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SPECIAL SECTION ENTERPRISE Ebony Fashion Fair: Models and events SECTION C John Sledge gives good measure PAGE A2 Business program planned for Nov. 10 PAGEA2 SPORTS Cheer on the Rams with our Poster Page PAGE B7 , r iiision-Salem Chronicle The Twin City's Award-Winninf> Weekly XIV. No. 10 U.S.P.S. No. 067910 Thursday. October 29,1987 50 cents 38 Pages This Week he bond issue: ^ore questions (CHERYL WILLIAMS ®iiic)e Staff Writer With the vote on next Tuesday's city iJ county bond referendum less than a away, at least two black leaders say is not well and they are still raising leslions about the bond issue. Four others interviewed said that they nported the whole bond package. \blers will go to the polls Tuesday, )v, 3, to decide whether or not to approve 18.7 million worth of bonds for city and Miily projects. Board of Elections Supervisor Kathie ooper said that poll sites will open at 6:30 B. and close at 7:30 p.m. Voters will vote tsor no on each separate item, with only iiy residents deciding the five city issues id county residents voting on four items. The Rev. Carlton A.G. Eversley, pastor (Dellabrook Presbyterian Church, said at he feels more black leaders should be jestioning the bonds. "My question boils down to how much ill go into black hands, into the black immunity," he said. "Tlie whole history of inds in this county is that black people ive gotten ripped off. And very few peo- te are asking questions. 1 get tired of my mmunity getting pimped and ripped off that other people will get rich." Eversley said he posed questions at a tadership Winston-Salem alumni meet- ij, but did not receive satisfactory I6»ers. You would have thought I was talk- ijChinese," he said. "The questions were Of answered." Leadership Winston-Salem members {community, civic, business and educa- inal leaders who participate in intensive ssions exploring how the community Bctions, decision-making and decision Please see page A3 Janks say they are honoring CRA postman dies Q»/ r^LJCD\/l \A/M 1 1AAAC Tnlrinri/wntorv/ Qf'hrw^I iyANGIE MARTIN Ironide Staff Writer The Great Pumpkin Cometh John Acker Jr. gets a head start on the pumpkin lovers and Halloween night trick-or- treaters and enjoys his pick of the bountiful crop (photo by Santana). COVER STORY Urban League officials rule on board problems National officers recommend reinstatements By ROBIN BARKSDALE AND CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writers National and regional Urban League officials have ruled that actions taken at a previous board meeting where several members of the board were removed and subse quently replaced were improper and have made recommendations that they feel will restore unity to the local board. Mildred Love, vice president of programs and field services for the national office in New York, and Leonard Benton, the Urban League's southern director in Atlanta, made a return trip to Win ston-Salem last Friday for the sec ond time this month. Janet Dewart, director of com munications for the National Urban League, said that she cannot dis close the nature of the meeting between the officials and the local league. However, reliable sources report that Ms. Love and Benton made recommendations to the board, one of which suggested that the board reconsider terminating Thomas J. Elijah Jr. as president. The officials' recommendations stem from actions at an Oct. 6 board meeting at which new mem bers were put on the league's board to replace those that had earlier been dismissed. But league officials have declared those actions at the meeting null and void under sane tioned Urban League procedures. The local league's by-laws state that the president serves at the "pleasure of the board" and does not have tlic power to remove board member.s. Such an action, according to the by laws, requires a majority vote by board members. The officials have recommend ed that the dismissed board mem bers be reinstated immediately and that members of the official board reconsider their decision to termi nate Elijah as president. At an Ocl. 7 board meeting, 11 of the 19 board members called for Elijah's resigna tion as president. The officials recommended also that training sessions be con ducted for the board and senior members of the league's slaff.on how to run an Urban League. A meeting of the reconstructed league board is scheduled for Nov. 18 and will be held for the purposc.s of determining whether to accept or reject the officials' recommenda tions. Elijah, who previously refused comment on reports of dissension on the Urban League Board, could not be reached for comment Tues day. Area banks say they have instituted various pro- tls aimed at helping low and moderate income corn- unities as part of agreements reached earlier this prwith the N.C. Legal Services Resource Center. In April, North Carolina Legal Services entered • agreements with six state banks to ensure that the inks would re-channel funds and resources into the unmunities they draw from as required by the Com- >»ity Reinvestment Act (CRA). The CRA, enacted in 1977, requires that national inks help meet the credit and banking needs of the Mmunities where they do business "in a manner that consistent with safe and sound operations of the ink." Those communities mu.st include low-income and moderate-income areas. The NCLS agreements were made with Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., First Union Bank, North Carolina National Bank, Central Carolina Bank, BB&T Bank and Peoples Bank. With the exception of Peoples Bank, each has branch offices in Winston-Salem. The agreements came after a statement was filed in March with the Federal Reserve Board by the NCLS, the N.C. Statewide CRA Coordinating Com mittee and the Legal Aid Society questioning First Wachovia Corp. community reinvestment activities. Bank representatives report that special checking accounts, ad campaigns in black media and research into the possible formation of a community develop ment corporation for East Winston are examples of compliance with the Act recently undertaken. . Please see page A10 George Walter Williams Jr., Win ston-Salem's first black post man, died last week at Baptist Hospital. He was 69 years old. By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer George Walter Williams Jr., the Twin City’s first black postman, died Friday at Baptist Hospital after an extended illness. Williams, 69, became a post man in 1947. He has been a resident of Winston-Salem for 60 years. A U.S. Navy veteran, Williams attended Slater Normal College, which is now Winston-Salem State University. Before becoming a postman, Williams, a native of Orangeburg, S.C., pursued a brief career in edu cation, teaching at Carver Crest Elementary School and 14th Street Author speaks about African-American families Blacks still family-oriented By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Black people have always liad a strong attachment to the family, and that is unlikely to change, an educator said early ihis week. But what has changed dra matically in recent years is the structure of the black family, said Dr. Andrew Billingsley while addressing students at %ke Forest University Monday night. Billingsley's lecture was sponsored by WFU's sociology department and is the first in a series that will look at current issues. Speaking in an interview after his talk, Billingsley, chair man and professor of the department of family and com munity development at the Uni- versuy of Maryland, said the fact that an increasing number of black families are headed by females is not necessarily cause for alarm. The fact that there are more black female heads of house holds does not mean the black family is deteriorating, only that it is changing, he said. "There's nothing wrong or adverse about single-parent families," he said. "It depends on whether there are others than a husband to be helpful, like a stable friend or a stable institu tion to be helpful. If the mother can got basic economic support, like child support from the father, and can gel a good job, then it's going to be OK." The future of the black family will depend in large part on what society does about jobs and training people for jobs, Billingsley said. Jobs, he said. Please see page A10 Author and sociologist Andrew Billingsley told his Wake Forest audience' Monday night that black families are not changing only their structures are being altered lohoto b-* ^ otan~' Elementary School. Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Loretta Harrison Williams, three sons, George Walter Williams Ill, Robert Williams and Bernard Williams, and four daugh ters, Brenda Dawkins and Carolyn Little of Winston-Salem and Shirley Smith and Rosalyn Mar shall of Lansing, Mich. Also sur viving is his sister, Louise Thomp- kins, who lives in Elkin. The family, Mrs. Harper said, is proud and considers it an honor that Williams was the first black postman in the city. He helped pave the way for others, she said. Services for Williams were held Wednesday afternoon Woman awarded $60,000 in suit A Forsyth County jury yes terday awarded Gwendolyn R. Mascuilli of Winston-Salem $59,411 in damages when her for mer landlord. Bob G. Martin, and his wife, Charlene Martin, had her car towed unlawfully to Davi.s Garage and would not release it to her. Martin is a Winston-Salem attorney and invesunent advisor. Harvey Davis, owner of Davis Garage, was assessed more than $6,000 for his actions in the matter. In late July 1985, Ms. Mas cuilli vacated an apartment rented to her by the Martins. Several days after .ihe left the apartment, Ms. Mascuilli's car was towed from a Please see page A3
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