Newspapers / The Carolinian. / Feb. 6, 1971, edition 1 / Page 1
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Os. J. 4 if hh Hargraves lew Shew President Appeals For Support in City j[ ; j pi '' _ PORTEST CAPE KENNEDY I. AUNCHING-Da yt on a. Beach, Fla.; Small group of Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference members headed by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy and ministers from this area as they left Stewart Memorial Church for a rail” at Bethune Cookman Chapel in an attempt ed march to Cape Kenned- by Sun-;-.;- just before tie launch of Apollo 14. A mule train, the same one which carried Dr, Martin Lut 1 . King to his tomb, was to have been part of the march, but did rot appear . (UPI;. Dr. Robinson Compares Blacks To 4 Awakened Sleeping Giants' “At no time in the his’o:-\ o: this country, the world if you please, have sleeping giant s been. ;wakened it. comparable ways as have Black peo ple,” said Dr. Prexel: H. Hobinson, president of Saint Augustine’s when he spoke Feb. 2, on the campus. In his address on the subject, “The Search for identity.” Haiti: President-for-Life Francois Duvalier is shown em bracing his 19-year-old son, Jean Claude (right) in this poster whic! appeared b\ the thousands on the streets of the Haitian capital Feb. 2, following Duvalier *s selection of his son to re place hin as President in L ■ • event the elderly dictator can no longer continue to rule. Foreign : nr r,\ otographers, including Dirck Halstead of UPI, v. ho e.-. r >• is oto from a poster being brought back In a tourist, wen- refused entry to Port Au Prince Feb. 2. (UPI). Good Financial Shape Is Reported By Credit Union The People’s Credit Union met last Sunday afternoon at the YMCA on Bloodworti. St. D. T. Hough, president of the union, presided over the meet ing. The meeting was opened wit; prayer by Chaplain Joseph Whi taker. The minutes of the an nual meeting were read by the secretary and approved by the NCA.E HEAT® SAY CONSIDER “SANCTIONS” AGAINST STATE-Raleigh: E. B. Palmer (L), Associate Executive Sec retary and Dr. a. C. Dawson, Executive Secretary of the North Carolina Association of Educators, called on local units of NCAE Monday to consider "sanctums” against the state be cause of low teacher pay and the level of funding of education. Sanctions could mean anything from an alert that "unsatis factory conditions” exist in the education svstem to "with holding of services,” (UPI). group wit: some corrections. The report of the treasurer was read by T. B. Jiles. He reported that the Credit Union vas :n go •; financial condition. ; - i report of the Board's ac tivities was read by the sec retary. It was reported that the hoard was functioning for the year according to the state (Hrt cnf'n VNOIN P. 21 Dr. Robinson stated that no longer are blacks satisfied to believe the great myths of the past; no longer are they satis fied to simply tolerate and copy the habits of others; no longer do they look for one group of people for directions; no longer do they despise themselves, and no longer are they asham ed to be themselves. “Why search for and es tablish one’s identity?,” he ask ed. “Probably never before in history has a people been so nearly completely stripped of their heritage as Blacks who were brought to America. Oth er conquered races have con tinued to worship their house hold golds within the intimate circle of their kinsmen. But American slavery destroyed household Gods and dissolved the bonds of sympathy between men of the same blood and household. Through force of circumstances, they had to ac quire a new language, adopt new habits of labor and take over the folkways arid mores of the American environment. President Robinson stated ’that, throughout recorded A merican history, a designed, witty effort,has been made to make the Black man feel worth less, to give him a poor image of himself, to make him feel inferior, to give him a sense of being nobody; the impression that he has no historical heritage. Until about 1960, the history and contributions of Blacks were almost completely omitted from texts. “Just as the white American experience would be incomplete wit!.out the history of culture of Europe, so the Black Ameri- Experience is incomplete without the history of Africa, 1 ' he concluded. The program was the fourth in a series on “Humanities for Modern Man.” conducted at St. (see nit nrtßrvso.v. p. RCA Holds First /Heel The Raleigh Citizens As sociation held its first meet ing of 1971 at the Martin Street Baptist Church last Thursday night. Edward Carson, president, presided. The principal busi ness consisted of reports by the chairman of various com mittees. Chairmen reporting were as follows: Millard Peebles, hous ing. A petition has been drawn and will be circulated for sup port of a housing to rezone the Dacien Road area from Route 10 to Route 4. Miss Jeannette Hicks, pub licity, The main item was to accept a 15 minutes program spot each Sunday on Radio Sta tion WLLE, which Mr. James Delaney has offered. Miss Louise pro gramed several issues, such as information from the Planning Board regarding zoning, Curb service, the forms and gtruc (See RCA MOLDS, i» X) AI Buiner NAACP Probes Man’s Death THE COROLINIAN VOL 30. NO 14 Female, 21, Assaulted-Offkers xh&xhxy XhXhShxh yhryxyyv Raleigh Man Sought Stabs Woman In Neck Alleged Isplsts Arrested FA YE TTE YILLE -Two youths arrested in South Carolina last week on charges of kidnaping anU raping a 21-year-old mother are also want ed by Fayetteville au thorities on charges of murder and robbery. Stephen Lynn Chapman, 15, has been charged with the mur der of a Fayetteville man whose body was found earlier this week and Johnny Lee Horne, 16, is (See HOO) TWO P 2) NUL Has Fear Over • nr • i 1 air 1 rial NEW YORK, N. Y.-The Na tional Urban League this week expressed “grave concern” that Angela Davis may not re ceive a fair trial and called on all citizens to “join in de manding a fair trial for Miss Davis, for when the rights of but one person are compromis ed, then the rights of all are endangered.” The agency’s Board of Trus tees declared: The National Urban League expresses its grave concern that Angela Davis may not re ceive the fair and impartial trial to which she is entitled. We well know that the sys tem of criminal justice in A meriea often discriminates a gainst black people, and in the Davis case, the public has been bombarded by prejudicial and sensationalistic media cover age that presumes her guilt. The seriousness of the charges against her, combined with the sparse evidence yet made pub lic, do not justify the wide spread presumption of guilt that endangers her right to a fair trial. Angela Davis is on trial fSee Ni l. HAS. p 2) in The Sweepstakes SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK Where Your Appetite is Satisfied at Reasonable Corf (See NUMBERS, P. 8) Sweepstakes Growing More gifts are continually piling up for some lucky per son or persons in The CARO LINIAN'S' Revised Sweepstakes Promotion. The new numbers for this North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1971 KDDILh Black Inmate Held let Beath Os White Man OXFORD-One black man is being held for murder in the January death of a white in mate at the Rutner Hospital, The CAROLINIAN learned ear ly this week. Lee Allen, 31, is charged with the murder of Joe Edward Hatch, 42, and is now confined to the Granville CHARGED IN CELLMATE’S MURDER-Miami, Fla.: Johnnie Lee Jones eyes witness Howard Small (R) as he is escorted to a hearing. He is charged with first degree murder in the strangling of Cloyce Cock, who shared a cell with him in the Dade County (Miami) jail. (UPI). week follow: 08776, valuable in the amount of $25 in trade as first prize at Raleigh FCX Service, 301 W. Cabarrus St.; number 08897, second, is worth {See BWKRPSTAKKS, P, *) " t^.,4 MRS. JUSTINE B. MCCOY County Jail here. Both men are natives of nearby Durham The Durham NAACP has been called on to investigate. The two were allegedly involv ed in a brawl on January 8. The white man is reported to have been drinking at the time of the melee. He died as the result of a fall, he suffered after being struck, on Janu ary 12 at Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill. At a Coroner’s Hearing, con ducted on Jan. 27, probable cause was declared and Allen is now being held under a $5,- 000 bond. The Durham Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple was called in because of some reported irregularities attendant to the incident, ac~ (Sec INNATE HELD. P. 2) CRIME BEAT f - n. !( il’-ii'l Offj , ■ V Robce in- EDITOR’S NOTE: This column or feature is produced in the pub lic Interest with an aim towards eliminating its contents. Numer ous individuals have requested that they be given the considera tion of overlooking thep listing on the police blotter. This we would like to do. However, it is not our position to he judge or tu rv. We merely publish the facts as we find them reported by the arresting offirers. To keep out of The Crime Real Columns, merely means not being registered by a police officer in reporting his findings while on duty. So sim ply keep off the "Blotter” and you won’t be In The Crime Heat TRIES TO KILL MAN Someone called "the law” at 10:45 p.m. Saturday to report that "someone has been shot at 628 New Bern Avenue.” Of ficers C. S. Carter and H. W. Hagwood answered the call. Up on arrival, they found Lemuel Bridges, 34, of that address, lying on an automobile. He had been shot once in the neck and told Officers that the man who shot him was Samuel Crews, 37, who was in Apartment 4 at the same house at that time. Crews allegedly lives at 907 E. Lane Street. The 37-year-old Crews was charged with as sault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Mr. Bridges is believed to have been admitted to Wake Memorial Hospital with a gunshot (.22 calibre pistol) wound in the neck. <»ee CRIME BEAT, *>. *) SINGLE COPY 15c Uses Knife in Attack On Woman A Raleigh man is still being sought on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill last Tliursdny after noon after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the throat and face with a knife. Mrs. Justine Banks McCoy, 34, 523 1/2 E. Lenior St., was the victim. Being sought is Eddie Lee (See SI ADS WOMAN P !) Files Suit To I 'lose Up Club William G. (Buck) Ransdeli, Jr., 10th District Solicitor, on behalf of the state, filed a suit, in the Wake County Superior Court last Friday for an order to close Raleigh’s Torch Club as a public nuisance. The suit charges that the Torch Club of 5 Hayti Street, engages in the illegal sale of whisky, wine arid beer, “bois terous conduct,” carousing, drinking and fighting, and oth er disorderly conduct. The suit was filed against P, E. Pierce as owner and Mrs. Ophelia Green as operator. It asks that -the court grant an enjoining and restraining or der against the club’s operation and an order that the club be closed for one year. It was reported that the Torch Club was where James Lew (See FILES S ET o. Z) Bound Over For Dope Mrs. Beverly Ware of 1467 Sawyer Lane was bound over for action by the Wake County grand jury last Thursday following a hearing in Wake County Dis trict Court on charges of pos session of heroin and mari juana. Mrs. Ware, who is a. 23-year - old Raleigh native, was charged on two counts. In one warrant, she was charged with posses sion of 28 doses of heroin and in another warrant with posses sion of one-half pound of mari juana. According to testimony pre sented at the hearing, Mrs. Ware had the heroin and mari juana in a room at the Carolina Hotel when she was arrested. Her husband, Vincent Ware, was slated to be given a hear ing on identical charges, but failed •to appear In court. H e is under a SI,OOO bond and is being sought by police. Addresses Body In Raleigh It is said that first impressions are often lasting. If this is the case, then Dr. J. Archie Hargraves, president - elect of Shaw Universi ty has little to be con cerned about when he assumed his official du ties in February. Dr. Hargraves met the Shaw University Community last Thursday morning In Spaulding DR. J. ARCHIE HARGRAVES Gymnasium for the first time when he delivered a 30 minute address and spent some 20 min utes afterwards talking with lo cal media about his philosophy of higher education in general and the general direction in which he hoped Shaw would move under his leadership. He seemed to be physic as he opened his remarks by telling his audience that ho intended to go* to “the nitty grim-'* he 'See SH.VV'S wi n P J* Evidence Said To Contradict Nathaniel Harvey Taylor, a ’l"-year black student at Garner High School, was copvicted on contradictory evidence in Wake County District Court last Thursday of making a threa tening telephone call to the school principal. Taylor, a resident of Route 1, Garner who was not rep resented by counsel, had a six month active sentence suspend ed on the grounds he make pay ment of SSO fine and court costs and Oil conditions he remain on good behavior foi two years. Judge N. F. Ransdell passed sentence on -the youth after hearing testimony in the case. Two of the state’s key witnesses gave contradictory testimonies in the case. Following the close of the case, Bill Smith, Assistant So licitor, told the judge that the case was “weak.” However, Judge Ransdell passed judg ment anyway. William E. Terry, school principal at Garner High School, testified first In the case and told the court that while he was driving home from an out - of-town basketball game, he ob served that a car was following him. He further stated that after he stopped in front of his home, the car went on down the street, turned around and came back with the head lights off. Terry said he then followed the car and got the license number and turned it over to police. Five minutes after he got home, he received a telephone call from a young person, who sounded like a Negro. Terry said the caller asked, “Is this Mr. Terry?” he said, "Mr. Terry you are a G. d, s. o. b.,” and hung up. Terry said he was told by Garner Police Chief Percy Me- Iver the driver of the car was Bruce Deaver, also a stu dent at Garner High. Mclver testified that after he stopped the car driven by Deav er, Deaver told him that Taylor had made a telephone call to the school principal from a pay telephone booth. Deaver, also a witness for the state, was called to the stand. Deaver denied that he told Mclver that Taylor had made such a call to Terry’s home. He further testified that he was with Taylor all evening, that they had followed the prin (Rec COWtfRA3I« TORY p t)
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