Winston-Salem Chronicle
Bailey Opposes
Teachers Salary Cut
by ShBryn Br&tcbsr school board is not Bflilpv Haps Hisarrrafk
This school board is not Bailey does disagree suggested last week that
at all hke the one a few with one of his fellow teachers salaries should
yews ago which returned school board members on be cut in order to save
feder^ money rather than the subject of teachers money for the school
comply with the ruling, he salaries. Board member system.
Nancy Wooten reportedly See BAILEY, Page 2
by Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Reporter
Buford Bailey, media
director at WSSU and the
only black currently serv
ing on the Winston-Salem
Forsyth County School
Board, praised the efforts
of the present school
board and the work of
school superintendent
James A. Adams.
“Dr. Adams is a highly
professional man who by Sharyn Bratcher f™Ployees under the Health center emplo-
really knows his job, ” said Reporter jurisdiction of the director ys®s and others concerned
Mr. Bailey. “I have uithe Health Department, with the issue have
learned a great deal about The two governing rather than maintaining a expressed fear that the
the workings of a school bodies directly concerned seperate organization res- win cause major
system since he became with the Reynolds Health ponsible to the director of changes in the staff and
superintendent.” Center issue seem to have the Health Center. See REYNOLDS, Page 2
“Sometimes I disagree squared off for the final
Showdown Looms Over
Reynolds Health Center
Pof'eant Slated For Aug. 11-12
Beauties Rehearse For Pageant
Twenty-eight young ladies from across North
Carolina were in Winston-Salem last weekend for
the first event of the Miss Black America of North
Carolina Pageant. The final pageant, scheduled
for August 12 in Re3molds Auitorium, will select
a state wiiiner who will be flown to Hollywood to
compete in the National Miss Black America
Pageant in early faU.
Contestants will be judged in four categories:
swim suit, evening gown, talent, and poise.
The pageant, whose purpose is to promote “the
wiique ethnic beauty of black women, with special
enphasis placed on intelligence and poise”
tested by the Phi Omega Chapter of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Proceeds from the pageant will go the United
Negro College Fimd.
The pageant is directed by Virginia Newell,
with technical direction provided by Jimmy
Kennedy, a junior drama major at the North
Carolina School of the Arts.
It s going to be a very good pageant.
says
Kennedy. “These girls are very talented.”
Winston-Salem has fourteen representatives in
the pageant: Audrey Brown, Delphine CaldweU,
Valeria Clark, Debra Dillard, Sonja Jones, Debra
Knox, Lamitha McConnell, Bessie Mae Reid,
Cynthia Rucker, PhyUis Sawyer, Winifi'ed Starks!
Angela Watson, Diane Witherspoon, and
Melanee Wheeler.
Melinda Price of Walkertown explained how
she came to enter the pageant.
I m attending Howard University, and I was
going to enter the Miss D.C. Pageant - but my
parents wanted me to come home,” she added
smiling. ’
Ms. Price, hwo is interested in drama, spends
time each day at School of the Arts to keep in ^
practice.
Virginia Newell, pageant director, says: “This
event affords young black women with >
outstanding abilities the opportunity to gain '
recognition and experience in organized
competition that they probably would not
otherwise receive.” ■>
with Dr. Adams on smaU show down before the
issues,” Bailey conceded, board of county commis-
“ButbasicaUylthinkheis sioners later this month,
doing a good job.” Members of the Forsyth
Last spring’s HEW County Board of Health
ruling that the school voted last week to approve
system did not qualify for the merger of Reynolds
federal funds because of Health Center with the
desegregation violations County Health Depart-
are not a problem, says ment. This plan, which is
Bailey. “I believe we are bitterly opposed by many
complying with federal members of the black
regulations, and we will community, would place
probably get the money.” the health center and its
Goler Wins War —
Tenant Wins Battle
lecip
by Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
laay of the incidents
til make up the crime
istics of Winston-
are never covered
the media, so the
e For A Perfect Crime
Complaisant Victim
not work-release program ing on the front porch.
After a marathon two-
day session -in Winston-
Salem district court.
Judge Kason Keiger
dismissed the eviction
proceedings against Me
linda Pace, ruling that the
management of Goler
Metropolitan Apartments
failed to give Ms. Pace
adquate notice to evict
her.
According to Ms.
Pace’s attorney Herman
Stephens, Melinda Pace
may have won this court
battle only to lose the war,
because Keiger did find
that Goler had cause to
evict her. Apparently the
judge’s only objection to
the eviction proceedings
Goler contends that Ms.
Pace damaged the floor of
the apartment with a leaky
washing machine, and
that she violated the terms
of her lease by having an
overnight guest Beverly
Williams, stay in her
apartment.
Since Keiger did find
grounds for eviction,
Stephens explained that
the management can force
One of 21 students selected from the City/County
school system to participate in the summer
„ experience program at Forsyth Memorial Hospital is
Ms. Pace to move merely Lessie Robinson of 402 Greenwood Avenue. ’The
by serving her with students chose the department in which they had
career interest, and Miss Robinson is training in the
hospital’s Housekeeping Department;
general public does
hem of them. stopped by his house in nude, with three bullet was the fact that Ms "Face
A typical case in point the early morning and wounds in his abdomen, was not given 30' davs
was the shootmg last week discovered another man Taylor called an ambu- notice prior to eviction L
investigated by Police with his wife. When lance, which took the man stipulated in HUD regila-
Officer C.L. Taylor. Officer Taylor arrived, the to Baptist Hospital, where tions
A man in the prison “other man” was stand- The management
Transit Authority Dedicates New Building
another eviction notice,
this time giving her 30
days’ notice. “They could
have her out by August
3lst,” says Stephens.
In a previous interview,
Ms. Pace was asked why
she wanted to live at
Goler, since they are so
anxious to evict her. She
replied: “I don’t want to
live there. It’s a terrible
of place, but I feel that they
are wrong, and I want to
win this court case to
Students Train At
Forsyth Hospital
See TTINANT, Page 2
be July 26 dedication passengers,” Simons
monies for the $1.1 said, “but we've held,
ion Winston-Salem June’s ridership wfll come
■sportation facility “ about the same
led six months mark- May’s.”
In March, the aldermen
made Winston-Salem the I
first North Carolina local
government to share
y increased ridership,
ivative government
«rt, expanded transit
end improved man-
lent.
e dedication took
at 11 a.m., and an
house of the facility
duntil 7 p.m. Located
ffl N. Trade St., the
iy includes a one-
office building, a
e with a two-story
f section and a
lore of floor space,
ntdoor parking for 80
end 132 cars,
mts of this first half
1 delighted Tran-
inthority Chairman
Simons and City
Ver Orville W.
1
government to share y'- • |
equally with its employees
the cost of buying monthly 'if1
bus passes.
“It’s important that we —rf""''.
support conservation mea
sures,” said Powell at the
time. “We need to
encourage everyone to get
into the bus habit. A good
way to start is by
encouraging our own
employees.”
aging 243,000-plus pass- Saturday to awaken households during the their bus
en„er.s a » 1*’® Community for Easter summer. mons said
'T ■ . , ''-.‘I’*-'
. .. -yiy’,
New Transit Building
V *
station, WAIR, to nomi
nate drivers for the Driver
of the Month Award which
recognizes outstanding
service.
And passengers them
selves have created
WSMT’s radio and news
paper ads extolling the
advantages of riding the
WSMT bus fleet. The
majority of these free-will
comments stressed con
venience and economy
over using a car.
But neither Simons nor
Powell believe now is the
time to “rest on any
oars.”
“I think the pubhc is
more aware that WSMT is
system,” Si-
“but I’m still
CHUCKLE
Happiness is a wife
seeing her husbands old
girlfriend with a double
chin.
Chronicle
Weather
Outlook
Qrmally in the spring
a fall off
a lau
iLmmbi
engers a month, had a q, i:,a»Le
poet riding on the bus one ^ gious services. This fall, 2,150 entering not happy that many
day when passengers and j routes freshmen of the City’s people who could conven-
drivers composed transit maugura e , ^d various colleges, will iently and economically
poems. completely revised sche- receive system maps with use the system don’t.
The Moravian bands "laps their orientation kits. “That means we’ve got
used WSMT all during the Hundreds of passen-
are bemg sent to 44,000 gers call into a local radio See TRANSIT, Page 2
The heat wave shows no
sign of breaking before
Sunday. Highs tomorrow
will range from 96 to 102,
according to the National
Weather Service, and
tonight’s low will be in the
mid 708. The chance ol
rain is 20 per cent.
Selected students from tor.
high schools in the Inquiries are made in
Winston-Salem/Forsyth each of the high schools
County system are dis- ia medical work. The
covering that summer students must be seniors
trmnmg at Forsyth Mem- or at least 16 years of age
orid Hospital most likely This year 48 applications
will lead to a career in the «,ere reviewed by a
health erne field. committee of the AuxR-
The Summer Experi- ^xy, which also screened
ence Program at the jach applicant,
hospital, sponsored by the
Forsyth Medical Auxih- Said Mrs. Simpson:
ary, is in its eighth “Forsyth Memorial has
season. This summer always liked the Summer
there are 21 students Experience Program, feel-
involved. In past years, ‘ug is good for both the
about 90 percent of the hospital and the students
trainees went into the participating, and the
medical profession after Auxiliary is convinced that
graduation from high the program serves a good
school or college. purpose.”
Participating students
The students are spread are Tina Lyle, James
over the hospital, training (Kent) Doub, Charles
and working under the Record, James Weiss,
supervision of the various David Alexander, Linda
department heads. They Daniels, Michael Story,
are paid $20 per week Beth Underwood, Robin
during the five-week Deal, Lessie Robinson,
program, which ends July Laura Shelton, Debbie
29. The Auxiliary and Mller, Jonathan Crutch-
Hospital Authority funds field, Kevin Michael,
the program and Mrs. Mitzi Culler, Robin Lewis’
Rowena Simpson is direc- Whitchurch, Ran-’
for students who have dall Haynes, Cheryl Stacy,
high scholastic standing Lori Royall and Sythia
and who show an interest Scott.