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T. ■f: 4P& ’ '‘l ; 1 AT FINAL RITES FC® SLAIN “SOLEDAD BROTHER’* - Mount Vernon, 111.: (Above) Acting: as pallbearers, members of the Black Panther Party (BPP) carry the casket of George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers, from the hearse at the Bethel Cemetery where Jackson was buried August 29. (Bottom) Oakland, Calif,: An estimated crowd of 1200 persons listened to funeral serv ices for Jackson at the St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, which carried the BPP banner. The filling of Jackson has raised serious questions over prison officials’ report that Jackson was trying to escape. His mother has said that there was a plot to kill her son and the other two Soledad Brothers. (UPI). Black Panther Party Rejects V* Four Indictments As “Feeble” CHICAGO, 111. - An official Black Panther Party (BPP) statement, presented by Illinois Field Secretary Harold Bell last week calls for the establishment of an independent committee composed of citizens to in vestigate Illinois State Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan’s office for the crimes “which have murdered 40 Black people since 1970.” Hanrtfhan, charged two weeks ago along with 13 other police far Heels Active it 72nd Nafl Elks Meet , NEW ORLEANS, La. - North Carolina Daughters of Elks played important roles in the activities of the 72nd session of the Grand Lodge, held we re cently. Seven of them received the highsst honors o! the Or der - Past Grand Daughter Ru lers. Miss Bessie L. Wallace, Ra leigh; Mrs. Jessie Nunn, Dur ham- Mrs. Ida M. Bannister, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Mildred Sanders. Charlotte; Mrs. Naomi Cannon, Raleigh; and Mrs. Ar- Leage Blue, Winston Salem, re ceived collars, in a special meeting, which denote that they have rendered outstanding Tne “Bills” were not to ne denied, with Dr. R. Irving Boom w ~ •i3Eas> 1 * ***yr rjl *Vgrf ;r f ' ' : | I' *■■•«« FRISKS, OTHERS JAILED W N. C. - Ayden: Southern Christian Leadership Conference secretary Golden Frinks (front) leads group of demonstrators August 25 as unrest con tinues, In this eastern North Carolina tobacco town. Riot equipped state troopers and local, police remained on full alert as the number arrested In the throe days of demonstra tions climbed to over 200. (UPO. men, was charged with obstruc tion of justice in the investi boing named Grand Chaplain, while N. C. Stale President, S T. Enloe, State Convention di rector, J R. Haywood and Pe • (Be* ELKS ACTiVE. P. 2) INQUIRING REPORTER THEY SAY BY CURETON LEE JOHNSON QUESTION: Now that Ligon no longer has a high school football team playing in Chavis Park, will you attend some of the games at Enloe, Broughton and Sanderson High Schools? gat ion following the police raid which cost the lives of two Chicago Black Panthers, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. He and the policemen have had charges of deceit, withold ing evidence and conspiring to falsely prosecute innocent per sons dropped by the state grand Jury. Bell, a survivor of the raid, said, “It cannot be forgotten that the federal government conspired to cover up, hide and (See PANTHERS. P. 2) C. C. Lipscomb Raleigh ‘■l possibly might attend some. Right now, I’m highly un certain. Since I don’t teach at Ligon anymore, I don’t have the Interest I once had when I knew the students there.” (6c* THEY SAY, I*. 3) Curriculum Cited As Being Good DURHAM - An elementary school mathematics curricu lum, developed by the education laboratory in Durham has been cited as one of the eight major individualized curriculums now in use in the nation’s schools, A special report by the edi tors of Education USA, in sur veying the growing movement toward indivudualtzed instruc tion, lists the Individualized Mathematics System (IMS’) as one of the major programs now in use. Education USA is a weekly newsletter published by the American School Public Re one 01 tne major programs now in use. Education USA is a weekly newsletter published by the American School Public Re lations Association. IMS was developed by the Center for Individualized In structional Systems (CDS), a division of the National Lab oratory for Higher Education (Sex CUMUCUIAJM, *». S') In Pitt County Block Moss Meeting Set Sot. No More “Separate , But ... Cky Schools Face Equal Tasks , J 1 .. *"' " ;.A; ... . . j[ j | J jSJ — ——— .. — — - - VOL. 30. NO. 4-4 imei Mm Tells Newsman *TIWA fA«C TMfpf k fVI/' —‘vpij Dtci-l Ml Men Jailed Here After Woman Charaesßape Caucasian Claims Two Raped Her Two men, William Ben Foster, 55, of Rt. 1 Willow Springs, and Lawrence Curtis Hines, 23, of K-2 Washington Terrace are being held in the Wake County Jail on charges of rape fol lowing an alledged in cident early Tuesday morning. A white Raleigh woman, Mrs. Phoebe Webb McMtillian, who lives in the Wilniont Apartmen's Sold r> dice she was beaten and raped by five moil behind a house at 921 E. Davie Street. Major Robert E, Goodwin, head of the Detective (Investi gative) Division, informed a CAROLINIAN newsman early Wednesday that the woman was believed to be either a "wlno or a prostitute to be in that neighborhood in the first place.” Police reports said an officer (S«« CLAIMS RAPE, P. *) Nader-Type Group Is For Blatks FREE PORI, iN i’,..The Black owner of an educational con sultant firm announced this week that he has organized a 'Ralph Nader-type' research program that will be concern ed mostly with problems related to the Black community, N.H. Jackson, president of N.H. Jackson Associates of Freeport, New York, said that his staff of young bright white and black researchers and in vestigators are already active ly engaged in their first major project. “We shall endeavor to lie dis enthralled observers of black institutions and their relation ship to the people they are ex pected to serve,” Jackson said. Mr, Jackson said that his “Black Consumer Research” (BCR), an adjunct of his con sultant service, will devote much of its attention to advo cating accountability from such "untouchables’* as major black leaders and their organizations, as well as the black press, and its role in the black com munity, "We shall take an in-depth look at the power elite in the black community in areas such as business, government ser vices, health care, and educa tion. We are particularly con cerned with the problem of com munication between the white decision maker and the grass root. black poor. In many A <Se* NADER-TYPE, P. e, North Carolina** Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. cTSAfURDAY7'SEFfEftfBEFTI97V DIRECTS UNC-G'S SPECIAL SERVICES - Ernest Griffin has recently been appointed direc tor of UNC-G’s Special Serv ices Project which received a $90,000 grant from HEW this year to aid students in special problems they encounter during their academic careers. Minister Striken At Stem The Rev. B, J. Johnson, 73, 4 Hyde Terrace (Chavis Hgts.), suffered a stroke as he sold CAROLINIANS last Saturday a bout 10 a.m. in front of the A&P Store, 200 block of E. Hargett Street. Rev. Johnson, who has pas tored many churches in the area, was rushed to the Vet erans’ Hospital in Durham, where he is now improving, according to a conversation with his wife on Wednesday of this week, “When he first was admitted there,” Mrs. Johnson said, he could not talk, but on Tuesday (Bee MINISTER, P. 2) Witnesses To Meet In Bull City’ Jehovah’s Witnesses of cir cuit No. 36 have chosen Dur ham as the place for their next semi-annual circuit convention, according to information made public today by Samuel Brower, presiding minister of the South Unit congregation here in Ra leigh. The meeting is scheduled to take place Friday, Satur day and Sunday, September 10- 12, at the James E. Shepard Junior high School in Dur (Seis WITNESSES. P. Si In The Sweepstakes SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK THOMPSON-IYNCH CO. For The Finest In Electrical Appliances Says Victim Had To Undergo Eye Surgery BY CHARLES R. JONES “Two white cops beat me in my own yard,” 49-y ea r-old Jam e s Preston Thomas, 985 Harp Terrace (Halitax Court), told this writer early Monday as he was interviewed inside his sister's automobile, parked just outside of The CAROLINIAN. He was alleged t‘o have to undergo eye surgery,as a result of the attack, Wednesday at Duke Hos pital. The incidents began unravel ing about 6:30 p.m. Sunday when Mr. Thomas* wife Mrs. Marj Marie Thomas, 46, called “the law” and charged her husband with assault with a deadly wea pon -a pocket knife at their EDITOR’S NOTE Thl* column or feature l> 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 overlooklne their listing on the police blotter. This we would ilk* to do. However, It is not our position to be judge or iu ry. We merely publish the farts as we find them reported by the airresting officer*. To keep out of The Crime Beat Columns, merely means not teeing 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 Beat EX-BOYFRIEND "FINGERED” Mrs. Elizabeth Monroe Taylor, 49, 23 Nash Terrace (Chavis Heights), told Officer F. D. McLamb at 10:17 p.m. Wednesday, that her former boyfriend, Henry Whitley, 50, 600 block of E. Hargett Street, came to her front door, giving a different name. The woman said she opened the door and he entered, accusing her of “being with another man.” She said he then started beating her. Mrs. Taylor, who suffered bruises, was advised by the cop to sign an assault on a female warrant against Whitley. (See CRIME BB: AT. P. SINGLE COPY.IS£ . >. V /•; i • »8. Wm * isi * •SB JAMES P. THOMAS Memorial Planned For Young NEW YORK - Leontyne Price, Marian Anderson, David Frost, Diahann Carroll, Diane Sands, Nancy Wilson, Arthur Mitchell, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee and the cast of “The M. Nobody Knows” are among a galaxy of stars who will participate in a Memorial Tribute to the late Whitney M. Young in a con (See MEMORIAL. P. 21 “MISS BLACK AMERICA OF W* - Naw Yorks Joyce Wvr ner, 20, of Tallahassee, Fla. is a study In regal beauty after being crowned “Miss Black America of 19T1’' s.c Madison Square Garden here August 87. The five foot, ten inch winner tips the scales at 189 pounds and is a senior psychology major at Florida A&M University. (UT’l). Thousands Expected To Appear GREENVILLE - Thou sands of concerned black citizens through-- out North Carolina, and surrounding areas are expected to be on hand for a mass meeting in Greenville Saturday, September 4, protesting police actions in that area. sponsors of tho gathering say everybody - ministers, labor ers, students, civil rights or ganizations and all people in terested - ire invited to come to the 10 am, opening meeting in the Guy Smith Stadium, on Memorial Drive in Greenville. <See iuaSS MEET, JP. 21 Busin § Is Disliked I y Many BY STAFF WRITER Comments from wnlte parents this week revealed a stark dis like for the new process of crosstown busing which has be gan in Raleigh, but most Black parents, will tell you about the years they were bused across town to uphold segregation. This scented to be the spirit of the two races as long-haired white boys and girls drove buses laden with black children and black youngsters could bs seen hauling loads of white children on their respective routes this week. The so - called former “se parate but equal*' black schools were now ready for a new wave of integration. The street running between Ligon Junior High School and the Chavis apartments has al ways been narrow, but now it’s being widened. Tile graces the floors where earlier genera tions of Black youngsters walked on concrete hallways. (See BUSING IS. p. 2) Britkites Re-Elect £ Venture BY J. B. HARREN BRICKS - Loyal members of the dwindling Joseph Keasbey Brick Junior College Alumni gathered here for their 3-day annual reunion August 27-29 un der the leadership of Mrs. El eanor Murray Venture ofWash iiitrton. D. c.. who was reelect od as president of the Brick National A’umni Association a l»ng with the remainder of the other- officers. The Rev. Anthony Carpenter of St. Louis, Mo., son of alum ni vice prexy Booker T. Car (Se MRS. VENTURIS, P. 2)
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