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129-C Land
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Dr. Oliver later bid on
the right!" Parcel 129-C and was the
She recalled the time, highest bidder, winning
three years ago. when her the right to develop the
clothing store "Our l^d. He was forced to
Shop" wanted to move withdraw his bid when the
from Patterson Avenue. ^BC Board, listed as a
"1 asked Dr. Oliver to priority tenant, refused to
build us a store on that negotiate with him, saying
part of the redevelopment that they preferred the
land," said Mrs Newell. nlgrn ?|hriMnrf r?m.
The on by Dr. jand Development
r ttwtiti aiiuthgi bt*~
Claremont Avenue, behind ac^ firm.
the Burger King. The iand Was offered
^ Oliver said that hp fov sa}e a year later, a fact
would be hapnyjg^hniH ,of whuh r>i- oUv?i hck!
us a store on that Cumberland _were_Aiiiawproperty?if
the redeve- are time the low
lopment commisssion bidder Wilson-Covington
would sell it to him. So I Construction Company
went down to talk tothem. made the only offer for the
Mr. Haley wasn't in, so I property.
spoke to his assistant, _
David Tomkins. He said "I called the HUD office
that Dr. Oliver's plan did in Greensboro," says Dr.
not meet the agency's Oliver, "And they have
specifications." promised to begin an
~A "black deveioper investigation this weekTl
^commented: "That phrase have already drawn up
^*is bureaucratic talk for plans to negotiate with
'We don't want to sell you Covington, in ,case HUD
the land." rules the second sale
?- Terror In^Black A\
continued from page 1 people would hang up. It
city government. In one went on constantly," he
issue they claimed to have recalls.
heard one of their victims
confess to yen for the wife Finally one day he told
oi a co-worKer, an fc,lt vauci? uinl
indication that some of the c^ as muc^ as they uked,
writers were closely asso- wou^ answer, but
ciated with the officials that theX weren't upsetthey
lampooned. ting him. The harrassThe
Black Informer ment stopped.
became the subject of The issues of the Black
quiet but frantic detective 'nf?rnier stopped as
work. Efforts were made suddenly as they, had
? ?to find the xerox machine started^_The w.ord is that
or to link the writers to the things were becoming too
publication. Some say the ^ot for the writers. Faced
FBI was called in to with the risk-of being
investigate, but nothing caught, they abandoned
was ever proved: publicationr
Mayoral candidate Cecil OffwijiHy,?the?staff?ofButler,
who was writing a the Black Informer recolumn
for_The_Suburba- mains anonymous, but
7~~~T nite at the time, deplored^ most - Of?the?paper's
the Black Informer's readers had a good idea
? methodg_in?an?article who was?writing it all
called^~Character Assas- along. Anyone familiar
sination. with the 'activists' in East
"After that article came Winston, who has heard
out, my phone at home them speak and knows
would ring and ring, what issues concern them,
When we answered it, the can easily identify each
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organization's headquarters at 623 Waughtown St. Th
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Custom Meat Slaughtering Co. of North Wilkesboro;
business student at WSSU, who received a service awa
Sr. vice-president & city executive of NCNB of North
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\ room of sympathizers
^ ? ' stood in shock and his
W \ mother wailed emotional
m pleas that an injustice had
been done.
Robert Beattv, Execu^
tive Director of the
Cumberland County Citimvalid."
zen's Association said
One thing I don't efforts are under way to
understand," he went raise bail if a bail for Terry
on . "When I was trying is granted by Clark. Clark
to develop that property, denied a request for bail
the man I . went to for at the sentencing saying
advice was C.C.Ross. He that bail would not be
is chairman of the Board granted at that time,
of Alderman Finance The two week long trial
Committee. When the had drawTi the attention of
Redevw|oomf>n^-Cr>mmi^- many nt the
sion asked the... fipqprt* .despite the spa reel y
cTjxiiiiiiLiw vu apptUVfinai pufJliiaveu L'uuHi uoiii . I he
sale, why didn't Ross stop Favetteville Times editor- it?
He knew all the facts, ial staff had warned the
Why didn't he stop it?" town's people not to allow
"The (liiaiice commit- the ~irifli a racial
tee did not do its__joh." issue or_ to _put the
says Virginia Newell communtiy into an 'emotfirmly.
ional dilemma.
C.C.Ttoss could not be The circumstantial evireached
for comment by dence that convinced the
press time. jury of 10 whites and two
- ^?-????4 blacks^ all over fifty years
of age, amounted to the
Wrn I liner following. On the morning
f III11 Ig 0f January 6th, Terry and
-m- r Bobby Miller the deceas-_
AS ed brother were playing
basketball in gym class at
ri " Terry Sanford High in
? JF UtT ' ?Fayetteville. There was a
???????J rebound, in which the two
' # made body contact, Terry
g*i tW/ wr* w fgy was hit in the mouth with
rr IMfZ an elbow and latei in the
locker room the two
writer in the Black fought. Terry is Black and
Informer. - Bobby Miller is white.
The Chronicle's gues- Terry's jaw began to
ses about the writers' swell around noon and he
identity were confirmed went to a school nurse for
bv a snurre rinse to t h<=> ?.. ? ~ i
* ? Oil CACLISC IU gu IlUIIie
news-sheet,' who insisted .^because of a toothache.
upon remaining anony- Unable to get busfare
mous. home, according to Caro_
, , line Nixon, a teacher at
So we knour who wrote the hi h T was
the Black Informer-but readmitted to the schoo,.
we cannot print their He went to one afternoon
names, because there is class andspent some time
not enough proof. In their lockef rQom where '
own tradition, we will gwe he was told by a gtudent
you-cues. that Bobby Miller's older-one
of them has a high ^rother waf lo?kin? ,for
-position in a federal h - to settle the earlier
agency f'ght'
. ? r One Black student
?at least one of them is . . .r. , . , , , .
r ?,-testified that he had given
running for office, and rr , r , f
Al_ . , , , Terry a knife before the
another is closely connec- r. , . . , A
A j . . fight started. Another
ted to the campaigns- . ~7-V ,
? testmeo? that?terry? wa>?
As for the ' 'power of the met by Ricky Miller, the
pen," all the officials deceased, in the locker
attacked in the Black room asked if he was the
Informer are still around, student that had fought
still doing what they were earlier with Bobby? Ansdoing
all along. ^ wering yes, Terry stepped
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hard uppercuts. But then quilt beyong a reasonable
Ricky slumbed and cried doubt.
out "nigger you're dead, Btit Ed Grannia, the
you know you're dead for District Attorney, argued
doing this to me", that Terry had been
No one present at the charged with a drug
fight scene that testified offense and was a menace
said that they had to society and should be
witnessed the stabbing. A put away.
SBI chemist testified that Summarizing the evia
knife prese^^rby the dence presented by the
District Att/rney as the state, Judge Giles Clark
knife given to Terry by the omitted the knife testiBlack
youth before the rnony in his summary7but
fight did not contain blood told jurors that they
stains, which a knife should not be influenced
would if it were used in a by his failure to mention
stabbing. testimony. The jurist
Terry's public defend- defined seccfrid degree
ey\' "Mmv r'Ann mwdeg mtit? mioiuutaaj
t I I III1IMM? ?pM?u?PT-tjnw?? ".J ??1? I
argued before the jury tfiat they could find that
that the District Attorney Terry had acted in
had not presented evi- self-defense.
Bar Questions Clients of
Continued from page 1 Referring to the Bar
* . . , ' . . Association's investigaand
the standard fee is .. D
q.irn tion, Brown commented:
, ' , - . - "I don't see what all the
Any reasonably is about. We ^ not
hgent person could do it
himself without an*attorney,"
admitted one-local
lawyer. & "
Legal Aid does not &
accept just anyone for a ? 1
client. It is not an I %/
organization for people I
too cheap to hire a private / ?
attorney. Their client's f. BJ
income must be below I I
$7,313 for a family of four, I
in order to qualify for legal ?
aid. 7
"If a person does not 7 1
qualify, we advise him to ?
hire a private attorney," ?
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says orown. 7 TfV*# - f
One black Bar Associa- V Ur WTwt Jjjj
tion? member t sees no 7
reason for the present
conflict between private ^ ^
attorneys and legal aid. $
"If^elptd people tp legal ?
aid," he said. "If a person ?
comes to me needing legal
services and he doesn't ^ ,
have any money, T say: & 4Fella,
you need to go to \
legal aid.' *
The average attorney's Z \
fee in.Winston-Salem is
$50 an hour. If a person \
needs a lawyer, the court
investigates very carefully
to see if he can afford one, I Vfc
even checking his assets, J*
such as property holdings. 7 V
II h a rannot afford tev hlro f ^ --v1
an attorney, the court will ? \
appoint him one in J \
criminal cases. ?
Ttfe operative word is ~T
"cannot.". If one can jt
afford an attorney, but is j
too cheap tp get one, no y
one will defend him for j
free. y
"The law says you are ?
entitled to a defense," ?
smiled Attorney David I
Wagner. "If you don't ?
want to retain counsel, ?
that's your problem." 4
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