Hand-tastic Hands Musician to travel to New York to display his unusual talents PAGE B1 34 Pages This Week Fore! Winston Lake Pro-Am to revive golf PAGtCCI Thursday, July 19, 1990 - Winston-Salem Chronicle 50 cents . "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" - VOL. XVI Federal probe of-Sumler, others continues Fed probe: Leaders question rules' use "I have no reason to "They've been investigating 'I'm carrying on my life as I even involve myself me ... for almost four years always have. I'm con in this." and still have nothing." cerned but not worried.' ? Vivian Burke -- Rodney Sunnier -- Larry W. Womble "If they have Indict ments, let them come ? Lee Faye Mack Local political consultant and community activist Rodney Sumler and Greensboro City Councilman Earl Jones have both raised the question of whether the FB1/1RS investigation is being conducted according to the specifications described in General Rules of Crim inal Procedure, specifically Rule 6(e): Recording and Disclosure of Grand iiiry Proceedings. Pleas' 9 see page A 1 1 By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING Special to the Chronide Burke no longer being investigated By PATRICIA SMfTH-DEERINQ Special to the Chronicle "Operation Mushroom Cloud," code name for the ongoing federal investigation of suspected polit ical malfeasance amongsomeof Winston-Salem's black elected officials has apparently ended further attempts to seek indictments against Vivian Burke, alderman for the Northeast Ward, sources involved in the investigation say. Please see page A8 Property owners claim Legal Aid is hurting poor By TRACY L. PROSSER Chronicle Staff Writer Some of Winston-Salem's property owners say the Legal Aid Socie^and the city's^ Housing Authority have crcatad such a mess in {feaiing with public hous ing tenants that U may be doing the city and its poorer residents a lot of harm. The Housing Authority oversees Section 3 hous ing, which helpslow income families pay for accom modations based on what the family can afford to pay. I^gal Aifl is an organization designed to provide legal help to those who can't afford to pay a lawyer out of their own pockets. The costly legal entanglements into which proper ty owners can get ensnared by the involvement of ' Legal Aid, they say, discourages them from dealing Please see page A8 Helms' aide draws fire from Afro-American leadership )y RUDY ANDERSON bringing charges that they have proof to support /hronicle Managing Editor c^arges against them." The claims so enraged Kelly Alexander Accusations by Sen. Jesse Helms special jr ^ executive director of the North Carolina issistant, James Meredith, against the leader- naACP that he sent a letter to Sen. Helms ship of the National Association for the caiiing for Meredith's dismissal from the sen Advancement of Colored People has incurred ator*s staff. the wrath of that leadership across the nation strains belief almost to the breaking and particularly in North Carolina. lo that Meredith, on his own - In a news release issued Saturday, July authority, could issue a press release that was more 60 V*- not at a minimum approved by your Chief of cent of the 3,000 delegates nr the NAACP staffs Alexander writes? "Senator Helms, we National Convention, in Los Angeles, -were have not seen eye to eye on major issues of into the drug culture and that at least 80 per- public policy facing our nation. However, I cent had been or are involved in either, crimi- have credited you with running a Senate nal or immoral activity or both. office that would not issue patented falser? "I have a background profile on more than hoods." half of the delegates ( to the convention), ""ffie~~ Helms has denied that he ordered the cleasc charged. The only way way they can reiease to go out even though he feels that stay out of jail is to apply enough political pres- ^ sure to keep government prosecutors from Please see page A9 --- - T am? ?) II mini IBB? ? ? ? File Photos Sen. Helms claims he never authorized James Meredith's news release but says he finds merit in some of what his aide had to say. WSSU establishes drug policy for its athletes By TRACY L PROSSER Chronicle Staff Writer Winston-Salem State University athletes will be subject to random drug testing beginning this fall. The executive committee of the WSSU board of trustees voted unanimously to accept a drug education, screening and counseling program for intercollegiate athletics which was proposed by the Student Affairs committee of the board of trustees. " A prototype policy was developed by a committee called together by the general administration of the University of North Carolina system. HThe (WSSU) policy is identical in all materials and respects to the model policy," said Robert A. Emken, chairman qf the board. r The policy requires athletes to enter into an agree ment to participate in unannounced random drug test ing to be performed by an outsidtf^aboratory. A certain percentage of each team will be selected through a blind drawing of names from the roster at various times during the academic year to be tested for drugs. Athletes will also be tested before each sport sea son begins. The cost of the tests will be bom by the university. Administration of drug tests by a third party would be cheaper than creating a drug testing laboratory at the school, said Haywood L. Wilson Jr., vice-chancellor for student affairs. By using the bidding process to deter mine the laboratory that will perform the tests, Wilson hopes costs will be kept to a minimum. The drug policy has a component for drug educa tion and counseling as well. Campus based resources such as lectures, videos* and student media will be uti lized as well as external resources such as Step One, the Council on Drug Abuse, and Reynolds Health Cen ter. Clarence E. "Bighouse" Gaines, WSSU's head bas ketball coach, said that Division II athletes have always signed a form subjecting them to random drug tests at the tournament level. He doesn't think this new policy will have a big effect, other than the cost, on the WSSU athletic department, he said. The board of trustees of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill did not approve the model policy formulated by the UNOboard of governors because of concerns about violating constitutional rights and the possibility of litigation, Emken said. The board of governors did not accept the decision of the Chapel Hill board of trustees to continue with the university's voluntary drug testiitg policy. Emken said the decision made by the WSSU board of trustees was not motivated by the board of gover nors' decision not to accept Chapel Hill's non-adoption Please see page A9 Convicted In Assault Case Woman claims she was victim By TRACY L. PROSSER Chronicle Staff Wnter .1 , Two conflicting accounts of an arrest of a local A fro- American woman were heard Friday, July 13, in District Court She was charged with four offenses and was convicted of two but is appealing the case. Patrice Lockhart was at her boyfriend's apartment around 1:30 a.m. on July 3. They were having a fight, she said, and he asked her to leave. When she got to her car, she realized she had left her keys and her bag in the apartment, so she went back to get them. Her boyfriend didn't let her in and called the police. Lockhart said she explained the situation to policc officer Patrick S. Lane, who told her to get her keys and bag from the apartment and leave. She got in her car, she said, and saw Lane go around the car. She said she thought he was going ba^k upstairs to her boyfriend's apartment, so she backed out of the parking place to leave. She said she didn't see him behind her car when she backed up. Apparently, Lane had gone to the back of the car to get Lockhart's license plate number and she hit him when she pulled out of the parking space. She said he put his hands on the side of the car, looked at her, paused, and looked away. As Lockhart was waiting at a red traffic sig nal several blocks down the road, a police car pulled in front of her, she said. Lane approached Please see page A9 I Photo by L B Speas Jr. Patrice Lockhart says her crimes, biting and spit ting on an officer, were provoked. Wnstcm-Salenfttoronidc^ Sheriffs deputies move protester MEMPHIS, Ttnn. (AP) - ShtfHf*t dtputitt movt prolMttr JtCQushoA Smith Monday tfocn htr lW9^fttr