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 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 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