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RALEIGH, N.C.,
THURSDAY,
JULY 5, 1990
VOL. 49, NO. 64
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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PUBLIC HEARING
The Task Force on Excellence
la Secondary Education invites
comments from the public on the
subject, “It's Time for a Change
in Student Performance in Our
Secondary Schools." The
meeting Is scheduled for July 12
from MS p.m. at Broughton High
School. The task force stated,
“This state’s poor ranking on the
SAT gives us notice that it is time
far a change in our secondary
schools.” The task force invites
all Interested parties, from both
the pabllc and private sectors, to
comment on njrt to Improve
secondary education.
CRIME8TOPPERS
Sometime between midnight
and • a.m. on June 27, Leroy
■tier, a white male, age 57, was
assaulted on the front porch of
the Church of the Good Shepherd
located at the corner of
Hillsborough and McDowell
straeets, Raleigh. The victim is in
critical condition. Hie Raleigh
Police Department has no
suspects at this time. Anyone
having information regarding
this crime, please contact
Crimes toppers at 834-HELP. The
investigators assigned to this
cane are Det. M.D. Carroll and
Dot. C.K. Womble.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
N.C. Businesses
Splitting Over
Tan Increases
North CaroHna’s two moat influen
tial business associations have lined
19 on opposite sides of the debate
over how to close the state’s
tlM million budget gap. Susan
Valauri, director of the
lMM-member state chapter of the
National Federation of Independent
Business, today announced that the
small-business advocacy group
would “adamantly resist” efforts to
bridge the deficit through higher
Valauri released results of a survey
taken last week among NFIB/North
Carolina members. The survey found
that seven of every 10 small-business
owners want to eliminate the deficit
soMy through spending cuts, fund
transfers and accelerated payments
to die state. Only a percent favored
balancing the budget through across
the-board spending cuts coupled with
tax increases to pay for expanding
toe state's »««<* Plan
(BEP).
Valauri acknowledges that the
survey results, which NFIB uses to
establish its legislative policies, puts
the small-business group at odds with
toe North Carolina Citizens for
Business and Industry (NCCBI),
which has endorsed raising taxes to
(See BUSINESS, P. 2)
4
Unhealthy Behavior Patterns v V
U.S. Bad, Habits .lard To Kick
Kentuckians smoke the most,
Wisconsinites are the plumpest and
South Dakotans don’t think much of
seat belts.
Such are the findings of the
Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, a
36-state effort to measure America’s
nasty health habits.
In North Carolina, too many people
smoke and too many people don’t get
enough exercise.
The survey, conducted by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and par
ticipating state health departments,
asked Americans about the things
they do to jeopardise their health,
such as smoking, staying fat, going
on drinking binges and sitting on their
seat belts.
The CDC, in reporting the results
this week, said unhealthy behavior
patterns vary considerably from
state to state. That was indeed the
case in the 1988 survey of 36 states
and the District of Columbia.
Jim Fear, who works as a staff duty
officer for the Greensboro Police
Department, matches the descrip
tions of both problems of North
Carolinians. He works 12 hours a day,
four days a week at a desk where the
only exercise he gets is answering
telephones.
Fear says it takes him a day to
recoup at the end of the work week.
“Seeing how I smoke also... I smoke
entirely too much (two packs a day)
in the office,” Fear said. “I wish I
didn’t smoke but I do. When I get off I*
try to get some exercise, working
around the house or putting up fences
on some land in Randolph County.”
Does he worry about the behavior
the CDC says is killing him?
“You think about it, especially
when you start to get older,” Fear
said. He’s 46.
In Kentucky, 34 percent surveyed
reported they were smokers—highest
among the states. But just one per
cent reported drinking too much, best
in the nation.
“For drinking, this is a very con
servative state, with a lot of religious
conservatives. Alcohol has con
sistently been frowned upon, and that
has a lot to do with it,” said Phyllis
Skonicki, manager of the Health Pro
motion Branch for the Kentucky
Department of Health Services.
“The tobacco issue is something
else in Kentucky,” she said. “We’re
one of the largest [tobacco] growing
states in the nation... from the
smallest farm to the largest, you’re
going to find some tobacco.”
In Wisconsin, 28 percent were
overweight, according to the CDC.
Twenty-five percent reported “binge
drinking”—five or more drinks in a
sitting in the month before the
survey—end «tx percent admitted
In thoed categories, Wisconsin was
“As fhras our weight, it’s really a
Midwestern thing,” said Michael
Soref, coordinator of the Wisconsin
survey. “Whatever it is that makes
the Midwest high on that... applies to
Wisconsin, too.”
Other survey extremes:
•The slimmest state is New Mex
(See HABITS. P 2)
Mailed To Home
$5 Million In Cocaine Seized
Allegedly
Concealed
In Stereo
A Wake Superior Court Jury cob
victed a Durham »«» Hii« week o
selling cocaine while Wllsan police
state and federal agents seized <S.
million worth of cocaine that hai
been mailed from Panama.
The jury convicted Calvin Purnell
32, of Durham, of trafficking in co
caine by possession, trafficking in cc
caine by transportation and con
spiracy to traffic cocaine.
Purnell was arrested in February
1989 outside the Angus Barn on U.S
70. The arrest was part of an under
cover drug investigation oi
employees in the restaurant’s kit
Purnell was arrested just as he wai
about to deliver cocaine to i
restaurant employee. He was carry
ing more than n grams of cocaine in
the crotch of his pants.
The officers found
four kilograms of un
cut cocaine with an
estimated value of
$1.5 million and later
found 10 more
kilograms of cocaine
worth $4 million con
cealed inside stereo
equipment mailed
from Panama.
Judge Joe Freeman Britt sentenc
ed Purnell to 21 yean in prison and
fined him $120,000. Purnell was given
the minimum seven-year sentence
for each count and ordered to serve
them consecutively.
In Wilson, police and state and
federal agents seized $8-5 million
(See CRIME, P.2)
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For Hep. Price
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education. (Photo by TaNb Sabir-Cahoway)
Home Street Home Calle For A Voice
In Policlna And Runnlna Ralelah Shelters
Elderly blacks, poor women and
children and the homeless are the
most deprived groups in our society
by whatever standard one would
choose to use - income, health status,
housing characteristics and others.
Unlike the elderly, poor women and
children, the homeless represents a
visible forgotten minority and is
growing in numbers amid apathy as
demonstrations smoother tactics in
crease to alert the public about this
serious problem.
Home Street Home and “Voices of
the Homeless’’ are included in a
series of programs and activities to
commemorate Governor James Mar
tin’s proclamation of July as
Homeless Month.
Home Street Home is an organiza
tion of homeless people in Raleigh,
formed in March 1990. Its founders,
Mary Uebelgunne and Brenda Starr,
were responsible for Governor Mar
tin’s decision to issue the proclama
tion. Fed up with their homeless
situation, the two had laid out a bed
sheet petition on the Fayetteville
(See HOMELESS, P.2)
New Prison
Expansion
Questioned
(AP)—A comprehensive correc
tional policy may be more important
to North Carolina than a proposed
$275 million prison construction plan
that could handle 12,000 more in
frmn other
1, you nil
executive
N.C. Center on Crime
it, “The thing we still
lack la a ... policy which will address
the question of whom we imprison for
what, how long, and where," he said.
“We’re making a very substantial in
vestment and expansion without first
very basic ques
The General Assembly is consider
ing establishing a special commission
to recommend by 1982 a package of
changes for the state’s criminal
Justice and correctional systems.
In the meantime, work continues
toward expanding both prisons and
alternative programs.
The proposed increase in prison
capacity would be the first in the
state since die 1970s. Since 1995,
North Carolina has spent about $200
million on prison construction—but
all of that money has gone toward
alleviating crowded prisons by pro
viding more room for about the same
number of inmates.
But Roark points out that the an
nual cost of paying off $275 million in
prison construction bonds—about $10
million a year—would equal the
amount legislators planned to spend
to reduce North Carolina’s infant
mortality rate, which is the highest of
any state.
“It says something about a society,
about how it orders its priorities and
how it deals with its least fortunate
(See PRISON, P.2)
U.8. Intervention Urged
Rebels Forcing Liberian Leader Out
A guerrilla rebellion has plunged
Liberia into a total state of war.
Rebels attacked this week in a two
prong offensive, cutting all major
land routes out of the Liberian
capital.
Heavy automatic gunfire and ar
tillery erupted in the eastern and
western suburbs as an exodus of peo
ple streamed from the city center to
escape the fighting and beaded for
areas believed already controlled by
the rebels.
Previously many expected a quick
change of goverampnt. The United
States advised its diplomatic person
nel to leave the, country and tem
porarily shut down its Peace Corps
P*rS»weok, state-run ELWA Radio,
dining 70 working for the U.S.
government remain in Liberia.
Doe’s characteristically brutal
response to guerrilla control of ap
proximately one third of the country
drastically eroded support for the
government.
His troops have terrorized villages
suspected of supporting the rebels,
led by Charles Taylor, one of Doe’s
former ministers. Taylor wants to get
rid of Doe who seized power in a
bloody 1980 coup, and bring
democracy to the country.
Liberia, founded by freed African
American slaves in 1822, has Hen
relatively unstable since Doe toppled
e civilian government.
Doe’s proposed national-unity
(See LIBERIAN, P. 2)
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