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t' ' , _ I ' Vol. 5 No. 10 *20 cents* Downtown By John W. Temple ton . -~r ? N Staff Writer Two months ago, the barons of Buzzards Roost held court in the entraftCeway of an abandoned former furniture store at 550 North Liberty St., at the corner of Liberty and 6th Sts. As the weeks went by, subtle changes began to occur. The wine bottles got cleared away. Paneling was put up to cover the windows. The doors were greased to make sure you couldn't see what went on inside. And after hours, a stream of black workmen filed quietly in and out of the building, working on renovation. ^ All the activity is designed to turn this once vacant eyesore into a disco palace^-the biggest one in the area, says Rick Clark, president of Investments Limited and manager of what will be known as Disco 2,000. "We're going to bring Winston-Salem a total ? entertainment package they haven't seen before," said Clark. "It's going to be total disco-sight and sound.V Inside the building , Clark and his associates have laid NAACP Suit i u?i iduyui ueiw By John W. Templeton We couldn't Staff Writer until we ac CHARLOTTE--NAACP legal and educa- . ,dry . * , , , , . doesn t count tion experts have concluded that the civil Jones He sai rights organization -would?not have count and tl grounds on which to challenge North wefe actuaj|y Carolina's competency testing program between that until after the test is actually administer- difficult 4 ed statewide on November 1 and 2. Jones said a ? "If it appears from the test results that strike down our children are going to be penalized, test thc ^ then we are going to have to seek judicial issuance of < intervention to have the program thrown passing the te out orjmodified," NAACP general counsel Nathaniel E. Jones told delegates to - e ^ a ? the 35th annual convention of the N.C. r . e f Ur . . State Conference of NAACP Branches. _ , t N i - In a ChronfcTe~interyiew^ Jones said, efS* e ^ "We have to have a patient, so to speak. S Some people aren't accustomed to the sight of a black tfian in a business suit. And some of those folks are black. Two recent incidents in the 400 block of Liberty Street come to mind. Just the other morning, as I strolled to the Chronicle "penthouse" atop the Pepper Building, a brother came down the street past me. v, "You're looking good, brother," he said unexpectedly .Of course, that made me feel good. Then he added, "You going to a job interview". He had kept on walking and so did I so I didn't want to ? go into a detailed explanation that I had a job which required me to dress that way every day. I replied, "Yep." "Where at?" he responded, now 20 feet behind me. "The Chronicle," I said. "R.J. Reynolds," he replied. "That's good, brother; i hope you get it". A f#?w davs before that, an older Gentleman turned the corner of Fifth and Liberty, just as I crossed the intersection. I "What are you practicing?" he asked. "Well, I'm trying to be a journalist," I replied. "I thought you were a lawyer or a doctor or something," he replied. What does it all mean? I asked myself. It could mean I'm a good dresser. But I immediately dismissed that c notion. ^ More likely, the two conversations point up the impact of years of discrimination in employment and negative 1 ft . images in the media. For many years, the only place blacks could go to get a job would be the tobacco mill; and the range of occupations for professional blacks was similarly limited. However, nothing has changed if one relies on the images the overwhelming majority of the mass media portrays of blacks. We're all just doing a few things, one would be led to believe. It isn't so. By John Temple ton ^ a I c "The NEWSpaper Winston's been Eyesore scutheqire^ out a 30-foot dance floor with twice as much seating ? a * *u : r?a. i spate. r\i mc tear is a ovj-iuoi Dar. The walls are decorated with mirros and geometric ? designs in all colors of the rainbow, but the real impact will come from the light show, complete with strobes, chasers, flashers, and several other exotic sounding lights, and the "glass house". in the glass house will sit the disc jockey with his array of turntables and sound an light controls. "The DJ is the heartbeat of all disco operations; his job is delivering funky music, giving the people what they want." The significance of the new establishment goes be yomfr the- creation of another nightspot.?Downtown?S Winston-Salem is currently a wasteland after dark, but Clark believes in its potential, . "Downtown is not dead," he said; "There are too I many people down here." Standing in front of the building, he gestured up and down Liberty Street, "Look at all the free parking after hours. "I think that Disco 2,000 will do a lot to help " See Page 10 Depends on ed ? ?New^= demonstrate the impact ?? By John W. Temple tuallv oet thp r#??n1tc" 6#*fT U/ J O- . HI? " "WI n they had last year, that CHARLOTTE-- Delegates tc ; (in a legal sense)," said annual convention of the P d students knew it wnnlHn't f nnfgranno nf j iat several different tests for the Advancement of Coloi given, making comparisons resolved to launch a "ne^ : test and the official one against an old enemy-discrim Following the lead of nationa in NAACP suit would try to director Benjamin L. Hooks the negative effects of the president Kelly M. Alexande nial of diplomas and the more than 300 delegates c certificates to persons not establish program task force st. areas as housing and commur \ACP has come under fire each local branch. ham-based North Carolina To underwrite that effort, Quality Education, whose announced plans to double the m Johnson and Rev^Lcon^^^E^membership^from^ ee Page 10 50,000 and to riase $100,000 \| ?- ^1-: j tj jutji *f*T I "Ki?1 & 14 TH r: 3" I i\b <-^4^ Above are three highway projects In various stages of o planning which would impact on traffic flows in the c* north and east of Winston-Salem. Left Is a sketch of plans to extend the Liberty-Main Streets one-way pair n from 8th Strett to U.S. 52. p The project has been funded by the state Department aj City Housing I By Sharyn B rate her Five local spea Staff Writer tives from th< T I 1 1.1 J l A A rtr KI ntliant D/h-/nm? lajw income nouscnoias mate up <*uvo MOlu,?l IVCSUU1 >f the total ii* Forsyth County, Alderman velopment disc /irginia Newell told the audience at *he housing pre ruesday night's housing forum. Of the ?f approximate ow income houses 60% are substandard. auditorium of tl Catholic Church However, the panel was short on Gary Brown, olutions to the problems associated with of Community ] ow-income housing. "If you expected that the city n< ne to come up here and give you the > housing by 191 olution, then I apologize,"Larry Little approved only 1 old the audience. "Because I don't have "Even if the g >ne." His statement summarized the ing housing at eelings of the assembled panelists. be far behind," I i waiting for" 18 pages this we wf ~ a Rick Clark at the bar as work TestResults Thrust Planned ?? lton "We're faced with an unfinished agenda," Alexander, conference president ) the 35th since 1948, proclaimed .during his yearly ^.C. "State report. Vssociation In a Chronicle interview, he said, "We red People face a more sophisticated type of racism. w thrust" We must deal with it using new ination. methodologies". 1 executive Kenyon C. Burke, NAACP associate and state director for programs and one of a dozen r, Sr., the top national staffers who tutored convenlecided to tion delegates in the new program effort, s in such said the objective "is to strengthen the lications in local units so that they can impact on issues that have an impact in their Alexander communities". i statewide "One cannot, be an advocate about 25y000 tv anything if they're ignorarTf," saidthis year. Burke. See Page 10 f Transportation and the estimated date for the start of DnstractJon Is 1986. Right is one of four alternatives being studied for a ew thoroughfares plan for the city. Two of the rojects, the Winston Lake Connector near the airport iid the widening of Northwest Boulevard, would make Needs Outst kers and two representa- Benjamin Erlitz, an atton s NX. Department of Aid, told the'fcroup that th ces and Community De- co-ordinated development ussed various aspects of revenue sharing funds, he >blem before an audience far no co-ordinated effort h ely 60 people in the to use these funds tow le St. Benedict the Moor purpose in housing. I on 12th Street. The value of a well-organ , hood group was discusse Winston-Salem s director Towers presidem Chuck m Development, pointed out ^ i -i *w\ * t The cl*y staff1S most efi seds 12,000 new units of , an * mm r u is responding to clear idea 50, but HUD so far has K , , ,, . . groups of people, said Di . tunately, the organized grc overnment keeps approv- _ .... , . ? Mi x-ii iy politicians, businessmei its present rate we 11 still J Y Brown said." departments." y ? ^ _ _M_.T_lr_. . n - ? - . - ? i ' ^ ? 1 . - ' > ,>n t:. Vy-* ; ;% &.:?* ek Saturday October 28, 1978 'as=aaaai^~ ' j3E?K; - '4^gj i . ' 7.- - I Iw : ?^UaUt^M M A . .Qi K fc>^hI I BHVr ^HH is completed on Disco 2000. Ulllllllllliliiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiii ail for you illllllllllllltlllltMlllllllllliy i *The planned extension of a super-highway through..-! - ^ a predominately black community in Durham would 1 ? = disrupt families, according to a Duke University I ?| study, page 2. | ^Neighborhood groups in Winston-Salem carry a lot | | of clout, page 3. | = The dav of r*?rkr>ninp fr>r th*? ^mnfltonn., tar*?Spp i _ r O ? 1 'J S | editorials, page 4. r | Kelly M. Alexander, Jr., the 30-year-veteran ? | president of the state NAACP, is featured in Q and | , | A, page 5, which also has Getting Along with Drs. ? I James Comer and Alvin Poussaint. ? ? I *TV game show host Bob Barker is on his way to i | the Triad and local artists open an new museum, see | | Vibes, pages 8,9. | I ?Johnson C. Smith won its first game of the season | | last week, but their next opponent is the mighty | | Rams, page 11._ I ~ 5 . ? flmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMMiMtiiiiiiiitiiimiiiitiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiitiiiiiiHi It easier to get from one tide of East Winston to another and possibly ttiiralate new development, say city (' planners. The City-County Planning Board Is currently seeking public Input on these and other changes. If you have an opinion, call 727-2717. / rip Solutions ley with Legal Dizard went on to say that a neighborle city has not hood group is basically defending its own money, and interests. For good housing for the noted, but so maximum number of people, a city-wide as been made effort is required. ard a single "We can't work if we're divided racially or by neighborhood organizations". ized neighbor- "We have very few resources to deal id by Crystal a large problem," Alderman Larry Zard. Little began. He explained that income is Fective when it the keyt0 better housings of organized ^ y?u 8^ve someone a decent house zard "Unfor- without a decent income it will be a slum jups are usual- in a few Vears anyway." i, or other city See Page 10 *
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