?? ? ? >-**m?--~~ ?? Page Ai6-The Chronicle, Thursday, October 18, iHHimiimmtmwuHiiHiiiinmimimiiummiiiiMi?wmmmmmmmmmmm Too many people m; J Management designed, but that it also is in keeping with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidelines. 44HUD has some guidelines but they leave discretion to the management," said Boatright. "It's our guidelines to have the one-child-per-bedroom rule because of the size of the bedrooms at Goler. In some apartments, you can have two or three people in the same bedroom, but those bedrooms are just too small." According to Morse, after you get a "bed and a thin sheet of toilet paper in the room," that's all it can accommodate. While all of the tenants at Goler won't be forced to leave the complex, many others will have to move from the two- or three-bedroom units they presently occupy into larger apartments. The complex's management decided to make the changes in an effort to house only one family in each apartment, Boatright said. In her family's case, Mrs. Jones has four children and three of those have children of their own. According to management's guidelines, that means imiHItmiMllllltUmiMMIIIIINMMMNNNNMmmNNMMMHMMINIMMNMa Only three black pa] From Page A1 milium ?hm?hmmhihiiiiiiiiihii invitations, Pitt received a letter refusal to appe from him in August signed NCBPA. "Rufus" in which the candidate "We didn't thii declined to participate in the meaningful to ai press conference. ference, which se "In all the calling back and something throwr r . . - * - iortn, tnere were some miscom- last minute to all munications," said Lynch. "He feelings among r (Edmisten) had no problems in black press," she meeting with anyone. It has never John Kilimanja been his intent to overlook the the Carolina Pe black press." theNCBPAhadt But Chronicle Publisher Ernie Edmisten. Pitt said Edmisten's attempt to "Some candid set up his own meeting without can ignore and tr< consulting the NCBPA was an in- press) as an aft suit to the black press. said. "As I said before, we tried to "After they de set up a news event, and he tried to circumvent our efforts by J holding his own meeting," said v.' y Pitt said he didn't think three editors out of the state's 11 black . newspapers were representative "The meeting meant nothing," he said. "Black voters should be I > cognizant of the snubbing of the black press by Edmisten." Edmisten's staff scheduled the I meeting in Raleigh last Friday at the N.C. State Faculty Club. Lynch said Edmisten discussed KpJ editors, ranging from economics to measures to increase the I amount of advertising in black "I think the meeting was a success because very positive "If only one person had shown, it would have been a sue- I cess we an open and But Grover Bailey, editor of I The Carolinian in Raleigh, said I he wasn't impressed. H "There were very few ques- Jj tions," said Bailey. "The conference was very impromptu and jjfojT appeared to be a forum for Edmisten to apologize to the black Bailey said that one Edmisten ?pPf\ campaign aide wasn't aware that the candidate was meeting with black editors. wasn't aware of the protest by other members of the NCBPA. ^A Vivian Edmonds, publisher of The Carolina Times in Durham, said the group protested the \ meeting because of Edmisten's FOR SNUFF liSSpt! THAT'S SWEET p? AS HONEY, Pi GIVE [SSllI HONEYBEE ' kWt P ' WNBVBB Braiire ??. r iSPIlS INU^ Helme Tobacco Company flfe'-X ?v ^ 4 c ??mpanv <4 (.uWifv? (.nfijuratnfM IG363 ' v ^ ?- WSaafl "' WH* ~***~ +ar**m- -+? * ? >^Vn?t<^ir?8ur 1984 ay force evictions four families live in one apartment. "'Sometimes families have to split up," said Boatright. "That's what has happened and that's why some of the overcrowding has occurred. But in the case where there are very large families, their best bet is to find a house." Alderman Virginia Newell, whose ward contains the Goler Apartments, said that, while she realizes the plight some residents face, she also realizes that the complex's management must make changes to improve the problem-plagued apartments. "If f hf?ir miIm ar#? tn IrMn th* .. ...... waww wi? ?v nvvp kliv piuvv IWp'UVlVIl dllU first class, I believe we have to work with those young people with those babies,** said Newell. "1 can't argue with the management with the kinds of problems we have had over there. But I will try to work with those young ladies to see if we can get some help. "I*ve gone to bat many times to get help for those apartments and I believe this (the one-family-perunit guideline) is help. We have to have just single families in those units.** Leases for most of the families will expire-on pers show at Edmisi N. . / ' ar before the jor press, they feel they can come to us and pick up a few scraps.** ik 11 was wise or Bernard Robinson, managing ttend this con- editor of the Iredell County emed to be just A/lews, said the meeting was a 1 together at the political maneuver by Edmisten ay any negative to get black votes, nembers of the "Personally, I think Edmisten said. felt he had the black vote locked iro, publisher of up, and therefore didn't need the acemaker, said black press," said Robinson conKtn snubbed by cerning why Edmisten refused the original invitation to meet with ates think they the NCBPA. * . ;at us (the black "But, with the latest polls inerthought," he dicating the gubernatorial race is close, Edmisten felt he needed the al with the ma- black press to get his name out in .... w w ^ -. ^ M &'' J"' l 5/ **", ,.<"" I , ^j,rl'^ m uo^ <f liiytefllk \ -Enfg--?- "tab* w ?^IT n ~ ? .v^'" s'J^i^r^pea^wTr*.'^ ?*??*?cw - ?. ? ? From Page A1 mmmmmltmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi either Nov. 30 or Dec. 31, but if the families look for housing and can't find it, Boatright said, they may be given extensions on a case-by-case basis. ''That's what scares me," said Mosley. "Where are we gonna go? I've been looking but I can't find nothing." Many of the Goler residents said they are trying to find housing where they can receive rent assistance as they do at Goler, but public housing in the citv thev cairl ic limit?/4 J J ?/ WV) aa lAIIIliVVi Dave Thompkins, executive director of the city's housing authority, said his office has sftnilar guidelines concerning overcrowding but that they aren't as strict the one bedroom-per-person rule enforced by First Columbia Management. I "Families outgrow units all the time," said Thompkins. "But we try to relocate them to another larger or, in some cases, smaller unit. We have public housing up to five bedrooms." Similarly, HDD's guidelines, said Florene Mitchell, chief of the loan management branch at the u- HUD regional office in Greensboro, are not as ten meeting Haf community." 1 But Bill Johnson, publisher of The Charlotte Post, he didn't attend the meeting because it conflicted with his schedule. "The only reason we didn't go was because we didn't get the call until Wednesday," said Johnson, m "I didn't have enough time to prepare or send someone." . I Still, Johnson said he believes A*%?i ? ? * * * * any 5ui i ui communication bet. ween Edmisten and the black press was better than none at all. Lynch agreed, noting that, if T5" jS HM14 Edmisten wins, there will be FJaIvIv1 other meetings with the black VII press Tit al>..*t''' IN? f __ _e%" * .. ?^6?ao<v . !Se*e\>?e Jp? ?o?d t^pel'e" * 7> <"* ?" , ^ /, f1 f,*f W 1 (1 V > Stuart Auto Ex /Orner of Old Cf and Northw \^722-C rnmmmmmmmmmrnimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmm < llllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllUIUimiMMUMMMiNtMIHIMIHINMIMi strict as the ones imposed at Goler. "It's not that black and white,** said Mitchell. "It depends on the age and sex of the children. There are some factors that go into making a decision.*' But Mitchell added that, when families become too large for the apartment and no other units are available, they have to move. "If the family grew to the point where the unit was overcrowded and that was the largest size unit we had, they would have to move because we don't allow overcrowding," she said. "That makes ghettos.** Goler manager Morse said it's "unfortunate" that the units had existed in their overcrowded state for as long as they have. But the main goal now, said Morse, is to get the units back into good condi IIUII. "We are not trying to get at anybody," Morse said. "But we are trying to get it back the way it's supposed to be and get it back in the right physical condition." _ . ^PF '. :? Ik General John vessey Chairman. Joint Chiefs of Staff ?V. 6,HIS 4 STARS r NO MORE WEIGHT AMI VAIIH 1 HAW HIV 1VUI1 I VUIE. kL V-v-: -*-P< -hL .&> I I mL I w< \ m \ I o gjV -: iCf V H. 4'. : *;> >. <??. I r1J^f % c., J.. t/% /. . fit} )& , . (Pa *** < ,l,o"1 . cXv^rc\t?e* k /terry v est Blvd. >672- /

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