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HALEIGH, N.C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1990 \i VOL. 49, NO. 56 N. C. ’s Semi ■DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF Weekly JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY QfT IN RALEIGH 4D0 ELSEWHERE 300 Be Sure To Read Our Salute To The 1990 High School Graduates In This Week's EditionI ' \ 1D Gantt Triumphs In Historic Bid for N.C. Senate To Face Helms In Fall n«n CAROLINIAN 8taR Report! FVmner Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt confounded political observers by winning the runoff election Tues ' day for the Democratic nomination for Senate. The win not only makes Gantt the first Mack within memory to run for blacks traditionally have run strong ly In first primaries and even emerg ed as front-runners, only to lose decisively in runoffs, when voters have a choice between only one white candidate and one black. This was not the case on Tuesday. Gantt’s unofficial tallv as of yes ter “The nominating of Mr. Gantt could not have come at a more crucial time in the history of North Carolina. It definately was a very positive step in the right direction...” Rev. H. B. Pickett President Raleigh-Apex Chapter NAACP Senate In North Carolina as the —i— of a major party, but also ana of very few blacks who have been able to survive “second primary” ■lections in the South in modern Gantt polled an unofficial 57 per cent of the vote on Tuesday to former VS. Attorney Michel F. Easley’s 43 percent to cruise to a surprisingly easy win and set himself up for a con froatation in November with MpfUtcaa Sen. Jeese A. Helms, who haahoen in office since 1972. Gantt came out ahead of the pack in in first primary on May 8, but failed la win the 40 percent necessary to avoid a runoff. Many political observers believed this would be the deathblow tar Gantt’s aspirations, as day was 272,824 to Easley’s 206,960. The ease of Gantt’s victory may signal trouble for the three-term Helms’ campaign. Before the primaries, Helms was considered vir tually unbeatable, so much so that the Democrats found it difficult to field a candidate who would challenge him. Opinion polls, however, place the race in a dead beat, 43 percent of the voters preferring Gantt, 42 percent for Helms, and the remainder undecided. In defying the odds and winning convincingly in the runoff, Gantt has signaled^ tihatthe conventional North Carolina mav not anoty to him. (See HARVEY GANTT, P. 2) Governor Offers Reward Police Seek Clues In Murder The Raleigh Police Department, Major Crimes Task Force continues to search for leads and suspects in an unsolved murder in the Chavis Heights area. Gov. James G. Martin has authoriz ed a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of Marvin Eugene Kuhn on Dec. 28,1989. Jr., who killed a woman at a Raleigh senior citizens’ home in 1964. The justices without comment allowed to stand an N.C. Supreme Court ruling that Davis is entitled to a new sentencing trial. The state court upheld Davis’ murder conviction Dec. 7, 1969, but ruled that the jury had been wrongly allowed to consider “redundant” aggravating factors The murder occurred at Chavis Park in the 500 block of East Worth Street. Persons with information regar ding this crime are asked to inform the Raleigh Police Department’s Ma jor Crimes Task Force at 890-3555. In related news: Hie Supreme Court this week refused to reinstate the death sentence of Eugene Davis, before voting on the death sentence. He was convicted of killing Vivien Whitaker, 70, on March 1,1884. Police found Ms. Whitaker’s body in her apartment at a senior citixens’ home where Davis’ mother lived. Ms. Whitaker was beaten and strangled. Money, iewelrv and a radio were (See REWARD, P. 2) increasingly Urowing Problem Can U.S. Welfare System Survive? BY GAIL STOWERS Aa Aaalyiia There are people in our nation who undoubtedly need the assistance of NEWS BRIEFS NELMS ACCEPTS AID See. Jesse Helms accepted MfM In speaking fees from U.S. ■Ufsr groups after helping the •Hpur Industry win a trade battle uHh Canada, documents show, me North Carolina RepubUcan seli the payments were in no way ■mated to his efforts on behalf of *e U.S. Industry. CAT WUreAWARDS The City of Raleigh CAT bus system was awarded three of the top six North Carolina Public Transportation Association an anal marketing awards recently. ' Out of a field of 29 entries from across the state, CAT won for "Cool Cat” and “Tralelgh Downtown" campaigns. (See NEWS BRIEFS, P. i) one or more social service programs There are families who have children or spouses who unexpectedly become ill and are in need of additional medical assistance. Then, there are the elderly who are retired or on a fix ed income and at one time or another may need assistance. There are the unwed teenage mothers who obvious are becoming economically depen dent on the welfare system rather than seeking financial independence. The question is whether or not we as a nation are instigators in some areas of their abuse. If so, then our concern should be whether or not there is an effective way to limit the abuse within. There are many people who are becoming economically dependent on the welfare system rather than seeking financial in dependence. The question is whether or not we as a nation are instigators in some of the abuse. ly cannot afford to aupport themselves and their newborn. And there are newlv divorced spouses with children who are unable to main tain the household based on their salary alone. Different events may occur in a person’s life, expectedly or not, which call for full or temporary assistance from the social service programs. H For example, you have a young mother with two children who is separated from her spouse and beat use she could not maintain and care for her household, she has to revert to the assistance of the welfare system. One day, Barbara decides to better herself by going to school to become a nurses’ assistant and get a job so that she can come off the -and become finsn ting a job so that sh daily independent. Upon finishing school, she finds a nursing job which only offers her $3.35 an hour, but she accepts it and knows that raises will come with time. In being honest, she proceeds tc let the housing authorities know that she has a job, and tells the welfare agency that she has started a small savings account. Because she now has a job, her rent in public housing goes up, and because she now has a savings account, her welfare check is cut. ‘ This leaves Barbara right back where she was in the beginning. Why, then, should she even make an effort to become financially independent when it seems like a no-win situation? She has not given up her job, but recognizes that getting ahead means that she cannot be totally honest with the welfare agency. And because few are caught in their dishonesty, it is worth the risk. Today, you can find some women who have two or three children, draw a welfare check, have access to more than $100 in food stamps and are liv ing in two-story house in a fairly de cent subdivision from the Section 8 program. These very same people are often receiving Medicaid benefits. And oftentimes, you see welfare recipients wearing name brand clothing. You see them in the grocery stare purchasing foods that perhaps the average family can only affw-d on occasion. (See WELFARE, P. 2) Frustration And Fear Help Author Find Inner Voice For Exnressions LORRAINE JOHNSON COLEMAN BY ELANIA HOLLOWAY OnceW^W^I^ed, something comes along that is so good that the thought of it from time to time warms you all over. That is the way it was when I met the most remarkable and talented Lorraine Johnson-Coleman, married to an engineer, a mother of three children, and a poet. Ms. Coleman is also the daughter of Rev. Peter Johnson, a student at Shaw Divinity School and the daughter of Doris Johnson, a retired school teacher. Ms. Coleman said she began writing poetry out of frustration, when unable to find cards that said what she wanted to say to her bus band, Lance Coleman. It waa then that she began to realize that in order for him to understand her feelings and enjoy poetry at the same time, she would have to write it Hence, “Expressions by Lorraine” was born. Its. Coleman is currently at work on a book and says she has always dreamed of being a great novelist. Most of her collection of poetry and expressions grew out of a fear that she would not be able to say what she wanted and felt before she died. A few years ago she had a heart at tack and physicians discovered she had a defective heart. “I was lying thaw in the hospital thinking of my family and Monde, whan I realised there were so many things I wanted to tell them,” she said. “If I died I would not be able to, so I began to write things to each one of them to remember me by hinging it on the wall. “As I began to grow bettor and con tinued to write, people began toiling me, ‘You write things I want to say u you are saying Just what I fed,”’she ■aid. “A lot is written to my husband because he inspires me always. I writes lot to and about black men in a positive way, because nobody else does. It seems (hat a lot of the programs and writings about black men today are taking them apart to see what they are made of, or tearing them down,” she h "I have Moods who are married to -strong black men. My father is a (Sea BLACK MEN, P. J) Sex Crime Counea Schools Cope With Rapes new YORK, NX. (AP)—America’* college*, increas ingly concerned about gang and ac quaintance rape, are starting to teach students a more elemental lesson than English lit and Geology 101—that it takes two to say “yes” to At campuses wound the country, schools are sponsoring hotlines, courses and workshops aimed at countering the widespread conviction that when it comes to sex, its every man for himself. Many campus males feel “You should always be ready to have sex, even if you don’t want to," says Toby Simon, assistant dean of student life at Brown University. “Don’t ask .. woman bow far you can go: just tun making mom.” Four years ago, Simon aakad students In a survey if they'd ever had sex aaginst the other person’s will. Ten percent of the men—at a school where students “have a tendency to be politically correct”—admitted they had. '"mat, to me, was a real trigger that we had to do something,” said Simon, who also is director of health education. At the time, taw schools admitted that a problem existed. But Simon’s efforts put Brown in die forefront of sex crime education. Now, slowly, other schools are following that lead, and as awareness grows, it appears iattittiaiiiii
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