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Vol. m, No. 12
Blai
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Few blacks showed up f<
the budget hearing hel
Tuesday night in the City Ha
Council Chambers. Accor<
ing to a source who did atter
the meeting, the gener
crowd was smaller than ha
been expected.
Recommendations thi
City Man
Charged Wit]
Shooting Wif
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Roland Artis Neal, 20,
805 Moravia St., was charge
with the shooting of h
19-year-old wife Gwendol;
Delores Neal last Sunda
seriously injuring her.
After being shot in tl
chest, Mrs. Neal was taken
Baptist Hospital where si
reportedly told police that si
had been at her mothei
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nouse ax zuui n. z?txn a
when her husband came ai
shot through the front stoi
door.
The bullet was said^to ha
passed through the door ai
struck Mrs. Neal in the chc
just above her heart. Details
what happened have not be
fully determined but a poli
investigation is continuing.
The police feel however tl
the shooting, as they ha
been able to determine so f
was the result of a domes
squabble.
A spokesman at Baptist si
that Mrs. Neal was now
satisfactory condition and h
been moved from intens:
care to a regular nursing ur
Neal was charged w
assault with a deadly weap
inflicting serious injury,
was jailed "under a S10,(
bond. At his prelimim
hearing, Neal was appointei
lawyer and a second heari
set for Nov. 30th.
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were submitted to the board
for consideration as one
woman put it, "were all
)r people oriented." The same
d attitude was reflected in the
televised program "Focus"
where the people in the city
,d were given the opportunity to
a] call members of the city Board
id of Aldermen to give them
recommendations on how the
it money of the upcoming
Miss Mt. Olive Mrs. Josie Mc
Greene [left] and program or
at a recent pageant. See sto
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s James Baldwin...
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nd by Azzie Wagner
;st Social Editor
of Having mellowed and ever
en softened a bit from previous
ice years, James Baldwin novelist,
essayist and play
lat wright visited Wake Fores
ve and Winston-Salem State
ar, Universities last evening t<
tic the delight of many.
The internationally knowi
lid writer of many fiery and evei
in controversial works of litera
iad ture admitted at once to ai
ive audience at Wait Chapel 01
lit. the campus of WFU that, "
ith may sound a little differen
>on now than 1 did in the past
He but that's because I'm older.1
)00 However, Baldwin was no
iry so different that at many time
d a during his speech, one cobl<
ing forget that he was the autho
of such novels as Anothc
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budget should be spent. There
were contradictions.
"It seems odd" said one
man, "that one of the major
items to come up was the
renovation of the Coliseum,
especially after the bond
referendum was voted down."
He was referring to the
bond referendum that would
have provided money for the
renovation had it been
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n James Baldwin
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l* According to Baldwin, the
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trouble witn this country trom
his point of view is that it's
t never told the truth to itself,
s 44However," quotes the aui
thor, "things are showing
r promises of getting better, but
r there is still a lot to be angry
DAY NOVEMBER 20. 1976
v at Hec
approved by the voters a few
months ago.
Some of the recommendations
heard were a bus service
for the handicapped as well as
better recreational facilities,
some type of incentive
program to help some
Ardmore area residents to
own their homes rather than
"Tent them, low income
housing for the handicapped.
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Knollwoo
Home Re<
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
The Board of Directors at
the Knollwood Nursing Home
facility have established four
committees to 4'keep abreast
of the problems facing the
home/' said Mrs. Betty
Pikula, Chairman of the
Board.
Mrs. Pikula said that these
committees had been a long
time in coming. t4l had been
thinking of this type of thing
! Different'
about. We, as Blacks have
taken many strides but there
are still many to be taken if we
wish to make notable
progress/'
Baldwin, who is at present
living in Europe (from
1948-1957 and then from 1971
until presently) stated
in an interview that he is in
the process of returning to
the U.S. " whi,e
at the same time he works on a
new novel, Just Above My
Head. When asked which* his
many books (seven to be
exact) that he considers the
best or the most outstanding,
Baldwin smiled and replied
seriously yet jovially "The one
that I have not finished yet.
After that one the most
outstanding one will be the
one that I start and will not
See Baldwin, Page 2
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The auestinn of * an
emergency medical care
facility in the East Winston
area was raised as well as the
possibility of day care facilities
for unwed mothers.
Cecil Butler, an interested
party observing,
was a bit pessimistic. He said
the low attendance of the
meeting indicated to him that
See Budget, Page 2
d Nursing
organizes
for quite a while. We ten no
longer continue to let a bad
situation, get worse," she
said.
The committees will be
dealing with areas of Audit
Finance, Personnel, and
Patient Grievances. Mrs.
Pikula said she feels that this
way the board will have some
knowledge of problem areas in
advance.
In addition to establishing
these committees, the board
also decided to meet once a
month rather than quarterly as
had been its practice. "That
decision," said Mrs. Pikula,
"was made because there
wasjust too much paperwork
and too manv ideas and
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recommendations for one
meeting of the board every
four months/'
Asked * whether the reorganization
was the result of
the controversial dismissal of
Mrs. Roberta Groves, as
Housekeeping Supervisor, she
said, "Well, this probably
speeded things up a bit. But
there have been other
problems, this incident may
have just served to bring
things to a head."
She said she, as well as
other board members would
not comment further on the
allegations brought against
Frank Armstrong, director of
the home, and also a board
member charged by Mrs.
Groves until the matter has
been settled.
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See Knollwood, Page 2