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I Bus Fuss Be I The Winston-Salem Transit Authority Star finally has acknowledged some of its sumr problems by banning eating and drink- "old ing on buses. But there's more to be newc done. Editorials. Page 4. Arts a ( T JT 7' ||e vviijs VOL. VIII NO. 37 U.S.P.S. No. ( I EastWinstor I Have They Fi wr By Allen Hr Johnson Managing Editor ' | The young man dubbed the "East Winston Robber" ? has not struck in more than a month now and police are not quite sure vvhy. \ "We're kinda at a loss," says Winston-Salem Police Chief Lucius Powell of the abrupt tranquility following a p string of 29 armed Tiold-ups. ~ Powell adds that police investigating the crimes are at i : Whoever this person is realizes that people are armed. The people were ready and they9re still ready. We think he's afraid to come out because he knows people are watching. -- Virginia Newell once encouraged and bothered by the robber's disappearance. "We're disappointed that we haven't cleared the cases," Powell says, "and grateful that we haven't had any more (robberies)." Powetl says that the person responsible for the robberies could be one of two men ? or perhaps both ? taken into custody on other charges in March Or, he says, the robber could be someone else who happened to be arrested on an unrelated charge. Powell savs that a third r>n<i*ihl#? Hpfi?rr#?nt mav ped-up surveillance in East WinstonT" " ^ 44We put a lot of extra folks ovff'There7**~~Powell says. Those extra personnel, Powell says, were involved in decoy, stake-out and undercover operations as well as uniformed patrols. A final possibility, Powell says, is that the robber and Restoratio By Ruthell Howard The decision rests with Staff Writer church officials, who have heard two requests for use of the St. Benedict the East Winston residents Moor Catholic Church conmay soon have either a vent in East Winston, group home for emotional- Johnnie Johnson, neighly disturbed youth in their borhood manager for the community ? or new low- East Winston Restoration income apartments for the Association, met with the elderly and handicapped. church council Sunday to Carolyn Taylor James Johnson ? Eating Ana By Ruthell Howard Staff Writer Related editorial on Page 4. Beginning July 1, eating and drinking will be banned on city buses. The Winston-Salem Transit Authority voted unanimously to enact the policy di ring the Authority's <55 % I I Trek returns to the big screen this ^ ner, including among its cast -timer" NicheHe Nichols and . omer Paul Winfield. WW and Leisure. Page 12. ll ton-Sale "Serving the Winston-Salem Community S 067910 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. i Robberies: inally Ended?j -men believed to copy his crimes simply decided to-stop before they were caught. Powell notes that such a sudden end to a rash of crimes is not all that odd. "These sorts of things come and go," he says. East Ward Alderman Virginia Newell, whose constituents have been plngned in recent ypars hy primp, speculates that publicity, police pressure and especially . community pressure have discouraged the robber or -robbers ?? "Whoever this person is realizes that people are armed," Mrs. Newell says. "The people were ready and they're still ready. We think that he's afraid to come out? because he knows that people are watching." Northwest Ward Alderman Vivian Burke, chairman of the city's Public Safety Committee, agrees. "People in the neighborhood are more alert and more mindful of what is happening," Mrs. Burke says. Chief Powell warns residents, however, against becoming relaxed and overconfident. "We don't have anybody charged definitely," Powell says, "and we don't know if we have the right person on other charges." Powell says that, although police would continue "beef- ! ed up personnel and random surveillance" in East j Winston, residents still "need to use reasonable precau- 1 tions in any event." . v * Powell stresses particularly that victims of robbery attempts should not attempt to resist their assailant. Otherwise, he says, "your chance of being killed increases greatly." Mrs. Burke, however, believes that residents will remain aim rz =:rT*With the weather getting warm," she says, "people who don't have air conditioning may open their windows," she says, "but I don't think they'll get so lax that they'll forget the kinds of problems that they've had to deal with and the kinds of hurts that they've had to deal with." n A ssociation. Hpa discuss his group's proposal dangerous. t to convert the building into As a representative of the \ low-income housing. East Winston Restoration t The Forsyth/Stokes Coun- Association, Johnson ty Mental Health Center, presented the proposal to p on the other hand, had convert the convent into t earlier requested use of the apartments for low-income t convent as a group home elderly and the handicapped c for Willie M. youth, to the church council and t youngsters described as discussed concerns residents N potentially violent and in East Winston have over / ^HKjT Ak Photo Av S^nlan<* V Rasa la Wltherspoon Bracy Bonham Jr. a F \ Drinking To Be L monthly meeting last Tuesday night. < Authority General Manager James M. Ritchey said during the meeting that the buses were "filthy" and distributed copies of an April 8 Chronicle editorial citing < that problem and others reported in front-page articles in i the same Chronicle edition. Ritchey said outside inspectors who rode the buses last October complained that the buses were dirty and that, after monitoring buses himself, he agrees. Complaints made to the Board of Aldermen about the condition of the buses and the problems reported in the ? v ? i Jl^P^ ''-^y >M?1 e m Gtir~* ? : S/ ;/rtce 1974" t> Thursday, May 6, 1982 * IB HE Commencenr Keynote speaker Julian Bond will receivean hor University commencement exercises, schedule legislator, will be awarded the degree for his outs tion, Edward Horrigan, executive vice presider WSSU's Enhancement Campaign, will be award 300 students will receive their degrees at Memc ilth Center Vie 1 hp alfprnativp r?f hatino rho fait^ Un.uin,, A 1' ~~ 1 - - w wi imv i uiu i i 1 wu:>i i ig r\ 111 a i icc ll Villie M. group home in which assists neighb heir midst. hoods in efforts to impr< Johnson said he felt his housing conditions and p )roposal was very vides for lower-inco >eneficial to the area and to housing needs, he church because the Under Johnson's p hurch would co-sponsor posal, the convent and t he project with the East parish education buildii Vinston- Restoration would be converted into Association and the Inter- one-bedroom apartme Chronicle Camera Views Mixei r> By Ruthell Howard tionally disturbed 44Wi Staff Writer M." youth in t neighborhood. If the use a convent, owned by Members of the East Benedict's Catho Vinston Restoration Church, is leased to Association and some East Forsyth/Stokes Coui Vinston residents have Mental Health Center, 'oiccd strong opposition to building will be conver i oronosed eroun hnmr for to ? oronn hnm^ hmu >otentially violent, emo- nine such youth. tanned By Tram Chronicle prompted management to request the Trar Authority to establish the new rule, Ritchey said. "We called other places in North Carolina," Ritcl ^aid, "and found that only three other cities ? Durha Greensboro and Rocky Mount ? allowed eating on ^ buses. Other places said restricting eating arid drink helped keep the buses clean." Ritchey said the Authority plans on slowly phasing the rules by having informational material printed a distributed to passengers. Signs will also be posted inf ming riders that "effective July 1, no eating and drink 1 | Tribute To Mother ^As Mother's Day approaches, columnist Clifton Graves discusses what our mothers?the ones who bore us and the countless others who've been there when we needed them?really mean to us. Editorials. Page 4. \ oijicle "V J '25 cents 30 Pages This Week Kt wf * **? BtBoK 5?&*.:. r~ HHIBnK'v"' B*JBIi?s' ~ l&kiv. '^^V; K. xil^ ' ^|fit W9MT ' .. .^&V i'1-" ~" p fWW Bfg^apjp^y;,c . >x E?l ^v BHSjuiiia^B^^^^*. icnt Speaker torary Doctor of Laws degree at the Winston-Salem State ?d for May 16 at 3 p.m. Bond, a former Georgia state landing contributions to politics and civil rights. In addF it of R.J. Reynolds Industries Inc. and chairperson of ed the Doctor of Humane Letters degree. An estimated trial Coliseum. vor Convent \c., and the co-sponsoring part- w as noncommittal," or- ners would lease the proper- Johnson said. "I got no 3ve ty from the Diocese of idea of the church council's ro- Charlotte for at least 16 intentions as far as our prome years with the possibility of posal is concerned." purchasing the property. In fact, Johnson said, the rn- But Johnson isn't SO surf frmnril annPQroH in. wo how the concept was terested in the community's ngs received. concerns over the prospects 16 "I came out of the n^eeting of the Willie M. home in nts with a sense that the church See Page 2 ' i, I d On Group Home Hie The Chronicle recently build up the community he talked with residents who and attract more people. : of live near the convent, on the This would only drive peoSt. corner of 14th Street and pie away. I don't believe it lie Hattie Avenue, to get their would be safe because if sothe reactions to the prospect of meone wants to get out, nty having a W illie V1. home in they will. It will only make the their neighborhood. the area more dangerous. 1 j l^*d Carolyn Taylor: "I don't have three daughters and I ing feel they should open it in don't feel it will help them this area. We're trying to See Page 2 rit Authority % tsit will he permuted on buses." Starting in July, Ritchey said drivers will ask riders not ley to eat on buses and.by August, passengers who still refuse to comply will l>e put off or denied the privilege of :it>' riding that bus. ,n8 Some bus operators were very supportive of the idea, Ritchey said, while others were not, but "I think positive1,1 ly I know we can do this." Ritchev said the biggest problem with trash was on or" routes three and 17, the most heavily ridden routes. See Page 2 ^ , | / I - _ i
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