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Shiloh Residents Fight tor Clean Water
The Shiloh Coalition for Communi
ty Control and Improvement con
tinues to complain and preai for clean
•ratar and the elimination of
chemical contamination.
Laat weak, Shiloh residents ques
tioned seven state and federal en
vironment experts about the con
tamination and complained that the
cleanup was movina too slow. They
1
BY DANIEL MAROLEN *
South Africa’* President P.W.
Botha, aged 73, and the most brutal
rular that country has ever had, 1
resigned from the leadership of the
ruling Afrikaner Nationalist Party
which has been in power since 1948.
Botha was forced to resign from the
party’s leadership after suffering a
Botha succeeded John Vorster as
prime minister in 1978. He exits with
a whimper because his ad
ministrative and legislative perfor
mances left so much to be desired. He
will be remembered as South Africa’s
moat brutal minority ruler. His coun
try has never had a ruler like him
whose reign was typified by
massacres, detentions, banning*,
banishments, exilea, bombings and
destabilisationofAfrican people and
property within and beyond the coun
try’s borders.
Although Botha began his rule with
a siren call to the country’s European
iwhahltawta fat “ohangi nr pariah, ” hl«
record only shows that during his
reign he intensified, consolidated, ex
ported and perpetuated apartheid to
a degree never before done by any ot
Us predecessors since the first black
whits contact 337 years ago.
IDs “new constitution,” consisting
of ethnic “tricameral chambers of
parliament,” was only an extension
of aoartheid. That racist
constitution’s most significant
abomination was the total exclusion
of tee country’s 36 million African in
habitants froth citizenship and par
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
DETROIT, Mich. (AP)-Mayor
Coleman Young rays he’s being
treated unfairly by the news media
and political foes, who he says are
“out for blood.”
Young said last Friday during a
news conference with the Rev* Jesse
Jackson that coverage of a police in
vestigation of Annivory Calvert has
boon slanted and also blamed a grow
ing climate of racism for the furor
over the investigation.
Ho says those forces are converg
ing on Mm and the police department
over its investigation of Calvert, a
former city employee who filed a
paternity suit against Young in
January. Blood tests released last
month indicated Young is the father
of her six-year-old boy.
“A whole lot of people want blood,”
Young said. ‘‘It’s no longer a question
it supporting that child. I told you I d
Jo that. What more do you want from
me?”
Newspaper and broadcast reports
have said that a secretive Detroit
police squad interviewed people
about Calvert’s love life. The ac
counts were based on unnamed police
sources and a city employee who was
interviewed by the squad.
Police chief William Hart admitted
that Calvert had been investigated,
but said the probe involved possible
auto insurance fraud, not her love
<ife.
Young scolded reporters for using
the unmamed in accounts about the
Calvert investigation.
“You should look to these un
disclosed, unidentified sources for
their motives before you start so free
ly publishing them ” he said.
asked for an immediate testing ol
area wells. Some asked for medical
screening of former workers at the
wood-treating plant In Morrlavillc
from whence the contaminatlor
originated.
The session, held at Northwoodi
Elementary School, focused on the
concerns fo the Shiloh communitj
and the contamination of wella witl
dioxin, a cancer-causlna chemica
and the proposal by the Beazer Com
pany to Install water lines to Shiloh.
Pentachlorophenol, a compound us
ed to treat wood against decay, has
been discovered in well water as far
as one mile north of the plant and ap
pears to be spreading in other direc
tions.
Beazer Materials and Services,
Inc., of Pittsburgh, the chemical
company that operated the plant, was
asked to provide medical screening
for former plant workers, but so far
little has been done to relieve Shiloh
residents other than an official warn
ing by Barbara Benoy, that the pro
cess takes a long time. Ms. Benoy is
an official of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
In February, the state human
resources director, Dr. Levinne, said
that some of the wells were found to
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Record Conviction*
FBI Alms At Racism
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Hate
Crimes
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Vigorous FBI
investigations of racial and ethnic
hate crimes have resulted in a
record-breaking 169 convictions since
October 1967, Director William S. Ses
sions revealed recently.
Declaring that the FBI has this na
tion’s “primary responsibility
against the forces of prejudice”
through civil rights and counter
terrorism programs, the FBI official
issued the following statistics at the
annual National Commission meeting
of the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith.
• 101 convictions in fiscal 1968 <Oct.
1, 1667 to Sept. 30,1968), as the result
of FBI probee, which he called the
“highest annual number of convic
tions ever recorded in the [FBI] civil
rights program.”
• 69 convictions in the first six mon
(See FBI, P. 2)
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More than 600,000 voters were purg
ed from the voter registration lists'
since 1984, according to John Ed
wards, executive director of the N.C.
Civic Education Project.
Edwards said that local -boards of
election purge their lists of inactive
voters every five years. The purge is
done following each presidential elec
tion. In 1984, there were 267,737
registrants purged out of a registra
tion of 3.27 million. Following the 1968
general election, 374,337 voters were
taken off the registration lists out of
3.4 million registrant*
Edwards stated that intial findings
from 18 counties, reporting gender
based statistical data, indicate that
more females were purged than
males. There were 41,162 females
purged compared to 36,615 males.
Edwards further stated that there
is a need for additional voter educa
tion and civic participation. During
the period between 1963 and 1984,
there were 533,845 new voters added
to the registration books. One year
later, more than half of that number
was purged from the books. During
that one-year period, between 1987
Official Emissaries
Students Receive National Salute
After a year-iong campaign by
students at Hillside High School, the
legislation that brought about North
Carolina’s official ratification of the
34th (Anti-Poll Tax) Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
now rests in its rightful place... the
National Archives Building in
Washington, D.C.
The legislation was approved by
the General Assembly in early May.
As a result, 10 Hillside students were
Invited to the nation’s capital recent
ly by Dr. Don Wilson, the Archivist of
the United States. Upon the invita
tion, Secretary of State Rufus Ed
miaten allowed the students to serve
as official emissaries for the state in
the delivery of the ratified law to the
National Archives.
In a private ceremony in his office
suite, Dr. Wilson praised the constitu
tional efforts of the students. He also
thanked the members of the N.C.
General Assembly and the citiiens o'
North Carolina for having the
courage to stand with the students as
they made a historic change in the
Constitution of the United States of
America. T..
The 34th Amendment, which
outlawed the use of the poll tax as a
method of restricting voter participa
tion by blacks and others, became
federal law over 35 years ago, when
38 states approved the amendment
Although the state abided by the law,
North Carolina did not of ticially vote
to ratify the amendment until this
year. The legislation passed after lob
bying efforts by Hillside students. It
symbolically places North Carolina
among those states that have ratified
the amendment.
The student! discovered that the
state had not ratified the amendment
while studying the Constitution. They
decided that they would take action,
rather than complaining.
Upon discussion with Durham
lawmakers, the students drafted a
plan that lad to the ratification.
Durham Representatives Sharon
Thompson, Mickey Michaux and
Qeorfe Millar introduced House BiU
1», which won unanimous aooroval
(See STUDENTS, F. 2)
and lta, there were 339,904 nev
registrants, yet at the end 6f 1988
374,337 were purged from the votei
registration lists. Additionally, dur
ing the four-year period between 198
and 1998,878-749 new voters were ad
ded to the books; 642-074 were purg
ed, leaving a net increase of onlj
231-875 more registered voters. Ed
wards said that approximately 7!
percent of the state’s eligible votinf
population is registered to vote but ai
increasingly larger pool o:
registrants are not voting.
According to Edwards, the numbei
of female purged may correlate to the
underrepresentation of females ap
pointed and elected to public offices
Consequently, of the 51 senators ii
the North Carolina senate, four an
females, representing eight percen
of Senate members. There are I2i
members in the House of Represen
tatives, 20 female representatives
comprising 17 percent of the Housi
members, and of the 2,800 municipa
elected officials, 436 are females
representing approximately 16 per
cent of the municipal elected nonula
(See VOTERS PURGED, P. 2)
contain dioxin, which was an addition
to the previously isopropyl ether and
PCB contamination of the wells.
Residents became aware of the
dioxin contamination and rogues ted
information about the chemical and
which wells were contaminated,
In response to community
pressure, the Beaser Company
(formerly Koppers) presented a pro
posal to the Morrisville Town Board
to install water lines into Shiloh.
Twenty-nine of 84 wells tested
through February show at least small
amounts of PCB or isopropyl ether.
Nineteen other wells were sampled
for t*>» first time in May. but test
results have not been revealed.
The Shiloh Coalition for Communi
ty Control and Improvement earlier
posed these questions:
How can extension of water lines be
based on tost results that do not in
clude all wells? Keystone, the com
pany testing the wells, along with
the state EPA, has no plans to test all
wells.
What will be the cost for those wells
that are not yet contaminated or
those untested wells that may be con
taminated?
Will imannexed residents be forced
to annex with die town of Morrisville
In order to tan into the water lines?
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Rural Community
Network Plana To
• Relieve Poverty
Program Focusing On Service
Delivery System, Proficiency
BY MARY L. WILLIAMS
Special To Ha CAROLINIAN
An Analysis
On June is, I facilitated a workshop
, called “Resources Beyond the
Beltline.’’ As I prepared in mind for
the meaning of this topic, I began to
concentrate heavily on the difference
between the two population oppor
tunities resources and the standard of
living.
I’ve lived in rural communities for
S years, conducted outreach in
ake, Johnston, Franklin and Nash
counties, and I’ve seen the same pro
blems and conditions in each of them.
After six years of assessing needs in
rural communities and going to the
city to get needs addresssed, it has
made me realize that as an individual
and a community leader, it is part of
my responsiblity to help obtain and
extend resources and opportunities
for those who need help so they will
have an equal alternative semilar to
urban citizens, of someday becoming
self-sufficient.
In 1985, the Rural Community Net
working Resource Center was incor
porated as a non-profit organisation
designed to extend existing
resources, to inform the uneducated,
homebound and isolated citizens who
lack transportation to available ser
vices and information. In our attempt
to achieve our goals, we have been
■ faced with lack of materials, staff
r and hmding^ to do what has been
assessed as productive alternatives
to equalizing services accessibility
for rura) area citizens.
In my six years of doing individual
and community assessment
throughout Wake and the surroun
ding counties, the biggest change I’ve
seen has been implemented mostly
; by volunteers and area ministry
i groups. The biggest problem hat
been getting the people who really
needed help the right resources.
Transportation has been identified as
i the number one problem in rural
areas, followed by job development,
decent housing,.training, day care,
i facilities and a centralized location
: for services. Urban citizens don’t
: have the above problems, although
! they may still have more needs than
thev can address.
The RCNRC sees the needs as being
! more than the individual com
1 munities can handle; therefore it is
• going to take the society as a whole to
’ bring about significant changes in the
standard of living and equal access to
services. There must be an attitude
change on ways of helping the poor
help themselves. This can be »»*hiev
ed by taking time to become aware of
client needs, being concerned and
understanding about why the need oc
curred, directing people with needs to
appropriate, resources, discussing
with individuals short-term alter
native* and most imnnrtantlv. tak
ing the time to inform educate and
train them how to help themselves in
the long term.
Education is the key. If we as
leaders become educated on what the
needs, are, then we can educate those
who need our help to help themselves
and others.
In a state and county where
resources are so plentiful, there are
still too many going hungry,
homeless, uneducated, unskilled,
unemployed, isolated, with ill health
and living beneath the privileges that
are extended to others.
Rural communities are running at
(See RURAL NETWORK, P. 2)
Quayle, Kemp,
Sullivan To
Address NAACP
Three key members of the Bush ad
ministration—Vice President Dan
Quayle, Secretary Jack Kemp of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and Secretary Louis
SulUvan of the Department of Health
and Human Services—are among the
speakers scheduled to address the
1968 annual convention of the NAACP
in Detroit, July 9-14.
Secretary Kemp will speak at the
Monday, July 10, plenary session;
Vice President Quayle will appear at
he Wednesday afternoon plenary
lession; and Dr. Sullivan will address
he Thursday, July 14, plenary ses
lion.
Also scheduled to appear at the con
vention are Ronald H. Brown, chair
man, Democratic National Commit
tee; Detroit Mayor Coleman young;
Owen Bieber, president, United
Automobile Workers; Eleanor
Holmes Norton, former chairman,
Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission and now a professor at
the Georgetown Law Center; Mary
Hatwood Futrell, president, National
Education Association; and Oprah
Winfrey.
The official opening of the conven
tion takes place on Sunday, July 9,
when Dr. Beniamin L. Hooks ex
ecutive director of the NAACP
delivers his convention address.
(8ee ADDRESS, P.2)