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Legendary bluesmaster B.B. King wil
headline a hot blues festival with Dr. John
Buddy Guy and the Fabulous Thunderbirds ai
Hardee’s Walnut Creek Amphitheatre.
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This Week
Her Own Story
Sister Thea Bowman, renowned spokesperson
| for African-American Catholics tells how she
% brings the joy of life to schools and
congregations.
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Andrew Young was bom in New Or
leans, 1932. He was a close aide to Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1972, he was
elected to Congress from a Washington
district; and in 1977, he was appointed
by President Carter asU.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations. He was elected
mayor of Atlanta, Ga., in 1982.
Richard B. Harrison Library
1313 New Bern Avenue
Raleigh NC 27610
RALEIGH, N.C.,
v VOL. 61, NO. 47
& TUESDAY, MAY 6,1992
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^Harris
Plant
Marks
Success
Five year* ago on May 2,
1987, commercial nuclear
power came to life at
Carolina Power and Light’s
Harris Nuclear Plant in
southwestern Wake County.
Since that day, the Harris
plant has received some of
the best scores in the
Southeast for plant oper
ations from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, has
sat company records for
continuous days of oper
ation, and has produced
electricity for customers
more efficiently than the
national average.
The Harris nuclear plant has
enjoyed five years of
successful operations and
has saved customers almost
$400 million in fuel costs.
‘The Harris plant has
•njoyed five years of
suocessfal operations thanks
to the talents and hard work
of our employees,” said
Gerald Vaughn, vice presi
dent of the Harris Nuclear
Project. “I want to thank and
congratulate each of our
employees for making the
Harris plant one of the top
performing nuolear power
plants in the country.”
This spring, the Harris
plant set a new company
record by operating nonstop
for 271 consecutive days. To
date, the plant has produced
more than 28 billion kilowatt
hours of electricity. That’s
enough electricity to serve
the needs of CPAL’s 830,000
residential customers for
(See HARRIS PLANT, P. 2)
Rodney King Verdict Shock To Area
BY CASH MICHAELS
SUIT Writer
“They sai d it looked like they were
only ‘tappi ng’ Rodney King,” sai d an
exasperated Broughton High stu
dent. The African-American teen
was telling a friend about why one of
her black classmates left the class
room earlier: White students were
making light of the surprising Rod
ney King case verdict.
When a Simi Valley, Calif, jury
last Wednesday acquitted four
white Los Angels police officers in
the brutal videotaped beating of
black motorist Rodney King, the
world was literally in shock, and
L.A. erupted into unprecedented
violence.
Dozens of people were killed,
hundreds injured, and still more
were arrested. The subsequent
shooting, looting and burning of the
“City of Angels” saddened many
African-Americans across the coun
try. Violence also broke out in At
lanta, Philadelphia and Seattle.
In the Triangle, very little violene
was reported. But African-Ameri
cans were no less shocked and con
cerned.
One hundred students at North
Carolina Central University in
Durham marched through the
streets with clenched fists, shouting
“No justice, no peace,” “Savage
cops,” and “We shall overcome.”
On Friday, hundreds of St.
Augustine’s College students
marched through downtown
Raleigh, voicing their opposition to
the verdict.
Mayor Avery C. Upchurch issued
a statement, tellingcitizens that “no
Third Trial For Barnes Looms
Citizens
Express
Outrage
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
Despite a Superior Court jury
verdict that found Willie Barnes not
guilty on one charge, the prospect of
yet a third trial in the broken BB
gun case has African-American citi
zens very concerned and in some
cases even outraged.
Barnes, the 16-year-old teenager
who was tried and convicted last
February on charges emanating
from allegedly bringinga broken BB
gun to school, was acquitted last
Wednesday on one of three charges
of assaulting three Enloe High
administrators. But a 12-member
jury deadlocked on the two remain
ing assault charges and two counts
of communicating verbal threats.
Judge Gary Trawick declared a
mistrial on those four charges, and
Wake Assistant District Attorney
Ricky Spoon, the prosecutor, imme
diately announced that the case
would be retried, possibly sometime
this month.
Barnes told reporter that if he has
to go to court a third time, he is
ready.
The two-day trial started a day
later than expected, causing many
(See BB GUN. P. 2)
Community Calendar
NETWORKING EXCHANGE
The Cary Alumni Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. will be hosting a Professional Networking
Exchange on Wednesday. The event will be held at Tremors located at 912
W. Hodges St. in Raleigh from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Please come join the
Triangle’s leading professional men and women for an evening of innova
tive networking and social interaction. Various representatives from local
businesses and industries will be present. The admission will be $6 per
person at the door. Proceeds will be donated to various scholarship funds.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEETS
Cynthia Langlykke will speak on her recent visit to the northern
Mexican border as a YWCA representative at the Raleigh Amnesty Inter
national meeting, Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m. at Fairmont Methodist
Church, 2501 Clark Avenue at Home Street. All are welcome. For informa
tion, call 832-0225.
PRICE HOLDS COMMUNITY MEETING
Fourth District Rep. David Price will hold a community meeting in
Raleigh next week to find what’s on the minds of Wake County residents.
<nie community meeting will be held on Monday, May 11, at 7 p.m. in LeRoy
Martin Middle School, 1701 Ridge Road in Raleigh. During the meeting,
Price will give an overview of issues now before Congress, then will turn the
floor over to Raleigh residents for questions or comments.
The Raleigh meeting is part of an ongoing series of community meet
ings that Price has held since coming to Congress.
RDU DIRECTOR TO SPEAK
The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau will hold its bi
monthly “Eye-Opener” Breakfast Program on Thursday, May 14, from 7:15
to 9 a.m. at the Mission Valley Inn, 2110 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh.
Travel and transportation will be the topic, with guest speaker John C.
Brantley, director of Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
ARTISTIC SERIES
The Artists Series of Saint Andrews Presbyterian Church, 7506 Falls
of the Neuse Road, Raleigh, presents the Raleigh Ringers, a premiere
handbell ensemble, Sunday, May 17, at 4:30 p.m. Sacred and secular
ringing will prove to be entertaining for all. No admission charge., For
further information, contact Floyd Lowman, 847-1913.
(See CALENDAR, P. 2)
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUN'TIES - Gary Florence, MCI
Corporation representative, discusses MCI employment
opportunities with computer operations students
LaShawn Holloway ot Raleigh and Sonya Speed of
Fuquay-Varina and with computer proagramming student
Katina Robertson of Wake Forest MCI was one of 39 area
companies represented at a career fair at Wake Technical
Community College Wednesday, April 22. The college's
placement office sponsored the fair, which attracted more
than 500 students. Companies in business, engineering
technology, public service and vocational fields offered
information at the fair.
Lucille Hunter School During Great
Depression Beacon For Students
BY JOHN T. MOORE, JR.
Contributing Writer
The pupils of Lucille Hunter Ele
mentary School were very fortunate
to reside in an educational city like
Raleigh during the Great Depres
sion and thereafter.
Raleigh, as we have known it from
1792-1932 and even until today,
has all kinds of cultural, state, city,
county and private buildings.
Also, the Hunterites had better
school facilities, equipment, better
trained and experienced teachers
Winn-Dixie
Cuts Food
Costs Here
In response to what Winn
Dixie describes as a
“heightened demand” for low
prices, the grocery retailer
will reduce prices in all 1,200
of its stores, located through
out the Southeastern United
States. Winn-Dixie President
James Kufeldt announced
last week that the price
reductions will impact
thousands of food items' and
that it represents a
significant step toward
lowering the total food bill
for its customers.
The price-reduction
program has been underway
for several weeks, and was
completed by April 29. “It’s a
big job to lower prices on
thousands of items at 1,200
supermarkets,” Kufeldt said,
“but customers have told us
(See WINN-DIXIE, P. 2)
and principals than their rural cous
ins in many, many parts of North
Carolina.
Economically speaking, during
the Great Depression, African
American sharecroppers suffered
along with the white landowners of
big cotton and tobacco farms be
cause of foreclosure, and therefore,
their farm “hands,” too, suffered.
(See CLASS OF ’29, P. 2)
one in city administration approves
of police violence,” and that Raleigh
has one of the finest police depart
ments around. Many, however,
viewed the mayor’s statement with
skepticism.
Callers to Frank Roberts’ “Let’s
Talk” radio program on WLLE-AM
said they were outraged and under
(See KING VERDICT, P. 2)
Shaw Gets
Grant For
Science
Four faculty members from Shaw
University in Raleigh are among
teams of faculty from five North
Carolina universities selected to
participate in a program funded by
the National Science Foundation
through a two-year, $181,879 grant
to the N.C. Supercomputing Center,
a division of the Microelectronics
Center of North Carolina. The
teams were announced by Dr. Larry
Lee, vice president for supercom
puting at MCNC.
The program is designed to teach
university instructors how to use
computers to “do” science and how
to pass those computational science
skills along to their students
through curriculum modules the
faculty will develop with staff at
NCSC.
Dr. Lee says, “Learning computa
tional science is crucial for faculty
and students in today’s universities.
It is not enough just to know physics
and chemistry. Now it is necessary
to know how to ‘do’ science and math
by computer. That’s what computa
tional science is—doing scientific
modeling and simulation on com
puters. It is an integral part of sci
ence and science education today.”
Computational science is not a
separate discipline; instead it is a
vital component these faculty teams
will learn to include as part of the
sciences they are already teaching.
What they learn will affect what
they teach and how they teach their
students when they return to their
own campuses.
Selected for participation in the
first yearlong program are:
(See COMPUTER, P. 2)
Mobil Oil Chairman Heads NAACP
1992 Corporate Campaign For Funds
Allen E. Murray, chairman of the
board, president and chief executive
officer of the Mobil Corp., has been
named chairman of the NAACPs
1992 Corporate Campaign, Dr.
Benjamin L. Hooks, the NAACPs
executive director and chief execu
tive officer, has announced.
More than 400 of the nation’s
largest corporations land compa
nies are contributors to the Corpo
rate Campaign. This year’s goal is
$4 million.
“We are most fortunate to have
Mr. Murray as this year’s chair
man,” Dr. Hooks said. “We know of
his sincere commitment to equal
opportunity and equality. Under his
leadership weareconfidentofa very
positive response from the corporate
community.”
“It is a great honor for me to have
an opportunity to be of service to the
oldest and one of the most revered
civil rights organizations in the
nation, the NAACP,” Murray said.
“Its rich tradition of leadership in
advancing freedom and equality
throughout our society has earned
the gratitude and support of all
Americans.”
Murray has been with Mobil
Corp. since 1952 when he joined the
company as an accountant. From
1956 until 1965, he held various
financial and planning positions in
the Middle East Department.
In 1967, Murray was appointed
general manager of the Middle East
(See NAACP, P. 2)
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CORPORATE CAMPAIGN — Ala* E. Morray, president and chief uacutlva
officer of the MeN 01 Carp, and the NAACP's 1992 cerparata campaign
chairman, presents a check ta the NAACP far $100,000. Accepting is Or.
Beniamin L. Hooks, NAACP executive director/CEO.