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THURSDAY,
JUNE 18,1992
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You Bet Your Life’ To
Interview Area People
To Appear On TV Show
BY SHEHETOZI WOODLEY
Staff Writer
A nationwide search has beer
launched to select more than 1,00C
unique and interesting people tc
appear with Bill Cosby on his *901
remake of “You Bet Your Life.”
The show’s producers are look
ing for people with an interesting
aspect to their personality or an
experience which Bill can reveal
through his humor. Cosby hopes to
reflect the diversity of America, of
nationalities and characteristics
from rural America to big cities...
the individual ingredients that col
lectively give flavor to the Ameri
can pie.
According to NBC network
spokesman Curt Block, the new
series is set for a fall launch.
In the original “You Bet Your
Life” series, which began on radio
in 1947, hosted by cigar-smoking
Groucho Marx, and ran on NBC
TV from 1950-61, contestants won
money by correctly answering
questions on history and other top
ics, or by happening to say the
daily “secret word.”
Cosby said his show will lack
two of Marx’s trademarks. There
will be no cigar because “times
have changed. I smoke but I don’t
smoke on stage.” And, Cosby said,
he will refrain from denigrating
contestants for humorous effect.
In the original, if a contestant
said the night’s “secret word,” a
stuffed duck with a cigar in its
beak dropped from the sky and he
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Be New F„,*an To
“-asssss,
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
As of July 1, there will finally be
a high-school principal of color in
side the Raleigh Beltline.
Monday night, the Wake Board
of Education appointed Calvin J.
Dobbins, Jr. to become the next
principal of the state’s largest high
school, Enloe High. Dobbins, an
African-American, officially suc
ceeds Dr. Howard Coleman, whc
left Enloe in April for a position
with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
School System. Dr. Richard Jewell,
retired principal of Broughton
High and currently interim princi
pal at Enloe, will step down at the
end of the month.
Sources tell The CAROLINIAN
that Dobbins is a “team player” in
the school system, but should
bring a worthy change of leader
ship and philosophy to Enloe’e
head office.
Dobbins is currently the director
of elementary employment in hu
man resources at the Board of
Education Central Office. He has
worked at Enloe before, teaching
physical education and becoming
department chair (1978-80), and
coaching girls’ basketball and soft
ball (1978-82). He also worked as a
summer school director at Enloe in
1981.
Dobbins earned a bachelor of
science degree in physical educa
tion with a minor in biology and
education from St. Augustine’s
College in 1973, where he gradu
ated in the top 20 percent of his
class. He received an MA degree
in educational administration at
North Carolina Central University
in 1982.
He is certified in physical educa
tion, as a curriculum instructional
specialist, and as a school adminis
trator-principal.
Dobbins began teaching at Cary
Elementary after graduating from
St. Augustine’s, then going on to
East Cary Junior High from 1974
78. He was appointed assistant
principal at Millbrook High from
1982-86. Dobbins then left Wake
County to become principal of
Union Pines High School in Moore
County from 1985 to 88.
He came back to the Wake
School System as a special assis
tant in student services from 1988
to 90. In 1990, he transferred to
become director of elementary em
ployment, his current position.
Among his many awards and ac
complishments, Dobbins is a mem
ber of the North Carolina Associa
tion for Research in Education,
and has attended the Race Rela
tions Seminar conducted by the
Rev. C.T. Vivian.
CRIME BE A T
Editor's Note: This column, a fixture of The CAROLn^i^.. u
years past, has returned to our pages in hopes of deterring crimi
in our community. The information contained herein is takei
from public arrest records and does not necessarily mean thorn
mentioned are guilty of crimes.
BREAKING INTO TV REPORTER’S CAR
Eighteen-year-old Joseph Junior Patterson of 102 Russ St. wai
charged with felony breaking and entering in the parking lot of WRAL
TV station, 2619 Western Blvd. Police say Patterson was breaking into i
car owned by news reporter Leslie Boney.
ASSAULTING AN OFFICER
Deborah Slazyk Proffitt, 32, of 6147 U.S. 49 in Burlington, wai
arrested and charged with assault on a law enforcement officer an<
trespass. Police say Ms. Proffitt assaulted Raleigh Police Officer R.W
Dunn last Sunday at the Walnut Creek Amphitheatre.
FRAUD
Carl Quinton Coats, 28, of Route 3, Box 66, in Four Oaks was ar
rested and charged with credit card fraud. Police say the card belongs*
, to Elizabeth Ann Duff of Asheville. The location of the alleged crime wa
at a store at 319 Fayetteville Street Mall.
ASSAULTING A JUVENILE
Twenty-year-old Jody Lee Wall of Route 3, Box 3824 Sid Jones Roa<
in Wake Forest, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and 21
year-old Jeffery Scott Morgan of 201 Cedarfield Court in Wendell wa
charged with engaging in an affray. Police say the location of the ind
dent was 3400 Buffalos Road, and the victim of the assault was a juve
nils.
HARASSING PHONE CALLS
Glen Alan Coley, 37, of 3119 Apt. A-l Calvary Drive, was arrestee
and charged with making harassing phone calls to a female resident a
the same apartment complex last Sunday.
ASSAULT ON FEMALE
Thirty-fbur-year-old David Daniel Avery of 6603 Apt. G, the Lakei
Drive was arrested and charged with assault on a female at his apart
ment. Police say the victim received a cut on her neck as a result o
Avery assaulting her with his hands. She was not transported to th<
hospital.
Taxpayers Stunned By 43
Property Value Increase
BY SHEHETTIZI WOODLEY
Staff Writer
Some Wake County taxpayers
believe the Wake County Board of
Commissioners needs to put a cap
on social services spending.
Members of the Wake County
Taxpayers Association accounted
for about one-third of the almost
200 people who crowded the com
missioners’ budget hearing Mon
day night.
J. Russell Copps, president of
the group, said those people who e
requested money from the county I
for social programs represented $
worthy and needy causes. e
However, he said there has to be c
a limit. “The lower-income home- t
owners cannot continue to pay
ever-higher taxes. The social pro- c
grams need to be funded by dona- (
tions to the extent possible to keep e
government subsidy from increas- t
ing year after year.” F
Mary Louise Williams, president r
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f the Wake-Johnston Community
>evelopment Corp., requested
20,000 to help fund social and
conomic opportunities for resi
ents of various rural communi
ies.
She said her program is just one
f many needed programs in Wake
lounty. She said that it was nec
ssary to invest in the communi
as so that everyone will have a
leasant and productive environ
lent in which to live.
*
PROTEST CONTINUES—“Problems, problems, problems,
... a lot of things are happening that are not fair. For
oxamplo, the whites get away with things we can’t, Ike
being late or otlmr Infractions,” said Warren Woodard, a
veteran African American CAT driver. Paula Lett related to
Atlantic Transportation Corp. (ATC) unfair rules and
poMcios. “I went In tor a hearing and immediately after I
MS,
was handed a letter of termination. I had no appeal pro
cess, tholr minds were made up before the hearing.” Since
mid-May, African-American bus drivers of the CAT system
have publicatty protested what they called discrimination at
the workplace by management. James T. Greene, Jr.
concluded, "Let's go by the union contract, not by who
likes whe." (Photo by James Giles)
African-Americans Called
To July 4th Selective Buying
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
Despite our citizenship and the
constant battle to achieve rights
that other Americans have taken
for granted, there are many Afri
can-Americans who look upon the
traditional July 4 Independence
Day celebration with ambivalence.
While the rest of the nation com
oemorates the historic fight for
reedom from European domi
nance, African-Americans say
they’re still fighting that battle.
And with black economics still the
l cornerstone of any effort to achieve
i that freedom, local activists are
i asking the community to heed a
i national call for an economic “Dec
laration of Independence” that
July 4 weekend.
An organization called “We the
i People" out of New York has pro
. posed that African-Americans en
i gage in a non-violent symbol of
solidarity by keeping their money
“home” during the period of July
2-5.
i In a statement sent to African
l American media across the coun
try, We the People said, "...Afri
can-Americans should make no
purchases except from other
people of color...” during the pe
riod of July 2-5. “The Declaration
I of Independence states, ‘All men
i are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with cer
tain unalienable rights.’ Since the
rights of people of color are con
1 stantly being violated by the
American criminal justice system,
I we uw rwpic uuu uu tauoc
ebrate Independence Day.”
This “non-violent symbol of soli
darity” is supposed to provide an
example for young people in how
to deal with and impact a system
1 that many feel oppresses the Afri
can-American community.
Ms. Margaret Rose Murray of
the Business Building Society sup
ports the call for the black Decla
i ration of Economic Independence.
On Saturday, July 4, BBS will
p sponsor a radiothon from 9 a.m. to
> noon on WLLE-AM 570 to raise
fluids for a small-business incuba
tor in the African-Amencan com
munity.
Afterwards, the second Black
Business Exposition of the season
will be held, allowing African
American vendors and merchants
the opportunity to market their
goods and services. Ms. Murray
says there will be a special empha
sis on developing youth entrepre
neurs during the July 4 Business
Expo, and they will be taught
about developing and building
their businesses prior to the expo.
To contact Ms. Murray at the
Business Building Society, call
834-5118.
Activist Heads Effort
To Urge New Anti-Drug
initiative In City
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
Melvin Whitley wants his seven
year-old son to grow up like he did:
free to play in his neighborhood, or
just run up and down the street if
he wants to. But Melvin doesn’t
dare, because it may cost his son
his life.
Just recently, Whitley and oth
ers in his Southeast Raleigh
neighborhood were alarmed to see
a man firing a gun on their street.
The man didn’t live there, and to
Whitley, didn’t seem to care
whether people saw him or not.
Whatever commitment Melvin
Whitley had to making the com
munity safe, was magnified ten
fold that night.
When citizens were invited to
Wake County Youth Service Cen
ter (formerly the old Crosby
Garfield Elementary School) on
May 27 to meet with Raleigh po
lice officials of Project COPE (Citi
zen Oriented Police Enforcement)
about combatting crime in Down
town East, Melvin Whitley was
one of at least 100 concerned citi
zens there.
But unlike several others, Whit
ley came prepared not to sit and
listen, or even ask, but demand
that things be done to stem the
tide of drug dealers, shootings and
prostitution permeating Southeast
Raleigh these days. And while be
fuddled police officers watched,
Whitley presented a long list of
proposals and a virtual plan of ac
tion to solve the problem.
Whitley even offered a challenge
for all to hear: “You don’t have to
like my plan, but come with one of
your own. But if you don’t, then
please excuse me while I go for
ward with mine.*
Part of that plan is to have Ra
leigh city officials, especially Police
Chief Frederick K. Heineman and
the City Council members, attend
a meeting at the Youth Service
Center on Thursday, June 25, at 7
p.m. to meet Southeast Raleigh
community residents face to face.
‘1 want them to see what it’s like
out here at night,* said Whitley.
He is also passing out a petition
for Raleigh East residents to sign
that would support publicizing the
names of property owners when an
along with the names of those ar
rested for selling drugs; have prop
erties where drugs are sold de
clared public nuisances, and pass
a no-loitering ordinance that
would prohibit three or more
people from congregating in a
neighborhood where they do not
live or work.
Whitley wants as many regis
tered voters as possible to go to
their neighborhood barber shop or
beauty salon and sign the petitions
so that they can be presented to
the City Council.
“We need to make our commu
(See DRUG FIGHT, P. 2)
The board heard budgetary re
quests from 61 representatives of
county organizations. Almost half
of those requests came from mem
bers of the county’s 21 volunteer
fire departments.
Budget increase requests came
from the Center for Economic De
velopment, the Foundation of Eco
nomic and Educational Develop
ment, the Child Abuse Center, the
Minority Business Development
(See COUNTY BUDGET, P. 2)
Meadowbrook
Country Club
Holds 35th
Yr. Celebration
BY ALLIE M. PEEBLES
Contributing Writer
Meadowbrook Country Club was
alive this past weekend when
members, former members, guests
and friends visited the club to cel
ebrate its 35th anniversary. It was
a time of reflection on that period
in 1957 when P.R. Jervay, Sr. in
vited a group of Raleigh’s citizens
to attend a meeting at Roberts
Community Center “for the pur
pose of forming an organization to
undertake a task of immense
scope.
“The general aim of the group is
to build, develop and make avail
able to the Negro citizens of Ra
leigh and others who show by their
subscription a desire to partici
pate, a country club to afford the
members a place for wholesome
recreation.’
The temporary officers elected to
carry on the business were J.J.
Sansom, chairman; John M.
Johnson, secretary; and D.P. Lane,
treasurer.
It took a great deal of work and
planning, for it was necessary to
raise money, and members imme
diately began paying dues. Prop
erty had to be purchased, a club
house had to be built.
(See MEADOWBROOK, P. 2)
NEWS BRIEFS
LEADERSHIP
PROGRAM
The Greater Triangle
Community Foundation
this week announced the
launching of Leadership
Triangle, a newly created
program designed to edu
cate the next generation of
young local leaders on the
issues facing the Triangle
as a region. The program’s
mission is to educate and
expose 20 demonstrated
leaders, between the ages of
25 and 45, to regional con
cerns and opportunities
through a series of eight
discussion forums and skill
building sessions.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
GRANT
The Raleigh Housing Au
thority has received a grant
from the Office for Sub
stance Abuse Prevention
for $700 to implement a “By
Our Own Hands" program
within the Mayview com
munity. The program is de
signed to reinforce ongoing
substance abuse prevention
efforts in the top 18 black
media cities aoross the
country. The challenge for
this project is allowing
youth ages 9 to IS to create
a new approach to promot
ing prevention messages for
other children living in
high-risk communities.
BANK CHANGES NAME
Chemical Banking Corp.
this week announced that
the nationwide branch net
work of mortgage origina
tion offices formerly known
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)