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A PCNS FEATURE
. What would you do if you
were the American ambassa
dor to the United Nations?
How. would you feel repre
senting a country that has
been described as the mecca
of white racism,, primary
supporter and ally of Zim
babwe; (Rhodesia), Azania
(South Africa), South Korea,
Chile, Panama and other
repressive governments?
Turn yourself into a man
of color who still smarts
under thoughts of a sabo
taged Civil Rights Move
ment and has to swallow his
pride when asked to clarify
his last statement - which has
offended some nice white
folk?
Call .v yourself Andrew
Young, ' although TypU cat
call yourself any -V pf 23-"'
be the ambassador to the UN,
but whose .credentials- are .
just as credible.
How is Andrew Young
doing in the UN?
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Carl Williams, 21
Law Student, NCCU
Benoit, Mississippi
"He's really stirring up
things and is very outspoken.
As a part of the Carter ad
ministration,, he' is informal
and let '8 it all hang out. May
be he is what we need in
negotiating with Vorster and
Ian Smith in South Africa
and Rhodesia. By invoking
them to respond, he really
makes white senators here
show the black voters where
they really stand on impor
tant issues. It's a change. In
the past, we haven't had
. politicians 'who come out and
let the cards fall where they
may. Young's outspokenness
is a good thing, but some
where along the line, I think;
Carter will have to muzzle'
him."
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EAGLES GETTING ENR0LLED-A crowd of freshmen wait patiently outside of the Communieationt Building on the campus
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John Wilson, 65
Retired
Durham.
",ei"aoinga'fiheb'Tof
a colored man l heard him .
talkinc the other night. Hell
be the next president. Right
now he is trying to bring the
white and ' the coloreds to-;
gether. He caji't do, it over,
night or ( all in : one day. H
takes timei I think President
Carter and he Young are
doing a fine job."
Michael Nunn, 26
Durham
"I think he's doing some
thing, but not all he could do.
It's hard for a black person in
his position to do much with
that much pressure on them.
Black politicians seldom do
What they want to do. I'm be
hind him one hundred per
, cent. That's what 'it takes to
work things -W for us to back
, hint up.,' - ,
Edison Bertrand,28
, Law Student, NCCU ,
Virgin Islands
"For any American
foreign policy to be success
ful today, it must be sensitive
to the' needs of developing
countries. This policy must
show them the United States
is aware and sensitive to their
problems and is willing to
help , struggling ' nations by
cooperating with them. It can
greatly improve our relations
with them by the fact we do
have a black or non-white am
bassador who represents and
speaks to them for us. I hope
Ambassadpr Young continues
to speak his true feelings.
People all over are too educa
ted to be told otherwise and
accept it. Hopefully, the day
for covert foreign policies is
in the past"?
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Fayetteville
Of Murder
FAYETTEVILLE-An unea-
sy
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T?
tir
silence prevails over this
military town as the trial of
Terry Wayne McDougal con
tinues with District Attorney
Edward Brannis slowly piec
ing together the events of
January 6, 1977 at the Terry
Sanford High School here
that preceded seventeen year
old Ricky Miller's death.
Terry McDougal, sixteen
years old, is black and lives
in the Cape Fear, Public
Housing project with his mo
ther and sister. Charged with
first degree murder and re
leased by the Cumberland
County Grand Jury on Jan
uary 1 9, Terry was reindicted
by the Grand Jury on Februa-
' -ry t, J 077 ! fof second degree ,
1 murdeH aftel DA Ed Grahnis4
reported that probable cause'
existed for the first desree
degree
murijer indictment.
Before the trial is over in
Toiion
Dlaciis
By Sbcrotdry of Saf c
RALEIGH (CCNS)-With-out
much , of the splendor of
many other recent swearing
in ceremonies, members of
, the newly appointed N.C.
Judicial Nominating Commit
tee were sworn in by Secre
tary of State Thad Eure. In
cluded were four blacks,
three of which were appoint
ed by Governor James Hunt
and one by Senator John T.
Henley. j
Appointed were: Leo Hat
ton, of Henderson, chairman
of the 2nd Congressional Dis
trict Black Caucus; Dr. Ste
phen B. Thomas, a Burling
ton dentis; Mrs. Beatrice
Boone, of Murfressboro, an
employee of Georgia Pacific;
and Ms. Shirley C. Gillis of
RALEIGH (CCNS) - Des
pite an almost , 300 year of
lily white government since
the so-called American Revo
lution, black faces have be
gun to show up in greater
numbers than ever in state
government.
While North Carolina does
not have as vicious a system
of racial duality in employ
ment as South Africa's sytem
of apartheid, there certainly
, exist patterns in employment
which appear to relegate,
, blacks to positions of inferior
i " pay without the possibility of
llanos 2 To
President Carter has an
nounced the appointment of,
two more Blacks to positions
in the nation's judicial sy
stem. .''( ' '
The President nominated
Franklin Payne of St. Louis,
Mo., to be U.S. Marshal for
the Eastern District of Mis
souri. ' '; ' ':
Also nominated was
Howard J. Turner, Jr., of
mm
DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA -
about three weeks,., approxi
mately 150. witnesses are
expected to relate to the
jurors (ten white women and
men and two black men)
what they saw and heard . So n
far,' the prosecution has pre- '
sented several witnesses who
have testified that Ricky ,
Miller was stabbed during a
fight with Terry which, fol
lowed an earlier fight be- .
tween Terry and Ricky's !
younger brother, Bobby. -
Bobby Miller testified that
he was playing basketball, '
wun lerry m pnysicai eauca- .; rx ; r V i n
tion class, leaped for a '''ff? Ptt?")?'
rebound, and accidentally IL 'fiff9
Terry in the mouth- witSW'41V;'-M0,m
elbow. Miller related M Mrtex&yK
Terrv said hed rtmnAMmxP: ie.ppoinuncm oi
A:i ldckF;te
followed, Miller 'uSA, $
. f ' 1 '
was
quickly broken Up by
m the class. Accordmg to hirtt
the fight was abqureyeri. '' , '
Sworn In
Aberdeen, a stenographer at'
Cameron-Morrison School.
The Judicial Nominating
Commission is a Hunt creat
ion which, : he theorized,
would allow greater input of
lay people and lawyers to the
choosing of more qualified
judges to serve state. Faced
with appointing judges to su
perior ;i court; benches that
were made ; available by the
new speedy, trials act, Hunt r
now seeks the help of this
commission for nominees.
Attorney ' Charles Daye,
President of the North Caro
lina Association of Black
Lawyers attacked Chief Jus
tice Susie Sharpens all white
appointments demanding that
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upward mobility .
Although the long despis
ed practice of hiring the most
qualified blacks in meager po
sit ons is subject to some
changes, which, for some,
might still be a painfully slow
process - that process began
with Governor James Hunt's
appointment of Harold Webb,
a black man, as Director of
the State Personnel Commis
sion, last January. Since that
time, Webb has quietly
worked, , often avoiding the
press, to get established rules
adopted through which each
Judicial System
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to
be U.S. Marshal for the West
ern District of Pennsylvania.
In another action, the Pre
sident ' nominated Maurice
D. Bean, of Los Angelespal
ifornia, to be ambassador ex
traordinary and plenipoten-
tiary of the U.S. to the Soc-i
ialist Republic of the Union
of Burma. He would replace
' Davis L Osborn. , ; ;
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1977
vyMs. Caroline JJixon, a
teacher at the echool said
' Terry came to the school
clinic around noon com
plaining of a toothache and
f asked to get an excuse to go
fhome. Ms. Nixon said she
IICCU Appoints
17 Hon
.f"A- fT ma.Ji
Hie ii
uate school
are Melvin Carver,
visiting lecturer, department
of art; Carlyle Johnson, visi
ting lecturer, department of
art; Dtj Eugene Baskerville,
associate , professor, depart
ment of biology; Michael
Dixon, visiting lecturer, de
partment of drama; Mrs.
Doris McHaffey, instructor,
department of drama; Ken
neth Sneed, Instructor, de
partment of drama.
Dr. Stephen Fortune, as
sociate professor, department
of sociology; Dr. Beverly A. '
Nichols, associate professor
and chairman, department of
home economics.
Ms. Carolyn Rayford, as
sociate professor, department
of biology; Mrs. Isabelle
'Levitt; visiting lecturer, de
partment of art; Jerry Poteat,
research assistant, department
of chemistry; James Merritt,
visiting lecturer, criminal jus
tice program, department of
political science; Miss Gurnia
C. Michaux, visiting lecturer,
criminal justice program, de
partment of political science;
and Ms. Vicflle, Murphy,
visiting lecturer, department
of sociology.
state department would be re
quired to recruit, interview,
select, hire, promote, and
train minorities.
When Webb was appoint
ed, black employement was
shamefully low. As of Janu
ary 1, 1977, 85 percent of
blacks employed in state gov
ernment earned less than
$10,000. Most of those in
custodial positions earned less
than $8,000. A study conduc
ted by the North Carolina
Black Democratic Leadership
Caucus showed larger number
of blacks hired in the low un
skilled jobs while as the skill
level and pay increased, the
number or blacks decreased.
" Just how much the job
picture - has . changed -since
Webb was appointed, Person
nel Director it not certain, be
cause of the unavailability of
many statistics needed to
make adequate comparisons.
Statistics do show, how
ever, that the number of new
employees hired in many of
. the state's agencies increased
during the period between
January J-June 30, 1977.
The Department of Com
Wbuth
"Mm ,
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of North Carolina Central University Wednesday morning for an
Kelvin Bell )
Accused
Chance"
noticed Terry's jaw f was
swollen, When he checked
out at 12:22 p.m., Terry,
she said, came back to the
clinic at 12:40, checking
back into school saying that
he was unable to get thirty
cents busfare to go home.
Building a case that Terry
knew that he was being '
sought by Bobby Miller's
brother, District Attorney
Grannis put Charles Latti
more on the witness stand. A
student a Terry Sanford,
Lattimore testified that dur
ing the afternoon of January
6, he saw Terry in the locker
room of theschool and asked
him if he knew Ricky Miller
arid that Ricky4 was looking
for him.
student atTerWSahfbrd
High said," around 3:30 he
accompanied Ricky to the
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Efforts To Unionization
Causo Uproar in Porsbn
ROXBORO (CCNS) -Steelworker
employees RPC
Division of Youngstown Steel
Door Co. meet Monday after
noon in the parking lot of
Timberlake Motel here to pre
sent a petition to an official
of the United Steel Workers
of America, AFL-CIO.
According to reports, 75
percent of RPC steel workers
has signed a petition request-,
ing representation "in collec
tive bargaining over wages,
hours and all other conditions
of employment" at RPC by
the steelworker union. A
copy of the petition was to
be filed with National Labor
Relation Board, Tuesday
morning by union representa-'
tiveMikeKrival.
The organization effort
merce, wmcn naa zoj em
ployees as 6f January 1, of
whom ; 298 or 12 per cent
were black, hired a total of
320 employees between
January-June 30, of whom
75 or 23 per cent were black.
A very slight increase since
a A ifil .
fJ. C. Dfacfi Women's PofMcal Caucus
Planned For September
A statewide meeting of the
North Carolina Black Wo
men's Political Caucus is plan
ned for September 17, at St.
Augustine's College in Ra
leigh. The purpose of the
meeting is to provide a sup
port system for black women
in North Carolina that will
enable them to express and
identify "their needs and to
propose strategies that will,
through the utilization of the
political system, allow them
to realize their full potential.
.. The caucus it an out-,
growth of the North Carolina
International Women's Year
Do not pray for taafci equal to ycur power.
Pray for power equal to jrotrr tssk.
TEJLEFHONS OM)
JOHN W. WINTERS
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Icddonhip Ccrms Honors
Oichorjir end Winters
RALEIGH - H. M. "Mic
key'.Michaux, Jr of Dur
ham and John W. Winters of ;
festive dinner-dance Satur
day, September 10, at the
Raleigh Civic Center.
reportedly began about five
weeks ago, with RPC workers
negotiating with USWA repre
sentatives from Charlotte:
The effort to unionize
reportedly stemmed from
working conditions in the
RPC plant, "low pay rates
and heightened union aware
ness" ignited by a recent con
troversy in Roxboro relative
to Brockway Glass Co.
The RPC company has
twenty to sixty days in which
to permit an election at the
plant, once the USWA has
been officially notified of
the workers request to orga
nize. Up to this point, it is
reported that management in
Person County has been suc
cessful in keeping the union
out.
that figure also includes,
temporary employees hired
for the summer, some on fed
eral CETA grants. In January
68 per cent of all blacks hired
by the Commerce department
earned less than $8,000.
Blacks have been totally non
I 1
State meeting which was held
in June of this year. The Sep
tember 17th meeting is ex
pected to draw upon the sup
port of minority women six
teen years and older, in every
walk of life from every con
gressional district in the state.
Every minority woman
who has deep concerns tor
the growth and development
of her full potential should
participate In the conference.
Wotkshopa wffl held on
church, education, consum
erism, credit, law and crimi
nal justice, wrroloyment, elec
' torsi politics and health care.
S!uiy Ctagos
ttZI . PRICE: 23 CENTS
"MICKEY MICHAUX, JR.
The event is sponsored
by the North Carolina Black
Democratic Leadership Cau
rmTl?tiifrf' veteran'- fegis
latort have resigned seats in
the General Assembly to as
sume major Federal and state
appointments.
Michaux is the recently
appointed U.S. Attorney for
the Middle District of North
Carolina and Winters left his
North Carolina Senate seat to
assume a post on the North
Carolina Utilities Commis
sion. The dinner is to begin at
8 pjn. Saturday, September
10. Several hundred guests
are expected to attend the
event, at $20 per person. The
dinner-dance is not a fund
raising event, and the $20
charge is expected to cover
only the costs of the meal
and the entertainment.
.Michaux, a native of Dur
ham, is a graduate of North
Carolina Central University,
where he did graduate work
in business administration
and economics and earned
his juris doctor degree with
honors.
He has been a member of
the North Carolina Bar since
1966 and was, at the time of
his appointment as V. S.
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existent in many of the top
paying policy-making jobs in
state government. Using the
Department ' of Commerce
again in the position paying
more 'than $16,000 annually,
one black was hired since Jan
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To register for the confer
ence, a woman need only
write on a plain sheet of
paper, her name, address con
gressional district and the
workshop' she wants to at
tend. She should send that
information along with her
registration fee of $3.00 to:
The North Carolina Black
Women's Political Caucus,
In care of Ora Coleman, 401 5
Camelot Drive, Raleigh, N.C.
Registration will also be held
on September 17th . from
8:30 ajn. until 9:30 un. at
the conference site.
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