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Wood stands up for taxpayers
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Aldermen meet; Wv" >d confronts city manager on annex design
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
Wood
The Board of Aldermen heard many issues
Monday. They discussed at length the ordinance
amending sections of the city code relating to street
improvement assessment rates. Alderman Vivian H.
Burke criticized the city for finding funds to improve
the downtown area while streets and sidewalks in East
Winston are neglected.
The aldermen approved a proposal to allow a
"Manufactured Housing Demonstration" to be placed
in Kimberly Park. This after hearing from concerned
citizens about the possible effect such a house would
have on property values. The proposal was strongly
supported by Alderman Patrick Hairston, but opposed
by Aldermen Martha S. Wood and Virginia K. Newell.
But, of all the issues presented during Mon
day's board meeting, those in attendence are most like
ly to remember the climactic words of Alderman
Wxxl. Wood rebuked city manager Bryce A. Stuart for
submitting a new, unauthorized proposal for the colise
um annex which would cost more than twice the
"Both because your figures have so
often been wrong, and because your
goals have so often contradicted the
policies of the voters and the Board,
I cannot trust your proposal, and I do
not believe the people can trust it."
- Alderman Martha S. Wood
amount approved by voters in a 1985 referendum. She
told officials that they were losing "the trust of the
people and their elected representatives..."
The voters approved an annex to the new
THE NATION'S NEWS
Compiled From AP Wire
Cleaver arrested for burglary
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Former Black Panther
Eldridge Cleaver, whose best-selling book "Soul On
Ice" was published 20 years ago last Friday, is in trou
ble with the law again.
Cleaver, already free on bail on cocaine possession
charges, was arrested last Thursday for allegedly bur-
^arizing a house that is under renovation, according
to police.
Cleaver aide Susan Thompson, said the arrest was
mistake." She claimed the desk, and a typewriter
table, were actually discarded and that Cleaver was
going to sell them so he could help Marvin Jackmon,
who is homeless.
Farrakhan: Blacks redeemers
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan told a congregation of 600 last week that
God let Afro-Americans suffer four centuries "to put
in a position to be the redeemers of the Earth."
Blacks have been persecuted, he said, not because
they are black but "so that the world would come to
know that he is God." He likened blacks to the
Hebrew nation, which, according to the Bible, was
allowed to suffer "so that God would raise a prophet
among them, God would raise a nation as a suffering
people."
Mass, students hold protest
AMHERST, Mass. -- An estimated 200 black students
it>ok over the New Africa House last Friday at the
University of Massachusetts to protest an attack on
two students, the latest in a series of racial incidents at
the school.
The protesters, black students who are not pan
of any previously existing organization on campus,
were demonstrating against racial tensions that have
once again surfaced at the school. Ten students were
injured in a racial clash following the final World
Series game between the Boston Red Sox and New
York MetsonOcL27, 1986.
Lawrence Joel Coliseum for $3.95 million. Last week
city officials submitted plans for a structure which
would cost $8.35 million to the finance and public
works committees of the Board. Wood was recuperat
ing from surgery last week and had her first opportuni
ty to discuss the issue with city officials Monday.
The Finance Committee had asked city offi
cials to seek means of cutting costs on the new design.
On Monday city officials presented a proposal with
$510,000 in cost reductions.
Wood questioned why city officials had waited
until December to notify the Board of proposed
changes that they had decided upon in March of last
year. She pointed out that the original contract
approved by the Board was for a 60,000 square foot
structure and that the new contract initiated by city
staff was for 20,000 square feet more.
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Robeson Co. officials address racial problems
By The Associated Press
LUMBERTON - Blacks, whites and
Indians in Robeson County must work
to repair racial injustices that led to the
Feb. 1 siege of a local newspaper by
two members of the Tuscorora tribe,
officials said Saturday.
"It's time for the people of Robeson
County to shed their focus on color
and join together as one group to solve
the county's problems," Rep. Sidney
Locks, D-Robeson, told about 100 peo
ple at a public forum sponsored By the
Tuscorora tribe of North Carolina.
The meeting was called after Eddie
Hatcher, 30, and Timothy Jacobs, 19,
both of Pembroke, were charged with
holding 19 employees of The Robeso-
nian hostage for 10 hours. The men
said they were seeking an investigation
into what they called racial injustices in
the county's criminal court system.
"There are some deep-seated wounds
in this county, wounds that have been
present not for years but for decades,"
Jackson finishes 4th
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - An old-fashioned whistle
stop campaign was part of the effort that carried
Jesse Jackson to a fourth-place finish in the New
Hampshire primary Tuesday.
Riding through the New Hampshire Lakes
Region in a 1930s train, Jesse Jackson told sup
porters at four whistle stops to get the country
"back on track" by voting for him.
Jackson said after the primary that he had proved
that he could broaden the base of his campaign and
that he expected to win as the presidential cam
paign moved south.
Jackson, who stood on the back of the red
caboose in Plymouth, said the challenge of this
generation is to overcome "economic violence."
"Most poor people in America are not on wel
fare," he told about 300 ralliers. "They work every
day; and when they get done working, they’re still
poor."
"We, the people, can win," he said.
Jackson reiterated that message to Laconia, Tilton
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Locks said. "Blacks have let other
blacks and whites turn us against Indi
ans. Indians have let other Indians and
whites turn them against blacks. It’s
time we joined together as one group
and put color aside. That's the only end
to this problem.
Locks said he did not condone the use
or threat of violence.
"What we need is not bullets. What
we need is ballots," he said. "If we
would register, then vote our convic
tions, we would elect those people who
are right for us. We don't need guns. We
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Jim Hatcher supports nephew
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chranide Managing EHitor
Hatcher
Hie recent 10-hour siege of The Robesonian newspaper office bt?ilding fay
two Tu«:arora Indians was especially significant for a local man who is running for
a seat on the County Commission.
Jim W. Hateher, a Democrat candidate for County Commission, is the uncle
of Eddie Hatcher, one of the men who held 17 people hostage at the newspaper a
few weeks ago.
"Eddie stood up for justice,” said Hatcher. "He's the type of person that
likes to see everybody treated equally. He had tried to get something done about
the injustices down there and when that failed, he took matters into his own
hands."
Hatcher said that although he did not condone the actions of his nephew, he
believed his nephew had good reasons for what he did.
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QUOTABLE: "As 'Super
Tuesday' approaches, we
would all dQ well to
remember the sacrifices
made for the right to vote.
One person who made the
ultimate sacrifice was
Medgar Evers, an Afro-
American from Mississippi."
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N.C. Supreme Court outlaws
jury selection based on race
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
The local law firm of
Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and
Kennedy recently litigated a case
which has led to a major North
Carolina Supreme Court civil
rights decision. The ruling pro
hibits the rejection of prospective
jurors on the basis of race in civil
cases.
In 1986 the U.S. Supreme
Court outlawed the exclusion of
jurors because of race in criminal
cases. This latest decision now
assures that jury selection will not
be based on race in any trial in the
state of North Carolina.
The decision stems from the
case of an Afro-American High
Point woman who died of carbon
monoxide poisoning in her public
housing apartment.
Mary Magdalene Jackson
was found dead in her apartment
on February 19, 1978. Soon after
ward city officials dismantled the
chimney flue to her heater and dis-
, covered a dead pigeon, a bird's
nest and other debris blocking the
chimney pipe.
A little more than a year
before Jackson's death, three other
residents of the same low-income
housing project died of carbon
monoxide poisoning when the
chimney flue for their apartment
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Brawley representatives say they'll cooperate on investigation
By DAVID BAUDER
Associated PrB.ss Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. - State Attorney
General Robert Abrams will meet
®3rly next week with lawyers for a
black Dutchess County teen-ager
who maintains she was sexually
assaulted by six white meii.
That was agreed to Thursday by
four repteseniatives of Tawana
Brawley. They told Gov. Mario
Guomo following a 3 1/2 -hour
J^eeiing that they were willing to
break the stalemate that had
stymied the investigation of the
assault since it occurred in late
f'fovembcr.
The four representatives said
they'd been assured by the gover
nor that Abrams, designated by
Cuomo last month to act as special
prosecutor in the case, will be per
sonally involved” in the investiga
tion.
"We decided to put aside any
long-term disagreements that we
may have," said the Rev. A! Sharp-
ton. "Today was a day of engage
rather than outrage, ^d today we
reaped some benefits.
Before the meeting with Cuomo
at the state Capitol, the four repre
sentatives had refused to allow Miss
Brawley or her family to cooperate
in the probe, saying they didn t
think the aide Abrams had picked
to head the investigation, John
Ryan, had the proper experience
necessary in civil rights matters.
Miss Brawley, now 16, claims
she was repeatedly raped and
assaulted by six white men, one of
whom flashed a police badge.
After disappearing for four days
last November, she was found in
Dutchess County partially clothed
Local family member speaks
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
The family of Tawana
Byawley is "totally frustrated"
with a judicial process that
(three months later) still can't
tell them who abducted the 15-
year-old Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
youth, raped and brutalized her,
scrawled racial obscenities on
her body and left her for dead.
One loc^ member of the
family, Debbie Stockton, says
there are a lot of unanswered
questions in the case. Her now
16-year-oId cousin said she was
abducted by two white men, who
showed her police badges. The
case has drawn the attention of
comedian/TV producer Bill
Cosby who offered a $25,000
reward for information leading to
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Stockton
and smeared with excrement.
"Nigger" and "KKK" had been
scrawled on her body.
At a press conference Thursday
night in New York City, Abrams
welcomed the decision by the
Brawleys' lawyer, Alton Maddox
Jr., to cooperate, calling it "a very
critical step in moving this investi
gation forward." At the same time,
he staunchly re-affirmed his faith
in Ryan and the team of prosecu
tors and investigators working on
the case.
Maddox said Miss Brawley will
not attend the meeting with
Abrams next Tuesday because
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