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HOLIDAY SPIRIT (Coniinutd from pagt 1) “I had been there for a year and i half, and whan this thing happened me and my wife had juat moved twi weeks prior to that We weren’t ever settled into our new house yet, ther | all of a sudden... BOOM!” Oates is one of the lucky ones. He already has a new job, but the trag edy meant that he and his wife haii to exhaust their savings, so it will b« a while before they are caught up os their bills. Union officials and activists who ' have counseled the survivors say that the tragedy has brought blacks and whites together in Hamlet like never before. A New York City radio minister chartered a bus ride for some of the children of victims to ‘ come to New York last weekend to visit, all expenses paid. Checks far amounts ranging lkun $10 to $7,000 have come from as far away as Cali fornia. Rev. Jackson has already made two trips to Hamlet, helping to give out food on his second visit The spirit of giving has given the survi vors strength to start again. *1 think everybody in this country should be really grateful,’ said Cas '■ sandra Smith. *If they have their loved one there with them, they’ve got everything. This holiday is going to be really hard for a lot of people here. And we have these children [of the victims] who still don’t under stand. It’s going to take a lot of time, and a lot of work." Contributions can be made to the Imperial Foods Victim Relief Fund, P.O. Box 151, Hamlet 28345. DEPRESSION (Continued from page 1) weeks for his paychecks from a Pas saic fur company when they were • first married in 1935. She said she remembered sewing men’s vests to help her out-of-work father before she married. Today she isn’t sure where the economy is headed, she said. “It’s frightfhl,’ she said. “You don’t know what’s going to happen next The way Bush is going I have no idea. I don’t trust him somehow or other... People don’t have the money to pay carfare to get to work.” Rev. James Peyton, 54, pastor oi the Resurrection Church of Jesus Christ in Teaneck, said his family survived on food they shared with their Virginia neighbors during th< Depression. Today, he said, the economy ii headed on a downward spiral ai domestic jobs are lost to foreigr competition and neighborly concert fades. “Then there were hopes,” he said. “Now people don’t trust the govern ment anymore.” SHOOTING (Continued from page 1) J.B. Bennett, 42, ofl209 Fayettev ille St., was charged with aiding and abetting in the shootings. Records claim Bennett supplied Williams with the weapons used in the inci dent. Bennett also was placed undei $5,000 bond. Foster Was taken tc Wake Medical Center for treatment and was listed in stable condition. In other news: The search for an 84-year-ole woman missing since Thursday wai officially called off Sunday, but about 30 volunteers continued t< tramp through Chatham Countj woods looking for her. Mabel Seymour, who suffers fron Alzheimer's disease, walked awa; from the Deer Hollow Rest Home ii northern Chatham and was lac seen crossing UB. 15-501 at th< Hamlet Chapel Hill Road intersec tion. Temperatures dipped to 14°F th< night die was discovered missing from the rest home. A search team of about 80 peopli searched a four-square-mile aret around the rest home on foot am Tha CAROLINIAN Publishing Co, Inc. I8SN0MSM73 $18 E. Martin Stott RaMgh, North Carolina 27601 Mailing Addiats: P.O. Bos 25308 Raltigh, North CaaoAna 27811 Stcowd Qffff Potttgt Paid at Raltigh North Carottna 27*11 PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ona Yaar.-$25.00 Six Months_914.00 Payabla In advaaca. Addrtts aH conmnu nicatkxw and imk§ aM chocks and nionoy ordtra payabla to Tha CAROUNIAN. AnaigamaM Pufadshara, Inc, 4S Waal Tha R.XIL.L-U-»-U-», ( (L. a iW Mil il^O vArtkinfl daw unlstt mmsomoiv nMtaas ■ s *n —- -1 accoirpanlas the copy. horseback. A state Highway Patrol helicopter scanned a wider area by air before authorities formally ended the search on Sunday. The search effort was concen trated in wooded areas along mkjor roads. Seymour's family placed her in the rest home five days before she disappeared. REP. JOHN LEWIS (Continued from page 1) died—for human rights. These punka [who are killing each other] are selling the legacy of the freedom rights down the river,” said the for mer chairman of the Student Non violent Coordinating Committee who marched with Dr. Martin Lu ther King, Jr. “Our communities m ust recapture the spirit of the 1960s. We need a united front because the solution should begin inside black America,” said Lewis, who is serving his third term as a representative from Atlanta’s Fifth Congressional Dis trict. Earlier this year, he was ap pointed deputy majority whip to help organize the Democratic Party majority members in the House of Representatives after Rep. William H. Gray (D-Pa.) resigned as the sec ond ranking leader of Congress to become president of the United Negro College Fund. An active member of Congress, Lewis serves on several key commit tees, including the Committee on Public Works and Transportation which secured the passage of the $151 billion surface transportation bill signed by President Bush last week. Lewis has announced that Geor gia will get $3.4 billion in transpor tation funds over the next six years as a result of the bill, including $75 million for special demonstration projects primarily in the Atlanta area. “The new transportation plan will provide a tremendous boost to Georgia’s economy and will help rebuild our state’s infrastructure. I am pleased to see that Atlanta will benefit from this plan,” said Lewis, who served in the city council prior to his election to Congress after he began seeking economic and politi cal influence in the area as a “Free dom Rider” in contrast to methods used by today's youth. Those who roam our streets and neighborhood* selling drugs, beat ing, shooting, and killing innocent bystanders have no respect for human rights. Those young people who prey on the young and elderly are a disgrace to the memory of those brave young men and women who attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery on ‘Bloody Sunday* for the right to vote,” the congressman said. 1 DAN BLUE House Speaker I REDISTRICTING (Continued from page 1) , ity-black district drawn by Rep. Dave Balmer, R-Mecklenburg, that would stretch from Charlotte to , Wilmington. “Nobody that I talked to, black, I white or anybody else, other than the author of that strange-looking district, took it seriously,” Blue said. “But apparently there is some strange communication between him and the Justice Department.” Other lawmakers were just tired of the whole process. Sen. Laura Tally, D-Cumberland, who complained about many of the redistricting plans in her area, now seemed more resigned. “At this point, I think slot of us would just like to see them draw up something and tell us what it is,” she said. “I don’t care what they do to me,” added Sen. Fountain Odom, D Mecklenburg, with a shake of his head. # State legislatures draw new boundaries for their congressional and legislative districts every 1C yean to reflect the changes in thaii papulation. The task was coaaiffr cated this year in North Carolina b> the addition of a 12th oor^reeAmel district, which the Legislature drew in agredoniinantiy Republican sec tion of the Piedmont. State Republicans, the estate chapter of the American Civil Liber ties Union and the NAACP had asked tbe Justice Department tc reject the plans, Kelly Alexander, president of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People in North Carolina, told a local Raleigh paper he was pleased with the Jus tice Department’s action. "They did the right thing,” he said “They zeroed in on the very thing! that the NAACP sai d was a problem, I hope that they [legislators] will come back and draw some realistic lines.” The proposed congressional dis trict plan contains one majority black district drawn in the north east region of the state—from Dur ham to Elizabeth City. But the Justice Department said the “irregular configuration” of the new district did not have the pur pose or effect of minimizing minority voting strength in that region. The Justice Department said the House plan appears to weaken blacli voting strength in eight southeast ern counties as well as in the District 8 proposed for northeastern North Carolina and in Guilford County. NEWS BRIEFS (Continued from page 1) benefit* when their regular state unemployment bene fits run out, as well as retro active benefits. ROAD WORK POSES HOLIDAY HASSLE The road home for Christ mas is likely to prove long and winding this year for many North Carolina motor ists. Construction is liksly to causa delays on major roads under repair, inoluding lifasslats M 1, A internal* 50 Mtwoin Ur* ange County and Greens boro, Interstate 98 in Northampton County and the Raleigh Beltline. LONG AIDE FIRED AFTER CONVICTION Ronald Graham Moore, a top aide to state Insurance Commissioner James E. Long, has been fired after being convioted of his fourth drunken driving charge, department offi cials said Monday. Moore’s official last day with the insurance depart ment will be Jan. 17, 1992, said Allen Feezor, chief dep uty insurance commis sioner. Moore, 44, directed the department’s office of mi nority affairs and occasion ally drove Long on state business, the Greensboro News and Record reported in their Monday edition. ECONOMIC (Continued from page 1) just to pay on the interest... we can’t survive this thing.” Maxwell admonished the audi ence to work toward being debt-free Upon accepting his award, Dol phus Pearson, using insurance as ar example to illustrate the responsi bilities of having an economic visior fir the fbture, said that African Americans must “share the risk’ with their children. “And if we don’t take them by the hand and show them how to pay the premium, we*n going to be in trouble. We’re going tc have to lead them, we're going tc have to show them the way,” said Pearson. Ms. Irving paid personal tribute tc Dr. Dupree as a humanitarian radic commentator and as an editor. Shi lauded Dr. Dupree as a pioneer broadcaster on Shaw University radio. “That was a step towered fu ture advancement for our youth, and far the people of Raleigh," said Ma Irving. She noted how proud she war to see African-American youth to day excel in many varied profes sions, and credited Dr. Dupree as i contributor to today's trend. The most dramatic personal testi mony during the banquet was that id O.A. Dupree Scholarship recipient Crystal Johnson. Ms. Johnson gra phically illustrated how her pnsvi ouslift of drug addiction and crimi nal activity five years ago wai turned around when Ms. Margaret Rose Murray, chairperson of thi OA Dupree Scholarship Fund, reached out to help her. "I kind of wonder, how I came to b< here and some of the others are not here. It’s not because they’re not intelligent, it’s not because the) haven’t anything to offer. It’s be SUPER FUND ‘92 - Washington, D. C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly is honorary chairperson for Super Fund ’92, WHMM TV’s second annual casino fundraising gala to be held on Saturday, Feb. 1. With her are WHMM general manager Edward Jones, Jr., left, and Super Fund '92 chairman Leonard Manning, who is also chairman of the board and CEO for Lottery Technology Enterprises. The * theme for the event Is Escape to tho Caribbean. The evening will feature live entertainment, casino games, a delicious buffet, celebrity hosts, dancing, oxcWag auctions of celebrity donations and more. For information caH 202-806-3202. r APPRECIATION DAY — In honor of Robert Taylor, an alumnus of Gamer’s aH-Mack high school, now East Gamer Middle School, the school askod Mr. Taylor, its head custodian, to sing SHont Night to the Wednesday morning assembly. Sefore the assembly was over, Taylor received a plaque and several tokens of appreciation and as the band played, students cheered and brought out a banner that read We Love You Mr. Taylor. Pictured under ; the banner, left to right: Principal R. E. Cobb, INce H. Williams, retired supervisor and friend; Robert Taylor, honoree and Mrs. Frances Haywood, counselor. HeMReg the banner, left to right: Marcus Davis and John Creech. ((Photo, J. Biles) General Baptist State Convention Gets W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grant For Services The Ueneral Baptist State Con vention of North Carolina has been awarded a grant of more than $464,000 by the W.K. Kellogg Foun dation to aaaist in establishing a Maternal and Child Outreach Min istry Project. The Kellogg Foundation, located in Battle Creek, Mich., is involved in supporting community efforts around the world that address health concerns. The pilot phase of the project, scheduled to begin in the spring of 1992, will respond to the high infant mortality rates and poor access to prenatal care experienced throughout North Carolina. The three counties targeted for the pilot program are New Hanover, Warren and Vance. The program will be open to all pregnant woman in these participating counties. A cadre of300 church and commu nity volunteers will be recruited and trained to encourage and assist new.. , mothers and pregnant women to use J health care and related services needed to achieve good health, inde pendence and maximum develop ment of personal resources. Participating volunteers will be concerned women in the community who are respected and trustred. Pregnant women will receive one on-one support from these volun teers throughout their pregnancy and during the first years of their infant’s life. An emphasis will be from Shaw University next May. Ms. Johnson’s goal is to be both a criminal attorney and a corporate lawyer. aMy professor told me that’s not how you generally do things. Well, Pmnot a general person,” said Crys tal Johnson to rousing ipplium placed on providing nutritional education and family life skills training as well as promoting the importance of the mother's continu ing education, job training, commu nity involvement and spiritual health. Currently, North Carolina has the 49th highest infant mortality rate in the nation. In response to the consis tent high death rate among infants, Gov. James Martin formed the Commission on Reduction of Infant Mortality to address the problem. Studies have shown that low birth weight is a significant factor contrib uting to infant mortality. Better use of existing services can contribute toward solving this problem. The project was designed by the GBSC with the assistance of the Health Behavior and Health Educa tion Department of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and an advising panel com prised of clergy, lay leaders and health professionals. The GBSC is a state denomina tional body of more than 1,700 black Baptist churches representing 450,000 members in North Caro lina. In 1979, the convention began a Health and Human Services Minis try that introduced health promo tion through local churches. Over the past 10 years, the Health and Human Services Ministry targeted reduction of hypertension within the black community and trained more than 1,000 church volunteers as health advocates to respond to this concern. For the 1990s the convention has adopted as its mission focus the improvement of maternal and child health. The Maternal and Child Outreach Ministry was developed to respond to this mandate. Tlu*-prqj ect is the first phase of a comprehen sive initiative to strengthen family t dfe within the black community. rourth Ward Moral Club Hosts Annual Holiday Meet Fourth Ward Floral Club was honored Dec. 14 by Ms. Elsie Green, 1705 Oakwood Ave., with a pre Christmas dinner. Everyone started by singing Christmas cards. The hostess then invited everyone into the dining area. The menu con sisted of turkey with dressing, giWet gravy, barbecued ribs, butterbaans, com, potato salad, tossed salad, cranberry sauce, hot rolls, cakes, 1 it wers Ms. Laura McLain, Msu Elisabeth Pugh, Ms. !] Ida Mona, Ms. Louise MeGtegery, | Ms. bane Wilsen,and Mo. Bib i llenn. Absent were Ms. Irene Peppers, i*s- Helen Rogers, Ms. Bessie taiford, Ms. Clina Upchurch, Ms. * fosephine Cameron and Ms. Bardie j iunter. Guests were Ms. Carrie Banks, ds. Loletta Avery, Ms. Katherine: tones, Ms. Ruth Cameron, : Rev. limmy Yarborough, Royce Gal oway, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mat- ■ hews, and Thomas Turner. Ms. McLain thanked the hostess, i Ms. B. Glenn. Ms. Laura McLain is ►resident and Ms. Elsie Glenn is ecretary.
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