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RALLY -MASS JMEETING ' , Sunday, November 1, 5 p.m. , ..... ' Russell Memorial CME Church ' , ; 703 South Alston Avenue . - m ' ' '' ": " ' ' ? Oariiim Commit tee On Attain Of Black People' -. f r7ir : ?r i" tr ii Words Of Wisdom Prejudice: 4 vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ' . Ambrose Bierce '. . . v.. f i " A man's wont difficulties begin when he is able to do as be likes.. - - f' T.ll. Huxley VOLUME 59 - NUMBER 44 V DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1981 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 39 CENTS To Honor Dr. James Shepard Found'et.s : November Founder's , Dav " at associate pastor .for North Carolina Central . number of years, University, scheduled this year " on , Friday; November 6, Will honor tthe late Dr. James E. 'Shepard, who establish ed the Durham institu The brothers of Kappa . Alpha Psi Fraternity of vWch Dr. Shepard was a member, will also par ticipate in the memorial . services. Wreaths will be tion in 1910 and guided?' laid . in . jadditionr by its nmorou until his representatives, of the NCCU student govern ment, alumni associa tion and faculty i The speaker for the in U.N. 1 UUKe '' uwasiuit win i ioumih Auditorium, will include TH. Wiliams, president death in 1947. , , The Founder's Day program, which will begin at 11 a.m. Friday a memorial ceremony at the statue of the founder which stands in front of the Hoey Administration Building. Honoring Dr. Shepard will be representatives of other organizations to which he gave allegiance. William A. Clement, former chairman of the NCCU Board of Trustees, will present a wreath at the statue and make remarks on behalf of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Ac cepted Masons of North Carolina. Dr. Shepard was a Grand. Master of the' Masonic group. , The Rev; Lorenzo A. Lyncn, pastor ot wnue; Rock Baptist Church.; will deliver the invoca tion for the service. Dr. Shepard was a member of ;the, '.church .and'vits and . trustee ' of the Phelps-Stokes Fund of New. York City. The Phelps-Stokes Fund, which has for many years conducted pro grams to assist black col leges and universities, is one younger than NCCU, having been established in 1911 by the will of the late Mrs. Caroline Phelps Stokes. Dr. Shepard establish ed North Carolina Cen tral University in 1910 as the National Religious Training School .. and Chautauqua. It was for thirteen years a private, non-sectarian institution whose programs includ ed . secondary training and short courses multitude of diciplinesl 'and - sions. uw Set nV 6 At A W For . .v t, -.-. - i ,r v ; : ,1' school various in a trades, profes-' WILLIAMS In 1923, the school received state support as the Durham State Nor mal School, a teacher training institution, and in 1925 it became the North Carolina College for Negroes, the first state-supported institu tion offering a liberal arts baccalaurate for black people. Before Dr. Shepard's death in 1947, the in stitution's name was changed to North Carolina College at Durham. By that time, the school offered undergraduate and' graduate programs in the arts and sciences and in business, a graduate pro- NCEQJ and a professional pro-, gram in law. Its graduate program in education' produced a large majori ty of the black principals and supervisors in North Carolina. (NCCU's most recent. name change,, to Carolina Central sity, came in 1969 As the president scnool which was sidered equivalent sity Dr. acknowledged intellectual leader lifetime. An annual' radio broadcast, carried" bv 'Stations across, the state of North Carolina, was treated by black and white political leaders $s an occasion of state, and gave Dr. Shepard excep tional stature as a political influence. His endorsement was sought by many political figures. His requests for support for his college were generaly honored by the state legislature, His position has. bepn quoted from mofe than one speech, to the legislature: "If the General Assembly wants segregation, i:' then segregation, gentlemen M'goipg to be costly.T ? r, J M. 7 The Carolina Times ? Hosts Black Publishers North jrVA.V':V'.Vt.ii Univer- rStf , con- ZZZse ?iVC''-"i the blacV vV?Vvfcjril of the Univer- Ti7? .'i ' . of North Carolina, Kffo.. i . Shepard was widely : j, S . v 'CTT.' as a black jwO' i .. -1 " : - CvTT U and soc a 5 ' "V r - " :'",u: - ior mosi or niv w n r v ' The North Carolina Black Publishers Association quarterly meeting was held here Saturday at the offices of The Carolina Times. Attendees included Jervay, publisher the Wilmington Jour- Wilmmgton; Dr. Kilimanjaro, editor and publisher of the A v Carolina Peacemaker, Vr ,1?; and Mrs. Vicki Kiliman- ii. Llt Jar. Greensboro; Ernest tW)' t-'- H. Pitt, editor and Winston-Salem Chroni cle, Winston-Salem; P.R. Jervay, Jr., editor of The Carolinian, Raleigh; Mrs. Vivian A. Edmonds,, editor and publisher . of The Carolina '" Times, and Kenneth W. Edmonds. Other member papers are the Charlotte Post, Charlotte; and the Metro, Goldsboro. The NCBPA member ship is developing several important projects which are expected ultimately to be of significant benefit to the readers of the member newspapers. The. next quarterly meeting is scheduled to be held at the offices of the Wilmington Journal, on Saturday, January 16. A Seasonal Chore Miss Marcelia Jackson, a junior English major at Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh, gets into the spirit of the fall season. Although she lives on the sixth floor, she's doing her share of leaf raking around Latham Hall. , Pholo by Silas May field ! M BC NBIPP To Sponsor Forum On Southern Africa Free Outdoor Concert Featuring Brother Yusuf, Bus Brown, Goldfinger, Billy Stevens, Rich Robeson and Many Others Saturday, October 31 3-6p.nij , , v W'G, Pearson School Grounds O frX ti n n T.oFlwFFi r H a roMmi I- i nix l A i 1 1 n .m o vti-riuai iu ivi ui uui o iviay li i i ty v v iiiiai 1 10 By Trellie L. Jeffers ATLANTA Evidence presented last Tuesday, October 20, at a hearing to suppress cer tain evidence against Wayne Williams, the suspect in two of the 28 Atlanta murdered and missing black children cf es, showed that when the first warrant was issued for Williams' ar rest, June 12, 1981, there was evidence that yellow fibers and dog hairs from Williams' dog were found on both Nathaniel Cater, the last murder victim and eight of the other murder victims. The first eight victims linked tq .Williams stret ched from ' October 21 , 1979, with the death of Yusef Bell whose body was . found in an aban doned Southwest Atlan ta schoolhouse, to Patrick Baltazar, who disappeared February 6, 1981. Baltazar's body was found near an office building in nearby Dekalb County. The evidence presented so far links Williams with yellow fibers and dog hairs to ten of the murder cases. It has not yet been revealed how the other ten murders are linked to Williamsf Meanwhile, Attorneys Mary Welcome and Tony Axam have carried on a battle for control of the Williams defense team which finally resulted in Ms. Welcome's dismissal of Axam. Last week's court ap pearance by Williams' attorneys involved a final effort by Ms. Welcome to further delay the Williams trial. Ms. Welcome argued that she needs more time to prepare a defense for Williams. Presently, Williams' attorneys have not revealed any strategy for his defense; they have appeared in numerous court hearings where Ms. Welcome has argued for various motions for dismissal and postponements. At Tuesday's hearing, Ms. Welcome said that Judge Clarence Cooper has announced that he will turn over evidence that will exonerate Williams, and she asked for still another delay in the trial until she has ob tained and examined this evidence. Judge Cooper has ruled in all hearings involving the Williams case, and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling re quires the prosecution to turn over any evidence which will indicate the innocense of a suspect. ATLANTA'S POOR A Task For Young By Trellie L. Jeffers ATLANTA One of the most serious pro blems facing Atlanta's new mayor, Arulrew Young, when he takes office in January, is the growing number of poor people. Recent studies have placed that number at approximately 23, most of whom are black. Beginning October 1, 1981, Reaganomics forc ed ; some estimated 32,000 Georgians from the food stamp rolls and 12,000 others from other federal assistance benefits. It has not been determined how many of these persons arc living in the Atlanta metropolitan area. It is estimated, however, that only 57 of poor people who are eligible actually receive federal assistance. Yet, even if poor Atlantans do not lose ; their welfare benefits, the Georgia state-regulated benefits provide a meager stan dard of living for poor people who are hit hardest by high prices due to rising inflation.' While conservative legislators argue that a "created welfare monster" has prevented recipients from develop ing incentives to become self-sufficient, reports from those who attempt to explain why the system has failed to reduce poverty, charge that the welfare program has been mainly a political tool, designed more as a political in strument, rather than as a means to provide ade quate support for needy families. The implication is that while the welfare budget has continued to increase,- so has the number of poor people, and this is mainly due to ' the fact that the funds have had to be carefully handled so as to prevent the development "of black community-based groups that could be capable of effective . political power. For example, Steve Suitts, director of the Southern , Regional Council, a Atlanta-based organization, accuses President Lyndon Johnson of having had to assure 2 'southerners that his War on Poverty program would not give poor and black people enough control to vote independently. Former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary, Joseph Califano, stated that the fear that federally fund ed programs would create pressure groups caused costly com promises to be made in the administering of these funds. One of- these com promises was allowing southern congressmen to win the rights of their states to set their own welfare payments, accor ding to the. former Secretary. Accordingly, Georgia gives Only $164 in AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), while the federal government sets $370 as an ample amount for a comparable size of family. Moreover, 29 cents of every federal AFDC dollar in Georgia goes to administer pro grams associated with AFDC. Finally, unless wages here show some tendency to rise to the level of the cost of living, the jobs promised by the private sector are likely to bring little relief from poverty, even if there are enough jobs for ' the large numbers of unemployed, (Continued on Page 3) If yr .Ma Will . lake Tin .HJitteronco' On Friday, November 6, the National Black In dependent Political Party-North Carolina (NB1PP-NC) will spon sor a "Triangle Area Forum: In Solidarity . with Southern African Liberation Struggles", 7-10:30 p.m., at the Chemistry Auditorium at North Carolina Cen tral University. The purpose of the' forum is to provide in formation to par-, ticipants in the Triangle nr. n rVia ctmnalpc fnr jority rule being waged by the African peoples of Namibia and South Africa. This forum is open to the public and there is no admission charge. A film, "Generations of Resistance", will be shown at 7 p.m., to be followed by a panel of national and interna tional Southern African Liberation activists. The panelists include Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica. TransAfrica - is a Washington-based membership organiza tion founded in 1977 to inform and organize popular opinion in the United States to ad vocate policies and prac tices that will help to achieve a more pro gressive U.S. foreign policy toward -nations of Africa and the Carib bean, and peoples of African descent general ly throughout the world. Also on the panel is Theo-Ben Gurriab, chief representative to the United Nations from the Southwest African Peo ple's Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia. SWAPO is the liberation movement in Namibia and engages in diplomatic and military I l . I 1 -. ( . mi... a in-South Williams was arrested June 2 for the murder of Nathaniel Cater after he was spotted on the Chat tahoochee Bridge where five bodies of the Atlan ta murder victims had surfaced. He was later charged with the murder of Jimmy Ray Payne, the 27th victim. On Friday, October 23, his trial date was set for December 15, 1981. -Call For A Ride- 682-7552 688-1304 682-0201 688-1305 682-2567 Durham Committe On The Affairs ot Black People ROBINSON struggle for dependence from African occupation. In addition, Ms. Gay McDougall of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers Commit tee for Civil Rights Under the Law, will make a presentation on political prisoners in southern Africa and the status of the trade union movement in Souih Africa. The Southern Africa Project is fourteen years old and provides many forms of assistance to political prisoners in South Africa, intervenes in legal action brought in the United States which challenges ; private and governmental collabora tion with South Africa; and provides educational information about the plight of political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia. Following the panel, there will be a question and answer period. A small reception honoring the speakers will be held following the forum. Everyone is encouraged lo attend this forum and become involved in sup porting the Southern Liberation struggle. Report Cites Impact Of Budget Guts By Donald Alderman The millions of federal dollars lost to North Carolina in budget cuts translate into the elimination or reduction of thousands of households from receiv ing public assistance. But to determine the im pact of reduced federal spending, the methods used should be examin ed. According to a report by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, ; the methods' used by the Reagan Ad ministration to cut spen ding are threefold and many are "unusual." Therefore, the report states, policy makers and ' others concerned should" examine the methods us ed to determine the real impact. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, signed into law in August, uses three methods to reduce spen ding of federal money by the states: it con solidates previously individually-funded pro grams into nine block grants; it changes re quirements ; for public assistance or "entitle ment" programs; and places a ceiling on spen ding on all programs. The nine block grants feature a 25 per cent reduction in istram (Cr-ivW-m. 3K
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