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34 Pages This Week
Thursday; June 28, 1990
Winston-Salem Chronicle
50c?nts
'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XVI, NO. 44
City works to
- pool resources
to stopviolence
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronide Staff Writer
Winston-Salem Mayor Martha
S. Wood and the Human Relations
. Commission are making a large
scale effort to address the concerns
of residents in Winston-Salem's
public housing projects by holding
a series of meetings involving rep
resentatives from various communi
ty groups.
Specific problems were deter
mined, over 100 possible solutions
to problems were heard and dis
cussed, and local organizations
were given a chance to tell what
they are doing to improve living
- ? conditions in these ansae.
Three residents of public hous
ing projects presented their ideas
for solutions to the problems in
their neighborhoods based on what
they had discovered in meetings
with their neighborhood councils.
The public housing projects repre
sented were Kimberly Park Terrace,
Happy Hill Gardens, ^ Cleveland
Avenue Homes. The representative
^sent. The residents asked that their
Please see page A8
Eric Anderson
Stop the Killing
Leaders ponder ways to curb
youth aquisition of firearms
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
On June 24, the name Eric
Hozel Anderson was added to the
list of area youths who have been
shot to death in the past seven
weeks. He brings the total to five.
Anderson, 17, of 2445 E. Fifth
St, was the victim of a shooting at
Winston Lake last Sunday night. A
confrontation between a group of
Anderson's friends and another
group of people preceded the mur
Please see page A 1 1
To the Beat Yall
Photo by Craig T. Greenlee
Local supporters crowd
abuses for Mandela trip
by RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
More than 200 residents from
Winston-Salem and Greensboro
loaded onto to three chartered buses
bound for Atlanta Wednesday to
hear the words of African National
Congress leader, Nelson Mandela,
when he spoke to a mass rally in
Georgia Tech Stadium.
The trip was organized by com
munity leaders in several cities
across the state all with the same
? idea... to see and hear Mandela. The
buses left from Emmanuel Baptist
Church.
That is the church of the Rev.
John Mendez, one of several local
^organizers involved in the effort.
nHis (Mandela's) presence in this
country will do a lot for us (Afro
Americans), n he said. Rev. Mendez
pointed out that Mandela clarifies
the situation in South Africa and
clearly demonstrates why Afro
Americans must support the move
ment to abolish apartheid.
Elected officials, community
leaders, and just plain citizens,
along with local television were in
the local contingent
Mendez said that Mandela's
coming is so significant because it
comes at a time when the momen
Please see page A11
Photos by L B. Speas Jr.
Mandela supporters prepare to board bus bound for Atlanta.
State Looks For Answers
Local legislators divided over budget strategy
By JOCELYN DANIELS
Chronicle Legislative Correspondent
RALEIGH - A month after coming
here for the so-called "short" session, the
N.C. General Assembly appears no clos
er to solving the stale's budget woes.
And the eight-member Forsyth
County delegation appears split over the
best strategy for overcoming this year's
$505.8 million budget deficit Projec
tions indicate that next year's budget will
miss the balance mark by $338.4 mil
lion.
But in interviews with the legisla
tors who represent Forsyth County, sev
eral strongly held positions emerged. For
example:
? Many of the Forsyth legislators
favor raising taxes rather than making
deep cuts in money for public education.
? Other members of the delegation
support the educational cuts that focus
primarily on not expanding staff and
other personnel*
? The delegation refuses to abandon
Annie Kennedy
its local issues agenda, though several
items face a real uphill battle before pas
sage.
? The entire delegation, however,
agrees that constituents with specific
interests have to personally lobby for
Logan Burke
those interests.
But in this session, all issues have
had to take a back scat while legislators
wrestle with trying to balancc the state s
budget. The state s constitution demands
a balanced budget.
So far, the most talked-about bud
get-balancing strategy proposes to cut
$86 million in funding from the slated
$116 million for the Basic Education
Plan, or BEP, in 1990. ?
The BEP is an eight-year program
designed to provide a basic quality edu
cation for every North Carolina public
school student, no matter where the stu
dent lives.
Currently, some students in North
Carolina appear to get a better education
than others. This occurs primarily
because large, urban school systems, can
put more local money into education
than can systems in smaller, more rural
counties.
A North Carolina Senate bill cur
rently under debate would also stretch
the BEP to 10 years.
The same bill proposes to cut fund
ing to most state agencies by 3 percent, a
$118 million savings. The bill also pro
poses to cut $40 million from the budget
by continuing a freeze on vacant, non
Please see page A9
Youth survival
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c^?^* opening song
? ? S anticipated the messages pre.
seated by nnmerous'speakers
"Sometimes I try, and ]Lord concerned about righting the
knows that I try, and tilings go problems facing the; youth of .
wrong, and! can** see why. i " tlltlfll W%wm
iton it over to the Lord." ? | |I Please see paee A7 III
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City resident says
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronide Staff Writer
A Winston-Salem Afro- Ameri
can was arrested for trespassing in
his own neighborhood and says he
was not informed of his rights at the
time.
Rahasaan "Spoony" Baker, 16;
w as arrested while w ailing near a
phone booth outside the laundry -
room of the Village Apartments on
I Nurses get
-national help
I_ By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronide Staff Writer
Winston-Salem State Univer
sity's nursing program could be in
deep trouble, and it's doing all it
can to pull itself up by its boot
straps.
University of North Carolina
system president C.D. Spangler
made a recommendation to the
board of governors that the gener
ic baccalaureate nursing program
at WSSU be eliminated so that the
program accept only registered
nurses.
It's up to the nursing school
itself to answer his criticism, and
Thursday night, Eloise Baker, his
mother, said.
Baker said earlier that evening,
officer CJ. McNally told him, "You
want to be a bad a-, 111 body slam
your a? on this cement." Mrs.
Baker said that McNally was off
duty at the time and had been drink
ing a beer at the pool.
A liule while later, Baker said
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Dr. Sylvia Flack
it's up to the alumni to ensure that
WSSU is so visibly well-support
ed that no one dare think of cut
ting its programs again.
Joe Bumbrey, National Presi
dent of the Alumni Association,
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