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Race Relations Center Closed
Decrease In Financei
Is Noted By Center
NASHVILLE, Term. — A continuing decrease in
financial assistance has resulted in the closing of the
Race Relations Information Center, which for 20 years,
' ' focused attention on the problems of minorities.
The closing was revealed in no longer one of those "
(lie final issue of Race Responding James Henry,
eporter. the cen-
i ut's bimonthly publication
^ James Leeson. the center s
executive director, criticized
the Edna McConnell Clark
Foundations of New York,
which has funded the urganiza-
1 ion for the past two years He
urote in an editorial that the
center was led to belies’e that
funding would bo continued.
Alsu, that the center closed m
November because a new
grant was refused
"The position of the Clark
Foundation is that market
conditions have greatly reduc
ed the value of its stock
holdings, cutting the founda
tion's assets to $100 million,"
Lesson wrote. "During the
two-year period of our grant.
Clark has defined its areas of
concern, and race relations is
Policeman
Indicted
yin Beating
MEMPHIS. Tenn — A
Memphus. Tennessee, police
officer was indicted last week
by a federal grand jury on a
charge of beating a 16-year-old
youth in a Memphis hole
Attorney (ieneral William B.
Saxb<‘ said the indictment was
returned in U S. District Court
in Memphis against Larry W.
Mansfield. 24
The indictment said that on
Dct 5. i'J74. Mansfield h<‘at
Perry Whiteside of .Memphis,
violating his constitutional
right not to l)e deprived of
li^rtv without due process of
law.
"Hte incident occurred after
Whiteside watched Mansfield
and another officer question
some persons on the street
outside the hotel. The police
man entered the hotel and
allegedly hit the youth with his
pistol butt.
Whiteside was treated for
cuts and bruises at a hospital.
Mansfield is white and White-
side is black.
Assistant Attorney General
^ J. Stanley Potlinger, head of
the Civil Rights Division, said
the maximum penalty upon
conviction is one year in jail
and a $1,000 fine
Suit Field
By Parents
Of Students
National Black News service
president of the Clark Founda
tion. said his organization
acted only after several
months' notice to Leeson that
no further funding would be
made
"Over the past two years, we
have put $550,000 into the
center.” Henry said ' And
incidentally, we funded them
when thei were just about to
close because they had lost
their other financial support
"At that time, we made our
support conditional on three
things The center would have
to materially change its board
to include funding-raising
capacity, it would to undertake
aggressive fund diversification
and seek professional fund
raising counsel, and it would
(See CENTER CLOSES. P 2)
The Carol
IS’orih Carolina's Leatlinu Weekly
VOL. 34 .NO. 10 RALEIGH. N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1974 SINGLE COPY 20i.
Cops Restore Order After Student
STABBED IN SCHOOL
•k ir if ir
if if if if
Would Transfer Power
if if if if
Clerics Develop Peace Plan
CAROLINIAN'S SEVENTH " CHRIS'nAN CHRISTMAS FAMILY OF THE YEAR" — The J. MIIU
Holloway family. sUndlng. J. Mills Holloway, vice pretldeDt Ib charge of flaaDces at St. Augustine’s
College, (seated) Jay, 13, president of the 8th |rade class at Leroy Martin Junior High School: Mrs.
Doris M. Holloway, state librarian and Ivan, a third grader at Mary Phillips.
City^s J, Mills Holloways Are
‘‘Christian Christmas^ Honorees
BY W. A. "PETE " WILDER
The J. Mills Houoway family, 1421 Oakwood Ave., has been chosen as The Operation
Bishop “
bishop
BOSTON — Black parents director, the purchasing agent,
have filed a brief in U S, ihe internal auditor, the
District Court calling for a security department, the sup-
substantially larger number of erintendent of buildings and
minority students in the city’s grounds, the food service
three academically advanced director, the chief accounlanl.
high schools
The parents want to change
from predominately white, to
predominately black. Spanish-
speaking and Asnn-American,
the enrollment m Boston Latin,
Girls l..atm and Boston Techni
cal High Schools.
The competitive schools pro
gram prepare students for
many of the nation's elite ivy
college.s and institutions. The
plaintiffs call for minority
reciuiimg fur examination
schools, special courses to
train minunties fur the exams,
and compensatory counseling
and tutoring for minority
children who enter those
competitive programs with
inadequate training
The proposals by the black
parents are part of their
response to (he Boston School
Committee’s plan to desegre
gate the specialized schools.
The plaintiffs charged also
that Ihe percentage of black
teachers at the three examina
tion .schools is below (hat of
black high school teachers in
the system as a whole. With a
ritywtde average of 10.4
percent black faculty, the
perreptnge a! Boston Latin is
6 1. at Gnis' Latin. 6 4 and at
Boston Tech. 8.1
.^liideiii enrollment at Boston
lAtin IS 1,742 Of that 70 are
black U’r .\si.tn Aniericar and
It are SiLinish speaking.
At Girls l.atin. total student
enrollment is t,14S Only 108
.>re black. 00 Asian American
uod 5 are Spanish speaking.
The situation is worse at
Boston Technical High With a
total school enrollment of 1,747,
(See PARENTS OF. P 2)
Violence
In Schools
Increases
BOSTON, Mass. —It took
helmeted police on horse
back to escort 136 black
students from South Bos
ton High School following
an incident in which a white
teenager was stabbed in a
school corridor.
Arrested and charged with
the stabbing of Michael Faith,
17 was James A. White, an
(See STABBED IN. P. 2)
DClfMeet
To Cite
Hunger
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On
Jan. 15. Dr. Martin Luther
King's birthday, is a day in
which the issues of hunger and
unemployment can be given
national visability. Rev. Jesse
Jackson, national president of
Operation PUSH and the
CAROLINIAN’S 7th "Chnstian Christmas Family of the Yenr.” The Holloways came
to St. Augustine's College in 1957. he as business manager. chairman of the PUSH Ecu
menical Ministers Division,
will be heading up a national
demonstration of ministers,
priests, rabbis and nuns, as
-veil as labor, business, the
unemployed, etc., from across
the country in Washington, the
nation's capitol on that day.
This demonstration around
the While House and around
the Congress will be a
reaffirmation of the concern
our clergy has for the
(See JOBS FOR. P. 2)
Majority
Will Rule
Under Plan
BY AUBREY E, ZEPHYR
National Black News Service
BOSTON — Two former
missionaries to Rhodesia have
developed a "peace plan" that
would transfer power from the
while minority-ruled govern
ment in Salisbury to the black
majority.
Authors of the plan are G. C.
Grant and Dr. J. Franklin
Donaldson, who each serv^
more than a (iecade In
Rhodesia with the United
Church Board for World
Ministries. The two now live in
the Boston area.
Envisioned by the pair,
Britain, as the power still
legally responsible for Rhode
sia. would set up a caretaker
government to prepare the way
for an independent state of
Zimbabwe (the African name
for Rhodesia). Rhodesia broke
away from the British 9 years
ago declaring its independence
(See PEACE PLAN. P. 2)
UNITED STATES VICE
PRESIDENT — WsitilDgtOQ —
The new Vice President.
Nelson Hoekefeller. sits at his
desk )n his office in the ("apitol
for the first time. Dec. 20.
Earlier he quickly took over
tne duties of his sole
constitutional job • presiding
over the Senate. (I'PI)
He had served at Johnson C.
Smith University. Charlotte,
from 1952-1957. In that same
capacity, ne served St. Ai^us-
(ine's College until 1970. 'Then
his title changed to vice
president for financial affairs.
Apparently, so far as the public
could discern, it was the same
job. But what a change! What
developmental responsibility.
Under Mr. Holloways watch
ful eye came the personnel
100 people are working in this
department to date, under the
supervision of Mr. Holloway.
When he came to St.
Augustine's, he inherited a
scarce budget of about $500,000
and a student body of about 400.
To date, he is accountable for
(See HOLLOWAYS. P. 2)
Landlords
bishop of Los Angeles and ^ c II
chairman of the PUSH Ecu- /wfijc# .Np/f
Mtni«l«»r« niwiRinn IfM.lM*'
To Blacks
Lightner Trial Is
Scheduled Jan. 20
The wife of this city’s first black mayor, Mrs.
Marguerite M. Lightner of Oelany Drive in tiie
Madonna Acres section of Raleigh, will face a Wake
Superior Court trial on Monday. Jan. 20, on charges of
conspiracy to receive and dispose of stolen clothing and
meals.
At an arraignment Friday other defendants to avoid
morning Judge James H. Pou prejudicing potential jurors.
?? M^htner's trial Mrs. Lifjitow’s case will be
(See MRS. LIGHTNER. P. 3)
“Ingrained
Prejudice*
Alarming
WASHINGTON. D.C. -
Recent complaints of "reverse
discrimination" against white
men "reveal a peculiarly
ingrained type of prejudice.*^'
National Education Associa
tion president James A.
Harris, charged, adding that
some people "simply can't
bring themselves to believe
that white males aren't always
more qualified."
six days ahead of the trials of
Frank and Ethel Ridley,
accused in similar indict
ments, handed down by a Wake
County Grand Jury last week.
Mrs. Lightner, who did not
appear in court, entered a plea
of not guilty. She is the wife of
Raleigh’s first black mayor,
Clarence E. Lightner.
Separate trials were sche
duled for Mrs. Lightner and the
DONT
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HAPPLN'
Ala. Leads In Most
Black State Troopers
the financial aid officer. Over
National Black News Service
MONTGOMERY. Ala. - A
survey by the now-defunct
Race Relations Information
Center, has cited Alabama as
the state with the largest
number of black state police
men on its roster.
According to the survey.
Alabama now has 28 black
state policemen, constituting
4.5 percent of the total force of
623. Maryland ranks seconil
with 4 percent. Both states
were under federal court
injunctions which imposed
racial hiring quotas.
However, on a national basis,
blacks still constituted only 1.5
(See ALA. LEADS, P. 2)
Appreciation
Check Won By
Mrs. E. Collier
Mrs. Elsie Collier, 1307 E.
Hargett Street, was the lone
lucky winner of a 110 check last
weekend in The CAROLIN
IAN’S Appreciation Money
Feature, sponsored also by
participating merchants, found
on the back page of the first
section of the newspaper each
week. 'There were two other
names on that page.
Mrs. Collier saw her name in
the advertisement paid for by
Carter's Inc.. E. Martin Street,
where they specialize in new
furniture as well as "O K. used
appliances and furniture.”
(See APPRECIATION, P. 2)
WASHINGTON. D C. - The
Department of Justice obtain
ed two consent decrees last
week, r^uiring (he owner of a
Columbia. South Carolina, real
estate firm to rent and sell
homes to black persons.
Attorney General William B.
Saxbe said the decrees were
filed in U.S. District Court in
Columbia, resolving a housing
discrimination suit against
James G. Edens, owner and
operator of Edens Real Estate.
The Justice Department filed
the suit on Dec. 27, 1973,
charging Edens with discrim
inating against black persons
by steering them to pr^omin-
antly or exclusively black
dwellings and by misinforming
prospective black tenants that
units were not available.
Edens denied any violation of
federal law, but agreed to
the entry of a decree prohibit-
(See LANDLORDS
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IN-L.AW ACTl’SED
Miss Jacqueline Wanda
Thorpe. 17. 221 Waldrop Street,
told Officer B. J. Rand at 10:59
p.m. Wednesday, that her
brother-in-law, Ricky Thorpe.
21. 205 Waldrop, was mad at
her because she had beaten his
wife. The young woman
declared that when Thorpe saw
her walking on Parnell Street
(off Poole Road), he jumped
out of his car and started
beating her in the face and
kicking her on the legs. She
suffered bruised lips. It was not
reported whether she signed an
assault on a female warrant
against Thorpe.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
Harris made the charge in
the wake of an announcement
by Peter E. Holmes, director of
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare's Office
of Civil Rights, concerning
college employment practices.
Holmes indicated that federal
“"'■'"'“live action guidelines
^iict oMutr Is were being widely misinter-
preted • there is no require
ment that less-qualified women
and minority group members
be hired over white males, he
said.
Holmes' announcement
came after several dozen
prominent university profes
sors complained to President
Ford that the federal govern
ment's affirmative action
program is "unust and
discriminatory.”
Harris pointed out that NEA
has never been under the
impression that college af
firmative action programs
called for a drop in employee
quality. “On the contrary,‘*he
said, "fully (jjuellfled women
and minorities have been
(See ‘INGRAINED’,
, P, 2)
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CHRISTMAS TREE RULING DEFIED - Kanut City, Mo.
Studenib in one of the classes at Allen Elementary School In
Kansas City, sit near their Christmas tree, which was atUI
standing Dec. 20. even though the Kansaa City Fire Inspector
ordered Christmas trees to be removed from public buildings
because they are a fire hazard. The prin< oal of the school said she
had not received any orders to remove I le tree, even though moat
other schools had. (UPh
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
BRIGGS HARDWA, .
"For TovB At Dtriatmattime And Always"
GIVES BEST POSSIBLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT — San FraneUco — Oa Dec. 17, with the fall
cooperation of the California State Dept, of CorrecUona, honor priaoaer Eddie Saowden, 34, gave the
best possible Christmas present to his younger brother, Albert, 32, - a aew Udaey. Eddie (L) U
shown with his brother who is recovering Dec. 20 at thcUniveraHy of Cailferala Medical Center la
San Franciaco. (UPl)