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. J North Carolina Room w Forsyth County Public Library 660 West Fifth Street Winston-Salem, 27101 < . : i . > The Choice for African- American News and Information THURSDAY, OCJOBER 27, 1994 'A -'V V ^ Mf ,-/nw . t. ? ? y 7 * r J ; - " Iyow'cr cofu ctlcs nothing w ithout </ struiz'^lc. ? /? rcdcrick Donulns s j '? VOL. XXI. No Some Board Members Not Seen CDC Audit A. Board names former CDC auditor David C. Hinton as bookkeeper ; says organization now on track By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS . Chronicle Executive Editor Three months after the completion of a financial audit of the East Winston Commu ? nity Development Corp., several members ' of the organization's board of directors still have not been made privy to the report Several board members who were con tacted this week said they have not seen the "?> /l- " ? ? : '? . a . ' audit, and one of them said if he had seen it, he woyld not know what he was looking at. Robert Greer said he was told at the organization's three-day retreat in Atlantic Beach nearly a month ago that the audit would be available upon return to Winston Salem. He said he is yet to receive one, and it matters little to him. ? "If someone was to stand there with ? . v ' ' "? ' 7 . ? ' '? V* ? ; ... ? " 'I ? ?' ? that sheet and explain it to me, I still would n't know what I'm looking at,M said Greer, who said h? has been on the board for two years. "We have accountants and CJ^s who take care of that kind of thing. "I'm on the board because it they want to know something about what's going on in the street, they come to me." Greer is a founding member of Black Men and Women Against Crime, a grass roots organization that tries to combat crime among the city's youth. Greer said the CDC is one of many community agencies that, when working together, can bring about a change in east ern Winston-Salem. Some of the board members said they felt comfortable not seeing the audit, since y.y- ' V ? VM the CDC's executive and finance commit^ tees have studied the report. Joycelyn Johnson, an original board member since the CDC was formed, said she, too, had not seen the audit. Johnson, a city alderman, said she is not that concerned about it because the organization's finance 1 / ; = J ? \ - SOME page 14 By VERONICA CLEMONS Chronicle Staff Writer * John Singleton says he enjoys going to the Winston Lake Family YMCA because he is able to see friends and co-workers there and because Winston Lake has a family-type atmosphere. "Winston Lake is more of a homey, cozy, , family-type" Y?_ said Singleton, the public com munications manager at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. , . . J"4 r' Singleton, who alto enjoys his Thursday i evening aerobics class, will now have the oppor . tunity to make new friends as the YMCA over v the past 30 days has added 123 new members during a membership drive campaign. The campaign ended on Oct. 19, but special incentives are continuing until the end ol the month in order for the Y to reach its goal of 1 25 new members. ^ In addition to\not having to pay the $25 ? membership fee, new members also receive a YMCA T-shirt and a neon-colored YMCA water bottle. ?' > Whether those new people joined because of the Y's family-oriented atmosphere or because the new membership fee has been waived during the drive ioesn't matter. Y officials welcome them any way. Before this year, membership drives con sisted of simply inviting people to the YMCA. But during this month's campaign, Y officials got more personal. "This time the membership campaign solicited recruiters who worked to bring people in to achieve the membership goal," said Marcel lette Orange, the Y'* ^executive director. "This has worked real well." Michael Suggs, chairman of the Y's mem bership campaign committee, said the waived membership fee prompted a lot of people to join. "We found a lot of people feel they need to work out or need an incentive to work "out," he said. "It's the kind of thing they just put off. We felt the fall was a good time to do it because summer is ending and there are going to be fewer . see YMCA page 14 Leading the membership drive: Michael Suggs (left), Marcellette Orange (center) and Larry Butler (right). Also pictured : Michael Mclntyre (2nd from left) and William Misenhe inter. With Racist Ties , By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Siaff Writer Forsyth County Sheriff candi date Joseph H. Pitts says his mem bership in the state militia wouldn't stop him ftom being a fair officer to . minorities. ' y Pitts is a captain in the Win ston-Salem regiment of militia. A controversy ingnited by racist rhetoric swirled around the organi zation and led to the dismissal of its leader, Brig. General Henry B. "Bo" Thorpe, in 1992 for disparag ing and racial remarks against . blacks. Defending the organization, Pitts said the regiment in Charlotte was infiltrated by nearly 20 white ? supremacists who were later dis ? missed. He also said the contro versy continued when Ku Klux Klan members imitated the militia's uniforms in the Western part of the state. Pitts said the militia is not a white supremacist organization and never has been. . "The militia is an all-volunteer unit that helps out in times of emer gency," he said. "We're part of the . state government. They try to inject race into the campaign and I think . that's despicable." a The N.C. State Defense Militia, an all-volunteer, non-paid force, was reactiviated by GoyJim Mar tin in 1988 to protect North Car olinians in the absence of the U.S. National Guard. The militia is made up of veterans who assist the guard in times of national emergencies, natural disasters and other crime" control functions. Thorpe, a professional big band leader from Rocky Mount, was removed as ?eader of the 681 Joseph H. Pim member paramilitary force by Mar tin after allegedly making racist remarks during one of his perfor mances at a Rocky Mount country club. ' : Pitts joined in 1988 and said he has been an inactive member since 1990 \ He defends the militia as being a productive, volunteer group and said the 55th regiment in Winston Salem didn't have any racist mem ber or condone racism. Pitts is challenging Republican Sheriff Ron Barker in the Nov. 8 race. Barker, 60, could not be reached for comment, but Barker's administrative assistant and cam paign said Pitts' belonging to the militia and the Sons of the Confed eracy raises serious questions. "I don't know what's in a man's heart, but his membership in those two organizations is real question able," saia Robert Joyce, "I'm not a member and Sheriff Barker's not a member. An organization is proved * to be made up of white suprema cists and he's still a member. It puts see SHERIFF page 14 OpiiMoti 12 UIIOIIWIIIinilLiaiiiiiaCD Obtlnwl? 31 ^ ? a 1 :"T m nevifjtovi....... ........... .Zo Sports..................... 1 7 This Week In Black History October 2*. /92J RM*ai* 'Wiid opened at Colonial Theater, Broadway. Miller a*d LyUt prod, iatro dated Charleston to New York and the world. t X m s m H 0 2 z e H Black Publishers Give Boost to Troubled NAACP A Two hundred and five African-American newspapers donate a combined $300,000 in ad space WASHINGTON (AP) ? The NAACP, caught in the throes of a fiscal crisis, got a boost from black newspaper publishers who offered $300,000 worth of advertising space for an NAACP membership campaign. The National Newspaper Publishers Association said last Thursday it was spurred \q apt by "smear tactics" in the national media's coverage of the infighting at the civil rights group. "The majority press has been telling the country, in no uncertain terms, that something is wrong at the NAACP," said NNPA Presi dent Robert Bogle. "There is a need for the NAACP. We as members of the NNPA need to be responsive in conveying that message.*' The ad campaign began Oct. 17 and will run in 205 newspapers and will continu ing over the next three months. The goal is to attract enough new members to temporarily help the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's cash flow in the face of a $3 million budget deficit The announcement came two days after 16 ministers, representing six religious denominations, presented the NAACP with $20,000 and recommendations for improving the civil rights group, which is plagued with financial problems after the ouster of Execu tive Director Benjamin Chavis. Meanwhile, the NAACP's board of directors prepared for a weekend meeting to review the budget deficit and take a vote of confidence in Chairman William Gibson, who was accused in a recent column of misusing NAACP money. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carl Rowan contended that Gibson had "double dipped*' on reimbursements of his NAACP expense accounts. Gibson denied it. Bogle, president and chief executive officer of The Philadelphia Tribune, said in addition to the advertisements, NNPA news papers plan to publish supportive editorials and feature stories about NAACP programs. Questions about whether the NNPA's support could lead to bias in black press cov erage of the NAACP is not a concern, Bogle said. ? ; ? ... " , 'The missions of our leading civil rights organization and of the nation's African American newspapers are inextricably linked," he said. "Both would be well-served through a closer working relationship." fc BLACK page 14 TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 910-722-8624
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