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Residents Take Active Role
Group Plans Community Action,
BY YVONNE CONWELL
SUIT Writer
One of the moot potentially in
strumental organisations in
Southeast Raleigh plans to build for
residents a solid platform for par
ticipation in the economic develop
ment and growth of the community.
The Southeast Raleigh Community
Economic Development Corp. on
May SI attracted more than 300 con
cerned citizens to the Shaw Universi
ty campus to participate in a com
munity development forum.
By the time the forum concluded,
the group had organized the
soutneast Kaieign community
Development Corp. and elected 38
persons who represented a broad
cross-section of the community to its
board of directors.
The purpose of the organization is
to ensure that residents of Southeast
Raleigh are active participants in the
economic development and growth of
their own community. The board’s
charge was to legalize the organiza
tion, raise money to stabilize it and to
determine how the community’s
goals will be achieved.
The corporation has been active
since its formation. It has incor
poraieu as a private, non-prom, tax
exempt, resident-controlled
organization; received a $45,009
grant from the N.C. General
Assembly; hired a part-time staff
and established an office in downtown
Raleigh.
The corporation’s part-time acting
director, Patricia Funderburk, whose
primary responsibilities include
stabilizing the organization and rais
ing money to sustain its operation for
the next two years, said, “It has been
mind-boggling to discover the
amount of resources and money that
are available to do the kinds of pro
jecis our community neeas to ao tor
itself.
“Other communities around the
country similar to ours with a lot less
than we have are successfully im
plementing exciting projects that are
meeting the real needs. The one thing
they have going for them is that the
community is unified. That’s what we
are working toward here and I see it
happening more and more every
day,” she added.
Members of the community have
been sponsored by the corporation to
attend numerous training workshops
and conferences throughout the state.
uur people need to be educated
about economic strategies and how to
use them to improve our
community,” comments Sterling
Goodwin, owner of Charleston
Seafood Restaurant and chairman of
the corporation’s interim board of
directors. “It’s time we stop looking
for someone else to save us. We have
to take control of our own destiny.
Southeast Raleigh is blessed with
many intelligent people who can do
anything we need done for ourselves.
We plan to work with city and other
(See GROUP PLANS, P. 2)
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Attacks And Threats
Lawyers Fight For Client’s Life
Drug Ring
Kingpins
Exposed
Attorneys Alvaader Frazier and
Hairy Kresky of the International
Peoples Law Institution and Michael
Warren (dan to Hie a motion in
Moral court to save the life of their
Client, Adam Abdul-Hakeem
(formerly Larry Davis) by asking for
Ilia removal from the Rikers Island
Corrections Facility.
Ahdul-Hakeem’s attorneys re
quested that he be placed,in federal
custody in order to stop what they
flUri the brutal physical and emo
tional attacks be has suffered since
being placed at Rikers Island in
January.
Dr. Lenora Fulani, national
chairperson of tbe New Alliance Par
ty and leader of the Coalition to Free
Adam Abdul-Hakeem, issued a state
ment that was read by Barbara
Taylor, principal and founder of the
independent Barbara Taylor School
In Harlem.
His incarceration, his attorneys
say, has been marked by continued
attacks and threats on his life that
bagan almost three years ago after he
exposed the 44th Precinct’s police
drug-running operation in the Bronx
as well as the 34th Precinct in upper
(See EXPOSED. P.2)
CH) NAMED
The Cbarleston-^VIdent, S.C.
sdlsMweek that Jerry A. Brown
has been named president and
executive officer for that
_iber, effective July I. Brown
Is currently vice president of
economic development for the
Greater Raleigh Chamber of
),apoeltlouheliaoheld
February UN.
POUITRYWORKERS
workers from Purdue
In i
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Ligon School Counselor
Assists Wake Recruiting
ur.ka CMintv Puuiic School ». ' A
System’s Office of Student Services
ftiw« Ms. Shirley D. Hinton, chair
man of the Guidance Department at
Ltaon Gifted and Talented Middle
S&ool, to represent the system at the
JHS Counselors Seminar held May
IMP at the prestigious St. Paul’s
SMwol in Concord, N.H. The seminar
was attended by counselors from
middle and Junior Ugh schools from
many parte of the country and had as
its purpose to acquaint toe counselors
with St. Paul’s as a possible option for
high school for gifted students.
_Hinton was met m. Thursday
afternoon at the Manchester. N.H.
airport by Peter Cheney, director of
HlinlMtnni and escorted to Scudder
•’■“■%'aSRSRat
and recruiting depart
along with counselors from
faculty members then attended
chapel at 8 a.m. for service. The re
(See SHIRLEY HINTON. P. 2)
Committee members Include Elazar Barnette, Ban
Carrington. Brenda Watson, Edgar Farmer, WHRam Walker.
UMe Jones senes as project director and Brenda Alan
senes as advisor.
save The Children Project Helps
Decrease Infant Mortality Rate
From CAROLINIAN Staff Report!
The North Carolina Child Advocacy
Institute reveals that the quality of
life for North Carolina’s 1.6 million
childrgp has dropped in the past year
and suggests that public policy can
help influence most factors that
determine the welfare of these
children and families.
Moreover, the infant mortality rate
remains high for the state and despite
medical facilities and affluence, even
higher in the Triangle.
Every year across the country, tens
of thousands of infants die needlessly
because their mothers did not receive
adequate prenatal care. This leaves
the Infant mortality rate in the United
States the highest of any industrialis
ed country.
Save Our Children, a project
designed to raise the awareness of
rural African-Americans, recently
received a $5,000 grant to continue
targeting males and females ages 13
through senior citizen on issues of
nutrition, prenatal development and
human reproduction to decrease in
fant mortality.
Deeper Life Outreach Ministries of
the First Congregational United
Church of Christ will use these funds
to conduct short-term training in five
rural eastern North Carolina com
munities.
The Save Our Children Project
Committee will host, numerous
seminars and workshops. Committee
members include Lillie Jones, pro
ject director; Brenda Allen, advisor;
Coveted State Title
Gail Cami«ton, Edgar f armer anc
William Walker.
Many of these workshops hosted bj
the committee will focus their atten
tion on raising the awareness of rura
teens and adults about issues relatec
to nutrition, prenatal developmen
and human reproduction to decreasi
infant mortality.
(See SAVE CHILDREN, P. 2)
Mothers’ March Glows With Pride
BY ALUE M. PEEBLES
('•ntrlbaUiig Writer
Ms. Minnie Flagg, the mother
representing Bush Metropolitan
\ME Zion Church, was crowned
lueen of the Raleigh-Apex Branch
NAACP on Sunday, May 21, at Martin
Street Baptist Church. The occasion
was the Mothers’ March, an annual
event held prim: to the North Carolina
State Conference of Branches’
Mothers’ March. Ms. Flagg will com
pete with other branches’ queens for
the coveted state title. Ms. Flagg was
crowned by Ms. .Luna Belle Hill of
Martin Street Church.
On Saturday, May 27, at 3 p.m. in
the Raleigh Civic and Convention
Center, the winner will be crowned.
She will receive an all-expense-paid
trip to California to attend the
NAACP’s Image Awards program to
be held in December 1983. Of course,
there will be other (vises in store, and
the queen will reign at all activities
held during the year.
J.D. Lewis, director of minority af
fairs for WRAL-TV 5, was master of
ceremonies. There was an air of ex
citement as each candidate was in
troduced. Ms. Ruth T. Carter
represented Cokesbury United
Methodist Church, where she is ac
tive in many phases, including Sun
day School. A licensed practical
nurse. Ms. Carter is part owner of
Carter Associates, She and her hus
band Henry have three children.
Ms. Carolyn Beckwith represented
church wort as watt as bring a full
Levi A. BecKwtm ana they nave four
children. * >-,r
Ms. Sandra Baker, first runner-up,
represented Martin Street Baptist
Church. She is employed at AT&T in
Raleigh. She enjoys oooking, singing,
and traveling. She is a member of the
church’s Gospel Choir. She stated
that one of the highlights of her life
was the visit to the Bahamas that she
and her husband James made on
their 30th wedding anniversary. They
have four children.
Ms. Sarah H. Morgan was the
mother from First Cosmopolitan
Baptist Church, and she made her
contribution, but because of a death
in the family, she was unable to at
tend on Sunday. She is retired, but
she has never stopped working. She is
a precinct worker and she can be
counted on to drive elderly and han
diapped voters to the polls on Elec
tion Day. She Is active in her church
and has been crowned NAACP queen
in the past. Ms. Morgan is a life
member of the NAACP.
Ms. Fannie Byrd represented St.
Mary’s AMW Church of Apex, where
she sings in the Gospel Choir. She is
(See MOTHERS’ MARCH, P. 2)
Campbell Scholarships Awarded To
Two Graduating Wake Co. Students
The Ralph Campbell, »r.
Scholarship Foundation awarded
f1,000 scholarahips to two deierv
ing Wake County high school
graduating seniors recently.
The winners of the 1M8 awards
were Shalon Brenee Ruffin of
Garner Senior High School and
Angola Lenore Stanback, also of
Garner Senior High.
According to Dr. Harold H.
Webb, chairman of the founda
tion’s board of directors, the
scholarship* were awarded on
the basis of scholarship,
demonstrated need and com
munity/school involvement.
Since IMS the two scholarships
awarded in IMS bring the total
number awarded by the Camp
bell Scholarship Fund to lit. The
previous winners have maintain
ed excellent records of scholastic
achievement.
Ms. Ruffin Is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie T. Johnson
of Garner. While enrolled at
Gamer Senior High, Shalon par
Mcipated in the Beta dub, Senior
Service Club, Junior Civitam,
Junior Engineering Technical
Society and the Women'* Tennis
Team. Shalon it graduating in the
top tix percent of her class and
plana te majer in poultry science.
(See SCHOLARSHIPS, P. 2)
SHAl,ON RUFFIN
southeast naietgh Uttzens tut tsanK
On Minority Lending Record; Call
For Reinvestment Before Expansion
BY YVONNE CONWELL
Staff Writer
A group of citizens concerned with
the economic, housing and overall
condition of Southeast Raleigh took
aim at a local lending institution Mon
day and questioned its lending record
in minority neighborhoods in
Raleigh.
Most of the citizens, who
represented Southeast Raleigh, met
with F. Guy Walker, president and
chief executive officer of Raleigh
Federal Savings Bank and several of
his top executives to discuss the
bank’s lending record in low- and
moderate-income and minority
neighborhoods.
The group talked about the
desperate need for affordable hous
ing and the bank’s lack of lending in
minority communities. They also pro
posed a program that would give
geritideigh Federal a leading rale in con
tributing to the development of
Southeast Raleigh and other low- to
moderate-income communities.
Participating in the group’s propos
ed program, according to some local
spokespersons, would give Raleigh
Federal an opportunity to meet its
Community Reinvestment Act
obligations. The federal act requires
all federally regulated lending in
stitutions to help meet the credit
needs of all parts of a community in
which they do business.
The savings and loan’s latest an
nual report states that the bank is try
ing to expand to “the resort area of
the Sandhills ’’
Rev. David Dolby, vice president of
the Interdenominational Ministerial
Aliance and a member of the com
munity delegation, said, “We feel
that Raleigh Federal needs to meet
its CRA obligations in its home ter
1 ritory in Raleigh before it moves out
into more lucrative markets.”
The group questioned the bank’s
proposed acquisition of two savings
and loans, one in Sanford and one in
Rocky Mount.
Fisher McMillian, representing a
resident organization, Operation
HELP, in Sanford, who also attended
the meeting, said, “First Federal, the
savings and loan that Raleigh
(See LENDING, P. 2>
RHA Approves
Crump Housing
Finance Plan
Very recently, the Board of
Commissioner! of the Raleigh
Housing Authority agreed to be
the guarantor of a loan in the
amount of 9415,MS for the perma
nent ffnancing of the construction
of six duplexes located at the cor
ner of Trailurood Road and
Crump Read.
RHA, participating with Wake •
County and the City of Raleigh,
will provide a rent option to pur
chase type housing program. The
12 units will all be three
bedrooms, and contain about
1,250 square feet per unit.
The Raleigh Housing Authority
also appointed five members to
Raleigh Housing Authority
Developments, Inc., a
neighborhood-based non-profit
corporation that will assist in im
plementing neighborhood hous
ing strategies for the
Crump/Trailwood development.
RHAD board members are Jessie
Copeland, Rev. Collins Ridley,
Sara Lynn Wood, Dr. James
Swiss and Roslyn Savitt.
RHAD, Inc. has applied for an
energy grant from the North
Carolina Housing Finance Agen
cy to fund the energy conserva
tion measures for the Crump
Road site.