CIAA Planning Loop from page A 1
vention Center, and the director of
sales and general managers of area
hotels. There was also a "CIAA
staff party" planned at the end of
yesterday's activities hosted by
Claudette Weston, owner of
Weston Travel.
And there was a meeting
scheduled with the business writer
of the Winston-Salem Journal, but
no mention of a meeting with the
Winston-Salem Chronicle. ?
Bob McCoy, vice president for
sales and marketing for the Win
ston-Salem Convention and Visi
tors Bureau, artd whose office
issued the agenda, explained that
because Pitt was a member of the
host committee, he, Pitt, had the
opportunity to schedule such a
meeting with the Chronicle.
An advertising agency, Griffith
and Jordan, which does business
with the Convention and Visitors
Bureau, has been hired to get infor
mation out about Winston-Salem to
the people expected to attend the
tournament.
McCoy explained that the
meetings this week are being held
to discuss logistics and are the next
step involved in the planning. Such
things as marketing and procedures
for reversing hotel rooms will be
among the topics discussed this
week, he Said. About 3,000 hotel
rooms are being put on hold for the
event.
"We have a lot of questions of
the commissioner," McCoy said.
"We are novices, and there's a lot
we don't know about hosting a
tournament."
Winston-Salem Mayor Martha
Wood said that the agenda was cre
ated especially for the commis
sioner and at his request. The
CIAA is very specific in what they
require, and the commissioner
wanted to meet with those on the
agenda.
She categorized this week's
meetings as a '"working visit," and
explained that it was too premature
for others in the community to get
involved.
Mayor Wood said she has
talked to the city manager about
ways to insure that all of the city's
business community would have a
chance to capitalize on the business
opportunities the tournament would
create.
Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines at
Winston-Salem State University
and honorary chairman of the
CIAA host committee said he, like
Pitt, was totally unaware of the
meetings with CIAA officials until
he was faxed the agenda.
He agreed that it was important
to include the black community in
all stages of planning the event.
"As far as the economic impact
is concerned, the tournament will
actually benefit everybody," he
said.
James Moore, president of
Metropolitan Drywell Inc., said he
was also unaware of the meetings.
"I'm interested in making sure
that blacks secure all the opportuni
ties that are available to us," he
said.
"I suggest that we make up our
own agenda and meet with these
officials ourselves," he said. "It's
very annoying when people sit
back and criticize those who are
doing something while not doing
something themselves."
A1 Spain, who was also a
member of the host committee, said
he has not felt out of the loop, as
far as getting information was con
cerned.
He explained that is is impor
tant that African- American busi
ness people who want to capitalize
on the tournament to not sit back
and wait for information to come to
them.
"They should take the initia
tive and go to the Chamber of
Commerce and ask what can they
do to help make sure that the tour
nament is a success and to find out
how they can profit," he said.
Tang Nivri
from page A1
Everybody used to invite him
and his wonderful wife to their
homes after Sunday services.lt was
almost impossible to get them to
join you for dinner because they
were so popular and so well liked.
Now they are inviting themselves
in.
It seems that the trouble started
when the preacher mode it up in his
mind that God had called him to go
into the middle cast and slay the
great Satan. Over the protests of a
few, he convinced the fine people
of the church to underwrite the cost
of tke crusade, urging them to pray
migfctUy and that alHvouM fee well. J
Well as was well. And wheri
the good preacher came back to
town, he claimed victory and peo
ple everywhere rejoiced, for it was
their preacher who had done some
thing that no other preacher had
doner
He had killed the devil.
Then one Sunday morning, as
Rev. -George spoke, a tittle child
shouted out, "Mama, the devil ain't
dead. I^aw him last night."
At first, the congregation just
laughed quietly, after all, everybody
knows that all children see the devil
at night.
The pastor even took the
opportunity to read a passage of
scripture reassuring the little lad,
"My little one, have no fear for the
devil has been destroyed."
But from that point on, people
began to look under their own beds,
into their own closets to see if he
was in there. From then on, they
began to question, to wonder
whether or not the devil was really
dead.
And what about other things
the preacher had been saying? Then
one thing led to another. Everybody
started to read the scripture text for
themselves.
It turns out that the preacher
had been fudging more than just a
little bit on the meaning and the
interpretation of the holy words of
writ, according to one deacon.
All of a sudden, old folks
started to murmur about the church
not growing enough. Then the
trustees complained that the tithes
and offerings were going down
instead of up. Then the senior choir
started murmuring about the hymns,
complaining that they wanted to
sing some of those new songs like
they do on television, where people
use a tambourine.
Then the mother's board got
into the act., complaining about
nobody shouting and that the spirit
was missing from the church ...
pretty soon, the whole church was
in a uproar about everything. The
preacher just had to go.
The last I heard, they had hired
themselves a new preacher, who not
only could make them shout but
could play the saxophone, too.
Nobody said anything about the
devil.
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