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On Oct. 16, 1859, John
Brown raided Harper’s
Ferry. On Oct. 19, 1810
Kentucky aboljtionist
Cassius M. Clay was born.
October 20, 1898 was the
birthday for N.C. Mutual
Insurance Co. Bob Beamon
made a record long jump
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RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 49, NO. 93
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Community Urged To Support Cooper
Frwa CAROLINIAN Staff Report!
On the eve of his possible reappoint
ment to Raleigh’s Human Resources
and Human Relations Advisory Com
mission, Dr. Alan Cooper formerly its
chairman, is attracting support in
Raleigh’s African-American com
munity. But some leaders warn that
if Cooper is reappointed, the City
Council still has to answer for recent
actions that many view as destruc
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Education Key
In Elections,
Voter Process
teAulytta
The saying goes: “There’s a '
time for everything under the
sun.” It’s time Americans
become more concerned about
exercising their birthright - the
right to vote.
It’s been reported that some
foreign nationals come to the
United States solely to give birth
to their offspring because the
United States bestows citizenship
on anyone born in the United
States, regardless of why they
happened to be born here. You
can be sure they will vote.
Whether it's right or wrong to
bestow citizenship is Mtthe fesue
here. The issue is the need to
encourage and to educate voting
age Americans now about the
privilege of citizenship. A parson
is neither emancipated nor freed
when they do not have the
education to understand the vote
in their hands. The cost of
citizenship is high. A responsible
citizen must know the candidate
and the candidates’ position on
key issues in order that
government quality can improve,
thereby improvinag the quality if
life.
A citizen must be willing to
obey the laws, be willing to vote
for the necessary taxes required
to improve the quality of life
which is affected by our
environment, our housing, the
safety of our streets, and the
education being taught in our
(SeeEDUCATION KEY, P. 2)
Of Homes And Bandits
Mutual S&L CEO Challenges Students
presented an enlightening,
informative and challenging address
to bar money and banking -*
noon in the Amphitheatre
Boyer Building. Allis
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president and assistant secretary,
Mrs. Phyllis Clark, an alumna of St.
Augustine’s College.
Allison is not a typical banker, but
an activist and has been in the
savings and loan business for more
than as years. He was recently
elected as chairman o( the board of
directors of one of the most
successful minority' owned
associations in the country, Mutual
Savings and Loan of Durham. He has
served as president of the American
Leagues of Financial Institutions, a
national organisation of SAL'* for
minorities. He is a native of Emporia,
Va. and was graduated from
Institute with a BS in
and earned an MBA from
New York University.
The theme for the seminar was The
Savings and Loan Criais. Mr. Allison
commenced his presentation with
headlines from USA Today, January
I, 1M0 Savings Loan Rouges Still
Make Out Like Bandits" and the fact
that he owed it to the group to inform
them about what they have read. In
defense of the SAL industry, he stated
that it was one of the greatest, if not
the greatest institutions in the
USA/World serving a great purpose.
SAL’s promote the American Dream
* home ownership and setting aside
2* W*0* nest egg for a rainy day.
SALs are looking like banks
everyday, but they are not going to
lose the SAL touch.
George Bush became president and
inherited the problem and he made
the SAL problem a priority. He
estabUshodtbe Financial Institution
Reform and Recovery Act of 1989.
The percentage for bail out was over
ISO billion dollars. The price did not
include assessments on SAL’s and
FHLB operation and to some extent,
Indirectly, the commercial banks.
The components of the law were
capital requirements equal to banks,
limits on programs and operations
and strict enforcement/regulation. A
change in structure under FIRREA
resulted in the eliminations of the
FHLB Board and the FSLIC these are
FHL Banks in existence.
The new structure of the FIRREA
includes the Secretary of Treasury,
N. Braddy, in charge; the Resolution
Trust Corporation Oversight Board,
Office of the Thrift supervisor,
Resolution Trust Corporation and
FDIC William Seedman, enforcer
and an office comptroller.
F. V. Allison was recently credited
with an outstanding and noteworthy
merger by preventing the failure of
the American Federal Loan
Association of Greensboro, N. C. The
events of the merger commenced in
August, 1988 and were finalized in
June, 1990. The association remains
Mutual Savings and Loan Association
with Mr. F. V. Allison, Jr. as
chairman, president and CEO.
The American League of Financial
Institutions is a national association
of SAL for Minorities. It was
organised in 1948 by Mutual’s own
former Shag Stewart. It is composed
of 71 institutions, originally black
managed institutions, and today it
(See BANKING. P.2)
tive to human relations in the city.
Dr. Cooper, a_political science pro
fessor at St. Augustine’s College, was
unexpectedly removed from the com
mission by the City Council on Sept.
18. The concil action outraged‘many
members of the community, as well
as the commission, because Dr.
Q>oper had just started what many
viewed as a constructive process
toward resolution of the Crabtree
Valley Mall racial controversy.
Politics was seen as a key reason for
Dr. Cooper’s removal, though Mayor
Avery C. Upchurch and District E Ci
ty Councilmember Mary Cates
disagree.
After losing his seat to two other
nominated candidates, Dr. Cooper
was effectively voted off the commis
sion until last Tuesday. In another
surprise twist, the City Council was
itself caught off guard when District
C City Councilman Ralph Campbell,
Jr. announced that Cash Michaels,
local radio personality, was resigning
in order to create a vacancy for the
reappointment of Dr. Cooper. After
much debate, the council reluctantly
accepted the resignation, and tabled
the nomination of Dr. Cooper to the
commission until its Tuesday, Oct. 16,
meeting.
Because of his many years of com
munity service on key issues such as
the city’s divestment of South African
dealings and holdings, equal rights,
and Crabtree Valley Mall, organiza
tions from the NAACP to the Con
cerned Citizens for Educational Equi
ty have come out officially in support
of Cooper's reappointment, while
[See ALAN COOPER, P. 2)
Student Party
Raleigh Man Hurt In Shooting
Shot
Four
Times
According to police, Michael E.
Jackson, of 118 South St., Raleigh,
was in stable condition in an intensive
care unit at Wake Medical Center
with three bullet wounds in the chest
and one in a thigh, all from a small
caliber weapon, police said.
The 21-year-old Raleigh man was
ahefrfour tunes late Friday night
during an argument about a woman,
police said.
The shooting occurred at 723 S.
Person St. after a student party, ‘
police said.
The shooting was thought to have
stemmed from an argument between
Jackson and another man about a
dance with a woman.
No arrest has been made in the
shooting case.
In other news an Elizabeth City
woman who found it hard to care for
her severely retarded son has been
charged with suffocating the boy with
his own shirt and hiding his body in a
barn, police said.
Frances Joy Potts was charged
Thursday night with first degree
murder in the death of Jason Potts, 7,
Pasquotank County Sheriff Davis
Sawyer said.
Mrs. Potts was found in the locked
barn, eating raw cabbage and
(See CRIME. P. 2»
■$rssr .. .
from left, Hazel N. Dukes, President ef the NAACP, Bernard
Foster, Publisher of “The Skanner newspaper, Portland,
OR., and Betty Adams, President The Jackie Robinson
Foundation. The program provides college undergraduate
students with opportunities to work in a Congressional
Raleigh Planning Survey Update
Showing Need For Family Housing
Affordability continues to be the
major housing problem in Raleigh,
affecting one-third of the city’s
citizens. This is the conclusion of The
Raleigh Housing Study Update,
which was conducted by Cain Gressel
Midgley Slater, lnc. (CGMS).
The study, commissioned by the
City of Raleigh, confirmed that the
Raleigh housing market clearly fits
into the national housing pattern.
This housing pattern is defined by the
iw.u-year uuwniurn in me real esiaie
market, which has been prompted by
the federal government’s 10-year
absence from financial assistance in
low and moderate income housing,
the collapse of the savings and loan
industry,, which has reduced sharply
the major source of financing for new
residential development, and much
stricter lending criteria brought
about by flaws in recent loan lending
practices.
According to the Real Estate
Research Corporation, which
compiled data for the Raleigh
Housing Study Update, the Raleigh '
housing market “includes all of these
national factors, and has specific
economic and demographic factors
which indicate a current and
projected demand for low and
moderate income multi-family
housing.” The study predicts that
from 1990-1995, the Raleigh housing
market "will exhibit high housing
(See HOUSING, P.2)
Jackson Snubbed i
Following Visit
To Persian Gulf
BY FRANKLIN TATK
NNPA Nm Mrvic*
Rev. Jesse Jackson is finding It
hard lately to get media coverage of
his humanitarian efforts.
In an exclusive interview with the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association, while in a Washington
television studio, Jackson spoke can
didly about his frustration concerning
media exclusion of his newsworthy
activities.
Speaking in an almost depressed
sinus-plagued tone, Jackson initially
addrewed the snubbing of his televi
sion program, “The Jesse Jackson
Show,” which airs in national syn
dication this fall. His accounts of
(See JESSE JACKSON, P. 2)
NAACP
Pickets
Japanese
insults Stir
Black Protest
African-Americans, Japanese
Americans and others are uniting
from Little Tokyo to New York in pro
test of comments made by Japan's
justice minister equating blacks ■
prostitutes that are plaguing con , :
communities in Tokyo.
The National Association for he
Advancement of Colored People and
the National Coalition for Redress
and Reparations are picketing and
campaigning to bring the string of in
suits to a halt.
More than 200 persons joined in a
demonstration organized by be
NAACP at the Japanese embassy Iasi
week as the nation’s largest
rights organization began to imple
ment actions in protest of the
minister’s comments.
Seiroku Kajiyama made the
statements at a news conference
following the arrest of foreign pro
stitutes. Kajiyama implied that
blacks, like the prostitutes, ruin the
environment which they inhabit i in ■
Japan Justice Ministry later issued a
(See JAPANESE, P. 2)
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BY LARKY A. mu
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Promim-nt
African-American leaders
continued demonstrations in front ot
the White House to oppose more
United States aid to UNITA rebels in
Angola as the war-torn, southern
Africa country prepares for multi
party, democratic elections similar
to those demanded in nearby racist
South Africa and recently
“liberated” Namibia.
As Jonas, Savimbi, the long-time,
American supported leader of the
UNITA rebels, met with President
George Bush, Trans-Africa executive
director Randal Robinson.
Congressional BLack Caucus
chairman Ron Dellums (D—CA) and
Rev. Jesse Jackson joined protestors
in Lafayette Park across the street
and at the Hay-Adams Hotel and
National Press Club nearby.
“Congress is being asked to send
another $60 million or more to fund
Savimbi’s war in Angola,” said
Robinson, who visited Angola which
borders South Africa, last year. “Bui
If ever there was a good reason for
this covert (undercover) aid to
Savimbi, it has long since
disappeared,” he continued.
“The Angolan government has
agreed to multi-party elections and to
end Soviet (Union) military aid. if
UNITA will end U. S. aid, and is
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 21
INSIDE
AFRICA