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Fwi ! Black! I Billion By Sharyn Bratcher _ Staff Wd^jr a" Thft fart that the %ob 100 * MaUrowifVd] ^bttBihesseV had total revenues of $886.7 millioivJUJX-7_miL. ii^r\ fftfll.i jiigrfrfFi, compared to the $54 billion total amassed last year by just one company: ~ General Motors, and when you consider that all the top 100 companies together earned less than _ just one company ranked #265 in Fnrtiine Ma or a. zine's Top 500 companies. The #1 ranked blaCkowned company had total revenues of $61 million, well below the $355 million total ^ of the 500th company listed. . Of the top 100 black ESR Si ByJYvette McCullough Staff Writer "You'll be utterly amazed at the amount of black talent we have in Winston-Salem," Robert 'Big Daddy' Moorman told the audience last , Friday night at the Variety and Talent Extravaganza^ which was sponsored by Advisory Council. TUa O 1 D * uc uio?auv auui iw , 'r '' ' a ?# Forsyth County detectives Oscar Vaughn, Jr. recei meeting of the North S Organization. Local Dc Win State | l J f Two Forsyth County detectives won top honors at the annual convention of the predominately black North State Law Enforce ment Officers Association, held June 14-17 in Charlotte. Detective James E. Sims, Jr. of the Sheriff's Department Community Service Unit won the "Officer of the Year" award of the association. Detective Leon R. Scales of the Sheriff's Department won the Pistol Competition trosf: ? pby of the association.Several other local policemen were elected officers of the associaiton i ; during the convention. Sgt. Oscar Vaughn, Jr. of the Sheriff's Department Safey Unit was re-elected state vice president; Cpl. : ) :nst< "More Busine is Behii businesses, 44 were automobile yrwiH oiramplo nf why fhg drepw fr'y iii iinjuiiie Is "gu * great. The car dealers' profits are merely bl perrpntfipn nf tke bilH(&i2L?!dU f i _/ '^1 Trramiiaciurers 01 uiose cars. Black-owned companies sell the cars; they do not make them; hence the difference in income. Black-owned companies seem to prosper in areas, with the highest concentration of black population. Illinois had 19 companies on the list; New York -17;_ and California 11. The exception to this the southern states, which have large black populationSj but no representa- 7~ tivnc in f ko Tr>r? 1 AH Vina. vi vs ui viic lup xv/v uuo* towcases vxie^ was held in Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium, and the proceeds of the show will be used for a scholarship rund to send a student to WSSU for one year. The Show was divided into three acts, a night club, a church and a concert hall. Moorman hosted the night club andconcert hall portions of the program. Dr. J.Ray But?r: - ? uu 1 w James E. Sims and Sgt. ved recognition at the State Law Enforcement itectives : Honors George Redd of the Winston-Salem Police Department was elected state assistant treasurer and Sgt. Roscoe Pouncey of the city police force was elected state recruiter. Local chapter president Sgt. Mike McCoy of the city police was named to the association awards board and Capt. Johnnie Landon of the city police was named to the association advisory board. Harry James, state ABC enforcement officer assigned U> Cmutly, wit* named state liason officer. Eight other members of the local chapter of the association attended the convention, which was addressed by noted civil rights attorney James Ferguson. 3N-S A than 25,000 weekly :S8 nd j KBWWr- j J ?LACK COC*W?/\ti KOUA COMPAN to inesses. North Carolina had none. Neither did Alabama, or Louisiana. Mississippi, Missouri, Talent ler, pastor t^Shiloh Baptist Church t was the master of ceremonies for the gospel portion of the pro-_ gram. Appearing on the show z^yere Frances Hobbs, Sepia Thrill, Curtis Hairston, Hospitatlity, Randy Johnson, Liquid Love, Letitia Mitchell, The Senior Citizens Rhythm Band^ The Senior Citizens Vocal Ensemble, The Dreamland Park Young Adult Choir, the J.C. Special, Truth-with Zavious Pratt and lethia Hairston, D.W. Andrews, Healing ForceJoe and Gail Anderson, Gloria Jones, Alex Scarborough and Micheal Wright. ~ "The music for - some portions of the program were provided by Bullwinkle, a local band. Th'e modelincr Dortion of the w * " program was coordinated by Marian Watson, and the dance group was choreographed by Horace "Fulton. The Director of the program was James Cooper and the Technical Director was Patricia Grimes. Also assisting with the program was Nancy Adams, Living and Learning Coordinator of Winston-Salem State University. ALET readers" HHhL^ South Carolina and Tennessee each had one com pany on the list; Virginia, Texas, and Maryland had Miss | Page -By Yvette Md i Staff Writ, s Contestants for th< America of North Car will be competing _th Saturday night in Kei liams Auditorium on t -I Winston-Salem State Angela Watson, lac Black America of Nort relinquish her crown eighteen young ladies the pageant. The pa? sored by the Phi Ome the Alpha Kappa AJ The winner of this I rnmnota fnr fko TVyfioo 1 vv*?|/v?v *v? mi? mioo j Title. The proceeds of th : ^See=P5g^t i. Beginning on page ele\ the contestants for this w Black America of Nortli pageant in a special four-p The Chronicle examinee black students did on competency tests and explc for their performance. See page 3. \ ^ l < 3 m II 0 H \ , II mjAM V ^ II | rmt 4* srXi Saturday June 24, 19 J _ two each. The surest way to become one of the top blacks See page 2 Black An ant Sche Dullougb er 3 Miss Black olina Pageant M is Friday and M meth R. Wil;he campus of fl University. 1 Jj rt year's Miss I h Carolina will to one of the i competing in |, jeant is spon- l- pi ga Chapter of 'fr ipha Sorority. / ^ pageant will j Black America r e ticket sales en, preview #This weel eek's "Miss "Black on B1 i Carolina" 100 Black Bu age section, page 4 i how local *Azzie Wag last year's you up to date ires reasons and people On Target. Whirl, page i Part n By Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer TV 1 ?? 1 rat ana xoianaa are well-mannered, soft-spoken young ladies, who talk eagerly of future careers in service or teaching small . children. One of them was a cheerleader. In the eyes of the court, both are "juvenile delinquints." Pat is on probation for quitting school at fourteen and being a runaway. Yolanda has another vaar'o nrnKotinn fnr o^An. ^ VWA pi VUUVlVil iui JUiyplifting and forgery. These attractive and friaiK&fy teenagers: arc luit the Napoleons of crime one experts from reading crime statistics. They are not hostile or agressive. "That's just it," explains Harold Ellison, who is employing the girls in the Save Our Youth Pro EffiUI '78 16 Pc CDC Hits ( Staff Writer With the deadline for a HUD decision only days away, representatives of several local organizations are preparingniir answer to the city's defense of its community development program. "It's unbelievable," said Legal Aid attorney Benjamin Erlitz, indicating the 58-page response prepared by the city. The report denies charges made in the May 24th complaint filed by the ? nercca duled 1 a MmM v *v * ^ ^ tL J . ? 1. k's editorials focus on ack Crime** and the "Top sinesses." See Editorials. ner's Social Whirl keeps i on weddings, gatherings about town. See Social 6. V Nice Ki sram.'' There aren't anv w " - . # 'Napoleons of Crime.' It'9 mostly just ordinary kids who go along with the crpwd. And I'll bet if you asked every kid in that group, he'd say he was just doing it because everyone else did." If Pat was not a minor, she would not be in trouble at all. Her only offense was leaving home and school before the law nrlrnnu/loHcppa hor ricrKt ^ do so. "It seems like my mother was always favoring one of us children over the others* 1' -_PatT ?a middle child of eight, recalls. "So I just left home, and I went to stay with my cousins." She got a job at a car wash, stayed away from school, and was gone from October until February. c VICL1 iges 20 Cent? oalitii Jity D xi ko?vjTa 1 VCAkMvxi*r VJTfc?&?-? tfO* U r _ the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and Watkins Street and East Winston Neighborhood Groups. The organizations contend that the city's housing rehabilitation program was discriminatory, and that such projects as land clearance and lack of new construction were hurting low-income persons.. The city's reply, which cites many specific responses, states that the complaint contains errors and distortions. Eriitz calls the city's efforts "passive," explaining that in many instances they neglected to take steps which might have : accomplished goals over" which they claim to have no control. Neal Sup Budget-S Fifth District Rep. Steve Neal, D-N.C., has advocated an across the board approach to cutting federal government spending, a tactic attacked by civil rights leaders for its potential effect on programs for low-income persons. ?Neal said in a prepared _ statement, 4 'I've been voting for across the board spending cuts all along. I think two to five per cent can be cut from any t federal budget without doing a bit of harm. There's waste in all departments." The concern of some black observers is that programs targeted toward low-income persons would be the first to be deleted if An ArrAfla.thA.KAarH /?? were uniformly applied. Neal made his. statement following votes by the U.S. House of Repre? d Like Yc She was fourteen at the time. Finally her whereabouts was discovered and she u/ao rri nan a Vv? rr no gtTCll a V.11U1V.C L/C" tween going home and going to the Youth Center on Reynolda Road. * 'I chose the Youth Center," says Pat. "To me it was better than home." There was about sixteen young people in the youth center. Pat recalled. They were responsible for doing some of the housekeeping and for washing dishes. "The food was sent over-from fche-ceursty jml-,' Pat smiled. "But it was okay. If it was cold, our kitchen people would reheat it." Finally she decided that it would be better to go home. So she's back with her family and back in a ? _ ? i m enial linl 5 Tfi' 'y' -' 1 '?' "'-' 'in* tributes money to all counties in North Carolina on the basis of need and population. Some counties do not U8e thftfr allotment within the one-year period. SO th? mnnflv rovorfa to HUDfe who offers the money to bidders statewide for local projects. Winston-Salem has never bid on the fair share surplus. Erlitz maintains that if the city got preapproval of a construction site, and made advance arrangements with a contractor before the yearly bidding, they could be sufficiently prepared to have their bid accepted, but they make no advance . preparations. ? Erlitz?questions the See Page 2 ports . flashes sentatives to cut the House's own budget and the budgets of the Departments of Commerce and Health, Education and Welfare. . The budget slash votes have been linked to Congressional concern following the victory of the Projxfrsitioi^iJ^fe^ctifc-amendment in California. Npfll saiH P.nlifnmin vote "came as no surprise to me. It just reaiffirmed what the people back home have been saying to me all along - that they want the budget balanced, the tax burden reduced and made fair, and inflation brought under control." "We're (the House) going through the appropriations bills at this time, and I hope every one of them will be subjected to this kind of reduction," said Neal. school at Jefferson Junior * High. 4 41 learned you can't run away from your problems," says Pat. 44If any other kid wanted to do what I did, I'd tell them to try to stick it out at home. Just do what your mother tells you even if it's wrong, and when she yells at you just go up to your room or do what she says." She plans to finish high school, she says, and then go into the service. Pat's problem seems relatively small when it is compered te the juvenile r- ~rr?: offenders charged with murder and other major crimes, but the system still treated Pat like a "criminal/* even though her crime was victimless. She has been put on See Page 2
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