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Blacl
Yvette McCuilough
Staff Reporter
Although. aoR-e of the
YWCA oifewfllfl 11 want *
-acymi .U .or owiteMlr-QTr ?
1 me suuauon, ihe F&Uerson
Avenu? YWCA is '
being quietly fazed out.
were housed at the Patterson
'Y' have all been
moved to the Glade Street
YWCA.
"Everyone is sitting
Health
Submits
Yvette McCullough
Staff Reporter
A budget request of
over $3.9 million has been
submitted to the Forsyth
County Budget staff by
the Reynolds Health Center.
The request, which is
an increase of $3.1 million
over last year's budget,
was Dresented to th# R?v
nolds Health Center Advisory
Committee last '
Wednesday night. J
Dennis1 Magovern, ad-J
ministrator of the Health
Center said that one major 1
reason for the budget 1
increase requested, is to 1
retain the 15 employees 1
employed under the fede- <
? rally funded ComprehenPlinto:
wssu
Yvette McCullough
Staff Reporter
"I'm going to go on an
ego trip, James O. Plinton
Jr. told the audience
last Friday at the Career
Awareness Conference
which was held at Williams
Auditorium on
~ WSSLTscampus.
"I'm not here to make a
speech, I'm here to rap to
you about your future."
Plinton, a Vice-President
for Market Development
at Eastern Airlines
gave the keynote address
at the conference sponsored
jointly by the National
Urban League and
the WSSU Career Planning
and Placement/Cooperative
Education. The I
conference was held to
promote career awareness j
and identify the opportunities
available to students.
"There's two ways to
get what you want," Plinton
said to the audience of
mostly high school students.
"There's the right
way which will take longer,
and there is the
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wiuii^ **aj niuvu 10 uic
short cut."
"By going the wrong
way, the only person
you're fooling is yourself,"
Plinton continued. '
Plinton joined TransWorld
Airlines (TWA) in
1957 and later became the
first black executive at a
major airlines.
"Everybody in this
room has an ego," Plinton
said. "Just don't let your
ego take you down thte
wrong path."
He told the audience
that until they can enjoy
the fringe benefits of success
thawt it may be
expedient to let "the establishment
call the sig
INST
Saturday /
tYWi
around waiting to see
what's going to happen,"
the employee said. "Even
staff members are given
thg P^tI
.
Presently the Patterson
is- iintiticugiedv
One official said that the Y
is in use 15 per cent of the
time during the day . Most
of the clubs and activities
has been' transferred to
CenterBudget
sive Employment and
Training Act (CETA) pro-y
gram. CETA is under a
proposed two year limit
which may result in job
loss for numerous employees.
Magovern said that if
the 15 employees cannot
be retained under CETA
that the Reynolds Health
Center would like to continue
to employ them if
fchg money ^for that purpose
is allotted.
The budget also includes
provisions for establishing
a voluntary Ser
vices coordinator, positions
for additional physicians
and nurses in assis
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Confe:
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Jimea O. PHntnn talki in TV
Placement/Cooperative Ed
reer Awareness Program i
naJs.
He scud that God has a
purpose for everyone that
is born and that it's up to
that person to whether
they contribute or don't
contribute.
"Anyone in the world
can be reached in 24
hours,'' Plinton said.
"Your competition is in
your back door."
He told the audience
that a lot of people in the
world take their education
more seriously thap the
people this country does
because education is
much harder to come by,
for them.
"When I was at school
back at Lincoln University
having a good time,"
Plinton said, "a student in
East Africa was probably
studying his work so one
'on
CA M
the Glade Street Y.
The staff at the Y
intrudes a day receptionist,
a ^UjfrhVreeepiionist, ?
miiiii?h alifi lirlni tlrrtii
The Activities include a"
Yoga class, and classes for
Howard Lee addreeeee SE
Businessmen Luncheon.'*
Leerzifdc
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
The 70,001 (SEVCA)
Program of the Experiment
in Self-Reliance held
resses
rence
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mfii
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>rii Jones, Director of the
lucation, during the Celt
WSSU.
day he could have my
job."
"There are no first and
second places, either you
win or you lose," Plinton
said. "You either get your
job or someone else that is
better gets it."
"Excellence is essential
,'' Plinton continued.
"The concern of many
exployers is what you will
1 J I? A fill -
De ana wnai you u nave 10
contribute not in March
1978 but in 1990" and
beyond."
Also appearing on the
program were Mayor
Wayne Corpening and
Thomas Elijah, Executive
Director of the WinstonSalem
Urban League.
Mayor Corpening told
the audience that WinSee
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Sale
"More than
ay CI
other time it sits idle.
One board member
when asked about the
ouiu tiittt sue nau
h>?aai lan?wwifew?
"We need full cooperation
and community
rtin PAtjoTU' I hoard
BtfUl ^r
VCA members and guests
Iresses SI
an Area Businessmen
Luncheon last Friday, fea- <
turing as guest speaker
Howard N. Lee, Secretary
of North Carolina Natural
Resources and Community
Development.
SEVCA is a program
designed to assist high
school dropouts in getting
their high school diplomas
and to find them jobs
while they are in the
program.
Mr. Lee had encouraging
words to say to the
students^ in- the- program?
Black A1
CD Fund
By Sharyn Bratcher ]
Staff Writer
i
?
. Despite mixed reactions 1
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iviii WilVil pi O {
and expressions of dismay i
from their colleagues, j
Winston-Salem's three ]
black aldermen are firmly i
objecting to the distribu- I
tion of $3.65 million in ?
community development c
funds. i
Aldermen Vivian K. i
Burke and Larry D. Little
voted 11 No Consideration'' j
to a suggestion to hold the ]
board's April 17th meet- t
ing at noon in order to
allow time to meet the t
HUD deadline for the \
community development f
fund application. t
"We're not trying to c
jeopardize the money," i
Alderman Burke explained.
"Our people's needs s
have not been represent- t
ed." c
She explained that of J
the $3.65 million allocated s
to Winston-Salem * for t
1978-79, her ward will 1
receive only $50,000. t
Carl Russell, who preceded
Mrs. Burke as r
Northeast Ward alder- :
man, approves of * the .
move. j
"I think they acted i
within their own right," t
he said. "Sometimes we i
have to take a loss in order i
to focus our attention on <
the problems. . . We've
been shortchanged for a i
:m C
25,000 weekly reac
ose
member Manderlinc
Scales said. "We need, t<c
support our organizations
mid provide insignt and
OMi inBui m lw?
it open
ft's Jusl nTTe oui
library, many of us have
f ^ | A'
HmC
l*H Wm ^
at the program's "Area
WCA
"My own life is a symbol
of failure/' he told them.
Lee went on to relate how
he had dropped out of
high school twice before
finally finishing, and
"Flunked out of college
once."
He overcame these early
disappointments and
t- % ?
acruevea success Dotn academically
and professionally.
"We did it because
somebody cared enough
to make a chance for us/'
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dermen
L Distrib
long time. . .
~City officials, however,
seem to think that
Winston-Salem will get
;he grant anyway. If the
notion to accept the grant
application passes at the
Monday night meeting, as
t can without the three
3alck votes, then the
ipplication can be
ielivered to HUD offices
n Greensboro that same
light.
I'I don't think it's in
eopardy," said Virginia
Newell, alderman of
he East Ward.
She indicated, however,
hat she is not pleased
vith the allocation of
unds, and she feels that
he city employees did not
lo a good job of drawing
ip the plan.
"The planners do have
i responsibility to bring
hese things to the board
>t aldermen," Mrs.
Jewell stated. "The cenius
trackers know where
he blighted areas Eire,
rhey don't need anybody
o tell them."
Another former aldernan,
who asked not to be
dentified, says that the
^resent situation need not
lave happened. He chalks
t up to inexperience on
he part of the new board
nembers, and an unwillngness
on their part to
compromise.
"Why wait til the last
ninute to object?" he
t
Ihrc
ler?"
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Lendii
Victim
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
She is an elderly woman,.
living on a small
fixed income. In 1954 she
borrowed $300 from a
local finance company, to
be paid back in monthly
installments. It is now
1978, and she is still
paying on the loan. She
yhas paid back the $300
several times over, but
she still owes them money
...
This fact may be shocking
- to most people^- but the
attorneys at Legal Aid
are used to it by nowr
They see it all the time.
Finance companies,
they warn, can be very
dangerous "allies" to
poor people. They promise
easy credit, low
monthly payments, and
friendly courteous service.
But they also charge up to
36% interest, stretch out
debts to infinity through
refinancing, and beef up
loans with "optional'-' insurance
payments.
'4 People do not seem to
realize that they cannot be
put in jail for" debts,"
Oppose
utioii-?.
wondered. "They've had
eight or ten meetings to
amend the plan and to
make their objections
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Vivian Burke
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m flv 1W ^W
L- ^
|k vVi^aBjPwj^ ^
Virginia Newell
Carl Russell
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tg Prm
ize ih3
Oirma a^t/wnmr D mil
ovbuincj x aui oiiiai.
"They also don't' know
about the $500 exemption^
,
He explained that people
usually put up their
~ furniture or household
goods as security for a
finance company loan.
They are threatened with
repossession if they get
behind in their payments.
However, the furniture
and personal possessions
of most low-income per-_ _
sons is not worth very
much. If It is worth less
than $500, then none of it
City Incre
r^obsrFor
Yvette McCullough
rii _ mm n
9iaii iveponer
During the month of 1
November 1977 through '
March of this year since ]
A1 Beaty took over as the <
City's Personnel Man- <
_ager^ 52 per cent of all
newly hired employees <
were black. <
"We just hired good ]
city employees who just <
happened to be black,'' i
Beaty said. ~ j
During this time period t
24 per cent of the em- t
ployees that were promot- 1
ed were black and 34 per <
cent of the terminations J
were blacks. Terminations i
include persons who retir- ]
ed, resigned, died or who t
were fired. i
The number of blacks t
employed in about all of
the job categories has
tuvi oaocu V/UUipai CU IXJ
June of 1977. At the
highest level of employment;
Administrative/Of- 1
ficials there are five
blacks. They are A1 Beaty,
Jack Bond, Deputy City 2
Manager, Nellie Jones,
Director of Human Services,
Walter Farabee, the *
Economic Development
Coordinator and Lester
Erwin Deputy Fire Chief.
These blacks represent
13.1% of this category *
compared to 10% in June n
of 1977. b
In the professional ^
category blacks represent c
17.8%, a drop of about ^
i nor ? 1 AT" t-?i i n
i.avo irum 01BCKS "
make up 14.7% in the ^
Technical category com- c
pared to 13% in 1977. v
IN the protective 9er- ^
vices category which in- n
eludes firefighters, policmen
and public safety ^
officers, blacks represent n
13.8% compared to 12% *
in 1977. In the Office/ e
Clerical category blacks ^
represent about 23% of
the people employed, a a
decrease of about 1 % n
from June of 1977. ^
Blacks make up 48.7% ^
of the skilled craft cate
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uminivimnr.'fi 1 1111 l-1- j
iin-ii iin >i r iii ' ?
iE
k 20 Cents
.. 0 : ^ " _
j i ices
- a
*Poor
can be taken for debts,
because everyone is allowed
a $500 personal
exemption of property
that he may keep, no
matter what.
Another thing few people
realize is that no one
can simply walk into your
house and repossess
something UNLESS YOU
LETJTHEM. If you are
many payments behind, if
a truck rolls up into the
yard to haul your possessions
away, you do not
have To let them InT You
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D1 1
DiaCKS
gory compared to 47% for
last year. In the service
maintenance category
blacks represent about
77% of the people employed
in this category
compared to 78% in June
Df 1977.
. - t
Jack Bond said that the
rfty tries^to identify the?
:areer paths of its employees
to help 4 their
:hances for upward mobility.?They?Hst
the?enF
ployees professional
training and list the job
;he employee has now and
ihen show him the options
)f employment open to
lim. They also offer fornal
counseling to emjloyees
to show them the
raining or education they
leed in order to grow with
he city.
Dungeon
May Lose
4Ut fermit
igairt ?
Yvette McCullough
Staff Reporter
The Dungeon Club at
419 N. Liberty Street
lay be forced to close
?cause of the numerous
quor law violations the
lub has received. The
>ungeon along with nulerous
other clubs and
heir managers were
harged with liquor law
iolations last weekend by
le Alcohol Law Enforcelent
Agency.
Kenneth Hodges of the
ast Fair Market on Reyolda
Road was charged
rith selling alcoholic bevrages
to a minor. Jerry
ooper, owner of Jerry's
>unge at Ogburn Avenue
nd Robert L. Smith maager
of the American
egion post on Liberty
treet, were charged with
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