Local Groups Offer Protection
Elderly Escape Crime
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
Senior citizens too often
find themselves victims of
crime in this society. Along
with children they are the
most gullible prey for the
vicious tactics of criminal
elements, which range from
con artists to brutal crimes
of theft and murder. These
senior citizens and children
are the least defensive
against hoodlumism and
fang and claw mentality.
On April 2, a quiet
neighborhood in Southeast
Raleigh was disrupted by
the brutal murder of retired
Wake County School
principal, Garland L.
Crews. The 74-year-old
educator was found in his
closet, beaten to death. The
house was ransacked and
the police has established
the motive as robbery. The
assailant, perhaps, still on
the prowl.
Recently, the police, found
a partially decomposed
body in the Neuse River.
They believe the remains
are those of 62-year-old
Robert Lane. Lane has been
missing since Feb. 14. He
was last seen by Dorothy
Lane at her home, 902 E.
Martin St. “We don’t
suspect any foul play,’’
Police Lt. B. W. Peoples
said in an interview. “We
are not sure about the cause
of death.”
There are various
programs to help senior
citizens protect themselves
from becoming victims of
crimes in the home and
elsewhere. Gene English,
community services
consultant for the Wake
Council Department of
Social Services said “We
don’t have a program
specifically for that, but if
someone we are working
with had specific questions.
we would handle it one-on-
one and explore the
resources.”
Ms. Sharon Graham,
residence manager of
Wintershaven, an
apartment complex for
senior citizens at 500 E.
Hargett St., said “recently I
have been discussing the
elderly and crime with
Officer E. Williams of the
Raleigh Police Department.
I was concerned, because all
our tenants are 62-years and
older, and they have a set
way of doing things.”
(See ELDERLY, P.2)
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City Builds Greenway
Litde Rock Trial Desij^n
BY YVETTE D. RUFFIN
staff Writer
In the summertime, about
50 years ago, youngsters
from the Chavis Heights
area would frequent what
was then called, “that little
swimming hole.”
Since that time, the kids
have grown up, Chavis
Heights has changed and the
little swimming hole—actu
ally named Little Rock—has
vanished. Today, construc
tion on a park to be dubbed
Little Rock Trail, is well un
der way. City officials are
expecting construction to be
completed by mid-May.
The park, constructed in
an open field between Mar
tin and Hargett streets, has
been designed under a pro
gram to protect the city’s
floodway and as a
trail to connect various
areas of the city toget^ier,
Greenway planner Art
Chard explained that Little
Rock Trail will eventually
extend to Chavis Heights.
Joseph Winters, a retired
city police officer, said he
thought the old swimming
hole was called Little Rock
because of the many rocks
surrounding it. “It was a na
tural hole in the branch that
ran down in' that area.”
Remembering the swim
ming hole, businessman
Robert Umstead said he fre
quented it often as a young
ster. “I think the deepest
(See TRAIL. P.2)
Challenges Of The *80s
Met By UNCF Alumni
BY JOHN HINTON
Muriel Dunn is a pro
tege of the late Sister
Gary.
“She was like an aunt to
me,” she said. “She was
easy to talk to and down
to earth. She gave me a
lot of support.”
Rev. Dunn, 49, is an
assistant pastor at the
Wesleyan First Church of
Deliverance, 1201 Boyer
St., which was founded by
Rev. Mabel Gary Pbil-
pott, better known to the
Raleigh community as
“Sister Gary.” The relig
ious leader died about
four years ago.
“Being assistant pastor
is just great,” Ms. Dunn
said. “It’s a large portion
of my life. I am dedicated
to the ministry. I have the
assurance I am doing
God’s will for me.”
Ms. Dunn preaches
every second Sunday and
serves as a church
trus.tee. She is a
deaconess and superin
tendent of the Sunday
School and teaches its
junior and senior classes.
Ms. Dunn is also an
ordained elder.
(See PROFILE, P.2)
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REV. MURIEL DUNN
Tornado Twists Destructive Path
Tearful Memories Linger
WINSTON-SALEM - As he called on
stores March 28, Atlanta salesman James
McDougald noticed the “bad-looking
clouds” that gathered and moved swiftly
overhead. But he didn’t give them a second
thought.
Hours later at home, McDougald
received a call from an aunt in Maxton. As
she tried to describe the destruction of his
childhood home by a series of tornadoes,
his thoughts turned to his grandmother
and eight relatives living in the home.
“All sorts of bad thoughts went through
my mind,” recalled McDougald, an area
sales representative with R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co. “I remember bad thunder
storms there when I was growing up, but it
always seemed that South Carolina got it
worse than we did.”
But this time, Maxton and nearby Red
Springs were not spared the death and
destruction from the tornadoes that struck
along a 260-mile strip through North and
South Carolina.
Images of destruction and the faces of
his loved ones flashed repeatedly thrtiugh
his head as McDougald drove for what
seemed like an eternity between Atlanta
and Maxton.
“I began to see traces of the devastation
as I neared Laurinburg and all the way to
Maxton,” said McDougald. “When I saw
Maxton, it looked like a testing site for A-
bombs. Everything was leveled; things—
washing machines, water heaters, refrig
erators, cars—were strewn all over the
place.”
As he pulled down the street where his
home once sat. he was struck by the
(See TORNADO, P.2)
NEW YORK, N.Y. -
What do opera diva Leon
tyne Price, singer-composer
Lionel Richie, Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young and
Pulitzer Prize w'inning
author Alice Walker have in
common? Each is an
alumnus of one of the United
Negro College Fund’s 42
col jCS and universities.
All over the United States,
black college graduates,
alumni and students are
making contributions to
their communities, black
higher education, and the
nation. This was evident in
February when more than
2,000 UNCF students and
alumni gathered in Greens
boro for UNCF’s National
Alumni Council convention.
The National Alumni
Council, a UNCF-chartered
organization founded in
1946, is committed to ac
quainting the public with the
value and contributions of
historically black colleges
and their alumni, and to
stimulating an interest
among black college alumni
in the UNCF.
The National Pre-Alumni
Council, headed by Samuel
DeShazior, a senior at Clark
College in Atlanta, is made
up of students currently
attending UNCF’s colleges
and universities.
Each year, the National
Alumni and Pre-Alumni
Councils raise money and
contribute funds to UNCF
and its member institutions.
During the past decade,
UNCF’s alumni and pre
alumni organizations have
contributed more than $5
million to the United Negro
College Fund.
“The United Negro
College Fund has always
been dependent upon the
support of black college
graduates and their
friends,” said Christopher
F. Edley, president of the
United Negro College Fund.
“Foremost among these
yolunteers and supporters
are the members of UNCF’s
inter-alumni, national
alumni and pre-alumni
councils.”
Each year when the
National Alumni Council
conyenes its annual
conyention, it is joined by
members of the Inter-
Alumni and Pre-Alumni
councils, which work in
unison with the NAC. The
next conyention is scheduled
for February 1985 in
Washington.
“Historically black
colleges must face the chal
lenges of the ’80s,” said
(See ALUMNI. P.2)
FIGHTING SCHOOL PRAYER-Mobiie, Ala.-lshmael Jaffree
of Mobile poses with his children, from left, Makeba (10),
Jamael Aakki (11), and Chioke Saleem (8) in a picture made
April 4. More than two years ago the 40-year-old Jaffree, an
agnostic, filed suit against three Mobile school teachers after
he discovered his children were .craving in school. Jaffree
challenged Alabama’s law aliowing teacher-ied prayer and
won in the U.S. Supreme Court. (UPl)
White Comments
On King^s Death
BY JOHN HINTON
Staff Writer
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the ciyil rights
leaders of the 1960s, was killed by an assasin’s bullet in
Memphis, Tenn., 16 years ago. '
“The struggle which he fought in is not oyer,” said the
Rey. Leon White, director of the Commission For Racial
Justice. “Dr. King left an example for us to follow. He
showed us the way to achieye yictory.”
King was the president of the Southern Leadership Con
ference and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He
led the struggle for desegregation of public -facilities and
schools in the South. “His death was a tradegy,” White
said. “If anyone struggles for justice, he will die.”
White said blacks in the United States are not better now
SUFFERING TORNADO AFTERMATH-Winston-Salem-uarie Kuroie (wearing nat) sits wiin
her family at a public housing apartment in Maxton after killer tornadoes destroyed their home
in Maxton two weeks ago.
(See COMMENTS. P. 2)
Group Celebrates 39th Annual Meeting, Banquet
YMCA To Award Local Achievers
HOUSING BRIEF-Washington, O.C.-Elizabeth B. Cofield, second from right, of Raleigh,
N.C., was among members of the National Association of Black County Officials who attended
a recent briefing on federal housing programs conducted in Washington by officials of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Pictured with her from left are the Rev. St.
George Crosse, special advisor for minority programs in the Office of the HUD deputy under
secretary for intergovernmental relations; Maurice Barksdale, HUD assistant secretary for
housing and federal housing commissioner; and, far right, Webster B. Guillory, of Orange
County, Calif., president of NABCO. Ms. Cofield is seeking reelection to her current post as
Wake County Commissioner.
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
The Garner Road YMCA
is moying ahead with plans
for one of its biggest annual
actiyities.
Executiye Director Nor
man Daye says the “Y”
IS preparing for its 39th
annual meeting and awards
banquet. “Each year we
hold a banquet and award
people in tbe community for
YMCA achieyements or
community achieyements,”
explained Daye.
Keynote speaker for this
year will be Congressman.
Walter E. Fauntroy, D-D.C.,
who is currently serying in
the U.S. House of Repre-
sentatiyes, and who was the
first black elected to that
post from the District of
Columbia in 100 years. He is
a ciyil rights actiyist and a
Christian minister. In 1963,
Fauntroy coordinated the
March on Washington ana in
1965 he coordinated the
Selma - to - Montgomery
march.
This year’s award
banquet will focus on fiye
areas and members of the
community at large haye
been selected in honor of
their achieyements in these
areas. In the category of
community seryices, Ms.
Jeannette Hicks will be
honored and awarded;
education. Dr. Prezell
Robinson; politics and legal,
attorney Daniel T. Blue;
religion, the Rey. Leotha
Debnam, Sr.; and out
standing seryice to the
YMCA, William B. Kincaid.
Daye stated that YMCA
board members Cecil Flagg
and Robert T. Young will
also be honored during the
awards banquet.
This year’s awards
banquet coincides with
efforts by the YMCA to
recruit additional members.
“Our annual membership
driye this year runs
from April 11 to May 24,”
said Daye. The banquet will
be held on Thursday, April
26, at 7 o.m. in the Hilton
Inn, Hillsborough Street.
Ms. Malyise A. Scott is
chairperson for the banquet
and J.B. Allen is' co
chairperson.
Also, the YMCA will hold
a sports banquet for
football, basketball and
swimming in May. The Y-
Teens, a group of young
women who offer seryices to
the community for the
YMCA will be presented
awards for their achieye-
ment in the community.
This will be the first sports
banquet Tield at the new
' (See YMCA, P.2)
Rep. Spaulding Hits Proposed
Pipeline As A Hasty Venture
DURHAM - State Rep.
Kenneth B. Spaulding, a
candidate for U.S. Congress
in North Carolina’s Second
Congressional District, said
he strongly opposes the
proposed pipeline that
would transfer water from
Lake Gaston to the 'Virginia
Beach area. The pipeline,
which would carry 60
million gallons of water a
day 84 miles, would be a
hasty and unwise project for
both the citizens of North
Carolina and Virginia, he
said.
“The communities and
businesses that currently
depend on the water from
the lake and Roanoke River
are our first priority,” he
said. “We cannot drain one
resource and thus leave
even more people without a
sufficient water supply. We
must not endanger the
water level of the lake and
river, which would pose a
danger to the economic well
being of those already
dependent on the lake and
river.
“There are more feasible
and constructive options to
(SeePIPELlNE,P.2)
THEY SPEAK OUT
Question: What do you
America?
Trish Lee, 25, of Raleigh,
formerly of New York, an
employee at Hudson Belk.
“It’s probably job status.
When I am late coming back
from lunch I get hassled by
my white manager. I notice
when the white girls are late
coming back from lunch,
nothing is said. Being black
BY JOHN HINTON
Staff Writer
think is the biggest problem facing blacks in
3k
is a problem for us also. It
brings us a lot of
aggravation. We still get a
lot of pressure from whites.
We are still in modern
sal very.”
Genia Dobbins, 24, of
Raleigh. “Blacks not voting
is a big problem. The most
important walk a black man
can take is to the ballot box.
Blacks are not getting
involved in the political
process.”
Evered Dyer, 30, a tailor
at Varsity Men’s Wear.
“The biggest problem-
facing blacks is Ronald
Reagan. His policies are for
(See SPEAK OUT, P.2)
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