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?" I , I ? '*** lf ? i 'k * t jt Wi % Vol. XII, No. 39 USA 4 AKAs invest in E. Winston By JOHN HINTON . Chronica 8taff Wrttr ? Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is investing in East Winston. The Phi Omega Chapter plans ; to develop a 20-unit apartment ; complex on 1.13 acres at Second : and Third streets and Woodland ; and Cleveland avenues. The multi-family townhouses will cost between $725,000 and $730,000 tb build and will be partially financed by up to $500,000 in Urban Redevelopment notes from . the city. ..-The Board of Aldermen . unanimously approved the financing at its Monday night meeting. :. "This will be a service to people," said East Ward Alderman Virginia K. Newell, a member of the sorority. "It will give them apartments that they didn't have before.**"-" '.Mrs. Newell and Northeast Ward Alderman Vivian H. Burke Abstained from voting on the matter because they are members of the sorority. 41 We did that to avoid any questions of conflict (of interest) on our parts," Mrs. Newell said after the meeting. ^^ThejWjmwVFb^o^om,U" Mrs. Newell, chairman of the committee, also abstained from voting on the matter then. Phi Omega Inc.. plans to finance the project with $425,000 in the Urban Redevelopment bond* *225,000 to $250,000 in Community Development BlockGrant loans and $75,000 raised from the sorority's members. . "The next step is for local Please see page A3 Be the best, F By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Whitney Houston beware. Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy is singing your song. .Fauntroy, the Washington, D.C., delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, spoke Sunday at Winston-Salem State University's 94th annual commencement exercises. He ended his message to the 220 graduates by singing, "The Greatest Love of All," a George Benson song revived this year by Miss Houston. Faun troy's deep, rich voice f Kim and her \ v : i By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer The Ellerbes of 4105 Carnation Drive have always been a finktltl Lmi* fakatalla* Uftliu/ Mill 10111117. XJUL now they're closer. V Portia and Ronald EDerbe say that what bound them together even more was the birth three years ago of their youngest daughter, Kimberly. : Kimberly is like any other child: She fights with her brother, Reginald, 7, she plays ! with doUs with her sister, Kia, 14, and she helps her mother in the kitchen. But unlike many other children her age, Kimberly cannot walk. She 'i h ?r ..? rC'I '} h 1 nstor ?.S. No. 067910 f'. ** y A SOUTHERN RA As a Southerner in the White novelty. But it could happen ag name may again begin with a auntroy tells literally brought both the Memorial Coliseum audience of 2,500 and the graduates to their feet, and culminated a speech that emphasized the graduates* importance to this country's future. The future belongs to you," he said. "I want you to create a meaningful future not only for yourselves but for the young to follow." Fauntroy, a Democrat who is president of the National Black Leadership Roundtable, told the graduates that, in order to compete with graduates from schools family:'Real also suffers some hearing loss. Because of the way her mouth is structured, Mrs. EUerbe said in an interview Sunday, Kimberly cannot talk clearly either. When Kimberly was bom, according to Mrs. Ellerbe, she was diagnosed as having "frontometaphyseal dysplasia syndrome/' a condition characterized by certain facial features and long fingers and limbs. Mrs. Ellerbe said that although . this diagnosis remains on Kimberly's medical records, a pediatrician has determined that Kimberly does not have the syndrome. Her \ # -J J r ?? i-Sal The Twin City's A\ Win?ton-Salem, N.C. I I \ s i BBKJW* < m H M V ' H H r ^ br ^H. * > I E*SL kRITY House, Jimmy Carter was a lain in *88, and the candidate's "J." Story on A5. graduates such as Yale and Harvard, they have got to be better. If the competition gets up at 6 a.m., he said, then they should get up at 5 a.m., and if the competition gets up at 4 a.m., then they should get up at 3 a.m. "And if they get up at 1:30," he admonished, "you stay up all night, hear?" Greater challenges are ahead for black leaders and white leaders as the nation moves from an industrial economy to a service economy, Fauntroy said. "You ought to know that, as Please see page A3 special' doctors, however, haven't come up with a diagnosis to fit all of Kimberly's characteristics, Mrs. Ellerbe said. Other children with the syndrome have gone on to walk and develop normally, while Kimberly remains vvTvivpiuvuMuij uciayoU) i*irs. Ellerbe said. But the Ellerbes are determined that Kixnberly should lead as normal a life as possible despite her handicaps. 4 4 We always do everything as a family," Mrs. Ellerbe ' said. 44When we go out, we go out together. We try to include Please see page A2 1 Mt v": <^?A' fl em C ward-Winning Weekly Thursday, May 22,1986 * ' * "I fool fairly confidant ttK ward system In Wlnsfon-1 ho number (of blacks) ?ti now." ,; - Alderman Larry W. Woi The debate By JOHN HINTON AND CHERYL WILLIAMS . Chronicle Staff Writers This article Is the first In s two-part series. Black candidates often survive countywide primaries, but they fall like flies in November. Only one black person has ever been elected to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. Only one has ever been elected to the city-county school board. Sometimes, politically strong black hopefuls even are defeated in primaries. Incumbent Mazie S. . Woodruff sought her third term as a county commissioner, but failed to make the cut in May 6's Democratic primary. An exception has been Beaufort O. Bailey, the only black school board member who been a consistent winner in atlife. Bailey credits his strength to a broad base of sup* . port. But some of his black critics say he leads the ticket because he is considered weak and nonthreatening by white voters. Despite his success in the atlarge system, for whatever reason, Bailey joins a chorus of black voices that suggest that atlarge elections be replaced by a ward voting system in the county. "The ward system is the only way to go to increase black HT V V . fl bii j^H ^L II IL.^.. j 1#j ] I^H Congressman Walter Fauntroy challenges WSSU's Class of *86 (photo by James Parker). - ^^521 H i 4 * ^ ' ifi V 77 7 J^H Caring for Klmberly has'made th Parker). ??nana HI IB hron. 50 cents if If we didn't have the krtwn, we wouldn't have at we hav* on tho board nMo _ * i on waras < >;V - Mfcy . 9 j^y I F jffl Rj3^H - .^ HR&h^H 3fll ffi3B8^2^iiite^2r'?ii < ""'lirZSaB Newell: Not so sure wards wou representation in the county," said the Rev. Jerry Drayton, chairman of the Political Action Committee of the Baptist Ministers Conference and The at-large elections were partly blamed for the defeat of Mrs. Woodruff, the first hlarlf and woman to serve as a commissioner, and school board candidates William H. Tatum and Naomi W. Jones. They all support a ward system of voting in the county commissioners and school board races. This is not the first time that blacks have suggested a ward system for the county. In 1982, the city's NAACP chapter conCity worker i ByJOHN HINTON Chronicle Staff Writer A Winston-Salem man has filed a $5.25 million lawsuit against the city, alleging he was denied promotions and job benefits. Curtis E. Dixon, 46, a senior program evaluation analyst with the city, filed the lawsuit on May 1 < :M .*L n A n - w 111 rmsjrui V^UUIll aupCTlOT Court. The complaint named as defendants City Manager Bryce A. Stuart, Assistant City Manager Alexander R. Beaty and Sam H. Owen, director of the city's N e Ellerbes a family more closely k A I'lMM icle 38 Pag** This Week continues H ] I n^^v - an |t v iB| jHT a ? . Jft V ^bLt^^P?"' ^jB Ba^ir ' ^ I mk \ m m^^/k '.'\:r fH A :v ' *" (photo by James Parker) Id work in the county. sidered legal action. "A ward system would ensure that we have the type of representation we should have," Patrick T. Hairston, then NAACP president, told the Chronicle. Hairston, who has run unsuccessfully for county commissioner and successfully for North Ward alderman, said it isn't enough to have "white people who say they speak for .Macks." It is "very unlikely" that blacks will get "adequate representation with the present system," he added. Sin4e then, the NAACP has adopted a "wait-and-see" attitude so it could first judge the Please see page A2 Hies lawsuit Management Information Systems and Services Department. The defendants have 30 days to respond to the lawsuit. None of the defendants could be reached to comment on the matter but Ci ty Attorney Ronald G. Seeber said a response will be filed before the deadline. Dixon, a city employee for 16 years, is seeking $250,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The lawsuit contends that the three city officials conspired to Please see page A14 W " jp* nit than most (photo by James %
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