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Winston-Salem Chronicle
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VOL. XVII, NO. 9
ipftupy ANncpgrw
Chrome:!,,. Managing Editor
More than a year later, questions
remain for the parents of an 1 1-year- #77 1
o k! child who died two dfiys after | ,
being sent home froma local ho5pi*~?j//
S,'&. - -i ..... -
Michael Tyrone Styles was '
taken to Baptist Hospital's emergen
cy room by his mother Sharon ?
Walker June 12/1989. Ms Walker |||
said her son had been complaining
of aches and pains, and had a fever.
She said a blood sample was taken
from her son and that she was later ~rpl
told he had the flu. ? ijlM
? Ms; Walker said she- then asked jjjll
if she could talk with another doctor,
if her son could be kept overnight, Blip
and if an x-ray could be done. "I ijjjgj
knew something more was wrong .
with him than justth^fUuA^ Michael Tvronfr Slylii v Sharon Walk##
?knows when something is serious ? .7 . , .. . A
wrong " she said the discovery that young Michael died from complications of
She said her son began hallucinating as they rode home, hemolytic- urectic- Syndrome. ito of pfogKtfsive kidney
even to the point of trying to jump out of the car. Two days failure
later Michael died Bolh say their son should have been examined
The boy's father. Michael Gist, asked for an autopsy jo ?*e closely at the hospital and should have been kept
determine what caused his son's death. The result of that was Please see paae A13
Sharon Walker
Senate fight intensifies f
Local supporters of Harvey Gantt Joined thetr
candidate at a Winston-Salem rally last
month. The polls indicate the race is getting
lighter.
Gantt strategies
in full gear
Chronicle Staff Report
Harvey Gantt is giving Senator Jesse Helms a
run tor his money in the race for U.S. Senator from
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High court slows
civil rights push
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made tremendous
progress for equal rights in the workplace, hut recent
Supreme Court decisions have gutted the power of the
act, \ said Robert Belton, a law professor from Vandcrhilt
University.
As pan of the 200th anniversary celebration of the
United States Constitution, Belton, a former NAACP
attorney, gave a lccturc addressing the erosion of the
court's enforcement of civil rights in the workplace in a
lccturc Friday, Oct. 19, at the Wake Forest University
Law School.
The Civil Rights Act. Belton said, is based on the
premise that it is the role of the law to protect the weaker
party. "A major premise of all this legislation that rcgu
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Helm? ?
style .
unchanged
Chronicte Staff Report
Senator Jesse Helms, North
Carolina's U.S. Senator since 1973,
is running for his fourth term in the
elections Wo v. 6.
Helms, a native of Monroe,
N.C., attended Wingate Junior Col
lege and Wake Forest College.
He is currently the Minority
Leader of the Committee on For
eign Affairs. He also serves on the
Committee on Agriculture, Nutri
tion, and Forestry and on the Select
Committee on Ethics as well as the
Rules Committee.
Reducing the U.S. Deficit:
Helms believes the last thing
the government should do to bal
ance the budget is raise taxes.
Revenue gained through economic
growth should be used to balance
the budget.
A Congress that takes respon
sibility for spending is necessary.
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?' Photo by L B Sponsor
A family portrait: April Clark with five-month
old daughter, Safiye Johnson and two-year old
daughter Catherine Johnson.
N A AGP may block
bank merger with
Southern National
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Some North Carolina banks may not be
doing all they should be doing to help
minorities gel loans lor projects in ihe.ir com
munities under the Community Reinvestment
Act, and the suite NAACP is seeking to block
one such bank from merging with a South
C a rol i n a bank forthat reason. ~
Thirteen years ago a law was passed that
was believed would make it possible for
more minorities and low income people to
get loans from banks, and now that bank rat
ings in this area are being made public, the
banks will no doubt be scrutinized and held
accountable for adherence- to the law.
The Community Reinvestment Act
(CRA), a part ot the Housing and Communi
ty Development Act. was enacted Oct. 12,
1977 to encourage national banks to meet the
credit needs of their local communities.
The CRA was passed in 1977 for the
stated purpose of "the alleviation of physical
and economic distress through the stimula
tion of private investment and communily
rcvitali/ation in areas with population outmi
gration or a stagnating or declining tax base."
The act provides for a bank's perfor
mance to be examined with respect to the acL
The bank will be rated on factors such as its "
activities to determine the credit needs of its
local community, its efforts to communicate
its services to the public, the level of involve
ment by the bank's board of directors with
rcspect to CRA purposes, geographic distri
bution of credit extensions, the bank's partici
pation in local community development and
redevelopment projects, and several other cri
teria.
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Photo by L B Speas Jr.
Three year old Tiffany Smith enjoys the beat during Home
coming festivities of the Tiny Indians Football Club at Atkins
Middle School.
Multi-Million
dollar suit -
hits -WSSU
By TRACY LsPROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Winston-Salem State University was hit last
week with a multi-million dollar lawsuit from one of
its former employees who was
terminated in May 1990.
Alfred McDonald Jr., an
African- American, filed
charges against the university
in U.S. District Court in
Greensboro Oct. 15. He had
been an assistant professor in
the department of accounting
at WSSU.
He charges that he was
unlawfully terminated from
his teaching position at WSSU
and that he was the victim of -
.. Alfred McDonald
race and sex discrimination.
He also claims he was denied the right to make his
grievances known to the WSSU Board of Trustees.
McDonald applied for a position advertised as
being a tenure track position at WSSU. He was hired
in May 1987 as an adjunct assistant professor in
accounting, which is not a tenure track position, and
began teaching immediately. In June 1988, he dis
covered he was not on the tenure track.
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Baby needs liver transplant
Family wants help for operation
By PATRICIA SM'TH DEERING
Chronicle Staff Writer
Tiny Safiya Johnson sal on her
mother's lap. as alert and curious as
an\ other five-month old would be.
She occasionally tugged at the blanket
thai her mother. April Clark, had cov
ering the little one's very distended
lumm\ and swollen and protruding
bclftbutton. If Saliva were not in a
neat frame house on' a rather quiet
street in East Winston, you could cavi
ls imagine her the victim of the
hunger ami starvation deputed in
impassioned ads for "Save the Chil
dren." infants m foreum landv Ouow:
u ith bloated bellies.
Although Safiya is not such a
child, she is nonetheless one that her
mother hopes the community will
come to the rescue and help save. Her
daughter is heme ravaged by a disease
known in medical parlance as "biliary
atresia." It is a serious disease of very
\our.g infants which results in inflam
mation and obstruction of the ducts
which earn, bile from the liver into
the intestine.
Ms Clark was given the diagno
s-a about a month ago. she said, trying
to recall the day she received the
heartbreaking news "Safiya was bom
without the tacts that join the liver to
her intestines." Under abnormal con
ditions, such as in Safiya's ease, when
bile cannot flow normally, it backs up
in the liver (called biliary stasis). This
causes "jaundice," or a yellowing of
the skin, and cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis occurs when healthy
liver cells arc destroyed, in this case
by disease, and replaced with scar tis
sue. This scarring interferes with
blood flow through the liver, causing
more cell damage and scarring. With
Safiya, the disease means that if she
docs not get help, her condition will
steadily worsen with a prognosis of
death.
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