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Rt. Rev. C, Eubanks Tucker Zion Bishop Is Buried r Kentucky Scene Of Funeral LOUISVILLE. Ky. ~ The Rt. Rev. Charles' Ewbank Tucker, the 6l8t bishop of the ANIE Zion Church, who retired in 1972, died in a local ho^ital on Christmas Day. after an extended illness. He was considered one of the most liberal and aggressive church leaders in America for more than a half century. He acclaimed fame as a trial lawyer as early as 1929. He also , plaved an outstanding part in both state and national iMlitics, as a Republican. It is to be remembered that he delivered one of the prayers at Richard M. Nixon’s first inauguration. .\s a preacher, in Florida, during the Ku Klux Klan reign of terror, he was the victim of an alleged attack, believed to have been due to his all-out attack against the organiza tion. He led most revolutionary programs in his denomination and carried many liberal fights to the floor of the gene| conference. Due to his aggi ★★★★ Black Teacher Declares Boston Whites ^Not Racist’ THE Carolinian VOL. 35 NO, 11 North Carolina’s Leadinft; Weekly , RALEIGH, N.C.. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1976 SINGLE COPY 20c All Victims Were Men 3 PERISH IN FLAMES ★ ★ ★ ★ Presented By NAACP (See BISHOP f Spingard Award To Aaron Slugger CHARLFS EWBANKS NNPA To Cite Merit Sp onsors WASHINGTON - The 22 business firms that are provid ing $20,000 annually in merit awards for editors, reporters, columnists, photographers, and other staffers of the 141 member papers uf the National .Newspaper Publishers Associ ation Will be honored during khe Mid-Winter Workshop, .lanuar) 21-24 in the Virgin Islands. Also to be honored are the sponsors of journalism scho larships, said I)r Carlton B. Goodlelt. president of NNPA and editor-publisher of the ^n Francisco Sun-Reporter - Me- tro-Keporters. who announced the awards this week. The awards, which will be presented during the banquet on the evening of January 23 at Frenchman's Reef Holiday Inn on St Thomas are laminated plaques displaying a montage of front-page mastheads of the association's member news papers in 39 states, Canada, and the Virgin Islands The plaques lor scholarship spon.sors will go to Anheuser- Busch which has a $25,000 program for black students of journalism, and to R. J. Reynolds Industries which has a S50.000 program 'i'lie merit award sponsors that will be honored are: Aluminum Company of Ameri- Ji. American Tobacco Com- &n>. Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp ; Carnatin Com pany. Coca-Cola USA. Exxon Oil and Refining Company; General Electric: Great Atlan tic and Pacific Tea Company: Gulf ‘>i! Corporation Trio Dies In Two City Fires Clarence W. Lee, 32, of Favetteville. died in a nery explosion at the State Departrnent of Transporta tion maintenance yard on Blue Ridge Rd. early Monday morning. He thus became the thirdolack man to die in Christmas holiday fire.s here. Lee, an inmate at the Triangle Correctional Center, had been sentenced to seven years in prison on a conviction of involuntary manslaughter on July 17, 1973, He was workitig with (he Department of Transportation. The explosion occurred as the worker was welding a safety platform onto the unk. Stale officials said that undier safety procedures, the tank should have been emptied before work was started on that tank In another flaming incident, two Raleigh men met their death early Christmas morn ing. as fire swept through a rooming house located at 813 S. Person St. Police and fire officials said the fire gutted the two-story rooming house after one of the occupants placed a small electrical heater on his bed to keep him warm. Eddie Reid. 37. and Silas Chapman. 55, were the two men that perished inside oi the (See TRIO. P. 2) Food Stamp Increases In Effect WASHINGTON - Food stamp critics agreed in federal court here recently to allow a new system to go into effect Jan. 1 that would raise allotments by $2 to $24 a month. The new plan - devised by the Agriculture Department - is called the Thrifty Food Plan." It is designed to take into account the buying patterns of low-income famH lies. The Agriculture Department says the plan is based on a survev of actual buvina habits <See FOOD STAMP P Citizens Upset In Best Case GREENVILLE — The CAROLINIAN toured eastern North Corolino this week and found that block and white citizens end even some of the newspapers ore finding it rother confusing to rationalize the finding of Or. Andrew A. Best guilty on two of the six counts of "willfully and feloniously" prescribing controlled substances outside the normal course of his professionol practice. The fact thot there were four counts bearing on the some oct and the jury found him not guilty of the originol act and the lost oct, while finding him guilty on the two in-between octs, hos left the justice of the entire trial in gross doubt. The records of the trial do not bring out the justification of the sentence. The six charges seemed to hove been brought by persons who storted off by not giving their right nomes ond oddresses. The first act ki^e dromo wos put on by Senior SBI Agent P. M. Boulus, who visited Dr. Best on Jonuory 20. He represented himself os o troveling salesmen ond lived in Solisbury. When the evidence was present, it is soid to hove revealed that he lives in Cory. Bonlus is wire ond is olleged to hove told Dr. Best that 0 Greensboro doctor has prescribed o medicine known os dexedrine, whkh wos supposed to keep him going on long drives. The testimony disclosed thot Dr. Best flatly refused to write the prescription ofter he exomined him. ^ (See CITIZENS. P. 2) HAPPY NEW YEAR Bursting with a galaxy-full of New Year's wishes Carder McCray, Jr. Claims Cops Brutal Carder McCray, Jr., 25- year-old resident of 904 Coleman St., told a CAROLIN IAN newsman on Tuesday of this week that he was, in his opinion, mistreated by two local police officers - one white and the other black ■ during an arrest here last Saturday night at his home, following a misunderstanding with his mother over having a Christ mas present check cashed. According to youn^ McCray, whose right arm is in a sling, "someone called the law and when the two officers arrived. I was sitting in my house watching television. The mis understanding between my mother and myself look place about 10:45 p.m. and this was about 11:30 p.m. He said although he knew the white arresting officer’s name (See MCCRAY. Will Get TopHono NEW YORK, N.Y. - Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Brewers, who broke Babe Ruth's recoil when he drove in his 715th home run. will be awarded the SDinfnm Medal at the annual fellowship dinner dr the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People being held on Sunday, Jan. 11, at the Amencana Hotel in New York, Mr. Aaron, who will be the 60th Spingarn recipient, is being honored, not only for his ^auipilar achievement in base ball. but also, as the citation reads, “for his off-the-field activity, as the citizen he is, in working to Improve the lives of others in his community, regardless of race m* coIm*. and bring to them greater oppM*- tunities for beiuth, education and economic well-being.” Ilie annual Spingarn award consists of a gold medal which is presented annually by the NAACP for “the highest achievement (rf an American Negro." It was Instituted in 1914 by the late Joel E. Spingarn, then chairman of the NAACP board of directors, to perpetuate his lifelong interest and that of his brother and wife in the achievements of the American Negro. Usually presented at the association's annual conven- (See SLUGGER, P. 2) Counselor Speaks On S. Boston Rites Conducted For Wife Of Mortician PAMP P 2> Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK ( VH \Li:i(.H H RM IT RK AMONG TIME MAGAZINE WOMEN OF THE YEAR - New York — Time Magazine did not pick a “.Man of the Year" this year, but lubatl- tuled 12 women for ita annual honor. Included among the dozen women which Time said "For good or ill." have moat iignincanlly affected the course of the year'a events are: Top: Texas Congreatwoman Barbara Jordan (’74 photo), and bottom. .Ms. Addie Wyatt ('73 pholo), head of the New Union BOSl’UN Adrienne Wes ton, a black woman, has been a teacher and counselor at South ^o*IRion of Labor Boston High School for more Women. (I’PI) than three years. She had dined at the homes of some of her students in the while, Irish section of Boston, and played a key role in trving to calm tensions when black and white students clashed with knives at the school last year. Today. V. Weston (her preference). Is convinced that the whites in South Boston are not racist. “They’re not racist.“ she said i used to be able to walk the streets unmolested before all this (busing) started. Tbey had plenty of chances to get me. if they wanted to. "People who say it's race are missing the point. It’s Just as much religion as race.” she COUNSELOR. P. 2) DURHAM — Relatives from her native Kentucky, her family and friends from throu^ the nation, heard the minister, Rev. P. R. Cousins, extol the virtues of the late Hattie Strong Scarborough, as he delivered the eulogy at St. Jospeh's A.M.E. Church, here, Saturday, Dec. 27. Hattie, as she was known to all Durham, is said to have been ailing. However, the announcement that she died in Watts Hospital, at 5:30 a.m., 1 December 24, cast a pall over the city, that even Christmas did not dispel. She was bom in Jackson, Ky in 1907 and came to Durham in IMS. She bc^an working with the Royal Knights of King David, a secr^ order, needed by W. G. Pearson. She latM* accepted a Caucus Asks House For Protection WASHINGTON. D C. - The Conf^ence Committee on th Ehiblic Broadcasting Financing Act of 1975 (H. R. 6461) has rejected the amendmmt intro duced by Congressman Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) and adopted by the House which would have made Public Broadcasting subjet to Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This action was largely due to intransigence by Senate con ferees and a lack of strong support for the amendment by (See CAUCUS. P. 2) position at Hillside High (See MORTICIAN, P. 2) Local Brother And Sister Licensed J. D. Lewis, HI. has succetsfullly completed the examination for theV>ctice of law in the State of Florida. Hw was sworn in at West Palm Beach on December 18. 167$. Attorney I Raleigh Publk I Schools. Hal received the B. | A.dMreefrofr the University I of Pittsburgh I and the degree I of Juris Doctor from North 1 Carolina Cen- L tral University I- LEWIS. Law School in Durham. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. J. D Lewis. Jr., of Raleigh. Evelyn Alicia Lewis has successfully completed the examination for the practice of Law in the State of Cali fornia. She was also sworn in on Decem ber 18. 1975 Atl'y Lewis attended the Raleigh Public Schools. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel HiU and received the d^ee of Juris Doctor from Harvard Umver- sity at Cambridge. Mass. She Is the daughter of Mr. a D- Lewis. Jr.. '. and Mrs. J. , of Raleigh. Church Is Concerned Over Africa DURHAM—According to information released by Rev. J- A. Brown and supported by Revs. S. P. Rawlings, C. v. Flack, E. H. Beeto and S. J. Farrar, the five presiding elders of the Central N C. Conference. A .M E Zion Church. .Monday. Dec. 22, there (See CHL’HCM IS. P. 2i Dr. Franklin Elected In Humanities WASHINGTON. D. C. - For the fifth time in as many years, the National Endowment for the Humanities has given one of the nation's leading thinkers "a unique podium" and enjoined him to bring his humanistic insights into cm- temporary culture to bear upon matters of broad public concern. Dr. John Hope Franklin, the distinguished American histor ian who writings on United Slates history, the history of the South, and the black experience in America have illuminated those subJecU for more than thirty years has been elecl«i by the N.Uonil Council on the Humanities to give the fifth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The National Council, com posed of 26 distinguished citizens appointed by the President to advise the Humanities Endowment on its policies and procedures, elects the Jeffereson Lecturer each year from among a large number of nominations suV milled by orivale citiz^ and (See DR. F^KUN. P. 2) DISTLSSES ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE — Csrder McCray. Jr. 25. left. U shown Tuesday In the office of The CAROLLSIAN A nnrfiriyttinn ^ relating his experiences of last Saturday night with Charlea R wssi/#s Jones, managing editor of the newspaper. McCray said he was _ I attacked by white Officer P. J. Harris and an unidentified black CthcCKS frOfl OV policeman at his home. (See story). Standardizes Tests Hinder Quality Education^ NEA Says WASHINGTON, D. C. - Stondordized tests ore "like a lock on the mind, o guord of the foctory gote,” the executive director of the Notional Edjcotion Associotion soid lost week. (\Cr^ng thot "the only reol beneficiofles, oside from the test morketers themselves, ore insecure school monocers striving tor comfort in their relotions with school boords, legislotors. ono governors. Terry Herndon, in o speech to be delivered at a Commonwealth Club luncheon in Son Francisco, said the tests follow the technical * industrial model in which teachers ore treoted like ossembly-line foremen and students ore treated like (.ors. "It's time to get the children out of the foctory ond bock into the classroom where they belong, ' the former Michigan teacher declared. Herndon explained he was talking about such things os college board tests, achievement tests given to elementary ond secondary school children, groduote record exoms, ond the so-called IQ tests-in foci, ony test that compares performonce to predetermined norms and (See TESTS. P, 2) ManAnd Woman 'There were two winners for the Christmas Eldilion of 'The CAROLINIAN’S Appreciation .Money Page. Preston McClain, of 824 Quarry St. and Miss Ernestine Phillips. 321 Purvis St., in Garner, were the recipients of $10 checks, as they found their names listed in the Money Page. The Appreciation Money Page is a weekly feature of The CAROLINIAN that offers a check of $10 to the readers that spot their names in the feature. Mr. McGain’s name was found under the space provided by Johnson-Lambe, while Ms. Phillips name was listed under Apex Distributors. MUhur,K TRIAL UELAYED — Ft. Gataet. Ga. — The murder trial of ooe of three suspects charged in the killing of a Blakely. Ga. man last Jaa. was delayed after the judge dfaimi««Ml Dec. 29. the 'entire panel nf prospective Jurors after the defendant. John Henton Bristow was brought la handcuffed. Bristow (I.) Homer Salter (C) and Marvel Davis (R) are charged with the kilUags of four persons at a rural grocery store near Blufloo, Ga. in Jaa. (UPl).
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