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by James Smith
Staff Writer
The world is full of hatred
and that is something it could
do without, is the feeling of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr.
. "I carry no ill will against an
man--and I refuse to stoop low
enough to hate any man," he
f.aid.
Dr. King, pastor emeritus ol
Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta, Ga., spoke Monday
night at a fellowship dinner ai
the M.C. Benton, Jr
Convention Center. The din
ner was sponsored by the
Mazie S. Woodruff Campaigr
Committee7 More than 80(
persons attended the dinner.
Mrs. Woodruff is one of ter
Democrats who is seeking
three available seats for the
Forsyth County Board o
Commissioners.
large audience that "there
ain't no need in being caugh
up on color, we've just got t<
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f Mrs. Mildred B. Payton,
organizer and director of the
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t that too many of the blacks in
^ this state are losing their land
ill a visit here to speak on behalf
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go ahead and be people."
He continued by stating that
the world has placed emphasis
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t Staff Writer
4 4 By 1987, there will be no
black-owned land in the
' South, if the trend of the past
j ten?years^continues^ forthe
next decade, said an associate
' professor of law at North
Carolina Central University in
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Shooting Ii
Two Bead
by James Smith
Staff Writer
= Preliminary-hearing- dateshave
been set for Aug. 12 and*
Aug. 17 for Ossie Lee
Cunningham in connection
with the deaths of his
estranged wife and child and
two other persons.
Cunningham is charged
with two counts of murder in
connection with the death of
his estranged wife, Mrs.
Lorraine Brown and his
4_% I i m. m % ? v> . a
aaugnter, Mennaa Burnett
Cunningham of 4229 Carver
Road.
He is also charged with
assault with a deadly weapon
with the intent to kill and
assault with a deadly weapon.
He is being held in the
Forsyth County Jail without
privilege of bond.
Injured in the second
shooting were Thomas Tracy
Singletary, 38, of 570
Waterworks Drive and Jeanette
Jones, 33, of 3541
Prospect Drive.
Officer S.L. Edwards was
dispatched to the home of
Mrs. Brown at 10:07 p.m.
When he arrived, he found
Says Blacl
Ui Land By
for various reasons.
"Presently, there are such
things as Urban Renewal,
mortgage foreclosures and
court orders which ends with
the blacks "literally giving"
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said.
The organization which she
formed tries to act as liasons
between black landowners and
they also hold seminars in
various areas of the state to
increasing agricultural production,
and developing other
economic potentials of their
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Melinda Cunningham lying on
the bathroom floor next to her
mother. She had been shot
- one- time in- the center of the
chest with an unknown
weapon. She was dead when
taken to Forsyth Memoprial
Hospital.
The officer also stated in his
report that Mrs. Brown was
found lying on her back in the
bathroom at the rear of the
house. She had been shot two
times in the back, also bv an
unknown weapon. She was
dead when taken to Forsyth
Memorial Hospital.
The officer also stated in his
report that Mrs. Brown was
found lying on her back in the
bathroom at the rear of the
house. She had been shot two
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To Get Frc
by Robert Eller
Staff Writer
The Black Panther Party has
secured &n attorney to help in
their battle to have a franchise
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land.
Through a statistical survey,
Mrs. Payton said that as
of the present time, blacks
own more land in Robeson
County than any other county
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in tne state.
According to her statistics,
which were compiled by Dr.
Lester Solomon and Earl
Brown of Duke University,
Robeson County blacks own
70,984 acres of land worth
niore than\ S37>3^
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times in the back, also by an
unknown weapon. The officer
stated that when he found her,
she was sn an-unconscious
state.
The officers report stated
that he went there in reference
to a dispute about Mrs. Brown
and her daughter in which
Cunningham had come to the
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daughters clothes and stated
that Mrs. Brown was unfit to
raise his daughter.
Officers later talked to Mrs.
Clara Mackie, grandmother of
Mrs. Brown who stated that
Cunningham had run into the
house screaming, but she
didn't know what happened
after that.
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granted to the Ambulance
Service here.
According to Nelson Malloy,
head of the Panthers party
here, attorney Reita Pendy of
the Legal Aid Society and a
member of the ambulance
service's board of directors
has drawn up a legal brief
attacking the main points
brought out by county
commissioner David Drummond
in his opposition to the
services in franchisement.
Drummond, in casting the
only negative vote on the
question of granting the
franchise at a July 6
commissioner's meeting, said
to allow the Panthers to
charge a fee would set a
precedent for other services
from uutsiue iu move to do trie
same.
According to Pendy's brief
which is taken from the county
of a franchise to the
ambulance service. The brief
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