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A Winston-Salem man was
found murdered in his
apartment last week as a
result of approximately 13
stab wounds received in a
fight with an unknown
assailant.
Police identified the murder
victim as Otis Weaks, 30, of
1604-B North Patterson Avenue.
Also injured in the
assault was Barbara Attucks,
36, of the same address. She
was hospitalized after receiving
three stab wounds.
Police reports indicated that
there were two children asleep
in an adjoining bedroom
during the attack, but were
not awakened by the scuffle.
Describing the events for
the police, Attucks said a man
Black Land
To Form As
Black landowners from the
100 counties of North Carolina
will meet in the Harrison
Auditorium on the campus of
A.&T. State University in
Greensboro on Saturday,
October 2, 1976 to organize
the North Carolina Association
of Black Landowners.
The free registration and
coffee hour will be held from
ten until eleven o'clock. The
morning session beginning at
eleven o'clock will include a
statement of the seriousness
of the problem of black land
loss by Dr. Lester Salamon of
Duke University Institute of
Poliov Science and Public
Affairs who has discovered
through statistical approach
that if land continues to
disappear from black people
during the next decade has
years, there will be no
black-owned lands in the
south by 1987. Also addres
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came through the back door.
She said he never spoke a p
word or in any way made clear s
that his purpose in being there F
was. According to Miss t
Attucks, the assailant started f
to stab her immediately. f
During the struggle she called c
Weaks. Weaks, answering her c
cry for help, took up the
struggle with the assailant.
Miss Attucks broke free, ran
out of the apartment to call
police for help.
Police say the investigation
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is continuing, ine suspect is
described as being- approximately
S'7" to 5'9". He was
last seen wearing overalls, a
flowered shirt, red cap, and
tennis shoes or soft bottom
shoes.
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sing the group will be Mr. ,
Joseph F. Brooks, Executive
Director of the Emergency
Land Fund, Atlanta, Ga.
For the first hour of the
afternoon session, beginning
at 2:30 p.m., landowners of
the 100 counties df~ North
Carolina will be divided into
ten Districts and will caucus to
select members to serve on
the State Steering Committee,
and state committees on
Finance, Political ActivUy, *
Education, Ways & Means,
Membership, Public Relations,
Legal Reseiarch and
Representation, Community
Development and Social '
Planning. and Agriculture
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(including crops, livestock and
forestry). State officers will be
elected by the main body, and
membership qualifications
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The North Carolina organization
will affiliate with the
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SALEM, N.C.
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by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
The emergency fund raising
fforts of the NAACP have
een blocked by the major
hopping center areas in
Vinston-Salem, say repreentatives
of the local chapter.
Rev. James McMillan,
resident of the local chapter,
aid that in each instance,
4AACP representatives were
old that they could not solicit
unds of any kind on the
>roperty of the shopping
:enter contacted. In some
:ases, he said, 44we were not
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by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
The day was dreary, wet
md rather cool. All of a
Hidden there they were,
iundreds of them, thousands
)f them, blotting out the gray
>ky with their black bodies.
Everyone was asking, 44What
ire they? What are they?
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'They're bats." The search
was on.
With the able assistance of
Dr. Peter Weigl, biology
University, the Chronicle tooTT
a closer look at what a number
of people thought were large
Saturday, Sept. 25, 1976
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allowed to take memberships
or pass out literature."
Dr. F.W. Jackson, whose
job it was to contact the
shopping centers, said that
because of the urgency of the
drive he did not have time to
look into the matter further.
But he maintains he has seen
?countless?individuals?and
groups soliciting funds or
handing out literature for their
particular causes at many
different shopping centers
"all over town." He said he
was told by the various
shopping center managers
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staken for bats. Pictured above
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numbers of bats living in or
near Moore Laboratory
School.
What we found were
chimney swifts. Apparently,
there are thousands of them
living in or near the school's
boiler room chimney. The
exact location was not
discovered by our probe and
they did not sweep out of the
chimney like they had done
betore. According 10 me
school custodian, "they must
have known someone was
looking for them."
However, there have been
Geneva Brown, principal at
Moore says that the school
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Fund Drive
Falls Short
For the last two weeks, the
local chapter of the NAACP
has been moving frantically to
collect a self-appointed goal of
$10,000 to send to the national
headquarters in New York. At
the NAACP Emergency Action
Mass Meeting held last
Sunday at St. James Baptist
Church, reports showed they
had only been able to gather
upwards of $5,000.
Rev. James McMillan,
pastor of St. James and
president of the local chapter
here, said that the effort was
continuing. He said that the
local had received sums of
$100 or more from the
prominent black churches in
the city. Some small black
. businesses had contributed
well. He noted that the funeral
homes and the beautician
groups had given their
support.
The mass meeting started
out as a trickle in the opening
minutes with only about 50
people there. Their numbers
swelled as the meeting went
on and by the end of it, there
were more than 250 people
attending.
McMillan noted that this
kind of activity was going on in
every major city in the United
States. He also said that the
national chapter was contacted
and told what the
Winston-Salem chapter had
raised so far. He said that they
were happy to receive it along
with other money and pledges
from around the country.
The NAACP has to raise
SI.5 million dollars to appeal a
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organization by what they call
a "racist" court in Mississippi.
They have until September
25, 1976, to raise the money. If
the old civil rifihtfi fpaaup-is-not - ..
113 P?Ll5,? llie muiiey, it
could mark the end of this
organization.