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MARCH 9,1989
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PROMOTION CEREMONY
The North Carolina State
Highway Patrol promoted five
member* in ceremonies Monday
In the auditorium of the State
Highway Patrol’* Troop C Head
quarter* on Ridge Road In
Raleigh.
MLKHLM SHOWN
The movie, “MLK: From Mon
tgomery to Memphis,” will be
shown March 11 at S p.m. at
Grace AME Zion Church. The
film is screened without charge
to the public. Refreshments will
he served.
SWIM MEET SPONSORED
More than 25 area companies
and individuals have agreed to
become event sponsors or co
sponsors of the IMS Phillips
M/United States Swimming Na
tional Short Course Champion
ships March 21-25. The champion
ships will be held at the Universi
ty of North Carolina’s Koury
Natatortum, and will feature the
country’s fastest swimmers, In
cluding Olympic gold medalist
Janet Evans.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The family of the late John
Washington Clark has establish
ed a $100,000 scholarship endow
ment at North Carolina State
University in memory of the
North Carolina textile executive.
The first John Washington Clark
Scholarship will be awarded for
the 1000-01 academic year to
catering freshmen.
D€MS GET NEW
DIRECTOR
Democratic Party press
secretary and research director
Margaret Lawton leaves the par
ty after a two-year tenure. She
plans to attend law school and
pursue independent projects.
BANK FOUNDER QUITS
The First Bank founder, John
H. Bustamante, has resigned as a
director of the bank and chair
-man of its holding company after
15 years as top executive of
Ohio's only black-owned fin' 'ltl
Institution. Officials said his
resignation and a major restruc
turing would pave the way to help
raise funds needed to save the in
solvent First Bank.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
16th Annual Conference
Pastors Saluted As'The Educator
The Shaw Divinity School will
observe its lath annual Pastor’s Con
ference and focus on the theme, “The
Pastor as Educator," this year dur
ing a series of lectures along with a
Founder’s Day Convocation luncheon
that will honor three outstanding col
leagues for service.
The Pastor’s Conference will be
held March 13-15 at the new site of the
Shaw Divinity School, 509 Hilltop
Drive, with registration beginning at
9a.m. March 13. The conference con
tinues at approximately 1 p.m. March
15. Registration and all sessions of
the conference will be held in the
Shaw Divinity School Church.
However, the Shaw Divinity
School’s annual Sarah Turner Tupper
Memorial Banquet will be held
' March l* In the fellowship hall on
campus. The Rev. Ruby Lennon, a
Shaw Divinity School alumna, will
speak. Events of the annual
Founder’s Day and Shaw Theological
Alumni Association will be observed
March 13 at 11 a.m.
Dr. Floyd B. McKissick, attorney
and counselor at law from Oxford,
will be the Founder’s Day orator. At 1
p.m., the Founder’s Day luncheon
will be held. Dr. Lonnie C. McLeod, a
member of the Shaw Divinity
School’s board of trustees, will speak.
At 7 p.m., the Alumni-Founder’
banquet under the auspicr
Shaw Theological Alumni Ar
S^'ff^SMooewili begin
Tuesday, March 14, at 9 a.m. The ser
vices of three outstanding pastorj
and/or educators have been secured:
Dr. Cain Felder is a featured lec
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turer. Dr. Felder is professor of New
Testa ipent language and literature,
Howard University School of Divini
ty, Washington, D.C. He will deliver
two lectures titled “Biblical Perspec
tives on the Pastor as Educator.” His
first lecture will be delivered on Tues
day, March 14, at 9:15 a.m.; his se
cond lecture on Wednesday, March
15, at 8:45 p.m.
Dr. Edward Wheeler is a featured
lecturer. Dr. Wheeler is pastor of
Zion Baptist Church, Cincinnati,
Ohio. He will deliver two lectures titl
ed “Contemporary Perspectives on
the Pastor as Educator." His first
lecture will be delivered on Tuesday,
March 14, at 2:30 p.m.; his second
wilf be on Wednesday, March 15, at
10:25 a.m.
Dr. Miles J. Jones is conference
preacher. Dr. Jones is pastor of Pro
vidence Park Baptist Church, Rich
mond, Va. Dr. Jones will preach
three sermons. His first will be
delivered at 11 a m. on Tuesday,
March 14, for the Shaw Theological
Alumni Association’s Theological
Convocation. His second sermon will
be delivered at » p.m. and the third
will be Wednesday at noon.
Shaw Divinity School will confer
honorary degrees on March 13. Rev.
McKissick will receive the doctor of
divinity degree. Rev. McKissick,
speaker for the convocation, is author
of several books and articles. Among
them is “Three Fifths of a Man.” At
torney McKissick is an alumnus of
Shaw Divinity School and an adjunct
Aaron Hale Is a resident of Raleigh
and a Sunday Jehod teacher in the
Presbyterian Church tar» years. He
is a graduate of Union College In Ken
tucky. He is married to the former
Ms Anne Seaton and they have two
children. He will r*- '<ve the doctor of
Christian servlet
Rev. Charlie Lawrence Is pastor of
Roanoke Chapel Baptist Church,
the B.A.
.He is
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the doctor of
be given at the
The Founder’s Day Luncheon will
follow the convocation at 1 p.m on
(See PASTOR’S. P.3)
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The Raleigh-Wake Martin Luther
King Celebration, Inc. is gearing up
for a community-wide fund appeal to
srect a seven-foot, solid bronze statue
>f Dr. King.
The King Committee, with
assistance from many sectors, has
annually been successful in sponsor
ing public observances recognizing
the contributions made by Dr. King
and others who helped break down
the barriers of segregation during the
height of the civil rights movement.
The group has been busy since
January organizing a broad base ol
Individuals to serve on the MLK
Memorial Statue and Memorial
Gardens Planning Committee. Cur
rently, 96 volunteer citizens from all
sectors of the community are involv
ed with the pre-planning of this
memorial to King.
from 9 a.m. to noon. Community
residents are asked to come by the
station at 522 E. Martin St. or call to
make their contributions and pledges
Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial shrine
will be surrounded by beautiful oriental
shrubbery and evergreen trees and
illuminated during the evening hours for 24
hour visibility. See Page 18.
Kadio station WLLE-AM 57 is kick
ing off the community grassroots ap
peal by sponsoring a three-hour
radiothon on Saturday, March 11,
for the King statue and Memorial
Gardens.
The King shrine is slated to be
located somewhere along the new
Martin Luther King Boulevard now
under construction through Southeast
Raleigh. City Councilman Ralph
Campbell, Jr., who represents
Southeast Raleigh and is a member of
the King Committee, stated in a re
cent interview with The CAROLI
NIAN, “We are looking at several
possible sites. I think the consensus of
the group is that this statue of Dr.
King should be located somewhere in
Southeast Raleigh. I can only envi
sion a site along the new King
Boulevard as being the most ap
propriate. Naturally, I am delighted
and proud of this very positive
development in our district and feel
(See KING SHRINE, P. 2)
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LIGHTNER
Intensive EEO Training
FBI Examines Racist Charges
Agency To
Hire New
EEO Chief
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA New* Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Federal
Bureau of Investigation, with
straight-arrow former federal Judge
William S. Sessions as director,
wants to clear up its ugly anti-civil
rights/anti-equal opportunity image,
both historic and present-day, and get
on with the business of protecting the
nation from spies, terrorists and
various and sundry baddies as con
gressionally mandated—in a kinder,
gentler organizational atmosphere.
But first it must, as Rep. James F.
Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), a member
orttie House JudltiAr/ Committee's
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitu
tional Rights, declared, get rid of its
“embarrassing equal opportunity
problems.”
And committee chairman Don Ed
wards (D-Calif.) as well as African
American committee members
representatives George Crockett, Jr.
and John Conyers, Jr., both
Michigan Democrats, want to know
why blacks are quitting the FBI at
twice the rate of whites and
HWpanlps. To address these and
other discriminatory concerns, Ses
sions said he is upgrading the EEO of
fice and (for the first time) going out
side the bureau to choose an ex
perienced professional with EEO ex
perience for the job. This official will
replace the director of EEO, Melvin
L. Geter, a career FBI official. The
new EEO director will have a top
(See RACIST FBI, P. 2)
Favorable Hiring Prospects Seen
In Raleigh For Springtime Jobs
The springtime job picture looks
positive in the Raleigh area, accor
ding to results of the newest Employ
ment Outlook Survey from Man
power, Inc., the world’s largest tem
porary help service.
In announcing survey findings for
the second quarter of 1989, Bill
Williams, owner of Manpower’s area
operations, reported Monday that 40
percent of the area employers polled
expect to increase staff size in the
coming April-June period, 17 percent
will downsize staff and 43 percent will
stay at current levels.
Last spring, by comparison, survey
results showed that 29 percent of
those responding planned to add
workers and 10 percent anticipating
workforce reductions. Three months
ago, 35 percent were expecting
employment rolls to grow and 23 per
cent intended to curtail staff.
Across the nation, new survey
figures indicate a strong employment
outlook, as 30 percent of the nearly
14,000 employers polled envision staff
increases and six percent expect a
decline in the workforce. Here in the
South, 29 percent foresee an upsurge
in hiring and six percent predict staff
cutbacks.
Locally, the job market looks pro
mising in both durable and non
durable goods manufacturing, the
construction industry, the wholesale
and retail trade, and the services and
public administration sectors. Stafl
reductions are forecast in the
transportation/public utilities,
finance/real estate/insurance and
education sectors.
On a national level, employers are
W continuing their search for additional
workers. It annears many firm* ««•*
^See JOB OUTLOOK. P. V
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OKs Business
Incubator Plan
BY JACKIE BROWN *
Contributing Writer _ 'i«
A proposal put before the full City
Council on March 7 for a small
business incubator was approved
despite some opposition from council
members.
City Councilman Ralph Campbell,
Jr. presented the proposal before the
council but did not get the approval of
the group without some reservations
expressed by some members.
Mayor Avery C. Upchurch was in
support of the business incubator pro
gram, but Mary C. Cates, mayor pro
tern, seemed most opposed to it.
The proposal had been previously
presented to the council for review
and approval by the Law and Finance
Committee by Campbell.
The project, called the Business In
cubator Program, will serve as a way
to incorporate new, small,
predominantly black businesses into
the Southeastern section of Raleigh,
i Some of the concerns expressed by
Ms. Cates were the SBI’s effect on
BTC and what the cost of the program
would be to the city. Another concern
was that the program would
segregate one particular area or a
targeted group of individuals.
(See INCUBATOR, P. 2)
Judges'
Bench
KILLER MAY BE ELIGBIBLE
FOR PAROLE IN FIVE YEARS
James Harold Smith, 20, who plead
ed guilty in October to killing three
men at a shack near Raleigh, will be
eligible for parole in about five years
according to a sentence handed down
in Wake Superior Court recently.
Judge Orlando Hudson of Durham,
who initially sentenced Smith to
serve 99 years consecutively for the
slayings, noted that they were brutal.
However, he said that Smith’s upbr
inging had him destined for failure
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P.2)