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"BOOM TOWN USA” IS HOPED FOR IN N.C. Mrs. ‘Libby’ Koontz Named By Nixon. NEA Head Adds To laurels NEW YORK - (NPI)-- Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 49, the National Educat ion associa tion's first Negro president, now has another first to her cre dit. She’s the first (and, so far, only) Black person named to a sub-cabmet position by Presi dent Richard M. Nixon. Mrs. Koontz, from Salisbury, i N.C,, will be director of the t U.S. Labor department’s women bureau. Her appointment leaves all cabinet and cabinet-level posts in white hands. But it integrates the Nixon administration at the sub-cabinet level. Besides Mrs. Koontz, other Negroes, named by Nixon to high-level posts are Walter Washington, retained as com missioner (mayor) of Washing ton, and Robert j. Brown of High Point N.C., named special assistant for tl e problems of the ghettos. Both men are Democrats. Nixon has been attacked by Whitney M. Young, Jr., the National Urban League’s execu tive director, for failing to appoint more Negroes to his administration. "Either Mr. Nixon doesn’t want to appoint any Negroes to his administration or else he is being sabotaged by some key (Seo MRS. KCONTZ. I* 2) NAACPSeeks Court Block Os Programs NEW YORK - Roy Wilkins, head of the National Associa tion foi the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said Monday the NAACP would go to court to block the creation of "autonomous" black studies programs and black student dormitories on college campuses. The statement put Wilkins, executive director of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, in direct opposition to Negro students across tne country now demand ing black studies programs which they control and dormito ries for black students only. Wilkins said these demands represent, "in essence, the setting up of racially based Jim Crow schools," and he said the use of public tax monies to do this was believed by him and NAACP law yers to be unconsti tutional. "...If some white Americans, torn and confused by today’s clamor of some black students, should accede officially to the call for separate dormitories and autonomous racial schools within colleges and univer sities, there will be court ac tion to determine anyone’s right to use public tax funds to set up what are, patently, Jim Crow schools," lie said. Wilkins made the statement to abo u t 200 N A A C P repre sentatives from throughout the United States at the 60th annual corporate meeting of the as sociation at the Park Shera ton Hotel, Seventh Avenue and 56th Street. He repeated them and elaborated at a news con ference after delivering the speech. Rev. Abernathy Raps Nixon, Capitalism FROUMORE, S. C. -(NPI; - Critizing President-elect Rich ard M. Nixon, the Rev. David Abernathy, Southern Christian Leadership conference presi dent, has called "black capital ism" a "bone" andadded; "We are tired of being tossed bones." "Black capitalism" is the slogan used by Nixon to describe his program for Negro economic advancement. Rev. Abernathy rejected "Black capitalism" in favor of Black socialism," declaring: "We don’t want rich individuals, we want rich communities." "We need to organize com munity-owned development corporations where the profits will be returned to the building of the community," he said. "We want to share in the public sector of the economy through publid controlled, nonprofit in stitutions." Rev. Abernathy said ground was being broken in Atlanta for SCLC’s first low-rent housing project. The SCLC program, (See ABERNATHY. P, T) THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 28. NO. 12 Argue Over iammme Money Killed At 'Wake’ ix Housing Project Given Green Light JS| 4 jr ■ , v F.S GiI.XESPIE WADE J. SMITH Man, 35, Reaches For Cash, Is Gunned Down ZEBULON - The love of money cost a 35-year-old Wake Count; man his Hie Saturday night, while he attended a wake for his girlfriend’s sister, ac cording to Coroner Marshall W. Bennett Wade Jack Smith, 35, is said to have died instantly at 3:45 a.m. Saturday after being struck an inch above the belt line on the i ight side, with a slug from a .12 gauge single barrel shot gun, wielded by James Gilles pie, 36. The incident occurred at Mr. Gillespie’s home during Job Fairness Pledged By Rocky Mounfs C Os C BY J. B. BARREN ' ROCKY MOUNT - The Rocky Mount, N. C. Chamber of Com merce Board of Directors is credited with approving the re port of its Employment Study Committee which called forthe business leaders, local in dustry, government and house holders to start immediately the practice non-discrimination in all areas of job-hiring and em ployment of minority-group cit izens from the kitchen through stores, factories and places Ne~ gores bat e heretofore not been employed or have been scaled low in wages. The CC epochal announce ment comes closely on the heels CONFERS WITH BLACK LEADERS - New York; Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon (c) and his urban affairs adviser, Daniel Moynihan (r), meet, with black leaders at Nixon headquarters on January 13. From left are: Rev. Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Hobson Reynolds of Philadelphia, head of the Negro Elks; John Murphy of Baltimore, president of the National Newspaper As sociation; Nixon; John H. Johnson of Chicago, president of the Johnson Publishing Co.; Sandy F. Ray of Brooklyn, first vice president of the Na tional Baptist Convention; Robert J, Brown (special assistant to pres.- elect); and Moynihan. Rev. Abernathy chided Nixon for failing to name a Negro to a cabinet level post. (UPI), North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. JANUARY 18. 1969 a "sitting up" for Ills wife, Mrs. Eva Bell Gillespie, whose body lay in state at William Toney’s Funeral Home on Bar bee Street here. Coroner Bennett told a CA ROLINIAN newsman Wednesday that Smith was "going with” Mr. Gillespie’s sister-in-law, nafne not released. He said that Gillespie admitted having pur chased a case of beer and li quor was consumed during the Wake. "Just about everyone at the wake had been drinking," (See KILLED AT. P. 2) of a similar pronounce-by the local Junior Chamber of Com merce (Jay CEES) which in early autumn. Notably among the declara tions of the senior Chamber of Commerce are these quotes; "Os the six grievance submitted by a Negro liason committee from 15 organizations, the CC found "that in past years there has been discrimination invar ous departments of the city governemt, as well as in other segments of the community. Recently the city has made drastic changes...,in an effort to eliminate all discriminatory (See ROCKY MT., P. 2) Southside Complaints Pay Off A group of Southside citi zens met at the Manly Street United Church here Sunday night, sponsored by the Advis ory Committee of the Waldrop Community Action Center to protest a proposed joint meet ing of the Raleigh City Coun cil and the Raleigh Housing Au thority, scheduled to be closed Monday, but held in a semi open fashion Tuesday afternoon. Their protest paid off here Tuesday afternoon as a new housing project will apparently be built in a formerly all white area. Joseph E. Guess was named chairman of the body that met with Raleigh Mayor Travis Tomlinson in his quarters at noon Monday to present a pe tition, signed by more than 100 persons. The signatures were those of Southside residents who back ed the Dennis Avenue Turn key 1 site for a new high-rise residential apartment house for those who will be displaced by the tearing down of the Southside, more commonly known as Fourth Ward. Dennis Avenue, near Glas cock Street in northeast Ra leigh, will be the scene of the project, despite the protesta tions of more than 1,100 white residents in the section. The chairman of the Ra leigh Housing Authority, Rob ert B, Broughton, informed the City Council that "verbal ap proval" of the site has already been received from the Atlan ta branch of the U. S. De partment of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He also said, "We, (the hous ing authority) "have conclud ed it is a good site and should be favorably considered. The authority has the responsibility to proceed with needed hous ing in the city. The meeting between the housing authority and the coun cil was arranged after a petition was presented last week to the council protesting the proposed site of the project. The petition contended that if (Bee PROJECT, P. 5) SINGLE COPY 15c m, Mt/0* % JAMES E. RICHARDSON Richardson Given Rites At Zebulon (Editor’s Note: Here is the likeness of James E. Richard son, whose picture is re produced to clarify an error in last week’s CAROLINIAN. James E. Richardson’s picture used in the story titled, "Wake Man Kills Self, ’’ was procured from the files of the local City- Codnty Identification Bureau by a clerk in charge, who allowed the use of the photograph, believing it to be the Richard son in question in the story. The CAROLINIAN regrets the error and apologizes to both the mother of the deceased, whose son had nc police record and to James E. Richardson, pos sessing the identical name, whose picture appeared through the above - mentioned coin cidence). ZEBULON - Funeral serv ices for James Edward Rich ardson, 30, who lived with his mother at 1902 Gakwood Ave nue, Raleigh, were conducted Sunday, January 12, at 3:30 p,m., from the First Baptist Church here with the Rev. John Mangum, pastor, officiating. (See RICHARDSON. P. 2) Ft a* « ft a i riftfA If t? vv fir Iff Beat FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE STRUCK WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE Miss Classie Mae Cox, 26, Route 1, Knightdale, told Of ficer S. R. McLean at 2:53a.m. Sunday, that she and William Al len Jones, 33, Route 2 Wendell, had an argument at The Cave, a nightspot, located at 405 E. Cabarrus Street, and Jones struck her with "a pint liquor bottle,” causing a two-inch cut on the forehead, Jones was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Two witnesses to the incident were Misses Doris Cox and Martha White, both of Route 1, Knightdale. * * * STABBED OUTSIDE THEATRE Mrs. Dorthy Lee Jordan, 37, 1507 Pender Street, informed Officer F. W. Mitchell at 9:26 p.m. Sunday, that she was stabbed while leaving the Lincoln Theatre, 200 block of E. Cabarrus Street about 7:30p.m. She said a girl, whose first name is "Mary," stabbed her. She did not know the last name, Mrs. Jordan, who was cut on the arm and neck arid stabbed in the back, was treated at Wake Memorial Hospital. She told the officer that when she ob tains her assailant surname and address she will swear out a 'warrant charging assault with a deadly weapon, (»e* CHIME BEAT. P. PLAN BLACK-RUN TOWN FOR NORTH CAROLINA - Washington: A plan to formulate, design and construct a “New Town” in the rural “Black Belt” of North Carolina was announced on January 13 by Floyd B. McKissick Enterprises, Inc., of New' York. Floyd McKissick, former head of the Congress of Racial Equality, heads the company “dedicated to the building of ’black economic power.” The town will be located in Warren County, N. C. At a news conference here January 13, an announce ment was made, left to right: Theaoseus T. Clayton, Warrenton, N. C., attorney for McKissick; McKissick; and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, who has offered his department’s assistance to the venture. (UPI). Floyd McKissick, Ex-Core Head, * Stale Lawyer, Eyes “Soul City” NEW YORK, N. Y. - A plan to formulate, design and con struct a "New Town” in the rural "Black Belt" of North Carolina was announced Monday by Floyd Bixler McKissick Enterprises, Inc., of New York. Mr. McKissick, a former na tional chief executive of the Congress of Racial Equality, NIXON FLANKED BY APPOINTEES - New York: President-elect Richard Nixon (c) is flanked by cabinet-designates and new' sub-cabinet appointees during a news conference on January 10 following a series of major policy discussions for his incoming administration. From left are: James Hodgson, Under-Secretary of Labor designate; Labor Sec retary-designate George Schultz; Nixon; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Koontz, di rector of Women’s Bureau of the Labor Department; Godfrey Moore, Commissioner of Labor Statistics; and Arnold Weber, Assistant Sec retary of Labor-designate. Hodgson, Weber, Moore, and Mrs. Koontz were appointed on January 10. Mrs. Koontz, significantly, is Mr. Nixon s major Negro appointee to his Administration. (UPI). Editorial Charging Jews With Stifling Hack Education Hit NEW YORK -- An editorial in the African-American Teachers Forum charging Jews with responsibility for “stifl ing” the education of black children was criticized this week by the American Jewish Congress as "a vicious piece of racism that can serve only to debase any rational approach to the school problem." Shad Poller, chairman of the National Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress, declared in a statement: "This latest expression of anti-Semitism, in the same publication that opened its co SWEEPSTAKES I 5252 5510 3877 $lO S4O $5.00 * Anyone bavins current WHITE tickets. dated Jan. n, l»S8, with : proper numbers, present same to The CAROLINIAN office and receive amounts listed above from the SWEEPSTAKES Feature. , Mrs. Carley Wins St§ Prii* Mrs. Louise Curley of Ra leigh, did some shopping last week at Hudson-Belk 208 Shop on Fayetteville Street. While there, she was given a CAR OLINIAN Sweepstakes tick J ' J now heads up the company "ded icated to the building of Black economic power." The New Town is one of many proposed by Mr. McKissick’s company as promising answers to some of the problems besetting modern American society. He also practiced law in Durham,, North Carolina for a number of years. lumns last year to the malign igrioran'ce of John F, Hatchett, is an obvious and calculated SB A Proxy Warns Os Need To Share Power, Economy NEW YORK -(NPI) - Howard J, Samuels, head of the Small Business Administration, warned last week In a speech that race relations in this country are doomed to further deterioration "unless white A mericaris turn over more poll er which turned out to be worth SSO. Number 1620 was a yellow ticket, dated January 4, 1969, She brought it into the offices (See SWEEPSTAKES, P. 2) McKissick recalled that he has been involved in discussions of potential applications of New City technology to the prob lems of the poor and minority groups for more than four years. He was among the first to advocate construction of en tirely new communities as an (See BOOM TOWN” P. 2) attempt to stoke the fires of racial and religious tension that (See EDITORIAL. P. 2) ticai and economic power to black communities." He added that "when black Americans accept this new power they must use it re sponsibly.” Samuels’ warning was issued at a testimonial dinner held in honor of Rep. Shirley Chisholm.- Samuels cited Project OWN as "a perfect example” of how black-white relations can be improved to aid understanding (See SBA HEAD. P, 2) 'I" 11,. - r . s »IHHIP. UNI,: ■ -- ■ - - Temperatures a Bring the pe riod, Thursday through Mon day, will average near normal. Daytime highs will be in the tOi in the mounts.m ot North Carolina acid the low 50s else where. s.ows at night are ex pected to be 31.-35 degrees, ex cept for the low 20% In She mountains. Rising temperatures are expected Thursday and Fri day, with a tiend toward older weather by late Sunday and Monday. Precipitation will aver age one-half to three-fourths oS an inch or more, occurring as rain, with psiss.bl* snow in the mountains late Friday and urdey
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