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Get 31Gs For NAACP
Must Be
Astute:
Wilkins
The greatest fund-raising
project ever put over in
North Carolina for the
cause of freedom, climaxed
at the Raleigh Memorial
Auditorium. Sunday. May
19. when several singing
groups, more than 100
mothers and Hoy Wilkins,
demonstrated that t h e
price of freedom i'- high,
but if we all put in a little,
it will not cost any of us
t.oo much.
' Chartes A McLean, (leld
director, Slate ‘ onlereiice of
N.C. Branches. add
ed a new feature to the annual
■■Freedom Fund Day, " by
inviting several suiting
groups, from iliroughout the
state*, incleditig an orchestra
from Win.ston-Salem. to set
the stage lor dedicated giving
The.\ f)egan at I p.m and
continued until .{ LS. The
response from their motiva
tion has been so great until
Mr. McLt*an has already
started recruiting for 1975
Hoy Wilkins, exei-utive di
rector. N.\A(‘l*, was gre<*led
b> -Mayor (‘larence F. Lighl-
ner. and tlien heard many of
the stute’.^ li-aders extol him
for the fe.iiles,' leadership
that he is giving the N.A.XCI*
Kellv .M -All v.iiider. Sr .
preside!)' i t il.c .si.iie Confer
ence. Ill hi- mtrotUiiiion of the
speaker, pictured him as a
man who ii.ocd lo one. but a
man who was a ium believer
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MISS LOI LSK IwXTHAM
Honorary
UNC Hcgree
Conferred
On Sunda\ .May 12. Miss
Louise M Latham was
honored at tlie commence
ment exercises at the I'niver-
sily of .North Gjrnlina al
Chapel Hill The university
awarded lier the honorary
degi‘t*e of Doctor ol Laws.
In citing her. the chancellor
of the university made the
following remarks-
Louise Maywood Latham,
born in Raleigh, is a cum
laude grailuale of -Shaw
University Her Master's de
gree IS from Boston Univer
sity. and she did additional
graduate work at Syracuse
University and at UNC in
(Jreensl.oro .She taught at
Washington High S( hooL Ral
eigh. and vv.is for a lime, on
the staff of Howard Univer
sity Thereafter, she returned
’.o Norih Cartilina to be'come.
for some JO year.s. dean of
^ women at North Carolina
Central Universitv
There are j number of
(See MlS.s !..\TR.AM P. 2i
In Prison
Since He
Was Teen
WASHINdTON - The V
S. Supreme Court has re
fused to hear the appeal of
a Virginia man vvhosj con
victions on rape charges in
Lynchburg. Va., have mit
red prolonged national
public and judicial contro
versy. i'he court rejected
the appeal of 1 homas C.
Wanslcy. wno was con
victed 12 years ago at age
16 of raping an elderly
white woman and nibbing
I ( • "f one doll-* ■'» d ‘^ir.
ty-seven cents.
W'anslcy's first conviction
was set aside by the Virginia
Supreme Court on procedural
grounds. His second convic
tion in 1967, was later
overturned by the U.S. Dis
trict Court because of the
(See RAPE APPEAL. P. 2)
CRIME
BEAT
1 It.Ill - lUO. .
.•..lii-i'
KIMTOR'S NOTE: Thl» column or
(ralurr it produced in ihr public Inicretl
oilh on aim lowardt cllmlnalinf lit
roBicnik. Numcrout individualt hate
requested thai they he fl*cn the
rontideratlon ol oierluokmc ibeir
on the police blotter. Thit ue would like
lo do. Hourter. It It not our potltian to be
judie or jury. We merely publish the
(arlt at ue find them reported by (be
arretflnf oWlcert. To keep out ol The
('rime Beal Columns, merely means not
being regltiered by a police officer In
reporting hit tindingt ohfle on duly. So
tlmply kre< oil the "Blolirr" and you
unn't he ii (De Oime Beat
SAA S BDA FHIKM) DID IT
Miss Delores Jc'an Lucas.
1813 Cantwell Court, reported
to Officer M. S Williamson at
3:18 a.m Saturday from Rex
Hospital, that she and her
boyfriend, Karl Quiller, 30.
‘■somewhere on K Jones
Street.” were having an
argument when he became
violent and started beating on
her. The woman was advised
to sign an assault on a female
warrant against her boy
friend. She suffered a swollen
jaw and exhibited an in)ury to
the left leg.
(See CRIME BEAT. P J'
■MR .MAYOR. YOU MUST BFI.IKVF. if Ihsv herd us ini»
(cKditi districts, we will take over their |><>lili(^ We ‘
t.- to lake over Ih** ”hife man. \I1 w( want i*. (u hi- ir^t.
Rov Wilkin.s, executive director. N \ X< U. tulil (hii-t-iKf F.
I.iglitner. Mayor of Raleigh. Sunday, ul the Memorial
.Auditorium, where "Mr. N.-\.\('I*” delivered the kevnolt' spetwh
and the mothers of the state turned in a record $31,163.51. to he
used in the fight for freedom.
TAR HKKLS OFF TO .\FW ORLEANS - Ho\ Wilkins, execitlive
director. NAACP. is shown Sundav. al Raleighs Memorial
-Auditorium after he crowned these two molheiH as Ihe winners
in the 1974 Freedom Fund Drive. -Mrs. W. R, Met leaves. Siler
( ilv. representing the Chatham Countv Branch, was the winner
in the “Small Branch“ division, reporting IJ.kiT.imj, is shown on
the left and Mrs. FUiabeth Napoleon, right, reported $l,.‘>tMio».
raised by the Durham Branch. The two will be the guests of the
N.C. State Conference N \.\<.T‘ Hranclii s al the iiaiional
convention, which will be held In New Orleans la.. .Inlv l-*i.
Atlanta Mavor Addresses
m/
’74 Class At Alina Mater
IM RHAM Allanta Mayor
Maynard Holbrook Jackson.
Jr ’ told 857 graduates of
.Vtrih Carolina Central L'ni
viTsiiy Sundav. May 19. that
racism remains Hie most
immediate problem ol black
Americans, while “the ulfi
male problem in this country
is the difference between
those who have and those who
, .ATTFND 2IITII ANNIVFRSARV I.UNCHEON • New Aork •
Mr'. Rosa Parks of Montgomery i.Afa.) bus hovtoH fame, is
<ntrodii< «-it to lorrrer I .S. Atty. Gen. Klliott Richardson 'I • h\
, favor ( harles Evers of Fayette. Miss., as Ihev attend lum h.-o
f)ere Ma' 17. sponsored bv the N.-A.At P‘s I.e^al Defense and
Fdui atiunul i und. Inr. Occasion marked 2<ilh annlversarv of his
historic I-S Supieme Court decision, outlawing segregated
education in tin t s. Mrs. Parks‘ refusal in .Montgomerv lo give
her seat to a while Dec 1. 1935. launched the Montgomery Bus
Bovcon -ind the siaK of Dr. Marlin Luther King’s great crusade.
(UPU
don't
.lacksiin. an alumnu' oi the
NCCU l.iA .scho'd. who i.s ihe
iirsl black mayor of .Allanta.
r»*cogii!zeil in hi*' comnierae
menl addn"-> al NCUl the
■jiith anmvtTsarv of the
See .M AU'H L's, P 2:
AppreruitUm
('herli (roes To
Joioes K. Kerr
Ijtsi we»hend was a lucky
one lor .Ian «' K Ken, M'Ki
Buv* i fornierl' il Kdenloii'
.Slfeel. when li< sfuilted his
iSee APPHKUI ATIdN. P !*■
Man Yells
‘Honkey;’
Two Dead
ORLANDO, Fla. - John
Henry IJooker, an 18-year-
old local black man. is
being held here on a
charge of first-degree mur
der. along with two other
blacks, both 18, following
a shoot-out at a iocal
service station. Two white
men, a father and his 22-
> ear-old son, were victims
ot the senseless shootings
..t about 9:30 a.m. Mon-
d.y. The entire incident
was spawned over the
purchase of o*'® dollar’s
worth of gasoline.
Booker is said to have
driven his 1973 Cougar auto
mobile into Anthony Ciano's
gas station and ordered the
(See DAD. SON. P. 2)
Grocers To
Get Food
Stamp Info
Wake County grocers who
did not attend the April
meldings to become author-
ued to accept food stamps,
are urged to attend the
makeup meeting on Tuesday.
May 28 at 1 p.m. The meeting
will be held in Room 209 of the
Federal Buiding. 310 New
See GROCERS TO. P 2)
CRJ Now
Convenes
In City
NEW M)RK • Ine Commis
sion for Racial Justice of the
United Church of Christ will
hold its annual spring meeting
Thursday and Friday. May
21-24. at the Holiday Inn. 320
Hillsborough St.. Raleigh.
N (■
On the agenda for the
m(*pring is a lour of Central
Prison Correctional Center,
May 24 at 2 p.m. The
Commission has provided
ptMiple on death row at
Central Prison with pastoral
counseling through visits and
letters
The commission recently
conducted an investigation
into conditions al the prison
and made recommendations
for improvement.
I'he church group will also
visit a black-oriented radio
station in Durham, which has
'See CRJ NOW. P, 2»
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
MAKI F, ( i:\TER, INC,
For ih«' Bf'i In Hutboards Ana insurance”
FFARFl I. (Htm P tOMKIfS AS (itA RATTLE R.AGES • 1.09
Aiigeh'H This unniii of fearful women and children, cower
Fridax. Mav IT. as a firm- uun bailie lakes place between
police and six perstnis. who were holed up in a house in South
Central l.os Vugeles. One hom laler. Ihe house in which the
memb«Ts of (he Svmhionese l.ilieralloii Armv were holed up.
caught fire ami binned lo the ,;iound In Ihe meantime, police
discovered five hodie-. on Eiirtav night and a sixth on Saturday.
Max IK. .\monu' the dead w.»s Donald David DeKrecie.
.ear-old reputed black le.ntei ol the group. Patricia Hearst
and several olh. - alleged members ol the Sl.V. were still being
hunted at t AHOI IMW press (ime <1 Pl>
Leader, ,
5 Others
Are Dead
LOS ANGELES. Cal
• Donald David Di*-
Freeze, 30-y e u r-old
black leader ot the
Symbionese Liberation
Army (SLA), was u
mong the 6 persons
who perished during a
fierce gun battle with
some 500 local politM’
officers and F^cri.l
Bureau of Investiga
tion officials here last
Friday night.
Police and the FBI h.id
been seeking DcFreczc aiid
other members of ihc SLA
since (he Feb 7 kidnapini.'
of 20-year-o!d newspaper
heiress Patricia Campbell
Hearst. who has now
declared “extremely dang
erous” and is considercil a
fugitive from justice, her
seif.
All six of the Friday niglit
shootout dead. hav(> been
identified as memberrs of
the SLA, -Other than De
Freeze.
(See DEFREEZE AM) V -J-
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SEEKING .SAFETY • l.os .Angeles - Children dash for safety last Friday, as firing brrak> out m
South Central Los .Angeles in a fierce gun battle that ended over an hour later with hundreds of
police firing into a house in which a group of people were holed up. Six people in (he house xtere
killed and the home was burned to (he ground. Early reports (entatixely identified the group in
(he house as members of the Svmbionese Liberation Armv. iUPI>
END OF THE l.I.VE FDR SL\ SI.A MEMBERS - Los Angeles - A house in which a group
people were holed lip during one hour long fierce gun battle against police, goes up m ffames
ending the battle A group identified as members of (he Symbionese l.iberatinn Armx foughi a
fierce gunfight before fire hrmight an end to (he battle. When police entered Ihe burned nni
house, they found six IhhIm-s Ihe fight was the end of a day-long search for the SLA that slat led
late Max 16. when (hex simi up a sporting pt*ods store in Inelewond Calif, (I'lM)
CHll.DKEN ARK REM ( ED - l.os Angeles • Police rescue children, .viay 17. irom a ntiuxe neat
the scene where a group identified as members of the Symbionese Liberation .Armx. lhal
responsible for the ktdnap ttf Patricia Hearst 107 days ago. fought a fierce gun bailie wuh
hundreds of police before being killed in a southern area of 1.2>s Angeles. (I'Pli
MAYOR JACKSON
^ ( tip f*H(iTE( TS FIKEMFS Los Angeles • A police officer carrying a sub machine gun. runs
> into position to prolet i fin men .is the house in which a group of people that carried on a ruimmg
fierce gun battle with hundreds ol police. Early reports from police say that six people in ihe
f house were killed and Ibex have been identified as members of the Symbionese Liberalion Armx
jjdPD