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Reporter Gcos Day after demonstrators have mar died down the road.; They have sat in the' roadway, and day after day, patrolmen have ar-, rested them." Almost 300 have been - arrested. Some were charged with impeding traffic. Others " have been charged with, resisting arrest. v I was charged with both. . I couldn't believe it. 1; had - come up here to reportand later write a : story, and here ! was be--ing hauled away in the arms (not gently, mind you) of four uniformed ,. patrolmen. Without warning, one; began bending my hand back toward my wrist, apparently in some strange ' ritual of pain that dictated that somehow I must pay for forcing him to be here. "Are you trying to break my arm," I asked as calmly as the pain would allow. "Well, stand up and walk then," one officer said sternly a punch line that would have gone over well in a com edy show since I. was be? ing carried, and standing could easily have been resisting arrest. But this was not a comedy show. This was for real. I was going to jail. . Jail is neither new, nor frightening. I have seen them before, as I have seen other, demonstra tions during the 60's as the civil rights movement peaked, and ultimately waned. But there was something , different about this demonstra tion. First of . all, it's in tegrated, which , during the 60's was not seen that oten, especially in the South. Second, these people say very clearly, they are, not struggling ' for nebulous goals. They are fighting for their lives. "We are fighting for our grandchildren,' one: woman Jhas said., - Seconds later, I was in the'prison bus. There were about ten' other arrested demonstrators on the bus at this time, in cluding Fauntroy. Most of the arrested at this point were women. The demonstrators' .were talking and chan ting, and , suddenly so meone smelled gas. At first, we thought it wasamonia. But it smell ed like the gas the Army uses in its training pro grams to teach soldiers to survive gas warfare. I spent four years in the Navy during the early 70's, and I went through the training. - l ater, I learned that i was on the "red flag" bus, one of about ten prison buses parked : alonji the roadway to haul arrested demonstrators to jail. The "red Hag" bus was reserved, according to patrolmen, for those demonstrators who resisted arrest. According to Captain R. A. Clark, troop com mander for the patrol district that includes Warren and 12 other counties, there is rio sped fie de f i n i t ion of resisting arrest, , or im peding traffic." "It is all a matter of how the officer-' on the scene interprets the statute as he understands it," Clark. said during a telephone interview. "We have said that Mr. Singlctary was impeding traffic and resisted ar- Continued from Front) dav. the rest, ft will be up to the j courts to decide u that interpretation . is correct." ,1 am scheduled' to go to ": Warren County District Court on Oc- m tober 29. 1 spent most of . my . time under arrest in War-. ren County on the bus. " We sat along the road side in front of the land fill for about 30 minutes before being driven downtown to the old fashioned, -rather decrepit looking two-; story jail house building. There we spent another 45 minutes or so on the bus. ; Then we spent another , 45 minutes or so locked inside a chain link fence yard outside the jail ; house. Finally, they booked, photographed, processed and jailed us. In the small cellbock, it was a flashback to the 60's. For hours, the arrested . demonstrators talked about the Warren Coun ty struggle in the context of other civil rights fights. E.J. Wilson, a pastor from Wrightsville, Georgia, recalled his in itiation into civil rights when he was a teenager. They had started with the segregated theater, . and ultimately that demonstration had gathered support and' spread as this one has. Vincent Alston, 18, a student at Warren Coun ty High School, talked of his initiation into passive resistance. "Last week, I was ar rested for the second time," he said. "One of the highway patrolmen ' came up to me and said, 'You're mine.' Then he dragged me across the street, kicked me in the buttocks and threw me in the bus. But I'm not go ing to let that stop me. I know that what I'm do ing is right. I've been talking to students at school trying to get them to participate." Another student, Mike Roberts,- 17, who like Alston waSu 'igdMig through his third arrest last Monday, talked of the importance of this struggle. "A lot of students think we are crazy," Roberts said, "but that doesn't stop us. We just keep on talking to them and some of them are starting to listen. When they see that Vince and I have, been arrested and still keep coming back, it makes them stop and think." Roberts says he. doesn't need to think about the Tightness of what he's doing, despite the fact that last week, according to him, one iroopcr hit him with a billy club, "and another came up, grabbed by testicles and squeezed as hard; as he could. I wasn't able to- gel his name, but ( did complain about it." Several hours later. sheriffs deputies began releasing demonstrators. Congressman Fauntroy was the first to be releas ed. Several people, in cluding Mrs. Joseph l.owery, wife of the director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Roberts and Alston, decided to stay in jail overnight to pro test what they call "their illegal arrests." Most of the released demonstrators joined a protest meet in! ai the Warren County Cour thouse. , I headed back to Durham. . n I r " - I y fUP.DAT, OUIUKEA Z, ISWZ-IHfc tAKULINA llMti- Durham CommsUc; Continued from Front) TRAUGOTT SCHyLZ, second from right, superintendent of education for the West German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, visited North Carolina Central University recently. Shown greeting him are, from left, Ricky Murdock, a senior management and marketing major, Chancellor Albert N. Whiting, and (extreme right) Dr. Cleveland Hammonds, superintendent of the Durham City Schools. Teen Fathers Take Fatherhood Seriously By Henry Duvall A boy in a foster home in Washington, D.C., became a father at age 12. Although a child himself,' he maintains contact with the 14-year-old mother and lends support the best way he can. Another young father, an 18-year-old in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has a fairly decent job, plans to buy a home soon, and in tends to marry the mother of his child. While much public at tention has focused traditionally on the un married teenage mother, the adolescent father vir tually has been excluded from the family picture. But the attitude toward fatherhood for most young fathers- to. day seems to tional cQncer; the mother and cording to a study con ducted by Dr. Leo E. Hendricks, J senior research associate at Howard University's In stitute for Urban Affairs and Research in Washington, D.C. "Adolescent fathers are extremely interested in their children," says Hendricks. "We found relationships to be serious," and a "genuine concern for the mother." In a survey of unwed adolescent fathers, Hen 1" i' 4 M f: X d child, ac- ;;f.'i;.3. V -jm . attar-' jf UIAU IIIIVI .. vm. ' In drawing a profile, the unwed teenage father tends not be a chur chgoer,' doesn't use con traceptives, and is likely to be a" school dropout. "This, was consistent in dricks discovered that 96 ' all the cities," says Hen oer cent of the vouna dricks. And adolesent lathers expressed con cern for their child's future, and 80 per cent saw nothing wrong in having a child out of wedlock. Moreover, the majori ty of the young fathers perceived love in their relationships, with 77 per cent indicating no serious problems bet ween them and the young mothers. Hendricks has col lected data over the past two . years from 194 young fathers under the age of 21. "One-on-onc interviews," he says, were conducted in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Chicago, Il linois, Columbus, Ohio: Albuquerque, N.M.; and Washington, D.C. Most of the adolescents surveyed were black, but Hispanic, Anglo and native Americans were fathers tend to be bet ween the ages of 16 and 18. Little research has been done on teenage fathers. Hendricks is on ly one of a few social scientists in the nation who has worked on this subject. "Fathers aren't as visible as mothers," Hendricks notes, "and they just don't come forth." Teenage fathers tend to come from large, two parent families. In the study, 59 per cent grew up with both-parents in the home and 64 per cent came from families with five or more children, with 75 per cent of the young fathers feeling closer to their mothers than to their fathers when they were growing up. On sexual attitudes, 55 per cent of the voune Teen Fathers And Child fathers reported that they learned about sex from a friend. Sixty three per cent reported they had their first sexual encounter with a girl by the time they were 13 years old. The study also found that the majority of the fathers were against abortion. Ninety percent of the youths reported they disapproved of abortion. "In general, there had been on-going relation ships," Hendricks ex plains, "not fly-by-night relationships." There were some dif ferences between ethnic groups. White fathers were older than black and Hispanic fathers when they first engaged in sexual . intercourse, and more white fathers arc employed than those in the two other groups. Whites also tend to marry sooner after the pregnancies. The . number of teenage pregnancies in this country increased during the '70s, with the biggest increase among youths between the ages of II and 15. savs Ms. Lucy Eddingef, informa tion officer for the Of fice of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser vices. The number of teenage births, however, declined in the '70s while the number of abortions rose. There were 657,000 such births in 1970 com pared to 560,000 in 1979, says Eddinger. .Among this age group, abortions numbered 244,070 in 1973 and 433,900 in 1978. Births out of wedlock have risen substantially. In 1960, there were 91,660 such teenaee bir ths, 199,900 in 1970, and 262,700 by 1979. accor ding to Eddinger. pwlors BeginTrekTo MGM Grand MILWAUKEE -Where else- but in America can two women who; had been involved in bowling slightly more than one year win the richest amateur doubles event in the nation? That was the stroy book ending in February for Grace Bushong and bowlers in the 50 states begin in-housc competi tion in the more than , 4.000 family bowling centers that comprise the bowling v Proprictcrs ( Association of America. ' (BPAA). According to Thomas B. . Shropshire, senior vcc president. Miller Glcnda Jeter, both of . Brewing Company, Natchitoches. La., who , "there will be three levels split the $50,000 first of competition leading to prize in the Miller High thc crowning of the na Lifc National Doubles tlonal ; champions in Torunamcnt in Reno. February at the MGM 1 The 1983 event will Grand Lanes." begin on October I when Rhese Collins, : pro approximately 200,000 prict or of iht Country Lanes Family Bowling Center, said, "both of them now conic out on a regular basis and bowl about 10 to 12 games at a time. "Since both have been bowling . on a regular basis over the past two years their averages have increased. "I'll say one thing about their winning the ,; tournament, it lias really ; helped nw business. There seems to be more emphasis on " bowling And spcakign of ! Cinderella. Collins revealed that Jeter bor rowed a pair of shoes from him last year prior lo winning the Louisiana' state championship, s i f "You now," he said, "She kept those and ; wore them in play while she was in Reno for the finals. I guess they were .'lucky' shoes for her.". Whet, asked about the a second chance." Y; -. "This has definitely been the greatest thing that has ever happened here," Buddy, Wood, sports ; editor, Nat chitoches Times, said when asked about the town's reaction to the win. "I think the thing that most touched home with them in Reno was that Grits Grcsham was in shoes, Jeter said, "Yes, Reno and came by to sec those arc mav $25,000 them," Wood added. shoes and I'm still bowl- now following , their ing in them. Maybe luck Cinderella win," he add- will be with me again and cd. 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To counter charges that the- Committee's orientation is mostly political, espedally its endorsement of can didates, Lovett rited other activities . of the organization through its sub-committee structure. He mentioned the annual Black History Quiz, pro duced by the Civic Com mittee; delegates who go annually to the Youth Legislative Assembly in Raleigh from the organization's , Youth sub-committee; and the work that produced the, Hayti Development Cor poration. That work, ac cording to Lovett, was spearheaded by the Economic Development sub-committee. "We have put in a lot of man-hours, a lot of work, and I think ex hibited the type of com mitment that is needed to address the problems black people face in Durham," Lovett con tinued, "but we need more . people because there is so much1 more to do." To somewhat of a lesser extent, Durham's other two major organizations came in for criticism from many blacks interviewed, for thisseries. The other groups are the Durham Branch of the NAACP and the Durham Business and Professional Chain. The tone of the criticism was basically the same: that the groups have, for the most part, lost touch with the basic problems blacks face, and busy themselves with the philosophies of struggle, and what one man called "the ego trip of leadership." Neither George Frazier, president of the ' local NAACP, or 1. Jar ,' vis -Martin, chairman of the. Chain, could be reached for comment. Well, what about the old mainstay the black church, for exam ple? "I think that for the most part, the black church has surrendered its leadership role in the black struggle to other 1 organizations and is now serving in a supportive role," said W.W. Easley, pastor of St. Joseph's AME Church. "It seems that even some ministers are content to serve the needs of their particular flock,, and not really be that concerned about the larger black community." It seems that the same stctry of helplessness sur faces at a!) levels of the organized black com munity. Social groups appear to deal mostly with having fun, while many fraternities and sororities appear to be mostly self-centered. Even - the black business community ap pears to be . somewhat fragmented, though it must be conceded that many of them are strug gling ' with thdr in dividual wars of sur vival. Now, arc there any answers? "I think the black community is going ,' back wards," said Ms. Vinson. "I think we. all need to sit down somewhere and figure out what is best for black people, for as many of us as possible, and then we need to figure some way to work toward that." Lovett says much the same thing, but from a different perspective. "I think we are headed in the right direction," he said. "I think there are a lot oj things that need improving, and I think there are a lot more things that need to be done. But again, we need more people willjng to come and work with us. And I don't think we are going to solve the pro blems right away, but you keep plugging away, and I believe eventually we will get there." But all that goes back to another question: just what does the Durham black community want? Ask that question of 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 blacks in Durham, and the answers range across the spectrum from freedom to an end of racism. And as long as the discussions and the questions are general, everyone agrees with the general answers. The differences sur face when any attempt is made to translate the general philosophy of Mack success into specific projects, specific objectives and specific methods and strategies. Subscribe To The Carolina Times Call 682-2913 Today MEAC (Continued from page 5) registered two quarter back sacks, added. four solo tackles, and had ihree assisted tackles. Real Estate , YOU may be qualified for a three bedroom home with monthly payments as low as $118.00 per month with Farmer's Home Administra tion Financing. 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