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Duke' University. Library -"-KewSpaper Department ' . purharn,. If. C. 27706 " ' "-11-30 v ;;; Tfcp 'Of cefr Press-; rords of VJIcdcp - "Worry about the futurt Is kind of Inanif why opart your umbrella bafort K rtJrtl td rafnr' Our Freedom Depend On It! "pRiqETHciiQl" VOtWME 55 - NUMBER 18 'READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES" DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1977 TELEPHONE (919) 6884587 post co:ivoo;i heasi;;g wilmington 10 Monday, May 9, Burgaw, N.C. Civil rights groups, legal organizations, religious bodies, community - at large, are asked to go to Burgaw Monday to show their support for justice on behalf of the Wilmington 10. ' - ' " '. I' 1 "hi I ' ' ' i LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER - Mother and daughter exchange . congratulation for receiving "Teacher of the Year" awards. Mrs. Doris M. Haynes, left, reading reacher at Y. E. Smith Elementary School was presented the Durham Kiwanis Club's outstand ing teacher award for 1977 at a luncheon recently. Here, she shakes hands with her daughter, Dr. Sonja Hss"5toney who im seltctea-teatrir: of thf year fpr 1976r77 by th: Blacken krmpMi;fifwspaper at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Dt3 Stone is the director of the Afro-American Studies Curriculum at the University. Outdated Landlord Laws Rocoivo Hearing Tuesday RALEIGH - Two addi tions to North Carolina's outdated landlord-tenant laws received a hearing in the North Carolina Legislature Tuesday. The laws would re quire that security deposits be placed in . trust accounts and that minimum standards of habitability be implied in leases between landlords and tenants. The hearings were before the Judiciary I Committee of the House and Judiciary II of the Senate. Backed by property managers and legal aide attorneys, both bills are expected to reach House and Senate floors soon. One provision of the security deposit, if lease pro visions are violated, is opposed by the state's legal aide societies. Greensboro legal aide attorney Robert Paine said that the current practice in Greensboro would not be changed by the security deoosit bill. "L a n d -lords in Greensboro have lease provisions specifying any kind of breach as a cause Coraiiiunify-Cify Clash Over Unfrcpf Promises ASHEVTLLE - At a meeting of the Valley Street Community Action organiza tion Gene Raney, council man, and Logan Delaney, director of the city's community action led partici pation program were sharply questioned about unkept pro mises and the eventual fate of the mostly-black community, now threatened by urban renewal. The meeting, organized by Bob Smith, a local community organizer, revolv ed around the tearing down of rental property, the dis placement of the citizens who resided there and the widening of Valley Street, the main throughfare through the black community. I) for forfeiture of the security deposit." He said in many instances, "small picture nails in walls are used by landlords to keep from returning deposits." The current law has no provision to require landlords to maintain property up to minimum standards set by local housing codes. The law, in theory, puts the burden of maintaining rental property upon the tenants rather than upon the land lords. This method of property management began in feudal England before the 11th century in which serfs were given leaseholds of land which did not include the building upon the land. Such is the state of the law with urban tenants in North Carolina today. Unless leases specify that a landlord is to make repairs, which few do, the tenant cannot get the state's courts to enforce a duty of the landlord to re pair the apartment or unit. IContinued On Page 5 According to plans by the highway department Valley Street would be widened to include six lanes of traffic with limited access, and many homes along the street would be destroyed to make way for the road. Focusing on promises to upgrade the area that were made by the city and still remain to be carried out, Bob Smith pointed out that, "Every time it's the" same old story. The city gjvel us the run around, ' they : pick our community to run a six lane road through, and can't get around to cutting down the weeds on those vacant lots and removing the houses that need to be torn down." Continued On Page 3 s May 1-7 Bo Kind To Animals IVoer So. Africans Arc Seeking A Change Bill Sutherland, a former official of the Tanzanian Government and now a con sultant and lecturer for the American Friends Service Committee said to a group at North Carolina Central Uni versity (NCCU) in Durham, last week that recent announcements of rent increases in So wet o, South Africa, are political. Suther land said that although he did not have first hand know ledge of the internal develop ments within South Africa, he believed the rent increases are "aimed at forcing Sowetoans to the Bantustan or the 'homeland.'" The South African Stu dent Organization (SASO) re portedly called for demon strations Wednesday, April 27 in which three students were killed as police Tired shotguns into demonstra tors. Sutherland lectured on ,he development of the U. S. foreign poBcy in Southern ; Africa fromthe period of the complete control of colonia list governments through changes under the Kissinger reign as Secretary of State. National Security Memo No. 39, he said, was a "tilt toward the white re gimes" of Southern Africa because "black liberation efforts were thought not to have a change." Following the coup-d'etat in Portugal and the overthrow of colonial rule in Angola and Guinea Bissau, U. S. foreign policy had to be re-assessed. "Kissin ger did not know what had Continued On Page 14 School Suspensions And Expulsions Editor's Note: This report is the second in a series of reports on expulsions and suspensions in the Chapel Hill Cairboro School sys tem. There are some differences in the socio-economic makeup of Chapel Hill, but the facts revealed by a study financed by the U. S. Department of Health Education and Welfare suggests that suspension-expulsion problem is ax much a problem in every community of the state and nation as it is in Chapel Hill.) CHAPEL HILL - Hoover Byrd, a 16 year old black youth found a coat that he said was near a trash can at Chapel Hill Senior High School. Assuming the cqat was dis carded by its owner, Hoover said he wore the coat until a white youth "walked up and demanded the coat. Before I could give the coat he went to the principal's office and told Dr. Rush that 1 had the coat." Assistant Principal R. D. Smith and Principal Dr. Findley Rush found Hoover and told him to accompany them to the office. Hoover refused and was suspended. Smith said that he conferred with Hoover's mother, an em ployee of the Town of Chapel Hill, told her of Hoover's offense, (he theft of the coat, and expelled him from school for the rest of the school year. Witnesses, at an informal hearing, according tp Smith, were the white youth who claimed Hoover stole his coat, Dr. Rush and Smith, all who saw Hoover with the coat but no witnesses who saw him take It.' Hoover was no stranger to Smith or Rush. He had been to the office before - "one or two times for teacher com p LEADING THE PARADE Bull City Elks Lodge No. 317 and Salome Temple No. 704 were hosts tWs week for the 57th Annual State Association of the Improved Benevolent arid protective Order of Elks of the World. Leading the Antler Guard State .Parade !on Sunday afternoon were (front seat) Grand Secre tary Carl O Dickerson, (l-r, rear seat) O. C. Johnson, State Security Guard; Dr. J. E. Jones, State Medical Director, and J. Thomas Walker, local Exalted Ruler. Other photos and stories of the six day meet are on inside pages of this issue. 1 (Photo by Kevin Bell) j 5 Governor RALEIGH - James Hunt has designated all of the staff members of the N. C. Human Relations Commission exempt from the Personnel Act - a move which press aide Gary Pearce says will make the staff an ex tension of the Governor's staff. Pearce also said that Hunt intends to give newly appointed Director Ben Ruffin power to hire and fire his staff in order to imple ment the agency's goals. His first day on the job, Ruffin said that he does not plan to ask for resignations of any of plaints, a couple times for class cutting, altogether about five times." Asked why he did not accompany Rush to the office. "Well when they tell you to go with them to office they have their minds made up. They are not fair anyway." 4 DEMONSTRATORS INVADE CITY HALL - About forty or fifty demonstrators. '"9 Jld cials, gathered on the first floor of Cltv Hall In Atlanta, Georgia, the sUikert floor and invaded the office of Mayor Maynard Jackson. The demonstrators fwSii ",,52 police pushed them out. fists flew. Police said they arrested several demonstrators, two of them off Will of tW American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union. (UPI). '.1 (J ployccV;by the Commission vv-" libit of wCoinriiisloii' sfaffars have been in very fixed positions for the past several years. All except two hold the same position that they held when whey entered the Commission. For the pro fessional staff there are only three positions: two super visors and the executive director. Field workers handle complaint investiga tions. Exactly what the Commission's role will be is not yet certain. Interviewed after his appointment Ruffin the nine member staff em- Smith says "due process is followed in all cases, of sus pensions and expulsions. There is no kid that won't get a fair trial. That is my reason for being here. If you check it, any person in this community will take notice of that." It appears that all people ,J said that he is going to gcr1 to the people of the state to get a program for Commis sion activities. However, Governor James Hunt, at the prodding of black politicans, campaigned last fall saying he wanted the Commission to investigate discriminatory hir ing practices of state govern ment. If Ruffin does go to the people for a mandate, the process of program develop ment would not be com pleted for approval by the legislature before the next session. - CCNS. Parents Recommend Altornativos in the small university town, particularly its black citizens, do not agree. Student sus pensions and expulsions have been such an issue with many parents that an organization called "Parents for Educational Progress" has met with Rush and Smith and has presented ilyrit'rtrV'' ""r ' ,rt 1 ft.- M Mdm John Winfors And Jin Richardson Got Posts RALEIGH - Governor James Hunt appointed two black North Carolinians to in fluential positions last week. Raleigh real estate broker and construction contractor John W. Winters was appoint ed to a term on the N. C. Utilities Commission and Jim Richardson of Charlotte to a term as Chairman of the N. C. Social Services Commis sion. Winters is now serving a second term in the N. C. Senate. If confirmed by the Senate, Winters will begin his duties July 1, 1977. Ques tioned about the reasons for accepting the nomination. Winters said, "As a commis sioner there has to be a credibility established by the Commission. Very few people have any confidence in the commission." Win ters had been under consi deration by President Carter to an ambassadorship in the Caribbean. Richardson is the post master of Mount Holly, and is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University. Richard son's top priority, he says is "making males in the state of North Caroling that are un- employed ind l&derernpli ed eligible for Aid to Farniliei With Dependent Children (AFDC)." Richardson says many black families break up because males are unable "to take care of their families on the jobs they have either through unemployment or underemployment and have a tendency to sometimes leave families." Preventive mea sures he advocates wfll "in the long run lessen the wel fare roles and give people self-esteem to be able to Continued On Page 3 detailed recommendations to implement a data collection system which would docu ment facts of each suspen sion, assess teacher and ad ministrator training needs, and latematives to suspensions. Dr. Rush said the pro posal is now being studied by mnrtrin neat ihii,-tMfctfcwAiwiAw t M IPII OWDS 0 WINTERS Vondstta Prolan At Picdncnt Colkp CHARLOTTE - A federally-funded program de signed to interest first offen ders in education and, job training pas been aroppea by Cratfaf P I e d m o a t Community CoDeee is of June 30 of this year. Harold Parks, Director of the Program, stated that the program is being dropped be cause of a "personal ven detta" waged by Mecklen burg District Attorney Peter Gilchrist III against T. J. Reddy, a counselor in the program. Reddy, a poet, artist and political activist, is one of the Charlotte 3 who claim they were framed on a politically Continued On Page 5 J a school discipline committee, appointed by him, to review the recommendations. Rush is a member of the committee that includes teachers, stu dents and administrators. Rush will decide what recommen dations, if any, will be adopted. "My observations as principal will be baaed on what the committee recommends," Rush said when he refused to give comments concerning the proposals. PEP has recommended that a committee of five people, appointed by the School Board, evaluate the performance of teachers and principals every six months. A grievance committee has been asked to be revitalized. PEP suggests an equal num ber of blacks and whites on the committee made up of "teachers, parents, students, community leaders, and school administrators." A recommen dation that no student be sus pended unless the "student la a threat to self and others' was also made. The recommendations an based on data and analysis pro vided PEP by Community Opportunities for Educational Directions Project (Co-ED). Fifty-eight per eent of stu dents suspended at Chapel in Senior High during the feU semester, the CO-ED project found, were suspended for fighting. "Profanity, theft, and destruction of property .re present eight per cent each u reasons for suspension." , Only one white student was suspended 'out of t total of thirteen. While members cf the PEP committee tn&cttt racism it a factor, R. D. Smith says "that's vA not
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