TEENAGE QUEEN-A
Miss Black Teenage World of
Rayford, 17, represented Wake County and competed
across the state. She will represent North Carolina July 17
Miss Black Teenage World Pageant at the Winston-Salem Civic Center.
Wake Teen Captures
State Beauty Crown
Janelle Rayford, a l7-year-ol(
senior at Enloe High School, was
crowned Miss Black Teenage Work
of North Carolina Saturday in <
NEWS BRIEFS
SUPER COLLIDER TEAM
The U.S. Department of
Energy’s Site Task Force for the
Superconducting Super Collider
made a visit to Raleigh to con
firm and clarify DOE’S
understanding of the information
the state provided in its site pro
posal, and allow the task force
members the opportunity to
become familiar with the North
Carolina site. DOE plans to iden
tify a preferred site in late
November and a final site selec
tion will be announced in January
1989.
PURPLE SEAWEED
Masses of a mystery alga that
can turn skin purple have en
tangled swimmers on parts of
Topsail Island, Emerald Isle,
Kure Beach and other central
and southern beaches. The
bloom, consisting of millions of
single-celled organisms, has been
showing up for about tow months,
but the state’s Marine Fisheries
Division at Morehead City says
the seaweed is harmless and does
not signal a return of the toxic red
tide algae that disrupted the
shellfish harvest last winter.
MARINE GENERAL TO
RETIRE
The commander of Quantico
Marine Base, Lt. Gen. Frank E.
Petersen, the only black Marine
general, will retire in August. He
has been the base commander
since 1986 and says, “America
will he a whole lot better off when
there is no longer a first and only
black anywhere."
I pageant sponsored by the Touch-A
; Teen Fqpndation of Danville, Va.
I The 15th annual event drew con
testants from across the state and
featured conmpetltlon in five
categories: talent, sportswear, even
ing wear, projection and creative ex
pression.
Ms. Rayford, who represented
Wake County in the pageant, will
represent North Carolina in the 1988
national Miss Black Teenage World
pageant in Winston-Salem July 17.
She won an (800 scholarship and
plans to study English at Howard
University following high school
graduation as she prepares to
become a teacher.
The Saturday evening affair was
held at Meredith College. The con
testants had been in Raleigh since
Tuesday, touring, practicing, and
preparing for the competition.
The pageant theme was,
“Reaching For The Rainbow." Tim
McClain of Radio Station WCYL and
Mrs. Sheila McClain, both of Raleigh,
handled the Emcee duties.
Six young ladies from throughout
North Carolina competed in the
pageant. They were: Miss Monica
McLean of Harnett County, Miss
(See BEAUTY CROWN. P. 2)
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Against Blacks
Rule May Alter Rights
quotas ror
Minorities
Questioned
(AP)A federal appeals court ruling
may determine how far courts can go
in guaranteeing blacks an equal op
portunity to be elected and whether
they should be guaranteed represen
tation proportional to population.
Lawyers who argued the case in a
Wilmington courtroom last week say
it could become a landmark in voting
rights nearly as significant as a 1984
decision that multiplied the number
of North Carolina’s single-member
legislative districts—and the number
of black lawmakers.
In one North Carolina county, the
case has led to “limited voting,” a
system that restricts the number of
votes one person can cast in a
multiseat race. Lawyers said the
courts’s decision could extend that
system to other counties.
“The effect...is that any election
system that’s in place for any local
board that doesn’t result in propor
tional representation is in danger,”
says Michael Crowell, a Raleigh
lawyer who argued the case.
Leslie Winner, a Charlotte lawyer
who argued for the other side, agreed
that the case could be a
milestone—but not for the same
reason.
“The reason I think this case is im
portant.” she said, “is not because it
(See QUOTAS. P.2)
MCA Records
Makes Deal,
Busy Motown
Motown Records, which
started from a humble beginning
in Detroit, Mich., in the late 'SOs,
has been sold.
Motown Records rose to the top
of the charts thanks to the vocal
talents of such singing stars as
Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson
and the Miracles, Gladys Knight
and the Pips, the Commodores,
Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the '
Supremes.
(SeeMOTUWN.P. 2)
Jackson Stirs Unusual Politics
Democratic Bosses Were In Panic: Calling Emergency Meetings
BY KIMAKO MARSHARKI
AND ANGAZA LAUGHINGHOUSE
An Analysis
The broad grassroots movement
that is the basis for Jesse Jackson’s
“progressive issues program” and
campaign is challenging the political
status quo and the Democratic Party
machine more and more each day. At
the base of this movement is the
black national movement.
Both working-class and so-called
black traditional political leaders are
sharpening the contradiction and
creating cracks in the Democratic
Party machine. Remember how in
1984, black politicians stayed away
from Jackson?
At a recent Durham County
Democratic Convention in North
Carolina, Willie Lovette, chair of the
Durham Committee on the Affairs of
Black People, challenged U.S. Sen.
Terry Sanford, “Why are you trying
to stop Jesse Jackson?’” Former
governor and present Democratic
Party leaders Jim Hunt and Sanford,
without any consultation with black
Democratic Party leaders, quickly
endorsed conservative Tennessee
Sen. Albert Gore as the best choice
for North Carolinians, the South and
the United States.
Black labor leaders reminded
others in the convention that this was
consistent for Sanford, the former
Duke University president, who at
tempted to stop the 1960s and 1970s
union organizing of that school’s
mostly black service workforce. To
day, Sanford is the developer of the
billion-dollar construction project
Treyburn Industrial/Residential
Park and still attempts to keep
unionized trade workers out.
This is but one aspect of the fun
damental contradiction and bigger
crisis within the Democratic Party,
with Dixiecrats (Southern
Democrats) and liberal Democrats
continuing to shift their party pro
gram to the right. They no longer
want to continue to masquerade as
the “friend of the black people; the
party of working people and women;
the party for social change,” etc.
Like the Republican Party, the
Democratic Party is racing to the
right, continuing its 1984 Democratic
Convention platform of "military
mignt, more Duagei cuts 10 mane
things tight and abandoning the black
rights fight.”
Hence, the Democratic Party’s
Leadership Council, chaired by
former Democratic presidential can
didate Richard Gephardt, originally
proposed Super Tuesday to unify
Democrats around a conservative
presidential candidate to put a brake
on the balck electoral movement,
particularly in the Black Belt South.
But two months ago, the largely
Southern “Super Tuesday” primaries
backfired in the Democratic Party’s
face and propelled the Jackson cam
paign forwanl.
Jackson carried six Black Belt
states outright: Georgia, Alabama,
(See JESSE JACKSON. P. 2)
Academic Achievement
Graduates Receive Scholarships
Contributing Writer
Twelve high school graduates who
had participated in the DELTA
Carousel were awarded scholarships
to attend college recently. The reci
pients were chosen according to the
following criteria: outstanding con
tributions to the program, academic
achievement, and community ser
vice. They have earned $1,000
scholarships each. These funds were
raised by the sorors Delta Sigma
flPheta Sorority,/Inc., who annually
sponsor the Red and White Charity
Ball.
Ms. Kimberly C. West graduated on
June 10 from Enloe High School and
was the valedictorian of her class. In
fact, Ms. West had the highest
average of all other students in the
Wake County School Systgem. Ms.
West served as president of the stu
(See SCHOLARS. F.2I
RIGHTS NOW-A large demonstration was held In the N. C. State University to the capital budding where a rally
capital city recently for Gay Rights. The marchers went from was held in support of rights for the Homosexual community.
Group Seeks To Promote Blacks
In Major Real Estate Companies
in an effort to further the cause of
fair housing in Wake County, the
Raleigh Board of Realtors has
entered into an agreement with the
U.S. Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development. This agreement,
the Voluntary Affirmative Marketing
Agreement, has as its purpose the
achievement of free housing choice
for all buyers and renters in Wake
County. To assist with the implemen
tation of the provisions of the VAMA,
HUD has appointed a Community
Housing Resource Board comprised
of representatives of various business
and civic organizations.
As its initial focus the CHRB has
concentrated on the effects of equal
employment opportunity on fair hous
ing. The CHRB, incorporated as the
Housing Resource Board of Wake
County, Inc., has applied for and
received a grant from the Depart
ment of Housing and urban Develop
ment to study and plan for the expan
sion of career opportunities in real
estate sales and housing manage
ment to minorities in Wake County. A
consultant has been retained to study
the current minority participation in
area majority iwmie-uwucui
brokerage and property management
firms. A survey of the situation has
been conducted with the cooperation
of the Raleigh Board of Realtors. The
study has indicated that there has
(See REAL ESTATE, P. 2)
Officers Association
Highlights Training
The North State Law Enforcement
Officer’s Association held its
statewide 36th annual Retraining
Conference recently at the Sheraton
Hotel in Rocky Mount. The Capital
Chapter of NSLEOA was represented
by Eloise Best (SBI), Jewyl Edwards
Dunn (Adult Probation/Parole),
Richard Holden (State Highway
Patrol), Harry Knight, Jr. (sun,
Nell Saunders (Wake County
Sheriff’s Department), Angela Y
Smith (RPD), Sabrina Watson (City
County Bureau of Identification), and
Parrish Womble (Wake County
Sheriffs Department).
North State Law Enforcement Of
ficer’s Association is a non-profit
organization devoted to furthering
the education and training of minori
ty law enforcement officers. It is the
only organization in North Carolina
which unites every branch of law en
forcement and makes itself available
regardless of rank, assignment or
department affiliation.
•The objectives of the association
ace:
• To maintain law enforcement
(See OFFICERS’, P.2)
Judges'
Bench
WON’T SEEK CHARGES
Wake Dist. Atty. C. Colon
Willoughby said he would not seek
criminal charges against the state’s
former industrial recruiter in Japan
on allegations of falsified expense ac
counts.
Willoughby said his decision had
closed the case on allegations involv
ing Walter R. Johnson III, who
resigned April 22 as senior interna
tional specialist in Japan for the N.C.
Department of Commerce.
Johnson was suspended without
pay Jan. 18, pending the outcome of
an investigation into allegations that
he had falsified expense accounts for
airline, hotel and restaurant bills.
CLIENTS BY MAIL
Drivers who have been in wrecks,
property owners facing foreclosures
and prospective home buyers may
receive letters from North Carolina
lawyers seeking them as business
clients the U. S. Supreme Court decid
ed.
The court struck down a Kentucky
rule prohibiting lawyers from
soliciting particular clients by direct
mail. Because of the ruling, North
Carolina and approximately 24 other
states with similar bans can no longer
enforce them.
(See JUDGES’ BENCH. P 2)