1 \ __vy * I Wirncl i ""tr* VOL. VI NO. 19 16 PAGES Tt .* X + Covington ' Y*> * <&{, i> V ^^HL ^K ' H j^^r ^^HRfl f4rV fl rflSi y..y~r- 'i!?>~,W Q^^BBnffi&lBPla '^^HEriks I?t?ift|^*?U" JfJfi:!LDr. 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. See Page IS 1 * i ; w : 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 j Carver Cross I 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 >' .. A lon-Sa "Serving thff~Wi)iston :v ns WEEK ? i:'Stopp< 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 Staff Writers - '60s," he 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* : 1 a .L - J?.v .1 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 / and is waitir ^ Insurance Cor I As soon as i 1 1??/4 f/>#? f ka h i a u vi iui uit The site for th the Bojangles < temporary uni ^ constructed. "Winston-S largest of any ling Alderman Vivian Borke ct. its and city officials attended ^build PF ?ng Ifj several accidents^ before ? something was done." 1 * In order to make im- J 'W 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 \ See Page 15 *everal fcatur lem C Salerrf Community Since 19 V flNSTON-SALEM, N.C. ' c~ id Marc 5 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 vrtltfh 011 vili a J wwAiiinuva lU II1C a?SUC)(tUUn. 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. See Page 9 st for 19 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 c i Holiday Gaiety Levmoii and Mr*. Thelma Steen new id first vice-president of the Local imile daring their holiday gala, one of ed In Social Whirl this week. \ -fc fhtroni 74" O O 20 cent* U.S.P.S. NO. 067910 hing Too 9? ML ' " 7M Jr \ I v Soloist Cynthia Mack loads the Emmanuel Baptli Emancipation Day Services at Hanes C.M.E. Ch ^ ri ?J~ i 80s 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*' - 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 . . . ./ - I once inside the bar 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< >> M&F is a state V offices, three in D \ ^ 7 Charlotte. \ ~7-? Ransom said Wai V i\ to build a brand Claremont, across should not affect tf * ' * "The Mechanics 1^ ,w^jH1 service bank and v J.J. Sansom Sanson,, said. "W Residents S * Stop Apart By Patrice E. Lee j| 4 Staff Writer pos( sing A biracial group of more than 300 ^ t VII M 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. v \ cle , J ; Saturday, January 5,19CC i Soon' ?* V's*\.-dCzS&lxmAiStt li AwMI xf-v J. jfTr -liP'r*MniliTi I1BIW Kf ' .^MT ^m.jM I* Ivj^ ?) E'3v jflUft 1 W#kJM BHyAK: Jy [ jr - 9 K ^HK7 j^# B k| k*w^'3^S ^.AAl non * * ^tjkMHHMHMVHKvVB it Choral Club In foar numbers daring rnrch. cer Found I wntown I ? I 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 See Page 3 iue to ments V_i 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 See Page 14 - a p-,

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