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“Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974’’
VOL. VIII NO.
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
..WINStON-SALEM, N.C.
Thursday, December 10, 1981
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Black Females Attacked
Campus Assaults
Stir UNC Tension
Angels At War?
UPI Photo
Detroit: in a confrontation outside Detroit’s City Council, Curtis Sliwa (L) and Lisa Evers (C) of the Guardian
Angels were Interrupted and told to get out of Detroit by Keigh Harvey (R) of the Detroit Alliance of Guardian
Angles. Harvey and his group, which have nothing in common but the similarity of their organizations’ naines,
told the two officers of the Guardian Angels that there would be trouble if they came there. Sliwa and Evers came
to Detroit for a Dec. 3 meeting with the city council on starting a chapter of their group there.
By Allen H. Johnson, III
Managing Editor
Related editorial on
Page 4.
CHAPEL HILL-Recent
incidents between white and
black students have raised
serious quesitons concern
ing race relations at the
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and
the school’s commitment to
healthy race relations,
charged black students last
week.
Referring specifically to
two incidents in which
black female students were
assaulted by white students,
Mark Canady, president of
the UNC Black Student
Movement, and Beverly
Shepard of the Black Greek
Council said that the UNC
administration failed to
take sufficient disciplinary
action.
“It is unfortunate that
racial harassment and bodi
ly abuse are still found in a
university community
which prides itself on its
progressiveness, scholar
ship, equality and tradition
of developing good
character,” Canady and
Shepard wrote in a letter to
The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s
student newspaper. “At a
time when the university
has professed its commit
ment to equality through
the UNC consent decree.
students who uttered racial
epithets during the attack.
-the verbal assaulting of
another black female, who
was threatened and pushed
off of a sidewalk by a white
male.
-the abusing of black
custodial worker with
threatening notes from
"They just started happening. It was like a
steamroller. Some of the incidents could be con
strued as minor disputes, but with black
students, when the word ‘nigger’ comes up, it
will provoke a fight. Black people do not ap
preciate being called niggers. ’’
—John Hinton, UNC
Student
the existence of such at
titudes and actions, in
themselves, constritute a
clear rebuttal of this univer
sity’s claim to civility and
racial sensitivity.”
Among incidents mention
ed in the Nov. 23 letter
were:
-the physical assaulting of
a black female student Oct.
29 in Hinton James Dor
mitory by two white female
white dormitory residents,
-the rude treatment of a
black female by a white
campus police officer dur
ing the discussion of a park
ing violation.
-the attacking of a black
female by a white male in a
physical education class.
In the latter incident, John
Edward Jones, a white
freshman from Charlotte,
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Black Majority In South Drops
ATLANTA-The number
_oJ black majority counties
in the South is decreasing at
the rate of 2.4 per year, ac
cording to a study released
today by the Voter Educa
tion Project Inc, (VEP).
The study, done by VEP
Reasearch Association K.
Farouk Brimah and
Richard A. Hudlin, shows
that the 11 southern states
had 284 majority black
counties in 1900 while today
there are only 89. The
greatest loss since 1900 oc
curred in Georgia, which
lost 74 counties, and the
least loss in Tennessee,
which lost one.
In 1900, Georgia had the
largest number of black ma
jority counties, with 67. By
1980, Mississippi led with
22.
In the last decade. North
Carolina was the only state
in which blacks gained
counties, increasing th
number in the state from
five to seven.
Commented Brimah and
Hudlin, “Of the 89 majori
ty counties presently, 40 are
experiencing declines in
black population and, if the
present rate of loss con
tinues, additional counties,
will lose their black majori
ty by the end of the
eighties.” They added,
“Blacks now make up only
five percent of county
governing board members
and the decrease in the
number of black majority
counties suggests that
blacks will continue to be
severely underrepresented
at the county level.”
VEP Executive Director
Geraldine G. Thompson
added, “The decline in the
number of black majority
counties could have severe
repercussions for black
political strength. Therfore.
blacks must utilize their re
maining voting strenght
wisely to offset the poplua-
tion losses being experienc
ed in these areas.”
The Voter Education Pro-,^^'!?.
ject is a nonpartisan, non-
profit, tax-exempt
organization which has
worked since 1962 in the 11
southern states to increase „
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minority political participa
tion.
Suspects In Murder Arrested
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
Two more arrests have
been made in the murder
of one black man
assault of another
Sunday, Nov.
Michael Massey, 25,
arrested in Winston on
Monday Nov. 30 and
Randi Belliveau, 25, was
arrested in Jackson
Miss., after he fled the
city by bus.
A total of four suspects
have now been arrested
and
on
29.
was
in the case of William
Levon Wright, 34, who
was shot and killed on
North Cherry Street and
Donald Burns, 33, who
was shot at close range
with a shotgun. Burns is
listed in critical condi
tion at Forsyth Hospital.
The fifth suspect, John
Jewel, age 28, is on the
run and has not been ap
prehended to date, but
his warrent has been
signed according to
police.
Nineteen-year-old
Regina Ann Deadmon
and Joseph Paul Ander
son, 28, were arrested
the night of the
shootings and charged
with murder, burglary
and assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to
kill and inflict serious in
jury.
Details of the case are
sketchy, but Ms. Dead
mon claimed that she
was raped by the two
men. Deadmon, Ander
son, Massey, Belliveau
and Jewel, who were all
white, went to the house
of 62-year-old Mrs. A.
Gibble, at 1801 N. Trade
Street, armed with a
shotgun, where they
believed the two men liv
ed, police say.
After breaking into the
home and not discover
ing Burns or Wright,
they left and 20 minutes
later found Wright walk
ing along N. Cherry
where he was shot in the
chest with buck shot.
Burns was shot in the 100
block of Glenn Ave. near
Patterson Ave.
Major M. A. Robert
son, head of Criminal
Investigation for the
police department, said
that both Deadmon and
Anderson have been
released on bond and
Belliveau is awaiting ex
tradition from Mississip
pi.
“We have not establish
ed that those were the
two men who allegedly
raped her (Deadmon)
and our investigation is
on-going,” Robertson
said when contacted at
his office.
Robertson- would not
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Chronicle Update
Northington Sidetracks
Committee Appointments
By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer
Amid fresh controversy,
the three newly elected
members of the Winston-
Salem Board of Aldermen
were sworn in at a board
meeting held Monday
night. Larry Womble, Mar
tha Wood, and Lynne
Harpe joined incumbents
Virginia Newell, Vivian
Burke, Larry Little, Robert
Northington and Ernestine
Wilson as the city’s govern
ing council for the next four
years. Wornble, Wood and
Harpe replaced Eugene R.
Groce, Floyd S. Burge Jr.,
and Jon B. DeVries.
However, West Ward
Alderman Robert S. Nor
thington moved for no con
sideration action on the ap
pointments of the board’s
four committee chairs pro
posed by Mayor Wayne
Corpening. The move by
Northington leaves the
committees stagnant until a
special meeting of the board
is called. Mayor Corpening
said that the special meeting
would be held Thursday or
Friday.
Northington said he called
for no consideration of the
committee appointments
because he felt that the
assignments proposed by
the mayor were “a slap” in
his face. According to Cor-
pening’s plan, Errtestine
Wilson from the South
Ward would serve as vice
chairman of the Finance
"He’s (Northington)
just immature. ’’
—Alderman Virginia
Newell
Committee, while East
Ward Alderman Virginia
Newell would head the
committee. The Finance
Committee is the most im
portant of the four standing
committees in city govern
ment and its chairmanship
is considered the next most
important job on the board
to the mayor. North Ward
Alderman Martha Wood
would serve on the commit
tee along with Northington.
Under the mayor’s plan,
Northington would be mov
ed from the General Com-
.mittee and become vice
chairman of the Public
Safety Committee. Nor
theast Ward Alderman Vi
vian Burke would become
chairman of the Public
Family Of Fire Victim Endures Pain, Frustration
Alien H. Johnson Hi
Managing Editor
Pne Friday afternoon,
yPi. 25, Bruce “Smokey”
!#ndsay mowed the lawn of
'’is grandmother, Mrs.
yrola Springs, on Old Lex-
'“gion Road, Then, as he
Bually did, the 21-year-old
Sowed the lawns of two
’’tighbors—one who was
weakened by illness, the
other an elderly woman.
“Smokey loved to help
older people and he loved
children,” said Smokey’s
mother, Mrs, Jacqueline
Springs Lindsay. •
Tears welled in Mrs. Lind
say’s eyes. It had been over
two months since Smokey’s
tragic death, but the pain-
and frustration-remain.
Smokey left his family that
Friday afternoon for the
last time. Early on Saturday
morning, Sept. 26, he died
in his apartment at 2925
Buchanan St., the apparent
innocent victim of flames
that fire officials believe
may have been set by ar
sonists as the cover for
some other crime.
‘‘I’m frustrated and
angry,” said Smokey’s
aunt, Mrs. Tomasue
Crockett. “His life was
taken and he was a sweet,
lovable, innocent person.”
While grieving family
members are likely to paint
a rosy picture of a deceased
loved one, that picture ap
pears real and justified in
this ca.se.
“He was beautiful,” said
his mother. “He didn’t
smoke or drink or anything.
He would look after the
pipes, feed the dogs, and
everytime you’d see him he
was smiling.”
Smokey had only recently
gotten his apartment.
“He had not been in that
apartment two months,”
said Mrs. Crockett. “He
told Mama (his grand
mother) he was trying his
wings, hacking it on his
own.”
Smokey was industrious.
say his family and friends.
He worked at the K-Mart
discount store on Peters
Creek Parkway. He
couldn’t yet afford a car, so
he rode a Ijicycle. That bicy
cle remains parked where he
last put it-in the basement
of his mother’s hou.se.
“And where he parked it is
where it is going to stay,”
his mother said.
Neighbors echoed the
Safety Committee.
Northington said that he
was disturbed by the
mayor’s assignments to the
Finance Committee.
“I take it as a demotion,”
he began. “I’m a little tick
ed and I think the com
munity should be as well.”
West Ward Alderman
Larry Little said he was not
impressed with Nor-
thington’s reaction.
“He’s not going to run ci
ty hall. He’s in the wrong
party on the local level,”
Little said of the lone
Republican alderman.
Mayor Corpening said
that he had no comment on
Northington’s move for no
consideration.
‘ ‘ 1 really have no com
ment,” he told the Chroni
cle Tuesday morning. “He
had every right to move that
way if that is what he
wanted to do.”
Virginia Newell said that
she only had one word for
Northington’s actions.
“He’s just immature,” she
said.
If the mayor’s appoint
ments are approved by the
board, Newell will be the
first black woman ap
pointed as head of the
Finance Committee.
family’s high regard for
Smokey.
Melvin Ray Caldwell Sr.,
one of the neighbors whose
lawn Smokey regularly
mowed, found it even more
painful than the immediate
relatives to talk about a
man he felt close enough to
call his “son.”
“He was the greatest,”
Caldwell said. “He would
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INDEX
Arts and
Leisure
10
Business
16
Church News ... ■
17
Editorials
.4
Social Whirl
.6
Lifestyle
21
Sports
13