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Winston-Salem Chnonicle
“Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974“
WINSTON-S4LEM, N.C.
Thursday, December 24, 1981
•25 cents
24 Pages This Week
HUD Grants $340,000
Shopping Center
Funding Approved
IPIPholo
A Time For The Children
Although Christinas is a special time of year for all of us, it is particularly magical to the young. At. the left. New
York Mayor Ed Koch attempts to entertain a young lady at a New York Foundling Hospital Cl .-'stmas party at he
Waldorf. Locally, children ate fascinated by a be-spectacled Saiita while a Chiuug of youa^ ohes enjoys the Public
Library’s Christmas party last week.
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
After being turned down
twice previously by the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development, the
city of Winston has re
ceived approval of a
$340,000 Urban Develop
ment Action Grant (UDAG(
to help finance the pro
posed East Winston Shop
ping Center
“Santa Claus is coming
a little early this year for
Winston-Salem,’’ proc-
claimed Mayi'r Wayne Cor-
pening as he jubilantly
announced approval of the
UDAG grant to assist in
construction of the shop
ping center.
“The approval of this
grant shows what can be
accomplished when govern
ment, private enterprise,
and the people in the
community work together
for the good of the com
munity,” Corpening said.
He also said that the center
would produce 80 to 100
new jobs for the East
WinstonCommunity.
According to HUD offi
cials, the grant had never
been denied, but had been
“carried” until the city
could put together a pack
age of firm financial com
mitments. Wachovia Bank
and Trust Co. had first
agreed to loan the project
$1.1 million for construc
tion when the city had lease
in and worked with Me
chanics and Farmers Bank,
First Union Bank, North
western Bank, and Wacho
via to secure the loan.:
Allen Joines, assistant
city manager for special
projects, said that the pack
age was changed to bring
down the first mortgage
from 1.1 million to $706,000
Local Reaction
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commitments for approxi
mately 85 percent of the
center’s space. When the
grant was not approved the
city re-applied three
months later, presenting
the same package while
attempting to demonstrate
stronger financial commit
ments. By that time, the
terms of Wachovia’s loan
had expired.
Winston Mutual Life In
surance Co., headed by
George Hill, then stepped
and that the commitments
of other backers made the
difference in the two pack
ages.
“Obviously I’m elated,”
said Joines when contacted
at his office. “Now we’re
going to move ahead with
wrapping up the loose ends
and start planning con
struction.” Joines said the
construction would begin in
the latter part of February.
During a special meeting of
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Hairston Criticized For McGee Stance
By Allen H. Johnson
Managing Editor
Palrick Hairslon, presi-
lein of the Winston-Salem
thapler of the National
teociation for the Ad-
I'ancement of Colored Peo-
>ic, says that his organiza-
ion’sdecision not to take a
iitireactive role in the case
»l William McGee has
taped criticism from some
tgnients of the black com-
■nity.
Iti fact, Hairslon said one
of the critics threatened to
make his bid for re-election
to the non-salaried post dif
ficult.
“Someotie said that they
would do anything within
their power to get me out of
office," Hairslon told the
Chronicle Monday.
A good deal of the
negative reaction, Hairslon
said, centered around com
ments he made in the Sun
day, Dec. 6 edition of the
W'inton-Salem - Sentinel in
which he said that McGee,
former director of the Ben
ton Convention Center and
Winston-Salem Coliseum
who was convicted of con
spiracy to traffic in cocaine,
was “his own doing.”
"1 got a lot of calls agree
ing with my stand and a lot
of calls saying that if we
didn’t support him (McGee)
we shouldn’t have said
anything,” Hairston said.
“But the NAACP can never
condone anybody bringing
drugs into the black com
munity.”
Hairslon said that it
bothered him that he should
cause discontent by speak
ing his mind and standing
by his principles.
“If I’m condemned for
doing what I think is right, I
should iio longer be presi
dent of the Winston-Salem
NAACP,” Hairston said,
“It bothers me that we
have such narrow minds. 1
know the sacrifices that I’ve
made. 1 would gladly relin
quish this position to
anyone who would do half
the work that I’ve done."
Hairston added that if
some black people would
channel their criticism of
the NAACP into positive
action, “we wouldn’t be so
much'in the red nationally
and locally,
"With Reagan attacking
all phases of civil rights
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htacts Attorney General
Toms Requests Probe Of McGee Case
Allen Johnson
Managing Editor
Toms, an undercover
ipl who figured pro-
“Miilly in the arrest of
*mcr Benton Convention
-Wet and Memorial Col-
itiim Director William
ItGee says she has sent a
'%am to the state At-
J'Wy General’s office
Monday requesting that it
“«k into the McGee in-
®igation.
Toms told the
Chronicle Tuesday that she
is disturbed by several
aspects of the case.
“I don’t have anything to
gain but peace of mind,”
said Mrs. Toms, 44, an ex
convict who, sincescrvinga
sentence for passing bad
checks in 1979, has worked
for a number of law en
forcement agencies as an in
formant, an undercover
agent and a “special
employee.”
Mrs. Toms said that her
telegram, which was also
sent to Public Safety Com
mittee Chairman Vivian
Burke and City Manager
Bill Stuart, raised two ma
jor questions:
--Why did Winston-
Salem police terminate the
invesligantion after 30
days? “It should have taken
six months to a year,” she
said. Toms added that if
police did not have the
money to complete an ex
haustive investigation,
“they shouldn’t have
started it. Why was it so im
portant to move so fast?”
-What led to the in
vestigation in the first
place? “Why was the in
vestigation started and who
was behind it?” Toms said.
Mrs. Toms said she asked
the same questions prior to
the trial in which McGee
and Michael Smith were
conviefed of conspiring to
smuggle four ounces of co
caine into the city.
She added that she wants
to set the record straight
concerning her role in the
investigation.
“Black people are asking
me why i tricked Bill
McGee,” Mrs. Toms .said.
“Some people just cussed
me out. One minister said
Christ himself couldn’t
come down heie uid change
the black community s
mind about me.’
Mrs. Toms said that her 15
year-old daughter also has
borne the brunt of com
munity resentmen',
“My daughter has been
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From left tp right: John Davis III, president of the YMCA of Winston-Salem
and Forsyth County, Marshall B. Bass, corporate director of personnel
development at R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. and (with back to camera) C.B.
Hauser, chairman of the board of management at the Patterson Avenue YMCA.
R.J,Reynolds Purchases
Land For New YMCA
INDEX
and
l-fisure JO
business 75
^krehNews ... .17
^liitorials 4
Social Whirl 6
....... .21
.Sports ij
Enhancement Campaign
WSSU Passes Halfway Mark
By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer
Edward A, Horrigan ,lr.,
general ehairman of the
Winston-Salem State
University Enhajtcement
Campaign, announced last
Iriday a grand total of
$1,929,500 in pledges ob
tained thus far in the
school’s fund-raising drive.
The announcement was
made at a campaign kickoff
luncheon sponsored by
Wachovia Bank and Trust
Co. and R. .1. Reynolds
Tobacco Co, at the Old
Town Club.
“Even though we have
reached almost two-thirds
of our goal already, we
must look at reality,” Hor
rigan said. “The last third
in going to be the hardest to
get because it must be
achieved from right here in
l orsyth County. Winston-
Salem State doesn’t have as
big an outreach as Duke or
Wake Forest, so we’ve .got
to work withiti the coutity.
“R. .1. Reynolds Industries
Inc. has contributed a grant
of $1,000,000 to the fund,
while the Z. Smith
Reynolds Eoundation has
given $425,000. Other coti-
tributors include the Hanes
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R. ,1. Reynolds Industrie,'
i n c. h a s c o n t r i b u 1 c c
$32,7.10 to purchase 10.1
acres of latid at Winstoi
Lake Park for a new YM
CA family center.
When completed, the new
family center will replaci
the YMCA’s curretit I'acilit;
on Patterson Avenue. Tin
Patterson Avenue Y ha:
deteriorated over the year'
and no longer meets tin
recerational needs of In
area, according to YMC/*
officials.
The gift was amionticcd a
the site of the proposer
facility--off Waterw ork:
Road near the Witistoi
Take Swimming Pool,
.lohn W. Davis III, presi
dent of the YMCA ol
Witistott-Saletn atid 1 orsytl
Coutity, acknowledged thr
cotitributioti and thattker
the company for its com
mitment. “We are ver\
grateful for this sitppon
;i n d a p p land R . .1
Reytiolds’ coticcrti foi
positive c o tn tri u n i t \
dovelopmetii,” he said.
“It’s jitst beautiful,” add
ed Richard Glover, directoi
of the Patterson YMCA. “I
thitik its an outstandiii!
testimony to Reynolds as t
corporate citizen.”
C. B. Hauser, chairman ol
the board of matiagemeni
at the Pattersoti Avenur
YMCA, also thanked tin
conipatiy and noted that
“the purchase of this site i'
the first major step towarc
the development of a new
YMCA family cetitcr.”
In atinoitncitig the con
tributiotr, Marshall Bass, R
.1. Reynolds’ corporati
director of personne
devciopmetit, said “one ol
our basic beliefs at R. .1
Reytiolds is that busincs'
growth atid healthy com
mutiity development are in
separtiblc. Progress lot
each is sitppoited b> tin
other,” he said.
“Through the years,” In
continued, “the YMC.'N ha-
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