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to lead HAWS
By T. KEVIN WALKER
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J. Reid Lawrence if used to compromite.
Growing up with i 1 brothers and sisters in Cleveland
County, he had to make a few.
In the coming months, undoubtedly, Lawrence, the
new interim director of the Winston-Salem Housing
Authority, will have to make many more.
"I can't do anything by myself, but with the help of the
(HAWS) staff, the community and the board of commis
\ sioners we will jump these hurdles that we need to jump,"
, Lawrence said.
Lawrence's optimism is sorely needed; the agency is at ?
' a crossroads after just coining off of a few jocky paths
# Last summer; the housing authority experienced one of
opment.
But many lows aoon followed.
Mayor Jack Cavanagh moved to slash the HAWS
Board of Commissioners by four, inciting protest and
anger among many local residents.
Then there was the now infamous incident involving
the $28,000 check sent accidentally to a public housing res*
ident by HAWS.
All of this came to a head early this month when the
board of commissioners fired Executive Director Marie
Roseboro citing lack of confidence.
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Despite ruling,
Congress could have
final say on Census
By WALTER R. MEARS
WASHINGTON - In the long ftalemate over
the right way to conduct the 2000 Census, the
next chapter will be written by the Supreme
Court - but with no guarantee it will be the last
one. There'* still the matter of money.
Republican* are counting on the court to rule
that the cen*u* must be a head count, without the
sampling system, akin to scientific polling, that
the administration wants used to reach otherwise
uncountable Americans.
But even should the court approve sampling
as constitutional, a leading GOP opponent of the
system said it wouldn't automatically happen.
The catchall appropriations law passed
Wednesday includes SI billion for the census, but
only until June 15, 1999. So the census will be up
again next spring.
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nenta in aix statea. Both aidea aay a deciaion by
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The cenaua determines apportionment of
Houae aeata among the atatea, the ahape of con
greaaional and other politipkl diatricta within
them and the allocation of'about SI80 billion a
year diatributed under federal programa.
Two federal courta hJv* ruled that aampling
cannot be uaed in 2000, bufvthe decisions dealt
with federal law, not the constitutionality of
doing it with aampling as well\as counting. The
Constitution requires an "actual enumeration"
every 10 years, and Republican! aay that means
counting every American, not a 90 percent count,
10 percent aampling system.
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Big Four to celebrate
era of the 'big band'
By DAMON FORD
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Football game* between Winston-Salem's four black high schools, aptly
given the moniker the "Big Four," were fierce but it waa the halftime ihow
Involving the ichooU' band* that became the ituff of legends.
"Sometime* people would come to juat aee the band* because we didn't
have a good team," aaid Robert Shepherd, former Anderson High School
band director. "You couldn't keep a good football team every year, but the
band* were conalatent. The band kept it together.
"Everybody would try to figure out what tunea this band would do and
what tunes that band would do. It was fttrious but healthy competition."
This weekend, when Anderson, Atkins, Carver and Paisley gather for
their annual joint homecoming, the big bands will take center stage.
Former band directors Harry Wheeler of Atkins, Rudolph Boone, Sr.
of Carver, Shepherd of Anderson and the lata Bernard Foy of Paisley were
the catalyst behind making the music of these African American schools
memorable
Saturday night at 8 am. at the Benton Convention Center, these four
men along with the late Billy Frienda Sr., the first principal of Paisley, will
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Compared to the high-itepping, glittery drama that surrounded
him, Judge Roland Hayes' appearance at Winston-Salem State Univer
sity's homecoming parade was relatively tame.
But the parade was an event that Hayes was not about tp miss.
As his dark-colored car moved down Fourth Street at a snail's pace,
Hayes smiled politely and waved to the hundreds of people that lined
each side of the street.
An hour before Hayes made his descent down the paraae route, a
team of young men hadf already made the journey on foot, passing out
index card-size fliers bearing Hayes' name and proclaiming his cam
paign slogan: "Our most experienced judge."
The slogan is true; it's not an embellished claim that one candidate
puts out one week only to be rebutted by another candidate the follow
ing week, but an undisputed fact. ??
With IS years on the bench as a judge in North Carolina's 21st Judi
cial District, Hayes has served longer than any other judge in the coun
ty, and he's the only African American district court judge in Forsyth
County.
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Tale of the tape - Aldermen debate CAT-TV
By T KEVIN WALKER
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Sex, lies, videotape and vio
lence.
In some form or another, they
all were brought up at Monday
nightt board of aldermen meeting
during a debate over finding for
CAT-tV, a local cable public
access channel.
The dispute surrounding the
station began earlier this month
when a request to include a
$423,000 annual budget for CAT
TV in the dty'k proposed 10-year
franchise agreement with Time
Warner Cable was criticized by
some board members.
The cable provider currently
gives the station about $130,000 a
year as part of its deal with the city.
The station receives no tax
money and relies on money provid
ed by Time Warner to produce
thousands or shows each year
directed by and starring local citi
zens.
Ironically, it is some of those
programs that have some aldermen
uneasy about negotiating for the
station and others wanting to elim
inate the station altogether.
"If the medium is aoing to be
used to threaten violence, that
threatens the medium for every
body else," Alderman Vernon
Robinson said.
The CAT-TV program "Truth
to the Youth," which aired in the
summer, has raised Robinson*! ire.
The show ? produced during
the hubbub surrounding the reduc
tion of the cityt housing authority
board of
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who support
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to shrink the
board with
violence,
Robinson
said. mtetwi
A video
tape qf the program, provided by
Robinson, was shown at the meet
ing to the disdain or some board
members.
"Mr. Tferry, we don't bully and
we don't intimidate?we elimi
nate," a darkly-clad man on the
program said, referring to Alder
man Fred Terry.
In another segment of "TVuth
to the Youth" Robinson is seen in
a confrontation with another man
at a community meeting. On the
tape the man can be heard threat
ening to stick a crutch up Robin
son^ anus if he did not leave the
premises.
Citing the First Amendment
guarantee of freedom of speech,
many of the stars from CAT-TV's
daily lineup packed the aldermen's
chamber to lobby for the station's
fbnding and continuation.
"At this point I would like to
see the board not abort this baby
that has brought about change in
Winston-Salem, but to let this baby
grow" Kareem Allah, host of a
show on Islam, said referring to the
trailblazing station.
Khalid Griggs, host of another
program on Islam, said that by not
supporting the station because of a
few programs, board members may
be throwing the baby out with the
bath water.
"Many of us are very insulted
by the comments of Mr. Robin
son...This is not about personal
issues," Griggs said.
Griggs also praised the station
for the audio/ visual training that it
has provided to hundreds of every
day citizens.
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