VOLUME 60 NUMBER 27
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA .SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1982
By Joseph E. Green
Things looked rather
bad for Judge . Karen
Galloway, Durham's
charming District Court
judge as the early returns
' rolletj iff ,on election
'njght two weeks ago,
Her opponent,
Richard Chaney, , was
giving her a serious
thrashing in many
predominately V white
districts and many of her
supporters, black and
white at election head
quarters, appeared ready
to throw in the towel. .
For a long time, it ap
peared that : Judge
Galloway, .31, a Duke
Law graduate who had
been appointed to the
district court bench by
Gov. Jim Hunt; would
soon have to hustle in the
courthouse corridors"
with other Durham
lawyers.
As the .tally sheets
were ' posted with,
numbers such as those at
the Carrington Junior'
High precinct that show
ed 737 for Chanev and :
226 v for Galloway, one
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over her judicial judge
ment. ,
"People had to get to
know who . Karen
Galloway .. was," she
tibiis 'to vote for Judge i
Galloway.
In the end, the judge
had beaten the former
assistant district attorney
before a black'
judge with an imposing!
airo.
said, "so J went but and , by .1109 , votes. Judge
met peode. She made r.Unvuv w
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allies i throughout
Durham County, and
she won the support of
the black ministerial
alliance whose members
urged ,a their , congrega-
vpjce and Chaney : was
aisiraugni.
It was air very simple.
Her plan worked.
Lawyers, black and'.
wTiite, now have to come
Black Professionals Agree To Study Ways
To Help Black Progress
. By Donald Alderman
WINSTON-SALEM
A two-day ; effort by
three major , black pro
fessional , organizations
to band together to spur
more community pro
gress on a statewide basis
marked a "good beginn
ing", according to par
ticipants. The focus of the. two-
day
meetino several
supporter, weeks ago was to outline
Blnclc&
By Joseph E. Green
If William A. Allen is
" oegan ; plucking ? black vways ;V that North
and grey hairs from his Carolina's ' black doc
-neatly trimmed beard, tors, dentists and lawyers
, , i?'This looks bad,',' he' , " '
moanea. . - , - -
r. j It was not until late In i:
' vthe cveningthat: Judges'
' Galloway began to even
get close to Chaney, a
former . Chief Assistant
District Attorney. But
then the ballots from the
predominately black
precincts started coming
in. Shepard Junior High
School gave Judge
Galloway 715 votes to 18
for Chaney; Burton
School . reported , 1,212
votes for Galloway to 31
for Chaney. V
Both candidates had
appeared before the for?
midable Durham Com
mittee on the Affairs of
Black; People seeking an
endorsement, but a
disappointed .Chancy
said during an interview
that he thought the.
minds of some of the
committee tl members j soft on drug pushers and
were aircaay maae up administered justice m
can combine their
resources to exert addi
tional political and
economic clout to
benefit the black com
munity generally.
Underlying ' this,
however, are beliefs by
many of the" profes
sionals that the erosion
of black political and
economic gains V will
eventually affect the pro
fessionals themselves -since
the bulk of. their
business comes from the
black community.
IVan t: Alle h IVI 3 ny
Whites Want Leary
2771 It was clear from
the white precincts that
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icciclicu Micim in ms White voters wanted a
July 27th ; runoff v with new sheriff;
Roland Learv. it will not .
be because white people
elected him. It will be
because black people
returned him to office.
Allen received the en- i
dorsement of the '
Durham -Committee on
the Affairs of Black Peo
ple. Leary and North
Caorlina Central pro
fessor Jess Bowe attack
But Allen's neck was
saved by black voters
who pushed him ahead.
At Shepard School,
Allen received 554 votes
while Leary received 31.
At Hillside. Allen receiv
ed 569 votes while Leary
wvnv mi uv n
ed Allen's performance received 89 and at the
. Di.-M Cl.l All
as snentt, saying aunng' "u""" ouiuui, mivn
the campaign that he was (Coniimicd on Page 3)
, Generally, members of
organizations that repre
sent the state's black
lawyers, doctors and -dentists,
concurred that
while the weekend eft
forts produced positive
discussions and good
ideas, the key issue now
is to effectively follow up
on the discussion They,
set themselves a six
month schedule for
' developing concrete
plans.
The organizations that
, held their annual ' con-'
ventions together for the.
hrsMime yere the Ny..,
'Association- of Bfack
MT.tJ, I lib . I ,
State' Medical (Society,
and the Old North State
Dental Society.; ! :
Their discussions ,
centered around? three j
recommendations
presented by State
Senator Henry Frye
(D-Greensborq). t Frye
recommended ' the
following: i
The groups should
create a political educa
tion ; organization,
similar to the now
defunct Atlanta-based
Voter Education Pro
ject. The,: groups should
form a f political action
committee (PAC).
The .organizations
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the legal types, including4
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have to CO into her rniir-'i Lr i
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troom and address her a f f v
"your honor"s not rS
because she wanted it
that way, but because thei
voters or Durham Coun-
ty had decided that that
was the way it was going
to be.
Five Hinckley Jurors
WASHINGTON: Five of the jurors who acquitted John Hinckley, Jr by reason of insanity for trying to
kill President Reagan testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee recently which is looking into reform
ing the law lo make it more difficult for defendants to plead insanity. (I.-R) are Glynis Lassiler, Lawrence
CoffeyvWoodrow Johnson, Ms. Maryland Copelin and Nathalia Brown upipnoia
Tin
Face
Grand
: By Isaiah Sineletarv
' The case .of a Durham
man charged with killing
a. pedestrian in a highly
controversial hit and run
case wiU'igo th? Durham
County (rand Jury next "
week, according to
District Attorney Dan K.
, Edwards.. .
In an ,s'interview last
week; Edwards said that
while he will definitely
present 'the case of
Robert B. Grimes to the
Grand. Jury. He. hadn't
.decided with what he
would charge Grimes.
Edwards could ask the
Grand Jury to return an
indictipent against
Grimes on charges of
either? first or second
degree murder, volun
tary or involuntary
manslaughter.
Originally, Grimes,
who gave his address as
2901. Carver St., was
scharged with involuntary
manslaughter in the
death of Chester Reams,
37, of East Club Blvd.
But following an ex
tensive investigation by.
The Carolina Times,
which revealed that the
stories of two ' eye
witnesses corresponded,
contrary to contentions,
by police investigators,
that they were contradic
tory. The newspaper's
investigation alsd show
ed that Grimes has a long
criminal record
cnaractenzed by an
, unusually high number
of dismissals by the
state's prosecutor, prior
to trial.
; Additional controver
sy swirled around the
case because a number of
' people believed the death
was , racially motivated.
Grimes is white. Reams
was black, and was killed
while walking along the
2400 block of Guess
Road with- a white
woman.
At this point, there are
more questions surroun
ding the case than there
are answers, despite the
fact that Edwards will
take the case to the
Grand Jury that is
Jury
scheduled to meet for at
least two days next week.
It is not clear what
evidence Edwards in
tends to present. Neither
is it clear whether Ed
wards or the special pro
secutor in the case,
Angus Thompson, the
North Carolina NAACP
general counsel, will pre
sent the evidence to the
Grand Jury.
Thompson entered the
case at the request of the
Durham Branch of the '
NAACP, and was .ac
cepted by Edwards, he
said, because there is so
much controversy sur
rounding the case.
The Grimes c'ase began
(Coniimicd oiVPauiTsV
prior to his annearancc
Judge' Galloway and
her campaign staff ran a
scientific and slick cam-,
paign, wliilc Chaney said
that he believed his cf-'
fort s were , ! "d isorgan iz
cd'V "I don't really-know
what I would have done
dil'1'crcnily," , Chanev
said. "It was close. I am
disapponted." , , ' .
, Well,, here is what
Judge (iallt)way did: She
and her sialT largeled
sufficient numbers of
whijc voters to keep her
close to Chanev in areas
where people simnlv
an uneaual fashion.
" It was hot; quite clear
why the Committee did
not endorse Leary. Some
say that they think the
Chief of the local ABC
officer is best settled
right where he is, in the
antMiquor business.
Learv disagrees. Dur-
inii an interview with The
Carolina Times, he said,
"I want to be sheriff for;,
all of the people. I have
had experience : in drug
enforcement, murder iiK
vesications and in rob
beries,',' he said. V What
we, have in: (he sheriffs
denarimcnl now is Hot
miiiht not. have voice! or ,,wwi mh
a black woman judge. ' Jess, Bowe, who finish-
ai Hope Valley
School precinct, she got ,
453voies while Chaney
received 562. At t he Gor
man . Ruriian Club; on
New Oxford Highway v
she received 32ft voles,
while Chaney . received
684' She did not beat
him," but she stayed close
; plan that site hoped
would pay off in the end.
"We wanted to run a
low-key campaign," Ms.
Galloway said after the
elcc(ion.'"We met with a
'lot of people, liberals. .
conservatives.'
moderates." "
Judge Galloway had
an image : problem.
Chancy, using
newsnaner adver
lisemcnts, suggested that
ed third, did not receive
the 7 Committee's en
dorsement , mostly
.because he does not have
a single black on his staff
at Central's c' Criminal
'Justice Program,
Durham - Committee
members did noj : look
upon this situation with
tavor this time, tnougn
jn previous elections,
Bowe won the Commit
tee's endorsement.
If : blacks-had split
their vote between Leary
and Allen, the former
could have easily won.
While Allen receiveVl 227
votes in Oak Grove, a
white " precincf, Leary,
received 236. At the Gor
man I : Ruriian -Club )
precinct, Allen received
Judge Galloway. a black ' 452 Votes while Leary
woman, was not color ' received 463. Even at
blind when it came to
judging blacks in a cour
(room. He also suggested
that j social activism
often i took " precedence
7
Hone V Vallev School.
i thought to be an Allen
.bastion, the .Sheriff
received 406 votes while
the ABjC chief received
v. wmJ Jf
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(, 1 One Of Mills Brothers Dies " ,
ilOI.I.YWOOn w Harry Mills (r), one of the singing Mills Brothers,
died at his home on June 28 al the age of 68. He is seen in this 1966 pholo
with other members of the group as Ihey marked Iheir 40th anniversary in
show business. rt to right are: Herb Mills: Don Mills; guitarist Norman
Brown and Harry Milt,. The brothers, who started singing in Ohio In S
last performed together in Atlantic City in September 1981. " ,1
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