-NINE COLLEGES GIVEN AID Shaw And St. Aug. In Number NEW YORK - The Ford Foaodatkm announced this week that nine North Carolina schools had been included to the $o million, as the first stop to a new Ford Foundation effort to meet specific needs, to predo minantly Negro colleges, to the south. Barber - Scotia, Johnson C. Smith, Livingstone, Shaw and St. Augustine's will receive grants to strengthen their fa culties. v The Southern Education W Foundation was given $266,000 * for self-study. A&T, Fayette ville State, North Carolina Col lege and Winston Salem State will receive a grant from this ftftid. $75,000 was allocated for co operative arrangements be tween white and Negro institu tion*. North Carolina College will participate to this alloca tion. s2s, 000 was made available to plan cooperative projects. Workshops will be set up at Bennett, Barber - Scotia, St. Augustine’s, Shaw and Winston- Salem State. Fifty two Negro schools will be involved in the overall grant. F. Champion Ward, a vice ( couunom. Officers Open Door 'For Sally PICKENS, Miss. - James Meredith let loose a bland at some of the officers of Lee'* | Chspel CME Church here Mon day whan they attempted to atop him from entering the church. The ire of his temper flared and he had the following to say. "*1 can understand why" so many Negroes have been lynch ed,” Meredith told & padeed crowd whan fee finally got into a church, "Some of them need it.” The marchers tod passed throxgfc the town and were to vtt*d to speak at the Ladle* Aux iliary Poet of toe American Legion. Meredith accepted the invitation, and along with about 14 ether members of the mart*, got into care and headed bat* for the church. When Meredith and his fol lowers got into the church, two ft the officers of the church, Walter Body and Gus Hamilton tovtoed them to leave. There wag a bitter exchange of words and Meredith is alleged to have told osj® of the officers he was white and the reply was, “I V was born a Negro.” The chairman of the church officers board, Jimmy Hoover, arrived to time to not only atop the argument, but told Meredith to go ahead and tell them what he had to tell them. i The marchers reached Can t«*» nrnmmr*. w, « IP wtmt mmm termt mwermm 1 SWEEPSTAKES NUMBERS ! I 1402 8165 6600 i l _wmmm wmimsis iwnno » f^j?*'**- *»»*■■)« ftssw® to lalto « ttete's, «ws®» Mwb, *&* fetes tor laundry to ■@ate VB9&, ste toB! «w®adte®»r «te, Sto dtetete fete 'Msk an CHURCH BLOCKS MEREDITH The Carol/n/an VOL. 26, HO. 33 ML C’l Anson €o®n ly v BOMBINGS DEMAND ACTION OF FBI, SBI Wreck Wipes Out Six ** ***! Ten i??** <* car ***** si* masters at a tecSl* last toeir , oat » as 14 Raveled at a high rate of speed, aloqg J-95, test acros £ 6 S * C ’^f’ eLte4 ,‘ Virginia. Three were throws to instant death and tores tod to be rat. from the debrte, to order to extricate their bodies. Fear Weakens Board Aid Given By Moore WADESBORO - Trouble seem to continue to m aunt for the dogged Anson County School Board. First there were threats and then dynamite blasts and Monday there was a suit, by the NAACP, which charged that the plan it has tried to put to action is net enough. The trimmed down board, originally seven, but now down to four, met Monday. It blast ed the apathy of many of the yt®m >M ths?‘ ar« fialefi JVSy 8165 is good ior sls, ansi GOOO Stefr© £>tim M Mzi&g —BPBfI atefcijstit day «rs troalnte to Butto- S®*B «®*t. «tee Sniper fire wounded a Negro mUi tm- W&grv t&qw. 24oze toan 1,000 Sitegro yotagsters stag ad rfpasnkflte asaJ roifa tonrwwtag raids an some 400 In #k> oeetsor. erf tee ichij. W®S£¥f-OX North Carolina % Loading Weakly RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, JULY,**T 1967 citizens, about the county’s edu cational system and also asked for protection of their lives, from the wrath and indignities of those who would go the li mit, to stop integration. It also asked the U, S Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare to give the county a supplement, in the hope that it would aid in bolstering the teacher situation. (fit* fka*. r 2) Native Os City Dies in District WASHINGTON, D, C, - The funeral of WHilam (Slab) A lexaader, native of Raleigh, is scheduled to be held from the People’s Centre fa fetes! Church, at 12 news, Thursday,, Mr. Atexawter died la a lo cal hospital, after a lingering illness, that seized feta severe ly, abend two weeks ago. He was bom in Raleigh and was a product erf Washington School. Ha is also a graduate of Johnson C. Smith. He held a position with the Federal gov ernment . He is remembered in Raleigh as an avid reader and was very seldom without a book. He was a member of the CAROLINIAN staff, during the early forties. Hs report or ia! work with this newspaper reflected his wi4® knowledge of men and events, His wife preceded him in death, having died June 1,1986, He is survived by case sister, Mrs. Mary Alexander Cos, Washington; one uncle, Claud® Whitaker and a cousin, Law rence C. Lindsey, both of Ra leigh. It was in Raleigh that Alex ander began his career. He was an authority on sports and current events and was called upon often to set the record straight on debates that de veloped in many circles He left Raleigh to take a position with the Federal government. Atlanta Mob Fights Police ATLANTA, Ga. - A small m .*> of Negro youths hurled bottles and scuffled with police men Monday to front of a store where a Negro man was ar rested. Ac least two policemen were Mt by bottles. One officer drew his revolver to force the mob back after the arrest of Willie Ricks, a member of student Noovio'eat Coordinating Corns mtti.ee OSNCCX Ricks had stepped irons scar in front of « CkAfttag store to downtown All auto. He was met by cries "black power" from the crowd, tb«e ounsbertog *- bout 25. Ricks was arrested ss&moarf Immediately and the msfe surg ed alter him and toe police man toto & p&s'ktng- g tsrafgi se er us- the street ?,* s«ws H teteewtof a www of rtetteg to Ttetete, ««tos as tetoatds help tor «w* t€ toe <&bh& alter *s»a*w3 prwtees tor .ter «*» tmm smii M, CO^fSKSTOX SUCCESSFUL TREK MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - Canton, Miss.: James Meredith pulls his <- a frcmt the conrt houst here Jul J’ 4at «* his “March against fear" through Mississippi, This march, ■which began to Hernando where he was shot bv a sniper June 6 1966 was without Incident and lasted il days. (UPI PHOTO). * * iWr# Scfr§#f ioonf fls SmU Pn§mm for 5W Interested persons, who would like to see something done about school dropouts and kin dred evils that beset toe edu cational programs, expressed deep regret that the controver sial Wifte Couaty School Board turned down a Federal Elemen tary Secondary Education pro ject, this week. It is said that Fred Davis, chairman, was against it at the outset, bat Mrs. Mary'Gentry, Iredell Citizens Aroused STATESVILLE - The Statesville chapter of the NAACP plans to picket a laund erette that figured to civil rights arrests last year. Negro minister Rev. Wilson Lee, a board member of the local chapter, said Monday be has a permit to picket ’ the Chamber Maytag Self-Service Laundry, owned by J. Carl Chambers erf Statesville. Lee &Ne ssaiagwauuK, r. .?> Fmm B^e%h ? s Offidai Police Files mattm t iat Slick Thisf Mamie Lou Bijrrell, ISC2 Branch St., knows what it means to he in the world and not be of toe world. She told police that she was toe victim of a slick thief Friday as she was about her business, at 201 E. Hargett Bt. She alleges that sosrieoßff removed a red leather billfold, esataising sls from her purse. who Is said to love lost much favor in the Garner school fight, seems to have been th? propel ling factor In getting the pro ject vetoed. Mr. Davis made Ms position quite clear about a month ago, vhe® he said it is “social re form never intended by our founding fathers." At that time, board member Mrs. Mary Gentry erf Garner had championed the summer camp, saying, “The real intent here is to help the child whose parents’ Income does not justi fy a vacation or trip to be able to say, “I spent a week to Urn stead Park," even though the spent it to reading or crafts.’ Last Monday, however, Mrs. Gentry, had changed her mind and came out publicly against the camp. She said it was dan gerous to have an overnight canto for fifth and sixth grade students who “are at an ex ploratory age '* In an interview Tuesday, Mrs. Gentry reaffirmed her support of “the general idea of the camp," but again said that “A bove the age of nine, I think it would be a little dangerous ' fte* *K»AW» 9, t) Playful Cut Wflbert Lee Parham, 35, Rt. 2, Fuquay-Varina, might have heart! to not play with fire, bat did not remember that a knife is nothing to play with. He told police that he and Ben Thomas, 41, 316 Cannon St,, were “playing” with a knife, Friday, about 3:39 p. m., and received a i 1/2 inch ga'sh to the left hand. WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE REPORT NOTE: This is the twenti eth of a series erf weekly sum maries prepared by toe legis lative staff of the Institute of Government on toe work of the North Carolina General Assem bly of 1967. ft is confined to discussions of matters of gen eral interest arid major Impor tance. * * * A Review of the 1967 General Assembly * * * With this Issue of the Weekly Summary we begin a review erf the 1967 General Assembly, to be completed in the next issue. * 7 * Broadly viewed the ’67 Assem biy has left its imprint most clearly to the areas of court organization and procedure, ■water resources law and pro grams, corrertiotial and jail re form. tax reduction and tax law revision, business activity, health and welfare, election law, and educational policy. Two po litically explosive issues also required an extraordinary in vestment ofleglslative energies before being finally disposed of, ‘'brown bagging’’ and Congres sional redistricting Tills year' saw' a continuation of efforts at court reform and reorganization underway since 1959, with an unusual record of success. Two products of the work of the Commission on toe Courts ranks with the major a chlevement of the scission: the creation of an intermediate court, of appeals to help relieve the burden of an overworked Supreme Court, and the adop tion of a uniform jury selec tion law. with elimination of all professional exemptions from jury duty. Also adopted was a Commission recommen dation lor an omnibus revision of numerous statutes needing minor amendment in the wake erf a decade of court reform. A reorganization of the system erf Superior Court soiletters was enacted today by House approval of a Senate -passed Wil. Finally, a new set erf Rules erf Civil Procedure --the first major revision of a century was enacted after years of careful spadework. The General Sta tutes Commission has bet® pa tiently at work m this epic for seven years, at the request c€ the North Carotins Bar Asso ciation. Water resources legislation has been another area erf mu auai productivity this aesrton. Alter eight years of virtually no legislative activity to the field, the 196” oexston has brought two landmark statute# md a host, ai lesser dbMfM. The first erf the mm laws ra orgaatae* to® Departtucat erf Water Iteeteunoas wttfetwoptits trfpai changes- addfe* to its Tsmiikm flat of air polMtes tfee S4KMeABtm Jft m WiATHiI H>wm»#iv»otww ferSaa m* **» j*>«! WnwwStiy tesmmtin Wmm- Am- was »*»»•» mmtSs s&s&im nmmeU Sfemni fcSietw »*« «- m MUM* m. Wwnwa «HS« tin » lesws mm 2£»*» mmm» #». fewifetew •teg. w*» feme MaiU «*>s»see w mam.