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RALEIGH, N.C.,
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
OCTOBER 13,1968
VOL. 47, NQ; 90
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Shooting
Occurs In
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Two Raleigh men have been ar
reeted in connection with the death of
a third lait week.
Leon Henry, 31, of 2340 Fox Ridge
Manor in Southeast Raleigh, was shot
in the back and the bullet pierced his
heart, killing him.
According to police, the Oct. 6 inci
dent allegedly Involved two men in a
section of Southgate Apartments that
Is government-subsidised and known
as a late-night hangout.
The police arrested Perry Ralph
Warren, 29, of 1234 New Bern Avenue,
and Anthony Lamont Boyd, 21, of 2287
Fox Ridge Manor Apartments on Oct.
7. Michael Hinton, 31, of 718 Quarry
St., was also taken Into custody.
The arrests took place at the Em
bassy Suites Hotel on Creedmoor
Road. Warren was arrested in the
hotel where rooms range from
$108-8119 a day. He has been charged
with murder and is being held without
bond.
Also held without bond and charged
with murder was Boyd, who was pick
ed up on New Bern Avenue in the
vicinity of the Variety Pick-Up. Later
that day, Hinton was charged as an
accessory after the fact.
Witnesses said that the incident
took place in the presence of a group
(See SHOOTING DEATH, P. 2)
NEWS BRIEFS
BACK TO ROOTS
The YWCA Hargett Street
Branch will honor six women who
contributed to the early develop
ment of the branch In the mld-and
late-lMOs at the second annual
“Back To Our Roots” banquet.
Tributes will he paid to Ms. Gila
Harris, Ms. Dorothy Lane, Ms.
TuHa Turner, Ms. Susie V. Perry,
Ms. Hattie Edmondson and the
late Ms. Vivian Brown. The
heynote speaker will be Ms.
Gladys Graves, immediate past
president of the North Carolina
Association of Educators. The
banquet is sponsored by the
Hargett Street Branch Commit
tee on Administration and will be
held on Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:30
p.m.
NEW SHOPPING CENTER
Poag A Thompson Develop
ment Co. recently announced that
Phase I of its MUIbrook Collec
tion Shopping Center will open in
early December. The
10,202-square-foot shopping
center located at MUIbrook Road
and Atlantic Avenue will be an
chored by a S2,337-square-foot
Kroger supermarket.
PRESIDENTIAL VISIT
With North Carolina regarded
as having one of the closest con
tests In the South fat the presiden
tial electdlon, RepubUcans are
bringing In President Ronald
Reagan to campaign for vice
President George Busk, Gov.
James G. Martin and the rest of
the Republican ticket. The presi
dent Is expected to attend a rally
and fundraiser. An appearance
(See NEWS HHu.ro, t. *>
AFRICAN TRA8EDY - Rev. Ren|amin Chavis holds a child
in Huambo, Angola. The child’s log has bean amputated altar
he stepped an a land mine planted by UNITA. Also pictured Is
Rev. Al Sampson, Rev. Leon White and Rev. Irv Bryer, who
are African-American church leaders.
Angola War Victims Making Visit
To U.S. As Symbol Of Suffering
The Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.,
executive director of the Commission
for Racial Justice of the 1.7 million
member United Church of Christ, has
announced that the Commission for
Racial Justice will sponsor a delega
tion of Angolan citziens to visit the
United States within a week.
T7 ■ .
Conference To
Focus On Aiding
Black Children
The North Carolina Conference on
Educating Black Children will be
held at the Mission Valley Quality
Inn, 2110 Avent Ferry Road, Oct.
14-15.
This conference is designed to im
plement within each school system in
North Carolina the Blueprint for Ac
tion II which was developed by the
National Conference on Educating
Black Children.
Keynote speakers will include Dr.
Donald Clark, director, Bureau of
Educational Planning and Testing,
Pennsylvania Department of Educa
tion; Dr Talbert Shaw, president of
Shaw University; and Dr. Dudley
Flood, associate superintendent,
North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction.
There will be workshops and
presentations of exemplary educa
tion programs that incorporate the
Blueprint for Action II. Panel discus
sions by students, teachers, parents
and leaders in education and the com
munity will focus on such issues as
"Effective Schools and the Black
Child," “Bridging the Gap Between
School and Community; Strategies
that Work;" “Self-Esteem and the
Black Child;” “Teaching Black
Children—Is There a Difference?;”
“Conflict Resolutions for Students;”
“...And Justice for All,” and “Testing
and Evaluations: Implications for
Black Students.”
The North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction has approved cer
tificate ranewal credit of 1.2 units to
(Saa EDUCATING, P. 2)
Dr. Chavis stressed, “It is urgent
that we bring to the United States
some of the victims of the war being
waged against Angola by the South
African and United States-backed
group known as UNITA led by Jonas
Savimbi. The Reagan-Bush policy of
attempting to destabilize Angola is an
inult to ad African people. We must
challenge George Bush directly
because his hands are drenched with
the blood of our people. The people of
Angola are our people and we must
reach out to them in a way that helps
to stop their suffering. UNITA and
Savimbi are terrorist bandits sup
ported by racist apartheid and sup
ported by racist Reagan-Bush.”
The delegation of Angoland citizens
left Angola several days ago en route
to the United States. They are^ cur
rently in Portugal awaiting U.S.State
Department approval of their visa
applications. The first stop of the
delegation will be in New York and
then on to Newark, Chicago,
Washington, D.C., Detroit, Birm
ingham, Raleigh and Los Angeles.
The Commission for Racial Justice
has arranged for members of the
delegation to receive medical care, to
meet with members of Congress and
church and civil rights leaders in an
effort to stop all future funding to
UNITA.
Rev. Chavis and 18 other African
American leaders have recently
(See WAR VICTIMS, P. 2)
AIDS Battle Rages As Experts Plan A
Campaign To Increase Public Awareness
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
A conference on "An awareness of
cultural values and norms: The
Black Community’s Response To
AIDS” was held on the campus of
NCCU at the Health Sciences
Building and was well attended by
people from all over the state and
across the country. The AIDS
phenomenon and its spread has been
well documented but never was its
impact on the black community
presented in such stark terms as
during this conference of health care
professionals and social and
community workers.
The AIDS epidemic can no longer
be considered a homosexual disease
of the white, middle class, for the
black community is the hardest hit
community of any minority in the
country. Along with the high infant
mortality rate, incidences of cancer,
heart disease, drug abuse and
teenage pregnancy, AIDS has the
potential to decimate the black
community in the minds of many
health care people, yet with such
potential for disaster, the black
community, known for its
progressive stands on other social
issues, appears to be plagued with the
same misgivings, doubt and
ignorance concerning the spread of
AIDS as the general population. This
has caused considerable inaction and
resistance to community
involvement in helping with the
treatment of the disease.
The statistics are alarming, but
bear repeating at this time insofar as
the disease impacts the black
community. Every two hours,
according to federal government
records, a black person dies of AIDS;
fit percent of all babies bom with
AIDS, are black; 53 percent of all
children with AIDS are black and 52
percent of all women with the disea; e
are black. For North Carolina the
figures are even more dramatic and
sobering.
While black people make up 22
percent of the population in the state,
they comprise 45 percent of known
AIDS cases. Among women with the
disease, 78 percent of the known
cases of AIDS are black. The most
frightening statistic of all is 55
percent of all AIDS cases have
resulted in death. Wake County ranks
second among those North Carolina
counties with AIDS topped only by
Mecklenburg County with 96 known
cases. The other four counties ranked
after Mecklenburg and Wake are in
descending order: Forsyth, Durham
and Cumberland counties, tied for
fourth, and Guilford County. These
figures are current as of September
27 and were obtained from the North
Carolina Department of Human
Resources. These statistics
demonstrate^eai ly that the disease
is not a fejgke, homosexual male
disease. How then does the disease
spread so rampantly throughout the
black community? Dr. Reed
Tuckson, Commissioner of Health for
Washington, D. C. says the reason is
because there are a larger number of
intravenous drug users who engage in
unprotected sexual activity. This in
turn leads to the infection of the sex
partner with the virus; that partner
usually being a female, who then
(See AIDS, P. 2)
Permanent Home And Care
Brotherly Team Deserves
A Fa
Maurice and Marshall are keeping
an eye on their friend’s car.
They often scold her about how dir*
ty it is and remind her that she needs
to take better care of her automobile.
Perhaps their friend is just more
concerned with the care of 10-year
old Maurice and U-year-old Marshall
than she is with the cleanliness of her
car.
She is one of the social workers who
is helping find a permanent home for
the boys.
Marshall and Maurice entered
social service care in 1904 when their
mother recognised that she could not
provide for their care. Although she
loved her sons, she couldn't give them
the home she wanted them to have.
The Children's Home Society of
North Carolina Is searching for a per
manent home for the boys now.
Marshall and Maurice got along
well with their roeter family. The
family hae a son who, like Marshall ]
and Maurice, entered fifth grade this
fall, the three boya became very
cloae.
Seeing that her sona were happy in
their foeter family environment,
Marahall and Maurice'* mother
decided to release her custody of
them. s
The boys' father, who has had little
contact with them since their birth,
also gave his consent for their adop
tion.
Maurice and Marshall have thrived
through the nurturing of their foster
family. With encouragement from
their foster parents, both boys have
done well in school and enjoy par
ticipating in church and community
activities.
Marshall is an enthusiastic young
(See ADOPTION. P. j)
Lt. Gov. Jordan Stresses
Concern Over Drug Abuse.\
Trafficking Epidemic In N(>
BY E.H. HINTON
Staff Writer
A comprehensive plan of tougher
laws, convictions, longer sentences,
education and rehabilitation will be
) necessary if North Carolina is to ef
fectively deal with the spreading pro
blem of drug smuggling and
; substance abuse.
At least, that is the assessment of
Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan, the Democratic
candidate for governor. Jordan
discussed the drug problem in North
Carolina recently in an interview
with The CAROLINIAN.
Jordan said, “North Carolina is
confronting the problem with a great
deal more success and effectiveness,
through education, training, enforce
ment of laws, convictions and senten
cing of violators."
He also stated that one of the many
disadvantages that North Carolina
faces in the fight is its access from
major waterways. Although the
shores are patrolled, it is still difficult
to catch every smuggler. However,
Jordan said, with better planning,
stiffer laws, convictions and sentenc
ing of drug offenders would send an
Infinitely clear message that North
Carolina will neither tolerate nor con
done drug, use, abuse or possession
on the part of anyone In the state.
Jordan also pointed out that with
the continued economic growth of the
(See ROBERT JORDAN, P. 2)
LT. GOV. BOB JORDAN
Blacks Refusing To Hit
Japanese In Pocketbook
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA New* Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-After more
than 400 years In America, blacks in
the past 20 years have made signifi
cant advances but a "vast economics
chasm” still remains between them
and white Americans. Twenty years
ago, blacks earned 57 percent of
every dollar whites earned. Today,
blacks earn 56 percent of the white
dollar, which is indicative of a
broadening gap between the races.
That’s one economics view.
There is another. Former Federal
Reserve board Governor Andrew
Brimmer of Brimmer & Co., a
Washington, D.C. econoimcs and
financial consulting firm, told NNPA
that Bureau of Census income figures
for black Americans in 1987 totaled a
whopping $220 billion. Brimmer com
pany’s projected 1988 figures for
black incomes as of Sept. 19 had
escalated to $250 billion.
Brimmer, who was the Fed’s first
black member, says that blacks,
through increased wages and
salaries, will close the gap quickly
between themselves and the white
population, despite present ap
pearances. Brimmer agrees there is
a yawning gap between black and
white income. He merely predicts a
rapid closing of that gap through ris
ing black income. But, although the
Brimmer figures which truly place
black America’s GNP (gross national
product—the sum total of its goods
and services) amono the top 10 (it is
number nine) in the world, they don't
begin to tell the whole story. The
Bureau of Census figures, impressive
as they appear, are only 7.4 percent of
total U.S. money income. The 1988
Brimmer projections Increase that
percentage only slightly, to 7.54 per
cent.
Although black business sales in
1987, according to the Bureau of Cen
sus, were $18.2 billion, this was only a
puny .334 percent of total U.S
business sales. Brimmer Co. projects
a healthier 1988 $20.1 billion sales in
black business. This is still a frail 340
percent of total U.S. business sales
Brimmer Co. projects slower black
business growth ahead. This is large
ly due to the fact that blacks do no!
concentrate on buying among black
businesses, but spend across the
spectrum.
Much of this poses a uilemma for
blacks in America who are angry at
Japanese racist attacks and want to
hit where it will hurt the Japanese
(See BLACK TARGKT. P. 2i
Judges'
Bench
INDICTED BY GRAND JURY
Two women were indicted by the
Wake County Grand Jury here on
charges of accessory after the fact of
murder. Betty Johnson, 42, and her
daughter, Wanda Deniese, 16, were
indicted on one felony count of
accessory after the fact in the
shooting of Jerry Wayne Powell
during a robbery at Tara East
apartment complex. According to the
indictments, both mother and
daughter offered 22-year-old Caesar
Lamont Johnson assistance in
eluding and escaping detection after
the alleged robbery and murder.
RAPE CHARGES
A 16-year-old Raleigh teen will be
tried as an adult on charges that he
beat and tried to rape a 63-year-old
West Raleigh woman in March
Michael Calvin Whitaker of 312
Camden St., was indicted by a grand
jury on charges of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill
inflicting serious injury, attempted
rape, and in an unrelated case,
breaking and entering, larceny and
possession of stolen property.
SENTENCED TO DEATH
James F. “Jimmie” Pope III was
sentenced to death for the 1987
slaying of a Durham pizza store
worker. Pope, 29, of 119 Hudson St.
and 3500 Donna Drive in Raleigh, was
convicted in the fatal shooting of
Matthew T. Howerton, an assistant
manager at Domino’s Pizza on
Roxboro Rd. in Durham August 30,
1987.
(See JUDGES’ BENCH. P. 2>