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Firat Blaak On Paroles Board ■■-' 9.200
I Was Not Asked To Resign:' J. Baker
■ ■ — ' ^ Wake Solon
Fletcher Was Ex-Nixon Aide
LOWKH Ol XI.I.I ttKI) ( <>!' K!l.l.KI<-> Xtl.inta \tlanta I’olit e and firemen to\U‘i (he hiKh
of Mark ( . Ih ihune ollteiroit. Mi< t nn (he r(M»f of a Morrjv ftorw n < ollei-e doniiKoi \ Kehriiar> -’7
after heiii(> shol lo death in a shooloxt th an Atlant.i poiireniam Beihune a liiktitive u anted lor the
slavinf{ of a Delmil polu email, h.i ' en hunted in the \ilanta area loi font davs There were
conflirtintt reports on how Hethiiii' died, howiver I IM
Crash That Killed
Three Blach Kids
Could Be Jfiurder
SLMMKHVll.l K, S.(\ - Ihie.
Dorcht .sU*r (Ouniv. S ('. lust w
th(*v w(*if iintniiTod,
The U’l'-- •'■tuli
Cttre X . in» I . a cominunTty operaleil school in Kidj:!
Se\i*ni. five feet in front of a *h*’
stop Mfin the bus swerved off
i hool ativd H..Tk children diwl m a bu' accident in
el). 201. Com. i.nitv re'^idenl'' are corn inceil that
nlotiK with I'i hers, were bet»S'Vlriven to Dorchester County Day
jub.prh a ditch and ran
tree The entire left side
rlppeii irom the bus.
Pamela Smith, 6;
Otis
MAJOR MCDANIEL
‘Cutoff Is
Disastrous,’
Aide Says
National lUack News Service
WASHINGTON - Typical of
the altitude displayed towards
the Nixon <‘dict calling for the
eliniinaiion of federally funded
poverty programs, was hat of
24'yeiir-old Ed W'iggins of
Bridegeport. Connecliiut in
town !■> participate ir last
week'' National Mobili;ation
for Di'inestic Unity Day.
(See (T TOFF IS. P.2)
POW Honored In Greensboro
GREENSBORO Air Force
Major Norman McDaniel,
outspoken POW opponent ol
granting amnesty to deserters,
had a .special da\ planned tor
him in Greensboro Wednesdas
ul this week
The ‘ hamber of Commt
.sponsiied the occasion.
.After being among the fi
POWs released. Maior
n: •
iSET VOW MAJOR, P.
Fires Director
1
ARO
North CaroUna*s Leading Weeldy
VOL. .32. NO. 18
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1973
SINGLE COPY 15c
Raleigh Student At JNCCMJ
Slashes N.C. Coed
^ ^
Commission For Racial Justice
Chavis iiea^ DC
Ben Chavis
Free Under
SOGs Bond
4 4 ^
EXHIBITS IIM i ROW LAWS - Undated - The ■•aparthied” laws of
pa<il 2.1 >earv have placed the non whit- mujoritv of South
^ \fiica under the ahvolule control of a goverBiiient ele* ted onl> b>
the white minoritv fhe black lives in separiti town^hips. Their
children attend ail hlack sihmds. Blacks mmt .it at) nines carrv
Spe. ul police passes 'shown here* (I Pli.
ille, S.C.
hkay, Johnson. 4; and Raymond
ii^o a Campbell, 3, were killed. Three
other children were injured.
Elijah DeLee, the driver of
the bus. had to undergo surgery
for a ruptured spleen and liver,
and has not yet been able to
explain what happened. How
ever, his mother, Ms. Victoria
DeLee * the school’s founder -
was quick to come up with an
explanation: “Foul play.”
Ms. Del^ee reported that two
• mysterious” accidents had
occured the day before the fatal
crash, both involving day care
center vehicles.
The steering mechanism on
the school's other bus went out
while it was carrying children
down a dirt road.
When a station wagon was
sent to retrieve the children, a
tire and wheel came off of that
vehicle.
Some reports attributed to
eyewitnesses at the scene of the
fatal bus crash have told of a
wheel missing in that incident
also.
Thus. Ms. DeLee is convinced
that the accident is the result of
sabotage
She has been the leader of two
recent boycotts of the Dorches
ter County schools. Black
students walked out of Harley*
ville-Ridgeville High School on
Jan 26 and began boycotting
Summerville High School on
Jan. 29.
In the Summerville walkout.
147 students were arrested for
“failure to disperse.” The State
Commission on Human Affairs
has been heading up negotia
tions to answer the grievances
of (he parents and students
raised during the boycott.
The boycotts stirred a lot of
(See ( R.\SH KILLS. P.2)
Victims Of
Disease Did
Mot Consent
'.SHINGTON ■ None o( the
43 black men atflicied with
sy lbs and untreated in the
I Tu ppgee studv gave their
! “ii. l ined consent to take part
in • • ''tudv.
T i wasoneo!’hefindingsol
a c 'en's panel investigating
the . '.2 study that came to light
ia^l ek
IT. report indicated that at
least and pi*i hap> as many as
107 Ol <e men mav have died as
a vvh of unlreaieii syphilis
Tin 1 S Public Health
Servii a division of HK\X.
spoils* -d the exocianenl
The experiment featured
rural lacks trom Macon
Countv \labaina The purpose
was to fnl out how untreated
syphiii> ttects humane
iSee \ 1IMS OF. V 2)
1 h(' Reverend Benjamin
Chavis, former organizer in
the North Carolina-Virginia
Field Office of the Commis
vion for Racial Justice
United Church of Christ
has been nameti as the new
dirtHtor of the Commis
'‘ion’s Washington. DC
Field Office.
Chavis who was released on
bad of SMi.iNMi from Central
PriMin in Raleigh North
Carolina in I)(*cemb<‘r replaces
the Kev Benjamin I.a*wis, who
along with the former program
ciMirdinator. the Rev William
(.and. w 11 ht'come a part-time
consul’.in* m the ( onvmission
TV. '■ '- ii?iv«* Iiifs >(*r ol the
C<mimission for Racial Justice.
Dr Charles E Cobb, praised
(SEE BEN CHAVIS. P. 2)
MY INVESTIGATE DISORDERS AMONG CREWMEN • Washington - Rep. Donald V. Dellums.
D-Callf. (left), the first black member of Congress to be named to the House Armed Services
Committee, said February 26 it should reopen its investigation of disorders among crewmen on two
aircraft carriers to get testimony from black sailors. At right is Donald Miller, formerly in charge of
the Pentagon’s equal opportunity programs for servicemen. (UPI)
Raleigh Student Jailed
After Coed Is Knifed
DURHAM - Otis H. Jeffries, 24, a student at North
Carolina Central University here, of 1331 RaleiRh
Boulevard, Raleigh, was charged with assault and
battery on Mis Ruby Golden, NCCU coed, in Durham
Monday.
ARTHUR A. FLETCHER
UNCF Head,
Board In
Disagreement
NEW YORK - Christopher F.
Eflev was slated to replace
Arthur A Fletcher as director
of the United Negro College
Fund this week
Fund officials decided Iasi
week to fire Fletcher after
several months of disagreement
over policy matters.
Edley, a lawyer, has been
with the Ford Foundation for
the past ten vears. He comes to
the United ' Negro Fund post
trom a position as program
ofticer with the foundation
Fletcher was formerly assist
ant Secretary of Labor in Ihe
Nixon Admimslration
He succeeded y'trnon Jordan
as UF director.
It was a "mismatch " from
the beginning one lund official
said of the hoard’s relationship
with Fletcher
Fletcher g(»t 49 pc*rcent ol the
vote lor LieulenanI Governor of
Washington when he ran for
I See UNO FIRES. P. 2'
Police reported that Jeffries
slashed Miss Golden with a
steak knife in the college’s Law
Building late Monday after
noon.
The coed sustained wounds on
the left side of her chest and on
her left ear.
Jeffries was placed under
$400 bond in the Durham County
Jail.
Campus sources said the two
had been ’ going together ” for
some lime and that they argued
aflp urning to Durham from
Ihe -.AA tournament in
Greensboro.
Miss Golden was treated at
Duke Medical Center and
released.
The incident drew a large, but
orderly, crowd on the NCCU
campus.
Police said students
in the
Teacher Of The Year
Going To Mediterranean
DURHAM - James (Jay)
Marshall Rogers. Jr . the North
Carolina Central University
alumnus who was the first black
educator named National
Teacher of the Year, will tour
the Mediterranean on a Slate
Department-sponsored trip in
March-
The Department of Stales
Bureau of F'ducational and
Cultural .Affairs will send
Rogers lo meet with educators,
government, university, and
Embassv officials in Athens.
Thessaloniki. Cairo. Alexan
dria. Beirut, and Tel Aviv He
will visit universities, second
(See TEACHER, P. 2)
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
Jollnson Laiiibe
For The Bevl In Kleclrii Xppliances
crowd had disarmed Jeffries by
the time they arrived on the
campus
Investigation is continuing in
Ihe case.
CHIME
BEAT
From Raleigh’s Official
Police File*
EDITOR'S NOTE-' ThU coiumA
or feature Is produced in the pub
lic ijiterett with an aim towards
eUmlnattni Its contents. Numer
ous individuals have requested
that they be given ihe considera
tion of overlookin' their listing
on the police blotter. This v.e
would like to do. However, it is
not our position to be Judge or
Jury. We merely publish Che 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 reportlna his
findings whUe on duty. So sim
ply keep off the “Blotter" and
you won’t be la The Crime Beat.
STABBKIUNSIDE
Fred Wilson. 61. 1013 S.
Wilmington Street, told Officer
W B Holland at 3:05 p m. last
Wednesday, that he was at 107
Bragg Street, the home of Mrs.
Marv Spencer. He admitted
that he and Mrs Spencer got
into an argument and she made
him leave. Wilson said the
woman followed him lo the
street, where she then slabbed
him with a knife He was taken
to Wake Memorial Hospital for
treatment ol a puncture wound
in the left side and released He
refused to sign an assault with a
deadly weapon warrant against
Mrs. Spencer, whose age was
listed as 69
See ( RIME BEAT. P. 3)
Appreciation
Feature Has
No Winners
There were no winners in The
UAHDLIMAN s Appreciation
•ature last wt*ek but as many
as three pt'ople could have won
$10 prizes Last week as U is
every week, three names were
listed on the appreciation page
However, no one came into the
office of The ('AROI.IMAN to
I (SEE ,\PPUK( lATlON. P.
SAYS SHE’LL RETIRE •
Washington • Rep. Shirley
Chisholm, D-N.Y., the first
black woman ever to run for the
presidency of the United States,
reported this week that she will
retire from elective office in the
very near future. A native of
Brooklyn. N.Y.. Mrs. Chisholm
is a former school teacher.
(UPI)
Seeks Reform
On Paroles
John Baker, Jr., this week
denied published reports
that he has been asked to
resign from the three
member North Carolina
Board of Paroles.
A Greensboro daily news
paper in a series of articles on
the parole program said last
week Baker and Robert
Weinstein had declined the
governor’s request to resign.
Efforts to reach Weinstein
and J. Wiley Earp, third
member of the board, were
unsuccessful Tuesday night.
Baker was interviewed by
telephone from his home, '616
Battery Drive.
“1 conferred with Governor
Holshouser last week about a
routine case and the matter of
my resignation did not come
up," Baker said.
He added, ”I realize when
Governor Scott appointed me to
the Board of Paroles that the
lime would expire in July That
was made very clear to me and
I have been concentrating on
doing the best job that I can
while I am in this position
■I am emphatically interest
ed in correctional work. This
has be-..i by chief interest since
I left professional football. ”
Baker is a Raleigh native who
excelled as a tullback on Coach
Peter Hines Williams' Ligon
Little Blues championship
teams in the 1960’s
He later attended N.C.
Central University where the
late Herman H. Riddick
(SEE JOHN BAKER. P. 2)
$5 lllion
Suit Filed By
Rap Brown
NEW YORK ■ H Rap Brown’s
lawyers have filed a $5 million
suit growing out of an article
published by NEW YORK
magazine
Robert Daley, former New
York deputy police commis
sioner for public affairs, wrote
the article called “The Man
Who Shot Rap Brown ’
Brown and three condefen-
dants are charged with armed
robbery of the Red Carpet
Lounge, a West 85th Street bar,
on October 16. 1971. They are
also charged with attempted
murder of several policemen in
a gun battle after the robbery.
At issue in Brown's suit is the
matter of free press vs. fair
trial.
Brown’s lawyers object parti
cularly to a drawing accompan-
ing the article. The drawing ,
shows Brown firing a handg* ti I
at Patrolman Ralph Ma rita,
the policeman who shot and
captured Brown.
Jack T. Litman. prosecutor in
the case, admitted that ballistic
tests show the weapon in
question was not fired.
First Baptist Planning
161st Anniversary
The First Baptist Church of
Raleigh will observe its 161st
anniversary Sunday, March 4
Dr. Rudolph McKissick of the
Bethel United Institutional
Church, Jacksonville, Fla., will
be the speaker at 11 a m
services.
Dr. C. W. Ward, pastor, in
reviewing the church’s history
at midweek said, “It happens
that the day of observance falls
on the exact date of the founding
of the church 161 years ago.
"Our church was started as a
(See Ut BAPTIST. P. 2)
WACS EXCHANGE WEDDING VOWS - San Francisco - Two
■\rmv WACs who recentiv exchnnged wedding vows have been
granted honorable discharges, but the minister who wed the two
women savs the marriage is "nult and void.’’ The couple, Gail
Rales. (1.). and Valerie Randolph. (R). told a news conference
February 26 that they were both heterosexual until they hit It off the
basle training, which is exclusivelv female company (IPD.