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AMPHITHEATRE (Continued from page 1) million, 20,000-seat outdoor perfor mance center in Raleigh. Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Consolidated, Miller Brewing Co., and the News and Observer have joined a growing list of companies that will be affiliated with the new outdoor concert venue during its inaugural season. Rogers said Hardee’s Walnut Creek welcomes the involvement of these companies. “We are very pleased with the level of enthusiasm within the local business community. Clear ly, these companies are showing their support for music and performing arts in the Triangle,” Rogers said. Sony Music/PACE is overseeing development at the 77-acre site, scheduled to open in July. The am phitheatre features seating for 7,000 in an open-air pavilion, plus space for 13,000 on the general admission festival lawn under the stars. James E. Bailey, director of adver tising and sales promotion, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, said that his company is committed to further ing the relationship between Coca Cola and PACE that has formed at other PACE venues across the coun try. “Certainly, the exposure is good for us. But more significantly, sup porting this amphitheatre offers us a way to give back to the community.” “Miller Brewing Co. is proud to be associated with Sony Music and PACE at this exciting new entertain ment facility in Raleigh,” said Michael J. Samuels, regional sales and marketing planner. “Walnut Creek will be a big success and a benefit to the people of central and eastern North Carolina.” Michael Highsmith, fine wines sales manager, Mims Distributing Co., Raleigh, said the entertainment at Hardee’s Walnut Creek will put the Triangle on the map as a leading cultural center in the United States. “We don’t have to play second fiddle to anyone any more,” he said. Mims is the local distributor for Miller Beer. Butch Robertson, promotions manager, News and Observer, said the amphitheatre project is the big gest entertainment news to hit Raleigh in years. “We couldn’t ask for a more exciting kickoff to the summer of ’91.1 can’t wait to be stret ched out on that lawn, listening to music under the stars.” Hardee’s Walnut Creek Am phitheatre is located outside the Beltline and 1-40 in Raleigh’s new Walnut Creek Park. The main en trance is situated near the intersec tion of Sunnybrook and Rock Quarry roads. ATHLETES (Continued from page 1) taches to its scholarships. Some of the athletes, most of them football and tennis players, have retained an attorney. Auditors are at the school on a routine annual audit, and of ficials at the State Auditor’s Of fice said one part of the review will be athletic scholarships. State auditors in 1988 and again in 1989 have noted deficiencies in athletic scholarships while per forming full-scale audits that criticized the entire school's record keeping. C.D. Spangler, Jr., president of the University of North Carolina system, directed N.C. Central leaders to investigate the allega tions. Spangler said he would talk to Richmond and “ask him to look into the matter.” “Any time any student feels that there is something wrong witht he way that student is being treated by our university, then that merits consideration,” Spangler said. “The chancellor has the responsibility to handle matters like this. I’m going to ask him to take a look and then talk to me.” Ralph Wenzell, an assistant football coach who was dismissed after last season along with head coach Henry C. Lattimere, said the school signed only about five players for nest fall about half the normal number. The assistant conches knew the scholarship agreements were unlikely to be honored, Wenzell said. “I couldn’t look them in the aye and promise them anything,” Wenzell said. “It’s a struggle for _ these kids. They can’t pre-* register. Then they can’t get the classes they need.” Tyrone Ross, a senior defen sive end from Carthage, was pro mised a tali scholarship when he came to NCCU. He said he got all his money the first three years, but he said that this year the athletic department has not ap proved 621 of his hill. CHURCHES (Continued from page 1) help of the “father of deprogramm ing,” Ted Patrick. Theoretically, the purpose of deprogramming is to strip a person in a possibly destructive or oppressive religion, and get the person to think logically about their religious choices and the sometimes extravagant sacrifices cult members make for the sake of their religion. In the past cult members targeted by CAN have severed all ties with family members, sold all their property and given the proceeds to their religious leader and even submitted sexually to the leader’s whims. Wende Potter, a recent deprogram ming target, told of a harrowing ex perience with deprogramming and her eventual escape. Potter, a Hamp ton University graduate, a runner-up in the 1987 Miss Black USA contest, and the first black deprogramming target, said after her graduation in May 1968, she became involved with the New Dawn Family Ministries in Virginia Beach, Va. E. Maxine Givner is the pastor of New Dawn Family Ministries. On Nov. 21,1968, while visiting her father in Boston, Wende was accosted by Cult Awareness Network members. Potter said she was sub jected to a barrage of verbal and physical attacks during a three-day period. She eventually escaped. “During the time I was there, I was not allowed to read a Bible and I couldn’t even go to the bathroom alone,” she siad. “It was a very nightmarish time in my life, and even now I’m worried that they may try avgain.” St. Jude Tabernacle Church patsor, Dr. Jakie Roberts, said although in the past targets of deprogramming attempts have been white, the focus has staffed to more affluent blacks. “The Constitution’s First Amend ment guarantees every church, denomination and religious group equal treatment under the law," Paige said. “Yet some groups would set themselves up as an arbiter of what constitutes good religion. Past and present American experience points to the existence of hate groups who would deny minorities their rights. The Ku Klux Klan, well known for attitudes and actions of racial in tolerance, is such a group.” INSIDE AFRICA (Continued from page 1) is responsible for these senseless kill ings of blacks by blacks. President de Klerk and his Afrikaner Nationalist Party are responsible. They create , and run the hostels in and around Johannesburg, as well as the Ban tus tan concentration camps. Last year, de Klerk dragged Mandela out of jail, promising to cooperate with him both to end apartheid and to democratize South Africa. But neither of these two objectives has been achieved! Despite the fact that de Klerk has his electorate’s man date, he has not effected change. Meanwhile, Buthelezi and Mandela fight alone to demolish the apartheid mania, and to democratize South Africa... But de Klerk keeps on hurl ing spanners into Buthelezi’s and Mandela’s democratization machine’s wheel. End apartheid today: and there will be no apartheid and genocide of black-on-black faction fights tomor row... And without apartheid, Mandela, Buthelezi, ANC, Inkatha, PAC and others will have nothing to fight about, or cause them to fight. Once more, we appeal to mankind to torpedo apartheid—not its victims. Torpedo white domination and not the struggling victims of the ugly racist state. De Klerk must maintain law and order or abdicate. Mandela and Buthelezi are not empowered to do so. They have no machinery for maintenance of law and order. Besides, it is crystal-clear that neither Buthelezi nor Mandela has authority over the thugs who perpetuate the faction fights. The thugs are legal inmates in de Klerk’s hostels and Bantus tans. De Klerk must end apartheid, and peace will follow. De Klerk must desist from quibbling with his endless “preconditions” for the start of black-white negotiations. He must immediately embark on the early democratization of South Africa, which PAC, ANC and Inkatha are fighting to attain. World! Don’t torpedo the African victims of apartheid! Instead, turn your anger and torpedo the evil system of apartheid. RIGHTS BILL (Continued from page 1) Three RepuDiicans on the Judiciary Committee crossed over to vote with the solid Democratic majority in favor of the bill. They were the ranking Republican, Rep. Hamilton Fish, Jr. of New York, and Reps. Tom Campbell of California and Steven Schiff of New Mexico. The bill would roll back 6 Supreme Court decisions in 1989 that opponents say have made it more difficult to bring job discrimination cases against employers. It also would broaden the rights of women to sue over sex discrimination* and harassment, putting their rights on the same legal footing as race bias cases. Opponents in the committee repeated Bush’s contention that the bill would prompt employers to use quotas in hiring and promotion - a charge sponsors deny. The bill passed by large majorities in the House and Senate last year, but supporters were short of the two thirds majority needed to override Bush’s veto. Sponsors have focused their efforts this year on gaining that added margin, and have sought to broaden support by emphasising the bill’s benefits to women. Among major differences between the Democratic and administration bills, the Democratic measure would allow women to be awarded unlimited monetary damages in sex discrimination cases, while the administration would allow damages only up to $150,000, and only in cases of sexual harassment rather than all intentional discrimination cases. DR. JENIFER (Continued from page 1) in 1965, both in microbiology. He later earned a Ph.D. in plant virology from the University of Maryland in 1970. Prior to being chancellor of the Massachusetts system, he was vice chancellor of the New Jersey Depart ment of Higher Education from 1979-86 and associate provost at Rutgers University’s Newark cam pus from 1977-79. He was a member of the faculty at Rutgers from 1970-77, starting as assistant professor and working his way to becoming chairperson of the biology depart ment. He also was chairperson of the University Senate there from 1976 to 1977. Dr. Jenifer and his wife Alfleda live in Northwest Washington adn are the parents of three adult children. Howard University is a private, comprehensive research university with a predominantly black consti tuency. It enrolls approximately 12,000 students annually in its 18 schools and colleges, which include professional degree programs in den tistry, law and medicine. AT&T Tells Of Customer Savings On Equipment ATLANTA, Ga —AT&T last week announced that North Carolina customers can purchase a cordless telephone, an answering machine or a combination phone/answering machine at discounts based on the customers’ monthly AT&T long distance charges. Called “AT&T Quality Connections,” the program allows customers to pay for the products in 12 monthly installments on their long distance bills with no finance charge. Depending on a customer’s mon thly long-distance charges, the three products will be discounted up to 25 percent. Callers who now have or who sign up for AT&T’s Reach Out America calling plan can earn dis counts of up to 40 percent. The AT&T 5325 Cordless Phone, priced at $179.88, the AT&T In tegrated Answering System, a com bination telephone and answering system, priced at $159.96; and the AT&T 1125 Answering System, priced at $129.96, are offered through the program, which also features a 30-day in-home trial. “The beauty of this plan is that it of fers consumers shopping conve nience, price savings and an install ment plan in one neat package,” said Jim Shannon, manager of the AT&T Quality Connections porogram. To participate in the Quality Con nections program, customers can call 1-800-242-1003, Monday through Fri day between 9 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., or write to AT&T Quality Connections Program, P.O. Box 800, New York, N.Y. 10102-1082. Quality Connections is unavailable in some areas served by small in dependent telephone companies. Customers may call the toll-free 800 number to see if the program is available to them. Tto CAROUMAN MUt| C*. he. 599117291 ill t KWh Stmt flaw*. Marik CaraOa 77M1 KWhs PA Bn 2S3M Mai* Bar* Cmha Dili SacsM dan PaMafa N4 at Mri|N Nar* Caraha 27911 USP0 40973 PUMHMHISBNMMEEKLV smamm turns OmXmi. .931.00 fm W0«n wnch aatfy TW CAROUMAN. PA Bn 2S3HL Mai* NX. 27911. r WlLLIAMSTON WHISTLINGS BY JOYCE GRAY WILLIAMSTON-A happy belated birthday greeting to Ms. Nonnie Smallwood. Somehow, she forgot to tell yours truly and so, she was accus ed of trying to keep the big day a secret. One of her proud sons stated she was so proud to see 72 that she went out—celebrating. When remind ed that some women refuse to speak of “numbers,” he jested, “Zip it,” but, I do know she’s thankful to be here to day. Birthday greetings to Ms. Pocahon tas Evans, Clinton C. Jones, II, Lu cien Alphonza Lewis. Wedding anniversary greetings to Mr. and Mrs. William H. Manson. The North Carolina Black Leader ship Caucus met on March 23 in the Boyer Building, St. Augustine’s Col lege, Raleigh. On the agenda were redistricting, caucus constitution (proposal changes), district and county constitutions and 1991-92 goals and objectives. Elijah “Pete” Peter son is chairman. i Time will be on the Martin County Branch, NAACP, for election of delegates to the national convention Sunday, April 14. The 3 p.m. regular meeting will be held at Green Memorial Church, East Main Street, Williamston. No alternates will be elected until all delegate slots are fill ed. Anyone desiring to join the membership rolls may do so at this meeting, which is open to the general public. - All Youth Council members are re quested to meet with the adults, thereby having a joint meeting to deal with both units’ assessment fee, Freedom Fund and Youth con testants for 1991. Parents and grand parents are urged to show their sup port with their presence at this time. On the sick and shut-in list: Ms. Betty S. Lanier, Robert Lee Barnes, Ms. Rachel H. Lyons, Ms. Grace P. Smithwick, Alton Bell, Ms. Marie Biggs, Ms. Daisy H. Biggs, Ms. Mam mie Keyes, Joe Biggs, Ms. Roxie West, Jesse Bell, Ms. Hattie Spell, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hyman, Ms. Armaza C. Roberson, Frederick Ben nett, Ms. Zara Chance, Ms. Christine Council, Mr. and Mrs. Earnhart Win borne, Ms. Mattie H. Perry, George Anthony Perry, Robert Jones, William A. Lanier, Calvin Rodgers, James Rodgers (Harrell Street), Ms. Ophelia Peele. Reported doing well now is Ms. Ida J. Rodgers. Back toward a normal schedule is Ms. Gladys Duggins. In the hospital at this writing is Samuel Lee. At home ill is Jesse Lee. Roper’s sick: Ms. CHarise W. Jones and Rudolph Wilkins. In Plymouth, Ms. Pauline Brown. Ms. Esther Roberts in the rest home. Is there joy in retirement? Ap parently Ms. Alice (“Marie” to some) Roberts was so excited that she forgot to requets a change in the place of delivering her copy of The CAROLINIAN. For sure, there must be some pleasure in not having to watch the time for signing the time card. Loyaan Egal of Hollis, N.Y., was on a tour this weekend in North Carolina. He is interested in atten ding Duke University. Expressions of sympathy are ex tended to the family of the late Johnny “Shortie” Lawrence, Sr., who expired Tuesday, March 21. Also to the family of the late Robert Crowe, Everetts, a barber by profession who also passed on March 21. Crowe had been in declining health since the passing of his wife nearly two years ago. Funeral services were conducted for Mr. Lawrence on Monday, March 25, at Mt. Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Williamston, with Elder James Taylor officiating. Services were entrusted to Smith Community Funeral Home and internment was in the Smith Memorial Gardens in Williamston. Fred Howard retired March 24 as the pianist at Chapel Hill Baptist Church. He had been giving his ser vices to the church for the past 41 years. Tears came down his face as honor was paid to him by the choir president, Ms. Hattie Rogers. Pastor T.R. Vines stated that “giv ing flowers now” while Howard was among the living was his belief and so, it was echoed by Howard, who then became emotional, especially when remarks were made by others paying tribute related to the yean of hard times, and pointed to his steadfast faithfulness all during those yean. One could appreciate the smooth touch when he played some of the old favorites during the worship service. Announcing his divorce is Jerome W. Aikens, Route 1, Williamston. Seems it became final Thursday, March 21, in the Martin County Court. Aikens had been married to Ms. Estelle Jackson, formerly of Rober sonville. Accused pi not making public their meeting and agenda were the Martin County Board of Commissionen at their March 20 meeting. Charles Campbell, speaking on behalf of stockholders in the Holiday Inn and Comfort Inn Motel against a tax on room occupancy at all Martin County motels, was outnumbered by those who favor such a tax. The tax would by and large finance the operation of the newly organized Travel and Tourism Commission. Campbell had shared the facts of the motel losses and highest peak of profit at the March 4 meeting along ■ with other motel representatives. However, the commissioners did not appear to have changed opinions one iota. Another group who left the meeting without broad smiles on their faces were the stockholders in the Cotton Gin soon to be located in Everetts. This group anticipates cotton becom ing queen of the farm market again in the very near future. For the first time witnessing the meeting room with every chair oc cupied, a sudden thought flashed into mind—a political game in full force in Martin County, much better than the idiot box whose commercials always break into the climax. But to be sure, we’re going to pay, one way or another, if the tourists come when the four-lane is com pleted. We’re going to pay, especially the middle class, because of those changes projected in the Social Ser vice Department, the housing of the Travel and Tourism Commission, the Little League ball team, the renova tion of Moratac Park building, plus a few others things, which have just gotta be taken care of. Cedar Hill Baptist Church will visit and render service at Cedar Hill Bap tist Church on Sunday, April 2, at 4 p.m. Rev. F.C. Mitchell, pastor of Cedar Hill, will be speaking. The pro gram is sponsored by the Sunday School Department. No one without a ticket will be ad mitted to the United Fellowship Ban quet scheduled to be held in Williamston High School. Tickets were on sale starting in December 1990. t A few comments have been receiv ed complimenting the youth on the “Who Am 1“ program. Everyone pre sent seemed to be very surprised over the fact that Ms. Elizabeth Scott has become so mature within the put year. Her presentation was well plan ned and timely. One could see none of the shyness displayed four years ago. Keep up the good work, young lady, please! You will certainly be an asset to some organization one day in the near future. Thank God for persons with com passion within their heart. Such wu the case last week when someone became very concerned that Ms. Lucy Perry Brown did not respond to her telephone calls. Someone called Carolina Telephone Company whose representative came, checked the phone, than went beyond that point by calling a relative of Ms. Brown who took steps to see that she got medical help immediate ly. Whoever you are, Mr. Carolina Telephone repairman, it is good to know there are folk around still who care, and go forward in showing that care. On the belated happy birthday greeting list also are George T. Hyman, Carl Highsmith, Ms. Roberta G. James, and Rev. Leroy Outter bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Nichols, Philadelphia, Pa., came into town last weekend to visit his and her relatives. They were also celebrating a wedding anniversary, the 36th, in fact. Some folk looked forward to the big day in Jamesville on Easter Sunday. Eighteen years ago it was just a “cookout day” for Hood Temple AME Zion to raise some funds, then a need to build Williams Community Center was pressing, so club members ac tive at that time went to Jamesville, too, and called it a herring festival. It’s Jamesville’s biggest event now. Doughnuts were being sold about Williamston and in parts of Jamesville last Saturday by some 4-H Club members. Black Producers Fight To Nix TV Network Re-runs WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-Black producers are “fitting for our lives” in the battle to keep networks out of the TV rerun business, producer and entertainer Quincy Jones said last week. Without the federal limits on net work ownership of programs and rerun rights, black producers “won’t be able to survive financially or creatively,” Jones said in a telephone interview from his home in Los Angeles. Jones and 43 other black producers wrote to the Federal Communica tions Commission March 20 asking that the panel keep the 20-year-old restrictions in place. The rules have “made it possible for minority producers to aspire to and, hopefully, to achieve a level of creative and entrepreneurial oppor tunity and growth which might other wise be withheld from us,” the letter said. In addition to Jones, it was signed by actor and producer Robert Guillaume, who became popular as the star of the TV show “Benson;” Thomas Carter, producer of ABC-TV’s “Equal Justice;” and 41 others. Meanwhile, the three major net works apparently are trying to privately settle the bitter dispute over the $5 billion rerun business. In a March 18 letter to Commis sioner Ervin Duggan, three top net work executives said they are “seek ing formal or informal discussions with many of the parties involved.” The FCC is considering whether to keep its Financial Interest and Syn dication Rules, also known as Fin Syn, which prohibit the networks from owning most of their prime-time entertainment programs or holding the rerun rights. The networks, with backing from the Bush administration, want the FCC to discard the rules. However, a coalition of more than 200 studios, in dependent producers and indepen dent TV stations have campaigned to keep the restraints. The commission was to have decid ed the matter by the middle of the month, but commission Chairman Alfred Sikes removed it from the agenda after the Justice Department asked for extra time to study an nth hour proposal from Commissioner Andrew Barrett. Barrett and two other commis sioners—SherTie Marshall and Ervin Duggan, reportedly favor keeping the rules, with some changes. Sikes and James Quello have sided with the net works. Jones said it’s taken a long time for black producers to gain a foothold in the television Industry and survival would be impossible without the rules. “We’re fighting for our lives out here," he said. Jones, a Grammy Award-winning recoding artist, produced the Steven Spielberg-directed movie “The Color Purple” and made his debut as a television producer with the NBC-TV comedy “Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” a joint venture with Time Warner. The Fin-Syn rules were pro mulgated when ABC, CBS and NBC dominated television. The Bush ad ministration and some analysts have argued that the rules are outmoded in the face of competitive pressues from cable, videocassette rentals and in dependent TV stations. The prime-time audience share of the three major networks has declin ed from about 95 percent in 1970 to about 60 percent today. It said the networks are trying to set up the meetings with the five ma jor studios—Warner, Paramount, Universal, Disney and Colum bia—and independent producers and would be “exploring with than the proposals now pending before the commission, in order to see whether common ground can be found.” Alysse Cullinan Receives Monies Study At UNC-G Alysse Kristin Cullinan of Raleigh has been selected to receive an Alum ni Scholarship for studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro this fall. Cullinan is the daughter of Douglas and Sharon Cullinan of 7904 Haymarket Lane, Raleigh, and a senior at Enloe High School. She in tends to major in English and her career objective is journalism. The Alumni Scholarship winners were announced last week as part of the UNCG Competitive Awards Pro gram. The Alumni Awards Program at UNCG is funded by contributions from alumni and friends of the in stitution through the university’s An nual Program. At her school, Cullinan has served as business manager, news editor and editor-in-chief for Eagle’s Eye, the student newspaper. She has played on the volleyball team since her sophomore year. She is a senior representative to the Enloe Ex ecutive Council. Cullinan attended Tar Heel Girls State at UNCG during her junior year. She is a charter member of the Wake County Afrocen tric Curriculum Committee. She helped produce the Enloe Dinner Theatre, in which Enloe students prepared and served a meal and then performed at area homeless shelters. The Alumni Scholarship awarded to Cullinan is worth $2,500 per year. The scholarships are renewable for up to three additional years of undergraduate study.
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