The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.,
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
JUNE 9,1988 VOL.47.NO. 54
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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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
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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)