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VOTERS (Continued from page 1) God, don’t the truth hurt, sometimes? Talk about the husband or the wife being the last to know, Jesse had to hear it from the press. At his news conference reporters kept asking Rev. Jackson if he was angry, mad. But Jesse, his unbridled dignity proudly glowing all over that room, stated that, no, he was not angry, that he had better things to do than be angry and that he still had his eyes on the prize. Well, Jesse Jackson is a cut above the rest of us, too much of a gentleman to get angry, to get mad. Well, I am sorry that I don’t have Rev. Jackson’s self-control, his poise, his maturity, because I am angry. In fact, I am mad as hell! I knew all along and deep down in side so did a lot of you, that they were not about to put Jesse on the ticket. But there is a way to do things. Dukakis could have just as easily met with Jesse and said that he was going to put Lloyd Bentsen on the ticket and stated his reasons. But no, Dukakis felt the need to publicly humiliate Rev. Jackson, show the world (the Southern white male vote) that he could “stand up to Jesse Jackson.” How Dare Mike Dukakis spit in Rev. Jesse Jackson’s face! How dare the Democratic Party, a party that would not even exist anymore as a political force in this country were it not for our votes and our loyalty to it, how dare them to spit in our face! Well, they did, and none of them give a damn about it. A lead-off article in the News and Observer the day after the humilia tion of Rev. Jackson read, “Most Tar Heel Democrats Applaud Bentsen Selection.” We know what that means. It means most white North Carolina Democrats applauded Dukakis’ decision to select a white boy, any old white boy, over Rev. Jesse Jackson. Let me quote what one of those white North Carolina Democrats had to say about Dukakis’ snub of Rev. Jackson. Lt. Gov. Robert B. Jordan, III, better known of late as “Redneck Bob,” said, “Bentsen was the best choice he [Dukakis] could have made.” Terry Sanford was quoted as say ing, “I think he [Bentsen] will help us in North Carolina.” Here is a guy, who if it were not for our black vote, could not be elected to dog catcher, let alone to the United States Senate, grinning and gloating that Dukakis picked somebody white rather than Jesse Jackson to be on the ticket. Bob Jordan, who has already told us up front that we need not bother him and his campaign for Gov. with “our issues,” was further quoted as saying, “I believe that they [Dukakis and that old white boy from Texas] can carry North Carolina.” The nerve of these people! Jordan and Sanford were talking as if black people in this state did not exist. I don’t know and you don’t know anybody black in North Carolina who is pleased that Dukakis did not select Jesse Jackson to be his running mate. It is bad enough that they feel that they can take our words for granted, but now they speak as if we were Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man." Yes, I am mad. I am mad as hell. All of black America is mad, mad as hell! But praise be to God this is a new day and our “nigger days” are behind us. Don’t get mad, get even. Don’t get mad that Dukakis spit in Rev. Jackson’s black face and our collective black faces. And don’t get mad that Lt, Gov. Bob Jordan patted Dukakis on the back for doing it. No, folks, don’t do that. That’s what we used to do and it wasn’t right. Let’s do it right this time. Let’s do what we now have the power to do, come this November. Let’s get even. JUDGES' BENCH (Continued from page 1) nowadays. The Beretta offers better accuracy, safety and efficiency to law enforce ment agents. The Beretta will make it much more difficult for someone to use the weapon if they take it away from an agent due to its added safety feature, The gun also can hold 16 rounds of ammunitiion as opposed to the ,357’s six rounds, and can be load ed quicker. The Beretta has a more fluid trig ger pressure, making it more ac curate than the Smith and Wesson. In one demonstration, an ALE agent fired only six rounds from the Smith and Wesson, while another agent emptied 16 rounds from his Beretta, reloaded, and fired another IS rounds in the same amount of time. FEDERAL CHALLENGE Two Durham County residents seeking to run for county commis sioner as New Alliance candidates have filed a federal lawsuit challeng ing a state law prohibiting third-party candidates from putting their names on local ballots. The party and the two prospective candidates, Amy Freeman and Bernard Obie—say the state law violates their constitutional rights of due process, equal protec tion and association for the advance ment of ideals. A suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Raleigh, seeking preliminary and permanent injunc tions to keep elections officials from refusing to nut their names on the ballot as New Alliance candidates The New Alliance Party was established in 1979. It considers the Democratic and Republican parties I to oe mucn too conservative. The New Alliance Party expects to qualify for November’s general elec tion ballots—with a candidate for president, Lenora Fulani, a New York psychologist. MARCH (Continued from page 1) “reclaim the dream for jobs, peace, justice and freedom.” He said that eight million more Americans live in poverty than did when his father was alive. King ex pressed particular concern about the children of the poor. “We’re going back to Washington because today 43 percent of black children are living below the poverty level. We have to go back because the poverty level for all children has in creased from 15.3 percent to 21.3 per cent since then, and that is a national disgrace which we cannot allow to go unchallenged,” he said. “What does it say about a nation when it does not take care of its most precious resource?” Goode and Gov. Robert P. Casey have been named co-chairmen for the state of Pennsylvania for the event. King said that he also hopes the march will change the United States’ foreign policy stance toward South Africa. He said recent publicized outbreaks of racial violence occurred because “we are not getting leadership at the top” in dealing with enduring pro blems of poverty, racism and violence. In an interview later, King said he doesn’t believe Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts needs to pick a Southerner as a vice-presidential run ning mate just to garner support in the South. The most notable Southerner being considered for the post was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, King said, but Jackson was not selected. “I think that whoever it is has to be someone who can attract a broad base of people,” he added. “I don’t see anyone today that has that abili ty. I think you have to have someone who does not overshadow Gov. Dukakis, but yet someone who will bring a little action.” Jackson should have had the oppor tunity to decline the offer of the vice presidential nomination, however. King said. “The difficulty in naming Jesse Jackson is I don’t see Rev. Jackson as second to anything or to anyone,” he said. King said he will attend the Democratic convention, which will open July 18 in Atlanta, but not as a delegate. GOLDEN RULE (Continued from page 1) want to be the standard-setter of the automotive service industry.” Rogers has completed the Firestone manager training pro gram, and has received several customer service awards. Rogers said following the store’s opening on July 18, a “Grand Opening” will take place around the first of August. His responsibilities will include the managing of eight employees and a budget of about $700,000. His goal is to “further enhance my customer service for the public and on behalf of Firestone.” Rogers is the son of Tom and Laura Rogers of Parnell Drive, Raleigh. He is married to the former Patty Boose, also of Raleigh. They are the parents of two children, a son, Cedric, 12, and a daughter, Pamara, 10 weeks. Rogers attends First Church of God on Boyer Street. “Many will recall the 1960s theme that we are the place where the rubber meets the road. That continues to be our goal—to not only sell you a product, but to advise and counsel as well—in the new Firestone MasterCare Car Service Center.” V. P. (Continued from page l > running on a platform for all Democrats,” Ward said. He said that is is important to keep hope with the people—to participate and vote. Ward said Dukakis’ campaign has always had on its agenda to include as many people in the campaign as possible, every segment of the party. “I think Rev. Jackson is a viable candidate for the nomination... always kept certain issues in the forefront. The platform is the blueprint of the Democratic Party. I think Rev. Jackson is in a strong negotiating position with important agenda items, including estalbishing the rules for how the president is selected in 1992,” Ward said. HOUSING (Continued from page l) the responsibility of every American to help homeless individuals and low income families. Now is the time to initiate a solution.” The Affordable Housing Act is bas ed on the premise that those in the greatest need snouiu De neipeu iirsi. “Homeless people are human beings and they have human rights, too," Rep. Flake said. The bill provides assistance first to the homeless and then to low-income families living in overcrowded, substandard housing. It is designed to create a permanent stock of low-cost housing. The bill specifies that construction and rehabilitation grants must be awarded to those who can demonstrate the capacity to manage and maintain assisted projects and who agree to provide 20 percent of project costs with non-federal sources. At least 50 percent of the yearly $15 billion in grants is earmarked for newly constructed units, while the balance is set aside for repair and maintenance of units created by the bill. Funding for the bill would come from a three-part tax program made up of an alternative minimum tax which inhibits taxpayers’ abililty to take advantage of loopholes, a car ryover basis for tax treatment of in herited capital assets, and an in crease in the tax on cigarettes. Court Refuses To Alter Rule On Black Jury MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)-A legal battle over the racial makeup of a jury in the future trial of two former Ku Klux Klan members apparently will be argued before the Alabama Supreme Court. The Alabama Court of Criminal Ap peals has refused to alter a Mobile judge’s ruling that allows defense at torneys to eliminate blacks from the jury. Attorney General Don Siegelman said he would ask the appeals court to reconsider, arguing the rule doesn’t apply equally to prosecutors. “We feel it is grossly unfair to put prosecutors under one burden and defense lawyers under another,” Siegelman said last week. Siegelman and Mobile County District Attorney Christ Galanos had appealed Mobile County Circuit Judge Michael Zoghby’s ruling in the trial scheduled for October. Zoghby’s ruling allows attorneys for Bennie Jack Hays and his son-in-law, Ben jamin Franklin Cox, to remove blacks as jurors because of their race. The two men are accused in the 1981 slaying of a black teenager in Mobile. ^Criminal appeals court Clerk Mollie Jordan said the court denied the state’s request last week without explanation. Joy Patterson, a spokeswoman for Siegelman, said if the state Court of Criminal Appeals refuses to recon sider its decision, Siegelman will ap peal the case to the Alabama Supreme Court. “The rule in place now works in favor of criminals and against the state and victims,” Siegelman said. “The rule regarding jury strikes ought to apply equally to prosecutors and defense attorneys. “It’s indefensible to continue an un just system that is based on race and can produce a biased result for criminals,” Siegelman said. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1986 prohibits prosecutors from arbitrar ily striking blacks from juries based on their race, and Galanos has said that the rule should also apply to defense attorneys. Hays and Cox are to be tried as ac complices in the March 21,1981 Klan inspired murder of Michael Donald, 19, who was killed and his body hang ed from a tree. Two former high ranking Klansmen went on trial on the murder charges in February, but a mistrial was declared after Hays collapsed in the courtroom. Hays’ son, Henry, was sentenced to death for the murder. James “Tiger” Knowles was sentenced to life in a federal prison for depriving Donald of his civil rights. freshmen Begin Fall Semester Mens Day Set Bright new faces expecting to begin their college careers convened on Saint Augustine’s College campus last week, the first of three groups of new and transferring students who will enter Saint Augustine’s this fall. More than 400 youngsters and their parents came to visit to take a first look at the college of their choice. They came from as far as Gambia, and as close as the high schools of Wake County. Two hundred thirty-eight prospec tive students from 13 states and three foreign countries were in the first group that heard from ad ministrators, faculty, staff and stu dent counselors, ending with pre registration. Wanzo Hendrix, director of admis sions and retention, said the college expects to enroll 60 freshmen and new students by the start of the fall semester in August. Hendrix said the college has receiv ed some 2,500 applications thus far for the 1868-80 fall semester. “We ex pect to enroll 500 freshmen and transferring students by the time we complete the next two pre-orientation sessions,’’ he added. * I — COMPUTED OPERATIONS—Debbie L. Royster of Coats, Willis Hodges ot Clayton and Toni Dial of Clayton, seated, left to right, go over computer applications with computer operations Instructor Ron Rubin, standing, left, and Michaol Cylar, right, head of tho computer operations curriculum at Wake Tech. ons JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)— At least nine people, including several involved in organizing birth day celebrations for jailed black leader Nelson Mandela, were detain ed last week in raids in Cape Town, relatives said. Those detained include Zollie Malindi, 64, president of the anti apartheid United Democratic Front in the Cape Town area, and Rehana Rossouw, a joraalist with the Argus newspaper, relatives said. Sources said some of those detained had been organizing events in Cape Town to mark the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Con gress guerilla movement. Mandela’s birthday is July 18. Organizers have been planning a road race on July 16, church services the following day and ringing of church bells on July 18. In the Johannesburg area, black organizations have arranged an all day concert near the black township of Soweto. Under emergency regulations, out door gatherings and most forms of public protest are banned unless per mission is obtained. So far, authorities have neither banned nor approved the events. Among those reportedly detained were Veronica Simmers, an ad ministrative secretary with the UDF who has been detained previously; Legislature Works To Help Companies Invest in an euort 10 encourage com panies to invest and expand in North Carolina, the General Assembly has substantially reduced corporate in come taxes for multi-state companies with a number of employees and plant locations in the state. The Legislature has changed how corporate income taxes are com puted to reduce taxes for interstate companies with a significant in-state investment in people and property by “double-weighting” the sales factor in an income tax formula involving payroll, property and sales. The General Assembly believes reducing the emphasis on payroll and property in the equation for com puting the state tax will encourage more companies to invest in North Carolina and be an incentive for com panies already here to expand. The old corporate income tax for mula averages the in-state percen tages of three factors—payroll, pro perty and sales—and gives equal weight to each. The new formula “double-weights,” or counts twice, the sales factor. The percentage of a multi-state company’s sales in North Carolina will now account for half the averaging formula instead of one third. Property and payroll together will now account for only half instead of two-thirds. The resulting average percentage is then multiplied by the company's nationwide income to produce the percentage of total income to be tax ed by North Carolina. The change will reduce the cor porate income taxes of a multi-state company with more of its payroll and HOSTAGE TAKING A 29-year-old Durham man, armed with several weapons, surrendered peacefully to police after barricading himself and his girlfriend In a house for nearly eight hours. More than a dosen police officers waited Into the night for Richard Lee Hunt, arm ed with two tmm pistols and one .22-caliber rifle, to surrender. The men of Elevation Baptist Church, 4927 New Bern Avenue, in vite the public to attend their annual Men’s Day program July 17 at 11 a.m. The Rev. Ray Butler, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church of WinstonBalem, will be the guest speaker. He will be accompanied by his All-Male Choir. r property in Norm Carolina—in effect, reward it for having the good sense to invest in North Carolina. Double weighting the sales factor will in crease the taxes of multi-state com panies that use North Carolina only as a place to sell goods. Legislators expect companies to be attracted to North Carolina and that the additional business investment will provide jobs for North Caroli nians, as well as additional revenue for the state. A recent study by North Carolina State University estimates the economic incentive could generate more than 3,750 new jobs by 1992 and 6,100 new jobs by the year 2000. The study also estimates double weighting and the additional new plants and payroll encouraged to locate in North Carolina could generate some $296 million in addi tional tax revenue for the state by the year 2000. Gaddy To Report On China Visit During Special WRAL-TV viewers will be the first Western television audience ever to share some of China’s last pristine wilderness areas during a special program titled “Charlie Gaddy in China’’ to be aired next week. Gaddy, news anchor for WRAL-TV, traveled the Zhang River in the Heilongjiang Province in remote nor theastern China in June, which until then had been restricted to a few scientists and visiting government of ficials. Gaddy and WRAL-TV are believed to be the first Western jour nalists ever to record for television this particular section of Manchuria near the Russian border. WRAL-TV photographer Scott MiAfnMm accompanied Gaddy to document the adventure, which was a unique opportunity to visit rural areas of China that have much in common with the rural areas of eastern North Carolina. In addition to touring rural and wilderness areas, the two also visited several cities, China’s Great Wall, the Ming Tombs and the Forbidden City. Their ex periences will be featured in a special half-hour program to be broadcast Saturday, July 16, at 8 p.m. ---, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND DM16 AWARENESS TASK FORCE The City of Roleigh it tooking request for proposals (RFPs) from o consul font to conduct o drug survey of Raleigh area residents. The dote to start the project is August IS. 1988 ond completed Is December 15. 1988. Any inYtrtitid conBultont wishing to rwpond to this RFP should contact: Donald E. Harris. Director. City of Raleigh Human Resources Deportment; Room 305 Municipal building Annex; 110 5. McDowell Street; P. O. Box 590; Raleigh. NC 37602; (919) 890-31R5. Proposals must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. on July 28, 1988. Saleem Mowzer, a high school teacher; Jonathan Shapiro, a newspaper cartoonist; NabsWessels, an executive member of the Western Province Council of Churches; and Omar Badsha, who heads the Center for Documentary Photography at the University of Cape Town. Bulelani Ngcuka, a lawyer, and Nconda Balfour, a social worker, were also detained, family members said. Badsha was scheduled to open an exhibition of his work at the universi ty. His wife said the program would proceed as planned. Malindi, a longtime activist and a former member of the ANC, was released in February after a previous detention. He is the honorary presi dent of the UDF in western Cape Pro vince. The UDF, made up of more than 600 groups, is the country’s largest anti apartheid organization. The coalition was one of 17 opposition groups that the government in February banned, and virtually all of its leaders are in detention, in hiding or under restric tions. The government last week freed Trevor Manuel, the most senior full time UDF figure in the Cape Town area. Manuel had been held without charge since August 1986 An estimated 30,000 people have been detained without charge for varying periods of time since the government imposed a nationwide state of emergency in June 1986. IN MEM0RIAM In loving memory of Dr. Jamn Edit Lytle, who departed this III* on* year ago, July 17, 1987. A precious on* from us is gon*. A voic* we loved is stilled; A place is vacant in our hearts That never can be filled. In love and sorrow, His wife, Mrs. Marlyn-W. lytle His daughter, Mrs. Cheryl l. Brandon His grandson, Eric L. Brown His slst*r, Mrs. Salma l. Hodges His brother, Paul Lytle eedfy Tbs CAMUNML N.C.I7I11.
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