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Volume 19, No. 6
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23,1993
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Scarborough
News Antfl^es Prom Charlotte
And The Rest Of The World.
Caucus Honors
Eight Women
The Charlotte Women's Po
litical Caucus will honor
eight women at a fundraiser
Oct. 21.
The hon-
orees in
clude Meck
lenburg
Commiss
ioners Edna
Chirico,
Ann
Schrader
and Patsy
Kinsey: City
Council
members
Ann Hammond, Cyndee Pat
terson, Lynn Wheeler and
Ella Scarborough and Hun
tersville Mayor Bobbie Ross.
The event will be held at the
home of Charlotte-
Mecklenburg School Board
member Susan Burgess at
2710 Lemon Tree Ln. from 5
p.m.-8 p.m. Tickets are $25
and can be purchased in ad
vance by calling Carol
Hughes at 541-3161
100 Black Men
Partnership
Cochrane Middle School
and 100
Black Men
of Greater
Charlotte
are moving
to a new
phase in
their rela
tionship.
The Move
ment of
Youth pro-
Springs gram is
moving
into Phase II with a series of
workshops through June for
a group of at-risk students at
Cochrane. The workshops
focus on community service,
entrepreneurship, health
and fitness.
"This is another excellent
opportunity for the 100
Black Men of Greater Char
lotte to continue their ser
vice with African American
youth while working toward
the goal of making a college
education a reality for their
participants," said Lenny
Springs, founder of the
group.
Talking Business
At This Seminar
An arm of the U.S. Depart
ment of Commerce is host
ing a minority business sem
inar in Fayetteville next
week.
The Minority Business De
velopment Agency (MBDA)
will sponsor an introductory
franchise seminar Sept. 28
from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. at the
Charles Rose Elxpo Center at
West Mountain Drive. The
session is free and open to
the public. MBDA Is spon
soring seminars across the
Southeast to encourage more
minority franchise develop
ment and participation in
the U.S. as part of the Na
tional Minority Franchise
Initiative.
For more information on
the seminar, call Susan
Jones-Monroe of the Fay
etteville Minority Business
Development Council at
(919) 483-7513.
By Vera Witherspoon
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Patrick Cannon has big
plans as a member of Char
lotte City Council.
Cannon won a three-way
race with Roosevelt Gardner
and Ezzard Charles Parker
for the Democratic nomlna-
Cannon
trict 3. Can- youngest person elected to
non, 26, council in city history,
won't face Tuesday's loss is the eighth
Republican unsuccessful attempt at pub-
opposition lie office for Gardner. He re-
for the seat. celved 453, or 39 percent of
Cannon the votes,
won with Parker withdrew from the
691 votes, race, but received 18, or 2
or 60 per- percent of the votes. Primary
by low
turnout, lived up to form,
with only 6.6 percent of reg
istered voters going to the
polls. In District 3, turnout
was 5.4 percent.
"I feel a sigh of relief in de
fying what odds existed out
there," Cannon said. "From
See ELECTION On Page 2A
The Results
Patrick
Cannon
691 (59%)
Roosevelt
Gardner
453 (39%)
Ezzard
Charles
Parker
18 (2%)
Vote totals
in Tues
day's Dem
ocratic
primary
for City
Council
District 3.
As drug abuse rises regionally, a
one-of-a-kind program in S.C. is
helping addicted mothers and...
Youngest
By Cassandra Wynn
THE CHARLOTTE POST
It started with a few drinks
that led to a few hits.
TliUi the next thing Jen’?^,'
Brown (not her real name)
knew, she had gone on a
four-day drug binge.
It wasn't just guilt that
frightened her. There was a
complication.
She was 7 1/2 months
pregnant with twins.
"I felt ashamed because I
had used while I was preg
nant. I was scared I had hurt
them real bad. I had used a
large amount of drugs for
four days straight," Brown
said. "On the coming down
period, I was thinking, oh
my God, are they going to be
alive or did I give them
brain damage."
Brown's panic led to one
smart move. Her doctor re
ferred her to the Baby Steps
program at the Lancaster
Recovety Center at Springs
Memorial Hospital in Lan
caster, S.C.
In operation for a year.
Baby Steps is the only pro
gram In the Carolinas, Vir
ginia or Georgia that accepts
women in recovery beyond
the first trimester. Many of
the center's clients come
from Charlotte.
"Other centers don't have
the medical expertise for
prenatal care," said Russ
Knight, executive director of
the Lancaster Recovery Cen
ter. The center has a Level II
nursery, which can handle
moderately high risk ba
bies. A Level III nursery
handles babies at the high
est risk.
See BABY On Page 2A
Citing Unequal Justice,
Watt Votes No On Bill
FROM NEWS SERVICES
N.C. Rep. Mel Watt voted against a hate crimes bill in the
U.S. House, saying the proposed legislation wouldn't be equal
ly applied.
Watt, who represents the predomlnantly-black 12th Dis
trict, broke ranks with House Democrats Tuesday in voting
against the bill. The bill, approved by voice vote, is designed to
protect racial, ethnic and religious minorities. Watt said the
statute would be more likely to harm the people it's designed
to protect.
"While this law is intended to be color blind, based on my ex
perience, I'm sure that its implementation will not be," he
said. 'We'll be back here in three to five years, lamenting that
we need to revise this bill because we will have found that It is
being used more often than not against the very people it was
intended to benefit."
Watt, an attorney, said N.C.'s hate crimes law offers proof
See WATT On Page 2A
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Mothers can help get themselves and their newborn babies through drug addiction In the
Baby Steps program at Springs Memorial Hospital in Lancaster, S.C.
Organizers Hope Game Will
Grow Into A Classic Tradition
■
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
J.C. Smith and N.C. Central
will play in the New Queen
City Classic Saturday.
Charlotte's growing sports
reputation is ready to take
the next step with a black
college football event.
The New Queen City Classic
Saturday between Johnson
C. Smith and N.C. Central
universities will be the first
event of its kind in Char
lotte. The game, to be played
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Me
morial Stadium, is expected
to attract about 15,000 spec
tators, organizers say. Most
of the tickets were sold in ad
vance, with corporate sales
encouraged by the Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce.
'We just had the idea that
Charlotte was ready for this
kind of event," said Charles
Manning, one of the classic's
promoters. 'Within a 100-
mile radius, we feel we ought
to be able to bring a lot of
people Into the uptown
area."
Classics, developed primar
ily among black college foot
ball programs during the late
1970s, traditionally bring
participants together along
social, economic and athlet
ic lines to create a cross be
tween homecoming and an
exposition. There are 33
See CLASSIC On Page 2A
Family Of Klan Victim Holds No 111 Will, But May Sue Government
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The
family of a black man slain
by the Ku Klux Klan in 1957
said they hold no anger to
ward the widow of a man
who confessed to the killing,
but they are considering
suing the federal govern
ment.
The slain man's daughters
- Melinda O'Neil of Colum
bus, Ohio, and Mildred Betts
of Buffalo, N.Y. - met recent
ly at a restaurant with Diane
Alexander. The Montgomery
woman said her common-
law husband, Henry Alexan
der, confessed last December
to killing Willie Edwards Jr.
Soon after his confession,
Alexander died of cancer.
O'Neil said meeting Mrs.
Alexander helped her and
her sister to deal with their
bitterness over growing up
without their father.
"It was nice because we got
to see that Diane was a
warm, sincere, trusting per
son," O'Neil said. "She got to
see us and know we didn't
hold any animosity toward
her and that we were very ap
preciative she came for
ward."
The women also met with
Morris Dees, director of the
Southern Poverty Law Cen
ter, about a possible lawsuit
against the federal govern
ment stemming from Alex
ander's confession.
Alexander told his wife he
was an FBI informant during
the civil rights era.
See FAMILY On Page 2A
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