Journalist Carl T. Rowan Says
"Black Separatism Is Nonsense”
Kittreli’s Students Air Grievances
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VOL. 28. NO 19
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NEW YORK, N, Y. - The Na
tional Urban League called
Monda; foi the abolition of
capital punishment throughout
the United States.
The League, in a statement
issued from its New York head
quarters, declared that the
death penalty failed to deter
crime, was discriminator; as
applied to Mack persons and the
poor, and might even be a vio
lation of the United States Con
stitution.
The League’s National Board
of Trustees adopted the posi
tion on capita! punishment at
a recent meeting in New York
City. The 55-member Board is
the League’s governing body.
The statement was prompt
ed by moves In several states
that had abolished capital
punishment to restore it.
The Board's statement said
there was “little valid evidence
to substantiate the allegation
(See URBAN LEAGUE. P. 2)
DISRUPT CAFETERIA SERVTCE ATI I
LINA-ChaDei Hill: A large group of demon
star tors gather in the Lenoir Hall cafeteria
at the U. of North Carolina here March 4
after scattered fights broke out. Several tables
were turned over by the demonstrators and
one injury was reported. A strike by food
service employes at the school is now in
its 11th day and is being backed by Negro
members of the Black Student movement,
(UPI).
North Caro!inn's Leading Weekly
RALEIGH? N. €., SATURDAY. MARCH 8. 1969
The star of a popular tele
vision series, “It Takes
a Thief,” has a local coun
terpart, but this one always
“gets caught with the goods.”
Rov Lee Crowder, 27, of 1107
Mark’ Street, began his career
as a thief here when he was
barely 12 years of age. He was
charged with breaking and
entering on June 46, 1954, but
was prosecuted by juvenile au
thorities because of his age.
His latest “brush” with the
law came on Sunday morning of
this week,
David Henry Mosier ofßosse
Jewelers, Inc., 40! Fayetteville
Street told Officers W. A.
Blackman and H. L. Rushing at
2;50 a.m. Sunday, that a call
came in saying the alarm was
going off at Bosse’s Jewelry.
The officers’ report stated,
“As we came down Davie Street,
near Wilmington, we saw a
subject running across the
street. He ran behind Murray’s
Tire Service. We chased him a
round the building and he drop
ped something, later found by us
to be watches, as he ran.”
The officers proceded to
chase the subject around to the
front of the structure, “where
he tried to hide behind a brick
wall. When we stopped him and
placed him under arrest, we
went back around the building
to retrieve the five watches
which he already had dropped.
He also had two watches on his
person.”
Crowder was booked on
(See JEWEL THIEF, p. 2)
Waii Street
Journal Ed,
Speaks Here
“By and large, North Caro
lina has met problems of tur
bulance with skill,” William
Vermont Royster, editor and
vice- president of the Wall
Stieet Journal and Dow Jones,
Incorporated, told Saint Augus
tine’s College students Thurs
day, February 27. Royster stat
ed that the United States is the
strongest nation in economic
(•«< EDITOR OF, V. 2)
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“PRESIDENT IN EXILE” SEEKS “BLACK
HOUSE”- Washington: To the guffaws and
cheers of his constitutents, Negro comic
Dick Gregory was inaugurated as “President
In Exile” in a Washington, D. C. school
house March 4. He immediately set as one
of his first tasks location of a presidental
“Black House” to move into. Gregory, ac
companied by his wife, Lillian, gives a
victory sign after his “inauguration.” (UPI).
McKissiek Enterprises
Files Articles In City
The office of S e c re t a r y of
State Ttiacl Eure last week re
ceived articles of incorporation
for Soul City, to be built in
Warren County.
The articles were filed by
Gordon Carey, 3CO W, 125th
Street, and Floyd Bixlei Mc-
Kissick, both of New York City,
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FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL
POLICE FILE
ASSAULT ATTEMPT FAILS
Miss Grace Elizabeth James,
22, 516 w. Lenoir Street, told
Officer Bruce E. Tucker at
4;29 p.m, Wednesday, that she
was walking in the 700 block
of S. West Street, on her way
to Washington School, 1000 Fay
etteville Street, and was near
Dorothea Drive when a colored
male, approximately 38-years
old, pulled up beside her in a
dark blue, late model car and
asked her to go for a ride with
him. When site refused, the wo
man said, the subject got out
of the car and grabbed her by
the arms, trying to force her
into the vehicle.
However, Miss James said
site scuffied with the mar. and
scratched him on the face and
arm, then he got into his car
and left, headed north on S.
West Street. All police units
were notified to be on the alert
for this subject.
* * *
STABBED IN THE CHEST
Curtis Fee Titus, 218 Regan
Lane, informed Officers L. W.
Godwin and W. S, Haithccck
at 0;I5 p.m. Friday, that his
wife, Mrs. Julie M,Titus, stab
bed him because “she thought
I had a pistol.” He said the
woman “knifed” him as he
walked into the house. Mr. Ti
tus said his wife “was about
drunk.” He also said he did
not want to sign a warrant
against her.
The officers attempted totaik
to Mrs. Titus at the residence,
“but she would not come to
the door.” Scissors were used
to stab the complainant in the
left upper chest.
(Sec CRIME HEAT. P. i)
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and Theoseus T. Clayton, War
renton attorney.
(See sort. CITY. P 2)
Negro Runs
For Mayor
In Jersey
JERSEY CITY, N. J. - Julian
K. Robinslon, 39-year-old dl
roctoi of Jersey City’s Depart
ment of Health and Welfare
and acting chairman, Board of
Trustees of Jersey City State
College, announced this week
(on Tuesday, March 4th) hts
candidacy for the office of
mayor of Jersey City. In doing
so, Robinson will make the
first serious challenge to the
dominance of the “Boss
Hague” political machine In
over twenty years. The Hague
organization has been In power
since 1933.
Robinson is the only Negro
among the four announced
candidates for the Democratic
mayoralty nomination and by
running will confront the in>
cumbent mayor.
(See FOR MAYOR. V. 1)
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‘Solving
Problems,’
Says Prexy
bi CHARLES R.JONES
KITTREI.L -The cry here last
Friday morning by some 250
students at Kittrell College was
not for clack studies or black
power. It was simply for human
dignity.
This newsman was giver, a
complete tour of the dor
mitories by the students oh
this two-year AME church-re
lated junior college, near
Henderson, ip. Vance County.
Spokesman for the group was
Robert Goode, a soft-spoken
young man from the Method
area of Raleigh, who was “con
cerned about my school.”
College president, the Rev,
Lonnie G. Horton, was report
(Sre KITTRELL. P ’)
Ex-USIA
Head la
Charlotte
CHARLOTTE - The former
head of the United States In
formation Agency, Carl T. Row
an, speaking here Monday, dis
missed as “nonsense” the con
cept of black separatism on the
college campuses of the nation.
Now a syndicated newspaper
columnist and a former diplo
mat, Row an did endorse the idea
of black power, but said he
differs with black students who
view separate dormitories as
the exercise of such power.
Also condemned by the
journltst was the idea of black
controlled black studies pro
grams. Such programs are now
being demanded at many pre
dominantly white colleges and
universities in the state at this
time. Included is the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte
where Mr. Rowan was being
heard.
“Negroes will never erase
the lingering, nagging inside
doubts about their quality with
whites as long as the black
man in America is out there
knocking heads with the white
man,” he dated.
He said, “It is absurd for
black students iO demand
special consideration in aca
demic grading.”
Rowan contended that black
students are maxing a mistake
when they shun traditional
society as a stepping stone to
power
“Until black people learn to
move in the highest circle of
society,” Rowan declared,
“they will never attain a strong
grip on power.”
Mr. Rowan spoke at a campus
forum, which sponsored him.
The first Negro ever to head
the USIA, Rowan was appointed
by the late President John F.
Kennedy. He also held an am
bassadorship for about a year.
NBL Prexy
Demands A
Relocation
WASHINGTON, D. C. - The
National Business League’s
president, Berkeley G. Burrell
testifying last week before the
Senate Sub-Committee on In
tergovernmental Relations con
cerning relocation of small
businesses forced to vacate long
(See PREXY DEMANDS, P. 2)
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KITTRELL STUDENTS DE
MONSTRATE - These scenes
were taken on the campus of
Kittrell College last Frida;,
morning as the majority of the
school’s 350 students stayed out
of classes to register protest
over conditions prevailing at
the two-year junioi college.
Top photo shows the group in
front of the college’s business
office. In center picture, they
are marching in a circle, sing
ing, “We Shall Overcome,”and
in the photo at bottom, Robert
Goode, student spokesman for
the body, who hails from the
Method community of Raleigh,
leads the students In a verse
of the song. All was reported
quiet on the campus as late
as Wednesday of this week.
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JONES).
Birthday
Holiday
Bill Seen
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Con
gressman John Conyers, -Tr.
(Dem -Michigan) last week an
nounced re-introduction, with
23 co-sponsors, of legislation
to make the birthday of the
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
a legal public holiday. Con
gressmen Conyers, Henry
Reuss (W is.) Will lam Ryan (New
York), George Brown (Calif.)
and Benjamin Rosenthal (Now
York) were joined a press con
ference by Rev. A. D. King,
brother of th late Dr. King and
Rev. Delaney, also of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference. The conference table
was piled with nearly one-half
million letters and petitions
which have been received in
support of the legislation.
“We are overwl elmed at the
number of persons who have
written to us and various radio
stations in support of the bill,”
said Conyers. “The impressive
thing is not just the amount of
mail, but the fact that much of
of it lias come from persons
who, seldom, if ever, write to
Congressmen. This obviously is
an issue which lias great mean
ing to millions of Americans,
and we are delighted that so
many have taken the time to
make this simple, personal
gesture in memory of the late
Dr. King, I, and everyone else
involved greatly appreciate
these letters, and wish that it
were possible for each to be
answered individually.”
This bill was orlginail'- in
troduced during the tragic days
following Dr. King’s untimely
death in Memphis last April.
Conyers then re-introduced the
bill on the opening day of the
9 Ist Congress. Several na
tionally known black en -
(Seo REP. CONYERS, P. 2)
r . ",ry im.u '
Temperatures during the pe
riod, Thursday through Monday,
will average below normal, nay
time highs are expected to aver
age In (he 4(!s In the mountains,
upper 40a and low slls elsewhere,
except in the upper 50s on the
south coast. Low at night will
average mostly lit the 20s in the
mountains. 25-T2 degiees Inland,
except in the mid 30s on (he
coast It will be warmer Thu. ;
day, cooler Friday, with rath' 1 !
cold weather over the weekend
and Monday. Precipitation will
total over three-fourths of an
inch, occurring as rain or snow
westerly and mostly as rain
elsewhere, about late Thursday
and Friday and again about late
Sunday or Monday.
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Sirhan’s Interest In
Kina’s Death Revealed
DOS ANGKI KS - Sirhan B.
Sirhan’s interest in the assas
sination of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., has been disclosed
by 3 Black witness at the trial
of the Jordanian immigrant ac
cused of slaying Sen. Rc.iert F.
Kenned;,
The testimony tended to but
tress the idea that the events
surrounding the assassination
of Dr. King might, have had a
bearing on the killing of Sen.
Kennedy. The Senator was slain
two months, to the day, after
the civil-rights leader.
Alvin Clark, a garbage col
lector, testified that lie met
Sirhan on a Wednesday soon
after Dr. King was killed.
Sirhan asked him how Ne
groes felt about. Dr. King’s as-'
sassination, Clark said.
“1 told him we felt there
was not only one person re
sponsible. He wanted to know
what I thought the Negroes would
do about the murder of King,
•• TVPICM PRISONER’''TKE l if’i! 1..T
ington: Under close guard, a computer-picked
“typical prisoner,” dubbed “.John Doe” testi
fies before the Senate Juvenile Delinquency
subcommittee March 3, “Doe,” currently
an inmate,d at the District of Columbia jail,
described widespread homosexual rape as
routine part of life behind prison bars. (UPI),
and I said,‘What can we do"”
the witness testified.
Clark said he told Sir 1 an a
about Sen. Kennedy going to
Tennessee to bring the late
Eu . King’s !>od , back, am ty
ing ail the expenses
According to C1 ark, Slrhan
said, “Kennedy did this just
for publicity.”
Sirhan, this week, took the
sta n d himseii, and plea de d
guilt> to killing Senator Ken
nedy, although advised not to
by his battery of defense at
torneys. who were hoping to
have the Jordanian plead tem
porary insanity ai the time
of the killing.
However, several rebuttal
witnesses iuve said that Sir-
Ban was very sane and that
he had meticously planned the
Shooting *o the most minute
detail.
Others have contended that
he was under the influence of
(See WITNESS TELLS. P. 2)