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" " Cuke University Library ' 'Newspaper Pepartr.ent Durham, N.' C. 27706 ' ....';: j. .,.,'. f , ., - . ', , : .. ' . , , .. , . . . '' ' ?t'S' " i" lf1' '' ' Tfid Dacfr Press Our Froocfom Depends On ft; Words of VJicdczi The man who loses his head U usually the last one to miss it. Journal of American Medical Association ' V ; VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 23 "READ BY OVt.l 330 DUftHAMITES" DURHAM, NORTHCAROlInAj" JUNE 1l7T97T TELEPHONE mi) fcVfciJ FBiCE: 20 CENTS Appoints' Brafton To E. R. Comm. ii ill ii I jf 1. ; RALEIGH (CCNS)-On June. 1 Governor James Hunt appointed s new North Caro lina Human Relations Council and endorsed legislation mak ing the Council responsible for investigating and conci liating complain of discri mination in employment. Appointing the Council, Hunt named as Chairman, Dr. Jerry niHiiMnnmHiiHiiHiimiiii MHIHHIUItMHMMHNMmMI Drayton, pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, Drayton, also chairman of the Political Action Committee of Ihe General Baptist Convention, is the first black to hold the position. The new appointees are composed of eleven men and nine women. Of that number nine are black, ten white one Native Native Ameri can jmd of the Jewish faith. . " Jhe twenty members are ; to sqve at the pleasure of the governor for indefinite terms , ; withejut pay, except for travel and expenses incurred in , worfc for the Council. Initially established in Sanford's administration as the Governor's Good Neigh ; bor Council, the legislated purpose of the Council has been defined as to study pro , blems concerning human re lations; to promote equality vof opportunity for all citizens; to promote under ' standing, respect and good will among all citizens; to promote channels of commu nication among all races; to encourage the employment of qualified people without re gard to race; and to encourage youth to become better qualified and trained' for employment. ' Despite its charge, the Council has been primarily a crisis-oriented organization the arly '60's under Terry SHIIIIIIIilUIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIUm i since Ms inception. For example, it was the Council that first invited Rev. Ben Chavis to Wilmington in 1971 during the midst of racial conflict n which white night-riders were terrorizing the black ghetto in response to a boycott of the public school system by black stu dents. According to former, :w - k l ' ' I IS-Yr-OifJGatjCociuii'fesSOv OmrdGrisiig tJCCU SOiucSeiiif BY DAVID StaffWriter SQUIRES BACK AT HOME President Jimmy Carter hugs Rachel Clark, the woman who helped raised him during his boyhood days in Plains. The President was back in his hometown for a brief visit. (UPI). . JUOnilllfHIlIU Education V. Can The Poor EkcoI? BY TRELLIE L. JEFFERS , There is no way of predicting what the human mind is cap able of absorbing, Despite this facteducational researchers pften suggest (in their numerous articles about the "culturally deprived" and "culturally disadvantaged") that children of low socioeconomic groups-are likely to be poor learners. At the same time, these educational researchers almost, always suggest the poor learning takes place because of the home environment, of the pupil; these educational researchers almost always suggest that poor learning is never the fault -of the school jnyjrormettt; h.'a Serious educators, however, alwaVs take the, position thai new methods and new approaches must hi sought, for It U diffi cult to predict the circumstances under which one pupil will succeed and another will fail. Socioeconomic status is not a reliable criterion for measuring learning ability. Studies would show that innumerable persons from poor andor black environ ments have achieved status as professionals or have attained success in the management of their lives.. The poverty to success story is common in America among poor and black people. At one time the majority of successful black people had begun their lives In poverty. Even today, a study of the financial background of black college students might reveal that large numbers of them come from poor families. Judge Constance Motley, Leontyne Price, Cicely Tyson, Fannie Lou Hamer, author Alice Walker, publisher John Johnson, Benjamin May,s Richard Wright, Carl Rowan, Cali fornia state superintendent of schools Wilson Riles - all have1 made important contributions and all came from poor families. These names of prominent, people are symbolic of the hundres of thousands of persons who began life in poverty and rose to success. One cannot predict academic success or failure on the basis of socioenomic background. TEACHERS GET WHAT THEY EXPECT What may, in fact, be happening in our schools is what Jacobson and Rosenthal suggested in their study, "Pygmalion in the Classroom": that is, teachers get what they expect from children, whether it is success or failure. And since much edu cational research has alerted teachers to look for learning dis abilities, cultural deprivation, low intelligence quotients or poor learning skills, this may influence teachers' expectations. If, as Jacobson and Rosenthal suggested, teachers are encouraged to look for positive learning traits, the alarming rate of failure among poor children may be reversed. Since so much of the research about the learning abilities of poor and especially black children is influential, only those teachers who have unshakeable faith in the potentialities of their pupils will assist their students in transcending the pre sent atmosphere in which their failure has been predicted with such omniscient confidence. ' In the prevailing atmosphere of this omniscient confidence in the late sixties, this writer taught a course at California State College entitled "The Psychological Needs of the Ghetto Child." The motivating factor for this course was the firm be lief by some professors that children of the ghetto bring to school poor self-concepts, and when they arrive at school, they find teacners who have very little respect for their learning po tentialities. And since the college offered courses in teaching the "cultural disadvantaged" and the "culturally deprived," The Psychological Needs of the Ghetto Child , sought to offer an alternative approach. This course was offered to majors in education who, as part of their course requirement, tutored a ghetto child who was deficient in reading skills. These children were referred to the course by schools and by social service departments from Los Angeles County. SELF RESPECT Marvin (a pseudonym), a nine-year-old black male criminal who read on the lower first grade level, was offered as a pros, pective tutee for a member of this class. Marvin was a fourth grader. A member of the class agreed to tutor him. Marvin s first crime, committed at the age of five, had compelled the courts to place him in a foster home. He had continued for the next four years to commit crimes, thus forcing his expulsion from six foster homes. He was, at the time his name was submitted, on the verge of another expulsion because of a robbery he had committed. Because of Marvin's age, he was placed on pro bation for his latest crime, and, because of the agreement to tutor him, his foster parents were persuaded to keep him a few WkEach?utor was to deal primarily with the self-concept of his or her tutee, for the working hypothesis for this experi ' ment was that when a child of average ability learned to respect himself or herself, the child would perform satisfactorily in tellectually. Marvin's school had a sophisticated reading pro gram. Thus the teaching was left to the regular teacher and the Continued on Page 14 7 The murder trial of Ricky Dan Perry, 18, of Durham finally came to a close on Monday, June 6, when a Durham County Jury found him guilty for the first degree murder, rape, kidnapp ' ing, and crime against nature of Mrs. Nana Louise Smith, 24, of Apex. . Perry who pleaded not guilty to all charges was sen tenced to 190 years in prison on Tuesday, June 7, by Durham, Superior Court Judge Thomas Lee. He received two consecutive life sentences (80 years each) for first-degree murder and rape, a 30 year sentence for kid napping, and a 10 year sen tence for crime against nature to run concurrently with the kidnapping sentence. He wQl be eligible .for parole in 47 dead5; in) I wooded area off Hopson Road on Saturday, March 12hetween 10:30 and 11 ajn, by a group of Boy Scouts who helped search for , her ' after her husband reported to the police that she was missing. When found, the N. C. Central student has been shot four times: twice in the back, once in the top of the head, and once between the eyes. Ballistics experts Douglas M. Branch and Frank V. Satter field from the State of Bureau of Investigations testi fied that the bullets taken from Mrs. Smith's body were fired from a .22 calibre pistol identified as Perry's. The pistol was found on Perry on Friday March 1 1 , by Detective A. W. Clayton, when he went to talk to Perry after having been told that Perry had been seen with Mrs. Smith. At that time Perry denied seeing Mrs. Smith but was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon (later found to be the murder weapon). He was again arrested and charged with murder on Saturday, March 12, when Mrs. Smith's body was found. According to the testi mony of two boys, . Larry Hardison, 14, and Dale Perry, 10, no relation to Ricky, Mrs. Smith's car "knocked off." Ricky Dan Perry came along and the two younger boys told Mrs. Smith that Ricky worked at a ser vice station. The three males pushed her green 1974 Pinto off the road and then Mrs. Smith left in the car driven by Perry down Alston Avenue in the direction of the Mobile Station where Ricky Perry worked. The boys said the car driven by Perry came by minutes later with Mrs. Smith still riding with Perry. The next time Mrs. Smith was seen was on Satur day, March 12 when the Oriental woman was found dead. Perry did not testify in his trial. However, Charles Richard Williams, an inmate of the Durham County Jail testified that while he was in' jail with Perry, Perry admitt ed that he (Perry) and an un named friend had sexual in tercourse with Mrs. Smith and killed her after she dressed when she said she was going to tell the police she had been raped. Williams said Perry told him he shoi5 Mrs. Smith in the back. Then his friend used Perry's pistol to shoot her twice in the head to make sure she was dead. Defense attorney William M. Sheffield contended that the jury not believe the "jail bird" Williams who had been convicted for six counts of forgery in addition to six other various counts. He said that Williams made up the story so that , he could be freed and that the incident could not have happened the way Williams said that Perry said it happened. Sheffield further argued that the jury must analyze each piece of evidence sepa rately and be sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the "citizen" Perry Was guilty be fore convicting him. Assistant District attor ney Dan, K. Edwards,. Jr. countered; , saying ' the jury must - use each pjtece ;.;v4 dence together and form a picture of the crime. Edwards said that Perry's confession to Williams showed that he had guilty knowledge of the case and was telling it in a manner to pacify himself. ?. The story that the defen dant allegedly told Williams had Perry carrying Mrs. Smith to a friend s house in stead of to a telephone booth as he had offered. After he and the friend smoked two marijuana cigarettes, they carried Mrs. Smith to the wooded area and , had sex.' Williams said. Both attorneys, Sheffield ' and Edwards, refuted the ver sion, of the crime allegedly , told r to Williams by Perry. They both agreed that there wasn't enough time for it to' have' happened that way. i Edwards gave one possi ble X theory for the actual murder saying that Perry may' ; have, shot the victim twice'-' in the back as she. ran away. Then she may have crawled v trying to get away when C: Perry shot her in the top of the head. Finally according to y Edwards' theory, Mrs. Smith may?, have struggled on her . side then-Perry .'coolly and casujslly" f shot her between 4b,"yes.'.' ., .-: 'Xi'ts '"i1 lyrwtft'iwier i know what a11y , happened", he said, adding that only Perry' and iMrs. Smith :were eye witnesses to the crime. Edwards; described the crime;;as One of the ''most savage arid brutal" to occur in Durham County; i : I p Pi ANDREW YOUNG the, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations arrives at airport in London May 25 from Khartoum. He said he though he had persuaded the Black African leaders that there is another way to Independence besides the armed struggle. (UPI). , Students Hood The , Right To Uork iiinmnniiiimuiiiiuniiiiuiiwiiiii:u!!iiifiiiiiiiiitiiiiimiu!!Uiau: miii Foik fo? Prolempf To Force Confession JENSON (CCNS) - At it we? Benson black men, y(Stewart, 25, and Henry miith 29. have been terri fied since early Friday morn ing when they were awakened in their beds by more than 50 law enforcement officers wielding shotguns and rifles. Just five hous earlier Four Oaks policeman Dennis Wilbert Allen, 24, was slain on Interstate 95, one quar ter mile north of Four Oaks. While the press has been told the men are not formal suspects in the case, both men were questioned by law enforcement officers most o Friday and both say they were held on suspicion .of murder. ; , j; .. . ' Stewart and Smith de scribed Friday, as a nightmare. Questioned by police, sheriff deputies, State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) agents and Federal Bureau of In vestigation (FBI) agents, con cerning where the two had been around 1:00 am, Fri day. By late Friday afternoon the two said they were nearly exhausted when left alone in a smoke-filled room with Continued on Page 14J ':y:M:I:-' X fiy San,ra Dumont ! WASHINGTON - Studejrta every ' wherr are knowq x to .be ;.aofe"np; out.spokeri advocates of irkilvidual liberty.--, Unfortunately; they! know' litUe about the future dangers they face in the area of , v employment rights. " jy A ' v ' ' Stude nts, as well as other workers, can be forced to join or financially support unions against their own free will, as a condition of employment. Failure to do so . : means they ose their jobs. , Luckily, 20 ot 20 states have enacted , Right to Work laws, which make compul sory unionism illegal. In the other 30 states all too often it's a matter of "pay up, or get out." . :,;;;1v ' Representative Philip Crane ' (R-IU), a former history professor (at Indiana and Bradley),- taw the problem and introduced i -bill to ".Congress , on February 16, the 1977." It is based on the premise that the right not to join a union is just as valid as the, right to join. It has received bipartisan support from 18 Congressmen from twelve other states. Young people who both work and attend school plainly need what little money they earn, whether for social or educational purposes, or in some cases to suport a family. Union dues are supposed to go toward benefits, but students usually are ineligible because of their part-time or short-term status This money, then, is diverted into he pockets of union bosses, . Continued on Page 14 KENT HOUSE By Laura Ptfrks Important Rhodesian and South African businessmen are firmly established at 87 Regents Street, the heart of London's exclusive section, reserved for aristocracy and wealth. The local postman know! the address as Kent House and delivers a steady flow of mail from South Afri ca into the hands of Mr. D. R: Boddie's secretary. The mail is usually addressed to Mr. Boodle or to the Club of Ten. ' a ' - ' " Entry to Kent House is difficult;; The London ad-; ministrator of the Club of Ten, Mr. Boddie, prefers to; keep away from unrehearsed interviews and unexpected visitors. ' , Kent House is the European command post for the massive South African propaganda drive to preserve white rule in Southern Africa. In recent weeks, it has stepped up its activities in Western Europe and the United States. The theme of the international propaganda drive, developed by, the businessmen and their corporate adver.- , tising staffs and approved by the South African govern ment, is based on emphasizing the Russian: danger and completely ignoring the real issue of black; majority rule. The Club members, whose names remain closely guarded secrets, tailored thefr upaigi to , the white population of Europe, America and. Africa,: They have shamelessly made their appeals ' to hew fears about the " safety of oil supplies from Arab "lands and; to the old ' fears about the spread of Russian . Influence ' in Africa. . , v ,r (., ' Members of the Club of Ten' know that. the Carter Administration is committed to black. majority rule in Rhodesia and the indpendence of Namibia. The adver- ; tisement immediately jumps to the attack with "Energy: The Peril Carter did not reveal", And goes on with w . . . "The President of the United States, failed to tell his , people and the world of the perilous situation they and , Continued On Page : 14 .; . '- spvr w jT if n m m i ii iiiiiii'TirrTTTi tfirrtwi i i i ii i i in mi - ii I n,,! "T"' " - VP'S WIFE VISITS BOSTON SCHOOL Mrs. Joan Mondale, wife of tht Vfc President, accompanied by Mrs. Kitty Dukakis (white suit) wife of tht Governor, visits the Quincy ?Dickerman Elementary School in the Dorchester section of Boston recently Mrs. Mondale was visiting Boston as tht guest of tht Cultural Education Collaborative, a non-profit organization. (UPI). . fiiii::rzi::i::::::tii:::i:niiiiiiriitiiiitiiiiiiiiiumuiiiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiittutiiiiiittfiiiiizi:uii:iit:tniiiimi:xri:r: latuuiaMtieuu see aeaeeeeaaetaeeeest Old TJoirf Sf of e ttediwl Society To Convene fn Greensboro The Old 4 North State Medical Society,: the oldest Slack physician - society in the .United States, : will ; convene its 90th annual ;; session at the-Four Seasons -Holiday Inn in Greensboro', ' June 10, Jl and 12th. -' " : " According to Dr. W. T. ' Armstrong of Rocky Mount, who is the secretary-treasurer, "approximately 125 physicians and their wives will be in . attendance for" the sessions., The f opening business " session is scheduled . for ; Friday night, June 10th. This wQl be followed by . clinks! session starting ; Saturday morning. Clinicians from Duke Medical Center, Bow man Gray Medical School and the University of North Caro Una Medical School wul de liver papers on newer con cepts in medicine. - .. The Saturday afternoon session will he oriented to ward the 1 business ' side 1 of medicine ' and will feature Attorney Jeff Batts of Rocky Mount and a discussion of tax changes as they affect - the medical profession. Dr. Lewis Dowdy, Chancellor- of A&T State University, of Greens boro, is the featured speaker for the' annual President's Banquet on Saturday night. This wiQ be followed by ': the ' annual President's Ball x- Dr. George C Debnarn of Raleigh is the president and will deliver his address at the opening business session on ' Friday night Dr. John P. Hoh of Ashevde will be in ducted into the presidency on Sunday at the closing busi ness session. ,' The auxiliary under the direction of Mrs. Mary C. Barnwell of New Bern will hold sessions benninj on Friday night. .
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