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3taa iarl i't, • 06., ■daAijie"jept. i'w^. er Primary Loser Won’t Endorse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ tEOC Official Declares *Bakke Has No Case* Others G. Handy Goes To Knight VOL :’.ii N'' r.l North Carolina's Leading Weekly R-^LF.ir.H, N.C., THURSDAY. ()CTOBKK20. 1977 sISdI.K COPY 20c - New > ork. \ , \ .Jai'kHiM) MOST V \I.r \KI.K PI. WKH KMBH \< KS Ills h \TIIKH - embraces his lather. .Marline/ JurVsun, in the Neu \ in k N'uiikees' ilressin^ i tMMii riii-s{|a> iii^hi alter the Bronx Bombers won the \orld Series, .larkson. ulio had lliree Imine runs in the sixth series |>a me. uas named the series' Most Valiiahle I'laser. 'I PI) Dr. Rs Irving Boone, N.O ^Enister-Educator, Is Dead Charges Many In Miss JoAnne Little Still MissinU As Rumors "Fly ★ ★ ★ ■ ^ ff ★ ★ ★ ★ IT X KINSTON — Dr. R. Irving Boone 75, well-known minister, educator and fraternal leader. died here Monday, October 17. Funeral services are scheduled to be conducted on Thursday, October 20. at 2:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church with Bishop Herbert Bell Shaw. Grand Master oi the N.C. Jurisdiction, Prince Hall Masons, presiding. Burial will lake place in Murtreesboro in Hertford County, where he will be interred in the family burial Escape After the escape of Miss JoAnne Little, 23, from the N.C. Correc tional Center for Women here last Saturday, Stale Conference of NAACP Branches, by Kelly M Alex ander. Sr., president, ended h^re Sunday. Clarence Mitch ell, nationally-known civil rights leader, was the final speaker. He is said to have based his evaluation on the tact that the meeting b^an on a religious note on Thursday, when a large number of state pastors, held A United Nationi dinner for session. They set the the City OI Raleigh wUI be held J.”™ Thursday, Oct. 20, in Belk DR. R. LRVINC. BOONE ...last rites Thursday UN Dinner In Raleigh Thursday plot near his parents, the late Horace Greeley and Marv Jones Boone. Aside from being a noted Baptist minister and educator. Dr. Boone was a member ot Prince Hall Masons, the Improved Benevolent. Pro tective Orddr ot Elks of the World and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Inc, iSeeDR BOONE. P.2» charges and counter charges, intermingled with several rumors as to Annual State Talks Si KINSTON — What was live together here it they sial case, which began termed the most successiul expect to live hereailer, several years ago in a conierence held by the N.C. The Rev L.O. Saunders, Beauforl County jail cell. Morgar'on, chairman, Church vtork Committee, announced a lar-reaching program design ed to educate the members oi the N.C. churches about the program ot the organization. It was his hope that a meeting on Wants S3S,()00 For Transportation Needs Wake Op Asks Funds Funding Request Is Made NAACP Ends 34th The latest dcvelopmeti! in the Little case is a charge filed Tuesday ailerooon bv om oi her rietense atlorrmvs, lAvm Best, claiming that Miss Little had told him that the content ion by prison authorities that Dining Hall on the campus of JUeredilh College, beginning at 'C30p.m. United Nations Week is Oct. 17-24. 1 It is being presented by the ^ Mayor’s Committee lor United Nations Week Observance and sponsored by the N.C. Division Of U.N. Association-U.S.A., and the Raleigh chapter ot the body. Featured speaker will be Dr. Arthur Larson, director. Rule of Law Research Center. Duke University. Durham. He will speak on the topic. The United Nations: Priorities and Pro spects. (See UN DINNER. P.2) They were clear in their pronouncement that men must NAACP Site Discord Scene KI.N'STON — .Near the conclusion of the 3tth annual State Conference of .NAACP Branches here Sunday, discord arose between the western and eastern factions of the organization over the site of the 1978 state convention. Before the delegates ISee DISCORD, P. 2) Church Work would be she had tailed to show up lor allected helore the close ot the work on September 13 and 14 (SeeRUMORS. P.2. new year. The Political Action Com mittee got a new insight into politics when President Alex ander made his annual address Friday. He bore down hard on the tact that whether a Republican or a Democrat was elected to any office, including that Of a dogcatcher, he was elected as a servant ot the people. He said that any elected official who forgot his campaign should be defeated when he came up the next time. He was highly critical of the performance of the failure of N.C.'s congressional delegat ion tor its non-concern over civil rights and human rights in the halls oi Congress. Alexander was highly con cerned about grants given to 'See NAACP ENDS. P 2» Plans African Msit Next Month Carter Praises Nigeria WASHINGTON. D. C. — President James Earl Carter. Jr. and Nigerian leader Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo met over a two-day period in Washington, last weekend, concluding a successiul round >. of discussions that will be a prelude for the President’s unprecedented state visit to the Gov’nment Asked To Aid Banks HOUSTON. Texas-The Fed eral Government has a re sponsibility to provide capital grants to the nation's minority banking community to in crease and stabilize its financ ial base, according to Dr. Berkeley G. Burrell, tenth president of the National Business League. In remarks before the SOth Anniversary Convention of the National Bankers Association, the head of America's oldest national business organization charg ed; ‘”niere is no reason why u Government cannot provide x^pitai grants to black hanks other financial institutions in the same fashion as it does for bankrupt railroads. If revitalizing the railroads is the national interest, then surely saving black America i. jst be in the national interest too.” Burrell labelled black linan- (See AID BANKS. P 2) black nation in Africa next month. General Obsanjo, who is Head ot State and commander- in-chiel of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic ot Niger ia, was Officially greeted at a welcoming ceremony where President Carter hailed Niger ia as "a country of great importance to us.” “Nigeria is a nation making great social and political progress. A new constitution •frFIi' already has been dratted tor this great country, substantial ly similar to our own. providing lor a President, a bicameral legislature, and a continuation 01 a completely independent judiciary, which always has been a part of the political life ot Nigeria” The two leaders held extend ed discussions over a two-day period concerning common goals and problems, and the continent of Africa. QIC Gets Grant Of 4 Million WASHINGTON. DC. - Secretary of Commree Juanita M. Kreps recently announced approval ot a $4,148,000 grant to help expand a job-training program and stimulate long-range economic growth in Rhode Island. The grant from the Com merce Department’s Econom ic Development Adminislra tion was given to Opportunities Industrialization Center (Old ot Rhode Island, Inc.. 45 Hamilton Street, Providence. The projects consists oi the construction of an OIC skill center in Providence The OIC program was founded bv the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a PhiUdephia pastor. The program has expanded to more than 105 U.S. cities and is in operation in several black African and Caribbean coun tries Sullivan, who is black, is a member of the General Motors Board of Directors The OIC program is aimed at recruiting unskilled, un employed vouth and adults lor educational programs that will enable them to qualitv tor permanent, full-time jobs and iSee OIC GETS. P. 2) BY W ILLIE WHITE. STAFF WRITER Any hopes which District C City Council candidates had pinned on a James E. Burt en dorsement for the Nov. 8 city council election w'ere dashed this week when Burt announced that he would not endorse either candidate. The candidates, incuml>enl William R. "Bill” Knight and former Planning Commission Chairman .Milla-d Peebles, emerged as vic»ors in last week’s primary election after a 5-canfJi(iate contest. Burl, who ran ihiro in the primarv. said he made his decision not to endorse be cause, ”I just think 'hat this is an election in which the people ought to make the decisions. I think the voters are intelligenr enough to make that choice. (SeeJAMESBURT.P.2) SUl (illT ,\FTKR F:.S( .\J»K - Kulrifih - Miss .U>\mw l.illlr. who was acquiUed in the l!»7.» U-e-pii-k murder uf a Iteaultiri (ouiiix jailer, is beiiiy souKhl after escaping from the \.t'. ( orreelional ( enter for Women here last Satnrd.i.\. She is shown here dnrinu the famous (rial with an iinidenlilieit lawman. See siorx. it l'|» Decision Of High Court Is Awaited WASHINGTON, D.C, — Strict racial quotas for entrance to universities or for hiring and promotion are not the issue in the Allan Bakke Supreme Court challenge of affirmative action programs, according to Eleanor Holmes Norton, cmairperson of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Speaking on America's Black • f forum, Ihe first nalronally- vritlClUlS lelevisedsyndicaled black news ww interview program on Mrs. Dorothy Nixon Allen, executive' director of Wake County Oppor tunities. Inc., appeared before the Wake County Commissioners Monday night and made a plea for >5 $3o,000 to aid in bettering ^ the anti-poverty agency's program of transporta tion. She also asked the commissioners to make WCO a permanent part of the county budget. The executive director, in urging that the commissioners provide money lor the agency each year, assured them that the City ot Raleigh would he asked to u.ake a similar contribution. No action was taken by Uie commisaioners, who releired Ihe request to Uie hoard’s ISee WAKE OP. P. 101 Community Task Force Meets Sun, The South Central Com munity Task Force is holding a special citizens meeting at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Wake Opportunities Multi-Purpose Center. 567 E Hargett St. The meeting is designed to give citizens insight into all phases ot the Raleigh Com munity Dex’elopment program. Participants in the meeting will represent 12 local agencies. “These agencies will answer questions fur citizens about their community and for those citizens in the community who will he affected bv upcoming changes.” a spokesperson said. Participating agencies include: 'The Downtown Hous- JAMES E. BURT Candidates Asked For Statements Carolina Action (CA) Tues day called on all local candidates to give voters ethic statements as voters evaluate city council and mayoral candidates between now and Nov. 8 The call was issued L executive board members Albert Johnson and Ernest L. Sanders. Sanders is also president ot South Park Action, a Raleigh affiliate of CA. The group asked candidates to tile the statements with the Wake County Board of Elections hy Nov. 4. The 8-parl voluntary state ments would disclose the economic interests of all candidates and their immedi ate families. In a prepared (S«*rANDIDATES.P.2) Delay On Retirees Demanded NEW YORK, N. Y. - NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks last week mg Improvement Corp , Ihe deplored the "unprecedented Raleigh Planning Dept . the haste" in which Congress has Raleigh Housing Aulhorilv, the been moving to amend the i.SeeTASK FDKCE. P 21 (See RETIREES. P 21 commercial television, Norton described quotas as a false issue. "Because some people who oppose affirmative action National Black News Service have decided louse the scale of WASHINGTON, D. C US Report I See BAKKE HAS.P 2' Garner Reader 'mns mo Mrs Nellie Edwards, of 312 Purvis Si in Garner, received a check tor $10 after she reported to The CAROLINIAN beiore Mondav noon deadline that she had found her name on last week's Appreciation ;.SeeAPPKE( IATU)N.P 2‘ Systematic and nation-wide harassment of black elected oificiats is charged in a report issued earlier this month hv the National Association ot Human Rights Workers (NAHRW). The report, entitled "The Dilemma of Black Polities A Report Of Harassment oi Black Elected Officials. ' is the result of a 2-ycar study of NAHRW's Committee on the Status of Minority Elected Officials The report, released at a press conference here, cites SeeHARAS.SEI), V 2- SOIL" IIA.S’DSIIAKE -- New ^’ork — l.S. Ambassador to the f.N. ,\iirirew Vuung. welcomes Lt. General Olusegun Ohasanju. head of stale of Nigeria, at (he V\ aldorf \sloria Hotel here Oct. H. > oung hosted a dinner in honor oi the Nigerian leader. (I l*li Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK TERRY’S FLOOR FASHIONS, INC. • WHERE BEAVn. REAStiliARLE « CnKBINF" LISTEN TO t l BA'S FIDEL CASTRO — .Montego Bay. ■luniaica — \ii elderl.v man holds the flags of both Jamaica and (iifia Oct. 17 as he lisiens to Cuban President Fidel Castro speak at a mass rallv in Montego Bay. Castro is visiting nearby .lainaica for five days, i I'FI I
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