Bullish On Winston
Gil McGregor, who once pitched basketballs
and grabbed rebounds, now pitches sales and
grabs convention business.
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By ROBIN ADAMS .
Chronicle Staff Writer slone
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Notes we've gathered while following the are n<
campaign trail:
The local Jesse Jackson For President campaign
office was scheduled to open Thursday, I
said Alderman Larry Little, unofficial chair- I |
man of the Forsyth County Jackson for Presi- I %
dent Committee. I '
The office will be located at 112 W. Fourth
St. and has already attracted a steady stream of
well-wishers.
Working as coordinators for the local work.
Jackson campaign will be aldermen Larry A s
Womble and Virginia Newell, school board of Fo
member Beaufort Bailey, County?Commis- Verne
Party leaves Sheppi
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Democratic Party's Executi
Committee decided in a closed meeting Monday not
Fill the school board seat left vacant by the death of D
y William Sheppard.
"It was a unanimous recommendation by the boa
that the seat be left vacant," said Earline Parmon, tl
committee's chairman.
"One reason we made that deCjsion is that tl
legislature will soon have before it a request from tl
school board ... to go to an odd-numbered board," si
said. "This is a good opportunity to see how well an od
numbered board will work. Second, with the primary :
close it would have been ditticuit to go tnrougn
McGregor's bullish
By JOHN SLADE
Chronicle Assistant Editor
As sales manager for the Chamber of Commerce
Convention and Visitors Bureau, Gil McGregor conside
himself an "ambassador of good will."
"My most immediate concern," says the 34-year-o
native of Raeford, "is to increase the convention
association meetings, group seminars, et cetera, held
Winston-Salem."
And though McGregor concedes that the city couldr
accommodate a convention of 20,000, because of limit
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selection process."
? When asked if the committee made its decision in order
ve to avoid creating p&rty factions, Parmon said, "I can
to assure you that our decision was not a political decision
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capacity as the party's chairman, Parmon added, "Fillrr\
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he upset in the party and we don't need anything divisive."
Lone black school board member Beaufort Bailey,
he who was elected vice chairman of the ^board Monday
he night, said he thinks the Democratic Party made a wise
he decision.
d- "It was a wise idea to do that now," said Bailey. "I
so don't think anybody would take the seat for only eight
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parking and hotel facilities, group meetings of 1,000 to
? 2,500 are never a problem.
"We need to get our share," he say$, "national,
rs regional and state, because the business doei exist."
Id McGregor also expresses a strong interest in attracting
is, black business to the city, and says he's striving to bring
in black organizations, including fraternities and sororities,
to town as well as other groups. 1
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Rf JHT Chronicle Staff Writer
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^^1 Despite concern in the black communi^
J 11 *y to l^e contrary, the yet-to-be|
constructed Winston Lake YMCA will be
I the high-quality facility promised last
I year, said YMCA officials earlier this
I Those including William Clingman,
president of the Metropolitan
YMCA, said Tuesday morning, in a
special meeting with the Chronicle, that, '
I excluding a few the
| Winston Lake be built as
I planned, and including many of the frills
| that some say the Metro YMCA board,
w^jc^ governs county-wide Y operations,
3 | had considered eliminating; ^
I "We are planning to go forward with
m I everything as originally promised,'* ClI
ingman said.
I Three weeks ago, Dr. Harvey Allen and
\ I Marie Roseboro, both members of the
p.m. on Channel 26 (photo I Patterson Avenue Y's board of manage
ment, complained that the Winston Lake
facility, which will succeed the 33-yearold
Patterson Y, faced losing many of the
fMturpc if nrioinallv u/ac claf#?H fn hav#?
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Among the corners to be cut, said Allen
and Roseboro, were a raised indoor track,
an observation deck for the handball
pA Anpnc court, a pool-cleaning system, bleachers,
L/C landscaping, kitchen equipment, the
amount of activity space initially prescribed
and a payment-and-performance bond
that would make the contractor or ar>ublicly
announced that he will chitect liable for whatever might go wrong
n and is raising funds for the with the building rather than the YMCA.
But Clingman, as well as Bryan Cori
Robinson is not connected mier, executive director of the
:kson campaign. * Metropolitan YMCA; Delray Hartsfield,
nson has no capacity in this chairman of the Patterson board, and
le said. "You can't support Richard Glover, executive director of the
d Ronald Reagan. You can't predominantly black Patterson Avenue
:kson and Jesse Helms, too. branch, now say that all those things and <
is trying to do is infiltrate us. more will be offered in the Winston Lake ;
e will be alienated after the facility. ;
mention and that he can sway "Some things are better," Cormier <
pporters to Reagan."... said. I
o, campaign workers for the Added Clingman: "The building is ac- s
hopefuls seeking the nomina- tually larger. The day care facility has |
se see page A12 been?expanded?to?meet?federal
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facility
;s'frills'
standards." i
The major change in the building,
Glover said, is a reduction by 3,000
square feet of space in the basement, part
of a back lobby and a hallway.
"We thought it best to cut those kinds
of areas instead of program space," Cormier
said.
Several weeks ago, however, Cormier
said that several of the Winston Lake Y's
architectural and recreational features
were too expensive and had to be
eliminated in an effort to bring the
building back to within its budget.
The costs of the kitchen equipment,#
landscaping, operable walls, bleachers
and pool-cleaning system total $110,800.
Plugging the extras back into the facility
means the Winston Lake Y will have to
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"A negative seed has been planted
that the black community is being
shortchanged." * * j
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spend more than the $2.8 million \
budgeted for contractor's and architect's /
fees. Instead of $3.15 million for the total
project, including fundraising campaign
charges, the Winston Lake facility will be
budgeted $3.16 million, Cormier said.
"They are getting $191,000 over the
planned budget," Cormier said.
Where will the extra money come
from?
Simply put, Cormier said, most of the
money pledged during last year's fun- *
draising drive will have to be collected.
"We have to have a very good ratio of
collection to pledges," Cormier said. "If
we don't collect, then we have a
problem."
Still, contend Roseboro and Allen, the
Winston Lake Y, which was the flagship
of the YMCA's fundraising cafnpaign last
/ear, is ryot getting all of the money it
;hould be getting. They argue that the
>3.16 million Patterson is getting from the
vletro Y includes money that belonged
olely to the Winston Lake Y in the first
Mace.
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