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48 Pages This Week
Thursday, July 12, 1990
Winston-Salem Chronicle
90 cants
The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly'
VOL. XVI, NO. 46
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Photo by L B. Speas
After a tough day in court, a teary-eyed
BevrtySjadfrFeastertelto her story.
Summit planned
for E. Winston
ByTODY ANDERSON
Chronide Managing Editor
The second week in
August could mark a turn
ing point in the economic
and social conditions of
Afro-Americans in Win
, ston-Salem. At least that is
the hope of organizers for
a proposed Winston East
summit scheduled August
9-11 at the Radisson Hotel
in Charlotte.
Organizers for the
summitare those Afm_-_
^__AmefTcans who were
invited to the economic
summit in Blowing Rock
May 3rd, accord in g to
Winston East Summit
committee co-chair James
Grace.
Grace said the idea of
? having a summit has been
on the drawing board for
years but was never made
into reality. He said the
spark to move that process
Blowing Rock summit.
James Grace
Matter Evans
along was ignited after the
"People from that summit (Blowing Rock) left with
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Band's refusal to
rampage
DALLAS - A rowdy 2 Live Craw (an ? escorted off the stage by
security personnel in Dallas. Fans want on a rampaga aftar the
band refused to piay whan they were not payed in advance.
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Was Judge's Mood A Factor?
Woman appealing sentence thinks so
By RU0Y ANOiftSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
When 28 year old Beverly Slade
Feaster went Into court Tuesday on three
counts Sf employment security fraud,
she thought die would he able to leave
if she paid the $348 the Employ matt
Security Commission said she owed. It
was after all an honest mistake, she rea*
sorted* because she like many people;;
misunderstood the filing procedure. She
was wrong.
Judge James Htorill, who heard her
ex^laals^^ of ^Mumstsmces in the
case in district criminal conn, fined;
Mrs. S lade-Feaster $400 plus $50 in
court costs, ordered the repay the
money owed BSC, and sentenced her to
three days active time in jail. Mrs.
Slade-Feaster said the judge also
ordered the Department of Social Ser?
vices to pick up her two children while
she served time. She appealed* The
judge then put her under a $3,000 dollar
bond. Ktei: Slade-Fea^er and her hus
band, Larry, both say the judge later
said, Tm in abad mood today.**
Attorney Stanley Mitchell* who was
in the courtroom, waiting to represent a
client in another case.said that "
goiprised that the judj^ hlt Mi^ Stode
Feaster with Such * high WWW|b<mM
especially since !
recotA ihit he ?aid that what happened
a tot of people whenthey come intottfe ;;t!
court system whhoot an anotWy. '"--J
Mrs. Slade-Feasier said in as inters
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Photo by L.B. Speas
Supporters for a peaceful end to Liberia's violent conflict stage protest and
march for U.S. support in ending the conflict.
Local Liberians push peace
By TATIA MIA DAVIS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Voices joined together in the singing of?
"We Shall Overcome" as Liberians came
together to show their support for a peaceful
end to the bloody civil war taking place in
their homeland. Last week, a group of
Liberians, concerned citizens and local offi
cials marched from City Hall to Liberia
Street, located in Happy Hills Garden.
"All we want are peaceful and justified
changes in the country," said Musa Kamara,
who is originally from a neighbcriffgiFOunuy
of Liberia, Sierra Leone.
"My reason for marching is to support
my brothers and sisters from Liberia.
Whether it is talcing place in Liberia or
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Ministerial coalition _
to address problems
By TRAOV L. PROSSER
Chronicle- Staff Writer
Leaders of the religious com
munity in Winston-Salem have
banded together to put forth their
best efforts at a unified attempt to
combat the problems in the commu
nity.
j The Winston-Salem Minister's
(Coalition is an interracial, ecumeni
cal. ministerial group made up of
I __ black and white religious leaders of
the community. Rather than work
independently or only with their
j: own congregations to aWev4ate
I community problems, the leaders
are pooling their resources for the
| benefit of all.
The stated purpose of the coali
tion says: "We desire to organize
? the total resources of the religious
^ community to enable the churches
holistically and cooperatively to
address the spiritual problems of the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
community in the areas of crime,
drugs, poverty, racism, and sexual
hara^m^nt "
Bishop S.D. Johnson
Bishop SJD. Johnson, of Mace
donia True Vine Pentecostal Holi
ness Church, and Robert Sawyer, of
Home Moravian Church, are the
two co-chairmen of the eighteen
member steering committee.
In a meeting last week, task
forces were organized that will
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Developer: Winston Lake
problems won't stop project
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronide Staff Writer
Recent incidents of crime and
violence in Winston Lake Park are
not hampering the efforts of two
local developers to create a middle
and upper- income housing develop
ment in the area.
Mary Sheppard and Jose Isasi
are taking a big risk in East Win
ston. They are planning Lake Park,
a development of houses priced
around $130,000, near Winston
Lake Park, the scene of several
recent crimes and incidents of vio
lence.
According to the East Winston
Marketing Strategy prepared by
Hammer, Siler & George and pre
sented to the board of aldermen ear
lier this year, a key to the develop
ment of East Winston is bringing in
families with professional back
grounds which would be a good
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Homeless fear bill's impact
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronide Staff Writer
Can Forsyth County house 669
people who may lose their homes if
Congress passes a housing amend
ment? Housing Now! The Next
Step is doing all it can to change
Representative Steve Neal's mind to
get him to vote against the bill.
When owners agreed to work
with low income housing, they
were promised that after twenty
years of participation they could
prepay their mortgages.
The Barnard/Bartlett prepay
ment provision would allow owners
to prepay mortgages on the low
/ income housing that they own so
that they can make improvements
and increase the rent. A memo
from the National low income
Housing Coalition says: "Eventual
ly, the household rent would be
increased to an unrestricted level,
and families could face massive dis
placement and potential homeless
ness."
According to Kay Vives, a
member of Housing Now!, 669
people would be affected in Forsyth
County, 6,652 in North Carolina,
and 3 SO, 000 nationally. They risk
losing their homes if their landlords
decide to sell, convert, or demolish
their housing units, and evict and
displace their tenants.
The owner of Colony Place
Apartments, which has 228 units,
was eligible to prepay the mortgage
on the complex in January of this
year. The owner of Millbrook
Apartments, which has 144 units,
will be able to prepay in three
years.
The Bamard/Bartlett provision,
offered by Reps. Doug Barnard Jr.
(D-GA) and Steve Bartlett (R-TX),
would offer incentives to owners to
continue providing low income
housing.
Steve Neal is in support of this
bill that could potentially displace
almost 7,000 in his home state.
Lisa Knott, a legislative assis
tant from Neat's office in Washing
ton, said, "This is an attempt to
keep housing in low income use
without reneging on the agreement
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Photo by LB. Speas
Homeless took their concerns to the street In
the hope of getting Rep. Steve Neil's attention.