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Du" 1 ®NCCU Address lick©! ®pt | ISasts Political tacisiti X-W*v* r> EX-CONVICT ASSAULTS TWO HERE THE COROLINIAN North Carolina s Leading Weekly \ OL. 30, NO. 20 RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, M\KC~H 20, LUi >INtA i- COPY 15C Wife Held For Murder As * y r SragiraE** '§>£ ~«B ‘•''^^^##Ha : ‘ •n' -A# Brain Hemorrhage Fatal Nation Mourns Young Thousands A Seeßody Os Young NEW YORK, N. Y.-Ac cording to a modest survey made Tuesday night, over 30,000 per sons had passed the o pen bier containing the re imams of Whitney Moore Young, Jr., 49- year-old executive di rector of the National Urban League, who died in Lagos. Nigeria on Thursday, March 11. Mr. Young had been attending an African-American dialogue, an annual conferenm >f Ameri can and African leaders, spon . (Sen THOI SANDS I’. 21 RCA Will Meet Here Thursday The Raleigh Citizens Associa tion will meet Thursday night, March 18 at 8 o’clock at the East Raleigh YWCA, 51.4 East Hargett Street. A membership drive is in progress and all citizens are urged to renew their member ship or join. The membership fee ts low, ($2,001. At 5:45-6 p.m. Sunday, March. 21. marks the beginning of a series of programs sponsored by the Raleigh Citizens As sociation, This radio time do nated by a local radio stai ion, will serve its source for dis cussion of issues interviews, addresses, eic, f Edward Carson, president of (See RCA TO P 2) EX-VICE PRESIDENT PAYS RESPECTS"!*** York; SOD* HoSort Humphrey stops to chut with mourners as lie arrives at Riverside Church to attend funeral services for Whitney Young, Jr. March 16, More than 3,000 people attended the services for Young, the head of the National Lea gue, who died while swimming In the ocean at Lagos, Nigeria, last week, (UPI). WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. Messages Extol His Hard Work (Editor’s Note: The high esteem in which: the late Whit ney Moore Young was held is revealed in these telegrams received at the offices of The CAROLINIAN shortly after the announcement of his death was made known); Comments from tiie F. V.. WoMwort 1 Company on the death of Whitney Young. “The dear of W hitney Young comes as a tremendous shock to us here at the F. W, Wool worth Company . He will indeed be remembered for his tireless and fearless efforts to make A merica truly the land of plen ty for all of her citizens. We lend out support to the con tinual Mr of the many outstand ing goals and programs Initiat ed by one of this country’s most dynamic leaders.” Comments on fron Lee S. Bickmore, Chairman of the Board and Chief !-xecutive of ficer of the National Biscuit Company, “Citizens the World over have suffered a great loss with the death of Whitney Young. We at the National Biscuit com pany knew him well as a fear less and dedicated leader who (S ft MESSAGES. P 2) r o~ Say She 'Fixed’ 5 Meals SMITHFIELD-A Johns ton County woman, who is charged with poison ing her husband to death, is being held in the Johnston County Jail without privi ledge of bond, until the next term of the Superior Court. Mrs. Colla Holder, 50, was bound over to Superior Court last Friday by Judge W. Pope Lyon when he found probable cause in the arsenic murder of her husband, Jessie Holder. The next term of Superior Court starts April 12. During the preliminary ;• ear ing, Deputy Sheriff Charles Lewis testified that Mrs. Hol der told him she had pruned liquid rat poison on hei hus band’s breakfast and lunch for five days in a row. Sheriff Lewis told a reporter for The CAROLINIAN Wednes day that Mrs. Holder fold him she was tired of living with her husband because he refused to ever take the family out. Ho also told The CAROLINIAN, ‘<»ivc Holder told rue in my (Sep j-oisOV P. z) Seeks Bill To Curb Job Bias WASHINGTON, D. C.-In testi mony before the House of Rep resentatives’ General Subcom mittee on Labor, Clarence Mit chell, director of the Wash ington Bureau o r the NaaCP supported H. R. 1746, the bill introduced by Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D. Calif.) “To further promote equal emplo - yee SEEKS mvi P 21 .ILSDCE ALEXANDER Judge Will Speak At A wards Day DURHAM-Mrs. Flreta Mel ton All xander, Guilford Coun ty District Court Judge, will be North Carolina Central U niversity’s .'.yardsDay speaker on Friday , May 7. Judge Alexander, who was the first Negro elected as a mdgt in North Carolina, is a native of S'mithfield, where her father was a Baptist minister and her mother a public school teacher. She attended elementary school in Danville, Va., and Dudley Hig) School in Greens boro, graduated from North Carolina \<iT University and became- the first Negro woman law graduate of Columbia U niversity School of Law. Judge Alexander was for nmre than twenty .ears engag ed in the general practice of law in Greensboro. She is licensed to practice in North Carolina and Nev. York and has been admitted to practice he ft ; 'u 'hf U. S. Supreme Court ruvl si ■ oral Federal District Courts. (Sec .Jl’DGfl TO p. •>) WAIT TO VIEW BODY OF WHITNEY MOORE YOUNG, JR.-New York; Mourners wait outside Riverside Church here March 15 to file past the bier of Urban League Executive Director Whit ne> M, Young, Jr. Young, 49, died in Nigeria last, week. He wae buried at Lexington,Ky. March 17, X ■j| ©■ WUfrGfr "WSr Mt; THOMAS L. THACKER Vow To Murder Thwarted A 27-year-old Raleigh man. who broke into “big time” crime in 1962 (when he was fing gerprinted and a mug shot was made of him), allegedly vowed to kill the first two persons that he came into con tact with last Wednes day. However, he was arrested before he was able to cause too much real physical damage. Robert Lee Thacker, who list - ted t is address at 600 s. Blood - worth Street, was arrested by Officers F. L. Benson and J. W. Peer an at 1:53 a.m. af ter Mi sc Brenda Gail Waddell, 23-year~old employee of the Raleigh Cooperative Exchange .‘ s < v 21 F. Davie Street, who ' lives*-t 2765- A Milherriie ”rt., told them that a colored male came to the door and asked to use the telephone. However, when Thacker entered the of fice, Miss Waddell turned her hack and he proceeded to stab her in the stomach, left arm and left hand, S. Swain Pierce, 613 Mills St., another employee of the company, informed the officers that as he entered the office, he met a colored male coming out of the building and he (See VOW TO, P. 2) Method To Halt Age Revealed NEW YORK-*‘Man will soon have the ability to halt the aging process at 40,” declares an article in the current issue of Coronet magazine. The long-held dream of man kind--old age d e f p r : e d--was explored at a little-reported conference of 1C specialists in gerontology conducted by the Center for the Study of Demo cratic Institutions, according to the Coronet article. Dr. Harvey Wheeler of the center announced that even the conservatives amongs the bio logists agree that within ten to 25 years it will he possible to alter the biological clocks built (Sec HALT AGING. P 2) Shouts Os 'Right On’ Spur Talk DURHAM - Dick Gre gory I’eceived oc casional outbursts of wild laughter, freque ent chuckling rumbles and cries of “Right On” a s he spoke t o a standing room only crowd of stu dents here Sunday morning in the cafeteria of North Carolina Cen tral University, con cluding a Coed Week of activities on the cam pus here. The Chicago-based comedian swung freely at a variety of targets, but devoted most of ills time to attacks on racism and on the American political system as it exists today. •‘I won’t be surprised if A merican is under a dictator s’ lp in two years,’’ Gregory said. “If Black Americans have been going to the polls for nearly 200 years to vote each year for tl.e lesser of two evils, there isn’t much left but evils. ’’ ■‘lf this is a nation under God, 1 hate to see a country under the devil,” Gregory told the pre dominate black audience. Gregory, who was one of the performers appearing on Jane Fonda’s anti-war show in Fay etteville Saturday, toldhis.audl ence, “The white man says he gets his rights under the con stitution, and the black man gets his under ‘Civil Rights Legislation’. Don’t give me my rights under no installment plan. Dig it?” Gregory said the insults of racism are what black people react to. “I was thinking the other night how a German kill ed my father in World War IT and left me without a daddy for 28 years. Today, that same German cat: com* to this Gan try and live in <i neighborhood where they wouldn’t let my daddy stay.” The bearded, denim-suited comedian, who spends almost op percent of his working hours touring college campuses, be gan his talk by telling the audi ence that he has no “black” speed and “white’’ speech. “1 usually say I’m pleased to be here. Today, I say I’m extreme ly pleased to be here.” “You young folks in America are the most morally honest ethical, dedicated, committed group of people alive today,” Gregory continued. Before closing his speech, Gregory urged the black stu dents to give more support to Mack institutions, “you read in the paper about DuPont giv ing so many millions of Har vard. We can’t do that, because we can't steal that good,” (Stc O. GREGORY. P. Expect 100 Firms At Exposition RICHMOND, Va.-Tho Second Annual “Black Is Beautiful Business” exposition schedul ed foi March 26, 27, and 28th at the Richmond Arena will o pen with approximately 100 businesses and business firms. Ron Charity, Founder and Di rector of the Expo explained “that this year’s Expo will be (See BLACK FXPO. P M ttsvh . • Mr - A r an Duke Ellington, embracing a bouquet, holds the mem bership to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music conferred upon him at ceremonies at the home of the Swedish Consulate nere,March 12. Ellington joins Americans Bruno Walter, Howard Hanson, Igor Stravinskv. Arthur Rubinstein and Arturo Toscanini as members of the select society. (UPI). FSU's Trustee Board R eseinds Firing A ct FAYETTEVILLE-According to the minutesof :i Feb. 23 meeting of the Board of Trustees of Fayetteville State University, the discharge of Dr. Davis W. Bishop, former chairman of the Department of History and Political Science and a professor at the university, has been re scinded. He has also been restored to full pay until the end of the academic year. Order Os Judge May Free Hi Mm An order, which may ulti mately mean freedom for a 35- year black Reidsville man, was signed last week by W’akeCoun t\ Judge James H. Pou Bailey. Bailey held that the man's rights had been violated and noted numerous other errors in his original trail. James Willard Broadnax, an employee of a Reidsville tire recapping plant, was sentenced in Jan., 1969 to serve 20 to 25 years when he pleaded guilty to a second degree murder charge. The orders signed by- Bailey concerns the -granting of a new trail. For the past 18 months, Broad nax had fought for a new trial EDITOR'S VOTE: This column or feature is produced in the pub lic interest with an aim towards eliminatin'; its contents. Numer ous individuals have requested that they he given the considera tion of overlookin'- their iistinq on the police blotter. This we would like to do However, it ts not our position to be judse or in - rv We merely publish the farts as we find them reported by the arresting' officers To keep out of The Crime Beat Columns, merely means not belnc registered by a polire officer in reporting: his findings while on duty. So sim ply keep off the “Blotter” and you won't be in The Crime Beat “SLICED” ON STREET Sylvester Williams, 23, 206 S. Fast Street, told Officer C. R. Aycock that he and a friend were walking on E. Martin St. and the other colored male left him by himself. He said another subject, Elbert Evans, about 17, “somewhere on E. Davie Street,” pulled a pocket knife from his pocket and cut him on the left cheek. A war rant has been signed, charg ing Evans with assault with a deadly weapon. Evans was said to have been wearing a black dress and a light brown wig. (See CRIME HEAT. P. a) J ICNMNWOfIMMOCMaaOCMNNMMMimBNMMHMHMBaaaMnBaHM In The Sweepstakes I SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK For The Best In Quality, Economical Photography 1 \ If (See Numbers, P. 10) Sweepstakes Adwating Merchandise continues to gorw at CAROLINIAN Revised Sweepstakes' participating stores. There are two top prlsies to awarded this week to some lucky James R. Nance, an attorney, who was present at. the meeting and serving as parliamentarian to the Board, emphasized that there were technical irregu larities in the procedure result (See DR. BTSHCP, V CORRECTION! Under a photograph ap pearing on the front page of last week’s CAROLINIAN, a man, Identified as Walter Jack son Ryals of E-7 Washington Terrace, was shown. This name should have been Jackson Even Ryals, 24, E-7 Washington Ter raoe. i'his publication a pologizes to Mr. W. J. Rvals, whose address is 407 Dakar St. Mr. Ryals was NOT involved in the robbery-beating recently of a 63-year-old white woman, Mrs. Nettie Davis, who resid ed off the Rock Qua rfy Road, but Jackson Evon Ryals, a new police subject, was arrested for the alleged crime. Both the wrong address and name were used in last, week’s paper, re garding Mr. W. J. Ryals. SBA. Plans Work For Minority WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Small Business Administra tion is expanding its staff to a ward government contracts to disadvantaged firms, Thomas S. Kleppe, SBA Administrator, has announced. Kleppe said that 34 field representatives ofSBA, manvof them newly hired, are meeting in Washington thisweektolearn at first hand how the program works. “Heretofore,” Kleppe said, “the program to award govern ment contracts to disadvantag ed small firms has been ad ministered from Washington. Now we are training a field staff and are making the pro gram more widely available.’’ The program, known as “8 (a)" because it is authorized section 8(a) of the Small Business Act of 1953, authorizes SBA to enter into contracts with other Federal agencies (it is now dealing with about 30 pro curement offices) for goods and services. SBA then awards (Set- SBA EXPANDS. P. Z1 person or pesons In the Raleigh area. Both of these prises are worth $25 In merchandise, The numbers are: 08043, good for 825 in trade at Rhodes (See SWEEPSTAKES, P. 2;
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