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t till :f tha \ I )nt| d seu 3Ct The Chronicle - Saturday September 17, 1977 - Page 3 ■irm ii 't i '= M , ; 1,, )■ ■ Alcohol Program Lily White ■ ‘'t,' I''’'- ^ s ~ *4 - . ■ • Pictures were popular wiin many visitors to the Carolina Street Scene. •0111X0 Street Scene II jwntown Event Big Success «»] usands thronged to weekend's Carolina Scene, the Joseph Brewery’s second ‘Rites of Fall.’ The who assembled to variety of musi- and to see the craft lys consumed over ihousand gallons of at the Schlitz ision. istic displays ranged water color exhibits it displays, Herbie hight-lighted the !al performances, alternated among lur stages. Perform- icluded the Little Band and Dan- lomplete with Bava rian costumes, the Appa lachian Folk Band with Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the Mose Alli son Trio, and the Urban Arts Jazz Transit. One of the most popular acts was a glass blower, stationed in NCNB Plaza who created delicate vases “before your very eyes.’’ A giant plastic tunnel inflated with compressed air stretched down Fourth A giant plastic tunnel inflated with compressed air and full of adventurous youngsters stretched down Fourth Street. Refreshments were available in the form of good old American hot dogs, or good old Mexican tacos-with Greek pastries and German snacks avail able for the gourmands in the crowd. Two mayoral candidates also offered refreshments at their respective headquarters. Besides the fun of craft-shopping and crowd watching, one could enjoy the performances of street entertainers like the stroUing musicians, the Linda Bush Acrobats, and the Patterson Street Drill Team. The CaroUna Street Scene seems to have become a Winston-Salem tradition. Carolina Community News Service Raleigh, N.C.—Are you black, unemployed, and looking for a job? Now hear this! 'The unaware, who for any reason, happens into suite 1100 of the Able- marle Building in Raleigh might leave thinking that blacks are not hired in the Alcohol and Drug Services Section of the N.C. Department of Human Resources. If a person did reach that conclusion it would not be totally incorrect. The section develops policy and programs for $22 million in federal and state funds for treatment of alcoholism. The section employs in its Raleigh office one part-time black woman as a clerk, while all of its professional staffers and the other three clerical workers are white. Dr. R.J. Blackley, acting Section head, says the lack of blacks in the section is the result of past discrimination and failure of blacks to qualify for professional jobs. A medi cal doctor, Blackley says, 'T would like to say whoever is qualified gets the job’’ when a job is vacant. According to Blackley, the last vacant position was for a grantsman to write and attain funds for the alcohol programs, a posi- TheDi>Gel Difference Anti-Gas medicine Di-Gel adds to its soothing Antacids. tion formerly held by a black attorney. When he left state employment, Blackley said, a quaRRed black applicant could not be found. The hiring of blacks in the Alcohol and Drug Services Section through out the state is not better. The latest figures avail able for the section showed that in September Black employment was concentrated in service and maintenance, skiUed craft, and paraprofession- al jobs, a persistent pattern in overall state hiring. Take a look at the following table which are about the same for Black men and women in the section. A state plan required for federal funding by the National Institute of Mental Health declared that the Division of Mental Health Services under which the Alcohol and Drug Section is administered, is “striving to overcome the many and diverse factors which have resulted in the under-re- presentation of various minority groups in our staffs.” Prior to submission of the report to the NIMH a Task Force on Black Alcoholism was organized which recommended changes in personnel policies. Change in testing procedures for hiring and the career ladder to provide advancement op portunities to paraprofes- sionals head the list. The task force also recom mended establishment of a quota system in hiring, and a training program for black leaders to enable them to understand the nature of alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the black community. Coimselors are current ly being trained by the Alcoholism Training Pro gram at East Carolina University in GreenviRe. Jerry Lotterhos, the Center’s white director in a proposal submitted to the Alcohol and Drug Section which was funded for $22,000, identified the problems of hiring blacks in the state alcohol program very criticaUy. “The staffing patterns of our state alcohol abuse programs do not reflect an equitable percentage (based on Black popula tion ratios) of black staff members, especiaRy in the professional and administrative levels.” Discrimination of blacks in hiring filters aU the way down to an inferior quaRty of services Hotterho’s proposal claimed. Drug abuse programs are in sensitive to the Black alcohol abuser. Most of the programs are white middle class oriented such as the Alcohol Anony mous. “Characteristics of the black culture contri bute to lack of involve ment in treatment servi ces,” the proposal gene ralized. Continuing it read “In general. Blacks do not hold staff positions in the professional and admini strative areas of our state and local alcohol abuse programs.” Despite claims that aU is being done to hire blacks within the division the $22 milhon of federal and state funds is stRl being spent to support a staff of white administra tors and professional staff which, according to Lot- terho’s findings, has been detrimental to the preven tion and treatment of the disease among Black problem drinkers. $5.2 milRon of those funds are federaUy provided funds with prohibitions barring discrimination against minorities. Father Arthur CaUo- way, director of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, and a secretary to the Task Force, said in a telephone interview that staffing patterns for the Alcohol Section have not been the focus of the group but might become its focus as it resumes work foRowing a summer recess. Approximately two do zen blacks are now in training at ECU and are soon to receive certifica tion as therapists. Ques tioned if those persons wiR find employment, CaRoway said that he was . not sure but that if they did not, poRtical pressure would have to be appRed by the Task Force to assure hiring of the black therapists. FORA FULL-TIIVIE MAYOR VOTE FOR WAYNE CORPENING Paid for by (he CORPENiNG FOR MAYOR COMMITTEE Wesley BaRey, Tres. mnm) anzEmsAm MCHetn 2250 Silas Creek Parkway 4316 Old Walkertown Rd. . 3618 Reynclda-Oldtown • 107 West 4lh ■Phone 7Z3-9441 -lNo one can fell me about taste. Carolina Street Scene II I knowv\iiy I smoke. For taste. And only W^Lnston has the taste I like. If k cigarette doesn’t have taste it doesn’t have anytl^g. My \\Inston is all taste everything, srn Star Monthly- ting Jueens of Olympic « No. 620, Order of Star, PHA wiR heir monthly meet- ednesday, Septem- 1st at the Masonic |e, 1025 East 14th Members I to attend and to be Paid PoRtical Advertisment Elect LARRY WOMBLE DEMOCRAT FOR ALDERMAN SOUTHEAST WARD WOMBLE.. . Answers, Action and Accountability— An A-1 Candidate Winston Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determlnetl That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health.
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