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Downtown To Beltline BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN SUfl Writer If Southeast Raleigh is "drying up” literally (fortunately this past week’s rains cured this concern) and figuratively—in the words of one con cerned resident—it will not happen if the Community Economic Develop; ment Project can guide mattefs otherwise. y "A lot of grassroots people' have said enough is enough,” CED Project Director Patricia' Funderburk com mented. Her words are directed toward a . ., y • perception by some in the' Southeast Raleigh community that the,area, with all of the new construction from Poole Road arouijd to Rogft, Quarry no new schools), is being managed “from the outside in.'’ “We are interested in the economic development, growth... and how the ^ “We’re not going to leave anything to anybody ejse to do for us. We’re using the self help apjproach...” j Pat FunderbHrH -J Road, the downtown changes and the many non-community-based $truc (prisons, Wake County Youth 1Health Services Center, etc., but hires an</H residents of Southeast Raleigh can play a role in that economic growth,” Funderburk said. Because the area’s development '"'may be done in the interest of those who Mre in the area,” she perceives a need for theresidents to not only “in put verbally,” but to also dogqme of the developing. “We’re not going to leave anything to anybody else to do for us. We’re us ing the self-help approach,” Funder burk said. Self-help for the CED project, an outgrowth of the East Central Com munity Services’ work in helping poor people in Wake and other nearby counties, means “financial empower ment.” about housing, joo ■<.«._ ment, light manufacturing anu , business development in Southeast -Raleigh JThere is always the issue of gentrificafihn -We’re trying to take a broader look at it. We seetfneedfor a mixture of people in Southeast Raleigh, so that anyone, regardless of income or of race, will find Southeast Raleigh a desirable place in which to live.” But the condition that must be con fronted now is that “our dollars are always flowing out,” according to Child abuse has always existed, [crime that occured “out there’ or two of to be the best teachers, relati »rder to make at said L, Ellery inman, director of in what it you still cannol what you’re re > serves as a voli to his full time ill and are Task Force On Nurses Gives Recommendatons Gov. Jim Martin has received and reviewed recommendations recently made by the Governor’s Task Force on the Shortage of Nurses in North Carolina. The task force’s recom mendations outline three specific causes of hte shortage and provide 10 recommendations to increase nurs ing school enrollment and encourage current nurses to remain in North Carolina. “I am very pleased that the task force has responded so quickly to this very pressing issue,” Gov. Martin said. “Chairman Jimmy Green and the members of the task force are to be commended for their work. What we have to do now is take these pro posals into consideration and see how many and to what extent they can be utilized.” According to the task force, the three factors responsible for creating the shortage are: a An increased nurses due to need for logical more as well as changes in early acuity level of patients. • Retention problems brought about by nurses leaving the profes sion. • Declining enrollment in nursing schools. The task force’s recommendations1 to alleviate the shortage of nurses in North Carolina are: 1. Increasing funds for scholarshps by establishing a non-traditional scholarship fund (stipend to assist in living expenses, as well as tuition, fees, etc.). The fun<frwould establish 200 scholarships at $5,OOQ each in bac calaureate programs and 400 scholar ships at $2,500 Mi 4grnmunity college programs. 2. Add an additional $250,000 to the North Carolina Student Loan Pro gram for Health, Science, and Mathematics designated exclusively to nursin 3. Implement a two-prong (See Ni P. 2) (center) one et twe surviving founding members of Delta who amassed more than 7 million votes In his guest for the Sigma Theta Soroity, acknowledges applause in San Democratic Party presidential nomination; Golden State Francisco at the 75th anniversary celebration of the social Warriors basketball star Ralph Sampson; and the service organization she helped to found. With her (loft to incomparable world champion pugjHst, Sugar Ray RALEIGH, N.G., MONDAY AUGUST 1. 1988 Weekly nFniCATEP TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 30« VOL. 47. NO. 69, Survey Questions Hit Groups Clash On AIDS RTP Firm Projects Delayed The AIDS epedimic is spreading and reaching world disaster propor tions with emphasis on America and Africa. The World Health Organization says that up to three million victims may be claimed by AIDS in the next few years. Agencies around the globe are fighting and seeking solutions to eradicate acquired immune deficien cy syndrome, which has become the world’s greatest health disaster. In North Carolina, a firm in the Research Triangle Park that planned to conduct a nationwide AIDS study has encountered a dispute over the handling of the project and faces a delay. The Research Triangle Institute was scheduled to begin the voluntary C in selected neighborhoods in iington but said tfo project has been delayed following a meeting bet ween the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., and healU^fficial^i^Vashiggtom^^^ Some of the best scientific minds in the nation say AIDS is a national catastrophe already in the making and a world health disaster. The World Health Organization has estimated -that one million people were affected by AIDS-related symp toms and that five to 10 million people have been exposed to the AIDS virus, most of them in the United States and Africa. AIDs is also at the door of Asia and a potential “explosive development” of AIDS could lead to “a reasonable estimate in a few years of 500,000 to three million AIDS cases,” WHO has speculated. Surveyors tor RTI in order to deter mine the extent of the problem na tionwide planned to survey 800 homes selected at random and ask the residents to give blood for a test and fill out confidential questionnaires about sexual habits. (See AIDS, P. 2) TffiHT SECUMV—fh«M 6eorgta State Troopers were in (Im control Mr ftHMeratlf lUliwui Comteflfiwv averting any $eriau$elash«*Jn opobents. (Photo byToHb Sibir-Calloway) Youth Uses U.S. Rep.’s Phono For Harassment oi uusmm a. mouims, NNPA News Editor WASHINGTON, D.C.-Although a series of harassing phone calls to the home of national syndicated colum nist Carl Rowan’s home was traced to a youthful white house-sitter of Rep. John R. Miller (R-Wash ), the U S: Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia told NNPA the offender was. not arrested, nor were any ar rests imminent. Miller, who said 23-year-old Michael Brown had been house sitting for him during the summer, apologized profusely to Rowan and declared that he has severed relation ship with the youth who had also worked in the congressman’s 1984 campaign. Metropolitan District police told NNPA that Brown’s phone calls Race Remains A Problem For Two People In Love ASHEVILLE (AP>— John and Jane share a love story with a difference. uecause of their love, one or both of them have been shot at, beaten up, run off the road, fired from jobs, denied housing and persecuted by parents. The reason? John is black, Jane is white. As high school sweethearts, they knew they would face prejudice. But they didn’t expect the reaction to be so strong. “It's been a long and bumpy road, I tell you,” John said. John and Jane said love, not race, inspired their relationship. Race almost killed it, though, because of the difficulties they faced. Early in their relationship, John and Jane talked about breaking up in the face of hostility. But the problems have brought them closer together. “Our love then is not as strong as our love now,” John said. The problems began in high school. Jane said she was beaten up by students who resented her dating a black. John said he was driving near school when another driver forced him off the road. Once someone took a shot at him, he said- The principal of their high school, Jane said, told John to stay off campus if he valued his life. (bee LOVE AND RACE. P. 2) ucgan juiv i auu cuucu uii wuijr n. They were recorded after Rowan con tacted the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. investigators who im mediately began work with police and tapped Rowan’s phone. Police told NNPA the bugged calls were "the result of the shooting incident” at Rowan's house on June 14. On that date. Rowan said he was awakened after midnight by someone trying to jimmy his bedroom window and noises irom his outdoor swimm ing pool. He arose to find a number of white youths frolicking in the pool. One of the youths charged him, ac cording to Rowan, who shot him in the hand. Two white youths were charged in the case that has been (See USES. P.2> -jtm TAKE CHahue—Controversial principal Joe dark, tka tough, hat-wielding Haw Jarsey principal who earned national natariety far Ms phMasapliy and anarttioMax methods, offers bis recommendations far retain of uthan education. Clark who initiated the turn around at Eastslde High School in Paterson, Now Jersey, a school called “one of the worst in the state.” He says “It’s time for Blacks to take central of tholr fata, and refuse to permit White liberals and Black sycophants to conthtoa loading the «aaa down a primrose path to ultimate oblivion.” 1 ic Ills Funderburk. She said the community does not have the kinds of resources necessary, i.e., food, services, hous ing, etc., to be self-determining. “The services are owned by so meone else who does not live in the community. We’re trying to help keep the monies within the community,’’ shesaid. Consequently, the CED Project, through a community economic development corporation, is organiz (See CED PROJECT, P. 2) NAACP Tackles Re-Examination Of Runyon Case WASHINGTON, D.C.-New historical evidence indicating that Congress intended, as long ago as 1866, to outlaw racial discrimination by private persons has been discovered by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The evidence was a key part of the brief submitted last week to the Supreme Court in the reargument of a land mark civil rights decision, Runyon vs. McCrary. LDF’s position in this case has been supported by an unusual bipartisan coalition of 66 U.S. Senators as well as numerous other individuals and civil rights organiza tions. In 1976, the Supreme Court, in the Runyon case, ruled that the federal statute guaranteeing tlje right to con tract (Section 1981, Title42 of the U.S. Code) prohibit^ racial discrimination in all private transactions. Twelve years later, LDF attorneys, represen ting the plaintiff in another case, Pat terson vs. McLean Credit Union, argued that Section 1981 also pro hibits racial harassment on the job. On April 25, the Supreme Court, in an unusual move, ordered lawyers for both parties in Patterson to argue an issue neither party had raised: whether its 1976 Runyon interpreta tion of Section 1981 should be recon sidered. In preparing the brief, LDF at torneys searched the Rare Book Divi sion of the Library of Congress and uncovered the actual “Reviers’ Note” for the 1874 codification of Sec tions 1981 and 1982, which derive frorr. the Civil Rights Act of 1866. According to the brief, “When the actual Revisers’ Note... is examined, it is clear that the Congress did not in tend to repeal that part of the 1966 Act that contained what is now Section 1981 and that, to the contrary, the Revisers cited judicial interpreta tions of the 1866 Act.” The brief continues, “When Con gress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 it was concerned with, and in tended to prohibit, all actions both public and private that might lead to the effective reintroduction of slavery or peonage.” (See SUPREME COURT, P. 2)
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