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Thron-t p 49 110805 CAR-RT-LOT" *C022 MORTH CAROLINA ROOM FORSVTH CTY PUBLIC T TBRARY . 660 W 5TH st WTVSTON SALEM VC 27101-2755 ^ #r?_ taken from 75<*?U L Kl. KB RATING 30 YKAKS OK t'OMMl MM Jo. K \ \ I ?'tor-ry /o, XXX| N<) 3g THURSDAY, MAY 19, Coach gets spot in Hall of Fame - See Page HI Historic ?hurch receives marker -See Page All New DSS director begins tenure - See Page A J Student artists get exposure at Delta -See Page CI Jackson relishes role as helper Civil rights leader visits city for summit BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE If James Brown is the hard est working man in show busi ness, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is the hardest working man in the world of social justice. He logs more miles than a flight atten dant and has fought more bat tles than a four star gen eral. Jack son made time last Thursday to stop in Jackson Winston-Salem to give the opening address for the 2(Xj)5 State of Black North Carolina Conference/Black Issues Sum mit. The summit, held on the campus of St. Peter's World Outreach Center, brought in state and local leaders for three days of panel discussions on topics such as economic devel opment, education and health care. In remarks to the news media before his opening address, Jackson, a graduate of N.C. A&T State University, said it was "good to be home." He praised the summit for trying to come up with solutions to prob lems that have long plagued blacks in North Carolina and around the nation. He placed some of the blame for the problems at the feet of President Bush. Jackson said job losses and the gaps between the haves and the have nots have become even bigger problems during the president's nearly five years in office. Sec Jackson on A) 1 Photo* by Kevin Walker Left: Lucy Watkins looks through trees and bushes to try to locate her family's plot in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Watkins has about a dozen relatives buried there. Below: Lizzie White listens to a speaker at Saturday's memorial serv ice. White has been unable to locate the graves of her mother, father and other family members. A Grave Matter Battle continues to restore historic Odd Fellows Cemetery BYT. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE ? ? ; ? . ? Lizzie White used to go to Odd Fellows Cemetery on special holidays such as Easter and Mother's Day. She would take a bunch of flowers and place them at the grave sites of her parents, brothers and sisters. But White- who at 102 has outlived all of her kin - cant remember the last time she placed flowers on their graves. Even if she wanted to take dowers today, she couldn't. "1 don't know where (their graves are) anymore. I have not been able to find them for many years," she said. White was among a group of about a dozen people who came out Saturday for a memorial service in remembrance of the estimat ed 8.000 to lOjOOO people who are believed to be buried at Odd Fel lows. a cemetery near Shorefair Drive and Deacon Boulevard that was the city's premier graveyard for blacks in the early 20th centu ry Time has not been kind to the cemetery. It was started by mem bers of the Odd Fellows fraternal lodge at a time when cemeteries in See Odd Fellows , A 1 0 Woman earns her college degree at 61 Veronica Scales has spent the last five years taking evening classes at Salem BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE You don't have to tell Veronica Scales that age is just a number. The 61 -year-old single mother of three children and grandmother of four keeps a schedule that Would wear out most twentysomethings Her day begins before 5 a.m. when ihe rises to complete a crossword puzzle, drink a cup of coffee and play a game of solitaire on the computer. She arrives at Lowrance Middle School usually before 7 a.m. to pre pare for her job as~a community-based training coordi nator where she works with special needs students. Her second job as an after-school coordinator for the YWCA starts once the bell rings at the end of the school day. "I work II hours a day. No problem." said Scales, who retired from AT&T in 1989 after 22 years. For the last five years. Scales has spent her evenings taking classes at Salem College. Her long days and hard work will finally pay off this Saturday when she will take time out of her busy schedule to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology. "I didn't do this for nobody else. I did this for myself. Everybody said I was too old for (college)." said Scales, who at first worried that her gray hairs See Scales on A9 Support for bond lacking at public forum BY T.KEVIN WALKER rm: chronici J q - Ghosts from the school system's past are impeding its plans for the future. School officials had little time to pitch a proposed $80 million school bond refer endum on Monday evening. The hundreds of voters on hand at Carver High School for a public hearing on the bonds preferred to focus on w hat they say the school system has or has not done instead of what it plans to do. "It is a moral shame that we havP returned to separate but unequal (schools)." said the Rev. Nathan Parrish. pastor of Peace Haven Baptist Church. Parrish was referring to the school system's nearly 10-year-old redisricting plan, which ended crpss-town busing in favor of a neighborhood school plan. Since most of the city's neighborhoods are racially segregated, many schools See Bond on AS Mendez Photo by Kevin Walker Veronica Scales tries on the cap and gown she will wear Saturday. In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. 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