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t$-T UX31MA TISCS SAT.. KOVEMEM 14, 1M1 ps : . V J( V w ; zylz . . ,. -t I Ask The Lawyer Day Set For Nov. 18 People . who are. in need of legal informa tion will have an oppor- with attorneys when the. are in areas such" as Durham and Raleigh landlordtenant rela Call For Action Offices tions. consumer affairs: tumty to talk " directly t and the North Carolina v child custody, wills and ' ' . .;. Bar Association join "insurance. over thirty other Call For . All calls will be free Action cities across the and will be taken off the country connections ' in high places, ' politicians" ran . for cover, the city of San Francisco was in shock; and a nation sought answers for the event. In time, other news replaced the Jonestown tragedy and books and ; movies have depicted the ; event. But for this 'reporter, along with many Americans, the true story of what caused .over 900 people to die ii 'a remote country still has .more questions than answers. Tragically1, we . : will probably never learn !the truth concerning a imad prophet and his doomed ban of followers. '. in sponsoring the fifth annual "Ask the Lawyer Day." Durham and Raleigh Call For Action phone lines will be turned over to , volunteer lawyers from the Young Lawyers Association ana tne cost North Central Legat allows Assistance Program. They will man the phones from 3 to 7 p.m., on Wednesday, November 18. These volunteer at torneys will provide in formation on how to choose a' lawyer, what costs are to be expected, what a person's rights! air u confidence. Neither 'the; callers nor the lawyers will be iden tified, the program is designed to provide a service to those people who hesitate to consult a lawyer because of the callers free per-' sonal legal advice for the price of a phone call,'' 'says Mrs. Mary Livas Smith, : director of the Durham Call For Actidn ' Office. , - - r. . Call For Action is a national telephone infor mation, referral and ac tion service staffed by . .2,000 volunteers in over ' thirty cities It "is af- filiated with radio and ,,. .TV ' broadcasters and, sewes of 250.000 people yearly. Subscribe To 1 , ... . The Carolina Itmes Redd Foxx began his show-biz career in a watt tub bend that played on street comers in St Lout sometimes earning as muchA as 1 560 a nig Deltas Donate ToUNCF St. Augustine's College official Purdie Anders excepts $100 donation to the United Negro College Fund on Friday, October 30, presented by Ms. Andia Moore and Ms. Laurie Thompson on behalf of Kappa Omicron Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., at UNC-Chapel Hill. The money was raised in a recent one-day solicitation held at the Chapel Hill campus. Ms. Sheila Whitehead, first vice president, coordinated the campaign, JONESTOWN A MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED - The unbelievable hor ror has faded with time Jonestown is no longer a front page story. Since it occurred around this time of year (November 18, 1978), more than likely, it will appear as a news update. But for most Americans, it is now one of those 1 tragic, crazy incidents that once dominated the news, but is now a bad memory that is best forgotten. I can't really explain why, but the Jonestown tragedy that eventually , took the lives of over 900 j Americans in a bizarre ; setting in the jungles of Guyana, South America, ; stui fascinates me even after three years. For , sure, before November 18, 1978, I have never " heard' of Jonestown, the Peoples' Temple cult, or it's leader, the Rev. Jim Jones. . At the time ' that Jonestown burst upon the world headlines, I was a sports reporter for the campus newspaper at ! Fresno State (Calif.), j Even though Fresno is less than 20Q miles from i San Francisco, the home ! base of the doomed cult, j and I had lived in Fresno j, for the better part of j' three years, I had never i heard of any of the j sh nanigans that would . soon shock most Americans over the. Thanksgiving holiday j season. Saturday, November : 18, 1978 had dawned! cloudy and cold in' Fresno, and, like the! weather, my spirits were! drab. The one bright spot that I looked for-; ward to that weekend: was that in a few hours, I ; would go over to somei friends' apartment and we would watch some ; collegiate football games ' and discuss Thanksgiv-: ing plans. ' Later that afternoon, I decided to return to my apartment for an after noon nap. Just before I dozed off, I heard over' the bedside ratiio that1 California Congressman , Leo Ryan had been fatal ly ambushed on a remote airstrip in Guyana, South America, When I awoke later j that night, I expected the news to be filled with the j ' ambuush (probably by ; some anti-American fanatics, I thought) and it was, but I was shocked to hear sketchy reports that Ryan had been kill ed by members of a, fanatical American cult that had set up a colony! in the backwoods of i Guyana. Before I could makej heads or tails of the! already bizarre story! over the next 24 hours,' an even larger tragedy began to come across the- news wires ana over television. By Monday, November 20, it was known that the people that had killed Ryan and several others at the airstrip were members of the "Peoples' Temple", a religious cult that had f By Elson Armstrong, Jr. . built quite a following in i even darker San Francisco and other California locations1 since arriving there from the midwest in the late 1960's. I then learned that group's leader was a Rev. Jim Jones, a fanatical Indiana-born religious fire breather who had built up a following in San Fran cisco's black neighborhoods and that, many of his followers were either very young or very old persons who really believed that the Rev. Jones was offering them a better life. (Jones' followers also in cluded a number of young white activists). By Tuesday, November 21, the in credible story took an turn. Guyanese troops who had reached Jonestown reported finding scores of dead people. First reports said that it ap peared that most died, from a suicide ritual. By Wednesday, the mass suicide had a body count of 400 and a few sur vivors said that most had voluntarily at the urg-: ing of Jones drunk a cyanide-laced brew of flavored ade from a large tin tub and waited to die. At this time, I had had ; enough of that death : story. Four hundred peo ple committing suicide !' just blew my mind and 1 1 didn't want to hear any j more. 1 Like most Americans, I wanted to turn my at-; tention to Thanksgiving which meant good food, 1 football, and time off from school. Oddly enough, I spent that holi day in the South Bay, only fifty mile? south of San Francisco, where thej news from Jonestown dominated all the media. : While watching foot-! ball scores, the final magnitude of the tragedy ! was revealed through a. news report that the I body count was now over 900 and it appeared i that most of the Jungle colony had died in the mass murder-suicide which included the leader, Jim Jones. 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