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Vol. Ill, No. .45
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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
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Saturday July 9, 1977 Suite (
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il Four members of the Urban Arts dance
up before their opening performance
Carolyn McCoy, Kim Williams, Karen 1
Michael Chiles.
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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.
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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
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^ | ^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
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r^i/Tft Q7 iftft With the United States
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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
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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
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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
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