"LOVELINE" IN RALEIGH
AGAPE of North Carolina, a
private, non-profit child placing
agency, ia bringing “LoveLine"
to Raleigh. “LoveLine" ia a
statewide telephone response net
work designed to provide an easi
ly accessible, non-judgemental
resource for teenagers and other
persons with questions or pro
blems with unplanned pregnan
cies. The phone service is
available 24 hours a day and all
conversations are kept strictly
confidential. Collect calls are ac
cepted. The “LoveLine” number
la Raleigh is 832-2500 and the
coordinators for Raleigh are Sal
ly Turner and Glen Walls.
TAX DEMONSTRATION
Concerned local citizens will
observe the occasion of the IRS
tax filing deadline to remind
fellow taxpayers that most of
their income tax money goes for
war-related spending and that
this priority does not make us
more secure. Members of the
Raleigh Chapter of SANE/
FREEZE will demonstrate and
distribute information to last
minute filers at the main Post Of
fice on New Bern Avenue on Fri
day, April 15, between 8 p.m. and
KIDFEST 1988
Something Just for children—
■mall and large! Something for
the family! An outing in
downtown Raleigh sponsored by
the Downtown Raleigh Develop
ment Corporation in cooperation
with PepCom Industries, Keebler
Co., American Airlines. Johnson
navel. CPAL and the N.C. State
Student Communication Associa
tion Kidsfest. April 16. 1988, from
M a.m. to 4 p.m. at Moore Square
between Martin-Hargett and
Manat-Person streets, there will
he feod vendors, balloons,
dawns. Jugglers, Koehler’s Er
nie. storytelling, puppets and a
drawing for a trip for four to
Disney World/EPCOT.
REDEVELOPMENT AREA
Construction has started on
seven single-family houses in the
Downtown East Redevelopment
Area of Raleigh, with completion
scheduled for July. The
developer, NCNB Community
Development Corp., held a
topping-out ceremony recently.
Ilie ceremony coincided with
Community Development
Awareness Week on South Blood
worth Street at East Martin
Street.
The seven houses are earmark
ed for families with annual in
comes between 115,000 and
929.000.
“The houses are styled to fit the
character of the neighborhood,
said Dennis Rash, president of
NCNB Community Development
Corp. “Once occupied, they will
increase home ownership in the
Downtown East area." Prices
will range from 956,500 to 964,500.
MEET THE CANDIDATES
The Cttiiens' Advocacy Com
mittee of the Central North
Carolina Conference of the
AME Zion Church will sponsor a
“Meet the Candidates'’ forum on
April 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Rush
Metropolitan AME Zion Church,
358 E. Cabarrus St.
Candidates or their represen
tative* will be asked to address
Issues and concerns of particular
Interest to the black community.
Dr. F. George Shipman of
Durham will moderate the pro
gram. The public is invited.
DANGEROUS MESSAGE
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
<AP>—The acquittal of 13 white
supremacists on federal charges
Is just another example of the
resurgence of racism In the
United States, Urban League Na
tional President John Jacob said.
“We are seeing a climate that is
permissive of racist behavior,”
Jacob said tost week. “People
have become comfortable in
engaging la this climate.”
Jacob was scheduled to meet
laler with more than 366 Urban
League representative* here for
the Central Region Delegate
Essential To Growth
BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN
sun Writer
Working together, accountability
and progressive government are the
basic ingredients that are needed to
keep Wake County growing, accor
ding to Abe Jones, candidate for the
District 6 seat on the Wake County
Commission formerly held by Larry
Zieverink, which includes the areas
of Wake Forest, Rolesville, northeast
Raleigh, Millbrook and Brentwood.
Education, watershed protection,
human services, public safety, plann
ed development, economic develop
ment and employment are the issues
that Jones sees as being essential to
that growth.
The Enloe High School graduate,
attorney and former administrative
law judge believes in preventing as
well as curing problems.
“I am for accountability and not
overlooking the needs of the com
munity until tney necome a crisis,
wherein we have to spend large
amounts of money to correct pro
blems,” Jones said in an interview
this week.
Working together to avoid and
solve problems is the technique he
hopes to use in addressing the issues
he feels are important to Wake Coun
i ty now.
“A key issue is educastion,” he
said. “I’m for the school bond issue...
and the dollars must be spent in an
accountable and equitable fashion.”
Jones said the dollars spent on
education must be applied to each
area of the county and not all in one
area.
Protection of the watersheds he
sees as very important “to make cer
tain that development doesn’t en
croach on watersheds in Swift Creek,
Falls Lake, Little River, etc.” He
calls for coordination betweek Wake
ana me surrounding counties, ana
maybe legislative action, to make
sure uniform s', idards and limita
tions are applied .or the protection of
watersheds. He said he supports
building the Little River reservoir.
Jones said that the quality of life
that Wake County citizens are to en
joy is affected by the delivery of
human services in the county.
“We must fund these areas
[hospital care, alcohol and drug
treatment, mental health] so that we
can stay ahead of the growth curve.
“The addition of the psychiatric
unit at Wake Medical Center needs to
be completed. We must continue the
development of mental care in Wake
County,” he said.
Public safety, the sheriff’s and fire
departments need “strong support,”
according to Jones.
“The Sheriff’s Department has
made tremendous strides over the
Iasi several yeaxs hi wboiumuiwii b.™
increasing the quality of protection
and support for the community,” said
Jones.
On the growth of the county, Jones
said planned and coordinated land
management are important.
“We need to protect some areas in
ihe county as green areas not
designated for development... to give
some spacing to residential and com
mercial... to keep the autonomy bet
ween communities.”
Jones said it is important to con
tinue the county’s rise in employment
and economic development. He call
ed for a unified approach among all
municipalities to help assure that top
quality industries will continue to
locate in the area.
“It is very clear that the northern
part of Raleigh and Wake County
have been developed at a less than
(See ABE JONES, P.2)
RALEIGH, N.C.,.
THURS.-SUN
APRIL 14, 1988
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Handgun
Used In
Holdup
The Raleigh Police Department is
searching for a black suspect in an
armed robbery of an Econo-Lodge
and say they will consider a cash
reward of $1,000 for information.
Police say a man entered the
Econo-I^odge, 3500 Wake Forest
Rba«r«nf!45 p.ni'. d«'A'pSrn xmew*
a small chrome or nickel-plated
pistol, and demanded all the money.
He took the money and fled on foot.
The suspect is described in police
reports as a black man aged 20-28,
5’8” to 5’10” tall, weighing from
190-210 pounds. He has short black
hair, dimples and a medium com
plexion. He was wearing a casual
looking black leather vest, dark blue
corduroy pants and a black cap with a
narrow brim.
A black 1980-83 Datsun, type 280 Z
or 300 ZX, with louvers on the rear
window, was seen in the area of the
robbery.
Callers who have information con
cerning this suspect do not have to
give their names and the reward can
be made anonymously. Anyone with
information should call 834-HELP.
In related events: A Wake grand
jury has indicted Robert Orlando Mit
chell, 30, of 906 S. Person St., on 38
charges in a series of break-ins at
Raleigh churches since January.
Mitchell has been charged with 19
counts of breaking and entering,
eight counts each of larceny and
possession of stolen property, two
counts of attempted safecracking and
one count of safecracking.
The indictments listed more than
$1,200 in property stolen from the
churches, including a videocassette
recorder, a microwave oven, a Sony
Walkman, a television and telephone
answering machine and petty cash.
The most frequent targets were
Baptist churches, 10 of which were
robbed in all. He was arrested by a
Raleigh police officer while pulling a
small red wagon with a microwave
oven on Blount Street.
(See HANDGUN. P2>
WAR ON POVERTY—Montgomery, Ala.-Soulhern
Christian Leadership Conference President Rev. Joseph
Lowery called for a war en poverty during a meeting of SCLC
board members at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church.
5: ^
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Members Rev. Lowery, Rev. John Nettles, Ms. Johnnie Carr
and Joe Reed, leaders of the “Martin Luther King, Jr.
PNgrimmage” which recently left Montgomery following the
20th anniversary of King’s assassination, with about 50 civil
rights activists, wifl arrive in Atlanta April 30.
Family Care Home Employees
Indicted On Abuse Charges
In two separate incidents,
employees of two Wake County
family-care homes have been in
dicted on charges of abusing elderly
residents.
A Wake grand jury indicted Renee
Hurdle of Renee’s Retreat Family
Care Home, Zebulon, on two counts of
patient abuse, and Harry and Lauella
Tate of Scott’s Family Care Home in
Raleigh were charged with one count
each of patient abuse
JVC Jackson Campaign
Workers Head North
Kesponaing to a call to southern
Jackson organizers and volunteers,
Bruce E. Lightner, state campaign
manager for presidential candidate
Jesse L. Jackson, will lead a con
tingent of 30 North Carolina sup
porters to assist in the coming New
York primary. The group leaves from
Durham on Friday.
Jackson, who is currently running a
close second to Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis, has asked Lightner
and other Southern, campaign of
ficials to travel to New York to lend a
hand in that state’s crucial primary
election on Tuesday, April 19.
In recent days, the other
Democratic hopeful, Sen. A1 Gore,
has increased attacks on Jackson,
thereby intensifying the race by
focusing attention on the Israeli
Palestinian issue. Unable to
demonstrate any significant support
outside the South and threatened by
the Federal Elections Commission
with a cutoff ofhis primary matching
funds, Gore has placed his dwindlin'
presidential chips on harnessing the
anti-Jackson and anti-Palestine senti
ment of the New York Jewish right .
Lightner, who has Jewish allies
from the civil rights era, is eager to
hit the campaign trail on Rev.'
Jackson’s behalf. He stated, “We are
dealing with a presidential election
(Sea JESSE JACKSON, P. 2)
Ms. Hurdle, a dancer and model,
was accused of having left two pa
tients in h«r car whlie she made
various stops over a period of more
than five hours on Jan. 22.
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SOUTH ST. BAIT SHOP
''CRICKETS AND Live BAIT'
Assistant District Attorney
Deborah Shandies stated that an
employee of the Wake Department of
(See ABUSE CHARGES, P 2)
ABEJONES
Native
American
Dilemma
BY DR. ALBERT E. JABS
Contributing Writer
An Analysis
There are approximately 65,000
native Americans in North Carolina
(1980). The recent killing of a Lumbee
Indian leader, Julian Pierce, who was
a reform candidate for the Superior
Court, has already brought a number
of Native American issues to the
forefront. What is their status?
According to data compiled by the
Commission of Indian Affairs in
North Carolina, and personalized by
a native American student of mine
(Cari Lowry Whittington), the native
Americans of Robeson County are in
a sad state of affairs. The death of
Pierce was a setback to the hopes of
thousands of native Americans in
Robeson County.
With limited opportunities to par
ticipate in the political process and
impact their future, the majority of
native Americans have had to live
with poor economic and educational
opportunities, the highest
unemployment rate among all
minorities, inadequate health care
and housing facilities, extremely high
(See AMERICAN NATIVES, P. 2)
Judges’
Bench
STATE PAYS *244,299
The state of North Carolina will pay
$244,299 81 to settle a lawsuit that a
fired state employee filed against her
former supervisors and a contempt
of-court complaint.
The settlement, negotiated with the
aid of a federal magistrate, ends
litigation in Wake Superior Court and
U.S. District Court over the firing of
Janet M. Proctor, former director of
the state Medical Student Loan
Program. Ms. Proctor had accused of
her supervisors of violating an
agreement not to retaliate against
her for filing a lawsuit in 1975 con
tending that female state government
workers were paid less than male
employees for equal work. This is ap
parently the largest sum awarded to
a state employee in a discrimination
case.
GIVEN DEATH PENALTY
FORT BRAGG—Ronald Adrin
Gray, a former Fort Bragg cook, was
sentenced to death by a court-martial
panel for the murders of two Fayet
(See JUDGES' BENCH, P 2)
candidate (or preshlont is soon in a recent photo conferring with Brut
director of the Jackson for Prostdent in North Carolina on Soper Tot
month. Lightner wi feed a contingent of North Carolina supporton I
this weekond to help the candidate in the upcoming N.Y. primary on Tt