1'AUJS Z—1 JUS UAttUJjJINlAJN CANDIDATES (Continued from 1) f Senator, or General Assembly member. Local government decisions may have as potentially rewarding or devastating an effect or our lives as state and federal policies. The largest constituency of possible and probably voters are in the pews on Sunday mornings. £ 4. Believe half of wMfyou see and little of what you hear. All of us have had challenges in life that have bent our backhand knees, but the good news and vu&fy ,}ies in overcoming, forgiving amfrepditf ng. If one person assassinates the character of any candidate, isn’t it reasonable to assume that the other side should be known too? Some people and sadly even in the black community, are positioned to sway your opinion. My last points have to do with rhetoric and issues. Asking the candidate what he or she would have done in a particular situation had they been in the office being sought may serve to only give you the popular answer. The incumbent will offer you either an explanation or an excuse. Try to get a broad view of how the candidate will consider handling a variety o( concerns — not just a single issue. One school board member cannot build a school in Southeast Raleigh, and one city council member cannot singlehandedly build a new road or lower our property taxes. Some realistic issues are: How will you, as a school board member, address the inequity that exists in the public school system? How will you address the issue of how poverty affects a child’s learning^ Tracking? Testing? Dropouts? The limited number of black administrators? Reduce and replace ignorant teachers whose discriminatory practices stifle the growth, creativity, and potential of our innocent youth? Scholarships? Workforce preparation? Racism? Increase parental involvement? As a city council member, what will you recommend in safeguarding the jobs of city personnel that are ripe for privitizat^pn proposals, such as garbage collection? Will you question the extrerijfcfy Jow number of black department heads? How will you monitor and „ address citizen complaints? Guarantee that construction and rehabilitation projects and dollars planned for Raleigh are equally distributed to minority businesses? There will be a tremendous strain on these candidates and their families as they use the next two months to encourage you to take a closer look at the needs of your community and the fact that your first, and best contribution, is to vote! Once in office, the council and school board members will need your advice, support and willingness to serve on boards and commissions. But until that time, do a little homework. If not yourself, give an assignment to a student in your home, church or community to gather information on each candidate. And while the youth are researching for you, pull out that checkbook and write a minimum of three good checks: one for a city council candidate, one for a school board candidate, and one for a subscription to this newspaper — your best bet for extensive and fair coverage of these races.! Venita Peyton is a writer, a ts-year 1 veteran of television, cable television and radio, has worked in federal, state and local government, is founder and president of Insurance Consultants of Raleigh and a senior studying public administration at Shaw University. INSIDE AFRICA (Continued from page 1) covert funding? Despite concerted global opposition over the years, the regime has stub bornly refused to end apartheid. This must not be lost sight of. And no com promise must be made with apar theid or its perpetrators. Hence, President George Bush’s recent lif ting of sanctions must be opposed tooth and nail. It was based on a misplaced rationalization that did not correctly assess the realities of the South African situation. De Klerk Tht CAROUNUN PakMh| C*.. he. M1I72M 511t Ntanb Start bU*. tar* Cvdht 27M1 IMtaa MSnc P.0. Bat 2S3M tafaifh. tank Cnba ZJtlt tank Crnfen 27111 USPO 45073 SUBSCHPVOU HAItS Omlm. .MM* .$MN PA tax 25301, Rtafelk M.C. 27111. —1UJSBUAI, AUMtlSl W, JSfyi couldn’t have been rewarded when: (1) he was himself the head of the party that practices apartheid; (2) Botha’s “Tricameral Parliament” still totally excludes all blacks, the preponderant bulk of the population; and (3) all nine Bantustans, with their millions, are still inmates of those concentration camps and cheap labor reservoirs, etc., etc. Is apartheid dead, as de Klerk’s propagandists say? Surely not. The above facts show that apartheid is alive and strong. To emphasize this, not a single African enjoys the vote, or election to any elected office in the land. As de Klerk’s administration moves toward the end of its term, not a single black person participates in municipal, provincial or national government. But de Klerk continues to confuse the situation by permitting the apartheid-oriented factions to fight each other in “hostels,” “homelands” and “townships.” De Klerk could have used the millions of money spent on covert funding of In katha and their subsidiaries to bring about meaningful democratic change in South Africa. This would have brought about freedom, justice, law and order, and speeded up the floundering constitutional negotia tions which are now stalled. It is now precisely 18 months since ANC’s President Nelson Mandela was freed from jail to participate in constitutional negotiations. But, have any negotiations taken place? No. De Klerk and his stubborn and obstinate Afrikaner jingoes continue... to dilly dally with the reform process. Mandela considers himself betrayed. He is morose, perplexed and disillu sioned. No wonder he recently spent a week cruising in the Caribbean. All that de Klerk and his racist stalwarts have done since Mandela’s release, was to continue the covert funding of RENAMO in Mozambique, which has reduced that country into wastelands. All that the Boers have done in this time was to fund groups that opposed Namibian majority rule or economic sanctions imposed against South Africa. Thus, the southern African picture is totally bleak today. The region has taken it on the chin, and the recent revela tions of further covert actions con tinue to delay full democratization of the mineral-rich subcontinent of Africa. Even President Bush’s lifting of the economic sanctions against the racist regime, and the termination of the Olympic Games ban are failing to resuscitate the country’s image and chances of readmission into the global society of nations. Oh, mankind, brace for the storm! Continue the noble fight to end apar theid! With vim and verve, fight on, and ignore President de Klerk’s deceptive reforms—subterfuges. Join hands and end covert fundings and genocide. Apartheid is a crime, it must die. SET ABLAZE (Continued from page 1) W. Horton St. in Zebulon where she stays with her mother. When I got there she was in a rage. She asked me for pome money. I told her I didn’t have any. She knew I got paid that day. She got mad. I told her I was getting ready to go because I did not have time for any trouble and problems. I started walking toward the door. I got out the door, half way to my car and I turned around and she was coming out the door. She went in the backyard of the house. I turned around again and she had a jug coming toward me with it. She hollered and screamed ‘I’m going to pour this gas on you.’ I panicked because I didn’t know what state of mind she was in. At that time I tripped over a tree stump in the yard. And when I was down on the ground she was going to pour the gas on me. I got up and started running to the car. When I got to the car and tried to get in, I dropped my keys and then she dashed the gas on me and said: 'I’m going to set your a- on fire b—.’ Then she got a piece of paper and lit it with a cigarette lighter and threw it on me, setting me and the car on fire. I was running around trying to put the fire out and taking my clothes off. I got out of all my clothes except my bra and at that time my hair caught on fire and she came over and helped put the hair out. “I stayed in the hospital a month and two weeks. I had a non-career parttime job with the post office and it will be a year before I can return to work. I have no source of income nor insurance benefits. I’m presently staying with my mother.” The chief said officers had recovered underclothing with a gasoline odor on it and a partially filled gasoline can in the yard of Ms. Richardson’s house, where she lived with her mother. Ms. Richardson is being held in Wake County Jail on $50,000 bond. ENRICHMENT (Continued from page 1) (formerly the N.C. Health Manpower Development Program) has helped more than 4Q0 students who want careers in the health professions, ac cording to B. Lorraine A'ston, associate director. Nearly half of the 82 students who completed the summer program bet ween 1988 and 1990 have been ac-, cepted to academic programs in allied health, dentistry, medicine, op tometry, osteopathy, pharmacy, physician assistant, public health and veterinary medicine. Ail five Triangle students received awards at a closing ceremony July 26. Keynote speaker was Eva Clayton of Littleton. She is a former director of the UNC program, founder and president of Technical Resources In ternational and a Warren County commissioner. Floyd and Mizelle received cer tificate of merit awards in organic chemistry. Riley also was honored with a certificate in physics. Wolicki received awards for highest overall academic excellence, highest academic excellence in organic chemistry, highest academic excellence in quantitative skills, and certificate of merit awards in physics as well as anatomy and physiology. Dr. Marion Phillips, associate dean of the UNC School of Medicine, received a plaque recognizing his contributions to the program throughout its history at the closing ceremony. The Summer Enrichment Prepara tion Program is funded by a grant from the Health Careers Opportunity Program, part of the Office of Disad vantaged Assistance in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HARD TIMES (Continued from page 1) eludes single-parent homes. The se cond category is pregnant women who have no other children living with them and who are in at least their sixth month of pregnancy. The last two groups, “AFDC-Incapacity” and “AFDC-Unemployed Parent,” involves two-parent households. The two-parent households have ex tra requirements to meet. “AFDC Incapacity” is available to households where one or both parents are incapacitated. Parents are con siddered incapacitated when physical or mental impairment substantially reduces their ability to support or care for their child. The incapacity must be expected to last at least 30 days. Meeting this standard is much easier to do than meeting the re quirements of Social Security disability benefits. “AFDC-Unemployed Parent” is available to two-parent families if the principal wage-earner: • Has been unemployed for at least 30 days; • Is unemployed or working less than 100 hours per month; • Applies for and accepts any allowed unemployment benefits; • Is not disqualified for unemploy ment benefits due to misconduct; • Accepts any bona fide offer of employment or training for employ ment made within 30 days prior to receiving AFDC; and • Has a recent connection to the labor force. This category is relatively new to North Carolina and is not being used by all who are eligible. As of April 1, children whose parenjts meet the above requirements should receive ‘‘AFDC-Unemployed Parent” benefits, whether the parents are married to each other or not. Previously, the parents had to be married to each other in order to receive these benefits. In all four categories, the family receiving the AFDC payment must meet several income and asset eligibility requirements. The family can have no more than $1,000 in coun table assets; not counted are full value in a home and $1,500 in a car. The family must not make more than a certain amount of income; the amount of AFDC varies according to how much income a family makes and the number of people in the household. For example; a four person household can have no more than $594 countable income and still receive AFDC assistance. People who feel they may qualify for AFDC or another benefits pro gram should contact their county Department of Social Services. Every person has the right to apply for public benefits, and every person has the right to apply for AFDC and/or Medicaid on the same day. NAACP JUDGED (Continued from page 1) requiring the Department of Educa tion to conduct speedy reviews of discrimination complaints. And at the Equal Employment Op portunity Commission, where Thomas was named chair in 1982, he continued his policy of disobeying court orders. He reduced the number of settled cases and brought the discrimination complaint process to a slow crawl. Before Thomas took office, 43 per cent of complaints to the EEOC resulted in a settlement. The average benefit to complainants was at least $4,600. Within months after Thomas took over, the number of settled cases dropped to only one-third, and the average benefit was reduced to $2,589. The length of time to process individual charges had increased from five months to nine mon ths—almost twice as long as the year before. A study by the General Accounting Office found that under Thomas' direction, a large percentage of the cases closed by the EEOC had not been fully investigated. And a congressional investigation found that the agency changed its method of operations to make it more difficult for the victims of discrimina tion to win relief. Finally, while Thomas was EEOC WlLLIAMSTON WHISTLINGS BY JOYCE GRAY WILLIAMSTON—Ms. Catherine Outerbridge is pleased to announce that her family reunion was a smashing success. The family gathered at the home of her eldest daughter, Mamie Lee McCoy, and her husband John, in Columbia, S.C. Accompanying Ms. Outerbridge were her daughers, Ms. Clara Rhoe and Ms. Alice Moore of Newark, N.J., and their families. Representing Washington, D.C. and Oxon Hill, Md. were Ms. Magaline (Cookie) Outer bridge Wilson and Ms. Ernistine Tillery and her family. Also attending were nine grandchildren, three granddaughters-in-law, 10 great grandchildren and a host of friends and well-wishers. The grand and great-grands came as far away as Denver, Colo, to pay homage to the lovely matriarch of the clan. The Fourth was spent at Weston Lake on Fort Jackson, S.C. A great time was had by all and the rest of the weekend went equally as well. Plenty of love was given and shared by everyone. Dorothy L. Hughes, playwright, whose masterpiece play is “Resolu tions,” will be the guest speaker for the Women’s Day program on Sun day, Aug. 25, at il a.m. at the New Fellowship Christian Church in Williamston. New Fellowship Chris tian Church is located behind D&L Furniture Co. on Hwy. 64 West, Williamston. Please come! They say, and “fellowship with us.” Lula S. Brown is pastor of New Fellowship Christian Church, Route 5, Box 753, Williamston 27892. “I Surrender All”... It’s an ex citing, moving comedy. A mother struggles to raise a daughter as a single parent. A two act musical drama presented by Tidewater Gospel Drama Guild, Lindbergh 0. Willis, founder and director, Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. at Martin County Auditorium, Williamston. Tickets are on sale at D&L Furniture, 792-3174, Carters Union 76, 794-2305 or any New Fellowship Choir member. $5 in ad vance, $7 at the door. Sponsored by New Fellowship Christian Church, Lula S. Brown, pastor. For bookings call (804) 843-0953, L.O. Willis. A special prayer is being said for baby Shaun Duggins who was born July 3 and has been found to have a heart problem. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Duggins, III of Williamston. On the sick and shut-in list: Ms. Ar tie Manson, Ms. Grace P. Smithwick, Ms. Betty S. Lanier, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Human, Alton Bell, Ms. Marie Biggs, George Anthony Perry, Ms. Rachel H. Lyons, Jesse Bell, Ms. Lucy Perry Brown, Joe Biggs, Robert Lee Brown, Ms. Christine Council, Ms. Armaza C. Roberson, Frederick Bennett, Ms. Roxie West, Ms. An nabel Best, Ms. Rosa Best, David B. Feggins, Ms. Mattie H. Perry, Ms. Mamie Keyes, Sam Brown, Ms. Leda M. Duggins, Ms. Devie Hill, Thomas Hill, Raymond Rease, Ms. Daisy H. Biggs, George Roberts, Herman Johnson, Ms. Zara Chance and Ms. Doris R. Duggins. Sherick Moore of Plymouth, Ms. Esther Roberts and Ms. Pauline Brown. Calvin Rodgers and Jesse Rodgers of Williamston. Rudolph Wilkins and Ms. Elizabeth W. Wilkins in Roper. Looking well and responding, “Yes!” when asked if he was taking good care of himself since being discharged from Pitt Memorial was Robert Peele, Sr. Rumor was Mr. chair, the agency failed to process 13,873 age discrimination complaints filed by older workers within the legal time period. As a result, the claims were dismissed, leaving the workers powerless to pursue their complaints. Congress had to pass legislation reinstating their claims. Throughout his career, Thomas has tried to avoid being labeled because of his race. He has asked the world to judge him, like Martin Luther King, not on the basis of the color of his skin, but on the content of his character. The NAACP gave Thomas what he wanted. On the basis of his record, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization voted to oppose Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court. Thomas’ supporters had argued tha he represented black America’s only chance to keep a black judge in Thurgood Marshall’s seat. “That’s not our job,” an NAACP member said. “George Bush can nominate another black candidate if Clarence Thomas loses. He nominated another white man after the Senate rejected Robert Bork; he can nominate another black to take Thomas’ place.” THIS WEEK (Continued from page 1) volumes of poetry, short stories and dramas in his lifetime and received the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal in 1960. Peele loves to be on the back with i fishing rod in his hand regularly. Checking up on Jerome Aikens who was discharged from Pit Memorial on July 29 (he says by beg ging the doctor) wasn’t just what h wanted to hear from me at the time but I sent him the message. “B thankful to God that you can hear thi big mouth after the ordeal an surgeries you’ve been through.” H found out for himself about pains, be ing disabled and folks who wer always busy. We say a special prayer for hi daughter, Ms. Jonathan Williams o Brooklyn, N.Y., who was hospitalize and underwent surgery as soon as sh returned home after visiting he father. She was reportedly doini well. Still in Pitt Memorial at thi writing, hoping to be discharged to day, is Ms. Leroy Outerbridg (Lucy). One of the first persons Nian Nichols inquired about upon arrivini at my home was Ms. Sally Faison o Duplin County. “Ms. Sally,” whon we NAACPers have admired foi years, was on the bus to California ii 1990 with the aid of a walker an< everyone on board gave her whatevei assistance possible, but Niam being: youth, moving quickly most of th< time, got to her side first. She hai been admitted to a nursing horn* when her health failed so much aftei suffering a stroke. Back from Michigan, excited ovei seeing so many family members wh( had not been attending the familj reunion previously, is Ms. Marj Alvannie Woolard. She says the trip was fine; however, while there hei grandson, Destin, 10, suffered t broken nose in a freak accident. Ms. Woolard’s family in Ann Arboi was so delighted that she won th< Martin County NAACP Mother of th< Year title that she is now the C.C Keyes Family Reunion Mother foi i 1991, too. Just what is T.K. Woolard saying about all of that? He is Just , smiling. t The two of them haven’t had time - yet to take that trip she won in May. ; Visiting her for the first time within , ll years was her nephew, James : Daniels of Capital Heights, Md., who s also decided to visit a sister in 1 Elizabeth City for the first time i before leaving North Caorttna. Guess - we are wondering whaf s Bit into i “Bro” these days. s A couple of folks were annoyed that f they missed being at the Martin 1 County NAACP Branch meeting ! when CleophuL Moore spoke last Sun r day on benefits for disabled veterans 5 and their survivors. \ s N.C. State NAACP Executive - meeting will be in Siler City, New Im ! provement Center, Aug. 24. All branch presidents are invited to at tend. There will also be a focus on the i black conference there that day. For E more information, please contact file F state executive director. i - The members of St. James Baptist i Church thank everyone who par I ticipated and/or contributed to their ' “NAACP Day” program on Sunday, i Aug. 11. The Nichols family will have a day i of celebration on Saturday and Sun day, Aug. 24-25, honoring die safe return of Maj. Annie M. Daniels from Operation Desert Strain. Hie event will take place at the Jamesville Community Center. We heard that Demetria “Dee Dee" Trapp was spending some of her summer school vacation in the “Garden State.” I was concerned about the health of Ms. Diane S. Payne when I met her in the lobby of Pitt Memorial Hnapital, but I have been informed that she is fine now. * First Citizens Bank Title Sponsor Big Sweep ’91 First Citizens Bank has been nam ed the title sponsor for Big Sweep '91, the nation’s largest statewide water way litter cleanup. The Sept. 21 event will now be called the First Citizens Bank Big Sweep '91. The bank has made a financial and volunteer commitment to the September cleanup. Financially, First Citizens Bank provided much of the funding that is making this ever expanding waterway cleanup possi ble. Logistically, 328 First Citizens Bank branches in 169 cities and towns are serving as distribution points for the dissemination of brochures describing the event and listing cleanup locations. Brochures will be available after Sept. 3. First Citizens Bank employees will be joining other volunteers throughout the state on Sept. 21 to sweep litter from North Carolina’s beaches, lakes, rivers and streams. “We’re extremely pleased to have First Citizens Bank become a part of Big Sweep ’91,” says Big Sweep coor ' dinator Lundie Spence, UNC See Grant’s marine education spedaliat. “We’re happy that they are concern ed about environmental issues, par ticularly the problem of litter in our state’s waterways. “Bat. ioinina our cleanun effort. FirsfCitizens is helping Big Sweep ’M make a commitment to the people of North Carolina to reduce waterway litter,” Spence says. “That’s a com mitment of which to be proud.” First Citizens Bank has a history of support for environmental events such as litter cleanups. The bank is one of the largest supporters of the Adopt-A-Highway program coor dinated by the N.C. Department of Transportation. If you would like to know more about First Citizens Big Sweep, con tact the Sea Grant office in Raleigh at 515-2454. If you would like cleanup locations, call the MCI toll-free hotline at 1-800-27-SWEEP or drop by a branch of First Citizens Bank after Sept. 3. Nebraska Historian’s Essay Omits Minorities, Scrapped OMAHA, Neb. (AP)-A Nebraska historian’s essay about statehood has been scrapped from the state’s 125th birthday book for leaving out racial', and ethnic minorities and women, Lt. Gov. Maxine Moul said. The state’s anniversary commis sion rejected the piece by Grand Island historian Bob Manley because it reflected neither Nebraska’s racial and ethnic diversity, nor the contribu tions of women to the state, said Ms. Moul, co-chairwoman of the commis sion. “I was absolutely stunned when I read in the [commission’s] minutes that there was one author, and that it was a conventional economic, political historian,” said commission member Roger Welsch of Dannebrog, a Nebraska author and humorist. "Nobody wants another book of numbers, dates and rich white men.” Manley was commissioned to write for a coffee-table book planned as a money-raiser for Nebraska’s 125th, or quasquicentennial, anniversary of statehood next year, Ms. Moul said. His job was to write a history of statehood for the book, which was to be made up mostly of photographs. He submitted it in June, but it did not find favor with the anniversary com mission, called the Q125 Commission. American Indians objected to the essay, and the commission leaders agreed with their objections, said state Sen. Scott Moore of Seward, a co-chairman of the commission. “The concerns of the commission were that it was not inclusive of the diversity of Nebraska,” Ms. Moul said. The commission, faced with an Aug. 2 deadline (the group wants jt out by Christmas), scrambled to fihd ' answers. They asked Manley' to change it to include minorities, Moore said “He thought that it wasn't hit business,” Moore said. Manley said the commission was free to add other Information to the book. “My suggestion was that they ask the native Americans to submit stuff of their own,” he said. ' Ms. Moul said the piece may be resurrected later in the quas quicentennial year as part of a collec tion of historical articles. Manley, a former professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and ScottsMufTs Hiram Scott College, specialises in Nebraska history. His doctorate is from NUL. “I was asked to write It,” Manley said. “I wrote an essay that I wanted to write and that would be ap propriate for Nebraskans to rend. They found it unsatisfactory. And I accept that.” In the essay’s place will appear photographs of people in the Nebraska Hall of Fame, Ms. Moul said. The piece Manley submitted was factual and interesting, Ms. Moul said. Scrapping it was “no reflection on Dr. Manley and his credentials, or anything like that,” she said. “If we had been in an ideal situa tion, we would have been able to in clude authors other than Dr. Manley,” she said. i, Moore proposed just that. • Welsch said he objected to any ] that would have included the I piece. Although he respects) work and reputation as a historian, Welsch —jd. he fire” in opposition to the artidldata commission meeting in July. “He gave us exactly what anybody would have expected of Mm, but it doesn’t contribute anything to Mb century Nebraska.”