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Oh Mayor’s Recall Many Leaders Are Cool Boyd if irir-k ★★★★ ¥¥¥¥ Pushes Against Feds Forward Chuvis Mukcs Charges Stanlarl Pt,. 06., ilewa.a.er • , LffloiorLUo^i-y Many black leaders in the community are reluctant to respond to a petition initiated by former councilman Michael ^yd, to recall Raleigh Mayor Jyles J. Co^itts. The petition's attack on the mayor alleges that he has failed to fulfill the primary responsibilities and duties of his office by neglecting to take measures which provide and assure the citizens of Raleigh with essential city services, according to a recent interview with Boyd. Coggins could not be reached Tuesday for com- ment before press time. Black leaders said that they were not familiar with the Aecifics of the petition and that they would refrain from cementing at this time. M'larence Lightner, former mayor of Ralei^, said that he loo lacked the indepth details of the petition and said that "If there is any legal ground” for this petition to recall the mayor, then it is justified. "But if not.” then the petition is unfair and opposes a man” for expressing ms own opinions which is his right.” Some black civic and political leaders, to include Councilman William Knight, declined comment on the recall effort. Boyd said the petition was based on the mayor’s "abuse of city employees, sanitation em ployees, and violation of ^tion 2-9B and 2-13 of the City Code which strictly outlines procedures and conducts of officials "while in office. He also mentioned Section 2-23, which is in conjuncUtm with another section of the city code which involves "referring I* S ' to a committee.” yd said, "He abused his ” of citizens and council in^bers and has "insulted am de^aded them” publicly. He said. "He has availed himself highly in unethical conduct.” Boyd said, "More job action by employee groups" are "reasonably neceasary steps to improve the morale and maintenance of adequate dty services, but It appMrs that the reverse has happened.” As an example, he saio that In tbs sanitation department, tbere is "still the same discrimination” and that the mayor "wants to continue citizens at low pay Males.” Another factor that Bovd introduced for recall of the mayor is that "too many assertations and altegatioos 1^ private citizens that, once giving his word, he (Cogdns) doesn't keep it.” Bovd said that "from a news article, Coggin's has denied having met with the sanitation workers and he was observed.” j^d also said. "Some black leaders are helping in this pet^ion...they have picked then up” and have expressed that they would sui^rt the effort. Columnist and political ob server James Shepard said in a recent interview, "It’s a publicity stunt on the part of Mr. Mike Boyd.” Ann Mitchell, Raleigh coor dinator of the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repress ion, said, "Although I’m not registered to vote in this area, I am for recalling the mayor.” She said, "Ihe mayor extends to the city council” and the two together "are not really serv ing the people of Raleigh and are not really concom^ with addressing the problems of Raleigh citizens” and most of all the "black community.” She said that it was not specifically the mayor, Jyles J. Coggins, but the entire council. She said, "The fair housing ordinance would not have had to ^ through the struggle it did snnshould have been passed a long time ago.” Ms. Mitchell said, "As an offiAl in office, there is a conflict of interests in him being mayor because I've heard that he owns a lot of real (See RECALL. P. 2) THE BAROLWiAN VOL. 35 NO. 52 North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N.C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1976 SINGLE COPY 20c In Mecklenburg CROSS-BURNIHGS BEGIN GAIN VALUABLE ‘HME FOR NAACP — Oxford. Mias. — NAACP attorwey Robert Marphy and national board chairman Margaret Busb WUsoo gained a little asore time Oct. 8 in their bid to stave off all.Z million Mbtlssippi Court judgment agafaistthe nation’s oldest civil rights iwganiution. In background are NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins and general counsel Nathaniel Jones. (UPI) •k ir -k 'fr k k k k k k k k By 19 Groups Death Penalty Fought Youths Escape Shooting Supreme Court Refuses Cases National Black News Service CHARLOTTE — A new wave of arson and cross-burning has broken out over the last two weeks in eastern Mecklenburg County, including northeast Charlotte. At least two serious incidents have occurred that are remini- Ment of the Ku Klux Klan-style activities of six years ago. Three black teenagers, ages 11 through IS, were riding their bicycles in the Pence Rd. area near Northeast Junior Hi^ S^ool in northeastern Meck lenburg County. A carload ol white men passed them and someone shouted "niggers,” then went a few hundrM yards bes^Nid them and stopped. The youths hSid the car turned around and again approached the teenagers. When the car came close, a passenger fired a shotgun, hitting one of the teenagers in the shoulder. Several other shots were reportedly fired, but the boys, who had jumped off their bikes and run into the woods after the initial shot, had gotten out of BLACK SUFFRACAN — DctraH. Mick. - Tkc Rev. H. Irvta| range ol the ^Hel^ Mayioo. ol DelroH (R). became Ike llrit black Eplaco|>al , *”'5? SvHragan Blahop in Michigan during ordinatloe ceremonlei Saturday at Cathedral Church ol SI. Paul in Delroll. Blihop John [he ®ronx, N.Y lo Thurm^ AUin <L). pmiding bUhop ol the Epiacopol Church, performed in Charlotlea Midun^ —T K, . . ** 1-0 a i_ Btftf-iinn ahniit 10 monuis ear- B special coovcotioo of the diocese. May 22. (UPI) Lies Told Court, Key Witness Says MCCAIN — Wilmington 10 defendant Rev. Benjamin (Tha- vis. Jr., charged Tuesday that federal involvement in the 1972 prosecution of the Wilmington 10 by the State of North Qirolina has been demonstrat ed concretely in papers filed by Chief C^ounsel for the Wilming ton 10, James Ferguson, of Chambers, Stein. Ferguson and Becton. Two motions were filed by Ferguson, one to amend a wnt of habeas corpus under consi deration by the court, and a motion for bail for the defend ants while the court ponders the case that began in 1971. Bail was denied earlier this year by U S. Magistrate Logan Howell because, in his deter mination. the defendants did not show a likelihood that their case would win on appeal. (See CHAVIS. P 2» lier. had some nighttime visitors to her duplex apart ment in the mostly white Midwood section of town. Two crosses were burned on her lawn and the word "Move” was painted in 4-foot high letters on her sidewalk. Two nights later. Mrs. Johnson reported to police that her apartment had been broken into and vandal ized. A police spokesperson said that there was no connec tion between the break-in and the cross burning. Earlier this year, a black church, located in the same area as the Pence Rd. harassments. burned to the ground. Police said that arson was the cause. This was the oldest black-owned church in (See TERROR. P. 2) BEGINS NEW TRIAL ~ Former middleweight flghtar RuMn "Harrlcane” Carter Is slopped by reporters on his way into Hodioa County Court house in Jersey City, N.J. Tuesday. Carter has been granted a retrial by the state supreme court for a IMS triple murder for which Carter had been serving three life sen tences. Jury selection in the new trial began Tuesday. (UPI) Coalition Planning Education GREENSBORO - A coali tion of 19 organizations has developed a plan to stop re-enactment of the death penalty in North Carolina. The plan includes a massive education program which Har riott Quin. co<hairperson of the coalition, said "will be focused more on the public and more on the l^islature.” It (See COALITION. P. 2) WASHINGTON — The Su preme Court, on its opening day, refused to review a number of civil rights cases involving sex diMrimination, racial bias in housing and racial and religious discri mination by a private club, and offered no explanation for its reasons. Two Justices - Thurgood Marshall, the high court's only black, and William J. Brennan, Jr., dissented. Justice Potter Stewart joined in one dissent. In one case, Solicitor General Robert H. Bork sought review of whether a Federal District Court may award compensa tory money damages to vic tims of unlawful diMrimina- Ron in a law suit brought by the Attomev General pursuant to Shaw U. Counters Romero 'ntomas Km, head of lU- versity Relations at Shaw Universily. released a state ment last week in re^nnat to a former student’s accusations of mismanagement. "Shaw Univerei^ aoninisters graitt funds according to rules and regulations promulgated by the granting agencies. All reports regarding expenditure of grant nmds are made to these agencies in accordance with grant requirements. Shaw University recc^nizes the ri^ts of students to free speech." Ihe former Shaw University student, Pedro Romero, at tacked the University in a recent press conference and charged that the University had misused granted funds. Romero did not present evi dence siDporting his charges. He said that the federal AiDP (Advanced Institutional De velopment Porgram) funds were not used properly. According to reports, Ro mero’s status at the University ‘<5*^ SHAW P sing Ac The Federal District Court had awarded this kind of damages, but the aroeals court reversed the awara. Bork, in his request for the hi^ court's review had noted: "Im task of eliminating discrimination from this nation's housiu has not been a simple one. Ims Is not the time to give the Con gressional grants of enforce ment authority to achieve that purpose their narrowest possi ble reading.” The second case in which Justice Marshall and Brennan dissented involved a law suit brought against the BiMsyne Bay Yacht Club, in Florida, by a black and a Jew, alleging ill^al racial and religious dis crimination. With the excep tion of an hohbrary memb^- ship for the Commodore of a Jamaican yacht Club, the club has never had a black or Jewish member. Score Studies Made National Black News Service WASHINGTON - Black students enroll in private schools in the District of Columbia have outscored their counterparts who attend public schools here. Only 13 students in Washington's public Mhools have qualified as semi-ftnalists in his year's Natitmal Achieve ment Scholarship Prt^am for Outstanding Negro Sudenta. However, there were 31 seminfinallsta from the city’s private schools which have a black enrollment of less than 10 percent of the public Mhools. Among the public schools, one had the moat semifinalists, four. Another had three. Six other public high schools had one semifinalist each. Among the private schools, one which has only 15 blacks in its senior class, had five black semi-finalists, the most in one Mhool in the city. Two other (See SCORES. P. » Minority Contracts Increasing In OMBE WASHINGTON Clieitis Mrvked by private, non-profit minority butiiUts devlopment firms funded by the U.S. Commerct OeportmeM's Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) received procurement controcts totoling more than S4S6 million in flscal yeor 1976, cemj^red to $433 million in 1975, OMBE hos announced. OMBE director Alex Armendoris said that the $466 million in controcts to minority owned firms is exclusive of contracts generoted by the Notioool Minority Purchosing Council (NMPC), o privott sector involving corporote purchases. The NMPC 1976 report hos not been relMsed, but estimates of more than $700 million in minority contracts hove been protected for the yeor Other OMBE doto showed thot OMBE-funded oreonizotions serviced o total of 43,800 minority clients - o 120 percent achievement over FY 1976 projKted goals. About 5,689 financial pockoges prepored with assistance from OMBE-funded organizations were opproved, Armendoris soid, with o totol dollar volume of $329 million. The finonciol pockoges included: 4,301 loons to minority businessmen valued ot $231.4 million; 265 lines of credit with o dollar volume of $14.4 million; B47 bonds valued at $68.8 million; 11 latters of credit valued at $600,000; 151 grants valued ot $3 million; 56 equity investments valued ot $4.7 million; and 56 other financiol pockoges were approved, valued at $6.2 million. NAACP Fundraising Needs Are Entering A New Phase NEW YORK - Having won a temporary injunction in a Federal District Court post poning the bond deadline on a $1.25 million judgment, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple (NAACP) launched a new phase in its funding drive to raise $2 million before the end of the year. NAACP board chairman Margaret Bush Wilson and administrator Gloster B. Cur rent. said that there is a real danger that the public will be misled into believing that the crisis is over. But it is rtot, they said. They emphasized that Fed eral Judge Orma R. Smith, of the Northern District of Miss issippi, merely stopped the clock by issuing a 10-day restraining order a^inst the posting of the $1.6 million bond and other legal action in slate courts. Based on the NAACP's calculations, the deadline for (See NAACP. P 2) Two Readers Win Week’s Aitpreciation Two readers won the Appre ciation Money for last week and received a $10.00 check each after reporting to The CAROUNIAN that they had found their names located on the Appreciation Money Pa^ Harry Dunston, of 3108 Wilder St., found his name in the Kar ’ Parts advertisement and Ms. Ozella L. Meeks, of SIO-E S. ' Boundan’ St., found her name . (See APPRECIATION. P 2) Concord Residents See R. Long Case’s ‘Errore’ CONCORD — Several C<m- cord residents held a press conference Friday in the small mill town to bring to public attention several events which occurred during the Ronnie Long trial which the residents say were not reported by white-owned news media dur ing and after the trial. Long was convicted Oct. 1 in fcorroK’s NOTE: Tw cABOLiNUN ii> 8 trial by an all-white jury and ^ 9*^. sentenced to two life sentences C rMMi mrpSMF c«u« far for rape and burglary of a rcta^airi^. *v*»* wealthy white widow, Sarah M. BosI. whose husband was ■ treasurer of Cannon Mills before his retirement in 1964. After the announcement of the verdict, blacks and a few whites in the courtroom shout ed. "No” simultaneously, and chanted "Free Ronnie Long.” ...... tM al TXr crtp»a Basi barainr latalta4 aith Ikt BalaM Pattaa Orpartinrat. Ibarrfe; faiUau iXw aa Ik* pallca klaUOT (raM »ikk aU al tSa mairHal far TXa Crtea Baal ta falk«ra4. MW ST.4HBK[) Issue Walker Hill, 25. of 117 E. Lee St., was the alleged victim of a slabbing incident about 9 15 pm. Friday al his residence, according to Ral eigh police reports. According to the reports, he was slabb^ with a knife He was allegedly treated al a local m^icai facility for stab wounds in the left side of his chest. He was released after treatment. No arrests were made in connec tion with the alleged incident, according to polir» reports. (See CRIME BEAT. P. 3) The courtroom was later cleared by police and "at leaat 15 pMple were injured from beatings by nightsticks and from being pushed down steps,” according to Wallace Andrews, spt^esperson for the group of Concord residents that has become known as the Ronnie Limg Defense Commit tee. Andrews said that mace was used to disperse the crowd of women and children. Andrews said that a Concord public Mhool teacher, James Fleming, was beaten, "requir ing 7 stitches when he was attacked for speaking up and asking the police not to attack a young man during a march following the trial” on Satur day, Oct. 2. The panel of Long Defense Committee members included Linda Smith, sister of Ronnie Long; Daisy Crawford and Wanda Witherspoon, spokes persons for the defense com mittee and Dr. James Grant of the Charlotte 3. The panel said that Cannon Mills had 7 employees on the jury panel who were being paid by the nation’s number two textile giant while on jury duty. The panel members said that such pay was unusual. The Long Defense Committee said they also objected to “arbitrarily removing all ‘imdesireahlcs’ from the jury list” by the sheriff. The list contained 4 blacks out of more than 70 prospective jurors. When asked why the panel (bee LONG. P. 2) ”'1LL NOT ACCEPT PROPOSAL — Three InflaeBtial Natienalbt leaders, left to right: Robert Mogabe. Secretary Geaeral ef the Zimbabwe African National Union; George Slludlka, Deput> Secretary for Information of the African National Union; and Joshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwe African People’s Union, held a newt conference in Dar es Salaam. Tanzania Oct. 9. Nkomo and Mugabe said they will not accept Rhodesia's while minority government as a separate delegation to a proposed Geneva conference on the future of Rhodesia. (I'PI) the future of Rhodesiai (UPI) Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK .MOKDI-CAl I LOKIST td (JU T SHIP "We Have The Best Floral and Gift Ideas” Nation*s Welfare Rolls Lower WASHINGTON — The notion's welfore rolls dropped for the second month in o row in Moy, marking the first two-month decline since June-July 1975, Bobert Fulton, Admrnistrotor of the Deportment of Health, Education ond Welfare's Social and Rehobilitotion Services (SRS), has reported. May is the latest month for which the notional welfore statistics ore ovoilobte. Recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) * the major cash ossistance welfore program - numbered 11,313,016 in Moy, 111,179 or 1.0 percent less than in April, Fulton pointed out. He said that poyments to AFDC recipients also dropped for the second month in a row, amounting to $822,486,006 in May, a decline of $4.1 million from April and $60.6 million from Morch. According to Fulton, the decline was due to a complex of foctors: port seosonol, port a reflection of the improving economy; and in port due to the intensive compoign to eliminate ineligibles from the rolls. In the 28 states with programs oiding families with the unemployed father (AFDC-UF), 149,385 families with 655,054 recipients were assisted in Mov, 2.8 percent fewer than in April, but 28 percent more than a yeor ogo, portly becouse ot increased unemployment os well os the porticipotion of three oilditionat stotes (Kentucky. Montano, and Connecticut) in the program, Fulton said.
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