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i Ws/jgi'f^ 4*«H ||||ir f _ i.c?£>£ 4.*' v ’’ . V*s*. '$ #0 LtoS ilij|sßijßuraMraHjMMSK SIGNS THREE-YEAR OONTRACI'-’ltosMnfteß: Charlie Scott, North Carolina’s All-American, «td his wife, Margaret, are all smiles after Scott signed a three-year contract March W with the Washington Caps of the American Basket tall As sociation. The 6-foot 6, forward-guard, is a native of New York City. (UPIX Charlie Scat! Signs With ABA For SOOGs Charlie Scott, Carolina’s super star who was shunned for two consecutive years as “Player of the Year” in the ACC, signed a three year pact for $500,000 Monday with the Washing ton Capitols of the American Basketball As sociation after receiving jvhat was termed a “ ver y f a j r o ffi ce ” from the NBA. ■* Scott, a two time All-Ameri can and three times All-ACC is considered by many to be the most complete college bas ketball player in the nation. Boston’s Red Averbach, scout ing the NIT, when pressed to compare him with Pete Mara vich, voted the top plaver in the nation, said he felt Scott was b e better of the two. For the past two season, Scot* lias been a dominant fig ure in Carolina’s successes and recently became a member of the 2,000 point club while elve ,at mg himself to the second leading scorer in Carolina’s history. This year he literally YAAG Holds Distussions In Rakigk The Young Adult Action Group CYAAG) has been holding a series of panel discussions this week at various churches a round the city with the final two being at Davie St. Pres byterian Church, Thursday, and Martin Street Baptist Church, Friday, at 7:30 as part of its first annual “Open Bouse.” The panel discussions are two-fold in nature and are di rected to the entire Raleigh Community. The series of events are intended to expose the programs ofYAAGthrough out the city and into other parts of the state. They are also intended to serves as a pro motional guide in soliciting fi nancial support for the organi zation. Financial support is needed if YAAG is to continue the pro gram it has outlined for improv ing the conditions of blacks in the black community which is its primary aim. To date, the group has visit ed Camp Polk and scared paroles for several youth that were deserving of them. One of these paroles is currently en rolled at Shaw University and another is schedule to enroll for the Spring term. Six others are under the direct super vision of YAAG. First Baptist Church housed the f! rst session whileSt, Pauls' Methodist hosted the second. In The Sweepstakes I! SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK I BRFTTAM’S CHHMffiTS SHOES Where Dirty Clothes Meet Their Waterloo ;! See SWEEPSTAKES Ads. Read Page 10 For Winners In Sweepstakes Promotion ' Menhandise Moonting Valid numbers this week in The CAROLINIAN'S Revised Sweepstakes Feature are as fol low: Number 1170, first prize, worth $25 in merchandise at Hudson-Belk Department Store, 318 Fayetteville Street; 0333. can ied the team onl is should ers and as Scott went so went the Tar Heels. Scott turned in two brilliant late season performances to take the Tar Heels to the na tional semifinals. In the ACC finals, he popped iri 40 points against stubborn Duke for a 85- 74 win, paving the way for Carolina’s entrance into the Eastern Regionals but failed to make “Player of the Year”. A gainst Davidson in the regional Scott gave a prelude of what to happen tl is year by plucking in 32 points, the las* of which came at the buggei spelling the end of Davidson, Making the third super star to sign with toe ABA, Scott said he thought it would be bet ter for him to stay on the east coast, implying that the NBA “very fair office” came from one of its four west coast ream. “I plan to be a lawyer and Was! ington is about the best place for that.” “I am looking forward to (See SCOTT SIGNS, F. ) tS'flfC* d s Problems Os Bedim ATLANTA-The story of eco nomic decline for small South ern tobacco farms and the re sultant flow of migrants from tobacco country to Eastern ci ties is told in a publication to be released Sunday by the South ern Regional Council. The 44-page booklet, part of the council’s Leadership Series, tells the personal story of Donnie Gibson, a young black South Carolinian who takes a train to New York seeking new opportunities. Like thousands of others who regiflarly take the same course in the toliacco country, be begins Ids journey immediately after high school graduation, on a train that has come to be known as the “Chick enhone Special” because so many young migrants take brown-bagged chicken lunches with them. The author is Dwayne Walls a reporter for the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, who traveled with Donnie Gibson from his farm (See SRC CITES. P, 2) second, sls, valuable at Piggly- Wiggly Stores; and number 0782, third award, worth $lO in trade at Oak City Laundry and Cleaners, 436 S„ Salisbury Street. The money alloted for mer <»ee SWEEPSTAKES, *>. 3) in Murder Os Wife Hasty Bound Over Here &&&& &&&& From W ake County J. Winters Filing For Senate ? North Carolina s Leading Weekly VOL. 29, NO. 21 Housemate Prevents Attack As 4* 0 m 1% •jp 0 «# ‘ ■ Ui w# 1# s %\£p 1 u mi is 1 \ I II y if *4 1 11 11 c Pj| I 1 \ 'Vt |> I i. & I J ill *|J ' jf ■ ' JI § For Soufhside Urban Renewal Bond Issue Posses Would Be Isißiaek To Run According to reliable sources, John W. Winters, who ran successfully three terms (two years each) for the Raleigh City Council, is expected to file for the Wake County Senate on Friday, March 20. A real estate broker and arttti offices at 507 E. ; Martin Street, f Winters is ’®gp§ president of |L ' John W. Winters 1 and Company, He became the first Negro ever ; -,o win a seat w the City Council several /ears ago. The only other Ne gro to sit on the Council is (See warrms to, p ’2) 3 Winners In Talent Hunt Here The Twenty-Fourth Annual Talent Hung Program, sponsor ed by the Omega Psi Phi Fra ternity Inc., was presented by the Raleigh graduate and under graduate chapters of Omega Psi Phi in the Student Union Ballroom on the campus of Shaw University on Sunday, March 15. Three winners were select ed from the participants and given awards of SSO, $25, and sls, respectively. All of the participants were given certi ficates of merit by the fraterni ty. Alfred Mack, a tenor-bari tone and winner of first place, sang Trumpeter by Dix, The second place winner, Henry Muldrow, a tenior, sang Where’re You Walk (from Semle by Handel) and the third award was won by a clarinetist, Ci cero Upchurch. Mr. Mack will represent the local chapters of Omega Psi Phi in the Eastern Area Elimi nation held in Rocky Mount, Sunday, March 22. The first three winners of the Eastern Area Elimination will compete against the first three winners of the Western Area Elimina te®® * wmmm, p. m mmms -rntm ATTACK ummo fKmTmbMrikmmvM* Fla.: Curious students look «*• woman who suffered heart attack during racial fighting around troubled Highlands Junior High School March 13. Hundreds of black and white students fought over a two-block area before or der was restored. (UFI), RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 JLhHHPH ■% lj l!:(|y FATHER OF SO SHOT-New York: Devemon Leg rand (in undated filer), the self-styled “bishop” of the “church of St. John”, who claims to have 50 children by 10 wives, is in ci itical condition here Marcl 16 after he was wounded in the chest when the fattier of one of his “nuns” allegedly shot him. Police said Legrand was shot when he went to the borne of Ernestine Timmins Marc! 15, whom Legrand claims as one of his wives and the mother of six of his children, to urge tier to return to Lis “flock.” Legrand and his companion, James Ward, were allegedly met with pistol fire from Er nestine’s father, Ernest Tim mins. Ward died of wounds in the chest and abdomen en route to the hospital. (UPI). Merger Os CQCU looms for Many ST. LOUIS, Mo.-More than 25,000,000 U. S. church mem bers now have before them for study and response a plan that could unite them intotheChurch of Christ Uniting by the latter part of this decade. The Consultation on Church Union (COCU) tiere last Friday afternoon unanimously accepted for commendation to nine par ticipating denominations a draft Plan of Union. After approxi mately two years for study, and additional time for necessary redrafting, the document is to*** ammam ae v. si Grand Jury Returns True Bill On Hasty In a surprise move last Tues day, the soli* tor of Wake Su perior Court, W. G. (Buck) Ransdell, picked up a murder warrant from Wake District Court, which charged Herman Hasty, 57-year-old demolition contractor, with the murder at Armeata Hasty, roted text'- was found In a trash *"* * Hasty was o- HASTY riginally scheduled to receive a preliminary hearing on March 11. The Wake County Grand Jury, in a meeting on Monday, March 16, indicted Hasty on the mur der count and he is expected to face trial during the April term of Wake Superior Court. Bond Issue Passes for Southside Raleig! voters went to the polls on Tuesday, March 17 heavily so in the predominant - ]\ Hack precincts of this city - and approved the Southside Bond Issue by a margin of better than 2 to 1. The two-part Bond Issue pro posed for the urban renewal project was passed by more city voters than was expected to turn out for the election on the sunny day. A campaigi for passage of the $3,050,000 bond package con ducted by a citizens’ commit tee appointed by Mayor Seby B. Jones apparently got results as all but 10 of the city’s 38 precincts voted for it. The first part of the ballot, which asked foi authorization for the city to issue $2,500,000 in bonds, was passed by a 10,327 to 4,643 vote, according to unofficial returns. The second part of the bond issue, of $550,000, wasapprov (See BOND ISSUE, P, 2) SINGLE COPY 15c, According to Wake County Sheriff Robert J. Pleasants, Mrs. Hasty, program director of the East Raleigh Brand, of (See hasty is, r. z> Woman Is Beaten in Rape fry A woman who resides in ti e same tiouse with two men re lated to a police officer last Saturday morning how one of them because amorous and beat her when she rebuffed ids ad vances. Miss Ernestine Thorpe, 212 Cooke Street (formerly N. Hay wood), told Officer *W, R. Vaughn at 8:51 a.m. Saturday, that she was asleep on tie couch at this address when she was awakened bv Daniel Lockwood, 26. She said Lockwood asked her to have sexual intercourse with him, but she refused. Miss Thorpe said at this time Lockwood said toiler, “I’ll show you how tough you really are.” She said he then struck tier a bout to£ body and threw her on the couch, where he began to choice ' er. The woman said she was sav ed from more of the same treat ment when Willie Lee Short, the third occupant of the house, came in and stopped Lockwood from attacking her. Miss Thorpe showed no visi ble signs of having been attack ed, but she signed a warrant against Lockwood, charging as sault with the intent to commit rape. He is expected to receive a preliminary hearing in Wake District Court sometime tlis week. (See SAKE TRY, P. 2) Stand firm, AK Urges NEW YORK-The American Jewish Committee last, week called on its fellow Jews and all Americans “to stand firm against the growing tide” In the nation that is eroding civil rights progress. David sher, Chairman of the human rights agency’s policy making Board of Governors, issued a, statement approved by tils fellow Governors In which the Nixon Administra tion was commended for its “creative” welfare legisla tion and for its condemnation of recent violence over school integration in Lamar, South Carolina, ‘•However, other events pro vide us with reason for great concern,” Mr. Sher continued. “Unless the direction indicated by these events Is reversed, we lace a dangerous erosion of a decade of slow but significant progress in achieving an im provement in the condition at minority groups in this na tion.” Among such events pointed to by Mr. Sher were these: 1. Administration and Con gressional efforts to slow down school desegregation, including (See STANtD STEBM. P. 3) f!affig3hc% .•<*s, . ->«r.4 ■ * ' ’C * TO SEEK CONGRESSIONAL SEAT-Claremont, Calil.: Mrs. Medger Evers, who moved to California a year after the 3363 •laying of her husband in Jackson, Miss, gets some unexpect ed help on her speech from her dog ‘•'Honey Bun” shortl; af ter she announced March 16 that she will seek the Democratic nomination for Congress in California’s 24th District, The seat in the heavily-Republic district was vacated last month by the death of Rep. Glenard Lipscomb, a Republican. (I’ll). Black Festival 1 0 St. Aug.’s Thurs. The Second Annual Black Festival will be held at Saint Augustine’s College on March 19, 20. and 21. The theme of this year’s festival will be “Re flections of the Black Heritage.” The Second Annual Black Festival will be held at Saint Augustine’s Coliege or. March 19, 20, and 21. The theme of this year 's festival will be “Re flections of the Black Herit age.” Dr. James Brewer, professor of history, A'ortt Cai olina Cen tral University, will speak on Thursday, March 19, at 11 a.m. in the Emery Health and Fine Arts Center. Dr. Earl E. Thorpe, c!.air man, Department of History, North Carolina Central Uni versity, will spt'ak on Friday at 11 a.m., also in Emery. Both professors will discuss black studies. Howard Burchette, instructor in art at Paint Augustine’s Coi (See FESTIVAL., P. 2) NEA Behind Tutors In Two Suits WASHINGTON. D. C. - The National Education Associa tion's DuShane Emergency Fund is providing financial backing so: Texas teachers involved in two separate teacher rights cases being filed Wednesday, March 11 in federal district courts in the I one Star state. A complaint filed in U. S. District Court foi the South ern District of Texas, Galves ton Division, on behalf of Mary Helen Gay and Betty Jo Joyce alleges that the contracts of two black elementary school teachers and four other black teachers were not renewed solely on the basis of race. Ti e second complaint was filed in U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division, on behalf of Ralpt Bates, Jr., a nontenur ed high school English teacher who was fired for using “con troversial” materials in class readings o: discussions includ ing Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story,” and the film-novel “The Midnight Cowboy.” The Texas Classroom Teach ers Association is sharing costs in the Bates case and plans as sistance in the Gay-Joyce case. This racial reprisal suit in volves black teacher* employ BROWN'S TO- «M 4 As*. defense ootmofl Howard Moore gives the Black Power salute while talking to newsmen as the trial e* H. Bap Brown was again delayed Monday following a postponement caused by the death of two Negroes in an auto explosion March 9, Brown, a Black militant, is charged with Incitement to riot and arson in connection with racial violence in Cambridge, Md», rn 1967. (UPI). lege, developed at! art exhibit which is displayed in the main gallery of the Student Union 20-Poge Tabloid Included This is the Mg •• et S6OO is : ■ ■ :ia'*h- n rif< ---v downtown merchants ~s The CAROLINIAN presc ’> :*s 20- page tabloid, “Downitov : Ra leigh Has Gone Hog wild.’’ If is included in t! is ee ! of the paper as an insert. Announcement of t is unique Bonanza was made o: Par* 2 of last week's CARO! INI AN. This feature section is >our Spring and Easter guide to Downtown shopping. A big -100 cash bonus is being offe ?d by The CAROLINIAN. Merchants in the Downtown area are giving av.a prizes totaling in the hundreds of dol (See TABLOID, P 2 CUT ACROSS FACE Willie Junior Robinson, 25, 600 S. Bloodworth Street, told Officer N. S. Lockey at " p.rn. Friday, that Luther Junior Jackson, “somewhere on Idle wild Avenue,” an employee at Cross Poultry Company, Rock Quarry Road, suddentlj step ped out of the bathroom at the Top Hat Club, 703 Rock Quarry Road, and cut him across the face. He said Jackson then ran. Robinson suffered two four inch, cuts on the right side of his face. A small pocket knife was used in the "slicing"’, ac cording to the police report. Robinson, who also works at Cross Poultry, said he would sign a warrant against Jack son. asm OtKCK KM2, P. S)
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