??Wins' Vol. Ill, No. .45 ? \ Witchcraft- Murder Did Lillian Robertson murder Dollie Bynum? She says she did, but the Winston-Salem police department, after a brief investigation, refuses to pursue th^matter any further. She claims to have killed her victim with witchcraft. "There are many witches in Winston-Salem," warns Mrs. Robertson, though she says that she no longer dabbles in magic. Mrs. Robertson tells of being born in poverty 53 years ago, and longing to better herself. "I was mad at God," she recalls. "I wa^poor and I didn't want to be poor; I was black, and it wasn't easy being black in those days. Anything that would bring a dollar I would do it." She became involved in selling illegal whiskey, and began to live a wild, promiscuous life. Then she heard about "Uncle Bob," am old man in South Carolina who claimed to be able to give people good luck. "It was witchcraft," says Lillian Robertson, "but I didn't know it at the time." She went to see the man, and was given a series of tasks to. do as an "initiation," such as performing certain rituals in a cemetery at midnight. She soon learned, she said, that it was not "luck" that Uncle Bob had given her, but power. "I began to have dreams that would come true. 1 could tell people that things would happen to? them, and they would. And I began to do well. I had a house, and a car, and money, but I wasn't happy. Witchcraft is the hardest work there is. The spirits won't let you rest/' She began to have seizures. "Sometimes at 3:00 in the morning I would get up and go out driving about 76 m.p.h. Once I drove around all weekend with a loaded gun on the seat, trying to find the courage to kill myself.'' Then she met Dollie Bynum, a young woman of 27, who wag dedicated to saving souls. Mrs. recalls. She was determined to "cast out the devils." "She fasted; she stayed up with me while I was having those attacks, and she'd take on those spirits herself." But Mrs. Robertson would not prove easy to save.-She was bitter, and she had been-into witchcraft for many years. She didn't believe in God, and she didn't want to be saved, at first. She claims to have mit a curse on Dnllta Rvrmm "Before she started helping me, Dollie Bynum didn't drink, but then those demons began to get to her. They left me and they went to her," says Lillian Robertson. Dollie Bynunj died a few years ago. She had not yet reached the age of forty. Doctors seemed reluctant to specify any cause of death. Last Thursday Lillian Robertson called the Winston-Salem police department? and confessed to the murder of Dollie Bynum by witchcraft. Police officers questioned Mrs. Robertson Friday morning, but according to Police Lt. W.M. Klinzing no charges will be pressed. "You can't kill anybody with witchcraft," he said. Black Mayor h Guest Speaker Banquet Hon More than 300 persons support his foster parents attended the June 30th who were Washington banquet in Benton Con- subsequently taught himvention Center honoring se'^ 10 rea4 an<^ wnte. He contractor Clarence G. learned the contracting Washington. business without formal Henry L. Marsh, m, the instruction by working mayor of Richmond, with various companies on Virginia was the guest construction jobs. speaker at the banquet. "I went into the believe in people who are contracting business in doinir things." I960 with a wheelbarrow o w o ~ Marsh. " in the trunk of his Ford, Clarence Washington is that operation has definitely "doing things." grown into Washington's Forced to drop out of Concrete, Stone, & Ceschool as a child to ment Contractors, which \ ton-Sale Saturday July 9, 1977 Suite ( .-.w. . il Four members of the Urban Arts dance up before their opening performance Carolyn McCoy, Kim Williams, Karen 1 Michael Chiles. ft 1 Showmobile i 1 First Perforir | The Urban Arts In a three-hour | Snowmobile staged its performance before a I first performance of the sizeable crowd, the I: summer in the parking performers of * the (lot of the Urban Arts Showmobile displayed | headquarters last their talents in music I Thursday. and dance.. $ iYietric ?The New Langi ''ThinkMetric" ? it's a mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm slogan seen everywhere Prefixes from bumperstickers to i nnn k"l ?T-shirts. But why? How? 1 ,QUU ftllQ? When? These are ques- 100 HectO tions _ facing many con- ? , . sumers today. The Better 1 P?kO Business Bureau hopes ] D0Ci ? the following? tips will - ~m~ r create a greater under- ~ ?v_en tl standing of our new .001 Mill! language: the Metric System. - Why go metric? Be- Q -40 cause it is the system of ??? measurement used p -40 throughout the world ? and measurement has in comparing this sygreat bearing in world stem with our present trade and communica- one: a meter is a little tions. The U.S. is the only logger than a yard; a liter major industrial country holds a little more than a just beginning a nation- quart; and a gram is a littl wide metric conversion heavier than a paper clip, program. __ Each of these basic units In addition, believe it or i8 then divided into not, the metric system multiples of 10, with actually is simpler and appropriate prefixes addeasier to use than the nnrh ?? "kiln " English sytem. It is a meaning 1,000 all the way more precise language of to "milli" meaning measurement that does 1/1,000. The following not require learning charts present a more complex and inconsistent detailed picture of the tables. This is because it conversion factor: is a decimal system, Not all units of measure where all units of measure ^ squire relearning; for are in terms of 10 ? like eXample, time, electricity that of our money system. ^ money. Temperature. \ ors Contractor boasts a fleet of seven to black students planning trucks and a staff of 32 to pursue a career ii employees. business. The Honor Day Com- At the banquet, Mrs mittee, chaired by Tracy C.G. Washington pre Singletary, said of Cla- sented the scholarships U rence Washintrton: "His Reece Jovner and Carmei story should serve as a Jackson, both students a bright example to young WSSU. blacks desiring to follow Mr. Washington him the road of black economic 8e^ received an award foi development." service to the community. As a further encourage- presented by John Wilment to youth, the liam Cook. committee founded a Having established scholarship in Washing- himself as a successful ton's name to be awarded See Banquet, Page 2 I I "" ' ' t m Chro 503 Pepper Bldg. Winston-Salem, N.C. " ?-? r-n ? - ? ^ | ^aro^na Community U| | Prisoners Labor Union will SBr ;'T\ Et I soon launch a campaign | aimed at getting Correc' I tions Secretary Amos f% f? 1 R?ed seeking to improve IVjI |l } I ^v*n8 conditions in the J ?l I states 77 prisons. The Q.ff Pl f 1 announcement came in troupe warn>__ jh^the wake of a recent U:Sr~ ' ^ey are: I Supreme Court decision flansley, and | which gave broad discre-' 1 tionary power to prison >i * I administrators, prohibitl|T flfpQ 1 ing the union or any 1 undesirable organization 1 from holding meetings in | CM *1*1 ?** I the prisons. || Established in 1973 by T T,OB . I inmates, ex-inmates and a I 1 sympathetic supporters, opened the program t the Pri80ner8 uboYUnion with selections of jazz J . and a stunnmg vocal 1 atm08phere .. said ^ per orrnance y |s Grant, spokesman Cynthia Duncan. Also I r - #, A, See ShowmobUe. Paee 2l for the umon' DesP,te the ~ I recent Supreme Court decision (N.C. Prisoners Labor Union vs. David L. Jones), "people inside _i_ ' will continue to organize," Grant said. uage In America Common Conversions 1 Centimer - .40 Inches 1 Meter - 1.10 Yards 1 Kilometer .60 Miles 1 Milliliter - .03 Ounce V-liter 1.06 Quarts i 1 Gram .035 Ounce 1 Kilogram - 2.20 Pounds 0 37 100 32 98.6 212 , however, will be convert- vents in international tract ed from the Fahrenheit and swimming competiscale to the Celsius scale, tion are measured in as they are now in many meters. And, for over 18 weather reports. The years pharmaceutical prorelation of Celsius to ducts have been metricalFflhrflnhoit ia nrooonto^ J ? ?? ?w pi vkivuvcu l J IIICCUUIOU. r^i/Tft Q7 iftft With the United States L -4U U o/ 1UU ... , . F -40 32 98 6 212 nOW comimtted " through WATER FREEZES tl)e1^le'ric Conversion Act BODY TEMPERATURE 0 1976.~ to metrication, BOILING POINT conversion will begin to Al j it i o accelerate. Metric educaAlready Using Some .. ... , , , .f . , lf ? tion in public schools has Metric Measures , . . . . , . w ?i been legislated in over Many people do not haJf with 23 recognize that Ihey are , , , , , . . . ^ J schools boards having using metric measure adopted ..Go Metric" f V 8 j ' g ar 6 e resolutions. Several states length and camera film now tin road size are both stated in millimeters. Distance e- ^ee Metric, Page 2 CONCRA r!l rtf. G. W I ! t T" '11 <~m- f-! A -" fm A '^"T >Jik'" ?c ^ ' * ' - ' * . Major Marsh iddretMi the C.C V * .. ~ - -W . .V.V '"lif 1 ' ' '. .- - - .*, NICLE * 20 Cents <s ler's Union ' r." ? .. i i m i i 111|-1 ' "1 ? 'W'l I-.s Campaign The union was- esta- public ref&tions organ izablished during the admi- tion also assisted Jones in nistration of Corrections a broad sweep which Secretary David L. Jones altered numerous prison who was considered a policies, making life "mad man" by many, increasingly intolerable including present Gover- f?r North Carolina's nor James Hunt, then 14,000-plus inmates and Lieutenant Governor, their families. It was in More than once, James that atmosphere that the employed a high powered union was formed. team of public relations The union's new cam people to lobby for paign also - includes a corrections programs that move to obtain dialogue were used for different - with prison administrator purposes. The same See Prisoner's, Page 2 Fuel And Utility Cost Trippled The cost of fuel anc increased 11.7 percent, utilities ix\ North Caroline reflecting a compounded more than trippled in tht annual rate of 15.7 period from October 1976 percent. Urban areas felt -to April 1977, according to the cost rises most the latest cost-of-living sharnlv. while fuel utililfv survey released this week rates combined were up by the Division of State 16.3 percent since OctoBudget and Management.?ber, due largely^ to the North Carolinians also \videspread use of natural felt substantial infaltion in gas which substantially food commodities, which escalated. rose at the rate of 5.3 The price of the market percent since the previous basket of food suffered six-month reporting per- because of increases in iod in October, and in such items as ground restaurant meals;?which roasted coffoo, which rose rose by 6.9 percent since over 50 percent, and fruits that time. ? and vegetables, which The semi-annual survey rose about 15 percent. The is based on the prices of current increases brought 132 items in the categories the inflation rate-for food of homeownership, food, back up to levels recorded fuel and utilities, public 18 months ago. There was transportation, medical good news for meat care,* hotels and restau- lovers, however; meat, rant meals. In the latest poultry and fish declined 8 survey, 71 percent of percent, for an annual rate these items cost more, 23 of decrease of 2.2 percent. percent cost and six Homeownership costs, perceht cost the same as including the purchasing they did in October. costs of a home, mortage In the area of fuel and lending rated, property utility rates, which climb- taxes and insurance, ed 11.7 percent after small increased only 1 percent increases of 1.2 percent overall. More substantial and 3.6 percent in the two increases in the purchase preceding surveys, natur- cost of a home were offset 1 erao ratao 1q/^ tVm Kv ? - ?4 1 A MWkJ AVSU bil& pi IV/C UWiiilCO XXI _ XiltUrt^vA hikes with a jump of 34.7 rates to result in this rate, percent. This increase Increases in the cost of contrasted with the mod- public transportation conest rise of 2.4 percent in tinuejL to be moderate the previous report per- with^only a 1.5 percent iod. Foilr of the five gas change. companies surveyed in- Medica, care ;cost creasedI their rates, while however> ghowed a 4 8 the fifth company mclud- t ^ re8uhin ^ a ed in its customers bills a c unded rate surcharge reflecting a nse of jugt under 1Q ^ . m wholesale costs. Fuel oil prices also Se? Fuel, Page 2 [sHINGTON ||J ^ * if^nKTr' - . ,r^B J. #" S JLJ 1 A * ^B'#3 - j. if S " *- . 11-1 ' f ' ' ' ' " ;,A }. Washington Banquet. Staff Photo /*

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