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puKe 'University Library , , ' Eurfiam, 'K. C; 2"7GG , ' " 11-30 - Vl no iv yccr bursts on thosccno. . . may it bring success end good hczith ' to our friends! VJcrds of VJisdczi The greatest task before'civilization at pres ent is to make machines . '. , the slaves, in- stead of the masters of men. Havelock Ellis VOLUTnE S3 - NUMBER 52 16 PAGES DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 39. 1978 . TELEPHONE (919) 6C&6537 PRICE: 29 CENTS ; v A wish that the New Year brings you all you're hoping lor. Success and happiness to all of you who have helped make 1978 a memorable year for us. mm ao::uri) DEsiG;r;sHEctED,:p.Y noRTjgA!!. as$Q MONTGOMERY, ALA.-! ' fered by , three monument companies, , the committee representing the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, has selected the ; Wichman Monument Company of Chattanooga, Tenn., to, construct an 1 1-foot tall '- marble monument topped with a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to be erected on an elevated plot near and donated by - - Brown's AME Chaper Church. The " monumen., to be " dedicated August 11, 1979, A is r tribute to those who ( participated in the 1965 march to Montgomery, Alabama, and a memorial to those who .lost their lives during f the demon stration. It will be engraved with a description of, the march and its significance and the names of Jimmy Lee Jackson, Rev. James J. Reeb and Mrs. Viola Gregg. Liuzzo, who lost their lives Hill Birthday Celebration To Do I'Jooh-Long Obsorvanco ATLANTA-UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, Ambassador Andrew Young and Senator Edward M. Kennedy Will be among the speakers - and singers Ste vie Wonder and Billy Paul will be part of the enter tainment - at the Atlanta celebration of the 50th hirthday anniversary of Dr. MartintLuther King, Jr. The Birthday Obser vance, -which runs from January. 1 1-16, is expec ted to attract tens of thousands of people, in cluding , numerous interna Dond: Registration, Education and ATLANTA - Mrs. Vivian Malone Jones,' Executive Director of the Atlanta based Voter Education Pro ject, Inc., has submitted her resignation effective Decem ber 31, , , , . . The Board of Directors has appointed VEP Field Director, Sherrill Marcus, as Chief Administrative Officer Marcus has -been Field Director for six years and is MAY H BE A 4 W&M:' au'ringtrie demonstration , v .The rndhumertf will be surrounded by a grassy mound enclosed by a six foot high .wrought iron ornamental railing. It will be, completed and erected by the middle . of Jury and shrouded until unveiled mm tional visitors, according to Mrs. Coretta Scott King, president of The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for; Social Change. The theme , for the nearly week-long celebration is "The King ; 50th:. You Can Fulfill the Dream." '";'r..f Secretary -General Wald heim is expected to lead delegates from many na tions at a day-long ' inter national tribute" to Dr. King at the World Con gress ; Center on Tuesday, January 16. The tribute will be pari of a meeting thoroughly familiar with all aspects of the VEP organiza tion. As Field Director, Marcus is responsible for , actual delivery and imple mentation of VEP programs at the local level. His add!-, tional duties as Chief Ad ministrative Officer make him responsible for both administrative and oper ational matters. ' Mrs. Jones "entered the 13G5 Tkt MAStCH tO ftiQNreOMtRY ( REMErVCSER J lee Smiih io Serve UGitonci lash Force a Lee Smith, executive dir ector of the John Avery Boy's Club, has been ap pointed by the Boy's Clubs ; Of America ? to serve on a i task force organized by the :! National Manpower Deve- lopment Committee to in crease minority and female adminstrators. : The Task Force will con vene in Dallas, Texas Janu ary 18 for a week. The Nat ional Manpower Develop-: ment Committee has ask ed the Boy's Clubs of Am erica to pursue a more for mal and aggressive program to increase the number of adminstrators among minor ities, ,ind 'females. : The task force composed of top adminstrators of the Boy's Clubs of America will have the responsibility of STAMP TO BE ISSUED 4 KING University of Alabama in 1963 ' surrounded t , by federal troops amid pro tests i by , then Governor George C. Wallace, and be came the first black Ala bama graduate in history. She is- one of the few women ever to lead a major civil rights organi zation. During the past several months, - she has been ' undergoing serious Fedei :oll Judge "Bupree-Fails To SetMeariug vni rcncing s -,--;. .;. ' '? ' :i:';?,t::M Since Fcb.,76, A bo st 3 Years RALEIGH - Federal V Judge Franklin T. Dupree. ,' has' not set a hearing date v for 1 the Wilmington 10- writ -? Of habeas ' corpus" -Stephen Coggins,' Dupree's law clerk said Wednesday." Earlier, in the ' rnonthi' t Dupress' had told ; lawyers and reporters the hearing . ' would-be scheduled for the , week, j after, . , Christmas, .without specifying a day. The hearing has been pentf- ing since February 1976, ' v almost three years. ! " x : The Wilmington 10, nine blacks men and one . white woman, have appeal-. ed ther 1972 convictions contending, that then' Superior Court - Judge . Robert Martin (now a judge in. the-C, Court 6f Appeals), erred when he -refused " the ' defense prosecution , : , documents that would have discredited the state's mam witness, Allen Hall. 'Hall and two other state, witnesses have since testified that their testimonies were lies.. The - - U.S. 7-Justice' IContinued From Page 4 f j "ft - i -' ''' to impact on ploring ways this concern. ' SMITH of 'the UN Special Com mittee Against Apartheid, chaired by Nigerian Ambas sador Leslie O. Harriman. :( U, S. Ambassador Young one of Dr. King's closest aides, will take part in several different activities, including the traditional Ecumenical Service, which is scheduled for Monday morning,' January 15, . at historic , Ebenezer Baptist Church. The 15th is the late Dr. King's actual 50th birth date. Senator Kennedy will be the keynote speaker at an ( I 1 Full Participation Still medical : treatment re ,quring more . time to recuperate 1 than initially 'anticipated. : ' ' - The Board of Directors of VEP has Instructed the VEP staff to take a long, hard,' and deep, look at its 16-year history j and then, commence laying the, foundation for charting a bold hew , thrust. This thrust is already underway UiBpn Pa . GRIMESLAND - Rain ' and cold winds dampened a tween black btotestorS, Ku .' yiKiux'Kian, and law enforce ment officers in this n'ny Pitt County community last Sunday. About fifty demon strators demanding the re lease of jailed Jasper Lee Hardy had aroused the town's white population by a march and speeches the week before. Hardy, a black man, is accused of raping a 55 year old white woman Ms. Carolyn Hardy is also charged with several other crimes, f Hardy grew up in Connecticut f but returned ; to Pitt County to live with his. grandmother a few years ago. After holding several jobs in the community, the attractive young man who speaks with a slight accent was employed at Sears Robuck. - ' ' Seven state troopers, and Grimesland's one .'man police force( Chief Uley Atkinson, patroled the area, where suspected snipers had been the week before, but only a hand full of marchers arrived and the demonstra- all-day policy conference on Friday, January 12, which will focus attention on applying Dr. King's philo sophy of nonviolence to many current social and political problems. The policy conference follows the traditional Social Responsibility Awards Breakfast which' will honor Murray Finley, president of the Amalgama- ted- Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and Repre sentative Augustus F. Haw kins of California, co-spon- IC'ontinued On Page 6 and is designed to identify the contemporary realities for improving minority participation in the elec toral process. ; Julian Bond, VEP board member stated, "The VEP's . challenge in the '80s in cludes overcoming the grow- t ing political apathy among southern black voters while J still attacking the remaining : , .if bnMnuEu oiofjiiti juiwi, mrnnmgt tan m mm tmm rvopw lampicr leaqev Jini Jones, being escorted to court by a Guyanese policeman to answer four charges of murder and one of attempted murdev jointly with fellow cultist Charles Edward Beikman. They are accused of killing Temple spokeswoman Sharon Amos and her three children Novem ber 18. - ' (UPI Photo) Grimosland f.lardi Rained Out; ,; (I Snipprs Soon A5 Throat Bate InWU.-10 a a, tion was postponed until Sunday December 31. North Carolina - Hu uman Relations Council ' and the State Highway: Patrol affirmed allegations of.'! threats against demon strators, Grimesland Chief Atkinson said he knew of no threats or Klan involve ments when questioned by the police) .' ".' Golden Frinks, Program Director of the Southern INSIDE Inflation . . . Who s PAGE 4 Players of 37 Colleges Mske Squad PAGE 12 Dr. Derficfey Burrell Issues Grim forecast For Prospects of 1979 WASHINGTON In a scathing review of the challenges waged, against minorities during 1978, National Business League President Dr. Berkeley G. Burrell has issued a grim forecast for the prospects Of 1979. Citing "vicious attack's on the rights of minorities to participate in the American economic, system",Burrell said: "Government's response to these challenges has been consistently inade quatc.Government continues to approach minority enterprise from a small store, two chair barber shop con-: cept. Such an approach serves - to . perpetuate the exclusion of minorities not only from the economic benefits of so- Greatest ley to Economic Equality pockets of resistence to full voter participation. : Regis tration, education, ' and full participation still re main the greatest key to economic equality , for American blacks". ' VEP Board Member Donald ' Hollowell stated ". . . . the bottom line of this matter is that people must have the will to affect change. Black leaders from flh I v me Christian. Leadership Conference (SCLC), spoke a week before crying out on ; a megaphone that , black ' townspeople ' believed the ' white woman to be a "secret fraternizer with black men".- Frinks said this week to THE CARO LINA TIMES that police chief Atkinson said Frink's remark has angered klans man and the .town's white IContinued On Page 2 ; THIS WEEK'S ISSUE To Blene. Horror Story Revealed 1 y A BURRELL ciety, but from the discussion of those benefits as well." The leader of the nation's largest minority business organization had harsh words for the "in- all walks of life must make voting a central part of their message to the people.' The VEP was begun as a project of the ) Southern Regional Council (SRC) in 1962 to identify causes of minimal black political par ticipation, and to research methods of affecting reme dies. For 16 years, VEP has been successful in advancing minority political participa 99 JUDGES TO BIKE Governor To Appoint Vacancies RALEIGH - Judges in North Carolina, unlike those in the federal system, are forced to retire at ages 70 and 72 depending on what courts they referee. Mem bers of the North Carolina Supreme' Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals are forced to retire at 72 and members of the Super lot and District Courts are forced to retirement at 70. Governor James B. Hunt is designated by state law with the responsibility for appointing replacements to vacant judicial posts. Hunt will have more impact upon the state's court system through appoint ment than any other governor in the state's history, provided Hunt is elected another term. The following judicial posts, that will become vacant by forced retire rjnent Supreme Court Jus- ? 3l9gj-;Suptem Court , Chief Justice Suzie Sharp, ? ' July 31,I979; Supreme Court Justice J. Frank Huskins, February, 1983. Court os Appeals Judge Francis Parker, August 1984; Court of Appeals Judge Robert M. Martin, Continued On Page 14 PAGE 3 Sanitation Worker Found Guilty PAGE 3 sidious" political structure which continues to ex clude minorities from the nation's economic agenda Reviewing the failure to relate minority economic development to such broad . national issues as. unemployment, infla tion, and urban revitaliza tion, Burrell declared: "This failure can be linked , directly to the insidious father knows best' attitude of the white political structure which views the minoity private sector as an abandoned orphan in the economic system." Insisting that "economic strategies must be planned by us, not for us," Burrell delivered a message" from the minority private sector, saying that "in 1979, the white people are going - to share our resources with us." tion in the eleven southern states. Regarding his new re sponsibility; Marcus said "VEP's four : competent Executive Directors, Wiley Bran ton, . Vemon Jordan, John Lewis, and Mrs. Jones encouraged the, registration of , millions of minority voters. The iVEP remains one of the most viable non - Continued Ow Page S
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