,,a lie walks
. .j at the edge look-
to one day own a little
n a little cabin there.
at fun is anymore," he said.
I've found bv bein' sick a lot
I never would have noticed.
,uess I feel closer to God too. I
jok at the ground and see a dif-
i's what I like about the guitar—
,'t know what I'm doin' and kind
. feel."
lence again. He let his fingers tell
holy. Some pain.
d smaller
In the rear view mirror he grew
just a faint figure on the steps of
',. He had said he might just stay
L He lives with his mother and dad-
ie wonders what he will do when
crafts and sells them in country
things he picks up in his walks
j has worked odd jobs, but has nev-
>b.
P *f$
Dr. Elizabeth Koontz
,„,.„. movement, for
not >»"ly for women's
,r human rights."
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Sen. Jesse Helms
State Board Approves Cundiff For Post
: fitful guardian of things we have
BY SHERRY JOHNSON
RALEIGH-Fred Cundiff, chairman of the
Greensboro schools' Interim Management
Team, will go to work in January for the state
Department of Public Instruction.
The state Board of Education Thursday approved Cundiff for the J2ti.772-a-year position
as director of the state Department of Public
Instruction's norlli central regional center.
Cundiff will bo the first black to serve in
sucha positiun. ^ ....
After the meeting. S'nte Superintendent of
Public Instruction Cr.iic, Phillips confirmed
that Cundiff had accepted the job, which was
to begin Nov. 15. So that he may complete his
work in Greensboro, Cundiff was granted an
extension unUl Jan. 1, 197b, Phillips said.
Cundiff will be out of Greensboro until Friday evening and could not be reached for
comment. On Tuesday, he said he had received no word icgatdine ilie job and had not
yet reached a decision on whether to accept.
The headquarters for the regional center
likely will be set up in Greensboro since it is
the geographic center of the area.
As director of the center, which wiU cover
11 counties including Guilford. Cundiff would
supervise 1'j state consultantsTn areas such as
loud service, reading, exceptional children
and media. The purpose of the state's eight
regional centers is to coordinate policies and
practices or the state board and the lUte D<j
partment of Public Instruction with those oi
local school units.
Cundiff and the other itgional directors are
assigned directly to Phillips's staff.
A graduate of Winston-Salem State UnWeJ
sity, Cundiff has a master's degree in educational administration from A&T State
University He has been assistant superintendent tor administration for eight years and
took on the additional duty of interim superintendent five months ago. He taught in the
Greensboro schools lor 13 years and was the
system's ESEA (Elementary and Secondary
Education Act) Title I director for three
The board Thursday also named its first
lge Doesn't Recall Raulston Suggestion
N SWOFFORD
Judge Charles Kivett said
oes not recall suggesting to
jch Schoch that he might use
o transfer the Raulston cases
i to the District Court.
at a Superior Court hearing
ge Kivett said on April 4, with
.aymond Alexander present,
don to supercede the Raulston
ould be a proper way to have
er the jurisdiction of the Dis-
District Attorney Alexander said on Wednesday after the hearing that he did not recall Kivett
making that statement on April 4.
Alexander said Schoch asked him several days
before April 4 if there was some kind of a "rift"
between the district attorney and Judge Elreta Alexander. (Before felony indictments against Raulston were returned by the grand jury' in March the
Raulston marijuana "cases had been scheduled several times for a preliminary hearing beryre Judge
Alexander. Raulston had been chargec with six
felonies. The cases had been scheduled several
times for Judge Alexander's judgment day.
Schoch, Judge Alexander and District Judge Jo
seph Williams, who was an assistant DA at the
time, testified at the hearing this week that they
had entered into a verbal plea bargain arrangement to allow Raulston to plead guilty to misdemeanors in the district court.)
Schoch contacted District Attorney Alexander
after officers bypassed the preliminary hearing
and obtained felony indictments against Raulston
from the grand jury. The cases were then in the
Superior Court.
Alexander said he told Schoch that he knew
nothing about the Raulston cases but would arrange for Schoch to appear before Judge Kivett.
That meeting was on April 4
Judge Kivett said Thursday that he recalls
Schoch's position regarding the Raulson cases was
that jeopardy was attached. "In any event 1M
that possibly some clarification from the District
Court was in order. I simply wanted the files in
the District Court. I do not recall suggesting that
bills of information be prepared."
Judge Kivett said he had no idea how Schoch
interpreted his remarks.
It was Schoch's contention at the hearing this
week that the bills of information superceded the
felony indictments and that the felony charges
against Raulston should be dismissed by Judge
Seay. Judge Seav rt-nied that motion.
"man regional director. Gladys S Britt,
coordinator for instructional services with the
.iobcXa County Schools, will direct the souUi
central regional' center at a salary identical to
Cundiff's.
In response to concerns expressed by officials from the state's private schools, the
board rescinded certain of the guidelines it
previously approved for the suite's new annual and competency testing programs until
public hearings can be held on the rules. The
hearings are expected to be set up by November.
The guidelines under question include stip-
niauom. U»atr4tudest3 fr'«m private schools
would have to participate in the annual test- """
ing program under the same rules and regula
tions as public school students. Private school
students would also be used in the 1977-78
field development of the state's competency
test.
Joseph Lalley, president of the N.C. Association of Independent Schools, told the board
last month that private school officials had
not had any input into development of the
guidelines. Thursday, he urged the board to
consider exempting private schools from the
mandatory testing program unless there is a
"clear and manifest need."
Cameron Cooke of Greensboro, chairman of
the state board's advisory council on non-public schools, said his group also "questioned
the real need for it" since private schools already have established, ongoing testing programs.
In other action, the board granted state accreditation to six more units, including the
Salisbury City Schools under Harold D. Isen-
berg, superintendent. t
