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FIGHT FOR JOBS - Rep. Parren .Mltchell, D-MdM
chairman of Congressional Black Caucus talks to re
porters outside the White House after a meeting with
President Carter. Mitchell said he told Carter he would
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" WHITAKERS fCCNS) w
Citlng several city ordinances
Police Chief, C. R. Wyatt,
thwarted the plans of, the
People's Coalition for Justice
to . hold a' demonstration
on August 27th by refusing
to issue a permit " to five
picketers. the Coalition
alleges that the sheriff ex
pressed a fear of violence, not
from the picketers, but from
the store owner-operator, Joe
Judge, ,' who has been . re
leased on bail in the shoot
ing death of a local farm
worker, Charlie Lee. f
Ifjlhe. Coalition is a group
formed to insure justice in
the case where witnesses re
port that Joe Judge 1 shot
Charlie Lee "in cold blood!
in an ' argument over seven
dollars in change owed; the
dead man. Witnesses also re
port that the father of three
was unarmed at the time!. -The
local protest has ex
posed a number of racist
practices attributed to the
town government; such as the
Did Judge
BURGAW-Wilmlngton
10 Attorney James Ferguson,
II, has filed motions here to
receive a copy of a proposed
order . prepared for.. Judge
. . George Fountain . following
, , the May j, post conviction
; hearing by the. N. C. : Attot
ney General's . office. 'The
, Wilmington v 10 postonvic
tion hearing was ; held in
, purgaw. Ferguson's motion
read: "it' is necessary that
i petitioners (Wilmington
r 10) have available a copy
of the proposed order so that
? they may determine whether
the judge acted independent
ly or merely rubber stamped
the submissions of opposing ;
counsel "i Perguson also
s ! motioned I for If Judge Foun y
tain, swho was appointed tp ;
' the case as "special Judge
by Chief Justice Susie Sharps ,
to remove himself from the
deliberations on the motion.
. Ferguson's motion;; 'for
production of the order does
. ' not attack , : ;the fact ; that '
Fountain considered , the
Attorney-General's' .- order,
" out criticized Fountain's, not
' considering an order from ,
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refusal to extend sewage lines
to black v homeowners. , By
focusing on these issues, pro
testors "hope to demonstrate
that Joe Judge's murder of a
black man is typical of the
treatment of blacks in the
area. - :j
Despite undisputed testi
mony of the brutal murder of
Charlie Lee, local residents
have remained generally
impassive to the call for a
boycott of Joe Judge's store,
located on Highway 301. Lo
cal blacks can still be seen
purchasing 'gas and other
.commodities, from the store,
despite the presence of other
businesses which are equally
accessible. Local black busi
nessmen and other long
time residents 2 Of the area
expressed an attitude of
resignation and disgust With
those Who continue to trade
with the white businessman.
The Peoples Coalition for
Justice plans to take Mayor
Hursel B. Johnsonto court in
Continued on Page 2
Geo. fountain Rubber
Stamp for Edfiiisfen?
attorneys for . the Wilming
ton 10.
Ferguson cited numerous
rulings by federal and state
courts which hold that if a
judge relies upon a proposed
order from lawyers on one
side of a controversy ,; then
fairness would require sub
missions from both sides.
Several times, Ferguson
argued in the motion, he had
attempted to get a copy of
the Attorney General's order
without success, i
Handling the . case for
Attorney General Edmisten is
Richard League, an Assistant
Attorney General. Respond
ing to a request from Fergu
son for the order,, League
laid in a recent correspond
ence, "You were not sent a
copy of the order loriglnally
sent in because as I under
stood the matter, it was not
a situation . where we would .
be working jointly, or that',
you would make suggestions :;
with regard to it, and there
fore, I simply did not see
the need."
Fountain's decision to
deny. 1 new trial to the'Wil -
I INSIDE THIS
WEEK
Dr. Melton To Head
Shriners
PAGE 9
Billy McCoys Dream
Conies True
PAGE 10
Kurses 4th Biennial
Reunion
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Opportunity To
Tell Government
What You Think
The Carolina times'
readers have the opportunity
to tell state government what
they believe is the biggest
Eroblem facing North Caro
na in a survey called "North
Carolina Tomorrow," in
this week's issue.
1 The survey questionnaire
which The Carolina Times is
running as a public service, is
being conducted by the State
Goals and Policy Board to in-
"volve as many citizens .as
possibIeul state aovemment y
J t desipn-makmg.'Vi'4;-t.
. Gov. Jim Hunt, chairman
of the Goals and and Policy
Board, in announcing the sur
vey, said1 he wants ? North
Carolinians to be1 "partners
with us in Raleigh in deciding
,what directions our state
should take in the future." '
a Completed survey forms
should be mailed to the
Continued on Page 2
COLUMBIA, S. C. (CC
NS) - "Labor must become
a movement again . . . (for)
working people of our
country need a labor move
ment that addresses
community as well as job pro
blems," challenged Jack
O'Dell, associated editor of
Freedomways Magazine and
International Affairs Director
of PUSH. O'Dell, a long-time
civil rights and labor or
ganizer in the South, opened
a day and a half workshop
Wilmington 10 brought much ;
criticism 01 tne state s judi
cial system, internationally,
as unjust and racist. It was .
after he had announced his
decision to deny a new trial
to the Wilmington 10 that he .
accepted the proposed order
from League.
The Wilmington 10 were
convicted in 1972 for con
spiracy to arson, arson, and
conspiracy to assault firemen
and police who were attempt
ing to extinguish a fire in a
white-owned grocery in the
town's black section.
Governor James Hunt has
been requested by Ferguson
to pardon the Wilmington 10,
an act which would make
further court proceedings
unnecessary. Spurred by a
release by the National
Wilmington 10 Defense Com
mittee chairman,: Ms. Imanl
Kazana, last week, Hunt
. Press Aide Gary Pearce de
clared that ' Hunt ' was n ot
close to pardoning the
Wilmington 0. : . ';
Ms. Kazana's release de
clared that pardons for' the
Wilmington 10 were "close
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
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BOTH WANT MOTOR CITY MAYORS JOB - Coleman A. Young, (L) elected the
city's first black mayor at the height of its deterioration, is campaigning for a second
four-year term as the man who turned it all around. Young's main opposition In the
September 13 runoff is expected to come from another black, City Councilman
Ernest C. Browne (R). Hjs fow-key style and conservative public image contrasts
sharply with that of the incumbent. (UPI).
Howard lee's Mlontli
RALEIGH (CCNS) -
Howard N. Leei the first
black to head a state depart- V
ment, said, last week that v
departmental ' rerganizar'
tionhis concera ration otif
; hirina blacks t ifi X' bolicv
"akmg -leadershipposifions.g
a ucsire
atioft
departm
s into perspective. when analyz
ing hiring during-the:;kperipd
that Lee has been , at the'
department's helm, V!-'
,S From January !, to June
30, 1977, a total of 209 em
ployees were hired in the
' Department of Natural Re
sources ;, and Community.
v Development (NRCD).
Twenty of that number, or
on 'The Southern Fight for
Labor's Rights' held here
September 3 and 4. Over
seventy people from nine
Southern States came to
gether to map out a strategy
that will confront thelargely
unorganized and low-paid
status of Southern labor and
to begin to change the
strangle-hold of large cor
porations on the Southern
workers and communities.
The seventy represented labor
and community organizations
soundly criticized the role of
J. P. Stevens in the south,,
particularly in the two
Carolinas. North Carolinians
; from Raleigh, Chapel Hill,
Laurinburg, Roanoke Rapids,
Charlotte and Kannapolis
joined with other organizers
from the more than thirty
; trade unions and communi.
ties groups present to share
experiences and develop ini
tiatives for their efforts in
their state.
the workshop was spon
sored; by the ; Southern; Or
ganizing Committee for
Economic and Social Justice,
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DISAPPOINTMENT - - It was a sweltering 94 degrees on Saturday afternoon and the of the crime,
sun's relentless rays burned deep into the fiber of NCCU Eagles players and On this evidence, Chris
fans at O' Kelly Stadium. Disappointment registers on faces the Virginia Union Pin topher Moore was tried by an
triers took charge late in the game and defeated Centril In the season opener. More all white jury October 27th
pictures and stories, Page. 10. (Photo by Kelvin Bell). through October 30th, 1975
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
ten per cent were black. But
that number included both
temporary ' and permanent
employees.
, Permanent employment
since January saw blacks get a
small increase of 14 percent.
(
Total permanent employment
got 90 per cent of the tem
porary and permanent posi
tions. "
. While Secretary Lee says
he thinks black employment,
"has been substantially high,"
the ratio of blacks to whites
employed during the period
in permanent and temporary
positions sill remains lower
than the ratio of blacks to
(SOC) the National Alliance
: Against Racist and Political
Repression (NAARPR) and
.. Labor Today. The plenary
sessions were chaired by
Mrs. Anne Braden bf Louis
ville, Ky., co-chairperson of
SOC, who called attention to
the absence of her counter
part, a Rev. Ben Chavis, im
prisoned in North Carolina.
Describing the U. S. as
the "intellectual and moral
equivalent of fascism,"
O'Dell nonetheless emphasiz
ed that the "possibilities for
. moving the South today are
greater because of the
, ; civil 'rights victories ... the
black community removing
the cancer of public se-
gregation." Linking the civil
rights and labor struggles,
' O'Dell paraphrased the Bibli
, cal prophet' Amos, calling for
a labor movement that is a
"sweeping stream that re
freshes and regenerates this
republic."
The workshop addressed
. organizing on the shop floor
and organizing in the
community. Resolutions out
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Hiring Record
whites in the population of
North Carolina. '
Lee notes that his em
phasis; has .been , on hiring
blacks to top leadership :
positions who can hire other
blacks under them. Since
April, ms. Maria bpauonna a
Warner, Lee's deputy is black.
" So far as salary range is
concerned, Isix, of the eleven
blacks have a salary of
more than $ 1 0,000. Included
in that number are two
salaried between $16,000 and .
$25,000, Lee and his deputy.
While expressing .the
need "to move aggresively
ahead to bring blacks, as well
of the workshop called for
community-labor unity on
solving both plant and
community problems, an all
out struggle against devisive
tactics of pitting black and
white workers against one
another and the use of
red-baiting tactics against or
ganizers and unions them
selves and building a strong
rank and file to strengthen
unions. The participants
approved twenty specific,
action-oriented proposals to
implement this direction, and
ensure the involvement of
the total southern movement
to build labor issues.
Major concern and
support was given to the
struggle to organize J. P.
Stevens workers and develop
the boycott against that
corporation. Resolutions also
included calls for support of
the Texas Farmworkers
Union, an end to right-to-
, work laws, an all-out mobili
zation for the September 17
' national demonstrations for
the freedom of Rev. Ben
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. ' The grand essen tills to happiness' arc some'
thing to do, something to lore, and scs;
thing to hop for. . Joseph Addison
TELEPHONE (919)
Doy Collapses As Jodgo
Pronounces Son! onco
FAYETTEVILLE (CC
NS) Convicted for second
degree murder of Ricky
Miller and sentenced to 30
40 years in the prisons of
North Carolina, with a mini
mum release of thirty years,
Terry Wayne McDougal, 17
year old high school student
collapsed as Judge Giles
Clark pronounced the sen
tence in the military town.
So hysterical was Terry's
public defender, Mrs. Mary
Ann Talley, after the verdict
and sentence, that she had to
be taken out of the court
room before proceedings
could continue. A sparse
courtroom of sympathizers
stood In shock and his
mother wailed emotional
pleas that an injustice had
been done.
Robert Beatty, Execu
tive Director of the Cumber
land County Citizen's Asso
ciation said efforts are under
Revieived
as other minorities, such as
, Indians" into state govern
ment. Lee said, "I want to
make sure that I emphasize
that I am going to be ex
ceedingly fair. Recognizing
that if I don't set the
example, other departments
wijl not. But 1 certainly want
my department to reilect the
'aflftAtiWiaVAife
state wiQ have a chance, ani
that includes black, both
female and male "
The statewide average of
22
per cent blacks hired
during the period of January
June 30 is far higher than the
fourteen per cent in Lee's
department. But his fourteen
per cent of blacks hired in
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Chavis and the Wilmington
10.
Workshop leaders and re
surce people included C. L
Danzeyteelworkers Local
2210 Of Birmingham; Willie
Middleton, United Electrical
Workers Union Local 1202 of
Ladson, S. C; Kay Tillow,
vice president of District
1199-P, National Union of
Hospital and . Health Care
Employees of Pittsburgh;
and Rev. C. T. Vivian, direc
tor of Seminary-Without-Walls,
Shaw University,
Raleigh.
MffttStt--
Posf-Convicfion Hoahy
Slated For Mississippi:
A post conviction hear
ing has been ordered by the
Supreme Court of Mississi
ppi for the 10th of October
in the case of Christopher
Alvin Moore, a young black
man who was sentenced tot
death on December 12, 1975
in a questionable conviction
for the murder, burglary and
rape of Ms. Irene Hoffman, a
white female.
State evidence in the case
was scant: a witness testified
to seeing a black male riding
a bike resembling Moore's in
the vicinity of the woman's
home on the morning of the
murder; two public hairs of
purported Nezroid charac
teristics were taken from the
pubic area of the victim; one
fingerprint, said to be from
Moore's left middle finger,
was found among many
other fingerprints at the scene
WIC2: 23 CI.'iT?
way to raise bail if a bail for
Terry is granted by Clark.
Gark denied a request for
bail at the sentencing saying
that bail would not be grant
ed at that time. '
The two week long trial
had drawn the attention of
many of the town's people
despite the sparcely populat
ed courtroom; The Fayette
fllc Times editorial staff had
warned the town's people not
to allow the trial to become
a racial issue or to put the
community into an emo
tional dilemma.
The circumstantial evi
dence that convinced the jury
of ten whites and two blacks,
all over fifty years of age,
amounted to the following:
On the morning of January
6th, Terry and Bobby Miller,
the deceased brother were
playing basketball in gym
class at Terry Sanford High
in Fayetteville. There was a
rebound, in which the two
made body contact, Terry
was bit in the mouth with an
elbow and later in the locker
room the two fought. Terry
is black and Bobby Miller is
white. '
Terry's jaw began to
swell around noon and he
went to a school nurse for an
excuse to go home because of
a toothache. Unable to get
busfare home, according to
Ms. Caroline Nixon, a teacher
at the high school, Terry wai
readmitted to we school, rte
? and spent some- thne'Tn the
looter room wnerene was
told by a student that Bobby
Miller's older brother was
looking for him to settle the
earlier fight. f
One black student testi
fieid that he had given Terry
a knife before the fight
started. Another testified
that Terry was met by Ricky
Miller, the deceased, in the
locker room, asked if he was
the student that had a fight
earlier with Bobby? Answer
ing yes, Terry stepped back
and Miller asked if he wanted
to fight. Terry again answered
yes. Ricky swung the first
punch. The fight continued in
the locker room and into the
hallway at which time Terry
pulled Ricky Miller's sweater
over his head and landed
some hard uppercuts. But
then Ricky slumped and cried
out, "nigger you're dead, you
know you're dead for doing
this to me". r M
No one present at the
fight scene who testified said
that they had witnessed the
stabbing. A SBI chemist testi
fied that a knife presented by
Continued On Page 14
in Bay, St. Louis, Mississippi,
and convicted on October
30th. The case has gamed the
support of the Southern
Christian Leadership Cbr
ference. Christopher Moore's
father was a dose confi
dant of Dr Martin Luther
King, lu ,-iain civil . rights
. leader.; . ; , -v . - jr ;
Supporters of Christo
pher Moore have established
The Christopher A. Moore
Qearinghouse, . with head
quarters in Grambling,
Louisiana; to "provide a cen-
- tral point for the direction of
tafomational, financial, and
, program activities connect: 1
with this case" The ad!:::s
is P. O..Drawer 254; Crtr.S
hng, Louisiana 71245: Itczi
(318)247-6335.
. The aearinghou pro
ports f that "the ststa cf
MississhTpL under Its c.vj
laws, failed to prove his f "1
'Beyond ; every ttzzz- " 3
doubt, to 1 morsl csrti! -,
and to the exclusion, cf c .
other reasntls t ,,1-r:
thesis. "(CCN2)