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FIRST IN FIGHT — New York — First presidential candidate to make an appearance in Harlem In
8 years. Jimmy Carter gets warm greeting Tuesday at rally outside State office building. Rally
preceded address at Democratic National Convention dinner at N.Y. Hilton Hotel. (UPI)
JScottsboro
FigureSeeks
Full Pardon
National Black News Service
MONTGOMERY. Ala. -
Clarence Norris, one of the 8
“.Scottsboro Boys" • victims of
racial injustice in the South of
the 1930s • is pressing for a full
pardon. And he's getting
support from Alabama’s attor
ney general Bill Baxley, who
maintains that Norris "never
should have been charged" in
the first place. Mayor Abra
ham Beame of New York and
Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.)
have joined Baxley in urging
Norris' pardon.
But Norman F. Ussery.
chairman of Alabama’s Par
dons and Parole Board, said
i that Norris, who has lived as a
^fugitive since 1946. will have to
turn himself in first.
^ Norris, now 65. has been
yJiving in New York City for the
last 23 years, according to
attorneys seeking the full
pardon. They said he is
married ^nd has two teenage
daughters.
Norris, 19 at the time, was
sentenced with 7 other black
youths in 1931 to death in the
electric chair for allegedly
raping two white women on a
train traveling through North
Alabama. The 8 were called the
"Scottsboro Boys" for the
north Alabama town where
they were tried.
t'sserv said recently that he
wp^ld not consider a pardon for
Norris "as long as he remains
a fugitive from justice” He
added that if Norris returned to
Alabama, he would face jail
without Ixind before his case
could be considered.
In a letter Aug. 5 to Ussery,
Atty. Gen. Baxley noted the
"Overwhelming evidence of
his (Norris') innocence in
recommending a "full and
complete pardon so that in
iSee PARDON. P 2)
Wilmington Ten
Release Sought
EDITOR'S NOTE: After the
key witness (Allen Hall) in the
Wilmington Ten cate changed
hla testimony recently, the
telegram below was sent to the
Governor and the Attorney
Gttieral of North Carolina by
the Rev. Dr. Charles E. Cobb,
executive director. Commla*
sion for Racial Justice. United
Churcfa of Christ.
"You already know that the
sole witness against the Wil
mington Ten has now admitted
^t under pressure from the
icutor and police, he lied,
e did not see them (Wilming-
Ten) commit any criminal
Vi- He was coached by the
prosecutor to lie to the jury in
th^ trial.
"You also know that the
attorney for the Wilmington
BULLETIN
Stewart
Wins, Loses
The CAROLINIAN tried in
vain to reach the defense
attorneys in the case of the
State vs John Stewart, to
ascertain the status of the
motkm to set aside the guilty
verdict, returned against the
president of the Mutual Build
ing and Lean Association,
located in Durham.
The defendant was found not
guilty on two counts of the four
brought against him for the
falsification and conspiracy to
defraud the government.
The jury is alleged to have
^taken ten ballots and came up
' with two guilty and two not
guilty verdicts. Dec. 6lh is the
^te set lor sentencing Stewart
^fld others (all white) In a
building "fiH" that Involved
several of the building loan
officials and the fast-buying
and selling of several pieces of
property, built and negotiated
with the firms, by two
brothers. C. Paul Roberts and
Bobby Roberts.
Ten has a habeas corpus
proceeding in Federal District
Court ana that be has now
asked for their immediate
release on bail. The United
Diurch of Christ has supported
the Wilmington Ten from the
beginning, convinced that they
are innocent victims of a
conspiracy. We continue that
(S^ TEN. P, 2)
Spaulding
Addresses
Convention
WILMINGTON - Asa T,
Spaulding, the only black
running for statewide office,
said black voters provided the
margin of victory for his
incumbent opponent in 1972,
who has done "little to repay
the favor” He made the
statement before the state
NAACP convention here last
week.
Spaulding, the Republican
nominee for secretary of stale,
noted that Secretary of State
Thad Eure, 76, who has been in
office 40 years, only has two
black employees in his office,
one a clerk and the other a
messenger.
"We know he has an
affirmative action program,
but where is his affirmative
action? asked Spaulding, the
first black to win a major party
statewide nomination in the
South since Reconstruction.
"I think its way p>ast time we
slop giving pmple like Thad
Eure automatic support when
we vote the traditionally
straight party ticket," he saicl.
"Our votes are worth more
than that,” added the 42-year-
old Durham businessman.
"Once we make It know laud
and clear that black voters, in
1976, refuse to be taken for
granted, both parties will be
much more res^nsive to black
people," he said.
Ray Seeks Review
In King Case
WASHINGTON, O.C. -- Jomes Earl Roy, convicted killer of
civil rights leoder Martin Luther King, Jr., recently osked
the Supreme Court to review his cose, claiming he was "set
up to take the rap for a crime he didn’t commit."
In his appeol to the high court, Roy said he was "fromed by
the FBI ond local police, and then coerced by his own
ottorney to pleod guilty against his wilt."
Roy's new attorney, James H. Lesor, of Woshington, wrote
in osking the high court to review Roy's conviction, "The
charge is that those who did kill Or. King ore still at targe,
. protected in part by the unwillingess of th« courts to face
these unpleosont facts."
His petition colled Roy's cose one "of notionol importance,
^both politicolly and legity."
^ Shortly before the 94th Congress adjourned, the House set
up 0 special committee to investigate the ossossinotions of
King and President John F. Kennedy.
King wos killed by a rifle shot as U stood on a motel
balcony in Mem in 1966.
Roy was orrested in London ond brought bock to the United
States to stood triol. He pleaded guilty.
NOMINATED — Umtata.
South Africa — The ruling
Tranekei National Indepen
dence Party Tuesday nomin
ated Paramount Chief Botha
Sigeau as the first president of
the Tranekei. which South
.Africa grants Independence
next week. Sigeau is shown
here after the announcement.
The Denmark-sized tribal
homeland in the southeast and
bordering the Indian Ocean Is
the first of some 8 or 9
homelands Pretoria has offer
ed independence uiMler its
^grritorlal apartheid program
that designates 13 percent of
the Republic's land area for
black rule. The remainder to
slay "white" South Africa.
(UPI)
Minority
Leaders
Named
CAMBRIDGE, Moss. — Nine
men and women from
throughout the United States
• minority community and
government officials - re
cently begon o yeor of
research and study ot the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology under the uni
versity's 1976-77 Community
Fellows Progrom. The pur
pose of the 5-yeor-old
program, whi^ is ondutfed
by MIT's Deportment of
Urban Studies and Planning,
is to give the Fellows on
opportunity for study, re
flection and the ocquisition
of new skills ond tools for
greater effectiveness in
their work.
Black
Press
Protests
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In en
banc hearing on Oct. 12lh. the
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) heard the
representative of (he National
Newspaper Publishers
Newspaper Publishers As-
s(Kiation • "'The Black Press of
America" (NNPA), Attorney
T. Carlton Richardson, general
counselor to NNPA. protest the
alleged systematic exclusion of
members of the black press
from news panels on radio and
television.
Richardson claimed that the
black press had a constitution
al right under the First
Amendment to "equal access"
to news sources emanating
from the broadcast media and
that the "fairness doctrine" of
the FCC further forms a
regulatory basis for the claim
of the black press to such
access.
Lawyers Discuss Issues
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OIC Gets Fed. Monies Conflict
THE BAROLINIAN
VOL. 36 NO. 1
North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N.C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1976
SINGLE COPY 20c
In Shooting
ANSWERS ARE SOUGHT
Minority
Officer
Balking
An investigation announced
Sept. 24 by Minority Affairs
Assistant Rev. James Shears
has slipped his memory.
Shears, assistant for the
North Carolina office of Minor
ity Affairs, told a reporter on
Sept. 24 that Wake County
Commissioner Elizabeth Co
field has requested that he
investigate a shooting incident
in which a young Waite County
youth was allegedly shot at 1^
Sgt. “Billy" Daye of the N.C.
Highway Patrol. 'The alleged
shots were fired following a
high-speed automobile chase
from downtown Flaleigh to an
all-black section of suburban
eastern Wake County.
Contacted by a Carolina
Community News Service
(CCNS) reporter this week.
Shears said that he had not
talked with Commissioner Co
field about the matter, nor had
he talked about the matter with
reporters. When asked by
Commissioner Cofield in the
presence of a CCNS reporter
why he had dropped the
investigation, Shears, obvious-
What the next governor of
North Carolina can expect
from the North Carolina
Association of Black Lawyers
and what the group wants from
the next sovernor was discuss
ed Friday at the Hilton Inn in
Raleigh. The candidates were
not present. But John Larkins
represented candidate James
Hunt and Carlton Fellers
represented candidate David
Flaherty. No promises were
made to the lawyers.
At the outset of the meeting
of the Executive Committee.
University of North Carolina
Law Professor Charles Daye.
president of the association,
said that the purpose of the
meeting was to let each of the
candidates know the concerns
of the association's members.
Most of the concerns com
municated to Fellers and
Larkins were related to crim
inal justice.
Appointment of black super
ior court judges and N.C. Court
of Appeals judges when va
cancies arise was a major
thrust of the questioning, which
at times resulted in clashes
between Fellers and Larkins
over the number of patronage
jobs given to blacks by
previous Democratic adminis
trations in contrast to Repub
lican administrations.
Fellers said that appoint
ment of appellate juoges in
North Carolina is strickly
patronage, or return for poli
tical favors. Although seldom
mentioned at the meeting,
most were acutely aware of the
only current black Superior
Court Judge, Ronald Barbee,
who was ai^inted by Gov.
James Holshouser after the
resignation of Judge Samuel
Chess, the first black Superior
Court judge of modem times in
North Carolina. Chess was also
appointed by Holshouser, first
Republican governor since
1897.
Larkins and Fellers at times
(See ISSUES. P. 2)
QIC GRANT SIGNING — Secretary of Commerce EUlot L. Richardson,, center, recently
annoanced the awarding of a 1902,498 grant to Opportnoltles Indastrialliation Centers of America.
Inc. (OIC) of Philadelphia, Penn. Participating In the grant signing along with Secretary
)Viinoj-(|y Butlnek*! Enterprise (OMBF); and Rev. I.eon H. Sullivan, OIC founder and chairman.
Regulations Aim AtUnion
ASHEVILLE - (CCNS) -
An attorney for the state's
Department of Corrections,
James Peeler Smith, said last
week that the new restrictive
regulations being written to
govern inmate organizations is
being done precisely to limit
the effectiveness of (he N.C.
Prisoners Labor Union.
Smith was present at a forum
.sponsored by the Asheville
Chapter of the League of
Women Voters on prison condi
tions, particularly focusing on
the over-crowded situations
that exist in most of the state's
77 prison units. Dr. Richard
Urbanik. director of programs
for the Department of Correc
tions and a panel participant,
was asked why outside organ
izations. such as (he Imke
Fellow and Jaycees, were
having difficulty getting access
((iprisoners. Smith responded.
"The courts had forced us to
admit (his inmate labor un
ion." The union had been "a
disruptive influence which
gives individual inmates pow
er" and "results in the inmates
taking over the prisons." Smith
also said that when the courts
"tell us to do something, then
we have to do it." He further
staled that "the riot in 1968 at
Central Prison, happened be
cause (he inmates had too
much power and tried to take
over the prison svslem" and
said that he sees the presence
of (he union as fostering that
type of atmosphere.
Smith’s presence at the
forum was engendered by the
Prisoners Union law suit
against the Department of
Corrections is presently in
court at the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals level, and
because the department has
been receiving negative press
recently because of allegedly
unconstitutional actions by
department officials against
prisoners. The panel included,
in addition to Urbanik, Attor
ney Russell Brannon, who is
handling the Prisoners Union
lawsuit, and Bobby Forrest, an
inmate who had spent 24 years
at Crauy Prison.
The Prisoners Union has
been engaged in legal action
against the Department of
Corrections in orcfer to gain the
right to organize inside the
(See UNION. P 2)
100 Clerics Back
President G. Ford
omv,
6 Of fa
ly irritated "I ain't k*** »^‘‘'hajd5on were. left. Alex Armendarls, director of the Comiqerce Departmeat’s- Offke of
nothing to about it. I never *—•**• *’ -■ - •' • -
said anything about an inves
tigation." Mrs. Cofield said, "1
cannot understand why Shears
has said this."
A passenger in the car that
was chased for 14 miles on
Sept. 19 said shots fired white
law enforcement officers
chased Ihe driver through a
(See ANSWERS. P. 2)
Projects
Include
NC City
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON. D. C -
Secretary of Commerce EUioi L
Richardson recently announc
ed the awarding of a 1-year
grant totaling $902,498 to the
ODDorlunities Industrialization
Centers of America, Inc. (OIC)
to establish local cooperatives
aimed at providing capital and
training for minority business
owners.
'The funds, from the Com
merce Department’s Office of
Minority Business Enterprise
(OMBE), will go towaril the
formation of (bmmunitv In
vestment Cooperatives (CIO)
in 8 cities-Jacksonville, Fla.;
Rocky Mount; Augusta, Ga.;
Springfield, Ohio; Oklahoma
City, Okla.; Saginaw,
Mich.; Trenton, N.J.; and
Santa Ana. Calif. The CIC's will
offer a vehicle by which com
munity members can invest in
a for-profit investment com
pany to provide "seed money"
for local enterprises.
Each CIO will also provide
training in business manage
ment and ownership for com
munity residents, the Secre
tary’s office said.
11)6 plan also calls for the
establishment of a local branch
of Progress Venture Capital
Corp., an OlC-sponsored min
ority enterprise small business
investment company (MES-
BIC), in each CIC city. This
will allow for reinvestment of
the cooperative funds and for
other funds invested directly in
the MESBIC by local business
es and individuals.
First-year goals for each CIC
city have been set at 500 local
investors in the cooperative. 50
persons (rained at economic
development training centers,
and $150,000 of venture capital
funds for the local branch of
Progress Venture Capital
Corp.
(X)NI
LI III
HAPtl.M'
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON - One hun
dred black clergymen recently
announced the formation of an
Independent Clergy Campaign
Committee to elect President
Crerald Ford.
Rev. E(iward V. Hill of Los
Angeles, Calif., national chair
man of the newly formed group
which held an Executive Com
mittee meeting here, said that
the decision to endorse Ford
and to work on his behalf came
after a number of concerns ami
considerations.
"President Ford look the
nation at its lowest level and
lifted it to a higher plane,"
Rev. Hill said. "He has mov^
with deliberate speed in turn
ing the country around and
headed in the right direction.
He has led us in making
economic progress while keep
ing down inflation. He has
demonstrated a delerminalKn
to keep this country moving
forward during a peace-time
sense of fairness motivates us
to give him our fullest support
to win the election to this nigh
office.
"After a thorough examina
tion of all the speeches td his
oi^ionent and a search of his
performance in the State of
Georgia, both as a State
Senator and former Governor,
neither his promises nor per
formances, to our knowledge,
offers specific detailed alter
natives to what Mr. Ford U
presently doing or has propos
ed. 'ITierefore, we refuse to
substitute the experience of
President for the ar.ibilion of
Jimmy Carter"
Rev. Hill added; "Our organ
ization it independent and
non-partisan. We are seeking
to enlist in our effort. Demo
crats and Independent voters
from among the churches
Butz
Meets
Protest
PfREENVILLE. Mils. —
Former AgrkuHure Secretory
Eerl Butz. in Mistitsippi
recently to compoign for o
congressional condidbte, wot
interrupted at o news
conference by blocks pro
testing the demeoning rociol
slur that led to his
resignotion. "I have mode a
grievous mistoke. I hove
opologized os sincerely os I
know how and 1 hove poid
deorly for it," Butz said. But
obout 25 block protesters in
the bock of the motel
conference room where Butz
held his news conference
interrupted him several
times ond occused him of
racism. Butz repeated his
contention thot his obscene
remork, mode on o plane to
John Dean and printed in on
orticle by Dean in Rolling
Stone mogozine, was not
intended to be derogatory to
blocks but was an ofd phrase
he had used for many yeors.
"I've even used it in joking
about my own people, the
Germon Lutherons," he soid.
Green, James
Win Money
This Week
Roman Green and Milton
James were the two winners
last week's AppreciaUon Mon
ey. They each reported to The
CfAROLINIAN that they found
their names listed in the
advertisements on the Appre-
iiuiii aiiiuiiK me viiurvnes. riatinn Mnnau D.a.
'The names of the other clergy- winnara - if*'
men were not available al “'h received a check
press time. * '
(See APPRECIATION. P. 2)
Appreciotion Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
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BURGLARS ARRESTED
Marcellus Pierce. Jr. of 105
N. East St. and Larry Earl
Pierce of (he same address
were arrested in connection
with an alleged burglary.
Charles Garner. 46. of 1111
Mark Street was the alleged
victim of the reported forcible
entry which occurred at his
residencearound9a.m. Thurs
day. according to reports. The
reported damage was. 2 locks
on doors inside the house and
windows in the bathroom
valued at $20. The alleged
burglary was reported by J. M.
Glnver of 110 S. McDowell St.
(See CRIME BEAT. P. 3)
LAb'l' PANEL— WashtaigtM, D.C— The RaneUsU ck—eR I* peiUsw PresMeRt Ford RRd Jimmy
Carter during their third debate WUIlamsbu-g, Va.. Friday are. left to rl|2it: Robert C. Mayaard.
fditorlat writer and coiamntit for the Wathlngteo Poet: Joseph Kraft, ayiidlcated columnist; and
Jack Nelson. Washington bureau chief of the Lot Angeles Timet. The moderator for the debate, to
be held at the College of William and Mary, will be Barbara Walters, who co-anchors the ABC
Evening Newa. As Is indicated elsewhere In this and other editlooi of The CAROLINIAN, black
leaders have been calling for the inclnsloo of a black joamallst on the debate panels since the
Presidential debates were first organized several months ago. Hie above selection was sent acroat
media wires Tuesday night. (UPI)