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Vol. XII, No. 41
Run-offs high
Ion black agenda
By The Associated Press
RALEIGH - Black legislators
say they will go ahead this summer
with efforts to reduce the fre
quency of primary run-offs, even
though Democratic leaders of the
General Assembly earlier decided
to postpone the issue until 1987.
Legislative leaders told
Democratic Party Chairman Jim
. Van Hecke Jr. last week that they
. couldn't muster the two-thirds
vote needed to bring the measure .
up when the Legislature convened
Thursday, June 5.
6ut Rep. Dan Blue, D-Wake,
chairman of the Legislative Black
Caucus, said last Friday that the
votes are there to lower the
threshold for victory in first
primaries from 50 percent to 40
percent.
"We think we can get the twothirds
vote and plan to push it,*'
he said. "There's support for the
change among the rank-and-file
legislators, including some
Republicans."
Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan said Friday
that there did not appear to
?Wugh support to get tb* ?
legislation through An the short
) session.
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Mediation cei
By JOHN HINTON s
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Neighborhood Justice
Center, a 3-year-old mediation r
center whose clientele is 65 percent
black, is experiencing finan- *
cial trouble.
"We neglected to form a long- v
range financial plan," said Lisa n
V. Menefee, executive director of n
the center. "We have focused on *
our day-to-day needs and our ii
Richard Davis: An integrated prfvi
Salem needs (photo by James Pa
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X Chronicle Staff Wrlttf
B? While he doesn't oppose placing tl
pilot program for gifted third-graders
of all of them, said NAACP Preside
KB the academically gifted (AO) program
re-evaluated.
The board decided Monday night
one or two schools recommended by
BB "I think the idea of a pilot prograx
throughout the system," Marshall sa
about the program is not very positive
I the AO program."
The pilot program will consist of a
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A young starlet sings a tune in "KLSaarph of the Perfect
Song," a student musical presented last week at Ashley
Middle School (photo by James Parker).
nter facing financial woes
thort-term needs.'* The center, which has an ar
JThe center, a non-profit nual budget of $60,000, shoul*
organization founded in 1983, remain solvent for the next thre
nediates minor disputes. The months, Mrs. Menefee said. It
snter handles 600 cases every office space in the Sunris
rear and has a 97-percent resolu- Towers was donated by th
ion rate. Winston-Smlem Housini
'The center has provided a Authority, she said.
worthwhile service to the com- If the center closes, Mrs. Terr,
nunity," said Evelyn A. Terry, a said, the courts will have to dea
nember of its board of directors, with more cases. "We will fin<
ft needs money to keep on go- more of our people doing time ii
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a New private
By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
When the Piedmont Clu
opens next year, blacks as well a
whites will gather for privat
meals atop the city's newest oi
flee tower.
The private dining club, whic
will be located on the 19th floe
of the yet-to-be-completed On
Triad Park building, has an opei
applications policy, says th
chairman of its Board of Govei
~nors. - ? '
John F. McNair III, presides]
ite club is just what Winston- of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
rker). says anyone who can afford ii
ident: Entire gifted and tc
non-AG students.
In remarks before the boarc
. new program would only dc
le city-county school board's students
i at only a few schools instead _ ______.
nt Walter MarshaUTuesday^ .The quMt|0n before y
n for grade need,tobe was discrimination, bui
to nlace the new orosram in dO?S this district IIH B
the superintendent next year. dellnil minorities 88 If
n is better than trying to do it
id. "(But) my feeling overall
1.1 don't have a lot of faith in 'There are almost 800 gift?
and less than 50 of these are bit
group of students that sole- "Nobody can tell me that tl
tat takes some subjects with from some type of racial preju
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By JOHN HINTON
Chronic!* St?tt Wrlttr
The black community
still supports Darryl Eugene
Hunt, even though he has been
charged with a second murder,
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week. The black 21-year-old was
railroaded in the first case and
the same may be true of the second
one, they say.
"The fight is continuing/* said
Larry D. Little, a former North
Ward alderman and a member of
the Hunt Defense Committee
who has been Hunt's most visible
champion over the last two years.
"(Blacks) don't trust (District Attorney
Donald K.) Tisdale, and
they don't trust some of the .
members of the police department,
either."
The Rev. John Mendez, chairman
of the defense committee,
said the second murder charge
against Hunt is suspicious. "We
can't depend on the district attorney
and the police department
to be thoroughly fair with this
case," he said.
Added Little: "He (Jisdale)
.. has openly tried to racially
polarize the community. He
doesn't give a damn about
J Wilson."
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! club: An open
regardless of his sex, race or
_ religion, can apply for membership.
b "I thought it was a good idea
? to have a businessman's and
c woman's club in downtown
- Winston-Salem," McNair says of
his decision to help organize the^
h club two months ago.
>r McNair says the club is owned
e by the Club Corp. of America in
n Dallas, Texas,, which operates
e similar clubs in Charlotte and
Raleigh.
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Little: Although he's happy tl
motivation in the Hunt case (pt
tittle also criticized Tisdale for
announcing the second murder
charge against Hunt three weeks
before the May 6 primary.
Hunt's nrnhflhlfr-f anc<? hearing
was held the day before the
primary.
Tcan't understand how {these
witnesses) waited three years and
didn't say anything about
Wilson's death," Little said.
Three plead
Darryl E. Hunt and two
other men pleaded innocent
Monday of first-degree
murder charges in the
September 1983 death of a
Winston-Salem man.
Hunt, 21, his best friend,
Sammy L. Mitchell, 30, and
Merritt W. Drayton, 28, will
be tried Aug. 11 in Forsyth
Superior Court. A Forsyth
door membei
Board of Governors say the club
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and will have a positive effect on
the city.
Ernest H. Pitt, publisher of the
Chronicle, says the club will give
black business people the chance
to meet and conduct business in a
pleasant setting.
"It's an opportunity we've
never had before," he says.
"We're all concerned about what
happens to Winston-Salem and
where it goes.
~^For us to be able to operate
on this level is an indication in my
opinion that the city has changed
for the better. I think we have to
nneedstobe,
difference between white talent
In addressing the AG prograi
the board's sense of fairness,
whether there was discriminat
"What, if anything, was done
children? Why does this district
minorities as inferior?
"We believe the method used
most part favors upper-middleblacks
they are inferior to whit
black community has been left <
In order to fix these problems
clean house. "We have to have
with evervbodv and not how to
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"Now they have a photographic
memory."
The Wilson murder case had
been closed but was reopened last >
fall. !'
Hunt, Hunt's best friend, Sammy
Lee Mitchell, and he bt* Ar- J*
thur* Wilson to death in -|
September 1983, says Merritt V
Drayton, who at the time of his 0
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not guilty l
County grand jury indicted the
three - men - last - month - on
murder charges for the death
oi Artnur Wilson.
Carol S. Hebcrt, Hunt's
court-appointed attorney,
withdrew from Hunt's case
Monday morning. The Darryl
Hunt Defense Committee has
hired James E. Ferguson of
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seize this opportunity."
Another black member of the
board, Richard N. Davis of Davis
Management Services, says he
thinks a totally integrated club is
what Winston-Salem needs.
"It's going to be a real asset to
Winston-Salem/' Davis says. "A t
lot of the downtown clubs do not
have any black members. But the
Piedmont Club is admitting people
without regards to race or
religion.
"I'm sure it's going to have an
impact on [he other private clubs
in town."
Davis says he was invited to
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re-evaluated
and black."
n in general, Marshall challenged
"The question before you is not
ion, but how much?" he said,
to identify more minority gifted
use a model that so clearly defines
to identify gifted students for the
class whites. This district teaches
tes. We oppose that fact that the
out of the definition of <rift?H "
, Marshall said, the system needs to
people professional enough to deal
high-pressure groups," he said.
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