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VOLUME 55 NUMBER49
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Here December 6
Muhammad All is schedul
ed to visit Durham College on
December 6 for the dedica
tion of a multi-purpose ath
letic facility to be named in
hishonor. t; ; . . . 1
All,; the ; current heavy
weight boxing champion of
uw wono wui speax at the
1U ami dedication cetemonv-
oh the campus of the business
We wanted to dedicate
our new gym to a person
who has made a significant
contribution to the world of
sports," said C. Warren Mas
senburg, director of public
relations and alumni affairs.
The 12,000 square foot
athletic facility, which was
completed . in late 1976,
13 Grievances Presetted
Housing Abflhority
CHAPEL HILL - Thir
teen grievances were present
ed to Board members of the
Chapel Hill Housing Autho
rity Tuesday night by
approximately forty tenants
of the Authority. While the
Authority's, executive direc
tor attempted to resolve some
of the grievances, many were
left unresolved, to be ans
wered at a later meeting,
probably at the Boards
December meeting. Follow
ing , the meeting, several
tenants said they were not
satisfied with the director's
response, but did not specify
What action, if any; they
would take, r " ; ,
Ms. Mildred Pierce, Presi- '
dent of the Chapel Hill
Tenants Organization, read
the grievances which were in
formally aired with the
authority board members at
the last 'meeting. Following
is the total list and the action
taken by the board members:
Install yard lights and
weather, stripping for the
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units Install peep holes In
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The N. C. Alumni and
Friends Coalition assembled
approximately 1 seventy five
black citizens In a three-day
retreat in Greensboro Novem
ber 11 - 13, for an indepth
analysis and critique of the
desegregation ' :: plans' 'M sub
mitted, to HEW by the Uni
versity j, of i North Carolina
and the Community College
System. The group also re
viewed the HEW criteria and
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Scheduled To Visit
houses a basketball court,
exercise rooms, ' locker room
facilities, offices . and class
rooms. . . . V
All will also speak at a
benefit . luncheon at the
Governor's Inn ' at 12:15
p.m. Persons ' wishing to
attend, should - contact ' the
office " of ; Institutional
j. .iti i'ir..j.
,f College for reservations. ,
Ail wui also appear at
the Durham Civic Center at
7:30 pjn. that ' evening.
Local musicians,' community
choirs and local dancers are
expected to perform at the
festival-like event. The pub
lic is invited to attend. Ad
mission of $2.. for adults,
$1 for students with ED, and
50c for children under six. .
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doort
There as no action taken
to this grievance, but Autho
rity Chairman Theodore
Parrish requested Executive
Director Al Stevenson to
make a report at the next
meeting to remedy the pro
blem. . Stevenson admitted that
weatherproofing was a
problem, but was more
acute at the forty-unit
Prichard St. Apartments. He
cited excessive utility bills,
which4 are paid by the tenants .
and drainage backups at the
units. Stevenson proposed to
correct them by asking the
Town of Chapel Hill to allow
$1,000 of $50000 commu
nity development block grant
funds to be used for that
purpose.
that . proposal sparked
immediate response from
tenant Board member Mrs.
Birdine Edwards. "Wait a
minute!. What about ; the
other apartments?"
Stevenson replied .that the
Pritchard Apartments were
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guidelines. Among . those .
participating were black
. chancellors, , legislators, stu
dents, members of the Efoard
of Governors,' faculty, staff
and trustees of the tradi
tionally black Institutions of
higher education, their
alumni representatives and
friends, as well as officials
from the State Advisroy
Committee for Racially
Non-discriminatorv Public
aid
No Leads To Melissa
Probe
The search for 3 year old
.- Melissa Amis continues, but
the leads are not very strong,
and. no evidence of foul play
has been; uncovered inspite
of a fury of rumors to the
. contrary. V,'.-
Responding to a reporter's
questions Detective Leroy
Ruffin, Melissa Amis was
reported , missing, Sunday ;
November 7 by Adolphus
Prince, who . lived at the
time, with Melissa and her
mother, Mrs. Jean Amis at
2414 Hinson Drive, in the
Bluefield section of Bragg
town. " '-'
According to Prince, who
has since moved to his
mother's residence at 2610
Atlantic Street, the child was
last seen by him when he
prepared her breakfast and
dressed her about 8 o'clock
Sunday morning.. Jean Amis,
a nurse at Memorial Hospi
tal in Chapel Hill was at
work at the time.
Immediately after the
child was reported missing
.RALEIGH-Thanksgiving '
Day probably will not be a
festive occasion for Governor .
James B. Hunt if the North
Carolina Coalition Against
the Death Penalty has its
way. He may have to share
his gobbler with demonstra
tors or eat it away from
home.
The Coalition represents,
nineteen member organiza
tions which are actively
fighting against the return of
executions in North Carolina
ithis time their focus is on a
Thanksgiving Day vigil out
side Hunt's Raleigh residence
at the GovemorV mansion.
The vigil at the Mansion
will be coordinated with
similar vigils in every south
ern state. They are expected
to draw national attention,
through the efforts Of writers
such as Tom Wicker of the
New York Times.
Alan McGregor, coordina
tor of the Coalition, in a
recent letter to supporters,
said that Governor Hunt
cannot be allowed to "remain
silent in ; the face of his"
responsibility ; to commute
death sentences" The letter
continues, "It -is important
to let Governor Hunt know
from the beginning that we
hold him responsible for the
lives of those who are on
Death Row",
Hunt "does' not acknow
ledge "responsibility to com
mute death sentences" of-,
persons sentenced to die. On
the; contrary, Hunt war an ;
outspoken advocate for
reinstating the death penalty
following the U.S. Supreme
Court knocking down North
Carolina's death penalty stav
Governor To " Be Picketed
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BLACKS MEET TO DISCUSS
Post-Secondary Education,
the HEW Office of Civil
Rights and the NAACP Le-.
gal Defense Fund and Native
Americans.
I The general feeling of ,
the group was outrage at
the response by the UNC
Board of Governors to the
guidelines set- by HEW for
dismantling the racially dual
system of higher education in
North Carolina, Summarizing
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DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA .SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1977
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police initiated a search
throughout most of North
Durham that involved scores
Of police officers and volun
teers. That search was called
off on November 8.
Durham Defective Leroy
Ruffin, told THE
CAROLINA TIMES that the
tute :as ' unconstitutional on
July 2, 1976. After much
debate, and at the objections
.'of the Coalition, the legisla
ture i revised the statute ; last
' spring, allowing juries to con
sider whether or not to im
pose death for persons found
guilty of first degree murder.
Although two men have
been sentenced to die in
North Carolina's gas chamber,,
since the revised death penal
ty went into effect last June
1, only one may potentially
be gassed in the chamber at
Central prison. The other
man, Daniel Webster of Mor-
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Po?forson Insivers DIVOC Charges,
Says pifes Controlling Cfacfrs
The Durham ' Workers Or
ganizing Committee (DWOC)
has been charged as not
operating in the interest of
the workers at Duke Uni
versity's Local 77 of the
American Federation of State
County and Municipal Em
ployees (AFSCME) by
the union's business manager.
' Willie Patterson, local
77s business manager, leveled
the charge following an
almost weekly barrage of leaf
lets and propaganda charging
just the oppositive that local
77s; business manager and
officer's "helped management
to steal seven sick days a
year from us."
Patterson says the group
which made the charges "are
not workers and only have in
fluence" over a few blacks
who w6rk in the union." He
the conference; a spokesman
noted that the Coalition is
appalled that state officials
are jeopardizing critical
federal . funds -100 million
dollars- by their defiance of
the HEW criteria and guide
lines. ; .. The General Administra
tion of the University System
and its governing boards do
not, admit that there remain
strong evidence of a dual
I
ues
search was "quite thorough"
- and included pumping water
from two wells, dragging
two ponds, and going house
to house through, Braggtown
questioning the residents to
' uncover any leads V which
'fuight shed light on the
ahud's whereabouts and her
'circumstances'. 7;; :
Pointing out that he had
: no suspects or suspicions of
foul play, Ruffin said that
citizens have been very help
ful by calling the department
and suggesting - leads to
follow-up. The investigator
v smiled when the reporter told
of rumors called to . THE
. CAROLINA TIMES by
several citizens and said that
u police had received the same.
Discounting an earlier
' assumptipn of foul play by a
, police spokesman, Ruffin said
that a sheet found in a field
, behind Da Vinci Street did
not contain blood stains and
" had been exposed to the
weather for some time. The
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ganton, committed suicide in
his prison cell November 6
Webster indicated at his trial :
that he killed his ; wife by,
hitting her in the head with
an axe, and then choking her
because, he knew that he
would get the death penalty
for his deeds.
if McGregor said, at a
Raleigh press conference be
fore his suicide, that through
out the history of states im
posing death as punishment
for certain crimes, persons
desiring to commit suicide
have killed so that the state
would ; take, their lives. He
says that the latest attack is
.designed "to get influence
within the union through the
election of officers. DWOC
recently , endorsed five
union members for offices.
I '.:c Patterson said that there
is an Obvious' contradition in
the DWOC, "attacks which
' seek to' destroy the union."
They say on one hand that
. they want to fight for the
; union "and in the same breath
they cut the union down."
The main focus on the sick
"leave ; policy has put more
hea on Patterson, he admits,
thn other attacks. A leaflet
charges that when the union's
"', present contract was nego
tiated, this year, a change in
sick leave lessened the
workers advantages. Under a
J 975 contract, the DWOC
leaflet charges, workers were
system. According to the
: Coalition, this duality has
grown out of many, many
years of inadequate funding
of the tradtionally black
institutions. The Coalition is
thus outraged that the
university states that it does
not need to address the issue
- of . desegregation of higher
education. In the Coalition's
view, such statements are out
. right , misrepresentations of
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'PREPARING MINORITIES FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
sponsored by the Conference of Minority Public Administrators and N. CCentril
University, Shaw University, N. C. A&T University, and Virginia State College, was
held at NCCU on Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th. Coordinators and
speakers Dr. Arthur Allen of Virginia State College, Ms. Sylvia Cooke-Martin of
the U. S. Department of HEW, Dr. John R. Larkins, special assistant to tht Gover
nor of North Carolina, and Dr. Tyrone R. Baines, Director of Public Administra
tion at NCCU, discuss several issues prior to Saturday session. (Photo by Kelvin
A. Bell).
called the phenomenon the
"murder-suicide syndrome".
The Coalition's vigil out
side the governor's Mansion
is aimed at getting Hunt to
commute death sentences to
life imprisonment,. Hunt has
maintained that he believes
the death penalty to be a
deterrent to crime, and that,
as governor, he would oppose
efforts to commute sentences
of persons sentenced to die.
Asked at his weekly press
conference if the Daniel
Webster case had caused him
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"given two absences every
sixty days that they could
be without a . doctor's
excuse," This meant if you
space the absences right, you
could, stay out four days,
every sixty days, for a total
of twelve days a year and
never bring a doctor's ex
cuse. The present policy is
five days of sick leave per
year, without excuse from a
doctor! The leaflet charges
workers have lost seven days
per year'. ,
Patterson counterattacks'
saying "sick leave protect the
employee from loss, of pay
when he is sick," and says
that scheduling absences is
abuse of the policy.
Exactly who the DWOC
is, or clearly what its objec
tive are. is uncertain. While it
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fact; Further, the racist
overtones of statements made
in the university's response to
HEW, statements such as
"North Carolina may be near
the limits of its capacity to
induce greater participation
by blacks in the public, post
secondary education, system."
deeply insult the Coalition.
The Coalition fully
supports the HEW guidelines
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Andy Young
-By Laurr
A. while ago Ambassador. Young created quite a furor
following his remarks about racism in certain European coun
tries; The! outcry agabis.t hinrwas of suck tetensityran mamV
tude that he was advised to discontinue his habit of frankly
speaking his mind on these matters. ; 1 X ;
Being a loyal member of the Presidential team, he duti
fully complied with the President's wishes and began his long
and difficult search for majority rule in Rhodesia and racial
justice in South America. Today, Ambassador Young is in the
midst of extraordinary delicate negotiations with a multitude
of international leaders and an almost as numerous host of pri
vate emraissaries who are attempting to sway him first this way
then that way according to the very ancient principles of self
interest. ' . - . '
;Andy Young's diplomatic salad days are over. The novelty
of his presence on the world diplomatic state has all but vanish
ed. Now he moves from world capital to world capital, from
diplomatic gathering to Presidential secret sessions with suave
assurance and firm in his knowledge that when he speaks he will
ave a captive worldwide audience.
Racism is on the-rise in western Europe, especially in Bri
tain. The contagion has spread with such rapidity that the
powerful British Union of Journalists, alarmed by develop
ments, sent to all of its members a special four page supple
ment in the Union paper the "Journalist warning the nations
press corps to mount an immediate; and sustained campaign
against racism and the Nazi National Front that thrives on it.
The last time such a warning was issued was during the heyday
of Adolf Hitle r in the late thirt ies. kl;.
Even the world famous humor magazine "Punch" felt the
need to launch an attack on the National Front and racism and
made this via a cartoon on its front cover. - ' y
Throughout Britain, educational authorities are also
alarmed by the spread of racist reading materials into the class
room. A national conference is being called to combat this
menace . . v.
The British Nazi, like National Front, is increasingly bold In
its public, proves tive appeals to racism. In a recent electoral
campaign for Parliament, the National Front posters showed a
dark face, drenched in blood, soiling the British flag with the
caption "This is your last ch ance, Vote for a white Britain."
In recent weeks, the National Front has staged marches
through some of Britain's worst slums and high unemployment
areas openly seeking to attack minority residents and to pro
; voke their white neighbors into doing the same. So far, serious
incidents have been avoided, but nobody is willing to bet how
long this will last. .
It was therefore not surprising that during the early days of
his diplomatic apprenticeship for the passions and the rhetoric
of another time to have surfaced in bitter anger as he denouced
racism in western Europe. It was his last cry to the heavens, a
final appeal to men of goodwill to wake up and take notice of
racism in Europe where some have said it could not possibly
exist before being silenced by the requirements his diplomatic
duties. .,
Nevertheless, Andy Young's first language is not diplomatic
jargon. His native tongue, learned in the harsh days of the re
bellious 60s, remains muted and buried beneath an alien bgua
franca in which the nations of the world talk to each other of
war of peace.
The racist National Front menace has reached alarming pro
portions. At the recently concluded Labor Party Conference,
the British Prime Minister Callaghan roundly denounced the
National Front as a real threat to Britain's freedom. At the
Conservative Party Conference, the positions taken were much
milder but were nevertheless, anti-National Front. - .
There can be no doubt that Andy Young spoke some
harsh truths about European racism which some had tried to
hide behind the facade of democratic structures. In piercing
the facade, he touched the throbbing cancer of racism ana
fascism.
Across Britain, bookstores in minority residential areas have
come u nder attack fr om the racists. These at tacks have included
fire bombings breaking of windows and doors and the destruo
tion of books, magazines and newspapers. The owners of the
bookstores have accused the police of collusion with the mists
and have appealed to the eovernment for protection. Invar ictly
the bookstores are smeared with slogans such as "KKX "N.
K gers Out" and ?Whit Power."
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