EVA CLAYTON
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* representative who is accessible,
and who offers straight answers to
tough questions.”
Clayton, a 57-year-old Warren
County commissioner and president
of her own small business, points to
her leadership through almost three
decades of public service as the pri
Uiary reason she believes die can
serve residents of the district well in
Washington, D.C. Her experience
covers the gamut of local, regional,
state and national enterprises.
During her tenure as a commis
sioner, the county undertook the
largest capita] development of facili
ties in its history by building a new
middle school and law enforcement
center and renovating the high
school, courthouse and medical facil
ity.
Clayton said the challenging part
of being a commissioner is keeping a
fresh perspective, especially when
dealing with problems that keep
cropping up year after year.
“You think you’ve got that licked
and here he comes again. Some
times, you get weaiy,” said Clayton,
who owns a planning and manage
ment consulting firm.
A second challenge involves find
ing the resources to fit the growing
needs of the residents.
“The needs are so great, the re
sources so limited,” Clayton said.
The third challenge is “to be able to
balance the investment in human
development and capital develop
ment. I think it’s the human devel
opment that is going to give us the
competitive edge.”
Besides winning the Outstanding
Commissioner award, Clayton was
recently elected to the National
Association of Counties’ board of
directors.
She is a member of the NACo’s
Health Steering Committee and its
Deferred Compensation Commit
tee. She is also past treasurer of
Women Officials in NACo (WON)
and is currently chairman of the
Housing Assistance Council, a na
tional non-profit housing organiza
tion based in Washington, D.C.
A member of the Cotton Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Clayton said
she has always felt God biassed her
with the desire to serve and the
ability to come up with ideas.
POLICE SHOOTING
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fatality.
Another of the optionW for action
discussed was a possible lawsuit
against the City of Raleigh for all
incidents of police brutality in the
last 10 years, starting with the 1982
police killing of Dorothea Dix pa
tient Phil McLean. A legal defense
fund was also started at the meeting
to respond to police brutality in
Raleigh.
Mayor ProTsm and District C City
Councilman Ralph Campbell, Jr.,
who attended the meeting as an
observer, reminded the group that
because of new procedures imple
mented by the Raleigh City Council
earlier this year after the Tony Far
rell shooting, the Raleigh Police
Department no longer investigates
itself initially after a police officer
shoots a citizen. The State Bureau of
Investigation immediately is called
in, as in the Ingram case.
“From what I understand, they’re
doing a thorough report, (but) that
information is not in yet,” Campbell
said. The SBI report will be sent to
Wake District Attorney Colon
Willoughby, upon which time a
grand jury will be convened for final
consideration.
Campbell saidhe believed the SBI
report will be more thorough than
the recently issued police report,
because all of the witnesses at 314N.
Carver St (the scene of the shooting)
were interviewed immediately after
the incident, though there weren’t
any eyewitnesses.
Two special committees were cre
ated at the meeting, one to further
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develop a selective buying strategy,
and the other to organize a petition
drive. African-Americans will be
asked to restrict some of their holi
day shopping only to African-Ameri
can businesses as a way of protest,
possibly year-round.
Another meeting has been called
for Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Richard
B. Harrison Library, 1313 New Bern
Avenue, at 3 p.m.
BOYCOTT
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ing people in our communities. We
are urging their customers to shop
somewhere else until Family Dollar
reinvests comparable profits di
rectly with the people who made
them wealthy. This exploitation is a
source of bitterness and division
between blacks and Jews in America
and we want it to end before the
damage is irreparable.”
Whitley said that last year, Fam
ily Dollar grossed $28 million with
no long-term debts. “Surely Family
Dollar can set an example of corpo
rate affirmative action by seeing the
wisdom of supporting the people
that have supported them. We ap
plaud Mr. Levine forgiving to educa
tion institutions in North Carolina,
but we strongly feel that generosity
needs to be spread back to his cus
tomers.
“CARR will make it visible on Nov.
29, from 2-5 p.m. our concerns for
reciprocity, a return of good faith by
picketing Family Dollar Stores in
North and South Carolina, and eight
urban centers,” Whitley said.
CARR will picket the Person
Street store in Raleigh. There are
two Family Dollar Stores in Raleigh.
HAMLET
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that employees who have worked
there five to eight years are by
passed for promotions by supervi
sors who bring in inexperienced
people from the outside. “I think it's
unfair. IVe been there four years,
and we’ve had one safety meeting
since Tve been there,” he said.
“There’s a lot going on at the depart
ment that has not been told, but
people are afraid of losing their
jobs.”
Raleigh City Councilman At
Large-Elect Charles Meeker, who
will rejoin the council in December
and was at the forum as an observer,
suggested that any city workers who
feel that they’re being mistreated or
work in hazardous conditions
should bring their complaints before
the council, especially if standard
grievance procedures do not work.
“It is not city policy that anyone is
discriminated against or in any way
has their employment affected by
speaking out,” said Meeker, but
another city worker who says he
works in the recycling program said,
“That is not real life,” and supervi
sors are “greedy, uneducated and
unconcerned, and do not regard
their workers with due respect*
NEWS BRIEFS
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TOYS FOR TOTS
PROGRAM BEGINS
Christmas will be before
you know it. And the U.S.
Marine Corps Reserves will
onee again be distributing
new toys to needy children
nationwide through their
Toys for Tots” program.
Again this year. Northwest
Financial, Inc., has been se
lected as a nationwide spon
sor for the program. More
than 850 of the firm’s con
sumer finance offices will
serve as collection sites for
new, unwrapped toys. Local
Norwest Financial offices
will deliver the toys to nearby
Marine Corps Reserve units
just before Christmas. The
toys will then be sorted for
distribution based on a
child’s age and gender.
Raleigh/Durham-erea resi
dents interested in helping
the program may bring their
gifts to any of the three local
Norwest Financial offices:
•1821 Hillandale Road, Dur
ham
•2920 Highwoods Blvd.,
Raleigh
•8260-100 Glen wood Ave.,
Raleigh
CRIME BILL VETO
President Bush denounced
as “simply unacceptable” the
crime bill being pushed
through Congress by Demo
cratic leaders and vowed to
veto the legislation if it
reaches his leak. The blunt
rebuff ap|i<'. red intended to
force the Democrats to recon
sider last-minute steps that
made the bill milder
Military Seasons Greetings
CAMP CASEY, T0N6DUCH0N—UP, WOUTH KOREA-Army Staff S|L Frederick
Hunter wishes family and friends back home Season Greetings and a Happy New
Year. Parent is Virginia Neal of Raleigh.
CAMP PAGE, CHUNCHON, SOUTH KOREA-Army Sgt. Tyrone SmaR wishes
family and friends back home Seaston Greetings and a Happy New Year. Parent is
Ann L. Small of Fayetteville.
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, ADANA, GUAM-Air Farec Sgl. Darwin Mmftri
irishas family and friends back home Season Greetings and a Happy New Year,
•arenf is Rosetta Hudson, of Charlotte.
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Tear PaiKi<n>. <'M Poole. Sr. ot Durham.
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A SPECIAL PAMILV. A LIVELY
HOUSEHOLD f
On the corner of Pine Street and
Taylor, there’a a piece of ground that
haa produced a lot of tbmatoes,
onions, carrota, beets, zucchini
■quash both green and yellow, the
running type of okra, six-week peas,
sweet green peppers, cucumbers,
eggplant and turnip greens in
abundance.
In summer I’d noticed Lin wood
Walters working with his tiller and at
other times with a hoe. The other day,
though, I was surprised to have seen
this hardworking man hardly able to
move.
“I’ve got gout,’’ he told me. He has
to use a walker and a cane, his
daughters told me today, Sunday,
Oct. 27, when I made a special stop at
their home, Just to obtain some news
of the family which I think are really
special. “Daddy sings with the Silver
Trumpets of Creedmoor. Actually, he
lit the manager of that group, and he
sings bass. Today, when he left to go
on the singing engagement at the
Rock Soring Baptist Church in the
Thanksgiving:
The True Mean
In Comes Alive
BYHENJAMINF. CHAVIS, JR."
An Analysis
Yea, this ia the aeaaon to give
hanks to God for all of the blessing*
if life. For the overwhelming mqjor
ty of the world’s population, this is a
ime of profound hunger, pain and
itruggle for survival. To some in the
Jnited States, Thanksgiving is a
raditional time for fomilies to be
ogether and to share a sense of
gratitude for all the "good* things
hat have happened over a period of
ime.
For millions of Native Americans,
the celebration of Thanksgiving in
the United States serves as an an
nual reminder of the contradictions
American myths, values and the
commercialization of these myths
und values. On the eve of the 1992
tuinsecentennial obeervance of the
irrival of Christopher Columbus to
the Western Hemisphere, it should
!m necessary to speak a word oftrath
concerning the circumstances of
Native Americans in the history and
life of this nation.__
Although there are numerous ref
inances to Native American symbols
ind terms in sports, television, and
n other levels of society, there is a
rmry inadequate understanding on
he part of many Americans about
the state of Native Americans today.
Ihe truth is that Native Americans
lave survived five centuries of op
pression and genocide which is un
paralleled in human history.
Every time crowds in the tens of
thousands can now be seen on na
tional television at sports events
shouting, mimicking, and actingin a
frenzy of so-called "tomahawk"
moves, ws wonder if these sports
rans are aware of the racial and
cultural indignities that they are
"acting out" toward the Native
American community,, Of course,
baseball, football and other sporti
rans should enjoy themselves, but
not at the expense of the dignity o<
the Native peoples of this land and
world.
Maybe Thanksgiving 1991 will
live the nation another opportunity
to express “thinks for the giving* of
the millions of Native peoples who
were forced to "give up” their lands
uid life in the birth and historical
development of what is now "the
most powerful nation in the world,"
In the view of President George
Bush. Will our national elected lead
ers call the nation into a moment of
“repentance" for the past and make
a commitment for more fairness,
respect, and reparationalwuppart of
Native Americans? Will our na
tional religious leaders call the
communities offaith into prayer and
sets of repentance for the "sins"
committed against Native Ameri
cans?
The truth is that the fiiture ofthi
United States will nbt depend upor
military might or industrial or ever
economic development es assured
methods cf maintaining "super
power status." But the ftiturbofthii
nation, we believe to a burgs meas
ure, will depend upon a national
commitment to revisit, rethink, and
repent for the historic national rind
of Native American genocide and
African-American slavery, lit other
words, untilw® a* a nation face Up
more |*adiiy to the true history of
the (ration, the reel poritivo poten
tial of the nation will not material
ize. ’ * I '
President Bush’s exclamation ofi
"New World Order seeks to obftis
rate the truth of UR. history.
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CTewtfnoor area of GranviMfCorny.
he decided to trust himself hy leasing
his walker behind.”
The other week, after J was told by
Me., Jenny Welter* (mother), that
"We are ettshW with a virue,” I iWede
a hasty exit. "We got ova* It, but it
took about a week,” they aU agreed.
At the same time, daughter
Alvaradar was in bed with a siekle
cell crisis. No sooner was that over,
and wham! Alvaradar suffered a
bout with gallstones, which had to be
Radar, as the family calls her,
manages to maintain a asocial
radiance, despite having sickle call.
“I’d like for you to go with me to
Chapel Hill sometimes” she said.
"Maybe you can get some firsthand
information to bring back to. the
public, to enlighten them about , the
I told Radar that I would , be
delighted to accompany her up there
to sit in on one of her treatment
sessions. I guess I’m one of the
luckier ones., All I know about the
hospital in Chapel Hill I’ve gotten
from others. I've never had an
opportunity to go there.
Another daughter, Theresa, who
was the backbone of the family
during the crisis, talked of how hard
it was on her, trying to fight off her
own virus, which, thank God, was
about over by the time she had to go
' back and forth to Chapel Hill, and try
to hold down her Job at the
' Departmental Transportation (DOT)
in Raleigh. “No, I don’t drive a bus,
l’maWnJU!»rc0#herobeaaid.
;«■ Theresa Is%£Wtim people who
appeared in either the first or second
Wake Forest article. At that time,
Theresa was making * plea for
someone to come forth to reptace her
as a Girl Scout leader. s
Today, she told me that she is still
involved with the Scoiuts, but nqft to
the same extent. “We couldn't get
any cooperation from the parents,”
she said, “so we just had to lessen our
involvement.”
She is herself the parent of two
grown sons. Carlton, 31, is in school at
Wake Tech studying to become a
radiologist. Paxton, 00, is new in
Florida, where he, too, has enrolled in
college on the first leg of becoming a
paralegal, and hopefully to become a
lawyer down the road.
Despite tho ups and downs, I’ve
always tow the Walters household
to be a pleasant place to make a
weekly stop. There are usually
children around, for Cousin Pamela
Walters Caesar is around often to
lend a hand where needed. She belpe
with the household work and Leslie,
Lautice, La Tries and LaShonda,
each of whom is under 10 years of
age, keep up a lively chatter, and
keep the family happy.
“When we first moved into this
community,” Theresa said, “It was
so nice and quiet during the years
1874-75. But today, there is such a big
difference, it's unbelievable."
It had been a full day, and now it
was time to hand back to FraakUuton.
I had awakened with the Wallers
household in wondered
when I’d have time to visit; after
* attending the program of ”100
Women in Hats” and the home of the
Hayes family, I made it a paint to
stop fa Thanks far the hospitality,
i Wittww- " *'"■'**
I'll taka this opportunity to wish (or
you the start of the festive season, a
happy and safe Thanksgiving. and
hope that you will raslise that in your
Christmas gift selections, why not
give a gift that keeps on giving: the
CAROLINIAN? I'll be happy to take
your order the next time around. Jpt
think: you'll getbath the Tuesday and
Thursday copy it the paper oo tbe
day that it ,1s dated, with several
columnists that; you'll enjay» I’d:
recommend “Pete's PicktS's”
written by Raleigh’s Pete Wilder,
who has many relatives la
Franklin ton, and who talks sohmeh
about Chuck Hunter that I have nmds
it a top habit to (Ml up at Hunter’s
Exxon across from the N.C..Motor
Vehicle Department on Now Bern
Avenue every Thursday, and thaaugh
him I feel tike I know a tot al his
cronies that he talks so much abept.
All of this is in the Tuesday
CAROLINIAN. Another good writer
is found there, too, from my verywwn
City of Brotherly Love, Chuck Stone.
My sister, who whom I made a
birthday gift of The CAROLINIAN,
wss thrilled to know that Chuck Stone
was writing for The CAROLINIAN,
as well as for one of the Philadelphia
papers that she reads every day.
It was right after Virginia ’ayes'
July birthday that I mailed tier the
News and Observer account of bis
move to North Carolina as a
university instructor in journalism.
Chuck had been a big force in the
area of crime in PhiladeiphiA- It
seems .that the really
Wpuldlistop«ubiin< \
could crack the lurfaca
- So
yau she, ■— to
Ibnyvorthyour
while, and you’ll Mill be able to have
make visits to your
1 gei news, wnten
to say '!!
bring the paper. Okay?