New Digs for Dudley
Dudley Products magnate breaks
ground for multimillion-dolllar complex.
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Jayvee Football
Carver triumphs over North in
tripple overtime.
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Thursday, October 4, 1990
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Winston-Salem Chronicle
VOL. XVII, NO. 6
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Financial records under scrutiny at Shiloh
Baptist
By-BATRICIA SMITH-PEERING
Chronicle Staff Wrtter
An interna! audit of the financial rccords of Shiloh
Baptist will soon be under way, according to a highly
placed source on the Trustee Board. Church members
?have-hranmA inrj-fi.'ttingly r.nnrrrnrvi with ihp list; and
possible misuse of church funds.
According to the s-ource, during the years that
Shiloh Baptist was at peak membership, weekly church
offerings totaled between $8,000-S10,(X)0, but there
was never more than S5(),()()() in the church accounts.
Over the last several years, with the decline in member
ship and offerings, the board member indicated the
church treasury had only $25, 000-530,000 which is
already obligated. "The church is on financially shaky
ground. We can't even pay our bills on time," is how
the Trustee Board member described the situation.
Part of the Trustee Board member's concern was
triggered byjwo recent attempts by the Reverend J.
Ray Butler to secure a bank roan ostensibly lor repairs
to the church. The Trustee Board source said that each
time the transaction was blocked by members of the
Trustee and Deacons boards, who contacted the bank,
questioning the loan.
The first unsuccessful attempt was made on Sept.
14, when Reverend Butler went to the Wachovia Bank
branch~orT~Ntartin Luther Krmg-?>rtve^to secure a
SKX),000 loan. According to the source, he was accom
panied by the church treasurer and member of the Dea
cons Board, Jimi Bonham, and other members of the
Deacon and Trustee boards. The Chronicle [earned that
a second attempt was on Sept. 28 by Reverend Butler to
again scctinrSlOO.QOOand-again-was unsuccessful ? ?
Bonham, when asked whether he was^neoT those
who was with Reverend Butler, said that he was not
and thai he knew nothing about it. Wachovia Bank offi
cials had no comment.
But concerns about misuse of church funds are not
the only problem plaguing Reverend Butler. Following
accusations of an 18-year affair with^ church member
Geraldine Moss, he agreed to submit his notice of
retirement at an Aug. 23 meeting of the Deacons Board
and of the church members, to be effective Nov. 23.
Within days of the meetings, he had recanted and said
that he had no plans to retire on that date.
The. trustee member said a group of 160 members,
intent on seeing the ouster of the minister, retained an
attorney who sent Reverend Butler a letter requesting
that he retire as minister as previously agreed on Aug.
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Poor and needy trust denies j
$15,000 grant to Urban League
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by RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
An, Urban League "program
designed to help strengthen single
, parent Afriean-Ameriean families
was denied lunding needed for
expansion from a local granting
- agency, which later funded a similar
program.
Dclorcs Smith, Urban League
cxccutivc director, said Monday, a
proposal submitted to the Kale B.
Reynolds Poor and Needy Trust in
May for $ 1 5,000 was~turncd down ~
ijh June. She said three months later
i grant proposal with a similar goal
Jxom.Lhc Experiment in Self
Reliance was approved. That pro
posal, which would spend $296, 000
this year and the same the next two
years if funded, was developed by
ESR at the request of the trust fund
staff after several strategic planning
programs to address the problems
of single parent families.
From Sept. 1, 1988 through
August 31,1989, a total of 24 com
m unity ? service ? org a n i /ra I u>n a?
received nearly three million dollars
in grants Irom the fund . Fight of
those organizations got two or more
grants during that time period. Of
the total number of organizations
getting grants, only two (East Win
ston Restoration Association, Inc.,
and Winston-Salem Delta Arts,
Inc.) arc run by African-Americans
and direcily serve the African
American community.
Vance Fryc, associate director
of the trust fund, said Monday that
i he two proposals had di tier en t
focal points and that his board felt
ESR was better suited to meet the
objectives of reducing the symp
toms of poverty.
Smith, upset after hearing thc
ESR proposal had been funded,
claims the Urban League's proposal
could have met those same objec
tives had the Urban League not
been lead to believe by the trust
fund staff that the need the fund
wanted to address was reducing
"I'm angry. I can't see any sig- ?
nificant difference. I feel like a
woman back in slavery who gave .
birth to a child who before I could j
wean n had someone snatch it away
and give it to someone else to I
raise," said Smith.
The Urban League proposal ,
was lor Tundingof its Btack Family ;
Focus program which aims to I
impact on the problems of African
American single parent families by j
reducing dependence on welfare, !
alcohol and drugs, building on the !
strengths or Hie^fiflTrilyr^ducation
remediation, skills training, and job
development. "It's primary goal
was to reduce child abuse and
neglect and make poor^families ?
more self-sufficient through these j
methods among others ," said Smith J
The program would have been i
expanded from the present 17 single
parent households to 50.
j
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Third witness testifies against Hunt
Chronicle Staff Report
The proscculion in the trial of Darryl Eugene Hunt
is slacking up witnesses testifying that Hunt was in the
area of where the body of Deborah B. Sykes was found
the morning she was killed.
Her body was found in a held oft West End Boule
vard 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.
Hunt's second trial, in Catawba County, is being
heard by Judge Forrest A. Farrell. H. Dean Bowman,
Surry County district attorney, and his assistant James
'C. Ycatcs III arc the prosccuiing attorneys. James E.
Ferguson II and Adam Stein arc defending Hunt.
Hunt's defense team has repeatedly petitioned the
court for a mistrial, especially after several surprise key
witnesses against Hunt were callcd to testify. Judge
Farrcll has denied their motion for a mistrial.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 26, several mcdical profes
sionals testified that there was no physical evidcncc
found during the Sykcs' autopsy that could conncct
Hunt.
On Thursday, Kcvcy Coleman, who did not testify
in Hunt's first trial, took the stand. He testified that
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Mr. Willie E. Grissom, Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs
in 1 1 mini i I
t _ . Photo by LB. Spoct Jr.
African-Americans make up about 25% of the attendance numbers at the Dixie Classic Fair but
arnri't ehorlnn in ? i ?
aren't sharing in the economic pie.
Black media gets 1% of
Dixie Classic Fair ads
| By TRACY L PROSSER
j Chronicle Staff Writer
j. _ J
The Dixie Classic Fair may be good for the ccono
| my of Winston-Salem in general, but the financial ben
? cfits to the African-American community are doubtful.
! African-Americans spend their money going to the fair,
fair publicity is done almost exclusively through non
minority-owned media.
Until Miittcr Evans, president and general manager
of WAAA radio station, confronted the Dixie Classic
| Fair advertising agency, Morphis and Friends Inc., only
$405 had been spent for advertising through minority
I owned means of advertising. This $405 represents just
a little over 1 percent of the $35,150 advertising bud
? get.
Evans asked Wendy Men/el, media director for
! Morphis and Friends, what kind of advertising was
being bought to reach the African-American communi
ty. Evans said she was told that advertising was being
purchased from two radio stations to reach the African
American community.
Betty Hanes, director of Winston-Salem's Minority
and Women Business Enterprise, reported that only one
minority-owned business enterprise, the Winston
Salem Chronicle , was budgeted to advertise the fair.
Two of the radio stations were located in Guilford
County and were not owned by minorities, although
they appeal to minority audiences.
Evans convinced Morphis and Friends to purchase
advertising time from WAAA, S 195, which brought
the spending on minority businesses up to $600.
According to Menzel, the 13, 30-second commercials
spread out over six days on WAAA at the lowest rate
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WSSU may have to return over $500 thousand
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Irvthc midst of a slatc-wide
budget crisis, Winston-Salem State
be given back to the state.
Willie Grissom/vicc chancellor
tor business affairs, said ihe univer
sity's budget situation is constantly
It's getting awfully tight... We're not at
y
the point of laying people off...
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Mr. Willie E. Grissom
University may be forced to return
*iver h half million dollars to the
University of North Carolina sys
tern before the end of the year
The money had been included
in ihe university's budget, but
because of Nonh Carolina's light
financial situation, it might have to
changing. Bccausc of the unstable
state of the economy and the
volatile circumstances in the Middle
Bast, the university has not been
able to obtain an entire budget.
The spccihc amount state uni
versities will be asked to return to
the state has not yet been deter
mined.
Earlier this summer, WSSU
and all other state universities were
slapped with a 3 percent budget cut.
To absorb the hit, WSSU eliminated
four teaching positions before the
beginning of the school year, but
the cuts probably won't end there.
The positions were vacant, so no
teaching staff were terminated.
Since then, the UNC system
has alerted universities of their neg
ative reserve, or money each uni
versity will be expected to return to
the system. WSSU's negative
reserve was $260,000.
State Budget Officer Cliff
Cameron, said that three months
ago the state found that it needed to
cut $334 million, and the budget
was cut by 3 percent. More recent
ly an additional $100 million short
fall was found, and this must be
made up in the last three quarters of
the year.
Felix Joyner, vice president of
finance for the UNC system, said
the $100 million was a reasonable
estimate at this ume, but that no one
could guarantee more cuts would
not be made later.
The amount of money allocated
to the schools for the second (Oct.
Dec.), third (Jan. -March), and
fourth (April-June) quarters is still
uncertain. Schools should be'
informed of the exact amounts in
the next few days.
Cameron said an atkHtiwial
perccnr must be rut from the bud
get, but it is not an across-the-board
cut. He said that a university's'
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