1.1. DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NEWSPAPER DEPARTMENT DURHAM ,c 2?706 - V,'-" Thq Black Pross Oor Froodon Doponds On It! (USPS 091-390) Words of Vlsdoa Conceit is a queer disease. It makes every one sick except the fellow who has it. Elmer G. Letermaa VOLUME 57-NUMBERH DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA- SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1979 TELEPHONE (919)682-2913 PRICE: 20 CENTS IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION UIOIHEH TO CONDUCT DfUONSTIATIONS PAUL HAND APPOINTED TO CITY COUNCIL CUtlING COPS USE OF DEADLY FOICE ANDREW WOODS: AN UNUSUAL LIFE RALEIGH-A Wake County proposal to require policement to fill out a bond form before a bond is set by magistrates and judg es has been criticized as "unconstitutional and racist", by Attorney Ir ving Joyner. ' Under attack is black District Judge Stafford Bullock's lowering of the $22,000 bond of 16 year old Wade T. Richardson, also black, "and Richard son's subsequent arrest and charge of knifing and leav ing for dead a white woman apartment manager last week. Charged with four armed robberies, Richardson's bond was lowered to $1200 by Bullock. While awaiting trial, Richardson was charg ed with stabbing an apartment manager twelve times and robbin her. ' Bullock came under tre mendous fire from Raleigh newspapers which published statements of unnamed court officials, and police who disagreed with the bail lowering, although admit tedly Bullock had done nothing wrong. ' Bullock defended his bond lowering saying the law stipulates that the only purpose of bond is to assure a defendant's appear ance in court. However, some judges disagree saying that bail should be used to keep people suspected of being dangerous off the streets. ' : '. The result of the dispute has been a decision by Chief Superior Court Judge James H. "Pou Bailey, Raleigh Police Chief Fred rick K. Heineman, and Wake Solicitor Randolph Riley to require police officers to complete a one-page form at the time a suspect is book ed. ' Riley said the form would contain questions concerning the 'suspect's prior record, address, how long he had lived there, his job, name of employer, and length of employment. The form would indicate IContinued On Page 9 V 1 1 ! 1 f & I Groups Upsot Over En elusion off Dlacfi Lawyers on Judgeship Panol mm !! ssf 00 ft t SURROUNDED - The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. is surrounded by admirers fol lowing the deliverance of his Speech at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. King was the second speaker for UNC's Martin Luther King, Jr, Lectures, PHOTO BY Henry C Thomas E2rs. .'Petricje Sogers -Honofbd Here Cited As Dodel For Lotidership Two groups having interests in criminal just ice have sought to get set aside nominations from a nominating commission which recently submitted, the names of five white candidates to fill a vacancy on the UJS., 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to be rilled by a North Carolinian. ' The Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ and the North Carolina Associa tion of Black Lawyers in separate manuevers are seeking to set aside the nomination of former State Senator McNeil Smith, Supreme Court Justice James C. Exum, Superior Court Judge Sam J. Ervin III, and federal district judges Hiram Ward and James L. McMillan. ' Attorney Irving Joyner dispatched a letter last week to UJS. Senator Edward M. ' Kennedy, D-Mass. last week asking that the lawmaker hold a hearing on minority can diates if President Carter does not nominate minorities for the post. Kennedy could not be reached for comment before press time. ; Mike Lee, President of the N.C Association of Black Lawyers dispatched a request to UJS. Attorney General Griffin Bell re cently asking him to ntyninate a black to the list. ' The exclusion of black nominees for North Caro lina's list, was duplicated in at least two southern states Georgia and Virgin ia. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson called on Bell last week to include black nominees in Georgia's list. : a Black Survival Conference to Be Held Here March 29-30 SEE STORY -PAGE 18 Rov. M.L. King, Sr. Still Supports President Jimmy Carter Community Leaders from Durham arid around the nation paid tribute to tenant leader Mrs. Patricia Rogers Sunday at the Ramada Inn, Unselfish love for her people, dedi cation for liberation struggles, diplomacy and skill in eadling with difficult problems and people, plus an uncompro- , BY PAT BRYANT cited by several swalwn - as maiang ajnouet or icaucr ship. 1 Recollections of nearly 'fifteen year? of struggle, and forecasts of ' struggles ahead, were made as a broad segment of activist leaders urged blacks into action to resolve joblessness, indecent housing, nr norma newly cMirmairi,"' Mrs. Burton, noted Mrs. Rogers unselfishness, saying she had known Pat to be sick and still "working out here for us. high rents, and racism. Tk Mnu nroa snnnfAMfl mfaing honesty, were i some . b Durhami' Tcnant of Mrs. Rogers attributes s'erin Committee. Michaux Donios Allegations Of Major Modia CALLS THEM IRRESPONSIBLE WINSTON-SALEM - was Chappie. Assistant UJS.' District At torney Patricia Lemley an nounced Wednesday after noon that a federal grand jury returned indictments of conspiracy to manipulate bankrupt stocks against Smith Bagley, James Gilley, Dewey Chappie, William F. Thomas, and Shirley M. Grubb. Bagley is the grand son of R. J. Reynolds, founder of the RJ.1 Rey nolds conglomerate in Winston-Salem. 1 Manipu lated stock was from the bankrupt Washington Group textile firm. 1 Misapplication of funds indictments were, returned against Bagley, Gilley, and Chappie. Mail fraud and wire fraud inductments were returned against Bag ley, Gilley and Thomas. In dicted for making a false application to Forsyth Bank Besides being the grand son of the founder of the Reynolds conglomerate, Bagley and his wife, Vicki, were strong backers of President Carter's bid for the presidency. After Carter was elected, Carter took a holiday at Musgrove Plan tation, the Bagley vacation home in Georgia. The indictments obtain ed Wednesday were schedul ed to have been sought two weeks ago on February 28, top Justice Department officials intervened in the case in what some observers call unprecedented. An order delaying the indictment came from Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti following a request for a delay from Bagley's attorneys that went over the head of the Continued On Page 16 "We must understand that in spite of complexities of this system, we can change it, 1 have no doubts about it," said Jesse Gray. Chairman of the National Tenants Organization and keynote speaker for the ocassion. "'You have to understand that in life nothing remains the same, everything changes, and if we can be confident of the fact that everything changes, that, therefore, should give us the - hope that we can change also. They system cannot go about its business in the same old fashion any longer," Gray continued. ' "Things are getting worse in our country", noted Gray, adding that tenants are losing ground. Government cut-back of services, intimidation of the poor, and racism taking on a new character as the "United States chickens are coming home to roost so early that they can't wait for the sun to go down". That expression notes the explusion of UJS.' military and economic presence from many third world nations experiencing re volutions. ' Warning the audience not to fall in love with presidents and political forces too long, ' Gray SPOKE AT UNC predicted i that 1980 in North Carouna can say CHAPEL HILL-The Rev etected'' -'',sH6uldibeimV-''a "strategist free the; .Wilmington 1Q tor Martin Luther King, Sr year tor me poor peopie, Kwiruw -auu urej'w w iuui uui u unless "we are set back' . freeJf the tenants and twenty-five years". Tenants poor people of North Carolina said we need legis lation which protects tenants rights, if all tenants went to the polls and and poor people registering and voting would bring about significant changes in 1980, Gray continued, adding "the black power the election of 1980 were held today, he would vote, for President Jimmy Car ter. King made the state ment in response to a question at University of North Carolina forum on human s rights named for his son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassi nated in 1968. ' "The answer is yes. Why? Because I know the man, I work close enough t with him to know what he means to do," King continued. "He means to carry out every cam paign promise he made, but when he got up there to that White House, it was just a little more than a White House. It was a Watergate House," King remarked to the ques tioner. ! Differences and disputes between Congress and the Continued On Page 16 Charlottcans Plan March From Quoon City to Capitol City CHARLOTTE-A group of Charlotteans protesting the continued incarceration of the Charlotte Three and Rev. Ben -Chavis of the Wilmington 10, have an nounced a march from the Queen City to the Capitol City beginning this week end. Rev.s James Barnett, who had walked the 175 mile trek in December, 1977 to ask 'Governor James Hunt to pardon the Wilmington 10, said the planned march was primari ly focused on the Charlotte Three. The Charlotte Three were convicted in state courts of arson of a horse stable in 1972. The convic tion was based upon later to be discovered by "The Char' lotte Observer" evidence bought by the U.S.' Justice Department. The Justice 'Department paid several thousand dollars for the testimony of Theodore Hood and David "Washington against activist Jim Grant, poet TJ. Reddy, and com munity worker, Charlie Parker. Hood and Washing ton were witnesses in another case against Ben Chavis and Jim Grant in federal court. In a surprise move, the UJS. Supreme Court refused to overturn the conviction last October and the Three were ordered to return to prison to com plete 55 year prison terms. Rev.. Barnett told THE CAROLINA TIMES that Charlotte Three supporters had expected Governor Hunt to pardon the Char lotte Three before last Christmas, as had been re quested by thousands of groups and individuals and the Charlotte City Council.. Hunt legal aide, Jack Cozort told the press when Hunt did not pardon the Char lotte Three mat the chief executive did not have enought information to act on the request. ' "We had faith in Gover nor Hunt and Dupree around Christmas time that they were going to do something and we just sat down and did not do any thing", Barnett commented. "We have found that they are not going to do anything unless there is a massive drive going on to free the Ten' and the Three', he said. ' AVe have gotten fired up and we are going to hit the streets on the seventeenth and we are -going to be calling on people from all over the state to wake up and let's get involved." ! Barnett and the march ers will stop at several towns between Charlotte and Raleigh including Greens boro and Durham. At those towns, he says, local people will join in the march and will sponsor rallies. The group is expected in Dur ham Friday, March 23. A mass meeting has been announced for 7 pjn that evening at Russell Memorial CME Church on Alston Avenue. Having spent five months in prison since their last imprisonment, Jim Grant said to THE CAROLINA TIMES this week that the group was not hung up over a pardon, but would Continued On Page 11 Private School Fodoral Funds Are Cut Off UJS. Commissioner of Education Ernest L. Boyer cut off federal student aid funds to the National Institute of Health Science for Orange Calif., ' Monday charging the school mishandled $200,000 in federal funds over a three-year period. ' This is the first time a postsecondary institution has had its student aid funds terminated under provisions of the Educa tion Amendments of 1976. The Institute, a private school with 75 to 100 stu dents in dental and medical assistant courses, has main tained a poor system of re cord keeping and has pro vided insufficient audit reports. ' In addition, HEW says it failed to return to the government "The Office of Education is determined to see to it that student aid monies are properly ad ministered and reach those for whom they are intended," Dr. Boyer said. ""Institutional parti cipation will be terminated whenever institutions are either unwilling or incapa ble of fulfilling the federal laws and regulations that $41,000 in unspent federal govern thesepograms. money. NO TO FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL, SAYS LABOR DEPT. OFFICIAL DALLAS - It is "no jobs surely must" be viewed time for business as usual" as one area where blacks when black teenage un- feel most frustrated, most employment stands at 33 left out in the cold and percent. ' where black desperation So says the head of bids fair to erupt into front employment and training line trouble in the near programs funded by the term future. ' federal government. : 'in his remarks, Green In an address before the said that "it is Imperative Black United Government upon all of us now to em Employeea here, Ernest phasize to everyone-Con-G. Green, assistant secre- gress, the public, the media tary of labor of employ, and each other-that equal ment training, cited the fact job opportunity for blacks that "thousands of j more important now than desperate kids" had shown ever Wore." ' up seeking jobs shoveling Nof'that he had beerf snow after a recent Washing- a member of the Little ton, storm. V ,Rock Nine in one of the Green quoted a recent most important school inte Louii .Harris report "that gration crises of the 1950s. Green listed Carter Adminis tration accomplishments in reducing unemployment from 8" per cent in November 1976 to a present rate of 6 per cent. ' Black unemployment has grown from nearly 14 per cent to just over 11 per cen, Green said, and black teenage joblessness,, once nearly 40 per cent, has dropped, too. ' Much of this improve ment is the result of "the largest public service jobs program since the New Deal" and "the first really comprehensive youth employment program this country has ever seen," Green declared. ' The Administration's "another has been left be- youth program has already hind. Ope third of the created more than 200,000 Nation's black are below new job and training op- poverty level, and one portunities, about 60 per fourth are dependent on cent of which have gone to welfare " ', blacks, he said. ' To combat this threat, In addition, the Green said the Adminstra Administration had "in- tion is determined not to creasingly reached out to reduce its programs the private sector, wldch for "these needless is the source of five out of groups" while respond every six jobs," according ing to "valid public con to Green. 1 oern about lowering, taxes He added that more than aha reducing spending. ' three million jobs were mou tom created last year in the hensive Employment and private sector. .Training Act (CETA), Green warned against reccnt, revisedv complacency, nowevcr. extended: the AHmlnistra. black who , .,., , 'For every ,has made it." he said tion is increasingly "tar geting" its programs to help people find jobs, con centrating more on groups which are "disadvantaged" in their efforts to obtain em ployment, Green told the Dallas group. A second major effort to improve employment programs is a campaign for "better management and monitoring" and "reduo tion of fraud and abuse," Green said. " A second major effort to improve employment programs is a campaign for better management and monitoring" and "reduct ion of fraud and abuse, Green said. ' Tightened monitoring and evaluation, he said will also help The Education Amend ments of 1976 authorize HEW to limit, suspend or termiinate a institution's participation in student aid programs because of violations and abuse. ' The cut off follows a January ruling by Admini strativeLaw Judge James Ricker, which upheld HEW$ decision of Septem ber 26, 1978, to . seek termination of the school's student financial aid programs, ' That decision had been appealed by the institution. ' In bis decision, the judge pointed out that federal funds are placed in the hands of the institution to facilitate the delivery of those funds to eligible students, ft is in no way intended that the school be a beneficiary of this relationship," ' T6 combat further abuses in the federal student aid programs, HbWs Office of Educa tion has initiated adminis trative proceedings that may lead to the termination of funding to nine other post secondary institutions, ' They are the CBM Education Service Center, San Antonio, Tex; Daniel Hale Williams University, Chicaeo: three Sawyer Schools of Business in Evan ston Waukegan, OL, and Milwaukee, Wise.; Graham Institute, LtcL, doing business as Sawyer College of Business, Davenport, Iowa; Capital Commercial College, Bismarck, NJDJ; Andover Junior College, Andover, Mass.; ' and the Career Educational Institute. Philadelphia. Three federal student aid programs are handled directly by post-secondary institutions. They are Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, College Work-Study Program, and National Direct Student Loans. Cut off rulings also affect a school's eligibility to participate in two other programs-Basic Educa . tional Grants and Guranteed Student Loans. '

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