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