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VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 41
"READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES"
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1977
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Candidates
Load fjold
Clarence Brown and Dr.
Alexander D. Moseley led the
field of ten candidates run
ning for three at-large seats
on Durham's City Council
in Tuesday's primary elec
tion. Rev. Bill Smith, pastor
of Pilgrim United Methodist
Church, came in third.
Brown, 28, the youngest
man on the ballot, garnered
2,895 votes; Dr. Moseley,
pastor of Mount Gilead Bap
tist Church, received a total
of 2,870 votes; and Rev.
Smith, 2,623.
The next three, in order,
were Stewart Pickett, Jr., a
Durham businessman, with
1,976; Esai Berenbaum, for
mer director of the Durham
Public Safety Department,
1,970; and Murphy Boyd,
a retired Durham postmas
ter, 1,644.
Brown, Democratic pre
cinct chairman at Hope
Valley Elementary School,
and Dr. Moseley had the en
dorsement of the Durham
Committee on the Affairs
of Black People. Rev. Smith
and Pickett were endorsed
by . the Durham Voters Alliance.
BLACK LEADERS SUPPORT C. DEL0Q&S TUCKEft
PHILADELPHIA - C.
Delores Tucker has blamed
her firing as the state's first
black Secretary of State in
Pennsylvania on a "power
hungry gang" that surrounds
the Governor and who are
intent on retaining their
positions after the Gover
nor leaves office.
Mrs. Tucker indicated
this "gang" wanted to wrest
control of the state's elec
tion machinery from a "per
son of principle arid fair
- ness." :
; Governor Milton Shapp
fired her September 21st on
grounds that she used mem
bers of her staff . to write
. speeches for her and arranged
150 speaking engagements
that earned her more than
$65,000 in the past Vh years.
In a statement released
to the press, Mrsi Tucker said,
"the charges made against me
. have already been explored
fully by the State Legislature.
Chapel
Relations
CANDIDATES
FOR AlDEtTlAU
HOLD riEETIUG
CHAPEL HILL - The
problems of Chapel Hill city
employees are emerging as
one area of concern in the
campaign for that city's
Board of Aldermen.
Candidates for alder
man and city employees will
listen and respond to each
other in a public forum being
sponsored by the people's
Alliance on Tuesday, Oct.
18, at 8 p.m. in the Har
graves Recreation Center on
N. Roberson St. in Chapel
Hill. Ms. Doris Foushee,
active in community affairs
as Democratic precinct chair
man and a founding mem
ber of the N. C. Black
Women's Political Caucus,
will serve as moderator.
Bob McMahon of the
People's Alliance discussed
why his group decided to
hold this forum. "Employee
management conflicts in the
bus system and fire depart
ment had become a public
issue in' the last year," he
noted. "We saw that Chapel
' Hill, as one of the i major
employers, ,fqr. long-terro
white. an olack tesideoW of js
' thelown, hariwrimport
: impact on the general climate
of employee management
relations' in the local
community."
The problems town em
ployees face are often closely
tied to the quality of ser
vices that taxpayers receive,
McMahon continued. He
charged that recent manage
ment decisions,. "made with
out taking into account the
views of the people out on
. the 'street actually doing the
job," had caused problems
fof the workers and also im
paired the quality of service
offered by the town.
It is reported that the
fire department has been
caught in a conflict over
a new schedule of work
shifts. Some of the town's
firefighters contend it has
both disrupted their home
lives and reduced the num
ber of men available to
provide protection for the
town.
In the transportation de
partment, McMahon said, the
town has failed to settle on
a level of service or to achieve
schedules that meet the needs
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Bcmos u Power Hungry Gan " In
the State Ethics Board and
the Governor's Office in the
past."
"They are now being
dredged up as an excuse to
cover the real- issue . . .
Among these issues is
whether or not a person of
principle and fairness super
vising the state election
machinery is a threat to a
Bower-hungry gang," added
Irs. Tucker.
She ; concluded that "I
did not resign because I
had done nothing wrong, nor
had anything to conceal."
She also charged that the
timing of her dismissal was
"calculated to intimidate me
and cause me to suffer
maximum embarrassment and
humiliation." She was
summoned by Shapp to
Harrisburg from a meeting in
Puerto. Rico Where she was
about to be elected the first
black president of the
Will Town-Em
III THIS WEEK'S ISSUE
Eagles Suffer Season's Zibawean leader
Worst bebid To Speak In Area
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Carter
wominafes
United Sfafes Marshals
WASHINGTON - Presi
dent Carter has nominated
three blacks to serve as U.
S. Marshals. The President
has pledged to: bring more
blacks into the nation's
judicial and enforcement
areas. Nominated were:
G. William Hunter,
Oakland, California,1 to be
U. S. attorney for the
Northern District of Cali
fornia. Hunter, 34, received
a J. D. from Howard Uni
versity Law School in 1970
and an LL M. from the
University of California's
Bdalt Law School in 1971.
He worked for the Alameda
County Legal Aid Society
from 1970 to 1972, and for
Berkeley Neighborhood Legal
Services during 1972. From
the Alameda wvDis.ricrth.e.9vP
.Awoniey s uttice, and since
1976 he has been with the
San Francisco District Attdr-
Haitian Prisoners Gain
Community Support
RALEIGH (CCNS) -Friends
and relative; of in
mates of the Caledonia Pri
son Farm in Halifax County
held their first public fund-raising-affair
last Saturday.
The group, which formed last
year iri response to the heed .
for transportation to visit
those incarcerated at the re
latively inaccesible prison, has
managed to make weekly
trips by pooling gas, money
and cars. The increased de
mand for travel accomoda
tions, as the group's exis
tance has become known,
led to this effort to raise
funds for the express purpose'
of purchasing a van which
would be used to transport
friends and relatives to the
prison site.
National Association of Sec
retaries of State.
At a recent press con
ference, Shapp admitted that
"Delores is one of the best
off-the-cuff speakers I know.
She rarely speaks from a
prepared text.'
He praised Mrs. Tucker's
performance as Secretary of
State. "She did things in that
department that no other
Secretary , ever did. She
revitalized every depart
ment." Shapp said he wouldn't
have released the report ex
plaining Mrs. Tucker firing
if she had resigned.
Many national black
leaders have lashed out at
the Governor's action. Glos
ter Current, Deputy Execu
tive Director of NAACP,
attacked Shapp and pledged
the NAACP's legal staff to
help Mrs. Tucker.
Meanwhile, the Right
Reverend ' Richard Allen
to Be Examined
Three
ney's Office.
Rufus A. Lewis, Mont-
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gomery, Ala., to be u. .
Marshall for the Middle Dis
trict of Alabama. Lewis, 69,
received a B. A. from Fisk
University in 1931. He has
been an Alabama State Re
presentative since 1974. Since
193S he has been associated
with the Ross-Clayton
Funeral Home in Montgo
mery, and currently serves as
secretary -treasurer.
Harry H. Marshall,
Springfield, 111., to be U. S.
Marshall for the Southern
District of Illinois. Marshall,
56, served as deputy sheriff
of Sangamon County, 111.
from 1958 to 1962. from
1962 to 1977 he-was deputy
U. S. marshal! for--a the
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pointed U. b. marshal
One of the volunteers in
the Caledonia Prison Support
Group, Allen Spears,' was
pleased with the response to
the food-selling event. Re-t
calling the earliest days of
the group's efforts he re
marked, "It hasn't been
easy. To my mind though,
it proves what- self-reliance
and cooperation can accom
plish. The black community
in Raleigh has built this small
activity into a large scale
successful project, and they
should be proud of it. The
people who ride down to the
prison pulled together and
showed what can happen
when people cooperate."
Mary Dunn, Melissa
Stockman, Jim Grant and
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Firing
Hildebrand, presiding Bishop
of AME Church of Penn
sylvania, called the dis
missal an "embarrassment"
to America's black popula-
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Mow Day
For NAACP
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: KINSTON - The 34th
annual session of the N. C.
State Conference of
Branches, NAACP, which will
open at the Kinston Holiday
Inn, 10 a.m. Thursday, Octo
ber 13. is designed to begin
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visioned for the civil rights
organization.
This is predicated on the
fact that N. C. has been in
the thick of the fight for full
freedom for a number of
years. The four-day meet,
Thursday thru Sunday, will
feature top flight speakers,
who are expected to tell
the delegates from ninety
branches throughout the
state, that the organization
might have won. the.; battle';
but the war ' against injus
tice, on all fronts, must be -accelerated,
if it is to be
won.
To this end. ministers
.will set the stage for greater
s involvement,, hy-r.theircon-.
si
lyiis. . ,n as , iung aunc
uccii vcsiaoiisnea mat ine
"BlackVChurch" is the cradle'
of freedom. A discussion,
"What is the Role of the
Church in Promoting
Programs for: . Civil and
Human Rights;' ; will - be. .
the main topic, for the
Thursday afternoon session.
The Rev. Joy Johnson,
Fairmont, president, State
Baptist V Convention and
veteran state legislator, will
make the opening speech at
a luncheon scheduled for
H;0 pjn. Dr. R. Irving
Boon, - along with Revs.
Arthaniel Harris and George
Erdmond, will be the prin
cipals in a seminar, after the
luncheon,.
The program calls for
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Ovor L'villo
louisville; ky. (cc
NS) The resurgence of the
Ku Klux Klan as a political
force has been recently in
vestigated in depth in
Louisville, Kentucky, where
it has been an ominous form.
FBI documents obtained un
der the Freedom of Infor
mation Act show the Klan
has one or more cells with'
in the Louisville and Jeffer
son' County police depart
ments. ' Reporter -Terry
Cannon spent a week in
Louisville to report on the
situation.
; Cannon charges that
Louisville is "a city under
siege and largely controlled
by a Klan-infiltrated right
wing police department do
minated by the Fraternal
Order of Police (FOP)., who
national president openly
follows a John Birch Society
t political line."
in.Feburary of 1976, the
FBI notified Louisville Police
Chief John H. Nevin and
Jefferson County Police
Chief Russell S. McDaniel
of the presence of a Klan
cell in their agencies, fear
ing Klan violence during the
visit of then Vice President
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Dawning
Ulan
Tatos
Policd?
CLEAR MESSAGE - A group of about 100 protesters encircled Detroit's Federal
Building recently to picket against Allan Bakke's claim that he was rejected from
the University of California Medical School at Davis, California, due to "reverse
discrimination". The Supreme Court is currently deliberating on the Bakke case.
(UPI).
Ronald Brown:
Crbo I'Jill Confinuo To Risp Until
Unomplpymonf Is Down
WASHINGTON, D. C. -Ronald
H. Brown, Deputy
Executive Director for Pro
grams and Government
Affairs of the National
Urban League. Inc.,' told
members of the U. S. House,
of Representatives Sub
committee on Crime that the
rising rate of crime in this
country will continue to
climb until the unem
ployment crisis is solved.
Brown, who is also
Director of the League's
Washington Bureau, was
testifying during Sub
Brasvj ell Quashes Harder fnditfmcnf
SMITHFIELD (CCNS) -Superior
Court Judge E.
Maurice Braswell quashed
Tuesday two July 18th
Grand Jury indictments for
, first degree murder . against
two black men, Henry
Smith and David Ezra
Stewart. Jailed since June
; 1 0 1, , the . men are charged
with the June 3rd murder
of- a white policeman and ,
truck driver. Overturning the '
indictment, Braswell ruled
that the jury selection pro
cess was. not systematic as"
required by North Carolina
law. .,
, Braswell did not rule on
a contention by defense
attorneys that the grand
jury indictments were un
constitutional because blacks,
women, and young people
we're excluded from the jury.
"The court feels that
since the statute was not
complied with. 1 do not
reach the question of whether
racial discrimination was
present in a larger sence,"
committee hearings to exa
mine -1 the relationship
between crime and unem
ployment. . '
; He cited as examples,
the recent reappearance of
youth gangs throughout the
country, which, he said,
comes at a time when youth
unemployment has reached
epidemic proportions.
"In the 1950's we were
plagued with leather-jacketed
youths who engaged in vio
lent war games against each
other. Then, in the 1 960$,
with the War on Poverty
Braswell said.
While, dictating his order
in open court, Braswell
cited challenges of the
Union County grand jury in
cases of Dr. Perry, Mrs. Mae
Mallory and Robert E.
Williams, all civil rights
cases originating out of
Monroe, N. C. Braswell said
that the fact that blacks exist
in a larger percentage on
the county's voter registra
tion list than on the jury
lists proves that the county's
procedure excludes blacks.
District Attorney John
Twisdale appealed the deci
sion to the N. C. Court of
Appeals. The appeal will, for
the time being, remove the
case from BraswelPs juris
! diction. ' i v :",
Attorney Jerry Paul, re
presenting David Stewart and
Attorney Charles Becton,
representing Henry Smith,
asked for discharge of their
clients, but Braswell denied
at District Attorney Twis
dale's request. A motion for
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Program, which included
programs for youth such
as the Neighborhood Youth
Corps, yough gangs were
virtually non-existent. Now,
in the 1970's with no pro
grams to give young people
constructive avenues through
which to channel their ener
gies, and with unemployment
among young people reaching
epidemic proportion?, we are
once again plagued by youth
gangs."
In New York City alone,
he said, there are 275-police-;
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bail for the two men was set
to be argued for the follow
ing day.
Braswell' s ruling
followed four days ot pre
sentation of evidence and oral
arguments from civil rights
attorneys representing the
two men in North Carolina's
first death penalty case since
the General Assembly re
vised a death penalty stricken
by the U. S. Supreme Court.
. Twisdale argued that an
lnlnnltirtn of the COnStitlR
lllt.lj'. t.IV.f v
tkn and state law would
permit the indictment to be
quashed if exclusion of
groups could be proved in-,
tentional, and that the de
fense had not proved that
contention. However, last
Friday marked a milestone
for the defense when Bras
wen ruled that enough evi
dence of gross irregularities
had been shown in the iury
selection process to require
the state to show that there
was no exclusion.-.
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