Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 18

I Winston Salem Joubnai 7: Surry Edition Wednesday ebruary 13 Page 27 4 Good TV Is Now Boldly Out to Make a Profit By John Byrd commercial operation non nnnnvmnuo ti pastor at Caivary and s'Jll property in 17 programming a Msll at Wake orest dfcisjs supervision of Bob Town Revitalization Is in Limbo 1 St See Delay Page 29 4 Mi and medica said that Mrs nrnnnrht in in liit ivi duvUL $OUUUlr according to records in the orsyth County register of deeds office John Simms and his wife Virginia' later sold their house at 330 Stratford Rd to the foundation Appraised at $400000 the house was sold for the bargain price of $200000 with Simms himself financing $100000 of the deal The foundation then used the house as collateral to borrow $200000 from irst i Despite such generous contributions the foundation found itself unable to raise enough money to get WGNN on the air last 1 summer In stepped the Simms brothers who by last year had built the Piece Goods Shop into a $31 million a year operation based in Winston Salem with 87 fabric stores in nine states With Dudley Simms as president and morning as they made their way from the Old reight Depot to the Greens boro Coliseum were horses and camels and llamas and Children Hundreds of children Toddlers Babes in arms Small ones big ones: all of them bundled against I joy on their faces beaming and waving and carrying 'on just as if the circus had come to town It had Step right up ladies and gentlemen I and witness The Greatest Show on the Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus which onened last I I here through Sunday 4 Obituaries Classified and floor Thousands of "pounds of riggings had been hoisted and secured in their proper places And then they were checked and rechecked to make sure that no mishaps would occur unaer the Since 1976 when an anonymous donor dependent UH stations in North eave sijyuuu to calvarv Hantist hureh tn station Winston Salem has been hearing The Simms brothers 42 year oId twins wno nave amasseo small iortunes through their chain of fabric stores declined repeated invitations over the past two weeks to discuss their operation of the station have a policy of not giving inter views on any of our said Dudley Simms president of Piece Goods Shop The Simms brothers were involved with Mother i nRST EDlTj(y make own said that the auditor John Taylor also asked to see records of hunting and fishing licenses from the period that Slaughter worked as a game warden in Rich mond County 1956 1961 was very Hamilton said audit us every two years but very' seldom do they ask to see personnel files He tell us what he was up Hamilton said he told Taylor that the records he wanted to i see are stored in archives The records of hunting and fishing licenses were destroyed after 10 years he said Personnel files are classified but state legislators auditors and cer tain state officials can see them Taylor declined to discuss the nature of 'his visit to the Wildlife1 Commission but he said that John Buchan the deputy state auditor had sent him Earlier yesterday Buchan said that his office made only a routine examination of slaughter expense records for the past year in the Depart ment of Crjme Control and Public Safety Buchan said that Slaughter was among 15 or 20 employees of the department being auaiieo routinely He also said that the audit would not look into work for the Wildlife Commission Asked later about visit to the Wildlife Commission' Buchan said: was just a sideline to the main investigation We find anything and as far as 'See Page 29 IllCf Cftlrt 1 rl 1 11 1 ouiv vAMi iiaii'u sa a armci with unemployment under 65 (percent) are finding later this year will cover the administrative costs for fnnmsnlvnQ chnrf nf rnn4o i a wv I' i The board will now consider the recom 4 mendation to cut parts of the CETA nrnrram hnrfirfct To meet the reduced budgets the Human Services 4 uepartmeni nas nad a hiring freeze since fall and ail new programs scheduled to start Jah 1 1980 were scrapped arabee said after the meeting that the freezes allow the Human Services Department to avoid cutbacks in Journal staff Report GREENSBORO Judge James Long of Guilford Supperior Court denied motions yesterday for a dismissal of murder or riot charges against 14 men charged in connec tion with the slayings' of five anti Klan demonstrators at a rally here in November Attorneys had argued riday that a conflict of interest was created in the case when Michael A Schlosser the Guilford district attorney hired an assistant prosecutor who had worked for a law firm while a partner in that firm was the defense attorney for one of the 14 In a brief statement Long ruled yester day that the prosecutor Dolores ollin Tht nronomtinn fsv Vfwa lltlUU XVI UlL Greatest Show on Earth it seems is a pretty great show in itself i Beginning at 6 am when workmen unloaded their equipment from the circus train and hauled it over to the coliseum a lot of pulling and pushing and hauling and hoisting took place before everything was set up for the 156 performers to strut their stuff under 1 the spotlights: i Eight hours later miles of cables and Carolina is in the business to make start a non profit religiqus money about WGNN TV WGNN (the call letters originally stood 1 for "Good News began broadcasting on Channel 45 last fall But anything but non profit and any TV watcher tuned to the station might have1doubts about using the adjective in connection with it td The WGNN now on the air has scant relation to the WGNN first proposed as an electronic church lhe reason is simple WGNN the cne board ot directors of the Good News religious non profit statiqn ceased to oundation and contributing large sums of exist last September when John Simms money to the foundation that was created and Dudley Simms III bought its license to develop the television for $698000 merged it into their Piece The foundation was formed when Goods Shop Inc and converted it to a 'Calvary Baptist Church received its 4 business shortcomings and its pressing needs Using information gathered from the 775 survey forms returned state planners early last year submitted proposals to the Downtown Revitalization Committee anarm of the Mount Airy Merchants Association i J' I i Recommended areas of revitalization included filling vacant buildings (the number has increased from 12 to 16 since the pro ici i ncKrtii ihi nil iiiu rmnrr xxviiva UI1U UdUKS ui stores district and changing the overall image of the downtown area was old and According to Abernethy David Hatcher then chairman of the committee implied in a letter that local merchants were having nroblems PStahlkhincr nrinrifinc for 1 AU pvjvvi vi Llie MacDougall the general manager of the blue unit three riggers worked in the catwalks above the coliseum ceiling securing cables with blocks and tackles attached to the ceiling's girders On the ground about 20 prop hands' attached the mooring lines to nlates in the floor Rubber mats were laid 24 mats each five feet wide by 40 feet long each weighing 700 pounds High wires were strung Equipment for the small aerial acts was positioned and placed The three rings were positioned Nets were set up And at 7:30 pm it began Clowns hnd ropes had been moored to the ceiling Ju8glers and acrobats and tightrope nainvi ouungii diiu diniiidi Lraincrs tigers and bears and horses and elephants The Greatest Show on Earth now in its 110th year had come to Greensboro And it took the town by storm Kills Son Then Self By Dennis Whittington Staff Reporter 4 i RALEIGH Janet Sterling Barbour Simons 32 a 1969 graduate of Salem College apparently killed her 3 year old son and herself Monday night shortly after talking 'on the telephone with her husband a Raleigh lawyer' Claude Ernest Simons Jr 35 told police that he talked with his wife about 6 pm and that she did not indicate anything was wrong Simons who had been in Dunn on business Monday said that he arrived home about 8 pm and found his wife and son John Peyton Simons dead in an up stairs bedroom of the family's house at 1540 Iredell Drive: Dr Arthur Davis Jr as sistant Wake County medical examiner and a friend of the family has ruled tentatively the deaths murder suicide The Simonses met in Winston Salem and were mar ried in 1969 while she was a student at Salem and he was a law student University Police authorities Simons apparently suffocated the child with a pillow and then stabbed herself in the chest with a kitchen knife She had several stab wounds in the left side of her chest and her wrists had been (slashed although officials said that the wrist wounds were superficial Capt LM Smith told a Raleigh newspaper that a note left by Mrs Simons offered noclue to the deaths He would not reveal the contents "1 don't have any idea why she would do Smith said She put it in the Davis said that because of prominence of the people involved" he has ordered a complete autopsy to determine the exact causes of death By Pete Mantius Staff Reporftr 4 "Large cuts in the CETA program budget for fiscal 1980 were endorsed yesterday by the inance Committee of the Winston Salem Board of Aidermen i The changes are necessary because the US Congress UC amount cities across the country receive Comprehensive Employment Training Act (LEIA) Joell Berrien an assistant city manager told the committee I city Human Services Department adopted a $43 million budget for fiscal 1980 (which began Oct 1 1979) based on an expected $37 million from the CETA program But as a result of congressional action early last fall be to get crushed though one notices some pretty interesting things while riding an elephant through the streets of Greensboro or instance elephants have hair 1 Long' black stiff bristles that shoot from their leathery skins in sparse night and will remain at the coliseum pmviivq nuu vivpndiiis uunKS nave Dismissal Denied in Klan Case had learned nothing confidential about the case while at the firm But Long ruled that Mrs ollin could not assist with the prosecution's Long said a busy court calendar had kept him from ruling on other defense motions asking for funds for private investigators and expert witnesses Eleven men including three from Winston Salem are each charged with five 1 counts of 'murder and one count of riot in connection with a melee at1 an anti Klan rally sponsored by the Communist Workers Party USA Nov 3 Three other defendants are charged with riot? 1 No trial date has been set By Seth Moskowitz Staff Reporter GREENSBORO gowaan the handler hollered each time it seemed that Siam or Putsi was getting slightly distracted or a bit uppity The rider who was straddling shoulders was grateful for the frequent verbal interventions Eight 'feet after all is a long way to fall when in the vicinitv of 18 elephants Even one elephant would be ths cold with wonder in their evee and is nothing to indicate Besides realizing how easy it would I icnnuikanrr aIUax i a a la Mil jr 111 4 llg Ullivl Uiall murder suicide" he said Davis said he was shocked personally and baffled by the deaths "It was a very close and loving family They were just absolutely wonderful Salem Page 29 1 I i the city will receive only about $3 million according to most programs 4 a 1 viccDepartment6' aCt'n8 director of Jhe Human sr Berrier told the committee that the CETA 1 administration budget should be amended to cover only What wc re experiencing in Winston Salem is not eight months beginning Oct 1 Berrier said that funds left from last year and other federal monev expected the last four months of fiscal 1980 if none of that money comes asked 'Aiderman Robert Northincrinn Ir City Manager Bill Stuart said he was comfortable with the probability that the money for administration would come "We think this is going to work out" Stuart said noting that the plan to budget administra tion for only eight months is preferable to "cutting the muscle out of the Human Services CETA Budget In other business the committee recommended that the city buy three refuse trucks from Piedmont Pn a Truck Sales for $11299764 The trucks are needed to i water storage tank and sewage! serve areas to be anneved Jniv 1 1 The committee also recommended awarding con tracts of $27249 to the North Carolina Equipment Co for a tractor' and slope mower and $16900 to Consolidated Security Products for 12 portable tran smitters and an encoder for the Police department The committee also recommended raising the rental rates for the MC Benton Convention Center The city staff estimates that the raises recommended by the Convention Center and Coliseum Commission will bring the city $20000 more revenue annually The committce delayed action on a plan for improve ments fonihe Brookstown Warehouse District 11 I 1 Staff Photo by Cookie Snyder Kelly Gale and her grandfather Ruben White of Greensboro watch as elephants line up for circus animal walk Children Corts pastor at Calvary and s'jill nominally a member of board of directors talk publicly about jthe station I But he says the foundation which assets of several hundred thousand dollars from the sale of license will eventually finance some other projects foundation will continue to be viable and will operate in the field it started in which is basically to com municate the gospel through the public Ininn Mafinni meuid nt! saiu say right off hand (what the tminnafinn trill fin'mnnl 444 mix WGNN almost from the beginning sitting will continue to foster media projects that sort of thing One of the first contributions toward WGNN was about 34 acres of in Lewisville Township1 from Missionary Services Inc a Wheaton Ill charitable organization I By Kenneth Haynes Journal Surry County Burtau MOUNT AIRY Indecision by Mount Airy merchants insetting their priorities for a downtown revitalization project Apparently has pushed the project into the background a stateplanner says Representatives of the state Department of Natural Resourcesand Community Development met with ineai uuwinuwii district and channintr Iho nvoroll uJ have rot heard from the Mount Airy The survey indicated that shoppers thought that it Merchants Association about the program since last June dirty uiuu8m umiu hr'nrr1inr Innnn Ako oiL vv9 Auenivuiy community development Specialist in the Department of Natural Resources and Com jriunity Development i oTho Ani oJikio 1 ficins er wuubinng pnonues ion me project The gist of the has been a sure deXn Aberncthy Why we the back uuvvuv1 VlCWd'Vl IRC i 1 WLr company paid the two brothers more than $165000 each in salaries last year Tie PTL Club an according to reports filed with the relieous programs originating Securities and Exchange Commission and WGNN addition to buying the television sta l1uch of ris prime timy tion last year the Piece Goods Shop Inc Programming to old reruns su'ch aS paid $23 million to buy up some 600000 Dick Van DykeShowt shares of its own stock leaving the 1 heackeGleason Simms brothers and members of their im But it also shows Hollywood films with mediate families the sole shareholders in sexual overtones violence and dashes the company Profanity that demonstrate the The twins display a sometimes jolting break from the original foundations mix of Christian humility and business (pledge not to broadcast that you world (boldness printing Scripture on have to worry about your child turning otfi Piece Goods Shop shopping bags the set and A In the company 1974 annual report As with their other operations the Dudley Simms confessed that he had Simms brothers appear determined to inappropriately taken $40000 from the make WGNN a profitable concern and are treasury quoted Scripture and scrambling aggressively to do so asked forgiveness He paid the hired personnel away from established A' 1 arca TV stations and are conducting ad wGNN shows a similar quality in its ambitious marketing campaign Early ile Is Check erl I I 1 1 By Michael Skube I Journal Raleigh Bureau i 1 An official of the NC Wildlife Commission saiti last night that a state auditor asked last week to see the personnel file of Mather Slaughter the alcohol law enforcement agent wKo wrote political memos on sheriffs last year 1 I Richard Hamilton acting executive director of the Wild 1 Road Map Tiff Settled by Hunt RALEIGH (AP)A squabble between two (state cabinet secretaries temporarily held up the printing of 11 million North Carolina state road maps thisweek and wasn't settled until Gov James Hunt Jr intervened The dispute between aircloth state com merce secretary and Bradshaw Jr staietran See Tiff Page 29 i Industrial i 1 Park Plait Discussed By Dennis Whittingtons SUH Reporter 4 JONESVILLE 'A fedcral state and lOcaE officials met here yesterday t(jf discuss the possibility: developing an industrial parlp east of town near where Winston Salem corporation had planned to build a Holiday Inn i 4 Travco Corp I of Winston? Salem notified town officials? recently that it would not build 1 the motel it had? nroonnvnHin1 uio oume iocai ousinessmen have since discussed building a'' motel near theTravco sitpaCl the intersection of Interstate 77 and NC 67j Jl $444400 Grant The Yadkin County Board 'oft Commissioners 'applied in January for a $444400 grant? from the US1 Department Housing and Urban Develop 1 ment to helppay for an exten sion of theJonesville watery and sewer system to the siteR The land jis not inside the Jonesville ttown limits £antH' Yadkin County does not havt'a I county wide water The county had toy provide $111100 Jonesville Town Board agreqdt 1 to match that amount Officials! who yesterdays 1 includingRent i WG Hefner ljLCi: decided thlit water and Mines to 4n industrial pqrki would cost $12 million Extension Detailed i That cost according Matthews executive director of the Northwest of Governments £would include extending i lines beyomd the motel site tof the industrial park and to a pumping station that would be necessary because of the'? i topography 7 James IS Hay nes Yadkin county manager emphasized yester day that no specific proposals have been made for an industrial park1 Haynes said i that the park has not been dis cussed with property owners but that be hopes to meet with them Thursday i 1 JTAth JTonder in Their Eyes lj 'I 8 t00k about 45 minutes for the sam hice to slap their riders thighs Animal Walk to reach its final earS 3S they aIongl destination' Meanwhile at that shifting their weight from side to side' destination about 25 men were working 1 heatd i diligently to get the place set up for last Behind the elephants yesterday show The preparation for the Aidermen Committee Endorses Cuts in lt 1 1 Will Wi' EHHE 4 1 I.