3-wn-^ Pto ’• i Seek Ansvoers To Aid Local Blacks AiirAvinu l>0 TOU ^HIMK A JUNIOI CITIZINS ASSOCIATION. SIMIIAI TO THI iATCU'S UUESTIDN* NIIDIO AT THISTIMI? HIAH CIVi VIIW, WHITHII IN THI WbUliwn. AfflMIATlVI 01 NICATIVi. ■r JOE COODSON ^ L«e«l MardiMt Yes, I think a junior citizens association is definitely needed locally. A junior citizens ossociotioa could serve mony functions tiraf would moke our communities much better pieces to live. I feel that such on orponization could be very helpful in preporing young block men ond women to porticipote fully in all things that hove a direct affect on their lives. It could provide for political education so thot we would be prepared and porticipote os city councilmen; so thot we would recognize the importonce of school boords, planning boords, and housing boords,- so that we would understand and affect the positions that pditicions toke through the power of the bollot. A junior citizens association could help develop or>d support much needed culturoi programs in our community. Such an orgonizotion could help promote oil forms of fine arts and encourage young people to be performers as well ts observers. A junior citizens associotion could begin to provide a leadership role in setting on otmosphere of brotherhood inour our community. Maybe such on orgonizotion could hove some positive effect on the negotive octions of blocks who constantly fight eoch other. There hos always been o need for block orgonizotions to come together os o united front to help solve the mony problems thot plague our communities. Maybe o junior citizens ossociotion is an orgonizotion thot could puli the many special interest groups together to hondle the problems ot hand. I think it is "high time" that young blocks become involved with the "nuts ond bolts" of fostering block togetherness, block pride, ond most of oil, block power. i . ^ JOE GOOOSON ilKI.SMAN TK(»PliY WINNER — Tony Dorselt of PitUburgh, the I97S ruebing champion and only (-lillege player ever to gain more than S.OOO yardi in hit career, cietchen the lleitnian Trophy Tuesday after winning the coveted award. tl'PI' JDifferent Reason Given ^or Firing Of R. Ingle Ronald Ingle, the fired director of the North Carolina Human Relations Commission .said when he w-as fired Nov. 19, that his firing came at the heels of his releasing information to members of the press that files that may have exonerated the Wilmington 10 were missing from the Human Relations Commissions office. Bill Deal, assistant secretary of the North Carolina Depart ment of Administration said the firing resulted from Ingle's being a poor administrator. On Nov. 10. Ingle fired Wesley Allen, director of the Co-Ed project of the N.C. Human Relations Commission. Allen appealed his firing to Deal who said that he upheld the firing, primarily because the correct procedure was used by Ingle. Deal said on two previous occasions Ingle had come to him informing him that Allen was going to be fired but did not follow the correct procedures established in the piersonnel handbook. Ingle could not be reached for comment on Deal’s assertion. Allen, a young black man was the third project director of Co-Ed projwl to be asked to leave the position since Ingle has been top administrator of the Human Relations Commis sion. E)eal said there "were strong For Some Offenders COUNCIL SEEKS DEATH ★ ★★★★ Defendant Claims ★ ★ ★ ★ Attn*y Incompetent VOL. 36 NO. 7 North Carolina'» Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1976 SINGLE COPY 20c Durham NAACP Says MAN IS BEATEN NOT SATISFIED WITH RE- SPONSE TO FLV SHOTS — Dr. Delano Meriwether, di rector of tbe National Influenia Inmunizalion Program, gets point across during November 30 news conference in Jackson. MUs. where he discussed the Swine Flu Program. Meri wether. a native of Nashville. Tenn. said. "I am not satisfied with the participation in the Swine Flu Program. tCPIi. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ w Trooper Alliance Sets Meet Repression Man, Wife '.■cnlfl \ K'Tl.M OK 1.0VKKS' QL ARKEL- BysUoder l.ois Hicks seeks asst'ilancr an she tries to comfort Daryl Braun. tS. in tbe lobby of liiN hdiiie in Krmikly n, N .\ . The youth was stabbed in thr chest by an unidcntilicd girl in an apparent lovers* quarrel .Nov. 20. He Is in vriliial (iiiidition in Kings County Hospital. (I'PIl questions of how well the program was being adminis tered Whether it was on Mr. Alki. : }tart or Mr. Ingle’s part, the fact that they went IhroiAgh three directors, you had to Question what Mr Ingle was doing " Ingle's earlier account to the press concerning his firing followed statements to the press confirming that files appeared to have been missing from the Human Relations Commission which a former staffer said could have exoner ated the Wilmington 10 if the files had been presented at the trial of the young defendants in 1972 in Burgaw County. Johnson, a Favetteville min- (See DIFFERENT. P, 2) Commission Resolves Many Cases National Black News Service WASHINGTON - The Equal E m p loyment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) resolved more than 20.000 charges during the agency's Transi tional Quarter (TQ) Project • luiy, August, September • and increased its production more than 30 percent over the first 12 months of fiscal year 1976, According to Ethel ^nt Walsh, acting chairman of the com mission. Ms Walsh said that in August, the agency announced "accelerated procedures" for processing some 12,000 charges tiled before July 1,1973. Of that amount, in round numbers; 9..VI0 were resolved and are included in the 20,000, Ihree- menth total. 1,000 have been investigated and decided and are awaiting conciliation or closure; 1.400 cannot be pro cessed under accelerated pro cedures. The commission reported that in terms of monetary benefits, more than $262 million in benefits were a ward(>d to aggrieved persons during fiscal year 1976 (15 months i comoared to SlOS-plus '.See GROl P. p, 2) DURHAM — Hi^way Pa trolman W. D. SiaTlings, who patrols in the Durham area, is again charged by the NAACP with brutally beating a black driver, for what is Sieged to have been resisted arrest. George Baker and hu wife related the story to the Durham Branch of (he NAACP last week. They both slated that Stallings stopped a car. driven bv Baker, on Clun Boulevard. They allege that he told Baker he was exceeding the sp^ limit and asked to see his driver's license. Baker said that he told Stallings that he was not speeding, but only following traffic He is report ed as having told Baker. "I had to teat a nigger down last week for the same reason." Baker is said to have continued to tell him that he was not speeding With this continuation. Stallings is al- (See BEAT. P 2i Hunt Seeks Blacks A black member of Gover nor-elect James Hunt's transi tion team sard on last week that Hunt needs qualified blacks to fill lop management posts in the new administration. Hunt’s administration begins Jc 8. John Edwards, a member of the transition (earn which is seeking minority applicants, said blacks have applied for jobs, boards and commissions, '13U( the problem is getting blacks who are qualified for top secretarial posts and high level positions in that they are already in good jobs and are afraid to leave them for a political appointment." Ed- (See HUNT. P. 2) "FREE AT LAST" — Cbkafo^ UaUeMifM wmmb. who was brU hokisgr with several others by two gaamea. Is escorted by policeman alter her release Tuesday. Tbe two saspccts. foUed la ’ innr liuldup siiempt of a rarrewry exchaage. fled hito a aearby sp^irinieot and held keveral people boatage before sarreBderbig lu authurlties. . the last hurviving defendant In tbe "ScotUboro Boys" rape case, looks at the paiduu be received in Montgomery Nov. 29. "1 don't hate iiubi^i fur ubat lbe> did to me," said Norris, who served IS vears 111 prison belure jumping paiule in IMS. He was accompanied at the news cuiifereuce by N.AACP General Counsel Nathaniel Jones (( > aud his lawyer Fred Grav. (DPI)