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Earline Parmon announced last Thursday
that she will seek to become chairman
of the Forsyth County Democratic Party
Executive Committee, a position left vacant
two weeks ago with the unexpected
death of Joseph Parrish Jr.
If Parmon, who is now the party's acting
chairman, is successful, she will be
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
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Dr. Zane Eargle, superintendent c
city-county schools, has spent most
first year here working on the reorg
tional plan, but Eargle says that he has
very definite ideas about running a <
system. But for now, he says he is c<
with just observing.
"My style of leadership is different,
Eargle. "Mine just takes longer t
complish. I believe in being able to
with people. My job is to set the tone
how the school system will operate
changes are long-term kinds of things
Some of the changes that Eargle 1
like to see implemented are a str
science program in the elementary s<
(which was strengthened in the schoo
year through a grant from the Wi
Foundation and R.J. Reynolds Indus
an improved way of identifying gifte
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the first black to be elected tn tho nmi
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"After analyzing from a personal
perspective and talking to other people in i
the Democratic Party leadership, black
and white, I decided to go ahead (and seek ]
the chairmanship)," Parmon said. "I 1
don't believe I will be having any pro- 1
blems getting the position and I don't 1
know right now of anyone else who is in- '
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talented children and additional me
meeting their needs, a way to rewar
tional teachers and a system desi
jf the meet the needs of slow learners,
of his But for now, Eargle says he is bu<
aniza- ing to implement the reorganization
; some "What we are doing is a total reorga
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work tion's plan which calls for indc
; as to districting, meaning that children w
My to school together in the elementary
may not necessarily finish at the sa
would schools. The plan has to be implem<
onger the 1984-85 school year.
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Is this preferred more time to develop the
inston the 10-12 months since 1 have been I
tries), have worked on the plan. But the
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By ROBIN ADAMS (
Stuff Writer i
Local Baptist ministers say they are confused
ibout who Dr. T. J. Jemison, president of the <
National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc., <
represented last week when he endorsed the i
presidential candidacy of the Rev. Jesse
Jackson. <
The Rev. Jerry Drayton, pastor of New <
Bethel Baptist Church, said he wasn't sure if
Jemison was speaking for himself or if he was ,
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U.S.^., which is said to be the largest black (
church organization in the country with over six
million members.
But in a telephone interview Monday,
Jemison said he was speaking for himself and "
not for the National Baptist Convention I
U.S.A. "1 made a personal endorsement for i
Jackson and if it was reported any other way, it i
was in error."
Said Drayton: "If Jemison was speaking for <
US without first getting our opinions^g^j^
guaranteed effectiveness.**
Drayton, who also serves as the chairman of
the Political Action Committee of the General i
Baptist State Convention, said the state conven- i
tion will decide early next year who it will en- j
School Board (
By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
As of Monday night, the Winston- s
Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education has ]
no chairman and cannot conduct any business, i
A 4-4 split over who would be the next chair- i
man prohibited the board from continuing jts ]
regular agenda and resulted in a 20-minute
meeting. i
The first item on the agenda, which turned 1
out to be the last item, was the electionof a new <
chairman and a vice chairman. At the last 1
meeting in November, board member John 1
Wood was voted as the board's acting chair- t
man. .
Board members Dr. Wiiliam Sheppard and i
Marvin Calloway, last year's chairman, were t
both nominated for the position. Sheppard, <
who was in the hospital and participated in the I
meeting through a telephone amplifier, received i
votes from John Holleman, Beaufort Bailey c
and Wood. And Calloway got votes from
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thods of done. I would have hoped we wouli
d excep- two years to work on the plan and
gned to ment it by the fall of 1985."
Despite the rush, he has no doubts t
>y work- plan will be in action by the next schoc
lal plan. "We will get the job done/' he says. 4
nization tional time would have given more en
ng K-5 to community involvement. The comi
x>ls and is just now coming and responding
reorganization plan) when initially th<
>f view, not much response. I wish they hac
F Educa- earlier and not at the time when we ar
ipendent ing the final decisions."
ho start Although the black community h
schools showed up at school board meeti
me high record numbers to give its opinion
snted by reorganizational plan, many black
and the NAACP find faults with it. T
Id have jor problem, they say, is that the plar
plan. In all the elementary schools in predom
here, we black communities. The plan also c<
pressure pockets of predominantly
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Jorse for president and that the decision may or
rnay not agree with the endorsement Jemison
made.
"We met last week trying to reach a decision
3n a candidate for governor (of North
Carolina),0 Drayton said. "As of yet, we have
lot considered the national elections."
Drayton said the decision made by Jemison
Joes not reflect the opinions of all 50 state contentions.
"Unless the president (Jemison) has touched
"His (the Rev. Jesse Jackson's) chances
if winning are so slim that a vote for
him would be wasted."
-- Dr. Warnie C. Hay
oases with the presidents of the state conventions,
and unless they all share the same opinion,
the endorsement is not valid,*' Drayton
said. "And I don't think he (Jemison) met with
or conferred with all the state presidents before
^tS^mwribers of the National B^^sMCbn^
vention U.S.A. and did not intend for his endorsement
to have any effect on any endorsements
other members might make. "They
are men who can think for themselves,"
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board members Mary Margaret Lohr, Margaret
Pleihmons and Garlene Grogan.
One board member who voted for Sheppard
said that if Sheppard had not becq allowed to
participate in the meeting, a boycott of the
meeting had been planned to prevent the
necessary quorum for any business to take
place.
After the board's first split, Bailey made a
notion that Wood be elected chairman until the
3oard could break the 4-4 tie. But Plemmons
objected, noting that the board bylaws prolibited
such. Holleman then noted that the
board's bylaws contains two ways of handling
he tie.
According to the bylaws, 44An acting chairnan,
selected by the board from its members at
he last meeting in November (who may be the
:hairman of the board during that term) shall
jreside at the first meeting until the new chairnan
is elected/' meaning Wood would remain
:hairman.
But the bylaws also say that 44the chairman
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Jemison said.
In January, the state Baptist convention's
Political Action Committee will meet to endorse
candidates for the state races and may
consider a presidential endorsement, said
Drayton. 4'We will meet and come up with an
endorsement supported by the entire convention,"
he said.
Because a Democratic candidate must get 20
percent of the votes cast in the primary before
he can get any delegates from the state,
Drayton said an endorsement for Jackson
would be futile.
"I question whether Jackson can get 20 percent
of the votes cast statewide,'* Drayton said.
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wnen we are considering our endorsement,
reality.'1
Drayton said his choice for the endorsement
is Walter Mondale. "But I am chairman of the
committee," he said, "and 1 have to go along
with the committee, but I still have my personal
opinion."
Dr. Warnie C. Hay, pastor of Galilee Baptist
Churchv agrees wi*h-Drayton. "The stale has
not made any endorsement yet," he said, "but
there are wide feelings that they don't think it
(endorsing Jackson) is for the best interest of
black folk because of his chances of winning.
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shall be elected by the majority vote of the
board to serve for a term of one year or until a
successor is elected," meaning that Wood's
term expires after the first meeting and that
Calloway would continue in the position until a
new chairman is elected.
In an attempt to explain the bylaws, school
attorney Douglas Punger, who serves as the
board's parliamentarian, said, 4The Board of
Education is the final arbitrator of what its
bylaws are.*'
Because the bylaws do not specify what
should be done, Punger said a simple majority
vote of the board could determine which step to
take. But again the board could not obtain a
majority on whether to let Wood serve as acting
chairman and, instead, came up with the same
4-4 split.
The only thing the board could decide on
Monday night was to adjourn, and conducted
no other business despite the fact that a regular
board agenda had been prepared and that a
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