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Durham
's Freedom Fund Dinner
A Good Thing Getting Better
S? Augustine's College recently hosted its an- counselor, Ms. Sharon Speight, senior, North
2? f?? j S00' Visitation Day in which high Edgecombe High School and Dr. Wiley M. Davis,
scnooi students and counselors visited the campus, vice president for administration. Dr. Davis shares
if" o right: WilUam Newkirk, dean of students, a welcome packet with the group following the
Ms. Angela Parks, Randy Speight, students at High School Day luncheon.
NorthLenoir High School; Richard Randell, :!-
Con Men Are Out To Get You
Boh'tBeMa
year. 1 nis ngure is a rough estimate because law en
forcement agencies say that most victims of con i
games never report the incidentjto.theMjlice - ?, t
wiotrnnem are simpiy too embarrassed to ad- '
nit that they've been .had," said detective J.C. i'
Morris who specializes in fraud investigations with ? '
Durham's police. "It's one thing to report that so
meone took your money. It's a lot harder to report
that you helped give it away." r.-xyiv
Giving away money is exactly what con games
victims do. Consider the three examples cited earlier
three of the most popular con gamesaround the '
VVUUUJi
By Milton Jordan
' , ' , Executive Editor.
Okay. here's a ouick auiz in current serial
' studies. What do the following people have in coim
Mary Jones is discussing her good fortune with
her good friend, Marie, and how she and her
unemployed husband really need half of the
$10,000 she and Marie just found because they have
only about $2,000 left in their savings.
Mrs. Christine Morris, 66, is outraged that a
teller at the local bank has apparently been embezzl
ina monev. She wants tn Ho nnvthl
says to Mr. Smitk. the bank official, to help catch
By Milton Jordan
Executive Editor
Like the popular slim
cigarette, Durham's
Freedom Fund Dinner
has come a long way.
From a rather poorly
organized and uncoor
dinated affair in 1974,
the annual fundraiser for
the Durham Branch of
the NAACP has grown
nto a slick, well
:oordmated program
- that, according to many
followers, gets better
every year.
The 1982 version came
off without a hitch last
Saturday night in the
Durham Civic Center.
About 350 guests
most of them black,
turned out to honor T.R.
Speight," a Durham
businessman who has
been a member of the
Durham Branch for
more than fifty years.
It was " almost a
"Who's Who" in black
Durham, plus a rather
. impressive smattering of
local, state and national
ly elected officials.
But the man of the
hour was Speight, (fa
quiet, but v strong man ,
described by one speaker
as a "double barreled
peanuts near tne corner
of Chapel Hill Street in
Durham to keep her'
family from having to
stand in soup lines in
spired him and showed
him what can be done if
ou're willing to work
hard. He also noted that
three major groups have
led the fight for freedom
in Durham. They are the
NAACP black at
torneys and the black
press.
"The NAACP is not
just an organization,"
Speight declared, "and
the greatest cheaters of
freedom are members of
not
the
our race who are
members of ,
NAACP."
He had similar praise
for black lawyers, and
for the late L.E. Austin,
founder and. longtime
publisher of , The
Carolina Times.
"I ddn't know any
single individual,"
Speight said "who
meant more to change in
this city and elsewhere
than L.E. Austin."
The dinner's keynote
speaker was Leroy
Mobley, director of the
NAACP's Prison Pro
gram, a division that
Two Deans Join Fray
Central Chancellor Search
Fight Still Rocks Along
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The first; involving Mary Jones, is iwnW'Vr'frcn. fighter", r f
"pigeon drop, or t'pocketbook dropJfr N Speight a native : of
By Donald Alderman
Two NCCU deans,
longtime members of the
university's administra
tion, recently added their
"weight" to the voices
of those wha are
dissatisfied with the way
a new chancellor is being
selected for the school.
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Qutcbhrtrtiriast $100f 1idalShO0D3lir-',c,6 oHW-plw poclfetbook.or p-pSmi&Sm
tlv-n hU hand. PauUa, oreiiHiiv at thi .: wn money rignt in your path ana "tind" It about . urnam in iyji, ana man oi;ine cnanceiior
the same time vou do.. ' ; opened his business eight
-'.money tightly
j: . . i . t .
uiamona somaire ring ; glistening in the man's
Outstretched hand. The man looks like his wife left
him, took the kids, all the furniture and everything
else, but by mistake left the $1000 diamond wed
ding ring. He looks like he Wasn't eaten for days,
and would sell anything to get some money,
If you haven't guessed already each of these peo
ple is about to be conned. ,'AJ1 names have been
changed to protect the duped.
There arc several important points to remember
about con games and con artists. '.j i
Con games always sound like a fabulous, one
time onlydeal that's almost too good to be true.
To be conned, you must participate in the scam.
In other words, you must help the con artist take
yourm6hey.
The average con artist is not ignorant, sleazy
looking, but on the contrary is usually very well
dressed, very articulate and personable, just the
type of person you'd like to know if he or she
wasn't tricking you out of your hard earned money.
In almost every instance, a con artist will be a
stranger, someone that might be very hard to
describe to police once you realize you've been had.
"Bsople should just generally beware of any long
conversation with a stranger,': said Captain E.A.
Allen, chief of the Durham Public Safety Depart
ment's detective bureau. "People should jpeware of
deals and buy only from reputable firms, and cer
tainly avoid buying anything off the street, out of
the trunk of a car." ....
The confidence business, the trade name for con
games, is a major industry m thi country, ripping
people off to the tune of more than $40 billion last
Talking smoothly and confidently all the time,
your new-found "friend" volunteers to' help. He or
she, usually a well-dressed, friendly, articulate per
son who frankly could be your next door neighbor
and best friend, calls their lawyer for advice.
The advice always is to split the money, after
waiting a reasonable amount of time to make sure
no one claims it. But to show good faith, you have
to put up some money, (hat will go into the kitty,
and of course you get it back once the spKt is made.
Usually; the so-called good faith money is about
10 or 15 per cent of the total take, and visually there
is $10,000 pr $15,000 in the. envelope1. So it'll cost
you $1000 to $1500 to get your half of the ftioney.
If you still seem a little skeptical about the whole
thina th& rnn artict dine In h ctSnrr- TTka r:nn t
tne enncner, tne tinal piece Of the puzzle that helps ' Hilt going," said Oxford
auui ncy rioya a.
business school, said
among other things:
"Our initial trepidations
about the search process
have come to fruition."
They called for the
search to be "recon
sidered, replanned and
reopened."
Tie Carolina. Times
obtained a copy of the
-letter r$j'&"iv'hi'ip ' .'-.
But despite their pro
test, part of a growing
sense of unrest on the
campus, " the - embattled
chancellor search , com
mittee rocks right along.
According tn the rhair.
City Manager Leaves
opened his business eight Search Committee Dr.
years ' later. . He has W.H. Pattillo, dean of
operated his service sta the undergraduate
tion business ever since, school , of arts and
moving through several sciences and Dr. T.R.
locations until coming to Richmond, dean of the
its present spot on
Barbee Road. : .
According to many of
the speakers who
honored Speight Satur
man, the search commit
tee will make its final
recommendation for the
chancellor by mid
January. NCCU Chancellor Dr.
Albert N Whiting retires
June 30, after 16 years as
head of the 73-year-old
predominantly black
liberal arts university.
? An i l-member-search
committee, appointed by
the board of trustees,
"recently narrpwed the
searchrdown to four can
didates from more than
100 who applied.
But in their letter to
:he committee chairman,
a copy of which was jtnt
to all members of ne
search committee, the
two deans called the
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mixed his business with
his freedom fighting.
"Speight kept our
fight to integrate the law
school at ' UNC-Chaoel
you part with your monev.
They say you get to keep the envelope. How can
you lose? You have your money, theif ''good faith"
, money and the found "money"; It's a sure thing
you think, and at that point, you con yourself into '
accepting their proposition, j , J
But as soon as you go to the batik, get your
moneyr put it in the envelope, the con artist swit
ches envelopes, and leaves you holding an identical
envelope of cut paper. j
According to - national studies, women are
especially susceptible to this particular con game.
The pigeon drop con hits women four out. of five
times, according to statistics. .
"Women have a tendency to want to be thought
of as pleasant and polite," said Clair Villano, presi-
Durham Inching Toward National Trends
Murder In The City '82
McKissick. "because he
not only donated the gas
to : keep our '39
Plymouth running, but
he also recapped the
. tires, . free. That's the
kind of man we're here
to honor tonight."
In addition to the pla
que given by the local
NAACP Branch,
Speight also received pla
ques from his church
Community Baptist
and several other, com
munity groups. "
In v accepting his
honor, Speight noted
that a woman selling
By Donald Alderman
Durham City Manager
Barry Del Castilho leaves
the city Dec. 17 for
Amherst, Mass., where
he expects to manage a
picturesque college town
with only a, fraction of
the headaches he suf
fered in Durham.
In a" recent interview,
Del Castilho outline the
qualificaitoris' he thinks
the new manager should
have to tackle "a, dif
ficult city", He's not
sure though that the per
sob can be found.
"I think previous ex
perience as a city
manager is almost a re
quirement that would
be number one," he
said. "There's probably
someone out there who
labled the final an.
could do, it without that P"cam as "unexcep-
experience but. it would tional."
be an unusual person." But : Hilliary
Members of the Citv Holloway, search corn-
Council search commit- mittee chairman, said if
tee recently appointed
assistant "city manager
Cecil Brown as interim
city manager until a
replacement can be
found for Del Castilho.
Del Castilho has been
city manager for two
years.
He moved through the
local government ranks
from an administrative
assistant to Public Safety
director before being
named city manager
after the rocky departure
of Dean Hunter. On the
matter of his successor
Del Castilho. 35. said.
(Continued on Page 11) (Continued on Page 4)
By Milton Jordan
and
Isaiah Si ngletary
On a crisp, sunny Saturday
. several weeks ago,' shots rang out .
; from behind a row of store '
buildings in the 2500 block of
Fayetteville Street. Seconds later
Sam Winston, a reputed drug
dealer staggered to the front of
the stores and fell dead.
His" death, still unsolved,
reflects what Durham Police:
" Detective Captain E.A. Allen
calls "a growing change in the
character of murder in
Qurham."
"Things are really changing on
the streets of Durham as far as'
homicides, are concerned," said
. A i - A f
city are Vwhodunits," and, ht
continues, "...we really have to
beau tho bushes to find a
suspect." (
In addition to a death like
Winston's drug related
; Allen also noted others changes
in the character qf Durham's;
violence, such as violence against
the elderly, and i a higher in--cidence
of violence, primarily
because of the easy availability of
guns;'s
These changes are beginning to
pull Durham, a mostly sleepy,
medium-sized city, more into the
paths of national crime trends. t
Violent , crime, particularly :
muraer, is a national epidemic.
According
A ft JI f Jt ! . ! ' .
Alien auring a receni interview m avaiiaoie statistics, ? there s a
his office. "In the past, most of ' murder somewhere in America
the kilings in Durham were every 24 minutes. That works out
crimes of passion, hothead kill- to over 20,000 murders a year in 5
ings, and usually there was a this country,:' In other words,
witness. And even when there every year in this country, we kill
wasn't an eyewitness, peoplei off a town about the 'size of
would cooperate and help us 1 Chapel Hill.
solve the crimes." - r But violence is not new. Some '
V But, according to.Capt. Allen, years ago, militant H. Rap
a 30-year veteran with the Brown angered a lot of patriots
, Durham police, many of the ., when he said something that
murders being committed in the!. almost, everyone knows to be
true: "violence is as American as
apple pie." , t
But today's violence appears to
be much more random, and more
often than in the past, occurs bet
ween strangers. , ,
According the national
statistics, murder at the hands of
a stranger has increased twice as
; fast as murder by friends,
relatives and acquaintances.
Murder has also become
senseless.
"They'll kill you for nothing,"
a Nw York district attorney said
during a recent speech to law en
forcement officials.They'll stare
through you. They're; cold and
callous. They have no remorse."
I: According to .author Charles
Silberman in his book Criminal
Violence, u Criminals Uustice,
"...people kill; maim 'and injure
without reason or remorse," v .
In Durham; murder has noi
reached the epidemic proportions
hat it has in other large cities.
rfut indications are that if the
character of violence continues at !
current trends, Durham will like-'
Iy nave a major problem with ur-
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EYE ON THE BALLS A worker watches as
brilliantly colored sponge balls made rrom
Goodyear's Natsyn synthetic rubber emerge from
their paint ; bath at Eagle Plasties Dlvl-
' 'tLT- ' '-,
. distribute to retailer's shelves &ls year. NafejJ
also U Bsed ui sock products as pipe gaskets, sSsoes,
rubber bands and automobile tires.
sponsors and supports
chapters of the organiza
tion in the nation's
federal and state prison.
Mobley, himself an ex
convict who founded the
nation's first NAACP
chapter in prison at the
Lewiston, Pennsylvania
federal pfenetentiary,
spoke on how the
NAACP will achieve its
goal of one million
members.
He concluded that
biack Americans should
make joining the
NAACP a matter of
principle.
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the search is reopened it -will
be because the
search committee thinks
it should be, not because
of pressure from the
deans of the university.
"We , are completing
the process, he said in a
phone, interview, "and if
the search, committee,
after some more check
ing, thinks neither of the
finalists would be a good .
person to lead the
university, then well
reconsider. Bui until
then, we'll submit two
names to the board of
Tustees. ,