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HfcUUfcSlS CHANGES Southern Bell this week asked the N.C. Utilities Commission to eHnsfawte all monthly charges for proposal would allow Mb customers to sign up for block *■* llree of charge between May 1 aad July Jl. The plan also would reduce the one-time ordering charge to tS for customers who atgu up for blocking after July 31. The plan addresses concerns by some phone customers who do net want calls made to »7S or MO ■umbers. Previously, they were charged fl per month for and $2 pc MEMBERSHIP Dl EXCEEDS GOAL The North Carolina Museum or Art announced this month that the 1188 Museum Members Drive has exceeded its goal. “At the end of February, the museum had 8,114 members,” said Patrick McCusker, member ship officer for the musoum. “New and renewal memberships me still coming In, but our volunteers- - have . already recruited 573 new members and passed our goal of 588.” NCCU STUDENT ORGANIZES FORUM DURHAM—North Carolina Central University's B.N. Duke Auditorium will be the site of a foram on major issues affecting Mack Americans on Saturday, March* i the forum is titled, “Afro Americans: Which Way Tomor roar?” Speakers will include a con* gross man examining the political progress, or lack of it, of black Aawricans during the past decade; a veteran civil rights taadar discussing the history and ^JMsre of that movement; the MMdnaan of the U.S. Equal Op portunity Commission discussing current policy on equal oppor tunity; a health researcher SSPfrying the impact «f AIDS on Hash Americans; ana an auti apartheid activist from Cape ** PcPUk South Africa. STATE EMPLOYEES IN MESHARMG SURVEY Got. James G. Martin an nounced today that state employees will participate in the MM capital campaign to promote ■ ridesharing in the Raleigh area, the capital campaign is a Joint effort of state and local govern ments and private employers in the downtown area to promote carpools, vanpools and transit mage. State, city and coanty employees as welt as employees from several major boslnesses in downtown Raleigh will be asked to complete a commoting pattern servey. Respondents to the bien nial survey will receive a Ust of other commuters interested in carpooling or vaupooling and in formation concerning Capital Area Transit routes. -“Growth in the Raleigh area has resuitedlhincmsedtraffie, parking problem*, accidents, not to mention the amount of time and BMUey required for corn lilting to work,” said Martin. ••As the largest work force in the Research Triangle area, state government has a special respon sibility to set a seed eumple.” TALLAHASSEE, FU. (AP)-A Florida AAM University alumnus who has become a vice president at Xerox said Wednesday that Macks are miking large Strides la corporate America. ‘•We’ve come a long way real last," said Barnard Klasey. who Is now vice president aad general manager of the voice systems dtvlsloa at Xerox. He said Xerox employed m Macks when he Joined that organisation In 1S7I. bat that mare than MM now work for th* company, which has MMack vice presidents, including nine from Mack universities. Kinsey, one of five Mack cor porate vice presidents par aalversittes for developing talent fir the nation's corporations ■mFABWJaduy^ot^lm employed more thn* »■*** BY HP. CORNWALL CHUNN 8UIT Writer For Sylvester White, Jr., proprietor of White’s Barber Shop in the Washington Terrace shopping area off Hill Street, his neighborhood had become another 42nd Street and Times Square of Manhattan, N Y. fame. , “Unbearable” is the word he con stantly used to describe the way life was in the Washington Terrace sec-' tion of Southeast Raleigh. ‘*It got so bad I dreadedjgoing in that area. “We were invaded by people trying to make a quick dollar. The traffic was unbearable. The people felt un safe. “Sometimes they would drift in to our shop to get a haircut, spend $6 to $10, and then go right back out to mane the ACQUISITIONS DE 109 E- JONES ST ueMsaiv “In all my doihgs'.’T nfeyfer_ the authorities on (hem. I did inform them that* somebody knew what they were doing.” SINGLE COPY QC IN RALEIGH fc ELSEWHERE 300 RALEIGH, N.C., THURS.-SUN. MARCH 24-26,1988 UFOICATFD TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST ConsentedTo Sex Kidnapping Charge Dropped ▲ A A ___ w v Plaintiff Moves Out Of State On March 7, IMS, mi cross Link Id. an lS-year-old man was arrested lor the rape and kidnapping of a 17 year-old girl. It is only recently that we find the case to be built on falsified Information and the alleged rape to be an untruth. Thomas E. Bennett, Jfr. of Raleigh was accused of raping and kidnapping the student while employed by the Wake County School system as a bus driver. The student Ymene Vandoom, said she was the last passenger on bus 69 the afternoon of Feb. 19 when Bennett drove off Lake Ann Dr. near Umstead State Park in northwest Wake County. Ms. Yandoom told investigators that Bennett forced her to disrobe and had sex with her on the bus. Tuesday Wake County prosecutor dropped the rape and kidnapping charge against the bus driver saying that a letter written by the girl indicated she consented to having sex. Assistant District Attorney » Jfcieinas Ford said in an interview that he received the letter from, attorney for the driver, Ann C. Peterson. Apparently rumors of the relationship between Bennett and Vandoom had reached her boyfriend and her mother. When confronted, the girl panicked and said she was raped. Ms. Vandoorn has since relocated out of state. Bennett, who graduated from Athens Drive in May 1967 has been officially suspended from work and Ma bus taken. Court records show that Bennett has received citations for at least seven traffic violations. The offenses include speeding, following too closely behind another vehicle, failure to yield, and failure to comply with restrictions. The arrest drew attention to school System’s screening procedures for Ims drivers after it was learned that Bennett had three accidents and aaven citations in 22 months. Two of Bn accidents occurred when he was driving a school bus and four of the (See PLAINTIFF, P. 2) EDUCATIONAL TRENDS-The Rev. David Foy, NAACP pubMc schools and how Mack students are meeting the President Raleigh-Apex Chapter, Portia Brandon, and KhaKf Challenge in the dassrooms. (Photo by TaHb SaMrCatloway) Ramadan discuss 4he recent trends of integration in the w Institution Blacks Controlling BY MARIE FAUBERT Special To The CAROLINIAN Dr. Lawrence N. Jones, Howard University Divinity School dean, told a gathering of 200 people at the Shaw Divinity School Convocation March 21 that the black church was the only institution that African-Americans “own, control, program, lead, and finance.” He said that the funda mental need for the strength of the black church is the education of its clergy. Dr. Jones reminded the Baptist ministers present that the clergy have three responsibilities: to preach, to teach, and to give example by their lives to the Gospel, which they proclaim and explain. He said the preacher must be rooted in good Biblical scholarship, must be able to know the bad news in people’s lives in order to preach the Good News in a Dr. Holland Seeks To Return To NCCU Board Fro* CAROLINIAN SUff Report! Dr. Charles V. Holland will seek reappointment to the N.C. Central University Board of Trustees after having made an earlier decision that he would not do so because of a con flict of interest In his wife holding a “Initially, my wife and I had made the decision that she would remain in her Job and I would resign from the board,” Holland said. “But after many phone calls [flrom] around the city and state, I have reconsidered. My wife will resign from her position in the lieutenant governor's office, and 1 will seek reappointment to finish my term on the board which will end in 1969.” Pearl J. Holland, his wife, was hired as a word processor and recep tionist in Lt. Gov. Robert B. Jordan, IH’s office in 1986 at a salary of 816,000 a year. Holland, a RJdeigh optometrist, isa member of the Wake County Board of Education and has served as chair man of the NCCU board sine* 1963 un-. til last week, when he lost the chair (See DR. HOLLAND, P.2) ly sanity in the east. Highs are es pected to range from the 6«s to lew 70s. Chance of showers Fri day with highs in the 70s, followed by cooler temperatures Saturday and Sunday. WEATHER .. 1. DR. CHARLE8 V. HOLLAND way which will touch their hearts and inspire their lives, and must be filled with energy to be present to his peo ple when they need him or her. . Dr. Jones reminded those who have the sacred call to preach the Word that a good sermon has content and style. He said it must be remembered that the “activity of the mind is not hostile to the activity of the spirit.” He said that emotional response, hand-clapping, and rocking to rhythms are not the only indications that the Word is being preached effec tively. He pointed out that good preaching requires “study, thought, analysis, and the careful use of language’’ on the part of the preacher. Dr. Jones told the divinity school students that their first responsibility was to send the church persons who have integrity. “The Word finds unity with deeds,” he said, “and the Word can be no more effective than the character of the person who speaks it.” Rev. Larry Edmunds and Ms. Lorine McLeod Joined Dr. Jones in Appreciation Feature Has Three Winners There were three winners in last week’s Appreciation Money Feature, sponsored by The CAROLINIAN and participating busineses. The winners who found their names hidden on the Appreciation Page this week were Ms. Jessie Copeland, 17 Mecklenburg Terrace; Ms. Rhonda Hyman,‘722 Lansing St.; and Paul Davis, 2830 Sue Ellen Drive. After coming into The CAROLIN IAN office at S18 E. Martin St. and properly identifying themselves, win ners were awarded $10 checks. (See APPRECIATION, P. *> This Week's Appreciation money SOUTH ST. BAIT SHOP "CRICKETS AND LIVE SAIT" receiving nonorary degrees from the school. Rev. Edmunds and Dr. Jones received the honorary doctor of divinity degree, and Ms. McLeod received the honorary doctor of Christian letters degree. Dr. Charles Brown was named pastor of the year. Community Ser vice Awards were presented to the Hon. Ralph Campbell, Jr., attorney Clyde Holt, Ms. Waltye Rasulala and Ervin Hester. The Alumnus of the Year Award was presented to Dr. •Franklin Wiggins. The Salute To Greatness Award went to Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Headen, the parents of the president of the Shaw Divinity School. Awards were also presented to the Very Rev. Martin J. Carter, who writes the weekly column “Pen and Cross” for The CAROLINIAN; Grover Bailey, editor of The CAROLINIAN; and Paul Jervay, publisher of The CAROLINIAN. Dr. E.B. Turner, chairperson of the board of trustees, reminded the par ticipants that the 55th anniversary and observance of Founders Day found the Shaw Divinity School on a new campus. He committed himself and the board of trustees to continued support for the academic growth of the divinity school and said that Shaw Divinity School has taken on “new ventures with great opportunities and challenges” and that the board of trustees is happy about the commit ment of the Shaw Divinity School to the “development of leaders of Chris tian ministry” (See HOWARD DEAN, P. 2) Ve PT. LuillC UI UK MMWIHaDWw.v—■ |jBd. the clientele they cater to, and there is less congestion in the Washington Terrace shopping area. “The people that I’ve talked with gre just relieved, happy and they feel safer now,” said White, himself a . minister, and in the Washington Ter (See HILL STREET, P._2) ? Shaw Divinity Schoot Charts A New Course BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN Staff Writer One administrator at Shaw Divinity School sees the institution’s recent relocation to Hilltop Drive id Southeast Raleigh near Rush Street as “providential.” “Throughout the Bible there are hill and mountain experiences where great things occur. We like to think of our closeness to God,” said Dr. Joseph C. Paige, executive vice presi dent of the institution. “To us that whole site and area has a lot of theological significance. We believe strongly that God led us there to possess the land... We claim credit only for being obedient to God, and only for hearing Him as He talks to us and leads us.” The “us” of whom Dr. Paige speaks is 114 students in the school’s regular program, 2,000 students in 13 extension centers around the state, five full-time faculty members (four with Ph.D. degrees), 12 part-time faculty personnel and four full-time staff persons. He said the school expects to employ two more full-time faculty persons with terminal degrees in the near future. A theological concept tlie school is now beginning to emphasize is the economic and political empowerment of the black community. “It is a new Shaw Divinity School conceptually in that while we con tinue our commitment to teaching ministers, we now know that blade (See DIVINITY SCHOOL, P. 2) BREAKIN AT CENTRAL PRISON Tuesday night a man dressed in blue jeans, dark jacket and a white hat tried to break into the Central. Prison by climbing the fence. Central Prison Warden Gray T. Dixon said no one has ever attempted to break into the Western Boulevard prison before. It was around 8:00 p.m. when a white male approached the southwest corner of the prison, Dixon said. For the third and final time the man returned placing his hands on the fence and began to climb. The officer fired a warning shot and. then the individual fled. Raleigh police are still searching for this man, said Lt. A.D. Batchelor. COUPLE TAKES LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS An Orange County couple who last month admitted to trying to hire someone to kill four people in 1967 were given three-year suspended jail sentences Monday. Crawford Blake, 72 and his wife, Valley Walker Blake, 65, pleaded guilty March 7 in Durham Superior Court to charges of solicitation to commit murder. Authorities said the Blakes apparently had been trying to get even with a group of people they thought were responsible for the violent slayings of the couples two sons. The Blakes were arrested in July 1967 after they tried to hire a man named Don Rather, who had been arrested that week at a Ku Klux Klan rally. But the man turned out to be an (See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2)
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