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Stokes will speak here on Thursday. January 20, at 8 p.m. undei the auspices of the Ly - ceum Committee. His subject will be ‘‘Political Power For Minorities.” Great grandson of a slave and once a high school dropout, Carl B. Stokes was elected Court Decision May Aid Political iVork DURHAM - The ruling of the U. S, Eastern District Court last week striking down North Carolina’s anti-single-shot law and the numbered-seat law is i of major significance in the de velopment of Black political power in the state according to John Edwards, director of the North Carolina Voter Education Project. Edwards maintains that the intent and effect of both of these laws is to mini mize the power of the Black vote and to keep Blacks from being elected to public office. Edwards stated that these laws have discouraged Blacks from running for public office at both the local and state le vels. Now that the anti-single shot law and the numbered seat law have been declared uncon stitutional, Blacks have a much better chance of being elected to boards of county commis sioners and the General Assem bly Ln 1972. Edwards said, MAYOR LEE POSES WITH DAUGHTER - Chapel HOI: Mayor Howard N. Lee carries his 1 year old daughter, Karin, as he enters Ms press conference here Jan, 10. Mayor Lee announced that he.is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Congress from the Second District. (UP'f), Mayor of Cleveland in 1967 and re-elected in 1969. During his term as mayor, he was e leciod first vice president of the National League of Cities, the first black to K chosen for high office in the organization which represents more than 14,000 municipal governments in all 50 states. He also served on the Ad visory Board of the U S. Con ference of Mayors, the Steer ing “In light of this decision, I hope Blacks will reasses the use of the vote in our strug gle, and more Blacks will run for public office. The dead line for filing is 12 noon on Monday, February 21, 1972.“ According to N. C, VHP's director, as Black voter regis tration began to increase af ter World War 11, local gov erning bodies and the General Assembly began to change the methods of electing officials and to pass laws in order to keep the Black vote from being ef fective. Many towns and cities during the 1950’s and early 1060's switched from the ward to at large method of electing city councilmen. If the ward method of elections is used, the hous ing pattern in many municipa lities will produce some Black wards, and, in turn , some Black councilmen. But if the <B?e DEOIStoV. P. Z\ Committee of the National Ur ban Coalition and the Advis ory Committee of the Urban A merica, Inc. He did not seek re-election for a third term in 1971 because he wishes to "expand my efforts beyond the Cleveland area to assist others, particularly the lock in minority groups, to better understand their role in poli tics and government.” Born on June 21, 1927, in Cleveland, he dropped out of high school to work ln a foun dry. Shortly after his 18th birth day, he entered the army, and while serving with the Army of Occupation in Germany re solved to complete his educa tion. He re-enrolled in high school when he was discharged from the army, received his diploma and went on to attend ”, est Virginia State College and Cleveland College of Western Reserve University. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Law degree Ln 1954 at the Univer (See CAWL STOKES. T 2) Book Wins Top Award In Writing ATLANTA. Ga,-The Southern Regional Council has announced that “Our Land Too,” by Tony Dunbar has won the Council’s 1971 Lillian Smith Award which is presented annually for a distinguished literary work on the South and Southern affairs. The award this year Includes a $500.00 honorarium. Mr. Dunbar’s book, describing life in a black community of rural Mississippi and in a coal mining section of Kentucky, is the product of the author’s ob servations and insights as a field worker with the poor in both localities. The book draws upon tape recorded conversa tions with a black community in Mississippi telling of day to day problems of survival. Taped conversations with a retired coal miner are also skillfully interspersed with the author's commentary of misuse of people and power in Appalachian strip mining operations. Throughout the book emerges the theme that although poor whites and poor blacks have been separated and alienated from each other, their economic and political needs are the same. Dunbar is a young man, still in his early twenties, and his book reveals the kinship that young pe op 1 e--t h e ms elves often rebuffed and misunder stood--feel for alienated people throughout the land. “This book,” he writes, “pro poses no solutions to the prob lems of poor people or of poverty as a national fault, ex cept that of'calling upon the reader to support or at least stand out of the way of men who, from a sense of anger, of need, and of social justice (See BOOK WINS P Dwham’s NAACP Wttiits More lor Senior Citizens S urvey R eve ah «/ Blacks Buying Afro Image THE COROLINIAN North Carolina's Leading Weekly VOL 31. NO. 12 RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. JAN. 22 197? SINGLE COPY ISo City Man Held In Slaying, Alegedly -U-VV-h J}-!}•«•«■ Jj-Jj-Jj-Jj- First Block Wake County President Williams Heads YDC Victim Found Lying in "Fools Os His Wood" A 51-year-old Raleigh man was found lying in “pools of his own blood” shortly after 4 p.m. Monday. He had been shot twice in the head and once in the left arm. Another man, 37- vear-old Ulysses Stewart, 1118 Pender Street, is being held in Wake C€ Vy Jail without privilege of bond, charged with the slaying. The victim was Joseph Har ris, 51, 1707 E. EdentonStreet. Stewart is awaiting a hearing Voting Drive Is Urged BY J. B. BARREN ROCKY MOUNT - “What We Think Os The Nixon Administra tion” was the theme of the ad dress to a small audience on a very cold January Sunday by Al fred Baker Lewis, the very ac tive 74-year-old NAACP na tional treasurer, arid long-time board member, to the Rocky Mount, N.C. NAACP Branch at Mount Pisgah United Presby terian Church. Fred Belfield, local NAACP prexy, presided. Due to the extreme cold, (plus a usual amount of le thargy on the part of local Ne groes to the NAACP and Re gistration and Voting), only thirty adults braved the cold to attend. Lewis, a Greenwhch, Conn., retired businessman, is on his annual tour of NAACP branches through the Deep South as he (See URGES VOTING. P. 2) (See CAUCUS ? 2t 'IIMQVIRIiSG REPORTER \ THU? JAY j What do you think can be done to get more 18-year-olds to register and vote? Miss Shirlene Atkins, Greensboro “1 think if an-all out campaign was conducted by other 18-year olds who are already registered, then I think more 18 year-olds would join the movement and go to the polls and registex. This i.s just one way I think we can get more 18-year-olds on the books,*’ Nathaniel Rhodes High Point “This is »iat a wise thing to say, but maybe if someone of fered some 18-year-old some wine or beer to get them to the polls, I think more young people would turn out to get their names on the books. Many peo ple this age keep saying, “I will register” and never get around to it. But if they knew they were going to be reward ed, then more of them may reg ister,” Mrs, Roslyn Perry on the charge, set for March 1 in Wake District Court here. According to Raleigh Police Officer Anthony Dunbar, who was called to the scene to in vestigate, he entered the re sidence at 1118 Pender and found Mr. Harris “lying in pools of his own blood” there. A knife was discover ed near the body, stated the officer. Dunbar siad he confiscated a .22 calibre pistol, found on a dresser in the room. Stewart was in the house at that time, so Dun liar arrested him. Raleigh Detective M. J. Mc (See MURBERS. P 21 Caucus Calls For More Hearings Washington, d. c. - The Congressional Black Caucus has announced that it will hold a set of ad hoc Congressional hearings on the mass media and the Black community on March 6 and 7, under the direction and chairmanship of Congressman William Clay, D-Mo. According to P.ep. Clay. Durham “A voter registration drive headed by other 18-year-olds would be the key to get the 18- year-olds to register. Say on a Saturday when school is out, then a young people’s voter reg istration drive would bet the thing.” Harold Pitts Raleigh “One example I think would get more 18-year-olds to register is to start a drive say on one of the campuses here in Raleigh and through a combined effort of all the colleges, this drive would be successful. This is a hard thing to do, take away some of the free time of a student, but voting is a civic ar.d moral obligation and 18 year olds are no exception,” Miss Carolyn Holeman Raleigh “Since roost of the 18-year fftM T*W SAT'. P 21 DR. DAVID T. RAY Seminar On Benefits Thursday Shaw University will host a Seminar on Genetics, Thurs day, January 20, 1972 at 10:00 a.m. in the Ballroom of the Student Union Building on Shaw’s Campus. The Seminar is part of the African and Afro - Ameri can Studies Curriculum Pro ject of the Six Institutions’Con sortium. Dr. David T. Kay, professor of Zoology, Howard University, will participate as consultant for the Seminar which will fo cus ori the genetics of the A fro-American; gene flow be tween blacks and whites; gene tic data on physical differences; and. genetic engineering. Dr. Ray will make presentations on “Genetics of Afro - Ameri cans.” A well-known researcher in the genetics of Mormoniella, Dr. Ray has carried out num erous research studies at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, He has also directed a series of researches, funded by the Na tional Institute of Health and the Atomic Energy Commission. A graduate of Bates College, Dr. Ray received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the U~ Diversity of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Genetics Society of America; American (Sec SEMINAR. p. ft Afro Image Attacked In Report NEW YORK - Although the advertising agencies and com munications industry may be lieve they have corrected the white-Black imbalance in the nation’s mass media, most Blacks don’t agree according to an article in the current Issue of Redbook magazine. In fact, most Afro-Americans feel that their character, cul ture and tastes have been either systematically ignored or tamp ered with by the media, and tele vision, because it is the most in fluential and aggressive med ium, was judged to be the major (Sp« SAY BI »rgR. gy School’s Counselor Selected BY KATHRYN Y. SHEPARD The Wake Count v Young Democratic Club held itpr 1972 Installation Banquet - Dance last week at Charlie Brown’s Steak House on U. S. 1 N orth. Approximately 450 potentates and reg ulars attended the af fair. The master of ceremonies was Torn Barringer, 1971 president. Alien Adams, Wake County chairman introduced special guests. Lawrence Wll Hams,., young black school counselor, was named Wake County pres ident. He lives at 1101 Hadley Road. Notables present were State Representative Ike Adams, D- Chatham and State Sen. Jyles J. Coggins, D- Wake, both of whom are seeking the 4th District Congressional nomination; State Rep. John Ingram, D-Rahdolph, who is running for Commission er of Insurance; Irvin Aldridge, former director of the State Department of Local Affairs, who is expected to be named head of the nev; N, C. Depart ment of Commerce; Mrs. Nick ! S<-«- t Will JAMS. P. 2> HI t i *, *«.'*-■ * - AFRICANS BURN IN STREET - Gwelo, Rhodesia: Rioting Africans burn articles in the street in Gwelo township here Jan. 18. Police arrested a former Rhodesian prime minister, an outspoken government opponent on charges he was likely to incite riots late Jan, 18, climaxing the third consecutive day of violence during which Africans demonstrated against prolonged white rule in Rhodesia. (UPI). X In The Sweepstakes X | SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK | 8 NEMG4EVME FURNITURE | Lxxxioooeoooooaxxxxxxxx^ Meeting Manned For Sun. DURHAM - As the re sult of the recent White House Conference on the Aging and the need of bringing more oi’ the benefits to those living in the Durham area, the Durham Bra nc h of the NAACP will devote its monthly meeting pro gram Sunday, Jan. 23, at 4 p.rn. at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1306 Lincoln St., to the interest of Senior Citi zens. Mrs. Julia Harris, who has coordinated the p rogram s• in this area, and will preside. A representative from Duke Power Company has been invited to tell these citizens how they might obtain permits or passes that will enable them to ride the buses at a reduced price. Trans portation companies, in many of the cities throuchoi! the coun try, have made this sen ic. ■ v vailable. Warren Howard, executive; assistant to Roy Wilkin.-: in the New York office, is scheduled io address the meeting and 7 r 0 other phases of the Sen; d zen program. He is .m pected to give a progri' ; >■- port on the opening of the Mul- care eerier. : has been planned for Crest Street School. The opening has been delayed due to the fact it was found that a new program was being initiated and local representatives set cut to raise (See NAACP WANTS. P. 2) ifitpttipl BtAT From Kaifien’v Official police Riles S EDITOR'S NOTE' This column or feature is produced tn the pufe l!r interest with ,n aim towards eltminatinf- its contents: Numer ous individuals have requested that they be given the consider* tSots of overlooking their listing on the police blotter. Tills we would tike to do. However, it is not cur position to he judge or ju ry, We merely publish the facts as we find them reported by the arrestisig officers To keep out of The Crime Beat Columns, merely means not being registered by a police officer in reporting his findings svhile on duty. So sim ply keep off the “Blotter” and you won t be in The Crime Beat JAII ED AS DRUNK James Edward Sheppard, 7 Granville Terrace (Chavis Heights), told Officer M. S, Williamson at 7 p.m. Wednes day, that he had been over to his mother’s house “and 1 had been drinking and fell down and busted my head open.” The incident occurred in the 200 block of Fayetteville Street. Sheppard, 46, received lacera tions of the head, was treated and released, then “hauledoff” to Wake County Jail on a.charge of oublic intoxication. fßro CHIVE BEAT p si
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