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"V t v~ '~-r' " Patterson Y: A disi Bill Hayes decider Fat may be tasty, Eddie Murphy lea^ L? Wins VOL. XI NO. 21 pnBMnMMHnHMMBManMHHBBll I Ik w Ik A-J It's All In The Cards It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a new brand of gre [black consumers. Story on B6. NAACP's Freedoi features first-ever P By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor A capacity audience was treated to an evening of firsts last Thursday at the NAACP's Freedom Fund Banquet in the Benton Convention Center. Those firsts included the first white keynote speaker in the banquet's history, the first-ever presentation of the Hanes Group/Charles McLean Community Service Awards and the first performance at a local Freedom Fund Banquet by a nationally-known actress in Winston native Fay Hauser. 7E By GREG BRC C.i^jy Chronicle Staff \ft Related editoiia Y If 1985 ^ Winston-Salem' Y ' dent Tom Elijah ^mp- flj When he art TT~r*Tr"" -'-- ||jffi|.j |<M ilijj 11 Vernon Jordan organization to that $47, mushroomed to torn Elijah il has com< mmmm dawn ma mal state of affairs?: A1 i to go, then stays: B1 but it can kill you: A4 /es'em up in the air: B6 . A _ ^ iwm-^ai * The JTwin C/Vv'sl '910 ^ I By j|^ jC ^ | Chronicle A I I I- North Wai ; has R W copy ?|l the auspice n . ai to lee ;et A; ?w b it ler ; t Y^ lo C ? ? manager of / - | organizatioi County YN for the pred eting card marketed especially to i Avenue Y I the Winston m Fund Banquet McLean awards Robert E. Elberson, president and chief operating officer of Consolidated Foods Corp., was the featured speaker at the Jan. 10 dinner, held annually in January to commemorate the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elberson's topic, appropriately enough, was 4'Change." "I believe this is, in fact, the first time that any non-minority person has been asked to speak at the annual Freedom Fund banquet," said Elberson, smiling, to open his speech. "I must warn you, however, that I am not a gifted inspirational Please see page A12 Jrban League: A bra MilLI -?vvm tion an 'rtter structic I on A4. revived "We nises to be a landmark year for die," E s Urban League, then local Presi- But 1 i can consider himself the architect. stands ived to take control of the local As sign equcsi iff ffigTi ndriurraE "Pi ufrfciu hriijfegii in 1977, Elijah inherited a small new ha :h a small budget that had struggled ing nur tore than 20 years. pandjn] 000 budget of seven years ago has grams, > more than $1 million today, and workinj growth in local employment educa- tees wl <A GAZiNE INSIDE ? ?!&?-. % *(?Kib3 W*M > i K TwiH r i **' ,:"*^^'*?^4r^ 4fc?'' v x ' ^T^lffflHMBIiHHSRIHMMBHHHffll /pm i~*P*+ LC/ili V/lii A ward- Winning Weekly fUTinrJ \ X Thursday, January 17, 1985 m 11 ii wmBmmKmmxmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ifense fund fo alderman for / ? it tie says it's essential th I ADAMS raised more than $500 las ssistant Editor table set up in the the Bei tion Center lobby during t ,e fears that Darryl Eugene Freedom Fund banquet ,ot get a fair trial otherw.se, (hink he (Hum) de d Alderman Larry D Little ,rja, and under ,he cjrc shed a defense fund for the ^n't (hjnk he wi? ge, OI1 ;ar-old who was charged on )84 with the Aug. 10 murder of Winston-Salem Sentinel I think he deserves a Deborah Sykes. think he will set one d he created the fund, under J > s of Hunt attorneys S. Mark ________ jordon W. Jenkins, to help tie. "That's why I'm invt investigators and expert case. The basis of the cas the testimony of two whi d the money will not be used say they saw a person the rney's fees. ? Hunt with a white girl on d to raise about $5,000 and Sykes was killed and in i it," Little said. was killed. The rest of th id he and other volunteers , based an?tii&lftAtimotiy of cials: Patterson YM1 I ADAMS ? . ssistant Editor ls al an al|-"me low and adult memberships have Winston Lake YMCA will fewer than 50. usiness three months from "Youth programs ha if it encounters the same heavily off, the aquatics p it, staff and programming at an all-time low and youi hat plagued the Patterson programs have dropped of /ICA, it may not remain said in an interview earliei ig, say some Metro YMCA Though Cormier noted has been some success ormier, who is general basketball, and volleyball the Metropolitan YMCA camp have increased," he 1 governing all Forsyth participation in the Pa 1CAs, says programming after-school program has c ominantly black Patterson added that its marketing ef which will be replaced by been strong" and that the Lake facility this spring - adult participants "has m Local native Fay Hauser sings and Charles recites (photos by James Parker). ly was c ndnew building andi A ? * vi naming programs ana me on-going con- pi n of a new headquarters in the heart of a downtown. 01 dream a lot and we try^not to let our dreams W Elijah says. 1? the explosive growth of the local operation in sharp contrast to Elijah's personal style. r0 is of the Urban League's dynamism become riilfy-'iniiiK unuugii m ^ me at Fifth and Trade streets, and as increas- IX nbers of black job-hunters complete an ex- 4<t I number of employment and training proElijah toils quietly behind the scenes - wi g himself into the boardrooms and commitlere economic power is wielded and both N ) U j iCold Bowl | The band blew, the players played | and "The Hawk" flew at this year's Freedom Bowl All-Star Classic in % : Atlanta. | onicle 35 cents 26 Pages This Week rmed locally? Darryl Hunt at public be informed t week with a stitute who has told three different lton Conven- stories. All the physical evidence points he NAACP's towards Hunt's innocence. "I'm appalled at this crime," added serves a fair Little. "That could have been my wife umstances, I out there. But I know the public has le," said Lit- put a lot of pressure on the police fair trial and, under the circumstances, / don 7 ?* -- Larry Little Dived in this department to solve this case." e is built on Because of public pressure, Little te men who said, he feels the police ma\ have been y identify as too anxious to accuse someone the morning anyone. the area she "I don't believe in 1985 that a black e evidence is life ought to be sold for this price," he awfeitepro- Please see page A3 C A's in poor shape that its paid drastically in the last three years." dropped to "We can't operate like that in the new facility," he said. ve dropped According to last year's final >rograms are figures, the Patterson Avenue Y th basketball membership numbers 662, 603 of them f" Cormier youths, said Cormier, leaving only 59 - tms week. adult members, many with only partial that "there memberships. Of the 662 , 484 are on with adult scholarships, he said, or receive some and Kinder- kind of financial assistance to help pay said overall membersh; -s. tterson Y's "That leaves only 178 paving any lropped. He dues whatsoever," said Cormier, fort "hasn't "Patterson is operating with only 20 t number of percent self-produced income. The fallen off Please see page A3 % vM ^ IkJM McLean on the awards named for him: He simploing what needed to be done. J very bright future iblic and private grants are handed out. Sometimes criticized for failing to take the lead 1 social and political issues affecting the city's ack community, Elijah offers no apologies for his adership style. Charitably, perhaps, he attributes ich criticism to a lack of understanding about his >le in the community. Because the Urban League's designation as a ? nwpafirv^tMi MBiwinfty ~ gjfltofcUa>litical activity, Elijah says political activism is he best way to go out of business.*' 4'You have to be smart enough to do your job thout losing your job,*' he says. "The issue is equal opportunity and what we can Please see page A3 i
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