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Police Review ew Proposal Tabled by City Council By ROB CHRISTENSEN Staff Writer a V. Staff photo by Rob Flynn Duke student Wanatha Porter ladles out sponge cake batter A Chance to Quiet Their Bellyaching By RICK NICHOLS two students from New York, Allan French DURHAM The trial loaf of bread passed muster, but someone multiplied wrong on the sponge cake recipe (too much milk, not enough water) and the foundation of the ballyhooed baked Alaska was getting some emergency underpinning. "Where'd the sugar get to," muttered an amateur baker, his hair streaming from under a paper chef's hat. Duke University students, about 50 of them, who eat regularly in the school's elegantly paneled East Campus Cafeteria have been busy this week getting a taste of what it's like to prepare 800 dinners for their fellow grumblers. Cafeteria officials have turned over the responsibility for Friday night's spread to the casual critics who've already spent two full days baking pie crusts and scrubbing squash.

The collegians insist a culinary wonder is in the making. While folk singers stroll the plaid carpets of the eating hall, students will serve up entrees including lasagna, chicken in wine sauce and sauteed red snapper. There will be real butter in the batter and fresh (not canned) vegetables. "I wanted to have jumbo shrimp and scallops in wine sauce with mushrooms," said junior Steve Goldsmith as he slapped noodles in a pan in the cafeteria kitchen. "But they said it would be too expensive." The enterprise is being masterminded by Black Sworn In As Chief SOUTHPORT George R.

McCracken, 33, was sworn in Thursday as chief of police in Southport, becoming the first black police chief in a predominantly white community in North Carolina. McCracken replaces Herman Strong, who took a leave of absence from the department to campaign for sheriff of Brunswick County. Strong was elected sheriff in the general election two weeks ago. Since Strong's departure, McCracken has been acting chief. He is a native of Southport, has been on the Southport force about four years, and has been assistant chief for two years.

He was appointed chief by a unanimous vote of the City Council. In a telephone interview, McCracken said he wasn't surprised at being appointed chief, but rather was expecting it. "When Chief Strong left to campaign for sheriff, he asked me if I'd be chief," McCracken said. "The only thing holding us back was whether he'd win as sheriff." He said he expects no trouble on account of his race. "I'd say 90 per cent of the white people are behind me.

I really don't expect Leave Granted Director J. C. Williamson Jr. of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station has been granted a one-month leave of absence to assist Pakistan in establishing a national agricultural research center. A move to create a police review board in Raleigh was defeated Thursday when the City Council split 44 on the issue during an emotionpacked session.

The council then voted to table the controversial proposal for further study while City Manager L. P. Zachary conducted an "in-depth" review of all police operations. In a meeting marked by impassioned speeches both for and against a review board and with people handing out John Birch Society anti-review board literature in the hallway, the members deadlocked on what has been the most controversial issue since the council took office nearly a year ago. In a vote that cut across liberal-conservative lines, Mayor Clarence E.

Lightner and councilmen Ronald I. Kirschbaum, James T. Quinn and William R. Knight all voted to create a five-man review board with three city residents and two city administrative officials. Voting against a review board were Mayor Pro Tem Jack B.

Keeter and council members Oliver Williams, Miriam Block and Thomas G. Bashford. The mayor then switched and supported Williams' motion to table the measure for further study. That motion passed 5-3. Both Knight and Kirschbaum said that on the basis of their study of police investigations, some type of non-police review is needed.

"We realize a definite, potential proglem exists in this area and we have to deal with it," Kirschbaum said. "We would William R. Knight hide our heads in the sand" if no action was taken, he added. The mayor, supporting a review board, said, "I tend to feel there is a great segment of the population in this city that feels a fair and impartial investigation (by the police) will not take place." Lightner said police investigations of complaints, may, in fact, be impartial, but as long as citizens lack confidence in internal" police review, the council should consider a re view board. Leading the opposition to the review board was Mayor Pro Tem Keeter, the former city fire chief, who said such a board would cause morale problems with city employes.

"I'm just wondering if we go to this board, we are not saying to the city manager we are going to slap your face," Keeter said. He said the board would lead to excessive criticism and harassment of police. "I believe, damn it, that if you put a board in there, you will get so many complaints" that they could not be handled, Keeter said. "I never got praise for putting out a fire but got cussin' plenty of Bashford said he had received 45 to 50 letters and calls from people opposing the review board and none in favor of it. Zachary said he would conduct an "in-depth look at the police department" because of the changing times.

He compared the change to that of the in-depth look the city gave the parks program before a major expansion program in the 70's and the comprehensive look at water management problems in the city. "I plan to take several steps because it is evident we have a potential problem," Zachary said. Zachary said he would review how evidence is looked at by the police and check other department procedures. He said quarterly training sessions to teach police how to deal with "potentially explosive situations" would begin and cited possible use of federal grants for more extensive psychological testing of applicants to the police department. He said he would also appoint a city administrator to hear citi- The News and Observer Friday, November 16, 1974 Raleigh, N.C.

Page 31 Robert E. Goodwin zen complaints. In response to a question, Zachary also said he would support the creation of an ombudsman position to answer citizens' complaints. After the measure was defeated, Lightner asked the city manager to place greater emphasis on the Raleigh Community Relations Commission, giving it controversial cases after the matter has been reviewed by a police internal investigations unit. A controversy involving a North Raleigh factory foreman, Morton Roberts, also was brought up at the meeting.

Several council members were critical of the way the city handled the case, in which Roberts See REVIEW, Page 33 N.C. Syr Symphony Moving to Raleigh By ERNIE WOOD The trustees made the deciStaff Writer sion during their annual CulThe board of trustees of the ture Week meeting despite proN. C. Symphony voted Thurs- tests from orchestra members day to make Raleigh the per- that Memorial Auditorium manent home for the sympho- would not provide adequate ny. rehearsal facilities if the symBy a 19 to 9 margin, the trust- phony were not granted first ees voted to move the sympho- priority use of the main auditony offices from Chapel Hill and rium.

A spokesman for the orrehearsal facilities from Dur- chestra members expressed ham to Raleigh's Memorial Au- the fear that rehearsals might ditorium in July of 1975. too often be relegated to the A 20-year contract proposal basement where acoustics are for the City of Raleigh now is "entirely unsuitable." being drawn up by attorneys "Any rehearsal time at all in for the two parties, said former that area, we feel, would be Raleigh Mayor Thomas W. detrimental" to the symphoBradshaw Jr. who headed the ny's musical quality, said symphony society's permanent Vince Simonetti, a tuba player home selection committee. who heads a committee which and Richard Butt, who call themselves "chronic complainers." French, wearing a floppy white hat with his name embroidered on it, said the meal is as much for fun and to learn what goes into dining at Duke as it is to show up the regular staff.

While the senior presided over his cooks with a clipboard, Thursday, dining hall director Sayed El Naga and head chef Leon Thompson offered polite suggestions. Girls dipped out dollops of sponge cake batter with giant ladles, heaps of yellow squash were being washed and chopped, pumpkin pieces were disappearing into: a mucky cauldron. "You missed us squishing up the pumpkin," a coed said. French shouted an order. He's been planning the meal for five weeks and has its stages of preparation mapped out on an elaborate flow chart.

He's working out the financial statement after dessert. Beyond the hiss of the dishwasher and the clatter of pots, the -participants were settling down to a conventional evening meal of Louisiana shrimp creole or sweet and sour pork or fish or roast beef. They dished out their own crisp salads. They got extra slices of chocolate pies. "They did this pig a favor," grumbled senior John Garvey toying with his pork.

Friday's feast was just around the corner. Hearing on Charlotte Crash Official Says Jet Crew Was Negligent They're Hoping for a Victory March AURORA The band was lined up single file on about the 40- yard line of the football field. Director Tom Secor shouted: "What are the HOLES doing there? Fill in the holes!" the band members moved closer together. It was 2:30 in the afternoon and the Aurora High School Trojan Band was practicing for the show it will put on tonight when its football team goes to North Duplin for the state championship playoffs in Class 1-A (small schools). Albert McMicken, the band's drum major, was on the sidelines trying to find a piece of music for a flute player.

Out on the field, Secor was commanding: "Dress Center! Front! Dress Center!" Then: "Dress CENTER, Michael!" He went over and took Michael's head in his hands and turned it in the direction he wanted Michael's head to be. CHARLOTTE (AP) An Eastern Airlines flight director testified Thursday that the crew of a passenger jet apparently failed to follow company procedure just before it crashed last September. Capt. Paul V. Kelley of Atlanta told a National Transportation Safety Board hearing that the crewman not flying the airplane should have called out altitude, rate of descent and air speed during the descent.

Seventy-two persons lost their lives as a result of the crash. The DC9 was preparing for an intermediate stop when it crashed about miles from the Charlotte airport. The transcript prepared from the cockpit recorder aboard Eastern Flight 212, which was on its way to Chica- There were only about 20 musicians on the field, dressed in their everyday school clothes, and another nine kids carrying black and gold flags. The band has 40-some members, Albert McMicken said, but: "The eighth graders have a different. schedule than we do so they'll be out here later." Aurora High is a small school "About 500, counting the eighth' grade." Its band program is only four years old.

"Some elementary school students march with us," McMicken said. "'There's just not that many students. We start 'em out as early as we can." Albert, a high school senior, came to Aurora from Texas 18 Jack B. Keeter acts as a liaison between the and management. The orchestra members voted Monday not to accept Raleigh's offer of space for rehearsal halls and administrative offices in Memorial Auditorium unless the city could give assurance that the symphony would have priority for use of the building's main hall, he said.

Otherwise, he noted. "the hall would not really be ours, but a facility that we would be using at the city's But by Thursday afternoon, city officials apparently had been able to quiet the fears of the musicians. Eastern, who said the company has started a new "awareness" program for its flight crews as a result of the crash. Capt. Thomas Buttion testified the new program emphasizes "altitude awareness, command ability and cockpit awareness" to insure that safety standards and procedures are followed.

The hearings were suspended March Bradshaw said that the symphony rehearses only about 60 days a year and that the main hall will be available all but nine days of the entire year. The symphony, he said, "would be a booking just like any booking" and the city would honor its contract with it. After the vote, Simonetti said he was satisfied with the arrangement so far, though he "would have liked to have seen the contract." He said most of his questions had been answered "so I don't think there will be a problem." "The main problem seems to have been he said. indefinitely Thursday by William R. Haley, chairman of the NTSB board of inquiry.

"Following this hearing, the NTSB will evaluate all the evidence to develop a final report listing the probable cause" of the accident, Haley said. Twenty-three of the victims died from burns and smoke inhalation, the report said. sent them all down to the far end zone to run through their halftime show. Tom Secor (SEE-cor) is a 25-year-old Richmond Virginian who came to Aurora to begin the band program when he graduated from East Carolina University. When the band began to march downfield, drums beating cadence, Secor moved to the nearly empty bleachers and shouted at them from there: "Don't look at the ground, Jean! NoNoNo! No way! Don't look at the ground, Lulubelle!" They were playing "Our Boys Will Shine Tonight" and going through countermarches and playing "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and forming flowing diamonds and all like that.

Albert McMicken's legs were pumping and his baton was hammering the beat in the air, and the gold and black flags were dipping and rising in time. I really enjoyed it. Tom Secor did not seem to be 1,000 per cent pleased with the performance did you ever see a band director who was? but I think the Trojan band will be ready for North Duplin tonight. What about the football team? (Last week, the sports department ranked North Duplin second and Aurora fifth in the 1-A Class.) Are you going to beat them? I asked McMicken. "Yes, sir," Albert said with a smile, "I'm afraid we are.

They just don't know it yet." When the sun goes down and the moon comes up, our boys will shine!" Similarly, conductor John Gosling expressed satisfaction. "If it is a matter of only nine days," he said, "then the main problem is But he said he agreed with the orchestra that "we do need to rehearse in the auditorium." Moving the N. C. Symphony to Raleigh is part of the city's long-range plan for downtown redevelopment and is tied in with construction of the new million civic center. Voters just last week approved using $500,000 of that sum to renovate the Memorial Auditorium as a performing arts component of the civic center complex and home for the symphony.

'Bounty' Removed go from Charleston, S.C., indicated that no such callouts were made. Kelley also said the aircraft was apparently exceeding recommended air speed as it passed through its final approach fix, located about five miles from the runway. When asked if failure to make callouts was against Eastern regulations, Kelley re- plied, "It's against published procedures." crewman at the controls, copilot James Daniels said Tuesday he could not remember whether the callouts were made. The pilot, Capt. James Reeves, was killed in the crash.

Also testifying Thursday was the vice president of flight standards and training for Jack Aulis months ago. His father, Al McMicken, is head of fertilizer department maintenance for the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. phosphate mining operation here. Since Albert is a drum major, I said: Do you wear one of those great big hats? "We don't have uniforms yet," he said. "We just raised the money for them." They held doughnut sales and even raffled off a live pig.

Meanwhile, when the band performs in public, its members wear black slacks, white shirts and yellow windbreakers. The band was playing something swinging that sounded great, I thought. But when they finished, Secor said, "That's SAD." He David J. Martin, owner of Cary's South Hills Shopping Mall, has removed his signs offering a $500 reward to anyone shooting a burglar inside his premises and $200 for any burglar apprehended. Martin said he took the signs down late Wednesday because "I was getting too much controversy, too much sensationalism." Martin told a reporter, however, he hasn't softened his stand on criminals.

He said he was considering posting new signs that would read, "No reward for shooting burglars. Please protect our criminals." Cary Police Chief J. W. Boles, who had expressed concern over the signs offering a bounty for shooting burglars, said Thursday he was pleased the signs had been taken down. Resident Wake County Superior Court Judge James H.

Pou Bailey had said that anyone attempting to collect such a reward by shooting and killing a burglar would probably be charged with murder and Martin would probably be charged with accessory to murder. Shaw to Hold Convocation Shaw University will hold its annual Founder's Day Convocation at 11 a.m. today in Memorial Auditorium. Dr. Edwin Sexton, special assistant to the director of the U.

S. Chamber of Commerce's Office of Minority Affairs, will be the guest speaker. Also today, Miss Shaw will be crowned at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Gymnasium..