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EDITORIALS ‘The (black) French Connection’ PAGE A4. ENTERPRISE Adrenalin Corp.: Charging up PAGE B5. RELIGION I Business magazine: ’ Two years better PAGE B6. South Weir Winston-Salem Chroni ( The Twin City’s Award-Winning Weekly Vol.XIII, No. 1 U.S.P.S. No. 067910 Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, August 28,1986 50 cents »: le wait PAGE B8. ages This Week “Reading is so important, not oniy to biack kids but whites as weli. I wish we on the local level could find some way to replace the program.” -- Beautort Bailey Schools scuttle reading program CHERYL WILLIAMS Ironicle Staff Writer ANGELA REFLECTS The elimination of a supplementary reading pro- un, which last year served more than 500 middle lool students in the city/county system, is not as d as it may seem, say school officials. Although the federally funded Chapter 1 reading igram will not be offered in the middle schools s school year, other programs and services are in ice that will aid students with poor reading skills, d Barbara Hayes, in^ucli5iTal coordinator for Chapter 1 program Last year the reading program in the middle lools served 560 seventh-graders at 11 schools, ree hundred seventy of these students were black. Reduced federal funding is the main reason the >gram will not be available in the middle schools, s. Hayes said. The school system received $2.2 ilion for the Chapter 1 program this year, a 4.6 cent decrease from last year. ‘We did have reduced funding,” Mrs. Hayes d. “That’s the reason for not being able to con- iie with ail of the services we offered in 1985-86. ‘It would be ideal to have a supplementary pro- m at the middle schools, but because of present apter 1 budget cuts and anticipated cuts, it is dif- ilt to keep the operation of the present igram.” lut School Board member Beaufort O. Bailey 1 1 NAACP President Walter Marshall feel that reading program in the middle schools should have been eliminated. alley, the only black board member, said that he Please see page A2 Merit pay system is unfair, some say Worker: It encourages ‘buddy system’ By JOHN HINTON Chronicle Staff Writer Black activist Angela Davis believes today’s social activists have a “far more sophisticated political awareness” than social activists of the ’60s. More of her thoughts appear on page A5. Supervisors in city government either unfairly evaluate employees under the merit pay plan or don’t know how to evaluate city workers, some black employees have charged. “It is a buddy-buddy system,” said one black employee who ask ed not to be named. “People get good and bad evaluations based on their relationship with their supervisors and not their job per formance. That is not fair.” The merit pay system discriminates against black employees because white employees routinely receive higher evaluations and pay than black workers, the employee said. “I know this is true because it has happened to me,” the worker said. Many supervisors don’t know bow to fairly evaluate an employee’s performance, said a black supervisor who also re quested anonymity. “There is no uniform rating system,” the black supervisor said. “Many times, a supervisor and an employee never talk about the employee’s performance goals. “When the employee is evaluated and receives a below- standard evaluation, it comes as a tremendous shock to the employee and hurts his morale,” the supervisor said. “It also makes him very mad.” The pay plan requires super visors to evaluate the perfor- year later Joyner assesses YMCA’s progress Beaty: The plan rewards per formance (photo by James Parker). mance of the employees at least once a year, said Joseph R. Chandler, the city’s personnel supervisor. The supervisors and employees establish yearly performance goals and discuss them throughout the evaluation period. Chandler said. After the evaluation period, the employees Please see page A2 f CHERYL WILLIAMS lonicle Staff Writer NEWSMAKER t’s been a challenging first r for the Winston Lake Fami- fMCA, with a new building, a r focus and new goals. But te’s plenty yet to be done, says ' man in charge. ‘Coming in, 1 had a lot of en- Kiasm,”. said Executive Direc- Norman E. Joyner. “I still re a lot of enthusiasm. I see the lential this YMCA has, and I ognize that it’s going to take a of hard work on my part and A look between the lines on the part of the staff and board as well as support from the com munity. We’re going to make some mistakes. Hopefully, we will profit from them and move on. “I think one of my strengths is patience in trying to get this YM CA where it should be in order to be successful,” said Joyner, 41, a LaGrange, N.C., native and Please see page A3 PAC sponsors campaign class By JOHN HINTON Chronicle Staff Writer Winston Lake YMCA Executive Director Nor man E. Joyner; More challenges ahead (photo by James Parker). GREENSBORO — The 21st Century Education Fund Inc. provided blueprints Saturday for running successful political campaigns. The non-partisan, predominantly black political action committee sponsored “Target ’86,” a campaign management seminar, at the Holiday Inn Airport. The seminar was designed to train up to 10 black campaign workers, but only three at tended the first day’s session. “Several people who indicated that they were going to come canceled at the last mo ment, ’ said Vernon L. Robinson, a regional coordinator for the group, cancellations hurt our attendance.’ ‘Those 67th District ELECTION YEAR ’86 The participants in Saturday’s seminar were Jacqueline Edwards of Charlotte, Alan J. Foster of Union County and Ernestine Huff of Winston-Salem. Ms. Edwards, a Democrat, is a campaign worker for W. Terry Sherrill, who is runn ing for a resident Superior Court Please see page A14 Williams-Henry facing an uphill battle JOHN HINTON inicle Staff Writer (ana Williams-Henry must beat J tradition and the odds to win ember’s 67th District state House Is- Williams-Henry, a black ublican whose opponent is black locrat Logan Burke, is counting on : numbers of black and white locratlc voters to cross party lines support her, she said. But if they hey will have made history, since black Republicans haven’t fared with black voters in Forsyth Coun- md since white Democrats here been known to cross party to lines te for white Republicans - but not 'ersa. he doesn’t have a chance,” said the Rev. Jerry Drayton, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, after the May primary. “(Her campaign) is an exer cise in futility.” Drayton also is chairman of the Bap tist Ministers Conference and Associates’ Political Action Commit tee. Ms. Williams-Henry counters that she can lure votes from Democrats, in cluding black ones, who tend to be most loyal to their party at the polls. “I feel my chances are good,” Ms. Williams-Henry said. “I think I can transcend party lines. ...” But even Ms. Williams-Henry seems to consider Burke the front-runner in the race. “If Logan wins, my life will go on,” she said. “If I win, I will have a new job to do.” Ms. Williams-Henry, 36, is a former Democrat who faced no Republican opposition in the primary. Burke, 52, defeated fellow Democrat John D. Clark in the May 6 primary. Burke received 2,763 votes while Clark, who is white, received 1,871 votes. Please see page A15 THIS WEEK CLASSIFIED BM COMICS B7 EDITORIALS A4 ENTERPRISE B5 FORUM A5 OBITUARIES B8 PEOPLE A6 RELIGION BB SPORTSWEEK BI QUOTABLE: “Everyone takes living in the United States for granted, but I missed it so much. ... Aside from missing my family, I missed McDonald’s and my car.” PAGEA6. Murder evidence ruled admissible By JOHN HINTON Chronicle Staff Writer Judge Julius A. Rousseau ruled Monday that prosecutors can use statements and evidence from Merritt W. Drayton, who implicated himself, Dar ryl E. Hunt and Sammy Mitchell in the death of a Winston-Salem man in 1983. Drayton, 28, testified at a May 5 probable cause hearing that he. Hunt and Mitchell kicked and beat Arthur Wilson to death with an ax handle in September 1983. Rousseau also ruled that the ax handle that Drayton said was used to beat Wilson is admissible as evidence. Rousseau denied motions from the defendants to dismiss the charges. Wilson, a 57-year-old black man, was found dead outside of a liquor house in the 1700 block of Clare mont Avenue on Sept. 17, 1983. Drayton, Hunt and Please see page A2
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