COMIN' HOME (Continued from page 1) 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 (Continued from page 1) 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. 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GRAVESUES (Continued from page 1) 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. OMMES STORY—Jans Baflry, the “MmnIsss Hot” ate Mpcd save Hie ■» «l M Wf