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"The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XVI, No. 22
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iterclockwise from top left) Annie B. Kennedy, 1989 Woman of the Year, is seated next to her husband, Harold
)ns Harold III and Harvey are standing; Chief Lester Ervin, 1989 Man of the Year, shown here with wife Eliza-
Larry Leon Hamlin, artistic/executive director of the National Black Repertory Company, receives 1989 Com-
ly Service Award; Mutter Evans, owner and general manager of WAAA radio station, will receive 1989 Commu-
lervice Award.
Photos by Mike Cunningham
uthern Bell announces rates for service; committee disputes findings
inicle Staff Reports
bailie for a toll free Triad has become more intense since Southern
ally published its proposed rate hike for the service,
xments of the plan, which would eliminate long distance rates for
e service between Forsyth and Guilford counties, have accused
Bell of disseminating misinformation in order to confuse con-
nd block the service.
fcm Bell recently filed cost figures with the state Utilities Com-
which indicate that monthly telephone rates in the Triad could
an average of 26 percent if the Expanded Area Service is imple-
Cilizcns Committee for a Toll Free Triad challenged the proposed
saying the rates are much higher than what the Utilities Commis-
blic staff will propose in February.
The Utilities Commission has the authority to determine whether an
EAS plan is needed and what additional charges would be levied against
customers.
According to Southern Bell estimates, monthly rates for Winston-
Salem residential customers would increase by $3.04; the rate for business
customers would increase by $8.37. In Greensboro, residential customers
would pay an additional $3.93, while business customers pay $10.83 more.
The Citizens Committee for a Toll Free Triad is a volunteer committee
made up of members from the Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Kcmersvillc
and High Point Chambers of Commerce. The group has been working for
three years to establish a toll-free calling zone in the Triad.
John Ray, chairman of the committee, said that Southern Bell is oppos
ing EAS becau.se they will lo.se long disumce revenues if EAS is approval.
He said that while the Utilities Commission will set the final rate for EAS,
there is every reason to believe that any increase for EAS will be substan
tially lower than what is being proposed by Southern Bell.
'This is just another attempt by Southern Bell to confuse consumers as
to the real costs and benefits of EAS in the Triad," said Mr. Ray. "We have
been told by the Utilities Commission’s Public Staff that they will propose
an increase of only $1.57 for Southern Bell's residential subscribers in Win
ston-Salem and Greensboro."
Traditional EAS plans are implemented by adding a monthly charge to
customer's bills. King Triplett, Southern Bell's local manager of corporate
and community affairs, said the charges are developed by studying the
amount of toll calling from each exchange to all other points within the
plan and then determining the cost of providing that service on a toll-free
basis to all customers.
"The monthly charge is designed to spread the cost among all our cus-
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Forest Park students pay tribute to classmate
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Photo by Mike Cunninghm
ling their tributes to deceased Katrina Bethea are Mary
“ngh and Derrick Mills, third graders at Forest Park.
Sludents and faculty at Forest
Park Elementary .School and those
who live in the nearby community
have kind of adopted a family -
which lost a loved one, a home and
their belongings in a tragic Christ
mas Eve fire.
Kalrina Bethea, 8, was killed
when her family's home at 1019 E.
.Sprague St. was practically burned
lo the ground. She and her 4-year-
old brother, Christopher, and her
mother, Katherine, were in the
house when the blaze began. Neigh
bors rescued Chiislopher and his
niolhe.r, who were downstairs, but
their best efforts weren't enough lo
eiil through the thick elonds of
smoke which acted as a barricade
separating them from the second
level of the house and young Katri
na.
Katrina died on Christmas
Eve, but her spirit lives on in the
children in her third grade class at
Forest Park and in the lives of those
who have donated money, food.
grader Jahmal Coulson. He and
other students in Verdic Haney's
class are making a book of similar
rcncclions about Kalrina to present
to her family.
It's taking the children a little
longer than it should to finish their
"I really didn't know my daughter had touched so
many lives. I guess I can understand why God want
ed her for himself because she blessed so many lives
in just the eight years she was with us."
- Katherine Bethea
clothing, furniture and shelter lo the
Bethea family.
"The .smiles and helping hands
I'll miss. I know that Katrina's in a
pretty phiec beeause anyone as pret
ty as she was, inside and out, could
n't be any place el.se, " wrote third
project baausc when they work on
it, they think of Katrina and when
they think of Katrina, they cry,"
Miss Haney explained.
".She was ;i perfect little girl as
far as 1 am concerned," Miss Haney
said of her former student. "All ol
her classmates Uxikcd up to her, and
she never had any problems with
anybody. She loved people. She
loved life. She's still in the minds
and hearts of these kids."
Many of the children who
attend Forest Park witnessed the
fire that look Katrina's life, said
Mary J. McDaniel, the school's
guidance counselor.
"Some of the children found
out after ChrisUnas brctik, but some
were standing in Katrina's front
yard watching the house burn. Wo
had a few kids who were really
upset. Some were afraid lo go to
sleep at night because this is the
kind of thing that could happen lo
any of us."
Miss McDaniel and a school
social worker helped the children
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