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2-THE CAROLINA TIMES—SATURDAY, JANUARY 30. 1993 View of Riot Prompts Couple to Write Children's Books By Sonja Barisic Associated Press Writer . GtNCINNATI (AP) - Bill "Dallas" Lewis experienced last year’s riots in Los Angeles and knew he’d no longer be satisfied with his job as a marketing consul tant ”I thought what am 1 doing to help change the world and make it a better place? 1 am making money, but that doesn’t help," said Lewis. He; was on a business trip in Los Angeles and ended up passing out groceries after the riots erupted when four police officers were ac quitted of charges in the beating of blaek motorist Rodney King. Se he quit his job and dove into a dream - writing children’s books he hopes will inspire youths to pursue their own dreams by learning tc love reading. "If you have a dream and read about it, you can make it come true;’’ Lewis, 37, said. "Hopefully, we can plant a seed when some one's in kindergarten or first grade." Lewis and his wife, Lisa, formed a publishing company to work out of their Cincinnati home. They published "The Last Book," the fust book in a plaimed four- uses computers, has friends with all sorts of backgrounds," Lewis said. The books are intended for chil dren of all racial and ethnic back grounds, Ms. Lewis said. "Everyone can get along better by learning to appreciate each other’s cultures," she said. Lewis, who wasn’t a writer or an artist, fittingly turned to the library to start his new career. He read up on children’s books, sketched out 50 plot lines and wrote "The Last Book." In the story, a purple-haired space girl steals all the books on Earth and takes them to her world, where the people are dumb and lazy because they don’t have books. At first. Silly Billy is glad the books are gone because he doesn't have lu go to school. He gradually ’ realizes the value of books: sports teams can’t play games without rule bodes; stores can’t sell items without price books; doctors can’t heal patients without medical books. Silly Billy convinces the space girl to return the books by helping her get a library card so she has ac- xss to all the books she wants. The book is finding an audience among teachers and librarians around the country, said Lewis, who reads to children at schools in the Cincinnati area and other cities and uses his computer to show them how he created the book. Even though he’s now just making enough to cover the bills, Lewis said he doesn’t regret leav ing behind the world of business. Everyone should be this happy with work, Lewis said. "It’s all about getting some chutzpah and doing what you want to do." "The Last Book" may become another way for Lewis to do some good in Los Angeles. A committee that’s helping rebuild riot-ravaged areas is inter ested in translating the book into Spanish for distribution in low- income neighborhoods, Lewis said. Helms Goes After Civil Rights Legislation Again book scries, in October and have sold about 3,000 copies. Lewis writes the stories and uses a computer to illustrate them with COtnputer game-like graphics. Ms. Lewis, 27, who is studying for a doctorate in clinical psychol ogy at the University of Cincinnati, reviews the work and suggests changes. The Lewises, who are black, are interested in breaking racial stereotypes. The hero of "The Last Book" is a black boy named Silly BUly. ; "We wanted to Introduce a non- ;stereotypical, non-gold-chain- wearing, non-in prison, non- basketball-playing kid who’s smart. WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., on last Thurs day filed five bills and a resolution covering a variety of topics, includ ing civil rights, abortion and school prayer. Thursday was the first day that senators could introduce legislation in the 103rd Congress. One of Helms’ bills would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by declaring it unlawful to dis criminate in job hiring. "The current act has been read by the Supreme Court to allow race- based preferential hiring," ex plained Robert Wilkie, a Helms aide. ONCE UPON A CHILD Books and Educational Resources South Square Mall near the GAP STUDENTS COME FOR PERSONAL HELP with your Black History Reports 10% discount with this ad for everyone. 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The City will be seeking input from the community on how to spend its 1993-94 Community development Block funds, which is expected to be approximately $1.8 million. Edgemont Area II and Southwest Central Durham are the neighborhoods targeted to receive funds for housing rehabilitation arxJ acquisition and cleararKse activities. These areas are in need funding to carry out planned activities. For additional information regarding the public hearing, contact Gerri Thomas, Durham City/County Planning Department at 560-4137. •pL. For Clinton, An Early Lessoi In Ways of Washington The civil rights legislation con tained the same language as jmendments Helms filed in 1991, which were defeated. Helms filed a 26-page bill that in cluded a variety of measure aimed at controlling the spread of AIDS. The bill consisted of various AIDS- related measures that Helms has filed in recent sessions. Wilkie said the bill deals with measures from immigration reform to prosecution of people who knowingly sell AIDS-tainted blood to blood banks. It also seeks to protect health care workers exposed to patients who have AIDS, and vice versa. And it would allow doctors to test pros pective patients for the disease at their discretion. Three of Helms’ bills concerned abortion. They would declare it un lawful to perform an abortion based solely on the gender of the fetus, amend the Public Service Act to permit family planning projects to offer adoption services in addition to other family planning services and prohibit the use of federal funding for subsidizing abortions. Helms also filed a resolution proposing a constitutional amend ment to restore the right of voluntary prayer in public schools. The measure includes school func tions, such as graduations and sports events. Meanwhile, Helms also gave a speech Thursday on the Senate floor about the need to change the direction of the country. He lamented about pornography, drugs and morality. "... If America is to survive, there must be an American reawaken ing," he said. "We cannot continue down this desttuctive path or we will duplicate the fall of Rome and all other beaten civilizations in his tory. Before it is too late, we must have the courage and the decency to stand up for life, the family and all other principles that made this nation great ip the first place." By John King AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton’s day-long open house pro vided a powerful, gracious symbol on his first full day in office. He was a "tenant," he told a stream of admiring guests; this was their house. A day earlier, in his first official act, Clinton signed administration ethics guidelines he said were part of his commitment to government reform. Those early moves fit squarely into Clinton’s campaign ethic, which he summed up this way in his Democratic convention speech in July: "We have seen the folks in Washington turn the American ethic on its head. For too long, those who play by the rules and keep the faith have gotten the shaft, and those who cut comers and cut deals have been rewarded." Today - closer to midnight than dawn - Clinton acknowledged the force of his campaign commitment and gave up the nomination of one of his most visible and promising Cabinet appointments. "With sadness," he said he ac cepted the withdrawal of Zoe Baird from her nomination as attoraej general. That empty seat at Clinton’s first Cabinet meeting today is the sym bol of the new president’s first set back. Clinton would have liked to sal vage Baird’s nomination, but in the end Democratic allies said it was just not reasonable to put forth an attorney general whose confirma tion hearings started with her apol ogy for breaking a law. Un Thursday, Baird and the White House urged one last time that senators who cast confirmatior votes look at the 40-year-old law yer’s entire career, which includes stints in the Carter "White House and Justice Departments as well as an impressive rise up the corporate legal ladder. "In the context of my whole record" is how Baird put it in as king the Senate Judiciary Com mittee and others to judge her not solely on a 1990 decision she says she regrets deeply. Baird spent a full day frying to put it all behind her. That it mmed dark outside and she still hadn’t was evidence enough that she nevei would. "She did knowingly violate the law and with her potential assump tion to enforce the nation’s laws, it seems to me that she has lost the credibility and trust that she would need to serve well in that position," Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum said. There was a larger question as well: the apparent conflict between Clinton’s campaign commitments to the "people who do the work, pay the taxes, raise the kids and play by the rules" and the highest ethical standards with his choice for attorney general of a woman who had broken a law. In a middle-of-the-night letter to NCCU (^Continued From Front) Teaching degree in English from Sm ith College, Northampton, Mass., andreceived herJuris Doctor degree from Case Western Reserve Univer sity School of Law. Before moving to Durham, Ms. Powell was a faculty member of the Cleveland State University School of Law. She has also been a Legal Services attorney for the poor in Cleveland and in North Carolina. She has taught seventh grade and worked as a community college En glish teacher. Ms. Powell is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Dance Festival, a board member of the North Carolina Theater Project and the Senior Citizen Coalition, and a member of the Boards of Visi tors of Bennett College and the NCCU School of Law. She is a former board member of Carolina Wren Press, the Durham Arts Council and the North Carolina State Arts Coun cil. She is a member of the vestry of St. Titus Episcopal Church. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of H. —John Locke Baird, Clinton had nothing but sympathy for her dilemma and ack nowledged the excepdonably high standard that must be met by the nation’s top law enforcement offi cial. "I believe that the concerns raised about your child care situation were unique to the position of attorney general," Clinton said. For all their desire to help the new president off to a good start, it was iriipossible for Senate Demo crats to ignore the avalanche of public distaste for Baird. She didn’t just cut comers, she broke a law it would be her job to enforce. That left Clinton communications director George Stcphanopoulos at somewhat of a loss when asked how the Baird nomination squared with Clinton’s campaign rhetoric about playing by the rules. "Well, he continues to believe she’ll make an excellent attorney general," he said, repeating an ear lier line but avoiding the thi the question. While this was going on White House, Baird was ansi more questions about the ij on Capitol Hill, where aide phones calls from the publj running overwhelmingly a the nomination. That explained the growing Democrats who said they li choice but to oppose Bail handful said so publicly, moi be known privately. In the group was one of Clinton’s chest campaign supporters, John Breaux of Louisiana, i lesson for Clinton on his & day in office. "You could just feel it tun a top aide to a Democratic Ji ry Committee member. "Wa ton misjudged this one froi one, tliinking that an a; would make it go away. I back home would"’' stand foi Ron Dellums (Continued From Fi about Dellums’ control of the panel. "We don’t have any enemies anymore," said Rowland. In his meetings with military offi cials, Dellums often jokes that they had a chance to keep him under tight rein when he served in the Marine Corps. The stint was brief — 1954 to 1956 — but the young Dellums was exposed to racism he will never forget. After receiving a high score on an exam for officer candidates’ school, Dellums showed up for the interview with military officials. For some reason, however, his form listed him as "Caucasian" not "negro." When the officials saw Dellums they sent him away, saying it would be inappropriate for him to enter the school. Later, when Dellums applied for sea duty and showed up to talk to officials, they determined that the black Marine had one arm longer than the other. He was rejected. Dellums’ academic record in cludes degrees from San Francisco State College in 1960 and the Uni versity of California at Berkeley in 1962. He worked as a social worker before his election to the Berkeley City Council in 1967 and Congress in 1970. His early years in the Hoii quixotic as he sought hear charges of U.S. atrocities i nam and racism in the militi After years of fighting f sanctions against South , apartheid government, I finally prevailed in 1986 w House adopted his stringe for a trade cutoff. Dellums’ House tenure ii an appointment to the Ho elligence Committee twe igo. At the time. House \ tVhip Newt Gingrich, a fi Republican from Georg pressed misgivings because Californian’s views on r security issues. But Gingrich also describee lums as an "honorable" mar '■ as kept secrets. Legal Notic Marshall (Continued From Front) Marshall was born July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, the son of William and Mrs. Norma Marshall. He grew up in comfortable but not affluent circumstances. His father was a headwaiter in private clubs. His mother was a schoolteacher. He graduated at the top of his law schexrl class in 1933 at Howarc University after his mother sold her engagement ring to help pay his tuition. He could not attend the Univer sity of Maryland’s law school in his hometown. It was for whites only. Marshall is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cecilia Marshall, and two sons, John William Marshall and Thurgood Marshall, Jr. STATE OF NORTH CAROLI COUNTY OF DURHAM NOTICE TO CREDITOR HAVING QUALIFIED as Administratrix CTA of the Esl LUCIOUS S. KNOX, late of Di County, North Carolina, undersigned does hereby nol persons, firms and corpoii having claims against the Es LUCIOUS S. KNOX to presen to the undersigned Admin! CTA, c/o Frances Dyer, Alt Post Office Box 3445, Di North Carolina 27702, within (3) months from the date of tl pubiicatlon this notice, or this wili be pleaded in bar ol ■ecovery. All persons indebted to or said Estate will please immediate payment to undersigned Administratrix C Post Office Box 3445, Di Morth Carolina, 27702 This the 27tn day of Ja 1993. GLADYS G. Administrairi Estate of LUCIOUS S. Frances Dyer Attorney at Law P.O. Box 3445 Durham, NC 27702 -Telephone: (9191 688-5959 PUBLICATION DATES: JI 30th; February 6th, Februaij 30th; February 6th, Febr and February 20th, 1993. Help Wanted CRISIS COUNSELOR — Town of Chapel Hill. Augment Policil services. Work centers around crime victims, domestic vtolencw drug/alcohol problems, psychotic behavior, and arrests. Inj occasionally responding with Police to potentially dangerous silij Temporary, thru June 1993. Weekdays mostly; every 4 weeks, woif - 10 pm plus on-call nights and weekend; required 30 min responsl for emergencies. Minimum requirements: BA/BS in social-work I field, 2 yrs related work (ie crisis counseling, intervention, social! etc ); or equiv. Prefer related masters degree. Start $13.43/hr. ( February 8: Personnel-C, 306 N. Columbia St., 27516. 968-2700. SAFETY AND WELLNESS COORDINATOR - Town of Ch^, Includes: managing Town-wide emptoyee safety program; devel maintain safety, health educ, and wellness programs for groi employees and individuals, with intensive fitness progiams for Poll Fire; conduct assessments; teach and lead classes, especi structured exercise, conditbning, proper exertion/liiting/etc; coo other activities to encourage safety, fitness, health. Need commur and leadership skills. Minimum requirements: related college i (Physical Education, Health Education, Nutrition, Safety Managi experience conducting classes in wellness topics and in managinc exercise programs; or any equivalent. Master's degree in health ed or exercise physiology, certification in exercise physiology by An College of Sports Medicine preferred. Start $2S,338-$30,000; sx benetrts. Apply by February 16: Personnel-W, Chapel Hill Town Hi N. Columbia St., 27516. (968-2700) EOE. PARKING SERVICES SUPERVISOR I - Town of Chapel Hill. In supervisory work scheduling, training, and overseeing the work of P Lot Attendants; also maintenance and repair of mechanical equi and facilities such as parking meters, gate arms, booths, etc.) In /ariety of related duties. Work Tuesdays-Fridays 2:30 p.m.-10:30p midnight, and Saturday daytime. Requires any equivalent to: 3 ! experience working with the public, indhiding supenrisory sxperieix maintenance of financial records; and skills in mechanical mainti and repair and in basic facility maintenance and repair. Start $1 excellent benefits. Apply by February 10: Personnel-P, 306 N. Col St., 27516. 968-2700. EOE.
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