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PASTOR (Continued from page l) of the old blessed “House of Prayer” back home is gone. That symbol of a spiritual link to the past and promissory note to the future is absent. And that praying and preaching person who reminds us of oUr hellish badness and God’s heavenly goodness has taken a trip which is much longer than a mere vacation. When a pastor dies, a struggle for power begins among those who have never been “born again” and who have never realized the power of Him who is the Holy Spirit. However, when a pastor dies, right-thinking church members know and understand that a spiritual psychoanalyst, group therapist, marriage counselor, a Scout leader, a civic leader, a fundraiser, a bookkeeper, a public relations expert and even a part-time gardener, plumber, and janitor is no longer available because a good shepherd is gone. But some other events take place when a pastor dies. Heaven shakes with shouts of the redeemed. Angels take a back seat in glory. Seraphim and cherubim quit flying around heaven with burning coals. Prophets, priests and kings stand at attention and salute his heavenly arrival. God orders heaven’s valet to transform himself into the preacher’s steward and present that pastor with a robe of purity, a crown of righteousness, some shoes made for walking on golden streets, and voice and throat relaxer because he or she will need to preach no more. Therefore, to all churches served by families of deceased pastors, allow me to inform you that those stalwart servants of the most high “Host of Heaven” have fought the good fight. They have “finished the race.” They have “kept the faith.” And because of their faithfulness, “Henceforth, there is laid up for [tMm] a crown of righteousness.” JAPAN (Continued from page 1) book called “American Assets.” Iii it, TRW says that investments here in America by Britons, Dutch and Japanese have grown dramatically in recent years. The Dutch and Britons are longtime investors and whilek Dutch investments have increased 150 percent, Japanese investments have zoomed 600 percent. The Japanese (Sony) have pur chased CBS Records for $2 billion. Japanese investments in the United States increased by $41.8 billion, ac cording to Makoto Kurado, a former Japanese trade minister. Nearly three million Americans (mostly white) are employed full-time or part-time at jobs in Honda, Nissan and Toyota plants in the United States. Studies show that foreign investors now own about 10 percent of America’s manufacturing base and 20 percent of all bank assets; 33 per cent of the prime commercial and real estate in the nation’s capital; 39 percent in Houston and 46 percent in Los Angeles. The purchase of American real estate seems to draw the most attention, but the buying up of U.S. manufacturing and banking assets poses perhaps a more troubl ing problem in the future for blacks and America. Increasingly, Japan is in the forefront of foreign investors in America. This is causing gray hair in some white business circles, in dicating a basic racist fear. They worry (and this is not always ar ticulated or admitted) that Japan’s foreign investment is another symbol of Japanese superiority, of Japanese forging into an economic lead and gobbling up American companies and real estate at bargain-basement prices made possible by a powerful yen, according to financial writer Hobart Rowen of the Washington Post. And ultimately—nightmare of all nightmares—of Japanese owning all of America! So while the white business chagrin may be triggered by fears that “alien ana tnrenor torces are threatening their commercial stranglehold on America’s and thus the world’s goods and services—fears that are no doubt rooted in racism—black consumers are enraged, but our fury is focused on real, not perceived, Japanese racist attitudes toward us. JUDGES' BENCH (Continued from page 1) ‘‘If we’re going to be conducting these tests, we’ve got to make damn sure they’re right,” said commission member Michael E. Okun of Raleigh. CONVICTED IN KILLING DURHAM—James F. Pope, III was convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery recently in the 1967 slaying of Matthew Howerton, an / assistant manager of a Durham Domino’s Pizza store. The six-man, six-woman jury deliberated Just more than two hours before returning the verdict. Pope also faces a Jan. 9,1969 trial in Raleigh, where he has been charg ed with first-degree murder in the September 1967 slaying of Matthew W. McClure, a clerk at the Wolfpack Buy Quik on Hillsborough Street. COCAINE SEIZED County and state officers seised 4.4 pounds of cocaine and arrested two men on drug charges near Raleigh Durham Airport after officers stop ped a car on Interstate 40 and Avia tion Parkway, Capt. Jimmy L. Brown R. McDaniels, 25, and Clark D. Waddell, 26, were arrested about 2:20 a.m. Both men are being held in the Wake County Jail on chargee of trafficking in cocaine by poaseeaka and transportation. Bond for each was set at 6200,000. Authorities did not know if the two had flown into the airport sr were just driving through the area. Capt. Brown said the arrest, made with the help of airport police, the State Bureau of Investigation and the N.C. IBghway Patrol, had been a matter of NEWS BRIEFS (Continued from page 1) The fee for the workshop in cludes instructions, refreshment breaks, lunch and certificate at tendance. To register, or receive further information, contact Planned Parenthood of Orange County, 1-929-5402 or Planned Parenthood of Greater Raleigh, 834-7534. INDIANS TO SERVE ON COUNCIL A council established by the N.C. General Assembly in July will advise the State Board of Education on ways to effectively meet the educational needs of In dian students in the state and ad vocate meaningful programs to reduce and eventually eliminate low achievement and high dropout rates among the state's Indian students. Eleven prominent North Carolinians have been recom mended by the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs to serve on the Indian Education Advisory Coun cil. GOVERNOR’S CRIME COMMISSION MEETS The Governor’s Crime Com mission Legislative Committee will meet on Oct. 7 from 1-4 p.m. in Room 6168 of the Dobbs Building. The committee will continue to review legislative items for inclusion in the Gover nor’s Crime Commission 1989 Legislative Program. NATIONAL AUDITING VIDEO CONFERENCE The Association of Governmen tal Accountants has selected Ed ward Renfrow to appear on a panel of experts who will discuss the new Government'Auditing Standards just issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office. These revised audit standards will have a significant impact on future audits of state and local government conducted by cer tified public accounting firms and government auditors. AGA selected Henfrow, N.C. state auditor,, to present the states’ perspective on the implements t ion of these standards because of his |xtenslve involvement in the process of developing those st§p» darsd and bis leadeeohiirtnthe National Association of Auditors ^TINTED VEHICLE /WINDOWS REGULATED Tinted windows will bo includ ed In North Carolina's motor vehicle safety inspection pro gram storting Nov. I, Comls stoner William 8. Hiatt of toe North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles said recently. The Inspection will enforce compliance with a revised 1MT lew that requires at least M per cent of Ike outside light to penetrate the tinting film applied to windows used for visibility In toe rear of the vehicle and for windows on either side of toe “Many people believe that the adversarial nature of collective bar’gaining has discouraged needed candor and cooperation, and has undermined unity of pur pose,” said Johnathan T. Howe, NSBA Immediate past president and a local school board member in Northbrook, III., in suburban Chlcigo. ROWAN VERDICT (Continued from page l) but this was uncertain. Earlier, the courtroom was tense and a graying Rowan sat with crest fallen countenance when Judge Burnett announced that “The court has received a note... that you [the jury] have not been able to reach a unanimous conclusion. You should yet continue and if you need further instructions send the court an explicit note...” But after lengthy delibera tions, nine jurors were still reported ly for finding Rowan not guilty; three steadfastly for conviction. Asked if he would throw a party after it was over, a grim-faced Rowan told NNPA, “I’ll have to think about it. I’m not talking until this is over.” When the jury returned with its hopelessly deadlocked announce ment, Rowan did not seem especially chagrined. He left the courtroom with his wife, Vivien; son, Carl, Jr., a former FBI agent whose gun he said he gave his father was the crux of the charge; and attorney Raul Carroll, and several others. This case has been one of the most celebrated in recent D.C. history. There have been elements of the bizarre. It has been laced with charges of racism, foot-dragging on the part of the city in bringing charges because of Rowan's celebrity status. It has also been charged that Mayor Marion Barry could have quashed the case but wouldn't because he wanted to silence, or punish, a respected critic. NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks sent Barry a letter urging him to do that, but Barry said he couldn’t by law dismiss the case. Then there was Carl Rowan, himself, the strong anti-handgun ad vocate, shooting a white teen intruder with a weapon whose possession in the public’s hands he has loudly con demned time and time again with his columns. Critics cried “hypocrite.” Rowan charged “entrapment by estoppel” in tht he was led by police to believe he was within the law in possessing the gun, then being charg ed with its illegal possession. Local radio talk shows have been inundated by an unusually large number of phone calls declaring that Rowan is not guilty and asserting that he would not be in the dock if he were white, and the midnight intruders in his private swimming pool and yard were black. News cameras were an chored in front of the District Superior Court building like machine gun emplacements. Print jour nalists—reporters—jammed the relatively small courtroom^ quickly filling the reserved press Seats, and standing around the walls. The plain curious onlookers were kept at bay by the deputy marshals. If one didn’t know better, you’d think you were covering the sensational Manson felony trial, not a dinky little trial in vnlvino an oIHapIv man tuifh a nnn gun protecting his home against in truders, one of whom was slightly wounded. The facts of the case are at once simple and complex. He was charged with two counts of illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. Defense at torney Carroll, however, was permit ted to surface the more emotional issue: of a lone man, edgy over receiving a long string of callers*, threatening to kill him for his witting" against the Ku Klux Klap, < his home with ajunJhatiflg son had given hin^UHnepurpose. The pro segitorr Thomas C. Collier, charged that the circumstances under which the gun was used were irrelevant. The fact that Rowan possessed the weapon and ammunition illegally constituted the crime in the District of Columbia. Rowan and Carl, Jr., have repeated proclaimed the senior Rowan’s in nocence and charged that the D.C. firearms registration law is am biguous, that young Rowan was assured by several police officers that as an FBI agent he did not need to register the gun, that the gun u%s exempt from the law, even after he left the FBI and, most importantly, that the father was covered by this exemption as well. The prosecution charged that since 1975 when the District gun registration law was enacted (with several months’ grace for those who wanted to “grand father” their guns under the law), it has been illegal for citizens to own a handgun in the city. On a post-midnight date, June 15, Rowan said he was awakened by someone trying to jimmy his bedroom window. He called police, picked up a .32-caliber pistol and went to in vestigate. When he opened his door, be told the court, a figure advanced out of the darkness. After warning the intruder several times, to “stop, freeze, I have a gun,” Rowan said he fired at the intruder’s feet. The bullet hit Ben Smith, 19, a white youth, in the wrist. According to police, Smith ran around the house crying, ‘‘The old bastard, the old man, shot me.” Smith and a companion, Laura Bachman, 19, also white, were ar rested. But their sentences were dismissed in lieu of performing com munity services. Rowan declared that on nearly 20 other occasions white teens had clambered over an eight-foot fence, and gone for uninvited swims in his private pool. He said they left mari juana cigarette butts, beer cans and bottles and “evidence of sex” strewn about the pool. An assistant pro secutor who asked not to be named told NNPA that Rowan’s assertion of fear for his and his family’s safety prompted his keeping the handgun was not justified. “D.C. law does not prohibit ownership of a rifle or a shotgun, both of which can be easily registered by police,” he said. If convicted, Rowan could have faced up to two years in jail and a $2,000 fine. GARTH REEVES (Continued from page 1) including The CAROLINIAN, serving a total of 3.5 million readers. Reeves said that, as president of the API Board of Directors, he planned to pro mote the group more aggressively. “This new leadership represents a new thrust,” he said. “There are tremendous challenges facing API. We’re prepared to deal with these challenges forcefully, aggressively and positively.” The API Board of Directors also elected Ernie Pitt, publisher of the Winston-Salem Chronicle, vice presi dent. Amos Lvnch. vice nresident for t advertising and promotion at the Cleveland Call and Post, was elected secretary. Waverly Easley, president and publisher of the Philadelphia Tribune, was re-elected treasurer. Other members of the board are Sengstacke, Jane Woods of the St. Louis Sentinel and John Oliver, publisher of the Afro-American newspapers. Reeves, who had previously served as the board’s vice president, said that, as the advertising community becomes more targeted, Afro American newspapers and the API would be the medium through which black consumers can be reached. He said that API has commissioned studies which have provided detailed demographic profiles of black newspaper readers, and that API is now prepared to present marketing concepts which are supported by the studies. PRISON (Continued from page 1) Aug. 10 and Sept. 16. In order to meet the cap legislation-imposed deadline, 1,967 inmates were either paroled, released upon completing their sentences, or left prison upon suc cessful appeal of their convictions during that same period. “We, as a state, must embrace Cov. Martin's two-pronged approach if we are to avoid reducing our prisons to little more than a revolving door of justice,” Wilson added. “The need to build more prisons is critical.” Both Johnson and Wilson predict that the special provisions will be in voked again before the end of the year. To reduce the prison population, the law states that the Parole Com mission can only consider inmates oliaiKlo frtr narnlp lYnurovor Hiirino n population emergency, the pool of eligible inmates expands to incluide Fair-Sentencing Act felons nine mon ths before their release date (instead of the original 90-day re-entry parole) and all misdemeanants (except those serving sentences for assault and related crimes). With the triggertng of the special .jwovRTdns of the cap legislation, the state was required to stop accepting short-term misdemeanants, those serving 30 to 180-day sentences, into the prison system. Those admissions will resume immediately. Although the law also gives the secretary of correction the authority to return short-term misdemeanants already in the state prison system to local confinement facilities, the state was not required to do so during this prison population emergency. In an effort to maintain a prison system that is just, humane, and con stitutionally defensible, the construc tion of 3,768 beds and support facilities have been authorized since January 1965. Even with that con struction, the state is still approx imately 1,000 beds shy of the number needed to establish a standard of 50 square feet per inmate, one that is believed to be constitutionally defen sible. The 1968 General Assembly ap propriated $17.4 million for construc tion of 624 medium-custody beds and support facilities. That was $10.5 million and 352 beds less than recom mended by Martin in his supplemen tal budget request. Figures released last month also showed that the Division of Adult Pro bation and Parole’s caseload has risen 38 percent during the past year. The total number of persons under DAPP supervision stood at 73,007 in July. Although the General Assembly did appropriate money for the hiring of 29 probation/parole officers, super visors, and support staff, the lawmakers tagged the allocation with a provision that freezes hiring for these positions until Feb. 1,1900. The legislature also chose not to fund 14 additional intensive probation posi tions and 34 clerical positions re quested in the governor’s budget. DR. B.C. YOUNG, SR. Dr. B. C. Young, 72, Dead Here ' After Illness Dr. B.C. Young, Sr., pastor of Rush j Metropolitan AME Zion Church, died , Sept. 28 at Wake Medical Center. He | was 71 years old. , Dr. Young was active in the AME , Zion Church for more than SO years, serving in both lay and clerical posi- j tions. Born in Batesville, Miss., he | spent his years before coming to , Raleigh working with the AME Zion ( Church in Mississippi, Georgia and • Tennessee. He was appointed to Rush j Metropolitan as its pastor in 1871 and , remained there until his death. t During his tenure at Rush , Metropolitan, the membership rolls | increased and the financial condition ] of the church improved dramatically. New member organizations and j choirs sprang up to accommodate the bulging membership rolls and the , church’s buildings expanded, with a , two-story educational wing being among the first of Rev. Young’s con- , struction projects. Land was ac- ( quired for further expansion of the church and in 1983 the mortgage was , burned. Rush has been located at its , present location, S58 E. Cabarrus St., 4 since 1941. \ Dr. Young received an honorary ] doctorate from Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, S.C. and served on the | finance committee of the Central. ( North Carolina Conference, giving ) him the financial savvy some say to « lead Rush Metropolitan into and keep it in the black, while expanding the { church proper. t He was a father and husband, and t those surviving him include his wife, ] Chrystene S. Young; five sons, B.C. < Young, Jr., Robert Alexander, James Edward, Alfred LeBron and Reuben Franklin; one brother, Rev. A.W. Young; three sisters, Ms. Cansada Smith, Ms. Gertrude Cathey and Ms. Etta Smith; 10 grandchildren and many others. His funeral services were held at the church Oct. 2 and Dr. N.L. Stroud officiated. His body was interred at Carolina Biblical Gardens on Oct. 3. Americans See Record High Education Level Americans reached record high levels of educational attainment in both high school and college inl987, according to a report released last week by the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau. Seventy-six percent of adults age 25 or over had completed at least four years of high school, the highest level in the history of the Current Popula tion Survey, the bureau said. The previous high of 75 percent was recorded in 1986. One in five adults age 25 and over had completed four or more years of college in 1987. The proportion of the population attaining this educational level has doubled in the last 20 years. Differences in educational levels Deiween popuiauon groups also ware noted in the report. While 77 parent of white adults had completed M£i — school, the proportion of blacks was 63 percent. “Examination of the pro portions over time for the two races indicates that the gap has narrowed considerably, even if the past 10 years, but is still large," the report said. At the college level, 21 percent of whites had completed four or more years compared with 11 percent of blacks. Hispanics registered educational attainment' levels below those of whites and blacks. In 1M7,51 percsnt of Hispanics age 25 or over had com pleted high school and nine percent, four or more years of college. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION OF THE RALEIGH CAROLINIAN, INC. Published bl-weekly at Raleigh. N.C., required by the Act of October a, IMS. Section ISM, Title M. United States Cede. Statement of 11 months ending October l, IMS. Number of Issues published annually: 12. Location of known office of Publication Is SIS E. Martin Street. Raleigh. N.C., County of Wake. ZIP Code S7M1. The name and addres of Publisher/Editor Is P.R. Jervay, Sr.. MM Brenda Drive, Rulolgh, NC STMS. Editor: None. Managing (Editor: None. Owner of The CAROLINIAN, Inc., Is P.R. Jervay, Sr. lager bolding quo A. Total no. copies printed (net of foiol amount ofboadst ffnH|fHti Avg. no. copies Actual no. US B. Paid Ctrealatlea: 1. carriers, 2. C. Total I D. Free MstrlbnUon (ii samples) by null, carrier, or S.SS8 S.14S i,Tse S.7IS MIC l.TSS 842 E. Total dlstribntlen (snm of CAD): F. Ceptos net dtstributed l. Office nan, leftover, naae 1,772 IS* (I i of E, FI ISC MSS In A): I r rrtlfr tbit tbf itatomoati made by mtr i Signed: PJt. JERVAY. JR., AMOCIATEPUBUSHER Living Well Inc. Slapped With Consumer Charges Attorney ueneral Lacy H.Thorn jurg obtained a consent judgment Tuesday against LivingWtll, Inc., a lealth spa chain accused of violate* state consumer protection laws. “We took this action through the court because the firm failed to honor its earlier agreement with my rffice,” Thornburg said. “We also were getting an increasing numbsr of complaints about the firm’s closing yr relocating facilities without notify ing its members. And, we wars gat ing too many complaints about lelays in refunds to the members el ected by the dosings.” When a health spa doses or -docatee a facility, state law re juireo the spa to issue a 90 percent ro und for unused services within 10 lays after a member requests it. Thornburg said, “People who Joins lealth spa have a moral and legal ight to be treated fairly. Our laws governing the operation of those interprises are dear and easy to inderstand. There’s no excuse far ailing to comply. Certainly there's 10 excuse for abusing the law after igreeing to comply ” LivingWell, denying any wrongdo ng, is now under court order to pay he state of North Carolina $39,011 la ittorneys’ fees and administrative nets aixl $15,000 in civil penaMss. ["he health spa firm already had paid he state $50,000 in its January W7 ettlement agreement over certain idvertising and sales practlees, nember refunds and alleged viola ions of the state’s debt collection aws. The court order permanently en oins LivingWell from: • Closing or relocating any facility without first posting a notice to its nembers; • Closing or relocating any facility without notifying the attoraoy eneral 30 days in advance; •Misrepresenting available acr ices; •Selling “lifetime” memberships r memberships extgended beyond he three-year limit allowed by state sw. According to officials in Thorn iurg’8 consumer protection sgsncy, onsumer complaints against the ealth spa now number more than 00. In 1987 and 1988, the attoraoy eneral's office received complaints bout LivingWell closings In isheville, Burlington, Goldsboro, lickory. High Point, Raleigh, tatesville and Thomasville. Anniversary trustees of Oak City Baptist Church, 008 Method Road, Raleigh, will celebrate their an niversary Sunday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. Dr. W.B. Lewis, pastor el First Cosmopolitan Baptlat Church, will be the gumt speaker. All are Invited to attend.