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VOL. XI NO. 27 U S P S. No. 067911
Sentinel announces
it's closing in March
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
After more than 99 years of publication,
Winston-Salem's afternoon^ daily newspaper, The
Sentinel, will close March 29, said Joe Doster,
publisher of The Sentinel and the Winston-Salem
Journal.
"I regret to announce that The Sentinel will cease
publication after the March 29, 1985, edition,"
Doster said in a press conference at the newspapers'
offices Tuesday afternoon. "But the WinstonSalem
Journal will continue publishing mornings
and Sunday."
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i ne ioremost reason Media General, parent company
of both the Journal and Sentinel, decided to
stop publication, said Doster, is because it wants to
offer the "best newspaper possible to WinstonSalem
and northwest North Carolina.
"We feel we can best accomplish that objective
by combining our energies and resources in one
newspaper," he said.
The other key element in the decision, said
Doster, was a problem that has plagued most of the
nation's afternoon newspapers -- a decline in reader
interest. While the Journal's circulation has grown
from 71,000 to 74,000 since 1974, The Sentinel's
has dropped by 10,000 over the same period, he
said;
"It's an irreversible trend," said Doster. "It was
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was no practical way to reverse the trend."
Closing The Sentinel will result in the loss of approximately
37 jobs ? 23 full-time and 14 part-time
positions. A breakdown of the layoffs by department
includes 16 full-time and three part-time positions
in the editorial department, five full-time jobs
in the production department, and two full-time
and 11 part-time jobs in the building and delivery
department, where many of the paper's black
o employees work.
Employees were notified Tuesday morning
whether they would keep their jobs. Only one black
full-time employee was laid off, but no figures were
available on the number of black part-time workers
who lost jobs, said Doster.
The laid-off employees will be given 10 weeks'
severance pay, plus one month's pay for every year
they have worked with the company. The company
also will offer some eligible employees the option of
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(photo by James Parker).
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By ALLEN JOHNSON
Chronicle Executive Editor
When I get married (many years hence), I'm going
to send a story and photos to publishing
magnate John H. Johnson (no relation).
You see, Johnson's daughter Linda was married
in November and Johnson, who founded and
owns Ebony and Jet magazines, made sure the
nuptials didn't go unnoticed.
The Nov. 19 Jet devoted 14 pages and 35 photos
to the wedding, seven of them in color, two of
them covering entire pages.
The text included such vivid passages as:
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By ROBIN ADAMS p
Chronicle Assistant Editor tj
Former President Jimmy Carter rates either an
A or an F in civil rights, depending on whom you
ask.
To some, he ranks as high as John F. Kennedy.
To others, he ranks at the bottom of the list of S?
Democratic presidents since World War II.
"He was probably as four-square behind any H
requests from the black community as any presi- fi<
dent," said Donald Schoonmaker, a Wake Forest pi
University political science professor. "He sup- sc
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"The only champagne served was the
prestigious Dom Perignon plus an unlimited variety
of other beverages."
"... Catered chefs showed off their culinary
craftsmanship as they whipped up tempura and
uniformed waiters circulated through the c^owd^ I
with trays of cheese puffs and mushrooms stuffed I
with crabmeat."
"A 10-tiered wedding cake towered 8 feet as the
6-foot-3 groom escorted his bride to it for the
traditional cake-cutting. The cake was covered
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Former President Jimmy Cartt
the relationship between the Rea
ministration and the South
government to a rekindled affair.
"... The Reagan administrat
pretty much climbed back into b
the South African governmer
Carter told a group of reporters a
conference last Tuesday afternooi
his lecture at Wake Forest Univei
would like to see our governmer
very clearly on the record that
demn apartheid in any form and i
upon full rights for the black p<
South Africa."
Carter, appearing more relaxed
did as president and flashing his
stnile often, visited Wake Forest a:
the Irving E. Carlyle Lecture Seri
Known throughout the world
foreign policy achievements, Ca
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has and will continue to make ai
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Africa.
ig blacks very high
orted anti-poverty programs, urban revitalizaon
and food stamps and a large number of his
olicies were devoted toward the black working
ass."
But local businessman Carlton Holland, a
)rmer employee in the Carter administration,
lid Carter lacked substance.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, he ranks 5," said
olland, who also served as Northeast regional
eld coordinator in Carter's successful 1976
esidential campaign. "And that's nothing per>nal.
I like him. But history will show that he was
identification
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rise attorneys, a valuable tool by w^tes - a convi
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xtreme caution, others, that it sidered an unrel
miscarriages of j
ds of false arrests, whifc at the and Patricia G.
criminals who thought they had An estimated i
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agan and South Africa
into the sack again
4 4... This effort will have some effect on
the general public's attitude and
t likens awarcncss what*s going on.../* said
an ad barter. "And. ?f course, public opinion
African s^apc t*lc P?^cy or k?lpsto sh*!* l^c
policy of any administration, so I would
. say that the more we dramatize the ce
led with nu*nc human rights abuses in South
? Africa, the more likely it is that the
policies of this administration will be
n before modified accordingly."
rsity "I But ^arter stopped short of advocating
lt s^eaic that -this?country prohibit?American
we con- businesses *from investing in the racially
ve insist segregated country.
jople of "This is not a dictatorship," Carter
told the 2,700 people who gathered for his
than he speech in Wait Chapel. "The president or
famous Congress cannot say you cannot invest
5 part of your money in South Africa."
ies. What the president and Congress can
for his do, said Carter, is stress that those comrter
said panies practice the American policies of I
levement equal hiring and equal treatment for all
1 impres- races.
in South "That's the best approach," said
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and very low
a mediocre president surrounded by more than his
share of mediocre people. Everybody has mentioned
that he had too many Georgians ... He did
not have a cross section of political intelligentsia.'*
Northeast Ward Alderman Vivian Burke, a
delegate to the 1980 Democratic National Convention,
said she ranks Carter as one of the best chief
executives.
"He was a man with a lot of human feelings for
people/' said Burke. "He was highly interested in
civil rights.
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ble source of evidence
car with the nationally publicized armed-robbery conic
Texas engineer based on the eyewitness testimony of
ction later found to be in error.
ientification is thought to be easily biased and is coniiable
form of evidence that is responsible for many
lustice," say behavioral psychologists Roy S. Malpass
Devine in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
6,000 people each year are wrongfully convicted, said
i Ohio State University criminologist, in a U.S. News
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on won't run again
ie year as chair- . 'There are some races that are
Forsyth County coming up that I want to be closearty
Executive ly involved with/' said Parmon,
line Parmon. the "esneciallv the race for SrmthMct
3ld that position, Ward alderman and the elections
that she will not in 1986. And, as chairman of the
Democratic Party Executive
?t because of the Committee, I have to remain
said Parmon, neutral and with some of the
he seat after the races I couldn't do that."
cr chairman Joe
g chairman was Elections for the party's top
y plans." offices will be held April 13. Parted
to the seat in mon said no black people have
, said she made expressed to her an interest in
tot to seek re- seeking the chairmanship but that
of the upcoming attorney Mike Wells, the present
elections in first vice chairman, has said he
will run for the post.
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