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-L-^ ^ — T^« ■■ THIS WEEK
"aige Is Fired; Dr. Larkins New Chief
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Wake County High Schools Get
First Black Principal
LINIAN
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
VOL. 32. NO, 35 RALEIGH. N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNK 30. 1973 SINGLE COPY 15c
Raleigh Man Tells Press Jurist Said
DR. JOHN R LARKING
JAMES M. PAIGE
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NOW;’ JUDGE
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Two-Million Member (.liiireh Body
Female Moderator For UCC
FREED REV BEN (HAMS LEAVES COIRTHOISE •
Wilmington. N.C. - Ke\. Ben Chavis wii.- his iawver. W. P.
Robinson, Krida>. b-ave the courthouse in Wilmington after
charges Mere droped gainst him fur being an accessors after the
•act of murder. The charges were not dismissed against the other
tMO defeiidenls in the case I Pl>
^ fiev. lien (diavis Free
After (diaries Dropped
'^WILM INt-'^’ON - 1 he North Carolina judicial system
may have exhibteo some potential for administering
true justice last week with the dismissal of charges
against the more prominent of three defendants in a
Wilmington hcunicide case.
piaii' <iii iiiuiau<i>. ...
Ab three {act'd charges as
^;l■|■e^sory after the fact to
in\t)luniar> manslaughter m
the do.ith of young Clifton
So. BKN CHAVIS P 2t
Another defendant was found
guilty and a third orderdd to
stand trial anew, hut specula
tion among defense attorneys
and others close to the case
was that lenient sentences
would be handed down
On Friday. Juno 22. charges
were diMUiascd ae,atiiM lit.
Ben Chavis, following a
week long Inal before a jury ol
eight whites anf four blacks
Leatrice Hicks. 21. was
ordered to be retried on the
same charges (becau.sc* of a
hung jury*, while her mother,
Mollie, was found guilty with
sentencing scheduled to take
Sjiunr Hires
52 Youths
f/i Profiram
Monday. June 10. rna; ked 'he
beginning ol ;h<' Svirniner
Youth Program tor flu city of
Raleigh
Shaw I'niverstty i (lartici
pani in Ihi* piogr.iic.. has
employed .i2 high school
students These student.' aie
serving every area m the
univeisity spt'clruin in various
capacities including radio
assislanis for WM]\ clerk
typists, maintenance and lih
rary assistants
The students woik a 2f> hour
week at Si fin per hour
The Summer Viiulh Program
IS under the direction of Mr
Wiliam Pretty who has
employed «7I> high school
students throughout the city of
Raleigh
Dr J Archie H..rgraves
Sh-M a-d the
i enabled students
ething -.-■Niruclive
while earning i-'-! He
(See SHAW HlRKb P
i.»r I lorcnii
pr')iM Ml of Sh
prog>ra:n has enj
to ^ something
‘Hope For
Blacks Dim:’
Julian Bond
BY LE (. LAIR LAMBERT
ST PAUL, Minn, - The Hon,
Julian Bond. 33. the black
Democratic Georgia Legisla
tor. told some 1.660 people at
this city 's Urban League's 50th
Year Celebration of Commun
ity Service, that “since the
presidential election in 1968.
prospects for black equality
have seriously diminished."
and blacks " are in bad
shape
Honored guest and main
speaker lor the i^t Paul Urban
[4>agiie s 49lh Annual Dinner
.Meeting Mr Bond spoke to a
laptiv.iled >landing room only
audience or, ‘ Politics in 197.1 “
Tht' last election was a
naiiitnal leferendum on social
issi.es ■ said Bond "Nixon is
going to continue to castrate
'he budget whether or not you
have any paycheck at all “ He
noted that ‘Politics is no
; tiger the art of the possible,
instead it has become the art of
seeing who gets how much
from whom ''
SjH'aking eloquently on prob
lems blacks are experiencing
in America's “urban Atticas."
he staled that “statistics on the
svfciai conditions among blacks
indicate that some things are
getting worse, not belter We
are t>eller off than our parents,
hut worse when compared to
the majority of .Vmencans For
.See J buND. P. ai
Woman Is
Unopposed
For Post
ST. LOUIS-The Hon.
Margaret A. H^wood,
Wasnington, D. C.. was
elected first woman moder
ator of the two-million-
member United Church of
Christ here last Saturday.
She was elected to the top
unsalaried position in the
denomination by the 728
delegates to the Ninth
General Synod, the
church's representative
body, meeting in St. Louis’
Chase-Park Plaza Holm.
The Rev Dr Robert V
.Moss, New York, president of
the denomination, was re-elec
ted to his position. Dr Moss
has held the position for four
years.
Also re-elected was Charles
H. Lockyear. New York, the
Director of Finance and
Treasurer of the church He
has been treasurer since 1961
(See FEMALE IS. P. 2)
Scholarship
For Elks
In Wilson
BY W A “PETE ' WILDER
WILSON The North
Carolina Educational Depart
ment of the Improved Benevo
lent and F*roteclive Order of
Elks of the World, held its
National Annual Scholarship
Rally at St Luke AME Church
in Wilson with the Minnie
McDaniel Fezz Club as hostess
Sunday, June 24 at 3 p m
Past Grand Daughter Ruler
Leone Cannon, assistant grand
Director of Education, presid
ed as mistress of ceremonies.
The highlight of the meeting
was the Junior Queen-King
Contest in which Miss .Morcel-
lane Reid of Reidsville was the
declared queen and Master
Theodore Moore. Mamie S
Hicks Fezz Club. Raleigh, was
declared king
Welcome addresses came
from Mr Frank Barnes,
representing Marshall Lodge
No. 297 and Daughter Mary
(See SC'HOLARSHIP. F 2>
HON MARGARET HAYW(X)D
Freeman Is
Principal
At Fucpiay
Wake County Schools
Board of Education, meet
ing in a called session last
Monday, named William
M. Freeman as its onlv
black high school principal.
Freeman, a Nash County
native, lives in Fuquay-Va-
rina and will take the post
on July Ist. He will head
the Fuquay-Varina Junior-
Senior High School, with 59
teachers, which is one of the
largest in the Wake County
Sch(X)ls system with forty-
two schools.
Freeman had served for six
years as principal of the
former all-black Fuquay-Va
rina Consolidated High School
before the local schools were
integrated in 1970. After the
school was integrated with the
former all-white Fuquay-Va
rina High School. Freeman
was made principal of the 25
teacher Fuquay-Varina Ele
mentary School, grades 4
through 6 He serv^ in this
capacity for three years before
■ Set 1ST BLACK. P. 2)
.Smv» I se Of
Drags Doivn
At Shau- Lniv.
Drug use at Raleigh's Shaw
University has decreased since
that institution's president took
a strong stand on the drug issue
in June of 1971
Dr J Archie Hargraves,
president of Shaw. said. "Shaw
University follows a hard line
against drug users, but also
provides counseling and medi
cal help without penalty to
•tudenis who report their drug
use to the school's health
service ’
Most students at Shaw agree
that drug usage on campus has
decreased tremendously.
Several students interviewed
indicated that wine is a
"cheaper high " and the risk of
getting caught is reduced.
• See DRUG USE. P 2)
‘I Started
Screaming:’
Pat Bryant
Pat Bryant, of Raleigh was
released from Wayne Coun
ty jail in Goldsboro,
Friday. June 22. 1973 after
being held since June 4 on a
charge of contempt of
court. Also jailed were
Jerry Gooding and his
father, Linwood Gooding,
both white, on contempt of
court. Judge John Larkins
of U. S. Eastern District
Court ordered their releas
es. Bryant is Housing
researcher at Shew Univer
sity 1 'Tf, started
screeri. ig, ' said vounp
4nt.
The contempt charges grew
from an incident outside the
courtroom where Bryant, then
in custody of a deputy sherriff,
was reprtedly struck by the
deputy. It was reporteti that
Bryant fled from the sheriff
and ran in the direction of the
courtroor .
Judge Lester Pate, allegedly
grabbed Bryant allowing the
deputy to catch him. Both
Judge Pate and the deputy
allegedly shoved Bryant to the
floor. The judge then order^
the deputy to shoot Bryant. The
judge is reported to have told
the deputy several times,
“Shoot him now! Shoot him
now."
The Goodings reported that
the deputy attempted to
unholster his gun several
times, but could not get it out.
ITie Goodings told Uie judge
after the incident that “he
should have been ashamed of
himself taking advantage of
Bryant the way he did The
(See PAT BRYANT. P 2)
‘Authority Usurped,’
J. M. Paige Declares
{'lainiing. “They have gone behind my back and
usurpH niy authority.” shortly after he had been
notifieil ihat he had been fired as the State's Youth
Development Commissioner Monday, James M. Paige,
a Raleigh native, cited politics as a possible cause of his
dismissal He will be succeeded on July 1 by Dr. John
Rodman Larkins, associate director of the State
Probation Commission. The firing and hiring were done
by David L, Jones, Social Rehabilitation and Control
Secretar> for North Carolina. Both Dr. Larkins and
Paige are black Democrats, while Jones is a white
Republican.
• See PAIGE IS. P 2)
F(»ll<miiig Stabbing
Prisoner’s Sister
IFrifes To Governor
"Dear Governor Holshouser: 1 am sure you are aware
of one incident that occurred at Central Prison on June
17. 1973 concerning my brother-Peter Young, (a black
inmate) and 3 white men.
BEING Dl\OKCED - Reno.
Ne\. • .Singer Diahann ( arroll
is being div orced from F reddie
Glurman, dress shop owner,
after Just four months of
marriage. .Also an actress.
Miss Carroll is famous for her
role as “Julia” as she was the
star. (IPD
^tVES DN COFFEE AND MILK - Detroit • Police officers carry (iiuseppe Pillera, 78, from his east
aide home on a stretcher after (>->iu'e and public heaiUi nurses found him in a near coma stage from
lack of food .lune L'.v Me and his f l «e«r-««ld cousin had been living mi coffee laced with a little milk
and an occasu*i.ai raw egg ui pie« e »f bieud all thev cwild afford after they were denied an
Increase In (heir ILA a month welfare allotment. (I'PD
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
iOBi
For A Va iety Of Economical Items
HOSPITALIZED IN LONDON
- London - Singer Pearl Bailey
entoro4 a London hospital June
21 snfferlng from chest pslns
an4 owhMMlkm. A ipnkasmjo
at Rrompton Hospital said
Miss Bailey, 55, was discharg
ed this week. (L'PI)
NAACPOpens
Meeting In
Indianapolis
NEW YORK - With the
theme. “Lest We Forget • Our
Fallen Heroes,” the 64th
NAACP annual convention will
open on Monday. July 2, in
Indianapolis in what was once
a stronghold of the Ku Klux
Klan 46 years ago when the
association last met there.
The convention will salute
martyrs of the civil rights
movement, whose lives were
brutally taken in the struggle
for racial justice. Scores of
men and women, black and
white, have been killed b>
guns, bombs or other such
violent weapons since 1951
Among the most notable
were the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Medgar
Evers, both of whom were
killed by snipers. Some of the
others were Rev. James Reeb,
who was beaten to death: Mr.
Viola Liuzzo, who was fatally
shot during voter registration
demonstrations in ^Ima in
1965
Michael Schwerner, Andrew
Goodman and James Chaney,
summer workers in Mississippi
were shot and their bodies
hidden in the mud of a dam in
Mississippi Vernon Dahmer, a
local Mississippi NAACP lead
er. was fatally injured wnen
nightriders fire-bombed his
home because he was actixely
working in a voter registration
campaign
'See NAACP OPENS. P 2i
Appreeiation
Money Claimed
Ry Tiro ff 'omen
Two Raleigh women added
their names to the growing list
of winners in *^6 CARO
LINIAN new Appreciation
Money Feature last week by
claiming their $10 prizes
Mrs Thelma Ruth Artist of
104 W. I<ee Street and Mrs.
Clenora Chavis of 1223 Pender
Street are the two latest
winners in the weekly feature
of this newspaper.
For Mrs Artis it was the
fulfillment of a dream come
true for the first tim*' She
discovered her name on the
^predation Money page last
Thursday as she was reading
The CAROLINIAN after pur-
(See APPRECIATION. P 2)
'Editors Note. Mrs. Bea
trice Hiun.'ion. si.sier of Peter
Anlht)i)> Vnunji of Wake
For('si. wrote the following
oj>en letter to the Governor ol
Nuiih Carolina, earlier this
week. Mrs. Harrison also lives
in Wake Forest.):
My brother is left critical
with stab wounds inflicted by
one or all of these men, and yet
he gets a warrant against him
for assault. I can’t believe your
(See WRITES TO, P. 2)
ATLANTA SCHOOLS’ SO-
PERINTENDENT - Atlanta -
Dr. Monzo (rim. Tuesday,
June 26. was selected by a
committop of the .Atlanta
Board of Education to a
four-year term as superinten
dent of Atlanta schools. .All that
remains is approval by the
liu-member school board. Dr.
(rim is superintendent of the
Compton. Calif., Unified School
District. (UPD
EDITOR’S NOTE; Thli coluna »r (caiitM
I* praaacad la tha pablle IMtrtil «ilh aa
alia Uwara* tllmlaallag Its conianu.
Namtraai ladivtdaals hava ra^arstad iSal
IS«. b, a'tca rrr td*r«iUa I
arriiaakuif iSrlr UmIui an iSk pallrr
iMits. Ibis wt aaald like tt da. sr,
b Is aatpar MsIlUa to bajudf* ur lary. Wo
Btrtlz publish the (sets os wo flad (b»ni
ropartod bz tho arrtsllag officers. To hoop
oal ol Tbo Crimo Bool Celamni, mtrolz,
■ttaas a#i bolaa roglstored by a poliro
affleor la ropartlag his riadlAfs wklU an
daiz. So slaipir keep oN tho "lUotlcr" oad
-- ‘ fa “ “ •
^ B voa waa't bo fa Tbs Crimt Bool.
ROBBED OF CASH
Jesse Willard Williams. 712
E Martin Street, told Officer J.
B. Moore at 5;07 am. last
Saturday, that he picked up a
black male, about 22, in the
1300 block of Walnut Street,
and at this time, the subject
asked if he could get a ride to
the Carolina Hotel. 100 W.
Hargett Street Williams also
stated that once they arrived at
the hotel, the suspect pulled a
gun from his person and told
him, ’i’m sorry, but I want
your money ” Mr. Williams
said he then gave the subject
the amount of money he had
($&i and began running. The
weapon was described as a 32
calibre pistol. The man is
believed to reside at the
Andrew Johnson Hotel. The
type of car Williams was
driving was not mentioned in
the report.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
DRDKHFD EXCLUDED AND DEPORTED" ■ Miami. F'la. -
Attomev Neal Snnnett stands with a group of Haitians who landed
in Pompano Beach last December and have been anxiously
walling for the government to decide whether or not they could
remain In Ihe I' S. They have been ordered "excluded and
deported " b> an Imn igration Judge in Miami. 42 of the Haitians
were Jailed under a (1.000 bond and unless bailed out, will stay
unili all appeals by Sonnett are exhausted. (L'PII