Raleigh Mayor Avery C. Up
church will be at WSHA-FM 88.9
every month as the guest of “City
Line,” a news program
developed by Dr. Emeka
Emekauwa. The mayor will take
call-in questions, to address
ssues, concerns and suggestions
from the people of Raleigh and
surrounding areas. The program
will be hosted by Ms. Margaret
Rose Murray with assistance pro
vided by Kenneth Murray
Mohammed.
MINISTERS UNION
Hie Ministerial Alliance and
Ministers Union of Raleigh and
Wake County will sponsor a city
wide revival April 10-15 at 7 p.m.
nightly at First Cosmopolitan
Baptist Church, ISIS Cross Link
Road. Guest minister for the
revival will be the Rev. Gus.
Roman of Berean Misslonsary
Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
He is a graduate of Howard
University School of Religion in
Washington, O.C.
CAREER CELEBRATION
Gospel singer Bro. fed Hall b
celebrating Ms 31st year with, the
Baptbt State Convention. Hall ta
a member of the Gary-Debnam
TV Choir, seen on 8nndays at 0:30
a.m. on WRAL-TV. Hall b the
business manager of the Sensa
tional Evening Five and has a
new gospel recording, “When 1
Think of God’s Goodness.”
GANG OF THREE
A man who would like to win
the state’s No. 3 Job says he b not
happy with the back-room deal
ings he’s witnessed in the
Legblature. Much of North
Carolina’s government b con
trolled by what he calls the “gang
of three" and If a Republican b
elected as lieutenant governor
they’ll immediately strip him of
all the power they can, says
Wendell Sawyer of Greensboro.
Sawyer, a former state senator
from Guilford County, b one of
the three GOP candidates for
lieutenant governor and says he
expects to have a difficult Job if
he wins.
WUMEToWNED
BirSINrGSrS
The number of weaten-owaed
firms continues to grow, accor
ding to new government figures.
Internal Revenue Service
statistics show that between 1884
and 1185 the number of female
operated sob proprietors incres
ed 11 percent and their receipts
increased 18 percent. IRS figures
show that in 1985 there were
3,738,900 women-owned sole pro
prietorships, 28 percent of all
such businesses, with receipts of
885 billion or 12 percent of sole
proprietorship receipts. In 1984,
3,383,090 women-owned sob pro
prietorships generated 854 billion
in receipts.
EDUCATION AWARD
CHICAGO. HI.—Lt. Gov. Bob
Jordan rreeled the American
School Counselors Legislator of
the Year Award during the
association's annual convention
recently. The American School
Counselors recognised the lieute
nant governor as “a true cham
pion of education...” and cited his
wllUagness to chart the course
for education. •'
There will he an appreciation
service far Elder Dean Parchia
and his companion on April 24 at
3:M p.m. at Grace Tabernacle
World Outreach Center at 4M W.
South St. The Rev. Purdie Elliott
of Fayetteville will be the guest
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BY K.P. CORNWALL CHUNN
Staff Writer
Political candidates seeking local
and state posts are appearing this
week and next week In forums before
the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Associa
tion in preparation for that organiza
tion’s endorsements prior to the May
3 Democratic and Republican
primaries.
Edward T. Smith, chairman of the
RWCA political action committee,
said in an interview this week that he
expecu, au percent« we Democratic
candidates to appear and SO to 60 per
cent of Republican contenders to be
nresent at the forums.
The first RWCA session was sched
uled for Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30
p.m; at St. Augustine’s College, and a
second forum will be held on Thurs
day, April 14^ at 7:30 p.m. at St. Am
brose Episcopal Church.
The RWCA regular and endorse
ment meetings will takeiplace at the
Hargett Street Branch of the YWCA
on Thursday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m.
“We’re expecting It to be a good
community forum with an opportuni
ty for people to have better and more
informed views on die candidates,’’
Smith said.
He said that it is traditional that the
people do not turn out “in large
numbers” for a primary. However,
he sees the presidential candidacy of
Rev. Jesse Jackson and the presence
of key issues as stimulating greater
interest.
“The forum is designed to focus at
tention on all of those races and
hopefully we will generate more and
better interest,’’ Smith said.
The national issues and agenda
which should attract black interest
include public housing, public health,
education, crime, drugs, all of which
Smith says “signals much-needed at
tention.”
“We must get ourselves back on
track to better respond to the needs of
the black community,” he said.
The Carolinian
RALEIGH. N.C.
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Shot in Head
Man Charged In Slaying
Witnesses
Say Money
Was Taken
A Kaleigh man was charged with
the murder of a New York City man
who was shot to death recently in
East Raleigh. Police said Thomas
Lee Morris, 26, of 220 E. Cabarrus St.,
Apt. 2 was charged with the murder
of Donnie PersOne. Persone, 39, was
shot once in the head and collapsed in
the 700 block of East Davie Street.
Morris was charged with armed
robbery also, after allegedly taking
$45 from Persone. Witnesses to the
shooting told police that money was
taken out of Persone’s shirt pocket
after he had been shot.
In related events: William Bryant
Polite, 19, of 7$08 Ray- Road, and
Porteal Thorpe, 21, of 929 Friar Tuck
Road, have been charged with armed
robbery and second-degrte kidnap
^-fijree men were charged with the
robbery of the Six Forks Station
Cinema in North Raleigh last week.
The theater was robbed by a man who
fired a shotgun blast into the
theater’s ceding to scare employees,
then fled with a trashcan filled with
cash, Raleigh police said.
Police said the man with the
shotgun had fled id a car that was
stolen at ounnoint from a shopping
(See SLAYING. P. 2)
BY LARRY STILL
Capital New* Servkw
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Television
star/comedian Bill Cosby used his
humor last week to seriously urge
presidents of the nation’s 117
historically and nredominantly black
colleges and universities to stop
“singing the (dues’’ and try to raise
$3 billion to $20 billion from their
alumni and supporters to redevelop
their institutions.
“We’ve got to stop and reassess our
priorities in terms of begging...
Who Killed Martin Luther King
Viewed As Unsolved Conspiracy
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)-It is the
evening of April 4, 1968. The Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr. leans over a
balcony railing at the Lorraine Motel.
The crack of a single shot from a
high-powered rifle shatters the air.
Suddenly, he's gone.
This much is clearly documented.
But who killed the 39-year-old civil
rights leader and winner of the Nobel
Peace Prize '
James Earl Ray, the small-time
thief who pleaded guilty, has spent
the past 20 years trying to prove he
didn’t do it. He talks of a shadowy
"Raoul.”
Other principals in the case hold
widely varying opinions: Ray’s at
torneys disagree on whether he was
the triggerman; the prosecutor
Robeson County Stirs
Tri-Racial Paranoia
LUMBERTON (AP)-Robeson
County, a house divided against
itself, shudders and heaves with the
tremors of a power struggle ISO years
in the making.
The week-old murder of Julian
Pieroe, lawyer, judicial candidate
and Indian activist, has shaken this
troubled tri-racial county, where
minorities are in the majority but
whites are in control.
Amid anger and grief, amid rumors
mipdal corruption and public
paranoia, amid the blooming far
sythla and the early spring heat,
residents of Robeson County-black,
white and Indian—bury the dead and
ii^seeMkalAas 'tstknn
wuiHivr wncn
the Hying.
"We’re ettner
ourselves apart, or we're going to pull
ourselves together," said Erie
Prevatte, a local businessman, hf»
eyes red-rimmed after dsUvering a
eulogy for Pierce. "And we all have a
common interest in Dulllna ourselves
justun>:
__hat become
almost inevitable in Robeson, 044
square miles of tall trees, hot sum
history
of
mors,
VERNON BELLECORT
acknowledges He wasn’t confident
about the case; the chairman of a
congressional committee that studies
the assassination says he still thinks
Ray was part of a larger, unsolved
conspiracy.
The questions remain. What of the
cigarette butts found in the getaway
car—given that Ray did not smoke?
What of the clothing in two sizes
found in the car’s trunk?
The fatal shot came from a com
munal bathroom at the rear of a
flophouse across a narrow street
from the Lorraine Motel. Ray main
tains he was not in that bathroom
when the shot was fired.
“I was a few blocks away, trying to
(See DR. KING. P.2)
Appreciation
Money Claimed
By Three Here
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. WUhelmlna Brown, H20
Calvary; James H. Adams, Rt. 2,
Raleigh; and Michael Williams, 80S
Elkhart Drive. f
After coming Into The CAROLIN
IAN office at 51ft E. Martin St. and
(See APPRECIATION, P.2)
TERRY'S FURN. CO.
utu? m you* houu with commit
We’ve got to stop singing about ‘Woke
up this morning’... all those sad songs
are dragging us down... It’s time to
call in the money .from the blues
singers, the people drinking all the
Scotch, the people doing crack... the
people with the Geri curls... all those
people who graduate [from the black
colleges] and send us only $20 and say
they can’t afford more. That’s
bull_,” Cosby said in his
opening monologue.
Speaking at the annual black-tie
leadership awards dinner of the 13th
National Conference on Blacks in
Higher Education, he told the HBCU
presidents and their 3,000 guests,
“Martin Luther King is dead... He
said, ‘We shall overcome...’ It is time
for us to start singing ‘We have over
come.’ We’re tired of singing the
blues. Jesse Jackson is not singing
the blues.”
Later, urging the audience to sup
port Jackson’s campaign for presi
dent of the United States, Cosby add
ed, “When he is elected, we won’t
have anybody else to blame for our
problems...” Low-income people are
inspired when black leaders raise
funds to solve their problems, the
comic emphasized.
Calling for an end to the “old pro
ject mentality” of “It’s their world,
man,” the keynote speaker bluntly
declared, “We want $1,000 from each
of you... and $20,000 from some of
you. You can do it, tonight, if you
want,” he told the 1200-a-plate guests.
(See BILL COSBY, P. 2)
At the state level, Smith said he had
seen a recent rise in incidents involv
ing racial undercurrents.
“Society is being polarized,” he
said. “We must come together on all
of these community problems if we
are to continue to exist around this
state.”
Smith said he sees a need for voters
to closely evaluate officeholders at
the local and state levels.
“Our leadership must be closely
scrutinized. We cannot turn back the
hand of time. These elections are
very critical for they will determine
the directions that must be taken for
the 1990s.”
“It is absolutely incumbent upon
(See CANDIDATES, P.2)
PAC Aims
Funds For
Jackson
The 21st Century PAC announced
recently its effort to raise $4,000 in
three weeks for the Jesse Jackson for .
President Campaign. These efforts
will be taking place simultaneously in
five states: California, Illinois,
the District of Columbia, New York
and North Carolina.
Twenty-First Century PAC
spokesperson Norma Smith said,
“Jesse Jackson has mounted a
historic campaign. I feel that it is im
perative that all Americans should
dig deep in their pockets and con
tribute to this historic undertaking.”
Vernon Robinson, chairperson of
the 21st Century PAC for North
Carolina, said, “This drive will target
large contributors, those individuals
who have already given the max
imum contribution whch is $1,000 or
those who have given the maximum
to be matched with federal funds
($250). Those who wish to financially
support Jackson can do so indirectly
1 (See PAC AIMS. P. 2)
MAN ROBS PIZZA INN
A man armed with a pistol robbed
the Pizza Inn at Brentwood Square
Shopping Cento-, police said. The
man approached an employee and
demanded money, said Sgt. D A.
Weingarten. The man fled with an
undetermined amount of money, he
said. The police have no leads to the
identity of the robber.
FUQUAY ROBBERY
Authorities searched recently for a
Raleigh man in connection with the
armed robbery of a Food Lion
grocery store in Fuquay-Varina in
January. Fuquay-Varina police drew
out a warrant for the arrest of Jerry
Edward Sea berry, 24, charging him
with armed robbery. Seaberry is a
black male, about 5’7” tall, weighing
from 170-175 pounds, with a muscular
build.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
A Raleigh man was charged with
assault on a child after he went to an
elementary school and struck a
youngster who reportedly had been in
a fight with his child die day before.
Kenneth L. Branch, 45, of 1514 Crest
Road, was charged with the misde
meanor after the incident at A.B.
Combs Elementary In West Raleigh.
Branch was charged with assaulting
an 11-year-old by striking the child
with a belt four times on the back and
left arm, said the warrant filed with
the Wakemagistrate. Branch is to ap
pear in court on May 10.
RAPE SENTENCE
A Raleigh man was sentenced to
eight years in prison this week after
pleading guilty to raping a woman
friend he had dated. Wlffie L. Smith,
27, of 3029 Donter Circle, Pleaded
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P.» .
April 10 at 4 p.m. at Martin