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Two days after signing a major
Atlantic Records, Curtis Hairstc
often and smiled broadly, as if\<
come in March.
In a sense it did. Hairston's hi
last week in New York, where he c
for popular recording artists Yj
Peoples. The next day, Hairston
long-anticipated contract with Ai
clients also include Roberta Flack,
R.J.'s Latest Arrival and th
Transfer. The feat culminated j
work, said the Twin City native am
High School alumnus.
"I feel absolutely wonderful abc
contract," said Hairston during a
i his home on Spaugh Street. "It i
for me. 1 had been negotiating
since December and it all fell intc
signed with them on Tuesday."
An animated Hairston said he's
to discuss the terms of the pact, bu
*signed "a multi-record, 34-page"
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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer s
Vicki Matthews Oakley, the j
driver of District Attorney
Donald K. Tisdale's car during a
Dec. 19 accident, pleaded guilty "
last Thursday to charges of drunk ^
driving. No charges have been fil- ^
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against Tisdale for {
"allowing" Mrs. Oskley s
to operate his vehicle j
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the car, for aiding and abetting 1
the crime. i
Mrs. Oakley was given a i
40-day jail sentence, suspended 1
on the condition that she not \
have any traffic-related offenses >
in the next year, and was ordered
to pay a $100 fine and $100 in 1
court costs.
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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Having a small role in a hit movie
such as 4The Color Purple/' starring
comedienne/actress Whoopi Goldberg,
would be an impossible dream for some
people. But for Maria Howell, it's a
reality.
Miss Howell, a 24-year-old Gastonia
native and Winston-Salem State University
graduate, indeed has a part in the
movie, hut Hnn't trv tn r?/\?vri?^? h?r that
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"It's more of a singing part, but it includes
some acting," Miss Howell said
in a telephone interview from Charlotte,
where she is the featured performer at
Jonathan's Uptown, a popular i
restaurant and jazz loft.
'The scene I'm in is the turning point
deads guilty
\ not charged
She also must attend a statesponsored
DWI school and peroral
24 hours of community service
within 30 days. I
Mrs. Oakley lost her license for
10 days but was granted limited I
iriving privileges to go to and I
rom work by Judge Claude W.
Mien Jr. because of a good drivng
record.
Allen, the chief district judge
>f the 9th Judicial District (Perion,
Vance, Warren, Franklin I
ind Granville counties) and
tpecial prosecutor Michael D. I
fohnson, the district attorney for
he 1st District (Elizabeth City),
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Forsyth County judges had
-efused to hear the case in early
February because of their workng
relationship with Tisdale, I
ind, two weeks ago, Tisdale
emoved his office from the case
>ecause, he said at the time, it
vas "cleaner." HHH
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She appears in the film as a soloist in a
backwoods Georgia Baptist choir.
She said she had been on pins and I
needles after the filming of the movie.
finished and before it came out, trying
to figure out how, and if, her scene was
incorporated in the final version.
"It's a major scene," she explained.
"It changes the whole movie. I didn't
realize it would even be in there. When I
saw it the first time, I just sat there crying.
I was so relieved."
Miss Howell says she's seen the movie j
three times. She says she can't even -$
estimate how long the scene lasts.
"It felt like an hour to me," she said.
"It's really something to see your face
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ask to file a 'friend of th
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The area's two major ministers'
organizations, representing both black and
white congregations, have moved to file a
brief supporting a new trial for Darryl E.
Hunt.
The . predominantly black Baptist
Ministers Conference and Associates of
Winston-Salem and Vicinity and its white
counterpart* the Forsyth Ministers
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rciiuwsuip, <u>Kcu iiic siiaic supreme v_oun
March 6 to allow them to file a 4'friend of
the court" brief in support of motions for
appropriate relief and
summary reversal filed
black man7 was convicted kj
in June of the August 1984 \ I
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Deborah B Sykes. He ^^HMI
serving a life sentence.
Ministers from both
organizations, who say I
they reittttent more"than* ? * .
150 congregations in the The R^v. The
area, appeared at a press tents of a pr
conference at Parkway press confer*
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on Corporation Parkway. (photo by Jan
The Rev, -Thomas W.
Mann, pastor of the church, spoke for the
group and read a "Statement of Theological
Concern" which is attached to the
group's motion. i
The group says in its statement that it is
deeply concerned with the Sykes case "not 1
only because of the brutal murder, but also
because the subsequent investigation and ]
trial have raised serious questions within !
the community about the procedures which
led to the conviction of Darryl Hunt. <
"If left unresolved, these questions ;
threaten to rend the social fabric of the ]
community, to exacerbate racial tensions, ;
and to create an unhealthy mistrust in our
most basic institutions of justice," the 1
statement said. i
Appearing with Mann were the Rev. <
Garther W. Roland, president of the Bap- <
tist Ministers Conference, the Rev. Jim T.
I Black-owned
plans to local
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
A black-owned firm with
sales of more than $24 m
last year will ODen an offi
> Wins ton-Sal em in two wee
high-ranking company ol
said Monday.
Maxima Corp., ranked
fastest-growing black-o
company in America last yc
Black Enterprise magazine
move into the Winston-!
Business and Technology C
on Marshall Street in two ^
"We've done our initial
ings at the market and dete
ed that Winston-Salem is a
we want to be," said W.
Fleming, Maxima's executiv
I president, in a telephone
view from the firm's corp
headquarters in RockviUe, I
"We want to get the feel <
by James Parker, community, and the feel c
in the MOVE business there/* he a<
s on A2. "We're re^dy to begin i
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Fatzinger of St. Thomas United Church of
Christ and the Rev. J. Dexter Taylor of
Trinity Presbyterian Church.
The ministers say a review by City
Manager Bryce A. Stuart that criticizes the
police department's handling of the case,
and subsequent disciplinary action against
officers who handled the case, give 4'the
appearance of injustice and unfairness in
the trial of Darryl Hunt.
4 'Public confidence in the judicial system
of Forsyth County can only be renewed
and strengthened, and the appearance of
justice can only be achieved, by granting
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Hunt brief during a Tuesday
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enter, and the Rev. Jim T. Fatzinger
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Hunt a new trial, free of errors alleged in
the city manager's report and in Darryl
Hunt's motions/' they said in the statement.
Mann said the Forsyth Ministers
Fellowship voted to write the brief in
January. "We got together with the Baptist
Ministers Conference and agreed to file the
>ame brief," he said.
Roland said, "We have come together to
declare our concern for this community,
and to do our duty to all humanity. We
have to make (the public) aware of the injustices
that exist in our system."
In their statement, the ministers cited
biblical references to justice, and said, "It
is not only our constitutional right, but also
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t high-tech firm
te in Winston-Salem
marketing and developing of
business."
Maxima, founded by Joshua I.
ifllion Smith, 44, eight years ago, helps
I1 1. other businesses operate and
. t manage computer centers and in?
eludes on its staff a team of pro;ficial
i the "We've done our initial
wned lookings at the market
m by and determined that
, will wisnton-Salem is a
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Gary Fleming said the company's
e vice maj?r clients are the federal
inter- departments of energy and
jorate defense. Maxima has offices in 14
cities, he said.
"We chose Winston-Salem
3f the because we look for places to
>f the locate where it is an advantage to
Jded. be/' Fleming said. "We're a
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