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DUDLEY Six young people, returning from visiting a friend Sun
day night about 10 o'clock, were walking along Old Mount Olive
Highway between Goldsboro and Dudley, on the correct side of the
road shoulder facing oncoming traffic, when a pickup truck ap
proaching from behind them, sped up, swerved across the center line,
ran through the group, and sped away from the scene.
Two of the girls, Latonya Nicholson, 7, of Goldsboro and Marilyn
Manley, 16, of Dudley, were pronounced dead at the scene. A third,
Melissa King, 12, of Dudley, died Monday at Wayne Memorial
Hospital in Goldsboro.
The fourth victim, Melissa Manley, 17, sister of Marilyn Manley, is
listed in very critical condition at Wayne Memorial Hospital.
Felicia King, sister of Melissa King, and an unidentified boy, escaped
injury.
According to investigators, the truck believed to have been involved
in the incident was found abandoned about four miles from the scene.
Eugene Best, a 33-year-old Goldsboro man, was arrested Tuesday
and is being held without privilege of bond in the Wayne County jail,
Goldsboro, charged with three counts of murder in connection with the
deaths. He was also charged with one count of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill and four counts of failure to stop at the scene
of an accident.
Food Stamps and AFDC
Federal Cuts To
Be Felt In Durham
Protest Death Of Youth In Police Custody
Several thousand demonstrators march .throuch downtown Milwaukee. Wisconsin protesting the death of a
22-year-old Ernest Lacy who died in police custody after a scuffle with police officers who picked him up for ques
tioning. . , z . -, y ." ' i
UPI Photo
Half Cot Legend
Dies in Maryland
5
National Scene ?
Magazine ' Supplement
NCCU Eagles
Report Saturday
Page 5
Durham Deltas
Award $6,600
Page 11
Dr. Yalora Washington
Is Congressional
Science Fellow
Septic Tank Plan
Expected to be Approved
By Donald Alderman .
On April 6, angry land ;
owners, developers and r
builders .'aired concerns?
about strict septic tankf lesting.
Health Department soil
testers were said to be "ar
rogant" when county
residents sought soil
rules at a Durham County
Commissioners meeting.
The commissioners
responded by appointing a
special committee to ex
amine the problem and
suggest ways of improYing
the county's wastewater
disposal systems.
In consideration of
complaining citizens, the
committee's final report
admits that many septic
tank problems are
negative and "a positive
approach must be taken if
any improvement is to be
made in the ground ab
sorption sewage . disposal ;
system problems jn
Durham County." The
commissioners are ex-J
pected to approve the
committee's recommenda
tion at their next meeting.
Developers had con
tended that the county's
waste disposal system in
stallation rules are
"unreasonably: strict.".
The problem was blamed
on the County Health,
Department whose of
ficials examine soil for
septic tank use?
The committee agreed
saying the amendment of
state septic tank installa
tion rules by the Health
Department f appears to
be unreasonable." The
six-member committee .
recommended the amend
ment be rescinded.
The committe said,
"Sanitarians should be
cooperative and as helpful
as possible in applying
regulations, xand when a'
, lot., is not suitable for a
modified system, an
understandable explana
tion should be given. ... .'
In a move that should
greatly increase county
growth and development,
the committee said all per
mits and letters of ap
proval issiied since July 1 ,.:
1977 . should be honored
unless the area approved
has physically changed.
Also all existing permits
and letters of approval
should be reevaluated.
Once a permit has been
approved for a lot, addi
tional approval should not
be required unless the area
has physically changed,
the committee : recom
mended. Presently, per
mits rendered are to be us
ed immediately or the lot
: is subject to reapproval.
The committee sug
gested that county land
owners be given "printed,
concise information" on
proper maintenance of
septic tank systems. .
The committee, allow
ing more flexibility in the
installation of disposal
systems, , consisted of a
tnember of the board of
health, a mortgage loan
CHAPEL HILL - Dr.
Valoja Washington of
Durham was selected as a
1981-82 Congressional
Science Fellow to work
with the. United States
Congress in Washington,
D.C., for one year. She
will work on national
legislative matters affec
ting children or families
and social policy.
Dr. Washington is assis
tant professor of - Human
Development and
Psychological Services at
the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill. She
was selected from 62,000
candidates as one of the
Ten Outstanding Young
Women of America and as
the Outstanding Young
Woman of North
Carolina for 1980. She is
president of the Black
Child Development
Institute-Durham af
filiate: a 'director of the
selects postdoctoral-level
scientists and engineers to
work in Congress in their
areas of expertise. In its
ninth year, the program
provides an opportunity
for accomplished profes
sionals to make practical
contributions toward the'
more effective use of
scientific knowledge in the
legislative process.
Because less than one per
cent of congressional staff
members appear to be
scientists, the program
also aims to establish a
more effective liaison bet
ween science and Con
gress. The Congressional
Science Fellowships have
enjoyed wide bipartisan
sWpport, as evidenced by
the House' and Senate
Concurrent . Resolution
-100, which applauded this
effort in 1976.
By Donald Alderman
The federal social pro
gram package for the
coming fiscal year which
features a twenty per cent
; cut in most services will
cause Triangle area
households that depend
on government' support to
tighten their economic
belts and find other means
to cushion the reduced
federal benefits.
More specifically, the
cuts in the food stamp and
Aid to , Families with
Dependent Children
(FADQ prpgrams will go
far beyond the targets of
the budget hawks, affec
ting families in destitu-'
tion, according to Dan
Hudgins, director,
Durham County Depart
ment of Social Services.
"You can't take that
much money (200 or
more) and not hurt the
truly needy,y Hudgins
said.
The Reagan administra
tion contends the cuts are
targeted to eliminate fraud
and to prevent strikers,
students and the working
poor families whose in
comes are at the poverty
level) from receiving
government funds, and
not to deprive the "truly
needy" from the
necessities of life.
However, Hudgins said,
those groups compose on
ly ten per cent of the total
receiving aid. Since the
cuts are more than ten per
cent, even the poorest
families will feel the
budget pinch, he explain
ed. The food stamp pro
gram will be reduced by
not allowing an upward,
adjustment for inflation.
"This will have the effect
of putting a person a year
behind," Hudgins said.
"This will result in 7,000
households or 17,000
county residents with
"less than a subsistence
allocation," he added.
The AFDC program is
being cut more drastically
than the food stamp pro
gram, Hudgins said. The
tougher eligibility ' re
quirements 'will make a
person working forty
hours per week at the
minimum wage ineligible
for the child care benefits.
A recipient cap deduct no
-work-related or child care
expenses from hisher in
come to qualify. Hudgins
said the tougher re
quirements may
discourage recipients from
working, having an
adverse effect.
The" current poverty
level is $7,450 annually for
a family of four. A .
. mother working a forty
" hour week, minimum
wage job will gross $6,968
in 1981 well below the
poverty level but not eligi
ble for AFDC benefits
under the tougher re
quirements. Most AFDC families,
are comprised of a mother
and children. Currently,
27 of the county's
AFDC mothers also work
a full time, minimum wage
job.
Hudgins said the
popular claim that . the
food stamp program is
Overrun by fraud is un
founded. He said persons
receiving food, stamps who
probably should not be,
probably amount to only
about five per cent of the
program's allocation. At
any rate, he said, a com
plete elimination of fraud
is almost impossible
because some people, will
always beat the system.
Hudgins dismissed the
claim that much of social
services budget is used for
administrative costs. He
said, of the countys seven
million dollar allocation
for this year, $300,000 is
being spent to administer
the programs.
Hudgins said the budget
slash will affect all county
recipients of food stamps
and AFDC, Hundreds will
be eliminated and all re
maining recipients will
face benefit reductions, he
said.
officer, an engineer, a - Chapel Hill Day Care
developer, a county resi- UGehter ' i and Durham
dent and
missioner
a county com-
Half of Two
Exist Below Poverty Line
NEW YORK; -r Almost t tnem have pensions or any
half of the nearly two
million blacks in this
country over age 6$ exist
teJow the poverty line or
so close to it that it is dif
ficult to tell the difference,
reports Black Enterprise
other outside source of in
come and'; subsequently,,
are totally dependent on
government t benefits. In
1979, Social Security
payments averaged
$242.10 (compared to
Magazine in its September J $299.10 for whites). The
issue.
Victims of a social'
discrimination which forc
ed blacks into the lowest
paying and most stagnant
jobs, elderly blacks sit at
the bottom of the Social
Security ladder. Few of
National Center on the .
Black Aged f(NCBA)
found that less than half
of ?ahe eligible elderly
black? e in rural areas
(where poverty is 7C vc
cent greater than in .
(Continued On Page 3.
League'of Women Voters;
and, a vice president of
; the National Council of
Negrb Women, Durham
Chapter.
The fellowship program
is sponsored by the Socie
ty for Research in Child
DevelopmentAmerican
Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, and '
is highly competitive. The
selection committee said
that; ' due to the large
number of highly
qualified applicants, com
petition , for the awards
was rigorous. Dr.
Washington was selected
because of her 'creden
tials, experience 'and pro
mise for the future."
The Congressional
Science Fellows Program
"V.
f, Gloria Toote
Attorney, New York, N.Y.
Benjamin L. Hooks,
Em. Sk'I NAACP
J. A. Parker. V
President, Lincoln Institute
Keynoters For Blacks In Government v
Several prominant black leaders will address the Third Annual Training Conference of Clacks la Government,
August 25-2S, in Washington. The conference is expected to attract some 5.CC3 black government employees to
discuss the impact of the Redaction In Force program and to participate In several workshops. For conference infor
mation call (202) 726-6113. Pictured are: Dr. Gloria Toote 0), nominee to chair the Merits Protection Board; Dr.
, Benjamin Hooks (c), NAACP's axecntive director; and, J.A. Parker (r), president of Lincoln Instate, all of whom
are among the keynote speaker.