THURSDAY DECEMBER 13, 1990 NEWS HOTLINE 723-8448 32 PAGES THIS WEEK Move over, Spike! Youthful moviemakers are looking for talent and stardom. Presiding Bishop PAGE B1 n ' ;L- f _ Rev. Dwight Earl will be conse crated at Revelations of Faith. PAGE B7 Winston-Salem Chronicle . "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL XVII No 16 ^ ? ? N*A#T*l*0#N*A*L NEWS pMpae to help iMHiWbiess m ftrr V f> < CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ A Charlotte fimi will begin marketing to consumers this week a database that contains detailed information on Hat 6,400 small minority entrepreneurs in the Cjliottnas and 25 other states. : ? ^ ? . Ezz Purchase allows companies to shop lifaong themselves for prdducts and services. But more importantly, it puts their information at4||| fingertips of big companies and government agtiM c{es seeking to open their contract bidding to women and minority-owned businesses. I Gantt still has hope for N.C. CHAPEL HILL. N.C. (AP) _ Harvey Gaptt says hi* unsuccessful Senate campaign showed that North Carolina had come a long way in accepting a black candidate, but that he was trou bled that "racial demagoguery" still carried such potency. In a speech Saturday night to several hun dred people at a North Carolina Civil Liberties M fSm for the fimtimK Descendant of slaves wants p(K2 MB Jjg ? . w LOS ANGELES. Ca. 'S ?*v Man wisely ? MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) | f| man, who Mayor John O. Norquist wr accused of a shooting incident near a school bui, was in custom Sunday following a drug raid at a bouse where polk# found cocaine and a guno|g Joe Fleet was being held in lieu of a$3p|| |m awaiting a Dec. 14 court and fottr others were arrested Wednesday*** rooming house. . Milwaukee County assistant district attor ney, Jane Vinopal, mm mmFw W Community forum produces action plan Staff Photo Evelyn Terry (standing) suggests to the crowd that they con sider another option if the resolution does not work. "Is there a Urban League is blasted for firing director, rotation policy By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor A resolution calling for the reinstatement of Delores Smith as Urban League executive director, resignation of the board, a letter writing campaign to the league's national office, and the retention of legal counsel are all elements of an action plan to come out of a community forum last week at First Baptist Church. ? About 200 people, from a wide cross section of the city, attended the hour-long session facilitated by the church's pastor Rev. Wendell Johnson and Marie Roseboro, chair of the Forsyth County Voters Coalition. It was Roseboro^s group that first called for the forum in an effort to have the-enti*e-4Jrban? League board answer for its actions in oust ing Smith and its plans for addressing the concerns of the National Urban League office and the local United Way over the board's rotation policy and lack of member ship. Several members of the league's board also attended the meeting, but said they were not in attendance in any official capacity. "We're here as observers," said attorney Renita Thompkins-Segers, the board's trea surer. "I will make a report to the board's chairman and to the national office in New York about what was said and done here." Johnson began the meeting by reading, the correspondence between the Winston-^ Salem Ministers' Conference and the Urban League board about issues the ministers' were concerned about, chief among them that there was no representative of the clergy on the board. That coupled with the other entan glements within the Urban League, he noted, prompted the ministers involvement which hft alsn nnfp.H rgrpiv^H lp.ys thap meaningful "notice. He said what got his attention was that in the correspondence to the board on the ministers' request for inclusion on that board was the admission the board was "self-per petuating." Please see page A3 Best Choice hunts [expansion funds Center asks for city to help - By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor Winston-Salem's only neighborhood community based drug intervention and prevention program is asking for the city's help in meeting its capital needs for purchas ing another facility. The co-chairs of the Best Choice Center's Campaign Fund, Ernie Pitt and Eldridge Hanes, along with the center's executive director Dorothy Graham-Wheeler, requested that the Board of Aldermen's finance committee that it rec ommend approval of their request for $50,000 dollars toward the acquisition and renovation of another facility to house the center. Center personnel have been eying a Church building across from Kennedy Middle School, located at 11th Street and Highland Avenue directly facing U.S. 52. They estimate the cost for the building to be $250,000. Graham-Wheeler said the staff has been trying to vacate the current building, located at 1521 E. 14th street, - "They didn't turn us down. That In Itself ? i vasia favorable Indl- . cation... " -porothy OrahanvWheeler almost from the time the pro gram began two years ago. "It leaks terribly when it rains, usually is flooded, and now we understand that road improvements will take this building and several others Please see page A2 Public hearing is set on development plan By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING Community News Editor Area residents will have another opportunity to hear and discuss recommendations for future land use, transportation improvements, public facilities and housing, and economic develop ment for the Carver Road/Ogburn Station areas. A public hearing on the recommendations is scheduled . for Thursday, December 13, at 7 ?p.m. The hearing, to be held at the City Hall Board of Aldermen Chamber, follows two public drop in sessions that have been held to inform citizens about the City County Planning BoardVrecom^ mendations and to get comments related to the draft recommenda tions. As a resuli of the previous two sessions and input from the Citi zens' Advisory Committee which assisted the Planning Board sub committee staff in completing the draft recommendations, the Carv er RoadlOgburn Station Develop ment Guide contains revisions on the plans for those areas. The Advisory Committee was a critical component of the Carver Road/Ogburn Station development guide process say Planning staff members, providing opportunities for citizen participation and review. Over 50 people were asked to par ticipate on the Committee which included residents, business own ers, realtors, investors, and others Please see page A2 5 Recall effort to remove Alderman stalls By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor An effort to have Northeast Ward Alderman Vivian Burke removed from office in a recall election has apparently stalled. That revelation comes on the heels of a recommendation by city attorney Ronald Seebcr to have the Board of Aldermen urge the state legislature to remove the recall provision from the city's charter. According to Seebcr, the law is so ambiguous that it is unclear if a recall could be carried out, Seeber said he became concerned about the recall provision when that effort was initiated last year against Burke. While not in agreement that the recall provision should be removed, one of the main critics of Burke's vote last year which kept African-American board members from chairing all the board's standing committees, says people in the ward who were angered by her vote have decided not to pursue the matter. In an interview Tuesday, Dr. Raymond Oliver, the original chair of the group calling for the recall said citizens of the ward who were concerned about the sit uation met and decided it would be best to let the issue rest. "There are a large number of people in the North east Ward who looked at her record, and though they were highly upset with what she did, it was decided Please&ee page A2 RJR to keep its product from children Tobacco giant says kids not in the marketing plan Chrontcte Staff Report R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and its fellow members of the Tobacco Institute announced Tuesday new initiatives to discour age young people from smoking. "We don't want young people to smoke, and we don't market our products to young people/1 said James W. Johnston, chairman and chief executive officer of RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Co. "The Tobacco Institute's new program will make it more difficult for children to have access to cigarettes, and we support it whole hearted ly," he said. / Dr. David Collins, director of the local chapter of the Ameri can Cancer Society commented on the new program. "We certain ly applaud the new initiatives. Smoking among minors is one of the greatest health problems facing young Americans. Most smokers are addicted to tobacco before age 20, and N.C. State law prohibits the sale of tobacco to any minor under age 17/ Collins said. In response to the question if these initiatives were a retreat from an earlier position by R.J.R. and the Tobacco Institute, Collins said, "This is in line with the stated policy of R J.R. an<3 the Tobacco Institute that smoking is an adult decision. We cer tainly agree with that." "We also strongly support the banning of ?all cigarette machines since there is no effective way to monitor a minor's access to these machines," Collins added. Please see page A1 2 ftaa acted responatofy m :|| ^^^gatrthgaii^^ Wfhcontrots. " . wt ?James W Johnson- '