aji
i-C
US Congressmen Will
Visit Wilmington Ten
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Durin(i 66th NG AME Zion Session
Solons To
Church Racism Chided sltw^y
AROLINIAN
yorth Carolina’» Leading Weekly
VOL 37 NO. 1
\ (■. nil i;.''0\s,novkmbkk3.i»<7
SiNGLK COPY 20c
Whereabouts Not Revealed, But Miss Little
WASHINGTON, D C.
— A group of Congress
men will travel to North
Carolina Saturday, Nov.
5, to visit imprisoned
members of the
Wilmington 10 and hope
to meet with the gover
nor, Congressmen Don
Edwards (D-Calif.l and
-Parren J. Mitchell (D-
Md.) announced recent
ly.
Contacts Lawyer
★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★
HKIJ) .\S KOHliKiH' Sl'SPKCT — Hesearch I'riangle Park. .N.l. — Auihnniirs escori ,Neii .\.
Krowii. a suspect in the ruhberv iif u brunch bank here lust Krida>. where u uomun was shot.
Brown and Louis were hunted down in woods b> authorities usinu helicopters and
bloodhounds. (I'PI i
Millions
iVo Endorsements Made As Qo
Election Day Draws Near Pqj. JqJjs
To Speed Up Hiring
CETA Funds Shifted
J. Paul
BV W II.I.IK WHITE. SlafI Writer
District Ccandidates MilJard
y R. Peebles and William R
“Bill" Knight are coming to
the linish line tor Tue.sdav's
election in their citv council
tids, but neither has stirred a
rousing response irom the
city’s two leading political
organizations during the cam
paign.
Aa ot press time Wednesday,
neither the Raleigh-Wake Citi-
seos Association nor the Wake
iMtnocratic Black Caucus had
Issued endorsements, although
' caucus president Daniel Blue
said the caucus would probably
make endorsements in a
special call meeting Thursday
night.
When contacted Tuesday
attemoon, Raleigh-Wake Citi
zens Association president
Ralph Campbell was uncertain
what the association would do
about endorsements. He could
not be reached jor later
comments betore pres^ time.
^ Knight and Pe«bles are the
remaining candidates trom a
S-candidate primary. Knight is
^ a 2-term incumbent and Pee
bles is a challenger with
extensive work with the city
through B years on the Raleigh
WASHINGTON, D.C.
strong, historical ties to com- in Raleigh's black community, _ Xhe U.S. Labor OeDt.
munitv oriented groups, while though he has not as vet been has taken back nearly >3
Coggins is a strong business endorsed bv any black com- niiilion from local goy-
lavorite. He has strong support -J-* »
District C Polling Places
1 ||o to the following pull-
District C voters will go to tne following pi
ing places Tuesday as thev elect a dislrfct re
presentative to the city council, a mayor, two
al-laege councilmen, and a school board mem
ber. They will also vote on a number of bonds
and constitutional amendments.
Polling places are: Precinct IS, Clarence Poe
.School: Precinct 20, LucUle liunler ISchuol;
Precinct 22, Fire Station on Sanderford Kd.:
Precinct 25, Walnut Terrace Kecreational
Center: Precinct 26, Ligon High .School: Pre
cinct 34. Mao' E. Phillips School: and Precinct
35, Carnage Junior High .School.
Polls will be open from 6:3U a.ni. unti, 7:30
p.m.
million from local goy
ernments that delavod
hiring the uncmplo'vtd
lor federally funded
public jobs and reallb-
cated the money to locii-
lities that can fill the
jobs promptly
Woman Riding To Ala,
Strapped To A Cross
says she will ride irom Halifax
to Birmingham. Alabama Sal-
Planning Commission, three oi Female Is
which he spent as commission
chairperson.
Voters will also elect the
city’s next mayor irom a lield
which boasts incumbent J. J. C
Coggins and newcomer Isa- J'
OXFORD-Ms. Evangeline November 5 strapped
Grant Redding, a black author, “> “
Assistant
bella W. Cannon. Mrs. Cannon WASHINGTON D.C. ~ Dr.
hasgainedstrongsupporttrom g Wallace, an educator
groups and citizens with psychologist, last week
NAACP
Pickets
Consulate
’*to dramatize the sacrilice
adults must make to help black
youth.”
Ms. Redding said she chose
Halifax for starting because it
is in the heart ot North
Carolina's black belt and is
representative of the historical
and institutionalized suppres
sion and fatalism oi black
youth as any other place in
America.
Along the journey, she has
tentative plans to stop in
In may, the President signed
the Economic Stimulus App;*o-
priations Act, making av^l-
able $7.9 billion to in'reiA-^
public service employment
(PSE) openings trom 310,000 to
725,000 by early 1978 and
supporting the ^bs through
September ot that year.
Bv October 14, the 440 states
and local prime sponsors had
hired about 250,000 jobless
people. leaving 175,00 openings
to be tilled.
To make sure programs are
fully activated without delay,
the Comprehensive Employ
ment and Training Act (CETA)
authorizes the Secretary ot
Labor to reallocate any
amount he determines a
sponsor will not be able to use
within a reasonable period ot
time.
Based on pertormance re
views by the department's
Employment and Training
Administration in July,
$2,892,000 was taken trom
sponsors that tilled less than 70
percent ot the jobs thev
(SeeCETA FUNDS. P 2>
Reveals
Contaet
DURHAM - Civil
rights attorney Jerry
Paul said Monday that
he received a telephone
call from JoAnne Little
while he was serving a 9-
day contempt of court
sentence in Wake County
Jail. Following his
release from jail last
Saturday. Paul said
JoAnne used a code
name when she called to
the jail and he returned
her call.
“We will visit Wayne Moore
and Joe Wright in the prison at
Raleigh and hope to meet with
Governor James Hunt. We
would like to discuss the case
with him and also urge him to
respond to the pardon petition
prepared by Wilmington 10
attorney, James Ferguson,”
Eldwards said. The petition
requests either a pardon or a
commutation ot sentence.
The Wilmington 10, nine
black men and one white
woman, were convicted ot
tire-bombing a white-owned
grocery store and sentenced to
a total ot 282 years in prison.
Eight ot the men were in high
school at the time and except
tor minor trattice records,
there was no previous law
violation. The woman is the
only one not now in jail.
Congressman Mitchell, who
is chairman ot the 16-member
Congressional Black Caucus,
said, ‘The racial injustices
which prevail in America are
outrageous, but I am confident
that we will be successful in
overcoming the oppressive
torces that exist in North
Carolina and throughout this
country.”
AMONG MOST POWERFUL — New York ~ Rep, Barbara
Jordan. D-Tex., was selected as one of “America's Ten Most
Powerful Women” by Harper's Bazaar magazine Monday.
According to the publication, “After only 4 years in the House of
Representatives, she already commands more national
recognition than most of her colleagues can look forward to in a
lifetime.” (UPh
Bishop Shaw Takes
The Church To Task
was named assistant secretary Greensboro because ot the civil
tor administration ot the U. S.
Department ot Agriculture.
Dr. Wallace is the trist black
woman to be an assistant
secretary at the department.
Her appointment was made bv
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The fUr
Bergland, with the concur
rence ot President Carter,
NAACP last week joined a
number ot national and local
organizations in picketing the
South Airican Consulate to
protest the recent intensiiicut-
^ ion 01 racial repression in that
counlrv.
Carrying picket signs that
said “South Africa Lift Ban on
Black Newspapers” and
“South Africa Release Politi
cal Prisoners,” the NAACP
statters marched quietly tor
nearly two hours Saturday
along New York’s prestigious
Park Avenue at 55th Street,
where the consultate i.s located.
Leading the NAACP contingent
was Mrs. Margaret Bush
Wilson, chairman ui the Board
ot Directors. Glostcr B. Cur
rent, deputy to the executive
director, organized the nine-
man contingent ot N.AACP
executives on the ime. In all.
about SO people picketed the
consulate.
The NAACP joined the
protests as a member ot the
Emergency Coalition tor Hu
man Rights in South Airica.
The other members are the
American Committee on Ai-
"^ca, Association ot Black
Journalist (NYi, Black Coun
cilon Airica, Black Enterprise,
Black Tuesday, Community
Church. Encure magazine,
National Council ot Negro
Women, National Urban Lea
gue. One Hundred Black Men.
(SeePICKETS.? 2)
rights activities there in the
196os. She also plans to stop at
Barber Scotia College in
Concord, the school attended
bv Marv MeLeod Belhune. She
will go trom there to the
Tuskegee Institute in Ala
bama.
Her tinal stop will be at
Decision
Reversal
Sought
WILSON - At the 66th
annual session oi the (^pe
Fear Ckmterence, A.M.E. Zion
Church, which closed hm
Sunday, October 30, alter a
6-dav meet at St. John Church.
Bishop H.B. Shaw presiding w ^
and U.e Rev. A. F. iHStltUte
hard on U in his annual address
and seeming unconcern oi the
“white church” ot the biblical
reading, "One oan chaste a
thousand and two can put
(See CHIDED. P. 10)
In her new post. Dr. Wallace Birmingham's Sixteenth Street
will oversee the department’s Baptist Church, where tour
management programs, in- black girls died in a 1963
eluding personnel, data pro- bombing.
(See FEMALE IS. P. 2i < See ALA. RIDE. P 2>
The State Court ot Appeals
was asked Monday bv at
torneys lor the Wilmington Ten
to overturn a decision denying
a new trial tor the group,
claiming the judge oi Superior
Court acted improperly in the
case.
(SeeHEVEHSAL, P,2)
host pastor, demonstrated
much concern over the talilure
ot the church to wield greater
influence in destroying the
greatest enemy to democracy
-racism.
Bishop Shaw came down
Features
H, Lee
Miss,*s
Decision
Is Hailed
Blacks have made progress
within the past tew years, but
much ot that progress has been
over-rated. N.C. Natural and
Economic Resources Secre
tary Howard Lee told a group
ot black journalists and pub-
Ms. Little disappeared trom
the North Carolina C^orrectioo-
al Center tor women Oct. 15
and was discovered missing by
prison otticials at the evening
head count. Authorities have
since concentrated searches in
the Noriolk, Va. and Raleigh
areas.
While not disclosing the
entire contents ot his con
versation with Ms. Little, Paul
said “She wants to work out a
strategy to deal with the
pressures and live a normal
live.”
Ms. Little became internat
ionally known during her
struggle to avoid conviction in
a 1975 murder trial lor the ice
pick slaving ot a Beaufort
(>)univ jailer, Clarence AUJ-
good. A jury acquitted her and
found that Alligood attempted
to rape her and she killed him
in selt-detcnse. Her trial and
acquital constitute one ot the
most celebrated trials ot recent
times, attracting the support ot
hundreds ot organizations and
individuals around the world.
Ms. Little was in prison,
serving a 7-10 vear sentence tor
breaking and entering and
larceny, which she was await
ing appeal trom when she was
attacked bv Alligood. Follow
ing her acquittal tor Alligood’s
death, she was unable to over
turn the breaking and entering
convictions in state courts.
Immediately tollowing Ms.
Little’s disappearance, Paul
said she was "torced to
e^ape” because ot pressures
trom prison otticials. That
REP. PARREN J. MITCHELL
Queries
Agency
Policy
Ushers at Research Triangle, information he said, was
last weekend.
Lee was among noted politi
cal, social, economic, and
(See INSTITUTE, P. 2)
Appreciation
NEW YORK — The NAACP
Saturday expressed joy over
the decision by the Mississippi
Supreme Court that reversed
and dismissed a $240,000 Ubel
suit that State Highway Pa
trolman RotertE. Moody had Checks Claimed
won against the Association.
To be returned is the $262,000 ^
cash bond that the Association Aicrc
had posted to laciUUte its Three readers ot last week’s
appeal. CAROLINIAN were winners ot
'Dlls victory, although wel- 110 checks each alter thev
corned, in no wav attects the reported that thev had found
more severe $1.25 million their names in advertisements
judgment against the NAACP on the Appreciation Money
that had been won by a group ot Page.
Port Gibson merchants in the Ms. Dora L. Scott, ot 105
Hinds County Chancery Court Pettigrew, was listed in the
last vear. That suit is being Caraleigh advertisement; Jas-
appealed in a higher state per Mial, Jr., ot 1023 Holmes
(See MISS DECISION. P, 2» (See APPRECIATION. P 21
w ^ w » ^
attained when Ms. Little called
him bv telephone trom the
prison the day betore her
disappaerance.
WASHINGTON. D.C. - The
Civil Service Commission,
administrator ot the federal
government's merit system, is
being questioned about its own
equal opportunity proftram.
The interogation is said to be
led by Ginton Smith, a black
who is serving as executive
vice chairman ot the Inter
agency Advisory Group and as
director ot the Commission's
Equal Employment Opport
unity unit.
Smith is reported to have
urged chairman Alan
Campbell in a memo to take
disciplinary action against
high otticials at the Commis
sion tor possible obstruction
and intenerence in the proces
sing ot complaints oi diMrinin-
t See POLICY OF. P.2)
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
DISCl'SSING SOI Til .AFRIC A — United Nations. N.V. - Ambassador Andrew Young (L) of
the United States and William Barton of Canada, address Security Council here Oct. 31 prior to
that body's lti-(i vote approx ing a blandly vorded resolution strongly condemning massive
\iolence and killings as an outgrowth of South Africa's apartheid policies. In earlier voting, the
U.S.. Britain and France veltM'd atleinpls by black .Airican nations on three hardline resolutions to
impose mandatory ec<niomic and arms embargoes against the racist South .Airican regime. (UPl)
•JEFFRIES JEWELERS
'TOR TNE FINEST GEMS IN TOWN”
REfHilE J.ACKSON FOUND INNOCENT — New York —
Chris Howe, I i. of the Bronx, and Yankee star outfielder Reggie
Jackson (R i. talk to reporters Nov. 1 after Judge Harold Enten
found Jackson innocent of charges of harassing the youth. The
boy had charged that Jackson chased him around a parking tot
after the \II-Slar game and “stomped” him on the wrist. (UPI)