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with time our :or lunch and
dinner if Quill and the others
would eat ft. Everyone worked
without exception. It was
work all 'lay at a steady pace.
- Breakfast he said consisted
of "hominy grits with grease
and sometimes a piece of sau
sage the size of your little fin
ger.'. "For lunch they would
give us bread with some kind
of cheese spread that you
could hardly eat. Most of the.
time I didn't. Then dinner
Wfuld be chitterlings which
sometimes had port worms
(hook worms)," Quill ex
plained. Asked how he survived
farm labor for long hours each
day without eating, Quill said,
"The only thing I had was wine
which Wilson charged us $2 a
pint" A pint of wine in most
stores is sold for approximately
ninety cents.
r Quill said that he couldn't
leave the camp because "Frank
Wilson Jr., had said that he
would kill anyone that tried
to." Wilson's brother, Quill
reported, was convicted for
peonage in Florida.
On on occassion Quill said
that one of the workers from
Durham left the camp early
one rooming and caught a ride
for a few miles. He was put out
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of the car at a rural inter
section only to face a .38
calibre revolver, be brought
back to the camp, taken in
the woods and whipped.
Quill says that everyone
in the camp was afraid of the
Wilsons, who have gained the
reputation of being the most
ruthless crew . leaders opera
ting on the east seaboard.
Black or white. The Wilsons are
five brothers and father who
have operated labor camps for
sometime.
One of the most depress
ing aspects of Quill's story is
that for his labor he nor the
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others, so far as he knows got
paid for their labor. Quffl said
thTt h t mM hv on nf thm
workers that travel from state
to state harvesting crops that
"one evening when the wine
would be passed out, every
body would get drunk and the
next morning the Wilsons
would be gone (without paying
the workers).
Quill despite his fear of
death, stole away from the
camp one morning before sun
rise, "and I hid in the woods
until everyone had gone in the.
fields to work, then walked for
several miles in the ddp
ditches so they would not
find me." Several days later
Quill arrived in Durham, where
he has been unable to get
medical assistance or disability
payments resumed.
According to William
Shipes, Director of the Migrant
and Seasonal Farm Workers
Quill's story is not unusual and
almost identical to a man that
filed a complaint with Stupes
office two yean ago against
Ivey Wilson. He said "there are
a lot of good people that
get caught in a bind and are
Personality
, Clifton P. Jones of Chapel
Hi", has been listed in the 1976
f? PX J crew bosses
S? 5 ontm"ed
tfll don't know how
many people -are being heldf
against their wm tn tnese
camps.'
. Shipes said that many of
come from labor-pick-up zones
in Durham, Raleigh and other
cities.
Asked why workers held
against their will do not make
complaints agafcst crew leaden
Shipes1 said "they are just
afraid. Many just move on and
i never say a word because they
itre lucky to be alive."
. But not so with Quill who
came to The Carolina Tunes to
tell the story "because we need
to do something about this
kind of thing so it can be done
away with." He said that he is
going to file a formal com
plaint with the FBI.
According to Shipes and
Hosea . Fernandex, North
Carolina Director of the Wage
and Hour Law Division of the
U. S. Department of Labor, the
FBI is the only agency that can
investigate and make charges
against those responsible for
Quill's peonage.
Of Tea Sooth
Bicentennial Memorial Edition
of Personalities of the South.'
Jones is president of the
American Arthritis Association
Inc., and a Library Assistant
at the Health Sciences Library
.of the University of North
Carolina. .
Jones is an elected super
visor and vice chairman of the
Orange County Soil and Water
Conservation District. He is a
member of the Chapel Hill
Mayor's . Committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped.'
A former officer of the
Orange County LB J Young
Democratic Club Jones was
vice chairman of N. C. Citi
zens for Humphrey In
1968. He is married to the
former Miss Cla.-a Baldwin of
Chapel Hill and the father of
four children. He is a member
of St. Joseph's CME Church,
flarfe Hill Denied Chance
A'frCo&aotoffoo
RALEIGH (OCNS) -Marie
Hill, 24, rvh a life
Xitnce P.? ilie murder of a
Rocky Mount merchanc, was
not selected to s?r.' G ver
'nor arl Mn Ih.t in their
mansion. This privilege 'wjly
results in commutation of sen
tence at the end of a gover
nor's term of office. An honor
grade inmate, Ms. Hill report
edly was the only inmate serv
ing a life sentence at the North
Carolina Correctional Center
for Women (NCCCW) who
wo3 t:ot chosen to serve the
governor.
Ma. Hill's 1969 trial awl
convictionsraised pr '. sts from
civil rights groups against the
circumstanial evidence upon
which her conviction was based
and her initial sentciic to die
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PLE NO. 176 THEY ARE (above from left to
right) Charles Hughes, Second Ceremonial Master;
Edward Cummings, High Priest & Prophet; Wallace
Hinton, Captain of the Guard; A. R. Thompson,
Sr., Recorder; Exter Gilmore, Sr., Promotional
Director; Donnie Patterson, Jr., First Ceremonial
Master; George W. Carrington. Sr., Treasurer; and
Urn. J. onncdy, III To Keynote Awards Banquet
William J. Kennedy, III,
president of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pahy will deliver the keynote
W. J. KENNEDY, III
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thousands rj tti to en
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weeks.':
AccordinfOo sources,
Kathy Smokes and Launa
Greene wrar'art both serving '
fife Ktrctenceit NCCCW for
murder, were selected f.c serve
at the mansion. Superintendent
Louis Powell would not verify
whether the two white, wo-
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address at the annual awards
baiuroejt of the Durham Busk
ness arid Professional Chain.
. Awards will be presented
to four area business for their
impressive accomplishments
during recent years. The
Booker, T. Washington Blue
Ribbon Award will be pre
sented to the Oxford Business
and Professional . Chain in
recognition of its exemplary
efforts to promote minority
business development.
A Durham ; native,
Kennedy attended v Durham
City Schools. He is a graduate
of Virginia State College. He
received a Masters in Business
Administration from the Uni
versity, of Pennsylvania and a
Masters in Business Adminis
tration finance and invest
ments) from New York Uni
versity. He is a member of the
Board of Trustees at White
Rod: Baptist Church.
Some of Kennedy's busi
State Corrections Hoad
. RALEIGH
(CCNS)" -
Amos Reed, a former top
corrections official in Oregon
and Florida has accepted the
post , of Secretary of Correc
tions. He was appointed to the
post by Governor James Hunt
folbwing visits to Raleigh's
Central Prion, a maximum
securiy unit, and several
youth development centers.
Reed, 61, described his
duties as being m "a 10084
difficult arena cilng over-
rrnaHino as the mrtst nrKiitno
probiem facmg his tenure,
Jrtn Carolina's system built
tQ old 10,000" inmates,
currently, houses over 13,000
Hunt has said that he would
build temporary housing for .
inmates until permanent
structures can be built Reed
, is expected to carry out those
Asked whether he would
recognize the 5,000 mem
ber N- C Prisoner's Labor
Union and allow it to have
meetings in the prisons, Reed
said that he would comply
with a court order to allow
the Union to hold meetings
ii the prisons but is not in
favor of having inmates Unions
in the prisons. -
The North Carolina. Pr
soner's Labor Union is hot a
Labor Union, but an associa
tion of prisoners, which the
U. S. District Court, for the
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Alex Bullock, Sr., Marshall' BELOW (from left to
right) are Ernest R. Johnson, Imperial Deputy of
the Oasis; Joseph Gooch, Chief Rabbin; Charles
B. Noel, Potentate; and Willie L Hill. Assistant
Rabbin; officers not
Thomas, Oriental Guide
Outer Guard.
ness affiliations include being a
member of the North Carolina
Society of Financial Analysts;
member of the Board of Direc
tors and Chairman, .Urban
National Corporation, Boston,
Mass. ; member of the Board
of Directors of Mechanics and
Fanners Bank; RCA Corpora
tion, New York, NY; The
American Council of Life In
surance, Washington, DC;
National Broadcasting
Company, New York, NY; and
UDI-Community Development
Corporation.
Kennedy is active in many
civic, educational and religious '
endeavors. He is also a member
of Wharton SchooLJ8oard of
Overseers, UniversitjL of
Pennsylvania; liember oTOni
versity of North Carolina Order
of the Tar Heel One Hundred;
member of the Board of
Visitors Duke University Gra
duate School of Business;
Adhoc Member Triangle Uni-
Eastefh'D&trtc?-' ot 'Wrtr
Carolina says has the right
to meet in prisons the same as
other groups. Outgoing
Secretary of Corrections David
L Jones-has denied the in
mate ijnion the right to hold
meetings in the state's 77
prisons.
The prhoner's labor union
has made several suggestions
for change in prison policy to ,
former Corrections head David
L. Jones. Reed admits that
"some of the best ideas come
from inmates" but continues
to warn that ideas from in
mates "can be taken too
far." .
The staff of a prison;
must run the system," Reed'
continued. "There are all kinds
of ways that the staff and in
mates can feed into the deci-'
sion making process." If
Reed puts into practioe such .
involvement of inmates policy
making, it should be fairly
visible within the next few
months because he said that
he is "a great believer in
structure" within organiza
tions. He did not say how in
mates would be ' involved in
the structure of the prison
system's operations.
Hunt said that he was
fascinated with Reed after he
met with him for four hours.
"If you can spend 4 hours with
him you'l come away thinking
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pictured are: Robert
and James , Harrington,
versities Center for Advanced
Studies in Chapel Hill.
He is a member of Board
of Directors and Chairman of
North Carolina Central Uni
versity Foundation, Inc., mem
ber of Foard of Directors N.
C. 4-H Development Fund, Inc.
member of Board of Direc
tors, YMCA, Durham; member
of Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain; member of
Durham Committee on the
Affairs of Black People;
members of Kiwanis Club pf
lobaccoland, Inc., member
NAACP and member and
director of Durham Cham-,
ber of Commerce.
Kennedy is married to the
former Miss Alice C. Cope
land. They are the parents of
one son, William J. IV.
The annual banquet will
be held on Feb. 25 in the W.
G. Pearson Dining Hall on the
campus of North . . Carolina
Central
Appointed
ltesgcAdegteterpsy
try, sociology, psychology and .
everything else."
One of the early problems
facing Reed will be getting the
legislature to provide money
for ' prison construction and
rehabilitation programs.
Lt. James Green said that
Isi?
REED
hefceU"thelegslatre wU
Jrovide for the needs of the
ate, it always has and ajr
The past two Corrections
heads have had little cooper
ation from the General
Assembly in getting appropria
tions for inmate services. The
primary emphasis of the sys
tem has been holding in
mates securely without
programs for their - rehabui
iation. . Whether that will
be the continued focus desired
by the present : General
Assembly and what programs
will be proposed by Reed an
and Hunt are yet to be seen.
he feels, "the legislature will
provide for he needs of the
state, ft always had and al
ways will'' ,
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