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Happiness is as a botterfnry, which, when parned,
is always beyond our grasp, bat which, if yon wQ sit
down quietly, may alight on job. ' . Hawthorae.
VOLUME. 57 - NUMBER 32
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1979
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Taiios
VJorli Id t.bo System
Sbul City developer
Floyd B.McKissick got a
big send off Sunday from
friends, family, and local
church people as the
former civil rights leader , T
emoaricea upon anumcr
career. The civil rights &t
torney, turned land
developer in the late six
ties, and Sunday turned
Baptist preaching career,
delivered his trial sermon
at Union Baptist Church
on North Roxboro Street.
"Should We Pay Taxes to
Caesar or Who is Caesar
Today?" was the title of
the political sermon in
which McKissick took
stabs at the nation's rising
conservatism, and the
U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban
Development(HUD).
McKissick's dream of
building Soul City in War
ren County was threaten
ed last June by HUD's
decision to acquire Soul
City property. HUD
guaranteed $10 million in
private loans to Soul City,
but recently concluded.
Soul City would be unable
to pay the notes and carry
on operating costs at the
same time. HUD also
criticized Soul City for be
By Pat Bryant
a new method ot the
Caesars to declare you a
failure even when you are
paying on your mortgage.
You wake up in the morn
ing and you see 'GOING
FORECLOSE ON
SOUL CITY AND
FLOYD
McKISSICK... Caesar is
that system that we have
got to get into to change
it."
McKissick's $70,000 an
nual salary and U.S.
Senator Jesse Helms have
been sources of Soul City
criticism. As for his
Continued on page 2
Govornor Hunt Says
No Time
Black
C5'v O n
mm
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Get Into
By Pat Bryant
Governor James Hunt
sstys he doesn't think it's
time to get into the future
of the five predominantly
black state supported col
leges, two year technical
institutes and community
colleges. Hunt made the
remark at his weekly press
conference last week. He
waS questioned on his
position regarding a pro
posal to merge the
predominntly black state
College
Future
colleges with the two year
insitituions.
Hunt's only black cabtr
nent member, Howardv
Lee, commented recently'
that he was against a prot
posal by Julius Chambers,
to merge the institutions,
Chambers is president of
the NAACP Legal:
Defense and Education;:
Fund. Lee is Secretary of
the N.C. Department of
Natural Resources and
Community Develop
ment.
Chambers contends that
the problem of dwindling
enroolment at the black
institutions and inade
quate funding could be
solved by merger with the
white two-year institutions
taking on the names of the
black colleges located near
them.
Lee rejected the idea
recently in a speech poin
ting out inequities in black
four year colleges and the
FJvo Goldbist Workers Ordered Reinstated
Dy Notional Labor Elolaf ionsr Board
By Pat Bryant
Five of twenty workers
who were fired after
Gpldkist workers struck
last year have been found
by the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB)
to have been "illegally
discharged and entitled to
reinstatement" to their
former jobs. Back wages
are due the workers, that
V&22EtfSy7E accepts the NLRB deci
fercy D. Hester.Ms. An
nie W. Herring, and Ms.
Doris A. Thorpe were the
five workers whose jobs
were affected.
Mike Babyak,
Goldkist's Durham plant
manager, said the com
pany's decision will be an
nounced by Goldkist's
Human Resources Depart
ment in Atlanta.
A little more than a year
ago; on July 34.1978.:
hazards, and more impor
tantly, lack of respect;
The workers' contract
expired seven days before
they walked off their jobs.
The company was press
ing for a general reduction
of benefits.
While the NLRB has
determined the workers'
firings were illegal, the
decision is not final and is
subject to further review;
However; if the company
last week. Police officials
Searched the plant for a
bomb, and workers were
hot allowed to leave the
plant, as Mrs. Green and
other workers say has
been customary in the
past.
Babyak said this week
that he had no knowledge
of the bomb threat.
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r ?v' w ficial said this week that . workers., ai, me ,cmciccn workers. Jack l. raa
TnTiL' e 77 the July 23 order Is being processing operaaon
;! rscribmg Soul Qty as reviCWed. walked off their jobs over
ed HUD's actions as "just
Mrs. Joann J. Martin,
Ms. Thelma Brockington,
pay, poor working condi
tions, health and safety
Cbargos Dismissed Against
jPcArthor and Harris
By Pat Bryant
Assistant Durham
County District Attorney
Ann McKown dismissed
charges against Ms.
Patricia McArthur recent
ly indicating that the state
had insufficient evidence
to convict the woman.
Ms. McArthur was ac
quitted of charges that she
allowed her boyfriend,
Angelo Harris, to inflict
physical injury upon her
child, Shawnita McAr
thur. Angelo Harris has
also been acquitted.
The charges were filed
following the death of
Shawnita last spring. The
infant died of internal in
juries suffered from blows
to, the . abdomen. A
babysitter, has been con
victed for inflicting those
injuries.
Explaining the reason
for Ms. McArthur's ac
quittal, Attorney
McKown said this week
"in general every thing we
had available to us was in
sufficient." Attorney Karen
Galloway, representing
Ms. McArthur, argued at
the District Court hearing
that the charges should
have been dropped for in
sufficient evidence.
The major evidence
against Ms. McArthur was
the testimony of her three
children ages three, five
and six. One source in
dicated that the state had
difficulty fingering the
parents.
Department of Social
Service foster care case
worker Mrs. Ethel Green
said this week that the
three children are now in a
foster home and the social
service department has
custody of the children.
Periodically the status of
the children and their
mother's ability to keep
them will be reviewed by a
local judge.
THE DEATH PENALTY
MUST GO
SEE EDIT0IIAI PAGE
shaw, a NLRB compliance
officer says Goldkist,"is
required to pay any back
wages which may be com
ing" to the workers.
So far, the workers
haven't been informed by
the company of the NLRB
decision, says Mrs. Laura
Green, shop steward for
'Local A. 525 of the
Amalgamated Meat Cut
ter's Union. The local is
the bargaining agent for
the poultry workers.
Mrs. Green says she
can't figure out why the
NLRB didn't make a rul
ing on the contentions of
more than fifteen other
workers who have also ap
pealed their firings to the
board.
Have conditions been
better ; since the strike?
Mrs. Green was asked.
"It's getting better now,
but it was something when
we first went back,"said
Mrs. Green. J Still, she
says, worker-management
relations are generally
bad. i
Mike Babyak disagrees,
but refers questions to his
Atlanta officfe.
Mrs. Green says an ex
ample of how workers are
treated in the plant is seen
by the j company's
response to $ bomb threat
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INCIEASE
SUISCIIIE HOW!
two year institutions. Lee
said the poorest of the
black schools were
superior to the best of the
two year institutions.
Treading the line, Hunt
remarked, "I have a high
regard for our community
colleges, but I think we
have very fine universities
and those five that you
mentioned (black univer
sities), are among them. I
am strongly committed to
maintaining the integrity
of our five black univer
sities." The state's chief ex
ecutive continued saying,
"what the whole future
will be, I don't think it's
time to get into. But clear
ly they(the black colleges)
are good and yet we have
got some good community
colleges too."
Competition for funds
appropriated by the state
legislature and an unequal
share going to the black
colleges has been a cons
tant concern in the state's
black community.
Another concern of black
. educators and politicians
is the nerce competition
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Talks of Needs in New School Year
WASHINGTON Dr. Mary Frances Berry, who
holds the highest federal education post, talks of the na
tion's needs in the new school year. More respect, for
teachers and more homework from them; more interest
by parents viewing education as a shared enterprise bet
ween home and school; more discipline at home by
parents, and more responsibilty by students is her
perscription. UPI
En-Ambassador Called
S. Africa 'Arch Enemy'
NEW YORK, N.Y.
Franklin H. Williams,
President, of the Phelps
Stokes Fund and a former
U.S. Ambassador was
labelled an "arch-enemy '
vited to participate in the
50th Anniversary Con
ference of tne South
AFrican Institute of Race
Relations in early July, an
oreanizatin which the
for hlackstudorts
predominantly white four
year institutions and the
two year institutions with
the predominantly black
colleges.
Donald SOle, South
African ''Ambassador to
the United States. An
outspoken and frequent
critic of South African
policies, Williams was in-
Gov. Hunt Requested to Appoint
Galloway District Judge
By Pat Bryant
Governor James Hunt
has been requested by
several local organizations
to appoint the first woman
to a judgeship in the "Bull
City". Attorney Karen
Galloway,' a black
woman, is supported in
her bid by several local
organizations, including
the Durham Committee
on the Affairs of Black
People, and the Durham
Tenant Steering Commit
tee. A Duke University Law
graduate, Mrs. Galloway
is a native of Raleigh and
has practiced law in
Durham for five years.
She - has represented
several defendants in con
troversial criminal cases.
Probably the widest
publicized case was the
JoAnn Little murder trial,
in which she was a
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KlansmenOn The March -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. More than 100 Ku Klux Klansmen marched through Bir
mingham on July 28 in a demonstration billed as a "rememberance of the victims of
violent crime." Several times during the demonstration, police units training to con
trol demonstrations formed, a human barrier to keep taunting blacks and jeering
Klansmen apart. The black outnumbered the Klansmen 3 to 1 about two-thirds of the
way through the march. ' UPI
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member of the defense
team.
Known as a hard
worker, and thorough
lawyer, Mrs. Galloway
received the National
Conference of Black
Lawyer's "Lawyer of The
Year Award" in 1977.
Despite support for her
nomination from several
members of the Durham
bar, Attorney Galloway
faces stiff opposition from
four other lawyers whose
names have been submit
ted to Hunt for appoint
ment. Three white
men, including Nick Ciom
pi, an attorney with the
firm of Poe, Poe.Porter
and Whichard, are also
trying to get the appoint
ment. Some politicians believe
that Ciompi has an inside
track to the nomination
through the political af
filiation of his law part
ner. State Senator Bill
Whichard.
Two courthouse
employees are alsl seeking
the ' judgeship. Dick
Chaney, an assistant
district attorney, and
Clerk of Court James
Carr are nominees.
Another woman, Ms.
Ann Page Watson is also
in the running.
Hunt has departed from
the procedure he used ear
ly in his administration to
get local bar associations
to nominate candidates
for vacant judgeships. In
stead, he has requested the
bar associations to collect
letters of support from
it's members, which Hunt
will review in his con
siderations. Under the prior
method, Hunt refused to
appoint W.G. Pearson II
to a superior court vacan
cy in 1977. Instead, he ap
pointed Pearson to a post
of lesser importance, a
District Court seat. Pear
son is the only black judge
in Durham County.
Governor Hunt has
been severely criticed by
blacks and liberals for his
previous lack of appoint
ment of blacks to judicial
positions.
In another matter in
volving a black seeking a
federal judgeship, Hunt's
support is being sought to
back Guilford County
Representative to the State
Legislature, Henry Frye.
Frye is seeking a newly
created position on the
U.S. Middle District
Court in Greensboro.
The appointment is to
be made by President
Carter, but federal judges
usually are appointed on
recommendation of the
state's senior senator of
the same party as the
president.
instrumental in founding.
According to reports in
the South African press,
the South African Am
bassador in Washington,
Donald Sole, telephoned
the Johannesburg-based
Institute and urged the
organizers of the con
ference to withdraw their
invitation to Williams,
because, he said, "this
man is an arch-enemy of
South Africa." When the
Institute refused to comp
ly, the South African
government officially
denied Williams a visitors
visa.
"When I first learned of
the possibility that a visa
would not be issued to
me," Williams explained,
"1 wrote directly to the
South African Prime
Minister, Botha, whom I
had met when he was an
ambassador in
Washington. There was
no reply, but I deliberately
refrained from asking the
State Department for help
because I was curious to
see what would happen
without special interven
tion. The question, you
see, goes well beyond my
individual case. Why is
that while literally any
South African even con
victed criminals like prize
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Stabbed Victim
PHILADELPHIA: Philadelphia ponce and fire
rescue aid a woman who was stabbed along with two
others In a robbery In a city Philadelphia office oa
August 1. According to the Philadlephla police one cf
the victims may have been raped. . fjff