NEWS BRIEFS
SHAW TRUSTEES ELECT
NEW CHAIRMAN
Willie E. Gary, a Florida
lawyer and 1971 graduate of Shaw
Univeralty, baa been elected
chairman of the Shaw Univeralty
Board of Truateea. Gary auc
ceeda Dr. George C. Debnam, a
Raleigh phyaician and four-term
chairman. Gary, a graduate of
North Carolina Central Universl
ty’a School of Law, practicea law
la Stuart, Fla.
PROPERTY PURCHASE
HEARING SLATED
The public la invited to a hear
ing May 3 concerning the city’s
proposed purchase of Poole Road
property for lease to the
Downtown Housing Improve
ment Corporation. The city plans
to use federal funds to buy the
property located at 1713 and 1715
Poole Road to develop 32 low and
moderate income housing units
during the 1987-88 program year.
FUTRELL IS SPEAKER
Mary Hatwood Futrell, serving
an unprecedented third term as
president of the National Educa
tion Association, will be N.C. Cen
tral University’s commencement
speaker at t a.m. oh May 7, at the
university's O’Kelly Stadium.
RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN
At the board of directors
meeting held March 29, Julia W.
Taylor was re-elected chairman,
president and chief executive of
ficer of Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, with W.J. Kennedy conti
naing as vice chairman of the
board. Mechanics and Farmers
has offices in Durham, Raleigh.
Charlotte and Winston-Salem.
BUILDING ACTIVITY UP
Building activity in North
Carolina's 45 largest cities and
towns for February rose 4.8 per
cent from the activity recorded
fbr February 1*87, state Labor
Commissioner John C. Brooks
reported. Brooks said the in
crease in the residential sector
appears to be exceedingly high,
ne rises follow a six-year low in
buHdlni activity recorded in
January.
DISABLED VETERANS
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A Viet
nam veteran who lost both legs to
an enemy attack during the Viet
nam War has been named na
tional adjutant of the one million
member Disabled American
Veterans. Charles E. “Butch”
Joeckel, Jr., 40, will assume
DAV’s highest professional staff
position May 1. He succeeds
Denvel D. Adams, who announc
ed his retirement following a
43-year DAV career.
FOUNDER'S BANQUET
Shelley School Child Develop
ment Center observes 16 years of
service to Ealeigh-Wake County
communities with a Founder’s
Day Banquet Saturday, April 30,
at the Woman’s Club, 3300
Woman’s Club Drive, Baleigh. at
7:30 p.m. Park Helms, candidate
for lieutenant governor, will be
the guest speaker.
DAY CAMP OPERATORS
ATTEND WORKSHOPS
In March, the North Carolina
Day Care Commission adopted
rules for the licensure of summer
day camps for school-age
children. These rules, which ad
dress such areas as sanitation,
staff quallfications, water safety
and activity plans, are effective
July 1, according to Dr. Nancy
Brown, chief of the Child Day
Care Section of the Division of
Facility Services of the N.C.
Department of Human
Resources.
During April and May, the
Child Day Care Section will be
sponsoring training workshops
•cross the state to inform the
operators of these camps of the
new regulations.
DAY CAMP OPERATORS
ATTEND WORKSHOPS
la March, the North Carolina
Day Care Commission adopted
rules for the licensure of summer
day camps for school-age
children. These rules, which ad
dress such areas as sanitation,
staff qualifications, water safety
•ad activity plans, are effective
July 1, according to Dr. Nancy
Brawn, chief of the Child Day
Care Section of the Division of
Facility Services of the N.C.
Department of Human Resour
**DuHng April and May, the
ChUd Day Care Section will be
ipousorlag training workshops
across the state to
•aerators of these camps of the
Tregulations.
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Seeks Community Help
From CAROLINIAN 8U(t Report*
Ms. Dorothy Allen, executive direc
tor of Wake Opportunities, Inc.,
issued a call to the community at
large for help during an interview
with The CAROLINIAN this week.
Her organization is caught between
the proverbial rock and a hard place
in that with the budget cute enacted
by the present federal administra
tion, she is not able to adequately
compensate volunteers for their help,
even minimally, and yet the pro
grams are so successful and in such
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Managers Cause Low Turnout
Stronger
Laws Are
At Stake
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA New* Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a move
designed to increase enforcement
against illegal housing discrim
ination, Housing and Urban Develop
ment Secretary Samuel R. Pierce
said hundreds of specially trained
black, Hispanic and white couples
will fan out in a number of U.S.
metropolitan areas by the end of this
year to determine their acceptance to
buy or rent homes.
This will be the first major study of
housing discrimination conducted in
a decade. It will take approximately
two years to complete, according to
C. Duncan MacRae, HUD deputy
assBtaiiit secretary: The sWdy could
also determine the ned for stronger
fair housing legislation, Pierce add
ed.
In 1979,600 trained black and white
couples of nearly identical
backgrounds—economic, educa
tional, etc., except for race—tried to
rent houses or apartments in 40
metropolitan areas. They responded
to the same newspaper ads and then
filled out detailed forms reporting
their eperiences This study revealed
that an estimated 27 percent of rental
agents and IS percent of house sellers
discriminated against blacks. At that
time, discrimination was defined as
“failing to provide important,
necessary information to rent or pur
chase a home.”
(See STRONGER LAWS. P. 2)
TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT—Yeung Hawkins, a H«ar transplant redpNnt.
ids with Ms wlta ami san at tka CaraNna Organ Pracuramant Agency's baleen
ch heM at the Capital gratmds racanHy. The event kicked aR Organ Oanar
ik pracMmed by PraaMant Reagan tar Apr! 24-30 and was meant
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Pram CAHOI.INI AN surf
Physicans and medical reports
reveal that African-Americans in the
United States have a kidney failure
rate that has reached epidemic pro
portions.
In the United States there are 100
such kidney failures per million. Vet
African-Americans* who :§tw
disproportionately in need of these
organs, do not carry their weight in
terms of donating lungs, tissue,
blood, kidneys, livers, etc.
A noted Howard University
Hospital organ transplant surgeon,
Dr. Clive 0. Callender, has noted five
reasons African-Americans
donate organs after death;
formation, religious
superstition,
declaration of
medical
and
demand that Wake Opportunities
lacks staff to man them all.
For example, a one-time-only grant
from the Josephus Daniels Charitable
Foundation of 115,734 is to be used to
support job training for low-income
families to help them find work and
become viable, productive
employees. Participants are given
training in various skills and
technical fields so that they can
become entry-level applicants. Wake
Op follows up this job training to i&r
ticipants of the program, with; job
SENIOR VOUMTEER PROGRAM-These four beard members are from right to loft, Ms. Mary Flagg, Wilber
members of tbo Retired Senior Volunteer Program ware out Mentis, Ms. Bonnie Peele and Ms. Evelyn Pope. (Photo by
celebrating with a baleen launch recently. The board Talb Sabir-CaHoway)
Blacks Not To Blame
BY DENNIS SCHATZMAN
Special To The CAROLINIAN
Aa Analysis
A low black voter turnout is
predicted in the coining primary elec
tions. I wouldn’t blame the black
voters, though. I would point the
Anger squarely at the statewide can
didates—particularly the
showed that although M percent ot
Americans have heard or read about ;
organ and tissue transplants, only 20
percent carry donor cards saying
(See BLACKS LAG, P. J)
This Wttk’s Appreciation Monty
HUDSON BELK
•DOWNTOWN, CRABTREE CARY VILLAGE
counseling and placement, and later
assesses how well they have done in
securing employment.
It also assists in other support ser
vices designed to help the people who
are enrolled in the program get back
on their feet while out looking for a
job. The program needs volunteers at
every level.
jtaiother program example is the
one which gives loans of (1,600 to
$10,000 to anyone who wants to start a
business or further enhance an
already existing business. These
Democats—and the managers who
run their campaigns.
With few exceptions—and I mean
very few—none of the candidates
have done much to generate interest
among black voters, the largest and
mo6t significant bloc of voters in the
Tar Heel State.
In their defense, most of them have
bought tables or tickets to the various
NAACP functions and purchased ads
in a few souvenir booklets. But by and
large, the candidates for governor,
lieutenant governor, secretary of
state and the important regional and
local races have ignored the black
press, spent little if any money with
black radio and have generally given
short shrift to planning any com
prehensive strategy to mobilize the
black vote for their candidate. Fur
ther, none of them have outlined any
platform that speaks directly to the
interests of their future black con
Appreciation
Feature Has
rhree 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. Mary Williams, 2213 Biltmore
Court; Ms. Ida M Davis, 2206 Sue
Ellen Drive; and Ms. Minnie H.
Daye, 1004 Mark St.
. After coming into The CAROLIN
IAN office at 518 E. Martin St. and
properly identifying themselves, win
(See APPRECIATION, P. 2)
loans are given at 10 percent interest,
and if a recipient of the loan is not
economically disadvantaged or low
income, they must hire someone who
is to train: o that they can eventually
work for that business. This way, the
disadvantaged become self-sufficient ,
and the labor force has one more
working, contributing member.
The response to this program has
been good and the success stories are
plentiful. People from the program
have gone on to open hobby shops in
(See WAKE OP, P. 2)
stituents.
And they wonder why the black
vote will be low come May 3.
The reason I make these assertions
is because I have had a chance to
observe most of these candidates’
campaigns up close and personal.
Since December, much of my time
has been devoted to hanging around
campaign headquarters attempting
to sell advertising space for four
black newspapers. I have spoken with
office managers, campaign
managers, candidates and black
"deputy campaign managers"
responsible for the black voter tur
nout effort. These are my observa
tions:
•Campaign managers control all
expenditures. Even though some can
didates make deals with key black
leaders and consultants who outline
strategies for black voter mobiliza
tion, campaign managers generally
Ignore those deals and divert the bulk
of those targeted monies toward
television advertising or direct mail.
•The larger campaigns hire black
coordinators, usually state
employees, who are told that their
responsibility is to ‘‘organize” the
black community. They find
themselves reprSKtnting candidates
(See BLACK VOTER, P. 2)
Frank Roberts Seeks
General Assembly Seat
The presidential primary is over
for North Carolina and Wake County,
but candidates for local and state of
fices are asking those same voters,
and some more, to come back out
again in large numbers on May 3 to
vote their choice of candidates seek
ing offices in the local courthouse and
state house races.
One of those aspiring candidates is
Frank Roberts, veteran teacher and
former football coach, who is seeking
one of three state Senate seats in the
N.C. General Assembly from the 14th
District.
Roberts has fought for the rights of
classroom teachers, students and
citizens in his position as head of the
Wake -County Association of
Classroom Teachers.
Roberts says, “The time is ripe to
change the face of the Senate for bet
ter and stronger representation for
MS. DOROTHY N. ALLEN
YMCA Has
Its Annual
Celebration
The Garner Road YMCA observed
its 43rd annual meeting and Awards
Banquet on April 22 on the rumpus of
St. Augustine's College in the Martin
Luther King Student Union.
Presiding over the event was Dr
Wiley M. Davis, vice president of the
YMCA Board of Directors.
Musical selections were provided
by St. Augustine’s music faculty and
the Wray Sisters. Board member
Rev. Claude Willie provided the in
vocation and blessing. Board chair
man Jacob B. Allen, III and executive
director Norman E. Day brought
greetings, while board member W.W
Hurdle provided the occasion
The menu for the banquet included
baked chicken, braised beef, rice,
candied yams, collard greens, tossed
salad, lemon pie and iced tea.
Board member Purdie Anders pro
vided the introduction of the keynote
speaker, the Hon. William A Cle
ment.
Clement’s keynote address dealt
with current issues such as business,
politics, and the well-being of
mankind and the station of life we
each hold and collective contri
butions.
Clement was passionate in his ela
tion over the progress of presidential
candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson, and
compassionate in sharing the plight
of his brethren.
(See YMCA HOLDS, P. 2)
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Judges'
Bench
ROBESON COUNTY EYED
A congressional subcommittee is
investigating allegations of public
corruption, drug trafficking and civil
rights violations in Robeson County,
Rep. Charlie Rose said recently The
House Judiciary Subcommittee on
Criminal Justice, chaired by Rep
John Conyers, D-Mieh , is examining
allegations and will decide if a hear
ing is warranted.
DEATH ROW APPEALS
A state bar panel says inadequate
funds are endangering fair trials and
rights of appeal for death row in
mates. A growing number of death
row inmates must scramble ior
volunteer lawyers to handle their ap
peals often at a high cost to the
lawyers’ emotions and resources,
members of an N.C. state bar com
mittee said. One member said that
defendants facing the death penalty
might not always get a fair trial
because the states pay for their
court-appointed attorneys was inadt
quate.
RACE BIAS RULING
Lawyers for a black Winston San n
woman who is accusing a former
employer of racial harassment say
they were not prepared for tb« j s
Supreme Court to use the cast o
decide whether a 12-year-old ci I
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2)