Kinder Camp ' [-Ml Thomas Amos takes the driver's seat during a recent visit to a city fire station with the Patterson Y's Kinder Camp. Magazine Section, SI. Winstoi f - VOL. X NO. 47 U.S.P.S. No. 067910 sangg'uJ^4*KlUrr3EMOgMHMMWWKBg?Hai I > I *I > i jgulUj,. j^|^5*> "*" Our New Home After months of planning and remodeling, the oid Davis Discoui building ha&Jtofiome the Chronicle's new home. We mov^d in new off ices eT?T7 Nft-lberty St. In early June and held an open Clifton Graves: Only his turf is changing By ROBIN ADAMS what I call a strategic retreat. I'm Chronicle Staff Writer going further up South to deal When Clifton E. Graves Jr. wi,h s?me Professional develop passed the Connecticut bar exam me last summer, he reached a Graves, who has served as afcrossroads: Should he go to Con- ^attve action o icer at necticut, the home of his parents Wtnston-Salem State University and siblings, to practice law, or for'hree a"d one-half years, and. should he stay in North Carolina, ^.fore 'ha'- worked with his birthplace, and continue his Winston-Salem s Legal Aid community and political ac- Society, will be going to New o Haven, Conn., in August to After months of deliberating, beconle an a",s'ant c"y attorney. he's made his choice. A"d- for the f,rst ''me s,nce he Graves is packing his bags - 8raduated from the Georgetown not because he's given up the University School of Law, he will fight, but only because he wants officially be titled Attorney Cl.fto change the turf. ton E. Graves Jr. If it were not for the license, I "Don't think for one moment wouldn't be going anywhere," that I'm running away from the said the always sharply-dressed struggle or being run out of town," Graves said. "This is Please see page A3 Winston-Salem ys housing By JOHN SLADE needed to be don Chronicle Assistant Editor t.^ patch here This article is the first in a four-part series. Betty Jean McFadden has rented her house at 948 decaying woo t 20th St. for the last 10 years. She says she tries to ____ keep it up the best she can, and even planted her own grass. No place like "When I moved in here, he (the realtor) said he _ would fix it up, she says. t4/ had to fix it up. And /. . .. How does rent; try to stop up the rat holes. He gave me some ... . ? that it has to be . u a u-. u . .u r slumlord who ca Her gray and white house sits at the corner of 20th Street, high atop a hill. And its occupant, a r^ponsi e ^nan heavy-set woman who speaks in an angry rags its eet. n monotone, is one of the few residents in the S 1^. neighborhood who will speak her mind about the ^, ar . ... . .. say about slum conditions she lives in. . . represents has th< When she requested that her house be repaired, dard houses in th says McFadden, who pays $80 a month in rent, the tions citywide, h manager of the property sent around a surveyor. not as big as it s< She says she was later told it would cost as much to great deal, and I build a new house as it would to do all the work that p|? t i CHANCELLOR SEARCH: a??? Sunday In The P Retired educator Joseph Lowery past, including a racial incident a Tanglewood Park. > Vl Profile, A7. i-S!a lpm C.l The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly WiMtoji-SaLeak N.C,, Thursday, July 19, K l 11 {1111 iff J lb \ l l ;ii ^ i .1\m i ^ _ it Tire for our friends and readers last Sunday. For more inf to otf ,r build inland hoyvjt c^rje to be, and the Chronicled house see the specfaf section inside(photo by James Par By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer : DURHAM -- As its trustees begin the search for the next per son to rur| Winston-Salem state University, they might B^B consider what happened under V similar circumstances at another oHh H predominantly black, stateV ^^^B supported school. V f ^^^B In fact, North Carolina CenV tral University Durham, liberal arts that { both undergraduate and graduate B B^^B degrees and boasts student enrollment twice WSSU's, s//7/ ;^P(Eb ''BBBI doesn't have a permanent chief ^ executive. "The search was bungled," BbHMI l^e ^ev> Lorenzo Lynch, pastor of White Rock Baptist Clifton Graves: He's leaving Church and chairperson of an ad town but not giving up the hoc community group that tried A#*ii. V ?. ? ? ? r. .11.. . _ ? 1 1. ? ypiiviu uy <#ucv.c>muuy iu piay a roie in Parker). the selection process. "The backstage politics were very,, very s a vicious cycle 1 A ie to hers. and a patch there. That ain't hit- P""""""""H ' says McFadden, pointing to the A f^T ^ cour^?*1 hat makes up her porch top and Ai n>t^ inspector1; to all parti *% sSla a notice o -? ?????? J ~^g N the own* * p|y. al property become so deteriorated ??? condemned? Who is at fault? A in only see a dollar sign? An ir- M it? A city housing department that A hearing d just how severe is the problem of \ Winston-Salem? I?J lerman Virginia Newell has a lot to I"-"~H i housing, since the ward she m orc*er, 5 highest concentration of substan- ? inspector! e city. As for poor housing condi- owner hat Jewell says, "It's a problem, but jmetimes appear. We have done a Anytime the housing won't deny that." lase see page A10 V I BE LOWHHHBi hronicle 1984 35 cents 42 Paa^& This waafc? flfflBSHMBBSiiB Ii-ir-1 iin r?i?inn m n i i &*? -A. ''.' * j. ex ui yr" ~ ^? 1 I Food Lion *' boycott on By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer The NAACP's boycott against Food Lion Inc. grocery stores here is on. But if you re expecting traditional picket lines in front of any of the seven KT| local stores, they aren't there just yet. Instead of hitting the stree^, the NAACP has decided to wage an educational\attle first. M ^ "The first thing we have to do is to tell the people the facts about Food Lion," said Pat Hairston, presiI . denl of Winston-Salem's NAACP chapter. "You I can't get people to boycott a store if they don't know I why they are doing it. People are educated now; they don't just operate on emotions." The NAACP began passing out fliers Wednesday with a Food Lion logo on the front framed by a red circle with a diagonal line across it ~ the universal symbol for no. "We're gonna try it this way first," Hairston said, "and, if this doesn't work, then we will put up picket signs." The two stores Hairston said he will target first are the Waughtown and East Winston Shopping Center ormation on the stores, both of which attract large numbers of black i history, please customers. ker). Please see page A3 o years, still no chancellor strong in that search process." had been vice chancellor of Before Dr. Albert Whiting, university relations and a who had been at the school for 16 physical education professor, has years', retired 13 months ago, served as interim chancellor at Central began a long, sometimes NCCU, a post many feel he will bitter search for his replacement. hold for at least another year. That search has lasted more than two years (Whiting announced Did The Search Committee ?????????- Err? I Why hasn't a permanent Vr chancellor been named at Central? It depends on whom you as k THl MAPCH FOB A CHAHCHLOB Some erj,jcs ^ |he committee erred in the process of his retirement one year before he ,ooking for a chancellor because left), pitting faculty member jt didn't develop specific enough against faculty member, ad- guidelines and criteria; others feel ministrator against administrator lbe commjttee was successful but inH tVi*? cr\mmnnifi/ oooiricf KntK ",v ? that the University of North groups. Carolina system's general adTo many, it has been unsuc- ministration and Dr. William Fricessful. day, president of the UNC For the past 13 months, Dr. system, were hesitant to make a Leroy Walker,, a track.coach who- Please see page JV2 s lri Housing Code Compliance jj A public hearing is held I inspection is ? by the Public Works Com1. \ of the Board of ___ Aldermen. i letter with the goarcj Gf Alderman s report is sent J \ consider the adoption of ^ an ordinance. hearing Is sent p=? |f fhe ordinance is I it does not com- O L>-