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_ w V* / VoL XIV, NO. 17 * , V ? ' W ^ '. s- v .<_/ Cumberlan system chi "it,* FAYETTEVILLE (AP) - The Fay Black Democratic Caucus has asl Board of Commissioners to chang< fleeted ?* In a Dee. 3 leubr, the black caucu change the county board from an ai resentation. It also asked that the bo seven members. %%A substantial number of white i refuse to vote for qualified black black candidates being defeated an under-represented on the Board," th is simply not strong enough to oven voters to vote for white candidates." The letter, signed by Glorious I black caucus, said the change wouk seven commissioners elected by disi Jim Wicker, assistant director of said in North Carolina 51 counties < 1 tives at larse. 42 have adorned or election, and seven offer some district elections. Vxing districts can be changed eit of the General Assembly or a refe : Wicker said. A referendum would the county commissioners. Commissioners said Tuesday that the request Commissioner Virginia Oliver sa County is small enough to functioi large system. She said black candi< not had difficulty getting elected. Jackson not < Signature dri By ROBIN BARKSOALE Chrpoide Steff Writer Campaign officials for the Rev. Jesse Jackson are launching a drive for 20,000 signatures in the state, to guarantee that he is placed on the siate D&iioc tor trie "super Tuesday" primary. If Jackson's name is not added to thq state ballot by Jan. 5t his name*will not be included on the North Carolina Democratic ticket and voters in the state will not be allowed to cast their vote for him. But Bruce E. Lightner, state coordinator for the Jackson campaign, said the petition drive is being conducted as a "purely precautionary" measure. "This is not a panic situation. W& anticipated that he would have been put on the ballot by the Federal Election Commission," Lightner said. "We still expect that he will be added to the ballot within the next couple of weeks. We're collecting signatures just in case we need instoi U.SP.S. No. 067910 H H H H H H ? M V | i^Rl HHC , MmV? Ryji ?? - , -L -" idipp^nHHi etteville/Cumberland County ted the Cumberland County i the way commissioners are -large system to district rep- | J ord be expanded from five to voters in Cumberland County I candidates which results in I d the black community being I e letter said. "The black vote I :ome the persistence of white L Fowler, a secretary of the 1 result in two or three of the j I trict being black. 11 the Institute of Government, sleet their county representa* i form of district nomination ;|1 combination of at* large and her through legislative action *11 rendum by county residents, first have to be approved by I they had mixed reactions to ft|( - Laki id she believed Cumberland ^ i well under the current at Sates in the recent past have ? >n N.C. ballot; ive underway them." All candidates affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties are nominated at a state board of elections meeting Jan. 5, according to Johnnie McLean of the State Board of Elections. She said that candidates nominated at the meeting must have qualified for the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account through the Federal Election Commission. McClean said that candidates may also be placed on the ballot through petition and that the state requires 10,000 signatures from registered voters of the same political affiliation as the candidate. Karen Finucan, a public affairs specialist with the Federal Election , Commission, said that a candidate can qualify for the matching funds program if he has raised a total of $100,000. She said also that the candidate must raise at least $5,000 in 20 different states. Finucan confirmed that six of the Democratic candidates had already qualified for i , -o mmrnmmmmmm^mmi^mme^m .' J.-, fx-' ^^b,'<:s > '."'^'f ' "*'. ? . . ' ''- ' ^ .r" lom Bowl rage BI .; i JnH i-Sah The Twin City's Aw Winston-Salem, N.C. ' Br I 5 HI ,_ B iWid Hj LI Mt t ' 4Mr 'jf ! fi?| m i ir ^rffi'HtftIfflff* frvY^rffiffi V**& J| I K > V> wF~: < W ' RRKj^ A ; : LxJa/s Sai* tee Foundation lead jibu 019 DFoiners/uig sisters as a r , *"' \' In' 11 iriji Td 1 *T " ' Sv^^lPWv r^wi V Hp ^r-^;Bhb ^2JG5 VA/amKU VW1IMV matching funds. Jackson's information is in the process of being reviewed, Finucan said. Lightner did say that if, for some reason, the commission does 5 not affirm Jackson on the state ticket, that it becomes crucial for the 20,000 signatures to be collected from registered state Democratic voters. Eddie Wong, the national field director at Jackson's headquarters Please see page A14 sm C urd-Winning Weekly Thursday, December 17,1987 ii? 1 n^. ? _ * .. j % ..?a _ ?^ nriison summarized me cvoioiioo of ner fiturtfi^tii vmitfk ika cua jtijfc/fl wmww wuo 0)0 uwwcie. alic omns Duowins & ions * iiwict jb t nospiiBiizso * - V "*"' > jt ' '']|^HM J ^StiH ^|p > fcctolonl of tht 125,000 award. Thi 71 M other activities (photo by Mike ' : ' Study: Mo BY CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer - WASHINGTON - The majority of adults who need help learning to read are white, not minorities, according to a survey released last Friday by a state education group. Plant closings, new technology and other changes in the workplace are forcing workers to achieve higher levels of literacy and creating new demands for adult literacy services, the Education Commission of the States said. The survey report, released at the National Forum for Youth at Risk, challenged what it called the "pop? .i? -?w - iuoi wisuum aooui aauit illiteracy in* America. "The majority of adults In need are not minorities, on or off the welfare rolls. The majority are white Americans,** it said Most educators working in the adult literacy field "are not untrained, casual volunteers. They are, more often than not, professionals from a variety u iields,' it <p riight abou hroni SO C*nt* BW ;?ivo director in 1968,1 life in *1986 orindbvbeiiiiidKta "last Saturday remeiibdi til <r A I VmVIIIWI NIV 1985. id CATinff tO D|U niliniii in |*ia #%i >u wnf ?u nut omen m me o tribitk?s (he - the right person to tte ? P^Si S If for equity And tood 11 wise Wilson, into the hooting projec is just great,* -fj wsnts of the poor. She !|9W?9P?(?v Mr own adninwn, in Uaoiu she was p?! *" ?? : ptMM ZT Franklin --- Commui BH [ | By ANGELA WRIGHT p Chronide Managing Editor Plans are underw W0 replace Deniae Franklin as I of the 11 p.m. news at WX Hw| many people are unhappy al I including Franklin. For aboi I ^1 months rumors of an imp< pi change have been afloat fl community* but neither Fr I nor station managers would ^ On Monday, however, I I news director David Emeryi a telephone interview that tl tion had that day announce KH Lynn Lazare, formerly of \ in Greenbay, Wisconsin, wou K!r|| WXll on Jan. 25 as co-anc the 11 p.m. news. But Fn said the "announcement" wi bulletin board in the newsroa "To the best of my announcement," said Franklii 0 station's decision on Sept 18 j station had taken a "no comn say anything that would seem Kttof! v The station plans to all latfon ^ng the * pjn.news, but sti > pro- reporting, according to Em< Cun- made to remove Franklin, it Please t re whites c added. ] Some researchers have concluded that tens of millions of American adults are illiterate or barely able to \ read. ( Frank Newman, president of the commission, said many adult illit- i erates can read Stop signs, but not t job manuals. 1 The report said only half the < states have defined illiteracy. The s sThe majority of adults in need the welfare rolls. The majority an pj - ? caucaiu most common definition is someone who reads at a level below that i of die average fourth grader. * The report said the literacy pic- ] ture is complicated by "the public { perception that all that is needed to j solve the literacy crisis is a degree i of caring,' a situation exacerbated by the mistaken belief that volun- ? teer coalition*, the commercial I ?a SUOHHHi de 34 Paget This Week ? -? ? - ? ? _ isn l cotuv do more on boutsyr iM acning pRxcssKm id uo vflny poftmeol In SelMlrilance in lk* mil n " mmmm it. ? Bldof tbeywoa't want me 1 I |pi |||^ ifMiyitg pfoyj^1 I I immunity felt Wilson was jut job. Motivated bv her uacau I viai* Wilson led ESR workers X teed some criticism and, by 1 I demoted; nityupset .> I ay 10 anchor I and ending feg^ I comin I k sta- M that ^t?f Franklin mklin is an internal memo tacked to the m. knowledge there was no public i. She said she was first told of the but chose to keep quiet because the tent" status. "I didn't want to do or petty," said Franklin. low Franklin to continue co-anchorle will now do more investigative _ *ry. Emery said the decision was istead of co-anchor Rick Amme, me page A12 ;an't read picking up the slack." The two largest volunteer tutoring { programs reach only 127,000 I '.bents per year, it said. "Efforts lo address the literacy leeds of young and mature adults ;oo often have bogged down in fruitless spats over numbers, the Irive for budgetary compliance, simplistic assumptions and deepore not minorities, on or off e white Americans " on Commission of the States. seated, though often subtle, biases," the study suggested. Barbara Holmes, dfrectui of te study project, said three-fotmhs of the states kick in their own fundi to supplement the money th* com from the federal government for idult education. But overall, literacy services "are fragmentary, provided by a page A8 1 ' i
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