BABY CONTEST-YWCA-Hargett Street Branch Annual
Baby Contest Winners are: First prize, Marquez Steven Forte,
Audrey and Steven Forte; Second prize, Kelly Denise Bailey,
Denise and Richard Bailey; Third prize, Sara Dove Hinton,
Patricia Hinton and Ken Dove. Also pictured Brenda High
Sanders, Program Chairperson.
BABY CONTEST-Shown in the picture above are the
parents and winners in a baby contest held recently at Rush
Metropolitan AME Zion Church by the J. C. Price Club.
Reading from left to right: First prize winner, Richard Thomas
Carter III being held by his mother Mrs. Gretchel Newkirk
Carter; Second prize winner, Robert Jones being held by Ids
mother Mrs. Paula Jones; Third prize winner, not shown, Eric
Johnson, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Leander Johnson;
Fourth prize winner, Cameron Hawkins being held by his
father Mr. Clifford Hawkins. Each of the contestants played
an important part in both action and finance. Mrs. Paula
Jones presented trophy to the winner. Tokens were also
presented to the other contestants. Mrs. Mary F. Graham is
president. Dr. B. C. Young, Sr. is pastor.
PORTIA BRANDON
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among the first 200 graduates of the
NAACPs membership university held
this spring at national headquarters.
They are Veronica Alexander,
Charlotte; Portia Brandon, Raleigh;
Inez Calloway, Charlotte; Dennis
Schatzman, state executive director
and Rodney Sumler of Winston
Salem.
-On behalf of the State Conference,
President Kelly M. Alexander, Jr.
presented replicas of Motorola
radios, the symbol of the Radiothon to
NAACP Chairman William Gibson,
Dr. Benjamin Hooks, executive direc
tor, Jondell Johnson, Radiothon coor
dinator and Tammy Johnson, chair
man, NAACP Youth Work Commit
tee.
Among the North Carolinians who
attended the convention were Kelly
M. Alexander, Jr., state conference
president; Carolyn Coleman, direc
tor, Southern Voter Education and
former state field secretary; Joyce
Gray, Martin Co.; Bernard Cooper,
Kinston; Ruth Paige, Greene Co.;
Gertrude Stanford. Pender Co.;
Melvin “Skep” Alston, Hurley Der
rickson and Councilman Earl Jones,
all of Greensboro; Doris Edwards,
Grene Co.; Robert Reeves, Moore
Co.; Lonnie Brower, Moore Co.;
Lewis Wood, Catawba Co.; Allen
Newborn, Lenoir Co.; Jimmy Sum
merville, Greene Co.; Elizabeth C.
Williams, Goldsboro; Mary L. Moore,
Duplin Co.; Linda Kellam,
Reidsville; Rev. John London, Hert
ford, Clifton Stone, Carrboro;
Kathleen Mitchell, Greensboro and
Ernestine Lewis of Burlington.
JESSE JACKSON
(Continued from page D
executive director of the National
Black Women’s Political Caucus in
Washington and Detroit Mayor
Coleman Young.
Prior to joining the Dukakis
campaign last year, Brazile was
director of operations and special
projects with the Jackson 1984
campaign and national, field director
for the 1988 presidential campaign of
Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo).
As secretary of the Dukakis
committee, Warren was one of the
three original officer's of the Dukakis
committee. Recently named general
election campaign coordinator
Warren is responsible for longterm
scheduling. budgets ami
conimunicatons. He is ckurtuan of
the Warren Committee, a group of
minority political, business, and
community leaders who meet
regularly to advise Governor
Dukakis on issues related to Blacks
and the minority community
Other key staff advisors, according
to Keith Boykin, a top Dukakis
spokesperson, are John Byhnoe, a
pioneer member of the Warren
Committee, and lifetime member of
the first NAACP chapter in Boston,
and retired civil servant.
TEENAGERS
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But Knudsen said the men entered
the arcade "with guns blazing "and
were careful not to leave physical
evidence
He also pointed out that all the
evidence was circumstantial. He
reminded the jury of the testimony of
Nichols' cousin, Alvin A. Banks, who
said Nichols had talked about killing
Collins to get the briefcase full of
money.
And another man testified in court
that he had seen Nichols with a
shotgun under his coat oh the way to
Collins’ store the night of the shooting
and robbery, Knudsen said.
In Superior Court this week, Collins
nephew, J. J. McLaurin who was 13 at
the time of the shooting, said “two
guys burst through the door, and they
shouted ‘hold it’ and ‘freeze’ and they
they just started shoeing.’’
McLaurin and Sheldon Spruill who
was also 13 and was in the front of the
store during the robbery, said two
men burst into the store shooting. One
of the men was wearing a green
Army field jacket and another wore a
tan overcoat. Neither teenager was
able to identify the gunmen.
A Wake jury in September, 1985
determined that Nichols was the
gunman in the green Army jacket.
But witnesses during the trial this
week gave slightly different
discriptions of the man in the tan coal
accompanying Nichols.
McLaurin said they "was shooting
backward and forward, and they
told him (Collins) to throw the gun
down." McLaurin said Collins
shouted that he had dropped the gun
and the man in the green Army jacket
went up to Collins and shot him again
Spruill said he was leaning on a
video near (he front of the store when
the shooting occurred He said one of
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Before leaving the store the man in
the green jacket told the other to pick
up the shells on the floor
Collins is alleged to have been a
drug dealer and according to police
worked as an informant against other
dealers. The prosecution contends
that Black planned the robbery
because they knew Collins kept about
$:S0,00() in a briefcase in his
possession. A witness said one of the
men took the briefcase after shooting
Collins
ENCOURAGES
(Continued from page 1)
the process of a coming A beloved
south. And we have an opportunity
here more than any other region of
the country to make our region
something different, something
better.
“With help and support of you b y
getting out and working for David
Price, we will be that much further
down that road to building an inter
racial democracy, a beloved unity."
The affair was hosted by Dr. and
Mrs. Prezell Robinson of St.
Augustine's College and was co
sponsored by more than 50 black
community leaders.
Live entertainment was provided
by Walter Chavis on the piano and the
Rev. Arthur Calloway on the clarinet.
Hor d’hourves consisted of chicken
drumettes, assorted cold cuts, diced
cheeses, relish tray, a fruit boat,
crackers and fruit punch.
Local elected officials present were
Wake County Commissioner Vernon
Malone, Raleigh City Councilman
Ralph Campbell, Jr., Wake County
School Board member Charles
Holland, former-Mayor of Raleigh
and State Sen. Clarence Lightner and
former-Raleigh City Council member
Arthur Calloway
CHAVIS HEIGHTS
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also for the entire Raleigh Housing
Authority, its employees and
approximately tn.ooo citizens of
Raleigh and Wake County.
The Chavis Heights Community
Festival will be held on Saturday.
July 23 from 4-H p m. in front of tin i
Management Office between
Kdgrcombe and Franklin Terraces
Drive Safely
Mercy Killing
Leads Spouse To
Legal Problems
EDITOR’S NOTE: She had
Alzheimer’s disease and, to her
husband seemed to be suffering so
much that he shot her to death at her
nursing home. It was a tragedy that
some saw as a mercy killing, others
as murder. The case points up some
of the ambiguities in the concept of
euthanasia.
EVANSVILLE, Minn. (AP) —
Oscar Carlson loaded the old revolver
that he had used to shoot hogs and
headed from his farm home to the
Crestview Manor Nursing Home. As
he drove the two miles into town, he
recalled, “I prayed the Lord to help
me, that whatever was laid upon me
to do. I would be able to accomplish.”
What was propelling Carlson to the
nursing home this February day was
the news that his wife of 47 years,
Agnes, her mind already fogged by
Alzheimer’s disease, had broken her
hip and would need surgery to
replace it. Feeling guilty for having
put her in the nursing home, he had
taken her out often for rides in the
country. On the day before, Feb. 28, a
Sunday, while they were at the farm
home, she had fallen on the porch.
“I could take no more, so I think my
mind cracked,” Carlson says. The
next thing he remembered, he was in
Room 103 standing beside his wife’s
bed.
"Do you want to go to the
hospital?" he asked her. “No,” she
said. Then using a term he said she
understood because he had used it in
his job of butchering hogs, he asked
her, "Do you want me to give you a
shot so you don’t have to.?” She
looked at him as he stood there with
the gun in his hand. “Yes,” she
replied, according to his court
testimony.
Just then, Judy Berg, a nurse,
walked into the room with a gurney to
take her to the hospital. “He had the
gun to her chest,” she said. “As I
looked at him I said, ‘My God! He’s
going to shoot her!’ Oscar looked up
at me at the same time and pulled the
trigger.”
“I fired twice in her chest and then
I sat down and watched her die so
nice and peaceful,” Carlson said.
“... Afterward, when she opened her
mouth a little bit....” he fired twice
more. “I didn’t want the doctors to
get hold of her and start pumping
out blood and putting on respiration
and all that stuff and tubes and I
could see no sense to that.”
Those shots reverberated
throughout this farming community
of 571 people, where the Crop Feed
Service Center and the railroad
tracks running through the center of
town give it an identity of Midwestern
security and serenity, where no one
could ever imagine that Oscar
Carlson, who, in all of his 78 years had
never had so much as a parking
ticket, would do such a thing.
Not the Oscar Carlson who had
grown up in Douglas County, who had
to trudge through the snowdrifts for
miles to get to school and missed so
many classes because of the weather
that he finished only 8th grade, who at
age 16 began hiring out to farmers,
milking cows, cleaning barns and
shucking grain.
The killing unleashed a flood of
emotions: anger and anxiety, fear
and frustration, guilt and grief.
In a broader sense, Carlson’s deed
raised once more that tangled
question of anyone’s right to end
another’s life in a mercy killing
especially under slightly ambigious
circumstances which, in some
people's minds, clouded the issue
here.
Not Oscar Carlson, nor anyone else,
the town said. He pleaded guilty to
second-degree murder in a plea
bargain and was sentenced May 26 to
43 months in prison. With good
behavior, he will be eligible for parole
in 28 months.
At the nursing home, and in the
town, Carlson brewed anger and fear.
Among his three daughters, he
spawned guilt, grief and frustration.
A study done in Israel
suggests it may be easier
to quit smoking if the smoker
switches to a vegetarian
diet.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT—John Winters, Sr., an honorary board member
with the Southeast Raleigh Community Development program, shares his
expertise In community development while Winnie Lacewell looks on.
Rep. Gray Predicting
Democratic Victory
WASHINGTON, D. C. - U. S. Rep.
William H. Gray, III (D-Pa.) praised
Michael Dukakis’ selection of Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen to be his running mate
and predicted a victory for the
Democratic ticket this November.
The Pennsylvania Democrat and
Chairman of the House Budget
Committee made his remarks as he
emerged from a meeting between
Congressional Black Caucus
members and Dukakis.
Gray said:
"Sen. Bentsen is a public servant of
outstanding reputation. He is well
respected in the area of revenue
policy. He won my admiration for his
work on the budget summit late last
year. He was one of only seven
southern House members to vote in
1949 to repeal the poll tax. He has
consistently voted in support of
economic sanctions against South
Africa.
"Sen. Bentsen comes from
Texas, where he defeated George
Bush to win his first Senate term. He
brings strength to the ticket in terms
of Texas and the Southwest area of
the country. I look forward to victory
in November for the Dukakis-Bentsen
ticket.”
Gray, a Jesse Jackson supporter
and advisor, also said he would have
preferred that his long-time friend
had been tapped for the number two
spot, but:
“The choice is made by the person
who wins the nomination and there is
no guarantee that the person who
comes in second will get the nod.
“Gary Hart did not get it in 1964.
The fact, he wasn’t even invited to
walk up the driveway when Mondale
was conducting interviews for his
running mate.”
Gray urged Democrats of every
stripe and persuasion, including
Jackson supporters like himself, to
keep their eyes on the prize.
“We must now focus on the
substantive issues. Do we want four
more years of Reagan and Bush, four
more years of civil rights
retrenchment and budget cuts, four
more years of spend, spend, borrow,
borrow? Do we want four more years
of a President who supports the racist
apartheid practices of South Africa?
“I believe most black Americans
understand the choice is between
Dukakis and Bush, that they are far
more sophisticated than some people
give them credit for."
Raising Superkid Can
Cause Super Problems
TVying to raise “SuperKid” can
cause super problems, says Dr. Cyn
thia Johnson, extension human
development specialist at North
Carolina State University.
“There is nothing wrong with
wanting your child to do his or her
best, but problems can arise if
parents put excessive pressure on
their children,” Dr. Johnson says.
Since parents today are having
fewer children, and since it costs
more to rear a child, parents want a
successful child. But pushing a
child too hard robs that child of the
opportunity for initiative, and the
responsibility for his or her own
mistakes and credit for achieve
ments.
Parents run the risk of producing
children with poor self-esteem.
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These pressured children are often
dependent and have poor interper
sonal relationships. They may
develop personality problems.
“Recent research has connected
increase in stress symptoms over
the last decade with the pressure
put on today’s kids to be ‘super
kids.’ These children’s afternoons
are filled with out-of-school ac
tivities and tutoring," Dr. Johnson
notes.
Healthy child rearing is not too
permissive or too pushy. “A middle
ground or democratic approach
tailored to your child seems to be the
best approach. Every child can be a
super kid if his or her unique
qualities and abilities are con
sidered, and if the child is given
challenges he or she can handle.”
NEWS BRIEFS
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NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION
Wilbur Johnson and Orlando
Curry, Sr. are forming a
neighborhood action committee
to examine and help eliminate
crime and poverty through
economic* and land reform baaed
• on principle* of “Poverty and
Progress” by Henry George.
Concerned Neighborhood Action
Committee is located at 2533
Sanderford Road.
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