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Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981

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By F. Fimley McRae
Sentinel Wire Services

A series of national pro-

tests against the Supreme Court's
action that halted a hand recount
of disputed ballots in several
Florida counties was announced
Monday by Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Flanked by leaders at Holman
United Methodist Church repre-
senting California Rainbow
Coalition/ Push, the Southern
Leadership Conference. major
Jewish temples, noted black con-
gregations, labor and civil rights
organizations. Jackson labeled the
Supreme Court Ts ruling oim-
moral ? and a deliberate attempt to
odisenfranchise ? voters
Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo (D
46), represented sympathetic
elected officials.

oThis was not right and
this is the basis of our (protests) :
the Bushes (believe in winning)
oby any means necessary. ? he said
in characterizing the votes cast by
the court Ts five conservative jus-
tices.

What You See Is What You Get, What You Read Is What You Know And Save.

The response to what
Jackson described as a oconstitu-
tional coup d'etat ? and oracial
targeting while voting ? will be
hosts of national protest during
King week , through Jan. 20,
2001 when George W. Bush
becomes the 43 rd president of
the United States.

oWhile the crowning will
be taking place in Washington,
we will be marching all around
America on that day.

oThis decision was really
about taking (taking blacks back
to) Selma, where we (marched
across Pettus Bridge) to dramatize
southern injustice in 1963, so
we'll be back there once again
during King Week (to use the
court decision as a symbol) ?
Jackson said

Cedillo said othis is an
important event for us as it brings
our community together to set up
a vehicle, a program and a plan of
action in which we will be able to
express our outrage at the failure
to realize the true promise of
democracy

Jackson said prominent

ultra conservatives and their
oright wing political agenda are

the forces behind Bush with a

states rights agenda to destroy
affirmative action women Ts rights
and equal opportunity. Sen..
Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms ,
Phil Graham and Majority Leader
Trent Lott are testing our will to
fight ?. he declared.

On a more ominous note,
Jackson said, othe Heritage
Foundation and Cato Institute
(two foes of affirmative action
and most advances of the Civil
Rights Movement won __ for
Blacks) are moving into the
Justice Department and the CIA
by the truckloads. ?

In Palm Beach County,
an estimated 27,000 votes, 18,000
of them cast by African
Americans, were not counted as a
result of the Supreme Court's
ruling.

As many as_ 180,000
votes cast by African Americans,
according to black elected offi-
cials and civil rights leaders, were
uncounted or disqualified.

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_Pictured at a Christmas gathering Sister Sherian Brown, Executive Director of the South Lee St. (an
organization that helps flood victims and assist in feeding the elderly) is shown having a great time
fellow-shipping with CO workers. Hats off to Sister Brown and all the beautiful ladies work with with -

her.

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From The "M" Voice
Archives

Rev, Shorty Wilks is shown

poms for our camera's at
oscoe Norfleets' Fleetway
Cleaners. The Reverend Wilkes

was an educator, motivator and
loyal husband. He was also a
great su porter of WOOW and \
the. "M " Voice newspaper
"May he rest in his:soul",

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SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP
CONFERENCE

Pitt County, Beaufort County & NC State Chapters
Dr. Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration -2001
Theme: Keeping the Dream Alive... In a New Century!

Schedule of Events:
Saturday January J3, 2001 - 6:30pm
Eppes Rec./Weed & Seed Facility - Greenville

CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL VIGIL
Sunday January 14, 2001 - 6pm
Philippi Church - Greenville
PRAISE & WORSHIP SERVICE
THEME ADDRESS

Delivered by Rep Daniel Blue - NC House District 21
"The Occasion" Delivered by Rev. Ronald Dolbeny

Monday January 15, 2001
7:30am - J.H. Rose High School - Greenville
COMMUNITY UNITY BREAKFAST
Keynote Speaker. Mr Steadmen Graham
' (Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce)

10:00am -Eppes Rec/Weed & Seed Facility - Greenville
CAR, Muhammed Mosque #79,
NAACP, Weed& Seed, & SCLC

POLITICAL REFORM PARADE
From Thomas Foreman Park to the Pitt Co. '
Courthouse & back

1:00pm - Philippi Church - Greenville
YOUTH PROGRAM .

4:00pm - Philippi Church - Greenville
ANNUAL MLK CELEBRATION FEAST

Great Men Accomplishing Great Things,

Shown above is Appellate Court Judge James Wynn, along with former Chief Justice Henry Frye, and
the lovely ladies who support them. In a last effort attempt to appoint Judge James Wynn to the 4th
Circuit Court of Appeals (second only to the Supreme Court) President Clinton once again, renominated
Judge Wynn just hours after the new senate convened.

The court appointment requires
the approval of the. fractured
Senate----Jesse Helms

by John Wagner

Washington - President Clinton
took a final stab Wednesday at
putting a North Carolina judge on
the 4th US Circuit Court of
Appeals by. renominating James
Wynn for a séat just hours after
the new Congress convened

Wynn, a judge on the N.C. Court
of Appeals, was first nominated

Adams Mark Hotel May
Face Black Protesters

when on to quoting Bill Lann Lee; *

By Malcolm DuBois
African-American
News&lssues

When AAN&! published a scathing
article criticizing the decision of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) agreement to
hold its "2001 Midwinter
Conference" at the Adams Mark
Hotel in Dallas, a number of Black
leaders, who read the story, lead by
Lee Alcorn, President/CEO of the
Coalition for the Advancement of
Civil Rights (CACR) decided that
they could not allow such a meeting
to take place. Alcorn, former presi-
dent of the Dallas Branch NAACP,
knew right away that something
smelled fishy.
"I had been very active in support-
ing that lawsuit on behalf of the
NAACP, so | knew that I must
investigate this to see just what was
really going on. I believe that we
must confront this. The NNPA
should not be holding meetings
there until the hotel chain explains
what or how they intend to settle up
with the many Blacks that have filed
lawsuits against them. | hope that
this is not some way that some of
our most respected Black newspa-
pers and the leadership of the
NAACP is using to get a few
crumbs on the backs of common
African-Americans who have been
blatantly discriminated against. We
should not be doing business with
Adams T Mark. And if Adams Mark
has not done anything to make up
for their crimes against those people
then we will just have to get the
batteries out for our bullhorns and
et ready to take care of business.
he Black newspaper is one of our
greatest institution and if the
(publishers) are trying to pull o
something here that is underhanded

against. Black people then they
should really be ashamed of them
selves. ? .

Rev. Michael Bell of Fort Worth
Texas, a prominent member of: the
Tarrant County Local Organizing

Committee and a CACR member

said that he would bring a bus load
of protesters to the NNPA confer-
ence to participate in any action that
Alcorn wishes to perform. "What is
happening with the Adams Mark

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by Clinton in August 1999. But
the US Senate never held a
hearing on his confirmation .
because of staunch opposition
from U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a
Raleigh Republican.

In a politically charged move,
Clinton sent the name of Wynn
and seven other previously nomi-
nated appellate judges back to the
Senate less than three weeks
before he leaves office.

Wynn inclusion was particularly
pointed. because Clinton and

Hotel situation is really indicative
of what has been happening in
different parts of the country.
People seem to have a very short
memory. We need to remember
what happened to bring about this
situation and then act on that. We
seem to want to ignore what has
been done in terms of right and
wrong. And we can not do that, if
we intend to profess that we stand
for all Black people, as we should.

"It seems that the leadership of the

group that made the determination
to meet there at Adams Mark, they
are oblivious to or is ignoring what
Adams Mark has done in the past.
This is similar in other situations
like for instance we've gone back to
Denny's, is premature. But what
needs to be done is that the
leadership of the journalist group is
be more sensitive to what's going on
and not ignoring others. Also let me
tell you what I really think about
this whole mess! It seems like
apparently somebody is willing to
carry the ball for Adams Mark and
has not touched bases with the
community on it and so that's why
we're going to go over there to
remind them of those hurt individu-
als who they have seemed to have
forgotten, The NAACP just graded
them with a'"D minus ? about two or
three months ago. We must protest
this wrong until they resolve this
issue with those people who were
harmed by their racist practices!
They must move quickly to resolve
the content of the lawsuit." During
the month of December 1999, a
CNN news report carried extensive
interviews and press conferences of
several lawsuits aimed at Adams
Mark by hundreds of Black hotel
guests who spoke of gross discrimi-
nation allegations. Federal investi-
gations of those lawsuits uncovered
information so gross that both the
federal and state of Florida filed

discrimination lawsuits against
Adams Mark as well. They accused
it of things such as charging Blacks
more than whites, offering them less
desirable rooms and putting security
restrictions on them, During that
time according to the CNN report,
Fred S, Kummer, president and
chief executive of the privately held
chain declined to comment on the
Justice suit until he had

an opportunity to read it, The report

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Photo by Jim Rouse

others have suggested that Helms
opposes the nomination because:
Wynn is black.

Helms has maintained that 15-seat

court is functioning efficiently T -

and does not need any more

judges, despite five vacancies and- o

no north Carolina representation.
the court, which is one step below T

the U.S. Supreme Court, hears T o
fromNorth: -

federal appeals
Carolina South Carolina, Virgina,
West Virgina and Maryland.

acting assistant attorney general in
charge of the civil rights division.
said "This is the first time that Civil
Rights Division and the Department
of Justice has filed against a hotel
chain on a_ nationwide basis. ?
Attorney General Janet Reno and
Florida Attorney General Bob.

Butterworth, who announced a re-° -

lated lawsuit accusing the hotel

chain of violating state consumer -

protection laws, joined Lee at a
Washington news conference. "In
violating its guests T civil rights,
Adams Mark also trampled on their
rights as consumers, Tourism and.

recreation are Florida's lifeblood, °-

Through its blatant racist policies,
Adams Mark has sent the unmistak-
able message that at some places in
Florida, Blacks are not welcome."
Strong charges against the hotel for
sure. As for the AAN&I article the.
publisher Roy Douglas Malonson, a
member of NNPA said during that:
time that he would not stay at the-
hotel while attending the conference.
he said that he would instead sleep:
in another hotel-in pretests of the
NNPA's decision. "I have not.
changed my plans. We have to learn;
that money is not everything. We: .
must walk what we talk and that Ts:
the bottom line. Too many Black.
people have been hurt by Adams;
Marks racist policies." Another
group who has thrown their support.
behind the CACR is members of the.
New Black Panther Party. They too T
intend to be there to support this
cause. oIn reference to the issue and
the New Black Panther Party is. that
they need to be shut down by alt
means necessary, We need to go to
the extent of hunt their hotels down
if possible. If they are to continue te
bring forth racism in this blunt a
matter and just ignore Black people
of being actual human beings, theri
we need to take care of them. ? The

protesters said that they intend to
march on: the hotel on Wednesday,
January 10, 200lat 12-: 00 Noon
just minuets before the NNPA's
Welcoming Ceremonies and the
meeting of its Board of Directors,
They said want as many concerned

people as possible to join then... &
ok... 8
all the

there. AAN&I is comm
there to cover and report

news of this breaking story.

RA aE HE

Y PEOPLE, et al LISTEN |
UP!

A little over six millenni-
ums ago on an isloated
mountainside, we must be
sepinded that GOD used a BUSH to cap-
ture the attention of Moses so that he
wauld eventually lead an enslaved people
out of captivity into. a Promised Land.

. (Maybe, this Bush Ts burning for the
leadership required for the Presidency is

: indicative of the same.

»- «We know that many of you have been
admonished to ostay out the Bushes, ? but
we, advise that you at least part and hold
ba¢k the branches (especially House and
Sénate) to see what Ts rustling in Presi-
dent-elect George W., possibly the Bush
HE (GOD) has set in place to rule US, a
péople now split and splintered over party
lipes and personal opinions and specual-
tiens regarding what he (Bush) might do
with and through those whom he has or
wall set over the greenery (Cabinet) that
either shades or brightens our lives.
Moreover, amid the whispers of reconcili-
ation wafting through the resounding
tifetoric of warring factions now prepar-
img for protests and other peace-breaking
tactics before and during the Jan. 20 in-
aguaration of Bush as 43rd president of
US, hear this also my people... The LORD
our God is ONE, denoting, unity, or the
only means for US to get it all together

*
Day
*

to th e Promised L Land

- Bushes...

ofor the Sood of all humankind: oBehold,

~ how good and how pleasant it is for the

brethern (and sisters) to dwell together in
unity. ?

Instead of protesting, (mummering and
complaining), use that vigil time to pray

_ that all the bad and wrong that you Tre

speculating in and around the Bushes will

-be turned for our good and total freedom

out of the captivity of inequality. PUSH
and pray for reconciliation and
unity...PUSH and pray that platform
promises will flourish in the
-PUSH and pray that cooperation
will spiritually nurture the Bush for all of
US, even along and among party lines.
PUSH and pray that campassion will truly
come from this Bush, possibly burning
now to catch the attention of all of US
who want better and more prosperous
lives that can come with education re-
form, lower taxes, and much-needed re-
form in federal regulations.

oThis is a hopeful, optimistic agenda
that cuts across all barriers of race and
party, ? President-elect Bush, othe compas-

_sionate conservative, ? declares. oAnd it is

a bold agenda that will expand an econo-
my that is not only the envy of the world,
but its inspiration. ?

Maybe, just maybe, this is the oBush ?
that will burn long enough to catch the at-
tention of all of US for all needed reform
this new millennium.

After all Ts said and done,
it T s the dollar bill, y Tall

na nutshell, the e-mail is request-
ing that Blacks boycott Com-
pUSA. We don Tt know how many
of you listen to Tom Joyner in the
*.* morning, but, it Ts one of the few
shows-where one can get-important in-
pal and good music. If you are a
jular you know that every Tuesday and
T ursday, Tavis Smiley, BET host, does
a, commentary informing us of the
week Ts injustice against our people. For
thé last eight weeks, he has been trying
to speak with CompUSA about their lack
of advertising dollars spent in our neigh-
borhoods or towards our people. And for
the last eight weeks, he has been ig-
nored. Thousands of receipts were sent
in from people who bought products
from CompUSA, but were protesting.
Still no response from CompUSA and
not.so much as a phone call to make an
appointment to talk.
Well, finally, we have a response from
CompUSA. They are suing for defamation
of character! Can Tt even express how up-

setting it was to hear Smiley near tears
that morning, with Joyner talking about
how they were talking about taking his
show off, if Travis didn Tt stop giving his
commentary!

Thousands of hate groups are allowed
speak against us on a daily basis. They
march, they have talk shows, they even
have websites. However, we are told to
stop when trying to make a large corpora-
tion have a simple discussion on why they
are ignoring us in their advertisements,
while saying that we don Tt buy enough
from their stores to have to worry about
us. We are outraged!

So, in the midst of you sending the
usual junk e-mail, please send a note to at
least 10 people, letting them know how
far we Tve come in the last 100 years.
Once this is known, you can only blame
yourself when things don Tt happen.

They Tve only shown us again how little
they think of African Americans and that
they don Tt néed to address our com-
plaints "just tell us to Shut Up!

Reflecting back, what you see,
is all you're ever going to get

ho is responsible for the
massive carloads, the truck-
loads, the boatloads, the
shiploads of illegal drugs
that enter the U.S. on a con-
Stant basis? ;

To paraphrase what a popular cartoon
character once said: oWe have met the ene-
my...and it is us. ?

The new President of Mexico, Vincente
Fox, said so correctily the other day that
the U.S. should deal with its own drug
habit and not be reluctant to look in the
mirror at the millions and millions of ad-
dicts and dealers who run the economic en-
gine that keep the illegal drug business
booming in America.

Stop playing the blame game with his
nation (Mexico) in connection with the nar-
Cotics problem, Fox admonished.

oThe United States, year after year,
blames us (Mexico) for drug trafficking.
Why? ? Fox asks. oWho lets the drugs into

the United States? Who is doing gigantic
business in the United States? ?

Corrupt police and government officials,
we think, along with despicable drug deal-
ers and any other links to the illegal drug
underground.

The war on drugs has been proven to be a
farce. The only way to deal with the massive
drug problem in America is to greatly reduce
demand, which will only happen through in-
creased drug-treatment programs "not harsh

_punishment and incarceration.

The burgeoning prison population,
swelled mostly by small-time drug users
and dealers, is not the way to tackle the un-
resolved matter of drug-use and abuse in
America. Again, it is treatment, treatment,
treatment.

Take a look in the (cocaine) mirror
America and you may get a clearer look at
the monster who is causing your venal
problem of addiction. You see, what you
see, is staring back.

There is nothing more dangerous than to
build a society, with a large segment of peo-
ple in that society, who feel that they have
no stake in it; who feel that they have noth-
ing to lose. People who have a stake in their "

Society, protect that society, but when they
don't have it, they unconsciously want to
ee, destroy it.

Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

istory is an'excellent teacher of

the future. The only requirement

is to listen, think and analyze.

In 1968, when the Republican

candidate sought the presidency
of the United States, he was vigorously at-
tacked by the Black civil rights establishment.
He was called. a racist and anti-Black. He was
said to be for the rich, while forgetting the
poor. Finally, it was believed by the civil
rights establishment that this candidate would
do away with welfare and appoint anti-Black
judges.

Let Ts examine what happened. That candi-
date, (eventually) President Richard M.
Nixon, launched the federal minority enter-
prise program. As a result of this Republican
effort, we now have a whole new minority
business class all over America. The program
produced many new franchises, automobile
dealerships, radio station ownerships and
high-tech small businesses. Between 1970 to
1976, the Nixon-Ford Republican administra-
tions created more than 500,000 new minority
businesses. Moreover, no administration since
that time has remotely come close to that ef-
fort. Early on, the liberal Black and White

voices declared the program a cop-out and an

effort to do away with social programs.

In addition to this trailblazing, business de-
velopment venture by Presidents Nixon and
Ford, President Ronald Reagan Ts tenure intro-

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Black business survival really
lurks in affirmative access T

by Samuel J. Cornelius

: Deas Editor,

duced America to the oEnterprise Zone ? pro-
gram for urban and rural distressed areas.
Throughout all this productivity, our so-called
oBlack leaders ? continued to attack the pro-
grams, while secreriy becoming millionaires,
participating in the very programs they were
criticizing.

Now that Gov. George W. Bush is on the
cusp of becoming the 43rd president of the
United States of America. some of these same
so-called leaders are out of the woodwork
with the same old tired arguments we heard
30 years ago.

Black voters now have 4 unique opportuni-
ty to again turn our attention from welfare to
economics. But, if we continue concentrating
on civil rights and social programs, we will
continue to stay on the bottom rung of the
ladder.

Bush has been a small business owner and
leans heavily in the business arena. This
bodes well for Black-business owners who
need access to capital, markets and other
means to make their businesses grow and
prosper.

And, unless we are able to get the oaffirma-

tive access ? proposed by Bush, Black busi-
ness developmeni and growth will come to a
screeching halt.

(Cornelius, a long-time Republican activist,
served Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald
Ford and Ronald Reagan: Currently, he ts
secretary treasurer of the Krul Group, Inc., an
investment broker group.)

| Mae iga te NARCR ie you get
oride from

by Kevin Martin

veryone played ohide and
seek ? as a child. For Black
voters, however, the game
continues every election. This
year was no exception.

lies ohide ? equal justice and civil rights
issues in campaigns for Black voters to
seek, and then use them to win their sup-
port. This year, these issues included po-
lice brutality, racial profiling, hate-crime
legislation and Confederate heritage dis-
plays. I question why these concerns only
arose close to election time.

The NAACP continues its boycott of
South Carolina over the Confederate Bat-
tle flag. The group succeeded in moving
the flag from atop the Statehouse to the
grounds, but is now pushing for its com-
plete removal from sight. The NAACP al-
so pressured Texas Governor and then-
Republican presidential nominee George
W. Bush to remove commemorative
plaques in some state buildings in Texas
that contained that same flag. Bush did
the right thing and replaced the plaques.

What Ts wrong with the NAACP Ts ac-
tions? Nothing. The problem is that they
were being partisan in their outrage.
They did not, for example, call upon De-
mocratic nominee Al Gore to pressure
his home-state legislators in Tennessee
to remove KKK founder Nathan Bedford
Forrest Ts name from a state park and
highway.

Black voters were also targeted by
commercials featuring a truck dragging a
chain behind it along with the voice of
James Byrd Ts sister criticizing Bush for
not supporting hate-crime legislation.
(Byrd was dragged to death behind a
truck driven by three White men). In my
home state of Maryland " " which is also
the home of the NAACP " there was
barely a raised eyebrow when two White
men harassed a carload of elderly Black
women for 20 miles and finally loosed a
shotgun blast at close range which ended
the life of one of the women. Maryland
has hate-crimes legislation on the books.
However, both suspects were only
charged with second-degree murder. But,
our state also has a Democrat governor
and a member of the Kennedy family
serving as lieutenant governor. That

to make a di . It appears
a free
the NAACP. If tye are a Re-

Democratic leaders and their Black al- -

"workin

Democrats, NAACP playing
hide n seek on rights issues

publican, stand by to stand by.

The same rule applies to police brutali-
ty. In Philadelphia, (there a Black, Demo-
cratic mayor), there was an appeal for
calm this past summer when an escaping
Black criminal was caught and beaten by
White and Black officers "caught on
tape. In New York City (White, Republi-
can mayor running for Senate against
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the
time), Al Sharpton and others took their
high-profile protest to city hall and
Washington when officers shot a Black
man to death in a confusing and regret-
table melee. There is no excuse for police
brutality, but the selective and partisan
Outrage in these cases ought to be a crime
as well.

There also seems to be a willingness to
accommodate Democrats on the issues of
racial profiling. During the campaign,
Gore promised that, if elected, he would
sign an executive order outlawing racial
profiling, which has been at the forefront
of the news for years now. Why didn Tt he
call upon President Bill Clinton to sign
an executive order earlier? Why would
Blacks have to wait until after the elec-
tion for racial profiling to be outlawed? It
seemed to be little more than a campaign .
issue for Gore, and its exploitation went
unchallenged.

In Washington, the Congressional
Black Caucus (CBC) seems willing to
withhold their support from 38 former
and current Secret Service agents who
claim in a, federal lawsuit that they
were victims of racism from within the
Clinton White House. Yet, when CBC
member Cynthia McKinney accused
Gore of having a low oNegro Tolerance
Level ? when it was reported that he
knew of limits on the number of Black
agents on his security detail, outraged
Democratic leaders pressured her to re-
tract her words,

The time has long since passed for our

so-called Black leaders to hold the De-

mocratic Party to the same standards they

hold the Republican Party to when it
comes to the issues that are most impor-
tant to us. If | wanted to play hide and
seek, | would go play it with my three-
year-old cousin, It is time for Democrats
to stop treating us like children on a play-
poe: and for our leaders to stand up
or our beliefs.

(Martin is a member of Project 21

in the ton, D.C. Aree.)

ran environmental Contractor fy

on crime here )

1am writing this letter to aioe you is a.un-

11 dethanded deed: Last October a man named

Michael Harris went on an armed-robbery spree.

- He robbed seven businesses in two weeks.

He is already a two-time felon with ag-

| gravated robbery once before. This is his

third to around.

I don Tt believe a man like this is crecible.
Obviously the State does. They are offering
him a light sentence in exchange for testimo-
ny in another, unrelated charge. I don Tt un-
derstand how they can take his word on the
stand against someone else. He Ts only doing
this to get less time for violating the public. "

He could have killed you, one of your em-
ployees, or worse a customer. All to get crack
money. Now the State Ts offering him a way
out. Who Ts to say when he gets out, he won Tt
come back and do it again. He lives right on
Kirby and Winchester, so you're in his area.
This time it may be fatal. I pray it doesn Tt.

Prosecutor Jerry Kitchen is in charge of
his case. He Ts sending a powerful message
to the businesses in Shelby County. To him
it Ts not about a punishment that fits the
crime. It Ts all about getting a conviction.

oI Tm sure it would be an unwanted sur-
prise for him to find out that you knew
what he was up to. They can Tt deny this.
Why else would they hold off prosecuting
him? They want to see what the outcome of
this matter will be in order to figure how
valuable his testimony is.

You would think that with all the busi-
ness opportunities vou bring to the commu-
nity, the State would allow you the dignity
of prosecuting vour violators properly.

Brandy Warren,
Memphis

Courtroom is no place
to honor our heroes

Dear Editor,

Even as we commemorated the 1941 en-
trance of America into World War II last
month, a few malcontents are keeping this
country from saying a long-overdue thank-
you to the World War II Generation. On
Nov. 11, even as Americans gathered to
break ground for the much-anticipated Na-
tional World War II Memorial on The Mall
in our nation Ts Capitol, some ungrateful
people made plans to disrupt work on the
project. They sued to delay construction
well after seven years of thought and plan-
ning for the memorial.

The decision-making process encompassed
18 public hearings over the last five years "
more than enough time for a good decision
on the design and location. Opponents of the
site and design were heard at every step. The
process was fair. It Ts ungrateful to ask the
courts to undo what a fair, open and lengthy
process has determined " that there is no
better place than the Mall to honor the gener-
ation that preserved our freedom.

When completed, the memorial will be a
lasting tribute to an entire generation, which
drew strength from the very same values .
that inspired the colonial citizen-soldiers.
The cause of democracy prevailed as a re-
sult of the unflinching courage of 16 mil-
lion World War II Gls " 400,000 of whom
gave their lives in military service.

The American Legion and its affiliated orga-
nizations " The American Legion Auxiliary
and The Sons of The American Legion " do-
nated about $4 million for the National World
War II Memorial. The American people exceed-
ed the fund-raising goal by a long shot, which
demonstrates the people support the design as
well as the Rainbow Pool site on The Mall.

The memorial Ts design and location are
appropriately first-rate. Not only will it per-
manently recognize the entire World War II
generation that saved the world from tyran-
ny; but will also be a remainder of one gen-
eration Ts exemplary devotion to principles
of freedom, justice and equality.

By its completion date, this memorial will
have taken more than twice as long to create
as it took U.S. and allied forces to win the
Second World War. It will-have taken from
1993 to 2003. That is, of course, if the pro-
ject is not mired in courtroom battles.

We have taken too long to memorialize our
fallen World War II heroes and we have certain-
ly waited far too long to say othank you ? to the
men and women of oOur Greatest Generation. ?

Millions of our World War II heroes have
already passed on, and we lose more each
day. It Ts time for protesters to leave the
courtroom and to join hands and hearts with
the millions of their fellow Americans to pay
homage while we still can. Let Ts emblazon
our gratitude with a thank-you note in stone.

Ray Smith,

National Commander,
the American Legion,
,_ Indianapolis, Ind.

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People around the world make
New Year resolutions after
Christmas. For many, " the
Christmas spirit still lingers. 1
made a list of three vital New
Year resolutions, which should be
embraced by supporters of pro-
gressive change in Pitt County.

These resolutions constitute a |

major step towards a noteworthy
legacy for our posterity to cherish.
All fair-minded Pitt County
citizens should see the need for a
Pitt County human _telations coun-
cil. In too many communities,
hate, racism, exclusion, and intol-
erance are up and hope and
stability are down. Reverend
Walter Sadler has worked with me
and others on human relations for
over two years. The county com-
missioners, who once endorsed
the idea through a unanimous
vote, recently backed out of long
overdue efforts to organize a
council.
Now that there is a black school

board chairman, it should not be
difficult to encourage the infusion
of multicultural education within
the social studies curriculum of
the Pitt County school system. I
was encouraged by Assistant
Superintendent Shirley
Carraway's willingness to re-
search the matter and entertain
Suggestions as, to how to construct
such a curriculum. | admire the
multicultural education curticu-
lum currently enjoyed by the
Winston-Salem Forsyth County
school system. | have a copy of
that curriculum. I'll be happy to
share this with Michael Priddy,
the new school superintendent, if
he responds to my letter for a
meeting with him. We should
replicate this noble idea.

| asked commissioners to estab-
lish a prescription drugs supple-
mental fund to help indigent
senior citizens subsidize the exor-
bitant costs of medication. For
many, the monthly costs of multi-
ple life-sustaining drugs exceed
the amount of Social Security
checks. Around January 3rd of
2001, an old slobbering lady
asked me for assistance in pur-
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| The Amistad
Led by Congolese chief
Joseph Cinquez ques 1898.

Africans mutinied on the

Spanish siaver Amistad

bound for Cuba. They killed
captain and crew, leaving
some members to direct them
back to. Africa. The crew
tricked them and_ instead
sailed to the U.S. mainland
where they were placed on
trial. The English, as did John
Quincy Adams, "§ argued
against the enslavement and
for the mutineers. In the end
they won the trial and re-
turned to Africa.

Most of the Negro slaves came
from an area bordering a 3,000-
mile stretch on the west coast of
Africa. They came, chained two
by two, left leg to right leg, from
a thousand villages and towns.
They came from many racial
stocks and many tribes, from the
spirited Hausas, the gentle
Mandingos, the creative
Yorubas, from the Ibos, Efiks
and Krus, from the proud
Fantins, the warlike Ashantis,
the shrewd Dahomeans, the
Binis and Sengalese.

Slaves were purchased from
brokers at the forts and factories
or in open markets. One famous
trader has described an open
market on the Slave Coast.

"As the slaves come down to
Fida from the inland country,
they are put into a booth, or
prison, built for that purpose.
near the beach, all of them
together, and when the
Europeans are to receive them.
they are brought out into a large

plain, where the surgeons exam-
ine every part of every one of
them, to the smallest member,
men and women being all stark
naked. Such as are allowed good
and sound are set on one side
and the others by themselves.
Slaves so rejected are there
called Mackrons: being above 35
years of age, or defective in their
limbs, eyes or teeth, or grown
grey, or have the venereal dis-

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ease, or any other imperfection.

- These being so set aside, each of
the others, which have passed as

Men, women and children

worked. Women cut down trees,

~ good, is marked on the breast,

with a red- hot iron, imprinting

or Dutch companies....In © this
particular, care is taken that the
women, as tenderest, be not
burnt too hard. T

The newly-purchased _ slaves,
For most slaves life was a
nightmare of drudgery. An ex-
slave said it seemed the fields
stretched from one end of the

the mark of the French, English.

dug ditches and plowed. The old _
and the ailing worked; old men
and women fed poultry, cleaned "
the yard, mended clothes and
cared for the young and the sick.

Male and female, the quick and
the halt: worked the traditional

hours of slavery--from can (see)

to can't (see).

On most plantations, a horn ( dat
ole fo' day horn T) or bell sounded
about four in the morning. Thirty

minutes later, the field hands

There Were No Docile Slaves

Fear, toil and the lash, hard

words anda little ash cake and
bacon, and fields stretching
around the world--this was life for
most slaves, day in and day out,
season after season, with a half-
day off on Saturday perhaps and
a whole day on Sunday," writes
Lerone Bennett Jr., in Before the
Mayflower: A History of the
Negro in America 1619-1964.
Why did they do it? he asks
rhetorically. And why didn't they
revolt? Why didn't they run
away? Commit suicide? Or stand
like a man and be cut down?
"Slaves did all of these," Bennett
says, "and more."
They did them so often that it is
nothing short of amazing, he says,
that the myth of the docile Negro
persists.

There were repeated insurrections
and there is solid evidence that
the South lived in constant fear of
the docile T slaves. Bondsmen ran
away in droves. They fled to
Canada and Mexica and to
Florida and Louisiana before
these territories became a part of
the United States. of America:
they fled to the Indians and joined
them in their wars against the
White man.

Young and old ran, Mulattoes and
pure Blacks, Uncle Toms (in the
modern sense) and radicals ran.

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Following the North Star, some
made their way to the North and
on to Canada.

Some succumbed to slavery's
endless assault but some refused
to be broken.

Many were sent to professional
Negro breakers T and were broken.
Many persisted hardened in their
resistance.

"They poisoned masters and mis-
tresses with arsenic," Bennett
reports, "ground glass and 'spiders
beaten up in buttermilk. T They
chopped them [slaveholders] to
pieces with axes and burned their
houses, gins and barns to the
ground."

oThe court records of the slavery
period, Bennett says, yield ample
evidence that a large number of
slaves refused to play the game of
Slavery: they would neither smile
nor bow. Some bowed but would
not smile. Many, perhaps the
majority, went through the ritual
of obeisance. And these, accord-
ing to some historians, carried on
a passive resistance: "They
worked no harder than they had
to, put on deliberate slowdowns,
staged sitdown strikes and fled to
the swamps en masse at cotton
picking time. They broke imple-
ments, trampled the crops and
took T silver, wine, money, corn,
cotton and machines."

whip. An ex-slave in Virginia hoe gangs and plow gangs. T
recalled seeing women scurrying overseer might also carry

to the fields 'with their shoes and bowie knife and a pistol. He
stockings in their hands, and a often rode a horse, accompanied
petticoat wrapped over their ose ? Dea

by a vicious dog.
shoulders, to dress in the fields he

1663 First serious slave conspir- 1816 Three hundred fugitive
acy in Colonial America, Sept. Slaves and about 20 Indian allies
12. Servant betrayed plot of held Fort Blount on Apalachicola
White servants and Negro slaves Bay, Fla., for several days before
in Gloucester County, Va. it was attacked by U.S. Troops.

1712 Slave revolt, New York, 1822 Denmark Vesey plotted and
April 7. Nine Whites killed, was betrayed. 'House slave T be-
Twenty-one slaves executed. trayed Denmark Vesey conspiracy,

May 30. Vesey conspiracy, one of ©

the most elaborate slave plots on
record, involved thousands of
Negroes in Charleston, S.C., and
vicinity. Authorities arrested 131
1739 Slave revolt, Stono, S.C., Negroes and four whites. Thirty-
Sept 9. Twenty-five Whites killed seven were hanged. Vesey and

before i tio t down. five of his aides hanged at Blake's
FELDEN Landing, Charleston, S.C., July 2.

1730 Slave conspiracy discovered
in Norfolk and Princess Anne
counties, Va.

1741 Series of suspicious fires ; Te
and reports of slave conspiracy 1829 Race riot, Cincinnati, Ohio,

led to general hysteria in New August 10. More than 1,000
York City, March and April. Negroes left the city for Canada.
Thirty-one slaves, five Whites

1831 Nat Turner __ revolt,

cuted.
mmceus Southampton County, Va., August

1773 Massachusetts slaves peti- 21-22. Some 60 Whites. were
tioned legislature for freedom, killed. Nat Turner was not cap-
Jan. 6. There is a record of 8 tured until October 30. Nat Turner

petitions during Revolutionary was hanged, Jerusalem, Va., Nov.
War period. I.

1791 Haitian Revolution began 1838 Frederick Douglass escaped

with revolt of slaves in northern from slavery in Baltimore, Sept. 3.

ince, Aug 22. ;
ne 1839 Amistad mutiny led by
1800 Gabriel Prosser plotted and Joseph Cinquez, captured. After
was betrayed. Storm forced sus- trial in Conn., returned to Africa.
pension of attack on Richmond,
Va., by Prosser and some 1,000 1841 Slave revolt on slave trader
slaves, Aug. 30. Conspiracy was Creole T which was en route from
betrayed by two slaves. Prosser Hampton, Va., to New Orleans,

and fifteen of his followers were La., Nov 7. Slaves overpowered
hanged on Oct 7. crew and sailed vessel to Bahamas

where they were granted asylum

1811 Louisiana slaves revolted in and freedom.

two parishes about 35 miles from ? ="

New Orleans, Jan. 8-10. Revolt» o1848 Ellen Craft impersonated a

suppressed by U.S. troops. The slave holder, William Craft acted

largest slave revolt in the United as her servant in one of the most

States. dramatic slave escapes--this one
from slavery in Georgia, Dec 26.

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1849 Harriet Tubman escapedics;
from slavery in Maryland, sum-=":

mer. She returned to South 19;

times and brought out more than T *

300 slaves. oy peat
1851 Negro abolitionist crashed-
into courtroom in Boston and
rescued a fugitive slave, Feb 15.
Negroes dispersed group of slave

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catchers Sept 11 in Christiana, .

Pa., conflict. One White man. was

killed, another wounded. ae
Negro and White abolitionists ?
smashed into courtroom.

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Syracuse, N-Y., and rescued a. "

fugitive slave Oct]. 2. 7

1859 Five Negroes with 13° ?
Whites with John Brown attacked= .

Harpers Ferry, Va., Oct 16-17.

Two Negroes killed, 2 captured,- ?
one escaped. John Copeland and--

Shields Green hanged at

Charlestown, Va., Dec 16.

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Nat Turner's rebellion in

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the summer of 1831, threw the
slaveholding South into a panic,
and into a determined effort to
bolster the security of the slave
system. Turner, claiming religious-

visions, gathered about seventy: .,

slaves who went on a rampage
from plantation to plantation,
murdering at least fifty-five men,
womengvand children. They gath-
ered supporters but were captured
as their ammunition ran out.
Turner and perhaps eighteen oth-

oers were hanged.

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~ bias Claims ~~

By Ayana Jones
Tribune Staff Writer

Willie E. Gary is one of: the
nation Ts most successful trial law-
yers. And this week, he set his
eyes-on one of the nation Ts most
powerful corporations ~
Microsoft.

Gary represents seven current and
former Microsoft employees who
have filed a $5 billion discrimina-
tion suit against computer soft-
ware giant, alleging racial bias.
oWhat is $5 billion to
Microsoft? ? Gary asked. oYou
have to hit them in their pockets. ?
The suit filed in the U.S District
Court is considered one of the
largest discrimination lawsuits on
behalf of a class of African-
Americans.

One of the plaintiffs, Rhan
Jackson, had previously sued the
company for discrimination but
the suit was amended to include
Six more employees and to at-
tempt class-action status that
could add hundreds more.

The complaint alleges discrimina-
tion in evaluations, compensation,
promotions, wrongful termination
and retaliation.

Gary said that the high monetary

' figure, which includes compensa-

tory and punitive damages, is
commensurate with Microsoft's
sizé. With $22.6 billion in sales,
the Seattle-based firm is the
largest computer software com-
pany in the world.

But Gary cites Microsoft's Black
employment figures as evidence
that it does little to hire or retain
African-Americans. In 1999,
Microsoft employed 21,429 peo-
ple, of which only 553, or roughly
2.5 percent, were Black. The firm
didn Tt fare any better on the
management level. Of the firm Ts
5,155 managers, only 83, or 1.6
percent. were Black.

oThese numbers demonstrate to
the world that Microsoft is not
interested in hiring or promoting
Blacks, ? Gary stated.

oJust as the Justice Department
has sought to stop their anti-trust
behavior, we are seeking to
change their culture. Their com-

pany should look more like.
America, and be just as diverse. "
oTheir business partners and po-
tential business partners all over

the world should be aware of their

poor treatment of. Blacks, and
make sure they are not tarnished
by. doing. business- with a tech
company that has adopted a
plantation mentality from a past
era, ? he. said.

From humble beginnings, Gary
has become the legal equivalent
of David against corporate
Goliaths

Gary rose above poverty to be-
come a multimillion-dollar, - na-
tionally known trial attorney. He
spent his boyhood in the small
town of Indiantown, Fla., working
with his family in the cane fields.
His determination to learn led him
to Shaw University and then on to
study law at the North Carolina
Central University.

He said he saw law practice a as a
way to do the most for his family
and his people.

Gary started off as a one-man
operation when he opened the
first Black law firm in Martin
Country, Fla., in 1974, Today he
has a thriving national partnership
~ Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney,
Lewis, McManus, Watson and
Sperando.

Gary litigates complex cases in-
volving product liability, medical
malpractice, corporate obad faith ?
dealings, personal injury and
wrongful death, and he has won
multimillion-dollar verdicts from
major corporations over the past
25 years.

Five months ago, he won a $720
million discrimination suit against
Disney World. Several years ago,
he won $500 million from the
Loewen Group for businessman
Jeremiah O. Keefe. At the time, it
was one of the nation Ts largest
damage awards.

In the Microsoft litigation, the
district court must first decide

whether to approve class-action.
status for the case, a decision that
could take two or three months.
Gary said he hopes to go to trial
within a year.

At a Washington, D.C., news
conference Wednesday, four of
the plaintiffs said they were

assed for promotions, paid
guns oendured 3

hostile hg environment and
were subjected to retaliation for

bringing their concerns to tman- i |

agement,

Rhan Jackson, a former account
executive in the Washington of-
fice, said. the- three Black mem-
bers of his working team - were
held back for promotions while
the non-Black employees got
ahead.

Jackson stated that he took his
concerns to Microsoft chief ex-
ecutive Steve Ballmer before
filing his suit, but was rebuffed.

- oHe said he didn Tt feel there was

anything he could do, ? Jackson
said. oWe really didn Tt want to
have to be here today. ?

Microsoft spokesman Dean Katz
said Tuesday that his company is
committed to diversity.
oMicrosoft does not tolerate dis-
crimination in any of its employ-
ment practices, and we are
committed to treating all of our
employees fairly. We take these
kinds of issues very seriously, ?
Katz said.

oWe Tre pleased with the progress
we Tve made in increasing the
number of minorities working at
Microsoft. That said, there are
still a number of things we can do
to stimulate interest among mi-
norities in the technical fields, ?
Katz stated, citing the nearly $100
million in grants Microsoft has
given to organizations to stimu-
late interest in technological jobs
among women and minorities.
He noted that Microsoft is known
for its charitable contributions,
some of which have benefited
minorities.

oThat makes it more disappoint-
ing that they do not treat their
Black employees respectfully, ?
Gary responded.

oThis is hypocritical on their part.
On one hand they give money to
charitable causes, but at the same

time they rob their own Black
employees of their dignity by
repeatedly passing them over for
promotions and not granting them
equal pay of their white counter-
parts. This is a disturbing pattern
that must end. ?

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' A MOTHER MOURNS "Mrs. Nancy Johngon. is

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Rollins Funeral Home, Washington, D.C., for her
son, Kenneth. (Scarface) Johnson. Mrs. Irene Plum-
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Accused slayer
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released

James Armstrong, 35-year-
eld construction worker was
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ognizance on a writ of habeas
corpus this morning (Tuesday)

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w te City Jail since last Tues.

day when he was charged

with the fatal sheoting of:

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what it may have seemed, the
Jehovah Ts Witnesses T minister
explained to the AFRO.

o1 was not assigning Mr.
Johnson to any place after
death, Only God can do that. ?
After the service at Rollins
Funeral Home, 4339 Hunt Pl.
NE, at 1 p.m., Johnson was
buried at Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery,

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oA SIX-FOOT former boxer
with a long scar on the left
cheek, Johnson was fatally shot
as he and a smaller companion
held up Willie and Catherine
Richardson in their home at 603
Franklin St., Baltimore,

In what the holdup victims

terror, ? the two men accosted
Mr. Richardson at knife point
as he put the key in his door,

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pore tigate NCI
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ois no evidence to sus-
tain T a conviction of

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in. obaby sitter ?
case,@Milton Allen ar-
thusly in. a tense and
crowded courtroom: Friday in

age client trom f
chamber.

fo 18 years in the Penitentia
for the Oct. 4 fatal stabbing of

Shirley Blocker, 16.

At the time the Cherry Hill
High School student was stabbed
seven times, she was baby sit
ting for Best Ts two small T chil-
dren and her younger brother.
The slaying took place at 2213
Ww, Hamburg St., Mt. Winans,

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PRESTON PAIRO, assistant
State Ts attorney, asked Chief
Judge Emory Niles, presiding
in Youth Court, to find the de-
fendant guilty of first-degree
murder,

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that Miss Blocker had been
taped, and that the case came
under the State Ts murder-felony .
law which called for a. convic-
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stab wounds and it Ts imposs-
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way he (Best) explained it.
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block:S. Paca St., was sentenced |.

his estranged wife Ts sister, Miss |

WARNS OF MARCH "The Rev, Mar-
man of the Southern Leaders Con-

Washington, if he continues silent on '

The conference end
leans on Feb. 15.

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in the South and in the nation an
ward civil rights, ? the telegram said.

oSince. our last appeal, ? the telegram
lence has continued to erupt by night and by
grown to alarming proportions. Some
lence would be unbelievable were the grim
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$350,000 fortune
fails to excite
two Miss, sisters

ST. LOUIS, Mo. "Falling heir
to a: $350,000 fortune has failed
to excite Mrs. Florence Crowell.
a retired schoolteacher, and
her sister, Miss Emma Green,
both of West Point, Miss.

oThey're taking their good
fortune in stride, ? Thomas F.
McDonald, their attorney saw.
The money was willed to them
by Mrs, Caroline Wilkinson,
widow of a barber,

Her -husband, Edwards, who
died in 1945, operated a- barber
shop in the Chamber of Com:

erce. building, where many
brokers and businessmen were
his customers and made T him

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Everybody

By SAM LACY
AFRO Sports Editor
oT felt Wke avdish rag! ? °
Bill. (Sugar) Cain, coach. of
the Dunbar High School basket:
ball team, was deserihing his
reaction to the thrilling 61-59

| vietory his boys achieved over

Carver Vocational High at Car:
ver Friday, to clinch the Mary-
gs Scholastic Association tit-
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AFRO, othat Sodie planned te

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deserves credit, T says

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their confidante,

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thatl ?
The oSodie'*to whom the Dun-
bar mentor referred is coach
Lioyd (Sodie) White of Carver.
His reference was to a pre-
game conversation _ between
te and the er, in which
former had promised to
oIknock down ? his friendly ri-
val, oif it ean possibly be, done. ?
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the pant of a final breath of
accom the task, losing

DETROIT "Harry C, Hackett,
law clerk for U.S. Judge Frank
A. Picard, has just been ap-
pointed Federal bankruptcy ref-
eree, in Michigan, the first col-
ored lawyer to be given this
position, He Ts a native of Bir-

mingham and a graduate of they

The Week's Report Of Progress

boards of Newport News and
Norfolk, Tuesday, were given
until August 15 to integrate
classes under their jurisdic.
tion, The order was given
U.S, Judge Walter E. Hi
man. He told board

need not fear action by

state authorities, as he would

stand behind them.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. " The
University of Michigan has been
asked to cancel its foot
game echeduled for next fall
with the University of Georgia.

Wayne University, law school.

NEW YORK "The Federal
Government no longer will
grant mortgage insurance to
builders who violate the pro-
visions of New York's Met-
calfe - Baker law prohibiting
racial bias in housing, That
was the pledge. FHA Commis-
sioner Norman P. Mason gave
Frye Abrams, chairmen of

State Commission Against
Discrimination, Friday.
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RICHMOND, Va. "Colston A.
Lewis, Richmond attorney, an-
nounced plans last week to seek
a seat in the Virginia House of
Delegates, subject to the July
7 Democratic primary.

NORFOLK, Ve. " School

THE TRAINERS came within| Y

only Joe Pulliem

gnatched the game out of the
fire with a: tie-breaking field
goal in the last two seconds
play.

. oCoaching had nothing to do
with this one, ? Cain confes-
sed,,"At'least not from a Dun-
bar standpoint.

o1 thought it was all ever,
and had begun consoling my:
aelf with the thought thet we

have two more games in which,
clinch if. T

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NAACP gets $35,000

A judgment of $35,000 from a
trust fund left: by the late T
Charles E. Russell was awarded
the NAACP in a court order
granded by District Judge
James McGuire, this week,

The remaining $35,000 in the
$70,000 fund was awarded to a
granddaughter, Mrs. Louise
Gibrede of San Francisco, Calif;

The grants, were in accord:
ance to terms of a will made
by Mr. Russéll on April 27,
1938, Mr. Russell was a writer

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and one of the founders of the
NAACP, eee

UNDER THE terms of the
19-year-old will, the NAACP
was to get one half of Mr. Rus-
sell's estate following the death
of his widow and son,

The Gilera Sas o.oo
Mrs. Gibrede. A petition:for a
declaratory judgment was filed

the Munsey Trust Company
Francis Poulhous, atto gre
Tanc », attorney, rep-
resented the NAACP.

By 8. M, PHILLIPS

In a beautiful display of peace
and harmony, local Shriners
conferred their highest honor on
load one y: ~ pg a
8 grand master lary.
land Masons, here on Sunday,

At the formal session held in
the. Magonic Temple, nobles
donned their orange and Yed
fezzes and full dress to watch
as. Dr. Allen received the past
imperial potentate degree, for
his 34 years of nlghtened
service to Masonry which mark

ohim as the dean of grand may.

ters,

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home like that of the Rev. Mr. King has
bombed, remarked that the group was not
othreaten the President ? with the telegram.

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action, we shall have no moral choice but to lead a pil

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Roadblocks to Revival "

Greetings in the Matchless name
Of Jesus Christ:

shi For many years now, | have
- believed God for a mighty. move
of His Spirit that will bring great
revival to the church and a
glorious harvest of souls The
church that will experience this
_ Visitation of God will not he an
organization or institution but a
living organism, the body of
Christ
As | have waited expectantly for
this revival, the Holy Spirit has
impressed upon me that the
church must first be delivered
from five areas of wrong thinking
that hinder

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Been ye

oBut when it becomes obsesses

t streams of truth from
owing into it, Elitism, legalism,

| and judgmental attitudes are al-
most always the result.

A denomination serves a purpose

~ similar to the scaffolding used to

build a structure.

Scaffolding is not intended to
obscure the building permanently
After serving its purpose, the
scaffolding is dismantled so the
real building can be seen.

Constructed of human ideologies
and dogmas, -denominationalism
is a man-made structure that
obscures the true church Christ is
building. For the life of Christ to
be seen: in the church, The
scaffolding of denominationalism
must be removed.

2. Human traditions. Tradition is
an established pattern or thought
or behavior handed down by word
or example from one generation
to another.The Pharisees once

asked Jesus, Why do Your disci-

ples transgress the tradition of the
elders? For they do not wash their
hands when they eat? (Mitt. 15;2,
NKJV).

Jesus condemned their hypocrisy,

_ and He accused them of "making

from one generation to another.
Such traditional misconceptions

hinder the Holy Spirit from re-
i with self-preservation, it becomes "
|} a darn that dangerously limits

vealing rigid truth to us.
The contemporary church must

return to the Word of God and.
allow the Spirit of Truth to teach

us.

The apostle Paul declared he was
"exceedingly zealous for the watt
tions" of his fathers until -
pleased God. to reveal His Son i in
me" (Gal. 1:14-16) Like Paul we
will be delivered from devotion to
religious traditions only as the
Holy Spirit reveals Christ in us.

3. Prejudice. Those unreasonable
biases, judgments and opinions
that breed suspicion, intolerance
and hatred have no place in
Christ's church. Paul declared that
after faith has come our prejudi-
cial distinctions do not exist in
Christ (Gal. 3325-28). He admon-
ished Timothy to obey his instruc-
tions "without prejudice, doing
nothing with partiality" (1 Tim.
5:21).
prejudice against people of an-

other race, gender, sect, class or

status will keep us from receiving
God's truth. Christ's true church
will be free from the destructive
power

4.Culture. Perhaps nothing is
more basic to our natural thinking
than our culture those concepts

Progressive Freewill Baptist Church
Bishop T.L. Davis is shown with church members as they gathered for opening service at their new Shown posing for the "M' Voice camera is Brother Donald Gorham with his two brothers, his

churc

on Hooker Rd. Bishop T.L. Davis invites everyone to stop by for Sunday service.

Perils 5 from our bondage to
culture so Christ in us can move

in and through any culture. He

brings a new and higher way of.
life that transcends the boundaries |

of culture..
5.Customs. A custom is any
long-established uniform practice

» instituted by common consent of

a society. Such customs, which

take on the force of unwritten law, .

are enforced by social disapproval
of any violation. Christ has freed.
us from the tyranny of any human
standard of righteousness im-
posed by society and has put His
standard of righteousness within
us by the Holy Spirit, who writes
His laws upon our hearts. Paul
denounced some Jewish
Christians who attempted to add
their customs as requirements. for
salvation. To do so, he said, meant
the vicarious sacrifice of Christ
was not quite enough to effect
salvation (see Gal 2 21) Wherever
the church has. included demands
of customs as criteria for salva-
tion, it must repent and return to
complete faith in the work of
Calvary.

The contemporary church must
allow the Holy Spirit to speak
God's truth to us, convicting our
hearts and cleansing us of our
wrong thinking. Only then will we
be prepared for the great revival
that is coming.

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; Culinary Cusine

Sometimes the place we least.

likely think of as an eating

establishment is right under -

our noses. Who would think a
grocery store as a great place
for good food already pre-
pared. Yes my friends on
Jarvis Street there is a place
called City Market that has
great food. A hot bar and for
all you diet conscious, fitness
fanatics a salad bar with an
array of foods that big expen-
sive T (Perkins) resteraunts
should take note of . The self
service bars are excellent.
Stuffed peppers, BBQ
chicken, BBQ pork, macaroni

T

eggs, beets and fruit bar. My

ae gosh! I could go on and on but"
you the reader would have to
be the judge.

For once, I ask the reader s

try this place, You may call
me after getting the number

from the editor, if you don Tt
agree that the food is great.
There are many ways I could
try to explain why this place
is excellent but I Tm going to
let you decide on this one.
You see, I know my rating but
I want you to decide for
yourself. In the next few
weeks after. the calls I will
tally up and give my rating
plus the reader Ts rating. So |
ask you to please go to City
Market located on Jarvis
Street. Fill up your plate and
afterwards call me. This time,
let Ts compare notes.

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Gorham's Beauty Salon!

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We Salute Dr, Martin Luther King Jr,

"| Have A Dream"

August

These famous words of
Dr. Martin Luther King
are remembered today.

He was a leader who
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His dream created a
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a imposible, Pecogrizing these
ccorpention an cfalengee cether shan os chetacien we ull wae
progress if we accept the fact that four hundred years of
| cannot be canceled: out in four minutes of atonement. Neither can we
4°) allow the guilty to tailor their atonement in such a manner as to visit

o7 another four seconds of deliberate hurt upon the victis.

WHY WE CAN'T WAIT

by Martin Luther King Jr.

pg. 142

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Ithough this parable is
Acne with the power
; of persistent prayer, it may

oalso serve as a basis for our
thought concerning many
sgontemporary problems and the
Hole of the church in grappling
i with them. It is midnight in the
oparable; it is also midnight in our
world, and the darkness is so deep
that we can hardly see which way
to turn.
It is midnight within the social
order. On the international
horizon nations are engaged in a
ocolossal and bitter contest for
osupremacy. Two world wars have
obeen fought within a generation,
and the clouds of another war are
_ dangerously low. Man now has
atomic and nuclear weapons that
could within seconds completely
destroy the major cities of the
world. Yet the arms race
continues and nuclear tests still
explode in the atmosphere, with
the grim prospect that the very air
we breathe will be poisoned by
radioactive fallout. Will these
circumstances and weapons bring
the annihilation of the human
race?

When confronted by midnight in
the social order we have in the
past turned to science for help.
And little wonder! On so many
occasions science has saved us.
When we were in the midnight of
physical limitation and material

,- Inconvenience, science lifted us to

the bright morning of physical and
material comfort. When we were
in the midnight of crippling
ignorance and superstition,
science brought us to the
daybreak of the free and open
mind. When we. were in the

_ midnight of dread plagues and

diseases, science, through surgery,
sanitation, and the wonder drugs,
ushered in the bright day of

physical health, thereby
prolonging our lives and making
for greater security and physical
well-being. How naturally we turn

to science in a day when the
, problems of the world are so

ghastly and ominous.

But alas! science cannot now
rescue us, for even the scientist is
lost in the terrible midnight of our
age. Indeed, science gave us the
very instruments that threaten to
bring universal suicide. So
modern man faces a dreary and
frightening midnight in the social
order.

- This midnight in man Ts external
collective is paralleled by
midnight in his internal individual
life, It is midnight within the
psychological order. Every where
paralyzing fears harrow people by
day and haunt them by night.

Deep clouds of anxiety and

ession are suspended in our
tal skies, More people are
ally disturbed today than
y other time of human

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history. The psychopathic wards
of our hospitals are crowded, and
the most popular psychologists
today are the psychoanalysts.
Bestsellers in psychology are
books such as Man Against
Himself, The Neurotic Personality
of Our Times, and Modern Man in "
Search of a Soul. Bestsellers in
religion are such books as Peace
of Mind and Peace of Soul. The
popular clergyman preaches
soothing sermons on "How to Be
Happy" and "How to Relax."
Some have been tempted to revise
Jesus T? command to read, "Go ye
into all the world, keep your blood
pressure down, and, lo, | will
make you a_ well-adjusted

_ personality." All of this is

indicative that it is midnight
within the inner lives of men and
women It is also midnight within

This midnight in man Ts external
collective is paralleled by
midnight in his internal individual
life. It is midnight within the
psychological order. Every where
paralyzing fears harrow people by
day and haunt them by night.
Deep clouds of anxiety and
depression are suspended in our
mental skies. More people are
emotionally disturbed today than
at any other time of human
history. The psychopathic wards
of our hospitals are crowded, and
the most popular psychologists
today are the psychoanalysts.
Bestsellers in psychology are
books such as Man Against
Himself. The Neurotic Personality
of Our Times, and Modern Man in
Search of a Soul. Bestsellers in
religion are such books as Peace
of Mind and Peace of Soul. The
popular clergyman preaches
soothing sermons on "How to Be
Happy" and "How to Relax."
Some have been tempted to revise
Jesus T T command to read, "Go ye
into all the world, keep your blood
pressure down, and, lo, | will
make you a_ well-adjusted
personality." All of this is
indicative that it is midnight
within the inner lives of men and
women It is also midnight within
the moral order. At midnight
colours lose their distinctiveness
and become a sullen shade of
grey. Moral principles have lost
their distinctiveness. For modern
man, absolute right and wrong are
a matter of what the majority is
doing. Right and wrong are
relative to likes and dislikes and
the customs of a_ particular
community, We have
unconsciously applied Einstein T Ts
theory of relativity, which
properly described the physical
universe, to the moral and ethical
realm,

When confronted by midnight
in the social order we have in the

_ past turned to science for help.

And little wonder! On so many "
occasions science has saved us.
When we were in the midnight

of physical limitation and
material inconvenience, science
lifted us to the bright morning of
physical and material comfort.
When we were in the midnight
of crippling ignorance and
superstition, science brought us
to the daybreak of the free and
open mind. When we were in the
midnight of dread plagues and
diseases, science, through
surgery, sanitation, and the
wonder drugs, ushered in the
bright day of physical health,
thereby prolonging our lives and
making for greater security and
physical well-being. How
naturally we turn to science ina
day when the problems of the
world are so ghastly and
ominous.

"Quote from Rev Farney Moore: Martin Luther King Memorial Service Jan. 15 , 1988

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Georgia - In the challenging, beautiful, teeming city of Alanta who came forth to lead a march. The
event was a Symbol of Protest to the moral conscience of America. That Jobs, Justice and Freedom, "
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dred and fifty thousand faithful devotees who yet held faith in the American Dream! They assembled
peacefully together beneath the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. To say. to the Masters in Government
that the time for proper StU iLcIL "is NOW oe

Happy Bir

But alas! science cannot now
rescue us. for even the scientist
is lost in the terrible midnight of
our age. Indeed, science gave us
the very instruments that threaten
to bring universal suicide. So
modern man faces a dreary and
frightening midnight in the
social order.

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MINISTRY
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Carolina's first black school of
higher "_ education. Shaw
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ted to training North Carolina's
African-American Baptist minis-
ters. It all began 135 years ago
when in a downtown hotel, Bible
classes were taught. The first and
only medical school in the nation
for blacks was established at
Shaw University and existed from

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wa] the late 1800s to the ny
- 1900s-the old Leonard Medical

School, as it is referred to now. It
once trained medical doctors for
the profession. My late father
attended Leonard for two years
before deciding to pursue another
profession. Shaw University is
also my boast---having spent two

summers enrolled in the school of

education to renew. a teaching
contract before expiration. So
you see, | will always be inter-
ested in reading or hearing about
Shaw's progress and expansion.
Some of my roots are there.

The religious approach at Shaw
University Divinity School today
is much more sophisticated, in
preparation for a high-tech
twenty-first century church.
Classes in religion will be offered
for the Internet and in the near
future, a doctorate in ministry will

be offered---a doctorate which

will be earned through study of all

aspects of ministry and its accom- .

panying counterparts (courses)
and not the "doctorate" conferred
through years of service which is
SO common irrespective of formal
training or in some cases where
"degrees" are bought through the
mail for a fee with no course
required. People are becoming
more enlightened and ministries

are evolving more. Changes in
culture and in society, particularly

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need to. change ministry. tactics
and ministry strategies. With the
broadening of Shaw's School of
Divinity, these new facie of
ministry will help.

Today, approximately 133. stu-
dents at Shaw are enrolled in the
master of divinity degree pro-
gram, They welcome the changes
and realize that theological educa-
tion is evolving. . One student
remarked, oBaptist churches are
changing. They are looking for
more ministers who are scholars
of the Bible and have an under-
standing of the church administra-
tion." As a tradition, churches
chosen as pastors men they felt
were gifted by God and not
necessarily formally trained.
Churches want more today. The
day of the circuit rider is long
past.

Shaw's Divinity School is now

Catering to students who want a

divinity degree but not the title of
a pastor. Some want to go on to
law school and work in the area
of church law, Christian education
or as chaplains. Plans are also to
offer degrees in Christian educa-
tion and theological studies for
those who want to work on social
issues or in faith-based commu-
nity programming.

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Today, there. are ten accredited

divinity schools with a primarily

African-American student body.
Besides Shaw, they include Hood
Theological Seminary in
Salisbury. For many pastors who
will spend their careers in black
churches, attending a black. divin-
ity school is important. Shaw is
an arm of the general ist State
Convention and unlike " the
Southern. Baptist Convention,
does approve of women in church
leadership positions. Forty-five

percent of its divinity body stu-.

dents today are women. You
probably read recently that our

former president, Jimmy Carter,

withdrew from the Southern
Baptist Convention because of its
dogmas and rigid creeds.

Shaw University Divinity School
is housed in the Leonard Hall

building where African

Americans were taught how to

bring healing to their communities
by training doctors. Today in the
same building it is teaching
African-Americans to bring heal-
ing both physically and spiritually.

Note: Some information and sta-
tistics herein have been excerpted
from December 14th issue of
News and Observer and other
sources of North Carolina facts.

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C1 ince early summer, Greenville Utilities has seen a steady increase in our market cost of natural gas. Now thatthe heating season is upon us, our

Me antital ges customers are beginning to feel the full impact of these increases. Unfortunately, the current cold temperatures and predictions of a colder-

th A than-normal winter ahead indicate that immediate relief is nowhere in sight.

This situation is not unique to Pitt County; the rising cost of all heating fuels is a nationwide problem. Low inventories at a time of high demand have

created the higher prices. Although we expect it to be a temporary
be impacted throughout this heating season.

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What are the reasons for the ingrease in natural gas
costs? . |

The increases are due primarily to high demand, low supply, a lag in
production and the rising cost of other fuel commodities.

High Demand - The economy is booming and Americans are consuming .
about 1.5 billion cubic feet more natural gas a day than last year. This new
demand is mostly the result of an increase in gas-fired electrical generation.
In comparison with other energy sources, natural gas is cost-effective and
environmentally friendly. As a result, more new power plants are using
natural gas to generate electricity, thus demand for natural gas has in-
creased.

Low Supply - At the same time there is high demand for natural gas,
inventories are low. While there is an abundant supply of natural gas in the
U.S., it must be drilled by producers and stored underground. Currently,
underground storage levels are the lowest they have been in the past five
years. Natural gas inventories are low for several reasons, primarily the
increased use of natural gas in electrical generation and a lag in production.

The increased use of natural gas for electrical generation has changed the
seasonal pattern of demand. Traditionally there is high demand for natural
gas during the winter heating season, then a drop off during the summer
cooling season. Summer has usually been a time to produce and store
natural gas to build up inventories for winter. But this year we saw an
unusually high demand in the summer because people were running their air
conditioners on electricity fueled by natural gas. As a result, natural gas
was being consumed instead of stored during the summer. And, because of
this change in summer usage, natural gas reserves ran low and market
prices rose accordingly.

Lag in Production - Complicating the supply-and-demand picture is the
fact that (prior to this year) natural gas prices have been low and tempera-
tures have been milder than normal for the last three winters. Lower prices
meant producers weren Tt willing to provide the investment capital to search
for new gas. In fact, many producers halted drilling and laid off thousands
of workers. All that has changed now, and the number of rigs drilling for
natural gas has more than doubled from last spring. While domestic gas
production has increased, it will take between 12-18 months for the natural
gas to make it to the market place. The impact of new production will not
be seen, in terms of price reduction, until after this winter season at the
earliest.

Other Fuel Commodities - The cost of other fuel commodities such as
crude oil, gasoline, propane and home heating oil is much higher than
normal. When those fuel prices go up, natural gas prices follow the trend
and increase. _

Where does Greenville Utilities get its supply of natural
gas and is it adequate for this winter?

We fully expect to have an adequate supply of natural gas this winter. GUC
has a firm supply contract with North Carolina Natural Gas (NCNG) which
will allow us to meet our customers T needs. We also purchase gas (when
available) on the spot market. In addition, GUC has a liquefied natural gas
storage facility that is used during peak demand and as a secondary supply
to our firm supplies contract.

With natural gas prices increasing, how does the cost of
natural gas compare with the cost of electricity and other
fuels?

Because of current market conditions our residential gas customers are
now paying an average $1.33 per hundred cubic feet (Ccf). Last year at
this time they were paying an average of 89 cents for the same amount of
gas (49% less). .

Here is a comparison of home heating costs with natural gas and other fuels

in Our service area today:

(Per million BTUs)
* Natural Gas - $15.96 (based on 80% efficiency at $1.33/Ccf)

* Propane - $27.73 (based on 80% efficiency at $2.12/gal.)
* Electric Resistance Heat (furnace, baseboard) -$24.32
(based on 8.3 cents/kWh) |

* o Electric Heat Pump - $9.85

Here is some background information and answers to the most-often-asked questions:

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problem that should be resolved by increased production, our natural gas customers will

How much could my bill be impacted by the increase in
natural gas costs?

It all depends on the market price of gas and the weather. High market
prices and colder temperatures will result in substantially higher utility
bills. As temperatures dip, natural gas usage for heating will go up and
bills will be higher. A mild winter could minimize the impact of high
market prices, but predictions are that we Tre in for a colder-than-normal
winter.

Based on current market predictions, we are expecting our residential
natural gas rates to increase between 40-60 % above last year Ts rates for
the heating season. This percentage could move up or down depending
upon the open market. How much natural gas customers use will depend
on the weather and how diligent they are in making their homes and
lifestyles more energy efficient.

Our natural gas customers are billed in units of Ccf or hundred cubic feet
(equal tol therm). For a comparison, if your monthly gas costs were $75
last January, and your usage remained the same, your bill would be $112
this January (49% higher). However, the price of natural gas is fluctuating
wildly because market forces are attempting to balance supply and de-
mand. That percentage can change daily!

Does Greenville Utilities benefit from the higher cost of
natural gas?

No. We change our pricing only as much as needed to recover the in-
creased cost from our supplier, and no more.

What has Greenville Utilities done to inform and help its
customers about the increased costs of natural gas?

We have attempted to give our customers ample warning beginning in late
August with a bill stuffer, advertisements, news releases to the local media
and information on our website (www.guc.com).

We have made our local leaders aware of the change in the marketplace
and the effect it will have on low-income families in our area.

Through our American Public Gas Association, we have also asked that
Congress give consideration to providing additional funds for the Low-
income Home Energy Assistance Program and any other assistance that
may be available. _

What can customers do to reduce the impact of higher
heating bills this winter?

Budget and plan now for higher heating costs to continue at least through
March 2001.

A heating system uses 60% of a home Ts energy. Keep furnace filters clean,
and make sure your heating system is operating efficiently.

Set the thermostat at 68 degrees (or lower) during the winter months. For
every degree below 68, you save around 5% per degree. If you Tre gone
for several hours or more, set the thermostat at 55 degrees, or even cut it
off (unless pipes are in danger of freezing). ,

Make sure your home is well insulated.
Weather strip and caulk windows and doors to seal small cracks.

Insulate your gas water heater and set the temperature as reasonably low
as possible. We recommend setting water heaters at 120 degrees.

Call GUC T Energy Services Office at 551-1525 for specific tips on

lowering your energy bill.