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' t k : (!e Wins Vol. VIII No. 42 U S P S. No. .. v r-'^B 1^9k9 HP ^v^pWj 1 ;:^B ^pBSS j HP fl Hnbjfl K; 9k mTW.-m x^fll^B -WHH IL ;SH B.JB: | ^^Hr jH By i ^ r? j\i screening session Reaction By ^To Angelou By Ruthell Howard Staff Writer Monday night, a minister cheated on his wife, cheated on his mist?ess- and channeled church funds into his political campaign in "Sister, Sister," a TV drama whose broadcast was opposed by the moral-right Coalition for Better Television. "You don't just go out and air your failures and still expect the church to be in high standing in the community. I think the church can clean its own house without hanging out all its dirty linen for the non-church w<frid." ~ ? Donald Forrester President of Winston-Salem Bible College Local controversy over the film was triggered by a letter written to Channel 12 by Donald Forrester, president of Winston-Salem Bible College, charging that the film depicts "anti-Christian stereotypes** and the main At the station 5:30 Monday evening, three area * After Serving ? ? Hair By LaTanya A. Isley Staff Writer Patrick Hairston, president of the Winston-Salem ; itM Association for the Adfj-*] vancement of Colored Peo^v|39BJr pie (NAACP), will not seek re-election after six years at /iiwtt % Hairston wrote, in a letter ?elSft that was printed in the Patrick Halraton NAACP Freedom Fund w^l VI B^ Gwendolyn Ashley really gets excited when talkln John Driver Ashley, who was principal of 14th Stree black schools In the South (photo by Alan Guthrie) A Brief Res By Ruthell Howard with a handkerchief. Staff Writer Bess said he had just parked his car and gotten out. "As I got out, a man came "I don't hurt nobody, I around the car and put a just get the money," the gun on me and said,'This is robber said to James Clyde a stick-up.' " Bess. Bess replied, "Are you Bess was the fifth victim of kidding?" to which the man a sudden recurrence of rob- said, "No, I ain't kidding." beries in East N^^ston in After seeing the gun, Bess the past three weeks, by a said, "I knew he wasn't bandit who covers his face kidding." * ?' a ' - - -- - - t ton-Sale ?+ 11Serving the Winston-Salem Community Si< ACTOI A -r, ? wr/iv WII^OIUIX^ALtM, IN.C. - i \" Ministers Film Positive ministers viewed the film, which was written and co- S produced by noted author and Winston-Salem resident 1 Maya Angelou, and expressed mixed emotions about its p content. The Rev. J. Ray Butler, pastor "of Shiloh Baptist\j| Church, said the movie gave a realistic picture of the consequences of sin. "It showed that sin, which is cruelty, deviousness and dishonesty, leads to shame and degradation as an ultimate result," Butler said. However; Butler ~ said he objected to a minister playing the part. "No minister needs to get in a situation like that," he said. "The gospel is against that." Butler said the minister in the film "wasn't much of a preacher in terms of depth and personal convictions," and he felt this character may turn prospective converts JT ??f -J -*r ? away rrom me cnurcn. 44I would have loved to have seen the minister go to the church officials in the midst of the pressures and repent," c he said. s BUTLER SAID he is not negative toward the showing of the movie, and quoted a passage of scripture ? t "Watch as well as pray that ye enter not tlfto temptation" r But he said, 44I still would have like to have seen the man ( So Long You Get ston Announces That He'l Banquet program, that he support this organization p would not submit his name because this is the only P for renomination. thine we have " h< The letter read in part, Hairston refused to com- tc ?"Regretfully, 1 shall not let?ment on his decision to step?lc my name be submitted in down, , saying that the ra December 1982, for presi- "state office felt it would (a dent of the Winston-Salem hinder someone from get- < Branch NAACP." ting a membership." m Hairston also wrote that Community leaders said ^ "this does not mean that they are saddened by U the NAACP is going out of Hairston's decision but they business,...it simply means praised the work he has le that black people must get done for the organization. their priorities straight and The Rev. Warner Durnell, 44 Fair vie > South), for 27 years, and h, others remember him as a ci g about her late husband, compassionate but stern ta t School, one of the largest teacher, but to Mrs. Gwen- fr dolyn Ashley, his wife of 41 w pile: Armed Robbt The man made Bess lie After riding around 20 ir down and searched him for minutes, the man made al money. Then he made Bess Bess get out of the car and b get in the trunk of his own robbed him of a 995-dollar " car. "He closed the trunk diamond ring and a tr , down on me and pulled 695-dollar watch and made y off," Bess said. "When he him get back in the trunk. u pulled off, he rode two Bess said he pulled the tsgl h miles and stopped. Then he lights off the car to attract fi rode two more miles and police's attention and got tl stopped and in about 15 air by pushing a rod minutes he came back and I through the speakers in the p heard two doors slam." rear of the car. After park- t, r m ? - ... - _ J \ m Chr^i nee 1974" Thursday, June 10, 1982 IjJB Watch The Revs. G. G. Cat Durnell, of Del/abr lifl Angelou's "Sister, , vif Lnnnn hv the ihrnm ? \\ ana thematic implic ' ' Shiloh Baptist Chur ^ * ^fiSMpfv V"\?S^W^B flC ^jf jy Hftj'^K J[/^HmS^P ; onfessing his wrong, because people who have it in f< reachers will say, 4 Ah hah! 1 knew that is what th coundrel was like.' " Butler said he would like to see positive aspects of tl >lack church, such as its open door concept, portrayi nore in films.. ^ v-..'..--vV the* tBTTlltf 'CampSetr, pastor of ?hiloh Bapt Church and Ms. Angelou's minister, said the movie w Tired* I Step Down From NA astor of Dellabrook out against injustices." resbyterian Church, said "Pat Hairston is a : would hope for Hairston gressive and outspoken ai ) remain president of the doesn't put on fal teal branch because "his pretenses. FFe ipport has been an advan- wholeheartedly committi ige to the NAACP." to the struggle for justi Clifton Graves, affir- and equality," Graves sai lative action officer at Graves also said that 1 /inston-Salcm State believes Hairston will co niversity, said Hairston tinue to work with tl has demonstrated good NAACP and other cor adership for this par- munity organizations. _ cular time" and that he is "Knowing Pat as I do, committed to speaking Graves said, "the mere fa v May Be Renai :ars, "J.D." was a man friends." ho "worked hard, en- Benj^rd T. Foy, coc >yed living and enjoyed dinator for music educati< jople." for Winston-Salem/Forsy 'If I would give a sum- County School lary of him, I would say remembers being Ashley i was a born educator," student. "When I was tys Mrs. Ashley, who said school," Foy said, "1 le learned the most from (Ashley) was sort of i ?r husband. "As an only assistant principal witho lilcf, I was selfish, but he the benefits of that title wl lught me. I learned a lot also taught language arl om him as a person and He was very kind, virile e became very good his teaching and?did not ir iries Resume In ig and leaving Bess for and 140 pounds, and in h bout 45 minutes, the rob- early 20s. "He was nothii er returned and told Bess, but a jitterbug," Bess sai I'm going to raise this "because he had the mus unk up a little, and don't going. I wasn't worrii ou raise it up no further about nothing. I was in tl ntil 1 tell you." Bess said trunk trying to get air e waited 20 minutes and Bess said he thinks the ro inally decided to get out of her had used his car to r< He car. other people while he was Bess described his kidnap- the trunk, er to be about five-feet Sergeant F.E. Mason all, weighing between 125 the Winston-Salem Foli .. f . c \ otjicle '25 cents 30 Pages This Week * ling, Then Reacting npbell, of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and Warner ook Presbyterian Church, intently watch Maya Sister" at a screening staged last Monday aftercle and WXIl-TV, then discuss the film's moral ations. Not pictured is the Rev. J. Ray Butler of ch, who also attended (Photos by Santana). IH . y i ?' m&w: Pv ?'#:*. ar "well written" and that he sees "a lot of Maya in the at film." Campbell said he initially had problems with the he minister in the film giving in to his temptations, because ed he is a young minister himself and knows what it is to have a lvfe-long ministry ahead. But Campbell said he is . ist also concerned with the wave of conservatism in this 'as See Page 2 ACP Presidency } that he's stepping down will we need to do. He's been g- not hinder him from conti- very sincere, dedicated and nd nuing to work for the in- committed in what he's dose terest and uplifting of the ing," she said. ts?black?community?m?the?Burke said she would hate ed NAACP and other com- to see Hairston step down ce munity ventures." but "after serving so long d. Northeast Ward Alderman you get tired." he Vivian Burke praised Norma Smith, chairperson n- Hairston's work with the of the East Winston Crime he NAACP and the black Task Force, said she is n- community. "surprised" at Hairston's "He's done a very decision and that she hopes ," outstanding job trying tO-J-'thev can find someone to ct make people aware of what fill his shoes." med For Ashelv pose rules without having instrumental music pro>r good reasons for them." gram." i )n Foy said even after he had .Impressed with Ashley as th graduated, Ashley was con- ah educator and supporting s, cerned about his career and friend, Foy suggested to the '*s the direction of his life, and school board in 1979 that in lauds him as a "forward- Fairview Intermediate he thinking leader. The first School be renamed afrer in special education program him. The proposal is being ut for students with sight defi- considered and a decision to ciencies was located at 14th will be made June 21 or 28. s. Street School and he was "Fairview was the name of in the first principal within the the old school which was on n- school system to start an See Page 2 East Winston lis Department Crimes Against several in the same block or ng Persons Division said the centered around the same d, department feels two to area." >ic three people are responsible Mason said the robberies for the recent robberies and form no time or locational be it is not the man deemed the pattern, and while the size " East Winston Robber, who and age descriptions from b* allegedly was responsible victims are similar, the ^b for a rash of robberies in clothing descriptions have in that area that began in early not been the same. Mason March. "We haven't had a said the weapons and types in rash like we had before," of robbery for different vicce Mason said, "where we had See Pa%e 2 J**-' f . ? ??
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