MRS. BEATRICE MAYERS
This Week in
GREENVILLE
GOD'S SOAP OPERA TME
(FRANK WAHTON)
Good morning, America, it’s 20/
20 time. Our menage begins in
the Garden of Eden where Adam
and Eve started the ‘Family Feud”
by disobeying God’s command.
They became “Ihe Young and the
Restless.” This odd couple, along
with the serpent, caused 'The
Little Rascals,” sin and death, to
enter the world. This peaceful
Earth then became “A Wild King
dom.”
The only thing that could tame
this world was “The Love of God.”
“For God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish but have ever
lasting life,” John 3:16.
Adam and Eve were driven from
“Fantasy Island” and became lost
in space. Now The Days of Our
Lives” are “as a Tale that is Told.”
Threescore and 10 years” and by
reason of strength, four yean yet
it is sorrow because we soon “Fly
Away.”
The Lord pleads to us, saying,
“All My Children,” “As the World
Turns,” you have but “One life to
Live.” You must live it “One Day
at a Time.” There is “A Secret
Storm” within us that brings us to
“The Edge of Night.” We must
make that “Bold Journey” in
“Search for Tomorrow.” “Get
Smart.” Accept that “Guiding
Light” which is Jesus. "Hie Price
is Right.” He paid it at Calvary.
He reigns over a Glorious “Dy
nasty” in Heaven in “My Hour of
Decision.”
I checked into God’s “General
Hospital,” realizing like sand
“Through an Hourglass,” so are
“The Days of Our Laves.” I took the
gospel medicine and was operated
on by Doctor Jesus. I soon discov
ered “Another World.”
I heard the Doctor say, “Come
unto me all ye that are heavy
laden and I will give thee rest" I
even heard the Doctor say, “Suffer
littlechildren to come unto me and
forbid them not, for such is the
kingdom of God.” So, kids are
people, too. God’s joy ride is not
J.R.’s lifestyle.
Unlike “Ryan’s Hope,” “My hope
is built on nothing less than Jesus’
blood and righteousness.” I
stepped aboard God Divine’s “Love
Boat” and “Happy Days are Here
Again.”
Submitted by
Ms. Gladys Evans
RELEVANT QUOTATIONS
1. People murder a child whan
they toll it to keep out of the dirt.
The dirt ia life.
George Washington Carver
2.1 have seen infants who, at
the age of only two months, had
already developed real neuroees
because of the way they had been
handled by their mothers and fa
thers. The infant had absorbed
their parents’ anxieties like a blot
ter.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
3. It is difficult to give children a
sense of security unless you have
it yourself. If you have it, they
catch it from you.
4. Always be well-dressed, even
when begging.
6.1 hate being placed on com
mittees. They are always having
meetings at which half are absent
and die rest late.
6. The one who complains the
loudest is generally she who con
tributes the least
7. Everybody knows how to utter
a complaint, but tow can express a
graceful compliment
8. The time to stop talking is
when the other person nods his
head affirmatively but says noth
ing.
9. He who cannot dance puts the
blame on the floor.
10. A man can do what he wants,
but not want what he wants.
11. What we love to do find time
to do.
12. It’s a safer thing any time to
follow a man’s advice rather than
his example.
13. Experience teaches only the
teachable.
14. If you can learn from hard
knocks, you can also learn from
soft touches.
15. It is easier for a father to have
children than for children to have
a real father.
16. Don’t be a bon in your own
house.
17. Eating without conversation
is only stoking.
18. Do not protect yourself by a
fence, but rather by your friends.
19. Friends are lost by calling of
ten and calling seldom.
20. Friendship will not stand the
strain of very much good advice for
very long.
21. A man becomes like those
whose society he loves.
22. When the hand ceases to scat
ter, the mouth ceases to praise.
Echoes Of
Franklin County
&
BY ELIZABETH AKOIKIt
•4—.
YOUNG PEOPLE, AND
CROSSING THE BAR
It seemed that it was totally un
planned. It was not listed on the
program, but when the piano
played the first notes, and the
sound of a soprano saxophone took
up the strain and blended its
mournful sound in a lamenting
manner with the melody of “Amaz
ing Grace,” one was given to now
that something supernatural was
indeed taking place.
It seemed that He who saves
men from death and sin was guid
ing the very breath that it took for
young Freddie Green from Wash
ington, D.C. to literally speak the
words that he blew so expertly on
his sax. Indeed, young Freddie
must have uttered in prayer, “Holy
Spirit,1 breathe on me, until my
heart is clean; teach me in words
of living flame what Christ would
have me do.”
In answer to my question, “Was
it planned, Freddie,” I was told,
“Actually, it’s hard to say exactly,
because something strange took
place.
“I was at home, on the night
that James Clemons died, and for
some reason I got this strange feel
ing of knowledge of his passing, so
I went out and came across his
son. I asked him right away about
him, and James A., his son, said to
me, ‘Freddie, I’ve been looking for
you, man. My dad died today, and
I’d like for you to go to North Caro
lina, to play for his funeral.' That
sounds strange, doesn’t it?” Fred
die asked.
At that moment, I left his side
for fear our voices ware too loud at
the gravesite. I did not see Freddie
again, for ether persons claimed
my attention. I do not know if
Freddie thought hie story was
strange to my listening ears, but I
wish to make it known to him here
and now that I am no stranger to
the inner workings of the Bleseed
Holy Spirit, for it visits me often,
and I felt God’s presence as he
stepped forward to present his
most beautiful rendering.
In loving memory of James
Earkiel Clemons, Jr., of
Youngsville, my friend, who
greeted me at the door of his home
for a whole year, as I served him
the paper that he loved to read,
The CAROLINIAN. For more than
a month, Jamee was unable to fo
cus on the paper. His devoted
mother, Ms. Savannah Clemons, of
the home, told me.
It spoke volumes to see a
church, Old Liberty Baptist, filled
with family and friends in mid
week, from front to back, with
chairs having been added. And a
choir stand filled with more men
than women, singing, Tm On the
Battlefield for My Lord.”
A brother-in-law, Wilbert Jef
freys, sang a solo, the favorite of
the deceased. The eulogy was done
by Pastor Larry Evans. Rev.
Dazale Kearney gave a special
tribute. Ms. Anita Leach poured
her heart out in song: “His Eye is
On the Sparrow” and ”1 Know He
Watches Me.”
Obituary and acknowledge
ments were read by a member of
the sister church, New Liberty
Baptist Church, Ms. Mamie
Johnson Jones.
Bom on Sept. 9, 1938, Clemons
leaves to remember his life two
children, James A. of D.C. and
Angela Clemons of Raleigh; his
mother, Savannah; two aiatera,
Mary D. Jeffreys of Franklinton
and Zola Mae Leach of Raleigh;
two aunts and an uncle, all of
Newport News, Va.; many, many
other devoted relatives, and a spe
cial devoted friend, Stephen Tay
lor.
I, too, would like to add my voice
to that of the family. A precious
one from us is gone. The voice we
love is stilled; a place is vacant in
our home that never can be filled.
May God bless each of you. Fag
gins and Feggins conducted the
fiineral.
I would like to wish the follow
ing people, to whom I sell the pa
per weekly, a happy belated birth
day:
Ms. Mary Betty Lewis of Louis
burg, Wsldon Perry of Perry’s Up
holstery; and Ms. May Helen Har
ris of the Senior Apartments in
Louisburg. Hope that each of you
had a bang-up time of it.
At the Franklinton Elementary
Schools’ graduation on June 3, Jer
maine Williams was resplendent
in a tuxedo. Jermaine will be going
to the middle school next term and
he is excited about it, he told me
the other day. Jermaine’s mother,
Dwendolyn Floyd of Franklinton,
has been awarded a child develop
ment associate credential in recog
nition of outstanding work with
young children. The credential was
awarded by the Council of Early
Childhood Professional Recogni
tion in Washington, D.C., which
represents the early childhood pro
fession.
The wife of Jam** A. Floyd,
they, with their eix children, are
currently living in Academy Vil
lage, and have been trying to find
a country home in order to raiee
their six little J’s properly: Jer
maine, Jerome, James, Jameka
and three-year-old twins Jakita
and Jameil.
With six little J’s underfoot, is
there any wonder that this proud
mom shouldn’t have won the CDA
credential? Great going, Dwen
dolyn.
Because my time and space is
gone, Fll have to tell you of some
other young people next week. It
had been planned for this article,
but as we all know, 'death never
takes a holiday.' As I write this
article, it is the third of July.
Here’s hoping that each of you had
a real 'bang-up* Fourth.
I am glad that I have a memory,
and a conscience, that just keeps
plucking at me until I am totally
reminded what it is that I am
about to miss. In this case it is
that I forgot to express my sorrow
to Ms. Isabell Fogg for the loss of
her brother, Clyde Parrish, in Buf
falo, N.Y. a couple of weeks ago.
Forgive me, folks, for not finish
ing with Freddie the Horn Blower,
but this last little bit is very spe
cial with me, and the real reason
that I felt Freddie’s presence was
so outstandingly Messed. You see,
I had known Freddie when he
made a very small “lean-to” his
home in Franklinton, and he wore
a tarn setting jauntily to the side
of his head, and he told me that he
sort of wandered around big
Northern cities playing his horn
and gathering crowds on street
comers.
'All a person needs in this world
is the ability to play music, and
have the guts to do it in the right
places,' he said, and I believed
him because there had been an
other story of a young white man
who said that the only thing a per
son needed was a good camera and
a horn that he could play well, and
funds would come in coins on
street comers. Bravo, Freddie!
Rhamkatte
BY LUCILLE ALSTON
RHAMKATTE—Sunday School
began at 9:30 a.m., with all daaaes
reporting. Subject of the lesson
was “Faithfulness in Crisis,”
Habakkuk 1:1-7, 2:1-4. Superin
tendent Albertine Sanders pre
sided. The key verse was repeated
by the school. Classes had a 45
minute study period. The leseon
was reviewed by Rev. Otho Kear
ney. After a report from Secretary.
Stephanie Moore, the school'
closed.
At 11 a.m., Rev. A.D. Terrell,
pastor, spoke from Ephesians 2:19,
using for a subject, “Children of
the King.” Music was furnished by
the Senior Choir, with Emmanuel
McNeil at the piano. Morning
prayer was offered by Maddie
Little. Mini-church was led by
Rev. Terrell. Altar call was ex
tended by Rev. Otho Kearney, Sr.
Ushers were on duty for the day.
Rev. Terrell left the congrega
tion with a message on a special
day and on that day something
happened on the way to freedom.
Freedom carries responsibility.
Freedom is God’s blessing. Every
body has an opportunity to be a
child of God. Invitation to Chris
tian disriplsship was extended.
Ths membsrs wars glad to ha vs
Chariaan Smith Join thair fellow
ship. Communion was ssrvad fay
the minister, {fallowed by dosing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bible study is held Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m.
The Male Chorus will celebrate
its anniversary July 19.
Annual Homecoming will be
celebrated Aug. 2.
The Young Adult Choir will
have its anniversary Aug. 9.
Aug. 17-21 will be Revival
Week. Rev. Daniel Sanders from
Springfield Baptist Church will be
the speaker for the week.
On the sick and shut-in list are
Kathleen Hemby, John Singletary,
Nettie Calhoun, Alice Cooke,
Charles Rogers, Ronnie Laws, Rev.
Thomas Burt, Mary Utley, Lola
McClain, Hoyie Johnson, James
Hanks, Billy Debnam, Ella
Fletcher, Charles Little, and
Junita Johnson. Let us ksep pray
ing for the sick everywhere. God is
still in ths hsaling business.
Ths Rhamkatte community is in
sympathy with the Kearney and
Cannady families in the passing of
their loved one, Margaret Kear
ney. Funeral services were held
July 3 at Watts Chapel Church.
Funeral services for Baby Ray
Cannady were held July 6. We
must say God still sits on the
throne and He does take care of
IBs own.
Ths members want to congratu
late Mr. and Mrs. Topsy Ashe on
their 66th anniversary.
Congratulations also to Ms.
Maddie Littls. She is St. John
AME Mother of the Year for 1992.
Smithfield
BY LILLIE M. LEE
SMITHFIELD—Can you do
something today to bring gladness
to someone whoa# pleasures an so
few? Can you do aomething to
drive off sadness or cause
someone's dream to come true?
If you didn't take the opportu
nity to worship with First Baptist
folk in the park last Sunday, then
you did miss the treat of a lifetime.
We had guests from local churches
and even Seims. Everyone enjoyed
lunch and the service was wonder -
ftil. We do thank God for beautiful
weather.
The Nathan Blake family mem
ben had a gnat time last Sunday
celebrating their annual family
reunion.
Ms. Addison Boyd and children
on spending some time hen with
Ms. Clara Avery.
John McLean, Jr. will spend the
summer in Austin, Texas. Good
luck, Jack.
Members of the Forte family will
celebrate their annual family re
union eoon in the Bahamas.
Pray much for the sick and re
member, prayer changes things.
ASKS REOPENED
(Continued from page 11)
member*.
The Rev. David Foy, a commu
nity activist, went before the City
Council last Tuesday during its
public hearing to inform them of
the resolution, and request that
the Ingram case be reopened. But
a call to the city clerk’s office the
fallowing day fay The CAROLIN
* IAN determined that while the
council received the request, it was
not assigned to either the Admini
stration or Police Affairs commit
tees, which means no action by the
council is scheduled to be taken.
Several weeks ago, it came out
during a council hearing that the
council never requested an FBI in
vestigation into the Ingram shoot
ing, because in the words of Dis
trict D Councilman J. Barlow Her
\f*t, “It was a black officer who
shot a black man,” and thus there
was no need for a civil rights
* probe.
After Rev. Foy pressed for the
probe, the FBI confirmed through
the black media that the color of
the victim and the officer are not a
primary issue in a civil rights in
instigation, and the council report
* edly requested the FBI’s assis
tance.
Meanwhile, a $20 million wrong
ful-death claim against the city by
the Ingram family is still pending.
MSVRiSON
(Continued from page 11)
worship service.
Ms. Cowssr said to the congre
gation that it was most fitting that
the programs were combined be
cause "our elders each us of the
past and the scholarship recipients
our youth which help us to touch
the future.”
She presented to all the Golden
Agars an "apple for the teacher”
L
pin courtesy of tho 6,000-mombor
Washington Taachoro’ Union, Dr.
Jinunio C. Jackson, president.
Ms. Cowser paid tribute to her
parents. She recalled that, against
the odds stacked against black
men in the South during the ’60s,
her father earned a master’s de
gree in 1966 from New York Uni
versity. Further, she spoke of at
tending her mother’s graduation
from Shaw University when she
was five yean old and she knew
then that school would always be
an imnortant part of her Ufa. Ms.
Cowser stated that the two most
important things she received
from her parents were roots and
wings.
Ms. Vinson gave a moving re
sponse to he daughter’s tribute.
After presenting to her mother a
wooden apple with a plaque on the
base, commemorating the occa
sion, and a plaque to the church,
Ms. Cowser presented a WTU me
dallion to Rev. Boykin.
Relatives from Greensboro, Fay
etteville and Salisbury attended
the event as well as church mem
bers, friends, and former co-work
ers.
A reception, coordinated by
Shirley Hinton and the Senior
Choir was held immediately fol
lowing the morning worship serv
ice.
OFFICERS
(Continued from page 11)
"Wo want to give the community
back to the residents,” aaid Austin.
"They’ve got to live here 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. There is
no escaping their community.*
This is why the officers walk the
neighborhoods and talk with the
residents in search of solutions to
strengthening the bond between
law and laymen.
"We want to give them a sense
of trust in the police department,”
said Austin. “They can call on us
anytime in strict confidence on the
pagers that the department has
provided for us.”
Jessie Copeland, a longtime resi
dent of Chavis Heights, said,
"When you call them, they re
spond. I called Officer Halsaver
one morning at 2 o’clock about a
problem and within 10 minutes
somebody was over cheeking it
out.”
Austin said he returns all pages
regardless of the time or place. He
says if he is not on duty, he win
call the communications center
and make sure the problem is
taken care of.
Officer Austin, despite being
white, said he spent eight hours on
the day of the Rodney King verdict
talking to the predominantly black
residents that live in Halifax
Court about their poet-trial con
cerns.
"I never heard a derogatory re
mark. In fact, they welcomed our
presence and wanted us to stay as
long as we would. I think it had to
do with us being in the community
beforehand, getting the people in
terested in their community, and
gaining their trust in the police
department,” he said.
The officers said they look at the
problems other cities in the nation
are having and try to make correc
tions within their own depart
ment.
"You can look at police depart
ments in other cities that dont get
the same response that we do,”
Richardson said. "First of all, you
have to treat people the way you
want to be treated. If you give ev
erybody respect, most of the time ‘
in return you will get respect*
The officers are eager to point
out that there are many “good
people” in the community who
only need room to grow. They feel
that once the "bad limbs” are
pruned, the good sprouts will have
room to blossom.
In the future, the offices said
they would like to see a CLEAN
officer in every community in the
city.
LOCAL STUDENT
(Continued (ram page 11)
Scholarships, semi finalists had to
become finalists fay meeting high
academic standarda, being recom
mended by their high-school prin
cipals, and by submitting informa
tion about their activities, per
sonal interests, and goals. Some
1,300 eemifinalists qualified aa fi
nalista, and from this group all
winners were chosen on the basis
of their abilities, accomplishments,
and potential for future academic
success.
The Achievement Program ia a
privately financed, compensatory
activity conducted by the National
Merit Scholarship Carp. Ifae pro
gram was initiated in 1964 specifi
cally to recognise able secondary
school students who are black
Americans and to increase their
educational opportunities by
Feeding Needy
People Asked
Ag. Dept. Priority
BT LARRY STILL
NNPA News Sarviee
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Man
ban of the UR. Congress Hunger
Committee have asked the Depart,
ment of Agriculture to give prior,
ity to using available fluids to feed
needy people instead of purchasing
commodities "to offset market in
fluences in the price of certain per
ishable foods."
Rep. Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio),
chairman of the House Select
Committee on Hunger, recently
called on Secretary of Agriculture
Edward Madigan to use discretion
ary fluids at his disposal to extend
the purchasing power of an emer
gency food program that distrib
utes supplies "to millions of needy
Americans through food banks and
soup kitchens across the country."
In a letter from Hall, also signed
by Select Committee Ranking Re
publican Bill Emerson (R-Mo.) and
17 other House of Representatives
members including Rep. Mike
Espy (D-Miss.), the committee
asked Secretary Madigan to allo
cate up to $26 million of USDA’s
Section 32 funds to purchase addi
tional commodities for distribution
through the Emergency Food As
si stance Program.
Under TEPAP, surplus com
modities are purchased by the
USDA for distribution to food
banks and soup kitchens, but the
department reportedly has spent
neiudy all of the 1992 hinds appro
priated for TEPAP while demands
for food at emergency outlets sre
increasing, Hall said.
The TEPAP program received
$120 million for purchaang sur
plus commodities in 1992, in addi
tion to $45 million in administra
tive hinds. Hall and other support
ers advocated an increase in bind
ing A* the fiscal year 1992, and
again*in 1993, aa the recent down
turn in the economy was forcing
an increasing number of Ameri
cans to seek emergency providers
to feed their families.
“Charitable food programs span
ning the country are reporting dra
matic incqpases in demand for
emergency assistance,” the letter
from Hall’to Madigsn states. “Re
sults of a 28-city survey issued by
the U.S. Conference of Mayors con
cluded that the demand for emer
gency aid from all sources has in
creased.”
Prom its inception in 1983 until
1988, Commodity Credit Corpora
tion donations to the program to
taled between $800 million and $1
billion annually, the letter ex
plained. A combination of factors,
“including statutory revisions in
price support programs and a
more aggressive commodity export
policy, resulted in reduced federal
acquisition of food products avail
able for distribution through
TEPAP,” Hall said.
“We are, therefore, encouraging
your consideration of utilising
Section 32 funds to acquire appro
priate commodities for augment
ing the TEPAP inventory... by
transferring the necessary hinds
from the approximately $141 mil
lion now remaining in the funds,"
Hall’s letter stated.
“One of the principal functions
of the Section 32 hind is to pro
mote domestic consumption of
various commodities by diverting
surplus goods to low-income popu
lations. The contingency hind,
which is held in reserve for emer
gency uses, certainly seems an ap
propriate mechanism for... this
situation—for there is surely a
food emergency for many in this
nation,” the hunger committee
chairman concluded.
bringing thorn to the attention of
colleges and univoraitiaa. Mora
than 60 parvant of tha 1,900 final
iste in thia year’* competition have
bean offered Achievement Soholar
ahipe underwritten by soma 160
independent sponsor organisations
and institutions, and by the
program's owp funds. After the
1092 program has been concluded,
more than 16,600 Achievement
Scholarships worth nearly $60
million will have been awarded in
the 28 annual competitions com
pleted to date.
Two other types of Achievement
Scholarships were offered in 1992.
Every finalist was considered for
one of the 400 National Achieve
ment $2,000 scholarships, tingle
payment awards that are distrib
uted on a regional representation
basis. About 200 four-year
Achievement Scholarships spon
sored by corporate and business
organisations were awarded to fi
nalists who have qualifications of
particular interest to their grant
ing organisations.