J miiuini?WWbwmiii II HW'JIIIB. iiiwm.Lmun<.u?wAiwj4tu I inwnwimm WWwwww??sm ? ' ^jmauscvztxr&szzjssrr -?Wms: ? ? ?Voir III, No, 44 ? \Fire Dest JLt-ShMpftflMtahM ?a.8 .invesUgators probed ^ m c^ffD *ne wrecKage Keeping I /itin ^ 8ab^i Wuifi Itoisg^: I Even hours after the up again, and ensuring 8 flames that destroyed that the gasoline stored ( Vine's Cleaners had beneath the building did ? subsided, police cars and nut ignitu. ~^7~|fire trucks still encircled The business, located 1 the shell of the building at PattersoiTAvenue and a j JHQI 1 |1Q ^ ^p|j Kr j t|L . J EL x i nl jMgi PKH -V u Two of the many winners: Mrs. Mildred Bachelor and Mrs. Katie Hatcher. Garden Club Council Hosts Flower Show The Fourth District "Today is all we have Garden Club Council let us make it the best,' presented its 1977 Flower urged Fourth Distric Show, Saturday June 25th Garden Council presiden in Benton Convention Romelia G. Mason. Center: Mrs. Thelma Sfiial] The show, whbae theme journalist of th Bake an was "Summer Fantasy-,-Spade- Garden Club offered an enchanting served as General Flowe variety of floriculture and Show Chairwoman, assis . horticulture?grown?by?ted hy Mrs. Ellflwort members of the eight ... . . ? if mi 1 O 11 participating garden ivirs. meinm oranu clubs. See Garden, Page 2 ? 'Miss Black N. C. Pageant Draws Near July 8th is the deadline for applicants to the Miss Black North Carolina Pageant to be held in __ Winston-Salem in August. The pageant, sponsored by the Phi Omega Chapter of the AKA Sorority, will select the young lady who will represent the state at the Miss Black American .Pageant in California to be televised later this year. The competition is open to high school graduates between the ages of 18 and 25, who are single and without children. Entrants in the state pageant should have had previous experience in a local competition, such as Homecoming Queen, or college sweetheart. An applicant may nominate herself or be sponsored by local businesses in her area. Application forms may be obtained by calling 919-723-0984. The contestants will participate in a preliminary pageant the second week in July, and then in the state pageant in early fall. The prizes for Miss Black North Carolina and her court will be scholarship money to further their, education. Pageant spokesman Virginia Newell stated that the projected amount of the winning scholarship is $1,000. The net proceeds of I the state pageant go to the United Negro College Citizens Can ^ Combat Crime How safe is Winston- 4,^43 for 1977. Salem? Police Officer E.C. Pop According to the figures stated that this is th compiled by the Planning second consecutive yei and Research Unit of that crime has decrease Winston-Salem's police in Winston-Salem. "19' department the crime rate was a bad year/' sa; is slightly lower this year Pope, perhaps because than it was at the same the recession which led time last year; 4.528 an increase in theft, reported crimes for mid- Larceny accounts f 1 ts vj. ztxserszzzrrzzj?^j^^sssx^STTtsect^ r&untsgw&vsss* TON-SALE Saturday July^2, 1977 ? Suite t roys Vine\ Liberty Street, was part The fire started about of a bull,^ complex 10:30 Monday-morning-w nofPatterson A ventre Gro* Vine was transferring eery, J.B. & Sons gasoline from one conBilliards and the Ebony tainer to another in the Fratwrnity?Club, nil" ox? unckui the cican^ro <-i'he? which~suffered extensive pilots light?of" the ~hot damage. 7 water heater caused the {*mj VTIHV i III 1 nun.1 p ^*ggaifc. i? t Vernon Jordan, caught here in a listening n ^ the keynote speaker at the "Urban League Opportunity Banquet. ! Jordan Addresst I Opportunity Bar l, by Sharyn Bratcher and H. E. Staplefoote, the Staff Reporter" retired associate director of the YMCA. i Vernon Jordan, a nat- C.W. Temples of Fairionally rnhim- child Industries, Inc. and nist and executive director R?L. Jones of IBM were of the National Urban cited for Special Services League, delivered the to the Urban League, keynote address at the his address, Mr. Equal Opportunity Bam- Jordan expressed hope quet given by the that the Carter adminisWinston-Salem chapter of tration will fulfill its T^omio nromises toward minor: LI1C Uiuail iA^aguv. r The banquet, which ties, and praised the took place Thursday, June actions of MY. Carter, 23rd at Behton Conven- which are so different', tion Center^ featured Sflid Jordan, from the League president George "Imperial President" of E. Hill as master of not long ago. ceremonies, and was also Still, Jordan expressed the occasion of the disappointment in "the League's awards presen- Administration's Game tations. Plan," saying that it Gordon Hanes, Chair- offers too little, too late for man of the Board of the the needs of black people Hanes Corporation re- and poor people. ceived this year's Distin- Jordan suggested six guished Service Award. programs which could Outstanding Citizen- benefit the country by ship Awards went to directly attacking major Forsyth County Commis- national problems. He sioner Mazie Woodruff, suggested: 1) Ending Velma Hopkins, food unemployment with a services director of the federal job-creation proReynolds Health Center, gram; 2) An over-hauling tPouncy Cops"Office Officer Roscoe 0. Poun cey 01 Lnt; w nistuu-oaiciu Police Department receivconvention of the |e ment Officers Association, * Forsyth County was jfl " well represented at the "0fflcer of the Year; 'f convention, with 5 of their Ro-coe Pou V1 number elected as officers t0 in the organization for sheriff's department wa: tft77-78. elected vice-president o or Sgt. Oscar Vaughn, Jr. the N.S.L.E.O.A. Harr of the Forsyth County James of Alcoholic La\ 1 ??nil? w?m? ?il i iiiiih ii !' ii iii 1^1 hi1hihiiii i'iiiii ii hitmami* -i? M CHKOi >03 Pepper Bldgr Winston-Salem, N.C. '"7~ wmm s -v mmwm * mmmmmmssmmmm i Cleaners . gasoline furrtes to ex- plained -thv^.-buBdiin uilH his ^ntgnl tha firn. flaying |i> clothing in flames. He that tnere weren t was hospitalized with enough firefighters on Sjj extensive second degree the scene, and the -h-.TTTTq lu.1 H! Some members of the hfclp from the crowd to 23$ black community com- See Fire, Page 2 T1 ^ m Goler Evic IMelinda P - Melinda Pace, presi- j dent of the Goler Tenants'?< Association, won her third round in court against the management of Goler Metropolitan Apts., who are trying to evict her. The case was decided by Magistrate J.C. Lewter after hearing evidence presented Tuesday, ?T*\ne 22 in Magistrate's Court. The first suit filed against Ms. Pace charged her with failure to comply the rules apartment complex, and damage to property, was dismissed by Magistrate ^5B|^^??^3HHI Harold Thomerson for .. ^m* _____mTB| ^ac^ ?* evidence. _ v , The May 16th proceedlood, was \ xm tT P . ings against Ms. Pace was Equal decided in favor of the _ Goler management, and is -y^|- ~ now being appealed. ^ o Mjfw -m a g-w 1 Herman Stephens, attorJUJ\J lAslM/M ney for Melinda Pace. iquet Golden Frin - o7,h?? .m, . w?h? N C. Human ' minimum income level for (CCNS) all families; 3) the gay ^ evening revitalization of urban to of you. j-m Golden ?areas ^through a e eral p,.^^ National Program i land bank and a federal Director of the Southern housing trust fund; 4) a Christian Leadership Con. national health program; ference *vention were: Charles 0f that pardon petition and v See Cops, Page 2 pardon those Wilmington > :%****+* 0"*-?F?qHU. **?**?; ir L E * 20 Conts wXff(**fy''r%**A?& ' *w r flM ![]& / jjjj^SN g-5 le Aftermath: Firelighter* patrol the smoldering f A :t. i:. **fm/i^!Lacl[^^ ^ ^ J| ition Fails-ace Wins Again x I ^A^IQIAW An iL^ the clerk of Superior Court ^ motion on the condition __ .. _ lL , w n . . Melinda Pace tkaf Mo Ufinn rtatf nar rant ttiab ma. a avc puj nvt for the month of June, property, because of the which she did. principle of "res judicaThe third complaint in which means that summary ejectment pro- these charges had already ceedings against Ms. Pace been dismissed by Thomwas heard June 22nd, and ?rson for lack of evidence, charged her with damage could not be sued to property and failure to ^or ^e same violations timely pay rent. again. Stephens objected to ?... .... ^ the charges of damage to ?ee Go'er? 2 ks Speaks "To Relations Council ?? 10. Another thing the everything else and look \ Council could do in your at y?ur . prisons. That upward climb here, is to would be a beginning you bring -about- * totaT"aee- We go aroundrhere^ community, and 'i think andwa got some pie on the Wilmington 10 would the table? we've some bring about a beginning of cake on the table, we've this. If they are pardoned onty 8?^ a crumb when it then the community, the comes to the under state and the nation of privileged and the minor course could look at North ities- S? if you will just Carolina. ^You see when stop for one time and start we are living in this state off again. And this is the of North Carolina in two beginning. You are anew, communities and . the ** y?u are ftnew this, Wilmington 10 case "Is then you can see that the splitting us farther assun- Wilmington 10 walk the der. And I think a streets just like you, telegram that I sent to this because there is no need council's Chariman and a f?r our state to hide copy to the Director, that a behind their responsibiliresolution should have ties and let somebody been mentioned here, and suffer. I do hope you will do this. The State of North You see if we talk about Carolina is responsible for racism we talk about 'hat and} want J to human relations all in the bring t0 their same breath. 1 hear the ?ttentlonv: DonJ *? "ound happy talks Jor_ the 'ett^g ,Ne? *ork do Itcommunities that are Boston do it.^uss.a do rt, doing great things but I th* Communists do it, or have been in the struggle wh"1 y0"' Yo" do ,l for 19 years. I find that as North Carolina citizens. what are thinking that we , We afe ?oin* *? are making positive gains . those roads froum is losing. We are not ^ington Startm,g Ttl?e really gaining we losing. ?f June ,un^ July Because 10 years ago we