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. -« /FP - uxor-wry JWiflUig pfc, * jp t % Box 1736 ' Mayor Pro-fem Os Southern Pines Says *** wiU ' ? 4,8,1 *' Black NC Leaders Have Not Been Souaht Out’ ’ I #### #### Raleigh Native Held In ECU Rape Grad Os Ligon Is Accused A 19-year-old stu dent at East Carolina University at Green ville, was arrested last Saturday there and PERRY CRTJTCHFIELD, JR. charged with raping a coed at the same in stitution. Although ECU |s a predominantly white both the ac cused and the accuser are black. Perry L, Crutchfield, Jr,, a 1968 graduate of the John W. Ligon School, Raleigh,, whose family Is believed to be resi dents of 623 Quarry Street, was arrested around 3:10 p.m. by Greenville police and charg ed with raping Miss Connie Lynn Bake, who signed the as sault warrant aeainst him. The arrest was made on tne campus of the university. (See PACES OAJPE. P. 2) Richmond To Host Expo Sat. RICHMOND, Va.-Businesses rm across the country are set exhibit their products and services at the First Annual Black Is Beautiful Business Ex po set for the Richmond Arena, March 29th and 30th. The Expo is scheduled to o pen at 2 p.m. Sunday the 20th with Mayor Phil Begley of Rich mond joining in the ribbon cut ting ceremonies with Berkley Burrell, President of the Na tional Business League; Rich mond City Councilman, Henry L. Marsh 111; State Senator L. Douglas Wilder; Delegate W, Fergunson Reid; Miss Black A merica, Miss G. O. Smith of Detroit; Miss Glamour of Rad l»ee EXPO SET. f* 2) jtm a Easier Coloring Contest Again this year, The CAROLINIAN is sponsor ing an Easter Coloring Contest in which three prizes will be given away. See Page 11 for further details. This contest is open to all children up to 12 years of age, except those of sponsors st: of this newspaper. You may submit as as you like. However, you can sdly win one prize. The deadline for submitting colored pictures is noon on Monday, March SO, -- __ Vlkf* FILM '*•“ '•?BA?if/, FATHEB-AtiSfttaj The frailly ■ Martin I Jther King arrives at a downtown Atlanta theater March 2 4 for the showing of the film documentary of the slain civil rights leader. (L-R) Yolanda, 14; Martin., 12; Mrs. King and Dexter, 9. Daughter Ber nice not shown. (VPI), I THE CAROL!MAN VOL. 29, NO. 22 Cop Mho Assaulted As Woman * || Wt ‘fli j|| xj-n-xhs}- n-hhrhiy ryxyryxy From Newspaper’s Tabloid Entrants 22 Winners Selected Wmm is Stabbed in Forehead A man whose address was listed as both Ra leigh and Clayton has been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault on a police of ficer and damage to property, following an altercation last Monday night, in the Southgate section of the city. Jesse Clinton Watson, Route 2, Box 304, Clayton, and 1809 Liberty Place, Raleigh, was accused by Miss Rachel Wright, 39, of the Liberty Place ad dress, at 9 p.m. of assaulting her with a knife or other similar Instrument at her apartment. The woman said Watson came In the back door of the house, chased her out the front door, then cut her with the instru ment, causing serious bodily Injury to her head and legs. She suffered deep multiple lac (Se@ STABBED Df, JP„ NAPFi Shims Mail Strike WASHINGTON, D, C. - The National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees is not par ticipating in or supporting the strike in which certain locals of one of the craft unions are engaged. President Ashby G. Smith in urging members of the Alliance NAPFE tftn, P. 8) A <49s North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURAY. MARCH 28, 1970 4,500 TEACHERS STRIKE-Boston; A w-ork stoppage try most of Boston's 4,500 teachers forced the closing of the city’s 197 public schools March 24. The members ofthe Boston Teachers Union staged what they called a "Professional’' day and set up pickets at several schools. Several hundred are shown as they marched down School Street School Headquarters to Bos- ton City Hall. (UPi). Felton J. Capel Is Heard At NC State U. “All America will benefit from Increased earning power and improved economic status of the black community, '■ a member of the N. C. Board of Conservation and Development told some 200 industria! de velopment officials at a Rural Development Conference at North Carolina State Universi ty here Tuesday. Felton J„ Capel of Southern Pines, the Black Mayor pre tem, told government, industry and education leaders attending the regional conference that if blacks alone, among all the poor, were brought above the CAPEU IS, P. *) Distinction Award To Mrs. King MEDFORD, Mass, - Mrs. Coretta Scott King, wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will receive the Jackson Award of Distinction, April 7, (See MRS, KING, p. Z) ShrinersGird tor Gala Day FAYETTEVILLE - Thurman J, Smith, Deputy of the Desert of North Carolina, Mystic Shrine, announced here last week that the most elaborate plans for the celebration of Gala Day, In Goldsboro, May 15-15, are now being unfolded and, If carried out, will make the event the greatest ever held. A queen’s contest, now under way in the 14 temples, seem to have the greatest lustre. It is being promoted by a committee, headed by Noble William Honey blue. The first contestant to register Is Miss Linda Powell Dixon of Farmvilie, represent ing Rofelt-Pasha Temple. She is a senior at H. B. Suggs High School and hopes to continue her education at Fayetteville State University. She is intense ly interested in creative danc ing. Another feature that is an SINGLE COPY 15c Sifts To Be Given Winners Among those who braved the rain last Friday and Saturday, there are twenty-two prizes, including a SIOO cash prize, given by this newspaper in the S6OO gift section published in The CAROLINIAN last week as a 20-page tabloid section. Coupons were collected from the various "stores advertising in the paper and drawings were made at the YWCA, 554 E. Har gett Street, Monday morning. The following persons were de clared winners and the stores with which they are to identify themselves to receive their gifts are also included: Mrs. E. H. Dempsey, 1409 E. Martin St., Heilig-Levine; Law rence Towns, 10 Heath St., Car ter’s Inc.; Gladys Reddick, 1506 E. Jones St., Woodworth; Allene Pitts, 307 S. Tarboro St., Hud son-Belk; Mrs, Lillian B. Dunn, Route 7, Box 302, White Cross Drugs; Mrs. Queen Ester Hin ton, 24 McKee §t., Bosse Jewel ers; Louise Curley, 418S.Swain St., Rhodes, Inc. Randey Graham, 1943 Rock Quarry, Wood’s; Kenover Gill, 3 Franklin Terrace, G.S.Tuck (See 2? WINNER#, p. r> Drug Use Discussed “The use of harmful drugs is now a serious problem in Raleigh and both parents and students are urgently in need of education regarding this menace” state Raymond Bur ton, drug education coordinator of Camp Polk Department of Correction at the Public As- fairs Forum of the Bloodworth Street YMCA Friday night. Types of drugs discussed in cluded (1). the depressant drugs, barbituates, seconaletc. (2). stimulant drugs, Benzad rine Pep pills (3). Halluci genics such as LSD, STP, DMT, and (4). the hafd drugs such as heroin. The latter two types were described as especially dangerous since they are de stroyers of the mind. Three out of ten who begin using such a drug as Marijuara end up (See DRUG USE. I*. 2) innovation is a cup that will be given to the temple which contributes the most toward EYBLUE TWO TAR HEELS KILLED IN COLLISION-Wilmington: Two men died early Tuesday morning when their compact pickup truck slammed head-on into the side of a moving train on U. S. 421 north of here. Killed instantly were Carl D.Woodcock, 31, and Roy C. Woodcock, 30, both of Atkin son, N. C. Driver Carl Woodcock apparent) never saw the train, as the truck left no skid marks. (UPD. “Can’t Afford To Write Off Black Vote. .Any where.”Sen.Scott Says J / WASHINGTON, D.~ C.-Pennsylvania’s U. S. Senator Hugh Scott told h group of black Republican elected officials Friday, “Our Rcpublican party cannot afford to w rite ors the >la< * ■ ; e — anywhere.” Scott, the Senate Republican Leader, speaking at a Re publican National Committee Black Republican Elected Of ficials Conference at the Statl er Hilton, said, “The Repub lican Party musi cultivate and expand its role in the black community, among ti e poor, a mong the middle class, and par ticularly among the young. He cautioned, “Any Republican strategy must compete for these votes and involvement. He must help.” “Like yourselves, 1 am by no means satisfied with, the record of this Administration, or any other Administration, because wherever full equali ty of opportunity has not been achieved, the overriding obliga tion of that Administration is to see that it is achieved, “Scott said. However, he added that he was proud of the “outstand ing record of educational and economic progress for all A mericans of our Republican (See SEN. BCOTT P 2) StAug.s Audiences Challenged Dr. James brewer, proft-s,so; of history, North Carolina Cen tral University, and Dr. Ear! E. Thorpe, chairman of the his tory department ofthal msjtitu- ST. AUG.’S, P ) •’ shrineaom each year. The cup will be awarded or. a point sys tem. The temple that brings in .he largest, number ol mem bers over 10, in any given year will receive 300 points. To the :emple which produces th.ewin ling queen will go 250 points. The temple that raises the largest sum of money, in sup port of the Desert, will receive 200 points. The largest number more than 12 members, on re view, gets 150 points, while the marching unit having the larg est number over 20, in the parade, will receive 100 points. The cup will rotate each year. This annual observance bj the state’s Shriners is looked forward to with much en thusiasm by all persons con nected with the order. Persons have been known to come from other states to take* part in the many celebrations that are attendant to the observance. It (See NC BHRWffIRS. P. V) First Phase OfOIC Ends, Reopens Apr. (> BY J. B. BARREN ROCKY MOUNT - The first ~ tse of seven weeks of the ‘Feedei Program’ of Oppor tunities Industrialization Cen ter (QIC) engaged In the tratn • ■ lmta.i C;.tries West, 23, of Chicago, . former Army sergeant who witnessed the alleged My Lai massacre, told the Senate Ju venil- Delinquency subcom mittee Marc! 24 that a maj ority of tin Gls wl o partici pated smoked marijuana. He • aid that some of them did so the nig! t before the incident. Di. Joe] H. Kaplan, a former Arm- psychiatrist who work ed with drug users in Viet nam, toid the subcommittee that it the soldiers were “chronic pot-heads” it could have con tributed to their actions. (UPI). !j[ in The Sweepstakes j SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK I : ' - : Where Super Savings Always Prevail \ j : See SWEEPSTAKES Ads ! I Read Page _l OJFoi^Winners J' Sweepstakes Grows Number 3935, 12112 and 1246 are winning numbers in this week’s CAROLINIAN’S Revis ed Sweepstakes feature. Number 3935, first prize, is worth 25 in merchandise at Ter ry Furniture Co., 214 E. Martin St.; 121’2, second, is valuable ing of the unskilled to secure better Jobs and advance to others came to a close her* at the local OIC unit in the for mei BTA school building Thursday night when progress reports were given by mem bers of the volunteer teaching staff and some advanced stu dents. Under the untiring efforts of guidance, teaching and coordi nation of programs 1 Mrs, Rosa Brodie and Mrs. Vivian Tillman, both of whom played the major roles in organizing CRIME BEAT : -nn R' S !etv*m (M!u bt. SCRATCHED BY DRUNK Mrs. Mary D. McCullers, 918 Fayetteville Street, told Officer G. W. Abernathy at 1:04 a.m. Sunday, that she came home and found Bernard Tuck er, 28, 1008 Mark Street, drunk in her house. She stated she ask ed Tucker to leave, but he got inad and scratched her face and eyes with his fingernails. Mrs. McCullers, who suffered a scratched face, said she would sign an assault and battery war rant against Mr. Tucker. for sls at Briggs Hardware, 220 Fayetteville St.; and num ber 1246, third, $lO at Metro politan Furniture Leasing Co., 3801 S. Wilmington St. In the Spotlight this week is Arlan’s, 1920 North Blvd,, (See SWEBPSTiUKtB. P. *)
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