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Black Raleigh Sanitation Workcf, Witnesses Ajiree On Provocation
Slaps White Woman; Fired By City
Newsman
State Task Force Appeals To Sational Body 'T'^illro ^
NAACP Against Testing Accused
OLINlAN
VOL. 37 NO. 40
\orlh (Carolina's Leading Weekly
DIDICATKD TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
RALEIGH. N.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10,1978
SINGLE COPY 20c
Local Woman, Two Daughters Charge
SCENES AT OBEKLIN DISTURBANCE SITE — Pictured above are phu(o){raphs taken Iasi
Thursday ul the home of George Wade Flagg, prominent brick rontmetor and builder of 2510
Bedford .^ve. In Ihe tllierlin section of West Raleigh. Top right picture shoHs Mrs. Mildred Evelyn
Flagg, Hell-kno»n author and mother of four dnuglilers and one son. Mrs. Flagg, shown here with
her youngest daughter. Ms. Elizabeth Faye Flagg. U. was beaten, she said. scraUhed on Ihe left
arm and other parts of her b<»dy. while young Eli/abeih was struck in the left eye. allegedly by
Officer S. I.. Dc^d. a while woman cop. In top left picture is seen the fashionable l4>room Flagg
home. I.eft bottom scene is that of a basket flower pot. which was knocked down in the dining room
of the home. n.irrowly missing the glass China cabinet, which is partly .seen. Right picture at
bottom shows another flower vase, made of glass, which was allegedly broken in the living room,
during a scuffle m the two rfHims. prior to Ihe arre.st of Mrs. Flagg last Wednesday afternoon on a
charge of allow ing a dog to run at large, w hich was not the case, as w ill be stated in the story to be
found in column 4 on Ihe front page of this edition. (Staff Photos by Charles R. Junes).
Harry Huggins -Is In ‘Gooci’ Officers
Condition After Month Shot Decline *
Comment
BY CHARLESR. JONES
Managing Editor
Mrs. Mildred Evelyn
Flagg is a law-abiding,
quiet, unassuming bladi
woman of 46 years of
age, who writes poetry,
short storiee. novels and
works at Wake Medical
Center. Last Wednesitey,
at about 4:13 p.m., Mrs.
Flagg wps literRlly
"dragged off" to Wake
County Jail, but was only
charged with the minor
offensfrof Slibwing a dog.
to nHMt large, a lelaf
POLICE BRUTALITY
Ex-Maid*8 Son Is Now
Living With Friend Here
Boy, 12,
BY STAFF WRITER
Harry Lee Huggins, S3, a star
penormer tor the ^aw Uni
versity tootball Bears when the
team won the Central Intercol
legiate Athletic Association
'CIAAi championship title in
the inid-l940s, was reported
•‘resting in good condition” at
Wake Medical Center Wednes
day morning atter he was shot
in the mouth with a .22 calibre
CRIME
BEAT
AtlllUK s- SUCK- |RI> -.riir^u wr
(f JlLri .• p'.udb.'Jo UtafERlir (MrrTat
nilii aa aim lAwaids rllminatltiK il6
saatadti. rv
U RM wr MltMi
riile, allegedly by Sylvester
Neal, 3S-vear-old resident ot
1542 Raleigh Blvd.. about 9;30
a.m. Sunday, according to
police reports.
The shooting look place in
the 1600 block oi Oakwood Ave.
Mr. Neal was charged with
assault with a deadly weapon,
but was released on a bond ot
$1,000, alter being booked tor
later trial in Wake Countv
District Court when Mr. Hug
gins, 1221 Bentley Rd., is able
to testily.
Raleigh police oiticials re-
tused to make any comments
on what could have triggered
the confrontation between the
two men.
KuggiAs' i.'uiiditkvn was listed
as "serious” in the intensive
longer with the police depart
ment
Huggins, a Raleigh native,
was reared in the Fourth Ward
section ot the cilv, near Shaw.
He is a well-liked and respect
ed individual, but is known to
have "his moments” ot asser
tion whenever he teels he has
been mistreated or misused.
New Probe
In Death
Of King
.Saliooal Balck News Service
WASHINGTCUN, D. C. - The
House AsKassinatiqps Commit-
Wa,.
1
ASSAULTCHARGED
Police arrested Tommv Ful
ler. 43, 319 S. Haywood St. at
3; IS p.m. Monday and charged
him with assault with a deadly
weapon, when he allegedly
tiireatened and cut Ms. Elssie
McDoo, 58. also oi 319 S.
Haywood St., with a pocket
kniie. She sustained a 4 inch
cut on her hand.
(SeeCHIMEBEAT. P.2)
CMir
was iiYst radmitted Sunday
mirning.
A well-known personality
around the Ralei^ area, Mr.
Huggtns gained statewide no-
toi:ietv a tew years ago when a
local black police oiiicer at
tempted to arrest him on what,
Huggins declared, was “a
trumped up” charge.
Accompanied by the two
massive dogs, which he owned
at the time, Mr. Huggtns
staged a one-man "Walk-!n”in
iront 01 the Municipal Building
on McDowell St., where Ral
eigh Police Headquarters are
located. He demanded “jus
tice.”
The otiicer in question is no
Ralei^hites Amon^
Links At Conclave
CHICAGO, Ill. - “Improv
ing The Quality Ot Lite By
Linking Leadership And Ser
vices To Meet The Chaifenge
Ot Community And National
Needs” was the theme ot (he
21st National Assembly oi
Links. Inc., held here last week
at the Conrad Hilton Hotel.
Eugene B. Long, program
director, national trends and
services, presented the Links'
check tor $150,000 to Chris
topher F- Ediev, executive
director ot the United Negro
College Fund, at the National
Civic luncheon, with over 1,000
Links in attendance. This
amount now completes a
pledge OI $1 million given bv
Links. Inc.
Ihe speakers lor this lunch-
Mrs.(]Iofieid
In Role As
Lobbyist
Mrs Elizabeth B. Cotield, a
Wake County commissioner,
last Wednesday was in Wash
ington among 2,000 other
county oiticials irom across
the nation, rallying to support
re-enacinient ot the irderal
Compreltensive Employment
and Training Act fCETA).
CETA provides jobs and job
training inr the unemployed.
Mrs. Cotield said there are a
series oi amendments which
may be ottered on the House
tloor this week that will hurt
public service employment in
the aci She said she spent
much 01 her lime Wednesday
lobbying congressmen to sup
port CKTA.
Mrs Cotield said manv
countv ntiicials support Ihe
(SeeMRS fni IFLO.P 2
eon were Mrs. Martha (Bunny)
Mitchell, special assistant to
the President ot the United
States; Rev. Jesse Jackson;
and actor Ossie Davis. Awards
were presented to Rev. Jack-
son, J. H. Johnson, president ot
Johnson Publishins Company
(SeeLINKS'MEET.P.2)
un^ui
h-A *w«rd t«Mbnonv that «
Missouri man turaad doWn a
business group's otter oi
$50,000 to kill the civil rights
leader. ^
Russell G. Bverot Rock RUl,
Mo., told the InvOTtigator^ he
was introduced tiT an acquign-
lance to a St. Louis pattet
lawyer, who told'him in l|te
1966, or early 1967. that a group
01 busines^msit would pav
$50,000 tor the aaaassinatioa pi
Dr. King.
The Committee also he^
testimony trom the widow pi
one ot the (wo businessmen
named. She declared it “abeo-
lutelv impossible” that her
.husband would have been in
volved in such a plot.
The Ever testimony is one Of
several alleged plots being
investigated. Two other clains
being allege that FBI
agents tri^it))lire assassins.
An element in the Byer
allegation is that Byers' bro
ther-in-law was a 1967 prison
inmate ot James Earl Rav,
who was convicted ot killing
Dr. King a year later.
Kav escaped trom the Miss-
(SeeDR. KING, P.2)
lotoveit te b«
iir%B1i.li mar
BDi <veii isvet^ted bj’
the dog-Catchers (hM
mane officers).
(SMBRUTM,rrY.P.2) ,
Mayor li
Cerenwny
Principal
Raleigh mayor, Mrs. Isabai-
la W. Cannon, will partlcipaln
in the Change ot Commantf
ceremony oi the USS Ralei^
(an amphibious transport of
the U. S. Navy) on Thursday,
10, at Pier 5 oi the Nonolk
Navy Yard.
During the Change ot Com
mand ceremonies. Mayor C^-
non will present the ship with
the oiiicial ilag oi the city ot
Raleigh.
The USS Raleigh is the lourtb
ship 01 the naval fleet to be
named after the city of
Raleigh.
As Mrs. Cannon notes in her
speech, the creation oi the city
ot Raleigh flag was authorized
(See MAYOR TO. P. 2)
Gets New
‘Father’
BY CUARLESn.'jONES -
Kbnaltiig Edlter
"Yiafa, I slapped that
wfUmanane fime with the
opeiTyaimjof my left
hand arid Pam right-
handed. I only hit her be
cause she had called my
father, myself and my
mother each a black son
of a bitch. She does not
know my father or my
mother. Daddy has been
deadfor lO years,” stat
ed Tjrone Akion, 25-
year-old city sanitation
worker, who was fired
from his M as a route
man early .Monday of
this week, following an
alleged investigation of
the mjuries suffered last
Wednesday morning by
30-year-old Mrs. Patricia
Lee Edwards, white.
Akion is black.
This newsman, upon learn-
ing Of Mr. Akion's dismissal by
the City ot Raleigh's Sanitation
Dept. early Monday, sought out
the man and was granted an
exclusive interview.
Akion, whose young laoe
belies his 25 years, (old us that
he was at work at the dty’t
landfill, located cm Highway 84
East, when be was summo^,
by an unidentified white mes
senger, to accompany him
back to the Municipal Buikhng,
where he was Imonned Ot his
dismissal, "because oi my*
BY FRANCES GRANDY
Staff Writer
sa^ta^W^k^e^^^VoiL^ r«nr8nndrimci.V.„«»n«.
trict Court here last Wed- (SeeSLAPSWHiTE.p.u
nesday riftemoon as fam
ily members and friends
testified before Judge
George F. Bason con
cerning alleged child
neglect and abuse on the
part of Mrs. Joan Allen,
30, 820 Ellington St., this
city. Her 12-year-dtd son
was temporarily taken
from her and placed in
the result of a call to the Wake nimistraUofi
Files Of
L. Wray
‘CIo«crf> '
Lawrence B. .W^y. 4r i
interfovenunss^jA
tor. hM moye4 io aUMgt
U»
l8wSQNNOW>.»
ofi A # was outlined In a msmo tntn
1. lies Al wrav to Joyce P.
/'I 4-^t ^et mr Erector ot the cky’i R
VlVlUniOIUlSy andPubUcImormatlonOtflM.
SEWAGE BACKUP PROBLEM IN RALEIGH NORTH
APARTMENT — The above pictures show (he heme of Mrs.
Doris Alston of 1622 Burgandy St.. Apt. A. (Raleigh North
Apartments), after her home was flooded by a sewage backup
last week. Mrs. Alston said (hat the backup had been happening
since Saturday, and (hat the maintenance men have been there
twice, each time supposedly fixing it. Mrs. Alston said she did
not believe the men knew what they were doing. She appeared to
be right because the maintenance men were digging a hole
(bottom photo), to fix the sewage line and when Mr. Watson, the
maintenance supervisor arrived, he told the men that the hole
was being dug in the wrong place. (Staff Photos by Jack
Jenkins).
Educational Task
Force Raps Tests
Institute
DURHAM - Dr. Roes E.
Townes, chairman oi the de
partment Of physical education
and recreation at North Caro
lina Central University, is
attending a two-week institute
at the Ethel Percy Andrus
Gerontology Center at the Uni
versity ot Southern Caliiomia,
July 31-AugU8l 11.
Dr. Townes is concentrating
on "Exercise Physiology and
Planning tor Older Adults” and
on “Stress. Health and Aging,”
during his study at the Cento*.
His participation Is sponsor
ed bv a grant trom NCCU's
Advanced Institutional Deve
lopment Program for the
development ot courses in
social geronthologv and in the
physiology ot exercise.
Townes is studing under Dr.
Ernest Jokl ot the University ot
Kentucky and Dr. James P.
Henry ot the University ot
Southern California.
late Friday aitemooe.
(SeeL. WRAY, P. 2)
WEATHER
The five-day weaker forecast
for the period Wednesday. Aitf.
9. throogh Saaday. Aag. 11. b
as follows: Skies wire Matty
•oDoy In the eastern secUsa af
Ike state oa Wedaesday, hat
clouds prevailed la the meaa-
talas, where some scattered
showers were experteeced.
Lows Wedaesday ai^ raagod
la the mid-Ms in the moaatalas
to the mid-Tta aloog the coast.
High temperatures Wedaesday
ranged in the low ils in the
east. The extended forecasL
calls for scattered aftemsea
sad evening showers and thaa-
dershowers Thursday Ihraagb
Sunday, with temperstores re
maining In the mid-60s la the
mountalas sad the low 99s
elsewhere across North Carw-
Tie Educalioo Task Force ot
the N. C. Conference oi NAACP
Branches voted Salurdav to
suspend the minimum com
petency tests, which high
school seniors, in 1980. will
have to pass before they can
graduate.
The committee also voted
unanimously to ask the nation
al NAACP to tile suit to block
the tests in North Carolina.
The test, now required bv a
stale law passed in 1977, is
considered to be culturally
biased, as is oilen the case on
■mm itM Wf Standardized tests and black
Mrs. M. 1 onng students oiten do not do as well
as whiles on such tests.
Appreciation
Check Won By
The only winner in last
week’s Appreciation Money
Feature was Mrs. Mable
Young ot 1104 Spaulding St.
Mrs. Young collected a check
tor $10 trom Dixon & Spencer
TV Inc., 502 Downtown Blvd.
(See APPRECIATION. P. 2)
When the (rial lest was given
last spring to all ot the states
eleventh graders, more than 80
percent oi the black students
scored below 70 percent in
math. Bv contrast, only 3.7
percent ot the stales white
(See STATE NAACF. F. 2)
.MONDAI.E SAYS CARTER WILL FIRMLY SUPPORT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION — Los
\ngelrs: Vice President VS alter Mondale (I). smiles broadly from the podium as he. Los Angeles
Mnyur Tom Kruilley, and Vernon E. Jordan (r) president of the Nstioaal Urban League,
at know ledge applause Iron, the league members, where .Mondale spoke Aug. T. Mondalc pledgod
the Carter ailminisiraliun would foreefull^ support .Affirmative Action for the disadvantaged. He
told Ihe SKih annua! convention of (he National I t han League that the administration would need
help In K* King the programs.
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
THE COFFEE SHOPPE
•fOR THE ULTIMA TE III SOUL FOOD"
DELBERT AFRICA SUBDUED — Philadelphia — A Phila-
delpbia p<dice officer keeps Dribert Africa to the ground after a
shoot-out occurred between Philadelphia police and the radical
back to nature group MOVE here Aug. 8. One policeman was
killed and many were Injured. (UPI)