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H. Douglas Covington addresses Emancipation Day
audience as Atty. Beverly Mitchell listens In
background.
Police Say
Wife Drives
ihrough Glass?To
Get Mate ?
By Patrice & Lee
.'V Staff Writer
v . ,^ A- Winstonlsalem woman was charged with malicious
^ injury ta^roperty and assault with a deadly weapon after
she drovelfer car into a motel room where she believed
her husband was with another woman, city police records
show.
Mrs. Lillian Carter McQueen, 35, of 2570 Dilworth,
drove her 1979 Ford Mustang through the glass wall of
room 227 at the Travel Host of America, at 4191 N.
Patterson Ave.
James Statler, manager of the motel, said thai he is
seeking the $256.93 it cost to replace the glass from Mrs.
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At die dedication service of the now Carver Railroad Croat
alio receives recognition for her contribution to the proje
Mrs. Naomi Jones and other Northeast Ward resldei
the dedication.
City,State Re
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Carver Cross
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I By Yvette McCullough car-train accidents in the
Staff Writer past 11 years. It was
through the efforts of AlIn
an informal ceremony derman Vivian Burke that
Monday, the newly con- the new crossing became a
? structed railroad crossing reality.
on Carver Road was dedi- "It was one of my major
cated, capping a six year campaign issues," Aldereffort
by area citizens and man Burke told the Chroniofflciafs
to have improve- cle. "Nobody had actuatly
ments made. done anything about it and
The previous railroad it seemed it took several
! crossing was the site of six people to get killed and
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By John Temple ton
Stuff Writer
More than 500 petsons jammed Hanes
Memorial C.M.E, Church for annual
Emancipation Day ceremonies to hear Dr.
H. Douglas. Covington tell them that
black people "stopped marching too
soon" during the decade of the 1970s.
The Winston-Salem State University
chancellor brought the audience to an
emotional pitch as he quoted from the
poetry of Margaret Walker and the
speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King and
noted: "The full privileges of the U.S.
Constitution dp not apply to blacks* in
Mississippi, North Carolina, or for that
matted, Massachusetts and they never
have." w
Covington said, "We underestimated
the resiliency of a systemJof institutionalized
racism...the mandate we have is to
learn from that."
He termed the civil rights movement
"not a 100-yard dash, but a long-distance
run."
roreca
By Yvftte McCaDoagh "But I stiil
and will be a pol
John W. Templeton the rights ga
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Observers polled by "Some peopl
the Chronicle are fearful have come
of what the 1980s may In his wor
bring, but hopeful that sessment, Ha
black people will learn cast blacks "
enough from the 1970s ~and hofnes th
to- ensure progreslT dur- barely pay foi
ing the rifcxt decade. ing us to pi
"I hope that, black portation. If
people will wake up and can is elect*
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ivaiijf gci uivuivcu in me aeni; men, w
I struggle," said Patrick back to the
I Hairs ton, president of A variety of
I the Winston-Salem casts, some ?
Ibranch of the NAACP. some hope!
eu ph Mechanics i
* i largest black
February, aca
fm^L the Mechanic
? received appn
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^ Insurance Cor
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1 1??/4 f/>#? f ka
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The site for th
the Bojangles <
temporary uni
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largest of any
ling Alderman Vivian Borke
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its and city officials attended
^build PF
?ng Ifj
several accidents^ before ?
something was done." 1
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provements to the crossing.
a new road had to be built. v
"The previous crossing
had a large hump and there
wasn't enough room to take
out the hump so we moved
the road," said Roy Wil- Mrl' fc#s<e
liams, city traffic engineer. P*??Went
^ince there wasn't room \
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Covington recalled an incident from his
college days when he told a fellow African
Student about the Emancipation Proclamation.
The student reolied. "You* re not
free, you're just loose."
Annual.Emancipation Day ceremonies
were held for the 69th consecutive year in
Winston-Salem by the Winston-Salem
Emancipation Association, headed by
president Rev. C. Harold Gill.
A special committee of the association
unveiled plans for an expanded series of
events by the association, including
recognition of Black History Week, an
essay competition among students, parade
floats and a fund-raising contest
among churches and development of
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Tho^jjlans will be taken up at the
annual association meeting at 7 p.m. Jan.
14 at Greater St. Matthew's Baptist
Church. The Emancipation Day ceremony
and th^ awarding of a college
scholarship hay? been the major activities
of the association.
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think there from elected officials,
arization of agency heads and reined
in the ligious leaders around
, added. the city polled by the
e think we Chronicle. ~
too far." Thomas J. Ely ah Jr.,
st case as- president of the Winston
irston fore- ^ -Salem Urban League,
losing cars said "Economics, inflaat
they can iion and energy are the
r now, drtv- concerns of 1980s. The
iblic trans- city should act more dilia
Republi- . gently to bring more
?d, (Presi- industry and commercial
e're going activity in order to prosoupline."
vide more jobs for its
other fore- constituents.
[loomy and "The established eduul,
came cational institutions
&F Plans F
By Yvette McCoUongh
Staff Writer
ind Farmers Bank, the state's oldest and
bank^will open its branch bank here in
Drding to Joseph J. Sansom, president of
s and Farmers Bank. The bank has
aval from the State Banking Commission
ig approval from the Federal Deposit
Pthe
bank receives that final go-ahead, the
bank will be purchased from the city,
e bank is on Claremont Avenue between
anc?Mtf)onalcl restaurants. Sansom said a
t will be put up while the bank is being
alem's branch could eventually be the
office/' Sansom said during an interview
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Holiday Gaiety
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id first vice-president of the Local
imile daring their holiday gala, one of
ed In Social Whirl this week.
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Emancipation Day Services at Hanes C.M.E. Ch
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must provide meaning- I In Be
ful training in order for
our constituents to get
meaningful''employ- V} I
ment." ?? DcHIK
Mrs. Mfde S. Woodvr*'
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raff, county commissioner,
safcJi tVery inch ot A Winston-Salem
ground we gain in the County Jail after he
1980s, we're going to ma,n ,obby of the
have to fight for and it's ^Furman Richards
got to be all of us, not charged with dis
one or two of us speak- clothes off at 3rd
ing for everybody else." bank," said Office
"Education is going to incident.
be the biggest issue -- | According^to the1
I conauct, Kicnardsoi
equal opportunity in be- I . t
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ing educated. It may get I D. . . .
a J- Richardson was t
spokeswoman said.
ebruary Oj
the
it wasn't we woi
Mechanics and
Ww\ group of prominc
H v' ' Winston-Salem. 1
met and approve<
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V offices, three in D
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\ ~7-? Ransom said Wai
V i\ to build a brand
Claremont, across
should not affect tf
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J.J. Sansom Sanson,, said. "W
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By Patrice E. Lee j|
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A biracial group of more than 300 ^ t
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residents who claim they will be adverse- cong
ly affected by 150-units of low-income jncf(
housing expected to be built near them non.
have filed a lawsuit to halt construction of
the development. the (
In a lawsuit filed by their attorney, J. jntei
Wilson Parker, on Dec. 29, Castleshrire app|
Woods Association, composed of black c:
homeowners, and Citizens for a Balanced rem
Community, a biracial organization both ^dri
contend that approval of the federally ancj
subsidized housing set to be built in East den1
Winston is racially discriminatory and sjng
against Housing and Urban Development one.
regulations.
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Lobby H
man was being held in the Forsyth
took off his clothes a nd dtsruptc 1 the ? I
NCNB Plaza, according to police.
on, 27, of 1901 N. Dunleith Ave., was
orderly conduct after "he took his
and Church and ran inside NCNB rr
James Parham who handled the
warrant charging him with disorderly
fi also jumped up on the teller counter I
>eing held in lieu of $500 bond, a jail
pening
ices ^aturaay. " i ne potential is here,
ildn't be coming here.*'
Farmers Bank was approached by a
?nt citizens to locate a branch in
'he board of directors of M&F B'
i locating a branch here in June,
lartered commercial bank with eight
urham, two in Raleigh and three in
chovia Bank and Trust Co. N.A. plan
h on the corner of Seventh and
the street from the M&F branch,
le M&F branch.
and Farmers branch will be a full
/ill serve the needs of the people,'*
e have other banks near our other
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tie two groups contend that a projd
development for subsidized houon
the same site submited to HUD
}ec. 18, 1975 was rejected because
truction "would cause a significant
ease in the proportion of minority to
minority inhabitants."
ugene and Keith Gulledge, officers in
3ulledge Corporation, both owned arf *
rest in the group that made that 1975
licationi the suit says,
nee the proposed site is near the
aining white families, the project may
ive opt the remaining white residents
greatly increase... minority resits,"
and foster segregation in hou;,
the suit says. In addition, "nearly
half of all the federally assisted
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