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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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VOLUME 60 NUMBER J
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JANUARY 23; 1982
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Minority Participation Mses Qu
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By Donald Alderjnan dpwntOwn ,
Durham leaders began " development!", . Coun-'
addressing the question, cilman Carroll Pledger'
ot minority participation; ' said ; at tne councils'
in downtown develop-' regular meeting Monday
ment after Mondavs night. . , , . '
unveiling of plans for the '
Durham Center a pro'
posed $50 million hotel,,
civic center and office
building complex. ,
"We are all conscious
of minority concern of :
involvement ' (in'
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minority participation is
going to pop up time and
time - again," Coun-
cilman Ralph Hunt?
noted, ' adding, "We
; (councjlmen) are going!
,to have to give the com-'
munity answers. Equah fiaTd, "I can throw that!
Opportunity Employer is p ball back to the city.
fine. Show me how you Make it a condition of ;
plan to implement the approval on the bond
slogan : in terms of .issue. You tell me what1"
employment in the you want. I won't be"1
area J. 'V around six months from '
In response to Hunt's now dealimr with - this .
comments, ? Developer ;
1 Brian Johnson ' of the '
Nashville, Tennessee;
firm of Dobson &
Johnson, Inc., the pro
ject's selected developer,
black support Is needed
to produce & vbte for the
' bond issue. ,
j "The question is
! whether , . you ' have
f enough unemployed to
r build a ' $50 million
fOTMAtlHal -
issue, v v.. r j Johnson. "I don't think
The discussion came j whites can do this pro
after Councilman Maceo .r Sect alone.'
Sloan1 asked Johnson
how will blacks "get a
piece of the pie," saying
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F4nance Committee
f members will discuss the.-
issue of black participa- J
tion and funding for the
i v public portion of the
project, and the full
council will decide the
issues after public hear
ings have been held , in
the city's six wards and
before the full council.
One way to assure that :
blacks benefit from the
developent is to stipulate;
that a percentage of con-i
tracts needed to build the
complex should go to
minorities,. Hunt, said.
He said Atlanta had no
problems in securing 25
per cent minority con
tractors in constructing a
recently tuilt airport
' there.
It was pointed out also
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A TIGHT-LIPPED WAYNE WILLIAMS leaves the Fulton County jail to
face another day of his trial. Williams Is charged with two of the 28 child slay
ings during the 22 months of terror that gripped Atlanta's black
neighborhoods.
Circumstantial
THE DURHAM CENTER chapelhxlsiview
proposal Heoqmnwnas
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" ' r "1 7 U ' u Ry Trellie L. Jeffers produced Mrs' Margaret and one -oL'i U-be circumstantial evidence
-v Y , fcT. iT --" A I LAN lAij UA.it . carter who testified that tound in" ane " Chat-. wnen - me - gmmena,
III J f l'l Y ' rwan.qoes no expca io ana wayne' y Williams ed last May tour days 'as anaron . ;onnson,
Iff iJitjU , bring a witness forward talking on a bench in a after Williams' car 'was could not be. located.
Evidence Growing
inst Prime Atlanta Suspect
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Redistrictihg Lines
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By Donald Alderman
A" proposal recom
mending that the
legislative redisricting
committee consider a
combination of single-,
member and - multi
member districts in reap
portioning the , state's
congressional and
legislative lines lias, been
offered by a Durham
legislator. -. ' . '
Representative .Ken
neth B. Spaulding said
Monday the state could
best ' satisfy - U.S.
would favor a proposal
using a dual approach.
The proposal suggests
the use of single-member
districts 1 where ;the
minority population is
heavily concentrated
when:
There has not been a
minority. legislator
elected Or consistently
elected from the district
since, the last reappor-.
tionment. .
. --The minority
population is sizeable
and numerically capable
Supreme Court redistric- of electing or strongly in
ting mandates by , using
the dual approach. The
high court, in ordering
reapportionment' every
ten years, mandated the
lines not dilute minority
voting strength and that
they adhere to a one per
son, one vote concept.
State Senator Kenneth
Royall said last week he
fluencing the election of
a representative of their
choice. . '
' The use of a multi
member district would
have the effect of
diluting minority voting
strength wjthin the
district. r
.Single-member
districts, Spaulding said,
: may also be considered
. when the lines are prac
tically the same as pre
existing county lines and
when the district is
already in compliance
with the high court maty
dates.
U.S. Justice Depart
ment , has struck : down
the state's Senate and
House redisricting'
plans, ruling that the
plans may dilute the
voting strength of
minorities. A special
General Assembly ses
sion to redraw the plans
.is expected in early
February.
If the minority,
population within a
district is
Spaulding
who has observed any of
the 28 Atlanta murders,
indication te;f M ; cir
cumstantial v evidence
seems td be growing
against 1 thje prime
suspect, t f Wayne
Williams. Williams went '
"ontriat on' December ' 28
for the . nturders -of,
Nathaniel -, Cater and
JimmV Lee Pavne. the
diluting minority voting 'iast two victims of the 28 :
strength. . slainmissing, children
Spaulding. said the1 and young "adults, of.
proposal addresses the? Atlanta. ? . i
question of, concentra Last weekl'during the
tion or dispersion of- trial th hmcprution
Northwest Atlanta park spotted by police officers
three days before Cater on the bridge of the river
disappeared, Mrs. Carter after the officers heard a
population is numerical'
ly capable of electing a
representative and . the
use - of a larger : multi
member district would
have the effect ".of
small multi-member
districts should be con
sidered if a minority has
not been elected from the
district; the minority '
minority populations in
urban and rural settings,
and provides the flex
ibility to insure the
voting strength of
minorities is not weaken
ed. He said the approach
of having all districts
single- or multi-
scattered,, membered "appears to
said, then , me to place our state in a
said that she got 4 good
look at Williams and was
"sure;-that he. was the
right person."
What "was significant
in"H: .Mrs:-. -Carter's (
testimony to the prosecu-
tion's case was that
Williams had said last
May that he knew "none
of the murdered victims,
their families or their;
associates." ,
Cater's body, the last
of the 28 murder victims
loud splash. The officers'
had been staked out at
the river on a hunch that
the murderer had chosen
it as a dumping ground
.Williams told the of
ficers, when questioned
about his motives for be
ing on the bridge at 2
a.m., that he had
dumped garbage in the
river on his way to meet'
a girlfriend. But :
Williams' story produce
ed still another piece of
Also,
number,
gave, as
number
business
the.',, telephone
which Williams
Ms. Johnson's
was that of a
located outside
straight jacket posture"
which does not consider
the state's rural and ur
ban settings. '
ComeHpme:
Atlanta's MLK Week,
1982
By trellie L. Jeffers
ATLANTA - Despite
the record snow storm of .
. the century. ; with
temperatures that vir
tually paralyzed Atlanta,
, white and black
celebrities came here last
week to celebrate the
53rd birthday of the slain
civil rights leader, Dr.
, Martin Luther King, Jr..
, Under the theme,
"Come Home", a week
of workshops, seminars,
music and marches went,
as scheduled in spite of
ice-covered streets and
five degrees below zero'
. 'veather. :
Among the
distinguished speakers
. and entertainers for Dr.
. King's birthday activities
were Rev. Jesse Jackson
Senator Edward Ken-
. .nedy (D-Mass.), Rev. '
r' Walter fauntroyj
(D-DC), Dick Gregory,!
Larry Speakes from the i
.White ; House, Rep.
Robert Garcia (D-NY),
and singers Tony Ben
nett, Roberta Flack,
Peabo Bryson, Stevie
Wonder, Harry
Belafonte. Joining -the
group in Atlanta were
' Georgia State Senator
Julian Bond and Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young.
- The theme, "Come
Home", symbolized not
only that blacks should
return to the ideals of
Dr. Martin Luther King, '
Jr., and begin the
business of building their
lives according to their
present and growing
needs, but also that
blacks have The Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center
for Non-Violent Change
and Ebenezer Baptist .
Church the church of
- Dr. King, to come home
to, according to Mrs.
Coretta Scott King,, wife,
of Dr. King. Throughout,'
the week of activities,
other speakers stressed
the importance of
redefining and. reviving
Dr. King's dreams.
At a rally beginning
the week of activities,
Monday, January II,
Senator Bond told the
crowd, "Twenty years
ago, black people sat
down in order to stand
up and bring segregation
crashing to its knees.
Now, blacks do not tap
their power at the ballot
box; they do not make
demands on those that
they elect to represent
them, and they do not in-,
elude Africa on their
agenda.".
Senator Bond called
upon blacks .to begin,
working actively for
their liberation, in
cluding giving financial
assistance to finance the
'cause. AHf'.r!;;:-
At a press conference,'
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January 12, attended by
Rep. Robert Garcia
(D-NY), the plans for a
coalition between blacks
and ;,.Hispanics was
discussed. Blacks and
Hispanics are tapidly
becoming America's
largest minorities, and
Mrs. King expressed the
desire to see them pool
their resources for a bet
ter life. : .'
"Blacks and Hispanics,
are being blocked every
day while Orientals and
Poles are being told to
come on . over", ? said
Rep. Garcia. i- p:
Senator Kennedy wfs. .
honored by a reception
at the Pcachtree Plaza on
January 13, where, he,
told, the group that he,
was committed to Civil NATHAN PEL CATER, the 28th murder victim in Atlanta's ctee of the
Rights. ' Martin Luther mss and murdmd Wat.k youths, who was pulled from the Chattahoochee
King, Jr. s dream is a Kw May 23, 1931, fjke sixteen other youths before hire, Cater was asphyx-
dream for a 1 Americans, aed Fl5er8 foond ot eater's body are providing a major part of the clr-
and it (his birthday) must cumantui evidence against Wayne Williams, now a trial as a major suspect
luomtnuea un rage 0; H tlac slaylncs. . w
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-... .. - - I,. . nnji iiiijh at
the area.
Another witness, Mrs.
Willie Mae Mathis,
whose. ; son was also
murdered, testified5that
her young daughter im
mediately recognized
"Williams from the televi
sion ; when he was ar
. rested asThe man she saw
"riding by th Mathis'
house." And a young
boy testified that
1 Williams paid him $20 to
distribute leaflets: adver
tising for talented black
youth. So far, the oppor
tunities that Williams
was offering these
"talented" youth have
not been clearly
established.
The prosecution plans ,
0 discredit the informa
tion that Williams, has
: given sjnte he became a
suspect in the case, and
in so doing, the plan is to
IinkWilliams to possibly
'twenty Of the murders.
- 'Attorney rMary
Welcome, ' - Williams
chief attorneyhad con
tended that Williams'
short, stocky build made
it unlikely that he could
overpower both Cater
and Payne; however, an
expert testified last week
that "Cater was strangl
ed by a type of choke us
ed in the military, one
that is used for a large
person" and apparently
one that could be suc
cessfully executed by a
small person. -
The attorney who has
been most vocal during
the trial is Alvin Bynum,
a white Mississippian,
employed after Ms.
Welcome fired Tony Ax
am. Until last week
Bynum had created
doubt in much of the
testimony, but it is now
believed .that these last
witnesses make - the
whereabouts -tf Sharon
Johnson a crucial ele
ment in the Williams
defense.' Without Ms. ?
Johnson, the ; feeling is
that the circumstantial
evidence against .
: Williams will continue to; ,
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