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. is \ ' K - V Ratliff promises V Kimbr : to regain WBC title Movin PAGE B1 Winsto Vtol. XII, No. 49 U.S.P.S. No. 067910' n Larco, state NA I By CHERYL WILLIAMS Sumler, vice president of the Chronicle Staff Writer NAACP branch. Sumler is member of the N.C. Tuesday's announcement of Conference of the NAACP' Larco Construction Inc. signing a Share Committee.-, fair share agreement was viewed as Al a press confcrcncc Tli a landmark move by state NAACP Alexander and Sumler sai President Kelly Alexander Jr. and- Larco's agreement with the local businessman Rodney Sumler NAACP, is the first such agre But local NAACP President with a construction con V<er Marshall is not happy with anywhere in the country, the agreement, which he says Alexander said tha presents a conflict of interest for agreement is important beca Howse murder fjnl still a mystery M| By MARDELL GRIFFIN Chronicle Staff Writer A police official says there are no suspects in the | jfcL murder last week of an East Winston woman. And ^investigators are questioning anyone who knew her in r FSh an attempt to generate leads in the case. Brenda Charslina Howse, 42, was found stabbed I and beaten to death in her home at 1211 Pleasant St. in Bl\ the Morningside area. The body was discovered by her fci ^ son on July 21st. BSHh ST "We're going back to all her friends and acquaintances to see if they can give us some route to r [ take,"" said Capt. G. G. Cornatzer, head of the detcctivc J? division of the Winston-Salem police department. And her relatives and coworkers are being imcrviewea ior anyimng tnat might help solve the case. "There were no witnesses/' Cornatzer said. "We have no leads." PP?m ? He refused to discuss the condition of Mrs. up on tl Please see page A12 JN Chisholm: Dems need Jess< By The Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ A Democratic presidential campai the Rev. Jesse Jackson is unrealistic, but blacks may ultimately deci party's ticket, said former U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm. "No candidacy in the United States, I'd dare say, is realistic unles: white male," Chisholm said. "But... the fact of the matter is that, altl the country is not yet ready for a woman for president or a bla< ^president for that matterr the fact is that Jesse Jackson ?:ould ^x> become the most important power-broker at the Democratic conveni can see that happening." In an interview with The Fayetteville Observer-Times last 1 Chisholm also said she has changed her long-held belief that a would be president before a woman. But with the re-emergence in i years of racism and hate groups, she believes a woman will rcac White House first. Please see page A14 Education badly needed, I African-Americans arc so far mmmm&b behind in educational attainment in > the United States "that we literally \ need every class(room experience) ||gB|9|^HR ? we can get in order to reach parity with white America,"says the V executive director of the United Christopher Edley, in WinstonSalem this week to address prominent buisness and community 4 leaders, says African-American colleges responsible for nearly 40 percent of I all African-American college graduates. Of the 42 UNCF Edley colleges and universities, six are located in North Carolina. They are Raleigh. Barber-Scotia College, Concord; Thcsse institutions cor Bennett College, Greensboro; enroll some 7,000 studen Johnson C. Smith University, employ over 1,300 people. I Charlotte; Livingstone College, they received 53,654,138 in Salisbury; Saint Augustine's operating funds from UNCF. College and Shaw University in Edley says that he "i V V * . ough: ^1 Orr family i on up I 1 holds reu PAGE A6 n-Salem CI The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, July 30,19 ACP fair share corn : local Tjjjjjjjjj icsdav. 1 J?r' M MI use -of Sumler Smith Alexander ^1 ^1 ^h BBL1^? I ? Kll What story CLASSIFIED B15 COMICS B9 Is he telling the truth, or isn't EDITORIALS - A4 hc?. Is hc capab!?of tclling lhc . 1 truth, or isn l hc? Those questions 8" ?y ENTERPRISE B6 will no doubt be on the minds of Cl c FORUM A5 l^? Judge William H. ? ?- rrecman ot the Forsyth Superior *,ts* LEISURE * B8 and the 12 jurors who will sit in :kUfor OBITUARIES B13 Judg.Cmenl of M?rritl W Dra5"on... the 29-year old East Winston man ^ _ PEOPLE A<6 on trial thts week for the murderof RELIGION ' B12 Blanche Bryson. . . 5^c js t^c mothcr of a local SPORTS B1 African-American attorney closely recent QUOTABLE: "! believe associated with the Darryl Hunt :h the that attitudes will change Defensc comm,Ute and somc of ,ls toward woman In tlW most prominent members. ministry ..." "I don't believe that either the PAGE B12 defense or the prosecution wants to JNCF exec savs S pleased and displeased " with local corporate and community support for UNCF. R.J. Reynolds and Wachovia Bank are two of the ,J area's biggest contributors. H|H| ^ Reynolds is the nation's largest jL corporate contributor, donating over 3^ SI million since 1983, he said. In the past, most of the major African-American organizations have given generously to the Fund, jfr,:,, .. says Edley. An\png the largest H \MM contributors are the Alpha Kappa WjjKm Alpha Sorority, the Links, the Masons, Shriners, Alpha Phi Alpha I and Omega Psi Phi fraternities. One of the most popular sources* of fundraising in * the nbined African-American comrTnunity is /*!# ts and through the annual Telethon, says wdlOlOUS wITT n 1986 Edley. "But we arc still not reaching K. . . ^ ? m. _ general the Black community with the ^ k S d 7 convention in New YorV City r< A ^ director and CEO of the NAACI s both - Please see page A12 of RJR Nabisco ancj Mario M. .? ^ { % ? 1 A conflict inion of interest? ' * ' . . - > PAGE A7 i PA3EA4 . * ' - . - 1* - -. .- ironicle m *? 87 50 cents 34 Pages This Week . nection stirs ire ' v.;; , : .} the reluctancc within the the use of a consultant to improve construction industry to meet goals Larco's relations in the Africanin using minority and women American community. Associate i businesses. Consultants of which Sumler is . "This is a step in the right president, has been hired to do this. I direction," he said. "Somebody has , Larco is also requested to v to be first." increase the number of AfricanThe agreement, w(ych applies American vendors, using more of to the-eompany's-public and private their services and buying more ^ contracts, sets a goal of 15 percent products from them* such as office minority participation on Larco's supplies, landscaping materials and contracts. The agreement also calls for Please .see page A14 ... .* ^ Charges fly in trial, but lawyers acquitted By MARDELL GRIFFIN Chronicle Staff Writer . ^ J Two Winston-Salem attorneys charged with assaulting their nrecnant ?- o o i o former sccrciary were found innocent in a three-hour trial Tuesday that drew a gallery full of spectating lawyers and, according to one defendent's wife, was monitored by the North Carolina Bar Association. Immediately following closing arguments by the prosecution and with no further comments to the crowded court room, Judge William Reingold pronounced Robert Ernest Winfrey, 36, of 2860 Deerwood Drive and Gary Devon Henderson, 37, of 1244 W. Fourth St. not guilty of assaulting ?Beverly RcidCorpcmng, 31, of 1582 l.ongview Drive. ___ The announcement was followed by clapping and cheering from the defenrtcnis' supporters in the courtroom, ^ But Mrs. Corpening claims she was treated unfairly by a system "thar^ protects its own." "When they said justice is blind, they knew what they were talking about and had probably been in the Winston-Salem justice system as a victim," she told the Chronicle after court adjourned. Calling the case a "nightmare," Joe Williams, a Greensboro attorney who represented Winfrey and Henderson, jabbed his finger through the air Please see page A13 will Drayton tell now? put Drayton on the stand," mused $350 was stolen, according to police one prominent leader of the Darryl reports. Hunt Defense Committee. The victim is the mother of "There's no telling what he's coins J?ffrf?v Rrvsnn q lrvol oftr\rno\i hiKa _ e 0 u uuwi iiv * rvuvs to say or what he's going to do." represented the Darryl Hunt Defense Committee and then-Alderman That statement pretty much Larry Little in 1985 when former sums up how knowlcdgable people District Attorney Donald K. Tisdale feel about the defendent."Our basic attempted to impound the ~stance^withi>rayton "--notes-the ?Committee's ^inances-and -further committeemember, who asked not limit its "freedom of speech." to be identified, is that he is Bryson, one of four children of mentally unstable." the former cafeteria worker at Aikens High School, found his Drayton stands trial this week mother's body shortly after she died. for the murder of Blanche Bryson _ He was the prosecution's first who was found strangled in her witness. Gilmer Ave. home. Her car and over Please see page A12 ^j? j 55,000 contribution to the NAACP during the 78th annual NAACP scently. Before the presentation, Benjamin L. Hooks, center, executive P, met with guest speakers, Marshall B. Bass, left, senior vice president Cuomo, governor of New York. ' - " \ -
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