TUESDA Y
JAMAICA HONORS MARLEY
Reggae musician, Marley will be honored
this spring in a series of worldwide
celebrations.
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NCCU ORATOR SAYS READ
Dr. Helen G. Edmonds tells students to read
authors like Maya Angelou.
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graduate
— -ad States
Military Academy at West
Point (1877). John H.
Alexander became the
second. In the classes of
(See THIS WEEK. P.2)
The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 50, NO. 51
TUESDAY
MAY 21,1991
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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Redistricting
Should Follow Basic,
Nonpartisan
Rules With Fair
Play
The Wake County Republican
Party said the tremendous growth in
the 1970s accelerated in the 1980s is
evidenced by the 1990 Census.
‘‘This growth mandates not only
redistricting for an increased
population in accordance with the
‘one person, one vote’ principle, but it
mandates redistricting criteria
appropriate for a changed and
changing population."
In 1989 the Republican Party made
a presentation to the Wake County
Commissioners and requested them
to study a proposed unified system fof
electing county commissioners and
school board members,, which
would have had six single-member
districts and three at-large or paired
district positions for each of those
boards.
John Hood of Carolina Issues in a
report on redistricting said we should
draw the line where it follows basic,
nonpartisan rules of fairness. On
June 4, the Raleigh City Council will
hold a public hearing on redistricting
for council members.
While the quest for black-majority
districts may overshadow all other
(See REDISTRICTING, P. 2)
Court Males Parents
Most Wanted
Poster Aids
Child Care
BY DAVID FLAHERTY
In North Carolina, a quarter of a
million children depend cm and
child support. Unfortunately, only 61
percent of the payments ordered by
the courts are being made. That
leaves nearly' 40 percent of the
absent parents not “doing the right
thing” by providing the monetary
support their kids need.
Who pays the price when a parent
leaves home and refuses to pay child
support? Unless that parent can be
located, we all do. These absent
parents owe a substantial amount of
money. In fiscal year 1990, more than
$118 million in child support
payments were collected through the
efforts of our Child Support
Enforcement Program. That was the
amount collected—there were other
parents still out there shirking their
duty to their kids.
We are not going to let them get
away with it. Legislation supported
by Gov. Jim Martin and passed by the
1986 General Assembly authorized
the use of administrative income
withholding, which automatically
garnishes wages of delinquent
parents when support payments fall
behind more than 30 days.
That law was strengthened in 1989
to authorize immediate withholding
from an absent parent’s paycheck. In
1990, more than 42,000 withholding
ations were taken by local child
support agencies.
In September 1990, DHR unveiled
its “Ten Most Wanted” poster to help
locate absent parents who fail to pay
child support as mandated by the
courts. This project had a twofold
effect on our child support collection
(See CHILD SUPPORT, P. 2)
NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM - Larry Lunsford
purchased tMi 4-bedroom Roma M Apox lor 938.000 with
financing provhfod by Wachovia’s Notghborhood
Revitalization Program. Lunsford saM Ms house paymaal
is $368 a month. V:
COMMUNITY FORUM - hi this climate of increased
local and national focus on the Issue of poHco abuse and
other problems, Raleigh's first forum attracted various
organizations from Kress tbs county lost week in a spirit
of African-American unity. The forum, hold at Davie Street
United Presbyterian Church, allowed organizations and
individual! to discuss mutual concerns and to hoar Rev.
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., executive director of the
United Church of Christ’s Commission For Racial Justice,
pictured right center, who received several standing
ovations for his message. (Photo J. Giles)
BY DENA BOYETTE HEIGHT
Special To The CAROLINIAN
It is every parent’s nightmare for
his child to be involved in an accident,
especially one which has a serious
outcome, but for William Thomas of
Youngsville, his son’s accident was
an especially hard one to deal with.
Thomas’jinn, Ray, was involved in
a near-fatal wreck five years ago in
Youngsville. The wreck left him with
severe brain damage, and there was
no nursing home-type center located
nearby to see to Ray's needs, said
Thomas. It was hard enough to see
his son go through such an awful
ordeal, but to have him sent hundreds
of miles away just added to the hurt.
Ray, who was 22 at the time of the
wreck, was originally sent to
Pennsylvania for rehabilitation,
where he remained in a semi-coma
for three years. From Pennsylvania,
he was sent to Mountain View Manor
in Bryson City, near Asheville.
Even though the move was a little
(See HOMECOMING, P. 2)
Followers May
Further Divide
Party In 1992
Jesse Jackson, who made a run
for the Democratic presidential
nomination during the last
national election, has been
shunned by the Democratic
Leadership Council and was not
included among the speakers
scheduled to appear before the
DLC when it holds its first
national convention in Cleveland,
Ohio this month.
The Democratic Leadership
Council was formed to prevent
fragmentation within the
Democratic Part by House
Majority Whip William W. Gray,
»IU U>-Pa.\ wfco-ia the hi ghes t
ranking African-American on
Capitol Hill.
A two-time presi
dential candidate for
the party’s
nomination, Jackson
has a large black
constituency that
could well bolt the
party in 1992.
Gray, in a statement to the
Atlanta Journal/Constitution,
criticized the action by the DLC,
saying, “The DLC was formed as
an inclusive organization to bring
together the many voices of the
Democratic Party. I hope that its
leadership won’t let it fall prey to
the ills It was designed to cure."
White Democratic Party
leaders, including Rep. Richard
Gephardt, Sen. Albert Gore, and
former Sen. Paul Tsongas, were
invited to speak, along with black
Democratic Gov. Douglas
Wilder, Democratic National
Committee chairman Ron
Brown, and Rep. Gray, hut
Jackson, a two-time presidential
candidate for the party’s
nomination, was only asked to
attend.
It was noted by some members
of the DLC that Jackson has a
large black constituency that
could well bolt the party.
Along with Jackson, the DLC
declined to invite former Sen.
George McGovern to speak.
McGovern is seriously
considering running for the
presidency in 1992.
The snub of Jackson, who is
making strides in D.C. politics as
shadow senator, and McGovern,
nominated several years back,
may further divide the
Democratic Party in 1992.
Inside Africa
Western
Europe
Betrayed
Black Africa
BV DANIEL MAROLEN
The decisions being made in
Luxembourg by western European
countries to liftk the economic
sanctions imposed on South Africa
are a gross travesty of justice and a
heinous betrayal to the struggling
oppressed and politically deprived
South African people of the country,
especially to Nelson Jgandela whose
campaign for ending apartheid was a
great success in America. “
“Keep the pressure on apartheid,”
cried Mandela during that historic
tour and everywhere else. “Don’t lift
the economic sanctions against
apartheid, because it is they who led
to my release and that of other
political prisoners." Mandela
demanded that sanctions should
remain in place until there was
profound and irreversible change,
and apartheid was a thing of the past.
Those loud and clear statements
are still resounding around the globe.
They were received everywhere with
deafening and spontaneous applause
and unanimous standing ovations at
the General Assembly of the United
Nations, at the J.F. Kennedy Center
in Washington, in Great Britain’s
House of Lords, in the Swedish
parliament in Stockholm, in the
Indian parliament in New Delhi, all
over Africa and in Southeast Asia.
All the time the world was ready to
go the whole way with Nelson
Mandela to end apartheid...
But now comes this shocking
betrayal of the freedom cause of 28
million Africans of South Africa, who
have been held down by abject
slavery of apartheid, a system which
has long defied world opposition and
solution!
i See INSIDE AFRICA. P. 2)
Lee Monroe Tapped
For Trustee Board
MIAMI, Fla. —Dr. Lw Everett Monroe, a native of Wilmington
and president of Florida MemorialCollege in Miami, Fla., has been
appointed to the board of trustees of the University of Miami.
The announcement was made recently by Edward “Tad" Foote,
president of the University of Miami.
“We are delighted to have President Monroe Join the University of
Miami Board Of Trustees." Foote said. "The university will be well
served by his years Of varied experience and his solid background as
a respected educator.”
Monroe has been president of Florida Memorial College since
March MM. Prior to that, be served as a senior education advisor to
James G. Martin, governor of North Carolina. In that position.
Monroe advised the governor on all aspects of education, including
the University of North Carolina system, the state Department of
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