" • iwwwii woman,
who appears to be in bar late 30s to
*r]y *•- wits I gradoue manner,
and a pretty smile.
All bear features seem to stiffen,
heWser, when she talks about her
brother and the circumstances sup
rounding his death, and his eventual
discovery by her, some 28 days after
his disappearance.
Mb. Smith, a mother of)
wnm hb axe 10 oe i comuaiaru,
especially after having to fight the
law enforcement agencies of Zebulon,
Raleigh, and Wake County.
ft is difficult to tell from talking to
Ms. Smith whether her tale is one of
indifference, ineptitude, neglect, pre
judice or any combination of the
above, but one thing is definite and
that is that Rosa 8mith uncovered not
oafy the bloated and decomposed
Doay ot ner aeaa Drotner, but als<
discovered a gross problem of lack ol
coordination between the city anc
county law enforcement agencies.
It all began on a cold, dam[
February 4 night on a usuallj
deserted stretch of SR 2320 betweer
Wendell and Zebulon. Lenard Horton,
Jr. was most likely on his way to hie
mother’s house in Zebulon when aftei
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WAPPINGER FALLS, N Y.
(AP)—Tawana Brawley is said to be
recovering from the four days*when
she claims she was sexually
assaulted by a group of white men,
one of whom flashed a badge. But her
silence about those days has left in
vestigators with only pieces in a
puzzling case.
Brawley, a 16-year-old black high
school junior from Wappingers Falls,
about 50 miles north of New York Ci
ty, had just been chosen as a
cheerleader in preparation for D.C.
Ketcham High School’s basketball
season last fan.
But, two days after Thanksgiving,
the then 15-year-old girl was found by
police just outside h$r family’s
former apartment, huddled in a gar
bage bag. Chunks of her hair had
been lopped off. Animal excrement
had been nibbed in her remaining
hair and on her body. Racial slurs, in
cluding “KKK” and “nigger,” bad
been scrawled on her chest and ab
domen. A cotton-Uke material was
stuffed in her nostrils and ernes.
Since then, with demonstrations
and politically charged accusations,
her case has escalated into a cause
celebre.
Entertainer Bill Cosby offered a
reward. Heavyweight boxing cham
pion Mike Tyson offered protection.
Lawyers for Brawley and Mack ac
tivists have lambasted Gov. Mario
Cuomo and fellow Mack leaders.
“In New York, we’re supposed to
be the leading example state,” said
the Rev. Saul Williams, a Mack Bap
tist minister from Newburgh who is
dose to the Brawley family. “We’ve
been having funerals burying drug
victims, we’ve been having funerals
burying victims of violence, but we -
haven't had any funerals burying
radsm."
Two prosecutors quit the case
without public explanation. A police
officer some Brawley supporters sug
gest may have been Involved killed
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NEW EXPERIENCES—Mamelodi, South Africa-Mark Smith, a white South
African, rides in a Mack taxi from the Mack township of Mamelodi on his way to
work. He is one of 200 whites who have moved in with Mack families for four
weeks to experience Me in peer overcrowded townships. (UPI)
Martin Saaks Funding
For Sc
Gov. Jim Martin has anni
tracT and Kuo additional adult
that U.S. Department of Laoor ot
ficials have agreed to a transition
plan under which certain 17-year-olds
may continue to drive school buses
until June 15.
The agreement, which requires the
state to comply with several Labor
Department stipulations, became
necessary after Secretary Ann
Mcf-a»BWin earlier this month an
nounced that the Labor Department
would terminate a previous extension
allowing 17-year-olds to drive buses
for the remainder of the 1967-88
school year.
“My office has worked very hard
with the Department of Labor to
resolve this problem/’ the governor
said. "I have informed Secretary
;|(SLaughlin that, with the full sup
port of the North Carolina State
Baird of Education, I will seek a $24
million budget amendment during
the June session of the General
Assembly, to increase the school bus
drivers’ pay rate.”
drivers. •
“Daring our discussions with
Secretary McLaughlin, I think it
became apparent that our school
children would be a lot safer riding
with 17-year-olds, with seven or eight
months of bus driving experience
than it would be to have them riding
with drivers who have little or no ex
perience driving a school bus," the
governor said. “I have notified the
secretary that I will not request fur
ther exemptions to use drivers under
the age of 18 beyond June 15.1 expect
(See GOV. MARTIN, P. 2)
Motivate Youngsters nun
Bill Cosby Aids Black Colleges
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Television
star and comedy writer Bill Cosby
will be the keynote speaker at the
Leadership Awards Banquet of the
13th National Conference on Blacks in
Higher Education, March 23-27 at the
Washington Hilton Hotel.
More than 5,000 participants are ex
pected at the series of events, in
cluding college administrators,
government officials, corporate ex
ecutives, students and most of the na^
tion's 117 presidents of historically
and predominantly black colleges
and universities.
The five-day conference, spon
sored by the National Association for
Equal Opportunity in Higher Educa
tion, will be climaxed by the
$200-a-plate fundraising dinner
honoring more than 160 HBCU
distinguished alumni. A post
conference tribute to presidential
candidate Jesse Jackson will be held
Sunday, March 27.
Cosby will receive NAFEO's top
Chavis Heights Pilot
Project Enhances Area
more than anyone dreamed poeaible.
Twenty months ago response from
residents of the Housing Authority of
the City of Raleigh to a self-help
gardening program called “Let’s
Grow For It! ” Inspired the placement
of a pilot project in Southeast
Raleigh. We are proud to report the
success of this concentrated effort at
Chavis Heights, a 300-unit, low
income family housing community.
Shared support for “Let’s Grow
For It!” has come from the residents
and staff of the Raleigh Housing
Authority and the community at
large. In a little more than a year, the
lives of 1,900 people have been touch
ed through this experience. There is
now a sense of stewardship, an in
creased feeling of neighborhood and a
newfound awareness toward the en
vironment. It has come about through
active participateion in the renova
tion and reconstruction of this com
munity’s landscape. i
There has been assistance from the
Raleigh departments of recreation,
public affairs, greenways and plann
ing', the appearance commission;
North Carolina State University
Department of Horticulture, the Ex
tension Service and School of Design.
Workshops focused on gardening,
asalea and rose care and were led by
the Wake County Extension Service
auvi HIV VI17 raiM u«|wrunom.
Through grant*, 11,100 worth of
seed*, plant*, tool* and educational
material* were received from
America the Beautiful Fund and the
National Gardening Association.
(See CHAVIS HEIGHTS, P. 2)
Citixena Can
Help Police
AaPatrole
Raleigh citizens who would like to
see what it’* like inside the police
department can volunteer for the new
Citizen Patrol Officer Program.
The program is designed both for
assisting police in their daily opera
tions and providing citizens oppor
tunities to become actively involved
themselves.
“We reached the realization that
there was a need for assistance in dai
ly operations, and there are in
terested people with varying areas of
expertise who want to contribute,”
said Sgt. J.T. Fisher, program coor
dinator.
Volunteer responsibilities will vary
depending on the position. Citizen
patrol officers, who. wear uniforms,
assist sworn police officers and in
crease their visibility during civic
(See POLICF, P. 2)
award along with three other
honorees, including his wife Camille;
Eddie Robinson, legendary coach of
the Grambllng State (La.) University
football team; and Doug Williams,
Super Bowl quarterback of the world
champion Washington Redskins, Dr.
Samuel L. Myers, NAFEO president,
announced.
Myers said, “NAFEO is honoring
Dr. Cosby and his wife for using their
remarkable prestige, talent and per
sonal resources to enhance support
for the historically black colleges and
to motivate all youngsters to go to col
lege." The star is a graduate of Tem
ple University and earned a doctor of
philosophy from the University of
Massachusetts.
"He eagerly agreed to attend our
conference, not only to accept the
Leadership Award, but to have a plat
form to articulate his own commit
ment to the historically black col
leges and urge our own alumni to
emulate him by enhancing their own
commitments.’”
Redskins’ star Williams and Coach
Robinson had agreed to accept their
awards at the NAFEO conference
before the Super Bowl game last
January, officials disclosed. Dr.
Joseph B. Johnson, president of
Grambllng University, was elected
NAFEO chairman last July. He will
preside at the opening general ses
sion, March 34. Dr. Willie C. Robin
(See BILL COSBY, P. 2)
TIMEE OEHCATION-Emanuel Weldon is prepared ta dedicate a tree at
Eastwood Cowti in commemoration of Arbor Doy. Chavis Hefchts vohintoort gave
omio than 1500 hoars of thoir thno to community service and
improvements.(Photoby TaVbSabir-CaNoway) .
BUS-MI- Shewn Bum ami Shirtty Hunter are hundred up
jar the has at Mean Saeaw Bui itap. (Phete by Talk Sabir
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WHERE IT HAPPEHED-Ms. Rota Smith looks across the
water to the place where her brother's car landed. His body
was found by his sister days later not far from this scene.
Police searches failed to discover it. (Photo by TaHb Sabir
Callow ay)
Jackson Reported Pleased
With North Carolina Voters
BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN
sun Writer
Bruce Lightner, statewide director
of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s campaign
effort in North Carolina which
culminated in the Super Tuesday
election, said this week that Jackson
was “pleased” with his North
Carolina support.
“He was very pleased,” Lightner
said. “We achieved our initial goal of
winning at least 30 delegates to the
Democratic National Convention.
“We were also very successful in
running an efficient and effective
campaign with, less financial
resources than all the other can
didates. Our overall concern is the
role that Sen. [Terry] Sanford played
in [Tennessee Sen.] A1 Gore’s cam
paign and what effect that will have
on future working relationships in
terms of reciprocal voting and sup
port based on mutual agendas,”
Lightner said.
He said the latest returns since the
election indicate that Jackson lost to
Gore, who had the Democratic Party
establishment’s support, including
Sen. Sanford and former Gov. James
B. Hunt, by about 12,000 votes. He
said Jackson will receive 31 delegates
for the Atlanta-based convention set
for July.
“It is very clear that if more of our
people had realized the importance of
Super Tuesday, we would have been
victorious.
It is important to note that Super <
Tuesday was a good experiment, i
Most of the voting electorate has not |
been conditioned to think about
political races this early in the (
season. Many people did not realize i
an election was being held. That’s
where the Sanford-Hunt-Gore
machine was able to outspend us to
inform voters,” Lightner said.
He said the Jackson forces did “as
good a job as humanly possible” in
getting out the candidate’s support
across the state.
“We have no regrets, no hard feel
ings, only political realities that must
be faced,” he said.
Lightner said the next item on the
agenda in North Carolina for the
Jackson for President effort is the
delegate selection process which will
be in April.
“We will have many more people
who would like to be delegates than
we have slots for It becomes a mat
ter of diplomatic elimination without
of nding or rejecting any particular
supporter or worker.”
Lightner said he expects Jackson
will have “roughly” 1,000 delegates
at the convention. There are 2,050
needed to win the nomination
outright.
His analysis of the Democratic con- I
vention is that “Three candidate will I
go in with roughly the same amount i
if delegates. It becomes a matter oi
legotiations and assessing the sup
>ort base of each of those
(See JESSE JACKSON, P. 2)
GUEST SPEAKER-The Raleigh Apex
Branch of the NAACP presents their
Annual Freedom Fund Banquet
Saturday, March 26th at 6:00 p.m. at
Ihe Martin Luther King Jr. Student
Jnion Building on the campus of Saint
Vugustine’s College. The speaker for
he occasion is Or. Emmett Burns Jr.,
lirector, National Lite Membership
livision of the NAACP. Tickets can be
lurchased from members of the