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By Art Blue
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Carl Russell, former
Winston-Salem Mayor protern
and alderman for 16
years, returned home after
serving four months of a
six-month prison sentence
for tax evasion.
Russell was released on
when he became seriously ill
at the Federal Correction
Center in Lexington, Ky.
In an exclusive interview
with the Chronicle, Russell
revealed his thoughts on the
four months he served in
prison, his feelings about
his conviction, and his
plans for the future.
"I had envisioned prison
as some dark, dreary, cold
N.C. Bar I
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By Donna Oldham'
Staff Writer
A group of 11 black law
school graduates have filed
a law suit against the
Summit <
Black En
Black Entertainment Television
(BET), the nation's
first and only specialized
cable television satellite
network that distributes
black -oriented program
ming is coming to WinstonSalem,
according to BET
President Robert L. Johnson
and officials of Summit
Communications, the local
cable company that will
carry the BET programming.
The announcement
was made last Friday during
a press conference
held at the Hyatt House.
BET began on Jan. 25 of
this year and now reaches
an estimated 5.1 million,
households in 499 markets
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weekend in the homecoming
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Home
place with bars and
machine guns all around,"
Russell saict, 4 4 But due to
my health I was sent to a
medical facility. The center
where 1 was assigned was
rtfc^ike that at all. It was
still in prison and you were
confined, - but it was a
modern facility, clean, and
there were no bars or guns
to be seen.The guards-were
courteous but strict," he
said.
Because of his illness, a
cardio-pulmonary obesity
syndrome called. Pick ~
Willian Syndrome \Russell
was not assigned a detail at
the center.441 was medically
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of my time writing and
working on my memoirs.
Since I served 16 years in
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JNorth Carolina Board of
Law Examiners, challenging
the state's bar exam
and saying that the process
needs to be changed or
"opened up."
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increased its subscriber
count by over a million
viewers in the last month.
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growth of his company
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were honored for their contrii
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The plaintiffs filed their partner in the firm of
suit in Wake County Malone, Johnson, DeSuperior
Court in Raleigh Jamon and Spaulding in
Wednesday. They are Durham, N.C.
represented by Attorney The complaint alleges
Clarence C. Malone, tf that the operations and
procedures of the Board of
fc* Law Examiners violate
both the North Carolina
State Constitution and the
United States Constituit
TV tion. The plaintiffs charge
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; / v" and illegally denied them
Johnson said?-The fact that their rights by not problack
^entertainment televi- yj^jng them with a consion
today has access to 5 stitutionally adequate
million cable homes is^clear jevei 0f review after they
and convincing evidence were notified that they
that black oriented pro- were unsuccessful on thegramming
is attractive to North Carolina Bar Ex.
both cable operators and aminationi
cable subscribers. As cable xhe group also charges
television expands into the that board was created
major urban markets we in an unconstitutional
expect BET to continue its manner and as such did
outstanding growth." not have the
power to
Johnson said that another ejther grant or deny them
reason that BET is so their licenses to practice
successful is the diversity law in North Carolina. The
that only cable television board administers the bar
can offer. exam and a oerson must
in introaucing jonnson ana the three-day exam '
BET to the area. Winston- before bein licensed to
Salem Chronicle editor/ prac,ice law in the state of
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Community Since 1974
OCTOBER 25. 1980
Candidate
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To Black
By Donna Oldham The forum, designed to
Staff Writer acquaint minority residents
of Winston-Salem and Forsyth
County with both parIn
what could have been ty's candidates before the
-billed as??TTve- Main Nov. 4 election, was the se'
Event," candidates for the cond in a three part series.
State.offices nf Senator anH I act
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Representative squared off federal offices were
against each other during a featured, Next Sunday,
political forum sponsored "candidates for local offices
by the National Association including District Court
for the Advancement of judge and board of educaColored
People (NAACP) tion will participate,
held Sunday. Fire works began when
C.E. "Bighouse" Gaines takes a glimpse at the portrait desi
The portrait, presented to Gaines here by Dr. Lafayette Pa\
Coppedge Studio from a photograph taken by Clarence /V<
During 88th Founders' 1
Hunt Comm
By Donna Oldham ding Winston-Salem State j
Staff Writer University's 88th Founder's <
Day Convocation last week c
Governor James B. Hunt that the two most important t
Jr. told the audience atten- things on "his priority list as t
lenn. prisoners
Vote For Eleclioi
Inmates in Tennessee jails and prisons have pre-filed
will be casting votes in the November 4th prisoners' voti:
Presidential election gaining constitu- reportedly wil
tional voting rights that ar? denied other General Assen
prisoners in states around the nation. January.
An estimated 10,000 prisoners in "If any of tl
workhouses, penal farms, state, city and successful in
county prisons are now expected to take Ms. C.E. McC
advantage of that right as a result of recent
state and federal coifrt rulings.
James Roach, a Memnhis area leoal ?er.
vices attorney representing state prison in- Erwin
mates, said prisoners are showing great
interest." "State election coordinators, 0I\I7/N\t*r"according
to Roach," report that more ^ VV UI 1
than 53 percent of the unregistered prison
population filed before the October 4 Richard C. E
deadline." Carolina Court
"But our glorious victory may be short- in as the first
lived," Roach suggested, "pending the reconstruction
outcome of an appeal filed by the state North Carolin,
Attorney General's office." This may be 1980 at 2:00 p.
the only time prisd^ifcs in Tennessee will Cdurthouse i
be able to vote. mediately folio
In addition, Roach noted several will be a publi
legislators in the state General Assembly Convention Ce
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: Voters
John J. Cavanaugh, a can- tried to quiet the two,
didate for the state senate Totherow stated, "he
challenged former Sen. Carl-started it." Cavanaugh, an
D.-Totherow, a Democrat alderman, apologized.
seekinc another term as fn .. TU- i 1?
c, i iic >ttunu aircrcatiurr
why he was running again was between Rep. Margaret
after vowing to quit Tennille, a Democrat seekpolitics.
Totherow jumped ing re-election and
to his feet and told Republican Rep. Mary N.
Cavanaugh that he thought Pegg. While Tennille was
the purpose of the forum explaining about juvenile
was to let the audience ask codes, which she helped to
questions not opposing can- sponsor while in the house,
didates. -When the Pegg, who is also running
moderator of the evening See Page 2
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'gnoted to hand in the sports complex named in his honor.
rker, Vice Chancellor Emeritus of IVSSU, was painted by
ottingham.
Pay
Lenas wssu
governor are ''giving of jobs that provide a de:hildren
an education se- cent income and degree of
:ond to none, and helping dignity." *
he mothers and fathers of Hunt, who was the
hose children get the kinds keynote speaker for the
university's anniversary
told the audience that in the
| 2/f tNvo years that WSSU
I. J*if f / f Chancellor H. Douglas
Covington has been in of^
fice, thai "Covington has
^ ^ ^ shown that he is an educa- ^
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* -L 1/ r I ability. With the help of
Trustee Chairman Joseph
Battle and the excellent
[ four bills to curtail faculty and staff you have
ng rights. That legislation here, Chancellor Covington
1 come before the state has put this institution on
tbly when it convenes in the threshold of an un!
paralleled era of growth
iese opposition groups are and diversification."
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jruder, Youth adviser for challenges facing this
university are great, but,
Seepage 2 lhe
potential is virtually
limitless. You are located in
npi tq a growing, dynamic urban
L A O Dv center. Therefore, the inT
stitution must constantly
^ In ()Ct 3 1 accommodate itself to the
changing and expanding
r ,, ,l needs of the urban com:rwin,
former judge, North nau_
; of Appeals, will be sworn munit>.
, f , . , . nnrt nt rhanoino
lmcic* icuerai juage since ' ",v ^
for U.S. Middle District of ldeas' Hun" 1 the aua
on Friday, October 31. dlence lhal s>,aS ?nx,ous'
.u t- .u r- . lv awaiting a studv conm.,
in the F-orsyth Countv - * , .
vv, c i . ' ducted to determine the
n Winston-Salem. Im- r Lr u
,, feasibility of establishing a
wing the swearing in, there , #u
* ' graduate center on the
c reception at the Benton *
nter'from 2:45-4:30 p.m. $ee Pa8e ^