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E LIBRARY ONS DEPT. NES ST. C 2761 1 )N RALEIGH JANUARY 25.1990 t Black Colleges Join To Increase Science Research Page 13 Superbowl Preview: Teams Prepare Mental Strategies Page 19 mmm i ^ ? ' r_> * m ow IBEMV §yn iw Aatua •>■—«— u—— . •ik^tea «k ■» |Ji ^yU. h«MilMn |m ww oncLicn urcno^oiwnivg nwH, ■ nipvif uwi m pranm mnnf in (fee haaniaea. apaaed a# at tOI t Laaalr SL la llalaigk. Sfeariai Haata la «MM fey Wake OaaartaaWaa. Picture* ahava an ftaaa MW Jeal Cravaa, VWTA aafewtaar. with tM City al RaMgh, aaa Tfecadan MeMMar, Jr., atatf pwaaaaHIfe Wake CaaatyOaprtaalMaa.(Pfeala fey TaWilafelrCalawai) City Plans New Housing To Aid Elderly, Poor I CAROLINIAN Staff Reports The city is transforming the old Murphey School on Person Street into a tom Income housing complex for the TfcMagh the combined efforts of the North Carolina General Assembly, tho City of Raleigh, the non-profit Downtown Housing Improvement Com., and many other public and plwite interests, the historic school «■ be saved and renovated to pro vide a apartment units tor lower elderly and handicapped hfer< mating thamrtn lition into [ and classroom addition i including six studio ,» one-bedroom and seven two of the units range from 400 to 700 square feet, ac cording to Gregg Warren, executive director of DHIC. The project is being developed by a partnership formed by DHIC and the National Equity Fund. NEK is the na tion’s largest investor in low-income tax credit probjects sponsored by non-profits and is affiliated with the Ford Foundation and the Local In itiative Support Carp. Based on the value of the project’s historic rehabilitation tax credits and the low i housing tax credit, NEF has i to invest $1.3 million in this $3.3 million project. Meanwhile, the Raleigh Housing Authority is trying •»» itw-ase the ___ (See HOUSING. P.3) BRIEFS TEEN PAGEANT The Touch-A-Teen Foundation d Wake County is accepting ap plications for young ladle* bet ween the agee of 14-17 to par ticipate ia the 14th annual Min Hack Teenage World of Wake Ceunty pageant. You must live In Wake County. For more Informs Mm, call S4S-1S73 er SIMMS. The deadline tar applications is Feb. 4. DEPUTY DIRECTOR The N.C. Division of Parks and R. Wells as the division's deputy directar, effective Feb. S. Wells, 47, has served as direc tor at the Recreation Resources Service In the College at Forest Resources at North Carolina State University since 1M7. He I In a variety of capacities i the Division of Parks and hem 1*74 through 1SS7. A native of Burke County, WoMs has a bachelor of science degree In parks and recreation administration from North Carolina State University. COMMIT TO QUIT On Sunday. Jan. 14, met l.SSS smokers kicked the habit. By entering Com ask to (felt. Wake Comity’s largest stop asseldng event, they pledged net to smoke from Jan. 14-Feb. 14. r Raieiuh. •This is totally ia to Wake County; (SaoNBWS BRH2PS, P. S) -- so. rYom CAROLINIAN Staff Report! Leaders of the African-American community ere feeing a new :hallenge today that without proper hrection could leave a voiceless or liViitled Southeast Raleigh and dilu tion of political power. Grassroots and youth groups are asking to he ward and making demands. Statements by groups including the NAACP will be issued by the end of the month to explain recent actions diet have caused problems and em barrassment in a quest to solve issues that required unity. Problems were highlighted when Bruce Lightner, co-chairman of the Martin Luther King Celebration Com mittee, wrote a letter not intended fbr public disclosure that criticized members of the youth group of Con cerned Citizens for Educational Equi ty. Contents of the letters were printed in a local newspaper. . Of we group members wanted to march in a parade honor ing Dr. Martin Luther King on his bir thday, but ware told they could not. They insisted. Following the march, Ughtner wrote a letter to Ms. Margaret Rose Murray, one of the coordinators of the youth group, condemning the youths’ actions. In the letter, be said that although he is aware of the important issues taken on by CCEE, he could no longer talk with any CCEE spokesperson or CCEE group members as a result of the group’s actions. He said be had tried to work with the group, but be and other leaders in the community had been met with disrespect, verbal abuse and charges of “raping our youth.” In the letter to Ms. Murray, Ughtner said that although he was sympathetic to the gram’s concerns, the memorial march for King was not intended as a place to air grievances. He also warned the group that he would talk with other groups in the black community, including the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association, the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance and the various NAACP branches, to encourage them not to associate with CCEE either. The letter also suggested that Ms. Murray and her group publish a statement in The CAROLINIAN con demning the actions of CCEE members, retracting some of the statements the group had made about other members of the community and apologizing for the disruption in the community. Lightner said that if these actions were not taken, he and other members of the community would proceed with formally disassociating themselves with members of the group ana causes they stand for. Ms. Murray, a longtime communi ty activist, said she bad broken away from the group and was no longer responsible for its actions. She refus ed to make a statement about what was going on in the community, say ing only that she would issue a state ment *n The CAROLINIAN by the end ofthe month. Members of the community, in cluding the NAA/CP, have begun preparing statements explaining the actions in the community and how each group was responding to it. Concern has arisen that the in cidents might shed bad light on the community so group members began to retract earlier statements, holding them until the end of the month. Lightner’s letter said: “I take all of the above acts very seriously, and in fact, view them as 'See YOUTH GROUP, P. 2) *■ Suspect Chased By Witnesses Police are searcinng for a man witneaaes say matched a purse from 1 an elderly woman. The woman suffered a broken hip ■n^ wllfafl | thief SSSS^^ I Workers said the woman, identified as Katy Jessup, 75, tus Just about finished shopping and was waiting tor a taxi about 7:30 p.m. Police said a man grabbed her purse from her left shoulder and knocked her to the ground. Raleigh police chased the suspect about eight blocks around the neighborhood of the Winn-Dixie before the suspect disappeared from view. Police said the suspect is in his 30s, 5 feet 0 and ISO pounds. Mrs. Jessup was admitted to Rex Hospital in stable condition, a hospital spokesperson said. The elderly are seen as easy vic tims for robbers and purse snatching and should fie cautious when shopp ing or walking alone, police officers paid. The suspect wap chased from .the front of Winn-Dixie ptoie onPomon Street about eight blocks through residential neighborhoods behind the grocery store. If 1$ m » k r* he-owwsmm nanaraa pamctpaim in inn nny nan. frnvnay la Haim •f Many) *aavs. Fewer Black* Dl* From High Blood Pr«HW«: Diet, Exercise linked Pram CAROLINIAN Staff Reports Although African-American may be under a greater stress as we move into the 1990s, fewer of us are dying from high blood pressure, said'Dr. mamzs&n* '• “Fewer blacks mid whites are dy ing from hypertension,” be said, but blacks have continued ta remain at high risk. The decline in mortality is a result of Macks and whites getting more information about the disease, altering their diets and exercising tnoce, besaid. ’“More people an going into places like drtig stores and getting their Wood pressure checked” on machines. Since there are no symp- 1 toms of the disease and someone African-American Soldiers Still Invisible Force, Even In Combat BY ROY J. BENNETT ■pedal T» Ik* CAROLINIAN Aa Aaatyak CLINTON—One* again, America and the media have made black men and women Invisible. I have been watching die paratroopers from the Mnd Airborne in action in the so called war in Panama and their re cent return to the States. From what I have seen, very few Mack ser vicemen and women were involved. I saw two Mack servicemen talking to a television camenuum three weeks ago in Panama when they were try they were virtually Ignored by the media. This la radam whether it waa done intentionally or unintentionally. I was in the (2nd Airborne for several years and I Just happen to know how many blacks are and * always have been a part of this “elite group.” I also know how hard blacks have worked to make and maintain. this “crack outfit.” I detest the way the media his willfully disrespected Jheee brave black man by letting their coverage of this historic event President Trrnnan took the giant step and integrated the armed sendees in 1948 (42 years ago). One would think things would he better by now. at him because tbe < ad tbe camera w think be had mista him in the first plac •tltpKt he was tbe the racism and prejudices I was con fronted with during my tour of duty hoping things would get better in time. I fought for these United States on three Afferent shores and ac cepted the way I was treated by (fpeSOUMEIIS.P.a) ould feel fine but son suffer from i dgh blood pressure, more people are 1 Setting checkups. The recommenda ion is 1-2 years for the healthy per- i on, and a recommended checkup • ime if the person is under a doctor’s . iid«i “The main reason we’re seeing ah tverall decline in mortality is lecause many people are changing heir diets,” he said. High blood pressure occurs when he arteries contract and make it dif icult for the blood to circulate hrough the body. It also occurs when he heart pumps blood into the body nore forcefully. Doctors are doing itudies to determine if high blood pressure is passed on from one' generation to another, but there is lomething that can be done about it. By altering the diet, taking in less (See BLOOD PRESSURE, P. 2) Student Call To Washington Has Caucus Support WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep, Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.), chain of the Congreaeional Black Caucus,, formally endorsed the effort of the National Collegiate Black Caucus to mount a nationwide “Student Call toi Washington” this June to insist that thei administration and the Oongrma address the critical human-needs, jobs, education loiurn confron ting society . In expressing Us sup port; for this student effort, Ddlums “Thirty yesrs ago a group of dedicated young Mack students by stsging sit-ins at pjfffftt oi piwy* accommodation and participating in ‘freedom rides’ to dramatize the evils • segregated society. Their courage, tenacity and sacuu^e helped make a reanty ot me civil rights revolution, in farcing the Am srican people to live up to the ideals of freedom ana equality professed in the Declaration ot independence and the Constitution. “Now, 30 years later, after a decade-long assault on these ad vances in human freedom and equal (See STUDENTS, P. 2) Bush Outraged It Assaults On NAACP OfAdas From the White house, a broad snge of national and local organiza lons, and from “just private Itizens,” has come an outpouring of Hhgnation and concern over the re nt series of violent acts directed by rhite supremacists against NAACP eraonnel and property. The NAACP headquarters in laltimore has been literally flooded rith hundreds of messages of support i the wake of a campaign of terror. hat has already claimed the'Uvea of n NAACP retained attorney and a Kleral fudge, resulted in the narrow (See NAACP, P. 2)
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