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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA- SATURDAY, JANUARY 30,1993 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
A reception given by Chancelior Juiius L. Chambers of North Caroiina Centrai University to honor the
couple s gift of $108,000 as the first installment toward the endowment of a professorship in the NCCU
Schooi of Law. Shown are Chanceilor Chambers, ieft; Franklin R. Anderson, and his wife, Ms Susie Ruth
Powell; and University of North Carolina President C.D. Spangler. .Ir.,
Couple Pledges Endowed
Law Professorship
$108,000
First
Installment
I A Durham couple, Franklin R.
Ifnderson and Susie R. Powell, have
given North Carolina Central Uni-
Persity $108,000 as the first install
ment of their pledge to endow a
Itrofessorship in the NCCU School
of Law.
f NCCU Chancellor Julius L.
|hambers announced the gift at a
reception January 25 at the Univer-
Sty Club in Durham’s University
Tower. Mr. Anderson isa memberof
(he NCCU Bo.ard of Trustees; his
wife, Ms. Powell, laught at the NCCU
School of Law from 1980 to 1984
jnd is now a member of the law
school’s Board of Visitors.
Chancellor Chambers told the
biests at the reception that the couple
its made a commitment to give ad-
jilional funds to endow the profes-
jorship.
The gift is believed to be the
hrgest ever given to NCCU by non-
|orporate, non-foundation donors.
Mr. Anderson is presidentof Cus-
j)m Molders, Inc., of Durham. Dur-
ng his presidency of the company,
is annual sales have risen from
|l25,000in 1977 to a current rate in
[le range of $15 million,
f Ms. Powell served as Corporate
founsel. Corporate Secretary, and
treasurer of Custom Molders, Inc.,
rom 1987 until October, 1991, when
he retired from the post. She is a
)eelance writer, whose “Blues and
il,xks’’ appears in the fall, 1992,
\iatoiTriangleCityMagaxine.Sht
s also an editor, serving as fiction
(iitorofOBSlDIANmagazine.pub-
jshed at N.C. State University.
Mr. Anderson was bom in Russell
jounty, Ala., and educated in the
lublic schools of Clevefand, Ohio,
le studied accounting at Cleveland
jiate University and earned his
LB.A. degree from Harvard Busi-
^ss School.
^ He had worked in banking, con-
fete manufacturing, rubber mold-
)g and community development
^fore taking the helm of Custom
folders, Inc. He also has extensive
jiperience in the civil rights move-
ent, having been involved in Ala-
ima, Mississippi, and Cleveland.
5 is a former Cleveland Chair and
idwest Chair of the Congress of
acial Equality (C.O.R.E.)
An active Republican, Mr. Ander-
"1 was formerly an N.C. State Li-
lor Commissioner. He is a trustee
f Union Baptist Church, and a life
ember of the NAACP.
Ms. Powell, who married Mr.
aderson in 1973, was bom on a
bacco farm in Whitakers, N.C.,
id graduated from Bennett Col-
ge. She holds a Master of Arts in
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Jackie McNeil Named
Police Chief
City Manager Orville Powell named Jackie McNeil Durham Police
Cliicf Wednesday afternoon. McNeil is a 21-year veteran of the Durham
Police Depanment and has served as interim chief since Trevor Hampton
resigned last year.
Ron Dellums, Once
Seen As Radical, To
Head House Armed
Services Committee
By Donna Cassata
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Ron Dellums was among the first
people the FBI called for help when
newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
was kidnapped on February 4,
1974,
As Dellums tells it, the FBI fig
ured the black congressman had
contacts in the underground who
could help them locate Hearst, a
captive of the fringe Symbionese
Liberation Army. He didn’t, but the
call crystallized his public identity
as a radical lawmaker who
represented the Berkeley of student
protests and the Oakland of the
Black Panthers.
Nearly twenty years later, Del
lums, 57, is a 22-year veteran of the
House, a seasoned legislator and
honest broker — and poised to take
over the chairmanship of the pow
erful Armed Services Committee.
His ascension on the panel over
seeing the nation’s military estab
lishment is a formality away, with
the House Democratic caucus ex
pected to soon replace Les Aspin,
sworn id as secretary of defense.
Year ‘after year, Dellums has
worked in committee to see the
passage of a defense budget, only
to vote against final apireoval be
cause he believes in spending far
less on the militaiy.
His practice raises questions, un
likely to be answered for several
months, about how the Armed Ser
vices chairman could shepherd a
defense bill through the House and
then vote against iL
The prospect of Dellums as
Armed Services chairman may
send chills through some in the mil
itary, but Republicans and Demo
crats who have worked with him
harbor hope rather than fear.
"He’s a skilled negotiator, a man
dedicated to his principles but he
realizes that he’s not only negotiat
ing for Ron Dellums but his
countoparts on the House Armed
Services Committee," said Sen. J,
James Exon, D-Nebraska, a mem
ber of the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
Dellums’ eloquence was evident
at a February 8, 1991 hearing in the
midst of the Persian Gulf War as
military leaders weighed a ground
attack against Iraq.
"Do not go forward wim this es
calation," the California Democrat
implored Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Gen. Colin Powell.
"Every single feeling I have in my
body is frightening, ominous and
foreboding. That to go forward
with escalation may very well
mean a cost in human terms that
stagger[s] the imagination." When
Dellums learned of the first attacks
on Baghdad a few weeks earlier, he
sat on his bed and cried.
Several years earlier Dellums
joined forces with former Repub
lican Rep. John Rowland of Con
necticut and Rep. John Kasich, R-
Ohio, in pushing the Pentagon to
cut its demand for costly B-2
stealth bombers from 132 planes to
15.
Rowland described Dellums as
"very fair. It’s disarming to many
people who don’t know him.
People think he’s the liberal
ideologue but he’s quite the oppo
site. He’s objective, attentive. He
asks good questions." On the B-2
issue, Dellums "showed a willing
ness to moderate...
He compromised to achieve the
objective. He’s much more prag
matic,” Rowland said.
Aftw years of battling with Con
gress, the Pentagon reduced its re
quest to 20 bombors last year.
The B-2 issue is one of several
raging battles — along with the MX
and Midgetman nuclear missiles —
that now are no more than a
whimper. With many of the fights
gone — and the committee’s power
diminished, so has the concern
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Justice Thurgood Marshall
Dies, Was Lifetime
Champion of Civil Rights
By Jim Drinkard
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _
Thurgood Marshall, a "true Amer
ican hero" who served 24 years as
the Supreme Court’s first black jus
tice and a lifetime as a civil rights
champion, was remembered Mon
day for his sense of humor and
warmth.
"The members of this court will
miss Justice Marshall’s wit,
warmth and charm," Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist said as the
court took the bench to release de
cisions.
"I speak for them in expressing
our profound sympathy to ... the
Marshall family and all those
whose lives were touched by this
extraordinary man," Rehnquist told
a hushed courtroom audience.
Funeral arrangements had not
been announced at that time, but
Rehnquist said a special courtroom
service for Marshal would be held
at some future date.
Marshall, who retired from the
high court 18 months ago because
of his age and poor health, died
Sunday of heart failure at Bethesda
Naval Hospital in the Washington
suburbs. He was 84.
The great-grandson of a slave,
Marshall was privately gregarious
and genial, more reserved in public.
But he cracked up the news confer-
, cnce where he announced his
retirement, telling a reporter:
"What’s wrong with me? I’m old.
I’m getting old and coming apart."
As a justice, he opposed the death
penalty, and was a forceful advo
cate of abortion rights, affirmative
action and legal protections ' for
criminal defendants.
As a member of the court’s
shrinking liberal wing, Marshall
often had vowed to outlive Repub
lican presidents so his replacement
could be chosen by a Democrat. It
' was a promise he could not keep.
After Marshall retired. Repub
lican George Bush named conser
vative Clarence Thomas to the
court, prompting a stormy con
firmation fight featuring sordid al
legations of sexual harassment.
"We’ve lost a true American
hero," Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor said. "He
left behind a legacy of hope for ra
cial equality."
President Clinton issued a state
ment saying he was "deeply sad
dened" by Marshall’s death. "He
was a giant in the quest for human
rights and equal opportunity in the
whole history of our country,"
Clinton said.
"Every American should be
grateful for the contributions he
made as an advocate and as a jus
tice." In a proclamation issued
MMiday, Clinton ordered all flag;
flown at half-staff at federal
facilities until Marshall’s funeral.
The proclamation says Marshall
"was a fundamental force of change
in this nation." Retired Justice Wil
liam J. Brennan, Marshall’s closest
friend on the Supreme Court, said
his "commitment to making the
Constitution a vehicle to protect the
equal rights of all has no match in
American history.”
Marshall was to have sworn in
A1 Gcree as vice jaesident last Wed
nesday. but his health prevented it
The duty went to Justice Byron R.
White. Marshall was hospitalized
the next day.
Marshall’s 1967 appoinUnent by
President Lyndon B. Johnson cul
minated a successful career as a
civil rights attorney, appeals court
judge and U.S. solicitor general, the
government’s top courtroom law
yer.
His most famous case as a lawyer
was the landmark Brown vs. Boara
of Education desegregation case in
which he represented the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored Pec^le.
The Supreme Court used the case
JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL
in 1954 to outlaw racial segregation
in public education.
"His victories went beyond those
pertaining to race," said A. Leon
Higginbotham, chief judge
emeritus of the U.S. Court of Ap
peals for the 3rd Circuit. "For if he
from a ruling invalidating a plan tor
busing pupils across school district
lines to achieve racial integration,
calling it a "giant step backward"
from the 19SA Brown decision.
In 1972, Marshall was one of two
justices who said the death penalty
A.M. ‘ALEX’ RIVERA, JR. COMMENTS
One of the highlights of my career as a reporter was the association
with Thurgood Marshall. His legal genius was prima facie, but what I
will always remember was his infectious sense of humor.
Often during long hours of preparation for a case when the outlook
was dismal and the problems perplexing, it was Thurgood's humor that
energized a tired and discouraged staff.
CM. Stanback and I gathered photographic evidence for the Durham
School suit and the Carolyn Blue suit here in Durham. These were two
"separate but equal" school suits in which Marshall was involved. I was
with Thurgood in the Clarendon CourUy, South Carolina suit that ended
segregation in the schools.
Thurgood was a fun guy. It was a pleasure to be around him.
had not won the Brown case, die
door of equal opportunity would
have been more tightly closed also
to women, other minorities and the
poor."
Among some of the mor-e impor
tant decisions written by Marshall
for the high court were those saying
that shopping center owners’ power
to restrict demonstrations were
'imited; that a teacher cannot be
was uiiconslitutional under any cir
cumstances, in a 5-4 decision
which struck down capital punish
ment laws then on die books.
The court reinstated capital
punishment in 1976 and Marshall •
often spoke in opposition, telling a
New York audience in 1984 that
blacks were more at risk of execu
tion in racially charged murder
cases than were whites.
DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN COMMENTS
It was my great honor to have worked with him on a number of cases
involving equal educational opportunities. America has lost a real giant.
Thurgood Marshall’s contributions to the advancement of human rights
in the United States can be regarded as major in every conceivable way,
[Dr. Franklin worked with Marshall on the historic brief for the
NAACP lawsuit that led to the 1954 Supreme Court mling outlawing
school segregation Brown vs. Board of Education.]
fired for speaking out truthfully on
public issues; that possessing
obscene material within the privacy
of one’s own home cannot be made
a crime.
As the court grew more conserva
tive under Republican presidents,
Marshall wrote more and more dis
senting opinions.
In 1974 he strongly dissented
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