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VOL. XII NO. 21 U.S.P.S. No. 06791
I "He wanted to be remembered
as one who tried to love
and serve humanity."
Coretta Scott King
Now it's reality
By JERRY KENION
Special To The Chronicle
Th# Chronicle offices will be closed on
Monday, Jon. 20, In observance of tho
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
LOS ANGELES - A Jan. 20 network television
program will culmirate singer Stevie
Wonder's six-year ^ffort o see Americans
celebrate Dr. Martin LtKher King Jr.'s contributions
to humanity.
Wearing a bright orange sweater with a green #
dragon on it, Wonder brought a touch of whimsy'
to an otherwise serious and subdued press conference
last week. He was joined by Coretta
Scott King, who heads the Martin Luther King
Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, and Mary
Pasetta, who will produce and direct the televisjon
special.
Wonder, who comes across as a gentle man
and a gentleman, stood when someone whispered
to him that Mrs. Rjng was approaching her chair
..thepotfiutti*That gesturt.df respect for Baking's
widoW set the tone for the event.
It was in 1980 that Wonder joined the struggle
to create a national holiday honoring Dr. King.
Wonder said the first thins he did. "after lettins
[Motown (his record company) know, so they
wouldn't be in shock," was to announce that he
would go on tour to get out the word of his
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Four aldermen sup]
naming arena for J
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS prepared to form
Chronicle Staff Writer Joel name.
"I will make t\
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Lawrence Joel C
A proposal to name the new reasons stated,"
- coliseum after black Vietnam Alderman Virgini
veteran Lawrence Joel is gaining believe it is prop<
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city's aldermen. TS' N?wc^ w
The aldermen are expected to should be introdi
decide on a name for the yet-to- next two or ree
be-built new arena in the first Joel is the only
half of this year, according to Ci- native to win th<
ty Manager Bill Stuart. But one Medal of Honor,
alderman says she already is Please see
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FELLSMERE, Fla. - It seemed like written
something out of post-Civil War days. But blacks, I
Police Chief Daniel Onorato was told that said. "I
it's standard practice for funeral home was 198<
operators in this Indian River County town or or crc
to refuse to pick up the bodies of blacks The p
and other minorities. River Cc
Police called the Pottinger and Son the fune
Funeral Home to pick up the body of a for area
woman who died at her home. Pottinger's bring in
is one of three funeral homes that pick up viding a
northern Indian River County residents other m<
who die at home, police said Wednesday. But I>
But when funeral home owner Daniel the list.
Pottinger Sr. arrived, Onorato said he ask- "Ther
ed: "Why did you call me? White funeral in the n<
homes don't pick up blacks." " funeral I
As the family of Willie Coleman, whose don't ch
age was not available, looked on, Pottinger There's i
climbed back into his hearse and drove ^ The S
away, an officer told Onorato of the Dec. area bus
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(Pottinger) said it's a standard
ley've had foi; many-years, an unlaw,
that they didn't pick up
Haitians and Mexicans," Onorato 53
couldn't believe that. I said this
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chief said he asked Indian
>unty Sheriff Tim Dobeck to strike
ral home from a rotating list used
body pickups, which Onorato said
business for the homes while pro
public service to an area with no I
;ans to get the job done. I
obeck said Pottinger would sta^ on I
e are only two other funeral homes
Drth county/' Dobeck said. 4The
homes do us a favor in that they 1
large us for picking up the body.
no contract/' Louise (
tone Brothers Funeral Home, an Wilson, a
iness serving mainly black clients, . tor her m
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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
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/\ i uii siaie 01 local activities Derore, during and
after Jan. 20 will mark the first national holiday in
honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
While scores of local churches, schools and community
groups havfe planned memorial services and
programs in Dr. King's honor, a coalition of
citizens will sponsor a citywide celebration Monday.
.
The Martin Luther King Commemoration Com- *
mittee* which includes representatives of the Baptist
Ministers* Conference of Winston-Salem and
Vicinity, the North Carolina Black Repertory
Theater Company, the Winston-Salem NAACP
branch, the East Winston Library, the Winston
Lake Family YMCA, the East Winston Youth
Group, Winston-Salem State University and radio
station WAAA, has organized a series of daylong
activities on Jan. 20 in memory of the slain civil
rights l?a4er<, ^ _v
k : "'ir r**fin4tf Hth the national
1 observance^of Dr. King's birthday, which actually
falls on Jan. 15. The act making the third Monday
of January a federal holiday in honor of Dr. King
was passed by Congress in late 1983 after 16 years ^
of effort by King's family, friends and supporters.
The city's aldermen followed suit earlier this month
by designating Jan. 20 as a holiday for city
employees.
J .Dr. King is the first black American to be
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More than
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Hwinston-saien
the NAACP
Sunday nig]
branch's anni
Fund Banquet
Benton Conve
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R.J. Reynold
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other (photo by James Parker). NAACP's lead
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 1929-1968.
honored ^rith a national holiday. * - ?4 r *
A "Unity March" and program wertf ticfd byfaculty
and students at WSSU on Dr. King's birthday
Wednesday. Dr. William H. Turner, chairman
of the WSSU department of social science and one
of the organizers of the event. saiH the cervix u/ac
held earlier because the students will not be in
school on Monday.
44We felt that the entire campus should have
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dy and Burke file
its in state House
^MS statement, "I jun extremely ap?I
preciative of having the oppor,
County's two IT*10 r?Presem,he cjtize"s ?f
ves to the state Forsyth the North
re-election this ^arolina ?e"erKal Assembly. ... I
new face has have worked hard to represent
. , . the various interests of my constilenge
for the ,f nominated
Annie Brown e'^ted,... I pledge to continue to
#u . represent my constituents to the
best of my ability."
om the 66th 7 7
iled for <^ffice Filing Wednesday afternoon to
run in Forsyth County's other
61, a Winston- predominantly black district was
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Wilson honored
McLean A ward
LLIAMS Hanes Group President
Wr>ter Paul Fulton presented the
^50 members, McLcan Award, which is
H fripnHc nf named for former State
i's branch of NAACP Field Secretary |
tumed out anc* res"knt Charles
it for the McLean and recognizes ser- \
jal Freedom ^cc to communiat
the M.C. tyntion
Center. Fulton praised Mo*
c evening's Wilson, who retired in
the presenta- December as director of the
he Hanes Experiment in Self-Reliance
es McLean Inc., for guiding ESfc's
srvice Award outreach programs in hous.
Wilson, a ing, job training, feeding
5ss by Mar- the elderly, budget coiinseli
president of - ing, emergency assistance
Is Industries and community organizafficial
chang- tion.
uard of the Louise Lynette Wilson
lership. . Please see page A2
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