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"The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XVII, N0.2*
|| Hi PATRICIA SMITH -OEERINQ
Community News Editor
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made his family proud.
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. Army Chaplain Fisher officiating. Pfc. King will then have
*|:||ihiil military rites at the gravesite at the National Military
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No window service at main post office
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The city's new main post office has a tot of people asking
questtonratoout Its lack of services to the public. ? -
Postmaster says Patterson Avenue
--location not likely to have service
By RUDY ANDERSON J .
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The new postal facility at 1500 Patterson
Avenue doesn't have a customer service win
dow, nor is it likely to have one according to
postal officials, even though it is supposed to
be the cfty's main post office.
The new facility opened about six weeks
ago. But many of those who have come to use
the facility have been shocked to discover that
the customer service operation they had
become accustomed to in the old post office at
Fifth and Trade Streets does not exist in the ?
new facility. .? > /?
Bill Bro***-; manager of communications
for the Greensboro division which includes
Winston-Salem, admitted Tuesday that the
main post office label has been confusing.
"The new facility under construction on
Town Run Lane downtown will provide the
retail customer services for the downtown
area/ Brown said. He pointed out that there
was no set criteria for what should be includ
ed in a main postal facility. ? *
Postal officials in Washington concurred
saying the designation "main" post office is
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School Board reverses decision
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
After quashing a motion to suspend the
rules to allow a vote on an alternative dis
trict election plan introduced by school
board member Nancy Wooten, the Win
ston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board
voted unanimously to reconsider taking
another look at changing from the present
at-large system of electing board members
to some sort of district plan. The vote
reversed a decision by the board last week
not to consider any changes to the current
system.
But some African-American leaders
still expressed skepticism about what the
board would ultimately do.
Last week the board voted 7-2 to keep
the current at-laj-ge system, saying district
elections could be divisive and subvert the
the more important reasons for minority
representation on the board.
That action drew harsh criticism from
both African-American and white commu
nity leaders who urgedlhe board to rethink
its position and avoid a threatened lawsuit
bytheNAACP.
, That vote came near the end of a
lengthy 4-1/2-hour meeting. The last hour
of that meeting was spent in executive ses
sion, while school board members consult
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Nancy Wooten
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' General Colin Powell has come a long way
from tinkering with old cars in the South Bronx
to commanding the forces of the U.S. military.
j Tracing Powell's history
j Few people remember him
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NEW YORK (AP) _ All that's left of Colin Powell on
the battered old street where he grew up is a two-page
report in a file cabinct at I.S. 52.
The record tells us that the future general and chair-"
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff lived up the street at
952 Kelly and got mostly 80s and 90s. That he typed his
reports, collected stamps and liked to make maps. That
he was-clectcd "class captain" and took French. That he
graduated- from junior high in 1950.
When Dwight.Eisenhower, a general to whom Powell
is being compared, was named Supreme Allied Com
mander in 1943, reporters who went to Abilene, Kan.,
saw the house where Ike was raised. They interviewed"
his mother, chatted with his friends, visited the dairy
where he had worked 80 hours a week. 4
It's different with Colin Powell. He grew up in the
South Bronx.
When the Powell family moved out in 1956, the
neighborhood already had begun a decline so rapid that
today there is virtually no memory or trace of those who
were born, lived and died there in the years after World
War 11.
Were Powell to return, he would not find the corner
bakery where fat Mr. Kaiserman sold cheesecakes for
less than a dollar. He would not find the Tiffany The- -
atrc, where he liked to watch Westerns. And he would
not find the four-story brown brick walkup where he
lived for 15 years.
J. Sickser's, the children's store where young Colin
fixed furniture after school, is shuttered. Intervale
Avenue station, his subway stop, has been closed since a
fire damaged it several years ago.
Prospect Hospital is now a shelter for homeless fami
lies, and P.S. 39, Powell's grade school, is filled with
community group offices. A hand-scrawled sign on a
club across the street" says "Pool Tables for Customers
Who Drink Only."
Sammy the shoemaker, the printing shop, the store
front synagogue-all gone. The only constant is' the
screech of the train wheels as they round the curve in
the elevated tracks at the end of Powell's old block.
"You're looking for people who knew Colin Powell?"
asks accountant Henry Altman, one of the few white
businessmen who waited out the two-decade storm of
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