The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.,
ITHURSDAY^SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 17,1988
VOL. 47, NO. 100
N.C.’s Semi-Weekly "^25*
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST ELSEWHERE 300
J The Issues: A Look At
Conservatism In America
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NCCU Eagles Make Plans
For NCAA Playoffs
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ENHANCING EDUCATION-Lols Fisher, district manager far Saatlwm Ban In
IMalgh, presents a check lor a $60,000 grant te Shaw’s new president, Dr.
Talbert 0. Shaw. The grant from the BoMevth Foundation of Atlanta wM show
three professors to complete requirements for a doctoral degree.
New Grasit Sends Three
Shaw Professors Back
To School As Students
Three Shaw University professors
will be going back to school^under the
terms of a new grant announced to
day.
The $60,000 grant from the
BellSouth Foundation of Atlanta, Ga.
will allow three professors to com
plete the requirements for a doctoral
degree in the areas of science,
business or technology.
Ronald Swain, the university’s
director of development and plann
ing, said the grant was important for
Shaw, which is scheduled for re
accreditation in 1992.
“even though we are primarily a
liberal arts institution, we want to en
sure that we have a high-caliber
faculty in the areas of science and
technology,” he said. “We see the
university as being in a building
NEWS BRIEFS
N. TELECOM WILL
LAY OFF 200
Northern Telecom, Inc., in
Nashville, Tenn., said it is laying
off about 200 mid-level managers
in the Triangle in a cost-cutting
move at its division based in
Research Triangle Park. The
employees being laid off typically
have about four years service
with the company and can expect
about two months’ severance
pay. The company will continue
Insurance benefits for about 90
days.
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The 44th annual Christmas
Parade, sponsored by the
Raleigh Merchants Bureau, Inc.,
will be held Saturday, The parade
will begin at 10 a.m. at the in
teraectdlon of Hillsborough and
St. Mary’s streets. It will proceed
te the State Capitol, then turn
south on Salisbury Street to
Lenoir Street, where it will dis
band. The parade will include 22
marching bands and 43 floats.
POETRY READING
Gwendolyn Books, thb first
AMcan-Amerlcan author to win
a Pulitzer Prize, wUI give a
reading of her poetry Wednes
day. Nov. 30. at 1:15 p.m. at
North Carolina State University's
SUwart Theatre. The reading Is
free and open to the public.
Qnastion-and-answer period and
recaption will follow the reading.
Brooks, who won the Pulitzer in
ISM for "Annie Allen," will be
heaered the following night at
NCSU's annual University*
Community Brotherhood Dinner.
Par more information contact
lya-Ilu Moses at 737-2038.
YEAR-ROUND SCHOOL
Would you like to have your
child involved in educational ac
tivities throughout the year? If
so, you may be Interested in
Year-Round School, a new pro
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
mode in terms of the number of facul
ty members holding doctoral degrees
in their fields, attracting highly
qualified new faculty members and
attracting more students.”
Swain said the most immediate
beneficiaries of the grant will be the
professors, but that the students will
benefit in the long term.
“This will enhance the quality of
(See NEW GRANT, P. 2)
Enrollment,
Test Scores
Up For Blacks
CHAPEL HILL (AP>—Black
enrollment In the University of
North Carolina system and stan
dardised test scores for Incoming
freshmen have increased this
year, the UNC Board of Gover
nors was told recently.
Black enrollment grew 3.2 per
cent this academic year, said
Raymond Dawson, senior vice
president for academic affairs.
Overall enrollment of full-time
equivalent students in the system
is up 3.1 percent over 1987-88,.
with much of the increase coming
from in-state students, he said.
Only two campuses, East
(See ENROLLMENT, P..2)
African Americans Need To Revise
Grass Roots Movement For Progress
In the wake of Vice President
George Bush’s victory in the
presidential election, millions of
African-Americans and other racial
and ethnic citizens of the United
States are pondering the future. Will
the Bush administration be similar to
the Reagan administration? Will the
ranks of the poor and homeless con
tinue to increase? Will the incidents
of overt violence continue to in
crease? Will a Bush administration
continue to have “constructive
engagement” with the racist apar
[ theid regime of South Africa? And
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will the future for African-Americans Church of Christ, says the answers to
be any brighter during the next four these questions have to be pursued by
years? African-American leadership for
Those who are victimized because of
racism and economic exploitation must
organize and mobilize around a national
agenda that calls for social change.
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., ex- thrightiy.
ecutive director for the Commission “The last eight years have been
for Racial Justice of the United devastating economically as well as
iyu L,easn jluw
Wake Girl Killed By Dogs
ino Charges
Pending In
The Attack
A Raleigh tot was attacked and kill
ed by a dog Monday as she played on
ly 40 to 50 feet from her house.
Antoinette Renee Robinson, 3, went
outside to play behind her mother’s
home on Holly Springs Road off
Stephenson Road and never returned.
The dog, a cross-breed German
shepherd, was shot at the scene.
There apparently were two dogs in
the area, but when Wake Animal Con
trol and police officials arrived there
was only one at the scene.
Wake County officer S.M. Pickett
said, “The youngster was bitten all
over her body, with the biggest areas
being around her neck and shoulders.
“The dog looked like any normal
dog” when the officers arrived,
Pickett said, but became elusive and
started running back toward a wood
ed area at the time he was shot. “We
have sent the child’s body and the dog
to the state medical examiner's office
in Chapel Hill for comparisons bet
ween the bites on the child and the
dog.”
The animal’s body was first taken
from the scene to the Rollins Animal
Disease Lab for an autopsy. Dr. John
Atwell of the lab said, “The animal
was brought in by Wake County
Sheriffs at 2 p.m. Monday. The dog’s
weight was 82 pounds, and he was
killed by a shotgun. At that time
specimens were taken of blood that
was found on the animal’s collar.”
The law in Wake County states that
a pet four months or older must wear
a collar or harness, a current rabies
tag should be attached, but doesn't
have to be displayed.
(See NO CHARGES, P. 2)
If. S. Auto industry
Losing To Japanese,
Impacting On Blacks
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA News Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Two thing!
struck me recently about th<
Japanese and our “problem” witl
them: the amount of goods we pur
chase from them monthly, and a re
cent report from the University o
Michigan detailing how hard our auti
industry has been hit since 1879.
The financial pages of several U.S
newspapers glumly report that eacl
month Japan ships the United Statei
about $5 billion more In goods—auto
mobiles, TVs, precision machinery
etc., than the United States sells ti
Japan. That’s called trade im
balance, and translated further, 1
pegs America as a debtor nation.
Some Republicans say this is fin*
and makes our country great becaus*
ultimately this turns into foreign in
vestment which provides capital am
creates Jobs for the Amerlcai
economy. Some Democrats
however, squirm because they knov
the Japanese take excess dollars am
buy American real estate, banks am
manufacturing plants for very selfisl
Japanese reasons, not American.
For whoever owns the factories L
certain to determine the quality o
American Jobs and what wage scale
these Jobs will command. Indeed
they will determine, as the Japane*
are already doing, where the far
lories are located and who gets wha
Job. The plants have been located ii
areas largely inaccessible to black
and the high-paying Jobe such a
engineers, computer experts, plan
management, quality control direc
tor andadministrators as well as auto
franchises have gone for the most
part to those other than blacks.
1 Meanwhile, blacks are some of the
most consistent buyers of Japanese
; products—of their autos, radios and
TVs, VCRs, calculators, cameras,
’ etc. It is estimated that between 10
and 15 percent—some estimates go as
high as 20 percent—of Japan’s im
1 ports are purchased by blacks. They
1 are rewarded for this loyal support by
Japanese racist attacks that question
their intelligence, honesty, discipline
1 and work habits.
Listen to what Donald R. Deskins,
' Jr., a black professor at the Universi
ty of Michigan, says: "Since 1079, the
number of workers employed in the
1 American automotive manufacturing
| industry (in the Big Three—Ford,
1 Chrysler and General Motors) has
1 steadily declined by 18 percent from
1 one million employees in 1978 to
! 818,000 in 1984. It is important to
understand that the American
1 automobile industry has been and
1 continues to be a major provider of
employment for black workers. As
1 jobs in U.S. companies decline, the
newer Japanese plants, both
1 manufacturers and suppliers, are not
’ hiring blacks to a similar extent.
’ These newer Japanese plants locate
' in areas with few blacks, even fewer
1 than IS the case with new American t
1 plants. Many of the jobs provided hy
* American automotive manufacturing
| firms are being lost to Japanese com
1 petitiveness."
FNHTRM SICKLE CELL—(Left to right) DivM Bom, Vico President of PepsiCo
Food Systems, Dr. Charles Whitten, President of the National Association of
Sickle CoS Disease and Barry Johnson, Director of Affirmative Action for Ptzza
HuL Inc. Charity programs and partnerships are raising money In an effort to bring
about a cure lor sickle cel.
Social Security Eyes Rules
Changes To Limit Appeals
In a move that could leave millions
wondering where their next month’s
income will come from, the Social
Security Administration is drafting
new rules which would curtail the
rights of elderly and disabled people
to appeal the government's decisions
cutting off Social Security, Medicare
and welfare benefits.
In an effort to close the flood gates
to disadvantaged and disabled
Americans, the Social Security Ad
ministration's Office of Hearings and
Appeals lost more than 50 percent ol
the cases that were appealed. The
new rules are designed to increase
the government’s chances of winning
those appeals.
The new rules would affect millions
of Americans who seek or are already
receiving disability benefits, health
insurance through Medicare ot
welfare benefits front the Supplemen
tal Security Income program for the
aged, blind and disabled.
The draft states that the govern
ment will attempt to alter the form ol
its regulations and operating policies
and to emphasize the importance of
issuing rationalized decisions based
on well-defined, properly established
records.
Last year, the agency received 5.5
million claims and more than 300,000
appeals from its rulings. A review of
the draft by officials at the SSA was
recently completed and a final deci
sion is not expected until sometime
early next year.
The appeals process currently is in
formal, but the new rules would be
geared toward constructing a formal
process. The administration is at
tempting to clear up a backlog of
cases and overloads. The agency
received 250,000 requests for hearing
by administrative law judges, 57,000
requests for further reviews, 11,000
new civil actions in federal district
courts, which had a backlog of 44,000
Social Security cases.
The draft rules represent the first
attempt in the 40-year history of the
Social Security Administration to
amend the appeals process.
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politically for the African-American
community. Much of the progress of
the struggle for racial justice and
equality has eroded during the past
decade. There are more people who
are living in poverty today than in
1986,” Chavis said.
Chavis is traveling across the coun
try with a . delegation of eight
Angolans, most of them children with
(See GRASSROOTS. P. 8)
Judges'
Bench
STILL SEIZED
An old-fashioned type, all-copper
whiskey still was seized by Franklin
County lawmen in the Seven Paths
community of the county. The 8 a.m.
raid led authorities to the still that
was ready to run, but not fired up.
The still was confiscated, along with
two propane tanks, a burner and a
variety of other items.
DEATH SENTENCE
Jeffrey Karl Meyer, a former Fort
Bragg soldier, was sentenced to
death by a New Hanover County
Superior Court jury Tuesday for his
part in the slaying of an elderly
Cumberland County couple two years
ago.
Meyer pleaded guilty to the first
degree murder charges and received
separate death sentences for the kill
ing of Janie (62) and Paul (68) Kutz.
The jurors deliberated for about six
hours before returning the verdicts at
4:45 p.m.
Meyer, 22, was one of two soldiers
charged in the deaths. Co-defendant
Mark Edward Thompson, of Pen
sacola, Fla., has pleaded not guilty by
reason of insanity and awaits trial.
Meyer was discharged from the Ar
my earlier this year. He had pleaded
guilty to the charges earlier this year.
Investigators said the two men
were wearing black “ninja” clothing
and carrying blow-guns and other
martial arts weapons at the time of
the crime. After pleading guilty to the
murders, Meyers escaped from the
Cumberland County Jail last summer
but was recaptured.
VANDALS STRIKE
Two dozen mail boxes were van
dalized in the Brookhaven and
Stonehenge subdivisions in Nor
thwest Raleigh early Sunday morn
ing, according to Raleigh police. The
damage took place around 2 a.m.
Sunday . The first report of damage
was received shortly after 7 a.m.
from a resident. One resident told
police that she didn’t notice any
damage to her mailbox when she ar
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DONALU T. MOSS
Moss Tapped
As Kittrell Job
Corps Director
Management and Training Cor
poration recently announced the
selection of Donald T. Moes as
center director for the Kittrell Job
Corps Center in Kittrell. Moss, who
has been the deputy director for a lit
tle more than a year, replaced retir
ing cento: director James List.
Moss is a graduate of Southern
University in Baton Rouge, La. After
attending Howard University Law
School in Washington, D.C., Moss
began a distinguished career in both
the public and private sector.
(See MOSS. P.2)