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Wake Students Sparkle
In "Pieces Of Gold”
Technical crews for lighting,
sound, and videotaping Will consist of
students taking electives at severe!
Ugh schools, who install and tear
down the equipment, operate sound
boards, video equipment and lights.
Emceeing the show will be Marty
Callaghan, radio and nightclub per
sonality. Two of the numbers in the
show, Including the closing finale, are
original compositions by Wake Coun
More than 2,000 people will fill
Raleigh’s Civic Center April 27 for the
fifth “Pieces of Gold” banquet and
student revue, sponsored by the Wake
County Education Foundation and
Wake County Public School System.
This year, a record 500+ students
from 21 Wake County public schools
will perform a variety of dance, in
strumental, comedy and musical
numbers including the Manhattan
Transfer’s “Birdland,” an original
comedy monologue, selections from
several Broadway and film musicals,
and classical compositions.
ly icacuei a.
Scholarship awards will also l
presented during the eveaihfe.
The kaiser Permanente Award i
Teaching will be given to Jill R. Rai
chock, Garner Senior High.
The Triangle Advertising Fade
ation Scholarships in Graphic Ar
will be given to Jacqueline Hinkel ar
Ashley Nicole Britt from Cary Seni<
High.
The Wake County Education Fou
dation/Medical Staff Foundati
Scholarships will be given
Catherine Wilson Marsha
Rodriguez Webb and Shelly Ly
Spencer of Sanderson High; Deid
Lynn Smith and Jason Franc
Morgan of Broughton High; Dougl
Wade Forte and Wen-Ling Lei
Athens Senior High; Kent Dela
Faulcon, Loretta S. Miller a
Rachele Shannon Kurtz of Enl
High; Sherry Deters of Garner Seni
High and Wanda Kaye Barbour
East Wake Senior High.
Crim<
?ans Up In NC;
Enforcement
- r f $
The Crime Stoppers program is
seeking information about a Fast
Fare robbery and says it is cleaning
up crime in North Carolina.
Police say they are seeking infor
mation about an armed robbery at
the Fast Fare, 5633 Western Blvd.,
and anyone with information may be
eligible for a $1,000 cash reward by
calling CrimeStoppers at 834-HELP.
A man entered the Fast Fare April
7 at 8:16 p.m. with a sawed-off
shotgun and demanded money,
pushing aside a customer who ap
proached the cashier during the rob
bery. After taking the money, he fled
on foot.
The suspect is described as a black
male about 6’ to 6’2” tall weighing
about 190 pounds, with a medium
dark complexion, no facial hair and
short hair. He was wearing a redding
baseball cap, blue jeans, maroon
sweatshirt or jacket with two white
stripes on the shoulders, a white tee
shirt and white Reebok high-top ten
nisshoes.
Crime Stoppers, as a program, was
developed and first used in
Albuquerque, N.M. To get the
program started, the local Chamber
of Commerce donated funds to staff a
special phone, advertise unsolved 1
crimes and pay rewards of up to !
$1,000 for information leading to '
arrests and indictments. Unham- 1
pered by skepticism, Crime Stoppers 1
proved itself by solving the crimes it
advertised faster than those which
were not advertised.
As word of the success seen by the 1
Albuquerque Crime Stoppers !
program spread, other states began
to use. the concept. The first Crime J
Stoppers program in North Carolina
The Carolinian
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“S'c" ATC's Semi-Weekly KBwmS
APRTI. 25, 1988 DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST_VOL. 47, NO. 41
Reaped For Law
Jackson^eeks Realism
New Faces
Needed In
Washington
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA Newt Editor
WASHINGTON, D C -Democratic
presidential candidate Jesse L.
Jackson declared, “We need a new
realism, not [merely] new faces in
the White House.”
Addressing more than 1,100 mostly
white male audience members atten
d<ng the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washington
recently, Jackson declared his
“Jackson Doctrine” of economic
justice at home and peace abroad is
more ideally suited to the realities of
a world that has vastly changed since
World War II ended nearly 43 years
ago.
“The next president must know this
world,” he asserted, “and this world
is not just white nor male. ” At the end
of World War II, the Third World was
„ just beginning its struggle for equali
. ty. The world, he said, has changed
dramatically since that time. Third
' World countries are struggling grim
ly against poverty, disease, despair.
Communism holds no appeal to them.
n' They seek help from whatever source
>n is forthcoming. When leaders of
to America and Russia sit down at their
chessboard they must remember that
in together they represent no more than
re one-eighth of the world’s population.
88 Jackson declared that as president
as he would reinstitute respect for inter
of national law and, in an obvious dig at
10 the much-investigated U.S. Attorney
ld General Edwin Meese, III, for laws at
96 home. He said he woulc convene a
or meeting of representatives of South
of African frontline states—Zambia,
Botswana, Zimbabwe, Angola,
(See EQUAL. P.2)
“THUMBS UP” SKM-Philadelphia—Democratic Presidential hopetui Jesse L.
Jackson lives a “thumbs up” sign and holds up a Mile 7-year-old. Jackson
visited the Hunting Park section of the city and the most notorious drug trafficking
areas. Jackson In Ms campaign against drugs said that “Klansmen were never as
dangerous as drug pushers.”
Housing Authorities
_ it r n__
*as guinea in iviv. loaay, mere are
M active programs in this state with
our more having started this year,
iince Crime Stoppers programs
>egan springing up in North Carolina,
hey have recorded the following suc
tesses:
•Reception of 21,360 calls.
•Solution of 10,231 cases.
•Recovery of more than $25.6
nillion in stolen property and illegal
ubstances.
•Payment of 2,408 rewards totaling
374,112.
•3,118 convictions.
•A 99 percent conviction rate.
(See CRIME STOPPERS, P. 2)
Many Diseases
KiUing Blacks
At A High Rate
LANSING, Mich. (AP)-Blacks are
dying of many diseases at
dramatically higher rates than
whites, according to a draft report by
a state government task force.
“Poor access to early detection and
treatment services for diseases such
as cancer appears to be a significant
factor in the elevation of mortality
rates for blacks,” the draft says.
Michigan spends $1.5 billion a year
for health care for the poor but “ there
are people who are not receiving
adequate health care, particularly in
the area of prevention,” said Harold
Johnson, a member of the state
Department of Public Health’s Task
Force on Minority Health.
Minorities are more likely than
whites to hold low-wage jobs that
don’t provide health benefits, so they
may not seek medical care until an
illness becomes severe, said Johnson,
dean of the Universit of Michigan’s
School of Social Work.
“We’re going to have to find ways
to make adequate health care more
accessible and available to some of
the disadvantaged population groups
in this state,” Johnson told Booth
Newspapers. “We’re being penny
wise and pound-foolish at the
moment.”
For several killer diseases,
statistics compiled in the report show
Michigan has a long way to go to
bring black death rates in line with
those of whites, the report said.
Black men in 1966 died of heart
disease at a rate 10 percent higher
than their white counterparts—329
per 100,000 population versus 299 per
100.000 population.
Black women died of heart disease
at a rate 33 percent higher than white
women—208 per 100,000 as opposed tc
156 for whites.
Blacks accounted for 34.6 percent
of the state’s 1985 kidney disease
patients as logged in the Michigan
Kidney Registry. The rate was 11.5
per 10,000 population versus 3.5 per
10.000 population for whites
Black men in 1985 died of cancer at
a rate 37 percent higher than white
men, while black women died at a
rate 20 percent higher than white
(See DISEASES, P. 2)
Uramattc increase
Crack: Small Communities Enemy
BY RON HARRIS
SpicUl T» Tkc CAROLINIAN
In the past three years, according
to a new Drug Enforcement Ad
ministration report, crack, a highly
addictive cpcaine derivative, has
rapidly spread to 46 states—all but
the moat sparsely populated areas of
the cowitiy. Using such phrases as
“drastic increase,” “serious
proMem,” and “escalating to alar
ming levels,” the 22-page document
deteUs the rapid emergence of this
terrifying drug on the streets in
many middle-sized cities, smaller
towns and even rural areas in
America.
“Never before has any form of
cocaine been available at such low
cost and high potency,’’ the report
said of trade, a drug which is “inex
pensive, highly addictive" and
“physically and emotionally destruc
tive.”
The report has come just a time
when President Reagan declared that
“The tide of the battle has turned and
we are beginning to win the crusade
for a drug-free America," eking sur
veys that showed cocaine abuse
among high school seniors and other
young adults dropped 20 percent last
year.
But many local officials consider
that White House rhetoric is not
reflecting the whole picture at the
community level. “Just saying ‘no’ is
not enough,” Peter F. Luongo, direc
tor of a youth treatment program in
Maryland, told (he Los Angeles
Times, “We’ve got to do something.”
The new crack trafficking
organizations, partly composed of
members or former members of big
city street gangs, make extensive use
of teenagers both as pushers and
couriers. Young people, many under
the age of 16, are tempted by the
prospect of plenty of spending money,
nice clothes, fancy cars, and the
weapons that have become part of
most crack operations. Individual
organizations are reported to be
selling up to $3 million of crack a day
in larger cities.
Apart from lowering prices to
bolster crack use, big-business
marketing techniques are now being
adopted in some areas to increase
customer sales, everything from
packaging crack under brand names
(like “Airborne” and “Sudden Im
pact”^ to sales competitions within
trafficking organizations.
The initial response to the sweeping
crack wave has been to call for in
creased law enforcement resources
to effectively combat these new, well
armed drug networks and the violen
ce and killing that follows them. But,
as we have learned through years of
escalating drug abuse, this alone will
pot lead to a drug-free America.
Even in a police state as tightly
controlled as the Soviet Union, there
is a drug problem, “There lias always
been every type of drug available in
Moscow,” a medical doctor who
defected to America said recently.
"At night on streets near Red Square,
you can get anything you
want—women, men or drugs.”
* For those who work with drug users
* at the street level in American cities,
l> there is a broad agreement that we
U cannot eliminate a social problem
(SeeCRACK. P 2>
a lie: v^i line: r i cvciuiuii riwgidiu ui
the Housing Authority of Winston
Salem and the Community/Tenant
Relations Program of the Housing
Authority of Raleigh have been selec
Housing and Urban Development
Regional Performance Award.
“It is with great pleasure that I
present these awards to the Housing
Authorities of Winston-Salem and
Raleigh," said Raymond A. Harris.
“These public housing authorities,
through the leadership of David L.
Thompkins, executive director of
WSHA and Floyd T. Carter, executive
director of RHA, and its board, the
residents and the local community
have developed and implemented
outstanding programs which will im
prove the quality of life in these
cities.”
The HUD Performance Awards
Program was implemented in 1965 to
recognize housing authorities which
excel in the management of their
authority and will help build ladders
of opportunities for public housing
residents. There are three award
categories: Special Activity,
(See HOUSING, P.»
Holland Given
Back NCCU
Trustees9 Spot
Charles V. Holland has Deen re
elected chairman of the N.C. Central
University Board of Trustees after
being forced to step down from the
bord in March when it was revealed
his wife worked in the office of Lt.
Gov. Robert B. Jordan, III.
Last week, in a regular session
during the board meeting, Holland
was re-elected chairman by an 11-1
vote. Board member David Stith
voted against his reappointment and
student body president Patricia Fair
abstained.
Holland stepped down from the
board seat because state law
prohibits spouses of trustees at
schools in the University of North
Carolina system to hold state jobs.
(See DR. HOLLAND. P. 8)