North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME 56 -MUMSER 60 24 PAGES , : . DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY. DECEK2ER 18. 1878 TELEPHONE (918) 33-6537 PRTFrr-rr Scbcol Crossing Gwrd Says Sbs Beaten ; ' BY PAT BRYANT ..s A top police a dminis trator touched off an in tr, formal inauirv into the : . - : i . conduct oi Mrs.' Josephine Turner at K-Mart's Avon dale Drive store November 29. . r inn CAROLINA TIMES last : week a,' shocking ac- ' count of several white store" employees beating a black man, Bobby Sims, a sus pected shoplifter. x Mrs. -Turner, a school crossing guard on North Roxboro Road, was wearing her uni form at the time of the .alleged beating. Tehe conduct , com plained xf was Mrs. Tur ner's stopping the store's , employees from beating Sims. A top level police source intercepted a memo intend ed for Mrs. Turner's super- . visor, T. R. Gilmer, from Lt. Jack Pendergraft, who, according to the source, said . Mrs. - Turner should he. punished. Pendergraft is an employee of , the K-Mart store when he is off duty ;; r.'i.. ! .--l .. ii . or records at the police department. ! .Mrs. Turner verified the memo's existence saving Continued on page 10 flAt 1 Gtm 5 r -1 ' f mWmmmm isfjotoro ; ; Thfl'A Aphoro Commiini. ty Fund has announced benefit gospel sing to be held Sunday, December 17 with the proceeds to tmance the criminal defense of the. Asheboro Five. Approxi mately ten groups, white and black, are scheduled to sing at the Central Gym on ' Frank Street. Civil rights attorney Jerry Paul and Winston-Salem Alderman Larry Little are scheduled speakers. r The Asheboro - Five are five young black defendants ranging from age 14 to 22. They were charged last June with the fatal shooting of 14 year old Vicky Clark, a CASSADRa flipper, coted buck atty. Glqcfcd Trostoo o5 Phclphs- Sfodos -Fund NEW YORK - Frank lin H. Williams, - Presi dent of the Phelps-Stokes .Fund, announced today ' that Ms. Cassandra Flipper has been elected to the Fund's Board of Trustees. Currently ' Assistant General Counsel for Levi Strauss & . Co., Ms. Flipper hv well known for her work in the area of employment discrimina tion, as well as poverty law and program administra tion. Previous postiions MAY FACE DEATH IF DEPORTED Sfrrto Dopf. Rolos Against f.larroguin Elomaining In U.S. The State Department has issued ah .advisory opinion" : recommending that Hector Marroquin ; ,"not be ...permitted to remain within ; the United ,. States.". . The , decision, made on June , 6, was not released to i Marroquin's attorneys by the Immigration . and , Naturalization , Service , (INS) until November 13. ' ' . . Marroquin is s , young student leader who t Duke 'University Library t ; .Newspaper. Departs ?nt . Eur hare, K. c. CITIZENS REVIEW of police was discussed at Hie Police Brutality Man Meeting last Sunday at Union Baptist Church. ' ' Me I7ooen Hold f.losf Court Jobs, n Wortfi Caroffiia Visit couns in, North Carolina v and you will find white men administrators, r , white . women clerical workers," maybe i a few, but no many, black men and women, according to a recent statistical analysis conducted by the North Carolina Human Relations Council. . . Of the state's 2,525 employees : of the court system, more ; than half, fifty-five , per : cent, are SJ 5 Sunder white girl and the wounding ofhS'f0 , ' ' . Thetacident followed by a few days the wounding of three blacks by a white man who blacks in the town be lieved would be freed with out conviction. , According to one police? man; Sgt. Dexter Trogdon, four of the five defendants 1 made statements that they had gone to the house ' where the young white girls ; were and. had ignited fire- bombs. The girls ran onto the porch with glasses of water to extinguish the fire at which time they - were shot. . ? All of the defendants Continued on page 20 include attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and for the Employment Law Center in San Francisco, Californ ia. "We're very pleased h that the Fund will have the benefit of Ms. Flipp er's expertise in employ ment opportunties ' for minorities," ; Mr. Williams i said. "We've been working on behalf of educational opportunties for American . was framed-up on phony charges of terrorism i and ; subversion in his native . Mexico. If deported, he will face imprisonment, ( torture, ' and possibly death, a' fate that hun dreds, of other student activists have met. , He . has applied for political asylum in this country ' to protect his life. Although' ' officially an opinion, the, State Department's ruling -is given heavy priority by vfa 7f . ' i. I . mm ii - j . " white - women, while almost thirty -seven per cent were white men. 'Black men constitute 3.2 per cent and black women constitute 4.2 1 per cent according to the analysis. Native Americans and other races - account for less than one percent of all employees. The data were compiled of employment as of last June 30. The ., state's court system is run by the North Carolina v- Administrative 0ffi( Office of the Courts which L its. offices in Raleigh. ;,' nunarea per cent the , six ; admuiistrators hired at , annual salaries ; of over $25,000.. One black man and one black woman were hired out of twelve positions including administrators ' and ', offi- -cials employed at annual salaries of $13,000 to $24,900. Bert Montague, Director of the Admini strative Office of the Courts, explained that the numbers represent some racial imbalances but tl the AOC was following its affirmative action plan. Pressed for details on hiring practices, Montague said the hiring is done primarily by county by the elected court officials, clerks, (judges,' and sherriffs. Blacks, Indians, poor whites since 1911, and employment practices are curciaj to the educational process. After all', if the student can't find a decent job after gradua tion, our efforts to improve the school he attended are pretty hollow"- Cassandra Flipper received both her A.B. and Juris Doc toris degrees from Immigration officials. ; In reaching a decision; the State Pepartment . relied on its own-White Paper, which declares there are "no "political prisoners" in Mexico, This assertion has been strongly contradicted. Amnesty In . ternational describes the ;existance of political pri soners and other examples of political repression In Mexico. The Washington Post in an article printed October 31, 1978 reported ll-50 Fifty-five per cent of the total jobs in court houses ' across the state are office and clerical positions numbering 1292. ... Judge, clerks of court, and sheriffs in each county are elected officials ' I who in turn hire their liveable conditions accord Despite an increasing ing to the law, It seems un number of black elected ! fair's and something we and appointed officials , should iook ' at "Spaulding within ,the :; state's replied, going further to Continued on page 14 say "legal and constitu V NEW YORKAddiessing a capacity crowd in the New York office of the Phelps Stokes Fund, December 4, the Honorable Leslie , O. Harriman, Permanent Rep resentative to the United Nations from Nigeria, said that "while the U. S. sup posedly backs majority rule in southern Africa, actual policy consists of endless negotiation with the white' supremacist governments." The result, Ambassador Washington sity in St Univer Louis, Missouri, an ship and Among affiliations ' earning List, her many : are: ? Member of the Board v of Visitors, University of San Francisco School of Law; Directors, B"d f v inlaid, Board of Directors, Equal Rights Advocates;' and . Member, of, the NAACP Task Force on 1 Africa. "about 400 persons" jailed on political charges and ciose to another 400 who have been . "disappeared" by police and government backed terror squads. Al though the Mexican re gime has vigorously denied ; holding political prisoners, it reversed it self in late September and passed an amnesty law. 1 In a statement released by the Marroquin Defense Committee, Marroquin's , attorney Margaret Winter a 7TT O 771, ! rm 1 A "Durham has the worst housing in the state," legis lators were told last week . by about one hundred ' tenants and supporters gathered at Morehead Ave nue , Baptist Church last Thursday evening. "What Will you do?" was con tinually asked of the legis lators concerning stricter housing codes, rent con ,'troj evictions, and two other issues - repeal of the 1 Jfood tax and prohibition of winter shut-off by utility companies. 'Durham County's dele ption to the state legisla ture, one by one, were put on the spot. Tenants listen ed intently sometimes ask- i ing for more information. "Would you support a bill to stop landlords from raising rent on houses that landlords have been forced to repair," James Smith of East - Durham questioned Rep. Kenneth Spaulding? : "If the only reason for raising rent is solely be cause ot it had ' to be raised to bring the house to cnr :s r.iM u.s; S Jl If .' I F Tni ft . . ' U.S.. roue j lowara m Harriman claimed, has been "more repression than ever before in South Africa, a blood bath in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and what will undoubtedly be a puppet, South Africa controlled government in Namibia (Southwest Africa)." Speaking without notes Police Drofaliiy Coalition Picfiofs Demonstrators marched in front of City Hall this week to protest the City Council's inaction on a pro posed Citizen's Police Re- , view Board. The request, along with allegations of police bru tality of black and poor Durhamites, was referred to -the-. Council's Public Safety Committee last August, but so far the committee has not : met. The demonstration was planned and sponsored by the Durham Coalition Against Police Brutality, an organization that has cham pioned several' popular causes of people beaten by police in the city. , City ? officials did not comment on the picket responded to the State Department: . "They say that because Marroquin " was charged with 'serious non-political crime(s)' he should not be granted asylum. , , But Marroquin was charged with non political - crimes ' not because his is guilty of any, but because that is a common method in Mexico to attempt to squelch political opposi tionists." " Continued on page 14 KlusDng Oca -t - AT POLICE BRUTALITY MASS MEETING - Mrs. Josephine Turner and Dr. Grady D. Davis, pastor of Union Baptist Church, pay close attention to proceedings. tional" limitations would have to be considered. "Unconscionable" was the g jcription of rent raising practices by Rep. Paul Pulley, who recalled his experiences as a tenant while he was in school. Without being specific. Pulley; said he was concern ed that some efforts be, made to change current wzw chutes the Ambassador told some fifty invited guests that his work as Chairman of the United Nations Committee Against Apartheid was "the most important effort of my professional life." "The evfls of that system are not fully, under stood here," he explain ed. "The Committee has ' line, but City Manager Dean Hunter and several Other officials were seen leaving the municipal building shortly after noon, smiling at the demonstrators. At a mass meeting, sever al of the persons attending wanted to set up picket lines outside several local furniture stores owned by City Councilman ' Wade Penny. Chairman of the TIIIS EDITION Federal Budget A Bond Agcln Dcr.icd Li Berber Case Tax on Tcltphcncj To Be Recced IXCU Eislss Bow la City ToBrnsy VJcrda o A man adds extra Value to bis service by solving a problem or helping change an' outmoded practice. A. Donald Btice TCdg Stfotfo" practices. State Senator Willis Whichard was put on the spot . by the meeting's chairman, Mrs. Bernice Scott, when asked if he would support rent con trol? "No m'am", the law maker replied hurriedly, without giving reasons. What to do about en to eiqqquth h zpskk been trying to raise the consciousness of the world, for until the world community T; fully grasps the extent of the repress ion in Southern Africa, it will continue to drag its heels. In Rhodesia, for example, the war has been allowed to escalate, .and hundreds Public Safety Committee. But the Coalition decided to keep the picket at City Hall. ' Much of the recent con troversy has been over what type of structure would best investigate claims of police brutality. Police officials f favor an internal unit and Notice of U.S. Court By appointment of the President, a panel of the i United States Circuit ; Judge Nominating Com- . mission has 1 been consti tuted to consider pros- ' pective nominees to fill a vacant judgeship on the Federal Court of Appeals in this Circuit. The panel must submit to the President by March 28, , 1979, the names of not more than 5 persons deemed well qualified to be a United States Court of . Appeals judge. Anyone may submit sug gested nominees to the pane! for consideration,: and anyone may request that he or she be consider-. ed. , To be considered by the panel a person must be a member of the bar in good standing. Important f Wisdom forcement of local housing codes sparked a lot of discussion. But the legis lators were in agreement that housing code enforce ment is a local issue that cannot be regulated at th the state leveL . Selective housing code enforcement by city offi cials, Rep. : Kenneth Spaulding said was at the root of the problem. He suggested trying to get judges to order housing inspectors to carry out their duties. Not sure were legislators responding to questions of what to do about landlords who evict tenants who com plain about housing code violations to code inspec tors and landlords. A mat ter side-stepped by previous legislatures, all said retalia tory evictions would prob ably be taken up again this session. Over all, tenants said that they were pleased that the legislators came out to the meeting, but few indicated, in conversation, mat they were satisfied with the responses. Excepting Spaulding, all of the legislators have served previous terms in the state legislature. nca have died because the West has refused to act firmly and decisively. You can not tell me that Prime Minister Ian Smith, who has been a white suprema cist' all his political life, would not have backed down months or even Continued on page 10 City Hall have proceeded to set one up, while the City Council committee has been inac tive, v "I would like to see a citizens review board be cause an internal reveiw unit would be the police coming together to pro- Vacancy on of Appeals factors in determining whether a person is well qualified are professional competence, extent and nature of legal experience, character, temperament, and health. A proposed nominee should normaOV have 12 to IS years ot legal experience and be physically and mentally capable of sustained work on difficult intellectual problems, with the po tential for rendering long and energetic service on ' the federal bench. Experience of particular relevance may have been acquired in these areas: (a) substantial appellate experience as a lawyer or judge; (b) substantial trial court experience as law-t; yer or judge; (c) substant ial federal law mastery as Continued on page IS) :