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I THE CAROLINA TIMES SAJUJRJWJMO Wilmington Ten PRESS STATEMENT By Dr. Charles E. Cobb Commission For Racial JusticeUnited Church of Christ Our office has received world from Wilmington Ten defense attorneys that the Office Our office has received word from Wilmington Ten ; defense attorneys that the Office of the Solicitor General has decided not to file a friend of the court brief with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the Wilmington Ten. This decision comes as a shock to those of us who have been seeking justice for the Wilmington Ten since 1971. I find it difficult to understand how the Justice Department could adopt a stance totally contradicting their 1978 findings which Tevealed a lack of due process in the trial of the Wilmington Ten . When the Justice Department filed a friend of the court brief with the Federal District Court of North Carolina in November '78, they raised the issue of "fundamental fairness" as lacking in the trial of the Wilmington Ten. By adopting this precedent setting position, we felt certain that once this case was removed from North Carolina courts, we would finally obtain justice. The decision by the. Solicitor General not to petition the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, clearly flys in the face of the department's prior, findings. ;ask, how can constitutional violations which the Justice Department pointed to in 1978, no longer be present in 1980? What kind and manner of political considerations would cause the nation's chief litigator to arbitrarily dismiss these issues. When individual aspirations cloud one's view of basic legal principles, it then become incumbent on the electorate and our elected officials to guarantee that politics and justice remain independent entities. The Solicitor General has shifted the Justice. Depart ment to a reverse position which has yet to be publicly explained. Only Orio-Sovonth Durham City Pupils dro White, Conpifitop find s The Committee to Study 1 the Utilization of Attend ance Centers (schools) in the Durham City School District has submitted a 25-page report with several recommendations to the Durham City Board of Edu cation. The seventeen-member committee, nine blacks and eight whites, chaired by Curtis Eshelman, was estab lished by the City Board of Education at the suggestion of City Schools Superinten dent, Dr. Cleveland Ham monds. In a memo to the board, Dr. Hammonds wrote, The task of the committee would be to . study in depth enrollment data, birth rate trends, resi dential patterns, capacities and placement of atten dance centers, age and con dition of attendance centers, impact of trans portation, and make reco mmendations to the Board of Education." The committee reported several findings which in cluded a substantial decline in white enrollment since the busing program to achieve integration began in 1975, This decline has resulted in a tremendous decrease in the school population, and it has re sulted in the busing of black . pupils from nearby schools to other areas to attend predominately - black schools, according to the committee's findings. The birth rate factor was also a cause given in the report for a drastic decline in the present and potential school population in some areas. For example, the potential school population in the Lakewood area is said to be about 55 pupils when and if a busing program no longer served the Lakewood Elementary School. The committee further reported among its list of ten findings that only one seventh of the pupils in the Durham City Schools are" white and the now costly busing plan no longer serves a useful purpose; however, the committee believed that white enrollment remained, constant in 1978 and 1979, and that this would indi cate that further decline is probably unlikely. Based on ten objectives, . the committee recommend ed that -Durham and Hillside High Schools remain high schools with pupils in grades nine through twelve; -Club Boulevard and East ' End Elementary Schools be paired with grades Kinder garten through second and third through fifth; Morehead and Lakewood -Schools be paired with : grades Kindergarten through second and third through . fifth; all other elementary . schools include grades Kin dergarten through fifth; -the Durham City Schools move to the middle school concept thereby placing grades sixth through eighth in the four existing junior high schools. In making these recom mendations, the committee ' wrote, "All schools would have an attendance zone en compassing a contiguous geographical area. The ma-; jority of these geographical zones is multiracial." . The committee diCnot recommend the closing of any schools, although it reported that many schools are now being utilized at 75 to 85 per cent capacity. The Durham City School Board is scheduled to act on the committee's recommen dations on April 14. Citizens React to Attendance Centers Study School Symbols , Parents, both black and white, and educators at tended the open discussion on the Report of the Com mittee to Study the Utiliza ,tion of Attendance Centers in the Durham City School 'districts, Wednesday night, March 5 at Shepard Junior High School, to voice their concerns over the commit tee's recommendations. Mrs. Gloria Hawkins, representing the WjG. Pear son PTA Ad Hoc Commit tee, to study the report of the ' Utilization Committee, led the list of fifteen speakers. She expressed her committee's concern that the . proposed plan of the UC, if adopted by the Durham City. Board of Edu cation, would eventually return the city school sys terti to a segregated system.. Wduld not this plan create a racial imbalance in the lern part of Dur- i, and if this does occur, woUd not this require a reorganization?" Mrs. Hawkins asked. A majority ofijtyhites live in the nor thern section of the city while a majority of blacks live in the southern section. Mrs. Hawkins recom mended that the city school system remain a K-6 elementary school with the fourth, fifth and sixth grades becoming depart mentalized. Mrs. HaWkins said, "Departmentalization would enable teachers to better teach in a specific area, rather than requiring them to teach all content areas in which preparation and interest ranges from excellent to poor." Mrs. Hawkins also recom mended that the city school system return to a junior high school with grades seventh through ninth and a high school with tenth through twelfth. AJJL Clement, DJ, fol lowing Mrs. Hawkins, ex pressed his negative reaction to the middle school con cept. Clement said, "I am against the middle school concept. I urge you. to' return to K through sixth, seventh through ninth and tenth through twelfth." Clement also suggested that the city school board look at the possibility of closing some of its schools as well as the possibility of building a new high school. He said, "To go to Hillside from elementary or junior high school is less than positive; we urge some kind of catlyst for a new high school. The other parents and educators who spoke at the discussion were almost unanimous in their sup port of both Mrs. Hawkins' and Clement's adverse reac tion to the middle school concept. John Hudgins, a social worker in Durham County, expressing his thinking on the concept said, "It is per haps significant that the only book that was used for a reference for the recom mendation (for a middle school) was written in' 1968." ' Mrs. E. Guion, a teacher from Shepard Junior High School, speaking against the middle school concept, sug gested grades K through six in the elementary schools, seven through eight in the junior high schools, and ninth grade centers. Mrs.' Guion was the only speaker to favor a ninth - grade center. The general- con census of the speakers was to favor a return to the K-6 (elementary), 7-9 : (junior high), and 10-12 high school). . .. Curtis Eshelman,) chair man of the -Utilization' Study, said that the report was to be a starter for any suggestions that community might have; however.-the . deadline for suggestions from the community was March 10. - v COMMON TOE CORN CAN BE CURED The common toe corn, is now an ailment o the past. In fact, the Academy of Ambulatory Foot Surgery, a professional society "of podi atrists with the skills and instruments to perform surgery in their offices, be lieves that the toe , corn can be eliminated entirely through in-office procedures, which eradicates the basic cause. NCCU Student Law Team Seats UMC-CH Team The student law team of Mrs. Dolores Faison and Ms. Mary Rudd, third year stu dents in the North Carolina Central University Law School, defeated teams from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, William and Mary (Va.), the University of South Caro lina and the University of Richmond in a regional competition on legal coun seling held Saturday in West Virginia. The American Bar Asso ciation Law Student Divi sion Client Counseling Com petition tests a student's knowledge in counseling clients to make intelligent , decisions before trial. Dean Harry Groves com mented that the win is an "indication of the quality of the NCCU Law School. Ronald Belfon, an assis tant professor of law at NCCU, who coached the team, said Ms. Rudd and Mrs. Faison may be "more confident in any area, in cluding the bar exam," since winning the compe tition The research come undoing vw , said reports by the nearly 2,000 Academy ' members indicate "overwhelming success in permanently rey . moving the bone deformities that cause toe corns u tuning in-office procedures' that are . completed in a brief period of time."-' ' ( :" ';i ; The toe ' corn, which i . second only to the common cold ; in causing discomfort to Americans, results from . an abnorrnal bone structure. The corn forms when the area is irritated, either from ill-fitting shoes or by exercise. . ' ' ' "By removal of the bone . projection," said the Academy Committee., podi atrists who are ambulatory foot surgeons have found there is no recurrence '' in over 99 of the cases in their files." Bone deformities also can result in painful bunions, callouses, in-grown nails and other pain causing foot aiimehtsw-. , "Shoes are not the pri ma r y c4a e s o f such ailments'the podiatrists explained. Nature is." The Academy of Ambu latory Foot Surgery is head quartered at 1405 Locust Street. Philadelphia. C t I I I U i rt h I w CrtnWAJ OUII lllglliy LdlCCIMCU - "uu- A Despite the soaring price higher Pnces loft students. I m,wm w - r r w m rm rm w rm rm wm r rm - rs in wm wm rm wm wm , rmjmrm wm n B MITVINut, I S A 7T 7TT of gold, a treasured tradi tion of American students isn't going to be tarnished. Since the 1930s, class rings have become for many high school students the symbol of their class and school. Today, more than Fortunately, the recent surge in the price of gold has not caught manufac turers of class rings un prepared. Thanks to the development of handsome ' alloys which, like gold, resist tarnishing individuals ;tp million ; class -ingaru i wida'jtga of imwiiiiii sold each year. levels can still purchase class : Until fairly recently, rings. The continuing popii-' nearly all class rings were larity of these rings is due, made of 10 karat gold, so in part, to their being a rises in the price of gold symbol of pride and be naturally were reflected in, longing ISAIAH JACKSON Black Considered For Symphony Director Isaiah Jackson, 35, Asso ciate Conductor, Rochester, New York Philharmonic Orchestra was guest conduc tor of the North Carolina Symphony, Memorial Audi torium, earlier this week. He ' is one of several candidates being considered to succeed John Gosling, the current . conductor. Jackson is a cum laude Harvard graduate, with graduate degrees from Stanford and the Julliard School of Music. - He has conducted the Youth Symphony of New York for four years, simul taneously serving as Leopold Stokowski's assis tant, American Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C. and assistant conductor, Baltimore, Maryland Sym phony. Other guest appear ances have been with the National Symphony Orches tra, Washington at Kennedy Center, the Dallas, Texas Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. In July, 1973, he made his European debut by con ducting the Vienna 1 Sym phony, and at renowned conductor Leonard Bern stein's suggestion, he directed the Vienna, Austria Youth Music Festi val. He has received praise for his correctional institu tion concerts at Attica and Auburn facilities, while becoming the idol of thous ands of school children. The Rochester Philharmonic Associate conductor has received high acclaim. Following a Carnegie Hall appearance, a New York Times critic states, "If you're a betting person, get something down on Isaiah Jackson, an impressive young conductor." Last year when John Gosling, Current director and conductor, North Carolina Symphony resigned, Jack son was invited to Raleigh to be featured with 1979 Bryan Young Artist Winner, Duane Hulbert. In Chapel Hill and' Asheville, inter nationally known cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform in conjunction with the maestro's baton. While taking a break from rehearsals, Jackson was interviewed over lunch. He was joined by his wife, Helen Tuntland, who directs I! ft the Hochstein School of S Music, Rochester. The Rich- ft mrtnA Vircrinia native re- kl called his early lessons from his private teacher, Mrs. Averey Robinson. Her in-M fluence is still with him, Ii r.l vrfr H 7r TF" '"i Tf-'F'TT iJ7m MIL he said, and so are the teachings of Richmond k . t Kim mm. m m Public School Supervisor. K tTTth1tY n ii v i i i i i i v of Virginia honored him Li J Joseph Kennedy. The State i with the Governor's Award fcS 1 . . 1 l l iasi year, ana jacKson acx-j nowledgedhis strong linkagesK to the south. He hopes this N latest visit to the state willQ be the first of many more.Kj A highlight was a reception Sj in his honor at the Timber- K lake Estates home of Dr. N Miltnn D Oliiol where IN additional accolades were tc conveyed upon the honoree UnvllUliVVIlMl VliiDVwfllEtfM mm Which Factors Make An Industry Recession-Proof? Which industries are most '. likely to be hurt badly in a recession, and which will escape serious injury? Your , ability to predict may be aided by understanding the factors that help an in dustry weather the storm. This article by an expert -the Vice President of SM't Micrographic Products Divi siondocuments his ideas on the subject. , By D. W.McArthur ; The micrographics in dustry is not completely recession-proof, but we are immune to many of the more wrench c the most . rudimentary sys tem cuts storage require ments by 95 percent, along with, the saving in handling and retrieval costs related to document storage. Micrographic systems promote greater producthri- ' ty. Often, even in the face of necessary or natural staff , reductions, which take place during an economic down-; turn, effective records man-i agement can be maintained through a use of micro-' graphic systems. Some micrographic users Some industries are virtually recession-proof - for very logical reasons. HUM UIUI downturn.-- If micro- graphics is affected by' an economic downturn, the industry wH! be behind the general drop off by some six months. When the drop comes, it is not at drastic as that of the. general economy. Probably the most signif icant factor, is that we con tinually chow micrographics to be cost-effective. Even needs are unchanged in an economic downturn or may actually increase. an .economic- service industries - insur ing aspects of ance, banking, public utili ties generally can't cut back on their record-keeping need for microfilm. All levels of government may have increased record keeping needs in a recession. Increased unemployment ; compensation and welfare rolls enlarge , the scope of government records. And, the demand for employee health records, safety regu lations and pollution control requirements add to the paperwork load in good times and bad. Our market concentra tions, too, insulate us from the effects of recession. Usually, the retail trade is the first to feel a pinch, economic downturn, but not as quickly as the retail and housing markets. Lona lead times, commitments V already made and the need ; KJ to aeveiop iuture products tend to keep micrographic along with housing and" needs more constant nousing-reiatea business. w... . ..- Howeve?, the micrographics J?3TLF?' industry 'does not have ex- 2!-f?f make tensive clientele among Z " ' iEi HfP' kT"' those markeU. Our emphasis Lli bf: is in the manufacturing area m"lt"nc u. with it. high-volume, 2T.Z,2? utmle' engineering-ortented, dpcu' u? "keep older ment-heavy precedes. XC'.T P Manufacturing ultimately SJPS ? e,iTwM .... . , , 1 rather than investing In new will feel the pinch of an equipments CLASS RINGS WEDDING BANDS DENTAL GOLD 10K 14K 18K f VI I I SILVER Sterling or Coin Jewelry Silverware Candlesticks Coins 1964 and Before 1 Halves 1965 -1969 Nickels 1942-45 We Pay At Top Prices (relative to market) ' Navajo Trading Post 712 Ninth Street Durham, N. C. 286-9685 Monday-Saturday 9j00-6M A
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