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Fof ReferenceLE FORSYTH CNTY PUB LIB X Not to be taken 75 660 W 5TH ST _J*% ?MK 27x01-2755 '?wci? PA?S ?> Community J.hikn*, __m ^ 1|0r=ry vol. xxxi No. > THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2 B-ball team meets the press - See Page B4 Calendar honors cancer survivors - See Page A10 Group works on voter turnout - See Page A3 Ada , Fisher running hard -See Page AS Campbell confident in record BY CASH MICHAELS THE CAROLINIAN His office has, by all accounts, done an exceptional job of weeding out fiscal waste, fraud and abuse in state government. He makes sure that each state agency is held accountable for its performance efficiency and fiscal management. And he ensures that the public's private information is protected for the benefit of mem Campbell bers of the pub lic. Slate Auditor Ralph Campbell Jr. has been keeping state gov ernment honest a n d accountable for 12 years, saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. But every time he runs for re election, it is always a tough one, a nail biter. And yet, the first African-American ever to be elected to the Council of State says there's a lot of fight in him as he vies once again for re-election "North Carolina is really a two-party state now," Campbell told The Carolinian, noting the dramatic change in demographics statewide in the past 1 0 years. Campbell, 57. who is vying for his fourth term, is also faced with maintaining a re-election campaign without a natural con stituency. While the state attorney gen eral may have members of the legal profession, and the agricul ture commissioner may have the farming industry, the state auditor, because of the nature of his job. doesn't have a natural base of support to root him on. Thus, fund-raising becomes a problem. "The only thing that the state auditor has as a natural con stituency group would be those who are interested in good gov ernment," Campbell said. "So that ends up severely limiting the financial support coming to the State Auditor's Office." Still, Campbell feels, beyond bis community, the closest thing he has to a natural constituency are the state employees and teach See Campbell on All Easley falls short with some blacks AP photo by Sara I). Davis Gov. Mike Easley speaks during an oys ter bar social to rally fellow Democrats for his re-election campaign at the Silver Lake Seafood Restaurant in Wilson. Ballantine to meet with local black leaders to try to win support BY T. KEVIN WALKER llll CHRONICLE It has been said that politics makes strange bedfellows. A lunch meeting later this month between local black activists and former state Sen. Patrick Bal lantine may prove that truer words have never been spoken. The Rev. Carlton Eversley extended an invitation 10 nananune - a conservative Republican run ning to unseat Democratic Gov. Mike Easley - to meet with a Sversley group of "concerned black citi zens" on Oct. 24. Ballantine, who acceDted the invitation. will already be in town that day to attend the Founding Con vention of CHANGE, a grass roots social and economic justice organization. Ever sley said the lunch meeting - which will be open to a limited number of people from the general public but not the Sec Easley on A10 Woman on a Mission Neither pregnancy, nor tragedy could stall WSSU senior BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONIC LI Kindra Givens says she was born a freedom fighter. You can hear it in the tone of her voice ? the forceful, passionate way she talks to her peers about the issues of the day. But it is more evident in her actions. Givens was passed the baton of the newly re-ener gized Winston-Salem State University NAACP Chapter earlier this year and has taken it and galloped at a pace that would even impress Marion Jones. Already this school year, there was an ongoing voter reg istration campaign that started as soon as students began to arrive on campus in August. She just completed weeks of work on WSSU's first-ever State of Student forum, which gave attention to a bevy of issues relevant to students. Now Givens, a 21 -year-old senior studying psychology, is gearing up like a prize fighter for what she says will be her biggest fight - turning out the campus vote. "We are going to go through the dorms and knock on those doors," she said. "I think this election is really in the hands of the students." Sec Givens nn A9 Photo by Maggir ChamMiss/WSS I Kindra Givens is the head of the Winston-Salem State University NAACP chapter. Tears of Pride I i ? Photo by Kevin Walkc* Darlene Vinson, the daughter of local radio legend Daddy Oh , tears up as her late father is honored at the Carolina Music Ways Festival. To read more about Daddy-Oh and Sunday's festival , see page CI. Carl Eller Day is Oct. 24 BYT. KEVIN WALKER I HE CHRONICLE ? ' . ? ' ? The nation celebrated the illustrious career of Carl Eller two months ago when Eller was formally inducted into the Pro Foot ball Hall of Fame. Winston-Salem - the city in which Eller was born and raised - will soon get its chance to lift up the football By proclamation of Mayor Allen Joines. Jl'fjBJjftijSBfr Eller Day in Winston-Salem. The highlight of tfie Jpfwill heir program at Atkins Middle School, where Eller's rttoves on the football field first got him noticed. Eller, who now lives in Min neapolis. is expected to be on hand to receive various awards, citations and an overwhelming number of pats on the back from local folks. "The nation has honored him. I think his own city, where he got his start, should honor him," said Rep. Larry Womble. who led the effort to make Eller Day a reality. A committee organized by Womble has spent the past several weeks putting together Eller Day, which Womble promises will be a "fantastic affair." The program at Atkins, which is free and open to the public, will include a formal program and a reception where Eller is expected to meet and greet old and new friends. The school sys Seo Eller >n A 1 1 Photo by Kevin Walker Larry Womble poses items auto graphed by Carl Eller. The items will be on display at Atkins. A&T receives financial windfall $2.5 million in gifts are earmarked for number of programs CHRONIC! E STAFF REPORT Supporters of N.C. A&T State University have opened up their checkbooks, giving hun dreds of thousands of dollars that will greatly help the univer sity further'educational opportu nities for students. The school announced last week that it had received pledges and gifts totaling more than $2.4 million. The money has come from a wide range of sources, including Frye individual donors and founda- ? lions. The largest block comes from the Weaver Foundation, which donated $250,000 to establish the Henry Frye Endowed Professorship in Political Science. The founda tion also donated another $250,000 to the school's honor program. Frye is a Greensboro resi dent and a former chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court. Frye earned a bachelor's degree 'from A&T in 1953. The Weaver Foundation donation for the. , Frye Endowed Pt^f^s.<orsHi'p' * will receive matching funds from the state and from the U.S. Department of Education's Title III program, which is designed to provide dollars to strengthen historically black colleges and universities in the areas of financial management, academ ic resources, endowments and physical structure. All told, the endowment will be $1 million, the school said. Henry Frye's wife is being honored at the school with an ScjjWT on A4 In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. Russell, Sr. " Growing and StiU Dedicated to Serve You Better" Kussell 3fimeral ^orm Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support 822 Carl Russell Ave. -(at Martin lAither King Or.) Winston-Salem. 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