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i\orth Carolina 10,026 Must Clean Up State: Angela i>avis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In Edgecombe (louiitv ★ ★ ★ ★ Black Hopefuls File ISorth Carolina's Leading Weekly VOL. 33 NO. 16 RALEIGH. N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. FEB. 23. It 4 SINGLE COPY 20c Raleigh Man Is W.\I.1..A( K I.ISTENS TO INTRODUCTIONS HERE - Ralrigh. N.C. • .Mabania (invprnor (;eorBe Wallaco (H) listens as Raleigh Mayor Clarence Lightner (lA introduces various digniuiries that attended the fund-raising dinner for the North Carolina Democrats Parts at uhich Wallace was the featured speaker Keb. 16. Eightner is the first black mayor in the bistort of Raleigh. 'I Pli Urban League’s Vernon Jordan Calls For Sweeping Health Aid NEW YORIG N. Y. - Vernon E. Jordan. Jr., executive Director of ihe National Urban Lea^e. la.st Friday outlined a National Health Program whose goal is "to insure that each and every ^rson, regardless of race, or income or geographic location, has high quality, comprehensive, dignified medical, dental and mental health care." Fatally Stabbec ★ ★ ★ ★ ^ ^ Selected By City's Zetas ★ ★ ★ ★ Woman Of Year Chosen Woman Hp branded the Administra tion's health proposal, unveiled by President Nixon in the State of the Union message, "inade quate l>ecause its primary con cern IS to . .protect the profits ol the health industry rather Defendant’s Help Asked In Killing BY F*A(;K TOWNSEND National Black News Service \VASHI\(;toN ■ The prose- t'Uiion has asked that charges be dropped against one of the defendant.s in Ihe Hanafi Moslem murder case so he can testify as a government witness Pr^eculors asked D.C. Supenor Court Judge Leonard Rraman to drop charges against James H. Price, 23, so he could testify against five other men charged with murdering seven Hanafi Mos- ■ lems at the sect’s home here Jan. 18. 1973. Price would not be charged as a co-defendant in the current trials, if the motion is granted, but he could be tried later under a 23-count indict- .Se<> DEFENDANT S. P. 2) 2 Bandits Are Shot In Wilson BY F W BARNES WI1,.S0N - At 12 noon on Saturday. Feb. 16. two uni dentified bandits walked into a grocery store, owned by Best Stewart and located on E. Nash Street and attempted to rob (See 2 BANDITS. P. 2) than to protect the health and lives of the people." Mr. Jordan spoke at the Na tional Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Md. Jordan also faulted the Ad ministration plan for falling short of the neces.sary changes in the system of health care, for institutionalizing a double standard of health care, for not dealing with “the special health problems of urban and rural poverty areas. " and for not dealing with "the urgent necessity to increase the num bers and availability of health practitioners.” The Jordan National P r o- gram includes three main ele ments - financing, delivery of health services and education Financing: The Urban League’s head called for "a single National Health System Trust Fund operated by the federal government with funds 2nd Rap Session Concluded BY W. A. "PETE" WILDER The second rap session at St. Paul AME Church last Sunday, started out on the subject of street paving. But, rap session that it was. it wandered into Joe Louis Park, the recreation program as affected by Chavis Park and the black commun ity. Councilman 'Bill" Knight, came with facts and figures on paving in the citv Oupctinn after question showed his grasp of city policy in the matter. According to Councilman Knight, the city has had a record of re-surfacing at the (See SECOND RAP. P. 2) from general revenues, contri butory laxe.s or a siwcial sur tax." Delivery of Service-,: The Jordan Plan calls for federal administration of the National I See JORD.'vN CAULS. P. US Agency Surrenders, Says Wilkins NEW YORK - Continued neglect of the housing needs of low imi middle income fami lies in the urban cenieis, may well lead to the "collapse" of the notion. Roy W’ilkins. executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. warned in an address delivered at a luncheon meeting of the United Mort gage Bankers of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, here last week. The nation. Mr. Wilkims said, "will collapse without a government policy on building for the great bulk of the population." If the nation faces such a collapse, "inflation or lack of peace or high crimes and misdemeanors in govern ment. will not matter. We will be dead as surely as if we had been shot in the head And it will be worse than being really dead, because we will be walking and talking, but will be without direction or goals. Our society will be without the great emplovinent that housing brings. All of the peripheral activities, such as the United Mortgage Bankers, would either cease or be seriously- damaged." The NA.ACP leader attacked the practice of letting "resi- dentsot neighborhoods...tell the Federal Department of 'See US .AGENCY. P. 2) CRIME BEAT Frum Kalrieh's l*olire Fitrfi rIMIOK'NNnil 1(1'.. In (•'•■dui I'd in Ihi imhlir mm loodrit. rtim-nalm Sum< rciu* mdi, MujIv Rat A KEASd.N FOR GRIEF • Tampa, Fla. • Mra. Fred Bean, sister of the «>iain inuslem. sobs outside Tampa Gen. Hospital after her brother. Charles Stevens, was pronounced dead. He was shot in a fraces which erupted on Franklin St. in downtown Tampa. The incident left one policeman and a security guard injured, an innocent bystander wounded and a fourth man dead lUPl} lit ronitnit. ■ I riurtlrd lhai < nntidrr^dun o| in» on tht iiolicr !•!.« .nitu HoMftrr. It ju<Ik> ar ju'v Vtr ■ \ jv w < find iSrm nt • (llcrrs III Vrri, tt.Limnv rtifrrtj tit f. d li- d ;<«arr - Il'■{>ln(> '.hitr '>n H i(i< ’ O'eiirr" and im> e<ai 'lAKKSVVKtiNG Sr.XTFMINT .Miss Vera Je.m .McKuy, 28. 420 S rlaywovKl Street, told Officer D. f’ullev at 8:51 p.m Saturfi.iy. inat "My boy- fiieiid and in; s< lf were watch ing telcvisio.i m the living room, and I said something to tne eitect tnaf 1 aceded a man or a husband to care for me At trial pfiint. R.^r.riolph Sandr’rs ■the boyfriend' jumped up and starteii to choke rr.e He said. •You 'hink I won't kill you. don't you**' ’I hen he reached for a flow er vase I got up and ran across the street to call the police and he ran I w ill sign a warrant again.-,t him." .Sand ers, 32. lives at llOf. S. Blount Street according to ’Miss ^t(•Koy (See CRIME BEAT. P. 3i JOSEPH SCARBOROUGH Assemhir Told To Up Aid RICHMOND - The Virginia Assembly has heard i m p a s> stoned pleas from recipients of the state’s welfare program that they increase the funding level of the program. The legislators, who are con sidering a welfare reform package, have received a re port from the Virginia Adviso ry Legislative Council that has called for a streamlining of the welfare system and for giving mothers who receive aid IIX) per cent of the amount they need for minimum subsistence as local welfare agencies de- iSee ASSEMBLY IS, P. 2) Rejected Officer In Top Post WASHINGTON - The black military officer who was blocked from taking a post in Chile because of his race late last year has been named to head the office that helps select military advisers. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesingcr has let the word out that any officers found discriminating racially will be denied promotions. Schlesing- er ha.s been rather upset that a report on the affair involving Col. Travis M. Gafford's ap pointment as a military advis er in Chile has not been com pleted by the Pentagon yet. He recently told one officer responsible for the delay an grily. "Don't think if you keep postponing this that I’ll forget It." He was scheduled to re ceive the report on the incident a number of months ago. The military has failed to issue the report thus far. When the rejection of Col. See OFFICER IN. P 2) Held In Murder A 48-year:old woman, Misa Bertha Fowler. 202*/j Sel- Alley, will face the judge in Wake County Dis trict Court on Monday, March 4, at 2 p.m. in the fatal stabbing last Satur day of Joseph <P.J.) Scar borough, 52, who was slain at the Fowler w o m a n’b house, according to police reports. The incident was reported by ^i.vin Edward Anderson of K. Jones Street, who allegedly called police head quarters. Officer J. L. Barbour answered a call to the Selwyn I Alley address at 4:22 p.m. I Saturday, where he was I reportedly told a fight between Miss Fowler and Yarborough took place. During the alterca- (See MAN FATALLY. P. 2) MRS. CLfFFORNIA WIMBERLEY Honor Is Given Bd. Member The last week in February is designed to call attention of the public to the ideal of Zeia Phi Beta Sorority. "Finer Woman hood." During the week, every chapter in the sorority must bring before the local com munity some expression of its emphasis upon finer woman hood. This year. Mrs. Cliffor- nia Wimberiey has been selected as the 1973 "Woman of the Year." Omicron Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, is honoring the 197.3 Woman of the Year. We wish to thank the various organizations and clubs for 'See WOMAN OF P 2' Hundreds At Rally In City Declaring. "We must clean up the State of North Caro lina,” Miss Angela Y. Da vis told a smaU, but wildly cheering audience at Ra leigh Memorial Auditorium last Friday night. Miss Davis, in a soft voice, then went on to tell her listeners just what she thought was the trouble in this state. - Describing North Carolina as a "symbol of racism.” the militant Miss Davis called for a coalition of all races to "clean up the Slae of North Carolina." Some 750 persons cheered as she lashed out against stale leaders and the policies practiced in the state. .Miss Davis urged North Car olinians to unite against capital punishment, outmoded p r i .s- ons. involuntary sterilizui ion of blacks, low wages and "the worst form of political repres sion in the country." In Raleigh to organize a state chapter of the National Alli ance Against Racism and Poli tical Repression, Miss Davis also lashed out against what she termed "the myth of the I New South." She said the .New South is little more than the Old South hidden by a public rela tions crusade. "We still ha\e the same old racial injustice our ancestors received over generations.” she said. It's the same old South. The onl> thing new is that the old racism has become 1 even more bodaciou.s ” I She said the New South could ; (See MISS DAVIS. P 2i Elimination Of Lunches I Is Defended BY LOUISE E WYCHE National Black News Service WASHINGTON - A top Ad ministration official has- defended his recommendation that the bulk food purchnsmg program for the school lunch program be e I i m i n a t i ng claiming without d o c u m c:: tation or projections that it would save taxpayers money Assistant Secretary of Agri culture Clayton Yeutter. in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. suggested "a grad ual phase down (and hopetully phase out)” of the agency s food purchase pr^rams by the ANGELA DAVIS AT RALEIGH R.ALLY - Miss Angela Y. Davis, end of fiscal year 1975 is shown above during her address last Friday night to some 7S0 He said the government "can listeners at Ihe Raleigh .Memorial Auditorium. .Miss Davis took a provide an equivalent amount broad stand againsi this slate s 'ssstem of racism.' of assistance with a cash pro gram that is now provided with a commodity program And we should be able to provide it with considerably less mnn- lo \fnn\‘ Along with the school lunch program, the bulk food pur chasing program includes food BY J B HAHHEN LUNCHES, P 2' tliose considered ‘community leaders' to form a nucleus of workers to‘beat the bushes'in a "cio.sed meeting” to consider wr UH fj > tc f/xt- Tiro In City There were two winners last week in The CAROLINIAN'S Appreciation Money Feature, They were I..arrv 0 Gra ham. 1934 Rock Quarrv Road, whose name was found m the advertisement paid for by Jim Pinnix Homes. Highwav 64. East of Raleigh The motto at Pinnix Homes is 'It s A (See APPRECIATION. P. 2i Pi *5. Tarhoro Area Blacks T.AKBORO • .Some 6.) black citizens, repre.seiiling the East Tarhoro Citizens League and the Edgecombe County Pro gressive Association, with Dentist .Moses A Ray as president of both political group‘d, met Sunday afternoon in I ni' B.ipti'-i Church here, in an .iiiempi to 'unionize' the political 'Strategy of Edge combe's black citizens in an all-out effort to elect more than one meniber of their race to office on the county and district level this year Chairman Kay hud invited possible candidates for public offices. .After several comments’ from citizens regarding solid arity of effort, and a perusal of the last countywide registra tion-voting record of both races, it was learned that countywide. 12.212 whites re gistered as against 6,333 blacks Of that number registered. 9,427 whites voted tSee HOPEFULS FILE. P Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK menuAND PARK "hoi The Best In Mobile Home Lots” CIII RCH S( F\r. iir Kuun.-.rv. abuucnum - curUMte. N.C. • The Rev. Haiellne Wallace paaior of PiiincN Gi <>\ e Holiness ( hurch. stands outside the building Feb. 15 after three youths hurst Into a worship service late Feb. 11. They robbed and terrorized the parisioners. then abducted and raped a young while woman unending the service, who had a six-week-old child, (i FI)