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D’liv. 0? !:c-ci;n:ALG ditt. RC0;.i 205 WILSO;; LIBRARY 024 A CHAPEL HILL, EC 27514 SEPT. 1979 80 81 Winston-Salem “Serving the Winston-Salem Community Community Since 1974’’ jvoL. VI NO- 20 Pages This Week WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 20 cents U.S.P.S. NO. 067910 Saturday, February 23, 1980 Families Quarrel Over Earlier Incident 20 Fight In Hospital Lot By John fV. Templeton Staff Writer An inter-racial clash dragged on from Bethania to the parking lot of Forsyth Memorial Hospital early last Saturday morning, leaving one man shot through the lung but in satisfac tory condition, Forsyth county sheriff’s deputies ar rived at a house owned by Nelson Scales of 1975 Bethania-Rural Hall Road at 1:39 a.m. that morning to find “a lot of hollering and threats being made,” accordirig to the report of deputy Norman Cox. One subject, identified as Steve Maverick, address unknown, had been hit in the head, and Scales had been shot in the chest, the deputy discovered. Scales told the officer that he was contacted by a neighbor who told him that a strange car was parked in the lot of the house he was having rehabilitated. He arrived on the scene to confront Maverick, who was alledgedly intoxicated and abusive. According to the report, Scales’ son struck Maverick, at which point two shots were fired. Scales, who is black, gave the follow ing account during a telephone inter view from his hospital room. “They sat up there in my driveway; one started a big fuss and started a fight,’’ he said. “In the fight, 1 got shot.” “They said they had car trouble,and said they was waiting for their brother,’’said Scales. “Then tweo more boys came up and started cuss ing.” Scales said he had gone to check on the house because contractors had left tools there which he did not want to see stolen. The sheriff’s report said that Cox went to the hospital to get more information. Upon leaving, he witness ed Maverick and his. family leaving the hospital. At the same time, the Scales family was in the hospital parking lot. When their paths crossed, more fisticuffs erupted with more than 20 people involved. It took Cox and two hospital security guards to restore order. New Bus Route Proposed PtMteBySuteiu For Reynolds PaHk^ Broad bay ■4r* -mi Fed Up s had enough. That is the feeling Arlene Crump toys as the Lady in Pink during last weekend’s per- pnce of the Broadway hit For Colored Girls who lainsideredsuicide when the rainbow isn’t enuf” by (V.C. Black Repertory Company. The choreopoem make a strong statement of black women’s lances against black men, atrracted 300 patrons to its mrday performance. By John W. Templeton Staff Writer . The Winston-Salem Transit Authority' staff has recommended that bus service be restored to Reynolds Park Road and to the Broadbay Heights area following a 500 signature petition from residents in those southeast Winston-Salem communities. As unveiled during a public hearing Tuesday night, the WSTA route 29 will pass through both areas and go as far as the Northside Shopping Center. “That’s good,” said Spurgeon Griggs Jr., president of the newly formed Southeast Community Awareness Association, which organized the petition drive in C’teveiand Giilianv, a member of the ass^jciation and the Reynolda Park Executive Council, said service to his area had been non-existent for two years 'oecause of WSTA cutbacks. “They’re putting in 200 more houses and in the future, we’re probably going to need more service,” said Gilliam. “There are kids walking up and down Reynolda Park Road now and the bus would cut that See Page 5 brsyth Tech Faces tudent Grievances pe president of Forsyth Ihnide Institute has said plans to meet with black there to help live tensions arising out pis decision to cancel the event of a Black ■lory Week celebration ■ Afro-American Society Iplanned. tancciled was a gospel Eteheduled for the night Pebruary 8. However, a Tion show on February I and an all week art phy in the school’s fary were permitted to go parley Affeldt, Forsyth president, said he leellcd the gospel sing because he said the students had only decided to have the program at noon that day and because he reserva tions about the propriety of having a religious group on a vocational-technical school campus. Victor Rucker, vice- president of the Afro- American Society at For syth Tech, has attacked Af- feldt’s decision. Rucker said promoters of the $33 million arena bond issue were allowed to use the school’s facility back dur ing that campaign. Rucker also said school administration has not responded to a one and one- half page set of grievances filed by the society to the school’s vice-president for student affairs, Charles King. The grievances included racist statements being made in the classroom by at least one instrutor and a lack of communication with black students in other classrooms.Also cited was a lack of qualified black in structors and activities geared toward blacks. Affeldt said in a telephone interview, after meeting with Rucker last week, that he and King had not interpreted the student See Page 17 I looks To Speak In W-S 1 L. Hooks, executive director of the National pociation for the Advancement of Colored People, has P announced as the speaker for the annual Freedom F anquet of the Winston-Salem branch on April 30, |AI_ Beaty, assistant city manager and co-chairman of Ij . Fund committee, said he is expecting more f ,000 people for the dinner in the Benton Conven- iHo year’s affair attracted more than 1,000. Ijc*.* recently been selected chairman of the ( Mdership Forum, a coalition of major black pauations. A former Federal Communications Com- See Page 17 ■>. IT'- . Kirtr supporter Larry Womble talks with Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. during local campaign office opening. Hunt:W-10 Not An Issue Hooks By John W. Templeton Staff Writer Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. says he does not expect his failure to pardon the Wilm ington 10 to be a “major issue” in the 1980 . guber natorial campaign. Hunt, in Winston-Salem last week to open his cam paign headquarters, told the Chronicle -that some black supporters had sug gested that he mention that his main opponent, former Gov. Bob Scott, was in of fice when the group of civil rights activists were first ar rested , but he had decid ed against it. “The key issue will be who is most capable of moving the state forward in the 1980s,” said Hunt. Creating jobs, improving education, reducing crime and developing alternative energy sources will be the thrusts of his campaign. The governor also said there is no contradiction between his state govern ment jobs freeze due to decreased revenues earlier this year and his promise to Photo By Stntottt Ben Chavis seek a double-digit pay in crease for teachers in this summer’s General Assembly. “There’s been some in crease in growth of our revenue,” said Hunt. “By putting a freeze on nonessential jobs and cut ting down on travel, we’ve been able to save some money that will be available for raises.” Hunt estimated that a pay raise for teachers would cost about $19 million if large enough to meet rising See Page 2 Chavis Shifts Style, Keeps Substance By John W. Templeton Staff Writer The setting was different from the screaming mob , Rev. Ben Chavis had faced in Greensboro Feb. 2 as, two weeks later, the Wilmington 10 leader looked out upon a sedate audience in Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University. And, Chavis adjusted his message accordingly, to give an intellectual, yet earthy sermon on why the church should be in the forefront of the revival of the civil rights movement in America. Chavis ability to articulate different themes to dif ferent audiences buttresses his standing as possibly the one leader able to recapture the magnetism of Dr. Mar tin Luther King Jr. during the 1950s and 1960s. “People are crying out for leadership,” said Chavisto reporters following his speech. “People are ready. People are going to make some substantial changes in our society.” The difference in Chavis’ Wait Chapel speech and his talk at the Feb. 2 anti-Klan rally in Greensboro was not in his message, but in the way the minister toned down his rhetoric to give a scholarly analysis of the Bible wor thy of the masters in the divinity he just earned from Duke University. “Isaiah had a dream,” Chavis said of the Biblical figure, “expressed existentially in a desire for the libera tion of his people.” The minister related Isaiah’s dream to that of Dr. See Page 2
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