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QCH-A Wilson Library N C Colleclion ■ 1 NC 275J4' Can Cuange the Course of Black History for at Least The Next TEN Years 1 (USPS 091-380) Words Of Wisdom To perceive things in the germ is intelligence. ‘Lao-Tse Distinction is the consequence, never the ob ject, of a great mind. 'Washington Allston ULUME 60 - NUIVIBER 23 OURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1982) TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS lany On NAACP Executive Committee ^Contradict Prexy’s Mandate gy Donald Alderman George Frazier, presi- jl of the Durham iBrancli of the NAACP, ms Tie has a-manijate , Ifrom the organization’s. Itsecutive committee to : Lport the coming fc|(),5 million ■ bond leferendum for a pro-' Used' downtown civic . tenter and predicts the - Lee will pass with Sgnificant 'black, kup- art. But about half of the , organization’s executive , , Committee -.contradicts: Jar view, with at least ^ One saying that tJ^ pjesi- ■ • jijt’i - position Ms a '“sabotage of. efforts by Jurham’s four major, lilacic. organizations to, present a unite^ont on I Ire civic center jssae'”. ■ It sfems that, only a, Imall'handful:, of the,, [(AACP’s '.executive; oinmittee voted to en-i porse the :civ(c center [ote. T/ie Carolina Jims’ telephone poll . found only six meinbers V the committee who ' treed with the decision.' Kur of those mefhbers lere present at the jieeti!!g...last yveels_.rind_ oted to enoorse me eiTqc > enter. Two others were" fot at the meeting, but aid they agreed with the cision. T.R. Speight, a , iurham businessman, a [ember of the NAACP kecutive committee as Sell as other nrominent Jack organizations, said {e felt that there was a Executive Committee Poll 1. Nathaniel White, Sr.: didn’t attend the meeting and disagreed with tjie vote. 2. Dr. James A. Williams: didn’t attend, ■ t)ut would have Voted with the majority. 3. T.R. Speight: didn’t attend, would have voted ‘no’.' 4. Ms. Louise Weeks: preseftt and voted ‘yes’. 5. Attorney Shirley Fulton: present but left before vote and would not have voted. 6. George White: present but outside of meeting room at time of vote, would not i have voted'. 7. Ms. Bertie Bates: hasn’t present, pro bably would have voted for it. 8. Redditt Alexander: wasn’t present, would have abstained: 9. MS. Sarah Jones: wasn’t present, would Wfve abstained. ■ !10. Ms. Doris Carr: wasn’t present, would have abstained. ■ 11. '; Ms, Florine Roberson: present, voted 'yes’. 12. J.A. Tucker: present, voted ‘yes’.’ 13:^Ms. Ricki Lyons: wasn’t present, would" have Voted‘no’. ohn Mason: wasn't present, don’t know how I’d have voted. ' 15. Ms. Ethelene Prayloe: wasn’t present, would have voted ‘no’.' 16. Ms. Christine Strudwick: wasn’t present, would have voted ‘no’. 17. Ms. Addie’Barbee: present, voted fyes’-: 18. Ms. Mable Powell: wasn’t present, refus- ■ ed tp. say how she would have voted. ’ 19. George Frazier: present, didn’t vote. 48). Linwood Blount: present, refused,to say how he voted. 2J. Thomas Steele: couldn’t be reached. 22. Ms. Alice Wilson: reported as present, but couldn’t be reached. * 23. Richard Peacock: couldn’t he reached. 'turn our gun in the sarhe direction on this issue” . icit agreement between *[ jygj want everyone le four major black fto know that I was not a rganizations that we part of* that NAACP Quid “work together to ivote and that 1 disagree Grimes Case Goes To Grand Jury — NAACP Joins Effort By Isaiah Singletary District Attorney Dan Edwards said* Mon- lay he will present the lobert Grimes case to he Durham . County Irand Jury for indict- leiii, but he refused to ay what charges he will eek'agairtsr the man cur- endy charged with in voluntary manslaughter ind hit and run. The rand Jury will consider he case (during it’s July ession, according to Ed vards. Meanwhile, a private irosecutor, ■ state JAACP General 'oun.sel Angus Thomp- on, a Lumberton at- orney, is now working' >n (be case, assisting Ed- 'ards with the - coming wttn it.” The vote in question was reported by Frazier last week when he told local media that the organization’s executive committee Had agreed to prosecution. Thompson was ac- icepted as a private pro- ^secutor in the case, ac cording to Edwards, “because of the com munity interest generated by the case. “1 was happy,” Ed wards said, “to have Mr. Thompson assist us in this case because of the /community interest Ashown in this case.” Edwards also noted i that it is not unusual for - a private attorney to be ' allowed to assist the pro- ; secution. “If families or ' organizations have a special intere.st in a ■ case,” he .said, “they can 'request a private pro- T.secutor and usually that ; request is honored.” the request for the private prosecutor was made by the Durham Branch of the NAACP. Grimes, 19, who gave • his address as 2901 Carver St., is charged ini the traffic death of Chester Reams who was struck and kWltd by a car on the night of May 3 as he walked along Guess Road with a white woman. The car sped away with it’s lights off after crashing into Reams. Originally, police treated the fatality as an accident, and Crimes, who was arrested three days after the incident, 'was charged with in- . voluntary manslaughter ■ -(Continued on Page 9) support the civic center bond referendum. However, a poll of the i executive committee by The Carolina Times shows that at least twelve members were not at the meeting. The poll also :shows that ten of these; twelve do not agree with [thQ decision to support 'the civic center. . “My vote would have been ‘no’,”, said Ms.| Christine Strudwick, a member of the executive committee. “I don’t wheel and deal in buying and selling votes.” Frazier said Monday that he considers the vote a mandate from the ex ecutive committee. However, Frazier refus ed to say how many members attended the meeting and voted, and he al^o refused to explain the - number of the ex^ ecutive committee re quired to constitute a quorum. He said he did not vote on the issue. “The committee met in executive session,” IFrazier said, “and the details of the vote is the organization’s private business.” But the impact of the vote, putting the NAACP in favor of the bogd referendum to build the civic center re sounds throughout the black community. For the past five mon ths, Durham’s black icommuniLy and, city ofz. ficials have been locked in a fierce political strug- gle Qver the issues of the ' civic center and the redevelopment of Hayti. Hayti was a predominantly black, commercial and residen- itial neighborhood, razed labout twenty years ago ;by the city’s urban (renewal plan. It has yet’ Uo be redeveloped. ’ In recent months, at least four proposals have ,beeri advanced for the development of Hayti,' none of whichvhas been approved. Back . in ^February, when the question of a civic center became public, and a bond referendum ap-: peared imminent, many iblack leaders said: If^ there are no assurances' on Hayti, the black com-, munily will not vote for the civic center. Since that challenge, however, several black leaders have broken ranks. First, one major elected official, Ralph Hunt, a member'of the : Durham City Council, said that Hayti and the civic center are not (Continued on Page 10) , - y Bonnie Fights Mrs. Annie Futrel! ■ ; - 'f - - Durham Striders Back Celebrates 109 Keep Torch See Page 17 Years Tuesday Burning Sec Page 10 See Page 5 Charged With Embezzling $21 Million Former boxing promoter Harold Rossfields Smith (r), arrives at U.S. District Court with two of his at torneys. Smith could be on the receiving end of a long sentence when he appears before a federal judge lor sentercing.'Smith and Sammie Marshal were convicted of embezzling $21 million from Wells Fargo Bank;* following a seven-week trial. lpi Phom Three Black Professional - Groups to Hold First Confab By Donald Alderman There’s more ■ to medicine, dentistry or law than the practice. Ailments other than hay fever, a bad tooth or a law suit seriously affect the professional’s patient or client. Ailments such as a low economic base or a lack of political representation, also need ; treatment. To begin dealing with these other ailments, •three of North Carolina’s largest black professional organiza tions will meet June ; 18-20 in Winston-Salem. This will be the first time that black lawyers, doc tors and dentists will hold a joint convention. “■We’re trying create a working rela-i tionship in tHe profes-. sional community,” said br. Stanley Fleming, a Durham dentist and president of the Old North State Dental ^Society, “to do more for blacks and the poor to I better serve them in these difficult economic times.” Joining members of the 63-year-oId dental I society will be members |of the Old North State i Medical Society and the iN.C. Association of Black Lawyers. According'-to Attorney G.K. Butterfield, Jr., of Wilson, president of the lawyers association, one of the top priorities for discussion will be the establishment of a fuli- [ume lobbying office to lobby-all branches and levels of government on concerns critical to- blacks, and to monitor local state and federal, . legislation. IF approved, the office will be financ ed by the professionals. Butterfield cautioned, however; that the plan is still on the drawing.l board. ' ' But political activity Is ionly part of the plan. According to Fleming, the professionals' are' concerned about the lack of economic activity in the black community,) mainly the reduction of the number of black’ businesses in the state [over the past ten years, j “We expect this td'B'e the beginning of a long relationship of planning, tiYo Black Nurses Charge bounty With Discrimination Black nurses who have (orked for the Durham •omty Health Depart- ■'tt for as many as fif- l*” years have con-: istently been denied toniotions while white '■tses who have worked aly two years have been romofed, according to „"»rse who has filed' a I Jhl Rights suit against •'county, Nurse Delores H. ™glin, who has work- “ us a nurse for the Wti department since J’ uaid she has been ™ repeatedly, that she , be promoted higher level jobs Witte available. ,1™)’ promoted a Oman ' whp had , 'l.in the department y. S'})' six ■ months. Jthit-blapk nurse, u,belhn in the ' -'KV.T)";. Rearly, ; twenty ■ years was also passed over, Ms. Vaughn jsaid. ; Ms. Vaughn and Ms. Ruth Amey, a twenty year county employee, are scheduled to appear in federal court in' Durham later this month. They are charg ing racial discrimination and are asking for back pay. ' • All of this comes in the I wake of statements made by high level county of ficials that the county (fioes not need! an affir- imative action program ; iand that hiring d&cisions i land promotions are has-. ed on merit. Nurses! ■; Vaughn and Amey disagree. County Attorney' Lester Owen said that the suit, that has been pending since 1974 has ( cost the_county ^xorbi-1 of tant” amounts money. . Two weeks ago. Coun ty Commissioner Dillard Teer told The Carolina Times that affirmative ‘action was not needed and that the county has a .problem finding qualified blacks for .employment. Both Nurse Vaughn and Nurse Amey are licensed by the state of North Carolina. Ms. Vaughn said that she once applied for a promotion when a nurs ing supervisor retired. , “They promoted a white woman who had been there only two years. I had much more seniority than she did. I think that 1 am not being promoted- because of race. It is just that sim ple. I have suffered and I am tired of it.” Some Believe Hayti and Downtown Civic Center Are Related By Isiah Singletary - Many black businessmen here con tend that the black com munity’s vote on the pro posed $13.5 million downtown civic center should be tied directly to assurances on the revitalization of Hayti. “The only mechanism we have is the ballot and it has been our most dT- fective weapon,” said, Eric Michaux, a local at torney who also directs Union Insurance and. Realty Company, vTe) well as , several other •family businesses. “1 agree that the black com- murnty should have assurances on . Hayti before ,we vote to ap- iprove the downtown. iplan,” -'i This position is not unanimous, however, because at least three well-known black businessmen disagree. They are Asa T. :Spaulding, .Sr., former N.C. Mutual Rjesident; W.J. Kennedy, III, .Mutual’s current presi dent and. board chair man; and Maceo K. jSloan, attorney, city councilman and Mutual iofficial. ; Kennedy, for example 'does not believe Hayti will’ever return to its former prominence. “1 see Hayti in a dif- iferent perspective than ■|Other blacks.” he said. |“Oid Haj»i will never (again be a center for iblack- business. To that jt will is simply nostalgic attach ment. And I also would 'not tie the development of Hayti to the civic center. Hayti was a thriving black business district, ringed and dotted by jtesidential areas that {ranged from ramshackl- ied to upper middle class. Then a 1962 bond referendum paved the way for Hayti to bej dismantled under the ur ban renewal program. ;More than 100 |birsinesses and about 600 families were moved from about 54 acres of! inner city (and, fondly[ palled Hayti. Today, (some twenty years later, 1 Hayti remains a barren (wasteland. Most of businessmen interviewed' prefaced their comments by saying they feel the black community was mistreated by the urban irenewal program. They lall agreed that (assurances- on Hayti’s {revitalization should precede the black com munity’s support of the proposed civic center. ' i F.V. “Pete” Allison, president of Mutual Sav ings and Loan and a (member of the Durham Center steering commit tee, for example, believes 'the area should be developed as a racially ; mixed business district with blacks having significant input in the (redevelopment process. T “I also : ;el”, Allison 0(Contin,ued work and ihitiationT Fleming said, “to propel the masses in the -mainstream and to better negotiate the system.” Fleming said the groups will propose solu tions different than some already sought by blacks. “We’re trying not to be reactionary but- rather we’ll be trying to -initiate programs for the- long term betterment of the community.” Officials of the three groups said the conven- ,tion will consist mainly of discussions, and com mittees would be formed jto implement definite (decisions. ^ Ac'ording to Dr. Sidney Barnwell of New Bern, president of the medical society, the groups will also discuss the impact of the state .Block Grant program on (the medical field. The jcocern there is that 'Medicaid has been lumped in the Block Grant program and a .large percentage of the patients served by black! (dentists and doctors payi their bills with Medicaid.! Also to be diSussed, fearnwell said, is the need (for more blacks in the (medical profession Cur rently, there are about 1222 black doctors in the state, which is about three per cent of the state’s doctors. Getting blacks into medical school, retaining them and recruiting them to the state will be main topics. ( "Georgia State Senator Julian Bond will address the groups Sttii-day night on how ti ir-pact the legislative process. Ben Ruffin, assistant to Governor Jim Hunt, and State Senator Henrv ; Frye will also address fhfe : groups.
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