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2T706 Duke University Library : Newspaper ' Departmetit Durham N. C. 27706, IVcrds of Whdom No man can. climb out beyond the limita tions of his own character. J John, Viscount Motley . .. What we have to do is to be forever curious ' .. ly, testing new opinions and courting new " ? f; impressions. , , . Walter Pater VOLUME 51 -No - '" "' ' ' 11-25 : 1 t. , 11 DURHAM, N.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1974 PRICE: 20 CENTS It3 HrSi Light nor: A Vory Prlvato Person y;Xr-:j$&'ff7r:-:': vj vite ut capital ' v', j ( 1 - ' ; 1 ' y : - : ' uiv s rirsi . m liii A DURHAM NATIVE Cookie Harris, had a featured role in the United Artist movie, "Amazing Grace," which starred Moms Mabley. Miss Harris is a model-singer who studied at the Ophelia Devore School of Charm, the Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble, and more recently, at the Negro Ensemble Co. She has also appeared in such movies as "Serpico," "Badge 373," and "Gordon War." Black Mayor By ALLAN COWAN . EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article is reprinted with permission from the Dec. 22 edition of the Charlotte Observer. Ask the friends ... and neighbors of Mrs. Marguerite Lightner. what' they know about her and they will tell you she is "nice, genteel and " a very private person. But few are willing or able to fill in the outlines of this .sketchy portrait of the wife of Raleigh'sVfirst ; black j mayor who wg thurst Into the public ' eye Monday by a Wake County grand jury that indicted her on charges of conspiring to receive an dispose of stolen goods. The handful of friends and neighbors willing to talk about Raleigh's First Lady portray a woman dedicated to bringing up her four children, while studiously avoiding the limelight her husband Clarence attracted during his six years as a city councilman and his year as mayor. 1 Mrs. Thomas Bradshaw, wife of the mayor who preceded Lightner, described Mrs. Lightner as a "very private (See LIGHTNER Page 9) Humphrey Proposes Tax Reduction Of $IiBilMon For Early Next Six Million : Year Julian Bond Scores Seventh State Senator-elect Julian Bond, a potential presidential candidate has scored 7th in a rating of 31 Democrats who are possible contenders for' 'heir party's 1976 presidential nomination. He scored above both announced candidates, including outgoing Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, whose name did not receive enough mention to place him among the 31, and Rep. Morris Udall. Bond outscored Ralph Nader, Senator Walter Mondale, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Senator Birch Bayh. Bond also outpointed former Senator and 1968 candidate Eugene McCarty, Florida Governor Reuben Askew, and both 1972 Democratic . vice-Presidential candidates, Senator Thomas Eagleton and Sargeant Shriver. ' Ranking above Bond were Alabama Governor George Wallace, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Henry Jackson, Senator Edmund, Muskie, Senator George McGovern and former New York Mayor, John Lindsay. In a separate poll of Independent voters, Bond ranked 10th behind Wallace, Jackson, Muskie, . McGovern, Nader, Lindsay, Humphrey, newly-elected Ohio Senator John Glenn and Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson, The poll, conducted by the respected George Gallup organization, was conducted National Black Caucus Elects thvj Officers For 7975 HUSTON-Mayor Warren Widenerof Berkeley, Calif., has been elected chairman of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials by the unanimous vote of general membership of the recognized minority caucus of National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors. Mayor Widener succeeds Richmond Va., Vice Mayor Henry L. Marsh III, leader of the caucus for one year . beginning last December. Widener will serve for one year. ) The young Bay Area chief executive topped a slate of i more than 25 officers and - board members elected to serve a one-year term by NBCLEO members. Mayor Maynard H. Jackson of Atlanta; Ga., was re-elected ' first vice chairman of the ' organization after he aked NBCLEO numbers to waive . the rule that would ordinarily have elevated him to chairman ; this year. Mayor Jackson cited pressing city business in group activity In areas that generally correspond' to the ten standard federal regions. The regionalexecutives are: Councilwoman Saundra Graham of Cambridge, Mass., Councilwormn Willie Dell of Richmond, Va., Councilrmn William Thornton of Jersey City, Councilman Theotis Robinson of Knoxville, Tenn., Councilman Ernest C. Browne of Detroit, Mich., Councilman P.A. Holingiworth of Little Rock, Ark., City Comptroller John Bass of St. Louis, Mo., Mayor Penfield W. Tate Jr., of Denver, Colo., Councilman James E Wilson of Long . Beach, Calif., and Councilman Willard Nettles, Jr. of Vancouver, Wash. i At -large board members elected are . Mayors Robert Blackwell of Highland Park, Mich., Richard Hatcher, of Gary,: Ind., Clarence Lightner j of Raleigh, ' A. J. - Cooper of Prichard, Ala., Kenneth Gibson of Newark, N.J., William Hart between November 8 and 11, before Senator Mondale withdrew as a candidate and before Governor Carter and Rep. Udall announced their candidates. Carter, who announced December 12th that he will be a candidate, was not mentioned as a choice by independent voters either, although Rep. Udall did place 26th among these non aligned voters. These results are more than encouraging, Bond said, "I still intend to reserve a final decision until late May or June of 1975, but this showing and the slow but steady trickle of mail into my office convinces me that 1976 may be the year in which a candidacy like mine would find a willing and receptive audience." Bond said that he had talked with Montgomery, Alabama attorney Morris Dees, who raised $20 million for the McGovern campaign, about "putting together a similar fund raising effort for my campaign. . People Nov Unemnloved W..-r . , y Senator Hubert'; ft, Humphrey a member of tht , Joint Economic Cormittee , and chairman of the Consumer Economics Subcommittee, has announced he will introduce' a $10 billion tax cut proposal early next year "to get'the economy mvoing again,' increase productivity and put' maamIa U.aL I 1. Humphrey who called on. other Senators to co-sponsor? the legislation, declared that' the time has come for Congress' to reverse the Administration's' efforts to stop inflation by creating a major recession.' "The Key point that is not,, -yet accepted by the' Administration, although the people of this country know it, " is that we are now in what will ' go down in the history books ' M4h worst recession since ib,r$ depression" ne asserted, " and we must deal with this problem imiicuiai'Cijr . f . We now have six million people unemployed. This'could rise to eight million next year. This is a scandalous waste of precious resources." Indicating in his Senate remarks that he will introduce his tax reduction package when Congress convenes in Janurary, Humphrey warned that the nation is headed for continually huge budget deficits if we do nothing to revive the economy. The Joint Economic Committee staff estimates the deficit could be $30 billion for Fiscal Year 1976 if the recession continues to deepen, he said. Even if we adopt vigorous policies to stimulate economic growth, the JEC staff has estimated that it will take at least until 1980 to bring the economy back to normal economic growth. By then the economy will have lost $700 billion in production, a tragic and enormous waste." ' Hi'iphrey tax bill, which he maintains, is a well balanced . (See HUMPHREY Pag 9) a " -V p I1 i .4 , ! T iirmi TiTi i n i i ii ii i I ' i in 'X SMte. - r i 1 1 1' A rM f UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS GIFT-Sheely 40, and her husband, Ted, have cancelled their Christmas plans for a Caribbean cruise. They are not unhappy about the sudden change of events because the birth Nove. 7 of son James Robert Sheeh came as a complete surprise to both mother and father. Mrs. Sheely, a school teacher, went to a hospital because she though she had stomach cramps. The attending physician told her she was in labor and would soon give birth. (UP1). Difference Befiveen Moos Can Be Deeper 7ban languages of East Oranse. N.J.. and Atlanta , w his principal reason . Coleimn Young 5 of s Detroit, for declining to accept the mi CouncUpersons Wlllam chairmanship. Knight of Raleigh, Fred Davis, . The ; organization also of Memphli, WiUlam S. elected ten NBCLEO regional Thomas of East Orange, Ralph chairpersons who will lead vhlte of Stockton, Calif. 1 4 mill fib, CHEQUES AND POUND NOTES-American Black communist leader Angela Davis sits behind pile of cheques and pound notes collected at a meeting while she addressed at Friends House in support of campaign for the release of all political prisoners in Southern Africa. ' , ' :':v'-' NEW YORK-The difference between nations can be deeper than language and customs. In fact, sometimes it's a matter of lifeand death. If you think the major difference between say, China and the United. States is in politics, consider a recent Metropolitan Life Insurance Company study which shows that Americans on the average live J8 years longer than Chines do. Specifically, the report states that Life expectancy at birth for1 men and women, in the United States in 1972 was a little more than 71 years, in China, the Life expectancy was 53 years! Among the four countries' having more than 200 million inhabitants, the United States has the best record of longevity, the statisticans found. The Soviet Union is second with a life expectancy of 69.6 years In 1968-69, which Is about the same as that of the United States a decade ago. The two most populous nations in the world, China and : India, have among the poorest longevity rates in the world, In India', men and women have ' shorter lives ' than their counterparts in China with only 46.3 years of life expectancy at birth in 1970. The regional figures for life expectancy at birth in 1972 show that mankind has a life expectancy of 58 years. Northern America, including Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United State, has a 71 -year life expectancy at birth. Europe also has a 71-year life expectancy, Oceania, 67 years, and Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, 63 years each. Below the world average of 58 years are all of Asia (East Asia, 56, the Near East, 55, South East Asia 52, and South Asia, 51) and Africa, where life expectancy at birth is 45 years. (See DIFFERENCE Page9 Angela Davis Calls For Protests The Reverend Benjtmi; Chavis and his co-defendants of the Wilmington Ten were turned down by the North Carolina Court of Appeals last night in their attempt to overturn convictions and 262 years of combined sentences for protecting a neighborhood church from a Ku Klux Klan -attack hi 1971. " The Rev. Chavis U a vice-chairperson and treasurer of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Washinton, D.C., Maryland director of the ; United Church of Christ's Coimission for Racial Justice. At the time of the Klan assault , (See CHAVIS Page 9) lHIMbjoriry jMaunted Dy Criticism Last week's U.S. Attack on the "Tyranny of the majority" in the U.N. General Assembly, appears to have done little for U.S. prestige in the' world body. In the wake of strong criticism of the U.N. by American Ambassador John Scan, debate was dominated by third world speakers who accused the U.S. of intimidation, and double standards. Following that, the General Assembly passed one resolution opposed by the U.S., and another about which the U.S. has reservations. The first of those two is a world "charter of economic rights" that was approved by a vote of 102 to six, with the U.S. and several western europen countries on the losing side. American opposition to the charter stems from a provision allowing a nation to expropriate foreign owned (See UN MAJORITY Page 9) 5 Blacks Arc Among 40 Most Holed Women Final Rites Held In Bronx, II. Y. For T. Raymond Hocutt HOCUTT BRONX, N.Y.-Final rites were held Tuesday, Dec 10, at First Congregational Church of Morrlsanla for Thomas Raymond Hocutt, 66, who died Thursday Dec. 5 at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. Hocutt was bom July 1, 1908 In Durham, the son of the late Thomas Henry and Florence Hocutt. He attended local public schools In Durham and graduated from North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) in 1933. Following shortly thereafter, Raymond Hocutt, (See HOCUTT Page 9) Five blacks were named among the 40 most highly respected women in the U.S. according to a national magazine polL The total number of blacks is three mora than a year ago. The women are Representatives Yvonne iBrathwaitt Burkt, Shirley Chlsotm, Barbara Jordan, Coretta King, wife of the slain avu (l&iua nun iuu . Cicely Tyson, winner of two Enmy awards. They wtra elected from a slate of 47 prominent women presented to readers In the sixth , annual Most Admired Women pott, appearing la th . current (Janurary) lasu of . Good House keeping. The poll was conducted imong tht 1,500 readers of the magazine.; Tht respondents (Set WOMEN Page 9) --"--HiH-n4n nlnif-iiai ,r m i ii iwirf-t-i-T-'"'-'' ir-r-'-ji-r " "'