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1 SpsHion Held At Raleigh Church \ Ptu 06. Food Stamp Act Blasted ^Discussions Held On Food Stamp Program ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ BV PAT BRYANT The N.C. Hunger Coalition sponsored an Ash Wednesday service on the Food Stamp program at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh A speaker at this service. Rev. Harcourl Waller, criticized proposed changes in the food stamp program by the U.S Senate ana the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Waller, a Charlotte clereyMan. said the bill currently being considered by the Senate would eliminate 3 to 4 million people from the program and that the changes proposed by the USDA would eliminate S to 6 million people that are currently being served by the program. Waller urged the 50 meeting partici- panl.s to write letters to ^nator UolxTi Morgan, protesting the , changes Waller said that •'eligible persons for the program would be greatly reduced because the income level has been lowered to $.5,050 in both proposals to the poverty level. Both bills would eliminate emergency food stamps to require an income accounting period of 30 days, in the case of the Senate Bill. It would take a person or family 45 to 60 days to gel food stamps " Changes that ate being instituted by "Agriculture Sec- at President Ford’s request will take even longer." W'aller said. Continuing his explanation of these two bills. Waller said that the increased cost of food stamps should act to remove the work incentive for those who have jobs. The Senate Bill would increase the amount recipients pay from an average of 24 percent to 27percent and the USDA would increase costs to 30 percent. "Instead of reporting income every 3 months, both senate and administration propose reporting every month. Sure we will have to add some more bureacrals. We will have to do that. Save money? Yes we will save it by eliminating people, who are hungry, but we will have to add some of it back by pulling people in the adminis tration branch of the food stamp program." Waller said. Waller stated that. "The increase in crime is due to hunger." He asked the audi ence. "What would you do if you lived in American society and had to wait a month, two months or even longer before you had any assurance of food and you didn't have any money'* Would you let your family starve? W'here do you think the rising crime rate is (See FOOD STAMP. P. 2) Questions OIC Rent THE (Carolinian VOL. 35 NO. 21 Sorth Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C.. THUR.SDAY. MARCH 11, 1976 SINGLE COPY 20c WOMAN ★ ★ ★ ★ Pair Held In Custody CHARGES RAPE ★ ★★★ ★★★★ Urges Secretary To Act Chavis Writes From Prison Directors 2 White Brothers ^ Arrested Of Agency Are Mum KX.BASKKTBALl. STAR TESTIFIES — Washlagtoa Doe Newcombe, former pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and an alrohoilc. told the .Senate subcommittee on Alcholbm March H that television's portrayal of drinking aa humorous tM* neceBsar> is Jostling an increase in drinking among young people and adults. Minister Asks Help The Rev. Ben Chavis has sent a letter to the Secretary of the North Carolina Deparl- . ment of Corrections in opposi- |tiun to the building of additional cellblocks for in mates In a recent statement. Secretary David L Jones, proixised using inmate labor to build hundretis of single-cell (See REV CHAVIS. P 2) Fate Of Kittrell Uncertain A fund-roising rally lost Friday for Kittrell College in North Corolina, has left the fote of the college still undecided. Administrotors of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, (AME), owner of the school, hod hoped that Fridoy's rally in Washington would produce, or come close to pay off debts which are still owed by the college. Thot would hove cleored the way for reopening this foil. But less then $55,000 was reported Fridoy. , (See KITTRELL. P. 2» j BY PAT BRYANT Three members of the Board of Directors of the Raleigh Wake Opportuni ties Industrilizaiion Center (OIC) are also members of the Board of Directors of BAB Ltd. a corporation that owns and leases the building at the corner of East and Martin Streets. However, they refused to answer questions concern ing how much profit they realize from rent charged OIC, and whether their profiting from the lease wckuld I'kiimutute a conflict of interest. An inquiry' to the Secretary of State's office revealed that BAB Ltd. was incorporated in June 1975 as a profit making corporation by local realtor f. Henry Brown and Mrs. Clarice Banks. Mrs. Banks, when contacted, referred questions about the corporation to J. Henry Brown A deed of trust executed July 16, 1975. indicated that the building at the comer of East and Martin Streets was bought for a purchase price of $45,000 with a balance of $30,000 remaining on the mortgage (See OIC RENT. P 2) DR W A. GAINES St. Aug.’s Ex-Prof. Is Dead In an exclusive interview with the sheriffs office of Greene county. The CAROLINIAN was given a running account of how two white brothers forced their way into the homes of a black flamily, the Lloyd Roosevelt Ormonds, near Snow Hill, and allegedly threatened the father, robbed the mother, kidnap ped the 24-year-old daugh ter, stole her car and both allegedly raped her. /cr Protest March Set Labor Day The National Allionce Against Rocist ond Political Repression has announced o major offensive to reverse the onti-lobor, onti-block drive in North Corolina. At a national boord meeting lost month in St. Louis, the Allionce set in motion o several-month orgonizing plan to culminate in o Labor Doy March for Lobor Rights and Humon Rights. The morch will converge on Raleigh, with contingents from around the country. "Nothing less thon such on oll-out mobilization of tabor, civil liberties, civil rights, church and community support will reverse the drive toword a North Carolina police state," said Charlene Mitchell, executive secretory of the Allionce. "In the course of this compoign to turn a notional spotlight on repression in North Carolina, we will olso expose the plans of the Nixon-Ford Administrotions to moke North Corolina style repression o model for the nation." A central demand of this stragegy will be to win the freedom of the Rev. Ben Chavis ond the other Wilmington 10 defendonts, ond the Charlotte 3, James Gront, Chorles Parker and T. J. Reddy, ail victims of police fromeups in North Carolina. As the Alliance, "Labor ond Human Rights" campaign is token into union, church and community meetings across the country in the coming weeks, said the boord, it will expose the links of the Nixon-Ford Administrotions in plonning ond corrying out anti-block, anti-labor repression in North Carolina. "We must cleorly demonstrate that workers ond church people in St. Louis, Memphis, Birmingham ond Portland oil have a stake in reversing the drive to o police stote in North Corolina,'' said Ms. Mitchell. "What they hove attempted to accomplish with stote and federal police frome-ups, surveillance, infiltration of provocoteurs, slonted news, etc., in North Corolino is exactly whot they hove in store for us on a notional scale with such legislotion os Senate Bill 1. "The Wilmington 10 are now in prison. The Chorlotte 3 hove been turned down at each stage of their appeals. More than 100 men and women are now on Deoth Row. We ore going to draw the line in North Carolina and begin to reverse the situotion and we ore going to stop in its frocks the notionol drive toward depression." The Alliance compoign plans to focus on the plight of Southern lobor and the need ond right to orgonize. Refuses To Act On Reformatory Closins (In KrtHnv Vlan-h li Ihx. iL REDD FOXX Redd Foxx NM»: in* CAROLINIAN It rrsamlM U* pvMkailM •! IRt CrtaM B«at aMi tbit cAMIm •! lb« Mvipaper. ■ irtmaaSaat •■aabtr •! K rtMtallasakl** icIeplMM calls lar ralniairaAMil. Aa «as MatrS bi Um arlilaal cSilar's aatf refardlag lh« calamn. parsMS aklilatc la ba«p lAek aamrs #M al Tb« Crtm* Baal ibaaM aol bacama laiaUrS aMb Um> Makctfb PaUcr Depanmaai. Ibarabr fatllbf Ibalr aaosa* an iba palira btallar. Iran «bkb all af Iba malarial lar Tba Crtma Raal b falbaaM. Meredith To Speak In Raleigh TWO WOMENCl’T 'Two Dorothea Drive women were cut in an alleged assault incident Friday which resulted in charges of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill against .Ms Diana Jefferyes, of 704 Quarry, according to police reports. The alleged victims were Ms. Ruby Pemberton. 43. and Presious Pemberton. 16. They were apparently cut with a razor blade 'The police reports indicated that Ms Pemberton was cut on the wrist and Ms. Presions was cut on the chest. (See CRIME BEAT. P. 3) James Meredith, the first black to attend and graduate from the University of Mississ ippi. will lecture at St. Augustine’s College on W’ed- ne^ay. March 17, at 8 p.m., in the Amphitheater of the Boyer Building It has bcvii 20 years since James Meredith served as a calai; St in one of the greatest social upheavals in the south and in the na'ion. A few years later, he started a one-man march against fear, was gunned down and that march became the largest, most significant civil rights march in history, with 50.000 people and the emergence of a new slogan. "Black Power." The program is one of a lyceum series, and the public is invited without charge. Dr. William Anthony Gaines, former professor-chairman of the Division of Social Sciences, head of the department of sociology, and director of the Human Relations Center, died on Sundav, March 7. Funeral service will be held on Thursday. March 11, at 12 noon from Haven United Memorial Church. 23rd and Oxford Streets. Philadelphia. Pa Burial will be in Eden Cemetery. Darby, Pa, A native of Philadelphia. Dr. Gaines received his B.A., M.A. and Ph D. degrees al the University of Pennsylvania. For many years, he served as a recreation teacher with the Philadelphia Bureau of Recre ation. as a counselor, research assistant, instructor, public relations official, administra tive assistant, professor and chairman of departments in colleges and universities. He was affiliated with many organizations, had received many awards and was the author of several publications. It® jhM Albert Lee Moore. 25. and Alton Moore, 21, who are said to live on Route 1, Snow Hill, appeared ,al the door of the Ormond home about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. l. and knocked on the door. 'They are alleged to have used the ruse that one of them had been hurt seriously and was lying outside in need of medical attention. The father is said to have attempted to help the alleged situation by agreeing to put on his clothes and going for aid. However, when he told the visitor that he did not have a telephone, he found himself looking down'the barrel of a gun. The intruder is alleged to have brushed past hUn and into (See CHARGES RAPE. P. 2) Being Sued By Agent Redd Foxx is being sued by his agent, who claims the comedian owes him about $100,000 for signing Foxx to appear at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1972. Agent Sam Esposito said in a Los Angeles superior court suit Monday, Foxx was signed to play 40 weeks, but showed up for only 4 days. Foxx received $12,000 for the four days and paid Elsposito his 10 percent commission on that amount. The agent complained he should receive 10 percent of what Foxx svould have re ceived if he played the whole 40 weeks. Drug Action Opens Adult Care Unit (See REDD FOXX. P. 2) On Friday. March 5. the North Carolina Youth Services Commission refused to act on a recommendation that Richard T Fountain Reformatory School al Rocky .Mount be closed. Executive director Ray Shurhng told the commission that a lenta'ive arrangement with the N,(?. Department of Corrections v.'ould transfer the facilities at Fountain to the Corrections Department under this arrangement. the facilities would be used a.» a community based facility for young female inidemeanants. A special committee ap pointed to study closing the school, reported that staff, students. Rock)' Mount busi nessmen and others in the RiK'ky Mount community afe against the closing. The com mittee made no recommenda tion. N C Representative Roy Spoon, said that community and stuff opposition was caused by job insecurity. "The teachers said a lot about children, but the bottom line was still job security. Thinking about the community and looking al a $867,000 payroll, you would probably say the same thing." The school has an annual budget of $1.1 million, of which Shurhng said that $300.n(M> would be saved by the closing. Commission members John Baker and Rep Joy Johnson of Robeson, were concerned about the loss of jobs that would result from the action. Shurhng assured them that those staff who wanted to continue with Youth Services \^ould be able to or would be alloued to transfer to the Department of Corrections. LuiiT. commissioners were 1 )ld that this assurance was not absolute, and that some .staff may not be retained. Commissioners were work ing under the pressure of budget cutting of the North (See ROCKY MT . P. 2i Judge To Speak For NAACP Sun. Wake District Court Judge Stafford A. Bullock will be me featured speaker for the March meeting of Wake-Wendell Branch of NAACP. This meeting will take place al 5 p.m., Sund^ afternoon. March 14. at the Church of Christ, in Eagle Rock. The town of Eagle Rock is about 12 miles southeast of Raleigh. It can be reached by traveling east on Highway 64 from Raleigh until a posted Eagle Rock sign is reached on the right side of the highway. Judge Bullock was appointed to fill an existing vacancy on (See JUDGE TO. P. Appreciation Checks Won By Two Here Two of the three potential winners of this week’s Appre ciation Money found their names in advertisements on The CAROLINIAN Apprecia tion Money page. They were Carl H. Phillips. 1404 Altama Circle and Mrs. Hattie Carter. 707 Atwater St. Phillips name was in the Raleigh PCX Service advertisement and Mrs. Carter’s name was in the Caraieigh Furniture Co. ad vertisement. A third name, that of Ms. Victoria Duke, of 511 Beverly Drive, was in the New Bern Avenue Exxon advertisement. The Appreciation Money page is on the last page of the front section of “The CARO LINIAN each week. There will le three potential winners in his week's edition. Persons jvho find their names on the )age should report to The CAROLINIAN office for iden tification. and then pick up (See APPRECIATION. P. 2) BY JAMES ANDERSON Drug Action of Raleigh opened its adult day care program recently. The pro gram. designed to treat seriously disfunctional drug users, primarily heroin ad dicts, is located at the Royster Building at Dorothe.a Dix Hospital. 'The program, explained by Ms. Cora Lewis, director of treatment services, opeates in three prisons and a half-way house. At Triangle Correction Center and Polk Youth Center, "on site work is done, while inmates from the Correction Center for Women on Bragg Street, are involved in an 8 hour per day. 5 days per week, program at Dorothy Dix. At Wake Advancement, counsel ing work is continued with inmates transferred there from Polk or Triangle while being served. Ninety percent of the adult day care program participants are black. Drug Action of Raleigh also maintains 3 other major components: Crisis Center, which operates 24 hours a day; an Education Prevention Com ponent, which works with public school and community groups; an administration component houses top staff including executive director Mike Parrotta; a criminal justice component is directed by Warren Arsad. (See DRUG ACTION. P. 2) SPECIAI. ATTENTION — EuUwvIlIe, 8.C, -- Ms. Ann White gives special attention to three \ ielnamese students. From left. Kandy, Whitney Tam and Terry Hung Mallard. Whitney and Terry were separated from their mother in Vietnam and adopted bv Nebraska state Senator John Detamp. He discoiered their mother was still alive and the family was reunited. (I’Pli City Council Allocates Cash For Workshop Here WAITING FDR FUNDS — Deserted parking lot at Kittrell College In Kittrell. rhe fire-gutted administration and library, left, and a classroom building, are readily seen as motorist pass the deserted college on U.S. I. See story above. (Staff Photo by W'Ulle White). Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK LILES SHOES "For Attractive, Comfortabe Footwear" I'hc Law and Finance Com mittee of the Raleigh City Council voted Tuesday to allocate $250 of revenue sharing funds for a housing workshop to be sponsored by the 'Raleigh Housing Task Force. Committee members Marion Block, Ronald Kirsch- baum and James Quinn, questioned intensely Dr. Pa trick Elliott, chairman jf the Raleigh Housing Task Force about the purpose and expect ed results of the workshop before recommending to the City Council that the funds be spent. The City Council is expected to okay the funds at next Tuesday’s council session. Elliot said that the purpose of the workshop is to inform the community of the present housing picture in terms of the funds available and what kinds of programs are available. "The $250 will pay for about half of the cost of the workshop with the other half being paid for by groups and individuals that are members of the Task Force." Elliot said. The Raleigh Housing Task Force is a coalition of organizations that have an interest in housing. Councilman Kirschbaum anu Block, questioned Elliot for several minutes about the need for a workshop and the necessity of having speakers and resource people from other cities to speak to what other citieb are doing in housing. Elliot answered that "the basis for a public bond referendum would be one thin^ accomp lished." A housing bond referendum would provide monies to locally finance the construclon of low cost public housing through the sale of tax exempt bonds. Elliot defended the need for speakers and resource people from other cities saying, "It was suggested to me by members of the Task Force that his panel (outside speak ers) would attract some attri tion for one thing if we are going to have a meaningful worluhOP, we need somebody tneie vmo wouia.' -PATBRYANT
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