Washington's Clarence Mitchell Speaks is
NAACP Mobilizes Statewide Drive For Members
MISS ANGELA DAVIS, FRIEND NABBED IN MOTEL-New York: Black Revolutionary, Miss
Angela Davis, third from left, is handcuffed between two FBI agents on Tuesday, October 13, as
she leaves FBI headquarters here for an undisclosed destination. Miss Davis had been sought
for murder and kidnaping in the California courtroom shootout that killed four persons, includ
ing the presiding judge. Shown in inset Is Rudolph PoLndexter, Jr., who was arrested along with
Miss Davis. He has been charged with harboring her from police. Miss Davis is the second
woman ever to be on the FBl’s most wanted list. (UPI),
Search For 50,000 New Members
Puts Spotligh t On NAACP Youth
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BY STAFF WRITER
GASTONIA - "Lest we for
get Lest we forget....that the
NAACP is the lever by which
|t' e Negro has come thus far
on his way to full citizenship,
and lest we forget that it is
, still the one agency that can
' move America into a fuller
life," was the essence of what
Clarence Mitchell, the Senator
from Washington, B, C. told the
27th annual session of the North
Carolina State Conference of
Branches, NAACP, in his key
note address Friday night.
The well-known lobbyist took
pot shots at President Nixon and
styled him as the greatest of the
unreconstructed Romans and
warned that only cont inuou s
prodding, on the part of the
NAACP, would cause him to
change his course. He was con
scious of some of the benefits
that had come to the Negro via
the Nixon Administration, but he
was also caustic about many
that had been withheld, includ
ing a straight-forward ap
proach to full integration. He
took a non-partisan view of the
situation and brought his wrath
down on recalcitrant Demo
crats as well as foot-dragging
Republicans.
The three-day session was
>held at Mt. Calvary Baptist
Church, Rev. James E. Cole
man, pastor. He is also the
president of the Gaston County
NAACP Branch.
Much emphasis was placed
on youth participation. The
youth w ere noticeably conscious
of the theme of the convention
" The Status of Black Americans
in a New Era of Social change.”
This was brought into focus by
James Brown, Jr., national di-
Ex-Ligon
Principal
In Top Job
COLUMBUS, Ohio-The high
est administrative post ever
held by a Negro at Ohio State
f University was filled with the
appointment of Dr. William J.
holloway as Vice Provost for
Coordination of Minority Af
fairs. He will also be Profes
sor of Education at the Univer
sity. Dr. Holloway is a former
principal of the J. W, Ligon
High School in Raleigh, N. C.
Dr. Holloway is Chief of the
Operations Review Branch of
the Division of Equal Educa
tional Opportunities in the U.
S. Office of Education and su
pervises the evaluation of equal
educational opportunities pro
grams in thirty six states.
The appointment to this high
level newly created post was
made by Ohio State University
President Novice G, Fawcett
and approved by the Board of
Trustees at its October meet
ing. It becomes effective Octo
ber 15, 1970,
Prior to coming to the U, S.
Office of Education, Dr. Hollo
way was Superintendent of Vir
ginia State School at Hampton,
Virginia; Director of the Fresh
sswan Program and College
(Counselor at North Carolina
sp Central University in Durham,
North Carolina; Principal of J.
W. Ligon Junior-Senior High
School In Raleigh; and Deair of
Men and Director of Student
Personnel Services at Savannah
State College in Savannah, Ga.
Among the awards he has re
ceived are; The National Free
doms Foundations Honor Medal,
The Southern Regional Press
(See J. HOLLOWAY. P. 2)
rector, NAACP Youth and Col
lege Division, and Leon Love,
Southeast Regional Youth Di
rector. They were conscious of
the fact that the youth had just
arrived on the scene and were
not in possession of the know
how, the experience and the un
derstanding that the adults had.
The speakers were also con
scious of the fact that a job
of vast magnitude was ahead and
even though they were ready,
willing and courageous enough
to get it done, they needed to
be told by the adults what to
do and when to do it.
Every speaker from the state
president, Kelly M. Alexander,
down to the last speaker on
Saturday, sounded the alarm
thit the battle has not been won,
nor the victory achieved. They
admonished the delegates to go
back to their respective branch
es and regird themselves 'to
build a more viable community
by putting more stress on pol
itics and education. They stres
sed the fact that the action is in
politics. Mr, Alexander warned
that is not enough to reg
ister and vote, but it is highly
necessary to elect, blacks to
office so that the hopes, aims
and desires of black people
could be brought into proper so-
Parents
Boycott
School
The Black Brothers and Sis
ters of the Nutbush Communi
ty, Vance County, said unequi
vocally "NO!" to the Vance
County Board of Education’s
decision to send only Black stu
dents back to the previously
closed Nutbush school last
week.
After the Vance County Board
rejected the parents’ petition,
Nathan S. Burwell, chairman
of the Nutbush Community Ac
tion group, immediately an
nounced that the parents of the
Nutbush Community had voted
not to send their children to
the Nutbush School.
Black parents last week
charged the county Board of Ed
ucation with resegregating 70
Black elementary students by
transferring them from an ih
(See BOYCOTT, P. 2)
American
Population
Vulnerable’
NEW YORK, N. Y.-The A
merican population is "highly
vulnerable to political extrem
ism; the American political
system Is less vulnerable but
scarcely fall-safe,” warns a
prize-winning analysis of A
merican right wing extremism
from 1790 through 1970.
The comprehensive analysis,
published this week as a book,
“The Politics of Unreason”
by Seymour Lipset and Earl
Raab, was awarded the first
SIO,OOO Gunnar Myrdal Prize
established for books of dis
tinction in the study of human
behavior. It was published as
the fifth book in the “Patterns
of American Prejudice” series
produced under a grant from
the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith to the Univer
sity of California Survey Re
search Center.
Lipset and Raab declare that
(See POPULATION, P. 2)
(See MOBILIZES, P. 2)
A 1
jfniL •
STATE’S FIRST BLACK FE
MALE LEGISLATOR - Miami,
Fla.; Gwen Cherry, a teacher,
author, attorney and scholar,
who became the first black wo
man elected to the Florida Leg
islature, says she's not atrial
blazer, "just an over -a
chiever." <q guess the time
was right. The people of Dade
County are fair and they want
ed to see democracy inaction,"
Mrs. Cherry said after defeat
ing a Whiteman, Harvey Ruvin
in ttie Sept. 20 runoff election
to win the 96th district house
seat. (UPI).
Burger Is
Ranked Low
By The 4JC
NEW YORK-In his first term
on the U. S. Supreme Court,
Chief Justice Warren Burger
ranked lowest amohg the jus
tices in favoring individuals
asserting their civil rights and
civil liberties, according to an
(See BURGER IS, P. 2)
BATTLE OUTSIDE U, N, BUILDING-New York; Security guards grapple with Cubans after
they climbed over an iron fence at the United Nations Oct, 12. More than 400 Cubans gathered
across the street from the U. N. to protest, any possible visit by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Led
by a sound truck, they chanted “Cuba, Si, Castro, No.” and “Russians out of Cub.” (UPI).
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Principal’s Son Faces Break-In Rap
At. Batey, Jr,
Caught By
Two Students
Two North Carolina
State University stu
ents gave chase and
caught a 16-vear-old lo
cal youth early Sunday
morning after the vouth
allegedly broke into
Bagwell Dormitory on
the N. C. campus.
Clyde N. Clapp, 111 of 302
Bagwell Dormitory and Gleen
S. Hollis, Jr. of 331 Bagwell,
caught Marion Grant Batey, Jr.
while trying to climb a hill near
the railroad tracks after the
two students were awakened by
the attempted break-in. Batey’s
father is the principal of the
East C. rner Junior High School.
It was reported that the youth
broke a window to the recrea
tion room where the two stu
dents were sleeping because
several break-ins have been re
ported recently. When Batey
saw the students coming after
him, he ran and tried to get
or. a motorcycle which, was
parked some distance from the
dormitory with its motor run
ning.
Unable to get away, Batey be
gan running again, but he was
finally stopped by Clapp and
Hollis while trying to climb the
hill. Batey was charged with
breaking and entering.
The CAROLINIAN contacted
PRINCIPAL’S. P 2>
Nat’l PTA
Opposes
New Plan
CHICAGO, 111.-The world's
largest volunteer citizen action
group, the National PTA, has
officially taken a position a
gainst an education voucher
system recently proposed by the
Office of Economic Opportuni
ty.
‘ 'The vigorous effort to mount
an education voucher system is
disquieting more and more peo
ple concerned with the welfare
of the public school," said Mrs.
Leon S. Price, president of the
multi-million member National
PTA at a meeting of the organi
zation’s Board of Managers in
Scottsdale, Arizona.
The present plan Is to launch
an experimental program al
lowing parents to use a voucher
system in determining the
schools their children will at
tend. The plan, initially to be
tried in one city only, would
give a voucher directly to par
ents who would then choose a
school for their children.
The National PTA strongly
believes that certain import
ant considerations have been
overlooked under the voucher
system plan. They include such
matters as: what happens to
teachers in a public school when
the number of children drops
severly but the teachers still
have contracts running; how will
parents make an intelligent
choice among schools; how can
parochial schools participate
in the program without violating
(See NATL. PTA. P. 2)
THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. 29, NO. 50
Boy 1 4, Toils Police His Parents
Maim Own
By Howard Johnson Motor Lodge
Civic Leader Shunned
"Fingers”
Pair At
Hospital
A four-year-old Ra
leigh boy told policeman
Robert W. E. Williams
a horror story from his
hospital bed in Wake
morial Hospital be
fore a couple of other
witnesses last Satur
day that the injuries he
had substained were ad
mistered by his parents,
Lawrence and Betsy
Bryant.
The hoy, Johnny Bryant, 1016
Hightower Street (located in the
southeast section of the city),
suffered blister redness forma
(See MAIM SON, P. 2)
Shrine
Trouble
Brewing?
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
FAYETTEVILLE - Thework
shop planned to be held here
over the coming weekend, by the
Desert of North CarolinaShrin
ers, could close a gap that has
been widening for about three
years - or it could cause it to
widen,
Deputy Thurman J, Smith sent
out a call to the heads of the
14 temples, located In the De
sert. The matter of where the
1971 Gala Day Ceremonials
would be held has been tossed
back and forth for sometime.
Ouda Temple, Maxton was chos
en as the site at a Desert
meeting, held three years ago.
The Shrlners, in that area be
(See SHRINE CAMP. P. 21
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17,970
ACCUSED SERGEANT', OTHERS LEIAVE COURTROOM-
Ft. Hood, Texas: Staff Sgt. David Mitchell (top, left), ac
companied by his wife, Rosa (bottom right), mother, Mrs.
Isiah Mitchell (lower left), and defense attorneys Capt. Jaipes
Bowish (top) and Ossie B. Brown (top right), leave the court
room here after the morning session. October 13. Mitchell
is being court martialed, the first American soldier to lie
tried in connection with the alleged 1968 My Lai massacre.
(UPI).
’Develop [commie Base
For Bkcks’-J. Fleming
“If something is done to de
velop economic opportunities
for the black city dweller
whether on a separate or inte
grated basis, and I lean at least,
toward a temporary separa
tism, the future of the black
man in the cities can become
one of usefulness."
These were the words the
Rev. John W. Fleming, pro
fessor of Afro-American Stud
ies at Shaw University, used to
conclude his lecture to nearly
300 persons at N. C. State U-
Drive !n
Oxford Is
A Success
OXFORD-The Committee for .
Black Progress announced this ]
Nweek that its boycott of the Ox- <
ford downtown stbres will con
tinue Indefinitely because no |
progress* has been noted from
the downtown merchants. j
B«n' Chavis, president of the ,i
organization, told The CARO
LINIAN this week that, "right ,
now the boycott is about 90%
effective. The black citizens of !
Granville County are going to i
Durham and Vance counties to j
do their shopping." i
This committee has es
tablished a sub-committee
known as the Economic De
veloprnent Committee whose
purpose to try to establish some
black businesses in Oxford in
the near future. Progress has
been reported on the long range
plan of setting these stores up
in Granville County.
“As of now, it is left up to
(See OXFORD, P, 2)
niversity Monday. Rev. Fleming
replaced Dr, King V. Cheek as
guest lecturer for a course in
contemporary issues and spoke
on the subject “The Future Os
the Black Man in the City.”
Rev. Fleming told the. au
dience that he wa.s not trying
to be a fortune-teller or a
crystal bail reader In predic
ting the future; that is reading
the signs of the time to gain
insights that will lead to fore
sight.
Citing suggestions that have
been made as to ways of gett
ing out of the ghettoes, Rev.
Fleming mentioned several
names and organizations. A
mong them were Charles Ken
yatta, former head of the A
merican Mau Maus, Constance
Baker Motley, former Bur
«Sfe REV. FLEMING, P. 2)
In The Sweepstakes
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK ;
JOHNSON-UMBE COMPANY
| Known for Quality, Dependability and Service
See .SWEEPSTAKES Ads I 1
i Read Page 12 for Winners j
Sweepstakes Mowing
As merchandise continues to
grow at locations of the par
ticipating businesses in The
CAROLINIAN’S Revised Sweep
stakes Program, we again list
the numbers which may bring
some lucky persons a total of
$25 each in merchandise at the
SINGLE COPY 15cj
A. limes
Ordered
To Leave
GASTONIA - A har
rowing story of how he
way virtually driven
from a Howard John
son Motor Lodge, lo
cated in Aberdeen in
the early hours of Sat
urday, Oct. 10, by an
irate white woman at
tendant, was reported to
the N. C. State Confer
ence of Branches, NA
ACP, by Alexander
Barnes, president, Dur
ham Branch.
Barnes alleges that he had
a very tight schedule on Friday,
the 9th, having left Durham ear
ly that morning to attend the
Gastonia NAACP meeting. He
says tie left Gastonia atiout 6
p.m„ for Albermarie, where
he spoke at a meeting on the
Laymen’s Association of the
Western N. C. Conference, AME
Zion Church. He then drove to
Raeford for a meeting with the
Shriners of that area.
This mission accomplished
about 12 midnight, lie liegan the
(See CLERK ORDERS, P, 2)
'■ ■ . K, : . *' i: L ■ L • • -
CRIME
beat
:r- «/. / ’ ( 'V;. a
.. I'rom Raleieh-'s Official .
Police Files '
COMPLAINT “UNFOUNDED 0 "
Mrs. Mary Irene Harris, 1342
Branch Street, told Officer
James E. (Bobby) Daye at 4:53
p.m. Wednesday, that her son,
Rodney Neil Harris, 4, and
Daniel Lee Johnson, 8, 1334
Branch Street, were playing and
“they got into a fight." The wo
man also declared she called
her son home, and said Daniel’s
father, Samuel Johnson, 37,
came Into her yard and struck
Rodney on the head with his
hands. Although Mrs. Harris
said she would sign an assault
on a minor warrant against Mr.
Johnson, she was refused one by
the magistrate. The complaint
was listed on the offense re
port as “unfounded."
(See CRIME BEAT, P. 3)
stores.
Number 08873, is worth $25
in trade at G. S. Tucker and
Brothers Furniture Company,
112 E. Hargett Street. Number
08701, also worth $25, is valu
able at Terry's Furniture Com
(See SWEEPSTAKES, p Z)