HOMELESS
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the Ark Shelter, Urban Ministries,
the Salvation Army and Rescue Mis
sion. Families are housed temporari
ly, no longer than 18 months, and
later placed in conventional public
housing, if they qualify.
“During their stay in the transi
tional housing unit, families have at
their disposal counseling, job search
facilities to help locate housing and
employment,” Carrington said.
The program is six months old and
has served about IS families.
Another program operated in Wake
County by the RHA will be single
room occupancy. This component of
the homeless program is to service
single homeless individuals. They
will be referred through community
agencies that deal with the
homeless, Carrington said. H
The housing authority has prospec
tive sites and according to Carr
ington, "We don’t yet have a contract
to provide the services proposed... Of
ficials from HUD have been here and
inspected the two sites.”
Housing Now!, a nationwide effort
to affirm constitutional priorities and
bring attention to the broad base of
support for a national policy which
works for having a safe and affor
dable place ot live, said the goal is to
show federal representatives the
need for funding and housing.
Housing Now! of Wake County will
join the southern route of walkers to
Washington, D.C. on Oct. 5 where an
estimated one million people will
gather on Oct. 7 for a grand rally of
support for affordable housing and
the partnership that will be required
to build it.
NEWS BRIEFS
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and Managers Association.
ARTS GRANTS
Application for City of Raleigh
Arts Grants for 1990-91 will be
distributed on Oct. 2 during two
information meetings held by the
City of Raleigh Art Commission
for prospective applicants. One
meeting at 4 p.m. is for those who
applied last year. A second
meeting at 5 p.m. is for new ap
plicants. The meetings will be
held in the Raleigh Municipal
Building 110 S. McDowell St., in.
Room 303.
BUDGET MEETING
The Beta Lambda Sigma Philo
Affiliates of Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority, Inc., held its first plann
ing and budget meeting on Sept.
20 at the home of Philo Betty
Vick’s parents on 836 Newcombe
Road, Raleigh.
The Philos’ 1989-90 budget was
discussed and adopted. Also, the
calendar of events for each
month was organized through
June 1990.
HELMETS REQUIRED
Beginning Oct. 1, all moped
riders on North Carolina streets
and highways wsiil be required to
wear helmets.
The law, passed in the 1989 ses
sion of the General Assembly,
will impose a $25 fine on anyone
receiving a citation for not wear
ing a helmet. The helmet must be
of a type approved by the Com
mission of Motor Vehicles or that
meet federal motorcycle helmet
specifications.
FRIENDS RALLY
The Friends Committee
Against the Spread of Drugs and
AIDS will host a rally and prayer
service on Sept. 30 from 5:30-9
p.m. at Moore Square in
downtown Raleigh. There will be
gospel singing, guest speakers
and a candlelight march.
JOURNALISM
NOMINATIONS
Nomination* for the N.C. Jour
nalism, Advertising and Public
Relations Hall of Fame will be
accepted through Dec. 1, accor
ding to the dean of the School of
Journalism at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In
duction ceremonies will be held
at a banquet April 8,1W0, during
Journalism Day.
SCHOOL AWARDED
The Public Information Office
received the INI School Press
Award for its total communica
tion program recently. The
award Is sponsored by the NCAE.
The office was also honored with
two lMt Blue Ribbon Publication
awards from the N.C. School
Public Relations Association for
its 1887-88 annual report and for
its Realtors’ Resource Guide.
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tions.
Ms. Solomon says she was awarded
the plaque because of her service to
North Carolina.
“I retired from teaching, but I did
not retire from the profession,” says
Ms. Solomon.
Although she is no stranger to
receiving awards, she will tell you
that she was “somewhat excited”
about receiving the Who’s Who
award. She has two service awards
from the Duplin County School
System. Both were awarded prior to
teaching in Wake County. She also
has a service award from Wake Coun
ty.
Jones County, Ga., is where she
first tried her hand at the teaching
profession. While in Georgia, Ms.
Solomon taught home economics and
was once a principal for a Jones
County school. She also served as
vice president of the Jones County
Teachers' Association.
She received her bachelor of
science degree and a diploma in
public school administration from
Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga.
From early childhood Ms. Solomon
knew she wanted to become a school
teacher. As a small child she would
often find herself reading and took it
up as a hobby. She does not even
remember when she started reading
or who taught her how to read. Her
parents never knew she was reading.
Now, when Ms. Solomon is not
reading she can be found working in
her garden.
The mother of five children, Ms.
Solomon has made a difference in
their lives. Her eldest, a graduate of
N.C. A&T State University, is a
supervisor at a local chemical com
pany. Another child, Charlton, is
employed at Virginia State Universi
ty, and Marilyn is a secretary at an
insurance company. Her youngest is
a registered nurse who graduated
from N.C. Central University.
In 1978, marking her retirement
from Garner High School, faculty and
staff members gave her an honorary
retirement party in the school
auditorium. She was then given yet
another retirement party the same
year, but that dedication party was
given by other officials at the school.
Many know Ms. Solomon for her ap
pearances on the “Peggy Mann
Show,” a program which was once
aired on WTVD-TV11. She often spon
sored programs on the topic of educa
tion while the show was on the air.
With her motto, “Lord, Let Me
Live, So Men May See My Good Work
and Glorify The Father In Heaven,”
Ms. Solomon says U:et she has always
tried to live like that. She believes
that the highe one climbs, the
brighter the view.
TAX REFORM
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exemptions and standard deductions.
North Carolina’s tax reform is
revenue neutral to the state ~ it
generates neither more nor less
overall income tax revenue than the
current tax system.
Any taxpayhers paying more state
tax will be able to deduct the increase
on their federal return, thus allowing
the federal government to subsidize
approximately 28 percent of North
Carolina taxpayers’ income tax
increase.
North Carolina’s original income
tax system went into effect in 1921
and has remained essentially
unchanged since 1937. Changing the
law conform^ North Carolina to 34 of
the 40 states levying income taxes
whose structure parallels in some
fashion that of the federal
government.
In addition to reducing the amount
of time taxpayers will have to invest
in preparing their state taxes,
modernizing and simplifying the
state’s income tax system should help
reduce their error rate, too. When
South Carolina changed to a similar
system, the error rate on tax returns
dropped from 20 to four percent.
Our state’s changes go into effect
with the January 1,1969 tax year but
will not affect pending litigation.
POLICE
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Police; and Kenneth H. Medeiros, ex
ecutive director. Commission on the
Accreditation of Law Enforcement
Agencies.
Ms. Davis explained the difficulty
of proving beyond a reasonable doubt
a police officer’s “specific intent” to
harm a demonstrator. According to
federal law, an officer will not be con
victed of misconduct based on the vic
tim’s testimony alone. Ms. Davis
noted that the Department of Justice
is careful in selecting cases for
federal prosecution, since the govern
ment must prove its case beyond a
“shadow of a doubt.”
Don Jackson noted that police
violence is a “common, everyday oc
currence among
African-Americans,' especially
young blacks. He presented informs -
Mon to the commission regarding
abegauons of ponce misconduct u,
several California cities, and cited
the impact “creative report writing,”
orpsmnieg reports of police brutali
tyThad had on the outcome of Internal
fnit public investigations of police
Chief McCue, in response to Opera
tion Rescue demonstrators’ com
plaints that West Hartford police of
ficers were unidentifiable for the pur
pose of filing complaints, said that
there is no legal requirement, to wear
badges or name tags on police
uniforms. He added that, in West
Hartford, name tags were inten
tionally removed to avoid injuries oc
casionally caused by the tags’ sharp
edges. In contrast, Chief High said
that D.C. police officers are requied
to wear their identification and
badges when on duty.
Dr. Sherman theorized that
a younger police force (age 23 and
under) is more prone to violence
when responding to nonviolent
demonstraors and more likely to use
excessive force in making arrests. He
endorsed the hiring of offices in their
late 308 and 40s to avoid this problem.
Among the other issues raised were
proper training to teach police of
ficers the correct procedures when
dealing with nonviolent
demonstrators; circumstances
leading to strip search or body cavity
search when there is probable cause
to suspect that weapons or contra
band are concealed; the presence of
members of the opposite sex when a
strip search or body cavity search is
conducted; and safety hazards for
prisoners restrained with plastic
handcuffs, nunchuks (a weapon
developed in the Orient), pressure to
joints, and other painful techniques.
Each presentation was followed by
questions from the commissioners
and staff to clarify issues raised and
to address how the commission might
help solve the problem.
The commission voted 6-0 (two
commissioners were absent) to send
the transcript to the Department of
Justice along with a recommendation
to investigate the allegations made
concerning police misconduct and
use of excessive force.
VOTING SYSTEM
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County Board of Education to change
the county voting system that
allegedly discriminates against
African-American voters in Sampson
County.
AT. C. Atty. Gen.
Oppose Change
in Ad. Rule
North Carolina Attorney General
Lacy Thornburg opposes a U.S.
Department of Transportation rule
change that would allow airlines to
advertise fare prices that do not in
clude surcharges, taxes and feds as
long as these various additional
charges are listed elsewhere in the
ads.
Thornburg said, “It isn’t fair. The
rule change would permit airlines to
promote attractive, low trip fares in
their ads with all the extra charges
buried in the fine print. Travelers
would have to search through the en
tire advertisement to get the true cost
of the tickets.”
On Monday, Thornburg and 37
other state attorneys general oppos
ing the proposed airline advertising
rule change filed comments with the
DOT in Washington, D.C.
The state attorneys general also
vigorously opposed the DOT’S effort
to prevent the states from enforcing
their own consumer protection laws.
The attorneys general also said there
is no justification for a policy which
would make airlines the only major
national industry to be exempt from
state advertising regulations.
Thornburg said, “It is patently un
fair and deceptive to allow anyone,
airlines included, to advertise a fic
titious low price for goods and ser
vices and force consumers to find out
for themselves what the hidden extra
charges will be in order to arrive at
the real cost of what they are
buying.”
In May of this year, 33 states, in
cluding North Carolina, were sued in
federal court by 14 airlines for at
tempting to enforce their state con
sumer protection laws. The states are
currently appealing a preliminary in
junction issued in the case by the
federal district court in Waco, Texas.
Additionally, California, Kansas,
New York and Texas'sued TWA this
year for false advertising. New York
and Texas also filed suit against Pan
Am for false advertising.
16-Year-Old Dies
From Overdose
A 16-year-old bov found dead on a
couch in his North Raleigh apartment
was apparently the victim of a drug
overdose police said.
Anthony Jason Clark, of 4008
Twickenham Court, Apt. 304, was
found by his sister Raleigh police Sgt.
J.E. Beasley said.
Sgt. Beasley said Clark probably
received an overdose of methodone.
He said a toxicology test was being
conducted by a medical examiner.
He said that he was not aware of
Mr. Clark havng a history of health
problems.
Rebecca Brownlee, executive
director of Drug Action of Wake
County said methadone is a synthetic
narcotic commonly given to people
addicted to heroin, dilaudid or
morphine. Her organization runs a
methodone treatment program.
TEACHER EDUCATION—Dr. Jean D.
Barrax, chalrparson of Shaw
University’s Division of Education and
Humanities, has boon appointed to a
throe-year term on the North Carolina
State Evaluation Committee on Teacher
Education. The function of the
Committee Is to review reports of on
site visitation teams to teacher
education institutions and make
recommendations for approval to the
State Superintendent and the State
Board of Education. Dr. Barrax has
been member of Shaw’s faculty and
administration since 1970. She Is a
graduate of Howard Univarsity, tlw
University of Pittsburgh and UNC-Chapel
Hill, where she earned her doctorate In
educational administration.
Ms. J. W. Jones
Joins Optional
H. S. Staff Here
Jeanine Wehr Jones has recently
joined the staff of Wake Optional
High School, with principal Delores
W. Revis.
Ms. Jones is a library media
specialist and a graduate of Stetson
University and North Carolina Cen
tral University, with degrees in
English literaure and library and in
formation science. She is carrying on
the work of Ms. Greta Avent who
retired in June.
JEANINE JONES
Ms. Jones come to the Wake Op
tional Media Center with a
background of teaching in Istanbul,
Turkey; Philadelphia, Pa.; and
Raleigh (at Wake Technical College
and the Berlitz School of Languages).
She is married to Lawrence K. Jones,
professor of counseling psychology at
N.C. State University, and they have
two children in college. Her special
interests are creative writing, travel,
history and current events.
Ms. Jones says she is impressed by
the number of students at Wake Op
tional who show a real interest in
reading. Sixty-eight of them have
already applied for and received
public library cards and are planning
to use them to do research for their
classes. In addition to encouraging
widespread reading of books and
magazines, Ms. Jones teaches
students to use other information
sources such as NewsBank on
microfiche and instructional com
puter software programs on the Ap
ple He. She hopes that all Wake Op
tional students will continue their
education after graduation from high
school.
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exceptions of South Africa and the Soviet Union. Estimates project'
that by the end of this year, the national prison population will reach
one million, nearly doubling in a single decade. The violence con
tinues, and the solution is not “more of the same.”
Local organizations, especially in African-American and Latino
communities, are fighting for their survival against the siege of
drug-related violence. What they are not fighting for is a chance to
trade jobs, housing, social services and basic constitutional rights
for a peaceful community. They are not fighting for drug crisis
“solutions” which rely almost solely on locking up more and more of
their sons and daughters.
There are viable alternatives to locking people up for longer and
longer sentences, including effective treatment programs which
recognize that addiction is a public health problem. Community
based correctional centers exist which use only the amount of
restraint necessary in working to restore the dignity, hope and com-,
munity responsibility of criminal offenders. Halfway houses are suc
cessfully in operation which provide the needed support and supervi
sion to help ex-prisoners remain ex-prisoners. High-security prisons,
“boot camps,” and “arduous” community service may make good
television, but they do little to make our system of justice fair and ef
fective. *
The president tells us that “we already have the basic weapons
we need” to win the war against drugs. Stated without the military
language, it is true that this nation has the resources to end its drug
crisis, but those resources are not the ones supported in President
Bush’s plan. The true solutions lie not in some dramatic call for
“zero tolerance” for casual drug use, but in support for community
initiatives to raise the level of hope for and in an fully-funded federal
response to community demands for a living wage, decent housing,
good education and other needed social services.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
ART AS EDUCATION
A lecture, “Art as Education,” by Dr. Ernest L. Boyer, North Carolina
State University’s 1989 Harrelson lecturer, will be presented Thursday, Sept.
28, at 8 p.m. in NCSU’s Stewart Theatre. Boyer, considered one of the nation’s
most outstanding educators, is president of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching; senior fellow of the Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University; and former U.S. Commissioner of Education. Free and
open to the public.
NCSU PRESENTS FILM
A film, “Rosa Luxemburg,” produced by Margarethe von Trotta, will be
shown in English at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, in the auditorium of Poe Hall at
North Carolina State University. The screening, to be followed by a discus
sion and a reception, is part of an international conference at NCSU spon
sored by the N.C. Humanities Council on “Women in Postwar Germany:
Culture, Society and Politics.” Free and open to the public. For information,
call 737-3451.
UNIQUE BOOKS
If you find that the wait for your weekly pedicure is going to be too long,
join us at the Irregardless Cafe at 901 W. Morgan St. on Saturday, Sept. 30,
between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Treat yourself to an intellectual feast by browsing
among hundreds of unique used books on sale.
* A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A benefit auction in support of the 1989 tour to Compiegne, France, of the
Theatre in the Park production of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” will be held
Sunday, Oct. 1, at the Summit, 4101 Lake Boone Trail (across from Rex
Wellness Center), from 1-5 p.m. The silent auction begins at 1 p.m. and the
loud auction begins at 1:30 p.m. A special appearance will be made by Ira
David Wood ip the character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
For information call TIP at 755-6058 or 755-6936.
OPEN FORUM
Interior Designers for Legislation in North Carolina is sponsoring an open
forum Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m. at Artspace (second floor), 210 E. Davie St.,
Raleigh. Anyone practicing interior design, whether a member of a profes
sional organization or not, as well as allied professionals, are invited to ad
dress issues of licensing and legislation for interior designers with IDLNC
representatives. For additional information about the Raleigh area forum,
contact Judy Pickett at 828-0385 or Donna Crump at 783-9666.
FOSTER CARE
Foster parents are proud parents and they have a right to feel proud. Pro
ud to know they can touch a deserving child’s life in a positive and lasting
way, and proud to know what they do is very special and unique. Want to
learn more about how you can help? We invite you to attend our next Foster
Care (and Special Needs Adoption) information meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 3,
from 7-9:30 p.m. at the Wake County Office Building, 337 Salisbury St.,
Raleigh. Call Tina Martin at 856-7474 for details.
READING ASSOCIATION
The Raleigh-Wake Council of the International Reading Association will
hold a dinner-business meting on Thursday, Oct. 5, at the North Carolina
State University Faculty Club. Dr. Hiller Abernathy Spires will be the guest
speakre. Hospitality provided by Modern Curriculum Press.
There will be a social hour from 5:45-6:30 p.m., dinner from 6:30-7:15
p.m. and a business meeting from 7:15-8:30 p.m. Dinner reservations should
be made by calling Pat Maruca at 876-1076.
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