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This Week
In 1938, Charles W
Washington was appointed
Director of the John C.
Stennis Institute of
Government at Mississippi
State University, named
after the former U.S.
(See THIS WEEK. P.7)
RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 50, NO. 55
TUESDAY
JUNE 4,1991
N. C. ’s Semi-Weekly
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GOP Wants Wake Black Senate District
No African-American has been
elected to the North Carolina state
Senate in recent years from Wake
County. TTiat could change, say Wake
County Republicans, if their
proposals for a black state Senate
district are adopted by the North
Carolina General Assembly.
Some Wake Republicans are
proposing that a black state Senate
district be created that would include
parts of Wake, Harnett and
Cumberland counties. In effect, the
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
NNP8 New* Service
It’s most saddening to report that
the minority Afrikaner rulers of
South Africa have refused—utterly
refused—to budge from their
brainchild, apartheid. It is equally
painful to watch apartheid continue
its course of existence despite the
world’s furor and opposition to it.
And, worst of all, it is most
anguishing to behold apartheid
develop to what the world has always
feared it would one day become—a
genocide. United Nations and
democracy, beware!
When the very leaders to whom the
world looked for help to save South
Africa from destroying itself begin to
speak as they are doing these
days—Nelson Mandela and F.W. de
Klerk—it becomes crystal clear that
apartheid is at its pinnacle of success,
destabilizing and disintegrating the
beautiful and mineral-rich country...
It is, indeed, shocking to hear
President de Klerk squirm to
mankind that South Africa is at the
brink of a colossal civil war. And it is
equally heartening to hear ANC
leader Nelson Mandela threaten to
withdraw from the black-white
negotiations that were planned for
ending the extremely racist scourge
of apartheid and introducing a non
racial and democratic system of
government in South Africa.
Indeed, South Africa is truly at a
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
proposed black state Senate district
would extend from South Raleigh to
Fayetteville. The proposed district
would include Southeast Raleigh
precincts 19,20,21, 22,26, 27,28,34,35
and 40 along with Swift Creek
precincts l and 3 as well as the Holly
Springs Township in Southeastern
Wake County. The new state Senate
seat would have 58,001 residents from
Wake County, of which 38,222 (66
percent) would be African-American.
Harnett County would contribute
13,635 residents to the proposed new
district, of which 4,303 ( 32 percent)
would be African-American.
Cumberland County, which like Wake
and Harnett counties has no black
incumbent state Senators, would
contribute 60,852 residents to the new
district, of which 31,769 ( 52.2 percent)
would be African-American. Unlike
Wake County, Cumberland County is
covered by the federal Voting Rights
Act.
Overall, the district proposed by
Republicans would be 56 percent
African-American.
State Rep. Art Pope (R-Wake) has
indicated that he will support
proposals by Republican state Sen.
Leo Daughtry of Johnston County
that the General Assembly adopt the
new black state Senate district along
with eight other minority state Senate
seats across the state.
At present, all of the Wake County
precincts proposed for the new black
state Senate district are included in
State Senate District 14 which
includes Harnett and Lee counties
and elects three state Senators. Two
of the state Senators elected from
Senate District 14 live in Wake
County. Sen. Joe Johnson and Sen.
J.K. Sherron live in the Hayes-Barton
and Carolina Country Club areas of
West Raleigh approximately 2.14
miles apart. The other state Senator
from Senate District 14 is Bill Staton,
(See SENATE PLAN, P. 2)
Appeal To
Business
Community
President George Bush said last
week that Democratic promises to
outlaw quotas in new civil rights
legislation amount to “strictly
cosmetic” changes to a bill much like
the one he vetoed last year.
Bush complained that the
Democrats had produced “no bill, no
exact language” to accompany their
announcement that they would
handle the quota issue strictly
barring the practice of using quotas
in hiring of women and minorities.
“As far as our experts can tell,
some of this is highly technical, the
changes that they are proposing are
strictly cosmetic. I do not want to
veto another bill with the name civil
rights on it,” he added.
But he gave a clear signal that he is
prepared to veto the Democratic
sponsored legislation as he did last
year, because he contends it would
force employers to utilize quotas in
order to avoid lawsuits.
Bush also complained that he never
hears any discussion in the
newspapers of his own rival civil
rights proposal, which was defeated
in a House committee. Republicans
hope to bring it up as a substitute bill
(See RIGHTS BILL, P.2)
LETS TALK-Educator, Frank Roberts Is saan data with
guests In tbs WLLE Radio studios during his two-hour
show “Lof s Talk” from 7-9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday
which takas on various issuos and lively discussions from
glints Mi tUpNwn cedars. Recently Ms topic has been
“Kceentsbilty” tram elected officials, which has taken on
CMtrevorsial dimensions impacting on the community and
politics.
Homeless persons, low-income
residents, and other concerned North
Carolinians will converge on Raleigh
June 4-5 to sleep out for low-income
housimt. Thev intend to show
legislators and policymakers that
citizens are concerned about the
housing crisis confronting the state’s
low-income families. Participants
will demand that lawmakers make
Drug Trafficking Activities
Four Indicted For Money Laundering
U.s. Attorney Margaret Person
Currin announced recently that a
federal grand jury sitting here has
indicted four area residents on
charges of money laundering and
structuring financial transactions to
avoid federal reporting
requirements.
According to the five-count
indictment, Phillip Chestnut
McLamb, Thomas Page Cheek,
Mavan Luther Stallings, aka Bill
Stallings, and William Harry Godwin
conspired to launder the proceeds of
drug trafficking and to structure
financial transactions to avoid
federal reporting requirements
during the period of Jan. 1, 1990 to
Aug. 3,1990.
McLamb, 50, of 509 Rosewood
Drive, Smithfield, and owner of
Johnston County Motorcars, Inc.,
d/b/a Smithfield Ford-Lincoln
Mercury, Smithfield, was charged
with conspiracy, money laundering,
and conducting a financial transation
with a law enforcement officer to
conceal the source of proceeds. Also,
the indictment charges him with
structuring transactions of car sales
to avoid the requirement by the
Internal Revenue Servie to file a
Form 8300, Report of Cash Payments
Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or
Business. If convicted on all four
counts, McLamb could face a
maximum sentence of 50 years
imprisonment, a fine of $100,000, or
both.
PE. CHARLES E.AN1
UNPERSON
New System Provides
Early Tornado Alert
A technique for tornado detection that could provide earlier
warnings to those in harm's way will be tested this summer by North
Carolina State University researchers and meteorologists from the
National Weather Service at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
The technique, known as Detection of Tornadic Thunderstorms,
employs weather satellite images, other weather data and computer
modeling to pinpoint tornadic storms before the violent wind funnels
they spawn touch down on the ground.
According to NCSU’s Dr. Charles E. Anderson, who developed
DOTT, the technique could extend the time between issuance of a
tornado warning and the time the tornado strikes bv 30 minutes or
longer.
It could also improve the detection of tornadoes that strike at
night. Anderson, a recognised authnorlty on tornadoes, said his
studies have shown that DOTT could have spotted and provided
warning of the night tornado that slashed through Raleigh in
November IMS, killing four people, destroying 105 homes, and
causing some $77 million in damage.
(Sec TORNADO. P.J)
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Thomas Page Cheek, 48, of
Goldston, was charged with
conspiracy and aiding and abetting
McLamb in conducting a financial
transaction with a law enforcement
officer to conceal the source of
proceeds and avoid a transaction
reporting requirement to the IRS.
The indictment alleges that Cheek
referred a customer to McLamb at
Smithfield Ford, knowing that the
customer was interested in
purchasing an automobile with the
proceeds of drug trafficking
activities. Upon conviction of both
counts, Cheek could receive a
maximum sentence of 25 years
imprisonment, a $500,000 fine, or
both.
‘‘Stallings, 53, of 19 Camellia Drive,
Smithfield, was charged with
conspiracy, money laundering, and
structuring a financial transaction to
avoid filing a Form 8300 with the IRS.
He allegedly conducted a financial
transaction with McLamb, for the
purchase of a vehicle at Smithfield
Ford, using the proceeds derived
from dealing in drugs. According to
the indictment, he knew the
transaction was designed to conceal
or disguise the nature, source and
ownership of the proceeds and to
eliminate the requirement for
McLamb to report the cash
transaction to the IRS. If convicted on
all three counts, Stallings could
receive a maximum sentence of 30
years imprisonment, a fine of
(See MONEY LAUNDERING, P. 2)
adequate funding for low-income
housing a priority.
All members of the N.C. General
Assembly and Gov. Martin have been
invited to the Sleep Out. "We hope
they will be able to attend despite
busy schedules, but if they can't come
to us, we will go to them," says Kay
Vives of Winston-Salem’s Homeless
But Not Helpless. Participants will
carry their message to individual
legislators in a visit to the General
Assembly on Wednesday morning.
Attendees will represent only a
(See SLEEP-OUT, P.2)
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BLUE
CAMPBELL
New Plan Adds
Two Blacks To
City Council
Special 6-3-1
Design Offered
Few African-Americans are
elected to the Raleigh City Council at
present, but Raleigh Republicans
want to change that. Wake
Republicans want to add blacks to the
City Council under a new
redistricting plan they will propose to
the City Council on June 4
Republicans will present their plans
at 7 p.m. during a scheduled pub!
hearing on redistricting.
At present, a black is routine
elected to the City Council from only
one of the City Council’s five districts
District C. Councilman Ralph
Campbell now serves as
representative of District C. On)'
occasionally, a black is also elected >■
one of the City Council’s two citywiti<
at-large positions. Councilman Fran
Turner was narrowly elected at-lan
in 1989, but he is the first black ev.
elected to an at-large seat on the Ci;
Council.
Under plans proposed by Raleigh
Republicans, two or three blacks
would be routinely elected to the
Raleigh City Council.
Raleigh Republicans will ask tha
the city adopt a special 6-3-1 plan in
contrast to the city’s current 5-21
plan. Under the 6-3-1 plan, one singi.
member district would be added an
district size would be reduce*
Instead of having two cits
councilmen elected in citywide, ac
large elections, the City Council
would have three city council
members elected in smaller “paired
districts.” Each of these three
districts would be formed by
"pairing” two single-member
districts. Under the Wake Republican
6-3-1 plan, only the mayor would
continue to be elected citywide.
Republicans have prepared two
versions of the 6-3-1 plan. Both ai
designed to address what they see as
(See COUNCIL PLAN, P. 2)
WESTON FAMILY EVOLUTNNVMSTONY UNFOLDS AT ST. AUS’S-TIu.
unvoting ot a plague was dona by members at tha Waslon family during the
naming ceremony bald recently at Salat Augustine's Calege. L it: Oragory
Westen, attamay, sen; Tha Rev. Dr. Maran Weston, alumnus and Beam of
Trustees; and The Rov. Canon, Kwasi Theme!, National Episcopal Cathedrdal,
Washington, D.C.