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Mrs. Liahlner's Trial Begins
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Prepare For Not Guilty:’ Lawyer
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Undergoing Mental Tests
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12 Jurors
Seated
Joe L, Harris Still At Dix
Indicted
In Deaths
Of Four
Although Joseph Louis
llurris, 603 Kovnl Slre«*t. is
, still being detained at
Dorothea Dix Hospital for
mental t^sts. a Wake
County Superittr t^»urt
CTand jury indicted him
here Monday on four
charges of murder in the
Thursday. Jan, 9. deaths of
four women in Raleigh,
Mr Hams. :|y. is accused in
the murders of Mrs Bernice
Clark Harrington, 33. Mrs
Azalee Clark Jackson, 31 and
Mrs (Jertrude ('lark Harmon,
29. sisters, and with the slaying
of Mrs Harveleigh Monte
Rivera While. '>!>. sup<-nnlcn-
dent of the Method postal
station and a prominent civic
leader in the city
Funeral services for all were
conducted Monday. Jan 13
Last September, Harrib
accused Mrs Harmon >if
throwing lye into his face as he
allegedly sat in his 1973
automobile with aiu»iher fe
male It was alleged that
Harris and Mrs Harmon were
"going together’' at the time
It was further staleil that one
of the other sisters supplied the
lye. used by the llarmon
woman, and Mrs White had
appeareil in court earlier, ai a
preliminary hearing, as a
character witness for Mrs
Harmon, who once worked for
Mrs White
Officials at Dorothea Dix
would nni r«weal when Harris
would be releas*-d
His appearance in Wake
iSiM- .loK H.NHHls. ;■
Horizons
Seen By
President
DURHAM Mrs Mable
Parker Mcl.ean, president,
Barbcr Scolia I'oHege. spt'ak
ing at Covenant United
Presbyterian Church. Sunday,
Jan 19. built a sterling image
for the church related institu
tion that challenged every
red-blooded .-Xmencan to stand
up and be coiinled to save the
108-year-old schiMil.
She began by tracing the
history of the inslilution She
told of how the lives of inan>
youths had lM*en poh.shcd into
jewels of servic*' b\ having
attended Harher-Scolia She
called name after name ot
women who w«-nt to the .‘•chiHil
with a desiie to learn and the
ability to grasp, and. upon
graduation, wt'iil out and made
great contnbutiuns to ihe
ongoing of this iiaiioti
Mrs I’arker was pmudof the
fact that .Mary Mi l.ecd
Bethunc soiuurned Iliere and
caught a glimpse ot new
horizons and weni forth to not
only reach them, but to
envision new ones
Her most impressive pre
sentation was her vuid piehire
of the seh(H»r.' piii jHisi* She
told of how ’la- school was
designed not to be a big school
with a large number of
students but a small schiHil
where the ideals oi good
citizenship could f>< properl.,
implanted II started out to he i
seminarv (or blai k girls hut in
later year>. found that siudenis
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.Vorf/i ('arolinfi\ Leadinfi If eeklY
VOL. 34 NO. 14 RALEIGH. N.C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JAN. 25. 1975
Johnston County Scene Of Shootings
GUNS CAUSE VIOLENCE
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i500 Expected At
NAACP Dinner Here Sat.
One Dead.
Two Are
Injured
CI.AYTON - A 27 year-
old woman is reportedly a
patient at Johnston Me
morial Hospital and her
34 year-old husband is
dead, according to officials
of the Johnston County
Sheriff’s Department, in
what was allegedly an
accidental shooting.
The dead man is James
Thomas Walker. His wife is
Mrs. Louise Walker.
As far as law enforcement
officials have been able to
ascertain. Mr. Walker is said to
have iH-en cleaning a rifle,
owned by him, when he
accidentally shot his wife in the
left temple, doing extensive
damage to her left eye.
A spokesman for the sheriff’s
I See (lUNS CAUSE. P. 2)
Members Up
By 35,000:
R. Wilkins
NEW’ YORK - Executive
director Roy Wilkins, present
ed a somber, but overall
successful report to the annual
meeting of the National
A-ssociation for the Advance
ment of Colored People,
At their meeting at the New
^ork Hilton last week. Mr.
Wilkins declared that mem
bership had increased in 1974 to
I4IMMX). which was about 35.000
mure than in the previous
.\ear
The financial picture for the
civil rights organization also
was sound, he said The gross
.NAACP income, outside of the
Special Contribution Fund, he
said, was SI.741.886. an
increase of nearly $100,000 over
.1 year ago. When balanced
against expenses during that
period, he said, the deficit
came to only $3,298.
.Additional income from
non tax deductible sources
came to $277,233 These funds
-A ere in the form of grants from
the Departments of the Army
and Health. Education and
Welfare for ROTC recruitment
See MEMBERS UP. P 2)
SISTER WEEPS AT SLAVING SCENE — AtlanU. Ga. — An Atlanta police ollicer examines the
body of Charles Burnell. Jr., left, who was killed Sunday after a struggle over a gun with a
newiv-marned nusoand ana wiie puiice oiiicer learn. Hurnelt. his lather ana ms neepmg sisler,
right, v»ere stopped bv Mr. and .Mrs. Dan Genson after the Burnett car sideswiped the police car In
downtown Atlanta. The shooting erupted when the vehicle was stopped. The police officer couple
were married last Friday. Investigation is continuing. (l'Pi>
State’s Black Legislators Say
Gov. Didn’t Go Far Enough
An extensive interview with
the black senators and three
black representatives in the
1975 N C. General Assembly,
revealed that Governor James
E Holshouser. in his Slate of
the State message Tuesday
night, struck the right note, but
did not go far enough.
Senator Fred Alexander.
Mecklenburg County, could not
understand what the governor
meant when he said that the
biggest issue was the abolish
ing of the sales tax and yet
recommended that it shn<ild
N. C. Mutual^s Vaughn
Retires; Booker Named
VMM I f» HI ID.I VI l.f I. • \tViin - Wiinhington — A man
idiiitifird un I .•iiuni << Vt light. U id. of Mlanta, (ia.. is led away
alter he tried ti> lui. an h:4^l«■lIl \ulineh Hoeing 727 to lake him to
Puerto Km 0 Ihd 13 I he itiie.M d hi|ack attempt was thwarted by
another paysengc. .md .i new man w ho loreed him into a lavatory.
The jetliner was diverted to Washington’s Dulles International
Airport from its sihcdtiU d run from .\ilanta to Philadelphia when
Wright said ai ionling lu a [iass» nger, ne wanted to go to San
Juan. (I PD
George H. Vaughn, retiring
manager of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany's Winston-Salem District,
was honored at a luncheon at
the Holiday Inn on Thursday.
Jan 16 Also honored was
Coihe P. Booker who has
assumed Vaughn's position.
Presenting Vaughn with his
retirement award ana oiiiciai-
ly installing Booker as district
manager was vice president-a
gency director. L. B Frasier.
Vaughn is a native of Rock
Hill. SC and a graduate of
Orangeburg's South Carolina
State College ^rior to joining
North Carolina Mutual, he
served as a school teacher in
Kelton. S.C.
His affiliation with North
Carolina Mutual in 1938 took
him to Winston-Salem, where
he was assigned as a combina
tion agent, and for Ihe first 12
years of his insurance career.
Appreciation
Check Goes
To Ms. C JoUy
Ms. Claressa Jolly. 513 Solar
Drive in the Apollo Heights
section of Raleigh, saw her
name listed in the advertise
ment paid for by Fashions By
Smith, located in the Longview
Shopping Center. She came to
The CAROLINIAN to identify
herself, then picked up a check
from the clothing store for $10.
There were two other names
listed in the .Appreciation
(See APPRECIATION. P. 2)
he managed and developed one
iSee N.C. MUTUAL S. P 2)
WANTS PKESIDEMIAL
N'O.MINATION — Chicago —
Georgia State Sen Julian Ruiid
said Jan. IM. he hoped to gel
enough delegates for the 1976
Democratic .National Conven
tion to give him a presideniiul
nomination or to have a voice
in the party's ultimate choice.
gpi).
come July 1. 1976 The Senator
said that the average citizen
wanted relief now while he is
hurling from inflation. He was
disturbed that Holshouser did
not advocate repeal, effective
now. Alexander was also
dislurhed that he did not say
anything about income lax
Guilford County solon. Henry
Fr>e said that the governor
had (he right issues, but his
approach was had He was
much concerned that not
enough clarification was given
on how he planned to meet the
emergencies that exist as to
unemployment and layoffs.
•See GDVERNDR. P 2i
Women’s
Status Body
Meets Sat.
The participants of (he first
Status of Women workshop
have isolated several topics
which they fell should be
further examined in follow-up
sessions Two of these topics
w hich are of vital concern to all
citizens of the Raleigh area
are > I < ihe establishment of a
day care task force to explore
Ihe problems and solutions in
furnishing adequate day care
facilities, and i2< the estab
lishment ot a rape crisis center
for Ihe Raleigh area
The group will pursue these
two issues, and take Ihe
neces.sary steps that will
stimulate community partici-
S-e ST\'n .S dF. P 2i
The former solicitor of
Wake County Superior
Court. William G. (Buck)
Ransdell, now chief defense
attorney for Mrs. Nlargue-
rite .M. Lightner, accus^ of
a conspiracy to receive and
dispose of stolen goods,
challenged no jurors Mon
day as the trial got
underway, but he warned
the jurors that they should
be prepared to find Mrs.
Lightner not guilty of the
charges. There was only
one black juror among the 17
persons called.
Ransdell and Attorney Sam
uel S Mitchell, lawyers for the
wife of Mayor Clarence
Everett Lightner. had at
tempted to have the trial
postponed .Monday, but presid
ing Judge Henry A. McKinnon.
Jr., of Lumberton. overruled
the motion
Ransdell's questioning of the
jurors was seen as being a fear
that the large amount of
publicity given to Mrs. Lighl-
ner. regarding the case, and
her indictment may have an
adverse effect on the persons
who will decide her fate.
The charge, a felony, carries
a maximum penalty of 10 years
imprisonment.
The former solicitor also
stressed the fact that "indict
ment does not mean guilt." He
also told the jurors that they
must not hold it against Mrs.
Lightner if she chooses not to
testify in her own behalf, which
has not been decided upon
Ms. Linda Shaw Jones, alias
Towangus Dec Jones, is the
state's chief witness against
the city’s first lady. Ms. Jones
is an alleged convicted crim
inal. Monday was her first
public appearance since her
arrest and conviction of
shoplifting in Piltsboro.
brought to light a little black
book, reportedly containing the
names of the mayor, his wife
and some 23 other persons.
See TRIAL BEGINS. P 2i
Finney
Banquet
Keynoter
A report from Malcolm
(Peter) Stanford, coordinator
for the first NAACP Legisla
tive Dinner that will be held at
Raleigh’s Royal Villa. Jan. 25,
showed that plans are com
plete and from all indications,
it will be the biggest thrust the
militant organization has pro
moted in the interest of
freedom.
The speakers list is headed
by Ernest R. Finney, black
member of the S.C Stale
[.legislature. The six black N.C.
solons will also take part
Mayor Clarence E. Lightner
will welcome the diners. A
Guilford County representative
will pay a memorial tribute to
Ihe late Mrs. Zoe Barliee, the
• Sir NAACP DINNER, P, 2i
ARRIVES FOR THIAl. - Raleigh. N.C. ^ Mrs. .Margurite M.
I.ighlner arrives for Ihe opening dav of her (rial Jan. 20. on
charges of cunspirarv to receive and dispose of stolen goods. The
judge in Ihe (rial rejected a request for a delav in the trial Jan. 20.
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.\anietl liv Heautirians
Ms. Margaret Kelsey
‘‘Woman Of Year”
ERNEST R. FINNEY
"She is a tree of life to them
that lay hold upon her. and
happy is everyone that
relaineth her. She is more
precious than rubies and all the
things thou canst desire are not
to be compared unto her."
Mrs. Margaret D Kelsev,
Albemarle, was unanimousiy
elected "Woman of the Year’’
the Alpha Phi Chapter.
Theta Nu Sigma Sorority of the
National Beauty CuKurisls
I.,eague. Inc., at (he second
state dawn breakfast, held at
the Hilton Inn on Jan. 19.
Raleigh Mrs. Kelsey serves as
grammateus of Alpha Phi
Chapter of Theta Nu Sigma
Sorority.
She is owner and operator of
Kelsey Funeral Home in
Albermarlc, and owner of
Kelsey Beauty Salon. Her
Christian leadership is demon
strated at Union Chapel AME
Zion Church, where she serves
as a member of the Missionary-
Circle She also serves as a
member of the Dragonettes
(Tub. established in Salisbury.
Among (he many partici
pants and dignitaries present
at the state dawn breakfast
were Mrs. Mildred Williams.
Basileus of Alpha Phi Chapter,
Theta Nu Sigma Sorority of the
Only Very
Poor Get
Food Stamps
BY AUBREY E. ZEPHYR
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON - A study by
the Joint Economic Committee
of Congress, has revealed that
most of the persons receiving
food assistance are poor people
whose primary source of
income is from the federal
government income assistance
programs.
The study found that 70
percent of the more than 4,500
families studied had no
member in the work force and
that (wo out of every three had
rW FOOD STAMPS. P. 2)
National Beauty Culturists
League. Inc., and other
officers; keynote speaker,
Mrs. Mary Boyd of Raleigh.
Dr. Katie E. Whickham,
Washington. D.C.; Raleigh
Mayor Clarence Lightner,
Raleigh District Judge C^rge
R. Greene. Senator John W.
Winters. Raleigh; and Dr. P.
H Johnson, pastor, Marlin
Struct Baptist Church. Ral
eigh
Mrs. Mary Frances Blalock
Lane and Mrs. Elizabeth Lyde
Barber are reporters for the
local chapter.
Students
Observe
Jan. 15
Saint Augustine’s College
students filled the College
Chapel on January 15. to
participate in a Memorial
Service for the late Martin
Luther King, Jr. In words of
tribute. President Prezell R.
Robinson said that King not
only espoused a theory, but he
believed in it. He believed in
something very strongly.
He said, "We are not only
observing the birthday of a
martyr, but a gentle person, a
real person, a scholar and a
Christian man, who was willing
to speak up and express
himself.” He urged the
students to emulate these
a ualities. "The man was a
reamer, but he did not allow
his Yearns to control him." He
has changed the history of the
universe, he stated.
Joseph Silver, president of
the senior class, gave a
biographical sketch on Dr.
King and said that, althou^
the sniper's bullet ended his
life, it did not end the impact
which he still has on society.
Carol Mitchell, president of
(See JAN. 15. P. 2)
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
WAKKHOl SK DF TIRES
"Treat Your Car To Thu Best For Less"
"DR. KINtf DAY" AT SHAW Dr. J. Archie Hargraves, left, president of Shaw University,
adrirrxsed a gathering at the Institution last week commemorating the 46lh birthday of slain civil
rights leader. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After the service, Dr. Hargraves discusses D^. King's
history with, from left, Shaw's University minister. Rev. Ronald Swain, David Kaalund. Misses
LaN'erne Greenfield and Khoda Banks.