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JOHN SLADE
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Not only has Jesse Jackson's candidacy
rallied blacks to register to vote, but he has also
gotten a few Republicans - at least a few black
ones in the Triad ? to forego party politics to
support him.
"i think Jesse Jackson is a~very viable
presidential candidate,says Stewart Davis,
producer of "Just Friends" and "MEAC
Review," two local TV programs. Not only
does Davis wear a Jackson campaign button,
but he said he planned to change his party affiliation
to vote in the May 8 Democratic
primary.
"I've changed over to support Jesse
Jackson," he says. "This won't come around
for another four years."
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As he called on stores March 28, Atlanta
salesman James McDougald noticed the 44bad~"
looking ' clouds^v^^^r^and mbvtfl
swiftly overhead. But he didn't give them a second
thought.
Hours later at home, McDougald received a
call from an aunt in Maxton, N.C. As she tried
to describe the destruction of his childhood
home by a series of tornadoes, his thoughts
turned to his grandmother and eight relatives
living in the home.
44All sorts of bad thoughts went through my
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Center, takes advantage of the March x
flying. The center's 5-year-old class p
classes observed before the day was ov
Woodruff: Ther
to commissioner
By JOHN SLADE
Chronicle Assistant Editor
When County Commissioner Mazie Woodri
perhaps Forsyth County residents should listei
After all, she says, it is the Board of Count}
sioners that allots funds for health programs, t
and the Department of Social Services. "And
talk about health, education and welfare - w
there?" asks the 61-year-old mother of seven i
mother of 15.
Woodruff points out that the body she was
on two different occasions - first in 1976 an
1982 - is the local arm of the state goverr
therefore has a significant amount of power.
"Look at the county oommissioners and ec
she says during an interview in her home on Bai
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k OOP members havent let
le Jesse Jackson campaign.
JOP: Some
Dr. George Newell, a retired math professor?
agrees with Davis. And though he says he won't
actively campaign for Jackson, he's sitting in
Jackson's corner. "1 think it's (Jackson's campaign)
is a good effort," he says. "I'm going to
vote for him myself.
"I'm for him as a Republican," says Newell.
"This is one case where I will have to split my
ticket."
Though Newell says he is a basic believer in
Republican ideas, he also says he prefers to
look at individuals when it comes to voting.
"I'm a black person," he says, "and Jackson
gives a good image for the black boy and girl to
aspire to.
"I'm not one of those individuals who sold
out," he says. "One reason I changed from a
Democrat to a Republican is because I don't
believe blacks ought to be coerced like cattle to
a testing site fo
mind," recalled McDougald, an area sales
representative with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
"I remember bad thunderstorms there when I
? was giuwmg up, outJ.i always seemed that
'77/ never forget it as long as I live. I'm
77 years old and I'll never forget it. It
looked like fire in the sky. I hope I
never see another one as long as I live. "
South Carolina got it worse than we did.'*
But this time, Maxton and nearby Red Springs
weren't spared the death and destruction
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e's a whole lot mc
s than many may i
"We don't tell people how to run the i
allot the funds."
Education is just one of "quite a fe
iff speaks, under the wings of the county commi
ri. which is why the voters ought to be m<
/ Commis- what the commissioners are doing, an
he schools ticular township they happen to live ii
when you "We (commissioners) run countywi
hat else is countywide," says Woodruff. "When
ind grand- county, that includes Winston-Si
townships, such as Clemmons {
elected to throughout the county)."
d again in One such issue that should have bee
iment and county residents, especially blacks, say
board's decision to deed Forsyth Mem
lucation," holding company, which allows the h
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vote for one person,"
Lafayette Jones, another black Republican,
shares NewelPs sentiments.
"I don't ask anybody to be a Republican as 1
am," says Jones, a Forsyth County resident
who is himself a candidate for the state Senate.
"As far as I'm concerned, blacks should be a
part of every group - including the Ku Klux
KJamrif wrcould get in -- so we'll know what's
going on."^
Newell says he's sure the Republican Party
will enjoy one of its best years ever in 1984
because of division among the Democrats, but
that doesn't stop him from supporting Jackson.
"I'm all for Jesse Jackson," he says.
Like Newell and Davis, Jones says Jackson's
campaign is well worth the effort.
"It's a situation in which blacks will get out
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r A-bombs'
from the tornadoes that struck along a 260-mile
strip through North and South Carolina.
Images of destruction and the fac^s of his
loved ones flashed repeatedly through his head
*1isvrtlbDougsfld tffove fbrWhalfseemed like an
eternity between Atlanta and Maxton.
"I began to see traces of the devastation as I
neared Laurinburg and all the way to Maxton,"
said McDougald. "When I saw Maxton, it
looked like a testing site for A-bombs.
Everything was leveled; things ? washing
machines, water heaters, refrigerators, cars ?
were strewn all over the place."
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jj^H Jackson
I By ALLEN H. JOHNSON
Chronicle Executive Editor
Notes we've gathered Vhi
trail:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson wil
paign to Winston-Salem on >
7:30 p.m. rally at the Benton
"This is going to be the fc
history of Winston-Salem," s
coordinator of the Jackson fo
you want a seat, come early.'
Little said Monday night tl
draw such a large crowd th
possibility of setting up rem'
who may not be able to sq
firsthand.
No admission will be charg
ahhfMJgh cerotrrbtttiemfr for th<
~ Lrttle s^ui the.Jackson
when it comes to town, inch
the media, campaign aides ar
Little also said that Jacksor
iarly Childhood on North Carolina, particulai
fteraoon of kite Kenneth Spaulding hopes to b
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realize Shedding
schools, but we do Q: I live in East Winston
would like to know why tl
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ssioners, she says, This concerns me and my i
?re concerned with jobs and other activities wl
d not just the par- ing, and we need adequat
i. neighborhoods and the do
de and are elected of Winston-Salem forgot
you talk about the Winston, or do they care?
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n of concern to all your neighborhood, whic
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Wednesday, April 18, for a newspaper, has endo
Convention Center. Democrat Tom C
liggest political rally in the governor's race,
.aid Alderman Larry Little, The endorsements
rces in Forsyth County. "If
riat the event is expected to __ ..
at he has looked into the ElOCliOH
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ed for the rally, said Little,
s campaign solicited-. pnm,v^ in- Us- 17 -ye;
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uding accommodations for The endorsements
id Secret Service agents. conference at Gilm<
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ecome the state's first black Peacemaker's April '
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some light on An.
on Ansonia Street, and 1 city to put a light in
ie street lights on Ansonia request is made," s
the ones there are so dim. haphazardly becaus
neighbors because we have and others may not
hich occur in the late even- If a streetlight bo
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wntown area. Has the city for the city, provid
ten the taxpayers in East light will shine only
power company fr<
S.S. streetlight, said Har
"We'll be glad
to request streetlights for streetlights," he sail
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sion of the city's
Harris, an engineering 727-2418.
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Salem, Greensboro, Asheville and
1emuker, Greensboro's black weekly
rsed Jackson for the presidency and
lilmore in the North Carolina
are the first the paper has made for
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in a front-page editorial in the
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aid Harris. "We don't put them
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: company that puts in the lights
ies blackout patches so that the
on the street. It usually takes the
om 30 to 60 days to put in a
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to help anybody we can with
d.
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Works Department at
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