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H.C. c acquiI 109 £ Rai~eiL RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 7,1989 VOL. 48. NO. 4 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY QC IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 I Campbell Takes New Post As City’s Mayor Pro-Tern; Seeks Team Work RALPH CAMPBELL, JR. VERNON MALONE City Councilman Ralph Campbell, Jr. has become Raleigh’s mayor pro tempore, making him the second African-American to ever hold the post. Former Mayor Clarence Lightner became the first in 1968, serving two terms as mayor pro-tern and became Raleigh's only African American mayor in 1973. Campbell, who began his career on the council in 1965, has amassed an impressive record of accomplishments. During his first term, he was appointed chairman of the council’s powerful Law and Finance Committee, the first time in Raleigh’s history that a freshman council member has been given such responsibility. The October election saw Campbell turn back Republican challenger Winnie Robinson with 85 percent of the vote. Campbell, a Raleigh native and graduate of St. Augustine’s College, becomes the second in command of the city and fills in when the mayor 1b not available. He was also appointed chairman of the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee and the Real Estate Committee. He will also serve on the city’s Downtown Committee. A plan auditor with the N.C. Health Plan, he is an official liaison with the Raleigh ‘ Housing Authority, Convention and Visitors Bureau and Artsplosure. Campbell is thought to be involved in a wide variety of capacities which govern and direct the state’s capital city. (See RALPH CAMPBELL, P. 2) Harry Belafonte Saluted For Talent, Achievements Page 22 Firing Of Teacher Spawns Rights Initiative In S. C. Page 23 Malone Elected As Chairman Of Board By Commissioner Vernon Malone, superintendent of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, has been elected chairman of the Wake Board af Commissioners. The board, which made its decision Monday, chooe Malone to assume the position after M. Edmund Ayeock stepped down as chairman recently. Aycock had been chairman for It years. Malone will be the first African-American to hold the peeMou aa chairman of the Wake Board of Commissioners. He, however, has been on the board since ISM. Commissioner Robert B. Heater also expressed an Interest In the position, but decided not to pursue the nomination after learning that Malone was interested. As chairman of the board, Malone will receive a private office and a raise In his current salary. He will also appoint committees, conduct board meetings and represent the county at ceremonial functions. The new commission's present agenda Includes deciding how to (See VERNON MALONE, P. 2) r 1 Mi Entrepreneur will be held at the Cloak Hotel on gh 8treet Saturday, nb M a.m. to 4 p.m. far the warkahop b A media conference la ehadalad for Tneaday, Dec. 12. (See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2) Pmari Harbor Attack Recatiad Blacks Given Limited Role In WWII ■Y JOHN THOMPSON MOORE. JR. A*Auty*te Whan the Tepanaae bombed Pearl Harbor an Dec 7,1M1, America was caught unprepared ter a global war. Prior to and even aftar World War n, African-American played a raatrictad role. It waa on July U, IMS, when Praaidant Harry Truman iaaued an executive order which created the Commission on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces. The Truman order was a key catalyst to the new America that has emerged in the wake of the civil rights revolution of the 1990s and beyond. In 1941 the United States had a restrictive policy on accepting African-Americans as gunners but they were generally accepted as “mess attendants’’ or similar Jobs. There were no black Marines or pilots in the Air Force and organizations like the NAACP petitioned the War Department about those restrictive policies. The first time in the history of the United States that African Americans were accepted into the Coast Guard and Marines was in 1M3. The Air Force was segregated during World War II with African-American airmen being trained at Tuakegee, Ala. for the BOth Pursuit Squadron, a fighter wing associated with the 15th Air Force on bombing missions in Europe. It was headed by Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first African-American graduate from West Point in the Air Force. His father, Benjamin 0. Davis, Sr., was the highest-ranking African American officer during World War II as assistant to the inspector general in Washington, D.C., and a veteran of the Spanish-American War. The first time the U.S. armed forces accepted African-American women was in 1M3 and the highest ranking officer at that time in the WACs was Lt. Stella G. Garvin, who headed a segregated group. When the Selective Service Act was passed by the Congress and African American men from agee U to 45 were called up for military duty, the government found Itself at risk because thousands of blacks were rejected for health reasons. So, today, moat educators are trying to Inform the officials of our government and the pub c through the United Negro Col sge Fund drives, etc., that “A goc mind is a terrible thing to waste.' That is to say that millions of Mac youth have talents that this nation c Ud use if the According to Dr. lohn Hope '■nmmmm r,p*> Staffer, Expanded Laws All DWI Offenders Assessed Recommendet Education, Treatment Starting Jan. 1, 1980, anyone convicted of driving while impaired and placed on probation will get a mandatory assessment for drug or alcohol dependency. In addition, they may have to carry out any ; recommended education or treatment before the state will give back his or her driver’s license. The 1989 General Assembly strengthen* rite* Carolina’s DWI The Department of Motor Vehicles will not reissue the offender’s driver’s license until it hears from the assessing or treatment agency that the program has been completed. laws by expanding statewide a 10 county dependency assessment pilot program legislators began two years ago. The pilot program was set up in part to examine asseasmept as a tool to help identify substance abusers, offer them appropriate treatment and afford them the opportunity to live more productive, drug-free lives—as well as keep them from endangering themselves and others by driving while impaired. (See DWI LAWS, P.2) Community Group Claims Victory In SAL Discrimination Hearing r rom i.aiwuimah own nqiMw The Raleigh Community Reinvestment Committee declared a victory as the Office of Thrift Supervision, the federal savings and loan regulators, announced its conditional approval of an application filed by Raleigh Federal Savings Bank to acquire through merger Builders Federal Savings and Loan Association and First Federal Savings and Loan Association of North Carolina. UK CUnUlUUIlS Ut Uic a^iuvai to the federal government’s acknowledgement that Raleigh Federal has not been in compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law requiring financial institutions to invest in all communities from which they draw deposits. It also gives the bank a time period during which it will be monitored by the Office of Thrift Supervision and the community to ensure it meets the CRA requirements. The conditions call for Raleigt Federal to estabish a communitj advisory committee, home ownership programs for low anc moderate-income and minority individuals; establish a CRA Policj Committee comprised of senioi officers of the bank. In addition, Raleigh Federal musi market all products and service) appropriate for low- and moderate income customers through minority realtors and community-base) organizations and will file regulai status reports with the distric director of the Office of Thrif Supervision. The conditions were attached to thi application approval because of tlx analysis of data reported by Raleigl Federal to the federal regulators which reveals: •Over five years, Raleigh Federa made just 16 loans, totaling >988,000 to the low-income census tracts ii Wake County, which comprise 3,68 households. That Is an average of 4. loans per 1,000 households. •Race was a factor regardless a (See SAVINGS AND LOAN, P. 3) Color Hooping Blocks From Intogrotlng Bigotry In U. S. Linked Chiefly To Skin Color A majority of African-American citizens trace ancestry to people unwillingly brought to America In chains. Not surprisingly, there Is little nostalgia for the concept of this nation as a great melting pot among blacks. “It’s a lot easier to change your name when you get to America than the color of your skin," said Howard Taylor, a Princeton University sociologist and fanner bead of the school’s Afro-American studies program. “There is ongoing resentment on thO |Mrt of the black community for what they perceive as the advancement of other immigrant groups at their expense." Taylor and other experts say institutional bigotry in the United States, linked primariy to skin color, ( has prevented blacks from following . in the footsteps of the Irish, Poles, * Jews and other immigrant groups. I No one disputes that black Americans have made strides in the past 20 years toward overcoming the systematic discrimination that denied them access to so much for so long. And in many ways, Newark was a catalyst for that progress, from the (See BIGOTRY. P.2) Clash Between Rival Schools End In Melee A group of St. Augustine’! College students were involved in an apparent melee which resulted in several injuries and a smashed car I windshield. During the incident several smoke : bombs were released causing a : female student to suffer an asthma attack. The bombs were set off inside , Goold dormitory along with several , others which were released outside. Raleigh fire fighters and police l officers were called to the scene , about 9 p.m. Tuesday and arrived to , find a campus partially subdued with l smoke and a group of young men I fighting and throwing rocks and sticks. F Three young men were also treated (See STUDENTS. P.l)
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