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By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
North Ward Alderman
Larry D. Little says he expects
the district attorney to
"manufacture" charges
against him for intimidating
witnesses, among other allegations,
and ultimately to indict
him.
Little, private investigator
Charles "Slick" Poteat and
other supporters of Darryl
Eugene Hunt are being investigated
by the State Bureau
"Little and Poteat had
contacted certain
witnesses and the
evidence showed that
these witnesses were intimidated,
threatened,
fo/rf no* fo cooperate or
told not to tell the truth."
? Donald K. Tisdale
of Investigation at Forsyth
County District Attorney
Donald K. Tisdale's request.
Hunt, 20, was convicted last
month of murdering Sentinel
copy editor Deborah Brotherton
Sykes on Aug. 10, 1984.
Sykes was raped, sodomized
and stabbed to death. Hunt
was sentenced to life in prison
by a jury of 11 whites and one
black.
If Tisdale could convict
Hunt for murder on what he
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By BILL HAMILTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Chronicle will host the
June 1986 convention of the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association at the Winston Plaza
Stouffer Hotel.
Chronicle Publisher Ernest H.
Pitt said he is pleased and excited
that the national organization of j
black publishers chose the Twin i
City for its next summer meeting.
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estigating
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to be indicted
considers very weak evidence,
Little said Friday, the district
attorney can do the same to
him.
441 anticipate that Tisdale
will be able to manufacture
something to get me
indicted," Little said. 44And 1
want to emphasize that it will
be a trumped-up something.
He's been successful in trumping
up charges against
Darryt."
Little said Tisdale is attempting
to 4'intimidate people not
to question his actions."
But he also said he believes
he will be vindicated in the
end.
Tisdale said Tuesday that
the investigation was promp*
ted by a suggestion by
Superior Court Judge Preston
, Cornelius to look into "improper
contacts by Little,
Poteat and some other
people." Cornelius, who
presided over the Hunt trial,
could not be reached for comment.
Little founded the Darryl
Hunt Defense Committee, and
Poteat was a private investigator
hired to gather information
for Hunt's defense
attorneys.
Tisdale said during the Hunt
trial that Little and Poteat
"flashed badges" at potential
witnesses and that the two
misrepresented themselves as
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"We want to make this a convention
they will remember,"
Pitt said. "Usually, the organization
docs not hold its convention
in small cfties, so this is a coup
for us. It says a lot about the
Chronicle and the city."
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Raphael O'Hara Black once
reporter that "it's quite an adventuri
fireman. 4t*s something that gets
blood. You wouldn't want to give il
After 34 years of that addiction,
57, better known these days as
Black," has grudgingly kicked the h
Black joined the Winston-Sale
Department with seven other black
March 1, 1951. Those eight, includ
sent Fire Chief Lester Ervin, were tl
first black firemen.
As Black stood before family,
fellow employees and city staff at i
ment party at the city's central fire su
Friday, June 28, his eyes filled witl
Fellow employees presented him v*
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By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
An investigation of local
police's handling of the
Deborah Sykes murder case
has not yet begun, says Northeast
Ward Alderman Vivian
H. Burke, but steps are being
taken that will lead to one.
Burke, who is also chairman
of the aldermen's Public Safety
Committee, confronted City
Manager Bill Stuart during
the July 1 aldermen's meeting
about police conduct during
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Legislation i
By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
A bill which would allow the cit
set the quotas for city contracts
and women is now law. However
the new law will be may depend o
attorney general interprets it.
Winston-Salem City Attorney R<
said Monday that language in the b
aldermen tox:hoose the "lowest r
der" may render the law useless.
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aldermen) can't do any more thj
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the case and asked for an investigation.
Hunt, 20, was convicted on
June 14 of first-degree murder
in the Aug. 10, 1984, rape and
stabbing death of Sentinel
copy editor Deborah B. Sykes.
Burke expressed concern
during the aldermen's meeting
that the detectives who worked
on the case may have hidden
or destroyed information.
"If we haven't done
anything wrong, we should
have nothing to hide," she
said during the meeting.
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Corporation
for housing
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By BILL HAMILTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
The city's long-awaited housing
corporation has been formed.
The Winston-Salem -foundation
has established a private,
non-profit housing corporation
to facilitate loans to local lowand
middle-income families in
conjunction with the city.
' The corporation is called the
Twin City Development Cor
poration.
According to Ralph M.
Stockton Jr., president of the
Winston-Salem Foundation,
"The corporation has been formed
to respond to the housing
needs in the inner city as identified
in the CBT/Crane
Associates study (which addressed
Winston-Salem's economic
I needs.)
The 12 financial institutions
that will back the eocporation
have made tentative commitments
to loan funds for housing
totaling about $4.5 million.
Henry M. Carter Jr., executive
director of the foundation, said
the board of directors has been
named but has not yet met.
Carter said many questions about
the corporation will be unresolved
until the board of directors has
its first meeting.
Named to the board were
James A. Hancock, James E.
Humphreys Jr., Dr. Barbara K.
Phillips, Ralph M. Stockton,
Nick Mitchell Jr., Isaiah Tidwell
and Alderman Virginia K.
Newell.
Among the things the board
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as a new experience," said Black,
ked about his first day on the job.
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ly hostility (on the part of the white
. It was just emotional."
e the odds and the long, grueling
egimen, the all-black company conBlack,
Ervin, Willie James Carter,
.indsey Grier, John Roy Thomas,
inklin Meredith Jr., George Wadn
and Henry Ford perfected the
! of firefighting.
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city," said Black. "The company
e up of good men. All of us either
d from college or had some years of
decided to apply for the job at the
f a friend. After graduating from
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ot do the job
id.
e law's wording doesn't give the
diority they asked for.
ill write state Attorney General
and ask his interpretation of the
ic alaermen were torced by state
e lowest bidder on city contracts
number of minority subcontracs
the low bidder would use. They
gislation so they could require
to use more minorities in city
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