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Lee calls for runoff with Marshall rl' -.1 ltd* gmm fiPf *?k?' to* r3W ???** ? ??%>. tit Wk' ?? Valeria L. Lee AR B\ JOHN H1NTON Chronicle Senior Slalt Writer Valeria Lynch Lee of Winston-Salem has requested a runoff in her race to ?become North Carolina's Secretary of State. Lee finished second in the May 7 pri mary with 21 percent of the vote behind Elaine Marshall, who had 27 percent of the ballots. The runoff will be held on Tuesday June 4. The winner faces Republican Richard Petty of Randleman, a former NASCAR driver. None of the six candidates in the race received the required 40 percent of the bal lots.^Therefore, state election laws allow the candidate winning the second-highest number of votes to request a runoff. "I have a responsibility to the people of North Carolina to let them make the choice who they want as their Democratic candi date in November." Lee said in a news release. "The person (Marshall) who received the highest number of votes only got 26 or 27 percent of the vote ? only one in four. That means for every folir peo ple votingTthree-of them voted for some one else for Secretary of State." Lee said the runoff would strengthen the election process for voters. Please see LEE A14 Elaine Marshall Winston-Salem Chronicle 120596DA01 * *C007 FORSYTH CNTY PUB LIB nc room j*he Choice for African-American News and Information 660 W 5TH ST # 3 WINSTON-SALEM nc 27101-2755 THURSDAY, May 16,1996 I cents Dedicated to the Memory of Clarence E. Nottingham: 1903-1995 vol. xxii. no. 40 "" * ? 4 *?<* * * : t &&*< <???>?? "v. ;; ?*?> 4 '?. ? ?:.' ?'*ik ??**.: vi :? ?? -\ ;- , ?? ??<&. ?. ' - '*% i \ V ????;: ? ?' Harvey Gantt, left, defeated Charlie Sanders in the Democratic primary and will challenge U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.. in November. Sanders is supporting Gantt in his campaign. Voters may reject racist tactics A Harvey Gantt calls for debate with Helms by JOHN HINTON Chronicle Senior Staff Writer RALEIGH ? North Carolina vot ers may reject Helms' racist tactics in Ha.wey Gantt's hid to unseat U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., the former Charlotte mayor said last week. "Race is going to he an issue," Gantt said, but added "North Carolina may have gone beyond that. People want to send the best person to Washington to represent them. There are issues more important than the color of my skin." Gantt and Charlie Sanders, his Democratic challenger in the May 7 primary, appeared at a news confer ence at the N.C. Democratic Party Headquarters in Raleigh. About 30 Gantt supporters, both blacks and whites, attended the news event and cheered for Gantt as he and Sanders entered the room. Gantt won 53 percent of the vote in last week's primary, defeating Sanders, the former chief executive officer and president of Glaxo Inc. Gantt's victory sets up a rematch with Helms, who beat Gantt by 6 percent age points in 1990 in a racially tinged election. Gantt has issued a debate chal lenge to Helms, who is expected to wage a tough and expensive battle for reelection. "It would be a mistake for Helms not to debate." he said. "He should face the voters and discuss the issues that are important to the people of this state. He shouldn't just stay there in Washington." Eddie Woodhouse, a campaign spokesman for Helms, said the senator believes it is too six>n after the primary to diseuss the possibility of debating Gantt. "We will take a look at it. maybe sometime in the summer." Woodhouse said. "Sen. Helms feels like people need a rest from eampaigning. People have told him that they are tired of campaigns." Helms told the Associated Press,"our respective races will, no doubt, be spirited, but I hope that both will be positive as well. 1 shall endeav or to conduct myself as a gentleman, and I know Mr. Gantt will do the same." Helms acknowledges that he is a conservative senator, and Gantt is a Please see VOTERS A9 Parents choose schools for pupils A Students to learn of assignments in final report By JOHN HINTON Chronicle Senior Staff Writer Officials with the city-county school system searched for the parents of 59 students who live in the Kimherly Park neighborhood last week, so the parents could choose the elementary school their children will attend in the 1996-97 school year. The parents could choose to send their children to Kimberly Park, Jefferson. Speas, Vienna, or Sherwood Forest Elementary Schools, which are in Zone 5 of the redistricting plan. Each school will offer a different academic theme to attract black and white students who live in Zone 5. Jefferson will offer a math and science theme, Kimberly Park will offer year-round math and sci ence. Sherwood Forest w ill offer science and visual arts, Speas will feature "21st century' academics," and Vienna will offer communications. The deadline for students to register for one of the schools was Friday May 10. Application pack ets had been mailed to the parents of nearly 2,500 students several weeks prior to the deadline. If students didn't return registration cards by then, school officials would assign their children to one of the five elementary schools, according to available space and to achieve racial balance, according to Dr. Donald L. Martin Jr., superinten dent Qf the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. "A critical piece to any school choice plan is informing the parents," Martin said in a news con ference at the Kimberly Park Community Center. School social workers and Associate Superintendent Joseph Johnson visited homes in Kimberly Park Terracb and the surrounding neigh borhood near Kimberly Park Alternative School, which will become an elementary school next school year. Vernon Robinson, the Republican nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruction, volunteered to join school personnel on the door-to-door effort. He said he supported the school choice plan. The students will be informed what school they will be attending in their final report cards in June. Please see PARENTS A9 Dr. Donald I~ Martin Jr., seated second right, explains that parents need to decide what school their children will attend in the 1996-97 school war. CLASSIFIEDS 1 OPINION A-12 I ENTERTAINMENT ..B-10 OBITUARIES B-12 1 SPORTS This Week in Black History May 19, 192S Malcolm X bom in Omaha. Nebraska ? Ji Robinson first black nominee for Superintendent n. fniiv in* *??*?*/-v v ? ? r>\ jv ni.i mi.> i v Chronicle Senior Staff Writer Vernon Robinson of Winston-Salem has become the first African-American nominee for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina and the first black candi date to defeat a white opponent in a contested Republican primary statewide. Robinson won 52 percent of the vote while his opponent. Bill Sharpe of Wilson, a retired educator, received 48 percent of the ballots. "I had some name recognition and a bet ter field organization." Robinson said, adding that 54.000 pieces of his campaign literature were mailed to households of likelv primarx voters. Robinson. 40. a graduate of the I S. Air Force Academy, is president of the North Carolina Education Reform F '.nidation. He faces Democrat Mike Ward of Creedmoor. a former Granville County School Superintendent, in the Nov. 5 general elec tion. In 1992. Robinson lost the Republican primary for the State Superintendent post by 2,007 votes. Both candidates expect their race to receive public attention in the fall because there arc many contested seats in the Council of State, and people are paying more interest to educational issues. Robinson said his nomination was a vic tory for parents and their children and for North Carolina. "I've been accused of being a one-issue candidate, and I plead guilt\." he said. "\1\ one issue is you must change the incentives in the public school system if sou want to change the system. We must take the money from the politicians and bureaucrats who don't even know your child's name and give that power to parents." The black community is facing a crisis in public education. Please sec ROBI\S()\ \9 * *yt [ | ff \ crnon Robinson N5> r.Al I /C|1 ON ?*?;:<# v.-*-..%* "" - .?. ??
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