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(iljled column on A4.
The Democratic Party is still
j( party of all people - black
jJ white - and the party of
pbs, justice and social equali-
jsaid U.S. Sen. Gary Hart,
Bfolo., a 1984 Democratic
pidential candidate, during
(lisit Monday to the Twin Gi
f'
Hart, appeared at a fun-
toer Monday night for con-
ptssman Stephen L. Neal,
ilohemet on a trip to China
king the Carter administra-
01'
The former presiden tial can-
iate talked freely about
lick issues, the Democratic
liityand the nation during an
ilerview with the Chronicle
®oute to the Regional Air
port after the fundraiser.
“The last election doesn’t
nan the Democratic party
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Winston-Salem, N.C.
BOB
Thursday, June 13,
1985
35 cents 36 Pages This Week
Hunt waits as jury deliberates
Jury wrangles with controversial case for five hours
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Hart; The Democrats remain the party of the people
and white (photo by James Parker).
black
Related story below.
The men and women who will decide the fate of
Darryl Eugene Hunt deliberated for five hours
Wednesday before being dismissed for the day. The
jury foreman told presiding Judge Preston Cor
nelius that he and his fellow jurors could not come
to a unanimous decision and court was recessed un.
til Thursday.
Hunt, 20, is charged with the first-degree murder
of newspaper copy editor Deborah B. Sykes, who
was found raped and stabbed to death near the
Crystal Towers highrise apartment complex last
August.
The jury, consisting of 11 whites and one black,
started deliberations at 10:25 a.m. Wednesday after
hearing instructions from Cornelius. It can find
Hunt guilty of either first- or second-degree murder
or not guilty.
If Hunt is found guilty of first-degree murder, a
second phase of the trial would begin to determine
whether Hunt will receive the death penalty or life
imprisonment.
The jury returned to the courtroom at 2:30 p.m.
and asked the judge for information on “physical,
factual distances,” transcripts of the trial
testimony, a blackboard, copies of statements made
Hunt entering the courtroom last week: He
seemed more solemn on Wednesday (photo
by Charlie Buchanan, Winston-Salem Journal).
to the police before the trial and names of the peo
ple who made the statements. The jury also wanted
to know if it could visit the scene of the crime and if
articles from the Chronicle that had been referred
to during testimony were evidence.
And the jury had specific questions about the
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Wick Republicans: A better route?
(BILL HAMILTON
taicle Staff Writer
more black voters were Republicans, this
«ntry would begin to take black people serious-
So says an organizer of the North Carolina
Sick Republican Conference, who also says he
tlieves the development of a two-party system is
illiebest interests of black people.
'Our survival depends on it,” said James E.
ck,president of HRC Inc., and a power among
the state’s black Republicans.
The North Carolina conference is both the
name of the two-day meeting of 400 black
Republicans that occurred last week in Winston-
Salem and the ad hoc organization that is trying to
convert as many black Democrats and in
dependents to the GOP as possible.
Mack said the meeting was successful and
historic, because never before had so many black
Republicans gathered to help develop a two-party
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lames of two finalists for
ISSU chancellorship set
ADAMS
gleAssistant Editor
Nathaniel Pugh and Dr.
Thompson have been
*iMted for the chancellorship
*®ton-Salem State Universi-
feording to confidential
*®i the WSSU Chancellor
Committee and the
•“Is trustees forwarded the
>18 of Pugh and Thompson to
William Friday, president of the
University of North Carolina
system, last week. Friday is ex-'
pected to make his choice from
among the two and present it to
the University of North Carolina
Board of Governors at its regular
meeting on Friday.
Friday can also reject both
nominees and not make a deci
sion, as he did two years ago.
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Photo by Allen Aycock, Winston-Salem Journal
Judge Preston Cornelius, center, confers with Assistant District Attorney Richard Lyle, left, and
defense attorneys Gordon Jenkins and Mark Rabil.
Little and Tisdale exchange voUeys
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Klack proponents: Arena
fill benefit all of the city
Larry Little
Amid reports that he may be indicted for alleged
ly intimidating witnesses in the Darryl Hunt murder
trial, Alderman Larry D. Little has called for an in
vestigation of his own.
Little, who organized and heads the Darryl Hunt
Defense Committee, said he will ask the state at
torney general to investigate District Attorney
Donald K. Tisdale, Assistant District Attorney
Richard R. Lyle and police investigator J.I.
Daulton. The three have misused their official
powers in handling the Hunt case. Little charges.
“They have used their office to try to cover up
the identity of a critical person in this case, Johnny
Gray (also known as McConnell),” said Little.
Little said he also plans to sue the Winston-Salem
Journal for articles reporting that he may have in
timidated witnesses and misused his aldermanic
powers to get information.
“They have defamed my character,” he said.
“They have lashed out at me.”
According to Little, Daulton lied in court that
Johnny Gray did not first identify Terry Thomas as
the man he saw assaulting newspaper copy editor
Deborah Sykes on the morning of Aug. 10. Hunt is
charged with murdering Sykes.
Little said Hunt’s attorneys were told that Gray
identified Thomas as the man he saw beating Sykes
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R. RANKIN
staff Writer
column on AS.
TIMES have changed.
■ black members of the Citizens’ Committee for a New Col-
^J®*’PPosed building a new arena during 1976 and 1979 coliseum
''cferendums. Now they’re for it.
fonii
™>ttee members William Tatum, president of the Black
Womble: The black vote
is being ‘raped’ for bonds
By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
''ship Roundtable Coalition, and Ann Simmons, youth direc-
j ° ,'*’c Winston-Salem NAACP and a member of the civil rights
Citation’s executive board, spoke against coliseum bonds in
‘'past,
Hairston, a member of the executive committee of the col-
^ Please see page A2
Pro
Hairston:
help but
by James
Con
The coliseum can’t
provide jobs (photo
Parker).
Womble says he has too
many questions (photo by
James Parker).
Black members of the citizens Committee for a New Col
iseum have encouraged other blacks to vote yes during a $20
million bond referendum on June 25. Black aldermen Vivian H.
Burke and Virginia Newell also support the coliseum, while Aider-
man Larry D. Little has said he will neither support nor fight the
bonds.
However, Southeast Ward Alderman Larry W. Womble said he
refuses to endorse the bonds, which would finance the building of a
new coliseum, until certain questions are answered.
Womble said during a recent telephone interview that he is
suspicious of this bond issue because of promises made and not
kept during previous bond issues.
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