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KAUSUrH, N. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2,1 VOL. 49, NO. ly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPYQC IN RALEIGH £30 ELSEWHERE 300 Minority Credit Union Celebrates First Birthday Page 13 Spike Ler In 7Z Enhancing Southeast Raleigh Group Plans Neighborhood Sk c c\y ■-* «V o, *v «>' .y ng Center Fran CAROLINIAN Staff Report! The Southeast Raleigh Community Development has submitted a prop osal In support of the City of Raleigh’s •Ml of expanded growth and develop mat of downtown Raleigh. The SRCDC, as an economic development organization, supports growth initiatives. According to Pauline Frazier, executive director, the organization “believes that strategic planning is a key part of the development process so that ques tion of what, why, and how are answered, and potential impact on environment, pedestrian and vehicular traffic, economy, com munity and real estate are measured before and not after the project is completed.’’ As an initial step in enhancing the economic development of the downtown residential area, the SRCDC has plans to build a Neighborhood Shopping Village. The projected site is on property bordered by East Street, Bloodworth Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The site has frontage on all three streets. If the proposal is approved, the downtown community will have its first shopping village for residents in the area. “This community has been ignored by the business sector and by those who have been responsible for attracting business to Raleigh,” Ms. Frazier said. “Right now, Southeast Raleigh is generating approximately $250 million in revenue annually,” she ad ded. Almost all of this money leaves the immediate community with vir tually no turnover in the area. “The impact of the area income is almost nil. We hope to change that,” she said. Southeast Raleigh has most of the features generally considered attrac tive when businesses seek to relocate. Approximately 45 percent of the land there is vacant. The roads and in frastructure are excellent. The labor force is available. Despite that, few businesses have relocated in the area. Properties to the west of the pro posed shopping village are primarily non-residential and include Shaw University and, beyond that, the Memorial Auditorium. Properties to the east, beyond the Carolina Power and Light complex, include a tributary stream of Walnut Creek and Chavis Park. The latter, to a great extent, pro vides a barrier to easy access from residential developments to the east. This suggests that, at least in the short term, the site will primarily draw on customers from neighborhoods to the north and south, planners for the project said. In its effort to get the shopping village brought to fruition, SRCDC’s first major hurdle is to secure owner ship of the property which is now in the hands of the City of Raleigh, Ms. Fraziet “Once we are able to secure the property, we believe that the rest will follow relatively smoothly,” she com mented. “This area has just an awful lot of potential. We are hoping to see some of it realized.” The construction of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard will provide an alternative access into Raleigh from the east, planners of the proposal say. “The completion of this thoroughfare will not only reduce congestion and reduce traffic volumes on other east/west streets, but will also im prove travel to and from downtown Raleigh. It will help relieve conges tion in the Edenton/New Bem/Tar boro intersections, which are used heavily by traffic moving between the south and east.” "While we support the stimulation of the convention market by the building of an expanded floor space facility, SRCDC feels that it will best serve the city bulit west of the ex isting center,” Ms. Frazier said. “It is our hope that the city ean ne united in this effort to pass a bond in support of downtown development. We believe that the integration of Shaw University’s institutions and academic presence and full con sideration of the existing African American community in the downtown area by placing the con vention center west, will bring about the unification we all seek.” Ike Wake County Committee of the UNCF will recognize Winters tar his service to Raleigh. Wake Cenaty and North Carolina, said Kenneth Wilkins, chairman. “Mr. Winters has been a civic _l„JHtal«r.*nd role model for hun dreds of young people in our The United Negro College Fund John W. Winters in a and banquet Friday, Aag. M, at the Raleigh Marriott, Oabtree Valley. The reception wiR be held at • p.m. in the Junior followed by the ban at 7 p.m. in the Grand ’ he said. Winters, a Raleigh native, at tended Croshy-Garfield Elemen tary School. He attended Long bland university, Virginia State College and Shaw University. In 1M1 he became the first black to be elected to the Raleigh CKy Council. In 1M8 he was awarded 8haw University’s honorary law degree. He was later appointed to the Shaw University Board of Trustees. Winters was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1974. Three years later he was nominated by Gov. James B. Bant and confirmed by the General Assembly to serve on the North Carolina Utilities Commis Wiaters has received numerous awards tar his service. He has been listed among “Who’s Who in the South and Southeast,’’ “Who’s Who in America,’’ and JOHN W. WINTERS “Who’s Who in American Politics,” is a member of the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, and has won the Omega Psi Phi Achievement Award and A.E. Finley Distinguished Ser vice Award. “John Winters is not an educator but he has taught many of us an awful lot about realizing our potential," Wilkins said. “This tribute is one of the most important for our state in recent years.” Tickets are |25 each. For ticket information call 755-4835 or 828-4451. President Bush Meets With Local Councilman & Outreach Program Pm CAROLINIAN Hurt Hcporta An at-large Raleigh City Council m«iim and a group of elected Republican officials met with Presi dent George Bush recently on Capitol HU la an outreach program to en courage political participation. Ctty Councilman Frank L. Turner •aid he v was invited to the White House by Ms. Thelma Duggin, who is the national director of the outreach division of the Republican National Committee. Turner and the group of newly elected Republican municipal of' fleers met with the president for I THE PntSffltNT—namlgh City Cmmcllman at Larga, Frank l. Tamar Ml PrasHant fiaaige Bush In Wathingtea during a meant visit wtth an autraack 'f - about 30 minutes. The visit was designed for the president to meet with local Republican officials that had not been elected. Allison Duncan, a black female, was recently appointed by Gov. James G. Martin for a Judgeship. She will run in November. The effort of the outreach program is to encourage local Republicans to run for local, state, and national of fices. Turner received his education from Shaw University (B.A.), Iona Col lege, New Rochelle, N.Y. (M.S.); Fordham University, New York, N.Y., N.C. State University and UNC ChapelHill. He retired in 1363 as assistant state personnel director, having been a police officer, teacher and guidance counselor. Turner is a veteran of World War II, a trustee at Rex Hospital, advisory director for the Walnut Terrace Family Education Project, and com missioner of the Raleigh Housing Authority for 10 years, during three of which he served as its chairman. He is a member of the selection committee for the Mocehead Scholar ships, the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Raleigh Wake Citisens Association, Stats Black Leadership Caucus, Republican Mao’s Club, Wake County Republican Executive Committee, and ‘the Fourth Congressional District Republican Executive Com mittasL ri.*-s ''T IN PARK Suspect Remains At Large A shooting in a park in Southeast Raleigh earlier this week left a man in critical condition and the assailant on the run. Louis Williams, 44, of Raleigh was shot in the side Monday during a domestic argument. He was listed in critical condition at Wake Medical Center on Wednesday, according to a hospital spokesman. The shooting occurred on a sidewalk off Chavis Way in Chavis Park around 11 p.m. Monday. Williams was shot once in the left side, and was able to tell police the name of the gunman before being taken to the hospital. Raleigh police Lt. W.L. Baker said ' authorities are looking for the suspect. Williams had just picked up his belongings in a bag and had left a nearby residence, when a man in a . light blue Chevrolet pirVup pulled up to the sidewalk, got oui af the truck and fired a shot that struck Williams in the lower left side of his chest. In other news: You may be one of the many thousands of Tar Heels who want to settle a minor traffic viola tion with as little hassle as possible. There’s a new feature in the paper work that now accompanies the ticket that may make the task a little easier. And in the process, North Carolina’s court systems may be relieved of some unnecessary conges tion and confusion which hamper their operations. (See SHOOTING, P.2) HGHT AGAINST AIDS-Ms. Jessie Copeland of Chavis Heights Joined other residents recently in a demonstration against AIDS and drug abuse. The fight against AIDS and drugs ara two of the major items on the African-American agendas across the country. (Photo by TaHb Sabir Cailoway) Government Needs $100 Billion From Taxpayers To Bailout S&Ls BY GROVER BAILEY Managing Krtitor An AnalyHift Who takes $150 billion, and finds a place to keep and spend it? It’s not easy to do, but it’s much easier for the government to underestimate $100 billion and shake money from tax payers’ pockets for the next 30 years for a debt the public is not responsible for. The Treasury is tapping taxpayers for an extended loan to bail out the in solvent savings and loan industry. Depending on the assumptions of what interest rates will be, the cost over so years could range from about $400 billion to $1 trillion. Considering that the White House has underestimated the overall coat by $100 billion in less than a year, a rab bit’s foot is just as reliable as a com puter and the Resolution Trust Corp. massive losses, lax regulation, poor lending practices and downright fraud where some crooks became im measurably rich and safe and others Of $2.5 million in restitution ordered by courts this year, Attorney Genera! Dick Thornburgh said $50 had been coughed up so far. at this stage. This also goes for the are hiding from the investigating Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., ad- Justice Department, ministering banks. One of the nation’s leading thrift ex The S&L debacle is the worst finan cial disaster in U.S. history with (See BAILOUT, P. 2) 1 Educator;Susie V. Perry Leaves Service Legacy From CAROLINIAN Stall Reports Educator, civic leader and dedicated Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority member Susie Vick Perry is dead at 84, and loavoa as a legacy a life of "Service to All Mankind." She was u charter member of Alpha Theta Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., for 81 years after being initiated in June 1928 In Raleigh. She completed her elementary and secondary educa tion in Virginia and became one of Shaw University’s outstanding scholars, receiving her bachelor of science degree In 1928. She attended N.C. State University, Howard University, North Carolina Central University and Boston University, where she received the master of arts degree. She also traveled abroad. Far mere than 48 years, Ms. Perry taught chemistry and science In the Raleigh public schools and was a spon sor of the National Honor Society. She was the chairman of the science department at Ligon High School for the daughter of the late George Vick and /Ick, was born June IS, 1998, In Portsmouth, at Wake Medical Center on July 31. She was e late Dr. Nelson L. Perry, i an active member of First Baptist Church un (See EDUCATOR, P. 2) MS. SUSIE V. PERRY
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