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Pawn Magazine Check out holiday recipes, record reviews, Miss Modesty and more in this month’s iss\ie of Pawn Magazine. Inside, Supplement. Doll Fever JKL Sports This Week If trying to find one of those popular, puffy-faced dolls for your child is giving you a I headache, then drop in to see San dra Potter — she makes them. Close-up. Page A6. 'll 9^ The Rams get another win, Purzyeki grabs MEAC Coach of the Year honors and George fires Billy - again. Sports Editor Robert Eller reports. Sportsweek. Page B2. Salem Chr^onicle “Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974” VOL. X NO. 17 ;PEi WINSTON-SALEM. N.C. Thursday, December 22, 1983 35 cents 34 Pages This Week Shell Lead County's Democrats Parmon Elected Party Chairman By JOHN SLADE Assistant Editor Earline Parmon made history Monday night when she became the first black chairman of the Forsyth County Democratic Executive Committee. The position became vacant last month with “Earline's' genius is 90 percent hard work and loyalty.... Basical ly, people wanted to see her get it (chairmanship) because she's earn ed it." - Shedrick Adams the sudden death of party chairman Joseph Parrish Jr. y Robert Joyce, a party worker, nominated Parmon for the post at the (Special meeting, calling her a represen tative of blacks, whites, rich and poor. “Earline has always supported our (Democratic) ticket after the elections,” said Joyce. “She has always taken a stand for our side even when it wasn’t the most popular thing to do.” Joyce also praised Parmon’s support of the school system and Forsyth Technical Institute bonds in the Nov. 8 city-county bond referendum. Aldermen Virginia Newell and Vivian Burke seconded Parmon’s nomination, saying she had worked her way up through the party ranks and deserved to be chairman. “Not only has (Parmon) worked from the ground up,” said Newell, “she has helped send Democrats from the state House to the White House.” Said Burke: “(Parmon) is an outstan ding grassroots woman. She never gets tired and she loves the Democratic Party. I admire this woman because she is touch ed by God and walks with Him. I truly Please see page A3 Go Tell It On The Mountain... Ronnie Corley, a student at Kimberly Park Daycare Center, helped spice up the Christmas party for the senior citizens at Kimberly Park Terrace with a rendition of “Go Tell It On The Mountain” (photo by James Parker). Local Muslims Reluctant To Ride Jesse’s Wagon By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS Staff Writer Earlier this month, Louis Farrakhan, national spokesman and leader of the Na tion of Islam, announced that the organization would launch its support for presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. Though Winston-Salem’s Islamic com munity is not opposing the support, its members are not endorsing Jackson. Supporting Jackson will not bring about a change in the economic parity of black Americans, says Spurgeon Griggs, director of the Institute for Islamic In volvement, the only Islamic-related mos que in Winston-Salem. “We do support Jackson,” says Griggs, “but there are fundamental changes that need to be made and we don’t believe these changes will be brought about by another president, even if it is Jackson.” Griggs also contends that getting black Americans registered to vote is not the answer to their economic problems and that electing Jackson would not mean a better way of life for blacks. “Farrakhan represents a minority of the Islamic organizations in this country at this point,” says Griggs, “but our organization has not officially taken a position one way or the other.” The small minority, says Griggs, is the Nation of Islam, an organization once considered to be one of the most populous and influential black organizations in the country during the reign of the now deceased leader and founder, Elijah Muhammad. When Muhammad died, his son Wallace Muhammad took over and Far rakhan, 50, became the national spokesman. When Muhammad’s son began changing the philosophies of the organization to make them more or thodox and changed the organization’s name to the American Muslim Mission, Farrakhan left to form his own Nation of Islam. Because of his “tremendous visibility and his tremendous oratory,” says Griggs, he (Farrakhan) is often mistaken as the leader of the now-defunct Nation of Islam of Elijah Muhammad. Please see page A3 Year Of The Doll Sales Of Black ‘Little People ’ On The Increase By ROBIN ADAMS Staff Writer Increased sales: Six year old Akisha Sims holds on to one of the season’s popular items (photo by James Parker). Just as last year was the year of the elec tronic game, this year can safely be called the “Year of the Doll.” Nationally, shoppers are storming malls in search of plump, pudgy little one- of-a-kind creatures called Cabbage Patch dolls and, according to local toy mer chants, dolls of all kinds are selling better than ever. Black dolls are in demand, too. “Black dolls are selling better than they have in the past,” said Julia Childs, assis tant manager at K&K Toys in Hanes Mall. “People are asking for black dolls.” Unlike black dolls of the past, today’s black doll is more than a white doll with brown skin. “The companies have been making black dolls that look as good as their while counterparts,” Childs said. Although it is difficult to pinpoint just when the black doll first hit the American toy market, the demand for them grew from pressure from black parents that black children needed to have toys they could identify with. Unfortunately, the first dolls did little to represent the looks of black people and looked somewhat scary. At least one toymaker recognized that shortcoming and set out to do something about it. When Remco Industries first introduced its line of black dolls in 1968, a spokesman for the firm said in the Satur day Review, “We have a number of dolls here that we’ve come out with that are Negroid dolls. These dolls have been on the market in a sense in the past five years. However, they were normally made out of regular Caucasian dolls. We used to take our dolls and simply mold them in a dark color and call them Negro dolls.” In order to improve the looks of the black doll, Remco hired a special designer to incorporate “Negro features into our dolls.” Since that time, black dolls have taken on a new look and are becoming more popular with today’s children. Today, most dolls come in both black and white versions and some Oriental, In dian and Spanish as well. Coleco In dustries’ Cabbage Patch dolls, this year’s craze, come in both black and while, as does Baby Skates, also a big seller. And an old-time favorite, the Barbie doll, has Please see page A3 Charlotte NAACP Gets Boycott OK Sy ROBIN ADAMS Naff Writer The Charlotte NAACP was granted permission earlier this week from the organization’s national office to boycott Charlotte’s Food Lion Inc. grocery stores. Local NAACP president Pal Hairston said on Wednes day that similar permission for Winston-Salem’s NAACP may be forthcoming. “We are waiting the word from the national office as to when we have permission to start the boycott (of local Food Lion stores). I expect it may come today,” Hairston said. Hairston announced last week that NAACP chapters Please see page A10 Elisha Oliver treated the senior citizens at Kimberly Park Terrace Community Center during their Christmas party with an old favorite, “OF McDonald Had A Farm” (photo by James Parker). Sheppard Elected As Board Chairman By ROBIN ADAMS Staff Writer The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Educa tion broke a two-week-old deadlock Monday night by electing Dr. William Sheppard as its new chairman and Garlene Grogan as vice chairman. Sheppard was elected on a 6-1 vote, with Mary Margaret Lohr abstaining. Marvin Calloway, who served as last year’s chairman and was nominaied on Dec. 5 I'or a second term, was absent from the meeting. Superinten dent Zane Eargle said that Calloway was sick with the llu and wished to withdraw his name from consideration. In making his acceptance speech before taking the Please see page A3
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