Statesville Record and Landmark (Newspaper) - April 5, 1968, Statesville, North Carolina COUNTRY HAM SUPPER April 4 to 8 NORTH IREDELL HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA Children boxes by North Boosters Club Published in the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina STATESVILLE RECORD a LANDMARK 94 APRIL 1968 83 JJJJJ Marines Cut Down Attack By Reds In Capital City By RICHARD HATCH RALEIGH UPI The fight on the clean sidewalk in front of a gleaming bank building was short and I watched it and other of street violence as Raleigh saw its longtime racial peace shattered In the shock of Mar tin Luther Kings assassination in I ran the four blocks from the UPI office to Fayetteville Street at the first report of trouble around 10 In front of the skyscraper Branch Bank a dozen uniformed and plainclothes policemen were struggling with about 35 to 40 young As I two policemen threw one cursing young Negro to the pavement and handcuffed both his wrists to They dragged him across the street to a patrol car like a slaughter ed SNIPER DOWNS KING AT MEMPHIS The other Negroes were en One husky youth with an Afro shouted theyre beating theyre beating I ran and looked in the back seat of the patrol The young Negro was slumped on the rear seat and a patrolman was getting out while pulling an extralong riot stick out of what looked like a cellophane His blue riot helmet tumbled to the street in his I saw no blows struck in the Across the the students were shouting police brutality Police brutality A night stick crunched into the mouth of one young Negro and he crumpled to the Another Negro picked up the limp tossed it across his shoulder and started to trot back toward the Shaw University The policeman followed and there was another clash a half block further Two police men threw a young Negro dressed in bright yellow trous ers and red to the side One put his knee on the youths chest while they hand cuffed both was dragged Windows Broken The Negroes ran back along Fayetteville Street toward Shaw University and as I I saw the broken At least a A couple of blocks further in a street in front of Shaw cam Shaw President James Cheek held a tense conference with two police officials trying to get them to pull their cers out of Tonight they are convinced that nonviolence doesnt Cheek shouted at a police ma From across the a bar rage of rocks flew through the air and whump into a police Other rocks and bricks were aimed at policemen near where we were Apparently this convinced the officers and they ordered the police withdrawn around the block out of sight of the stu An ambulance screamed to a halt and a dark figure was load ed into the Cheek was tell ing police officers that one of his students had been shot in the arm from a passing I reached out to tap a young Negro on the shoulder and ask him who was shot He twisted away and snarled dont touch white Leathernecks Negro Leader Slain SCENE OF is the motel at which Martin Luther King inset was fatally shot in Memphis last He was hit by a snipers bullet as he came out on the balcony shown at Wine Selling Is Suspended WRONG ON BOTH SIDES Nobody except the most bigoted will take any pleasure from the death of Martin Luther Still it must be kept in proper His slaying was the act of a single at most a small The man who pulled the trigger has been described as white but that does not add up to a valid indictment of the white race or even the white What it brings into bold re lief is the fact that there is racial hatred in the United just as there is in most of the It cannot be legis lated away or decreed out of Martin Luther King fell to an assassins bullet in Memphis only a short time before a gang of Negro youths beat a young white man to death when he stopped to purchase gas at a service station in Kings death is thus no more grounds for a blanket indict ment of the 180 million white people in the United States than was the District of Columbia death a valid indictment of 20 million But both the Memphis and Washington deaths stand as a true against the hatred and common to both There are black Bilbos and there are white Bilbos at large in this There are peo ple who are wrong inside the civil rights movement just as there are people who are wrong on the other And there are politicians playing both ends against the Until the decent people of both races reassert themselves in restoring a sense of balance and fair until the civil rights movement can be restor ed as a twoway street and un til politicians who attempt to squeeze votes out of racial strife are themselves squeezed the bloodletting will We were never a follower of Martin Luther We felt that his efforts often created worse problems than they solv In one of his last public statements he flayed as illegal an injunction issued by a fed eral judge and promised to dis regard It was Selma all over Down there King had been ordered not to disrupt the peace by leading a He march ed His conviction on a charge of contempt was up held by the highest court of the land despite the best efforts of the best there are a lot of white people who have disagreed in recent years with supreme court rulings when they were in favor of King but they swallowed hard and If King had followed that example in he would be alive to We mention this merely to illustrate that right is rarely ever the sole possession of one side to a There is no tragedy in pitting right against for right usually Real tragedy flows from pitting right against right when the stakes are higher and And that was just what King sought to do in He had two The first came from above in the form of an 18inch The second came when his own followers broke ranks and then the He sought a third opportunity against the advice of officers and an order of the He See Page 2 RALEIGH UPI Dan Moore has ordered the State Board of Alcoholic Control to take steps to stop all sales of beer and wine through out the state until further no Moores office announced the action early today in the after math of disturbances which Mourning Set For Sunday WASHINGTON UPI ident Johnson today proclaimed Sunday a national day of mourning for Martin Luther before issuing the told a White House meeting of top Negro and government leaders America shall not be ruled by the The President hastily ar ranged the meeting after by Kings assassination took to the streets in more than a dozen big city smashing looting and hurling In designating Sunday a national day of Johnson urged the nation to pray for an end to racial In our in our in our private let us resolve before God to stand against the divisiveness in our country and all its the President WEATHER Saturday partly cloudy and Local temperatures for the 24hour period ending at 6 today 73 57 half inch of rainfall during the erupted throughout the state Thursday night in angry reac tion to the assassination of Martin Luther in Mem In hardest hit in Thursday nights Mayor Travis Tomlinson order ed the suspension of the sale of all firearms in the Tom linson said he did not know if he would reimpose a curfew The City Council de clared a state of emergency Thursday night and ordered a curfew which ended at 6 At least 13 persons were in jured and 14 were arrested in the disturbances which erupted in downtown Raleigh and spread to the vicinity of its two predominantly Negro Augustines and Shaw Uni More than 500 National Guard troops were dispatched to Ra leigh and another 300 to Greens boro during the outbreaks which also erupted in New and The governor scheduled an 11 meeting today with Na tional Civil Defense and Law and Order Committee of to discuss the City officials in Raleigh and Greensboro scheduled news con ferences in their cities this Greensboro Mayor Carson acting on a request of Police Chief Paul ask ed the governor to dispatch troops to the gate city where numerous young Negroes threw rocks and stones at stores and passing Police officials today said there was little damage in Greensboro and that there was See Page 2 Hold Hilltop At Khe Sanh SAIGON UPI Commu nist tank today opened fire on forces near Khe Sanh but it withdrew under a rocket barrage from a helicopter Marines cut down suicide waves of North Vietnamese trying to retake a hilltop seized by the UPI correspondent Perry Young said the tank had engaged ground units of the 1st Air Cavalry Division before the helicopter chase Commu nist tanks have been sighted several times in the Khe Sanh area since they overran the Lang Vei Special Forces outpost but ground units have been unable to take them under Appearance of the Communist armor and the suicidal attack on Hill 471 just south of Khe Sanh indicated hard fighting lay ahead before the huge relief force links up with the besieged Marine Robert commander of Marines in said Wednesday airpower had lifted the siege of Khe Sanh but it was obvious he referred to silencing of the guns which had harassed the base in the northeastern corner of South The battalion of Marines counted at least 77 Communist bodies sprawled down the slopes of Hill 471 and had found 30 more in the hilltop North e bunkers and trenches they grabbed in a lightning drive from the fort The hilltop triumph plus the Allied drive toward Khe Sanh from the rela little lined the claims of America commanders that Hanoi ap has lost the battle for the strategic fort it vowed to Registration Books Open Tomorrow is the last Satur day prospective voters will be able to register at their regular polling Then from tomorrow until April 12 they will be able to register with their respective registrars by Voters placed on the books through April 12 will qualify for participation in the primaries May During the period April voters will be able to register either at the courthouse or with their respective registrars but they will not be qualified to vote in the They will be able to take part in the general in These regulations are differ ent from those which have been in effect in Iredell in the Citizens who have not put their names on the registration books should take On Motel Balcony By Assassins Slug UPI Attorney Ramsay Clark said today he is very hopeful that the sniper slayer of integration leader Martin Luther King will be apprehended Clark made the statement at an impromptu press conference held on the ramp of Memphis Airport as Kings casket was being loaded aboard a chartered air liner to be flown home to Clark who rushed here from Washington had gone aboard the plane earlier to express to Kings widow the very deep regret of President Johnson and all the cabinet at the tragic loss of this great Clark was asked whether any progress was being made toward identifying and captur ing the youthful white assassin who killed King Thursday night with a single rifle shot as the civil rights leader stood on the balcony of a Real real progress is being Substantial evidence has been Im fully confident this crime will be the attorney general Asked whether an arrest is Clark We are very To a question whether the suspect has been definitely Clark responded We are getting very He said there is no indication of any All the evidence we have is this is the work of a single Rioting Rioting erupted in in and despite President Johnsons televised plea for Three persons died in the Nearly 200 persons filed past Kings copper and bronze casket in half an hour before it was carried to the airport for the flight back to The President summoned Negro leaders to an 11 conference at the White postponing his trip to Hawaii for Vietnam Memphis Police chief Frank Holloman announced early to day that certain evidence has been found which we believe will be helpful in apprehending the Suspect But the he had simply The killer blew a gaping hole in Kings neck with a round from a Remington pump rifle with a telescopic It was fired 205 feet and three inches from the window of a communal bathroom in a flophouse to the balcony of Kings hotel across the King whirled and fell on his back in a pool of blood on the Lorraine Hotel in a 74seat jet chartered for her by presiden See Page 2 FRANK Dunn Selected To Head Bank Frank a grad of Wake Forest College and the University of North has been named city executive in charge of the Statesville office of First Union National a native of New Bern whose parents reside in Winston joined First Union National during the summer of following military service in the He has banking experience as a trainee in the Loan and In vestment and as credit analyst in Greensboro where he became an officer of the bank in 1965 and was promoted to Assistant in Prior to the announcement of his transfer to Dunn was assigned to the commercial department in the Greensboro A he began his college education at North Caro lina later transferring to Wake where he received his Degree and then to the University of North where he received his Masters In Dunn was active in banking and civic He will begin work in States ville on MARRIAGE LICENSES A marriage license was issued Thursday by Lynn regis ter of to Ronald Harold Johnson and Sandra Gail A license was issued this morning to Steven Wesley Campbell and Barbara Marie MEMPHIS UNDER Guardsmen halted these three Negroes on a downtown Memphis street after a citywide curfew was imposed following the sniper shooting of Martin Luther King late Friday Officials moved Guardsmen into the tense city after the WASHINGTON squad of police fire tear gas at a group of youths who were pelting the police officers with rocks Friday Looting and fires broke out in the nations capital following the events earlier in the evening in Several deaths were reported in Washington RIOT IN NEW young Negro runs down the street as firemen fight a blaze in Manhattans Negro last A rash of window looting and fires in the heart of Harlem was triggered after the slaying of Martin Luther King in Tenn
