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TUESDAY Hollywood’s Hit Maker Edie Murphy is the number one comedy film star in the world with his movies surpassing one billion dollars. He will be joined by Robin Givens in “Boomerang.” Paged Women Come After Tyson Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson, under indictment for rape in Indiana, may be a victim of his popularity. Women come after Tyson. Page 5 THIS WEEK In the 1930s sculptor Augusta Savage became the first black member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. In 1939 she created a special work for the New York World’s Fair, Lift Every Voice and Sing, a 16-foot harp whose strings were black children, standing erect and singing. RALEIGH, N.C., VOL. 51, NO. 1 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1991 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY AP IN RALEIGH ^90 ELSEWHERE 300 Fraud Charges Dropped Against Ms. Sheila Wray Credit card fraud charges were dropped last week against Sheila A. Wray, the wife of Assistant City Manager Lawrence W’-ay, on grounds of insufficient evidence. Wake Assistant District Attorney Haislip said there was insufficient evidence to prove that Ms. Wray intended to use an AmericapExpress card owned by the wife of developer John W. Winters. The card was discovered in a wallet owned by Ms. Wray. She lost the wallet during a downtown outdoor festival. Someone found it, took the money from it and dropped the wallet in a mailbox. Investigators searched the billfold after it was found at the post office and spotted Ms. Winters’ card among the other items identifying the wallet as Ms. Wrav’s. The card was discovered in a wallet owned by Ms. Wray. She lost the wallet during a downtown outdoor festival. Someone found it, took the money from it and dropped the wallet in a mailbox. Ms. Wray and her husband rent a house owned by the Winterses, where they lived for 25 years. E. Richard Jones, Ms. Wray’s attorney, said that the Wrays were supposed to pick up the mail for the Winterses and deliver it to them. He said Ms. wray put the card in her wallet to deliver to Ms. Winters, but had forgotten about it. Haislip said the law required thal the state prove that Ms. Wray intended to use the card. “According to the evidence I had she withheld the card in her wallet foi three months, but she never used it For that reason, I made- the decisioi (See CHARGES DROPPED. P 2) Inside Africa Employees Urged To Speak Out Workers ‘Partly’ Blamed In Hamlet Fire annrkintQ thp 11 members Of thG ijOCKea nre aoors mai investigators say caused some of the deaths at a poultry plant can be blamed partly on the company’s employees, a state OSHA advisory panel member says. “I imagine they [plant workers] stole chickens just as fast as they could go...,” Bradford Barringer said last Wednesday during a meeting of me wucupauuiidi oaieiy anu rieciiui ’ Advisory Council. “It probably wouldn’t have < happened, somewhat, if there had 1 been honest employees in that plant,” 1 said Barringer, who owns a Stanly i County utility construction business. ; “If there had been more honest employees, those doors probably 1 Investigators blamed at least some >f the 25 deaths in a Sept. 3 fire at the mperial Food Products Plant in iamlet on locked fire doors that kept workers from escaping the smoke ind flames. Employees said the doors had been ocked because of management 1IO U V V-J puiv-1 vu vuiv.nviio. “Would you want your mother to work in those conditions?” Keith Hayes, the business agent for the state plumbers’ union and a member of the council, asked Barringer, “Did you go to that plant after the fire? I did, and it made me angry .” Labor Commisioner John Brooks. Police Probe Slayings Property, Sawed-Off Rifle Taken Raleigh police searched a North Raleigh Apartment last week following the execution-style slayings of two men and seized a sawed-off rifle and blood-stained newspapers as possible evidence in the case. The bloody bodies of two g unidentified men were found dumped in a wooded area near Wake Medical Center last Tuesday, leaving few clues in the killings that may have been drug-related. However, police have tentatively identified one of the men as being from Brooklyn, N.Y., but have not released his name. Police are still running down leads trying to identify the victims believed to have been of Nigerian descent. An officer who was among the first at the scene said the men were shot. Investigators used an aerial fire truck device similar to a cherry picker to photograph the crime scene from above. On Thursday, detectives searched an apartment rented by a man who is thought to have associated with one of (See POLICE PROBE, P 2) GAINING SUPPORT-The Back-A-Child Campaign at the Bradley, chairman of the campaign. In photo: Bradley Gamer Road YMCA has set its goal tor 19911992 at presents a check to YMCA board chairman J.O. Lewis, Jr. $20,000 and to date has raised $8,640, said Lawrence as the program gains support and pursues its objective. Thrift Industry Forms Taske Force To Generate More Loans To Blacks WASHINGTON, D.C.-Th national leader of the saving institutions business announce formation of a task force in the wak of the recent discoveries regardin A Long Might trom tamme When their sorghum crop tailed, their last goat died and the final sack of grain was empty, Karo Sheknuri knew she and her four young children could not sit at home and hope for a miracle. They would have to walk for help across miles of dry, empty land or die. “I was afraid that one of us wouldn’t make it because it was so far, and we were already weak,” Sheknuri says. DANGEROUS TREK—Karo Sheknurl, 30, mints her daughter back to health altar the family, with leur children under seuoa-yean-old, made a desperate 5 day trip to safety from thalr drought-stricken farm In eastern Etktopa. Shaknur and her cltodron are among the 3 mWen Ethiopians who need food to survive tlw next year. A five-day odyssey across the “kolla” or hot region of Ethiopia, which was filled with hungry hyenas, desperate bandits and forgotten land mines, was a dangerous proposition for healthy adults. It was a deadly proposition for a woman and four children, the oldest of whom was 7, the youngest only 8 months “I knew my children’s lives were in my hands,” says Sheknuri. According to relief experts at CARE, the world’s largest private relief and development organization, the plight of Sheknuri’s family is all too common in southeastern Ethiopia, where more than one million people are threatened with starvation. “It’s sad to say, but in a country where three mill.on people are without food, Karo’s story is not unusual,” says Scott Faiia, CARE’s director in Ethiopia “Most of the people we help have gone through similar ordeals.” Her husband had gone to the town of Burka to attempt to beg for food when Sheknuri decided that the family’s best chances of survival was to walk to a CARE food distribution site that had just opened near Burka. On the first day, the family headed east across the table-flat valley where they lived. Everywhere were signs of a drought which had begun nearly two years earlier. Animal carcasses were a common site; river beds were simply dry gullies. On the second day of the trip, Sheknuri’s second eldest son was so famished that, in spite of his mother’s warnings, he ate some of the tough grass that local cattle subsist on. “When the people are really (See INSIDE AFRICA. P.2) s mortgage loan approval rates among s racial groups. ci In October, the Federal Reserve e Board reported preliminary Home g Mortgage Disclosure Act data for 1990 showing that blacks and Hispanics were turned down for told industry executives at the trad group’s recent annual eonventioi that the preliminary report should b a catalyst for positive aciton. Named co-chairmen of the tas force were two members of th league's executive committee: F.Y Don Sackelford, chairman of U.S. League of Savings Institutions said there is more to the story than whether there is discrimination. “We must figure out how to generate more minority applicants.” mortgages more often than whites. Don Shackleford, chairman of the U S. League of Savings Institutions, ireie suuauu, uiduutcui, prcaiutrii i (SeeTHRIFT INDUSTRY, P. 2) advisory council, said the Hamlet fire has become the focus of efforts to change the Occupational Safety and Health Act. He said that the health and safety program nationwide—not just in (See WORKERS BLAMED, P. 2) Families Expect No Financial Upgrowth Economy Seen Getting Worse NEW YORK, N Y (AP)-About half of Americans in an-Associated Press poll say they don’t expect their family finances to be better next year than this year. More than two-thirds say they think the economy is getting worse, and barely five percent think it’s getting better. These pessimistic expectations add to indications that the recession hasn’t bottomed out, since consumers have not regained the confidence they need to spend more freely. ‘‘You usually see people's expectations picking up even when we are still in a recession,” said Harold Zullow, a research fellow at Columbia University who specializes in economy psychology. For the poll, ICR Survey Research Group of Media, Pa., interviewed 1,012 adults Friday through Tuesday after the fifth-largest Dow Jones point drop ever. But plenty of indicators remain that people are counting on the ? government to ease the economic 1 squeeze that is compressing both the ? job market and inflation-adjusted earnings. 1 The most popular idea, with 79 J percent support in the poll, is a cut in federal taxes paid by middle-income Americans. Rep. Dan HostenKowsKi, D-Ill., is pushing the approach on Capitol Hill and Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton included it in an economic plan proposed last Wednesday. President Bush’s alternative, a cut in the capital gains taxes paid by investors on their profits, has not caught on with the public. Forty-one percent want it, 40 percent are (See FAMILY FINANCES, P.2) AWARDS RECIPIENTS-National Black Child Dovalapmant Inwtitiito, Triangle affiliate, hold a recaption at Artspaco recently that honored children’s advocates. Pictured Ml to right: Norma Haywood, education; Brenda Sanders, Chid Cara; Dooal Hants, awards presenter and afliato president; Jerome Brown, child welfare; and Dr. Tin Black Child Development Instttuta la a national erganizailn with lacal afflNatas thraugheut tha natlan. lit purpate It ta pramate the Interest ef African-American chlldran, and facusaa an faur key areas ef interest: child care, child welfare, health and education, said Barbara Baylor, vice president. (Phete by James BNes)
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