Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1978 — Page 1

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A DAUGHTER FOR ALI: Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ah kisses his newest daughter, a 7-pound, 10-ounce girl born to his wife Veronica, December 30 in Miami Beach. Recorder readers tell what’s in store for 78

Peace, decline iri unemploy ment, good health, higher income, and quality education were the overall response by some of the Recorder sub scribers who were asked “What do you look forward to in 1978?" or “What do you hope for in IStfg?" With the celebration of the New Year now completed, many H<»osiers can now sit back and ponder ovef what expected to bring. For some the first week of the new year may bring with it new hopes for continuing or beginning the prosperity of the past and for others, things may not be as bright. However, for those readers who were surveyed, 1978 seems to be an optimistic year for them. “I hope there is more peace in the world and look forward to and ease in unemployment, said one woman suoscriber, she added “I also look forward to a decline in criminal offenses, greater awarness of God; and a greater financial stability in our country." Another subscriber who spoked more in terms of national issues said, “I hope the peace movement by (Anwar)

Sadat is well constructed; hope the government will take some initiative to aleviate if not eliminate the problem of unemployment; and hope the pendulum swings back to prosecute those taking crimes on people." Tne reader also said she hope that the nations school system continue to work to ward educating students to be productive responsible citizens and that more efftr-ts comes from the home as well as the schools. A male subscriber put brotherhood and peace at the top of his list. He also said he hope to be in a position to help others and wish everyone good health. Another subscriber who lived alone, said she hope to try to get her house fixed. “I need windows put in and my plumb ing needs fixing." She also added that she would like to have a higher income, good health, and attend church meetings more often. Other interviewees who had little comment as to “What they look forward to in 1978", said they would only hope for peace of mind, no war, family togetherness, and a decrease in nigh food prices.

Proposed Juvenile Code to be presented school

There’s a sleeper among the pils of pre-filed bills for the 1978 General Assembly, piles of bills that have reached the thickness of two fat telephone books. It’s the 34 page House Bill 1028, which revises the state’s 32-year-old package of juvenile law. Chances of passage for the complex juvenile code are slim during the short session of the assembly tht opens Jan. 9. But it’s still likely to stir sharp debate. Advocates already are lining up on both sides of several issues that will be aired in public hearings throughout the state. Among the controversial changes in the proposed code are: -Provisions allowing judges to sentence juveniles up to 30 days of detention as an alternative to sending a delinquent to the Indiana Boys’ School or ‘ Indiana Girll’ School. The proposed code was drafted by a 24-member Indiana Juvenile Justice Division of the Indiana Judicial Study Commission, appointed by Gov. Otis Bowen at the request of the 1975 legislature. It brings Indiana juvenile law in compliance with recent court dprimonfl and updates it to meet the problems Of children in the 1970s, according to oommisaion

bt features of the procode are: tew category to replace ir the children described current tow as depenlegiected and abused, the commission’s code, children are defined as hi In Need of Services, a

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Veteran threatens to turn to crime if he can’t find job

‘Human rights, full employment,’ theme for Ml. King anniversary

ATLANTA--Final preparations are being made in this Southern city for the 10th annual birthday celebration of th»* late Dr Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the 10th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change. The events (to be complimented by festives planned throughout America commemorating the occasion) are scheduled to be observed with a special five-day celebration here, beginning January 12-16. A large gathering of representatives from government, business, education, religion, labor and cultural organizations have been invited to share in the dedication festives. Of those expected to participate in the five-day extravaganza include current United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, once a close aid to Dr. King in many of his former civil rights junkets. Highlights of the observance will also include for the first year what is described as a “unique tribute” to ailing veteran Senator Hubert H. Hum-

phrey D-Minn.), a new Peace Prize Award Luncheon, and a midnight - candlelight pilgrimage to Dr. King’s entombment which is expected to draw observers in the thousands paying their respects. Considered a prime topic for the Carter administration to resolve, the observance will also include various workshop seminars, exemplifying the need for full employment of blacksd and other minorities in America. The urging of Carter forcers and the Congress to pass the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Bill will be a joint request from supporters from the Center for Social Change. The theme for Ithis year's observance will be...‘An AGenda for the Nation: The Quest for Human Rights in a Full Employmenf'Economy.” According to widow Coretta Scott King, president of the Center for Social Change, this will be an opportunity for citizens throughout the nation that care about non-violent TURN TO PAGE 16

GATHERING at their small "eating table" made of a wooden box, Milton Snoddy (left) holds his one-year-old daughter, Carmetra, as the family pose before Recorder’s photographer. Milton’s other daughters are Lashawn, five; KeeKesha, three, and wife, Evelynn. Both Milton and his wife have no job to support their family. (Photo by Marcel! Williams]. Blacks said let down by Carter during first year

WASHINGTON - Judging by assesments from blacks throughout the United States, President Jimmy Car ter has plenty of revamping to do before the fast approaching New Year sets its political wheels in motion. The mood from informed segment of black America is

Black History Committee presents tribute to Wes Montgomery

Mayor William H. Hudnut today announced that tne Mayor’s Black History Committee and Radio Station WTLC will sponsor a tribute to Wes Montgomery Concert Sunday, February 5, at 7 p.m. in the Indiana Convention Center. Mayor Hudnut stated, “We are grateful to WTLC and Indiana National Bank for their support for this event. This concert will be an historical event because it will bring together many great musicians formerly from Indianapolis along with many of those musicians still living in Indianapolis." “Wes Montgomery’s music was enjoyed by music lovers

around the world. While he always gave recognition to the other great jazz guitarists, to most contemporary thinkers, ancp'the citizens of our great city, Montgomery is definitely the most influential jazz guitarist in history.” “Because his prominence and immense popularity, some people in Indianapolis have perhaps overlooked those among his peers and younger, who were also born or educated in Indianapolis, that have made contributions to American music and American cultural life. This concert will feature them as a way of honoring the great Wes Montgomery.” The names of those musicians

who will participate in tht historical event are; Dave Baker, Ted Dunbar, Slide Freddie Hubbard, Virgil Jones, Willis Kirk, Buddy Montgomery (brother of Wes) Monk Motgomery (brother of Wes), Phillip Rvelin, Melvin Rhyne, Larry Ridley, James Spaulding, Leroy Vinegar, and David Young. Local musicians will include Sammy Cole, Larry Leggett. Buddy Parker and many others. Tickets to the event will be on sale January 13 at Ross and Babcock and all normal ticket outlets. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Wes Montgomery Scholarship Fund.

category that's already become known by its acronym, CHINS. However, Don Lundberg of the Legal Services Organization in Indianapolis wants the definition of a child in need of services tightened. An advantage of this legal definition, according to Jim Miller, executive director of the Indiana Juvenile Justice Task Force, is that it shifts the system’s emphasis from placing the blame to determining the needs of the child. However, Don Lundberg of the Legal Services Organization in Indianapolis wants the definition of a child in need of services tightened, so poor children could not capriciously be brought into juvenile court because their housing is lacking. -A sattutory definition would be written for the roles to be played by the people who come in contact with troubled children. The prosecutor, instead of a probation officer, would decide what a juvenile should be charged with. The tow now often puts probation officers in the awkward position of having to help the children they charged. Miller said. Richard P. Good Jr., executive secretary of the Proeecuting Attorneys Association, said Indiana prosecutors are split in their reaction to this proposal. Some prosecutors believe there to a conflict between their traditional role of sending criminals to jafl and the traditional function of the juvenile court to do what’s best for the child’s best interests, Good added.

Barber shot, suspect loose

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An unidentified man is at large after the shooting Tuesday afternoon of a barber who says he ordered his eventual assailant from his shop for roudiness. Police said show owner Norman Jordan, 28, ordered the man, who had entered Frink’s Barber Shop, 2100 block of North College, with three other Tben, to leave the shop after he used what the barber termed "offensive language." Jordan said his son, Robert 11 was with him at the time of the incident. Jordan told police one of the men pulled a small-caliber revolver and shot him in the face. The man, identified only as "John" fled with the remaining three men, according to police, and the victim was treated at Wishard Memorial Hospital. A 15-yer-old boy was robbed of about $45 New Year’s Eve while collecting on his paper route. Police said the victim, Nicholas May, 300 block of North Tacoma, was collecting shortly before Midnight in the 3200 block of North Keystone when a man pulled up in a red Bukk with Ohio plates, got out of the car and asked him if he was an Indianapolis Star and News carSer. When he answered yes, police said the man pulled a razor and said "give me your money, or 111 cut you." After getting the boy’s money, the bandit fled South on Keystone, police said. He was

described as black, five feet, eight inches tail with short hair and a mustache. He was wearing a ski jacket and jeans, the boy told police. Another robbery had about three or four men hitting a home on the near-Eastside, police said. Norine White. 39, 2300 block of North Sheldon, told police she had started her car to warm up and was on her way back into the house when a man ran up to her, sticking a gun in the back of her head and ordering her into the house. He pushed her into the bedroom, she told police, and began to beat and kick her. She said meanwhile she heard what she thought was two or three other men ramsacking the front of the house. She said she heard one of the men say he thought she should be killed, but the other said they should leave her alone. The victim said the suspect came back into the bedroom and told her to count to 100 befoe she left. He threatened to burn the house if she called authorities, before hitting her again. The suspects fled through a rear door. Miss White described one of the men as about 25, with a heavy build and wearing a full beard, black pants and a stocking cap. She says the suspects drove away in a green Plymouth. Miss White says she found furniture tossed about the house and discovered missing a

television, two checks, an antique shotgun, a revolver, a handgun and $300. Rites set for youth killed by accidental shot Funeral services were set 10 a.m. Thursday for Wilbur Peete, 15, in Stuart Mortuary. Peete, who tost Friday was accidentally shot and killed, will be buried in New Crown Cemetery. The Shortridge High School sophomore was fatally wounded while examining a gun with Robert Underwood, 15, 200 block of Mart indale in the home of a friend at 900 East 22nd. Police said the gun discharged, striking young Peete in the head. No charges were filed in the incident. Peete was a member of Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ and clubs at St. Rita Catholic Church. He also was a boxer for the churches PAL (Police Athletic League) Club. Survivors include his mother Mrs. Margaret Pe» te. city; his father. Rev. Paul Peete. Fort Wayne; six brothers, Paul J„ Samuel and Sylvester Peete, city and John Peete, Fort Wayne and Lawrence ami Paul R. Peete, Los Angeles and five sisters, Mrs. Gewndolyn Kimbrough, Misses Martha, Mary and Pauline Peete, city and Mias Stephenie Peete, Fort Wayne.

grim during the current holiday seasons. Collectively, the mood is perhaps, even more pessimistic entering 1978 than many individuals interviewed in recent weeks would rather be lieve. A recent airing of Public Television’s “Black Perspective on the News.’’ prompted some dem°anoring accusations from a panelist of journalist, who see.ned pretty much gloom toward the Carter administra tion and its attention given black America during his first year in office. The journalists were cohesively solemn and somewhat dismayed over the seemingly lackluster efforts by the president to focus many of his activites during 1977 on the plight of blacks living in this nation. As the program developed, it became apparent the panel was in harmony toward negative evaluation thus far of the Carter administration. Acei Moore, a Pulitzer Price winning journalist from the Philadelphia Inquirer, set the tone for the interviews by citing figures about the current conditions of black America. "One out of every four blacks who need jobs in this nation are presently unemployed,” said Moore. "And while the official rate for teen-age black unemployment is close to 40 per cent - the real rate -counting those who have become discouraged, and stopped looking for work, is at least 60 percent,” he continued. The president was further criticized by the panel for a reason one of the panelist noted...“Nobody expected Car ter to be as good as he promised during his campaign last year, but no one really expected him to be this bad either." The panel jointly voiced concern over the fact that many of America’s black youths have been completely forgotten. Panel members were all negative about the Carter forces’ concern of these problems - deemed critical not only to the black community-but the entire nation. All of these apprehensions were earmarked by a fellow panelist, who had the fortunes of serving on ° commission that aids in formulating national urban policy. Relating his feelings through confidential sources, ’.he panelist disclosed that the main problems with putting a soluable urban plan together is that White House oficials refuse to view it as a policy for blacks. “Most of these persons think the votes are still in the suburbs; out in Nixon and Ford country-not where they’re really at-in the inner cities. The mood in these suburbs is surely not expansive or reformist," the panelist was quoted as saying. “The mood in this country is moving toward a resurgent conservatism,” said Dr. Faustina Childress Jones, Howard University faculty woman, who recently authored a book, "The Changing Mood in America: Eroding Commitment."

Says kids need food and clothes By MARCUS MIMS While many persons were celebrating New Year holiday, Monday, Milton Snoddy was searching around town to find some means of feeding his wife and three children who for several days now been wondering where their next meal would come from. Snoddy, a Vietnam veteran, spent two years in the Navy as an Aviation Techniciui unit! he got an honorable discharge after a war accident that now leaves him with periodic headches and a scar hidden under his beard that once held 15 stitches. Since 1973 he has been unemployed, though he was getting aid while living in Chicago but after moving to Indianapolis seven months ago, that aid has been cut-off. “The $317 a month and food stamps we were getting, said Snoddy, "was not enough for a family of five to live on anyway.’’ TURN TO PAGE 16

Bond frees actor after wild ‘rage’ LOS ANGELES - Mystery still surrounds the New Years Day incident here in which millionaire comedian Richard Pryor fired several shots into the air after he chased two women visitors from his home in what has been described as a “fit of rage.” The noted comic also rammed the women's auto when they at* tempted to leave prior to the shooting incident. Attorneys and agents for Pryor, whose current movie, “Which Way is Up,” is a box office hit, remained tight-lipped about the episode. Pryor disappeared after he was freed Tuesday on $5,000 bond after the women filed felony crime reports Sunday. There was no word on where his 25-year-old wife, a former actress and model who married him in September. According to Los Angeles Police Lieut. William Gaida, the two women were treated for slight bruises sustained in the ramming incident, but no serious injuries were reported. Gaida said that two friends were visiting Pryor’s wife, Debbie when a quarrel broke out . When the friends attempt ed to leave, Pryor allegedly rammed his car into theirs, disabling both vehicles. The 36-year-old comedian reportedly then returned to his home where he allegedly obtained the pistol and began firing into the air as the women fled in the auto. Police would not reveal the names of the women, but one was reported to be a 31year old student at Washington State University. The incident followed a New Year's Eve party Pryor had given for friends and associates. Pryor was not arrested immediately, but surrendered Tuesday evening, at which time he was released on bond. He is scheduled for a January 16 appearance in Van Nuys (Calif.) Court.

Black to succeed retiring D.C. chief

WASHINGTON. D.C.In what some city officials here hailed as just “an ordinary move,” Washington, D.C. Ma yor Walter E. Washington last Friday named 52-year-old Burtell M. Jefferson, to become the city’s next police chief-which will make him the first black to ever head the nation’s capitol’s 4,100 member force. Jefferson immediately took over the responsibilities of acting in his new position, after Washington announced his selection earlier in the day at a n ew s conference. Jefferson succeeds retiring chief Maurice J. Cullinane, whose retirement because of medical reasons is expected to become official by the end of January. Outgoing Chief Cullinane, 45, says his somewhat youthful retirement was forced because of a knee injury he received in the 60’s when a brick thrown by a anti - war demonstrator struck his knee. Those close to the retiring chief, said he had begun cleaning out his office desk Friday - thus unavailable later for comment on his resignation, or Jefferson’s newjob. The appointment by Mayor Washington of Jefferson, a 29-year police veteran, was viewed in some circles (amid the “ordinary political move" charges) as a clever move by a politician possibly seeking re-election this year. Others claim that Jefferson’s appointment was almost “mandatory to maintain” moral and relieve probable dismay within the ranks of fellow officers - had not a black been named to succeed Cullinane. During prior interviews, both Jefferson and Cullinane (said to favor Jefferson’s selection), expressed how close they have worked together in recent years - citing a statistical reduction nin crime in the nation's capitol as declining in the last 22 months. Contrary to some area officials and observers, the selection of the city’s first bla^k police chief today carries much less importance than, perhaps “during the racial turmoil of the 60’s and 70’s," suggested one observer. Mayor Washington, and a D.C. councilman publicly denied their views (and Washington’s ultimate decision), were enticed by the fact that Jefferson is black. Nonetheless, both men cited present figures for the total D.C.police force - exclaiming “Jefferson's color itself, is less significant than the mimhAr of white unnner-le-'

vel ranking policemen.’ A middle-ranking black policeman termed the move a vital, positive step in the right direction that “mioght result in greater sentivity to racial issues within the department.” Despite the ability Jefferson is acknowledged as having a "welcomed community-minded administrator,” observers close to the department and its day to day operatons, claim he will no more than only follow through on programs implemented by a previous D.C. police chief systematically “carrie d out by Cullinane.” Retiring Chief Cullinane was scheduled to appear this week before the D.C. Police - Fire Retirment and Relief Board, to argue approval he be awarded a tax free disdability pension for his retirement. Hearing set for Trinidad man; bank robberies suspect A 23-year-old Caribbean island native faces a probable - cause hearing Friday before Chief Federal Magistrate Thomas J. Faulconer, in his connection with the robbery of an American Fletcher National Bank branch last week. Keith Ivan Youngloa, whose address was given as in the 2700 block of North College, was arrested last Thursday afternoon shortly after police - following a tip from a witness who said they followed Youngloa from the bank, discovered money in his home and a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol, believed used in the holdup. According to a Federal com plaint filed against Youngloa, he confessed that he was responsible for the robbery of the American Fletcher National Bank, 2910 N.College, said FBI agent William Blackketer. TURN TO PAGE 16 CHEER FUND OFFICE CONTRIBUTION Previously Reported Correct*! Total $230.00 Cal 65 Club $25.00 Friendly PokenojOub 25.00 A Friend- - W.O. 35.00 Margaret H. Butler 5.00 Just Us Club 50.00 TOTAL $370.00