f
Rev. S. R. Johnson (^^alls (]!onvener ‘A Lie*
Election Could Split State’s Baptists
if if if if if if Turner,
Monduy Sight Orator At UNC-CH OtllCrS In
Bond C hides Pres. C arter Conflict
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SEEKS THEIR COMPLETE FREEDOM — WashtngtOM: The
Joitlce Departmeni urged Nov. 14 a Federal judge U> free the WIimingUNi 10 defendanta of all
charges because of “serious questions*' about Constitutional procedures at their 1172 flrebombiag
trial. Hie defendants are shown here Jan. 21, 197S In Raleigh. N. C. From left to right, standing:
Wayne Moore; Anne Sheppard Turner; James McCoy: Willie Vereen; Marvin Patrick and
Reginald Epps. Sealed, left to right: Rev. Ben Chavis; William Wright: Connie Tindall and Jerry
Jacobs. Ail have been freed, except Chavis. <See story, UPl)
Hooks Names DC
Bureau Director
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The serve in the poet that is the
executive director of the
Natimial Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, Benjamin L Hooks, has
major lobbying arm for the
Association's legislative ef
forts.
Ms. Simmons is presently the
associate director for Branch
and Field Services, and is a
seasoned member of the
NAACP. She has formerly
served as national director for
Education Programs, National
Training Pn^ams, National
Training Director, Special
Field Representative and di
rector of the National Voter
Registration Project.
Ilie S4-year-old native of
Shreveport, La. is a graduate
of Southern University In
Baton Rouge, La., where she
holds a degree in business
education. She also has a
master's degree in mark^ing
fimn the University of Illinois
and a J. D. degree in law from
Howard Uaiveratty.
Clarence lOtcb^, wbo has
been the NAACP WasUn^
Bureau Director sinoe July
I acting director of the
NAACP's Washington Bureau.
effacUve January 1, 1979. Ms.
Simmons, who will succeed the
retiring Washington Bureau
Director, Clarence Mitchell,
becomes the first woman to
mi. 'uaj'i
poeUieu tad aa chairman of the
teadffijplp coAfereaee on Mvll
rights.' ^ addltkm, be will
serve as'a dtot^ulahed visit
ing lecturer in poUtiaal science
(See HOOKS NAJfBS, P.2)
DR. CHARLESLYONS
Dr. Lyons
Challenges
Zion Body
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
SOUTHERN PINES—Dr.
Charles A. Lyons, Jr., chancel
lor, Fayelteville SUte Univer-
glty, teld the tut annual
the Laymen's Council and
Hmne Miaaitm Board, at the
leth seasien of the Central
North Carolina Conference,
A.M.E. Zion Church, meeting
at Trinity Church, Thursday
(See OR. LYONS. P.2)
2,000 Present As JVC’S
Baptists Fete Dr. Horne
BY CHARLES R. JONES, Managing Editor
Some 2,000 admirers and well-wishers were on hand at the Raleigh Civic
Center for the $10-a-plate banquet honoring Dr. Berthenia Dunlap Horne,
executive secretary and treasurer of the Woman’s Baptist Home and Foreign
Missionary Convention of North Carolina for the past 28 years, 1950-1978.
(See DR. HORNE, P.2)
The Carolinian
North Carolina*$ trading WteUy
VOL. 38 NO. 3
OCDiCATEO to THE SPIRIT OP JESUS CHRIST
RALEIGH. N.C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1978 SINGLE COPY 20o
Justice Dept. Seeks N, C. Pardons As
U. S. Aids ‘Ten’
★ ★★ ★★★
Watson-Hunter Park Communities Form
New Action GrouvHere
BY STAFF WRITER
Even though Shaw
University had a happy
homecoming weekend,
the alumni enjoyed the
fraternization and
Winston-Salem won the
football game, it has not
been determined who
won the battle of
religious politics, as it
relates to the alleged
irregularities that
attended the election,
held at the 1978 session of
the General Baptist State
Convention of N. C., Inc.,
in late October. The
convention was held in
Fayetteville.
The defeated candidate, Dr.
E. B. Turner, well-known
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Lumberton, call^ a
meeting at First Coem(q;>oliUn
l8t Meet
Interest
Looms
Fed up with years of
neglect and ready for
change, residents of the
Watson and Hunter Park
areas organi zed the
Watson-Huncer Com
munity Organization in
conjunction with Caro
lina Action. Over 75 peo
ple crowded the Morn
ing Star Missionary
Baptist Church on
Tuesday, Nov. 14, fo** the
organi.^ation*8 fi.'st
neighborhood meeting.
Rasklecits udw attaodad the
maaHag eaaa prenara^
(Mctsaa vaHoos pnVmhs
which plague tbe neigh
borhood. Mn. Saline Elliott
and Mra. LucUte Hayes men-
Uooed that homething haa to be
done about cars speeding in the
neighborhood.
Mrs. Sara B. Sharper
commented that "The
neighborhood ia filled with
dangerous speedways, rather
than safe streets for
residents." The problem of
rats, addressed by Mrs. Idella
(See NEW ACTION. P.2)
G. Frinks
Thwarted
On Fight
WINSTON-SALEM- The
president of the Organized
Christian Schocris Monday said
he group won’t join the
Southern Christian Leadership
CtMiference in fighting the state
competency teet.
The Rev. Daniel D. Carr,
(SeeG. FRINKS, P.2)
R-WCA To
Meet Thurs.
The Raleigh-U'akc
Citizens Asociatioii
will meet at K p.in.
Thursday, Nov. Hi, at
St. Ambrose Kpiscopul
Church. 8i:t Darby
Dr., as annouitcetl b>
its president. Ralph
Campbell. The pro
gram will be an anal
ysis of the Nov. 7 elec
tion. The meeting is
open to the public.
Appreciation
Check Won By
One Reader
Then was only one claimant
for CAROLINIAN AppreciaUon
Mooey in last week's feature. It
itas the sister of deceased Mr.
Samuel Hunter, formerly of 401
E. Lee St., whose name was
found Id the advertisement
(See APPRECIATION. P.2)
HELD IN BLUDGEONING DEATH - New Roebetle. N. Y.:
ArresUag efficers Al Tozsl and partaer, Tmb Hu0cs (glasses)
lead suspect Mkbiel Sprtrmau, 21, frain au arralgamcnt where
he was charged November 14 with secoad-degree murder.
PoUce arrested Spearman, a stage band, hi coaoecUon with the
bludgeoning death of an actress. (UPt)
Bond: CarterShows
No Paycheck Care
CHAPEL HILL-Persons
who heard Georgia State
Senator Julian Bond speak
about President Jimmy Car
ter's indifference to hymns
sung in black Baptist rtiurches
when he spoke at the Univer
sity of North Carolina Monday
ni^t, had no doubt in their
minds as to what the outspoken
civil rights leader thought
about the "bom-again Presi
dent."
He left no room for specu
lation about his fedings when
he said, "He may know the
words to our hymns, but he has
shown that he has litUe interest
in our paychecks."
Bond painted a gloomy pic
ture as he compared these
times with those that brou^l
marked progress to blacks. He
was of the opinion that a
national mood of selfishness
had gripped neo-Clkinfederates
so firmly that they had gained
the upper hand. 11118. he felt,
had relegated blacks to the
extent that they would forever
be in a lower class.
He cited the fact that the
cruel hand of white domination
had moved blacks from the
back of the bus to the front of
the unemployment line. He saw
this “cramping" the economy
of blacks to Ibe extent that they
could not flex any muscle in the
financial world and. therefore,
would be subservient to a
(SeeSEN. BOND. P.2)
89-Pa^e
Briefing
Is Noted
The United States
Justice Department
Tuesday filed an amicus
curei (friend of the
court) brief in the U.S.
District Court for the
Eastern District of North
Carolina, urging that the
convictions of the
Wilmington Ten be
reversed. The brief was
an 89-page iriend-of-the-
court action.
Aeccnliiig U> Dr. Owrlai E.
Cobb, ancuUvo DIroeor, Oom-
mloolofl for Racial Joatice,
nbwibi I
"Thia action la very impor
tant in tbe cootlnuiag cam
paign to free and vindicate teo
young people who have been
unjustly convicted fm* a crime
that th^ did not commit. We,
of course, are elated that tbe
most important law enforce
ment agency in the United
States has. after an exhaustive
and impartial review, con
cluded that the trial of the
WilmingUHi T«i was a farce.
(See AIDS‘TEN'.P.2)
REV. DR. E. B. TURNER
Baptist Church, Cross Link
Road, Raleigh, styled, in a
news release, N.C. Black
Baptists Propose New Organ-
(See BAPTISTS, P.2)
CRIME
r»r » ▼
L>b.r-« I
90M OP OIC PROPERTY
UPTED
Luther Junku* Mclisod, SI S.
Swain St., has been arrested
and charged with breaking and
entering and larceny. Al 3:96
a.m. Sunday, entry was gained
to OIC, 41S E. Martin St., by
forcibly lifting a window and
crawli^ in, according to police
reports. $580 worth of adding
machines, radio, cassettes,
and cassette player were
missing.
(SeeCRlME BEAT. P.2)
DC White
Population weather
Black Parents’ Group
T o Develop N e w Thrust
Since its inception a little
more than one year ago. tbe
Black Parents’ Association has
been working quite diligently
on the many prcrfilems that
face black youth in the
educational arena. What b^an
as a small group of concerned
parents, has grown to an
organization of more than 100
active members, and the
impact of tbe wganizalion is
beginning to be Mt.
"When we looked at Raleigh
and Wake County." said Brad
Thompson, chairman Of BPA.
‘Sve recogmzed that the educa
tional needs of black children
were just not being met. With
the integration of schools and
the spreading out of the
children, the missing element
became parental and com
munity involvement."
The organization immediate
ly began to deal with some
major issues. The construction
of a school off Cross Link Road
became one of the major
struggles. Through letters to
the editor, mass participation
al school board and county
commissioners’ meetings, and
input to Vernon Malone, school
(See BLACK PARENTS’. P.2)
Growing
National Black Newt Service
WASHINGTON. D.C.-Ac-
cording to new District govern
ment figures, Washington’s
white population has increased
for the second year in a row,
after a steep decline that lasted
for a quarter of a century.
Overall. Washington was 75.1
percent black in 1977, accord
ing to the new population
estimates, the high^t pro
portion of blacks for any major
city in the United States, even
though the number of blacks
here has been falling each year
since 1972.
"The white population has
bottomed out and now is rising
slightly," said Albert J. Mind-
lin, the city's chief statistician,
(SeeD.C. WHITES. P.2)
The five-day weather
forecast for the period Wed
nesday. Nov. IS. through Sun
day, Nov. 19. Is as follows: A
c(M front was expected to pass
through North Carolina Wed
nesday, becoming stationary
along the coast by Wednesday
afternoon. Low preisnre
systems were expeerMf to form
aloug the southern sections of
the state. This is expected to
bring the rain, starting to the
raountains and overspreading
the rest of N.C. by lliursday.
The extended forecast calls fcM*
a chance of rain over the state
Friday and the eastern sections
over tbe weekend. Highs will
be in tbe low 80s, except along
the coast, where the ther
mometer b expected to hover
in the low 708. Lows will be In
tbe 48s In the mountains and tbe
58a ebewbere.
DR. HORNE HONORED BY NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS - Dr. BertbenU DunUp Home,
executive secretary and treasurer of tbe Woman’s Baptist Home and FtN^lgn Mbalonary
Convention of Norto Carolina since 1850, was given a "This is your life" type retirement
teitimonial on Friday night. Nov. 18, at the Raleigh dvlc Center. In photo. Dr. Home b shown
admiring one of the many plaques and citatioos she received with, from left to right: Dr. C. C.
Craig, Judge Richard C. Erwin. Dr. John R. Manley and Dr. Joy Joseph Johnson. In bottom
picture, Dr. Home b seen in the center, along with Dr. Corbin Cooper and Mbs Nancy Curtb, both
of the Department of Cooperative Mbslono of the C. Baptist ConventiMi. (See more photos and
information about the gala observance on Page 21 of this edition).
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
Heilig-Levine Furniture Co.;
"FOR QUAUTY AND ECONOMICAL FVNISHINCS"
SPRAYS MACE ON' HOV — .Miami. Fla.: Ms. Madeline Howard, 71. abowi bow a IS-year-old
boy knocked her glasses off her fat e after blowing smoke at her ou a city bus Nov. 18. Mi. Howard
became so InrenKcd that she sprayed the boy with mace and touched off a wild melee, which sent
six persons to the hospilal. <l'l*l>