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The five traditionalty-black state universities requested
a total of $14.7 million for 190 different
program changes and improvements in the fiscal year
1979-60;
However, the universities would receive only
$300,000 for just one of the requested improvements in
the University of North Carolina budget sent to the
General Assembly by Gov. Jim Hunt and the Advisory
Budget CommissioirrThe
vast gap . between what the universities
requested and what they ar6 likely to get is a product of
the way that the University of North Carolina prepares
its budget. . - ,
The traditionally-black universities will get $800,000
in additional funds because of enrollment changes and.
$350,000 as part of a special enhancement fund ereateH
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as part of the UNC desegregation plan. But the specific
requests the schools madel^r program improvements
will go unfunded. __
quested 46 program changes or improvements worth
$3,104,792. None are included in the governor's
budget.
The university system's budget included $2,317,777 .
for 43 program improvements at the black universities.
However, only $300,000 for scientific equipment at*
N.C. A&T State University was given a high enough
priority to be included in the governor's budget.
By state law, the University of North Carolina divides
^its budget for university operations into three parts:
continuing operations, capital improvements requests
and continuing operations program changes.
For each of the latter two, the -university's board of
governors must rank broad program categories in order
of their priority. Each category or line item will include
related items from each of the 17 institutions in the
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Forty-two of the improvements recommended for the
black universities came in line item 11 or later. The'
Advisory Budget Commission, which has to fund items
in the order the UNC board submits-them, decided to
only fund items one through nine.
The top priority items in the UNC program change
budget are the funds for enrollment changes and the
funding of the State Plan for Elimination of Racial
Duality. The program receiving the most money
among these recommendced is the East Carolina
Pag ef"
One of the most persistent problems that black
people have, according to social scientists, is the lack
3f a positive self-image.
In other words, blacks tend to think of themselves
negatively and that negative attitude later shows up in
their behavior in many different ways.
Numerous grants and studies and what have you
have been conducted to seek remedies to the problem
of negative self-image.
All that can stop now.
I have the solution.
All we have to do is to think of ourselves the same
way white people do.
My brainstorm came to me the other night while
listening to the "open line" program on radio station
WSJS. A number of whites called in to defend the Ku
Klux Klan's emergence as a way of "keeping blacks in
their olace."
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One person said that the Klan, crossburnings and
the like would let black people know that white people
are "still here."
What attracted my interest were some of the magic
powers attributed to blacks by some of the callers.
For instance, a single black family can move into a
neighborhood and, "poof," cause all the white people
to move out.
We can take white people's jobs in businesses and
government by just showing up, and...
We can lower the achievement of white students
just by sitting in the same classroom, and...
These two wer^ not menticfned, but it's also logical
to assume thaWe're responsible for inflation and high
v taxes and who knows what else.
The tragedy is that all the while we thought we were
powerless and disenfranchised and exploited and
?- brutalized and, in general, not able to affect our own
destinies. ?
Little did we know that, apparently, we are the most* ?
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whenthe word gets around.
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By Yvette McCullough and John Ca
Staff Writer neighborhoo<
Determination paid off for residents of ^is Week ca
the Piney Grove Community this week as man Ernestii
the Board of Aldermen voted to pursue a jhe rever!
lavfrsuit against the Hoots Concrete Co. cjty wjj] ajj0
The vote reversed the aldermen's previ: intervene in I
. ous decision- when they had voted to make of suing H<
compromises and to settle out of court. denied inter
Residents it) the community Vere upset then pursue i
with the city's previous decision and y^e Piney (
decidfcd to retain tl:* law firm of uously compl
Pfefferkorn&Cooley. They were repre- generated by
sented by J. Wilson barker who told the piney Grove
-board ^o listen 4o -the people-who Jive In black neighbc
the community, and reconsider its vote~. ^The^citv?J
. It was a 4-3 vote to reverse the decision concrete con
with Robert Ncythington, Jon Devries owner, Sidney
and Eugene Groce dissenting. Previous- a - ZOning vio
ly, Aldermen Larry Little, Vivian Burke ordered to cl<
Demorie Robinson "Says ?
Abduction a 1
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
The March 10 abduction?of-two babies was not a
kidnapping but a "family matter," according to Demorie
Ray Robinson, former leader of the New Hope Miracle
and Deliverance Center.
"The mothers ' know it was not a kidnapping,"
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I could talk to them, I could convince them to drop the
charges."
Two members of the center, Norman Wilson and
Marion Martin, have been charged with kidnapping
Sheba Jeter and Monique Brown, children of two female
members.
Robinson would not confirm statements made by
former members that he was the father of the children.
"If they are or if they're not," he responded, "I'll say it
like Muhammed Ali: 'What goes on behind my door is
nobody's business.' "
In recent weeks former members of the New Hope
Miracle and Deliverance Center have accused Robinson
of using drugs and sexual practices in the group's
meetings. Robinson termed those charges " hilarious."
"Any doctor would come up with the analysis that these
people need psychiatric help," he said.
Robinson denied that drugs or sex rituals were used by
the group. "I am a poet and a musician," he said. "Any
contact I may have had with drugs has been at social
gatherings, but not within the church."
He further stated that he did not order Norman Wilson
or Marion Martin to kidnap the two children.
Robinson says that he is no longer leader of the New
Hope organization. He said Wttttam Fame is the new
head of the church.
"I like to think we have the true spirit o^ God," said
Paine. He explained that New Hop^ is different from
other churches, becaustHlT-orfccl lliuvUMppr^reopie-^e^
hear the scrmonf and
doing God a favor by going to church.
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Enhancement Not Seen
Staff Writer
FAYETTEVILLE The consolidated University of
North Carolina system has hot met the goal of
strengthening the system's predominately black institutions,
said Howard Lee, secretary of natural
resources and community development, here last
weekend.
Lee, the only black cabinet officer, said proponents of
the consolidation in the early 1970s said the move
"would make it possible for black institutions to have
greater access to resources in North Carolina and make
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opportunity for strength."
"This has not happened to the degree to which it was
talked about.at that time," said Lee to the banquet of
the N. C. Alumni and Friends Coalition, a grouping of
the alumni associations of the five traditionally black
universities.
Lee said that blacks have sat by in silent tone wfien
the statement was,made that "we should phase out our
black institutions." He said^ftiat black colleges need
additional resources and that the alumni of the five
schools must put forth a greater effort on behalf of the
i black institutions.
"The struggle we face today is basically no-diffas?i
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vanaugh had sided with the CourFJjudge, but Hoots,
d. Alderman Virginia Newell residents claim that Hoot!
st the deciding vote. Alder- _becaflse the area is 1
tie Wilson was absent. industry.
sed decision means that the Parker "told the board th
w the residents' lawyers to want the truth to come <
^he case and take on the case Hoots got his zoning pern
x>ts. If the residents are "The community has
/ention the city would along for six years," Pari
the lawsuit on its own. citv has eiven nn pvpf
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3rove residents have contin- out of there/'
ained of the noise and dust "They're adults. They ki
the concrete company. The" quenees, they know the risl
area is a predominantly the board. "They're askinj
>rhood.-? ^_:CQOpCrateT dictate."
nought to shut down?the Parker sai^i that even
ipany in 1975 when its residents lose their case
r F. Hoots, was convicted of the residents could still fi
lation. The company was suit against Hoots.
3se in 1977 by a Superior Alderman Larry Little
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, Paine claims that he was. healed of lung cancer after
joining New Hope. '
* Both Paine and Robinson say that their church is
attempting to reach people that other churches do not
want, such as alcoholics and people hooked on drugs.
. "I have taken to poetry and music to reach the addicts,
the pimps and prostitutes," Robinson said. "I cfcn't
reach them standing in a pulpit so I go down to the
clubs."
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appealed. The wanted th% dty to reverse its decision
> is in violation because the city's integrity was being
lot zoned for questioned.?
at the residents "The. city said that Hoots never Sot
out about how permission, Hoots says you're a liar,"
1jt Little said. "Should this.man have been
' been strung there in the beginning, is he operating
cer said "The illegally, these are questions that need to
lg to get Hoots ?e answered. *
"These people are not leeches of the
n<^ conse" city; they're taxpayers of the city-and the *
c, Parker told clXy rightfully should represent them,"
g the board to Little continued. "We're being ^ery
; 7 hypocritical?because these - residents
if the city or should have the same privilege* of people 1
against Hoots who ,ive
in Crystal Towers."
ile a nuisance
Alderman Burke said that Hoots should
said that he consider the people that live in the area.
/Tax Quirk
- -Cost s $$$ ? By
John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
A quirk in the federal income tax withholding
tables is causing many individual" taxpayers or
couples with more than one income to have to pay
?<jvjiuvsuai idACi mis year, instead ot receiving a
refund.
Employee earnings are normally taxed if the
emptoyeelrad no other job, unless the worker asks
his employer to compensate for another income.
f,Some people were underwithheld in 1978," said Bob
Mclntyre, director of the Tax Reform Research
Group in Washington, D. C. "The most prevalent
case is two-earner couples. What IRS did was to
oveitvithold on one earner and underwithold on
inu-^auici CUUpiCS.
Mclntyre noted that more than half of the
couples in the country have more than two incomes.
A spokesman for the IRS district office- tn
Winsotn-balem acknowledged that persons who do
not adjust for a second income might have problems, but
said the tables are not at fault.
Probably the best indicator of how many persons
have to pay Uncle Sam instead of receive a refund is
the rate th^t the government receives refunds. IRS
reports that nationwide, it has received two per cent
fewer refunds than this time last year.
Local tax consultants have come to the same
conclusion.
"A lot of returns I had already^ done, last year, I
don't even have yet," said accountant Richard Davis
Management Services. "A lot of people know they
have to pay."
? "They just simply weren't withholding enough,"
~ * safd ijavis.. \ advised & lot (Vf my cttenTSTo drop an
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