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VOL. 47, NO. 70 AUGUST 4,1988
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Industrial, Commercial Projects
Vacant Land To Shift In Area
BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN
Staff Writer
Aa Southeast Raleigh changes,
many residents can be heard to
wonder whether they will recognize
their neighborhoods in the future.
The City of Raleigh’s “Land Use
Plan for the Southeast Planning
District,’’ a 1983 publication, stated,
“Whereas other districts are general
ly realizing their growth potential,
the same cannot be said for the
Southeast Planning District.”
“It is home to a sizable work force
of both blue and white collar worker.
There are vast arcreages of
undeveloped land and there are
numerous parcels of undeveloped
land in the 50-acre and up size that
are in single ownership. The
Southeast District niche within the
total area lies in its future... it cer
tainly has not been realized in its
past.”
Land use studies at that time in
dicated that 51 percent of Southeast
Raleigh’s 11,099.5 acres was vacant,
31 percent in single-family use, five
percent industrial, five percent multi
family, three percent institutions,
two percent commercial, two oercent
parks, a community park, mini
parks, extensions of New Hope Road,
Sunnybrook Road, Hammond Road,
“The Southeast District niche within the
total area lies in the future... It certainly has
not been realized in the past...”
—City of Raleigh
recreational and one percent office.
A “Comprehensive Plan" called for
improvements in the district, in
cluding three new neighborhood
1-40, “collector streets... for the in
tervening areas between these major
facilities,” and major water lines for
portions of Sunnybrook and Rock
Quarry roads to complete a loop
system in the central portion of the
district.
Also underway were extensions of
the Crabtree and Walnut Creek out
falls and expansion of the city's land
fill off US 64 East.
The Southeast District, according
to the 1983 Land Use Plan, is pro
jected to grow by 2,250 dwelling units
and 5,100 persons by the year 2005.
The projected land uses to be added
in the Southeast Planning District,
(See VACANT LAND, P 2)
NEWS BRIEFS
WATER FAST
Joan Papert Preiu, chairper
son of the Triangle Friends of the
United Farm Workers, a
Durham-based North Carolina
volunteer support group for the
UFT, said UFW President Cesar
Chaves began an unconditional,
water-only fast at the UFW’s For
ty Acres in Delano, Calif.
In fasting, "Cesar is identifying
himself with the many farm
worker families who suffer from
the scourge of pesticide poison
ings in agricultural communities
throughout our nation—families
who lost their loved ones to
cancer... or who fear for the lives
af their children... who have lost
their babies through miscar
riages... who agonize over the
outcome of their pregnancies...
who are raising their children
with deformities... who ask with
fear in their voices. ‘Where will
this deadly plague strike next?”’
WRAL IV INSTALLS
NEW SYSTEM
WRAL-TV 5 has become the
first television station in the
world to use on-air the MARC II,
Panasonic’s fully automated
recording/playback cassette
system. The event ushers in a
new level of broadcast automa
tion.
“The advanced robotic
technology and sophisticated con
trol system allow fast, efficient
automatic broadcasting of com
mercials and programs, in addi
tion to exceptional audio and
video quality,’’ said Wilbur
Brann, WRAL-TV engineering
manager.
“The MARC II enables us to ac
cess 827 tape cartridges as oppos
ed to 22 before having to reload.
Therefore, we can now load a
day’s supply of tapes at a time
rather than an hour’s supply,"
Brann concluded.
HOMELESS PETS
There is a campaign underway
in Wake County to match senior
citizens with homeless pets. The
Purina Pets for People program
will allow qualifying senior
adults in the Raleigh area to
adopt a dog or cat from the SPCA
for free. For more information,
call the Wake County SPCA at
772-3203.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P.2)
Cocaine Trafficking
Man Faces Drug Charges
Residence
Maintained
For Drugs
A dwelling on Calument Drive has
been found as a center for drugs and
trafficking in cocaine, according to a
warrant filed with the Wake County
Magistrate's Office.
Steven K. Barefoot. 34, of 3243-1
Calument Drive, was charged this
week with two felony drug offenses,
as police report he had in possession
about SO grams of cocaine and used
his residence as a place to sell drugs,
according to the warrant.
Barefoot was placed in Wake
County Jail with bond set at $2,000.
In another drug case, the state
appeals court ordered a retrial of
John Jasper Green, Jr., 36, who had
been sentenced to 35-years in prison
and fined $250,00Q. after his conviction
by a Wake Superior Court jury.
The appeals court stated that trial
court judge, Robert C. Farmer,
incorrectly instructed jurors to find
Green guilty of conspiracy if they
found he had agreed with either of
two other defendants to traffic in
cocaine.
(See COCAINE, P. 2)
Clement Heads
Task Force For
Rail Committee
Howard Clement II of Durham nas
been named by Gov. Jim Martin to
head the recently appointed Rail
Passenger Service Task Force. Gov.
martin issued Executive Order No. 71
on March 11 creating a special work
group to study rail passenger service
needs in North Carolina. Citing the in
vestment made by the North Carolina
General Assembly some 130 years
ago, Martin praised the contributions
the rail system has made to the urban
growth of the Piedmont in North
Carolina.
At the group’s first meeting, Gov.
Martin was on hand in Raleigh to
charge the task force with its respon
sibilities. This 15-member group will
meet periodically during the next six
months and make an initial report to
Gov. Martin in January 1989. A final
report is scheduled to be presented in
(See HEADS, P. 2)
FOR VICTORY—In a traditional victory i
Michaux it shewn
(Rap. Mickey Michael Oukakii and his wife Mrs. Kitty Dukakis, during a
mdaoe vWHor araiy at Dorton Arena.
southeast Raleigh Site For $6
Million Facility For Athletes
Southeast Raleigh has been
selected as the site for a $6 million
facility that will serve as a hall of
fame for black athletes and a com
plex featuring major sporting events.
Since 1886 this country has seen the
struggle, strides and survival of the
black athlete as a contribution to the
world of sports.
For more than a century, black
athletes of this country, as well as
black athletes from all over the
world, have been involved historical
ly in sports on all levels. These blacks
collectively are the greatest
repository of black athletes in this
country.
The question being asked more and
more today is: “Where are these
masters of the sports world?” This
question is being asked not only by
non-blacks, but by many blacks
themselves.
This interest has caused the
American public to take a continued
interest in the development of sports
innovations and remembrances of the
past.
According to a committee for
World Home and Hall of Fame for
Black Athletes, the basic premise is
that the time has come to recognize
the black athletds with all of the abun
PROMOTING CAMPAIGN—Or. Lenora Fulani, pictured Kara President ol the United Slates an the No AHUnca Party’s
it Mia microphone with Vernon Oeflacort, was Hi the Triangle ticket. Or. Fulani spoke at several appearances hare In
Ana tost weekend promoting her campaign lor office of the Raleigh and Derham.
dant contributions they have made to
America and the world.
Executive director for the project,
Carol Midgette, along with Glenwood
Burden and Quinton Durham, in an
interview with The CAROLINIAN
said, “The need has always been
there for a black hall of fame for
athletes and we are organizing to help
bring this dream into a reality.”
Burden, the assistant director, pro
gram coordinator, said, “The black
athlete has contributed so much, and
then, suddenly he is forgotten when
his career is over.”
The World Home and Hall of Fame
for Black Athletes will be designed to
perpetuate the contributions of
athletes as well as serve as a diver
sified complex for the Triangle.
The complex will include a
souvenir shop, World Home and Hall
of Fame athletes’ room, on-site con
dominium for visiting athletes
garden area, recreational and picnic
areas, restaurant, coaches' room,
multipurpose auditorium and
teleconference rooms, along with
hosting tourists and showcasing ma
jor sporting events.
An official announcement for the
new complex is due Aug. 13 at the
Radisson Plaza. Although the com
mittee would not say where the
center would be located, speculation
says it will be somewhere near
Creech Road.
Johnson Elected New
President For SCAA
North Carolina Correction
Secretary Aaron J. Johnson was
recently elected president of the
Southern Correctional Admini
strators Association during the
organization's meeting in Charleston,
W. Va.
Johnson, who was elected SCAA
vice president during the
association’s meeting in Raleigh last
October, had been serving as acting
president since the resignation of
President C. Paul Phelps, the
secretary of the Louisiana Depart
ment of Public Safety and Correc
tions, earlier this year. Commis
sioner Packer Evatta of the South
Carolina Department of Corrections
was elected SCAA vice president dur
ing the Charleston meeting.
The $CAA is comprised of the chief
administrative officers of state
departments of correction from 17
Southeastern states and two U.S. ter
ritories. The SCAA, a regional branch
of the Association of State Correc
tional Administrators, was formed to
allow administrators from different
states to share information on mat
ters of common concern.
The SCAA meeting was held in con
junction with the summer meeting of
the Southern States Correctional
Association, which was also held in
Charleston. During the SCAA
meeting the administrators heard
presentations from Commissioner
David C. Evans of Georgia, president
of the Association of State Correc
tional Administrators, and from flu
Cunningham of Texas, president of
the American Correctional Associa
tion.
Secretary Johnson’s staff will serve
as the staff of the association during
his term as president. The associa
tion will conduct its next meeting in
the fall of Alabama.
Lawyer Says
Mandela Not
Arson Target
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP)—Nelson Mandela, the im
prisoned leader of the African Na
tional Congress, and his family were
not the targets of an arson attack that
destroyed their home, Mandela’s at
torney asserted recently.
Attorney Ismail Ayob said he had
"an idea” of what prompted the at
tack but that he had to honor
Mandela’s request that no statement
be made.
“Mr. Mandela was not the target,
the family was not the target,” Ayob
told a news conference after spending
the night talking to youths in Soweto,
a black township outside of Johan
nesburg.
He said Mandela had sent a
message from Pollsmoor Prison say
ing there should be “no prosecutions,
no witch hunts” for last week’s attack
on the Mandela home. Mandela, 70, is
serving a life sentence after being
convicted in 1964 of sabotage and plot
ting to overthrow the government.
(See LAWYERS DAY, P.2)
Vietnam Vets
Heal Slowly
From Stress
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP)-The
government and society slowed the
healing of Vietnam veterans suffer
ing trauma from the war )>y not pro
viding care for them or recognizing
their contribution, a counselor says.
“What little came was too little, too
late, so they went along for a long
time without having anyone to talk
to,” said John P. Wilson, a
psychology professor at Cleveland
State University and president of the
Society for Traumatic Stress.
“I’m not sure the average
American has a sense of how pro
found an experience the war was to
the men who fought in it.”
Wilson conducted workshops as
part of the Vets Festival ’88, a com
bination reunion, fair and resource
center for veterans held this week in
Evansville. The festival ends
Sunday.
He said treating post-traumatic
stress disorder years later causes
other problems.
(■See VETS FEEL, P 2)_
Judges'
Bench
CHILD-SEX COUNT
A Wake grand jury indicated a
Raleigh man Monday on sexual
charges involving a 14-month-old boy.
Robert T. Robbins, 28, of 3255 Octavia
St., is charged with first-degree sex
ual offense, crime against nature and
taking indecent liberties with a child.
If convicted, Robbins faces a man
datory life sentence for the sexual of
fense and up to 10 years on each of the
other charges.
The sexual attack allegedly occur
red July 23, the indictments said.
Defense attorney Richard T. Gam
mon of Raleigh said that Robbins, a
truck driver, has maintained his in
nocence. Gammon said he was con
ducting his own investigation, saying,
“The facts of the case are far from
being clear.”
AMNESTY FOR CABLE PIRATES
Cablevision of Raleigh and Cablevi
sion of Durham are asking those who
are receiving cable service illegally
to come forward during an amnesty
period that runs through Aug. 15.
Those who confess will not be pro
secuted under the civil or criminal
statutes which cover theft of a cable
service, said Martin Sheridan, area
manager for Cablevision of Raleigh.
The Raleigh company recently
hired someone to detect the theft of
services, which can be achieved by
splicing into outside cable lines in a
neighbor’s home or from a pole out
side. About 30 cases have been pro
secuted in recent months, most
through the civil courts.
CABBIE KIDNAPPED
A robber armed with a gun kidnap
ped a Raleigh cab driver earlier this
week and then used the taxi as a
getaway vehicle during the holdup of
a Garner convenience store.
The taxi was recovered in Roanoke
Rapids by two law enforcement of
ficials. The scenario of the robbery
developed as follows: The gunman
first kidnapped the cab driver at the
(See JUDGES’ BENCH.,P. 2)