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Sykes investigation
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Chronicle Staff Writer
Northeast Ward Alderman Vivian h.
Burke called Monday night for an investigation
of the Winston-Salem Police
Department's handling of the Deborah
Sykes murder case. If the police conducted
the Sykes investigation honestly, she said,
they "have nothing to hide."
Burke, chairman of the aldermen's
Public Safetv Committee, made the rennect
just before the closing of the board's
regular bi-weekly meeting. Burke said she
has not been pleased with what she has
'7 want an investigation of what we
did do in the Winston-Salem police
department. If we haven't done
anything, uwtuig* jjiii thtiahi ,lui\w
nothing to hide/'
- Vivian H. Burke
heard about the trial, which resulted in the
conviction of 20-year-old Darryl Eugene
Hunt. ^
The other aldermen, members of the city
staff and some spectators appeared stunned
while Burke confronted City Manager
Bill Stuart about police detectives' conduct
during the investigation. North Ward
Alderman Larry D. Little, who hasied a
movement to support Hunt, was not present
at the meeting.
Hunt was convicted June 14 of the first
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juoca.i r?AY/\^r rrcsiucm rainc* nan
vice chairman of the Citizens' Commith
New Coliseum, says he and other blacks w
ed on the committee "will not just sit at
and wait for promises made to blacks cot
the newt facility to be fulfilled.
Winston-Salem voters approved the bui
a new arena 12,739 to 3,426 in a S20 millu
y
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aegree murder and rape of Sykes, a
26-year-old Sentinel copy editor, and was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mack may be ap
to W SSU truste
By ROBIN ADAMS deny th
Chronicle Assistant Editor Gov.
Nearly half of Winston-Salem nou"cc
State University's Board of wee ' s
Trustees will be black, pending The i
the rumored. appointment of a Branch
local black man to the board by six the i
Gov. James G. Martin. on the
The University of North other b
Carolina Board of Governors ap- Smith, 1
pointed Irene P. Hairston and Means,
Dr. David Branch as new torney i
memoers 01 tne ooara at its last Bridges
meeting several weeks ago. And Governi
although the governor has not of- dent,
ficially announced his two ap- Winsi
pointees, businessman Jim Mack ty is 1
is rumored to be one of them. black s
Mack would neither confirm or Pie
After coliseu
By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
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duikc announced me aay alter the
aldermen's meeting that she will meet with
Stuart on July 5 to "decide the particulars
of the investigation."
"I want an investigation of what we did
do in the Winston-Salem Police Department,"
Burke said to Stuart during the
aldermen's meeting. "If we haven't done
anything wrong, we should have nothing to
hide."
The city needs to let facts outweigh fiction,
Burke told Stuart.
"If we have a lot of fiction around this
case, we need to get rid of it," she said. "If
we haven't brought the facts out, we need
to."
If the detectives who worked on the
Hunt case hid or destroyed information,
"it needs to be taken care of," she said.
.nr'-SBlH police art supposed tQ serve and
prottdt all of the peofft# in the
coimmtnity," Burke said. "It's strange
that people who represent this community
can see some thins* that com* Hr*
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see things that others do. Darryl Hunt is a
human being just like anyone else. We
should not take street people and railroad
them .... I hope that is not what we have
done."
Not only have people in Winston-Salem
looked at and questioned the Hunt case,
she said, but people throughout North
Carolina and in 6ther parts of the country
have questions as well.
"When I get this report, 1 can see for
myself,'* Burke said.
Little later said he didn't know Burke
was going to call for an investigation.
"1 knew of the improprieties on the part
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e board t
Martin is expected to an- & Kt
his appointees later this
aid one of his aides.
ippointment of Hairston,
and Mack would bring to
lumber of black members
13-member board. The Infel
lack members are Louise
board chairman; Ray ford
an assistant district atin
Philadelphia, and Joy
, the new WSSU Student
ment Association presiBreaking
g
ton-Salem State Universi- man-sized vel"
the only predominantly last Sunday <
chool in the 16-campu$ I located at Nln
ase see page A13 *
m bonds: Hair
referendum last week.
Approximately 20 percent of tl
turned out for the election and, acc
rston a
* ficial figures, voters in wards with
approved the bonds 5-to-l. Wai
? aldermen passed the bonds rough!
home
margin.
lccrning jn thc wajcc Qf t^at victory, Hail
leaders who served on the committi
Iding of on black interests concerning the
3n bond referendum every day. He says blai
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Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly
rvSalem, N.O Thursday, July 4, 1985
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Former Winston-Salem resident Clifton Graves: Hunt's case
is the Scottsboro Boys revisited (photo by James Parker).
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Hunt committee features
The Darryl Hunt Defense Com- ment and co-chairman of
mittee comprises persons from all mittee.
walks of life. They include: . the Rev Carlton
the Rev. John Mendez, pastor of pastor of Dellabrook Pre
Emmanuel Baptist Church and Church and chairman of
chairman of the defense committee. mittee's public safety comi
Khalid Fattah Griggs, director of North Ward Alderman I
the Institute for Islamic Involve- . tie, who organized th
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ROUND: Alderman Virginia Newell wheels a session of the C
licle at the ground-breaking ceremony held ends,
afternoon for Summit Square Apartments, "I am hoping
th and File streets (photo by Art Blue). be placed in a 5
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ston says city will be h
make sure the things that were promised will get
ie city's voters done."
ording to unof- Several black leaders, including Hairston, who
black aldermen had previously opposed building a new coliseum
rds with white in 1976 and 1979, backed last week's bond vote
y by a 3l/i-to-l because of the promise of jobs for minorities and
the assurance of no tax increase to finance the proston
says black ject.
JC will check UD "I intend to make sure that nnalifi^H MnrV ran.
coliseum bond didates will be considered for those jobs,"
:k leaders "will Hairs ton says.
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Hunt supporters
keeping the faith
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
At an emotional meeting in Emmanuel Baptist
Church, members of the Darryl Hunt Defense
Committee rallied their supporters last weekend
for what they term a rough battle ahead.
"This thing is going to get dirty," the Rev. John
Mendez, chairman of the Hunt Defense Committee,
told a group of approximately 350 who
gathered at the church Saturday afternoon. "Be
prepared that the leaders (of the defense committee)
will be called communists. You will hear of
folks stealing money (collected in the name of the
committee).... They will say that outside agitators
are responsible for this movement ... and doubt
will be cast on the trustworthiness of the leaders.
Be prepared for this.
"We have got to be able to recognize that this is
our movement. They called Dr. (Martin Luther)
King a communist. Anybody that stands up for
justice and right they will call a communist."
Mendez's comments came on the heels of a twoand-one-half
hour series of songs and speeches
during which blacks sat with whites, WinstonSalem
State University professors sat with street
* people and Christians sat with non-Christians. A
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nwai ui apcuRcrs pieugeo men tmrjort tor Hunt,
many others called for n-?H. ,nr? community involvement,
and the Emma.u. sang a song
with the chorus, "My God can do anything."
Please see page A3
a cross-section
the com- Defense Committee.
Southeast Ward Alderman Larry
Eversley, Womble"
sbyterian Evelyn Terry,- chairman of the
the com- committee's communications committee.
mittee and an administrator in
9rrv * if Winston-Salem State University's
^orry
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e passes local bill;
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AMS Annie Brown Kennedy, the bill's
nt Editor co-sponsor.
.. .. . After state Sen. Ted Kaplan
would allow the . . r .. . A
. tried unsuccessfully last week to
men to set goals . . .... 4 . ..
. r . have the bill voted on lmmediateind
female par- . . ,
K . ly without it going to committee,
:ity contracts is /, .... ? ? 4. .... .
. . the bill was sent to the Judiciary I
lflO IciW
?. ' . . . Committee. The committee is ex)S
tln e ?ngina pected to discuss the bill later this
the aldermen ,
the state House
es late last week. The keV t0 whether the bill
isors are hoping P^ses, said Sen. Marvin Ward,
state Senate will be time,
lation before this "The time is short," said
Jeneral Assembly Ward, referring to the date this
year's session of the General
that the bill will Assembly is set to end. "If we
Jenate committee can get it through in the short
state House Rep. Please see page A8
eld accountable
He also says blacks will not settle for jobs on the
"low end of the totem pole." Hairston says he is
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nui mujj tu gti in upper-icvci management
jobs at the new coliseum and at the adjacent Dixie
Classic Fairgrounds.
Since the coliseum bonds have passed, he says,
businesses will soon start to come into the city and
create jobs. "We (blacks) don't have to wait until
1988 to get jobs out of the building of this col
iseum," ne says.
Please see page A3
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