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NABISCO SUPPORTS BUCK NEWSPAPERS BJR Nabisco, lac., is continu ing its support of a scholarship program for minorities studying Journalism with a grant of <17,000 to the National Newspaper Publishers Association. In presenting the 1B87 gift, Marshall B. Bass, RJR NaMsco senior vice president, commented on the company's interest in black Jour nalism. “Soon after this nation voiced its independence, black newspapers were created to kgeak out for the rights of minorities in America,” Bass said. “The black press is the oldest Mack industry in America, and it continues to be a vital part of the black community.” He ad ded that NNPA newspapers “are a critical source of information about the economic and social issues that touch minorities’ GARNER MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING GIRL A Garner man was charged Tuesday with raping a young girl. Grant Thomas Sneed, 41, of 1515 Creech Road, Garner, sur rendered to Raleigh police Tues day, Sgt. C.E. Lewis said. Sneed was charged with two counts of felonious incest, one count of first-degree statutory rape and sue count of taking indecent liberties with a child, according to warrants in the Wake County magistrate’s office. According to the Warrants. Sneed was charged In connection with incidents that occurred between March 1985 and March 1987. VOTE ON HELPING GAY GROUP Students at the University of North Carolina may vote next month on whether to give student money to a gay and lesbian group on campus. The students pushing for the vote are confident it will put an end to a years-long debate ; by proving that the majority of students don’t want their money spent on the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association. But gay students say they have a chance to win the vote—and they have pledged to keep fighting for stu dout funds even if they lose. • Tkrr g°iy about 120 members, has received money from student government far almost a decade, one of its leaders said. Last year, it receiv ed slightly more than <2,000. The money comes from a $180,000 stu dent activities fund that also sup ports organizations such as the Black Students Movement and a legal service for students. SUPREMACIST AGREES TO TALK White supremacist Glenn Miller and his family will assume ■ew identities under the federal government's witness protection program, according to U.S. At torney Doug McCullough. In a related development. Miller, who threatened a race war last spr • lag. was sentenced in federal * > court to five years in prison. He hod entered into a plea bargain agreement in which he agreed to become a government Informant and plead guilty to mailing a "declaration of war” and illegal ly possessing hand grenades. "DIXIE" MUST GO The Alabama state president of the NAACP said recently he wUI personally haul down the Con federate flag atop Alabama’s Capitol if Gov. Guy Hunt does not da so by the Feb. 2 start of the MM legislative session. State Rap. Tom Reed, D-Tuakogee, who directs Alabama operations af the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. also said news reports incor rectly stated that he wasn't Join ing in • regional campaign to remove Confederate flags from several Southern state houses. He said be would Join the campaign announced by the Southeast regional NAACP director, Bari flhlnkester. REAGANASKED TO HELP POOR President Reagan signed a pro clamation this week honoring the Mtk anniversary Friday of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.’s birth. Asked after the ceremony what the president could do as a tribute to her husband, Cerette Scott Mm replied, "The least thing he canid do is call for Congress and the private sector to provide some resources for the poor pee pie of this country... We hove too many poor people who go to bed huapyatisight, too many with no food and noplace to sleep.” SECOND FRONT Piedmont Looks For Housewives and Teachers To Serve As Flight Attendants. Seepages reJAns Abate Library —lens Braixch ,_r,» Jones St, fcOfiitih, \TC 27631 lillilfllllllllilllllllllilllllllllllll KING SECTION King s Legacy And Dream and Its Impact on Modern Day Society is discussed. See page 17 llllllllllllHlllllllllllllfflllllH Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY-SUNDAY JANUARY 14.1968 iV#C. s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST VOL. 47, NO. 14 SINGLE COPY OfT IN RALEIGH dLDQ ELSEWHERE 300 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SchootTestsMay Expand Ordered To Pay Over $53,000 Civil rights attorney Julius Chambers and members of his former law firm have been ordered to pay almost $54,000 for pursuing what a federal judge called “frivolous” allegations in a race discrimination lawsuit against Fort Bragg officials. Judge James C. Fox's order, which required an additional payment total ng $30,000 by two plaintiffs in the case and levied fines of $250 against several lawyers, apparently was un precedented in the Eastern District of North Carolina. “The wholesale, long-term waste of physical, mental and financial resources engendered by the extra ordinarily reckless, frivolous conduct of both plaintiffs and their counsel mandate a substantial monetary sanction against both,” Fox wrote in the 482-page document filed in U.S. District Court in Raleigh. -‘VAnnere slap on the wrist or minor fine is unacceptable farTeisonsof both gSSl an? specific deterrence,” Fox wrote. The lawyers represented black civilian workers at Fort Bragg who filed two race discrimination suits against the Army in 1980 and 1981. The suits were filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race. The suits were consolidated and tried in 1984. The suits alleged discriminatory practices ih the merit promotion pro cess in areas including evaluations, (See ORDERED. P.2) ADDRESSING ADMINISTRATORS—Dr. Samuel L. Myers addresses administrators freer Saint Augustine’s College and callage presidents from Shaw University in Raleigh, and N. C. Central University in Durham, (Dr. Talbert Shaw and Dr. Tyrone Richmond), during e banquet held in Raleigh, at Raddison Plaza Hotel. The occasion was an honorary dinner given in honor of Myers, President el the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. (NAFEO) Seated (from lift to right) are: Dr. Majorie Dehnam, local civic leader an* graduate of St Aug., Dr. George Oebnam, chairman of the hoard ol trustees for Shaw University. Or. Samuel Myers, Or. Preaeli R. Robinson, president of Seint Augustine's, Or. ,A Mrs. Tyrone Richmond, president of N. C. Central University and bis wile and Or. Tatoert Shaw^presUpt of Shaw University. Major U. $. Problems Dr. Samuel L. Myers, president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, was honored this week by St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh. The honors came during a dinner held in Myers’ honor at the downtown Radisson Hotel for his many con tributions to higher education in general and more specifically to historically black colleges and V W ~' CRIMINAL tUIKCn«RMm BmcN, M.-U. S. Customs sNIeMt toad suspacts M a»aa acttotty to Fsdaral Caurt In Was! Mm Isaak (Fla.). Tks dona man wait raundatf up fedawlng a stoto-wids InmNpatton al Immigratton triad. (W® universities, in the words of Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, president of St. Augustine’s. Myers has spent many years at the forefront-of leadership in American higher education, and working with major corporations and government in that interest. Myers has served as a corporate executive with Pepsi Cola USA, and with the U.S. State Depart ment as an economist. While in Ralegh Myers addressed the opening session of St. Augustine’s <aee EDUCATOR. P 2) Teachers Fearful Of Chanae The North Carolina Board of Education is considering statewide high school testing to include eight subjects and requiring teachers to use the scores as part of a student’s final exam grade. But teachers are worried that the tests could be used to grade them as well as their students, and to limit their classroom freedom. The N.C. Testing Comission recent ly recommended that the board develop two-hour achievement tests for chemistry and geometry this school year and for freshman Englsih and health the next year. The state already has begun end-of-year testing in Algebra I, Algebra II and biology and will add U.S. history this spring. In a two-page report, the 15-member commission recommends putting the scores in permanent records used by um rsity admission .offices and guidance counselors. If adopted by the state board, the com mission’s recommendations would take effect this spring. T waders of the state’s two groups of teachers say they fear more testing will diminish their discretion by forc ing them to teach to the tests. “I think we as teachers have just giyenjipjp<unuch to the detriment of the quality of education, and teachers should say, enough is enough, we are going to take control,” said John I. Wilson of Raleigh, a member of the N.C. Association of Educators’ ex ecutive committee. “We have gone overboard with centralization.” Larry J. Hauser, president of the N.C. Federation of Teachers and a < TEACHERS. P 2) NAACP, Atlanta Braves And/Hawks Settle Issue In an exchange of letters, the Atlan ta branch of the NAACP and the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Braves have resolved their differences over the implementation of affirmative ac tion plans on the part of the two sports teams, and agreed to periodic meetings to assess the progress of those (dans. These actions, according to Julian Bond, president of the Atlanta NAACP, satisfy the concerns of the branch and end the possibility of demonstrations being mounted against the teams. This possibility arose when earlier negotiations, looking toward the sign ing of a formal agreement with the team, broke down. Since then, a Freedom Ratty Piano March To D.C. BALTIMORE, MO,-Mora Own 1,000 cltisen* raised 100,000 in cosh and pledge* in • Freedom RnUy held by the Mitchell Defense Committee in historic Bothal AME Church last Sun The crowd roao (ran Uwir aaati and choerad former Conaress woman Appreciation Feature Ham Three Winners Thera were three winner* in iaat week’s Appreciation Monty Feature, sponsored by The CAROLINIAN and participating business*. The winners who found their names hidden on the Appreciation Page this week were Ms. Gila Hams, Oil New Bern Avenue; Ms. Annie Dunn, 0M Quarry St.; and Ms. Anita Christmas, MOO Waterbury St. After coming into The CAROLIN IAN office at 518 E. Martin St. and iS*h M‘PRfcClATM»N I* •• Shirley Chisholm of New York as she exhorted them to march to Washington again to protest the selective prosecution and "false in dictments" of Maryland state San. Clamnce M. Mitchell, IU and state Sen. Michael Bowen Mitchell, and other strong black elected officials by Reagan’s Justice Department under Ed Meese. „ C, Delores Tucker, oo-chair of the Mitchell Detense Committee, former Pennsylvania secretary of state, end current chair of the Nstlonsl Democratic Committee Black Caucus, shouted “Never agate, as she pledged that the post-Recon stnwtion drive that eliminated black elected officials from office during the period 1880-1960 will never happen *** ”' <Sw FRKK.IM1M P 2) BRACK BARBOUR’S TRUCK RENTALS * WRECKER SERVICE series of meetings has been held bet ween the NAACP and representatives of the teams leading to the exchange of letters. “The Braves and Hawks have acted responsibly in addressing the broad issue of affirmative action. We (See NAACP, P.2) Divinity School Growing BY VINCENT FOOTE An Analysis The Shaw Divinity School, under the former leadership of Dr. Joseph C. Paige, executive vice president, and now under its new president, Dr. Gregory T. Headen, former dean of academic affairs, has made incredi ble strides and remarkable ac complishments since 1983, assuming its rightful place as a leader in graduate theological education, not just in North Carolina but nationally as well. The divinity school deserves both praise and support as it readies plans to relocate from the downtown Shaw University campus to its own facilities at the Highlqpd Baptist Church properties located in Southeast Raleigh at Hilltop Drive and Rush Street near Garner Road The purchasing of a new campus, complete with adequate classrooms, offices, paved parking lots, a modern 500-seat church, and three nice brick homes, is a major undertaking and further evidence of the divinity school’s commitment not only to its own growth and development, but to becoming a major partner in the future growth and development of Raleieh and Wake County. It is a (See DIVINITY. P.2) Judges’ Bench MEN CHARGED IN STABBING DEATH A Wake County man has been charged with murder in the 1986 death of a woman who officers think was killed over a drug deal, state At torney General Lacy J. Thornburg said. Roger Wayne Franklin, 25, of Wake Forest was charged Tuesday morning in Franklin County with first-degree murder in the death of Jean Marie Sherman. Franklin is serving a 30-year term at Odom Correction Institute in Nor thampton County for a drug convic tion, officers with the Franklin Coun ty Sheriff’s Department said. Ms. Sherman, 20, also of Wake Forest, was last seen alive June 17, 1986. Her skeleton was found in late1 September 1986 in woods in the Pine Ridge community in Franklin Coun ty. An autopsy showed she had died of stab wounds. Thornburg said Franklin’s arrest followed a long in vestigation by the state's Murder Un solved Taskforce—MUST—a special team of agents from the State Bureau of Investigation. A probable cause (See JUDGES'BENCH, P. 2)
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