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NAACP Moves To Combat Brutality
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Women Prisoners Back
DURHAM — The result of
mass meeting held at
Morehead Avenue Baptist
Church Sunday, June 22.
was that the N.C. State
Conference of NAACP
Branches would use all the
resources at its command
to combat the rise of
brutality throughout the
state.
Charles A McLean, field
iireclor. was firm in his
riaration thal something had
be done about this rising
.menace and warned the
^jdience that it was not the
f iurpose of the organization to
ambast anyone, but to present
the facts attendant to any case
reported to it and to alert those
in charge of administering the
policies of law enforcement
agencies (hat the constitution
of the L'nited States clearly
sets forth the rights of all
persons, whether police offic
ers or lowly citizens, when
there has b^m a violation of
the law. be- it real or
imaginery
He listened to the account of
a sordid alleged experience of
four meml>ers of a Durham
family, which look place on
Sunday. June 15. near Wake
Forest .Mrs l..illie Holloway,
who was nursing bodily
injuries, said to have been
inflicted by highway patrol
men. from a wheelchair, told
the story The three other
victims were present and
attested to the account given
by (he wounded woman
« lr .Mclyan made it clear
( ' It was not the purpose of
.the NAACf* to enter into cases
fTiiir the sake of entering and
neither was it the policy of the
orijani/alion to condone
crime It is only dur purpose to
guard the civil rights of all
persons, whether policemen or
civilians. ’ he said He also
made it clear thal participation
was based on the decision of
the local branch and at no time
did the stale or national offices
of thi- NAACf' inl«*rvenr'
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Ex-('omic
To Speak
At Dinner
W'ASHINGTON-Social sal
irisl. comedian and political
activist Dick Gregory will bi*
the featured speaker at (he
Y^th Freedom Awards dinner
aA dance being held on
THur.sday. July 3. at the
J^oreham Hotel in Washing
ton. D C . during the fi6th
annual convention of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple
Sheila Anderson, president of
the Association's New York
State Youth Conference, will
preside at the dinner, one of the
highlights of (he convention,
taking place in (he nation's
capital from June 30 through
July 4
The NAACP Youth Councils,
with branches in 49 states
including Hawaii and Alaska,
are composed of young people
of tumor high, high school and
college age The councils form
the largest bodv of organized
youth in (he civil rights
movement and more than 1.000
are expected to attend the
convention.
Among the topics to be
discussed in workshops during
(he five days, according to Ms
Anderson, are education, ca
reer guidance, the high
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VOL. 34 NO. 35
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N.C., SATURDAY..JUNE 28. 197.^
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Miss Black Teen Crowned
Registers
Self At
Hospital
BY STAFF WRITEK
A 27-year*old Raleigh man.
with a bullet lodged
dangerously near his heart,
allegedly walked almost a
mile to the lospital with
the deadly missile still
inside. At last reports,
Marvin McLean, was still
alive, however. He was shot
with a .22 calibre pistol.
Arrested and charged with
assault with a deadly weapon
was Robert Winb^ Jr., II N
(-'arver Street! wh'^Nias picked
up Sunday by city police *
check with Jailer Hart at
W’ake County Jail Tuesd
afternoon, revealed that Win
Jobs
Quietness
Reported
At Prison
MARVIN WINFIELD. JR.
MS PATTIE J GRIFFIN
Senior Citizens, Blind
‘.Ttht Feted In Capital City
esd.iv •
Ft. Bragg
Student
Winner
GOLDSBORO — A petite
16-year-old, Pattie Jean
Griffin of Ft. Bragg, was
crowned Miss BlacK Teen
age World of North
Carolina in Goldsboro
recentlv. Myra Brewington,
16, of Goldsboro, who
reprt-senled Wayne County
in the state pageant, was
named hrst runner-up.
Mis? (Jriffin was a contest
ant «*-!arge She was crowned
by he reigning Miss Black
To .^e V.’orld. Chauncey
STA.ND Gl'ARD AT PRISON UDKM ~ Raleigh. N.t , - Prison
guards in riot gear stand watch at Durm R. which was one of the
dorms which had violence in it here June 19. after prison
authorities used force (o end a sit-down iMivcott here June 19. .N.t .
Women's Prison had been the scene of demonstrations and
violence which, began June 19. including two confrontations
between inmates and guards. il'Pli
The South Park Floral Club
sponsored an All-American
Neighborhood Celebration and
a Senior Citizens Recognition
Day at the Bloodworth Street
YMCA Sunday at 3:30 p.rn..
with Mrs. Mabel Jordan,
president, presiding
Ernest Raiford, executive
director of the *’Y", presented
awards to the honorees as
follows: Messers Arthur Byrd.
Wilh over «5,000 reported al fred
iSee SHOT NEAR. P 21
St. Aug.’s
Drive Now
Over 60Gs
the luncheon meeting of (he
Campaign Committee, held on
Thursday, at St. Augustine’s
College, support for the
$1,000,000 Fine Arts Building
now stands at $607,899.68,
co-chairmen Dick Helmold and
Joe Sansom announced.
Helmold said that with (his
report, the commitment re
ceived totaled: 1) from the
board of trustees of the college.
$72.K00: 21 the faculty and staff
of (he college. $52,350; 3)
foundations tifin non 4) busi
nesses and industries. $102.-
516.68. 5> financial institutions.
$47.4(X». 6» with other agencies
and individuals making up the
remainder
Helmold noted that there was
still another month for the
fund-raising program to run in
which to raise (he remaining
$392,000 He said. ’We are
gratified with the support St.
Augustine’s College nas re-
iSoe ST AUG ’S. P. 2)
President
Of Kittrell
Is Mourned
KITTRELL — Friends and
well Wishers of Kittrell College,
along With members of the
African .Methodist Episcopal
Church are beginning to
wonder if it is to be visited by 7
destroying plagues when word
reached the campus that Dr
John A .Middleton, who
recently was appointed to head
the institution after a most
hectic 5 years, was dead
Dr. Middleton is reported to
have died in an Atlanta moul
(see KITTRELL S. P 2)
Washington and Mesdames
Ella Gadsen. Odella Haskew,
Laura Haywood. Estelle Jones.
Olene Lee, Lena Smith and
Hattie Toole.
Participants on the program
included Mrs Lillie Blalock,
Mrs Ella Cheatham and Mrs.
Edna Haywood.
The Lion’s Club of Wake
County will sponsor their
annual dinner to blind persons
of the county at the Bloodworth
Street YMCA Sunday, June 29.
at 2 p m Ernest Raiford.
executive director of tiie "Y”
will officially welcome the
approximately 150 persons who
are expected to attend
Special music features have
been arrang^'d Prizes and
awards will be presented to
each blind person present.
VACATIOS TIME
Again (his year, it is
necessary for (his newspa
per to close shop for a week
in order to give its personnel
a needed vacation. Conse-
quenllv. there will be no
( ARDLINI.-W (he second
week in July, which would
have been dated Saturday.
Julv 12. 1973. Kindly adapt
news and advertising to this
observance. Your consider
ation is appreciated.
BY STAFF WRITERS
On Monday of this week,
the ’’striking” prisoners at
Raleigh Correctional Center
for Women returned to
their job assignments for
the first time since the
violent confrontations of
last week According to
newly-appointed superin
tendent Louis C. Powell,
the laundry, sewing room
and school were in opera
tion. Also allowed out were
inmates who were on study
and work release programs.
Violence at the N C. Correc
tional Center for Women left 25
people injured as rioting at the
m.slilution began when state
officials broke off negotiations
Sr'C PRIStJNEHS P 21
Many From
Raleigh At
Moles’/ Meet
The 1975 Conclave of the
Moles convened in Dayton,
Ohio recently to observe tlw
2.sth anniversary of the
organization National presi
dent L Bernice Plummer of
Portsmouth. Virginia, presid
ed Wilberf.u.e. Ohio was the
host ohapte
The Mo'es were chartered in
Norfolk. Va m 1950. with 14
members and have since
grown to approximatelv 500
members in 24 chapters,
located in ii states and the
District of Columbia
The Moles are primarily a
STK’ia' organization, but they
art uiso involved ir> dt ie*)si one
CIV ic project ar a rational body-
each year The host chapter
(See .MOLES' MEET. P 2)
Anderson
Wins Elks’
WEAPONS USED IN CONFRONTATION _ R.IHgh, N(. -
North Carolina director of prisons Ralph F:dHards. looks over «HJI IC-ol
some of the weapons that inmates improvised for use during
violent confronjation with authorities at N.C, Women’s Prisoi.
here June 19. (I’PI)
CASE BEING CONTINUED^*
Raleigh, N.C. — Jesse Fowler,
an inmate at Central Prison
here, who is on Death Row and
has challenged his death
penalty verdict as cruel and
unusual punishment, was ad
vised (hat his case is being
continued. The Supreme Court
was to decide the case after
hearing arguments in .April,
but has cho'en to hear
additional arguments. (CPh
Woman Shoemaker
To Be Buried In Selma
SELMA The death of Ms n'i^nager t jxm the death of
Asia Ophelia Thompson here she was in complete
Sunday, not only took a ‘'•niniand and ran the business
highly-respected citizen from ^1'*' I'^’csme ill about a
the community, but deprived it
of an honor it has cherished hir
Raleigh-Wake Citizens Group
To Attack Problems Of Blacks
about 40 years - having what
was believed to be the only
woman shoemaker, in private
business in the slate
She is said to have come to
Selma from her native Lum-
berton about 40 years ago and
to have become an apprentice
in what was then (he onlv shiK*
shop m the city. I E Coley &
Sons She completed "her
apprenticeship and decided to
slay She worked with the
owner. 1 E Coley, for a
number of years and" when he
retired, she joined the late Eric
Coley and soon became the
The members of the Ral-
eigh-Wake Citizens Association
enjoyed (he innovative pro
gram presented at the June
meeting, held last Thursday at
8 p.m at St. Ambrose
Episcopal Church as president
Ralph Campbell presented
George Spaulding, the vice
president, to discuss some
ideas possible for (he group to
consider in attacking (he issues
and services demanded by the
black community The blue
print as outlined by Spaulding
would include the* following:
board of directors < executive
committee!, president, vice
president, secretary, student
or others and standing com
mittees such as education.
BY MS JEANETTE HICKS
program, industrial, member
ship. budget and political
action
By means of working
through this structure, the
committees would bring stim
ulating speakers armed with
facts for the education of the
association, as well as basis for
intelligent action
.Mr Spaulding also spoke of
sponsoring attractive and
meaningful programs to bene
fit the youth-summer jobs,
recreat'onal activities, etc A
special effort will be made to
enlist programs for young
adults A greater effort will be
made to enliSi the membership
and representatives of civic
and religious organizations
Funeral .servii-es are iKxiked
for 2 p m Thursday. .July '26. at
First Baptist Church, with
Rev I^i v Simpson officiating
She was horn in Roln-son
t’ounlv. .March 9. 1908. the
(laughter of Nathaniel and
(iertrude Thompson She re
ceived her (‘ducalion in (he
schixiis of her native county
Cpon coming lo Selma, she
joined (he First Baptist C!hurch
and served it admirably She
was also (juite helpful lo the
other churches of the commun
ily and her civic conlnhulions
w(‘re many
She leaves to mourn her
• See SHriFMAKF.R P 2» *
BY J B HARREN
WINTDN - The annuaf
regional oratorical contest of
the Improved Benevolent Pro
tective Order of Elks of the
World iIBPOEW) held here at
Hobson R Reynolds National
Elks Shrine. June 22. produced
a l4-year-old Atlanta. Ga. boy
as the regional winner for
Georgia. Florida, North and
.South Carolina, whose director
IS l^onnie E Reynolds, Greens-
Ixiro. barber and fraternalist.
The first place winner of the
4-s(ate5 regional contest was
Michael Anthony Anderson,
1184 P2wing S W . Atlanta, Ga.
30301. whose subject was: "Dr.
Martin Luther King. Jr. and
The Negro ” Milton J White of
Atlanta, is acting director of
(he Elks educational program
in the Atlanta area
.Already the winner of $1,000
in IBPOEW scholarship aid (as
are the three runner-up
contestants). Mike will have
the $1,000 waiting for him when
he finishes high school.
Runner-up contestants were
Debra Turner. Statesville;
(See ANDERSON. P. 2)
PRIEST OFFERS LAST RITES - Ntw York - Print offen Uil
rites as policeman raliea thro'-d off victim of Eastern Airlines
crash near J.K.K. International Airport here June 24. In
background, police and rescuers stand near covered bodies of
other victims In far background Is wreckage from the Ul-fated
Boeing 727 airliner. Officials said more than 106 persons were
killed and 20 others Injured. (UPl)
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
m{i(;(;s hardware
"For The Best In Hardware And Toys’’
counlywide The plan was
♦JJ'bj^^aslically endorsed by
.Mr Campbell announced
(hat a student of Shaw
University, Urban Affairs
iSce R-WCA GROUP. P 2»
Appreciation
Checks Claimed
By Tiro Here
"Two people were the recipi
ents of $10 checks each last
week as they saw their names
listed in The CAROLINIAN
Appreciation Money Feature,
sponsored by this newspaper
and (he participating mer
chants. located on the back
page of the first section of (his
newspaper
William B Snipes, 1505
Dillion Circle, founa hie name
in the ad of Thompson-k^ynch
Co. of 20 W. Hargett Street,
which specializes in the sale of
televisions and other home
entertainment equipment.
The other winner was James
C. Highsmith of 1712 Fountain
Drive. Mr. Highsmilh’s name
(See APPRECIATION. P. 2)
RETURNS IN TRIUMPH — Leorenco Marques, Mozambique — r^resldeot-deslgnate Samara
Machel (Rl, is met by a host of admirers as he returns in triumph. June 23. after a 13-year exUe
fighting to overthrow the Portuguese colonists. At midnight. June 24. the bearded Machel. 42, will
assume total control with a FRELI.MO (Mozambique Liberation Front) government, dedicated to
remold a .Marxist Socialist state from (he capitalist colo.vv ruled from Lisbon for nearly 5 centnriea.
(L'PI)