Husband Commits Suicide
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Wife^8 Condition Good After Shots
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the t .N. K<mn1 and V^rieuKun' (Irt^uni/alion. %'nunu proiioseil an inti'i nalinnal b(Hl\ «d IihhI (-or|is
volunteers to help half a billion undernourished people in the uorld. In leiiler is .1. S. Maleeela.
XKi'icultiire Minister ol Tan/ania. < I'iM >
Blacks
Protest
Stand
CHKKNSBOKO The \ (’
Alumni and Friends Coalition
assembled approximateiv 73
black citizens in a iwo-dav
retreat last Saturdav and
Sundav in Greensboro to do an
indepth analysis and critique ot
the desegregation plans sub
mitted to MKW by the
University ■>{ North Carolina
and the Community Collegt
^ System. Among ihost
participating in that meeting
were black chancellors,
legislators, students, members
of the Board ol Governors,
faculty, staff ami trustees of
the traditionally black
institutions ot higher
education, their alumni
representatives and friends, as
well as officials fom the Stale
Advisory Committee for
(See PHOTKST. P
Rulini^ Is
Rapped By
Mitchell
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON. D. C. -
Congressman Parren J. Mitc
hell (d-Md.), chairman oi the
Congressional Black Caucus,
has labeled the Oct. 31. 1977
fuling bv the U. S. District
Court in Los Angeles, Calii.,
against the minority provisions
^ 01 the Public Works Employ
ment Act ot 1977 “expected"
and "a matter that will
probably linallv be decided by
the Supreme Court." Mitchell
stresses, however, that he is
"lully contident and has been
repeatedly assured that, in the
interim, the program will
proceed lull steam ahead with
the original Congressional in
tent 01 assisting minority
businesses."
JABBAK CKlTKiZKtr I'OM.MI.SSIONKK — iiigtewood. Calif.
— Ixis Angeles l4ikers basketbul) star Kareeni .XhditbJabbar
bolds his right hand up to show it ha< healed as hecrilirlies NK.X
Commissioner Lawrence O’Brien for nut findiug Milwauker
Bucs Ken Benson for what Jahbar clainis was a foul against him
in the l..akfrB-Bucs game Oct. iti. .labbar was fined |.>,ii00 by the
Commissioner’s office after he punched Henson following the
elbowing Incident, and suffered a fractured hand. Henson
suffered a mild concussion as a result of .lahbur's punch. (CPI >
Federal Jud^e To
Sit In South
(See KULING I.S, p 2)
.National Black News Service
WASHINGTON. D. C. -
President Carter has
nominated Robert F. Collins of
New Orleans to be U. S.
District Judge for the Eastern
District of Louisians. He is
believed to be (he first black
federal judge in the Deep South
since Reconstruction.
Collins. 46. served as general
counsel for the Congress of
Racial Equality iCOREI) in
Louisiana during the sit-in and
school desegregation era of the
early 19605. and argued several
civil rights cases before the U.
S. Supreme Court.
Since 1972. he has been a
judge in the magistrate section
of the Criminal District Court
(See Jl'DGK, P 2«
Escapees Still Sought
Two young women prisoners, who reportedly
climbed a ten-foot fence at the C'.
Correctional Center for Women Sundav and
escaped, are still being sought, according to
officials of the facility.
The women were identified as Misses
Patricia C’ole. 124, who is serving 10 to 15 for
voluntary manslaughter, and Barbara Eaton.
26, who is serving 20 years for assault and
armed robbery.
Officials at the prison, located on Bragg
Street, said the escape took place about 6:45
p.ni. and was made from the east side of the
prison.
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Will Speak At Shaw University « 1/1 p
Rep. Conyers To City nLba
ROLINIAN
VOL. 37 .NO. 3
The condition t
Betty Champion
was the target of i
pistol wounds, fi
her husband hei
Friday afternooi
listed as "goo(
officials at Wake ^
Center Tu
RALEIGH. N.C.. THUKSDAV, NOV EMHKIt 17, 1977 SINGLE COPY 20c husband later
himself, after si
.Vorf/i Carolina's Leading Weekly
Dies Clutching Bible
Ex-Teacher Killed
•k ir it it
her, and was givei
rites in Riley
Wednesday of this v
Jesse I. Champion. 35
Fox Hill Circle, took I
life after going on v
reported to have I
rampage and shooting
k it k it
and brother-in-law. wh<
a XS'ake County deputy
Robbery At Inn Resolved
Unarmed Robber Buried
Highway . I
Collision To Host
Is Fatal Meeting
DUNN — Funeral rites
for Miss Lina Culbreth,
retired school teacher
and Christian educator,
killed in a traffic
accident at 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 9, were
held at Trinity AME Zion
Church Tuesday
afternoon
She was attending the 97lh
session of the Central N.C.
Conference. A.ME Zion Church
and was making het way to
Freedom Chapel Church,
where the conference was
being held
I Motorists who arrived on the
scene immediately after the
impact are said to ha%'e related
that she was approaching "it
intersection of 201 and 4ol
bypasses, about a mile from
the church, when her car was
hit by a highway marker truck,
traveling at a high rate of
speed.
The truck is said to have
turned her car completely
around, striking it on the
driver’s side. She was pinned in
the car and is believed to have
died instantly She Is said to
have been grasping a Bible
when she died.
Bishop Vi. A. Hilliard presid
ed over the rites. The eulogy
was delivered by the pastor of
Trinity Church. Music was
furnished by one of the choirs
I See EX-TEACHER. P. 2
The incident took pi
Dacian Road.
Deputy Calvin K.
reported that his siste
had been shot three ti
Champion, her estrang
band, when he went to
The 27-year-old Dur
'He was beating h
kicking her and he had
already and she wi
screaming”
(See XX'IFE’S. P
Kl'SII IIIGtilNS
REP. CONYERS
Slaying Of 2 Men
Defended By Chief
Funeral services were conducted Mundu> for
Wk’key Hinton. 26, 119 E. Garner Loop Road, oho
was one of two men killed earlv Thursday of last
week in the robbery of tbe Holiday Inn iin I'. .S.
Highway I, North, in Raleigh. The'services were
held at noon at the First Cosmopolitan Baptist
Church and bur'al followed in the National
Cemetery with full military honors. Hinton was
unarmed.
Guys, Dolls
Planning
Big Show
Guys and Dolls Fashions has
November 26 set for what
appears to be the biggest
fashion extravaganza m its
four-year history to be staged
at Raleigh s all neu Civk-
Center The show will feature
$20U.00U in furs by Anastansia
of XVinslon-Salem. modeled by
the local people Such fruits ol
the iurrier's labor as ehinchila.
mink, sable and white fox w ill
portray the warm and
romantic Iwiks of Fall '77.
The avid follower ol fashion
would be interested in the
iSet* GUYS. DOLI^. P. 2t
NAACP TO
MEET
The Kaleigh-Apex
C hapter of the N.VACP
will meet .Sunday. Nov.
20 at 4 p.m. at RICH
Park in Method. The
public is invited to
attend. The Rev. Dr
Uharles \V. Ward is
president of the
chapter.
Hinton and Rush Higgins. 24,
were gunned down as they
attempted to escape the scene
of a robbery' at the Holiday Inn
about uio a.m. Thursday.
Accord.ng tu officers, both
refusefl orders to hah and
Higgins allegedly pointed a gun
at officers.
P'iiice chief Robert E.
Goodwin said he believed the
slayings were a rase of
self-defense.
He also staled that police had
'See UNARMED. P. 2»
Jobless
Rate 13
Percent
Thorpe To
Speak At
NC Museum
Goals Of
2 Groups
Declared
NEXX YORK. N Y .Seventy-
nine nalionul civil rights
organizations, including
leading black and Jewish
groups, have released a joint
statement declaring that
although differences have
arisen among them in the
Bakke case, “we shall work
together in the future, us m the
past, to secure full civil rights
forallourcili/ens “
Signers oi the statement
include the NAACP, A. Philip
Randolph Instilue, National
Council of .Negro \Vom*‘n,
American Jewish Congress.
American Jewish Committee
and Anti-Defumalion League.
The text ot the statement is
as lollows:
“No case in recent years has
aroused so much attention,
interest and emotion as the
'SeeGoAl-SGK.P 2i
PITTSBORO - Noted
historian Earlie E. Thorpe w ill
be guest speaker in Pittsboo at
the Black History Museum's
culminating program of its
initial drive for funds. The
museum, opening for a special
showing at t p.m. on Sunday.
Nov. ?7 will feature a salute to
the black press and a tribute to
black businesses of North
Carolina
Books authored by Ur.
Thorpe, who will speak at a
3 o’clock program on Sunday.
Nov. 27. include; The Central
Theme of Black History. Black
Historians; A Critique. The Old
South; A Psycho-history, and
Eros and Freedom in Southern
Life and Thought.
With the theme ’Before the
Mayflower " there will he a
black history dramatization
and a reenactment of the first
Thanksgiving with dinner and
bonfire. All Sunday events will
lake place on the Chatham
County fairgrounds, off Hwy.
64 just east of Piltsboro.
On Saturday evening. Nov.
26. in the Horton Middle School
Gym in Pittsboro. the 24lh Miss
‘Piedmont Beauty Pageant
will be staged. Popular emcee
.Milton Grady will be master of
-See NC MUSEUM. P. lOl
WASHINGTON. D. C. ~ The
jobless rate tor blacks, which
tends to ilucluaie much more
irom month to month than the
rate tor whiles, edged up trom
13.1 to 13.9 percent in October,
the U. $. Labor Department's
Bureau ot Labor Statistics
reported.
Unemployment ot white
workers, on the other hand, has
held at 6.1 percent tor 4
straight months.
Over the past vear, the black
rate has shown no improve
ment, while joblessness tor
whites has declined b\ more
than a percentage point.
The unemplovmenl rale tor
black youths was 37.9 percent
I See JOBLESS. P 2'
ay, Dec. I
and Friday. f)ec. 2, a
conference on ‘‘Blacks
and the Criminal Justice
System” will be held at
Shaxx- University in
aleigh. Congressman
John Conyers. Jr. (D-
Mich.) will keynote the
conference on Dec. 1.
Congressman Conyers is a
member of the House Judi
ciary Committee and chairs its
Subcommittee on Crime He is
also a member of the Congres
sional Black Caucus and chairs
its Criminal Justice Brain-
trust. Conyers has been one of
the lone voices in the U.S.
Congress seeking freedom for
the Wilmington 10.
Reginald Ka\es. commis
sioner Ol Public Safely in
Atlanta. Ga.. will speak at the
dinner on Thursday. Dec. 1.
Commissioner Eaves is the
first black appointed as com
missioner. He has been a
forerunner in eliminating rac
ist attitudes and elements in
the fire and police departments
in Atlanta
This 2-day confernce will
hold workshops on Juvenile
Justice. Penal Reform. Special
Problems of Women, Prison
ers' Rights. Community-Police
Relations. Employment. Edu
cation and Training and the
l..egal System and the Poor.
The object of these workshops
IS to develop goals and stand
ards for the N C. Criminal
Justice System.
^)n Friday. Dec 2, the
National Minority ndviaory
Council of t!ie l.aw' Enforce
ment Assistance Administra
tion >LEAA‘. under the U.S.
Depi of .lusiice. will conduct
public hearings as a part of its
report to be submitted to
LK.AA The public is invited to
pariicipate.
Among the North ('arolinians
scheduled to be in attendance
are Secretary Amos Reed.
Dept, of Corrections, and Eiert
DEADLI^
The CAROLI
will be printe
Tuesday of next
because of
Thanksgiving ho
The deadline h
nexxs and photop
for next week's c
is Monday at
Hometown
writers are ask
observe a wei
deadline for theii
articles and pictu
Tribui
Plann
Dec. 2
National Black News i
WASHINGTON. D. (
President Walter Mor
the U. S. Senate let
announced recently
long-range, multi-
dollar fund-raising c
the Hubert H. Hu
Institute of Public A
the University of Mi
will be formally launc
dinner here. 0
Joining the Vice Pre
the announcement wer
(See HUMPHREY,
Educatit
Week N
Underw
The Raleigh Sectio
National Council oi
Women (NCNW
observance of Educati
and accepting a comi
to education, condi
seminar here Sunday. 1
The comm.tmei
Moniague. executive director education is grounde
of the Administrative Office of illustration of the
Ihe Court rSee EDUCATION. F
Duudhtcr Is Student Here
MVD Director Visits Cit
The Outstanding Young
American Foundation in Wash
ington. D. C. recently announc
ed its selection oi the Ten
Outstanding Young Women in
America. Among them was
Mrs. Rosalind Woodhouse ot
Seattle, Washington.
Mrs. Woodhouse was the lone
black in this group, named at a
luncheon at the Capitol Hilton
in Washington, i . C. The ten
were selected trom over 27,000
nominees.
Mrs Woodhouse is director
01 the Motor Vehicles Depart
ment oi the stale oi Washing
ton. appointed in January 1977
bv Governor Dixv Lee Rav,
and supervises the over
employees in the de[
^e was in Ralei^
Shaw University on
November 11. and all
her daughter, Joveeh
a ireshman at Shaw.
Appreciation
Cheek Won By
Ms. I. O'Setd
PROTESTS BI. XCK LEADER'S DE.ATH — Pretoria, S Africa — A black woman demonstrator
holds a wi**ath and a picture of dead black leader Steve Biko on Ihe steps of the Pretoria old
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
BAKER’S SHOES
‘fOU THE NEATEST FEET IN TOWN
Ms Ida O Neal of 1311
Holman SI . Raleigh, was the
sole winner of a $10 chec'k last
week. She saw her name in the
advertisement paid for by
Terry’s Furniture Co.. 214 E.
Marlin St. After identifying
herself at the office of The
CAROLINIAN, she was pre
sented her check at Terry's
The names of Mrs Loui.se
Moore and David W. Freeman
were also listed in last week's
ONE OF TEN .MOST OUTSTANDING VISITS
Rossalind Woodhouse, director of tbe Motor '
Dep;> rtment of the state of Washington, chats with Dr.
Fleming, interim president of Shaw, during a re<'enl vi
Woodhouse was the onlv black selected as one of