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Presbyterians United Black Churchmen Demand Millions At NC Meet Labor Department Also A Defendant Alliance Sues US Post Office The Carolinian VOL. 29. NO 24 Raleigh Man Brandishes Shotgun \ .j _ _ .. JyQ, jq[ 'fr'&'fr'fr Xt*?*?*? Suspended From School Boy, IS, Kills Himself ■ I^- »» HOdMOOII NAPPE Head Announces 'Two Seifs WASHINGTON, D. C. - Post master General W inton M. Blount and Secretary of Labor George P. Si nltz are named as defendants in a suit for injunc tive relief brought by the Na tional Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees and its president, Ashby G. Smith, last Thursday. The aim of this legal action is to pr\ open the doors of the conference rooms behind v,hic) the defendants have been meeting with representatives of seven selected postal unions and discussing wages, postal reform, amnestj for absentees during' the recent work stop page and other matters of im portance to every postal em ployee and every postal union. President Smith saidthat “we have taken this action only af ter requests, demands, protests and peaceful demonstrations have failed to get even a courte ous acknowledgement or re- sponsefrom the agency heads.” • As head of an independent union, Smith raises this ques tion; “What does the AFL-CIO have on ibis administration <B«« aujamci, *. m DAY OF REM£MBKAWCE~A«*«iaj a« 4ha Martin Luthar King fern By lead the Na tion in commemoration marking th® second anniversary of the assassination of the slain civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther Kin*, Jr., at the crypt. (Two children at extreme left are (1) Angela Farris and Issac Farris (r), grandchildren of Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King. Sr.) L to R, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.; Mrs. King, Sr.; grand-daughter, Bernice; Coretta; daugh ter, Yolanda: sons Martin Luther HI; and Dexter. (UPI). North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, APRIL 11. 1970 McGregor Jailed In Shootings A 48-year-old Ra leigh man whose active police record dates back to August 23, 1952, when he was picked up on an assault with a deadly weapon rap, was jailed again early Saturday morning and charged with the same raps. This time, however, the words “with intent to kill” were added. Luther E. Lenoir Street, told Officers R. D. Goodwin and B. W. Peo ples at 2:30 a.rn. Saturday, that he and George McGregor, 621 Dorothea Drive, had an argu ment in the 600 block of Doro thea. He said McGregor threat ened him and he got into his car, containing several more (See SHOOTS TWO, P. 2) Vice Mayer Os Atlanta Will Speak DURHAM-Maynard Jackson, vice-mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, will be the speaker for North Carolina Central University's annual Awards Day program at 10 a.m., April 24, in B. N. Duke Auditorium. Jackson, the first Negro to serve in the vice-mayor’s post in Atlanta, is an alumnus of the university's school of law. His mother, Dr. Irene Dobbs Jackson, is chairman of the u niversity's Department of Mod ern Foreign Languages. The speaker is a graduate of Morehouse College in At lanta. Tiie holder of a Ford (Me Y3CX ViAXm. f. 8} » f ! GILBERT L. PARKER Return Os Jim Crow Predicted i ATLANTA - A well-known ] Southern liberal said Sunday that a new White House policy < on race, abetted by black sepa- , : atists and some Northern lib erals, threatens to reimpose old racial patterns on the na tion. Charles Morgan, Jr., attor ney in school desegregation and other civil liberties cases, said recent developments provide i respectability for “an all-out and undisguised attack on de segregation." Mr. Morgan, now Southern director of the Ameri can Civii Liberties Union, ex pressed his views in an article (See JIM CROW. P. 2) NC Shriners Readies for Goldsboro GOLDSBORO-From reports given out by C. I. Bland, gen eral chairman of Gala Cere monies, Shriners of the Desert of North Carolina, which will ime nc etnuNCfts. r 8) SINGLE COPY 15c HP I urns Gun On Self In Durham DURHAM - A bomb threat on Carr Junior High School in Durham Monday has been attri buted to the apparent suicide of Gilbert L. Parker Friday night. Parker, 15 years old wnowss depressed because he had been suspended from school (Carr Junior High), went upstairs af ter he had been scolded by his mother, Mrs, Lillie Parker, and shot himself with his broth er’s rifle. He was dead upon arrival at Duke Hospital, The youth’s father was kil led in Vietnam. Mrs. Parker said she re ceived a letter Friday from the assistant principal and dean of the school saying her son had been suspended. “We regret to inform you (the letter read)” that your child has been suspended from (See BOY KILLS, P. 2) Ham, Iff Shew In Smithfield SMITHFIELD-The 23rd An nual Ham and Egg Show and sale will be held at the Johns ton County agricultural Build ing in Smithfield, April 8-9, according to an announcement from Hernando J. Palmer, agricultural Extension Agent. Last year’s winners were Robie Willimas, Route 1, Clay ton, whose ham brought $232; and Mrs, Mamie Hocutt, whose champion dozen eggs sold for S2OO. Registration for all hams and eggs took place between 9 a. m. and 11 a.m. April 28, No entries were accepted after these hours. The winning en tries will then be sold at public auction, at 2 p.m. Thursday, A pril 9. All hams will fall into one of two classes for both sugar <Bee HAM, EGG, 2) j In The Sweepstakes I SPOTUGHT THIS WEEK I 6.S.TUCKER & BROS. : »Four Complete Family Furniture Store For Generations’ 1 1 See SWEEPSTAKES Ads 5 Read Page 12 For Winners j In Sweepstakes Prims Mow Worth S6OO Merchandise worth some S6OO is now available at par ticipating businesses in The CAROLINIAN’S Revised Sweep stakes Promotion, since no lucky person has appeared at the offic'e of the newspaper with corresponding numbers to those having appeared in the news f Hy^^W'r^BgS v , / l’H9| lljglp / 1 THE BREATH OF LIFE-Boston: Boston policeman Randolph L&matina (R) of Dist. 11, applies mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to 3-mos. old June Floyd of Dorchester section, Boston April 8, Running at left, June's mother, Mrs. Karen Floyd. The child, who had choked on a bone, was rush ed to Boston City Hospital, and later released. (UPI). North Carolinian Nominated For Vice Presidency Os National PTA Mrs. Carlton G. Watkins, of (4741 Hedgemore Drive) Charlotte, presi dent of the North Carolina State PTA, has been nominated for the office of National PTA vice-president, Region 111. If elected at the 1970 conven [ tion of the National PTA. to be held in New Orleans, May 31 through June 3, Mrs, Watkins will represent Alabama, Flori da, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee as the vice-president from Region m. As North. Carolina state president, Mrs. Watkins has been a m-.nK of trie National iyV..’ b-• .d of Managers since iZUfo, Sire is a daughter of The Magazine and a member of Crews And Scepter To € iff Sat The Thirty-ninm Annual Con vention of ttie Crown and Scep ter Honor Society will be held at Saint Augustine’s College A pril 11, The theme will tie “The Crossroad; Where Do We Go From Here?” The general ses sion will begin at 9:45 a.m. in the Emery Health and Fine Arts Center. The keynote speaker for the session will be Mrs. Thelma C. Lennon, director, Division of Pupil Personnel Services, Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Workshops will be held dur ing the day with discussions on the following topics: (1) “With Regard to Contemporary Social Issues.” (2) “With Regard to Community Problems and In volvement." (3) With Regard to Business Industry and Other Related Fields.” (4) With Re gard to Post-High School Ed ucation.” The workshop leaders will be Miss Ruby L. Pinchback, Nor lina High School, Norlina; Charles Swindell, Enfield; Re verend Charles T. Bullock, pas tor First Baptist Church, Wel don; ur. rrank Toliver, con sultant to Migrant Programs, Department of Public Instruc tion, Raleigh; W’iley M. Davis, Department of Local Affairs, Raleigh. The State officers are Miss Edith Brown, president, Wel don; Howard Manning, vice (See JV*U. I*. £) paper since the beginnin g of the Promotion. Numbers this week are as follows; 0498, first prize, is worth $25 in trade at National Pure Food Market, E. Martin Street; 12602, second, worth sls at Stephan’s Appliance (Sen- SWEEFTAKKS, P. 2) the committees on National PTA publications and on state and national relationships. Before becoming a member of the National Board, Mrs. Watkins was active in state, council, and local organiza tions. She continues her inter est in local PTa affairs as a member of the Park Road Ele mentary School PTA and the Independence High School PTSA, Charlotte. Active in civil affairs on the local, state, and national levels, Mrs. Wat kins is a member of ti e United Forces for Education in North Carolina, the North, Caro lina Task Force for Education, ttie Governor’s Beautification Committee, and the North Caro lina Committee for the Ameri can Social Health Association. Mrs. Watkins is a member of the board of directors of ttie Mecklenburg Family Life Coun cil and the Charlotte-Mecklen burg Council on Alcoholism. She is ■ also a member of the Charlotte Chapter of the Na tional Conference of Christians and Jews, the North Carolina Marine Is Sentenced To 9 Yrs. CAMP LEJEUNE - Sylvester T. Hundley, Jr., an eighteen year-old Negro Marine was found guilty of involuntary man slaughter in the death of a 20- year-old white Marine during a race riot at Camp LeJeune last July, and sentenced to nine years at hard labot here Mon day. Ttie six member trial board (jury), after deliberating only .72 minutes, also found Hundley guilty of rioting and one count of assault. It acquitted him on BEATEN OVER MAN Miss Bobbie Jean Archibie, 1116 Hazelnut Drive, told Of ficers H. F. Gay and K. J, Johnson at 9:32 p.m. last Mon day, that she was at the Torch Drive In, 5 Hayti Alley, when Haywood Sanders, Jr., 26, 1033 Walnut Street, “A friend I used to go with,” came in and start ed talking in an ill manner to her and ttie man she was with. She said Sanders told her he would shoot her if he ever caught her with another man. She said he then pullea out a .22 calibre pistol and dropped it on the ta ble, Miss Archibie said she picked up the weapon and ran out of the Torch. He followed and caught her, she said, then he hit tier in the mouth with his hand. Sanders then reportedly - took the gun away from her and Miss Archibie called “the law,” She said he shot at her twice on March 27. Sanders was charged with assault or: a fe male. (See CRIME BEAT, I' ?) Council of the National Coun cil on Crime ana delinquency, and the Mecklenburg Auxiliary. Dr. and Mrs. Watkins are the parents of two sons and two daughters. Abernathy, K ilgore T o Speak At NCCU Mon. DURHAM - The Rev; Ralph D. Abernathy, president of the Southern Christianity Leader ship Conference, wall be the first of two speak ers sponsored by the North Carolina Central University campus ministry Monday, April 13. The successor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will speak at noon in B. N. Duke Auditorium. Ttie Rev. Dr. Thomas Kil gore, Jr., will speak at 8 p.m. that evening in B. N. Duke Audi torium. Kilgore is president of the predominantly white Ameri can Baptist Convention. Dr. J. Neal Hughley, NCCU’s campus minister, announced a list of topics he expects the two speakers to cover. They includ ed “Religion, Violence and the Blaclt Revolution,” "The Spirit of King and the Strategy of Non-Violence,” “Christianity and the Church Facing a New Day,” and “How Much Longer Segregated Education. . .Seg regated Housing?” Abernathy has served Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, and West Hunter Street Bap tist Church, Atlanta, as a minis ter. He was a close associate' of the late Dr. King and was co-leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and co-founder of the SCLC, In 1964, Abernathy conferred with Pope Paul In Rome and In the same year he traveled with Dr. King to witness King's ac ceptance of the Nobe! Peace Prize. In 1968 Abernathy tour ed tiie world with other United States leaders on a peace quest of his own. He holds the honorary LI. D. degree from Allen Univer sity and Long Island Univer sity, V'.~ .f r ' % ' 1 M . „ % " * ■ % : * ' *** a)' i A young standard bearer tor the Mai comb X United Libera tion Front waves his banner in the face of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy during.an anti-Carswell demonstration on the steps of the capitol. The demonstrator was asked to move his flag and a verbal encounter ensued. (UPI). Advame In Missions Is Stated Goal BY J. B. BARREN CHARLOTTE -Near ly two hundred minis ters, laymen and stu dents, representing the Black Presbyterians United gathered here in a three-days strategy conference, at the Bar ringer Motor Inn, A - 3-5, where plans were outlined to make urgent requests (some said demands) to the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPUSA) for upwards of a million dollars as an “Advance In Missions” to accelerate the work of the estimated sixty mil lion Negro members of the national UPUSA body. Assembled here were lead -1 ers of the two-year-old Black Presbyterian United(BPU)body coming from California, Arizona on the west to Chi- L cago, New York, Maryland through the Carolinas to Flort day and in between. Totally black and Negroes from some integrated congregations were represented: and a call went to contact hesitant “brothers and sisters” in sparsely in tegrated communions. The agenda called for a ‘Grand Total of $876,500.’' Same to establish educational {See MHUONS, P 2) Dr. Kilgore is, like the late Dr. King, an alumnus of More house College and New York City’s Union Theological Semi nary. He is ttie minister of the Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles. Ttie major denomination of which Kilgore is president split witt: the Southern Baptist Con (Sce 2 SPEAKERS. P. 2) Stokely Is Back In OS CHICAGO. 111.-Stokelv Car michael, once ttie defiant prince of black powei, has returned to America. Mr. Carmichael, now an exponent of Pan-Ameri canism, returned to this coun try as unceremoniously as he left two years ago, reports this week’s JET magazine. After explaining why he re turned to JET readers, Stokely immediately called for a re volution to rid the hlao.k com munity of drugs. (His 13-year old nephew lias been hospitaliz ed by heroin). Carmichael’s other main concern these days is moving black people everywhere to an international position. To ac complish this, he is calling for a powerful Pan-African Move ment which will deal with the common problems of black peo ple everywhere.
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