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Black actor says he is getting threatening calls and boycotts

By J. ZAMGBA BROWNE
Amsterdam News Staff

All-out negative response this
week by whites and even some
African-Americans to the con kept
of a Black Jesus shows that racism
is alive and well in the United
States and even affects their per-
ception of God, accord ing to a
graduating senior at New York
Theological Seminary.

Colin Moore observed that itTs
all right for a Black actor to por-
tray Herod, Judas or Satan, but
certainly not Jesus. He said this is
ironic since the irrefutable record
shows that the historical Jesus
was in fact a man-of African an-

cestry.

Moore, whois majoring in Black
liberation theology, fur ther noted
that all of the early portraits of the
Madonna and child show Mary as
a Black woman and Jesus as a
dark complexioned baby.

He added that the image o f

Jesus at the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem also shows
Jesus as a Black man sporting an
Afro hair style. oThe Roman mo-
saicin the Basilica of the Damianco
in Rome shows Jesus as a Black
man,? Moore declared. According
to Moore, the most persuasive ex-
ample of JesusT African identity is
found on the coin minted during
the reign of Roman Emperor Jus-

tinian II. He said it portrays the
face of a Black man with wool hair.

oTherefore, the white response
to the idea of a Black Jesus reveals
a profound ignorance of the au-
thentic identity of the historical
Jesus Christ,? Moore declared ina
telephone interview.

Roman Catholic priest Lawrence
Lucas said the negative response
shows the stupidity and ignorance
of those who claim to be Christian,
particularly of Catholic persua-
sion. oWhat are they going to do
when on-their way to Hell they
find that Jesus is a good African
brother?? asked Lucas.

He added that those so-called
Black Roman Catholics whom the

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media will project, saying that it
doesnTt matter whether Jesus was
Black, yellow, green or white, in-
dicates that as far as they are
concerned, it doesnTt matter what
God in his goodness made them as
human beings.

Lucas further said that obviously
JesusT teachings by word and ex-
ample are far more important than
what he looks like. But tobe afraid
to acknowledge his Africanness is
again indicative of how ashamed
these folks are of themselves.

oAnyone reading the Bible and
knowing anything about geogra-
phy and history cannot possibly
consider that Jesus in his human-
ity was anything other than Afri-

can,? according to Lucas. He added
that until the 12th century, one
would be hard pressed to find any
representation of Jesus and Mary
in Christendom was anything
other than African.

The Rev. Al Sharpton stressed
that the negative response to the
concept that Jesus was Black
shows the ultimate expression of
white supremacy. oFor whites to
threaten a Black man for playing
Jesus, who was Black, reminds me
of how they crucified Jesus in the
first place,? said Sharpton.

He said the fact is many whites
who call themselves Christians
donTt want to admit that Jesus
was of African ancestry. oI wonder

what they are going to do on Judg-
ment day when a Black man comes
out as Jesus Christ to judge them,?

he added.

Meanwhile, the controversy
which sparked this debate is over
Desi Arnaz Giles who showed up
last Sunday to participate in a
drama atthe Performing Arts Cen-
ter in Newark, N.J., playing the
role of Jesus Christ.

The reaction was swift from
whites, many of whom canceled
their tickets. GilesT life was also
threatened. Giles remembered a
particular phone call from a woman
who told him point-blank that she
wasnTt interested in seeing a Black
man portraying Jesus.

How America Can Overcome Racism

As we approach the 21st century
the fundamental challenge to our
nation remains the same as it was
at the end of the 18th century: the
problem of racism. Racism is not
easily eradicated from America
because it is such an integral part
of the American experience. Sla-
very was the economic backbone of
the original thirteen colonies and
the idea that an African American
counted as only 3/5ths of a person
was institutionalized in the Con-
stitution.

Certainly, the character of
American racism has changed over
the past two hundred and twenty
years. African Americans are now
legally entitled to all the rights of
full citizenship. Though this en-
franchisement has not been pow-
erful enough to overcome the so-
cial and economic obstacles to full
equality. Can racism ever be over-
come?

Not in America as we have
known it. As long as power in
America is concentrated in the in-
stitutions that pre-date the aboli-
tion of slavery than racism will
never be overcome.. Reforms, con-

, cessions, increased tolerance, yes,

we have won these things. But
racism has not been overcome.
The Republican Party ended sla-
very. One hundred years later, the
Democratic Party put itself at the

Black
Indians

In 1920 the historian Carter G.
Woodson, founder of Black History
Week, wrote that entire libraries
were devoted to studies of the rela-
tionship between Europeans and
the Africans they enslaved and be-
tween Europeans and Native
Americans. But, said Woodson, the
third part of the triangle remained
unexplored. oOne of the longest
unwritten chapters in the history
of the United States is that treat-
ing of the relations of the Negroes
and the Indians.?

And what of people who are both?
The very notion of a black Indian
has most whites shaking their
heads in disbelief or smiling at
what sounds like a joke, a myth, or
an unlikely play on words. No one
remembers any such person ap-
pearing in a textbook, a Western
novel, or a Hollywood movie.

But in the 1920s the anthropolo-
gist Melville J. Herskovits, re-
nowned for his documentation of
African cultural retentions in
American life, concluded that be-
tween a quarter and a third of
African Americans had at least one
Native American ancestor. Today
that figure is closer to 95 percent.
Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Lena Horne, Alex Haley,
Jesse Jackson, Alice Walker,
Langston Hughes, and LL Cool J
are just afew of the African-Ameri-
cans who have acknowledged their
Indian ancestry. Yet few black
Americans realize that their fa-
milial ties to Native Americans are
evidence of an important histori-
cal process. When Europeans first

yarrived in what would become

Continued on Page Three,

head of our civil rights movement.
But in neither case were African
Americans full partners in build-
ing a new America. We wrenched
our freedom- and dignity from a
basically, white power structure
that was more or less disposed at
that particular time in history - to
accommodate our demands. The
major parties enlarged American
democracy to oinclude? us and
other odisadvantaged? constituen-
cies not as partners, but as purely
passivevoting(or non-voting) blocs.

The politic of coming to white
America to get things for Black
America has failed, and will con-
tinue to fail. This approach locks
us into the politics of identity
victum. We have to reach out to
other Americans willing to work
with us as full partners and build
a new American democracy.

A new democracy means in-
creased citizen participation where
all Americans are activists, and
take responsibility for the country

Continued on Page Seven

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Whether or not your child does
well in school may, in large part,
depend on you. HereTs how you
can both achieve high marks.

1. Make reading automatic.
Reading is the key to school suc-
cess and, like any skill, it takes
practice. If he reads haltingly,
one word at a time, without ex-
pression or meaning, he needs
more practice.

2. Provide equal opportunity in
theclassroom. Sittingin the same
classroom, different children get
very different educations. Teach-
ers tend to give most of their

attention toa handful of students,
usually the top third of the class.

3. Teach thinking. Is your child
learning to remember informa-
tion or to use it? Does she memo-

rize a math formula, or does she '

learn how it applies to all the
circles of her life? Does he know
the battles and dates of the Ameri-
can Revolution, or does he also
know thereasons for these events,
the ways they changed the world
and still shape out lives? Know-
ing what an idea or a principle
means, and howit can be applied,
helps the child learn better and
remember longer.

4. Review before proceeding.
This is most important.

5. Have classmates help. More
and more schools are trying team-
work, or, as educators call it, oco-
operative learning?. After the
teacher has presented a lesson,
the class divides into small groups
in which students help one an-
other master the lesson. There
are some important bonuses to
team study. Self-esteem goes up.
Students learn the value of coop-
eration and develop better atti-
tudes toward classmates with dif-
ferent ethnic backgrounds or
physical handicaps. Parents can
help children organize study
teams outside the classroom for
homework.

6. Educate at home. According
to the experts, what happens in

your home is a better predictor of
success in school than is any I.Q.
orachievement test. In the homes
of top achievers, homework and
reading are given priority over
play or television; parents encour-
age their childrenTs intellectual
interests and praise school
achievement. Family members
talk together and do things to-
gether.

DOES YOUR HOME
ENCOURAGE LEARNING?

Score Two Points for each state-
ment that is oalmost always true?
of your home; score one point if
itTs osometimes true?; score zeroif
itTs orarely or never true?.

1. Everyone in my family has
household responsibility, at least
one chore that must be done on
time.

2. We have regular times for
members of the family to eat,
sleep. play, work and study.

3. Schoolwork and study come
before play, TV or even other
work.

4. I praise my child for good
schoolwork, sometimes in front
of other people.

5. My child has a quiet place to
study, a desk or table at which to
work and books, including a dic-
tionary or other reference mate-
rial.

6. Members of my family talk
about hobbies, games, news, the

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books we've reading, and movies
and TV programs we've seen.

7. The family visits museums,
libraries, zoos, historical sites and
other places of interest. a.

8, Iencourage good speech hab-
its, helping my child to use the
correct words and phrases and to
learn new ones.

9. At dinner, or some other
daily occasion, our family talks
about the dayTs events, with a
chance for everyone to speak and
be listened to.

10. I know my childTs current
teacher, what my child is doing in
school and which learning mate-
rials are being used.

11. I expert quality work and
good grades,. I know my childTs
strengths and weaknesses and
give encouragement and special
help when theyTre needed.

12. I talk to my child about the
future, about planning for high
school and college, and about aim-
ing for a high level of education
and vocation.

If you scored ten or more, your
home ranks in the top one-fourth
in terms of the support and en-
couragement you give your child
for school learning. If you scored
six or lower, your home is in the
bottom one-fourth. If you scored
somewhere in between, you're av-
erage in thesupport you give your
child for school learning.

This research came from Ben-
jamin S. Boom, on how a child
learns, say Bloom. It is as impor-
tant as the quality of teachers or
curriculum. Inside almost every
poor to average student, thereTs a
smart kid yearning to get out.
With these ideas, we can help to

MAKE TALKING PART OF
YOUR FAMILYTS EVERY-
DAY ROUTINE

Here are some ways to make
talking routine:

1. Talk in the car. If you pick
your child up from school or after
school care.

2. Talk the minute you or your
child get home. That can be your
obreak? time together.

3. Have an oafter dinner? talk.
Make it a habit to spend some
quiet time with each child indi-
vidually to see how things are
going.

4, Talk as you tuck your child
into bed. Less talkative children
often open up in the car or when
the lights are out, because they
feel more comfortable when you're
not looking at them.

Also a child is more likely to
talk about his day if you tell hem
about your day first.

CHANGES AFFECTING
STUDENTS

In how Students Have
Changed: A Call for Action, the
American Association of School
Administrators have identified
ten significant society changes
affecting U.S. students since the
1960's:

1. Thenumber of dysfunctional
families has grown.

2. Technology has influenced
school work and home life.

3. Children face more crime,
violence and poverty.

4. Communities are becoming
more diverse.

5. Mass mediaTs influence on

earlier age. :

6. Students are more likely to
question authority and shun tra-
ditional values and responsibili-
ties.

7. The hurry-up society often
lacks a sense of community.

8. The workplace demands
higher levels of literacy.

9. Knowledge oflearning styles
requires new kinds of education.

10. Peers exert a more power-
ful influence on values.

A LESSON TO LEARN

Thomas Huxley once wrote,
oPerhaps the most valuable re-
sult of all education is the ability
to make yourself do the things
you have to do, when they ought
to be done, whether you like it or
not. It is the first lesson that
ought to be learned...and it is
probably the last lesson learned
thoroughly?.

Qualities That Make A Woman
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Work at what is right and good,
trust God, love others, patience,T
gentleness, fight on for God, hold
tightly to the eternal life.

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Latin America, they enslaved the
native people. Then, as the Indian
populations fell victim to overwork,
disease, and deliberate extermina-
tion, Europeans began kidnappingT

. Africans to fill their places. For

centuries Africans and Indians re-
mainedenslaved throughout Latin
America and the Caribbean, work-
ing together on tobacco and cotton
plantations and in dank mines.
Oppression created a special bond
between the two groups. The first
evidence of this dates from 1503.
Viceroy Nicholas de Ovando, who
over saw SpainTs holdings on the
island of Hispaniola (today Haiti
and the Dominican Republic) said
that his enslaved Africans had ofled
among the Indians and taught
them bad customs and never could
be captured.?

Alarmed, European authorities
sought to eradicate black-Indian
contacts and to pit the two groups
against each other. A royal order to
Hernando Cortez in 1523 banned

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Africans from Indian villages. oDi-
vision of the races is an indispens-
able element [of control],? wrote a
representative of the Spanish gov-
ernment. And a French colonial
official declared, oBetween the
races we cannot dig too deep a
gulf.?

Blacks and Native Americans
gave early colonists reason to fear
them. Beginning in the 1680s in
the Dutch colony of Surinam, in
South America, fugitive Indian and
African slaves formed a commu-
nity called the Saramakas and built
~a powerful military alliance. The
Saramakas and fugitive bands like
them became known as maroons.
(The word derives from the Span-
ish term cimarron, which

in the sixteenth century referred
to domestic cattle that escaped into
the hills on the Spanish Caribbean
islands. Eventually the Anglicized
term maroon was used to describe
African or Indian slaves who fled
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forests outside colonial settle-
ments.) Living in the shadow of
EuropeTs New World empire, the
maroons acquired a reputation as
relentless fighters. Some formed
outlaw bands, becoming raiders
who preyed on whites, Africans,
and Indians alike. Others estab-
lished communities dependent on
farming and herding and sought
peaceful relations and trade with
their former masters and overseers.
European officialdom judged ma-
roons to be, in the words of one
French historian, the ogangrene of
colonial society.? Their indepen-
dence and prosperity refuted white
claims of African and Indian infe-
riority, and their villages served as
havens for any slave on the run.
When well-trained colonial armies
were ordered to crush the outlaws,
they met with stiff resistance. Ma-
roon oself-respect grows because of
the fear whites have of them,? a
white Brazilian wrote to King Joao
of Portugal in 1719. Maroon songs
resonated with victorious pride:

Black man rejoice

White man wonTt come here
And if he does,

The Devil will take him off.

At first most maroon Leaders
were African-born, but after 1700
leadership fell increasingly to those
of mixed heritage. Foreign soldiers
had little stomach for warfare in
the wilderness against black Indi-
ans, so Europeans hired or con-

scripted Native Americans and Af-
ricans as soldiers. The conscripts
were skilled frontier fighters, but
their loyalty was dubious. In 1732
Spanish officials in Venezuela
threw 150 Indians and Africans
and 100 white soldiers against
Juan Andresote, a black-Indian
maroon leader. When AndresoteTs
guerrilla fighters surrounded the
invaders, the soldiers of color on
the Spanish side defected. The
musket fire of AndresoteTs men fin-
ished the work, killing or wound-
ing more than half the whites as
the rest fled. ,

North American colonists as well
worried about relations between
blacks and Indians. According to
Theda Perdue, the author of Sla-
veryand the Evolution of Cherokee
Society, Europeans"who enslaved
Native Americans throughout the
colonial period"had few qualms
about selling Indians they had cap-
tured in battle to slave traders. In
fact, Native Americans were not
exempt from enslavement until
well after the American Revolu-
tion. The besieged Indian nations
needed allies, and the runaway
African slaves, who soon came to
see the IndiansT villages as safe
havens, proved eager to help fight
the colonists. In the 1720s African
slaves belonging to LouisianaTs gov-
ernor, Etienne de Perrier, formed
a military alliance with the Natchez
Indians that resulted in the de-
struction of a French settlement.
Perrier warned that this ounion

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between the Indian nations and
the black slaves? could lead to the °

ototal loss? of the colony. In 1723
an African commanded another
devastating black-Natchez expe-

dition against the French outside

New Orleans. Governor PerrierTs
Choctaw warriors captured many
slaves who had fled to the Natchez
Nation but refused to surrender
them for eighteen months. When
the Af ricans were finally turned
over, they boasted of the freedom
they had enjoyed wfth the Natchez
and Choctaws and showed, accord-
ing to Perrier, a new ospirit of lazi-
ness, independence and insolence.?
During the 1763 Michigan upris-
ing, led by the Ottawa chief Pontiac,
an onlooker reported that though
the Ottawas and their confeder-
ates were killing white they were
osaving and caressing all the Ne-
groes they take.? And Native
Americans allowed their villages
to serve as stations on the network
of safe houses that became known
in the early 1800s as the Under-
ground Railroad. Indeed, many
African-Americans who sought
freedom in Indian villages were
treated as sisters and brothers,
and some groups, like the
MohawksT in New York, encour-
aged intermarriage with them. The
children of these unions were
treated as full members of the tribe
and served as a bridge between the
two cultures.

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Carolinas encountered bands o
Seminoles, and the two groups be-
came allies. The blacks, e
descended from peer ge :
the rice-growing regions of West
Africa, soon taught their Native "
American friends how to cultivate
grain. Eventually blacks and Semi-
noles intermarried and formed a
prosperous biracial community,
whose members ran plantations
that stfetched for miles along
FloridaTs fertile Appalachicola
river.

In 1819 the U.S. government pur-

chased Florida and proceeded to
stamp out the Seminoles, black
and red, who had _ been raiding
American plantations and fiercely
repelling attacks on their own
camps. Over the next four decades
the Seminoles fought the U.S,
Army, Navy, and Marines to a
stand still in three wars that cost
the United States more than fif-
teen hundred soldiers and $40 mil-
lion. At one point the Seminoles
managed to tie up half the U.S.
Army. oThis, you may be assured,?
said Gen. Thomas Jesup in 1837,
ois a Negro, not an Indian war.? In
reality it was both. The Seminoles
fought to protect their land, but
they also fought to protect their
African brethren from re-enslave-
ment. When captured, black Semi-
noles were sold into slavery
whether or not they had been born
free.
From early colonial days on, ev-
ery treaty with Native Americans
included provisions for the return
of slaves. But compliance was an-
other matter. As Kenneth W. Por-
ter explains in his book The Black
Seminoles, few Indians re turned
fugitive slaves, even though whites
tried to bribe them with valuable
pro visions such as animal skins,
blankets, and muskets.

Many whites believed that the
surest way to prevent Native
Americans from hiding runaways
was to make them masters, thereby
giving them a personal in vest-
ment in African bondage. Indians
would no longer shelter fugitive
slaves, it was believed, once they
came to see the value of their labor.
Because the Cherokees,
Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks,
and Seminoles "known as the Five
Civilized Tribes"lived in the
South, whites considered their
accep tance of slavery vital to main-
taining order in the region and
encouraged slave ownership within
these nations.

As slave owning took hold it

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The East Carolina University Native American Orga-
nization (ECNAO) will hold its forth Annual Pow Wow at

=| East Carolina (College Hill Field) on March 22 from

11:00 AM to 5:30 PM. The event'is free to the public.
There will be great dancing, singing, and native crafts
and food available.

Patrice Henderson, a Lumbee Indian from Raeford,

i serves as presidgpt of ECNAO, oOne of the goals this

year has been to bridge unity among the minority popu-
lations at ECU. We, as a minority group on campus, have
to support one another and create situations in which we
can share our cultures with each other.?

Joey Crutchfield, Alumni Advisor and a Monacan In-
dian says, oDr. Haines and the Minority Affairs staff at
ECU provide excellent support for ECNAO and the POW

# WOW. Many African-American people, up to two-fifths
| have some Native American blood in their family. A Pow

Wow like the one at ECU may provide an opportunity for

1 people to learn more about that side of their family. The

ECU POW WOW is fun for the whole family. We invite
all African American people in Pitt County to attend.?

For more information, call the Minority Student Af-
fairs Office at 328-6495.

Sycamore HillTs New York Fellowship Trip

Dr. Howard W. Parker and 94 members and friends of Sycamore Hill
Missionary Baptist Church traveled to New York recently for a MenTs
Day Fellowship Service at the Berean Missionary Baptist Church in
Brooklyn, New York. BereanTs pastor, the Rev. Arlee Griffin, is the
former pastor of Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville.

The group had the opportunity to enjoy a buffet breakfast bar at the
Maryland House. Upon arrive in New York, they enjoyed a lovely
owelcome? reception jn the hospitality room. Cassandra Tripp was the
hostess for the event, compliments of BB&T Tours & Travel. Refresh-
ments included: punch, baked ham, wheat mini-loaf bread, and as-
sorted cookies. After the long ride, the food and fellowship were great!

The group shopped at the Newport Centre Mall City, New Jersey.
The mall offered more than 150 specialty shops and over 20 eateries.

Berean Church hosted a hot fellowship breakfast on Sunday morning.
Dr. Howard Parker rendered a very inspirational message for the 11:00
AM morning worship service; music was rendered by the Sycamore Hill
Male chorus. A delicious dinner was served before the return journey

| Little Willie Center

The Little Willie Centeris havingits Seventh Annual Spring Festival
Workshop on Saturday, April 19, 1997 from 11:00 AM-6:00 PM. This
exciting event will be held at the Carolina East Mall. The theme of the
Festival is oSurvival Skills for Latchkey Children.?

There will be educational, human service, social, civic and
commercial exhibitors, in addition to vocal and musical entertainment,
inspirational speakers, food and fun.

The Spring Festival Workshopis one of our major fundraising drives.
Contributions will go toward the purchase of a new van to help
transport latchkey children.

Please advertise this event.
there.

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Board of Directors

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Violent crime in Pitt County and
the rest of the country is an issue
about which all citizens should be
concerned. Within three months,
Pitt County (especially West
Greenville) has seen a rash of vio-
lent crime that could have been
avoided or deterred with sound,
meaningful policies and plans.
Further, people like Chuck Autry
(City Councilman) have organized
informal gatherings of elected offi-
cials, clergymen, professionals,
and others to discuss the crime
question and suggest solutions to
combating violent crime that
threatens security and peace in
the county. Unfortunately, many
people who attended the meetings
seemingly want to grandstand and
accomplish absolutely nothing sub-
stantive. Serious about crime, I
developed a comprehensive crime
control and prevention plan part
of which has been successfully
implemented and sustained by

progressive cities throughout the
country. The package consists of
the following: Community Polic-
ing, Curfew Laws/Ordinances,
Cash/Gift Certificates for Hand-
guns, Around-The-Clock Toll-Free
Hot Line for Counseling Drug Ad-
dicts, Zero-Tolerance Plan, Digi-
tal Display System, Neighborhood
Watch Coordinator/Director.

Community policing involves
foot and mobile patrol (car, bike,
mopeds, etc.). This could be done
in conjunction with a few police
sub-stations in strategic areas
around Greenville. More un-
marked police cars will be a plus.
If such a program is to become
successful, police chiefs would need
support from the following groups:
the community, elected officials,
the media, community agencies,
and the police department.

The police chief should build con-
sensus among the five groups us-
ing a calculated, verifiable strat-

consider sending its officers to
class specializing in community
policing. Numerous police depart-
ments use effective community
policing. This is key to building
confidence in the police deparft-
ment while giving average citi-
zens input in the process. Indeed,
the face-to-face interactions be-
tween the police and community
are imperative for encouraging
personalized, safe neighborhoods.

Curfew laws could comprise a
dusk-to-dawn program to prevent
and combat youth violence. The
rules should apply to youth under
17 years of age. Thanks to Presi-
dent Clinton, the Justice Depart-
ment has issued some guidelines
to promote effective curfew pro-
grams within the country. The fol-
lowing guidelines are based on
some of the broad suggestions of
the Justice Department: Curfew
centers to receive violators, cen-

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ling or other referrals
ilies, recreation or job pro-

ash for handguns involves the
clergy, business community, and
elected officials conducting peri-
odical fund-raisers to sustain such
a program. Stolen and unregis-
tered handguns should be ex-
changed at designated centers for
cash or gift certificates and be de-
stroyed. Too many handguns are
in the wrong hands.

An around-the-clock hot line
would counsel drug users and guar-
antee anonymity. Members of the
clergy, social service profession-
als, and other qualified volunteers
skilled in the art of counseling
could staff the center.

A Zero-Tolerance Plan is a mas-
sive anti-drug campaign which
includes distributing flyers around
Greenville. Commissioners may
seek funds to support a broad ap-
proach of disseminating anti-drug
information over the county. The
literature and verbal information
(i.e. via radio, television, newspa-

Cornerstone
Missoinary
Baptist Church

1095 Allen Road
Greenville, NC
Invites You To THEIR
Mortgage Burning Cel-
ebration & Worship Ser-
vice!
Palm Sunday, March 23,
1997
8:00 A.M.

Guest Speaker: Rev.
Arlee Griffin, Jr., Pastor,
Berean Missionary Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, NY
Spend the whole day with
us, as we give God the
Glory

There will also be an
11:00 A.M. Worship Service
For details call: 752-4156

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per, etc.) must educate residents
on the dangers of and penalties for
illegal drug use. Further, each
church should provide counseling
and seminars for drug addicts.
Additionally, community minis-
tries may play a role. They could
spread the Good News with resi-
dents, particularly in economi-
cally-deprived neighborhoods.
Such ministries will restore hope
and optimism in residents feeling
a sense of powerlessness.

In brief, a digital display system
could coordinate crime-related in-
formation from the police depart-
ment, City Council, commission-
ers, and business community
where data relating to violent
crimes, drug statistics, etc. will be
displayed. This is another way of
educating the public.

A neighborhood watch coordi-
nator should be employed to drive
through neighborhoods periodi-
cally and report suspicious activi-
ties. This is a type of citizen patrol.
At the end of each shift, the civil-

to the eoordinster: ~The esarlieg

tor will complete a weekly sum- 2,
mary report at the.end of each ;

work week. A copy will be for- °
warded to the police department. «
Citizens patrols will have a radio «
but no guns on duty. He/She will -

be required to check in tothe base:

every 30 minutes. A Citizen Patrol .
Academy may be established as °
funds permit. Prospective students "

may receive scholarships in ex-*
change for their services. This al- «
lows students to receive a college .

education and commit themselves

to community service. Incentives *
should be offered by the business *

and non-business community to
stimulate participation.

Elected officials and others :

should welcome the aforemen-
tioned innovative approaches to
crime deterrence and prevention.
Elected officials who play politics
with public safety and the need for
community peace should be de-
nied re-election. They need to stop
pussyfooting around and promote

domestic tranquillity.
Keith Cooper

ian patrol officer will complete a
shift patrol report to be submitted

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Dallas...Mary Kay Inc. Independent Beauty Consultant, Cathy Perkins
of Greenville, North Carolina, is on the road to success. She recently
qualified as a team manager and earned the free use of a 1997 red
Pontiac Grand Am.

To qualify as a team manager, Perkins had to meet specific sales and
recruiting requirements. In this position, Perkins will provide leader-
ship to team members and will work with the unitTs sales director in
meeting sales and_recruiting goals.

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silver key or gold key manager. The next position of achievement is
directorship, where new directors can win the use of one of Mary KayTs
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career cars on American roads today.

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cosmetics in the United States. The Mary Kay line includes more than
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cosmetics, nail care, hair care, body care, sun protection, fragrances,
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beauty consultants operating their own businesses in 25 countries
worldwide.

Enrollment Announcement
Head Start Program

Martin County Community Action, Inc. Project Head Start is now
accepting applications for the 1997 Fall Enrollment for children and includ-
ing children with disabilities. Eligibility is determined by HHS Income
Guidelines, family needs, disabilities, and/or special conditions of the child.

Children who will be enrolled will be exposed to a broad educational
curriculum that will prepare them for preschool social and educational
experiences. Health, nutrition and mental health are also important factors
in the development of these children. These areas are also facilitated in the
daily routines of the children. Parent Involvement and other program
services as mandated are required and are fully utilized by the program. Ten
percent (10%) of Head Start Enrollment is identified as: "health impairment,
emotional/behavior disorders, speech/language impairments, mental
retardation, hearing impairment/deafness, orthopedic impairment ,visual
impairment/blind, learning disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, and
other impairments for children who require special education and related
services.

Head Start is a comprehensive developmental program for children ages 3-
5 yeas old. This program is based on the premise that children share certain
needs and that children from low-income families, in particular, can benefit
from a program designed to meet those needs. Head Start operates nine (9)
months of the year, - September through May. The centers are open Monday
through Friday and the hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Head
Start has been operating in the Martin County area since 1965, currently
there are 192 children. Nine (9) classrooms are comprised 4-5 year old and
one (1) classroom consists of three year old must become three by October
16th; Beaufort County has been operating since 1977 and presently serving
99 children. Five (5) classrooms of 4-5 year olds are accommodated in this
county.

Pitt County originated in 1985 and serving 222 children in twelve (12)
classrooms accommodating 4-5 year olds.

Funding for Martin County Community Action, Inc.

Project Head Start is received from the Administration for Children,
Youth and Families Unit, Department of Health and Human Services. In
order for children to qualify, they must meet the family income guidelines.
Below are the guidelines.

1996 FAMILY INCOME GUIDELINES FOR
HEAD START PROGRAMS

1996 FAMILY INCOME GUIDELINES FOR ALL STATES (EXCEPT
ALASKA AND HAWAII), THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND PUERTO
RICO.

Income
$7,470

$10,030
$12,590
$15,150
$17,710
$20,270
$22,830
$25,390

Size of Family Unit

Bro LwWNHe

For Family Units with more than 8 members, add $2,560 for each additional
member. Please contact the Family Service Worker at the Head Start center
in your area:

Martin Co:

North Everetts 792-5353

Pitt Co: St. Gabriel (752-9755)
Ayden (746-4298

Farmville (753-8036)

"Beaufort Co: 264 Washington (946-5632)
Aurora ( 322-5543
Belhaven (943-3006)

For more information or to enroll a child, please call Ms. Teresa Greene,
Social Services Coordinator or Ms. Gloristeen Matthewson, Disability
Services Coordinator at (919) 792-7141 or come by the Martin County
Community Action Head Start Administrative Office at 106 South Watts
Street in Williamston, North Carolina.

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"Vanceboro - Mrs. Hattie Lee

Hardy, 73, of 150 Maul Swamp
Road, died Sunday, March 5, 1997
at~Craven Regional Medical Cen-
ter in New Bern.
T-Funeral services Sunday 3:00
p.m. Queens Chapel FWB Church
in. Vanceboro. Burial in Dawson
Cemetery.

Surviving: sons, William Hardy,
| David Hardy, and George Hardy,
Jr. of Vanceboro, NC.

2 daughters, Lula Jenkins of
| Durham, NC and Mary Patrick of

Vanceboro, NC.

1 brother, James Dawson of

Voice - iiieees, annie? - MARCH 16, 1997

bituaries

Vanceboro, NC,

5 sisters, Roberta Gaskins of
Newport News, VA

Daisy Curtis of Newark, NY

Mamie Woaten, Holland
Chapman, and Ruby Edwards all
of Vanceboro, NC

18 grandchildren; 12 great
grandchildren; 1 great-great
grandchild

Viewing Sunday 2-3 p.m. at the
church

Flanagan Funeral Home, Inc.,
Greenville.

MARY RANDOLPH
Greenville - Mrs. Mary
Randolph, 58, of 603 W. 14th
Street, died Monday, March 3, 1997
at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Flanagan Funeral Home, Inc.,

Greenville.

Robersonville - Mr. Hallie Hollis,
61, of 1943 Twin Bridge Road, died
Sunday, March 2, 1997 at his home.
Flanagan-Perkins Funeral Home,
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Black land loss summit

Historical Tillery, N. C. and
Franklinton Center at Bricks,
N.C. will be the sites of the first
Southwide Black Land Loss Sum-
mit March 20-22. The goals of the
conference, according to the plan-
ning committee, are: oto stop the
trend of African-American land
loss and the disappearance of fam-
ily farms, establish a regional
network in support of the sustain-
able economic development of ru-
ral resources, communicate the
rural voice of Americans effec-
tively across all cultural, racial
and geographic boundaries, serve
as a clearinghouse to disseminate
ideas and alternativesin response
to poverty and injustice in North
Carolina and the world.?

The initiative for the confer-
ence comes from the Concerned
Citizens of Tillery and its Land
Loss Fund because of the steady
and rapid decline of Black farm-
ers and landowners. oAfrican-
Americans are losing land at a
rate of 9,000 acres per week. In

| 1920, one in every seven farm-
[2s was African-American. By
| 1982, only one in every 67 farm-
| ers were Black. In 1950, Afri-

planned in North Carolina

can-Americans owned 1.2 mil-
lion acres of land in North Caro-
lina, but by the 1980s they owned
less than 400,000 acres,? said
Gary R. Grant, executive direc-
tor of the organization. He says,
oI have watched as my commu-
nity, a resettlement community
under FDRTs New Deal, as more
than 200 family farmers
dwindled to less than five.?

Besides the decline of African-
American family farmers and
landowners, omany rural south-
ern communities have endured
environmental degradation,
health risks and loss of economic
vitality as part of a nationwide
trend of environmental racism,?
Grant went on to say.

The conference is open to all.
For farmers, there is a small
fund available, on a first-come,
first-serve basis, to assist with
travel, housing, food and lodg-
ing for the conference. For fur-
ther information, contact Gary
R. Grant by phone at (919) 826-
3017; by fax at (919) 826-3244;
or write to The Land Loss Fund,
P.O. Box 61, Tillery, NC 27887
or e-mail at tillery@aol.com

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Greenville will be blooming

Greenville, NC - Greenville will
be in bloom on Tuesday, May 6,
1997 from 10:00 am until 6 pm as
the Friends of the Ronald
McDonald House host a spring
garden tour to benefit the Ronald
McDonald House. The third bien-
nial garden tour will showcase 8
unique gardens, ranging in sizes
and gardening styles. Tickets are
$12.00 each and are available at
Accents, JeffersonTs, Now & Then

Designs, Ronald McDonald House,
and Sunshine Garden Center.
Seven of the gardens on display
belong to private homeowners, and
the eighth features the Ronald
McDonald House. There will be
Garden Boutique under the tents
at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Jack
Welch. Merchants will offer gar-
den-related accessories, books,
plants, porcelains and gift items.
A gourmet boxed lunch is also

available at the Welch home. The
ticket for the lunch is $8.00 and is
available by advance purchase
only. Please contact Patti Clark at
756-4519 for luncheon tickets or
for special seating arrangements.

Join the Friends and enjoy some
of GreenvilleTs gardens. While hav-
inglunch under the trees, you may
also shop Garden Boutiques for
gifts and garden accessories. Tour
the gardens at your own pace and

in which order you choose anytime
between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm on
Tuesday, May 6, 1997.

Proceeds from the event will be
donated to the Ronald McDonald
House, a haven for families with
seriously ill children visiting the
ChildrenTs Hospital of Eastern
North Carolina. For more infor-
mation, please contact Christy
Angle at 830-0062.

Children and Families Enjoy Spring Open House at Avcocks
Birthplace Wednesday, March 19

Wagon rides, farm animals and
living history demonstrations pro-
vide the perfect remedy for spring
fever and an opportunity to learn
about farm life during the 1800s.
On Wednesday, March 19, from
9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. the Charles B.
Aycock Birthplace State Historic
Site will welcome first grade
classes from Fremont, Northeast
and Northwest Elementary
Schools along with whoever else
want to join the fun during its
annual spring open house.

As one of several kick-off events
for the Fremont Daffodil Festival,
the Aycock Birthplace open house
offers various activities young visi-
tors and families will enjoy. At the
mid-1800s farmhouse, historically
dressed staff people will cook over
an open-hearth fireplace and shell
and grind corn. While in the siteTs

one-room schoolhouse a oschool-
master? will explain what school
-life was like for children during
the late-1800s.

Boykin and Hogg, Inc. will bring
out its beautiful Belgian draft
horses for wagon rides and a pet-
ting zoo will be set up on site.
Additionally, children can visit
with the siteTs resident sheep and
fowl.

Young visitors will explore his-
tory by going on a scavenger hunt
through the homestead and can
even experience a bit of the 19th
century by playing a period game
called oChicken Market.?

Admission to the site and all
activities are free. The Aycock
Birthplace is located nine miles
north of Goldsboro. Take Gover-
nor Aycock Road off U. S. 117 for
about 1/2 mile, brown historic site

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brought rigid stratification to the previously fluid Native American
society and helped weave racial prejudice into the fabric of Indian
communities. Soon a class hierarchy arose based on white blood. Native
Americans with white ancestry (usually those with the most slaves)
stood at the top, opure? Indians were next, and people of African descent
were at the bottom. Indian masters, however, generally rejected the
worst features of slavery. Some groups, like the Seminoles, used their
slaves as interpreters and advisers, since their blacks were fluent in both
English and the SeminolesT Muskogean dialect. Native Americans also
came to rely on African Americans as cultural navigators, taking
advantage of their familiarity with white AmericaTs customs. Slavery

among the Indians allowed Africans a measure of independence un- -

thinkable within the plantation system, and many of the IndiansT slaves
acquired their own land and livestock, constructed sturdy homes for
themselves, and freely hunted and fished on Native American property.
Many white Southerners, angered by what they saw as the IndiansT lax
attitude toward slave owning, demanded that Native Americans invite
whites into their villages to help bring their slaves under control.

Though the Five Civilized Tribes conformed to Southern mores by
adopting Christianity and owning slaves, whites still saw them as
standing in the way of settlement. Congress sought to eliminate this
obstacle by passing the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Vigorously sup-
ported by President Andrew Jackson, the act ordered the mass deporta-
tion of the Five Nations from their homeland, in the Southeast, to
reservations in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Cherokees sued the state
of Georgia to prevent the confiscation of their lands and eventually took
their case to the Supreme Court. Though the court ruled in the nationsT
favor, Jackson refused to recognize the decision. The Indians would have
to go.

The Five Nations, with their thousands of African slaves, embarked on
a series of infamous forced westward marches, which the Cherokees
called the oTrail of Tears.? After they began settling their new lands, in
the 1830s and 1840s, slavery became even more entrenched among
them. Though the Indian populations decreased over next thirty years,
their slave holdings increased. Despite this, intermarriage between the
two groups continued. By 1860 African-Americans had mixed so thor-
oughly with Native Americans of the Five Nations that some white
legislators wanted to revoke the IndiansT taxexemptions. The Civil War
tore the Indian nations apart. Surrounded by Confederate troops and
influenced by Confederate agents, most Native Americans in Oklahoma
Territory felt they had little choice but to follow the Confederacy. Despite
this, in November 1861 hundreds of black and red Indians, led by the
Creek chief Opothle Yahola, fought three pitched battles against Con-
federate whites and Indians to reach Union lines in Kansas and offer
their services.

After the war the Indian nations emancipated their former slaves with
varying speed. The Chickasaws and Choctaws, most of whom had sided
with the Confederacy, proved the most resistant to change, while the
Seminoles freed their slaves immediately. Among Creeks, Seminoles,
and Cherokees black people made economic strides rarely duplicated
within the larger society. Black Cherokees ran schools and owned
barbershops, general stores, and restaurants. They be came printers,
ferry operators, cotton-gin managers, teachers, and postmasters.

In 1879 black Cherokees petitioned for full citizenship within the
Cherokee Nation, declaring that it ois our country; there we were born
and reared, there ale our homes... there are our wives and children,
whom we love as dearly as though we were born with red, instead ofblack
skins.? The Seminole Nation elected six blacks to its postwar governing
council, and black Seminoles, like black Cherokees, built thriving
communities and attended Nation schools, such as the Creek-Seminole
College in Boley, Oklahoma. Black Choctaws and Chickasaws who had
fought for the Union often found themselves denied full membership in
their nations. In 1884, as the Chickasaws argued the merits of granting
equality to blacks, a convention of African-Ameri cans announced that
the Chickasaws were their ofriends and we know by the experience of the
past that we can live with them in the future in a close union.?

Despite these hardships, most African-American freedmen wanted to
remain in Indian territory. Whatever they may have suffered from the

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Indians, they knew that life among them had to be better than life among
whites. oThe opportunities for our people in that [Indian] country far
surpassed any of the kind possessed by our people in the U.S.,? wrote O.
S. Fox, the editor of the Cherokee Afro-American Advocate.

Still, Indian freedmen continued for years to petition to gain the rights
of other citizens, such as the right to own landor to attend public schools.
But by 1907, when Oklahoma became a state, even the resistant
Chickasaw Nation had made strides, opening up several schools for the
education of its African American members.

In the 1920s the cultures of blacks and Native Ameri cans were
regarded as scarcely worth historical study. When Carter G. Woodson
set out to generate interest in African-American history, seventy years
ago, he was up against mountains of literature that described people of
color as undeserving of recognition Today, although the United States
celebrates multiculturalism, WoodsonTs concern about American history's
missing chapter"the relationship between blacks and Indians"re-
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know the extent to which their histories intertwine. And while most
African-Americans are aware of Native Americans in their family trees,
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The descendants of those hard-fighting black Seminole are an excep-
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Charles Emily Wilson, a leader of the black Seminole community in
Bracketville, Texas, remembers the things she was told as achild about
her black and Seminole ancestors. oOur people have lived in Texas for
over one hundred years.? she says. o Before that we were in Mexico...
and before that we were in Oklahoma, and even earlier than that in
Florida. And before that, we came from Africa. Inall our travels we have
never lost an awareness of our identity and a pride in our freedom that
makes us different.? *

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For you to pass beyond the sun
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For now your soul is in GodTs hands
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The hottest selling Computer software in
Japan this year is a olove simulation?
game in which boys try to get a virtual
17- -year-old girl, Shiori, to fall in love
with them. There is even a magazine,
Virtual Idol, devoted to supplying fiction-
al biographical tales of Shiori and other
virtual girls. Wrote one young man,
Virtual Idol ' ~is like the right kind of mag-
azine for a person like me whoTs not inter-
p ested in real girls.?

Who listens to music?

» According to a survey conducted by

» Black Pearl Records, single women who

» earn more than $45,000 a year are 79 per-
cent likely to listen to music during sex
than married women who earn similar
amounts; 12 percent of single women

; who listen to jazz during sex profess to

; wanting abortion banned; and finally, 17

* percent t of married women who listen to

e: Alternative music also enjoy watching
§e Pomo movies after returning home from a

; music concert, while 24 percent of single
* women who listen to rhythm and blues

a: * music prefer having sex before going out

mona date.
~Cries for help

In an eight day period in January, in
-towns fewer than 100 miles apart
i . (Bakersfield and Fresno, Calif.) police
found the corpses of elderly mothers who

® had continued to be treated as integral

parts of the family by their adult sons.
| The Bakersfield woman, who died at the

4 tage of 77, was thought by her son to be

~merely ~ ~demonically depressed? and
f *therefore liable to wake up at any minute;

i thus she had been propped up on the sofa.

~New status symbol

7 According to a report from Associated

~Press, young mothers in large Japanese

|, cities have adopted city parks as forums
~in which to vie for status. Some young

if mothers interviewed claimed they were

oscared? to take their children to the parks

~because of the established cliques of

~Mothers who dominate the facilities.

. Guidebooks teach the proper opark behav-

~ior,? department stores feature the proper

~opark attire,? and a recent satiric movie

~depicted a park ruled by 50) authoritarian

- mothers.

~Say what?

- In Tempe, Ariz., Sally Keith, 90, offered
I to set up a $250,000 scholarship fund for

~American Indian women at the University

proposal because it stated applicants
would be judged more on personality than

7} ~of Arizona, but the school rejected the

grades and opreferences will be given tc a
girl who has been able to say ~noT to sex.?
Keith admitted she got the idea after
learning about the high number of teen
pregnancies in Arizona.

No spitting

The Times of London reported that
Bombay (now called Mumbai) India, was
the first city in the country to ban public
spitting, which is described by most resi-
dents as oone of the most ubiquitous of
male habits? in India (the other being
public urination). According to the Times,
oBoys barely old enough to walk can be
heard practicing guttural sounds, which is
regarded as macho.?

Illegal stalks

Fans of the Gillingham soccer club in
England who are caught with celery risk
being banned from the game for lite.
Celery is mentioned in a song popular
with Gillingham boosters, who toss stalks
in the air when it is mentioned.? We had
an incident over a number of matches,?
the clubTs safety officer said. oWe esti-
mate there must have been boxes in the
air. There is a safety implication here.?

Anti-smoking gone too far

The Associated Press recently reported
on the three-year-old anti-smoking policy
of Kimball Physics in Wilton, N. H. The
company not only forbids lighting up at
work but subjects each employee and visi-
tor to a sniff test of his breath and cloth-
ing by receptionist Jennifer Walsh.. Those
whose odor is so strong it suggests they
smoked within the last two hours or so are
not allowed in.

Cave dwellers

According to the China Daily, 40 mil-
lion Chinese live in caves, but many are
leaving for regular houses, putting a strain
on the : available arable land in some areas.
Thus, architects working for the govern-
ment are designing futuristic cave homes
in the Gansu, oHenan and Shanxi
provinces to encourage the cave dwellers
to stay put.

Fast legal action

In Arizona, the government has intro-
duced the Quick Court system in an effort
(0 relieve the courts. ATM-like machines
are available for filing paperwork to get a
simple divorce, change a name or file a
Small claim suit. The state says that by
Mid-year, there will be 150 machines in

?,?. Filing fees range up to $30.A
Spokesman for the state says Quick Court
~Will relieve the courtsT heavy workload

and allow for quick decision without liti-
on.

Raleigh - Gov. Jim Hunt, along with
Sen. Charlie Dannelly (D-
Mecklenburg), Reps. Julia Howard
(R-Davie) and Cherie Berry (R-
Catawba), is cracking down on fraud
in all state public assistance programs.

The bill, introduced last week in the
Senate by Dannelly and tonightin the
House by Howard and Berry, will give
the state more power to detect fraud
committed by people food stamps, cash
assistance, Medicaid, and other forms
of public assistance, such as day care
subsidies.

oEvery dollar taken in fraud is
money stolen from North CarolinaTs
children - itTs that simple. WeTre going
to stop it,? sail Hunt. oWeTre going to
make these criminals pay back what
theyTve stolen. This bill will do just
that.?

Key tools provided by the bill are:

¢ The power of subpoena: Allow
state investigators to subpoena
records if theyTre unable to verify
wages of people on public assistance.

* Garnishing wages: Garnish wages
to recover overpayments for people

BIPARTISAN BILL CRACKS DOWN ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FRAUD

who no longer receive public assistance.

The bill also outlaws buying and selling
food stamps, allowing police departments
to charge people who illegally possess
food stamps. Previously, food stamp traf-
ficking could only be prosecuted under
federal law.

oTaxpayers are the real winners with
this bill. It will allow the state to recoup
money without wasting time and money
in court,? Kevin FitzGerald, director of
the state Division of Social Services, said.
oMost people who receive food stamps are
honest. WeTre out to catch the 2 percent
who arenTt. We estimate only a small
percentage of people on cash assistance
commit fraud, but any amount of fraud is
unacceptable.?

Recouping welfare -i.e., cash assistance
- overpayments that occurred through
fraud or human error yielded almost $3
million in 1996. The state also recovered
$2.4 million in food stamp overpayments
and pver $500,000 in Medicaid overpay-
ments in 1996.

A task group on welfare fraud helped
write the bill as part of the Human Ser-
vices Task Force - a group of legislators,

county commissioners, county man-
agers, social services directors, wel-
fare family advocates, and religious,
non-profit and business leaders who
advised the Governor on how to take
advantage of the increased flexibility
in the federal welfare law. Howard
chaired this fraud task group and
Dannelly was a member.

While the state has always been
able to garnish benefits when there
has been an overpayment, the bill
gives new power to recover overpay-
ments from people who no longer re-
ceive public assistance. FitzGerald
said that garnishing wages will be
used as a last resort.

oWe'll give people a chance to pay,
and allow them to pay over time. When
itTs clear that the state wonTt get back
the money without garnishing wages,
we'll do whatTs necessary,? said
FitzGerald.

Citizens can report fraud by calling
their local department of social ser-
vices or the state information and
referral service/CARE-LINE at 1-800-
662-7030

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LordTs Resistance
Army has killed
more than 400

nocihecn third of Ugands and driven
200,000 farmers from their homes.

Witness in the village of Kitgum said®
the rebels lined up 10° women, ~told them
to hold their heads. down and killed nine
of them, breaking their skulls with a
stone. Since January, the attacks on scat-
tered farming plots - the worst since the
rebellion broke out in 1986 - were ~
designed to punish those who refused to
cooperate with the effort to overthrow
President Yoweri Museveni. Hundreds of
thousands of people have fled to army-
controlled towns seeking protection.
Museveni has rejected all suggestions of
talks with rebel leader Joseph "Kony and
has been unable to bring stability to the
region.

Famine threatens Zaire

faced
uncontrollable civil «
war,

rebels endanger tens of thousands of
Rwandan refugees and Zairians.

Substantial foreign aid is needed, accord-
ing to the Rome based Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), a relief
arm of the United Nations. Deaths from
Starvation and disease are reported daily in
eastern Zaire, where refugees are trapped
out of reach of international relief opera-
tions. Neighboring Rwanda and Burundi
also are among the 14 Afmican countries
FAO said face * oexceptional food emergen-
cies? because of weather, war or Civil
strife. Only international assistance can
remedy the problems, it said. Some 1.2
million refugees returning to their native
Rwanda from Tanzania and Zaire - where
refugees and displaced Zairians have been
on the run since hostilities began in
September - have strained the fragile food
supply.

SOUTH AFRICA

White group nixes Mandela

= The leader of a

q predominantly

White political

group has refused

san offer by
President Nelson

o4 Mandela to join his

unity government.
Tony Leon, head of the Liberal
Democratic Party praised MandelaTs

onation-building efforts,? but said that
joining his government would compro-
mise his partyTs important role as an out-
sider. Cabinet members may criticize the
government behind closed doors, but are
expected to take collective responsibility
for all decisions made. Since the with-
drawal of former President F.W. De
KlerkTs National Party from government
at the end of June, the Cabinet has con-
sisted of two predominantly Black parties
- MandelaTs African National Congress
and its main rival, the Zulu nationalist
Inkatha Freedom Party.

LIBERIA

Peace comes to Liberia, but...

- After nearly

7 seven years of
armed struggle

| between different

4 waring factions.

ai peace May come 10
LiberiaT s capital ay of Monrovi*. But
civilians in the city are cautiot ~ause
the factions are now arguing ov. 0
will take control of the county.

In separate incidents, the national elec-
tion commission has received death
threats. With an apparent end of the war
and the disarmament of tens of thousands
of rival militiamen, Liberians have never
been so hopeful that they will finally get
their chance at peace. But the next phase
towards normalcy - general elections and
the seating of a civilian government - is
already in turmoil. The electoral commis-
sion office looted and shelled when rebels
brought the war to Monrovia last spring,
is guarded by West African peacekeepers
hunkered down behind sand bags and
machine guns. Who should sit on the
commission is mired in international
debate.

KENYA

Government pleas to end riots

Kenya's attorney general promised he
would prosecute the person who killed a
university student. The effort was made to
stop four day#of student riots at the
University of Nairobi.

Students leaders charge police involve-
ment in the death of Solomon Muruli, 23,
a third-year education student. Muruli
died last weekend after a fire, apparently
started by an explosion, gutted his dormi-
tory room. Opposition leaders and mem-
bers of MuruliTs Luhyia tribe - Kenya's

second largest - called for a quick investi-
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Raleigh - Theodis Beck and Dan Lilly ager. In 1995 he became the first Afri-
have been included in Gov. Jim HuntTs can-American named director of the Di-

newly appointed manage-
ment team in the Depart-
ment of Correction.

oMr. Beck and Mr. Lilly
are career veterans who
have the leadership skills
and experience to do a fine
job,? said Correction Secre-
tary Mack Jarvis.

Beck becomes the first Af-
rican-American named
deputy secretary in the de-
partment. A native of

Asheville, Beck began his Theodis Beck

correction career in 1975 as
a probation and parole of-

vision of Adult Probation
and Parole.

Beck graduated from
South French Broad High
School in Asheville in
1966. He received a BA
from N.C. Central Uni-
versity. Beck served two
years in the U.S. Army
and currently holds the
rank of Master Sergeant
inthe U.S. Army Reserve.
Heis a32 degree mason, a
shriner, and a member of
Omega Psi Phifraternity.
Beck and his wife Jean

Training. A Raleigh native, Lillybegan and dill service organization. Lilly is
his career in correction in 1969 as a alsoa member of Martin Street Baptist

correctional officer. He
moved up through theranks
to rehabilitation counselor
and later program supervi-
sor. Lilly joined the Office
of Staff Development and
Training as a trainer be-
fore being named chief of
classification for personnel.
He was later promoted to
manager of in service train-
ing.

Lilly graduated fromJ.W.

Ligon High School and from Dan Lilly

St. AugustineTs College in
1969 where he earned a BA.

Church in Raleigh where
he has served as deacon
and associate minister.

Lilly and his wife
Catherine have three chil-
dren.

Raleigh - Gov. Jim Hunt
has appointed former
Dept. of Transportation
deputy secretary Fred
Aikens to the N.C. Depart-
ment of Correction where
he will put his energy and
talent into one of the Hunt
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HeTs a member of the Garner Plan- criminals in prison longer and putting _ proven himself a good manager and will
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As deputy secretary of Correction, the Dept. of Correction,? Gov. Hunt said.

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At DOT, Aikens took a leader-

ship role in helping the depart-

ment operate more efficiently by

successfully implementing sev-

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While Deputy Secretary at DOT,

he also served as Acting Com-

missioner of the Department of
Motor Vehicles.

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earned a bachelor of arts degree

in sociology from the University

of North Carolina, Wilmington,
in 1975 and a masters degree in
regional planning from UNC
Chapel Hill in 1978. He started
working for the Triangle J Coun-
cil of Governments as a housing
planner in 1977 and in 1978 be-
came a fiscal research assistant
at the N.C. General Assembly.
He was promoted to fiscal ana-
lyst, then senior fiscal analyst
before becoming DOTTs deputy
secretary in 1993.

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looking forward to having FredTs
expertise with the General As-
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getary knowledge,? Correction
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this department becomes more

complex, we are grateful for the
help that Fred Aikens will bring.?

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nity to have served at Transpor-
tation,? Aikens said. oI look for-
ward to new challenges with the
Department of Correction, sup-
porting the GovernorTs agenda
to keep violent criminals behind
bars longer and to make them
work.?

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North Carolina Army National
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Health Care:
New World

We all know that times change, but we dont always notice until something
makes us stop and look around. Twenty-two years ago, Pitt County built a 270-
bed hospital at the edge of Greenville. Today, 731-bed Pitt County Memorial
Hospital is the hub of a health system poised to operate in a dramatically different
health care landscape.

The Rules Have Changed

ItTs a whole new world out there. This world rewards flexibility and speed. Yet PCMH is
playing by rules written for another time and a different health care situation.

Today, these changes bring us face-to-face with a serious question: Can our hospital thrive, or
even survive in its present form? In response to that question, the PCMH Board of Trustees has
asked the Pitt County Board of Commissioners to transfer ownership of the hospital to a citizen-
controlled, not-for-profit corporation"essentially the same entity that has operated PCMH since
it was created in 1953.

Staying in Step with the Times
This is a serious step, one that has been given careful consideration by our trustees and commissioners. But
itTs not unprecedented. In 1983, the state legislature passed a law to make public hospitals more competitive
with private hospitals even though they remain under local control. Many nearby hospitals have reorganized under
this statute, including Wilson Memorial, Wayne Memorial in Goldsboro and Halifax Memorial in Roanoke Rapids.
Last year, Wake Medical Center in Raleigh changed from a public hospital to citizen-controlled, not-for-profit.

The ocitizen-controlled? part is important. Under this arrangement, the majority of the hospital trustees would still be
appointed by the Pitt County Commissioners. The corporation would operate under strict conditions laid down by the
statute and by the county. If those conditions arenTt met, the hospital would revert to county ownership. The law also
obligates hospitals to take care of indigent patients and to hold open meetings. We would do those things anyway, but

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you dont have to take our word for it. ItTs in the law.

Ensuring a Level Playing Field
Many of North Carolinas public hospitals are reorganizing under the 1983 law to get on a level playing field with
private hospitals. They are making the change because the private hospitals have many competitive advantages:

¢ They can keep sensitive business information secret, but have access to the same information from their
public competitors.

¢ They can obtain financing much more readily than public hospitals.

* They can operate more efficiently because they arenT subject to the same regulations.

¢ And, ina health care system that puts a premium on collaboration among providers, they have far more
flexibility to undertake joint activities with doctors and other health care entities.

If the deck is stacked against us, PCMH will eventually lose patients to powerful competitors located in
Raleigh, Durham, Norfolk and elsewhere. That means less revenue and, eventually, fewer jobs. Patients in Pitt
County and other parts of the region, who now receive state-of-the-art treatments here, will be traveling
somewhere else for that care. Just like the old days.

For the Record
As happens with any major change, a few myths have developed:

Myth: Transferring PCMH to local citizen control is the same as selling the hospital.

Fact: PCMH is not for sale. If it ever was, the Pitt County Commissioners would have the final say.
Myth: PCMH will use this opportunity to raise prices.

Fact: Our ability to keep our rates lower than the competition will be a key to our success in the future.
Myth: Employees will lose jobs.

Fact: If this change is enacted, jobs will be more secure than they would be otherwise.

It's important to look beyond the myths and stay focused on our goal of better health care for all
citizens of Pitt County and eastern North Carolina. When we've done that, we've been successful.
Making this change is the best assurance that we'll remain that way in this new world of health care.

For more information, call 816-2481.

Pitt County Memorial Hospital (at