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Raleigh Woman Is Burned To Death In Child's Piav'
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Was Sentenced To Life, But
After Shooting Victim Dies
Judge Frees Defendant Cop is Charged
VOl,. 32, NO. 11
Black, 26,
Was Facing
Life Term
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A
Federal District Court
judfie this week squashed
the life imprisonment
sentence of a 26-year-old
black man who had been
convicted of raping a
while wonsan and sentenc
ed to death in 1963.
Judge* Kof)ert R .Merhige. Jr.
in Hifhnioud ruled Wednesday
oii a defense motion for Thomas
Wansle> of Lynchburg and
ordered the defendant freed
witlun Hi) days unless the stale
decides to try him again.
Virginia officials have indicated
they would appeal the decision
Volunteer defense attorneys
I'hilip .1 liirschkop of Alex-
Set* .M IXiK ERFKS. F 2)
Will Cite
Business,
And Others
Blacks in business and
politics will be spotlighted in a
North Carolina State University
symtMisium starting in January
and featuring lo public lectures.
Dr Odell Czzell, a member of
the NCSU sociology and anthro
pology faculty and coordinator
of the symposium, said: “Speci
fic attention will be focused
upon historical circumstances
and problems which have
affected black entrepreneur-
ship and political involvement
and some of the current trends
and ouMooks."
Ten haziness and political
leaders will deliver the public
lectures at the University
Student Center and conduct
seminars with students the
following mornings.
Abraham V. Venable, direct
or of urban affairs at General
Motors Corporation, will give
the first address in the series at
ip m. January 17. He will speak
on “The Black Entrepreneur in
Historical Ferspeclive."
Dther speakers, their subjects
and (iates are as follows;
.Murray J Marvin, vice
president of N C. Mutual Life
Insurnitce ('o.. “Black Owner
ship and National Politics."
January 31.
Hoyd B. .McKissick. head of
McKissick Enterprises. “Ideo
logical Problems Confronting
the Black Entrepreneur,’* Feb.
5.
John W Winters. Raleigh real
estate developer. “Black Busi
ness Development at the
February
North CaroUna*g Leading Weekly
FNDING SAT.. JAN. 13, 1973
RALEIGH, N. C.,
SINGLE COPY 15c
In Housing Project Picketing, White
Radicals Denounced
Federal Housing, Model Cities
Programs Are Facing The Axe
WASHINGTON - Last year, federal housin<; and
urban renewal programs were inundated by charges of
c'.rruption, ineptitude, and proponents of continuing
racial segregation.
The new year has not yet brought any visible panacea.
And, recently, there have been widespread rumors that
President Nixon may soon impose a moratorium on all
federal housing subsidies for the next 18 months and
will suspend indefinitely grants for urban renewal,
water and sewer improvement, new town projects, and
model cities in July.
History Of
Sickle Cell
Is Revealed
Internatioh.'il Level,'
21.
bee WILL CITE. F.2)
NEW YORK - Why does sickle
cell anemia, a painful and
debilitating ailment, strike out
mainly against blacks?
According to a January
Reader's Digest article, more
than two million people -
approximately ten percent of
the U.S. black population -
carry the sickle cell trait -
usually without knowing it. If
two carriers marry and have
children, there's a one-in-four
(See SICKLE CELL. P.2)
V\ W^s I.OODHVF TO STRIKING TE.UHER - PHIIADEL
PlilX Vn < t« infiiiai V school student waves goodb> lo a teacher
v> lO IS (in ihi picket line outside his school after he and other
11 >' ir* wt re sent home b> the school's principal when not enough
l«- «h is Nhowed up as the IK.OOU members of the Philadelphia
1-erteraiHin of Teachers struck the citv’s school system January H.
' t Pi
An 0MB press spokesman,
Joseph Laitin, said he “can’t
discuss it (the rumor of a halt in
housing programs)." Noting
that the rumor was widely
publicized in the area. Laitin
said, “I read the newspapers
just like you." When queried as
to whether this was the sum
total of his knowledge of the
moratorium. Laitin added. “I
didn't say that." He then
suggested that the National
Black News Service wait until
the budget comes out Jan. 29
"when these things become
official."
According to an earlier
report. Laitin was quoted as
having said. “I know things are
breaking loose here and there -
some accurate, some inaccur
ate. In certain areas, with
sensitive information. I have to
be a little more circumspect. '
In a letter dated Dec. 29. a
perhaps unprecedented ad huc
coalition of tenants, mortgage
bankers, builders, and housing
officials urged President Nixon
to reject the 0MB recommenda
tion on the ground that a
moratorium on housing would
"deal a fatal blow” to the
national goal of “a decent home
for every American*' and would
have a serious impact on the
national economy.
“The human and economic
results of such acti.m can only
be described as catastrophic, '
the national coalition of some 22
groups • including the League of
Women Voters, the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored Ptoplt the
National Urban Coalition, the
National Realty Committee,
and the National Tenants
Organization - told the Presi
dent. adding that a halt now
“can hardl> help this nation
In addition, the coalition
asked Mr Nixon to reaffirm hi>
support for federal housing
programs
Robert Mafiin direcinr of the
National .Association of Housing
and Redevelopment Oflicials
and temporary chairman of the
coalition’s steering committee,
said in an interview this week
that his group curre-tly
■See FEDERAL P2
NEW OKI.K.XN.i DEATH
SCIAK - New Orleans, La. •
Two policemen assist a third
across the roof of the Howard
Johnson Lodge here Monday
after a ricochetliiig bullet from
a fellow officer's rifle him in the
leg. The body of one sniper.
James Robert Essexx. a native
of Emporia. Kansas, who was
recently discharged from the
I .S. Naiy (inset photo). In the
officer’s effort to safety, they
pass a riddled air exhaust vent
and the body of Essexx. Police
were unable to find another
sniper, hut continued their
search through Tuesday night
for "one or more snipers.” Six
persons. iiuTuding three police
men, were killed, and some 17
were wounded. < I'Pl)
Barbours
Parents Of
First Baby
Mrs. Pamela K Sanders
Barbour bee'ame the winner of
Ther.-\R<)lJMAN s First Baby
Contesl. spi.nsoreo anriUislly by
(his paper Mrs Bartmur is Ihe
molher ol a baby son. born at
la;2() p m on Monda\. January
1. 197:). at Raleigh s Wake
Memorial Hospital The infant
(See FIRST R.ARV P 2<
.iW'.
Child Says
Neighbors
Set Blaze
A 5-year-old child told a
story of woe that indicat
ed other children in the
fatal burning of his
mother here last Sunday
night after Thomas John
son, 709 Jamaica Drive
called police officers to tne
scene.
Investigating Officer R. L.
Hawley was the first to arrive
on the scene at 9:43 p.m. to
investigate an arson call at 711
Jamaica. The aparlpienl was in
flames, said Officer Hawley
“The renter of this apartment
came running up and said his
girlfriend was inside with her
son '
“Officer Wi.iston ran up to the
door and saw a body lying,
approximately five feet inside
Ihe apartment."
The victim was Mrs. Barbara
\1 Thorpe. 23. Her five-year-old
son was found running down the
slr.et
The bo;, slated that “two of
Kloi.se s children came in and
lieal me up and said they were
going lo burn my mother up
Then, they took out matches."
The child said he then ran out of
• operlmenl and down the
S.'. WOMV.N I.', t>.2.
Councilman
Caught In
Crossfire
BY PAUL THOMPSON
National Black News Service
BERKELEY, Calif - Berke
ley’s most outspoken radical
city councilman, black activist
D'Army Bailey, has become the
focal point of criticism from
fellow blacks and radicals and
of a recall move from his
opponents on the right.
Bailey, a 30-year-old graduate
of Yale Law School, has been
charged by a spokesman for the
Berkeley Recall Committee,
Vice Mayor Wilmont Sweeney,
with "vituperative, disruptive
conduct that often makes it
impossible for the council to
conduct business"
The Recall Committee must
collect 118,000 valid signatures
by Feb 1 in order to force a vote
on Councilman Bailey in the
April 17 city elections. Other
wise he will remain on the
council for the full four year
term to which he was elected in
1971.
The recall drive originally
was directed at all three of the
.•’“'''‘TS TO SOUL CITY HOUSING -
WAKl.ENTON: Longtime civU righte activist Floyd McKissick
points to iHwsing cluster on map of Soul City, a self-conUined
community for poor people be is planning to build on 5,000 acres of
rural farmland here. Construction of a medical center, an
electronics firm and housing is to begin in early 1973. In 30 years
Soul City is expected to have SO.OOO residents', a dozen or more
Industries. shopoinK areas, schools hosnltals and churches, a lake
a golf course and numerous paiiu. (UPI)
Dr. Sullivan Announces
9th Annual OIC Meet
DALLAS, Tex. - Dr. Leon H.
Sullivan, Chairman of the
Opportunities Indistrialization
Centers (OIC) of America,
announces the Ninth Aimual
Comocation of ttie loi local
OICs with Board Members,
Executive and Administrative
Staff, trainees and resource
personnel from Industry, Gov
ernment and Community agen
cies together for five days of
programmed activity: semi
nars. luncheons, group discuss
ions, workshops, etc. in Dallas.
Texas, commencing Sunday.
February 18, 1973 through
Wednesday, February 21, 1973.
Sessions will be held at the
Adolphus Hotel, located in
downtown Dallas.
Over 2500 delegates are
expected to register for the
Convocation and a number of
liey personalities from Gov
ernment and Industry will
participate in the program.
Judge F. Alien, of Moores
CRIME
BEAT^
From RairlgH't Officii
PoliM File*
iSee COUNCILMAN, P.2)
AID VXOINDED (DMRADE — THMAT PONG. t AMBODIA:
< dinlMNliyn soldieiN carM a niiunded comrade after heavy fighting
during a ('ommuiiiHi ambush January 7 near thU town 22 miles
west ol ih#* capital ol Phnos Penh. Vative Communist insurgents
scored their nxist spectacular success of the 34-month war January
H by capturing Preah Prasa>. a strategic town 15 miles northeast (X
Phntmi Penii on the Mekong River. il'Pli
town, N.J., Project M<^nager of
the Convocation, and a General
Electric Company Executive, is
on loan to OIC of America to
assist Dr. Sullivan in a
(See OR. SULLIVAN. P 2)
NC’s GOPS
Plan A New
Black Body
In the light ot present events,
as they relate to the emergence
of the Republican Party, in the
stale, and feeling that the party,
if it is to make further gains,
must involve minorities in
every phase of its endeavor, we,
the members of minorities, who
supported Republican candi
dates. Ill the 1972 election, do by
t.his instrument, establish an
urganization, which we feel will
give us viability within the
party and help us to bring
others into Ihe fold.
Due to the many disadvan
tages that have militated
against us in the political arena
and Ihe lack of demonstrated
interest, in many quarters, by
leaders of the Republican
Party, it is the hope of the
framers of this instrument that
it will serve as Ihe catylist that
will fuse us into the main
stream of Republican politics.
NAME
The name of the organization
shall be Minorities Division oi
the North Carolina State
Republican Party, functioning
as a respected organization,
under the auspices of the N C.
State Republican Party, not as
a separate entity, but as part
and parct' of the state
organizatio ..
MEMBERSHIP
Any member of a minority,
who has embraced the tenets of
the Republican Party, on the
precinct, county, state or
national level, or any person
who might embrace the said
tenets, regardless of past party
affiliations, can be a member of
the organization with all the
rights, privileges and immuni
ties thereto.
OFFICERS
The officers of the organize
tion shall be registered Repub
licans and shall have shown an
expressed interest in building
the Republican Party, in the
(See NC GOPS. P.2i
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Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK |
RHOlitS (liHk'limt I
For Quality Furni’.ure At Sensible Prices :§
EOITOB'S NOTE: Thl, coiunm
or feature It produced tn the pub
lic intereit with an aim toward!
eUmlnatlnf Its contents. Numer*
out Individuals have requested
that they be fiven the considera
tion of overlooking their llstlns
on the police blotter. This v.‘«
would like to do. However, It la
not our position to be Judge or
Jury. We merely publish the facts
at we find them reported by the
arresting officers. To keep out ol
The Crime Beat Columns, merely
meant not being registered by a
police officer In reporting his
findings while on duty. So sim
ply keep off the “Blotter'' and
you won't be la The Crime Beal.
USES TABLE LEG
Mrs. Sandra Bass Woods,
Route 2, Garner, told two cops
at 6:59 p.m. Saturday, that her
husband asked her to leave a
cafe at 410 S. Blount Street, then
chased and attacked her. She
declared that he cut her with a
knife before she ran outside,
then proceeded to strike her on
the head with a table leg. The
officers found that one table
was broken in the scuffle,
doing $20 in damage, said the
owner. W'illiam Lassiter of
Lassiter's Cafe. The husband.
Harry Lee Woods. 37. Route 2.
Garner, caused a four inch
laceration on his wife's left arm
and a two inch cut on the back of
the head.
(See CRLME BEAT. P. 3)
Trade Union
Benounces
Opposition
NEWARK. N.J. -
Members of Kawaida
Temple, builders of the
Kawaida Towers housing
project for low and middle
income families have
denounced the picketing
by white radical groups at
the building site.
Without contacting the Ima
mu Baraka-led Temple, about
TO members of .Students for a
Dem^ratic Society ISDS) and
the Progressive Labor Party
have i^n demonstrating in
opposition to the pick. :ing of the
(See DENOUNCED, P 2)
No Motive
Given For
Officer, 42
DURHAM - A black
police officer of 14 years
was charged last Monday
with murder in the death
of another local black
n.an. John Ernest Hunter,
42, is being held in the
death ot Amos Johnson
Wilson, 40-year-oId local
resident.
After waiving a pre
liminary hearing in
Durham County District
Court M onday, Officer
Hunte. as fr.eii upon
paying a bond of $20,000.
Hunter, off duty at the time
the alleged mur J^r took place,
was arrested shortly after the
Friday night slaying at a
service station
Police said Wilson was shot
once in the ch».-.t with a .38
Soutfihi'fl U.
Reopens For
73-74 Year
National Black News Service
BATON ROUGE, La.
Approximately 75 percent of the
student body returned to classes
at Southern University last
week as the school reopened for
the first time since Nov. 16 when
two black students were slain in
a police confrontation, accord
ing to a university spokesman.
Dr. E C. Harrison, vice
president of the imiversity, said
he thought the 8,700 student
institution would soon be
operating normally in spite of a
newly-proposed student tmy-
cott.
However, security around the
campus was tight as a
beefed-up staff of guards
checked identification cards of
students and looked for those
persons banned from entering
the campus. A stale court had
issued a restraining order
barring seven student leaders of
a ^oup known as Students
United who had contradicted
administration officials’ reports
that most student grievances
had been resolved.
Frtd Prejean, a member of
Ihe group which has been
(See SOUTHERN U.. P.2)
Appreciation Feature
Has No Winners
Unfortunatelv, there were no
winners in The CAROLINIAN'S
Appreciation Money feature
last week We trust that will not
be the case this week as thri*e
checks in the amount of $10 each
will be deposited at some firm,
located on the Appreciation
Money page this week, each of
the three bearing a name
chosen from the City Directory
(See APPRECIATION. P