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54 Pages This Week
Thursday, March 22,1990
Winston-Salem Chronicle
50 cents "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" * VOL. XVI, No. 30
By RUDY ANDERSON
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A first term minority member of the Win
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removed Mondaynight by the Board of Alder
men at the urging of Alderman Vivian Burke.
Jim Mack, who serves on both the ABC
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board and the Citizens Minority and Women
^Business Enterprise Advisory Committee, was
I denied a: second term when ih?Wksn^
on a motion by Mrs. Burke not to reappoint ~
| Lester E.Ervin to replace him. v ?
Alderman Burke said she had no comment
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Burke
James Mack will remain on M/WBE
Advisory Committee.
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Associated Press Laser Photo
NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Hooks shows off Chicago's first Partnership for a Drug-Free America billboard recently on the city's
near west side. Mr. Hooks said that the best way to change America's attitudes toward drug use Is to target efforts to specific audiences.
Gantt keynotes
NAACP affair
Chronicle Staff Report
The Winston-Salem Chapter of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People hosts its 57th
annual Freedom Fund Banquet tonight
at 8 p.m. at the Benton Convention cen
ter. The keynote speaker for the event is
former Charlotte mayor and U.S. Senate
candidate Harvey Gantt.
David Thompkins, the NAACP's
banquet committee chair, said his orga
nization is extremely happy they could
get Gantt to speak. "We wanted to bring
the best person we could get to speak to
us and update us on the overall political
situation in North Carolina and the
nation," he said. But there-is another ele
ment about this year's banquet that is
even more gratifying for Thompkins.
The highlight that I cherish most is the
Harvey Gantt
fact that wc have, sold over a thousand *
tickets," Thompkins said. "This will be
the largest attendance for a banquet
we've ever had."
Thompkins said he believes the
large number of tickets sold will defi
nitely increase the membership in the
civil rights organization's local chapter.
He explained that the purchase of an
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Could Get 10-Year Sentence
Carter jailed without bond
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronide Staff Writer
The Afro-American entrepreneur
who two weeks ago outbid seven others
for the old Skyland School is in Dekalb
County Jail today, without bond, await
ing trial on charges that he didn't return
two rental cars.
William R. Carter Jr., 30, waived
extradition to Atlanta last week and
Dekalb County officials picked him up
from the Forsyth County Jail March 16.
"We do not have a court date for
him yet byt will probably set one some
time within the next month or two," said
John Petrey, assistant district attorney in
Dekalb County. "The offense carries a
maximum 10-year scntcncc."
Mr. Carter, an Elkin native, is the
only known officer in W.R.C. Holding
Company Inc. He bid $50,(XX) on Sky
land March 2 and planned to renovated
the building and open a day care center
to be staffed by senior citizens and an
educational institute. The Winston
Salcm/Forsyth^County Board of Educa
uon accepted his bid during their March
5 meeting, as well as his $2,500 down
payment on the property.
"Wc don't know at this point
whether or not Mr. Carter is guilty of
anything," said school attorney Douglas
S. Pungcr. "The hid was submitted and a
deposit made in the name of the corpora
tion W.R.C, Holding Co. Inc. Assuming
that it is a legal corporation or business
entity, someone can come forward in the
name of the company to close the sale."
W.R.C. Holding has until May 4, 60
days from the date the board accepted its
bid, to close the sale. If no^owe gomes
forward, the sale will be declared in
default, the bid deposit will be lorfeited
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-Task Force endorses
neighborhood projects
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Endorsing two residential projects
developers have planed for the area, the'
East Winston Area Task Force plans to
ask the city to financially help the devel
opments get started.
Tuesday night the task force decid
ed it would support a 38-singIc-family
home development off Wallingford
Road and Dilworth Street, east of Win
ston Lake Park. Mary Sheppard and Jose
Isasi, developers and partners in Shep
pard Inc., presented their proposal to the
task force last week. Their project,
directed at those in the middle and upper
income brackets, represents one of the
catalytic projects suggested by a Mary
land consultant in his study of the eco
nomic viability of East Winston.
The homes in Sheppard Inc.'s pro
ject will sell for $110,000 to S140.000.
The developers asked task force mem
bers to support the project by urging the
city to offer buy-downs - where home
owners arc offered a lower interest rate
on mortgages for the first couple of
years. However, the members of the task
force buy-downs should be offered to
the all of the first 12 home buyers, per
developers' request.
"I've been involved in development
in East Winston for the last 14 years,"
explained Tom Troi'linger, task force
member and owner of Contract Office
Furnishings Inc. "When people arc get
ting ready to buy a home in the
$130,000 range, most of them arc people
who arc buying sccond homes. They
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William R. Carter won the bid
for Skyland School at
$50,000.
Mayor urges board
to reach consensus
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronide Staff Writer
When members of the city
Board of Aldermen individually
discuss the issues they consider
their notes are compared later, one
can see the elected officials have
some shared objectives.
However, something happens
when all eight aldermen sit down
together at the bargaining table.
Community members and those sit
ting on other elected boards have
long criticized the aldermen for
their turf wars and divisiveness.
identify the issues and develop
strategies to deal with them.
"I have long advocated this
typc_ofj>lanning effort and am
pleased to report that every alder
man has given enthusiastic sup
^port^^said Mayor Wood. "We will j
spend our time considering the
goals that unite us, rather than the
issues that divide us. Citizens can
expect a consensus statement from
us, not only on priority goals but
also on pians for achieving them."
Aldermen Vivian H. Burke,
Nancy T. Pleasants, Larry W.
Womble and staff members Bryce
A. Stuart, Thomas W. Fredericks,
I just want to see the board
come together* ?
~ Virginia K. Newell
Still, Mayor Martha S. Wood
hopes the aldermen will be able to
put their "personal agendas" on the
table, during a three-day retreat
which began Wednesday and will
end Friday, and use them to develop
a common agenda of major issues
the city will face in the next four
years.
The aldermen left the Twin
City yesterday evening bound for
the Mid Pines Resort in Southern
Pines and their-annual planning
conference. This is not the alder
men's first retreat, said Mayor Wood
- a former alderman, but this is the
first time the elected officials have
met with staff and facilitators to
Ernest W. Thompkins and Ruth
Cole Burcaw comprised the com
mittee of planners which outlined
the conference s activities. The
committee selected Rus McCarter
and Karen McNeil-Mi^er of Excel
Associates in Greensboro as the
facilitating team and "referees" of
the conference, Mayor Wood said.
'The issues facing loeal gov
ernments across the nation today are
demanding and complex," she
added. "They need our fullrundivid?
ed attention if we are to resolve
them to the benefit of our con
stituents. We seek the support and
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All twins want to be treated like any
other students, despite famous dad
MACOMB. III. (AP) - Jamillah Ali, 19, joyfully
displays a gift she received from her twin,
Rasheda, right, at Western Illinois University
in Macomb recently. The pair, daughters of
boxing legend Muhammad Ali, say they want
to be viewed like any other students working
their way through college, but the reputation
of their famous father sometimes gets in the
way.
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