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i T" ' > Stocking Up Whether it's growing her own vege cultivating friendships, 88-year-old Gaither hasn't let age slow her dou i P*opJ?, A7. Wu VOL. X N0T-&2-" U.KK5 II I .."V ;..,?y , r.'rr.TTT^iw..' *, ??? Church split on pastor's DWI woes By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Some members of Second New Bethel Baptist Church want to forgive and forget that their pastor has been charged twice with drunken driving. Others want his resignation. But the Rev. Emery L. Clark, who resigned a month ago but was reinstated by a majority vote of the church's congregation, said he has been forgiven and plans to stay at the church. "He's got a problem," said _ Johnnie Johnson, one of the church's members who wants Clark to leave. Ana 1 think he should sit down and let the Lord deal with him." According to one church member who asked to remain anonymous, Clark is "unfit to lead a congregation of people. "He made OT aifhounccment in church that he is an alcoholic and that he has been charged twice with drunk driving," she said. "We have been trying to get rid of him but the people voted him back in. The majority (those who voted to reinstate him) were his kind." At a recent church meeting, the congregation voted 53-14 to reinstate Clark. The church has Please see page A3 L Stories linking of homosexua By ALBERT NICKERSON Chronicle Staff Writer The last six months have been a r Mrs. Esther Jefferson. On Feb. 9, her 26-year-old son, Terrence Maurice, the director of Jefferson and r nmnanu MnHpIc Inr u/ac found shot to death on Butter- ^ field Drive near his home. He 1? way twiflnit jfw bottom hM of a jogging suit and lying on the top half of the suit with his shoes on the wrong feet. He carried no wallet or identification. Jefferson he'd been shot once in the head with a shotgun, police said. Tern The family still has not recovered from the shock of his deat said in a recent interview. "We lov said. "I looked forward to seeing hii in f Ko iftarnnnn <anH we* u/milH cit A ill lliw at IWI IIV/vii) aiiu " v n vuiw 011 vi about the day. Now he's gone." Black lead By GREG BROWN Chronicle Staff Writer The city's black aldermen prais* a generally strong, decisive leade unexpected resignation. The 48-year-old Powell told th night his resignation would be eff considered leaving for several n reports indicate Powell plans to est the board his career plans are ind< c ?MONEY tables or Gladys ^eM # nston WCTrr",.""""' i"~ m i i '. i ^ I j Hk?4-.41 . V ~v ^VJBL f^J^^Bu. ?Tm*^ ^K& 11 *af IkW J ' 'V ( * '' ' V MT; ^1 Detroit Bound Stephanie Barber will represent l< 170 and Sethos Court No. 105 and North Carolina in the national Impe week in Detroit, Mich. Barber, a loc< local Shriners winner in the Winti January. The winner of the natioi $25,000 (photo by James Parker). g son's murder i T nn is anger Jeners A March article in linked Jefferson's m lightmare for homosexuals. In the quoted as saying, preference could hav Wk, situation. People wi preferences often have in clandestine situatio fe Also, Sgt. F.E. Mas were a homosexual, I jgag^ jgfiSr gBS The arfcele fur the Rj^V^autHonties had in fori WU* uals that the two Fleming and Robert W ties with the homo sex j Fleming was found Boulevard on March when a blunt instru throat, the medical e> Bnce Jefferson ' Moyers was found , , . . Jan. 20 in his apartm h, his mother ? .. . . ? ' . ,, . Police have arrested J ed him, she .. ;u-. ~ connection with the s n come home Mf ... . . I was disturbed lown and talk Please s r ers give fu ri Police Chief Lucius Powell as th< r this week following Powell's to e Board of Aldermen Monday po ective Sept. 28, but that he had lo> lonths. Although unconfirmed tablish a consulting firm, he told Bu efinite. ,4I do not have a certain ov ' SAVING C *9! to Salt The Twin City's Awa 1 r 1 if H / ip J. J . mm *. , Bk wKKK B Deal Sethos Temple No. the Shriners throughout rial Council Pageant this al actress-singer, was the er Desert Conference in nal pageant will receive to slayings on's family the Winston-Salem Journal urder to the death of two article, Lt. Jerry Raker was Their (the victims') sexual e put them in a dangerous th other than heterosexual : to carry out their preferences ns. on was quoted as saying,"If I would be alarmed." tv qwgfi-fQkfe. as saying tiatfdhTrom otHex homosex^ ter murder victims ? LeRoy loyers ? and Jefferson all had ual community. I dead in woods near Bowen 14. He died of suffocation iment was held against his Laminer said. dead with his throat slit on lent on Silas Creek Parkway, oseph Charles Johnson, 19, in laying. and upset," Mrs. Jefferson > AA A AAA A i i iDO ^/ayc ry i i grting Chi turc in that regard yet," he sa Nor was any reason given for jast Ward Alderman Vivian Bu resign without having a probli Powell faced plenty of problen lice post four years ago. The v morale, lack of enthusiasm a "In a job like that, you are alw irke, chairman of the board's ersees police department open I COUPONS INSIPEM A Jungle Out There I Her collegiate foes might smile and offer a kind word off the court, says Georgia Tech's Kim Lash, but once the matches begin, it's war. Sports, SI. Chrc rd- Winning Weekly Among state-supported Lone majoi trustee boa By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Of North Carolina's five predominantly black, state-supported schools, only Winston-Salem State University does not have a majority-black board of trustees. Five of WSSU's 13 trustees are black, one of them the student government president. . "It's hard to believe that we only hav? five black members," said C.C. Ross, a former member and chairman of WSSU's trustees. Seven of the required 13 board members at North Carolina A&T State Uqiversity, Elizabeth City State University and Fayetteville. State University are black. Eight of th^ 13 at North Carolina Central University are black. Meanwhile, among the predominantly-white schools in the UNC system, none have more than three black board members. UNC-Charlotte (one Food Lion mekets1 jtey ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Point-counterpoint columns on the boycott appear on Page A4. The Winston-Salem NAACP will join its sister chapters in Durham, Charlotte, Gastonia, Burlington and eight other North Carolina areas in picketing Food Lion Inc. grocery stores Aug. 23-26. Dr. Benjamin Hooks, the NAACP's national ex .. ?J .1.? r? .l - r_.ii 1_ bvuiivw unuiui, auiiuuiiwcu puma iur mc iun*scaic , nil ?l?u f^k' A Worthy Groom Mr. and Mrs. James Worthy were ushered awa the invitation-only wedding here in Winston-Sa A8 and A10 (photo by James Parker) 'efPowell generc id. /T 44It appears Powell's departure. But as Nor- though she noi rke observed, <4A man has a right crime and dru v 1 This city b is when he assumed the city's top ^at wc arc ha department was characterized by Southeast V m!" Kv Prtu/H ind growing pro-union sentiment. w Dy, n ays going to have problems," said ' think thj Public Safety Committee, which and 1 think th itions. 4 yn irlf* black schools it y-white rdatWSSIT k v T i ?M? i black member is the student body president) and UNC-Wilmington have three black board members; East Carolina University has two black board members, and UNC-Greensboro, Western Carolina " University, North Carolina State University, UNC"What you have here are the Bowman Grays, the Reynolds and the Haneses. They (white people) could make things happen quicker." -- C.C. Ross Asheville, Appalachian State University, the North Carolina School of the Arts and UNC-Chapel Hill each have one black board member. Pembroke State University, a traditionally Indian school, has one black, six Indian and five white Please see page A2 mil resume soon pickets at a meeting in Charlotte last weekend. The local chapter decided to picket Tuesday night at a general NAACP meeting. Pat Hairston, president of the local chapter, said only six of the seven local stores will be picketed. "I didn't get a permit for the Country Club store because no black people go over there to shop," Hairston said. ? Although the NAACP's boycott of Food Lion -began in July, Hairston said, its effects will be Please see page A11 B9* -rlRt % 1>" "" ' '' ^v^Kv iy in style last weekend after exchanging vows at ilem. For more on the Worthy's wedding see page illy good marks that he has been a good police chief," she said, ted that the city still faces considerable neighborhood g problems and has several unsolved murders. >cing the size it is, a lot of our citizens would believe ving trouble getting a grip on the crime," Burke said, yard Alderman Larry Womble said he was "saddenPs resignation, describing him as "very effective." at he has been very beneficial to the city as a whole at he has tried to be ver? fair," Womble said. Please see page A2
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