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Copyright 1S74, The Tsr Heel
RALEIGH North Carolina Attorney
General Robert Morgan recently fired a top'
level justice department official on charges
which public records sharply contradict.
State government officials are saying the
reason Morgan dismissed 27-year-old James
R. Ladd from his position as director of the
N.C. Criminal Justice Training and
Education System (CJETS) is that Ladd
would not contribute to or work for
Morgan's Senate campaign.
Morgan's public explanation for Ladd's
dismissal included charges that he
improperly administered the new state
Criminal J ustice Training Academy, a police
training school in Salemburg which Ladd
directed.
State representative Marilyn Bissell (R
Mecklenburg), a member of the Criminal
Justice Training and Standards Council
(CJTSC) said last week it was her
understanding that Ladd was fired because
he wouldn't contribute to Morgan's
campaign.
A highly-placed state official who has
been close to the controversy, and who
preferred to remain unidentified, said he
agreed Ladd was fired because he wouldn't
work for Morgan's campaign. "He was fired
because Morgan doubted his loyalty to
Morgan," he said.
Charles Winberry, Morgan's Senate
campaign manager, said Thursday
afternoon, "The charge that Mr. Ladd was
fired because he failed to contribute to
Morgan's campaign is a vicious and
damnable lie. In printing this story in Friday
morning's Tar Heel edition without
contacting the Attorney General or his
campaign office prior to Thursday afternoon
and seeking a full and complete response in
order that The Tar Heel might learn all the
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arges ram into Louisiana causeway
NEW OR LEANS A tugboat captain suspected of sleeping at the wheel Thursday
rammed four empty shell barges into the world's longest bridge, toppling 260 feet of
roadway and pitching a car and pickup truck into the water.
At lasst two persons were killed and the Lake Pontcharfrain Causeway, the main
commuter artery from towns north of New Orleans, was closed for several hours.
Carrasco demands armored truck
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. Outlaw Fred Gomez Carrasco, who has held hostages
longer than any other convict in U.S. penal history, Thursday demanded an armored
truck for hi3 escape and said he would leave his prison library fortress only if
shielded by his 13 captives.
Carrasco said he would release nine of the hostages once he reached the safety of
the armored truck.
North Vietnamese advance on Da Nang
SAIGON A 2, CCD-man North Vietnamese regiment moved southward Thursday
toward Da Nang, South Vietnam's second largest city which already is beleaguered
by fighting to the south and southwest, air force sources said.
In Cambodia, a government task force pushed insurgent troops to the northern
end of a small island in the Tonle Sap river northwest of Phnom Penh Thursday in an
attempt to recapture the island. The rebels have held the tear-shaped island 29 miles
from the capital for several months. ;
Vice President plans N.C. trip in fall
WASHINGTON Vice President Gerald R. Ford, who plans two visits to North
Carolina this fall, Thursday added another stop to his itenerary.
Ford will visit Salisbury Sept. 13 to attend a $1 CO-per -person reception at Catawba
College for Reps. James T. Oroyhill, R-N.C, and Earl Ruth, R-N.C.
The event was scheduled to raise funds for the congressmen's reelection
campaigns.
It wss earlier announced that the vice president would Join golfing dignitaries
Sept. 11 at Pinehurst for dedication of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Two of five women charged with visitation violations
during the June 16 search of Mclver dorm were found
innocent by the Honor Court Wednesday on the basis that
evidence against them was obtained illegally.
Student Attorney General Nita Mitchell said the court
ruled according to a pamphlet on student rights, issued by the
student government in 1970, which states that students do
not surrender the basic right of privacy held by all citizens
when they become members of the University community.
Jim Mayo, a member of Mitchell's staff who represented
the students, said the defense contended that the search was
illegal. "We considered a very basic human right from the
first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United
States," he said. "I have no doubt that, had this been tried in a
civil court rather than a student court, it would never even
been considered because of the way the evidence was
obtained."
records throw charges leveled at Ladd by Morgan in doubt
facts. The Tar Heel and the University of
North Carolina are participating in a vile
and malicious attack on the Attorney
General."
Morgan announced Ladd's dismissal
during the June 28 meeting of the N.C.
Justice Academy Council, the Salemburg
Academy's administrative body. When he
read his charges against Ladd at that meeting
charges one state official close to the
matter has termed "fictitious, trumped up
stuff several members of the audience
expressed disbelief. One of these, academy
business manager William B. Gibson, was
fired four days later by acting academy
director William S. Hunt, Jr. with
"concurrence . . . from Attorney General
Robert Morgan."
Another member of the audience, Marsha
Mullinix, a CJETS research associate who
married Ladd July 28, was suspended
without, pay July 8 for thirty days, at the
direction of the Attorney General.
Both were charged with, among other
things, showing disrespect to the Attorney
General at the Council meeting. Both, along
with Ladd, are appealing the actions to the
State Personnel Board.
No comment
Ladd and his wife said they would not
comment on why they had been dismissed
until after their personnel board hearing
August 9. Ladd also would not comment on
reports he had been reprimanded by Morgan
for not contributing to his campaign shortly
before he was fired.
Gibson said Monday, "One reason I was
fired was that I was an associate and a friend
of Jim Ladd's. Another was that I was
outspoken about some things Robert
Morgan said which I believed to be untrue."
All three appeals are being heard at the
same time and all are being handled by the
same attorneys, Robert Epting and Joe
Hackney of Chapel Hill.
Morgan told a Greensboro Daily News
reporter in early J une that Ladd was fired for
"his failure to consult the executive
mi te two M elver deffeedaets
Investigator Marilyn Usher, also a member of Mitchell's
staff, said the defendants and a report submitted by
Residence Director Debbie Gaskins, a housing staffer who
conducted officers on the search, said police checked their
closets and under beds actions which housing policy
expressly prohibits in room inspections.
Two campus police officers conducted the room-by-room
search at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, June 16, after adoorof
the dorm was, found propped open. Gaskins and Jo Ann
Travis, Mclver's Assistant Resident Director, discovered
and charged housing code violators as they escorted the
officers through the dorm.
"The cases of these particular girls were decided on the
basis of their particular circumstances," Mitchell said. "If the
situation proves different for the others, they will be found
guilty."
"We have no precedent for this type of thing in student
committee of the criminal justice planning
council on major policy decisions, a charge
Morgan reiterated at the June 28 Council
meeting.
Gibson's letter of dismissal charges him,
too, with being "unwilling to accept general
policies for the Academy as determined by
the Council."
Public records show, however, that
Morgan called no meetings of the full
Council between January 10 and June 28,
1974.
"Kangaroo court"
The executive committee of the Council
met several times during that period,
including May 31, a meeting Ladd has
termed a "kangaroo court." Ladd says
Morgan's secretary called him in Salemburg
at 1:15 that afternoon saying the Attorney
General had called a meeting of the Council
in Raleigh. The meeting was to start in 15
minutes, she said, and, as a member of the
Council, Ladd was expected to attend.
Raleigh is a 75-minute drive from
Salemburg.
Ladd arrived at the meeting at 2:30 p.m.,
finding it had already been in progress for
some time.
According to Ladd, Morgan then told him
the Council had already discussed a number
of things, but wouldn't say what.
The final part of the meeting, recorded on
tape by the Attorney General, was devoted
to questioning Ladd about his performance
at the academy.
A copy of the tape was given to Ladd by
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RALEIGH (UPI) State Republican Chairman Thomas
S. Bennett Thursday accused Attorney General Robert
Morgan, the Democratic Senate nominee, ofc "playing'
politics" with the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
Both Morgan and SBI Director Charles J. Dunn, who was
appointed by Morgan in 1969, denied the accusation.
Morgan called it "politically motivated, unfounded and
untrue."
Bennett said that since Republican Gov. James E.
Holshouser Jr. took office in January, 1973, Morgan has
"been playing politics with the SBI.
Buns svsttemm
by Jennifer Miller
Staff Writer
"I hope this is the beginning of the
building of a total public transport system in
the Research Triangle," spoke Mayor
Howard Lee at the Wednesday ribbon
cutting ceremony marking the start of the
Chapel Hill bus service. "Maybe someday
mass transit will connect Raleigh, Durham
and Chapel Hill, and someday, maybe even
Carrboro."
The ceremony at the Municipal Building
was marked by local color such as that
usually found in Chapel Hill street fairs and
University administrative and student
government officials, named recently as
defendants in a legal complaint protesting
student funding of the Black Student
Movement, have filed a formal reply.
The reply denies the allegation made by
plaintiffs Robert Arrington and Lawrence
Uzzell that subsidization of the Black
Student Movement by mandatory student
fees deprives non-blacks of the 14th
Amendment's guarantee to equal protection
under the laws. It also denies all other
charges of the complaint, including the
allegation that the student body constitution
allows student officials to be appointed
strictly on the basis of race..
Listing a series of defenses, the reply states
that "the complaint fails to state a claim over
which this court has subject matter
jurisdiction" and "fails to state a claim
against the defendants on which relief can be
granted."
In addition, the reply maintains that
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Morgan. The recording previous to Ladd's
arrival is unintelligible.
Ladd said he later heard that other
members of the executive committee had
been notified of the meeting several days
earlier.
Faculty of 52 claimed
One of Morgan's charges against Ladd,
made at the June 28 full Council meeting,
was that he proposed 52 faculty positions for
the Salemburg Academy, making it "larger
than the Institute of Government," UNC's
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"He has continuously attempted to find some blemish in
the actions of Governor Holshouser and the Republican
Party," Bennett said.
He cited as examples SBI checks of two inaugural
celebrations to determine whether liquor laws were violated
and SBI probes into the activities of Holshouser's chief 1972
campaign fund-raiser.
His allegations were the latest in an almost daily barrage of
accusations of political skulduggery that began last weekend
when Morgan said his background had been investigated by
the Enforcement and Theft Bureau of the Motor Vehicles
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celebrations.
Balloon faces announced, "I'd rather bus
in Chapel Hill," and a poster behind the
speakers' platform read, "Keep on Bussin',
Rollin' My Blues Away."
"Busing is the best solution for a town this
size," said Gerry Cohen, Chapel " Hill
Alderman. "It's taken five years of planning
to get here. I think the system will be
successful."
Wooden Circus took the stage and played
while children lined up for balloons and
several hundred people milled and
conversed. Robert Tallo, bus driver,
discussed his new job and the 1XA week
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plaintiffs Arrington and Uzzell, who have
requested their suit be made a class action,
have not made claims typical of the class they
seek to represent and that they will not
"fairly and adequately protect the interests
of the class."
Student Body Treasurer Timothy Dugan,
one of the defendants in the suit, explained
the function of the formal reply.
by Jim Thomas
Sports Editor
Former UNC basketball star Donald
Washington was found guilty on two charges
of bastardy and nonsupport Thursday.
District Court Judge Stanley Peele found
Washington to be the father of identical
twins born to Cynthia Lackey, of A-5 Estes
courts, and as yet there is no student bill of rights to go by,"
she added. "However, because of the way in which the
evidence was obtained, it was thrown out just as it would
have been in any other court."
Mitchell believed checking in closets and under beds is
unnecessary even in the event of an emergency security
search. "If you go into a girl's room and she says everything's
all right, then it's all right," she said.
Mitchell said the trial was held by the Honor Court, a
combination of the Men's and Women's Courts, in the
summer absence of most members of the Women's Court.
She added that although each person charged is tried
separately, Wednesday's two cases were heard concurrently
because of "special circumstances."
The three remaining defendants charged during the
Mclver search will be tried this fall.
police training and research institute.
Ladd says that to arrive at that number,
Morgan had to count groundskeepers,
typists, cooks and secretaries.
Gibson says in his appeal that, following
the J une 28 meeting, he complained to acting
Academy Director Hunt about this
"misstatement of fact, and was told in
response by Hunt that if the Attorney
General says that a maintenance man is a
faculty member, then that's what he is."
The tape of the May 28 executive
committee meeting clearly recorded Morgan
reading Ladd's list of proposed Academy
personnel, including nine faculty members
and various support personnel, all totalling
52.
The application for the federal Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration
(LEAA) grant, which funded 90 per cent of
the Academy's operating budget, is on file in
the State Division of Law and Order,
bearing Morgan's signature. The $719,000
grant includes the same proposal by Ladd
for nine faculty members and 43 support
personnel.
Another of Morgan's charges is thrown in
doubt by the May 31 executive committee
meeting tape. Morgan said during the June
28 Council meeting that Ladd refused to
cooperate with the Council on plans for the
Academy. On the May 31 tape, Ladd is
heard saying to the executive, council, "I
would welcome your review (of plans and
grants for the Academy). I welcome
scrutiny."
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course taken by the drivers.
"We're all pretty reliable," he said, "and
we've handled the buses enough in practice
to do okay." He mentioned that the drivers
seem to have been chosen by "some liberal
bureaucrat" as they include women, blacks,
middle-class hippies and middle-aged people
too.
Diana Watley, Feminist Newsletter writer
turned bus driver, said, "Some people laugh
at the idea of me driving a bus, I guess
because they think a bus is mechanical and
they associate mechanical facilities with
men." She continued, "I was a secretary for
ten years; I'm sick of it. At least when you're
deny allegations
"In essence, the reply streamlines and
clarifies the summons," he said. "It will force
the plaintiffs to plead their case and prove
their allegations."
Dugan explained further that the first
three defenses listed in the reply, if judged as
true statements by the court, will cause the
case to be dismissed.
The reply concludes with the defendants'
Drive Extension, and declared him guilty of
willful nonsupport of the two children.
UNC basketball coach Dean Smith said
he was "terribly disappointed" at the court's
decision.
"Donald is a great player and we would
like to have him on the Tar Heel team this
season," Smith said. "In his association with
the Carolina basketball program, Donald
has been an exceptional representative of the
University."
The court directed Washington to pay $60
a week hereafter for support of the twins, of
which $30 will go to the mother and 530 to
Memorial Hospital for restitution of bills
totaling $ 13,380. Washington also received a
90-day jail term which was suspended.
Washington, who was not present for the
verdict, is expected to appeal the case to the
Superior Court where he would be tried by
jury.
Miss Lackey told the court she h?.d had
sexual relations with Washington from
November, 1972 to February, 1973. The
twins were born July 14, 1973.
. Blood tests made on Washington, Lackey
and the twins July 23 proved inconclusive,
but Judge Peele said, "The twins have a
marked facial resemblance to their father."
Regardless of the outcome of
Washington's appeal," it appears that
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Another tape in Ladd's possession records
his conversation on June 4 with Morgan
the meeting during which Ladd was fired.
Morgan recorded this meeting, Ladd says,
and when he asked Morgan for a copy of the
charges against him, Morgan simply gave
him a copy of this tape.
On the tape, Ladd is heard saying to
Morgan:
"As a last act of personal loyalty to you,
sir, and I think you will find I have been very
loyal to you, I feel it is my duty to inform you
of possible violations of the Hatch Act here
wjthin the justice department ... I am
referring to Dr. Kozy. . .'
"I am not waiting for your resignation."
Morgan responds. "You're fired."
Morgan had apparently already decided
to dismiss Ladd. An "Under the Dome"
column in The Raleigh News and Observer
several days earlier announced that Morgan
had already picked William S. Hunt as the
new CJETS director.
The Hatch Act is a federal law limiting the
local political activity of federal employes,
and of state employes working with federal
funds. Ninety per cent of the Academy's
operations money and 50 per cent of its
construction funds come from an LEAA
grant.
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Dr. John G. Kozy is a professor of
philosophy at East Carolina University who.
in January, was named by Morgan to be
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Division, an agency under Holshouser's control.
The Greensboro Daily News reported Wednesday that the
bureau appeared to be engaging in activities similar to the
White House plumbers.
Holshouser denied that report, but did admit that the
bureau had purchased an automatic weapon and wrist-watch
tape recorders, disposing of them on his instructions.
Bennett said SBI agents were investigating liquor served
both at a private inaugural celebration and at an official
inaugural reception to determine whether it was properly
purchased.
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out on the road, you're on your own."
Short speeches were made by Mayor Lee.
UNC Chancellor Ferebee Taylor, State
Department of Transportation Deputy
Secretary Isabel Holmes, and David
Robinson, State Director of Mass
Transportation.
The ribbon cutting was executed jointly by
Taylor and Lee, and then the buses filled
with those wishing to benefit from the day's
free service.
The cost of a ride on the orange and yellow
buses is 25c for a town route and 15c on
campus. Schedules may be obtained at the
Municipal Building.
requests for a pre-trial hearing and a
dismissal of the case.
Other defendants named besides Dugan
include Consolidated University President
William Friday, Chancellor Ferebee Taylor.
Vice-Chancellor Claiborne Jones. Student
Body President Marcus Williams, the UNC
Board of Trustees and the University of
North Carolina Board of Governors.
Washington has lost his chance to regain
eligibility for the 1974-75 basketball season.
Washington enrolled in summer school in an
effort to boost his grade point average, but
reports indicate he has failed to make the
grades.
Washington starred as a freshman for
Carolina after a sensational career at St.
Anthony's prep school in Washington, D.C.
He had a spectacular start as a sophomore,
scoring 55 points in his first two varsity
games, before breaking his foot in the fourth
game of the season. He suffered a recurrence
of the injury later in the season and did not
play for the rest of the year.
He was declared academically ineligible
after two sessions of summer school in 1973
and spent last winter playing amateur
basketball in Switzerland. Upon his return
to Chapel Hill in June, Washington was
arrested on bastardy charges.
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