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Mayor casts deciding vote
against $50,000 city grant
By RUDY ANDERSON ...
Chronicle Managing Editor
A $50,000 grant request by Liberty East Redevelopment, Inc.(LER)
to run an anti-drug program was rejected Monday night by the Winston
Salem Board of Aldermen with Mayor Martha Wood casting the decid
ing vote.
"They didn't have a proposal as far as I was concerned," said Mayor
Wood, "There was nothing there, and it would have been irresponsible
for us to have approved it"
Jhat program had the backing of Alderman Vivian Burke, who tried
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Burke questions use of City van!!)
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
anti-drug program.
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Alderman Vivian Burke questioned
the use of city -owned vehicles to transport'
the handicapped during a meeting of the
board Monday night and wondered if that
was a practice extended to other city resi
dents.
That inquiry came after the Board of
Aldermen's vote to turn down a $50,000
grant request by Liberty East Rcdevelop
| mcnt,Incr,-for^i summer and aftcrschool
North Ward Alderman Nelson Mafl&te
who is handicapped and in a wheelchair*
to board meetings aiKl &
trans
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with his constituents by a city-owned
cle.
It was Malloy who had put the repr? .
sentatives of the LER proposal through the?
toughest questioning on certain aspects
their request. ? ;
The city manager told Burke that tbe$?>
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Hampton man loaee case
NOItPOLlC (AP) _ A Hampton _
claimed be was smaahed oa tfce heftd|>y *
ginia Beach police officer during the
Greekfest disturbance has lost his bid to collect
damages from the city. v
A U.S. District Court jury Friday rejected the
$8 million damage claim by Melvin Moore, who
had contended lie was handcuffed fad lying on
the ground when he was struck by the officer
with a riot baton, opening a gash on his head that
left a permanent scar.
A dejected Moore left the, courtroom without
comment after U.S. Magistrate Tomnfiy E. Miller
accepted the verdict
Run schools like the Army
NEW YORK (AP) _ Gen. Colin Powell wound
up a triumphal return to his hometown Tuesday
by telling New York's movers and shakers that
schools would work better if educators taught
students the way the Army trains recruits.
: "I know schools can't be run like an infantry
platoon, but it seems to me it was kind of like
one when I went to school," Powell told about
800 political, business and labor leaders at a
breakfast of the Association for a Better New
York.
Black students stage sit-In ?
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MONMOUTH, 111. (AP) _ Minority students
staged a sit-in April 17 at Monmouth College,
claiming racial harassment on campus and seek
ing more minority programs, protesters and
authorities said.
* About 50 protesters entered the student union
building shortly after midnight "and locked all
the doors with chains and pretty much shut down
the building," said a protester who identified
himself as Osirus Shaba vv, a 20-year old sopho
more at the four-year liberal arts college.
Jackson: Kurds/abusers alike
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ The Rev. Jesse
Jackson compared young drug abusers to Kur
dish refugees, saying they are the consequences
of the war on poverty.
"Just as the Kurdish refugees are our burden
and responsibilities because they are the byprod
uct of an incomplete war, so are America's chil
dren, " Jackson told the National School Boards
Association convention on Monday.
Barry says drugs are menace
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ Former Washington
Mayor Marion Barry, proclaiming his !3th
month of sobriety, said Americans need to exam
ine their valoes and eschew materialism.
"It's no secret I got caught up in the so-called
fast lane," Barry said.
Photo by L B Speas Jr.
From left to right: Bethesda Canter's Charles Ford, Anita Chaffee, and
Rev. Fetton McNalry counsel with former client Ron Staton.
Aldermen delay vote
on homeless shelter
By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING
Community News Editor
New shelter for the homeless in Win
ston-Salem was put on the back burner at
Monday night's meeting of the Board of
Aldermen. With Mayor Martha Wood
casting the deciding vote, the board voted
to table' a decision on granting three acres
of city-owned land on North Trade Street
to the Salvation Army for use in its
expansion of services to the homeless.
Aldermen heard objections from both res
idents of the Kimbcrly Park public hous
ing community in the area of Northwest
Boulevard near the proposed site and
from some of the homeless people. ? i
Originally, the Salvation Army had
applied tcrflie^ity for permission to
expand the facility at their present lo (Na
tion on South Marshall Street. When the
organization was approached by develop-- j
cr David Shannon with an offer to btrifd a j
new $1.2 million facility in exchange for)
their existing site, an additional piece n't
property, and approximately $600,000, v
the Salvation Army began looking for an
appropriate site, according to North Ward
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"Schools of Choice" debate reveals contrasts
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronide Managing Editor
The opportunity to give parents a choice of where
they want their children to go to school for the best edu
cation possible, or forcing the current public school sys
tem to do a better job of educating, are at the heart of a
debate that has beet) raging throughout the country.
That debate continued last week on the campus of
Wake Forest University with a panel discussion on pub
lic school resegregation called "Schools of Choice." The
discussion was sponsored by the university's Black Law
Students' Association.
Local Legal Aid attorney Hazel Mack, and Vernon
Robinson an assistant professor of economics at Win
ston-Salem State, argued in favor of schools of choice.
Arguing against the schools of choice proposal were
Alderman Larry Womblc; Carolyn Coleman, regional
director of the NAACP Voter Action Project; Delray
Hartsfield, a retired teacher and administrator in the
Winston-Salcm/Forsyth County Schools; and Dr Joseph
"No one can tell a black boy in
America how to sun/ive better
than a black man who's done
it."
? Hazel Mack
Bryson, a professor from the education department at
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Both Robinson and Mack said giving poor parents
an opportunity to send their children to the schools they
prefer empowers those parents to get the best education
possible for their children instead of being forced to take
what is offered them through the public schools.
Robinson is a staunch advocate of providing poor
parents with vouchers to pay for their children s educa
tion at the schools they choose for them to attend either
private or public. The money those vouchers represent
would come from allocations made by the federal, state
and county governments for the amount spent on each
child's education.
In the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School sys
tem that amount comes to approximately $4,600 per
pupil/not including such residuals as capital outlet or
food service.
"I think a voucher system for low-income parents
will flush out the people who want to maintain a welfare
Please see page A11
Community organizer
lends city helping hand
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
A community organize r from
South Bend, Indiana, visited Winston
Salem this week to give community
leaders here some tips on methods
they can employ to empower their
communities in determining their own
futures.
Gladys Muhammad came at the
request of the East Winston Communi
ty Development Council(EWCDC)
and the Winston^Salem Foundation to
meet with leaders of the city's public
housing projects and others and tell
them what has worked in her organiz
ing efforts for the Heritage Founda
tion.
"People need to be actively
involved in the process," said Muham
mad. Born in Mississippi and raised in
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South Bend, Muhammad said she
understood the need for people to
express themselves and become
involved in making decisions about
their own lives.
Standing before a gathering of the
Resident Tenants' Council Meeting
Monday, Muhammad told the crowd,
"I'm a black woman in the United
States of America and that's what
qualifies me to be an organi/.cr and
qualifies you to organize.
"I teach people how to confront
their landlords, city or county govern
ments, the Housing Authority, and oth
ers, in a professional manner to effect
changes. If that doesn't work, then I
teach them how to act up."
Muhammad explained that she
enjoyed working with "housing
authority" people because they arc
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Gladys Muhammad spoke to eager listeners during a meetlna oMhe^RSi
dent Tenants' Council thisjveek. ...