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By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
Long after its first telecast in
January, Bill Moyers' CBS
documentary on the black family
remains a topic of discussion, nationally
and in Winston-Salem.
Last week, approximately 150
people viewed "The Vanishing
Family: Crisis in Blac'.: America"
during a meeting of the Forsyth
County Juvenile Justice Council
at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Following a showing of the tape,
a panel of six community leaders
concluded that the crisis in the
And a higher price
Plans for ne
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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Now that the city has named its
new, 14,000-seat coliseum, comes
the easy part: designing it,
building it and paying the bills.
The Board of Aldermen took a
,first step in that direction last
week by informally approving
preliminary design plans for the
Lawrence Joel Veterans
Memorial Coliseum that include
stone floors, copper siding, a
$1.2 million barrel-vaulted
skylight, a veterans memorial
wall in the lobby, a locker room
in Winston-Salem State University's
colors ? and a higher price.
Ellerbe Associates Inc., a Minneapolis
architectural firm,
.prepared the plans and company
President Donald T. Eyberg and
Pat W. Swann, assistant city
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' historical roots, they say
black family is the result of 300
years of negative conditioning
and that both the black and white
communities must work to
reverse the trend.
'This problem didn't just spring
up," said Johnetta Huntley, a
counselor at Winston-Salem
State University and a member of
the Forsyth County Family
Awareness Task Force. "We're
looking at the conditioning of a
society. The greater society has
perpetuated the standards over
300 years. What we see here is the
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presented them to the board.
Eyberg presented slides which
gave the aldermen different views
of the building, while Swann
outlined changes that will raise
the price tag for the facility from
$20 million to $26.6 million.
Swann said the changes were
suggested after Winston-Salem
officials discovered the problems
other cities were having with their
facilities.
Swann, Senior Engineer Randy
J. Rogers and other city staff
members toured coliseums in
seven cities, including Atlanta,
Kansas City, Mo., Charleston,
W.Va., Greensboro and Chapel
Hill.
Among the proposed changes
are the construction of the glass
skylight in the lobby, larger seats,
a wiaer concourse an&aaaiuonai
knee room between seats.
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Chronicle Staff Writer
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iself. The other is about Darryl He sail
nor, Jess
out of jail at least 10 times since "I'm t
for felonies," the 34-year-old there whi
ive said last week while seated in over an e
of the Piedmont Correctional the Chro
"I real
ibing in and out of garbage* are impo
uminum cans, anything to pre- medicine
eaking the law," he said, clad in how Dar
d using his words, his hands and mistreate
g eyes to make his points. That h
because I chose to or preferred . murder c
id to. Thomas,
nine or 10 months before I came June of t
adty. Before^that, he said, three Sykes, a
;est period he had been free. white,
ds are the cause of his latest in- Despit<
years is the sentence. He's been occurred
the subje
is, and was on my way to New pened ye
ped in Greensboro," he said. "I
FACT primary
raise eyebrows
Candidate and his campaign mc
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Endorsements last week by a county
teachers' organization have raised her concern
and suspicion, says former county
Democratic Party Chairman Earline W.
Parmon, who heads William H. Tatum's
campaign for school board.
Mrs. Parmon said Thursday that she
particularly is concerned that the group endorsed
a white candidate for the
predominantly black 67th House District,
and the husband of the organization's
president for school board.
The Forsyth Association of Classroom
Teachers, also known as FACT, represents
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By L.A.A, WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
This article is the secoi
two-part series.
' Gramm-Rudman so c<
one local man that he has
ed his own campaign aga
balanced-budget bill.
"Gramm-Rudman
penalize the powerless j
penniless," said Chai
Smith, 57, two weeks ai
press conference for wh
representatives of local
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destroy gains indigent
have made, since the 460s
BThe law would "cut d<
titlement programs, rcn
Communit> Hevelopme
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ie Winston Lake Section 8, the Housing >
ning earlier this ty, and all phases of fed*
sidized housing/' Smith
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other player
ike them to the police in Greensboro." He
an into trouble and was caught with the
him.
railroaded,'* he said.
d he has written the president, the govere
Jackson and others.
rying to get the attention of someone out
o's powerful," Thomas said as he handed
jight-page letter addressed to the editor of
nicle.
ize Deborah Sykes and Darryl Hunt's case
rtant, but I'm being treated with the same
he said. "It's good to be interested in
ryl Hunt has been treated, but I've been
d too."
e is a player in the drama surrounding the
:onviction of Hunt, 21, is well-known to
Hunt, a black man, was convicted last
he Aug. 10, 1984, rape and murder of Mrs.
newspaper copy editor. Mrs. Sykes was
e the fact that his involvement in the case
almost two years ago, once he broached
ct, Thomas' words flowed as if it had hapsterday.
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and suspicions
mager express concern
more than 1,600 of the county's estimated
2,200 teachers. Last Wednesday the
organization announced its endorsements
for the May 6 primaries after interviewing
the candidates, and having its recommendations
ratified by a vote of its members.
Twenty-five percent of the organization's
membership is black.
Among black candidates receiving endorsements
from the group were
Democratic incumbents Beaufort O. Bailey
for school board and Mazie S. Woodruff
for county commissioner.
However, the group chose to endorse
John D. Clark over black candidate Logan
Burke for the Democratic primary in the
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it social cuts
Smith said he is urging all
public housing tenants in Forsyth
nd in a Guilford counties to write
their congressmen in opposition
to the bill.
ancerns "I'm also asking federal
launch- emolovees to write their reoresen
inst the tatives, because their jobs will be
the first to go," he said.
w i 11 Smith, who calls himself a watind
the chdog over federal monies and
rles S. programs, said he has earned the
go at a title by virtue of his involvement
ich two in the Civil Rights Movement.
media He is a former executive board
It will member of both the local
clients NAACP and the Experiment in
Self-Reliance. He has also served
own en- as president of the Poor People's
der the Tenant Council and present of
nt pro- the (Jr. - wx\
destroy Association.
Vuthori- As Southern regional represenjral
sub- tative of the National Tenants
said. Please see page A2