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"marchers MAP PLANS UPON ARRIVAL HERn-Golden Frinks talks with a couple of demonstrators regarding his plans during their stay in the capitol city, The mountain top to valley march ended here last Friday April 18. The marchers plan to erect a ‘‘tent city” here this week. (UPI). DEMONSTRATORS AT CAPITOL-Pictured are some of the remaining 74 marchers who arrived here last Friday, vowing to “stay five years if necessary.” The above pickets are seeking the abolishment of the death penalty, more black highway patrolmen, an increase in the minimum wage and more employment for blacks. They plan to erect a Tent City here this week. (UPI). Fitch And Frinks Give A lews On Reactions To Tent Sites "If we fail to get a site this week, we are going to pitch tents on the Capitol grounds," stated Golden Frinks here Wednesday morning. Milton F. Fitch, of Wilson, State Coordinator for the South ern Christian Leadership Con ference (SCLC) told a repre sentative of The CAROLINIAN early Wednesday that some 74 Poor People’s Marchers, who La. Boasts Mayors in Two Cities NEW ORLEANS - The State of Louisiana now has two ci ties presided over by Black mayors. The first is Grumbling, u small all - Negro comm unit) surrounding G r a m bl i ri g Col lege. This communit; has had a Negro as mayor for a num ber of vears. The second Black mayor is John Bobb, Jr., who was elect ed city chief of Grand Coteau, a small city in southwest Loui siana in the French-speaking section of the state. Grand Coteau has a popula (S*cc TWO MAYGKHi, F. 2) I* gs TO WED IN MAY-New York: Beryl Slocum (R), Newport socialite and a descendant of Miles Standish, is engaged to the son of Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Poweii and will marry next month, a member of the Slocum family said April 21. Miss Slocum, 1960 Debutante of the Year; and Adam Clayton Powell 111 (L), a producer for the Columbia Broadcasting System, will be wed in Washing ton, Powell is 22; Miss Slocum is 26. (UPI). have been in the city since April 18, protesting the death penalty and in commemoration of the first anniversary of the assassination of Dr. MartinLu , ther King, Jr„ that his group had now settled on a plot of ground, privately-owned, In the 500 block of E. Martin Street, formerly used as the City Lot. The site, if approved, would be used to erect tents. Mr. Fitch, who was accom panied by Frinks, State Field Secretary of SCLC, said, "I think we can build the main portion of Hope and Oppor tunity City on this property. One lot is 77,000 square feet, while there are several other pieces of smaller demen sions near it. In further comment on the statement by Mr, Frinks, after being reminded that his move would be civil disobedience. Mr. Fltrh stated, "There are too many black people in America for them to -jail us all. If it takes going to jail to achieve nut freedom, then certainly we feel that our program is de signed to beneficial to all, even the poor whites, and we are prepared to do tills in the hope that they will support us in tills move by also going to jail in order to attain a better station in their lives. Ini: ft A 0 Fitch further stated that lie intended to talk to the private owner of the Old City Lot on Wednesday of this week. “We still have 74 marchers here and we will be strength ened by at least 15 more irom Hyde County and a new con tingent from Charlotte this week.” Moore Square, across from the Old City Market, was re fused the marchers on Monday by Frank Turner, State Pro perty Control Officer, who claimed that although the State owns the property, it was given to the city for its use and the city has just spent an enormous amount of money beautifying it, “that when we discovered that we were glad to bypass (Sfp MARCHERS V. 2) The Crime Beat FROM RALEIGH'S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE SHOOTS INTO CROSSROADS James Edward Plummer, owner of the Crossroads Inn, 328 Smithfield Street, told Of ficer J. D. Narron at 12:59a.m. Wednesday, that he was sitting at the lunch counter in his es tablishment when a car stopped in front of the Inn and someone inside fired toward the front door, the small calibre bullet landing about six feet above his head. Mr. Plummer stated that it was a late model Plymouth or Dodge, green in color, but he did not see the license plate nor the occupants of the car. Dam age to the storm door at the en trance to Crossroads was set at 523. * * * JAILED FOR FIGHTING Officer Bruce Earle Tucker, reported at 6:52 p.m. Sunday, that he went to Manly Street, near its intersection with Mc- Kee Street to investigate a dis turbance call. Upon arrival, Tucker said, he saw Nero Mack, 441 Fowle Street, and Mack was bleeding from a laceration of the face. He had allegedly been cut with a knife by Ineal Judd, 36, 1000 Manly Street, following an argument that started in Mr. Judd's kitchen. Mack was treated at Wake Memorial Hospital for a three and one-half Inch cut on the right cheek. Then both men ware arrested on a charge of engaging in an affray where a deadly weapon was used. CHIMII HKAT I*. 3) Manh Leader Frinks Mams May Camp 0 n Capitol Grounds Whites Outvote Negroes For Lightner THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 28, NO. 26 At Attorney Greene's Bemh Cottage £ ll|f n» 4 4 I fiw ifi jims ijl L w li;'I i; ' I fIL 1 I 1 1 ••• 111 181 yft % B r Jr Ww'Vw&'M; ww i v "i Sol m THEODORE R. MOORE MostHUD Programs Increased WASHINGTON, D. C. - Most of the program levels of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would be increased or maintained under the revised Fiscal Year 1970 budget request as compared with Fiscal Year 1969. Secretary George Romney has presented details of the HUD revised budget request, which: ♦Maintained the requests for SIOO million spending authori ty each for the interest sub sidy programs for homeowner ship and rental assistance and the resit supplements program. This follows the earlier posi tion of the Administration ir. urging Congressional approval of SSO million in supplemental authority for Fiscal Y'ear 1969 for the homeowner ship and rental assistance programs. * Continued the request for $473,5 million in annual con tributions contract payments for low-rent housing. * Called for $675 million in upplemental grants for the lodel Cities Program, an in rease if $363 million over te current year. * Increased the request for Research and Technology from 125 million to S3O million. The requested $7.75 million for the urban transportation activities in HUD was withdrawn and these activities will be funded from Research and Technology ap propriations. * Requested $10.5 million for the Fair Housing and Equal Op portunity programs of the De partment, and increase of $6.5 million over the amount speci fically appropriated for this purpose in Fiscal Year 1969 and pending in a supplemental (Sec MOST HUD. P. 2) SWEEPSTAKES 889 6536 127 S9O $45 $7.50 Anvoiu* having viirrent I’INK tickets, dated A|>ii! IS, ICS*), with proper numbers, present same to Tile UAIIO? INIAN office :tml receive amounts listed above from the SWKi PSTAKKS Feature. Sweepstakes Prizes Grow Last week again resulted In no winner'in The CARO LINIAN's Sweepstakes Promo tion, bringing the total amounts to $112.50 for the three top a wards. The last time anyone claim ed prizes in the Promotion was three weeks ago when a man and a woman took second and third prizes, respectively. First prize, which hasn't been claimed In the past eight weeks, now ?Uinds at what is believed to be the all-time record of North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1969 I. Moore To Trial In May Playing the part of a '“Good Samaritan” to three Raleigh men who were not Included in his weekend fishing party of three, has caused Raleigh At torney George F. Greene "quite a bit of embarassment,” ac cording to statements given by him to CAROLINIAN managing editor Charles R. Jones early Wednesday of this week. One man was killed at At torney Greene’s bead cottage at Surf City on Topsail Island, near Jacksonville, and a mem ber of the attorney’s official party has been charged with the murder. The dead man is William Isaac Matlet about 49, of 629 Bunclic- Drive, rnore Hills), A clerk in the District Court of Onslow Count;, informed the newsman Tuesday afternoon that Theodore Robert Moore, about 25, of 1708 Foundation Drive (Southgate), formerly of 801 S. East Street, was ootinu over under a' SIO,OOO bond on a murder charge after a pre liminary hearing Tuesday of this week. Trial is scheduled for the next term of Onslow Superior Court, which begins on Monday, May 19. He is now free on bond and has returned to his home here. The slaying occurred about 2:30 a.m, Sun day. Matier, according to testi mony, was shot once through the neck. Attorney Greene said his party consisted of Phillip Hag wood, 808 Fit zgerald Drive Moore, and himself of 745 Bundle Drive. The two other men who com prised Matter’s trio included Willie (Smiley) Rollings of 1201 E. Lane Street, and Walter Burnett. reportedly the brother-in-law of Matier, who resided at 829 Bunch Drive, also. Attorney Greene said that he knew Mr. Matier and Mr. Bur nett, but did not know' Hollings. He said it was raining when the three came to his cottage and he offered them shelter, which they accepted. ‘Tlagwood and I decided to go tor a walk down to Surf City Pier about 11 or 11:30 p.m. "I left Theodore in charge, as usual, for he was my fre quent fishing companion and I trusted him in my cottage." Other testimony revealed thaf Moore, an employee of a state building, although about six feet tall, weighs only 135 pounds, w'hile Matier, being some six feet two, weighed about 185- 190 pounds. He was a cement finisher with the R. L. Martin (See MAN SLAIN, P. 2) S9O, the award money increas ing at the rate of $lO per week, Joining the list ofSweeptakes advertisers this week is Arlans Department Store, located on North Boulevard. Be sure to visit this establishment and re member to pick up your Sweep stakes ticket each visit. To be valid this week, tickets must be pink in color and dated April 10, 1969. The prize number is 889, (Sen SWBRPBTAKBB P. 2> TAKEOVER AT CORNELL-Ithaca, NY: The bln oks leave Willard Straight Hall at Cornell l nivcrsity after a two-day sit in. The crow registered surprise as these first two left holding their rifles. There were an estimated M) students involved and over fifteen rifles, sliot guns, spears and other weapons carried out. The blacks received a police escort tc another place on campus. (UPI). Eastern Council On Affairs Fights Bias ROCKY MOUNT - The East ern Council On Community Af fairs, a Weldon, community ac tion group, established In 1955 to serve as aLiason and Media tion Agency covering the 25 counties of Eastern Tarheelia for the benefit of community leaders and organizations, met here at Mt. Zion Baptist Church April 14. Founder and president of the civic body is Attorney James E. Walker, Jr., of Weldon, who Friends Os Jo Baker Back Her CHICAGO - tNPI) - Friends of famous American - born French entertainer Josephine Baker rallied to her support last week with offers to sponsor two major projects to help her raise money to support her 12 adopted children of different nationalities. Miss Baker, the former “Toast of Gay Paree,” was e victed recently, along with her 12 children, from the chateau she had set up in Les Mi landes, France, as a haven for the children. The evic tion was court-ordered when she was unable to raise the necessary funds to pay off back debts on the chateau. She charged afterwards that she was roughed up during the evic tion and required hospitaliza tion. Miss Baker retired as an entertainer several years ago but has been forced to embark on concert tours recently, principally in the U. S„ to raise funds to try to save her children’s chateau home. But so far, she has been unable to cope with the mounting costs of operating the chateau. However, last week it was reported that a wealthy Spanish businessman in Spain had of fered to set up a ne'A inter national children’s village to house 500 orphans, for Miss Baker. Miss Baker was not im mediately available for com ments on the reported offer. The other offer came In the form of a proposed fund-rais ing concert tour of 20 American cities by Mies Baker. Sidnev (8»e JO BAKER, F, 2) SINGLE COPY 15c is aiso an ordained Baptist minister. Dr. Salter J. Coch rane, Weldon, and Atty. Harvey E. Beech, • Kinston, are vice presidents. Mrs. Doris Coch rane, Weldon, and Rev. George W. Dudley, Rocky Mount, are executive secretary and execu tive director, respectively, District chairman are Rev. J. R. Dungee, Henderson; Rev. John L. Scott, Ahoskie; Rev. John Alexander Mebane, Tar boro; and Rev. N. K. Dunn, Beaufort. In the music depart ment are; Mrs. V. M. Prid geon, Eden ton; Mrs. Ruth Stokes, Rocky Mount; and Mrs. Doris Cochrane, Weldon, Other officers reporting Ln the executive session, prior to the public meeting, included Revs. S. G. Dunston, Elbert I.,ee, Jr., John Worcester. Al so laymen I. H. Hilliard, Dr. Andrew A. Best, Dr. Louise Sutton. Mrs. John Hannibal and Mrs. Dimple Newsome. Following President Walk ei’s address in which he re, cited many instance of segre gation and discrimination he had personally experienced while pioneering the integrating the law school at UNC. Such, he stated are the everyday humilia tions thrust upon Negroes by Whites which must Vie corrected if America is to have peaceful climate. He called upon the White majority to speed up the elimination process. The Hon. Fred Cooper, re cently appointed chairman of North Carolina Good Neighbor Council brought the principal message. Cooper urged con cerned Whites to take a more active part in bringing about better interracial relations and equality for all citizens by co operating witli the programs of persausibn promoted by the Good Neighbor Council units over the state and similar civic groups. | WI ATHIR RI PORT Temperatures during the pe riod. Thursday through Monday, will average below normal over the state. Daytime highs are ex pected to average mostly In the middle 60s in the mountains and in the 70s on the coast. Lows at night will average Ir. the upper 30s or lower 40e in South Caro lina. It will be cooler with mod erate temperatures on the week end and turning cooler on Mon day. Precipitation will total three-fourths of an Inch 1» the mountains and one-halt Inch elsewhere occurring a* showers, mostly Saturday and Sunday. Support Os Mortician Off Here Although incumbent Raleigh City Councilman Clarence E. (Baby) Lightner, 47, placed sec ond to all other council as pirants in Tuesday’s voting, he only received 2,624 votes in the city’s six predominantly heavy Negro Precincts. His total vote was 6,246. The mortician was among four incumbent councilman to lead all voting in the April 22 Primary. The others are George Cherry, Seby Jones and Alton Strickland. Cherry led the field with 6,787; Jones had 5,- 737; and Strickland received 5,158. It is believed that Mr. Light ner received the fewest number of votes ever. John Winter, local real-estate broker and builder, became the first Ne gro ever elected to the coun cil. He served three two-year terms and Lightner ran suc cessfully In 1967 when Mr. W int ers decided not to offer for re election. Robert W, Shoffner, Director See LIGHTNER. P. 2) Methodists Closer To A Merger ATLANTA, Ga. A commis sion, representing the three predominantly-Negro Method ist religious bodies, meeting at the dean Hotel here, Tues day, /vprt! 22, announced that the i frican Methodist Epis- Coj j.l Church, the African Meth odist Episcopal Zion Church and the Christian Methodist Epis copal Church have begun form ulating plans whereby Church School literature, a combined hymnal and an offical organ, all uniformly designed, wil 1 be published and distributed to en hance the tenets of Methodism, in the true sense of the doctrine. The commission plans to visit Charlotte, N. C., Nashville, Tenn., and Memphis, Tenn,, where the three denominations operate publishing houses. The facilities will be inspected and recommendations made to the Consultation as to which of the three publications will be handl ed by the respective plants. Each plant will be given a con tract to produce one of the pro posed publications. The three bodies have been discussing union foi a number of years, with an eye toward complete merger with the United Methodist Church. The target, date for the three Ne gro bodies has been set as 1972, while complete Methodism is being considered for a 1980 target date. It is to be remembered that the three Negro bodies came ir, - (See METHODISTS P. 2) EDDIE DAVIS FIRED FROM JOB - Raleigh* An organiser of North Carolina’s State Uni versity’s Black Workers Union, Eddie Davis, 25, above, was fired last Wednesday for walk ing off his job as a window wasn - er to hold a press conference last week. Physical plant di rector at the university, J, Mc- Cree Smith, made the announce ment Tuesday of this week. A copy of the letter mailed to Mr. Davis last Thursday notify ing of the decision made by officials of the plant, was sent to Dr. John T. Caldwell, chan cellor of the university, Davis said of the firing, "They’re just trying to knock off out leader one by one, hoping it will frighten everyone else.” (UPI).
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