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The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY-SUNDAY JUNE 9,1988 VOL.47.NO. 54 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY <JC IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 Claims Sexual Abuse • Brawley Defies N.Y. Jury MAKING HITS-The former Miss America, Vanessa Williams, is making a hit in the record industry and says her aim is just more than being a model. Her new atom, “The Right Stuff” is becoming hot on the charts. (See Story on page 11) Teen Charged In Rape, Beating 64-Year-Old An eastern Wake County high •chool student has been charged with raping and beating a 64-year-old woman who lived near his family in Pleasant Grove. Michael Joseph Harris, 16, of Rt. 3, Boa 126 of Wendell, was charged with the attack on the elderly woman, who NEWS BRIEFS I RACE DISCRIMINATION The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has fil ed a lawsuit alleging race discrimination against Angus Barn, Ltd., which operates the Angus Barn Restaurant on U.S. Hwy. 70 at Airport Road, north of Raleigh. According to a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it refused to permit black em poyees to transfer from their positions as buspersons to posi tions as waitpersons while at the same time it was hiring less qualified whites to the latter posi tion. HOUSING FUND The cities of Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill have recently been awarded a grant of $25,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem to assist with the creation of the Triangle Housing Investment Fund. This grant to the three Triangle cities places them a step closer to their joint goal of creating a regional loan fund which will en courage the private sector to in vest in low- and moderate-income housing. _ (See NEWS BRIEFS, P.2) Effective Methods lives about a mile from Harris on the Morphus Bridge Road. Harris is a student at East Wake High School. Harris faces three charges in the attack that occurred near Wendell. Sheriff John H. Baker, Jr., said he hoped the arrest would ease the fear in the community among the widows and elderly. The incident terrified local residents. A man raped the woman and stole some cash from her pocketbook before fleeing, a police officer said. Afterward, the woman drove herself to the Wendell Police Department to report the attack. She was treated for (See TEEN CHARGED, P. 2) State Lottery Seen In Future; But Not For Now As ways of making money have captured the headlines during recent days, talk of a state run lottery can be heard. I’m not opposed to a state lottery,” said Bruce Lightner, local businessman and political activist. “If the intended purpose is for funding educational activities, then the state lottery would be helpful.” Lightner said a state run lottery could be seen as a form of gambling, but that a legal lottery operated by the government in states where it has been allowed, has been beneficial. “I’ve lived in other states where there is a legal lottery. I’ve never played, but I’ve seen where educational opportunities have been enhanced,” he said. It is “inevitable” that North Carolina will eventually have a lottery, according to State Rep. Daniel Blue. “I see no compelling reason to have a lottery at this point. It's not going to be discussed this session. I don’t see any major development or the prospect of its passing.” Blue said that there are other (See LOTTERY, P. 2) Church Is Refuge For Relative NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-A woman sentenced to jail for refusing to testify about her daughter’s claim that she was the victim of a racist at tack has found sanctuary in a church and dares authorities to arrest her there, her lawyers are saying. “The question would be whether this government can respect the right of the black church, because if it can not we are prepared... to put our lives on the line,” said attorney Alton Mad dox, Jr. “Before you put a hand on Glenda Brawley, you will come through me. Please have a bullet designated for me,” he said. Ms. Brawley’s daughter, Tawana, 16, has said she was abducted and assaulted last November in Wappe ingers Falls, 95 miles north of New York City, by six white men, in cluding one who flashed a police-like badge. But she and her family have refus ed to cooperate with investigators, claiming local and state officials are engaged in a racially motivated coverup. Ms. Brawley, 33, was sentenced to 30 days in jail Monday for defying a grand jury subpoena to testify, but upon the urging of state Attorney General Robert Abrams she was given one more chance, an opportuni ty Wednesday to tell a judge why she had refused to cooperate. Bud Maddox insisted at a news con ference that Ms. Brawley would not appear Wednesday. “Glenda Brawley will be seeking relief before a higher authority, she will be putting her life in God’s hands," he said. They insisted authorities had no right to enter a church to arrest her. But Sgt. John Clifford, a (See TA WAN A BRAWLEY, P. 2) PAROLEE TELLS HER STORY-WIth her eight-year parole officially ending June 8, ex-offender Marie Hill (left) appeared on the WLLE Radio program “Hotline P.M.” with host Cash Michaels. Ms. HW was sentenced to the gas chamber when she was 17-years-eld for first degree murder. Also interviewed was Milton Jordan, journalist, who will be writing her story for a future book. (Photo by Paul Jervay, Jr.) Tar Heels Urged To Help Status Off Working Poor, Young Adults If North Carolinians are to pass on a booming modern state to their grandchildren, they must deal with helping the status of the working poor, create a sense of entrepren eurial thinking among young people, and recruit “good” jobs from outside the state. Those are part of the conclusions from a special independent study released recently by the North Carolina Association of Educators. “I realize it will shock some people that NCAE is releasing a study which does not deal exclusively with educa tion, but we have become convinced that the future of our organization and the members we represent is in* timately entertwined with the overall future of the state,” Gladys Graves, NCAE president, said as she released a study conducted for the association by Dr. Jonathan Sher, a Chapel Hill author and staff member of the Small Business and Technology Develop ment Center. Dr. Sher was assisted in the study by Dr. Craig Calhoun, a member of the Department of Sociology of the University of North Carolina. The Sher report, titled, “North Carolina Today: A State of Emergen cy, A State of Grace, A State of An ticipation,” was conducted indepen Teens Against AIDS Seek Funds To Stress Education• Awareness Co-leaders of the Teens Against AIDS project, Dr. Patricia Horan, associate professor of psychology, and Dr. Don Locke, head of counselor education, both of North Carolina Slate University, recently received a seed grant from the Children’s Fund of the National Association of School Psychologists. Co-sponsors of this project are Strengthening the Black Family and the Black Child Development In stitute. The broad objectives of the project are to prevent HIV infection in black children and adolescents, reduce the spread of AIDS, and to alter misconceptions about AIDS within the black community. The pro ject leaders are seeking additional funding from the North Carolina AIDS Control Program. Since the major focus of the Teens Against AIDS project is AIDS peer education and counseling, Dr. Horan and Dr. Locke are accepting applica tions from adolescents interested in being trained as AIDS educators. Twenty students will receive AIDS educator/counselor training. From that group, six will be hired as peer educators/counselors and two as alternates. These trained educators will meet with adolescents after school, at dances and parties, in malls and churches, and in other common gathering spots. Eacn peer educator will be paid $40 per week for 10 hours of work. Alternates will work four hours each week and receive $16. All interested adolescents should contact their school counselor for an application or call 737-2253 to request an application. The application deadline is Friday, June 10. Training will begin June 15 at North Carolina State University. Dr. Horan, a volunteer buddy of AIDS patients is concerned primarily with the prevention of AIDS, par ticularly in the black community where AIDS is increasing. She cur rently serves as the vice president of the AIDS Service Agency for Wake County. Dr. Locke has worked extensively with cross-cultural counselor and (See AIDS, P. 2) dent of NCAE with an agreement that the association would not edit the fin dings, Graves said. “We wanted a completely indepen (See TAR HEELS, P. 2) Judges' Bench JUDICIAL PAY INCREASE North Carolina Chief Justice James G. Exum, Jr., says the judicial pay increase he recently proposed to legislative leaders is “at best, at the low end of what would be fair and justifiable in 1988.” The chief justice said the gap between the pay of Tar Heel judges and comparable lawyers in private practice has grown so great that it is becoming difficult to attract the better lawyers to the judiciary. Exum’s salary proposal would cost $7.6 million in the coming fiscal year. Wake Aides Assist Needy Families Billie Hamilton, an aide for the Ex panded Food and Nutrition Education Program in Wake County, has receiv ed the first state EFNEP Award of Excellence in recognition of outstan ding service and imaginative and ef fective instructional methods in her work with low-income families. “We are fortunate to have such an outstanding nutrition aide in North Carolina. Billie Hamilton richly deserves our first Award of Ex cellence. She has worked with low income families in Wake County for It years now, teaching them how to stretch their food dollars far enough to provide a healthy diet. She is a dedicated worker who helps her clients change more than just their eating habits. In fact, 58 percent of the pepole who completed her pro gram between Oct. 1 and March 31 have gotten jobs through Billie's referrals. She has also encouraged a number of the women she has taught to get involved in Extension Homemakers and to work as volunteers with young people through 4-H Clubs," said Dr. Mary Whitmore, state EFNEP coor dinator. Also honored at the state awards banquet were Bernice Dunn and Mar tha McDonald, 15 years of service; and Clarice S. Bass, five years of ser vice. Extension’s EFNEP is a federally funded nutrition education program intended to teach nutrition and food skills to low-income families, par ticularly those with young children. Some 12 percent of all North Carolina families live below the poverty level as defined by the Com munity Services Administration. More than two-thirds of these families have children at home. EFNEP is in 48 counties. Eighty-one percent of people in EFNEP pro grams between October 1986 and September 1987 had an income below $9,000. In addition: The U.S. Department of Agriculture will resume distribution of non-fat dry milk to needy families this month through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program. Future allotments depend on availability. Butter, cornmeal and flour continue to be supplied In states, but cheese, honey and rice are no longer available. AWARD OF EXCELLENCE—Fwr Wales County EFNEP aides won honored at a state EFNEP awards banquet in Raleigh May 31. Ptetuied here are (left te right): Or. Chester Mach, director of the North Caretoia Aartculturai Extension Service; BHSe Hamilton. drat recipient el EWES'* Award ef Excellence; Clarice S. Bets, 8 years el service; Bernice Dunn, 18 yeers of service; Martha McDonald, 18 years el service; and Dr. Mary Whitmore, state EFNEP coordinator. WOMAN RAPED A man armed with a knife raped a woman in her Wake County home earlier this week, officials said. The suspect, who was wearing a ski mask (See JUDGES’ BENCH, P 2) New Shelter For Homeless Serves Area From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports The Women’s Missionary Society, the Western North Carolina Con ference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church opened Raleigh’s first day shelter for the homeless this year. The shelter is located at 416 W. South St. in Raleigh and is open from • a.m. to 5 p.m. At the present time, it is the only shelter for the homeless which is open during daylight hours only, and within those hours serves two meals: a light breakfast around 10 a.m. and dinner at approximately 4 p.m. In addition to serving two solid meals a day the shelter offers the homeless a nice, clean, quiet, comfor table place to relax. Ms. Shirley Shea res said this is especially helpful in the winter mon ths when the homeless have to leave the overnight shelters in the morning without any other place to go. Ms. Sheares, president of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Women’s Missionary Society of the AME Church, claims that the location of the day shelter close to the heart of downtown should be viewed as an asset, for it allows those people who normally congregate in the downtown parks and mall to instead gather within its facilities where they (See HOMELESS. P 2)
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