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WINSTON-SALEM
Vol. n, No. 52
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Saturday August 28, 1976
Single Copy 20‘
She Got Another Chance to Turn Her Life Around
Katrina Finney in an earlier photo with Kedrie Wright, a lad
whom she grew to love.
laim Politicians Bought Black Votes
by Ruddy Anderson
Staff Writer
It’s late August, 1976,
and most children are on
their way to school. Most
have the usual curiosities
and apprehensions of what
to expect from their
institutions. Some of these
kids will do well in school
this year and some not so
well. But somehow, most
will make it. However,
there is one who almost did
not. This is Katrina
Finney’s story.
Katrina has been de
scribed as a slow learner
with acute behavior prob
lems. So at 18 and six
months pregnant, the 10th
grade drop-out is waging
an uphill struggle to turn
her life around and get back
into school. By any wide
stretch of the imagination it
is not going to be easy.
Katrina comes from a
section of Winston-Salem
where the code of living is
governed by tough talk,
aggressive reaction, and
insecure defiance. Factors
which constantly revealed
themselves in Katrina’s
personality.
So, as Katrina moved
further up in grade, more of
these traits were exposed
until finally the system
turned her onto the streets.
Citizens Angry About Vote
by James Smith
Staff Writer
several irate citizens in the
ck community are very
gusted that many of the
al and statewide politicians
gedly bought their way
0 the black community.
knd, many of those citizens
1 that with the buying of
ise votes, several persons
0 were not elected might
^e been.
)ne such person is Jim
Hunt, who won the Democra
tic nomination for Governor of
North Carolina.
However, Hunt’s press
secretary, Gary Pearce in
Raleigh, stated that there was
never any money either sent
or carried to churches or given
to individuals to secure votes.
Many of the persons
interviewed stated that Hunt
had paid private citizens and
ministers of churches to
personally endorse him as
their gubernatorial candidate.
Traffic Deaths
In N.C. Increase
'ALEIGH — The first six
nths of 1976 indicate a
% increase in traffic deaths
orth Carolina compared to
same period of 1975,
nmissioner of Motor Vehi-
Edward L. Powell
ounced recently.
total of 686 fatalities
ired on North Carolina
,f iways through June of this
r compared to 669 deaths
ing the same period last
r. During June, 1975 of
this year 131 persons were
killed compared to 121 traffic
deaths in June, 1975, an
increase of 8.3%. Powell
rele&sed the statistics in the
monthly Highway Accident
Perspective published by
Christine E. Bunn, Director of
Traffic Records of the North
Carolina Division of Motor
Vehicles.
Personal injuries are up
8.2% for the year, and
See Traffic, Page 2
But, Pearce said that is the
furthest thing from the truth.
“The only money paid out
was to advertisers and persons
who worked at the polls all
day,’’ he said. “And, those
who were paid were given
money for the use of gas in
transporting people to and
from the polls,” he stated.
Many of those interviewed
stated that if the churches and
the private citizens would
have rallied to Howard Lee’s
campaign for lieutenant gov
ernor, he would not face a
runoff election on September
14 with Jimmy Green.
And, many of them also feel
that with Hunt not personally
endorsing Lee, that hurt his
chances of getting the
nomination.
But, Pearce stated that
during his campaign Hunt
never endorsed any of the
eight candidates who were
trying for the democratic
nomination of lieutenant
governor.
Several ministers who were
interviewed by the Chronicle
stated that they had no
knowledge of anyone bringing
or sending money for them to
endor-:e Hunt as their
See Voters, Page 2
Her problems in school
did not begin until about
the seventh grade, when
she tongue-lashed a teachef
for being too nosey about
what she claimed to be her
private affairs. At her next
school her mouth was
allegedly washed out with
liquid soap by an insulted
instructor. Her mother filed
a class action suit along
with others against the
Winston-Salem City School
system. Whether she won
the case or not is at best
vague because Katrina’s
next stop was Central (now
South Park High).
She lasted about two
See “I Want”, Page 2
Frazier
Elected
President
Sandra Jackson
...Jr. Achiever
Local Girl
Attends
Conference
Miss Sandra Y. Jackson, a
senior at Bishop McGuinness
Memorial High School, re
cently attended the National
Junior Achievement Confer
ence at Indiana University, at
Bloomington, Indiana.
Three thousand teenage
delegates attended a series of
seminars comparing their
experiences as small business
men and discussed subjects
such as the energy crisis,
government regulation of
business and consumerism.
During the past school year.
Miss Jackson served as
See Conference, Page 2
Ralph K. Frazier has been
elected senior vice president
and general counsel of
Huntington National Bank in
action taken by the board of
directors. The announcement
was made last Thursday by
Frank Wobst president.
Frasier, who joined the
bank in November 1975 as vice
president and general coun
sel, was also recently named
vice president and general
counsel of the bank’s parent
:ompany, Huntington Banc-
shares, Inc, He came to
Columbus from Winston-Sa
lem, N.C., where he had been
vice president and assistant
counsel of the Wachovia
Corp., parent company of the
Wachovia Bank and Trust.
The Eastside resident
graduated magna cum laude
with a juris doctorate from
North Carolina Central Uni
versity School of Law in 1965,
He is a member of the Ohio
and North Carolina Bars and
the National, American and
North Carolina Bar Associ
ations.