COMIN' HOME
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coating Club, truck uanaftr and holds the high—t Bath
average iu her —boor* eighth-grade class.
•Ms. Evelyn Jervay, wife and —ether, has fraud time
to work on the grassroots level developing programs for
the uplift of disadvantaged children. Ms. Jervay has co
founded the Wake County Girls’ Club, the Salvation Army
Girls’ Club, Natal Outreach Program, and has set up a
system to feed hundreds of undernourished children. She
was recently named the new OIC regional director.
Festivities for “Coinin' Home” will begin on Thursday
at 7>45 a.m. in the parking lot on the corner of Raleigh
Boulevard and Glascock Street, and will continue
through the weekend.
NEWS BRIEFS
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FINALISTS NAMED
FOR NCCU POST
Civil right* lawyer Julias
Chambers, who won the
landmark case that forced
Charlotte-area schools to
use busing to integrate, is a
finalist for the post of chan
cellor at North Carolina
Central University in Dur
ham.
Chambers, 65, is among
three finalists for' the posi
tion.
The others are David
Swinton, dean of the busi
ness school at Jackson
State University in
Jackson, Miss^ and Nathan
Garrett, a Durham account
ant and businessman.
KEVLAR GETS
COMPETITION
A North Carolina State
University textile re
searcher has developed a
fiber as strong as steel, but
made of the same material
that is used to weave an in
expensive polyester shirt.
Dr. John A. Cucolo and
his colleague, Dr. Paul A.
Tucker, likens his new fiber
to Kevlar, the super fiber
used in bulletproof vests
and spacecraft parts. By
comparison, however,
Kevlar costs 10 times more
to produce, he said.
NEW ENERGY SOURCE
CLAIMED
“A cleaner, clearer,
cheaper and more reliable
form of energy has been dis
covered,” claims Thomas
Cosby, local inventor.
He says energy is gener
ated by compressed gas
within his invention, a
revolutionary fuel-less en
gine.
The engine has the
power to sustain itself
through internal energy ex
changes, he says.
Cosby says the device
has the potential to produce
energy for a wide range of
commercial and personal
uses, such as automobiles,
trucks, airplanes and boats.
LDF SUES N.J.
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homelessness and other social ills.
Critics cite the success of pro
grams such as New York’s Child
Assistance Program which encour
ages welfare mothers to work by
providing daycare and allowing
them to keep earnings without los
ing their benefits.
The NAACP-LDF, founded by
former Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall, is a separate
organization from the NAACP but
works closely with the organiza
tion and other civil rights groups
on racial justice issues.
Love is never a justifi
able motivation for vio
lence.
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said.
He said that state government
has failed to continue making
North Carolina a competitive
state because of what he calls a
lack of strong leadership.
» “I am running for governor be
cause I love this state too much to
sit back and watch it fall behind,’
he said.
GRAVESUES
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the pool in the back yard, that he
discovered his dream home was
actually a nightmare about to hap
pen.
“He told me I couldn’t build a
swimming pool because there was
a cemetery there,” Perry told The
CAROLINIAN. Not only could he
not believe what he was told, but
he was further shocked to discover
that it wasn’t just his home, but
other properties within a two-acre
area that were also built on top of
an old family cemetery, and many
of the neighbors knew it.
“One guy told me that he got his
property dirt-cheap because of the
cemetery, but he didn’t let his wife
know,” said Perry.
Bewildered, Perry called Dr.
John Clauser with the state Office
of Archaeology, who then used a
metal prod to determine evidence
of “ground disturbances” on and
beyond Perry’s property. Clauser
says his findings are not yet offi
cially conclusive, but he is working
with the Sheriffs Department to
pull all the pieces together.
“It is quite common for graves
ites not to be mentioned on deeds,”
Clauser told The CAROLINIAN
about the prospect of confirming
the graves. Perry believes there to
be graves in the yards of at least
four separate homes. The number
is estimated to be from 30 to 100.
If the graves are confirmed, le
gally Perry can no longer dig, de
velop, or even plant on the prop
erty. In fact, all he can legally do
is cut the grass. That means that
now, Walter Perry can’t even sell
the property if he wanted to.
“My property has gone to noth
ing now,* he lamented.
How did this happen? According
to Sheriffs Capt. Max Pickett, it
seems that the land was originally
owned by a man known as “Dr.
Buffaloe,* the only doctor in Gar
ner in the latter 1800s. He had
several African-Americans who
worked his farm, with the Banks
family being one in particular.
Before he died, Dr. Buffaloe
gave some land to the Banks fam
ily for a burial site, and the family
religiously used the property for
that purpose, even as late as 1967
and 1969. But when a dispute over
an access road made keeping the
property difficult, it was sold in
the 1980s to a developer.
Now, in 1992, Wake sheriffs in
vestigators are trying to find out
who removed the graves and the
grave markers from the cemetery,
and put them in the woods nearby,
and sold the property for unsus
pecting families to live on.
According to published reports,
at least one man has admitted to
allegedly plowing over the grave
sites to grow watermelons years
ago.
Capt. Pickett says anyone found
to have knowingly destroyed the
gravesites would be charged with
a Class I felony, punishable with a
fine or five years in prison.
“Folks here tell us that the
graves were in plain view, and
were marked,” said Pickett. Be
cause the cemetery, which so far
has been traced back to 1911, was
an old family site, it was never
registered with Wake County.
When Alice Graves, a descen
dant of the Banks family, and her
husband Willie were informed of
the situation, it was a crushing
blow. Parts of their family grave
stone wen found on the property.
Now, relatives and other family
members, who had just concluded
the happy occasion of a large reun
ion, must come back together in
the shadow of these events to de
cide what to do about the desecra
tion of their family cemetery.
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Mack-Carr Family Reunion :
Goers Spend Time In City
The members of the Mack and
Carr families, en route to Heming
way, S.C., to attend the family re
union, spend Friday, July 3, in
Raleigh where they were en
tertained in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C.C. Shade. The Shades were
having their own family reunion,
so the two families got together
and had a good time. Games were
played.
The table was laden with barbe
cued chicken, hamburgers, hot
dogs, baked beans, potato salad,
tossed salad, watermelon, canta
loupe, grapes, a relish tray, sodas,
ice cream and cake.
Those attending were Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Brown, Perrien Carr,
Sr., Perrien Carr, Jr., Perrien
Carr, III, Mr. and Mrs. Ellie
Brock, Ellis Brock, III, Dionne
Brock, Ms. Shirell Byrd, and Mon
tell Carr from Capitol Heights,
Md., along with little misses Ash
ley, Ebony and Joy Brown,
Charles and Lewis Brown from
Capitol Heights. They are neph
ews and great-nieces and great
nephews of Ms. Helen Mack
Mitchell.
Also, Mr. and Mrs. Janies Mitch
ell, Christina Mitchell, Camille
Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Carr, Ronald Carr, Rev. and Mrs.
Waymond Burton, Jr., Rev. Way
mond Burton, in, Ms. Jensen
Burton, Nicole Burton, Mr. and
Mrs. C.C. Shade, Jr., Ms. Brandi
Shade, Ashley Shade and Court
ney Shade of Raleigh.
Those attending the Shade fam
ily reunion were Mr. and Mrs. Wi
liam Gray and son Jonathan from
New York, N.Y., Ms. Lettie Bristol
from Dayton, Ohio, Ms. Valerie Br
istol from Memphis, Tenn., Ms.
Lillian Shade'from Durham, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Vaughan from
Baltimore, Md., Ms. Shavstte Sat
terwhite from Durham, and Ms.
Ruby Hardy from Dayton, Ohio.
"We're just taking it one day at
a time,” said a shaken Ms. Graves.
“One day at a time.*
RADIOTHON
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dergrift of the University of North
Carolina Center for Public Televi
sion, shared details for the con
struction of the King Community
Commerce Center, to be located an
the comer of Rock Quarry Road
and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Boulevard. The center, which
would house retail businesses, of
fices, and a mini-convention cen
ter, would be located directly be
hind the King Memorial Gardens
and statue when completed.
“The King Commerce Center
will be unique in that beyond of
fering a place for small businesses
to begin, they will also have a wide
variety of support services that
will help them grow,” said Dr.
Vandergrift. Once those busi
nesses become self-sufficient, they
can be “hatched” from the incuba
tor, allowing a new small business
to move in.
“This is a full-fledged project
that has the involvement and sup
port of Shaw University, St.
Augustine’s College, North Caro
lina State University, the Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce and the
City of Raleigh,” Dr. Vandergrift
added. The resources and exper
r
City Comes Out With Minority*
Women-owned Business Directory
What are the area’s certified
minority- and women-owned busi
nesses? What are their specialties?
Who are the contacts? The City of
Raleigh has compiled this informa
tion in its 1992 Business Assis
tance Directory.
City Manager Dempsey E. Ben
ton, Jr. said the directory is being
offered as a means of assisting
these businesses and the city in
reaching its objective of awarding
10 percent of all city-financed con
struction projects exceeding
tise of these institutions will help
ensure that the incubator will be
developed to have far-reaching
impact on the community in terms
of jobs and revitalization.
“W'e have to come together to
decide for ourselves what we really
want for Southeast Raleigh,” said
former state Sen. John Winters,
Jr., owner of John Winters Realty
Co. Winters expressed support for
the incubator, and noted that it
could stimulate the kind of healthy
growth for Southeast Raleigh that
could lead to better housing and
opportunities for Southeast resi
dents who live close to downtown.
$100,000 to certified minority- and
women-owned firms.
Benton said that more than
seven percent of the more than
$45 million the City of Raleigh
spent last year on goods, services
and capital projects went to firms
certified under the city’s Business
Assistance Program.
This is the first Business Assis
tance Program directory to be pub
lished.
The 40-page directory features
information about the city’s Minor
ity- and Women-Owned Business
Assistance Program along with an
alphabetical listing of services in
more than 130 categories and the
businesses providing those serv
ices. The directory include* more
than 500 business listings. The
booklet also provide* information
on CEDCO, the Capital Economic
Development Corporation, which
was created by the City of Raleigh
in 1982 to assist new and growing
businesses in Southeast Raleigh.
Copies of the directory will be
made available to contractors, ma
jor businesses and industries in
the area to encourage the hiring of
minority- and women-owned busi
nesses. Copies are also available at
the Human Resources Depart
ment, fifth floor of the Professional
Building, 127 W. Hargett St. Cost
is $5 each.
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