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Cynthia Newbille-Marsh Has Been Named
Director Of The National Black Women’s
Health Project To Facilitate Public
Education On Health Issues.
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Milini Khan, daughter of Chaka Khan,
performs With Talented Team of Young
Ladies, Pretty In Pink, Music Covering Pop
To Hip Hop.
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THE GREATEST
These three remain: faith, hope
and love. But the greatest of these is
love. This kind of love is not just a
warm feeling toward others. It is a
decisive determination to love others
and to do what is best for them. It
becomes a reality in our lives.
Rev. Billy Graham
RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 50, NO. 93
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15,1991
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Brown Plans Strategy For Businesses
Television star Tony Brown is
stirring up a revolution among
America’s poor and unemployed
blacks — entrepreneurial revolution!
Brown says his new 900-number
network, starting this month, will
provide pool money for business
start-up loans to American blacks.
Host of the PBS talk show Tony
Brown’s Journal, Brown plans to
build up the marketing muscle of
existing black businesses and help
start new ones through a telephone
based network called Buy Freedom.
Brown will create a listing of small,
black-owned businesses. Each
business listed has is own 900
extension. For information on the
business’s discounted product or
service, customers pay $1.99 per
minute, plus 99 cents each additional
minute. One dollar Roes to the small
business, which also can compile a
hot customer data base from the calls
it receives.
The remaining profits from the
calls go into a fund that guarantees
loans for minorities who normally
wouldn’t qualify for a bank loan
because they lack collateral or credit.
“My dream is to create 50,000 new
businesses,” .says Brown, “and take
50,000 families off welfare.”
To get your business listed on the
Buy Freedom network call 212-575
0876.
The Buy Freedom 900 Network is
being ushered in by stories in the
November issue of Success magazine
and Fortune magazine.
The 100th year anniversary issue of
Success, the Magazine For Today’s
Entrepreneurial Mind, calls the 900
number network an “entrepreneurial
revolution.
“Tony Brown is stirring up
a revolution among America’s poor
and unemployed blacks." Success
says that “pool money” will be
provided by the Network to make
start-up loans.
Success also' said that each
business would offer a “discounted
product or service. On one extension,
you will find a 2-hour video — How To
Start Your Own Successful Business
with a free booklet called Business
Planning Workbook for 919.95,
usually sold for $32.
A man in Houston sells an
automobile gas saver and self
manufactured cosmetics line; a
woman in University Park, 111., has a
computer service and a man in New
(See STRATEGY, P. 2)
Drug Dealers Caught
Offenders
1 Sentenced
I To Prison )
The number of persons sent to
prison for narcotic and drug
violations during fiscal year 1990-91
increased 10 percent over 1909-90.
The increase in drug offenders
being sent to prison is one of the
f findings in two statistical abstracts
prepared by. the Department of
Correction’s 6ffice of Research and
banning. The reports on the Division
of Prisons and Parole are prepared
semi-annually for planning purposes.
The report indicates 4,143 offenders
entered prison in fiscal year 1990-91
for narcotic and drug crimes
compared with 3,760 in 1969-90.
There were 26,311 offenders sent to
prison in 1990-91. That is an 11 percent
increase over the 23,733 offenders
admitted in 1989-90.
“Law enforcement and the courts
are doing a better job of arresting and
prosecuting offenders, resulting in
more offenders being sent to prison,”
says Ken Parker, manager of the
department’s Office of Research and
Planning. “As the trend of three
years of double-digit increases in
prison admissions continues, the need
for additional prison space grows.”
The 1990-91 admissions included
5,154 offenders sentenced for
assaultive crimes such as murder,
rape and robbery; 10,432 offenders
sentenced for property crimes such
as breaking and entering, auto theft
. and worthless checks; and 10,745
sentenced for public order crimes
such as narcotic and drug offenses
and driving while intoxicated. There
I was a 12 percent increase in
■$ admissions for offenders sentenced fo
I assaultive crimes; five percent for
4 property crimes, and 17 percent for
| public order crimes, when comparing
1990-91 prison admissions to 1969-90.
The number of felons admitted into
[ prison during 1990-91 increased by 10
fi percent to 14,640 from 13,312 in I960
[ 90. The number of misdemeanant
I admissions during 199041 increased
I by 12 percent to 11,691 from 10,411 in
m 1969-90.
(See DRuu UKKENDERS, P. 2)
125th ANNIVERSARY - Or. Prtzrt R. Robinson,
prosMont, Saint An|usMnn’i CoHogo accepts a
proclamatian tram Mayor Avery C. Upchurch of Raleigh
wlrito celebrating the 125th anniversary of the institution.
Saint Augustine's Cologe has been lecated In the historic
Medan of Oakwood since 1867 and is ann of the aatien’s
post CMI War lharal arts institutions at higher teaming.
Dr. RaMasen has provided leadership as president of the
ealage for 25 years.
New Regulation Prohibits Funds,
Donations For Higher Medicaid
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Human Services last month
announced a regulation which will
prohibit the payment of federal
Medicaid funds to match donations
by or on behalf of health-care
providers or the Medicaid portion of
certain provider taxes that are
returned in the form of higher
Medicaid payments.
"The use of donations and provider
taxes increases federal Medicaid
costs without an increase in state
expenditures or services, effectively
altering the matching rate," HHS
Secretary Louis W. Sullivan said.
“These devices are contrary to the
cost-sharing partnership that is the
hallmark of Medicaid.”
The rule states that funds donated
from providers will be subtracted
from nominal state Medicaid
expenditures before the federal
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Inside Africa
BRAKLAAGTE, South Africa
(AP)—It isn’t even a dot on moot
maps, but Braklaagte is not hard to
find.
Just look for military tents
billowing in the breeze and razor wire
that runs like a weed through a once
tranquil hill town, separating soldiers
and civilians engaged in an unusual
war.
On one side of the conflict is the
government of Bophuthatswana, a
tribal homeland recognized as an
independent nation only by South
Africa.
On the other are residents led by
Pupsey Sebogodi, who want the town
to leave a nation that doesn’t exist
and return to the jurisdiction of South
Africa.
This farming community and the
neighboring town of Leeuwfontein
have been in a state of siege since
their It,000 reaiaenu were
transferred from South African rule
in 1909.
Bophuthatawana’s blue and orange
flag flape above the atone huta and
well-kept farms, but the violence that
haa coat the llvea of a doaen
policemen and civiUana ia not over.
The dismantling of apartheid in
South Africa, accompanied by the
poasibUity of black-majority rule,
stokes the determination of Sebogodi
and his followers.
“South Africa is an apartheid
regime, but I’m telling you, the
apartheid and oppression in Bop are
greater,” he said on a sunny day in
the Southern Hemisphere wihter.
Sebogodi and thousands of others
recehUy returned to Braklaagte from
seven months of exile in Zeerust, a
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iiiaivuiiiK 3noic is cflicumiea.
Consistent with the 1990 budget law,
matching funds will be available for
state tax revenues earmarked for
Medicaid with the following
exception. Federal matching funds
will not be available for revenues
from the Medicaid portion of taxes
uauuwiy mijpu&eu on nospuais,
nursing facilities and ICF/MRs, then
repaid to them through higher
Medicaid payments. Most current
state programs which use taxes to
increase payments to hospitals with
iSit MKDK'AID FUNDS. P. 2)
Housing Developments
Win Excellence Awards
For Attractive Units
Four housing developments in
Charlotte, Durham, Goldsboro and
Monroe have won the 1991 Housing
Carolina Awards for excellence in
affordable housing. The North
Carolina Housing Finance Agency
presented the awards Oct. 10 during
its board of directors meeting.
Winners in the statewide
competition are Fairmarket Square,
Charlotte, developed by Crosland
Properties with financing from the
City of Charlotte; Carolina Street
duplexes, Goldsboro, developed by
Little People Development Corp.,
Goldsboro; Stratton Park, Durham,
developed by Cimarron Capital, Inc.,
with financing assistance from the
City of Durham and Duke University;
and Greyfield, Monroe, developed by
Nash Construction. Developers and
sponsors of each property received a
plaque signed by the housing finance
agency and Gov. James G. Martin.
“The winning developments
clearly show that affordable housing
can be attractive and liveable,” said
Gov. Martin in a prepared statement.
“I congratulate the sponsors for the
inventive financing and the
cooperation between private and
public partners that has produced
such fine results.”
William T. Boyd, chairman of the
North Carolina Housing Finance
Agency, said the agency makes the
annual awards “to honor private and
nonprofit developers who produce
outstanding homes and apartments
that people with low incomes can
afford.”
“This year’s winners have
achieved excellent results in a great
diversity of circumstances and
resources. We expect they will
provide ideas and models that can be
adapted in other communities
throughout the state," Boyd said.
Winners were judged on
affordability, creative financing,
attractive design, cost-effective
construction, services provided for
buyers and tenants and effectiveness
in meeting local needs. They were
selected by and independent jury,
from a field of 12 applications
Fairmarket Square in Charlotte is
a 60-unit rental complex developed by
Crosland Properties with an interest
free deferred loan of $1,275 millino
from the City of Charlotte, which
shares in the award. The
development offers two- and three
bedroom apartments with air
conditioning, carpet and appliances
(including dishwashers) at rents of
$200 and $230 a month. Completed in
1990, the property was designed to be
indistinguishable from market-rate
rental complexes and to blend with its
middle-class neighborhood in
Charlotte’s northeast suburbs.
According to the terms of the city’s
loan, rents must remain affordable
for 15 years to families earning less
than 40 percent of the local median
income—making the current
maximum income $15,320. Financing
for Fairmarket Square also includes
federal low-income housing tax
credits and an interest-free loan from
the Housing Trust Fund, both
administered by the North Carolina
Housing Finance Agency. A special
arrangement with the Charlotte
Mecklenburg Housing Partnership
provides counseling to help tenants
become more self-sufficient and
make the transition from subsidized
to unsubsidized housing.
Little People Development Corp.
won in the category of rental
developments in metropolitan
communities. Its 16-unit rehabili
(See HOUSING AWARDS, P.2)
North Carolina 2000
21st Century
BY GOV. JIM MARTIN
A* AMlytk
Have you ever given any thought to
how a road is built?
First, planners decide if a road if
needed and what location options are
available. All the options are studied,
particularly for their environmental
Impact. Once the studies are
complete, engineers design the road.
Finally, after much public
involvement, materials and right-of
way are acquired, and construction
begins. Some time later traffic is
sailing smoothly on a state-of-the-art
roadway.
We’re trying to build the road to
excellence in education here in North
Carolina. We know that education is
the key to economic and world
leadership in the future for both our
state and nation. We must educate
our citisens so they can use future
technology, qualify for a job ebd raise
a family in the fiercely competitive
global marketplace of the 31st
century.
That future Is now, and a new road
to radical education reform is
desperately needed. Jobs have
already become increasingly more
technical, requiring a more skilled
and trainable labor force, but bur
system of education has not kept
pace. More than 31 percent of our
citizens still lack a high-school
education, and some who have
graduated from high school lack the
basic skills they need Just to read
their diploma, a Job application, or a
warning label.
Simply throwing more money Into
education is not the answer. Since
1985, education spending has
increased by 76 percent, rising from
11.8 to 83.3 billion per year in 1990-91.
Student achievement has not
increased even 10 percent.
We’ve studied our options and have
even brought In a few education
engineers to design specific reforms.
r
What we need now ii to oegin
con*trading our road, taking what
we've learned and implementing it to
bring real reform Into every school
system in this state.
I want to construct our road to
educational excellence by radically
reforming our entire educational
system through an organisational
structure called "North Carolina
MOO." This initiative will provide the
materials and organisation to take
what we’ve learned about reform and
make it a reality in every classroom
in our state.
This statewide effort sets dear
state and national goals for our
students, Initiates reform at the local
level based on local needs, and
establishes a system of
accountability and reward for better
results.
“North Carolina 9000“ is designed
to closely parallel President Bush’s
t See EDUCATION REFORM. P. 2)
Funny “Junk Man,”
Redd Foxx Dies
Of Heart Attack
Comedian John Elroy Sanford, who played a crabby
junk dealer on the l»70s TV series "Sanford and Son,”
died Oct. II after suffering a heart attack on the set of his
new show.
Redd Foxx died at Queen of Angeles Hollywood Presby
terian Medical Center, according to Jeff Sagansky,
president of CBS Entertainment. He was 68.
Foxx was rehearsing a scene for the CBS series "The
Royal Family" at a Paramount Sturtsound stage when
he collapsed.
It was in Harlem that Foxx got his name "Redd"
because of his hair color and light skin, lie ran away from
his home in St. I amis. Mo. when he was 13 to Join a street
baud, then began working as a comic in the DMAs.
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