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Thursday, February 16, 1989
Winston-Salem Chronicle
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"The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XV. NO. 29
i Aldermen
chastise
cab service
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Blue Bird Cab Company is
monopolizing the taxicab business
in Winston-Salem and may need a"
little competition to make it a more
efficient, patron-pleasing business,
said Alderman Larry W. Womble.
"1 think we need to take another,
look at our ordinance. It may be
time to change it . 7 . to look at other
ways of providing taxi service for
the citizens of Winston-Salem, M
Womble told fellow members of the
Public Safety Committee Monday
night "We have one taxi company -
- a monopoly fti the city of Winston
Salem - for all the taxis are within
his operation."
Womble was referring to
William R. Clayton, president of
Blue Bird. The committee of four
aldermen asked Clayton to present a
report giving a review of taxicab
service in the city. But instead of a
formal report, Clayton gave the
board what amounted to ramblings
off the top of his head, said Alder
man Vivian H. Burke, committee
chair.
"Every time you come to the
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The Maestro Makes A Move
Photo by Charmane Delaverson
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Peter Perret, right, conductor of the WinstorvSaiem Symphony, reaches forward across a
chessboard to make his move against Martin Hummlngs of Summit School st laat week
end's tournament between the Boys' Club Chairmen of the Board and the Wlnston-Sal?m
Symphony Music Maatera. The event Included the chance. for the players and their fami
lies to be special guests at the symphony's final dress rehearsal of Verdi's "Requiem."
The challenge was spearheaded by Jamea Fowler, a aymphony board member. Don
Moore, executive director of the Boys' Club, said that the challenge was more than a
recreational activity for the members, but gave the players a "unique cultural opportunity
for them to mingle with the aymphony In drees rehearsal."
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Finance committee
OKs land for mall
Public hearing set for Feb. 20
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
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East Winston's newest shopping center project cleared yet
another hurdle Monday when the city Board of Aldermen's
Finance Committee agreed to convey 9.3 acres of land to the
East Winston Community Development Corporation (CDC).
The committee's approval came on the heels of the full
board's Feb. 6 resolution establishing the fair market value of
the land off New Walkertown Road between Gerald Street and
Dellabrook Road.
Following a public hearing on the matter slated for Feb. 20,
the full board will vote on whether to officially convey the
land. If the land conveyance is approved the CDC will then
convey the land to New Walkertown Associates, the owner
ship corporation for the center, in exchange for 20 percent of
the company's stock.
Over the next ten years the city will receive about 10 per
cent ( or a cumulative amount of $214,774) of the CDCs prof
its from the shopping center, said J. Allen Joines, city develop
ment director. .
Finance committee members also agreed with Joines' rec
ommendation not to charge the CDC interest on the $214,774
($23,000 per acre).
"Inasmuch as we did not charge interest in the East Win
ston Shopping Center project and that since we are dealing
with a non-profit company, the staff is proposing that the East
Winston CDC only be required to repay the principal amount
with no interest charged," Joines said.
The CDC will pay for the land from its 20 percent share in
the shopping center. Funds the city receives will be used to
finance future development in East Winston. Profits the CDC
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City to consider mortgage program expansion for Salem Pointe
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Potential buyers "holding out"
for the best financing deal are slow
ing down selling activity at Salem
Pointe, a 43-unit redevelopment
project located south of Route 40
joff Cotton Street __
The project's developers say
they hope the Board of Aldermen
will approve a proposed mortgage
program expansion next Monday
which would motivate the buyers to
close their deals on houses and
duplexes in the subdivision.
Isler and Associates, Salem
Pointe's developers have requested
the modifications in the project's
mortgage program, Dr. Monica R.
Lett, Housing/Neighborhood Devel
opment director told aldermen
Tuesday in a Committee 6f the
Wholemeeting.
Salem Pointe Associates Inc.
and the city entered into a contract,
dated June 4, 1987, for the develop
ment of 43 single-family patio
homes and duplex units in the West
Salem community.
The contract created a mortgage defined in the contract between
program to assist in the sale of the Salem Pointe and the city, limits the
units utilizing a first mortgage fund- second mortgage program to 40
^ "A problem that's ( arisen ) with Salem Pointe and also that
we've experienced with other developers is the attractiveness
of the city program. For good reason , everyone wants the best
terms they can get on a unit and the city plan offers the best
deal " : ? ? ? :
% --Monica Lett
ed by Twin City Development Cor- percent of the units with the remain
poration (TCDC) and a second ing 60 percent to be financed FHA
mortgage funded by the city. (Farmer's Home Administration),
"The current program, as VA (Veteran's Administration) or
conventionally," Lett said. "A prob
lem that's (arisen) with Salem
Pointe and also that we've experi
enced with other* developers is the
attractiveness of the city program.
Foi' good reason, everyone wants
the best terms they can get on a unit
and the city plan offers the best
deal." *
Depending on ihe mortgage
amount, the city/TCDC program
results in a monthly note which is
approximately $100 a month less
than current FHA, VA or conven
tional financing, and $20 per month
less than the North Carolina Hous
ing Finance Agency's (NCHFA)
8.25 percent financing, Lett said.
Also under the city/TCDC pro
gram both mortgages are paid out in
less than 20 years, as opposed to the
30- year -term of the NCHFA pro- ?
gram.
Conditions restricting the city's
second mortgage program to 40
percent of Hie units is imposed on -
each phase so that no more than two
TCDC units may be processed until
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NEWS DIGEST
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Winnie Mandela meets with husband
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JOHANNESBURG ? South Africa (AP) ? Winnie Mandela met this
week with her jailed husband, Nelson Mandela, to discuss the
controversy surrounding her unofficial bodyguards.
Community leaders in Soweto and officials of the Methodist Church
have accused the group of young men, known as the Mandela United
soccer team, of abducting and beating four boys. A body identified as
that of one of the boys had been found earlier this week.
Mrs. Mandela has denied allegations contained in an article Sunday in
The Star of Johannesburg that she joined in beating the boys, who
reportedly were taken to her home last month by Mandela United
members.
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White official makes racism accusation
SELMA, Ala. (AP) _ A high-ranking, white Dallas County employee
fired by a newly elected, black majority Commission hopes to get a
temporary job with the county but is considering legal action.
"I don't really have any hard feelings. It's just politics," License
Commissioner Jean Edwards said Monday.
Mrs. Edwards, who had held the post since it was created in 1983 and
had less than a year to go before retirement, said she was unaware of
any problems with her work or dissatisfaction on the part of the
commission.
"I
said in a telephone interview. "These are the peopTe that
saying *Everything is based on race.' And here they go, basing it on
race.'"
Review Committee: Enforcing dog law will
take more money for equipment, personnel
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
A dangerous-dog ordinance
recently adopted by the county
Board of Health would sufficiently
address the problem in Winston
Salem if the county spent more
money on the necessary equipment
and personnel to enforce the law,
Margaret Farr told members of the
Board of Aldermen's Public Safety
Committee Monday.
"The committee felt that most
problems relating to dogs arise from
the difficulty of enforcing existing
ordinances/ Farr, chair of the alder
men appointed Dog Ordinance
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to mi
dog
of sufficient
nel and equi]
sions and ag<
ment responsil
presently dedic
appear to be ii
Aldermen
Ordinance Cc
after a heate<
which city r<
cern, fear
Safety Comi
and other vicious dogs^Residenfs
aid the dogs evoked fear and
^caused unsanitary conditions.
In thai meeting, the committee
voted td;#q$iQrt strict regulations
on vicious dogs in the city's residen
tial areas. In addition, City Attorney
Ronald G. Seeber proposed an ordi
; nasce ioctading a two-dog limit for
|fesidential kM? within the city, spe
| cific fencing and leash requirements
? and "Beware of Dog" signs.
The Dog Ordinance Review
vCfommittee said the county's ordi
4JHUgce "adequately addresses the
| problem of dangerous dogs."
^ ^*We therefore recommend that
the city not duplicate the Board of
'Health ordinance with regulations
relating to dangerous dogs," Farr
said.
The county ordinance says any
dog declared dangerous by the
county health director can be
ordered confined by its owner or
put to death.
The committee did not agree
with the two-dog limit proposed
ordinance.
"The committee recommends
unfavorably the provision limiting
residents from keeping more than
two dogs as unreasonable/ Farr
said. "We do not feel we should tell
people how many dogs they should
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The declining state of Afro-American health
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
This is the first in a series of articles examining the declining state of Afro -
American health. Future articles will address the causes of, treatment for
and survival rates of leading diseases that cause death among Afro -Ameri
cans.
After two centuries of fighting for freedom and the battle for equality
itifi brewing, Afro- Americans in the 1980s have yet another wm to wage:
tor life.
The life expectancy of Afro- Americans is shorter than that of whites
and of those people living in many of the world's underdeveloped coun
tries.
In North Carolina Afro- Americans were 1.2 times as likely to die as
whites in 1987, said Frank Matthews of the state Health Statistics Center.
"Based on a non-white death rate of 8.7 percent (in North Carolina
Afro- Americans comprise 93 percent of the non-white population) and a
white death rate of 8.6 percent, minorities exhibited a 1.2 percent higher
risk of morality than whites," Matthews said.
Figures in a 1984 government study reported that some 59,000 addi
tional deaths among Afro- Americans occur annually.
The number one killer of the race is heart disease, Matthews said.
Killer diseases numbers two through 10 are: cancer, stroke, accidents, dia
betes, pneumonia and influenza, conditions originating in the paranatal
period (the time up to the twenty-eighth day of an infant's life), homicide.
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