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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
It's official.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Boai
of Education decided in a special meeting Mo
day night that two of the eight senior higl
prescribed under the new school plan will 1
headed by black men.
John Jessup, principal at Kernersville Juni<
High School, will become principal of M
Tabor High School and Benjamin Warre
principal at Kennedy High School, will take tl
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school opens in the fall.
Presently, there are no black senior hif
principals in the city-county system.
In another personnel shift, Dr. Barba
Backlash: Coi
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Last Monday morning, John Shelton, own
of Shelton's Gulf on Claremont Avenue, call
A** . /. the local Coors diitributors and told them
, remove all Coors products from his store.
"Our sale of Coors came to a squeakii
halt," Shelton said. "Some of our customc
would come in and ask, 'You mean you st
selling that beer after what Bill Coors (cha
man and chief executive officer, of the Adol]
Coors Co.) said?' 1 wasn't movins the Drodu<
so it had to go."
Shelton said one of Coors* competitors wrc
him a letter telling him about the statemer
William Coors, who is often outspoke
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Local Jackson campaign
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
It had all of the makings of a political
rally ? with a few tried-and-true prayermeeting
traditions thrown in for good
measure.
Folks, young and old, were available
for handshaking. Babies with rosy cheeks
just ripe for kissing were there, too, as
well as a dozen or more inspirational
speakers and tables lined with campaign
^ literature.
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the official opening of Winston-Salem's
Jesse Jackson for President campaign office
last Thursday night.
The normally quiet downtown area
hummed with people coming and going.
Most of the ones who filled the freshlydecorated
office at 112 W. Fourth St.
have never before worked on a political
The school/
By JOHN SLADE
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Though area leaders and ministers po
that they in no way oppose prayer, they i
the idea of organized, spoken praye
schools.
Last week, the U.S. Senate failed to
a 22-year-old Supreme Court ban ag,
sanctioned prayeT in schools. The 56-44 v
of school prayer fell short of the require
majority to send the constitutional chan
House.
"1 don't think prayer has any place i
school system," says Barbara Anderson,
the East Winston Branch public librar
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Phillips, former principal at Lowrance Elemen?
tary School who has been on loan to industry
for the past year, will become an administrative
rd intern at the system's central office,
n- Once the changes are made, 12 of the 52
hs public schools in Winston-Salem and Forsyth
He County will have black principals, five of them
females on the elementary level,
or The appointment of two black high school
It. principals and a black administrative intern is
n, viewed by the NAACP as encouraging, though
He Walter Marshall, acting president of the local
?n chapter, told the board that his organization
will continue to monitor closely the reorganiza5h
tion of the system to create four-year high
schools.
ra "Even though we come to praise, we have to
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[>rs sales to black
made in February before a group of 100 minori?
ty businessmen in Denver,
er In the speech, Coors was quoted in the Rocky
ed Mountain News as saying that "blacks lack 'into
tellectual capacity* and that one af the best
things they (slave traders) did for you is to drag
ng your ancestors over here in chains." He further
;rs said that businesses in black-ruled Zimbabwe
ill were failing because, "It's not that the dedicair
tion among the blacks is less; in fact, it's
oh greater. They lack the intellectual capacity to
:t, succeed, and it's taking them down the tubes."
"I didn't try to hide the letter," Shelton said.
>te A drop in the sales of Denver-based Adolph
its Coors Co. beer, the nation's No. 5 brewery, is
n, not isolated to Shelton's store.
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Take Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, for instance.
"Usually, I just go and vote," she said,
"But Jesse Jackson got me out here. |B
Everybody is saying that black people are m
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not ready for a black man to run seriously
as a candidate, but during slavery, I'm
sure somebody said blacks were not ready
to be free.
"I think we are ready and I think
Jackson is the man. I wouldn't be here if I Velma Y
didn't think so. I like winners." is not g<
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think our public school system oui
religious doctrines. The public schoo
int out that exposed to many points of view ... j
do differ on be practiced in the home."
r in public But others, such as Dr. J. Ray B
Shiloh Baptist Church, and the Rev.
overturn a chaplain at Winston-Salem Sta
ainst state- disagree, arguing that the public scho
'ote in favor place as any to pray,
d two-thirds "I'm a little disappointed," says
ge on to the Senate's vote, "because since that
decision was made America is not the
n the public knew when I came here."
librarian at- Rodney, who grew up in Georgi
y. "I don't says he and many of his classmates p
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continue to remind you that we are not
satisfied," he said. "We are evaluating the
whole plan and not one aspect of it."
Marshall said the NAACP has divided the
reorganization plan into five parts: planning,
who's in charge of plants (the principals), who
will guide, teach, coach, feed and transfer the
students; what children are taught, and how the /
children are taught.
"We feel shafted as far as the reorganization
was concerned," Marshall said. "But we will be
watching you and evaluating the other phases."
Marshall also told the Chronicle that there
still aren't enough black principals.
"You have to look at the whole picture," he
said. "Of the 52 schools, only 12 will have
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Dick Zeitvogel, president of Alpine Beverage
Distributors Inc., local distributors of Coors
beer, said that local black nightclubs The Black
Velvet Lounge and The Cobra Lounge also
rgpotted problems trying to sell Coors beer over
the weekend.
"In terms of damage to Coors, 1 can't put a
dollar amount on what those misconstrued
statements have done to business," Zeitvogel
said. "The perception by the black community
to Coors and the effect on the black community
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and religion can "The mere fact to have the op
says Rodney. "When I was z
Sutler, pastor of Canton, Ohio), before each <
Cedric Rodney, Prayer has contributed great
ite University, life."
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to link what he calls the social
Rodney of the ty to the lack of prayer in the
Supreme Court "My personal feeling is that
: same America I nation," says Butler. "The hi]
attributed to no prayer in our
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Political tidbits we've gathered while
[lowing the campaign trail: sa
The Forsyth Association of Classroom P(
achers has released a slate of enrsements
that include black candidates
>rdon Slade Jr. and Evelyn Terry for St
tool board and Mose' Brown for coun- m
commissioner.
CCF, said the candidates were chosen
the basis of personal interviews with ^
i Political Action Committee for
ucation (PACE) and a questionnaire &c
spared by PACE. ^
Anderson said no consideration was
en to a person's race. "We are conned
about the issues," he said. T1
Slade, who has also been endorsed by
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public schools. ^ 44I am for pray
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school system. as a political thin
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phanie Mills entertain in racist
on Page A4.
Jrovvn, Terry
endorsements
e Voice of Minority Contractors, said
j views the FACT endorsement as a plus
>r his campaign. "This will help," he
id, "I felt good about getting their sup)rt."...
Speaking of endorsements, Dr. Arnold
[>ckett, professor at Winston-Salem
ate University, and Cheryl Harry, adinistrative
assistant at Human Resource
onsultants Inc., can be seen on local TV
mwyirra1 ft* Mibti mmimub&'UH" --~
date- Recent^ potts "sftovr
at Knox and state Attorney General
ufus Edmisten, also a candidate for
wernor, are running neck and neck for
e Democratic nomination. s\
The local Jesse Jackson campaign of:e
opened to a spirited full house last
tursday night and that spirit apparently
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iT go to church," he says,
he Senate's failure to obtain a two4
4lpt-dnwn " and rharord Prpcidrnf
playing politics by yielding to
to enhance his relationship with
at the president and others may be
what bothers Beaufort Bailey, vice
local school board,
er, totally -- I was raised that way,"
it I am for prayer if people like
nd Jesse Helms are not just using it
g to get votes. I do question Helms'
tives."
lease see page A2
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