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T p* . No site, no funds for proposed transit center From Page A1 bui sii here and vole," Mrs. Brown J said. "At least the board should comc out with some stance of support because we haven't really been doing that." Location, location, location is the critical issue now, Mr. Ritchey said. . "We only need to accept a toe si ion that witt help this enter prise and not hurt it," he said. Patrons of WSTA deserve at least that much he added pointing to the fact that the city has the most productive bus system in the state, with more people carried for every mile of service. ____^WeJiave the ^second largest system although we're not the sec ond largest city and I think that speaks for a vibrant downtown," Mr. Ritchcy said, "it may not be as vibrant as we would want . . . but besides Charlotte, Winston Salem has a stronger downtown than any other downtown in the state. Although Raleigh offers more service, we carry a third more riders." In other business, board mem bers opted to discontinue the Old Salem Trolley, effective Decem ber 31, because of low ridership. The trolley averaged 67.5 riders per day, compared to the 400 rid ers per day average on the West End Trolley. "The annual operating costs (of the Old Salem Trolley) are S55.300, and revenues are esti mated *1-55,200, yielding an annual net cost of $50,100, or S2.41 net cost per passenger," Mr. Ritchey explained. "The Old Salem Trolley is our least effec tive service in terms of ridership and net cost per rider. I have also received a number of complaints to help fund the net cost of the ?; about the Old Salem Trolley run- service he said. ; ning empty." A new service, the Hanes ; The authority will review the Mall Trolley, was added to WSTA ; possibility of restarting the trolley Nov. 20 and will continue until ;; next summer. ? Dec^30. The shuttle-opexates^L Mondays through Saturdays pro Another service which will viding service to Hanes Mall, ; have to be evaluated is Trans-Aid, Silas Creek Crossing, the Pavil- / Mr. Ritchev said. WSTA may ions, Sam s, Heritage Woods, have to ask the aldermen and Healy^Towers and The BricTg?3~T~ county commissioners for funding Apartments. Cartoon sparks racial violence at Glenn High School From Page A1 and poor grammar and calling each other names. In the second cartoon panel, two white male students are por trayed smiling and pleasantly greeting each other. Above the two panels is the question: ? Would you rather have this? (the situation with the black students) Or this? (the situation with the white students) Your choice." The cartoon, which was pub lished the day before the Thanks giving holiday, prompted an immediate apology from Glenn High School principal Carl L. CJarke who expressed his regrets to the student body over the school's public address system.? Two Afro-American male stu dents were suspended for fighting a while male student over the car toon, according to school officials. Assistant principal Nathaniel Bar ber said he suspended the students because he could not condone fighting for any reason. "Obviously the cartoon never should have existed, it was unfair," said Mr. Barber, an Afro American. Donna E. Oldham, communi cation specialist for the school system, said that faculty member Steve Anihonyrwho serves as adviser to the student newspaper, "apologized thisweek to other fac ulty members during a staff meet ing. Mr. Clarke said the apologies were accepted by the faculty and the students. "I reprimanded him (Mr. Anthony) very strongly and recommended that he do a better * job of editing .in the future," said Mr. Clarke. "But this was a little incident that is over as far as everyone at this school is con cerned. Everyone understood that it was an error in judgment." Some concerned citizens, however, said the apology is not enough. Annette Beatty is a teach er at Southwest Elementary School and a member of the Com munity Human Relations/Cultural Diversity Committee established by Superintendent Larry D. Coble. "What this cartoon does is to bring to the forefront what people are actuallythinking/" "she said. "Not only is the apology not accepted, I think stronger action needs to be taken. The school sys tem needs race relations sensitivi ty sessions, because this is not just a mistake, this is gross negligence on the part of all the adults who have anything to do with putting the student paper out. "If this means strong guide lines need lo romp from central office about publishing student papers, then so be it, because we don't have any place for this in our community." Palmer Friende, executive assistant to the superintendent, , said that he had talked with par ents the day the paper was pub lished and lhai he had also spoken with Mr. Clarke. "We have not determined that the young man (Mr. Anthony) did anything other than use poor judg ment," said Mr. Friende. "I would be concerned if it were a deliber ~~auTacT that was precipitated and designed to offend. ... "It's unfortunate that some lit tle things that people think are harmless turn out to be very harm ful." Reverend Lee Faye Mack, chair of Mr. Coble's committee and president of the Concerned Mothers of Forsyth County, sent a letter to Mr. Coble which read . . VOur question is, who is responsi ble for overseeing the publication of this paper? Whoever the person is, it is obvious that the lack of sensitivity and insight disqualifies , this individual from overseeing a school newspaper and it is very questionable that this person has the necessary attributes to teach had problems in the past, but they our children. ..were always hush-hush and quiet Mrs. Mack's letter also said ed down so that nobody knew that the school board had agreed anything^" she said. in February to sponsor race sensi tivity workshops for teachers and She also said that she was administrators. She questioned concerned about the lack of why the workshops had not been parental involvement in the con put into place. troversy. "If this was a race issue Mrs. Mack, who lives in the pitted against white students, you Glenn High School area, said that better believe those white parents the school had experienced race would have been all over the problems in the past. "They have place." VARGRAVE HAIR S DESIGNERS || 1320 Cunningham Av. 1 723-7511 OR 723-3711 1 PERMS - CURLS DEC. 4-13 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday only 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM No Appointments necessary City concessions should go to minorities From Page A1 less than a 22 percent profit from the business. Members of the M/WBE advisory committee debated Tues day as to whether the business1 could be operatcd^by a Afro American or female-owned busi ness. "I think it's something we need to put in the hands of a minority group," said James Mack, vice chair of the group. Pointing out the minority presence among the 138 conces sions' employees, member Bill ) Do we asked if any other company could do better. Sixty of the part time workers are Afro-American women and 27 are black men. Thirty-seven white females work part time. Two Afro-American men and one white woman are three of the four full-time work ers. Mr. Mack said he wants to see blacks with full-time jobs that pay above minimum wage. Alexander Beaty, assistant city manager and staff liaison to the committee, said the city pays the workers above minimum wage and that some of the part-timers have worked enough hours to accumulate bene fits. In addition, several church and non-profit groups, such as Macedonia True Vine Pentecostal Holiness Church, Veterans Post #453 and the Ambassadors of God Church, provide laborers to oper ate several of the stands at the col iseum and Bowman Gray. The groups receive 15 percent of the stand's gross sales at the end of their working night. The city could probably increase its profit margin if it turned over its concession opera tions to a private firm, but doing so would mean giving up manage ment control, said Thomas W. Fredericks, assistant city manager over the area. Greensboro, Char lotte, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Asheville have city-operated con cession operations, he said. "As is evident from the sur vey of other North Carolina facili ties, in-housc management of con cession operations is the preferred choice," wrote Mr. Fredericks in a memorandum to the committee. "I believe that this is due to the high level of management control offered to the city. Over ihc years, the city has built an efficient and profitable operation. However, increasing profits has never been the overriding goal of operating concessions. "The city, in providing food concessions, always balanced quality food service with reason able profits. . . . There is no doubt that the city could probably increase its profit margin by con trading ihe concession business to an outside firm. In contracting it out, it is obvious that the city would be giving up its direct man agement control over this impor tant city operation." The committee opted to give the board the opportunity to dis cuss the feasibility of privatizing the concession operations rather than making a recommendation one way or another. Dems trying to mend fences From Page A1 kind of support and unification in What is uncertain at this point, Commissioner Long said, is the number of anti-Mayor Wood Democrats in the city. "That's something I can't tell right now, but I think we're going to find out in the next two months as we sponsor fund raisers to help repay the substantial personal debt Martha suffered in the campaign. "When we see how people come out and support those fund raisers ... if they don't come out f, and we don't hear from them, we'll know that we don't have their support." Chairman Holton said his party should register 6,000 new Democratic voters by the^ 1990 general election. In addition, he said, "The Democratic Party will place a renewed emphasis on our precinct committees and organiza tions. In 1989, we have put 14 regional precinct coordinators in place county-wide. These coordi nators will assist in improving our ability to communicate throughout the precinct structure." Registering more voters is always an Important goal, as is fund raising, but the divisiveness caused by the primary campaigns is still visible, and Mr. Holton should set a parly goal of rcctify ing^hausUualion^said-Naomi _ Jones, president of the Black Political Action League, a non partisan group. "Really, as head of the Democrats, if divisivcncss still exists, he needs to get in there and pull the party together so that they'll be able to gain ground in the upcoming elections in the county," Mrs. Jones said, adding that the divisiveness polarizes the community and alienates voters from participating in the Demo cratic process. Mr. Long agreed, saying that his goal is - and the goal of the party should be - to unify city and county governments as well as gain the allegiance of the business community. "I have worked very hard for almost a year now, since I've been a commissioner, for the overall improvement of relations between both the city of Winston-Salem and the county," Commissioner Long said. "I am a very, very strong proponent of first: city unity, and secondly: Democratic Party unity. I believe the city and the county has to some first bccause the city and county are made up of the people who are my constituents. "I think the party is split into too many fragments and picccs, ccmcnt floor and we can't have this. There's got to be unification among party members. We've got to reason with some people, affec tionately known as the old guard or the old establishment, and get them to recognize that there has been a substantial change in this community. We've got new lead ers both in the black community and the white community and new thought patterns and new goals." Winston-Salem is embarking upon a new era which will require its residents to be risk-takers, Mr. Long continued. . "They've also got to be flexi ble," he said. "The key word is flexibility. Too many people are basically inflexible. Now we have to get everybody together with our new mayor - the city, the county, business - because their unifica tion means more jobs, better jobs and improvement of social ser vices." Mayor-elect Wood as well as most of the Democratic elected officials, were attending the National League of Cities conven tion in Atlanta this week and were unavailable for comment at press time. CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS CALL 722-8624 TODAY Winston-Salem Chronicle Student Journalist Award The Winston-Salem Chronicle plans to recognize a Student Journalist of the Year. Any student in Grades 9 through 12 is eligible to enter. We are asking for two double-spaced, typewritten pages on the essay topic: < O What white American in U.S.Histoi^didthemo toadvance theCivil Rights movement? Cite specific support your theory. ? Essays will be judged on thoroughness of the research, creative expression and neatness. ? Deadline: Entries must be at the Winston-Salem Chronicle office by 5:30 p.m. on January 5, 1990. ? The three best essays will be published in our Martin Luther King, Jr., Special Section on Thursday, January 11. ? The winner will be recognized at the Chronicle Awards Banquet in February. ? Make sure to include your name, address and phone number. * Winston-Salem Chronicle 617 N. Liberty St.Winston-Salem, N. C. 27102 (919) 722-8624
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