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Pe Negro Leagues Museum names new director KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) - Gregory D Baker, a for mer assistant to the Kansas City city manager, has been named executive director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Baker replaces Don Motley, who is retiring after 18 years as the exec utive director of the museum Motley will continue as a member of the organization's board of directors. Baker will oversee the operations and organizational and strategic planning for the museum, and will report to its board of directors. Baker's hiring Friday also caused at least two board members to resign in protest. Baker was chosen over Baker Bob Kendrick, the museum's longtime marketing director. But Pellom McDaniels III. president-elect of the NLBM Board of Directors, applauded Baker's selection. "Greg Baker brings an outstanding combination of business and technical acumen," McDaniels said. "He is well-equipped to further enhance the museum's position as a premier destination for baseball fans, historians, and scholars from across the country and around the world." Baker is a native of Kansas City, Mo., and for the last seven years has been the assistant to the Kansas City city manager. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, opened in 1997 and is a privately funded, non-profit organization dedicat ed to preserving the history of African- American Baseball. The museum contains a collection of baseball photographs and artifacts dating from the late 1800s through the 1960s. The museum was designated by Congress in 2006 as "America's National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum." Nominations sought for NAACP Spingam Medal The National NAACP is soliciting nominations for the 94th Spingarn Medal, which was instituted in 1914 by the late J.E. Spingarn. the then NAACP Chairman. It is award ed for the highest or noblest achievement by an American of African descent during the preceding year or years. The purpose of the medal is to call attention to distin guished merit and achievement among Americans of African descent, serve as a reward for such achievement - and stimulate the ambition of youth of African descent. Nominations must include a detailed, current biograph ical profile of the nominee, highlighting relevant activities and achievements. Supporting and verifying documents such as news clippings, honors received, etc. should also be attached. This information should be clearly typewrit ten or printed, as it must be reproduced. The final selection of the medalist is made by the Spingarn Medal Award Committee and the Association's Board of Directors; The Committee's decision is final in all matters affecting the award. All nominations for the 94th Spingarn Medal must be submitted, in writing, and postmarked on or before Dec. 31. Nominations should be addressed to: The Spingarn Medal Award Committee, Attention: Office of the Chairman. 4805 Mount Hope Drive, Baltimore, MD 21215. Election Day fliers to get scrutiny VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A special prosecutor will look into fliers distributed by Virginia Beach's win ning mayoral candidate depicting him with President-elect Barack Obama. Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey Bryant says he knows who ordered the fliers to be distributed on Election Day on behalf of Will Sessoms. He's turned that informa tion over to a special prosecutor. The problem is that the fliers did not say who authorized them, as required by law. Se i torn i They were mostly distributed to black voters, even though Sessoms said he supported John McCain for president. After the election. Mayor Meyera Oberndorf filed a complaint about the fliers. Paterson promises to send forgotten food aid to Haiti (GIN7NNPA) - Some 77 tons of donated food and clothes for hurricane victims in Ham have been rescued from storage where it sat forgotten for three months. New York Gov David Pater von took responsibility for failing to move the much needed collected items A donat ed plane from Federal Express is leaving this week with about 4 tons of food designated for Catholic Relief Services. Another 8 tons will arrive Dec 23 Some 65 tons of aid collected mostly from Haitians in the Tri-State area are awaiting some offer of transport "The fault lies with me," Paterson -aid at a recent press conference. "It was messed up and it's going to get cleaned up." Meanwhile, church collections for the hurricane vie tims are continuing, including a "Wine and Cheese and Buy Something Please" in St. Michael's Catholic Church in Auburn, for its sister parish, Notre Dame du Mont Carmel in Cabaret, Haiti. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual subscription price is $30.7*. (POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 WinstoiySalem, NC 27102-1636 $ ' N.C. had largest increase in turnout Across the nation , voters break four-decade-old record THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years. Final figures from nearly every state and the District of Coiumbia showed that more than 1 3 1 million people voted, the most ever for a presidential election A little more than 122 million voted in 2004. This year's total is 61.6 percent of the nation 's eligible voters, the highest turnout rate since 1968, when Republican Richard M Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey, said Michael McDonald, a political science professor at George Mason University. States finished certifying their election results this weekend, including California on Saturday. The Electoral College was sched uled to elect Obama president on Monday, with electors meeting in each state to vote in a largely ceremonial proce dure. Turnout increased for the third straight presidential election, encouraging news for those who have warned about voter apathy . Four years ago, 60.1 percent of those eli gible voted. "We seem to have restored the levels of civic engagement that we had in the 1950s and 1960s," McDonald said. "But we didn't break those levels." McDonald calculated turnout rates based on the number of eligible voters among adult U.S. citizens. Experts calculate turnout rates in different ways based on File Pboio Early voters line up outside of the Forsyth County Board of Elections. whom they consider eligible voters, a process that excludes noncitizens and. in most states, convicted felons Regardless of the method. turnout tell short of many predic- I tions. in part because voters in some Republican areas of the coun try were not as enthusiastic this year with Sen. John McCain as the party's nomi- | nee as they were four years ago when President George W. Bush won a sec ond term Bush's unpopularity after eight years in office, the nation's fatigue with the Iraq war and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s - coupled with Obama's mes sage of change - contributed to the increased turnout for Obama. He was also helped oy a surge in oiack voters, who had the opportunity to elect the first black presi dent. The number of registered Democrats jumped in many states, helping to propel Obama to a larger share of the vote than Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nomi nee, in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Early voting hit a new high, with about 41 million people - or more than 3 1 per cent - voting before Election Day, either by mail or at des ignated sites, according to returns compiled by The Associated Press. Early vot ing accounted for 22 percent of the votes cast in 2004 The Obama campaign invested heavily in early vot ing. and it appeared to be the difference in several states, though many of those people might have eventually voted on Election Day. Voter turnout increased substantially in newly com petitive states such as Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina, which all went for Obama after decades of favor ing Republican presidential candidates. Turnout also increased in some Republican states w ith large black popu lations. such as Mississippi. South Carolina and Georgia. North Carolina, which had See Voters on A4 Meek NYPD cops indicted in sodomy case BY CYRIL "JOSH- BARKER THE AMSTERDAM NEWS NEW YORK (NN?A) - The officers accused of sodomizing a Brooklyn man in October in a subway sta tion , maintain their inno cence after being indicted Dec. 9. Officers Richard Kern, Andrew Morales and Alex Cruz were charged with sex ual assault and trying to cover up the incident. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes made the announcement last week. The case was heard before a grand jury and ended with the officers being charged . Kern, 25, is charged with first Mineo degree aggravated sexual abuse and faces a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Among the 32 charges are official misconduct and falsifying business records for attempting to conceal the incident. Morales and Cruz, both 26, face up to four years in prison. The victim, Michael Mineo, 24, alleged that the officers sodomized him with a police baton in the Prospect Park subway sta tion in Brooklyn. Mineo was suspected of smoking mari juana before he ran from police. He alleges that the officers caught him, pinned him to the ground and assaulted him. The tattoo parlor worker was hospitalized for injuries to hit anus, and medical record* state that there was ^nal assault. Lab tests pfroved that Mineo's DNA was on Kern's baton. Two transit workers and one offi cer from the 7l?t Precinct came forward with informa tion about the alleged attack . Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is awaiting the out come of the investigation The three officers were originally put oa desk duty, but Hynes reported that bail would be set fo* Kern at S50.000. S20.000 for Morales and $10,000 for Cruz. Kern has a history of excessive force and has cost the city $50,000 in lawsuits for police brutality. Bring-Home Holiday ^ Refreshment ? ?? - ' ? give live love
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