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VOL. 36 NO. 48
^orth Carolina’s Weekly
RALEIGH, N.C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. I‘)7
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MdCK.N'K.R.S ESC ORT COFFIN OF SLAIN LEADER - KlAg»UUain>lo»n. 8. .AIrk. - Somr
giving cirnrhpd fisc lalulr. moiirnprs mean coCfIn of black conaciouinrss leader .sieve Ilika. M.
Ihrough muddv street, of this c.iuiiship en route to Uctoria Stadium. Sept. 25.. oheri- a memorial
service »as held C ircuinsinnces surrounding the death oC Biko. »ho died Sept. 12 In a I-retoria
police cell while m police detention, have never been aatisCactorll.v explained
Af Wake Advaneement Center
Trailer Prison Opens
Energy
Session
Planned
“flEW YORK N Y The
^^N.XACf’ wjH hol.i a iwo-day
national vontf.fnce on the
Energv in Washington,
D. C 111 November. NAACP
leaders and representatives
troin iis mam tranches will
convene at the .Mavilower
Hotel, Nov 18-19 to consider
the potential impact ni energy
shortages on black and poor
eommuniliefi. and on black
economic devcl.jpment.
Secretary oi Energy James
SchleNS'ii>/er will give the
keynote address at the confer
ence’s opening session on Nov.
18. The conierees will also be
(See ENERCY, p. 2r
Lawyers
On Call
For Action
. Call For Action, in coopera- PRESENTS SPECIAL AWARD — Mrs. Dorothy NUon AUen.
foon with the Wake County Bar executive tirector of Wake County Opportunities, Inc,, is shown
Association will open a new presenting a special award last Friday night to William "Sonny"
avenue tor public access to Walker. Atlanta. Ga.. regional director for Region Four of the
^ lawyers with a special, Ask Community Services Administration. Walker was the banquet
the Uwver," on Thursday, speaker. (Seestorv).
Sept. 29, irom 4-8 p.m. ^ ^ w -w
Volunteer lawyers wUI provide Jkff0^g§ 1 of
legal intormalion to the publicAm ■f'W xol'
tor the cost ot a phone call by
answering the oti-the-air Call
For Action telephones. This
wdll enable the public to speak
directly and confidentially to
lawyers.
Miss Jeannette Hicks, di
rector of WRAL-TV's Cali For ence, held at the Royal Villa
Action, states that Call For Conterence Center in Raleigh,
Action is a nationwide tele- September 22-24. The purpose
Inmates’
Facility
Toured
Gbvemor James B. Hunt,
Jr. held his weekly press
conference last Thursday at
the Wake Advancement
Center in Raleigh, a
minimum security prison in
south Raleigh. The theme
and site of the conference
were compatible - over
crowding in the state’s
prisons.
Hunt's visit n^arked the
opening of a 32-hed modular
building, much like a home
trailer, constructed to accom
modate 32 inmates Viri'toihe
unit's opening. Wake .* Ivance-
meit had 85 prisoners in a
building designed tor a maxi
mum of 96. Including mo^ar
units, as the trailers are called,
the permanent prison facitUi-
ties, Hunt said by 1981 more
than 3,250 units will be added to
the almost 15,000 inmate
population.
(See TRAILER. P. 2)
Community Conference
BY KAY REIBOLD
IKe past weekend marked
North Carolina's first annual
Community Services Comer-
phone information and action
service, existing in 43 cities
across the United States. Elach
Call For Action is affiliated
with a radio or television
station.
WRAL's Call For Action is
joining 30 other Call For
Actions to offer citizens in
various communities the op-
portunitv to talk with lawyers
about their matrimonial prob-
w lems. landlord-tenant rights,
^ wills, insurance, etc.
One hundred sixty lawyers,
representing 30 local bar
associations, will be participa
ting in the national project.
of the conterence was to
provide a public forum tor
impact assessments and to
focus on Community Services
Programs from 1964-1977.
Community Action Agencies
throughtout the Southeast Re
gion were represented at the
conterence, along with numer
ous state and local oiticials.
Congressman Ike Andrews and
national director ot the Com
munity Services Administrat
ion, Mrs. Gracieia Olivarez,
were special guests ot honor.
On Friday, September 23, the
conference opended with a
welcome from the executive
director ot Wake County
Oportunities, Inc , Mrs.
Dorothy N. Allen. Following
her remarks. North Carolina
president ot the A.F.L.-C.I.O.,
Wilbur Hobbv, commented on
(See COMMUNITY. P. 2)
Companies
Backing
Equality
National Black News Service
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. -
Agreement bv 21 more U.S.
companies to support a State
ment ot Principles promoting
racial equalilv in South Africa
was announced recently by
Rev. Leon Sullivan, minister ot
(See COMPANIES. P. 2)
Candidates
Bartering
It ceeid all be in an# word,
nanaly, "altarad"; or la
aaethar, "palitiei"; ar
aaefhtr, "taebnalagy."
Two wtahi ago. Councilman
William "Bill" Knight ebarg-
ad that District C caadidato
Millard Fatbits, oao of foar
mtn lookiag Kaight'i loat on
tbo Raltigh City Council, hod
oRarad far campaign pur-
posoi a copy of city coancil
minutoi from Aag. 5, 1974.
Tbo point rovolvti around
two sots of copies mado for
tbo two politicians by City
Deputy Clorii Brenda Andar-
ton. In Fotbloi' copy, o
section appears to hove boon
blaciioned out and Knight
ehorgts that this it on
nhorotien by Ptebios.
But according to Poobloi, it
was highlighted in yellow in
the dork's copy ond come
out bitch in the copy. Ms.
Andersen, agrees and soys
that her copies for Knight did
net como oat the some way
possibly becaust of the use
of different copying ma
chines.
The issue is part of a debate
botwotn Knight ond Peebles
os to which of thorn ployed
the mere vital role it Ptcon
Bead, Rush Street improve-
mont.-WIUIE WHITE
CITED BY RALEIGH-APEX NAACP CHAPTER — As the Fail
Membership Campaign of the Raleigh-Apex Chapter of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) got underway recently. Mrs. Margaret Herndon, left,
was already "way ahead of the crowd." She is shown above
receiving the century gold pin from Mrs. Sarah Davis, an officer
of the chapter, for having registered more than 160 members
during the past 12 months. Mrs. Herndon Is chairperson of the
membership committee of the NAACP at First Cosmopolitan
Baptist Church here. This is the second year in a row that she has
registered more than 100 members. The Rev. Dr. Charles W.
Ward is president of the Raleigh-Apex NAACP chapter.
Women Of State
To Answer Sen.
3 Men
Robbeds
Attacked
Officers of the Raleigh
Police Cbpartment are in
vestigating three beatings
which took place between
10:25 and 12 midnight
Monday on Bragg Street,
near the Walnut Terrace
area. Two of the victims
were robbed. All three were
treated at Wake Medical
Center for their wounds.
It was reported that the three
beatings could be related and
police are working on this
angle.
Paul Morris. 27, a Roxboro
reeident. the first victim, told
police that he was "jumped
and beaten" up by between 8
to 10 men" on the comer of
Fayetteville Street, at its
intersection with Bragg (a-
cross 1 r 0 m Washington
School). Morris said he was
attacked around 10:2S p.m. He
was treated and released for
(See BEATINGS. P. 2)
District C candidates vary
In their reactions to recent
disclosures of racial dis
crimination clauses in
Mayor Jyles J. Coggins’
cemetery. Raleigh Memor
ial Park, with the strongest
reactions coming from
candidates George I. Han
dy and Millard R. Peebles.
Mrs. Isabella W. Cannon,
Coggins' mayoral oppo
nent, also voiced opposition
to Coggins on the issue.
Coggins' oiiice was to have
returned a call to The CARO
LINIAN Monday to discuss
campaign issues, but it did not.
When contacted Tuesday. Cog
gins' secretary said Coggins
"didn’t have time yesterday.
He will let you know when he
can work it in."
Peebles said ot the contro
versy. "The best I see. it dion’t
help him a whole lot. I read
where Rev. (Charles) Ward
(and other black leaders)
(See DISTRICT C. P. 2)
SHAW'S COACH SMALL
FILES PROTEST — Horace
Small, bead football coach at
Shaw Ualveratty, filed a formal
protest with the Central Inter
collegiate Athletic Aiaoclation
(ClAA) national office In
Hampton. Va. Sunday, protest
ing the Shaw Bears' 14-13
controversial loss to the Bron
cos of Fayetteville State
University here last Saturday
afternoon. (See story on Sports
Page).
Checks Won
By 3 Here
Three readers oi last week's
CAROLINIAN received $10
checks alter thev reported to
The CAROLINIAN oilice be
fore Monday's noon deadline
that thev had lound their
(See APPRECIATION, P, 2f
Dr. Elizabeth Duncan
Koontz, chairperson of the
riorth Carolina International
Women’s Year (IWY), has
called a press conterencp tor 10
a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, to
counter attacks upon the
organization by N. C Republi
can Senator Jesse A Heims. It
will be in the Chamber Room oi
the Downtown Hohdav Inn and
is open to the puhlie
In pre-conierenee releases.
Dr. Koontz said that the
organization was not invited to
be represented at hearings
Authority
Has Black
Majority
FAYETTEVILLE - The
Fayetteville Housing Authority
has a black majoritv on its
live-member board. For some
time, the authority has had a
majority ot black tenants. Two
blacks already on the board
were joined last Thursday bv a
third black. Elvis Lewis. Jr., a
load attornev Lewis, along
with Hawkins Stanton, who is
white, were sworn in bv Mavor
BetL Finch.
Warren Parker. acting
(See AUTHORITY. P 2)
which Helms held earlier this
month, and she said that she
wishes to "set the record
straight"
In a speech belore the Senate
(See WOMEN TO. P. 2)
Black yew CPB Veep
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tboddeus Garratt, Jr., a
comaiisiionar ea the Uaited Statas Consumer Product
Safety Commission, has beta aamad viet presMant for
Human Rasources Davelepment at tha Corporation for
Public Breodcasting. The aanouncomont of Garrott's
aloction was mado by CPI's Board of Diractors at Hs aanoal
moating horo rocontly. His appointmont is affoctivo Oct.
17.
Garrott was saloctad from among 396 oppliconts for tbo
corporotion's post croatod by tbo board.
Garrett, 29, was appoiatad to the Consumer Product Safoty
Commission by ProsMont Ford in Nov. 1976 ond was olactod
vKo chairman of tbo commission by his follow
cemmissionors. Bofort his appointmont, ho sorvod os
speeiol assistant to Vico Prosidont Holton Rockofollor one
odvisod tho Vico Prosidont on urban, minority, and
legislative affairs.
Revised Bakke Brief
Brings Group Relief
NEW YORK. N. Y. -
NAACP General Counsel Na
thaniel R. Jones last week
expressed relief over the
changes that were evident in
the briet that was tiled bv the
U. S. Department ot Justice in
a case that challenges special
admiiisions programs lor mi
norities at a Caliiornia univer
sity.
The NAACP previously had
protested to the White House
and the Justice Department
that the Carter Administra
tion's reporter position in the
Bakke case would have been
(See BAKKE CASE. P. 2)
ANNOl \CE .SMASHING OF CRIME RING — Detroit. .Mich. Police Chiel William A. Hart, left,
Robert E. Kent, center, special agent in charge of the Detroit FBI. and I S. Attorney James E.
Robinson, meet the press .Sept. 23 to announce the smashing of a S(i.:i million fencini' and narcotics
ring, along Hith the arrest of 136 persons. The raids netted everything friim Cadillacs and motor
homes to stolen fish. And was described b> the FBI as "one of the biggest of its kind ever." (I I’h
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AT Hi..Al'K C.XCCCS l.l'NCIIEDN — W ashington. D.C. — .4 Black Caucus Luncheon was held here
Iasi '-'riday night with }*resident Jimmy Carter as the principal speaker. Attending the luncheon
were, from lefl-lo-righi Mrs. i.lllte Mitchell. Mrs. Harold Ford, Rep. Harold Ford. D-Tenn.. Ms.
Claire Ford (Mi^s Black America), and .Mrs. Thomas Midlev. (CPI)