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VOLUME 57 - NUMBER 40
DURHAM, NORTH AR0LWA - SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1979
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Ben Chavis' Incarceration
(Seoria State Senator
Julian Bond told a Duke
University audience that if
the United States insist on
other nations observing
human rights in their
Bond labelled 'reversed
discrimination' as a
laughable notion that in
the popular minds believe
that thirteen per cent of
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Incumbent school
board members received a
vote of confidence this
week when voters went to
the polls and voted them
back into office. The four
incumbents, Mrs.
Josephine Clement, John
Lennon, Dr. Thomas
Bass, and Robert
Ghiradelli were returned
to the board with a new
member, Mrs. Beth P.
Upchurch.
- Board member Lennon
was narrowly returned by
- a margin of vote of only
. 77. Lennon was tailed by
challenger Dennis
Nicholson. ,
! I Three of the incumbents
were endorsed by the
Durham Committe on the
Affairs of Black People
and a fourth candidate,
Mrs. Trellie Jeffers, also
endorsed by the commit
tee came in at a disappoin
ting eight place.
The three black in
cumbents won much of
their such support in the
black precincts while
faany of the predominate
ly white precincts voted
along racial lines.
The board will take on a
new composition with
three black members and
two whites. The school
systerik has. a 85 per cent
.black student enrollment.
insist that North Korea
observe human rights then
North Carolina should
also be required to observ
ed human rights. Bond
told of the disgrace of the
Rev; Ben Chavis's in
carceration here in North
Carolina..
Detailing the election of
Richard Nixon, Bond,
told of the dismantling of
the many social programs
set up by the Johnson Ad
ministration, the vic
timization of the victims
of the society, the Bakke
decision, the passage of
Proposition 13 in Califor
nia, Bond emphasized the
need for Black to become
politically potent through
voting and direct action.
Unless the far reaching
changes in the the nation's
economic system are
made, Bond declared that
blacks will continue to be
a "permanent underclass
within the United States."
The very worst
damage was done when
the victim was made to
feel responsible for the
crime. When the people
who were wronged were
told to set themselves
right, when the federal
government began a hasty
and undignified
withdrawal from its role
as the protector of the
poor. The change the
came when black voters
helped elect a man who
singularly seemed to be
the champion of the coun
try, but three years later
we discovered to our sor-.
row that we may have
voted for a man who knew
the words to bur hymns
but notUhe numbers on
our paychecks, "Bond
said. , ; i -
In a question and
answered session, Bond
told the audience that he
favored the decision of the
Supreme Court which
allowed quotas when in
fact race was a cause for
the previous exclusions of
of blacks in many programs.
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By Pat Bryant
RALEIGH Closing
the gap between his
father's 1960 and 1964 un
successful segregationist
bids for governor of
North Carolina, ultra
; conservative Wake Coun
ty Senator I. Beverly
Lake, Jr., announced his
candidacy last week for
the 1980 Republican
gubernatorial nomination.
Among the North
Carolina politicians-hailing
Lake at a Sheraton
Hotel announcement were
three blacks, AME
ministers Larnie Horton,
A.J, Turner, and Warren
County Republican James
. Hawkins.
Shortly after his an
nouncement, Lake switch
ed from the Deomcratic
Party to become a
Republican.
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Beverly Lake, Sr., attack
ed the national
Democratic Party leader--ship
in te early sixties cam
paigns, Lake, Jr. hacked
away at the "ultra-liberal
social and economic
policies dictated by the
McGovern and Kennedy
forces who now have cx
ontrol of the Democratic
Party." Lake criticized as
'liberal' , Democratic
. Governor James B. Hunt.
Lake's father, a retired
North Caorlina supreme
court justice, beamed as
his son declared his inten
tions to become govenor.
Young Lake's attacks
on the "liberal
Democratic leadership"
were patterned after his
father's attacks on the
party in his 1964
Democratic primary
defeat by Richardson
Prever.
"Whom f do you see
standing there ready to ad
vise and direct (Preyer)
administration?. . .Kelly
Alexander, head of the
NAACP in North
'Carolina, all of those bloc
jblack) voters who are
captive pawns in the hands
of Bobby Kennedy and
Martin Luther King. . ."
,Y oung Lake repeated
Amnesty International
Urges Appeal Of
Death
Amnesty International
recently announced the
publication of a major
report on the death penal
ty and called on all
governments to work
towards, its immediate and
total abolition.
The Amnesty Interna
tional report, titled The
Penalty
Polling Place Change Protested;
New Election Requested
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By Pat Bryant
KINSTON-The
Lenoir County Board of
Elections has scheduled a
hearing October 16 to con
sider the legality of the
change of a predominant
ly black polling place a
few days before Kinston's
municipal election under
state and federal law.
Mrs. Annie Whitehead
and Dr. Joseph Askew,
unsuccessful candidates
for Kinston's City Council
in the September 25 elec
tion, have charged violations.-
.
When voters arrived to
cast their votes at one of
Kinston's two
predominantly black
precincts, they were in
formed of the change by
two black women and
signs. Vote buying has
also been charged. i
Changing the polling
place from ' ; Precinct
Number One's usual place
, beside the courthouse to
the ! Carver Courthouse
was made by a vote of the
Lenoir County : Elections
Board on August 15. A
day -earlier-, Elections
Supervisor Mrs. Mary Jef
fress said she was told, by
tax evaluators who had
been leased the polling
place, that the facilities
could not be used for poll
ing. For "political pur
poses," the Board decided
not to challenge the tax
evaluators, said Mrs. Jef
fress. Section Five of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965
requires approval of a
change in polling place by
the U.S. Attorney General
sixty days in advance.
Accompanying the elec
tion defeat, the conser
vative Kinston Free Press,
made a broadside attack
upon Mrs. . Whitehead.
Mrs. Whitehead ran for
City Council in 1977 and
. lost by a narrow margin.
She claimed that she was
threatened by a candidate
, for U.S. Congress last
May, and her allegations
were partially substan-,
tiated by the State Board.
She protested also with the
Lenoir County Board of
: Elections; which did not
find any validity to her
claim.
The Kinston Free Press, a
member of the conser
vative "Freedom
Newspapers" reportedly
connected to the John
Birch Society, editorializ
ed entitled, in typical
eastern North Carolina
manner, "Annie Pro
tests". "Well, she's done it
again," the editorial read.
"Annie Whitehead who
seems to make a hobby of
running for the city coun
cil and then protesting the
election, has filed a com
plaint with the Lenoir
County Board of Elec
tions", the editorial said.
In a news story and in
the editorial, writer Mike
Kohler never related the
requirements of the
federal and state law and
the - specific violations
found in the election. In
an ; interview, Kohler
acknowledged - the- viola
tions were apparent but
said, even with proper
notice, Mrs. Whitehead
would have lost the elec
tion. ' : '.
Death Penalty, is believed
to be the first of its kind
giving a detailed country
bycountry survey of , the
legislation and methods by
which people may be ex
ecuted in 134 countries.
Although , the report
gives separate statistics for
individual countries under
review, the figures in-.
dicate that at least 7,500
peqple are known to have
been sentenced to death
throughout the world dur
ing the past ten years,
more than 5,000 are
known to have, been ex
ecuted and over half a
million are known to have
.been the victims of
political murders, in many
instances committed with
either the connivance or
the approval of govern
ments. The 206-page report
concentrates on the years
1973-76 but also takes into
account executions in the
late 1960s as well as major
trends up to the end of
1977. A seperate update
this has been incor
porated into the U.S. edi
tion covers developments
until mid-1979.
The report deals both
with the judicial death
penalty imposed by the
courts in accordance with
national law, and with
. extra-judicial execution,
described in the report as
"murder committed or ac
quiesced in by govern-
ment." ,.
More than 2,000 of the
judicial death sentences
covered in the report were .
handed down in political 1
cases. In the remaining
cases, courts handed down
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his support for removing
private academies from all
state monitoring. These
are the schools which
sprang up after desegrega
tion of public schools in
the late 1960's. He lett a
successful fight in the last
term of the legislature to
remove the "segregation
academies" from state
control.
The Durham County
School Board has retained
the Chapel Hill firm of
Chambers, Stein, and Bec
ton to study the constitu
tionality of the law. The
North Carolina Attorney
General's office advised
the Durham County
Board of Education last
week that North Carolina
can no longer set
minimum standards for
teachers or curricula in
private schools, "and
there is no requirement
that a school even provide
its students with tex
tbooks," the state at
torney general's office has
ruled.
Besides his support for
the private academies.
Lake supports an end to
the Comprehensive
Employment and Training
Act jobs program, an
employer of last resort for
blacks and the poor in the
President Meets Mobutu of Zaire
President Jimmy Carter chats with President Mobutu
Seke Seko of Zaire outside the Oval Office during
Mobutu's visit to the White House. President Mobutu
was in Washington on a private visit in connection with
meetings of the International Monetary Fund. (White
House, Photo)
1,000 Demonstrators
Join SCLC Recently
CHESTER, S.C. -Nearly
1,000
demonstrators joined the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
last weekend to call for a
state investigation into the
possible lynching of a
eighteen year old black
male earlier this year.
The body of Mickey
McClinton was found lay
ing on a secondary road
five miles southeast of
Chester on May 10. His
death was ruled by local
authorities as a hit and
run, but members of the
black community fear Mc
Clinton was brutally
murdered and castrated
because he dated a white
girl
SCLC President Dr.
Joseph E. Lowery, said
the march was "a message
to Chester and South
Carolina that we're not
going Jo sit back and let
you kill our young people.
We are here to demand
that the authorities fi i J
out who, k what and why
Mickey was killed."
Dr. Lowery said, "I am
.tired of going across the
country holding services
for .blacks killed by a
racist system, I'm tired of
police brutality. I'm tired
Of blacks being the last
hired and the first fired.
I'm tired of seeing black
folk poor just because
they are black."
He said there are many
people and reasons behind
the plight of black people
and the "killing of all the
Mickey's in this land."
The SCLQ, president
placed the blame on un
caring state legislators and
white businessmen,
segregated social clubs,
Continued On Page 9
On Committee Progress
irons
By Pat Bryant
"Black youth and black
people cannot enjoy the
luxury of taking it easy,"
said J.J. Henderson last
Sunday at the annual
meeting of the Durham
Committee on the Affairs
of Black People
(DCABP), held at St.
Joseph's AME Church.
Henderson gave a com
posite report of the.
organization's activities
during his first year as
chairman. Awards .were'
presented, and candidates
for city council and the
City School
addressed the
Durham
Board
group.
Citing the committee's
major work, Henderson
recalled opposition to ex
tension of the East-West
Expressway, support for a
voting tenant represen
tative on the Durham
Housing Authority Board
of Commissioners,
monitoring the city's affir
mative action plan, sup
porting a campaign to
crack A down on CETA
abuses, opposition to cuts -
in domestic and social
budgets by . the national
and local government ad
ministrations, and in
crease in registered voters
in the city.
Several times Hender
son referred to progress in
"outreach",, as indica
tion of support for the
committee's programs.
While generally pleased
with the past year's work,
Henderson was criticat of
the work of the organfca.
tion's housing committee,
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