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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1995
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VOL XXI. No 39
Postal Workers Demand Equalitv
# Employees Upset With Pace of Labor Talks, Working Conditions I
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Senior Staff Wrilcr '
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Shouting "We Want a Fair Contract,"
group of 17 postal workers carried picket
$^ns in front of the. U.S. Post Office Head
quarters along Patterson Avenue on a hot
Tuesday afternoon to demand better working
conditions.
; ! "We want the public to be informed
that they are going to lose out if the postal ser
vice becomes a private enterprise," said Tfcna
Carter, president of local chapter of the Amer
ican Postal Workers Union. MWe want them to
be informed, and not get slapped on the face at
the last moment."
The protesters carried colorful signs
with slogans such as "We Want a Decent Con
tract," "No to Privatization," "No Retirement
Cuts," and "No Concessions."
Several of the marchers, mostly
African Americans and a few whites, said that
postal officials have fostered racial discrimi
nation nationwide.
An example of this bigotry could be
seen in the recent complaints of many African
American postal employees who said that the)
had been the targets of racial inequities and
verbal intimidation by management.
A black protester carried Tuesday
afternoon a sign with the slogan, "Equal and
Civil Rights in Winston-Salem Now!!!
Black workers also have said that
they were unfairly targeted in an investigation
into the disappearance of thousands of dollars.
A local postal worker provided The
Chronicle with documentation that he told
see POSTAL page 2
Postal employees pace the skiewmtk in from of the pott office mm Fmt$er
son A venue protesting privatization of service.
African, African American
Summit Focused on Trade
Bv WILLIAM REED ^
NNFA Director of Comnniniclions
Responding to comments of Rev.
Leon H. Sullivan that, "All the black
man needs is the opportunity to prove
what he can do/' more than 5.000
Africans and African Americans gath
ered in Dakar. Senegal West Africa in
early May to prove what they could do
toward strengthening their own relation
ships and that of Africa's economy The
Third African, African American Sum
mit brought together 21 heads of nation*,
professional from alt areas and students
to discuss solutions to*hclp relieve
Africa's economic problems ? one of
which is an estimated $150 billion debt.
Sullivan, who has an outstanding
rccord of collective economics and
working in Africa, said. "I wanted to
set? AFRICAN pug? 2
Police Search for Suspect
A Shooting at Rolling Hills Apartments leaves
one dead , one recovering from head injury
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Senior Staff Writer
City police were searching
on Wednesday for a suspect
charged with the shooting death
of an East Winston man in an
incident that occurred Monday
? afternoon at Rolling Hills Apart
ments.
Police are looking for Tracy
Lamont Coad, 20, whose last known
addresses are 5020 Lansing Drive and
153 Blaze Street. Coad is charged with
the murder of Paul Woodrow Hay. 20, of
1639 East 22nd Street, according to
Capt. P.R. Rumple, division commander
of the police department s detectives
division.
Coad is described as a black male, 5
feet 8 inches tall and weighing 140
pounds. Rumple said the suspect should
be considered armed and dangerous.
"We don't know where he (Coad)
Rumple said Tuesday. "He is proba
is,
bly somewhere in the area.
Coad is also charged with assault
with a deadly weapon inflicting serious
injury in the wounding of Bridgette Lynn
Boston. 25, who suffered a head injury.
She was listed in satisfactory condition
at N.C. Baptist Hosptial on Tuesday.
Police believed the weapon used in
the shooting is a semi-automatic hand
gun. "We have not recovered the weapon
yet," Rumple said. "The public is not in
anymore danger now that they were
before this guy starting running around
with a gun."
The shooting at Rolling Hills Apart
ments stemmed from a continuing argu
ment among the two groups of friends
Pom! Hay Lamont Coad B.Lynm Boston
on Mother's Day, May 14. "They were
arguing about something, but we don't
know what it was," Rumple said.
Hay was killed Monday by gunfire
when bullets struck the car he and two
other people were sitting in at the apart
ment complex. Police arrived at the
scene after receiving a report of gun
being fired, but they made no arrests.
Three residents of Rolling Hills said
they were shocked, scared, and angry
over the death of Hay. They declined to
reveal their names as they talked to a
Chronicle reporter.
"I don't ?el safe here," said a young
black mother holding her infant son. "It
has been reiHy hard to talk about what
happened her on Monday."
A youthful black man complained
that the Winston-Salem Police routinely
neglects to patrol Rolling Hills and local
housing projects and responds to calls
after crimes have aleady been commits
ted.
"They just show up after all the.
shootinjz is over," he said angrily. "Then,
we never see them again."
A teenage girl lamented over the
loss of Hay, whom she described as feer
see POLICE page 2
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Womble, Oldham Urge Senate
To Restore Cuts in Programs 1
By JOE JOHNSON
Capital Correspondence
RALEIGH ? State Reps. Larry
Womble and Pete Oldham joined 1 6 other
members of the House Tuesday to urge
the Senate to restore cuts made in pro
grams for families and chiktaen.
The House continuation budget.
which was sent to the Senate last week.
cuts more than $237 million in spending
by the state.
Two programs that could face ihc
greatest challenge of reaching their finan
cial needs are Smart Start and the
Guardian Ad Litem program.
Smart Start. Gov. Jim Hum's early
childhood education program, has
received most of the scrutiny so far The r
House leadership isn't convinced that
Smart Sum is the best way to use :
funds. However, a deal was struck that
would allow the program to expand if
see WOMBLE page 2
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