STUDENTS PROTEST KILLINGS AND WAR-The above scenes depict the violence which broke out over American involvement in the Cambodian war and the killing of four Kent State University students Monday by Ohio National Guardsmen. The top photo was taken in New York Tuesday of a group of angry demonstrators protesting the invasion. This group converges on the United Na tions Building after walking dowm 42nd Street. Mounted policemen (at right), dispersed the crowd. L Austin, Texas (bottom a student wearing a motorcycle helmet, hurls a tear gas can ister back at police during a confrontation on the lawn of the State Capitol Tuesday. Demonstra te; s attempted to break through police lines to get to the downtown area. (UPI). Mukissick,Governor€onterHere On Funds For Warren's Soul City J !>K. JAMES E. CHEEK Dr. Chests Inaugural Challenging Editor's Note: Dr. James E. Cheek, 37-year-old lath presi dent of Howard University, Washington, D. C., delivered a resounding inaugural address on Saturday, April 25. He came to Howard from his alma mater, Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. Cheek earned his divinity de gree at Col gat e-Rochester School of Divinity, and his Ph. D. degree at Drew University. His address follows In its en tirety: Our nation just seven years awa> t orn the two hundredth an nlversarj oi its revolution for freedom and human equality, is required to fulfill for our genera tion and in our time the promise it made to the world almost two centuries ago. Having fought on foreign shores several wars to de fend, preserve and protect Us be liefs. our nation is now required to wage a harder struggle within its borders to make those beliefs a reality for ail of its citizens. What we do as a nation in the next six years will be watched around the world by friend and foe alike to fee whether this re public is willing and able to honor in practice what it proclaims in principle. At no oilrer time in American A history ha- the danger to the American society been so grert. Today, the real danger to the American ideal does not lie among the people on foreign shores; it lies within our own midst and is represented by those who seek to preserve a system that is oppies sive by those who attempt to de fend a society that is fragmented and by those who try to preserve an ideology that denies human liberty. In the initial years of this new decade the critical struggle of the nation will be at home and not abroad, and the effectiveness of our foreign poucy win be deter mined by the cnaracter 1 and sub stance of our domestic p.actices. flow a nation allocates its re sources and to what issues it (See OK. CHEEK. P 2) The Coastal Plains Regional Commission in North Carolina may be asked to lend a hand in helping to develop Soul City in Warren County, it was brought out Mon day following a meeting held in Governor Bob Scott’s office. G. Bryant Deputy Os Century G. W. Bryant, Deputy of the twelfth district of the North Carolina Prince Hall Masons, Selma, who in 1961, at the 91st Annual Communication, held in Raleigh, was hailed, as the “De puty of the Ages,” will again be presented as the “Deputy of the Century,” at the Centennial Communication, which will be held in Raleigh, October 5-7. A ceremony honoring Bry ant will be held Friday night, May 22, at Raleigh's First Baptist Church, where a cita tion will be presented and testi monies made recognizing him for a service of merit during his forty three years of serv ices as a deputy. Mr. Bryant was appointed de puty by the late Dr. L. B. Capehart, Grand Master in 1967, when the Grand Lodge was held here in Raleigh. At the time of his Appointment, there were only five lodges in his district and approximately 175 mem bei s. Today there are 19 lodge# and more than 2000 member#. The twelfth district is re garded by Grand Master Clark S. Brown as one of the mo sk progressive district in the Grand Lodge. Likewise, Mr. (See BRYANT IS, P. 2) Decision On Riley Hill School Looms RILEY HILL-The final de cision on what to do with the all-black Riley Kill School U expected to be made sometimes this week by the Wake County Board of Education. The controversy about grade assignments for that school has brewed since April 6 when the school board voted to con vert the school to an integrat ed K-3 school drawing students from parts of Rolesvllle, Knightdale, Wendell and Zebu lon. The following week white par - ents groups protested the (See RILEY HILL. P. 2) With Scott for more than one hour were civil rights lead er Floyd Bixler McKisslck, originator of the Soul City plan, and two of his associates. Al so present was Dr. Leigh Ham mond, N. C. State Director of the Coastal Plains Commission. Accosted by newsmen fol lowing the session in the gov ernor’s office, Dr. Hammond acknowledged that, possible fi nancial assistance for Soul Ci ty from the Regional Commis sion was discussed. He also said “A lot of other things were talked about.” “We are looking at all of the alternatives,” Hammond related. When asked whether he was seeking help from the Com mission, Attorney McKisslck stated with a chuckle, “W'e need help from anybody we can get it from.’ 1 Just last week, a federal of ficial said that the government will finance the Soul City proj ect, “but it is going to take some time to make final plans.” Candidate Ii Nashwilk Sets Runoff BY J. B. BARREN NASHVILLE-For the first time in many, many years a Negro candidate has come close enough to being elected to pub es®* CAWBSOATE, 8h S) SET UP DEFENSE UN CAMBODIA-Mem at, Cambodia: In Jovial spirits, members of the Ninth Infantry pass 81mm molar shells, still In their cases, down the line as they set up defensive positions around their advance camp in the Fish hook sector of Cambodia May 4, U„ S. and South Vietnamese troops drove three more spearheads into Cambodia May 6, bringing to 50,000 the number of allied soliders now com mitted to President Nixon’s cross-border offensive against guerrilla bivouacs. fUPTI him FBl's "Ten Most Wanted" list Rap Brown Declared Outlaw » /X \ \ * '"N *"\ . • \ 1 « s l *« 1 A A* ■ A * r - \ ( ily Council Urged To .Reduce Hans for Southside - — ■■■■ - —..——— •' ••• •• • ■•''—• •• —- VOL. 29. NO. 33 Man Faces Murder Rap After I: I S A m iiffc hp/i f A.* v« v |. ? ,i» uii^ijiicu In Effort By State s Mothers NA ACP Raises sl7Gs Suspect Is Cut Down By Bullets CHARLOTTE - Po lice Surgeant Lev, M ward Robinson, 44, was slain from ambush about eight miles north of the city limits here Mon day night. Listed in critical condition Tues day after being charged with murder in the of ficer’s death is Joseph Francis Mtmdy', 54, who (See JVC COP, P. 2) Suicides Ofßlacks On Rise CHICAGO, 111.-Black males, ages 20 to 35, commit suicide twice as frequently as whites of the same age. This fact was reported in a study of black suicidal patients In New York by Dr. Herbert Hendin, psy chiatrist and author of the book, “Black Suicide.” The May issue of EBONY magazine has revealed some alarming statistics and causa tive factors on the rising black suicide rate in this country. Until recently, suicide had been popularly considered a problem, mainly of the white mass culture. Reports of ran dom suicides by blacks were so small that they scarcely war ranted attention by the news papers and other media. But last year, New York psychia (»»t suicide. v. m North Carolina s Leading Weekly. PALEIGH, N. C‘„ SATURDAY, MAY 9. 19"0 NIIWM MMMM ...» Ml , .... bet of the Black Panthers walks out of a cloud of gas pleading for time to cool the situation. Police and the National Guard used gas to stop a protest march in the downtown area of New Haven. (UPI). Fifty Mothers Take Part in NAACP Meet BY J. B. HARREN Approximately one-thousand loyal NAACP adults and youths representing NAACP branches and youth and college chapters from Asheville In the mount lans to the swamps of Tyrrell Coun ty and the outer banks region took chances with threatening weather to bring the fifty (50) Mothers who had garneredsl7,- NCNWCaIIs For Black Ladies Day WASHINGTON, D. C.-“ Black mothers cannot afford the luxury of accepting idly the customary Idolization of Moth er’s Day (May 10) when the un certainty of their children’s future calls for united social action,” according to the presi dent of the National Council of Negro Women. This is the realistic philoso phy of the times that prompts the National Council of Negro Women to call for the observ ance of the annual day of ma ternal devotion as “Black Wo man’s Day”, and the week fol lowing as a period commemo ’ratlng the life of the late Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the Council’s founder who died May 18, 1955. Miss Dorothv I. Height, Na (See NCNW CALLS. P. 2) 600 'all reports not in) for the NAACP Freedom Fund and to hear NAACP official Gloster B. Current of New York, here Sunday at the Memorial audi torium. Kelly Miller Alexander, Sr., president of NAACP Tarheelia, presided over the program with the able assistance of Charles A. McLean, field secretary; and Youth and College division prexy W. Ronald Cunningham of Charlotte. Music was by the youthful Fellowship Choir of Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Gastonia, which city will be host to the N. C. NA >(See NAACP RAISES, g. 2) H 1 111 \ ■ CRIME h « V - : • • -y, ■ ‘ •••*„ .-• . i • ;t■ ■: • beaten over boyfriend Miss Phyllis Ann Winston, 23, 428 Solar Drive, told Of ficer R. E. Brown at 12:23 p. m. Tuesday, that she had an argument with another woman over a ‘former boyfriend of hers. She said she was walk ing in the 1100 block of Walnut Street when “another girl jump ed on me.” She said she didn't know this girl’s name, but try to find out and charge her with assault. She suffered teeth marks and bruises on ihe left ■* RW ’ (S*e CRIMK BEAT. P. S) SINGLE COPY 15c Less Units Asked in Hew Plan The City Council heard a proposal Tues day by the Raleigh Re development Commis sion to reduce the South side Urban Rene wa 1 Project by some 20 acres. If approved by the Council, the num ber of dwelling units to be rebuilt in the pre dominantly black slum (See SOUTHSIDE P. 2) “Work For Society-” Mayor Lee “Black Power,’’ is not separation, but the ability to survive system and effect change; not isolation, but work ing with decent people for de cent society; not domination, but development of a partner ship; riot destruction, but a building up to raise blacks out of depression; not riots and violence, but understanding and acceptance; not enslavement, but freeing all men to chose own bondage. This is what Howard N. Lee, mayor of Chapel Hill told Saint Augustine’s College stu dents on the fourteenth annual Honors Convocation, April 28, as tie spoke from the subject, “Black Power-The Struggle to Achieve.” He said that Black Power Is putting things together In such away that black people are able to influence the direction of system to meet needs of blacks squarely and fairly; and as a change agent to build a sys tem of true democracy. “We ought to build a base of power, but be concerned about people on the basis of content of character rather than color (See MAYOR LEE, P. 2> In The Sweepstakes SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK I BOSS! JEWESS H Where You Find Distinctive. Jewelry With Economy § I s H. RAP BROWN Executive Says War Is Obscene NEW YORK, N. Y.-Founda tion executive and former Fed eral official Roger Wilkins declared that the nation must end ttie “obscene’’ Viet nam War and halt the erosion of all citizens* freedoms, if it is to deal realistically with racism. Wilkins, former directoi of the U. S. Community Relations Service, and now social affairs program director of the Ford Foundation, said the nation’s “crisis of belief is so severe” that to talk about racism be yond the current crisis is “unrealist ic.’ He addressed a two-day conference on combating rac ism sponsored by the Academy of Religion and Mental Health and the Metropolitan Applied Research Center, Inc. Some 300 professionals In religion, psychology, psychiatry, and education are attending the ses sions at the Hotel Roosevelt. The Rev. Timothy S. Healy, S. J., vice chancellor for aca demic affairs of the City Uni versity of New York, told the conference that “the racial dilemma for higher education is just beginning.’’ He called the City University’s open ad missions policy the most mas sive compensatory education job In the history of Western education. Father Healy emphasized that open admissions although a “temporary and costly expedi ent*’ can produce results. He noted that the policy will pro vide an influx of black and Puerto Rican teachers and counsellors who can communl (See WAR IS. P 2) S. Salisbury Street; 0780, sec ond, worth sls in trade at Pig. gly Food Store, New Bern Ave nue; and 12607, third at Pig at $lO in merchandise at Briggs’ (See SWEEPSTAKES, P. *)