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Winston Lake Y The board, membership and other stories a about the Waterworks Road facility. PAGE A4 Larry Leon Hamlin to star as Malcolm X in black repertory production. PAGE B2 Winston-Salem Chronicle THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1993 " Power concedes nothing without a struggle ? Frederick Douglas VOL. XIX, No. 25 Hunt Asks NX. 'High Court For Retrial A Lawyers claim police withheld information By MARK R. MOSS Chronicle Staff Writer The murder conviction of Darryl Eugene Hunt, a black teenager found guilty of killing a white journalist eight years ago in Winston Salem, should be overturned, a lawyer argued in the appellate division of State Supreme Court ' yesterday. Benjamin Sendor, an assistant appellate defender in Raleigh, said Hunt was unjustly con vie ted in t h esT a v i n g~of~&etrrrrah BruLherion Sykes, whose body was found on a grassy slope downtown in 1984. "Some serious errors were committed in Hunt's second jtrial . 1 just hope the court agrees with me." Sendor said this week in a telephone interview. Hunt won an appeal for a second trial in 1990, but again was convicted According to court documents introduced yesterday by Sendor, three witnesses who could have testified on: Hunt's behalf during his second trial, but did not because Winston-Salem Police Department detectives "coerced" two witnesses from testifying and withheld the address of a third witne^- The three witnesses, the documents, said, were Lisa Rene McBride, Willis Wayne Reynolds and A1 Morrison Kelly. The documents said~a~Eey~piuseCUliuii wuncss. Johnny Gray, "confessed to each of them separately before (Hunt's) second trial." According to the court documents, McBride. who lived withGray shortly after the murder and who testified at the first trial, claims Gray came home "half drunk" and flew into a rage when h? realized his dinner was not ready. Wielding a knife, he chased McBride into a bedroom, knocked her on the bed. and said, Til stab you in the damn heart, like I did that Sykes woman." The documents said he stabbed her but she turned in time to avoid being seriously injured. Please see page A3 I Sign Of The Times A Interpreter uses hands to communidate ? By KAREN M HANNON Chronicle Staff Writer ? This is one of an occasional series of articles that Will look at blacks working in unconventional jobs. Sharon Agnew-Oliver uses her hands to tell an entire story. While most teachers at Ashley Middle School are signing report cards. Agnew-Oliver is doing another kind of signing. She is an educational interpreter using sign language to communicate with hearing-impaired students. "I've always had a fascination about sign lan guage.". Agnew-Oliver said. "In high school. 1 saw hearing-impaired students at Carver and East Forsyth. But after high school. I got involved with the deaf community and learned more signs." Agnew-Ohver. who has worked for the Win ston-Salem school system for two years, is one of 12 educational interpreters who work with hear ing-impaired students who attend classes in in reg ular classrooms. There are four full-time instruc P lease see page A1 2 IsItAnyWotfder? The trial was finally aver. Another young blade male was on his way through the justice system. Two teen-age defendants had been con victed of burglary for stealing a gun and other accessories from a local, small business owner. The gun, a 357 Magnum, was later found near the premises of one of the local ihiddle schools. .4 ^ judge had seen one of the "defendants too many times before. Apparently this criminal behavior was becoming a habit, a way of life. In v a last-ditch effort to get the( young man's atten tion, the judge offered him two options: an opportunity to be sgnt to a dftfntion c where he would have a chance to acquire some liife skills, and based on his performance and Mploiv a chance for early release; or he oowd fbftraight to jail with the big boys. His motor ,*IMiding there with him. He would have to - daptlfr Titt youngster stood before the judge deff-* antiy. as if be hadn't heard a word she'd said. S&|| - but fee FinaHy^he responded, saying something llw, wI Phase see page AH pw ? WMMM Darryl Eugene Hunt , right, shown entering courtroom at previous trial. Monroe: Gaines Deserves *4~ . . . m Better Treatment at WSSU A Says matter should have been kept in-house By MARK R MOSS Chronicle Staff Writer Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, a member of the NBA Hall of Fame and the greatest bas ketball player to wear a Winston-Salem State University uniform, calls it disgraceful the way the school has allowed the controversy surrounding Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines' tenure to swell. "When you have an international figure at your disposal, you should try to put that person up to be a role model to attract other quality people." Monroe said. Monroe, the Baltimore Bullets top draft ?pick in 1967, is in town this week to help raise money for a trophy case to be installed at the C. E. Gaines Center. The case will hold memorabilia of Gaines collected over the 30 years he has been the Rams head coach. Monroe said Gaines should have been afforded the respect to not allow the contro versy to be debated in a public forum. "I think this is an in-house issue and should be treated as such," he said. "It always seems like we (African Americans) are always airing our differences in public.They should have sat down and talked about this." At issue is whether Gaines, basketball's winningest active coach with 828 victories and who turns 70 in will be forced to retire by the state s mandatory retirement law. The Earl Monroe Clarence Gaines school's administration sent him a letter in January informing him of the state's policy, and Gaines recently sent a letter to the administration asking that his tenure be extended. However, Alex Johnson, the university's vice president of Academic Affairs, has rec ommended to Chancellor Cleon Thompson that Gaines not be retained. Last week, fac ulty representatives voted unanimously to recommenff to the chancellor that Gaines be allowed to fulfill his coaching and teaching responsibilities. Neither Johnson nor Thompson could be reached for comment, Blanche director of public relations, said the school's policy is not to comment on personnel mat ters. Monroe enjoyed a record-setting career at WSSU froml964-67 ^nder Gaines and went on to star in the National Basketball Association. He and other alumni want the Please see page All HRG Chairman To Seek Race Solutions ? WSSU grad named chairman By SHERIDAN HILL Chftmkk Assistant Editor The chairman of the Human Relations Commission wonts the group to be a catalyst in solving the city's race relations problems. . "There is a problem here with race relations, and we have to admit that." said John P. Rankins, a person nel supervisor for Sara Lee Knit Products* and the com missions new chairman. "Winston-Salem is a great American city, but there are citizens who feel they're being dealt an injustice because of their geographical location. I'd love to see the day we wouldn't have a need for Citizens United for Justice, wouldn't need the Human Relations Commission, because human beings are treating each other as human beings. I think the city has the compassion and the ability to do that." In the past, the commission has dealt largely with housing discrimination complaints. Rankins. 26. who graduated from Winston-Salem State University in 1989 with a degree in political sci ence. replaces Kelly O.P. Goodwin as chairman. Mayor Martha Wood, who makes recommendations to the commission, said Rankins impressed members when he first met with them in December that he was chosen as chairman in January. Rankins said his leadership ability emerged while he was a student at Winston-Salem State University, where he belonged to several organizations. Rankins said he hopes a member of Citizens United For Justice will join the community relations task group that he started. "Not everyone views Citizens Uri^ed For Justice as they should," Rankins said. "I think they are a group who wants to hear some reasonable answers to some "I'd love to see the day we wouldn't have a need for Citi zens United for Justice." ? John R Rankins unreasonable actions. They want to see justice prevail, see justice become color blind, see justice occur regard less of your address." He plans for the task force's efforts to tie in with other community efforts to address race relations, including Common Vision. United Way and the Minis ter's Association. "We need to get all these resources in one bucket and pour them out and let them blanket the community." he said. "We need to strategically institute programs that will-be progressive." ? TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 919-722-8624 ?
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