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Opening Notes Harmonizing for the new Y. Page A1. l.tSRARV (.INC ■ CHAPF'- '.HAf’H HitJ- 1 A 4V- aso aoo ISO 100 so o New Goal: 2,000 By December 1985 Congratulations! New goai: 2,000 by December 1985. Page A1. Young Doctors Boning up whiie others reiax. Page A6. Salem Chronicle The Twin City’s Award-Winning Weekly |,OL.XINO. 44 U.S.P.S. No. 067910 Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, June 27, 1985 35 cents 30 Pages This Week Young Love Jerome Johnson, 2, took up an instant fancy to Michelle Hopkins, 2, whom he chanced upon at the formal dedication of the New Winston Lake Family YMCA last Saturday. Alas, poor Jerome learned a time-honored lesson about older women. See Y opening story on this page (photos by James Parker). Voters approve coliseum bond Black precincts give referendum 5-to-l edge By DAVID RANKIN and ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writers Winston-Salem voters approved a bond referen dum Tuesday to build a new coliseum and adjoining annex by a four to one margin. Unofficial results from the city’s 50 precincts showed that 12,739 voted to approve and 3,426 voted to reject the $20 million bond package. Wake Forest University has pledged another $4 million to the project. The new 14,000-seat colisuem and annex, con taining an ice-skating rink and 3,500-seat exhibition center, will replace the 30-year-old Memorial Col iseum that lacks air-conditioning. The new facility will be placed just north of the existing building. Once the new project is completed, the old coliseum will be torn down and replaced by a parking lot to serve the new building. This was the third time that Winston-Salem voters had been asked to consider financing a new coliseum. In 1976 and 1979, the coliseum bond referendum failed. The key to this year’s win, said Mayor Wayne Corpening, as he watched the precinct-by-precinct results come in at the Board of Elections, was the promise of no tax increase and community involvement. “Before, we didn’t have good packages,” said Corpening. “This time we had a good package, we promoted it and we had 125 people working together to push this thing and it paid off.” Other poll watchers credited the win to a lack of organized opposition. The only person to publicly oppose the bond was Southeast Ward Alderman Larry Womble. Before the polls closed Tuesday afternoon, Womble said that he didn’t oppose the building of a new colisuem, but opposed methods used to try to get black voters to support it. “They always dangle that jobs, jobs, jobs carrot,” said Womble. “We want to see some of those jobs.” Womble congratulated the bond supporters but A 20 percent voter turnout made it an easy day for the city’s precinct workers (photo by Jarnes Parker). stressed that his opposition to the bonds was a moral one. In addition, Womble said, if Winston- Please see page A3 Local blacks get token share of city contracts SyDAVID R. RANKIN fconicle Staff Writer The City of Winston-Salem firchasing Department spent ap proximately $82 million between Myl, 1983, and April 30, 1985. h only $954,167, or 1.16 per- ®t,was spent with local minori- ly companies. This information comes from a Spage report on city spending *ilh majority-owned businesses nd a seven-page report on city 'pending with minority-owned finesses ~ both reports recently teed by the city’s purchasing department. Don Farmer, a purchasing •fent for the city and Forsyth Tpunty, said that compared with fcrest of the state, there are not * large number of minority- •*ned businesses in Winston- Salem to choose from. He said the city has seminars to •elp minority businesses and tries la Identify local minority-owned earopanies. d^he subcontractors that a prime (large) company uses is in its hands,” Farmer said. “We suggest local MBEs (minority- owned businesses) to them but we can’t make a company use them (MBEs).” Approximately $5.4 million or 6.65 percent of city money has been spent with minorities, local and througout the country, ac cording to the report. This amount includes minority- owned, women-owned and minority women-owned businesses, during the period. The $5.4 million minority spen ding compares with $76'million or 93.3 percent spent with white- owned companies. The report says that the most money spent with a white-owned business during the period was $11 million with Fowler-Jones Construction Co. The $11 million dollars spent with Fowler-Jones represents ap proximately 13.4 percent of total city spehding, according to the report. YMCA opens with pomp By DAVID R. RANKIN Chronicle Staff Writer Some people were in their Sun day best and others donned their sweatsuits and basketball Shorts. Nonetheless, it was a grand occa sion, chronicled in local history. About 300 people turned out at the new Winston Lake YMCA on Saturday, June 22, at 9:30 a.m. for its official ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony. The formal ceremony included local speakers, music and balloons as blacks in the community official ly recognized the opening of the $3.2 million facility. East Ward Alderman Virginia K. Newell represented the city and spoke to the crowd on behalf of the mayor who was attending an out-of-town mayor’s con ference. “We have come home to a place where we can develop the talent and character of our kids,” said Neweli, who represents the ward where the Y is located. Newell said the city plans to dredge the silt-filled Winston Lake adjacent to the YMCA facility to provide a better ap pearance and environment at the Please see page A3 Local minority contractors got 1.16 percent, pictured in the red, of the $82 million in contracts that the city let from July 1,1983 to April 30, 1985. Chronicle wins awards Fowler-Jones is currently ex panding and renovating the M.C. Benton Convention Center at a price of $8.2 million and building a $3.8 million parking deck. City figures show that Fowler-Jones is spending approximatley $88,968 with minorities on the parking deck and approximately $52,639 on the conventiort center expan sion. The largest amount the city spent with a minority-owned company was $736,949 with Kern-Affholder Inc., a tunneling Please see page All By BILL HAMILTON Chronicle Staff Writer The Winston-Salem Chronicle collected four first-place awards and a second-place award during the 45th annual conference of the National Newspaper Publishers Association held recently in Seat tle. Chronicle Executive Editor Allen H. Johnson III said the weekly newspaper had won awards before, but never in dividual writing awards. “I’m very proud of that,” he said. Chronicle Assistant Editor Robin Adams submitted the story that took first place in the Best Feature Story category. The story Please see page A3 ^rities in business REVS give ‘keys’ David Ctiro, R. RANKIN rojgle Staff Writer ^inority and small business owners had an op- lunity to pick up some information about open- *9nd operating small businesses from those who Successfully done it. tWo-day Pre-Business Workshop took place jj,®* 26 and June 27 in the ballroom of the ®ston-Salem State University student union. Ilie •IC, Workshop was sponsored by the Minority joess Council of the Winston-Salem Chamber >minerce, Winston-Salem State University and ^Hetired Executives Volunteer Services (REVS), 'cording to Mike Callahan, coordinator of con- Please see page A3 Jones: I provide decent housing By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor Garland Jones listens as Northeast Ward Alderman Vivian Burke asks questions about a tenant complaint (photo by James Parker). Except for a few notations, members of the Board of Aldermen’s Finance Com mittee praised a local landlord for the job he did in rehabilitating 11 houses in East Winston. Joining the committee in its assessment were Alderman Vivian Burke, Mayor Wayne Corpening, City Manager Bill Stuart, Housing Authority Exective Director David Tompkins and other me'mbers of the city staff. “I think it’s an excellent project myself,” said Tompkins. “I think he did a reasonably good job with what he had to work with,” said Assistant City Manager Joe Berrier. Garland M. Jones, the owner of the houses, located in a block fronted by Dunleith, Locust and 21st streets, looked pleased as the group toured some of the homes. Jones’ work has not pleased everyone, however. Just weeks ago, an article in a local newspaper charged that Jones was delin quent in paying a $171,000 loan he ob tained from the city to renovate the houses and that tenant complaints — plumbing that didn’t work, incomplete kitchen wiring and broken screen doors — had resulted in a reinspection of the homes. Jones denies that he is behind in his Please see page A12
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