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Winston-Salem Chronicle
VOL. XVII, No. 15
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NEWS
jP> at black membei of 'Jet j-j
Black N.C. House
RALBIOH N.C. (AP) i. I
era! Assembly convenes, House 1
be ftbfe to walk in ugltcd.
House speaker has been abandoned, say - ? . ? - j
who were locked in a race for the post
Rep. Dan3tue, D-Wake, was|/irtually*
assured of becoming the state's first black House
speaker after his Chief HvalrRep. Bob Hunter, D- |
McDowell, withdrew Monday, saying he didn't
think lie had tlie votes to win.
f "I want to see the Democrats in the
united," Hunter said. m
Sal
insurance agent Necota Smith recently became the
first black member of Forest Oaks Country Club,
saying "someone had to take die first step."
Smith's admittance last week to Forest Oaks
comeriikthe aftermath of a national controversy
that erupted earlier thfe year about flj||||ence of 1
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' Potest Oaks is twrne of die antmu K-mart
Greater Greensboro Open. I
UNC Prof. WHs King column
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RALEIGH, N.C. (A P) _ A North Carolina
professor saia nqr killed a column alleging Martin
Luther King Jr. plagiarized parts of his Boston ]
University doctoral dissertation because he
want to be the source of jHiblic disclosure.
"I didn't want the Story to be Reed alleges |
King plagiarism,' " said John Shelton Reed, a soci
ologist at the University of North Carolina at^
Chapel Hill. ?
Last Apr|l Reed pulled a column he hacf pre
pared for Rockford, 111. -based Chronicles
/inc.
Bus boycott movie powerful
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ The Mont
gomery native who wrote the screen play for a
movie about the city'^. bus boycott, an historic |
event that occurred six years before he was born,
said the reactions by those who saw the movie in , ,
Montgomery were better than he expected.
John Cork, 29, said he was very pnxious
Sunday before his family and other Montgomeri
ans saw "The Long Walk Home," but when they
broke into applause, he said, "I've never been
i thieved/' 1
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returns with hostages
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) _ Boxing gfi|p
Muhammad Ali accompanied 15 Americans out of
Iraq on Sunday, and a spokesman said Ati plans to 1
1 retom to Baghdad later this month to seek freedSS
1' I or others.
TIWo Canadians and six British employees
of the U.S. Bechtel Corp. were also on the Iraqi
[ Airwnvs flight torn the Iraqi capital. The Canadi
ans' freedom was secured by a Caiiadfi;
parliamentary team, and the Britons said they did
%tknow who arranged their release. J,
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Farrakhan, as usual, under fire >
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COLUMBIA. S.C. (AP) _ Louis Farrakhan, ,
the leader of a militant black Muslem sect, is a
hate-spewing "racist" who should not be allowed
to speak Sunday at Benedict College, local Jew^Kl
leaders said. I
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Dickson target of protest march
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
Supporters of ousted Urban League executive
director Delores Smith are doing this week what they
said they would do last week, by picketing the business
offices of board members that-voted to remove Smith.
The first target of the Concerned Citizens for Dee
Dickson says he won't
attend public meeting.
Story on page A3
Smith, led by Lee Faye Mack, a former employee of the
league, was thead ministration building of the North
Carolina School of the Arts. Joseph Dickson, board
chair of the^ Urban Leaguevi? the vic<r chancellor of?
finance. He was named to the post in early November
after serving for an interim period.
The group shouted from across the street in front of
Dickson's uffice building, "Send trim out, send liini
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Investigation sought
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
The Ministers' Conference of Winston-Salem has
entered the fray in the spiraling Urban League contro
versy and is calling on the National Urban League to
come to Winston-Salem and conduct an investigation of
the board's activities.
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4 Photo by Elizabeth Martin
Supporters of Dee Smith brave the rain and the cold on the picket lines at the North Carolina
School of the Arts in protest Urban League Board Chair, Joseph Dickson, works at the school.
Coble resigns board seat
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Ch ronicle S taft R eport
The Chronicle has learned
that Larry Coble, superintendent of
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
school system has resigned from
the. Urban League Board in the
wake of the board's dismissal of its
former executive director, Dclorcs
Smith.
Coble, one of the newest to the
Urban League board, was not pre
sent when Ms. Smith was ousted
Nov. 21. In a letter to board chair,
Joseph Dickson, Coble expressed
concern about the impact the con
troversy could have on him as
superintendent, an extremely high
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Photo by Elizabeth Martin
Judge James Beatty (left) administers the bath of office to Coun
ty Commissioner Mazie Woodruff (far right).
Photo by Elizabeth Martin
Judge Loretta Biggs (left) administers the oath of office to new County Com
missioner Earline Parmon (far right) as family members stand by her.
Woodruff, Parmon take
office as county commissioners
Two sworn in to represent
African-American districts
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
Two African-American women became the first
people in the history of Forsyth County 10 join the
board of commissioners as representatives from dis
tricts rather than the whole county.
Earline Parmon, a first time member of the board,
and Mazie Woodruff, a former board member, were
both sworn in Monday, Dcc. 3, at the Forsyth County
Hall of Justicc in the commissioner's seventh floor
board room. Also sworn in were John S. Hollcman Jr.
and Wayne G. Willard.
Holleman was reelected as board chair and Willard
was elected vice-chair, replacing Gerald H. Long who
had served as vice-chair the last two years.
Long said the Hollcman and Willard elections
were the result of a compromise between commission
ers.
Rut Woodruff said nobody talked with her about
any compromise. She said she thought there would just
be a straight vote without any behind-the-scenes deal
making. "When I saw how the vote was going, I decid
ed not to rock the boat,'' she said. Woodruff had said
earlier that she felt Long would make a good chairman.
Parmon said one of the main reasons she gave her
support to Willard as vice-chair was because of his
assurance to her that he had changed his position on
making Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday for
county employees. When the issue last came before the
board for a vote, Willard voted with the two Republi
cans on the board and blocked its passage. Both Holle
man and Long voted in favor of the measure. She said
in addition, no other names were placed in nomination.
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Phillips files suit against school board
$15 million suit charges libel, slander, wrongful dismissal
Dr. Barbara Phillips
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
Dr. Barbara K. Phillips, former assistant
supcrintcncicnt of the Winston
Salcm/Forsyth County school system, is
suing her old boss and the local board of
education for more than SI 5 million dollars.
The suit filed late Monday, Dec. 3, in
Forsyth Superior Court alleges wrongful
failure of the superintendent and the school
hoard to renew Phillips' two-year employ
ment contract with the school system and
that she has been the victim of \\M and slan
der.
On each of the three charges, the lawsuit
seeks actual damages of S5 million and puni
tive damages in excess of $10,000.
The chargcs stem from a published
report in the Chronicle which included corn
menus From unidentified sources concerning
reasons why Phillips contract may not have
been renewed. Phillips employment status
had become a subject of discussion follow
ing the hiring of superintendent Larry Coble
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