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Demos Elect 6 Blacks
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yOL. 36 NO. 34 RALEJIGH. ^.C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 2^ I977
.^INC-.I.E rOPY 20c
Seeking Reinstatement-Black
Union Proxy Fired
WASHINGTON. D.C. ~
Although ^ members of
the United States Congress
signed a letter here last
Friday, urging Attorney
General GrifHn B. Bell to
intercede on behalf of the
Wilmington (N.C.) Ten, no
con^essman from the Tar
heel State signed the letter.
All of the members of the
state’s delegation are
white.
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State Finals Of Miss Black
Teen Pageant Saturday
Man Is
Veteran
Driver
MtHAMMAD Atl TAKES THIRD BRIDE — Beverly HilU. Calif. — Boxing cbampioa
Muhammad Ali receives a kiss on the cheek from his bride, Veronica Porche. following their
wedding at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel June 19. It was the third marriage for the 35-year-old
champion and the first for the 22-year-old bride. (L'PD
y^oung Black Girls
Are Ignored: Prof.
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON — “Young
black girls are an ignored and
invisible population.*’ asserts
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot. as
sociate professor of education
at Harvard University. That
conclusion was reports in the
June issue of Human Behavior
magazine. Lightfoot reviewed
the literature on girls and
blacks to see what it might
indicate about their socializa
tion. the magazine reported.
And what she discovert is a
sad commentary on our social
order and the pmple who study
it. the magazine said.
Black girls have a "shadowy
status” in the journals that
simply reflects the blindness of
society as a whole, Lightfoot is
reported as saying. They
be^me visible only in adult
hood when they are seen as
^black mammies.” sexually
jSf. John*s
L>ay Held
By Masons
FAYETTEVILLE - The
five Prince Hall Mason Lodges,
located in this area, gathered
at Park's Chapel Freewill
Baptist Church, at 3 p.m.,
Sunday for the annual cele
bration of St. John’s Day and
heard Rev. Freddie K. Brown
extol the virtues of Prince Hall
Masonry.
Members of Eureka Lodge
No. 3: Savannah Lodee. No.
407; Silver Square, No. 791; A.
i Henderson No. 792; and
ray's Creek Lodge, No. 831,
with the wjmen’s auxiliaries
of all branches of Masonry
heard the speaker tell about
the principles that should be
lived bv to all who have
approached the mystics of the
ancient Order.
(Sec ST. JOHN'S. P. 2)
provocative but unfeminine,
efficient organizers of white
households but incompetent in
their own.
According to the article,
Lightfoot contends that these
contradictory images are often
rationalized and objectified in
the social scirace literature.
She said that part of the task of
understanding black girls re
quires disentangling such
myths from the realities of
black women.
In school, Lightfoot said,
young black girls face the
triple threat of racism, sexism
and childism. Yet the metho
dologies of researchers permit
them to ignore students' racial
and sexual differences by
atributing them not to school
experiences, but to depriva
tions in femilies and communi
ties.
In reality, teachers view
pupils through the filter of their
social preiudices, Lightfoot
said. A black boy running
across the classroom may be
considered aggressive and
hyperactive, while a white girl
doing the rame thing is thought
to be crea:< .e and expressive.
Teachers communicate such
attitudes through impercepti
ble yet powerful signals that
students pick up and social
(See YOUNG BLACK. P. 2>
chapel hill - Otis
Stroud, a black man in his
middle 40’s. has driven city
buses in 3 North Carolina
cities for nearly 11 years.
Three years ago. he was
hired by the Citv of Chapel
Hill and called upon to
train new drivers for the
institution of public trans
portation in that city
Stroud, president of Local
(See UNION PREXY. P. 2J
WilliamSf
5 Others
Elected
SAYS CARTER MUST GIVE
ACCOUNT — Houston —
President Jimmy Carter will
be called to account for his
failure to appoint more women
to high government posts. Rep
Barbara Jordan. D-Tex., said
during a visit here Monday.
One black school principal,
Lawrence T. Williams, was
elected second vice chairman
ol the Wake County Democra
tic Party last Saturday at the
W. G. Enloe High School here.
Williams is
E incipal of the
ast Millbrook
Junior High
School. There
were also five
other blacks e-
lected to po
sitions in the ■ r .
Meredith
To Host
Pageant
Miss Felisha Wimbish,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Wimbish, of Raleigh,
will represent Wake County
in the fourth annual Miss
Black Teenage W'orld of
North Carolina Pageant,
the week of June 22-25. The
State finals will be held on
Saturday, June 25 at 8
o'clock in Jones Auditor
ium on the campus of
Meredith College.
The pageant is designed to
improve the social, cultural
and educational status of
teenagers throughout the slate.
The winner will receive a
four-year college scholarship
as well as the first runner-up.
The first runner-up will receive
a collage scholarship to a
modeling school. The winner
will also go to the World
Pageant, which will be b«ld in
Roanoke. Va., at the Roanoke
Ovic Center on July 22-30 The
World finMs will be held July
30.
Contestants for the State
Pageant arrived in Raleigh on
FATHER’S DAY VISITOR — G. and meaningful for blacks.
ihowR here last Sunday In the yard of one of bly, theset on
Quarry St. as he poses with one of the many Father'>09et> gifts he
received. (See storvK
make the selections all the mow'ednesdsy. June 22. They will
(I'PI)
85 Students
Visiting
At NCSU
L. Berry
To Address
Lawyers
CHAPEL HILL - Lisbon
derrv. former Durham attor
ney, now a lawyer in the Public
Accomodations Section of the
Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice,
will be the featured speaker at
the annual June meeting of the
(See L. BERRY. P. 2)
Approximately 85 black high
school students from throu^-
out North Carolina arrived at
North Carolina State Univer
sity’s School of Engineering
Monday, June 20, to participate
in a week-long pro^am intro
ducing them to career oppor
tunities in engineering.
The rising seniors were
chosen by their high school
counselors under the Minority
Introduction to Engineering
(MITE) program of the na
tional Engineers Council for
Professional Development
(ECPD).
Prof. Byard Houck of the
Freshman Engineering and
Student Services Division is
coordinating the program.
(See 85 STUDENTS. P. 2)
Elected as
chairman of
the party was williams
Mrs. Margaret Stamey, a
surburgan housewife of 6201
Arnold Rd., who had cam
paigned for the position for
a number of
months. Mrs.
Stamey has
been acti.e in
D e m 0 c ralic
politics for the
past 17 years.
In 1969, she
served as a
Democratic
national com-
mitteewoman. n
Elected to
two-year terms on the State
Democratic Executive Com
mittee from Wake County
were: Atty. Marion White
Jervay. Atty. Daniel T. Blue.
Jr., Commissioner Elizabeth
B. Cofield. Ms. Rosa Gill.
H. Webb, all
blacks; and
Robert T. Can-r
avan. Dr.
Frank B. Day,
Billy Crocker,
Ms. Margaret
Riddle. Ms.
Joann Smith,
Lynn Gottlieb,
Robert W.i
Spearman,
John I. Wilson, (jQI
Kenneth D.m
Wright. SHir- JERVAV
ley Gold. BUI
Phillips. Kay
Daughtry and Ms. Lillian C.
Woo.
Among those nominated, but
not elected, were State AFL-
CIO President Wilbur Hobby,
who recently moved to Ra
leigh, City
C 0 u n oilman
William R.
Knight, and
Millard Pee
bles. former
chairman of
the Raleigh
Planning Com- ^
mission.
Other top^^H
‘ WEBB
a Man, 97, Reveals
ManyNCMemories
BY W. A. “PETE" WILDER
Sunday was Father’s Day all over America and G.
Mitchell Ritter, 97. of Robbins. N.C.. journeyed all the
way to Raleigh to celebrate it with his children.
To be sure, he was the center
of attraction, not only for his
children, but for his grandchil
dren as well as they moved
around to do whatever they
thought would add to his
happiness.
South Park
Residents^
Chief Meet
Nearly 30 residents came out
to discuss the South Park
community's need for fire
boxes in the area Thursday
evening at 7:30 in front of
Providence Holy Church on the
corner of Bledsoe Ave. and
Bioodworth St. The residents,
in cooperation with Carolina
Action, toured the neighbor
hood in automobiles, bearing
signs pointing up the need for
fire boxes in the South Park
area
District Fire Chief John
Ennis, was on hand to discuss
(See SOUTH PARK. P. 2)
Believe it or not. this family
celebration was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Ritter. 606 Quarry St
Mr. Ritter is a native of
Robbins and has remained in
that locale most of his
ninety-seven years. He was
born on Feb. 22. 1880. He is the
father of 14 children.
Working from the age of
seven. Mr Ritter knows what it
meant to work from dawn to
dusk. Somehow, he managed to
wangle a sizeable farm and his
pride and joy is a beloved
tractor which he purchased in
1947. The tractor is still in
operation and he proudly
remembers the price tug of
$1400 from a company in Siler
City. Accordingly, the tractor
was considered complete with
only a plow, discs, harrers. and
ali the other equipment had to
he added one at u time
Ritter was married twice He
had five children by his first
wife. Mary Jane Caviness.
(.See MAN RKVEAI,S. P 2>
be involved in several activi
ties throughout the week.
Other contestants are Misses
Robin Michelle Howard,
Smithfield; Bonita MeZorn,
Greensboro: Rene Revis, La-
Grange. Lena Ednetta Clark.
Cherryville; Valarie Genicc
Clark. Ahoskie: Yvonne Rene
Rutchford. Fayetteville; Vel
ma Louise Credle, Bayboro;
Karen Lynn .Scott, Goldsboro;
Priscilla Clark, Henderson;
Andrea Kalreli Flowers.
Wadesboro; Contessa Toon,
Havelock and Aldrena Rod
gers. Goldsboro.
.Mrs. Gladys Todd of Zebu-
Ion. an employee of Wake
Opportunities. Inc. in Wendell,
is coordinator of the Wake
County pageant.
Lightner
Will Head
Morticians
Former Raleigh Mayor Clar
ence Lightner was elected last
week as president of the
Funeral Directors and Morti
cians Association of North
Carolina. The election took
place in the 50th annual
convention of the association
as the funeral directors and
morticians met June 13
through 16 at the Royal Villa
Hotel here.
I'nder the theme. “Faith,
Love and Togetherness,"
(See LIGHTNER. P. 21
The letter, urging pardon or
commutation of the total of 282
;i'eais in prison handed Uie
nine black men and a white
woman, convict d in a Wil
mington firebombing in 1971,
suggested that Bell urge a
favorable, decision on the
defendants' habeas-corpus pe
tition. which has b^n pending
for more than a year, in which
they are attempting to obtain a
federal trial.
The letter said the Attomev
General should file a friend-oi-
the-courl brief with the North
Carolina Court of Appeals,
which will hear the defendants’
request for a new trial.
The chairman of a House
judiciary subcommittee on
civil and constitutional rights.
Rep. Don Edwards. D-Calif.,
said the letter to Bell was being
sent at the same time that the
chief counsel for the Wilming
ton Ten was requesting N. C.
Governor James B. Hunt, Jr.,
to pardon the defendenls.
On May 20. Superior Court
Judge George M. Fountain, Jr.
denied the defendants' request
for a new trial, in a week-long
trial at Burgaw. The major
witnesses against the Wilming
ton Ten have recanted their
earlier testimony against
them.
The letter said the failure to
grant a new trial represented
“the latest in a series of
(See LAW.MAKERS. P 2)
Peebles
Leaves
The RPC
BY WILLIE WHITE
Sun Writer
Ralei^ Planning Commis
sion chairman Millard Peebles
took part Tuesday in his last
meeting of the commission as
he ended 8 years of helping
shape and direct the growth of
Raleigh through the city's
planning program.
And as the chairman of the
past 3 years ends his 8-year
tenure on the commission,
some sources indicate that he
is preparing to seek the
District C seat on the Raleigh
City Council. Peebles, how
ever, declines to make any
public comment on that ques
tion.
A native of Raleigh, PeeblM
served on the Planning Com
mission under 4 mayors. He
was the second black person to
serve on the commission and
wa:> its first black chairperson.
(See PEEBLES. P. 2)
MILLARD PEEBLES
Ms. T. Buie
Receives
Check For SIO
«5ce DEMOS ELECT. P 2)
Ms. Theodosia Buie, of 2509
Meivid Ct . received a StO
check in Appreciation Money
after she reported that she had
found her name listed in ladt
week's edition of The CARO
LINIAN. Her name was listed
in the New Bern Avenue Exxon
advertisement on the Appreci
ation Money Page.
Also listed were the names of
Walter J Whitten, of 2('8
See A_PPHEC1AT10N. P, ?»
PRIME MINISTER CONFISCATES — Grand Aose. Grenada — Grenada Prime Miniiter Erk
Gairy holds up a photographer's film that was confiscated at gunpoint during an anti-government
demonstration here Jtme 20. during a press conference. (t'PIl
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
KAR PARTS,
"KAR CAR PARTS ARE GOOD CAR PARH"
WELC0MF:D BY POPE — Vatican City — Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda shakes banda with
Pope Paul VI as be arrives in the Vatican for an audience June 17. Kaunda arrived in Rome June II
for a 2-dn\ visii on his «a.% home from the Commonwealth conference in London. (UPl)