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Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, July 7,1988
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|"IJamess6S the Great: The Pharoah
and His Time."
Egyptian artifacts
coming in October
Charlotte, the South's Queen City, is preparing for an
upcoming art exhibition as if it were royalty, which indeed it
is, Four four months beginning in October, Charloue's Mint
Museum will host the Harnesses the Great exhibition, a collec-
lion of artifacts dating from the time of one of the most power
ful and influential pharaohs in all Egypt.
The Harnesses exhibition has visited five other cities in
United Slates: Provo, Utah; Jacksonville, Fla.; Memphis,
Tenn.; Denver, Colo.; and Boston, Mass. Harnesses' treasures
will make their final U.S. stop in Charlotte. The Mint won the
right to host the exhibition after months of intricate negotia-
lions with the Egyptian government and Egyptian Antiquities
Organization officials.
Project directors already are working full time to prepare
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The Ramesses exhibit In Charlotte will fea
ture displays of King Ramesses li, top;
Psusennes I’s Gold of Valor, below; and
Meryetamun, daughter and wife of Ramess-
Abuse cases untended
Some say Social Services not doing the job
By VALERIE ROBACK GREGG
Chronicle Staff Writer
When the children are left alone, the
youngest sometimes gets so frightened he
calls the police to ward off the monsters that
hide under his bed.
No junk food beckons from the refrig
erator during afternoon cartoons, and there's
often no one home to tuck him in at bed
time.
When he goes to school with ragged
clothes, and the other kids laugh and make
faces, it’s enough to make him wish for
someone to scrub behind his ears.
When the boys' "Big Brothers" come to
visit the only thing the kids want to do is
eat
Grisard
And when their mother sets fire to her
boyfriend’s apartment and is charged with
arson, it gels worse. What if she goes to
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Gantt says Afro-American
progress in our own hands
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
Likening Afro-American voter strength
to a "nice car with no gas,” Harvey Gantt
cautioned members of the North Carolina
Black Leadership Caucus against diluting
the power of the Afro-American vote by
recklessly endorsing candidates, and by not
presenting a unified front.
Gantt, the former mayor of Charlotte,
told the audience at the caucus' opening cer
emonies that it is crucial that a leadership
cadre be formed which will eliminate the
frequency of "back room politics."
"We can't afford to squander this elec
tion," Gantt told the crowd of approximate
ly 100 people. "A leadership cadre drawing
people from all over the state can define the
issues, but let’s do more. Let’s put those
who would serve out front to address these
issues. It bothers me when politicians don't
have accountability. When you have those
promises being made in the backroom, in all
these different counties, your left hand
never knows what the right hand is doing.
The leadership cadre should find candidates
who will address the issues for the whole
state. We have to stop giving away our
power and stop dividing our power. We
have to stop giving away our vote until we
know what they’re going to do for us.
"We need to ask more of ourselves and,
in North Carolina, where we comprise 22 to
25 percent of the registered voters, we need
to do a better job of leveraging that strength.
In a close election year, you make the dif
ference. Whether you go fishing on election
day or support one paity or the other, you
make the difference."
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J.C, Black Leadership Caucus focuses on youth
^outh advised to develop discipline, self-identity
pyVALERIE ROBACK GREGG
jhronlcle Staff Writer
Once upon a lime, a baby eagle
■|ice fell from it’s mother’s nest on a
■gh cliff and had the good fortune to
W'd in the nest of a prairie chicken,
fl'c mother prairie hen clucked and ruf-
her feathers over the eagle egg and
PPi It safe and warm as if it were her
^n.
■ The eagle egg hatched with the
chicken’s and was treated as a
He learned to cluck and peck
■ c the other prairie chickens, but
couldn't help looking up to admire the
eagles soaring above.
The young eagle grew to old age
with his prairie chicken family, but was
forever looking up, wishing he could
fly with the eagles. He never realized
he needed only to gather the courage to
find a rock and jump off to soar with
the eagles.
"There are a lot of eagles in prairie
chickens' nests," human resources con
sultant Brenda Hunter told about 25
youngsters at the North Carolina Black
Leadership Caucus Saturday. "If no
one gives them an indication that they
can soar, they won’t."
Hunter was echoed by other pan
elists at the youth workshop when she
said Afro-American youngsters must
dare to be different than their peers if
they are to reach their potentials.
Henry McKoy, North Carolina
deputy secretary of administration, for
mer assistant secretary of administra
tion and director of the N.C. Human
Relations Commission, encouraged
youngsters to take on leadership
responsibilities whenever the chance
arises. "It provides an opportunity to
learn how to stand on your feet, to orga
nize your ideas, to influence people," he
said. "I grew up in the tobacco fields of
Hope County, and I told my friends I
would work in the governor’s office,"
McKoy said. "They laughed. Since
then, I have served two governors.
"I sought offices in school, had to
make presentations and sell ideas. If
you do that, you’re in a better position
than 80 percent of the class. I leave
you one message -take every opportu-
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>tudy to consider alternatives to incarceration
ROBACK GREGG
^mnlcle Staff Writer
he 1988-89 Forsyth County Bud-
^ $20,000 chunk to help
1 and support a committee to study
t reduce jail overcrowding and
f,^ hme inmates stay in the Forsyth
r anty Jaii_ County Board of
I" mmissioners approved the budget
P grant application for federal match-
p lands June 27.
lie $20,000 will probably
Kv h ^ federal grant the coun-
applied for through the North
P of Crime Control
fcerc will include mem-
fc.,-^ level of the criminal
len?th^ affecting prisoners'
■at] Forsyth County
■dwarriT^^^"^ County Manager A.
tornmii. Members of the
Ind include both a district
r nor court judge, a representa
tive of the county manager’s office, a
county commissioner, a member of the
parole and probation office. Chief Jailer
Thomas Andrews Jr., the Sheriff’s
Department, the state Department of
Corrections, the Trial Court Adminis
tration, the Clerk of Courts, the Win
ston-Salem Police Department, the
Kemersville Police Department, a Juve
nile Court Counsel, and the district
attorney's office.
Last year a grand jury found over
crowding to be one of many growing
problems in Forsyth County jails, as it
is in stale prisons, Forsyth County Sher
iff E. Preston Oldham said Tuesday.
A limit on the number of inmates
in state prisons legislated two years ago
County's Projected Avg. Daily Jail Population
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has increased pressure on local jails
around the slate, he said. North Caroli
na sends prisoners convicted of misde
meanors and sentenced to more than
180 days in jail to state prisons. When
Slate prisons reach the legal limit, pris
oners are sent to county jails without
the accompanying monetary support.
Oldham said the state cap on prison
populations as well as changes in the
law and sentencing standards have
caused the county prison population to
skyrocket. "With the cap order sent
with no funding or relief, we're caught
between a rock and a hard place," Old
ham said. "We can't release them or
send them to slate prisons."
The cost of supporting prisoners
has followed the increase in numbers of
prisoners. "The county operates the jail
with their money, but we only have a
limited ability to affect how long folks
are in there." Jones said. "The numbers
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Jackson mum about meeting
BOSTON - Jesse Jackson laid out a detailed
case today for why he should be offered the vice
presidential spot on the Democratic ticket and dis
missed others under consideration as "unknown
quantities."
He refused to say whether he would accept the
position if it is offered, however.
He refused to say whether he pushed himself for
the vice presidential nomination during his dinner
meeting with Dukakis and also refused, as he has
for two weeks, to make public whether he would
accept the No. 2 spot.
Brawley lawyers accuse cops
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — One of Tawana Braw-
ley's advisers has questioned whether the detective
who transported the teen-ager's rape test and cloth
ing may have tampered with or destroyed evidence,
a newspaper reported Saturday.
Alton Maddox Jr. also said that Dutchess County
Sheriffs Department Detective George Brazzale is
a close colleague of a prosecutor that Brawley's
advisers have accused in the attack.
Maddox offered no proof for the accusations,
which law enforcement officials denied.
Arizona rejects King Day
PHOENIX, Ariz. — The state Senate defeated a
bill to create a holiday honoring slain civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr., a proposal that
touched off widespread criticism of former Gov.
Evan Mecham when he opposed it.
The King measure fell two votes short of the 16
needed in the 30-member, Republican-controlled
Senate.