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NAACP vs. Forsyth County:
Unsurprising power plays,
clandestine meetings, etc.
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In Winston-Salem
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on-Salem Chronicle
The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly
Lxiv, NO. 41
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thursday, June 2,1988
42 Pages This Week
iDevelopment studies
loverlooik E. Winston
Mb/CRAIG T. GREENLEE
Irtrnnlcle Staff Writer
The chairman of the East Win-
Development Task Forcie has
Iquesiioned the fact that the city's
least side has continually Ibeen
overlooked in the overall sciveme
of development for Winston-
Salem/Forsyth County. Ernes t H.
Pill, task force chairman, is ; puz
zled as to why East Winston was
(omitted from the Batieile-Col um-
community economic deve lop-
[mentsaidy.
The Battelle study took a tf.ior-
[ough look at most areas of the c ity
(and county, and scrutinized the
legion’s competitive pluses and
[minuses regarding its ability to
retain and attract commerci.al
development.
In looking over the study, Pill
[learned that the East Winston arett
wasn’t included as part of the*,
issmeni
"Other than the East Winston
IDevelopment Plan, there has been
■to independent study to make the
SI real assessment of the east-
IsJes strengths and weaknesses,"
fkiaid.
In one of the task force's
Irccent meetings, the group voted
llohire a consultant to do a study
(focusing strictly on East Winston.
I’llie task force will request funds
n the Board of Aldermen to pay
the consultant's fee.
The Battelle Memorial Insti
tute was commissioned to do its
study by the city's Chamber of
Commerce, Winston-Salem Busi
ness Inc. and the Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation.
Fred W. Nordenholz, chamber
presidenL said he doesn't feel that
the city's eastside has been left out
of the development process. "Keep
in mind that the first assessment
was only the first of three phases,”
he says. "What the consultant did
was look at the area strictly from
an economic growth standpoint in
terms of what most directly effects
the community's ability to grow.
"The study identified those
elements that would help us move
forward in development along with
those items that could hold us
back. Phase one wasn't designed to
get into the social problems of the
different communities within Win
ston-Salem and Forsyth County."
"I think it's a reasonable ques
tion to ask," Pitt says. "All of the
sub-markets in this area are being
talked about to potential develop
ers — all except East Winston.
That’s very unusual. The study
doesn't show any information or
research that was conducted in that
area. So what you have is approxi
mately 42 percent of the city's pop-
Please see pape A10
Mayor calls secret meeting
Democrats try to
crush NAACP suit
{photo by Mike Cunningham)
Actress Faye Hauser casts a dramatic glance during one of
the vignettes she presented last weekend at the Zeta Phi Beta
soiree. See story on Page A7.
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
Mayor Wayne Corpening and
Eunice Ayers, former register of
deeds, met last week with a group
of Afro-American ministers in an
attempt to have the NAACP lawsuit
against the county dropped.
The two called a meeting with
Rev. Jerry Drayton, Rev. Wamie C.
Hay, Rev. J. Ray Butler and Aider-
man Patrick Hairston, a plaintiff in
the action. They assured the minis
ters and Hairston that they would
throw their full support behind can
didate Mazie Woodruff and that she
would get elected, thereby negating
any need for the lawsuit, according
to a source knowledgeable of the
meeting.
"Even if Mazie Woodruff won,
that still would not change the situ
ation," said Drayton. "She has won
before and she has lost
before...because of the pattern that
has been established in these elec
tions."
The NAACP lav-suit allege.s
that the county system of at-large
voting discriminates against Afro-
Americans because it denies them
an equal opportunity to elect candi
dates of their choice.
The suit, which goes to court
on June 6, seeks an order adopting a
redistricting plan for Forsyth Coun
ty under the contention that Afro-
American candidates would be
more successful with a district sys
tem of voting.
Drayton said that the Cau
casian Democrats have traditionally
not supported the Afro-American
"I ihiii'l think you
wimldfiiul liny black in
Winilnn-Salem who
would think thin b'«.v a
solution other than the
court system."
- l>r. Jerry Drarton
nominees of the party. "The only
way to be assured of black repre
sentation is to have a district sys
tem," he said. "I told them there is
no way to work this thing out out
side tlic courts."
Hay said, however, that he was
not sure that a district system would
work to the best advantage of the
community.
Please see page A3
Clipper boycott ends; owner issues public apology
NEWS DIGEST
Compiled From AP Wire
Racial incident prompts
UNC-CH dorm changes
CHAPEL HILL - Tbague HaU at UNCJ-Chapel
Hill will become a coed facility and most of its
residents forced to move next year aftex racial
incidents reported last month.
The incidents that led to the university's deci
sion began when a car driving past the doim was
struck on the windshield by a plastic flying tJisc.
One of the two women in the car - who is black
- said a student spit on her when they got out of
the car. Later, she received phone calls anti was
called a "nigger whore.”
The next morning, a group of men came t(> her
apartment at Whitehead dormitory and removed
the screen from her window. They yelled a racial-
sexual epithet before she called police, she said ^
Tutu, Botha trade criticisms
NEW YORK - South Africa's fweign ministsr
entieiz^ U.S. sanctions against his country dur-
an interview on American television, but his
ap^eid opponent. Archbishop Desmond Tutu ,
called for loughs steps.
Tutu criticized the United States for failing to
e tougher steps against South Africa to induce
at country to abandon apartheid, the policy of
racial separMion.
Roelof Botha, meanwhile, claimed that "in ^n-
. black South Africans have more effective
Civil rights than black Americans."
Black hospital going strong
Richmond - in Richmond's East End sits
one of the few financially healthy black hospitals
left in the United States.
Numerous black-run hospitals have ceased oper-
in the past 25 years. In contrast, Richmond
J-ommunity Hospital, a gleaming, 70.000-square-
oot building in Church Hill, has an operating bud-
geto $13 million and has maintained solvOTcy.
ByANGEU WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
The week-long boycott of the Clip
per Seafood Restaurant has been brought
to an end with the owner, John Pantazis,
issuing a public apology to boycott lead
er Larry Little and his wife, Glenda.
The public apology and a few other
concessions were terms defined by Little
as his conditions for ending the boycott,
which sources said cost the restaurant an
estimated $10,000.
The Littles initiated the boycott in
protest of what they termed the Pantazis
family's "disrespect of black people."
The Littles had said that they were ver
bally abused and harassed by the Pan-
tazises after they tried to pay for a meal
at the restaurant with a check. The Littles
smd they did not know the check accep
tance policy had changed, and did not
Sam: Baptist's
good cheer man
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
He's a dapper man, dressed in a burgundy Kangol
cap, blue suit and rainbow-colored suspenders with a
yellow daisy tucked neatly into his lapel, and patients at
Baptist Hospital light up when they see him coming.
He's not a doctor handing out favorable prognoses or a
nurse bringing flowers. But what he does, hospitals
officials say, is just about as important,
He’s Sam Hickerson - or as he prefers - "Just
Plain Sam." And for at least eight hours a day he is
charged with spreading good cheer to the patients com
ing and going through the hospital's doors. It’s a job
that seems tailor-made for Hickerson.
' "Good morning. How are you doing?," he beams
to each and every patient coming to the front of the
hospital. "Are we feeling all right today?"
Hickerson, whose otticial title is officer of
safety/security, is easily one of the most well-known
people at Baptist Hospital. Officially, he is part of the
team that is responsible for maintaining the steady
flow of traffic at the hospital entrance and monitoring
cars that are parked illegally. But he and his staff have
deserve the harsh treatment they received
over the misunderstanding.
The Littles said the Pantazises
"treated them like criminals" and called
the police on them. They were joined in
their boycott by several prominent mem
bers of the Afro-American community
including Rev. John Mendez, of
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Rev. Carlton
Eversley, of Dellabrook Presbyterian
Church, and alderman Patrick Hairston.
For over a week the picketers car
ried signs encouraging the public to boy
cott the restaurant and successfully
turned back several potential customers.
Larry Little estimated that 95 percent of
the potential Afro-American customers
stayed away from the restaurant.
Several of the picketers said John
Pantazis spewed racial insults at them as
they picketed his establishment. They
claimed he called them "niggers" and
referred to them as jobless, welfare
recipients who could only pay with food
stamps.
Pantazis denied using the word
"nigger" but admitted the references to
joblessness, welfare and food stamps.
He later said that he had said those
things in anger and had not really meant
them.
In a public statement issued May
27, the Pantazis family said:
"1. We would like to apologize to
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Little for any disre
spectful words we said to them.
"2. As a demonstration of our
appreciation of our Black customers and
as a show of support for the Black com
munity in Winston-Salem we are doing
the following:
(a) We are making a contribution
from the Clipper Seafood Restaurant to
a scholarship fund at Winston-Salem
State University to assist a needy student
in the amount of one thousand five hun
dred dollars ($1,500). We have been
informed by the University that that will
more than pay for tuition and books for a
student for a year.
(b) In the past, we have made
contributions to various Black activities.
In the future, we will periodically con
sider making such contributions as we
can afford to Black charities of our
choice.
"3. We sincerely appreciate all our
customers - Black and White - and we
attempt to treat them all with equal
respect."
The Pantazises would not comment
beyond their written statement.
"I am glad that they have apologized
to my wife and me and to the black com-
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(photos by Harden Richards)
Sam Hickerson and one of his staff members, Charisse
Hunter, say goodbye to exiting patient David Quickie.
Says Hickerson, ”1 absolutely love this job.”
adopted a more personal approach to greeting patients
being picked up and dropped off at the hospital. Hick
erson, observers said, has perfected the fine art of
goodwill ambassadorship.
"Originally, the team was developed to divert all
the problems with parking but there is so much inter
action with people that it's more personal and the suc
cess has been phenomenal," Hickerson said, interrupt
ing his conversation momentarily to bid farewell to a
patient. "It's been something special, believe me. The
people who do this with me are very special and they
do real good. About 6,000 to 8,000 people come
through those doors everyday and we interact with
about 90 percent of them. You have to like what you're
doing to do what we do."
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