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king holiday section I EDITORIAL |PEOPLE s^noM c Rev. Benjamin Chavis discusses Howard Beach in his 'Civii Rights Journai' PAGE A4 The African Ik tBIB Children's Choir charms the city ‘Salem Chronicle The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly No. 21 U.S.P.S. No. 067910 Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, January 14,1988 50 cents 42 Pages This Week Officials investigate letter on KKK plot By The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM - Seven weeks after a letter sup posedly detailing a Ku Klux Klan plot to topple black African governments was discovered, officials at the U.S. State Department and a North Carolina church drawn into the controversy are wailing for the mys tery to be solved. ■'We’ve not had any information get back to us in a while," said Bob Gribbin, a spokesman for the depart ment. "We're in the dark right now." The controversy started in November when Presi dent Daniel arap Moi of Kenya expelled 16 American missionaries after Kenyan newspapers published the letter. Tie letter, written on what appeared to be stationery from the Foscoe Christian Church near Boone, outlined a plot to overthrow several African presi dents. The plot was alleged to be financed by $80 mil lion and, to be carried out by missionaries in Kenya as undercover operatives. Officials with the State Department called the letter hoax and have said they suspect the letter was writ ten by David M.S. Kimweli, a Kenyan minister living 1 Carrollton, Ga., west of Atlanta. Kimweli operates non-profit religious group and spoke at the church ear Boone 11 months ago, the V/insion-Salem Jour nal reported. Kenneth Caswell, the preacher at Foscoe Christian Church, said earlier this week that the church received a Christmas card from Kimweli. Several members of fie church also received copies of a newsletter frcmi Kimweli, Caswell said. 'He was basically maintaining his innocence," Casweil said. "He said that he had nothing to do with writing that letter." Caswell, who was described in the letter circulated in Kenya as the treasurer and director of covert opera tions for the KKK, said publicity from the controver- Please see page AIO "/ am one of the body of the National Council of Negro Women and I don't think the other members think of me as being 'white'." ~ Pat Stanley, 1st VP, NCNW NCNW boasts unique 1st VP By ANGELA WRIGHT Chronicle Managing Editor On the surface there is nothing unusual about Pat Stanley. She was bom and bred in Winston- Salem and lives in a comfortable home in Salem Wxxis. She boasts (as any proud mother would) about her beautiful daughter, the model, who lives in Tampa, Fla. She has two d(^s - a black toy poo dle named "Precious" and a lame dog that her daughter rescued from imminent euthanasia while working for a veterinarian. But a closer evaluation reveals that Stanley is indeed unique; she is a white woman in an Afro- American women's organization. She is the first vice president of the local secticm of the National Coun cil of Negro Women (NCNW). The NCNW was founded in 1935 by the leg endary Mary McLeod Bethune, Afro-American edu cator and civil rights activist, as a forum to address the needs and concerns of Afro-American women wd their families. As first vice president, Stanley .is responsible for identifying the issues on which the local organi zation will focus and for designing the programs to address those issues, according to Manderline ' Scales, state president for the NCNW. Scales noted that some of the local programs are mandated by the naticsial office. Pat Stanley How does a white woman acquire such a tremendous responsibility for issues affecting Afro- American women? According to Scales, Stanley is a "special person who has wcM-ked diligently at the grass roots level." "Others have as much or more know-how, but she is concerned ^d she gets things done," said Scales, who is also assistant vice chancellor for stu- demt affairs at Winston-Salem State University. "I don’t think of myself as a 'white woman'," said Stanley.' "I am one of the body of the Nadonal Council of Negro Women arid I don’t think the othCT members think of me as being 'white’." Stanley, who has been an NCNW member for more than 10 years, said she has always had a profound interest in Afro-American histay-. . NCNW member Savannah Johnson was instrumental in getting Stanley to join the organiza tion. Johnson said the NCNW has had white mem- Please seepage AIO $6,000 reward offered Six thousand dollars in cash rewards is being offered for infor mation leading to the arrest and convictiwi of the person ot people who killed Winston-Salem resi lient, lamatha Ann Myers. Myers was last seen alive on Aug. 8, ■'‘6. The North Carolina Governors Office is offering a $5,000 reward and the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Crimestoppers program will pay an anonymous cash reward of up to$l,000. Myers was last seen leaving te Bee Hive Restaurant on Green- way Avenue accompanied by a Please see page A3 COVER STORY Parmon named campaign chair By ANGELA WRIGHT Chronicle Managing Editor Southeast ward alderman Larry Womblc has named Earline Parmon to chair the local Jesse Jackson presidential campaign and they have asked nationally- known authcff, poet and playwright Maya Angelou to serve as one of the co-chairs. Womble, who is disuict manager for the JackscHi campaign, said Parmon will be responsible for organizing campaign effwts in Win- ston-Salem and Forsyth W County. Womble is responsible for organizing the counties within the 5th Congressional District Angelou "We plan to organize a grassroots campaign," said Womble. "We will build a coalition of viuious sec tors of people across a broad spectrum." He said the campaign would involve the elderly, youth and the handicapped. A site for the campaign headquarters has yet to be identifietl, but Womble said they were looking at potential sites downtown. • 'We want the downtown area because of the access it provides for the handicapped and the elderly," said Womble. He also said that downtown was the best site because it is accessible to bus lines. Wimble recently led a signature drive to guar antee Jackson’s placement on the slate ballot for the Please see page A11 MLK funds to go to UNCF lamatha A. Myers Black students targeted or teaching profession BV JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer Raleigh - More blacks are retiring from teaching than are filtering the field, but officials liope to reverse that trend with a program that is designed to draw more talented black students into •*’6 profession. So far, the program has helped (iouble the number of black appli- for scholarships for prospec- teachers, officials said '^^esday. I think it’s going to have a iromendous effect," Rep. Dan Rlue, D-Wake, said. "We are los- mg minOTities in the teaching pro- more rapidly than ... in any other profession." Since Project Teach was started July, 144 minority youngsters ^''0 applied for scholarships ^der the North Carolina Teaching Allows Program, which provides 400 scholarships per year to stu dents who agree to become teach ers after college. In the 1986-87 academic year, 69 blacks applied for the scholar ships, which provide $20,000 per student over four years. Leaders of the Public School Forum of North Carolina, a non profit group that promotes better public education, reported on Pro ject Teach to an audience of legis lates, members of the State Board of Education and educators. Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, said teaching was more attractive to blacks and women when few other paths were open to them. "With changes in society's views, they have more opportuni ties and ... they’re going elsewhere where they can make more money," Rand said. Project Teach was modeled after Please seepage AIO THE NATION'S NEWS Compiled From AP Wire Super Tuesday will be good for Jackson Super Tuesday once was viewed as a way for the South to restore a down-home conservative look to the Democratic Party, and possibly send a Sam Nunn or Chuck Robb to the White House . Instead the March 8 primaries and caucuses are emerging as a Jesse Jackson showcase across Dixie, the kind of day many black voters never dreamed about in 1965 when marchers battled for the basic right to vote. Report: School bosses an 'old boys' club' WASHINGTON — The people who run public schools are disproportionately white, male and older than their counterparts in other occupations, accord ing to a survey released today. The phrase 'old boys' club' has true meaning when it comes to school administrations. Last guests move out of Lorraine Motel The last guests and the longtime owner of the Lor raine Motel, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, have moved out They packed their belongings Sunday, setting in motion the process of turning a dilapidated, $18-per- nighi motel into an S8.8 million civil rights museum and educational center. M.L.K. Jr.: Anti-Contras? Martin Luther King Jr. would have opposed aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, just as he opposed the Viemam War, says Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich Please see page A12 By ANGIE MARTIN Chronicle Staff Writer The ' ommemoration Committee for the Birthday of Marlin Luther King Jr. announced yesterday that funds raised dur ing the memorial services here Mcrnday will be donated to the United Negro College Fund and to the East Winston Community Development Corporation. Dr. Serenus Chum, head of the com mittee and pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church said that $12,000 will be earmarked to assist North Carolina institutions support ed by UNCF. Churn was speaking on behalf of the Minister's Conference of the Winston-Salem Area at a press conference yesterday. The Minister's Conference is sponsoring the King Day activities. Churn said last year the Conference raised more than $10,000 to benefit the UNCF. "Those mcHiies in excess of that will be used to help underwrite f unding for the F-ast Winston Community Development Corpo ration," Chum said. The East Winston Community Devel opment Corporation is still in iLs infancy stages but plans to address economic rest(xation in the East Winston area. 'We're very excited al>out this program and we feel that it is going to be a itulcsfone of community cooperation and dcvelop- menL" Chum said. A series of activities are being planned for King Day by the committee for Monday, Please see page A11 Tony Brown helps local woman convicted of larceny By ROBIN BARKSDALE Chronicle Staff Writer The plight of a Winston-Salem woman has caught the attention of syndicated national columnist Tony Brown and prompt ed him to pay her attorney's fees and court costs. Brown addressed his weekly column to circumstances surrounding Veronica Bitting, a former employee of a local Thalhimer’s department store who in December was charged with embezzlement. Bitting, who subsequently had the charges against her reduced to larceny, wrote a letter to Brown volunteering her services to help promote his anti-drug movie, "The White Girl." In the letter, Billing described her own situa tion and expressed her concern that many young Afro-Americans facing conflict turn to dmgs. Fortunately, Billing said, she was lucky. "1 have encountered a lot but God kept me away from dmgs and I was real down," said Bitting, a 26-year-old unemployed mother of two young children. "I wrote him (Brown) a letter responding to his column on 'The White Girl' and I was telling him but that drugs never even entered my mind. I told him how sad it was that peo ple resorted to dmgs." Bitting said she was "devastated" by the whole experience of being charged with embezzlement and the publicity that Please see page A13
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