THURSDAY
VOL. 48, NO. 90 rj DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
OCTOBER 12,
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General Assembly Looks At
Student Achievement
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New York Knlcks Coach Vows
To Call Shots As MOwn Man”
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Agenda For 1990
Upchurch, Campbell Face New Terms
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Receiving more than 50 percent of
the votes, Raleigh Mayor Avery C.
Upchurch has been re-elected for a
fourth term, sweeping his opponent
Charles C. Meeker out of the mayoral
race. District C Councilman Ralph
Campbell also easily turned back a
challenge from Raleigh radio per
sonality Winnie Robinson to retain his
seat.
Upchurch gained 13,152 votes or 56
percent of the total votes, according
to unofficial results. Meeker,
representing Southwest Raleigh,
received 10,440 or 44 percent of the
vote.
Upchurch’s main agenda for the
1990s is still that of his previous elec:
tion years: to see that Raleigh
receives adequate water treatment
facilities, to see that city-wide traffic
problems are dealt with, and to en
sure downtown revitalization pro
jects continue successfully.
The mayor also stated in a recent
interview that the drug problem, af
fordable housing and the homeless
must be handled with intelligence,
care and vision.
In the at-large election, council
member Anne S. Franklin was
elected. In addition to Campbell in
District C, Mary Watson Nooe in
District B (East Raleigh), and Mary
C. Cates in District E (West Raleigh)
all were re-elected without runoffs.
In District A (North Raleigh). E.
Julian Ford and incumbent Geoffrey
Elting will participate in a runoff
election. Anna P. Keller and J.
Barlow Herget in District D will also
run off against each other. Also, Joan
R. Baron is likely to run off against
Frank L. Turner for the council’s se
cond at-large seat.
In District C, Southeast Raleigh,
the mayor won 10 to 12 precincts,
receiving 2,516 votes to 1,049 for
Meeker. Upchurch said he was pleas
ed at the number of votes he had'
received from predominantly black
Southeast Raleigh, noting that in 1963
he received very little support from'
District C. He saw the vote as proof
that he had gained the confidence of
Raleigh’s black community.
Beginning inn. 1, ltM, NCNB
Carp, will add a progressive
ekild-care subsidy to its benefits
HURRICANE MAKEUP
DAY
He makeup day for Wake
Public Schools for the missed day
Sept. 22 will be June I. This is the
first makeup day on the 1IM-M
calendar as designated by the
board.
“Commitment to Education: Our
ChOfiren’s Future." The forum is
(See NEWS BRIEFS. P.2)
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Race Violence Against Asians
Leaders
Denounce
Slaying
BY BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS
An Analyiti
It is most unfortunate that it often
takes the tragic death of a human be
ing before this society pauses to ques
tion why it is that racially motivated
violence continues to be com
monplace against racial and ethnic
communities throughout the nation.
Now the recent brutal murder of Jim
Meng Hai Loo in Raleigh is but the
latest inT Series of racial attacks on
Asian-Americans which appear to be
increasing.
Loo was a young man of the
Chinese-American community. He
was misidentified by white male
assailants who though Loo was Viet
namese. According to detailed ac
counts in the press, the attack took
place in a pool room when a group of
white men began name-calling and
harassing Loo and four other Asian
Americans. Two of the white men are
brothers, Robert Piche and Lloyd
Piche! They falsely accused Loo of
being responsible for American
deaths in the Vietnam war. Loo and
his friends immediately left the pool
room but the Piche brothers followed
them outside and a fierce racial at
tack began.
Eyewitnesses to the incident have
itated that Robert Piche got a
Shotgun and a pistol from his truck
and 'brutaUy struck Loo on the head
with what later proved to be a fatal
(See RACE VIOLENCE, P. 2)
HELPING VICTIMS OF HUGO-Members of PteasMt HM
UnltMl Church of Christ got togotlwr to holp victims of Hugo
who Svo in Charleston, SC. Shown arc Rev. 0.1. McCoy,
loft and partshonor Michael McCetter, loading supplies
donated by the church and Triangle rosidonts. (mate by
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Civil Rights In Tug Of War With
No Watchdog For Issues In N.C.
WINSTON-SALEM (AP)-Nobody
is seriously monitoring civil rights in
North Carolina, says the chairman of
a group that's supposed to be the
watchdog for such issues in this state.
David Broyles is chairman of the
N.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission. He’s also
responsible for reporting to
Washington on civil rights issues in
North Carolina.
But the U.S. commission, which is
based in Washington, is in limbo,
caught in a political tug of war bet
ween Democrats and Republicans.
Consequently, the N.C. Advisory
Committee is left without any direc
tion or financial support.
“We’re dead in the water,” he said
at his office at Wake Forest Universi
ty, where he teaches politics. “It
doesn’t look like anybody takes the
N.C. commission or the U.S. commis
sion seriously.
G. McLeod Bryan, a retired pro
fessor of religion at Wake Forest and
Restructuring Plan
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Afro
American Newspaper with its 87
,ra of history has recently
reports in anti around the
Washington, D.C. area, as well as na
ftoowido. The reports aaid that the
Afro was experiencing many finan
cial difficulties which may put an end
to pa lengthy existence.
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erhich tod many to believe the Afro
was nearing financial collapse.
“The company haa been under
heavy debt for at least a decade,”
' Afro president Frances Murphy
Draper said, “and has suffered many
“This fiscal year for the first time
in many years, we witnessed a profit,
but have been forced to use these
funds to eliminate those past debts."
In February of this year, the Afro
began mapping out a plan which
would satisfy its creditors, Ms.
Draper said, and submitted it to area
banks.
That {dan, submitted to a local
Baltimore bank, received “condi
tion A approval” on June 22, Ms.
Draper said, “which required us to
work with our creditors, taxing
authorities and to also obtain
guarantees from the Maryland Small
Business Devleopment Financing
Authority Act,” a program specifical
ly designed to assist socially or
economically disadvantaged persons
and to encourage financial institu
tions to make loans to socially or
economically disadvantaged
businesses.
“We have been working hard to
meet those conditions,” Afro Chair
man John J. Oliver, Jr., said, “and
are 90 percent there.”
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“What we had not counted on was a
disgruntled creditor forwarding all of
the Afro’s correspondence (o the Post
and other newspapers.
“This disclosure has created the
exaggerated impression that
bankruptcy was imminent and that
the Afro management was totally
unaware of its financial condition,”
Oliver added.
“When was the last
time you bought an
Afro-American News
paper? Why have you
not purchased the
paper? Is it because of
your improved life
situation that you
want to divorce
yourself from the
mainstream of black
America?”
Parren J. Mitchell
Despite the loan, which is still being
negotiated and is 30 to 45 days away
from closing, Ms. Draper said she
would continue to welcome support
from the private sector and from
citizens, because “The loan only
makes it possible for us to wipe out
our nrior debts."
Meanwhile, former Maryland Rep.
Parren J. Mitchell last week called a
meeting of Baltimore’s clergy to
(See AKRO-AMERiCAN,
a member of the N.C. Advisory Com- p
mittee for 30 years, agrees.
“What we used to do was try to
keep up to date on the progress of
civil rights,” he said last week. “But
we’re simply not doing that now.”
There was some hope that the com
mittee would get things rolling after a
yearlong hiatus, though that hope
was tempered by the appointment of
Broyles, a self-described arch
conservative, as its chairman last
year.
Despite the intense ideological dif
ferences between Broyles and the
more liberal members of the commit
tee, a meeting held last October
jump-started the moribund commit
tee. At that meeting, the committee*
decided to tackle the resegregation of
public schools in Raleigh and the
thorny issue of “tracking”
throughout the N.C. public school
systems, the ways in which minority
students are often steered into
remedial programs.
But the committee has done
(See RIGHTS ISSUE, P. 2)
Campbell said he was delighted at
his showing, electing Urn to a third
term on the City Council. His main
concern for Southeast Raleigh, he
said, was still to continue develop
ment of the downtown area and affor
dable housing.
Following is a breakdown of unof
ficial election results in the races:
In District A, Ford received 2,231 or
45.6 percent of the votes. Elting, a
one-time councilman who ran keep
ing the neighborhood close in mind,
received 1,856 votes or 37.9 percent,
while Louis B. Alexander received
807 votes or 16.5 percent.
In District D, Ms. Keller received
(See ELECTIONS, P. 2)
UNC Employee
Alleges Racism
in Department
Is there really racism at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill? According to Officer
Keith Edwards, there is much racism
in the school’s Public Safety Office.
You see, Officer Edwards is the only
African-American female ever hired
by the UNC Campus Police Depart
ment and has never been promoted
since 1974, when she was first hired as
a police officer.
Edwards claims that she was un
fairly passed over during a recent
round of promotions in the depart
ment and has filed a formal com
plaint against the department under
the school’s Staff Grievance Pro
cedure which is supposed to protect
all UNC employees from discrimina
tion in employment.
In 1979, Officer Edwards says she
began protesting the racial and
gender discrimination within the
police department. As a result, she
says, others began to also speak out
about the problems in the department
and the director was subsequently
forced to resign.
Since that time, she has filed
several grievances, and has taught
many of her co-workes how to use the
Staff Grievance Procedure.
Now, Officer Edwards has obtained
a full hearing before the Office of Ad
ministrative Hearings, which will
. review her case extensively.
(See GRIEVANCE, P. 2)
Marshall Bass
Guest Speaker
At Convocation
Saint Augustine’s College is going
into its 123rd academic year with a
kind of excitement that has never
been felt at the college before.
The college’s 123rd formal opening
convocation will be held on Tuesday,
Oct 17, at 10:30 a.m. in the college’s
Emery Gymnasium.
Dr. Marshall Bass, recently retired
senior vice president of RJR Nabisco,
and chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Saint Augustine’s Col
lege, will be the featured speaker.
St. Augustine’s president Dr.
Presell R. Robinson says ..this is pro
bably one of die most important
periods in the historically black col
(See CONVOCATION, V. z>
A Master Storyteller
Visits Shaw Library
Augusta Baker was born in 1911 in
Baltimore, Md. to school-teaching
parents who enjoyed reading. Com
ing from a background of educators
who enjoyed the more Imaginative
side of life, she sought to pursue •
career In capitalising on those roots.
Baker began bar university career
at the University of Pittsburgh, but
later married and transferred to the
State University of New York at
Albany.
Baker vividly recalls the rampant
discrimination against blacks at that
time. However, not to be denied, she
found a strong ally in Eleanor
Roosevelt, the president’s wife, 'vho
used her influence to get Baker into
school to continue her education. She
was the first black person to graduate
with a master’s degree in librarian
ship from the college.
She admittedly became a
storyteller because she wanted to ex
clusively be a children’s librarian.
And in order for her to accomplish
that goal, she underwent continuous.
(See STORYTBI.I.KR, P. 2>
AUGUSTA BAKER