'Fight Back Against
Drugs' Week slated
By TONYA V SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Coke, rock, white cloud,
smack, herb, angel dust and the new
kid on the block, ice, are the foes.
Twelve year olds, newborns and
lecns aro-4he-vtctims7"Community
residents, pastors and police are the
soldiers in the war on drugs that has
evolved from mere metaphorical
status to battles in cities' streets.
Earlier this week, Winston
Salem's Citizens Drug Task Force
announced the city's participation in
a national effort to encourage com
munity residents to demonstrate
their commitment to alleviating
drug abuse and related crimes.
"Drug abuse continues to dev
astate the lives ot individuals and
families and reduces neighborhoods
to war zones and causes the expen
diture of exorbitant amounts of
public funds and energy," read the ?
city Board of Aldermen's resolution
declaring Dec. 3-9 "National Cities
Fight Back Against Drugs Week."
Terry Goddard, president of the
National League of Cities (NLC)
and mayor of Phoenix, Ariz., is the
} author of this new game plan. Said
* Mayor Coddard, nation's
cities are the front line in the war
against drugs, and we arc fighting
an enemy that threatens the people,
. the property and the entire social
fabric of our communities. We can
not overestimate what is at stake in
this war, and we cannot afford to
lose it."
"Cities Fight Back Against
Drugs Week" evolved as part of the
NLC's response to the national drug
control policy announced by Presi
dent George Bush in August. Presi
dent Bush approved the drug strate
gy prepared by national drug policy
director William J. Bennett. The
$7.5 billion program calls for a
$200 million increase in funding for
state and local law enforcement
agencies and up to $295 million in
new military and economic aid to
Peru, Bolivia and Colombia to com
bat cocaine traffickers at the source.
The local week-long celebra
tion will include several activities
aimed at educating and promoting
dialogue among people in the hope
that "we will attract new citizen sol
diers to join in the fight of the war
on drugs," said task force member
Richard E. Groves, pastor of Wake
Forest Baptist Church, during the
group's first formal press confer
ence Monday in city hall.
A proposed slate of activities
includes:
?"Drug Free Sunday," Dec. 3 -
churches are asked to incorporate a
drug-free theme in their services,
and Step One will conduct outreach
programs in specific neighborhoods
to identify drug users and offer
assistance. ??
?Monday, Dec. 4 - the city
county schools and Winston-Salem
State University will sponsor vari
ous activities Thp rity recreation
department will sponsor an essay
contest on drug abuse for young
people. Step One will sponsor after
school programs at Kimberly Park
Community Center, 3:30 p.m., and
Cleveland Avenue* Community
Center, 4 p.m.
?Tuesday, Dec. 5 - West
Sedgefield community meeting
with the drug task force, 6:30 p.m.;
mini-drug forum sponsored by the
Winston-Salem Youth Advisory
Council, 7 p.m.ithe Winston-Salem
Housing Authority and Tenants
Association will sponsor Families
Unite Against Drugs Family Fun
Night in the community centers of
Piedmont Circle, 5 p.m.; Cleveland
Avenue Homes, 5:30 p.m.; and the
Kimberly Park Community Center,
6 p.m.
?Wednesday, Dec. 6, Substance
Abuse Signs/Symptoms at Baptist
Hospital, 7:30 a.m. Senior Citizens
discussion on-dftigs, Sunrise Tow
ers, 2:30 p.m. Forsyth Mental
Health Reach Out to the Business
Community Employee Assistance
programs. A self-esteem program at
East Forsyth High School at 7:45
p.m.
?Thursday, Dec. 7, Public
Housing Community/Citizens Drug
Task Force, 7 p.m.. Open forum on
drugs at the Happy Hill Gardens
Community Center. The Citizens
Drug Task Force will hear concerns
from citizens regarding drug abuse
and the impact on neighborhoods.
?Friday, Dec. 8, motorists are
asked to turn their headlights on
this day to demonstrate their con
cern for the drug problem. After
school programs at Kimberly Park
and Cleveland Avenue community
centers, both will be held at 3:30
p.m.
?Saturday, Dec. 9, drug exhibit
by the Winston-Salem Police
, Department at the Marketplace
Mall from noon to 6 p.m. Sedge
field neighborhood march against
drugs, 10 a.m. "Substance Abuse on
the Body program at Rosemont
Baptist Church, 2 p.m.
The Citizens Drug Task F. cc
is chaired by Sheila Reynolds, is
members are Sophia Brown, W,.>c
man Dobson Jr., Delores McGee
James Rollinson, Lee Faye Mack
Henry Jones Jr., Grace Johnston
Shirley Dunlap, Clarthria "Peggy"
Wherry, Richard Groves, Jerry
Jernigan (vice chair), Wendell
Brown, Sidney Welch, Bob Adams,
Martha Martinat and John Geis Jr . '
Hundreds of students walk
out of Horry County schools
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) - More
than 1,300 of the Horry County
School District's nearly 8,000 black
students weren't in school Wednes
day, with some staying home to
show support for a fired middle
school teacher.
But unlike a similar protest Tues
day when more than 400 students
left school early with their parents,
there was no big walkout Wednes
day.
"We only had 120 black students
who were signed out by their par
ents Wednesday," school spokesman
Edward Boyd said.
Most of the students stayed home
for the day, he said.
Boyd noted that the Thanksgiving
holiday may account for some of
the absenteeism as some families
took their children out of school to
travel out of town for the long
weekend.
Horry Board of Education mem
bers have criticized parents for
keeping students out of the class
room. Most said it won't help fired
Conway Middle School science
teacher H.H. Singleton and will hurt
the students, who could fall behind
in their studies.
In another development laste
week, Horry County Black Coali
tion chairman Cleveland Fladger
and a handful of other adult
protesters arrived at school district
headquarters to present petitions to
Superintendent John Dawscy.
- Fladger said one of the petitions,
signed by black parents, asks
that protesters be given a chance to
hold a meeting with school board
members to discuss Singleton's fir
ing. Another petition asks that
Dawsey's contract not be renewed.
But Dawsey had already left his
office, his secretary said. The
protesters will try to deliver the
petitions again Monday.
Singleton, who was fired from his
teaching job Saturday by a 5-1 vote
of the school board, isn't responsi
ble for the students' absence from
school, Fladger emphasized.
He said parents of the students
met Monday night and agreed that
removing their children was a good
way to demonstrate their anger and
frustration over the firing.
Trouble started Aug. 22 when
about 30 Conway High School
black football players began boy
cotting practice, claiming head
coach Chuck Jordan discriminated
against former quarterback Carlos
Hunt, who is black.
Hunt was replaced this year with
a white quarterback, Mickey Wilson
Jr., who is a son of Conway's head
basketball coach.
On Aug. 28, the boycotting play
ers were kicked off the team
because they missed four practices.
The next day, Singleton -- who
heads the Conway chapter of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
and helped organize the boycott ?
, was suspended from his teaching
job-by Dawscy.
Sherman Hauser celebrates 100th birthday
By Chronicle Staff
Few people live to see their
100th birthday and fewer still
celebrate Their lives wifh as
much vigor as Sherman Hauser.
Last Friday, Mr. Hauser's
family honored the occasion with
a birthday cake and a display of
cards and gifts.
Mr. Hawser's recipe for
longevity is simple.
"I took care of myself," he
said. "I have never spent but one
night away from home in my
whole life. And I have never had
a fuss or been in a fight with
anyone. I've never had a fight
with a man anywhere. I was
never carried to the jailhouse in
my life."?
Mr. Hauser married in 1908
at the age of 18 and was the
father of 12 children, six boys
and six girls. He said that both
his mother and father were
young children when slavery
ended.
He was employed by
Reynolds Tobacco Co. for 35
years but said he. also-spent many
years working at a variety of jobs
for other people.
A great conversationalist,
Mr. Hauser enjoys sharing his
past experiences with visitors.
He can talk at length about life
growing up around the Yadkin
River and about the time his
family across the
siiias
Photo by Mike Cunningham
Happy 100th!
Sherman Hauser, who turned 100 years young last week, marked the occasion with a cake,
gifts and cards from friends and family.
river in a carriage then had to His daughter, Eleanor Haus- determined that Mr. Hauser had
rescue the children from the high er, one of only two surviving sib- 20/30 vision.
waters. lings, said she recently took her "I'm real proud of him being
father for his annual checkup, as active as he is," said Mrs.
Mr. Hauser still performs all "The doctor could not find a Hauser.
of his own household chores, thing wrong with him," she said. "I tell him he should be
such as chopping wood, cleaning thankful. There are a lot of peo
and canning fruits and She said she also took him pie not half his age who are
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