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NC SLACKS TALK 3RD FA 1 ■ Y i • Red Springs Race Unrest ted ll U : 1 \ IS *V. VOL. 27, NO. 48 Held For Murder Woman Slot In Hanni; Ex-Convkt/ 19, Jilii A 19-year-old local youth is in the Wake County Jail facing a murder charge after a 21-year-old Ellington Street woman was shot in the face late Wednesday night. The gun used was in her possession (pocketbook) a short while before she was slain. Detective Major Robert E, Goodwin, informed a CARO LINIAN newsman this weekthat BEN W. RIVERS, JR. Dr. Perry Resigns As 9 Smith Prexy CHARLOTTE - Dr, Rufus P. Perry, the man who doubled enrollment, added $7 million in new buildings, and rooted out the hedge that once separated i Johnson C. Smith University * from the rest of Charlotte, plans to return to his first love ~ medicinal chemistry. Dr. Perry this week announc® ed that he will retire from the presidency of Johnson C. Smith on Dec. 31, 1968. Board Chair man James Egert Allen then disclosed that the trustees had elected Dr. Perry the univer sity's first .Tames B. Duke Dis tinguished Research Professor. This appointment becomes effective once Dr. Perry’s still to-be-named successor takes office Jan. 1, 1969. The 65- year-old Perry commented that for some time he'd wanted to make a few scholarly contribu tions before he started spend ing his time fishing and playing j golf. "I’ve also wanted to get back into closer touch with the students,” he added.. Perry hinted in April, 1967, that he wanted to return to re search and teaching once JCSIFs new science center was completed. He told the board of trustees of his decision on July 20, and so informed fa culty members early Last week. A tall, soft spoken man, Dr. Perry has been president of the (See SMITH FREXY. 9. Z) "Reject U. S. System," Says Carmichael ST. LOUIS - volatile stokely Carmichael last week called on Black Americans to reject the American system, explaining that neither major party-Jpem ocratic or Republican spoke "to the needs of Black peo ple.” He addressed a stand tf'ing-room crowd of 1,000. 7 “the outspoken former chair man of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, also urged Black people to arm themselves with guns because f- he said, they are in an armed struggle for survival. Ke further stated that BSsck people should favor the Arabs tn their Mid-East dispute with Israel, and urged support of Cu ba, North Viet Nam and Red China, North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2). 1968 , ** ■ w trzTse+iaxx&mc-, ■t-|-n-rrrnrr • - tiiiitw -nr Tr~ -rin- i-wsuit .smt^-axa-w 19-Year-Old Raleigh Youth Miss Virginia Carolyn Harvey, 713 Ellington Street was dead on arrival at Wake Memorial Hospital after being shot in the left center forehead. The shoot ing took place about 11:58 p.m. Wednesday. Being held without bond for murder in the case is Ben Wes ley Rivers, Jr., who lives'at 1302 Walnut St., Apartment B. Rivers has a rather extensive police record. Miss Harvey was taken to the hospital by Rivers and Kerman Lee McCray of 1304 Walnut St. According to reports, Rivers had dated Miss Harvey on pre vious occasions. She was re portedly ir. the car with him earlier in the evening. They allegedly drove around to Wal nut Terrace where McCray joined the pair and then they returned to Miss Harvey’s home. Information received from police officials point to the fact that the victim and Riv ers had also argued and fought earlier that night. Relatives reportedly informed the offic ers that soma of Miss Harvey’s clothes were tom when she re turned home. The pistol that killed her was reportedly in her pccketbood, but it is believed that Rivers, knowing where it was, remov ed it to shoot her. Authorities also report that Miss Harvey had just finished making a telephone call to an unidentified party and hung up the phone prior to the shooting. Investigating the case were Detectives R. F, Johnson, B. C. Nipper and C. J. Williams. Handling the preliminary in vestigation for the uniform di vision was Captain C, H. Has well*. MEMORIAL MARCH IN BIRMINGHAM - Birmingham: Wreathbearinfc clergymen lead about 700 people from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in a memorial march to city hall here Sept. 15. The march was in memory of four young Negro girls killed at this church 5 years ago. At the city hall the crowd heard demands that stronger efforts to find these respon sible for the bombing be made. (UPI PHOTO). U rge Black Voter Registration NEW YORK (NFII - Voter registration among bl&ek pao plfc has t»en urged by Roy Wtl k&as, NAACP tttecutive director and Vice PreaMent Hubert- H. Humphrey. Wilkins called for a nation wide drive to register nearly I FIRST BLACK COLONEL - Dr. Clotilde D. Bowen, 45, U. S, Army Medical Corps, was recently promoted to the rank of Colonel, become the first female member of her race to attain this rank in the U. S, Army’s his tory. She is currently assigned as Chief of the Review Branch, Central Review and Health Resources Division, Office of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services of the Army’s Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado. Blacks, Whites Said Involved In Uprising RED SPRINGS - Racial unrest in this Robeson County town, in which Indians are said to have sided with Negroes, was reported last weekend by a reli able source. A group of Negro and white youths are reported as having gathered at a local drive-in, the Daisy Ranch, last Thursday. Angry words were reportedly exchanged, hsjt no major inci five million non-whites before the November general election At the same time, he skirt ed making any political en dorsement and said he was not asking for opposition to the Presidentleal campaign of George Wallace. SINGLE COPY 15c dents were recorded. The following night, tension still existed at a football game, held at the local park. A white teenager is alleged to have call ed the Negro members of the team, ‘niggers,’ and said he wanted them off the team. Af ter the game, a crowd of youths are said to have gathered at a downtown refreshment stand. jjMjSB SPRINGS. 5». 2) Humphrey urged minority citizens, especially the disad vantaged, to register and vote this year for candidates and policies which will correct in equities in American society, "The way to correct any in fSce BLACK VOTERS, P. Z) G. Frinks Tells Many His Plans SWANS QUARTER - "If Jim Gardner does not want the Ne gro vote, we’ll organize a third party ir. support of the black man and stage a write-in cam paign.” These were the words spoken here Sunday by Golden Frinks, head of the North Carolina chap ter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) as more than 1,000 Negro chil dren and adults took part in a protest march. The march was staged in con junction with an eight-day boy cott of schools in Hyde County by Negro pupils, Frinks said the school boycott would con tinue "until our grievances are satisfied.” Schools are being boycotted by blacks, Frinks asserted to protest moving Negro students to white schools without trans ferring white students to pre dominantly Negro schools. He said the Negro students are being put into "puppy boxes,” as he termed mobile class rooms. Frinks declared that the mobile units are being occupied by Negro pupils alone. The Sunday march was order ly and was carried out without incident. State and county law enforcement officers supei us ed it. No white persons were seen during the protest, accord ing to reports. The two-mile march carried the protestors from the main street to a rural church, where Frinks addressed the group. A half-hour of singing and free dom chants marked the time prior to Frink’s address from the top of a truck oody, next to the church. I tomi, Os Me Rmk Fume* Excels NEW YORK - What happened to one of the nine black chil dren who integrated Little Rock’s Central High School In 1957 after the historical con frontation between the governor of Arkansas and federal troops is recounted in the current issue of Look Magazine. Ernest Green, one of the nine, became the first of his race to be graduated from Central High. He later earned his bachelor and master’s degrees from Michigan State and then became involved in a program to help members of minority groups get better jobs. His return to Central High for his class reunion with his form er white schoolmates Is de scribed in the article, "11 Years After Little Rock.” Also told is his present struggle that, while "less publicized than the battle of Little Rock, may mean more significant gains for members of his race.” As director of the Joint Ap prenticeship Program (JAP) of the Worker’s Defense League, Green "beads a $600,000 ef fort aimed at getting black youths into the apprenticeship training courses of the nation’s building crafts unions. "Operating out oi an attache case,” Look reports, "with an imperturbable cool,” Green moves in a "split-level world of ghetto skeptics and union bosses, talking money to the former and pressing for more apprenticeship places and jobs jßee UTILE ROCK. P. 21 F§« C rim Btof From Raleigh’s Official Police File 2 Miss Helen Gray Dew, 823 Jenkins St., told Officer R. E. Keeter at 6;03 p. m, Saturday, that when she walked into her house, she and her brother had an argument and "for no reason at all,” he struck her or the head with a pop bottle. The woman signed a warrant and Wilbert Lee Dew, 38, the brother, same address, was "hauled off” to Wake County Jail and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Miss Dew had a one-half inch cut on the right side of her head * * * BARBARA CUTS HORSE Horse Henry Bland, 25, 316 Dorothea Drive, and Miss Bar bara Jean Bennett, 23, same address, were arguing at their residence at 6:24 p. m. Satur day. The woman is reported by a cop to have cut Horse after he hit her several times. The officer signed warrants, charging both with engaging in an affray where a deadly wea pon was used, and they were arrested. The woman is be lieved to have used a kitchen knife to inflict the wound on Bland. He was treated before being taken to Jail. (Bee CRIME BEAT. P. S) MARIJUANA GROWN IN N. C. - Macclesfield, N. C : Federal and state law enforcement officers load an estimated $1 million dollars worth of marijuana they confiscated Sept. 17 when they raided a cornfield here. Police, who arrested two men at the scene, described the 10 acre field as being the largest ever seen in North Carolina. Spokesmen said the marijuana had been planted between rows of corn. (UP! PHOTO). Local Man Vietnam Casualty Evening Rites To Be Held Friday At 7 Funeral services for Joseph Curtis Macon, 21-year-old Raleigh native, killed in Vietnam War action last week, will be conducted Fri day, Sept. 20, at 7 p. m., from the First Bap tist Church, where the Rev. Dr. Charles W. Ward is minister. Officiating will be a Chap lain from the U. S. Army. Young Macon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Macon, 1010 Cole man St., received a telegram on Friday, Sept. IS. informing them of the death of Joseph in Vietnam. Macon attended the elemen tary schools In the city and John W. Ligon High School. He completed his secondary educa tion at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala, He joined the Army some three yearsagoand Impressive Memorial To King Held In City BY JAMES A. SHEPARD Nearly six months have pas sed since an assassin’s bullet ended the mortal life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a Memphis, Tenn. motel room. But the immortal aspects of that life were vividly brought to life during an hour long mem orial service for Dr. King at Wilson Temple United Metho dist Church, last Sunday after noon, September 15. The mem orial program was arranged and presented under the auspi cies of three Oberlin Civic organizations; The Royal Civ ic and Social Club, the Roy alettes Civic and Social Club and the Oberlin Community Club under the chairmanship of Mrs. Eleanor Hunter Flagg. J. Franklin Rand was master of ceremonies. In sermon and in song, the life and services of Dr. King were extolled and honored. The memorial sermon was deliv ered by the Rev. Mr, W. W. Finlator, minister, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church. The vocal selections rendered by the J. W. Ligon Ensemble and the J. W. Ligon Jubilee Singers, both under the direction of Mrs. Ann Hunt Jones, were added features'that really highlight ed the service. The guest speaker, intro duced by J. B. Blount, spoke from the subject, ‘'The Leg acy of Martin Luther King Jr.” Dr. Finlator graphically sketched the tremendous task Dr. King faced in trying to bring about a revival of the relavance of religion in this nation. The speaker pointed out that at the time Dr. King be gan this mighty crusade, many were saying that the church should be elerninated, that God was dead and the church, par ticularly the Southern church, was at its lowest point of in fluence and unity. He pointed out and contrasted the humble beginning of Dr. King's cru sade against the prevailing con State NAACP Sets 25th Sessions CHARLOTTE - Attendance of delegates from more than 100 branches of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will meet in the city of Gr eens - boro, Oct. 10-13, for its 25th had previously spent a year in Germany. The telegram received by the Macons was signed by Major General Kenneth G. Whickham and read as follows: "The Secretary of the Army has asked me to express his deep regret that your son, Pri vate First Class Joseph Macon, died in Vietnam on Sept. 12 1968, as a result of a gunshot wound received while at artil- ternpt for justice and equality exemplified by this dead church. With that mighty upsurge of u nited, religious indignity when churchmen of all faiths, Cath olics, Jews and Protestants, an , swered Dr. King’s doctrine of love, brotherhood through non violence during that mighty spectacle that will ‘go down in history as the Selma (Ala.) March. (See KING MEMORIAL, V 2) nwiiPSMiu i i 4507 512 S 5377* \ SSO S6O S3O i Anyone having current PINK tickets, dated Sent. 14. 5968, with » proper numbers, present same to The CAROLINIAN office and » receive amounts h- tea above from the SWLF-FSTAKJFS Feature. _ —. Aft. »*ftft mJA mmn me No Winners In Sweepstakes Promotion; Cash Is Growing There were no winners in The C AROLINIAN 'S Sweeps takes promotion last week, so the money grows. In last week’s edition, Miss LetMa O'Neal was described as a "saleslady for The CAR OLINIAN.” She sells the news paper, but is NOT employed by The CAROLINIAN. None of the employees of The CAR OLINIAN are eligible, but the distributors of the newspaper are. This week’s winning tickets must be pink in color and dat ed Sept. 14, 1968. Winning numbers are; Num ber 4507, worth SSO, first prize; 5128, S6O, second place; and 5377, S3O, as third prize. There is no secret to being a winner in the Sweepstakes Promotion. Visit the business es advertised on the Sweep stakes page and be sure to ob tain your ticket while there. Annual state Convention at a time, says Kelly M. Alexander, State President, "which is cru cial politically for Ore-Negro in North Carolina.” The Keynote Address of the convention will be delivered by NAACP National Board of Di PFC. JOSEPH MACON lery firing position, when hit by hostile small arms fire. He was admitted to a military hos pital on Sept. 11 and placed on the seriously ill list and then on the very seriously 111 list, and later expired. Incident occurred Sept. 11.” Many residents of the East Raleigh area remember young Macon as a quiet, mannerable and personable young man, He was a familiar figure a round the 700 block of E. Mar tin St., where his father op erates Macon’s Barber Shop. Interment will take place Monday morning at the National Cemetery, Rock Quarry Rd., with Ml military honors. The remains will be at the Capitol Funeral Home, E. Hargett St. Patronize all CAROLINIAN advertisers. They appreciate your business. Kindly fell them that you saw their "ad* 11 in this newspaper. Three weeks ago, there was a SIOO first prize winner. There is $l4O waiting this week for the three persons who visit the “right'’ businesses and obtain the tickets bear tog the num bers given above. WEATHER Temperatures during the pe riod. Thursday through Mondav, will averaee near norma! tn North Carolina and below nor mal In South Carolina. Bay time hlffh temperature* are expected to average In the Ms in the mountains and around SO else where, Lows at tnleht will be 37-41 decree*, except -IS to 5« de crees In the mountains. Xt will be mild through Frida’, with a trend toward warmer weather oeturrbtc over ibe weekend. Precipitation will total over on?- half inch. Mfurrtnt as rain or showers on Thursday and Fri day and poesfirty Sis the esaSerts ftccttwt afcoet ttsturdny. rectors Chai«®. B&Shop Ste phen g. spotfcswood of mm tagtos;, D. C., fti a ptffciie «S»»- tog civil rights mfcettoi Fri day evening, Opt B, Bv. m. at the Trinity AME ZisoGh«r«fe, 61S E. FtesriAk Ave., of which (flee ST*** XAACP, P. 3}
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