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10 .■'w ivy: LocUmJL^^ White North Carolina Minister Allegedly Admits Advising Wife To Kill I M it it it it ¥¥¥¥ Halifax “Unjustly Assigned To Prison” Preacher Chavis Files Complaint On Stand Says He VOL. 35 NO an Morth Carolina*s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 29. 1976 Halifax •— "Did you not say to your wife at the police stotion, ‘you did the right thine, you should Wants NC£s.'.r&\.'i tist minister Harvey Du* SINGLE COPY 20c Hearing Woman Held For Murder After Man CONVICTED N.C. .MCRDERER TLRNS SELF IN - NorlolS, Va. — William Baines, alias Curtis Hairston. i4. a coavicted murderer, who escaped from a North Carolina prison in ISM, turned himself in to Norfolk police Sunday night saying, *’he was tired of being afraid every time 1 saw a red light or beard a siren." He bad been living in Norfolk for 4 years. lUPI) FATALLY STABBED Probe Of Metealfe Halted National Black News Service CHICAGO - The Justice Department has announced that it will not seek an indictment against black Chi cago Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe, who has been under investigation for alleged tax evasion in 1969. * The statute of limitations for ^bringing charges for tax ^offenses in that year expired April 15, the department said. Ihe GS-year-oId 3-term De mocrat was quoted as saying he was "grateful to God that justice had been done I have never broken the public trust." Samuel K Skinner, U S attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said he decided to make the unusual announcement that the investi gation had been closed "to offset any possible adverse effect publicity about the investigation " Metcalfe was under investi gation for activities while he was chairman of the Chicago City Council’s Committee on (See METCALFE. P. 2) Named Interim President Hill To Head Hampton No Bail Allowed " In Death REV CLYDE JOHNSON Shaw U, Grad Is Dedicator Woman Wins Sex Bias Suit 'National Black News Service WASHINGTON - Noting that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was intended to prohibit "all discrimination affecting employment which is based on sender." a federal judge ruled here recently that the statute protects workers against sexual harrassment by their supervisors. In what is believed by authorities to be the first successful use of the Act to protest sexual advances by a supervisor. U S. District Judge Charles R. Richey held that Diane R. Williams, a former Justice Department emoiovee. had been illegally fired tor rnusing sexual advances by her supervisor. Ms. W'illiams, a 26-year-old black woman, had worked as a GS-B public information specialist In the Department's Community Re lations Service in 1972. Ms. Williams' initial charge of sex discrimination had been rejected by the Civil Service Commission (CSCi. However, ^tier attorney. Michael D. ^ Hausfeld, won a U S. District Court order remanding the case to CSC fur a new ruling. Subsequent to a second hearing, the CSC held that Ms. Williams "was discriminated against because of sex in the acts of her immediate supervi- (See SEX BIAS. P 2> DURHAM — Persons who have clung to the old saying that a pro^et is without honor in his own country, should have been in Durham Sunday at $ p.m., when a native son. l^v. Clyde Johnson, who pastors First Baptist Church, Wters- burg, Va., returned to Com munity Baptist Church, 4821 Barbee Rd.. and preached the dedicatorial sermon for the new $200,000.00 building. The fact that he brought m more than 200 persons from Petersburg to help him dedicate the new building was acclaimed as a great feature. The youthful minister was bom near the site of the building and attended the church from early childhood and preached his "trial" sermon there, while attending Shaw University. He chose for a subject. The Ideal Church. He had the audience to understand that neither the building, the ^uipment nor the land were indestructible and said unless God built the edifice in their hearts, all was in vain. The Rev. E. T. Thompson is the pastor and expressed many thanks to what he called his son in the ministry and to the members of Rev. Johnson's church for having come to be with him and to show the esteem in which they hold him. The church is located in a growing section of Durham and has facilities for a 7-day-a- week operation. Rev. Johnson (See SHAW GRAD P 2) WACP Meets The monthly meeting of the Raleigh-Apex Chapter of the NAACP will be held Sunday, May 2. at RICH Park in Method at 4 p.m. Executive board will meet at 3. Members are urged to be present. All interested persons are invited to attend. The president is the Rev. Dr. C W Ward. A Wake Conty woman is being held in the Wake County jail on a murder charge in connection with* the stabbing death of a (iarner man early Sunday morning. According to Wake County Sheriff reports, the man. Melvin Virgle. 50. of Ri. i. Gamer, was all^edly stabbed by Ms. Georgia Lacey McNeil after he allegedly hit her with a chair. The alleged incident look place at a residence on White Oak Road, near Gamer, (See MAN FATALLY. P. 2> Alumnus Named VISITS AFRICAN NATIONS^ Naksm, Kenya — As UA SeereUry af (Mate Heary Kkalager aad a group of MaMi warriors watch. Keayaa Presldeot Jmbo Kenyatta uaes bis famau flywhlsk to salute Kenvan-American unity with tbe raUying caU of "Haranbee America and Kenya." here April 25. Kissinger was here as part of bts 7-nauoa Alrtcaa tour. (UPI) To Post HAMPTON. Va. - The Hampton Institute Board of Trustees Friday named Dr. Carl M. Hill to be interim president df the college. Hill, who recently retired as presi dent of Kentucky State Univer sity in Frankfort, will succeed Dr. Roy D. Hudson on July 1. James J. Henderson, board chairman, said in his an nouncement, We are indeed fortunate to secure the services of such a distinguished educa tor and administrator as Dr. Hill. ITie board feels that he will provide progressive lead ership at Hampton Institute as the trustees continue their search and deliberations on a permanent successor to Dr. Hudson." Hill, a native of Norfolk and an alumnus of Hampton, said in accepting the appointment, (See ALUMNUS. P. 2) Hiih Court Rules On Public Housing Natienel lUek News Service WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled by an 8*0 vote, that Federal courts con order the erection of low-income public housing for minorities in white suburbs when federal officiois hove been found guilty of roc'iot bias in city housing. The landmork ruling involves o Chicogo public housing cose, where the Department of Housing and Urbon Development (HUD) had been found to be o guilty partner in fostering segregated public housing. The high court’s ruling soys that the federol government must use its powers to end housing segregation if the government was the primary cause or helped cause thot segregation. The ruling also comes at a time when presidential condidates find themselves in a dialogue about housing segregation. Democratic Presidential contender Jimmy Carter touched off national debate when he said that he would mointoin the "ethnic purity" of some neighborhoods. Corter loter apologized for the statement. He said thot while he would enforce Federol open housing lows, he did not believe in using the power of the Government to force intrusion on ethnic neighborhoods in urbon oreas. (See HIGH COURT. P. 2) Families Visit In Prison Officials of the North Corolino CMrectional Center for Women nosteo un open house of port of the prison April 24. but only port of the prison was open for tour of family ond visitors of the overcrowded prison. Civil Rights Group Plans 67th Confab DR. CARL M. HILL HUD-Census Survey Continues In City About 400 housing units in the Roleigh metropolitan oreo will be visited this month by Bureou of the Census interviewers, occoiding to Joseph R. Norwood, Director of the Bureau's Regionol Office in Charlotte. The survey begon in April. Each month some 400 different housing units ore visited, and when it is completed in March, 1977 a total of 5,000 housing units will have been canvassed. Raleigh is one of the 20 Standord Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA's) in this yeor's survey. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urbon Development (HUD) planned the Purvey jointly. It is being conducted in response to o need for frequent and up-tondote (joto on housing, one of the indicators of the Nation's ernnomic condition. Joint HUD-Census reports will be issued about nine months after completion of the interviews. For SMSA's for which o 15,000 unit sample was collected, doto will be shown for tne total 5MbA os well as tor the central city or cities ond the area outsld*. For SMSA's with thf smaller somple. data will be shown only for the SMSA os a whole. All informotion obtoined by the Census Bureau is confidentiol by law and con be used only to compile stotisticol totols in which no person, household, or housing unit con be identified. NEW YORK. N Y. - The 67th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple will be held in Mem^is, Tenn.. from June 28 through July 2. With the Bicentennial theme. Soul Of '76, the convention will deal with all areas of the association's program as (hey relate to nearly 1.800 branches and youth councils in all 50 states. Workshops on housing, legal affairs, employment, veterans affairs, tabor, Vacation, urban programs, revenue sharing, membership, communications and political action will be held during the 5-dav period The meetings will be held at the Everett R rook Conven- (See 67th CONFAB. P 2) Appreciation Visitors at the unit were not ollowed to the work centers such as the prison laundry or the crowded dormitories thot ore complained of by women at the facility as being too crowded. Some dormitory rooms hove been said by inmates and officials to hove more thon 50 inmates with no space for personal items ond little, if any, privacy. Most of the families ot the open house seemed to enjoy the event. Music was provided by o Roleigh group. Black Genesis, managed by Earl Burnett of Durham. Members of the group were Kenneth Bullock on leod guitar, Kenny Cobb on bongos, Luther Conrad on drums, Chorles Dunn on bass guitar and Donold Hodge on the orgon. Check Claimed By One Here Mrs. Mary A. Gales, of 11 Iredell Terrace, was the only winner of this week’s Appre ciation Money after she reported to The CAROLINIAN office that she had found her name in the Carolina Biblical Gardens advertisement on the Appreciation Money Page. The page is found on the back of the CSee APPRECIATION. P. 2) Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK JOHNSON-LA.MBK CO. "For 'The Best Sporting Goods E^quipment" BY PAT BKVANT MCCAIN — The Reverend Ben Chavis has filed a grievance with the N. C. Inmates Grievance Com* pree. Dupree's response was a hesitant, "I said that." The testimony was neara April 28th in an iDoeal oT rulings of two Superior Court JudgM on April 20, in which Dupree’s wife, Mrs. Sandra Dupree, was . • _ .u * u_ mm. ouiiurci *»«ip iTiiMion charpng tlMt he w.thout oond for the has been unjustly as term of Superior sign^ to the etato pneon Court in Halifax cSunty. sanatorium, at McCain. „„ Dupree, a 34 yearK)Id The charges filed with tbe white woman, is charg^ commission must be invesllga- with the murder of Harry ted and findings made known Lee Dickena. a 21*year*<^ within 15 days-Fred Morrison, black man of Scotland executive director of the Neck. An autopsy report commission, said that an investigation has not been completed and a report will be given to the full commission May 7. The Rev. Leon While, director of the North Carolina* Virginia Commiasion for Rac ial Justice, is a commission member. (See ADMITS. P. 2) Specific charges made by " at he is Chavis are that he is confined in a iKison with inmates who "have tuberculosis, or are mentally unstable." Chavis' grievance alleges that only 2 types of felons are at McCain: "Those that are transient and those who are permanently assigned to McCain. Transient felons (who are awaiting classification) only stay at McCain a week or two before being transferred to a regular prison unit. The almost total number of permanently as signed felons at McCain are aidt” Chavis was moved from Caledonia Prison farm about 5 weeks ago. Walter Kautsky, assistant director of prisons, said in a telephone interview that Chavis had been assigned to McCain "to balance the demands for protection that have been levied against the department by various parties outside and inside North Carolina." Kautsky said that Chavis was also assigned to McCain lo that he could continue his studies at Howard University and work on hia Official Of NAACP Accuses NEW YORK. N Y. - The Black Panther civil suit, now recessed in Chicago, and filed by heirs of Fred Hampton against Chicago police offle- lals. demonstrated that, during the 60s and even later, the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion sought to destroy black groups of all political shadings, according to Nathaniel R. Jones, general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. which is pressing the suit. Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Black Panther leaden, were shot to death in a Chicago apartment by policemen in toe early morning hours on E>ec. 4. 1969. Wounded also in the raid were 4 other occupants of the apartment. Rather than a routine search for weapons. Fred Hampton ------rkC • court case. "This was virtually impossible at the majority of our other medium units,he said. Chavis said (hat he was transferred from Caledonia Prison farm because of "racist paranoia that runs rampant in the N.C Department of Cwrectiona, The department and mark Clark were murder ed in a vicious and cakubtad FBI program agai.nat black (M-ganizations which, in this instance, was carried out by the Chicago police. Mr Jones declared. "Watergate and subsequent (See Oi- i' ItlAL OF, p. 2> (See CHAVIS FILES. P. 2) Cut in Stamps Approved uiM't Hou: tkc ramouMtAi MmiM lu pMcmIm *4 1W r M. ■ ••• SBS ■ •rlgiaal tSIlar * eala rtfarSlat tall National Black News Service WASHINGTON - The Sen ate voted 52-22 last week to slash 1.5 million persons from the program and to toughen eligibility rules But money saved from the cut would be added to benefits of the most needy families. The measure was sent to the House where the Agriculture Committee has already begun work on a similar bill. The senate had voted earlier to adopt substitute language - sponsored by Bob Dole (k-Kan.i, George McGovern (D-S.D.) and Agriculture Com mittee chairman Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.) • that softened new restrictions im posed by the committee (See STAMP CUT. P. 2) Ml H TS« CHmc SmI b«rMir lat»irM *Hk i*t bMck t Deponmtem. t«it^ tiX m M t*« M«Um. trmm vUek aX < mticrial ht Tk« CMm ■•ai b gMS INTENT TO KILL CHARG FILED Earnest Morgan, of 1 Wrentree Cir., was charj with assault with a dea< weapon with the intent to kil connection with an alle^ April 20 incident, acoHxiing Raleigh police reports, i cording to (he reports, Mor{ allegedly attacked Ms. B trice Davis. 54, of B Wrentree Cir., in the 1300 bl( of Wrentree and cut her cm i neck and face with a knife. 1 incident was investigated Officer W. Barnes. She w treated and released medical officials. (See CRIME BEAT. P. S] Many inmates shared lunches brought by parents ond friends and spread blankets on the grounds for 0 grond festival. Many inmates said chicken and coke from home wos o change from the prison cofeteria. The cofeterio was not open for tour eighter. Sup^intendent Louis Powell carried members of the press on a tour of the open house, but would not ollow the press to tour the entire facility. Representotives of the African News Service of Durhom, said thot they were not allowed to tour os were other press. The group is black and has done expensive investigotion and reporting on the conditions in the prison. Powell denied their charge and soid thot they were allowed to tour the focility. *PAT UTANT DESCRIBES ACTS OF GUNMAN — Grimn. Ga. ~ Dekree Janda ihows how .Motet Peartoo. Jr. held a gan to her Lead April 25. at he transported her and her two teenage daughter! in their family car after he had rammed their car and taken them hoitage. Her husband (L) was wounded and left for dead when Pearson took the car. Pearton began a shooting tpree April 24 la Jacksonville. Fla., and when it ended by police forcing the ear with the hostages off the road when Pearson killed himaelf. The episode took the lives of three people and left )4 others i (t'PI)
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