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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
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The future radio station
WAAA-AM is now in the hands I
of the local black community,
said Mutter D. Evans, the sta- I
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manager, during the station's I
weekly call-in show last Friday
morning.
"You alone hold the fate of
Triple-A in your hands," Evans
told listeners during a special segment
of "The Talk About
Town," which was rebroadcast I
on tape Easter Monday. "The |
Talk About Town" is a weekly,
hour-long listener call-in talk
show on WAAA that addresses I
issues facing the black communi- I
Evans' comments came almost I
a month after a Small Business I
Administration official told the I
Chronicle that WAAA factd a m
possible foreclosure on an SBA
loan. Evans told the Chronicle
then that the station was having
cash flow problems, but that she
knew nothing about a possible
foreclosure.
During the extended broad- I
cast, Evans made a 25-minute kHfll I
speech and then answered ques- I
tions from her audience. Those I
"^questions ranged from why the I
Station doesn't broadcast 24
hjours a day to whether the station
will sell public stock. I
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responses were expressions of
support for Evans and the HHHHHI
35-year-old station. - .
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Black aldermen say <
By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
Mayor Wayne A. Corpening termed jobs for
blacks created by the building of a parking deck
downtown and the expansion of the M.C. Benton
Convention Center "a drop in the bucket*' comnarA/1
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after the construction is finished.
Corpening used his tie-breaking vote twice last
Monday night during the regular Board of
Aldermen meeting to award a total of SI2.25
million in contracts to Fowler-Jones Construction
Co. for the two projects.
Corpening voted in favor of the company, which
Apartment plans
rolling right along
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
While the debate concerning solutions to the
city's housing woes continues, two developers are
moving full-speed-ahead with housing projects in
the East Winston community.
"Summit Square is alive and well and within the
next six weeks we will be doing some very physical
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offered the low bid on both jobs, in spite of the low
minority participation in both.
All four black aldermen had voted against the
construction company, all four white aldermen for
it.
Fowler-Jones proposed to have 2-percent minority
participation on the parking deck and six-tenths
of one percent on the expansion project. The board
had recommended 10-percent minority involvement
and 2-percent women-owned company involvement
on the parking deck. The aldermen also wanted
14-percent minority involvement and 2-percent
women-owned business involvement in the expansion
project.
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The trial of Darryl Eugene
Hunt could 4'undermine the confidence
in our system of justice
and may dangerously divide our
community/' says the local
chapter of the National
Organization for Women in a letter
mailed Monday to District Attorney
Donald K. Tisdale.
Hunt, a 20-year-old black
man, has been charged with the
murder of Deborah B. Sykes, a
Winston-Salem Sentinel copy
editor who was raped and stabbJ
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cu iu ucam lasi /\ug. iu. His trial
was scheduled to begin next week
but has been postponed at
Tisdale's request. A new date has
not yet been scheduled.
The letter, signed by WinstonSaiem
NOW President Fran
Lusso, as well as Virginia Marcum
and Johanna Ettin of the
organization's statewide Task
Force Against Racist Violence,
also asks that Hunt be given a
fair trial. ?
"We are naturally concerned
about the safety of women
throughout our city, and we call
for the punishment of the
murderer or murderers responsible
for the agonizing death of this
one," the letter says. "However,
we want to be assured the right
man or men are convicted."
If Hunt is not guilty, the letter
says, "the real rapist or rapiats
are free to strike again."
To ensure a fair verdict, the letter
asks that Hunt be tried by a
racially mixed jury. So that the
verdict can be "based on a clearly
fair assessment of the evidence by
a jury of the defendant's peers,"
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strongly as we can to have both
races on the jury."
Marcum said in interview
Tuesday that the sentiments expressed
by NOW are prevalent in
both the black and white communities.
But many white groups
have been silent, she said.
."We hope that, if we say
something, it will be easier for
them to Tay something,1' said
Marcum. "This isn't a racial
issue. It's an issue about human
rnnditinn in our rnmmiinitv "
Copies of the letter were sent to
Hunt's attorneys, Alderman
Larry Little, who heads the Darryl
Hunt Defense Committee;
Alderman Martha Wood, Mayor
Wayne Corpening and Police
Chief Joseph Masten.
Hunt's trial had been scheduled
to begin on Monday, April 15,
but Tisdale said he requested a
continuance because of an
unusual' court calendar that
week. Because of a judicial conference
scheduled for the week of
the 15th, court has been shortened
to a three-day week, with a
substitute judge holding court.
Tisdale?said in ?a local
newspaper that he did not want
to start the Hunt case with a
substitute judge. The trial is expected
to last several weeks.
One of Hunt's attorneys, Gordon
Jenkins, said the defense
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the trial on the 15th, but would
use the extra time for additional
preparation.
"Preparation can expand to
use whatever time is allotted/1
Jenkins said.
Witness glad
it's all over
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
After eight hours of testimony,
Floris Cauce-Weston was happy
and relieved that it was over.
Looking weary from the grueling
questions of defense lawyers.
including Klansman Virgil Griffin,
who is acting as his own attorney,
Cauce-Weston took a
moment to reflect on the $48
million civil suit filed on behalf
of the widows and demonstrators
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vis, HUD's third highestng
official, will speak during a
luncheon at the Convention
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s year's Fair Housing Month
:ies are more ambitious than in
ist, said Patricia Grueninger of
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