ENTRENCHED - Dak To, South Vietnam: With the fir t ,v» ( i tt battl ! for Hill 875 over,
members of the 173rd borne Brigade entrench themselves in North Vietnamese Army bunkers
before the next stage in the fight for the hill Nov. 21. U. S, Army paratroopers of the 173rd
4irborne Brigade Nov. 22 began a final assault up the bloody slopes of Hill 875. (I PI RADIO
PHOTO BY DANA STONE).
Late Filter 38, In Omth
Retires His Church’s Debt
CHICAGO - Mount Calvary-
Baptist cnurch has been left
well cared for by its young
pastor of nine years’ standing,
the Rev. A. Edward Davis, 38,
who died recently.
It was disclosed after his
death that Rev. Davis had made
the church the beneficiary of
a policy covering two parcels
of land which would practically
eliminate the institution’s in
debtedness.
To Solve Race, Poverty Problems
WASHINGTON - The prob
lems of race and poverty can
not be resolved unless their
are made the Nation’s
first priority, the U. S, Com
mission on Civil Rights de
clares in a report last week.
In the report, A Time to Lis
ten . . . A Time To Act, the
Commission concludes that the
problems of America’s cities
and the people who live in them
will not be resolved by a search
for culprits or conspirators or
for solutions which are not cost
ly in terms of money and ef
fort.
Referring to the incidents of
racial violence experienced by
numerous communities, this
year, the Commission con
5 Burned Tots
* ftvrfed Iff Smm Gnm
POWELLSVILLE - Perhaps
the greatest catastrophe that
ever hit this peanut-growing
section had its finals Sunday
afternoon, when the bodies of
4ive small children were lower
ed into one grave. The five
children lost their lives in a fire
about 9:30 Saturday night.
The CAROLINIAN was in
formed that their bodies were
burned beyond recognition. A
report stated that Betty Jean,
7; Kenneth 6; Curtis, 5; Lor
raine, 3 and Denise 2, all chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Lee Freeman, perished in the
fire, of undetermined origin,
while their parents were away
from home.
The house was located on a
farm, said to be owned by D.
Brown, and was about four miles
from Powellsville. It was a
four-room frame dwelling and
was completely enveloped be
fore anyone saw it. The bodies
of the children were found near
the back door.
The father, 27, is said to have
rearned from a hunting trip
in the early part of the night,
just at the time the mother,
Gladys, 24, was leaving, with a
friend, to go to the store. It
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k 10 Tsi * CAROLINIAN office end receive amount* listed above from the SWEEPSTAKES Feature.
Oat Winner In Sweepstake
6820 WAS TOE
WINNING TICKET
Mrs. Lessie Bell, 812 E.
Cabarrus St., picked up 6829
In one of the participating stores
in Sweepstakes, last week, and
received $20.00, which meant
more for Christmas presents.
| The Christmas season Is upon
and you could not have a bet
ter present than to pick up one
of the tickets with any of the
Slumbers shown above. The tic
kets are in the stores and the
sum of $105,00 is available to
three persons, you can be one
of the three. Check the stores
on the Sweepstakes page and
make your way to one of them.
The tickets are yellow this
week. The numbers and values
are as follows; 8312 is good for
Rev. Davis also made ample
insurance provisions for his
wife and six children.
The most abiding legacy the
young minister left was his dy
namic influence on his congre
gation.
Among his projects were the
establishment of a college
scholarship program for aver
age students and the planned
construction of an old people’s
Asks First Priority
eludes: “Nor can it be justly
argued that remedies for the
discrimination suffered by the
millions of Americans who live
in slum ghettos should be de
ferred on the ground that to do
otherwise would be to reward
violence. Violators of the law
must be punished. But it would
be a cruel paradox if after years
of failing to reward patience
or redress injustice, we were
to use such violations by a few
as an excuse for continued in
action on theproblems which af
fect so many and involve us all,”
According to the Commis
sion’s report, the racial disor
ders of recent months and the
increasing alienation of minor
ity groups should be viewed “In
was reported tnat he left, leav
ing the children unattended. He
Is alleged to have told a ques
tioner, when asked why he left
the children alone, “I do not
know just crazy as hell I
guess.”
Graveside rites were con
ducted by Rev. George Watson.
The Freemans are said to have
been sharecropper s on the
Brown Farm.
Negro Cry
Foo Weak
NEW YORK - Black people
“need much more of a voice in
the direction of their communi
ties -- in their schools, in their
welfare services, and police,”
according to Dr. Alvin Pous
saint.
The assistant professor of
psychiatry at Tufts University’s
New England Medical Center,
Boston, said the black power
idea may help prevent violence.
Addressing the New York
State district branches, Ameri
can Psychiatric association, he
declared the “Black Muslims
(See Negro Cry, P. 2)
SSO; 7927 pays off to the tune
of $45 and 2000 will bring you
Set Back At Central State
WILBERFORCE, Ohio - Violence-torn Central State Univer
sity has suffered another blow; Its president, Dr. Harry E,
Groves, has resigned.
The predominantly Negro institution has been closed since
Nov. 14, when turmoil erupted after an ousted black power
leader, Michael Warren of Cleveland, sought to gain re
entrance.
The university planned to re-open in two weeks but before
it did, Dr. Groves announced his resignation.
"I was prepared for the larger battles. lam disgusted
by the trivia/* he said, alluding to accusations that he chang
ed the route of march for graduation ceremonies “and equally
inane charges.”
Dr. Groves did not refer specifically to blackpowei tumult on
campus, but he spoke of “elements determined to destroy
the university/*
home.
Increasing the church’s
membership from 1,000 t 03,000
during his tenure, Rev. Davis
arranged for babysitters and
bus transportation so young
families and old persons could
attend church services and acti
vities.
Rev. Davis died 19 years af
ter entering the ministry at
age 19.
tne context of great frustra
tions, of laws and programs
which promise but dp not.deliv
er, ot continued deprivation,
discrimination and prejudice”
in a society which is becoming
increasingly prosperous.
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show n'o disdain for the camera as he is being hustled into a
police car, in front of the Carolina Hotel, Winston-Salem,
Tuesday evening, after having been arrested for the armed
robbery of the K&W Cafeteria Sunday. He and an accomplice,
Walter Henderson, 21, are charged with taking $2,580 Sunday
night.
Rowan County School
Bows To Integration
CLEVELAND - Another one
of the land marked of dual ed
ucation was marked by the Row
an County Board of Education
Monday to take its place among
$lO. The tickets are dated
Nov. 25.
Negro To Run For NC Gov.
xj-ry&jy spsj-so-sj* -ts-fe-s-s
Henderson NAACP Prexy
Takes Officers To Task
THE COROLINIAN
VOL. 27, NO. 1
11l
ON GOVERNOR’S COMMIT
TEE - E. P. Thompson, exe
cutive vice-president, Heritage
Books, Inc., who has been nam
ed to the Governor’s Study Com
mission on the Public School
System of North Carolina. His
committee is to study textbooks.
Two Men Rob
Wkuten-Sakm Cafeteria
WINSTON - SALEM - Local
police worked fast in the rob
bery of the K&W Cafeteria, lo
cated In the Parkway Plaza
Shopping Center, Sunday night.
the relics of outworn customs
and tradition.
The Board announced that the
high school department of the
all-Negro R. A. Clement High
School would be closed next
year and the remainder of the
158 students, who nowattendthe
school, excepting the 1068 grad
uates would be transferred to
West Rowan High School. The
elementary department will not
be closed and will serve the
entire community.
The CAROLINIAN learned
that tills move had been anti
cipated even before the 1959
edict was sent clown from Wash
ington and the Board began pre
paring for it by improving the
facilities at the West Rowan
High in order to take care of
the anticipated increase. It was
believed that the transfer would
tend to bring Rowan County with
federal school requirements.
The lioard authorized county
school Supi. Jesse Carson to
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Editor Mourned
NEW YORK - The death of
George K. Hunton, 79, editor of
the “Interracial Review/' is
being mourned In this city and
elsewhere.
Hunton, who has lx?en identi
fied fur 33 years with the New
York Catholic Interracial coun
cil, was a member of the NAACP
Board of Directors from 1955
to 1966.
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1967
Student Succumbs In Bed
Shaw U. Campus Is
Shocked With Death
Natural
Causes
Given
Representatives of Shaw Uni
versity, led by Willie Ed Jones,
president, Student Council,
joined the relatives and friends
of Edwin Brewery Sneed, Jr.,
19, in solemn final rites at
Second Paul Baptist Church,
Washington, D. C., Wednesday,
1 p. m.
when they took two suspects
into custody Tuesday afternoon.
David McCoy Bishop, 23, was
taken into custody at 2-30p.m.,
when a cordon of 20 policemen
surrounded the Carolina Hotel,
while three others went into
the hotel and arrested McCoy.
He gave address as the Car
olina Hotel.
The second suspect, Walter
Henderson, 21, 2422 Glenn Ave.,
was arrested while sitting In the
Municipal Court room, waiting
to answer an assault charge.
The two were remanded to
jail on charges of armed rob
bery, to - wit -- having taken
$2,580 from the cafeteria, a
bout 8 p. m. Sunday, just at
closing time. They are being
held, in lieu of SIO,OOO bonds.
They are scheduled to have
a hearing Friday morning in
Municipal Court. Bishop is al
so being held on a fugitive war
rant from New York.
One of the holdup men en
tered and told the cashier, Mrs.
(Svc BOfeBERY, P. J)
Goldsboro
Shows Gain
GOLDSBORO - According to
Rev. L B. Horton, coordinator
of the voter registration drive,
being conducted by the NAACP
here, there were 100 new names
put on the books Saturday,
bringing the total number of new
registrants to 132.
The special drive began Nov.
18 and will continue tgrough
Dec. 9. It is being pushed
very strenuously. Rev. Horton
is the pastor of the First Afri
can Baptist Church.
The Wayne County Board of
Elections approved appointment
of seven Negroes to serve as
special registrars in the effort.
Three special registration
places were designated: First
African Baptist Church, Les
(See amjfZBOKC, P ?>
From Raleigh's Official
Police Files
The Crime
Beat
"Booze * This Time
Thieves, according to police
report, decided that they would
quench their thirst with aleho
lic beverages, and chose Wed
nesday night, after 6 to do so.
William Cooper, manager, ABC
Store, 128 E, Cabarrus St., re
ported that someone broke the
front door and entered. He al
leged they carried away an un
known quantity of whiskey. The
store was held up recently and a
sum of money was taken.
* * *
Shows Anger
According to Judge Upchurch,
729 S. Bloodworth St., David
Gllltspie, 319 Smlthfleld St„ did
not like the way he told him
to leave his house at 8;15 p. m.
Friday. Upchurch is said to
have told Officer R. Stewart
that Glllisple got mad when he
told him to leave and t>egan
cutting on him, with a butcher
knife. The knife is said to
have left a 1” laceration on Up
church’s left leg,
<See CRIME BEAT. ,P, 3)
Sneed, a junior at the Baptist
Institution, was found dead in
bed Saturday, in room 101 South
Hall. Willie Martin, 814 S.
Wilmington St., told of being
notified by Edward A. Lane
that there was a sick student
in the building. Martin went to
CITED FOR NAACP SERVICE - Attorney C. O. Pearson, Durham, Is shown as he pleasantly
receives a plaque from Charles A. McLean for more than 30 years of legal service to the NAACP.
Mrs. Pearson smiles her approval, Pearson is said to be the dean of lawyers, who handle civil
rights cases and heads the group. The plaque was presented at the closing session of the 24th
annual convention of N. C. State Branches, at the Jack Tar lintel. Pearson was also the honored
guest at a banquet, given for the lawyers.
NAACP Tells Need For Members
Charts Course For ’6B
DURHAM - The 24th annual
session of the North Carolina
State Conference of Branches
of the NAACP, which closed
here Saturday not only heard
Clarence Mitchell keynote the
meet with a rousing appeal for
President Johnson’s Great so
ciety, throw a broadside at
North Carolina solons, re-elect
Kelly Alexander for the 19th
time, but it adopted a set of
far-reaching resolutions.
A resolution, spelling out the
ways and means of bolstering
the anti-poverty program call
ed for concerted action on the
community level. It pointed out
the close relation between pov
erty and civil rights, There
was also the plank to strive to
knock out the Green amend
ment, that all community ac
tion funds be channeled through
public officials, extend the pro
gram for two years, knock Out
the House passed requirement
that one half of non-federal sup
port for community action pro
grams be tn cash and insist
Rop Brown
Barred From Travel
BY ANTHONY HEFFERNAN
RICHMOND, Va. - The U.
S. 4th Circuit court of Ap
peals Tuesday rejected a plea
from Negro militant H. Rap
Brown to travel freely across
the country.
Brown, chairman of the Stu
dent Non-violent Coordinating
Committee, has been confined
to the Southern district of New
York City in custody of his
lawyer while free on SIO,OOO
recognizance bond.
U. S. District court judge
Robert R, Merhige Jr. of Rich
mond ordered the state of Vir
ginia to release Brown In cus
tody of Attorney William H.
Kunstler of New York while
Wins Police Chief Primary
TALI.UHAH, La. - Zelma Charles Wvche has become the
first black man to be nominated by the Democratic party in
this century to the position of police chief.
Wyche, who won a special primary election after running
on the platform of “Crime Prevention Instead of Crime Cure,”
will face a Republican opponent on Feb. 6, 1968, in the general
election.
The black nominee is confident he will win -- and he has
good reason, He is solidly backed by the Madison Voters Lea
gue, of which he is president, and the Congress of Racial
Equality.
Wyche defeated two white opponents in the primary elec
tion.
He and his wife, the former Miss Myrtle Lee Washington,
have two children.
PRICE 15c
the room, designated by his in
former, and found that Sneed
was dead.
Martin said that he found
Sneed lying on his stomach
and he decided to turn him over
and it was then that he found
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on the Senate two billion dol
lar authorization.
The resolution set for the
following on Housing.
It has been called to our at
tention that desegregation poli
cies and regulations are being
flaunted and rejected in a re
bellious manner by certain lo
cal Public Housing Authorities.
Be it resolved that the 24th
Annual Convention of the North
Carolina NAACP meeting in
Durham, goes on record as
expressing its unalterable judg
ment as being in full and un
equivocahle support of the pre
sent administration’s polo of
Equal Opportunity; especially
as such policy is imbedded in
regulations issued by the Sec
retary of HUD against sog* i ca
tion and discrimination 'in Pub
lic Housing. We call upon each
local bianch and each member
to take such action at the lo
cal level that will implement
the spirit and letter of this re
solution.
POLITICAL ACTION
fighting extradition to Cam
bridge, Md,, where he faces
charges of inciting to riot and
inciting to arson.
The appeals court in a split
decision upheld Merhige. Judge
Albert V. Bryan dissented from
ttie* rnajoi ity opinion of Chief
Judge Clement Haynsworth and
Judge Harrison L. Winter.
Bryan said Brown should nev
er have been allowed bond and
the 4th Circuit panel should re
voke it and order him hack to
jail.
Bryan said he was worried
Brown could jump bail.
The Black power advocate
was arrested in July at Na
ts** KAJP Brt OWN, P. t)
Takes Poke
At Other
Candidates
CHARLOTTE - In announc
ing his intentions to run in the
Democratic primary for Gov
ernor of North Carolina, Dr.
Reginald Hawkins, controver
sial local dentist, civil rights
leader, political factor and or
dained minister, took a poke at
all of the persons who have
shown interest in the race for
the high post.
He said he did not think any
of the three top candidates men
tioned or announced so far --
“Jack Stickley, Lt. Gov. Rob
ert Scott or Congressman
James Gardner -- have the
qualifications I have. They
didn’t do as much as I to help
North Carolina into the 20th
century. *
“I’m not Interested in an
East-West highway. Pm in
terested in helping people where
they are,’ - Hawkins said.
An east-West highway is a
major plank in Stickley’s cam
paign.
t’awkins, 44, said “the only
thing now that would cieter me
from running would be a lack
ot funds.” He added he w-as
“approached by leaders from
<ike Hawkins, r. g>
We continue to urge our
branches to engage in vigorous
and effective political programs
including such activities as;
MEMBERSHIPS
It was almost pathetic when it
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Deplores
Condition
HENDERSON - Rev. L. B.
Russell, president of the local
chapter, NAACP, in a recent
letter to the editor of the Hen
derson Daily Dispatch, berated
a local '-estaurant operator for
the part he played in a recent
racial disorder, and two law
enforcement officers.
Ho charged that Freddie
Stokes, \Vhite, who operates Tip
Top Restaurant, is a trouble
maker and breeds racial dis
content, to the extent that his
place of business should be
closed.
Rev. Russell alleges that
Stokes procured the warrant on
prejudicial information, where
upon he misinformed the person
who gave the warrant. The min
ister alleged, in the letter, that
Stokes charged that one Luther
Bailey got out of his automo
bile, on his premises, shooting
a pistol and that he was man
handled by a group of white boys,
so badly until he was taken to
Marla Parham Hospital, in an
ambulance, early in the morn
ing.
The letter also char ged that
two deputies, B. L. Ham and
H. W. Shearln were also biased
in their report. He took the
two officers to task for falling
to mention the fact that the white
boys had a pistol and they did
the shooting. He also was criti
cal of the two officers relying
upon what Mr. Stokes told them,
even t hough the NAACP investi
gated and found that Bailey did
not have a gun and that another
Negro boy was stabbed in the
leg by a white boy and there
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WEATHER
Temperatures duirtaai ft* !*•
riod Thursday through Sfioa
dfty will average wiiwwfeM
above normal Oayttae
will average tuorcly from Bt
to gs, Lows at nit*? wtß aver
age from S 3 So IS. Moderate
temperatures wish no uurm
day to day changes. SFmdpt
tation will total % to S-4 of
an inch. Occasional rain Thurs
day. Scattered shower* likuiy
Sunday sm Monday.