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The Carolinian
VOL. 37 NO 20
yorth Carollna*$ Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY. MARCH 23,1978
SINGLE COPY 20c
JL’Dr.F A.E. ROBINSON. JR.
Black Judge]\{xes
Mine Work Order
WASHINGTON, DC. - A
black tederal judge reiused
Friday to extend a temporary
restraining order directing
i'.riking soil-coal miners to
return to work, in eiiecl
permitting the 160,000 union
miners to remain on strike
legally while they consider the
latest contract oner.
U. S. District Judge Aubrev
E. Robinson. Jr . who said the
miners "are not paving atten
tion to what 1 dc anvhOH," set
March 28 tor a heanng cm a
permanent injunction tor the
102-da\ -old coal strike. The
iojunctinn «as granted on
March 9 iiiide' authontv oi the
Tatt-Hartiev Aci ' the request
01 President Carter
Robinson took his aciron as
utility ojiicials m the areas
aiiected bv the L'nited Mine
Workers strike said the eiectri'
dry crisu caused b\ the strike
had eased, thanks to increased
ihipnenli oi non-union coal,
heavy pui chases oi power
produced elsewhere and mild
er weather
Utiliities serving Wes Vir
ginia, Pennsylvania. Ohio and
other states had leared wide
spread lavoiis and large-scale
mandatory power curtailments
because oi the strike.
Meanwhile, it was becoming
increasingly evident Firdav
that the strikers, who walked
out Dec 6 when the old
three-year contract expired,
were not iinancially prepared
to go without pay tor more than
three months.
As 200,000 copies 01 the latest
contract oner, approved bv the
UMW's bargaining council
Wednesday night, were being
distributed through the coal-
lields tor a vote bv the
members, the proposal was
drawing mixed reaction. The
ratiiication vote is scheduled
March 24. Good Friday.
Man, 20, Held For Murder After His
Grandmother Slain
★ ★★ ★★★
Wake Superintendent Murphy Perplexed
School8*Fus8* Advance8
Tarheel
Native Is
Murdered!
N.C.A.E.
Ground
Broken
Education leaders and local
government oiticials broke
ground at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
March 18. tor a new education
center in downtown Raleigh,
The 38,400-square-ioot NCAE
Center will house the state
headquarters oi the North
Carolina Aaaociatioo ot Edu
cators (NCAE). which with its
8UJOO members in the largeat
proiesaioaal asaociatioo in the
state. The building ia seen as a
.SecGROUND IS. P.a>
KEP. DIGGS
INDICTED >- WASHINGTON:
The JiuUce Departmeat bad bo
ronnent March 17 on a report
columalst Jack Aaderseo
that U. 8. Rep. Charles Diggs,
Jr.. D^Mkh.. wiU be Isdicted
this week. The indictneat
Items from alie^^tians that
UIms padded the leiarlea el
coBgrrsaieeal aides, who la
tarn, esed the extra mtarnty le
pay aff Diggs* psrssesl debts,
Anderson reported. tUPl)
Officer Blaylock
Hit With Pipe
Raleigh Detective Joapeh
Blaylock, a lormer
CAROLINIAN newscarrier,
was allegedly assaulted bv his
16-vear-old son with a heavy
ircHi bar as the lather came into
(he iront door last Monday at
about noon. The eldm* Blaylock
was struck on the head,
according to Police Detective
Lt. Horace Moore.
A detective in the Juvenile
WcA I Hen division. Blavlock was treated
tiv.-day weath.r Walie Medical Center tor a
about one inch in diameter.
Detective Blavlock managed
to subdue the boy, Moore
staled. He is then said to have
called "the law" and obtained
an ambulance tor himteli.
Detective Moore said young
Blavlock told ouiceri that he
struck his tather because he
was airaid ot receiving a
beating tor running away irom
home.
(See BEATS DAD. P. 2)
SUFFOLK, Va. - Ac
cording to information
furnished tw the office of
the Chief ofToUce to The
CAROLINIAN this week,
Michael Williams. 20.128
S. 5th St., an alleged dope
addict, was arrested and
chargra with the murder
of his grandmother, Mrs.
Polly Beamon, 63, a
native of Creedmoor,
N.C.
Additional information re
vealed that the slain woman
operated a beauty parlor near
her home and was wak^ on a
customer when she rapwtnbii-
ed that she bad left aame
clothes in her house. She is ra-
poctad as havma inti ifci nn 111-
Rter to pennit her Id faaad them
out aad she wehU rshn. Uie
information fuHhar revgaM
that ahortly tiler she left b*
place of buslneas, a shot vs
hearil and investigation ftfml
that she bad been mordma
It is believed that MichaW
was in the hnuea and shot her
Mrs. Riiann was bom and
rearediflONedmoor. N.C. She
also (MHMed the schools of
GranviBt County. She married
Oscar Beamon and had lived
here tor a number oj vesn.
Funeral .vervicea were held
Gangland
Slaying?
GOLDSBORO — The
body of an unidentified
black female, around
25 years of age. was
found floating In
Durham Lake, south of
here Saturday. Wayne
County Sheriff W. A.
Adams said. The
woman's body, Adams
said, had been weight
ed down by a concrete
block. atUched to her
by a rope. Her hands
had been tied behind
her with a sweater.
The body has been sent
to Memorial Hospital
in Chapel Hill for an
autopsy. No leads had
been discovered at
C.\ROLINIAN press
time.
SMITHFIELD - The
death penalty trial of
James Henry Smith, Jr.,
29. (Hie of two black men.
both originally chargM
in the murders of a white
police officer and a white
(ruck driver last year,
has ended. Smith was
sentencred to two life sen
tences after plea bar
gaining Monday of this
week.
David Ezra Stewart. 26.
charged along with Smith, in
the June 3,197/ slaymgi, plead
ed no cofltebt to two charges of
accessory after the fact of mur
der and one count of aiding and
abetting in armed robbery.
Stewart, who claimed he
went along for the ride last
June that resulted in the two
murders, was sentenced to 30
years in prison Tuesday td this
week.
Superior CkNirt Judge Harry
C. Martin sentenced David
St'*;"'**'' of Benson, to 22-24
(SeeMANCIVEN.P.jl
Parents
Attend
Meeting
BY Wli.UE WHITE
Suff Writer
The Wake County
Board of Education
Monday night took 3
significant actions in a
long, often tense
meeting, attended by
scores of parents.
Among other actions
taken, the board gave
B rovisional approval to I
le magnet school con
cept, moved 240 students _
from Broughton High B/f ¥«
School to Enloe High, Ivian 18
and refused to give Supt.
John Murphy a vote of
confidence.
PAUL POIVELL
Amoni the black parent,
•paakina balon the Ktaal a-
liciala »ere Prancia L. Ro
bert*. a teacher at BrgufbtcD,
who repreiented the Blach
Parent. Aanectatise. nnd who
addresaed Ike Enloe enrcll-
ment and the magnet echool
concept; George Jonee, repre-
ISeeSCHOOLS. P.2)
At Wilmington Ten Demonstration
ra«MXY DMARMEO— DETROIT. M^mbm sf the DetrsU
PS^ DvpatUMM iwsb U disarm a fli>>var-aM mas whs
buKuM klwaslf ta I* baiwv March M aad hrid paMcv sQ vllh
a sAgw tar ahsat (ws ha«r*. PMke said the man fired three
shata at Ibea, hot they dM aat retara the fire. At oae paint H
•Sh. nad he was going ta turn the weapon oa himself, police said.
Instead, be sarreadered. flie maa to beiag held for eOservalioB
to Detroit General Hespital. poUce said. (UPI>
when she Mtomdftunnw
Rideigh Singers Thrill Over
law."
lOfOOO Protestors In D.C,
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Raleigh, North Carolina was
l-represented here last Sal-
iffdav at noon as a well-known
here Monday”i;ining': *°?fl***1f ®f®-
bo^ was carried to the Piney Mamie Watson ft>pe
(See GRANDMOTHER. P. 2)
The
forecast for the .Tiod of
Wednesday through Sunday is
as follows: Partly cloudy skies
will prevail, along with unsea
cut on the lorehead and
released.
Joseph Orlando Blavlock, the
alleged assailant, was placed
rM.bly'.7rm»r",lh;rt;ru.is “«•
beginning of the Spring season.
8500 bond, pending a hearing on
I lUK lacaiiavii. , , • , . T
High, Urdncdav »rr. in thr 'h* charge, ot aseadt wtth a
„pLr60,.ndlo.,Wrdnr,d.y (ted-Uv weapon. .nll.ct.ng ser-
nigh. In the 30,. .Sklr, are .0.^ bothiv injurv.
trd to hr clrar oyrr Utr ■''P""*'
•Utr Thur,day with high, in vonth had^ away iron, home
the 00. and low 70,. Clondy end had been mutatog lor »>me
skies are predicted for Friday u i ■«* » u ,
^ a- j Jew - chw,.... is s'ud to havc returned
throagh Sunday with • home Monday and when hia
ot .bower, sanday. A high- ^.^or entered Ihe door around
pre..urr,y..rm. located ov^ 5 youngster
‘L' a !"a , reportedly alruck him wiUi Ihe
brt.k wind, to the .tale Wed- measured
about three leet long and was
Holdg Firm On Hiring
Little has changed in the battle between the
City of Ralei^ and the Office of Revenue Shar
ing concerning the hiring of minorities and
women.
In a council meeting Tuesday night, the
council maintained its previous 7-1 stance
against the federal agency's demand that
hiring and promotion patterns for minorities
and women be changed. The problem focuses
on the lack of women hired, and the number of
minorities in higher level jobs.
Councilman Wm. R. "BlU" Knight is the only
city official standing with the federal agency.
He said the citv's arnment that the demanded
changes would resuft in the dismissal of many
lower level blacks (such as sanitation workers)
“is a smoke screen." Proper planning wo*tld
avoid major difficulties in this area, he said.
Hod her Gospel Ittspiralon ot
Jiet city set the heaiis ot more
than 10,000 denumstralors "oa
tire" during a proieat tor the
releaae ot the Wilmmonn, N.C.
Ten. At u»e Ti» the
demonstration. President
James Earl (JUnmv) Gorier.
Jr., at whom the protest was
aimed, was out ot the stale.
Carter was being urged to tree
the Ten."
Hie event was billed as the
National March on the While
House. Included among the
participants were Ms. Angela
Davis, avowed Communist and
a leader in civil rights activist
jtm
movements. Ms. Davit is
national co-chairman ot the
sptmaoring organizatioa.
The national march was
sponsored bv the North C^ro-
(See PROTESTORS. P 2i
Distin; wished Black
Publishers Enshrined
Tioo Readers
. Ss ’W„ We,k-.
" StfSs Appreciation
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Five
distinguished black newspaper
publiabert, whose Journals
were launched during (he
1866-07 era, were enshrined
here in (be Black Press
Archives and Gallerv at Ho
ward Universilv bv the Na
tional Newspaper Pubiishers
Association (NNPA) on Fri-
dav, March 17.
The ceremony enshrining the
ditiinguished publishers was
held in the National Press Club
Ballroom during a Black Press
Week luncheon. The speaker
was William O. Walker, editor
and publisher ot the OeveUnd
Call and Post and dean ot the
Black Press.
During (he ceremony at the
National Press Hub. NNPA
president Carlton B. Goodell,
editor-publisher. San Francto-
iSec PUBLISHERS. P tt
.M \.VM\ K I SI At.El> — Na%li« ilto. Tran - .SrArral llMaMBd kiga aavtog draianrtra-
toro gnthrrrd on Utr plau at Tcanr-ber'k .Sutr l 'ap*U>t \Urrb IS far thr uari el a praiest agatost
Afrttan rik, ihni dtidlbr Da\ ( ti^ : -mo m^ulirN tWMr<-u ikr I .S aad.SauOi Vfrira.
Two readers ot 'nst week’s
CAROLINIAN tound lhau-
names listed in advertisements
on the Appreciation Mooev
Page, reported them to the
Mike bctorc the Mondav noon
deadline, and received $10
checks aech.
The reedara were Fanoar
Brvam m no Bdtoon Rd., who
was hatad in the Bakar's Shot
advertiaement, and Benjamin
MrOiUm, M Sll King Richard
Rd.. who was listed in the
Flower Mari advertiaement.
Ms. Marv Jane Smith, oi 610
Glenbrook Dr , wm listed k
the DizoohSpeoaer TV, loc.
adverttoemaai. but did not
report the name beiore the
daadhM.
Three namaa are Ustad on
this week's Appreciatiaa
Mooev Page. It is on the back
M the iroBi aectiea.
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
PKKSLY WKtIJI.Y -
FOOD htorf:s i
ttnufmmiaronvmTmKmjmauutrAtir ,
ED HALL. JR.
...MBg at While Heeae
Mrg, Hayeg
Elected
Mrs. Margaret Charles
Haves was rieeted Southern
Reginal Directar m Tau Gam
ma Deha Seraniv. held in
Rak^ last weak.
Mrs. Havas ia a cfaartar
member m Gemma Chnaga
Dead
At 104
Paul Akwandar rmrall. m,
died on Tuaadav. March 14. to
Knigbtdala, loeatad to aaatani
Wake Ctounty. A relative of the
daceaaed said be was believed
to have baen at least Hi yean
of age at the Ulna of his death.
rTtomal sm'vices wen held
on Saturday. March 1$. at 3
p.m. at Watts Chapel Baptist
Church, Rhamkatta, a ttihurb
of Ralei^. Hundredi aUanded
the rites. Burial followed in the
Thomas Cemeterv.
Mr. Powell is survived bv
live sons, Paul Pr-w«ii, Jr.,
Wilson; James R. Powell,
Knightdale; Wtllla.a and
David Powell, Raleigh and
sGeorge Powell ot davtoo; two
dau^,«rt. Mn. Virgtoia P.
Cotton OI Knightdale aad Mn.
Gloria P. Laakc ot Famer: 21
grait'tchildren and 65 great
gntndcbuui «»i
Accordtog to a retaL ve. u ia
not known from wbeih'e Mr.
Powell originaled.
R-WCA In
Session At
St.Anibrose
BYMimj.E. HICKS
The Ralaigb-Wake Citizens
Aaaociatioo held its March
mectinn at irll p.m Friday.
March 17. at 8t. Ambroae
copal Church instead a( the
regular mretiag day Thuraday,
March 16. ao that ettuena would
be free to attend ceonty-wide
Democratic preoact msatingi
The meeting wm called ta
order by Mrs Cliffomia
Wimberly, vice prcaideni
Chapiaia Chester Debuam
offered an eloquent pfayer
Prorrerting with the agenda.
Mn WiaalMrty aihad Bernard
Alton ta rend the mianlcs of (he
Eiaenttvc Commniee. todud-
lag a statement by the prcai-
dant Ralph ramphiril, with the
<SmR^WCAIN.P 2>
PUlUttlKMS ESSHKISED - TWm- Hxr auUUaJtog Mark
araipapsr pahltokcri aere raakrtord an Friday. Marrk 17. m
WsshtoglM. DC. IwfMwrlghl are: Jaha Mhrbrlt. KkhaMid
FlMH; (hrwiBpnii j. t'erry. a
Ida B WrIH Barnett. Memphto Free Speech; T. '
Fartaw. \r« lark Apr: and Jaha H. Warphy, Sr.. Bi
.Urw-Aatrriraa. 4Ker«(ar> ahavel.