition of the
wounded was not believed ser
ious.
RENEW VIOLENCE
Sporadic gunfire began
crackling about 9;40 p. m. EOT
in the area where Negroes at
tacked police with bricks and
bottles; and sniper fire Monday
night. Marauding gangs also
knocked the windows from
stores throughout the stepping
center that forms the bob of the
area in West Atlanta.
The violence broke oat Mess -
day night after Stately Car
- michae! urged Negroes to join
in “revolution” against whites.
The Rev. Joseph Boone, as
SCLC field-worker, said Tues
day night that people believe if
Carmichael “disappeared
things would be all right - but
that’s the biggest lie ever been
told.”
Riot-equipped police sur
rounded the area and an ar
mored car was called into ser
vice for the second consecu
tive night. Searchlights prowled
the area for rioters and police
checked everything that moved
in the shadows.
At least eight persons -were
arrested.
Released Prisoner
Mysteriously Hurt
Local officers at a loss to
determine how Myron Leroy
Lee, 413 Dorothea Dr., sustain
ed injuries as he was leaving
Central Prison, after having
beer, released from jail Satur
day, 1 a. m,
Lee says he was walking up
M'.otforcl Ave. toward Boylan
A ve., when he began
hurting in the chest. He then
dvoided to return to Central
Prison and fell.
An ambulance was called by
Officer Av cock and Lee was
PRICE IS CKNtf
Ward said fee &«d the three
other shooting victims were
standing on tte ground level otf
itm 'mmm, r »>
Attorney
Heads W-S
Ins. Firm
WINSTON-SALEM - W. A
very Janes, 76, a veteran law
yer, became the new presi
dent of Wtest as Mutual Life
Insurance Company Thursday,
June 15 as the result of a®
election by the Board of Direc
tors.
He was a vice president and
general counsel of Winston Mu
tual dtartag the past 23 yestrs.
{See **. Tt
taken to Wake Memorial Hosp
ital.
R. C. Pearce, the jailor, who
released Lee, said that wlwa
he turned Lee out, he noticed
dried blood on his shirt and a
cM .on •Ms bottom lip. He al
leges tliat be asked Lee what,
happened and Lee i&aghed and
said, ‘1 don't knew." Lee is
alleged to have told Aycock
that lie was beaten to jail.
ft was disclosed that Lee had
a braised ctest, a braise cm
left jaw and ;** cut on bottom
Jto.
1 .. MBK f Ifij
GRABBED AFTER SENTENCE - Houston, Test.: Former heavy weight champion Cassius Clay is
grabbed by some admirer as be leaves federal court In Houston June 26 after a S-mass and 6-
weuaor* all-white Jury found him guilty m charges of refusing tnduettoo Into the Army. Clay, who.
feat he is a Black Muslim minister and not subject to the draft was given the maximum
eenteoce of five years in prison and a 10-tfecwsaad ddlar Hue. (UPI PHQTOX
Crist Sfefe Ifawf hurl
Sfslt !® ¥mms &&§ms
Trials for crimes, new trials,
sentences auad bunted criminals
fcegA law enforcement officers
busy at. the beginning of life
Here in Raleigh a ISi-yr.-cSd
ycsfb was arrested Tuesday
and charged with first
dograe burglary wttfe Intent to
commit rape. Ervia Lavanrs
Cooley, 548 1/2 E. Hargett St.,
is in jail charged with enter
ing the room of Miss Dorothea
Miller, 20, 548 E. Hargett St.
and attempting to rape her.
Mrs. Deborah Avery, 19-yr,-
oM white woman alleges that a
i©-yr.-otd Negro youth broke
into her home, early Tuesday
nsoniiag, at 111 N. Bloodworth
St.., with a broken, bottle and
forced her to pat her baby,
ha bed with her at the time to
the crib, and attempted to rap?
her. She alleges that she broke
away and ran to the front of
the bouse.
In New Bern Tuesday, two Ne
gro youths were sentenced to
15 years to prison for the rob
bery of a bank, after they ad
mitted they robbed the Gaston
Branch of the FitMers National
Bask and Trust Company m
May 29, They were given addi
tional 10 years terms for break
ing into the same bank on April
29.
James Snyder, Jr., 17, a mi
grant worker from Miami, Fla.,
is to the Wayne County jail
o© charges of assault with Intent
to commit rape on. a 61-yr.-old
white teacher, Miss Paul to
Short.
Sheriff Bill Adams said Miss
Short told Mm sfce had gone to
a shed to get a rake when
Snyder followed her to and shut
the door. »
Adams said the woman told
Mm Snyder grabbed her., threw
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UMUw
imjumvm - A midnight
trawl at a roadhouse, 'located
kfeotit 5 mflss west of Bt» Le
vel, to tbe Stewart Cwtdk sec
tion, Sunday, remitted to one
mam betsg killed and another
jailed, without the privilege of
bond.
Sherifi Wade Stewart, H&r
aett Ccwsty, told the€AßoLW
pw wmwmtrrr. w, s»
Front Raieigii’a Offktel Police Fite
mi mm mm
if km
Bmiglm WtlgM,
mtv% m sm mat
U w&s s*#®M for sm»»aße te
mmrms & M*’ red Welters Fly
*r Mtea Storn kto kasnn. We
tepmted to i».rc«ay to prfHr?
aafl *#sed recov'*n ! w
her ob tbe ground and told her
he would kill her if she scream
ed.
Agate in Raleigh, the State Su
preme Court gave Warner Fow
ler twice convicted for the slay -
tog of a From oat policeman, a
new trial.
Conflicting evidence about the
shooting was given by Ruby
Rivers, (Fowler's girl frtead)
and James Sasser, a police of
ficer. Rafcy Rivers testified
that Fowler made so statement
as he fired the stoat. However,
Sasser quoted the woman as
telling him Fowler remarked
“he was sorry but he had to
do this 8 ’ when he shot. Braswell.
The high eourt noted that Sas
ser's testimony offered to cor
roborate Ruby Rivers’ account,
was actually “to contradic
tion.”
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BY GROVER BAILEY
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King was recently interviewed
in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. King dis
cussed the recent racial distur
bances that 'have manifested
themselves to tbe forms of ri
ots, as in Rostery, Mass.; Tam
pa, Fla.; ami Prattville, Ala.
and said that these riots were
the results of tbe white man’s
refusal to accept the Negro on
equal terms.
In Ms traditions.! tone, the
civil rights leader stated that
the government was to a new
phase of -struggle and that Ms
purpose was to breakdown bar
riers. Om phase ©Kited, ft
is not that the peaceful demon
strations have become nritSteM,
but that this phase is more de
manding “because it is tesie,
economic, poittkad, as issue
which will, cost tbe nation some
thing.*’
Tlse head of the SoMtera
Christian Leadership Ccsmsll
and one of the most respected
civil rights leaders ro&Mafe
ed Ms ooe-vletteßft policy and
said that the civil rights Is to
restructure Itself, and develop
a powerful movement to the
Negro community that will be
beard.
The Hotel Peace prise wtew
explained Ms pmMcm m V, S,
ism mmw.m .
PisfeS Staton
Cleveland Parker, 5S©
BrancSi Sfcre«S, told poHoe IMS:
* 2* «aMter fdstol was re
mowed from Ms h&&rmm Ssd-
Wfeep. Be told «®e® ns be had
stowoa to ossptot, Ime Hinton,
iS,4KaNßnapr*.
<ft» rswt neat. *: it
WEEKLY
LEGISLATIVE
REPORT
MOTE: This is tbe eigh
teenth of a series of weekly
summaries prepared fey the
legislative staff of tbe iurtltuto
of Gwemmeat on the work of
the North Carottoa General
Assembly of 1987. lls con
fined to discussions of matters
of general interest and major
Importance.
* * *
The General Assembly
ground Is way throaghaaother
of the traditionally frenzied
weeks of to end of ass Sion
rush. Tlse order a i the day
from Monday through Friday
was long hours of committee
and floor action Involving to
mass of important legislation
fluid, this year as to years past,
gluts to legislative agendas
to its waning weeks. Calendar
Committees were appointed
this week to both houses, a
customary device fear discou
raging new introductions and
expediting pending committee
business. Nonetheless more
teas 109 new Mils were un
veiled this week, bringing the
session’s total of Mils and re~
sdtestices to 2078. This ex
ceeds to camber of tatrodoc
tksns for the entire session
daring every Assembly of to
past quarter century except
1903, and to 1®63 gross of
2101 is likely to be eclipsed
next week.
No clear sign of a sine die
adjournment date Is yet vi
sible. Tlse mere mechanics
of erarollteg laws still to be
enacted woagd almost certain
ly reqaiT© this Assembly to
eoottune at least Mo to last
week of mm Kto toils
of remaining business were
completed nest week, ’live ap-»
preprtatiaas Mils teave act
bees reported by tte Setoa®-
raMtees m Appßyndations to
to Ml committees, m event
wtoteto bow seems likely tooc»
osar around to middle of nest
week. Fes the fourth Wed
nesday 4® saccesstaa, this
week, to total ndieroflffl*
-Mi committee i&igSstty 'lncreas
ed up from 827 to 829
MBs to to two bouses, with
328 of mem mis mttitef in
to Appropriations and Fi
nance ConmCttees.
Local Qomcmemi.
Tte 1958 General .Assem
bly responding to reoara
medstfeas of to MwdcSpal
Government Study Cooinifs
sicn, enacted sssfesisstisi and
far-reacting ctaipss to to
powers off local government,
wffii p&rttet&ar stteMtastett*
a@*sS 'for services a®d forl*d
ssstsartais areas. Ttet &.»-
mmMs atso adopted a ftola
««tol revfetes of to Jaws
ndattaC to **sd
syMwnKlto revitei-lwdffe B ©-’
perty fm M valor®® Is*®*.
Stoce 1«*», tmfiM
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fmdlistm fey stow?afe tes
tow ta lew m 3 far Mkmm,
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