Illegal Drugs
Way Cause Loss
W Assistance
j In a major step to prevent illegal
drag activity from destroying low
income neighborhoods, public hous
ing communities and the families
who live in HUD-assisted housing
across the country, Secretary Jack
Kemp announced a new regulation
that would direct public housing
authorities to terminate subsidized
rental assistance in cases of felony or
criminal activity, drug trafficking j
and use.
, “I want to take action against drug |
criminals on behalf of public housing
residents I have met, as recently as
this Tuesday in Liberty Square in
Miami,” Secretary Kemp said,
• “because drugs are destroying the
fabric of their neighborhoods.
“I am determined that federal tax
ipayers will not be required to sub
sidize the rent of drug dealers and
(users or violent criminals. The only
.housing subsidies for felons should be
i provided by local Jails, and state and
' federal prisons.”
Under the regulation, PHAs would
deny or terminate rental subsidies
'under both the Section 8 certificate
program and the Housing Voucher
<program where existing assisted
tenants or new applicants are involv
ed in the felonious manufacture, sale,
distribution or use of illegal drugs, or
any other felonious violent criminal
activity.
'See HUD ON DRUGS, P. 18)
New Book Tells
Family History
Spaulding Story
GREENSBORO (AP)-When John
A. Spaulding picked up a load of
copies of the book on his family’s
history he had co-authored it was the
culmination of 13 years of work.
“Han, I felt like crying,” said the
76-year-old self-described history
buff, who said he will deliver the
books to 203 relatives who paid him in .
advance and who kept pestering him
ito finish it.
; Last Friday, Spaulding drove to
Deal Printing Co. in Greensboro,
where he paid to have the book
published and picked up the first load
of the book, “A Story of the Descen
dants of Benjamin Spaulding
(1773-1962), With Genealogy,” co
written by the late Louis D. Mitchell,
a professor of English literature.
. “Long, long time,” Spaulding said
last Wednesday when asked about the
amount of time spout on the project.
1 sun did work hard:”
Why 13 years?
“I would work and-stop, work and
stop I’d work a week or two and then
forget it,” he said. But with such a big
family, Spaulding said, there was no
problem generating renewed energy.
“What helped was the information
and the inspiration I received from
interviewing... 86 relatives,” he said.
Spaulding got help from a scholarly
cousin. It took thousands of miles of
traveling, $15,000 of Spaulding’s own
money and many lonely days in the
library of his Greensboro home.
Spaulding, who said he plans to
market the book, won’t have much
trouble finding anl audience im
mediately. He estimates there are
more than $6,000 descendants of Ben
jamin and Edith Spaulding, founders
of one of America’s most successful
black families.
: Benjamin Spaulding was a freed
Mack man who acquired more than
5,600 acres of land in Columbus Coun
ty in eastern North Carolina before
the Civil War. His children and
grandchildren increased it to 65,000
acres, and descendants since then
have upped it to the present 100,000
.acres that spill over into neighboring
Bladen County.
The family founded stores,
Kir«*«tntth shops, sawmills, a school
and churches on their property. One
member, the fiery Methodist
(See FAMILY HISTORY. P. 18)
DR. JULIUS NIMMONS
Dr. Nimmons
Share Views On
African Trip
Following his second trip to Africa
this year, Dr. Julius F. Nimmons, Jr.,
president of Jarvis Christian College,
took a few minutes away from his
schedule to reflect on his recent
travels to the continent and to tell
what they mean to the overall educa
tion process and to Jarvis as the
college expands into international in
volvement.
This second mission to Africa was
sponsored, as was the first, by the Na
tional Association for Equal Oppor
tunity in Higher Education, of which
117 historically black colleges and
universities are members. A total
delegation of 11 people traveled to
Zambia, Kenya and Zimbabwe on
this mission. There were five institu
tions represented, along with
representatives from NAFEO and the
liaison person with the corresponding
U.S. agency.
Nimmons, who is a graduate of
Shaw University, was also former
Raleigh-Wake NAACP chapter presi
dent and an educator at Saint
Augustine’s College.
“We were part of a team that went
to Zambia, Kenya and Zimbabwe,”
said Nimmons. “We went there for
the purpose of exploring linkages and
interfacing with universities within
these countries as well as fulfilling
the agreement between NAFEO and
the United States Agency for Interna
tional Development, with respect to
research and development projects
and educationally related projects in
those three countries.”
On several levels, the group held
dialogues with U.S. government of
ficials and USAID, the U.S. Informa
tion Service and with ministry of
ficials in various segments of the
governments of the countries that
were visited. For instance, group
members talked with the minister of
scholarships who was also a member
of the cabinet of the president of Zim
babwe.
They also talked with the university
vice chancellors in Zambia.
Congressional Caucus
Holds Forum On Youths
BY LABRY A. STILL
NNPA News Service
WASHINGTON, D.C.-A special
tribute for late crusading Con
gressman Mickey Leland (D-Texas)
and awards to representatives
Augustus Hawkins (D-Calif.),
William Gray (D-Pa.) and
Democratic National Committee
chairman Ron Brown highlight the
19th annual Congressional Black
Caucus Foundation Legislative
Weekend here, Sept. 13-17. Top
awards were also listed for Planned
Parenthood Federation president
Fay Wattleton and ' Georgetown
University basketball coach John
Thompson.
The crisis facing poor children and
underprivileged youth throughout the
world is also set to be explored during
the four-day series of public forums
and legislative workshops in the halls
of Congress and major hotels
throughout the nation’s capital.
Scheduled participants ranged from
representatives of some 200 organiza
tions and speakers such as Martin
Luther King, III, “Youth Motivator”
Tyrone Crider, movie star Lou
Gossett, Jr., basketball star Magic
Johnson and jazz great Dizzie
Gillespie.
Less than a month after the fatal
pilgrimage of Leland and 16 col
leagues on a mercy mission to
Ethiopia to aid African famine
refugees, more than 15,000 African
American leaders flocked to
Washington to discuss drug abuse,
teen pregnancy, unemployment, il
literacy, health care, athletics, the
black elderly, black families, black
male survival, rural economic
development, urban destruction,
black reparations, black artists and
jazz.
Or. Johnnetta B. Cole, president of
Spelman College in Atlanta, is the
keynote speaker with Rep. Julian C.
Dixon (D-Calif.), CBC Foundation
president, in charge. Rep. Ronald V.
Dellums (D-Calif.) is CBC chairman
and Kweisi Mfume (D-Baltimore)
serves as weekend chairman. Bet
ween the scores of workshops and
forums, sessions also include lun
cheons, receptions, fashion shows
and private parties. The theme is “A
Global Crisis: Our Children at Risk.”
The legislative weekend program
begins with a “Youth Seminar on
Leadership in the Year 2000,” featur
ing children of former civil rights
(See BLACK CAUCUS, P. 18)
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Mandela
Release
Considered
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP)—The president will consider
releasing African National Congress
leader Nelson Mandela after the Sept.
6 parliamentary elections, the justice
minister was quoted as saying last
Thursday.
Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee also
said the government does not expect
Mandela, 71, to renounce violence, a
requirement that former President
P.W. Botha had insisted on until last
year.
“We are not wedded to the demand
that he shpuld distance himself from
violence before he is released,”
Coetsee said in an interview with Die
Volksblad newspaper, which sup
ports the National Party government.
“We will judge the matter objec
tively, not just on the grounds of re
jecting violence,” Coetsee said. “I
think the matter will undoubtedly get
[Acting President] F.W. de Klerk’s
attention after Sept. 6.”
De Klerk is expected to be chosen
president for a full five-year term
following the election. He became ac
ting president after Botha’s resigna
tion Aug. 14.
(See MANDELA, P. 18)
fIPPF
DENYING DRUG USE-Marlon Barry
said that ha would ask Moral
prosecutors to release Ms grand |ury
testimony In which ho denM using
drugs with a convicted narcotics
dealer. Barry’s move comes alter nows
reports that the drug dealer, former city
employee Charles Lewis, ale godly told
prosecutors that he and Birry usad
crack cocaine In Washington last
December and in the Virgin Islands in
early 1988.
Think Safety
Aging Of America Raises Serious
Questions About Long-Term Care
me aging oi America raises
serious questions about who will pay
for long-term care of our senior
citizens. Some of those ques
tions—and possible solutions to
them—will be examined in "Can’t Af
ford to Grow Old,” a one-hour
documentary hosted by veteran news
correspondent Walter Cronkite,
premiering Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 10
p.m. on PBS.
“Can’t Afford to Grow Old”
observes that Medicare, the govern
ment health insurance program for
the elderly, generally does not pay for
long-term care. Although the 1988
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
expanded some health benefits for
the elderly, it does not help the elder
ly with the “catastrophic” costs of
long-term care. Many disabled
seniors can get government help only
by “spending down” their assets to
the poverty level in order to qualify
for Medicaid, the state and federal
health insurance program for the
very poor. Each year, up to oKe
million Americans are forced into
poverty by the cost of long-term care.
The.nursing home, widely regarded
as a last resort for most elderly, is the
first resort of current public policy.
While eight out of 10 Americans say
they would prefer to receive long
term care at home, eight out of 10
public dollars spent on long-term
care are spent on nursing homes.
Because Medicaid covers nursing
home care but rarely covers home
care, many people are forced into
nursing homes even though they do
not want or need to be there.
“Can’t Afford to Grow Old” profiles
two people who were forced into nurs
ing homes despite the efforts of their
families to take care of them at home.
One of them, Lorraine Schienle, who
suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, liv
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nursing home. “It makes me very
angry that we’re forced to literally
put her away because we can’t afford
to keep her anymore,” says Rebecca
Schienle.
The program also looks at people in
the “no-care zone.” An estimated five
million disabled elderly Americans
who do not receive paid home care
assistance struggle every day to
maintain dignified, independent
lives. More than 80 percent of all
home care is provided by friends or
family; often, the care is provided by
a woman who is herself experiencing
some of the infirmities of old age.
Howard Gnagi of Miami, Fla., is
blind, paralyzed, and incontinent as a
result of two strokes he suffered in
1985. His wife, Martha, cares for him
at home.
“I can’t do it alone,” Martha says.
“Everything Howard gets back from
Social Security goes right back to so
meone to help me take care of him.
There’s nothing left but the house. It
might come to the time when we have
to sell it to take care of him, and we
will.”
“Can’t Afford to Grow Old” also ex
amines two innovative pro
grams—one private, one public—that
. give the elderly a choice of care op
• tions as they experience disability in
old age. Douglas Gardens, a private
long-term care facility in Miami,
Fla., offers a broad range of services,.
including in-home care, adult day
care, and nursing home care. In
Oregon, where Medicaid funding is
available for services outside nursing
homes, a statewide “deinstitutional
ization” effort has reduced the nurs
•ing home population by 33 percent,
doubled the number of seniors in
community-based care, and saved
taxpayers millions of dollars. “If you
need the care, you’re going to go
where that care is provided, and if
that choice is only nursing homes,
that’s where you’re going to get the
care,” says Dick Ladd, Oregon’s
director of social services. “That’s
why we need other models such as
this one to give people an additional
(Sec AGING, P. 18)
JOB CORPS—New members recently jodnod Kltrel Job Corps Center es a
change In personnel actions by Management and Training Corporation. Ms. Peggy
Fitts of Raleigh, left, loins the center as the sabstonco obese ceunseier, Ms.
Dorothy Richardson joined KHtrol as the buyer. She is e resident of Durham. Louis
HBarris, bottom left, a resident of Oxford was recently promoted to manoger at
security and Fred Howard, right holds e master’s degree in educational
counseling. Howard Is from Raleigh and a retired Air Force senior non
commissioned offlcor.
Veterans’ Ceremony To
Address POW-M1A Issues
On Sept. 16, the North Carolina
Vietnam Veterans, Inc., a Raleigh
based veterans organization, will
conduct a ceremony which will ad
dress the accounting of the North
Carolinians and other Americans still
believed held as prisoners of war or
listed as missing in action as a result
of the Vietnam War. The ceremony
will be held at noon in Raleigh at the
site of the North Carolina Vietnam
Veterans Memorial on Union
(Capitol) Square.
The ceremony participants will in
clude an honor guard comprised of
members of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Post 7383 in Cary. Col. Ron E.
Creasman, deputy chief of staff for
operations for the North Carolina Na
tional Guard, will represent Gov.
James G. Martin. In keeping with
presidential action, Gov. Martin also
proclaimed Sept. 10-15 as POW/MIA
recognition week in North Carolina.
Col. Creasman is a Vietnam
veteran and will read the governor’s
proclamation during the ceremony. A
former Vietnam POW, Col. Scotty
Morgan (USAF, Retired), will be the
keynote speaker.
Col.' Morgan was the second
longest-held Air Force officer during!
(See POW-MIA. P. 1*'
The Government Activities and
Transportation Subcommittee,
chaired by Rep. Cardiss Collins
(D-I11-), will coriduct hearings on the
FAA and the bombing last December
of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270
lives were lost. The hearings, an
nounced by Rep. John Conyers, chair
man of the Government Operations
Committee (D-Mich.), are scheduled
for Sept. 25-26 at 9:30 a m. in Room
2154 of the Rayburn House Office
Building.
According to Collins, the subcom
mittee hearings will focus on the
overall issue of aviation security, as
well as the facts and circumstances
surrounding the Pan Am bombing. In
addition, the subcommittee will ex
amine the development and use of ex
plosive detection equipment at air
ports. Collins explained, “The sub
committee is interested in taking a
critical look at the bombing of Pan
Am Flight 103 in the larger context of
the FAA’s and industry’s approach to
airline security. We want to examine
the vulnerabilities of the U.S. avia
tion security system, which may have
allowed the Pan Am bombing to oc
cur.
“Further," Collins said, “we intend
to review the use of explosive detec
tion devices in improving our ability
to deter terrorist activity." Collins
stated that she plans to submit com
ments on an FAA proposed rule that
requires U.A. air carriers to screen
checked baggage with an explosives
detection system.
The subcommittee, according to
Collins, has invested substantial time
and effort in this investigation
because of the clear need to develop a
better, more comprehensive ap
proach to aviation security. She said,
“Given the severity and sophistica
tion associated with the bombing of
Pan Am 103 and other recent attacks
against civil action, it is imperative
that the FAA, in concert with the in
dustry, develop a complete systems
approach to aviation security.”
Other members of the subcommit
tee are Major R. Owens (D-N.Y.),
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Gerald D.
Klecska (D-Wis.), Tom Lantos
(D-Calif.), Howard C. Nielson
(R-Utah), and C. Christopher Cox
(R-Calif.). Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
(D-Mich.) and Frank Horton
(R-N.Y.) are ex-officio members of
the subcommittee.
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