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Roundtable's iiniininniiiimntHHtwMMiinMuimiinniiitiiiHiiimii tie said the two-year-old black political organization decided not to make the endorsements public because the city's .daily newspapers seem more concerned about who the Roundtable didn't endorse versus who it endorsed. "We won't release anything to the press, period," said Little. "We are going right to the public. In '82, when the Roundtable was formed and we endorsed our first slate of candidates, the daily newspapers tried to create a white back 1 ash about U/f)Qt t Vl?? D J ? mv nuuuuiauit uiuil l UU. When they saw who we had endorsed, the daily newspapers would call up certain other black people to go against what we had done. They would play that nigger game all weekend. Liberty-Tr; niMiiiiiiiuiiiitMiiiiiiiiHtMiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii the amount he describes. Last year, city voters approv ment bond package, $800,000 c improvements downtown. Thn ment: the financial district ale around the Stevens Center ar Trade Street business district, I streets north of Fifth Street. The proposal, unveiled by lo 200 downtown merchants and considerably more than the $8 much as $4 million over a five Most of the proposal was pi and city officials say they're st sion of the plan. Newman recommended grac on a district-by-district basis, 1 to determine which areas get \ Newman's team of architect Street district's old storefronts mosphere of small-town Ami which pnce flourished there. "One of the things they're capitalize on what is already ' city's economic development d , time-type look. wjtlU" Existing parking spaces w< ? where trees would be planti lights and door awnings woe Gate" marking entry into the erected at the intersection of giant shed is envisioned at Se smen and vendors could sell t Unlike similar areas in ot Salem probably won't cordon a pedestrian mall. "1 really don't see that hap shows us what happened on " New and use We know what the Hi Price, Selection, Ser\ If find you the right vel Come in and let us YOUR Downtown D< ^ you'll be glad you di lllll IIH. ~ . i choices seer* IIIIIIMUIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIilllllllllllillllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIHI "This time we are taking the endorsements door-to-door." Little said the group plans to print 30,000 ballots listing the endorsements and hand them out in the black community. Furqan wouldn't say when the ballots would be made public but said they would be distributed as close to Tuesday, Nov. 6, as possible. When asked if the late distribution would hinder the effectiveness of the endbrsements, Furqan said, "1 think it will be more of a help. Only the public will have the information and won't have to read any misrepresentations in the newspaper." Said Little: "There is some question as to whether it will be as effective as it has been in the ade area char miiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ed a $23 million economic develop >f which was earmarked for physics le areas were targeted for redevelop >ng Third Street, an "arts" distric id Sawtooth Arts Center, and th , encompassing Trade and Libert cal architect Mike Newman to aboi businessmen last week, would coi 00,000 approved by the voters ? s -ypar period, in fart, resented in the form of a slide sho ill waiting for a formal, written ve lual implementation of the propos leaving it to the Board of Alderme priority. s would take advantage of the Tra< and narrow streets to recreate an a srica and the small-time business proposing is to look at the area ai ?L r n irr Crinrlo W/illiomr t i licit;, says i i itua t* uuauio, i lirector. "-They're thinking of an ol ?me brick sidewalks. . Duld be bSfved u? provide be sd, while turn-of-the-century str< ild reinforce the image. A "Libei downtown business district would Liberty and Seventh streets, whih venth and Trade streets where era heir goods. her cities, Williams says, Winstc off the Trade Street district to ma jpening," she says, "because histc rrade Street (when the idea was tri itown J Bernard Davis mi Lorenzo Worthy :d Cars and Trucks Downtown Deal means... nee, and the knowledge to hide for your budget. make OUR Downtown Deal sal. Ask for us by name ... d. IIMNIIHIMIHMMHIHHIilMMHMIMMMMIMHIHIMHMMMMNMII Si From Page A1 IMtlllllltllllllllHIimiMllilMIMItUIIIHtMMIMMIMIMtlMIIMH > past, but if the forces are there, that may not be a problem." The Roundtable's endorsements this year have been an issue that almost dissolved the group. The Roundtable was formed in 1982 as an ad hoc comfnittee of community leaders who sought to lend political direction to the black community. But during last spring, when ! ?u~ A?: A?i . _ 1 iiic giuup ucnucu iu cnuursc Democrat Tom Gilmore for governor over over Rufus Edmisten and Eddie KnoxT^some members of the group, who were serving as campaign workers for J either Edmisten or Knox, did not ; publicly support the i Roundtable's decision. iges From Page A1 lllllllllimillllllllllllllllllllMlltlMUMiailMIIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIII one time before) and that was pre >- Financing the interior and faca il pensive undertaking, however, an )- to carry out alone. :t "1 believe the city, as well as ie Miller says. Most of the busin y however, don't have the financial of renovation Newman envisions, it Williams says that's why the cit st to downtown businesses" to unde is One such incentive still under c Am .. M * I ...UIML > unci cm, laA-CACiujJi iuan& which > w the renovated property, r- Six of the city's banks are prepa but it may be several weeks befoi al 'They already are in agree ;n something," Williams says, "bi specifics" of how much money ei ie gram. it- Once the specific details are wc es city planners with more details Williams says the proposal will id Civic Ventures, the city alderm h? visory board. id- .If all goes well there, the prpp consideration, where Williams is ids . proval by the end of January, jet In the meantime, Miller says, tl rty improve business conditions in th be kind of massive expenditures whi i a quires. ft- While he praises city workers shop swept and clean, he says th >n- little cleaning of its own. ke "Get the prostitutes off the s business when people are aware < >ry particularly care to come into 1 ied situation." ^Hk-'y^-I ^B ^B ^ B/ a I I (j^L ) I '^ i:;. . vj^K...' : j| /n^V I . .* ''j^B*.,:. fy.ttwy :-^Hk ' '. j|^| w/ m / X ^^B M B/Jf I ^ -^B \ ItiMMMMIMMMMtllflMtMMIIIMNtllMIIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIAII When the Roundtable endorsed Rufus Edmisten over Eddie Knox in the June runoff, Victor Johnson, a Roundtable member and a Knox organizer Who said he disagreed with the manner in which the Roundtable made the endorsements, marked out Edmisten's name on' the Roundtable's ballots and replaced it with Knox's name at some precincts in the black community. Johnson has since resigned -from the Roundtable. Little said he doesn't expect any trouble this time within the organization because of the people who received the endorsements. :tty much a disaster." de improvements will be an exd one that the city seems unable the owners, should do more," esses operating in the district, resources necessary for the kind y "needs to offer some incentive xtake such costly improvements, onsideration is to provide lowvould be secured by the deeds to ring a tax-exempt financing plan, e the details become known, ment that there needs to be ut they haven't agreed on the ach bank will commit to the pro>rked out, and Newman provides t shnnt what chmilrl hp Hnnp be submitted to Winston-Salem en's economic development adosal will pass to the aldermen for 5 hopeful it will receive final apt he city can take immediate steps to ie Trade Street district without the ich the redevelopment program refor keeping the street outside his e police department needs to do a treets," he advises. 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