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LOSES CONTROL OF CAR: KILLS TWO — Miami. Fla. — Rodwell Gilbert of Bimini geaturei at
he talks with police Friday after losing control of his rented car. Gilbert killed two. one shown in
foreground, and injured three in the mishap. (I'PI)
VOL 36 NO. 33 RALEIGH. N.C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 16, 1977 SINGLE COPY 20c
^Andy Young One Of Great
Death Penalty To Be Sought
Asset89^Jewish Leaders Told
NEW YORK. NY. - “No
body agrees with everything
Andy Young says, but the
overall impact of his state
ments is a great plus for our
country’s standing in the
world."
This was how Allard K.
Lowenstein. U.S. Representa
tive to the United Nations
Human Rights Commission,
described the American Am
bassador to the United Nations
in a speech this week to leaders
of the American Jewish Con
gress in New York.
“Andrew Young is one of
America’s greatest assets,”
Mr. Lwenstein said. “He has
succe^ed where most of his
CAROLINIAN
Wins Sports Award
The Merit Awards Centsit, sponsored by the National
Newspaper Publishers Asseeiatien [NNPA] was anneaneod
this week. The CAROLINIAN placed first for having the best
sports page. Awards will be presented on Friday, June 17,
at the Brechenridge Pavillien Hotel, St. Louis, Me.
Says Welfare Proposals
Tunish Poor People’
NEW YORK. N Y. -
NAACP Administrator Gloster
B. Current said that, ba.sed on
the Carter Administration's
proposals for reforming the
welfare system, it is evident
that “the only improvement we
can expect in assistance to
those who need it most will be
in semantics and political
jargon"
In a 'ugram to Ren BrowTi,
Minority
Facts Told
By VEP
ATLANTA, Ga. — The num
ber of public offices held by
black officials in the South has
increased. 2,857 percent since
#1965, but the 2,129 black seats
held in 1977 represent only 2.6
percent of the total 79,000
^public offices in the region,
According to the Voter Educa
tion Project (VEP).
“The increase from 72 black
elected officials in 1975 to 2,129
t^y, is all the more dramatic
when you realize that we're not
just talking about numbers,"
e»lained Archie E. Allen.
VEP administrative director.
“We're talking about black
mayors, legislators, law en
forcement officials, school
board members and other
officials who are delivering
services and producing crea
tive programs from public
offices never held bv blacks in
this century"
deputy chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee,
Mr. Current said:
‘Thanks lor inviting Asso
ciation representative, Ethel
Purnell, and NAACP Adminis
trator to the welfare reform
workshop held in the White
House Roosevelt Room May 31.
Our reaction to the proposals
(Ml welfare reform as set forth
in the President’s remarks
recently and in Secretary of
HEW, Joseph A. ^lifiuyo's
statement leaves ui waiT of
the social welfare reform
proposals as now put forth.
“Several features as dis
cussed at the Democratic
National Committee Workshop
Confo'ence give the impres
sion that the administration’s
negative cost factor adds up to
predecessors in the past have
failed - to demonstrate to the
world what our country is
really all about. He has made
clear that we are open to new
ideas, that we are flexible in
our approach to other countries
- Including those that may
disagree with us - and that
America is prepared to return
to its traditional commitment
to humam rights after the
dreadful detour of the past
decade."
“There is a growing sense
now in the world that the
United States is ready to take
the risks inherent in breaking
out of the old diplomatic mold
into new ways of dealing with
other states and new solutions
to issues that have divided us
from those countries.
“By this candor and open
ness, Andy Young has told the
world that the Carter Adminis
tration is determined to reduce
human suffering that we have
the courage and wisdom to
open our ranks to all who would
join us. This is no small
achievement.
“Those Americans who
found Daniel Moynihan a
refreshing and unfettered soul
at the UN should be especially
appreciative of Andrew
Young’s plain speaking. ITie
extraordinary effect of his
(See YOUNG IS. P. 2)
2 Held In Slayings
In Support Of Wilmington Ten
*March* On City Talked
Men Say M
They Are IKI ^ T
Innoeent
Woman
To Sign
Currency
SMITHFIELD - The
death penalty may be
exercised in North Carolina
again. Possible victims are
two black men, Henry
Smith, 29, and David
Stewart, 25, both of
Benson. The two men were
charged on June 10 with
the fatal shooting of Dennis
Wilbert Allen, 23, a Four
Oaks policeman and Lin-
wood "Big Boy" Johnson,
49, a trucK driver. Both of
the dead men are white.
Snuth and Stewart have
both maintained their in
nocence to reporters.
•Smith and Stewart ace*^
first men to be charged with a
capital offense xince the North
Carolian General Assembly
reinstated the death penalty in
North Carolina, in effec* as of
June 1, 1977.
Daughter
Of Sec’y
* Employed
nep. Henry McKinley
(Mickey) Michaux, Jr., 46,
D-Durham, is scheduled to
become the first black U.S.
attorney in the south. He
was named Monday by
President Jimmy Carter to
become U.S. Attorney for
the Middle District. There
are not over four black U.S.
attorneys in the country.
“I think the President is
committed to putting qualified
people in positions, whether
they are black or white,"
Michaux said after his ap
pointment. Confirmations of
Michaux and white Raleigh
attorney George M. Anderson
by the U.S. Senate is expected
to be routinely completed in
early July, ^th men were
recommended to the President
by U.S. Sen. Robert B. Morgan,
D-N.C.
The U.S. AUomey’s office
has primary responsibilities
for federal prosecutions and
for defending the U.S. govern
ment in suits against it in the
respective area of the attomev.
A native of Durham, Mich
aux w J8 born Sept. 4, 1930. He
(See MICHAUX. P. 2)
Attorney General Rufus
Edmisten last week an
nounced the appointment
of Ms. Angela D. Lee as an
intern in the Human
Resources Section of the
North Carolina Department
of Justice.
tightened eli|
igibility |
ibution of
proce-
the needy taking away benefits
from areas of higher living
costs such as New York and
giving to other areas now low
on the welfare aid list because
ol state resistance to public
assistance programs.
“Press reports that adminis
tration hopes to save billions in
public assistance by tightening
eligiblity requirements and
making new rules suggest that
(See SAY WELFAKE, P. 2)
Jones Raps
Hi^h Court
Decision
NAACP TO
MEET
The RaUigb-Apei Chapter
af tba National Assaciaiiaa
for the Advaacaaiont af
Calared Roepk [NAACPl
will moot Sunday, Jaae 19,
at 4 p.ai. at RICH Park la
Mathod. Tha Rav. Chariot
W. Ward it praiMont of tho
chapter. Tho public it
faivitod to kttoad.
NEW YORK. N. Y. —
NAACP General Counsel Na
thaniel R. Jones this week
responded to the U. S. Supreme
Court decision in a job
seniority case with the follow
ing statement:
'The United States Supreme
Court's opinion on union
seniority provisions and Title
VII will Mve the effect of
writing off older black work
ers. In effect, the High Court
has limited the 1964 Civil
Rights Act’s application to
future or prospective discrim
ination and not past practices,
(See JONES RAPS. P. 2)
WASHINGTON. D. C. -
President Carter has appointed
Ms. Azie T. Morton of Annan-
dale, Va., to serve as Treasur
er of the United States. Ms.
Morton, a black, has been
serving as staff assistant to the
U. S. House District Commit
tee, and has been involved for
several years In E^ual Em
ployment Opportunity activi
ties.
Meanwhile, the President
named Claud Anderson of
Tallahassee, Fla., to serve as
Federal co-chairman of the
Ckiastal Plains Regional Com
mission. Anderson has been
advisor and education coordi
nator for Florida Gov. Reubin
Askew since 1971 and was
named Black Educator of the
Year by the Black Women’s
Political Caucus in 1975.
I^. Morton was bom Febru
ary 1, 1936 in Dale, Tex., and
received a B. S. from Huston-
TiUotson College in 1956.
From 1958 to 1961, she was an
administrative assistant at the
Texas State AFL-CIO in Aus
tin. She served as an adminis
trative assistant and commun
ity relations specialist for the
President’s Committee on E-
GETTING OUT 'THE VOTE* — Riehmoml. Va. — Surrounded by
^ posterspushinglhr various state and local candidates. Ms. Annie
Both* men cooperated with Uheatbam. of Rkbmond, anxiously looks for would-be voters to
law enforcement otneers and Uterature to at a downtown Richmond
freely gave statemenU of their f,';'*'"?‘ f “"f ‘f™™' «*• "I?!?."* *“ '>*
whereetMutb on the evening of 'h'dinla in the democratic primary. )UPI)
June 2 and the early morning ~
hours of June 3 when Allen was
found dead of multiple bullet
wounds and Johnson was last
seen alive.
Rounded-up from their beds
(Ml Friday monring, June 3, at
^edangeroua end of more than WASHINGTON, D.C. - Golden Frinks, naUonal
coordinator for the ^uthem Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC), said Sunday that he is discussing
with black leaders in North Carolina the feasibility ot a
march from Wilmington to Raleigh in support of the
Wilmington 10 mothers to rat their sons and daughter
pardoned by Gov. James Hunt.
Krinka said Ihat he has also “ ^o''
I " »■ •' ” •'
G. Frinks Heading
[ Marching Factions
50 gunpoints, the two said they
answered law officers' ques
tions nearly all day Friday,
except for a few hours in
mid-day.
The two said they were
Attorney (General Rufus Ed
misten last week announced
10 pt. lead
Ms. Lee graduated from
Harvard University in Missa-
chusetts in 1976 and received
her B. A. degree in philosophy.
While attending Harvard, she
was very active in the drama
E rc^am and served on *he
louse Committee, Prisun
Committee and Consumer Af
fairs (Committee. She will begin
her first year in L.aw School at
the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill this fall.
Ms. Lee is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lee. He
is former Mayor of Chapel Hill.
Mr. Lee is now serving as
Secretary to the North Caro
lina Department of Natural
and Economic Resources.
Atty. Gen. Edmisten stated.
“Angela is a great help to our
Human Resources Section. We
are delighted to have her serve
with us this summer and I
know that she will follow in the
great tradition of her father."
H M. MICHAUX. JR.
Larkins
Talks To
Dentists
(See EDMISTEN. P. 2)
NC Black
Dr. John R. Larkins told
members of the Old North
State Dental Society on Satur
day night that the Governor's
office has received a number of
telephone calls concerning the
proposed medicare cutback for
dental care in the state budget.
Larkins, the assistant for
minority affairs and special
projects for Gov. James Hunt,
promised the group that he
would attempt to get the
group’s leaders a meeUng with
Hunt this week to discuss the
(See 2 HELD. P. 2)
Staff Told
To Hire
Minorities
to
qual Enmioyment Opportunity
■’ President’s Qimmitlee
and the I
on Equal Opportunity in
Housing from 1961 to 1966.
From 1966 to 1968, Ms.
Morton was a complaint
investigator and consUiator for
the U. S. Equal Employment
(See WOMAN TO. P. 2)
WASHINGTON. D. C. -
President Carter has instruct
ed all senior staff members
who make employment de
cisions for the White House
staff or the Vice President's
Office to “take all steps
necessary to recruit and hire
qualified individuals from
groups which have historically
suffered discrimination."
The instructions were inclu
ded in a memorandum outlin
ing equal employment oppor
tunity guidelines for the offices
of the President and Vice
President Mondale.
The memorandum said that
it is the general policy “of the
President and Vice President
to insure that all personnel
decisions affecting their staffs
are made without discrimina-
(See STAFF TOLD. P. 2)
called upon the North Carolina
Human Relations Commission
to place on their agenda a
recommendation to be sent to
Gov. Hunt to pardon the
Wilmington 10.
The Wilmington 10. sen
tenced to a total of 282 years in
1972 for arson and assault on
emergency personnel, were
denied a new trial last month
by Judge George Fountain.
Rev. Ben Chavis, best known of
the Wilmington 10, said he was
not surprised by Fountain’s
ruling, and expects no justice
from the North Carolina
Courts. Meanwhile. Wilming
ton to supporters have appar-
effo
entiy been marshalling efforts
Change At
Hammocks
Is Opposed
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
An exclusive story that
appeared in The CAROLINIAN
to influence
pardon the group.
Rev. W. C. Banks of
Thomasville, and president of
the SCLC there, said a meeting
which would involve a cross
section of the state's leaders
would discuss the feasibility of
a march. Frinks said that the
march would include several
thousand individuals, leaving
Wilmington on June 29 and
stopping in several cities
throughout the eastern part of
the state, including Burgaw
and Smithfield, arriving in
Raleigh on Julv 4 for a massive
march and rally.
"I plan to talk to black
leaders across the state, and
especially the mothers of the
Wilmington 10. Whal 1 really
have m mind is for black
leaders to stage a march from
Wilmington to Raleigh, involv
ing church groups, civic
groups, and the educational
world in the state in that effort.
We believe that to support the
mothers will automatically
force this state to free the
Wilmington 10. We want a
pardon of Innocence for the
Wilmington 10 immediately
because we think that it is a
Y Y«* cutback proposal. The sessions
Ljflwyers in were held m^leigh at
the
Opposition
The North Carolina Associa
tion of Black Lawyers has filed
a brief in the U.S. Supreme
Court oppMing the argument
that spMial minority admis
sions programs are unc(Ki8ti-
tutional. By agreement of
counsel in the case, the Black
Lawyers Association, has been
permitted to file with the Court
an Amicus Curiae Brief
(“friend of the Court").
The brief opposes the bi
llon advanced by Alan Bakke,
a white applicant to a Califor
nia medical school, who claims
he was denied admission
because the school had a
special minority admissions
program under which 16 seals
in an entering class of 100 are
hlled by applying special
admissions criteria to black
(Sec NC LAWYERS. P. 2)
Raleigh
Howard Johnson Motel.
The cutback was recom
mended by Dr. Sarah T.
Morrow, secretary of the N.C.
Department of Human Re
sources, at a savings of
(4,528,000 to the sUte.
Society president Kermit
White, an Elizabeth City
dentist, criticized the budget
cuts as “discriminatory on its
face, because they have singl
ed out dental care, but none
other for cutbacks." White
continued saying "the only
budget cuts acceptable by
North State Dental Society are
those that are made across the
board to all areas of medical
care."
Much of Larkins' banquet
speech was directed to the
development of human rights
from the 12th century England
and the signing of the Ma^
Carta to the insti'. ationalization
of slavery in America and its
(See DR. LARKINS. P. 2)
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Cox Receive
Awreciation
Twenty dollars in Apprecia
tion Money were presented to
two readers of last week’s
CAROLINIAN after they re
ported that they had found
their names on the Apprecia
tion Money Page on the back of
(See appreciation^
alleged move in North
Carolina political circles to
grab Hammocks Beach from
black control, began unfolding
faster than was anticipates
causing a stir that is believed
to be purely racial.
The concern stems from the
fact that a bill was sent to the
House Committee on State
Properties, dated June 10, to
rename the vast expanse of
beach-front property, given 10
(See HAMMOCKS P.
. 2)
NEAR SI K.Nh OF ESCAPE — Knoxville. Teaa. — Dr. Martin Luther King. Sr. (L) arrives June II
for B speaking engagement lest than M miles from the prison where James Enrl Rny. the convicted
Willie, evf LIa ..la.ll I e# ■ .. -
killer of hit son, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., sad < other coovicU escaped Jane 16.
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
1{E.N AND PAPER HOUSE, INC.
WHIRf OFFICF SUFflllS All OUR FIRST CONCERN '
this state," Rev. Banks stated.
Frmks has gotten the nod
from Raleigh City Councilman
William 'Bill' Knight; Rev.
Leon White, director of the N.
C.-Va. Commission for Racial
Justice; Leo Hadden, chairper
son of (he Second Congression
al District Black Caucus and
several others.
Councilman Knght said that
he was not sure the march
from Wilmington to Raleigh
would force Gov. Hunt to grant
a pardon but, “It would be a
beginning step to mass mobili
zation of individuals, leaders
acorss this slate and nation in a
renewed support of the Wil
mington 10 and to start a new
movement in this nation for
human nghls." Knight said
that follow-up activities should
also be planned to attack other
injustices.
Hadden said the 2nd Con
gressional Black Caucus would
(See MARCH’ ON. P 2)
AMIN THREATENS EXECU’HON — NalroW. Kenya — This
photo shows President Idl Amla of Uganda being berae by four
Britons into a Kampala recepUoo. The man In foreground left
(with musuche) is Mr. Cullen (no first aame svailsble). who Is
charged with sp' ing. Amin baa threatened to execute Cullen, s
former manager of the Uganda Transport Compaoy. should he be
“found guilty" at the end of the wieek. (L'Pl)