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William Dion P<J.ier, of 2834 Apt. D
Ferry Road, was arrested far
with intent to sell cocaine,
was caught on the corners of
and Person Street in a park.
J. F. Pulley, of the Raleigh
Department found eight rocks
It, weighting 3 grains (valued
.00) and 106.00 currency on
Maliek Murrhy, of 13041102nd Are.
Manhattan, New York, was arrested
Oar possession with intent to sell
cocaine, in the 400 block of South
Bloodworth Street. Officer D.T.
Montague found 10 small plastic bags
of cocaine (4 grams) value at 0400.00,
and $47.00 currency on Murrhy.
Jacques Dwayne Meekins, of 6018
Terrance Court, was arrested for
possession of cocaine, in the 1900
block of Pender Street. Officer T. N.
Bates found 4 rocks of crack cocaine
(1.3 grams) valued at 0100,000 on
Meekins.
(See DRUGS, P. 2)
A
Taking The Oath
Attorney Allyton Duncan,
former profeaaor In the North
Carolina Central School of Law
took the oath of office recently
following her appointment to the
North Carolina Utilities
Commission. The ceremony was
held in the NCCU Law School
Moot Court Room.
New Brigadier
General
George H. Wall, Jr., who holds
n master of arts degree In
guidance and counseling from
North Carolna Central University
has been promoted to brigadier
general In the U.S. Marino Corps.
Ho assumed hie command on
July it of the 2nd Service Support
Group at Camp Lejeuue. He Is a
native of Parkeeburg, Pa. Ho is
also a graduate of the West
Chester State College in
Pennsylvania, a graduate of
Marine Officer Candidate School
and the Marine Combat Engineer
Officer course.
Budget Managem’t
Director
Richard Y. Steven*, Wake
County Manager, announced
today that Raymond G. Boutwell
has been appointed Budget and
Management Director for Wake
County.
As Budget and Management
Director, Bout well will be
(bee NEWS BRIEFS. P. 2)
To Clarence
% Thomas Rick
Yes To Black Community
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city here! How
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twinger. In too
s been a code
>s for African
Black Caucus
Congress for
’ take a stand
against the confirmation of Clarence
Thomas as an Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court. It is
high time for African-Americans to
stop supporting blacks for positions
solely on the basis of adding color to
the scheme of things.
There are several things about
Clarence Thomas tht should disturb
the black community.
(1) The Self-Made Man Delusion—I
call it a delusion because it is false.
There is no such animal as a self
made man. From the story of Adam,
who was provided a perfect
environment by God, down to the
present time man has lived, moved,
and had his being in relationships;
family, peers, church, school, work,
etc. And all. of those relationships
have contributed to his development.
Clarence Thomas, laboring under
the delusion of the self-made man
image, owes much to his grandfather
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Candidates File For Fall Elections
Holland Vs. Webster Race Seen As Hot!
Fran CAROLINIAN Stall Report.
Candidates for the Wake Board of
Education, Raleigh City Council and
Cary Town Council began filing early
this week for the fall elections with
three African-Americans vying for
seats on the school board.
Harriet Bryant Webster, retired
educator, filed for District 4 in
Southeast Raleigh which is presently
represented by Dr. Charles V.
Holland, a two-term incumbent
seeking reelection this fall.
Dr. Khalif D. Ramadan filed for the
District S seat in North Raleigh. The
seat is held by Henry C. Knight, who
has announced he will not run for
reelection. Ramadan, 40, is an
educational consultant who lost a bid
for the District 4 seat In 1987.
Ms. Webster, 54, said having served
the system as a teacher, classroom
management specialist and
administrator for S3 years, said she
feels “strongly I have a service to
render to the citlsens of Wake
County." Her knowledge of the
schools and the desire to serve are
two favorable assets, according to
those planning to work in her
campaign.
Ms. Webster said she will “be an
advocate for children; be accessible
to parents and educators and will
have time to serve on the Board of
Education.
On July, 28, Friends of Harriet
Webster will sponsor a meet the
candidate program at St. Augustine’s
College from 5-7 p.m.
Dr. Holland said he plans for a
vigorous election campaign that will
focus on the importance of position
and not on his opponent. “I am
working hard to make sure my
district has equal representation.
Presently I am soliciting support to
have a new high school in Southeast
Raleigh,” he said.
During his six-year tenure on the
board, Holland has served as vice
chairman of the school board,
chairman of the policy committee,
the finance committee and facilities
committee.
Dr. Ramadan currently serves as
an educational consultant for the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services, Shaw University, and the
Wake County Social Services
Adoption/Foster Care Department.
He has also served as a board
member for the N.C. Council on
Educating Black Children, Education
Committee Chair of the Raleigh
Wake Citizens Assocaition and
president of the Concerned Citizens
for Educational Equity.
First day election filing also
included; Raleigh City Council, Mary
Watson Nooe, District B; and Ron
Campbell, District E; Wake Board of
MSWVAlSim
Education, Wray M. Stephens,
Districts; Carey Town Council; Koka
E. Booth, Mayor Richard V. Burton,
District B; Ron L. Carr, District B;
Tom W. Hemrick, District B, and M.
Regina McLaurin, At-Large.
Attorney Ron Campbell launched a
challenge for the District E seat
representing West Raleigh. Four
term incumbent Mary C. Cates is
expected to seek re-election in that
district.
"I am running because of a
different pholoeophy between me and
the incumbent,” said Mr. Campbell,
who ran unsuccessfully in 1981 for an
at-large seat on the council. “I am
much more of a person who wants to
build. I want to make the capital
improvements that need to be done.”
He said he favored a referendum on
a bond issue to raise the money to
build a children's museum and a
Raleigh museum to preserve the
city’s Heritags. He also said he
favored providing Raleigh police with
better communications equipment.
Campbell, who frequently rides a
(See CANDIDATES. P. 2 >
who took him on as a youngster, and
to the nuns who were responsible for
guiding his educational pursuits. In
turn, they had help form others.
No one can pull himself up by his*
own bootstraps. That is especially
true if one has no boots.
What this delusion has done in the
case of Mr. Thoirtashas been to instill
in him the idea, ,rI made it. You can
make it too." That philosophy has
caused him to sour on government
programs designed to help people
help themselves.
What he forgets to take into
consideration is that years of slavery
followed by years of segregation and
lately by a period of ghettoization
have destroyed the faith of some
African-Americans in the system,
have broken the spirit of some, and
have so handicapped others as to
make them almost useless in the
(See CLARENCE THOMAS, P. 2)
GAO Says Blacks, Women
Face Bias In Federal
Job Training Program
Serious issue
Of Inequities
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(AP)—Blacks and women face
serious inequities in a $4.6 billion job
training program that was a cor
nerstone of Dan Quayle’s vice
presidential campaign, congressional
investigators conclude.
The General Accounting Office, in a
report released recently, found that
women in the program were more
likely than men to receive training
for lower-paid jobs.
And whites were more likely to
receive classroom and on-the-job
training—while blacks had a greater
chance of only obtaining job search
assistance, said the GAO, an in
vestigative arm of Congress.
A Labor Department official
disputed some of the findings.
Lawrence H. Thompson, of the
GAO'S Human Resources Division,
presented the findings in testimony
prepared for a bearing of the House
Government Operations Subcommit
tee on employment and bousing.
unemployment rate of the 1962 reces
sion.
When George Bush picked Quayle
as his running mate, he cited
Quayle’s co-sponsorship of the law as
a major achievement.
Hie program is a partnership
because the federal government
finances the assistance—spending
$4.6 billion this fiscal year—but does
not run it.
The money is given to governors,
who in turn disburse the funds around
their states. Private industry coun
cils actually run the program at the
local level, to ensure that par
ticipants are trained for jobs
available in a particular area. The
partnership currently serves 932,000
people, including 424,000 youth and
506,000 adults.
Services include training on the job
and in the classroom, job search
assistance, job placement, child care
and aid in finding
Quayle’s spokesman, David C.
Beckwith, said his office would have
no comment on the GAO findings.
But Robert T. Jones, assistant
secretary of Labor for employment
“Unfortunately, one of the vice president’s
biggest resume items is apparently becoming
a quagmire of prejudice and injustice,” said
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who ordered the
study as chairman of the full Government
Operations Committee.
“Unfortunately, one of the vice
president’s biggest resume items is
apparently becoming a quagmire of
prejudice and injustice,” said Rep.
John Conyers, D-Mich., who ordered
study as chairman of the full
Government Operations Committee.
The GAO said, however, that it did
not find any violation of anti
discrimination laws.
The study found problems were
caused by factors such as private
contractors in the program steering
minorities and women into lower
paid jobs; discrimination by some
employers that hired participants;
and selections made by program par
ticipants, who chose training for
lower-paid jobs that were stereotyped
by race and sex.
The Job Training Partnership Act
that established the program was
sponsored in 1062 by Quayle, then a
Republican senator from Indiana,
and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
D-Mass.
During the vice presidential cam
paign, Quayle often cited ac
complishments of the partnership,
which wi
the high
and training, said in prepared
testimony that his agency disagrees
with the GAO conclusions.
He said there is no evidence of
“overt or systematic
discrimination.” The program’s
record “on advancing the
employability of disadvantaged
youth and adults, including
minorities and women, has been un
precedented,” he added.
According to Jones, the 13 percent
wage differential between men and
women at the time of placement is
“significantly better than the approx
imately 37 percent differential that
exists between men and women
generally in the labor market.”
For blacks, Jones said, “The hourly
wage at placement was quite
close—$5.41 for black adults, $5.52 for
Hispanic adults and $5.60 for white
adults.”
The picture presented by the GAO
was much different. "We found that
on average the percent of blacks pro
vided only Job search assistance was
14 percentage points higher than the
(See JOB BIAS, P.2)
BY CHARLES E. BELLE
NNPA Stow Hrrvlr*
"Neither a borrower nor a lender
be,” said Will Shakespeare. From the
looks of the nation's lenders, the In
dividual should be more than bemus
ed by the Bard’s words. We should
practice it if we cherish our privacy.
Putting information on a credit card
application, and indeed today even
making a credit card purchase puts
your personal business in the streets.
Some of us may not, however, get
such an exalted status as many
lenders have stopped issuing credit
cards or even making loans based on
bad reporting by credit bureaus and
not by an individual's real credit risk.
The I s economy is indicating that
it may have huttomcd out back in
Max. but reveals very little in the
way of rebound. It la likely to be late
October before the statistical facta
are In to state an end to the economic
decline. The damage has, however,
already been done to both business'
and individual’s credits. There has
already been a record number of
business and individual bankrupt
cies. Bankruptcies in New England
were up so bad at 80 percent that one
bank cut off credit to 7,800 car
dholders—half of whom were current
on their obligations.
Other banks have refused credit
baaed on faulty credit profiles from
even the big three U.S. credit
bureaus. But that is not the only bad
news. No one who has a credit cfcador
calls about an account at discount
broker Charles Schwab & Co. is fully
aware that these companies are sell
tng a lint including their name. Na
tional card isauera have been renting
their liata at about 91 per account. A
“never leave home without it” com
pany would not stoop ao low as to rent
its list. However, target marketing in •
joint ventures based on your actual
purchases is permitted. Perhaps you
thought it was just by chance they
chose to offer you a deal on items you
frequently purchase.
Your right to privacy and the pur
suit of profit are pitted against each
other and the only thing between you
is a piece of plastic. In Europe, there
is already a ban against uses of such
databases as those controlled by U.S.
banks and other financial and govern
mental institutions. Information can
now be stored cheaply on every in
dividual and sold if it is not made il
legal.