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V?*u>ed As Top Candidate
mayor Young Eyes Governors'Seat
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA News Editor
Daytona Beach, Fla.-Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young, in a luncheon
speech before a delegation of the
nation’s Black publishers convening
here, all but formally announced his
candidacy for governor of his state in
1900.
In an ebulient but down-to-earth
mood, Young regaled a 49th NNPA
Mid-Winter Workshop luncheon with
wry insider tales of cabinet meetings
in the Carter White House, state of
the city activities in Atlanta and
reminiscences of his days as a top
aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
before almost as an after-thought
declaring he may try to become
Georgia's first Black governor.
Said he: "They tell me I’m in the
top one or two (with extremely
popular Georgia Bulldog football
coach Vince Domcy who is also
expected to run) amongst Black and
white, to be governor of the state of
Georgia (an Atlanta Journal
Constitution newspaper statewide
poll published the result).
"Well, whether I become governor
or not, I don't have much choice but
try...We never know what will
happen...," he added, falling Just
short of formally announcing his
candidacy. <
An informed source told NNPA:
I Dr. Forbes Tapped
To Lead Vigorous
“Social” Ministry
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-The Rev.
James Alexander Forbes, Jr., a black
clergyman known for his preaching
skill, has been named to lead famed
Riverside Church and its vigorous
social-justice ministry.
The interdenominational church
announced the choice last week after
a year-long search for a successor to
the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, civil
rights and antiwar activist.
The 2,200-member church, built by
the late John D. Rockefeller in 1930,
has had a line of noted pastors, begin
ning with the late Harry Emerson
Fosdick. Rev. James Forbes is the
brotehr of the Rev. David Forbes,
pastor of Martin Street Baptist
Church in Raleigh.
Forbes, 53, professor of preaching
at New York’s Union Theological
Seminary where he has taught for 12
years, was described as being a
theologian of eloquence and keen
social concern.
“No government
can function without a
living vision of what it
means to be human
and religion should
keep that vision
alive... and provide a
prophetic critique of
government...”
—Rev. James Fcfrbes
“He is an eminent preacher, com
mitted to pluralism, inclusivity and
social justice,” the ‘‘key
characteristics of our senior
minister,” said the head of the search
committee, J. Richard Butler.
He told the congregation thta the
committee had concluded that
Forbes was the man “to lead this con
gregation through the next decade
and into the 21st century.”
The selection, already approved by
the church’s Board of Deacons, re
mains subject to affirmation by
members, but that is expected to be a
to
formality when they vote
discharge the search committee.
The church, with a $6 million an
nual budget, has become an increas
ingly ethnically mixed congregation,
with a diversified program of help to
REV. JAMES FORBES
the poor and homeless and working
for racial justice an^ disarmament.
Although jointly affiliated with the
American Baptist Chrches and the
United Church of Christ, the con
gregation is a composite of
denominational backgrounds.
Coffin stepped down a year ago,
after ,a decade <ji. leading the church,
to become presldtiiK of a'disarma
ment group, Sane-Freeze, based in
Washington, D.C.
For the last year, an acting senior
minister, the Rev. George Hill, drawn
out of retirement in Claremont,
Calif., had filled the pulpit until a suc
cessor to Coffin was chosen.
Forbes, prior to joining the
seminary faculty, had led an in
novative pastoral training program
in Washington, and previously led
congregations in Richmond, Va., and
Roxboro, N.C.
In Washington, he had been direc
tor of Interfaith Metropolitan
(SeeDR. FORBES, P.2)
"Of coiihte, he would no( make such a
formal announcement here,, or
anywhere but in the State of Georgia,
i-ook for him to formally announce
congressman or even a mayor or,
whal was worse, driving from
Howard University (where he was a
student) to New Orleans (his
“Well, whether I become governor or not, I
don’t have much choice but try...We never
know what will happen...” Atlanta, Ga.
Mayor Andrew Young
(for the race) in June."
Young cruscd the publishers to
explode with handclapping laughter
when he said: “On the march from
Selma to Montgomery (in 1965), I
couldn't imagine being a
hometown) through the state of
Georgia."
"Why,” he continued wickedly," I
was even unwilling to stop in Georgia
and when I got to the Georgia State;
Hoe, I drove hack to Anderson, S.C. to
gel gas, because I know Georgia was
the worst place in the world for a
nigger to be caught at night.”
Interestingly, the only Black ever
to sit as governor of a state in the U.S.
was Pinckney B. Pinchback (1837
1921), of Young’s native Louisiana.
Young has made a pilgrimage (in
1988) across the State of Georgia by
bicycle, travelling over 3(H) miles and
stopping in every village and hamlet
to talk with the natives. He told
NNPA he plans to make a similar
cross-state bicycle tour to “hear
Georgians’ views” sometime this
year. He said he never ran into one
hostile area during his entire trip
(See ANDREW YOUNG P.2)
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Rewards Spark Tips
Students Demand Safety
Officials
Saying Few
Solid Clues
A security officer who patrols a
large warehouse at night says a
flashlight is his best defense. He does
not carry a side-arm.
A retail outlet in the area reports a
sharp increase in the sales of MACE
and boasts on the benefits of carrying
the tear gas as a self-protection
device.
However, angry students marched
to the office of Duke University
President H. Keith H. Brodie and
demanded safety measures after two
rapes on campus last week.
The university announced several
steps to combat the problem,
including $25,000 rewards for
information leading to the conviction
Students said they wanted to see an
immediate change and lights. The
installation of more lights and
emergency telepholnes around the
campus as well as tighter security
systems at dormitories and academic
buildings are among the demands.
Even safety beepers for all female
students have been recommended.
Two Duke employees were raped
last week in less than 24 hours apart
in attacks officials refer to as a
“community problem,” not a Duke
campus problem.
Duke Public Safety officials have
(See RAPES, P.2)
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is seen here wffli GranfllX
Stevens, senior counsel of Revlon, Inc., at the recent Essence Awards Gala m
CMcaoo. The ceremony was hosted by Oprah Winfrey and lecegnbes remarkable
black women whose extraordinary accomplishments embody the Essence spirit.
AIDS Hits Blacks Hard,
But Not Race Disease
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA New# Editor
The national black publishers were
challenged to “get involved with the
real enemy” that affects the black
auuatng tomorrow s Leaders
Vocational Education Is At Work
Vocational education is the
backbone of the nation’s
employment-related education and
training programs. Its strength is
drawn from the fact that it is an in
tegral part of this nation’s public
educational system with vocational
education offered at more than 26,000
institutions from high schools to four
year universities. The week of Feb.
12-n has been proclaimed Vocational
Education Week throughout the
United States and Edgecombe Com
munity College would like to increase
public awareness concerning the im
portance of vocational education.
Edgecombe Community College
currently offers five programs that
earn a vocational diploma. Most pro
gram may be completed in a year.
Automotive body repair, taught on
the Tarboro campus, provides train
ing in the use of the equipment and
materials of the auto body mechanic
trade. The student studies the con
struction of the automobile body and
techniques of auto body repairing,
rebuilding, and refinishing.
Automotive mechanics is also
taught ori*the Tarboro campus. This
curriculum provides training oppor
tunities for developing the basic
knowledge and skills needed to in
spect, diagnose, repair or adjust
automobiles. Principles of
automotive mechanics are learned
through class discussions and
assignments while manual skills are
developed in practical shop work.
The area of cosmetology is varried,
yet trained skills are quite specific.
The cosmetic arts curriculum at ECC
taught on the Tarboro campus and at
the Rocky Mount Center, provides in
struction and practice in manicuring,
shampooing, permanent waving,
facials, massages, and hair cutting
and styling. Students provide such
services as shampooing, facials, and
haircuts on customers who are en
couraged to patronize the depart
ment.
The ever-changing world of elec
tronic servicing prepares the student
to repair and adjust electronic equip
ment ranging from radios to
microcomputers. Electronic servic
ing, offered exclusively at the Rocky
Mount Center, has recently added
state-of-the-art laboratory equipment
which will allow the student to per
form lab experiments involving
digital circuits.
The nurse’s assistant program,
taught on the Tarboro campus or at
the Rocky Mount Center, is designed
to prepare qualified men and women
to give effective nursing care to
selected patients and carry out
routine aspects of nursing care. This
program is designed for approx
imately 330 hours of instruction con
sisting of classroom, laboratory and
clinical experiences.
Vocational education is a vital part
of Edgecombe Community College,
but more importantly, it is a vital
part of the community. The current
employment rate of ECC graduates is
approximately 85 percent. The
resources and talent produced at the
college is priceless. The college is
proud of ihe excellent education that
is provides, enabling graduates to be
employed commensurate with ability
and skills possessed by its students.
The training received at ECC leads to
greater job satisfaction for in
dividuals and benefits society at
large.
ECC constantly plans and com
municates with businesses and in
dustries to ensure that vocational
programs are current and pertinent
to employment needs in our area.
The theme of Vocational Education
Week is “Building Tomorrow’s
Leader* ” It is a call for the broad in
1 See VOCATIONAL. P. 2)
community most directly—HIV infec
tions, the forerunner to the deadly
AIDS virus. And while blacks are
disproportionately hit by the dread
virus, AIDS is not a disease of race,
they were told.
In a fact-filled presentation, Helene
Gayle, a young black medical doctor
from Atlanta, Ga.’s Centers for
Disease Control, told a National
Newspaper Publishers Association
seminar that “for every reported
AIDS case there are at least
anywhere from 10 to 100 people in
fected with HIV" that are often
unreported. “In other words,” she
continued, the number of known
AIDS cases is just the tip of the
iceberg.
She also told the more than 200
publishers holding a four-day Mid
Winter Workshop at the recently built
'See AIDS P S)
MAYOR ANDREW YOUNG
Exempting More
Taxpayers Will
Help Families
When President Bush proposes
changes in the tax code during an
address to a joint session of Congress
next week, he should ask them to
increase the personal income-tax
exemption from $2,000 to $6,300, says
a tax specialist at a Washington
think-tank with close ties, 'o the White
House. The change wouli. effectively
remove half of all U.S. families from
the income-tax rolls, and end decades
of discrimination against families in
the federal tax code, says Thomas
Humbert, John M. Olin fellow in
political economy at The Heritage
Foundation.
If low-income families were
exempt from taxes, Humbert argues
in a study being sent to Congress and
White House and Treasury
Department officials, there would be
more incentive for poor people to
work, reducing their dependence on
government social programs. It
would also help middle-class families
pay for such expenses as child care
and education.
Currently, writes Humbert, “The
federal income tax system treats
children less favorably than a
business lunch. Like spending for the
movies, the costs of raising children
(See TAXPAYERS, P.2)
Report Says
Combat Infant
Mortality Rate
BY DENNIS PATTERSON
(AP)North Carolina could reduce
its infant mortality rate by spending
$5 million in a two-year program to
improve prenatal care and send
medical teams to rural areas, a task
force said Wednesday.
“Whether we can find the funding, I
think, depends on our priorities, the
value we put on human life,” said Dr
Sarah Morrow, former state
secretary of Human Resources and
chairman of a task force that studied
infant deaths for the N.C. Institute of
Medicine.
“We are looking at the economy,
better roads, prisons for our state,”
she said. “We’ve had to look so much
at the fires that have to be put out that
we haven't paid attention to the
women and children out there who
need help."
The task force report released last
week said North Carolina ranks 46th
among the states with 12.1 deaths per
1,000 live births within the first year.
The U.S. average is 10 deaths per
1,000 live births within the first year.
The U.S. average is 10 deaths per
1,000 live births, the worst infant
mortality rate among the developed
nations.
The task force said most of the
money spend to reduce infant deaths
finances high technology care for
(See INFANT MORTALITY, P. 2)
NAACP Recognizes
Elizabeth Cofield
As Black Pioneer
Only a lew of us are fortunate
enough to realize both our
professional and personal goals
in life. But Elizabeth Cofield has
done just that, using her
education and political savvy as a
spring board into African
American history in North
Carolina.
The Wendell-Wake County
branch of the NAACP will
observe Black History and the
18th anniversary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People on February M
and extend honors to Ms. Cofield.
The Rev. Alphonza Fullwood,
pastor of the Riley Hill Baptist
Church In Wendell, along with bis
choir and congregation will
render the service.
As part of this celebration, Ms.
Cofield will be honored as the
first black to serve on the Wahe
County School Board and as a
Wake County Commissioner.
She was also the first female to
be elected as ‘a county
commissioner. " |
The NAACP branch will salute
Ms. CofieM as a stalwart pioneer j
in education, religious, political, I
community and humanitarian |
service. |