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A Joyful Noise Negro spiritual soloist prepares for Goler program 34 Pagas This Week ** SUBSCRIPTION HOTLINE ~ 722-8624 ** Thursday, February, 23, 1989 It's In The Cards The game of bridge comes of age with local clubs T\ SO cwtta Winston-Salem Chronicle 'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL. XV, No. 26 Officials respond to concerns about counselors, tracking By TONYA V. SMITH Chfonlde Staff Writer Alleged problematical ratios of high school guidance counselors to students in the city-county school system and "tracking" of Afro American students into non-college preparatory courses are hypotheses void of a statistical and factual basc, acoording to officials with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. During the Feb. 16 meeting of the Forsyth Ministers' Fellowship, some of its members said high school counselor/student ratios have deprived students of the individual career and personal guidance neces sary for them to succeed. "There's a 725 to one student to counselor ratio in some of our schools," said Rev. William S. Fails. Another minister agreed and commented on the tracking issue in the school system. "The school systenf is tracking our students into non -academic classes," said Rev. John Mendez, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church. "They have taken black students, tracked them, and they're The Declining State of Black Health Hypertension can cause kidney failure By TONYA V.SMITH Chronide Staff WrHaf This is the second in a series of artitferixamtntog the declining state of Afro-Ameriean health, future articles will attire ss caus es oft treatment for and survival rates of leading diseases that cause death among Afro-Ameri cans. On the morning of Dec. IS, 4978, Reuben Davis awoke with swollen hands and feet Thinking he was experiencing a mild flare up of arthritis combined with a cold, Davis went to his doctor. "Go home and pack a suitcase and report to Moses Cone (Memo- . rial Hospital in Greensboro)," his doctor said. When he arrived at Moses Cone doctors told him his kidneys were no longer doing "what the good Lord intended them to do," Davis said. "If Td had a complete physi cal, instead of just going to the doctor when I was hurting, they would have found out I had hyper tension," he said. "Then 1 could have gotten it treated and wouldn't have to go through whati did." One out oj every four Afro Americans is hypertensive, corn Afro- Americans over age SO, the chances of being hypertensive increases by SO percent __ Hypertension, or high blood pressure, occurs when bipod circu lates through arteries at higher than normal pressure, said DrTCharles Johnson, 1987 chairman of the board for the National Medical Association. Its alias is "the silent killer" because the disease often has no symptoms, but when left untreated it can lead to cardiovascular dis ease, heart attack, heart failure, stroke or kidney failure. However, those with mild cases of the disease can lower their blood pressure by watching their diets, exercising, avoiding stress and limiting their salt intake, John son said. t ' * Please see page A 10 "If I'd had a complete physical , instead of just going to the doctor when I was hurting , they would have found out I had hypertension. Then I could Have gotten it treated and wouldn't have to go through what I did." -- Reuben Davis Photos by Charmano Detaverson "I used to be a big salt eater. I'd put salt on the back of my hand and lick it off, and I'd put it on tomatoes and corn , everything. " - Claudette Lindsay David Duke shuns meeting requested by By LINDA ASHTON ^ rl ? m HfJl ? ? MIOCURKI rfBM WnTOf NEW ORLEANS - A meeting failed to' materialize Tuesday between former Ku Klux Klan lead er David Duke and a black state legislator who said he wanted to discuss Duke's ideas. Rep. Avery Alexander, a civil rights leader, said he initiated the meeting which he scheduled with a woman in Duke's office but that whevxhe arrived Duke was gone. He said he (lid not know how to explain the confusion. "We knew nothing about it," Duke said today as he watched voting machines being checked. However, Duke said he would meet with anybody to discuss his work in the legislature. Alexander, a New Orleans Demo crat, said late Monday, "I initiated the meeting. I have some misgiv ings on how he is going to solve the problems of the state and our social problems. He's made some racist statements that he is opposed to minority set asides and he wants to get rid of welfare and welfare babies and that sounds like genocide to me." Alexander could not be reached today for further comment Alexander, who along with Dr. Martin Luther King helped to found the civil rights movement in the mid-1950's, said he was not sur prised to see a former grand wizard of the Klan elected to Louisiana's House of Representatives. 'The late Dr. M&tin Luther King warned us that once we won the struggle there would be, to some extent, a violent reaction. Now we find the run-of-the-mill white citi zen supporting a racist. They are not Klansmen. Those are just regu lar white folks who voted for Duke," said Alexander, former pres ident of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Duke could have been elected in any of 60 to 70 Louisiana districts, Alexander said. Hard economic times have intensified racial tension .Human Relations Commission celebrates 10th anniversary By TONYA V. SMITH <*Mi ? rinlrila "? ? vnranicw onn mw Striving to build a city where equal opportunities, equal justice and mutual undersrading form the bridge of community unity, the Human Relations Commission celebrated a decade of change Tuesday evening. About 170 people joined the commissions' staff in a celebratory reception at the Piedmont Club in One . TVj-J ??>_ -* irtad ran. The commission has sought community harmony through vigilance," said Dr. Thomas Hem, president of Wake Forest University and speaker for the evening. "What the Human Relations Commission offers us is the opportunity to build here in Winston-Salem, to grow and show mutual support and good will "Whatever mechanism we put in place to achieve our goal will work only if those in the community are working together. " The Human Relations Commission was created out of a need for justice and equality among all city resi dents, said director Emery L. Rann. In February 1978 a special ordinance of creation resulted in the formation of the Human Relations Com mission, In June of the same year, the Commission itceived S3 1, 000 to catry out the ordinance's provi sions. v In addition to the city office - consisting of Rann, human relations specialists Sandra C. Becker and Rebecca J. Brown, and senior office assistant Gail Bur nette - the aldermen's ordinance created a 21 -member commission which serves as a policy-making and advi sory board, said Rann. Commission members are: Timothy R. Janke, chair, Florence Corpening, vice chair, Annie Alexan der, John Barber, B.F. Daniels, Rod Eller, Roberta Groves, Kelley Hancock, Barbara Heam, Sidney Kelly, John Lovett, Margaret Mitchell, LaVerne Samuel, J.A. Quick, Paul Shepard, David Shouvlin, Theldora Small, L. V. S tennis, Jimmie Sudler, Deniae Williams and Clem Wftfwrt, When formed in 1779, commission members were given several charges: ?To study problems of discrimination and encour Please see page A10 4 on the honor roll, but can't go to a decent college because they haven't had the necessary physics, algebra and chemistry." However, if anything is hinder ing Afro-American students from reaching their full potential, it's the passive participation of their par ents, said Shirley Dunlap, an 18 year veteran counselor at Reynolds High School. "The problem is not so much with the counselors, it's the parents," Dunlap said. "If we could just get more involvement and help from our black students' parents . . ." The actual guidance counselor to student ratio in the city-county school system is 1 to 400, which is better than the established state standards, said William U. Albright, director of guidance for the Win ston-Salem/Forsyth County schools. "We would like to see a much lower student to counselor ratio, but the one to 400 is pretty much the standard," Albright said. "That's not to say that a lower counselor lo stu dent ratio wouldn't allow our coun selors to do a better job. The fewer Please see page A3 Board votes to sell land, expand mortgage By-TONYA V. SMITH Chronicle Staff Writer Unlike past public hearings about plans for East Winston's newest shop ping center, no one objected to the city's decision Monday night to convey 9.3 acres of land for the project to the East Winston Community Develop ment Corporation. The CDC is now free to convey the land to New Walkeitown Associ ates, the ownership corporation for the center, in exchange for 20 percent offtecompany's stock. Half of tiieCDCa profits from the shopping center will go 10 the city as payment for the land. City Development Director I. Allen Joines estimates it will take the CDC 10 years to pay the city the $214,774 established fair market value of the land located off New W&lher - town Road between Dellabrook Road and Gerald Street. The city will reserve funds it receives from the CDC for future econom ic development projects in East Winston. Likewise, any profits the devel opment corporation makes will go towards the non-profit oigaitization's operational costs and future development projects in the area. In the conveyance agreement the city noted its intent to construct the 14th Street extension from Addison Street to New Walkertbwn Road, the portion of roadway adjacent to the shopping center. Estimated project cost is $375,000. The East Winston CDC also has to present an annual report to the cfcy ? detailing the use of the corporation's cash flow. ( Joines, representatives from the CDC and Herman Turner, the project's developer, are scheduled to meet Monday morning to begin signing paper work on the land conveyance. "What we will do is go ahead and formalize the conveyance and convey the land to the CDC, and the CDC can go ahead and convey it to the devel opers so he can execute leases to tenants," Joines said. "Hopefully, we can * close within twol^Wcs." Joines will return to the board in April with the developer's request for a second mortgage on the project, but not until Turner has signed tenant leas Please see page AS Louisiana civil rights leader in the state, he said. "I think the struggle is more intense than it was five or eight years ago," he said. Alexander said he wanted a chance to hear Duke's legislative plans first hand before Wednesday, when Duke is scheduled to be sworn in at the start of a special leg islative session. At least one legislator has said he will challenge Duke's seating. Cooperation between black and white legislators has been pretty good in the past, Alexander said. "Not as good as I would have liked to see it, but there have been many instances where we have cooperated for the good of the stated he said. What effect Duke will have on state politics remains to be seen, Alexander said. lie's only one man, that's true, but Hitler was only one man. We know that one man can make an impact. Martin Luther King was only one man," Alexander said. % Photo by Chgrmartt Mavwmon Emory Rann, the commission's director. i
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