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Against "Tyronnist Tatties " Student Lenders Warn SDS ; & 23* &&&& Nixon Administration May Face Suit Guidelines On Schools Criticized WASHINGTON - The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Satur day warned the Nixon Administration it would bring suit, if necessary, r to stop any weakening of the school desegrega tion guidelines. The National Chairman of the Conference, Roy Wilkins, urgently requested the Presi dent to meet with him and other ‘ civil rights leaders hero re any redrafting of the guidelines is done. Mr, Wilkins' message to the President was in response to reports that officials of the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare, the Justice De partment and tie white House were in the process of drafting a policy statement that would slow down desegregation of the public schools in those south ern schools districts out of compliance with the law. The Conference letter de clared: It now appears that the Federal government maybe party to flagrant denial of con s' itutional rights. Newsand |> other report s suggest your ad ministration is countenancing delay. We understand the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare is about to post pone the deadline for school de segregation indefinitely ’even though the Department s guide lines call for desegregation by the start of the school rear { i960-'7O. On this issue, representa tives of the Leader ship Confer ence an Civil Rights were per (Si-t FACE SLIT P 21 ERNEST L, RAIFORD SJOOAt Y/H’s 125th Convention A total of 7,300 delegates approximately 1000 oi them youths, are including around 100 from North Carolina Y'M CA’s attended the YMCA 125th Anniversary Convention June 19-22 at the Kiel Auditorium in Si. Louis Mo. E. L. Raiford, Executive Director of the BJoodwwrth Street YMCA, at t tended and represented his As sociation. In a convention geared to in volvement with the socialprob l*e« *Ttr CCNFAS 5» ufm mom co?gratvlates uomra - >i>T«k nn,Mtwn, taMmaUMut weight challenger Jerry Quarry, eongriiubte* Joe Frailer after he defeated her son June 23. Frarier won the heavyweight title bout on a "th round TKO.'ftTPX). 1 ' 1 » ■ '• I . ■ i VOL. 28. NO 35 In Statements On City Government Demos Back Winters vt <- 7 <hr < ? 'T <! V v > % r / > VL As" A, ZV J-> /* ]AIA ir± \ Wielded By Wife Plate Injurs Skull Here YORK J. MOHEHEAD Father Os Cheek Bros. Fommliied The Rev. King Virgil Chcex. Sr., 65. father of Raleigh’s Drs. James E. Cheek and King V. Cheek. Jr., died at his home in Greensboeo last Wednes day. Fasten of many Baptist churches in North Carolina, the Rev Cheek was given last rites Sunday in Greensboro. He had been ill for several months. Earlier in this month, both of his sons were named presi dents of the leading Baptist orientated universities in the nation. The eldest son. James £.. 36, fciiner Shaw president, becomes president of Howard University, Washington, D. C„ the largest predominantly black university in the world, on Tuesday, July 1 King V Jr., 32. who form (See FATKIR OF V THI^RIPORIT temper.a Sure* during the pe riod. Thursday through will average abo\e normal. I>.,\- time bight* are expected to be ill the middle to upper in the Mo. i> Carolina mountains and along tile north <on*.t, ani in the loner M), elsewhere Lou*, at nirfht uit, average in the lower 60- in the mountain*, and the lower *C- in the eastern sec tion It VlHi be hot and dr\ throughout the period Precipi tation will average Jess than one—fourth of an inrn occurring each daj a* afternoon and eve- King showers or thundershow er*. North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH N C SATURDAY. JUNE 28. 1969 Morehead’s Head Is ‘Bashed’ Preston James Thomas, 1233 New Bern Avenue, ca.’ied ’-the law 1 ' at 825 p.m. Sunday, The piai victim was unable to talk when Officer L. T. Wilson arrwel sortly thereaf ter, however. York Junior Morehead. 39. 826 Oakwood Avenue, was taken to Wake Memorial Hos pital with extensive head in juries. Mr Thomas told the offi cer that he taw Mrs. Cora Mae Morehead, same address, strike her husband on the (See DINNER PI tit p. >) Travelogue On Black History Is Published A copyrighted n tide by novelist Jotih Oliver killens in the July issue of Redbook, just re leased, in -es the deeds and lives of Black men and women in American history from the time of the American Revolution. Traveling through Boston and New. Orleans, Mr. Kil lens has uncovered a weak! of information to commemo rate the Black man’s contri bution to Amor u a. BOSTON The Crispus Att neks Monu ment at Boston Common was erected in no *oi of a Black man w! o was the first to fall at the historic moment w! kh most men refer to as the be ginning of the great V.ar of t> e Ari. e i ica n Revolution. (Page' C). Tt • moil nr ;*• ol Colonel Rol'crt Gould Si .a" and the COui a e i",' 1 ' s tt!, Massa*- cliusetts Volimr er-, a Black regiment in the Union Army that first nr ■ii - • d its*-If in the Battle oi Fort '»\ agner. stands at the Beacon S’reel edge ol Boston Common, (Pare *6). The Hoi:, Librai v Rare Book ColL-ctio:; at Harvard contains ’kt> P: ilii- Wheatley folic edition oi Paradise Lost, presented to her during-* trip, to Europe 1 ‘he Lord Mayo; of London. Miss Wheatley, a poet of international renown, gjggSfck a u >-."iT r- was the first Black woman arid the second American woman to write a book. (Page 57). The League of women for Community Service, at 558 Massachusetts Avenue, was once a hotel for girls where Coreita King lived when she was attending school in Bos (See 111 \VM Of.l K. I* 2) Set Major Meeting On Church, Race CHICAGO —Reparations lor social injustice, the church's response to new demands ol oppressed minorities and the hotly controversial boycott oi California grapes will be ma jor topics on the agenda oi a four-day meeting to be held at Loyola College in Los An geles from August 21 through 24. The meeting is the biennial convention of the National Catholic Conference for In terracial Justice, Chicago based coordinating body of some 150 Roman Catholic in terracial councils and human relations groups across the nation. The stewardship o1 powei (Sec MAJOR M ITT I* >.) SWEEPSTAKES 3430 4680 676 SSO $5 $lO Anyone having current SHEEN ticket* dated Jun, 21. IC3 wjtli orone; nuti-.l'ers ore-erji n.ne to The CAROLINIAN office and receive amount !ia<-d above from the SWEEPSTAKES Feature lamgstofl Wins Sweepstakes The advice of this column for the past several weeks that men visit businesses which ad vertise on the Sweepstakes Page, was apparently well tak en last week because a man ■won. Walter Langston, i 23 Bled soe Avenue, who was also a winner In February o* this year visited John son - Lam foe Com pany, 322 S. Salisbury Street, where he received ticket num ber 552, second prize, worth SINGLE COPY 15c Stand Is Backed By Democrats The Wake Cou n tv Democratic Execu tive Com m i tt ee, last Wednesday night, pass ed a resolution endors ing a speech, delivered by former Raleigh City Councilman, John Wes ley Winters, lie fore the members oi the Raleigh Junior Ch a m her of Commerce the night be fore, The re so lut ion passed without a single dissenting vote. In his address, Winters asked for the outright firing of H. Palmer Edwards, executive di rector of the Raleigh Rede velopment Commission, and the resignation of the chairman of the Raleigh Housing Authority, Robert Broughton, among other things. At the close of his address, he received a standing ovation from the Jayeees at the Facult} Club, 1 o c a t e d on Hillsborough: Street. It was his second speech before the all-white tody and is believed to have been a first for a private black citizen. The three - term former city councilman received the follow - councilman received the follow ing statement of confidence from the Wake Democratic Ex ecutive Committee, of which he is third vice president; "W hereas, racial trouble re sulting from Indifference to the problems of Negroes has been prophesized bj John Winters, respected vice-chairman of the Dernocratic Party of Wake County, let us heed that proph esy and do everyting we can to prevent it from coming true. Therefore, be it resolved that the Democratic Executive Com mittee of Wake County calls on each public official and pri vate individual concerned with racial relations in the areas of housing, education, and jobs (1) to devise new and imagina tive actions, (2) to implement existing programs in a sound and constructive wa y, and (3) to do both of these w ith a sense oi urgency. Submitted by Malcolm L. Wil liams, Chairman, Precinct 15; Wake County Executive Committee, Democratic. $5, He received his cash upon presenting the ticket at the offices of tills newspaper. To be valid tills week, tick ets must lie green in color and dated June 21, 1969.. Num be r 3430, first prize Is worth a whipptn’ §SO; number 4680, sec ond, $5; and 676, third, worth $lO. Patronize businesses which advertise ir> The CAROLINIAN. They appreciate your patron age. Kindly Inform them that <Bee SWrRPfiTAKev P. 2) ROUGH GOING IN CHARLESTON -Charleston, S. C.: Police wrestle with demonstrators while making arrest here June 23. Forty demonstrators were arrested for staging a march against the flow of traffic on this busy downtown one-way street. The demonstrators were marching in sup port of hospital workers that have been on a strike for three months. (UPI). Students For Democratic Society «/ Warned By Confab On Revolution CHICAGO, 111.-The chairman of the National Student Conference on Re volution, which is being held here at Lake Forest College from June 22-27, has charged that SDS had “obviously scheduled its national convention in Chicago in a clumsy attempt to intimidate us” but, asserted Ed Butler, “we are not impressed by SDS’s Tryannist tactics and will proceed with our conference as planned. "We have informed Mayor Daley and Police Super in tended Conlisk,” said Butl er, “that our people won’t start any trouble, but that we can handle anything SDS might attempt in the way of intimi dation of interference with our conference. "The National Student Con ference on Revolution has been set for Lake Forest College for nearly two months. Ob viously, SDS was concerned at the impact our meeting would have ori the campuses this fall,and therefore schedul ed their convention in the same city only four days before our conference will begin. "However, their tactics w ill not work. Our conference will proceed as scheduled, and we remain confident that those who attend will emerge the best-prepared students in A mertea for the revolutionary era in which we live,” Sponsored by the Inf or mation Council of the Ameri cas (INCA), the National Stu dent conference on Revolution will be attended by students and student advisors who have participated in campus con frontations from UCLA to Harvard. "The purpose of our Con ference," explained Ed Butl er, INCA vice president and author of Revolution Is My Profession, which w ill be used as the Conference handbook, "is to help prevent more Cor nells and Ilavards this fall. "As evidenced by the SDS meeting here in Chicago, the radicals are planning, and it is imperative that the Silent Ma jority get together, learn to manage revolutionar y conflict ethically and lay plans of our own. Thai is exactly what we will be doing at Lake Forest Conference speaker include Dr. Walter Judd, lecturer, The Crime Beat FROM RALEIGH'S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE THREATENED WITH KNIFE Mrs. Josephine Murcer, 2C, 712 E, Martin Street, told Of ficer James E. (Sonny) Lane at 6:26 p.m. Tuesday, that she would sign a- arrant, charging assault with a deadly weapon against John Senders, 31, 812 Crosslink Road, whom she said threatened her with a knife and did $lO in damage to the front door at her house. * * * GIRL, 16, BITTEN Jacqueline Louise Jack son, 16,121! Holman St reel (Wal nut Terrace), reported to of ficer Lindsay W. Godwin at 6;50 p.m. Sunday, that she was play- In the playground there when Vera Stewart, 15, 1211 Walnut Street, told her she "was going to whip me." Miss Jackson saia mat her sister, with whom she was playing, went home and she had started in the direction of tier home, when Vera assaulted her by biting her on the right side of the head. The girl’s mother, Mrs. Jack son." said she would not sign a warrant if Vera’s mother paid .Jackie’s hospital bill. The in cident took place in the 1100 block of Holman Street. (Src CRIME HEAT P If author and radio commenta tor; Prof. Miroslav Todor vich, executive secretary of University Centers for Ra tional Alternatives (headed by Prof. Sidney Kook of New 20,000 Shriners Plan lilfifHGreC©ifinfi©i! BALTIMORE, Md. - Two gi gantic pa rades, a cruise or. his toric Chesapeake Bay, a grand ball, a golf tournament, an Egyptian tea, and a salute to black heroes of the past are among the events scheduled in Baltimore at the August 17-22 annual convention of the An cient Fgytian Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Norti and South America an ; its Jurisdiction, Inc, The fraternal and charitable organizations, whose members are known as Prince Hall Free masons. expeet-to attract more -'l ““ BIG SIX’ BINES HAUL ED IN AGAlN—Robert *B;g Six> Bints. 40, address listed as 'anywhere', struck a Ra leigh cop in the face at 8:15 pun. Monday, while being ar rested for puouc intoxication Officer Jimmy Max Glover, 26, stated that he was at tempting to arrest Bines on the drunk rap when he was hit in the face The impact oi the blow knocked the cop s hat off. The additional charge was assault on an officer. Bines is expected to face trial this week in Wake District Court on both counts LEGISLATOR ADDRESSES "POOR" MARCHERS - Jackson, Mis*- • State Rep. Robert Clark (L), the only Negro legislator in Mississippi, uses megaphone to address about 350 maroners in the "poor peoples’ campaign” after they arrived at t.ie capital June 23 climaxing a two week trek from Grenada to Tackson Clar k told the marchers after they fauec. to go. a., audience with Gov. John Bell Williams that he would sent, ‘copies of their manifesto to his colleagues ir. the legis lature. At right is march leader R. B. Cottonreader. Y'ork University); Morris Leibman, former head of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Education About Communism and It’s Contrast (See WARN SDS, p :) than 20,000 persons to Balti more, including members, their wives in the Daughters oi Isis auxllian and guests. Host to the colorful gather ing will be Jerusalem Temple No. 4 which ha - its mosque at 1226 McCulloi Street. Mem bers of the local convention committee are James A. Rich ardson, Clifford \V. Mackay, Jerry Williams, and Join A. Hawkins. Mr, Richardson is con ention* co-ordina'or and SI’RINEKH >! T P •) Employers Os Notion Hosted WASHINGTON, D. C C h airman William H. Brown 111 of the U. S. Equal Employment Op portunity Com m i ssion, charged last week that the current crusade to rehabilitate the ‘‘hard -core unemployed” is used by some employers as a “stalling tactic” against removing em ployment barriers that hold blacks to the lower level, dead-end jobs. Following are excerpts of Chairman Brown's speech to a meeting of employment special ists from Federal and local agencies held at the Washington (See EMPLOYERS. P 2)
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