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VOL Xll, No. 24 U.S.P.
New arena's
for two week
By LA.A. WILLIAMS
Chronica Staff Writer
Related editorial on A4.
West Ward Alderman Robert S.
thington Jr. delayed a motion to nam
city's new arena for a black War
! Monday night when proposals he
ported to send the matter to a commii
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Hunt support
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Baptist Ministers' Conference
and Associates announced last Thursday
that more than $10,000 was raised
to help pay the legal expenses of
20-year-old Darryi Eugene Hunt at a
Jan. 20 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
memorial program at Shiloh Baptist
Tisdale's Men
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The driver of District Attorney
Tisdale's car during a Dec. 19, accident
her license to the District Court cl<
Thursday after a State Bureau of Inves
report revealed her Mood alcohol conc
have been above the legal limit.
Court, a friend of Tisdale and the drivei
Volkswagen during the accident, will
court Friday for driving while impairec
Her original trial, scheduled for Jan.
tinued because her test had not yet bee
by the SBI lab in Raleigh.
The SBI report lists Miss Oakley's bl
concentration as 0.18 percent. The legal
percent. She submitted to the test aftc
morning accident.
Bryan: S. Afri
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
A Wake Forest University religion ]
fessor told a local audience last week l
Winston-Salem is "intimately and int
sically" tied, both positively and negat
ly. to South African politics.
Dr. O. McLeod Bryan, chairman of
South African Christian Institute, travi
to South Africa 14 times to conduct I
State Department studies. He has wrl
three books about Sotfth AM&m
apartheid, including "NaudeTProphe
South Africa," wfckh has been banner
South Africa. Bryan told his audieno
the Sawtooth Center that Winston-Sale
involvement with apartheid is undeniat
"We are directly involved in the Sc
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naming is delay
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for further study appeared dooi
_ failure.
After hearing from 20 speak
white and nine black --12 for the
Nor- tion to name the coliseum for 1
e the Lawrence Joel, six against it and V
hero ins for more time to consider the
sup- - the city's eight aldermen appear*
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The official figure total raised to
aid Hunt's appeal efforts at the threehour
program was $10,412.88, said
Bishop L.V. Stennis, financial
secretary for the local group of black
clergymen.
"It's one of the most significant
things to happen in the history of
id found tn hp sit
Capt. E.L. Moreau of
Field Services Division sai<
Donald K. riding is above the legal
surrendered hi*h- He estimated the ave
erk's office ** around 0.22 or 0.23.
itigation lab He 8aid ^ scale for r
entration to goes UP,0 ?-50- "Anyone
could go into a coma/
19-D Valley readings get around the 0J
r of his 1966 sa^^* PCTSOns arc barely at
1 appear in Officer Brenda S. Setzei
I. of the accident who cl
9, was con- Oakley's license over to th<
n processed at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
The results of the test c
ood alcohol? was a passenger in his car
limit is 0.10 dent, liable for charges o
tr the early- drunk driver. Assistant C
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ica ties abound
African crisis," said Bryan, guest :
at the Downtown Church Center's n
luncheon program. "We are involve
WO- fviftitivelv and mmHvcIv hut or#
that volved. Winston-Salem has a very ii
rin- tie with South Africa. Probably n<
ive- city of this size and makeup has a
_ timatc ties with the freedom movei
the South Africa.'*
ried Citing the city's positive invoh
J.S. Bryan tokl the audience about
tten Winston-Salem resident Madre Ha
art was the daughter of one of the old?
t to famffles in the dty. At the age of it
in Hall married Dr. Alfred Xuma, ;
i at South African who was president
m's anti-apartheid African National Ci
)le. Bryan says Miss Hall spent 32 >
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Salem
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Winston-Salem/* Stcnnis said. "We
were pleased to see the total community
come to the support of Mr.
Hunt. We were satisfied with the turnout
and the fund-raising success of
the program."
Hunt is a black man convicted last
June of the August 1984 rape and
murder of newspaper copy editor
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the police department's
d Wednesday that a 0.18
I limit but is not overly
rage for cases of DWI to
neasuring blood alcohol
with a reading that high
" Moreau said. When
17-percent mark, Moreau flj
>le to walk.
the officer at the scene BK
barged Oakley, turned y
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ould make Tisdale, who
at the time of the acei
f aiding and abetting a
hief O.L. Sweat said in District Attoi
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luring service
Deborah B. Svkes. a white wnman
He is serving a life sentence in prison.
Community support, led by former
Alderman Larry D. Little, who
founded the Darryl Hunt Defense
Committee, has followed Hunt
through his arrest, conviction and imprisonment.
Supporters say Hunt was
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From Staff Reports
CHAPEL HILL - The Winston
Chronicle won seven awards in the ]
Carolina Press Association's
Newspaper Contest, the most award
by a weekly in the statewide competi
I the news coverage, appearance and d
feature writing, and use of photog
categories.
It also garnered third-place aware
community service, news writing
editorial writing.
The Chronicle has won more thi
state and national awards in the last
years.
to "We're very gratified to win
awards, and as always, we couldn't
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Aggies honor
Ronald McNair
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Sf ff Writer
GREENSBORO - They came to honor one of
their own.
AM ......J ? C ? A 'aa
rui wTcuiuw wuwu ui mure man 3,3UU I ill CO
Moore Gymnasium and spilled into the halls last
Friday. Speaker after speaker talked about the good
he had done in his short life.
When they said he had reached for the stars and
gone to the heavens, it was more than a figure of
speech. For they spoke of Dr. Ronald McNair, only
the second black American to travel in space, the
first from a historically black college.
McNair, 35, was one of the five astronauts and
two passengers who died when the space shuttle
Challenger exploded last Tuesday. He also was an
alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University.
So it seemed only fitting that the place where he got
his start would give him a royal farewell.
"Dr. Ronald McNair took us to the mountaintop
of scientific exploration," said the Rev. Jesse
Jackson, who paid the final tribute to McNair. J
At the time when McNair couldn't attend other
institutions because of his color and economic
status, A&T gave him a chance, said Jackson,
another famous A&T alumnus. Forever grateful for
that opportunity, McNair gave something back to
A&T, said Dr. Stu*rt Ahrens, director of the A&T
Student Sptet Shuttle Program*-??-^ a-* ?'- M,r
"Without Dr. Ronald McNair, there wotM have
been no A&T Space Shuttle Program,*' said
Ahrens. "This program is him."
Jackson and Ahrens were joined at the podium,
which was decorated with McNair's picture on one
side and a picture of the other crew members on the
other, by A&T Chancellor Edward Fort, Gov.
James Martin, U.S. Rep. Howard Coble,
Greensboro Mayor John Forbis, Dr. William C.
Parker, chairman of the A&T Board of Trustees,
and many others.
Parker read a telegram from President Reagan.
"Nancy and I join in thought and spirit with all
those who gather today to pay tribute to the
memory of Dr. Ronald McNair," read Parker. "By
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Church announces
investigation nf DA
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From Staff And Wire Reports
The United Church of Christ Commission on
Racial Justice will investigate the Forsyth County
District Attorney's office and its handling of the
Darryl Hunt case, commission officials said Tuesday^?
"On the surface, we feel that (District Attorney
Donald K.) Tisdale may have sent an innocent man
to prison intentionally,'* the Rev. Ben Chavis, executive
director of the commission, said at a news
conference in Raleigh. "Knowing he was innocent,
he went ahead with the prosecution to satisfy the
racial sentiment in Winston-Salem at the time of
this incident."
Hunt was sentenced to life in prison after being
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is seven awards
done it without a dedicated staff and the
support of the community," Chronicle
Salem Publisher Ernest H. Pitt said.
North "Once again we're proud to be honored
1985 by our peers and happy that we've been
s won able to win awards consistently from diftion.
ferent sets of judges each year," added
ors in?Chronicle?Executive Editor?Allen?
esign, Johnson. "It's a fitting tribute to a staff
raphs that works very hard and takes a good deal
of pride in what it does."
is for The contest was judged this year by jourand
nalists and journalism educators from
Texas.
in 50 "... Overall, the writing and general
\ four news coverage in this publication are a
refreshing change from the normal fare,"
these wrote news coverage judge Terry Collier of
have Please see page A3
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