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NATIONALI ^CHEOMCLgl Bodies of missing six found in Pea River THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' ; OPP, Ala. - Four months ago, Woodrow Stackhouse stood on the banks of the Pea River by the Ballard Bridge and had the "funny feeling" that this was where the bodies of six missing southeast Alabama residents, including his son, could be found. On Wednesday afternoon, a muddy 1989 Chevrolet Caprice con taining six bodies was pulled from that area in rural ColTee County. Authorities said the vehicle's tags matched the missing Caprice belonging to Lamar Junior Stackhouse, 25, of Enterprise, signaling an apparent end to the mystery 6f what happened to a group of friends who disappeared after a night of partying May 9. "I stood right there over that spot and I told the police that the tire tracks were like four feet from the water." Woodrow Stackhouse said Wednesday night. "Four months later, they went to the same spot where the tracks were and found them." Authorities were retracing their steps, checking areas where pre vious searches had come up empty, when they found the car. The car, with the remains still inside, was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science in Montgomery for autopsies, said Alabama Bureau of Investigation agent Simon Benson. Because of the decomposed state of the bodies, authorities could not positively identify the remains Wednesday night. State police are treating the deaths as an accident but planned to search the area today. There was damage to the car. which led investigators to believe it ran off Alabama Highwa\ 134 at the Ballard Bridge and into the river, Benson said. The accident occurred near the Ino community, located between Opp and Enterprise. A crowd of hundreds, including relatives and friends of the miss ing. gathered at the bridge Wednesday as authorities prepared to remove the car from the water. Some cried and sobbed as they wait ed. The missing were: Stackhouse. Eula Jossett Lee. 27, and Angela Roberts Young, 26. all of Enterprise; Valerie Jones McCoy, 27, of Level Plains; James Anthony Reynolds. 28, of Webb; and Tanrara Monique Ward, 22. of Ozark. Their disappearances were reported to Enterprise police on May 10. Woodrow Stackhouse said he visit ed the spot by Ballard Bridge two days later. The six disappeared after leaving an Opp nightclub in the car Lamar Stackhouse had recently purchased and which was his pride and joy. Investigators said they had no idea where the friends were headed. ? ?< Two weeks ago. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began calling for the FBI to get involved in the search. a "I think from thaf day on. there was an urgency on behalf of law enforcement because we were observing what they were doing," said the Rev. R.L. Shanklin. state NAACP president. The FBI began to ? get involved<this week. Enterprise Police Chief T.D. Jones disputed Shanklin's con tention. / "We've been searching since day doe," he said. "There was some v thing going on all the time.". - , ; ... "America's Most Wanted" was scheduled to air a segment on the missing six. For the families. Wednesday's discovery.,ended month's of won dering. "In a way, it's closure but it's heartbreaking." said Cliff Johnson of Enterprise, whose wifeids the aunt of one of the missing. "It's been a mental strain the whole time." Central chancellor takes medical leave THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DURHAM - The chancellor of North Carolina Central University began a medical leave of absence from the school < last Thursday. Although the school's news release did not spec ify the reason, earlier reports said Chancellor Julius Chambers would undergo surgery for prostate can cer. Treatment and recovery are expected to take several weeks, the school said. In his absence, a team of vice chancellors and the special assistant to the chancellor will manage the school. Chambers. 62. was scheduled to have surgery in August at Duke University Medical Center and begin a leave of absence of five to six weeks. Chambers Instead, doctors performed an undisclosed medical procedure on Cham bers and postponed the surgery. ? INDEX OPINION A6 SPORTS ; B1 RELIGION ?? CLASSIFIEDS ill HEALTH C3 ENTERTAINMENT CS CALENDAR A13 This Week In Black History... October 7, 1888 - Sargent C. Johnson is born in Boston. Mass. He will be a pioneering artist of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his wood, cast stone, and ceramic sculptures. Among his most famous works will be "Forever Free" and "Mask." October 14,1834 - Henry Blair of Glen Ross, Md., receives a patent for a corn planting machine. . October 14, 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is announced as the 1964 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights activities. King is the second African American to win the Peace Prize. Being Black from page At and the Harvard University Multi disciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. The Harvard program includes researchers from several Harvard graduate schools and disciplines. Initiated in the early 1990s, the project attempted to understand the patterns of racial inequality in modern, metropolitan areas and how race has been affected by eco nomic changes. According to the study, race is pervasive at many levels, manifest ing itself in everything from highly segregated housing to labor mar kets that prefer hiring some racial groups over others. Stereotyping is often at play, particularly when it comes to where people want to live and whom they will hire, O'Con nor said. Blacks "continually end up at the bottom in terms of preferences for neighbors as well as when employers talk about hiring prefer ences." she said. While the study found that minorities are doing better in the strong economy of the 1990s, it found that they are making less money and working fewer hours than their white counterparts. It also found that they had a signifi cantly harder time landing a job. In Detroit, for example, it took unskilled, unemployed whites an average of 91 hours to generate a job offer. It took blacks 167 hours. "Clearly there is a heavy bur den that minorities face in the job market," said Katherine Newman, an urban studies professor at Har vard's Kennedy School of Govern ment. "Minorities are working, but they're diverging in their good fortune from whites." Both the household surveys, conducted by telephone between 1992 and 1994, and the employer I interviews identified pervasive stereotypes, particularly targeting blacks. Blacks, many of the respon dents said, are more likely to be on welfare, more likely to commit crimes and harder to get along with than other groups. In the work force, where native born blacks are losing jobs to recent immigrants, employers indi cated blacks rank low on their hir ing preference charts. "We didn't get a whole lot of employers coming out and saying. 'Blacks are worthless," O'Connor said. Employers instead talked in code and subtext when referring to minorities, she said. Employers also were fearful of relocating to areas that were per ceived as heavily minority. President addresses U.N. I Photo by David Scull, The White House President Clinton addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21. The President spoke about the challenges facing the international community in the globalisation, and urged prosperous nations to continue to support the research and development of vaccines for dis eases plaguing the developing world. During the day, the president also met with several foreign leaders, including South African President Thobo Mbeki (Shown in photo). Florida A&M bomb suspect arrested BY DAVID ROYSE v THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A 41-year-old white man was arrested on federal charges in two small bombings at predomi nantly black Florida A&M Uni versity. Lawrence Michael Lombar di, an unemployed father of two from Tallahassee, was arrested last week after agents searched his home. He was charged with a single count of manufacturing a bomb pending formal charges later, FBI agent Tom Kneir said. No other information was immediately made available on Lombardi. , "We are relieved and thank ful," said Florida A&M provost James Ammons. "This is a happy day for Florida A&M because we can again focus on our educational mission." Two small explosions have gone off at the campus sinee Aug. 31. No one was injured in either blast, but strident racist telephone calls accompanied each incident and warned of futher attacks, spreading fear on the 12,000-student campus. On Wednesday, the FBI released tapes of the telephone calls and a surveillance camera - photo of a man buying some . thing at a local home improve ment store the day before the fifst blast. They said the man in the photo could have information about the case, but said the man wasn't a suspect. But last week, the); said the man in the photo was Lombardi and that tips from the public after the photo and tapes were released led authorities to him. Officials wouldn't say whether Lombardi was part of a larger group, but indicated*hey think the campus is now safe. "FAMU today does not face the threat that it did yesterday," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Patterson said. Local, state and federal investigators descended en masse on the hilltop campus in Tallahassee after the first blast Aug. 31. It involved a small device that went off in a men's room at an administration building 10 minutes after a warning was called in. Damage was very minor. 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PVT Markings & Strictures Metric 8% 1-95 4 NC-50 Interchange in Benson \ . ? 9.8043143 Nash 4 Widening, Grading, Drainage, Paving & PVMT Markings Metric 8% 4% NC-43 from SR-1613 (Woodnitl Ave.) to SR-1535 (Peele Rd.) 8.1351302 Durham 5 Grading, Drainage, Paving, Pavement Markings, Milling 4 Structures Metric 8% NC-157 (Guess Road) from SR-1407 (Carver St) to SR-1449 (Umstead Hd.) 8.1511401 Rockingham 7 Widening, Grading, Paving & PVMT Markings Metric 8% NC-87 from SR-2598 (Cook Florist Rd.) 4 SR-2594 (Holiday Loop Rd.) To US-29 m RetdsvAe - ? 82510501 Rockingham 7 Grading, Drarage, Paving, PVMT Markings 4 Shuctures . Metre 5% Bridge over Dan River 4 approaches on 5R-2145 < 6.529001B Randolph/ 8 Grading, Drainage. Paving, PVMT Markings 4 Culverts Chatham US454 tram East of intersection with SR-2628 on West Glenn Ave. in Siter City Metre 8% 4% 8.2623301 Forsyth 9 Grading, Drainage, Paving, PVMT Markings 4 Structures Metre 5% Bridge over Winston-Salem Southbound Railway 4 approaches on SR-3875 (Waughtown) 8.2662601 Cabarrus 10 Grading, Drainage, Paving, PVT Markings 4 Structures Metric 5% Bridge over Coddle Creek 4 approaches on SR-1621 8.U671615 Mecklenburg 10 Grading, Drainage, Paving, Pavement Markings 4 Structures Metre 8% Charlotte outer loop from south of SR-2808 to south of SR-2802 (Rocky River Church Rd.) in Charlotte 8.U672209 Mecklenburg 10 Gradtog, Drainage, Paving, PVT Markings 4 Structures Metre 8% West Oiartotte outer loop from North of US-29/74 (Wlkinson Blvd) to North of 1-85 6.678005B Mecklenburg 10 Grading Drainage. Pavings 4 Structures West Charlotte outer loop from Metre 10% 5% Brown Gner Rd. Extension to"0.507 km North of US-2974 82311901 Johnston 4 Grading. Drainage, Paving 4Stnjctures English 5% Bridge over Hannah Creek 4 approaches on SR-1171 (Hannah Creek Rd.) 82451001 Harnett 6 Grading, Drainage, Paving, PVMT Markings 4 Structure English 6% Bridge over Black River 4 approaches on SR-1735 6.529006T Chatham 8 Widening. Gracing. Drainage Paving, PVT Markings 4 Structures Engksh 7% 3% US-64 from Glenn Ave. to ext 5-lane section West of N. Cottage Grove Ave. in Siier City 8.T520806 Chatham' 8 Grading, Pavng, Guardrail 4 Pavement Markings Engksh 8% US454 (Pittsboro Bypass) from 1.15 miles East of SR-1514 to east of US-15/501 82700201 Alleghany 11 Grading Drainage, Paving, PVMT Markings 4 Structure English 5% Bridge om IMe River 4 approaches on SR-1172 and cukert on Pine Swamp River. 82741301 Surry 11 Grading, Draxiage, Paving PVT markings 4 Structures English 6% Bridge cxrar Little Fisher raver 4 approaches on SR-1350 82870601 McDowell 13 Grading Drainage, paving 4 Structure English 5% Culvert 4 Bndge over Crooked Creek 4 approaches on SR-1123 LETTING DATE: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 *** MONDAY, October 18,1999 6 PM - MIDNIGHT *** North Raleigh Hilton - 3415 Wake Forest Road - Raleiph. N.C. Prime contractors will be available to receive quotes for trucking, sub-contracting and materials. MAVBE's needing more information and/or technical assistance may come to Room 522 to meet with representatives from the Bennington Corp., NCDOT's Supportive Provider. (919)832-6027 NCDOT Office of Civil Rights & Business Development l*800?522-0453 VJV Certification of highway contracting firms Richard Chrisawn HA, Jjf g Certification of supply/service/engineering firms: Robert Mathes ^ Comments or concerns: Delano Rackard: Director
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