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OLUME 65 - NUMBER 47
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1987
TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
PRICE: 30 CENTS
Local UNCF Group
Kicks Off Fundraiser!
By Milton Jordan
About 300 people paid $2i
ch Saturday night to dine and
ince at the new Durham Hilton,
eking off the annual fund raising
forts for the United Negro Col-
ge Fund.
Saturday’s party, that featured a
Soaring 20s" format with waiters
id some guests dressed in the
oot and sequin" attire of the era,
js the first of several fundraisers
at lead up to the Dec. 26 seven-
lur telethon on WTVD, Channel
1.
In addition to dining, dancing
id drinking several partygoers
ad $5 for each raffle ticket that
ive them a chance to win a mink
at, donated to the cause by Furs
Anastasia, a custom furrier from
lyetteville.
Mrs. Priscilla Daye of Durham
an the full length mink, and Ms.
nma Normal of Winston-Salem
an the blue fox jacket
According to Mrs. Barbara
oore, co-chairman of the local
NCF committee, Durham’s
iidraising goal this year is
50,000, including money raised
ling the telethon.
Other events planned between
w and the telethon include a
nefit basketball game, featuring
a teachers of Hillside High
hool, versus the teachers of Dur-
m High School.
Prior to Saturday’s event, the
al UNCF committee had met
Ih a team of local business lead
ers to solicit support for this year’s
UNCF efforts.
"A local businessman has
agreed to match what we can raise
from the business community dol
lar for dollar, up to $50,000," ex
plained William Bunch, also co-
chairman of the local UNCF com
mittee. "So we are really pushing
our corporate efforts this year."
Figures were not available by
Monday for the amount of money
raised from the kickoff gala, ac
cording to Mrs. Moore.
Saturday night’s entertainment
has provided by Eve Cornelius &
Company.
The United Negro College
Fund is a national organization that
raises money for 43 predominantly
African American colleges and uni
versities around the nation. The
UNCF schools are all private and
fully accredited, and enroll more
than 45,000 students.
Money raised by UNCF pays
for scholarships, equipment and
general operating expenses.
North Carolina UNCF schools
include Barber-Scotia College in
Concord; Bennett College in
Greensboro; Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity in Charlotte; Livingstone
College in Salisbury; Saint
Augustine’s and Shaw universities
in Raleigh.
The North Carolina schtxrls en
roll more than 7,000 students, and
employ more than 1,300 people,
according to Ms. Marilyn Baldwin,
the state’s UNCF coordinator.
Ms. Baldwin, whose works oui
of the UNCF office in Winston-
Salem, went on to say that the
state’s UNCF goal this year is
$1,078,000, which includes local
efforts like Saturday nights, and
corporate giving, plus three
telethons that will all be held Dec.
26.
In addition to the UNCF
telethon at WTVD, which covers
the Triangle market, including
Fayetteville, other telethons include
Metrolina, from Charlotte; and the
Triad, from Greensboro.
Metrolina, includes about 13
counties in the general vicinity of
Charlotte, while the principal cities
of the Triad are Greensboro,
Winston-Salem and High Point
The local telethons are linked
with the national Lou Rawls Parade
of Stars telethon, broadcasted Hol
lywood and Las Vegas.
Internationally famous vocalist
Lou Rawls hosts the telethon, and
this year, co-hosts include Ed
McMahon, Marilyn McCoo and
Clint Holmes.
Last year, according to informa
tion from the national UNCF of
fice, the telethon raised more than
$8 million for the UNCF effort.
The telethon was launched
three years ago, sponsored by
Ansheuser Busch, and local
telethons are sponsored by local
distributors of the Busch, malt
beverage products.
Cathy Stowe Was A
Fighter.. .TUI The End!
By Milton Jordan
Cathy Stowe brought bountiful
lent, an unyielding love for her
ople and a willingness to fight
lentlessly for anything she
ilieved in to Durham television
ien she came more than seven
ars ago.
This is how family, friends and
illeagues described the writer,
oducer and television personality
to hosted WTyD’s "Reflections"
ogram for more than six years.
Mrs. Stowe, 38, died Friday
jht fofiowing a year-long battle
ilh cancer. Her funeral was con-
Kted Monday afternoon at Sl
seph’s AME Church.
"She was a rare bird," said Irvin
titer, producer of the weekly
agazine program "Reel Perspec-
ics," who as public affairs pro-
icer had recruited Mrs. Stowe to
irham in the Spring of 1980.
Ilie was a terrific writer. She had
inndying love for her people. She
as pure black."
As writer, editor, producer and
tost of the Reflections program
It began as Durham’s only televi-
an public affairs program dedi-
ted to the African American
mmunity, Mrs. Stowe did a num-
tof memorable programs.
These include programs on
ick music, the Ku Klux Klan,
emicals in food and the black
tss.
"She had a way of reaching out
i grabbing an audience," ex
iined Alvin Stowe, her husband
seven years. "She could weave
formation toqether so that you
lUy wanted to sit there and Usten
what she had to say."
Mrs. Stowe always had a lot to
1, from her beginning in commu-
ations, as a news reporter with a
iw Orleans radio station, throuqh
r work as co-producer on "River
iger," and her work writing and
Iping to produce a nationally
iidicated program "Story of a
lople."
A Durham native, who returned
wie to work in television, Mrs.
hwe apparently came to make a
tterence.
Alvia Stowe, who met his future
& while he was program director
l^DUR radio, has been a part of
«work to "make a difference" al-
ost from the beginninq.
They were married in August
"Cathy had loads of
determination," he said, "and com
plete commitment to her work. I re
member one of the most
memorable pieces she ever did—
"A Time for Rose"-—done during
the time that she was eight months
pregnant. It required a lot of field
reporting and production, but Cathy
was always right there."
Mrs. Stowe brought that same
determination, commitment and
fighting spirit to her battle with
cancer.
According to Stowe, the cancer
was first diagnosed in early 1986,
and was breast cancer. A biopsy
revealed that it was malignant, and
Mrs. Stowe had a radical masec-
tomy performed.
Shortly after that, the Stowes
moved to Mobile where Alvin be
gan as program director with
WBLX radio, and Mrs. Stowe
worked on the "Story of a People"
project"
But Mrs. Stowe took a turn for
the worse and the family returned
to the Duke Medical Center where
the original operation had been per
formed.
Several other trips to the local
Death Threats Prompt Jesse
Jackson To Seek Protection
Presidential candidate Jesse
Jackson, who says he received 314
death threats during his unsuccess
ful 1984 bid for the presidency, has
sought early Secret Service protec
tion.
Secret Service agents always are
assigned to presidential candidates,
but the agents this year aren’t to be
gin protecting candidates until Jan
uary.
Jackson has asked that he be
given protection immediately. An
other candidate, Pat Robertson, also
has asked for early protection.
No reason was given why Jack-
son desired early protection. How
ever, he was said to have been
shaken by the number of death
threats he received during his last
campaign.
E^ly Secret Service help is one
of at least two major problems
Jackson is trying to solve. His
grassroots campaign has struggled
for financial support At one recent
RECIPIENTS OF PLAQUES — Miss Annie Mae Tucker (I) and Mrs. Claranell Brown are presented pla
ques by Lenzie G. Barnes, president of Friends of Stanford L. Warren Branch Library, during the Friends
banquet on Friday night at the Pearson Cafeteria, NCCU.
hospital were sandwiched between
another move for the family, this
time to Charleston, S.C. where
Stowe is currently program director
for SMGL radio.
By then, though, the cancer,
Stowe explained, had reappeared
and had lodged in the woman’s
liver.
"The doctors told me that once
cancer takes over the liver,” Stowe
said,” that there’s not much that
can be done to prevent the person
from dying."
But Stowe said he never shared
this insight with his wife because
she had agreed to take a rare bone
marrow transplant procedure as a
last ditch effort to fight off the
ravages of the cancer.
Yet despite what Stowe de
scribes as massive chemotheraphy
treatments and the bone marrow
transplant, the cancer was too far
advanced.
But he said that she continued to
fight, and to believe that there was
hope, until she died. .
In addition to here husbam’,
Mrs. Stowe is survived by three
children, and other relatives.
MEMBERS OF THE BOOK REVIEW COMMITTEE of Stanford L. Warren Library who were honored
Friday night during the Friends’ Recognition and Awards banquet (l-r) are: Mrs. Beatrice Cherry, Mrs.
Willie B. Hill, Mrs. Selena W. Wheeler, Mrs. Lavenia C. Parker, Mrs. Andolia O. Eaton and Mrs. Margaret
Whisenton.
Bold Steps And Bold Funding
Needed For Branch Library
speaking engagement in Atlanta,
Jackson urged those willing to
pledge $1,000 to stand. He then
asked for those willing to pledge
$500, $250 or $100 to stand. Only
a few people stood until Jackson
asked for all those ..willing to
pledge something.”
Jackson told his audience,
..Please take this appeal seriously.
I’m No. 1 in the polls and number
last in raising money. It shouldn’t
be that way.”
According to records released by
the Federal Election Commission,
Jackson has been running a
campaign on a shoestring. Accord
ing to the commission, he has
raised just over $1 million this year
and spent nearly every penny.
Jackson is being greatly outspent
by his competitors. Vice President
George Bush has raised nearly $13
million and Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis has raised more
than $9 million.
Dr. Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson
of Duke University, and speaker for
the first Recognition and Awards
Banquet of the Friends of Stanford
L. Warren Branch Library, held Fri.
Nov. 20 at at North Carolina Cen
tral University, called for the use of
atypical criteria in evaluating the
community value of the branch U-
brary.
She believes that the standard of
the size of the circulation rate
should not be used in measuring the
feasibility of a branch library serv
ing an a typical population. The
Durham County library system,
which determined in 1983-1984
that the branch’s service population
was atypical, still measures the use
fulness of the branch library by its
circulation rate.
Dr. Jackson, who decried blam
ing "the black herd" for the failures
of black businessmen, educators,
and political candidates, as well as
revering existing black institutions
only because they were historically
unique in a racially segregated
society, also deplored the continu
ing presence of racially identifiable
public universities in North Caro
lina.
Citing a recent report released
by a subcommiuee of the Com
mittee on Government Operations
of the U.S. House of Representa
tives, she said that North Carolina
was one of ten slates still maintain
ing "racially segregated public col
lege systems." She also chided the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill for generally seeking
the most academically talented and
athletically gifted of black college
applicants and assuming that their
lesser talented and gifted counter
parts were best served by black uni
versities.
Dr. Jackson also urged the
Friends to take bold steps and seek
bold funding in its efforts to pre
vent the branch library from bec
oming a trash can in the Durham
County library system. As long as
the branch library is expected to
function as a full-service library-a
notion she supports, she believes
the branch library should be
modeled on the bold plans pro
posed in September for the Atlanta-
Fulton Public library system, ac
companied by the necessary finan
cial support from the Durham
County Board of Commissioners.
Bishop Elroy Lewis, pastor of
Fisher Memorial United Holy
Church of America, in his invoca
tion and benediction, stressed the
need to extend the services of the
branch library to its service popula
tion.
Mrs. Dale Watson Gaddis,
director of the Durham County Li
brary, welcomed the audience and
recognized the presence of Mrs.
Becky Heron, a Durham County
Commissioner, and Jack Bond,
Durham County manager. Lenzie
G. Bames, the Friends’ president,
recognized the presence of Howard
Clement, a Durham City Council
man.
Dr. Tyronza R. Richmond,
chancellor of North Carolina Cen
tral University, brought greetings
and praised Barnes’ efforts in
bringing about the banquet and raf
fle held to benefit the branch li
brary.
Mrs. Dorothy Campbell, vice
chairman of the Durham County
Library Trustee Board, gave the oc
casion, praised tlie honorees of the
Friends, and discussed briefly the
historical background of the
Friends.
James C. Black, Friends’ vice-
president, in closing remarks em
phasized the important contribu
tions of his group and the need for
greater community support of the
branch library.
Musicians for the occasion were
Ralph Cousin and Jesse McCrite,
both of Durham, and the Rev. Al
vin T. Simpson of Atlanta, Ga.
Cousin’s rendition of "I Made It"
was a crowd favorite.
Honorees And
Raffle Winners Of
Library Friends
The Friends of tlu- inloiu 1..
Warren Branch Libr.uy huiuiK,' "s
key volunteers at a Recognin.'n anil
Awards Banquet held on Noveinlx-r
20 at North Carolina Central Uni
versity.
Presentation of awards by Bruce
Bridges. Leon Goldston Jr., and
Shirley Brown (head of the branch
library) were made to Mrs.
Claranell Brown, Mrs. Andolia 0.
Eaton, Dr. Benjamin F. Speller Jr.,
Miss Annie Mae Tucker, and to the
members of the Friends’ Book
Review Committee.
The Book Review Committee
members who were honored and
praised for their effective work
were Mrs. Beatrice Cherry, Mrs.
Willie B. Hill, Mrs. Lavenia C.
Parker, Mrs. Loris S. Ray, Mrs.
Margaret Whisenton, and Mrs.
Selena W. Wheeler.
The branch library is named for
Mrs. Wheeler’s late father. Dr.
Stanford L. Warren, whose
generosity led to the present loca
tion of the library at 1201 Fayet
teville Street
The winner of the first prize in
the Friends’ raffle to benefit the
branch library was Dr. Charles Gil
christ. He won a VCR. The second
prize, a $100 U.S. Savings Bond
was won by Ms. Fleta Alston.