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1 haima. www. ?.v^.,?.Jr, w Vol IV, ISo. 19 . ESC Foresees ~in Ett& by Sharyn Bratcher Forsyth County's worst period came in 1975 when unemployment rose to 12%, and the Employ mej&t Security . Commission had 10,000 people per ? week thronging tn theii Offices to file for unemployment. "We're going back to where we were before the recession," Teeter explained. The unemployment figures for November shows a rate of 3.9%, which is 3600 less than in November of 1976. TheseJ days only 1,000 to 1,500 persons file in a week - 90 per cent less thc^n in 1975. There are jobs available at all levels, say9 Teeter? and the outlook should be even better in the future. Wfth n*w nies lcoating in the area, and some of the present companies planning expansion, there should be more jobs created, and unemployment will drop even more. Most of the people without jobs at this time are 'seasonal' workers, for example construction workers who have been slowed down by inclement weather, or factory workers temporarily laid off. Forsyth County's unemployment rate is considerably lower than the national average, and is even lower than the overall average for the state of North Carolina, which is over 4%. - * * A 70001Fin by Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer ^ 1TAI? trAi i w i 1 Ui J UUllg pwpic who cannot get jobs j because they have not t completed school, i 70001 Ltd. offers assis- ( tance. The organization, a project administered by the Experiment in SelfReliance, is located at 605 N. Liberty Street, and is part of a national non-profit corporation offering a program of unsubsidized employment, on-the-job training, education, and motivation to dropouts between the ages of 16 and 21. C r ?immm ? ?? SUff Reporter "I have nothing but optimism for the new year," says Grover Teeter of Winston-Salem's Employment Security Commission. The job situation has improved considerably since the recession days a few years ago, when the whole country's unemployment rate sky-rocketed. INS! 1 "More th SSSBMBl *^Mgj2^vial ** s* L^WB-I^^Bf ->.' 7 Crt?n ^ Coach Bighouse Gaines ac wife Clara stands by his s player Billy Diggs holds 1 Gaines Career By Robert Eller , Sports Editor They served slices* of cake and gave flowers and banners and placques in Whitaker Gymnasium last Saturday night after the Rams had beaten Fayetteville State University 9779 presenting the nations winningest active basketball coach with his 600th victory over his 32 seasons as the Rams head coach. With 2:45 seconds left in il * ^ Axil VIIP game /\aaismjiL ? tic Director Cleo Wallace could wait no longer and had the rout stopped just long enough to inform the fans of what they already knew that a celebration would follow. A celebration was in order and not just because of the coach's 600th win but in the way it came. The 1976-77 teaip had wanted to give the coach the win but fell eight victories short. The 77-78 team saw no need to wait until 78 to put their coach in yet another elite circle and proceeded to win all eight of thier games as they turned the pre-season slogan of "Carlos and who?"- to "Carlos and everybody". That type of lid For Dropouts ids Jobs F Aldrenia Gaither, vho has been with ESR tor 10 years, serves as Drogram director for he organization, which s in its second year of operation. The Winston-Salem . Chapter has just returned from the Eastern Regional Conferanro in RAofnn u/Kom A V1IVV AAA , nilCiC I I it was named third most outstanding chap- , ter in the Eastern Re < gion. One of its partici- , pants Sylvester Nettles ( received the National < Recognition Award for j most outstanding asso- ] date in all the 70001programs, while Shelby J ON-I an 25,000 weekly re* \Zj.-.* * H B si r^f- Iiti'b mw^Mcrx **jm* i'<% -IB -*~s^.' yab~?V" 3L cepts banner commemoratin lide. Football coach Bill Hay banner. Clinches V Victoryguarded optimism has become a trademark of the < 6-5, 290-pound Gaines in j his coaching career since I leaving Morgan State in 1945. January 1 .Taniiorv 1 Ka a viuauiu j x TV ill UU CI red-letter day for many employees of small retail and service businesses in North Carolina. That's the day on which : the Tar Heel State's re- i quired minimum wage < will move up from $2.30 i an hour to $2.50 an hour. < On the basis of a 40- 1 hour workweek, the in- i crease will bring an extra 1 $8.00 a week for thous- 1 ands of North Carolina's lowest paid workers who make no more than the minimum wage at their jobs. It will be their second "raise" in six months. By I action of the 1977 General 1 Assembly, the required s State minimum wage was i raised from $2.00 an hour r to $2.30 an hour on July 1, t 1977. That increase, plus C the additional 20-cent rise e 'or Teens j West, Tjwana Conrad and Elvis Stewart also received awards. On the 22nd of this month, the group leaves for Washington, I D PI to rnmnoto in national SEVCA competition. While 70001 provides jobs for young people, with such employers as Sear's, Mac Donald's, ESR, and Thalheimer's, it also gives them classroom ~ in struction so that they :an pass a high school squivilancy test, and thus receive credit for ligh school. "The organization besee 7001 page 2 a I 'Sale ader*" Satur IK C i V i KK i i i | yj?1 ? " K'' oj Photo by Hugh Smith J g his 600th career win as es makes presentation as i 600th? _ __ 1 He re Q Through the years Gaines has always held a good hand but he never told anyone just how good See Gaines page 2 tram Wage I To '2.50 p * slated for January I, add ! up to a 25 percent increase ' over the old $2.00 mini- < mum? -1 "The $2.50 statutory 1 minimum wage will apply < to all non-exempt employ- 1 ees in establishments hav- 1 Lng four or more employ- * ees who are not covered t by the Fair Labor Stand- t irds Act (Federal Wage- i Hour Law)," explained c V.C. Commissioner of La- r 5or John C. Brooks. "Maly North Carolina employ- c jes are covered by the s ederal minimum, which r vill advance from the s >resent $2.30 an hour to a 52.65 an hour on January e ., 1978, in those busines- a les having a gross annual n ncome of $250,000 or s nore. However, there are t housands of other North c Carolina workers in small sstablishments to whom H H j$Ct' '? fl I jpiA i JJ fj HHHBHHHriMMR^l Aldrenia Gaithei 70001 program, c "Help Employ Y< M C day\ January 719\ rrv _ vr n * -?? * * ine /viumni ana Friend Coalition has joined the host of individuals ind organizations criticizng the new desegregation plan of the University of North Carolina. Lawrence G. Cooper, president of the Coalition, ivrote to federal officials, charging the UNC is making little effort to recruit minority students, hire black employees, and upgrade the predominatiy black schools. The Department of Health Education, and Welfare Civil Rights Office called for a 150% increase in black freshman and transfer enrollment for the university's white campuses, within the next five years but UNC president William ii.it. _? r i luttjf aittieu umi-uiere were not enough academically qualified black students to meet the goal, and HEW then relaxed its requirements. This compromise brought forth a storm of Increases er Hour the federal law does not apply. These workers are often employed in small retaiIt whoIesaIe, foodservice and service industry establishments. These people are indebted to the foresight of our General \ssembly which built in he additional increase in he State minimum wage n anticipation of the increased -federal minimum" "Without making a comprehensive Statewide lurvey, for which there is leither budget nor peronnel, we have no reliible way of estimating cither how many workers j-e covered by the State ninimum wage at pre ent, or how many of hose who are covered are urrently being paid less See Wage page 2 I i?L\ i x ' v A I ^ wEHK&JA ' vfinMCS 'iiT^S iiin KSa^pr^pjfM director of Winstonisplays the organization*! Mith." r-L. 3B ' ^ HRO 78 WC Ur u =7? o 1 - criticism from blaclr edu- A cators, protesting the half-hearted attempt^ _at desegregation. "HEW should stand Suicid* Prison D( Approximately 40 people die each year in the North Carolina prison system, and of those deaths t_ _ 1 * i i i * naii couia oe prevented, according to Dr. Page Hudson, of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Hudson has made a ' study of jail and prison deaths which he plans to present as a paper to the American Academy of Forensic Science in St. Louis ?next month.Suicides account for about one third of the yearly toll, he stated. The high risk prisoner in this category is a relatively young man who has beem in jail 24 hours or less, and is being held on an alcohol-related charge. The most common method of suicide is hanging. Prisoners use belts, or ropes fashioned from arti cles of clothing or mat?tress cloth. These prisoners should be more closely watched tcr prevent suclr incidental In one instance, Dr. Hudson rioted, a county jail with a high suicide rate began removing the prisoners' belts, and found that this reduced the num- ( ber of suicides. Alcohol is the major factor in another third of ^ the deaths. These cases fall into two categories. The first is death occurring from withdrawal I symptms or delerium tremens in chronic alcoholics, while the second type is alcohol poisoning, in which the person dies of n an overdose of alcohol in p the body. "We need better medi- C( r cal care in the prison system," Dr. Hudson ^ stated. in ?c c< 1< si w iri pi A ri Z tl 0 tl Chronicle Staff Photo Salem's _ i motto: n MCLE 12 Pttgv. s -k 20 * der Fire *>at on its figure," said Dr. you spread it over..the AJbert Spruill, dean of the traditionally white insti?*aduate school at A&T. tutions of the university." "One hundred fifty per In. his letter to federal cent is not a great deal if see Alumni page 2 % Alcohol Majftr Factors eatlis Preventable With better mpHiml thrnnfrK ^ 11 faicare and closer examina- ment. tion for dangerous condi- The final third factor in deaths could be prevented See Prison page 2 Dr. Charlie B. Hauser Omega P& Phi l wo Honored At Grand Conclave r Winston-Salem ? Two the Fraternity's coveted Winston-Salem men were Fifty-Year Pin and Dr. onored at the 58th Grand Charlie B. Hauser of 2072 onclave of the Omega K Court Avenue was gisi Phi Fraternity on De- ven the Forty-Year Plaque ?mber 28, 1977 at the for devotion and service to ounder's Day Banquet, the organization, he Conclave was held at Attending the conclave le Hyatt Regency Hotel from Winston-Salem were New Orleans, Louisiana Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Tillecemher 26-29, 1977. man. Mr. and Mrs. HoT.C. Tillman of 506 NTW ward L. Shaw and Dr. and >th Street was awarded Mrs. Charlie B. Hauser. rirl Is Charged With Manslaughter Sixteen-year old Judy bed, with a bullet hole arol Glenn will appear in near the hairhfie. >urt Tuesday. January Ms Glenn showed ), on charges of man- pn,,n^ov oo , , > vyuii^v-j nn, . L. t* LCU1UCI aughter in connection plstol. telling him that she ith the December shoot- djd nQt realjze that the ,g death of Clinton Ste- gun was ,oaded A . hon Crawford. ,tiy she had pointed the The Forsyth County ^un at Crawford playfully jnbulance Service ar- and puned ?be trigger, ved on the scene at 1654 she tfas been reieased 3rd Street shortly after on $10.000 bond pending ie shooting, and called in tfficer Roscoe Pouncey of The charge of man. ie Sheriff s Department, slaughter carries a punHe was met by the girl ishment of not more than ho was screaming that ten year9 imprisonment tie didn't mean it, he ancj a fine sported. He found the Crawford was a stuauu. ody of 16-year-old Clin- at South Park High in Crawford lying on a School. 3
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