WINSTON-SALEM
IVol. I, No. 31 WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA
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Saturday April 5, 1975
No Black Policemen Promoted
outh Faces Murder
Charge In Shooting
by Robert Eller
Staff Reporter
A 19-year old man was shot
^nd killed Saturday March 29.
(According to police reports
Cornelius Mason has been
Charged with murder in the
Jshooting death of Dennis
Ipowler. Fowler was shot to
[death as he was leaving an
[apartment building on Chest-
Inut Avenue.
Witnesses told officer J. H.
Berry who responded to the
call, that Fowler came from an
upstairs apartment in the
building. As he stepped on the
walkway at the rear of the
apartment Mason reportedly
was seen coming out the back
door of the upstairs apart
ment.
Ms. Peggy Gardner told
officers that Mason stood on
the back porch and fired two
or three times at Fowler;
possibly striking him in the
back.
Fowler, according to the
young women, then ran east
across Chestnut to a small
wooded area. Mason followed
Fowler and fired two or three
more shots. Fowler, by this
time, had hidden or fallen
down.
According to reports Mason
then ran north across East
14th Street behind North
Elementary school still with
the gun. Officers later found a
22-caliber rifle containing ten
22-caliber bullets in a pile of
brush at the south end of the
1600 block of North Chestnut
street.
Fowler was pronounced
dead on arrival at Baptist
Hospital.
According to police reports
two witnesses in the apart
ment with Fowler said no
argument or conversation was
heard between the two. No
apparant reason was given for
the shooting.
Mason is now in police
custody.
NAACP Head Says N.C.
Runs Unequal System
Some local black citizens are
concerned that no black police
officers were among the list of
recent promotions. Two cap
tains, a lieutenant and a
sergeant were named from the
ranks of the force.
A police spokesman said
“none were black because we
go on percentage grade and no
blacks were eligible.” Accor
ding to the spokesman, no
blacks were on the list from
which the names for promo
tion are chosen. “You have to
be on the force for four years
before you can take the
exam,” the spokesman said.
“The black officers that are
here have not been here that
long.”
Many blacks have express
ed concern over the small
number of blacks in high
government positions; not
only in the police department,
but throughout. The biggest
percentage of city workers are
in the maintenance depart
ment. Out of 40 supervisory
administrative slots in city
government, only three are
occupied by blacks. The city
has said that programs to
increase the number of blacks
in city jobs begun in 1970.
Although now the freeze will
See POLICE Page 3
Dedication Ceremony
Honors Chancellor
Chancellor Williams
Henry S. Lewis, Jr.,
Winston-Salem State Univer
sity Chaplain and director of
the new auditorium on
campus, has announced the
schedule for its dedication and
opening events. The auditor
ium, is to be named in honor
of the Chancellor, Kenneth R.
Williams.
The dedication ceremony
will be on Sunday, April 6 at
4:00 P.M. in the auditorium.
The guest speaker will be Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays-President
Emeritus of Morehouse Col
lege, Atlanta, Georgia.
The WSSU Alumni Asso
ciation will sponsor a
recognition banquet honoring
Dr. Williams on Saturday,
April 5 at 8:00 P.M. in the
Kennedy Dining Hall on
campus.
Dr. Kenneth R. Williams a
native of Norfolk, Virginia,
attended the public schools of
Winston-Salem, North Caro
lina. He graduated from what
was then Columbia Heights
High School. Williams holds
an A. B. Degree from
Morehouse College, Atlanta,
oeorgia, and the M.A.,
S.T.B., and Ph. D. Degrees
from Boston University, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
Dr. Williams joined the
Faculty of the Winston-Salem
Teachers (then known as
Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege) in 1936.
He served as professor of
Social Science and College
Chaplain until 1946 when he
became the James A. Gray
Professor of Bible and
Chaplain. He was appointed
Executive Vice-President in
February of 1961, Interim
President in July 1961, and
President in May of 1962.
See CEREMONY Page 2
“The state of North
Carolina is still operating an
I unequal education program as
far as minorities are concern
ed,” the president of the
Legal Defense Fund for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) said recent
ly-
Attorney Julius Chambers
told an Honors Day convoca
tion at A&T State University
that recent events show that
the state “has done nothing to
improve the educational
opportunities , for
predominately-black colleges.
“We were committed to
desegregation of higher edu
cation in the state,” said
Chambers, a member of the
Board of Governors. “How
can we say we are committed
and in the same breath refuse
an opportunity to locate the
veterinary school at A&T?”
‘‘Why didn’t the state
undertake the improving of
A&T to house the facility if
she said that the university
doesn’t have the facilities
now?” asked Chambers.
“And how can we make the
law school at North Carolina
Central equal to that of the
other state law school by
spending just $50,000 to
$75,000 for operational ex
penses?” he said.
“But at East Carolina, the
See NAACP Page 2
Jensenian Theory Says
Blacks Inferior To Whites
The genetic theory of
psychologist Arthur Jensen
has created ‘‘a racist
renaissance,” a University of
Illinois professor said in a
speech recently.
Speaking on “Race and
Genetic Inferiority,” Dr. Jerry
Hirsch, a noted behavioral
geneticist, said “like few
other things, Jensenism
demonstrates today why
science without scholarship is
bankrupt.”
Jensen and Nobel Prize
winning physicist, William B.
Shockley, have gained nation
al attention with their theory
that American blacks are
genetically inferior in intelli
gence to American whites.
Hirsch, an outspoken critic
of both scientists, told his
racially mixed audience that
Jensen’s theory is based on
biological misinformation.
‘‘It is based on the
fallacious assumption that
teachability is the complement
of, or varies inversely with,
heritability- a fallacy.”
He said the heritability
measure was developed for
a purpose and use “unrelated
to and inappropriate for
education and teaching.”
“Whilfe Jensen’s ignorance
is unfortunate,” added
Hirsch, “his avowed goals are
as heinously barbaric as were
Hitler’s and the anti
abolitionists’.
“It is perhaps impossible to
exaggerate the importance of
the Jensen disgrace,” he said.
‘‘It has permeated both
science, the universities,
segments of the government
and society.”
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