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RIOT CASE REMOVED TO FEDERAL COURT - Columbia, S. C.: Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr., (center with Afro hairdo) leaves federal court here Sept. 21 after recess of hearing for removal of his case to federal jurisdiction. Sellers is charged with riot and conspiracy to riot during the Orangeburg, S. C. incident at S. C, State there. (UPI). State NAACP Convenes Next W eek In Gastonia-Expectßecord Crowd BY J. B. HARREN ROCKY MOUNT - Tarheel ia’s NAACP officialdom-state and local-welcomes all free dom-loving people; those who belive in the lawful, dignified approach to achieving civil rights, to join the throng ex t national Guard, Jay tees ToAUN. C. Giris'School \r « M, n o V' /■» . KINSTON - North Caro lina’s National Guard and the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce have agreed to as sist in the fund raising cam paign to construct a chapel on the Dobbs School campus. Adjutant General Ferd L. Davis stated in a letter to Mrs. F. T. Newsome and Dr. R, D. Davis, campaign co chairwomen, that the National Guard has volunteered to do nate Sunday, Nov. 1, to solicit funds for the project. “The National Guard will cover every city and hamlet In the State in an effort to put the chapel fund campaign over the top”, Adjutant General Dav is said. North Carolina’s 1969 Gen eral Assembly appropriated $50,000 on a matching basis to build the chapel. Friends of Ju w. Veniie Correction must come ’ up with a like amount before construction can start. Ac cording to the latest reports, a littie more than $25,000 has been raised. “We feel that with the cli mate, creativity, and the pu blicity given by the North Caro lina Jaycees and other affiliat ed organizations interested in this program that Nov. 1 will be the day of readiness on the part of citizens of the State for participation in financial ly supporting establishment of chapels, not only on the Dobbs School for Girs campus, but ev^r^carnpu^lr^theStat^of CRIME BEAT ■ /■ Y; ' L;'. \ •- 11; h s , ; ■ '■ I’< >IH «■ -I ills ' TWO WOMEN FIGHT Miss Dorothy Marie Brooks, • . 28, K-9 Washington Terrace, told Officer William Meachum Parker, Jr. at 6:18 p.m. last Tuesday, that Miss Rosa Lee Locklear, 26, 910 E. Jones St., assaulted her inside the apart ment at 912 E. Jones. She re portedly used a broker, ash tray in the attack. Miss Brooks signed an assault and battery warrant and Miss Locklear was arrested. The complainant was struck on a hand with the ash tray and no Injuries were re ported. (See CfclMK BRAT, P. S) ARRESTED IN COP SHOOTING - Albuquerque, N. M, -■ An Albuquerque policeman escorts four suspects arrested in connection ' with the shooting of a city policeman. The three are 0 to r) John Wesley Paul, Robert L. Silver and Leandear Vernon. The four were charged with attempted murder and attempted armed robbery of ah. Albuquerque, lounge, Elrnas Thompson, not shown, was also Jailed. (UPI). ■m pected to attend the 27th annual NAACP Convention in Gastonia October 8-10, at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. President and national board member Kelly M. A1 exa nd er, Sr., is pulling out all the stops to make this an epoch-making Juvenile Correctional institu tions,” Dr. Davis said. Students at Dobbs School pre sently have no chapel and all religious activities are con ducted in make-shift class rooms. The institution’s gym nasium is used for Sunday morning services. Other organizations involved in the campaign include the Fed erated Women’s Club, the Unit ed Church Women, the Jewish Women, the Catholic Church, State Baptist Convention and many, many others. (Sm xr schooi,. p. Lender Os Students To Raleigh On Saturday night, October 10 at 8 p.m. the Raleigh Com munity will have a rare treat in store when Miss Eva Jef ferson, the black woman stu dent leader of the 29,000 stu dent body of Northwestern Uni versity speaks at the Region 111 dinner meeting of the Na tional Council of Negro Wo men. Miss Jefferson is a dynamic speaker and a wonderful lea der who can bridge the age gap. We hope that many peo ple, old and young, will attend the banquet at the Sir Walter Hotel. Tickets may be obtain ed from any NCNW member or affiliate. Other features of the confer ence to which the public is in vited are as follows: The af filiates will present a program at 8 p.m. Friday night follow ed by a reception, Mrs, Nora Lockhart is chairman of the steering committee of the af filiates; publicity, Mrs. Betty Ingram; reception, Mrs. Mil dred Chavis and Mrs. Helen Starks. The theme of the conference is "The Black Community: A rena for Change - Strategies for the Seventies.” W'orkshops on Consumer Education, Drug Abuse and WICS will be held from 9:30-12 noon and dis cussions on housing, hunger, drug abuse and day care from 1:30-4 p.m. convention in this period of greatest unrest, not alone a mong Negroes, but throughout the supposedly civilized world, and among peoples of all races and stations of life. The NAACP Youth and College Chapters, under the leadership of Kelly Alexander, Jr., will play im portant roles of their own in the convention when they seek to open new frontiers for further advancement, usually, in an or derly and dignified manner, in keeping with NAACP's nation al program. Leading white writers, of the national press and other media, are constantly extolling the vir tues of the NAACP’s well-di rected legalistic approach to gaining civil rights and full equality of all citizens with a minimum of violence. The Rev. J. E, Coleman and the Gastonia NAACP members are making every effort to pro vide superb entertainment for the delegation, which will in clude national officers. Thursday will feature the Church Work and Ministers’ Conference with the Rev. J. T, McMillan of Winston - Salem presiding. Education, ernploy ment and political action are leading topics to be explored. Featured speaker for the Fri day night Mass Meeting will be Clarence Mitchell, Jr., NAA CP’s congressional ‘watchdog,’ dubbed the ‘‘lolst senator, ” due to his immense knowledge of congressional actions and his rapport with congressmen, sen ators and other influential lea ders around Capitol Hill, D. C. Negroes (or Blacks) are re minded that for many counties of the State, October sth is the last day to register to vote in the November 3rd elections. Minority-group citizens should strain an ear to get all per sons possible to register un der the hard-fought-for no-lit - eracy-test regulation to make it prove of value to Negroes. If Blacks do not rush to meet the October 5 deadline or find the date effective in your county, they will have only themselves to blame for failing to vote in this most crucial year. Ev erywhere, Negroes are getting the world that the use of the ballot bdx is the most effective weapon they have to use to ob tain their freedom. Credit Union Seeks Over 1 ,000 Members The North Carolina Educa tors Credit Union, Inc., would like very much to enroll one thousand or more educators in a state-wide Share Saving Con test for September, October, November and December 1970, Persons who will personally enroll guaranteeing to pay at least S4O on or before Decem ber 30, 1970, In addition these persons will be expected to con tact five or more educators thus influencing them to enroll in the contest. Simply express your willing ness to enroll on a piece of paper, giving complete name and address and your six forms will be immediately forwarded, one for yourself and one each for five friends. Send enroll ment request to W. R. Collins, 125 E. Hargett Street, Raleigh, N. C. 27601. Information on prizes will be included with the forms for warded to you after you enroll. Your immediate action on this crucial matter will be anxious ly awaited. in North Carolina Masons’Political Pot ’Boiling’ Xr* jA. jA, ' 4* ty Black Church Key To Union ? THE CAROLINIAN North Carolina’s Leading Weekly , VOL. 29, NO. 48 ■- '■ ■■■"- —■ * ■ i- School Teacher Is -vt-iS-iX-fJ Policemanlslndicted Cop Faces 2nd Degree MurT ■* CARTHAGE - A 21- year-old local black po lice officer, who bad been on the job just five weeks, was indicted by a grand jury on a second degree murder charge he re Tuesday in the shooting death of white owner of a drive in restaurant. The of ficer is John L. Cham bers, the first Negro patrolman on the local force. The shooting oc curred on September 6. The indictment was ordered by an interracial jury, after it had finished hearing testimony from witnesses, which start ed Monday. The victim was Gerald Rosser, 29. Chambers remains free on a $5,000 bond. District solicitor M. G. Boyette said although Chambers’ trial is set for the November term of Moore Coun ty Superior Court, it might be delayed. According to witnesses at a coroner’s hearing, Chambers shot Rosser when the pair be came involved .in a struggle because Rosser objected to the policeman ordering a group of allegedly rowdy white teenagers to leave the drive-in. During the argument, they said, Rosser ordered Chambers to leave his property. At this time, the officer is said to have pulled out his nightstick and Rosser grabl>ed it. Coroner W. K. Carpenter said the inquest jury was deadlock ed with three members in fa vor of ruling justifiable homi cide. two wanting to charge Chambers with manslaughter and one with second degree murder. Chambers said Boyette ad vised him to order Chambers held so the grand jury could decide the disposition of the case. (See POLICEMAN, V. 2) STUDENTS BOYCOTT N. C. SCHOOL - Charlotte: Students at South Rowan County High School, (30 miles north of Charlotte) boycotted school Monday once again. Tensions swelled at the school when about 100 blacks marched down a street where several w’hite parents and students were gathered. North Kannapolis Chief of Police Capt, J. B. Goodman asks some of the students to move back. (UPI). RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1970 JOHN L. CHAMBERS Churches End Talks On Uii ion WASHINGTON, D. C. - Church leaders of the nine de nominations considering union, by bringing forth a new church, Church Uniting, from New York, Pennsylvainis, Maryland, Vir ginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, meeting at Wesley Theological Seminary, came to grips with the one big question: race, in its closing sessions Tuesday. The meeting was called to ascertain from the hierarchy to how best to get the “Plan Os Union’’ to the local parish, in order that the local pastor and his congregation could properly review the document, which was released at a meet ing held in St. Louis, Mo., March 9-13. The plan was the result of years of study and discus sion and was Intended to cover every phase of religious life, as it relates to the doctrine of the nine denominations. The blacks have been in on all the planning, with represen tation from the AME.theAMEZ and the CME Churches. The Washington meeting was con vened by. Dr. J. H. Satter whlte of the AME Zion Church and a member of the Executive Committee. There were two black bishops in attendance, H. D, Bunton. CME and S. G. 'See B1 \Cli CHIKCH. P 2) Returning From PTA Meeting OXFORD - The last * chapter in one of the most freakish accidents that ever occurred in this section was writ ten Sunday, when fu neral services were held for Mrs. Mattie M. Parker Bu rton, who was crushed by her own car, in the shades of the dark, on Sept. 24, at the First Baptist Church, at 3:30 p.m. The incident closed the ca < See TEACHER IS, P 2) Say Sins Used Ii Licensing NEW YORK, N. Y.-Examina tions for public school super visory personnel in New York City discriminate against quali fied Blacks and Puerto Ricans, according to a complaint filed today in U. S. District Court for the southern District of New York. Representing the plaintiffs in a class action in behalf .of all Black and Puerto Rican pedagogic personnel in the sys tem, attorneys of the NA-VCP Legal Defense and Edm an al Fund, Inc. (LDF) charge that the licensing tests of the Board of Examiners result in racial lot) classification and are il legal. The LDF complaint asserts that the tests violate the 14th Amendment by discriminating in tire following manner against Black and Puerto Rican candi dates: 1. written tests are cul turally biased. 2. oral tests have frequently eliminated (See BIAS IN. P. 2) SINGLE COPY 15cj MRS. MAT TIE P. BURTON Catholic Bishops Campaign WASHINGTON - The United States Catholic Conference, the national-level e -tion agency of the Catholic v,. irch in the U nited States, has mounted a Campaign for Human Develop ment. The purpose is to help halt the self-defeating cycle of de pendency by funding self-help programs to help poor people help themselves. The campaign concept is a direct response to a July 1 letter of Pope Paul VI which called on all Chris tians to “stand in the first ranks of those who dare by every means at their disposal to break the hellish circle of poverty.” The genesis of the Campaign is the preamble of a November 1969 resolution of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops which called for “constant re evaluation of our In vest merits of human energy and financial re sources as required by the dif ficulty problems of poverty,’* While the bishops in that dec laration took note of the serv ice Catholic people in parishes and dioceses of the nation in alleviating the plight of the poor, they called for “a creation of a new source of financial cap ital that can be allocated for specific projects aimed at e liminating the very causes of poverty.” Implementing the November resolution, the National Con (Sce CITHOriC, p. 2) I In The Sweepstakes i! SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK ; Sounds of Quality, Priced To Sell LSee SWEEPSTAKES Ads i : Read Page 10 for Winners Sweepstakes Moving Merchandise is still piling up at the businesses of mer chants who are participating in The CAROLINIAN’S Revised Sweepstakes Promotion. Numbers valid this week are as follows; Number 08639, first prize, is worth $25 in mer chandise at Carter’s Furniture Company, 19 E. Martin Street. Will Open City Meet Octobers BROWN WILL BE OPPOSED BY M. FITCH For the first time since Clark S. Brown, Winston-Salem under taker was elected to head the Grand Lodge of Prince Hall Masons, in 1959, he will have com petition for the top post, when the Grand Lodge convenes here next week. He is being op posed by the number 2 man, Milton Fitch, Wil son, retired postal em ployee and Grand Seni or Warden. Mr. Fitch has held the post for five years. Persons close to the politics of the Order say that Fitch has waged a strenuous cam paign. He is reported as hav ing the endorsement of his lodge, Mt. Herman, Wilson, and is believed to have strong sup port in the eastern part of tire state. He has built a reputa tion as a representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He has based his campaign on proposed reforms for the Grand Lodge, which, he says, will make the fraternal body far more viable. Brown is running on his re cord, according to information received from reliable sources. One of his main planks has been his extensive reclamation pro gram. North Carolina is one of the jurisdictions in which there are no living Past Grand Mas ters. Some persons, eyeing the political situations, have rea son to believe that should the rum re Increase In Employment Is Landed NEW YORK - The increasing employment of blacks and oth er minorities in the mass media is important because “they bring to the press a sensitivi ty to certain kinds of prob lems that, with the best will in the world, a white report er can’t always deliver,” a leading educator in the journa lism field declared Monday in a radio interview. Elle Abel, Dean of the Co lumbia University Graduate School of Journalism, speak ing on the WNYC “New York (Sec EMPLOYMENT, P. 2) Number 08809, second will bring its bearer the sum of sls in trade at Roses, Camer on Village; and number 08846, third, is worth $lO in business at Smith Studio, 14 East Har gett Street. The Sweepstakes Spotlight this week is on Maus Piano (See SWEEPSTAKES, P. 2) t
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