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In Celebrated Charlotte Case rto C6., lTews.«,.sr I<3 yw Loulsvl^^l.'jr at Three Freed On Bonds s ¥ *¥¥¥ ★★★★ Says He’s Out-Wallacin^ Wallace WilkinsBlasts Ford VOL. 35 NO, 37 .Vorf/i Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 1, 1976 SINGLE COPY 20c READY FOR CELEBRATIONS — M>. Teresa Lucat oT Fayetteville Stale Lniveniily is ready for FSl ’t centennial year (founded in 1877) and the nation’s Bicentennial year on the 4th of July. FSl' is the second-oldest state supported institution of higher Irarnlng in North Carolina. (FSl Photo bv John Henderson). Central Prison Officials Rights Groups Hit Justice Dept. Bias PROBE INMATE’S DEATH ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ National Black News Service faces Receiving Stolen Goods Rap “HURRICANE" CARTER. DAUGHTER l.EAVE COURT — Paterson. N. J. — Ruben “Hurricane" Carter leaves the Passaic Countv Courthouse in Paterson. N. J. with his daughter June Zt. during a recess in a hearing held is to determine if his bail should be increased after the director of bis defense committee. Carolyn Kelley, claimed that Carter assaulted her. Carter Is free on ball pending a retrial for a 1M« triple murder In Paterson. (UPI). WASHINGTON - The Uad ership Conference for Civil Rights Under Law and the National Organiaation for Wo men have charged (hat minori ties and women have been excluded from employment and promotion opportunities at the Justice Department That charge was made m recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee’s Civil and Constitutional Rights Sub committee The subcommittee, chaired by Rep Don Edwards (D- Calif ). was presented data which showed (hat minority and female employees were severely underrepresented in the policy making position, with only 11 of over 3ou of these jobs held by minorities and 4 by women. "Hie department which monitors and enforces the American l^al system, should have minority and female representation in key positions so that Ita overall policies and legislative recommendations will reflect their input • but it does not," said Joseph L. Rauh, Jr^ general oouniMl for the Leadership Conference. The National Organization for Women testified that the failure to recruit, hire and promote minorilieeand women has also adversely impacts on the department's external en forcement efforts Lynne Dar cy. NOW s Employment Task Force coordinator, pointed to the failure of the agency to adequately address the subject of sex discrimination in con sent decrees with the trucking and steel industries and with several police and fire depart ments. Rep Edwards said that because of these defkiences, his subcommittee would con tinue the examination of DOJ’s affirmative action program Lightner Denies Charge Mystery jp' "^Head Of This IS definitely not the first time that the. Justice Depart ment has been accused of discrimination against minori ties and women Several times during the past three years, this newspaper has carried accounts of discrimination against blacks and women. In last week's edition, Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D- Caiif ). chairman of the House .Subcommittee on Equal Op portunities. and a black, made public a study done for the , Shadows I Fatality BY PAT BRYANT MARINE SEOEANT FOUND INNOCENT - San Diego — 8. committee by the Library of bgi. Harold L. Bronson, found Congress, estimating the loss innocent June 28 of all charges to (he nation of $55.8 million of the potential Gross National Product (GNP) due to bias in employment, much of it in the Justice Department, it is believed against him in connection with the pugil stick death of a Marine recruit. Is shown In this photo taken the day his general court-martial began. June 14. (UPI). Widower Of Slain Woman^ Cops Are Still Baffled BY WILI.IK WHITE. Staff Writer Albert Foster is still trying to 0 figure out whv one of his close neighbors allegedly shot his y 75-year-old wife to death about 6:15 a.m. June 12. Roy Lee McLaughlin, of 904 S. Blount St., has b^n charged has not seen McLaughlin since the suspect was arrested, though their back yards join. He said he thought he knew McLaughlin well. "I thou^t I di± but now, 1 don’t know." roster, 72, was cutting grass with a swing blade at the time with manslaughter. thoJgh r'7'« oiaoe ai me iime Raletsh oolirp aro atilt nni the interview. He said he has Sikirl^tS’uUhe da’afls Of Z McLaughlin for about 4 case. Bond was originally set at $10,000. but after a hearing in the case, it was reduced to $1,000. McLaughlin, a custod ian at the Raleigh Municipal Building, was released Friday. He is scheduled to be back in court on July 27. BUI PhiUips, administrative assistant to the Wake County District Attorney, said Mc Laughlin was charged with manslaughter because the ma gistrate before whom the evidence was taken was not convinced that the case war ranted murder charges. Phillips said, however, that the case is still being investi gated by the Raleigh Police y Department. He said any citizen who has any informa tion which may affect the case should turn it over to the police 4 department or the Wake ^County District Attorney's office. He said additional informa tion in reference to the case could result in a change in the status of the charges in either direction. In an interview in his front yard this week. Foster said he orSyears. He said that was the time he and his wife moved into the nearby Blount St. home. He noted that before the death of his wife, he would see Mc Laughlin “every day." He said the two families had not had any disagreements - "Not a bit with either one of them," Foster said in reference to McLau^lin and his wife. Raleigh police announced several days before the arrest that they had a suspect in the case. They have not said, however, what evidence ted to the arrest of McLaughlin, a 50- year-old employee of the city for the past 4 years. Dr. Paige Hudson. North Carolina Medical Exa miner. said Tuesday that “chemical or drug poison- ins" was the orobable Muse of the death of inmate william McLaughlin who died in the Central Prison HospiUl on June 18lh. Mct^ughlin was tranferr^ to Central Prison Hospital for treatment the day of his death from the Gotland County Prison unit at Wagram. Hudson said that neither the source of the toxic substance nor the substance itself had been identified. He said that an investigation was continuing into the cause of death of the inmate that had been well prior to June 13th when prison officials said he began to complain about stomach pains. There is much conflicting information about how long McLaughlin was sick before his death. Jerry Jacobs, who bunked beside the dead in- (See INMATE’S DEATH. P QIC Is Accused NAACP DIRECTOR CITES PRIORITIES ~ Memphis. Tenn. — NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins said here Sunday that the focus of the organiiaiion's annual meeting, now underway, would be the priorities of ghetto life, em ployment, education and hoDsing. (UPI). Position On Busing Rapped Members* Campaign Planned . 2) (See WIDOWER. P. 2) HEW To Speed Up Inquiries On Bias WASHINGTON. D.C. - The Department of Health. Educa tion and Welfare has announc ed a new procedure that it said would allow it to investigate promptly all complaints of discrimination in elementary and secondary schools. The procedure is an exten sion of an agreement reached recently between the adminis tration and civil rights groups under a court order that sets strict timetables for investi gating complaints of school segregation in 17 southern and border states. Until the agreement was reached. HEW. under the court order, had a maximum of 90 days to investigate all com plaints of racial bias. The agreement calls tor invesliga- The annual Membership Enrollment Campaign of the Bloodworth St. YMCA will be launched Tuesday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m. with a mass meeting of campaign workers and officials, it has been announc ed. Clarence Lightner, former mayor of Raleigh, will discuss .. , ,, . ..... the black agenda findings as tion of all such complaints ^1 developed by the recent state- over the country within 105 wide meeting of black leaders da^and 10 clear up a backlog give implicalions for of^complainls.Add^lothe special agenci« such as the hsi of grievances Hp wiU yMCA. H? will be presenled by mvesligale are complaints of ^ j jume, chairman of the bias based on sex. handicap membership committee with aod national origins. pc Nelson H. Harris, YMCA board chairman, presiding. Ernest Raiford, ”Y’’ executive director, will serve as coordin ator for the drive. Ail neces- NEW YORK, N Y. - NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins last week charged that Presi dent Ford was "out-Wallacing Crov. Wallace" in his repeated attacks on court-ordered bus ing to desegregate public schools. Responding to what he felt were strongly racist state ments by the President's chief council, Philip W. Buchen in the New York Times, Mr. Wilkins said that the President was deliberately undermining civil rights laws and court orders to enforce those laws. In the New York Times story, Mr. Buchen was quoted as saying that Mr. Ford “really dislikes busing as a remedy^’ becau.se he feu that "it is now causing more problems than it solves." Also. Buchen was quoted as saying, that blacks would not Bruce E. Lightner, charged with receiving stolen goods last week, said Wednesday that he is not guilty of the charges and expressed confidence that the courts will "find the truth.” "I am confident that the courts will seek and find the truth. I am not guilty." He said that with Gotfs grace, this "will be proven.” Lightner. executive director of the local Opportunity Indus trialization Center, was charg ed in a June 24 warrant with receiving a National manual cash register which allegedly belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Appleton, of 2307 White Oak Rd. It was valued at $200. The case was investigated by Det. W. R. Miller. Police oniciaLs have declined to discuss the details of the case. Lightner has been ordered to appear in Wake County Dis trict Court July 15. The current charge against Lightner is the latest of a series of charges which have been made against members of the Garence E. Lightner family. (See LIGHTNER. P. 2) Since Freedom's Journal, March 16. 1927, The Black Press of America Has Championed The Rights ol All. Charlotte Citizens Raise Cash For 3 Niiieria To Scrap System CHARLOTTE - Dr. James Earl Grant, a 37-year-oId civil rights worker imprisoned in North Carolina on conspiracy charges, was releas^ lliurs- day, June 27. on a bond raised by local citizens. Two other defendants, jailed on similar charges in 1972, were released earlier. Dr. Charles E. Cobb, execu tive director of the Commissiem for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, called Grant’s release “a great vic tory and a major step toward the eventual freedom of other jailed civil rights workers.” The UCC's Commission for Racial Justice had been hold ing bond funds for T. J Reddy and (!Tiarlie Parker, the other defendants, had bail money been necessary. Grant and his co-workers. Reddy and Parker, were sen tenced to 25 . 20 and 10 years in prison respectively, for their alleged involvement in the burning of the Lazy B riding stables in Charlotte In 1968. The trial which led to the conviction of the defendants, known as the (See THREE FREED. P. 2) Robinson To Remain In City (See BLASTS FORD. P. 2) c9 (See MEMBERS' P. 2) Appreciation fX)Nr IIIII HAPtlN* Feature Has No Winners NMe: TM CAROLINIAN Sickle Cell Program Can’t Fund Patients The Sickle Ceil Syndrome Program con no longer fund medical services for potients with sickle cell disease. This meosure, effective July 1, 1976, is port of statewide cutbacks in spending. Included in the services being eliminated ore inpotient and outpatient hospitalization, physician and dental services, drugs and appliances. The progrom will continue to provide educotion, testing, screening, counseling, referral end follow-up services. These services ore provided by loco! health deportments, funded sickle cell projects ond the Division of Health Services' Regional Office Staff. According to T. B. Haynes, Progrom Manager of the Sickle Cell Syndrome Progrom, efforts ore underway to replace budget reductions with aid from both other state and private ogencies. No one won last week's Appreciation Money. Three rriuBtu lu pasiicMiM •! li* names were listed in adver- ■••e. (aUawlaf ■ ircmrBAau aunbrr at .... BcrMul ••A teiepfcaa* talu lot tisemcnts on the Appreciation R* reiBsutrmrBt. At wai tiaitA la Ike Money Page But the persons usted aa not repon that they ’■* tiiaaiA aai had found their names. Listed wVre M^. MilUe Jkeiion. ofe a wal< M.\N CII.ARGED IN LYE-THROWING A Raleigh woman was reported in satisfactory condi tion Wednesday after she sustained chemical burns in an alleged lye-throwing incident at No. 2 Mecklenburg Ct., (Thavis Heights. Raleigh police charged Lee Vanler Gunter, Jr. with assault with intent to maim after he allegedly beat and threw lye on Ms. Janice Stephenson at the above address. She was said to have sustained chemical burns over extended portions of her body. The incident happened about Brunswick Terrace; James Hinnant, of 2804 Daytona Dr.; and Mrs. Lucy Carson, of 18 Fisher St. They were listed in the Central Park Mobile Home Park advertisement, the Kar Parts, Inc. advertisement, and the New Bern Avenue Exxon Black Judge Seen WASHINGTON — President Ford has nominated Cecil F. Poole, the notion's first block U. S. attorney, to be a U. S. District Court Judge in Californio following the deoth of Judge Oliver J. Carter. Poole, 61, was nominated for o judgeship once before - in the lote 1960s - but his Senate confirmation was blocked by the perenol objections of George Murphy, then o Republican senator from Californio. Poole subse quently quit os U. S. attorney. Poole, who hails from Francisco, has tought low at the University of California since 1970. National Black News Service LAGOS If civilian rule comes to Nigeria in 1979, as promised by the ruling mili tary government, chances are very good that the Parliamen tary system which prevailed here from independence in 1960 to 1966, will be buried into history. What then? A presidential system similar to that of the United States will most proba bly be in operation. A constitutional drafting committee is working on a report that will be presented to the governing military council in ^ptember. That proposal will (hen be submitted to a constitutional assembly, which will then prepare the final document. This much is known, how ever. A president would run on the same ticket with a vice presi(ient, be elected by uni- (See NIGERIA TO. P. 2) Trial Of Cleaver Delayed OAKLAND. Calif. - The trial of FIdridga Cleaver, the former Black Panther leoder, on charges stemming from o shootout with Oakland police men in 1968 has been postponed becouseCleover's ottorney George V. Higgins hod osked Alameda County Superior Court Judge Lionel Wilson to let him withdraw due to "substantial differ ences” over tallies ond defense strategy. "There ore three or four reosons why I'm forced to pull out,” said Higgins. "Moinly. there ore profound differences between my client ond me on how to proceed with the cose.” DR. P. R. ROBINSON Dr. F^ezell R. Robinson, president of St. Augustine’s College, has made up nis mind to remain at the helm of the Episcopatian-supporied predo minantly black college, it was announced Monday. Several prominent colleges and universities in the south had leporledly attempted to obtain the services of the personable St. Augustine's Gillege alumnus. Chairman of the executive (See DR. ROBINSON. P. 2) (See APPRECIATION. P 2) Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK 11:30 Sunday nigf fW CRIME BEAT. P. HKILKJ-LKVINE OF RALKIGII "For Quality Furniture At Low Cost" 3) , SENTENCE FOUR ALLEGED MERCENARIES TO DEATH — Uunds. Angola — A panel of five i judges pastes a sentence of death for 4 mercenaries • one American Vietnam War veteran and three ’ Britons - and a pristm sentence ranging from 1$ to 30 years in duration for the other nine here June 28. All were convicted on charges of hiring themselves out to fight for money in Africa. The presiding judge (C) charged the mercenaries were guilty of a common crime equal to murder and ' accused the 13 of parilcpating In a conspiracy by wearing uniforms and carrying weapons after entering Angola Illegally. (UPI).
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