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! " PAC-Man At Are today's college and pampered? Soi football coaches thi: Sports. Page 14. c? @v . I VOL. IX No. 4 Fight G< Aoaiticf 1 i^uuiai. j By Donald Alderman * Special To The Chronicle AFTON ? The horse's gallop and the woman's scream depicted the urgency of the moment. "Pick it up! Pick it up!" she yelled as the horse galloped toward the 200 or so protesters that formed a ? one-half mile line. - - "They're moving the trucks! They're moving the tnickst" she warned, giving the horse an urgent pat to speed it along the line of chanting, placard-carrying demonstrators. Heeding the call, the protesters picked up the rhythmic chant of "We Shall Overcome," as well as the march pace, moving ever so quickly toward the toxic waste landfill where, in O m of tor nf minntac rtofn iii ?* iiiuuvi v/i iiimuiwai <]iaiv trucks would begin hauling the first load of soil laced with a cancer-causing chemical.. ^ ^ Thus was the scene in this small farming town tucked in.the state's northeastern corner, where the '^^K:>jja^i'^|^Bw^^g Photo By Santana Beverly Melton No Foul Pma>/>I a 1/ rrwi By Ruthell Howard Staff Writer A local police officer did not violate Winston-Salem Police Department procedure in fatally shooting a would-be robber recently, Police Chief Lucius Powell said earlier this week. The incident, which ocI?Next X Next issue, the Cht ttnucs its series on U with an interview veteran of the boarc Wilson. Plus Editorials: Colw Brown concludes h tion of the controve I ding the Harvard la\ its choice of facult: ' r ?i \ K thletes The athletes too soft Bob Tie black college Repub nk so. Aldern four-pj Second I Vinst U.S.P.S. No 06 >esOn Landfill showdown between the state and the Warren County Concerned Citizens took place last week. ? The citizens group, after fighting a losing battle _ - ? mrougn tne courts tor four years, came to carry out their vowed last-ditch effort of flinging themselves in front of trucks carrying - Polychlorinated Biphenvls^ or PCBs. The toxic substance was - sprayed illegally in 1978 along 210 miles of state roads in 14 counties. The state, with the aid of the Environmental Protection "Agency, recently decided to scrape the PCBcontaminated soil from the^ roadsides and store it in a Warren County landfill. But the state was more prepared to begin dumping the first of about 60,000 tons of PCB-laden earth than the protesters were in stopping it. Wfren the demoj^trators reached the dpmp site en?Ua>>< . A ? ? -J ? ?- ? J.1CU1VC, auuui iwu ctiiu unchalf miles from the main ? See Page 2 L ? r< p BUI Sanders b Play I Says Officer curred in Parkview Shopp- vs ing Center, was the first n time in five years that a V shooting involving an off- si duty Winston-Salem police t< officer resulted in the death of a would-be criminal. w Detective K. H. Blevins h i :i_ T~\' c ui inc juvcnnc l/ivimuii i fatally shot Gilbert Wayne v Timmons while Timmons e Veek 'onicle con- course on ci he aldermen In addition, with the include i, Ernestine Mechanics c Mel White < editorial an Chairman J< an article cc wnist Tony cies in voter iis examinarsy surroun- Call Us: G v school and us at 722 v to teach a through Frit ?'I Lone Republican The 7ront. flaT ^fe* Front Pag [on-Salem C "Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974" *. . >7910 WINSTON-SALEM. N.C. Thursday, S ^ IKl %l m ji^BS Hmk^ ; .; Hk^ jti I A Fashion Demonstration * Anita Stanback, one of Paris II Productions Ebony & Ivory models,/ shows off the flair and style that characterizes the aroupt fihony ft Ivory, directed by Ms Bettina dlenn, had Its premier performance lin ? ?' ? ? ine normanaie Lounge of the Sheraton Inn on Sept. 12 (photo by Santana). Chronicle Camera? ??? ??? Crime Continues Reig By Edward Hill Jr. to reign nationwide, so Staff Writer Winston. The Chronicle recently The crime problem in Winston-Salem's black com- the the crime problem affe lunity has worsened to the point that a number of and their suggestions for p esidents prefer to lock themselves in their homes at night Lillie Walters, resident t ather than risk becoming victims of crimes often so dangerous that 1 don't | erpetrated by their own neighbors. to break in my house rece The community has attempted to fight back with such away. People are out ositive efforts as the East Winston Crime Task Force, desperate. I think you cou ?ut as unemployment and a suffering economy continue there was more police pati * Acted Correctly In Shooting 'as attempting to rob the citizens near the incident "You can't deny the fac lanager of the Parkview and was shot by Blevins that if he (Gilbert Tim Vinn-Dixie Store of the while trying to escape. mons) hadn't been there i tore's receipts, according Eugene Timmons Jr., wouldn't have happened,' d police reports. Timmons' brother who Fimmons said at hi Those reports say Blevins lives in Miami and was in father's house on East 23r< /as shot in the hand when town for the funeral, said Street. "I think he (the of e pushed Timmons' gun last week the family does ficer) was within his right rom his face. Timmons, not want revenge, but that to try to apprehend Gilbert /ho dropped his gun and fl- he questions the officer's Now, the way he used th d, was apprehended by use of his gun. gun is questionable to me.' vil rights law. ~I State Agency Ex Chronicle Letters. reactions from md Farmers Bank's By Ruthell Howard Miller Allen, a Whitflel ^ Staff Writer Acres resident whose hom to a Ciifton Graves . js near the stream whcn h d Elections Board \ ^amnlc taWpn from a comnlained that the water i lmes Armentrout to stream in East Winston is periodically sudsy and ihz >ncerning discrepan- being examined for the minnows who lived i registration figures. chemical pollutants by the the stream died. Division of Environmental Allen had earlier submi ^ o 11 Protection of the North ted samples to the Wati ot a news idea? Call ^ n, * ^ . c re Carolina Department of Quality Section of Ei "8624 Wednesdays Natural Resources. vironmental - Prot^ctic lays. Interest was sparked in Agency (EPA), but Jam -J Fork Branch Creek by Watson, an EPA represe ,, ? r ' . ; " =? - ' * 1 ( Shooting n-Salem Police Chief Lu< says a policeman who recei nd killed a fleeing robt acted properly. ie. j eptember 23, 1982 Garden Cou Tenant Still N By Ruthell Howard Staff Writer While maintenance service has improved somewhat at Garden Court apartmtnTs~~ tn Eas+ Winston, according to residents, one tenant says service still isn't up to par. ""Sandra Conrad, a 10-year resident at the apartments, said the Wilson-Covington Construction Co. has made some repairs in her apartment after an investigation nf tVia vi uib vujiuuiuu ui uic complex by Housing and Urban ?Development?(HUD)??f*ficials from Atlanta. But Conrad says the improvements are not enough * and the complex still isn't getting adequate service. The apartments are inanimate witnesses for Jerr^ Smith, a former WilsonCovington maintenance employee. Smith filed a countersuit n Of Feat docs the criminal in East asked citizens downtown how cts their lifestyles, why it exists >ossible solutions. >/Glenn Avenue: "It's getting go out at night. Someone tried ntly, but the dog scared them of jobs and they beccome Id cut some of the crime out if rol." ^ g? rJ \^H ^WP%>-* ~vB m^S^m - * HL.s -Tifc. ->j^H BJ s Lucius Powell d Timmons said his s brother's death was painful to him and especially to his e father, who preferred not to " discuss the incident. amining ^ d tative, said the agency's e staff is too limited to pere form investigations, is After inquiries by the iU Chronicle, Henry Hix of n the city's Utilites and Maintenance Division said t- a representative iner vestigated the stream and n- determined that a broken >n sewage line is not the proes blem. n- If the stream is being conV - ? Protesting Landfill .. :ius A look at the struggle by residents in ntly predominantly black Warren County >ery to block the dumping of toxic waste near their communities. Front Page. pjge 4. tificle TZ - - ' ; ' ' J ' ; '25 cents 24 Pages This Week rf t: Apartments ot Up To Par in June against the com- Covington hadn't kept the pany after Wilson- apartments up and that Covington sued him for tenants were treated unfairalleging at a January ly. Human Relations Commis- In her affidavit, Conrad sion meeting that it complained about problems discriminates?against?with roaches, mice and the "Like I told HUD, it took them (WilsonCovington) 10 years to fix a hole in the wall behind my washing machine. It was there when I moved in July 6, 1982, and they never came -out to fix it until we started signing affidavits. " ~ Sandra Conrad Garden Court resident ?? -tenants in picduminanily poor condition of the apart black complexes. ments. Garden Court, one of "We weren't getting adethose complexes, was quate service for the price described by Smith as not we pay," Conrad said, sitreceiving adequate service. ting in her apartment on Conrad is one of several Highland Avenue Sunday residents who signed af- evening. fldavits that were presented "They're not bringing it to HUD representatives (the complex) up to date. during the investigation, Like I told HUD, it took charging that Wilson- Seepage 2 ~ -J 1 i 'In Winston Beverly Melton, student at Forsyth Tech: "Things are really getting bad. Somebody tried to break in our house twice, while we were in there. It make<> me sick to know that there are people who can do things and continually get away with them. The only thing I can say is that people should get themselves a gun." Cheryl Ross, student at Forsyth Tech: "I am very concerned about the amount of burglaries around here. My house has been broken into twice. We saw the person who broke in the next day and he was walking around as See Page 2 Vivian Burke Gilbert Tlmmons "Everybody is hurt because mains that he was trying to the guy was so young and rob somebody." because we were trying to But Timmons criticizes get him on the right track," Blevins for firing five shots he said. 44But the fact re- See Page 2 Water taminated, it is not a city supervisor for that agency, matter, one city represen- said earlier this week tative said. So the matter representatives from his ofhas been turned over to the fice took samples of the Division of Environmental water recently. "We have Protection of the North been out there and are con/Carolina Department of "nuing our investigation/' v,_. , D . . , he said. "1 can't sa\ Natural Resources, which , . , f. . anything definite. investigates possible en- Radford said the division vironmental hazards in the waiting for test results, state. which should be completed Russcli Radford, regional in two to three weeks. \ *
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