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v. SouthiCaro 1 inianaaLi brary horseshoe Former policem; ''" iTT ;i;^:;.; Photo by Andy Putnam Samuel Calaham, one of the six municipal officers arrested with Tchula, Mississippi, mayor Eddie Carthan, came to Columbia Monday to speak at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia. -H- - * a i icKei camp-out oegi By Tom Coyne jTHp Pa Tickets for the annual CarolinaClemson football game will go on sale helping U: Sunday Oct. 17 at Carolina Coliseum, . . according to Kyle Pruitt, chairman of the Ot hOlirS Senate Athletic Committee. nn trnuiil Pruitt said the procedure would be similar to last year's, which he termed a p.m. tO Cl SUCC6SS. # Students will not be allowed on WB W0I11 Pnlicpnm crrruinHc until aftor 7 r? m _ ? ' b. UU..UU w.v? U1VV1 ? IJ.IIlu following Carolina's Oct. 16 game r against Furman University. "The campus police will be helping us out the first couple of hours to make sure there is no trouble," Pruitt said. "If it takes us until 9 p.m. to clear the premises, then we won't start the list CASH O! until 9 p.m." for the tick Pruitt warned there may be students There trying to start lists of their own, but the periodicall only list that will be accepted is the list be out in IPruittwillhave. process fas THE GAME will be played at Clem- There son's Memorial Stadium and the student available, allotment for the game is 1,700 tickets. students w The total ticket allotment for USC is case some 12,000, as agreed upon by the two schools. or if they t< Last year, 7,000 tickets were available The line to students. About 2,400 students camped and throug out for the tickets, and the remaining tunnel will ones were distributed during the day. passable. The tickets will cost students $15 each. Pruitt sa Each student is allowed to buy only one decided to ticket regardless of how many student year beca identification cards are presented. IDs trouble re] will be checked on a computer list to trash fire ensure no invalid IDs are used, Pruitt the coliseu said. PRUITT The tickets are not student tickets, procedure I however, and Pruitt said if a student Sunday. could find a friend willing to camp out, "Last y it's possible to use the tickets for non- people in a USC students. handle 1,7c an crusades for i By John Braun Although Sam Calaham's story of racism in the '80s is set in a small Mississippi town, his story could take place anywhere, he told a handful of people at Zion Baptist Church Monday night. Calaham is one of the Tchula Seven, seven black municipal officers ronvicted in 1981 of assaulting who they saw was a bogus police chief in their hometown of Tchula, Miss. One of the seven, ex-Mayor Eddie Carthan, is still in jail on the assault charge and two other charges are still pending. ~i r *i~ ~ i 11 ? auc umci sia iucuiucis ui me gtuup are louring ine country to raise money for Carthan's defense, Calaham said. "This is not just Tchula; this is happening across the country," Calaham said. "People are being misused. It's no different than South Africa." Calaham was a police officer in Tchula at the time of the assault. He was given a three-year suspended jail sentence and fined $500 for his role in the incident. Tchula, located near Jackson in the Mississippi delta region, has 3,000 residents, 80 percent of whom are black, Calaham said. Located in the lOth-poorest county in the nation, the major occupation for the black residents of Tchula is tractor driving on the large, white-owned plantations. Before Carthan's election in 1977, the town was characterized by "unpaved streets, outhouses, no jobs ? the only jobs there were in agriculture, driving tractors for $2.50 an hour. It was like it was in the '50s and the '40s ? it hadn't changed ? until Eddie (Carthan) came in," Calaham said. The town was run by a white mayor, Lester Lyons, who was in office from 1965 to 1977 and was elected after Carthan's term expired last June. "The money had always run out as far as paving the street past the last white person's house/' Calaham said. When Carthan took over, Tchula had $290,000 in federal grants for programs Lyons refused to start, he said. The money was being spent only on the white people until a group of blacks filed a class action suit to stop the spending. When Carthan took office in 1977, two-thirds of the town was on welfare, 47 percent 7>f the,town's housing units did not have plumbing and more than 30 percent of the workers were unemployed, according to a National Campaign to Free Mayor Eddie Carthan, the Tchula Seven and to Preserve Black Political Rights brochure. In the next four years, 100 housing units, a day-care center and a health clinic were built, streets were paved, and homeweatherization, home-repair and nutrition projects were started. - ? p I V + i iHrint rr ns UCl. ID Oiuuciu IC mpus Police will be TOllOWinCI V S out the first couple From stati Reports tO make sure there is USC student Robert Matthe' e. If it takes us until 9 who was charged with reckles . connection with an accident th lear the premises, then death of a West Columbia won : start the list until 9 ?fhis The scene of the traffic acci< - Senate Athletic Committee at Whaley and Pickens St ,,, . v | n . "mess," according to Columfc Chairman Kyle Pruitt j a Potash, the first polic scene. NLY will be accepted to pay "I was a paramedic for six j ets. worked at many accident scei will be roll calls taken seeing what I saw when I got t y and those camping out will to rate it as one of the worst," 1 groups to make the roll call iter. HE SAII) a black Trans-Am are 1,700 student tickets by Patrolman Q. L. Yo but Pruitt said about 1,800 doughnuts" on a street near ca 'ould be allowed to lineup in said Young began to chase the students don't make roll call ike their names off the list. Carl Stokes, systems vice will run around the coliseum law enforcement and safe h the Assembly St. tunnel. The University Police officers tr be roped off so it will still be Trans-Am moments before The officers reported they id the Athletic Committee had squealing and saw the car use the same procedure as last Blossom Street near the pa use of its success. The only They ran into the street to t ported last year was a small car, but the car continued set on the GreeneStreet side of (south) on Main Street, Stokes m. SAID he expects the whole The officers reported tha to be completed by 11 a.m. police car flashing its bl chasing the Trans-Am, Stokes ear, we took care of l,()00 k n hour, so we should be able to Potash said Young reportec K) students by 11," Pruittsaid. on a hill near campus. "Aboi mavor's release 'When the president said "We're going to give the rights back to the states" ? 0Kr that's the same thing they did 100 years ago when Hayes was president/ - Tchula Seven member and former policeman Sam Calaham Calaham said he was hired after Carthan became mayor. Before the election, he said, "They had about three blacks that they used to patrol the black area and arrest all the black people." At the time of the assault, the police force had one white and five black officers. Until 1977, blacks had not participated in local government, Calaham said. "For the first time in the history of Tchula, black people came to a board (of aldermen, who run the town) meeting after Eddie (Carthan) was elected," he said. "Since he's been kicked out of office, no blacks have been there (at board meetings)." The board of aldermen during Carthan's term had one white member and four black members, not including the mayor, who could vote only to break a tie, Calaham said. However, black representation was diluted on the board, he said, because two of the black aldermen who worked for whites "teamed up with the one white alderman" to oppose Carthan's plans. One of the aldermen, who has a master's degree in mathematics, pumps gas for a white friend of the white alderman. Calaham said "If von don't think thp wav ho (the white alderman) tells you to think, you don't have a job." The board blocked Carthan's proposals to bring six factories to Tchula, he said. "The (white) farmers worried about losing control," he explained. Then, one night in 1980, the power struggle between the mayor and the aldermen came to the fore when the police chief resigned. Carthan, who Calaham said is empowered to appoint a temporary chief until the next board meeting, appointed a black man to take his place. Three weeks later, when the new chief reported for duty, he found the locks at the police station had been changed by a retired police officer who had been appointed illegally by the white alderman, Calaham said. Carthan was notified, and he asked four policemen to accompany him and an alderman to the station. Calaham, who was in the group,said, "We went down to the station and we asked them to go home ? that we would settle it in the See "Tchula," page four iieased on bond weekend car accident a half later, we got the accident report," he sThnmWHEN POTASH arrived at the scene, he at caused the saic* he saw "cars damaged all down the lan has been line. The car (Thompson drove) was facing parents after me and there was some smoke coming from the radiator," he said. Potash said he has not determined if the dent Saturday car caught fire, but said a bystander "put a reets was a fire extinguisher to the car. We may never >ia Policeman know some things about the car. it was so eman on the badly damaged," he said. An unidentified nurse and medical student fears and I ve hacj pUne(} Thompson from the car, Potash nes, and after said. "They did everything right," he said of here, I'd have ^e two attendants. Potash said. The Trans-Am was resting on its wheels, was observed he added. ung "doing impus. Potash There were two passengers in the car, car. both visiting students from the University of Georgia, Potash said. One of the students president for was still in Baptist Hospital Tuesday. ly, saia iwo ied to stop a the accident. ~ ~ ~ " heard tires |AG|/1fi traveling on Sii^iy" rking ^ara^p' Sororities gain more pledges with the end ry to stop the ,, ? .. * . turning left offa" ru$h Page three ' The USC Theater Department opens its 1982-83 season with a strange birthday t a Columbia , paBC, 10 ue light was 'sa*d. ?Crazy Zack's continues to hold on to the No. 1 position in the men's intramural 1 he lost the car football poll. Page 13. it a minute and ??