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2 Men 44 Wounded In Separate Shootinils 3t>an^- -t.. 03., ' “ Serious^^ After Gunplay Here Violent ★ ★★★ •¥•¥¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Kinston Will Be Host City Weekend State NAACP Sets Meet Recorded i\orf/i Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 36 NO. 44 RALEIGH, N.C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1977 SINGLE COPY 20c Local Woman Faces Murder Rap After SEEK SHIFT TO BLACK Rt'LE IN RHODESIA — Dar es Salaam. Tantania — Seated together Tivith I'.N. Ambassador Andrew Young (L) and British Foreign Secretary David Owen (C) is Tanzanian President Nserere (R> Aug. 30. Young and Owen Hew to Tanzania to confer with Nyerere on their efforts to achieve a peaceful shift to black rule in Rhodesia. <rPI) Knife Victim Dies The conditions of two Raleigh men who w-ere shot here over the weekend, were listed as "serious” by officials at Wake Medical Center Tuesday afternoon of this week. The victims are Cleveland W'illiams. 60. 2424 Evers Drive (King- wood Forest), and William Earl Jeter, 29. 412 Bledsoe Avenue (South Park). ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hawaii Council In Fight For “10^’ City Council Candidates For District C The International Federation for the Rights of Man. with national organizations in most western countries and based in Paris, has asked President Jimmy Carter to free the Rev Ben ^avis, leader, and the other imprisoned members of the Wilmington 10. civil nghts activists imprisoned in North Carolina. The demand came in a letter last Friday to the Wliite House from Daniel Mayer, president of the prestigious Federation. An Alliance branch from the State of Hawaii has Joined the pleas for freedom also. "1 think," wrote Mayer to Carter, "that, in faithfulness to vour idea) of defense of human (See FOR "10". P. 11) Jordan Talks Of Carter ^Blacks’ Hirings Change Despite an almost 300-year of lily-white government since the 80<aUed American Revo lution. black laces have begun to show up sporadically in greater numbers than ever in Slate government N^liile North Carohna does not have as vicious a •ystem of racial duality in employment as South Africa’s system of apartheid, there certainly ex ists patterns in employment which in the relegation of blacks to position of inferior pay without the possibility of upward mobility. Although the long despised practice of hiring the most qualified blacks in meager 1 positions is subject to some ^ changes, which for some it might still be a painfully slow, , prcess. That process began K with Gov. James Hunt's ap point of Harold Webb, a bla^ man as director of the State Personnel Commission, last January. Since that time Webb has quietly worked, often avoiding the press, to get established rules adopted through which each state department would be required to recruit, interview, ^ect, hire, promote and train minor ities. When Webb was appointed, black employment in state government was shamefully low. As of Jan. 1, 1977, 85 per cent of blacks employed in (See HIRING. P. 2) National Black .News Service WASHINGTON. DC - Na tional Urban League executive director Vernon E Jordan. Jr . who blasted President Carter nearly out of the Wr'hite House, during the league’s convention here in July, said recently that there are "encouraging' sign- sis that the admmutrauoo is responding to the needs of blacks and the urba poor Still critical of the President tor failing to push for full employment. Jordan said. "iSere is reason for encour agement ” "As we look at the Presi dent's welfare refonn pack- Sec JORDAN. P 2) 5 Talk Unemployment Ihe tirst incident look place around 4:30 p.m. Saturday when Mr. Williams, who is said to be the proprietor of a grocery store, located at 316 S. Swain Street, at the comer of E. Davie and S. Swain, was shot twice in ..ie upper chest. Arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious bodily injury to Wil liams was his wife, Mrs. Sarah W. Williams. She was released (See TWO MEN. P. 2) Victim Buried In City BISHOP H. B. SHAW Bishop, Koontz To Speak Southgate Meeting Attracts 4 A committee of the Raleigh City Council is waiting for more community meetings and input from citizens before it makes any recommendations about current problems in the Southgate community. But a meeting Tuesday night pro duced little - if any - such input. As a result of earlier meet ings, a community organiza tional meeting was scheduled for Tuesday at the Southgate (Community Center. The meet ing attracted about 12 persons from outside the community, mostly politicians or agency employees concerned about Southgate’s problems. But only four Southgate residents attended. Though the meeting was set for 7:30 p.m., it was about 6:15 before the first community residents arrived. After a (See SOUTHGATE. P. 2) BY CHARLESG IRVING. SR The North Carolina Grand (3iapier. Order oi the Eastern Star, will leature three na uonaiJy-recognized leaden at Its E^ational Banquet on Tuesdav. Sept 6 in Raleigh's Royal ViUa. at i p m . when the annual Bnde’s (fontast and the Student Loan Fund Rally are held. Twenty-eight Eastern Star Districts will report, representing 14,000 Eastern Stars in North Carolina. Last year, $28,000 was reported. Mrs. Maggie L. Strong is grand worthy matron, Mrs. Lillian E. Miss Vera Jean .McKoy, 34. 617 E. Cabarrus Street, was released from Wake County District Court Monday afternoon by Judge George R. Greene, to await a Superior Court trial for murder sometime this month. The woman was released on her own recognizance in the stab bing death of Colin Clark, 40. 626 Coleman Street, who was knifed on Tues day, Aug. 2. but died Thursday. Aug. 25. at Wake Medical Center The stabbing is said to have followed an argument be- tw'een the two. Following the lauul met- deni which reported • 'ubk place at 416 Alston St . Miss McCoy was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, with Intmt to kill and inflicting serious injury, and released on bond. However, she was re-ar- rested Friday after Gark died of his wounds Thursday night. The preliminary hearing at which Miss McCoy was set Hopefuls Express Opinions M1S8 VERA J RAN MCCOY . facetmii.dercharge LEROY GORDON ..facet thooling rap Boy, 16, Is Shot Leroy (tordon, 45. 824 Peyton Street, was srrested last Friday night and charged with assault with a deadly weapon alter 'S-year-old Nathaniel Edmuwuson. 2414 Ellerbc Lane, was shot in the cheek at about 10 p m. Friday tn the 1800 block oi Louise Street at he reportedly walked across a lawn. BY WILLIE WHITE. .suff Writer Most of the District C candidates for the Raleigh City Council believe unem ployment is a problem in the city's black community and also believe that they can help effect significant changes if they win the District C election. Bui an oulalanding exception to this position is candidate Lawrence Dickens, who said, "I think (iiere is very little that a councilman can do by detinition It is really a policy making job. I don't want to CLEVELAND WILLIAMS ...wife charged in shooting ■nt youth i. li.tod ih f.ir that the i(i'> ot a councilman is condition at Wake Medical ^ . . evnter. .hero he we. .dmitled )<>»» lollowing the fhootuig. A Ltvliminai} hiring for ..... G«r<talie«ttt.u week u. Wake If“e'" I? Dickens .aid the council and Us men.bers could be able to CRJ Asks Hunt To Probe AG District Court He was reportedly identified by witnesses to the incident. Donnell, grand secreUry; and temporarily, waa held at 2 Mra. A.. P. CoUina, grand P t”- Monday, treasurer. Sen. Fred D. Alex- Funeral servicea lor Oark ander of Charlotte ia secretary were held at 2 p.m. Monday at of the Benevolent Department. Haywood Funeral Home. Bur- Mra. Elliabeth Dunt .n W foUowed In Mount Hope (See BISHOP AND, P. 2) Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mra. rlllfi I Geraldine Gark; a daughter, *'*'**® Ms. Gail Gark of Middlesex; a son, Ricky Gark of Middlesex; JVIllllI® a stepson. Hubert L. Gark of FAYETTEVILLE--An un- Raleigh; his mother, Mrs. easy silence prevails over this Maggie Gark of Ralei^; four military town as the trial of sisters, Mrs. Christine Hill and Terry Wayne McDougal con- Mrs. Dorothy Durham of tinues with district Atty. Raleigh, Mrs. Mary Gunter of Mant 49, Suicide In City? Held For Rape In Cemetery Black NC Museum ► PITTSBORO - A black history museum, the first of its type in the nation, will be (defeated in Pittsboro during the 28th season of the Chatham County Fair. The museum is different from others around the country in that slave and colonial artifacts and memor abilia will be housed in an authentic slave cabin moved onto the fairgrounds from its original site. Exhibits will trace, pictor- ially, the progress of black people from their beginning in America to the present. Special displays will depict the a- chievements of blacks in North Carolina. This marks the first step by the youth of Chatham County in their efforts to (See BLACK MUSEUM. P. 11) Edward Brannis slowly piecing together the events of January 6, 1977 at the Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville that preceded 17-year-otd Rick- y Miller’s death. Terry McDougal, 16 years old, is black and lives in the Cape Fear Public Housing project with his mother and sister. Released by the Cum berland County Grand Jury on Jan. 19 for first degree murder, Terry was reindicted by the Grand Jury on Feb. l, 1977 for second degree murder after D. A. Ed Grannis campaigned in (See IN KILUNG. P. 2) Apex and Mrs. Ethel Hymon of Norfolk, Va.; five brothers, Ernest, Rubin, Curtis and Robert of Ralei^ and Alphon- 80 Gark of Gamer. A check with the clerk of Wake District Court on Wed nesday of this week did not reveal the date of Miss McCoy's upcoming trial in Wake Superior Court. It could Je«es Mervin Bert, 49, of 404 Unsiiig, ww feend deed Teesdey ^tenieon at his raiidMce la what pellet btiitvt was a saiddt. Sgt. B. D. WIHlaais said, "The iavetHgatiaa is cantia- uiafl ot this tiait, but it appears have beta a suicide." Burt was feuad by Ms. Vielo Tayler Hbitea, of the soaie address. She was alleged to have beta ia aaetker reeai at the tiaie of the laeideat. Bert was shot in the chest, apparently with e .22 calibre rifla. He wes e native of lalelgh ead bed bean suffering freai an extended illness. Funeral errengeaients ere pending at Hoyweed Fuoeral Heaie. Joseph Hedgepeth, 30, 619 E. Hargett Street, who also uses the alias of Joe Chavis, was arrested last week and charged with raping a 16-year-old female in a cemetery, near his house. Raleigh detective J. C. Holder said Friday that the victim, Miss Theresa Muriel Johnson of 2604 Floyd Drive, told him that she was on her way to visit a friend about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, when she was grabbed from behind by a man, who allegedly held a hand over her mouth and a knife to her throat as he forced her into Gty Cemetery, which is locat ed in the 500 block of E. Hargett Street and the corresponding block of New Bern Ave. Hedgepeth was arrested In a k.ter to Gov Jam s B Hunt.Jr .thisweek iheUmted Church of (3irist Comintsaiun for Racial Justice has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investi gate all^atioos of impropriety within the Office of the Attorney General. The letter, prepared by Irving Joyner, follows: “Rec&it news accounts in two Raleigh daily newspapers reported that Deputy Attorney General Andrew Vanore was a participant in a poker game in October, 197‘). The news ac counts sugge: t that this poker game was p isibly one of a series being conducted by a {ambling syndicate. The news CJO T dlllOO iccounts further suggests that wx- particular incident was ijD covei^-up by Atty. Gen. Rufus •MO M. lUllllwU Eklmisten and that a morator- CHARLOTTE — Kelly M. ium of sort was declared as a Alexander, Sr., president of the r^ulf of it. N. C. Conference of Branches “Gambling is a crime in create more jobs. But he said most 01 this inducement would come from "somewhere other than the local level” because, “On the local level. I think the impact would be minimal.” Dickens said he would esti mate that the unemployment In District C is about 12 percent among adults, and 30 percent among youths, while the overall unemployment for Ral eigh is about 3.6 percent.” (See FIVE TALK. P. 2) Three-Day (See LOCAL RAPE, P. 2) Unions Rap Carter ot the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), announced here recently that the Lenoir County Branch of the organiza tion will host the 1977 annual convention Oct. 13-15 in Kins ton. Since this will be the first state meeting since Benjamin L. Hooks took office as (See STATE NAACP. P. 2) North Carolina. If Mr. Vanore was a participant in a gambling venture, then he is guilty of a crime and should not continue in his position as Deputy Attorney General. If he was not a participant in a gambling benture, then the “cloud of guilt” that presently hang over his head should be (See CRJ ASKS, P. 2) National Black Newt ServLe WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Coalition of Black Trade Minister Battling ‘Deprogram* (\atloaal Black News Service WASHINGTON. D.C. - Rev. John Lewis Price, the black pastor of the Faith Fellowship Baptist Church of Philadel phia, has zoomed into promi nence as a leader in the fight .against the controversial “de- ^ '^programming" issue. “Depro- A gramming" is a method of coercing religious sect mem- bers into renouncing their religion. Rev. Price, who also is vice m ment to focus on the nation’s 6.9 percent unemployment, Lucy emphasized, "We have to create a mass movement (See UNIONS RAP, P. 11) Unionists, consisting of 47 national and international un ions with 26 chapters across the country, recently lashed out at President Carter for not taking “positive action” to deal with the nation’s high rate unemployment. ^ “We are tired of rhetoric.” declared William Lucy, presi* ^ dent of the Coalition. “We need Hy 1 HQTC Two readers of The CARO- (Titn A • «• of Appreciation concrete action from the President to alleviate unem ployment. Black and poor people are feeling the burden. The country must begin to mobilize Washington to a full- employment concept.” According to Lucy, the issue of full emfdoyment has been put on the back-burner al though the President used full-employment as his major campaign issue. In advocating a mass move- LINlAn won $10 checks after they reported to The CARO LINIAN that they had found their names in advertisements on the Appreciation Money Page. Mrs. Maggie Harman, of 601 Bragg St., was listed in the Natural Health Foods adver tisement. and Len A. Scott, of 1512 Carnage Dr., was listed in (See APPRECIATION. P. 2) (See DEPROGRAM', P. 11) SAYS COST or HOMES A “NATIONAL CRISIS” — Washlagtoo — HUD SecreUry Mn. PatricU Roberts Harris, at a news confereace Aug. 28. calls the cost of hones a “Batlonal crisis” and said she will expand HUD’s study of price increases and seek a possible solution. She said she has asked the Council on Wage and Price SUblllty to Investigate “an Inexplicable but dramatic” lumber prices. (UPI) ’ rise in Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK HARLEY DAVIDSON OF RALEIGH "FOB THE BEST BIDING ON TWO WHEELS" J.AILFD IN "REST HOME” IMPRISONMENTS — Lo» Angeles — Mb. Lillian Gobert. wanted in Texas on charges of imprisoning mrntall> deficieol and disabled persons In a "Rest Home" and cashing their pension checks, was arrested by sheriff's deputies in I.OS .Angeles Aug. 28. Ms. Gobert Is shown In photo released Aug. 28 by th< l,os Angeles County Sheriff's Department. (UPI)
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