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/ > T *7 VVi Vol. XIII, No. 17 Afro-Am so begun at W By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle gtaff Writer Chronlelo Update la a ragu (ocuaaa on dovalopmanta In m atoitoa pravloualy printed In tti will appaar during tha third month. In response to concerns expn black students and parents, We School now has an Afro-America] cultural or sanitation at tha wKa formed. At an Oct. 6 school board me parents and six students comp school's faculty and administratioi sitive to black students. The group of a lack of black representation and athletic teams. One remedy suggested by both the students was the formation of a similar organization. A school system official and W< cipal Jerry Peoples at that time e: tions about forming a club that wo ly to blacks, although the other se in the system have Afro-Americ * Bbony olubfc .rWfr'wpfc ***? ^ Nathaniel Barber, aa English ^Forsyth* is Ae^adstor for the Society. 'The purpose of the club is to ; the opportunity to go back and i history as well as work as a service the school," Barber said. Barber said that the club has 10 and has elected officers. The club': are all black, he said, but the orgs to all students. The club is also working on a sc for the rest of the 1986-87 school y Peoples said that the other new < Club, will be involved in a variety eluding service projects, dance ant Please see page A3 , Polk Black stm By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Black students overwhelmingly open memberships for service club only a little more than half of th students support them, says a system survey. According to the survey, the t eight being conducted by the city schools, 73 percent of the 23C students polled favor service clubs i open to all interested and q students. White students, however, were on the issue, with 51 percent of Report card Consultant ; By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer The city has taken too long to find a home for a bus transfer mall and has not done enough to address its housing needs, says David Crane, a Boston urban developer, in a written review. In his evaluation of Phase I of a 12-year economic development plan forged by Crane and his team of consultants, Crane suggested that the city consider the alternatives to the controversial first bus transfer site. He also says there needs to be a stronger * instoi U.S.P.S. No. 067910 cietv far feature that /?SA 14 iws and faatura 1 J a nawspapar. It ?4 ?V t Waak of aach *11 } V I essed by several B* L Jt\ st Forsyth High nM i a Society. A new juM V ol also has been fiflrAB eting, two black UBS! lained that the 1 often are insenalso complained VIS; J . on school clubs V* ym the parents and ^ a EbonyClub or j^^^B j est Forsyth Pnn- *7 7 % L (pressed reservatild appeal main- /IB ven high schools k gj an societies and / I 3 teacher atWest* I F^j Afro-American I PHC tt| give the students \ I inderstand Mack i organization of i members so far t members so far uiization is open [> >*e| hedule of events ear, Barber said. KU. .. _ NO, they do :lub, the Culture bathing suits of activities, in- model Iman i I speech. Somalia rec< magazine. lents favor opei * surveyed opting for open __ cent preferring that the cl * favor tivc* ... Most service clubs 18 white mem^>ers by applicatio 1 . . students have complain 80 _ members tend to pick the members, keeping traditic hird of white. -county Among service clubs ir ) black the Anchor clubs and Key that are vice clubs are predomina ualified the exception of Ebony American societies, divided The parents surveyed the 552 Dloaoo eaa a ? iw??v ooc yjO] s and praises city public-private partnership to finance housing. In general, however, Crane praises the city for its progress during the first three years of the plan. He says some of the progress has even exceeded his expectations, such as the commitment by voters and Wake Forest University to finance a new coliseum. The original site recommended for the transfer center was at Third and Main streets downtown, adjacent to the U.S. Please see page A2 i-Salen The Twin City's Award-Winning Winston-Salem, N.C. i Thura HER ROOTS? i l i t - M * V m ^ELwfc 4^1 ^K. ? * ", K ~>'^B Li. ? Photo from Ebony m't generally wear headdresses and skimD* irMh^Motherland. And, yes, that is African n such an outfit. She returned to her native ?ntly to shoot a photo layout for Ebony i clubs clubs and 49 perubs remain seleccurrently admit n. Some black I ed that current ir friends as new fl nally white clubs t the schools are I clubs. Most serntly white, with clubs and AfrouinnnrtpH nrw?n B9 B9BB1 ?^^ r ^ '*T&w(j8^ ~- 'M^ Santa Claus gets a big Christmas hug from Nati at the sixth annual Christmas party at Bethlehei annually by the Phi Omega Chapter of Alpha Ka James Parker). \ ^ > ' ,v . # ' 4a i Chroi Weekly day, December 18,1986 5C ' COVER STORY Biggs among for District C By ROBIN BARKSDALE Chronicle Staff Writer Related column on A5. THE 21st District Bar has nominated a slate of three candidates, including a black woman, for a District Court judgeship. One of the candidates will be chosen to replace - District Court Judge Lynn P. Burleson, a for syth District , Court judge who has an- I nounced that he | will step down I; V Jan. 31. m The candi? ^ ^ s c ^ staff anH twr\ .... W*M? % V ^ trial lawyers. Mrs. Biggs, the only black and the only female candidate, received votes from 149 of the lawyers casting ballots. She has been with the district attorney's office since 1982. At age 31, Mrs. Biggs is the youngest of the candidates nominated. "I'm excited and I feel real good about the nomination," says Mrs. Biggs, a 1979 jraduate of Howard University Law School. "This is something I had hoped for, but I didn't expect it quite this early in my career. But there does seem to be a tendency to have younger judges in Forsyth County." . A native of Atlanta, Mrs. Biggs was Chronic WL Lafa tion an . lung ca state ^ and defeate I Kaplan I Jone I Depart ?I Befo Lafayette Jones Ant 9 ,e >4*^ M or rel>8 jf'- with tl *'? >~wr suprem a*~"1Jtim * ln a l^p-gg *Wf f Carolin ' f .?- or NC/ A fSHL increast one dea asha Peck, one of the youngsters The r m Center. The party is sponsored and ma ppa Alpha Sorority Inc. (photo by year, at a ) ?w?1 aide I cants 44 Pagss This Wssk * 4 nominees "ourt judge employed as a staff counsel at the CocaCola Co. in Atlanta before relocating to Winston-Salem. Should Mrs. Biggs be chosen as Burleson's replacement, she will become the first black female District Court judge in Forsyth County. District Attorney-elect W. Warren Sparrow said Wednesday that he has not deter- * 1 1 ". ' hi 1 .|jm mined whether he would replace Mrs. Biggs with 1 * /M another black m ifffj attorney, should 'ft! ^ rec^vc ?. I replace her," mJM?M I I Sparrow said. Photo* by James Parker 1 "I haven't given oMiiitnwyfttmay 1 reP'acement will 1 be black be white- black> ggpot be Diack. i male or fema,e mi i:'i i ' i i'' mn' i I Also nominated at last iv week's bar meeting was B.R. Browder, 64, a trial lawyer who has practiced law in ;? Winston-Salem since 1947. He received 144 votes in the election. * i The third candidate under consideration: is Gordon H. Brown, 34, a private practice lawyer in the city. He has practiced here since 1976 and received 115 votes from the bar members. The slate of candidates has been sent to' Gov. James G. Martin, who will choose Burleson's replacement. Martin has the option of choosing a replacement from among the nominees or Please see page A11 j ncer claims Jones ONNE TRUHON le Start Writer - * " * * ycuc rsamanici jones, assistant secretary for ihts in the state Department of Transportad a Winston-Salem native, died in Raleigh of incer Monday. s ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the 20th ; mate District in 1984 as a Republican, but he illow Republican Wallace Vanhoy were d by Democrats Marvin Ward and Ted s also had been employed in the N.C. ment of Natural Resources in Fayetteville. re moving to Fayetteville and then to Please see page A16 i-Klan orpani/atinn* irtin's dragging feet RTHA WAGGONER ed press Writer EIGH -- A North Carolina anti-Klan group i number of violent incidents related to racial ;ious hatred increased during 1986, along he number of marches and rallies by acist groups, report released last Wednesday, North Aosinct Rarict ar*H DVIaUmx ..... . .?Hvwk unw nviiglVUJ IU1WIIVC) ^RRV, said the number of violent incidents ?d from 31 in 1985 to 36 in 1986, including ith attributed to racist violence, eport also showed that the number of rallies irches increased from 33 in 1985 to 54 this id the number of counties affected increased Please see page A1U . 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