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Comer Stress Me
Care in Public Sc
crams of nr^vpntiup
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psychiatry in the public
schools candecrease the
incidence of mental illness James P. Comer
among children. \ ? - . ~ "
A . , .... , cal problems, he said,
America s mobilized r r
, , . , . stem from the fact that
and mechanized society . . , .
, , , r , people--particularly poorv
has removed much of the , . . ......
t .... r . , and minority mdividuals-stability
from people s A ...
,. ~ r cannot cope with social
lives. Forty . years ago, .... r , .
. A j j ? , skills. The schools can
people tended to spend . _ , .... . . ,...
. ". .. . .. teach children social skills
theirlives in^ a small ?; . .
, that will increase their
community, keeping the : .f
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same set of aquaintances ;
and the same environment ajso stressed parfor
life. Today there is a ental interest and involvelack
of permanence in ment in the school system.
communities and in rela- jf parents take an interest
ttonshtps, creating insta- the schools, It will
bility and anxiety in many encourage children to take
persons. education more seriously.
Comer feels that the - The parents' attitude
school should take the toward school, and school
responsibility for helping officials greatly influences
i?
me cnna become a the feelings of th? child,
well-adjusted member of Low-income and minsociety.
Many psychologi- ority parents often feel
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Some 75 marchers protested the incarceration of the
Governor Hunt. Hunt has indicated that he will not tal
been exercised.
Succession RejectedjQve
Wilmington 10 Suj
By Carolina Community ^? showed that both
News Service Democrats and Republicans
opposed succession,
Advocates of a pardon because of
for the Wilmington 10 shortcomings in the Hunt
have directed criticism ac^mmistration.
toward Governor James Mrs. Johnnie Mae
Hunt over the issue of the Nixon, a Hunt campaign
succession referendum, worker in the costal town
which, if passed in Qf Burgaw, located in
November, would allow Pender County, said she
Hunt and subsequent supported Hunt as Lt.
governors to serve for two Governor and Governor
successive terms. because she thought he
Although Hiint has was a "statesman rather
stated that he does not than a politician". Brinbelieve
that the Wilming- ging up Hunt's inaction on
ton 10 or any other issue a May request to pardon
connected with . his- the Wilmington 10, Mrs.
administration wottld af- Nixon said Hunt "is
feet the succession issue, waiting to see if he has a
selected leaders in the chance to run for a second
state's black communities term." A statesman she
think otherwise. continued, "makes a
decision based upon what
The survey, although is right or what he has
not conducted scientifical- promised to do, but a
ton-Sal]
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day October 1. 1977 Suil
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ntal Health
'hools Here
vnqualified?m take, .and. Con^uit^ntv ti
the\ should be encourag- Sea me Street.) Bcsid<
ed to do so. % writing "Black Chi
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protessor ot psychiatry Afvin Pou.sSaiTiU^lL)
and Associate Dean for Comer has written mar
?SUiddit Affa+rs- sK?Yalo ?articles?m?profession
University School ?f i 111 I r n :i I? ri n rl ic- ftin r,,, U*:
io miivi niv. auiiM
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Medicine, and has served of "Beyond Black ar
on the BoarC of Advisors White."
[ Primary Results
Mayor;D emocrat-Runoff between
Carl H. Rnnsell and
' ^ Wayne Corpening x
Republican-Henry
Lauerman
North Ward: j democrat- Larry
Little
Republican- None
Northeast Ward: DemocratVivian
Burke
Republican^????
Rodney J. Sumler
East Ward: DemocratVirginia
K. Newell
Republican- None
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Wilmington 10 last week and called for a pardon by
ke any action in the case until all legal remedies have
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r Pardon Issue
>porters Blast Hunt
politician acts based upon give them big jobs wh
what is expedient."- appointments from plac
Questioning whether other than Durham ai
Hunt has fulfilled promi- Raleigh seldom come
se9 to protect the right of H.M. Michaux was a
all in the state to pointed U.S. Attorney
education, Mrs. Nixon President Carter, ai
said: "The school system Winters and Ruffin we
here is just not right. He appointed to the N.
could send some people to Utility Commission a]
see if Blacks are qualified Human Relations Coi
(as teachers) or are just mission.
being pushed out." Staunchly set agair
Also typical is Herschel succession, Seets says ]
Seets, a Democrat and a doesn't "want four yea
member' of the Granville of Hunt much less
County Elections Board. A years." He complaini
retired school teacher who about the approximate
boasts of the $150 he 35 young Blacks frc
r>Ar?nnn11v cava Hunt Roxboro that he has se
Howard Lee's campaign co Raleigh from Granvi
last year, Seets complains Ctmnty to meet wi
that Black political thrust Hunt's Assistant f
is weakened since Hunt Minority Affairs, Jol
"picked off top Blacks like Larkins, and who Sec
Mickey Michaux, John says have not gotfc
Winters and Ben Ruffin to See Wilmington, Page
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^^ Carl Rasseli - yn * ^ ^ ^
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The day before the city elections, Cal Russe
II the results at his funeral homer
1 4'What are you going to have to eat?-!l-jc
"I don't know. I may be eating straw, if
The results were tajligd Tuesday night, and
had the greatest number of Votes--62 votes ah
held October 18th. If Russell wins, he could
Election returns credited Russell with 5,945 1
mayoral Democratic primary, William Pfeffer
respectively. l j_
The winner of the October 18th run off will f
general election. November's winner succeed
third term. A
~ - Russell's main area of strength was East Wi
alderman for 16 years, as well as the North
"We are going to concentrate heavily on
manager Tracy Singletary. 44We would also
~ : Cecil Butler conceded ~
Tuesday night, and im- B-C I g~i I
mediately announced his
support of Carl Russell in
the runoff. T\T ^ II
In order to win the I*cU/Cll
I October 18th^ rematch,
Russell will need much of By Sharyn Bri
the white liberal vote that Staff Writ
*** went to PfefferkOrnT and
he will need a heavy
turnout among the black The two
voters. elections", in th
The fact that two blacks and East Ward
opposite results f
See Russell, Page 2 1974 outcome. T1
challengers Virgi
c Miss Black Winston-Salem
| Pageant Spark*
A second black beauty pageant has beei
sponsors of the first one are not happy abo
ThP R1 nr?lr Winofnn D" *
? T f uiawAA-ucUCUi X ClgC? Oil I, "
ill WSSU' is sponsored by the Black Business
?*? 4 4 Any girl who enters this pageant will not
H?America Pageant in May, " said Virginia K.
Mrs. Newell directed
m/ the Miss Black America of r| j gy |^| 4
PC North Carolina Pageant,
? held in Winston-Sal ehi in ?
?? August. That pageant, ^HifclfM
which was sponsored by J
the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, was affiliated By Carolina Comix
with the national Miss News Servic?
Black America Pageant.
Its winner, Angela Watson,
represented North _ , . ,
Carolina-in-the national- J Sacred attitude*
ly-televised pageant in eat . an 5^8' '
Hollywood. JOth increased tec,
L The BBAL "Miss Black m the hands of
Winston-Salem'' pageant exPertf' crea
is not affiliated with the ?morLal a",tude
national pageant, nor is it i
de endorsed by the AKA Churchhill, an A.
Sorority. PJof?f??r of Jraetj1
n There are several major jjjj? 9 nl
differences between the The analysis was r
lP" two pageants. Proceeds a on
by from the AKA Pageant Die" sponsored
nd went to the United Negro Concerned Afro^Ai
're College Fund; proceeds Christians.
from the BBAL Pageant
nd will be kept by the BBAL. ' 'The Right to Di
The AKA accepted con- the topic of the forv
testants without fees; the at Rush AME Chi
BBAL is charging girls Raleigh, the first c
$50 to enter. forums funded 1
^8 The AKAPageant win- N.C. Committee
? ner appeared on national Humanities.
television and went to Right to die legi
W Hollywood; the BBAL Churchhill said, hi
>m winner will appear in passed recently
** WSSU's homecoming states, ^ including
parade and wins a trip to Carolina. He att
, Chicago. the sudden acth
The AKA pageant state legislatures
^ winner is officially "r^og- sponse to publicity
nized by the national the Karen Quinlaj
0n - - ? ^ Amoral attitudes,
, 2 See Pageant, Page 2 he claimed wen
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i, N.C * 20 Cents
__?h?i^Larrv Little ? ??avian Burke
leas . * .^.unseated ^ .f. wili meet Sumler ^
teesFirst-May?
t Black Mayor
*11 told some of his supporters that he would be waiting out
iked one young man.
the results are bad," said Russell. ?? : - <
Russell, who said "you always run scared in an election,"
ead of Wayne Corpening, who is calling for a runoff, to be
become the first black mayor in Winston-Salem's history.
votes to Corpening's 5,883. The other two candidates in the
korn and Cecil* Butler, received 4,855 votes and 705 votes
ace Rpublican candidate Henry Lauerman in the November
ed Mayor Franklin R. Shirley, who chose not to run for a
nston. He carried The Northeastward, which he served as
l, East, and 3 of the Southeast Ward's five precincts.
i the South and West Wards," said Russell's campaign
like Pfefferkorn's endorsement for the runoff."
? Incumbents Lose
, Burke, Little, SuwXer Win
atcher Newell and Larry D. Little Two other incumbents,
er defeated their incumbent Bahnson C. Hall, Jr. and
opponents C.C. Ross and Ernestine Wilson, fared
- Richard Davis. Since there better, defeating their
rematch was no Republican- primary challengers, but
e North opposition in either ward, wiij stiii face
ts, had Newell and Little will be Republican opposition in
rom the the next aldermen from November.
lis time their wards, barring a Southeast Ward AlderLnia
K. write-in upset. man Eugene Groce is
? pitted in a runoff with^
Larry Womble, who
claimed 701 votes to
* Controversy ^2 w^d.
? Vivian H. Burke defeated
attorney David H. Wagner
i scheduled for this fall, and the 1,233 to 810. She will face
ut it. Rodney J. Sumler in the
vhich will bfe held October 21st at November election. SumAction
League. ler took the Republican
be allowed ^o enter the Miss Black nomination with a total of^
^Newell. 26 votes to Clarence
T Watson's 19, but Sumler
J_ O I )lP may Pick up , more
Democratic support in the
p 1 * general election.
ct, or Uebate Jon B. Devries was the
winner in the Democratic
pressed until the case, primary of the Northwest
lunity suddenly surfaced in the Ward, with a tally
5 press. Right to die, often exceeding the combined
mistaken for euthanasia or total of opponents Arch
mercy killing, allows the Scales and Clarence
a rtfltiArit trx WnoVii'ncr* *
3 aiTUUk !*? ??? ? w Ug t w \AJ ' * WAi. 1/CYI1C3 gwv
coupled suspend extraordinary life 1313 votes, Scales 856,
hnology sustaining mechanisms and Washington 449.
medical which prolong life. Before In the Southwest Ward,
ited an right to die legislation was Candy Wood defeated her
about passed, physicians held three male opponents and
Larry the sole authority to will face John T. Cavassociate
determine whether to naugh, winner of the
cine at prolong life prolonging Republican primary,
school, mechanisms. The East Ward camnade
to ^paign was a hard-fought
light to Rev. Ralph Stephens, battle, with Virginia
by the pastor of the St. Matthew Newell making h*rsecond
"nerican AME Church, agreed with attempt to unseat incuma
contention of Churchhill bent C.C. Ross. This time
that physicians previously s^e succeeded, despite
e" was exercised complete power Ross's charges that she
im held over the life and death wfts running a "smear
arch in decision. Adding some campaign" against him.
)f three brief history of the He had no comment
Dy the development of black Wednesday regarding his
on the values surrounding death, defeat. Some observers
Stephens noted that death have stated that the large
aiotmn and the process of dvint* voter turnout in that ward
as been ^ave been until recently was a demonstration
by 33 r?8?urded by most as ftgamst Ross. His constiNorth
"making peace with the tuents have voiced dis-satributed
master." isfaction with his perfor t
. mance, complaining that
ag re_ Currently doing re- he is out of touch with the
around search with terminally ill people, and that he cannot
case cancer patients, Church- be reached when they
which kiN 9a^ process of have complaints. Mrs.
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