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Winston-Salem Chr^onicle
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Saturday, May 9, 1981
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26 Pages This Week
Psychic Describes
Atlanta Killer
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Lady Says Newspaper Reports Inaccurate
’olice Raid Wrong House
Ijleverly McCarthy
SUff Reporter
Itcording to Mrs.
Jyn Thompson, reports
(lied by local
Hpapers last week con-
UPI PHOTO
Relatives restrain Mrs. Doris Bell fC) as the strain of her son's funeral, Joseph Bell, becomes too great for her
Joseph Bell was the 24th victim found murdered in Atlanta’s missing and murdered case.
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Special to the Chronicle
The murders and disap
pearances of Black children
in Atlanta that date back to
July 1979 have focused at
tention on the use of
psychics in police investiga
tions. The national televi
sion series Tony Brown’s
Journal has forwarded to
the authorities a composite
of the Atlanta killer based
on the impressions of
popular psychic Lillian
Cosby, who accurately
predicted the political
demise of former President
Richard Nixon.
On a special edition, “Is
This The Atlanta Killer?”,
Ms. Cosby describes the
killer as a balding, light
skinned Black man with
light eyes and a “friendly”
mouth. She says that he has
a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde per
sonality and possesses a
technical knowledge of the
human anatomy.
The program probes
avenues in the killings of
children in Atlanta which
are considered by some to
be implausible and un-
cqnveritional, Le., a psychic
and a numerologist. To en
trap the children, Ms.
Cosby claims that the
murderer masquerades as a
woman. “He seems to
make this transition from a
male to a female very easy.
He’s very insecure. He has
difficulty defining his own
identity. That is one of the
problems he has had - he
has had this all of his life
-his masculine identity.
“It is not the racial iden
tity at all, except that he has
not had the recognition that
he wants and someone who
he is close to - whether he’s
closely related to someone
or not - has overshadowed
him and that’s where the
vendetta comes in. This per
son has many mixed emo
tions and many per
sonalities, like the many
faces of Eve, that kind of
person, and he is a Dr.
Jekyll-Mr. Hyde. He has a
very scientific mind.”
Although the killer can alter
his appearance, she says,
there is more than one per-
See Page 25
cerning police officers
breaking into her home
were inaccurate.
Mrs. Thompson, resident
and home owner of 1008
Cameron Avenue, gave this
account of what happened
at her home on April 16:
On Thursday night, April
16, at about 9:00 p.m., Mrs.
Thompson heard a loud
knocking on her front door.
She asked who was there
and the reply was, “me.”
“I want to see Bill.” When
Mrs. Thompson told the
voice that no Bill lived at
that address, she was told to
open the door because she
could not be heard r-om
behind a closed door. To
NAACP Gives Alternative
Budget Plan To Reagan
lit NAACP formally
stilled its alternative
l|tl plans to the Reagan
Imiiiistration last week
liiig a meeting with Vice
loident Bush at the White
IK.
ng the presentation
lit Margaret Bush
bn, Chairman of the
ibnal Board of Direc
tors and Benjamin L.
Hooks, NAACP Executive
Director.
The NAACP officials
said the 130-page document,
officially entitled Alter
native Policies in the Public
Interest for Economic
Growth, more specifically
addresses the bread-and-
butter needs of the poor
and the working poor of
which blacks are a
disproportionate number,
than the Administration’s
budget proposals.
The comprehensive docu
ment, approved by the Na
tional Board of Directors at
its recent quarterly meeting
in Pittsburgh, was also
presented to members of
both the House and the
Senate.
In a letter contained in
the document, addressed to
“Dear Mr. President,” Mr.
Hooks and Mrs. Wilson
said the NAACP “agrees
with the Administration’s
objectives to promote and
increase productivity while
fighting inflation and
unemployment. The
Association, however,
strongly disagrees with the
proposed means by which
your Administration hopes
See Page 2
SCLC’s Lowery Says
Blacks Must Wake Up
Mobile, Ala.—Mobile was the scene of one of the
south’s largest demonstrations this year when 10,000
Wrchers joined SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery
mil Operation PUSH chairman Jesse Jackson in a
one-mile march to the Mobile County Courthouse to
ientand an extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
ind immediate federal attention to the vast array of
wient acts being perpetrated against black people
scfoss the nation.
In particular, they cited the lynching of 19-year-old
Michael Anthony Donald, who was found hanging
itom a tree near a Mobile apartment complex on
March 21. Donald had been beaten as well as strangl-
ttl, and according to various published reports, the
wnimunity had been terrorized by empty hanging
"noses displayed at several locations around the city.
Joined by several local and state civil rights ac-
livists and elected officials, Lowery and Jackson urg-
the protesting crowds at the courthouse and Bethel
^•M.E. Church to join them in Washington, D.C.,
May?, for a ma,ssive “Lobby-in” to call attention to
crises confronting blacks in the form of physical
""J economic assaults, particularly the proposed
*get cuts.
Reaganomics amounts to an assault on black and
poor people, Dr. Lowery said, though its nature is
W violent. President Reagan is the “new” Robin
Hood, only he has reversed the role in order to “take
from the poor and give to the rich.”
Similarly, Rev. Jackson denounced Reaganomics
and called on the masses to resist the present trend of
taking life-line type programs away from the needy
so that the rich can live comfortably and enjoy all the
benefits of American life without the company of the
less fortunate.
The leaders believe a failure to extend the Voting
Rights Act (which expires in August of 1982), would
jeopardize the rights of blacks all across the South.
That single Act has been largely responsible for the ‘
elections of some 5,000 or more blacks to public of
fice throughout the United States, and to lose that
degree of political representation would surely curtail
the small measure of justice now given to blacks in
this nation, the leaders believe.
What is even more serious, however, declared Dr.
Lowery, is the sleeping through retrogression that
too many blacks are doing.
There is no time for sleeping when there is a na
tional mood for turning the clock back on important
gains made in the past...gains that have earned us the
rights we now enjoy. We must all attune ourselves to
what is going on and find a place where we can be of
service in making sure those gains are not lost. We
must act now, he emphasized.
this, Mrs. Thompson
replied, “I can hear you; I
don’t open the door to
strangers.” Someone then
suggested that Mrs.
Thompson open the door
because, ‘‘We have
something for you.” It was
then that Mrs. Thompson
told them that she was not
going to open the door and
if they didn’t leave, she was
going to call the police.
“This is the police,” they
answered, this time deman
ding that she open the door.
When Mrs. Thompson
refused again, the police
threatened to break open
the door. Mrs. Thompson
said that she then turned on
the porch light and the
burglar alarm and called
emergency, telling them
that someone was trying to
break into her home. As
soon as she hung up the
telephone, her front door
was broken open.
Six men entered her
home. There were four
whites and one black, all
plain-clothes men. One
other officer was in
uniform.
“I have a warrant to
search this house,” said the
uniformed officer. Accor
ding to another policemen,
it had been reported that
drugs were being sold at the
Thompson home and that
the policemen had come to
search for evidence of drug
pushing. Upon looking at
the warrant, Mrs. Thomp
son discovered that her
name was not on it. She
then told the officers that
the name on the warrant
was not hers, and that she
didn’t know anyone by the
name which did appear on
the paper. In fact, the only
information which correctly
pertained to Mrs. Thomp
son was the house number.
After spending 45
minutes in Mrs.
Thompson’s home, the of
ficers concluded that they
had broken into the wrong
house and left. Chair were
used to barricade the door
because locks had been
broken off of them.
A complaint was made by
Mrs. Thompson the next
morning to the police
See Page 2
Photo hy C. B. Hauser
NAACP Life Membership
Mrs. Avis Crockett, president of the Belview Civic League, presents a check to Patrick
Hairston, president of the local chapter of the NAACP. The check represents a down
payment on an NAACP Life Membership. The League made a gift to the United Negro
College Fund recently and plans to give to various organizations as long as they are func
tioning.
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Survey Reveals
Price Discrepanc
By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer
An increased price
discrepancy was found bet
ween 2 name brand
prescription drugs and their
generic equivalents, accor
ding to a survey released by
the Wake Forest chapter of
the North Carolina Public
Research Group. This in
crease had occurred since a
similar survey in 1979.
The survey found an
average price of $6.16 for
Equanil which is 95%
higher than the average
price for Meprobamate, its
generic equivalent. The
average price for
Meprobamate is $3.16. Two
years ago, Equanil sold for
an average price 85%
higher than that of
Meprobamate.
Similarly, the average
price of the name brand
drug Achromycin V was
12% higher than the generic
equivalent. Tetracycline
HCL, up from a 10% dif
ference in 1979. This year’s
survey found an average
price of $3.98 for
Achromycin and $3.54 for
Tetracycline.
The 1979 survey was used
to support the Generic Drug
Substitution Act, passed in
to law in the N.C. General
Assembly in that year. N.C.
PIRG supported this law
because of the great con
sumer savings it allows on
prescription drugs. At the
time of the law’s enact
ment, it was estimated to
promise a $6.5 million an
nual savings for the state’s
consumers.
The results of this new
survey, however, indicate
the consumer savings from
generic substitution are pro
bably even higher, as the
price discrepancy between
name brands and generics
has grown.
“Consumer savings from
generic drugs could be even
greater,” explained PIRG,
Barbara Young. Present
North Carolina law requires
that the physician choose
between 2 lines on the
prescription blank; one in
structs the pharmacist to
dispense as written while
the other allows generic
substitution. Other states
use a system where the
druggist is allowed to
substitute the generic unless
the physician specifies
otherwise. It is estimated
that this other system could
double the savings for
North Carolina consumers.
The North Carolina
Public Interest Research
Group is a statewide
student-based consumer
and environmental ad
vocacy organization with
chapters at Wake Forest,
University of North
Carolina at Greensboro,
and 5 other universities.
Members of the Wake
Forest PIRG chapter
surveyed 22 Winston-Salem
drugstores. The survey
results are based on 20
stores. Surveyors asked for
the price of the drug
without identifying
themselves as part of a
survey.