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NCC^ 75 CENTS WSSU vs. N.C. A&T SATURDAY NIGHT 32 PAIGES THIS WEEK Amateur Golf Local man leads in Amateur Handicap Championship. B4 Gallery Opens WSSU's Diggs Galiery opens faii season on Sept 10. A9 JV Football Reynolds' junior varsity team shuts out Parkland, 42-0. B1 Winston-Salem Chronicle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1993 "Power concedes nothing without a strui’i^le." —Frederick Douglass VOt.,XX, No. 2 Shot to Woman’s Head Proves Fatal By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS Chronicle Managing Editor An investigation by the Department of Defense said that the negative evaluations given to (L to R) Capts. John T. Lam, Sheoler tetchens andMaj. M.P. Ketchens, doctors at Ft. Rucker, Ala., were acts of reprisals for claims of racial bias. (Complete story, A14) A Winston-Salem teen-ager has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting two weeks ago of Renee Lavette Glenn, police said. Glenn died Saturday at Baptist Hospital from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted on Aug. 22. Since the shooting, Glenn, 21, had been on life support at Baptist Hospital. Capt. Linda G. Davis said Shontain Levon Peterson, 16, of 205 N. Spring St., was charged Tuesday with murder. He had originally been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury. Glenn was the third woman — all African American — killed in Winston- Salem this year. Her death brings to 26 the total number of people killed in the city this year; 18 of those were African-American. "It's really been terrible," Davis said. "One after the other." The weapon used in the shooting, believed to be a .357-magnum revolver, has not been recovered. The shooting occurred about 5 a.m. while Glenn and Peterson were sitting in a car outside her apartment at 1663 Lincoln Avenue near the Kimberly Park housing community. Because Glenn and Peterson were longtime friends and because Peterson had been playing with the gun — and another one — all night, it was unclear whether the shooting was accidental or intentional. "That's not up to us to determine," Davis said. "It's up to the district attorney and the courts to decide, based on the infor mation that was presented." Lt. Larry T. Reavis said Peterson either Please see page All NEWS WEEK NEWS AT A GLANCE I Living King *s Dream ^ Youths who attended the 30th Anniversary iiarch on Washington celebration, said King's dream become reality and believe his non-violent prin- iples would offset violence among Winston-Salem luths. Conplete story A4 Capitol Hill Intern The perception of congressmen as "fat cats in ’ashington doing nothing" is not an accurate one. At least, according to Charlita Cardwell, who orked as an intern for 5th District Congressman eve Neal this summer. Complete story A4 Bond Referendum The president of the University of North Car- lina school system, in town last week to campaign fi behalf of a $310 million bond referendum, told 'inston-Salero State University officials that it was ligh time” to correct the problems plaguing the sys- m’s 16 campuses by getting people out to vote for le bond issue in Novembffl:. Complete story AS Defending the KKK GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — When Ku Klux dan leader Michael Lowe entered Anthony Griffin’s »w office, he had no idea his new attorney was not inly a black man, but also an attorney for the JAACP. Complete story AM More Mothers Breast-Feed Their Young By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Last year, Teresa Thompson of KemersviUe breast fed her 14-month-old son, Travis, while working at a Winston-Salem hotel. She was nervous at first, receiving strange looks and stares from her co-workers while she used an elec tric pump to store breast-milk for her child to drink when she got off from work. Although it was difficult at first, Thompson credits the support and encouragement she received during peer-counseling sessions for her willingness to put up with the sometimes insensitive remarks. "The workplace was appalled," said Thompson, recalling the reaction from fellow employees at Stouf- fer's (now Adam's Mark) Hotel. "I felt isolated at first, but eventually they came around and became very sup portive." Thompson had the stick-to-itiveness because she wanted a healthy baby. She is one of a group of young mothers whose graduation from a peer-counselor program purports to decrease infant-mortality rates by encouraging women to breast-feed newborns. The WIC (Women, Infants and Children) breast feeding peer-counselor program started in July 1991 as a way to offset the rising trend of infant deaths and to produce healthier babies. Only 10 percent of Forsyth County women in the Pamela Caldwell breast-feeds 8-week-old son. WIC program were breast-feeding when the program started. Now that number has increased to nearly 30 percent. Sheila Britt-Smith, a WIC nutritionist and program coordinator, said the 30-hour program provides coun selors with information for the mothers and shows them the benefits of breast-feeding. She said the practice is not common because most women do not have a family member to give them first-hand advice. "Most women don't have a grandmother or an aunt to provide information or support (for breast-feeding)," she said. Smith said the program is geared toward — but not Please see page A3 Complaints Increase Against Police Dept. By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS Chronicle Managing Editor Winston-Salem police are looking into whether a city police officer started a ruckus at the Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon on Aug. 22. When police arrived at the bar and restaurant, at 504 Hanes Mall Boulevard, the man had left, but witnesses told police that he flashed a badge and claimed to be a city police officer. The incident occurred about 9:15 p.m. No injuries were reported. "We haven't confirmed that it was a police offi cer," said Capt. G.G. Cornatzer, who heads the department's Internal Affairs division. "From all indi cations right now, the information we got was that he was rowdy and that he flashed something that looked like a badge." Please see page A3 George Sweat Flack Gives Once-Troubled Nursing Program New Life By MARK R. MOSS Chronicle Staff Writer Business B12 Classifieds B13 CoMMUNtTY News A4 Editorials A12 Entertainment B6 Obituaries BH Religion BIO Sports B1 This Week In Black History Moses A. Hopkins, minister and educator, named minister to Liberia. Four years ago, the Nursing School at Winston-Salem State University was on life support. Enrollment was down, and so was the number of people passing the state board exams. The president of the University of North Carolina school system threatened to pull the plug. Then along came Dr, Sylvia Ann Flack - a 47-year-old self-described workaholic who flunked the state's nurs ing exam the first time she took it. Like the proverbial last-minute mira cle, Flack took the scalpel and performed some major surgery and rescued the patient from the clutches of death. But the surgeon wasn't working alone, and Sylvia Flack certainly won't take all the credit. "Actually, the faculty gets the credit," she modestly said. "I just walked in and said 'let's get busy.'" And busy they got. Enrollment is up and so are the num ber of students who have passed the state nursing exam. And so impressed was one man with the change that he decided to donate $1 million to the school. School Chancellor Cleon F. Thomp son, Jr. said during the ceremony announcing the gift on Aug. 31 - the largest the school has ever received - that the anonymous donor, was impressed with the strong community support for the nursing school and the healthy course it appears to be on. Flack, whose official title is director of the school's Division of Nursing and Allied Health, was the last of six siblings and the first one in her family to get a four-year degree. She was born and raised on a farm in Spindale, a small Rutherford County town. It was a big farm, where her father grew cotton and corn and raised the usual farm animals. Her father eventually sold the farm and became an orderly at the local hospi tal. It was there, while in high school, that she got her first taste of the medical profession. She spent a summer working as a maid in the annex for black patients at the segregated hospital. There, she said, she developed a desire to do "some thing for those patients." "They used to say, nurses are bom not made, and there's some truth in that," she said. Please see page A3 TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 919-722-8624
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