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VILL
JOYN
GREEN
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1981
WEEK OF MAY 6 - 17, 1996
CANDIDATE ASKS FOR SUPPORT. . . Valeria Lee (center) asks for your continued
support as she requests a run-off election in her bid for North Carolina Secretary of State.
Shown here with Ms. Lee are: (L-R) Janet Bullock, Bobby Hardy, Pastor Sidney Locks, and
Ms. Lee's sister.
Staff photo by Jim Rouse
Valeria Lynch Lee requested a
second primary in her race to be-
come North Carolina Ts Secretary
of State. No one candidate received
a substantial plurality in the May
7th primary, and in accordance
with the state Ts election laws and
ag the candidate winning the sec-
ond-highest number of votes, Ms.
Lee requested that North Carolin-
ians be allowed to vote again in
June.
oI have a responsibility to the
people of North Carolina to let
them make the choice who they
want as their Democratic candi-
B'/MOEe
Excitement and momentum
have developed in North Carolina
for the Black Family Empower-
ment Agency Convention which
will be held on June 1, 1996 at
North Carolina Central Univer-
sity in Durham. Local community
groups are presently organizing
representatives from each county
in the state to attend the conven-
tion and over 100 are already work-
ing with eight separate issue
date in November. The person who
received the highest number in
votes only got 26 or 27 percent of
the vote "only one in four. That
means that for every four people
voting, three of them voted for
someone else for Secretary of State.
oI believe it will strengthen the
process for the voters to have a
clearer choice. The Secretary of
State is an important office to the
state and its people, � Ms. Lee con-
tinued. oI Tm running for it because
I believe I have the vision, the
experience, and the qualifications
to do the best job.
|
builds for BEE:
Groups to develop tentative agenda
proposals that will be reviewed
and voted upon during the conven-
tion.
The Convention recently re-
ceived a tremendous boost when
the North Carolina State Branch
of the NAACP, the United Church
of Christ Commission for Racial
justice, and the North Carolina
Central University Institute: for
the Study of Minority Issues joined
&
oI believe that when people have
the opportunity to look carefully
atjust two candidates, rather than
six, they will vote for me. �
State election law defines a sub-
stantial plurality as more than 40
percent of the votes cast. At ap-
proximately 26 percent, the top
vote-getter in the Sectretary of
State Ts race received substantially
less than the number required for
victory. Ms. Lee received 21 per-
cent of the votes cast. The second
primary is already scheduled for
Tuesday, June 4.
, anwar 4°...
, Convention
the coalition of sponsoring organi-
zations. In addition to their spon-
sorships, the three organizations
have pledged to mount an aggres-
sive campaign to mobilize their
local chapters, congregations and
individual members to become ac-
tive participants in convention
activities. oThe increase in organi-
zational support for the conven-
tion enhances the broad-based
(Continued on page 4)
Opinions
Let Ts Bring Our
Economic Cycle
, Ne
Full Circle
The black dollar. A consumer
nation worth $450 billion to wait-
ing beneficiaries, who in most
cases, have to do nothing more
than sit and wait for it to knock on
the doors of the producers of prod-
ucts and services sold to our com-
munities. To the tune of 95 per-
cent, and in some cases (like bank-
ing relationships-98 percent),
those that position themselves for
black dollars are not willing to
tedirect the dollars back into our
community.
Direct spending campaigns to
educate the black consumer, be
they oDon Tt Spend Where YouCan Tt
Work, � oBuy Black, � oBuy Free-
dom, � oBuy Liberty, � oRecycling
Black Dollars, � have always been
perceived as being discriminat-
ingly hostile to integration efforts.
Blacks legitimate efforts to develop
an economicinfrastructure has al-
ways been undermined by having
to announce what we do, when
others do it naturally.
- One of the biggest carryovers of
the Million Man March has been
our people's efforts to take respon-
sibility for the condition of their
communities, including the ostate
of it¥ economics. �
By taking control of the things
we can control, a renewed spirit of
awareness has come about with
respect to how we use our money.
Los Angeles-based Recycling Black
Dollars, under its president,
Muhammad Nasserdeen, initiated
oChange Bank Day � that pulled
down $7 million from other banks
into black-owned financial insti-
tutions.
While the money is only a mere
pittance of what blacks in Loss
Angeles really deposit in banks,
an estimated 17 billion in white-
owned banks (according to reports
released four years ago), it was a
brilliant stoke to direct our con-
sumer habits and start the cycle of
building an economic infrastruc-
ture in black communities. New
York and several other cities have
followed Los Angeles T lead (for a
change) in making a concerted ef-
fort to redirect black dollars,
The economic spending power of
the black consumer, until ten years
ago, was the biggest story never
told. The biggest secret still not
told is about the economic lever-
age our actual dollars create for
those who receive our actual spend-
ing and saving dollars. Other cul-
tures not only spend their actual
dollars with their own interest in
the 90th percentile (which is what
the affirmative action discussion
exposes), they leverage their ac-
tual dollars ists from seven
to twenty times.
You think they pay cash for all
these skyscrapers, multibillion
dollar corporate acquisitions and
wealth creation opportunities (in-
vestmerits)? Please! It Ts all about
the float. A float that is leveraged
(whether the money is real or not).
When it Ts not, it Ts called a deficit.
Be it a trade deficit, a budget defi-
cit or junk bonds, no matter how
big, the cycle doesn Tt stop. The
chase to catch the floating omoney
balloon � is ongoing until it pops
(they never catch it). Then they
start over.
The point of this little lecture is
to demonstrate that our promo-
tion of Recycling Black Dollarsis a
simplistic analogy if we don Tt com-
plete the cycle. Directed spending
campaigns are just the first step
and all other components of the
cycle must serve their purpose.
Now, I said all that to get the
real point of this commentary.
Actess Marla Gibbs made a his-
torical investment in the Los An-
geles black community several
years ago, that has become the
hub of the L.A. black community Ts
cultural renaissance. The Leimert
Park Community is a otwenty fo T-
seven � college of artistic expres-
sions, entrepreneurial shops and
cultural artifacts unlike anything
I've seen anywhere in this coun-
try. Totally community driven.
(Continued on page 5)
Movies on the lawn back
for seventh season
One of North Carolina Ts most
enjoyable film festivals returns for
its seventh season beginning this
weekend at the North Carolina
Museum of Art. Movies on the
Lawn, which starts: May 3 and
runs through September 28, fea-
tures films from Down Under dur-
ing the month of May followed by
movie classics from the sixties in
June. Folks are invited to bring a
blanket or chair and enjoy the
warm weather and featured movie
shown on a supersized screen at-
tached to the Museum Ts exterior
wall. Movies are shown on Fridays
and Saturdays at 9 p.m. as well as
indoors on Fridays at 7 p.m. (see
listings below). Ticket prices for
each series or individual movie
are:
* Series tickets $10 for non-mem-
bers/$9 for Museum members
* Single tickets at the gate $3 for
non-members/$2.50 for Museum
members
* Single tickets for ages 5-11/$2
Please review suggested ratings,
as parental discretion is required.
In addition, on Friday, May 31,
and Friday, June 21, WTRG-FM
(100.7) and the Museum will co-
host oGood Times-Great Oldies �
evenings of live performances and
radio shows on the grounds of the
Museum Park Theater. The events
featuring beach music will be held
from 5 p.m.-8 p.m., and prices in-
PASTOR JAMES CORBETT of Community Christian Church (top) and local area ministers
and church supporters (below) gathered recently to join forces and journey to Washington,
clude admission to the featured
movie. Tickets for WIRG-FM Ts
oGood Times-Great Oldies � are:
* $5 for concert and featured
film
* $2 for film series ticket holders
For the month of May, Austra-
lian Cinema II: Hot Films Snowed
Out is a series of previously sched-
uled moviesin January which were
canceled due toinclement weather.
These movies contain adult
themes, and parental discretion is
required. Features include:
May 17 & 18 - oStrictly Ball-
room � - Sensational dance scenes,
youthful rebellion and a quirky
sense of humor make this movie a
crowd-pleaser. Winner of the Prix
de Jeunesse at Cannes. Rated PG
(94 minutes)
May 24 & 25 - oMuriel Ts Wed-
ding � - Muriel Ts plumpness com-
plicates her desire for popularity
and the perfect wedding as she
searches for her place in life. Rated
R (105 minutes)
For the month of June, The Cel-
luloid Sixties series takes the
viewer back three decades for a
lcok at love, fear and the future.
Suggested ratings for these films
would be PG or PG-13. Films in-
clude:
May 31 & June 1- oWest Side
Story � - This Romeo and Juliet
story set in the streets of New
York won Best Picture of 1 96 1.
D.C. for the 1996 Down Fast Rally for Jesus.
~Moesha Ttrashes Million Man March
Perhaps the producers of
oMoesha � need to see oHoop
Dreams. � Perhaps then they would
have understood the desperate
need Black men have for effective
leadership. The need to feel they
are not the only ones feeling what
they are feeling. The need to bond
more deeply as men, and the need
to be called to task by people who
care about them.
While on the southbound 104
bus, the bus driver echoing the
babble of white folks and perhaps
thinking to please me, began to
complain about the Million Man
ae when I inquired as to
whether he was able to make it.
He said, oNaw, I didn Tt have time.
But just imagine they didn Tt allow
women. I think that Ts terrible. �
There were women there, but
the idea was a gathering of men,
Black men! The idea was that
Black men should stand up for
themselves. They didn Tt go there
begging. It was a statement. (So
strong, in fact, that now white
males, via the group The Promise
Keepers, are planning a million
white man march this summer.)
Acknowledgement
The Million Man March was an
acknowledgement y Black men
With Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno
and George Chakiris. Music and
songs by Leonard Bernstein and
Stephen Sondheim. Choreography
by Jerome Robbins. 1961 (152 min-
utes)
June 7 & 8 - oPsycho � - This
movie is the most intense of
Hitchcock Ts thrillers, andsome say
the best horror film ever made.
With Anthony Perkins, Janet
Leigh and the Bates Motel. 1960
(109 minutes)
June 14 & 15 - o2001: A Space
Odyssey � - A quest to discover the
ultimate meaning of the universe,
2001 can be taken as space fiction,
as an epic of humanity versus
machines or as metaphysical
speculation. Directed by Stanley
Kubrick. 1968 (139 minutes)
June 21 only - oBreakfast at
Tiffany Ts � - Audrey Hepburn plays
the free spirit in New York as
created by Truman Capote. Henry
Mancini Ts song oMoon River � won
an Oscar. 1961 (115 minutes)
June 28 (9 p.m. only) & 29 - oDr.
Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb �
- Stanley Kubick Ts dark comedy
takes a laughing look at the threat
of nuclear destruction in the 60s.
With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott,
Sterling Hayden and Slim Pickens.
1964 (93 minutes)
Staff photo by Jim Rouse
that they have to do better as a
group for their communities.
Women have been carrying the
load, and we cannot carry it alone
onacommunity level much longer,
I told the bus driver to look at it
this way: if you Tre so sick that you
need an operation, you go to the
doctor. Much as your wife and chil-
dren love you, they cannot go into
the operating room with you. They T
have to wait in the waiting room,
pray for you, be there for you and:
let the doctor operate on the cause
of the problem :
The change in the Black com-
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BIBLE BE TS
MEDICINE
CHEST
1. Matthew 5:48, Hebrew 12
2. 1 Peter 1:15, 16, James 3
3. James 5:7 Job 15
4. Job 22:21 Psalm 128
5. Matthew 14:27, Psalm 37
6. 2 Peter 3-14, Psalm 27
7. 1 Peter 5-5
8. 1 Peter 5:8
9. Ephesians 4:32
10. Joshua 1:6
CHOICE
SCRIPTURES
1. Don Tt let the sun go down with
you still angry - get over it quickly;
for when you are angry you give a
mighty foothold to the devil. Eph,
4:27
2. Stop being mean, bad-tem-
pered and angry. Quarreling,
harsh words, and dislike of others
should have no place in your lives.
Eph. 4:31
3. Don Tt worry about anything;
indeed, pray about everything; tell
God your needs and don t forget to
thank him for his answers.
Philippians 4:6
4. Keep away from every kind of
| evil. 1 Thessolonians 5:22
_ 6. Do you want to be truly rich?
You already are if you are happy
and good. After all, we didn Tt bring
any money with us when we came
into the word, and we can Tt carry
away a single penny when we die.
1 Tomothy 6:6
6. A person who is pure of heart
sees goodness and purity in every-
thing; but a person whose own
heart is evil and untrusting finds
evil in everything, for his dirty
mind and rebellious heart color all
he sees and hears. Titus 1:15
7. Drink from your own well, my
son - be faithful and true to your
wife. Why should you beget chil-
dren with women in the street?
Why share your children with
those outside your home? Prov-
erbs 5:15, 16, 17
8. Don Tt talk so much. You keep
putting your foot in your mouth.
Be sensible and turn off the flow.
Proverbs 10:19
9. The lazy man is full of ex-
cuses. Proverbs 22:13
10. Wecanjustify our every deed
but God looks at our motives. Prov.
21:2
11. Lord, help me to realize how
brief my time on earth will be.
Help me to know that I am here
but a moment more. Psalm 39:4
WHAT oCLASS �
IS - AND ISN TT
"Class cannot be bought or ac-
quired. It is an inner quality found
without regard to financial status
or family background. Its essen-
tial quality isintegnity, intelligence
and lack of pretension. Education
can expand the horizon of a person
with class, but it will not give class
to someone without it. Class is a
state of grace that few people have �.
Dorothy Cullman
oClass is unostentatious qual-
ity. Itis restraint. Itis modesty, an
elegance of behavior, a willing-
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formance rather than a strident,
meretricilous ~selling T of your per-
sonal wares. Class is a quiet pur-
suit of excellence that abhors all
pretension �. William Bernbach
oIn the behavior and appear-
ance, I think ~class T is the impact
that comes with the simplicity of
understatement. That impact is
almost always accompanied by a
directness in conversation and a
willingness-to listen. I guessit boils
down to a genuine regard for other
people because you have the same
regard for yourself �. Robert
Ludlum, author
oClass is a spontaneous expres-
sion of a person Ts character. Such
a person is totally unconcerned
with making an impression upon
others. It derives from utter per-
sonal security...A person may be
said to have ~class T who is never in
doubt as to the ~right T thing to do
and does it instinctly. Approval is
immaterial - the person knows that
whatever she is doing is ~night T
because it meets her own stan-
dards �. Herbert Salzman
oClass is what you ain Tt got if
everybody knows it except you �.
Fifi Starr, screewriter
oClass is when you're not con-
cerned about it o. Gay Talese, au-
thor
oFew of the people I meet have it.
Many are stylish; many, success-
ful; some, even unique. But few ,
have that special combination of
qualities: A sense of self with ego-
tism, a sense of worth without
wealth; and a sense of style
achieved with ease rather than by
artifice �. Judy Price, president and
publisher, Avenue Magazine
oA person with class possesses a
deep unpretentious nobility �.
William F. Maye dean, Gradu-
ate School of Business, New York
University
oClass is the art of being true to
oneself under all circumstances
and with all people. Being grace-
fully unintimidate-able is the
height of class �. Vada Stanley,
marketing executive
oClass, to me, comes from the
inside - from the spirit, i.e., gener-
osity of spirit - sense of loyalty -
the ability to please, to love, to
give.Class cannot be bought - can-
not be worn �.
Kenneth Lane, jewelry designer
What is ~class T to You? Do you
really have it?
EDGECOMBE COUNTY'S 10 MOST
WANTED
DEADBEAT PARENTS
JASON ASHLEY
KEEN
CARL LEE
JOHNSON
Past Due Support As Of
03-29-96: $2,067.00
Past Due Support As Of
(02-02-96: $16,838.20
These ten parents are being sought by the Edgecombe County Department of
Social Service's Child Support Enforcement Unit for not paying their child
support. If you have any information about any of these parents, please call
(919) 641-7950 or (919) 985-5030.
MICHAEL
JONES
Past Due Support As Of
03-06-96: $11,048.38
Age: 25 Age: 38 Age: 31 Age: 29 :
Hair: Brown Hair: Black Hair: Black Hair Blonde age
Eyes: Brown Eyes: Dark Brown Eyes: Brown Eyes: Blue Eyes: Light Brown
Height: 6 Height: $'10" Height: 6' Height: 4'11" Height: §°7"
Weight: 160 Ibs. Weight: 140 Ibs. Weight: 175 Ibs. Weight: 110 Ibs, Weig hi: 180 Ibs.
Last Known Whereabouts: Last Known Whereabouts: Last Known Whereabouts: Last Known Whereabouts: Last Known Whereabouts:
Rocky Mount, NC Tarboro, NC Durham, NC Castalia, NC Rocky Mount, NC ,
Occupation: Construction Occupation: Factory Work Occupation: Delivery Occupation: Exotic Dancer 7 .
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DONALD MICHAEL ANGELO JOHNNY LYNN RICKY LEONARD PAUL ANTHONY
BRYANT REOMAN DILDY COLLINS THORNE
Past Due S As Of Past D
02-29-96: $14794.99 02-29-96: $17.952.00 O3-D6 96 SOSBT AD ot atiglgue eSupport As Of 03.0696" 1899000
Age: 33 Age 32 139 : :
Hair: Black Hair: Black fiir: Black/Gray Air: Block Her: Browedeh/Bleck
Hae Haga 5 Hagh Se hae Si rene
Weight: 140 tbs, Weight: 160 Ibs. Hei : 170 Ihe. He ae a8
Last Known Whereabouts Lot kanes Whereabouts: La kaon Whereabouts: hye ato Wheresbous: bee hoom Wheresbouts
Rocky Mount, NC Waterbury, Connecticut. Fayetteville, NC Salem, NC Battleboro, NC ,
: Laborer Occupation; Farm Laborer Occupation: Factory Industry Occupation: Construction Occupation: Retail Sales
EDGECOMBE COUNTY WORKS
FOR CHILDREN
PAULA ROGERS
GREGG
Past Due Support As Of
02-29-96: $10,401.76
5
ELLIOT DUBOSE
FORTE
Past Due Support As Of
03-01-96: $9,319.56
Occupation: Laborer
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Community Financial Investment Groups
Corporation Announces Launching of
oQPERATION: Stop The Leaks �
Community Financial Invest-
ment Groups, Inc. announced the
official kick-offofits OPERATION:
Stop The Leaks designed to direct
more of African Americans money
towards quality Black-owned Busi-
nesses.
The OPERATION: STOP THE
LEAKS is a 5-phase comprehen-
sive collective economics system in
which all African Americans, con-
sumers and business owners alike,
can and should participate. This
program will not only start captur-
ing and holding Black Dollars se-
curely, but efficiently measure and
track its own effectiveness and
growth.
oWe've been talking and mimick-
ing various programs & slogans all
over the nation in small groups for
a long time. Now it ~s time to get
serious, consolidate ourefforts ona
national scale, and implement an
effective ECONOMIC ACTION
PLAN! � states Annie Pierce,
C.F.1.G. Founder. oWith Afnean
American dollars only staying in
our community for a mere 8 hours
and Black Businesses only captur-
ing 2% of the Black Consumer Ts
dollar, something needs to be done
and done quickly to change those
statistics! �
The first phase of OPERATION:
STOP THE LEAKS is the Black
Business Enrichment Program,
which depends heavily on high
quality Black Businesses. These
businesses will form the founda-
tion of the system and consequently,
the C.F.].G. Corporation is seeking
the very best Black
Businessowners in all industries
and professions across we nation
toinitiate this p fefaueetan oWith these
high ¢ que ity busi Sses ar - pro-
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fessionals in place, we will be able
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ago.
HEROES OF THE GAME
O), heroes. They're not just on the
court shooting three point shots or
catching fly balls in the outlield. Theyre
in our homes,
neighborhoods. They «
and size
friends. They re
game, the game of Tile
\ part of staying in the
ing care of one Ts health
many Africun-Americans §
by the oSilent Killer � high blood pres
Sule
High blood pressure is called the
silent killer because often, you don't
know when your pressure is out ol the
ball park which can lead to a stroke
Be a winner. Strike out stroke.
SA
DEHNR
to remove all the excuses Black
consumers use to NOT SUPPORT
BLACK BUSINESSES! �
C.F.1.G. is currently looking for
potential Black Business Enrich-
ment Program Directors to help
coordinate the program in various
cities. For more information about
C.F.I.G. Membership and on how
to get invovled.as a Program Di-
rector and/or Business/Consumer
Participant, please call 1-800-898-
4696. c
Inmates make bed frames and lockers
The metal bed frames and lock-
ers going into new North Carolina
prisons are being made by inmates
at the metal fabrication plant at
Brown Creek Correctional Inst1-
tution.
oIf it Ts made out of metal, we do
it, � said Donald Bullock, the la ant Ts
manager. oWe Tve made hollow
metal doors and frames. Right now,
we're making inmate lockers, dor
mitory-style double bunks and a
two-tiered style of bed for double
celling inmates. �
Each morning at 7:25, forty in-
mates report to work. Inmates
work an assembly line that turns
out about ten lockers and ten bunks
per day. They also manufacture
cabinets, racks, metal doors and
customized products.
Anson Community College in-
structors teach classes on welding
and computer assisted drafting
(CAD) in apart of the prison metal
fabrication plant. Inmates who
complete these classes can then go
to work in the plant.
oVery few of these inmates have
experience working with sheet
metal � said Bullock. oBut with the
training and the experience they
get in the plant, we help them
develop a good work ethic and
skills to get a job. �
A skilled CAD operator in a top-
notch fabrication shop may make
an annual salary in the high twen-
ties and a skilled computerized
press brake operator can make
$14 to $15 an hour, � Bullock said
Edith Warren requests runoff
This morning, Edith Warren for
mally requested a runoff for the
Pitt County Commission seat C
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Sealed bids will be received by the Greenville Utilities Commission in the Engineering Center
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on May 31, 1996 and immediately thereafter publicly opened and read, for constructing the
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Within the City of Greenville
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marked BID FOR REPLACEMENT OF THE LOW PRESSURE CAST.IRON SYSTEM. All bids
must be made on blank forms provided and included in the bound document. The name,
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Each bid must be accompanied by cash or a certified check, drawn ona bank or trust company
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an amountat least equal to five percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid, as a guarantee that
a contract will be entered into. In lieu of cash or a certified check, the Bidder may submit a bid
bond in the form prescribed in G.S. 143-129 as amended by Chapter 1104 of the Public Laws
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Thank you...
for your support in my race to become
your Secretary of State.
But it's not over.
No one won.
No one got enough votes.
So, there's a runoff Tuesday, June 4
between the tw top vote-getters.
And |'m counting on you coming out
17, 1996 and credibility of this everyone just how important an ilyEmpowermentAgendawascon- the time was ripe to bring the "
ee appeal a ee ttotheimmne. agreed upon and representative ceived by Wilmington attorney Black community together to ar
Conv tion ~Giate need to bring Black people agenda will be for the develop- Peter Grearandinitially became ticulate their own goals, objectives
Convention together to develop and imple seit of Black people in North project of North Carolina Black and priorities. These organizatio
a common agenda. After thiscon- Carolina. � said Professor Irving Leadership Caucus. Other spon- have committed themselves :
vention, it will become clear to Joyner, convention coordinator. soring organizations have adopted spearheading the implementation,
The concept of the Black Fam- the concept and concluded that of the agenda items. '
, . Reports that have been received
from local organizers indicate that ~
enthusiasm at that level is very
high and representatives are pre-
paring for the convention and pre;
senting input to the Issue Groups
for inclusion in the tentative
agenda. oFor too long, Blacks have
felt that other people were allowed
to speak for us and interpret our
needs and priorities. The BFEA
allows Blacks, for the first time, to
develop our own agenda and to
articulate those things that are
important to us. � said Joyner.
Joyner continued: owe want to
make sure that Black in North
Carolina are operating from the
same page. �
The BFEA convention will in-
volve a broad-based grouping of
Blacks. Black church people,
elected officials, civil rights, civic
and business leaders have agreed
to participate in this historicevent.
State Convention conveners in-
clude Congressional Representa:
tives Eva Clayton, and Melvin
Watt; State Senator Jeanne Lucas,
State Representative Howard
Hunter, and Chancellor Julius
Chambers.
Convention organizers are en-
couraging Blacks in every commu-
nity to join in the mobilization
effort and participate in Conven-
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Minority and Women Business Enterprises to participate in the subcontracting and material
supplier opportunities available under this contract.
Plans and specifications are on file and may be examined at the office of the engineer,
Rummel, Klepper and Kahl, Raleigh, North Carolina; Greenville Utilities Commission in the
office of the Director, Gas Systems, and in the Associated General Contractors office and
Dodge Plan Room in Raleigh. Plans and specifications may be obtained upon application to
the Engineer, accompanied with a plan deposit check in the amount of $100.00.
A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on May 16, 1996 beginning at 9:00 a.m., at the
Greenville Utilities Commission Ts Operation Center Engineering Conference Room at 801
Mumford Road. This meeting will last approximately three hours.
Deposit will be refunded in full to all bona fide bidders provided plans and specifications are
returned in good condition within ten (10) days after opening of bid. The right is reserved to
reject any or all bids, to waive informalities, and to award contract or contracts which, in the
opinion of the Owner, appear to be in its best interest. The right is reserved to hold any or all
proposals for a period of sixty (60) days from the opening thereof.
Greenville Utilities Commission
Mr. Malcolm A. Green
Grab your hat. Grab your friends.
Meet me at the polls.
VALERIA LYNCH LEE
SECRETARY OF STATE
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Tuesday, June 4
Vote Valeria Lee
Secretary of State
560-6115.
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Convention & Visitors Bureau--
Promoting Greenville e Pitt County since 1988
WHAT:
A Convention & Visitors Bureau is a destination marketing agency funded by the
hotel/motel occupancy tax to serve the county as:
* a promotional agency
e an information clearinghouse
¢ aconvention management consultant
e acatalyst for economic/social development
by aggressively pursuing group and convention decision-makers to convince them to
choose Greenville and Pitt County.
¢ by providing professional assistance with a variety of tasks such as attendance
promotion, tour and event planning, and on-site registration assistance.
The Bureau's past scorecard reveals:
HOW T?
Ss 92-93 93-94 94-95
Fiscal Year
Groups Booked 19 44 45 45 67
112 104
Groups Assisted 81 78 94
° to lure more travelers to the area, who in turn provide economic advantages -- new
jobs, increased revenue, and a broader tax base.
The US Travel Data Center research indicates:
WHY:
Travel Expenditures State Tax Receipts Local Tax Receipts
1989 $71.65 million $2.88 million $1.70 million
$5.16 million $2.16 million
1995 $104.97million
¢ continue to invest in aggressive marketing and product development.
¢ to remain competitive--A CONVENTION CENTER
WHAT
NOW:
Call the Convention and Visitors Bureau today--752-8044--to find out how our community can make a concerted
effort to make sure Pitt County remains the leader in the hospitality industry in Eastern North Carolina.
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"Marla Gibbs T Vision Complex is
the staplein this part of L.A. where
othe people � finally own it (most of
it, anyway), run it and support it.
Marla Gibbs purchased the site
for $3.2 million and has paid down
more than half the principal in a
matter of 6 years (try doing that
with your house note), much less a
community landmark. Not to men-
tion the near $4 million in renova-
tion and operation expense she Ts
incurred during that time (as well
as the $4 million investment she Ts
made into the Jazz and Supper
Club).
Marla Gibbs is no stranger to
our community. She Ts not just an
actress. She Ts a businesswoman
who invested in her people. She Ts
asked for the community Ts help to
oSave the Vision. �
It Ts time for the rest of the cycle
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Opinions
to kick in. Understanding there
are some deals in the works, it Td be
nice if one of our banks would help
Marla (especially after the success
of oChange Bank Day �). Even if
the three institutions have to form
a participation to share the risk,
they should loan her the money.
They can doit under the allowable
CRA covenants for nonéoventional
transactions and we're not talking
about a lot of money here.
Mortgage companies that front
as nonprofits (operation something
or another) and bring obus tours �
through South Central, should
drive ~em by Degnan Avenue to see
an appropriate investment for fifty
cents on the dollar loan to value.
Black insurance companies that
claim they do so much for the com-
munity, that invest millions of
their premium and pension funds
in highyield opportunities outside
THANK YOU....
FOR THE LOVE AND SUPPORT THAT
YOU HAVE SHOWN ME
DURING MY CAMPAIGN AND
INSERVICE TO YOU
AS YOUR PITT COUNTY SCHOOL
BOARD REPRESENTATIVE
DISTRICT 4, SEAT A
Amina J. Shahid-El
Paid for by Amina J. Shahid-El
Thank You
I want to thank the
citizens
Greene Counties for their
help and support in the
May Primary.
continued support
essential for a successful
campaign in November.
Paid for by the candidate
of Pitt and
Your
is
Charles S. Ward
thecommunity, should look at this
opportunity in their own backyard.
And what about the community
revitalization organizations who
have received federal funds for this
very thing, build economic empow-
erment? It Ts a damn shame that
one of our finest talents, who did
something most of our black art-
ists refused to do (invest in the
community), has to goon the radio
to publicly plead her case. It Ts a
strategy she flet was best for her
and we should respond. Yet, this ©
city, through taxpayers T funds and
private donations, carried the
Music Center (downtown) for over
twenty years before it turned a
dime "but they kept it open and
kept it in their possession.
To even think that someone out-
side (and maybe some in) our com-
munity (which may be why she Ts
having problems getting major
help) is waiting to pick up a com-
munity Jandmark for half on the
dollar is a little CEA Par-
ticularly as much money as blacks
influence in Los Angeles,
We can Tt just talk about orecy-
cling black dollars, � we have to
bring the cycle full circle to the
point where the institutions we
invest in and spend our money
with, can putit back when we need
them to put it back. I don Tt spend
my money with someone just be-
cause they're black (we know ev-
ery blackface ain Tt necessarily
black). I spend with them because
they give back. That is part of the
cycle.
Marla Gibbs has given back and
has earned our support. Another
part of the cycle is to invest in
those things that bring a benefit to
our communities. That requires
us to share a common vision in a
dual sense.
Yes, we need to keep the vision
for our own economic liberation,
but more immediately, we need to
keep the Vision Complex with its
owner and creator.
Send your donations to: The Vi-
sion Complex, 4310 S. Degnan
Ave., Los Angeles, 90008.
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unity was felt immediately. Too
Feny Black men have become
predators in the community. When
a him coming, you dread.
e some of this can be blamed
of Black oppression, not all of it
can.
And often when the Black man
gets himself together, it is as an
individual, eager to get as far away
from other Blacks as he can, never
looking back except to give lip ser-
vice, get re-elected, etc. The Mil-
lion Man March has called this
type of Black man to task also, to
o more for his community interms
of creating meaningful jobs, recre-
ation facilities for our youth, etc.
The Million Man March was an
empowering move that needs to be
reinforced regularly on some level.
Ever since the march, the media
has been trying to see how they
could tear this movement down.
They tried denouncing it, but that
hasn Tt worked. They've tried and
are still trying to accelerate the
negative imagery of the Black man
and woman at every turn, focus-
ing heavily on Black crime to show
the white public Black people are
still a menance to society despite
the Million Man March.
Certain groups have attacked
Min. Louis Farrakhan for his bold
maneuvers while they themselves
engage in the same international
politics. You'll remember Jesse
Jackson went on a world tour and
was blasted by Jewish groups for
embracing Yaser Arafat (who, in
fact, embraced him.) Malcolm X
went on a world tour.
. We as a group have no obliga-
tion to hate everyone the United
States hates, and love everyone
the United States loves. Indeed,
~now we are supposed to embrace
Russia, though a mere few years
ago we were obliged to hate them.
America needs to have some tar-
t for their seemingly inherent
ate. And some groups are trying
to manipulate this for their own
ends, indeed to take the eyes of the
nation away from them as they
engage innational and banking
crises (i.e. savings and loan
schemes, global arms deals, rein-
vestment in Star Wars-type scams
where billions disappear or are
unaccounted for.) The latest-a bil-
lion dollar piece of equipment gets
lost in outer space while human
educaiton, arts and social pro-
grams get lost in inner space.
This nation wants to step away
from sound environmental projects
essential for the next century,
while they how] about crime being
the top priority. They want to step
away from any investment in non-
white youth while they how] about
- crime. It Ts a scam. A diversionary
tactic that even the blind can see,
designed to ultimately aid a hand-
ful of giant companies.
But too many white folks love
their racism and you can feed it to
them any time and get over.
America has had plenty of time
to mend her ways. Instead, the so-
called fringe hate groups, which
are not so fringed, are arming
themselves to the teeth and pre-
paring for war against us! It Ts a
long time overdue for us to act like
a nation.
Role of popular media
one of the roles of popular media
has always been to shape public
opinion the way theestablishment
wants it, or the way a special in-
peel group can advance because
of it.
TV shows are spun towards re-
telling today Ts events to vilify who-
ever the establishment wants vili-
ed.
There are several shows which
do this by design. oLaw and Order �
is one, oN.Y.P.D. � is another. And
now, seemingly, you can add
oMoesha T � to the list.
The show reaches Black youth,
reaches Black women. So if you
want to manipulate the thinking
of this group, you spin a show
aimed at diversion and vilifica-
tion.
oMoesha T
On Tuesday, Feb. 20, Moesha,
whose name itself is telling, and
her friend Kim, played by Count-
less Vaughn, come into a youth
meeting where brothers have gath-
ered to plan anevent to raise funds
for college scholarships.
But the scholarships are for
Black males. Moesha has an atti-
tude and points out that women
need scholarships also. She refuses
to leave the meeting, and takes
the podium. Kim flirts with one of
the young men while Moesha chal-
lenges the leadership of the male
at the podium, maintaining the all
male group cannot do the
fundraiser alone and needs her
aa
an youjust imagine a couple of
Black guys loudly disrupting a
women Ts luncheon, full of attitude,
boldly flirting with a singled out
sister and grandstanding at the
podium?
Moesha secures the popular
Frou Jodeci to appear at the
undraiser. Meanwhile, the
brother in charge cannot fulfill his
obligation to secure a space for
their affair, and has been lax in
putting out publicity on time.
e end, Moesha saves the
Y while the brother-in-cha
takes credit for her efforts. The
om San is "Black men are
unfair; can Tt do anything without
Black women, including put on a
local affair together. And that
men want to take credit
where it is notdue and hold the
March
page article in the school paper
reads oAffair saved by a one-in-a-
million girl. �
Moreover the Million Man
March is referred to by name and
by inference several times.
oMoesha � is reportedly co-pro-
duced by Ralph Farquhar, a Black
man who co-produced the short-
lived series oSouth Central, � and
Sara Finney and Vida Spears, pro-
ducers of oFamily Matters. �
Chauvinism?
Ves, ther eis chauvinism within
the Black community. Usually in
the form of lack of recognition,
until, of course, white recognition
is given on some level. There is
chauvinism within organizations
of every kind. But there are many
groups run by women with indis-
pensable women in the back-
ground.
There is, however, a growing
fear among some women that
Black maleempowerment will sim-
ply result in replacing one oppres-
sor with another.
Willie Lynch letter
Remeber the Willie Lynch letter
Farrakhan read at the march? It
describes the art of divide and con-
quer. Divide the men from the
women, the women from the men,
the young from the old, the light
from the dark, etc.
The producers of oMoesha � claim
it is a reality-based comedy. If so,
who do Moesha and Kim eventu-
ally intend to marry? Some man
who can Tt do anything without
them? Some men they have to
carry? Some man they must lead
around like Kim leads around the
young man she picks up at the
meeting? Some man that when
things get too tough he takes a
hike like Arthur Agee Ts father in
oHoop Dreams �? Some man trained
from birth to look to white people
for his total salvation like all the
men in oHoop Dreams �?
Ever see a sit-com without a
happy ending? This particular
oesha � show ended on a sour,
divisive note. Why? Who suggested
or requested that the Million Man
March be denounced? Or did these
flunkies do this on their own, as
Willie Lymch prophesied? That
show was one of the most blatant
examples of use of the media to
divide Blacks as I Tve ever encoun-
tered. It means they are desper-
ate.
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corporation undertakes $25 million black |
movie production ownership project
~The Community Financial In-
vestment Groups Corporation
(C.F.1.G.) announced recently that
they have officially undertaken a
major $25 million movie produc-
tion project, Community Produc-
tions, that includes not only the
purchase of a fully equipped 55,000
sq. ft. Television Production Stu-
dio, but also, the production, mar-
keting and distribution of 3 full-
length Black movies written, pro-
duced, directed and performed by
Blacks.
oThis is by far the largest Project
that we have tackled � stated Ms.
Pierce, C.F.I.G. President. oBut we
felt that we could not afford to
miss this opportunity to FINALLY
take control of producing our own
images for television, video, and
the movie theaters, so that we as a
people, can finally experience
truthful and positive self-images
from a Black perspective! �
The Community Financial In-
vestment Groups Corporation was
founded in 1993, as a direct result
of the Los Angeles Rebellion, and
since then, the Board of Directors
has been diligently and unceas-
ingly working on forming a collec-
tive economics structure that will
continuously benefit grass roots
African Americans, Africans, and
Pan Africans on a global scale.
Community Productions isjust one
qf several collective economic
projects which the C.F.I.G. mem-
bers have the opportunity to own.
Other projects include, Commu-
nity Invention, which was struc-
tured to assist Joe Jackson, a Black
inventor, go into manufacturing,
distribution and sales with his
wonderful invention The
TeleCommander, which literally
oruns rings � around the not-fully-
developed oVChip � technology
mentioned in the recently signed
Telecommunications Bill. The
TeleCommander puts parents in
total control of what their children
view on television using a simple
easy-to-use remote control device.
Ms. Pierce states, oIf Joe Jackson
already had the $2 Million that he
needs to confidently go into pro-
duction, distribution and sales, he
could be selling his ochip � right
now to TV manufacturers from
coast to coast, since it is now a
government MANDATE that such
viewer discretion technology be
installed in EVERY television
manufactured in the United
States. This is a tremendous op-
portunity for the African Ameri-
can community to ~ go to the bank
~with a very talented and prolific
Black Inventor! �
The C.F.I.G. GLOBALFUND is
another tremendous opportunity
for African Americans to collec-
tively participate in International
Trade, including foreign currency,
commodities and other lucrative
international exchange. Ms. Pierce
explains, oInternational Trade is
where trillions of dollars are ex-
changed EVERY SINGLE DAY,
and the C.F.1.G. Board of Direc-
tors believes that African Ameri-
cans need to position themselves
to direct some of that vast wealth
.jnto our communities! That Ts the
purpose of the GLOBAL FUND: to
trainer international wealth into
Black community wealth. ! �
Other benefits of C.F.1.G. Mem-
bership include access to C.F.I.G.
~s CREDIT UNION to help mem-
bers develop a discipline about
SAVINGS and learn how to get
out of debt; participation in the
C.F.I.G. BUYING CLUB where
members will soon earn monthly
rebates for oShopping in the Black �
with quality C.F.I.G. members T
businesses: access to continued
education through the COMMU-
NITY LEARNING EXCHANGE
which will allow members to ac-
quire knowledge through lectures,
seminars and workshops concern-
ing topics such as finance, real
estate, holistic health, computer
literacy, cultural and spiritual
awareness, and any other topics
needed for totally uplifting our
people and balancing their lives;
and last, but not least, participa-
tion in the BLACK BUSINESS
ENRICHMENT PROGRAM, de-
signed to assist new and existing
Black Business owners in meeting
and maintaining the quality stan-
dards of Black Consumers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Notice
City Council Member Mary
Alsentzer invites you to join her in
a discussion of yourconcerns about
City of Greenville issues in a
Town Meeting for Greenville
District 5 citizens.
Tuesday, May 28
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Pitt Community College
Whichard Bldg. 221
For more information, call 756-
me
5362.
Notice
The Greenville Planning and
Zoning Commission will meet on
Tuesday, June 18, 1996, at 6:30
p.m. in the Council Chambers of
the Municipal Building located on
the corner of Fitth and Washing-
ton Streets.
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The Subdivision Review Board
will meet on Wednesday, June 12,
1996, and Wednesday, June 26,
1996, at 4:30 p.m. in the third floor
office of Harry V. Hamilton, Jr.,
which is in the Community Build-
ing located on the corner of Fourth
and Greene Streets.
Notice
The Greenville Board of Adjust-
ment will meet on Thursday, June
27, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. in the Coun-
cil Chambers of the Municipal
Building located on the corner of
Fifth and Washington Streets.
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~OUR MAIN MAN.... .DAA (grandson of Brother Jim Rouse) (L) is joined by friends
on a recent visit to the city. If his big smile is any indication, he had fun, fun, fun!!!
Staff photo by Jim Rouse
Notice
The Greenville Environmental
Advisory Commission will meet
on Thursday, June 6, 1996, at 5:30
p.m. in Meeting Room B of the
Police Fire/Rescue Headquarters
located at 500 S. Greene Street.
BROTHER MONTE ROUNTREE GIVES HIS MOM. . . Lady Ann of 8.1.'s Restaurant a
loving hug and lots of love for Mother's Day.
Staff photo by Jim Rouse
JUDGE E.B. AYCOCK (center) wins his race for re-election for Superior Court Judge. He is
joined here by brothers Willie Gray and Ivey Rhodes, (L and R) who are associated with
programs for prison inmates and facilities.
Balloons launched in sky land at
state prison
Balloons launched into the sky
at a four year old Ts birthday party
in New Castle, Indiana floated
hundreds of miles southeast land-
ing at the state prison farm at
Caledonia Correctional Institu-
tion.
Driving a visitor around the
farm Ts row crop area, farm fore
man Billy Johnson spotted the
brightly colored balloons tangled
in a tree. A paper dangling from
the balloons caught his eye. He
retrieved the balloons and pulled
the paper and a postcard from a
clear plastic bag.
The paper explained the balloons
were released January 29 during
a birthday party for Cody Denny
and asked the post card be re-
turned by the person that found
Obituary
Services in Loving Memory of
Waller dtson Cordon,
Thursday, May 9,1996 6:00PM.
Dy
Zion Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church
403 Ghent St. Windsor, NC
With very little formal education, Walt learned to
live, and while he lived he was a learner
Therefore, we are establishing The Walter E.
Cordon Foundation and "The Little Walt Sent
You" Scholarship Funds." Donations will be
used to help deserving youth in Northeastern
Send or mail your tax-exempt donations to:
The Walter E. Cordon Foundation
P.O. Box 370
Lewiston-Woodville, NC 27849
(For academic achievement toward college.)
the balloons.
oI know when that little fellow
turned it loose, he didn Tt expect to
hear anything, � Johnson said. But
the farm foreman noted where the
balloons were found, signed his
name and mailed the post card
back to the Dennys.
Johnson recently received a let-
ter from the family with a newspa-
per article attached and a photo-
Staff photo by Jim Rouse
graph ofa bright eyed, happy Cody.
oHe looked like he was tickled, °
said Johnson. oAll I did was pick
up the balloons and drop the post
card in the mail. �
Johnson Ts thoughtful act meant
a lot to Cody and his parents. Ina
thank you letter, the family wrote
Johnson Ts response and the bal
loons flight were reported in the
local news making Cody a ostar for
another day. �
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2. Apply a sunscreen with a Sun Protection
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going outdoors. Repeat every two hours that
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3. Wear protective clothing, including a hat
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Early detection is essential for the successful treat
ment of melanoma and other types of skin cancer
That Ts why the Leo W. Jenkins ¢
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These screenings are part of a national effort to
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Down East For
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history
By Roxane Perles
Vernon Robinson, a former Win-
ston-Salem State University pro-
fessor, won the GOP nomination
for North Carolina State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, and
by so doing, wrote himself into the
history books. Robinson, 40, Presi-
dent of the North Carolina Educa-
tion Reform Foundation, became
the first black nominee for State
Superintendent in North Carolina
history and the first black candi-
date to defeat a white opponent in
a contested GOP primary state-
wide.
With 100% of the 2500 precincts
reporting Robinson won 52% while
his opponent, Bill Sharpe, a re-
tired educator from Wilson won
48%. Sharpe was criticizedin some
quarters for raising the race issue
in the last weeks of the campaign.
A GOP party insider said that oa
a number of us were on pins and
needles when the earlier returns
showed the two candidates neck
and neck. Had Robinson lost, it
would have been devastating for
the party. �
Robinson Ts victory statement
said that his nomination was a
a victory for the parents and chil-
dren of North Carolina. oI Tve been
accused of being a one issue candi-
session
The North Carolina Women Ts
Political Caucus is offering a day
and a half long campaign skills
training session "designed and
taught especially for women by
a the best trained campaign profes-
sionals in the country. The North
Carolina Women Ts Political Cau-
cus is a chapter of the National
Women Ts Political Caucus
1 (NWPC), which is conducting simi-
} lar campaign training sessions
i nationally to increase the number
of women in elected office at all
levels.
oThis training session will pro-
vided the nuts-and-bolts skills
needed to run a successful cam-
| paign � sayd Mary Dalton, Presi-
dent of the NC Women Ts Political
E) Caucus. oWe still fall behind the
rest of the nation in electing women
to statewide office. This is our op-
The city Ts chief medical exam-
iner is expected to call Mariah
Scoon Ts death a homicide, possibly
the result of oshaken baby syn-
drome, � sources said yesterday.
| Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman
| for the medical examiner, said the
examiner's officer had no new in-
formation to announce last night.
But sources close to the investi-
gation said that the office would
rule "possibly as early as today "
that the 5-month old baby Ts March
13 death was believed to have been
the result of someone else Ts ac-
tions, rather than natural causes.
Mariah died at St. Vincent Ts
Medical Center in Manhattan af-
ter being transferred from Long
Island Jewish Hospital in Queens,
where doctors had declared her
brain dead and sought a court or-
der to disconnect her from a venti-
lator.
Her parents, Malcolm and Lois
Scoon, fought the hospital Ts efforts
in an emotional court battle, say-
ing that as born-again Christians
they believed only God could take
wa their daughter's life.
Sources said the medical
examiner's finding raised ques-
tions about whether Mariah might
have been abused, which the
Queens district attorney Ts office is
The DownEast for Jesus Rally sponsored by the Pastors United for Revival was held on Sunday, April 28th at the Town
Commons. It was coordinated by Pastor James Corbett, Chairman of Pastors United for Revival with 30 areas churches
participating. There were 3,000-5,000 people in attendance.
The purpose of the rally was for Christians to come together (inter-racial and interdenominational) to proclaim the lordship
of Jesus Christ and to pray. The even began with a prayer march from the town common to the courthourse then back to the
town common.
The rally included praise and worship and prayer of repentance, prayer for the comm unity, body of christ, youth, government/
elected officials, churches/pastors, prayer for unity and a message to the church. Various area pastors participated. Mayor
Nancy Jenkins provided greetings and Dr. Edgar (Dick) Douglas was the guest speaker. Musical selections were provided
by several area churches,
The questions asked immediately following the rally were oWhen will we do this again? � and oWill we have to wait a whole
year? � The Rally was a successful event.
Robinson wins State
Superintendent :
nomination; makes
date and I plead guilty. My one
issue is you must change the in-
centives in the public school sys-
tem if you want to change the
system. Money is power. As long
as the politicians and the bureau-
crats have the money, they have
no reason to address your con-
cerns, We must take the money
from the politicians and bureau-
crats who don Tt even know your
child Ts name and give that power
to parents, � commented Robinson.
Robinson wrote HB 955, the
Charter School Educational Op-
portunity Act. The bill would cre-
ate a new type of public school, one
that would be held accountable by
student performance criteriain the
charter and parents who would
have to choose the school for it to
receive any funding. oNew or ex-
isting community based organiza-
tions would be able to apply for
charters to run schools that are
more likely to meet the learning
needs of children and provide
teaching opportunities for teach-
ers � observed Robinson.
Robinson is a graduate of the
U.S. Air Force Academy. He faces
former Granville County School
Superintendent Mike Ward in the
November 5th general election.
} Women Ts Caucus offers
gcampaign training
portunity, in 1996, to vote our first
woman onto the Council of State, �
Dalton says. Offering this day and
half-long information and skiils
training session to both women
running as candidates and those
interested people in working on
women Ts campaigns will help real-
ize this goal. The National
Women Ts Political Caucus is pre-
senting the training with speak-
ers and experts on various topics
including media training,.
fundraising and recruiting moti-
vated staffers.
The training session will be held .
June 1-2 at Bennett College in°
Greensboro. Registration fee is $50
and includes some meals and ail ,
training materials. The deadline
to register is May 25. Contact
Karen Savage at (910) 679-9826
for further registration informa-
tion.
ME seen ruling death
lof Mariah a homicide
investigating.
Mariah Ts parents have said she
was not abused.
Mary de Bourbon, a spokes-
woman for District Attorney Rich.
ard Brown, said the case is still
under investigation. ;
oWe are awaiting the autopsy
results and medical reports, � she
said.
Even if the medical examiner
rulled Mariah Ts death a homicide,
it would be up to prosecutors to
decide if criminal charges are war-
ranted or if the case should be
presented to a grand jury.
Ronald Kuby, the lawyer for the
Scoons, was not available for com-
ment, his office said last night.
Mariah was taken to Long Is-
land Jewish on February 19 by her
father, an anesthesiologist, who
toldinvestigators he found Mariah
gasping for air in their Cambria
Heights home and tried to resusci-
tate her. When he failed, he called
paramedics, he said.
He later said he olightly roused �
the girl in a bid to revive her. ~
Once at Long Island Jewish,
though, doctors there determined
she had suffered brain injuries
caused by trauma. They declared
her brain dead.
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In 1776, when the Founding
Fathers met to draft and sign the
Declaration of Independence,
they unified the colonies with a
critical compromise on democ-
racy " they kept slavery fully
intact. At the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1787, ourrepublic was
founded " but the compromises
of 1776 continued. Slavery would
remain an American institution
and Blacks would formally be
recognized as three-fifths of a
human being.
There is much about this for-
mative moment in our country Ts
history that is deeply troubling.
But let us consider this: Which is
moretroubling? That slavery was
ratified at the two most signifi-
cant gatherings in the founding
of our nation? Or that Black
people were not present at either
of those gatherings and could
not speak for ourselves? We were
not there, so we could not par-
ticipate in the founding and the
shaping of our own country.
The decision to preserve sla-
very " a cruel and cowardly de-
cision " was made by the repre-
sentatives who created those
documents. It was wrong. But
worse than that, there was noth-
ing we could do about it. Because
we were not there.
African Americans can no
longer accept having what we
have, and not having what we
don Tt have, at the behest of an
unrepresentative body of lead-
ers and decision makers. If we
are to be free, if we are to be full
participants in American society
" we must be politically in-
cluded. We must be there. That
is why I am in the third-party
movement. It is where I believe
we must be to play a part in the
re-creation of American democ-
racy.
I think it Ts fair to say thatthere
is inexorable motion among Af-
rican Americans toward indepen-
_dent politics. At the Million Man
Summer
; Program
Operation Sunshine will offer a
Summer Program on Monday-Fni-
day from June 17-August 9. Field
trips, arts and crafts, indoor and
outdoor activities are planned from
j0:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. each day.
_ Application will be accepted on
June 10, from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Transportation is not provided.
- There is a $20.00 registration fee,
cash only please. Limited space.
For more information, please call
Barbara D. W. Ormond at 758-
5315.
Letter to
Editor:
Officer who presented to E.B.
Aycock Junior High School a video
on oDrug Infested Neighborhoods �
How would you feel if your thir-
teen year old childcame home from
school one day, and you asked,
oWhat did you do in school today? �
Your sons response was not, owe
dissected frogs today � or owe
started fractions today in math. �
What if your son said, oThat my
home is sitting in the middle of a
drug infested neighborhood and it
was on a video for the whole class
to see. � How would you tell him to
respond to remarks from his class-
mates such as, oWhen you go out-
side to get the paper do you see a
drive-by or y Tall must be like Boys
in the Hood � (referring to the
movie). I say to you Greenville
Police Department, we as parents
in our communities are trying to
instill in our young children, who
go to school and learn, that our
communities have kids playing in
their yards, walking their dogs,
riding their bikes and other nor-
mal activities just as Brook Val-
ley, Cherry Oaks, and other up-
standing communities do. Howcan
we teach our children to be proud
oftheir communities if you, with-
dut our (we, the residents of the
West 4th Street area) permission,
choose to video our homes and
show our community as drug in-
fested? You unnesscesarily upset
our children for your inability to
dq your job and clean up the true
infested areas. Please do not use
uig for your guniea pigs. Ifthe point
ireverything that glitters is not
ald, then film or video Brook Val-
~and other so-called drug-free
@mmunities. I know all of the
fésidents on our street and none of
are drug dealers.
Signed Concerned and Angry
Parent nd Citizen
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a
March, Minister Louis
Farrakhan called on the Black
community to become an inde-
pendent othird force. � His re-
marks were not simply a descrip-
tion of what should happen - he
was describing what is happen-
ing. Becoming a third force, part
of a third party, is my strategy
for empowerment.
I think the success of that strat-
egy turns on our willingness and
readiness to stand up in our com-
munities and bring this message
out. I think it turns on our will-
This time, we must be
ingness to expose the extent to
which we have been politically
misled as a people " in part by
our own people. That
misleadership has been based
on two different but equally prob-
lematic notions. The first is that
Black people already have po-
litical power and a role in gov-
ernment because we are a part
of the Democratic Party. Let Ts
put that illusion to rest right
now. We are not a part of the
Democratic Party " we never
T have been. We Tre merely guests
" and not very welcome ones at
that. We weren Tt included in the
party Ts founding. We were
brought in during the 1930's to
forge a new majoritarian elec-
toral coalition that could help
the Democrats get and hold onto
power. We are the permanent
outsiders inside the Democratic
Party.
An alternative notion is based
on the assumption that to be-
come empowered the Black com-
munity must break with the
Democrats for the purpose of
building an all-Black party. This
one has an especially militant
ring to it. But it simply makes no
sense to build an all-Black party.
This is not an all-Black country.
If Black America wants to pur-
sue a course that will lead to our
inclusion and to our empower-
ment, we must build bridges with
white Americans " independent
of the machinations of the Demo-
cratic Party.
The Black-white coalition in
the Democratic Party is no coali-
tion at all. Itis simply us tagging
along for a ride to nowhere.
all-Black party is not a ge
alternative. Ifthe 2ssional
Black Caucus were elected byan |
all-Black independent party in-
stead of via the Democratic Party,
the CBC would have less power "
than it does today "not more. It
would be isolated and without
impact.
This is the message that we've
got to bring out to the African
American community. We've got
to be ready to confront these
grave political misconceptions,
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Most likely, when you drink a refreshing glass of ice water, the
last thing on your mind is ... oHim, I wonder where this water comes from,
and who is responsible for treating it. � That Ts ok. People very often
take clean, safe, good-tasting water for granted. That's why it's good to
take a minute and focus on water-related issues.
The highly-trained staff at Greenville Utilities T Water Treatment Plant is
licensed by the N.C. Water Treatment Facility Operations Certification Board.
Eight of our Operators and Laboratory Staff hold A-Surface certification, the
highest level awarded by the state board. In addition, a number of WTP
employees hold various levels of certification for
Behind every drop of water that GUC
customers drink is a hard-working team of
professionals who are committed to protecting
the public health. It takes the combined efforts
of the entire Water Resources Department -- all
94 employees, including engineers, distribution
personnel, etc. -- to ensure the high quality of
your drinking water.
Let's take a look at those most directly
involved with GUC's water treatment process --
the staff of the Water Treatment Plant (WTP).
These dedicated employees ensure the safety of
our customers T water 24-hours-a-day, 365-
days-a-year.
1 deep well operation. |
The staff continuously monitors the treat-
ment process to make sure our water quality meets
regulatory requirements. State and federal regu-
latory agencies set strict standards to ensure
that the public has safe drinking water. GUC'S
WATER MEETS OR EXCEEDS ALL OF
THESE STANDARDS.
If you would like to meet the WTP staff in
person and see firsthand how your water iS
treated, we invite you to schedule a plant tour.
Arrangements may be made by calling 551-1562.
GUC's Water Treatment Plant
GUC Ts main water supply is from the Tar River with a limited amount o:
groundwater from a network of deep wells. Our Water Treatment Plant was
built in 1983 and is located on Old River Road, just west of the Pitt-Greenville
Airport. The plant was built with a capacity to treat 12 million gallons of
water per day (mgd). Since 1983, the plant has been upgraded and nov. has
the capacity to treat 15 mgd ona routine basis and 18 mgd in emerger cy
situations. (Our average daily production is 10 mgd). GUC Ts deep wel.s can
produce approximately 1 mgd.
Our treatment process is monitored every step of the
way by Hater Treatment Piant Operators Cliff
Strickland (Chief Operator), Sharon Daughtridge,
Bud Greer, Don Sullivan, Danny Gavlor, Randy
Buck and Jesse Staton. The « perators regulate the
treaiment process with the support of a oreal-time �
computer system located in ke WTP Control Room.
Hater quality is continuousl, monitored and tested
by the Operators who make vdjustments and
chemical changes as needeu. Bud Greer, Chief
Operator of Remote Facilit).s and Special Projects,
assists the Chief Operator aid takes charge of the
plant in the Superintendent's absence. In addition,
Bud is responsible for remote sites (deep wells,
elevated tanks, etc.) and spccial projects
Jackie Hardy, Ron Elks and Rick Langley
Ron Elks provides overall supervision as
Director of GUC's Water Resources Depart-
ment, which includes the Water Treatment
Plant. Rick Langley, Superintendent of the
WTP, supervises the plant staff who all work
together to see that the treatment process
Treating water is an involved process, but basically it works as follows:
Raw water is pumped from the Tar River to an eight-acre, 63-million- .
gallon impoundment basin. The water is kept there for several days while
solids settle to the bottom. As the water enters the WTP, a coagulant is
added to facilitate further settling of solids. After the settling period, the
water passes through filters, and the final conditioning chemicals are
added. The finished water is pumped into two three-million-gallon
storage tanks. Finally, water is pumped out of the storage tanks, into the
431-mile distribution system " and into the homes and businesses of
our 22,800 water customers.
Cliff Strickland, Sharon Daughtridge, Bud Greer, Don Sullivan,
Danny Gaylor, Randy Buck and Jesse Staton.
The Maintenance Section is under the supervision of
Nathan Scott, Superintendent of Maintenance.
operates smoothly. Jackie Hardy provides
invaluable secretarial support to the entire
operation.
Angie Konstandinides, Jesse Chadwick,
and Keisha Council
The Laboratory Staff -- Chemist Jesse Chadwick
and Laboratory Technicians Angela Konstandinides
and Keisha Council -- work very closely with the
Operators. Our laboratory is certified, and the
staff's responsibilities are twofold. First, daily
samples are taken from the plant for bacterial and
physical analysis, Results are required to be sent to
the N.C. Department of Environment, Health and
Natural Resources. Equally important, the Labora-
tory Staff takes samples from throughout the
distribution system. Every month over 100 samples
are taken, tested and analyzed. Those results are
also required to be sent to the state regulatory
agency. If you have any questions or concerns
about water quality, feel free to give the Lab Staff
a call at 551-1563.
First row (from left) Lyndell Williams, Larry Clemons, Frank
Spellmon and John Benson Back row (from left) David Dickerson,
Bob Woods, Luther Cox, Ro:ald Smith and Nathan Scott.
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Nathan oversees two divisions (1) the WTP Plant
Maintenance Staff and (2) the Grounds Maintenance
Crew. The WTP Maintenance Staff is comprised of
Bob Woods, WTP Chief of Maintenance; Luther Cox,
WTP Maintenance Mechanic; and John Benson, Plant
Facilities Technician. These highly-skilled employees
are responsible for keeping all instrumentation and
equipment in top working order and performing any
necessary mechanical repairs. The Grounds
Maintenance Crew -- Crew Leader Ronald Smith and
General Utility Workers Larry Clemons, David
Dickerson, Frank Spellmon, and Lyndell Williams --
maintain the grounds for all GUC facilities and assist
with major repair projects at the WTP and deep well
sites. N\
Bennie Tyson and Julius Phillips
Maintenance Workers Bennie Tyson and
Julius Phillips keep the plant in sparkling
condition. The plant's appearance is
important for several reasons, including
the 800 visitors who tour the facility each
year.