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msam igU Winston-Salem Chronicle VoL IV, No, 25 “More than 25,000 weekly readers” Pages 16 ★ 20 Cents ★ WSSU Speaker Raises Assassination Questions by Yvette McCullough staff Reporter Within three years of the assassination of John Kennedy, 50 eyewit nesses died either from accidents or suicide. The odds against those per- sons dying from ‘ ‘natural means is 500 million trillion to one, says Mich ael Marsh, head of the director of the North Caro lina Assassination Infor mation Bureau. Speaking before a group of students at Win- stomSalem State Univer sity Monday night, Meirsh is an active investigator into the deaths of Presi dent John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Jr., Malcolm X, the Orange burg and Kent State mas sacres and the attempt on the life of Gov. George Wallace. A film, worth $2 mil- plan To Reduce Cross-Busing And Improve Racial Balance by Yvette McCullough Staff Reporter A pupil assignment plan which is part of a five-year assignment plan of Superintendent James A. Adams, was presented by Adams at the last Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Educa tion meeting. The proposed plan would reduce overcrowd ing in two elementary schools, improve the ra cial balance in at least 20 schools and reduce cross busing. These changes are fo cused at the elementary level and involve convert ing three more schools to seven year schools, bring ing the total number of k-6 schools to 11 but of the present 27 elementary schools. The three schools being converted are Kon- noak. Oak Summit and Old Town. Expanding the Konnoak district would reduce the ratio of blacks there from 47 percent to 33 percent. Children attending Kon noak fcr K-6 would follow the same feeder pattern for grades 7-12. They would attend Philo for 7-8 grades, Anderson 9-10 and Parkland 11-12. Oak Summit would gain the area east of Oak Summit and Piedmont Park and lose some stu dents from west of Rural Hall Road and Blazed Street. Children attending Oak Summit would follow this pattern; Mineral Springs for grades 7-8, Carver 9-10 and North Forsyth 11-12. Old Town Elementary would gain a small section of the Speas District and lose the Lake Hills sec tion. The total enrollment of Old Town would be reduced and black enroll ment would drop from 51 percent to about 36 per cent. Old Town students would attend Northwest for grades 7-8, Hanes for grades 9-10 and North Forsyth for grades 11-12. One effect of the pro posed plan would be to reduce busing and travel time. Declining enroll ment is also a factor in reduced busing and that between 5 and 10 buses could be eliminated next year. See Plan, Page 2 N.C. MUTUAL EXHIBIT HONORS N.C. BLACKS Korney BARFIELD, left, of the North Carolina Department of Archives and and W.J. KENNEDY Ql, president and chief executive officer of NORTH C^OLINA MUTUAL life Insurance Co., look at a display panel featuring NCM 18 part of a new exhibit that opened this week at North Carolina Mutual. lion, of President Ken nedy’s assassination was shown numerous times to the audience. Marsh dis proved the theory of how Kennedy was shot. He showed that Kennedy was hit by three bullets with the third bullet probably being the fatal bullet. Also he showed how it was improbable that the same bullet that hit Kennedy also hit Gov. Connelly who was a passenger in the car and who was shot in the shoulder, wrist and thigh with one bullet. “This miracle bullet,” Marsh said. “Hit Ken nedy in the back, traveled up to his neck, then went out of his neck, stopped in mid-air, came down, hit Connelly in the shoulder, then traveled out of his shoulder in to his wrist and then out of his wrist into the Governor’s thigh.” Marsh used film clips and film to disprove the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed Ken nedy or in fact if it was . ’ possible for Oswald to shoot Kennedy at all. Also Marsh showed how evidence ‘ ‘myster- See WSSU, Page 2 Michael Marah The school system has an enrollment of about 33 percent black, but the percentage of blacks at the elementary level is 38 percent. The elementary schools that are affected by the changes have a black enrollment which ranges from 21 to 65 percent this year. Next year these schools would have a black enrollment of not less than 27 percent or more than 40 percent. The school system is operating under a court ordered desegregation plan and these changes would also need court approval. The present de segregation plan is a k4-2- 2-2-2 plan which came under a court order in 1971. At that time, Super intendent M^vin Ward set up three staff commit tees to come up with a pupil assignment plan. “No one knew how to integrate,” said Doug Punger, attorney for the present school system. “They decided to inte grate by using a mathe matical ratio of the popu- Candidates Seek Votes by Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer NAACP President Patrick Hairston outlines his objections to the school system^s proposed reassignment plan. Aldermen Larry little and Vivian Burke, in background, support Hairston’s position. Hairston Blasts 6-3-3School Plan The nineteen candi dates running for County Commissioner seem to re present nearly every issue and position, and some of them are apparently run ning just to accomplish their own bit of legisla tion. Joe Grady, Grand Dra gon of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, is running as the champion of the blue-collar worker, while Ray E. Whiteheart is cru sading against the coun ty’s zoning ordinances. Attorney R. Lewis Ray is one of the two blacks in the running. He favors community action pro grams for the elderly, poor, and handicapped, and a redistribution of taxes so that the burden does not fall on property owners. Cecil butler, who ran for mayor in the last election, has put in his bid for one of the two commissioners’ seats, calling for tax relief for those on fixed in- by Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer NAACP President Patrick Hair ston criticized the school system’s proposed 6-3-3 plan, charging that it discriminates against black children. In a press conference last Friday at Shiloh Baptist Church, Hairston, flanked by aldermen Larry Little and Vivian Burke, blasted the busing plan, noting that with the addition of kindergarten, black children would be bussed a total of ten years, compared to three years for whites. The 6-3-3 plan calls for children in predominantly white neighborhoods to remain in their neighborhood schools for kindergarten through the sixth grade, while children from See Hairston, Page 2 N.C. Mutual Exhibit Honors N.C. Blacks Incumbents David L. Driimmond and Roy G. Hall, Jr. are up for re- election against a field of eleven Democratic chal lengers and six Republi cans. Other candidates in clude Jack Shields, a far mer and builder; former alderman Bahnson C. Hall, Jr.; E.F. (Shorty) Tucker; Harold W. Styers; Donald W. Phillips; Dale S, Liner; McAuley C, By num, Jr.; and Edward DeF. Bean. The six Republican can didates are: Herbert S. Hudson; Richard V. Lin- The exhibit, THE BLACK PRESENCE IN NORTH CAROLINA, fo cuses on the contributions blacks have made to the state’s history and will be on display for six weeks at the PODIUM DISPLAY CENTER at NCM’s Home office building in Durham. The Display Center is on the first floor in an area that is covered but not enclosed, an arrangement that allows visitors to view the exhibit on an around- the-clock basis. CHESNUTT and THOMAS DAY; and GEORGE MOSES HOR- JOHN CHAVIS, a minis- TON; businessmen WAR- ter and teacher. REN COLEMAN and ville; Briggs D. Miles; Frank E( Rhodes; Ray E. Whiteheart; and Grady P. Swisher, a former county commissioner. The next most popular race is for the State House, in which 10 Demo crats, including three in cumbents, and four Re publicans are vying for the five seats in the 29th district. Judson D. (Dave) DeRamus, Ted Kaplan and Margaret TenniUe share the incumbent sta tus with black attorney Harold Kennedy, who was recently elected to fill the unexpired term of Richard Erwin, now an appellate judge. Former alderman C.C. Ross, who was the second contender for the Erwin seat, is also in the run ning, as are fellow Demo crats Dick Barnes, Robert J. Childress, Ernest Log- gemaim, Joe N. Norman, and George Wester. Republicans Donald R. Billings, Russell G. Brown, Mary N. Pegg, and Rodney Sumler are also candidates for the two House seats. Shortly after filing for the House seat, Rodney Sumler turned himself in to a sheriffs deputy and was taken to the Forsyth County jail to serve the remainder of a 30-day term for a larceny convic tion involving an electric heater taken from the Noland Company in Nov ember of 1976. Sumler's appeal was denied on December 21st by the N.C. Court of Appeals, and in January the N.C. Supreme Court refused to review the appellate court’s decision. See Candidates, Page 2 *4.8 Million For U.S. 311 Developed by the De partment of Archives and History, the exhibit fea tures the achievements of black North Carolinians in the fields of education, religion, business, litera ture, politics and the mili tary. It is a digested version of a larger exhibit that will open in Raleigh in September. The North Carolina Board of Transportation approved on February 10 a $4.8 million contract for improvements to a 3.2 mile portion of US-311 near Winston-Salem. The Forsyth County project calls for the reloca tion of US-311 from near Cole Road easterly to Un ion Cross Road and in cludes grading, Uraiiiage work and paving. The US-311 relocation project was awarded to C.R. Duncan Construction Company of Stoneville, the low bidder, and was one of 30 projects, totaling nearly $30 milhon, ap proved by the Board of Transportation at its Feb ruary meeting held in Boone. Mrs. Bonner Appointed To Morehead Commission Among the personali ties featured are political leaders GEORGE WHITE and JAMES O'HARA; writers CHARLES W. Mrs. Catherine Bonner, administrative assistant to the Athletic Director at North Carolina A&T State University, has been ap pointed to serve on the John Motley Morehead Memorial Commission by Governor James B. Hunt. The appointment is effec tive immediately and will expire July 1, 1983. Mrs. Bonner has been employed at NCA&T for more than 25 years and has participated in nume rous campus and civic activities. ‘ T feel very proud of the state of North Carolina to be appointed as a member of this committee by Gov ernor Hunt,” Mrs. Bon ner said. Terry’s last game...Story Page 9 Carlos Terry receives award from WSSU ChanceUor Douglas Covington on “Carlos Terry Appreciation Night’’ as father Louis smiles with pride.
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