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/ , •• . - . , i; The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C.. THURSDAY VOL. 48, NO. 86 SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 N.C. 's Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY OC . IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 N.C. STATE LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS DEPT. 109 E. JONES ST. RALEIGH NC 27611 ajfC *v Morgan State On Top Of Heap As MEAC Wars Heat Up Page 21 Job Training Program Wake Receives Homeless Funds When we walk down the streets of any major city in the United States, we see many individuals who are without permanent shelter, a place to shower or keep their belongings. Not only has homelessness become one of the most controversial issues our society has had to deal with in the last decade, it has also become one of the most pervasive. Organizations, both government and nonprofit, which are involved in tracking this problem cannot seem to agree on an accurate count of the number of homeless individuals or families. A study done in 1982 sug gested that 2.2 million people were homeless, based on estimates from those working with the homeless, The U.S. Department of Housing and Ur ban Development in 1984 estimated this number to be 300,000. The National Coalition for the tal Housing Resources,” a recent con gressionally sponsored study publish ed by the Neighborhood Reinvest ment Corp., predicts that in the next “The problem facing homeless families often goes beyond the lack of shelter. By providing assistance with long-term job skills and job retention, jobs for the homeless is helping families get their lives back on track...” Rep. David Price Homeless estimates the current number of homeless to be three million. “At Risk of Loss: The En dangered Future of Low-Income Ren 15 years there could be as many as 19 million homeless people in America. The national need is mirrored in the situation in Wake County. In Raleigh, more than 17,000 families pay more than 30 percent of their income for rent. Public housing waiting lists hold the names of 1,902 families for public ly assisted housing and 2,706 families for rental assistance. These families earn under $15,000 per year. An estimated 500 pOeople are homeless at any given time. Of these people, 30 percent are employed. A quarter are veterans, and two-thirds are parents. This week, Rep. David Price will be in town to offer his congratulations on the re-funding of Wake County’s Jobs for the Homeless Office. Also atten ding will be members of the Private Industry Council, the County Job Training Council, county commis sioners and Raleigh City Council members. The program will begin at 2 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of the Jobs for the Homeless Office on Blount and Lenoir streets. The program is one of 21 demonstration projects nationwide providing job training for the homeless. Andrew N. Carrington, director of leased housing with the Raleigh Housing Authority, pointed to a tran sitional housing program with nine units located on Poole Road. With thf transitional housing pro gram, homeless families are referred to city housing coordinators from community organizations including (See HOMELESS, P.2) Civil Rights Commission Police “Misconduct” Viewed In D.C. r Alleged Excessive Force Used WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U S. Commission on Civil Rights convened a public briefing recently to examine allegations of police misconduct against nonviolent demonstrators and the use of excessive force in mak ing arrests. Daring the nearly three-hour ses sion, participants presented informa tion to address the legal repercus sions of and possible solutions to police misconduct. Most of the representatives included firsthand experiences from representatives of law enforcement agencies and non violent demonstrators. finds K. Davis, chief of the Depart ment of Justice’s criminal section of its CSvil Rights Division, opened tlie briefing. Other presenters were Chief Robert McCue of the West Hartford, CL police department; Chief Melvin C. High, assistant chief of police for the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police’s field operations; Dr. Lawrence Sherman, president of the Crime Control Institute and professor of criminology, University of Maryland; Don Jackson, former police sergeant in Hawthorne, Calif.; Charles Litekey, nonviolent peace ac tivist and member of several veterans’ organizations; Chet E. Gallagher. Las Vegas, Nev., police officer and founder of ‘Pro-Life i See POLICE. P.2) NEWS BRIEFS BELL REAPPOINTED Gov. Jim Martin has reap painted David B. Bell, Jr., of Raleigh to the Wake Technical Community College Board of Trustee*. He will serve until June M. IMS. Bell owns First Protec tive Financial Corp. of Raleigh. He received a bachelor’s degree from N.C. State. University and has earned degrees from Aaserican College of Insurance and Financial Services. He is a member of the National Association of Life Underwriters and the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters. He is also affiliated with the Registered Representative Na tional Association Security Dealers and the General Agents (See NEWS BRIEFS, P.2) HOMELESS DILEMMA—Homoloss poop* huddto sreund a fire to stay warm In front of tlw Amtrak railroad station, and just outslds a homoloss sholtor. With tlw coM s weather quickly appnacMng, this scene win be repeated with mere frequency. (Phots by Taft SaHr-Caloway) Legislature Reforms Income Tax For Simpler, Easy Calculations If you are one of those many people who waits until the evening of April 15 to do your income taxes, the General Assembly has made the night a little shorter. No longer will you have to do a completely separate set of calculations to compute your state income tax: From now on, your state tax will be figured as six or seven exemptions and standard deduction limits. The changes are expected to provide tax reductions for 96 percent of the state’s single persons with dependents, as well as for 65 percent of the state’s married couples, who will for the first time be able to file a joint state return. In addition, the tax system reform The tax changes are expected to provide tax reductions for 98 percent of the state’s single persons with dependents, as well as for 65 percent of the state’s married couples, who will for the first time be able to file a joint state return. percent of your federal taxable income - that number found on line 37 of the federal tax return. The Legislature has changed the way North Carolinians will figure their state tax to make life simpler and calculations easier. The modernization adjusts the entire income tax system for Inflation by substantially increasing personal removes 700,000 of our state’s poorest citizens from the tax rolls. The new system allows a small handful of adjustments to federal taxable income: Some preserve provisions unique and deemed important to North Carolina; others were needed for technical reasons. Some items exempt under the old system will continue to be exempt NCCV Naming N*u> Official* To Hold Board Poaltlo «• t nm cakolin ian staff R«a«rU North Carolina Central University during Its annual meeting elected a new chairman of the beard of trustees, three officers and new board members. Bernard Alien of Raleigh was elected chairman of the board of trustees and John N. Smith of Durham vice-chairman. Allen holds a master’s degree from NCCU and Smith a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. Along with three officers. Walter 8. Tucker of Winston-Salem was elected secretary. The officers were elected for a one-year term. Allen and Smith are serving terms on the board which end in 1M1. Tucker was reappointed this year for a four-year term which ends In 1M3. A ■ under the new system: interest earned on federal securities and on bonds issued by North Carolina and its local units, Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits, and up to $1,500 in National Guard pay. The new system maintains all the tax credits allowed under the old system except two unused energy conservation credits and the low-and moderate-income credit, which were replaced by, * higher, personal (See TAX REFORM, P.2)' v President Urging Country To Unite in Drug Struggle BY LINDA THURSTON Special To The CAROLINIAN An Analysis As President Bush tells it, the country is about to engage on its greatest crusade, to rid our streets of the evil of drugs. Bush urges us‘ to “unite in the battle,’’ promises that we can “achieve victory,” and reminds us that the enemy is everywhere among us. The real enemy is right in front of us, but the president has failed to see it. In his own front yard can be seen the poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and utter lack of hope in inner-city communities plagued by drug abuse, major streetcomer drug markets, and the ever-increasing violence used to maintain those markets. The same president who recently vetoed minimum wage increase legislation fails to recognize the connection between drug abuse and the desperation caused by poverty, unemployment, and lack of hope. Farther away from the Oval Office from which Bush launched his antidrug crusade Sept. 5 is another face of the “enemy.” The Andean nations of Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia also face abject poverty and economic dislocation, as sustaining industries have vanished and the international debt has continued its pressure on their economies. For many of the people of these South American countries, growing and processing cocaine is, tragically, the only way to ensure economic survival. The president’s plan pays no attention to these economic and social roots of the drug crisis. Instead, 70 percent of the $7 billion ear marked for the “new war,” nationally and internationally, is allocated to law enforcement—“more jails, more police, more pro secutors and harsher penalties.” The remaining 30 percent, allocated to prevention, education and treatment, provides so small a part of needed services that drug abuse treatment providers have called the plan laughable. Given the amount of funding slashed from drug treatment programs during the Reagan years, Bush’s increase in treatment funds is virtually no increase at all. The Bush plan continues Reagan’s fund-slashing by taking money away from already crippled social and economic programs to pay for the antidrug crusade. The plan proposes cuts in juvenile justice programs, public housing, and assistance to immigrants—all pro grams of particular benefit to people of color and the poor. Despite the president’s tough-sounding rhetoric, building 85 per cent more federal prisons, imposing stiffer fines, seizing the proper ty of drug users, and lengthening prison sentences will not solve the drug problem in this country. The United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any industrialized country in the world, with the (See PRESIDENT, P. 2) Voting System Changed In Clinton For Compliance With Rights Act Edward Faison, Jr., Vera M. Faison, Aaron and Sherlene Fryar, James Hall, and Mary Harper, won their suit against the City of Clinton (out-of-court), to change the voting system. These six residents entered a Consent Decree against the officials of Clinton alleging that under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. Section 1973, the At-Lodge method of electing the Clinton City Council and the Clinton Board of Education denied them and other African-American voters equal opportunities to elect candidates of their choice. African-American citisens constitute approximately 38 percent of the population of Clinton. No African-American candidate is known to have run for the city council before 1973. After 1973, African American candidates ran at least eight times, but were elected only twice. The same individual won both times, but he was defeated the last time he sough reelection. The incumbent members of the City Council and City Board of Education consented to change the method to bring the election system in compliance with the Voting Rights Act. The City Council consisted of four members. The City of Clinton has now been divided into live Single Member Districts, two of which consist of a majority African-American population. This gives African Americans the possibility of electing at least two members to the City Council. The City Board of Education consisted of five members. However, it has consented to have six members on the Board with three of them being elected by a limited At-Large system (Voters may vote for only one of the At-Large candidates). The Justice Department is presently negotiating with the Sampson County Board of Commissioners and the Sampson vsee voting SYSTEM P. 2) Wake County Educator Selected For Award BY TRACEY HALL Staff Writer Ms. Etta S. Solomon, retired Wake County school teacher and educator with the North Carolina Association of Educators, was recently honored for professionalism and leadership. ) The award was issued by the Na- * tional Reference Institute and the fj Who’s Who Society of America. Ms. I Solomon, who retired from Gamer | Senior High School, taught f everything from home economics to i mathematics during her 30-year ! tenure. Now Ms. Solomon is very ac tive in her community, where she is a member of the Retired Teachers Association, PTA volunteer, Esther’s Widow Club, the Raleigh-Apex Branch of the NAACP, a member of Martin Street Baptist Church, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority and works with various local charitable organiza- . isee EDUCATOR, P. 2)
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