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.. NC -an. iV'nE*n>uTH~uwBi»i5Ei^ mes [)1 UME 68 NUMBER 14 * DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1990 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE:30 CENTS Pres. Bush Expected To Veto 1990 Civil Rights Bill Eagles To Induct Five Into Hall Wednesday April 4, was the Ind anniversary of the death of ■ Marlin Luther King, Jr. His life js ended by an assassin’s bullet in iphis, Tennessee where he had je to help sanitation workers in til efforts to form a union. ^On Wednesday night, April a, tsident George Bush spoke to a 5„p at dinner celebrating the 20th gversary of the Joint Center for Itical Studies an African metican "think tank" which ijpys utmost respect from all liners. jo. S. Attorney General Richard Dick” Thornburg has litimended to Bush that he veto fcivil Rights Act of 1990 (HR- (d and S-2104). Bush has asserted that he will veto this most significant piece of civil rights legislation of the last quarter century. The Civil Rights Act of 1990 would provide action that is needed to fill gaps in the civil rights laws left by Court decisions. The Court had ruled that in the Patterson v. McLean Credit Union case, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 could not be applied to victims of discrimination. The present Supreme Court is methodically knocking down previous decisions which enabled challenges by those who were discriminated against. Last fall, JJic Carolina Times carried,in a series entitled "Crisis In The Courts," the definitive analyses DREW MEMORIAL HIGHWAY DEDICATION SCHEDULED |rALEIGH — A ceremony to officially name a section of NC-49 in Alamance County for Dr. Charles R. Drew is scheduled for londay, April 16, near Haw River. iLieutenant Governor James C. Gardner and Secretary of Crausportation Thomas J. Harrelson will be joined by federal, state and local officials for the ceremony. (The late Dr. Drew is best known for pioneering the preservation ofblood plasma. In 1941 he served as medical director of the first taierican Red Cross Blood Bank, a pilot program in New York 3ty. The program later became the model for the American Red toss (luring World War D. [Mrs. Charlene Drew Jarvis, Dr. Drew’s daughter and a member of 1C Washington, D.C. City Council, will attend the ceremony. Dr. Drew died on April 1, 1950, following an automobile accident ar the site of the Dr. Charles R. Drew marker on NC-49. In the event of rain the ceremony will be held at the Pleasant rove gym on NC-49. Ihe public is invited. 'It is a widely-held myth in the African American community that Dr. Drew was not treated at Alamance County Hospital because of ' race, tliis allcgauon has been reported on "MASH" and other rational television programs. It is not true. SECOND PATIENT CONFERENCE TO BEHELD IN DURHAM to The second of the three patient awareness conferences sponsored bytheN.C. Sickle Cell Syndrome Program will be held April 20- !1, in Durham on the campus of North Carolina Cenual University. Ihe first conference was held in Greenville, and was a great liccess. It was attended by over 100 persons consisting of families Bd persons affected by sickle cell disease. Topics such as Coping Viih Sickle Cell Disease, Nutrition, Support Groups, Clinical Ipdatcs were presented. There were many opportunities for rticipation in the sessions by those in attendance. Also, there was great deal of sharing between sessions and during the Friday •ening get-together. The conference in Durham is located for persons who live in the entral part of the state. This would include the Winston-Salem, leensboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville and Durham areas and also the iHiiities surrounding these cities. For further information contact Ms. Elaine Whitworth at (919) i3-0385. CHICAGO PUBLIC RELATIONS EXEC TO speak APRIL 22 AT WSSU HONORS PROGRAM Ms. D. Michelle Flowers, senior vice president of Burrell Public tlations Inc, of Chicago, is the keynote speaker at Winston-Salem late University’s Honors Day observance at 3 p.m. on Sunday, 'Pri!22,1990. 'c program will be held in the James A. Dillard Auditorium of Anderson Center across from the main campus at the Itersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Reynolds Park oad. ®Towcrs, who graduated magna cum laude from Winston-Salem hlc, is a Greensboro native. She holds a master's degree in Iwnising from Northwestern University. She joined Burrell Public Relations in 1986 as assistant vice Sideni, and in August 1987 became vice president, responsible 'new business development, agency administration and account ’Mgement. She was named senior vice president last August, and Purvises such accounts as Kraft General Foods, Proctor & ^eiblc and Citicorp/Citibank. lowers has been an account supervisor with Golin/Harris lotuiunications in Chicago, where she managed several programs • Sara Lee Corporation. Her responsibilities included local and honal Sara Lee Foundation projects and the corporation’s Adopt- hchool and cor[X)rate identity programs. '"Oalso has held public relations positions at the Chicago Urban 28iie, becoming director of public relations in 1983. hile-in Winston-Salem, Flowers worked at Integon Insurance 'ijjany as an internal communications specialist and, later, as a ™ Mtnniunications specialist. ^ member of the Alpha Kappa- Alpha Society Inc., Flowers also ags to Winston-Salem State’s Alumni Association, the Chicago It an League, the Northwestern University Alumni Association, Larecr Beginnings Mentor Program and the National socil tnhiyn for Female Executives. ® additional information, call: Ms. Marilyn Roseboro, 919/750- M Ms. Blanche Carter, Public Affairs, 919/750-2150 by the NAACP of the six key cases decided by the Court which, if left unchallenged and unchanged, would drastically erode many of the legal underpinnings of civil rights progress. Bush told the Joint Center dinner participants that "Black Americans have challenged me and my Adminisu-aiion to live up to the highest ideals of the Civil Rights Movement. I accept that challenge." He then discussed recent changes in South Africa and overcoming "obstacles to opportunity" in America. After Bush’s speech. Attorney Eleanor Holmes Norton, a professor at Georgetown University told the audience, "All I can say is the President forgot one item. He forgot to explain himself for his untimely action. Blacks will find it unacceptable for the President to come to dinner and then go home, and veto bills that are critical to our progress." Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said, "The strong vote reflects the bipartisan congressional consensus that supports this vital and historic measure. Without question, the Civil Rights Act of 1990 will be enacted this year, thus overturning a series of Supreme Court decisions that have made it more difficult for victims of discrimination to get into court, to prove discrimination and to obtain effective remedies." Neas accused Bush of bowing to the right wing of the Republican Party, and said he hoped that "President Bush will reject the recommendation of Attorney General Dick Thornburg and other , senior officers and refuse to join the ranks of Andrew Johnson and Ronald Reagan as the only presidents in American nistory to The NCCU Eagles will induct five into the Hall of Fame Sat., April 14. The banquet will be held at the W.G. Pearson Cafeteria. The banquet will be dedicated to the memory of Lee Calhoun who died June 21, 1989. Other inductees include Russell E. Blunt, Willie J. Hayes, Henry J. Kirksey, and George E. Wallace, Jr. ili CALHOUN BLUNT i. .1 HAYES KIRKSEY WALLACE veto a civil rights bill." Ron Brown, chairman of a the Democratic Party, said the administration’s threat to veto the Civil Rights Acts of 1990 is a "disgrace." He said, "I am particularly distressed in view of the gracious nature of the press appearance that we’ve seen another example of kinder and gentler rhetoric and very unkind action by the administration." Sen. Paul Simon (D-IU), co sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1990, in arguing the case for the bill said, "It’s now up to Congress to correct the mistakes made by the Court last year and to signal our clear intent, on behalf of the American people, that discrimination against women and minorities, no matter how unintended or subtle, has no place in the workplace or in our society." Citizens wishing to state their position on the Civil Rights Act of 1990 can get through to Congress by calling (202) 224-3121. East And West German Students Visit Durham to Study Civil Rights Movement 27 By Debbie Selinsky Duke University News Service A group of East and West German university students visiting the United States this month to add insight to their studies of the contemporary civil rights movement in the American South will be at Duke University and in Durham next Monday and Tuesday, April 1617. Their observations on the hves of African Americans should be especially significant since some of these same students have been experiencing tlicir own civil rights movement since the push for democracy in their homeland intensified last year. The 25 students - five from the University of Leipzig in East Germany and 20 from the University of Munich’s American Studies Department in West Germany will spend time talking with black government, education and business leaders, including Durham Mayor Chester Jenkins, Stale Rep. Mickey Michaux and Mrs. Willa C. Bryant of the Durham Board of Education. Visiting students arc also expected to meet one-on-one with students from Duke and North Carolina Central University. The students, who arc the first combined group from East and West Germany to visit the United Stales since last year’s political upheaval, will present a public forum, "The German Fnturc: A Dialogue with East and West German SludenLs" on Monday at 8 p.m. in Zener Auditorium in the Sociology-Psychology Building on Duke’s West Campus. The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and the International 'Visitors Council arc acting as hosts for the group. The Monday talk will b' sponsored the Duke Departmen of ermanic Lang .igcs and Li! ' ji s, Vest European Studies . f lite Mary Lou Williams C’a r x- P’ack Culture. The Dukc-Diirham invclvcn .ent in the tour came about as a result of the friendship between Robert Korstad of the Center for Documentary Studies and Harmut Keil, who with Klaus Ensslen is directing the "Black Americans Today" study tour in the United States. "Germans — in part because of the large number of U.S. blacks stationed in their country during World War II - have always had a sriong interest in Afro-American history and culture," Korstad said ' in an interview. "We’re excited to have them come to Durham, since it has a long and rich history of educational and economic success among African American residents. In the 1930s, Durham was considered the black Wall Street of the United States .... Todav it remains one of the most important centers for black life in the Southeast." To act as co-host for the students, visit to Durham and Duke seemed "perfectly natural" to center executive director Iris Tillman Hill. "The center has been created to encourage active observation and engagement in our society. Oral history and documentary photography, the primary tCKtls of the documentarian, ask studenLs and scholars to use their eyes and cars, to observe life’s conditions, and to cross the boundaries of academic di.sciplincs,” she said. "By coming here to observe and participate in dialogue with African Americans in an effort to understand their lives in today’s .South, these German students and their teachers arc practicing documentary work." The visit, particularly the Monday forum, provides an equally important opportunity for Americans to hear first-hand of the changing lives of the people of East and West Germany. "It’s like Mohammed coming to the mountain," said Forrest Rogers of the International Visitors Council. "Everyone is so interested in what it happening in East and West Germany and now we have a chance to hear from young people who live there." Korstad added that discussion at the Monday forum should be lively since the students have differing opinions on the rise of German nationalism. In light of rapidly occurring changes in their homeland, students will be carefully scrutinizing what they see in the United States, Tillman Hill said. "These young people have studied U.S. history and know a great deal about our country even before they arrived. They.re very sophisticated politically, come from a variety of disciplines, and will be asking us some hard questions; questions like why voter parucipation is so low in a country that is supposed to be the world’s bastion of democracy," she said. "Some people feel we are going to have to relearn what our country is supposed to be all about and that we may end up learning it from people who arc learning about us." For more information on tlie public forum, call the Center for Etocumenutry Studies, (919) 687- 0486, or the Duke News Service, 684-2823. Motor Club Estimates Ten To Lose Lives Over Easter Weekenid CHARLOTTE — An estimated 10 people may be killed in traffic accidents on North Carolina streets and highways this Easter weekend, according to the N.C. State Motor Club. In addition, 950 individuals may suffer disabling injuries in motor vehicle crashes during this first spring holiday weekend. The holiday officially begins at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, April 12 and ends at midnight Sunday, April 15. Last year over a similar period of time 12 were killed and 973 were injured, while 14 were killed and 955 injured in 1988. The prediction of two fatalities less than the number of people who died during this holiday a year ago, and four less than 1988 follows a trend of fewer fatalities over holidays which began several years ago. John G. Frazier, president of the statewide motor club says there is gocxl basis for the. optimistic figure. "North Carolina has made an enormous amount of progress in highway safety over the past 25 years," Frazier stated. '"We believe that North Carolinians arc beginning to understand the good sense in separating alcohol from driving, and the use of safety bells in preventing highway fatalities." To date traffic records of the N. C. Deparunent of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles show a tlcclinc of 74 traffic fatalities over thi; same period of time in 1989. "This gives North Ctuoliiia a good start on continuing tlic downward trend in uaffic deaths," Frtuier said. The pessimistic factors in the prediction according to Frazier is Easter signals the beginning of spring vaeaiions and an increase in recreational travel. "Unfortunately, it is in this vacation uavcl area that more vehicle accidents occur," he said. Because most holiday weekends arc family affairs, trips during these periods focus on the importance of scat bells and infant restraint equifnent. To help insure a safe and happy spring holiday Fra, ter urges all motorists to use their safety belt and fasten children into approved child safety scat. We have come a long way in our efforts to prevent highway fatalities and arc hopeful tliat the trend will continue," Frazier said. As of this dale 265 traffic deaths have been recorded in North Carolina.
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