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Backs
Reform
In Welfare
BURLINGTON — Howard
Lee. Oemocrotic candidate
for Lt. Governor, lost Friday
colled for reform in North
Corolino's welfare system.
Specking in Burlington
before the North Carolina
Association of Sociol Work
ers for Mentol Heolth. Lee
stressed the need to reduce
the welfare roles by helping
welfore recipients to become
productive members of
society.
lee said, "It is incumbent
upon us to evaluate social
>. Agencies, sociol programs
and their objectives. If we
ore realistic, we should be
the ones to identify the
weaknesses in our welfore
program. We should be the
ones to take the first steps
to bring about o different
and a more reolistic
opproach to helping those in
need.'
Lee pledged. "If I om
elected Lt. Governor, it will
be my intention to provide
the kind of leadership that
will offer o new sense of
hope to those who ore forced
to receive public funds-o
new sense of hope through
realistic training ond job
iocotion."
Lee sold thot people must be
provided on opportunity to
l^ecome independent ond not
remain dependent on the
public dole.
Lee was the keynote
speoker at the Awords
Banquet of the North
Corolino Associotion of
Sociol Workers for Mentol
Health, meeting in Burling
ton.
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A 19-year-old Raleigh
youth, who flagged down a
police vehicle early last
Sunday morning, has been
charged with murder in the
rifle slaving of an 18-year-
old local resident. Dead is
Kim Lamont Lassiter of
1511 E. Jones Street.
Kenneth Earl Barbee of 112
Hill Street, has been
charged with murder.
VOL. 35 NO. 23
y’orth Carolina’s Leading; Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 25. 1976
- SINGLE COPY 20c
The shooting incident alleg
edly took place at the Lassiter
home, following a drinking
party, police officials reported.
Lassiter was shot once in the
chest with a .22 calibre rifle.
He was still alive when police
arrived, but died an hour later
after being taken to Wake
Medical Center
Barbee reportedly flagged
down Officer Wilbur Barnes
and was later charged with
murder, placed in Wake
('nunly Jail and is being held
without privilege of bond. He
will receive a preliminary
hearing in Wake District Court
on Monday. April 5 at 9 a.m.
Police Lt. K. J. Johnson
stated Monday that an argu
ment apparently developed
between the two teenagers
during the party. However, he
could not say what could have
prompted the ••fuss."
The victim was shot at close
range, the detective said.
Officers have not ascertained
whether or not Lassiter was
armed.
Power In Granville Blasted
PASTOR RAPS AREAS
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Dr. Mable Parker MeLean
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Grad To Head * Scotia
Granville Woman
Minister
Critieal
Firm In
Oxford To
Close Sun.
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HAPi.i.r-j
BY PAT BRYA.NT
OXFORD — Officials at
Burlington Industries an
nounced that the Oxford dye
plant would be closed by March
28. The plant employs 450
people. Some may be transfer
red to other (^ratioDS in other
cities, officials said.
Joseph D. Beam, Burlington
Industries group vice presi
dent. said "Rapidly changing
market developments have
made it obvious that the
division cannot use the
capacity for textured yarn
production at the Granville
tOxiordl plant."
Bill Crocker, manager of the
Granville Plant, said "the
market for dyed yarns for
knitting - the product now
manufactured at the Granville
plant, has also deteriorated to
the point that continued
production is no longer profit-
MAY BKCUMK AMBASSA
DOR — Washington — Presi
dent Ford announced .March 19
the nomination of W. Beverly
Carter to be ambassador to
Liberia. Senate confirmation
uoiild pluck Carter, a career
diplomat, from limbo and send
him back to .\frica where, a
year ago. he broke a cardinal
policy rule with a humanita
rian gesture of helping ransom
.American hostages In Africa.
The gesture infuriated Sec. of
State Kissinger. (UPl).
* Fdilar-» Sole: The CAaOLINlAS ~ , „
pamini lit publication el The Crime able.
ciiy and coumy otfidais,
K rviaai tnquiriet onii leirpbMc ealit lor white and black businessmen
reintlolemral. At «ai ttaleS In (he lamoni iVtA
.ail..’, .ate re.araine Ihr aUKe. lament inC
6 Kids
Alone
In House
Ik, aiiae. lameni ine plant’s
colamn. periont nlthlag lo keep Iheir clOSIRg and hope that another
industry can be attracted to the
Depantnrnl. Iherefaf irillng (heir namet area IR the near fUtUre. ReV. G.
on Ihe polirr btoller, from «bteb a" '
facp:s kidnaping rap
A New Jersey man is being
held in the Wake County Jail on
$50,000 bond, facing kidnaping
charges as a result of an
alleged incident Saturday.
According to Raleigh police
reports. Joseph Lewis Hardy
(also known by the alias of Joe
Lewis Charles) kidnaped Ms.
Dennise Bridges. 17, of 545 E.
Edenton St.. Saturday. How
ever. by press time, details of
the alleged incident were not
available. In addition to the
kidnaping charges, the man is
also charged with simple
possession of marijuana and is
being held on a $500 bond for
that charge. The 36-vear-old
Hardy lives at 18 Belle Ave.,
Paterson. N.J., according to
the police reports.
^iSee CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
C. Hawley, president of the
Oxford Business and Profess
ional Chain. Inc. said, "We will
do what we can lo locate these
people in other jobs. If we
cannot locate Ihem In Gran
ville County, we will try to
locate them in adjoining
counties."
Plant officials made no
assurances that employees of
the plant would be hired at
other plants, but said (hat
employees would be interview
ed before closing the plant, to
see if they could be transferred
to other operations.
Many of Ihe employees of the
plant have recently purchased
homes and automoDiles and
many merchants said* that the
effect of the closing would not
only be felt by the families with
workers laid off. but by the
entire community. So far, the
Oxford Alliance Against Racial
(See FIRM IN, P. 2)
OXFORD - Wright’s Fun
eral Home and three area
communities that have been
concerned about the bodies of
six children who lost their lives
in an early morning fire, that
burned a frame house on
Cheatam Street last Saturday,
got back to normalcy Tuesday
afternoon when the last three
bodies were buried from Davis
Chapel Baptist Church, in the
Stovall community. They were
Maxine Gooch. 16; Janet
Gooch. 9; and John Gooch. 6.
The first funeral was at 3
p.m. Monday, in the Townsville
community, for Norris Jerome
Miles, 10-month-old son of Ms.
Vonnie Miles He was buried m
the church cemetery.
At 4 p.m. Monday, the bodies
of Berlina Tayborn and her
sister Theresa. S, were
eulogized at Hong Baptist
Church. Fairporl.
Relatives and friends
marched in and out of Wright's
Funeral Home, where five of
"When you find people
who are concerned about
their people, you’ll find a
power structure that seems
impossible to break. The
only way we can break it is
in togetherness" began
Rev. Charles Cobb, pastor
of St. Peters united
Methodist Church in an
address to about 70
members of the Oxford
Alliance Against Racist
and Political Repression
last week.
R^’v. Cobb described co/utl
lions of poverty and neglect in
Oxford and Granville (bounty
which he said were condoned
by the business and political
leaders in Oxford. "Houses
that have waste in the floors,
no sewer, (he same families
without food, this to me is a
serious thing. Who owns them?
Whitey,” Cobb said.
"There are only a few
businesses that hire blacks
above the level of janitor. It is
(rue, because we continue to
patronize them. If we band
together we could successfully
boycott (he merchants." Cobb
said. The black minister
continued. •‘We have been
indoctrinated so that we don’t
help our own people. It is (he
power structure that controls
Will Be
President
DR MABLE P. MCLEAN
Funeral
Directors
Set Plans
us.
Rev. Cobb announced that he
was resigning from the
presidency of the Granville
County Improvement Associa
tion. saying that he had gotten
numerous calls from black
politicians that live on ‘knob
Kill” saying that he should
"tend to the pulpit” He said
that those blacks have some
how forgotten their previous
conditions and have turned
their backs on (he rest of the
poor. Rev. Cobb said that he
was not discontinuing his work
in Oxford, but would be
exposing poverty und racism in
Oxford in a CBS documentary
(hat he said will be filmed in
Oxford in two weeks.
Oxford is the hometown of
(he Rev. Ben Chavis, who is a
CHICAGO, Ul. - How to deal
uith a wide range of problems
currently confronting funeral
directors, and (he a^ption of
plans for the association’s
upcoming Bicentennial con
vention in Washington, D.C.,
this summer, will foremost
on the agenda when the
National Funeral Directors
and Morticians Association
holds its 39th annual Board of
Directors meeting in Tampa.
Fla., April U-13.
According to Robert H.
Miller, NFD&MA executive
secretary, the meeting, to be
held at the Riverside-Hilton
(See FUNERAL. P. 2)
CONCORD - Dr. Mable
Parker McLean will be
inau^rated as the ninth
president of Barber-Scotia
College, Concord, on Fri
day. April 2. 1976, at 2:30
p.m. in the College
Convocation Center. Dr.
McLean is the only black
woman in the United States
who is the president of a
senior liberal arts college.
Official delegates and repre
sentatives from more than 125
collet, universities, learned
sociMles, business foundations,
civic, religious and educational
organizatnms will be present
for the inauguration and will
constitute the processional,
along with the Mayor of
Concord, representatives of (he
student body and (he alumni,
the faculty, the Barber-Scotia
Board of Trustees, and the
inaugural party.
(See GRAD WILL. P. 2)
Executive
Po8t To
Shaw Grad
Carter,
Reagan
Victors
North Carolina voters went
to the polls Tuesday and gave
Jimmy Carter and Ronald
Keagaoprimary victories. The
Carter win had been expected.
But the Reagan defeat of
The Rev. James D. Peters.
Jr., a graduate of Shaw
University, has been appointed
executive minister. South
Region of the American
Baptist Churches.
Rev. Peters now serves as
the national director of the
New Community Program of
the Fund of Renewal (FOR).
He will assume the position
Sept. 1.
In 1971, the predominantly
white American Baptist
Churches in the USA ana the
predominantly black Pro
gressive National Baptist Con
vention. Inc., jointly undertook
a capital funds campaign to
raise $7.5 million in (listribut-
able monies to deal with
REV BENJAMIN CHAVIS
Chavis Writes
Open Letter
THE DIALECTICS OF INCARCERATION
A factual account of how North Corolino Prison
outhorities unjustly punish prisoners who dare to speak
out for their rights —
I write this account in hopes thot the citizens of North
Corolino, whose tax dollors pay for the odministrotion of
one of the lorgest per copifo prison systems in the United
States, will become more aware of unusually cruel ond
inhumane treotment of the state s 13,000 prisoners.
Today, in nearly oil other stores, moi.y prisoners ore
organizing themselves into inmote councils which moke
ond develop various constructive, creative and
rehabilitative programs often by working in mutuol
cooperation with concerned prison administrators. In
some states, inmate inspired programs hove octuolly
reduced the rote of recidivism which could ultimotley
reduce overoll crime.
However, the N. C. Deportment of Correction takes o
different ottitude towards inmate councils. In a recent
report of the North Carolina Advisory Committee to ihe
United Stotes Commission on civil rights concerning the
status of the stote prison system, it wos revealed thot
Ralph Edwards, Director of the Division of Prisons, is
opposed to the concept of inmote councils. To quote the
report: "Edwards further stated that he would neither
encourage, nor give his personal approval to inmote
councils in the North Corolino Division of Prisons until
someone designed o structure thot would ensure efficient
operation of such bodies."
The problem is thot on each occasion when a group of
inmates ottempts to organize and design on efficient
structure for the estoblishment of on inmote council, most
N. C. prison outhorities unjustly and severely punish the
prisoners.
For example, here at Coledonio Prison, o majority of the
approximately 600 prisoners ore now expressing o
collective concern for official recognition of o proposed
(See REV CHAVIS. P 2)
NAACP Asks ‘Hunk’
Of ‘Rock’ At Session
president Gerald Ford was a specific educational and com-
(See MINISTER. P 2)
(See FIRE VICTIMS. P.
Appreciation
Cheek U'oii By
Mrs. L, Hunter
This week’s Appreciation
Money goe.s to Mrs. Lila M.
Hunter of 225 Freeman St. Mrs.
Hunter found her name listed
in the Apex Distributors' ad on
(he back page of the front
section. Mrs. Hunter reported
lo The CAROLINIAN office
and then to Apex Distributors
where she picked up her $10
Appreciation Money check.
Also included in ads on the
Appreciation Money Page
were the names of Andrew
Jones, 2900 Frinks St. and
Joseph H. Bailey, 1401 Christ
mas Court. Jones' name was in
the Heilig-Levine ad. while
Bailey's name was in the
Hudson Belk ad. But neither
reported to The CAROLINIAN
to be identified for the checks.
(See APPRECIATION. P, 2)
surprise to voters and political
observers alike.
Carter defeated former Ala
bama Gov. George Wallace by
about 53 percent of (he votes in
a stale which Wallace carried
in (he 1972 Democratic pri
mary. And on the Republican
side. Reagan defeated Ford
after Ford had won 5 straight
victories in other state primar-
munity needs of Asian-Ameri-
(See SHAW GRAD. P. 2)
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. - A
policy statement, adopted at
the closing session of the 24(h
annual convention of the
Southeast Region of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple on March 20. motivated by
the keynote speech of Kelly M.
Alexander, president. N.C.
State Conference of Branch.-s
and vice chairman of the
National Board, who made it
distinctively clear that blacks
would no longer be contented
with a piece of the "rock." but
should work to get a “hunk” of
it.
The decision was reached as
the result of the theme of the
meet. "We hold these truths to
(See NAACP ASKS. P. 2»
46 Groups Seek Arrests
In Attempted Dynamiting
Several other candidates
were on Ihe Democratic ballot,
though most black voters seem
to have been going for Carter
as the choice among the
Democrats. As one black
woman voter in Ralejgh’s
Precinct 26 said. “I had to
come out and make sure
Wallace didn’t win."
The two contestants seem to
indicate (wo distinct directions
in North Carolina politics. On
(he Democratic side. Carter’s
win over the much more
conservative Wallace indicates
a shift in conservative views,
according to some observers.
While on the Republican side,
the Reagan defeat over Ford
LOUlbVILLE. Ky. — Repre
sentatives of 46 community
groups, churches and trade
unions gathered on the steps of
(he County Courthouse here
last Friday to demand arrests
in the attempted dvnamiting of
the home of a black family in a
suburb of Louisville.
The gathering, called as a
news conference, came as
anger mounted over attacks on
Mr. and Mrs. Alfis Coleman
and their four children. The
Colemans narrowly escaped
injury on (he evening of March
2 when dynamite placed in
their driveway exploded and
shattered windows in their
house.
• See CARTER AND, P.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VISITS COLLEGE CAMPUS HERE — Georgian Jimmy Carter is
greeted by student body leaders of predominantly black St. Augustine’s College upon his arrival
March >9 to address students. Carter was on the 2nd of a 2-day swing through the state In
preparation (or the >farch 23 Presidential primary. (UPl).
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
HEALTH FOODS STORE
It was the fourth physical
attack on the Colemans since
an extensive busing program
started last September in the
schools of Louisville and
surrounding Jefferson County.
The Coleman family, who had
lived in the white suburb of
Okolona without problems
since 1974. became a target in
the upsurge of racist terror
around (he school desegrega
tion issue. Massive anti-busing
demonstrations and Ku Klux
Klan rallies have been held a
few blocks from tneir home,
"We are outraged that little
has been done to protect the
Colemans or to apprehend
those responsible for the
violence." said Hon Long, of
Four Quarters Enterprise, a
cultural center in the. black
community, who presided at
the news conference.
“When one person is jeopar
dized. no one is free. " said
Lyman Johnson, president of
the Louisville NAACP. "Let’s
learn the lessons of history.
The German people let one
group of people be terrorized,
and Hitler destroyed freedom
and democracy for evoryonp."
The Rt. Rev G. Gresham
Marmion. retired bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Ken
tucky. told the news media;
"As a Christian and as an
American. I hang my head in
shame that something like this
dynamiting can happen in my
community.”
Those gathered lor the news
conference included leaders in
both the black and white
communities. After statements
on the Courthouse steps, the
group visited County Judge
Todd Hollenbach to demand a
more vigorous investigation
and arrests. Sponsoring groups
have also suggested that
oeople in other parts of the
country protest to Hollenbach
and other public officials here.
Mr. Coleman and his wife
and children were present for
the news conference and the
meeting with Judge Hollen-
bach. Coleman said he was
encouraged by the growing
support and added: "If people
donM wake up. Iheir house may
be next."
Prior to the dynamiting, a
brick was thrown through the
Coleman’s window, an explo
sive was pitched into the
backyard, and Mr. Coleman’s
car was shot up. No one has
been arrested for any of the
attacks.
The courage of the Coleman
family in refusing to retreat or
move in the face of the violence
was praised in a statement by
Jackie Garrett, chairperson of
Progress In Education, a
pro-desegregation coalition
formed last fall to support
school desegregation.
"Unfortunutely,” she said,
"most of our public officials
have not been equally courage-
i.Sei* 46 GROUPS. P. 2)