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"The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly'
VOL. XVIII, No. 45
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what policies he would
Hammer bids on
HOUSTON ? Rap
star Hammer and Evander
Holy field may join
investors hoping to hay
the Houston Rockets,
Holyfield's agent con
firmed Sunday.
The Houston Chron
icle reported Sunday that
Hammer and heavy
weight boxing champion
tf&lyfield are part of a
group that bid $82 million
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ANC women protest
CAPE TOWN, S.A. ? Riot police struggle to
arrest a member of the African National Congress
Women's League as they break up an illegal protest
in Cape Ibwn Monday. More than twenty people
were arrested as members of thtf ANC staged a
demonstration to protest the Boipatong massacre.
The ANC declared a day of mourning for the 42
victims of the Boipatong massacre who included a
pregnant woman* an infant and sevexal children.
The ANC has accused its rival, the Zulu-domi
nated Inkatha Freedom Party, of carrying out the
massacre with help from government security
forces.
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don't believe the Haitians sEould be sent
back to Haiti," said Clinton. "I think they are politi
cal exiles and should be treated as such until we- 1
can bring back an elected government to Haiti'
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Supremacists leaving state
ASHEVILLE ? The white- supremacist
Church of tfie Creator is moving from western
North Carolini to Milwaukee, the founder
announced Thursday.
Bill Klassen, 74, has subsidized Ihe movement
for 20 years but now says he can njjf longer afford
to keep the group going. He built the church in
rural Macon County near the Georgia line in 1982
after moving from Florida, where he was a legisla
tor and member of the John Birch Society.
A spokesman for Milwaukee Mayor John
Norquist said the group should "peddle its racist
hatred someplace else beeauee we won't tolerate it
here."
Blacks, Koteans prey together
BALTIMORE ? More than 400 blacks and
Koreans participated in a church service with
Mayor Kurt Schmoke to promote peace and unity
between the two communities.
Blade and Korean members of more than 30
churches participated in the service, which wfts
organized to diffase tensions that have arisen in
Baltimore and other cities where many Koreans
operate small businesses in primarily black neigh
borhoods. M
National News Briefs
Compiled firm sktf and Ap reports j
Poised for trouble?
Two tragedies point toward
need for better race relations
Lakeside community calls
officer's death an accident
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Managing Editor
Last week, a white policeman was
run over and killed when four black
teenagers allegedly hijacked a piece of
construction machinery and took it for a
ride.
Less than two months ago, a black
man was stabbed to death and sexually
mutilated, and four white men have been
charged with his death.
Although blacks and whites alike
find it hard to stomach these deaths, the
unusual circumstances surrounding both
have served to further polarize the races.
The black community viewed the Stoner
murder/mutilation as a painful example
of overt racism: when the white-owned
media chose not to reveal the horrible
details of the murder, distrust of the
white community grew. Members of the
white community are particularly out=
raged at the senseless death of a veteran
policeman who was dedicated and well
respected by people of both races who
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By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chronicle Staff Writer
What began as a joyride on a grader
early Friday morning quickly turned into
a tragic accident and the death of a Win
ston-Salem police officer.
Four black teenagers, Conrad
Crews, 19, his brother, Jamarus -Crews,
16, Derrick Frierson, 19 and Theo With
erspoon, 19, were all charged with mur
der, assault with a deadly weapon with
the intent to kill and larceny of a motor
vehicle.
Lieutenant Aaron G. Tise, 46, of the
Winston-Salem Police Department, was
struck by a runaway grader on East
Drive and died instantly. His vehicle was
pushed by the grader as it travelled down
East Drive across New Walkertown
Road.
Lakeside residents who witnessed
the accident said Tise's death was a
"tragic accident" Some even questioned
the validity of people who have come
forth as eye witnesses.
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? Photo by Mike Cunningham
Fred Nordenholz - president of the Greater Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce and Wayne wiiiarH
-Chairman of the County Commissioners, |olned Mayor Martha Wood and Coach Clarence 'Big
house' Gaines to announce the city's intention to bid on the 1994-96 CIAA Tournament.
City bids
for CIAA
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chronicle Staff Writer
Coach Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines is hoping to
attend the 1994-96 tournament from the luxury of his
own stomping ground ? the Lawrence Joel Veterans
Memorial Coliseum.
Besides being the winningest active coach in the
nation, Gaines has also attended 46 Central Intercolle
giate Atheltic Association (CIAA) Tournaments since
Winston-Salem State University entered the conference
in 1945.
Gaines, who is the honorary chairman of the city's
CIAA host committee, stood alongside Mayor Martha
Wood Tuesday when she announced that the city met
the bid specifications for the CIAA Tournament and is
moving forward to bring the 1994-96 event to Winston
Salem.
"I'm hoping the next one will be here/ said
Gaines. "It's in the bag. We're going to win this thing,"
he said to nearly 100 people that attended the press
conference.
The press conference was held to announce the
city's intention to enter a bid for the 1994-96 CIAA
ToumamentThe CIAA is the premiere event for black ?
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Black history Chronicled in public library
Photo by Mike Cunningham
Reference Librarian Ann Gray says patrons frequently request
ed the Chronicle's back Issues, which have been unavailable.
? Eighteen years of the Winston-Salem Chronicle will
soon be available in the library on microfilm. Long-time
readers are asked to help locate missing issues
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronide Managing Editor
Dusty yellow issues of the Winston-Salem
Chronicle ? which haven't seen the light of
day for many years ? have been hauled up
from the newspaper's basement to face a micro
film camera so that local black history can be
preserved.
Ann Gray, a reference librarian in the
North Carolina Room, says the idea arose out
of public demand.
"The purpose of the North Carolina room
is to collect and preserve history, and blacks
constantly complained that we were losing our
history." Copies of the Chronicle have always
been available in the N.C. Room, but only two
current months at a time. This fall, all 18 years
will be available ? if our loyal readers can
help locate the many missing issues. (See relat
ed story, on page A3.)
"People use the Chronicle to compare and
contrast the black perspective with the Jour -
nal's perspective," said Gray. "They're each
telling a story of the events as they happen. The
Chronicle has a pro-black view, and black news
generally comes out first in the Chronicle . A lot
of people, even Journal editors, wonder, what
did the Chronicle have to say?"
Gray said theidea Originated with her, but
the library didn't have the budget to undertake
the project, and asked Chronicle publisher
Ernie Pitt to underwrite it, which he did gladly.
"It is absolutely critical that the informa
tion recorded by the Chronicle over the years
be available to the public,'' said Pitt, "for
research, and for history. It is important that
those who come behind us have an accurate
picture of the black experience in Winston
Salem, and the closest anybody can come to
getting that is in the Chronicled
In the past, the N.C. Room kept a limited
.file of Chronicle news clippings, but when
library patrons came looking for particular sto
Please see page A3
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