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jRSDAY, may 2,1991 28 PAGES THIS WEEK Welcome home! Easton fourth graders meet their "adopted" soldier from the Gulf. PAGE B1 Puttin’ on the hits Church and school choirs unite for June recording concert. PAGE B8 DA03 DAVIS LIBRARY 8/08/91 IJNC CHAPEL HILL CHAPEL HILL NC 27514 alem Chronicle "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly' VOL. XVII, No.36 /SSL) Chancellor ) respond to State uditor next week DELTA FUN! Winston Lake ‘Y’ OY ANDERSON [k Managing Editor e attorney hired by Winston- State University Chancellor, Cleon Thomp son, to draft response to the a state auditor's report relating to alleged improper pay ments to ath letes at the school, said that response will be ready by next ompson But even as that draft was prepared, representatives eNCAA were on the WSSU iconducting their own inves- lof the allegations Tuesday, torney Michael Grace said a phone interview Monday that a response to the allegations would be ready by the end of the week and would be presented to the state auditor by next week. "1 really feel that by the time this is over, the chancellor and the university will come out fine," Grace said. "Often the percepdon is worse than the reality." But he also said he was dis mayed that someone apparently leaked information about this matter after a confidentiality agreement had been reached. Published reports say the alle gations relate to six payments made to a former employee of the univer sity three years ago from the chan cellor's discretionary fund, accord ing to Robert Emken, chair of the university's Board of Trustees. In that report Emken said gets new director First female to head facility By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor Please see page A11 Photo by Lester S. Davis Jim Andrews enjoys some of the entertainment at the second annuai Delta Arts Folk Festival Saturday with his four-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and six-year-old nephew, LaVaughn. For the first time in its 67-year history, the Winston Lake YMCA will be run by a woman. The search committee of the Winston Lake Board of Directors has selected Ms. Marcellette A. Orange from Mem phis, Tenn., to succeed Norman Joyner as executive director of the Y. Joyner resigned to become executive director of the Atlanta Metro YMCA. He will oversee the administration of a new $10 million dollar facility in downtown Atlanta once construction is completed. Ms. Orange, a single parent with two daughters, Shawnice, age 16, and Britanny, age 11, was one of 65 applicants from across the coun try the search committee had to review. She was the only woman in the group of five finalists. Marcellette A. Orange "We hired the best-qualified candidate for the job," said Brian Cormier, president and CEO of the Greater YMCAs of Winston-Salem. "We're excited about her. It is usual ly very difficult to get an eight-per son search committee to agree on Please see page A11 U*A*T*l*0*N‘A*L MEWS School response denies NAACP charges By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A documentary •eJ this month will take viewers down the scenic sissippi River, into "juke joints" in the Delta and lie streets of New Orleans. Mississippi greats, including blues legend B.B igand novelist Shelby Foote, are taking part in the ssissippi Educational Television Network docu- itary, "This is a real cradle of what is genuinely Ameri- " said A. J. Jaeger, executive director of ETV and tutive producer of the program. sse Jackson fuels feud \TLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson i his feud with a group of moderate Democrats casing them of wavering on civil rights and cut- )ut core constituents such as blacks and orga- labor. lackson charged Sunday that the Democratic crship Council, led by Arkansas Gov. Bill Clin- Jeorgia Sen. Sam Nunn and other top Southern ocrats, is setting up a third political party. iim revives ‘Juke Joints’ Attorneys representing the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board and the Forsyth County Board of Elections filed a response in federal court Tuesday to allegations raised in a suit brought against both groups by the NAACP. In the 22-page legal brief, filed in U.S. Middle Dis trict Court, attorneys from the firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, argue that "the defendants (the school board and the board of elections) are entitled to judgment on the pleadings because they neither created the current election system nor have the power to change it." Because of that they say both parties should be dis missed from the action that has been brought against them by the NAACP. NAACP attorney Romallus Murphy's reaction to the response was, "We've heard this before. This is noth ing new." Murphy insists that the NAACP's claims are valid and supported by the United States Constitution. The response reads in part that, "The method by which members of the Board of Education are elected is determined by state law, and only the State of North Carolina, through the General Assembly, can adopt an alternative procedure for electing Board members." The NAACP filed suit against both boards in March alleging that Ihe current at-large election system violat ed the 14tli and 15th amendments by diluting the voting strength of African-Americans. That action followed the refusal of the city/county school board to adopt a district election plan to ensure African-American representation on the board that it would recommend to the General Assembly for action. Currently, there are no African-Americans on the school board. The NAACP suit seeks to force district elections for electing school board members, and that one or more of those districts be African-American majority districts. The school board's response sets forth a host of legal precedents involving other school boards where they did not have the power to change election proce dures. The response reads that the duties and powers under that statue "confer 32 express powers or duties on local boards of education. None of these enumerated Please see page A11 lacist charges denied GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) —- A black farm who lives a block from the Phi Kappa Tau leraity house says he was hit by a car after fraterni- •"smbers shouted racial slurs at him, but an attor- y says the man had made threats with a machete. Attorney Donald Stroud Jr., who represents the ■ Kappa Tau fraternity, said Thursday the man “wed up "highly intoxicated" on the fraternity “se patio about 2 am. Sunday. He waved a knife and yelled for people to come tside, Stroud said. ^ficruiting militant racists otto, N.C. (AP) — A Macon County man who ''ented his own religion based on white supremacy "'otking to enlist militant racists, including young ''beads'' and inmates, an Alabama group says. Ben Klassen, 73, the leader of the Church of the 'eator in Macon County, has a growing mail-order that sends literature across the country, the ®hem Poverty Law Center said in a four-page published this month. No one will open in East Winston Center on hold, for now By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor Photo by L.B. Speas Jr. Opening for the New Walkertown Market will miss the Summer 1991 deadline because tenants are scarce. A developer's inability to land more major credit tenants to satisfy the banks will ing to lend money for a planned shopping center in East Winston has seriously impeded the project's progress. New Walkertown Market was scheduled to open this spring but to date only one build ing stands on a hewed out hillside along New Walkertown Road — an ABC store. "We had hoped to open at least by the summer of 1991, but it doesn't look like that deadline will be met," said Herman Turner, president of New Walkertown Market Associ ates, the developer. "But we arc still looking to open this year Perhaps we can meet a Thanksgiving or Christmas opening," he said. Turner said the greatest obstacle the development project faces is getting enough preleasing commitments from major credit Please see page A11 Black organ donors needed Major thrust has begun By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicle Managing Editor Afrscan-American.s make up 12 percent ot tlie national population but comprise 30 percent of the peoplc in this country who are .struck by kidney fail ure, requiring dialysis treatmeni and kidney trans plants. Unfortunalely, there are not enough organs to go around. Many patients needing those organs arc put on waiting lists. Some never get them and for Dr. Clive Callendar is trying to change that situa tion among African-Americans by educating them about dhe need to become organ donors; Callendar visited Winston-Salem last week to make his appeal through a seminar sponsored by the Organ Procure ment Organization of Baptist Hospital held at ,Y:Emmanuel;;BaptistOhurch.;;!;i!;:Y:;;;!;;;:iii;;:i;:;?:ii;;K i :; sj iHe told theiiriqwdififiiiftdrbii^ L listen; to hira afiput thblcritica|/ribeiii;;|9|;;|^ /Americans to lx;eome:Or^:;donrirs.:0alfehd^;:prj|:bTi; ; theirnost prominent trankplanl stUgeopk;mit|e;COqdi||i : jmd director of theiTTansjilanf^ versity! Hospital iin/^shinglpn;;::: said :!h|;:;!;^ icrusade 10 years ago lo i^t more: Africart/iA^erjeati;:; donors because he; had obseryfedithatjaS ia igjibUpi:; Please see page Ap
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