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IN OUR SCHOOLS Scholarships Offered KiflEfi _ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . ? ? Future health-care professionals can offse*. the financial burden of codege through the schol arship program offered by Health Care Career* CODE BLUB/ : C Partially funded by CODE BLUE sponsors Forsyth Memorial Hospital Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. The _ ships ace part of the continuing effort to capable students into health care and are in lion tp the loans and scholarship already offered by the four hospitals. One students from Forsyth County will granted a $1,000 scholarship ft* writ' essay on the rewards of becoming a professional* Students submitting an i also obtain a teacher recommendation* r -_T satisfxaory grade-point average. 'T;Jlgi ^ Volunteer work at a local bbtpM or facility is encouraged. The award will be presented in and must be applied toward tuition at a commu nity college or university in North Carolina, Inter* ested studem should contact their school guidance ? counselor or call CODE BLUE 723-642111# Veterans mm mp ^ Nov U $ Veteran's Day ^ for student and professional day for Hi Purkey William PuAm'iroAi UNC- ____ (peak to Kernersville Elementary faculty staff at 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 11th about 'po^nore infotmatii* call wag*;. a- ? Easton Elementary School has an Alt in their hallways* Student! in Kindei | through fifth grade? mixed' paint colors tocreafe "Pumpkins Patches/* this will be on display! call Uxi MoOe^he^di r ' > W I ?MAM Semen tary School PTA will iOri!i|?a E^Carnival on Nov 1 2 at A a cake of planned fq* eUi kih.11 R Wr -%* ' ^NiiK??fe iral ?p ooiacnis ironrme sixm-graae g? at Cook Middle School aie going to in Huntsville, Al. on Nov. IMl and** by 4-H and NASA*! Susan Edge at 727-2784. ; Education Nov. 14-20 will represent American filling tton Week. ' V' ' .. -Hi ' "V1- ??-*^N.-^"^Wf''< >XX* '% ??:? II . North Carolina Competency l est for fet grades 9-12 Wild have not passed or who not been tested previously, will begiven 18 ? v---:' ;--.y Board of Education Board of Education win meet Thnrsd ffcv??6 P-m - - FaH Concert The R. J. Reynolds Orchestra will be rrftBff f||Jts fall concert on Nov. 15 In the Reyifm| yrtpiorhirn at 7:30 p.m. There Will be no sion charge and everyone is invited. R< ments will be served. *? ,: *. Y ?? ? ?*-% - -i . ' 4* & m -tv 5 YCvv *f*:Our Schools" is a weekly events that chronicles going -on in our local j ^jmools. ff you would like your event or Hon incfmUd, send them to: "In Our Schootijj^ The Chronicle , F.O. Box 1636. You may also foot bto723-9173. .. : r /?/; Club Starts Off Year With Success The Best Yet Flower Garden Club held it's first meeting of the year at the home of Magdalene Wat son on Saturday Sept., 25. Mrs. Stewart gave the report from the con vention and Cheek gave the council report. Cheek then encouraged mem bers to participate m the upcoming Dixie Classic Fair Flower Show. Mrs. Steward did enter the show and walked away with six honors. Other plans were made for Best Yet to continue its work With our youth group, The African Violets, and with other efforts of the coun cil which plans to make decorations in its November Council for the Human ^Alliance Ser f vice. T The Best Yet Club is Off and running with new goals. Once Again Violence Claims a Young Life from page A 1 arrived, she said, and an officer attempted cardiopul monary resuscitation, she said. It was futile. Gladden was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital. Family, frl>nH? riUagr? on fart? A point of contention between family members and Gladden s friends was how much time elapsed between the time she was shot and the time help was called. Vanessa Singleton, 26, the woman who rents the Locust Avenue apartment, said that accounts of one hour having passed before help was called are untrue. She said she got off work from a Liberty Street convenience store about 1:45 a.m. and was home around 2 a.m. Five to 10 minutes after she arrived home, she said, she was using the bathroom when she heard what sounded like a firecracker going off. She didn't pay any attention to the noise until a friend, who had been in the house, knocked on the door and told her what had happened. She was told that "Nook," as Gladden was also known, had been shot. Singleton said she went to the bedroom and found Gladden on the floor and slumped against a wall. "I asked her, 'What's wrong? What's wrong?' " Sin gleton said. Singleton said she then noticed a "smudge spot" on the front of Gladden's shirt She lifted up the shirt and saw blood coming from the area around Gladden's stom ach. "Oh my God. What happened?" she asked an unconscious Gladden. She said she didn't know who was in the bedroom at the time because "my mind was focusing on Nook." She said a friend ran next door and used the phone to call for help. "It did not happen at 1 a.m. . . . And it had nothing ?o do with no arguing or no drugs." 'Thev iuat let her die' However, Pam Gladden, the victim's mother, didn't believe Singleton's version. "They just let her lay there and die," she said. Gladden and her best friend, Ann Sheppard, talked about the events surrounding her daughter' s death with a visitor this week. Sheppard, who responded to questions posed to Gladden, said that sfiTastfed Singleton several times what happene4jand>*ach time she told the story, facts would be revealed that pointed to evidence that those in the house waited an unnecessary amount of time before calling the police. She quotes. Singleton as saying that she "was scared and had to clean up my house" before letting someone in. "They let her bleed to death," Sheppard said. Disobeyed 10 o'clock curfew Gladden s relationship with her mother was spo radic and she spo had been staying with her maternal grandfather, James Johnson, for the past three years. Johnson, who lives on East 24th Street, also had prob lems with her. He said the problems started this past summer when she would leave and not return for several days. "She was as nice a girl as you would want to meet," he said. But he called her "hardheaded" and said she "wouldn't abide by my rules." The main one was his 10 p.m. curfew. . Gladden went to Independence High School - an optional school and the last stop for students who have gotten in trouble with the school system. Johnson said his granddaughter was sent to the school because she had gotten pregnant. Relatives and friends said her atten dance was spotty. s Johnson said that when Gladden would leave home, everytime he'd see her on the street "it was with some dude who was hustling." She'd eventually return home, then leave again, he said. "I throwed up my hands. ... I couldn't make her stay here," he said. Milligan is Making a Difference from page A1 that city's public housing community. He arrived in Rocky Mount from Wilson, where he got his start in public housing by becoming an assistant director. ,He held management positions at several companies, and the reason he was approached for the Wilson position was because of his management skills. He said that the job may change, but "managing people basically stays the sfune." A native of Colombia, S.C., Milligan was the second child of a registered nurse and mortician. He played football in high school, but he got into The Citadel on an academic scholarship. He said he believes in operating the public housing authority, which oversees 2,700 units; 1ike~a business, it is that pol icy that led the authority to purchase Plaza Apartments, a privately owned complex, from an investor. The apartments, in the northwest cor ner of Northwest Boulevard and Thur mond Street, were going downhiir because the owner was losing money and was unwilling to put more money into fixing them up, Milligan said. The investor approached the housing authority about purchasing the property, he said. Milligan said that the authority financed the acquisition through private and public sources. The, authority will renovate the property and, because it won't be tied to any Housing and Urban Development money, the authority hopes to attract the kind of renter the private market would like to attract. Milligan said it's a "win/win" situa tion because the city will earn revenue from the taxable property, the conditions there will be more affordable housing from which to choose. The acquisition represented the first time in the housing authority's history that it has purchased property with the { help of a private lender, Milligan said. What's on the immediate horizon for public housing residents will involve a unique way of helping to tackle the prob lems of drugs and violence. Milligan recently hired two more community safety specialists, bringing to four the total number. If a tenant is arrested for drug possession and drugs are found on the property, the tenant could be evicted. Milligan is also working toward installing air conditioning in every unit - a project he hopes to have completed by next summer. One of the more telling things that Milligan shared with the East Area Coun cil in the Novt-4 breakfast was that the housing authority doesn't use the "P" word (for project) any more. Milligan explained that the sobriquet came out of President Franklin Roo sevelt's administration, when housing was constructed to temporarily house the unemployed until they could find work. "The problem we have with the "P" word now is that the projects are our lieighbors." he said. Such censorship is largely symbolic, IK said, but such symbolism can affect Kbw people view themselves and their institutions. In other words, it can make a difference, and that's what Milligan, the is all about. The "P." word is not Milligan's only pet peeve. He also prefers to call public housing residents "customers." Public housing is service oriented, and the peo ple they service are customers, he said. "Our customers deserve the same respect and dignity anybody else in this town gets," he said. w ' NAACP Asks Chief Sweat to Ban Use of Pepper Spray A After spending months in a coma, man who was sprayed with chemical dies By MARK R. MOSS Chrtrticit smrwrtgr The death last week of Lawrence Francisco Cannon, who was hospitalized after police used pepper spray on him last summer, has prompted the NAACP to ask the Police Chief George Sweat ban using the chemical until its affects have been furthered studied. The civil rights organization is also asking the U.S. Department of Justice to expedite its investigation of pepper spray. It has also prompted a close relative of the dead man to hire a lawyer to look into the circumstances surrounding Can non's death. "There wasn't a thing wrong with him when he came home," Leo Cannon Sr., an uncle, said about Cannon's return to Winston-Salem from a Salisbury jail. Several days after Cannon's return, on July 7, police said an unidentified man flagged down an officer around 4 a.m. in the 1000 block of East 15th Street and pointed to a man lying in the front seat of a 1978 Ford. The car's owner told the officer that he didn't know who the man was and wanted to press charges. A second officer arrived, and when the two attempted to handcuff the man, he resisted and the officers used pepper spray, police said. After Cannon, 52, was taken to the warrant office and charged with tamper ing with a motor vehicle and delaying an officer, he was escorted to the Forsyth County Jail. Dr. Patrick Lantz, a forensic patholo gist at Baptist Hospital, said that although an autopsy had been completed, ( - \ J Lawrence Francisco Cannon he still had not determined what killed Cannon. He said he was waiting on the man's medical records from Forsyth Memorial Hospital and the State Bureau of Investigation's report. He said such information was needed "to do a thorough investigation and to come up with a cause and a man ner of death." However, Leo Cannon said that doc tors told him that his nephew had a brain concussion and fractured ribs. "How he got them, he (the doctor) didn't know . . . They told me he would never come around (regain conscious ness) again." Cannon said he was told that his nephew was "out in the back of the police car" when they brought him to the hospital. He was in intensive care for about a month, then moved to a room before hospital officials said he would have to go to a nursing home. Cannon saii? Cannon said his nephew was collect ing a government check because of a car accident that left him unable to work. He described Cannon as being "kind of wild." He said he didn't know why Cannon had to serve time, but when he returned to Winston-Salem "he was ifi perfect health." Cannon said he has talked to a lawyer, and the lawyer was trying to get the'' dead man's body shipped to the state medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill. Besides demanding that the city police department stop using pepper spray, the National Association for the gests that facilities at Winston-Salem State University and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine be used to aid in investigating the chemical s effects. "Clearly," the letter states, "Chief Sweat, in view of the two known deaths that possibly are causally related to the use of pepper spray, your immediate attention to this matter is imperative. How many more must die before we take constructive action?" The other death refers to Angelo Robinson of Concord, whose death this summer touched off a riot. The letter is signed by local NAACP president William Tatum. Advance ment of Colored Peoples letter to Sweat - da t e d Nov. 10 - also calls for the Board of Alder man's Public Safety Commit tee to con vene a hearing on the use of the chemi c a 1 weapon. It also sug Winston-Salem Chronicle rht rw? C'm'e AwaM-Wif,n<nt> iimiAfftyi** . WlnstWvSetam, NC 27102 (91f>7224824 Single Copy 75* Mail Subscription Rates (payable with order) j In County 2 years $40 95 1 year .30.72 6 mos -....20.48 3 mos 10.24 Out of County/State 2 years $45 95 1 year 35.72 6 mos 25 48 3 mos 15.24 ?Yes, please send me the Chronicle Name Address City Check enclosed for ? 2 year Q 1 year ? 6 months J 3 months Mail to: Winston-Salem Chronicle P.O. Box 1638 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 The Winston-Salem Chonicle is published every Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc.. N. Ltoerty St. Mailing Address: P.O. 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