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New Program Aids Elderly
In Medical Care
Page 15
Human Resources Secretary
Tells Of Energy Aid Program.
Page 11
President and CEO of Capitol
Broadcasting Co. Jim Goodin on
win address the NFL franchise
and other sports initiatives in the
Triangle on the third Thursday,
Oct. 18. at the Crahtree Valley
Raleigh Marriott from 7-8 a.m.
The Greater Raleigh Chamber of
Commerce's Third Thursday is a
BMuthly meeting of the general
chamber membership with pro
grams addressing current issues
of local and regional interest.
ST. AUG. GETS GRANT
The Chariest Stewart Mott
Foundation has made a grant to
St. Augustine's College for
1508,880 to bolster the college’s
endowment. The grant is design*
od to leverage college trustees,
alumni and friends of the college
to increase their support of the
college, attempt to build a stu
dent activities health/wellness
SUPERCAP POPULATION
A new single-day prison
papulaHsa record of 1>,S1Z was
set Sept. a. Thai’s the first time
the prison population has ever
been above 18,888. The average
daily prioan population In the
state’s 88 prisons during
September was 18,788, a new
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Citizens.onder Amphitheater Location
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Tentative plans are underway to
construct an amphitheater in
Southeast Raleigh that have citizens
pnn<Uring the Joint venture by the
Raleigh City Council and the
developers, the PACE Group.
The 20,000-seat outdoor perfor
mance center, the only one of its kind
in the Carolines, is seen as a very
positive move by Mayor Pro Tem
Ralph Campbell, who said it would be
beneficial to the community.
The open-air theater will feature a
vuvcicu paviiiun providing seaung
for 7,000, as well as a landscaped em
bankment allowing a lawn seating for
an additional 13,000. Along with com
plete staging facilities, the 77.9-acre
complex will include a covered picnic
area, as well as food and beverage
concessions. More than 5,000 parking
spaces are planned.
The $12.5 million construction cost
for the facility will be divided, with
the city paying $8 million and the
PACE (Troup paying the remaining
14.5 million. The PACE Group,
aeveiupcis auu uiauagcio w ocrciai
amphitheaters throughout the nation,
will also receive a developer’s fee for
managing the construction of the am
phitheater.
However, some citizens in
Southeast Raleigh are looking closely
at the details at Citizens Advisory
Council meetings establishing camps
for approval and opponents. Lythel
Hickerson, chairman of Southeast
Raleigh CAC, agrees with Campbe'l
that it will be a positive move.
“It will be a plus for the communi
ly, Deing wnere 11 is going iu ut
located. I don’t see a problem with
traffic or anything.”
The plan calls for the park to bt
developed along Walnut Creek
southeast of the intersection of Sun
nybrook Road and the Beltline. “H
will help create employment for th«
Raleigh-Wake County area,” Hicker
son said.
Campbell said it’s “the city’s desin
to establish the amphitheater so tha
it will be an asset to the city parks
system and provide wholesome
tamuy-oneniea eniercainmeni which
will be beneficial for the region.”
“The plans have been reviewed
thoroughly by a number of groups to
include the parks and recreation ad
visory board, a number of the CACs,
city administration and the City
Council,” Campbell said.
“Our concerns have consistently
been that there will be quality con
struction and specific attention given
to appearance and sound issues. The
city will continue to be sensitive to the
(See AMPHITHEATER, P. 2)
Argument Said Cause As
Man killed in knife fight
Victim
Dies On
The Scene
A Raleigh man was fatally stabbed
during an argument with another
man recently. The two men were ap
parently fighting around 9:30 p.m. in
the 200 block of East Street in the
downtown area of Raleigh, police
Capt. R.K. Carroll of the department
said.
According to police records, one
man stabbed the other in the chest,
the victim, a black male about 35
years old, died at the scene.
The other man was treated at Wake
Medical Center for cuts on his hands.
In other news:
A Winston-Salem man convicted in
the dog-mauling death of a jogger
should have his bond revoked follow
ing reports that two of his dogs have
roamed the area where the jogger
died, a prosecutor said.
Forsyth County Assistant District
Attorney Clifton Barrett has asked
for a hearing next week to decide
whether Thomas Powell’s bond
should be evoked pending an appeal
of his conviction. In proposing the
revocation, Barrett on Thursday
referred to a police report in which
Powell said two dogs had escaped
from his fenced yard on Sept. 22.
Powell, 33, was convicted of invol
untary manslaughter the day before
in the mauling death of Hoke Lane
Prevette, Jr. The jury found that
Powell’s two Rottweilers had attack
ed and killed Prevette, a
neighborhood jogger, on Oct. 20,1909.
A report said that three of Powell’s
neighbors on Banner Avenue
reported seeing the dogs loose. All
'See CRIME, P. 2)
North Carolina Educators Endorse
Harvey Gantt In Senate Campaign
From cakuunian sun Reports
The U.S. Senate race between
RepwbUfjn Sen. JessqA. Helms and
Democrat Harvey B. Gantt is even,
according to new state polls with
Helms’ favorite tactics, negative
television commercials, turning
undecided voters off and Gantt gain
ing momentum among mainstream
North Carolinians.
A poll conducted by the News and
Observer and WRAL-TV 5 found 43.5
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EXPRESSING VIEWS-At the request of the Raleigh City beltline. Representing approximately 100 people wore
Coueol e pubic information session was bold Oct. 8 at Maris C. Williams, Lenton Williams, Daisy Williams. Mayor
WMJMate.&miiiii!!Rlly Center tor thojurpese of obtaining Pro Tern Ralph CampbeN, George Chapman and the city of
views and Input Rom dozens about the proposed 20,000- Raleigh Planning Deportment. (Photo by James Giles, Sr.)
seat outdoor poriormOioejmntor on Sunnybrbofc and the
NAACP Says City Council Losing
Touch Removing Commission Chair
Ptm CAROLINIAN (Half Reports
Dismissing the chairman of the
Human Resources and Human Rela
tions Advisory Commission by the
Raleigh City Council has been called
a mistake by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple and a political move revolving
around the Crabtree Valley issue by
the community at large.
Two statements have been issued to
The CAROLINIAN concerning the
dismissal of Dr. Alan Cooper, who is
chairman of the Political Science
Department at St. Augustine’s Col
lege and a voice sharing concerns of
the African American community.
The Rev. H.B. Pickett, Jr., presi
dent of the Raleigh-Apex Branch of
the NAACP, said on Sept 18, the
Raleigh City Council demonstrated to
the citizens of Raleigh that it has lost
touch with reality by removing
Cooper.
Cooper also issued a statement
percent oi mose surveyea wuuiu vine
for Gantt and 42.7 percent for Helms.
Nine percent were undecided and 4.2
percent said they would vote foi
neither.
The results of President Bush’s
visit to Raleigh Wednesday to bolster
support and financial aid for Helms
remain unknown at this time. The
visit may net be as encouraging as
anticipated since Bush has major
problems stemming from the crisis ir
me reman uuu to me national
budget and the savings and loan
debacle.
Meanwhile, Gantt has gained the
endorsement of the North Carolna
Educators, representing some 42,000
teachers and other educators across
the state as well as supporters who
like his stance on environmental
issues.
“The NCAE feels very strongly
about Mr. Gantt’s candidacy. We
know he will be a strong voice for
education in the U.S. Senate. We are
prepared to invest the resources it
will take to get him elected,” said
NCAE President Julia Kron.
“I am absolutely delighted that
North Carolina's teachers and
educators have put their faith, as well
as their votes and their money, in my
campaign,” said Gantt. “Together,
we will retire one of the worst educa
tion records in the U.S. Senate and
send to Washington a voice for our
children.”
Gantt has made improving educa
tion in North Carolina a cornerstone
of his campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Among other things, he has called for
expansion of early childhood educa
tion programs so that children enter
the school system with a desire to
learn and an appreciation of the value
of an education. He also said that no
BfryV»nt who successfully completes
12 years of schooling should be denied
the opportunity to continue his or her
yftw.tinr' and training because of a
lack of money.
“The future of our nation will be
judged in the 21st century by how ufell
we can compete in the international
marketplace. That means we must
begin now to arm our children wi'h
the best possible education and train
ing,” he said. “The average job by
(see HARVEY GANTT P 2>
citing Crabtree Valley Mall emerging
as “the latest metaphor for racism in
Raleigh” (see page 4).
The NAACP statement read:
“During the Crabtree Valley mall
controversy, it was stated that some
of the present City Council members
do not believe that there is a problem
of racism in the City of Raleigh. II
there were not racism in Raleigh, the
Crabtree Valley Mall controversy
would not have developed. If there
were not racism in Raleigh, Afro
Americans would be better
represented in the administrative
positions for the City of Raleigh.
“By removing the chairman, it
seems as if some of the City Council
members have hid their heads in the
sand and sincerely believe that the
citizens of Raleigh will permit them
to keep the Crabtree Valley Mall
issue alive. This is mentioned
because Dr. Cooper, as head of the
commission, had just appointed a
steering committee of the commis
sion to tackle the charges of racism
surrounding Crabtree Valley Mall.
“A mistake in judgment was made
(See NAACP, P. 2)
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Next week, the Martin Luther King Memorial will be transformed
into an oasis of more than 5,000 trees, shrubbery and flowering
plants.
The botanical gardens project reportedly grew out of a desire of
the local King holiday planning committee to construct a permanent
memorial to the civil rights movement in the community.
Committee member and Raleigh Mayor Pro-Tern Ralph Camp
bell, Jr. stated, “Each year, as we celebrated the life and work of Dr.
King, it became very apparent that we needed to do more; Hie King
Gardens, now a reality, is a daily reminder for thousands of people to
how much the movement has impacted our society."
x Thursday. Oct. 18, at l a.m„ the committee will host its Tree and
Flower Planting Ceremony. James F. Goodmon, president of Capitol
Broadcasting Co., local clergy, city and county officials and civic
leaders will showcase the installation of the garden’s plants. Com
munity residents are invited to attend the ceremony. j
Bruce Ughtner, chairman of the King Committee, stated. “We’ve
worked hard during the past two years to get to this point. By the end
of next week everyone will bear witness to the most beautifuU public
park of its kind anywhere In the world. Jim Goodmon and the people
at Capitol Broadcasting, by donating the needed trees and plants, is
truly an example of being excellent corporate citixens to the com
munity.”
Also participating in the ceremony will be a class from Poe
Elementary School to present and plant 1M tulip bulbs which will
• (See KING MEMORIAL, P. 2)
More
Prisons
Planned
Johnson Urges
Vote On Bonds
BY AARON J. JOHNSON
Secretary, N.C. Department of Correction
An Analysis
When North Carolinians got
together and discuss the $200 million
prison construction bond referendum
on the Nov. 6 ballot, the question is
often asked, “Can we afford to spend
$200 million to build new prisons? 1
believe this is the wrong question to
be asked. What we should really be
asking ourselves is can we afford t o
not build new prisons? The events of
the past few years suggest that we
can’t.
The people of North Carolina have
already paid a high price because >f
past leaders' failure to maintain a
North Carolina’s
prison system has
been tragically reduc
ed to a revolving door
where an inmate must
be released for each
new admission into
prison. Prisoners are
now serving just a
fraction of their
sentences.
correctional system that is legally
defensible. I am not just referring (o
the money we have already speni on
construction, approximately $200
million for 5,500 prison beds in the
past five years. I am referring to the
hidden costs of neglect.
The lack of adequate prison capaci
ty has meant shorter prison terms for
criminals. Nor*h Carolina’s prison
system has been tragically reduced
to a revolving door where an inmate
must be released for each new admis
sion into prison. Criminals are now
serving just a fraction of their
original sentence, only 29 percent for
felons and 14 percent for misde
meanants. This translates to jus< is
months for the average felon and 40
days for the average misdemeanant
Knowing that prison overcrowding
pressures are likely to push them out
of prison, criminals are manipulai mg
the criminal justice system. They arc
(See PRISONS, P. 2)