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Ooiiqth Rules jM Pond Giants batter f : Braves.' Page B1. The Twin City’s Award-Winning Weekly Michael Montgomery hits the books. Page A1. Salem Chronicle Thursday, May 23, 1985 35 cents 32 Pages This Week Key eyewitness in trial a former mental patient News cameras to be allowed in courtroom By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor |D R. RANKIN Staff Writer n-Salem Mayor Wayne A. Cor- eased the names Wednesday mor- 27 community leaders, 21 of them 0 will campaign for $20 million in luild a coliseum. A referendum is for June 25. ng announced last week that lairston, president of the local of the NAACP, and Theldora a salesman for Dorcey ties, will be vice chairmen of the Committee for a New Coliseum, on the executive committee in- Booker, a district manager for atolina Mutual Life Insurance One of the state’s key witnesses in the murder case against Darryl Eugene Hunt was once committed to the mental unit of a local hospital. According to records in the county clerk of court’s office, Thomas Patton Murphy, 43, of 3621 Yale Ave., was involuntarily committed to the inpatient unit at Reynolds Memorial Hospital on July 1, 1974, after behaving violently and allegedly shooting a friend. Hunt, charged with the Aug. 10 murder of newspaper copy editor Deborah Sykes, is scheduled to stand trial on May 28. Mur phy and two other men have been iden tified as eyewitnesses in the case. Susie Murphy, listed in court records as Murphy’s wife, brought the petition for commitment against Murphy. According to the court records, Mrs. Murphy describ ed her husband as being “extremely violent” and “agitated.” She also said he shot his friend with a pistol. During the commitment evaluation, the examining physician at Forsyth Memorial Hospital said she noticed that Murphy “becomes confused and agitated” because of a “loss of contact with reality on occa sion.” The doctor tentatively diagnosed that Murphy had “chronic brain syndrome with acute alcohol intoxication. “As a result of the examination, it is my opinion that the named person (Murphy) is mentally ill or inebriated, and imminently dangerous to himself or others,” wrote Dr. Joyce H. Reynolds, the attending physi cian. The commitment papers indicated that Murphy was unemployed, had no outside income and was disabled. Mrs. Murphy listed a 1972 Dodge pickup as an asset. While Murphy was confined, doctors at Reynolds Hospital prescribed four medica tions for him and observed that he was “confused,” “disoriented to the time, place and person” and had a “poor Please see page A14 lyor appoints bond committee Co.; Myron Chenault, vice chancellor for development at Winston-Salem State University; Clarence “Bighouse” Gaines, athletic director and head basketball coach at WSSU; Oressa Hauser, a black com munity leader, and Reginald McCaskill, a counselor at the United Methodist Children’s Home. Other blacks on the committee are: Clark Brown, a local funeral home direc tor; the Rev. J. Ray Butler, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church; Mutter D. Evans, president and general manager of radio sta tion WAAA-AM; Irene P. Hairston, chair man of the county library board and a member of the city-county planning board; Please see page A14 Enabling legislation survives By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor Rep. Annie Brown Kennedy: The bill’s sponsor. A bill that would allow the city’s aldermen to set quotas on city-financed construction projects got a favorable com mittee report Wednesday afternoon follow ing two llth-hour changes. Local Government Committee II voted 12-8 to approve the bill but limited the maximum minority- or women-owned business participation requirements to 10 percent. The amendment also limits the bill’s scope to two areas ~ downtown development and a proposed new coliseum. “I was disappointed that we could not get it in the form we really wanted,” said state House Rep. Annie Brown Kennedy, the bill’s co-sponsor. “But this is better than nothing.” The bill now goes before the full House for a vote, said Kennedy. That vote will probably be taken early next week. The bill’s passage out of committee is a good sign that it will become a local law, said Mayor Wayne Corpening. “I was glad to hear that it passed the committee,” said Corpening, who spoke before the committee two weeks ago in sup port of the bill. “But we’ve got to take one step at a time. We’ve got a good chance now of it passing.” The decision to add a cap to the bill arose out of a fear among some of the bill’s Please see page A16 ver asking for $1.5 million YMCA director also seeks old job ADAMS jisislanl Editor *suit filed last week against the 'A, the former executive director iterson Avenue YMCA is asking “•lion in back pay and damages atment to his old job. Bled by Richard F. Glover, also its defendants YMCA 'tector Brian Cormier. It charges « was “wrongfully and unjustly a* a result of unlawful racial ation and that his firing was a Wployment agreement.” aould not be reached for com- a*’arges that, after nine years on the job, he was “compelled” to resign on Dec. 13, 1984. Because he “has suffered and continues to suffer humiliation and mental and physical pain and anguish,” Glover has asked for $500,000 in back pay and employment benefits. He is asking for $1 million in punitive damages, the cost of at torney’s fees and the offer of his old job. Glover is also asking that the YMCA “take action to modify its practices and un conscionable personnel policies.” Glover further charges that Cormier harassed him by making “false or un founded statements” about his job perfor mance and placing him on probation Please see page A14 Update Former WSSU professor starting over as undergrad Michael (photo by Montgomery: James Parker). “blessed” By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor Amid a cloud of controversy over the validity of his academic degrees, Michael J. Montgomery resigned from Winston-Salem State University almost two years ago. School officials discovered that Montgomery, who chaired the department of social sciences at WSSU and was considered a dynamic administrator by Chancellor H. Douglas Cov ington, had neither the doctorate nor bachelor’s and master’s degrees he had said he had. In fact, Montgomery only held a two-year associate’s degree from the University of Cincinnati. Earlier this week, the Chroni cle talked by telephone with Montgomery who, for the past year, has been both a student and Please see page A14 'krmen approve plan for low-, moderate-income housing RANKIN Writer ®ston-Salem Board of Aldermen ap- P 8n during its May 20 meeting to pro- 'On to build housing for low- and people in the city. The plan 1 presented by City Manager ) aldermen during a housing ^J*BB®sted by Stuart in an earlier ' shop held on March 12 enraged the black aldermen, who called his suggestions at that time “unacceptable.” East Ward Alderman Virginia K. Newell and North Ward Alderman Larry D. Little were not at the May 20 meeting. The housing plan, which was also unanimously approved by the aldermen’s finance and public works committees, is broken down into three parts, all of which will assist in varying degrees low- and moderate-income city residents. The plan calls for $1,475 million to be used to build 38 public housing duplex apartments. These apartments will be built by a private company and sold to the Winston-Salem Housing Authority to own and operate. The rent will be set as low as possible and will only cover the cost of manage ment and maintenance. According to Stuart’s April 9 proposal, people with annual incomes bet ween $5,527 and $7,927 could afford this plan. Assistant City Manager Joe H. Berrier said that the Housing Authority will determine who can move into the new apartments. Southeast Ward Alderman Larry W. Womble said he likes the idea of building the apartments, which he says will address the needs of low-income people. “Naturally, this (plan) is not enough to address the needs of all the poor people who need housing, but it is a good start,” Womble said during a telephone interview after the meeting. Womble said more than 2,000 low-income people are waiting to get into public housing. Please see page A16 iKSM
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