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Gfs§p Disagrees With S®pp#rf NMCP ResistsTake-Ovar Bv N. L 5.1.0. At tempi To Invade In NY Falls NEW YORK - A re port of the recent at tempt by a group known as the National Eco nomic Growth and Re construction Organiza tion (NEGRO) to seize the national office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA CP) in New York City at 1790 Broadway, has shocked thousands of people nation-wide, who have considered this act by some fifty (50) mem bers of this ultra radical group almost unbelievabC. The NAACP states that the group NEGRO was in strong disagreement with the sanction ing by NAACP of what is term ed "scatter-site housing for slum residents” which builds or teases housing for blacks in many areas among whites in an effort to disuse the pop ulation, This group burst Into NAACP "headquarters, reportedly, Jan. 12 and manhandled the office secretaries and other staffers about 10 a.m. and remained some nine hours. The de monstrators allegedly pulled out telephone lines and damaged and ransacked the office while the few remaining employees crouched in mortal fear from the ever eminent danger of phy sical abuse. No arrests were made or ordered by NAACP officialdom as they tried to not further aggravate an already bad situation. The intruders on ly departed after NAACP at torney Nat Jones secured “a temporary restaining order (See "NAACP RESISTS, P. 2) CRIME BEAT 1 rotn Ralnsns BISITOR’S NOTE: This eolunm ot feature is rirtxSuced in the put-* Sic interest with an atm towards eliminating its contents Numer ous individuals have requested that they be given the considera tion <*J overlooking their listing on the police blotter. This we would like to do. However, it is not out 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 whiie on duty, Se sim ply keep off the ’“Blotter” and you won’t be in The Crime Beat. WOMAN BEATEN Miss Mary Virginia Justice, 28,1012 Carmister Street (South side), told Officers J, K. Har rison and J, R. Tate at 11:35 p.rn. Saturday, that she was coming out of Mitchell's Gro cery Store, at the corner of Battle and Cannister Streets, when she was attacked and beat en by two Negro men at approx - imately 10 p.m. that day. The woman, who suffered bruises about the bod> and face, was ad vised to sign an assault warrant against her attackers, whose names and addresses were not listed on the offense report. ("See CRIME BE AT. P 21 congresswoman announces for u. s. presiden cy - New York: Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York formal ly announces her candidacy for the Democratic presiden tial nomination before a group of supporters at the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn here Jan, 25. Mrs. Chisholm, the first black woman ever elected to Congress, sfiid she's not running as a black woman but as “the candidate 9 ’ of the people, (UPS). SUSPECT JAILED IN COP SHOOTINGS ~ San Francisco: Junious L. Poole, 21, suspect in the shooting of two policemen walking their beat here Jan. 24, is escorted to a police car after he was apprehended near the scene. A policeman holds a rifle used in the assault. One of the officers is reported in critical condition. (UPI). Greensboro Blacks Suporting Africans In R hodesia Deaths BY MILTON COLEMAN GREENSBORO - Black people here took to the streets this week in announcing their unity with the embattled people of the African country of Zimbabwe, also known as Rhodesia, A group of 50 demonstrators as sembled at noon Monday in front of the local federal building to dramatize their support for native Zimbabweans who have been involved in large scale protest of plans by white minor ity rulers and the former Bri tish colonial master's to per petuate minority rule in that ICM Sits New Retord In Memhets Membership in the North Carolina Association of Educa tors has set a new record, in creasing by more than 1,300 in ‘‘a year when virtually no new teaching positions were added in the state,” Dr. A. C. Dawson, NCAE executive secretary, has announced. Dr. Dawson said total NCAE regular membership this year is now 48,868 with some mem bership returns still coming in. He said total membership last year was 47,566. In addition to the regular members, the NCAE; executive secretary said the Association has enrolled 2,960 persons in its Retired Teacher Division and more than 1,800 student members, a total membership in the NCAE of more than 53,600. “The significant point is that membership Increased in every single NCAE district this year,” Dr. Dawson said,, He said one local unit reported 100 more members than last year and that gains of 25 to 30 per local u (See NCAE STTS. T. Z) country. Late last year, British and white Rhodesian represen tatives met in the capital of Salisbury and agreed on plans to resume diplomatic relations which had been served when the Rhodesians, fearing upcoming majority rule, Issued a Uni lateral Declaration of Indepen dence. The country has a popu lation of five million Africans who are ruled by the nation’s 250,000 whites. Two weeks ago, a Bri tish commission arrived in Rhodesia to see whether or not the Black people approved of the agreement. They were met with a resounding, “No,” emphasized with major revolts in four cities. Rhodesian au thorities responded violently, killing at least 14 Africans and wounding hundreds of others. Local Black people here tied these incidents of outward re pression there into a recent up surge in police brutality in Greensboro. “Today we all recognize,” they said in a writ ten statement, “that racism, ex ploitation and police bru tality are becoming more in tense and brutal. We have seen such occurences in Greensboro, Memphis and Baton Rouge and we are well aware that this is happening to Black people throughout this country.” Calling on Black people CRJ Plans To Study W ilmington’s Justice NEW YORK - The national Commission for Racial Jus tice of the United Church of Christ will make a first-hand study of racial conflict in Wil mington, N. C., at its quarterly meeting to be held there Jan. 2ft and 29. Open hearings to which spokesmen from various seg ments of the community have been invited will be held all day Saturday, Jan 29, at a place yet to be determined. The Commission for Racial Justice is the agency of the two-million member United UNQUIRim REPORTER j . •!» fnl m 1 BY ST.\ IT WRITEU Do you think reporters and newsmen should be allowed to interview prisoners in the North Carolina Correctional system? Mrs. Irene Croslan, Greensboro “If we expect to run a de mocratic form of government, I think it is a must we hear both sides of any story. And permitting the news media to vi sit and Interview the prisoners is one way of hearing- what the prisoners have to say about the system and their particular cir cumstance." Mr. Will Green, Durham "I really didn’t know they had stopped reporters from going in to our prison systems until the discussion came up recent ly. Reporters cover every other throughout the world to show their support for the struggling people of Zimbabwe, they said that the purpose of the demon stration, which was carried out in the form of a silent vigil, was to dramatize the urgency of the issue. Police photograph ers were on hand arid photo graphed the march and parti cipants. The demonstrators came from many places in the com munity, a good number of them {See SUPPORT, P. 2) NET Pirns A Massive Phone-in NEW YORK, N. Y. - A 90- minute Black Journal special designed to allow black people throughout the United States to communicate with their lead ers - and with each other - on an unprecedented scale will be aired Tuesday Feb. 8 at 8:30 p.m. on the Public Broadcast ing Service, The live, phone-in program, seen locally on Channel 4, WUNC-TV, will feature a pan el of spokesmen from many seg ments of the black community, (See JCURNAX. p. 2) Church of Christ charged with mobilizing the resources of the denomination for minority rights. The Rev. Charles E. Cobb is executive director of the Commission. I.erov Gibson of Jackson, N. C., founder and director of Rights of White People, a mili tant anti-Integration organiza tion, has indicated that he will speak at the hearing. Others who will appear are Bernard Muhammad Kenyatta, of the African People’s United Front; the Rev. Benjamin Cha (See CRJ TO. ?. 21 type of event and the prison system should be no exception.” (See THFV SA“ P. 2) x In The Sweepstakes X I SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK | | fK4IT WIGSIf S: | At Middlesex Restaurant 3 City Tutors Charge Jim Grow - ■■■■■ VOL. 31. NO. 13 4*3*/*'’ <SO*. iHik lip ■■ _ jp t > l "- ’ r , \wl f|i/ J|j Xj-X^X^X}- Succeeds C. A. (Doll) Haywood HarrisHeads'Y’Board Teachers Shunned, They Say s BY STAFF WRITER MIDDLESEX - Three black Raleigh school teachters, who work at. the Middlesex Elemen tary School here, charged, late Tuesday afternoon, that they had been discriminated a gainst when the owner of Woods’ Restaurant, Charles Woods, be lieved to be a young Vietnam War veteran, refused to serve them lunch. According to Mrs. Valerie Fields Shaw, one of those who was refused service at the res taurant, “We stood there from between twenty to thirty minutes, waiting to be served. The ovner, Mr. Woods, Ignored us. At the same time, four white teachers at the school, two from Middlesex and two from Wilson, were eating their meals, but he never even asked us if he could serve us,. “We only had a short time for lunch, so we finallv left.’* When contacted early Wed nesday at his eastern Nash (Sea 3 TEACHERS, P ?) RCA Meets On School Situation At its regular meeting, Thursday night, the Raleigh Ci tizens Association with Edward Carson, President, presiding, voted to send a delegation to present to the entire Raleigh School Board the findings and recommendations of the RCA Education Committee. In the December meeting when there was a discussion of the codes for students the corresponding secretary was instructed to contact Su perintendent Conrad Hooper by phone for an appearance of an RCA committee before the Ra leigh School Board at, its next meeting. Subsequently a notice (See. RCA North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ WEEK ENDING JAN. 29. 1972 Women Argue Over Same Man-One may seek n. c. senate SEAT - John W. Winters, local real estate broker and build er, made the following state ment Tuesday afternoon of this week: “Over the past week, many friends have encouraged and promised support t.o me to offer as a candidate in this dis trict for the State Senate, I am therefore giving it very serious consideration. I shall visit many people and many places in the three-county districts of Wake, Harnett and Lee to seek addi tional support for my candidacy. I hope that I will find it favor able.” University Sets Vote Fete Sat. CHARLOTTE - An all-day, non-partisan voter registration workshop will be held Satur day, January 29, on the John son C. Smith University cam pus. In making the announcement, Smith President Lionel New som observed, “In this day of the 18-year-old ballot, John son c, Smith cannot afford to (See VOTE FEIE. P. 2* s r 4111 ® t iO I! Slii H i CALL FOR AN END TO MURDER OF AFRICANS IN RHO DESIA - Black community demonstrators in Greensboro this week showed their support for African resistance there, The silent vigil in front of the local federal building was in response to the recent killing of 14 Africans and wounding of many others during Black rebellions, showing disapproval for a recently concluded British-white minority Rhodesian agreement. (SOBU News Service photo). DR. N. H. HARRIS Educator Elected AtYMCA Dr. Nelson H. Harris, former interim president of Shaw Uni versity was elected chairman of the Bloodworm Street YMCA Board of Management at a meet ing of the Board on Monday evening, January 24. Other officers elected for three-year terms were Ist vice chairman, J. Mills Kolloway, vice president ofSt. Augustine's College; 2nd vice-chairman, Dr. Daylene Page; secretary, Tho mas Wilder, assist, sec’y, W. W. Hurdle; and treasurer, Ce cil H. Flagg. Charles A. Haywood, Sr., vet eran chairman and a founder of the “Y”, has been elected hon orary chairman and along with James A. Mann, former treas urer, will be given plaques for meritorious services. Ernest L. Raiforc is the ex ecutive director of the Blood worth Street YMCA. Dr. Harris, who resides on New Bern Avenue, here in the city, (HARRIS HEADS, ?. g> SINGLE COPY 15C Slaps Face, Then $ lut By Razor BY STAFF WRITER The old saying, “Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned,” could be changed, in one in stance, to read, “Hell hath no fury like that of two women doing battle ovSr the affections of the same man.” One woman was brtually slashed here Friday with a razor blade, and another has been accused of the raz or blade knifing - . Miss Mable Louise Williams, 31, 547 E. Hargett St., re ported to Officer Freddie L. Rountree at 3:05 p.m. Sunday, that, she and Miss Odell Hollo way, 21, 54S E. Hargett St., were arguing about an unnamed man whom they both were at (See WOMAN CUT, P. 2) ADL Has Book On T caching NEW YORK - The Anti-De famation League of B’nai B’- rith has prepared a new hand book In conjunction with Allyn and Bacon, Inc., textbook pub lishers, dealing with the things teachers need to know about teaching minority-group pu pils - blacks, Spanish-speak ing, Jews, American Indians and Orientals. The 23-paee pamphlet, “Sen (ABL HAS, P. 2) Festival Activities Are Planned Black Festival Activities arc scheduled at Saint Augustine's College, beginning Wednesday, February 2, Dr. E. P. Skinner, noted anthropologist, Franz Bo az, professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia Uni versity, New York, will speak on the Contemporary African Scene,” February 2 at 7:30 p, m. in the Amphitheatre of the New Classroom Buiicjing, On February 4. at "ll a.m. also in the Amphitheatre of N~ CB, Dr. Curtis Wilsbn, direc tor of Black Studies, Cleve land State University, Cleve land, Ohio, will speak on “First and Second Reconstruction- a Comparative Analysis.” February 6, at 3 p.m. the % Augustine's College Gospel choir will ssteig In the College (See FESTIVAL. tr. X)
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