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PRKSS RUN THIS 'd KEK 9,430 Angela Davis Visits CAROlilNIAN jr-v.r • - * ■ '-'-vii. SCLC Head, Others Here On July 4 Pinna Are ^ J ^ Plans Are Finalized In Raleigh if if if if To Republican Suit Settlement if if if if BY STAFF WRITER After addressing a larRe crowd of black admirers in Henderson, some 47 miles north of Raleigh, Miss Angela Yvonne Davis, world renowned for iier efforts in earnestly seeking prison reform and equal justice for all, especially minorities, visited the offices of The CAROLIN IAN Monday morning and was very enthusiastic over the upcoming Julv 4 demonstration, to be held in this citv. opposing the death penalty. Shirley Won H Agree THE' CAROLINlAli ISorth Carolina's Leading Weekly VOL. 38 NO. 34 RALEIGH. N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JUNE 29. 1974 SINGLE COPY’ 20c TOI K CAKOI.INIAN PLANT • From left to right are Dr. Helen C. Othow. professor of English at St. .Xugustine'ii College here. Miss Angela Y. Davis, nationally known activist, and Charles P- Jones, managing editor of The CAROLINIAN, as they express interest Monday in a Raleigh demuiistratiun story, appearing in last week’s edition. Dr. Othow and Miss Davis are co- hatrpersons of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which will sponsiir (he t.iHbSive protest demonstration on Thursday. July 4. Watergate Pondering Minorities National Black News Service W.XSHINGTON, D C. • An investigation into charges that the Nixon Admin.islration used grants and loans for the purpose of awarding friendly minority bu.sinessmen. has reached tiie ears of the Watergate grand jury. (See WATEIUJATE. P 2) Bethune Memorial July 10 America’s Olds Study Fund Plans BY .1 B ilARK.iN M)A>(| MKACH. Fla. • Some IW leprvM ntalives of Oppor tunities h.'ilusirialtraiion Cen ters lit .America <OICi ended a lour riav informat'on and |Str..h-g> conferefH-e here at I »he Marco Pnlo Hotel. June 21. with Kohcri M Burns, region al dtiii'i'ir. Department of /..alxir .!e I'ejing the closing hjiiL'hiNHi diiJiess Bums was inlr ‘dijced by {'harles B Pm’.-' vice pre.sident. Bur- dim- arid VK«' chairman. Miani’ OH’ \iivi<i!ry Council. ii-iV.'ifi worked in cln.^e coopr r .. ilh t)lCs of Am'M,. hoih speakers stron^h '•ji«lor',e'1 the airr.s and guiii- of tin self-help ca-i i!!.- organization which ha-- ’.amed am! rai-Yi'd the ei'.plii>i,.i r: h'.'d of approxi- n'.ate'-. a ’lundred iiiou.',and pv.pie a\«. :t- Hi-year exisi- em*.' 'ht.iiijM c*nc hundred Millc- -.eiviiij.' .ill ■segments ot An.ej IIi.dpiil ition • even to .¥■ u a .iii.i I’niTl.i Kilo. am rraUI t>r ilie ne\ trd '^ulliven ar.d a i’l.iladt'lphia. Pa .>!» na‘ enjosed g .md ;i]:a ring i.u -.fgrei-' leading i:'f1 nmcnlal III onier thai 'mining giV'ii to those i'HSt iheir jub-train- i: Ki oup the f nitty b .ihle to ■oiighoM !t.c i.iur days, enpoasii w.iv plated upon the iieeo for ytiMier ciunniunity unOei.standing and coopera tion .0 afford the greatest (See DlCs .STCDX P 2l Scheduled to appear with Miss Davis next Thursday are Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, president of the Southern Cht^is^ian Leadership Confer ence. Atlanta. Ga., Rep. John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., singer Stevie Wonder, Rep. Parren Mitchell. D-Md., several In- (jian leaders and the Rev. 'tSee .\NGELA DAVIS. P. 2i Young Raleigh Female Says VAC.4 TU)M! The following notice is an ‘Cop Abused M WASHINGTON. D.C - A Iridy historical occasion will t»ccur on July 10, when the Mary McLeod Bethune Me morial will be officially dedicated and unveiled in Washington, D.C. This Be thune Memorial will stand proudly facing another monu ment dedicated nearly 100 years ago. It will serve as the culminaiiun of a momument to freedom and justice begun when, on April 14. 1876, the nation's newly-freed black citizens erected in Lincoln Park, a monument to Abr.')- ham Lincoln and emancipa tion Known as the “Emancipa tion Group." this 98-year-old statue portrays Mr. Lincoln and a slav<- whose chains have Just been b. oken. According to the Washington Evening Star of (hat day, the monument cost $17,000. a sum “paid by the f-olored people, the first money for the object being $5. cnntrihu'ed by Charlotte S<-;‘U a colored washwoman froni Maru'tt.i. Ohio, on the 'See lUv BETHUNE. P. 2> COMMUNIST .MEETS REPUBLICAN • Miss Angela Davis is shown in the makeup department of The CAROLINIAN Monday, being greeted by Alexander Barnes, president of the Durham NA.-\(T Chapter and an advertising and reportorial employee at the newspaper. Miss Davis, an admitted Communist, was happy to shake hands with Barnes, a life-long Kepublirun. Frank A. Watson, 79, Ex-Postman, Dies In City important reminder to our readers, subscribers, ad vertisers, newsboys, news and photographs handlers throughout our circulation areas: Although there WILL be a oaoer for the week ending Saturday, July 6. The CAROLINIAN WILL NOT publish a newspaper for the week ending Saturday. July 13. The office will be open each day. .Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. during the week, beginning .Monday. July 8, for the transaction uf business. This is being done in order to give the employees and manage ment a much deserved period of rest. All dead lines will fall, as usual, on Tuesday. July 16. for the following week's paper, to be dated July 20. Thank you for your kind under standing. ★ ★ ★ 4 4 V- Jf Dr. Mays Tells Banquet Audience ★ ★ ★ -4: ‘Preachers Must Identify Ministers, Guests At Banquet Frank Alexander Watson, 79, of 109 IdlewJd Avenue, died Tuesday night at Wake Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 12:30 p.m. Friday at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church. Burial will follow in the National Ceme tery. He served with the U.S. Lightner To ISAACP Sessions Post Office Department in Raleigh for 43 vears. Surviving are: his widow, Mrs. Mary Williams Watson- brother. Cnarles 1. Watson of Philadelphia, Pa.; nieces. Mrs. Mary W. Sharpe and Mrs. Frances L. Williams of Raleigh: nephews, Charles Funderburk of Alexandria. Virginia and John Funderburk of Philadelphia, Pa.; great nieces. Pamela and Wanda (See F A. WATSON. P. 2) NEW YORK • A group of nationally recognized legal and political experts will lead workshops at the 65lh NAACP annual convention (hat begins on July 1 at the Hivergale Exposition Center in New Orleans. Leading the workshop on employmenl. which will be held on Tuesday afternoon in the nearby International Hotel ballroom, will be John H. Powell. Jr., chairman of ihc Equal Employment Opportun ity Commission, and his predecessor. William H (See LIGHTNER TO. P 2> COiTUR'S SOTE: Ttil» calumn or laalara It pradaerd la ihr pablU lalereM ■ lib aa aim lewarda rllmlnallai lit caairau. Samrreut iadUldualt Bate reqaealrd 4bal Ihry br fUen lha caatMrraliea al avrriaohlag laalr llulag an Ibr palter blatter. TbU weald Ilka ta da. HeMa»rr. it it net oar patlliae la ba jirfgr ar jary. Wt mrraly pabllib Iba lecit at aa (lad Iba.n repenad by lha arratllng efdran. To krrp. eal of Tua Crimr Baal Columnt, entraly rnraat aot baiag rafltlarrd by a polica ofllcfr la raporiiag bit liadiaft wblla an duly. So tlmply kaap oil iha “Blodar” an<l yoa aon'l be ia The Crime Baal. BUTCHER KNIFE USED WiU'im Thomas Oates, 37, 412 E. Hargett Street, told Officers J. L. Brown and R. T. Riltenhouse at 3:34 am. Monday of this week, that he received a three inch lacera tion of his left upper arm white he and Mrs. Mary Frances Reed, 30. same address, “were having a domestic quarrel at this residence when the suspect picked up a butcher knife and stabbed me." The man said BY STAFF WRITER At the first annual Shaw Divinity School Trustee Banquet, held lest Friday niRht at the Downtown lit^iday Inn. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, the feacured speaker, advisod his aud* ience of some 250 persons (hat "The Black Church Is A Must" in riRhtiniT many of the wrongs associated with segregation and dis crimination. today. "The black preacher must identify himself with the man farthest down and must try to motivate our bovs and girls 4o be something worthwhile. The black church is able to do this more than any other institution," fie stated. ‘Policeman Ti'ore My Sweater:’ Victim BY CHARLES R. JONES “The officer tore my sweater all the way down on the right side when he grabbed my arm. and the arm is still sore," Mrs. Betty Jean Cobb Horton. 26. 1405 Lofton Place (Kingwood Forestk fold the managing editor of this newspaper last Friday moniing, as she began reporting what she described as police brutality, mingled with abusive language Uward herself and members ot ner tamily by a voung while policeman. Officer H. V. Johnson, last week. However, the cop charged her with driving with, improper equipment, using vulgar language and resisting airest on warrants which she producxxl. driving on a street, norm of Western Boulevard, from which she made a right (urn. She was on her v.-ay to lake her son to a dentist for an Repeated efforts to contact the officer, allegedly involved, or Ll. Bruce E. Tucker, human relations officer for the Raleigh Pol’ce Dept., were unsuccessful. Mrs. Horton said she was frank a. WATSON he did not wish to sign an assault with a deadly weapon warrant against the_w^an. (See CRIME BEAT P .3i “We are a minority group because we belong to only ten or It percent of the U.S. citizenry. We have about 8 million students in our colleg es and universities, but we should have more blacks enrolled In them," said the chairman of the Atlanta Board of Education and presi dent-emeritus of Morehouse College. “Blacks are also a minority in.politics," he continued. “If we had 10 percent of our people voting, we would have many more blacks in politics. "We have 2 percent of the nation's physicians, rather than 10 percent as it should (See DR. MAYS. P ?> EXHIBITING HER EVl DENCE - Mrs. Belly Jean Cobb Horton of Raleigh. Is shown here with a sweater, which she claims was ripped under the right sleeve, by- local police oflicer. and the left rear lire, taken off of the 1964 Plymouth she was driving last week after the officer Is said to, have abused her, both physically and by using profane language. Something i Wrong, Says S. Chisholm appointment. She said she was on the street nearest the State (See COP ABUSED. P 2) BY PAUL H WYCHE, JR. National Black News ^rvice WASHING • Declaring that there is "something inherently wrong with a process where a person who is not part of the negotiations ends up parly to the agreement,” Rep. Shiriey jr-ia TF7« Chisholm has refused to clear tmallSt Irm.S'lh'’, way tnr Ihe S775,000 settlement of a lawsuit of the “Jr. Miss 99 Honors Appreciation Checks Won By 3 Here A grand Siam humerun was hit last week in the .Xppre.'ia- tion Money Feature ^t-onsor- ed by The CAROL! l.'SN and participating merchants, found on the back page pf the first section of the newspaper each week. Thrw ivi v j»ts saw their names in the paper and won a total of (30 lO Lliecks. Mrs. Bernice H*niqii, 311 Fisher Street, st>'t('’d her nam> in the Brown's Realty “You hg^e been chosen as Company ad. Brown's is of the ' 1974 Pr(‘sii>i • IncattKl ia Suite 311. 19 W. Scholars and ..s h (See APPRECIATION. P 2). 'Sec “JR .MISS 1* . BY MISS J. E. HICKS When Donna Alexander, age 17. and daughter of the late William Alexander and Mrs Kathyrn Alexande.’* of East Orange. New Jersey, became one of the 7 finalists in the 1974 “Miss Junior America" pageant in May, many blacks were elated and can now- also be proud that Donna’s lauds are continuing. Donna wa.s the first black “Jgnior Miss New Je:-sey " (5n Wednesday. June 19. she was graduated as the valcdii torian of her clas.s 410 al East Orange High School. East Orange. N.J.. with high honors in English. French, science and mathematics and honors in social stud.es. physical education atid health and social living The young lady received recently an invitation from President Nixon, slating. Democratic National Commit tee against the President's re-election committee. The other candidates • Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson and George McGovern, along with Edmund Muskie - have either signed the waiver requested bv the cnmmil'ee or indicated they will shortly Mrs Chisholm, making it clear that she intends to sue Donald Segrotti, convicted as a political saboteur, for disiriliution of a phony news release during the 1972 pnniai> i’residenlial cam- paigii falsely accusing her of I See MRS CHISHOLM. P. 2) ONE OF FBI'S MOST WANTED - New York - l..endell Hunter, a roncicled rapist, kidnaper arj burglar, who allegedly murdered a 78-year-old woman and then brutally assaulted her 12- year-old grandson on Feb. 14. 1973 in Augusta. Georgia, has been added to tht KRi's list of “Ten Most Wanted Fugi tives." Huiiter. who had receiced three consecutive life prison senteiici-s foi rape, in addition to senle.ices totaling 95 years imprisonment for assault, burglary and kidnap ing. escape from a prison camp real Alto, 'ia on Dec. 26,1972. (I PD i.ne nil.11 rrilTK 1ZK_S niHKK.N (OMMn.MKNTS - .\r«ark. \„I, - N,.,rk M'.vor Kpnnrlh A. (iihson Who begins four-year term July I as the first black mayor of a major Eastern city, says that ii this countrv made the same coniiniimeni to helping its cities as it does in propping up some \Man goxernment. there would he no problems to saving the cities. (I’PI) Apprisciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK ,,<|VK IKH S l\< . “For Uniefue And Economical Furniture' (HHNt; BEFORE JUDGE - Columbus. Oa. - Ft. Bennlng Provost Marsl.ai. Col. Eugene Murdock (L). follow* as former \im\ l.i. William 1.. (alley. Jr. «C>. flanked by Sgt. Phillips 'R'. file into U.S. District Court early June 24. Calley fa)*^ ■hiiigr .1. Robert Elliott, who beared Callev's case on it’s nieriU. 'I PD
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