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Two Afro-Americarr women among school board semifinalists
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronic!* Staff Writer
At least two Afro- American women are among 14 semifinalists rec
ommended for the superintendent position of the Winston-Salem Forsyth
County schools, said school board member Thomas C. Voss.
Voss, chair of the superintendent search committee of the city-county
schools' Board of Education, and fellow committee members chose the rec
ommended semifinalists from 42 applicants for the position vacated 1>jr
Zane E. Eargle in June. Eargle resigned to accept the position of president
"We have more than one black female among the recommended semi
finalists," Voss said Wednesday. "The resumes I have don't show any black
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Complied From AP Wire
Koontz, former head of Women's Bureau, dies
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) - Elizabeth "Libby"
Duncan Koontz, the former head of the women's
burets under President Nixon and a
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From 1973*75, she was the
nutrition programs m inc North uutnnt
of Human Resources. b 1975, she was named the
assistant state school superintendent, a post she held
until she retted in 1981
Ms. Koontz was aimed the United^tates' delegate to the Untied Nations
D?masskmonthe StatiisofWoimin 1975. She also had more than two dozen
honorary doctorate degrees from schools such as Duke, North Carolina, Michigan
State, Northwestern and OhkrSMC She began her career as a teacher of mentally
handicapped students in the SaMpy schools in theniid-lPtts.
Ms. Koottz is suryived by one brother, John B. Duncan of Alexandria, Ml lift
funeral was hdd Monday at 2 p.m. at St Luke's Episcopal Orach In Salisbury.
Dunn City Council votes against street naming
v DUNN, N.C (AP) ? . The Dunn Gty Council has voted against naming i street
after shun civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jt following a public hearing
attended fay about 230 people.
The council voted 4 to 2 last Thursday along racial lines with its four white
members voting against the change and its two Mack members voting for it
About 12 blacks spoke for the change and six whiles against it at die hoar-long
public hearing before a standing-room only crowd in the city courtroom, The
FayettevilU Times reported.
Opponents of the name-change requested that their street, Magnolia Avenue, not
be renamed because bf its historic significance.
Woman who staged own funeral dies of cancer
MILWAUKEE (AP} - Canie Mnsoo, who Raged
and attended her owir mock funeral 2 1/2 months ago,
has <fied of cancerof the pancreas at the age of &
Munson had said she held the mock funeral to
celebrate life and Ao# that she (fid not fear death.
The Rev. RJL Lathan, who delivered the eulogy at
the memorial service in October, said two companies
have been seeking the right to pufelis)! the biogiapby
of Munson, who had straggled to overcome heroin
addiction and become a social workei An independent
filmmaker is also pursuing die rights to make a movie
aboutherlife.
^ "She wanted to prove to the coming generation that
the evils of drugs could be defeated," Lathan said of
* Munson after her dead* Sunday. That's what kept her so fired up to fight k She was
real determined." i
Automaker signs agreement to promote opportunities
DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. has pledged to promote opportunities for
minorities under an agreement signed between Chairman Roger B. Smith and two
top NAACP officials.
In truth. General Motors has been a pacesetter for mm years ^ tlr levetorrot
of minority entrepreneursMp, minority dealerships, minority hiring ana upward
mobility," said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for
the Advancement of Gotoredfople.
William F. Gibson, board chairman of the NAACP, alio signed die "statement of
-fatrsnareptmopBS. y
Under die new wcord, GM pledged to boon opportunities for minorities ia is
employment practices and to ensure in purchasing, banldng,insunMe, construction,
adrenisii^mdrather progranp encourage participation by minority entrepreneurs
and minorit^tpraed businesses.
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males, although there may be. None were listed (as such) on the application
forms."
Voss said he had seen all 14 semifinalists' resumes. He declined to
release the names of the Afro- American women, tut sources close to the
Board of Education identified the women as Assistant Superintendent Dr.
Barbara K. Phillips and Dr. Gerry Hotjse, superintendent of the Chapel
Hill/Carrboro City Schools.
Phillips declined to comment, but House said Doug Punger, the local
school's attorney helping the search committee, invited her to apply for the
position.
"I'm not actively seeking a change," said House, who has been superin
tendent in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro system for four years. "Winston-Salem
is attractive and has a larger school system."
, House declined to speculate about whether she would accept the posi
Delores Smith Photo by Charm ane Oelavorson
New Urban League president
looks forward to adventure
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronldo Staff Writer
The new Winston-Salem Urban League president came to the
city not just for the job but for the adventure.
Freely admitting her "adventurous" native, Delores Smith said
she found the position too good an opportunity to turn down.
"When you are in a position of social services and you believe
in bringing about changes, you sometimes have to think in terms of
career moves," said Smith, who assumed the presidency of the local
league Jan. 3. "I wanted an opportunity for professional growth.
The opportunity offered itself in Winston-Salem. I'm motivated by
challenges and I think this will be challenging enough to motivate
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lion, if .offered, and move to Winston-Salem.
House's husband, Lee, is a full-time graduate student at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she said adding that he is presently work
ing on his dissertation. She also has two children in the Chapel Hill/Car
rboro City Schools. ?
The full board will vote on the committee's recommendation Jan. 23.
Voss declined to name the semifinalists for fear of breach of confidentiality,
but school officials have said the semifinalists come from North Carolina
rod other states. ? ? , '
Voss said the pool of semifinalists is a qualified group. '
The board will choose three to five finalists Feb, 6 and will release
those names to the public. Members of the public will be able to meet the
finalists around Feb. 10, and the board will choose a superintendent shortly
after that.
Consultant: City
should nix parkway
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronic!* Staff Writer
A Raleigh highway consultant
i has recommended that the city nix
building a parkway through East
Winston and, in its stead, extend
14th Street and build another leg
of the Northern Beltway to carry
traffic around, rather than through,
_ East Winston.
J. Steven Mifflin, air assistant
regional manager of Kimley-Horn
and Associates^ Inc., told about 16
East Winston residents his find
ings during a community meeting
at Dellabrook Presbyterian
Church Tuesday night
"Improving 14th Street and
extending it improves accessibili
ty and opens a wide, area for
development," said Mifflin. "We
can make local improvements and
build the Northern Beltway to
serve through traffic."
East Winston residents at the
meeting said they were definitely
in favor of extending 14th Street,
but they didn't see how either of
Mifflin's suggestions would make
their community a part of the city.
After about 20 years of con
sidering the East Winston Park
way, city aldermen said last year
that it would provide land for
commercial and industrial devel
opment in the area south of Smith
Reynolds Airport, thereby spawn- ?
ing desperately needed economic
growth in East Winston. The park
way was envisioned as a- short-cut
between U.S. 52 and Tmmtatr, 40.
The city hired Kimley -Horn and
Associates to study the parkway
last year.
A parkway would not be fea
sible for East Winston because
those using it would not stop in
the community, said Mifflin. In
contrast, building the beltway
would keep that traffic out of East
Winston, he said.
'The purpose of the Northern
Beltway for the residents of East
Winston is that it avoids taking
that 20,000 or 30,0000 vehicles a
day and dragging them through
your community when they aren't
going ta stop," Mifflin told com
munity residents.
The eastern leg of the beltway
would carry about 25,000 vehicles
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City supports E. Winston Shopping Center
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
The city Board of Aldermen
will vote Tuesday on whether to
r convey 11 acres of land for a
shopping center to the East Win
ston Community Development
Corporation. But that conveyance
of land will not be a giveaway but
a loan, said James R. Grace Jr.,
interim director of the CDC.
Using what he called a con
veyance for consideration, city
development director J. Allen
Joines proposed Tuesday night
that the aldermen agree to the
"transfer/sell" of the land, off New
Walkertown Road between Gerald
Street and Dellabrook Road, to a cent of the CDC's profits from the
second mortgage loan to the pro- shopping center, about $200,000
ject's developer, and to extend the over the next 10 years, as payment
street in front of the shopping cen- for the land, said Joines. The city
ter. would put their share in a coffer
If approved, the city would and devote it to future develop
convey the land to the East Win- ment projects in East Winston.
ston CDC, which would give the The proposal also includes the
"It's very encouraging in that we could come to the city with
not necessarily a giveaway , but a legitimate business deal."
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land to New Walkertown Associ- city approving a $350,000 loan to
ates, the ownership corporation developer Herman Turner in the
for the center, in exchange for 20 form of a second mortgage for the
percent of the company's stock. $4 million project.
The* city would receive 10 per- "I'll have to get back to the
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board with a survey . of the land
giving a final description of the
property," Joines said. "In terms
of the loan, we'll be wanting to
see a first loan commitment and
see what leasing arrangements the
developer can tie down."
The city also plans to pay for
extending 14th Street, from Addi
son Avenue past the shopping
center to New Walkertown Road,
making it three lanes for the entire
length except for the portion in
front of the New Walkertown
Market which will be four lanes.
Under Joines' original proposal
the city would pay for adding a
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Aldermen appoint 16 to Drug Task Force
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronica Staff Wrtfr
Sixteen local residents ^11 have the task of sizing up the city's drug
problems and working with tqc police department in developing solu
Upn s to alleviate them. | *
The residents were appointed Monday by the Public Safety Com
mittee of the city Board of Aldermen. Nine of those appointed to the
Citizens Drug Yask Force $re Afro- Americans. The committee also
directed city ?taff memb^s to solicit the help of the school system by
having it recommend two students to serve on the task force.
The committee and the Board of Aldermen suggested that the Citi
zens Task Force size up the drug prot^err^ in the community and work
with thc4X>Iice department in coining up with solutions >$nd in receiving
information from the police on how to alleviate the problem/' said A1
Beaty, city manager assisting the committee.
The following persons were appointed to serve on the task force:
Sophia Brown, Wiseman Dobson Jr., Delores McGee, James Rollinson,
Lee Faye Mack, Henry Jones Jr., Grace Johnston, Shirley Dunlap,
Clarthria "Peggy" Wherry, Dr. Richard Groves, Jerry Jemigan, Wendell
Brown, Sidney Welch, Bob Adams, Martha Martinat and John Geis Jr.
Because high school students face the drug problem every day of
their young lives, it's important that they be included on the task force,
said Alderman Lynne S. Harpe. She also suggested that the task force
be given some sort oltime limitation to make its recommendations.
"If you don't put a sunset on it, it keeps going on and on and perpet
uates itself," Harpe said. ?
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