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. 1 ' vtJuke University Library newspaper Department ' 'i : ' Eurhara;-!i. C. 27706 - " 11-30 1 1 4vr.,;f h:b issue co;.!:;s Words oflVHc-n. A good listener Is not only popular every where, but after a, while be knows tone' thing, , Wihoa Ulzztr si voi cf cci7c:is , i USE TUB I. VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 29 'READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES' DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1977 TELEPHONE Mi) tlS1 fMCi: 2J CLHli AuOGO ,'- " . . 4 , . r . i s- , f : , ' Co U u ' RALEIGH (CCNS) John C. Jones, former Dean of Fayettevflle State University, has been appointed by Governor Hunt as a Commissioner of the ; North ' Carolina Parolei Commission. , Hunt 'also appointed Mrs. Jane Greenlee of Marion, Mrs.. Rae McNamara of Raleigh and Henry. . Ward Oxendine of Robeson County. ,; Jones has had previous experk : ence as a counselor ' in the state's prison system for seven years. He 'has been ? Dean of Student Affairs ;. ; pf , f i t " t , .. , . , i . at Fayetteville State University since ibty. He is a lormer vice-chairman of the Board of Youth Development, . a former member of the, Advisory -Council to the State Commission for Social Services and is active in local t mental health and education organi- .' zations. .M'V , j- '-, At the' swearing in ceremony ' Hunt outlined three principles that he said he expected paroles to be ( based upon, lie first, he said, was that paroles would be based upon one condition, "What their quali fications are." Secondly, he said . that people in communities where : individuals were " convicted would , have a larger input in the decision to parole inmates from the state's overcrowded prison system, . which . holds predominantly black inmates. Hunt also said that he expected the Commission to work closely with Secretary of Corrections Amos Reed. The previous Paroles Commis sion was abolished by the legisla ture after it - failed to parole a significant number of the states inmates, thus impacting a prison system built for 10,000 to more than 14,450 inmates. C. R. Edwards,' of Fayette ville, said the appointment of Jones ' and Oxendine along with two women commissioners was a step in the right direction in eliminating the overcrowding problem. Edwards, also an officer in the General Baptist Con vention and the President of the Lott Carey Missionary Baptist Convention said the Baptists in the state might become involved in. individual cases of paroles to give the Commission the community input that Hunt said would be required in each case. Attending the swearing in were several corrections officials, includ ing Secretary Reed who said that he did not know how many of the several hundred inmates referred to the paroles commission were black. Reed assured a reporter that the number of blacks referred would be in keeping with the number of blacks in the prison population. Also attending the swearing in were Fayetteville State University Chancellor Dr. Charles Lyons, for mer FSU Chancellor Dr. Rudolph Jones and several blacks who had worked with Jones in the correc tions system. Jones wife, Mrs. Alice C. Jones, and daughters Alice and Donna were also present. r III 'A L lllllll. I ''"'A.' iiiljp II :G0V. HUESTftftQiS 2 10 OIF .TBU! VJilliams Is Greensboro Dist. Judge 111 M4&.Jfx&r itoWWI' 4$MMWH4&W RALEIGH - Governor James Hunt has made signi ficant appointments to the Board of Trustees of North Carolina Central University C'"-'-i$ . s - t and Elizabeth City State - ! University and to the Guil- Bssfvw' 'i,-s, iJt. ,u ford County Judiciary. FATTENING. FROGS FOR SNAKES? is the question Herschel Seets, standing, asked the North Carolina Caucus of Black Democrats at a Soul City meeting on Saturday, July 9. Seeti was critical of Governor James Hunt, Jr. for appointing the state's top black leadership to high positions while the "grassroots" get nothing. Seets .continued saying "what new blood have . you shot in there",i Seets was alsd critical of Hunt appointees . Harold Webb and John Larkins for not attending the Black Caucus meetings saying "we don't see any of our representatives but Mick (U. S;: Attorney H M. "Mickey" Michaux)" Larkins said, when contacted by a re- fiorter, "if he (Seets) wants to find out about appointments he should come to Raleigh and ask and stop shoot ng off his big mouth." Larkins is Governor Hunt's Assistant for Minority Affairs and Special Projects. One of his responsibilities is to assist Hunt in making appointments of blacks to boards, commissions and jobs. (CCNS) !IWff!W:W5ftW5::: Greenville Host Mi-vcam Penalty uorhshop 8 Si Situation Report: I Hozambiquo j; , y . , . " I mmmm. by laura parks ysmmmm&m One thousand four hundred and thirty two' persons of whom 1001 were Zimbabwean refugees, had been murdered by the army of Ian Smith since the People's Republic of Mo zambique began to apply sanctions determined by the, in ternational community . ! 7 t : V' ? !, The village of Mapai, Massangena, Mavonde arid Chioco had been completely destroyed, Two weeks. ago the Espungabera region was violently attacked. Tens of other localities were left without hospitals, schools, stores, water reservoirs; thousands of homes were burned and destroyed; factories and bridges were demolished; thousands of heads of cattle were slaughtered. The weather station at Chicualacuala, the only one in' existence in the country, was deliberately; destroyed by the enemy. Locomotives, box cars, boats and trucks were also destroyed. From small incursions lasting a few hours and never in volving more .than fifty men, the army of the outlaw. Ian Smith regime had begun to launch massive large scale attacks with well defined objectives. Besides the systematic murder of the civilian population, the invaders objectives had come to include vital points of the economic and social infrastructure. , The massacre at Nyazonia was the' first of large scale attacks. It was the largest committed against a refugee camp in Africa under the administration of the United Nations. It was , with the attack on Nyazonia that the escalation of aggressiori . against Mozambique had been intensified. ' In September, last year, the localities of Gentb and Nura in the province of fete were attacked; those of Chicualacuala, Mapai, Chitanga and Machaila in the province of Gaza, as well as the city of Manica, which was the second largest population cen ter in Manica Province were also targets of Rhodesian attacks. Four people's stores, five water tanks, ten trucks and two ; wagons were completely destroyed; 59 civilians died during the attacks. . . ', f : ' In October more than 71 civilians, including 38 in Tete, two in Manica and 3 1 in Gaza were murdered. , In December the Villages of Chucumane, Luia, Mucumbura, Massangena; Cento and the city of Manica were targets of new raids. Forty two Mozambicans and four refugees lost their lives. In the latest attack on the Espungabera region the bridge over the Buzi River was compeltely destroyed. That loss created serious problems in supplying items of primary necessity to the population in the district of Mussorize. - v , ; , In the beginning of December the first joint aggression 'against the province of Tete, Manica and Gaza took place. Dur ing the attacks, Ian Smith forces used more than a thousand men,: tens of assault vehicles, airplances nd fighter bombers. '; Forty nine civilians and 28 refugees lost their lives. The village of Chicualacuala was attacked six times in the course of fifteen days.?- .nrj'j' "r-n ' l',alnl'i'S''?V X During the. first five months of 1977, 200 Mozambicans were killed and forty wounded. Durina the end of May and the beginning of June, a new invasion was launched against Mozam bique. The invaders used large fragmentation bombs, besides the ' feared napalm bombs in great numbers, For the first time, the , French-made Mirage Jet , Fighters were flown by Rhodesian pilots over Mozambique territory. ' The unprecedented scope of the attack and the employing of sophisticated war equipment included armored vehicles, tanks, heavy artillery, helicopters and jet war planes incdicates the growing crisis in all of Southern Africa; , GREENSVILLE (CCNS) - Greenville hosted an anti death penalty workshop, or- !;anized by the North Caro iha Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression and the Pitt County Southern Chris 'tian Leadership Conference on Saturday, July 16. The workshop was the third in a series of local : workshops around the state, initiated by , the North Carolina Alliance, v The small but energetic gathering explored ways to prevent executions ' in this state which has reinstated a death penalty statute, effec tive June 1 of this year. Special attention was givent to Sandy Mulliris1 of Raleigh, who had traveled to Greenville to share his ex periences on how lay people can participate in the struggle for a fair trial in a capital case. He under-scored the , necessity for jury selection surveys to ensure a defen dant's right to a jury of his her peers and, 'Outlined the polling procedure any in terested individual : can help with. Mullins . noted , that. while the group was small, "So was a similar gathering a year and a ', half ago in ' Atlanta, Georgia, But , they began a campaign that, a year later,, was able to organize a rally drawing over 3,000 v persons from ' across the ; South to i hear former North Carolinian and current NEW YORK TIMES' columnist 1 Tom Wicker, former attorney general Ramsey " Clarke, attorney Jerry Paul : and ' others denounce capital punishment in the U. S" Chaired by Greenville Minister ' John participants agreed to: send observers to the preliminary hearing next Thursday ; in, Smithfield at North Caro lina's first capital case. They , will keep ; their community"' informed of .the develop-'! ments in that trial, in which two young black men, David Stewart, an4 Henry Smith of Benson, are?acfcused Of the double murder of Patrolman Dennis Allen and Linwood '.? "Big " Boy" Johnson. .The workshop .participants decri V ed the lack of information on the case to date in local media and pledged to get the .. information': to the , community v Attorneys Jerry Paul of Durham, and Charles Bectonvof Chapel Hill are re presenting , Stewart and Smith, respectively.; . Rev. Taylor andtGreen- ville1 City ' .councilman Rev.1 Clarence Graves explored the, , possibility of initiating a second "Revival for Justice" in the churches In the area to i bring discussion of capital punishment to the people. A. "Revival, for Justice" last 1 year was organized by Rev. Taylor and others, in which three ministers and several laypersons spoke v Sunday evenings at church gatherings : throughout the -area on issues of concern to the community .-The tremendous, response to that program en couraged the workshop parti- , i ; cipants to organize such a i series once more, around the death penalty. Father Charles Mulholland, at whose St. Gabriels' school the . work ,shop was held, pledged his . continuing support; to the campaign.- Hunt has appointed Dr. John H. Horton and William A. Clements to the Board of Trustees df Elizabeth City State University and North Carolina Central University, respectively. , Dr. Horton, a dentist, is vice, chairman of the Eden-tOn-Chowan Board of Edu- of . tne taenton-tnowan t a GoodNNeighbor Council and a $ member of the Old North Taylor'.. the 7 State Dental Society. , Clements 'i is tne senior vice president of the North Carolina Mutual Life .Insu rance Company. He is a mem ber Of the Durham County General Hospital Board, the Wachovia Board of Durham, the American College Board of Bryn Mawr, Pa., the Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Board Corporation, and the Foundation for Better Health for Durham. ' Three days later, Hunt appointed a black man to become a district judge in Greensboro. The appointee, Joseph A. Williams, will serve the term of Judge , Byron ' Continued On Page 5 " ' - I v . at' th''" hip Reading !lK u smj fill pri JT-A fa i ) ft 2Ljia'u ltii . I IPOARV IIPFR PARTY Is Fundamental Af Salvation ri hi iii y iuya siuu BY KELVIN A. BELL 5 Si DURHAM USHERS ORATORICAL WINNERS , EBONETTES GIVE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS' RAPE AFTERMATH I N FO WANTED . AL1 OFFERED $5.i Mi,LLION ' - , BUSINESS DIRECTORY i I Vj t,: CLASSIFIEDS fage 13 - I I v. Bbck Women's Caucus Is Organized RALEIGH (CCNS) - A group called the Black Wo men's Political Caucus has ' . been organized, to enhance the power of black women in the state. 1 v" Ora Coleman, chairman of the organization, said the Caucus, will hold an organi zing meeting September 17 in , Raleigh to ?, bring together black women from each of : the state's political districts. ' i "The .purpose of that meeting will be to bring to gether women from every congressional district in the state in an effort to consoli dated political power base so ' that black women can begin to. collect and . consolidate efforts in the political pro cess," said Ms. Coleman. ' ; Concerning long 'range plans, Ms. Coleman continued saying "We hope to use that ' power In the . best : Interest ' of black women throughout the State.'.'' .i.. . . .The Caucus is a non partisan organization' and is 4 an outgrowth of the Minority Caucus of the International Women's Year which met In Winston-Salem- in June, The 1 Caucus, was formed on July :16 in Raleigh. It is the only non-partisan . organization actively .involved, in the . state to increase minority (women's representation in the political process,- Tlie Reading Is Fun Club at the Salva tion Arniys Boys Club had a "Library Super Party" on Friday, July 15. The program was sponsored by the Durham County Branch Library housed within the facility, . The library patrons entered the gymna sium, presenting their library cards for ad mission and received a hat and a party favor donated by McDonalds of Hillsborough Road in Durham and Burger King of Chape) Hill. The 120 patrons in attendance, were en tertained by the "Dance Group" of NCCU. under the direction of Ms. Nancy PinCkney, which performed four lively and' soulful modem dance interpretations. After viewing slides of the Boys' Club activities and the 1st RIF book distribution, the patrons were en tertained by the beginners "gymnastlc's group trom the Lakewood YMCA Day Camp. Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, the branch libra rian, extended thanks to the Boys' Cub Director, Emanuel Croslan, and his staff for their support and helpfulness and said that Ma good thime was had by all." RIF, a national, non-profit organization designed to make inexpensive book available to children for their personal ownership was founded in 1966 by Mrs. Robert McNamara. The Reading Is Fun(damental) philosophy is that "freedom of choice and pride in owner ship are keys to motivating children to read. The local program, which will serve children in elementary school, is operated by the Durham County Library. Your support is urged. Marchers For Freedom Off Wilmington 10 Draw Small Support CLINTON (CCNS) -Through rain and sweltering temperatures in the upper 9Q's, as many as 35 and sometimes as few as five North Carolinians braved a grueling march from Burgaw to Raleigh. The march was cllaed by its organizer Golden Frinks. a "Mothers March for Justice." Its purpose, accord-: ing to Golden Frinks. Pro gram Director of the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference (SCLC), was to dramatize support for the Wilmington 10 and demand a pardon from Governor James Hunt. A fiery rally in Burgaw on Wednesday, July 13, kicked off the six day March. - Dr. J. E. Lowery, Presi dent of SCLC, said that Governor James Hunt should take the opportunity to "ini tiate c new era in human re lations In North Carolina by pardoning the Wilmington 10." An AME minister in Atlanta, Lowery preached that problems ' of poverty, hunger, education, and un employment could be given top priority in North Caro lina if the Wilmington 10 did not take so much of state officials' time. , Mrs. Elizabeth ChavisV mother of Rev. Ben Chavis, stepped off the first three miles of the march despite her; nagging arthritis. At the rally before the march, Mrs. Chavis. a retired school teacher,' said that the days for marching are not over, nor is the civil rights move ment over. Recalling that Martin Luther King, Jr., Fre derick Douglass. Marcus Garvey. the Wilmington 10 and countless other blacks were arrested and jailed for asserting the civil rights of blacks, she received a loud applause when she said, "Prisons are built for us black folk." The first three miles of the march brought out several citizens from Burgaw and a few from other areas of the state. Along the route several blacks joined in to walk or to supply water and punch for the weary marchers, ? In Wallace Lorenzo Lubce or ganized some of the local folk to feed the marchers with Continued On Page 6 Roy; Wiins Anthology Is Published By Tib Crbis Mcsazho NEW YORK - As a salute to Roy Wilkins at the time of his retirement as Executive Director of the NAACP, The Crisis Magazine has : published a 148 page anthology of editorials, ar teles and speeches by Mr. Wilkins. The Crisis is the official , publication of the NAACP. Wilkins was its editor from 1934 to 1949. f Wilkins has been on the national staff of the civil rights organization since 1931. He has been Executive Director, since 195S, succeed ing the late Walter White. The official retirement date is July 3i;after. which Wilkins will assume the title of Executive Director Emeritus, the first person to be accord ed that honor. The 28 articles and speeches in the anthology are arranged in chronological order beginning with "Missi ssippi Slavery In 1933." Arranged in chronological order, the articles ' and speeches ' constitute a living history of race relations in the United States as seen through the eyes of a man who was himself a major force for change. . - While this issue of The Crisis Is retrospective, there is nothing retrospective about the individual articles and Continued on Page 3).
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