X. C. Governor’s Press Secretary Declares ^Tardons For ‘10’Not Close At Hand” ★ ★★★ ★★★ if. if. if. Despite Objections From Black (^iommunity Disputes Judge*s Choices Final From^NY SROLmiAN VOL. 36 NO. 43 North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C.. TtfLRSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1977 SINGLE COPY 20c BY WILLIE WHITE Stall Writer Gov. Jim Hunt's press secretary said Tuesday afternoon that the national coordinator for the Wil mington 10 Defense Com mittee in New York is wrong "pal Ice Pick Used As Man StabbedOver ★ ★ ★ ★ UNC BOARD MtlMBfciK. PRESIDENT PART COMPANY - Chapel Hill - Univeralty of North Carolina president. Dr. William C. Friday, left, bids farewell Monday. Aug. 22, to I’NC Board of (iovernor's member. Attorney Julius Chambers, right, of Charlotte, who resigned over a desegregation plan, approved by the board that day. Chambers is chairman of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF), which brought a court suit, prompting the latest HEW demands against l'N('>CH. tl'PD ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Woman Given 10 Years In Prison Attorney Jervay To Liggett Post Lye-Thrower To Appeal DURHAM - Raleigh attor ney Marion White Jervay has been appointed associate at torney at Liggett Group, Inc., it was announced We^esday, Aug. 24. by Roger W. Hooker, Jr., vice president for govern mental and legal affairs. During the past year. Mrs. Jervay served as research assistant to the Honorable Earl W. Vaughn of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, || Raleigh She is a memtUr of dte North Carolina Slate Bar, Blacks’ Boycott Averted ELIZABETHTOWN - A threatened boycott of black students attending the Booker Taliafero Washington Middle School in Clarkton in Uiis Bladen County area, was averted last Thursday night when the county school board voted to hire a black Columbus County educator as principal of the school. Oscar Blanks, a Mack, was hired for the 1977-78 school year as principal. After a white man was advocated for the position by a ' (See BOYCOTT, P. 2) CHOSEN BY GOVERNOR — Dr. Elisabeth Duncan Koontx, who is currently assistant state superintendent in the Depart ment of Public instruction, was appointed last Thursday to the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women. She will ^ serve a 2-vear term. The (See CHOSEN BY. P. 2) and her professional affilia tions include North Carolina Bar Association, Wake County Bar Association, North Caro lina Association of Black Lawyers and the American Bar Association. Mrs. Jervay is a native of Raleigh. She received her B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and her J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law in Durham. She was an Earl Warren scholar during law school, the first year of which was taken at the National Law Center, George Washington University. Washii.gton, D.C. Mrs. Jervay is Uie daughter 01 J. Owen While, Sr. of Raleigh, and the late Mrs. Harveleigh Rivera White. She is married to Thomas C. Jervay. Jr., and they reside in Raleigh with their daughter. Ramona Alyce. E. Clayton Tapped By H. N. Lee The wife of one of Soul City’s partners has been named as N.C. assistant secretary for Community Development. She is Mrs. Eva M. Gayton, wife of Warren County Attorney T. T. Gayton. Named by Howard N. Lee, secretary of Natural Resourc es and Community [)evelop- ment, last Thursday, Mrs. Gayton will be in charge of funding for employment, hous- (See E. Gj\YTON. P. 2) Got Problem? Get Answer The CAROLINIAN would like voters and residents to discuss and air their problems and concerns during the next weeks os we opproach the elections. We will find out where the five District C city council condidotes and other can didates stand on the problems and issues which affect your lives. Look ot your neighborhood ond city and list your problems and concerns. Then send them to us on a card or in a letter, or coll us at 834-S5S8. We will get 0 response. ATTORNEY JERVAY Southgate Problems ^Tabled* The Raleigh City Ck)uiK:irs Law and Finance Committee briefly discusaed the Southgate Community situation Tuesday aiternoon and decided to await further community meetings and citizen imput before pursuing the matter further. Though not a member of the committee, Councilman Wil liam R. (Bill) Knight ^ined the meeting along with his council colleagues and officials of North Hills, Inc. and Fast Fare, Inc. North Hills, Inc. owns the Southgate shoppin*{ center and housing facilities, and a Fast Fare store operetes in the center. Knight told the committee members that the adult resi dents had had meetings with the North Hills officials about the housing problems, which included cleanliness and the renting of housing to single tenants. Continuing to tell the com- (See SOUTHGATE. P. 2) Voted My Conscience: J. Sansom J. J. Sansom, Jr.. Raleigh, senior vice president of Me chanics and Farmers Bank and one of the few black members on the Board of C^vemors of the (^apel Hill-based Univer sity of North Carolina System. Monday became the lone person to cast a vote against the system's desegregation plan. He said Tuesday that he (See J. SANSOM. P. 2) Ist Meet Planned Friday The objections from the black community that North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Susie Sharp did not name any women or blacks to the 13-member Superior Court Nominating Committee seem to have fallen upon deaf ears as the committee goes into its flrst meeting Friday, August 26. Jack (3ozort, legal dvisorto Ciov. Jim Hunt and secretary to the Nominating Committee, said Tuesday that the nomina tions must stand because they meet the l^al requirements of the Executive Order under which they were made. Cozort said the order requir ed only that the nominees be licensed members of the bar. Among those objecting to the nominations were the NC Association of Black L.awyer8 and the Criminal Justice Pro gram of the United Church of Girist’s Ckimmission on Racial Justice. Speaking for the association, President Charles E. Daye called upon Justice %arp to recall her appointments and, in the absence of that action, he called upon H’lnt to intervene by rescinding his Executive Order that the nominations he made. As the committee meets Friday, it begins a task of (See JUDGE’S. P. 2) ms in believeing that rdons for the Wilming ton 10 are close at luind. ' Speaking for the Governor's Office, Press Secretary Gary Pearce said that the state ments made last week in a release by Ms. Imani Kazana would suggest that Hunt ia changing his mind and position on the Wilmington 10 case. But Pearce said, “It would be inaccurate" to draw such a conclusion. “That is inaccur ate.” Ms. Kazana's statements were based in part upon statements reported in a North Carolina daily newspaper al leged to have been made by John Russell, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice. Russell was alleged to have told reporters that Attorney General Griffin Bell had been in contact with Hunt as a result of pressure from members of Congress. But Pearce said that that statement in the daily newspaper caught Hunt's of- (See PARDONS. P. 2) A DRIVING CHAMPION — Deer Uke. Pa. — World champioii Muhammad All takes a turn at the wheel of the press bus returning reporters from bii training camp .Aug. 23. Ali opened his traioiog camp here for his tilie defense against Ernie Shaver:* and decided to drive the bus for newsmen for a short distance. Ali meets Shavers Sept. 29. (L’PD Woman Sent To Prison In City Following deliberations of some IVt hours Thursday and Friday, a Wake Superior Court jury found a black Raleigh woman guilty of throwing corrosive lye at a white woman as the woman and a co-worker were walking on E. Hargett St. at Moore Square on April 29, 197S. The defendant, Mrs. Mary Alice Singletary, 62, of S. Mrs. Lytle Accepts NAACP Isis Honor MIAMI BEACH. Flo. — Edward B. Muse, who heads the Life Membership Division of the NAACP. flew here lost Tuesdoy, August 16, to ottend o speciol progrom of the Imperial Court, Doughters of Isis. Mr. Muse told the women that 1977 morked the 10th Anniversory of a unique program, set up by the NAACP and their orgonizotion. The first honor went to Mrs. Jomes E. (Merlyn W.) Lytle, Raleigh, North Carolina, representing Kalralo Court, No. 67 for being the first court to pay the second S500.00. thereby becoming a member of the Heritoge Fund ond The Million Dollar club. Dollar Club. Imperial Commondress, Anito Adorns ond Dt. Norma J. Ganowoy, who coordinotes the progrom also received plaques for going beyond the coll of duty. East St., was sentenced to 10 years in prison by presiding judge A. Pilston Godwin. Jr. The victim was Mrs. Joann Dupree, an employee of Ral eigh Savings and Loan As sociation on Fayetteville St. Ten years imprisonment is the maximum allowed by law, and Judge (Godwin ordered that officials at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women (Women’s Prison) here be told of Mrs. Singletary's psychia tric condition and required medication for same. Attorney (See LYE-THROWER, P. 2) Renwick Is Named At Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL - Hayden B. Renwick, a black, has been appointed special assistant to the chancellor at the Univer sity of North Carolina at CTiapel Hill for the 1977-78 academic year, Chancellor (See RENWICK IS, P. 2) District C Residents React To S Candidates Refusal For Gum Reason? DURHAM —A 30-year- old man from nearby Chape) Hill allegedly came so infuriat^ with another man here Satur day, after the latter reused to give him two cents to purchase a piece of bubble ^m. that he plunged an ice pick into the refuser’s body twice. According to “the law,” 46-vear-old James Lewis Lett of Durham, told them that he was stabbed two times with the ice pick after he would not give Calvin Bvrd the requested two pennies. Lett said he was standing in front ot a store when the incident took place. Officers arrested Byrd and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon, intlicting serious bodilv harm. Lett also told the investigat ing officers that Byrd began to tight with him, before stabbing him, when he refused him the money. Lett was reported in good condition at a local hospital early this week. Officers said the ice pick lodged in his shoulder joint and NASA, the Federal Space the other wound was in the Agency, has placed one of its senior level staff employees with the newly-creat^ Uni versity of the District of Columbia for a one-year period. Leon N. P^y, a native of Warren County, N.C., formerly public information office fw Minority Affairs at NASA, has Bishop H Hartford Brookins ^ sdected to assist in oi Los Angeles, Calif., presid developing the Institute in ing bishop of the Fifth Episco- Community and Public Serv- pal District of the African U.D.C. Methodist Episcopal Church, 4()-year-old veteran in- during a press conference in officer has been Kansas City, Missouri, recen;- deUiJed to the project under ly reattirmed his support for ^ Inlergovemmen- U.S. Ambassador Andrew 1*1 Act (IPA). NASA Young. '*'*11 1*® responsible 'or his He asked the over 3,(XX) ®^1®*Y anf^ frinj"* benefits. He laymen and ministers in report to. and serve as a attendance at the ISlh biennial *P®®**1 assistant for informa- session of the Laymen Organ- syste^ to Ronald C. ization to support his venture Johnson, director of the insti- by starting a petition drive to counteract an anti-Young P®*Ty has been with NASA's (See BISHOP. P. 2) (See LEON PERRY P. 2) LEON N. PERRY Perry Of NASA To UDC Job WASHINGTON. D. C. - (See STABBED. P. 2) Bishop Reaffirms Support A small random sampling of District C residents tentatively indicates a mixed reaction to the fact that five candidates have announced campaigns for the one District C city council seat. At the same time, however, it seems that while many resi dents may not really approve 01 the number of candidates campaigning, many do not know that fiv are in the race. When Mrs. James Harrison, 01 2708 Evers Dr., was inter viewed about her assessment ot the number of candidates running, she replied, “Gosh. 1 didn't know that." But upon learning ot the live, she said, “That's loo many. It shouldn't be more than two. Two would be plenty; more just confuses people." Mrs. Harrison said she actually knows only two of the live candidates. She said that because oi her knowledge (See RESIDENTS. P. 2) 2 Readers Get Appreication Money Checks Giecks tor $10 were present ed to two Raleigh residents alter they reported to The CAROLINIAN that they had tound their names in adver tisements on the Appreciation Monev Page Mrs Margaret Poole. OI 708 Delany Dr., was presented her check alter she reported that she round her name in the advert . greets Khodesian black revolstisnary leader Jssbua Nksmo at Ike World ( on/erencr on .Apartheid here .Aug. 23. Delegates from •• natlsM are attending the S-day meeting. sponMired b\ the I'nited Nations. (I’PI)