Carter Assigned To Washington
il Episcopal vicar for African
American Catholics and director of
the Office for Black Ministry and
Evangelization of the Catholic
Diocese of Raleigh, has been assign
ed by his religious superiors to teach
in ttw seminary of the Society of the
Atonement in Washington. Father
Carter, who holds a doctor of
ministry degree from McCormick
Seminary in Chicago, 111., will teach a
course in multi-cultural ministry.
In an exclusive interview with The
CAROLINIAN, Carter said that the
preparation of the friars for multi
cultural ministry is essential to the
effectiveness of their ministry in the
Bridges Accepts
Extension Terms
After Evaluation
The Wake County Board of
Education met with Wake School
Superintendent Dr. Robert E.
Bridge! In a three-hour doaed
aeaalon last week where he
agreed to a two-year contract ex
taualon.
The board unanimously ap
proved the extension of the
superintendent’s contract until
June 30,1001, after discussing his
evaluation and questions on
specific personnel plans. His cur
nut contract expires June 30,
1M0.
The superintendent's perfor
mance evaluation praised
■ridges for his “astute sensitivi
ty to the needs of our children”
and noted that he had introduced
new programs in strategic plann
ing, year-round education and a
role-model program to help
taderachleving black male
students.
The evaluation pointed to "a
particularly successful and ex
citing year in 1987-88. Much of
that success can be attributed to
the strong leadership of
.Superintendent Bridges,” it said,
"liie overwhelming passage of a
9135 million school facilities bond
referendum (the ninth-largest
such referendum in the nation)
crowned a year of steady pro
peas toward system goals.”
The balance of the report
fallows:
"Dr. Bridges demonstrates
astute sensitivity to the needs of
our children and to the expecta
tions hnd aspirations of the Wake
County community. He continues
ti attract top-quality personnel to
Em system as well as managing
and motivating system staff
■embers to maximize their
talents for the benefit of our
children.
“Innovative concepts introduc
ed and/or implemented during
the 1987-88 school year include a
comprehensive strategic plann
ing process, year-round educa
tion, a kindergarten screening
program to help ensure early suc
cess in school, an essential skills
curriculum and monitoring pro
ps m, and a role model program
ta tackle underachievement by
black male youngsters.
/‘While embracing new ap
proaches and concepts. Dr.
....
DR. ROBERT BRIDGES
cessful programs, such as the
network of magnet schools and
an after-school assistance pro
gram. First steps also were taken
in the move to restructure middle
schools, and the system’s steadi
ly eroding attendance rates were
addressed, resulting in the
strengthening of existing atten
dance policies and the launching
of a public awareness campaign.
“This record of innovation and
enhancement has helped to
stabllixe this school system’s
direction and ability to tackle the
challenges of a dynamic and
diverse community. The suc
cessful passage of the recent
bond referendum is testimony to
Superintendent Bridges’ efforts
in the area of communications
with our community and to the
improved credibility of the entire
school system.
"The Wake County Board of
Education in its evaluation pro
cess made particular note of the
high degree of integrity and open
ness with which the superinten
dent ' has conducted his ad
ministration. The board con
tinues to be supportive and ap
preciative of Dr. Bridges’ strides
toward making the Wake County
Public School System into the
front ranks of America’s public
school systems.”
We’re Moving To Tuesday
The Carolinian’s Monday Edition is moving to
Tuesday to better serve both our readers and our
advertising patrons. Subscribers should receive our
first of the week edition in their Tuesday mail, and our
readers who prefer to buy the Single Copy will find it on
their favorite newstands Tuesday mornings. We’re
sure you will see the difference in the coming weeks
with our move to Tuesdays, and we will always strive
to bring you, our readers, the whole story from a Black
Perspective!
■iSHfiSfiiMivii.
Catholic Church. The Friars of the
Atonement, Father Martin said, have
made a commitment to the training
of their young religious to inclusive
Atonement, the same society to which
he belongs. These postulants and
novices are men preparing for com
mitment to religious life as Friars of
“The economic development of the
African-American community is an essential
component in the fight against drugs...”
—Rev. Martin Carter
ministry. the Atonement. Tne seminarians are
The Friars whom Carter will be men studying for the Catholic
teaching are postulants, novices, and priesthood as members of the Society
seminarians of the Friars of the 0f the Atonement.
The rnars oi me awwhwui me
headquartered in Grayinoor, Gar
rison, N.Y. The society was founded
in the early 20th century by Father
Paul Wattson, an Episcopalian
priest. After their foundation in the
Episcopal Church, the Friars of the
Atonement became Roman Catholic.
Their principal work is in the area of
ecumenism. They have missions in
the United States, Europe, Jamaica,
Brazil, and Asia.
After Carter introduces the course
in multi-cultural ministry at the
seminar, he will travel to Brooklyn,
N.Y. There, he will develop a regional
(See REV. CARTER. P. 2)
The Carolinian
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VOL. 47. NO. 85
Sawed-Off Shotgun Used
Man Held In Slaying
Allegedly
Robbed 3
Employees
Caesar Lamont Johnson, 22, of
3904-B Tara Drive, who was released
from the Western Correctional
Center in Morganton on Aug. 10 after
serving a five-year sentence for
breaking and entering, was arrested
shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday in a
Raleigh park on the corner of Lane
and Idlewild streets.
Johnson is charged in the shooting
death of Jerry Wayne Powell, 31, of
5001 Eaglewood Drive, Raleigh.
Powell was gunned down by an
assailant in the Tara East apartment
complex on Wednesday when he
walked in on a robbery.
Johnson allegedly used a sawed-off
shotgun in the murder. He entered
the apartment complex office and
robbed three employees of about $100.
When Powell walked into the office,
witnesses said Johnson shot him once
in the midsection with a sawed-off
shotgun. The shooting took place
about middav Wednesday. The police
(See MURDER CHARGES, P. 2)
KiUTICAl ISSUES—Ms. WynonJa
Brewlngton-Burke, a native born Indian
ot North Carolina Is tha vice presidential
candidate ot the New Alliance Party.
She and Dr. Fulanl have made history
by becoming not only the first two
minorities, but tha first two temalos as
wall to mast the requirements lor
the presidency.
HERE ARE THE OPTlOHS-U. 8. Army CaptTEdwa^mvn^alnMuguitiiM’s
ROTC Recruitment officer talk* to an Incoming froihman student about the
option* for the reserve officers training corps as a member of the Falcon
Battalion. In addition to Saint Augustine's the program Includes Shaw UnhrorsHy
and Wasylan Colego In Rocky Mount.
Election Year 1988:
Environmental Crisis
BY DR. ALBERT E. JABS
An Analysis
Political candidates should be
made aware of the environmental
crunch and creeping crisis. They do
not have to go back and take Biology
101, although that might not be a bad
idea, but simple facts like acid rain,
the ozone layer, and polluted water
have been coming at us at least since
the classic work of Carson’s “Silent
Spring” in the 1960s.
The EPA speaks about the garbage
crisis—but already back in 1984 a Na
tional Geographic TV special, “The
Rain Forest,” told us that every hour
3,000 acres of rain forest are being
destroyed. We are not alarmists, but
the implications of this depletion are
that rain forest and what they do
could disappear in our lifetimes If
this is true, then we all had beuer
become informed environmentalists,
including our political candidates of
both parties.
Fundamentally, the environmental
issue is a moral question because it
deals with the created order. Whether
one espouses a “creationist” view or
an “evolutionist” perspective, the
issue is one or survival, some politi
cians may need to have two cups of
coffee—straight—to grasp the im
plications of this issue for their
respective constituencies.
As a people, we must insist that this
issue of caring for people and planet
be part of the party platforms and
kept on the front burner.
When each person in this country
generates 1,300 pounds of garbage
each year and when corporate
polluters have an “out of sight, out of
mind” approach, then it’s high time
that extravagance/wastefulness stop
and that the environmental laws be
tightened. The irresponsible rich and
wealthy need to heed this message
above all as they sponsor much of our
legislation and pollution.
Finally, since Gov. James Martin
of North Carolina is a Ph.D. in
chemistry from Princeton, he pro
bably has the best cognitive grasp of
the origin of the environmental crisis
of any chief executive and should pro
mptly spell out just what his en
vironmental policies are going to be
for the remainder of this century. We
will be watching.
REV. MARTIN J. CARTER
Jackaon’a Half
Brother Facing
Murder Chargee
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP)-A pro-"
secutor plans to seek the death penal
ty against Jesse Jackson’s half
brother for allegedly hiring members
of a Chicago street gang to kill a man
two years ago, a newspaper reported
last week.
Noah Robinson, a 45-year-old
Chicago businessman and Greenville
native, was charged with murder in
the 1986 slaying of Leroy “Hambone”
Barber, who was shot outside a
downtown building owned by Robin
son.
Robinson turned himself in to
police last Tuesday evening and was
in the Greenville County Detention
Center awaiting a bond hearing at
press time, Solicitor Joseph Watson
said.
Although Robinson and Jackson
share relatives in Greenville, the
former Democratic presidential
hopeful has said he has had no recent
contact with his half-brother.
Robinson, who has a home in Albu
querque, N.M., has business interests
in New Mexico. He owns fast food
restaurants in Alamogordo, Hobbs,
Roswell and Carlsbad and is involved
in plans to build a $10 million trucking
plaza in Albuquerque.
Robinson was the sixth person
charged with murder for Barber’s
slaying. Barber once worked for
Robinson in Chicago and the two men
had had several altercations over the
years, Greenville police have said.
Murder warrants were issued
(See JACKSON’S, P. 2)
Tawana Brawley
Relocating To
Virginia Beach
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-Tawana'
Brawley, whose alleged abduction
and rape by a gang of white men
sparked months of controversy, has
moved with her family to a luxury
apartment in Virginia Beach, Va., ac
cording to reports published last
week.
The family has stayed out of New
York state for the past several weeks
to avoid the arrest of Tawana’s
mother, Glenda Brawley, who was
sentenced to 30 days in prison for
refusing to testify before a grand jury
investigating her daughter’s case.
The familv. following the advice of
(See TAWANA BRAWLE P .2)
Hazel Davis Anticipates Role As
Principal In N.J. School System
BY WILBERT SANDERS
t'onlrMxilliiii Writer
The South Orange-Maplewood
School Dlatrict has appointed a
Raleigh native as an elementary
school principal and said she was the
best candidate out of more than too
applicants for the position.
Hazel Burnett Davis moves to the
South Orange-Maplewood School
District in New Jersey from the
Englewood Board of Education
where she was responsible for the
districtwide coordination of
guidance, testing business and career
education for the entire public scnool
system.
For over 18-years Ms. Davis has
had responsibilities in the field of
education and has held many ad
ministrative positions. “My ex
perience and training provide me the
qualifications necessary to effective
ly and successfully complete the Job
responsibilities of this poslion,” Ms.
Davis said.
Ms. Davis says she has worked as
educator and administrator in
various levels of education for more
Bush Leads Dukakis in
Two Most Recent Polls
Vice President George Bush led
Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in two polls
released last week, and one of them
by NBC News and the Wall Street
Journal, showed that one of Bush’s
greatest advantages was the national
defense issue.
The other poll, by the Gallup
organisation for the Times Mirror
Co„ found that one key to Bush’s
gains over the summer was his suc
cess in persuading disaffected voters
who tend to dislike government,
business and liberals, to shun
Dukakis.
Asked which candidate would be
better able to handle economic pro
blems, 46 percent named Bush, 44
percent named Dukakis. Sixty per
cent said Bush would be better able to
maintain a strong defense; 27 percent
chose the governor.
However, Dukakis struck back
forcefully after George Bush's visit to
his home grounds on Thursday, ac
cusing his Republican rival of being a
“fugitive from the truth” in portray
ing himself as a crimefighter and ad
vocate of education, the environment
and the elderly.
“What George Bush is doing to the
truth in this campaign is a crime,” he
said In his harshest attack vet nn
(See POLLS, P.2)
than 18 years and those positions
ranged from elementary to post
secondary and adult education.
Ms. Davis received a bachelor of
arts degree In business education
from St. Augustine’s College.
Previously she acquired masters of
education degrees inn Counseling
Psychology and Urban Education
from Rutgers University and Trenton
State College.
Ms. Davis began her career as a
teacher and a counselor at the Busch
Campus Education Center in New
MS. HA ^VIS
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