Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / Aug. 31, 1968, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
National Convention . NO HAVEN FOR BJAOC DEMOS f' ■*vS*yi■‘yA J't */. <1 ■ ‘ V Tw© Whits fa In NC Church Bumhig New Edifice Target Os Arsonists FAYETTEVILLE - The strong arm of the law worked fast in the burning of Willis Creek AME Zion Church on Aug. 13, when Glynn Kirk Lewis, 19, and John Robert Riddle, both white, of FayetteviHe, were charged with unlawful burning. Tf<ey will be tried on a felony charge that carries a maximum penalty of 40 years. The fire is said to have been set on the front of the b&illding and to have caused only slight damage to the front doors. The quick work of a young cou ple. after noticing the blaze, 1 is said to have prevented more damage The indictments came one day after one white male and five Negroes had their cases continued in Cumberland Coun ty Superior on similar counts. Firing of buildings in the Fay etteville area has become quite prevalent in recent months. The most devastating was the one that destroyed the A&H Clean ers, on Bragg Boulevard, about three months ago. There came the alleged attempt to set fire to two buildings involved in the housing squabble. There have been arrests in the two recent fires, but there have not been any arrests in the cleaning es i tablishment file. 7 Willis Creek is one of the old est churches in Cumberland County. It is located on the edge of the Bladen County line, just off N, C. 87, The Rev. W. E. Turner is the pastor. He is known to have been quite r&ctive in the freedom fight. It (See TWO WHITES. P. 2) Mrs. Horne, Bapt. Prexy, Steps Down Mrs. M. A. Horne of Win ston-Salem, president of the Woman’s Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Convention of North Carolina, for the past 18 years, has stepped down from this post to become the executive secretary of this pro gressive group. She succeed ed Dr. Ellen S. Alston of Ra leigh, who retired in January after 26 years of service. ft The 84th annual session, which was declared by many as “the best ever” was held at the First Baptist Church at Highland Avenue and Seventh St., Winston-Salem. Dr. David R, Hedgley is pastor. Some 1,500 delegates participated in activities of the four day meeting, which began last Tues day and adjourned at Friday noon, MRS. SLADE ELECTED Mrs. Vera M. Slade of A hoskie, chairman of the Cora Pair Thomas Foreign Scholar ship Year-Round Committee, was elected as president. She stressed the importance of prayer and concerted effort on the part of everyone in this ‘troubled world.* Other new of ficers elected were Mrs. E. B, Turner of Lumberton, former chairman of the Ministers 5 Wives Year Round Committee, as fourth vice-president and Dr. Ellen S. Alston as executive secretary emeritus, A total of $41,651.5 5 wa s given jtfor the objectives of this con vention, included are State and Foreign Missions, Shaw Uni versity, Central Orphanage and the Assembly Site. The latter objective was adopted bv the mas. staswEj &. i\ IN PROTEST - (MCAflOt Oartes E. 5. defecate from California, gets help from i*© crowd as he tries to barn his entrance badge to the Amphitheatre as a protest against the defeat of the challenge of the Georgia insurgents August 27. (UP! PHOTO). THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 27, NO. 45 Facing Murder Rap Here "I Meant To Kill Her First Time- Girl. 16 Delegates Front NC Arguing CHICAGO, 111. - Internal dif ferences. along with angered police and mad security guards are causing Democratic party faithfuls many and more head aches as the 35th Quadrennial Convention gets ready to nomi nate the man who will carry the banner in the November presi dential election. As expected, Mayor Richard J, Daley's decree that there would l?e law and order in Chi cago during the convention, has loomed as a conflagration and many delegates and spectators are fearful that before the cur tain is brought down on the 1968 show there will be disaster. The wounding of a Negro news man and the beating of a white photographer on Monday served as fodder before a raging fire. 'Hie mauling of a CBS report er In the halls of the amphi theatre, where the Convention is being held, Tuesday night, was not a deterrent to the tense atmosphere that has existed since Saturday. The racial rumblings have raised their hoary heads to the (See DEMOCRATIC. P. 2) milrn H. FJor fft Ffflpfferlfe FAYETTEVILLE -Morethan 500 persons heard civil rights activist Howard Fuller admon ish black Fayettevilltaas to “drop the shackles of fear and unite for a common cause to help your brothers and sis ters” A broad representation of Fayettevillians jammed the Ed wards Evans School auditorium Thursday, Aug- 22, in Cumber land County’s initial Mack soli darity effort. People came from all walks of life representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple-, the Congress of Racial E quality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence (BCLC) and the Fayette ville Area Poor People’s Asso ciation (FAPPA). It was the latter group that was instru mental in getting the solidi fied community together. It was also obvious they were cleary in command. Fuller touched on a wide range of Fayetteville’s and North Carolina’s problems. (Sr#- HOWARD Ff.IA.IS!, 9. t! North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. AUGUST 31, 1968 j. j-- ! Lgai| JM I I . ARMS OF MERCY - CHICAGO: A Chicago police officer carries an unidentified Negro boy, about 10 years old, after the boy took part in an anti-war demonstration, and then ‘fainted, in the lobby of the Conrad Hilton Ho tel August 26. The officer is waiting for an emergency vehicle to take the boy to a hos pital. (UPI). Denies Telling Blacks, ‘Fix Ud Or Get Hell Out’ HENDERSON - A running feud between property owners, some being Negroes in the area of Stone St., is said to be com ing to a head here, which is planned to relieve a bad health condition. The matter is said to have gotten to the place where the City Managers is alleged to have told Interested persons that they would have to fix up their property or get “The Hell” out. A Wednesday morning tele phone interview with the City Manager, Jack Cross, revealed that he did not recall making the statement. He did say that the matter had been brought to his attention and that the con dition was one of many that had been allowed to develop in the city. It was also reported by the City Manager and the Building Inspector, Joe Stegall, that relief was in the offing, but could not be assured until a bond issue was voted upon. The interview also showed that the city was perhaps $175,000 behind in sewer spending. The city officials told The CAROLINIAN that t’ne situation was not peculiar to certain Ne gro sections, but there were white sections that were having the same trouble. The trouble is said to have started when some of the hous es, having septic tanks, began to have trouble with sewer re fuse backing up. The report said that the owners insisted on sewers being put in, in view of the fact that the torain was not conducive to proper functioning of the system. It was then that the City Manager, after much negotiation, is said to have made the statement The Building Inspector told The CAROLINIAN that the offi cial were aware of some of (See HENDESSON. P. ?.) ■ SWEEPSTAKES i » 3502 5379 4876 ; l SIOO sls $lO * ft Anyone having current WHITE tickets, dated Aue 74 3 D 78 with ® S proper numbers, present same to The CAROLINIAN office and g . receive amounts listed above from the SWEFPSTAKKES Foitur- “ SvMpstnfces Hm Winners Walter L angston of 123 Bled soe Avenue walked into the of fices of The CAROLINIAN Fri day morning and produced tic ket number 5599, which he pick ed up while shopping at Car ter's Furniture Store, E. Mar tin St. The second place num ber won for Mr. Langston sls. Robert Bridges of the Ober lin area of the city won $lO on ticket number 6825. obtained at Thompson-Lynch, W, Har gett St. His third place num ber brought him $lO in cash from this newspaper. The stakes are growing each week for the first prize, It is now worth SIOO. Tickets this week must be white in color and dated Aug ust 24. Number 3502 will bring its holder the surn of $100; 5579 is worth sls; while num ber 4876 will bring $lO in cash to its owner. You, too, can be a Sweep stakes winner. Kindly visit the businesses listed on page 10 Os this edition and pick up your ticket while there. WEATHER Temperature* during t«e p*:■■ H®&, nKircduiy through Monday. Wfll averse* >wurh below nar- SHfti esrcejrt testfW aorta*! *!o»g coastal sections. High *S*ytl»nc temper* to res win average to the atMlte te ujtper W* to tke ». C. swp»ss&*ss»! 9S«a TJ to 15 degree* elsewhere, low tcmm>mX»rm at sight wifi average 5® t* SS 4e rM to the wtouatatos, nwetof gs «ai 15 «egrises eaetwfew, te tot lower 80s aSea® the eeast. WU 4*y* aw< caei »s*bts are exoeclM Martas the perlasS wftli a warming treM expected Sate to the perloS l-reeii'-Itat&wi will totoi to ess* inch near the tower Caroline Coast tm Imurf4*y. Ot.herv.lse, lSitie or ae rstsa Is expected fiartog the parted. SINGLE COPY 15c Boogie’s Bii Used Si Skying “When I picked up the pis tol, Boogie Smith tried to take it away from me, but he couldn’t and I didn't let go of the pistol until I shot Diane, Somebody told Diane that I had a pistol and she started toward me. 1 shot at her one time and miss ed her. The first time I shot at Diane, I meant to kill her. When I missed, I shot her a gain.” The pistol belonged to Boogie Smith, The murder took place in front of 711 E. Davie St. These were the words a 16- year old South Carolina girl given to Raleigh detectives ear ly Sunday morning in describ ing the murder of Mrs. Diane Smith, 24-year -old Johnston County woman, who died, ac cording to officials at Wake Memorial Hospital, “from a massive loss of blood,” after being shot. ir. the abdomen-. . Miss Mary Frances Harlee, alias “Betty,” of Rt. 2, Box, 140, Bennettsville, S. C., told ithe detectives one story, while the dead woman’s sister told another. Mary Frances said that she, Mrs. Smith, Miss Betty Louise Davis, Boogie Smith, Leroy Al ford and Leamond Williams were riding around in Williams’ car. They had just left Gamer and decided to come to Raleigh to get something to eat “and then we decided to get something to drink,” Miss Harlee stated. All except Miss Harlee are be tween the ages of 22 and 24 years of age. (See GIRL, 16. P. 21 | from Raleigh's Official 1 I Police Files | [ The Crime I Beat I MAN ROBBED BY TWO Leon Junior Miller, 37, of 540 E. Hargett St., told Of ficer W. M. Parker, Jr., at 10:15 p. m. Friday, that two colored males pulled him from the sidewalk in front ot 201 S. East St. and robbed him of $37. He described the first subject as being about 5 feet, four Inches tall, weighing about 145. pounds and being about 28 years of age. ‘The other man was about the same height, weighing about 155 pounds and appeared to be about 23. He wore his hair in the Afro style, and was wearing a yellow long sleeved sweater or shirt, Miller declared. * * REFUSES LOAN, STABBED Johnny Freeman, 30, 1 John ston Terrace, told Officer W. B, Harrington at 6;49 p. m. Mon day that he refused to loan Mike Rush, address unlisted, any more money, so Mike, 52, stabbed him is the neck with his packet knife. Freeman told the Officer that he would sign a warrant as soon as he is re leased: from Wake Msmmial Hospital, where be is being treated for a pasture wound m the r%ht side of his neck. (See €M*S® tKSM*. S>. 3) RACE IMAGE AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION appl . - H -<*" MEETS WITH DELEGATES - Chicago: The Rev. Charming Phillips, Washington, D. C. ( (L) shown on convention floor Aug, 27 said he had gained the support of some 250 black delegates for his favorite - son presidential candidacy. He said he met with the delegates in the Chicago southside, one of the largest Negro neighborhoods in the nation. All of the delegates at the session said they would support his candidacy. TESTIFIES - Chicago: Basie Bailey, a mem ber of the challenging committee, testifies be fore the Democratic National Convention’s Cre dentials Committee Aug. 22, The group of 10- Tenn., Democrats has challenged 12 Term, dele gates to the convention, JOINS - Chicago: At a meeting of the regu lar Georgia delegation Aug. 27 State Sen. Le land Johnson announces intentions to sit with Julian Bond, leader oi the rebel delegation, at second session o' Democratic National Conven tion. Chairman James Gray (I.) tries to calm delegates protesting Johnson’s remarks. Bond’s group sat in the balcony while the ret ulars sat in floor seats and a credentials battle disrupt ed the opening session Aug. 26. Barbed Wire Fence Is Deplored At Convention CHICAGO - While last week’s action by the Russians in in vading and supressing the Czechs was being roundly de plored throughout the nation and the world, not too much was being said about a similar take over and suppression in opera tion in this city as the Demo cratic National Convention went through its paces. The atmosphere outside the convention, but still within the city was something like a pri son or concentration camp in reverse, while the convention eers were carrying on their af fairs in a fortress-like area. The talk at the convention was about an. "open conven tion,” but with barbed wire ringing the International Am phitheatre - site of the con fab -- and National Guards men and Army troops ready for instant call, it seemed more as if 4< Big Brother” had ar rived years ahead of time. Mayor Richard J. Daley was quick to den ounce the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, calling it a 4 ‘dastardly act of suppression.” But he evaded the question of whether the presence of Na tional Guardsmen at the con vention would suppress Ne groes. He charged that the Coali tion lor an Open Convent ton had * ‘no right to come into the city and tell us what they are going to do. TAR HEEL m CHICAGO - Chicago: Chttfteagsr James Ferguson (R) Charlotte reads brief before the Democratic Convention’s Credentials Com mit,ee as North Carolina State Senator Tom Ahite of the regular delegation takes notes (foreground) during hearing Aug, 22 A black challenge delegation is seeking to put more black 015 th ® state ’ s delegation to the 1366 Convention. EJECTED FROM CONVENTION - Chicago: Charles E. Andersen a, of the California .delegation is ejected from the convention floor by security men during the second session of the Democratic National Convention Aug. 27. Anderson was asked to leave after a creden tials dispute. POOR PEOPLE THERE - Chicago: Ne groes spearhead a “Poor Peoples’ Demonstra tion” as they parade around the Conrad Hiliess Hotel Aug 27. They later dispersed inside the hotel lobby to talk to people concerning their demands (ALL PHOTOS BY UPI). S3* “We don’t permit our own people to sleep in the park, so wh', should we let anyone from outside the city sleep in the park?” he asked. “We don’t permit our own people to march at night, so why should we let a lot oi peo ple do snake dances at night through the neighborhoods?” The mayor’s attitude toward "outsiders” was reminiscent of the labe lof “outside agi tator” placed by some city of ficials on the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., while he was living. This was changed through his beautification, after deafly in the renaming of South Trial Os 6 Charged In Burning Postponed FAYETTEVILLE - An sir of concern surrounds this military community after the trial of six persons sir rested on charg es of i'eionitssts burning and con spiracy. for acts reported to have been committed on July 23rd was postponed here Mon day. The docket for District Court dM not even list the trial and it was alleged that the defense had risked for a delay because of lack of time for an adequate preparation. On the other hand, it Was reported that the six persons charged were not Parkway in his honor. Still, there is something self contradictory in turning a meet ing place for selecting a major party nominee into a fortress. City officials may haye had valid reasons to fear disorder, but their actions in ringing the Amphitheatre with barbed wire and guardsmen could not help but take some of the democra cy out ot the Democrats' con vention. It was tragically ironic to see newspaper photos of Rus sian tanks to Czechoslovakia, rigid next to pictures of Na tional Guardsmen at the Dem ise* BIKBETB W?EE, S*. 2> brought before the grand jury but were arrested Immediately after the aettes of the fr&ad jury was made SmoWn. St Is known that a « Particulars w Med fey the defense &m observers feel the* is the main reason for the trial’s delay. Those charged were Freely crick J. Lang, white; and five Negroes, George Lowery, Lar ry Shipman, Kenneth Shipman, Hurley Lee Locke and Andrew Malloy. There were four separate <ew f»tm. m ®at, *. m
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 31, 1968, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75