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from page 41 not be doied," Roberts said. "I have fought too many years to keep it open." City of Winston-Salem Board of Alderman member Joycelyn Johnson said that this rumor is not new. She served as a page in the library in 196S. The facility was erected since 19S3. Johnson heard discussion about the closing of the library during the last Kwanzaa festivities. "We must be honest with the community" she said. "How much explanation has been done in the community about these changes," Womble asked. "It is with meetings like this that we find out about the issues. The Roundtablc called this meet ing." Roberts admitted more expla nation to the community could help to dispel rumors of closing the library. "If your intention is to keep it open, what will be your recom mendation to the Board of Coun ty Commissioners," Worn We said. "1 worked on the library board..! know the kinds of games the library board plays. I remember when they did not fund East Win ston for equipment and other activities." 7 Roberts said according to the book stock, budget and circula tion statistics the Forsyth County Public Library compiled earlier" this month, East Winston't circu lation is a great deal less than its book stock. At the other 11 loca tions, books circulated at least five times. However, the book stock at East Winston branch did not cir culate even once. Based on this information, Roberts said changes needed to be made. Members of the audience said they often use the library, though they may not check out books. They use the facility for meetings, computer use, reading magazines and newspapers and other activi ties that would not be recorded on the book stock/circulation statis tics. Others believed that it was unfair that the Carver Road Library, which will open on Aug. 6, will be a full-service library, while the East Winston Branch will be converted into the Heritage Library, which will house only African American literature. They argued youth closer to the East. Winston Branch need access to a full service facility and the Carver Road Branch is not in walking distance. Roberts said students will still be able to do research in the East Winston Branch. After the book collection is enhanced, the materi als could be even more accessible. A similar situation happened at the Southside Library which was a traditional full-service library. The library is now features only popu lar fiction. Non-fiction books have been removed because they were less in demand. "I wish to create a library simi lar to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a his torical library," Roberts said. Located in New York, the Schom burg is one of the most widely used research facilities in the world devoted to the preservation ot materials on black lite. The center's collection first won inter national acclaim in 1926 when the personal collection of the distin guished black scholar and biblio phile, Arthur A. Schomburg, was added to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints of the 135th Street Branch of The New York Public Library. The East Winston Heritage Library, he proposed, would be a specialty library that catered to adults and children who tend to use the library most. The library would provide immediate area ser vice to Day Care Centers, chil dren, businesses, hospitals and to individuals interested in popular materials, magazines, newspapers and computer training. It would develop with other organizations in East Winston, specialized programs in the area of African American history, genealogy, cultural celebrations such as Kwanzaa and exhibits. Trained professionals in Chil dren's Outreach and SmartStart programming will be transferred to the library to serve the commu nity. In addition, the Parenting and Child Development Collec tion will be enlarged to provide ongoing programs in these spe cialized areas. The ultimate goal of the library is tp foster a special relationship between 'East Win ston and the rest of the communi ty. ' Womble questioned the spe cialty classification. "I have to vote on SmartStart, ? 1 strongly support SmartStart" but 1 do not want to have to choose between SmartStart and a library," be sa.d^ "Both of them are Hamlin, deputy direc tor of Forsyth County Libraries, said she was very proud of the Her itage branch. "We are talking about enhancing the materials and making things better, said. "We "ant to bring good programs to the East Ward. Sprinkle-Hamlin distributed flyers on a storytelling festival that was held at Auburn .Avenue Research Library African American Culture and History in Atlanta which tea X ' A ~ lureu sioryiciicrs Nancy Sims and LaDoris Bias Davis, dancing and drumming by the Giwayen Mata African Dance Troup and Wee Williel, the African American Clown. Dr. H. Rembert Malloy donat ed the plot of land on which the current library stands. The land was originally slated for a clinic. "This library means a lot to me," he said. "Very few of you were born when we donated that lot. I have lived in East Winston more than 40 years. This is my neigh ? borhood. I use the library, and*I want to continue to see it used as'a library. If it is kept as a library, I am with you. I just don't want it to be anything other than a library* Carter Cue of Winston-Salesttf State University wanted to makH sure the library had the technologM ical resources children need. 1 "Information does not neces-i sarily come from books," she said: Only a stone's throw away should be computers. They do need to be able to access information." One parent, Kamaria Muntu, in the audience said she had lived in Atlanta and in Baltimore and had the opportunity to be exposed to a facility such as the proposed Heritage Library. She sees the branch as a wonderful opportuni ty to draw scholars from around the world to Winston-Salem to deliver lectures and to provide resources. i Rachel Jackson who has strug-. gled for more than 20 years to keep the library effective is pleased with the proposal. "This is a renewal," she said. PL. a 1 at a al_ _/? aiic nuicu 111 <11 iu inc name ui urban renewal jpany things have been lost and destroyed, but this renewal is in the interest of serving children. "These children will be served only if you are involved," she said: By collaborating with various organizations around the commu nity, the library can be enhanced, Roundtable member Khalid Grig gs agreed with the idea. "This has the potential to build upon what exists. It would pro mote greater utility of existing and future services," he said. WHBom *WP lotirh, mxocutivo dkucfor of forsytk County UbroHos, camo to Block Olnring last wook to oddross tho fats of tho tost Winston Library. Jackson from page A1 At first, his request was turned down. But he wrote letters and made phone calls, asking Agricul ture officials to reconsider. They did, ruling finally that the poor and sparsely populated suburb meets the agency's definition of a rural community after all, even though it ' is only 20 minutes from downtown Chicago. The foul-smelling, murky waters of Ford Heights cast a crys tal reflection of two politicians, a > famous father and his up-and coming son. They are as strikingly different as they are alike. Both have liberal missions, but they attack on different fronts. Jackson Sr. roams the sky with a search light, picking off the biggest tar gets he can find. His son the congressman hovers low to the ground, doing the little things that often go undetected by radar and have never been his father's strong suit. "The inside political role is dif . ferent than the outside prophetic role," Jackson Sr. said in an inter view. "Jesse Jr. chooses to be on the inside and that's fine. It's a big' country and there's lots of work to be done. There's a role to play, for 1 both." A decade after the restless 56 year-old Jackson last occupied the nation's center stage with1 his quixotic presidential campaign, aides say tfce politician/talk show host/author/presidential adviser is struggling somewhat to remain rel evant to a public that largely admires him, but has never really known what to do with him. As he tries to sharpen his public profile, his 33-year-old son is carving out his own political image with strokes that are smaller, and per haps surer, than his father's. Stylistically, they are alter egos, the preacher and a pragmatist, the outsider and the insider. While Jackson Sr. pickets Wall Street and Hollywood as a self-appointed apostle for affirmative action, the younger Jackson's crusade is for construction of a third regional airport in the Chicago suburbs to help the stalled economy in his dis trict. The jet-setting father buzzes all over the place - Africa one week, Appalachia the next. The son stays put, lobbying a House subcommit tee to approve a regional airport or helping a poor suburb with an even poorer credit rating qualify for fed eral housing loans. In his three years on Capitol Hill, Jackson Jr. has never missed a vote on the House floor. Among the accomplishments of which he is proudest is the installation of highway signs identifying a smat tering of poor suburbs that have traditionally considered their com munities neglected and overlooked. The son, who as a teenager accompanied his famous father to Syria to retrieve a U.S. Navy pilot taken prisoner, now boasts of his dedication to his 600,000 con stituents, an eclectic mix of blue collar workers, poor blacks and well-off, conservative whites. "Since I've been elected I've spent almost every weekend at home in my district," he declares. And if the father's pursuit of publicity leaves him somewhat out of focus, a highly public figure at once the nation's conscience and its caricature, his son earns praise for being just the opposite. Since his election, he and his aides say, he has held only four news confer ences and he rejects nearly 400 invi tations to speak each week. While Jackson Sr. publicly calibrates his next move leading up to the 2000 election, his son repeatedly says he has no interest in a nascent grass roots campaign to be drafted as a candidate for Chicago mayor. "Jackson Sr. is a tree-shaker," said Robert Borsage, a former adviser, repeating an old Jackson line. * Jackson Jr. is a jelly-maker," added Borsage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, a Washington-based policy organi zation. "I think that's a conscious and subconscious decision on Junior's part. When you grow up under a big tree's shadow, you try to find the best spot for you to grow." The comparisons invite Jackson Sr.'s critics to see in father and son a reverse version of Icarus and Daedalus: a father flying too high, bumed up by the sun and his own ambition, while his son flies safely closer to the ground. But that, according to Borsage and others who know the two men, would be simplistic. For one thing, they say, the younger Jackson encourages his father to soar and is perhaps the most outspoken advocate of a third presidential campaign. Most ly, they work in tandem. Aides for both say they are as close as a father and son can be. "Certainly Congressman Jack son is more inclined to do things the way his generation does things - with computers, for instance," said Ron Lester, a Democratic pollster who worked on the younger Jackson's campaign and knows both father and son. "But also, just like his father, he is a phenomenal campaigner. The special election was held on a snowy, cold day in March and still voters turned out to vote. They were energized and charged up by his candidacy. Now, who else do we know that has that kind of abili ty?" Black Radio from page A1 My a third party to spread bigotry and misinformation about our audi ence," said Winston. A spokesman for Katz said the material cited from the memo was maliciously taken out of context with "an obvious goal of furthering a preconceived agenda." Winston said the spring man agers meeting, being held on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, was the first chance the group had had to discuss the controversial / memo. Winston said minority broad casters have been losing advertising dollars since the Federal Communi cations Commission lifted restric tions on how many stations an individual company could own, opening the way to large broadcast chains of dozens of stations ? Cathy Sandoval, director of the Office of Communications for Busi ness Opportunities for the FCC, said many advertisers insist on a dis count of 1S percent or up to 35 per cent for ad time on stations aimed at minorities "And by contrast, if they are advertising to a low-income area in, say, West Virginia, there's no low income discount that's demanded," said Sandoval. The broadcasters group has already asked the FCC, the Justice Department and members of Con gress to investigate the memo. Sandoval said FCC Chairman William E. Kennard is expected to reply to that request in early June The Associated Press contrib uted to this article 12th District from page A! still meanders, the new shorter, plumper 12th is only 36 percent black. The old one, which was creat ed to ensure Mack representation, was 46 percent black. And that, legislators say, presents a problem. "One of the factors that caused us to draw the district like we did it the first time was incumbency pro tection," said N.C. Senator Frank \ Ballance. "There had not been an f African American representative in almost 100 years. That was the rea son we created the district. Now, African Americans could be left out in the cold again." While most lawmakers agree U.S. Rep Mel Watt, who currently repre sents the 12th "will have no prob lem" being reelected in a more white district, the next black candidate may be in for a tough campaign. "I don't think it gives African Americans a chance to get elected in any district," said N.C. Representa tive Alma Adams. "I believe Mel will do fine because he's an incumbent, but what about the people after him. Not a lot of whites are going to vote for an African American." The new plan also "dilutes" the black vote by shifting black voters in Guilford County and Statesville to other districts, Ballance said. The old map boasted black majorities in three of six counties. The new dis trict has only a black majority in one county - Forsyth. "The whole equation has changed," he said. "Before, we drew the district because (blacks) com plained about not having fair repre sentation and the Justice Department ordered the district? redrawn. Now it's been sent back again because a judge called it "ugly" and because there are too many blacks. Race wasn't the only factor that went into the 12th." Ballance says legislators drew the district the way they did because of "common interests," "If you look at it, most of the areas were all metropolitan areas," he said. "We felt like the people in the district had common interests because they all lived in urban areas Now, people who live in the city are with people who live in largely rural areas What kinds of things do they have in common?" U.S. Representative Richard Burr, who represents the largely rural and white 5th Congressional District which now includes part of Forsyth County says commonality presents no problem. "I'll continue to do what I've been doing," Burr said. "From the feedback I receive, what we're doing is pretty effective. ' "The issues I push are ones that affect everyone I spend 70 percent of my time in schools And healthcare is the No. J challenge Those are issues that are crucial to everyone." While Burr is optimistic, other legislators are more hesitant. "There are some of us who feel we would rather have remained in the 12th," said N.C Rep Warren Oldham. "The feeling is that they could approach Mel better than Richard Burr. Don't get me wrong, Richard is a fine representative, but people felt Mel understood their issues. "Those African Americans in Forsyth County really do have little in common with the counties in the northwest part of the state. They have much more in common with the more urban areas like Mecklen burg County." Whatever the problems of the new 12th, the fact remains that if it passes the scrutiny of both judges panel and the Justice Department, it will remain in effect only for the 1998 and 2000 elections, After that, its fate may once again be up in the air. The old 12th was drawn to reflect the burgeoning black communities highlighted in the 1990 census. Lawmakers may face the challenge of redrawing it again come Census 2000. "This is getting to be an ongoing thing," Ballance said. "It didn't take us a long time to draw it. It just takes a long time to get it through the process. I don't want to think about 2000 right now." Newspaper from page A1 take part in a special commission that will meet Tuesday to look into the crime, which he claims involves a conspiracy. Johnson said none of the city investigators assigned to the case have been called to testify before that commission. He said investigators are closer than they've been to solving the case, which he said is a priority. 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