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Although 26-yeiir-
olcl Thomas .Adams
was shot to death at
10 p.m. last Friday,
his txidy still lies cold
In the morgue at Wake
Memorial llospllal,
wail ng to be claimed
by a funeral home or
a relalive. Mystery
still shrouds the kill
ing of this black man.
who was allegedly in
the bedroom of the
iiian'.s teenage daugh
ters when a scream
was heard. Adams liv
ed at G12 S. Saunders
Street.
For Black Candidates Here
Prednet 35 Hans “Whistlestop*
VOL. 31. NO. 25
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. APRIL 22. 1972
SINGLE COPPy I5c
HOUSE IS WHICH ^JAN W.\5 SLAlN-Shown above U a house, locat>?d at 309 Maywood .ivwiut*
(Caralclgh si^ctlon), in which a t-lack man, Tliornas Adan;s, 2C, was found shot to death al>oui 1C
p.n.. last Friday night. tsTaiFf 5‘HOTO).
Held Under Bond Of $20,000 Bond-Woman
SCLC Plans Protests At Both
National Political Conventions
P.niJ Fdwlii Phipps, 4S-year-
old whlto resident of 303 May-
wo'id Avi'nuc 'C-aratelsh soc-
tlou, .soutl. ofHalot^h), admitted
ft! tni: thf cor- shot that Jellied
Thiifi.as .\dam5.
Police rcjiorts state that or^e
fd Phlpis* tfonage daughters
discoxeri'i! Adams* Ij tig nakec
on the ksl bj one of Phipps*
It^fnage daughters- Reportedly,
her SC! t-ains awakened her fa-
tsee N.\IC|:D UODY. P i\
Mrs. Boy er
Cited By
Business
In ijbs.rvafift.. ..j National
Hiishtoss Aprllf*-::, Up-
stl«i Ch.iptor of hrta I’hl Larnt->
Ja Sororil:-. l-x. naleich, pre
sented to Vr.s. tirnpu Boyer,
l>ir«»ctu; ol tl.o Y\NC.\. "54 £,.
Hargett St!-el, a Pla5»je honor
ing her a* ‘T'tisil.-sswornaii of
iLlfVrt.t 1 .T'' »•*. - k.
ATLANTA, Ga. • The Board
of Directors of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence has passed resolutions
catling thf Nixon Admlnlstra -
tioii *'ai.ii-lilack. anii-r>oor,
and eotndiitting ihe orgar.lza-
tlon «'tocarry tlieSCLCfiiove-
merit to the RepuUtcan and
Democratic national conven-
ll«>s.** A Poor People’s Ub-
by to raise Lssues pertinent to
the lives ofpoor people Is plan
ned for ihcco«iveiitlons,afidthe
SCLC Ikurd didnot rule out the
possibility of a '’Poor People’s
City" as .1 Irase of creative
protest .It tbeDemocratlcCon-
vetiilra. p, Mlan.i D-ach.
Passage of the resolutions
Was aitriour.cod here reent by
Dt, Ralph D4v.d Abernathy,
President, and Dr, J. K. Low-
cry. Chairman of the ^ard,
foHowifig tiie aruiual spring
meeting of the Board.
Dr. Abernath} said that SCLC
will .not ej.dorse a Presidential
catidtdat«>, at tea.st until after
the c'*nveat|cTis, but said "The
record of the Ni*fi Ad-
jnLisrralion Is so poorthatthe
SCLC fwjard Ijis fiadji ll el^r
commit SCLC to expose the Board:
policies aiid practice.s of the •DemandiHl that the U. S. gov-
present Admlntstr.itlon dur- emmeni resume the Paris
Ing the remaining months of pe.ace talks and accept a two-
the primary electlotis." point proposal for endbig the
p Id Heart
In other resolutions, the
8et SCLC PLANS. P. ?)
National NAACP Treasurer-Emeritus
Cited By
Business
In observance of National
Business Week, April 9-15, Up-
sUon Chapter of lota Phi Lamb
da Sorority, Inc. Raleigh, pre*
seated to Mrs. Emma Boyer,
Director of the WCA, 554 E.
Hargett Street, a plaque honor
ing her as "Businesswoman of
the Year. 1972.”
This nlaoue was presented to
Mrs. Boyer Li recognition of
her achh'Vements in the busi
ness and profo.sslonal field, al
so for hcrnianycontritttllonsio
the community at large.
Mrs. Boyer Is a native of
Raleigh, North Carolina. She
Is married to Dr. James A.
Boyer, president-emeritus and
staff member of St. Augustine’s
College. They have a daugh
ter, Rstlier L. Boyer, who will
soon t>o graduating fromSt. Au
gustine’s College with honors.
Boyer attended the Ra-
Ralelgh Public Schools. Her
high school days were spent
at Bishop Tuttle School al St,
Augtistlne's College. She Is a
graduate of St. Augustine's Col
lege. She received a Masters
degree from the Atlanta Uni
versity School of Social Work.
She and Dr. Boyer c.ngaged
in conipanion sttdy at Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massa-
*?i1r5.*feoyor has t'eenhofsored
at "/eta Woman of the Year,"
and her family was chosen
"Christmas Christian Family
of Ihe Yt*ar'' by The CAROLIN
IAN In 1971. She t»as a wide
range of experience In the Busi
ness and Professional Field,
She has taught Li the Raleigh
Public School System. She was
on the facultv of the Bishop
Tuttle School at St. .Augustine's
College for " 1 2 years, 2 1/2
years of this time she held the
posltlo.'! of Teacher-Principal.
".Mrs. Emma Boyer is well
deserving of Upsllon Cluptor's
First Annual Award.
vention In Miami Beach.
Passage of the resolutions
was announced here recent by
Dr, Ralph David Abernathy,
President, and Dr. J. B. Low-
cry, Chairman of the Board,
following the annual spring
meeting of the Board.
Dr. Abernathy said that SCLC
will not endorse a Presidential
candidate; at least until after
the convontiens, but said "The
record of the Nixon Ad
ministration Is so poorthat Ihe
SCLC Board has made It clear
that we certainly couldnot sup
port the re-election ofRtchard
Nlxoji, The Board resolved to
Proctor To
Appear
At NCCU
Raps Wallace, Nixon
Ernestine
Used Knife
-Marlin
A 47-year-oUl Ra
leigh man, John Rokes,
is now in the Intensive
care division al Wake
Usfed Knife
7.’
'A 47-year-old Ra
leigh man, John Rokes, „
is now in the Intensive
care division at Wake
Memorial Hospital af
ter being stabbed,
allegedly by Miss Er
nestine Ford at 9:30
p. m. Sunday. The
stabbing is believed to
have taken place in the
500 block of Reagan
Lane (Method), but a
Lcm is Is
Heard Bv
mi
Chapter
Alfred Baker Lewis.
75, Ihe Xati'.na! »re:i-
surer-enierttiis of Ihe
Heard By
Chapter
MISS ERNESTINE FORD
JOHN ROKES
^DURHAM - .Dr. Samuel D.
Proctor, a former president
of North Carolina .k & T State
University who Is now professor
of education in the Graduate
School of Education at Rutgers
University, will spf>ak at North
Carolina Central University
Monday and Tuesday, April 24,
and 2". under the auspices of
the university's Religious Ac
tivities Committee and College
Minister’s Office.
Dr. Proctor will speak In the
Alfonso Elder Student Union at
7:30 p.n... Monday, April 24,
on "Revolution In a Technolo
gical Society." His topic at
2:30 p.m., Tuesday. April 25.
In Room tA] of the Classrofm
Bullouig, will be "The Univer
sity as a Change .\gcnt.**
The speaker Is a Virginian,
an alumnus of Virginia Union
PROCTOR TO P
WHITE N. C. COLLEGE HONORS BLACK QUEEN- l^orth
Carolina Wesleyan (Methodist) College, Rocky Mount, has
signally honored Miss Ernestine Dancy, a senior, who be
came the first black to be elected as Homecoming Queen and
Sweetheart of the NuCamma Pht Fraternity;andnamed a dean's
list history major. Additionally, Miss Dancy Is assistant
resident counsellor of the upper-class girls’ dormitory.
Last week she was named to represent N. C. Wesleyan Col
lege at the ncted Wilmington ^Vzalca Festlv^al April 13*>16.
Emesilne participates In several musical groups on the
Wesleyand campus, (BARRINGER STUDIO PHOTOX
Lincoln Cab official
was the person who
called the Raleigh Po
lice Department. The
Cab Company is locat
ed at 429 S. Blount St.
(S*« STABBED Of, P. X)
'God Restored My Sight,'
Airs. Kelly Tells Scribe
ViefnameseTell Americans
Group How War Can End
After meeting last week In
Paris, France, with repre
sentatives of North Vietnam
and the National Liberation
Front (NLF) of South Vietnam,
an official of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence recent told how a ne
gotiated settlement could end
the war In Vietnam.
Stoney Cooks, Executive Di
rector of SCLC, said that the
NLF and North Vietnamese re
presentatives told him and two
other Americans that the war
tSrr VIETNAMESE B tt
Campaign
Planned
By Precinct
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Mrs. Emily May .Morgan Kelly, minister of
music at the First Baptist Church for fifty
years, and a music teacher ;it lioih the old
Washington High and J. W. Ligon High! Schools,
for about the same nunitier of years, brought
tears to the eyes of this writer as .she told of
“.My story of God's miracle to me.’’ The event
of restored sight occurred on Sunday, \pril 9,
as she sat at the piano in a chapel, playing
the Songs of Zion for herself and the others
In the chapel.
MIRACLE was pvrformed.Thls
Alfred Baker Lewis,
75, the National trea
surer-emeritus of (he
• N.A.\CP, and a mem
ber of (he national
board for 42 years,
denouncer! (he candi-
jdacy of Governor
George Wallace of
.'Mabamu for the Ue-
mocratic presidential
nomination as a poli
tical abomination, at a
meeting of the Ra-
leigh-.\pex brunch of
the NAACP held .Mon
day night at the Family
Restiiurant. near Ihe
LEWIS Is, P. S)
Dr. Jones
HeardAt
Dr. Roundtree
To Appear
St.PaulAME
The women of St, Paul A.
M. E, Church willob^K^rvctholr
annual Woman's Day Sunday .\-
prlj 23. at U a.m. bthechurch
sanctuary. The sneaker wlU
be the dj-nainic Dr. Thelma
Roundtree of the5t. Augustine's
faculty.
ITio eveiilng service will con
sist of a panel discussion on
"Values a!id the Modem Wo
man," The panelists will be
Mrs. N- E. Lockhart, retired
principal of Crosby Garfield
School, Mrs. J(^n Caldwell,
^Ife of the Chancellor of NC-
SU, Mrs. Donald Shrlver, Pre
sident N. c. Consumer Coun
cil, Miss Marlon Kayes, Ha
loid's Com.T.iifilty Amiiassador
Abroad, and Mrs. DavidSpat«h,
Home Supervisor of U. S. de
partment of Agriculture.
Precinct 35 will hold a
"WhlsHesiop" Caravan and
Rally at five strategic areas
within the Precinct on Satur
day, AprU 22, 1972. The Car
avan will feature lae three
black candidates running for
public office In the May Cth
Primary; .Mrs. Elizabeth Co-
Held for County Commis
sioner, A. J. Turner for N.
C^ House, and John Winters
for N. C. Senate.
The Caravan is anon-partls-
slan effort within Precinct
35 designed to Introduce these
candidates to the people
throughout this large andpre-
domlnately black ITeclnct lo
cated In the East Ralelgharea.
and topromole voter awareness
of the upcoming May Cth Pri
mary,
This Whistlcstop Caravan
will bring the candidates to
the people In their neighbor
hoods. Listen for th^
•whistle.’* The public ts In-
She told her story thusly:
"Several months ago, I began
to find that my sight was weak
ening, until it seemed that It
was about half gone. I was not
norrlfled, but I was partly ter
rified. I do not like the dark.
Those who know men, Jaiow I
keep light around me," the
musician par excellence went
on to say.
"My friends, who taew about
ray growing blinding eyes, were
In dedicated prayer for me, aJid 1
am a witness to say that a real
was done on Sunday. April 9.
(Sre MRS. KKLLY. P. X»
Fayetteville
Appreciation
Money Given
E. L. Cooley
FAYETTEVILLE - Dr. Ru
dolph Jones told a Fayetteville
State University Founder's Day
audience that black colleges
need not fear the restructur-
Sc* OB, JONES, b
The winner *4 Appreciation
Mone> last week was Ernest
L. Cooley, whose name wa&
clioSi’H fri'nn the Ben Frai.Klln
CRIME
BEAT
From Ralclch’s Offich-I
PoUce Fltrs
fS*r .aPHRCt L\TION. >. X)
\ ISQi lRiyC REPORTER \
they SAY
I
^ W^aPf WIUTKR S
\Vbai ways and moans do you think law enforce
ment officers can use to decrense the spread
of drugs?
BUa CARRYTNC. FIFTY PASSENGERS' OVERTURNS-Hirrlsburg, Pa.: Guard raU drapes
the overturned btis that rolled over from the Pa. Turnpike here April 16. The bus w^s char
tered, carrying about 50-pa$sengers who were returning to Cleveland, Ohio from a Baptist
convention.
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
THE KIRBY COMPANY
For The Ultimate In Vacuum Cleaners
Mr. Ahert Dar.ford,
Greensboro
"I thhik If Judges would pass
some very stiff senler.ces once
the pushers of dope arc caught
would doc/ease the spread of
the drug case. The only way
to try to decrease the Dow Is
once the pushers are caught
and convicted, they should be
EDIT0IV8 KI>TE: ThU COlBBia
or feature U produced in the pub
lic inleren with an ala towards
eUminitlAf iu eententa: Numer-
otiB indlndoaU havw reqaested
that ther be xlvea the ceatldera-
tlon'of overloohlne iheir llftlnx
OB the police blotter. Thli we
would like to do. Bewever. It Is
not our pofHtoa to be Judse or lo
ry. We merely publish the facta
as We find them reported by the
arrestlnc officers. To keep dkt of
The Crime Beat Celamns. merely
means not belat reitstered by t
police ameer in reportlag. Ml
ttadlacs while oa duty. So sfan-
ply keep off the ''Blotter*' aai
^OQ won't be la The Crime Xl*at
CsVNEB IS beaten
Jarr^l
pitnlshed accordingly."
Mls-S Rachel Knight,
Durham
"1 think If the law enforce
ment officers would organise
a cor.tLnous mvestlgatioti on the
drug abuse case this would
help decrease (he spread of
(See THEY SAY. I»- Xl
Clinton Brough
ton. owner of cafeteria, located
at €05 HUlsl>orot^h Street, told
Officer R. C. Maynard at 3
a.m. Saturday, that four or five
Negro subjects were using vul
gar language and he ordered
them to leave. One subject
attempted to strike Brot^htor.,
who picked up a knife and a*
gain ordered them to Ivave,
They left and one returned and
threw a sugar dish at Brough
ton, resulting in a two Inch
laeeratlo.’; on Broughton’s left
arm. Suspects were in the
company of Raymond Earl
Tucker, 206 Dorothea Drive.
(Scr CRIME BEAT. P. X)