RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 48, NO. 40
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APRIL 20,1989
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BOOMING BUSINESSES
Wake County high achool
Juniors and seniors will par
ticipate in Wake’s first En
trepreneurship Day on April 21 in
the Commons Building in the
Wake County Office Park off
Poole Road. The event will bring
together outstanding en
trepreneurs in Wake County to
share their knowledge with
students interested in starting
their own businesses. Par
ticipants include Shelley Mc
Collum, Bob Luddy, Jim Flem
ing, Pierette Sadler, Charleston
Seafood Restaurant, Bob Garr
tugus, Bill White, Clyde Bond and
Roger Massey.
BANKING COMMISSION
Gov. James G. Martin has
named eight people to the N.C.
State Banking Commission. They
will serve until March 31,1993.
The governor reappointed
Roger L. Dick of Albemarle, Paul
. E. Fisher of Granite Quarry, Bet
ty Jo Faircloth of Clinton,
William P. Pope of Statesville,
FeUx S. Sabates of Charlotte, and
Sue M. Adams of Wilson. Gov.
Martin appointed Ken Martin of
Raleigh and C. Ray Kennedy of
Charlotte.
The Bank Commission directs
the acctivities of the commis
sioner of banks.
SENIOR HEALTH BILLS
Insurance Commissioner Jim
Long last week joined a group of
legislators in urging the passage
of a trio of bills with wide-ranging
impact on elderly health care.
The bills' provisions include
broadening long-term care in
surance coverage, providing
closer regulation of retirement
communities, and keeping in
surance policies that supplement
Medicare from duplicating newly
created benefits.
“Our senior citizens are a
valuable and growing segment of
our population,” Long said in a
Joint news conference with the
legislators, “but growing even
faster are the kinds and costs of
health care” required by the
elderly.
Joining Long were Rep. Betty
Wiser (D-Wake), Rep. Sidney
Locks (D-Robeson), Rep. W.D.
••Billy” Mills (D-Jones), Sen. Joe
Johnson (D-Wake) and Sen.
David Parnell (D-Robeson).
PUBLIC FORUM
Opportunities for conservation
and recreation along the Neuse
River will be the topic of a public
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Empowering The Community
Conference Extols Family Value
Five outstanding Wake County
families have been chosen to be
recognized at this year’s Strengthen
ing the Black Family Conference
Banquet on Saturday, April 39. Usual
ly, three families are so honored in
the categories of Traditional Family
(two adults with children born to that
union), Single Family (headed by one
adult), and Extended Family (step
families or related adults caring for
children who are not their direct
biological offspring).
This year, however, the selection
committee decided to recognize an
additional two families that exhibited
the virtues of the model black family.
The ninth annual conference will be
held at St. Augustine’s College in the
Martin Luther King Student Union
and the Fine Arts Building on Satur
day, April 29.
The all-day conference will begin at
8:30 a.m.' with the keynote address,
“Empowering the Black Community
for the 21st Century,” delivered by
Chancellor Lloyd Vincent Hackley,
Fayetteville State Unviersity.
Other highlights of the conference
are workshops designed to help
families remain strong through the
utilisation of community resources
that impact on education, health,
economic development and the value
system. These workshops are
scheduled from 10: IS a.m. to noon.
“Teens Against AIDS,” an AIDS
awareness project funded by the N.C.
Department of Human Resources
and administered by Strengthening
the Black Family, Inc. and other
community organizations and institu
tions, will be featured at the plenary
session from 1:30-2:30 p.m.
TRADITIONAL FAMILIES
As one of the traditional black
families of the year, Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac White exemplify a family that
Racially Motivated
Assassin Gets Light Sentence
Judge Moved
By Pleas For
Lenient Term
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A white
man who turned his early childhood
brutalization by his father iiito a
savage rage at scapegoat blacks was
sentenced to 30 years in prison in the
killing of one black, wounding two
and shooting at seven more.
The living victims of Ian J. Blair,
25, were not moved by his sister’s
tearful pleas for leniency to D.C.
Superior Court Judge Peter H. Wolf,
urging the judge to put Blair in prison
and throw away the key.
Wolf, liowever, who could have
sentenced the deranged killer to a
maximum of 70 years in prison, or a
minimum of 20 years, compromised,
after hearing the defendant’s sister,
Jean Fronapfel, 27, describe a har
rowing childhood of physical and sex
ual abuse. She said that from the time
she was 13, her father, retired Air
Force Lt. Col. Richard Scott Blair,
raped her several iimea a week until
she left home at age 17 never to
return. The elder Blair, who did not
attend the trial, denied the charges.
She also said that fron the time
young Blair was 10 years old, he talk
ed of killing his father, but never did.
She said their father beat all the
children severely, sometimes with
weapons such as plank and a ham
mer.
“I’m not here to condone what [her
brother] did,” she testified. “But if I
had stayed, I would have done the
same thing.” Judge Wolf, moved by
her testimony, said, “I do And some
hope. I don't think he should die in
prison."
However, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Debra L. Long-Doyle, declaring she
“knew the kind of person the father
was,” nevertheless sought life im
prisonment for Blair.
Said she, “Had he killed his father,
had he killed someone who remotely
resembled his father... I think we
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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE—North Carolina State gutfdiee nested for continued growth and development.
University, aside tram being one of the meet popular, and Pictured from loft are Roderick Spearman. Student Center
most progressive universities in the nation, has taken a president; Brian Nixon, student body president; Dwuan
major step in its commitment to guaNty and oxcoBenee. Juno, editor and chief of The Technician, cologe
With a student body ef 26,000. they have chosen lour newspaper; and Elbert Alexander, general manager of
African-Americans to provide the advise, counsel and WKNC radio. (Photo by TaNb Sabir-Calloway)
Housing Authority Promotes Drug
Prevention Program In Local Projects
The Raleigh Housing Authority has
announced a continuing get-tough
policy in the treatment of drug
dealers and abusers in public hous
ing. The inter-project council and
residents’ council are aggressively
working with the RHA to help fight
back the surge of drug abuse and
distribution in their communities.
Community resources are being
mobilized and coordinated to have
the greatest impact on this growing
problem.
In July 1968, the Housing Authority
implemented a demonstration drug >
prevention program in the Halifax
Court community. A Community Ac
tion Coalition for the prevention of
drug abuse in public housing was ap
pointed to help develop a plan of ac
tion for implementing the program.
The major thrust of the Housing
Authority’s drug abuse prevention
program is education and interven
tion. A series of mini-workshops is be
Lng held In the residents’ homes with
small groups of 8-10 people attending.
These workshops teach parents how
to effectively communicate with their
children about the dangers of drugs.
Drug Action of Wake County is
assisting the authority in facilitating
these workshops. Drug information
centers havve been established in
Halifax Court, Walnut Terrace, and
Heritage Park by Drug Action.
With the assistance of a “Concern
ed Parents” group, an educational
program has been designed for youth
in two age categories, 7-12 years and
12-18 years. The youth have formed
'Not for Me” clubs and are par
ticipating in activities that promote a
irug-free lifestyle.
In addition to be above the
Mckground of all applicants for
public housing is reviewed through
he City-County Bureau of Identifica
tion. Pre-occupancy workshops are
teld to orient prospective new
•esidents concerning the rules and
*egulations of the Housing AuthcgUy.
iSee DRUG PREVENTION, P. 21
Is not only large, but lias a lot to give
the community, and which does so.
Mr. White, 312, is a barber. He is
also a member of First Church of God
on Boyer Street in Raleigh, where he
teaches Sunday School, serves as a
member of the Finance Committee,
serves as president of the
Brotherhood, and participates in
prison ;ministry.
Ms. Joyce Hinton White, 29, is a
(See BLACK FAMILY, P. 2)
“Keep WIC Lit"
Campaign Helps
Women, Children
Thousands of people are planning
to mail a small birthday candle to
their members of Congress as part of
a campaign to draw attention to the
needs of millions of pregnant women,
infants, and young children in the
United States who are at nutritional
risk.
The “Keep WIC Lit” campaign
seeks full funding for the Special Sup
plemental Food Program for Women,
Infants, and Children, one of the most
effective government nutrition pro
grams helping hungry women and
children in our nation.
Congress—members of the Budget
Committees in particular—are being
asked to increase funding for WIC by
9150 million above inflation over each
of the next five years so die program
can reach an additional 1.5 million
nutritionally needy pregnant women
and children. Presently, less than
half of those eligible are receiving
WIC’s benefits.
The WIC program provides
nutritious foods, referrals to fcasdth
services, counseling, and education
to low-income women, new mothers,
infants and children up to the age of
five. In a nation which ranks 19th
among the 20 industrialized countries
for infant deaths, WIC has proven to
be highly effective in combatting
malnutrition and infant mortality.
KSee KEEP WIC. P. 2)
Judges’
Bench
COCAINE CHARGES
Apex police have charged a
Raleigh man with trafficking by
possession of 117 grams of cocaine.
Michael L. Adams, 32, of 2930 Fair
way Drive, was arrested at 1 a.m.
Sunday at the Ramada Inn parking
lot in Apex, police said. He was being
held Sunday in the Wake County Jail
in lieu of $128,000 bond. He faces drug
charges, including possession with in
tent to sell and deliver, as well as
possession of a stolen firearm.
CHARGED WITH SEXUAL
ASSAULT
A Raleigh man has been charged
with sexually assaulting a nine-year
old girl.
Reginald Jerome Love, 30, of 220 E.
Cabarrus St., was charged with first
degree statutory rape, taking inde
cent liberties with a child and attemp
ted first-degree sex offense, accor
ding to arrest warrants.
(See JUDGES’ BENCH. P. 2)
Additional Staff, Funding
Day Care Needs Remain Challenging
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BY MARK COLLINS
Special To The CAROLINIAN
A year-long, five-part study oi
human service needs and human ser
vices available in Wake County iden
tifies five areas that warrant addi
tional resources and greater atten
tion, according to community leaden
and other* surveyed tor the project.
Area* Identified were day care for
children, including after school care;
services for the elderly; food,
emergency ahelter and other
assistance for the homeless; affor
dable permanent housing for low
income Individuals and families; and
teenagers, particularly high-school
dropouts and the unemployed.
The report, called “Wake County
Human Services Needs Assessment,"
was a joint effort of the United Way of
Wake County, the Wake County
government, the City of Raleigh, the
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and the United Way ia responsible for
facilitating the project.
“We commissioned the [human
needs] study to Identify where our
greatest unmet needs are,” said Ran
Coble, chairman of the United Way’s
Community Problem-Solving Com
mittee. “While we found that Wake
County has a wealth of programs
available, they may be inaccessible
to some, not publicized well enough or
in need of additional staff or funding
“the thoroughness of the study and
the information it provides will help
all the sponsoring agencies make fun
ding decisions proactively and with
specific knowledge of the
community’s assessment of human
service needs,” Coble added.
Coble, executive director of the
N.C. Center for Public Policy
Research, also served on the United
Way’s Priority Policy Committee. It
drafted another based on the
needs assessment report, to help
United Way determine priorities and
to make allocation decisions that en
sure funds meet pressing community
needs.
A third report, in progress at the
same time as the needs assessment
survey, more closely examines day
care. Recently published, “A Brief
Case for Child Care: The Challenge
for Wake County” is the work of as
people on the Child Care Steering
Committee, including four United
Way staff members.
“Quality is the basic issue findings
of the report addnw*.” said Johnnie
(See CHILD CARE, P.2)
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Louis Farrakhan Delivers
Message On The Black
Student Agenda In America
BY DOCTOR K.AAL
ANUBIAMHOTEPOLOROHAMZ
Special To The CAROLINIAN
One of the most controversial
figures in America delivered a
dynamic message on pride, education
and freedom and left listeners
spellbound from his oratoral gift and
what some believe, prophetic insight.
Minister Louis Farrakhan accepted
an invitation from the student
governments of North Carolina
Central University, Duke University
and Saint Augustine’s College to
speak on “The Black Student
Agenda for the 2lst Century.
Minister Farrakhan surrounded by
well-disciplined security guards,
almost strictly military, came with a
message and left his listeners with a
deeper appreciation and
understanding of the world
community.
Here is the message:
“In the name of Allah the
Beneficient, the merciful, I have
witnessed that there is but one God,
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community, and all truth and
revelation is one, and the human
family has the potential of becoming
one. So in the name of aU the
prophets, I greet all of you with the
greeting word of peace, Es Salamu
Aleikum.
Farrakhan said he was a former
student of Winston-Salem University
and “it was in North Carolina where I
learned a deeper appreciation for our
people and for the struggle that we
must wage for our ultimate And
complete liberation.”
Students, parents and educators
filled McDougald Gymnasium to hear
Farrakhan speak on Use black
student agenda and listened intently.
Farrakhan said “1 have awakened
my brother to a new dawn of the sun.
My heart is filled with Joy as 1 am
washed by the rain. The Creator has
given me a now dav. In this day I
(See MESSAGE, P. 2)