Seek Answers To Aid Local Blacks DO rou THINK A JUNIOR CITIZINS ASSOCIATION. SIMILAR TO THI JATCH'S DUESTIDN* NIEOED AT THIS TIME? i^LEASE GIVE VIEW, WHETHER IN THE Wk^RIIWn. AFFIRMATIVE OR NEGATIVE. unequivocobk y^s. The Raleigh oreo generoiiy locks on 'li{gressive. informotive, ond spiriled forum or orgo^iiotion which deols primorily with block business development ond community improvement in general. By this I mean the orgonizotions ovoiioble to us ore primorily oriented to politicol or civil rights motters. It is just os importont, if not more importont, to hove o forum ovoiioble to discuss ways of copitolizing on our communities' political gains ond resources, os well os the woys these developments moy oid our communities generolly, that is. economically, socioHy ond poiiticolK In the Roleigh area, there is definitely o growing desire by. should I soy. young block people to orgonize just such o forum or ossociotion I om not quite sure if this would be in line precisely with the Joycees' octiviiies. but it would certomly be o little closer thon what we have now. Let me be cleorly understood. I om in no woy degrading our loco! community ossociotions or clubs. I om on octive member in most, if not all of these ossociotions ond I think the purposes they serve ore served well But, os I hove stated earlier, these orgonizotions ore not designed solely to concentrote on such things os jobs ond employment conditions, business and business development, or community improvement, here. I moke speciol reference to locol . Community Development Funds. Comprehensive Employment ond t Training Act Funds (CETA), OMBE funds, and SBA funds ^ These ore oil federoi programs in which millions * and 1 meon F millions - of dollars ore ovoiioble and eor-morked for our L community. But. os o people, os o community, we hove no woy of « knowing just what is going on. Along these lines, I think we certainly could benefit from such on ossociotion to take 0 look ot 0 work toward ocquiring few of these things, to exomine os a collective citizens' body, to those things which do not study how we con better toke odvontoge of what is ovoiioble, ond seem to be ot our disposol. BRUCE LIGHTNER Hooks Replaces Wilkins As Executive Director NEW YORK - The national Association for the Advance ment of Colored People iNAACPi has designated Ben jamin L Honks to replace retiring Roy Wilkins as execu tive director of the civil rights organization. Honk.s, named earlier this week, is a director on the Federal Communications Commission, a Memphis min ister and columnist In a recent interview, he noted that his identification with the civil d rights movement extends back ^ over a long period of time Hooks has also told reporters -that he did not seek the job. Y though he is ready to take over the leadership of the organiza tion. The NAACP. founded in the early iMO's by a coalition of blacks and whites, has bear-^ '«t on \..v .V when the state pi' •H'nl-'' ed Sandra Lavonne Ganher of Charlotte who teslifit'd against McCombs and his alleged drug trafficking. She said that McCombs was a visitor at a Charlotte high school and it was there that she met him. The girl said she and (wo other girls, Tilda Gale Wilson and Laverne Morgan, had been in McC'ombs' apartment and witnessed the sale of drugs by McCombs. Describing the raid, she said, “I heard a knock but I didn't pay any attention to the knock." Miss Gaither said. "John had left the room " "I heard several voices say police officers." she added. "I seen him (McCombs» go to the window and I seen him pick up the gun." she said. She said she headed for a closet and heard (he pistol fire as she was going into it with Miss Morgan immediately See PROSECUTION. P 2' Oiiiy 1 Student Chosen National Black News Service WASHINGTON. D C. - First Ll. Maceo Braxton of Los Angeles, a 1974 West Point graduate, is the only black among 32 students adrnitted to tiie federal government’s first medical college - the military University of Health Sciences - sclieduted in open Monday at Waller Reed HospiUi nere. Blacks comprise 15 percent of tlie nation's armed services. Tlie Army has llic iiighest black percentage - 21 percent. Officials of the new medical college say thai efforts will be increased to reach more minority applicants for tlie next class of i>8 students next fall "I'm disappointed." Dr. An tliony R. Curreri. president of tlie college, said "We'd ex pected more minority persons to Ih* eligible. We re going In do mucii more to increase appli cations from all groups." "Still. I lioneslly tliink we did as well as one could expect Willi a class of only 32. and 43 black applicants nut of a total of 1.70(1 " Tiial argument was dis- ci'uiiii*d by noted black psy- Ciiiiilrisi. Dr. Alvin Pou.ssainl. 'See ONLY 1. P 2) IIK. KOO.N'TZ SPEAKS — Dr. Elizabeth Koooti will tpeak on the "Rule of Women in Higher Education" at the East Raleigh V\\C.\. Hargett St., at 7:3e p.m. Nov. 18. The program it sponsored by the Y-Wives Club of the East Raleigh branch. Dr. Kooniz will stress the role of women’s organizations and \oiunlrer agencies in making opportunilies available for women. .She is assistant superintendent of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Prior to assuming her present position, she was special assistant for coordination for nutrition programs In the -North Carolina Department of Human Resources. She Is a graduate of l.islngslone College and Atlanta University. Dr. Kouniz has received numerous awards, citations for service and honorary degrees. The public is invited to attend, a spokesperson said. Recent Deaths Get Blames For Fear An official of Norlh Caro- '“■••cmaled during the firal lina's swine flu program said ^ that blacks are not being explained that deal^ were • ^ not caused by the vaccine, but from other ailments. Lewis said that for the past week, figures received from local health departments showed that innoculations have See BLACKS. P 2i immunized at mass innocula- lion centers and tiiat a special mass media campaign, possi bly using appeals from well- known blacks, may get under way soon. Frank L Lewis, epidemio logist for (he North Carolina Division of Health Services, attributes black disinterest largely to widespread publicity given the deaths of persons Court Delays Decision Tlie Federal District Court for tiie Eastern District of North Carolina, heard argu ments Friday on behalf of the Wilmington Ten Civil Rights case. Magistrate Logan Howell deferred any decision to allow counsel for the state opportun ity to study a preliminary statement submitted by the Wilmington Ten's counsel. James E. Ferguson. II of Ciiarlotte. Tiie Wilmington Ten are 9 young black men and a white woman convicted of unlawful burning and conspiracy to assault emergency personnel during racial disturtences in Wilmington in 1972. Counsel lias been furnished by the United Church of Christ. In Friday's hearing, counsel for Uie Wilmington Ten re quested the court accept an amended petition to an original habeas corpus petitiem nled wilii Uie Federal Court in Januarv of this vear. The original petition allied that tlie defendents’ constitutional rigiiu had been violated. That petition has yet to be heard. The amended petition alleges as new grounds for relief that (he Stale had knowingly induc ed and used perjurious testi mony in securing the convic tions of the Wilmington Ten. Tiie amended petition said that the slate's chief witness. Allen Hull, had lied under tutelage of the prosecutor when he testi fied. In a sworn statement filed as part of the amendment to the habeas corpus petition. Hall said the things lie testified to at their trial "are not true..' Defense counsel argued that tiie amendment to the petition asking for a new trial be heard in tlie Federal District Court railier llian in the Stale Court. Under North Carolina law, perjury is not grounds for a new trial. All appeals to the original 'See WILMINGTON. P. 2) BARRED SECOND TIME — Plains, Ga. — Rev Clcnnen King of Albany. Ga.. talks to newsmen Sunday oatside Ibe Plains Baptist Church, where President-elect Jimmy Cnrter te a member. King was barred from worship services (or the second consecutive Snoday by the church deacons. Carter’s presa secretary said that the President-elecl is "cancemed and disturbed" by the coatla- uiag barring of blacks from his home Baptist church. (L'PD J. Hunt Begins Search A memorandum and quaa- ticMuiire has been sent to Hunt “keys" following the Nov. 2 landslide Democratic party victory as a part of a “Ulenl search" to fill poliUcal Jobs in state government and appoint ive positions on boarcts and commissions. The question- aire was sent by Joe Grimsley, Hunt’s campaign director. “Keys" are the top county suffers that participated in the Hunt campaim. The ouestionalre requests biogramical daU concerning education, past employment, (See J HUNT. P. 2) N A AC P Ge ts Ne wThnist NEW YORK - The National Association for the Advance ment of Colored Peuple (NAACP) best known for its work in the courts, education, housing and labor, has recent ly entered another area of viul concern — the economic areriii. in recognition of suggested needs to formulate programs and strategies to meet the increasingly complex econom ic issues confronting blacks, the NAACP's Naticmal Eco nomic Development Commit tee. under the leadership of its head, Charles H. Smith, re cently concluded a special meeting of its economic ad visors in New York. The Committee's national economic advisors attending the conference all stressed the importance of the NAACP becoming actively involved in the economic issues which affect blacks. Advisors mak ing presenUtions at the meet ing included Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise, Ollen B. Hinnant, assistant general counsel. Prudential tSee NAAUP. P 2) CUtTOaS NOTE: TV* rxaOLINIAN li< rciamlM K» »aVllc«ll*« •! TV Crime •*■1. fallaalv ■ Ir*m*a4*«« nwNVr et V'MUl iBvIrk* aV itlepbaiM ealla tar Ik r*lM)aicm*at. At vat Uaus la iv arlflsai fillar'i aai* rtcar4iB« tka calama. prraaaa wlUilaf la keep tketa aamr* aal al TV Olaie Beal ihaaM aa( Vrame tavaliek •Mk Ike Ealelfk PaUc* Oepanaieirt. Ikcrek^ (elilaa tk^ aaaata aa iV pallet bletter fraoi akkfc aU af IV mattrial far TV Crime Beal If gatkeraS. M.\N .\RRESTEDK()R V.XNDAl.ISM Ella Adam.s. 49. of 1416 Oakumid Ave . was tlie victim of an alleged vandalism. According to police reports, damage to Adam's property was i*s(imated al $25 and I'ccurri'd at 9 a m. Saturday. Eric Di'von Adams of (he same address v.as arrested and charged vviili damage to properly. I See CRIME BE.-\T. P 3' MAYORS ASK PRESIDENT-EI.EtT TO AID INNER CITY — Newark. N.J. — .Mayor Ki-iiiielh Gibson < Hi. president of the I'.S. Conference of Mayom. speaks al news coiifereme Moniljy al the close of the M>ayor« emergency policy meeting. I.A>oklngon are. Detroit Mayor ( oh-iiian \ ouna (l.i. New York .Mayor .Abraham Keame (front-center), and Syracuse. N.V. .Mayor I.ee .Mesuniit-i I rear-center). Conference of 100 mayors asked Jimmy Carter to "set a national lone of citiui-in for urban \inerica" by providing federal money (or inner city jobs. (1 Uli Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK Ml RK.VY’S ni.VR.MACY "\\c ()|)erale For Vour Convenience, Not Ours." PRINCIPALS AT CIH'RCII MEET — These arc penmu who are principals at the Mth annual session of the Central N.C. Conference, AME Zion Church, meeting at Rush Metropolitan Church here. I.efi (o right are: Dr. David Bradley, editor. Quarterly Review and historian of the deiioiiiiiiation; Kishop U. .\. Hilliard, presiding prelate and Dr. Harold Clement, secretary of Overseas Mission. They are looking at the history of the AME Zion Church, produced by Dr. Kradlev. Much of the information in the book will be dtscussed at the 7-day meet.