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Front, Page 15.
Blacks & the GOP Album Covers
Should black people consider
abandoning their traditional support
for the Democratic Party and barter
with the Republicans? A number of
local residents think so^if the GOP is
willing to shape up its act.
Chronicle Camera, Second Front, Page 15.
Sometimes they’re more interesting
than the high-priced vinyl discs they
contain—and sometimes as suggestive
as Playboy or Penthouse.
Arts and Leisure, Page 12.
Controversy
Black contractors are in the news
again, this time after leveling charges
against individuals, groups and institu
tions in the black community that, they
contend, don’t patronize them in favor
of white firms.
Page 1 and Editorials, Page 4.
Wiqston-Salem Cljt^oijicle
VOL. VIII NO.
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Thursday, April 22, 1982
*25 cents
28 Pages This Week
, ' rF-ett' •'
Black Firms Snubbing
Minority Contractors,
Group’s Letters Charge
Photo By Sant«iM
laraette Captain Terry McPherson slams a pitch to left fielder in action against Fayetteville State last
,eek. Later in the week, the team beat Johnson C. Smith 7-6, and 21-0 to take the CIAA Southern
llvislon title. Details on page 17.
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'"immunity Opposes Group Home
By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
Ssl Winston residents,
10 are determined to im-
»ve their community are
ncerned that a new
ighbor might thwart their
brts.
he St. Benedict Convent,
the corner of 14th Street
pid Hattie Avenue, is being
^ught by the For-
fth/Stokes County Mental
Wth Center as a group
otnc for Willie M youth.
The Franciscan Nuns of St.
lenedict’s parish are leav
ing in June, and the convent
[Isup for lease.
ve had any heartaches, I can forget them. This
“esupfor them,” said Winston-Salem State basket-
1 coach “Bighouse” Gaines at a press conference held
® ednesday announcing that May
""'C'i “Bighouse Gaines Week
““Shout the state.
Motorcade of city and school officials, a reception at
! ®onConvention Center on May 4 at 4:30 p.m. and
on the WSSU campus May 7 will honor
Fearing the consequences
of sharing their
neighborhood with a group
home for the emotionally
disturbed youth, who are
characterized as dangerous
ly aggressive and in need of
constant monitoring, some
residents have appealed to
diocese Bishop Michael J.
Begley in Charlotte to con
sider their concerns and are
preparing to take steps to
try to prevent the home
from, being established in
East Winston.
Johnnie Johnson,
neighborhood manager for
the East Winston Restora
tion Association, said
residents feel the house
could be used for a purpose
that is more vitally needed
in the community, such as a
boarding house for senior
citizens, a neighborhood
cultural center or a place
for neighborhood meetings.
“We are sympathetic to the
needs of the kids,” Johnson
said, “but we feel East
Winston is not a good place
for the home. You’ve got to
consider the impact on the
area. An institution like
that would not be serving
the community.”
East Winston has ex
perienced its share of crime
and drug problems, but
residents are trying to
change the image of the
neighborhood, Johnson
said. “This is not the place
for the group home,”
Johnson said. “Everyone
we’ve talked to said they
feel East Winston does not
need the facility with the
problems we already have.
They would be locating the
home in an area where there
is already a problem of
vagrance and drugs.”
Johnson said residents
have tried to communicate
their feelings to the For
syth/Stokes County Mental
Health Center, have talked
with St. Benedict Church
Council members and are
considering taking legal acr
See Page 2
By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
Related editorial on
Page Four.
Is the black com
munity snubbing black
contractors?
In several cases, yes,
contend a number of black
builders and suppliers in the
city.
The Voice of Independent
Contractors and En
trepreneurs, formerly
known as the Voice of
Minority Contractors and
Suppliers, has charged, in
letters circulated
ihrougJ ■ T the black
community, that black pro
fessionals and churches are
draining the community
economically by giving, their
business to white firms.
One letter called for blacks
to “unite on an economic
front. For too long, we
have allowed investors,
entrepreneurs, contractors,
venture capitalists and
others to rob us of the
wealth that exists in the
black communities. Let us
stop taking money out of
the black communities and
putting it in the hands of
businessmen and profes
sionals who will never be in
the position to help us.”
Winston-Salem State
See Page 2
University, Dr. David
Branch, a local op-
thalmologist who plans on
building a new office
building; Second Calvary
Baptist Church, which is
building a new sanctuary,
and Macedonia True Vine
Pentecostal Holiness
Church, which built, a new
sanctuary and renovated
its old building, were cited
as examples of those guilty
of taking money out of the
black community by not
using black contractors in
their construction or not
giving the opportunity to
work as general or subcon
tractors to blacks.
Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, Winston Mutual and
the owners of the Twin City
Medical Building were
praised for using black
many will have minority
general contractors or
greater than 60 percent
participation? It should be
100 percent. Every time a
dime leaves the black
“If they’re (contractors) not competent and
competitive, I won’t do business with them. 1
don’t give a damn what color they are. ’’
—Attorney R. Lewis Ray
contractors while local at
torney R. Lewis Ray and
Castle Heights Church of
Christ “are some to be wary
of,” the letter said. “How
community, it hurts all of
us.”
The letter urged blacks to
use black professionals.
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Photo By Santana
R. Lewis Ray
May 3-7 Bighouse Gaines Week
By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
if I
3-7 will be pro
in Winston-Salem and
Gaines, who will be inducted into the Naismith Basket
ball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., on May 3.
. John Thompson, coach of NCAA runners-up
Georgetown University, will give the keynote address at
the banquet.
Gaines, who said he never really had a plan of action for
his life, came to Winston-Salem 36 years ago. In that
time, he amassed more victories than any other active
collegiate coach. “Anytime I started to leave someone
was always pulling on my coattail,” he said.
Gaines said he was “really honored” that the city and
the state have earmarked an entire week to recognize him.
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Black Builders Picket
Church’s Groundbreaking
Ptioto By Santana
“Bighouse” Gaines
By Allen H. Johnson
Managing Editor
A group of black contrac
tors who say they are
desperate for work picketed
the ground-breaking
ceremony of a black church
Saturday afternoon.
Members of the Voice of
Independent Contractors
and Entrepreneurs, who
have alleged that Second
Calvary Baptist Church ig
nored them in selecting a
contractor for its new sanc
tuary, protested silently just
prior to the church’s
ground-breaking ceremony
on Seventh Street and
Cameron Avenue.
The group had wanted to
protest during the
ceremony, but its parade
permit expired at 2:00,
when the groundbreaking
began.
G. Ray Martin, chairman
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Man Jailed Over Ticket He Already Paid
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Photo By Santan«t
John Bynum
By Ruthell Howard'
Staff Writer
A local man was arrested recently and spent a night inb
jail under a $5,000 bond over a $5.00 parking ticket he
had paid two months earlier.
John Bynum, an employee at Medical Park Hospital,
said two officers came to his home and arrested him April
1, when he refused to appear in court for not paying the
ticket.
But court and police officials say that Bynum is at fault
and that the system worked just as it is supposed to.
Bynum received a $31.00 ticket in January after leaving
his car double-parked, blocking a moving land of traffic
downtown. When Bynum appeared in court and explain
ed the situation to Superior court Judge Harold, he
received a lesser fine.
“My wife has to be on the kidney dialysis machine,”
Bynum said. “I thought I had to rush her to the hospital.
When I explained to Judge Harold, he reduced the fine to
$5.00.
A show-cause order for failure to comply was issued
Jan. 21 and sent to the police department when Bynum
failed to pay the fine, which was due Jan. 20. On Jan. 22,
Bynum paid the ticket, but the show-cause order, which
was dated for a court appearance on April I, remained in
circulation.
Bynum contends he was falsely arrested because he had
already paid the fine. “When an officer came to my
home on March 23 with a summons to appear in court for
not paying the ticket, I told him I had already paid,” he
said. “Then two officers came back on April 1 to arrest
me.”
Bynum was jailed that night until 11 a.m. the next day,
when his wife found the receipt and gave it to his lawyer.
“My lawyer, Westley Bailey, took the receipt before
Superior Court Judge Tash and I was released,” he said.
“If I hadn’t kept the receipt, I would have stayed in jail
until April 25 for a trial,,, or I would have had to pay
$750.00 for the bondsman to bail me out.”
“I’ve read about this type of thing in the newspapers,”
he said, “and I’m really upset because I wasn’t given any
type of explanation. And when the officers got me
downtown, they wanted to push me around.”
One sergeant in the Winston-Salem Police Department,
who asked to remain anonymous, explained that the
department is short-staffed and has a backlog of war
rants and summons that can be served at any time. He ad
ded that Bynum’s experience is not unusual.
“Television has brainwashed people concerning things
like warrants,” he said. “There was nothing wrong with
the way this was handled. We have papers that were
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