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The coiner of Third and Chi
Grocery, Lincoln Theater, Hoi
Building were. In its place i
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by George Booie
When Miss Marion Brincefield
was the leader of the only
Black Girl Scout Troop in
Winston-Salem, N.C.? The
members of the troop were
Dorothy Curry, Olivia Bouleware,
Eleanor Reynolds,
Audrey Springs, Natha lie
Henry, Bernice Cundiff,
Vivian Watts, Hazeline Mitchell,
Eulalia McCoy, and
Esther M. Gaines.
When the first Young Mens
Progressive Club was organized
at the Y.M.C.A.? The
first membership consisted of
Clyde Brown, John F.
Hawkins, Perry G. Williams,
Otis Watson, Carl Russell,
George C. Roberts, James
Larke, Johnnie Richardson,
Fred O, Orr, Leonard E.
Washington, George Robinson,
and Milton Fletcher;
Y.M.C.A. Secretary.
When the First Baptist
Church of Highland Avenue
was first located at Sixth and
Chestnut Street and worship
was held in a wooden frame
structure? In 1895 the church
constructed a brick building
on the same site, remaining
there untiFthe present church *
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was constructed in 1955.
When Raphael O'Hara
Lanier was made assistant to
Mrs. Mary McCloud Bethune,
an official of the National
Youth Administration?
When Aladine Robinson
provided the first amusement
and recreational park for the
black community? Facilities
included camping grounds, a
lake for boating, swimming,
and fishing; a dance pavillion
built over the lake, a dining
hall, and grounds for baseball
and other outdoor games. The
park covered seventeen acres;
Robinhood Park.
When twenty-five civic
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participated in the Y.M.C.A.
Camp Aladine Robinson
Benefit Carnival? Funds were
raised to send underprivileged
boys to camp.
When the community
tripped to the light fantasy of
the Cam Bitting Orchestra?
Jimmy Gunn, featuring A1
Harrington, guitarist; Dx^A.L.
Cromwell and the Broadcas- ,
ters provided good musV
later. Wade Bitting and John
Adams were members 'of the
Gold Leaf Band that enter.
tamed, at the fair grounds Mod.
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The first annual Blacl
Freedom Festival will be heic
July 1-4 at Freedom Memoria
Park in Wilmington in suppor
of the Wilmington 10 and th<
Charlotte 3, and as at
alternative to blacks celebrat
ing the bicentennial celebra
tion, according to a spokes
man here.
The festival is beinj
?nnnsored bv the Communis
Involvement Commission. It i:
a community based organiza
tion established to servio
members of the communit;
with their everyday commun
ity problems in the areas c
housing, welfare, employ
ment, education, politics an
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criminal justice.
Johnny Wilson, a memb?
of the Wilmington 10 defens
committee said recently in
Chronicle interview that tli
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by James Smith
Staff Writer
The Carolina Action Com?mittee
announced its states
wide legislative Utility Reform
Campaign Wednesday during
a meeting at the ESR Senior
Citizens House on Patterson
Avenue.
Mrs. Pat Ryan, a volunteer
of the organization stated that
the group was fed up with
paying skyrocketing electric
bills and facing an unrespon
sive Utilities Commission.
"We are taking Lifeline and
Fair Share rates, our two
utility reform bills, to the
candidates this fall," she said.
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objective of the festival was to
1 show moral support to the
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2 nationwide ringing of belli
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p schools, fire and police de
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said.
"The time selected %is <
precise tnoment when t\
independence for the new
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broadcast the sound of b
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continuing, sne stated,
"this way, we can elect
representatives who support
utility reforms in the 1977
legislature."
Mrs. Evelyn Terry, director
of the Problem Center, for the
Experiment in Self-Reliance
told the group that in March of
this year, Duke Power had
Issued a statement along with
their regular electric bill which
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have to pay a one per cent late
charge.
"This was due to people
paying extremely late, people
writing checks which were not
good and other reasons," she
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Wilson said speakers for the
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