Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 1

Winston Salem Journal 15 Cents 132 Pages Winston Salem NC Thursday September 25 1980 84th Year No 177 CJs1' Parking Lots of the uture Reynolds Buys 15 Tracts mended to the Board of Aidermen for demolition Reynolds has bought lots made vacant by city ordered demolitions and occupied substandard dwellings Eishel said The company bought the oc cupied dwellings under the condition that residents move out immediately he said Those residents who are forced to move by acquisitions are eligible to receive reloca tion benefits when the city orders the dwellings demolished Property owners pay for city ordered demolitions The efforts to enforce the housing code and make relocation payments have helped make property more available in the Liberty Patterson area ishel said Earlier this month community development officials invited Reynolds officials to meet and dis cuss the future of the Liberty Patterson area according to Gary Brown director of the Com munity Development Department Aiderman Larry Little whose Patterson Avenue apartment is in the center of the community development area also was invited to attend Little said that the meeting was set for Sept 22 and then canceled by Reynolds purpose of the meeting was informational" ishel said was canceled when we found out what waa involved We didn't feel it would be right to deal with the CD staff and only one of the eight There's the Patterson Avenue YMCA a church (Goler Metropolitan AME Zion) and other places that are important to black history in Winston Reynolds announced last riday plans for a $1 billion expansion program that includes a large cigarette factory on the southeast border of the Liberty Patterson neighborhood The exact location of the factory has not been announced but it will be built near Vine and ifth streets That area is now used by Reynolds for parking Reynolds' expansion plans may affect Stokes County schools Story Page 13 By Pete Mantius Staff Reporter RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co has bought at least 15 pieces of property in the blighted Liberty Patterson area to meet future parking needs The purchases nearly all made since early sum mer have been piecemeal but a Reynolds spokesman said yesterday that the company wants as much of the slum area as it can get think it would be ideal to get all of it at a fair market price" said David ishel the Reynolds spokesman we don't know if that's possible We're very sensitive to in the area now About 3Vz months before announcing its expansion plans Reynolds began its drive to buy property between Seventh and Liberty streets near Patterson Avenue looking for is purely and simply parking ishel said The Liberty Patterson neighborhood has been designated as a community development area where many dwellings have been demolished recently because of strict housing code enforcement The city has budgeted almost $200000 this fiscal year to relocate residents displaced by demolitions there In the past two years the city has demolished nine structures in Liberty Patterson with a total of 18 housing units according to John Roberts a com munity development housing inspector Since January the city has demolished 12 more buildings containing 48 units in Liberty Patterson Most of the demolitions in 1980 have been ordered since June Roberts said Reynolds and RJR Archer have owned the eastern part of the Liberty Patterson community develop ment area for years latest acquisitions are concentrated around 7z and Eighth streets where most dwellings have been ruled substandard by the city The city does not force residents out of substan dard dwellings But once a house becomes vacant the city forbids a landlord from renting it unless it is brought up to standards Vacant substandard dwellings in Liberty Patterson have been recom Weather Cloudy and cooler High in the upper 70s Details Page 2 RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co Property ESHM ACQUIRED 1980 I ACQUIRED PRIOR TO 1980 BOUNDARY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RELOCATION AREA ii I 1 i Bl Ji 6THST Il I 1 NEW CIGARETTE 2 ACTORY I gjJ Reynolds a r5 Reynolds cl 1 4THstJ I Jf UPI Telephoto A SV Ifc'X' 2: 'il Hpv il ijiinrT At Last Antonia Perez waited 15 years in Cuba for the moment that finally arrived yesterday greeting his relatives in the' United States Perez arrived in Miami yesterday Perez was among nearly 100 people with dual Cuban American citizenships who came by chartered plane wife Clara (not shown) claims American citizenship because her mother is Puerto Rican Meanwhile government officials announced that the transfer of 6600 Cuban refugees to ort Chaffee Ark will begin today Story Page 3 Tornado Apparently Hits Two Sections of Winston By David Watters Staff Reporter A tornado apparently touched down in two sections of Winston Salem last night uprooting trees overturning cars and leaving patches of heavily damaged areas There were no reports of any serious injuries High winds lifted the roof of a Liberty Street building into the air and dropped it on a bus traveling on US 52 injuring the bus driver Splinters of the roof lay across the highway Southbound traffic on US 52 was stopped for 21z hours as a result of the accident down power lines down accidents on the highways you name it we got said one Department dispatcher The Ardmore neighborhood was one of the heaviest hit sec tions in the city One man reported that the wind sheared the tops off his trees cutting a path through his back yard "It took it all straight through the said James Harvie of 2309 Cherokee Lane can see the white meat of the trees shining in the In other parts of Ardmore trees were blown down hitting cars and some houses No in juries were reported there The storm apparently hit orsyth County about 9:15 last night with rain and hail reported in the southwestern part of the county About 9:45 pm the National Weather Service posted a tornado warning saying that a twister had been spotted at Cherry Street and Northwest Boulevard The Civil Defense sirens were sounded throughout the city during the tornado warning A spokesman for the National Weather Service would not confirm that the twister had touched down here far as we know a tornado apparently touched down in Winston Salem but we can't verify it the spokesman said He said he had received reports of trees knocked down and cars turned over The weather service said that the tornado was heading northeast toward Rockingham County Officials there had reports of a being spotted near US 220 but it apparently did not touch down The damaged bus was part of a convoy of chartered buses hired by the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Commission carrying a total of 235 senior citizens The bus is owned by Moore Brothers Transporta tion Co of Greensboro Carmonlene Anderson a tour guide said that five of the 44 people on the bus ap See Storm Page 2 Iraqis Claiming Control Of Vital Iranian Areas War May End US Tries World Oil Glut ormer Sheriff Ballplayer at 89 Ernie Shore Is Dead Uranium Sale OK'd which came under heavy Iranian air attack Tuesday were missing Wednesday A company spokesman identified them as Harvey Johnson of Dickinson Texas Sidney Grant of Tucson Ariz and Luke Cline of Johnson City Tenn Some 300 Americans and 900 other foreigners working in Basra fled however they could by taxi bus and private car for Kuwait Jordan and elsewhere Kuwaiti officials estimated that 1200 refugees had arrived from Iraq by nightfall including Americans Britons rench Italians West Germans and Brazilians The Senate narrowly ap proved yesterday the controversial sale of 38 tons of enriched uranium fuel to India in a major foreign policy victory for the Carter administration Story Page 8 Related stories Pages 6 and 9 LONDON Both Iraq and Iran stopped all their oil ex ports from the Persian Gulf region Wednesday taking some 27 million barrels of oil a day out of international circulation according to oil in dustry and shipping executives The sudden cutoff of oil from the two countries raises the probability that the estimated 25 million barrels of oil a day now available on the market in excess of demand which played a major role in moderating oil prices during the past few months could be wiped out within a few weeks Such a development would ensure a renewed and sharp climb in the prices of oil the oil industry believes Executives of major oil com panies warned that even though stocks of oil are at record levels now with an es timated 5 billion barrels stored Khairallah added shall answer the Iranians tit for tat except that we will react much more Iraq claims territory on the Shatt al Arab and at the end of the third day of fighting it seemed to have secured its ob jective of regaining the dis puted waterway Iranian radio stations broad cast repeated appeals for blood and for volunteers to fight fires that it admitted were destroying its oil facilities and pipelines around Abadan the sprawling Persian Gulf refinery bombed for the second' day by Iraqi jets In the north Iraqi forces claimed the capture of Qasr Shirin a major town on the' road to Tehran and Iraq said See Iraq Page 2 rom Journal Wire Reports WASHINGTON President Carter said Wednesday that the United States was consulting with other nations on ways of preventing the vital Strait of Hormuz through which 60 percent of the world oil trade passes from being closed as the result of the Iran Iraq conflict of navigation in the Persian Gulf is of primary importance to the whole international Carter declared is im perative that there be no infringement of that freedom of passage of ships to and from the Persian Gulf The Strait of Hormuz comprise the gateway to the Gulf Carter would not divulge details but other sources here and in New York said a contingency being discussed is the formation of an international naval force toinsure if necessary that Gulf ports other than those in Iraq and Iran are kept open during the conflict Speaking to reporters at the White House after a meeting of the National Security Council Carter said the Iran Iraqi BAGHDAD Iraq (UPI) Iraqi troops thrust 20 miles into Iran Wednesday on three fronts attacked its vital oil terminal on Kharg Island and laid down three conditions for a truce in the war that raged all day on land and sea Both sides bombed each oil installations in retaliatory air strikes and spoke of heavy casualties Iran admitted losing some One Iranian report said four Americans were cap tured when Iranian forces counterattacked at Shalamshah and routed Iraqi troops Three Americans employed by the Lummus Construction Co of Bloomfield NJ in Basra Iraq US Embassy spokesman Ray Peppers said in Kuwait that the 150 Americans who fled come through and to Copenhagen and Amsterdam on special flights arranged by their employers com panies associated with the petrochemical industry Iraq demanded that Iran recognize its sovereignty over disputed border areas accept control of the vital Shatt al Arab waterway at the head of the Persian Gulf and return to Iraqi rule the tiny islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tumbs in the strategic Strait of Hormuz which Iran occupied in 1971 diplomatic sources said There was no immediate Iranian reaction to the Iraqi move are Arab islands? Iraqi Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah said at a news' conference referring to the Hormuz islands are in Arab waters quite clear who they belong In an indication that Iraqi troops may not advance farther into Iranian territory To Keep Gulf Open New York Times News Service in reservoirs and in tankers floating in the oceans a "psychological could hasten the pace of events even before a real shortage begins Oil exports from Kharg Island main loading terminal in the Persian Gulf came to an end Wednesday after Iraqi airplanes bombed the small poorly defended island Iraqi loading terminals in the northern upper end of the Gulf around the disputed Shatt al Arab estuary region also came under assault by Iranian airplanes forcing a stop to all loadings there according to shipping sources this fight is not over within a week and if these guys go on hitting at oil facilities you can kiss the (oil) glut goodbye be in commented a senior American oil executive whose See Oil Page 2 On the Inside Calendar 10 Classified 50 55 Comics 56 Editorials 4 inancial 21 23 ood 35 46 Horoscope 56 Obituaries 14 Showcase Theater 33 Sports 47 50 Television 57 Today 5 conflict had produced a dangerous but stressed as he had Tuesday that the United States was neutral in the dispute and said he believes that there should be no interference by any other nation in this Secretary of State Edmund Muskie in New York for consultations with other foreign ministers in connection with the United Nations General Assembly session flew to Washington for the National Security Council meeting and then returned to New York Carter said that he and Muskie were calling various world leaders in an effort bring this fighting to a prompt end and to obtain a negotiated settlement" The State Department said that some 300 Americans See US Page 2 By David Watters Staff Raportar orsyth County lost a former sheriff and baseball lost a North Carolina Hall of amer when Ernie Shore died last night Shore 89 served as sheriff for 36 years before he retired in 1970 During his years as sheriff Shore saw his depart ment grow from six men walking beats to 70 deputies And in his years in the major leagues Shore is most remembered for rooming with Babe Ruth and throwing a perfect game in 1917 a game that earned an asterisk in most record books because Shore was not the starting pitcher Shore had been in declining health since suffering a stroke in 1975 Mrs Shore died last June Shore died in his home at 1212 ourth St about 6:30 pm yesterday BT i 1 KBk nt fl ERNIE SHORE Shore was born Ernest Grady Shore in 1891 the son of a tobacco farmer in East Bend in Yadkin County He graduated from Guilford College in 1914 He got his start in professional baseball as a batting practice pitcher for the New York Giants before putting in four years with the Boston Red Sox and two years with the New York Yankees Shore earned a spot in baseball legend by pitching a perfect game in 1917 Babe Ruth started the game for the Red Sox but he was ejected after he complained to the um pire after the first batter walked After Shore came on in relief the runner was thrown out trying to steal second and Shore retired the next 26 bat ters to earn his perfect game baseball career earned him spots in several halls of fame and the baseball park where the Winston Salem Red Sox play is named for him In his years in the majors he compiled a 65 41 record But he injured his arm with an overhand curve in 1917 after a year in the Navy and two more with the Yankees he retired from baseball He returned to Winston Salem in 1922 Shore married Lucille Har rison in 1926 He sold cars unti the Depression killed that market and he began selling insurance during the 1930s In 1936 $20000 in debt and with three children Shore decided to run for sheriff He campaigned with farmers before they went to work and was out again campaigning after he finished his own job at 5 pm Shore was elected to thd $4000 a year post During his tenure as sheriff' Shore got his department its first county cars And after fights with the county he became the first North Carolina sheriff to equip cars with two way radios See Ernie Shore Page 2.