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' ’ Race leader Declares 'Black Sheriff Was Victimized Amerson Indicted li Ala. TUSKEGEE INSTI TUTE, Ala. - The Ala bama State Director of the XAACP, Rev. K. L. Buford, has termed the arrest and indictment of Lucius I). Amerson, Alabama’s first black sheriff in modern times, '-s “blatant injustice.’’ said further that “Mr. Amerson is being persecuted lx?cause he happens to be a law en forcement office whose skin is black.’’ Mr. Amerson, wh > was e lected sheriff of Macon County in 1966, was charged, on Feb. 18, with violating the civil rights of a prisoner while acting under cover of law. The indictment says that he and his deputy “did willfully beat, kick, in jure, and assault Wilbert Dean Harris. . .with the intent of imposing summary punish ment.' Mr. Harris, als a Negro, is a 42-year-old resident of this community. The XAACP official termed the indictment and arrest “an '■'ther evidence of the dual sys te*ti of justice wide! prevails r ' MUhama.’ •Parent*)-, the only reason erson was- indicted and ed,” Mr. Buford said, '•. cause of his color. This has filed numerous com alleging police brutality tte lav. enforcen.ent of but the onl;. reaction has letters of acknowledge .t <>f receipt of complaint in a u(Stances, with promises f -appropriatt action,’ while in other cases we have not been • \t> ted the courtes' of a ' otter <f i-.ck'i. 'v a'ilge-nent.." Mr. Buford said that the al leged victim has "requested that the complaint against Sheriff Amerson be dropped. However, the alleged victim’s request was ignored.’’ Mr. Buford said "We do not pre sume his guilt or innocence,” The XAACP official noted that it always has been one of the (Sec SHERIFF. P 2) . Jtmwn To Attend 2nd Black Expo RICHMOND, Ya. -Robert Brown, Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon is scheduled to participate in the Second Annual “Black is Beau tiful Business Exposition,” set for the Richmond, Va. Arena March 26, 27 and 28. According to the Director, Ron Charity, the Expo will o pen Friday the 26th with a Rib bon Cutting Ceremony and a Forum on “Black Enterprenu ership-It’s Problems and Solu tions,’’ Participants in live Ribbon Cutting Ceremony include Lt. Governor J. Sargeant Reynolds; Mayor Thomas Biley; Vice Mayor Henry L. Marsh, HI; j State Senator L. Douglas Wlld ’*»®hsr; House of Delegate Member Dr. Ferguson Reid; William Robertson, Special Assistant to (»** SLACK. EXPO. v. J) Baton, Rouge: Two Baton Rouge men accused as printers in a million-dollar cminterfeit ring arrive in handcuffs for a hear ing at federal court in Baton Rouge Feb. 25, At left is John Sims, Jr., and employee of John P. Stlglets, center, operator of ffilgleis Printing Co, in Baton Rouge, Agent at right is un identified. fupi). Blacks Os Raleigh May Vote Against Northwest Annexation 1 '■'■■■» "i "i.i^ - ~ VOX., 30, NO. IS Two Men Jailed After ForThird City Council Term RCABacksC.Lightner Officer Has Hard Time Here Two Raleigh men are expected to face a Dis trict Court judge some time this week on charges of assault on an officer after they “ganged up’’ on a young Raleigh cop and caused him bodily injury here late Tuesday afternoon. Officer Johnny Wayne Howard reported at 5:40 p.n;. Tuesday March. 2, that “A biieon routine patrol in the 800 block of Varda rn an Drive at Hightower Street, 1 observed two sub;ects walking and one appeared to be intoxi cated.” The office, said he stopped and made sev< ral tests on the subject Willie Jacobs, 56, 652 Coleman Street. lie also said he determined that Mr. Jacobs was publicly intoxicated, so be {Sec CITY COr P 2) BULLETIN! Ellis F. Corbett, director of Planning and Development at AAT State University, died ear ly Wednesday, March 3, at L. Richardson Memorial Hospital, Greensboro, following a lengthy illness. Mr. Corbett, an A&T graduate, served for many years, as circulation manager for the Norfolk Journal A. Guide Newspaper. He returned to his alma mater and worked dili gently as director of Publicity and Publications for many years prior to assuming his duties as planning and development of ficer. He is survived by a wife and one daughter. North Carolina $ Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY. MARCH 6, 1971 Mb b j Hi “ •. _ • - jmßSsaKt&F j§ MASS* 'A i A'PtesjJNk'm'* %z ” ' ' i-mms&r y j- : ' - rifc- WILLIE ,1 'COBS Pres. Carson Urges Wo’Vote On Bill One of the key issues on the caldendarfor the Raleigh Citizen’s Association agenda at its March 18 meeting wall b’e whether to organize against the proposed northwest annexation or vote in favor of a bond issue which would annex the area by June 30. At a meeting of RCA, con sidered by many as the city’s moi't politically influential Black organization, last Thurs ¥mce Crnntf Ministers Oppose Liquor By-Drink HENDERSON-The Ministeri al Alliance of Vance County went on repord this week as opposing the State I egislature legalizing liquor-by-the drink. The opposition to this pending legislature was made public this week in a statement approved by the alliance of this county and adjacent counties. J. A. Watson, president of the organization and A. L. Daye, First Baptist Observesls9th Year Sunday First Baptist Church, 101 S. Wilmington Street, will cele brate its 159th anniversary, Sunday, March 7th, beginning at the 11 o'clock service. The church was organized as a bi raciai church 159 years ago with 9 white and 14 black members. It continued for more than 50 years as a bi-racial church, af terwhich, an all-black church was establish. The Rev. Walter R. McCall will give the anniversary ser mon. The Rev. McCall is the pastor of the Providence Bap tist Church of Atlanta, G&, He stands in the line of great pas tors, who proceeded him in thin pastorate: Drs. C, D. Hubert and Tobin, served as the dean of religion. The Rev, McCall (He FIRST BAPTIST, P. 2) jags .-A, RUFUS HOCKADAY day, at the Manly Street United Church of Christ, Edward Car son, newly elected president of fSee CITY’S BLACKS. P 21 secretary, signed the pro clamation. The statement also bore the names of A. A. Brown, A. J. Brown, J. R. Dungee, S. G. Dunston, L. R. McKntght, Arthur Poole and L. B. Russell. Following is the statement: Members of the Ministerial <Bee VANCE COUNTY. P. 2) j %« mmt Jt * I 1 FIRST LADY EXHIBITS AFFECTION-D»a Moines, Iowa: Mrs. Pat Nixon meets and hugs an unidentifed school child during a stop at Dps Moines’ Cuw&tfy school March 1. She spent about ISC minutes visiting with children from the city's low income area, (UH), SINGLE COPY 15c Others Are Urged To Be Active tv pillar meet ing, held at the Manly Street United Church of Christ on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m., the Raleigh Citizens As sociation endorsed in cumbent City Council man Clarence Lightner for a third term, and at the same time, made it clear it is willing to back other qualified blacks seeing office. It has been a normal prac tice for the RCA, politically (See RCA BACKS P 21 Introduces JSew Column The CAROLINIAN introduces, on its editorial page this week, a new column entitled, “ADark Point Os View.” Its author, William “Bill"’ Moses, is an old friend of the publisher of over thirty five years. Mr. Moses, who is retired after heading the Architectural Division at Hampton Institute formant years, will write with humor; he will be provocative, entertaining and seldom too solemn. The New York native is a graduate of Penn State Univer sity. He is married to the for mer Miss Julia Mason of Petersburg, Va., and they are the parents of two children and have two grandchildren. The family now makes its home in Newport News. Va. I VA .’A ;C,. v "VhK-hn agl mwm WmtwL ssrfiSteipg FHOUSAXDS PROTEST NIXON'S POLICIES-Des Moines, Iowa; Thousands of protestors gath er outside the lowa Capitol buiding March 1 to protest President Nixon’s visit here. The president was inside delivering a speec to a >int session of t e lowa State Legislature. Some snow balls were thrown toward the President as he left the “uildinc, hut none were close. (UPI). "Revenue Sharing Requires Close Study By Voters,’Savsß. Wilkins * * / J WASHINGTON - Pr esident Nix on's proposal for revenue sharing deserves careful study for Negro voters, even though | they have been burned many 1 times by the tunneling of un restricted Federal funds to the states. This was the view of Roy Wilkins, executive director of the XaaCP, following a two hour briefing chaired by Sec retary George Romney, with detailed discussion b> John Erlich!: an, While House aide to Mi. Nixon. The President spent quart*:, m •• rh the seven person dele, a: it of Negro leaders. ‘•Black voters are suspicious of any scheme which calls for sending Federal funds into the states with no strings attach ed,” Mr. Wilkins told the con ferees. •‘ln the past such funds have been used on projects and pri orities for whites with little or nothing for Negroes. 1 am Mixon Hurt Says Gary Mayor AIR LIE, Va. The political power of Black America could gain a serious setback in the nation’s central cities under the revenue-sharing plan, now being proposed by President Richard Nixon, Richard G. Hatcher, Mayor of Gar- , Inc., declared here this week. ‘•‘This proposal could be "an attempt to insur* ‘hat v hen Black people capture cm "ails, they will find them e: pt\ Hatcher declared. . oting that the nation’s more than 50 pre sent black mayors will probabl;. be joined by another 33 in major cities over the next decade. Speaking to’a dinner session at the National Urban Coali tion’s invitational three-day conference on urban problems before 150 civic and g wernment officials, Hatcher said the (See HATCHER P. 21 especial!;, concerned because the attitude of the Federal Gov- HS U T : : GRID STAR - East Lansing, Mich.: Halfback Tom Love, 22, v) o led Michigan Stare in rush ing dm ing the 1968 football sea son died March i evening of a heart attack. Sen <ol officials said I.ove was stricken when he experienced severe c: est pains v! ile going Lack to > is dormi tory after play ing a pickup la.sk etball game. 1 ovt if i the Spar tans in rustling witl 729 yards on 172 cacries :!ui i. .is sopho rnore year in 1968. IDs body will be returned to ’is on etown us Svlva, Nort! Ca: oL :., Marc! 3, (UPI). Edgerombe Demos Fefe Chairman BY J. Ft. H APR: N TARBOL’O - ‘.bout seventy five Negroes wt .<.• sprinkled a rricng the more than one thous and Edgecombe County Demo crats who ga" ••red here Fob. 24ih to enjoy a P 5 barbecue ami cl icker; oLr. dinner in the Armory, and then moved to the neartv Tarboro High School Gym where they heard an ar ray us the top Democrats in Tarheelia laud the work oftheir (Sec DEMOS HONOR. P. 2) In The Sweepstakes SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK BRIGGS HARDWARE CO. For A Complete Line Os Fine, Economical Hardware (See Numbers, P. 10) Sweepstakes Moving Mrs. Annie Hough of 1502 E, Edenton Street, received, her gifts in the amount, of Sl5O worth of merchandise from Carter's Furniture j Company for being the week’s winner In The CAROLINIAN’S Revised Sweepstakes 'Promotion two eminent, notably in th. ssueof housing in the suburbs, is a galnst forcing any action to ..- chieve equality. “There must be safeguards to see that the unrestricted bil lions of dollars go fairly, in each state, to all citizens with out discrimination. The govern ment must not merely take the word of the states, but must follow through and enforce the no -discrimination clause or withhold the funds.” Also attending the White House Conference were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Miss Dorothy Height, r: -sident, National Council Os Negro Wo men; Berkelly Burrell, presi dent, National Business l eague; Mrs. Cernoria .Johnson of the Urban League’s District of Co lumbia unit; and Mayors Rich ard G. Hatcher of Garv, Inc., (See REVEXI K P 2) CRIME BEAT iron, lUM'IC. OffitUl P “"" EDITOR’S NOTE: This column or feature is produced in She pub lic interest with an aim towards eliminating its contents Numer ous individuals has- requested lhat thev he given On considera tion of overlooking them listing n the 1 police blotter This we would like to do However, it is riot our position to he judge or •«- rv We merely publish the b t$ ;,.s we find them reported by the irrestins offirers. To keep out of The crime Beat Columns, merely means not being registered hs a police officer in reporting his findings while on duty. So sim ple keep off the 'Blotter” and you won’t be in The Crime Beat KICKED AND STRUCK Miss Jan it- Mae Buffalo, 20, 720 Mark Slieet, told Officer \. C. Munday at 12:l r p.m. Sat urday, that she went inside Ra leigh Loan Company, 307 S. Wilmington street, and aas looking at some shades when a colored male came in and start - • ! talking to her. Miss Buffalo said the male insulted her and stated he would physically harm her. At this time, she declared, he kicked her on the leg and hit '• er irs the face with his fist. The woman said she did not know the subject and had never seen him before. She said she walked out of the business and down the street, where she called “the law.” A witness was listed as Shirley. Jean Rowe, 916 Mark St. (See CHIME BEAT, P 3) ■weeks ago. She received a cabi net for her kitchen, a bedroom table, plus a deep fryer and a toaster. You, too, can be a winner in the Revised Sweepstakes. T! e lucky numbers this week are (Sums SWEBPST4MUBS, P. « *
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