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tSiij-i ~ g.~ r'' 2dt, Ban ise; g? sriPT. :3v,,BY 024 A 27014 Winston-Salem Chronicle IV. No. '39 “More than 25,000 weekly readers” Saturday May 27, 1978 16 Pages ★ 20 Cents ★ Called The Police From The Bus Station...’^ Sixth-Grader Foils Burglar By Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer With crime among young people reaching epidemic proportions, it is refreshing to hear about Drake D. Groves, who is working on the side of the angels. Drake, a 12-year old, recently stopped an attempted burglary at North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company by alerting the police of the break-in. On Sunday afternoon. May 7th, Drake, his little brother Alex, and ten-year old niece Mia Michaux were walking home from the downtown library. As they approached the North Caro lina Mutual Insurance office at 609 East Third Street, the trio saw what Drake describes as ‘ 'a man with fuimy-looking clothes on." "We picked up rocks,” Drake re calls , ‘ ‘ Because we thought he might be some kind of mean man. But he waved to us, so we said, "Guess he’s okay,’ and we dropped the rocks." The man was not “okay," they soon discovered. He kept walking around the N.C. Mutual Building, looking it up and down. Then he went back to the entrance, glanced to see if he were being observed, and kicked a hole in the glass door. "He covered the hole by standing in front of it when cars came by,” said Drake, who saw it all. At this point, Drake’s actions began to differ from all those "good citizens" See page 2 County Slow In Hiring Blacks by Yvette McCullough Staff Reporter * Ilrake D. Groves explains how he prevented a burglar from robbing the company’s Third Street office. WSSU May Close’ Much has been said in recent weeks about For syth County’s hiring prac tices, but the County’s Affirmative Action statis tics does show that mino rities have made some progress within the last few years. The number of minori ties in the service main tenance departments has decreased and the number of minorities in manage ment has increased during the last year. According to the statis tics as of June 1977 to the present, blacks accounted for 29 per cent of the Chambers Cites Racism county’s work force and women accounted for 58 per cent. Sixty three per cent of the blacks employed by the county in 1977 were in the service and mainte nance departments com pared to 89 per cent in 1976. Ninty-seven per cent of the women were employed in clerical posi tions in 1977 compared to 98 per cent in 1976. Nine per cent of the blacks were employed as managers and officials in 1977 compared to three per cent in 1976, while 15 per cent of the women were employed as mana gers and officials compar ed to 8 per cent in 1976. The County uses labor force data as the basis for determining their goals, says DiUion Robertson, Director of Training for the county. If a depart ment falls below the total labor force data an unsa- i In Education Programs T' By Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer In a speech given Sun day at Shiloh Baptist Church, Attorney Julius Chambers blasted North Carolina’s educational system, warning blacks tW they could lose Win ston Salem State Universi ty just as they lost Atkins and Carver as senior high schools. T L j * j • * Th® hew ruling, said ! Joseph A. Wilhams recommends studying to Chambers, reminded him lie audience at Saturday’s Juvenile Justice program integration process that took place on the high m Tech?” Chambers, de manded. “I thought that was the function of WSSU. And why is there a nursing program at For syth Tech?” tion, criticized the city’s gifted programs, pointing out that until this year there were no black tea chers in the program. He also noted that very few black students were placed in the gifted pro gram. ‘ ‘The administrators want us to think that all See page 2 Such programs, he sta ted, draw white students away from WSSU, thus defeating the purpose of the HEW ruling. Judge Tells Youths: Study 3 Hours Daily lenile I Greensboro Judge Jo- 1 A. WiUiams, guest [ealier at Saturday’s Ju- Justice Program, ed his young audience I many made A’s last lemester, and how many made C’s. Then he polled Item about the number of i they studied. I The hands that went up "one hour or less” llisturbed him. "How do u expect to make A’s if u don’t study more than Ikat?" he demanded. Wil liams told the group that £ would like to see them Required to study three flours per day. Judge Wilhams’ speech Iwasthe finale of the Juve- Inile Justice Program held |lB8t Saturday at Winston- 1 State University. It Bellowed a morning of lindividual discussion Isreups covering many as- Ipects of juvenile crime, land other youth-related problems. Young people aged 12 I® 18 from several coun- i'lss attended the program. When asked 1 impressed him the i during the work 's, one participant re- Iplied; "The fact that what |you get to do in jail mds on how you act lllrere. Like, if a member of lyour family dies, I thought llley'd automatically let I you go to the funeral. But ' don’t. It depends on I your conduct record.” The Forsyth Uounty Ju- psuile Justice Council con sists of 20 organizations and a number of citizen representatives dedicated to reducing delinquincy, diverting juveniles from training schools, and find ings ways to more effec tively treat juvenile offen ders. Some of the agen cies in the Council are: Experiment in Self-Reh- ance; Legal Aid; Youth Energy Network; W-S Po lice Department; Big Bro thers/Big Sisters; and the Council on Drug Abuse. school level, in which administrators talked of having to attract whites to black institutions, but en ded up demoting the black schools to 9-10 schools, while leaving predomi nantly white schools as senior highs. Julius Chambers that while the HEW ruling protests dupheation of programs among bran ches of the Greater Uni versity of North Carolina, it does not address the problem of duplication of programs at WSSU and Forsyth Technical Insti tute. Chambers caUed the closing of WSSU "highly possible.” He pointed out “Why is there a liberal arts program at Forsyth Chambers was guest speaker at Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday in a spe cial service recognizing the Alpha Phi Alpha Fra ternity. Members of Al pha Phi Alpha and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Soro rity attended the worship service as a group. George Newell presided over the Alpha Phi Alpha portion of the program. Julius Chambers, who fought the Winston-Salem /Forsyth County School System over desegrega- Aldermen Still Uncertain On Daycare and CD Funds tisfactory rating will be given that department, and a goal to come up to the level of the labor market will be set. The departments that have been rated unsatis factory are the tax depart ment, Reynolds Health Center, Emergency Med ical Service the county fire department and the Ani mal Control. If a department or group meets or exceeds minority or female hiring See page 2 The Board of Aldermen granting community de- met last Wednesday night velopment (CD) funds to for a work session to Northwest Child Develop- discuss the possibility of ment for day care trans portation and to discuss the distribution of $880,000 for CD projects. No decisions were made on either project during Urban League Stresses Youth Career Awareness The Winston-Salem Ur ban League is presently operating a “Demonstra tion Project on Youth Ca reer Development for School-to-Work Transi tion.” Key objectives of this demonstration project is to explore the feasibility and assess the effective ness of having a network of community-based or ganizations provide spe cial career development assistance during the summer and school year to in-school youth, as a means of enhancing their success in the transition from school to work. Executive Director of the Winston-Salem Urban League, stated that the Urban League is very fortunate to be one of the sites for this program. As one of the cities with a high unemployment rate for youth, we feel it will be a great service to help our youth. ledge, most students are the long, and at times, temper-flaring evening. Northwest Child Deve lopment is asking for $120,000 in CD funds, since their request for city funds was denied by the Aldermen's finance com mittee. In order to receive CD funds. Northwest would have to meet cer- CROWNS QUEEN - Mr. Thomas E. Kee [1], Director of University Relations, Shaw University, crowns Ms. Valerie Tekosky “Miss Black America- Shaw University.” Ms. Tekosky was selected during the first annual Miss Black America Pageant helds at Shaw Wednesday, May 2, 1978. Library Forms Friends Group not aware of these career t£iin federal guidelines. by Yvette McCullough Staff Reporter opportunities. The Urban League is working with the Winston- Salem/Forsyth County School System and the local businesses to intro- According to the federal guidelines a majority of the children who would be served by the day care center’s transportation would have to hve in CD The East Winston Lib rary had life breathed Thomas J. Ehjah, Jr., Mr. Peyton Hairston, a former Assistant Principal of the Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County School System, is the director for the Youth Career Pro gram. There are 641 job titles in which to select careers and based on our know- duce these students to the target area and the center world of work. Plans are in must meet the needs of the making for many acti- those residents. The ser- vities such as: tests, field vice provided, in this case trips. Career Day Fair, transportation, would ei- individual counseling, ther be a new service or an group sessions and nume- increase in the level of rous other services to aid service. Presently 16% of in the career development the children in the CD for youth. area would be served by The Youth Career Deve- the transportation, lopment Office is located Parents, employees of in the Pepper Bidding, Northwest Child Develop- Suite 406. See Page 2 back into it in the last few months, and plans to keep it from collasping are in the works. At an organ- zational meeting last Wednesday at the East Winston Branch concern ed citizens and staff got together to discuss ways of keeping the hbrary from going into a relapse In recent months the The Postal Service’s planned two-cent increase in first class postage has drawn sharp criticism from Rep. Steve Neal, D-N.C., who said he fav ors returning the service to “closer control” by Congress. “It isn’t that I’m against the Postal Service in a businesslike way, which is what the inde pendent agency is sup posed to do,” Neal said. “Along the way, however, it also is supposed to improve efficiency - in cluding cost control — to keep postage rates from becoming burdensome.” Postal rates are now recommended by a rate commission and approved by the Postal Service organize a Friende of the Board of Governors. ’The East Winston Library commission has recom- club, which would pro- mended that the present mote the activities at the 13-cent stamp be increas- library. ed to 15 cents. The library in coopera- The present rate-mak- tion with Forsyth Techni- ing system has been in cal Institute will begin operation since 1971, high school diploma equi- when the Postal Service valency classes which will became an “indepen- last for about 11 weeks dent” agency, comparat- and will meet two hours a week. Participants will re ceive instruction in En- ghsh and Math. The classes are part of an effort to raise the educa- library’s circulation has tional level of people in increased and the use of Winston-Salem. There is the library has improved, also the possibility of con- So to insure this increased ducting a Learning Lab at participation a meeting , was held to discuss and peg® ively free of congressional and executive department supervision. However, a bill now being considered in the House of Repre sentatives would give Congress more control over rates and would make the postmaster gen eral an appointee of the See Page 2
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