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VOL. XII NO. 2 U.S.F
There'll Be More
Despite the low turnout at Friday's met
stems with representatives of the state's
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Make Hunt rep<
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Alderman Vivian Burke reminded City
Manager Bill Stuart Thursday afternoon
that a citizen's report on questions raised
concerning police behavior during the Darryl
Hunt trial and investigation should be
given a high priority.
"Mr. Stuart was concerned that the
report was so detailed that it would take
some time," said Burke. "But it shouldn't
take all that time."
Burke presented the seven-page report to
Stuart two weeks ago. The report, prepared
by the Rev. Leonard Lassiter, addresses six
New office buildi
By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writer .
Dr. Jonathan D. Weston will own and
manage a new, 6,000-square-foot building
under construction on Fifth Street, in the
shadow of the Winston Mutual Building.
Weston, 43, said he will lease space in the
building to professional tenants, whom he
expects to start moving in around late
September. Weston said the building,
which he has not named, has no relationship
to the Winston Mutual Building.
Weston has lived in Winston-Salem for
six years and for four of those years has
operated his private medical practice out of
the Winston Mutual Building.
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unice space in nasi wmsion is needed
badly, he said.
"East Winston has little office space
-available/1 Weston said. "When I started
Transit mall chat
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Despite changes in the design of a ramp f
new $3.6 million transit mall, the project's
endorse the plan.
Clerk of the United States Middle Disti
Creekmore, who has spearheaded a campaig
minal, said he isn't sure if the change is eno
It's an improvement, but whether or n<
enough to alleviate the problem is yet to
Creekmore. "There are still other factors in
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city manager:
Mt a priority
areas of concern with most of the questions
surrounding Johnny Gray, alias Johnny
McConnell, one of the state's key
witnesses, and the conduct of the WinstonSalem
Police Department during the investigation
of Deborah Sykes' murder.
Twenty-year-old Darryl Eugene Hunt
was sentenced to life in prison for the
murder and rape of Sykes, a copy editor
for the now-defunct Winston-Salem Sentinel.
Members of the black and white communities
have said Hunt was railroaded on
questionable evidence and the Darryl Hunt
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here (in the Winston Mutual Building), j
there was no other office space in East i
Winston. We need to attract more black
professionals and black businesses to East
Winston." j
Even though Weston plans for the \
building primarily to house offices, he said j
businesses are welcome to rent space as
well. "I have been talking to a beautician ?
who wants to rent space," he said. *
Weston plans to move his medical office
into the new building when it is completed. |
He said that he is the first and only tenant J
right now, but he is actively seeking other f
tenants.
The building, with an estimated construction
cost of between $300,000 and *
$400,000, is not a new idea, said Weston. '
He has been thinking about putting a *
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Chronicle Assistant
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I the state's 11 blacl
morning meeting >
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special assistant, T
r J/&^^ g*ve the members
^ tunity to "discuss
community in this
nouncing the meet
Martin told the <
asked for the meet
many such session
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Martin. "The wh
understanding and
not intended for n
to report to them
show that we hav
set but we are w<
old similar ses- headway."
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said his office wei
the names of all
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Lawrence Wofford: The
Justice Department is "corrupt
from the top down."
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\ to locate the sheltered bus terminal at
streets in front of the Federal Buildii
he Wachovia Building. The heated tei
>date 350 riders, would be placed on tl
a small parking deck. Buses would
in Street and exit down a ramp to C
lower than Main.
lich was originally located about five
it of the Federal Building's undergrc
use of at least part of the controversy.
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September 5, 1985 ~ ,3
lh meeting
'ts four bla<
k newspapermen say
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Editor
epresentatives from only four of
c newpapers showed for a Friday
vith the governor.
rganized by Gov. Jim Martin's
homas Stith III, was intended to
of the minority Dress an oDDor
the concerns facing the minority
state," said a July 29 letter aning.
Chronicle that the publishers had
ing and that this was only one of
s he intends to hold.
to meet with me to talk about
mployment and education," said
ole purpose of it is to increase
i two-way communication. It was
le to make a speech or to sell, but
on what we are doing ... and to
en't achieved all the goals we've
)rking on them. We are making
\ press secretary, Tim Pittman,
nt thfbtigh " great lengths" to get
of the state's black publications
Wofford: Jus
aims to intimi
By DAVld^Rrft^KlN
Chronicle Staff Writer
A Selma, Ala., civil rights activi
week called the U.S. Justice Depa
"corrupt'* and accused the departm
trying to intimidate black vot<
Alabama's five-county "black belt.'
Lawrence Wofford, 36, director
Campaign for a New South, sai
Justice Department has prosecuted
leaders and harassed black voters in
tempt to dilute black political stren
five predominantly black Alabama
ties.
Seven blacks and one white have b<
Nkg WAIR
v ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant I
WAIR General
Warren resigned 1
said Nick Pat<
manager of WSEZ
sister station, and
both radio station!
Patella said >
.. could not be reac
r ment, left to pui
v terests.
Warren's firend
taken a job with a r
Atlanta.
Patella said Wa
him with a writti
last Thursday. I
noved on to that, as far as he k
was under no pres:
hey 're still res<
the corner of ramp and regu
ig and across Creekmore.
minal, which Two weeks aj
le upper level fic from the buj
enter the ter- ing the undergr
hurch Street, first lane of tra;
one-way street.
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feet from the James Ritchey,
>und parking Authority.
Traffic com- Ritchey said hi
uses from the
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onicle
ft cents on Tk;? i*u?l
JU royco IIIIO vvocrv
with governor
:k newspapers
they weren't aware of session
and invite them to the meeting. Despite Pittman's
efforts, executives at three bFack newspapers, two
of them ironically located in Raleigh and Durham,
said they knew nothing about the meeting.
Attending the meeting were Bill Johnson,
publisher of the Charlotte Post, Bernard Robinson,
publisher of The Iredell County News, and Donald
Wess, publisher of the The Rocky Mount Sentinel.
Although Chronicle Publisher Ernest Pitt did not
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i nnuw nis (iviarun sj position already.
He can say what he has to say to me in the
mail...."
-- Thomas Jervay
attend the meeting, the newspaper sent a representative.
Most obviously missing from the Friday meeting
was a representative from Raleigh's The Carolinian.
Grover Bailey, editor of the newspaper, said
he was not informed of the meeting.
"If 1 had known about it, I would have been
there," said Bailey.
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tice Department
idate black voters
dieted by federal grand juries for allegedly
altering absentee ballots during the
ist last September *984 Alabama Democratic
? primary. Three of the blacks have been acrtment
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lent of qu,Med;rs
in Wofford said that the Justice Depart'
ment's investigation was racially
. . motivated.
of the
d the *'(These cases) are the single most signifiblack
cant thing in America," he told students
an at- while visiting Winston-Salem State Univergth
in sity. "Twenty years ago in the black belt,
coun- there was not one black elected official.
Now ... five counties where there have been
ren in- Please see page A2
:'s Warren resigns
Warren has been station
Editor manager at WAIR since January
w .. 1983. Before then, he worked at
Manager J.m 24_hour black-oriented staate
last week,
.. . tion as an account executive.
'FM WAIR^s Before joining WAIR, Warren
e rvu on mt >dic> bid11 anu as
the owner of . ? .... . A ...
sales manager at WAAA-AM,
WAIR's local competitor for
Warren, who black listeners.
:hcd for com- Warren was also once the
sue other in- owner of a local nightclub, Diamond
Jim's.
s say he has Warren's resignation comes at
adio station in a tjme when WAIR is experimenting
with a new format in an atirren
surprised tempt to boost lagging advertis5n
resignation ing sales.
*atella added Patella said he will not hire a
nows, Warren new general manager to replace
sure to resign. Please see page A3
ervingjudgment
lar street traffic would create a hazard, contends
50, the plan was changed so that, instead of the traf
terminal flowing into the same lane as the cars usOUnd
ffaraoe. th^ ramn u/nnlH nla
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ffic and flow into the middle lane of the three-lane
is expected to cost approximately $200,000, said
general manager of the Winston-Salem Transit
e has written betters to the people who wrote to the
Pfeai&e see page A13