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VOL. 34 NO. 17 R A LEIGH. N.C.. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. FEB. 15. 1975
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Viclim Also Kidnaped
TWO HELD !N RAPE
DURHAM - Vernon
Jordan, Jr., who heads the
National Urban League,
told about 1.000 persons
from all walks of the
Durham community, in
cluding several whites, who
assembled at White Rock
Baptist Church, at 5 p.m.
Sunday, to honor Nathan
T. Garrett for services
rendered, tint even though
he was not satisfied with
of the things
President Ford had done
and was utterly disgusted
at a Democratic Congress,
that much can be done in
the black community, b^
blacks, to improve their
conditions.
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... .*apping Kt._
for his inept handling of the
Gen. Assembly Resolution
Boston situation and his failure
Cites
Believed
Bl'K\ U \\' TMKtll'tiH KOOK New York — A band ul professional saferrarkers. bypassing an
Inlrirati- alarm \>htem. burned Ihrir uav through the roof ttf a thick steel vault 'lop. center) in a city
office, commandeered three Weils Kargo trucks and escaped uith three Ions of coins Horth un
estimated ti;t7.lHUi. Police said the hurglers removed Rl bags of coins and I0'> padlocked cannisicrs
whose contents would have been coualed Keb to. h\ (he vO-maii staff of the lily’s Kin.ince
Administration's Parking Meter Oiv ision The emptied cannisiers. their snipped locks on the desk at
center, are shown in bottom photo. '(T'li
1st Time
Citation
Slain City Leader
Dragged
I From Car
to use the kind influences of his
high office to hit inflation and
recession directly in the face.
He was not too interested in oil
imports or energy squabbles.
He showed quite a concern fM*
directed energy toward the
Black Forsyth Legislator Backs
In what many tenned an
unprecodonied act, Ihe 1975
General Assembly of North
Carolina finally got to
acting Monday night and
ratified a joint resolution
which extolled the virtues
Rehabilitation Of All Prisoners White and poinU*d out tf.e
The CAROLINIAN made the rounds d! the (ieneral Assembly .Monday and Tuesday.
Most of the small rooms that house the soions in the Legislative Building were empty.
The concensus was that most of them leave early Friday afternoon and return Tale
Monday afternoon. Thi.s ib behevt.d due to the fact that (he Monday session is held at
night and the Friday session, if held, is in the morning.
The CAROLINIAN repr%-
tentative returned Tuesday
afternoon, following the sche
duled opening of the Tuesday
session and mund that it had
adjourned and committees
wtn meeting. It was learned
that the White resolution
passed the third reading
Monday night, thereby being
ratified.
RefH'esenlative Richard C.
Erwin, Forsyth, made his
position clear on the proposed
correction laws. The Winiton-
Salem lawyer fell that our
present laws dealt more with
E unishment than rehabilitation
le said the committee handl
ing the proposed legislation
should study the circumstanc
es surrounding crime and then
make, or propose, laws, that
would attempt to rehabilitate
the convicted law-breaker as
soon as possible.
He felt that even though
there is the hue and cry about
penal institutions being over
crowded, that additional build
(See FORSYTH. P 2f
2 Muslims Charged
In Death Of Inmate
great lo.ss by her untimely
death on Jun. 9.
The cesolution {passed its
third reading, thus becoir ng
the will of the soinns in lb # irst
session of Kith legislative day.
The resolution was sponsor^
by Wake County Represepta
lives Cook. Atjams, Creech,
Farmer, Johnson and Smith.
The resolution reads as
follows:
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1975
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
33
(See GEN. ASSEMBLY. P. 2)
black community. He threw a
broadside at Congress for
dilly-dallying with proposals
that tended to feed the hungry,
cure the sick and clothe the
naked.
Screaming
MAYOR H. N. LEE
MISS CHAUCEY DOUGlJtS
May<
or Howard Lee To
Speak In Mount Olive
National Black News service
murders occurred.
Price and Moody were
cellmates at Holmesburg and
were confined to a ‘security
(See TWO MUSLIMS. P. 2)
PHILADELPHIA. Pa -
Philadelphia law enforcement
officials have charged two men
convicted of murder in the 1973
slaying of 7 Hanafi (Orthodox)
Muslims with Ihe Dec. 31
murder of a fellow suspect,
who had turned government
witness.
Theodore Moody, a Black
Muslim and one of those
convicted, was charged with
murder and conspiracy to
commit murder in officers of the Baleigh-Apex
death of James R Price m^e naaCP, are scheduM
NAACP Sets
Installation
Of Officers
the Holmesburg Prison. Moody
is serving a life term
to be installed in their offices
on Sunday. Feb. 16, at 4 p.m at
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The other man is John RICH Park office building
MOUNT OLIVE — Chapel
Hill's Mayor Howard Nathan
iel Lee will speak here on
Sunday. Feb. 16, at 4 p.m. at
the Mt. Gilead Missionary
Baptist Church on a special
program, sponsored by the
local chapter of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People
Gave False
Informalim
At Attica
(NAACP) and the Entertain
ers' Gub of Mt. Olive, Inc.
Also slated to appear on the
program is “Miss Black
Teenage World.’’ Miss Chau-
cey Douglas, who will sing the
two selections that won for her
the coveted title last July 19 in
Danville, Va. She performed
“Good Morning, Heartache"
from the popular Billie Holiday
classic, and one other number,
not yet revealed.
Miss Douglas also won five
troDhies in competition, a
$1,500 renewable scholarship to
Shaw Universitv, a $9,ROC
(See MAYOR LEE. P. 2)
LUMBERTON - A
32-year-old local woman,
Mrs. Naomi Hardin, was
allegedly dragged, scream
ing from an automobile
here last Friday night at
gunpoint, then was report
ed raped. Two men have
been charged with kidnap
ing and rape in the bizarre
case.
According to Sheriff's De
puty Luther Anderson, the two
men being held in jail are
27-year-old Robert Lee
Tliompson and John William
Thompson, 25 years of age.
Both men are being held
(See TWO HELD. P. 2)
He took a crack at black
leaders who put themselves
beyond the real issues, making
them "showers'” instead of
achievements. He called upon
black elected officials to not
become so enshrined in being
on this or that committee that
they forget to remember the
promises made to the elector
ate.
Jordan was quite concerned
about activity by blacks in
community iievelopment. He
told the audience that com
munities make up the county,
counties make up the state and
the states make up the nation.
He was sure that if action is
started in the community and
properly nourished, it would be
(See WARNS BLACKS. P. 2)
iVE/4 ISurses
To Fight
Youth VD
Mai Goode
Is Coming
To Shaw U.
National Black News Service
BUFFALO - Charles "Flip
Soions To
Matvin Goode, the first black
news correspondent to work for
a major television network,
will appear at Shaw University
March 2-7, for a series of public
speeches, workshops and
classroom lectures.
Goode’s appearance is spon
sored by the Lilly Endowment
and the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundia-
lion.
WASHINGTON. D C. - The
nation's menacing epidemic of
venereal disease among young
people is the target of a spring
campaign sponsored by the
National Education Associa
tion's Dbpartment of School
Nurses (DSN-NEA).
Plans for Youth Health
Defense Days, May 1975, are
being coordinated bv DSN
state chairpersons in 21 stales.
But the nalion’s school nurses
hope Ihe special drive to detect
and begin treatment of
(See NEA NURSES, P. 2)
Court Rules
— v..iicii ica rti|; —— —~ A tion
Crowley, a key prosKution JI0op K-WCA Goode, a native ot Virginia, In FoVOr
Witness against five Attica **'-'«** »» ad^ w-...-*** CIWA
ELIJAH Ml llAMMAl) l\
CKITIt’AI. CONDITION -
Chirago— Elijah Miihaniniad.
77, (hr founder and Iradrr of
the nation of Islam, britrr
knoHn as (hr Blark Muslims,
was listed in rritical rondilinn
at Mrrr> Hospital. Keh. 9. from
coners(i\ e heart failure. < I 1*11
Griffin, also a Black Muslim
who has been charged in
warrant
murder
The branch officers will be
installed for the coming year at
iih the Price monthly membership
meeting Already elected as
A third man. Theodore
Brown, has been named in the
warrant. He has been describ
ed as ‘a member of (he same
gang" who already was in
officers are Rev. Charles W
Ward, president; Mrs. Sarah
Davis. vic(i president. Mr
Cornelia Hunbard. secretary.
Mrs Carolyn S. Debnam.
prison when
WON'T SHOW I P — New
York — Hill Russell, former
haskelball great, anniiunred
Keb. 9. hr will refuse (o show
up for his induriion into the
Raskelhall Hall of Fame in
niid-\pril. "For m> own
personal reasons, whirh I don't
want to dist uss. I don't want to
he part of il.” Russell said in
SeaKle. «lT*li
Lawmaker
^Guilty' In
Tax Case
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National Black News Service
ATLANTA — Former Stale •/
Senator Leroy R Johnson, the ‘f
first black to win election to a
Southern legislature since p ^
Reconstruction, has been con
victed by a federal jury of
submitting a false tax affidavit
to the Internal Revenue
Service
The jury cleared him.
however (if two other charges
that he understated his income
in 1969 and 1970 by more than
$50,000.
<^rges that Johnson had
evadqd more than $40,000 in
taxes Svere dropped before the
trial began.
Conviction on the false
affidavit charge carries a
maximum penalty of five years
in prison and a $5.0()0 fine.
Presiding Judge Newell End-
field said, ifowever, he would
delay several weeks before
imposing sentence.
Johnson said he would
witness against five Attica
Brothers accused of murder
and kidnaping, testified here
last week that he had lied and
given false testimony to the
Grand Jury investigating the
September I97i Attica I^son
revolt, because he had been
threatened, beaten and tortur
ed by New York State police
and prison guards.
Crowley, who is black and a
former Attica inmate, told a
hushed courtroom at a pretrial
hearing that the torture was so
severe "I was ready io tesi.fy
against my mama." He is now
on parole.
He described the experience
as “(he most intense terror I
have ever known...! knew the
things that 1 was saying were
untrue. .1 knew (hat I was
lying ." he said.
At Attica. Crowley served as
an elected representative of
the prisoners of the E-block
during the uprising and made a
Interests
According to Ralph Camp
bell, Sr., president of the
Ralei^-Wake County Citizens
Association, tree Wake Coun
ty state senators and 6
members of the N.C. House of
Representatives have agreiid
to meet with the organization
on Tuesday, Feb. 18.
The scope of this meeting
will be to provide the Raleigh-
Wake black community an
opportunity to discuss with the
(See R-WCA PLANS. P 2)
joined ABC News as a United
(See MAL GOODE. P. 2)
ODDS AND ENDS
^Uer an absence of many
\ears. the once popular
column. Odds and Ends,
returns to The CAROLINIAN.
It is written by James
Augustus Shepard, veteran
newspaperman and this news
paper hopes that it will attract
much reader interest at
before. Odds and Ends Is found
on the editorial page each
week.
Of Students
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote,
ruled last week that public
school pupils cannot be
suspended without notice of the
charges against them, an
explanation of the evidence
and a chance to tell tlteir side of
the story.
It was a historic precedent. It
marked the first time the High
(See COURT RULE. P. 2)
(See WITNESS. P 2)
Blacks And
Whites In
Agreement
Appreciation
Checks Won By
Tiro In City
Two Raleighites were the
lucky ones in last week's
CAROLINIAN Appreciation
Money Feature, sponsored bv
See APPRECIATION. P. 2)
National Black News Service
PHILADELPHIA - Both
black and white students seem
to learn better in integrated
grade school classes, but when
black students reach the junior
high level, they benefit more
from a setting that is
predominately black.
That’s the conclusion of a
two-year federal study con
duct^ by the Federal Reserve
(See AGREEMENT. P, 2t
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
W.\RF.H()l SE OF TIKES
VALENTINES
"For Top Quality Tires At Reasonable
Cost"
(See 'GUILTY'. P. 2)
receives a large pile of Valentines from a small group of shy school children during a visit (0
Veterans Hospital here Feb. 10. .^aion broke Babe Ruth's career home run record. (tPI)
H.ASN’T HAD A PAIN — Wasblsgte* — Heart traaspUal
recipient Arthur F. Gay of Wasblngtea, D.C.. says lib kasa't bad a
pain since he had hU transplant two years ago, except when be bas
to paste clippings in his scrap book reciting the deaths of bis fHlow
heart recipients. (UPl)