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Minister Heads Methodists’ N.C.-Va. Commission For Racial Justice
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BoycottLompetency Tests:* Rev, White
Co-Chairs
Education
Coalition
25,000 Expected As
US Baptists Set Meet
THE Carolinian
Norf/i ( arolina'ti Leadinz Weekly
DEDICATBD TO THE SPIRIT OP JESUS CHRIST
VOL. S7 NO. 41
RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,1978
Raleigh Man **Fair" After He
PROBE OF DR. KING’S DEATH MOVES TO CAPITOL - Waihlngtoo — James Eari Ray. the
small-time crook who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., was the center ol attenlloa Aug.
16 on a security-ringed Capitol Hill. View is of Loraine Hotel in Memphis, through simulated tele
scopic gunsight. Arrow indicates approximate spot where King was standing when he was shot.
(fPI)
Survives Brain Buiiet
DC Resident May
Have Shot King
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Tuesdav, the House Assassi
nations Committee was told
that the shot which killed Cr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. could
have come irom some bushes
below the balconv, instead oi
irom the window oi a boarding
house across the street irom
the Memphis Motel, where he
was staving at the time.
The panel heard the testi
mony as a preparation tor the
testamonv ot James Elarl Rav,
who has changed his plea ot
guilty to the April 4, 1968,
slaving 01 King.
Dr. King was killed while he
stood on the balcony oi his hotel
across irom the boarding
house, talking to someone
below. A riile shot irom the
bushes was lound to be possible
01 what may have killed the
civil rights leader, although it
strongly contradicts the c<m-
clusion reached by the Mem
phis Police that Ray ass
assinated King with a riile shot
irom the bathroom window oi
the boarding bouae.
A spokesman tor a team ot
Hunt Will
Address NC
Trade Fair
Governor James Baxter
Hunt. Jr. 01 N. C., will
participate in the dedication
and ribbon cutting ceremony ot
the tirst statewide Minority
Trade Fair in Raleigh on
Thursday, August 31. the
one-dav lair will open at 9 a.m.
at the Scott Pavilion on the
North Carolina State Fair
grounds.
“This lair has a lot oi oner to
both minority businesses and
other private industries,” said
Governor Hunt. “It is a
IK'actical and reasonable wav
to expand the market tor the
products 01 minority business
es, and to open communi
cations between minority en
terprises and other industries.
I hope industries oi all types
and sizes will take part in the
Fair."
At the lair, buyers irom
major corporations will have
booths to dWcribe the products
and services they need, so that
minority vendors can id&itiiv
potential markets. Bob Rigs-
bee, {H-esident oi the Piedmont
(See HUNT WUX. P. 2)
committee pathology experts,
Dr. Michael Baden, testiiied
that engineer measurements,
plus a review oi Dr. King’s
autopsy established that the
shot could have come irom the
window, although, he also said
a shot irom the bushes Lelow
could have killed him, because
it would have been only 2 to 5
degrees lower and the expert’s
direction measurements are
not that precise.
Baden said King’s head was
down as he talked irom the
balconv oi the hotel, and that
he could have been visible irom
the bushes below as well as
irom the boarding house
window.
The autopsy and x-ravs
taken at the time clearly show
that the bullet went through
Dr. King’s cheek, neck and
then into his shoulder, said
Baden. He also said that the
panel ot eqierts was able to
determine from eyewitnesses
that King was leaning torward
against the balcony talking to
someone at ^e time .be was
aho<.
“A pvaon residing right here
in Washington, D. C. could
have been the individual who
pulled the trigger, tiring the
latal bullet,” stated one mem
ber 01 the investigating panel.
Dr. King, who received the
Nobel Peace Prize in Sweden
many years ago, was latally
wounded while standing on the
balconv at his Loraine Motel
room April 4, 1968,* while
pr^ftring to get some lood.
p.ior to a church revival.
He was in Memphis to help
settle a strike oi garbage
workers at the time.
Young To
Get MLK -
Citation
ATLANTA, Ga. — Ambassa
dor Andy Young. United States
Representative to the United
Nations, will receive the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
irom the Southern Christian
Leadership Conierence at its
21st Annual Ck)nvmtion to be
held in Birmingham, Ala., at
the Birmingham Hyatt House
irom August 18-18.
Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery,
SCLC president, in announcing
(See AMB. YOUNG. P. 2)
Human Resources
City Rights Unit
Suspect
MOVING ON UP — New
York — Box office receipts are
reported up since Ms. Vanessa
Shaw replaced Ms. Melba
Moore in the role of
“Marsinab” in Timbuktu on
Broadway. A good actress with
an incredible voice, Vanessa
has appeared in Europe in
“Cat men Jones” and in the
U.S. in “Porgy and Bess.’’ Ms.
Sbaw studied voice with Joe
Williams for 7 years and has
appeared on Broadway in
‘‘Hello Dolly!” and "Pnriie.”
She has also appeared in con
cert at Carnegie Hall. (L'PI)
TV Image
Blamed On
Sponsors
National Black News Service
LOS ANGELES, CalU. — Tl
you don’t like the image oi
blacks you see portray^ on
television, boycott the products
(See TV IMAGE. P. 2)
WEATHER
The five-day weather fore
cast for the period Wednesday.
Aug. 16, through Saturday.
-.Ang. 21, Is as fallows: Warm
temperatures and humid con
ditions continued Wednesday
and are expected on Thursday.
Widely scattered afternoon and
evening thunderstorms are ex
pected. Highs Wednesday were
in the upper SOs in the moun
tains and the low to mid-90s
elsewhere across the state.
Lows Wednesday night were in
the 60s in the mountains and the
low to mid-768 elsewhere. The
extended forecast calls for con
tinued hot and humid days,
with mostly fair skies prevail
ing during the days, followed
by thunderstorms at night,
throu^out the period.
Held In
Nevada
A 47-year-oId black
Raleigh man has
survived what, police
declare, was meant to be
his execution by way of a
sin^e bullet to the brain.
This occurred near the “
city last weekend. Ollin ■
Richard Argus is now re- 5
covering from a bullet
wound behind his left
ear. He has “fingered”
32-year-old Leamon
McCall of Raleigh as his
would-be executioner,
and police officials near
Las Vegas, Nevada re
ported late Monday night
that ttey have arrested £
the suspwt and charged I'fAi
him with one murder. ^
Mr. Argu, In * dopent*
will and light to remain alive,
crawled aome m leel, Uioi^
paralviad and ttie bullet atlU
lodged in hla brain, to a fence
near tbe bridge ot the Neuae
River, located on Poole Road.
ApparenUy ahot laai Tuea-
day, the man was seml-
(See HAN SURVIVES, P. ])
RETURNS TO N.C. POR TRIAL - Savannah. Ga. - Sialeen-
yearoM Ms. Karen Lynn Ballon (Rl huga her mother aa she
leaves the Chatham Coaaty Jail Aug. It, tor Davidson County,
N.C. to face marder charges. Mb. Batton will be tried aa an adult
in the 1977 stabbing of Mrs. Myrtls Miller, M, and ber 3-year-old
granddangbter, KryaUI, In lealngton. N.C. (UPl I
New Orleans Site
For Baptist Confab
NEW ORLEANS, La. - The
96th annual sesaioD ot the
NaUonal BapUat Convention,
U. S. A., Inc. will be held
Sqitambtf 5 through 10, in tbe
Louisiana Superdome in New
Orleans.
An attmidance oa 25,000 is
expected.
For more than two de 'ades,
Dr. Jos^ H. Jacksor, pre
sident, has gu’ded 'Jie six
LEAMON MCCALL
...caugkt la Nevada
million members, uie second taken trom a statemmit made
Urgest Baptist group in the bv Jackson in 1962. “The next
(See U, S. BAPTISTS. P, 2)
NUL Closes Convention; Cited
As Champion Of Blacks, Poor
LOS ANGELES, Calit.—The
68th annual comerence ot tbe
NaUonal Urban League ended
here Wednesday ni^t, August
9, with Vemcm E. Jordan, Jr.,
president ot the NUL de
daring ; “So long as there is an
Urban League Movement in
the interests ot black people,
minorities and all poor people
will be championed."
Mr. Jordan's remarks were
made at the closing dinner
which was addressed bv Coy
Elkluod, president and duet
executive otticer ot the Equit
able Lite Assurance Sodetv,
who earlier on Wednesday had
been elected as the new
chairman ot the board ot the
NUL. He replaces Donald H.
McGannon, who stepped down
alter tive years in that oitlce.
The dinner brought an end to
tour days oi concentrated
acUvity that included daily
lirienarv sessions, workshops
and a series ot special sessions,
vr
Many ot the nation’s top
leaders, including Vice Pre
sident Waller F. Mondale;
OlUomia’s Governor Jerry
Brown and Rev. Leon Sullivan,
the founder and president ot
Opportunities Industrialization
Centers, were present tor the
history-making conierence,
which had as its theme “Better
Appreciation
Check Won By
Ms. D, Branch
The sole winner in last
week’s Appreciation Money
Feature was Ms. Diane Branch
01 1337 Wrentree (^cle. Ms.
Brapch received a $10 check
trom Stormont Pharmacy, 3312
N. Blvd.
William J. Hilliard oi 2521
Littlejohn Rd. missed his
(See APPRECIATION. P. 2)
Active
Handles
Cases Of
Bias Here
BYJACKJENKINS
SUIT Writer
The Human Resources
Dept.'s Civil Rights Unit
of Raleigh was establish
ed to handle discrimina
tion in employment and
housing Within the city.
They seek to discourage,
prevent and stop dis
criminatory practices a-
gainst any individual or
group.
This year, the unit has
investigated and received
lorty-iive comfdaints ot dis
crimination in employment
and housing. There were
twenty two received in tbe area
ot employment and twenty
three in tbe area ot housing.
Listed under em^yment,
there were six requests km’
assistance in job related
proWenu, ot Utese two were
investigated and cmiciUated.
In the tirst case, the com-
plainaot was ottered a potiUoo,
and in the second case, Uie
complainant received payment
01 $475, it was job dis
crimination.
Concerning tair housing,
there were twenty-three cases
received and all twenty-three
were investigated, ot those six
were c<mcillated. Four were
resolved with case payments
tor harm, the total amount
paved was $2,095. The two
remaining were reconciled
with the complainant receiving
(See CITY RIGHTS, P. 2)
Summer
Camp For
Kids Ends
BY JOYCE RHYAN
sun Writer
The Masonic Eastern Star
Oiapter ot The Modem Free
and Accepted Maaons ot the
World, sponaored their Ural
summer camp thia year tor
needy children. The camp
ended recenllv.
^ Fortv-live children between
attended the various aesaiona ages 6 and IS participated
ot the conierence while an iu the camp, which laated six
estimated, 20,000 visited the davi. The lirat three days were
(See NUL. CONFAB. P. 2) ®!NDS, P. 2)'
At a newly-formed
North Carolina Coalition
for Quality Education
conference in Durham,
the Rev. Leon White,
director of the United
Church of Christ's Com
mission for Racial Jus
tice in N.C. and Virginia,
called for a statewide
boycott of the compe-
SINGLE COPY 20c' tency test. “The only
' - way, he stated, “to de
monstrate effectively a-
gainst the compentency
test is not to take it.”
Betore an audience ot nearly
200 state leaders trom across
North Carolina, White declar
ed, “don’t allow your sons and
daughters to sign their own
death certiiicates."
The competency test was
authorized bv the N. C. General
Assembly in 1977, and will be
given to llth graders statewide
in November ot 1978. Students
P. 2)
RBV.LEON WHl’TE
...blasts competency tests
CRIME
BEAT
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naJ tkaai rpfa^ kr tka HraaMk af
firm. Ta keap aa( a( tW Crlaia Baat
BREAKS DRUG LAWS
Alvin Perry, 1019 E. Jones
St., was arrested and charged
with simple possession of
marijuana Saturday at 1:30
a.m., according to police re
ports. The offense took place at
400 Hill St., tbe report ended.
(See (miHE BEAT, P. 2)
During these years, his
prophecies on civil disobedi
ence. ballots tor progress and
international relations have
become history, according to a
long time stall representative.
This var’s theme, “Our Next
Forward Step,” will emphasize
the constructive work ot the
past and the immediate ettorU
to be made.
Ihe convention topic
Cities tor a Better Nation.
More than 10,000 persons
Aging Counci I
Appoints 3
The following thre*'
persons have been
elected to the Board of
Directors of the Wake
County Council on Ag
ing for a 3-year terra,
to replace 3 outgoing
members: Rev. Janies
W. Brown, pastor of
the Davie Street Unit
ed Presbyterian
Church; Dr. Wiley
Davis, vice president
for administration, St.
Augustine’s College;
and Mrs. Nora Evans
Lockhart, a retired
public school principal
here.
L^K OF ADMIRATION — Loa AbrcIm — Unilcd NaUoos Ambassador Andrew Young looks
at Mrs. Rosa Parks during proceedings at the Progressive Baptist Conventioa Aug. ll. Mrs. Parks
was given an award for her part in an incident In Dec. 1955 in .Montgomery, Ala., when sbe was
arretted for refusing to give up her bus seat to a while man. (IPI)
Appreciation AAopey
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
HLDSON-BELK DEPT.
STORES
TVO STOKES fOK YOUR SUOfriMG COMVBUEHCr
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN READY FOR ACTION - MrmFbla. Tm.. — Heavily armed
National GuinUmen Uke up pesMeut at the Kale to Ike Weal Pollee Preciaet as they pntrcled
oon-slriklng policemen es they ermled over M o( Ibeir fellow alriklag offlcera early Ani. 14.
(UPl) *