Wins * s ' A . / . f : ? MM. XIV, No. 19 U.S.P.S. No. I v> NAACP wants r By The Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. - The NAACP will mount a new lobbying effort to remove the Confederate battle flag .from the capitols of Georgia, Alabama, South Caroli- * na and Mississippi. "This is one of our top legislative priorities for the upcoming legislative session," said Earl Shinhoster, Southeast regional director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Political Oigroup mm revamped J^Hj By ROBIN BARKSDALE Chronide Staff Writer ill The North Carolina Institute of Politics has reorganized and its f M executive director said he hopes to have a good representation of all | 1 segments of the state's population included in the institute's classes. "We're trying to set the board up to be representative of demographics," said Walter De Vries, the executive director of the IOP, based ! in Wilmington. "If they do a good J job, wtrthhavea good selection of I . fellows." . The IOP originally was* formed I I in 1970 and held its first seminars at Duke University. A second class I was held in 1974. De Vries said there was not a good representation of minorities in the previous class- p es. There were four Afro-Americans in the first IOP cla& in 1970 AHAV\Hb artrl fii/o in tko 1 Q1A flier Capk ll^Jl iu iu tivy aii w iv i ^ / t v iaoo jur av 11 class consisted of 20 fellows. De v i Vries said the 20 fellows for the David Williams, ! 1988 class will be selected from a zaa ceremonial j: IJaa. For more c ' Please see page A10 * - - - v ^ * Contributions from last weekend's United Negro CoQege Fund Telethon are still trickling in, but local telethon organizers said the Triad event has already raised $100,662, far in excess of its $79,000 goal. Diane Autry, an assistant for the telethon, called (he fundraiser a "tremendous success" and credited volunteer ana corporate suppun ror uic pusiuvc uuc come of the telethon. The support we got was just great," said Autry of the fourth annual k)cal telethon. "We really got good moral support from the community. Some of the vblunteers have even expressed an interest in getting more involved next year." v Marilyn Baldwin, the assistant director of the UNCF office, attributed part of the growing success of v the telethon'to the fact that the general public is / becoming n>ore aware of the telethon efforts and to the > < ton-Sal THe Twin City's Awa 067910 Winston-Satan, N.C. I* emnants of Co South Carolina and Alabama fly the Confederate flag over their capitol buildings, while Georgia and Mississippi have incorporated the flag into the " %Whenever the symbol of the state repre sents racism in its rankest and rawest form, then I think that's something that we the people can do something about." . ? Earl Shinhoster ' ; y- *> . W V J %. M m^ 1 >***. ,, M J J a. ^WP^y^*7' tg the Kinora 17, nd T ika Spfuffl, 6, ^ to fhs H yo i4,uuu names nty area was the signatures was Dec. 21, and state signatures col- campaign ctfg&nlzers are confident ie said credit for that sufficient signatures have been i success in this collected, en to the people "At this moment we have iir dedication to counted 14,700 signatures," said 1 and made sure Bruce Lightner, the state coordmavere collected. tor for the Jackson campaign. >f this city and "We're tremendously pleased. A tve done a great petition drive like this usually takes znatures." said months to collect signatures and we all of the Inisi- got this many in only a few weeks." ng the petitions Lightner said he expects Jackriduals who took son to be certified by the FEC by tition. I feel con- the end of the month, se's name will be In early r December, a rth Carolina." spokesperson for the Federal Elector collecting the p,ease see pafle A11 [00 e ? r y k vT? aises $100.662 fact that alumni of historically black colleges are becoming more and more able to contribute to their alma maters. "More alumni are involved and giving,* Baldwin sakL They're getting to the point now where they are better able to give because they're starting to finish repaying their student loans and they're more settled. In this area, we've seen a good surge of support from alumni." Autry said this year's UNCF Super Viewing Party also was a success. The party was free to the general public and was offered as a "thank you" to the community for its support of the campaign. She said also that use of appeal letters and matching charitable contribution programs in the corporate arena were very helpful to the drive. Last year's Triad telethon raised contributions in excess of $97,000. The goal for the 1986 telethon was $75,000. Pleat* ae* page A11 m Rf9W9V iMalKfr ^mn sm Chrc trd-Winning Weekly Thursday, December 31,1987 50 cei nfederacy out o1 designs of their official state flags. Shinhoster said the displays are offensive to blacks. "I think there is no question but that the Confederate battle flag in and of itself, as was the Confederacy, was as much a racial issue or phenomenon as anything else," he said. %% Whenever the symbol of the state represents racism in its rankest and rawest form, then I think that's something that we the people can do something concrete a tone anc left many remini through his work, dents leave their h< iAg via driveways p ton's workmen. Mj warm their bodies places he built Still basement recreatit him. ' "He did spl< community activisi "He was not the t: would just take you Wmdruff sai ;m?ra, used in traditional Kwan- just looking at my t it the seven principles of Kwarv do it for me. I know I Grout paw* no engin ENILUPMIflF A2 By The Associate FORUM A5 ATLANTA -- Min OBITUARIES RA schools ihroughou VBfiVnfTllg ii^? are benefitting fi A6 Tech-bascd progr; RELIGION BA turn their desire int SEem H Consortium for Mir ; .-.TT.. neering includes 21 .72^ - *l0""ewnfl higher learning, 5' a SMKJj M1! and 11 local school M>iMMttMft,IttM Southeast. Us n ' increase the numt engineers, which el ?^y: ^ i ^iptim V'lf t^H| -Xt^p?^;'aS^B^fc w 11 H^fwfl ?I ; . il : Jrj : i&:->^<%&fr?*vK?%J\\ fafi vg?^| ^BUe V f^. '^jl ^ I A ^H|^k ^Nn * ij Bii^^SHIHI %^^SI Admiring the Admiral Capt. Walter Davis Jr., who earlier this month was ns U.S. Navy* is surrounded by his family during a visit t currently ?ve In Wash'"^" * *"v '? "imirai te tured with Davis arertH~ purems, mi. ui r\rf ivli s. v . .. w > ^ Hr & jA . cx*r PHIp 3jt pR ^ *> ^ Nh^IB^ micle tits 24 Pages This Week F South's flags about." An attempt to change the Georgia flag died in committee during the last session of the Legislature.1 "We do realistically think we can get it done this time," Shinhostersaid. ? 1? He said the Georgia Legislature incorporated the Confederate flag into the official state banner in 1956 as a gesture of "defiance and resistance" to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against public school segregation. * 'Yamp' Washington less leader, st laid to rest 5HT iitor rnp" Washington - I st, veteran, family was laid to rest d Christmas Day m I of Washington's 1 Contracting Co. iers himself Many local resi- I 3mes every mornoured by Washing- BR my cuddle up and s in front of fire i outers digram mi . ^ ' t Mazic Woodruff. Washington ^pe of person who < . r money and do a shoddy job." d she didn't know Washington had been sick. "I was iriveway the other day and thinking I would get him to he would have done a beautiful job," she said. d Washington was a quiet man who shied away from Please see page A10 > works to help eering students d Press despite recent growth. "For years, there weren't very ority students in substantial opportunities for it the Southeast minorities in engineering," said rom a Georgia Carolyn Chesnutt, director of the im designed to $600,000-a-year program. ^WhenTo decrees. that chanced, there was little inter* d Southeastern est in the minority community in i lorities in Engi- engineering because of a lack of > institutions of knowledge or awareness or under* 0 corporations standing." 1 systems in the SECME introduces students to t. . .. *^3 ^b flPB^sfl fifc * HH| k 'S^eIE^^Sb^I * s^"^sSiw ^HHHHHHHHHHHHraErQH med as a selectee to become a rear admiral in the o the Twin Cly. He and his wife, Constance, right, pen* ^lont ? 'So ?'ovs two-star general. Also ptc... ... vpiiotoby ^antana). 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