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By JOHN SLADE
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Since security personnel were hired three weeks ago to
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"And let's hope it stays that way," says Richard
Glover, executive director of the Patterson Avenue Y.
The Winston Lake facility will replace the one on Patterson
Avenue.
2 Meanwhile, the Police Department is no closer to solving
the case now than it was when the first theft occurred
in March. As of June 4, the department put the investigation
on its inactive shelf because of no leads or suspects,
says Lt. C.H. CuningharrVof the Criminal Investigations
Division.
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Only 125 votes stood between Pat Hairston and a spot
on the ballot in November's general election.
Hairston, a retired loading dock worker who serves as
president of the local chapter of the NAACP, says he has
worked more to further the cause of civil rights in Forsyth
County than any other individual.
But he lost in May's Democratic primary, Hairston
says, because the Black Leadership Roundtable Coalition,
a local group of black political activists of which he
is a part, endorsed both him and Mose' Belton Brown, a
black woman, in the county commissioners race.
Brown edged Hairston for the last Democratic spot or
the November ballot 12,128 votes to 12,003.
"When the Roundtable told the black community tc
give Mose' Brown or any other candidate the same sup
port they gave me, I knew I had lost," Hairston says.
Because he has a reputation for addressing issues thai
concern the black community, Hairston says, he knew his
white support would be limited, so he counted heavily or
the black community, where he is well-known and liked,
for support.
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aren't the culprits
their investigation, some have speculated that the teenagers
who frequent Winston Lake Park during the summer
months are the logical culprits. Others strongly
disagree.
East Ward Alderman Virginia K. Newell, who lives
near the park, calls the idea ridiculous.
"I can't substantiate it," she says, "but it appears to
me that that type of vandalism and theft is far beyond
any children."
Among the items taken since March in five separate incidents
were a $950 concrete jackhammer, a $935 concrete
vibrator and a $2,350 earth tamp (used to pack
dirt). A storage trailer was also set afire. Thefts and
damages together have totaled more than $18,000, says
Allen Jones of Fowler-Jones Construction Co., the contractor
building the Y.
Newell says she thinks a more logical suspect would be
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to white voters, received the endorsement from the Forsyth
Association of Classroom Teachers and was assured
a certain number of white supporters.
But when the Roundtable endorsed both Hairston and
Brown, Hairston says, she was given instant credibility in
the black community and that, coupled with her white
support, gave her the win. Had she not received the
Roundtable endorsement, Hairston feels, his support in
the black community would have been enough to assure
him of a win.
The reason for developing the Roundtable, says
Hairston, was to start an organization with the primary
aim of endorsing candidates and giving direction to the
black community during elections.
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and how they stand on issues of concern to the
> black community. If candidates didn't measure up to
those standards, Hairston says, they wouldn't receive the
Roundtable's support.
At least, he says, that's the way it was supposed to be.
? "We haven't done that," Hairston says,
i The main issue, says Hairston, is not whether the
Roundtable should have endorsed Brown or any of the
other candidates -- but whether black political groups
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Keeping Healthy
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Mabel Robinson, one of the production's
choreographers, appears on B1 (photos by
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AnctWrries Forsyth
Edmisten
wins runoff
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
State Attorney General Rufus Edmisten edged former
Charlotte Mayor Eddie Knox in a June 5 runoff to win
the Democratic nomination for governor and end a hardfought,
sometimes bitter campaign between the two.
According tQ unofficial results released early Wednesday,
with 2,350 of the state's 2,352 precincts reporting,
Edmisten totaled 352,108 votes, or 51.9 percent, Knox
326,442 votes, or 48.1 percent.
Unlike most urban areas in the state, Forsyth County
handed Edmisten a win. With 79 of the county's 80
precincts reporting, Edmisten garnered 11,456 votes here
as compared to Knox's 10,194.
Edmisten's strong Forsyth County showing, said
Alderman Larry Womble, the attorney general's local cocampaign
coordinator, can be attributed to hard work.
"A lot of people in this campaign were the same kinds
of people who were involved in my campaign in the
Southeast Ward when they said it couldn't be done,"
Womble said. 44... We take campaigns to the streets,
knock on doors, work the shopping centers, man the
telephones. We work, work, work.
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Police procedure
angers local man
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
It didn't matter to Garland Brice how fast he was going.
It was an emergency. He didn't have much time.
He raced from his driveway and drove down Thurmond
Street, doubling the speed limit and not remembering
how he got from his home on Foxwood Place to
Thurmond, but depending on instinct to get him to his
grandmother's house ? a route he had traveled many
times. . ;
As he approached the intersection of Thurmond Street
and Northwest Boulevard, he says, he slowed down.
Stopped. Looked both ways. And raced through.
When he got within blocks of the home of his 99-yearold
grandmother, he says, all he could think about was
her lying on the floor bleeding and the distraught voice of
his blind mother nleadinc with him over the telenhone to
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35, has been named head librarian at the Forsyth
County Public Library's East Winston branch.
<4This is a new experience for me," says Jackson, a
three-year Winston-Salem resident who assumes the 3
post after working with the library's Children's $
Outreach Department. "I'll be going through a lear- jj
ning process." i
"We feel that Tim is needed there, so we put him
there," says Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, head of library \
extensions. "We are always making changes in this
system and the changes that have been made have all i
worked out."
Jackson succeeds Barbara Anderson, who will join j
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Among other changes at the East Winston branch,
says Sprinkle-Hamlin, are a new look as well as new jj
equipment and materials.
Carpeting has been added to the once-bare floors,
new furniture is in place, an Apple II computer has j|
been installed in the Adult Room and another jj
ordered for the Children's Room, the circulation l
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