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For U.S. Wind Band
Daryl P. Spellman,
, Durham Hillside High
School student, has been
accepted for membership
in the United States Col
legiate Wirid Band, a
highly selective musical
organization which will
make a concert tour of
England and seven Euro
pean countries next July
and August. His parents
are Dr. Dayesene Wiggins
Spellman of Durham and
once eachyear. Students
from all fifty of the'
United States and seven
Canadian Provincesiavc ;
participated in past
USCWB tours.
The previous nine Euro
pean concert tours made
by the USCWB were
received with great critical
acclaim. Standing ova
tions were the rule rather
than the exception
whenever they played. The
Charles G. Spellman of:
Washington, . p.C , HWind Bands' annually
plays drums intheHilkidf receive more requests for
High SchooJ Ba,,.co'concerts from European
ducted by C.A. Egerton City offidals than can
Jr" r fe v, possibly be accepted.
The invitatwn. to. tpf . ln addition to perform-
r "v.oww-pin concerts in the Wind
Collegiate Wind Band yaS S Band, members will visit
received from Prof. AIG. :
Wright, director of Bands, t
at Purdue University."
Lafayette, , Indiana, and
conductor . of nine
previous United States
Collegiate .Wind Band
Tours since they were
started in 1971.
The USCWB will travel
for three weeks, July 13
through August 5, in
England, France, Ger
many, Austria, Italy,
Holland and Switzerland.
Concerts will be perform
ed in the cities of London,
Paris, Lucerne, Inn
sbruck, Lugano, La
Chaux-de-F6nds, Munich,
Amsterdam, Montreux;
Cologne and Heidelberg.
The group will assembJe
, in New York City, for
rehearsals prior to their
departure from Kennedy
Airport on July .13. While
there, the USCWB will
play invitational concerts
at the Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts and
in the Plaza of the
Americas at Rockefeller
Center;
Acceptance for
membership in this highly
talented group of college
and high school musicians
.is considered a musical
honor of national impor
tance. The members of the
one hundred piece Wind ."
Bands are chosen from all
over the United States.
Band, members will visit
musical shrines, museums
and places of musical in
terest including Richard
Wagner's bouse in
Lucerne, Wolfgang
Mozart's birthplace in
Salzburg and Ludwig von
Beethoven's house in
Bonn. They will also at
tend selected concerts and
performances in various
British artd European con
cert halls and , opera
houses.
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Melvin Waddy
Promoted At
Philip Nforris
NEW YORf- Melvin
B. Waddy has been ap
pointed manager, head
quarters services opera
tions at Philip Morris In
corporated, it was an
nounced by Robert J.
Romano, director, head
quarters services.
Waddy was previously
manager, staff services.
He joined Philip Morris in
1969 as an administrative
assistant and was named
supervisor, office services
two years later. He was
appointed manager! staff?
services in 19M. :
A nativef Nf J York
City, . W jended
Nortnf wfina Tentral
UnP in Durham.
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GREENSBORO The
. Greensboro 8 Defense
Committee has sent letters
' to Mayor Jim Melvin and
'District Attorney
Schlosser concerning the
jury selection process in
the coming trials of the '
Greensboro 8.
The Greensboro 8 are
six young black men and
two black women charged
in relation to a firebomb
ing incident in Greensboro
, after the 'not guilty' ver
';dict in the Klan-Nazi
f murder trial on November
17, 1980. This first trial is
scheduled for February
23. Ms. Wjllena Cannon
faces charges of con
spiracy to firebomb and
accessory before the fact.
In the letter the Committee-
demands that ' the
juries of the Greensboro 8
not be selected in the same
way as the notorious Klan
Nazi jury 'was selected.
Schlosser is alleged to
have collaborated with the
Klan lawyers in a political
screening process, picking
a jury of what have been
termed by the Greensboro
8 ' Defense Committee,
"reactionaries in order to
get the murderers acquit
ted." The Defense Committee
contends "In the effort to
find, such a t jury, the
government - ; Klan-
promoters qismisseg au,oi
the KlanNazi defendants
was excluded. Theyat
tempted to fan racisnr ly
having people' scapegoat
the all-white jury fOhe
verdict, thus making lip
pear, falsely, a black Vs.
white issue. (!
"The political screening
process in the KlanNazi
trial was so thoroughliand
the jurors aind alternates
so similar in their racist,
reactionary views.-the
Defense Committee -continues,
"they formed a
kind of social club, along
with the defense lawyers. .
. .Five people were gunned
down on the- streetrind
killed , in cold bldod,
another paralyzed for jife.
The confessed murderers,
shown on TV doing; the
killings, bragged all over
the state about wriat they
did and promiseel mo)re .
But this group of jurOrs
laughed or slept their way 1
through the months' long
trial. The acquittalertlict
had been assured through,
the jury selection pro
cess." ' : ytf;yV- 'f
Spokesman? for te
Greensboro 8 iDefese
Committee and mother of
oneof the defendants,
Mts. Leila Mae Jenkins,
said, "We know District
Attorney Schlosser and
Mayor Melvin would love
to seal our verdicts V
Guiltyl - inthe same
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k?k- Green?boro 8 slx black men and two black women arrested and charged with fire bombimr .ttPmn. n
thft i ftiffiflrwih )f j blaglpway.' We demand, MSrf
ential jurernMre no JmMervtnsiJfipwtei'S'4
potential
than a thousand whites.
Anyone who failed to
sympathize openly with !
no Klan, Nazi, FBI or
police agents or sym
pathizers on our juries."
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State Rep. Kenneth Spaulding
Introduces Voting Bill
NBIPP-NC Holds Core
Meeting At Union Baptist
TrellieL. Jeffers
The National Black In
dependent Party of North
Carolina (NBIPP-NC)
held a core meeting at
Union Baptist Church on
North Roxboro Street,
.Saturday. f
The purpose of the core
meeting was to organize a
steering committee to
develop plans for a
Durham Chapter of the
organization.
Ms. Barbara Arnwine,
N.C. State co-convenor
for NBIPP, spoke briefly
to the group on the pro
gress the organization has
made throughout the
state. She said that local
chapters are now being
organized all over the state
and that broad interest in
a black independent party'
is now gathering momen-'
turn.
When questioned by the
group on the type of can
didates that NBIPP would
support, Ms. Arnwine
said that NBIPP would
support progressive can
didates and whn no such,
candidates were seeking a
given office, the organiza
tion would run its own.
"Candidates tend to
change with the times;
they change from liberal
to conservative according,
to what will get them
elected. NBIPP will
always remain pro-.
gressive," said Ms. Arn
wine. Ms. Anita Bryant,
regional co-convenor of
the
local
INB1PP, outlined
structure for each
, chapter. She said that, ac-
, cording to the national
rules, each local chapter
must be structured under
four committees: Issues
and Resolutions, Ways
- and Means, Membership
and Finance, and Com
munication; that each
chapter must have at least
25 members and must
hold monthly meetings, A
convention must also be
held by each local chapter.
Ms. Bryant added that
local chapter members
should decide, never
theless, on dealing with
those issues that are vital
to the particular com
munitv. (Continued on Page 3)
State Representative
Kenneth wHB. Spaulding
y3-Drhm),'s..vi:Uddac'.
"edlegisTa'tion" in the "N.C
House of Representatives
which will keep thousands
of registered voters across
' North Carolina from be
ing removed from the
voter registration rolls in
their respective counties.
Spaulding's bill was
sparked by an opinion
given by a North Carolina
Deputy Attorney General
in an interpretation of the
present voting law to the
Wake County Board of
Elections. The Attorney
General's opinion is that
voters who have not voted
within a four-year period
starting from the most re
cent presidential election
should be removed from
the list of qualified voters.
Spaulding disagreed with
the Attorney General's
opinion because he
(Spaulding) "believes that
this would hurt black
voter registration.
Rep. Spaulding's bill
proposes that "The Coun
ty Board of Elections shall
not remove from the per
manent'- -.registration
records the name of any
. person who voted', accor
ding' to the poll or other "
. record of voting, in either
one of the two most recent
successive presidential
elections or in any other
election conducted in the
period between the two
presidential elections."
Rep. Spaulding's bill will
clarify the law and pro
hibit the local Board of
Elections from per
manently removing
qualified voters from the
voting rolls.
"We Ought to be trying
to keep as many legally
registered voters on the
books," he said, "instead
of removing them in a
short period of time
because they fail to vote.
A duly qualified ; voter
should never be deprived -of
his or her constitutional
right to vote."
Rep. Spaulding ' said
that his bill will benefit
and protect thousands of
registered voters who
otherwise could be remov
ed from the voter registra
tion books under the pre
sent law, ' ,
Statistics show that
martv WarV vntrc unt.
only ifr presidential kc
. tions and not in elections
held between presidential
elections. The present
state law would cause
these voters to be removed
from the rolls if they miss
ed one presidential elec
tion and did not vote
within the four-year
period after the presiden
tial election. Spaulding's .
bill is designed to protect
such voters by keeping
them on the books.
Rep. Spaulding said,
"It would be unfair for a
person who only votes in a
presidential election and is
forced to miss the chance
to vote in a presidential
election because of
sickness or some other
reason to be taken off the
books,"
: This legislation would
extend the period of time,
Trom one presidential elec
tion to two successive
presidential elections and
therefore could extend the
period of time- from the
present rour years to eight
years.
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Durham Committee Holds
Installation of '81 Officers
' Sworn In
Greensboro lawyer Walter Johnson was sworn in Friday as the first black chairman ol th
state parole Commission. Governor Jim Hunt spoke at the swearing-in ceremony, which was
held jn the House Chambers of the Capitol building. Secretary of State Thad Eure administered
the oath to Johnson.
The Durham Commit
tee on the Affairs of Black
People held its installation
services for new officers
for 1981, Saturday,
February 8, at Saint
Joseph's AMF Church.
Judge W.G. Pearson
read the oath of office
which he said included a
new clause that binds of
ficers to greater service
and dedication to the peo
ple of the Durham com
munity. Newly installed chair
man of the Committee,
Willie Lovett. told the
members, "We, - as
leaders, have a respon
sibility to carry on the
great traditions of leaders
before us. We should
make sure that there is a
greater contribution of
leadership after we have
served our terms."
Lovett said that there -will
bo difficulties ahead
because of the change in
national leadership. "We
n.ed to reach out to the
community. We need to
reach a point where the
community feels that
belonging to the Durham
Committee is the in
thing," Lovett said.
The Civic Sub
Committee presented a
resolution to former chair
man J.J. "Babe" Hender
son, who was named
Chairman Emeritus of the
organization last
December.
In acknowledging the
resolution, Henderson
told the group, "We don't
know what the future will
pnng, but whatever comes
will depend on the hearts
and minds of the people."
Henderson called upon
blacks to go back during
Black History Month and
read "our history." "If
we read our historv, we
will see that " man
originated in Africa. We;
will see that when the
slaves were brought over
here, that they were
brought for their skills
and creativity as well as
their muscles. We owe it
to ourselves ,o emphasie
in this community that we
are somebody and that
this somebody has got to
be reckoned with." said
Henderson. '
Members of the ex
ecutive committee of the
Durham Committee are
elected for a two-year
term; chairmen and co
chairmen of the ten sub
committees are elected for
one-year terms.
The organization meets
the second and fourth
Thursday of each month.
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