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TJSl VOL VI. NO. 48 U S P S. NO. 0 ^^p[b ,; %\''t -\ , J^H 1?Til JH^-.i! H IM C V I ? . wfl ' t^B "^" k Mlitl ?-" vl'/lfl \/r; nn ivuaa JLJIUL;n, sirrierILU The newly crowned Miss Bahamas as 4'great and abBlack America 1980, solutely beautiful." The 24 Sharon Wright of Chicago, year-old beauty queen, whc made the Bahamas her first is a communications conofficial visit to a foreign-syjtanf fc>rthe IlinTois Bel! country, and she said she Telephone Company, paid couldn t have enjoyed it a courtesy call on Ministei more. Arriving in Nassau three of Tourism, The "Tdays^after she won the title, Honourable Livingstone N. Miss Wright described the Coakley. 3,000, Baptists By John W. Templeton Staff Writer About 3,000 Baptists from across the state will gather in Winston-Salem next week for four days of meetings and worship known as the All-Baptist Assembly of the vjcucidi oapiiM oiaic v^unvenuon. The July 27-31 event, which happens every four years, is a joint meeting of the convention, its Baptist Training Union, ushers, laymen's, women's and youth conventions . Featured speakers include GBSC president Dr. John R. Manley of Chapel Hill, Mayor Rev. Noel C. Taylor of Roanoke, Va. and Dr. T. J. Jemison, secretary of the National Baptist Convention of USATlnc7 "There's more of a spiritual focus to the assembly than our annual business sessions," said Rev. Cureton E. Johnson, editor of the Baptist Informer's, the convention's newspaper, in a telephone interview from Baptist Headquarters in Raleigh. Highlights of the assembly include a massive gospel concert in the Benton Convention Center Sunday, July 27, and nightly evangelistic services at Galilee Baptist Church. Local Baptist churches are preparing to give the incoming delegates a royal welcome to Winston-Salem. Dr. J. Some After 30 Years * Chestnut St. Residents Forced To Relocate -? By John W. Templeton owner of the property, said Staff Writpr he plans to demolish the After 29 years of living in houses in line with a city the 700 block of Chestnut policy to clear out substanStreet, Mrs. Vivian Tate dard houses in the Libertyfinally installed an oil stove Patterson area. He chose last winter so she would not not to comment furthei have to haul coal in her during a telephone inter house during the cold. view. "It was the first time I L.F. Reed and Son rea had really been comfortable estate firm, manager of the here during the cold," she houses, sent the tenants 2 ^ said. notice dated June 30 asking However, her investment Mrs. Tate and others tc and 30 years of friendship vacate by July 15. and community spirit may After the intervention oi go. down the drain. Her Legal Aid attorney Ber house and four others bet- Erlitz and North Ware ween 733 and 747 Chestnut Alderman Larry Little, 1 St. arc slated to be three-month extention wa? 1 .1! I. I _ I . 4. ?- n r./l uenionsneu aunougn no bkuihu. one thinks the houses can l*ul Mis. late asks, not be repaired. 44 Where tn the world do yen # l)r. Hhieher I . laylot, S<r/tyee 17 f. ton-Sale "Serving the Winston-Salem <>7910 ' WINSTON-SAI.EM, NX". Party W By Donna Oldham kets she received said Staff Writer Tuesday that she has no plans to withdraw from the The Forsyth County De- judge's race, contrary to mocratic Party has ex- rumors circulating throughpressed continuing support out the city, for District Court Judge "1 am not moving my candidate V. Jean Burkins. name off the ballot and 1 am Burkins, who was fired not resigning my Candidalast week from her job as cy," she said, assistant prosecuting attor- Joe Parrish Jr., chairman nev following an inriHenf nf tK* r ? 0 ? ? mv i visjui v-uuniy L/cinvolving two parking tic- mocratic^ Party said that Officers i Squad D Bv Donna Oldham Staff Writer ) Reaction to a story run in last week's Chronicle about [ the possibility of a vigilante squad exhisitng in the mart a ^ ? I yy insion-aaiem ronce Department has been mostly positive, and at least 10 police officers and five sheriff*s department deputies said that the whole truth still is i unkown. One white veteran of the police force called the story citing an alledged plot by officers in several departments To yisit Here D. Ballard, pastor of United Metropolitan Baptist Church, said choirs have been practicing regularly for the Sunday concert and assembly ushers meet this week for a final orientation. t i Revs. S. L. Hodges and Ellis Austin have been working on transportation and Revs. S. W. Mack, J. Ray Butler and Ballard are organizing the usher force. Waverly Camp Jr., the convention's director of music, is organizing the musical aspect of the assembly. Headquarters for the assembly will be in the Benton Convention Center. However, the usher's convention will meet at New Bethel Baptist Church, the laymen's convenSee Page 22 McGee,Ervin Get Top J obs By John W. Templeton Monday after being releasStaff Writer ed from Medical Park Hospital. 44I was jusl Due to a freak turn of speechless. He had talked tc events, then umber of black me the night before to wish department heads in city me well." government doubled last Ervin has named District Thursday in the wake of Chief M.A. Gilbert to run protests about affirmative the day-to-day operations action. of the department until he William W. McGee, returns to work in 10 days, former restaurant owner, McGee began work was picked out of a field of Wednesday, administering 30 by City Manager Bryce a 28-person department and A. 4 Bill'' Stuart to an oveall budget of $1.! become director of the million. Under his supervi' convention center/coliseum sion is the Benton Convendepartment in a move that tion Center, the Winstonhad been expected. Salem Coliseum, Beneath What surprised everyone the Elms skating rink. City in city government was the concessions and Ernie sudden death of fire chief Shore Field. A.B. Bullard last Wednes- For the previous sever day, Bullard suffered a years, McGee has operatec heart attack while sitting in a Sambo's franchise and i ' a training meeting at Burger King franchise ir 1 Beneath the Elms. Winston-Salem. Stuart saic 1 Deputy Fire Chief Lester that background helpec I E. Ervin, himself McGee get the position. '4! > hospitalized undergoing am impressed with his abili surgery, was named acting ty to handle himself in th< f fire chief. Ervin was a management function of i 1 member of the first group service industry." ' of black firemen hired by Mrs. Bessie H. Allen 1 the city in 1951 and one of chairman of the Conven i four still with the depart- tion Center/Coliseun ment. Commission which recom "1 was still in surgery mended McGee and on< ' when It (Bullard's death) other candidate to Stuar happened," laid Ervin See Parc 5 tm Ghp\ Community Since 19 741' Saturday, July 26, 1980 ill Back Burkins has the party's whether Burkina would je- _ support if she decides to main on the ballot, remain on the ballot. "There has been some "It is the philosophy that conservation about whether the party is larger than any she will remain as a candicandidate. Jean's situation date. We (the party) will is unfortunate, but she will not enter into any removal receive support from the process. We support all our executive committee of the candidates and we want Forsyth County Democratic Jean to work within the i Party," Parrish said. party, - Parrish said. The chairman said that Parrish was not the only he had had inquiries about person to hear rumors* or Say Goon oes Exist of the WSPD to discredit prominate and out-spoken members of the black community and liberal whites "the most truth I've seen printed about the department in quite a while." "That goon thing Iras been going on for a long whiles i ? t_ it . - ? ana i oeueve it ail started with affirmative action. Most of these officers that had been with the department a while, didn't want to see black officers promoted ahead of them simply because they were black. They really resented it." "It's about time somebody found oiff about the mess they're trying to pull," was the respons^of another officer, who also cited affirmative action as the reason for several problems on the force. | "The fact that a lot of those black officers were college boys sure didn't help any," he said using Maj. OHver Redd as an example. "He (Redd)has been with the force since 1967 and he's already a major. There are a lot of guys that have been there longer and they aren't a major." One deputy called the article "hogwash," and said that no "self-respecting cop would get involveld in anything like that. They're a good bunch of boys and I think the Chronicle was way out of line," he said. While many policemen and deputies reacted to the article publically and with their peers,- others sought^outSee Page 2 i ^ibi???^ ' , I ' ?' -? ^ I Staff fftwlo hr CMhom Down to the Wire \ Duke Power and Southern Bell Employees try to repair a power line that was knocked down last week when a City . of Winston-Salem truck blew a tire on Northwest i Boulevard between Thurmond and Chatham Streets, sen. dinz the truck into the pole. The pole, which was severed ? in two, blocked the street for almost seven hours as work \ crews repaired the damage. The truck driver was not injured. ?Wcle .,[ 20f 24 Pages Tius Week Burkins Jiave inquiries made ^boui >o remove Burkins' name whether Burkins' name from the ballot, would remain on the ballot. "She would have to reOfficials of the Forsyth sign, that's the only way County Board of Elections short of dying, to get her have had phone calls and name off the ballot," personal questions about Armentrout said. Burkins* candidacy. He continued, "there is v a a a ' . james Armentrout, no procedure that I know chairman of the board of. of, and 1 have investigated, elections said that several to get her name off the **active democrats.*' have ballot. Even if she were to asked him the procedure See Page 2 Ji v ^ L ' u % I I Pat Hairston answers questions during rally for Jean || ! I Bur kins. 75 Rally | In Support 1 | Of Bur kins I" More than 75 people came out in 90 degree weather I || after work last Thursday to show support for District | !| Court judge candidate V. Jean Burkins. They were forced to crowd together on a sidewalk |i j across the street from Shiloh Baptist Church after || church officials declined to open the building, which | had been advertised as the rally site. Alderman, Larry D. Little, D-North, apologized M i ""for the inconvenience and explained t*hat pastor Dr. j I J. Ray Butler was out of town and wanted to be at |f |j the church for such a meeting. 1 The rally attracted a cross-section of people rang- ? I ing from fellow black lawyers of Burkins to one man || I! See Page 22 imwrrif - & - - s -v NAACP Raps County Hiring By Donna Oldham for Forsyth County governStaff Writer ment. uWc urge you not to pass The Winston-Salem off our recommendations Chapter of the National lightly. The level of anger Association for the Ad- and frustration by the vancement of Colored Peo- disenfranchised members of pie has asked the Forsyth our communities is increasCounty Board of Commis- ing with each passing day^ sioners to appoint an Ad Black citizens of our com- , Hoc Committee to in- munity have had to endure vestigate the hiring and fir- for too long the practice of ing practices in county double standards of justice government department by and the saga of unkept prodepartment. mises made by our social NAACP President systems. The lid on this Patrick Hairston and Re*', dissatisfaction and deluWarner Durnell, pastor of sionment cannot be con uettabrook Presbyterian tained much longer. What Church, appeared before happened in Dade County, the commissioners during Florida, most recently, their regular Thursday could happen here," briefing session last week, Durncll told the board in a and told the board that prepared statement, there was a lack of an effee- Commission chairman tivc affirmative action plan Sec f)a#c 2
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