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Page 2 ? The Chronicle, Saturday, November 10, 1979 Police Chief Rules Out Cop Set-Up BY ROSIE STEVENS Lee and Benbow, but Peacemaker Staff Writer stopped instead at the Amid charges that po- other site. lice set up demonstrators There were reports ?in the -Klan shootings ?that the van,-under sur? Nov. 3, Police * Chief veillance bv the Dolice W.E. Swing denied that department, was lost by the police had any part in officers as it entered such a set-up. - Greensboro's city limits. "I don't know," said Thus officers were unSwing, "who told the aware that the van, carKlan of the site at Everitt rying armed men, was and Carver. able to get into the city to "The police didn't. . the parade site without But," he promised, "I'm the officers' knowledge, going to find out who However, Swing dedid." nied that the van had Members of the Wor- been lost. "I didn't say kers Viewpoint Organi-, that," he said. zation, led by Nelson N. In an article in the Johnson, had charged Greensboro Daily News, that the Saturday shoot- Capt. Trevor Hampton is ings?were part of an?quoted as saying that he assassination plot was to meet with Johnagainst members of the son to discuss the Evergroup. The group had itt-Carver site Saturday, charged that police, in ruling out that police failing to provide ade- were unaware that marquate protection for the chers might begin the demonstrators, had al- parade there. lowed the Klansmen to Immediately after the come in and have a field shootings, it day with the WVO. that the police were unComing into the city aware that the site was from 1-85 on the U.S. 220 being used as a starting exit, Klansmen appar- point for the parade. ently had some advance Hampton's statement knowledge of the Carver- casts some doubt on the Everett site of the dem- previous statements that onstration. The vehicles police were unaware of did not go to the original- the use of Carver-Everitt ly planned site at Wind- as a beginning point of sor Community Center at the demonstration. Woman Died from 11-Year Old Wound By Patrice E. Lee ? ? f??Staff Writer An 11-year-old bullet wound caused the death of an elderly woman whom police had first thought wasmurdered according to the investigating officer. Mrs. Jessie Wilmore Chandler's death Oct. 23 due~ to a gunshot would she received Oct.~13,~1968rsaid ?Det.?Robert Russell, who investigated the case. "The fragments had eroded a vein, creating the bleeding. She bled to death as a result of a would 11 years old," Russell said. ^ Police were activel^/in^estigating the case last rvccn <&9 a muruer, LMistiu on 1116 ftuiopsy report. fill Russell came up with after talking with neighbors and friends was that Mrs. Chandler had been shot before. "They couldn't come up with a motive" for murder, Russell said. A daughter in South Carolina confirmed that Mrs. Chandler had been known as Jessie Benson befoe her marriage several years ago, and the department was able to solve the case by checking police and medical records, Russell said. According to a copy of the report filed 11 years ago, Mrs. Jessie Benson was shot accidentUy by an unidentified assailant and treated at the Kate Bitting Reynolds Hospital for the head wound. The bullet was lodged in her forehead, near the eye and brain and was not removed, the report said. AKAs File Brief With High Court The 70,000 member Al- "That's why we felt it pha Kappa Alpha Sorority was time to help to influhas filed a 14Friend of the ence social policy," said court" brief in a suit phillips. challenging the federal Fullilove vs. Kreps government's set-aside raises the landmark issue programs for minority of whethere the set-aside contractors. program is constitutional. 4 * It's a S4.2 billion is- The. sorority filed the sue," said Dr. Barbara brief on Oct. 9 as a result K. Phillips, the , local of a challenge by H. Earl school principal who is Fullilove to the constitunational president of the tionality of a 1977 law sorority. "If the commu- passed by Congress. This nity gets that $4.2 billion, law provided for 10% of it ought to insure a lot of all federal grants to be set jobs.'' aside for minority contracThe brief, filed by Chi- tors. Fullilove and other cago lawyer Julian B. non-minority contractors Wilkins, was the first ever have alleged that the 10% filed by the sorority. guarantee represents an Phillips said the move unconstitutional prefecame at the request of rence for minorities. Rep. Parrcn B. Mitchell, As a friend of the court, D-Md..' the legislative ar- the sorority argued that ohitect of the set-aside the court should uphold programs. the constitutionality. I V At a press conference, <;n<^kinp Out J0^80" l*-l explains tl 3peaKing wUL behind the demonstratioi Seated with Johnson, from Residents 0| BY ROSIE STEVENS spokesperson for the Peacemaker Staff Writer confederation and presi The Confederation of dent of Morningside ReGreensboro Residence sidence Council, stated Councils has protested that the groups felt victhe use of federal hous- timized. Johnson, she ing areas as sites of stated, did not, to her demonstrations such as knowledge discuss use of the one Saturday at the housing complex as a Morningside Homes. demonstration site with Mrs. Ruth Beasley, anyone at Morningside. laaaiaaaaaiaijaaaaaaiaiiittimaiiiiaiiiiiiiaiiaiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaiiaaaaaaaaaaaaiiaaaaaaia Teacher frompagei inmnniHlhnaaaaiiatiinithiiHHHHHUHHiniiimiiaiiiinimannaaaaaaamaaaaaaiaaaaaiiaaiiaaaa tendent Dr. James asked," Mrs. Davidson Adams for dismissal but said. "It was frustrating the school board's vote and nerve racking, beof 4-4 granted her a cause too many people reprieve. were trying to teach my This was her 10th year class." of academic teaching having spent five years in This disruptive situa? the ? Statesville School uon became demoraliSystem. During her first zing, undermined my two years with the sys- control of the classroom, tem she taught the sec- and left little room for Jond grade at Wallmr- me define my role as a -town Elementary where-?teacher-to my^ studenta she received excellent and to myself. evaluations. In the 1978-79 school In her . third year she ghe was transferred was assigned to teach tQ gchoo, wheTe the first grade at Clem- she was ^ under the r"8, u Elementary Teachers Assistance School, her irst year as a P am At her new first grade teacher She schoo, ^ fork Ele_ said her problems began ment the principal from an initial complaint egted that Mr9. Da. made by a parent who .? , ,. . , . ? , . , vidson be dismissed at complamed that her the end of ^ 1978.79 child was behind other , i , A . . school year. students classes m reading. Mrs. Davidson said She was then recom- she was recommended mended for assistance for dismissal by her by her principal. Her principal at South Fork assistance was two su- because, her bulletin pervisors, a helping boards were something teacher and a reading to be desired, she didn't coordinator. promote fun games and "I was subjected to that she could not proconflicting instructions, perly discipline her stubut I did the things I was dents. Rent-A-Truck :?:? From (Willie's EXXONll Corner of Bo wen Blvd. & New Walkertown |! ' Kdteb, ?? | 724-0644 or 724-75611 3112 Bowen Blvd. 2103 Peter* Creek kk . y j * Htv Hj?||^ MRM?a?jjy * f ^ ^ f 8?l I^BSI i ^ST AjMKUF m Nelson N. are Mrs. Joyce Johnson, Nelson's le strategy wife, and Mrs. Signe Waller, wife of i Saturday. James Waller, one of the victims of left to right the slayings. ppose March At an earlier press people, the confrontaconference, Johnson sta- tion was one of the worst ted that he decided on in Greensboro, they that black neighborhood said. Kdpoiioa l^lonom*!?/%? /> Anrl in ^^^ UCLUUJL lUUllAlllCU weie 1-rrrcn rr??uxrc rrrrrrc ^ against blacks. He rea- the shootings, the soned that flacks would neighborhood of Mornfight back in a show of ingside was filled with strength between the frightened people, afraid Klan and The Workers to talk to the FBI, or to Viewpoint Organization. reporters for fear that However, the resident the Klan would retaliate, council, indicated that The residents council none of the injured, or included meipbers of those who were killed in Morningside, Hampton, Saturday's confrontation Smith and Warren were residents of Morn- Homes, Claremont and ingside. Leaving a yard Springview Courts, and full of bodies, and door- Hall Towers and Gateways . filled with dead way Plaza. & i, t-l \* *A;"vX "x:'A. ' H -(^f. The Winston-Salem Chronicle is published every ^ Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Company. Inc. 516 N. Trade St. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Phone: 722-6624.Second Class postage paid at Winston-Salem. N.C. 27102. 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