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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Forsyth County could be assured of one and possibly
two black delegates in^the North Carolina House~of
Representatives provided the public and the current
House delegation support a redisricting pJan devised by
Alderman Larry Little.
Little and other black leaders have drawn a plan that
calls for two predominantly black single-member districts
in the county. <
The districts will be changed, using that plan or some
other, because the courts have determined that the prerAM?
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panel has ruled that the 39th House District, composed of
most of Forsyth County, as well as six other districts in
North Carolina, have until March 16 to draw singlemember
districts^ The decision was the result of a suit, filed
by Ralph Gingles on behalf of all the black registered
voters in North Carolina, charging that the present
redistricting plan enacted by the General Assembly in
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tie would encompass most of the eastern and noi
A very well-knowi
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Raleigh Correspondent
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RALEIGH ? The black press secretary for North
Carolina Sen. Jesse HelYns often has to defend his boss's
conservative positions on the issues.^
Claude A. Allen, 23, of Raleigh, also has to field his
share of questions from the black community on why he
And his job as Helms' spokesman has spawned lively
talk in both political parties.
"I had a conversation with a Raleigh pastor recently,"
Allen said in a January interview in his Raleigh office.
"He told me that it uncommon and unheard of for a
black person to work for Helms.
"I was hired because 1 was qualifed to do the job. My
being black did not hinder me in getting this job. Why
can't people look at me as a Helms aide who happens to
be black?"
Allen, who graduated from University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, said he was also hired
him because he agrees with Helms' conservative views.
He is the first black on the senator's staff, which had
been all-white for 11 years. Allen told the Raleigh /Vpyvs
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The closest I have ever been to a Klansman, and
knew it, was last Thursday when I sat in federal court
in Winston-Salem. 4
Deep inside, I had this insatiable desire to attend
the trial of the nine Klansmen and Nazis charged with
violating the civil rights of five Communists Workers
Party members in Greensboro on Nov. 3, 1979. I felt
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1982 violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Little's first single-member district includes the Eas
and Southeast wards (except the Covenant Presbyteriar
Church precinct), the Fairview Intermediate Schoo
precinct from me Northeast Ward, and theMiddlefork I
(Prince Ibraham Intermediate School), Middlefork ^
(East Forsyth Senior High School) and Kernersville
(Tally's Crossing Fire Station) voting precincts. Accor
ding to census figures, 57.2 percent of the people living ir
that proposed district are black and 56.3 percent of thos<
black people are registered voters. The district's racia
composition almost assures that a black candidate wil
win a House seat.
The second proposed single-member district,in Little':
plan contains a 56.1 percent black population and 53.1
percent black registered voters. The second district en
compasses the North ward, the remainder of the Nor
theast Ward, and the Bethabara Moravian Church
Hanes Community Center and Brunson Elementar;
School precincts from the Northwest Ward. That distric
also includes the Old Town School precinct.
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>use districts as drawn up by Alderman Larry Lit
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and Observer that few blacks have applied for jobs oi
Helms' staff because of Helms' racist image amon;
blacks.
About 18 months ago, Allen served as press secretar
for William W. Cobey Jr., a former UNC athletic direc
tor, in his unsuccessful bidNor the 4th District Congres
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sional seat. That district includes Wake County, which i:
turn includes Raleigh..
Several senior members of Helms' Washington staf
were impressed by Allen and offered him a job i
Washington. He declined because he didn't want to leav
North Carolina.
Later, however, Allen accepted a job in Raleigh as th
senator's press secretary. "He has done a good job," sai
Clint Fuller, an assistant for Helms in Washington
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histor> was being made and I wanted to be able to tell
my grandchildren that 1 had been there as it happened,
although I'm not sure yet what that history will
be. Despite my journalistic cravings -- or nosiness as
it has been called -- to be there, I was also scared.
As fat as 1 know, none of my family have been the
recipients of Klan violence, but being in the presence
of admitted Klansmen and Nazis dredges up from
deep-inside feelings I'm not sure how to handle or
v cope with.
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Page B1 (photo by James Parker).
Board adopts new
By AUDREY WILLIAMS the
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Though they adopted a policy intended to combat slum wh
housing iu WinsxotuSalem, some members of the Board am
of Alderman said Monday night that they still weren't
satisfied. foi
After a 15-minute discussion, the board unanimously
voted to adopt the "In Rem Repair Remedy" procedure, th<
which allows the city to repair housing that violates hous- wh
ing code requirements. The cost of the repairs will be bill- iri?
ed to the owner of the property. frc
But Alderman Virginia Newell suggested that steps be ob
taken to prosecute landlords who continue to receive . I
payments from tenants after substandard homes have cec
been condemned. Br<
"I'm sorry we don't have the power to prosecute per- ty,
sons who allow people to live in places they wouldn't I
allow their cats to live in," she said. to
Gary R. Brown, director of the city's Community pre
J Development Department, said landlords and tenants in vat
the past could only be cited and fined for violations and /
that even the new procedure can only be enforced a max- bo;
imum of 10 times. Brown added that the city will turn to
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I had tried three times before to get into the trial. siel
The first time, on the opening day when the public (
and press were allowed to enter (Judge Thomas Flan- I
nery had barred the public from the jury selection 3 oth
proceedings), an overflow crowd kept me from get- the
ting in. I couldn't get in the second time because I at- the
rived after court started. KU
The third time, I completed two pockctbook scar- anc
ches and a metal detector test, and was finally allow- Po
ed inside the courtroom, onl\ to find that a juror was
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the Twin City, Sharon Ley how finds the South
left her job as a tax lawyer with the Internal
Reynolds Ind. And how's she doing? As fine as
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new procedure as a last resort after having warned a
dlord of his violation.
rhe new regulation allows the city to make repairs only
en the cost is less than 65 percent of the house's value,
In an emotional appeal, Alderman Vivian Burke asked
r solutions to decrease the city's housing problems.
"Some of these houses have had condemned signs on
?m since 1977," she said. "I want someone to tell me
iy these people are still living in houses with no plumbi,
no electricity and landlords are still taking money
tin them. We, the Board of Aldermen, have a moral
ligation to these people."
If homeowners refuse to comply with the new prolure
or fail to demolish the houses voluntarily, said
3wn, the houses will be demolished by order of the ci
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receive consent from the tenants to vacate the
rmises, and each case would have to be approved in adice
by the aldermen.
\lderman Larry .Womble warned that the city and the
aid would no longer tolerate "this kind of mess."
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k. The da> \ proceedings were cancelled.
Tn the fourth tis, I made it.
walked into the neai emptv court 100m (onl> one
let black person was theie) arfeUook a seat behind
nine defendants, Viigil Griffin, grand dragon of
North Caiolina Invisible Tmpire ol the ku Klu\
in; Edward Dawson, a longtime klan orguni/ci
i an informant ror the FBI and the Greensboro
lice Department; and Roland Wavne Wood, a ^