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ed training for economically
disadvantaged youths ages
14 through 21 who qualify.
Mary Freas of the Human
admTnisters the progTam
locally, said the program will
differ from past years in the
following ways:
4 This year the program
will offer skill trainingT
labor-market orientation and
remedial education, in addi?
tion to work experience.
"For example, most
youngsters will study how to
fill out job applications and
^conduct themselves on a job
interview. They also will
explore various careers while
learning more about themselves.
4 4 All eligible youth will be
interviewed before they are
accepted into the program,
which should result in a
better match between the
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youth and the job and
training.
"Work agreements with
participating agencies will
irtsure that strict standards
- in supervision and quality of
work will be maintained.
"A youth council to aid
program planning has been
appointed, made up ol _
individuals from the school
system, vocational rehabilitation,
business, youth
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This year's council includes
Betsy Brown, Forsyth
County Juvenile Justice
70,001 Youth Program;
Eleanor Dodson, School
System; Matt Elmore, N.C.
Division Vocational Rehabilitation;
Aldrenia Gaither,
Experiment in Self-Reliance;
Robert Griffis, business;
Jerry Smith, Youth Energy
Network; and Steve Williams,
youth representative.
The program will extend
through mid-August. Applications
will be available
sometime in April.
Youngsters in the program
will be paid a minimum ol
$2.JO per hour for approximately
30 to 40 hours of work
weekly.
Any ?public or privatenon-profit
agencies interested
in providing job oppcrtunities
should call the Human
Services Department,
727-8002.
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1|j Davis described the con|
dition as something like a
| constant headache: 4 4 It's
^ always there, and it
| always hurts, but you
\ learn to live with it." The
^~^F6Blem in many cases71ie points
out,As that a~black~~
will receive a severe
punishment, but discrimination
is hard to prove.
H For example: if an offense
p could be punishable by a
|| slight fine or a six-month
jail term, the judge could
|: give^ the black defendant
1 the maximum sentence
W.
| and still be legally within
|| his rights, even if a white
1 man committing the same
!? oTfense received less
|j punishment. . One might
| question the judge's
1t impartiality, but proving it
is another matter.
An example cited by
Davis of two similar cases
receiving two different
treatments are the cases
of Andrews and Markle.
Both men are city
employees; both charged
with shoplifting. In both
cases the store manager
agreed to drop the
charges. In Markle's case,
the charges were dropped
g ana the matter ended; in
|| Andrew's case the police
| prosecuted anyway. Anil
drews is black; Markle is
|| white.
| When asked what _
? concerned citizens could
If do about this apparent
:| injustice, Mr. Davis parag
phrased Martin Luther
1 King, saying that you
|j can't force people by law
j to like you. The best you
I can do is to pass just laws
1 and then try to elect
' i people that will enforce
1 them on an impartial^
1 basis.
Alderman Carl Russell
1 declares that "justice is
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often meted out according
to skin color." He adds:
"That's one of the reasons
I'm in politics."
In reference to the three
cases discussed in the
CHRONICLE article last
week, Mr. itiisMill stated. ?*
considered innocent until
proven guilty. I don't see
that anyone has been
proven guilty." He, too,
expressed concern that
the Andrews case had
been prosecuted despite
the store manager's
willingness to drop the
charges. The arresting
officer was moonlighting
as a store guard, says Mr.
Russell, who is strongly
opposed to such moonlighting
practices. He says
that it often impairs the
effectiveness of a policeman
in his regular duty,
and may affect his
objectivity, since he depends
on the store fora.
part of his income. In such
a case, an officer is ndt an
impartial witness.
Regarding the Walter
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sell expressed regret that
the conviction was not
treated," says Mr. Russell.
"They beat him up.
and then charged him
with resisting arrest, and I
don't believe Walter
Marshall is that kind of a
person."
Still, there have been
improvements through
the years, Mr.' Russell
"concedes, Now ~ in his
sixteenth year as alderman,
he says he can
remember when things in
Winston-Salem were
much worse, when police
-would try to provoke
blacks into resisting arrest
so that they could make
more severe charges, and
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a time when beatings and
trumped-up charge? were
evident. "We still get a p
bad policeman from tiem
to time," he says, "One
who uses his power to
vent his racial hangups,
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mendations for further
improvements include a
police review board, and H
"a long look at the court f|
system."
NAACP President Pat- ||
rick Hairston expressed ||
concern with the way ||
cases involving blacks are
treated in the media.
"The newspaper is the
black people's bible," he |jj
says, "If it's printed in a - 8
newspaper, blacks will ||
believe it." Mr. Hairston ||
feels that this fact is used
to discredit blacks. The
charges will be printed in
big headlines and people
remember the charges,
not whether the man was
convicted or not. He cited
the case of a man whose ||
business suffered because
he was accused of
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raping a ii-year-oia gin p
he had never even seen.
The girl later admitted g
that she had invented the
story, but the newspaper |f
story "State drops charges"
was very small
compared to the coverage
the original charges re- p|
ceived. ?|
"And they never print ??
anything good about us,"
_says Mr Hairston. "I ||_
"Could save 50 people with fl
mouth-to-mouth resusci- ||
tation and it wouldn't be |f
noticed, but if I kill |?
somebody it'll be all over ?j
the front page." Mr. ||
Hairston urges black 41
people to support newspapers
which are fair to i
blacks in their coverage.
ugs
is a free lecture service
available to organizations on
a variety of topics. For
example, senior citizens
groups might be interested
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dangers of various prescrip""
tion drugs, or parents groups
- could request the drug
education lecture.
Sundial House needs more
volunteers, who will be
trained in a six-week 48-hour
counseling session in late
April with instructions deal
mg with alcoholism, drug
problems, suicide calls, and
other crisis situations. Anjr^
one over sixteen who wants
to volunteer, or any
- organization who would like
_ to have a guest speaker from ,
Sundial should call Monica
J Schamel at 723-9141.
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