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Little's plan approve IMNMMNMMMMMHMMMIIIIMIIIIHIHMIMIIIIIIIIiniMIMHMMIIMKMtMMNNIIMMIMMMIMIHIHt percent black; Hanes Community Center, 9.8 percent black; Bethabara Moravian Church, 4.1 percent black, and Old Town Elementary School, 17.4 percent black. District 67 has a 55.4 percent black population. If the new House plan is approved by the courts, Forsyth, Mecklenburg and Cumberland counties each will contain more than one predominantly black, singlemember House district. I The next step, Little said, is getting the three-iudae panel that ordered the change, and the plantiffs in the case that challenged the fairness of multi-member districts in North Carolina, to approve the plan. llllMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllttiiiiiiiiiMiuiiiiMitiiiiMlllMlllllMIIIMMMMMMItlllMMIMIMIIIIItmilll YMCA situation is i HmnHi?minnninHHiMMwnitimumwnmni?mimiminmnnninimiimiin?H?Htmi Planners, which is designing the building) has worked with the Patterson board and is committed to doing what they want. The Metropolitan board has not told Patterson what they need to put in the Y. Sometimes we make things more difficult than what they are." But Roseboro contends that the Metropolitan board has tried to remove the Patterson Y as the principal decisionmaker in the project. O The Metropolitan board asked the architect to redesign and scale down the building from the $3.5 million facility the Patterson board approved to the $2.8 million the Metropolitan board said it can afford, she^aidWhen Gantt returned the redesign, Roseboro said, - Metropolitan approved the design and signed a letter of intent without Patterson's input. School board chairn ; treasure that time. "I thought a great deal of Bill/* Holleman said. "He and 1 were cut out of the same mold. He was a keen political observer. He was his own man, a free thinker." One of the things Sheppard told him, Holleman said, was that he wanted to work on was bringing the board, which has been sharply divided on a number of issues, back together. "In some situations, he was not concerned with the issues," said Holleman, "but was concerned with keeping the board together." Holleman has been a strong advocate of changing the board's membership to an odd number, but said he ~ would "rather serve on an even-number board with Bill than serve without him. I loved his wit and wisdom and he will be sorely missed on the board." Dr. H. Douglas Covington, Winston-Salem State's chancellor, said Sheppard was not only a colleague but i friend. "He was a very dedicated professional who worke< diligently on any task that he undertook," Covingtoi said. "The university owes Dr. Sheppard a debt o gratitude for the outstanding contributions that he mad< to its progress. On a very personal level, I will miss his ex Dertise and his sense of humor." Said Alderman Larry Womble: "My first reaction wa that of shock and disbelief and it has come as a loss to nv ilUIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIiaillllllllliailllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIMHItlMIHIIIIIIIMIIIfltlHIIIII Crime From Page A2 3500 block, Carver Road A portable television and radio were taken. Larceny 1100 block, Easf 29th Street Ten cedar trees were taken. 300 block, Forest Hill Three men's suits were taken. 1200 block, Cameron Avenue A black leather jacket was taken. Emergency Agencies Many agencies exist to assist people during emergen cies. If you need the police, firemen, an ambulance o hospital personnel, use their emergency number However, if it is not an emergency, don't tie up tha number. The following is a list of numbers that may be helpfu to you: Police or fire departments: 911 (Emergency) , (can be dialed at any pay phone- with***! inserting money Forsyth County Sheriff's Department: 727-2112 (Emergency) 727-2661 (Non-emergency) N.C. Highway Patrol: 761-2441 T.D.D. (communications for deaf): 727-8042 Ambulance and Rescue: 727-2222 Baptist Hospital: 748-4995 Forsyth Hospital: 773-3101 This column is brought to you weekly as a public se vice of the Chronicle and the Winston-Salem Poih - Department. Fire From Page A2 minimi try to carry a burning pan outside. If you don't spill flar ing liquid on yourself, you're liable to ignite woodwor curtains and upholstery as you rush to the door with yo flaming burden. Finally, know what to do if your clothing catches fir drop to the floor and roll to put the fire out. Treat this, any burn, by cooling the burn with cold water - tl removes residual heat in the tissues that cause furth burning. Cover the burn with a sterile pad or clean sh< - never with grease or butter -- and seek medfcal atte tion. This column is brought to you weekly as a public s< . vice of the Chronicle and the Winston-Salem Fire Depa ment. I d by legislature Fron IIMMMtlllMitllimiltMMIIIIIItlltMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIMMtMUMIIIIittlMlltllltlMlllllliMlltUIIIIMMMttt "1 have been in contact with L eslie W inners (the attorney for the plaintiffs)/' Little said, "and she likes our plan." * As a safeguard against having the Little plan rejected, the North Carolina House and Senate also accepted into record another Little plan to divide the county into five single-member districts. Because of the redistricting, primaries in the seven House and Senate districts ordered to redraw their boundaries will be delayed. If the court approves the plan by April 20, primalies will be held on June 5. If the plan is approved after April 20 but before May 17, primaries will not as bad as it seem; MMMMMMMflMIMIMtailllllllllllttllltlllllMlltllltMllllltliailllllllMIIMIIIItlllllllliaiMlllliailltlltll Brian Cormier, general director of the Metropolitan YMCA, said last week that the letter of intent had to be signed in order to seal the prices. But, in a letter to James Allen, chairman of the Facilities and Development Committee for the Metropolitan YMCA, Gantt said he had scaled down the building but "1 conclude that any effort to reduce the scope of the project further would be damaging to the quality of the building and the scope of services the YMCA can offer." Gantt suggested in his letter that a letter of intent be signed with the contractors, FowlenJones-Construction Co., within 10 days to build the redesigned facility for $2.72 million. The letter was dated Feb.-17_and the Metropolitan iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiimimmiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiiim nan dies From Page A1 MMiimiiaiiimiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimaiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiimiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiim personally, to this community and especially to the black community because he has been a friend. "He was a sincere, dedicated, hardworking and compassionate individual," Womble said. "He was a champion for the disadvantaged and the underdog. It will be a long time before Dr. Sheppard is replaced." Pat Hairston, former president of the local NAACP and a candidate for the Board of County Commissioners, said Sheppard's candor and straightforward manner will e fl i I f I e I J ii '" ? Wf^vW^- ' ' . V<' ur e: or lis ier ?et :npr rt- . SfAQIUli0^3Ut?HS CO??WY. W Y C PROOf OlSniLEO GIN WSTluED FROM GRAJ iMIIIUIIItMIIIMIMItHIMUNtMNMIIHtMllttMIIIIMtUMIilMlllltlilllMtlllllHIIMItlllllKHHNIIMUl t Page A1 be held on July 17. The cancellation of the May 8 primary also means that the filing periods for candidates in the affected areas will be reopened. As of yet, no other candidates have said they would challenge either Kennedy or Hauser. But Little said he thinks Hauser could encounter opposition because he is not a strong black candidate. "Hauser basically votes the way (R.J.) Childress votes," Little said. "In fact, with the exception of Forsyth County, he voted against single-member districts. He is a safe candidate, one who doesn't rock the boat. "We need to sit down with him and let him know he IIMMMMIIIItMINHIItmMMIIIIItMIIIHMIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIItlllltllMIIMIIIMIItlMIIIIIIMItMIIIIIIMMII ? From Page A1 board signed the letter of intent on Feb. 21, six days before Gantt's suggested deadline. "They should have given us time to review that," Roseboro said. Booker said Roseboro and Allen are confused as to what a letter of intent is. "It means that we plan to keep movifig with the project," Booker said. "It is not nailed in cement and mortar. We signed a letter to keep the project going; that's all we were doing. We didn't sign a contract. Ana we have met with the Patterson board and told them that." Booker continued: "We are pretty much on tie way to a first-class facility but we have to build the] building within the means that we have. If you only nave S3.1 million, you can't build a $5 million building."] But Roseboro said some black contributors tojthe funIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIimillllllllllllllllllllllllllUHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII be missed. "Dr. Sheppard was a fair-minded person," said Hairston. "He was, to me, the one person that was more aware of the times than anybody else on the school board." According to Sue Carson, director of schoolcommunity relations for the school system, Garlene Grogan, now vice chairman of the board, will take assume the chairmanship. The board also has the option IJ3 0'S*a>.rr> ?sr so'Hf:- ? & Q$MfVMrn 4 .4c*J ?'? ?NC(B, .. o< 'V Ml 41, ',/ NT MV^f ? nmifi?TtMn% |1 H.,l(C,^ *m( ??r ?s & ? * f|l ' -ft >V * N \ f The Chronicle, Thursday, March 15, 1984-Page A3 \ NMMNMNNtMMIIIMIlMIMIMIIIMMMUIMHHimtmMtUltMMIIIMMMINMMINIMIMIItHIIIIIII will have to march to a different beat. He is in a district that has three strong aldermen." Hauser declined to respond to Little's charges but noted in a letter to the Chronicle (on Page A4) that he voted for single-member House districts in Forsyth, Durham, Wake, Mecklenburg, Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson counties. He said he also voted for single-member ' Senate districts in Eastern North Carolina and in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties. Little said he is not interested in running against Hauser and doesn't know of anyone who has expressed an interest in his seat. draising campaign may become disillusioned at the recent turn of events concerning the new Y. Since the black community was promised a building, she said, and since more than 1,500 black people pledged to support the building financially, to renege at this point might hinder the Y in collecting the pledges. "People thought they were giving so we could have the building we promised them," Roseboro said. "We should have a nice facility, too. Why put up a mediocre building over here when they (the Central YMCA) have a nice facility over there?" Roseboro and Allen both say they don't know what _iiappens next. The lan<LTof-the new Winston Lake YMCA on Waterworks Road has been cleared. "We don't know what we will get," Allen said. "It's like two people fighting five wars." HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUMIIIIIMIIMIMIIIIIIIimillllllMMIIIIIIIIIMIIflllimittllllllllllllllMUIUII iiiuiMaiMiiiaiiitiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiMMiitiiiiiiiiiiMMiimiiicMiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiii _c _i .u ui ciccuug anuuici vice cuan man, \.dnuu saiu. The executive committee of the Democratic Party will then recommend to the county commissioners a person to serve the rest of Sheppard's term, which expires in December. He was not eligible for re-election. A rosary service will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday at Our Lady of Fatina Chapel, and a funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Saint Benedicts Catholic Church. Sheppard donated his body to science. ^L ^ijj - ' ,jV<i v^v^B w. ; b\, /"'^H gj H| ft ; 9 v. 4 .. * .f ?
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