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ft £ Aljgfc SOLDIERS ARE FREED - Washington: Some of the twelve Gl’s freed after 156 days’ cap tivity in Cambodia, are shown last Saturday, in a bus at nearby Andrews AFB, Md.,enroute to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for ex aminations following their arrival by jet. Stand ing is WO Ralph W. McCullough of Columbus, Ga., one of the group, who served as spokes man. The twelfth soldier is hospitalized in Phnom Penh Hospital. (UPI). Rocky Mt. Schools Seek HEW Request BY J. B. HARREN ROCKY MOUNT - The Rocky Mount School Board, aftei sev eral months of b i c k e r 1 n g and dickering on the part of segre gationist forces and those from the colored community desir ing total school integration, Friday night arrived at a de ' clsion to be finalized into the plan to be forwarded to the area office of Health, Education and Welfare’(HEW) at Charlottes ville, Va., before the December -31 deadline expires. An already prepared motion was read to the Board and the ten Negroes and 15 whites attending as guests of the School Board, which passed with only one disentlng vote. That ap parently from the one Negro Bhck¥els imM Win SULK Grants PRINCETON, N. J. - Black veterans of military service who plan careers of service to the nation and to their com munities are eligible to com pete for 50 new Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowships for con tinuing graduate and profes sional school study. Hans Rosenhaupt, national director of the Woodrow Wil son National Fellowship Foun dation, Princeton, N.J., which sponsors the program, an nounced a new grant of $350,- 000 from The Rockefeller Foundation to support the fel lowships. The new grant marks the begiii..uig vi a major drive to make the Kingprogram a large source of fellowship iunas for one portion of the black com munity. With this latest grant the total sum avallavle from Rockefeller Foundation grants is $550,000. Raymond Richardson, di rector of the King Fellow ships, noted, “About 4,000 ' black servicemen who have completed college are sepa rated from the military each y«*r. We’re out to build a (•«« Vs« t» it President -“elecFßichard M, Nixon (2nd 1) listens lo Cleveland (Ohio) Mayor Carl B. Stokes during a meeting with representatives of the Na tional League of Cities on December 20. Also present are (from 1): Mayor C. Beverly Briley of Nashville, Tenn., Nixon; Stokes; Mayor Floyd Hyde Os Fresno, Calif.; and Mayor Milton H. Graham of Phoenix, Ariz. The League representatives said later that Nixon convinced them he has a ‘‘great concern” about urban problems and promised to meet sometime in the future to discuss problems peculiar to larger cities. (UPI). Board member present. The other Negro member was ab sent. There was no discussion after reading and adoption of the following action, which be gins with the 1969 - ,r i - school term: “Elementary Schools: The school district will be divided into 10 attendance *:ones as per (suggested) map. Each child will be assigned to the school located In the attendance zone where he resides. Each school will consist of grades 1-6 ex cept that the Lincoln - Wilkin son Schools will serve the same zones with primary grade chil dren (grades 1-3) being assign ed to Wilkinson School (predom inatly white) and intermediate grade children (grades 4-6)as signed to Lincoln School,” (pre dominantly colored). ‘•'After Initial assignments are made, parents of elemen tary children will be given the option of requesting re-assign ment. If the exercise of this op tion results in the addition or deletion of a grade or grades irom any school, this deter mination shall be made by the Board on the basis of sound educational principles, keeping in mind the capacity of each school and the minimum num ber of elementary children re quired in each grade for effect ive instruction.” For the Junior High Schools, the motion said; “The three junior high schools (one Is col ored) shall operate for 1969- ’7O term on the basis of per mitting the parent of each child to select the school his child will attend. Each school will in clude grades 7-9. In the event this results In overcrowding, proximity to school and con tinuation in the school where currently enrolled shall be the determining factors In making the assignments.” on Senior High Schools: “All pupils In grades 10-12 in the en tire school district will be as signed by the Board of Educa tion to Rocky Mount Senior High School. The present V.’ashington Senior High School will not con tinue to operate as a Senior High School.” “Except for new puipls mov ing into the District, all pupil (*ee *IKX7 ** *"t Law Sfhmi D®an Declares fmlmm, Bmmie late Wmmi Body Identified As Young NC Widow Remains Os Woman i, 18, Discovered FAYETTEVILLE - The body of a young woman found last Monday in Woods near Vander, In Cumberland County, is be lieved to have been a Robeson County widow, who has been missing sin ce Friday, Nov ember 22. According to Sheriff W. G. Clark, the body has been i dentiiied as that of Mrs. Caro lyn Mason Harmon, 18, whose soldier husband died recently in a downing incident. . A sister of Mrs. Harrnon, Mrs. Gwendolyn Sullivan, 1015 Augusta Drive, identified clothing found on the badly decomposing body a s that of Mrs. Harmon, according to the sheriff, The body was buried Tuesday by a local funeral home after obtaining special permission from the North Carolina Health Department. Detectives state that Mrs. Harmon had resided at the Crestview Hotel here for a short while prior to November. She reportedly was taken, sometime last week by a friend, to the union Bus Terminal to board! i bus enroute to New Jersey where her in-laws live. A check with the family in New Jersey revealed that she did not reach this destination. The mini-skirted body was discovered in woods o's N. C, 21, east of Vander. Foul play was not indicated by an initial report of an au topsy, tne snerlff declared. Lee Robinson of Bowden found the body at about 11:15 a.m., it was reported Robinson said that he and his family were on their way to Fayetteville on a shopping tour and he turned off N. C. 24 onto the Shelton Beard Road. The discoverer said he left his family in the car and walk (See BOD'S? FOCN’D P 2) Panthers To Me rge With Oder Groups NEW YORK - Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver says that his militant Black Panther Party would seek mergers with all militant groups in order to carry forward the black revolu tion. Cleaver made the statement in an interview' published Mon day In the current issue of Look Magazine. The interview was conducted before Cleaver fled his Oakland, Calif, home to es cape a parole violation that would land him back in jail. "There are a lot of indivi duals around the country who are into the same revolution ary outlook the Panthers are in to, and we feel there's a nec essary process the black com munity will have to go through In order to become united na tionally,” Cleaver said. He added that the Panthers "advocate a process of merger with other organizations in the black community,” and said that the Panthers do not regard any militant group as too revolu tionary for effective co-op eration. "We can relate to sincere people and sincere organiza (B«c PANnKM. 9, *) THE CAROLINIAN 1 North Carolina's Leading Weekly W~2rNO.T' RALEIGH. N. C SATURDAy7dECEMBER 28, 1968 SINGLE COPY 15c Sentenced To Gas Chamber- is Girl, 17, Doomed? Rocks, Free Speech Do Not Mix, Says Justice Marshall Thurgood Speaks Os V iolence WASHINGTON - “If a group shows up with rocks and eggs, freedom of speech is over,” according to U. S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Mar shall. Marshall made his sarcastic remark while hearing testimony in comedian Dick Gregory’s ap peal of his conviction on charges of leading 65-70 persons in picketing the home of Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1965. The ouster of former School Supt. Benjamin C. Willis was demanded during the protest. Justice MaraSiall’sremark was a comment on the pres ence of spectators at the dem onstration. The spectators were said to have pelted the march ers and broken through police lines. The justice asked whether the spectators were guilty ol dis orderly conduct. Justice Hugo L. Black chal lenged the idea that people have an unlimited right to march the street by the thousands. “Is .the state without power to regulate the use of Its streets?” Justice Black asked. As a result of the Gregory appeal, the high court Is expect ed to rule on the question of whether limits can be put on unpopular demonstrations be cause they inflame citizens’ emotions. Nationwide Drive On Ghetto Begins NEW YORK, N. Y.- The A merican Jewish Congress has launched a nationwide drive aimed at “a re-ordering of national priorities toendthein tolerable burden of poverty and urban ghetto life.” The action came at a meet ing of the Congress’ National Governing Council last weekend marking the Golden Jubilee of the Congress, whch was found ed here exactly 50 years ago. Howard M. Squadron, co-chair man of the Governing Council, presided. In a statement adopted by 300 (Sep NAT»OV'«IDE P 2) urban ghetto life.” BY LEON L. LEWIS The action came at a meet- DALLAS, Texas - What was lng of the Congress’ National yesteryear a mere hope and Governing Council last weekend aspiration of southern Negroes marking the Golden Jubilee of to have a more active role In the Congress, whch was found- the labor movement is fast de ed here exactly 50 years ago. veloping Into a militant press Howard M. Squadron, co-chair- for a stronger voice In the man of the Governing Council, labor movement, presided. The southern Negro trend In a statement adopted by 300 wa s found last week, to be In (Sep NAT r ov’ , 'iDE. P 2) with the screams oi SWEEPSTAKES 1 3300 1231 1 S3O .$25 $2.50 Anyone having current WHITE tickets, dated Dec. 21, lEBS, with proper numbers, present same to The CAEOIINIAN office and receive amounts ’isted above from the Teature. Mrs. Jeffries Wins Sweepstakes Mrs. Lenora Jefflres of 818 E. Davie Street, well-known as a Den Mother for Cub Scouts here, was the lucky winner last week in The CAROLINIAN’S Sweepstakes promotion, hav ing won the thlrdprizeof $12,50. Mrs. Jefflres did tier shopp ing at Carter’s Furniture Store, E. Martin Street, where she ob tained ticket nun bar 3751. She brought this ticket to the oi flees of The CAROLINIAN and re ceived her cash. Valid tickets this week must be white in color and dated December 2L 1988. Cash value to'jthe tickets follows: Number HIJACKER' AND HIS FAM!,A''- ofi ii: Mrs. Joanne Washington, 20, Philadelphia, Pa., looks sadly at her daughter Jennifer’s slippers last Friday after learning that her husband, Thomas Washington, 27, had taken their 3-year-old child and hijacked an Eastern Airlines plane to Cuba hist Thursday. Washington and Jennifer are shown in left photos. The flight that Washington is said to have hijacked was a Philadelphia to Miami flight. (UPI). Father Graves’Christmas Message A year before the Mayflow er landed at Plymouth Rock, a Du.ch vessel bound for the West Indies stopped at James town, Virginia and exchanged DO human beings for food for the ship's crew . . . Silent night, holy night, all is wrong, nothing is right, Esau sold his birthright for food- these men sold their brothers. Gix'.e.n centuries before the Blacks Bid For Strong Voice In South’s Labor 3390, first prize, worth S3O; 1251, second prize, $25; and t, third prize, $2.50. Patronize businesses which advertise In The CAROLINIAN They appreciate your patron age. Kindly Inform them that you saw their ads in this news paper. sweepstakes advertisers may be found on page 12 of this week’s CAROLINIAN. Look them over. Visit these merchants as well as other CAROLINIAN adverti sers, and be sure to tell them that you saw their ads in this newspaper. slave ship, God had sent His Sen, born a Hebrew, to root ou, all selfishness and greedy individualism and groupism. God sent His Son to call to gether a new People, one Peo ple. from every tongue and tribe and nation. To the shame of Christen dom, until today men have not said yes to God’s revela tion that all men are broth ers in Christ. headlines on a pamphlet of the Dodge Revolutionary Unuon Movement (DRUM), tagged “Prepare For the Worst” dis tributed In the Detroit and Chi cago Industrial areas. DRUM Is a black radical auto workers group, whose literature, writ ten In shrill, often obscene lan guage, warns of conflict, blood shed, possibly even destruction (of plants. “Before peace and tranquil ity can prevail, our demands must be met and our goals ach ieved, by any means neces sary,” declared a DRUM mani festo. Among DRUM’S demands are more black foremen, black plant managers, black union repre sentatives and even blackboard (chairman at the Chrysler Cor poration, the main DRUM tar get. “The black man has been treated unjustly by management (See BIACKS BID. P 2) Temperature* daring the ?*■ rlod, Tuesday through Saturday wlli average below normal. Daytime h.ghs will average S - 45 degrees In the mountains of North Carolina, mostly in the 40s eastward, except •18-5.’ de grees near and along the coast, tows at night will be 15-25 In the mountains and mostly In the 2Cs eastward, except 28-38 de grees along the coast. It will be cooler Tuesday and Wednesday with moderating temperatures during the remainder of the vvteK. Precipitation will total three-fourths of an Inch, occur ring mostly as rain or scattered showers, about Thursday and again about Saturday. Chris'.mas of 1968 witnesses a divided world. The white man’s sin is obvious. His con tradiction of the Gospel stands out like a cross on a hilltop. The very religion which God revealed for the unity of the human race has been caricatured into a de fense for oppression. As a result of the white man’s denial of, and oppres sion o', his brother, today some b’ack men would repeat the white man’s mistake in reverse: some advocate a black community excluding the rest of mankind. Their reaction is understandable. Short sighted as trail- view is. if is a response to evil. And those white men who oppress ed for four centuries ait more responsible than those black men who decide today that ’here will be an independent (See FK. GRAVES. 9. t) FIVE BLOCKS FROM NATION’S CAPITOL - Washington: Negro children stand in an alley in their garbage-littered, run-down neighbor hood in one of Washington’s poorer sections, just five blocks from the U. S. Capitol. The major roadblock in the way of rebuilding the nation’s cities is where to find the money to carry out recommended programs. (UPI). Dean Cites Waihce As Aniiampie IOWA CITY - Violence and defiance of the law get results, and that is one reason why they are spreading, Dean David H. Vernon of The University of lowa College of Law has de clared. In support of his statement, Dean Vernon cited the Watts riot, which resulted in improved living conditions in that Los Angeles ghetto, and violent demonstrations against the Vi etnam war, which were follow ed by President Johnson's de cision not to seek re-election. Vernon said Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama "may be the best example we have of the success of those who defy the law. He started on the road to national prominence by re fusing to obey the law. He forced the government to bring in U. S. marshals and to mass troops to enforce the lav' in Alabama. "He made lvls name breaking and defying the law, and now poses as the leader of the forces of law and order at any price.” Vernon noted, "It took the death of Martin Luther King and the riots that followed to con vince Congress to adopt open (See IAW DKAN, P. 2) Edgecombe jury Says Girl Guilty TAR BORO - A 17-year-old girl, who pleaded innocent to charges of murder, was sen tenced to die in the State’s gas chamber in Raleigh on Friday, January 3, 1969. Miss Marie Hill of Rocky Mount, was among four young Negro women accused of kilt - ing W. E. Strum, 65-year-old the dynamiting of their home near here Dec. 13. Four Negroes were included in the all-male jury that de liberated less than one hour in Edgecombe County Superior Court before returning a first - degree murder verdict against Miss Hall, without a recom mendation for mercy, makingan automatic death verdict manda tory. The young lady’s court-ap pointed attorney, Vincent Bridget’s, filed an immediate (See GIIM 17 1* 2) The Crime Beat' FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE MAN, WOMAN BATTLE James Edward Richardson, 30, 1902 Oakwood Avenue, told Officer R. I). Williams at 8:37 p.rn. Saturday, that he was cut by Mrs. Rosa Marie Mitchell, ?2, 532 E. Kdenton Street, but he refused to make any further statements. Mrs. Mitchell ad mitted cutting Richardson after he struck her In the face with his hands and fists, but said her act was in self defense. Since neither of the parties involved would sign warrants a gainst the other, the cop did, and charged both with engaging in an affray where a deadly wea pon (a single edge razor blade) was used. Both were arrested. Richardson suffered a 12-Inch cut on the upper left arm and a three-inch cut on his right hand. The Incident took place at Mrs. Mitchell’s house. (Se* CBCMR BRAT, 9. S>
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