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RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 48. NO. 12
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 12,1989
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
IN RALEIGH 250
ELSEWHERE 30*
NAACP ftotds Installation
Ceremonies For Officers
Page 9
Special Issue Celebrates
Dr. King Holiday
Page 17
Advancing The Dream
Dr. M.L. King: Spirit Of A Movement
The Raleigh-Wake Martin Luther
King Celebration Committee turned
to Atlanta, Ga., to find ita keynote
apoeker for the 1MB King Ecumenical
Obeervance to be held Monday, Jan.
M» It noon at the Raleigh Civic
Center.
The Rev. Dr. Vernon C. King, the
late Dr. King's nephew, ia thought to
be one of the beat young public
•peekera in America today. Known
for hia physical likeness to Dr. King,
from an early age he began to absorb
BRIEFS
MEASLES OUTBREAK
'Central North Carolina li ex
periencing a significant measles
outbreak, according to officials
srith the N.C. Division of Health
Services. Dr. Rebecca
Meriwether or the division's
Communicable Disease Control
Branch says more than 100 cases
Of measles have been reported In
Rowan County In recent weeks.
She adds that additional cases
are suspected in Cabarrus, Mon
tgomery, Davie, Davidson,
Manley, Iredell, Gaston and
Caldwell counties.
AUDIT REPORT
State Auditor Edward Renfrow
released a performance audit
report titled “Department of
Commerce: Division of Travel
and Tourism and North Carolina
Film Office" recently. The report
examines the management and
operation of the Division of
Travel and Tourism and the
North Carolina Film Office and
provides findings and recommen
dations designed to Improve
those areas.
CENTURY 21 CAREER
WEEK
Century 21 offices in North
Carolina will participate in
Career Opportunity Week,
scheduled for Jan. 16-22.
Throughout the week, individuals
considering a career change or
those Just entering the workforce
are encouraged to contact their
local Century 21 offices to learn
j more about real estate careers.
There is no fee or obligation.
KING S DAUGHTER TO
SPEAK
Ms. Yolanda King, daughter of
the late Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr„ will address the annual King
Observance at A&T State Univer
sity on Friday, Jan. 13. She will
speak at the Harrison Auditorium
at 11 a.m. The program is open to
the public.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
FORUM
The first meeting of the
Children's Services Forum, a
group of about M agencies and
organisations providing direct
service# to children, will Identify
key priorities for children In the
IMt session of the N.C. General
Assembly.
The forum will serve as a clear
inghouse across the state on
children’s Issues, promote coor
dination among service agencies,
end provide specialised training
for nonprofit agencies on fun
draising, management,
budgeting, etc.
WORLD WHO'S WHO OF
umuncai
VVUMtN
Ms. Sarnh L. Glover, public
relations director for the Garner
Road Family YMCA, has been
extended an Invitation by the
"World Who’s Who of Women,"
Cambridge, England, for Indu
sioa In the 10th commemorative
edition slated for ISM.
PUBUCHEARING
Wake County Opportunities,
Inc., will bold a public hearing to
review and develop projects from
their activities on Jan. IS at MT
R. Hargett St. The public is en
couraged to attend the meeting to
review, make comments and give
recommendations about the pro
poned 1888-90 Community Ser
vices Block Grant planned ac
Hrfttse. ' ■
the Ideals and teachings of his uncle.
Young Dr. King is a graduate of
Morehouse College where he obtained
a bachelor of arts degree in religious
studies and sociology. He is currently
pursuing a master’s in divinity at
Leadership Conference. He also
serves on the adjunct faculty of the
Martin Luther King Center for Non
violent Social Change, Inc.
One of the founders of the King
Committee and its current co
“The perpetuation of a dream has to be
carried on by the people. It involves people.
Everybody ought to pick this flag up and not
allow it to trail in the dust...“
Dr. W.B. Lewis
Candler Theological School at Emory
University in Atlanta. He was ordain
ed in 1985 at the historic Ebenezer
Baptist Church and is a member of
the Concerned Black Clergy for
Atlanta and the Southern Christian
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chairman, Raleigh community ac
tivist Bruce Lightner, stated in an ex
clusive interview with The CAROLI
NIAN, “Our full committee works
very hard to bring to our community
the best that it can find. We should all
be very grateful for the commitment
and vision these people display year
after year."
When asked what he’d like for
citizens to do on the King holiday,
Lightner said, "The King holiday
should mean to us a time to reflect
and recommit. We must always con
tinue. to strive for a better communi
ty... a better society. I'd like to see
everyday, ordinary citizens from all
sectors of Raleigh and Wake County,
black and white... I’d like to see
parents and grandparents grab a
cherished loved one or an astray
teenager by the hand and say, "Come
an, we’re both going to do something
meaningful on this day.
Lightner continued, “The King holi
lay gives us an excellent opportunity
to not only celebrate Dr. King and the
treat accomplishments he made, but
(See DR. KING, P. 2)
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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NAACP Seeks Hit-Run Driver
Teens Say
No To lie
Detectors
A car-bashing incident which took
place Dec. 22,1988 and left one person
dead and three others seriously in
jured remains unsolved. As a result,
a Greensboro businessman has
posted a $2,000 reward and the
NAACP has asked the state to post a
$15,000 reward.
The incident happened near 1-40
and U.S. 15-501. Witnesses that saw
what happened stated that a white
man driving a dark blue Monte Carlo
with a Georgia license plate suddenly
appeared behind a Plymouth carry
ing four black people. The Monte
Carlo began tailgating the Plymouth
that 17-year-old Levem Allen, III was
driving in the passing lane. The
Monte Carlo rammed the Plymouth
twice from behind before Allen
managed to accelerate his vehicle in
to an open spot in the right lane.
Witnesses told police that the
Monte Carlo driver followed Allen’s
vehicle and rammed it again, sending
it out of control. Subsequently, the
vehicle flipped over several times
and went down an embankment, ins
tantly killing 19-year-old Kenneth L.
Dungee. -
The driver of the vehicle, Allen, lost
a leg and Darius Bannerman and
Kenneth Newkirk suffered several
broken bones. Witnesses said that the
Monte Carlo’s driver, described as a
white man who had brown hair and a
mustache, stopped briefly but then
left the scene of the incident.
The state Highway Patrol is looking
for two people in connection with the
hit-and-run car crash, a trooper said
Monday. Authorities think that one of
the individuals is in the Atlanta area
and the other in Raleigh. As of now
both suspects will be questioned
about their whereabouts on the day of
the accident. The suspect in Atlanta
has a father-in-law who has a vehicle
similar to the one described in the ac
cident. Officers would like to question
the man and see if any damage was
sustained to the front end of the auto.
(See NAACP, P. 2)
e
WHAT A CLASS-This vintage photo is a forerunner for
the coming Black History Month in February. Shown above is
Hampton Institute’s class of 1875. Booker T. Washington is
sitting on the front row, second from left. He represents the
core of the Mack quest lor education. The CARMJMN wM
offer a special section on Mack history Fob. 9. The theme
this year is “Blacks in the Labor Movement.”
Marion Barry Takes Threatening
Blows From Misconduct Charges
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA News Editor
WASHINGTON, DC—Faced with
an investigation by the U.S.
attorney’s office and mounting
criticism growing out of his post
midnight visit with a man in a motel
who allegedly was under police in
vestigation for offering a motel maid
cocaine for sex, D.C. Mayor Marlon
Barry dug in his heels and vehement
ly denied he has done anything
wrong.
In an emotionally delivered ad
dress to the D.C. City Council, Barry
declared, “I do not dp drugs, I did not
sec any drugs, and I didn’t know
there was a drug investigation in pro
gress” when he visited a former city
employee, Charles Lewis, at the 14th
and Rhode Island Avenue motel in the
District's midtown.
He admitted making the visit but
denied wrongdoing. While he was
visiting Lewis a reported police drug
investigation of Lewis was called off.
The U.S. attorney’s office wants to
know who called it off, if it was, in
deed, called off, and why. The motel
is located in a drug and prostitution
“corridor,” a red-light district.
Barry has vowed to “fight for my
character, fight for my integrity,
fight for my commitment.” He ad
mitted in TV interviews that the inci
dent had caused embarrassment to
the city and the nation, and said it
was a matter of poor Judgment on his
part and in the future he would be
“extra, extra, extra careful” to avoid
questions about his personal life. Con
trite, he asked public forgiveness.
Barry’s night behavior has been the
subject of criticism and the cause of
raised eyebrows for yean His name
Rev. Pickett Elected President
Of Raleigh-Apex N A ACP Chapter
BY ALL1E M. PEBBLES
Man Writer
Rev. H.B. Pickett, Jr., the new
president of the Ralelgh-Apex
Branch of the NAACP, has been a
resident of Raleigh for 86 years.
Pickett, a native of Morehead Ci
ty, It active In the civic, educa
tional and religious activities of
the Ralelgh-Wake area.
Re has held pastorates at the
following churches: First Bap
tist, New Hill; Ridgeway Baptist,
Ridgeway; Oberlln Baptist,
Raleigh; and Wendell First Bap
tist, Wendell.
Pickett was an elementary
classroom teacher in the Raleigh
City School System from 1963-72.
He served as counselor and ad
visor to foreign students at St.
Augustine’s College from 1973-73.
He has served as guidance
counselor in the Wake School
System since 1973.
The new president received his
B.S. degree from Elizabeth City
State University in 1961 and a
master's degree in guidance and
counseling from North Carolina
Central University in 1973. He
received a certificate in ad
ministration in 1974 and a master
of divinity degree from Shaw
University in 1977.
' Pickett has received many
honors Some of them include
listings in "Outstanding Young
Men of America," “Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Univer
sities,” and “Personalities of the
South, 1972.” Oberlin Baptist
Church named him "Man of the
Year” and Iota Iota Chapter of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity named
him Citizen of the Year in 1974.
Faith Baptist Church honored
him with a service award, and
(See KEY. PICKETT, P. 2)
REV. H.B. PICKETT. Jljt
has been linked to several women
with whom he allegedly vacationed,
or to whom he reportedly paid late
night visits. One woman, a Karen
Johnson, allegedly supplied the
mayor with drugs and sex. Ms.
Johnson went to prison after alleged
ly being paid to keep her mouth shut.
Barry has denied it all. Despite a
lengthy probe by the U.S. attorney’s
office, nothing was otoved to the con
(See MAYOR BARRY. P *»
Beepers Play
Role In Illicit
Drug Network
Pointing to the growing use of
beepers by young people engaged in
the sale and distribution of illicit
drugs, the legal department of the
NAACP has submitted a petition to
the Federal Communications Com
mission asking it to Initiate a
rulemaking proceeding aimed at
developing rules and policies to help
limit the use of these devices for such
a purpose.
So prevalent has the uaeof beepers
and paging devices become in drug
trafficking that federal drug agents
report 90 pecent of drug dealers use
them.
Young people, according to drug
enforcement officials, are especially
attractive to adult drug pushers as
recruits because of their susceptibili
ty to the lure of easy money, and their
status as juveniles not subject to the
same penalties meted out to adult of
fenders.
Communication is maintained with
the young people through the
beepers, which relay instructions on
the pickup and delivery of drugs such
as crack, cocaine, heroin and PCP. In
this way, the dealer limits handling of
drugs and risking stiff penalties,
Aware of the purpose for which
they are being used, officials have
banned them in the public schools of
Michigan, the District of Columbia.
(See BEEPER, P. 2)
VERNON KING
Afro Committee
Makes Plans
For Inaugural
Americans of the many rtmgious
faiths and ethnic heritages that make
up the diversity of this nation prepare
to celebrate the 200th year of a
peaceful transfer of power and
leadership, a tradition unique to the
United States of America.
Commemorating the inauguration
of George Herbert Walker Bush as
president and James Danforth
Quayle as vice president, the Afro
American Committee of the
American Bicentennial Presidential
Inaugura continues preparations for
a week of exciting events of special
interest to Americans of African des
cent.
For its contribution to the celebra
tion of the orderly and peaceful
system that has operated successful
, ly for 280 years, the Afro-American
Committee has announced four ma
jor inaugural events emphasizing the
inclusion of all Americans into'the
mainstream of our country and
recognizing the contributions made
by black men and women to our socie
ty’s national health, progress and
general well-being.
(See GEORGE BUSH, P. 2)
Judges'
Bench
EXTRADITION WARRANT
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has
signed an extradition warrant for
Timothy Jacobs to be returned to
North Carolina. Jacobs has been free
on bond since his arrest in New York
last month on a fugitive warrant.
Jacobs’ lawyers at the Christie In
stitute South in Carrboro said they
would fight his extradition to North
Carolina.
Jacobs’ co-defendant, Eddie Hat
cher, who is scheduled for arraign
ment this coming Tuesday in the
Robeson Superior Court, said lues
day that he is on the Fort Hall Indian
Reservation near Pocatello, Idaho.
Hatcher said he would invoke tribal
extradition law if Nor»h Carolina
authorities try to force him to return
to the state.
Hatcher and Jacobs were acquitted
in October of federal hostage-taking
chargee, but have been indicted in
Robeson County on state charges of
kidnapping 14 people during the Feb
1, IMS takeover of the Robesonian
newspaper in Lumberton.
Hatcher, whose whereabouts were
unknown, said he arrived last
weekend at Fort Hall and notified the
Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Court that
he would invoke tribal extradition
procedures if North Carolina Issues a
fugitive warrant, said attorney John
D. Ross of Pocatello.
MAILBOX BOMBING
U.S. Postal Service authorities and
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
are looking into the bombing of a
Durham mailbox over the weekend.
Durham police say a homemade
bomb'exploded in a mailbox located
in front of the U.S. Post Office on
Shannon Road about 10:10 p.m.
Saturday. The bombing ripped the
mailbox apart and sent mall flying
through the air. No one was injured in
the Incident.
Police believe that the bomb was of
the homemade variety, made with
pSiceomceronpatrotheard theloud
explosion ana noucea neavy Diue
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P.g)