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VOL. XII NO. 5 U.S.P.S
"I'm a grassroots worke
They're like my extende
family. I love my ward
- Alderman Vivian Burk
Vivian Burke:
It's no surprise
By ALLEN H. JOHNSON
Chronicle Executive Editor
An analysis.- *' ' t .
Every red hair on ^Vivian Burke's head
dutifully in placed
She smiled broadly, held her head back re
ly, and enunciated like a linguist while hol<
court, stressing each syllable when she spok<
The syllables flowed Tuesday night during
celebration of her third term as Northeast W
airlprmon *
HlWVIlllHlIi
"Y'all will have to wait for the queen," on
Mrs. Burke's campaign staffers, Theldora Sn
had said as a crowd of reporters gathered out
and a crowd of supporters waited inside foi
victor's entrance * Princ* HaU Mas
Lodge oaijiiLTlueet. ^ ^
iu iici war Bna mry. DUTKC, THSniOIIHOiy IHT6
resplendent in a blue drc? with whke stripes
I'm not surprised," she said of her 1,572
I Johnson: Win or lose, he gave it his
tuents benefited (photo by James Parke
New YMCA: Dr
in members, but n
By ROBIN ADAMS t
Chronicle Assistant Editor (
The Winston Lake Family YMCA has
enjoyed a dramatic increase in membership,
say YMCA officials, but it still needs v
more members to offset higher oDeratine 1
costs. <
4'We're getting there," says Brian Cor- 1
mier, general director of the Metropolitan
YMCA, which governs Forsyth County's 1
YMCAs. i
In five months of operation, the new c
Waterworks Road YMCA has increased its c
membership from fewer than 100 to more
than 1,000. f
However, Cormier and Norman Joyner,
*
The prima
By DAVID R. RANKIN
Chronicle Staff Writf
Patrick Hairston doesn't wear his paten
much these days.
The local NAACP president turned cand
alderman sported a gray suit Tuesday night,
with gray shoes, a conservative blue-and-gr
Equally low-key was his entrance into his <
on Patterson Avenue. Flanked by supportei
Bill Tatu~i, as well as present North Ward /
tie, Hairston looked sullen, even downcast.
Then he erupted, "I won!" and the plao
Hairston had turned back a crowded slat
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The incumber
probably knew i
-?Challenger Vi
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in Winston-Salei
best, and the consti- Mrs. Burke st
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amatic increase
nore are needed
he Winston Lake YMCA's new executive
director, say approximately 2,000 members
tfill be needed to defray higher expenses.
"It will take that many members to give
is the kind of support needed to operate a
:acility of that size and magnitude,'* said
"ormier. 44We aren't there yet, but that's
lot unusual."
According to a member of the Winston
-ake Y Board of Management, the facility
s operating $30,000 in the red. Cormier
ronfirmed that there is a deficit, but said it
an be erased in time.
'The original projections (membership
"igures) and budget anticipations were too
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ties'aftermath:
r
Electic
ted warmup suits that YOOT '(
lidate for North Ward
tastefully coordinated
ay tie and a blue shirt.
campaign headquarters the Democratic i
s Walter Marshall and seek again this y<
llderman Larry D. Lit- In most of the
however, newcor
t erupted. Only 8.4 percei
:e of opponents to win went to the polls
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By ROBIN AdI
Chronicle Assists!
The incumbd
Tuesday's aldel
them Vivian H.
ped challenger
Northeast Ware
In the Northe
bent seeks re-eh
swept aside all <
"There won
year," said Maj
watched there*
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term barring a s
in November,
Republican opp
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Burke a
over
WI^H vvotes to John!
follovsHnoJher vie- the vote to hi
nomination. J
Williams-Henr)
vas supposed to be the closest of Republican nor
races. 4'I knew more than they In the South*
iew." W. Womble wc
vever, only one word with one 81 percent of th
ycametoMrs. Burked mind, Incumbent \
need "Whew!" thwest Ward fc
it had been in a fight, and she petitor, Thoma
t. cent of the
ictor Johnson Jr. forced Mrs. I Republican Bria
lim sign for sign, radio commer- In the race f
mmercial. every vote was
,000 was spent by both sides in could be detenr
expensive aldermanic campaigns bent Ernestine ^
n's history. percent of the
lid her campaign had raised so primary with I
ase see page A3 totaled 45 perce
percent. James
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Little says Tisdale cares little about black-onblack
crime (photo by James Parker).
Exultation and bitt
" I
lomination for the scat Little has chosen not to
sar in favor of law school.
other races in which the incumbents chose to stay,
ners were treated rudely.
[it, 6,633, of the 78,145 registered voters *n the city
Tuesday. Many of the challengers said the low tur
jjji Th<
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races.
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nt Editor
ints held their ground in
rmanic primaries, among
Burke, who decisively topVictor
Johnson Jr. in the
1.
ast Ward, where no incumjction,
Patrick L. Hairston
:omers.
t be many changes this
for Wayne Corpening as he
iults at the Board-of Jilec^
ig, who will serve a third
uccessful write-in challenge
faced no Democratic or
osition in the primary.
;ast Ward, incumbent Mrs.
surprising landslide victory
Mrs. Burke, who will run
the - (general diection in
>n I tMrd term with 1,572
ton's 567, beating Johnson
****
\ Ward, NAACF President
ston garnered 77 percent of
uidily win the Democratic
fames Knox beat Diana
f 51 votes to 21 to earn the
nination.
fast Ward, Alderman Larry
>n his second term, winning
le vote.
fartha Wood in the Nor*at
her Democratic coms
Brame, winning 88 pervote.
Mrs. Wood faces
in Miller in November,
or South Ward alderman,
counted before a winner
lined. But, because incumWilson
could not garner 51
vote, she faces a second
7rank Frye. Mrs. Wilson
M? *U ~ *? ?_ Af\
in ui uic vuic iu riyc s **J
Kennedy, the third canHunt
Def
Tisdale hs
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
The district attorney
deals with the perpetrators
black-on-black crimes
change for their tes
against Darryl Eugene Hu
members of the Hunt 1
Committee at a press con
last Friday afternoon.
Hunt, 20, was found g
the murder and rape of
newspaper copy editor E
Sykes and sentenced to
prison in June.
District Attorney Dor
ernessjoy
nout helped spell their del
In the North Ward, wh
Wairctrm frvnlr a lan,
? y tf?vaa w mil1
MWc carried our fight
Hairston said. *Td like t<
vote for mc."
But Hairston said the r;
Republican nominee Jam<
Knox defeated North
Williams-Henry 51 votes t<
1,389 Democratic votes ci
Little said he was happ
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9 Primaries I
>n what - and why I
>aldermanic I
Pages A1 and AS |
nicle
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s 30 Pages This Week
nts survive
: primaries
hie among winners
Hairston: A victory hug (photo by
James Parker).
Vv .
. did ate in the South Ward Democratic
i primary, won 14 percent of the vote.
Dtmocrutic+ tmnoin ttt Tuesday's
>: primary ranged from 29 percent in the Northeast
Ward to 13 percent* in the South
tt'r a ' -- *
waru. t^niy o percent or tne registered
Republicans voted in the predominantly
black and Democratic North Ward.
Citywide, only 8.4 percent of the total
registered voters voted.
As expected, the heaviest voter turnout
was in the Northeast Ward, as Mrs. Burke
overwhelmingly won every precinct in the
ward. Mrs. Burke's largest margin of victory
came at the St. Stephen's precinct,
where she won 382 votes to Johnson's 120.
The closest precinct battle was in Mineral
Springs, where she totaled 222 votes to
Johnson's 145.
The victory came as no surprise, Mrs.
Burke told reporters en route to her victory
celebration.
"I am the alderman, and I have the pulse
of the people," she said. "I was talking to
Please see page A11
ense Committee:
is made deals
Tisdale last week dismissed com
mon law robbery charges against
Johnny Gray (also known as
e Johnny McConnell), a key state
o two witness jn the Hunt trial. Gray
\ cx" was charged with robbing Robert
timony Latham Davis, 85, of $480 on
"V3"1 Feb. 5.
Defense
ference The week before, Cary Hall,
charged with assault with a deaduilty
of ly weapon for shooting Sammy
iormer Lee Mitcnen, Hunt's best friend,
Deborah was released on a $5,000
life in unsecured bond. Hall was a
potential state witness in the
laid K. Please see page A11
and pain "
Feat.
ere he had been endorsed by incumbent
dslide victory with 77 percent of the vote.
to the people, and they responded,'*
3 thank the people who had the faith to
ace isn't over yet. He faces North Ward
* Knox in November's general election.
aiu rvcpuuucan u&nuiuuic uurna
3 21, while Hairston received 1,016 of the
tst in the ward.
y that Hairston won and that Hairston
lease see page A13