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I Vol. XII, No. 50
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begin next m<
By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Education Committee of the
was so alarmed at black students' i
standardized tests that it formed a st
tee in April to plan ways to help.
The fruits of those labors, a Comi
Education Program, will begin in lo
Sept. 16.
The program will provide tutor
students after school. Dr. Serenus T
of Mount Zion Baptist Church,
Hickerson, a retired teacher, co-chai
committee.
"The NAACP got real concernec
ferences in achievement scores on sU
between blacks and whites," saic
chairman of the Education Co
thought it was time to do somethir
came up with a twofold plan to
academics of tjhe child and help pa
their role should be."
Black students' performance o
California Achievement Test sh
? NAACP is concerned, President V
said.
Local blacks* scores generally fell
level. In the CAT reading test, bla
scored in the 56th percentile, secon
percentile; third-graders, 45th; sixth
and eighth-graders, 31st.
The scores reflect how students pt
test nationally in comparison to ot
the same grade. For instance, a 56th
means that the student did better nai
percent of other students in the si
took the test.
Black student performance in mat
also declined in each grade level on
was given.
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Second thoug
Board of Alder
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Following complaints from
aldermen two weeks ago, the city
has upgraded its plans for lowincome
duplex apartments off
University Parkway.
The Board of Aldermen decided
at a workshop Monday afternoon
to build fewer and fancier
units after Southeast Ward
Alderman Larry W. W.omble and
North Ward Alderman Patrick
T. Hairston expressed fears that
the original plan would create a
slum.
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The new plan calls for between
28 and 32 duplex apartments instead
of 48 and will include central
air conditioning instead of
outlets for window air conditioners.
The apartments also will
be slightly larger and will feature
washer-dryer hook-ups instead of
only washer connections.
Assistant City Manager Alexander
R. Beaty said the site could
not accommodate more than 32
units with the added amenities.
Womble and Hairston said
Tuesday that they are satisfied
with the new plans.
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"I am satisfied with these plans
even though we will have fewer
apartments/* said Hairston.
"1 was first for single-family
homes," Womble said. "But that
proposal didn't fly. I am glad
that they will have air conditioning
in these units."
Womble and Hairston roundly
criticized the earlier plans, which
called for flats and townhouses,
saying they would be too close to
one another and too plain.
The new plans also will make
the duplexes cheaper. Assistant
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Thursday, August 7,1986
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Blac
\ Gatto's
I By JOHN HIN
Chronicle Staff V\
Black vc
district attorne;
W. Warren !
I Joseph A. Gat
election, both c
"It (black vg
I do with it," Sp?
all the support
Gatto, 32, sa
black commun
mutual respect
I 4'The blac
community ha
treated me ver
I well."
The blac
vote was th
I deciding factc
I in Sparrow*
I victory again:
I incumbent Dis
I trict Attorne
Donald K. Ti<
dale in the Ma
I 6 Democrati
I primary*! Spai
row beat Tisdal
I I overwhelming!
in the predorr
inantly black pr
1,000 votes.
Black leader:
his handling of
ryl E. Hunt.
L *n2mI man, is servin
murder of new;
B. Sykes, a whi
His attorney:
Hunt with the
[ - Raleigh.
mmmS Hunt and tw
trial soon in an
, town last ako has rajsed
as he did as Gatto and s
jpear on B2 wU, be an jssue
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Family Services handled the ad
before the McEacherns had spent
idopt through other agencies.
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andidates said Friday. whoever
?te) will have a hell of a lot into the
irrow, 50, said. "But I need be. in th<
I can get." Gatto
id he has strong ties in the reverse 1
ity. "I think we have a new trial
for each other," he said, about
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1ecincts
to win by fewer than day. "1
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Hunt, a 21-year-old black ner."
g a life sentence for the Desp
spaper copy editor Deborah predom
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t N.C. Supreme Court in Sever
Sparrow
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unrelated murder case that a
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parrow say the Hunt case Salem
in the November election, sorry th
1 Hunt case will force
Mack denies
that he harass
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Winston-Salem businessman
James E. Mack denied Monday
that he harassed a Rockingham
County woman in 1980 who had
filed a discrimination suit against
The Hanec flmiin
4'That is a total falsehood,''
Mack said. "I would never do
anything like that."
Mary Rose Bennett, a Hanes
employee, said in The New York
Times on July 20 that Mack came
to her home while he was presi?/*
homeless bit
ith-old Antoine Mrs. McEachei
one big happy recently accepted
children, she had
rns* home when "I wanted chil<
way I was going t
option, but not tion," she said.
years trying to , She said that s
some telephone ni
I unsuccessfully when she came up
i Department of She ?ave them ? c
uid later at an ranged with Reb.
Plea
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is in the district attorney's office
public eye," Gatto said. "He will
i hot seat."
said it is likely that the court will
Hunt's conviction and grant him a
I. "1 don't have all the information
lat case," Gatto said. "But there
were some proI
blems with it.
I "If I Hn o#?t a
S chance to handle
Hunt's case, I
will do so in a
very careful
manner," Gatto ..
said.
Sparrow discounted
Gatto's
statements. "It
is impossible to
say how the Supreme
^Gouft ,? ;
will rule on the
ren Sparrow matter," Sparrow
said Monhat
is a wild guess on his part."
cted, Sparrow said, he would hanossible
new trial for Hunt on the
nurder charge in a "sensitive manite
Sparrow's overwhelming wins in
inantly black precincts during the
r, some blacks are not so sure they
>port him in November.
al black leaders were miffed when
v attributed his victory over Tisdale s
voter support in the West Ward,
jn not taking issue with those
nts that came out in the IVinstonv
? ?? n ?
journal, sparrow saia. "l am
lis offended people. I didn't want to
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charge
>ed employee
dent of B&C Associates of High
Point and told her to drop the
suit against Hanes.
"Jimmy Mack jumped all over
me," Ms. Bennett said in the
( iT T . 1 1 *1
aiury. nc naa mose release
papers. He said, 'You are going
to sign them today.' "
"He (Mack) goes over to my
doctor's house and tells him that
I'm a Communist and all kinds of
things," the newspaper quoted
Ms. Bennett as saying.
"That is an outright lie,"
Mack said. "I have talked with
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ick children
*n said that although she had
the fact that she couldn't have
known it for many years.
iren, but I knew that the only
o have them was through adophe
happened to be looking up
umbers in the directory one day
>on the Family Services number,
all, and an appointment was arecca
L. Lawhon, who handles
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