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Elks’ Mid-Yr. Confab To Open
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Set For Nation Readies For
NAACP Solicitation
Meeting
The Improved Benevolent
and Protective Order of
Elks of the World, North
Carolina division, will hold
its mid-year conference
here, beginning Friday,
Nov. 8 through Sunday
morning, Nov. 10.
Day
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BLACKS OPPOSE FLIP’S
ACT • Nashville, Tenn. •
Comedian Flip Wilson's char
acterization of "Rev. Leroy,”
has drawn the ire of a black
church group as the result of
a recent television special. .\
group of black Tennessee
clergymen attacked Wilson as
depicting the black preacher
as a "sort of ecclesiastical
Stepin Fechlt and the black
church as a spiritual rock and
roll center." The charge was
made in a statement prepared
for the Tennessee Baptist
Missionary and Educational
Convention, an affiliate of the
National Baptist ('onvention.
L'SA. inc. <LPI>
The local lodge. Fidelity No.
277 and Capital City Temple
No. 310. have left no stones
unturned in an all out effort
for a repeat hospitality
performance of the past May.
\ortli (’.nrolinn's Lradinf; U etdilv
VOL. 34 NO. 4 RALEIGH. N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, N'OV. 9. 1974
SINGLE COPY 20c
First Black In State In Over lit) Years
Weekend
Planned
By Body
Beginning with the cocktail
party for all Elks, delegates
and their friends, at the local
Elks Home. 619 E. Davie St.
on Friday night. Music for
that occasion will be furnished
by "Dr.” Massenberg and his
organ. Another big feature
will be the Harvest Ball, with
the Blue Mooners holding
forth
WINTERS TO SENATE
U. N. Day
Sessions
Success
r
Mayor Clarence Lightner
put the finishing touches on
the United Nations Action
Coalition Symposium when he
spoke at Ligon Junior High
School, in the observance of
United Nations Week. Oct.
20-27.
The titular head of Raleigh
told (he students and teachers
that the founding of the
symposium to do something
about the food crisis was
wonderful. He said that the
Raleigh organization could be
used as a model fur others to
follou He also thought (hat it
would serve as another
agency to bring peace and
goodwill among nations.
Dr. Lisa Surgio was the
iunch(H)n speaker She told the
students to take the things
they had learned back to their
homes and communities so
Sunday morning, worship
services will be held at
Tupper .Memorial Baptist
Church, corner of S. Blount
and E. Cabarrus Streets. Rev.
l.eolha Debnam is (he pastor
While this session will focus
its entire attention on the rook
of the lodges and correlating
them, the grand secretary.
Carl 0. Dickerson, Philadel
phia. Pa., will bring the
master plans for 1974-75.
The Daughters under their
state president, Daughter
U'tetia Smith in charge, will
hold its seminar Saturday
morning at 9. Mr. Lawrence
Wray will serve as chairman
for this meeting. Registration
l>egins on Friday at noon at
Hotel Sir Waller, where all the
.sessions will be held.
At 2:30 a m. Sunday. Break
fast will be served at the Elks
Home, following the Harvest
Ball
•Tx?m" I.ong of Charlotte, is
state president.
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out the nation. NAACP
branches were putting
finishing touches on plans
for the mammoth NAACP
Membership Solicitation
Dav campaign on Nov. 9
and 10.
"We expect to go over the
top' of the goal of "100.000
More in '74." predicted
Clloster B. Current, director of
branches. Mr Current said
CITY BETKCTIVE TO
ATTENt) COl'R.SE - .losepli
Blalock, a inemher of the*
Raleigh Pciliec Departmenl’'
Juwiiile Di-ti'vlive Squad, will
attend a twn-week course on
drliii(tiienc> iireveiilioii at
fiiiilfoi'd College in (ireeiis
boro. No\. Detecliw
Blnloek has been wiili th,-
police departineni for x vears
and has been working willi
juveniles for three and a hall
\earh. Ihe delinquency pie
veiition institute in fireen>
horn will leach iiielhods nt
Jioeiiile causa
lion and prevention in todav'-
society. Joseph, and his vtiff,
Martha, and three children
Joseph Orlando, Vnihony anit
Michelle, live in Raleigh on
Foxgale lliive
that his prediction was based
on recent events in Boston,
Black Church Defender
For Rights, Bishop Says
Meet In
Ohio Is
1st Bapt.’s
Dr. Ward
Expounds
Ex-City
Official
Elected
CHARLES G. IRVING. SR.
(See U.N. DAY, P. 2>
NEA Credit
Union Is
Closing
The final close-out date for
the complete liquidation of the
N-C Educators Credit Union,
BY CHARLES R. JONES
The Rev. Dr. Charles W.
Ward, Sr., pastor of Raleigh’s
First Baptist Church, Wil
mington at Morgan Streets,
preached "his heart out” last
Sunday morning as he led his
flock of members and visitors
back into a renovated church,
which filled to overflowing on
one of the most important j
days in the history of the
more than 150-y e a r -o I d
church. At the conclusion of
Lightner
Cited By
Not since the turbulent
days of reconstruction and
not since blacks were
disfranchised by the dia
bolical “grand father
clause*’ has the Sate of
North Carolina flexed as
much muscle as it did in
the Tuesday election, when
John W. winters, Ilaleigh
realtor, and Fred D.
Alexander, Charlotte
housing administrator,
were elated to the N.C.
State Sbnate.
Concluded
JOHN W. WINTERS
No
Inc..
is set for Dec. 3i. The ‘he first Sunday services
only extension of business
communion had to be served
beyond this date, will
1.
involved in efforts to collect
the few remaining delinciuent
loans. This process will be
cuntinued uncler the control of
the Central Adjustment Bur
eau. Inc.. 4530 Park Rd..
Charlotte, N.C. 28208. after the
3tst date.
Persons with delinquent
loans may make contact with
the agency in Charlotte as
listed. When these accounts
were turned over to the
Charlotte agency, all preced
ing judgements were cancell
ed. subject to the issurance of
new judgment by the collect
ing agency.
(I. as a shareholder, you
have not received your full
share balance, please send in
immediately, a self-addressed
stamped envelope to W. R.
Collins. 131'2 E. Hargett
iSee CREDIT UNION. P. 2)
to an additional 30 persons.
Taking his subject from the
Holy Bible and using for a
text. We Have Come This Far
By Faith, the minister told his
listeners that faith never gives
all that it promises: faith
promises multiplicity, a good
land.
"Abraham was the father of
the faithful,” Ward declared.
"He kept the faith; he died in
the faith, but he never
received the promise.”
Glancing around the beauti
ful "new” church, he viewed
the brand new organ and the
vast array of faces around
him. Dr. Ward declared that.
"What we visualized some
years ago as we became tired
of the ugly walls, no speaking
pipes on the organ, but today
we are realizing, as we
worship in our newly-renov-
(See DR. WARD. P. 2i
The Boyer Consistory
219. headed by Charles G.
Irving. Sr., sponsored its
anniversary banquet in the
Martin Luther King Student
Union Building, St. Augus
tine's College. Saturday. Nov.
2. with House of Representa
tive H. M. Michaux, Jr., as
speaker. Prince Purdie An
ders presided.
Winters, the first black to
be elected to (he Raleigh City
Council, placed second in the
race for a senate seat.
Alexander also came in
second in the most populous
section of the state. It was the
second time around for both
winners. Winters lost his 1972
bid in the Democratic pri
mary and Alexander was
beaten by. a Republican
opponent in Ihe general
election
Raleigh had another black
plus when George R Greene
(See JOHN WINTERS. P 21
Wake-City
Consortium
Explained
The highlight of the affair
was the awarding of a citation
to Clarence Lightner. Mayor
of Raleigh The award cited
the achievements of the
speaker. It extolled the
virtues of the honoree and
reminded him that he receiv
ed a mantle handed him by
his late father. Calvin Light-
St. Paul
Scene Of
Conference
(See CONSISTORY. P 2)
Agency
On Aging
Is At Work
St. Paul AME Church will
be host to the annua! Western
North Carolina conference of
the second Episcopal District
of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, which will
convene here from Nov 12-15.
Bishop Henry W Murph.
will preside and Bishop J. N
Sheares is presiding elder.
The Rev. Nathaniel Gaylord is
host pastor
Johnston The primary objec
live of the project is to
demonstrate the feasibility of
reducing the rate of institu
tionalization among the aging
population of Region J by-
applying existing community
resources to their housing
problems.
Recent studies have shown
that many older .Americans
enter institutions prematurely
because they have no other
^lace to go In cooperation
with (he respective county-
councils on aging and other
local agencies and organiza
tions. the Area Agency on
Aging will attempt to identify
persons aged 60 and over with
housing problems and inform
them of alternatives to
institutionalization as a way of
dealing with those problems.
Two senior citizens in each
county- are working as housing
counselors to identify and
provide technical assistance
BLACK LlFfTENANT GOVERNOR • Denver • Democratic Lt. to anyone 60 years of age and
Gov Gforgf Bro»n (Ifll). and Gov. winner Dick Lnmm (rlghll. over who may have a housing
are all smiles as Ihey speak In crowd at Democratic problem T h e seoulreacli
headquarler laic Nov, 5. Brown Is Ihc llrsl black ever to hold Ihc workers are famillSr with Ihe
Ollier. Lamm and Brown upsri Republican Incumbent John network ol resources m their
Vanderhoof. (LT’ii (See ON AGING. P 2>
The Area Agency on Aging J ftnrocifttinii
in Ihe Triangle J, Council of i Itimui
Governments is administering
a program of housing assist- T/^
ance for aging persons in the Axi/f f ir
counties of Chatham. Lee.
Orange. Durham, Wake and jf
The winner of Iasi week's
C A R O L I .\ I A N Appree-
iation Money s^as Mrs. Dons
J Lindsey. io43 Raleigh Blvd
She visited Heilig-Levine Fur
niture Compsiny and picked up
the - ready cash "
Heihg Levine. one of Ral
eigh's belter furniture stores,
specializing in name prcHluets.
was happy to give Mrs
Lindsey the numey It also
gave her an up|>oi'(unit> to
brouse around and lake a
gander at the lurniiure and
household appliances in the
(See APPREl'lA'llON. H 2>
The Comprehensive Em
ployment Training Act of 1973.
provides a new approach to
manpower, laocal government
is now able to analyze their
community manpower needs,
construct a plan to counteract
manpower problems and de
velop a program to carry out
manpower goals and objee-
llVt‘S.
The Wake-Raleigh Consor
tium consists of Wake. John
ston. Chatham. Ix^e counties
and Ihe City of Raleigh. The
City of Raleigh is the prime
sponsor for Ihe consortium.
Four CETA programs are
operating in Ihe consortium.
Tlie purpose of Ihe CET.A
programs, in the prime
spoiiso;' jurisdiction is to
promote the full development
and utilizations ol (he econo
mically disadvantage resi
dents ot the five governmental
units which make up the
<-ons(*riium. and to insure
eijuilahle acee.ss to Ihe twne-
fits of tonlinued economic
growth through a halanred
area-wide system of compre
hensive manpower services
Of the H8.l7(J families in the
area set ved by the consor
tium. >2.912 fall helnw Ihe
(Miverty level. It is among this
group that (he majority of
mdiMiluals needing serxiecs
will >'onie In keeping with the
e>>l:it)lished national, stale and
local priorities, large groups
have been identified, who are
in most need for services that
can fa- provided under this
program In an effort to
.I'-sui'e that those w’tli the
greatest need will henefil
Innii the program, ttie follow
ing are designated as prinrily
larget groups youth between
'iif.iges ot U-2i, unetnploved
minority tamdy heads, parti
cularly lemale head.s receiv
ing public assistance, unem-
uloyed \ioinam \'etcraiis.
head oi liou'ehold below
See WAKE-t'i rV f' 2i
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
CINCINNATI. Ohio •
Bishop Frederick D. Jor
dan, chairman, Consulta
tion on Church Union,
which opened its 12th
plenary session at the
Nelherlund-Hilton Motel
here, Sunday. Nov. 3, gave
a concrete definition of the
purpose of the organiza
tion, at a press conference,
held Monday morning.
Nov. 4.
The prelate made it clear
that the movement, attempt
ing to unite 9 denominations,
was not new. but was a
continued effort on the part of
Christian believers that the
end cannot he anything but
unity- in the faith expressed in
various forms - communion in
one eucharist within an
organic body, comprising a
diversity of organizational
|)alterns.
One of his main points was
that liberation is one of the
essentials necessary lor real
church witness and .service in
(he world. He proclaimed
(See CUCC MEET. F 2i
where court ordered intergra-
lion has been violently- op
posed by white parents.
The NAACP has been
leading the fight to integrate
Boston’s public schools for
more than a decade. Last
.lune. I S. District Court
.ludge W. Arthur Garrily
ordered that a special inte
gration plan be put into effect
at the beginning of Ihc school
vear in Seplemher.
But the implementation ol
this plan was met with violent
opposition of a segment of the
community that is involved in
the order.
Events in Boston, Mr.
Current said, onjy showed
black people around the
nation that the old southern-
typi' segregation is not dead
"Little Rock has been resur-
reeled m Boston,” he de
clared.
Cnnse(|uently. he said, his
recent tours around the
country have shown that
NAACP branches. youth
councils, slate organizations
and other supporters are
responding to the call, that
"The Fight Is Not Over-
Remember Boston."
Throughout the seven re-
ginas oi the NAACP, branches
have been furnished with
'.See NAACP DAY. P 21
Nutrition
Of Poor
Talked
WA.SH1NGTON - Low m
come iamilies must learn
more about th<- nuiriiiona*
value of foods '•ay- l*.
Moragne, Insid ol Ihe ( S
Agneulture Departmeni''- n
nutnlion edneaiion and (rain
ing program
Today's high food pneei
make it nece.ssary to kiiOk-
fiMKis iliai contain no nuir
lional value from tho-' .Mih .i
higli nutrienl eon-i-M. shi
Dr .Moragne ipronoum-en
.Moie-raiil kin'ei, co-author of
F«k-ii.n on F(kk1, a junior hicli
school nulrilioii texitiook
said.
“More people should lain’
advantage of the food assist
ance programs available from
(he Department of Agneulturt-
- the food stamp, schinil liinrii
and the school break!.tsi
programs. Maiiv don't know
(See NUTRITION, P. 2i
Livingstone
Administers
New Work
SALISBURY The social
welfare department, program
in aging, has been officially-
appointed by (he National
.\ss(H'iation ol Social Workers.
North Carolina Chapler. to
eoordinale a training program
lo me<*l the needs of long-term
care facilities residents, ac
cording to an announcement
h> Livingstone College presi-
deni F George Shipman.
A workshop entitled. Project
Provide, of 32 hours on
eonsetulive weekends, Jan.
Mi'll.' and .Ian 17-18. will
^ , lie held in tlreenslmro Parti-
DPI 111 anticipated from
ZrHITOR'S NOTII: This reluma
Iralure Ik predatrd la Ikr public laUrc
ullb §a aim lauardk rllmlnallat I
judfr
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baln( rafikltrid br a
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NIJL Awards
To Batten,
NEW YORK. NY William
BalMfii, distingui>he(i corpor
ate exeeulr. e and Dr Andrew
Bnininer. outstanding wonn
mist and academician have
been selected as recipients of
the National Urban Leagues
1974 K(|Uc-i! i)p|Ktrluniiy Day-
Award.
The award, given each year
to notable individuals who
have made imporiant conlri-
hutions to equal opportunity
-Sve NUL AWARDS. P •>'
amuns Health Care Facilities
Assoc administrators, social
work consultants lo nursing
homes and designated persons
who provide social services in
long-term eace.ffieilities
fueilitu‘s
Appointed to coordinate
••proieel Provide. ' are Dr.
Sterling H Whitener, chair
man ol the division of social
services at Livingstone and
professor oi social widfare.
and .lames W. Hopkins. Jr..
'.See LIVINfiSTONE. P 2)
III HHY \( t I .-iFI). KMI l\(.
Come.s one Ms S.inrii.i
WimhIs and stales to coiiipl.iin
lo officers th.'M she waii'ed i.,.r
Harry Lee W(hm1s arre.Ntetl ■■
assault with a deadly w<-.ip'<r
She related to Ihe oftn-cr h-.«
she was treated whet, she
refused lo gn with Ihe aecu*-«-'t
man to their home, after the •-
had MMted at 2ln I'oide
Streel, m Kaieigh She* relat'd
how her reiiisal hr'nighl Mn-
wralh ot Ihe '•us]>ect down on
her She alleges that he h-ll
the ('(Hike Street addre-.s te, .1
short time And who ii>-
relumed, he was .un.td -
a knife .she told the < tiu •.
that he pushed her 'hiI ol ri. -
chair and pioeeeded to i.se • ••
knife on liei leit cheek afd
under her left arm
(See CRIME BEAT. P :ii
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
SPIVEY’S LAWN MOWERS
"For Even A Good Selection Of Chain Saws"
l .s. FKEStUh.N I EStORTS LlMhKlAN HEAD IN WA8HINGTUN - Wtsnington • Pres. Ford
esenrls Liberian President William Tolbert (0 his limousine f dl. wing their meeting in Ihe White
House Vov. 3. l olberl. 61. came to the U.S. to receive the '•Fa"i* > of Man Award" from the New
Volk Cltv louiu-ll of (hurdles last week and officials of both governnienls arranged the
Ford-lolberl meeting so that the two leaders could get acquainted.
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