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Seeking A .C. I^legates In May S Primary
Jackson In Wake Co. Today
Editor’s Note: This is the
conclusion of a two-part
series on the early stages
and development of the
personality of the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, Democratic
contender for president of
the United States.
Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Democratic contender for
president, will stop briefly
in Wake County
Thursday, April 19, to urge
Wake County support in his
bid for the White House.
Arriving at the Raleigh-
Durham Airport at 8:15
a.m., Jackson will appear at
a press conference and at a
reception of the Raleigh
Interdenominational Mini
sterial Alliance at the
airport’s Aerospace
Services Buiding, according
to information released by
the Wake County Jesse
Jackson Campaign office.
Buses will leave from the
parking lot of Martin Street
Baptist'Church at 7:30 a.m..
transporting supporters -to
the airport.
A statement issued
recently by the national
Jesse Jackson campaign
office titled “Why I Want to
Be President of the United
States’’ outlined the
candidate’s reasons for
seeking the nation’s highest
government post.
“Public service, to w'hich
I have dedicated all of my
adult life, is a high calling,
and politics is one of the
highest art forms available
for public service. Running
for the presidency gives me
the opportunity to serve this
nation at a level where 1 can
help to restore a high moral
tone, re-establish a sense of
idealism and common
decency in the national
discussion of public policy
issues, offer a redemptive
spirit to the nation and
rekindle a sensitivity to the
poor and dispossessed in our
ci>untry. I want America to
again become the hope and
'neacon of a free world, jeal
ously guarding human
rights for all human beings
and the right to self-deter
mination. I v.'ant to help re
establish a sense of
compassion so'we as a
nation can again say, ‘Give
me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses,..’
(See DELEGATES. P .2)
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Inquiring
Reporter
BY JOHN HINTON
staff Writer
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VOL. 43, NO. 40
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Damages
Arrest
THE WAY—Presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who is makin^a
stop in Wake County Thursday, April 19, points to acknowiedge an admirer in the throng of
people who came to the platform to shake his hand after his speech at the Cincinnati
Convention Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Jackson this week kicks off his North Carolina bid for
votes in the coming May 8 primary. (See story)
Jackson Campaign Staff
Combines Work^ Pleasure
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BRYANT
PEACOCK
ATKINS
BY JOHN HINTON
staff Writt'r
Qiiestinn: What is your
position on abortion'.’
Sarah Bryant, Raleigh, an
employee of Hudson-Belk:
“I don’t believe in it. If you
have an abortion, you are
telling God that you don’t
want His blessing. Children
are our inheritance. They
are God’s blessing. If you
don’t want your child you
are telling people you don’t
want His blessing”
Floyd Peacock, Raleigh,
adult probation ,in-state
officer: “I don’t believe in
it. If my parents would have
done that, I w’ould not be
here. Once conceived, the
unborn have a right to life
regardless of what your situ
ation is.”
George Atkins, Raleigh,
who would not reveal his
job: “I don’t believe in
abortion. Abortion is
destroying the future by
killing our children, one of
which could be the next
president of the United
States. When you kill a chid,
you are killing your future.”
Regina Austin, 27,
Dix
Police
Detain
Suspect
A Raleigh man was ar
rested last week after more
than $15,000 in damage to
two buildings and seven
vechicles was reported. The
buildings and vehicles were
located at 1301 Blue Ridge
Road.
John Henry Hiner, Jr., 21,
of 613 Grantland Drive has
been charged with vehicle
larceny, breaking and
entering, larceny of
buildings, damage to
property and possession of
the controlled substance
phentermine. Hiner was
freed from jail on a $1,000
bond.
Someone had apparently
driven four dump trucks
into the parking lots,
striking the three other
vehicles and the two
buildings.
Police were also investi
gating the theft of an IBM
computer, a monitor,
printer and typewriter, all
valued at $3,800, from Effie
Green Elementary School at
5307 Six Forks Road.
Musicians Exchange, 3023
Hillsborough St., reported
Child Abuse Allegations Investigated
Problems Probed
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BY RON CORNWALL
staff Writer
“It’s the most significant movement in
the annals of politics,” is O.K. Beatty’s
description of the Jesse Jackson campaign
for U.S. president in 1984,
“The enthusiasm and the plans are so
very well thought out, made and
executed,” said Beatty, chairman of the
Wake County Jackson delegate selection
committee. “We say this is a young
persons’ campaign, but the people
involved in this campaign cover the whole
age spectrum,”
J.J. Sansom, chairman of the board of
Mechanics and Farmers Bank, who
attended Monday evening’s Wake County
Jackson campaign meeting, said, “This is
the first time I’ve been here. They’re
trying to get organized to get out the vote
for Jackson. I think if we get the message
out to the people, we will be successful. I
think the people have been waiting for
something like this for a long time. Every
body needs to do all that they can do to see
that we have a successful election for
Jackson in Wake County.
“I haven’t been at it in so long, I’m glad
to see young people. Young people need to
take over all these activities. Our time is
running out... It’s a whole different ball
game. We need solidarity, in everything.
This is the main thing we need here,” said
Sansom.
Young and old, black and white,
professional and non-professional
apparently are responding to the call for
solidarity, especially from the looks of
things in the Wake Jackson campaign.
Ms. Deborah Teague, who attended her
first campaign meeting on Monday, said
her inspiration for becoming involved in
the campaign was “the motivation he’s
[Jackson] given out, and wanting to be
around people who feel like I felt
regarding Jackson.”
“I could tell that it was very well
organized,” Ms. Teague said of the
meeting. “The questions that I might have
(See CAMPAIGN, P.2)
EDUCATION REFORM-Muiitgomery, Ala.-Senators hioton Mitenein of Alliertville d Earl
Hilliard of Birmingham, ieft to right, confer during an April 17 session prior to Sen. Mitchem
requesting that education reform legisiation be sent back to the Senate Finance and Taxation,
Committee. Lt. Gov. Bill Baxley ruled in favor of Mitchem’s request. (UPl)
Dorothea Dix Hospital To
Address Existing Problems
Raleigh: “I am undecided
on the issue. That decision (See DAMAGES, P. 2)
must be left up to the
individual. Regardless of
your doubts, you must be
ready to suffer the conse
quences. Some people feel
like they can’t afford to have
a baby. Some people do
want whatever they want,
and they don’t care what
happens because they know
they can afford to have an
abortion.”
BY JOHN HINTON
Staff Writer
The N.C. Department of
Human Resources is investi
gating the Child and Youth
Division at Dorothea Dix
Hospital where several
employees have charged
discrimination and child
abuse in the unit.
“We are in the process of
talking to our people at
Dix,” said Bryant Haskins,
director of public affairs in
an interview Wednesday.
“We are trying to find out if
the allegations have any
foundation.”
The department was
spurred by a letter which
Shaw University's Speech
And Hearing Clinic Seeks
To Attract The I^ow Income
WEATHER
Partly cloudy conditions
will be the rule for most of
the state through the
weekend with the ever
present chance of showers.
Temperatures will be mild
with highs expected in the
70s and overnight lows
mostly in the 40s. The cloudy
weather is caused by a large
low-pressure area over the
state. The system will end
near the weekend, bringing
on a warmer weather trend.
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
Poor people fail to use the
Speech and Hearing Clinic
at Shaw University as they
should because many think
they can’t afford the
services. Dr. H. Donnell
Lewis said Monday,
“We wish more people
would take advantage of our
services,” Lewis said.
“People need to know that
we can help their children
who stutter or are slow in
developing their language
skills.
The clinic, which opened
in 1967, provides treatment
for speech, language and
hearing problems in
children and adults.
Students who are speech
pathology and audiology
majors treat the patients
under the supervision of a
certified speech pathologist
or audiologist, '
The clinic offers free
services to student and
faculty at Shaw, Lewis said.
People in the community
are charged based on their
income. The facility, which
has equipment worth about
$200,000, treats about 15 to 20
people a week.
“We can do everything
from testing the brain stem
to measure the movement of
the eardrum,” Lewis said.
“We have this equipment
and our people don’t know
anything about it.”
Lewis said people with
middle-class incomes use
the clinic more than poor
people. “Middle-class
(SeeCLINIC, P.2)
‘Dr. Julius Nimmons,
president of the Raleigh-
Apex branch of the NAACP,
sent to Dr. Sarah Morrow,
secretary of the depart
ment. Nimmons informed
Ms. Morrow of the
allegations of unfair
personnel practices, racial
discrimination and the lack
of treatment of black
children seeking service in
the unit.
“Although I have met with
a group of employees from
the facility, I have not yet
determined additional steps
that we will pursue in this
matter,” Nimmons wrote.
“The nature of some of the
allegations is so serious that
perhaps we will need to seek
legal counsel with respect to
appropriate actions.”
Ms. Morrow was in Los
Angeles and could not be
reached for comment.
Nimmons said several
employees told him that the
hospital is beginning to
address the problems which
exist in the unit,
(See HOSPITAL, P.2)
Noteworthy Gains And
Political Strides: Kenneth
Wilkins Becomes Legend
BY YVETTE D. RUFFIN
Staff Writer
Kenneth C. Wilkins has accomplished what none of
his other biack poiitical peers have and what very few
of these peers have even made attempts to, tackle. He is
North Carolina’s first black register of deeds.
Self-assured and easygoing, Wiikins feels his
poiitical gains have been significant. Yet he doesn’t
* / harp on his successes. He concentrates, instead, on
“ efficient service to the peopie of Wake County.
“I think this position is significant for blacks,”
Wilkins said emphaticaliy. “For the first time in the
history of the state, we have a register of deeds who
happens to be black.
“Since it’s not a poiicy-making position, but an
administrative one, a different perspective on the
situation does not mean as much. However, I feel it
does instili pride in biacks when they know there are
other biacks in key decision-making positions in Wake
KENNETH C. County government. This is an administrative position
WILKINS (SeeWILKINS,P,2)
Washington, D.C. Native
I^nds Position At WRAL
Winners Hailed In
Appreciation Feature
Hi:
ai
Two readers of The
CAROLINIAN were
awarded $10 checks this
week when they were
(onfirmed as winners in last
week’s Appreciation Money
Feature, sponsored by this
newspaper and participat-
ng businesses.
Winners for the week were
Ms. Hazel Reece, 724 Bailey
Drive; and Ms. Barbara
Settle, 1825 Liberty Drive.
Any reader of this
newspaper is a potential
winner in the feature. All the
reader has to do is check tne
Appreciation Page—always
the back page of the Thurs
day edition’s front section-
each week to see if his or her
name has been hidden there
in one of the ads.
Ms. Reece spotted her
name hidden in an ad spon
sored by Hudson Belk. Ms,
Settle saw hers in an ad run
by Smith’s Grocery, The
name of Phillip C, Graves,
2802 Brigadoon Drive, was
hidden in an ad sponsored
(See APPRECIAT,, P. 2)
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POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT-Raleigh City Councilman Arthur Calloway, left, has endorsed
Bob Jordan, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. Rev. Calloway called Jordan “a
man of high integrity who understands the needs of ail oeoole. Jordan has been endorsed by
grougs including the AME Zion Church and the Eighth District Black Caucus. Calloway
represents District C.
This Week’s Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT
“OPEN 24 HOURS TO SERVE YOU”
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, From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
A new face will appear at
news conferences in Raleigh
as WRAL-TV has hired
another black reporter.
Sharon Nash, 23, will work
as a general assignment
reporter and assume
weekend anchor duties.
“WRAL has a very good
reputation with TV people
all over the country." Ms.
Nash said in an interview
Monday at the station.
“I wanted to get into a
good shop,” she said. '“This
is one of the better shops in
the country.”
Ms. Nash w’as born in
Washington, D. C,, and
reared in Silver Springs,
Md, Her family later moved
to Dallas, Texas, where she
attended North Texas State
University. Ms. Nash, who
graduated in December
with a degree in radio, TV
and film, has worked
previously at stations in
Armore, Okla., and Shreve
port, La.
Ms. Nash likes living in
Raleigh, she said. “It’s a
very pretty town and I like
the people here. It’s a
Southern town, but it’s
sornew'hat progressive.”
The staff at WRAL has
treated Ms. Nash well, .-he
said. “I like it here so far.
Everybody is so nice. It’s a
good place to be a reporter.”
Ms. Nash says she can
adapt to the hour-long new's
format at the station which
is different from the usual 30
minutes of news. “It’s more
demanding here. Reporters
have to do two stories and a
lot of voice overruns,” she
said. “It can get kind of
hectic.”
Ms. Nash was a high
school and college cheer
leader and a finalist in the
Dallas Cowgirls tryouts. She
appeared in the centerfold
in the Dec. 6, 1982 issue of
Jet magazine.
She joins Renne McCoy
and Connie Haywood as the
only other black reporters
at the station. Ms. Nash said
she always w’anted to be a
TV reporter. “It was just
natural to me,” she said. “I
■always wanted to do it.”
OLDEST MAN DIES-Oakland, Calif.-Arthur Reed, who ms
born the year Abraham Lincoln was elected president and who
was possibly the oldest man in the nation, has died twe
months short of his 124th birthday. Reed, who was born June
28,1860, IS shown in photo from files. (UPl)