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Turner reJIsI
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Aselstant Editor
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Despite |he 4,000-pIus people
around the M.C. Benton Cony<
week at the All Baptist State Cpx
hard to tell who was in chafge.
Dr. E.Be Turner,,-the pi
400,000-member Getjefral Baptist
was clearly the head man. Th
6-foot-6 and was wearing a whi
shirt-dichr'tiTtiTrhis visibility mu
This is Turner's third year he
tion of all of the black Baptists i
convenes every four years. This
Winston-Salem under the theme 4
Pulling everybody together into
Pastor: Church
will recuperate
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Macedonia True Vine
Pentecostal Holiness Church of
God Inc. will recover from its
' financial throes, the church's
pastor said last week.
"We will overcome this
thing," said Bishop S.D.
Johnson, Macedonia's pastor.
"This is an adversity and we will
\ overcome this. We owe people.
\ We owe people money that needs
\ to be paid."
On Aug. 6, Macedonia will
meet with its creditors and present
a payment plan. If the plan is
accepted, Macedonia will be back
on sound financial footing,
Johnson said. In 1983, the church
Burke sticking
of mistreatmei
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor '
If Beatrice Walker has hei
Memorial Hospital again.
<4I told my husband, 'Let
1'Don't never carry me over th
? Walker is one of many who h
tions at Forsyth Memorial, say:
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State Coftvention, Turner said th
e fact that he is propriate becaus
ite suit and black black families,
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year they met in teen-agers and a
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filed for bankruptcy under
Chapter 11 of the federal
bankruptcy laws, a measure
1 allowing it to devise a plan to
repay its bills but protecting it
i from its creditors during the pro;
cess.
The troubles at Macedonia
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nt at hospital
r way, she won't go to Forsyth
me die at home,' " said Walker,
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lave complained to her about condi5
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Turner, but he relishes the opporit.
We need this.
iust a meeting to check our ftbiftt^ I I
lat we needle say about the.current I
is year's convention theme was ape
of the problems faced by today's
family lacks cohesiveness," said ~
as caused an increase in divorces, a '^Tl
f rate among the unmarried and
n increase in the use of drugs. We
: and take a look at our family. The
lease see page A2 ^ D
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Hill: Winston Mi
merger Gola
will be good forbi
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
GEORGE E. HILL sat in his fourth-floo
ing surrounded by boxes of his personal beloi
his chair, lit a cigar and propped his feet up 01
customary bankers' blue suit and black oxf
most relaxed he has been in a year.
For the past three years, Hill has been tryi
to do with the insurance company founded b
several other prominent blacks in Winstc
economy, a decrease in sales and a lack ol
plaguing most small businesses ~ all added
Hill. Earlier this year, Hill found a solution.
Hill's company, Winston Mutual Life Insu
Listing of Winsti
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
The imoendinc sale of the Winston
Mutual building on Fifth Street ? and the
use of a white realtor to put the East
Winston landmark on the market - has
angered some policyholders.
Since 1906, Winston * Mutual Life Insurance
Co.'s livelihood has been the black
community. When the company decided to
merge with California-based Golden State
r Mutual, the parent company decided to sell
the five-story building and listed it with
white-owned Ferrell Realty Co.
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a millionaire. mm Chronicle Staff Writer
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y pro basket* The General Baptist Sti
Isn't talking flfi vention passed a resolut
jays. He and H week supporting local r
ionaire who i who back Darryl E. Hun
Iballa Visited fi| the convention's qua<
acently. Their IB meeting at the M.C. Bent
pear OflPage HB vention Center.
emesParker). Hunt, 20, was convi
I -?J June 14 for the Aug. 1<
rape and stabbing
I tinel copy editor Debc
I Sykes and sentenced to
R prisonment. Many blac
eluding a number o
ministers, feel Hunt w
a victed wrongfully.
I ? " The resolution cor
Hunt reads: "Inasm
mini(tf>rc rvf Winctnn.Qol
40tf,000 members throug
It MM '*> and host pastor of the*
tion.
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ten State f|| |^|fT|
ith firms
ed with a California-ba
State Mutual. The men
r office Friday mom- Mutual since 1971, a new
igings. He lay back in Los Angeles,
n his desk. Despite his The company's mergei
ords, Hill looked the office of Golden State Mi
cut almost in half. The
ng to figure out what underwriting operations 1
y his grandfather and tions in California. Man
>n-Salem. A lagging placed in other departmi
f money - problems their own, leaving a stafl
up to headaches for fice. At one time, said Hi
Golden State Mutual 1
irance Co., has merg- P
m Mutual Building
"That was a slap in the face to black
realtors in Winston-Salem," said Larry Anthony,
one of Winston Mutual's
policyholders. "If that's their (Golden State)
philosophy ..., I don't think they will be
good for Winston-Salem, period. They are
supposed to be a predominantly black company
and they should try to deal with
blacks."
Black realtor Garland Jones said he attempted
to contact George Hill, president of
Winston Mutual, when rumors that the
building might be sold surfaced. But Jones
said he neveT reached Hill.
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int resolution
by Baptists ,
Baptist Convention
' Hunt defense effort
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the General Baptist State Con
Vfention, said the resolution comate
Con- mittee stated only that if would
lion last give the local ministers "moral
ninisters support."
t during . "That does not mean dollars,"
irennial he said.
on Con- Turner said the committee
decided that Hunt's cause was
cted on worthy of the encouragerpent of
), 1984, the state's black Baptists,
of Sen- "Individual ministers and
)rah B. churches can contribute funds to
life inv any cause they want," he said.
:ks, in- The Rev. John Mendei, pastor
f local of Emmanuel Baptist Church and
as con- chairman of the Darryl Hunt
Defense Committee, said the
teeming resolution had received positive
uch as responses when it was discussed
lemhave in the convention's resolution
i as sup- way the local ministers feel about
gy both the Hunt case," he said.
1 in* any ; The Rev. Carlton A.G.
in their Eversley,. pastor of Dallabrook
Presbyterian Church and a
a black member of the Darryl Hunt
includes Defense Committee, said Mendez
hes and asked him to write the Hunt
hout the resolution for the convention.
The endorsement of the local
olutions ministers' efforts on Hunt's
of needs behalf by the convention was "a
; impor- significant thing," he said.
Daniels, "The largest black organizaChurch
tion in the state has put its weight
conven- into the Darryl Hunt
movement," Eversley said,
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George Hill
sed mutual insurance company, Golden
jer gives Hill, the president of Winston
job and title and requires him to move to
changes Winston Mutual to the regional
Litual. The staff at the local office has been
; data processing, claims payments and
lave been consolidated with similar operay
of the other employees, said Hill, were
ents, transferred or found other jobs on I
r of approximately 24 to run the local of- I
ill, Winston Mutual employed nearly 200.
has put the five-flooj" office building on
lease see page A2
?causing a flap
"Next thing I know, I read in the paper
that they are listing with Ferrell Realty,"
said Jones, with A-l Quality Realty. "It's
sad that black money built that building, but
when they leave they don't want to work
with us."
Another black realtor has privately said he
didn't understand the reason for the listing
with Ferrell, but he would not comment on
the record.
Hill said Golden State was responsible for
listing the building and that the local office
had nothing to do with it. Larkin Teasley,
Please see page A3
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