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VOL. XVI, No. 52
-Nike boycott
has no impact
on local sales
Chronicle Staff and Wire Reports
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Following a sudden breakdown in communications between
Operation PUSH and Nike Inc., Rev. Tyrone Crider, national exec
utive director of Operation PUSH announced a national boycott
against Nike Inc.
Crider said, "After consultation with our national board of
directors to determine our next course of action, we are officially
announcing a national withdrawal of enthusiasm campaign against
Nike corporation and Its products. Thus, we are asking all con
"If kids want Nikes, they're going to buy them. ...
They identify with people like Michael Jordan and
Bo Jackson, especially Michael Jordan. He has a
lot more effect on kids than Jesse Jackson."
-- Bill Grose
Tennis & Ski Rack Owner
cerned individuals not to purchase or wear Nike products." Crid
er's announcement was made Aug. 11 at the Saturday Morning
Forum at Operation PUSH headquarters in Chicago, 111.
PUSH said the two organizations had a meeting on July 31,
1990 to begin negotiations for a reciprocal economic relationship
between Nike and the Afro- American and minority community.
Tentative plans wece madafor the two organizations to meet again
in Beaverton, Ore., Aug. 20.
> . Nike officials released to the media a letter accusing PUSH of
having received financial contributions from Nike competitor,
Reebok Inc., and of attempting to seek confidential information
about Nike for the specific purpose of providing that information
to Reebok. In the letter, Donahue called off all negotiations with
PUSH.
? Crider said_Nike_was_refeiTing to an advertisement Reebok
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Two Afro-Americans lose
chance to run for office
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chrorttde Staff Wnter
The Forsyth County Board of Elections
has dashed the hopes of two local Afro
Americans who want to be elected to the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of
Education. Diana Williams-Cotton and Ver
hon Robinson, both republicans, will not have
the opportunity to be on the ballot in Novem
ber.
A decision was made Tuesday, Aug. 21
not to accept a replacement nomination for
Gary W. Templeton, a Republican candidate
for school board.
Templeton withdrew from the race exact
ly 90 days before the election. He was the
minister at the Pinedale Church of Christ, but
"will be moving to Carmel, Ind., to work with
Central Christian Church.
When Templeton withdrew from the
race, the nominating committee of the Repub
lican Party of Forsyth County sought a
replacement candidate. Two of those consid
ered to replace Templeton were Williams
^Cotton and Robinson. Robinson is the
founder of the newly formed effective schools
political action committee.
Joseph J. Gatto, chairman of the Forsyth
County Republican Party, said he had heard
that they were interested in the candidacy, but
had not spoken directly with either of them.
But Williams-Cotton and Robinson won't
have their shots at a school board seat. No
campaign will be called for because the
Forsyth County Board of Elections voted
Tuesday, Aug. 21 not to let Templeton be
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DANCIN' AND PRANCIN'
Photo by LB Speas. Jr.
With the Pop Warner League football season fapidly approaching, play
ers and coaches are putting in some long hours preparing for opening
klckoff. But they aren't the only ones. Multitudes of girls are also work
ing feverishly to refine their acts as team mascots and cheerleaders. For
more on Pop Warner footbanTpiease see Chronicle Sports In Section
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"The infant mortality
rate ought to be a funda
mental priority with the
community," Tuckson
said. "The media sim
ply has to say, 'Do you
feel good about this,
Forsyth County?"
- Dr. Reed V. Tuckson
Carver principal^
plans retail store
as teaching tool
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Carver High School Principal Robert F. Clemmer has a vision
of setting up a retail store in Carver High School that would be
totally run by students. They would put theory to practice by
doing everything from accounting to
marketing to advertising.
Clemmer hopes Carver would
become a magnet school, where stu
dents could request to be assigned
because of its special resources. "We
could do it without inviting others/'
he said, "but we want to get more
people."
Clemmer has been talking with
Mike Ernst, vice president for Sara
Lee outlets, about plans for the store.
Sara Lee would act as consultant for
the store, and Hanes active wear
would be sold in the shop.
- - Clemmer, who got the idea for ?
the store from a school program in Robert Clemmer
Salt Lake City, Utah, said he would present a rough draft of this
concept to Superintendent Larry D. Coble in the middle of
September. If Coble approves, the matter will be taken before the
Board of Education for its approval. Clemmer said the store could
?be opened in the school as soon as next fall.
Coble said he was supportive of the idea, but he would need
more information before endorsing Clemmer's plan.
The store would be housed in the Carver Higl^School build
ing initially, but would eventually move to a facility elsewhere on
Carver School Road, Clemmer said. School attorney Douglas S.
Punger said zoning would be an issue to deal with when setting up
the store in the school.
Clemmer suggested that the off-campus store be located in a
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Community leaders join
fight to reduce infant death
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Community leaders in Forsyth County
are taking measures to step up the fight to
reduce infant mortality. Forsyth County has a
13.5 infant death rate per 1000 live births,
which is the highest rate of all North Caroli
na's non-rural counties. In 1988, the death
rate for non-white babies in the county was
19.8 per 1,000 live births, more than twice the
rate of white babies.
To initiate the special effort to reduce
infant death, Winston-Salem Mayor Martha
S. Wood proclaimed Aug 13-17 Infant Mor
tality Reduction Week.
With an infant death rate of 12.6 per
1000 live births in 1989, North Carolina is
46th in the nation in preventing infant death.
"Because we rose from 50th last year is no
cause for celebration," said Bonnie Poindex
ter, chapter director for the Greater Triad
Chapter of the March of Dimes. "We must
stay focused on this very grave problem.
A newly formed organization that focus
es on the infant mortality problem in Forsyth
County is Reduce Infant Death (RID). With
the March of Dimes Birth Defects Founda
tion, RID is co-sponsoring Infant Mortality
Reduction Week.
The stated purpose of RID is "to reduce
infant mortality by 30 percent in five years in
Forsyth County by acting as a catalyst to
achieve concerted action in the community."
Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, senior vice presi
dent for programs for the March of Dimes
Birth Defects Foundation, facilitated a work
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Wake Forest African Exchange Program Planned
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Study in Africa will aid students' understanding
i ' By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERINQ
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Ejects1' oHteshington, D.C., and who has not for
| gotten her heritage on the continent ofAftka
' has her way, people of color in the Diaspora, as
| well as other ethnic groups, will have the oppor
X tofilty to dispel firsthand their "romantic'*
M notions of that continent
Sr Dr. Deborah Boyd-Buggs, professor of
| fttftch and African literature at Wake Forest
Plteiversity, has undertaken an ambitious project
It resulted from her love for the African culture
and *?r desire to reaffirm the achievements and
if contributions of the peoples of that continent to
the world. She has proposed a student and
teacher exchange program that will be a fint of
itstindatthevntaaity.
The program would link WFU with the
University o t Niamd in Niger. The African uni
versity currently has exchange programs with
two other American universities: Boston Uni
versity and Penn Sane University. The opportu
nity to esafciish such a program was the result
of * visit to the cottage by Dr. ChaibOU Dan
Inna, Dean of Le Faculty des Lcttres (School of
Letters) at the University of Niane.
; - Dr. Boyd-Buggs met Dr. Dan-Inna through -
a colleague from the Univenity of North Gwbti- A
na in Chapei KB who had spem several yean %
Niger doing research under a Pulbright Schohr
ship on the ana. "She's an historian., juid called
ne to tell me be was going, to be in the comity
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and wookl we be interested in having him come
here (to WFU)," Dr. Boyd-Buggs said, remem
bering her excitement as she agreed to his visit
When Dr. Dan-Inna came to WFU, he was
rn astounding success. M He lectured at the
French House; he visited French classes; he
interacted with the faculty; and we had a recep
tion for htm/ she recounted. The reception from
the multi-racial, multi-ethnic gathering at the
French House was reflected in the "standing
room only" gathering of students. It was then
Ptejbtjaw the possibility of an exchange pro
gram, a study-abroad program.
* ' Dr. Boyd-Buggs recently returned from
Nigfcre where she laid the groundwork for the
proposed program. The next step is to develop
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