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By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Public school students next year will take a day o
the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Jan. 18holiday is included in the 1987-88^11
by the city-county school board Monday night by a
Opposing the calendar were board members Jane
Mary P. "Candy" Wood.
Local NAACP President Walter Marshall, in r?
board, had urged its members to adopt the calendar
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Local minister rec
18-month senteri
By CHERYL WILLIAMS changed his plea i
Chronicle Staff Writer third day of the ti
The sentencinj
Chronicle Update is a held on March 5.
regular feature that focuses Miss Cassaberr
on developments in news and suspended 18-r
feature stories previously sentence and fiv<
printed in the newspaper. It donwill
appear during the third McConnell was
week of each month. prosecution, mea
placed on pfobati
and, upon satis
A local black minister was pleting the prob
sentenced earlier this month to 18 longer have a ci
months in prison for his part in said Assistant 1
allegedly embezzling $15,900 Paul A. Weinman
from a Winston-Salem bank. the prosecutor in
Bishop Lawrence S. Tate,
pastor of New Faith Chapel . .
Holiness Church, and Ruth Bost COnviCtf
Diane Cassaberry, a bank teller, .
were convicted in U.S."Middle A Forsyth Supe
District Court in January of nine whltes ar
embezzlement and of conspiring ^as convicted a 31
with Darryl E. McConnell, a man ? assau i
third defendant originally named Winston-Salem m
in the two-count indictment, to C1 ayne
embezzle money from the Lex- guilty of assault
ington Road branch of First weapon with inter
Union National Bank in ting serious injury
Winston-Salem in October 1985. and run in the Jul>
McConnell, who had originally voting Donald R;
pleaded not guilty to the charges, Please see p
New directory __
of businesses '
now available e&tobials
ENTERPRISE
From Staff Reports LEISURE
" OBITUARIES
The Winston-Salem Minority
Business League was expectedro ~ " PEOPLE
unveil a new directory of black RELIGION
businesses in Winston-Salem and SPORTS
Forsyth County at a press con- Oil ATA RLI
ference Thursday afternoon. .
The directory lists more than ^
400 black businesses in the area, ' - Jit {
although there are even more *
than that, say those who helped ' *
to compile it. flWIlHty, as s
"There are still a lot of suggested. '
businesses that aren't in it," said ?****!?'
James "Junie" Grace Jr., presi- , brf^f
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By LEE MITGANG
Associated Press
America's colleges, where tolerance is as essential
to the pursuit of knowledge as labs and
libraries, are being shocked by a wave of intolerance
and bigotry.
The upsurge this year in incidents against
blacks, women, Jews, homosexuals and others has
spawned some harsh self-appraisal by higher
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education officials.
Many campuses feel their racial climate is
healthy. The University of Utah, for example,
elected its first female black student president this
year.
But campus administrators are beginning to
concede that they have often been slow to react to
incidents, or too quick to pass them off as isolated
or insignificant.
"1 don't think there's been a great deal of
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Thursday, March 19,1987
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the city's new c
Lawrence Joel
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Chronicle Staff W
THE city's
said he intends
and accessible
view with the C
said George 1
16-year veteran
who rose throt
think that's a bi
the chief.
"The chief, ii
got to be visible
munity," said
assistant polic<
Winston-Salem
Sweat said tht
ficers, too.
"I want to ge
volved," he sail
will have some c
pear on 30-secoi
television spots
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dfl that already ha<
deals with seattx
ive him the chance and he'll pro- Sweat said he
^er)? crease his visibi
W-AIR
A format change
By CHERYL WILLIAMS Mrs. Shipp sa
Chronicle Staff Writer hopes to collect
signatures. She
Radio station WAIR-AM's re- has collected
cent shifts in name, ownership signatures thus f
and format have startled and
angered some long-time black 'e sai 1 at J
listeners. to the early mor
What used to be a black- ^Iam 35 s^e pre
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vjiiciucu auiiiuii suuucniy isn't, J
they say, and what used to be one a* Pr?8ram*
of their favorite programs - an Mrs. Shipp sa
early-morning gospel hour - no to and collected
longer exists. many elderly pet
Several listeners, including to the program
Baptist Hospital employee motivated and ii
Miriam Shipp, are circulating she said,
petitions in protest. The loss of thi
racism seems to
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leadership on the part of university presidents,*'
said Reginald Wilson, head of the office of
minority rnnrpmc r?f Am^on ?~:i ?
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Education, higher education's chitff Washington
lobby.
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
found in its 1986 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents
that vandalism directed at Jews on campuses rose
from 12 incidents in 1985 to 19 in 1986
While few other overall statistics exist, many
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VILLIAMS
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50 local black veterans has established a new
Dn Post named for Winston-Salem native and Conal
of Honor winner Lawrence Joel,
eting of the Lawrence Joel American Legion Post
Linday.
i, newly elected commander of the post, said many
ho established the post had supported the naming of
:oliseum in Joel's honor.
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STORY
r police chief:
door's open
ledges to be accessible
(ILLIAMS munity in general and the black
rlter community in particular by
meeting with civic groups and
new police chief organizations,
to be both visible ^e said he has already met
in a recent inter- predominantly black
onicJ ' ? and white otoups and plana to
ttonsis a must, coritmue such appwa&w.Y
Sweat, 39, a "I have a vested interest here,"
in the department s^ 4 4 Wins ton-Salem is my
gh the ranks. 44I home. 1 have family members
g responsibility of here. By living here and growing
up here, I'm proud of the city
l my opinion, has amj j?m ^so concerned about the
to the entire com- community."
Sweat, a former Sweat's appointment was
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- ^llltl miu criticized last month by some
nat,ve- black aldermen who noted that
it goes for his of- City Manager Bill A. Stuart
decided to hire Sweat, even
t my officers in- though Sweat originally had
i. Sweat said he chosen not to apply for the job.
f his officers ap- Black political and civic leaders
id and 60-second 0 had hoped for Winstonto
talk about Salem's first black police chief to
One such spot he named, especially after learni
aired, he said, jng that two 0f ^ applicants ;lt
safety. including Assistant Chief O.D.
also hopes to in- Redd ? were black,
lity in the com- Please see Daae A13
I RAID
sparks a petition
id that the group a slap in the face to blacks, she
more than 1,000 said.
said she herself Another listener said she also is
roughly 300 disappointed that the show was
ar. 4aken~off the air,
Ersell Sutton said that she had
>he used to listen collected signatures on a petition
ning gospel pro- at Wins ton-Salem State Universipared
for work. ...w -u. .
i. j, vr nt i c si iic worKS as a
; to wake up to housekeeper.
shesaid- "They want it back," Mrs.
id she has talked Sutton said of the gospel prothe
signatures of gram. "I want it back. And
>ple who listened whatever it takes we're willing to
i. The program do to ?et ** back." i
nspired listeners, Shc said gospel music helps get
her day going. "It really does
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De on me nse
observers agree that bigotry is increasing on the
nation's campuses.
"There's no question about it: not only were
colleges slow to react, but I suspect that a number
of things are happening oh campus that would
tend to give students the idea that minority interests
are of diminishing value," Wilson said.
"Black studies are lessening in popularity and
prevalence, the number, of black faculty at
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