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Someone You ' ' - ? - .. : ? SKSAfi':..?. :? * * Y >*< . 11M v>. ^^ppipr J^a ^HAl 5H1 iRaBUT^ if you are single, at least 18 years old, doing ston-Salem Chronicle, P.O. Btox^lW, Wnstol Jesse Jackson's half-bro CHICAGO (AP) -- Noah Robinson, the millionaire half-brother of Jesse Jackson, labeled as ^purely political" a published report that he is beine investigated for possible violation of U.S. bankruptcy laws. "Why me, and why now?M Robinson said, responding to a report in Sunday editions of the Chicago Tribune, which said seven corporations in which he is involved are being probed for possible bankruptcy fraud. Robinson responded to the report in an interview published in late Sunday editions of the Chicago Sun-Times. "What makes it significant, other than me being t>eing the'frohi-runner^^ie^^bemocratic'iwminaii^ for president?" Robinson asked. Robinson, a Greenville, S.C., native, began building Jackson, Miss., blacks get JACKSON, Mijss. (AP) -- A hearing will be held next month for Port Gibson residents to voice support or disapproval of a proposed redistricting plan.The Sept. 18 hearing is one of the final stdps in working out a compromise between Port Gibson officials and black residents who filed a federal lawsuit challenging municipal election procedures. The group, which filed the class action suit in 1984, claims the at-large method of electing six aldermen for Port Gibson dilutes black voting strength. Aldermen elections were halted under a federal court order issued Tuition waiver program is mor SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- A tuition waiver program designed to attract minorities to Oregon colleges h?s generated more applicants than state officials expected. More than 260 blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans have applied for 146 one-year fee waivers worth $1,500 apiece, according to Gary Christen sen, school relations director for the State System of Higher Education. : r . j- ' The program, however, excludes Asians because the state Board of Higher Education decided they were adequately represented in the student population. Slug wins rao ELM A, Wash. (AP) - A slug named Cindy's Daughtei oozed only three inches from the starting line, but ii was enough for the 7-inch, spotted mass of slime tc win the adult finals of the International Slug Racing championships at the Elma Slug Festival. Cindy's Daughter, owned by Joan McElwain ol Portland, Ore., moved three inches along the .003 furlong course Saturday before it turned back toward the starting crate. Rut it wa? ennnah to u/in One of the other two entrants, State Bird, a speedstei in Friday's preliminary competition, never moved a millimeter during the five-minute time limit The othei racer, Sundance, was disqualified for goiri$outside ol its lane. The festival also featured parades, singers, dangers music and vendors selling greeting cards with the message "Slime in the Mood for Love." Water gun causes confusion OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) ? Police surrounded a hotel room in Overland Park Sunday after a clerk reported thai a man inside had a submachine gun. , Should Meet I' [ \ - "> : t.i i-*' , ' w v > <.. ' , ? J , * ZJ* " . ; - v>', > .;:'l .V i . v :' ' . ' ' r . Name: Georgia-R. Smith Job Title: Hair Designer/Manicurist Hometown: Winston-Salem Describe ftorself in One. Word: Positive **?5 v HobbjesjSjiwing, walling, keeping up Favorite Book: 'Tough Times Never iStvt At*iTr%uaU n**t" ; | Favorite Movie: "Lady Sings the Blues" J Favorite TV Show: "The Cosbv Show" i j I Persons Admires Most: My aunt, MothJ eMuth Career Goal: To become more aware of what's going on in the beauty and fashion world, : * ' . ; . . . ; . \ f V.. s i. v, - . .. ' ? > ' ' (Photo by James Parker) : r^? ? : ? something positive in the community, employed if you know someone who meets these criteria, te wmbert^-SonMone-You -Should ^AeeMMn 1 ; ther is being investigated his empire of food-related service corporations when he came to Chicago in 1970 at Jackson's request. * Jackson had Robinson take control of the federally funded Breadbasket Commercial Association Inc., an arm of Jackson's civil rights group, Operation PUSH, that helped minority firms bid for public contracts. Much of Robinson's business came from minority setaside programs, the Tribune said. Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times he had no contact with his half-brother and knew nothing about his business dealings; "I have no connection with him,'' he said. NNI know nothing about it, and there's no basis for me responding." not,announce his candidacy for a second.run Fof the Democratic presidential nomination, was the front-runner in several polls taken after former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart withdrew from the race. hearing on redistricting plan by U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour Jr. after the suit was filed. Five incumbent members of the all-white board of aldermen have remained in office under terms of the court order. No successor was elected to fill a vacancy in a sixth post because the 1984 election was halted. The city of Port Gibson has never elected a black alderman, according to the 1aw suit. Blacks make up 63.4 percent of the town's population, which was 2,371 at the time of the 1980 Census. c; ouuuc^oiui uidfi cuilioi|Jcucu ^At one point early on we were worried that we wouldn't get 146 applicants," Christensen said. He said 185 prospective students will be offered the waiver in the expectation that not all of them will show up on registration day at the participating colleges and universities. Chnstensen said the prograrrfs goal isno "double the? number of first-time freshman minority students to 290 , from 145 by .1989. He estimated that probably 800 to <1,000 prospective students meet the program's grade-point and high school preparation criteria, which vary by college. e by 3 inches J But when they entered the room, the gun they found t was a $12 toy water pistol. > No one was more surprised than the gun's owner, ; Thomas Barnhart, 25, who was surrounded by policemen with guns as he stepped from the room at : the Ramada Inn in Overland Park. i Someone yelled: Freeze! Put your hands behind I your head!" Fearing that he had walked into a " robbery or something" he started to step back into the room. Then i he saw about 15 police officers in the hall and realized they were talking to him. f '"Every *>nkof them had their guns on me," Barnhart said. "I thought they were going to shoot me. I was , scared to death." When police searched the room, they found a batteryoperated water gun - a very real-looking water gun. "I almost got killed over a $12 toy water gun," said Barnhart. a 25-vear-old oaintinc contractor. # w The gun looked real to the desk clerk who saw a man I walking through the lobby with it. She ducked behind ; the desk and called police shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday. Winston-Salem Chn S. African miners call JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The National Union of Mineworkers had said that an estimated 200,000 black gold and coal miners would walk off the job Sunday night in the largest strike ever ' to affect the industry. "The strike starts on Sunday and our members are not kidding," said union General-Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa. He said he did not know-how the strike would affect 1 the industry financially. Mine owners have been reported to be stockpiling for some weeks in anticipation of the strike over higher wages. Gold accounts for half of South Africa's foreign currency earnings. Ramaphosa said the strike would affect 28 gold mines around the country and 18 collieries. 1 Ramaphosa said the union was demanding 30 percent across-the-board wage increases for black miners, who, the union says, earn an average $112 a . I month. < The Chamber of Mines, which represents the top six s mining houses, has said black miners earn about twice that much. It implemented increases ranging from 15 ' to 23.4 percent last month. < Peter Gush, gold and uranium division chairman Cor 1 Anglo American Corp., was quoted in a recent edition of Business Day newspaper as saying: "We have < communicated with our employees to reiterate that i strike action will not lead to-a^furlher increase in wages. The offer made and implemented (July 1) is a good one;" i "Furthermore, employees who participate in a strike 1 lose pay for the days that they are off work. In i addition, employees will have to pay for food and < accommodation while they are on strike." Ramaphosa said there had been no negotiations with 1 Corner of Germany in By MARCUS ELIASON ^ Associated Press Writer A ? A SWAKOPMUND, South-West Africa -- Old-fashioned gemuetlichkeit still thrives in South-West Africa a century after the first German settlers came ashore to ' claim a piece of Africa for Kaiser Wilhelm II. Unbowed by savage heat and swirling winter dust storms, the Germans of Swakopmund on the Atlantic ? coast faithfully perform the rituals inherited from their pioneering great-grandparents^- they welcome a stiranger, keep the streets tidy, brew an excellent local beer and hold down the noise during "schlaffstunde" the sancrosanct afternoon siesta hours. J Newsstands sell German magazines, and a Germanlanguage radio-station-broadcasts all day. Menus offer Cl wiener schnitzel, the Cafe Anton's pastries could have a been flown in direct from Munich, and the sign at the immaculate white railway station is in Gothic script In the park, a monument inscribed "fuer Kaiser und * Reich" memorializes German soldiers killed in the \ 1904 Herero tribal uprising. I The South African-ruled territory, also called 1 Namibia, is trilingual, from the shop-window signs to > the recording on a disconnected telephone. German \ enjoys equal rights alongside English and Afrikaans, [ The Winston-Salem Chronicle is published every Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty St.. Mailing addres The Winston-Salem Chronicle is a charter memb Press and a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Association, the North Carolina Press Association and Subscription: $18.52 per year, payable in advanc< add $5.00 for out-of-town delivery. PUBLICATION USP Atryn ? L. Mil BACARD PREMIUM B1 rum SO AC , O.W BROKERED BY HANNAH & DUNN INC., P.O S J 4k jniclr Thursday, August 6..1987 f^age A3 I strike for Sunday management since a strike ballot received "overwhelming support" in the week of July 12. He said the union is also demanding danger pay lor black miners. He said white miners, who earn about live times as much as blacks, receive danger pay under another name. The black miners also are asking for 30 days leave each year, an increase in the death benefit and a paid holiday on June 16, the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto riots. "Mine management has now threatened (the miners) will not be fed during strike action. On certain mines they have stated that the workers will have to pay $2.50 per day for food and lodging while they are on strike," said Ramaphosa. "This is clearly a breach of agreement because it affects conditions of employment, which they have never negotiated with us." Black miners must live in single-sex hostels on mine jroperty, and usually see their families in rural areas >nly once a year. They are fed at the hostels and buy supplies at mine-run stores. Ramaphosa also said managers had refused to allow inion organizers to meet with miners, prohibited iistribution of pamphlets on the strike and threatened o call police or mine security to stop union activity. Ramaphosa noted that under the national state of emergency, magistrates have upheld bans on union meetings. '\^iTunioirrs at the same time in dispute with a lumber of other companies, where strike action could akc-place-at-any-timei-should-ihe-v?rious-mio nanagements refuse to accede to our members' iemands," Ramaphosa said. He said those mines facing a dispute include De Seers, the world's largest diamond mining operation. South-West Africa . _i ! n ? ? m in awaxopmuna, tfte most German of Southwest frica's towns, it is the dominant tongue. South-West Africa's population consists of 900,000 lacks and mixed-race people, and 100,000 whites ilf of them Germans, the other half mostly South fricans. The Southwesters, taught German from childhood, >eak a pure form of the language, unlike Africa's nglish-speakers, who have their own accent and iiom. TheSoiuh-West African Germans, although deeply mservative, have never been comfortable with the jartheid policies imposed by South Africa, enrichsen said. "They had one great crime of racism on their nother," he said. ?Swakopmund, which is 49-penent white, scrapped egregation in 1978 along with the rest of the territory, vhich was expecting soon to become independent as Namibia. South Africa has delayed independence, lowever, insisting that the Marxist-oriented Southtest African People's Organization, fighting a guerrilla var against the South African army, be blocked from X)wer under any new political arrangements. Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle s: Post Office Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N C. at Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102: er of the Newsfinder service of the Associated is, the National Newspaper Publishers the North Carolina Black Publishers Association, a (North Carolina sales tax included). Please S NO. 067910. I^^SJwJjHii^^^AlW zh^V E KP^Sm^CT^ft bB '18.15 A p "' " : . 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