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North Carolina Room rorsyfk Co jnty Public Libre r-v 560 f!f;h j-Toei! WV?riston-5>i!.?irrt iV o*7irv 75 CENTS 7"At Choice for African-American News and Information THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1995 'rower ( onccdcs nothing w ithout </ sfrnaalc / rederick Doiiifla s\ - - ~ X--* ? y/' VOL XXI. Nc . ' McKellar's Mother to Sue City ; A Witnesses for both sides being deposed by attorneys BylSttEftlDAN HILL Special to the Chronicle Ether May Epps has retained civil rights attorney James E. Ferguson to rep resent her in a civil suit against the city of Winston-Salem stemming from the death of her daughter, Sheila Epps McKellar. McKellar, 33, died in a holding cell in the Pepper Spray Now Used In Difficult Arrests By SHERIDAN HILL Special to the Chronicle When Sheila McKellar died in a holding cell in the Hall of Justice July 20, 1992, her hands and feet had been cuffed, she was gagged with gauze, and placed face-down on the floor. Asked if that could happen today, Capt. B. L. Jones of the Winston-Salem Police tee PEPPER page 14 V Hall of Justice on July 20, 1992, 26 hours after police officers arrested her at an apartment complex on New Walkertown Road. Dr. Donald R. Jason, a medical examiner at Baptist Hospital, and Dr. Page Hudson, a former state medical examiner, both ruled separately that her see MCKELLAR page 14 Head Start: Wind Beneath Young Wings ....... i - \'A Teachers, stafff excited about program and new home. By VERONICA CLEMONS ? ! Chronicle staff writer Barbara King said all her life she wanted to work with young children. She was 45 when her dream finally came true. v After working industrial jobs and being a homemaker for about five years, King became a volunteer for Head Start at Skyland School. - Within skb-miffc* at* became a tUbstitute and eventually l&dAme a Teacher's Aide. Then it was on to meet the qualifications for being a Head Start teacher. "Things really worked out well for me," she said. "And that was just one of my dreams. King added that her future plans include earn ing an Associate's degree and opening her own daycare. see HEADSTART page 7 SheUe Eppt McKtOar % HAG Program i ~ Cited lor Lack! D' V { ????. of Inclusiveness *'i ' r\ ?' By VERONICA CLEMO^B Chronicle Stiff Writer ^ f I f School board members Walter Marshall and Geneva B-own told administrative staff that the Highly Academically Gifted Program needs to be more inclusive of black students. Both said at the board* meeting on Tuesday that the issue of inclusiveness should be carrfttlly looked at as the boaid is deciding the fame home of the program. The locally controlled program ia currently serving about 433 students. Only 12 of those stu dents are black. Six are Hispanic and 17 are Asian. The remaining 368 students are white. Because of space constraints, HAG students from Cook Middle will be moving to Hanes and those from Wiley will be moving to Kennedy. But see HAG pag ti4 First Black United Methodist Bishop in S.C. Found Dead ? ' ?" ? COLUMBIA , S C. (AP) _ Bishop Joseph Bcthea, spiritual and administrative lcvadtr of South Carolina's 245,000 United Methodists* wm found dead at his home Sunday. He was 62. s Bcthea, the state's first black bishop, appar ently died of a heart attack, Richland County Coroner Frank Barron told WIS-TV in Qotapfei fc Bethea had a history of heart problems/parao * said. Funeral arrangements, handled by Palmer Memorial Chapel, are set for 2 p.m. todiay at Shandon United Methodist Church in and at 1 p.m. on Friday at Centenary United see FIRST page 14 us Low By VERONICA CLEMONS Chronicle Staff Writer Leonard Simpson of Johnson's Modern Electric Co., Inc. explains to MtWBE members about his efforts to include minority suppliers. Two companies vying, for work on the M.C. Benton Conven tion Center did not make good faith efforts to include minority businesses. Therefore, the Minority /women Business Enterprise will not recommend to the Board of Alderman that they be given the job, although they were low bidders. The group did decide, however, to recommend that the third lowest bidder, Wishon and Carter, made the gocvd faith efforts. M/WBE has several criteria it uses to determine if a com pany has made good faith efforts in using minority businesses. see LOW page 15 FOR SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 722-8624 Not* 16, /?r, RntMrt pcwsoapcr, Freedom's lonri published in New Yb?k CSty. 920 Carter Otb f ?f"OK tmefodetma JllafchiiAniJ JwiJJWt " niMMi y^v:3 8wfc?*7
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