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Black Press Institutc- A Help Or A Hindrance? (AN EDITOKIAL) ^ CilsptI Hill-battd rtcantb forwad and ffnancad witli • $250,000 fraat fro« tha Rackafailar Foandatian to "aid" tha Hack Rrasi. Uafortaaatair, kewavar, ana of tfca argaaixatioa't first acts was ta discradit tha Hack Prass by making anfaandad statamants. In a prass ralaasa, distributad by tha Naws laraaa of tha UnIvarsIty of North Carolina at Chapal Hill, out of whkh tha Saathaastam Black Prass Instituta will ba c.'crating, instHuta co-diractor Barnadina Mosas was guatad as having said, "Tha Black Prass was far mara influantlal 10-15 yaors Wa taka unaquivocal aicaptien to that itatamant and call upon Ms. Mosas and tha instituta to taka a long, hard look at tha black nowspapars in tha araa that thay prapasa to "aid." It saams quita ironic ta us that papars that ara said to ba iosing thair Influanca in tha community ara growing at tha sama tima. Thay ara growing in advartising rovanaa, plant sixa ond capacity, staff, circulation and tha numbar af pogos par adHion. To ba sura, tbara ore black publications that hovo raducod thair sixa ond hava become more community-basad in circulotion as opposad to extansiva natianoi ckculatian. But that situation hardly allows the members of this lastHuta ta make uncatagorical statements about tha "Black Press" as a whale. After all, the damisa of tha Saturday Evaning Past, and look and Life Magaxinas ware not in^ativa af tha damisa of the "White Press." When cbaiienged on the obava statamant. Dr. Sanja Stone, the other co-director (both of wham ora block] af tha ^institute, could only cKa on epinlan article in onethar "publication as documentation. As she put it, "There ora no herd figures." So much for credibilHyl Ms. Moses, who could not be reached this weak far comment on tha statement, also said in the naws relaosa that the biack press "should be a legitimate supplamant ta tha doily prass." Black newspapers ond all other community newspapers ora (ust that, community newspapers, papars which stand or fall on their own merits, true ta thair particular roles la tha community. No saH-raspacting community publisher seas tha community paper os a supplamant ta o daily nawspaaar any more than o ^iiy newspaper puUishar seas his ar her pubikation os a supplement to o television stotian simply bacouse talavisien is more immadiote. Tba whale quastian hare revelvas around role ond purpose peculiar ta tha particular medium. One tragedy is brought ta mind In tba critical industrial world, ond that is the closing af tha Namptan trade schaal, on oct which amonoted from the concept through tba Scbaal af Education that tha school should train teachers af trades bistaod of workers who would use thair skills to produce, build and repair. Up to that point in tha 1930's, Hompton trade schaal had bean administarad by o technically trained director, and trade students ware tought to perform, oithaugh many found thamsalvas os taaebars os they elected to formally train in tha art of taoching. ^han this colamKy was parpatratad on tba blach industrial varld, including tha printing croft, by tba profossars af tha k School of Education, tha source of parsannal far plants such os The CAROLINIAN was shut aH from this segment af block education. It would, wa baliava, hove bean for more advontaaeaus ta blacks H the prefassors bad stayed in ^ek fields af lilUrol arts education and let the industrial taka care af KsaH, as H was so sotisfoctarily doing. Tba soma thing can ba said about thasa wba really baliava thay ora helping tha Biack Trass without having been a working part of it iong enough to know its mony facets, it is difficult to aid anything from o distance. Wa would suggest that those parsons intorastad in upgrading tba BiMk Prass start with working with tha prass hi cireulatian, naws content, ond advertising, as waM as in tba maebankai departments wbora many af tba bast advartising salaspaapla and writers wore trobiad. TWs aipasura would equip tbosa Intarastad [H they stayed long aneugb] ta batter prepare ta make a cantribv*’aa, as wall os sound, lustifiabla, ond pasHiva critklsms af an InstHutien which has stood tha test af time ond remains a farce in tha waHara af its constHuants and tha nation at large. Than, tee, 15 years age, tba ceontry was launebing itsoH into a new dimanslan - total racial intagrotlan. This meant that even daiBas had to find a Hock image samawhara without facing tha burden af training wbeavar was added to j thair staffs ta give that Image. Where did thay leak? Ta tha rllack Prass hara In Rolaigb far this image in thair mechanical daportmant. Thasa lossas cast in tha milHans over tha yaors os tbara was and is no rasarvair af parsannal ears net to raplaca these indlvidualB who spent • ta 20 yeai preparing on a Mack weakly. But this napar did ni weaken. It lass, hewavar, tha appertunity ta copHolixa « (^Iharfied With First-Dcjlrcclliirtflury Here, Hut dxt. :c •Tx i>t, LrtULffvlllr, 102(5] Warren^ Wife To Reconcile? ¥ ¥ ¥■ ★ ★ ★ ¥¥¥ Fails To Name Blaeks To NC Board Justice Sharp Is Blasted City Employee To Seek Job Justiee MOLINIAN North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 36 NO. 42 RALEIGH. N.C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 1977 SlNGl.F. COPY 20c Pair Works On Automobile-*’Friend” Fatally Stabs Man ¥¥¥ Raleigh City ★ ★ ★ ★ Thomas Odell Warren, a civilian employee of the Raleigh Police Department as an administrative aid in the records division, was charged with first-degree burglary last Friday after he allegedly broke into the apartment of his estranged wife. Warren is continuing to work on his job. He was released from jail on his own recognizance. Monday, however. Mr. War- apartment’s front door was ren assured newsmen that he torced open and a chain lock and Mrs. Warren are "getting was broken.* Nothing was hack together." reported taken irom *he apart- Warren, who resides at Apt, ment, however. The 5-day A. 3818 Bonneville Court, was delay in arresting Warren arrested alter his wile, Mrs. remains unexplained. Delores B. Warren, Apt. A, 3918 “R was just a trial separa- Tara Dr., called police early lion.” Mr. Warren said of his last Monday and reported relationship with Mrs. Warren, "hearing noises” at her door, who allegedly has asked "the Police files indicate that the law" to drop all charges against her husband because. “We’re getting back to gether again.” Earlier this summer. War ren filed a complaint against the Raleigh Police Department with the U.S. Office of Revenue Council Hears Citizens Lambasts Judge’s Decision The chief justice of the North Carolina State Sup* reme Court, Miss Susie Sharp, came under heavy attacK here Tuesday after noon for not appointing "even the first black lawyer” to a merit selection committee that will recom mend candidates for Sup erior Court judge appoint ments by N.C. Gov. James B. Hunt. Jr. Justice Sharp chose three former state Superior Court judges and 10 so-called leaders of statewide bar organiza tions. (See JUSTICE IS. P. 2) ^Mother* Mitchell Mourned Jones Is Jailed; No Bond A 32-year-old Fuquay- Varina man is being held in the Wake County Jail without privilege of bond in the stabbing death of a “friend.” with whom he had bi^n working on an auto mobile onlv minutes before a "fuss” started. The slaying took place around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The body of Ernest Lee Williams. Jr.. 26. Rt. 2. Fuquay-Varina. was discov ered by Wake Coiunty Sheriff's deputies in a field in this southern Wake County rural area. Charged with murder is John Mark Jones, Rt. 1. Fuquay. (See FATALLY STABS. P. 2) THOMASO. WARREN 450 At Festival For **10” Uni ..ed Holy Church In “10” Appeal its aaw effsat aquipniant by priirtiag aatsMa pubOeatiaas. If tba institute !s on instrumant ta oM tba Black Trail, tha obova oiiartiani luraly praiant unfovarobla attHadai taworrf tha vary baiie sagmant af aur aiiitaaca, i.a., thaia «ha leak to aur colunins ta lall tbak arorai, tha advartiiari. Tha raati af malt af tha avQi luffarad by tha Blaek Tran have bean tha lack af odvartiiing BaHari, aa^anaHy end locally. Thui, tba wMaly circulHad and unfauodad itotomants af tha Initituta ara contrary ta tha allagad purpoia af balping tha Black Tran. Avrora af tha naad for total cavaraga In iti trada xana, Tha CAROLINIAN ougmanti iti cireulatian with o Shappari' Cuida [a regular t-paga nawipapar now] which li pubHihad tba firit af aocb month. Every hama accuplad by bloeki bi Raialab ond Woke County racaivai this nawipapar free. It li dlitrlbutad free by aur parionnal dear-to-daar. It li a waH-knewn fact In tba publlihing af nawipapari, whathar thay ba dalllai or waakliai, thot 91 pareant to 100 parcant clrcuMien in a given market ii highly dailrabla by tha buiinan world. In fact, tha volua ii la preneuncad thot even doilies ara turning ta tba poblicatlan af ibaapari in ardor to oMiat tha cempatHian of tha ihappar. IncinantaUy, tha first ibappar pradueod by Tha CAROLINIAN woi in 1960. Tba praiant ihappar is in its ITth month. This Is net ^ waaknan; this is growth. Batter working cenditlani and batter incama hove boon axpariancad at Tha CAROLINIAN, os wall as at ether N.C. black newspapers in tha post 10 to 15 years. In tha 40'i, practically all N.C. waakttas ware I pages. As tha pubBibari racagnixad tba need far incraosad pages to oecammedota enlarged content, including pictures, mast moved ohaod ta 12 to 16 pages. Trasantly, at laost five af tba state's blaek woaklias ora from a minimum of 14 pages, to at times 32 pages. This is not waoknass. This is growth In spHa of tha misunderstandings ond bod publicity for tba Biach Trass which tha instituta is propagating. North Careiino black nowspapars aipaet on even greater growth In tha yaors ahead; and wa ora sura tha Black Trass is not leaking back on its strength or woaknass, but Is directing Hs sights ond knewladga to tha future where lias tha test af suceosi ar failures. Surely, oil advised paepla knew that there ora lossas in oil business eotagarioi. The business world has thousands of failuros each year. Tha Block Trass no doubt has bad its share af lasses. Kewavar, It bos also had many successful new entrants. Wa paint to ana in North Coreline which was astobllsbad sama 9 yaors age, in Craansboro, Tha Carolina Taacamakar. Tha Careiino Tancamokar hos steadily grown in cireulatian, naws content ond advartising lineage. Other alder popars have also axpariancad growth, aspacialty acanami^ly. But more growth would ba fara-caming should tha amphnsis ba plocad on advartising because, without tha ad '^dellari. tbara would ba no prass ta speak of, block ar white. Marshall Field and Adorn Towail both found this out years age whan they published nowspopars free af advertising. Bath built sixaobla circulation. But without advertising, thay curtailed; ond so will mast af as in tha pubUshing business if-mora emphasis is net plocad an this part af tha newspapers published by blocks. (See BLACK PRESS. P 2) BY STAFF WHITER When Bro. James Thomas announced over Radio Station WLLE Sunday that, “Mother Beulah L. Mitchell passed this morning at 6:45 at a nursing home,” a sudden pall fell over the entire neighborhood as radios seemed to grow softer while area citizens in the East Raleigh neighborhood, where she once lived, gathered on their front porches to sing the praises of this unusual woman. Mrs. Beulah L. Young Mitchell, 81.1327-B Holman St. (Walnut Terrace), known to thousands of gospel singing groups in Eastern North Carolina and throughout the (Sea MRS. MITCHELL. P. 2) LEAPING TO HIS DEATH -- Portland, Ore. ~ Joe Patterson. 39. of Vancouver. Washington, leaps to his death from the Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River shortly after 8:30 a.m. Aug. IS. Patterson's wife. Ella, top of photo, attempted to restrain her husband, but he wrestled free and plunged to his death. Photo was taken by Oregon Journal staff photographer Bill Murphy, who was on his way to work at the time of the incident. (UPl) Two Groups Air Grievances Here “MOTHER” MITCHELL About 40 black citizens, representing two different groups, met with the Raleigh City Council Tuesday night in an effort to clear up several neighborhood problems. Both went away with the assurance that their complaints had been clearly heard. The first group was compris ed of homeowners and business operators who complained of problems with congregating youth in the area of the Southgate shopping center at Rock Quarry and Proctor Roads, a problem which, in addition to causing concern on the part of the residents, could result in the closing of the public library in the center. The residents appeared be- lore the council and gave passionately worded and emo tional accounts of living in tear of bodily harm because ot the attitudes and activities of the congregating youths. Ms. Trudy Miles, of 1601 Proctor Rd., said the youth have become a public nui sance. She complained of public consumption of alcoho lic beverages, gambling, throwing of beer and wine containers, fighting “almost daily.” exposing of genitals while urinating, sleeping in the area, smoking marijuana, and (See CITY COUNCIL. P. 2) DURHAM — At iU 8th annual convocation held here last week, the Western N.C. District of the United Holy CTmrch of America appealed to Gov. James B. Hunt. Jr. to commute the sentences of the Wilmington Ten. Calling the case a "miscarriage of jus tice.” church leaders strongly condemned the governor’s re fusal to "speak out with bold ness," linking that refusal to political considerations sur rounding the "pending refer endum that would allow the governor to succeed himself.” The convication of the ten for arson, and conspiracy arising from social disturbances in Wilmington during 1972 has (See UNITED HOLD. P. 2) Some 450 supporters of the Wilmington 10 gathered on the campus of St. Augustine's College last Sunday afternoon, where they were entertained by a host of black artists from across the state, who donated their talents in an affirmation of their support to free the 10 civil rights activisUs. The cultural festival, sponsored by the North Carolina Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression, provided an after noon and evening of music, dance, drama and the graphic arts. Although the artistic offer ings of the participants created a festive atmosphere, the occasion was lent solemnity by (See 4S0 AT. P. 2) Sharing, charging the depart ment with harassment and racial discrimination against him on his job. Detective (Captain James M. Stell of the RPD said Monday that there was no relationship between Warren's complaint to the "feds” and his arrest on Friday. “We handled this case just like we would handle any other case,” declared Stell, who heads the department’s inves tigative division. Detective Stell also said, “We knew it was a sensitive case. When the investigator came to me, I asked him how he would handle it if he did not know who Warren was. He told me that he would have to sign a warrant. So I told him to sign one." Final disposition of the case had not been decided as The CAROLINIAN went to press. Churches Dedication Announced Plans for the dedicatorial services of the First Congrega tional United Church of Christ in its new location on Cret ch Roacl, have been complete. Under the co<hairmanship oi Rev. A. J. Turner and Lawrence Lindsey, various committee chairmen and their co-workers have been briefed with the expectation that the (See DEDICATION. P. 2) Medicare Boy, 2, Workshop Woke County Opportunitlas' Urban Canter is conducting a Health Workshop on Medi care Thursday, Aug. 25th, at 7:30 p.m. The workshop will cover such topics os Medicare: What it is; Who is eligible; Whot services It covers. The workshop will be held at Woke County Opportunities' Multi-Purpose Canter, locat ed at-567 E. Hargett in Raleigh. Drowns In City Following the drowning Monday afternoon at 4:45 of 2-year-old Edward J. (Eddie) Lee, Jr., 6044 Parnell Dr. in East Raleigh (off Poole Rd.), neighbors in the area said Tuesday they had asked the city to erect a fence around that section, which is a branch ot the Walnut Oeek, to keep other children from wandering (See BOY DROWNS. P. 2) 2 Ladies, Man Appreciation Check yMnners Mrs. Martha Vandergritt, of 1106 Coleman St.. Edward T. Jovner, ot 809 Cotton PI., and DR. NAMED NATIONAL GENERAL PRACTl’nONER OF THE YEAR — During the 82nd annual convention of the National Medical Association and Scientific Assembly, held in Los .Angeles, Calif., July 31-Aug. 4, Dr. George C. Debnam, left. Raleigh physician and surgeon, was named National General Practitioner Of The Year for the calendar year 1977. The plaque is being presented to Dr. Debnam on behalf of the Assembly by Dr. A. A. Williams of Los Angeles. Calif. The NMA. a predominantly black medical association, consisting of some 8,006 physicians in the U.S., its territories and several foreign countries, was founded in .Atlanta. Ga. in 1895. The Los Angeles convention was attended by 1,300 medics, accompanied by their wives and children. Ms. Irene Hocutt. ot 719 Church St., were winners oi Apprecia tion Money checks alter they tound their names in last week's edition ot The CARO LINIAN. The name ot Ms. Irene Hocutt, ot 719 Church St., was listed on the page in the Piggly Wiggly advertisement. Institute Offends Editors* Publishers STRICKEN ENROUTE TO HOSPITAL Baltimore — Booker T Brown is helped by his daughters. Ms. Iris Gorie (R). and Ms. Nancy Brown (L). after suffering chest pains on his way to Mercy Hospital in Baltimore Aug. 12. Brown’s son, Theodore Brown. ^7. a juror in the .Mande) political corruption trial, was taken to the hospital earlier, suffering from head pains. (UPl) BY WILLIE WHITE, Staff Writer Hie formation of the South eastern Black Press Institute at the University ot North Carolina at Chapei Hill by two black professors is not being greeted with enthusiasm by Black Press editors and pub lishers in North Carolina. “WWW Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK BAKER’S SHOE STORE 'FAMOUS NAMI IRANDS AT REASONAILI PRICtS " The institute, formed by Dr. Sonja Stone and Ms. Bemadine Moses with a $250,000 Rocke feller grant, ran afoul of the editors and publishers when the university circulated a press release in which Ms. Moses was quoted extensively. 'Hie editors and publishers took special exception to Ms. Moses’ assertion that the Black Press has lost much of its influence during the past 10 to IS years. Charlotte Post Editor and Publisher Bill Johnson said, “We went on television in rebuttal: we cited our growth, and we are editorializing on it this week.” .Johnson said the statements (See INSTITUTE. P. 2)
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