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Sen.-Eleet C. Ltghtner Will Not Seek Reelection **** **** **** ^JIJ D j At Show rnircrsit) ’’ ‘ Fleming Interim Prexy The HKAKS li\i) NKWS. lolgmbia. Tenn. — An unMentifird woman it aided by anme bysuiiidcrs as shr lollapsrd after learninx that a relative waa tUIl inside the Maurv Countv Jail where in persons died, osercomed by smoke. The fire, believed to bave started in a foam-padded cell, fame at the height of Sunday. June 28, afternoon visiting hours. The Jail’s ventUating system "‘oxk; agent inrougnoui toe jaii wiuiin moments. North Carolina’s Leading Weekly jpfX-Delta Head Is iliven Last Rites Miss Aimena Elizabeth Nunn, immediate past presi dent (two terms) of the Raleigh Alumnae Chapter of Della Sigma Theta Sorority, died here Tuesday. June 21. She resided at 2121 Lyndhurst Drive. Funeral services were con ducted at St. Paul AME Church at 1 p.m Saturday with the pastor, the Rev. Nathaniel Gaylor. officiating. Burial was m Mount Hope Cemetery Miss Nunn was the daughter of Mrs. Louise Edwards Nunn and the late Charles Victor Nunn. She was a graduate Oi MISS AI..ME.SA F. NT NN Washington High School and Shaw University in Raleigh and the University of Noi^ Carolina at Chapel Hill. She had taught mathematics at the following schools; Lincoln High School. Bessemer City: John W. Ligon High, Fred J. Carnage Junior High and Shaw University. Ralei^. An active member of many organizations. Miss Nunn was parliamentarian of the Ameri can Association of Univet v Women, secretary of both wie National Alumni Association of Shaw and the Faculty Senate of Shaw. She was a lile member of the National Council of Negro Women, the general alumni association of the University of North Carolina and Delta Sigma Theta Sorori ty Miss Nunn was also a member of the American Association of University Pro fessors. North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Raleigh-Wake Citizens Associ ation and the YWCA. She served as a Sunday School Teacher of fourth graders at St Paul AME and was a past director and teacher in the church’s Daily Vacation Bible School. She is survived by her mother, two sisters. Mrs. Harriett N. Haith. Asheville; and Mrs. Eleanor N. Simmons. Raleigh , and one brother. Cleo Edwards. S. Weymouth, Mau. VOL. 36 NO. 35 RALEIGH. N.C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 30. 197^ SINGLE COPY 20c Shaw University Student Slain, But SLAYING SITE DENIED HUEY P. NEWTON ★ ★★ ¥ Joint Sews Conferences Seen As Chavis’ Press Time Cut Policy Remains: Edwards Senator State Senator-elect Clar ence Everett Lighlner said here Monday tlut he does not expect to seek election to a full Senate term of his own after being named over the weekend to serve out the unexpired term of State Senator John W. Winters, who has been appointed to the State Utilities Com mission and will be sworn into office Friday. Mr. Lightner. the first black mayor in Raleigh’s history and a former Raleigh city council man said, “llial is not what 1 was asked to do. I am going to give my attention to finishing out the term. However, he did (See LIGHTNER. P. 2) liNot Shot In Club: Manager open its doors in a new location, 2410 Creech Rd. Sunday. July 3. beginning with momi^ Sunday School at 9:30 and worship services at 11 a.m. The church was located at the corner of W. South and Manly Streets for more than 110 years. The Rev. Donald R. Ingram has pastored the church since 1973. The public is invited to attend these services. Church To Enter New Edifice Sun* The new First Congregation al United Church of ^rist will Council Balks In fliring DURHAM — Despite a packed meeting of supporters of an affirmative action plan to hire minorities in Durham City Government, the City Council and the Council again balked Monday night, and put off the adoption of a plan to end discrimination in hiring and to correct past discrimination based on race, sex and religion. Instead, the council adopted a resolution that would not correct past and present discrimination, but simply said to officials of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Greensboro that the city would document its hiring theough adequate record keeping. Councilpersons Ralph Hunt and Dr. C. E. Boulware, the only blacks on the council, along with Mayor Wade Cavin opposed the resolution. But Uouncilmember .Margaret Kel- iw and City .Manager Harding L Wishes maintained that unless } the resolution of the council's intent was adopted that even- (See COUNCIL. P. 10) J. J. Sansom Chairs Board i. J. SoRiORi, Jr., senior vice president of MedMiks Md Fermers lenk, hos been elected to tbe choirmonship of tho Wokt County Eketions Boofd. A OoMOcrot, Sonsem was oloctod hoed of tbo 3-moR board In voting last wotk. He is tha first black tvor to hold this post in Wako County. Tho other Denocrat on the board is William W. PhiHips, Jr. The Republican is Cbarits B. Neely. Jr. The board mtmbars sarvt 2-yoar appeintod tanas. Tbo cboirmen Is oloctod by fflombtrs of tho board. Newton Held In Canada BRAMPTON. Canada - A deportation hearing for Hu^ P. Newton, former Black Panther leader, was adjourned by immigration officials here Sunday. Newton was detained Saturday ni^t after he arrived in Toronto from Cuba, where he had lived for two and one-half years as a fugitive from assault and murder charges in California. According to an immigration department official, Newton was scheduled to receive a heariiu on Wednesday of this week. This came at the request of Paul Copeland, a Toronto attorney, representing the 35- year-old Newton, who was co-founder of the Panthers. Newton was to be held without bail at Brampton Jail, some ten miles west of Toronto, pending resumption (See NEWTON IS. P. 2) Johnson Replies To Story Rep. Joy J. Johnson, D-Robe-. son, Monday night, replied to the writer of an alleged statistical report, released last weekend, indicating that one- third of all black North Carolina graduates of predom inately black institutions fail the test used to weed out the academically unqualified teachers. The report stated that almost all graduates of predominately white colleges and universities in the state, 98.5 precent, pass the test. These figures were released by the N. C. Depart ment of Public Instruction. Dr. Johnson is also president of the 250,00(>-member N. C. General Baptist State Conven tion. Rep. Johnson’s address to members of the N. C. General Assembly follows: “Mr. Speaker, and members (See REP. JOHNSON. P. 2) \L (.0\ FRNOH ( ITS RIBBON — Governor James B. Hunt. Jr.. cuU the ribbon officially openlnT .Merhanirs & ^ armers Rank's nen branch office on Rock Quarry Rd. last Thursday. Left-t^risht are: Mv. Julia Favlor. vice president-manager: J. J. Sansom. Jr., senior vice president- the governor Mrs. Kluabeth Cofleld and Jim Goodman. WRAI.-'H’. (See story) BY STAFF WRITER "The man who was killed out here early Sunday was not shot inside this club," said the manager of the Lakeside Club, locat^ off Rock Quarry Rd. The manager ask^ to remain anonymous in the 3 a.m. shooting of Randle Bush, II. 23-year-old rising senior at Shaw University, who was shot twice in the chest and neck on th« road leading to Lakeside. Bush was shot with a hand ^n. calibre unknown. The Kill ing allegedly occurrud over an unnamed woman. Being sought vi coniwe-'on with the muroer U Gei • i Pettilord, 24. who has been duu^ed with murder, but is still at large, according to Wake County Deputy Sheriff Melvin Munn, who investigated the cass. Pettiford's last Imown address was the home of an uncle at ill N. Fisher St. Bush, who resided at 410 E. South St., was a native of Hollandale, Miss. According to the Lakeside manager, neither of the three persons mentioned had been to the club. He did admit, however, that an old model Plymouth, came up the road leading to the club at a fast rate of sp^. He said he started walking toward the car and the driver made a U-tum and went back toward Rock Quarry Road. "The next thing I knew, I heard, a shot and the car started rolling into some bushes, off the road leading to the club. I got into my car and went up there to see what was happening," hi said. Evidence in the case points to the fact that Bush could have been shot while sitting in the car. Suit Filed By Panthers Dismissed CHICAGO, Ill. ~ A six-mem ber Federal jury, unable to reach a verdict in a $47.7 million civil damage suit filed by the Black Panther Party here, cleared the path for Federal District Judge Joseph Sam Perry to dismiss the action. The suit was filed against seven police officers who participated in the 1969 raid on a Black Panther Party resi dence in which two party members — Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago chapter of the Panthers, and Mark Clark, a party officer — were (See SUIT IS. P. 10) Ms. Shelton, Ernest Person Win Cheeks Two readers of last week's edition of The CAROLINIAN won Appreciation Money checks for $10 after they came to The CAROLINIAN office when they had found their names in advertisements on the Appreciation Money Page. The winners were Ms. Ida Mae Shelton, of Its Seawell Ave.. whose name was listed in the Hudson Belk advertise ment, and Ernest Person, of 718Friarluck Rd . whose name was listed in the Carolina Biblical Gardens advertise ment. The name of .Ms. Frances Long, of 910 Nowell (See APPRECIATION. P 2» V\ ilmington 10 defendant Rev, Ben Chavis has been restricted from talking with members of the press. Ralph Edwards, director of the .\.C. Division of Prisons, said there has been no change in policy regard ing letting Rev. Chavis hold interviews with the press. But recently. Edwards says, there has b^n an influx of press people requesting inter views with Chavis. According to Edwards, there have been so many interviews that a new procedure is being developed. One idea under consideration, he says, is to group several reporters together for one interview (Awards says the problem for thi^prtson department ts too much suff time for Chavis' YOUNG BLACK MILLIONAIRES — Needham. .Mass. — A new interviews, millionaire. ChandlerJohnsofl. 30. of West Medford, with his wife. Edwards’ assistant Kip’ .Maria, won ttuo.ouo-a-year for life in the Mastachusellt Lottery Kaulsky, stated on Friday, JuneZ7.ThedrawingtookplaceinW'CVB-'n'in Needham.(UPl) June 24. that the policy was TR ^ « being worked out and the Minister-riiducator sSfeKfSerra msi A '■rw ^ telephone interviews for Chav- AssumesPostF lizing the phone." \skod • • • • Dr. 0. L. Sherrill.'chairman of the Shaw University Board of Trustees, announce Mon day the appointment of Dr. John W. Fleming as interim president of the university. Fleming, a Shaw- faculty member, will assume full presidential responsibilities on July 1.1977. He will be assisted by an advisory committee, composed of three facullv members. l,,awrence Gould. Mrs. Willie C. High, and Dr Randolf Tobias. Fleming received his Bache- being interviewed to cause the heavy useage of staff lime, a secretary at McCain Prison Unit replied that only l^v. Chavi^ was being interviewed. North Carolina Alliance co lor of Arts degree from Shaw l . k and llic Bachelor of Divinity ^ i, Mn.tor o-h.rr.a ‘‘hargcd Ihis was harassment UK. JOHN W. h'l.K.MINO New Bank Opening Draws Many A crowd in excess of 150 persons was on hand for the ribbon culling ceremony and grand opening of Mechanics and Farmers’ Branch Bank at 1824 Rock Quarry Rd. Thurs day. Gov. James Hunt per fornu-d the ribbon cutting as the crowd and banking ollicials .ipprovinglv looked on. J D Lewis, of VSRAL-TV. was master of ceremony of the short program preceeding the bank opening. .Mechanics and Farmers President. J H Wheeler, welcomed those who had conn* out for the m-casion. and Master o; Sacred Theology from Oberlin College School of Theology. After Oberlin merged with Vanderbilt Uni versity in the early 1971)', the Master of Divinity and the Doctor of Ministry degrees were conferred upon F'leming as a result of the work he did at Oberlin in the Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Sacri^d Theologv programs, respeci- (See DR. FLEMING. P. 2) Carter In A Dilemma: J. Conyers National Black News Serxire CHICAGO. HI - President Carter will do irreparable damage to his credibility by committing himself to balanc ing the budget in 1981. asserted Congressman John Conyers. Jr. iD-Mich.i. at a news conference at the Hyatt Re gency Hotel here recently. He w as here to deliver the ke\ note iiddress to the national confer ence of the National Black I'niled Fund. Inc The Presidenl is also headt'd for trouble with his energy program, in which he calls for a national sacrifice that would be "the moral equivalent of war, ' Conyers said "The Pn*sident has gotten lrap(H‘d in a political dilemna essentially ot t.isown making, " declared the black Congress man "Central to the dilemna is the President's coinmilmenl to balancing the budget by 1981. This pivotal decision of the ('artiT Adnnnisiratiun will have a 'dnmino-efft-ci' on all (Set* CARTER IN. F SEN.-ELECT LIGHTNER Say OMBE mu Be “Pofetif” Nutionul Black Newt Service DETROIT. Mich. - From lh« way Commerce Secretary Juanita M Krepe spoke at an Opportunities Industrilizatioo Centers of America conference here, recently, It it clear that the Office of Minority Buiiness Enterprise is going to be around for quite some time. Dr Krcps said that tbe was "optimistic" that OMBE. "af ter a slow start, will become a potent force for the expansion of minority business owner ship. It must." Minority business people need expert management and technical assistance, the Com merce Secretary told the OIC gathering. They need new sources offinancins; they need the basic tools which others who compete successfully in our economic system have acquired by virtue of more priviledged backgrounds, she said. Dr. Krepe did not offer the run of the mill speech that conference participants usual ly patiently endure. Instead. i.Scf CHAVIS’ PRESS. P, 2) ig^e OMBE 'VILL. P. 101 Raleigh Policewoman Resigns After Black Man Kills Self A 25-yiar-oM whItt rcoklo yolicoKoinu, Mri. Intil, Seivtr, who,! giin w» tikio mmt, frm ktr l«t TkariAay by 0 2« y<ar.oU kl«k iMirM kitpHil ampM uA wad I. bii taicida, raiignad froai Ika Aakifk Polka DoportiaaM Monday, laying ikn arni "not mint for tka akyikd nipaet, of polka arark, I liko tka part of polka aark tkat lal, mo balp paopla. Tbaf, allot gal aa iataraitad la H la tbo lint placa." Tha man, Tommk Laa Haatar, coma ap to Mri, Saav r from bahind, bald n knilo to bar threat la tka iataraactkii af W. Cabarra, and S. Doaion Strania lad paMad bar ,31 larakt rovolaor from It, halitar. Ha tbaa pracaadad to ibaat him,elf in tho hand. Ha dkd laitontly. "lost Tkortdoy, I thought I could handk H {polka arerfc], bat arban I law hha lying tbaro..,", concindnd Mrt, Saavar * ’S. f ‘ Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK h3 ^ : BRIGGS HARDWARE CO. i FOR DEPENOABIF HARDWARE AND TOYS" a ^ <.t\ ES I t’ IIOST,\(iK. SELF — .New Orleans — Leroy Meneodei K'l has his arm around hb son as he is escorted from downtown o(lik-(‘ building June J i. Menendez held Dr. Richard .M. Street (not shtiuii' hosiugr lui tour hours before giving himself up. Official at
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