Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / Nov. 2, 1989, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Tr”' fN.C.'s Semi-Weekly TS:25e NOVEMBER 2,1989 DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST ELSEWHERE 300 VOL. 48, NO. 96 v Students, Civic Groups Aim Boycott And Picket At Crabtree Valley Mall I BY TRACEY HALL Waff Writer Sparked by a memo passed last month by Crabtree Valley Mall of ficial, John Grimaldi, concerned local African-American citizens have ordered a boycott of the mall. The boycott comes after Grimaldi and other officials of the mall issued a memo to the Raleigh Transit Authori ty requesting a halt to city CAT buses from downtown to Crabtree Valley Mall on Saturdays. Grimaldi, stated that merchants located in the mall complained that ‘African-American teenagers caused too much of a disturbance on Saturday afternoons. No memo was reportedly passed concerning the mass of white teenagers who gather at the mall on Friday nights. Welton Jones, a member of a group of parents and business leaders throughout the African-American community acts as the spokesperson for the group of boycotters. Jones asks that all African-Americans refrain from patronizing Crabtree Valley Mall merchants. He claims that African-Americans should not give their dollars to people who do not even want our (African-American) children to come to the mall. ■Tones contends the statement that African-Americans are vandals, loud and violent, while in the mall reflects only a small percentage of those African-American teenagers who do not behave there. He added that “there are 5 percent of all races that are bad and 95 percent that are good” and that African-American teenagers are undoubtly singled out because of their race. Jones continues to say that if “they (merchants) could devise a way to get our money out there without our being there, they would be happy with that.” Jones says that personally he will never shop at Crabtree Valley Mall again. He says that if African Americans in Raleigh continue to shop at the mall that would only show mail officials that they were right in labeling our African-American teenagers as bad. Jones feels that with the holidays approaching merchants in the mall will suffer an economic loss from African-Americans. Officially the boycott began on Fri day afternoon and will last indefinite ly. Local teenagers have convinced other teens who do not live in downtown areas to join in on the boycott. (See BOYCOTT, P.2) NEWS BRIEFS^' ADOPTION BARRIERS The Association of Friends of Black Children, an adoption ad vocacy group, will conduct its sixth annual conference to pro vide the opportunity for social workers, council members, parents, and the community to continue the exploration of ways to remove the current barriers to adoption. Rep. Richard G. Chaney. 14th Judicial District; Rev. David Forbes, pastor, Mar tin Street Baptist Church; and Ms. Mae Best, director of Homes for Black Children in Washington, D.C., will speak No*. 3-4 at the Sheraton Crabtree AWARDED $1054)00 Shaw University has been selected as a Lily Endowment grant recipient in the second round of a three-year, |3.8 million effort to strengthen historically Mack colleges and institutions. Shaw University will use the 9181,880 grant to improve its in stitutional research capacity in the office of institutional ad vancement and planning. BLACK FARMERS Recognising the social and sc anemic Importance of family fanning, the North Carolina General Assembly has ap propriated 9100,888 to the state Land Loss Prevention Project. Founded by the N.C. Association of Black Lawyers, the group pro vides free legal assistance to in dividual farmers threatened with foreclosure and works with organisations devoted to making family farming economically viable. (See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2) Felonious Possession Drug Tip Leads To Search Police* SB1 Raid Dunn’s Texaco Here From Staff Reports Police have charged Eugene Dunn, Jr. of Raleigh with felonious posses sion of cocaine in connection with a raid that occurred Friday afternoon at Dunn’s Textaco Service Center located on 502 S. Bloodworth Street. Raleigh police detectives, who were tipped off by a reliable source, obtained a search warrant for Dunn’s Texaco. That search resulted in fin ding cocaine, according to police of ficials. Eugene Dunn, Sr., who owns the service station, apparently knew nothing concerning the drugs being sold there and was not arrested. Sgt. Weatherspoon of the Raleigh Police Department said that Dunn’s previous arrest record will determine how stiff a sentence he will receive. Dunn was released on a written promise that he will appear in court on the appropriate date. The SBI also participated in the search. In other related events: One man was stabbed and another man was shot during a dispute over moriey Sunday night at Pretty’s restaurant on 416 South East Street. Steven Maurice Coward, 26, who resides at the Salvation Army on South Person St., received a gunshot wound to the thigh after stabbing Bobby Lee Saunders of 1210 Walnut St., twice in the shoulder. Both men were treated and releas ed from Wake Medical Center. No charges have been filed as of late Wednesday. On Sunday a Durham man was charged with throwing his brother out of a second floor window following an argument. Leon Joint. 33, of 315 Dowd St. was (See CRIME, P.2) '(PM* by Taft SaNrCaftway) N.C. Task Force On Euceuenc® In Secondmy Education Bogins Work State Superintendent Bob Etheridge presided this week as the Task Force on Excellence in Secon dary Education kicked off its work aimed at getting North Carolina’s SAT scores off the bottom of the na tion’s rankings. Gov. James G. Martin, task force chairman L. Richardson Preyer, Sen. Terry Sanford, former Gov. James B. Hunt and several top educators from the Department of Public Instruction also were on the agenda for the first task force meeting. The task force was appointed by Etheridge in Oc tober. Etheridge told the group that North Carolina’s last-in-the-nation ranking on the SAT is symptomatic of pro blems in the state’s high schools. Pro blems, he said, that must be fixed if the state is to offer its children the education to which they are entitled. “1 have said repeatedly that I understand the disadvantages of at tempting touse the SAT ranking as a valid indicator of our whole public school offering,” Etheridge said. But he added that the SAT is “one measure of our schools—one the general public understands,” and one that is required of every prospective college student in North Carolina. He said he expects the task force to delve into the secondary curriculum and to use the SAT ranking to ferret out answers to why North Carolina ranks so low in comparison with other New Era Beginning In Rental Housing A mw era in affordable rental hous ing began October 27 with the dedica tion of the Jeffries Ridge apartments. The 32-unit Jeffries Ridge complex wee developed by the non-profit Downtown Housing Improvement Corporation through a precedent setting partnership involving First Federal of Raleigh, the City of Raleigh and other public and private groups. The apartments are located in the 1700 block of Poole Road in Southeast Raleigh. “This development marks the first of its kind in the Southeast to be com pleted by a non-profit housing group .nmmiMi "* using federal tax credits for affor dable rental housing," said Gregory F. Warren, Executive Director of DHIC. “We think that this signifies the increasing role non-profit groups across the country will have in forg ing affordable bousing partnerships between the private and public sec tor.” Rents in Jeffries Ridge are significantly below those for com parable units in Raleigh. Rent for a two-bedroom unit is $320 per month and $388 for a three bedroom unit. All residents of Jeffries Ridge must earn leas then 00 percent of the median in come for the area. For example, the annual income of a three person household can’t exceed 921,380 per year. “The interest in Jeffries Ridge has been phenomenal” Mr. Warren in dicated. “We've had over 380 applica tions for the apartments with limited advertising. This confirms our earlier studies that there is a tremen dous need for decent housing with modest rents.” Financing for the $1.5 million development came from several sources. As the sole limited partner in the partnership, First Federal in vested nearly $800,000 in the project. First Union National Bank provided a $837,000 HUD-insured first mortgage loan and the City of Raleigh provided critical subordinate financing through purchase ($140,000) and leaseback of the land and a $140,000 loan carrying an 8 percent interest rate. Hie North Carolina Housing Finance Agency also provided a $80,000 loan to the project. “This partnership demonstrates how the private sector can work together with non-profit groups and government to provide successful and creative solutions to our growing bousing problem,” said Warren. ] (SeeHOUSING,P.2) states. “I have yet to have anyone offer me a logical explanation of why students in Virginia score 66 points better on average than do North Carolina students,” he said. Judge Preyer told the group at Raleigh’s Howard Johnson Con ference Center that “North Caroli nians and Americans have decided that good public schools are essential for the public good” and that “in this we were not Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals.” Judge Preyer said raising SAT scores is important but is not the ultimate goal. “Hie ultimate goal is that all children must reach a level of skill adequate to participate in society. Progress in the classroom, not anger over test scores, should control policy,” he said. Plans called for the task force and its working subcommittees to spend Oct. 30 looking at the problems North Carolina high schools face, including the state’s povrty level, and begin the task of organizing the study. Oct. 31 was to be devoted to meetings of the working subcommittees composed of teachers and counselors, principals (See TASK FORCE, P. 3) f Tells Of King, Civil Rights Page 13 Some Black Athletes Using Term “Racism” As Crutch Page 19 BY LARRY 8TILL NNPA Newt Service An Analysis WASHINGTON, D.C.-The political and legal implications of Federal Judge Alcee Hastings’ im peachment are still reverberating coast to coast after the United States Senate voted 69-26 to find him guilty of 11 of 17 charges of malfeasance in office following a dramatic, historic public hearing in the Capitol. It was the first time in U.S. history that a federal official was removed from of fice on charges upon which he had been acquitted by a jury of his peers. A packed gallery of some 1,500 spectators, school children and Hastings supporters listened in stunn ed silence as 34 mostly liberal Democratic senators joined 35 predominantly conservative Republican senior legislators in voting to oust Judge Hastings from his $89,000-a-year judiciary position despite the fact that he had been found not guilty of the eight-year-old charge of accepting a $150,000 bribe to release a convicted criminal on probation in a U.S. district court in Florida in 1961. Although open impeachment pro ceedings in the case were conducted in the House of Representatives and (See OUSTED, P.2) Dr.SatcherTo Visit During Achievement Week A distinguished clinical scholar and community leader will visit as a guest during National Achievement Week when a fraternity focuses on the first medical science scholarship fund for minority students. Iota Iota Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., will observe its an nual National Achievement Week program on Friday, Nov. 3, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Center at St. Augustine’s College at 7:30 p.m. The program will include inauguration of the Medical Science Scholarship Trust Fund. Dr. David Satcher, president of Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Term., will speak. The Medical Science Trust Fund was established by the local chapter (SeeFUND,P.2) Dr. E. C. Bums Speaks To 46A State NAACP Meet BY ALL1E M. PEEBLES CwIriMtes Writer Speaking on the subject, “America’s Fiery Furnace,” Dr. Emmett C. Burns took his text (tom the Old Testament, Daniel S, when he addressed NAACPers in Raleigh at the 48th annual state conference. Dr. Burns, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, is also a minister. He was the guest speaker at the mass meeting held oo Friday, Oct. 30, at the Martin Street Baotist Church. Burns spoke of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who had the three Israelite youths, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, thrown into the fiery furnace. This happened because they would not bow down and worship the king’s golden image nor serve his gods. At this point, Burns made a com parison between those days and this period in America. “We still have our (SeeNAACP, P.2)
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 2, 1989, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75