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JUNE 6,1991
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Young Men Of Mission Closes
Final Meet.
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Putnam Receives Doctor Of
Laws Degree From Bennett.
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DR. ROBERT BRIDGES
St. Aug’s
Provost
Resigns
From CAROLINIAN SUff Report*
Dr. Robert E. Bridge*, former
Woke County School
superintendent and provost at St.
Augustine’s College, has
submitted his resignation after
two “fruitful” years at the
Institution.
A spokesman at the college
said Bridges was leaving to work
on research projects and the
resignation was effective June 30.
“Dr. Bridges has resigned as
provost,” the spokesperson said.
“He said he will continue his
relationship with the college.”
Dr. Presell Robinson’s office
issued the following statement
from Dr. Bridges to The
CAROLINIAN:
“I came to Saint Augustine’s
College two years ago to get
Involved with the academic
program to give what assistance
I could to teacher education and
assist the president where
possible. Involvement 4p those
areas ha* been exciting. I have
had two instructive and
rewarding years and I hope that
my presence has contributed
positively to the overall operation
of the college.
“1 ask to be released from the
(See DR. BRIDGES, P.2)
GEN. COLIN POWELL
NAACP Awards
Gen. C. Powell
Spingam Medal
General Colin L. Powell, Chairman
of the Joint Chief* of Staff,
Department of Defense, has been
selected as the recipient of the
NAACP’s 1891 Spingam Award-the
highest honor bestowed by the
nation’s oldest and largest civil rights
organisation, according to an
announcement from Dr. Benjamin L.
Hooks the NAACP’s Executive
Director/CEO.
Instituted in 1914 by the late Joel
Spingarn, then NAACP chairman, the
medal is presented annually to the
man or woman of African descent
and American citizenship who has
made the highest achievement during
the preceding year or years in any
honorable field of human endeavor.
The selection was made by s
committee of the NAACP’s National
Board of Directors from nominees
submitted by the public.
Its purpose is twofold—first, to call
the attention of the American people
to Use existence of distinguishec
merit and achievement amonf
Americans of African descent, ask
secondly, to serve as a reward foi
such achievement and as a stimulus
to the ambition of youth of Africai
descent.
(SeeGEN. POWELL, Pt)
Democrats Rally Support
Civil Rights Bill Could Buck Veto!
Civil rights leaders and President
George Bush traded angry charges
over the proposed civil rights bill this
week as the House neared a vote on
the controversial legislation that
seeks to restore protections against
Job discrimination eroded two years
ago by the Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, the House discarded
Bush’s limited bill and a liberal
alternative, as Democratic leaders
hunted for the two-thirds majority
that would make their proposal
immune from a veto.
The House rejected the Republican
sponsored job discrimination bill,
endorsed by the president, on a 286
182 vote.
Earlier it defeated the most liberal
of three competing versions, voting
277-152 against a purists’ bftl
congresswomen and some liberal
lawmakers.
The third version, which is assured
Charging Bush with labeling the civil rights
legislation a “quota” bill to inflame white
voters, John E. Jacob, the National Urban
League president, said Bush and other
cynical political leaders are trying to turn a
civil rights issue into a political issue that
plays on irrational fears and latent racism.
sponsored by the Congressional
Black Caucus, Democratic
of passage, is supported by
Democratic leaders as well as civil
righto groups, but condemned by
Bush as encouraging employers to
use racial quotas in hiring. A final
vote on the measure was put off until
Wednesday.
At a Capitol Hill news conference,
leaders of a number of civil righto
groups accused Bush, in his
campaign against the bill, of peddling
"the narcotics of polarisation” as a
tactic to ensure Republican political
gains in the 1M2 congressional and
presidential elections.
Charging him with labeling the
civil rights legislation a “quota” bill
to inflame white voters, John E.
Jacob, the National Urban League
president, said Rush and other
“cynical political leaders are trying
to turn a civil rights issue into a
political issue that plays on irrational
fears and latent racism.” <
Bush angrily fired back. He
charged that his opponents “wanted
to grind me into the political dirt”
even as they themselves jockeyed for
political advantage.
Mocking critics who appeared on
Sunday TV talk shows devoted to the
issue, Bush said, “I’ve been accused
of playing politics, playing election
politics with this issue, and very
frankly it’s the other way around.”
His opponents, Bush said in a
speech to the National Federation of
(See RIGHTS BILL, P.2)
Women Urged Beware
Scams, Robbe
to
The Rise
Females
Prime
Targets
BY ER^E JOHNSTON
Ail Analysis
A woman acquaintance was
relating to me an incident that
happened to her as she waited to
board an airplane for the Caribbean.
What made' the story even more
bizarre was^ne fact that it happened
around ft-a.m., hardly a busy time in
an airport and a time when one would
least suspect an incident to happen to
theni.
The lady had her handbag on the
side of her seat and u a man with a
heavy accent wt»s*t«m.the other
side of her asked bar a question, she
leaned toward him to hear what he
was saying/
That is when it happened. When she
leaned back, she discovered that her
bag was gone. She was the victim of a
scam. Apparently two individuals
were working in pairs, one getting the
attention of their victim while the
other grabbed the purse.
Luckily this woman’s purse was
found, although it was minus a couple
of hundred dollars. Everything else
was intact.
The police told the woman that it is
a common thing these days for
criminals to prey on women traveling
alope and who seem to be careless
with their purses.
Another woman told me of an
incident that happened to her while
she was on her way to church. As she
walked along the sidewalk, an
automobile approached from her left
side.
Before she could react, the man
sitting on the passenger side of the
automobile had grabbed her
pocketbook and the car was speeding
away. On this particular Sunday, the
police in this suburban town had
reports of a couple of other purse
snatchings that women en route to
church had experienced.
For some reason or other, persons
who have scams, commit robberies
and snatch purses think that women
are easy prey.
They have no regard for the
opposite sex and their respect for
women is nil, whether they be young
or old. As a matter of fact, the older
the women, the higher the crime rate.
Criminals think nothing of robbing
or mugging women old enough to be
their grandmothers—since all they
want is the money to get the next fix.
It is a shame that in this day and
time that women have to take every
precaution to protect themselves and
(See SCAMS, P, 2)
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Republican & Democrats Seek District
That Would led Black Congressman
BY BRYANT LINDSEY
Special Tu Ike CAROLINIAN
State Republicans supported a plan
by state Rep. David Balmer (R
Charlotte) unveiled Tuesday which
would create two predominantly
black congressional districts, but
Democrats were skeptical. The
proposal came during a meeting of
the Committee for Congressional
Redistricting of the N.C. House.
One black congressional district
proposed by Balmer would extend
from predominantly black precincts
in Charlotte to predominantly black
precincts of Wilmington.
The other black congressional
district proposed by Republicans
would extend from black precincts of
Durham into predominantly black
counties of northeastern North
Carolina. This district would largely
duplicate one proposed by the
Democrats. However, the Republican
plan might also extend this district
from Durham into Wake County and
Southeast Raleigh.
State Rep. Mickey Michaux (D
Durham), who is black, is widely
rumored to be interested in seeking
this Durham-Northeastern North
Carolina congressional seat. Michaux
had no criticism for this proposed
district, in which he would live, but he
questioned whether Republicans
were attempting to “stack” black
Democrats into the Charlotte
Wilmington Black Congressional
District. Other Democrats questioned
whether the district would group
together areas of North Carolina
which are too different to be in the
same congressional district.
Republicans countered that
“stacking,” or concentration of
blacks, is necessary in order to
satisfy the requirements of the Voting
Rights Act and give blacks better
opportunities to elect black
congressmen. They acknowledged
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Frtai CAROLINIAN SUM IU|Mrtt
Raleigh haa bad XO homicides this
year so far. Bight of those are as a
result of gunshots.
Police have recently identified a
Raleigh man who was fatally shot in a
parking lot an East Edenton Street,
but no arrests have been nude in the
case.
Ernest William Gants, 16, of 1407
Raleigh Blvd., died after he was shot
by an unknown assailant. Police
stated this week that the/ did not
have a motive for the slaying.
Gants, who came to Raleigh in
January and worked as an
accounting clerk at GoodMark Foods
on Falls of the Neuae Road since
January of this year.
In other newb.
A statewide task force would be
Published to investigate the deaths
of children from abuse and neglect
under a measure approved recently
by the House Appropriations
Committee.
TheM»member task force is part of
a larger plan by some legislators to
attack what many consider a
disturbing trend in North
Carolina—inadequate protections
against children dying because of
abuse.
The task force would be charged wh
studying the indicence of child deaths
in North Carolina and establishing a
profile of such deaths, as well as
setting up a systematic review of all
such deaths.
The task force would bring together
representatives from social services
agencies, law enforcement officials,
prosecutors, medical personnel and
other advocates for children
The Appropriations Committee has
voted to set aside $4.5 million next
year for child protective services,
including the establishment of the
taskforce.
The money also would be used to
provide county social services
departments with additional
personnel to investigate reports of
child abuse and for improved trains
of social workers who investigate
child abuse cases.
that this might result in long, “funny
looking” districts which would
otherwise be objectionable from a
legal standpoint.
Hie Republicans also pointed out
that, under Democratic plans for only
one black congressional district,
blacks in North Carolina would
continue to be under-represented in
the U.S. House of Representatives.
Under the Democratic plan, blacki
would have only one out of 13 of Nortli
Carolina’s congressional seats (8.3
percent), although they constitute
31.97 percent of North Carolina’i
population.
The proposed Charlotte
Wilmington district would include all
or parts of 15 counties, but much oi
the black population in the district
would be concentrated in tout
locations: in Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County, in Fayetteville
add Cumberland County, it
Lumberton and Robeson County, ant
in Wilmington and New Hanovei
County. Republicans note that blad
candidates might emerge in each a
these locations, that a blad
Democrat would almost certainly wii
in any Democratic primary, and the
any black Democratic nominee whi
emerged from a primary wouli
almost certainly win in a genera
election.
The district would have a tots
population of 553,MO, of which tb
minority percentage would be 58.3
percent, with 48.06 percent of tb
district black, 8.38 of the distric
Auhcrican Indian, sncl 4J.68 percer
white. Overall, the district would b
88.43 percent Democratic i
registration.
The black Durham-Northeaater
North Carolina Congresslom
District, which is endorsed i
principle by both Democrats an
See KKDISTRICTINli, P. 2)
Rep. Ford May
lie Tried Again
In Bribery Case
More blacks are saying they’re
targets of a conspiracy that includes
probes of leaders and drugs on the
streets in what has been described as
an attempt to discredit and destroy
the nation’s black leadership. The
most recent cases involve Hep.
Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) and
Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White.
Both face charges of bribery.
A federal judge recently agreed to
“bus in’’ jurors from a majority
white town to retry Rep. Ford on
charges that the congressman beat
last spring.
Lawyers for Rep. Ford appealed
the judge’s decision in April.
An earlier appeal opposing any
second trial is still pending.
The legal battle stems from a 1967
Indictment charging Rep. Ford
accepted bribes disguised as bank
loans In exchange for his political
influence. A jury of tight blacks and
four whites couldn't reach a verdict
in the case. Rep. Ford maintains the
jury favored acquittal but couldn’t
reach a unanimous decision. Federal
prosecutors want to take the case to'
trial again.
The decision to bus jurors from
Jackson, Tenn., to Memphis was
announced by U.S. District Court
Judge Odell Horton, who is black. He
contends blacks may not render a fair
verdict in the case.
Where the jury is chosen could
prove critical to the trial’s outcome
and involves Rep. Ford’s'
fundamental right to be judgr i by a
jury of his peers, lawyers charged.
(See REP. FORD, P. 2)
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NEWS BRIEFS
LIGHTING REBATE
PROGRAM
The “Great Lighting Cash
Rebate” is coming to a close. The
Energy Division, N.C. Depart
ment of Economic and Communi
ty Development, this week an
nounced that due to overwhelm
ing response, rebate funds are
nearly exhausted. Subject to
availability of funds, applications
will be processed if received on or
before June 30. The lighting
rebate program awarded rebates
of up to It percent to commercial
and industrial facilities for swit
ching to more energy-efficient
sources of lighting.
HOUSING SERVICE
THRIVING
“There is no such thing as a
slump in housing sales, if you
seek professional help,” declares
Joe L. Hodge, Jr., of Hodge and
Klttrell Realtors. Hodge is presi
dent of the Raleigh Board of
Realtors, an organisation with
members throughout Wake Coun
ty. The real estate group shares
data on available houses among
its membership through a com
puterised multiple listing ser
vice.
SECRETARIES INSTALL
OFFICERS
The Raleigh Chapter of Profes
sional Secreatrles International
recently installed the following
new officers for 1M2-92: presi
dent, Linda Fogle of T3
Technologies, Inc.; president
elect, Marvel Dixon of Hesco.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
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