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Winston-Salem Chronicle
THURSDAY, MAY 6,1993
"Power concedes nothing without a struggle " ? Frederick Douglass
VOL XIX, No. 36
Oprah "Disgraces" Blacks In Winston
? Talk show host
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offers apology
By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Managing Editor
Oprah Winfrey says she doesn't know what all the
fuss is about. But some angry black residents in East
Winston do.
They said Winfrey's visit to the city last week to
"eat muffins" with a family in the city's most exclusive
enclave was insulting to the black community ? espe
cially since it is middle-class viewers who are largely
responsible for her show's high ratings.
Winfrey offered an apology to the city's black com
McKellar Case
4 ?
Closed: D.A.
A Keith says police
?tried to help victim -
By MARK R. MOSS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Forsyth County District Attorney Thomas J. Keith
announced yesterday that he will not seek indictments
against the five Winston-Salem Police Department
officers who were involved in the dfeath of Sheila Ann
McKellar.
"There is no basis for any criminal charges," Keith
said yesterday in an interview. "The officers did every
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N*a*t*i*o*n*a*l
NEWS
Female Condom
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Food and Drug
Administration moved closer to approving the first
female condom for sale in the United States, saying
the device offered limited protection against sexually
transmitted diseases. The female condom is manu
factured by Wisconsin Pharmical, based in Jackson,
other European countries.
Suspicious Fire
NEW YORK (AP) ? Four adults and two chil
dren were discovered inside a housing complex in
East Harlem this week by firefighters responding to a
suspicious fire, authorities said. Firefighters removed'*
all six people from the building alive, but they died
while emergency personnel were trying to stabilize
them in the street. Fire Department spokesman Frank
McCabe said.
"It appears ... the fire was set to cover up" a
crime, and that the victims were injured in some
other way first, said Officer Rosa Atamyildiz, a
police spokeswoman. The victims were not immedi
ately identified. Police said they included two
women, two men, a 6-year-old and 19-month-old.
The sex of the children was not immediately known.
WHERE TO FIND IT
BUSINESS B /
Classifieds B16
Community News A4
j Editorials A12
j Entertainment BIO
| Obituaries \ B 1 5
I Religion B12
i! Sports B1
This Week In Black Histoh r
May 7. 1867. black demonstrators staged ride-in to protest
'gre gation on New Orleans streetcar, i. Similar demonstrations
ccurred in Mobile, Ala., and other cities.
munity and any other (>eople who might have been
offended when she visited a white family on Arbor Road
* in Buena Vista and included the community on her
national talk show last week.
"I can understand why people could be upset," Win
frey said in a telephone interview from her office at
Harpo Productions in Chicago. "There was no intention
on my part to insult anybody in Winston-Salem or to
paint a particular picture that that was what it is like for
everyone who lives in Winston-Salem.
"I wasn't picking the street based on the color of the
people's skin," she said. "I was picking it because I hap
pened to jog there and I thought it was very tranquil and
picturesque. Period.
No more thought went into it than that"
But the black community, which makes up more
than a third of the city's overall population, has been dis
cussing the event since Winfrey aired the segment last
Thursday.
"This is another of these one-sided attempts to pro
mote Winston-Salem as something it is not," said the
Rev. William S. Fails, pastor of First United Baptist
Church in High Point and a member of the Citizens
United for Justice, an activist group.
"If we walked through (Buena Vista) late in the
evening while people are jogging, we could be arrested
for suspicion alone."
Winfrey had been in Winston-Salem recently when
she threw a birthday party for Maya Angelou and had
noticed the house when she jogged down Arbor Road.
"I thought it was such a lovely house," Winfrey
said. "I liked the Dogwood trees, the front porch, I just
liked everything about it. I said I would like to sit on that
porch and eat muffins."
When Winfrey
returned to the city on
April 25 to film a seg
ment at Angelou's
house for an upcoming
-show, she decided to
visit the house ?
muffins in hand ? and
include the neighbor
hood in a show on
some of the best places
in the country to live. Oprah Winfrey
"It was just one of those streets that 1 happened to
have jogged down and liked very much," Winfrey said.
"Matter of fact, when I told Maya that I was going there.
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And the Winner Is. . .
Police Might Have
j Heard Fatal Shots
A Neighbor finds bloody
4 body on bed hours-later?
Deandrea Hollman of Durham wins the 50-yard dash at the North Carolina Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Track and Field Day Tuesday at Wake Forest University.
Nearly 400 hearing-impaired students from TS counties participated in running
events, Softball throws , a tug-of-war , sack race and three-legged race .
By MARK R. MOSS
Chronicle Stiff Writer
Winston-Salem police officers
were investigating a disturbance call
in the 1400 block of Cherry Street
shortly after midnight Friday, about
the same time a 29-year-old woman
was shot to death inside her home,
police and neighbors said
Consuela Hope McCullin, of
1407 Cherry St., was found dead
around 3 p.m. Saturday, but the
shots that killed her were apparently
fired around 12:30 a.m. that morn
ing - about the time police officers
were investigating a disturbance.
She was found by a neighbor when
McCullin's children told him their
mother "won't get up.'\
McCullin, a native of Darling
ton, S.C., died of gunshot wounds to
the chest and stomach, said Dr.
Patrick Lantz, a Baptist Hdspital
pathologist. He said it was hard to
determine how long McCullin had
been dead.
The police officers also
reported to their supervisors that
thry had heard gun shots.
"I'm not confirming that they
lady, but they heard gunshots,"
police Lt. L.T. Reavis said.
This week, the house was cor
doned off by a yellow police ribbon.
Seven bullets holes dotted the bot
tom panes of a large window on the
north side of McCullin's one-story,
clapboard house. Just inside the win
dow and flush against its frame sat a
double bed. The next house is about
10 yards away. On the south side of
the McCulHn house is a field of
overgrown grass that stretches to the
comer of Cherry and 14th streets.
Reavis said shell casings were
found outside the house but wouldn't
say how many.
The neighbor who discovered
McCullin and who asked that he not
be identified said he heard gunshots
about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, not long*
after he returned home from work.
He said he didn't call the police
because "five minutes later police
were out front." and he thought
someone else had called them.
? Mary Jeter, of 141 1 Cherry St..
said the police were outside her
front door around the time she heard
the gunshots. She and Jesse Hair
ston, of the same address, said they
also saw officers walking around
with flashlights.
The neighbor said that on Satur
day afternoon he was doing yard
work in his backyard when he
noticed the bullet holes in the win
also thought it strange that
McCullin's' two boys - ages 2 and 4
- weren't outside playing.
He knocked on the front door
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Watt Busy Learning Ropes on Capitol Hill
A Congressman to address
300-plus WSSU graduates
By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Managing Editor
Melvin L. Watt, North Carolina's
first-year Congressman and one of two
blacks elected for the first time last year,
is pleased with his four-month tenure in
Congress, hut admits that he is still learn
ing.
"Obviously I haven't accomplished
everything I wanted to accomplish." he
said. "But my objective going in was to
try to understand the process and how it
worked. I wanted to understand the pres
sure points and become aware of what I
was capable of doing and what I was not
capable of doing. I'm still in the process
of learning."
Watt, 47, took time out from his
busy schedule in Washington to spend
time with some his constituents from the
12th congressional district. On Saturday
at 9:45 a.m., he will deliver the address
to nearly 400 graduates from Winston
Salem State University at the 101st
annual commencement exercises at
Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coli
seum.
Watt was elected to the state House
of Representatives from North Carolina's
12th District with 72% of the vote.
"It's an on-going process," he said
about his experience in Washington. "I
feel good about where I am on that spec
trum after four months. I feel satisfied."
He also said he thinks President
Clinton is doing a good job.
"He is where people thought he
would be. He has done a good job," Watt
said.
The reason some people might think
that Clinton is not doing a good job. Watt
said, is because the President has so
many items on his agenda.
"He continues to put a lot of things
on the table,"Watt said. "Instead of three,
four or fives things, he puts 15 things on
the table. The perception might be differ
ent if he put fewer things on the table,
because it appears he might be scattered.
But that's his style, and that's not a criti
cism of him. I actually like that style.
"I think it's unrealistic for the presi
JLL
Melvin Watt
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