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Lee Bounds Resigns As Corrections Comtnissioner
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Head Says Act Joyous Event
White Says Bounds^
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Albert ‘Bo’ Crowder, Jr. Is
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Sentenced To Die
Loss To Aid Blacks
BY TRAVIS L. FRANCIS
Coordinator N. C. Criminal
Justice Task Force
AROLWIAJSI
"The resignation of Lee Bounds is a joyous event for
the black community, especially those brothers and
sisters locked behind the walls of state prison units,”
according to Rev. Leon White, Director of the United
Church of Christ N.C. ■ Va. Field Office of the
Commission for Racial Justice. Bounds was Corrections
Commissioner for North Carolina for several yean.
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
VOL. 32. NO. 39 RALEIGH, N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1973 SINGLE COPY 15c
Fiste Used As Two Raleigh
MEN AHACKED; 1 DIES
The Commission for Racial
Justice has long called for
removing of bounds from his
post due to his frequent
displays of inhumanity and
insensitivity to the needs of
Black inmates. Rev. ^^^lite
continued that the commission
has publically challenged
Bounds administrative skills
especially in the area of
black-white prisoner relations.
"The state has finally, after
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M W W Uli H \NK \ ARON • Atlanta - Mrs. Billye Williams, widow
ol tin- Sam Ntilliariis. a ci\il rights leader. conduc:s her
telfiisiiii p.ngiam at WSH-TV in Atlanta July 20 after it was
rf\ealef! lu.f .-atii.r that she and .\tlanta Braves’ star hitter
Hank \aron Mould h» wed in November. .Aaron has been divorced
f«ir a \ea* > t l*| -
At Regular Meeting
Laymen Of AME Zion
(^liiirrh (Atari Course
RCA Discusses Chavis Park
IBM Gives
UNCF Cash
In Program
^ -OI.IMHI.i -SniCarolina
I.ii'. nien i»t Ihe .\lncan
Metiiixiiv Kpiscopa! Zion
Church sfconfi l;iige.-ii black
Melho !' at ‘he ot»ening
(h<' iid ar.iiuol Lav men's
' f)uii; il t (j.r.vnlioii, Friday
flight. July 20. at Jones
.Meitii.rial AMF Zion Church.
2-l(H’ Hafli.m
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>hoijld 1)1 mg
mvolv iim-iil
^'hn.^llaTl ici
itoad. outlin-
pi-'t'iutn that
morning when he delivered the
keynote address. He chided
Christians for their holier-than
thou attitude, in that they were
more interested in going to
church on Sunday, paying their
dues and building imposing
edifices than Christian effect
iveness. He pointed out that
there are two distinct spheres
Jurist Gives
Hours For
Death Date
Wake Superior Court
Judge Perry Martin, last
Wednesday afternoon, sen
tenced Albert ‘Bo’ Crow-
ki-out .. gre.Tter-
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m whichlhechurch.ifitistobe j j jg, 1611 E. Jones
truly efft'ctive. must concen- c,.p_.
trate its efforts - the assembled i" ®
church and the scattered ga? chainter for murder on
^.hurch Friday, October 19, 1973,
He described the assembled as a hushed Crowder and
church as the one in which the courtroom spectators Us-
worshippers assembled, from tened attentively. Two
time to time, to receive the blacks, a man and a
spiritual values that would woman, comprised the
rnake them nioie deovted to 12-member jury. The judge
the tenets of Chnsllan hying «.
and to a fuller life of service
Plight Of
Park Heard
At Session
service f**"® *8
He pictured the scattered betWMn 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
church as the one that moved ftt day.
into the communities and The incident took place on
interested itself, not only in the Sunday, March 4, when
spiritual life of people, but aids Crowder reportedly shot Miss
them in every phase of their Peggy A. Bryant, 24, of Raleigh
lives, political, social, health, "between the eyes," as one
ALBERT CROWDER. JR,
MISS PEGGY A, BRYANT
Pair Found Beaten
In Two Locations
.Njitioiial Black News Service
V. .\SH1N<;Ti>N - The (ip^r-
4jni ies liidustriali/alion Cen
ters IS l uirently engaged in a
lile or death struggle with the
Nixon Adnnnistralinn and the
^ .See (lie Fl'MMNC. F 2'
sorrow’ and grief and above all.
Mr. Brooks, w’ho is the
president of the body, admon
ished the convention that all of
these fields of endeavor were
areas of evangelism. He
warned that laymen, if the
(See AME ZION. P. 2)
(See SENTENCED. P. 2)
BY STAFF WRITER
Kick-Off
Planned
By NCNW
^'14 It (ilA.NT rCKTI.E IN WAKE - Emory Rollins. Jackie
rimlink. vho cought Ibis giant snapper. Deborah Gordon, and
ft-irsa IttdluiB. 1 lurilr was caught in a private pond in Wake
.'ountv fast wri*k«‘r;d.
Leaders of the National
Council of Negro Women of
North Carolina met last
Saturday at 10 a.m. at
beaufitul. new Trinity AME
Zion Church in Greensboro, to
propose plans for organizing
black women iB-years-old and
older in the state.
Tentative plans call for a
kick-off dirve to begin early in
September, Mrs. Virginia K.
Newell. NCNW convener, Win
ston-Salem. presided.
Women in the 100 counties of
North Carolina will be con
tacted by their regional
directors who are as follows:
Mesdames Edythe Tweedy.
Rocky Mount. Eastern Region;
Katharine Meroniy. Winston-
Salem. Piedmont Region; Ella
Williams. Asheville. W'estern
Region
iSee NCNW SLlS. P. 2»
Murder, in all of its bizarre forms, has struck in North
Carolina’s Capital City again. Two men were beaten -
one fatally. Both incidents took place on Sunday, July
22 - one discovered in the morning, the other in the
afternoon.
was tound behind the Wa.'.hing-
ton Elementary School, 1000
Fayetteville Street. According
^0 information received, B'ir-
sett was fatally attacked
In a telephone interview with
Raleigh Police Captain James
M. Stell. it was discovered that
there are two suspects in each
of the incidents. No arrests
have been made, however.
The beating death of James
T. Burnett, 31, of Route 2,
Elaleigh, was discovered at
about 7 a.m. Sunday. His bodv
Appreciation
Money Claimed
By City Man
Aaron W. Greene, 1103 Kitt
Place, was the only winner in
The CAROLINIAN’S Apprecia
tion Money Feature last week.
Mr Greene saw his name in
the Hellig-Lovine advertise
ment last week on page 12 and
came in to claim his $10 prize.
Heilig-Levine is located at
.See APPRECIATION. P. 2»
earlier that morning.
He was "obviously beaten to
death" with blows to his head,
stat^ Captain Stall. The
motiN’e behind Burnett’s death
has not, been established, but
the emirvent arrest of suspects
is reportedly going to shed
some light on the incident.
Also under investigation at
this time is the severe beating
received by William P. Jones,
Jr,. 50. of Raleigh. The man
was found in a vacant house at
415 E, Hargett Street Sunday
afternoon.
On checking at W’ake
Memorial Hospital's informa
tion Wednesday of this week,
Mr. Jones' cnndlliortwas listed
as critical. At the time of his
admission to the hospital, he
was unconscious and in the
intensive care unit at the
BY MISS J. E. HICKS
In the absence of Ralph
Campbell, president of
Raleigh Citizens' Associa
tion, vice president, Miss
Louise Latham, presided at
the July meeting of RCA.
held Thursday night, Julv
19, at Tapper Memorial
Baptist Church.
' The first item of business
was a report made by Vernon
Malone, a member of the
Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Board, who brought along an
interesting, illustrative chart
of Chavis Park. Mr. Malone
displayed this chart and
explained it. a blueprint of
proposed long-range improve
ments and renovations at
(Thavis Park.
Already on hand is the sum of
$500,000 for this project. As far
as an explanation being given
for the delay in beginning the
renovations until inquiries'
were made, no explanation was
given by the Parks and
Recreation Dept.
Long-range developments
include redesigning and rede
velopments in many phases.
Improvements in some in
stances are as follows:
complete demolition of the old
ball field.
Basketball courts will be
moved to Ligon Junior High
facilities, for there will be
(See RCA TALKS, P- 2i
Boom In Oil
NEW YORK. N Y. - The
United Negro College Fund has
announced the receipt of a
$200,000 grant from the
International Business Mach
ines Corp. to continue for three
more years the IBM Faculty
Fellowship Program.
The Faculty Fellowship
Program enables teachers at
U'NCF colleges to pursue study
towards a doctorate degree or
to do post-doctorate work or
research.
The program has been in
effect for nine years and has
been a mainstay in providing
academic leaders for the
private, predominantly black
colleges making up the UNCF.
Four academic deans, numer
ous heads of departments and
other prominent faculty lead
ers have been among the 121
persons who have been through
the program.
Fifty doctoral degrees have
been obtained under the IBM
grants, in addition to the
constant prodding, removed
the rose colored glasses and
has come to grips with one of
its most serious drawbacks in
the eyes of the black
community.”
With the resignation of
Bounds, the state must
continue to remove a policy of
hard-line racism which has
saturated the N.C. prison
system.
White announced that with
the resignation of Bounds, the
Commission for Racial Jus
tice’s Criminal Justice Pro
gram. under the Coordination
of Travis Francis, will begin an
investigation into the so called
acci'lents and the brutality
being pi'rpetratged against
black i.mates. The latest
reported incident being where
a black inmate was assaulted
and slabbed by three while
inamtes. Reportedly no wea
pon was found and no one has
been charged with the stab
bing.
The Criminal Justice invest
igation will also follow up on
('see CRJ HEAD. P. 2)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tlil$ CDloaia «r (e«im
I* produced in ibe public inlcre«< witb na
•Im lOMardt cllminaiing it* conient*.
Numeroui IndlY Idualt bare rrqartled (bat
MRS. ELIZABETH D. KOONTZ
overloobina; (bclr lltimg nolle# •• '
lU»
Makes Gabon
The Richest
Ibe police
bloiirr.Tbfk we would like to do. However.
It ik not pur DOilllon to be judge er Jnr7. We
merely 'fiublisb the lacta at we find tbem
reported ‘ y Ibe arrcttlng oOleert. To keep
out ol Tb< Crime Beal Columns, merely
meant not being reglklered by a police
odker In reporting bit (Indlngt wbllc on
duly. So simply keep off tbe "Blotter” and
you won't be in The Crime Beal.
THREATENS LIFE GUARD
William Henry Allen, 20, a
white life guard at Pullen
Park, told Officer C. A. Davis,
Jr., at 4:09 p.m. Wednesday,
that he was threatened at the
pool by 16-year-old Robert
Orlando Mitchell, 501 Solar
Drive (Apollo Heights). The
man said the threat was both
verbal and with a knife, which
young Mitchell held in his
hand. The youth was arrested
and charged with assault and
trespassine.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
Ex-Nixon
Staffer
Appointed
Mrs Elizabeth Duncan
Koontz. a native of Salisbury,
former president of the
National Education Associa
tion and director of the
National Women’s Bureau
during the Nixon Administra
tion’s first term of office, was
appointed Monday to head a
new assault on malnutrition in
North Carolina, as assistant
(See EX-NIXON, P. 2)
(See MEN BEATEN. P, 2>
Nation’s Beauticians To
Hear NAACP’s R. WUkins
DENVER • .According to Dr.
Katie K. Whickam. New
Orleans, president of the
National Beauty Culturists’
League. Inc., and Charles E.
Johnson. Denver, chairman of
the 54th annual convention of
that organization. Denver, the
mile high city, is all set and
ready for the convention and
the more than 2.000 who are to
be present at the Denver Hilton
« BF.ATINii HIGH CO.ST OF FOOD - Chicago - Beating the high coat of food at the markets, youths,
with the help uf an ufftcial of (he city's dept, of Human Resources, cultivate a garden plot on a vacant
lot In tlir inn. r .-itv The project called "Neighborhood Farms" Is apart of Chicago Mayor Richard
lialey s sei^.iitHiriioskl Summer Program, and involves 140 families, and 43 vacant lots. They hope to
start 3ii(i tfurtleiib «mi .acant lots next year. (VPI)
Hoiel July 29 to August 9.
Departmenis of Ihe conven
tion Include the Institute of
Cosmetology for graduate
students. The'a Nu Sigma,
national beauticians' sorority,
Beauticians' Guild, Youth for
Beauty. Trade Show and the
governing body.
A special feature this year
will he classes for those who
are attending the institute
(See R WILKINS. P.
. 21
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
BRIGGS HARDWARE CO.
For A Variety Of Quality Hardware
WASHINGTON - Colorado
sized Gabon, a small country in
West Africa has produced 46
million barrels of oil in 1972.
With the opening of it's newest
and largest oil field earlier this
year. Gabon is expecting to
double it’s oil output by 1975.
Most of Gabon is tropical
forest and until recently,
timber was the country’s
principal industry. The rain
forrest which covers most of
the country's 103,346 square
miles is rich with mahogany
and ebony. It’s most important
tree, however, is okoume,
whose soft wood is exported as
plywood. The U.S. has been
Gabon's major customer, and
one of the world's largest
plywood factories is located in
Gabon.
Gabon's exports was wood.
Now, wood represents only a
quarter of the country’s
exports, having been eclisped
by mining and oil.
The country contains rich
deposits of uranium and high
grade manganese. Gabon
supplies much of France's
need for uranium. In the
northeast corner of Gabon,
there are three mountains
which contain at least a billion
tons of iron ore.
To facilitate the exploitation
of the extensive deposits, a 350
mile railroad is being built
from the capital city of
Libreville, through the rain
forrest to Mekamtx).
Libreville was founded when
the French captured a slave
ship at the mouth of the Como
river and freed the slaves. The
slaves named their settlement
Libreville or "freelown."
IN ADVANCED STAGES OF MALNUTRITION - Ulyankuln.
Tanzania - \ young Hutu tribe refugee boy (R> closet hts eyes at
he drinks deep from a bowl at a refugee camp here recently. He
and his comrade at left display swollen bellies - a characteristic 9i
children in advanced stages of malnutrition. These boys and an
estimated 85,000 other Hutus have left their homes In Burundi,
where Hutus and Tutsi tribesmen, who rule tbe country despite tbe
fact they are a numerical minority, are engaged In civil strife.
(I’PI)