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MINISTERS DISAPPOINTED WITH HUNT OVER CHARLOTTE THREE that Raleigh , minister,, , One Durham minister Rev. W.H. Brock, ques- spoke up for Ruffin say y, (ioned Ruffin extensively jng he felt that the former - on what messages he was VriviJ rights activist was do- SAT., MAY 5,1979 THE CAROLINA TIMES- -Hjo iMfif you! By Pat Bryant RALEIdH-Abi-racial group of fifteen ministers met with aides to Gover nor James Hunt Monday in an attempt to secure release of the imprisoned Charlotte Three . and Wilmington Ten defen dant Rev. Ben Chavis. After an hour long meeting with Hunt aides Jack Cozort and Ben Ruf fin, Rev. James Barnett, a Charlotte minister and spokesman for the group, said to reporters waiting outside, "At this point, we V are really disenchanted." " "This meeting that we had today just sort of drained me of all hope," Barnett continued. "I think that the governor is still playing politics with the Charlotte Three. I don't think that he is go ing to do anything for Rev. Chavis. I think he is planning to use the Charlotte Three as as a political stepping stone." ' Those comments were quite different from remarks made by the ministers six weeks ago after they met with the same aides. Then Barnett said he believed that Governor Hunt would take action on the Charlotte Three case within 3045 days. Aide Benjamin Ruffin said, following the earlier v meeting, that he expected Hunt to act within a reasonable time. The Charlotte Three were convicted in' 1972 of firebombing a horse stable and sentenced to a total of 55 years in prison. But in 1974, their convictions, The Charlotte Observer discovered, were obtained by testimony of govern ment informants paid more than $8,000 by. the United States Justice Department. All appeals have been exhausted in the courts, .and several groups, including the Charlotte City Council, have asked Hunt to par don the civil rights ac tivists. -After the Monday meeting, it was reported , relaying to Hunt. The ministers said Ruf fin would not disclose the substance of conversa tions between him and Governor Hunt, saying - the discussions were con fidential. V Ruffin could not be reached for comment : ; Monday and Tuesday. Messages were left for him to" return the call. His . receptionist said Monday he was out of town, and tuesday he was on the phone. ing what he could. In another matter affec ting Hunt, the Charlotte Three and the Wilmington Ten, J4 faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte sent a letter to Hunt last week asking action on request . for a pardon of the Charlotte ' .Three "and Wilmington Tn defen dant, Rev' Ben Chavis, before Hunt speaks at the campus's commencement on May 12 aM 0 a.m. l A n neir vt est if lb Some people have believed that wearing diamonds saved them from being poisoned. Charlotte Three defen dants I.J. Reddy and Charlie Parker, as well as Wilmington Ten defen dant, Rev. Benjamin Chavis, are alumni of the school. The art of knitting is said to have originated in Scotland. NOT ENOUGH ,' Continued from page 1 Dr. John Gamble, D-Lincoln County and chairman of the House finance Committee, agrees that the $40 million does not adequately treat the needs of the black campuses. But Gamble, seemingly like a majority of legislators, doesn't favor spending the $40 million or more money, for that matter, to upgrade the five black campuses. Those legislators generally . question whether the state can af ford sixteen campuses, and now propose to study the efficiency of He six teen campuses as . y of developing a plan to phase out and merge black In stitutions into white cam puses. "We are just throwing a lot of good money at a problem and it doesn't nearly satisfy the pro blem," said Gamble. The Llncolnton physician con tinued, "I'm not in favor of that amount of monney if all it is going to do is put a salve on a sore. We are just throwing a lot a good money at a problem and it doesn't nearly satisfy the problem." ; i Representative Kenneth .Spaulding, ; D-Durbam (County ioesn'tt agree jwtms!eai&eii ding more money at black universities Is, throwing (good money for bad. But Spaulding is among a minority of legislators who want equal funding of black and white institu tions. Spaulding favors spen ding the $40 million on the black campuses, saying "it is a beginning point. . . .but additional funds are definitely going to be needed." Neither Spaulding nor Dr. Lyons supports the proposal to study the ef fectiveness of the cam puses. Lyons says black people, and black univer sities have been "studied 'to death" and Spaulding says he is "not in favor of any study that leads in that direction (closing of black universities). While no one talks about the amount of money it would take to adequately fund the black campuses, or a plan for that matter to get ade quate funding, there is much talk about the con tributions of the univer sities and a need for equal funding. The Central Alumni Association, says Evans, is fighting for appropria tions equal to the predominantly white In stitutions. He uses a familiar comparison of the $40 million offered by UNC to settle with HEW, and the $80 million allocated for the veterinary school at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and the medical school at East Carolina University in Greenville. "The only thing they can find, apparently, for five black schools with an ; enrollment of 15,000 peo ple Is $40 million over four or five yean, and that if not equitable," aaya Evani. - Lyons, too, speaks of : equal . funding and catch , up money, "After all, for a hundred yean' we ' haven't been getting equal ; funding. ' And catch up. money means there ought to be a sum of money over : a period of tfme to help to defray or to make up some of those deficiencies that I we have."'.- ' Whether Spaulding and other black legislators will be able to get additional funds for the black cam puses is questionable But unquestionable is that for significant change to be made upon the conser vative leadership in the General Assembly, in creased voter registration and political action by the supporters of black universities will be essen tial to their survival. , That's the direction Bill Evans says NCCU's Alumni Association is headed. "You go to the ballot box, as far as I am con cerned," Evans said. "To me that is the key. To in dicate to the people who are making these decisions whether they be political, educational or what that we as black people are in this com munity also. 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