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By Donna Oldham
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Dr. Ananais Hasan, the Winston-Salem naturopath,
who has been under investigation by the Forsyth County
District Attorney's office and the State Bureau of Investigation
said this week that he is being harassed by the
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State Exams ?
Minority students showed a greater improvement than
the overall N.C. student population in the Fall 1980 competency
test results released by Governor Jim Hunt i
recently.
"In studying the Fall 1980 Report of Student Perfor- i
mance, I was particularly gratified to see that there was i
an improvement in the passing rate for students from all |
ethnic groups," Governor Hunt said. "In fact, the
greatest percentage improvement on both the reading and
mathematics tests was among minority students and i
those students whose parents have less than a high school <
education." <
The Governor said the results show that North <
Carolina's students as a whole improved the passing rate i
on the test for the third consecutive year.
Hunt said he felt the improvement resulted from ]
cooperation between students, parents, teachers, local i
school systems, the Department of Public Education and
the Competency Test Commission. "Everybody in this \
partnership shares a commitment to educational ex- J
cellence, and it has given North Carolina what I believe is i
the best competency testing program in the nation," the j
Governor said. \
i iic uupi uvciiicm oy minuruy siuaenis was mucn <
greater. In reading, the passing rate for black students
has increased since 1978 by 6.1 per cent. In math, the pass- ;
ing rate for black students is up 9.5 per cent. Of the black <
students taking the test for the first time this fall, 81.1 per t
cent passed the reading section and 75.6 per cent passed s
the math portion.
This fall, 92.5 per cent of the juniors taking the test for
the first time passed the reading section a 2.5 per cent
improvement over 1978 and .5 per cent better than last
fall. In mathematics, 89.4 per cent passes - 4.4 per cent
higher than the fall of 1978 and .4 per cent higher than
last year.
Hunt said the cutoff scores on the test were set before
the Fall 1978 test was given and have not been changed.
"There could be no better evidence that our testing
program is working." Hunt said. "Teachers, parents and
students have been motivated to work harder and take
full advantage of the remedial help that is available.
"This program is a bold step that North Carolina has J
taken to strengthen its public schools, and to make sure 1
that whfcn our students leave higti school they are better 1
prepared to seek other educational and training oppor- I
tunities," Governor Hunt said.
Holiday Closing
The Winston-Salem Chronicle will be dosed for |
vnt'/tiion Dec. 25. 26 and 27.
The deadline for all news Hems is Monday, Dee. I
22, at noon. There will he no exceptions.
. The Chronicle will reopen Monday, Dec. 29, at |
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Alderman Larry D. Little,(D-N), walked out of the
Board of Aldermen meeting Monday night, in protest of
statements made by Warren B. Brooks of Clemmons,
:oncerning the firing of former ABC employees Bert
Weeks and Levi Gentry last summer.
Brooks, in a prepared statement, said that the main
point that he wanted to get across to the aldermen and the
public was that "if people treated each other fairly...it
*ould help eliminate racial friction",,, He said that "the
\BC Board's and other officicials' handling of the situaion
(Weeks-Gentry) was grossly unfair." He also stated
hat he felt as if there had been a "cover-up*Vinthe way
rach man's removal was carried out.
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because of the investigation.
"What has been written about me by both the Sentinel
and the Chronicle has been written without my permission/'
Hasan said during an interview at his office at 1514
14th Street.
- The naturopath said that he was particularly distressed
about reports that he had routinely examined people for
marriage licenses. A search by the Chronicle in the
Register of Deeds office produced 12 marriage license applications
signed by Hasan within a period from Jan. 16
to July 3. According to Eunice Ayers, Forsyth County
KgM( Of has the Mine list.
ndt gOfnj to comment on it (the marriage
licenses) at this time one way or the other/* said Hasan.
The .12 applications signed by Hasan were certificates
of medical examination and laboratory statements from
the North Carolina Department of Human Resources
and the Division of Health. /
On the applications, Hasan signed his name in the
space reserved for the sianature of the examinino ?hvci.
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cian certifying that he, a licensed physician of the State of
North Carolina, had examined the applicant and found
no evidence of venereal disease; tuberculosis in the communicalbe
stage and that the applicant was mentally competent.
As part of the requirement, the examining physician
was to submit laboratory results, which included blood
lests and the results of the physical examination. A
spokesperson for the Forsyth County Health Department
said that on the marriage license applications, the physician
who signs his or her name to the certificate, is the
one who does the physical exam. ?~
The naturopath also told the Chronicle that a patient at
Forsyth Memorial Hospital who is alledged by the manls
family to be a patient of Hasan's is nonexistent.
When asked by the Chronicle if he had visited or
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Street, as a former patient of his who had earlier identified
himself as Johnny Butner to hospital officials and
is Melvin Hill, according to Hasan's earlier statements to
he Chronicle. The naturopath called the man Mnon;xistent."
"1 am aware of the fact that there is no such a person
is Johnny Butner or Johnny Carter who was ever in a
:oma in the first place. There has never been no such a
hing. 1 saw the man that they described; he came in and
;aid he was Melvin Hill. That was on Nov. 6," Hasan
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In support of these feelings, Brooks offered several
facts that he said that he had personally looked into, contacting
some 21 agencies to do so. The facts are as
fellows: According to Brooks, (I)44 Bert Weeks4 admittance
to embezzlement." (2) "His (Weeks4) instructing'
his warehouse manager to falsify records.44 (3) "The fact
that Weeks left three cases of liquor as a Christmas present
for employees in December, 1979.44 (4) "The two
ABC Board members who wanted Weeks fired failed to
appear at one of the hearings.44 (5) "Gentry took two
polygraph tests with the results being inconclusive for the
-first test and the second, supporting his claims of innocence."
(6) "The approximately $35,000 shortage that
Weeks had during his employment with the ABC Board
and the large losses^ for the_4lh quarter of 1979."
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Santa Claus came to town last Saturday to the delight <;
Shopping Centers. Santa's trip was sponsored by WAIR ,
B lev ins Gets 101
Earl Victor Blevins, who once for sitting on a pool
was accused in the June 22 table and the second time
shooting death of a pool for putting his feet on the
hall employee was sen- bar stool. Hardy was unforced
t^fO years iniH'isoft armed.
last week in Forsyth Supe- Witnesses' testimony acrior
Court by Judge Robert cording to Yeatts stated that
Collier. after Hardy had asked BleBlevins,
32, of 746 Castle vins to remove his feet from
Street pleaded quilty to the the bar stool, Blevins pulmurder
of James T. Hardy, led out a .25 caliber pistol
a bartender at Trade Street and shot at Hardy four or
Billiards in the 500 block of five times. Hardy was actNorth
Trade Street down- ually four times,
town. Witnesses also said that
According to assistant dis- Blevins, after shooting
trice attorney James Yeatts^ Hardy^-fled^^he pool hail
Sir witnesses for the state where he was persued bv a
would testify that Blevins witness who threw a beer
shot Hardy after Hardy had bottle at him. Blevins also
reprimanded him twice; shot at the witness.
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By Donna Oldham A lot of people ihink ihc
Staff Writer Rit/ is still closed," he said.
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me uiq khz ineairenas urecnway Auditorium last
i new name and a lot of March and has been activepotential
according to its ly trying to acquaint the
>ew owner, however, Ray- East Winston community
nond L. Couthen feels that with all its possibilities,
he community still thinks "Wc promote gospel
>f new Greenway Theatre music, wc have revivals,
is the "old Rit/." talent programs, fashion
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;.n employee of R.J. meetings. We show movies
Reynolds Industries, part of every Saturday morning
'he reason that the theatre from 11 a.m. to 1 p.mT free
.joesn'i ot\joy the success" for the community
hat he believes it can is children. The sole purpose
ccause of poor public rela- of the auditorium is for the
ions. community," Couihcn
"Most people learn said,
bout things through word Free movies and comif
mouth, people just munity meetings still
havciVt spread the word haven't given Greenvvay
like I thought they would. See Page 2
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unaccountable for acknowledged mismanagement,
while being paid at the top of the salary range for his
high-level position, while at the same time, \2lA years of
loyal service by Levi Gentry did not shield him from being
fired for following his attorney's advice."
Referring to his personal file on the ABC situation,
Brooks commented on an article in the Winston-Salem
"Journal" on April 13, by Staff Writer, Pete Mantius, in
which Clay R. Beeson of the ABC enforcement division
urged the ABC Board to ask Weeks and not Gentry to
take the polygraph test. .
"How did the spotlight get shifted from Weeks, who
admitted wrong doing to Gentry, who steadfastly denied
any wrong doing?" asked Brooks. He stated that when
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radio, Triad Helicopter's, Inc., and Conrad's Hair Design.
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A businessman, whose Blevins' gunfire,
store is located down the Blevins fled the state with
street from the pool hall a companion, John Carroll
said that he saw Blevins Watts, 34, of Radford
fless and asked what-was Street. He late gave himself
going on. Blevins shot at up to a Forsyth County
the man who returned Sheriffs deputy.
Crawford Cleared
Jefferson Crawford, ow- hearing Crawford testify
ner of Jeff s Seafood at 1700 that he had had continuous
N. Cherry St., was acquit- altercations with Bray at his
ted last week of the second place of business,
degree murder in the Feb. Crawford, 50, of 3674
21 shooting of Carl Edward Southdale Ave.,testify that
Bray. on the night of the shoot The
Forsyth County Supe- ing, Bray had entered his
rior Court jury deliberated store several times cursing
just 30 minutes and return- Crawford and his custoed
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