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Thursday, April 20, 1989
Winston-Salem Chronicle
80 cam? ? - 'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" ? VOL. XV, No. 34
Seeking Unity
Afro-American woman succeeds
as head of ministers' fellowship
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Local club joins observances
of National Boys Club Week
Mom copes with loss of daughter,
says she's happy man was charged
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Evelyn Caraey-Robbson was
standing in the window of her
beauty shop watching her daugh
ters prepare to cross the street and
get on the bus to school on the
morning of April 5. Before she
could blink an eye( she saw her
nine-year-old daughter, Rochon
Monique Carney, struck by a car
and her body dragged about 40
feet.
About an hour later/around
9:15 a.m., Rochon was pronounced
dead at Forsyth Memorial Hospi
tal.
"This is one big nightmare for
me, one that will never end," Mrs.
Carney -Robbson said.
Her nightmarish experience
was worsened by what Mrs. Car
ney -Robbson called the "procrasti
nation of the police department" to
charge the driver of the station
wagon that struck and killed her
daughter.
A warrant was issued Friday
for the arrest of William Max
McLamb, 58, nine days after the
accident. McLamb, of 2506 Wood
lyn Way in Greensboro, was
charged with involuntary
manslaughter. He faces a maxi
mum of ten years in jail, but the
usual sentence is three years, said
Lt. P.O. O'Neal of the city police
department.
Interviewing witnesses who
saw the accident took a long time
because they gave conflicting
accounts; said Lt. O'Neal. Those
conflicting accounts centered on
whether school bus #625 had come
to a complete stop.
"We were never able to get
anything conclusive on that," said
Police frustrated by
increasing robberies
By TONYA V.SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
The number of armed robberies in Winston
Salem is escalating at an alarming rate, and many of
those arrested for perpetrating the crime are repeat
offenders who somehow found a way of escape in the
courts, said Police Chief George L. Sweat
In fiscal year 1987-88 there were 222 armed
robberies. So far in fiscal year 1988-89 there have been
$07 armed robberies, 230 of them occurring since the
first of the year, said Sarah Puryear, Police Information j
Systems Coofdtaator.
The bulk of the robberies, 54 percent, take place
in the city's convenience stores on a Sunday, Monday
or Wednesday, said Purvear.
~ "These people already have pretty lengthy
records by the time we arrest them for an araiedn^K r
bery," said Sweat "If we don't start locking these peo
ple up and keeping them in jail we'll be overrun by
them."
Last week city police arrested five suspects in
connection with a string of convenience store rob
beries, said Puryear. Three of the five had criminal
records dating back 10 years.
"We're trying to develop a strategy as far as the
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"I told him I forgave him and that he had to forgive
charged for what he did."
Lt. O'Neal. "Some witnesses said it
did stop and others said it did not."
Whether the bus came to a
complete stop is irrelevant, said S.
Mark Rabil, Mrs. Carney-Robb
son's attorney.
"It doesn't matter whether he
was stopped or not, at least the bus
was in the process of stopping,"
said Rabil, who will assist Mrs.
Carney -Robbson in filing a civil
suit for damages due her in the
Photos by Sam Greenwood
himself, but he had to be
? Evelyn Carney-Robbson
wake of Rochon's death. "Terri
(Rochon's older sister) and her
mother and the bus driver are clear
that the bus was completely
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Members want
Marshall to quit
Question of impeachment
to be raised at meeting tonight
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer -
The president of the NAACP is no longer acting in
the best interests of his organization or the Afro* Amer
ican community and he should taj^gogched, said .
Naomi Jones, a member of the k>cal chapter's Execu
tive Board.
Walter Marshall's leadership abilities will be in
question 7 p.m. tonight during an NAACP general
meeting at Hanes C.MJE. Church, Mrs. Jones said.
ffWc do have something that we really need to talk ?
about," she said. "It seems like our leadership is going
down. I'm wondering who he (Mr. Marshall) is repre
senting. He's lashing out at everybody. It seems that
everybody else is wrong and he's right."
Mrs. Jones was referring to the differing stands
that Mr. Marshall and the NAACP Executive Board
have taken on two county commissioner election plans
now in the state legislature.
Since last June, Mr. Marshall has supported a com
promise plan presented as a bill by Rep. Frank Rhodes
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City to review manner
by which demolition landfill
sites are determined
By TONYA V.SMrTH
Chronide Staff Writer
At least 30 percent of all the demolition landfills in Winston-Salem
and Forsyth County have been located in predominantly Afro- Ameri
can communities, according to a recent listing from the county Environ
uffliw
years, was accidentally dug up last week when members of a city work
crew were installing a 78 -feet long storm drain.
"We were trying to install a large storm drain and discovered a large
landfill," said William Mankins, a city employee for 1 1 years. '1 under
stand that they closed out this in '56 or '58."
The nostril burning stench of 30-year old trash, tires and dirt plagued
the residents of Diggs Boulevard and Williamson and Bruce streets,
located on the southeast side of the city.
'In a case like this something like research would have to be done
for us to know this was here," Mr. Mankins said Monday. "We're haul
ingjnao&t of the materials to Hanes (the city's garbage landfill), buL weta,
using some of it to fill the landfill back in. It's all wet because the old
storm drain collapsed fhat!s whacg-ifra ainris coming, from.,".
According to the Environmental Health department listing, there are
94 demolition landfills in the city and county. About half of them are
Closed. At least 28 6T them are located in predominantly Afro- American
communities. Twelve of the 28 are closed demolition landfills like the
one which was accidentally opened last week.
Coincidentally, Monday night the city staff presented specially
requested information to Alderman Vivian H. Burke about the condition
of demolition landfills. Mrs. Burke said she requested the information
because citizens in her northeast ward had been complaining about the
landfills. ?
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Before November 1984, the North Carolina Division of Health Ser
Improving East Winston traffic among '89 priorities
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By TONYA V.SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Four highway projects totaling almost $89 million
would provide badly needed traffic flow improvements
in East Winston if they are approved by the N.C. Board
of Transportation.
The projects are included in the draft copy of the
"1989 Highway Meeds Report for Winston-Salem and
Forsyth County". The state Board of Transportation is
sponsoring a public hearing on the Transportation
Improvement Program for the city and county May 8 at
2 p.m. at The Barn at Tanglewood Park.
The most expensive project slated for East Win
ston, and the second most costly of all 14 in the city
and county, is the construction of an eastern section of
the Northern Beltway.
The proposed $82.6 million project would con
struct a new 13-mile multi-lane facility from U.S. 52
east to Business Interstate 40. It also would include
improvements to two existing sections of highway,
widening the two-lane connector from U.S. 52 to N.C.
66 and improving Rddsvilfe Road (U.S. 58) from Busi
ness 1-40 to Old Gmnsboro Road.
"The proposed project is designed to help alleviate
many of the capacity and safety problems which exist
on many of the freeways, major and minor thorough
fares adjacent to the entire Northern Beltway Corridor,"
according to the Highway Needs report "Depending on
the status of the proposed East Winston Parkway Pro
ject, the eastern leg of the Northern Beltway may be an
important project for the traffic needs in the East Win
ston community."
Earlier this month the city Board of Aldermen
agreed to table plans to construct a parkway through
East Winston and opted to further study a consultant's
recommendation to construct an eastern leg of the
Northern Beltway in its stead.
Another proposed project calls for extending Mar
tin Luther King Jr. Drive and building an Eighth Street
connector. It would cost about $3 million to complete.
"The proposed project would consist of two small
er projects working in tandem: construct a new three
or four-lane connector street from the Eighth
Street/Trade Street intersection east to Liberty Street;
and extending the existing Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
(Old Ninth Street) westward from Linden Street to
intersect Liberty Street at Chestnut Street," according to
the report's description of the project
Estimated cost of the project is $3 million.
Extending 14th Street, from New Walkertown
Road to Old Greensboro Road, would cost about $2.3
million. This .9 mile proposed project would construct
a new three- or five-lane curb-and-gutter street from
New Walkertown road to Old Greensboro Road.
"One of the most important street and highway
. improvement projects identified in the East Winston
Area Plan is the proposed widening and extension of
14th Street in the East Winston community" according
to the report.
The project is expected to carry approximately
10,000 vehicles per day by the year 2005.
The last project slated for East Winston would
replace the humpback, concrete bridge over the railroad
tracks between Glenn Avenue and Liberty Street. Total
project cost is estimated at $1 .36 million.
"Despite the narrow roadway, traffic volumes of
over 8,000 vehicles per day are carried on this segment
of street," according to the Highway Needs report.
"Further traffic growth is anticipated as a consequence
of development in the projects environs."
Community residents will be given the opportunity
to sign up to speak at the state Board of Transportation
public hearing. Speaker registration will begin at 1 p.m.
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proposed for East Winston.