RALEIGH, N.C.,
THURSDAY
JULY 6,1989
VOL. 48, NO. 62
iV.C.'s Semi-Weekly
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
SINGLE COPY ftr ,
IN RALEIGH &OQ
ELSEWHERE 300
Small Businesses Want Lids
On Campaign Spending
Page 13
Spike Lee: New Breed Of
Filmmakers On The Move
■P£ge'26::
UK. MARTIN L. KING. JR.
Visit To Disneyworld
Community Plans King Telethon
From CAROLINIAN SUlf Reports
American Airlines has awarded the
Martin Luther King Celebration Com
mittee a round-trip ticket for two to
Florida’s Disney World. The King
Committee will randomly award the
courtesy tickets valued at $1,168 to
the lucky contributor who is present
at Saturday’s “Fun in the Park”
Telethon. The drawing will be held at
7 p.m.
Raleigh's Pullen Park will be the
scene when the King Committee
teams up with Triangle entertainers,
public officials, television and radio
personalities and community leaders
to present a telethon to raise funds for
the Martin Luther King Statue and
Memorial Gardens to be built in
Southeast Raleigh. Construction is
slated to begin in mid-August.
The Raleigh King Committee,
widely known for its innovative com
munity activities, is organizing its
most ambitious event to date. NBC’s
television station WPTF-TV 28 will
host the telethon, centered around
people of all races and creeds enjoy
ing an afternoon in the park. Also,
three area radio stations, WPTF-AM,
WQDR-FM and WAUG-AM, will be
on hand to provide a wide range of
listeners to enjoy the sounds and
challenge participants, adults and
youth, to endure grueling park
related activities while area com
The King Committee is raising community
funds to erect a life-size bronze statue of Dr.
King in a landscaped botanical garden. The
total project is expected to cost $180,000 and
will be located in Southeast Raleigh.
goings-on of the various events.
The King Telethon will feature
various “mini-thons” which
panies and organizations donate
funds based on how long the par
ticipants ride.
An old-fashioned community picnic
will be held and ongoing entertain
ment will be provided by the Martin
Luther King All-Children’s Choir,
Capitol City Five, Smith Temple
Gospel Choir, the Embers, Rocky
River Cowboys, Mickey Wells Steel
Reggae Band, Apple Chill Cloggers,
Ronald McDonald, Paul Montgomery
Jazz Quintet, Elmer Gibson Trio and
Krazelogy, MC Andre and DJ Kaos.
The King Committee is raising
community funds to erect a life-size
bronze statue of Dr. King in a land
(See KING TELETHON, P. 2)
Jackson Hopes To
Make Progress in
Releasing Hostages
Predicts Being
Top Vote-Getter
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson left
Raleigh last week on a fact-finding
trip to Prance and Egypt with hopes
of making progress in the release of
American hostages in Lebanon.
Jackson, at a news conference at
RaMgh-Durham International Air
port, said he was encouraged by re
cant comments from Lebanese fac
tional leaders that they now regard
having taken American hostages as a
mistake.
During the stopover, Jackson talk
ed about the recent Supreme Court
rulings and President Bush’s meeting
with civil rights leaders.
Jackson said he would have liked to
discuss with' Bush recent U.S.
Supreme Court rulings that cut back
the rights of minorities and workers.
Jackson said, “It is significant that
today we have a ceremony with the
it and not a meeting with
him.”
He also voiced support for a higher
minimum wage, a national law allow
ing voters to register to vote on the
same day as election and stepped-up
efforts to combat drug smuggling.
Recently, Rev. Jackson, who twice
sought the Democratic presidential
nomination, suggested he would be
the party’s top vote-getter in 1992.
Jackson, in an interview last Sun
day with the Boston Herald, also said,
Democratic leaders who think the
party would be better off if he ran for
mayor of Washington than for presi
dent are cowards.
Jackson said he has not decided on
his political future but indicated he
could run for mayor of Washington
NEWS BRIEFS
CHICKENS
CONTAMINATED
WASHINGTON. D.C.-The
Agriculture Department says at
least one of every three chickens
hooded for consumer tables is
contaminated by salmonella
bocteria, tiny organisms tbst can
cause food poisoning. Some con
sumer advocates say the con
tamination rate is one in two
birds. ,
There’s no wsy for the shopper
to tall by looking at labels or the
overall appearance of chickens
as they are presented at food
counters. Officials recommend
keeping hands clean with soap
and water in food preparation;
cooking poultry and all taw meat
thoroughly; and keeping
preparation areas free of raw
moot, poultry and their Juices.
FOOD UON PROFITS UP
Food Lion, lac., in Salisbury
reported second-quarter net in
come of 932 million, or 10 cents
per share, up from 922 million, or
nine cents per share, in the
some period a year earlier.
Revenues far the quarter ended
June 17 were 91.07 billion, up 23
percent or 9M7.4 million. Food
Ltoa operates S0O supermarkets
In the Southeast.
TAX DRUG DEALERS
The state Senate voted 41-1
Thursday to make drug dealers
pay tases on the illegal drugs
*they sell er face another felony
“The way they eradicated
(See NEWS BRIEFS. P. 2)
---
REV. JESSE L. JACKSON
next year ana ior president two years
later, saying, “What’s good for
Washington is good for America.’’
Asked whether any Democrat has
his vote-getting potential in the 1992
presidential race, Jackson respond
ed, “Name him.”
"We continue not only to run but to
grow,” he said. “The question
becomes, ‘What other Democrat
right now that we know can get seven
million votes?’ It’s obvious I can get
more than seven million.”
“Someone said we must take a hard
look at Washington because we’re No.
l in the polls,” Jackson said. “Well,
we’re also No. 1 in the national
Democratic polls. So we have
political choices to make.
“The fact is, there must be a real
appreciation of what we did in ’88,
(See JESSE JACKSON, P. 2)
Strange Subplots
Defendant Linked To Slayings
Bodyguard
Granted
Immunity
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP)-A
former guard for soft-core por
nography baron Larry Flynt linked a
defendant in the “Cotton Club”
murder case to a second murder last
Tuesday in testimony at a
preliminary hearing.
Robert L. Deremer, who was once
part of the Hustler magazine
publisher's private security force,
said a fellow bodyguard, William
Molony Mentzer, had him drive past
the scene of a murder and said, “I
had to shoot Two people here tonight,!'
The prosecution says the place
where Deremer drove wag art apart
ment where June Mincher, a
transvestite prostitute, had been
murdered on May 3,1984. A man who
was with her, Christian Pierce, was
shot once but survived.
Deremer has been granted im
munity from prosecution in the “Cot
ton Club” case.
Mentzer, who also is charged with
the 1983 murder of theatrical pro
ducer Roy Radin, is charged in the
Mincher killing along with Robert
Ulmer Lowe, who was en route to Los
Angeles Tuesday after waiving ex
tradition from Maryland. He was
scheduled to be arraigned in the Min
cher and Radin murders Wednesday.
The Mincher case is one of several
strange subplots in the complex “Cot
ton Club” case, so named because
Radin was negotiating with movie
mogul Robert Evans to produce a
film about the legendary Harlem
nightspot when he was murdered.
The Dreliminarv hearing. which
(See COTTON CLUB, P. 2)
ABORTION ISSUE-These demonstrators on the steps
of the Supreme Court Building as wen as others
throughout the country were awaiting tlte Supreme
Courfs decision on abortion and the 1973 Roe vs. Wade
ruling. On July 3, the court stopped short of overturning
Roo vs. Wodo, hot Mt the door open for state legislatures
to regulate ahorlon and Mutod at a further decision In the
future. (Photo hy Taft Sabir-Caloway)
Drug Awareness Project Combines
Community Activities And Youths
The Southeast Raleigh Optimist
Club, Nay-Kel Educational Center,
Inc. and the Garner Road YMCA
presented their first Drug Awareness
Symposium on June 24.
The Wake County Sheriff’s Depart
ment, along with Drug Action of
Wake County, provided speakers who
addressed some 40 youngsters rang
ing in age from 7-17 on the realities of
drug abuse. Ten adults were ajso pre
sent.
State Department Shows Too Few
Women, Minorities Among Ranks
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-The
State Department has too few
minorities and women in its overseas
corps, and most of them are assigned
to less prestigious jobs such as hand
ling passports and paperwork, accor
ding to a congressional report re
leased last week.
“Minorities and women are under
represented in the State
Department’s Foreign Service work
force when matched against com
parable civilian labor force represen
tation,” said the report released by
the General Accounting Office.
“Minorities and women are still
significantly underrepresented at
senior levels of the Foreign Service.”
The report follows court-ordered
actions by the State Department, in
cluding suspension of its entrance ex
amination and the notification to
about 600 female officers they may be
entitled to new jobs. The actions in
April were the result of a 13-year
lawsuit.
Although it doesn’t mention the
lawsuit, the report echoes its com
plaints.
As of September 1987, 6,166 of the
State Department’s -8,439 Foreign
LEGISLATIVE CONFEftENCE-ll*. Sidney Locks (D
Lumborttfl), M. riMf with K. Lumumba af Durham,
Sum the rulnttmnimwrt and «tcM twvlcos during
Callaway)
Teaching the young takes more
than just standing before them, said
participants. “Creativity and
rewards are quite helpful," said Op
timist President Andre Tiller.
Disseminating information to youth
questions during the symposium.
The Optimist Club of Southeast
Raleigh has an agenda of youth
related activities throughout the
calendar year. One particular project
“We look at the child who has improved his
academics, or attitude, for the better, a
youngster who has made an about-face regar
ding the positive aspects of the future...”
Andre Tiller
Optimist Club president
about drugs and abuses can really
become mundane if the information
cannot connect, he said. Movie passes
and gift certificates were presented
to youth who correctly answered
which Tiller recalls as a success is
Youth Appreciation Week, held each
November to acknowledge and honor
(See DRUG, P. 2)
Martin Street Church
Marks 120th Birthday
1 ” t ■ 0\
BY DEAWN CAROLYN SAMPSON
Special to The CAROLINIAN
Martin Street Baptiat Church,
under the leadership of Dr. David C.
Forbes, Sr., will begin celebrating its
120th church anniversary and
homecoming soon.
This year’s theme, “Homecoming
Hi&tpcy-Heritage; Views of Our
Christian'toots,*1' dtltes Awareness
of considerable evidence
demonstrating the broadening effect
which the Martin Street Church ex
perience has had on its membership.
Morning worship services will
serve as the kickoff for a week of
main events beginning July 9. Mon
day through Friday will see the Mar
tin Street Church family involved in
nightly praise rallies.
On Monday night, guest speaker
Pastor Leonard Farrar, along with
the Youth in Christ Choir, will be
leading worship. On Tuesday night,
Rev. Brenda Buckrham will lead
worship. On Wednesday night, the
Martin Street Baptist . Church
members and clergy will lead-wor
ship. On Thursday night, the Friends
Committee Against the Spread oi
AIDS and Drugs will lead worship,
and on Friday night, Rev. Dr.
Franklin J. Matthews and his choir
will be leading worship.
On Saturday from 1-4 p.m., the
Martin Street Church will host a Pro
gress Fair which will allow aux
iliaries, departments, and ministries
of the church an opportunity to share
Information about their ac
complishments for the year, to
recruit new membership, etc. Also on
tills day, other activities such as
video showings of the past year’s
church events, special presentation
about Africa and “praisercise” will
be going on.
It is hoped mat this focus on the
historical treasures will facilitate a
transforming of minds bring on a self
assessment that will point up the im
pact of all experiences as the Martin
Street Baptist Church family moves
forward to embrace change.
The public is invited to come and
help the Martin Street members
celebrate their anniversary.