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"TEEN PRINCESS - USA" - Chicago, 111.: Alecha Newbern, 13, left, Oakland, Calif., was
named "Teen Princess - USA," May 24, and earned the right to represent the country in the
coming International Teen Princess Pageant to he held in Chicago June 7. Left to rig! t are:
Alecha Newborn; Elaine Augustin, 18, San Jose, Calif., second runnerup; Bet!. Bennett, 16, Glen
Burnie, Md., third runnerup; and Karen Pettit, 18, Chicago, 111., last year’s winner. (CPI).
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SLEEPING OUT - About 13 young Negro demonstrators,
bundled in ragged blankers, slept in front of the N. C. Ad
ministration building Monday night. Their leader, Golden
Frinks, said they were demonstrating against capital punish
ment and for better schools. Tire youths slept on a narrow
grassy strip between the street and sidewalk in front of the
building. (UPI).
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FROM RALEIGH'S OFFICIAL
POLICE FILE
THREATENS WIFE'S LIFE
Mrs. Hattie Mae Brown, 925
E. Lane Street, Apartment 1,
* told Officer C. Troublefield at
2:05 p.m, Saturday, that her
husband, Joe Brown, 45, did
point a .22 calibre pistol at
her and threatened to kill her,
and, as a result, the gun went
off during the ensuing scuffle,
causing damages to be com
mitted at the complainant's
house. Mrs. fjrown was ad
vised to sign an assault with a
deadly weapon warrant against
her husband, and did so.‘'Com
plainant was put in intensive
fear for her life,” the cops’
report concluded.
Mr. Brown was described
as being five feet, eleven inches
tali and weighing 275 pounds.
Address listed as Wendell, the
subject was also said to-have
been wearing “soiled work
clothes.”
“Ramona” accused
Miss Odell Holloway, 18, 508-
1/2 E. Hargett Street, reported
to Officer R, E. fleeter at
10:24 p.m. Friday, that she
and a colored female, named
“Ramona,” had. an argument
and she cut the complainant
with a bottle, than ran off.
Miss Holloway said she did
not know- the last name of the
suspect or where she lives.
The incident took place at the
intersection of E. East and E.
1 Martin Streets.
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SCENES OF THE UPHEAVAL AT A&T STATE UNIVERSI
TY - Greensboro: These five photographs depict what took
place at North Carolina A&T State University last Tuesday
night through Friday. From left, Greensboro Police Colonel
Y\'. A. Hurch, displays some of the weapon confiscated by
National Guard troops early Friday when they stormed the
campus. The eight rifles leaning against the wall were in
Unique Party
Yields Cash
For College
SALISBURY - Returns from a
rather unique birthday party,
given for Bishop F<. L. Jones,
revealed to the alumni and
friends of Livingstone College,
at the annual meeting of the
Alumni Association, held in
connection with the 87th com
mencement exercises, Monday,
May 26, that the Carnegie
Library, serving the college,
and the library of Hood Theo
logical Seminary, received a
total of $2,000. The college
library was given SISOO and
the Hood Library received
SSOO.
Mrs. Mabel Miller Jones,
wife of the prelate, told the
audience that the idea of do
ing something tangible in cele
bra-of her husband's birthday
motivated the project and, as
a result, she invited many of
ills friends and well wishers
of the college and seminary
to give a least one or more
looks for the libraries. Many
of those persons responded.
Mrs. Jones made the pre
sentation to Mrs. Josephine
Sherrill, librarian for the col
lege and Mrs Willie Oliver,
who is In charge of the Hood
Seminary Library.
Bishop Jones explained that
since there was such a demand
for looks on As: lean culture
and Negro history', that it was
ills desire that books giving
this information would be bought
and placed in the two libraries
<**•»’ UNIQUE P.IKTI . I> •>:
Dr. Mays
fa Speak
At Shaw
Class Night exercises on Fri
day, June 6, in the Greenleaf
Auditorium will officially
launch Shaw University’s 104th
Convocation for the conferring
of degrees. One hundred and
forty candidates have filed for
degrees.
On Saturdat. June 7, the Na
tional Alumni Association will
meet at 9:30 a.m. in the Stu
dent Union. Lenior Phillips, 19-
60 president of the Pre-Alumni
Association will speak at the
meeting. An all "9’s” class
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DR, BENJAMIN E. MAYS
reunion is expected to be held
during the day. At 7 ; 30 that
evening, the University Banquet
will be held in the. Student Union
Ballroom.
Sunday, June 8, a worship
(Sec I»J1 MAYS. 1* .!)
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2 Win Sweepstakes Cash
The first and second arizes,
both worth slu, were claimed
in last week’s CAROLINIAN
Sweepstakes Proniotion.
Mrs. luler Womble, 114 Pat
terson I.a: e, visited General
Sales and Service Company, 108
S. Wilmington Street, where she
received the first prize ticket
number 127. She presented same
working order and police said they might be a type ot drill
rifle used by ROTC units on the campus. Photo number two
shows elements of a National Guard company moving in to
surround Scott Hall Friday morning, following another night
of sniper fire and violence. Next picture shows the Guards
men invading the tear gas-surrounded campus to put down
a third night" of violence, which began Tuesday night. Over
Abernathy Urges Nixon To
Join Interracial Confrontation
Fired Teacher Gets NEA-NCTA Hein
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VOL 28 NO. 31
Two Raleigh Women fuss-One
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In State And Nation
Student Unrest Grows
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4 MEN AND A PISTOL - Memphis, Term.: Police officers
hold a pistol to the head of slaving suspect Jimmy I .ee Thomas,
(center), after he was captured in a drainage culbert May 27.
Thomas is a suspect in the murder of liquor store owner
Michael Phillips. (UPI).
Closer To 2 Societies
Today: JudgeM alley
(EDITOR’S NOTE: See page 16, Section
Two, for more Commencement photographs
and stories).
“The challenges ahead for the black col
leges graduate are the more complex of this
Century,”, the Honorable Constance Baker Mot
ley, Federal District Judge, New York, New
York, told 144 college graduates at Saint
Augustine’s College on Sunday, May 25, dur
ing the 102nd Commencement exercises.
"Twenty-five years ago, the segregated, in fact, but that
American south was not onlv (*«..* ju_gi voile.. i>.
at the offices of this newspaper
and was awarded $lO in cash.
Another lady, Mrs. Alicia
Judd, 615 Chamberlain Street
(O b e r 1 i n), becameaSweep
stakes winner for the very first
time. She patronized Wilson's
Furniture Company, 134 E.Har
gett Street and received ticket
(See S'tEKMT.iKEI. It
North Caroline s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH N. C SATURDAY. MAY 31. 1969
Block Lawyers
Meet With Law
StudentsThisWk.
NEW'YORK, N. Y. - The
Center for Continuing Educa
tion of the University of Chica
go, 1307 East 60tl. Street, Chica
go, Illinois, will be the site
of a nation-wide conference of
Black lawyers and lav. students
on May 29-31.
Among the prominent Black
legal experts attending will be:
Derrick Bell of Los Angeles;
The Hon. George Crockett of
Detroit; Hayward Henry of Bos
ton; The Hon. Samuel Jackson
of Washington, D. C.; Timothy
Jenkins of Washington, D. C.;
L. Clarion Jones of Brooklyn,
(See BL.U K HH VI Rm |*. ;)
turned truck is seen in the center. It was burned by a band
of roving blacks earlier. In photo, fourth from left, a young
man, holding his Rag of surrender to the end of his umbrella,
walks from Scott Hall after Guardsmen router the snipers to
put an end to the violence. Right picture shows a young black
student sprinting for cover as several others duck behind an
abandoned car, alter sntper opened up on the Guardsmen.
Ellington
St. Scene
Os lulling
A Raleigh woman with
at least fourteen ar
rests, dating back to A
pril 9, 1941, became the
victim of another wo
man’s wrath about 7:32
p.m. last Saturday, ac
cording to a police re
port by Officers T. C,
King andß. E. Williams.
Mrs. Lucihe Boylan Brown,
50, 742 Ellington Street, stat
ed that Mrs. Trenton Edwards,
about 43, 112 Stronach Alley,
did willfully assault her at her
(Mrs. Brown’s) home with a
deadly weapon-a steak knife
causing bodily injury to her
right side and upper right leg.
The suspect, Mrs. Edwards,
was picked up after Mrs. Brown
signed ar. assault with a dead
ly weapon warrant against her.
She allegedly admitted to the
assault after her arrest.
In further testimony, offered
by Mrs. Catherine Lee, 737
Ellington Street, it was brought
out that Mrs. Edwards admitt
ed the attack on Mrs. Brown
to her wdiile fleeing the scene
of the crime. Mrs Lee also
is listed as having called "the
law."
Mrs. Brown was treated for
her wounds at Wake Memorial
Hospital following the incident.
Although, according to
officials at the City-Council
identification Bureau, Mrs. Ed
wards has no prioi po.ice re~
(Sec STABBED IT.L •*. 2)
j A MESS AGE TO TEEM GERS f
We, as a whole, are in a great deal of
trouble. We are the future generation of
tomorrow, and I am asking you now, teen
age r-to-teenager, to straighten up and let
us make the world a better world to live in.
We are the ones who will determine how our
environments will be.
Black, as well as white teenagers, must
work together or else we are going to destroy
ourselves, as well as this beautiful world
in which we live.
Sincerely,
A Teenage Christian,
Gwendolyn Dunn,
Route 7, Box 185
Raleigh, X. C. 27609
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Actions Os
Students
Reviewed
Many persons throughout the
state, had mixed reactions about
Apollo Flight No 10 when asked
to compare It with the man;'
ills that attend America and es
peclallt North Carolina, this
week.
There were those who were
greatly disturbed about Negro
students tteing dissatisfied with
the status-quo in both the col
leges and high school levels,
bemoaned the fact that college
president were finding it im
possible to cope with the many
situations 11; at now confront
them. They wondered why the
astronauts were being sent
in search of life and habita
tion on the moon, wliile there
was chaos on North Carolina
school campuses and in other
states.
(Set- STUDENT L.vRLSI c •>
One 19-year-old freshman student at the university was killed
during the exchange of gunfire between students and Guards
men. A&T president, Dr, Lewis C. Dowdy ordered the school
closed last Friday and all students were advised to be off
the state-owned campus by 6 p.m. that day. (ALI ABOVE
PHOTOS BY UPI).
Financial,
Legal Aid
for Tutor
The National Education As
sociation’s DuShane Emergency
Fund and the North Carolina
’eachers Association provide
upport for Mrs. Helen Ham
ion d of Washington, North
larollna.
Mrs. Hammond, a teacher
n Beaufort County Sc: 00l S\s
em, was one of five Negro edu
cators transferred to ti e pre
dominately whiie Beaufort
Count;. High School in Septemb
er, 1968, then released in Feb
ruary, iu69 on tiie grounds that
all five l ad sub-standard certi
ficates which would affect the
accreditation rating of the pre
dominately white high school.
This, however, did not seem
to have affected the rating of
the predominately Negro high
(Sec NEA-NCTA. P
President
Asked Far
Assistance
NEW YORK - President Nix
on and members of his staff
were urged Monday to partici
pate in unique interracial con
frontations designed to help
break down the barriers of mis
understanding between whites
and blacks.
The invitation was issued in
the current issue of Look maga -
zine by Revs. Ralph D. Aber
nathy and Andrew Young of ti e
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. In making their
statement, both men said that
national leaders often make de
cisions that affect the minori
ties, " the have-nots,” without
personal knowledge of these
people’s feelings.
The President and his staff
would benefit, they feel, ;■
joining in special whtte-black
leadership conlrontation ses
sions, which are conducted a
lo:ig the lines of group therapy
used by psych iat: ist.s.
Interracial confrontation ses
sions are part of i growing
national movement, repent
ed the magazine. Each group
has white and black co-lea d< s
(Sec URGES NIXON 1* '.:)
Deltas Launch
Massive Drive
On Isolation
WASHINGTON, D. C. - A
50,000 member Negro sorori
ty has announced the opening
of a national campaign to eli
minate the damaging effects
of racial isolation in America.
Mrs. Frankie Muse Free
man, of St. Louis, Mo., na
tional president of Delta Sigma
Theta, a predominantly Negro
public service organization, an
nouced that the sorority's chap
ter in 337 communities are
launching the campaign as part
(Sec NATION'S -I 1.. A 1‘
WEATHER REPORT
'Temperatures cJ«* the pe
riod, Thursday through Mnnd iv,
will average above normal in the
western half of the slate, ranu
im; to below normal a’oru; the
♦ oast. Daytime hiiths will he in
the 80s, except mid-to-npper 70s
a lorn; the north coast. !.ows al
nittht w.ll average in tin mid
to-upper Sts in the mountains
and mostl.v in the f s elsewhere.
Warm weather is expected to
prevail through the weekend
and cooler temperatures should
set in by the beginninu of next
week. Precipitation will he mod
erate, except liuht over the ex
treme northern lections and will
average from one-ten'h to one
half inch, occurring as scattered
showers or thundershowers at
the becinnin." of next week