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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA —SATURDAY, DKEMBER 18, 1993 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
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The U.S. and Native Americans:
A Legacy of Betrayal
Page 6
A REMINDER
Your last issue of The Carolina Times for 1993
will be dated December 25. Your next issue will be
dated January 8,1994.
Whites Suggest Blacks are
Political Airheads
Page 6
Proposal Would Require
Feen Mothers To Live At
iome To Get Welfare
By Jennifer Dixon I
WASHINGTON (AP) - Teen-age
(hers would be barred from the
fare rolls if they move out of
i parents’ home, according to a
fi White House proposal to
amp the nation’s welfare system
discourage soaring out-of-
Jlock births.
he plan to keep pregnant teens
young mothers at home with
parents is one of the options
tr consideration by President
lion’s welfare reform task force,
le measure could eliminate a
lible incentive for teen-agers to
pregnant and move out of their
ints’ home by depriving them of
resources to establish their own
icholds.
Low-income single mothers not
only receive a monthly cash benefit
under Aid to Families with
Dependent Children, the state-
federal welfare program now
serving 5 million families, but
generally qualify for food stamps
and Medicaid as well.
Under current law, teen mothers
can collect AFDC if they are living
with a parent. Their parents’
income, however, is counted in
determining eligibility for welfare,
and that could disqualify some
teens from the program. Once they
move out, however, they could
become eligible.
A Clinton administration official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity, said the task force
finorities Fired By
overnment At Twice The
ate of Whites
By James H Rubin
iSHINGTON .(AP) - Members
linorities who worked for the
jl government were fired last
at about twice the rate of
s, officials said Tuesday. But
said it is unclear whether
I bias or other reasons explain
isparity.
lis administration is conimitted
Iting to the bottorn of this,"
Michael Orenstein, a
esman for the Office of
nnel ManagemenL
William L. Clay, D-Mo.,
man of the House Post Office
Civil Service Committee,
ed an investigation of the
ts by Congress’s General
jnting Office.
ihese numbers are true, it is
ing that minorities make up a
iportionate share" of firings,
id. Clay said he wants to be
"the principles of equality
law are being applied." The
inal Treasury Employees
called for immediate action
Clinton administration. "It’s
nough to say it’s a cultural
a systemic problem. We’ve
find out why and change the
said union president
t Tobias.
union said it found similar
ities in a 1991 study of the
al Revenue Service work
Minorities make up more than 28
percent of the federi work force of
some 2.2 million people. That
includes about 17 percent black, 6
percent Hispanic, 4 percent Asian-
Pacific Islander and 2 percent
American Indian.
Nearly 12,000 federal workers
were fired last year, and more than
half were members of minority
groups;
Minorities are over-represented
among the lower-paying jobs, and
officials will investigate whether
that contributes to the higher rate oi
firing.
The Office of Personnel
Management said nearly two-thirds
of fired minority office workers
were in their first year in federal
jobs or were temporary workers.
Workers who are new on the job or
in temporary posts generally have
less protection against dismissal.
Most of the rest of the minority
employees who lost their jobs were
blue collar workers.
^ The latest statistics, uncovered by
Knight Riddcr Newspapers, show
that the greatest differences
between whites and minorities were
for firings of low-level, blue-collar
and clerical workers.
Minority men were dismissed at
more than three times the rale of
whites, and minority women at
double the rate.
believes teen mothers should live at
home because "we want to send the
signal that they should stay in
school, get ready to work and delaj'
childbearing." "We also believe
that when a very young woman
becomes pregnant, the best place
for her, in most cases, is to live
with an adult," the official said.
In the draft, the task force calls
teen pregnancy "an enduring
tragedy" and notes that the country
is approaching the point when one
out of every three babies will be
bom to an unwed mother.
The costs are enormous,
according to the Center for
Population Options, an advocacy
and reaearch organization that
estimates the federal government
spent $29 billion in 1991 to support
families begun by teen-agers, up
from S25 billion in 1990.
(Continued On Page 7)
Police Raid
Homes In
Drug Sweep
(AP) - Durham police raided
homes and street comers in what is
believed to be the city’s biggest
ever street-level dmg bust.
Thirty-eight people were arrested
on drug charges Tuesday and
officers plan to hit the streets again
Wednesday, looking for an
additional 50 suspected drug
dealers.
The bust targeted dealers who sell
drugs near elementary schools and
dealers who brazenly sell heroin
and cocaine on the city’s street
comers.
Assistant Durham District
Attorney Jim Hardin said he and
vice officers were horrified by how '
easily and openly drugs were
peddled near several elementary
schools.
Selling drugs within 300 feet of a
school can add 10 years to a
sentence on drug charges.
Police Capt. Paul Martin said the
drug sweep should have an impact
on the drug trade in Durham.
‘GREEKS’ UNITE AT PRE-KWANZAA CELEBRATION
Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
See Story On Page 5. (Photos by Trent
STANDING OVATION FOR PLEA FOR UNITY
Jury Views More Evidence In
Seagroves Shooting Trial
By Estes Thompson and assault case of a Durham
(AP) - Jurors asked for more help homeowner who fired on four teen-
as they entered a second day of agers who broke into his garage,
deliberations in the manslaughter On Monday, the six-man, six-
woman jury asked for drawing
materials and another reading of
the law. After deliberating ;45
(Continued On Page 7) ;
lul R. Jervay, Sr.,
)under of The Carolinian
es At 87
Racial Segregation
Spreading In Schools
EIGH (AP) - Paul R. Jervay
lie founder of a black
onity newspaper in Raleigh,
Kurday at Rex Hospital after
illness. He was 87.
ly was bom in Wilmington
imed a degree in printing
lampton University. He went
tk for several newspapers,
ng The Cape Fear Journal of
igton. The Norfolk Journal
uide in Virginia and The
0 Defender, before moving
igh.
y worked for The Carolina
before taking over the
h 1940 and renaming it The
lian.
newspaper has served as a
m to battle prejudice, a
inity bulletin board and a
:al record of black life in'
li and central North Carolina,
Managing Editor Cash'
sis.
"It lakes a strong man with a
powerful spirit and a determined
heart to be the voice of the
community through the primed
word for over half a century,"
Michaels said.
Jervay relinquished control of the
newspaper to his daughter, Prentice
Monroe, last year.
Joseph Sansom, a banker who
knew Jervay for 35 years, said
Jervay lived by a philosophy of
self-help.
"He would have thought that we
as African-Americans need to see
what we can do for ourselves first,
and then reach out for those able to
assist us," Sansom said.
His family includes his wife
Brenda Yancey Jervay; a daughter,
a son, Paul R. Jervay Jr.; four
grandchildren; and a brother,
Thomas Jervay. j
A funeral was scheduled tor
Monday in Raleigh. i
By Connie Cass
WASHINGTON (AP) -
America’s schools are sliding back
into racial segregation, 40 years
after the Supreme Court mandated
integration, a study found. Blacks
and Hispanics are shunted into
minority-filled schools at rates
unseen since the 1960s.
Schools composed mostly ol
minority students are more likely to
have a high poverty rate - an
obstacle to a sound education, the
Harvard Project on School
Desegregation reported on
Monday,
The study found that 66 percent
of black children attended schools
where minorities were more than
half of the student population
during the 1991 -92 school term.
In comparison. 77 percent of
black students attended
predominantly minority schools in
1968, the report’s author Gary
Orfield said. With the help of
court-ordered busing, the
percentage dropped to about 63
percent in the early ’70s and stayed
at that level through most of the
’80s.
"This report reflects what may be
the beginning of a historic
reversal," Orfield said. "The civil
rights impulse from the 1960s is
dead in the water, and the ship is
floating backward toward the
shoals of racial segregation."
Orfield called on the federal
government to stop the trend by
enforcing civil rights laws.
In response. Education Secretary
Richard Riley said he was working
with other agencies to find ways to
bring change through federal law
and leadership.
"The report raises serious
questions about the disturbing trend
toward racial and economic
isolation of students in our public
schools," Riley said in a statement. :
In 1991, one of three black
children attended schools where 90
percent or more of the students
were minorities, the study found.
The same percentage of Hispanic
students attended such
^overwhelmingly minority schools,
lilmost three-fourths of Hispanic
{children attended schools wherd
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SPECIAL PROGRAM
All you wanted to know about
K W A N Z A A !
Dec. 26 to Jan. 1
A special week for
Afro-American Families
Listen this Saturday
Mr,s. Lora Stewart of Once Upon A Child will present a
special broadcast this Saturday on WSRC, 1410 AM on
your radio dial, from 2; 15 to 3 p.m.
This broadcast is on every Saturday to help parents with
resources for rearing the children of today, especially our
children of color.
This Saturday, the discussion will be on how to use the
principles of Kwanzaa to help our children, our families,
and our community