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_ WEEK OF MARCH 31-APRIL 6, 1998

Local NAACP Still On The Rise

By Kitty J. Pope
The NAACP of Pitt County held
its annual Fellowship Banquet on
March 21 at the J.H. Rose High
School. The banquet was a celebra-

tion of the Emancipation Proclama-
tion, with the theme, oNAACP:
And Still I Rise.? The speaker for
this occasion was Dr. James
Johnson.

Dr. Johnson is the Maynard Ad-
ams Distinguished Professor of
Business, Geography and Sociology
at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He is also the direc-

tor of the Urban Investment Strat-
egies Center in the Frank Hawkins
Kenan Institute of Private Enter-
prise at UNC-CH.

After music, a hearty welcome,
and the reading of the Emancipa-

, tion Proclamation, the banquet be-

PITT COUNTY NAACP HOLDS ANNUAL BANQUET"Shown here are " -|.) Pitt County President Gaston
Monk, Ann Huggins, Guest Speaker, James Johnson, Wall Morehead and another member all on hand for

the annual banquet. (Staff Photo)

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters
Denounces CIA Report

WASHINGTON, D.C."USS. Rep.
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), chair of
the Congressional Black Caucus,
last week denounced the Inspector
General of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), Frederick HitzTs, un-
classified report regarding allega-
tions of CIA involvement in drug
trafficking in South Central Los
Angeles.

oThis document lacks credibility
and its conclusions should be dis-

missed,? said Rep. Waters.
Testifying before the House Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence,
Rep. Waters added, oThis docu-
ment raises more questions than it
answers. We've waited for over a
year for a credible response to a
very serious accusation about the
CIATs role in drug trafficking to
fund the Contra war. Instead, we
have received an unclassified docu-
ment full of contradictions, ae

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YOUTH LEADERS TO CONVENE MILLION YOUTH MARCH-IN
HARLEM

Black youth from around the country will be the focus of attention at
the Million Youth March (MYM) on Sept. 5 in Harlem, N.Y. Organizers
say the entire black family is invited to hear from, support and guide
black youth as they take center stage and assume their role as the next
generation of leaders. The theme of the MYM is oBlack Power into the
Year 2000!? The event was called by Min. Khallid Abdul Muhammad and
he has received the expressed support of Min. Louis Farrakhan, the
convenor of the 1995 Million Man March. The weekend kicks off on Sept.
3 and 4 with the MYM Black Unity Hip Hop and Rap Summit. Malik
Zulu Shabazz, the national youth director for the MYM, explained that
the Summit is dedicated to ending the division between East Coast, West
Coast and Southern rappers. oAt the Summit,? he said, othey. will come
together with black leadership to communicate and dialogue in an effort
to promote unity and control the dollars in the industry.? Participants in
the Summit will include: West Side Connection, Puff Daddy, Wu Tang,
Rakim and Master P. The March will take place on Sept. 5 beginning at 7
a.m. on Malcolm X Boulevard. at Central Park (110th St. through to
145th St.). NNPA will continue to provide updates of MYM activities or
you may receive additional information by calling Khallidah Muhammad,
chief operations officer at 888-MYM-2804 or by visiting the website:
www. millionyouthmarch.com.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ON DISPLAY AT THE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
For the first time in 15 years, the Library of Congress is displaying
Abraham LincolnTs Emancipation Proclamation in the oAmerican Trea-
sures of the Library of Congress? exhibition through May. Previously, the
document was briefly displayed to the public in 1983 and 1975, and for a
longer period in 1962-1963, On Sept. 22, 1862, Lincoln gave his prelimi-
nary Emancipation Proclamation as a direct order to the Army. In the
final Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln named districts
owherein the people... are this day in rebellion? and ordered othat all
persons held as slaves... [in those areas] are, and henceforward shall be,
free.? The final version differs from the preliminary edition in the greater
emphasis placed on the preservation of the Union as a motivating force
for the Proclamation. The Jan, 1, 1863 Proclamation was lost in the
Chicago fire of 1871. Surviving photographs of the document show it
(See NATIONAL NEWS, P. 2)

formation and unsupported conclu-
sions.?

Even several former CIA agents
intimately involved in the Contra

war characterized the investigation
as oa bunch of ...bull? and ogoling]
through the motions,? she said.
oThis is very troubling.?

The CIATs investigation came in
response to the oDark Alliance? se-
ries published by the San Jose
Mercury News in August 1996. The
story, written by reporter Gary
Webb, raised allegations of the
CIATs role in drug trafficking in
South Central Los Angeles to fund
its Contra war activities.

The CIA has refused to release
the oclassified? version ofits report.
It re,eased the unclassified version
on Jan. 29.

Rep. Waters told members of the
Intelligence Committee about trav-
eling to Nicaragua, as well as
throughout California, to person-
ally interview a, number of indi-
viduals me aja in the oDark Al-
liance? series, She spoke of the
may letters and volumes of infor-
mation sent to her from people
across the country.

oMy deep concern about the alle-
gations raised in the San Jose Mer-
cury that my government could
have, in any way, been involved in
or had knowledge of, drug traffick-
ing has caused me to spend my
own time and resources to find out
more about these allegations,?
added Waters.

Waters listed more than 70
names of people who, she said,
should have been interviewed by
the Office of the Inspector General
and asked the members of the com-
mittee to interview these individu-
als as part of their investigation.
She also asked the committee to
obtain written responses confirm-
ing or denying that certain indi-
viduals were CIA assets or agents.

oThis committee has a responsi-
bility to look into the nefarious ac-
tivities surrounding the massiveT
Contra-cocaine drug network and
use its subpoena power to provide
the American people with the truth
that has been denied them for too
long,? added Waters.

(See REP. WATERS, P. 2)

gan with everyone standing and
singing the Negro National An-
them, oLift EvTry Voice and Sing.?
Greetings from County Commis-
sioner Jeff Savage and NAACP
District 14 Director D.D. Garrett
followed the anthem.

Before the dinner, a musical se-
lection was given by Laura Morris,
a speech on diversity was read by
11-year-old Kristine Pope and spe-
cial NAACP awards were pre-
sented by Linda Howard.

After a scrumptious dinner and
dessert were enjoyed by those in
attendance, NAACP President
Gaston Monk, who presided over
the ceremony, introduced the
speaker. As a former student under
his principalship, Monk remem-
bered Dr. Johnson as well-behaved.
oPerhaps my strictness paid off,?
laughed Monk. T

Dr. Johnson began his speech by
acknowledging what an honor it
was to respond to an invitation to
speak for a great man like Mr.
Monk. He referred to Monk as a
mentor and said that he owed a lot
of what he had become to his
former principal.

Dr. Johnson spoke on the impor-
tance of education, organizations
like the NAACP, and black broth-
erhood. oBlacks must continue to
stand together for change,? ex-
plained Dr. Johnson, whose more
than 100 scholarly research ar-
ticles include the study of minority-
owned business development and
interethnic minority conflict in ad-
vanced industrial societies.

oThose who have obtained an
education and financial status and
have made it to [executive] suites
must reach back and help those in
the streets. ItTs about the suitesT
helping the streets,? exclaimed Dr.
Johnson.

After the uplifting speech, Ann
Huggins recognized special guests,
who included Attorney David and
Mrs. Leach; City Councilwoman
Mildred Council; County Commis-
sioner Farney Moore; Sheriff Can-
didate Mac Manning; and several
others.

More than 150 NAACP members
and community citizens attended
the banquet.

MINORITY BUSINESS EXPO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"Shown above
is a skyview of Expo and vendors. Below: TaffTs Office Supply owner,
Jay Taff, is seen with vendors Jeff Savage and Daniel Dawson. (Staff
Phofos)

Rev. Bernice A. King
Shaw U. Finals Orator

was awarded a master of divinity
degree as well as a doctorate of law
from Emory University. Ordained
at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the
same church where her forebears
preached, she is currently the as-
sistant pastor at an inner-city
church in Atlanta, Ga., where she
heads the churchTs youth and vari-
ous civic, religious, corporate, and
political organizations across the
country.

King, 34, is also the author of
Hard Questions, Heart Answers:
Sermons and Speeches, which is
her first literary work.

Shaw University, founded in
1865, is the oldest historically
black institution in the South.
Since 1987, the university has been
under the leadership of President
Talbert O. Shaw.

Reverend Bernice A. King is the
speaker for Shaw UniversityTs com-
mencement ceremony, Saturday,
May 9, in the Raleigh Civic and
Convention Center at 11 a.m.

Rev. King has is a nationally re-
nowned orator. In 1980, at age 17,
she spoke in her motherTs stead to
the United Nations on Apartheid,
thus realizing her oratorical gift.
The youngest child of Ms. Coretta
Scott King and the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Bernice King is
remembered by most as the five-
year-old in the Pulitzer photograph
taken of her as she lay in her
motherTs lap during her fatherTs fu-
neral.

King received her B.A. in psy-
chology from Spelman College, and
on the morning of her ordination,

Way,
HOMETOWN BOY RETURNS"UNC Chapel Hill professor James Johnson, who grew up in Pitt County ts

shown with his father and mother and lovely wife and family mem

Johnson was the guest speaker. (Jim Rouse Photo)

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Or No Danger From

A new study by a major health

organization suggests that there
may be little or no danger from sec-
ond-hand smoke.

The study was one of the largest
ever on environmental tobacco
smoke"more commonly known as
osecond-hand smoke.? This study
was conducted by one of the most
well respected and well-recognized
public policy health organizations
in the world"the World Health
Organization and its International
Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC).

The WHO-IARC research found
no meaningful increase in lung
cancer risk to non-smokers exposed
to their spouseTs or co-workersT
smoke. Also, according to IARC,
oThere was no association between
lung cancer risk and ETS exposure
during childhood.?

This was not good news for the
anti-smoking community around
the world which has built much of
its anti-tobacco political agenda
around the idea that even non-
smokers are at risk from cigarette
smoke. The worldTs anti-smoking
community immediately blasted re-
ports on the WHO study.

The smoking industry and the
British press claim that WHO did
little to report the results of the
second largest study ever carried
out on ETS.

Specifically, the WHO agency
found a non-significant overall
relative risk of 1.16 for exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke at
home, 1.17 for exposure at work
and 1.14 for those who both live
and work with a smoker. These
risk numbers were not statistically
significant, meaning one cannot
conclude from this study that there
is any lung cancer risk associated
with living or working with a
smoker.

IARC itself, as well as other
leading bodies such as the U.S. Na-

tional Cancer Institute, also advise

that relative risks of less than 2.0
are small and difficult to interpret.

The IARC study represents
many years of research across sev-
eral European countries. Whether
this study is considered alone, or as
the latest of more than 40 studies
of this type over the last 17 years,
the data do not show any meaning-
ful increase in risk of lung cancer
for a nonsmoker exposed to envi-
ronmental tobacco smoke.

In the wake of the study, the to-
bacco industry renewed its charge
that the overwhelming majority of
statistical studies investigating
whether tobacco smoke in the air
might be associated with lung can-
cer in non-smokers have reported
no meaningful increase in risk.

Community
Christian Sets
April Orientation

Community Christian Academy
will have a Kindergarten Orienta-
tion on April 28 at 7 p.m. All pro-
spective parents of 5-year-olds are
invited to attend.

For further information on en-
rollment, contact 551-1055, Com-
munity Christian Academy, James
D. Corbett, Pastor, 2009 Hwy. 33
East, Greenville, NC 27834.

The Minority
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Greenville Utilities Commission |
gave pertinent information Tues- :

days, March 17 and 24, to the Re-

tjrement Living Class, Pitt County "
Council on Aging. Beatrice Maye, :

coordinator.
Reverent Sympathy is extended

to the families of Gladys McDowell, "

William Dixon, Addie R. Gore and
Mavis Harris. Also, Grant Bell, Jr.
SPIRITUAL FOOD FOR
THOUGHT

Forget the slander that you hear
before you repeat it.
Forget each slight, each spite,

each sneer, wherever you may "

meet it.
Remember every kindness done
to you, whatever its measure.
Remember praise by ethers won,
and pass it on with pleasure.
Remember every promise made
and keep it to the letter.
Remember those who lend you
aid and be a grateful debtor.
Remember all the happiness that

comes your way in living.

Forget each worry and distress,
be hopeful and forgiving.

_ Remember good, remember
truth, remember heavenTs above
you;

And you will find thru age and
youth that many hearts will love
you.

"Selected

Matthew 15:18-19, oBut those
things which proceed out of the
mouth come from the heart, and
they defile a man. For out of the
heart proceed evil thoughts, mur-
ders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false witness, blasphemies.?

Let us take seriously this matter
of our heart. The mind is a terrible
thing to waste.

THE CHRISTIANTS WAY OF
SELF-RELIANCE
oI can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.?

PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING...

A JOB well done is its own re-
ward.

There is no way we can, lift
people up unless we come down to
their level to help them.

Being intoxicated, or drunk, is
not just a'single sin, but it is one
that opens the door to many others.

Know God"know hope, know
peace; no God"no hope, no peace.

Difficulties are obstacles only to
the weak.

We best keep GodTs Word when
we give it away"EVANGELIZE.

SOME NOTS AT THE DINNER
TABLE:
1. DonTt turn on the TV. Dinner

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Beatrice C. Maye

meals are for conversation, not TV
viewing.

2. DonTt criticize or lecture.

3. No telephone calls or answer-
ing the telephone. Turn on the an-
swering machine or take the tele-
phone off the hook. This is family
time.

4.Get home from work on time
for dinner. This lets all know your
family is important. Note: There
are some exceptions, we are aware
of.

SOME DOTs:

1. Teach to perform our service
in the community. ©

2. LetTs bring in a new word for
dinner"each member.

3. Do invite friends or family
guests occasionally.

4. Play games.

5. Bring something from an-
tiques.

6. Bring in a song we used to
sing.

7. Bring in a prayer.

8. Finding schedule for next day
(at school), sign papers

9. Give some things up so you
can have time together to share a
meal.

10. Eat together as a family"AL-
WAYS" New Year, FEaster,
Mother's Day, Father's Day, July 4
(outing/cookout, picnic), Thanks-
giving, Christmas. These are ritu-
als or memories we should never

forget.
Note:. Never eat in a separate

room, to get away from family, or
to view a football, basketball or any
other game. Is the game more im-
portant than your family?

11.Do always tell the cook,
mother or grandmother, how deli-
cious the meal __ was; If you do it
Dad, the kids will, too. Try it!

Breaking bread has been a tradi-
tion. Mealtime traditions are spe-
cial.

By all means, use that fine
china, crystals, silver, for more
than likely, the yard sales, the Sal-
vation Army will get it, for most of

The dreaming brain

Sleep and dreaming are still
movement (REM) phase of

ACTIVE AREAS .

Ouimbic system:
Source of strong emotions,
aggression and long-term
memory

Activity gives
dreams emotional
and sexual power

ep,

@ Extrastriate: Processes
complex visual pattems,
such as faces

May explain dreamsT
vivid imagery

© Thalamus: Carries
sensory signals to
and from the cortex

O anterior cingulate:
Motivation, Curiosity,
interest in surroundings

@ Pons: Triggers REM
sleep by stimulating
brain into activity

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| place for your hand-me-downs, and
_ your kids will have less to fight
| over. Money is their main interest
- after you are dead. Believe me!

GEMS OF THE DAY

1. Quitting Time

To follow Christ we must resolve

To quit our evil ways.

To practice love and godliness

To please God all our days.

What we do may be more ray SX
tant than what we donTt do. ,

2.1 Samuel 16:7. The Lord
to Samuel:

oMen judge by outward appear-
ance, but I look at a manTs
thoughts and intentions. Da
judge a manTs face or height. I do
make decisions the way you do?.

3. Prejudice is essentially an
outgrowth of ignorance.

4. Nobody ever learns anything
when heTs talking.

5. What is hard to stop once
you've started? Smoking, alcohol,
gambling, biting nails and eating
potato chips.

6. A short course in Human Rela-
tions.

The 6 most important words in

it

wrong. Please forgive me.

The 5 most important words:
You did a good job.

The 4 most. important words:
What is your opinion?

The 3 most important words:
Can I help?

The 2 most important words:
Thank you.

The 1 most important word: You.

The least important word: I.

7.The greatest enemy facing
blacks today is not racism and dis-
crimination, but jealousy and envy
among ourselves.

8. The three CTs for Study and
Work Habits: Curiousity, Creativ-
ity and Consistency

9.A friend does not abuse his
friendship.

10. A Pledge of Trust:

Father, during this coming week
there may be times when I shall
not be able to sense Your presence
or to be aware of Your nearness.
When I am lonely and by myself, I
trust You to be my companion.
When I am tempted to sin, I trust
You to keep me from it. When I am
depressed and anxious, I trust You
to lift my spirits. When I am
crushed by responsibility and over-
whelmed by the demands of people
on my time, I trust You to give me
poise and a sense of purpose. When
I am rushed and running, I trust
You to make me still inside. When
I forget You, I trust that You will
never forget me. When I forget oth-
ers, I trust You to prompt me to
think of them. When You take
something of someone from me
that I want to keep; When You re-
move the props I lean on for com-
fort...

poorly understood. Most dreams take place during the rapid eye
sleep, when some parts of the brain are aroused while others remain quiet.

INACTIVE |

(3 Prefrontal cortex:
Crucial to intelligence,
conscious thought

Inactivity may be
why dreams are
bizarre, illogical

?,?) Primary visual cortex:
Crucial for vision when
person is awake

(} inferior parietal lobe:
Processes
experiences
into memory

Dreams may be
hard to remember
because this part
of brain doesn't
process them

in normal way

SOURCES: Walter Reed Sleep Laboratory | National Institute for Deainess and Other ela Disorness

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REIN ASS

Education Replacing Security As New Job Benefit

(NU)"In the battle to attract
and keep employees, whatTs most
important? The answer might sur-
prise you, .

Increasingly, employers are find-
ing that the availability of top-
quality educational opportunities is
their best weapon.

oEducation is replacing security
as the new corporate benefit,? says
Verne Harnish, founder of the in-
ternationally recognized Young En-
trepreneurs Organization. oAnd in-
vestment in employee education is
outdistancing the return compa-
nies receive on almost any other in-

vestment they make.?

In short, Harnish says, employee
education has become a strategic

_ imperative as companies battle to
- succeed in the new knowledge-

based economy
Gensdar this A study by the Na-

tional Center on the Educational
Quality of the Workforce examined
the relationship between education
and productivity at more than
3,000 U.S. workplaces. The study
found that a 10 percent increase in
work force education level led to an
8.6 percent increase in total pro-
ductivity. Contrast that with just a
3.4 percent improvement in pro-
ductivity as a result of a 10 percent
increase in investment for capital
equipment.

So how do emerging-growth
firms compete when the Fortune
100 have their own internal ocorpo-
rate universities?? And how do
they provide the same access to"
and quality of"education when
time and dollars are limited?

What many companies need is a
ovirtual? corporate university.

An Ashburn, Va.-based company,

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IPG, has answered this need with
a program called the Master of
Business Dynamics (MBD). The
first oclass? of 15 emerging-growth
firms are participating in the new
program.

Emerging-growth firms are those
with 20 to 500 employees, $5 mil-
lion to $100 million in sales and an
annual growth rate of 20 percent or
greater. There are 70,000 such
firms in the United States.

The goal of the MBD program:
oTo help these emerging-growth
firms educate their employees to
compete in the new economy and to
compete for employees,? says
Harnish, founding partner of IPG.

Companies involved in the MBD
program have access to a three-
year series of educational omod-
ules? implemented on a quarterly
basis.

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"NATIONAL NEWS:

Continued from page 1 | .

elas in LincolnTs own hand. The title and ending are in the hand of
a Clerk, and printed insertions are from the Sept. 22, 1862, preliminary
Emancipation. Proclamation. The official, or engrossed, version of the
final Emancipation Proclamation is in the National Archives. In addition
to the only surviving copy of the Proclamation in the hand of Lincoln, the
exhibition includes: a letter from Lincoln to Albert. Hodges, editor of the
Frankfort, Ky. Commonwealth, April 4, 1864, in which Lincoln explained
his view of slavery and a first printing of the preliminary Emancipation

Proclamation, Sept. 22, 1862.

MICHIGAN STUDY FINDS RACISM ALIVE IN AMERICA

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feubite Americans may harbor more racist attitudes than sur-
2 we Sated in the past, according to a study of 451 US. college
ersity of Michigan professor. oDirect, overt expres-
racism are are these days,? says Eduardo Bonilla Silva, assis-

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ublig attitudes towards blacks and other minorities, it

ites have improved dramatically. But when you
ed ts to explain their attitudes about issues such as
riveticihgeT and affirmative action, you find a hidden reservoir
.? About 90 percent of those surveyed said they ap-
Antermarriage, but only 30 percent of those who were
ewed about this turned out to approve of the practice. oThis

cannot be attributed to selection bias, since the survey answers of those
who were randomly selected for interviews mirrored the results of the
total sample. If anything, the students who were interviewed appeared to
have slightly more racially progressive outlooks than the larger group
who were surveyed,? noted Bonilla Silva.

LATE NIGERIAN MONK, TANSI, ON THE THRESHOLD OF
SAINTHOOD

OBA, Nigeria (PANA)"NigeriaTs late priest and monk, the Rev.
the English language are: I was Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, was beatified on Sunday, March 22, at an
epic mass celebrated by visiting Roman Catholic Supreme Pontiff, Pope
John Paul II. Beatification is the first stage in the process of attainment
of sainthood, according to the Catholic doctrine. Hundreds of thousands
of faithful, including local and visiting bishops, priests and the laity,
participated in the mass at the Oba airstrip in eastern Nigeria, TaniTs
hometown near the market city of Onitsha. oAcceding to the request of
our brother Albert Obiefuna, Archbishop of Onitsha and president of the
Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, the many other brothers in the
Espicopate, of many faithful, and of the Cistercian monastic family, and
after consultation with the congregation for the causes of saints, by our
apostolic authority, we declare that the venerable servant of God,
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, shall hereafter be invoked as blessed,? the
Pontiff said. Tansi was born in Aguleri in 19038, ordained a priest in
Mgeria in 1937 before he traveled to England where he took the monastic
vows as a monk at Mount Saint Bernard in Leicester. Tansi died in 1964
and was buried in England, but his remains were exhumed and buried in

Onitsha in 1986.

"Kmeka Ndika

125 Civic & Corporate Leaders
Join To Save Our StateT

By Steve Neal

An Analysis

More than 125 civic and corpo-
rate leaders"including a former
governor, former U.S. senator,
three former congressmen, state
legislators, CEOs, doctors, educa-
tors, scientists and clergy"have
organized, as Save Our State, to
work for economic development in
North Carolina consistent with a
high quality of life and health.

Inspired to organize when one
national news program after an-
other, including o60 Minutes,?
CNN, and oDateline,? pictured
North Carolina as a huge sewer,
members of Save Our State were
alarmed with the degradation of
North CarolinaTs natural resources.

The organizers felt that land was
rapidly becoming immersed in hog
waste, and water so polluted that
fish were killed by the millions. A
deadly pfiesteria microbe was at-
tacking fish and human life as
well.

At the same time, the hog indus-
try, which was widely assumed to
be the cause, was running a mas-
sive statewide media blitz, essen-
tially saying it had nothing to do
with the problem. There appeared
to be no credible, organized voice
expressing citizen concern about
this deteriorating situation.

The purpose of Save Our State is
to foster economic development
consistent with a high quality of
life and health.

Its method, say organizers, is to
learn about what appear to be
threats to the quality of life we
have enjoyed for generations and to
share what is learned with public
and elected officials. It is thought
that because the membership of
Save Our State is bipartisan, state-
wide, from a wide variety of profes-
sions, and comprised of many
people with long histories of service
to North Carolina, the opinion of
the members of SOS would be re-
spected and considered by policy
makers.

Hepatitis B

Members of Save Our State re-
cently met in Raleigh to hear from
a panel of environmental experts
and others, who said that two of
the biggest problems are hog waste
and municipal waste.

Since a recent change in law re-
quires municipalities to do a better
job"and testimony said that they
are moving in that direction"the
group heard mostly about hog
waste problems.

The experts said there are now
more than 13 million hogs pro-
duced a year in North Carolina, up
from 2.5 million just ten years ago.
Most are packed together in pens,
like sardines in a can, in factory-
like facilities. Each hog, on aver-
age, produces a volume of waste
equal to that of three to four hu-
mans.

So, the experts said, 13 million
hogs produce as much waste as 40
to 50 million people"more than
the population of AmericaTs 20
largest cities. This waste 1s
pumped into open cesspools and
from there sprayed on the land.

The group says that the most se-
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which robs rivers and streams of
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and other life-forms. It also causes
a life cycle change in the pfiesteria
algae, making it highly toxic to
aquatic life and humans.

Municipalities along rivers in
eastern North Carolina also are
not processing owaste? as well as
they should; however, they claim to
be improving and the law requires
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Clayton, in conjunction with 40
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1996 Farm Bill that prohibits the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
from lending to producers who
have received any form of debt for-
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ducers who are otherwise eligible
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ranchers who have a blemish on
their credit reports and not to en-
courage bad government loans. The
term odebt forgiveness? is clarified
in the amendment to exclude con-
solidation, rescheduling,
reamortization or deferral.

oSmall farmers and ranchers are
struggling to survive in America.

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they are a dying breed, quality and
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Clinton Offers Hope For Africa

By Keith W. Cooper

For innumerable decades, United
States presidents have neglected
and ignored sub-Saharan Africa be-
cause of mythical stereotypes, which
have been debunked time after time.
Too many Americans regard Africa
as a place where savages and igno-
rant dark-skinned people run around
in a rambunctious fashion. Due to ig-
norance, many college students buy
into those unfair stereotypes and fail
to learn about the wealth of talents
and rich resources on the continent.
Well, college students and others
must wake up, osmell the coffee,?
and get a dose of reality. President
Clinton, is a hero in the minds and
hearts of millions of sub-Saharan Af-
ricans. His recent six-nation tour of
Africa was met with glee and a re-
newed sense of hope.

Clinton, the first American presi-
dent to make such a tour of Africa,
received a warm welcome in Accra,
Ghana, his first stop. There, well
wishers were falling, calling, stum-
bling, and fumbling to get a hand-
shake from the charismatic Presi-
dent Clinton, so reminiscent of John
F. Kennedy. About one half of a mil-
lion people pushed forward, in al-
most a stampede, to meet and greet
the young visionary president who
wants to open the floodgates of op-
portunities for Africa. As a matter of
fact, Clinton promised to loan Ghana
$67 million to help them build power
plants and other necessities. Ghana-
ian President, Jerry Rawlings, was
elated. ClintonTs trip was designed to
bolster trade and investments. After
all, investments mean opening mar-
kets and providing jobs for the Afri-
can people and Americans.

The Clintons visited Uganda, the
second leg of the tour. There, Clinton
met with President Museveni and
apologized for the way America has
neglected Africa. He also said that
the buying of slaves by Americans
was wrong. In a local village, a two-

day-old baby was named oBill Clin-
ton.? Clinton, well received, prom-
ised $120 million to help train Ugan-
dan teachers and connect classes to
the Internet. He also pledged $16
million to fight AIDS and malaria.
Uganda, who lost over 800,000
people during brutal dictatorships of
the 1970s and 1980s, has come along
way. Clinton urged the government
to embrace economic reforms.

Clinton proceeded to Rwanda, a
country recently torn due to geno-
cides involving Hutus and Tutsis.
Clinton pledged $30 million to build a
strong judicial system around the
Great Lakes area of the Congo,
Rwanda, and Burundi. He also prom-
ised $2 million for the genocide sur-
vivor fund. Rwandans gladly wel-
comed ClintonTs arrival. On Wednes-
day, March 25, Rwandan President,
Pasteur Bizimungu and UgandaTs
President, Yoweri Museveni, joined
Clinton to listen to their national an-
thems. Bizimungu and Museveni see
Clinton as a respectable friend avail-
able to offer their people a touch of
humanitarianism.

Many sub-Saharan Africans suffer
from poverty, malaria and other dis-
eases, hunger and malnutrition, edu-
cational deficiencies, and numerous
other woes. Millions of children go to
bed hungry and die like flies because
of neglect from the West and other
countries that should have come to
the aid of Africa long ago. If Ameri-
cans can send billions of dollars to
countries like Israel and Egypt
(Northern Africa), surely they can
help millions of odown-and-out? Afri-
cans help themselves. I admire
ClintonTs courage, benevolence, and
heart-felt commitment to the good,
ambitious people of sub-Saharan Af-
rica. Had Kennedy not been assassi-
nated, he probably would have gone
into the Congo or neighboring Afri-
can countries on a good-will mission.
In any event, Clinton» deserves an
oA+? for a job well done.

Miracle or Illusion?

By Walter Sadler

A few years ago I heard about
Charter Schools and their programs
of success. I viewed Charters
Schools to be Miracle Schools to this
day. When the Charter School Right
Step Academy was introduced to the
Community and Pitt County I was
elated and curious about the institu-
tion having an assurance that hope
had arrived for the hope in Pitt
County students.

I had an invitation to visit the
Right Step Academy, this opportu-
nity came from one of Right StepTs
valuable African-American male in-
structors, whom I respect because of
his gifted abilities in academia and
knowing he would make an signifi-
cant contribution to the institution.

However, during my initial visit
and visiting on several occasions I
observed incidents and behaviors
you generally experience or see in
public schools. I anticipated observ-
ing a zero tolerance policy in effect
against disruptive behaviors for the
first time. This was not the case. For
instance, screaming in classrooms,
disrespecting authority, erupting
violence, students running through
the classes, no evidence of a Behav-
ioral Management Policy in place.
These kinds of incidents can be detri-
mental to a school that is coming into
existence; the instituteTs future is
threatened. This institution has a

wYare opportunity to perform miracles
and make a positive statement with
at risk and disadvantaged kids to de-
velop rare gifts and talents students
_ possess to become scholars and lead-
ers for tomorrow and hope for the

future. This can happen with the
right motive, specialized academic
programs, student motivation pro-
grams, and other social programs
that would address our childrenTs
negative challenges they meet on
daily bases.

I did not observe nor did the
school appear to have implemented
comprehensive academic curricula
nor programs that would address the
studentsT social and personal con-
cerns. The N.C. State Board of Edu-
cation has specific standards for
Charter Schools. The board expects
Charter Schools to comply if they ex-
pect their doors to remain open. The
community needs Right Step. Does
Right Step need the community?
There has been no dialogue from the
administration of the school that I
can recall stressing their need for
community involvement nor request-
ing ideas from the communityTs lead-
ership during their initial academic
planning for the year. Remember, all
leadership in any capacity including
the schoolTs administration, must be
accountable because accountability is
responsibility that says we are de-
termined to be equipped and pre-
pared to challenge our students so
they can challenge life competitively.
I hope this is RSATs ultimate goal for
developing such an institution. I ex-
tend a welcome hand to Right Step
Academy; so does the community.
Charter Schools must obey their
marching orders, Prerequisites and
challenges is the business of today,

so they can produce miracles, not il-
lusions.

PRESIDENT CLINTONTS HISTORIC TRIP TO
AFRICA

By Henry McKoy

Guest Opinion
President ClintonTs trip to Africa is a defining event in
U.S. economic and political relations with the continent. The
president seeks to showcase a onew Africa? and to engage
AfricaTs new leaders and its people as opartners to build a
better future for all our children.?
The prospects for forging peace and prosperity in Africa
have probably never been brighter. Across the continent,

newly elected, enlightened leaders are aggressively pursuing |

market oriented economic development and forging demo-
cratic systems. This is reflected in the sustained positive
economic growth being experienced by numerous countries
and the commendable progress by many nations in improv-
ing human rights and establishing the foundation for endur-
ing democracies. Per capita income rose in 31 countries in
1996, by a robust average five percent. The number of de-
mocracies in Africa has blossomed from five in 1989 to 25
today.

During his 11-day trip to Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda,
South Africa, Botswana and Senegal, President Clinton will
focus on four themes:

¢Strengthening AfricaTs democratic transitions;

¢Promoting U.S.-Africa trade and investment;

eSupporting conflict resolution; and

¢Preserving AfricaTs majestic beauty, wildlife and envi-
ronment.

Assisting African nations to achieve their economic po-
tential and to become global trading partners is good for
Africa and good for the United States. U.S. trade and invest-
ment with Africa is already significant, and it has great
untapped potential:

*U.S. exports to Africa already generate 100,000 Ameri-
can jobs.

eSince 1994, U.S. trade with sub-Saharan Africa has
grown, on average, by 16.9 percent annually. It is signifi-
cantly (20 percent) larger than our trade with the former
Soviet Union.

¢There is much room for expansion in trade, since less
than one percent of total U.S. exports are to Africa, and the
USS. has only a seven percent share of the market.

¢US. investment in Africa generated a robust return of
31 percent in 1996, far higher than Latin America (12 per-
cent), the Asia-Pacific region (13 percent), or the Middle
Kast (17 percent).

Africa is looking for a helping hand, not a handout. The
programs of the African Development Foundation (ADF) are
stimulating economic growth at the grassroots level, to build
the foundation for broad-based, sustainable development.
ADF is helping strengthen values and promoting empower-
ment of AfricaTs grassroots that will enable democracy to
take root and flourish. ADF is also building local institutions
so that development can be locally driven and sustained
without outside assistance. The work of the African Develop-
ment Foundation is contributing directly to achieving the
presidentTs goals for Africa.

Because agriculture and rural enterprises are the back-
bone of African economies, President Clinton will be viewing
a number of such activities during this trip. ADF has an
impressive track record of generating income and employ-
ment through its assistance to small and micro entrepre-
neurs, community-based enterprises and small-scale
agribusiness. ADF has demonstrated that it can help forge
linkages between vibrant small enterprises and interna-
tional trade and investment.

President ClintonTs trip to Africa will help introduce the
American people to the new Africa, and it should encourage
new partnerships an initiatives that will benefit both Africa
and the United States.

McKoy, a former North Carolina State Senator, is a
management consultant. He was appointed by Presi-
dent Clinton to the Board of Directors of the African
Development Foundation, one of two Republican mem-
bers serving with three Democrats and two indepen-
dents. He has traveled to five African countries to visit
grassroots development projects funded by ADF.

ADULT PRISONS ARE NO PLACE FOR OUR
CHILDREN
By Marian Wright Edelman

Special To The NNPA

In Ohio, a 17-year-old who robbed a pizza store was put

in the juvenile section of an adult prison. Six adult inmates
who belonged to a White supremacist group entered the sec-

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tion where the boy was housed and fatally stabbed him more
than 79 times.

A 16-year-old Texas boy who was arrested for arson for
setting fire to a fence was sent to an adult prison. After he
was repeatedly raped and beaten, he hanged himself.

A 15-year-old girl who ran away from her Midwestern
home was put in the county adult jail where she was raped
by a deputy jailer.

Most children who commit crimes donTt belong in adult
jails. Children failed with adults are eight times more likely
to commit suicide, five times more likely to be sexually as-
saulted, and twice as likely to be beaten by staff than chil-
dren in juvenile facilities.

ThatTs why for the past 25 years, our national law has
required that children who run away or skip school not be
jailed with adults. But, in an election year to appear tough
on crime, Congress is considering a bill that will turn back
the clock of justice and expose children to serious risks"
risks that could cost them their lives.

In the early 1970s, ChildrenTs Defense Fund workers
traveled around the country to more than 400 adult jails in
every state and found children as young as 12. Most of these
children were not a threat to the community. They had been
arrested for nonviolent offenses like running away, skipping
school, or shoplifting. While the majority of children were
white, a third were minorities. Many of these children were
raped, beaten, and left alone for days. Some attempted sui-
cide.

We showed horrifying discoveries which helped lead to
the passage of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion Act of 1974. The law guaranteed that children would be
separated from adult prisoners, and that those arrested for
offenses such as running away or skipping school would be
placed in community facilities. Forty-eight states are in com-
pliance with the law which has ensured that children are
kept safe from adult prisoners and that they continue to
learn, get the counseling and drug treatment they need, and
are given skills to reenter society ready to become productive
adults.

These protections are still critical to the more than two
million children arrested each year, most for nonviolent
crimes. Instead of offering a measured response to make our
communities safe from violence and the worst crimes, S.10
takes a sledge hammer approach at a time when youth crime
is declining.

Without strong opposition, S. 10 soon could become law.
If it does, we may begin to hear horror stories like the ones
we heard in the T70s. Listen to this anguished plea from a
child. At 15, he killed himself after being sent to an adult
prison in Maryland.

All Cried Out
ITm all cried out from the pain and sorrow,
Wondering if I'll live to see tomorrow.
ITm tired of my feelings getting hurt,
It feels like the stuff of life keeps getting pulled over my eyes
and ITm
constantly in the dark. ITm all cried out and this is without a
doubt.
This is my fight with life and ITm at the end of my bout.
I'ma victim of society and a victim of circumstance,
hoping that I'll get a second chance
to prove that I am somebody instead of nobody.
ITve been put down, put out and even cursed out but somehow
I still rise to the top.
ITm tired of crying my pain away because after the tears are
gone,
I still feel the pain each and every day.
This poem is just telling people what ITm really about, but itTs
really to let them know
that ITm all cried out.

Edelman is president of the ChildrenTs Defense
Fund and a working committee member of the Black
Community Crusade for Children (BCCC). In 1998,
CDF will celebrate 25 years of advocacy. For more in-
formation about mobilization efforts aimed at defeat-
ing 8.10, call (202) 628-8787.

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PRESENTS AWARD"Tilda Jones presents award to Pastor William
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LOOKING GOOD!"Bro. Charles Johnson and his wife Gladys of Carolina Ave. 76 in Washington make an
oattractive couple?. (Staff Photo)

NBCDI Sets
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Announcing .. .
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Entering College mores
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DURHAM"The National Black Thursday, April 9, 1998
Child Development Institute, Inc., 5:00 pM - 1:30 PM Enjoy activities for young children.
Durham affiliate will host a work- Coot: FREE
shop titled oEntering the College ae ; Enjoy refreshments!
Zone: Select for Success,? for rising more information call. . .
and current middle school students 413-24 Fashion Show af 6:00 PM
and their parents. 413-1416 aaa By
The major focus of the workshop Ctoree of Creole

will deal with an understanding of
courses/classes which students
need in order to be successful in ae
high school and college. The event ~ ,

will take place on Saturday, April " RECEIVES AWARD"Bro. Moses receives an award on behalf of oM?

4, at 9 a.m. in the auditorium of Voicg Publisher, Jim Rouse, at the Black History Program at Metro AME
the Miller-Morgan Health Science Zion Church

Building at North Carolina Central
University.

St. AugTs Sets Dialogue
On Race Town Meeting

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Adventures bw Health Child=cx's Museum, and Storytelling By Jane Maier.

In response to President Bill
ClintonTs request to have colleges
and universities throughout the
country participate in a oCampus
Week of Dialogue on Race? April 6-
9, St. AugustineTs College will hold
a Town Meeting on Tuesday, April
7, at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of
the Seby Jones Fine Arts Building.

The 90-minute discussion will
provide a platform for a dialogue
on race to discuss attitudes, per-
ceptions, differences and similari-
ties between the races.

Panelists confirmed to partici-
pate are Victoria Peterson, political

activist/publisher; John Hood,
president of the John Locke Foun-
dation; Attorney Jan Peuschel,
former chief aide to Lt. Gov. Jim
Gardner; Frank Roberts, former

radio personality and community |

activist; Venita Peyton, project co-
ordinator, University of North
Carolina system; and Dr. Frank
Godfrey, professor of business at
St. AugustineTs College.

Cash Michaels, reporter/editor
for The Carolinian, will be the
moderator.

The town meeting is open to the
public.

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Due to the explosion of demand for new phone numbers to handle fax machines, pagers, cellular phones, second
phone lines, and modems, North Carolina will have three new area codes. Part of the 910 area code will become
the 336 area code. And a portion of the 704 area code will begin using 828.

On March 22, 1998, customers in the Northeast portion of the 919 area will switch to the 252 area code. You will
have six months to get used to the change, during which time calls can be made using either area code. Beginning
September 22, 1998, callers who dial the 919 area code in error will be intercepted by a recording and instructed
to redial using the 252 area code.

This change will in no way affect your rates, your local calling area or your current seven-digit telephone number.
Although you may have to make minor adjustments during the transition period, Sprint is dedicated to making this
process as @asy as possible for you. We can assure you that the new area codes will make it possible for us to
serve you better in the future as North Carolina continues to grow.

Sprint

The Wintergreen issues where a
first grade teacher, Sandy
Patchkofsky, referred to oNational
Negro History Month? as oNational
: (Nigger History Month? is not a
dead horse as stated by William
Sanderson. The real issue is racism
and itTs not dead. Its ugly head will
raise up at anytime, any place and
with anybody, even a public school
teacher who is paid with taxpayers
money to teach those same chil-
dren she referred to as riggers.

cts 1998

Issue Of Ra cism N

In 1998, we still have people
with a slavery time mentality,
people who think anything they
say or do to minority people is all
right and acceptable because it has
happened so many times in the
past and nothing was said or done
about it.

It wasnTt acceptable then. They
just couldnTt do anything about it
because even the laws didnTt pro-
tect them.

The one month set aside to learn
about the contributions made by
blacks in our county is being

National School Boards Meet

RALEIGH"School leaders from
across the country, including 230
North Carolinians, will learn
proven school governance skills
when they cenvene for the 58th
Annual Conference & Exposition of
the National School Boards Asso-
ciation (NSBA), April 4-7, in New
Orleans, La.

Leading experts from education,
government, public service, and
business will address the NSBA
Conference, the largest meeting of
public officials in the nation.

Featured speakers include Bill
Bradley, who represented New Jer-
sey for three terms as a United

States senator, and Claudio
Sanchez, education correspondent
for National Public Radio, who will
moderate a panel of leading educa-
tion experts as they debate the
most pressing issues facing school
boards nationwide.

New and veteran school board
members alike will find plenty of
creative solutions to their school
districtsT most challenging prob-
lems at nearly 100 clinic sessions.
The educational backbone of the
NSBA Conference, these sessions
will explore how school districts es-
tablish academic standards, mea-
sure results, and define account-

otrashed by the person culeialiie
for teaching it.

Are we simply to ignore the likes .

of Colin Powell who recently served
as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; Dr. Charles Drew who set up
the blood bank and convinced phy-
sicians to use plasma for the
battlefield and other emergency
transfusions, saving million of
lives; George Washington Carver,
who revolutionized the agriculture
of the South, developing more than
300 products from the peanut, 119
products from the sweet potato and

75 from the pecan?

All of us, including men like
these, were stereotyped and deni-
grated by those remarks made by
this public school teacher.

One writer said the NAACP was
grandstanding and being done by a
few people. Please be assured that
we have never been more serious
in our endeavors and we represent
the majority of the black people.

This incident was magnified be-
cause it involved a public school
teacher whose job is to teach all
children enrolled, even the black

Set For New Orleans In April

ability as they develop programs to
improve student performance.
From using technology to boost
student learning in reading and
mathematics, to recruiting commu-
nity volunteers to provide one-on-
one reading instruction to elemen-
tary school students, the clinic ses-
sions will cover programs that ben-
efit students of various abilities
and backgrounds.

School board members will also
be able to visit one of ;he largest
exhibitions of education products
and services gathered under one
roof. The NSBA Exposition will
feature exhibits and representa-

African American Held Public
Companies Make An Impact

JOHN WILLIAM TEMPLETON

An Analysis

A lot of uninformed commenta-
tors like to say oBlack people are
just consumers, they donTt make
anything.? ThatTs not true and has
never been so. But when young
people hear it often enough, they
donTt put manufacturing or engi-
neering at the top of their career
list.

So a young Black male student
from San Jose State University
studying for a engineering degree
in mechatronics was very happy to
have the opportunity to meet in
person Roy E. Clay Sr., the ogodfa-
ther? of Black Silicon Valley and
one of the obstetricians that deliv-
ered the computer age.

Clay spoke as a Sunnyvale-based
company, Envirotest Inc., headed

that funded 40 percent of the com-
panies that have emerged in Sili-
con Valley. Clay also left six
months later when passed over to
take PerkinsT job on a permanent
basis. oMy wife told me that if you
work as hard for yourself as you
have for other people, you'll be suc-
cessful in anything you do.?

Clay advised Perkins to put
money into a new company to
make the fault-tolerantT comput-
ers, now the backbone of banks, re-
tailers, stock exchanges and other
24-hour applications. That com-
pany was Tandem Computers. He
also consulted with Robert Noyce,
the co-invento of the transistor,
who was tite to form a company
called Intel. oThere were so many
things you could use these chips in
that I suggested, DonTt try to make

anything with them, just sell the

my

chips.?? And when a former Texas
Instruments engineer came calling
for a new company to make per-
sonal computers, Clay also
ogreenlighted? Compaq for venture
funding.

The savvy technologist also saw
an opportunity for himself. Texas
Instruments had dropped its per-
sonal computers after a highly-
publicized series of fires caused by
electrical shorts. The fledgling in-
dustry was in jeopardy of collapse.
Clay devised a way to conduct the
dielectric withstand tests on the
production line, rather than at the
design stage, to insure that every
machine was safe.

In the 20 years since, he has
maintained his status as the only
company certified by the Under-
writers Laboratory.

tives from more than 360 compa-
nies and organizations showcasing
up-to-date and cost-effective prod-
ucts and services including tech-
nology solutions, school security,
classroom furniture, instructional
materials, athletic equipment, and
more.

NSBA, which represents the
nationTs 95,000 school board mem-
bers, is a not-for-profit federation
of state associations of school
boards across the United States.
North Carolina General Statutes
require local board members to re-
ceive 12 hours of training annually.
NCSBA monitors board member
training and offers 16 credit hours
to board members who attend the

national conference.
For conference information,

please contact John Butler, NSBA,
at (703) 838-6225. For local infor-
mation, please contact Stacy Boy-
ette, NCSBA publications editor, at
(919) 981-2630 or via email at
stacy@ncsba.org.

ones who were denigrated by her.
The NAACP will not sit by and
accept racism as a Southern cus-
tom. Whenever we find evidence of
racism, be it in the school system,
the hospital, nursing home, indus-
try or any other work place, we will
expose the guilty person and the

ot Dead In Wintergreen Case |

firm or institution that fosters an
atmosphere conducive to racism.

If you truly believe that our na-
tion was established upon the prin-
ciples of freedom, equality, justice
and humanity, then the time is
now for all of us to put it into prac-
tice.

Vote and Elect

Jeff

SAV

May 5,

N.C. House - 8th District

Vision for the 21st Century?

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1998

An Invitation
To join
The Pitt/Greenville Chapter
of the
GIHS-C.M. Eppes High Alumni
at a
Banquet honoring
Miss Ellis Brown
Friday April, 24, 1998
7:00PM
7:00-7:30 Social
8:00 Dinner
Donation: $25.00 Per Person

Carolina Ballroom
Hilton Inn

by Chester Davenport, topped the
American Stock Exchange because
of its announcement of a remote

sensor system for detecting auto- p EXPERIEN if vi |

motive emissions to be test-mar- COME OUT AND THE YEAR G een ile B vd Se

keted by the City of New York. THE EVENT OF Greenville, NC 27834
Not only is Envirotest .

(ENR:AMEX) a black-controlled As Semi-Formal

public company that is the leader Uielory Christian Academ i

in providing automotive emissions ey P, - / RSVP by April 14, 1998

testing for states and localities, but
another black innovator in Hous-
ton, Meredith Gourdine, holds pat-
ents for devices to measure pollu-
tion.

ClayTs products touch every
American household and many
more around the world. Every con-
sumer electronic product sold in
the U.S. is tested for electrical
shorts on one of the hi pot (dielec-
tric withstand) testers that his 20-
year-old company, Rod-L Electron-
ics of Menlo Park, makes. Rod-LTs
products are the only ones certified ,..
by the Underwriters Laboratory.

Ironically, in 1951, Clay was told
by McDonnell Aircraft that owe
have no jobs for professional Ne-
groes? after receiving his math-
ematics degree from St. Louis Uni-
versity. Five years later he re-
turned to become the programmer
for McDonnellTs first computer. By
1961, he was helping to write lan-
guages like BASIC, FORTRAN and
COBOL for Control Data. Vy

In 1965, David Packard and Wil- }
liam Hewlett recruited Clay to be- 4
gin the computer operation for |
Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto,
despite all the engineering talent 7
surrounding them at their alma
mater, Stanford University.

oI was the first employee of the 4
computer operation and it literally
grew under me,? recalled Clay dur- .]
ing the first of the oChat with ~
Black Innovators? series at the
Tech Museum of Innovation in San 7
Jose. His direct supervisor was
Tom Perkins. oTom went on to be |
the real founder of the venture -
capital industry and without ven- }}

~ ture capital, there would have been -
no personal computers because the 7

large companies would not have
taken the risk.? +

Clay had a personal example.
oThe Holiday Inn came to us and

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6:00 P.M.

Victory Christian ?,?ssembly
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Donatron: $5.00
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St1 zes

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at

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Katie Dorsett of the State Dept. of
Administration addresses
Partnering for Success forum at
E.C.U. Bottom: Participants in the
Partnering for Success Forum lis-
ten to the speaker. The forum was
designed to encourage business
relationshps between state con-
tractors and historically
underutilized businesses. (HUBs).

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cently held an all-day oPartnering
for Success Forum? at East Caro-
lina University. Sponsored by the
State Division of Purchase and
Contract, the forum was held to en-
courage small companies to do
business with the state.

The N.C. Department of Admin-
istration has a special program to
help companies owned and oper-
ated by minorities, women and per-
sons with disabilities, known as
historically underutilized busi-
nesses (HUB), get contracts with
state government and agencies.
The Department of Administration
awards thousands of state con-
tracts annually.

Katie Dorsett, secretary of the
Department of Administration,
was the speaker for the forum. Sec-
retary Dorsett addressed a crowd
of state contractors, small business
owners and other interested per-
sonnel, informing them of how the
state is in need of just about every
service available... office supplies,
janitorial services, food services,
consulting services, auto repair
services, as well as subcontracting
opportunities for jobs like painting,
carpentry, etc.

oThe state makes purchases in

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excess of $3 billion annually for its
goods and services at state agen-
cies, community colleges, public

schools and university systems and

more than $800 million in con-
struction,? reported Secretary
Dorsett. oOur _ historically
underutilized businesses (HUB)
are receiving a small chunk (only
about 4.5 % for goods and services
and about 8% for construction) of
available contracts The HUB Pro-
gram is set up to do something
about this,? she added.

Secretary Dorsett encouraged
HUB owners and state contractors

oContractors must reach out to
HUBTs and HUBTs must aggres-
sively promote themselves to state
purchasers.?

For more information about the
HUB Program, call (919) 733-8965.
For additional information about
business development, licensing
and loan programs, contact the
North Carolina Department. of
Commerce at 1-800-258-0862 or
the North Carolina Institute of Mi-
nority Economic Development at
(919) 831-2467

Eastern N.C. Companies Join To Form CDTV

Fred Linton, founder of Count-
down Entertainment, an entertain-
ment company based in Greenville,
N. C., has joined forces with Mau-
rice Ellison, founder of Eastern Im-
ages Photography & Video Produc-
tions of Grifton, N.C."together
they form CDTV.

Linton and Ellison, both strong
believers in the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, are proving their belief
with CDTV. Each has worked with
the youth of our community
through various programs and or-
ganizations and promise to con-
tinue.

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CDTV is now providing inspira-
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5-At-5? personality TeAnthone;
oUnity in the Community,? hosted
by Linton himself; oMinority
Voices,? hosted by Jim Rouse;
oVideo Inspirations,? hosted by
WOOW Joy 1340 personality, Reg-
gie Price; and a host of pastors and
churches.

CDTV now has air time avail-
able. For more information, call
524-3288 or 524-4389.

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Employment -

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: Dan Wynne

Candidate

Pitt County

Commissioner
District 3

If elected County Commissioner for District 3, 1 will support these issues:

The people will have to have an education to meet their future
needs and goals. | support classroom technology

It is important to maintain a safe water supply and clean rivers
The county needs to have a start-up program for a county-wide

sewage system.

| support maintaining and improving the present programs now in
use by the Sheriff's Department.

We need to work in securing industry that employs people with
different educational backgrounds.

| would support a simple zoning plan if the county would show
good intentions to provide sewer and water for the citizens

6. Open Meetings - | believe in open meetings since itTs the peoplesT agenda. Any other
way of conducting business has not worked well in the past

7, Personal Information - | am married to Erline Copeland Wynne and we have three

adult children. | am a retired farmer, a veteran of the Korean
Conflict, having served in the U.S. Coast Guard. | reside in
the Pactolus Township and am a retired member of the
Pactolus Volunteer Fire Department. | am currently

president of the Pitt County Farm Bureau and a member of the
Tar-Pamlico River Council.

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Simpson, in Pitt County, Brown, oI fe Set yout forti-
Brown has meant more tude, your persistence, and you are

Born in
es
to Ayden than mont lsal peopl q real mata and were glad

_ will ever know. have you.?
_ The recent unveiling of a portrait Ms. Sherrian Brown, executive
in her honor at the Ayden Housing director of the South Lee Street
. porate gave us much insight Neighborhood Improvement, Inc.,
into the real person of Ann M. recognized guests for the event.
Brown. Not only did the speakers Rev. A.C. Batchelor, pastor of
chosen offer glimpses into her life, Philippi Missionary Baptist
it was the speakers not chosen that Church in Simpson, provided nu-
best described her. Ayden Mayor merous glimpses into the life of the
Dr. Michael HouseTs welcome pro- honoree, all entwined with scrip-
vided greetings for the occasion. ture.
Rev. Irvin Moore, Jr., chaplain at Former students and friends
Duke University Medical Center in made impromptu speeches on her
Durham, gave the invocation. behalf. All were touching"so
Ayden Housing Authority (AHA) touching that tears came from eyes
Executive Director Jerry Cox other than Ms. BrownTs own. For
talked about the impact the AHA as a teacher she challenged her
has on Ayden. He noted that its students to have pride, to care
residents represent about 10 per- about what they did, and to get a
cent of AydenTs population and is good education. She was a role
one of the townTs largest electrical model for young black students
users. Cox reported that Ms. even when most of them didnTt re-

Brown has agreed to lend her
name to an annual recognition pro-
gram at the AHA. Cox said to Ms.

Mfume Joins
Clinton On
African Trip

BALTIMORE, Md."On Wednes-
day, March 25, NAACP President
and CEO Kweisi Mfume joined
President Bill Clinton in South Af-
rica for the fourth leg of ClintonTs
six-nation, 11-day trip to the conti-
nent of Africa. To help underscore
the importance of the trip and rec-
ognizing MfumeTs history of activ-
ism and that of the NAACP, Presi-
dent Clinton invited Mfume to joinT
a small delegation of non-govern-
ment officials.

oPresident ClintonTs trip to Af-
rica provides the opportunity for
our nation to redefine its relation-
ship with Africa,? Mfume said.
oThis trip is essential to bring the
problems and progress of Africa
into full and open focus. We must
recognize the importance of Africa
to our long-term economic stability
and the stability of the global
economy.

oThe presidentTs trip to South
Africa has particular significance
as South Africa moves toward its
fourth year of democracy and be-
gins the transition from the eraT of
Nelson Mandela to future leader-
ship. The American people will
now be able to see the future of Af-
rica through the eyes of the Presi-
dent of the United States, and they
will see that Africa not only exists,
it matters.

oThe emerging democratic na-
tions should be supported by the
United States both politically and
economically. The only way to en-
sure this is through high level gov-
ernment contact,? Mfume said. oAt
the same time, the military dicta-
torship in Nigeria and the slavery
and international terrorism coming
out of Sudan speak volumes about
their exclusion from this very im-
portant mission. Such an exclusion
is both fitting and proper,? Mfume
added. oConversely, the burgeoning
democracy of Ghana under the cou-
rageous leadership of President
Jerry Rawlings is an excellent ex-
ample of economic growth and cul-
tural stability.?

MfumeTs record on South African
issues is long-standing. In 1986,
then Baltimore City Councilman
Kweisi Mfume introduced and
passed one of the nationTs first mu-
nicipal divestiture laws, calling
upon the city of Baltimore to divest
its pension funds from any U.S.
companies doing business with
South Africa. For 10 years from
1982-1992, he led annual candle-
light vigils and participated in an-
tiapartheid rallies and demonstra-
tions leading to his arrest in front
of the South African embassy in
1984. Upon joining the U S Con-
gress, Mfume became one of the
leading opponents of the South Af-
rican apartheid regime.

oIT have been connected to the
struggles of South Africa for over
25 years,? said Mfume. oI have a
vivid memory of welcoming Nelson
Mandela to Washington, D.C. at
the dawn of democracy in South
Africa and then standing with him
as my guest at the inauguration of
Bill Clinton as President of the
United States.

oNow, South Africa is in an era
of peace and stability. We can focus
on the economic issues that are of
mutual benefit to our nation. This
trip reinforces the long overdue
recognition by the U.S. government
that the countries of Africa are in-
deed a world force to be integrated
into an ever-evolving global
economy.?

alize it.

Henry Davis told the most touch-
ing story about her. He pointed out
that Ms. Brown had the ability to
allow students to expound on their
best attributes. Davis laughed as
he told about the fact he was a stu-
dent who loved -to talk. It was Ms.
Brown, Davis said, that apparently
got him the lead role in a play at
South Ayden High School. He said
he always wondered how he got the

a

: isd role, but looking back he knew
Ms. Brown was taking advantage
of his gift of gab. Davis, an automo-
bile salesman and promoter of gos-
pel music groups, added that it is

his mouth that makes him a living.

today.
Four students from the class. of
1964, including current Ayden

Town Commissioner Gloria Dixon, .

thanked Ms. Brown for her efforts
with them, saying she was respon-
sible for getting them to further
their education. Dixon described
Brown as the oMartin Luther King
of our era,? laughingly noting that
Ms. Brown was responsible for Jas-
per Woods and herself spending a
night in jail.? Dixon was referring
to the summer of 1971 when race
relations became strained in Ayden
because a white state highway pa-
trolman shot a black man in the
rural area near Grifton.

Former Ayden Commissioner
and Mayor Pro-Tem J.J. Brown
thanked Ms. Brown for getting him
involved in politics. The 91-year-
old Brown, he said, gave him little
choice by paying his filing fee and
his advertising bills. Brown be-
came the first black elected to an
Ayden board. He served admirably
for 27 years.

Yes, Ms. Brown got the ball roll-
ing for low rent-housing in Ayden.
She signed the first contracts for

What A Continuing Care

Community

TodayTs retirement communities,
such as Carol Woods in Chapel
Hill, are very different from"and
much more than"traditional nurs-
ing homes or the newer assisted
living facilities. Actually, most con-
tinuing care retirement communi-
ties include both skilled nursing
and assisted living components.
But most people move to retire-
ment communities long before they
need either of those levels of care.

Continuing care retirement com-
munities are populated mostly by
healthy, active individuals and
couples who live independently in
their own apartments and who
pursue their own interests. Com-
munities differ from each other in
the scope of services they offer resi-
dents, in the degree to which
healthcare is guaranteed, and in
their fee structures.

At Carol Woods, lifelong health
care is guaranteed and is largely
covered by a portion of the monthly
fees that residents pay. Those fees
also cover two meals a day in the
dining room, cleaning and mainte-
nance services, utilities and other
ongoing services. Residents also
pay nothing extra for regular
health checkups, clinic visits or
any of the exercise and fitness pro-
grams that Carol Woods offers. In
addition, there are scores of resi-
dent-organized educational, recre-
ational and cultural activities.

Unlike some retirement commu-

Really Is!

nities, Carol Woods is nonprofit
and locally based.

Some continuing care retirement
communities are so popular that
they have waiting lists of people
wishing to move in. At Carol
Woods, for example, one might
have to wait anywhere from a few
weeks to several years, depending
on the type and size of apartment
desired.

construction for the new housing
that would help put blacks into
more comfortable surroundings.
She worked on voter registration
and Commissioner J.J. Brown was
there to praise her for causing him
to run for public office, and become
AydenTs first elected black official.
Brown pdinted out that Ms. Brown
paid his filing fee and as advertis-
ing bill.

She had a host of other accom-
plishments in Ayden, but none
were greater than the impact she
left on the Henry Davises of the
world. Frederick Woods talked
about his love for Ms. Brown and
how she put him in the midst of
the new housing issue while he
was SGA president at South Ayden
High School.

School Boards
Endorse Hunt
Health Plan

On Thursday, March 14, the
N.C. School Boards Association
passed a resolution endorsing Gov-

ernor HuntTs plan for the Child ©

Health Insurance Initiative.

The Child Health Insurance Ini-
tiative would provide health care
coverage for 71,000 children at a
cost of 26 cents for $1 worth of cov-
erage.

oAll too often children come to
school sick or miss school due to
illness. Students in these situa-
tions often fall behind in their edu-
cation,? says Dr. Ed Dunlap, execu-
tive director of NCSBA.

oThis is a golden opportunity for
the federal government and state
government to partner together to
make sure that children are
healthier and thus have a better
chance to learn,? says Leanne Win-
ner, director of governmental rela-
tions of NCSBA.

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Another of her college friends
talked about how active Ms. Brown
remains in many issues today, es-
pecially as they relate to A&T Uni-
versity, where she is an alumnus.
Ms. Brown was described as a
opositive agitator? and a person
who never gave up until she suc-
ceeded. .

It is one thing as Ms. Brown
surely did to impact communities
with leadership, but it is quite an-
other to add to oneTs resumé a host
of students who were led by her

Honored At Ayden Unveiling -

into a better life. That is the effect
Ms. Brown had on many of her stu-
dents. Many of those students were
present at. the occasion, all calling
her their role model. They thanked
her for efforts in convincing them
to go to college, and they. credited
her with their success.

The unveiled portrait of Ms.
Brown will signify her efforts at
the Ayden Housing Authority. But,
the many minds she positively in-
fluenced will be her real gift to so-
ciety.

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