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VOL. VI NO. 28
20 Year
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A former Wake Forest Ui
had moved into the 800 bU
found dead in his kitchen, a
Gary Wykoff, 20, of 899
rival at Forsyth Memorial H<
I hospital spokesman.
* Dr. Kimball Johnson, thi
amined the body, said no c
He is awaiting -an autopsy
pathology department, due
"There was no sign of s
said Dr. Johnson, discount
are no obvious natural caus
The medical examiner sai
the kitchen of his rental ho
not heard from him over se
Although there was no he
said the deceased probably
death "unless something ha;
When Wykoff, who is 1
predominately black neighbc
it had raised some eyebrows
Wykoff was a native of Di
student at Wake Forest for t
school year, according to u
Brantley. He was not enroll
been a^defensive lineman on
V His body was shipped to I
Agenda
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Assessm
By Wekesa Madzimoyo
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j//cuu? ii/ trie y^nruniete
RICHMOND-Movc than
1,200 local and national
black leaders gathered in
Richmond Virginia for a
four day conference last
weekend called to "chart a
black agenda for the
eighties."
Richmond Mayor Henry
E7 Marsff III, welcomed the
conference convenors and
delegates stating that "the
stirring deeds to be accomplished
at this conference
will be recorded in
history. " The black Richmond
mayor added, "I
never dreamed that all of
my heroes would come
here."
Featured at the con*
ference were nine major
speakers including Benjamin
Hooks, executive
director of NAACP, Rev.
' Jesse Jackson, president of
Operation Push, former
U.N. Ambassador Andy
Young, Gary, ind. Mayor
Richard Hatch^, Reps.
Ron Dellums, D-Calif. and
earais ^ouins, lmii., and
Dick Gregory.
The conference also held
workshops on-housing, income
maintenance,
U.S./South Africa relating
to black Americans. These
18 workshops were held on
Friday and Saturday.
Sunday's feature was to
be a presidential candiates
forum with questions fromthe
press and conference
participants. However, Sen
Ted Kennedy, Gov. Jerry
Brown and other candidates
scheduled to appear changed
their minds and refused
to attend.
Conference convenor
Richard Hatcher responded
^ to the candidates action at a
Saturday press conference,
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18 Paget This
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ler Dies,
nknown
niversity football player who
>ck of WesM2th Street was
luse unknown, last weekend.
W. 12th St. was dead on arospitaF,
Feb. 29, according to
e medical examiner who exause
of death was apparent,
report front the hospital's,
in about two weeks,
truggle, marks or trauma,"
ing a violent death. "There
es."
d the deceased was found in
use by a girlfriend who had
veral days.
at in the house, Dr. Johnson
would not have frozen to
ppened first."
white, had moved into the
3rhood several weeks earlier,
I, according to a neighbor,
arien, Conn, who had been a
wo years prior to the current
niversity spokesman Russell
ed during this year. He had
i the Deacon football team,
his hometown for burial.
Talks
ixed
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tents
D
"No useful purpose would
be served by the convenors
of this conference to comment
on the individual actions
of those candidates.
"They must do the explaining,
we did the inviting," he
added. Rev. Jesse Jackson
responded by encouraging
uiawK amci leans IU
"dramatically underscore
the loss opportunities by
registering and voting in
large numbers."
Billed as a conference" to
chart an agenda which will
move black americans from
dependence to independence,"
the meeting
drew dramatically differenc
responses from conference
participants.
Dr. E. Lavonia Allison,
director of the N.C. Health
Manpowr Program, lauded
the conference as a
"tremendous success." "I
think the conference and
the workshops resulted in
very clear-goals and objectives
which will help guide
black people through the
80s and serve as a measuring
rod for identifying candidates
worthy of black
support.' '
Dr. Williams Nelson,
chairman of black studies at
Ohio State university and
president of that state's
Black Assembly, challenged
this view. In his estimation
"At best the conference was
speaking in half-tones
because there was a significant
portion of the black
population which wasn't
present. There were no
black leftist or progressive
organizations or representatives
at the conference."
Although billed as a nonpartisan
conference,
presidential supporters
distributed campaign
literature . and actively
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By John W. Temp/eton
Staff Writer
More than 300 persons have signed a
petition asking that the 14th Street swimming
pool be reopened; however, the request
has drawn little support from the citv
Recreation Commission
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A motion by Alderman Vivian H.
Burket D-NE, to recommend that the
pool be reopened died for the lack of a second
in Tuesday's commission meeting.
Mrs. Vernell Moody of 906 Rich Ave.,
a mother of five who led a group to the
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By Ponna Oldham
Staff Writer
Federal officials, will announce
(his week the name
of the prison that will house
former alderman Carl H
Russell, while he serves six
months of a one yeai
sentence for income tax
evasion, the U.S
Marshall's office said Tuesday.
He is to report for jailing
on May 1.
Russell, who served as
mayor pro tern until he ran
unsuccessfully for mayor in
1977, was sentenced to the
active prison sentence and
fined $10,000, the maxphoto
By s.auai imum penalty.
? home. an?n Feb' 28- ^ief Judge
pionshipvic- Eugene ATOordon Of the
ast weekend. U S' Midd,e Distr'ct Courl
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* Bison to a I Iouna Kussen gulltV 01
failing to file income tax
returns tor 19767
Reopening
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meeting, said she was "very disappointed
in the action."
"The kids over there didn't have
anywhere to go to swim on account of the
traffic," she said in an interview. The
. pool was closed last summer due to
^ declining usage and advanced age.
Recreation director Nick Jamison told
commissioners in a memo that pool usage
dropped 6,000 in 1974 from a high of
12,626 in 1973 after the opening of the
Blum Park pool. A high of 9,487 was
reached in 1977 while the Winston Lake
pool was closed, usage in iy/a, me lasi
year of operation, was 6,873."
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j9r ?^J ? nlB
F, When seven
Rv lot of work
shovel early
jtjL Avenue Ho
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under Chicc
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lonths ii
The prospect of jail for taxes, penaltie
the 69-year-old victim of ed interest if
chronic heart troubles left ment decides
* many of Russell's fellow further.
* businessmen and politicians Russell coult
* in Winston-Salem shaken. up to 17 years i
In October, Russell, $170,000 in fin
; owner of Russell Funeral year that he 1
Home for over 30 years, constitutes a
; was charged with failure to fense under th<
file tax returns from 1973 to File" code.
1976 on an approximate in- When senten
come of $370,000. He Judge Gordon
pleaded guilty to one of case warrantei
1 four counts after a plea- penalties and
1 bargaining agreement with t^lat act'on
1 U.S. Attorney's office, pro- cusa^^e'
vided that the government Russell s 19
' would allow dismissal of v*ewed as an e
three other charges. political indep
the black comr
j Testimony from agents He received
r?with the InternalRevenue 10,000 write-ir
Service, indicated that losing a C
r Russell had not filed tax primary run-of
; returns since 1961, making Mayor Wayne
htnf libeT for back federal^
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Jamison has submitted a request fop'
$26,000 to repair the pool bottom iifms
capital improvements budget. However,
he noted in the meeting, that the request is
up to city budget staff and the Board of
Alderman. The pool was built in
1936-19377~
Mrs. Moody said she plans to call a
- neighborhood meeting around April 1
with East Ward Alderman Virginia
Newell, D-East to map further strategy on
"the effort to reopen the pool.
"If necessary, we'll go to the governor,
the lieutenant covernor pvpn tn th#? ?r#?ci_
dent," she told the commissioners.
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nowy Shenat
inches of snow? blanketed Winston-Sale
both at home and on the road. This yc
? Monday to do his part to clear the
mes. These men have all they can hand>
novirfg again in the snow. The bad weal
w fall during March in North Carolin
7 go-1 ike snows.
IL 1973,20,31
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s? 39td ; Terror?
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910 Saturday, March 8. .1980
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stermined
needto
i Prison
s and assess- first primary. He was later
the govern- criticised for "leaving the
to prosecute party."
Last week's incident was
i have gotten not the first time Russell
in prison and has been to court for back
es, since each taxes.
'ailed to file He was sued in 1964,
seperate of- 1970 and 1971 in Forsyth
: "Failure to Superior Court for failing
to pay property taxes on
icing Russell, parcels of real estate. The
said that the suits were dropped later
d maximum when Russell pajd the taxes,
told Russell Reaction in the black
s were inex- community to Russell's
. plight was varied, with most
77 race was people worrying about his
xpression of health and age.
>endence by "1 feel sorry for him,"
nunity. said M.H. Goolsby,
more than manager of Forsyth Funeral
unvotes after Home. "I've known him
>emocratic for 20 years and ! feel that __
f to current he was set up because he
A. Corpen- was such a leader in. the
ad lead the See Page 10
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"Nothing in East Winston is going to. be
closed anymore." ^
The meeting evolved into a discussion
of the equity of city policy on placement
of facilities in the eastern part of the city.
Cleveland Gilliam, a Reynolds Part?
resident who joined the 14th Street group,
charged the faulty maintenance had left
the pool in such bad shape. He noted that
water in the Reynolds Park pool had not
been drained.
Jamison responded that water was left
in all pools intentionally because it had
b$en found that walls were kept from
cracking by the water pressure.
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