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Winston-Salem Chronicle
75 Cents 'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL. XVIII, No. 51
The top's gonna
blow in this town
? Race relations at an all-time low:
Do white leaders see the picture?
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Managing Editor
[ First in a series of interviews and commentary]
What responsibility falls on the shoulders of Winston
Salem's white leaders to address race relations? Do they, by
virtue of their power, bear the uncomfortable burden of leading
the charge for change?
Summer 92 marks a time when Winston-Salem stands divid
ed. The overwhelming majority of the tyack community agrees
that their frustrations have escalated to new heights. Many mem
bers of the white community are fond of offering this not-so
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A An active criminal investigation was A The police department should have
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A Immediate actions were taken by police information to the public
to identify Ms. McKellar and inform a Failure to promptly inform the City
her family Manager's office
A As soon as Ms. McKellar's identity was a Failure to properly communicate
established, her name was added to the " seriousness of the matter to Assii
arrest warrant records in the Clerk of City Manager A1 Beaty because of jf
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Children from the Winston Lake YMCA participated as dancers In "Gotham City Night" held last Fri
day at Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium on WSSU campus. The kids were trained for 5 1/2 weeks by
Angela Peterson, organizer of the event. It was a fundraiser for RAM Enterprises, a campus organiza
tion that provides students with Information and funds to start their own business.
Resident manager
program debuts
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chronicle Staff Writer
Local officials gathered on Tuesday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony
in celebration of the new Resident Management Corporation Corporate
Offices here. The corporation is dubbed KPHC after the four housing
developments: Kimberly Park, Piedmont Park, Cleveland Avenue, and
Happy Hill.
The KPCH Headquarters will house the Resident Management
Corporation from each of the four housing communities in Winston
Salem. MYIC/B anker's Assistance Founder and CEO Bessie Single
tary said that the program will unite the community with "one mind,
Gat direction and a posltitve force iff the community ~
The Resident Management Corporation is the brainchild of Hous
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City manager says
police dept. erred
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chronich Staff Writer
In the continuing saga of the Sheila Epps McKellar case,
Winston-Salem's City Manager and Chief of Police have accept
ed full responsibility for failing to communicate properly with the
public, and internal affairs has completed its criminal investiga
tion of the officers involved. However, things are not calm In the
'Twin City' as officials have indicated that the RB J. has arrived
to determine if McKellar 's civil and human rights were violated
when she died last month in police custody.
"It's my responsibility, and I don't shirk it, and I don't pass it
down to anybody," Chief Geocge Sweat told aldermen earlier this
week. Sweat continues to maintain that he will work closely with
the the city manager's office to improve communication with the
public. Sweat told the Chronicle last week that he has "learned
his lesson."
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SCORE:
Community - 1
School board - 0
A School board approves
compromise on redisricting
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chronicle Staff Writer
Last Thursday's school board meeting was filled
with tension in anticipation of another possible show
down between the board members and community
leaders. Undercover sheriff's deputies were even in
attendance for this one, but a compromise on issues
motioned by one school official helped the two sides
reach a truce ? for now.
All the hoopla surrounding the event centered on
the July 2 board meeting in which the Rev. Carlton
Eversley and the Citizens United for Justice disrupted
the proceedings in protest of the lack of black repre
sentation. This time all sides seemed satisfied, as Dr.
Gerald Hewitt made a motion to have newly-elected
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Sentencing on Friday
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronide Managing Editor
Former alderman Patrick J. Hairston,
community leader the Rev. Lee Faye Mack,
and business consultant Rodney Sumler
have spent the summer awaiting sentencing
on charges of political corruption, sched
uled for Friday a; 9: 30 in federal court It is
then that Judge William L. Osteen will
effectively end an ordeal that began in 1987
when local business owner William O.
Smith went to the FBI. He told them that
the three, along with Alderman Larry
Worable, had tried to extort money from
him in exchange for votes. For the next
three years, the FBI and IRS conducted an
exhaustive investigation. An eight-week
trial ended May 15, 1992, when a jury of
six blacks, five whites and one Asian found
Womble innocent and the other three guilty.
Sumler, 51, a political consultant and
publisher of the local tabloid the A/C
Phoenix , was convicted on a total of 24
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managar program for four local housing davalopmanta