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•'■ •■ • k '~° jj£ fas ENGEF HYSTERIC \L-Neu York: Firemen aid an hysterical passenger from an emeryi icy exit after she, along wit! thousands of others, was trapped in the Lex ington Am line in Manhattan July 18, One man was killed, and thousands of others were treated at local hospitals for heat ex! austion, minor cuts and bruises, and heart attacks as passengers sought escape from the steaming underground trains. (UPI). Singer James Brown *BusinessMan OfYr.’ WASHINGTON, I). C.-James Brown, “Soul Brother” nriist number one, has been chosen “Business Man of the Year” by the National Business I eague. Berkelc G. Burrell, presi ' dent of ■ - I "ague announced the Brown selection this week in Washing■•'H at NBL head quarters by saving, “James # li n james brown ’Brown Is more than an art ist. He has used the equity capital of his talents to establish a variety of enter prises, real estate, franchis ing, record production, enter tainment management and broadcasting.' 1 Mr. Brown will be honored in Memphis, Tennessee at the 69th Annual Convention of NBL, August 20-23, at the Holiday Riverrnont Inn. Others select ed for awards are: Daniel Pat k er, Chairman of the Parker Pen Company, the Humanitarian Award; Dr. Frederick D. Pat terson, Educator (Past Presi dent of Tuskegee Institute) and Past President of NBL, the Symbol of Service Award; and Ross Davis, Attorney ard Civil Servant, the Government Man of a The Year Award. This year’s theme for NBL, “Black Business In The 70’s MARRIED AT GAS ST AT ION -Detroit: Robert A. Marfuta, 22, (left) is married to Diana Studaker, 21, In a wedding performed in a gas station July 21 by attendant Bruce Gr jeuo, an ordained minister (right). Looking on as witness is Mrs. Charlotte Carreker, the minister's sister. The couple, faced with a marriage license due to expire at midnight, was mak ing phone calls at the service station in an attempt to locate •' niinistei to marry them. Mr. Greene, promptly offered his services as minister and thev met the deadline with 20 minutes to spare. (UPI), -Tommorrow Is Now,” will be addressed by nine workshop sessions whose participants are accomplished leaders in busi ness across the county. A large number of high level govern ment executives will also ap pear at the Memphis meeting. Mr. Burrell said, “Minority enterprise has now become known as the 'Achilles heal’ of American business and therefore must lie protected and improved, else all busi ness stands in jeopardy. This point will be expressed in Mem phis.” mmmtyfo Sobs Barked By Young W ASHINGTON -Whitney M. Young, Jr., Executive Director of tire National Urban League, has endorsed in the I.abo; De partment’s Philadelphia Plan which is aimed at opening jobs in high-paying construction trades. In a telegram to President Nixon, Mr. Young said the Philadelphia Plan is in keep ing with the equal opportunity compliance standards set by the Federal Government. Mr. Young also said the Phil adelphia Plan should become a model for the rest of the Nation and should be put Into effect in the rest of the country. “Secretary Shultz and As sistant Secretary Arthur Fletcher should be commend ed for this vital action,” Mr. Young said. The Philadelphia Plan re tires that bidders in Federal ly supported construction work exceeding $500,000 submit af firmative action plans setting specific goals for the utiliza tion of minority employees bas ed on Federally established standards. Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur Fletcher, recently an (Scc YOUNG BACKS I* 2) $960,000 Grantßemains Howard Fuller Leaves Durham Job - ' v* Ai - •• A V•> V vv "A # :> 4 4 4 Disturbed Local Citizens Talk Urban Renewal ■ North Carolina s Leading Weekly VOL 28 NO 39 RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY. JULY 2ft IQEQ SINGLE COPY 15c After Drinking Together, Wake Man ■H-Mtsi GW# KKxJ-K yyxyjyry Apollo 11 Crew Wifi Splash Down Thurs. i ACCUSED MBOYA MUR DERER-Nairobi, Kenya: Keny an police Monday charged Na hass (no last name given) with the murder of Tom Mboya, top official of the Kenyan govern ment. He was booked Magi strate’s Court. No further de tails were given. Mboya was gunned down as he was leav ing a local drug store on Sat urday, July 5. (UPI). Meeting Planned hr Raleigh Sm According to Fred Roberts, field worker for the North Caro lina Committee for Racial Jus tice (CRJ), Sunday, July 27, “will mark the beginning of a new birth of freedom for us as residents of Raleigh. “Each one of us is request ed to attend a mass metting for two hours on Sunday, July 27, from until 7 p.m. in the Spaulding Gymnasium on the campus of Shaw University. The meeting is being spon sored by the N. C. Committee for Racial Justice and the Unit ed Black Front. According to Roberts, “The purpose of tne meeting is to be gin to deal with problems of educ. a t ion, housing and jobs by creating committees made up of black people to insure us of determining our own destiny *' In further comment, he said, * It is necessary that we do this because hand-picked com mittees by larger white com (Sec MASS VKII P. 2) City Fight Sends Man U Hospital One Raleigh man is believ ed to have started a fight in the 300 block of S. East Street here around 9 p.m. last Sat urday and another apparently ended it. However, in the end, both were arrested. Charlie Allen Robertson, 47, 832 Crosslink Road, informed Officer Lonnie T. Wilson that George Watson, 42, 604 1/2 E. Hargett Street, was sitting on his taxicab and he (Robert son) asked the man not to uri nate on it. At this time, Robertson said, Watson drew a knife and chased him around the cab. Robertson stated he than picked up a bottle, threw it at Watson, then (<*•■> wi n fsoht, s*. ?) Group Ist Durham To Get Money The most controversial of the two was settled when it was an nounced that Howard Fuller, whose record as a trouble mak er, where the race issue was involved, would take an inde finite leave from his duties as director of training for the FCD. Fuller's connection with the organization has been the obj ect of much conversation and, in many quarters,is believed to have militated against the agency functioning at full ca pacity. This was particularly true in the $960,000.00 grant from OEO, to aid in a poverty program that is said to have been designed to aid middle class Negroes to improve their economic status. An investiga made by a representative of The CAROLINIAN, in Washington last week, revealed that Ful ler was not the bone of con tention in the middled affairs of the grant. The investigation revealed that the government was ob ligated to carry out its contract with tire local agency, due to the fact the commitment was made by the Johnson Administration and was inherited by the Nixon Administration. It was also made known that when the Nixon Administration came into power, it had every intention of carrying out the commit ment It was apparent that Nixon had no part of the behind-the -scene/activities, hut it was a touch-and -go between ambi tious Republicans, tainted with some race hate, along with die hard Democrats, The situation was thought to (See H. FULLER. P 2) Black GOP Os State Sets Talks DURHAM-Due to the rising resentment to the Nixon Administration in the black com muni ty, particularly as it af fects Negroes in the state, Reginald W, Dal ton, chairman, State Caucus, National Coun cil, Concerned Afro-A merican Republicans, (See N<"s 81. UK I*. ’.) SWEEPSTAKES 2754 1510 251 S2O S2O $2.50 Anyone having current GREEK tickets, dated July 19. 1989. with proper numbers, present same to The CAROLINI IN office an:, receive amounts listed above from the SWEEPSTAKES feature. Miss Morrison Wins Sweepstakes Doing her shopping at Hud son-Belk Department Store last week paid off for Mrs. Chris tina Morrison, Route i, Box 172, Apex. EDWARD HOLDEN Two Bullets la Body Prove Fatal For 'Pal 5 RILEY HILL-According to Wake County Cor oner Marshall W. Bennett, in an exclusive CARO LINIAN interview Tuesday afternoon, Edward Holden, 44, of the Riley Hill community (be tween Wendell and Zebulon), fatally shot his buddy, 42-year-old Howard Carroll of Route 4, Zebulon. The shooting oceured around 5:45 p.m. Sunday. Ass’t Labor Sec’yTo Durham Sat. DURHAM-In keeping with the announced new policy of the NA ACP, reported to the recent na tional convention by Roy Wilk ins, the Durham Branch is stag ing a mass rally at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Sunday, at 3;- 30 p.m , where it hopes to im plement the more vigorous pol icy. The theme of the meeting is, “A lookat President Nixon's program, and how it effects Black America.“ Arthur Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor, one of the top Negroes in the Nixon Ad ministration, will t-e the prin cipal sneaker. He is expected to give the true image ofNixon, at it relates to the black com munity. He will touch on the guidelines of school desegre gation and tell how Nixon plans to speed same, He will also at tempt to dispel the mushroom ing myth that the President has an unholy alliance with the South. The labor executive will also tell of a new approach to the appointment of Negroes to many jobs that are available in North (Soo ASS'T LABOR T !) Mrs. Morrison received tick et number 3312, third prize, and receive $7,30 when she presented it at The CARO LINIAN, (See swi:i:pst\kes. I*, z) HOWARD CARROLI Coroner Bennette said the pair had been drinking and the murder took place at the vic tim’s home. Carroll was shot in the neck and on the upper right side of his chest with a .32 calibre pistol. "Both men ran around to gether all the time,” Bennett stated. “They w'ere good friends, but were drinking.” Holden was lodged in the Wake County Jail at Raleigh Sunday night to await a pre liminary hearing or. the mur der charge. Although the killing was con firmed, the weapon had not been found at CAROLINIAN press time. Carroll’s body was taken to Wake Memorial Hospital, where the coroners examined it. No motive for the slaving was given. (Sec KILLS -BUDDY’. P. 2) GIVES “TROUBLE AHEAD” WARNING'■York, Pa.: A York City policeman accompanied by two state police, warns motorists of trouble ahead during the fifth straight night of civil disorders on this city. There have been 26 wounded and one killed in the last five days. Many by gunfire from snipers. (UPI). REV. A. D. W. KING Rev. Kino; Di •owns in 11 is Pool ATLANTA, Ga.-The Hev. A. D. Williams King, 38, brother of the lute assassinated civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., was found dead in his swimming pool here early Monday. According to an associate with Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the minister ap parently drowned accidentally. The Rev. Andrew J. Young said, “it looks like one ofthose freak things.” Young is the ex- See KEV. KING P 2) — —_ *¥»l ~$S f. 4*, 2 ; 'Y 0 t ~*a . .« ;■ - -, f ,■■ •■ , v $ FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILE SUICIDE TRIES LISTED Although -'attempted suicide’ wax written beside the offense charges of two local women, one denied she was trying to kill herself. Miss Martha Ross Jones, 914 Manly Street, told offices J. W. Rogers at 9;22 a.m. Monday, that she didn’t want to kill herself or even cause herself any harm when she took an undetermined a mount of Midol, Bufferin and aspirin tablets. She said she was only trying to make her boyfriend (unnamed) sorry he called off their wedding. Meanwhile, at. 60" p.m. last Tuesday, v ickton Gregory Swift, 713 Vardanian Drive, told Officer James E. (Bobby) Dave that Miss Sharon Smith, 20, Brooklyn, New York, took an o erdose of tranquilizers. She was taken to Wake Memorial Hospital, where she was treat ed and admitted. Neither woman was arrested. * + * STRUCK WITH BLACKJACK Frank Rivers, 1335 Walnut Street, reported to Officer N. A. Carter at 8:19 a.m. Monday, that he went by R. B. Stokes Construction Co., 927 s. Saun ders Street, to get his money. Words were exchanged arid tie declared Stokes, a white man, struck him on the head with a blackjack, causing a oue-inch cut on the head. He signed a w'ar - rant and Raymond B. Stokes, 50, Route 7, Raleigh, was ar rested and charged with as sault with a deadly weapon. (See HUM? BEAT. P 3) Must Be Together: Spokesmens Concerned Raleigh citizens met at Fayette ville Street Baptist Church last Sunday at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the ramifications of the Southside Urban Renew al Project upon the prese n t So uthsi d e re sident s. William Moses, director of Raleigh's United Poor People’s Organization, opened the meet ing by stressing the need for togetherness among all blacks in Raleigh, since, he pointed out, "The Southside Urban Re newal Project is the second of many projects to cause great hardship to many black people in order to continue segregat ed housing, education, govern mental and social activities of blacks. The third such project, having a different name but the same goa’s and objectives, will demolish the South Park area,” Ralph Campbell former NAACP president here, added that the same urban renewal would af fect the New Bern Avenue arid Biltmore Hills areas in per haps the next five to ten years. It was brought out in the meeting that although federal guidelines dictate that property owners must be told at the earliest possible time how much they will be offered for their property, no property owners In (See URBAN RENEWAL, P. 2) Astronauts Aalaimed Over World SPACE CENTER. Houston, Tex.-The trio of successful as tronauts who made history by setting foot on the moon, broke free of the moon’s orbit Tues day and entered the orbit of the earth early Wednesday, heading for a splash down Thursday in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, near Hawaii, and 18 days is isolation that will lie their initial reward as heroes. The astronauts, Neil A. Arm strong, Edwin FJ. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins left their footprints on the moon (Armstrong and Aldrin literal ly walked on the lunar sur face) and their mark in the hall mark of history After the astronauts emerge for quarantine, a triumphant (See ASTRONAUTS. P. 2) | WEATHER REPORTJ «T TT7 Temperatures iltirinß the pe riod, Thursday through Monday, will average above normal, ex • cept near normal in the extreme western portion of the state. Daytime highs will average in the low 80s in the mountains.' and In the high 80s and low Pov elsewhere. Lows at night will be in the low 60s in the moun tains and the mid 70s elsewhere. It will be quite warm Thursday, with some moderation in 'lie northwest portion about Sunday. Precipitation will be heavy in the mountains and moderate elsewhere, with one inch or more expected in the mountains and one-half Inch in the re mainder of the state, occurring #s mostly scattered afternoon anti evening thundershowers, becoming more numerous to ward the end of the week.
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