Slain Youth Dies In Mother’s Arms Man Freed In Sunday Stabbing A great aunt of Johnny Wayne Pittman, 17-yr-old youth, stab bed to death by 31-year old John Thome Jr., unmindful of the fact that Thorne had been n eed for the death of the boy, not in a remorseful way, but in one that showed that she meant to tell what she knew about the tatal incident, and de scribed how “Johnny*’ died in the arms of his mother, Sun day afternoon. She told a different story for the one that was related Monday morning, in a trial, held by Magistrate Brooks W, Poole, fche said that she was lying a ,*. oss the bed. due to the fact that she did not feel too well, after coming from the church. She said she heard noises on j. the make shift basketball court $ .it is at the end of Cannister Street, where it joins Dorothea Dr. and went to the door, not seeing anything unusual, she went back to her resting, on the bed, “Not long after I laid hack down, “Johnny” rushed in the house and seeing that he was (Sff MAN FREED. P 2) Poor March Plagued By Discontent WASHINGTON, IX C. - Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, suc cessor to Martin Luther King J and leader of the Poor March ■ to Washington, found himself faced with some of the problems that he has accused white lead ers of not facing up to. He had to put down a seeming rebollion w hen Mexican - A- Y mericons charged that they ' were being discriminated a- . T ainst by Negroes, in the ranks. Abern/ t' arranged the visit after Tujerina told newsmen his group would not move into r esurrection City until assured of fair treatment and an equal ■ lice. Tijerina said some Ap palachian whites and Indians were concerned about their treatment by Negroes. Things seemed to have been smoothed over by the leader and a sense o togetherness. The week’s program got on on scheduled, except the inconven ience of mud at Resurrection City. On Tuesday, about 150 Poor People’s Campaign demonstra tors swarmed into the main foy er of the Agi iculture Depart ment yesterday while tneir leaders played a delicate ver bal tug-of-war with Govern ment officials and narrowly ■ averted arrest. The confrontation came while the Campaigners’ Resurrection City reeled under new torrential rains, and 1200 to 1500 per i sons were evacuated to church es and other dry shelter. The demonstrators led by the Campaign chief, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, ar rived at the Agriculture De partment at 1:35 p, *n. in a driv ing rail, and asked to eat In the Department’s cafeteria They were stopped at the door bv Assistant Agriculture Secretary Joseph M, Robert son who said they could not be admitted until they settled a 2) FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILES mamuAT AI MOS'l GOT AWAY / According to complaint filed •■j Lee Yoners Baker, Irma Jean Grave, 15, 1322 Holman Street, almost got. away with a dress she is alleged to have stolen (rom Lernor's, 216-18, Fayetteville Street Thursday. The report shows that Irma Jean entered the store, re moved the dress from a hanger and placed it In her pocket book and left. Baker is re ported as having followed her from the store, In a rather speedy fashion, and took the dress from the pocket. It ap pears that Irma continued home. i mimms 3352 380 291 t $25 sls S3O Anyone having current BLOT tickets, dated May *B. uws, with * proper numbers, present same to The CAEOLIMIASt am* urt reive amounts listed above from the SWEEPS! AXSB Stature. I-flßt C«— . i.i.i inn iiin■-n n■! . m.a ■■ mu mm i ■■■ )-«■ —1 * i#fi Sejrs WmlmtWbk Certainly U has long seen es tablished that there is no dis crimination in'Sweepstakes, No age group, no racial group or no sex has any advantage. All one has to do is to read the CAR OLINIAN. pick up your' ticket at one ol the stores, listed on the Sweepstakes page and com pare with the numbers above. Lest week there was a woman winner and a man winner. Mrs. Menacing Racial Tension Among Abernathy Followers w ; VOL. 27, NO. 27 St. Augustine’s Student A restedlnConspiracy • Fayetteville Store Boycott Brings Closing TO ROB PETER FOR PAUL? WASHINGTON: Rev. Jesse Jackson, of the Poor People’s Cam paign, holds up a lunch bill run up by 160 peo ple from Resurrection City in the Agriculture Dept’s cafeteria May 27. As the people filed through, Jackson asked that the bills be consoli dated into a single check, which totaled $292.66. When it was presented to him, he said it would be compared with what the Government owes the Nation’s poor because of its failure to feed them and “whoever owes the other will pay.” (UPI) CmMmi (Uto ou| mmm Merthml FAYETTEVILLE - What co operative black power can do to green power has been clear ly demonstrated here for the past few days. A group of citizens, living in Cape Fear Court and Campbell Avenue, vowed that they would stop buy ing from the Red Star Food Center, located on Wilmington Road and operated by Woodie Godwin, 48-year-old white man. it was there she was picked up, **** BELIEVED JNbUJE JOB Persons close to a theft that reported as having taker, place at St. Augustine’s College, 4}30 P m ., Thursday, are said to have reasons to believe that the job was done by a student, with the aid of a girl in the dormitory. It was reported that thetran son, over a door which se parates the bookstore from on® of the dormitories was remov ed and $644.80 was taken. The theft was reported by Wil liam Baxter Culbert. (See CKBfE BEAT, V 3} Mary Sautters woe SSB 00. 3S2S, she picked up at Johmstm - Lam be, W&yland MM, W. 8, received sls on iSSO, which was given him at Carter’s. The tickets are >bla® this weak and the wlnnlag Morms tton le ae follows. Tiek&t # mm is good form; «*(} will bring SIS if you saws 291 you have S&0 North Carolina $ Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. €.. SATURDAY. JUNE 1. 1968 Godwin opened the store In February 1967. The store was billed as doing an average daily business of between S4OO and $450. The receipts have been as low as $5 per day. The CAROLINIAN learned from a reliable source Wednes day that pressure on Godwin had become so great until he had been forced to close the store and had begun taking things out of the store. The informant said that the leaders of a boycott that began over one week ago had definitely (See CDMSiSmjkW©. *». H) > > m N! M A PICTURE KISS IS EAD ENOUGH - BRUS SELS: Farmer - demonstrators force a fe male motorist to kiss a picture of a pig during demonstration here May 27 as farmers 9 from six countries picketed a meeting of Common Market agricultural ministers on dairy policy. In addition to clashing with police, the farmers harrassed onlookers and passerby, including this woman, She was asked to kiss the pig and, when she ret used, she was taken from her car and forced to perform the gesture without being molested further. It has teen suggested that the pig is either a symbol of farming or an obscure allusion to French agriculture minister Fay.re. The farmers 'were angered by a proposed decrease in the price of milk. (UPI) Kin Os Millionaire And §&prem@s Charged Thomas J. Gardner, Jr., 19, alleged to be the nephew of the Birmingham tycoon, A. G. Gaston and a junior at St. Augustine’s College, related his experience with the robbery of a local theatre here Saturday night. The story was told to the CAROLINIAN in the Wake County jail, Tuesday, where Gardner has been held under a SIO,OOO bond. According to the St. Aug. student, he and Mrs. Marguerite Ross Gardner, his wife of less than a month, cheeked out of the Carolina Hotel and that he hail ed a cab that took h’m to Pee bles Restaurant, where they had dinner. He alleges that he took Lincoln Theatre list id Leaders of the boycott of Lin coln Theatre, local movie house, said this week that they had called off the boycott, due to the fact they had been told by H, E, Sharpe, manager, that their demands would be met by Friday. The demands called for a complete renovation and refurnishing. A spokesman for the group said that he did not believe that Sharpe would keep his pro mise and would do just enough to make the public believe that he was sincere. The spokes man said that should he fail to satisfy all of the demands that there would be an all out effort to close the place down. With the coming of summer, it is believed that a concentrated effort would make It mandatory to close the Cabarrus Street place. The boyeotters have fo cused attention on the so-salled intolerable conditions and feel that a little more dramatiza PRICE 15c anothei cab into another sec tion of the city and made a telephone call, to his father, in Birmingham, Ala. He said that his father was not hem' and that since tie had no parti cular place to go, he told the person answering, to have his father call him at the number from which he was calling. With the telephoning over and having to kill some time, he de cided to leave the booth. On leaving the booth he alleges that this car pulled up with Leon Herring, 17-yr -old boy from Birmingham, Ala., and James (See KIN, P. ?.) BULLETIN As the CAROLINIAN went to press it was learned that the Unitarian Universalist took a far reaching step to improve conditions among minorities. It was learned that the Ne gro-controlled Black Affairs Council won overwhelming ap proval for a $1 million budget, to be used over the next four years, from the Gene ral As sembly, now meeting in Cleve land, Ohio. The money will be used to alleviate racism and to aid In better opportunities for Negroes. How i! will affect the Raleigh Unitarian Universalist could not be determined, due to the fact that two oi its leaders, David Link and Fred Thompson, were attending the Cleveland meet. They are expected back Friday. Condition Unchanged By Nation NEW YORK - There is real justification for the re-exclu slon of South Africa from par ticipation in the Olympic Games, according to Tex Maule in Sports Illustrated this week. After the Interna tional Olympic Committee de cided to capitulate to the boy cott threats from the black African nations and rescind its invitation to South Africa for the forthcoming Olympiad, ST sent Maule to Africa to do an In-depth study of the cur rent black-white athletic sit uation theje. Maule’s report in SI de scribes the very complex and tragic conditions he found. He concludes that South Africa's agreement to field an Integrat ed Olympic team only appear ed to be a significant step in the direction of the Olympic ideal, that in reality the prac tice of apartheid is escalating and the complete subjugation of the blacks is an unchang ing fact of life. He writes; "By stretching a point, you can ignore the political struc ture of a nation But the bla - tant discrimination in South Africa against the black ath lete, who has few playing fields outside the gold mines, where be is «n indentured slave, and who has no real freedom, cannot be ignored. The flare ((to* otjemradfc p. FOILED - Washington: A hidden camera snapped this picture of three men robbing a branch of the National Savings & Trust Company here of 59.000 shortly befere noon May 23. The FBI is seeking the identity of the two men pictured. (UP! PHOTO). Local School Officials Earned By Health , Education, And Welfare In view of the pressure that is being put to implement the school integration law, the heads of the local system are said to have concerned them selves about it, until they are beginning to take a new look at the enite matter. The fol lowing letter was received from Washington this week. May 24, 1968 Dear Mr. Hooper: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Regulation promulgated thereunder pro vide for a periodic review by the Department of Health, Ed ucation, and Welfare of school UNCONCERNED GU A RDM EN - LOUIS VILL E, NY.; National Guardraen Ig nore young Negroes who remove clothing from a dry cleaning establishment where windows were smashed during racial outbreaks Monday night. (UPI) Asks Thai Black Not Lose In An Outrage Os Self Defeat CHARLOTTE - In address ing the 165 candidates for graduation at Johnson C. Smith University, Dr John Hope Franklin defined black power and extolled the vision and sacrifices oi our forebears for laying the foundation upon which the youth of today can build. Dr. Franklin, a graduate of Fisk and Harvard Universi ties, has taueht at St. Aug ustine's anu North Carolina College and is now chairman of the department ot history at the University of Chicago. He -told his audience that "fids country has been arous ed to a new sense of its in justices the like of which it has never experienced be fore . As color ceases to be a measure of merit, ability and preparation become the prime qualifications lor con sideration .. As that occurs it is important that, the battle cry oi “black power" will not lose itself in a self-defeat POLICE CAR BURNED - LOUISVILLE, Ky.« Louisville firemen look on in vain as a police, patrol car blazes after being set afire by a band of rioting Negroes. The violence began Monday night when some 1,000 Negroes hurled rooks and bricks at police after a Black Power rally. (UPI) districts receiving Federal fi nancial assistance. Where evi dence is found that a school district is not in compliance with the requirements under the Act, efforts are to be made by this Office to secure com pliance by voluntary means. If these efforts are not success ful, the law requires that we initiate appropriate enforce ment proceedings. Based on a careful analysis of all available information, in cluding the results of a field review, it is my conclusion that your desegregation plan is not adequate and is not working effectively to accomplish the elimination of the dual school ing indulgence in mete out rage.” “Black power is effective and creative leadership in the black community. Rlackpow er is the amassing and the effective use of political strength for the up-lift of the black community. Black pow er is the extension of Influ ence to the white community for the improvement of the quality ei life ior all It is Domestics Seek lore The coming of Betty Furness, President Johnson’s special as sistant for consumer aflairs, to Raleigh is said to have acce lerated the effort of local do mestics thru Household Assis tance, Inc. to get more pay for the services rendered by them. The agency lias been at work here for sometime and its first class is scheduled foi gradua t ton exercises at St. Augustine’s system. Furthermore, efforts by the staff of this Office to secure your compliance with the requirements of Title VI and the Regulation by voluntary means have not been success ful. Accordingly, lam refer ring this matter to the Office of the General Counsel of this De partment with a request that ad ministrative enforcement pro ceedings be initiated. In addition, this letter is to notify your district that final approval of any application filed with this Department for Fed eral funds for new programs and activities is hereby order ed deferred. Your State educa new ways to utilize the total resources of a community to build a better life for all peo ple. It is the graduate of this institution who on this day dedicates himself and his life to the elimination of the evils of discrimination through the use of his talents and train ing.” The distinguished professor (Sec ASKS. P. 2) College’s Fine Arts Building, 3 p.m. Sundav. Miss Furness iold the North Carolina Consumer Council Wednesday that there must bea simplified contract for consum er credit to protect those pee ple who do not know contracts and those so eager to obtain credit until they sign without reading. Speaking from a prepared text, she said “What is good for the consumer," she said, “is good for all the people--not just the housewife or the occasional shopper, but the small busi nessman and the big business man and you and me and every body else who buys from each of them.’* * Consumer groups can serve important needs in the present economy, Miss Furness said, and she called on the North Carolina Consumers Council and her Raleigh audience to sup~ r port current consumer legisla tion in Congress. "... 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