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TWIn City boutlqua helps cltonttli to stay In stop with fashion studsnt says "thanks" to 32 Pages This Week Thursday, April 5,1990 By TONYA V. SMITH With one win under is Ml attorney James E. Ferguson II readily admits lie will have somewhat of an advantage when he goes back kilo the courtroom to defend his client, Darryl E. Hunt,who is charged with the first-degree murder and rape of Deborah B,Sykes. rl Lasi Week, Mr. Hunt was acquitted, ? by an all-white jury, of the beating death of Arthur Lee Wilson. Prosecutor Janet H? Branch tried to prove that Mr. Hunt, Sammy Lee Mitchell and Merritt Dray ton Williams beat and robbed Wilson in September 1983. Mir. Mitchell was ?**? victed of the crime and Mr. Williams \ pleaded guilty. Mr. Hunt was also con fvcted in Mr. Wilson's death but the state Court Of Appeals overturned that 1987 conflicting testimony from Mr. Hunt on the witness stand, a move that surprised several members of the week-kmg trial. :-v' v- ^ > v ;c;v .. v \ , n R '??^ "v* n.. ?. ,?~?"?r Darryl Hunt, left, and Attorney Larry Little are aH smiles as they give triumphant signals while preparing to celebrate Hunt's murder trtol acquittal. wm For ft man who knew he had ft) face someone who had just had the weight of the world lifted from his should dersashe walked up a city sidewalk last FrkSay.. He was on his way to a friend's house for a big celebration. Mr. Hunt had just been acquitted of second degree murder in the beating death and robbery of 57 year okl ArthurLee Wilson. While reporters talked with mem Bi of his defense team and his support* ers about their strategy and fears in the Wilson trial, Mr. Hunt settled back in a lounge chair and began to let himself think and talk about his recent ordeal and his future. *1 really thought I would be acquit led. 1 had confidence in <3od?n the con* said.n The truth would be ith if wquld corifc 6ut,M jS??ilWihew that the change of 10 Catawba cotmty would force an i all white jury on us. The only thing that ^sustained all of us was our tath in m* m tors that entered my mind and the minds of my defense team." But Mr. Hunt quickly pointed out that he wasaoptilar of strengthinihis event "When the came back and said they had reach Please see page A8 Justice Department sues water theme park owner By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor The United States Justice Department has filed a complaint with the U.S. Middle district court in Winston-Salem against the owner of a Surry County water theme park for violating civil rights laws. Joe Crevisky, a spokesman in Justice Department's civil rights section, said during an interview Tuesday that the complaint against Fred Roger Snow Jr., owner of the Cody Creek Water Park had been filed March 22. In a joint statement issued last Thursday, Mary L. Peeler, Execu tive Director of the NAACP's NC State Conference of Branches, and Ron Snow, President of the NAACP's Surry County Branch, said the complaint comes "in response last year, to allegations that African Americans were being denied admission to the Cody Creek Water Park due to their race." The complaint alleged that Mr. Snow has pursued and is pursuing a policy and practice of denying Afro- American persons on the basis of race and color the full and equal enjoyment of services, facili ties, privileges, and advantages of the water park in several ways. The complaint indicated that among Please see page A9 "(The actions of the owner are) blatant viola Hons of public accommo dation laws and are total ly unacceptable' ? Mary L. Peeler ] E. Winston Task Force backs off plan I?By TONYA V. SMITH? Chronicle Staff Writer In lieu of a parkway, members of the East Winston Economic Development Task Force have opted to sup port a package of roadway projects that would open up traffic in the predominately Afro-American community and connect it with other parts of the Twin City. After a report Tuesday from Norma Smith, chair of the task force's transportation committee, the mem bers said they could see their way clear to give up hopes of the city building the proposed East Winston Parkway if four other projects become a reality. Roadway projects numbered two through five on the "1990 Preliminary Highway Needs List for Win ston-Salem/Forsyth County" would best serve our pur poses just as well, Ms. Smith explained. Those pro posed projects are the: Please see page Ad Staff Photo WSSU students have Chancellor Cleon Thompson's back against the wall dur ing protest this week for greater voice in university affairs. WSSU students want voice stage protest to prove point By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor oluuuUb <u Wuu?luu-^?tiu"n J1411 University say they want a stronger voice in affairs that affect them with in the university. About 100 students staged a protest Monday in front of Blair Hall the campus administration building to air their views. Derrick Brown, a junior from Winston-Salem, was one of the orga nizers of the demonstration spon sored by a student group calling itself the Positive Student Awareness Association. Brown said the students have several concerns, chief among them being students having greater input x in university decisions that affect them. "Students of this university want fo )y* better informer! Wr want to be part ol the decision making process and be able to negotiate with the administration," Brown said. "We want a voice in what happens here. We don't want to have to read about tuition increases in the newspapers before we are told." Several student representatives were in fact negotiating with Dr. Alex Johnson, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Monday morning when several dozen students tried to enter the administration building to sec how the negotiations were pro Please see page A9 Black principals increase in new school proposal By TONYA V. SMITH Chronicle Staff Writer Four of the nine high schools in the Winston " Salem/Forsyth County systerfi~will be headed by Alto-_ Americans effective July 1, and, a first, a black woman will assume one of those posts. During an executive session and subsequent open meeting Monday night, the city-county Board of Educa tion unanimously appfbved a new slate of principal assignments that will mean the shifting of 21 school system employees. Among the Afro-Americans who will be promoted or laterally moved is Daisy R. Chambers, principal of It appears that the highest-ranking Afro American woman in the schools' administra tive office has already lost her job. Barbara K. Phillips, assistant superintendent for Stu dent Services, did not have her contract renewed by the school board last week. Clemmons Elementary School, who will go to Mount Tabor. Mrs. Chambers will be the first Afro-American woman to principal a high school. Hired in 1961 as sec ond and third grade teacher at Mebane School, Mrs. Chambers, 54, was an assistant principal at Clemmons Elementary for three years and wofked as a personnel administrator in the schools' central office. She has been the principal at Clemmons since 1985. Her successor at Mount Tabor, John Jessup - also an Afro-American, was named the schools' director of the Division of Personnel Services during phase one of Superintendent Larry D. Coble's central office reorgani zation. Phase two of that plan, filing in instructional specialists^ positions, was supposed to be studied by the school board last Thursday and again Monday. Howev er, the board opted to deal with principal assignments instead. It will tackle phase two of the re-organization, Please see page A7 Sharpevtlle Massacre ramembersd SHARPEVILLE, South Africa (AP) - Dead and wounded (la on the ground at Sharpevifle altar police fired on a crowd of demonetratora protesting against the white supremacy government in 1960. Police Killed 69 people. Thousands of blacks stayed away from school and work in South Africa to mark the 30th anniversary of the Sharpevitle Massacre recently. More state and national news Please see page A3 INSIDE "Th?r# Is no on* as daaf aa ho who will not tiston."' SUBSCRIPTION HOTLINE ... 722-9884 Winston-Salem
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