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Sl^an t j vwfc., a. Following ‘Crowded’ District C Primary Incumbent Knight 9 Peebles In Runoff Nov, 8 it it 'k ★ ★ ★ 34th Annual Sessions Of State’s Election NAACP Meets Begin Awaked THE CAROLINIAN North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 36 NO. .50 RALEIGH, N.C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1977 SlNGl.E COPY 20c Murder indictments Dismissed Against Men Jury ‘Unfair’ STAFF WRITER Incumbent Raleigh City Councilman William R. “Bill” Knight and former Planning Com mission Chairman Millard R. Peebles emerged from Tuesday's primary as the can didates who will battle through to the Nov. B election. In a contest of five can didates. Knight led with 757 votes. Peebles fought his way into the run-off with 538 votes. In the At-Large race. Incum bent Jack B. Keeter, William H. Wilson, Robert Nowell. Jr., and (See ELECTIONS. P.2) ★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ Taken Off Work Release In Raleigh-Miss Little’s Appeal Looms Decision ATLANTA’S MAYOR AND NEW BRIDE —RIOIMOND. Va.: Fresh from his Ocl. 5 landslide recleclion as mayor of .Atlanta, Maynard Jackson raises his glass in toast to his new bride. Valerie Richardson, of Richmond. The couple were married in a small private, ceremony Oct. 7 in Rich mond. It is Jackson’s second marriage, and Miss Richardson’s first. The couple will honeymoon i** France. (I'l’l) NNPA Headf Chambers To Address Black Press Meet enter, desi eedsjof M le live si; irg/nia, I Set By Director CHAPEL HILL — Dr. Carl ton B. Goodlett, president ot the National Newspaper Pub- li^rs Association, and civil rights attorney Julius L. Chambers, president ot the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, headline a list ot newsmakers and newspaper experts part icipating in the First Annual (Donterence ot the Southeastern Black Press Institute, October 20-30 in the Research Tringle Park. The Institute is a new research and development center, designed to address the needs] of Mack newspapers in the irve states ot Maryland. Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and the iSee INSTITUTE, P 2i Masons Continue To Help Causes WINSTON-SALEM — The main event of the 107th communication ot the Moat Worahipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Acc^ed Mastma. JuriadicUon of North Carolina, tool place after the head of the Legal Defense Fund, Attomev Julius Cham bers, delivered a blistering attack on the Board of Governors, Liiiversity of N. C. System, at the Fellowship and Recognition Banquet, held in Benton Convention Center at 8 p.m. on October 5. Chambers was the principal speaker and minced no words (SeeNC MASONS. P.2) SAACP Will Meet Sun. -Apex Chapter of the NAACP will meet Sunday, Oct. 16, at RICH Park in .Method at 4 p.m. The public is invited to at tend. The Rev. Dr. C. W. Ward is president, t Dr. King Lashes US * Materialism^ Ms. JoAnne Little has applied t( Jte Director of Prisons for a reversal of charges by the Prison DiscipLine Committee that on Sept. 13 and 14 she violated the rules of her work release program and took unauthorized leave. Ms. Little, serving a prison term for a breaking and en tering conviction, was working in the dental office of Dr. D. P. Lane after gaining widespread attention in the ice pick slaying of a Beaufort County jailer. She was acquitted in 1975, but her whereabouts and welfare con tinue to be of general public in terest. Lane said Tuesday, “1 am not making any statements. You have to get all your statements'' from her attorney. Ms. Little is represented by Attmiieys David Best and Ernest Ratliff. Reverses Johnston Findings REMOVED FROM RALEIGH JOB — Ms. JoAnne “ Washington. D.C. — Rep John Conyers, Jr., I>-Mich. Little, who was removed from her work at the office of a Raleigh dentist last week for , niU>ing two doyt of work, hai TuMda.v, that a friend SMITHFIELD - Superior Court Judge E. Maurice Braswell ren dered invalid Tuesday murder indictments against two black men, charged in the murders of two Johnston County white men, after calling SAYS COURT BRIEF FILED the indictments “gross irregularities” in the handling of jury selec- tnember ol the Congressional tionS by COUrt officials in Black Caucus, told a news con- thcCOUnty. WM. R. KNIGHT appealed her case to the Direc- of-the-court brief has been tiled tor ot Prisons. See story. (UPI) ■>> »"• Allan Bakke medical school case. Kinston Host City For NAACP Talks CHARLOTTE — Delegates to the 34th Annual Convention Woman fs Counsel ^For GSA National Black News Service WASHINGTON. D. C. — Attorney AUie B. Latimer, who has nearly 20 years’ service with the General Services ^iministration as a lawyer, was recently sworn in as general counsel of the huge federal agency. She is the f^nst black and first woman ever to serve in that capacity for GSA and to achieve a GS-18 level in the agency. GSA Administrator. Jay Sol- (SeeGSA COUNSEL. P.2) DURHAM - Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., speaking at Duke University Chapel Sun day lashed out against what he termed “misplaced emphasis on material things by America. “He reemphasized the fact that men are more than their brothers’ keeper. He said they Display On Fire Set For City are their brothers’ brother. The lather oi the slain civil rights leader greeted the overflow crowd with a triendly gesture, but immediately launched into a thunderous sermon about hate. King said people must realize “this is God's world. Man isn’t good or just engouh to run it.' Citing the etiorts ot his son vvT during the civil rights struggle y/y OtUdl M. 0(9 01 the 1960s. King expressed deep concern aboul Uie per- Ql*ForCC RaUiff said Wednesday mom- ot the North Carolina NAACP ing Uiat he and Ms. LitUe ex- or* coming to Kinston, from pect Prisons Director Ralph A Edwards to reach a decision on tUflOUVlCCS the appeal by Friday. A Outreach decision to uphold the disciplinary committee could hinder Ms. Little's effort to gain parole, though Ratliff said that it would not be an absolute, determioitive factor in her requests for parole. (SeeMS. L1TTLE.P.2) Schedule more than 90 branches across the state and will begin arriving on Thursday, October 13th, at the Holiday Inn ot Kinston, which is the convent ion headquaritrs. Milton E>ove. president oi the Lenoir County Branch oi the NAACP, which is hosting the convention said, “The area NAACP branches will have opportunity to meet, see and hear the largest number oi The judge made it clear, however, that the charges against the men tor the alleged June 3 murders oi a young police otticer and a Benson truck driver had not been dropped and declared that a new grand jurv could re-indict them at an” time. Judge Braswell chastised the 3-member Johnston County jurv commissitH) for allowing the clerk of Johnston Superior MlUARD R. PEEBLES (SeeJURY UNFAIR’.P.2) President Appoints 3 Marshals Minority tormance ot school systems In observance ot Fire Pr evention Week, displays by the Raleigh Fire Department are open to the public from 1-9 p.m. daily throu^ Oct. 15 at the 14 (SeeFIRE.P.2) across the nation in their attempts to desegregate. “Segregation in America may be dead,” he quipped, “But when we gonna have the funeral, I don’t know.” (SeeDR.KING. P 2) Nalioiial Black Newt Service WASHINGTON, D. C. — Some 2.2 million minority mothers were in the work force in March ot 1976, according to a report, “Working Mothers and Their Children,’’ just published by the U. S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau. This represents 44 percent of all minority women workers and 58 percent of minority (SeeWORK FORCE. P.2» Project Outreach is a service of Wake County Legal Aid Society. October marks the start of the third year of providing free legal services to needy clients in rural Wake County areas. In an attempt to upgrade these services, a Legal Aid representative will now be available once a week in the towns of Wake Forest. Zebulon, Holly Springs, and Apex. Fh^viously, legal aid \^ita were limited to once a month, and the Fuquay-Varina site has been replaced bv Holly Springs. The new schedule of Project Outreach, eftective (October 17. will be as follows: Holly Ex-Ligon Sprinter Is Buried (See OUTREACH. P.2) Economic Talks Set A conference on the econo mic siluaMon oi Wake County will be held Monday, October 31. at 1:00 p.m. (registration at 12:30) at McKimmon Center at N. C. State University. The conference, which is open to the public, has been called by Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., to help North Carolina develop a policy on balanced growth and economic develop ment. State government represent atives w^ill join Cfeorge Step hens %o\ ^Stephens Associates and Betty Ann Knudsen, Chair person. to discuss the specific issues lacing Wake Countv. Hunt termed the conference as an “iniormalion-galhering ses sion,’’ as well as an opporunity tor state governmeni to hear local citizens’ ideas on improv- Participants will divide into three suh-groups for round table discussions on agricul ture. the manufacturing and processing industry, and serv ice industries, including trans portation, finance, wholesale and retail sales and tourism. The purpose of the confer ence is to find out what locr’ communities believe are th^ < See ECONOMIC. P 2) Charles Freddie Stewart, age 32. known to his tamilv and many friends as “Knock, died Friday, September 30, 1977 after a month’s struggle and strong tight to live from severe bums received irom an auto accident. He died in Chapel Hill Memorial Hospitals Burn Cent er. Funeral services were hold on Thursday, October 6, at First Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Raleigh. Burial was in the Stewart Family Cemetery in Johnston County. A car. driven bv Tonv Mitchell Holder ot Rt. 2. Vass. traveling on U.S i, rammed into ihe rear ot “Knock’s” car Upon impact, the car caught lire. John Owen, Cliiei of the Carv Recued Squard, said a (SeeEX-LIGON.P.2) WASHINGTON, D. C. — Presidemt Carter last week nominated three blacks to serve as U. S. Marshals. The President has pledged to bring more blacks into the nation’s judicial and enforcement a- reas. Nominated were: G. William Hunter, Oakland, Calif., to be U. S. attorney for the Northern District of Cali fornia. Hunter, 34, received a J. D. from Howard University Law School in 1970 and an MRS. IDA W. KNIGHT Candidate’s Manager SeesApathy After weeks of hard cam paigning, the live candidates in District C attracted to the LL.M. trom the University of polU 2,097 of the district’s 7,333 California’s Boali Uw School registered voters in Tuesday's in 1971. He worked for the primary. And rightly or Alameda County Legal Aid '*Tonglv.allfiveofthem-anda Society trom 1970 to 1972, and campaign manager. Mrs. Ida tor Berkeley Neighborhood W Knight - gave this diagno Legal Services during 1972. sis: apathv- From 1973 to 1976, he was with Millard Peebles, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Otfice, and since 1976 he has been with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Oiiice. Rutus A. Le’^is, Montgo- merv. Ala., to be U.S. Marshall former Planning Commission chair man and remaining challenger to incumbent Wm. “Bill’’ Knight, said. ’T think it's ridiculous for the turn-out to be like that.” Knight said apathy tor the Middle District of apparent Tuesday and said Alabama. Lewis. 69, received a that too many ot his supporters B. A trom Fisk University in ‘‘elt that I was going to win 1931. He has been an Alabama anyway.” (Sees .MARSHALS, P. 2) (See CANDIDATE'S. P. 2) Appreciation Check Wnner Mrs. Martha Hammond, ot 531 E. Cabarrus St., and James Nettles, of 849 Campanella Ln., were winners ot $10 Appreciat ion Money checks after they reported to The CAROLINIAN oitice that thev found their ing North Carolina's standard names listed in the Appreciat- 01 living. (See APPRECIATION, P.2) SAY.S USD LEFT HIM DI.SABLED — OAKLAND. Calif.: A former arnij private said Ocl. 7 he was surreptitiously given USD as part of an army interrogation In a spy case in Europe and that the experience left him psychotogicaily disabled. James ThornweN. 4K. is shoHii relating how the incident with the hallucinogenic drug causes him to feel "like someone drilled a hole in my head and left it open.” Thornwell said he found out only a few days ago that he was the subject of the experiment which his attorney. Harvey Kletz trear> was able to rimuiiient through the freedom of information act. (I'PI * Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK HCDSON-BELK DEPT. STORES "WHERE ECOROMY ALWA YS FREVAtLS" AT l,OCAL POLUS — Ms. Onelia Foxwell receives ballots and directions from poll workers. Ms. Motres Y. Pridgeun and M». Prin>rn>e .lackson Tuesday at Carnage School, polling place for Precinct 35.
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