D. 6 CLIPPING SERVICE TEL. (919) 833-2079 ~ rj' PO.Sr SALISBURY, N. C. D-25,000 MAR 18 95 The deacon and deaconess ministries of Mount Zion Baptist Church will celebrate their first annual Service of Celebration 4 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. Joseph B. Parks, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, will speak. He will be accompanied by his choir, ushers and congregation. Parks, former pastor of Yadkin Grove Baptist Church, Salisbury, was recently elected statistician for the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Inc. He has been appointed special assistant to Dr. Henry J. Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. Garry Robinson is chairman of the deacon ministry. His wife, Mary G. Robinson, is the chair of the deaconess ministry. The Rev. Nilous M. Avery II, is pastor of Mount Zion, 413 N. Church St.
CLIPPING SERVICE e; / TEL. (919) 833-2079 JOURNAL. A/INSTON..S~l~\ N. ~~"'f "'s JAN I 1 s 6 - -~'\\ Pastor charged with rape ~ Joseph Butler Parks was arrested yesterday and chargea' with second-degree rape in an incident involving a woman in his church congregation. Capt. Joe Tuttle of the Forsyth County Sheriffs Department said that Parks, 31, of 5325 Wanda Vista Court, turned himself in yesterday morning. Parks has been the pastor of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church on Greenway Avenue for about 13 months. He is accused of sexually assaulting Alma Hairston, 2 7, at his house in Pfafftown on Jan. 2. Hairston said that Parks had asked her to bring some cough medicine to the house for his son because he did not want to leave his son home alone, detectives said. A bond of $81,000 was set for Parks, but court papers say that the district attorney's office "consents to an unsecured bond condition." Under an unsecured bond, Parks does not have to pet up a 1y money to get out of jail but ~ ~/ cble for the a~unt if he does not ap- } \ ~;:U. in court. Parks is also ordered not to contact Hairston, according to court papers. Detectives also served two criminal summons for worthless checks from 1989 and 1993 and an order for arrest J ~a probation violation. ~
c=am1d1111:~-------------------w1nston-salem JouRNAL C'l. --------------------- Fire/Police Briefs I 82 Virginia Lottery I 82 Obituaries I 84 National News I 88 oca m SECTION Tuesday : January 9, 1996 Fugitive - profiled on America's Most Wanted - was captured Sunday in Nashville Captured man could be in N.C. by week's end By Cindy Roberts JOURNAL NORTHWEST BUREAU WILKESBORO Ricky Allen Bright, a fugitive who was captured Sunday in Nashville, Tenn., after being featured on a segment of America's Most Wanted, could be back in North Carolina by the end of the week. Sheriff Dane Mastin of Wilkes County said that Bright is scheduled to be arraigned as early as Thursday in Charlotte on federal charges of unlawful flight to.. in an October attack on a 9-year-old girl from the Bright had lived on the other side of Carrico last "When I first talked to him, he made out to be a Hayes community. summer and fall, authorities say. church-going person and a preacher," Waddell said. Bright, 41, had been charged with being a fugitive Authorities suspect that Bright, whose address was "To me, he deserves the death penalty," she said. Oct. 12. listed on warrants as Charleston, W.Va., drove the girl Like many other residents of the Hayes community, Rita Freeman Taylor, the mother of the girl, said she to an area near Charleston before assaulting her. The Waddell said she was relieved to hear that Bright had cried when she saw Bright in the custody of federal girl was later found back near her family's mobile been captured. Bright was placed on the FBI's most- marshals on television yesterday. home about 2 p.m. the same day that she was taken. wanted list last month. "I'm glad he's captured," she said. "I just hope we Taylor said, "I would wish for the death penalty, but The television show America's Most Wanted had find justice." what he did to my daughter can't be made right." filmed a segment on Bright shortly after he was Bright is accused of breaking in through a window of Taylor, who has now moved her family to Morganton, charged with being a fugitive. ome where the 1 was stavin and kidnap- said, "I'll do everything I can to make sure that justice Ken Walsh a... 1111111.
CLIPPING SERVICE TEL. (919) 833-2079. f'ost WISIUIY, N. C.. '5.Glf' SEP2591 CHURCH :~Yadkin Grove : names Parks new pastor The Rev. Joseph Butler Parks of Winston-Salem has assumed duties as pastor of Yadkin Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Leonard Road. A Forysth County native, he is the son of Mary Lee Parks of Winston Salem and the late Joseph Butler Sanders. He J is married to & the former Parks Evelyn Elaine Fielder of Bastrop La. He is a graduate of the Univer sity of North Carolina at Charlott with a degree in religious studie and psychology; of Piedmont Bibi College, Winston-Salem, with a degree in church doctrine and Ne Testament; and Fleetwood In. stitute of St. Mary's University, Baltimore, Md., with a degree in Christian leadership and church polity. A former member of Union Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, he has been associate minister of Union and Galilee Baptist, Winston-Salem and First Baptist of Statesville. He is a member of several groups, including the General Baptist State Convention, of which he was past president of its usher convention; the Progressive National Baptist Convention; the National Baptist Convention of U.S.A. Inc.; and Lott Carey Foreign Missionary Convention. He is also a member of the Rowan and Guilford Baptist Associations; the Ministers Interdenominational Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity; and the Baptist Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem. He is coordinator of Forsyth Mental Hospital, on the board of.directors of Twin City Little League and is a sponsor of the Forsyth Mets Baseball Team. He is the founder of the Winston Salem/Fors yth County Youth Council and in 1980 served on the sub-committee of the Winston Salem Public Safety Council. He is a member of the North Carolina Juvenile Law Study Commission; the Housing Authority, City of Winston-Salem Drug Task Reinforcement Program; and a member of the North Carolina Long-Term Care Association. He was listed in "Who's Who in America" in 1986. He is employed as the administrator for Forsyth Village Long Term Care Center in Winston Salem.
CUPPING SERVICE 0 / TEL (919) 833-2079 J\.. "" j, l\j. YINSTC ~-~A. CM, N. \?\~ ~c:t-5\ JUN ~4 96 The pastor of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem was charged yesterday with raping a woman in Virginia, six months after he was released from jail after his arrest on charges that he raped a woman in Forsyth County. Detectives arrested Joseph Butler Parks Jr., 32, at~urch about 3:20 p.m. yesterday. He was in the Forsyth County Jail last night with no bond allowed. I Investigators in Forsyth County Fire/Police charged Parks with second-de- Briefs gree rape six months ago. A magistrate set bond at $81,000, but the district attorney's office agreed to let Parks out of jail without bond. Three months later, investigators say, Parks raped a woman in Henrico County, Va., outside Richmond. Detectives from Forsyth County, Virginia and members of the Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Parks l yesterday. Assistant Sheriff Joe Tuttle, who supervises detectives, said that he was not aware that Parks was allowed out of jail after a magistrate set his bond at $81,000. ( "It doesn't appear that it was the right thing to do," he said. ~J. "Rob" Lang, an assistant distri& attorney, said). -