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^ (AT Photo/J.Set* AffUwUH) &FO0i$OOt C$t90n Oftfl fhtFOOOn QoOOfOt Oflo1f? totchOT tftko Oftfl In ft fSOtOOtOOy Of 9tO \9hitO HOUOO f^OO" day, Mgt$ V, 199$ whom Mr prMtOid tho moMomf whh m loymtf on mn9kkt?. Iho ptwddonf | Offfod Confyoof to ^do tho riffht thtofj" ond fnif/t flown on tohftfxo tootftonfo& Elections from page AI ' The legal maneuvers that ensued went all the way' to the Supreme Court ? and back. In 1997, the high court ruled that it is unconstitutional to construct a district with the primary intent of consolidating black voters into a "minority majority" district. Since that ruling, several maps attempt ing to redraw the districts have been proposed and rejected. Earlier this month, a panel of federal judges declared that the most recent attempt at redistrict ing still placed too much emphasis on voters' race. Consequently, North Carolina's congressional primaries have been delayed. For the Triad, that also affects the Sth District seat held by Rep. Richard Burr (R-Winston-Salem) and the 6th District seat held by Rep. Howard Coble (R-Greensboro). Just days ago, two blacks were ? competing against one another for ? the opportunity to face Sen. Lauch Faircloth in the fall. However, that number has since dwindled. Last ; week Gene Gay of Charlotte pulled out of the Democratic pri mary. Still, six candidates remain. ; One ? Ella Scarborough, also of ? Charlotte ? is African American. In Guilford County, voters will choose five county commissioners, five school board members, judges, . a district attorney and a sheriff. Black candidates among them are Donnie Dunovant and Walter Pritchett. Dunovant, an incum bent on the Board of Commission ers is being challenged by Penny Mack. Pritchett, a black incum bent currently serving on the Guil ford County Board of Education does not face a challenger in the primary. In Forsyth County, two blacks ? Victor Johnson and Nigel Alston ?will face the voters in the fail, however, they do not have pri mary contests next Tuesday. Both Johnson and Alston are school board candidates. Voters in Forsyth will also select a sheriff, an associate justice for the state Supreme Court, as well as a Supe rior Court judge. The most widely talked about issue centers around the baseball initiative. Will African-American residents say 'yes' or 'no' to Major League Baseball. Don Beaver, already has signed an incentive agreement which has been dubbed a "covenant" ? with African Amer icans in Winston-Salem. The deal stipulates that at least one senior management job within the baseball organization must be reserved for a black person. Addi tionally, the covenant calls for the involvement of minority vendors and professionals in exchange for widespread support from black voters in Forsyth and Guilford counties. On Wednesday April 29 (after The Chronicle's deadline). Beaver was scheduled to meet with black leaders in Greensboro to make a similar pitch. If a vote of 'yes' is given and a team does come to the Triad area, a I percent prepared food tax will be put on Forsyth and Guilford County residents to build a stadium in the Kernersville area, which straddles the bound ary line between the two jurisdic tions. Some African-American lead ers in the Triad who are against this tax say that more taxes will come with the stadium. State Rep resentative Larry Womble of Win ston-Salem says a "double tax" awaits residents. "A tax for the stadium and then a tax for the roads, streets, lights and sewers," said Womble. Womble heads Winston Salem's Black Leadership Round table, which decided to neither endorse or oppose public financial support of the stadium, which car ries a $210 million price tag. That's the same official position taken by the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen. In Guilford County, last week the county commission ers voted 6-5 to oppose the refer endum question. On the request of Commis sioner Mary Rakestraw, the Guil fotd board has asked the General Assembly to postpone the referen dum until another plan for financ ing the stadium construction can be considered. Rakestraw, a Republican, got support from John Harris, a black Republican who launched a failed bid last fall for a seat on the Greensboro City Council. However, the three black members of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners ? Melvin "Skip" Alston and W. G. "Donnie" Dunovant and Warren Direst ? wanted the board to endorse the baseball initiative. In Winston-Salem, the efforts to get blacks to go out and vote even included a few hundred boxes of Cracker Jacks. School Board Member ? and baseball support er ? Geneva Brown opened the "Vote Yes for Major League Base ball" campaign office in East Win ston-Salem on April 26. The office is located at 50 Martin Luther King Drive. According to Brown, the cam paign launched a door-to-door campaign several weeks ago. And I this weekend, the last weekend ( before the May 5 vote, the public can go by the campaign office to get refreshments as well as infor mation about the baseball initia- | tive. . - ? ! Beyond the baseball question, though, there has been little public effort to lure blacks to the polls. ' ! Bank loans a worry for black women ? By MAGGIE JACKSON r APPMHBfftWrilfr A More than one quarter of ' black female entrepreneurs and 20 percent of Asian female busi ness owners were turned down for a bank load when they start ? ed their businesses, according to ? a national study released today. The first such study of female . business owners of all races ; reveals that access to capital remains a thorny issue for the nation's 1 million minority . female entrepreneurs. "Here is a population that has tremendous economic potential for our country," said Sharon ?, ? Hadary, executive director of The National Foundation for Women Business Owners, which x conducted the study. "If they don't get the capital they need, our country is going to suffer." While female-owned business es ? which number 8 million ? are being created at twice the rate of all businesses, those owned by minority women are being creat ed at triple the rate. Yet 18 percent of Hispanic female entrepreneurs, 27 percent of blacks, and 20 percent of Asians were turned down for a bank loan when they started their business, the study said. That compares with 19 percent of white female business owners. Half or fewer of minority female entrepreneurs currently have bank credit, compared with 60 percent of white female busi ness owners, the telephone sur vey of 770 minority women revealed. Former banker Carmen Ramos had been the boss of her own successful business for six years when she applied for a $50,000 business loan last year. Two banks turned her down. HI don't want to shout dis crimination," said Ramos, whose Washington, D.C., consulting business had $250,000 in sales last year. "But I'm a woman and a Hispanic. It's much more diffi cult to get capital." ^ ? COBI from page Al "Financial planning for most people has meant credit card prob lems and income tax audits. Until we make the effort to totally participate in the capitalist system as investors, we're really not a part of the Ameri can fabric of business and you know why? Because we are not trying," Stephens said. The Brooklyn, New York resident says there are no excuses for anyone not to save or invest. "If you can go shopping, you can invest," stated Stephens. "TWenty-five to fifty dollars a week can be put into those same stocks of the companies that you usually go and spend money on. "You can buy one share at a time of AT&T, Colgate, Tide, Exxon, Ford Motor Company, Sara Lee or Rubber Maid. Dividend reinvestment plans and mutual funds are what you can i get into for as little as S50 a month. Read the book and get some educa tion, that's why I wrote it," stated Stephens and she added. "You must have a vision for your future." U i k. iimcE" I p> IOE JOHN ^ Supreme Court The North Carolinians listed below unreservedly support the candidacy of Judge Joe John for die NC Supreme Court and encourage you to vote for this outstanding judge in the May 5 primary. v Judge Joe John Supreme Court Committee . * \ Michael A. Grace, Chair W. Steven Allen, Sr. Elwood Becton R. Steve Bowden Duane Bryant T. T. Clayton, Sr. Laurence Colbert Wayne E. Crumwell Wanda B. Daughtry C. E. "Bighouse" Gaines Michael A. Grace George R. Greene Walter T. Johnson, Jr. Sen. William N. Martin Rep. H. M. "Mickey" Michaux, Jr. Beverly R. Mitchell Jacqueline Morris-Good son Ronnie Reaves . , Benjamin Ruffin Vernon Russell Joseph A. Williams Paid for by Judge Joe John Supreme Court Committee Robert A. Ponton, Jr., Treasurer P.O. Bo* 2297, Raleigh, NC 27602 Additional information: http://www.judgejoejohn.com Some want penalty for not reporting child abuse in N.C. , By DENNIS PATTERSON Awoofd Pw? Wn?p RALEIGH (AP) ? Forty-five children died of abuse in North Car olina in 1996, the moat in any year aince records have been kept, a Hate task force said, urging penalties for people who fail to report abuse "We don't really want to punish anybody," said Ilcne Nelson, co chairwoman of the Child Fatality Task Force "What we want is to make the public aware of child abuse and their obligation to report it." The task force released the fig ures Monday. The 45 deaths are the most in the decade that abuse deaths have been tracked, officials said. The previous highest total was 28. "In every one of those cases, peo ple knew and did not call the Department of Social Services," said Nelson. "Forty-five children who died from abuse is way too many." The 45 deaths compares to 18 deaths in 1995, 28 in 1994 and 24 in 1993. Marcia Herman-Giddens, medical director of the N.C. Child Fatality Prevention Team, said pre liminary numbers for 1997 show 35 child-abuse deaths. She said the death rate has been climbing about 12 percent a year since 1985. Last year, the state Senate approved a task-force supported bill that would make it a misdemeanor to be aware of child abuse and not report it. The crime would carry a maximum penalty of a $200 fine and 20 days in jail. That bill is now in a House committee. The task force's annual report on overall child deaths showed 1,606 children under age 18 died in 1996. That included 237 children who died from birth defects; 471 from other birth-related conditions; 101 from sudden infant death syndrome; 327 of illnesses; 69 from homicides and 37 from suicides. Unintentional injuries resulted in 329 deaths: 182 related to cars; 18, bicycles; 33, fires; 35, drowning and 61 from other injuries. Another 35 died of unspecified reasons, The task force this year will sad penalties for landlords who fail U provide smoke alarms at renta properties and for tenants who dis able their smoke detectors, Ndsoi ,ry The task force also wants til current law requiring that all did dren under 12 wear seat belt, expanded to cover anyone up to 18 no matter where they arc sitting ini vehicle The group also will seek S3.2 mil lion to expand the state's home vkh! ing programs, and SI90,000 fa; more employees in the Office of tl) Chief Medical Examiner to invafti gate child deaths. The task force is endorsing pnQ posals to register beer kegs so the; can be traced when beer is served 11 underage drinkers It also wants-9 increase the penalty for 19 and X year-olds arrested for underagi drinking. The penalty now is $2J - ; NOTICE OF AN OPEN-HOUSE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED NEW RAIL CROSSING OVER US 311 ? >j AND THE RELOCATIO OF US 311 REQUIRED FOR THE NEW CROSSING : \\ NORTH OF WALKERTOWN *(?**? -? ? ? Project 8.1623101 R-2712 Forsyth County; The North Carolina Department of Transportation will hold the above open house public hearing on Thursday, May 21, 1998 from 4:00 p.m..(o! 7:00 p.m. in the Walkertown Middle School Multi-Purpose Room located at 3175 Ruxton Drive in Walkertown. interested individuals may attend thip hearing at their convenience between the above stated hours. Division of Highways personnel will be available to provide information, answer ques tions, and take comments regarding this project. ; ?? ? 4. . ? This project proposes to construct a new rail crossing over US 311. A!' short segment of US 311 will be relocated to properly align with the new ?) crossing and to improve highway safety through this area. The proposed- ? relocation of US 311 if planned as a two-lane roadway with shoulder!. Approximately 2500 feet of the Norfolk Southern Railroad will be reload-; ed and provisions made for a future additional track through this area. The; total length of the proposed project is approximately 0.46 miles. Addition*; al right of way will be required for these improvements. ? \ . i- ;2 Plans setting forth the location and design and a copy of the environ: mental document - Categorical Exclusion - are available for public review in the Town of Walkertown Government Complex located at 2735 Old Hot; low Road in Walkertown. Anyone desiring additional information about , the hearing may write to Mr. L. L. Hendricks, Citizens Participaboa P. O. Box 25201, Raleigh. NC 27611; FAX (919) 250-4208, telephone [919) 250-4092; or email at lhendricks@doh.dot.state.nc.us. NCDOT - in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act - will provide auxiliary aids and services for disabled persons who wish to par icipate in the hearing. To receive special services, please call Mr. Hen Iricks at the above number to give adequate notice prior to the date of the tearing. ^ I ICLEARENCE SALE I 2 New Rigs of Furniture Just Arrived! ^ ? All Scratch A Dent Furniture Drastically Reduced For Quick Salel ? All Outdoor A Patio Furniture Must Go To Make Room For ArrivalsI ? Make Us An Offerl |BAM^PUL1| |L LIQUATION J ^CKNTER^ I i L ? L I: l ? K I IL I 3550 Clemmons Rd ? Clemmons, NC ? (336) 788-1090 I: From Hanes Mall, so west on Stratford Rd. extension or take 1-40 west to the Clemmons exit II * TUrn left at 4th stoplight School is on left beside Clemmons Library. MA proven leader who is dedicated to professional law enforcement." EleCt Democrat ? 25 Years Experience^^^^B^unty Sheriff's Office, Retind 1st Sgt. A ? , afc.; ? B.S. y ? A.A.S. Forsyth Forsyth ? 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