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VOL. 47, NO. 24
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 23, 1989
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
IN RALEIGH
ELSEWHERE 300
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Top Ladies Of Distinction
Charters New Chapter
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NBA Affair Showcases
Stars During Classic
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NEWS BRIEFS
ECONOMIC PROGRAM
The Southeast Raleigh Com
munity Economic Development
Corp. will meet Feb. 23 at Saint
Auguatlne’i College and dlicuaa
a variety of topic* directed to the
need* of the community. Plan*
will alio be dimmed on finding a
permanent location and adopting
bylaw* to function a* a nonprofit
organliatlon. The event will be
held In the boardroom library at 6
p.m.
ARTS IN THE COURT
A program of dance, drama,
music and visual arts as a tribute
to Black History Month,
“Journey to Jubilee,” written by
Gerard Edwards, choreographed
by Bob Jones and sponsored by
the Raleigh Parks and Recrea
tion Department, will be held at
the Halifax Community Center
Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m.
SHAW UNIVERSITY
ENDOWMENT
Predominantly African
American colleges and univer
sities have profited from recent
anti-bias agreement settlements
between the U.S. Equal Employ
ment Opportunity Commission
and the leading automobile
manufacturers, General Motors
Corp. and Ford Motor Co. Shaw
University receives 150.000 and
North Carolina A&T State
University receives $200,000.
RECEIVES GRANT
Gov. James G. Martin an
nounced this week a grant of
$31,126 to Goodwill Industries of
East Central North Carolina, Inc.
In Raleigh. Gov. Martin said,
"These funds will provide an im
portant service and will help en
sure that those with developmen
tal disabilities have the oppor
tunity to live the most fulfilling
lives possible.”
TAP DANCE DAY
Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
(D-Mich.), chairman of the
House Government Operations
Committee, introduced House
Joint Resolution 131 designating
May 25 as "National Tap Dance
Day.” May 25 marks the birthday
of legendary tapdancer Bill “Bo
Jangles” Robinson, whose danc
ing was the highlight of many
Broadway musicals and motion
pictures beginning in the 1930s.
KOREAN TRADE MISSION
A Korean fact-finding mission
made a visit to North Carolina
this week to promote economic
cooperation in trade and Invest
ment between Korea and North
Carolina. Commerce Secretary
James T. Broyhill and Myong
Hyun Sohn, minister for
economic affairs of the Korean
Embassy In Washington, D.C.,
headed the delegation, consisting
of Korea’s first secretary,
government officials and
business executives. The faet
findlng mission also visited South
Carolina and Mississippi.
AGENCY ADMISSIONS
The United Way of Wake Coun
ty announces that It Is now taking
applications for new agency ad
missions to United Way. In order
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 3)
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Self Protection
Women Buy Guns For Defense
The street* of Raleigh are
somewhat peaceful and the nights are
seldom shattered by the heart
stopping sounds of automatic gunfire
which takes place in the nation’s
capital, East Oakland and Detroit.
The rising gun violence In America
cries for new rules and laws and
many law-abiding citizens, especially
women, are fed up to the point of Arm
ing themselves to fight back against
crime. Others want to disarm
14-year-old punks who carry AK-47s
and Uzis.
President George Bush said, “I’d
like to find seme way to do
something" about easy access to
semiautomatic weapons. But the
president added, "I want to be the
president that protects the rights of
people to have arms.”
Patrick Purdy did more than
slaughter five students and wound 30
others when he fired his rapid-fire
assault rifle into a crowd of Stockton,
Calif, elementary school children
before killing himself with a pistol.
His insane bloodbath sparked off
another national horror wave with its
accompanying frenzy of gun-buying.
“If children playing in a schoolyard
during recess are no longer safe, who
ift?" a great many people seemed to
be asking themselves. It is the kind of
question that follows each new media
report of crime victim deaths—inno
cent people who just happened to be
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And the answer more and more are
coming to, including a growing
number of women, is that no one is
safe in today’s crime-riddled society.
It is not surprising that sociologists
say Americans are losing confidence
in the traditional forces of crime
prevention. While gun buying was
once predominantly for hunting and
sport, recent surveys show self
protection to be the main reason
nearly so percent of gun purchases
are now made.
And more and more first-time gun
buyers are women. Between 1963 and
1986, according to a Gallup survey,
the number of women purchasing
firearms increased 53 percent. In
California alone, nearly 300,000 peo
ple armed themselves with handguns
in 1965, and one-third of these are
estimated to have been women. Since
then, hundreds of thousands of addi
tional women have bought handguns
while many more (numbering in the
millions by survey) are seriously
Chavis Heights Area
Man Held In Fatal Stabbing
Dispute
Leads To
Murder
A Raleigh man has been charged
with murder after allegedly stabbing
a man in Southeast Raleigh druing
the weekend.
James A. Allen Leonard, 30, of Apt.
4, 526 E. Bragg St., was stabbed
several times in the chest and
shoulder during an argument in a
downtown apartment complex near
Chavis Heights over rent money, ac
cording to police-reports.
Roy McLean, 25, of Apt. 2, 526 E.
Bragg St., was charged with murder
and assault. McLean was arrested
Feb. 21 and is being held in Wake
County Jail.
Martina D. Johnson, 28, who lived
in the same apartment as Leonard,
told police she had been kicked in the
face during the argument. According
to police, Ms. Johnson and the victim
were arguing with McLean and his
girlfriend over some rent money
when the stabbing occurred.
In other events: Police are looking
for a black male suspect they believe
has been involved with at least two
armed robberies and one attempted
robbery.
The suspect is described as black in
his early 20s, 5’5” tall and weighing
130 to 150 pounds. He has short hair
and a mustache.
Police say a man fitting this
description robbed an Exxon at Six
Forks Road and later robbed a Fast
Fare at 2909 Brentwood Road on Feb.
10 at approximately 3:15 a.m. and
3:25 a.m., respectively.
Anyone having information about
this robbery should call 834-4357.
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The image that some people have of
prison inmates sitting around all day
watching television at the expense of
taxpayers is very durable. It is also
false.
Nearly nine out.of every to inmate^
incarcerated by the North Carolina
Departmept of Correction; -have
regular job or educational
assignments, according to Harry
Ballard, chief of prognkm services
for the Division of Prisons. “We
believe that programs designed to
rehabilitate convicted offenders
should also teach the offender a work
ethic,” Ballard said.
The question of what inmates do
with their time in prison has come up
on several occasions during the
publie^ebate,oy$r attempts tolmain
tpin a'lfcorrecthipal syMemthat iscon
^titntkmally defensible. Some' opi
nions have been'expressed which sug
gest that prison life is a life of leisure.
A look at the facts, however, does not
bear out that opinion.
"Many people are surprised when
they discover the extent to which in
mate labor is used in North
Carolina,” Ballard said. “They are
equally surprised as to the variety of
job assignments within our prison
system.”
On Feb. 13, a day when there were
17,735 inmates housed in the prison
system, 15,429 (or 87 percent) of the
inmates had assigned duties. Those
duties range from internal prison
operation chores (such as housekeep
ing, cooking, and maintenance), to
work assignments with other state
government agencies. Others were
involved in either academic and/or
programs or were excluded from ac
tivities by reason of either health,
NAACP Holds Emergency Summit To
Address Supreme Court Decision
uisi-ipuue, ui cusiouy-ievei re
quirements.
The remaining 2,306 inmates who
did not have assigned duties on Feb.
13 were either new to the prison
system or did not have job oppor
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Dr. William
F. Gibson, chairman of the National
Board of Directors of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, the oldest and largest
civil rights organization In America,
recently chaired an emergency sum
mit to discuss the recent U.S.
Supreme Court decision on Richmond
vs. Croaofi.
The emergency summit was held at
the 80th annual meeting of the civil
rights organisation in the Grand
Hyatt Hotel in New York City. The
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emergency aummit waa the product
of another emergency meeting that
Dr. Gibeon and Dr. Benjamin L.
Hooka, national NAACP executive
director, convened in Atlanta, Ga.,
earlier thia month. The aeaaion in
cluded a team of lawyera comprised
of membera of the NAACP legal ataff
and NAACP Legal Committee of the
National Board, and dlatlnguiahed
legal academiciana and lawyera in
private practice acraaa the United
Statea.
The emergency aummit in New
York City was to explain to the
membership of the national NAACP
board, NAACP Special Contribution
Fund, Inc., and the national and
regional staff, the legal ramifications
of the decision. It was also to define
what to look for in similar local plans
to see if those ramlftcations met the.
U.S. Constitution guidelines as outlin
ed in Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s
majority opinion. In addUon, it was
to instruct the NAACP branch and
(See NAACP, P. 2)
kMlliklvw MiVU VUOIUUJ ICVOl.
Inmates working within the prisons
as part of the Correctional Enterprise
program or working with other state
agencies earn from 40 cents to tl pet
day. Correctional Enterprise pro
vides a number of low-cost services to
state and local government utilizing
inmate labor, including printing, food
production, paint, highway sips,
laundry services, and office furniture
construction. Profits from Correc
tional Enterprise operation are
returned for use by state govern
(See PRISONERS, P. 2)
Preserving History
dies For “Roots”
Special Ta The CAROLINIAN^
Since the phenomenal success of
Alex Haley's “Roots," many black
families have been inspired to go in
OpheUa McAlpin Ir
b wills, deeds, hats,
mgs and histories in
family tree. Her.
f when she waeable
r, for ttte first tima,
iants of the brothers
the Alpine clan here in Raleigh at
the Marriott Hotel.
Me. Irving’s family search began
with the death of her father, Jerry
McAlpin, who had been the family’s
great storyte Among those
stories was how the McAlpin name
was ten. It gamps #t one polpt there
wpre Jo many McAlpineain one small
town In Alabama -that her grand
father chafefcM 10s spelling to
McAlpin, just so the mail could be
illustrious family lino beftin
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of Seims University in
thinking about it.
Laws affecting ownership of hand
guns vary widely from state to state.
In North Carolina it is not difficult
to obtain a permit. A spokesperson in
the Sheriff’s office said, “A witness is
required to vouch for the character of
the person who is purchasing the
weapon and to verify residence of the
individual.”
To obtain a permit one must be 21
years of age or older with no criminal
record, including misdemeanors and
felonies. A good driving record is also
required. Up to five guns can be pur
(See WOMEN ARMED, P 1,
Jesse Jackson
To Join NCNW
For Symposium
Rev. Jesse Jackson has confirmed
his participation in the National
Council of Negro Women’s “Cradle of
Civilization” symposium to be held in
Cairo, Egypt from July 3-10.
“African-Americans are now
reawakening to our role in global
development,” Jackson said in a re
cent interview with Sisters magazine.
“We are key members in the global
village.”
Egypt, chosen to initiate a series of
NCNW international symposia, was
endorsed by Jackson because at
tendees will be able to “immerse
themselves in our history and
culture” and continue to meet the
“challenge to overcome the barriers
created by language, and distance,
and history.” <
"Africans, African-Americans, and
African Brazilians were equally
separate, one from the other. So
we’re almost equally ignorant of each
other’s basic kinship," Jackson said.
“The one thing we know is that the
blood that unites us is stronger than
the waters that divide us.”
Jackson spoke of the “500-year
massive onslaught" of the Middle
Passage. “We’re only just now
emerging from it with a new sense of
ourselves and our relationship to the
world,” Jackson said. “So we go full
circle, really, from slave ship to
^see JESSE JACKSON, P. 2)
Judges'
Bench
JCKY PANEL CHOSEN
A panel of prospective jurors was
selected this week in the trial of the
third high-ranking Marine to face a
court-martial in connection with the
death of a lance corporal abandoned
in the Mojave Desert.
A panel of 12 officers, two colonels,
two lieutenant colonels, five majors,
and three captains was selected to be
considered for the court-martial of
1st Lt. Allen Lawson.
Lawson, 25, is the third Marine to
face a court-martial In connection
with the death of Lance Cpl. Jason
Rother, 19, of Minneapolis. Rother
disappeared Aug. 30 after being
assigned as a road guide for a night
movement of troops at Twentynlne
Palms, Calif, His remains were
discovered Dec. 4. An Investigation
showed he probably died of exposure
to intense heat the day after he disap
peared.
Lawson is charged with willfullv
disobeying an order, dereliction o
duty and conduct unbecoming an of
ficer.
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2)
Fashion Fair cosmetics director and
part owner with her husband John
Johnson of Johnson Publishing Co.,
publishers of Ebony and Jet
magazines; and her sister, Dr. Helen
(See BLACK FAMILY, t.
MCALF1N, JR. RIVERS'
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