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JOIN HANDS IN CUTTING CAKE - Los Angeles, Calif.:
Guy Gordon Smith and Margaret Elizabeth Rusk, daughter of
State Secy. Dean Rusk, cut wedding cake following their Sept,
21 nuptials at Stanford Memorial Chapel. Mrs. Smith will
return to her studies at Stanford and Mr. Smith will enter Army
to undergo helicopter pilot training. (UPI PHOTO).
"Hopeful” Os Marriage
Outcome Says Dean Rusk
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Sec
retary of Slate Dean Rusk said
he was “very pleased” after
attending the wedding of his only
daughter, Margaret Elizabeth,
to Guy Gibson Smith, 22,
a Negro officer in the Army
Reserve.
Smith is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence L. Smith of
Washington, both of whom at
tended the private wedding
ceremony in Stanford Univer
Violence,'White Backlash' Won’t Stop Them
MTLWAUKEF - Fair housing
advocates, having completed a
month of demonstrations, let it
be known last week that nothing
will stop them from marching
until an open occupancy ordi
nance is passed.
The possiblity of facing - and
having to dish out - violence
doesn't faze the Rev. James E.
Groppi, march leader, who is
equally uneoncerned about
“white backlash’’ reaction to
his support of the demonstra
tions.
* The priest who acts as
.NAACP Youth Council advisor,
id it would be good for the
Roman Catholic church to lose
millions or dollars in contri
butions from whites .objecting
to the marches.
The church, he said, might
have to “die and be crucified"
to win the war against racism
The Roman Catholic Church,
however, didn’t appear to "be on
its way out, as a result of the
marches. In fact., it could well
be picking up a number of con
verts.
While he wasn’t leading
marches, Fr. Groppi was con
ducting ‘black masses’' for the
demonstrators, combining the
solemnity of the Roman Cath
olic sacraments with the
rhythms of Negro joyousness.
Mass singing and the playing
of bongoos have been injected
into the usually solemn reli
gious celebrations. The ser
mon theme at one experimen
tal mass was the beauty of
blackness.
NAACP Youth Council mem
bers, better known for their
forays into Polish - Ameri
can neighborhoods, were danc
ing, singing, and praying as the;,
never had before.
The solemn observances not
withstanding, the marchers
made it known that no cheeks
would be turned during their
open housing demonstrations.
Fr. Groppi announced that the
demonstrators were prepared
to use violent means, if neces
sary, to defend themselves dur
it Gov. Scott To Keynote
Get Acqwhfled Program
It was announced that Lt.
Gov. Robert W. Scott, believed
to have the inside track ol the
governorship in 1968, wfli b©
the luncheon speaker for the
Democratic Women of Walt®
County, when they close out a
series of get “acquainted gath
erings that have been going cat
■|*ll summer, at the Statler Hil
ton, Thursday, Sept. 28, l p.m.
All Democratic women of the
county, whether members or
'. non-members are cordially In
vited to attend the gala affair.
Many prominent party workers
wIU be on hand.
The Haw River Democrat,
dairy farmer, and former pre
sident of the State Senate will
help celebrate the Wake group's
seventh organisational year.
sity Memorial chapel.
The bridegroom’s father is
chief analyst with the Army
correction program in Wash
ington, and his mother is a
guidance counselor in the Wash
ington school system.
The bridegroom, who gradu
ated from Georgetown universi
ty in June, is awaiting a call up
for Army helicopter training.
He will probably be sent to
(See “HOPEFUL” P. 2)
ing marches into all - white
areas.
The NAACP Youth Council
advisor said the demonstrators
were using non-violence as a
technique, not as a philosophy
THF OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN - Milwaukee: Several hundred white youths marched
September 13, from the city’s south side to the home of Milwaukee Archbishop William Cousins.
Several of the youths carried a stretcher with a dummy representing Fr. James Groppi, leader
of open housing marches in the city. (UPI PHOTO).
Two Set Backs Cut Into
Hatcher’s Voting Strength
GARY, Ind. - Mayoral candi
date Richard G, Hatcher has
suffered two setbacks in his
bid to become the first Negro
to be elected mayor of a large
city in the 20th century,
A political foe of Hatcher
turhed down NAACP requests
for more voting registrars In
Negro areas. And anti-poverty
workers were ordered not to
conduct voter regisi at ion
drives which might swiny the
election to the candidate.
LT. OOT. BCOTT
NCCs Dr. Whiting Says
'Catch-Up’ Plan Inadequate Fer Job
Educator
Decries
Approach
DURHAM - Dr. Albert N.
Whiting, new president of North
Carolina College, told the col
lege's faculty recently that the
celebrated “catch- up’ pro
gram for North Carolina’s pre
dominantly Negro colleges is
“at this point not even a half
measure. ”
The “catch - up’ program,
while a significant, courageous,
afid commendable step on the
part of the State, is still interms
of impact inadequate for the task
to be accomplished, he said.
“I think we have all arrived
at the point where we realize
that progress toward equality
cannot be measured against the
neglect of the past but rather
against the distance from here
to equality,” Dr. Whiting told
the iaculty members.
“It is clear to me that in
action and half - measures can
only result in prolonged nation
al agony,” the new NCC presi
dent said.
He described as twin goals of
the predominantly Negro col
leges, particularly NCC, attain
ment above national perform
ance norms and creation of a
sense of pride and self-esteem
with regard to ethnic and ra
cial identification.
“Techniques must be discov
ered and developed which will
enable North Carolina College
to repair initial educational
handicaps related to social de
privation and restricted cul
tural participation, within a
period sufficiently short, and
with students of sufficient po
tential, so as not to prolong
unduly the normal span for the
college years,” Dr. W'hiting
said.
“This must be accomplished
alongside of, or within, quality
{See EDUCATOR. P. 21
or away of life.
His statement was reminis
cent of Dick Gregory’s asser
tion that “non-violence” dur
ing the marches was a favor
to white*, aufejac* to revocation.
The two voting setbacks were
particularly disastrous for Hat
cher because of racial align
ments in the mayoral election.
Most of the predominantly
Negro city’s non-whites will be
voting for Hatcher, And most
whites will be supporting Re
publican candidate Joseph B.
Radigan,
The Negro majority could be
expected to work in Hatcher's
favor, except that whites con
tinue to be a majority among
registered voters.
Thus, anything which cuts in
to Negro voting strength direct
ly hurts Hatcher. On the other
hand, the Democratic candidate
has a solid Negro community
behind him.
Among his supporters were
members of the Voting Adult
Council, Gary NAACP, who con
ducted a march In protest
against the lack of Negro depu
ty- registrars to register vot
ers in the city’s predominantly
Negro central district.
The group accused County
Court Clerk John Krupa of not
providing a sufficient number
of registrars.
Krupa, chairman, Lake Coun
ty regular Democratic organi
sation, has refused to back Hat
cher on the grounds that the
GEmgidftte supports "blackpow
“They can register at City
Hall any day that it is open,”
Krupa .said, in explanation of
his failure to name extra depu
ty registrars.
Meanwhile, the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity ordered its
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CROSS BURNER JAILED FOR MONTHS
THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. 26, NO- 44 RALEIGH. N. C., SEPTEMBER, 30, 196? PRICE IS CENTS
PRISON KILLING SETS
OFF MCE FLARE UP
Overtone
Heard In
Slaying
Leroy Battle, 22, of Wayne
County was stabbed with a pitch
fork Sunday at the Caledonia
prison in Tillery. In a telephone
interview with the cAR OLIMAN
Major Fred Ross, superinten
dent of the Caledonia prison,
stated that Dwight Parrish, a
22-year-old white inmate, had
been indicted for first degree
murder. Leroy Smith and Lewis
Morgan, both white, have been
named as accessories.
Major Ross alleges that
£,eroy would be alive today
if he hadn’t crossed over into the
white sleeping units. Accord
ing to Ross, the Caledonia pri
son unit is integrated except
<Be* OVERTONES, P. 2)
Fr. Groppl said his council’s
commandos - whose task it is
to protect women and children
in the demonstrations are
“well-prepared to use violent
(tM VIOUSMCE, P. 2)
workers to stop registering vot
ers - most of them poor Ne
groes who likely would support
Hatcher.
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REGRETTED - This Is a pic
ture of Donzell Junior Vick,
which should have accompanied
a story that appeared in the is
sue of September 2. We regret
very much that the wrong pic
ture appeared and we hasten to
correct this error. The first
picture was furnished from the
files of the Raleigh Police De
partment and the error was due
to the fact that the department
furnished the wrong picture.
This picture also came from
the files of the Raleigh Police
Department.
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HOW TO AVOID TROUBLE - Washington: Archie Moore, former light heavyweight boxing champ
ion, now a resident of San Diego, Calif., told a Capitol news conference Sept. 20 how he teaches Ne
gro youths to avoit juvenile delinquency by learning “to walk around trouble with dignity.” At left
is Sen. George Murphy (R-Calif.) and in background are some of Moore’s “boys.” (U°l PHOTO)
NNPA Publishers
Tali Complaints To D. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C. - The
Department of Defense was host
to a number of publishers and
editors of the National News
paper Publishers Association
last week. The delegation is
said to have gone to Washington
to set up better lines of com
munications with the depart
ment and to present certain
gripes ab out fairness for
Negro civilians as well as
those in the Arm Forces.
They spent two days in the
nation’s capitol, going from one
agency to another, having lunch
with the big bras and hellcopt
ing to Aberdeen Proving
Ground.
The objective seemed to have
been reached when they had a
60-mlnute conference with Se
cretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara and accepted an in
vitation from Vice-President
Hubert Humphrey to inspect
Aberdeen Proving Ground,
The conference with the de
fense chief was off-the-record,
perhaps for security reasons.
All the conferences dealt with
From Raleigh’s Official
Police Files
The Crime
Seat
TV Removed
Lilly Mae Merritt, 234 E.
South St., reported to police that,
on Sept. 22, about 6 p. m., Grad -
dy Johnson of 1002 S. Blount
St., came to her home and re
moved a television set, valued
at $149. It was further re
ported that at the time of the
complaint police were not able
to locate Johnson.
*
Slasher Unknown
Billy Boyd Hill, Fowler St.,
stated to police that on Friday,
he and another man, whom he
did not know, were arguing at
501 S. Blount St., when the man
pulled a knife and cut him on
the left shoulder. He is report
ed as having received a 3”
laceration,
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the participation of Negro per
sonnel in the Armed Forces.
It was pointed out that there
was much criticism about pro
motions of senior officers and
the difficulty of obtaining off
base housing for Negro per
sonnel. The military leaders
countered with much statistical
Murdered Negro For The Thrill
NEW ORLEANS - On the night
of July 28, a 20-year-old Ne
gro youth, Steve R. Young, was
standing on a corner of a street
in Algiers, just across the riv
er from greater New Orleans,
when an automobile passed by
and a fusillads of bullets was
fired and the Neg o youth was
killed. No apparent reason was
given and no clues were found
at that time.
Last week 'three white boy sin
... ■ VUE RATS ARE- Pttutanjk, RIvMAcW
rodent dimensions with rat-bite victims, Joseph Winbush (L\ Sen. Scott was on a rat. Inspec
tion tour here, Sept. 16. He is seeking for support for his legislation to appropriate 40 million
dollars for rat control. (UPi PHOTO).
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to The CMOUMMI office and receive amounts listed above from the SWSwFSHMkKjBS *h«tM*w.
fwo Get 55 Dollars This Week
There were two happy women
in Raleigh last week when they
found that they had the right
tickets In the CAROLINIAN
Swe@pjsf.ates.
Miss Emma Lane did not have
data and supporting policies
that had to be followed.
The much-discussed rumor
that more Negroes were being
killed in Vietnam than whites
was offset by military leaders,
with figures that showed there
were 44,500 Negroes in Viet
(Se« NNPA P. 2)
their late teens were arrested
and are said to have confessed
to the killing. One said that
the lad was killed because the
white boys just wanted to “go
out and kill a nigger."
Charged with this murder are
Thomas Joseph Gautreaux, 18
and William Martin, also 18.
Another youth, Donald R. Hum
ble, said to be involved, 'is
charged with the death of two
cab drivers lured into a lone
ly spot and shot dead.
far to go to get her money,
She lives at 909 E. Martin St.
and brought ticket number 3088
to the office, 518 E, Martin,
Just four blocks away and pick
ed $45.
{Clansman
Surrenders
For Term
CHARLOTTE - The fifth ad
mitted Ku Klux Klansman or
dered to jail when his appeal
time on a cross burning con
viction ran out, surrendered
here Monday to Mecklenburg
Sheriff Donald Stahl.
Donald Laughter, 23, called
the sheriff Monday night at his
office and told him “I hear
you’re looking for me.”
Stahl asked “who are you”
and Laughter identified himself.
“We sure are,” the sheriff said.
Laughter and four other men,
including his brother, Andy,
were convicted June 30 of cross
burning and were sentenced to
18 months ift jail. Notice of ap
peal was made to the State Su
preme Court but it ran out be
fore the appeal was actually
filed. On a motion by the coun
ty solicitor’s office, Judge
Frank Snapp ordered the five
men jailed.
Laughter did not appear at
the heai'ing. It was reported
he was in Baltimore and pa
pers were issued to bring him
back.
School Head
Predicts 12 Mo.
School Year
GASTONIA - Dr. Charles M.
Carroll, Superintendent of pub
lic instruction for North Car
olina, addressing a six-county
meeting of the North Carolina
Education Association, pre
dicted that a 12-month school
session would be tried at the
beginning of the 1968-69, by at
least one administrative unit,
here Tuesday.
He also projected a formu
la for meeting the standards of
the U. S. Office of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare.
Carroll said the U. S. Of
fice of Health, Education and
Welfare is putting more em
phasis on racial integration of
staff than on pupils.
Last year, Carrol said, North
Carolina had 60,000-62,000 N
egro students in predominant
ly white schools. He said he
(See SCHOOL. P. *)
A fourth member of the gang,
whom the others felt was about
to squeal on them, was taken
out and shot to death. Police
say all four were killed by bul
lets from the same gun, accord
ing to ballistic tests.
Police say that mprg than a
score y of persons, including
close relatives, knew all about
the murders but none gave any
evidence of that knowledge to
police.
The MOOD* wimer was Miss
Asm Louise MdCargo, 224
Fowl® St. She ®«shiteEi®d that
she ‘’felt happy nhcmi wh&ftng.”
This was her firm time. She
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