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MEETS WITH POPE PAUL - Vatican City:
Mrs, Coretta King, the widow of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., is pictured with Pope Paul
VI during a private audience on January 20.
The Pontiff expressed admiration for King’s
“untiring and self-sacrificing struggle in favor
of the rights of man.” (UPI).
Scribe Believes Nixon
Seeks Solace In Prayer
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
“Prayer is the soul's desire
uttered or unexpressed. The
motion of a hidden fire that
trembles in the breast.”
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DEMONSTRATORS MAR INAUGURAL - Washington: Police scuffle with
demonstrators January 20 a few blocks from the route of President
Nixon’s Inaugural Parade. Earlier, protesters hurled missiles at Nixon’s
bulletproff limousine and shouted absent ties, (UP!),
bulletproof limousine
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1969
Local Woman Held is Naked Hubby
Apparently President - elect
Richard Milhous Nixonhadpon
dered these Biblical words over
in his heart for many days
before he came to the highest
(See NIXON SEEKS, P. 2)
President
Takes Reins
At Inaugural
BY ROLAND BLACK
WASHINGTON - (NPI) - Now
that Richard M. Nixon is the
nation's President, what's he
going to do for Black people?
The answers range from the
obscene for the sublime. But
only Nixon himself can decide
just what he will do.
To some, Nixon’s “Black
capitalism” slogan is a por
tent of a golden era for Ne
groes. To others, “Blackcapi
talism” is but a pacification
program to keep the Black
masses quiet.
Somewhere in between is what
“Black capitalism” is likely to
turn out to be.
Before Nixon took office it
was warned by some that he
would throw the country into
a depression--and it was pre
dicted by others that he would
produce more economic abund
ance.
It was charged that Nixon
favored a program that would
put thousands of Black people
out of work in an effort to slow
down inflat ion--and it was al
so noted that Nixon supported
the development of Black busi
ness, which would employ more
Black people.
The new President is likely
to do something in between ruin
ing the country and making it
a paradise. The question, then,
is not what startling reforms
he make but what “in-between”
action he will take.
There will probably be no
concentration camps built for
Black during his administra
tion--but neither will all Blacks
be suddenly catapulted into
overnight prosperity.
If anything, there will be cer
tain undramatic economic and
social advancements for Blacks
or some possible setbacks dur
ing his administration,
A restless nation of high ex
pectations does not see things
that way, however. Many U. S.
citizens view their President
either as an agent of sinister
repression or a source from
whom all blessings flow.
To the Black Liberation Al
liance, Nixon's programs aim at
(See PRESIDENT, P, 3)
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PRESIDENT NDCON
Murray Is
Asked To
Apologize
FAYETTEVILLE -At a meet
ing Thurday night of the execu
tive committee, Fayetteville
Area Poor People’s Organiza
tion (FAPPO), it was decided
to request a public apology
from John Murray, Executive
Director of the Cumberland
County Community Action
Program (CCCAP).
Murray alledgely condemned
FAPPO publicly at the De
cember meeting of CCCAP. F
APPO also charges that Mur
ray has used every vehicle at
his disposal to label the organi
zation as an extremist group.
A critical evaluation by the
regional Office of Economic
Opportunity has completely ab
solved FAPPO from all ofMur
ray’s alledged critical accusa
tions of FAPPO.
The evaluation called FAPPO
(Sev POOR REQUESTS, P. 2)
The Crime
Beat
FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL
POLICE FILE
STRUCK WITH STOVE
“KEY”
Mrs. Elizabeth White Jones,
32, 1129 Gregg Street, told Of
ficers Ralph Clayborne and D,
N, Scott at 8:15 p.m. Friday,
that during an argument with
Harold Ellis Morgan, 36, same
address, she was struck with an
iron stove “key.”
The woman was treated at
Wake Memorial Hospital for a
one-inch cut on the head and
released. A warrant was signed
charging assault with a deadly
weapon, and Morgan was “haul
ed off” to Wake County Jail,
where he was placed under a
bond of SSO.
* * *
DOC CUT AND STABBED
Doc Connie Johnson, 401 Rand
Mill Road, Garner, reported to
a cop last weekend that he was
arguing with another colored
male over a girl in front of
S2O W. South Street, when he
was “cut and stabbed” by the
suspect.
Johnson said he was attacked
by James (Jim) Brown, 26,
602 $. McDowell Street. A wit
ness was listed as Luther John
son, Jr., 825 New Bern Avenue,
who called “the law.”'
Doc Johnson suffered a five
inch chest wound, described as
“dtap,” and had & small cut
on his fee®. No other informa
tion was listed on the report.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. S)
Many residents of the Ober
lin area of the city are in an
uproar over the alleged treat
ment of 30-year-old George
Edward Kitchen, 1324 Oberlin
Road by officials and physicians
at Rex Hospital here Sunday
night.
Mr. Kitchen, the father of
two girls, one four, the other
7 months old, an underwriter
for Northwestern Insurance
Company, Glenwood Avenue,
was shot in the mouth by an
unknown white man about 8
p.m. Sunday as lie was driv
ing towards his home on Peace
Street, near its intersection
with N. Wilmington.
He is now paralyzed on the
left side and in the intensive
care section at Wake Memorial
Hospital where he was taken
by ambulance early' Monday
morning.
During an interview with Mr.
Kitchen’s wife, the former Miss
Willie Genora Black, a Fuquay-
Varina native, it was learned
that she was called shortly
after her husband was admitt
ed to Rex.
Upon arrival and after ob
serving her husband's condi
tion, Mrs. Kitchen said she
asked a doctor who removed
the bullet from the man’s
throat whether her husband
should not be kept overnight,
but was informed that he could
be taken home. The wife said
that she observed the begin
nings of paralysis before taking
him from Rex as he had to be
carried out in a wheel chair.
She said she was assisted in
dressing him by an orderly
and her brother-in-law.
(Sec MAN SHOT. P. 2)
Coroner Sets Inquest
In Knife Death Here
A Raleigh man was stabbed to
death at his home here Sunday
night and his wife is being held
in Wake County Jail, pending
the outcome of the Coroner’s
Inquest, set for January 29 here.
Paul McLamb, 58, 549 E.
Hargett Street (next to Thomp
son Elementary School), was
discovered in the nude after
being stabbed once with a
butcher knife. Mrs. Josie Mc-
Lamb, his wife, about 50, was
later arrested and is now' be
ing held, but not charged.
W'ake County Coroner Mar
shall W. Bennett, in an inter
view with CAROLINIAN man
aging editor Charles R. Jones
oin Tuesday night, said “Mrs.
McLamb was drunk and told
police officers three differ
ent stories about the slaying.”
He said an unidentified Ne
gro police officer received a
call to the apartment house a
bout 8;30 p.m. Sunday. The
wife is said to have answered
the door, and when asked if
there was any trouble, the wo
man reportedly informed him
that there was not. About an
hour later, another call came
from the same address and the
same officer answered it.
This time, Bennett said, the
Slaying Os 2 Black Panthers
Baffles UCLA’s Police Chief
LOS ANGELES'-(NPI) —“We
just don’t know what happened,”
said members of the Black
Panthers.
John Jerome Huggins, 23,
and Alprentice Carter, 26, were
mortally wounded as gunfire
erupted at a meeting of 150
Negro students at the univer
sity.
Both had been accepted for
UCLA’s “high potential” pro
gram for minority students
lacking adequate academic re
cords. Carter was identified
Group Seeks Aid For Condemned Girl
In a continued effort to seek
justice in the case of Marie
Hill, of Rocky Mount, the Com
mittee for Racial Justice battles
on in all-out attempt to free the
17-year-oid accused of murder.
Clergymen, students, and the
concerned community are
rallying to the cause, as the
fund raising- committee, “The
Defense Committee for the
Rock Mount Four is accepting
donations and pledges for her
legal defense,
Th® other three girls are
being held, but not charged
with the murder. They, ac
cording to Rocky Mount
officials, were on the look-out
while Marie reportedly shot and
beat a white 65-year-old
merchant.
Based in Raleigh, the work
ing crew was instrumental in
securing information pertinant
to the case, in addition to engag
ing attorneys Juiius Chambers
and Conrad Boddle,
{See GROUP SEEKS. **. 2)
PRICE OF WAR - Ben Loe, South Vietnam: Two members of the 199th
Light Infantry Brigade battle a swift current as they cross stream here
recently. As the fighting continues, full scale peace talks will begin on
January 25 in Paris. (UPI).
Reynolds Tobacco Co. Releases
Plans For Ads In Negro Press
NEW ORLEANS-Plans for a
maior institutional advertising;
campaign in Negro-oriented
newspapers across the country
were announced here last week
end by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company.
McKissick Tells Press
Os “Soul City” Plans
CHAPEL HILL - Floyd Bix
ler McKissick, flam bouyant
chief of McKissick Enterprises,
Inc., a New York firm dedicated
to building “Soul City, North
Carolina,” held an impressive
press conference here last Sat
urday, described his city-to-
officer was admitted and found
Mr. McLamb on the floor,
‘'naked and dead.” Hehadbeert
stabbed on the left side, the
coroner said, “just above the
kidney and near the armpit. A
blood vessel was severed” and
the entire blade of the kitchen
utensil is believed to have pene
trated his body.
He said Mrs. McLamb had
plastic surgery performed on
her face recently and, at first,
claimed that she did not answer
the officer’s first investigation
because she was not at home.
She later admitted this was un
true, however, after facing the
officer.
Coroner Bennett said the wife
also claimed that two women
were at the house at the time
of the stabbing, but these wo
men proved that they could not
possibly have been in the a
partment to the satisfaction of
the officials.
At this point, Mrs. McLamb
claimed that a man was at their
house and that she and the un
identified man “were dancing
close” when her husband sud
denly slapped her. She told the
coroner that the man “told Paul
not to slap me no more,” but
(See STABBFD TO. P. 2)
as the Panthers’ deputy defense
minister.
The shooting started just as
the gathering was breaking up.
The meeting was held to dis
cuss a Black studies program
proposed by UCLA officials.
“No one we have interview
ed at this time saw the entire
series of events,’’ said Lt.
Robert Madlock, Los Angeles
police detective heading the in
vestigation of the slayings.
Efforts are being made to
contact everyone who attended
the meeting, he added.
CONDEMNED GIRL’S SURROUNDINGS - Miss Marie Hill, 17-year-old
Rocky Mount girl sentenced to die in the state's gas chamber for the
murder of an elderly white grocer, lived in the house shown at left,
The slaying took place in the wooden structure at right, MissJHill’s
foster-mother, Mrs. Amelia Lesene, is shown in inset.
Reynolds, which manu
factures three of the four best
selling brands of cigarettes in
the U.S. (Winston, Salem, and
Camel), made the announcement
at a news conference during
the Mid-winter Workshop of
be, and answered a battery of
questions, posed by the press
in rapid-fire order.
The CAROLINIAN was repre
sented by Charles R. Jones and
Miss Prentice C. Jervay. The
conference tvas held at the Holi
day Inn.
Flanked by city planner from
the University of North Ca
rolina, a top black architec
tural firm from New York City,
a Harvard University business
adm in ist rat ion graduate and two
other attorneys, McKissick, a
native of Asheville in the North
Carolina mountains, former na
tional director of the Congress
of Racial‘Equality (CORE) and
Durham attorney, was “in his
world” as he faced the bright
lights of every major television
station in the state and news
men and women.
Sporting a “modified” Afro
hair style, McKissick first in
troduced Leslie Roberts, the
Harvard grad, the owners of the
architectural firm of Eiffel and
Johnson, Dr. John A. Parker,
University of North Carolfna
School of Planning, Attorney T.
T. Clayton, Warrenton, and Don
Pollard, professor of law at
UNC.
Asked when he expected to
break ground for Soul City,
McKissick said, “We hope we
won’t be breaking ground in the
traditional way. When we break
ground, we plan to start build
ing then.”
Continuing, he declared, “We
expect cooperation from the
Warren County Commissioners
and plan to meet with them on
January 21. I think we can an
ticipate cooperation as we don’t
intend to do anything but im
prove Warren County.
“We Intend to use federal
funds from every available
source - the Department of
Agriculture, HUD, REA and any
other agencies. A series of
steps will be undertaken in the
planning of Soul City and we
will call weekly press confer
ences to let the public know
what is going on.”
When asked by a television
cameraman why heplannedset
ting up a black-run city, Mc-
Kissick replied, “The Consti
tution says that the majority
shall rule. Warren County is
66 percent black, but black
people do not run Warren Coun
ty anymore than they run Dur
ham, Raleigh, Charlotte or Cha
pel Hill. Our city will not be
segregated, but when whites
come to Soul City, they had
(See MrKISSKK. P. 2)
the National Newspaper Pub
lishers Association--the trade
association of the nation’s black
press.
A Company spokesman de
scribed the campaign as “an
effort to acquaint the Negro
consumer with Reynolds in
general, including its products,
policies, personnel and its cor
porate citizenship.” He said
the institutional advertising
would supplement RJR product
advertising directed at black
consumers through Negro
oriented magazines and radio
stations.
"We at R.J. Reynolds are
fully aware of the tremendously
important role being played by
the na t ion ’ s Negro-oriented
press and the responsible in
fluence it is having on A
merica’s black citizens. As a
result, we have decided to
utilize these newspapers in a
constructive fashion to help tell
our story In ma 11 ers of par
ticular interest to their
readers.”
The Company declined to re
veal the exact cost of the cam
(See REYNOLDS, P. 2)
l Conyers
Intmdmes
A New Bill
WASHINGTON - Congressman
John Coyers, Jr. (Dem.-
Michigan) and more than twenty
other members of Congress
have introduced the Full Op
portunity Act as a birthday tri
bute to the late Dr. Martin Lu
ther King, Jr.
Although Dr. King’s birth
day falls on the 15th of Jan
uary, the hill was Introduced
recently because some of the
Members plantoattendme
morial services for Dr. Kinsr
Jan. 15. “I wanted to introduce
the bill near his birthdate be
cause he was very interested
in this legislation and said
shortly before his death that
he would accept its passage as
a reasonable satisfaction of his
demands’ in connection with
the Poor People’s Campaign,”
said Conyers.
The Full Opportunity Act
which was originallv introduced
(See CONYERS, P, 2)
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riod, Thursday through Monday,
will average above normal. Day
time hie us are expected to av
erage mostly In the 50*, except
51-07 along the coast. Lows at
night viil average mostly In the
30s In the mountains and gen
erally 33-42 degrees elsewhere,
except in the 40s along the
coast. A gradual warming trend
is expected through the week
end. but it will turn colder by
Monday. Precipitation will to
tal three-fourths of an inch or
more, occurring as rain or scat
tered showers on Thursday and
again towards the latter part of
the weel.end and Monday.