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VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 21
Josse Smifti
A. Durham man, Jessie
Daniel Smith was shot and
killed on a downtown side
walk early Tuesday morning.
; Smith, 36,. who resided
at 4111 Baker Street, Is re
ported to have died from a
.32 caliber gurtshot wound in
the back allegedly inflicted
by Mrs. Evelyn Watson Cle
ments, 26, of Few Gardens.
The shooting took place on
the 100 block or South
Queen Street. Officials at the
Duke Medical Center said
Smith was "essentially dead
on arrival but attempts were
made to revive him."
Mrs. Clements, who was
arrested a few minutes later
in a car in the 500 block of
Carlton Avenune, was
charged with murder in the
fatal shooting.
According to witnesses,
Mrs. Clements pointed a
pistol at Smith several times
as he stood outside of her
car. Witnesses told police
that the man was talking to
the woman as she sat in the
car at the Northwest corner
SttC Plans first People's
A enlevement f estival
The Reverend Hosea L.
Williams, President of Atlanta
SCLC, has designed a pro
gram . . . SCLS's First Annual
People's Achievement Festi
val. ... . that could become a
national pilot program.
: The Festival to be .held
June 3rd thru June 6th; at
the World Congress Center in
Atlanta, will begin Friday
night with some 5,000 per
sons attending the Rich Man
Poor Man Awards Banquet
and Fashion Show. On Satur
day there will be a full sche
dule of activities, including a
parade from Central City
Park, free carnival for chil
dren, a public auction with
all items beginning at $1,
entertainment all day, and a
rock concert at the OMNI,
Sat., night. Sunday there will
be a city-wide Religious Revi
val at the World Congress
Center and on Monday night
a "People's Cultural Hour"
again at the WCC.
The Atlanta SCLC was
organized mainly to keep
the TRUE words of the late
Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., and
to help fulfill that dream.
SCLC has, in the past,
organized nonviolent mar
ches and picket lines, but at
the same time effectively
taught participants one of
Dr. King's greatest treasures
- humility and self-respect.
SCLS's new thrust will
be to teach the poor, "You
can be anything you want
to be."
Finding an alternative
to Black EXPO, Rev.
Williams and his staff
developed the coming
People's Festival, which is
only the beginning of a war
against the "Welfare Men-
"READ BY OVER 30,000
Fdf alty Shot
Street. The victim collapsed
in front of the Health Depart
ment building. With the pistol
still in her hand, witnesses
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SMITH
of Peabody and Queen
Streets.
It is reported that Mrs.
Clements" fired one shot at
Smith as he ran toward Main
tality"'that is destroying the
very foundation that Ameri
ca was built upon.
... "We would like, to
make it . Unequivocally clear1
that we are - not against wel
fare ;per4se.f; For certainly,
theaj.eiDpte;..' sick
JA pieoplff alTCofljd jpople$ttte .
children and Wind people
who not only need and de
serve welfare, but should be
getting at least three times
as much as, they are getting
now in order to be able to
acquire a decent quality of
life.
"All evidence shows that
Americans are fast becoming
welfare sophisticates. When
the government gives millions
to the rich they call it 'sub
sidy.' It's only when they
give pennies to the poor that
it's called 'welfare.' "
"However you define it,"
continued Rev. Williams, "it's
all the same . .it's welfare.
There is no real philosophical
difference in a corporate
structure like Lockheed re
ceiving 2 million dollars in
welfare, or a rich farmer
being paid millions of
dollars in welfare not to grow
grain or fibre, or the airlines
receiving millions of dollars in
welfare payments - known
as subsidies - than it is when
some able-bodied man or
woman is getting food stamps
they do not deserve or getting
some CETA job in order to
be able pot to work hard,
or getting a welfare check,
that they do not deserve."
The theme of the first
Festival is "Eliminate
Poverty with Mind Power."
Rev. Ike is the keynote
speaker of the Festival be-
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DR. WHITING (I). DR. McLENDON (c) and
DURHAMITES"
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On Downtown Sidewaffr
said, Mrs. Clements ran and
looked at Smith before flee
ing irr her car.
According to police,
two young children were in
the Clements vehicle when it
was stopped by Public Safety
Officer W. A. Crudup.
Mrs. Clements, who as of
yet has made no statement,
was still in jail on Wednesday
morning. The initial hearing
for the murder charge is
scheduled to be held Friday
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING? - this handsome little man seems
to be wondering of the photographer who had been taking
pictures 'in the park of other subjects. His bright-eyed curiosity
was irresistible - so here he is. (Photo by Ken Edmonds)
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HOWARD LEE URGES NCCU GRADS
TO STAY IN THE SOUTH
"Please stay here with
us." North Carolina Secre
tary of Natural and Econo
mic Resources Howard N.
Lee told graduates of North
Carolina Central University
Sunday. Stay here in the
South and let's make these
dreams come true."
Lee, who was t he first
black of a major North
Carolina town when he was
elected in Chapel Hill in
1969, spoke to 848 graduates
and an audience of nearly
10.000.
Lee told the predomi
nantly black graduating class,
for too many years we have
lost our future leaders to
other parts of the country.
We need you here. We need
DR. RAY
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
AffSAlt
ED
in Durham County District
Court.
The funeral service for
Smith will be held at the
Fisher Memorial United Holi
ness Church on Saturday,
May 27 at I p.m. The Rev. A.
W. Lawson will officiate.
Smith will be buried in the
Glennview Memorial Gardens.
The service will be directed
by Scarborough and Hargett
Memorial Chapel and
Gardens.
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your youth, your drive,
your ingenuity, and your
intelligence. We need your
knowledge of this part of
the country and the people
who live here."
The speaker said, 1 am
a Southerner as are many of .
you and I intend to remain
in the South. It has been my
love for the South that has
kept me here and that has
kept me probing its sins. It
has been my love that has
kept me living with its
failures and trying to under
stand its stresses.
"I believe this region
has the greatest potential.
Both black and white
Southerners are potentially
such wonderful people, arc
potentially able to work
together."
Lee said the South has
the climate. the raw
materials, and the leadership
to grow strong. While other
sections of the nation are
rebuilding, he said. "We
arc building. There is an
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Police Officer Appfeals
Disciplinary Ming
RALEIGH - Raleigh
police officer Marvin San
ders has appealed to the Civil
Service Commission a ruling
of City' Manager L. F
Zachary. The City
Manager's compromise ruling
upheld part of a March 25,
1977 disciplinary action
against Sanders by Raleigh
Police Chief Robert
(icodwin.
Goodwin decided that
Sanders had harassed a white
motorist, Mrs.. Vickie Baker
and disciplined the black
- SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1977
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Df 1. Miller
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To Address
DC Grads
Major Donald L. Miller,
Vice, President for Personnel
Management at Columbia
University, will be guest
speaker at Durham College's
Commencement exercises
scheduled for Saturday morn
ing, May 28 at 11 a.m. in
the college gymnasium.
i. iMiller is a native of New
York City and served in the
armld Forces 21 years, retir
ing fas Major in 1969. He
servjfd as Army recruiter in
Newt York City and was
selected for the United
States Army's Infantry Offi
cer Candidate School, where
he Became a Second Lieute
nant of Infantry in 1956.
rle served as Captain on
the headquarters staff at the
John F. Kennedy Special
Warfare Center and was later
selected to attend the
Officer's Career Course where
he graduated as an honor
graduate. He was afterwards
assigned to duty with the
enlisted
Management Office in
Korea, and selected for
assignment to the Depart
ment of the Army Special
Staff at Washington, D. C.
' JK addition to Miller's
-milifarVvexcellence; tietarned
Bachelor of Arts degree In
Public 1 Administration from
the University of Maryland
where he 'also did graduate
work in government and poli
tics. He is an alumnus of
Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration and
is author of the book, "An
Album of Black Americans in
the Armed Forces".
The public is invited.
excitement about the future
in this part of the country
that is almost unapralleled."
Lee was one of the
honorary degree recipients.
He was awarded the honorary
doctor of laws degree, and
John B. McLendon, Jr., for
mer NCCU head basketball
coach who later became the
first black professional league
basketball coach, received the
doctor of humane letters de
gree. The university awarded
274 bachelor of arts degrees,
1 1 1 bachelor of science de
grees, 19 bachelors of science
in home economics degrees,
41 bachelor of science in
nursing degrees, 161 bachelor
of science in commerce de
grees. 86 master of arts de
grees, 25 master of science
degrees, 55 master of educa
tion degrees, 1 1 master of
business administration de
grees, 22 master of library
science degrees, 42 juris doc
tor degrees and I bachelor of
laws degree.
officer with, a day's suspen
sion without pay and trans
fer from a public relations
office joy to regular patrol
duty. ,
Zachary saidin a letter
to Sanders on May 17, 1977
"I do not, believe the charge
of harassment was substantia
ted." In February, , Mrs.
Vickie Baker made the charge
to the Internal Relations Unit
which subsequently found
that Sanders had harassed
her. Sanders appealed to
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Sunday, May 22, culminated a
three year struggle by Deanna Morgan
Farrar for a Bachelor of Science in
Commerce degree at North Carolina
Central University. Mrs. Farrar is the
mother of three children, Jonathan,
Vida, and Robert, the eldest of which
will graduate from Durham High
School on June 10th.
In an effort to meet the future
After developing
Rheumatoid Arthritis in
1970 and later attaining
some control of her
disease through medical
treatment, Mrs. Farrar
found it too difficult to
continue her nursing
career, even on a part
time basis, to remain em
ployed in this area. She
has had the responsibility
of providing total
support for her family
since separation from
her husband.
She completed the
requirements for her
While study and preparations to
meet family's need's required much
of her time, she still found time to
attend basketball games at Durham
High School where her son, Robert,
played varsity basketball. Supporting
her children in their undertakings
was of great importance to her and
RHODESIAIT
Rhodesian Prime Minister
lan Smith's War Council is in
crisis. The War Council is in
control of the daily activities
of the Whitex minority govern
ment's" war . against the Black
Freedom Fighters.
The. most visible signs of
the crisis was last month's
resignation of Reginald Cowper
Minister of Defense. His re
signation was forced after he
failed to convince the majority
of the ruling Rhodesian Front
Party to increase the man
power to requirements of the
country's defense forces.
Business groups within the
Rhodesian Front Party feared
that further drains on the
country's 270,000 whites
would result in severe
economic dislocations and loss.
The issue of manpower reflect
ed the division within the
government, the War Council
and Parliament over two basic
strategies.
The extreme militants
within the Smith Rhodesian
Front believe that the libera
tion of Rhodesia Can be pre
vented using all available man
power and the latest weapons.
The moderates are willing
to accept black majority rule,
provided real power, that is.
BOYCOTT AND OTHER TACTICS
TO FREE WILMINGTON 10
WILMINGTON - A boy
cott of white merchants in
Wilmington, letter writing
and petitioning campaigns to
Governor James B. Hunt, and
demonstrations and marches
have been announed by
supporters of the Wilmington
10 to build the pressure to
free the Wilmington 10. The
step-up in activity follows a
denial of a new trial for the
Wilmington 10 by Special
Superior Court Judge George
Fountain.
The Wilmington boycott,
although eventually to
include all white merchants in
the town is scheduled to be
gin with relatives of former
New Hanover Prosecutor Jay
Stroud. Zora's fish market,
located in the town's black
ghetto is run by Stroud's
great aunt, who insists she is
only a distant relative. Her
business, which has been
operated for 22 years in
the black community is one
of the targets of the boy
cott. Kojo Natambu, a boy
cott leader, said Stroud's
family was chosen first to
pressure Stroud to confess he
TELEPHONE (919)
A Profile fn Courage
needs of her family and to attain
gainful employment, Mrs. Farrar
sought training in an area where work
would be less physically demanding
than nursing.
She returned to NCCU in 1974 to
major in accounting, and to also com
plete a major in mathematics which
she had started during earlier enrollment.
MRS. FARRAR
had great meaning for her children.
Mrs. Farrar is to be commended
for her achievements and the en
couragement that she has given her
children. Though family and friends
have supported her in her endeavors,
her circumstances must have required
unyielding determination.
WAR COUNCIL IN CRISIS
By Laura Parks
economic power remains with
the whites. The moderates
sensed that this was the essence
of the Kissenger proposals
hidden beneath the technical
t proposals fof-. a . negaverri
ment structure.
The militants accused the
moderates of not anticipating
what might happen once the
blacks achieved majority rule.
They would use the structures
of government to reach real
power. The moderates argue
that 6.5 million blacks could
not be resisted by 270,000
whites now that Britain, and 1
the U. S. supproted majority
rule for the black Rhodesians.
For a moment, when the
issue was joined, the moderates
inside the government and
Parliament won. In the War
Council, the matter was
different. Elements within the
Council, led by Reginald Cow
per and Cabinet member Ed
ward Sutton-Pryce resolved to
bring the matter to a head.
Then Defense Minister Cowper,
using his contacts with the
army and various other
national security forces, de
cided to provoke national feel
ing for a last ditch war of
resistance by the whites.
It was at this moment that
induced witnesses to lie
against the Wilmington 10
in their 1972 trial.
The purpose of the post
conviction hearing was for
Judge George Fountain to
consider the testimonies of
'the State's witnesses who
now say they lied against the
Wilmington 10. Fountain was
to consider if there were con
stitutional violations of the
civil rights of the Wilmington
10 in the convictions. Jay
Stroud was the prosecutor
accused of perjuring wit
nesses. Mrs. Zora Singleton, Jay
Stroud's great aunt, said to a
reporter that she can't under-"
stand why blacks are going to
boycott her for "what they
said Jay did."
One boycott leader said
the boycott would begin
soon, but did not specify
when.
The town's officials are
very sensitive to the fact that
the black citizen's are now
outwardly organizing and
may use civil disobedience as
a tactic to increase pressure
on public officials. Typical
of Wilmington's leadership is
PRICE: U CkHJS
h Bachelor of Science oe
3 gree in commerce during
I her enrollment in three
regular sessions and two
i summer sessions.
While at NCCU pro
blems were many but
Mrs. Farrar never lost
courage or determina
tion. Each school day
was a trying one for she
experienced various
physical limitations and
often much discomfort
due to her arthritis. She
seldom complained and
few knew of her diffi
culties. s3
1 the massacre of seven Roman
Catholic missionaries took
. place. According to Rhodesian
government reports the massa
cre was carried out by blacks
.. wearing insurgent uniforms and ,
Carrying Communist ' made
weapons.
The . massacre achieved
partial results. Within two
weeks the government formu
lated plans to increase the
Rhodesian security forces by
12,000 men. In addition the
use of women was being
seriously considered. This time,
with the white population pro
perly frightened, the moderate
business groups were silenced.
Yet the moderates retain
ed their power and introduced
legislation to ease certain forms
of racial oppression designed to.
appeal to black moderates in
the anticipated hope of sepai
ting them from the "Total
Freedom for Zimbawe" armed
militants.
The battle between the
moderates and the militants
moved to Parliament where
the militants resolved to
any easuiR of the race laws.
Within the War Council,
while the Parliamentary
struggles goes on, orderes have
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Mayor Ben Halterman, an
employee of Jefferson Stan
dard Life Insurance Com-
pany. Questioned as to how
the city would respond to
demonstrations and civil
disobedience, Halterman said
he would meet demonstrators
with force if necessary, but
he didn't believe cM dis
obedience would . occur.,
Asked if there was much con
cern for the Wilmington 10
in the town, Halterman said,
"certainly everyone is sym
pathetic for anyone, who has
had problems, in trouble, but
it has not created an emo
tional crisis in any way that I
know between the people or
that there is that great con
cern.' .
Another city official ,
Human Relations Director
William Jessup. said the boy.
cott of Zora's would pro
bably not get widespread
. support because Zora hires
three black employees out of
a total of seven working
there. According to hoy.
cott supporters, the market is
patronized bv inctv-nins
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