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Y; (| e ]3f A f , ** ” ,lU: y4 ' During Winton-Salem State Conventon N.C’s Black Skitters Select White Beauty Queen BBBB| fg> ” r '^ .ill* MWn*-|, ro ON NIGHT OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION - DREW, MISS.: r.ff .|, e .:‘ ’\, ‘'ol ri T| ,t ’ conduc , ts . the graveside services during the funeral of Miss Jo ! atha collier i' aj 30, iho young gill was slain on her graduation night, (UPI), 4 R ep, Frye Speaker A s Blood worth Street YMCA Names Fen Raleighites In Its Board Ten of Raleigh's leading citi zens aer e elected to the Board of Management of the Blood worth Street YMCA at the an nual meeting of the Association last Tuesday night. The election followed a nomination commit tee report by Cecil H. Flagg with C. A. Haywood, Sr. chair man, presiding. The principal address was delivered by Representative Henry, Frye of the N. C. State Legislature who strongly urged a new committment and ded ication to the original principles for which the “Y” was found- p i - character, physical and social development - "We must si rive for excellence in all areaa of life,” stated the speaker. He was introduced by Council Cla rence Lightner. Men elected to the Board of Management included J. D. Lew is, Rev. Joseph Dempsey, Dr, Daylene Page, J. J. Sansom, Rol>ert T. Young, Thomas Wil der, Harold Webb, J, B. Blount, Rev. W. B. Lewis, and the Rev. J. H McCallum. Twenty-four members and friends were presented service awards by W. W. Hurdle for meritorious work in connection with the Urban Development Workshop conducted during the year. These members and friends in addition to those elected to the Board ' Management in clude: Mr. a.l Mrs. W. R. CRIME BEAT Ka., lch v orn,-.:w EDITOR’S NOTE: Thli cotuaflf or feature it produced In the pub lic Interest with an aim towards eliminating Its contents. Numer ous Individuals have requested that they he given the considera tion of overlooking their listing on the police blotter. This we would like to do However, it is riot otir position to be judge or Ju ry. We merely publish the facts as we find them reported by the arresting officers. To keep out of The Crime Beat Columns, merely means not being registered by a police officer in reporting his findings while on duty, go sim ply keep off the “Blotter” and you won't be In The Crime Beat. STRUCK, CUT WITH DOTTLE Mrs . Mary Frances Sapp, 40, 413 W. South Street, told offi cer R. Clayborne at 1:02 a.m. Monday of this week, that Ralph Lee Rogers, 52, 513 Alston Street, assaulted her at his residence by striking and cut ting her with a bottle "when I refused to go to bed with him.” The woman was taken to Wake Memorial Hospital for .treatment of bruises on the left side of her head and a three inch cut on the upper left arm. Mr. Rogers was “hauled off 1 ' to Wake County Jail, charged with assault with a deadly weapon. He was placed under a bond of 8500. (#*« CRIME BEAT. P. J) Jessup, Bruce Hargrove, C. J. M. R. Peebles, Dr. N. H. Har- Barber, S. G. Parham, \v. W. ris, Dr. N. I„ Perry, James Hurdle, J. Mills Holloway, J. Lytle, Lorenzo Haywood, c. A. A. Mann, Atty. F. J. Carnage, <Sce ymca names, p. 2) State's 2 Black Solons To Keynote Freedom Day North Carolina’s two black legislators will be the speakers for the annual NAACP Freedom Day and Mother of the Year celebration to be held Sunday, June 13th at 3 p.m. at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. NUL Mans its Conference In Detroit NEW YORK, N. Y. - The 1971 National Urban League Confer ence will open on Sunday, July 29th at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, Harold R. Sims, Act ing Executive Director of the League, announced this week. “Which Way, America?” the title of one of the last major speeches delivered by the Lea gue’s late Executive Director, Whitney M. Young, Jr., will be the theme of the Conference which winds up on Wednesday night, July 28th. The Conference w ill get undei way at 9 a.m., Sunday morning with a staff session and the open ing of exhibits which will be fol lowed at noon by a luncheon of the Council of Urban League Guilds. Mrs. LaDonna Harris, dyna mic wife of Senator Fred Har ris of Oklahoma, will tie the principal speaker, Mrs. Harris is Director of Americans for Indian Opportunity and a mem ber of the Board of Trustees of the National Urban League, Sunday at 8 p.m. the Confer ence keynote address will tie delivered by Acting Executive Director Sims with Mrs. Ersa H. Poston, Secretary of the League’s Board of Trustees and (Sec NUL SETS, P. 2) fciementary Program Set DURHAM - North Carolina Central University’s Elemen tary School Activities program, which begins Monday, June 7, will focus this summer on crea tivity and imagination in the teaching of the language arts, according to Dr. Norman C. Johnson, chairman of the de partment of education at the U» niversity. Approximately 20 elemen tary teachers, candidates for the master’s degree, will be participants in the program, which Includes four hours of (See ELEMENTARY, P. 2) rE low. J. J. Johnson, re presenting Hoke, Robersonand Scotland counties and Attorney Homa E. I rye of Guildford County, will be paid special tribute by the gathering at the ceiviaoi ies. The two House of Represent ative solons will crown the NAACP “Mother of the Year.” (See TWO BLACK. P 2) Nab Two Here For Narcotics Raleigh police offices s ar rested a young man and wo man at the intersect loti of Crabtree and North Boulevard here at 8 p.m. last Sunday and Charged lxith . ith illegal poss (See NAB two. p. >) «nn A^S/° ai f G V II 'I Y THKEE TORTURE COUNTS - LOS ANGELES: Black Nationalist he f J of the f °UP called “US,” is followed by members of his group after he was found guilty on three counts of charges stemming from the alleged torture of two young \v°rc nn reportocUy were trying to poison him. The alleged victims of the assault, both -0, were once members of Karenga’s sect, (UPI), ’ Disruption Policy Set At FSU jIHBiaCA ROIIN I A N North Carolina's Leading Weekly VOL. 30, NO. 31 City Man, 21, Jailed After Xj-tysEX}- iO-xpj^rp 63 Prominent Americans BackEversForGov. TO MILITARY COURT OF APPEAL,S? Cleveland, O.: John W. Kellogg, . a Negro city councilman is. Cleveland, has been formalh recommended to President Nixon lor the same vacant" on tin U. S. Military Court of Appeals involving the rent roversial pn>{m>s< *d n<uniua tion of fornmr Rep. Albert Witt son. The recommendation was sent to Nixon by Senators Wil liam B. Saxbe and Robert Taft, Jr., both from Ohio. (UPI). Over HaK Million To St. Aug.'s Dr Prezoll R. Robinson, president of St. Augustine's College, announced Thursday grants totaling $743,000 which were received by the college this week. W. P. Carpenter, president of the Good Samaritan, Incor porated announced a grant of $400,000 to St. Augustine’s College for the construction of a new library buildln .This giant is the largest in the his t<>r\ of the colli A $50,000 grant from tin Kresge Foun dation was also received today, to be used towards the con f*we ST, At'G.’S, P 2) RALEIGH, N. C.. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JUNE 5. 1971 Suspension Would Be Bill's Aim FAYETTEVILLE The Fayetteville State University Board of Trustees voted last Thursday to establish a ‘ ‘Committee on Campus Disruption and Di sor tie" ” which will em power the president of the university, with the concurrence of the' committee, to suspend an individual from school and bar him from the campus if there is “clear and c o nv i n ci ng e vi den ce that a person has com (Sce DISRUPTION, P. 2) Crisis And Race Are Discussed DURHAM -The crisis of American cities to day is “occasioned by race relations and pov erty,” Dr. Martin D. Jenkins, director of the Office of Urban Affairs of the American Coun cil on Education, told graduating seniors at North Carolina Central University Sunday. (See CRISIS. P, 2> ■ ■■ '*■ f V ASssjnjf fife. : ; ' r: ' * V'i'v"' JOHNNY LEACH National NAACP To Meet NEW YORK, N. Y. - The NAACP holds its 62nd Annual Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this year between July sth and July 9th. The plenary sessions are sot for Minneapolis Auditorium and Convention Center, while most of the workshops, clinics and institutes will lie held at the Leamington Hotel, the official convention hotel. Keynote spoakoi is Bishop Stephen Gill Spottswood, Board Chairman of the NAACP, whose address is scheduled for the opening night, Mondav, July sth. Among the other prominent speakers scheduled for the convention are NAACP Executive Director Roy W il kins; Federal Reserve Board Governor Andrew Brimmer; Rev. Leon Sullivan (1971 Spin garn Award Recipient); I)r. Wilson Riles, California’s Superintendent of. Education; Chief Judge William H. Hustle of U. S. Court of Appeals; and Leonard Woodcock, President of the United Auto Workers. More than 2,000 delegate: are expected to attend the convention. Foi the second year, a major commerce and industry exhibition is sche duled to run concurrent! with the convention. Indust; nil, commercial and governmental exhibitors are participatin'. One additional feature angle which you may wish to con sider is that on August 30th, the Association’s Executive Director, Roy Wilkins, win celebrate his 70th birthday. Press registration and fa cilities have been arranged, beginning on Sunday afternoon, July 4th, at the Convention Center, Hope to see you there. 4 Receive Fellowships DURHAM - Four students who, received the B. S. degree in geography Sunday at North Carolina Central University will pursue graduate study in geo graphy under fellowships from the Committee on Geography and Afro-America of the Associa tion of American Geographers. The fellowships to the NCCU graduates were announced Tuesday by Dr. Theodore R. Spelgner, chairman of the de partment of geography at North Carolina Central. Grace P. Moore of War fare « RECEIVE, P. 2) SINGLE COPY 15c Stabbed Man Four Times Here A young Raleigh man, who allegedly stabbed another person “with the intent to kill” last Saturday afternoon found himself languish ing in Wake County Jail to await a hearing on : ho rap. Ilis victim suf fered four wounds-in the head, chest, side and left arm. Johnny Leach, 21, whose ca rom- jin crime began’ when he was 17 years of age in 19GG, on charges of assault and breaking and entering, his ad dress was listed as either 8 Mecklenburg Terrace or 709 Lunar Drive in the Apollo Heights section of the city, William Owen Snellings, 918 Oukwood Avenue, was the com plainant. At approximately 11; 15 last Saturday, young Leach is said to have attacked Snellings with “some type of knife.” He is charged with “cutting and (Sec MURDER TRY, P. 2) Caucus' Ist Dinner is Supported WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, scheduled for June 18 at the Sheraton Park Hotel here in Washington, is continuing to receive the kind of response Lorn pmsons of diversified backgrounds and economic lev els that, the Caucus anticipated when the dinner was planned. Recently, a SI,OOO contribu ti n was made to the Caucus by the National Alliance of Pos tal and Federal Employees. The president of the Alliance also pledged the support of his 45,- 000 members and volunteered to (See CAUCUS’ P. 2) X In The Sweepstakes X | SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK 8 § NATURAL HEALTH FOODS § X For High-Protein Vitamins and Minerals ft ' sooo WM^m° o&oß When more merchants begin to advertise on the Sweepstakes page the Sweepstakes Promo tion Is expected tc be renew ed in the very near future. Even thougtrthe promotion has been halted for the time being, we Invite you to continue to natronize the fine businesses on that page. Continue to read this column weekly to see when the promo Topped Field Os 9 Blacks WINSTON SALEM - The rains came last weekend and so did the' Shriners of the Desert of North Carolina with ten talented young la dies,, none of which were deprived of beau ty, poise and demeanor. 1%: M'K ■5 ;•->*•. <<s6y»s. MISS FUNDER BURKE These 10 contestants were presented to an appreciative audience at Convention Center Friday night and gave the jud ges a lot of trouble trying to pick the queen. When all the scores were in, it was found that Miss Bonnie Jo Funder bur ke of Charlotte had been named the winner. This made history, in view of the fact that 1971 was the first time that a white girl had been listed as a contestant. She was entered by Ramoses Temple, No. 51, and gave the Queen City the winner for the second consecutive voa:. Miss Yvette Walker took the honors in 1970 and went on to Boston to win the national crown. The sponsors and the Shriners hope that Miss Funderburke can also top the 1971 contestants and leave Houston as the Na (See N. C. SHRINERS. P. 2) 63 Back C. Evers For Gov. NEW YORK, N. Y. - Sixty three prominent Americans, headed by Mrs. Medgar Evers and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., have formed a national committee to aid Charles liv ers in his unprecedented bid to become Governor of Miss issippi, it was announced today by the Committee’s National Coordinator, Gilbert Jonas. Known as the National Com mittee to Elect Charles Evers Governor of Mississippi, the ad hoc group’s Co-Chairmen are Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Bishop Stephen Gill Spotts wood, Board Chairman of the NAACP and a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The Committee has head quarters at 125 West 43rd Street, New York Ci y (phone: (212) PL 7-7980). “We hope, with this group, to recruit skilled volunteers, funds and lawyers for the state wide campaign in Mississippi this fall,” Mr. Jonas said, in making the announcement. (See «J BACK, P. 2) tion will start again. In the meantime, hold onto those lucky numbers because they will be valliable prizes at one of the par ticipating sponsors when the promotion is resumed. Spotlighted this week Is Na tural, Health Foodsj, located at 8 E. Hargett Street, where you receive the finest In n a t > *• a j (See SWEEPSTAKES, **. »
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