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f"2^^^ Wi Vol. XII, No. 27 U.S.P.S.IS I She spoke I ?4iL mm a pen By ROBIN BARKSDALE I Chronica Staff Writer AS SHE CHATTED informally with students,fans and friends at a reception held in her honor, the small black woman with braids in her hair appeared more of a R next-door neighbor than a K J famous author. And more a natural-born talker than a I childhood stutterer. In fact, Sonia Sanchez, I the author of 12 books, says she began writing because I she was self-conscious about her speech as a . youngster. * "As a little girl, I wrote because I was a stutterer," recalls Ms. Sanchez, who I was in town last week as part of Winston-Salem ?- - State University's Lyceum Series. "I wrote so that I BHl could explain things more I clearly than I could say I them. At first, it was more I of a necessity than an interest, but as time went on, I developed a deep interest I Please see page A3 taring Police: They w By L.A.A. WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer District Attorney Donald K. Tisdale, saying he is "going to take the heat off the police department," asked Police Chief Joseph E. Masten Friday to cite him for aiding and abetting a drunk driver. But Masten said Monday that he will not issue the ticket. Tisdale asked Masten to take the action after learning that police attempted to charge him two weeks ago. The clerk of court on duty at the time did not issue the warrant, saying the police lacked sufficient evidence. Tisdale's request stems from a Dec. 19 accident in which Tisdale was a passenger Firm rlnnofnc Vi JL MJL 111 uvuaiv^ 11 By L.A.A. WILLIAMS , Chronicle Staff Writer A private, non-profit housings i organization announced Monday that < an area advertising company has 1 donated a house to help the group 1 shelter the city's homeless. i Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co. donated the three-bedroom house on < 1322 Cunningham St. to People Are * Treated Human Inc. (PATH), a 1 community-based organization serving 1 the needy. I Naegele General Manager James W. Black Muslim ? By SUZANNE WETLAUFER Associated Pre? Writer BOSTON - Four months ago, Don M UUI1UIW I |VL V?MI 11U1U 111 UUIVKU SI Would \ft consider going into business v - who needed his help? "I'm not concerned whether or not 1 told the official. "Is he honest?'* The answer was yes, and tioon afterv estate developer Edwin D. A brains foro plan for managing 220 units of low-incc predominantly black neighborhood hi E a.? * * 'nston-S The T\ lo. 067910 Wlruton-Salam, h I problem spurred herlo Wrlte (photo byJai on't charge DA in-his car and its driver, Vicki Matthews Oakley, was charged with driving while impaired. No charges were filed at that time against Tisdale. Aiding and abetting DWI is called "allowing" DWI in police terminology. According to police warrants, allowing is ^ "unlawfully and willfully allowing another ~ person to operate a vehicle while subject to an impairing substance." , 1 Assistant Police Chief George L. Sweat said Tuesday that Officer Brenda S. Setzer, who wrote Oakley's ticket, tried to obtain a warrant for Tisdale on the night of the accident, and again two weeks ago. On each occasion, she was turned down by the clerk on duty, he said. Please see page A2 A 1 1 A il ouse 10 sneiter tn i ? Fisher II said the house was being given contri to PATH in exchange for Naegele's Sumle right to operate a billboard in the rear tions i 5f the property. PATH President trying Rodney J, Sumler said the house will to our to used as an emergency shelter for step f< vomen and their families. people Sumler appeared at a Monday press beds i inference in the house's front yard to facilit: iccept the house and a $4,000' check goven rom Fisher to help renovate the this ai wilding. Naegele has also agreed to social ?y the monthly utility bills. day." "We're really appreciative of this s and Jews form Renovating I uhammad, a black Muslim If the Muhamr City Hall. The question: court judge, the iffrfc a man a Traneh man " 1 nui m tuwi ? ? *?n wii unui VlCttl 1X1C I give tenants own M's Jewish," Muhammad ^ ^ ^ ( yard Muhammad and real Both men and aed an alliance to devise a the relationship 1 me housing in Roxbury, a in 1984 when L< toston. ; Islam, made con A \ talem I 4?i>i City's Award-Winning Weeki _ J m vv'iiSIH A te-'.j I |n A l| 21 jH (^ J: cS yf J i jHM dis HH da) ^ Ml&Cr'* - off HT' * ** T^SMK^jyI dis j^Hh* . um Pi^K^B> K^# vj|^H mi I -CO de sic so de HMil tiv ?^^HW|hlldhoed MI wit =4 w< Jot SOX Sta pu W< on Da cas a op< hat I po! tal Police Chief Joseph E. uni Masten (photo by James Ma Parker). I e homeless [ bution to the community," I t said. "We hope other corpora- T I *ill follow the lead of Naegele in H^J to make positive contributions mjjtI community. We hope others will Drward to help us help homeless We will need furniture and B and other items to" furnish the i> With all the cutbacks in lment dollars, more efforts like"WJE re needed to solve some of the problems we're faced with to- YOU walki Please see page A2 at Ea rare partnersh Relationships nad-Abrams plan is approved by a Bosto men intend to buy, repair and renovate i tall ways of drug users and vandals, and < ership of the apartments. currently in receivership. city officials believe the alliance also wi between blacks and Jews - a relationship >uis Farrakhan, the fiery leader of the nments some considered to be anti-Semi P?B?K Chroni y y 27,1986 50 cent 'olice chief r ifter internal fasten among police e> t the wake of the invei L.A.A. WILLIAMS onlcle Staff Writer >olicc Chief Joseph E. Masten has been riplined in the wake of an internal intigation, published rlfcorts said WednesK 3!ity personnel records licate that three other leers have also been 5 ciplined for their con- MjmM ct during the departnt's handling of the' m iborah B. Sykes 9 A irder case. 1 City Manager Bryce Stuart announced Dnday that the instigation had been HP??* mpleted and that ac- ? ?ns taken included AJMIjiSj motions and suspen- A ins and involved per- II nnel in the police r? a r t m o n f ' c r> n m _ fl p u i inications and detece divisions. Alderman Vlv Stuart also rsaiAJpan the p tsten has called in the thoms?IV98? te Bureau of Intigation to help reinvestigate the rder. SB1 agents are already working h department detectives, he said. According to a story published in xinesday morning's Winston-Salem irnal and attributed to anonymous irces, Masten has been reprimanded, te statutes do not include reprimands of 3lic employees as public information. When asked about the story, Masten said xinesday afternoon, "I cannot comment disciplinary actions." n the other actions, Officcr J.I. ulton, the chief investigator in the Sykes e, has been taken off the force and given civilian job as a communications ;rator, city records indicate. Daulton 1 been reassigned in December to the ice fraud squad as part of a departmenshake-up in its murder investigations t. His demotion becomes effective irch 3. f he accepts the new position, Daulton's mMJ i f 4r*? *ijr v w ** # ^ . * BYo^^^ jffi^i^y < vlJJbI NG SCHOLARS Natasha Gambrell, ed a mile in their heroes' shoes durin iston Elementary School. Story in Atx \ip to run low-i An Good Example n housing "I think these two me the apart- says Benjamin Thompsoi rventually brought Muhammad and "We can do anything f perceptions of people to common good.*' II improve Muhammad and Abrai > wounded join* enterprise and instc Nation of 800 poor Boston blacks itic. P \ I I , mj it'm ? . ,'"j -'it * * l^MB? f> *'** - ~ ' ' ''^ v^liP^ I llslC I k 8 j 8 32 Pages This Week eprimanded investigation mployees disciplined ligation, reports say pay will fall from $21,403 yearly to $17,566. Sgt. F.E. Mason, who served as Daulton's. superior during the Sykes investigation, was suspended, effective Feb. 25, for five days without pay, city records indicate. Mason is the ^ former head of the ^ department's Crimes Against Persons Section m and was responsible for |j overseeing Daulton's i handling of the Sykes investigation. Br Mason voluntarily J transferred to the Patrol W SheJ5 Division in December. mmf- Lt. Jerry K. Raker, JBg Mason's superior during Bmb the Sykes investigation, was suspended, effective Feb. 25, for seven work- _ to by James Parker ing days. Raker was ian H. Burke: responsible for overseeQllce police ing-the Crimes Against Persons Section during the Sykes investigation. He was transferred to the warrants squad * in December. Daulton, Mason and Raker were not at wort on Wednesday and could not be reached for comment. Mrs. Sykes was raped and murdered on Aug. 10, 1984. Darryl E. Hunt, a 20-yearold black man, was convicted of the crime last June and is currently serving a life sentence. Hunt's supporters say he was convicted on weak evidence to quell public pressure on the police to solve the crime. A city manager's review of the police department's handling of the Sykes investigation, released in November, said the department made numerous mistakes in the course of its investigation. City Manager - Stuart told the department to conduct the" internal investigation following the report. Masten was a major in charge of the inPlease see page A14 < left, Bryant Fowler and Victor Bethea g a Black History Month class last week Dut Town on A6 (photo by James Parker). income housing | n can be a good example for all of us," n, the City Hall equal rights adviser who Abrams together. n this city if we do not allow stereotypical stop us from working together for the ns prefer to downplay the novelty of their ad focus on what it will mean for about - a decent, safe place to live and a sense of lease see page A2
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