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VOL. XVII, No. 13
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Investigation called for at UNC
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) _ The leader of
the state chapter of the NAACP has asked the
chancellor of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill to establish a panel to investigate
racial and sexual discrimination at the school.
Kelly Alexander called for the university to
meet four demands, and says he will seek to have
federal funding stripped from the schbol if the
demands are not met.
Alexander appeared Sunday at a rally for a
university police officer who has accused UNC
Chapel Hill of job discrimination. Alexander said
at the rally that he would undertake a campaign to
Strip the school of federal aid if his demands are
not met _
The demands also include that UNC offi
cials drop appeals in two job discrimination suits,
that job grievances be submitted to binding arbitra
tion, and that the school's grievance procedure be
replaced.
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Army Spc Walter Roberson of Clearwater,
Fla., relaxes while holding a 155mm Howitzer
shell during an intermission in a live firing exer
cise in the Saudi desert on Tuesday. Roberson is a
member of the Bravo Battery of the 3rd Battalion
of the 18th Field Artillery Unit from Fort Sill,
Oklahoma. (AP LaserPhoto) _ _ _ _
Hastings to defend Yahweh
MIAMI (AP) _ Religious sect leader Yahweh
Ben Yahweh appeared in court to answer federal
racketeering charges without the help of prominent
defense attorney Ellis Rubin, who suddenly with
drew from the case Wednesday.
Instead, attorney Alcee Hastings agreed to
defend Yahweh and three of his followers at their
initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate William
C. Turnoff, who entered a not-guilty plea for the
self-styled son of God.
Rubin, who has defended the black-sepa
ratist Yahweh sect in the media for months, wished
the Yahwehs well in a short statement. Neither he
nor Hastings would explain why Rubin decided to
withdraw.
Prosecutors allege that Yahweh terrorized
his followers into committing extortion, arson and
14 murders as he built his Temple of Love into an
58 million real -estate empire in Miami's impover
ished Liberty City area.
Waiting
An unidentified man takes a look at the situa
tion as depositors line up outside the Freedom
National Bank in Harlem to reclaim their funds
from the failed bank Tuesday. Federal banking
regulators began paying off depositors Tuesday,
signaling the failure of a community attempt to
save the cash-strapped bank. (AP Uscrphoto)
IButlerpreachesMast-sermon-at-Shiloh
By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING
Chronicle Staff Writer
After months of denials that he was
leaving, the Reverend J. Ray Butler
preached his final sermon at the Sunday
morning service, Nov. 18, at Shiloh Bap
tist Church. As he said goodbye to the
congregation of approximately 1200 in
attendance, the mixture of tears and anger
on the faces of the now-divided flock
reflected the turmoil which had dogged
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the minister and his church since August.
The anger stemmed from eyewitness
accounts of activities that took place at the
church parsonage Friday, Nov. 16. Mem
bers of the Deacons' Board confronted
members of the Concerned Members of
Shiloh, an avid and vocal 15-member
group of the minister's key and core sup
porters who, as one witness described it,
"came like thieves in the night" packing
up Butler's belongings from his office and
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Rev. J. Ray Butler
An Editorial
Mr. Marshall, ?
File the Suit!
Mr. Marshall, you know there is little alternative
but to sue the school board in order to force a district
plan that will ensure African-American participation
on the school board.
When will we learn that that is the only way
African-Americans in countywide races will ever be
elected.
? Surely you know Mr. Marshall, better than any
one that the school board is not going to act in the best
interest of African-Americans. To the contrary. Formu
lating a district plan would in fact put some of those
board members off the board. That would not be in
their best interest. So you can't expect for the board to
act on an issue that is not in their own best interest.
It is time for the NAACP to do its homework -
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Urban League board
throws director out
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor ?
The executive director of the Winston-Salem
Urban League was fired Wednesday during a regular
meeting of the Urban League board. That action was
the culmination of several turbulent weeks where the
director and certain board members had been at odds
with each other over comments made by the director
in defense of one of the league's programs.
Delores Smith, the league's executive director,
had been publicly critical' of a local foundation's
denial of a funding request for the league's "Black
Family Focus" program which she claimed was simi
lar to a program the foundation later funded. She
charged that local foundations are not providing the
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David Thompkins, director of the Housing
Authority, and Janet Brown, manager of
Sunrise Towers, were epeclal guests at the
20MI anniversary party.
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Leaders want
more than
board's talk
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
In spite of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
Board of Education's commitment to devise a plan to
ensure minority representation on the board, African
American leaders are not completely happy with the
efforts to include the minority community in school
board proceedings.
Three new business items on the agenda of the
meeting Monday, Nov. 19, addressed the issue that has
the African- American community and many others up
in arms. In the Nov. 6 election, none of the three
African-Americans running for school board were
elected. Beaufort Bailey, a board member for 12 years,
and challengers Vernon Robinson and Annette Wilson
finished sixth, seventh, and eighth respectively in a
race where only the top five vote-winners won seats on
the board.
The school board now has no African- American
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Community Reinvestment Act a sham ?
Loans hard to get in East
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Wnter
An expert on the Community Reinvest
ment Act believes increased community
unity and awareness of a bank's CRA activi
ties could become the watchdog needed to
keep the banks true to the purpose of the act
The Community Reinvestment Act of
1977, a part of the Community Development
Act, is supposed to encourage banks to get
involved in improving the communities in
which they are located, including the low to
moderate income areas, hut despite each
bank's paperwork indicating otherwise, the
intent of the act has not been carried out as
well as it could be on the local level.
Federal regulatory agencies rate banks
and other financial institutions on the basis of
their performance on twelve criteria in meet
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