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by Sharyn Bratcber
Staff Writer
race by the U?t6bM*mh~
runoff, both Democrat
Wayne Corpening and
man have become intcresWayne
Corpenliig ted in the black vote,
realizing that Winston-Sa
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To Renew Lei
By Sharyn Bratcher in 1975 on a Vi acre tract i
Staff Writer of land on Claremont Ave- i
The Forsyth County nue on which the RedeABC
Board voted yester- velopment Commission \
day not to renew the lease wanted an ABC Store ]
of Store #8 in Jetway built. Since he was the 1
Shopping Center, a deci- highest bidder, he was 1
sion which landlord Dr. J. given the option on the
Raymond Oliver feels is a land, but was unable to 1
political move against him carry ?ut his j)lans be- <
for past run-ins with the cause, he said, the ABC~1
Board. Store refused to negotiate !
Dr. Oliver, who is pre- with him.f- i
sently the only black in On December 24, 1975 <
Winston-Salem with a Oliver received a letter
lease to an ABC Store bid from Guy Ward of the i
ABC Board, stating that i
Health Center Talks
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At A Standstill
by Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
Progress in the negotiations for Reynolds Health
Center have been temporarily stalled by the change
in county managers, saicTAdvisory B.oard Chairman
C.P. Booker.
$
: Fred Hauser, Chairman of the Forsyth County * ,
Commissioners, had asked Booker, Dr. Smith, and
the health department and health center directors to
meet with acting county m a n a gerNelson Newcomer;
also a candidate for the permanent position.
The job was awarded to f .* m pf
Pete Jenkins, and progress
has been halted, S'm
says Booker, until Jenkins f .imk
can familiarize himself
with^the situation.^ , |W ? C*
want for the health cen- |V jL' Iff?
ter," stated Booker, 44 And M*'
I tell them I want what the IF i
people of East Winston
want. And the people of
East Winston want it converted
back to a hospital
as soon as possible. So /\
that's what I want." .#/ x
Rnnlrpr'q nrpsent rnn. U
cern, however, is to keep -J v I
the county health depart- a
ment from merging with - s t
the health center, with the * / |
Ufealth department direc- ? pJ
tor in control. . I % f
"In these propdsed v * [ |[
meetings, I get the feeling
that they want to get me Oil fa'
off by myself and railroad
me into something," H.B. Goodson received the
Booker observed. "But I Chapter of the A. Philip Ran*
tell them I have a commit- at an October 20th banque
tee, and 1 will not meet
without that committee."
Some blacks are afraid
that the merger idea is a A Readers View
plot to close the health
center completely, and to IVT A A FJ
move the services to Bap- 1 i /I /I
tist Hospital.
The merger idea originated
with former county JOKJi/C KS AJCl
manager Nicholas Meiszer,
who stated that the atrick T. Hairstow ^
center could be run more No one ^ make you j
efficiently, an serve more f,-ee than you wish to c
more patients at less cost, be ft is a 9ad truth that (
if there were a c ear-cut tbe va8t majority of Black f
chain of command. people in W-S. don't wish
Alderman Carl RusseU, because along <
whose ward contains the ^ freadom re_ ,
health center, favors its ibil% ^ far ^ ,
returt to hospital status of U8 are ^ conUsnt ,
1 'Tk/% /Ntsf MAf A A mmm mm *
to let things remain ag t
cea could be part of the they ^ Many of ug m (
See Health, Page 2 saying ''as long as I have i
wn-Sali
25,000 weekly readers" Saturd
A
'al Candidati
lem's 35,000 black citizens in Winston-Salem arecould
be the decisivexfac- better than anywhere else
tor in the general election, in the state, an opinion
-Wayne Jgorpffiing with which most blacks
been appealing vo Russeu drsag11t\ *
supporters to forget the Henry Lauerman has
racial factor, and to re- sought to appeal to black
" artr~ voters Wulgge
Democrats, "TSut he ""planks from Cart"RusseTT;s ~
also stated that he be- platform.
lieves that race "relations At a Monday meeting of
o^iffo/io aaans
the land ^^^B^^^BWwHHBI
for sale Main. without New city pergonnei d
notifying either Dr. Ohver
nr PiimhprlnnH w-k ? ---
The land was sold to 1? Mead
developer Jack Covington, r
the low bidder in 1975, for
the sum of his original r^T11
bid. Covington already
holds two leases for ABC
stores, one at Reynolds m yV*
Manor and one on Fifth Hireluor
Street.
Dr. Oliver, charging Winston Salem named
that favoritism was pre- first black personnel
sent in the land sale, director, A1 Beaty, who
appgftlftH t.hft Hftriainn tn will succeed Arnold AspSee
ABC, Page 2 ,
landing Citizen Award J
Outstanding Citizen Award from the Winston-Salem 1
dolph Institute. The award was presented to Good son 1
t in the Red Room of WSSU's dining facility.
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President Says9
m'tWant Freedom9
ny fine car (and its pay- enslaved and in his place,
nent), a house payment, Some go so far as to say
md a wallet full of plastic I got my job the hard way,
iards that I can use to let them do the same
charge what I want I'm as thing. The NAACP that
ree as I need to be." fought so long for me to
Believe you me this is get this job and is still
exactly where the system fighting for me to keeD it
vants us to be because as is foolish, that is why I
ong as this is the case don't support it with my
ve're nowhere but on the membership. You'all aint
iccounts receivable ledger done me no favors,
ind that makes things just
ight for keeping a man ^ NAACP, Page 2
I
mnccomms^Qets 29
M C HR O
ay, October 29, 1977
Seek Blach
the Winston-Salem Ser- led to the formation of
toma Club, Lauerman "Black Democrats for
announced that he favored Lauermaflu' I organized by
the establishment of a Concerned Citizen presi'haniaii
iblatiuiis cuuiicil to dgnt Lee Paye MatjK.
deal with racial affairs in In ef press conference
the city. Wednesday morning at
i rmr; ~i^crt?.
belief by many ihat Hus?" ted th&Tthe cioud would
sell .was defeated by a actively campaign on beraej.it
hack-lash vota.'hai half of Lauerman.
M By Sharyn Bratcher
^ On November 8th,
North Caorlina voters will
be
9 Prov^e hinds to local
governments for environmental
improvement.
E?? The Amendment, called
H M I the Clean Water Bond Act
of 1977, will authorize the
K5*-*tate to sell bonds to raise
1| BPfe*? the money?to provide
grants to local governMpM*
ments for the construction
Jit L or improvement ?f wasteKSKaHHr
i water treatment works,
. ai ? . wastewater collection syslirector
A1 Beaty . , , .
J terns, and water ^supply
. r% ? systems.
City Personnel Each county be
r " allocated an amount of
honri nrnrft*>rls unnn
Z ^ ^ ^ -d- their population in proporB
M H..P tion to the total state
population. Forsyth Coun*
1 ty is slated to receive
gX rC |Qp Ira $3,332,015 for water supt?
1 JlCHlVO systems, and
retirement two weeks ago. $1,581,653 for wastewater
Asked if he would sup- collection systems, of the
port the Affirmative Ac- $230,000,000 total,
tion policy, designed to State treasurer Harlan
hire more bfacki^in?city E. Boyles explained the
government, Beaty rep- need for the bond issue:
lied that he is concerned "In 1971 we were of the
not with the legal require- opinion that the clean
ments for an equal op- water bond program was a
portunity program, but wise investment. The faciwith
the moral require- lities provided through the
ments which make it a use of bond proceeds are
neces sity. today contributing sub "The
Bakke Case, said stantlally to the economic
Beaty, makes no differ- and health needs of our
ence at all in his thinking people. We think the proalong
those lines. The posed program will be
case, which charges re- equally beneficial to the
verse discrimination citizenry of the State, and
against whites, is pre- thus the economic returns
sently being considered will far exceed the annual
See Beaty, Page 2
Black Cowb
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer ^
Black cowboys, a his- 0\
:orical footnote that seems
:o have escaped the text
h od ' ;^
"You are horse-crazy as
a kid, and you keep up If ,
with it," he shrugs. I
Br am we II specializes in
roping and bulldogging, Rodeo cowboys Bud Brum
See Cowboy., P.ge 5 old We8t W Wln.tonSde
N1CLE
m, IS.C. 16 Pages it 20 Cents
i Vote
"Wayne Corpening
wrote off the black comip
unity, and directed the ^ _
thrust of fiis campaign ^
-tcrwsrd-"the?ilnh MUM
munity, which allowed
him to reap the benefit of ^
addressing himself to the " ,
issues of the black com- Henry Lauerman
See Vote, Page 2? ' ~? ?? ~ 7
Tater Bond Act ?
oters On Nov. 8
costs to be incurred." counties of the state, on
The proceeds of the the basis of population,
bonds in the Clean Water The $110,000,000 in the
Funct^witi be divided be- Water Sppply Systems
tween the Pollution Con- Account will go to grants
trol tecount and the Wa- to be made by the Division
ter Supply Systems Ac- of Health Services of the
count. Department of Human
f the $112,000,000 alio- Resources to local governcated
to the Pollution Con- ments for the constructrol
Account, $75,000,000 tion, expansion, or imwould
be used exclusively provement of water supto
provide the State's, ply systems, and the acshare
of funds required Tjuisition of real property
for wastewater treatment necessary for such proworks.
Projects to qualify jects. - .
for federal grants. The The money is to be
remaining $37,500,000 is spent over a period of five
to be divided among the fiscal years.
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Stay On Market
WASHINGTON -- The from supermarket shelves
House of Representatives and sold only as a nonprehas
voted to keep saccha-?scription drug.
rin on the market for Rep. Steve Neal, D
another 18 months while N.C., was a cosponsor of
scientists try to determine the bill to delay the sacwhether
the artificial charin ban.
^Wftfltpnar can cause can-^"rTthirik= itVs reasonable
cer in humans. tp hold up the ban until
The House vote, follow- we-ve done much more
ing similar action in the testing," Neal said. "PeoSenate,
effectively blocks pie have been using saca
Food and Drug Adminis- charin since about 1900. I
tration proposal to ban the don't believe it's necesuse
of saccharin as a food sary to take it off the
additive. market ovhile we try to
proposed regula- determine the effects of
tion was published last its use by humans.^
March after a Canadian The bill directs that the
study linked saccharin to Institute of Medicine of
bladder tumors in test the National Academy of
animals (rats). Under the Sciences to conduct a
FDA proposal, saccharin
would have been removed ee Saccharin, Page 2
oys:
ill On Horse
"V
*ell9 Marty Pink, and Billy Wilda bring a touch of the
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