In Half-Million Mar La w Sehool Fire
Jailed Ex-Student Was Denied Re-Admittance
SCLC’s R ev. Abernathy
lilames White Church For Ills
THE CAROLINIAN
VOL 28. NO. 58
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National Fraternal Body
Blasts Nixon
'Watching
Outcome:’
Panthers
WINSTON - S.NLEM-
Black Panthers here
wai ne.l Sunday that they
may become militant if
ihey are not complete
ly ly satisiied with the out
come of a case in which
a white .jailer and two
black youths are all ac
cused of assault.
The original hearing In the
case, scheduled to', Monday of
this week, was postponed bvthe
presiding judge for two weexs.
After reportedly scuffling in
the Fot tii County Jail here,
assault charges where placed a
gainst Deputy Sheriff Clayton
G. Cline, Lee O. Kirby, 18,
and his unnamed 15.-year-old
brother.
Reports state that the fight
• ing broke out when Kirby at
tempted to intercede in the
.Jailing of his younger brother,
who was charged with discharg
ing fireworks on Friday, Sep
tember 12.
Some twenty Black Panthers’
attended a meet ing with the local
chapter of the National Assocla
(Set- PANTHERS, P 2)
Compares
Church To
Ambulance
ST, PETERSBURG,
Ela.--(NPI) - The white
church of America has
been “taillighting” too
long, was one of the
impressive. terse. down
-to-earth utterances of
Dr. Ralph David Aber
nathy, president, South
* era Christian Leader
ship Conference, who
was in town as a
speaker before a na
tional Baptist.
Dr. Abernathy spoke Innoun
(See MIFRNATKV P JA
THE man *tdi*t* prctwtwe Mr*. SBMbar* D*M*«r ft)
of Roxbury section of Boston, mother e? tour, looki back at Health, Education, and Welfare
(Hew) Secy. Robert Finch (L), daring her talk. About 90 protestors mounted the stage as the Sec
retary delivered a speech, took over the microph®ia, and demanded hs use his Influence a
minimum family Income of more than $5,000 a year, (UPI),
North Carolina s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 190 J
DEMAND MORE CONSTRUCTION JOSS - Chicago: Hundred*
of black demonstrators demanding more employment in the
contraction industry, gather by the Picasso Statue Monday be
fore marching in a “Black Monday” demonstration to the
Building Trades Council’s offices. (UPI). .
NA ACP To Honor
Mayor Lee, Rep. Frye
DURHAM-The 26th Annual N.
C, NAACP Conference Conven
tion meet ing here October 9-11
will honor two Negroes who have
attained national prominence in
Tarheelia in the political arena
during 1968-*69,
Temperatures miring tire pe
riod. Thursday through Monday,
will average near normal, ex
cept below normal in the ex
treme southwest portion of
North Carolina. Daytime highs
will range from the low 70s in
the southwest portion !o the
upper 70s and low 80s elsewhere.
It will he mlid Thursday, turn
ing cooler Friday and Saturday
with a slow warming trend ex
pected Sunday and Monday.
Precipitation will average one
half inch in the mountains, ran
ging to ar, inch along tlie coast,
occurring as showers and thun
dershowers Thursday and Fri
day aitd again Sunday and Mon-
BY J. B. BARREN
They are Representative to
the N. C, Legislature Hon.
Henry E. Frye from Greens
boro, the first person of color
to serve in the legislature in
this century: (He even succeed
ed in getting a bill passed dur
ing the 1969 session.l and Hon,
Howard Lae, Mayor of Chapel
Hill, the first of his race to so
serve in a predominantly White
town in the state.
NA AC P’s honors will be be
stowed upon these worthies at
the NAACP Freedom Fund din
ner on Saturday night at the Dur
ham Hotel, convention head
quarters. Tickets to this af
fair are ten dollar ($10) each
and can be secured from the
local branch officials In ad
vance. Proceeds will go toward
to the NAACP freedom furtdand
l See STATE NAACP. P, Si
SINGLE COPY 15c:
Letferls
Sent fo
President
BALTIMORE, Md.-
Delegates attending the
55th Anniversary Na
tional Convention of the
Phi Beta Sigma Fra
ternity, recently con
cluded in Baltimore,
Maryland, re-elect Dr.
Alvin J. McNeil, pro-i
fessor of Special Stu
dies and Dean of Prai
rie View College,
Prairie View, Texas,
national president of the
55-year-old National
Black Greek Lettered
collegiate society, then
went on to underscore
the Nixon Administra
tion for its “do any
thing, go slow policy”
where human and civil
rights of Blacks are
concerned.
The delegates also voiced
dissatisfaction over what they
Mrs, koonti
To Durham
For NAACP
DURHAM - Mrs. Elizabeth
Koontz, Director of the Wo
men’s Bureau in the Depart
ment of Labor, will be the
principle speaker for the re
gular monthly meeting of the
Durham Branch, NAACP which
will be held Sunday, Septem
ber 28 at the Community Bap
tist Church on Barbee Road
at 4 p.m.
Mrs. Koontz, the first Negro
to head the Women’s Bureau
will explain a proposal by the
federal government to improve
the economy of minorities. Dur
ham is considered a model
city to set-up a training pro
<Bec MRS. KOONTZ. P. 2)
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Threats To
Law Dean
Revealed
DURHAM - Egbert
Langston Addison, 27,
of Gary, in liana, nas
been charge 1 with set
ting he fire which
cause an estimated
$500,000 damage and
destroyed mos of the
books in the law library
at North Carolina Cen
tral University here a
bout midnight last Fri
day. He is a former
law student a' the in
stitu'ion.
The fire wa c not brought
under control until 1:30 a,m«
Dr. Albert Whiting, presi
dent of NCCU, disclosed Fri
day that as far as officials of
the school could tell, most of
the 32,000 volumes in the lav.
library were burned up. About
10,000 were saved, it was later
learned.
Whiting said heaviest damage
was done to the library on the
first floor of the three-story
building, Smoke and water bad
ly damaged the two other floors.
Spare classrooms and an
auditorium were used Friday
by law students and faculty.
Officials said the program of
the law school would, continue
uninterrupted in temporary
quarters. Some ninety students
are enrolled in the law facili
ty.
“We hope to work out some
thing with neighboring univer
sities (UNO-Chapel Kill and
Duke'-Durham) on using their
law libraries,” Dr. Whitir
stated.
The fire was started by set
ting fire to pages torn from
books in the library, firemen
declared.
Addison was picked up near
(See F.X-STIJDENT. T :.*)
Nil Asks
if de Bd.
For Plan
Charging that the Hyde Coun
ty Board of Education has pre
cipitated “an educational ca
astrophe,” a special com
mittee of the National Educa
tion Association is urging the
board to devise a desegrega
tion plan which would not close
formerlly all-Negro schools.
Tt triis report summarizing
an eight-month study of racial
conflict in the Hyde County
school system, the NEA com
mittee recommends that the
county's two black schools be
used as elementary schools
on a desegregated basis and
that one white school serve as
a high school for secondary
pupils of both races. A fourth
county school, on remote Ocra
coke Island, was not included
In the study.
The desegregation plan for
mulated by the school board in
May 1968, and submitted to the
U. S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, calls
for the phasing out of the coun
ty's two Negro schools over a
three-year period and the ab
sorption of all Negro pupils
into the white school.
Protest by Negro parents and
repeated refusals by the school
board to alter its proposed plan
produced a year-long boycott of
the schools by the county's more
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NCCU LAW SCHOOL FERE DAMAGE-Damage figures were not complete Monday as cleaning
up of the debris left by the disastrous fire at North Carolina Central University’s law school
began. The fire, early Friday morning, destoryed as estimated $500,000 worth of law looks, in
cluding irreplaceable volumes dating from the IBth century. A former NCCU law student was
held by police in connection with the blaze.
First Ten liners In RCA’s
Record Alum Contest Named
The First ten winners of RCA record albums were announced this week
by The CAROLINIAN. The promotion was introduced two weeks ago with
the beginning of the Choose Your “Hit-Of-The-Week” Contest.
Persons who will receive
free RCA records albums in the
mail in, the very near future
are:
Wilkins, 3
Others To
Be Cited
NEW YORK, N. Y.-The A
rnerlcan Jewish Congress’ top
honor, the annual Stephen S.
W ise Awards, will be present
ed to three distinguished re
cipients for 19G9: Israel's Am
bassador to the United States,
Gen. Yitzhak Rabin; Roy Wil
kins, executive director of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colord People;
and Bernard B. Zients, presi
dent of Gimbels, New York,
and a leading philanthropist.
The awards will be made at
a dinner at the Waldorf-As
toria Hotel Sunday evening,
October 26.
General Rabin will ee hon
ored for “distinguished serv
ice in the cause of Israel.”
Mr. W'ilkins will be cited
for “advancing human free
dom.’’
Mr. Zients will be named for
“dynamic leadership in Jew
ish' life,”
Rabbi Arthur J, Lelyveld of
Cleveland, 0., president of the
American Jewish Congress,
will present the award to Mr.
Wilkins. Shad Poller, chairman,
of the Congress’ National Gov
erning Council, will make the
presentation to Ambassador
Rabin. Benjamin S, Kalnick, a
national vice president of AJ
(Sce wn. kins to,
The Crime
Beat
FROM RALEIGH'S OFFICIAL
POLICE FILE
THREATENS MAN’S LIFE
George Edward Cantey, 22,
2706 Roberts Street, told Of
ficer K. J. Johnson at 5:01
p.m. Wednesday, that he was
at the home of his grand
mother, 106 Glover Lane, when
a man at 105 Glover Lane told
him that he was going to shoot
him. He said the man then went
hack inside his house, return
ed with a rifle, pointed it at
him and chambered one round
of ammunition. Mitchell Hunt
ley, 43, 105 Glover Lane, was
Identified by Cantey as the as
sailant. Cantey signed as as
sault with a deadly weapon war
rant and Huntley was jailed.
* * *
WOMAN FACES CHARGE
John Stephen Taylor, 4501
Poole Road, a white humane
officer, informer Officer J. D.
Hedrick at 9:31 a.m. last Tues
day, that he was attempting to
place a dog in the back of his
truck with the help of Miss
Rose Lee Davis, 51, 1110 Oak
wood A.venue. As he attempt
ed to Close the door of the
truck, he stated, Miss Davis
got in the way and the dog escap
ed, He said the woman' then
started cursing and struck him
on the »rm. He signed as as
sault and battery warrant and
the woman \va3 placed in jail
under a bond of SIOO.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
Miss Virginia Dale Jones,
215 Welcome Avenue, Hender
son; George Bass, 2704 S. Rox
boro Street, Durham; Miss
Cheryl L. Stewart, 314 E. Als
ton Street, Durham; Joseph H.
Monroe, 504 E. Pettigrew St.,
Durham; Miss Geraldine White,
Route/ 2, .Box 36-A, LaGrange;
Napoleon Blakely, 2810 S. Rox
boro Street, Durham; Brad Bar
bour, 3509 Fayetteville Road,
Raleigh; W. M. Gilliam, 408
Cecil Street, Durham; Oscar
Toon, Tropoli Street, Durham;
and Ware W. Mongo, 220 Barn
hill Street, Durham.
UNC Names Dr. Lewis
As Dental Instructor
CHAPEL HILL-Dr. James R.
Lewis has been appointed an
instructor in the School of Den
tistry at the University of North
Carolina here.
The announcement was made
by Dr. James W. Bawden, dean
of the Dental School.
Dr. Lewis will instruct in the
Division of Hocptt&i Dentistry
DR. JAMES R. LEWIS
In the Department of Dental
Ecology,
A native of Asheboro, Dr.
Lewis is a graduate of North
Carolina Central University at
Durham were he received the
bachelor of science degree in
chemistry. His professional
POLICE ARKSSt AMOCIATKXf Wasfc.s Po
lice arrested Tyree E. Scott, president of the Centra! Con
tractors Association, Wednesday faring a demonstration by
black contractors and their supporter at ; & University of ,
Washington construction site where site where ,eaiTier they
had damaged heavy equipment, (UPI),
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training was completed at the
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where he earned the doctor of
dental surgery degree in 1968.
Upon completion of profes
sional training, Dr. Lewiscom
(See INC NAMES. P 2)
Minority
Confab Set
October 13
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secre
tary of Commerce Maurice H.
Stans Friday announced that the
first meeting of the new Ad
visory Council on Minority En
terprise will be held on Octo
ber 13 at the White House.
President Nixon announced
formation of the 63-member
Council yesterday. The Presi
dent is expected to confer with
the Council during its meet
ing.
The Council has i>een creat
ed as an advisory body of the
Office of Minority Business En
terprise in the Department of
Commerce. OMBE Is mount
ing s national program to
marshal and coordinate public
and private resource to achieve
greater opportunites tor mi
nority peoples in business own
ership and management.
“This Council represents an
<S** CONFAB SET. P. 2)
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