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oulse Wilson, Executive Director at ESR speaks to senior
[citizens at open house ceremony.
Plot To Phase Out
Black Institutions?
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The issues facing the A&T
State University students last
Tuesday were serious ones, a
matter of whether or not many
of them would be enrolled at
the university next fall.
Faced with the possibility of
a $200 to S300 tuition increase,
they had assembled in mass to
show their displeasure.
!s there a master plan to
phase out black institutions?”
asked Bennie Glover, presi
dent of the Student Govern
ment Association, in the
lead-off speach. ‘‘A&T has!
already raised its own fees byj
$229 and a $200 increase by
the state would make this
$429. I feel that we asl
students, with our right to
vote, must make our positionsj
known.”
‘‘They have asked for a $200j
increase,” said Dr. Lewis C.
Dowdy, chancellor of A&T.I
“But who knows how far they
are going if we let them?
Education has brought us this
far and we don’t intend to]
stop.”
Senior Citizens 'On The Move'
Open House Kicks Off
Senior Citizens Month
by Gwen Dixon
Staff Reporter
“Senior Citizens are on the
ball and on the move,” was
the comment most often cited
at the recent open house of the
Senior Citizens Activity Cen
ter on Patterson Avenue.
Director of Senior Citizen
Activities, Mary P. Brice said
in an interview that “we try to
make senior citizens feel
wanted because we care. The
day for them sitting around
looking at four walls is over.”
The open house ceremony
at the center was attended by
more than 75 senior citizens,
friends and visitors.
Louise Wilson, the Execu
tive Director of Experiment in
Self-Reliance (ESR), told the
group she begged and pleaded
with the city to buy the
building which the city did in
December 1974. ESR is
responsible for the recent
renovation of the building.
David Drummond, County
Commissioner, declared the
month of May as Senior
citizens month, with special
emphasis from May 4,
through the 10th.
Activities for senior citizens
have operated since the first of
the Model Cities Funds in
1970. Since that time the
program has grown. Mary
Brice, who began working for
Model Cities as a social
worker, directs the program
for citizens 60-years old,
handicapped and older. She
has a staff of nine who work in
the areas of homemaking, arts
See SENIOR Pase 14
Aldermen Pass New Police Concept
Team Policing To Curb Crime
by Gwen Dixon
Staff Reporter
TheBpard of Aldermen in its^T
Monday night meeting passed
unanimously a presentation by
Police Chief T.A. Surratt on
the neighborhood team polic
ing concept.
Surratt told the board that
the federal government has
selected Winston-Salem along
with five other cities for the
program. A sum of $179,000 is
allocated by the federal
government for a temporary
program to train in team
policing.
“Team policing is a new
method designed to get
noticeable results in crime
control and to improve
relations with the commun
ity.” Surratt said. The attempt
will be made to strengthen
police control in a single
neighborhood. The program
iMerchants Confident Downtown
Shopping Is Here To Stay
will be designed to last for 18
months. Six months will be in
the planning stages and 12
months for the actual
implementation of the pro
gram.
Surratt, however, did not go
into specifics as to how the
program will be designed,
what neighborhoods the
program will operate in, nor
what officers will comprise the
See TEAM Page 12
I '
by Robert Eller
Staff Repoiier
Despite the fact that more
Inialls and shopping centers
Jarc being built each year atid
[parking spaces are scarce in
I downtown Winston Salem, the
jnicrchants feel the lutiire ot
I the area is bright.
This is the general
[consensus of downtown Win-
hton Salem's retail merchants.
Max Peddle, manager of
[Stanley’s Shoe Store on the
downtown mall, says he does
not think the suburban malls
arc taking business from the
downtown merchants.
“The people who shop
downtown are people who
work here and the people v\ ho
travel by bus.” Peddle says
there is no chance ot
downtown Winston Salem
dying. “Our buildings are
much larger therefore we can
offer more variety, ’ he
commented. Another reason
he feels that the downtown
area will continue to thirive is
the fact that Blacks shop
downtown to a large extent.
Blacks represent more than
$24 million in buying power in
Winston-Salem.
M ax B. Smith, manager of
the shoe department of the
Mother and Daughter store,
agrees with Peddle. “Down
town Winston-Salem is not
dying. The reports of death
arc grossly exagerated.” he
said.
Smith said business in
downtown Winston-Salem in
creased last year and it was a
See MERCHANTS Page 9
Business in the downtown Mall area flourishes in spite of
shopping centers. Workers and shoppers still find downtown
convenient
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