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32 Pages This Week
Thursday, September 20, 1990
Winston-Salem Chronicle
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The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL. XVtr, No. 4
Minister's
alleged affair
causes splits
By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING
Chronicle Staff Writer
A fight between two women and claims of an
illicit love affair are at the heart
of a storm brewing at one of the
largest African-American
churches in Winston-Salem. It
is a storm that could split the
church and force its minister
from the pulpit.
In the midst of this whirl
wind is the Reverend J. Ray
Butler, pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church. The fight reportedly
involved two women vying for
his attention. One of the women claims to have had an
affair with Butler for more than 18 years.
Butler denies the claim and says he is still the
leader of his church.
According to the police report filed on the alterca
tion, which happened onuJuly 14, Geraldine Griffin
Moss of 2708 Fondly Road was leaving the Food Lion
located in the East Winston Shopping Center at 500
by Cowme Yonng of 3Q23-H
Brandemere Apts. and Frankie Pearson of 215 York
town Road in Kernersville. Police were called to break
up thf. altr.rratinn, and all u/ptp mlrr.n.fn thp PWk nf
Court's office where Moss filed an assault complaint
against the two women.
Both Young and Pearson appeared in Forsyth
County District Court on Sept. 4, according to court
records dated the same day, and were found guilty of
simple^assault byhitting Mossin the head with their
fists in violation of General Statute 14-33, Code 1368.
They were each fined $104.50 plus court costs and
sentenced to 30 days in the Forsyth County jail, sus
pended for three years. They were also ordered not to
contact, assault, or threaten Mdss. Both women
appealed their cases on Sept. 10.
In late July following the fight and filing charges,
Moss said she told her story to two of the members of
the Shiloh Church's board of deacons, Robert Stewart
and Eugene Preston, with Reverend Butler in atten
dance. She told of a more than 18-year affair with the
minister, detailing their involvement. She said during
the course of her story she was told that her statements
were being taped. She said she was asked if she mind
ed and that she replied she did not mind.
A member of the church who chose not to be
identified, said Reverend Butler met with the Dea
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Rev. J. Ray Butler
. Photo By L B. Speas
Postal employee locks doors
In downtown facility.
Ope rating hours questioned
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Post Off ice po Li cy call ed unfai r
by RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
TheU.S. Poslal^cfvtce is closing the
lobby of some of its stations at 6 p.m. dur
ing the week. The lobby of the postal facil
ity at 5th and Trade Streets shut-down at
6:30 p.m. Those lobbies had been open 24
hours a day to allow access for postal cus
tomers renting lockboxes. And African
Americans living in those areas say they
are being treated unfairly.
Three of the four post office stations
-are located in or near African-American
communities. The lobbies of the Ardmore
station on Miller Street and the Salem sta
tion on Salt and West Streets stay open on
a 24-hour basis.
The fact that these lobbies are being
closed to the public in African-American
communities has angered people living in
those areas. The action has also prompted
some to ask why the lobbies in all stations
are not treated in the same way.
Dave Barcio, manager of customer
service for the U.S. Postal Service in Win- :
ston-Salem, said the decision was made to
close the lobbies where postal vending
machines had been vandalized. He said
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Violence raifes Associated Press Laser Photo
A man accused of being a Zulu Inkatha supporter is stabbed in the head
by a supporter of the rival Africian National Congress, Soweto, South
Africa, Saturday nfSrnlng, after overnight factional disturbances. The
man was later set alight and burned to death.
Record check costs up
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
An increase in the price of a
police record report from the Win
ston-Salem Police Department
could dramatically increase costs
tor local employment service agen
cies and larger corporations with
offices in the area.
Sarah Puryear, director of the
management information division
i for the police department, said The
? price for a^pol ice record report,
which includes any arrest made by
the Winston-Salem Police Depart
ment, used to be one dollar for the
scarch and one dollar per page tor
the report itself. Aug. 1, the fee
was increased to a flat five dollars,
a hike approved by the Winston
Salem Board of Aldermen.
Alexander Beaty, assistant city
manager, said a consultant group
had looked at services provided to
the people in Winston-Salem to see
where operational costs could be
cut. The group identified an
increase in the rates for police
rccord checks as one idea that could
be implemented to recover opera
Purycar said additional income
from the increase in fees would not
go directly to the policc department
but would be put in the city's gener
al fund.
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Trial jury is seated in Hunt ease
Chronicle Staff Report
The retrial of Darryl Eugene
Hunt for the murder of Deborah
Sykes began in Newton, N.C., Mon
day, Sept. 17 and jury selection
ended Wednesday . Four white men,
eight white women, and an African
American woman will hear the
case. Both alternates are white.
Sykes. a Winston-Salem news
paper woman, was killed in August
1984, and Hunt was convicted of
her rape and stabbing death June 14,
1985. His conviction was over
turned by the North Carolina
Supreme Court in May 1990.
The case is being retried in
Catawba County with Judge Forrest
A. Ferrell presiding. The prosecut
ing attorneys are H. Dean Bowman,
Surry County district attorney, and
his assistant, James C. Yeates III.
They were asked to try the case by
Forsyth District Attorney Warren
Sparrow. Hunt's attorneys are
James Ferguson II, and Adam Stein.
Monday, Sept. 17, Hunt entered
a plea of qot guilty. The next day
selection of the jury began.
But on Wednesday, the day all
the jurors were seated, District
Attorney Bowman stunned Hunt's
defense team when he filed a
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United Way supporters
praise programs at luncheon
By TRACY L. PROSSER
: Chronicle Staff Writer
When the Salvation Army Girls Cub chorus began singing Love
in Any Language , a haunting hush fell over the crowd of United Way
. supporters as they listened to what their donations helped accomplish.
The United Way luncheon Thursday, Sept 13, in the M.C. Benton
Convention Center kicked off the UnHed Way 1990 community cam
paign and celebrated the campaigns of 42 participating agencies and 20
1 Pacesetter organizations. Together they have raised $629,879 for the
- United Way of Forsyth County, a 25.8 percent increase over their 1989
giving. More than 800 people attended the luncheon.
Pacesetter organizations set their fundraising goals 20 to 30 percent
higher than last year's giving and used model campaign techniques to
set an example for other organizations. The Pacesetter campaigns
ended Sept. 1.
Because of the sluggish state of the economy this year, fundraisers
had to make a special effort Paul Briggs, vice president of the Win
ston-Salem division of Duke Power and co-chair for the Pacesetter.cam
paign, said, "This year we couldn't do business as usual; we had to go
all out" Increasing people's awareness of the United Way campaign
was a necessary goal, he said. Greg Beier, executive vice president of
Carolina Medicorp Inc., joined Briggs as co-chair of the Pacesetter cam
. paign.
Joe Neely, senior vice president of Sara Lee Corporation and this
year's general campaign chairman, said giving to the United Way
affects the bottom line in the community. The money spent now will
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Tiny t-shirt artist honored at United Way luncheon
By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING
Chronicle Staff Writer
When the teacher at the Happy
Hill Gardens Child Care Center
asked four-year old Benson Ray and
the other four-year olds at the center
early this spring to draw a picture
as part of a unit they were studying
on friendship, nobody had any idea
that Benson's drawing would thrust
him into the limelight.
It started with a request from
Mrs. Cynthia Griff in-auiijc United
Way to onp of its member Agencies,
the Bethlehem Community Center,
for artwork selected from the four
year olds at the center and its two
satellite locations, Happy Hill Child
Care and Kimbcrly Park Child Care
Center. From the works submitted,
one would be selected for use on
promotional material during the
1990 United Way annual fund
drive.
Mrs. Gloria Thompson, who
| was one of Benson's teachers at the
time, recalled. "We were doing a
unit on 4 My Friends and I\ and 1
asked the class to draw a picture of
Photo by L.B Speas Jr.
Three generations share the proud artwork of their fourth generation offspring, five-year old
Benson Ray. From left to right are: Crystal Phelps, mother; Sybil Phelps, aunt; Annie Duck,
grandmother; and Rosa Rice, great-grandmother.
themselves doing something they Linda Charles, director of the cen
likcd to do with their friends." Mrs. tcr, then requested that three draw
ings be selected to be sent to the
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