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Golfers From Page Al
for improving Winston Lake. One w*j submitted by
Jamison and rejected by the golfers because it did not include
plans for a grill. The second, Plan B, is supported
by the golfers because it includes building a grill. Plan C(
which Jones recommends, includes leaving enough space
for a grill, but not actually building a grill.
The clubhouse has a snack area where sandwiches or
drinks can be purchased, but the golfers complain that
the food is limited and the area is operated by the same
person who maintains the carts and grounds. They want a
separate eating area with a grill, where food would be
prepared by an additional employee.
"We want everything we can get in the clubhouse,"
said Jordan. "Even if we don't get the grill, we're going
along with that (whichever plan oassesV but
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to let the aldermen know that it would be wiser and
cheaper to build the grill now."
Amos Lewis, president of the Winston-Salem Golf
Club, said the club mailed a proposal in March for
renovations at Winston Lake to eight city officials that
includes repairing tables in the picnic area and fencing in
the lake.
1 Since the Finance Committee has allocated funds for
those repairs, Lewis said, the golfers' main concern is getting
the grill, which they say wouldn't result in more
space, but more sanitary cooking conditions. "Because
of the food handling there, I don't think it's sanitary,"
^ Lewis said. "If we had a grill, we could get a health
rating.
"The Recreation Department feels we don't have
enough money coming in to support the grill," Lewis
said. But he contended that the grill would create revenue
for the course. "It may be a little more expensive on the
city," Lewis said, "but Winston Lake has the potential to
be a profit-making course."
Radio Station
From Page A1
transmitter, the station experienced considerable "down
time" (time not actually broadcasting) and ad sales moved
slowly.
44We went into the deal without one penny to operate
the station. You can't operate a business on faith. A
church runs that way, but not a business," a church
member said recently.
According to Bea Swisher, WSMX's former traffic
director who now coordinates the radio station's daily activities,
local businesses have been reluctant to buy time
on the station for several reasons, including its contemporary
black gospel format, its history of losing money
under previous owners and its high advertising rates.
But a church official said the black gospel format was
an asset, not a liability, and that the station's rates were
* in line with the other black-oriented radio stations. 4*The
main problem was that we were not wdMmown in the
business^community," the official s?rid.
A history of losing money does not affect the present
owners, the official added. In the past three years, the
station has had three formats: country, white Southern
, gospel and the present black Southern gospel format.
Before theeountry format, the station was all-news.
So, while the church was busy spending money trying
to revive the radio station, in addition to financing other
ventures and keeping the church functioning, the second
six-month interest payment date approached. For the
first six months the station was on the air, the church provided
money to meet almost every payroll payment.
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money and changes had to be made in a hurry to avoid
losing everything.
The first visible change was the hiring of a consulting
team, Flessing, Pirtle and Associates of Roseville, Calif.,
to study the radio station's financial dealings. One of the
first measures the team recommended was the laying off
of four staff members, including General Manager
Rodney Sumler, who still remains as president of Gospel
Media Radio Inc., which owns the station.
According to Sumler, he and the three other employees
were laid off for financial reasons. "It was a financial
thing to keep the station operating and to save money....
Letting four people go would cut the monthly budget by
one-fourth/* Sumler said.
But, according to reliable sources, the consulting team
has full control of the station and is free to make changes
without consulting with Johnson, who has been described
as the "spiritual and business head at Macedonia/*
The consultants were actually hired by the bonding
company rather than the station's ownership to "analyze
and evaluate" the radio station, sources say. "The bon
ding company sent somebody to maintain the signal and
hold the station until the Bishop agrees to sell the
station/' a church member said.
Sources say that the recent signs of financial trouble
are not the first. In October, 1982, the station conducted
a telethon, where Bishop Johnson made a public appeal
for financial support. "After only four months of operation,
we were in financial difficulty,M a church member
said. i
"The consultants didn't phase out people; they phased
out jobs," said Swisher. "But the church still owns the j
station, like it always has. The Bishop is still at the top."
But Swisher admitted that the consulting company has
made changes without the Bishop's permission.
Dyer J. Powell, of Keenan and Clarey Inc., the bonding
company, said he cannot comment on whether the 1
church has defaulted on the interest payment. "I certainly
can't do or say anything if the Bishop has not had any
comments," he said in a recent phone interview. "I'm
not saying he has defaulted on the payment or 1
not."
Powell said he is not sure what action his company will
take if Macedonia defaults. "There is no standard procedure
to follow," he said. "It varies from state to ,
state."
But, according to sources close to the church, there are
a number of options the Church can take, including getting
the bond refinanced with another company. "But
it's hard to say what will happen until the end of the
month," a church official said. "That's when something
will have to be done."
J
Bond From Page AI
the building and six acres principal at Skyland infer
$96,000 and intends to termediate School and
construct housing for the Peyton T. Hairston, who
elderly on the property. has been appointed prin Voted
to name Dr. Earl cipal at Mineral Springs
Sanderfur assistant Junior High.
superintendent for person- Adopted a school-closing
nel, filling a job vacated by policy and voted to have a
Eugene Johnston, and to list of schools that will be
promote Dr. Howard Sosne closed by Oct. 31, one week
from assistant superinten- before the November bond
dent for elementary schools referendum.
(K-6) to assistant Accepted a preliminary
superintendent for ad- report outlining the results
ministration K-12. of the achievement tests
m A 1
-j-iwjiuvcu me appoint- given this spring in the local
ments and transfers of five schools. According to the
principals, including black results, students continued
principals Rose Ann Stowe, to make gains in all test
who has been appointed categories.
Shortage From Page AI
and 1.6 percent of and dentistry and began to
veterinarians. decline. A slight increase in
Louise W. Sullivan, enrollment has occurred in
M.D., president and dean recent years, the study
of the>lorehou8e School of found, but has not returned
Medicine in Atlanta and to peak-year levels.
president of the Associa- The study said there is
tion, said in a preface to the "substantial probability"
study that the ratio of that previous gains will be
blacks to whites in medicine "eroded during the
and other healing profes- eighties*' unless action is
sions historically has been taken to:
low. ^Increase minority stu
"This is the legacy of dent?financial?support
decades of segregation and through scholarships and
discrimination, which, until low-interest loans.
the late 1960s, resulted in ^Increase the commitunequal
educational oppor- ment of majority schools to
tunity, including a relative recruit and retain black
lack of access to health pro- students, even if the schools
fessions education for black reduce general enrollment.
Americans," Sullivan said.< Restore enrollment at
"As a nation, we need to
utilize the most talented in- Meharry School of
dividuals available for the Medicine at Nashville,
demanding health profes- Tenn., to at least 100
sions in an effort to im- students per class in
prove health status of our medicine as soon as possible
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v.ntviij suiwi iv mipiuvc uur ana expand mc iviorenouse
nation's system of health class size to reach its goal of
care; For blacks, who are 44 students per class. ,
aware, of the fact tiiat, com~% ^Bevatyp a gafficiemly^;
pared with whites, their strong research base at*'
lives are shorter, their preg- minority health professions
nant mothers and their in- schools to attract strong
fants die more frequently hnsir srirnre faculty, inand
they haVe a greater eluding more minority
burden of illness and faculty,
disability, the statement The study repeatedly cites
that the United States has the need for affordable
?
the best system of medical financial aid as a crucial
care in the world has a problem facing black health
hollow ring." professions students. It said
The study said some "recent changes in student
gains by blacks in the health financing (by the federal
professions had occurred in government) are increasing
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inc iy/u5, wncn oiacx siu- inc aircaay consiacraoic
dent enrollment in medicine economic barriers to black
and other health profes- health professions students
sions increased in propor- who tend to come from
tion to total enrollment, families with lower socioBut
the increase peaked in economic status than white
the mid-1970s in medicine students."
More Honors
From PageAI
siderable improvement.
"We've only scratched the surface of what this
newspaper can be,-' he saicL-"l honestly believe that
90 percent of our potential is yet to be realized."
Also at the Gary convention, Chronicle Publisher
Ernest H. Pitt was elected to the NNPA executive
board. The NNPA is the national organization of
black newspaper publishers and consists of more
than 200 member newspapers.
The Chronicle won first-place awards in "General
Excellence" and "Best News or Feature Series"
earlier this year in the North Carolina Press Association's
newspaper contest, becoming the first black
weekly in history to do so.
urime rrevention
From Page A2
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For further information, call Assistant Fire Marshall
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Do you realize that 100 volve the entire black cornyears
ago a black person munity with a committment I
would have been beaten for to serve one another in the I
so much as looking at a finest tradition of I
book? Do you realize that volunteerism.
just 50 years ago many This program has been
black children were still at- formed by people who
tending one room schools, haven't forgotten how hard
where all grades were blacks fought and how
taught by one teacher with much pain and suffering
only one or two books? Do blacks went through for the
you realize that only 25 right to be literate. They
years ago, blacks were realize the rewards of being
fighting for the right to literate and don't want to
receive an equal education see black ancestors' concern
to whites. Do you realize for the future go 4'down the
that our black children had drain.*'
stones thrown at them, were The Baptist Ministers
spat on and ridiculed Conference and Associates
because they dared to at- has endorsed the Assault on
tend an all-white school? Illiteracy Program. After
Do you realize that 44 finalizing the program in
percent of black youth in Forsyth County, members
the United States (accor- will be asking for spaces in
ding to a 1980 U.S. govern- Please see page AS
ment report) at the age of
18 are functional illiterates? C&Am
They could not read past 9(ll9l 1
the fourth grade level. Ac- I ^ ? _
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decade, by 1991, half of our_^P5_|_^^^Hr
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drugs and crime. I
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