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Thursday, September 27, f990
Winston-Salem Chronicle
50 cen,s "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" 1 VOL. XVII, No. 5
Delta's Missing $40,000, Scholarship Check Bounces
by RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
Money is missing from the cof
fers of the local graduate chapter of
and an audit is being conducted to
determine what happened to that
money.
Members of the Winston-Salem
Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc., discovered that
their treasury funds were more than
$40,000 short when a check issued
through their annual scholarship
program to college bound students
bounced. Sources inside the sorority
_say a former treasurer of the organic,
zation is at the heart of the probe.
The Chronicle has learned that
the sorority held a meeting with the
parents of scholarship recipients to
explain the situation and that the
members donated several thousand
dollars out of their own pockets to
cover a number of the sorority's
scholarship checks.
An executive officer in the
sorority, who chose not to be identi
fied, said sorority members were
notified in early September that one
of its scholarship checks had
bounced- Members of the sorority,
in charge of the organizations finan
cial matters, then checked with the
two banks where the organization
had accounts. As a result of that
inquiry, it was discovered that in
excess of $40,000 dollars was miss
ing 1
"An audit is being conducted
by a certified public accountant,"
said attorney Phillip Banks, whose
law firm West and Banks, is repre
senting the sorority in this matter.
The leadership in the sorority
changed after its election of officers
in April. Those officers were
installed in May but did not actually
take office until September.
"I just took over the office of
President,1' said Louise Smith, " and
I have no comment about this situa
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lion until I have had more time to
see what is going on."
But Banks said based on the
information supplied to his firm that
one of the financial officers of the
e /
previous administration did not fol
low the rules of the sorority in han
dling financial matters.
He said the sorority required
two signatures oi respon si blenofffc
cers in their financial dealings when
writing checks. He said a signature
card with two signatures was pre
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Hunt trial is a parade
of witnesses during
second week of case
Chronicle Staff Report
The trial of Darryl Eugene Hunt for the 1984 murder of Deborah B.
Sykes is well into its second week. Hunt is accused of the rape and sub
bing death of Sykes, who was a copy editor at a Winston-Salem newspaper.
Her body was found in a field off West End Boulevard on Aug. 10,
1984, and Hunt was charged with the crime in 1985 and was convicted.
The decision was overturned by the North Carolina Supreme Court in May
1989. ,
Runt's second" trial, in Catawba County, isl>eing heard by Judge For
rest A/Fajretl. > ?
The trial began Sept. 17. During the first week, the jury was selected
and motions were entered from both sides. H. Dean Bowman, Surry Coun
ty district attorney, and his assistant James C. Yeates III are the prosecuting
attorneys. James E. Ferguson II and Adam Stein are defending Hunt.
The defense wanted to suppress the testimony of Roger Weaver amK,
Johnny Gray.
Weaver, a witness for the prosecution, was attacked Sept. 18 by three
men who threatened to kill him if he testified. They pistol whipped him,
and-he-reccived-i2-stitches? Consequently, Bowman wanted Hunt's ~
$50,000 bond was revoked.
Weaver was a desk clerk in the Hyatt Winston-Salem Hotel who said
he saw Hunt enter the hotel lobby bathroom. He said he later found red
residue in a sink and on paper towels in the trash. The defense claims his
identification of Hunt in a police line-up was mishandled.
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U. Montel Williams says he's the closet thing to
James Bond the Navy has.
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Lieutenant turns teens around
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By Patricia SMtTH-OEERiNG Corps, had made his point in the dra*
Chronicle Staff Writer ; matic fashion that has made him so
? effective in getting the message to
As four Carver High School stu- teens about the evils of drugs that state
dents prepared to perform a brief skit governors have requesied his services,
during assembly in the school auditori- What Lt. Williams wanted the
urn Tuesday, Sept. 25, their school- Carver High youth to understand is
mates went through the typical routine that dealing in drugs, using drugs, or
of pointing, giggling, and other dis- even associating with those who do
tracting motions. The scenario was a can have serious, often fatal conse
street comer where the four were dis- queftces. In tones that were alternately
-cussing what to_do to have a good stern and ahusive or soft and paternal,
time* Deciding to purchase dnifothev he was alwaya incommandiinrthari
-peo^jheir money and apftroa%fr4he the st^dent^j^auenttoit
local dealer. After ensuring that the Lt. Williams had about a dozen
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kids did have money, he reached male students stand. He warned the
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gun and with a series of explosive between the ages of 13 and 34 an & w
"pops", each one of the would-be buy- using or selling dntgs, 50% of you will
ers dropped to the stage, motionless. be either dead or in jail by 19^ file
The sudden and unexpected turn had half the sttukdts sit down to dfft*
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shocked, horrified, and definitely got fellows are either dead or in jail, that
the attention of everyone in the audito* means these young ladies fere going to
num. The "dealer,* Lieutenant Montel be looking for someone and they can
B. Williams, Uftited States Marine .
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Harvey Gantt Jesse Helms
"He doesn 't want you to talk
back to him, so he 's decid
ed not to debate us"
- Gantt
Gantt keeps pressure
on for campaign debate
WENTWORTH, N.C. (A P) _ Democrat Harvey
Gantt campaigned through central North Carolina on
Saturday, knocking incumbent Sen. Jesse Helms' tele
vision commercials and challenging the Republican to
a debate.
Gantt told a crowd at a fund-raising dinner in
Rockingham County that Helms is hiding by refusing
to debate him.
Helms has said he won't debate Gantt, calling
debates 4 'dog and pony shows."
"He doesn't want you to talk back to him, so
he's decided not to debate us," Gantt said.
"My opponent has decided to sort of thumb his
nose at North Carolina public. He has decided to insult
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ing on television." \
Gantts campaign day started with the Mule Day
Parade in Benson, and moved to a Women for Gantt
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rally in Raleigh, an appearance in front of the state
Association of Black Elected Officials in Durham, and
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City minority set-aside
program questioned
Carter says majors don't
want minority subcontractors
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
The diceptor of an African-Amcrican contractors
association in Wiqston-Salem is not pleased with the
"good faith efforts,,%frf-general contractors to solicit par
ticipation from minority- and woman-owned
businesses. ^
Omar Carte/ director of the Piedmont Contractors
Association, made a special presentation to the Minority
and Women' Business Enterprise citizens advisory com
mittee in its monthly meeting Tuesday, Sept. 25. The
PCA is an association of minority contractors.
The M/WBE sets goals for the percentage of sub
contract work on government construction projects it
deems should be awarded to businesses owned by
minorities or women. Normally, the goal is 12 percent
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Photo by LB. Spoas
Omar Carter says M/WBE should be more
attentive to general contractors good faith
efforts.
M/WBE Committee refuses
nod to women owned firm ? -
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Minority and Women Business Enterprise citi
zens advisory committee chose not to recommend to
the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen, the firm of
Deconti, Odden & Griffith, 3 woman-owned business
based in Charlotte, N.C., as the general contractor for
the construction of the portal, gate and ticket booths at
the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds.
When bids were received, Sept. 18, 1990, the city
became aware Deconti, Odden & Griffith was a
woman-owned business enterprise (WBE), as certified
by the city of Charlotte and the North Carolina Depart
ment of Transportation. The M/WBE advisory com
mittee voted to certify tentatively the firm as a WBE
firm in Winston-Salem, and Betty Hanes, M/WBE
Please see page A11
Surrogate Mother loses first round in custody fight
BY LYNN ELBER / ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) _ A couplc won temporary cus
tody Friday of a test-tube baby after a surrogate mother who
wants to keep the newborn said she didn't want the child sent to a
foster home. t
r.oolhci, Anna JoTinson, agreed to Uic tempo
rary agreement after a judge threatened to send the boy to a foster
home if the trio could not agree on interim custody.
"She couldn't handle it." said Ms. Johnson's attorney,
He said the ruling by Superior Qjirt Judge Richard
Parslow Jr. would be appealed.
Mark and Cnspina Calvert hired Ms. Johnson for $10,000
to carry an embryo created from their egg and sperm. Mrs.
Calvert could not bear the child because she has had a hysterecto
my.
The Calverts hugged in court after the judge's ruling.
"Under the circumstances we feel it's a fair option,
Calvert said when asked if he was grateful to Ms. Johnson.
ivrrr.. Oti ip take maternity
was preparing the baby's nursery. "It's all worth it," she said.
Ms. Johnson will be allowed a three-hour visit each day
with the child, supervised by court-appointed guardian William
Stcincr.-"^' '?*'
Another heanng is scheduled Thursday to decide long-term
Please see page A 12
Anna Johnson temporarily lost
custody of the child her bore.