Welle Contaminated i Derr :03V- -ONES ST. RALEIGH NC 2751' 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 aA|iB yiaa aaaaaMu la Balalah Sa* Altala A ■■•■■I BalsalMlaa Raakaaa al group wit rtconuy in nimgn tot moir 9/m Annual noirsining uoniorinci now 11 UaHaii |nn /Baa Thuailni C^MIaa Eav MlanA Million >iW| inn. ^ooo inursoiy cumin«or oioryi* €00,000 Voters PirfW in Slata Slncm 1904 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? i we oiuiAm, r. d 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)