Death Takes No HoMay Darina Yale Season
Girl, 16, Dies Os
Poison As Car tins
Wake County medical examiner, Dr. Wil
liam Hedrick, reported Tuesday that the death
of a 16-year-old Fuquay girl was caused by
carbon monoxide poisoning.
The victim. Miss Brenda
Powell Herndon Rt 3, Fuquay-
Varlne, was found by friends in
a closed automobile early Sun
day morning. She had remain
ed to the car while nor friends
went into the home of Miss
Thelma Williams, Rt. 1, Gar
ner.
Miss Herndon and several
other youngsters had been au
tomobile-riding all night, The
group then decided to go to a
friend’s house. However, Miss
Herndon remained in the park
, eti auto.
* Several hours later, he.- body
F@nf Gives
m Over
$3.5 Mifiim
NEW YORK. N. Y.-The Na
tional Urban League has re
ceived a grant of 53.63C.000
from the For ' Foundation to
expand and Initiate a varietj of
innovative programs aimed at
improving the quality of life
in the nation’s ghettos and up
grading the economic strength
of blacks and other minorities.
The grant, along wttj those
of several other foundations,
will assure second-year financ
ing of the program activities
under the League’s new thrust
as well as initiating a number of
new programs directed at "un
leashing the neglected po
tential” of the biack ghettos.
1 In accepting the Ford grant,
Whitney M. Young, Jr., League
executive director, said: "We
are deeply grateful to the Ford
Foundation for this expiession
of confidence in our efforts in
the ghettos of America. This
is a recognition of the unique
ability of the League to org
anize constructive programs in
housing, education, economic
welfare and social action. This
gives us more determination to
work with ghetto residents to
get tangible and realistic goals,
to speak for themselves and to
constructively represent them
selves as no one else can.’
Mitchell .Sviridoff, Vice
President in charge of the Ford
Foundations’s National Affairs
Division said: "The Urban Lea
. gue plays an important role
in providing leadership for the
black community as it seeks to
take its rightful place in the
mainstream of American life.
"The League, through its
programs, and with skills and
K experience acquired in almost
<S te NTI. GIVEN P *1
iekhmes,
Burglaries
k ideigb
Three separate cases of rob
bery and burglary were lodged
with the Raleig! Police Depart
ment last week. Allen Kenneth
Jenks and Arthur Cornelius
Manning filed compliant* of
robbery while Mrs, Mary Green
Powell complained of a burgla
ry to officers of the law.
ROBBED NEAR BUS STATION
According to police officer
Marshburn, Jenks stated that
while he awaited a bus to Mon
er ue, two Negro men approach
ed him and made off with his
money and some assorted gifts.
Records show that on Wed
the males offered to ride Jenks
to his destination in their auto
mobile. However, once the rob
bers got him away from the bus
station. Jenks said, they threat
ened to kill him if he did not
give up his money and gifts.
The pair made off with ap
proximately $67 worth of valu
ables and SSO In cash. The on
ly description given by the
victim was that the robbers
were between 19-20 years of
(Bee ROBBERIES, P. 2)
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Beginning with this issue, The CAROLINIAN
Sweepstakes will be revised. No longer will
tickets be found in the several stores solicit
ing your business through their advertisements.
The New CAROLINIAN Sweepstakes is as
follows:
Each week. SSO will fee given
away, in order to award the
money In three prizes of 525,
sls and $!0, this newspaper
wHI hare a dr-swing from the
12,000 or 13,000 numbers print
ed on stubs, which coincide with.
was found by one of the group
wits whom she had been riding.
The Wake County medical
examiner performed the au
topsy at the request of Wake
County coroner M W. Benett,
Funeral services were held
last week in Fuquay-Vartna tor
the victim
She was a student at the Gar
ner High School.
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MWHERIGXW
Shot In 111.
Native Os
City Dies
In Chicago
Funeral services were con
ducted Tuesday of this week at
Martin Street Baptist Cfcurer.
at 2:30 p.m. tor Bm&mto Loan
Johnson, Jr., 30,
formerly of HO jljliiisHfee
N. Tarboroßoad As tjj|
here, who j
allegedly shot to Wr***
death last Wed- J
nesday to Chica
•go, 111 inotg,
where he nadei
his home, dmr* & ||g|g
ing a holdup atgf *\T wim
a liquor store 3SH9MOM
where he was employed.
A native of Raleigh, Mr. John
son -was born June 14, 1639
He joined the Martin Street
Baptist Church at an early age
ana served as a junior usher
for several years. The Rev.
Dr. Paul H. Johnson, pastor,
officiated at the rites and burial
was in Carolina Biblical
Gardens.
Johnson attended the local
public school and graduate from,
the John Ligon High School to
1957 He then attended North
Carolina A&T State University,
Greensboro, and was graduated
from the School of Clothing
and Textiles in i 960.
He served with the United
States Army in Germany for
two years.
Married to the former Miss
Phyllis Holland of Durham, the
Johnsons were the parents of
two daughters, Misses Adrienne
and Rosalyn Johnson.
Other survivors include his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjam
in Johnson, Sr„ Raleigh; two
sisters, Mrs. Mary Augusta
Johnson Byrd song, Los Angel
es, California; and Mrs, An
nie Ruth Johnson Young, Chica
go; one brother, Mr. Napoiecsn
Johnson, Hampton, Va., and a
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WEATHER
Tenroeretisares tosr&ag «se yw
ried, Thursday through SSciidsv.
vrtii average h*l<r*v normal *as
eept near tternai sa the aeiVi
«**»«*■■ SiVUrnt Stisehs will fee ska
She tipper 3Q« and tower 4Se he
the North CatoM&a HMHfflMtt.
tanging to the fewer and mite
9*» m the nootii court. sUfw#
at night will iit in the tipper
teestr and lower SSs in the ntsttts
tains asuJ moody in the Mi and
*»* eiaewheiM. except ffee Mr,
on the «erth mmi. Coat
weather will prevail TbmwSay
and FrMay, with eelser temper
aJarett returithtg SttorSsv then
affoMUy. Precipitation wSS! to
tal ifc*M4Mrt]u of an inch in
the mmatotaf sssd ene inch nr
mute elsewhere, oc earring as
esan ®a Tittay sad 9s*u«s*y,
the tickets hearing the numbers
of the tsomes. The first, ticket
drawn will carry * number
worth $25. The second number
drawn will be worth sls, and
the third number drawn will be
worth-$lO
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
In State Education
lily Native Gels' Fop Position
L — l ——^
VOL. 29, NO. 10 RALEIGH, K C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1970
A isMm*s€de
Only Negro On Federal Reserve Bd.
Questions Businesses
irlfiaar
kiiiSil
iltptrf
WASHINGTON - Tte
only Negro officer of tte
Federal Reserve Board
said in a prepared re
port that “self-employ
ment offers a poor eco
nomic future for Ne
groes.”
Andrew F. Brimmer, only Ne
gro member of the nattaa*#
organization which overseesth®
flow of country’s money,
strongly criticized attempted
of black ghetto dwellers to
start their own businesses.
Brimmer’s statements were
a direct contrast to those made
by President Richard Nixon who
promised blacks during the
presidential campaign. Presi
dent Nixon stated that if he were
sleeted, he would give Nagrees
“a piece of the action.” The
Nixon administration has set
ip ' ; n
Chicago; Gale a»|wa of tfe*
Bears, who led the "NFL to
rtishtog with over 1,000-yards
sits to on his first meeting
December 30 as a Chicago Park
District Commissioner, Say
ers, 26, who works as a stock
broker off season, was appoint- ’
ed to the nonpaying post by
Mayor Richard Daley. (UFS),
Every house occupied by a Negro family
in Raleigh and Wake County will be given a
number. There will be numbers representing
those houses, from 1 to 12,000 or 13,000 Sweep
stakes with tickets bearing the#e figures.
Al) tickets or slips placed
in the homes of residents of
Raf«igh and Wake Cwutty will
carry a permanent number.
This number wUI identify this
home during the duration of the
•Sweepstakes. Each home mast
liifefevfi Wdm €mmfw
North Carolina s Leading WeeLly
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gar Laoat i.L) who spent 14 years on oeath row at Louisi
ana's Angola Prison, greets reporter John Rousseau De
cember 30, following release from Orleans Parish Prison,
December 29. Labat and Clifton Poret, both Negroes, were
sentenced to death to 1953 for the 1950 rape of a white wo
man. When to 1966 a court ruled Negroes were unconsti
tutionally excluded from the jury system their cases were
ordered re-trted, but the re-trials were never held and
both were released after pleading guilty to lesser charg
es. Rouseau spent years writing about the case and find
ing witnesses who would testify to the innocence of both
men. (UPI).
NC Grads Lucrative,
Say Ten Recruiters
FAYETTEVIIiLE-Through the doors of the
Fayetteville State University Placement Of
fice in 1966 paused 10 recruiters—-eight of
them public school officials looking for teach
ing personnel and two from government agenc
ies looking for clerical workers.
In 1969. hovaver, traffic is
on the increase, steady and
heavy as some 300 recruiters
representing Industry s®d a
jwacies looking tor talent, are
aeheduie to visit the Fayette
ville State Placement Center.
Net only have recruiters
beaten a steady path to the
doors of FSU’s Placement Cen
ter, which has open quite a
few doors of employment for
the University’s students, but
the impact has required a full
time person and a move from
the Dean ©f Student's office.
The former part-time opera
k€*p the ticket as it must be
presented to The CAROLINIAN
If It Is draw, for one of the
three prises.
•Numbers drawn wfU be found
in the «dv*itb«*»#Wfes of the
«ftee tS WKVWWD. V. 5)
lion, coordinated by the Dean
of Students and Education De
partment, has a full time di
rector and a spacious center to
accommodate interested per
sons.
A significant aspect of the
Fayetteville State recruitment
program has been the sudden
increase to the number of re
ts** NC GRAB*. T t)
I mmum I
I ISO 1725 272$ I
1 S2O sls $5,00 |
¥ Aayaae ktdai eurraat fIUSW t»ket». Sated »ec. *9, Vm. with
proper unsafe***, present »*me to Xfce CAXOLINMN office and
V. receive tamnttt Meted tknrt from the SWEEPSTAfUES feature. £:
* ' * m * * h • • * * • * 5 r '* * * * * * A * * tkj * .»4 ' * < i i k
Nev/spaperTo Honor 3 Tickets
To weekly followers of the
Sweepstakes, this will be the
last week ticketstor the present
contest will be honored. A asw
Contest will lake- Its place.
No one earn e forward to claim
lasi week's Swaopstaxes
money. This week's new winning
numbers have been selected,
The tickets must be- yellow
SINGLE COPY 15c
6@isfc®t
Fatal Far
lift, 21
A 21-year-olci Army
veteran wag shot in the
stomach on his birth
day last Friday night
inside Station’s Case,
319 S. East Street. He
died the next day of the
fatal bullet wound.
James Edward Larkins, 333
Dorothea (formerly Cannon
Street) Drive received the bul
let in hte stomach about 7:30
ip "
Sam 'Lkwmsß
p.m. and died early Saturday
morning at Wake Memorial
Hospital, reportedly without
ever regaining consciousness.
Arrested Sunday and charged
with murder to the case was
James Dennis Ellis, report
ed on police records to be 26
years of age and a resident of
606 E. Martin Street. He was
also charged with violation of
parole at this time,
Mrs. “Helen Crowder Gris
som, an employee of Station’s,
who was working at the time,
rs*c urn. ti v. ay
in color for the present contast
and dated Deeembq£ 27, 1669,
Number 630, first prize, is
worth S2O; number 1725, second
prize, worth sls; and number
2725, worth $5 as third prize
money.
Patronize businesses which
advertise in The CAROLINIAN.
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Moa Slbsi h Heart:
'Private lye’ Freed
A Wake County Coroner’e Jury found no
probable cause here Monday afternoon in a
case involving a private detective who shot a
42-year-old man to death at 5:30 a.m. Sat
urday.
Floyd Owen Howell,'lol4 Can
nlster Street, was shot once in
the hear? bv David Shaffer, who
was on duty at the Sis Walter
Hotel, Fayetteville Street, until
summoned bya cleaning man for
tiie State Theatre, E. Sallbury
Street.
Howell was mortally wounded
as he exited Iron: a broken
window at Burnette’s Hi Style
Beauty salon, to an alley be
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*” "fT nrvn o. HCWELi.
Mrs. Lemvmm
HeadbOept
Os Pupil
Personnel
Mrs Th.elma Cum bo Lennon,
1 native of Raleigh, has beer,
aphototed Director n£ the Di
vision of Papl! ‘y^jSuMMrtgA.
Personnel Serv
ices for the ■
Department odEasT Ly
Public in-strue~Uy »sipt
tIOU, * W
Mrs Lennon ***s!s
rvho will assurm
her new ■ du
ties immedtote-Maa , ‘***jPFßp
ly, was former- MRS. DEHNON
lv a supervisor of federally
supported guidance programs
in the department.
In making the announcement
State Superintendent Craig
Phillips explained that Mrs.
Lennon will be working direct
ly under Dr. Jerome H. Melton,
Assistant Superintendent for
Program Services.
Dr Melton said that the di
vision director will have a new
role and additional responsi
bilities in this expanded field
(Sec MRS. I.JSWNDN. V 2)
Um&fm
Os Bmkm
F# fussier
The National Council of So
cial Studies to conjunction with
the U. S. Office of Education
selected Mias June V. Gilliard
of Durban as one oi three
educators from American to
visit Russia,
The Jan 12-Feb. 3 trip is
expected to cover the cities
of Moscow, Kiev, either Erevan
or Thllsiand Tashkent or Alma
?«*• nbccATOB m. 9. t >
7 - 4 Hl'
cteCU, charged v«th assault with Intent to commit murder
at My Lai, South Vietnam, arrives at the Pentagon De
cember 27 to testify before the Pentagon Board of in
vestigating the alleged My Lai massacre. Sgt. Mitchell is
now- stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas. (DPI).
hind JOhnson-Lambe Sporting
Goods.
A witness, William Henry
Worth, 141" E. Jones Street,
told the jury that he had gone
down near the beauty, salon to
pick up a trasl receptacle be
longing to the State Theatre,
where he is employed part
time.
Worth stated that he saw the
(•Sec MAS SHUT e at
trims Cm
It £mhd : ’
X H&ever
WASHINGTON-The nead of
tht nation’s crime-fighting or
ganittation, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, said last week
that tne possibility of reducing
crime in the IPJP’s “is cer
tainly not hopeless.”
J. Edgar Hoover, the only
man to head this law enforce
ment agency, remarked, “Bas
ed upon past statistics, there
is ever; indication that violent
crimes, In particular, will con
(S« ROBIiKRfRS P 21
Maritime
Cf Actwa
The establishment of an Of
fice of Civil Rights within the
Maritime Administration was
announced last Wednesday by A.
E. Gibson Maritime Adminis
trator, L\ R. Department of
Commerce. This action will
Improve the agency’s capabili
ty to meet its Civil right®
responsibilities, and in accord
ance with the policy of Sec
retary of Commerce Stans, will
provide for more vigorous ef
forts to promote equality of op
portunity .
A principal function of the
new office will be the surveil
lance of the equal employment
opportunity programs of gov
fS*e Ctvn RIGHTS. ** 2)
PRINCIPAL ATTACKED
Marrion Grant Batey, 2525
Western Boulevard, principal
of an elementary school in Gar
ner, reported to Officer J. W.
Rogers at 11:0' p.m. last Mon
day, that he was walking out of
the front door at the new YWCA,
COO block of E. Hargett Street,
when Cecil Glenn, 17, started
hitting him with nis hands,
fists and also a soft drink
bottle. Mr. Batey said there
were also about five other
colored males who struck him.
He said he did not know any of
the subjects. Batey said he
would sign an assault with a
deadly weapon warrant against
young Glenn.
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