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By JOHN FLESHER
Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH (AP) -- The leader of
a black lawyers' group has
criticized Gov. Jim Martin for
failing to appoint blacks to
Superior Court judgeships, hut
Martin is pointing a finger at the
Legislature.
In a recent letter to Martin last
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By MARDELL GRIFFIN
Chrontete Staff Writer
African-Americans are
infected with AIDS at a higher
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the general population,
according to literature
distributed by the AIDS Task
Force of Winston-Salem.
Although the state
legislature refused to
appropriate money to fund
AIDS education in North
" Carolina, members of the task
* force say such programs are
needed now. And they are
targeting high-risk groups sudi
at African-Americans for
distribution of information
about the disease.
Only 12 percent of the total
population of the United States
is African-American, but 25
percent of the people with
AIDS are African-American,
one task force phamphlet says,
while half of all the women who
' have AIDS are AfricanAmerican
and 60 percent of the
ABC Board a
By CHERYL WILLIAMS
ChronJde Staff Writer
The Winston-Salem Board of
Alcoholic Control, in a special
meeting last Thursday, approved a
1987-88 budget totaling more than
~?$2.3 million.? ???
The budget is broken into four
divisions, with $316,129 budgeted
for administrative expenses,
$236,483 for law enforcement
expenses, $1.6 million for store
expenses and $178,218 for
warehouse expenses.
This year's budget represents a
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By MARDELL GRIFFIN
Chronid# Staff Writer
Bayard Rustin, a 75-year-old
civil rights crusader who was on
the first freedom ride through the
South in 1947 and was a founding
member of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference along with
a group which included Martin
Luther King Jr. in 1957, died in
New York Monday of cardiac arrest
following an appendectomy.
Rustin, a pacifist who spent 28
months in iail for beins a
conscientious objector in World
War II and who was known
throughout his life for his skill in
organizing civil rights actions, had
ties to Winston-Salem.
One of the original freedom
riders who accompanied Rustin on
the 1947 freedom ride lives on West
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week, Irving Joyner, president of
the NortlFCarolina Association of
Black Lawyers, said the shortage of
blacks on the Superior Court bench
demonstrates that " black attorneys
continue to be held in low esteem
by our elected officials."
Martin said last Thursday that the
criticism was unjystified.
"I think he (Joyner) will
acknowledge ... that I have done at
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children with the disease are
AftkaohAmerican.
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Because AIDS is a sexually
transmitted disease that has been
associated with homosexual men, it
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first for the local ABC board, said
Joseph Mann, the board's chairman.
"This is the first well-developed
annual budget that looks (at
expenses) item by item," he said.
Board memhp.r Tim Mark said
that he is extremely satisfied with
the budget. "It is the most
we have ever had," he said.
Mann said that previously the
board relied on quarterly reports.
Mann said that he made the request
last year for the preparation of an
annual budget.
The new~buftgeTshouid heip~
the flow of things, Mann said. "It
der dies; loc
Joe Felmet, also a pacifist
and a board member of the local
NAACP, joined Rustin and
others on the "Journey of
Reconciliation," a forerunner of
similar actions made nearly a
decade and half later in the
1960s.
"This was before all the
ferment of the '60s," Felmet
said of the trip. "This was really
a pioneering effort."
The ride, which Rustin
helped organize, started on
April 9,1947, with nine people,
but increased to include 16
African-American and white
men by the time it ended two
weeks later.
The group challenged then
existing "Jim Crow" laws, local
legislation designed to maintain
segregation on buses. A 1946
Supreme Court decision had
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zed for no
least as good or better than during
the Hunt administration of
appointing blacks to positions on
boards and commissions and hiring
them to jobs of responsibility and
state government," Martin said.
He told reporters -while traveling
in McDowell County that the
Legislature had voted to abolish
eight special Superior Court
judgeships, leaving him with few
H fl
im, says he has received no suppor
Is says he wants people to know tl
is often treated as a problem of
morality. However, anyone can and
does get the disease.
Steve Hume, a founder and
executive director of the AIDS Task
illion budget
benefits us because we can plan
ahead on other than ordinary
expenses," he said. "It gives
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accomplish. Advance planning is
always good and proper
procedure."
The new ABC administrator,
-TJorace Deudney,-agrees with ?
Mann. ^
"We're attempting to operate
the ABC system in a businesslike
manner," said Mann, who has been
on the job since July l .?
The ABC administration a
operates 11 stores in the county, he
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declared the laws unconstitutional.
The men targeted public
transportation and disregarded the
"Jim Crow" laws that required that
whites and African-Americans sit
in separate sections on buses.
Traditionally, whites rode up
front while African-Americans sat
in the rear of buses. In practice,
whites sometimes took up all the
seats and African-Americans had to
stand, Felmet said.
Rustin, Felmet and two others
were arrested in Chapel Hill for
violating the local segregation
laws. Both Rustin and Felmet were
sentenced to 30 days in jail and
served 22 days before being
released. However, they served
their terms separately, since even
the jails were segregated at the
time.
Rustin's motivation for the
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"The Legislature, in an
unprecedented way, passed a bill
that has the effect of appointing
some Democrats to keep (them) in
office. That's the problem," Martin,
a Republican, said.
Joyner wrote his letter after
Martin announced that he was
appointing Sam Currin and Marvin
Gray, both whites, to special
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and not a moral issue, and (it)
needs to be deafc with squarely."
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this year by the Legislature.
Their terms will expire in 1990.
"There are many black attorneys
who would have been excellent
?judges, but they were either
overlooked or not considered at
all," Joyner said, adding that his
complaints went beyond the two
new special judgeships. . _
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By MARDELL GRIFFIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
Forty percent of the people w
assistance from the the AIDS Task
African-American. But only one c
volunteer staff is an African-American
And an East Winston African-Ai
the disease feels that he has been al
grew up in.
Warren Roberts, a 34-year-olc
diagnosed with AIDS last October,
Castle Heights section that his famil;
went to Carver High School. He and
said.
But since people have found out 1
to visit them except volunteers from th
Roberts' mother, Sara Roberts, agi
I Christian friends." she said. "The ne
come anymore. They don't even call n
Both Roberts and his mother &
African-American community.
"We haven't had any support fr<
Force," Mrs. Roberts said. "And the
Christians from First Assembly of (
friends and acquaintances has taken ;
his family, she added.
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Simmons ey<
Commissio
By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Three seats will be up for
grabs next year in the Forsyth
County Commissioners' race, and
_Ann_S.JSimmons, a Winston-Salem
Democrat, says that her name is on
one of those seats.
"I'm excited and I'm very
serious about the position," she said
during an interview Monday. "I
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feel like this is something that
comes from within, like God has
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'Tm not aware of (Martin)
considering any blacks for any
Superior Court judgeships," Joyner
said. "Part of the problem is
nobody knew he was considering
mouth process and hasn't
advertised candidacies or sought
recommendations of people outside
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y friends
ith AIDS currently receiving '
: Force of Winston-Salem are
>f the task force's 85-member
merican resident suffering from
>andoned by the community he
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I African-American who was
lives in the same house in the
y moved into 28 years ago. He
his family had many friends, he
te has the disease, no one comes
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rees. "We've lost many friends - I
ople from my church don't even
ie on the phone." ?
aid he has been ignored by the
Dm anybody but the AIDS Task
only friends we have are white
jod." The rejection by longtime
an emotional toll on Roberts and
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said, 'This is what I want you to
do.' And I'm going to do it."
The terms of present
commissioners Forrest E. Conrad,
Richard V. Linville,. both
Republicans, and Dr. James N.
Ziglar Jr.,^a Democrat,-will ^nd -in
1988.
Ms. Simmons. 34. sairl that ch*
has not yet organized a formal
campaign, complete with a
platform, a campaign manager and
campaign workers. But she does
have ideas, and she said she has
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th Rustin
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of his other civil rights activities
was a personal commitment he
made while still in high school not
to allow himself to be a victim of
race segregation after being refused
service in a restaurant, Felmet said.
"He was committed to demanding
rights for himself," he said.
Although he lost contact with
some of the men who participated
in the 1947 ride, Felmet and Rustin
stayed in touch. "He was quite a
cultured man," Felmet said,
describing his old friend. "He
talked with a West Indies accent ?practically
a British accent He was.
a determined man."
Throughout his life, Rustin
organized civil rights actions,
including the 1955 Montgomery
bus boycott done at King's request.
"He was a tremendous leader, n
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