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I WlNST< > /F A<>, 12 "Mor. NAACP Medial Eight Sto mJ By Sharyn ftrivtchegr ae9!5p:*s:^^ tacting the stores in. ^ Eight major stores in volved, we can report Winston-Salem may be some progress made, faced with boycotts within says Hairston. thp npxt fpw ' wppks if One store has pronegotiations by the local mised to institute a crash NAACP fail to satisfy the program to hire blacks complaints of local citi- youth within 30 days," he zen 9 continued. /\nd tney 4 4 We Eire acting as a plfrn to intensify their mediator in this issue," says Patrick Hairston, president of the WinstonSalem Chapter of the NAACP. t ??? O* 1 1 Hairston stated that a jr I complaint about the eight I . stores, whose names will not be revealed at this Yvette McCullougE time, was brought to the Staff Reporter ??NAACP Labor Committee One black American in by a group called Con- ten jg born wjth the sickle cerned Citizens. ce\\ trait, and that person The complaint stated js_ usually- not- aware- of that certain stores predo- having the trait unless the minantly .serving?blacks sickle cell blood test is ?have a very low rate of taken. However, the_re-L black employment. It -also ?ent decision not to conticharged that the stores nue t^e fecjerally funded . treatment of black custo- program that has operated mers was unsatisfactory, here for five years may After investigating result in fewer people C Q I,14-: i i ^ glfi "I'm not smiling. What 4'Blacks find us fast have I got to smile enough if they get in about?" trouble." ?? Patrickr Huirstt T '40 Years in theWH 0 -By Sharyn Bratcher blems victimizing each Staff Writer other. What would have hap- He recalls his Navy pened if Moses had gotten experience. Pharoah's permission to "I wanted to be a leave Egypt, and the gunner. World War II had children of Israel refused just started... Pearl Harto go? bor had been bombed... "I guess he would have and I wanted to be a just died," sighs NAACP gunner." president Patrick Hair- He went to the Naw ston. recruiting station in Wa- _ Hairston is not ready to shington, D.C. where ? a give up the search for the black recruiter assured promised land just yet, him that he could do but sometimes he feels anything he wanted in the that he is getting very U.S. Navy. So young Pat little cooperation. Hairston enlisted, and "We are not doing all tried to cash in on that we could be doing!" He promise -- thirty years too fumes. early. Too many blacks are not "All gunners all into members of the NAACP this line!" bawled the ("But they find us fast officer, and Pat took his enough when they get in place in line. trouble..."): black youths Pause. "There must be are turning their backs on some mistake," said the n /4 n/>nf i nn V\ 1 n/*!/ A W 1 A ffl Af ? * \ A rv ^ ? 11, U1CIL f\ W1A i^iCA^rw WllltCI , TT C UUl 1 I flaVt? crime is prevalent. colored gunners in this These facts are bewild- outfit.'' ering to a man who is "Weli, you got c^e try***!di^rimina- Pat to! d him. tion. The lack of unity is ' " , 7 '! T~ * , But he didn t get to hurting that cause. , , rp, XT ? R gunnery school. The Navy Pat Hairston came informed him that he and along at a time when all the other black sailors, blacks had enough trouble were going to be stewcontending with racism ards. This, they exwithout making more pro- plained, involved shining ?? [ifAIli dn -Sale: e than 25,000 weekly readers" > >res lip BancaBi rjI c: J? ? " * "v ^ iinuings to itobert Henry, f cerned Citizens. They're JraHW See Page 2 i Reynolds Health Centei eCell Progra being aware that they offices," Scott continued, have the disorder. The program first be4'This community needs gan in ,1971 under the a free sickle cell testing," Model City Program. The said "Hazel Scott, coordi- Department of Health, -nator^ of- the-Sickle- Cell -Education- and Welfare Program. granted $ 100,000 for a five "The program needs to year period. = he an outreach -because Cothe iL Booker. Chair you're not going to reach man of-the? Reynolds the people that need to Health Center Board said know." * that the program has been "You can't wait for in jeopardy the last three people to come to the years. "There have been concerns about funding^" 0 Booker said. "The federa | government will fund ano I ther area in the U.S." , . The population bas( that the sickle cell pro .j * gram has been serving has decreased in people "Blacks will give money V for pie in the sky, but not to make things better ? ffl Idem ess' i |B1 officers' shoes, waiting on S ' V tables... I TJhU "I didn't join the Navy L to be a servant'' Pat I replied. W The first time they gave him leave he went home and didn't go back. Final- The Police Incentive's Chi ly, his sister, terrified that out if funds are not alloti he might be shot for de- , sertion, persbaded him to go back. He requested a f general court martial so M W that he could tell his side JL m M W ms of the storv. ? He told the judge about wanting to be a gunner ^ ^ and ending up a steward. _ M M ? It didn 't get him a change i j MJt^ I m M of duty, but the case WW against him was dropped. Now many of the bar- By Yvette McCullough riers he faced are no Staff Reporter longer there, but black advancement is still co- Although the City Manming too slowly. ager recommended that Hairston worries about the Police Department's A 1 _ J *. -* 1 f me euucauonai system 01 Incentive program for today. Is it really teaching hoys and girls be black youth? . scrapped, the city's^ fi"A young man came to nance committee has me recently askng me to come up with a way to help him get a jobr' he salvage at least part of xne recalls. "So I asked him to program prepare a resume. He hag been rccommen. didn't even know what ded.,hat lhe prof?ram re. one was! ceive $35,000 so that it "I explained that to CQuld continue Qn a llmi. See Page 2 ted scale. STO? iJ/SUNDAv"CSiSbDl * a*-..-: -:?- - ^ M CHROI *kiturda\ June I 7. IVTH 20 Pc ' n ? 8 j Juvenile crime is growing w A' Lt up. It has reached epideim {^V II' mic proportions both natL fa* r g^-jTT-'Wrny^ bk SI HJlk series is an investigation M B Irl K ^t? the causes of that ES|^^8S3Bt^llWJ WtfttaWfW VfiS&4cltf-toK S?le?71fig^gLJLl^ W m Sharyn Bratcher ~^V^2??3SS?> A 1 nr a 1 r\r>l ir-o r?ffir?or picked up ^12-year old * Cut-Back ?7? m Cancelled that need to be tested. nolds Health Center will "It is unfortunate that be dismissed, the program has been "Certainly after twenty terminated at this time," years one has tenure," said N.L. Rhump the di- Vigil stated. "We ques-rector of the program. lion the administrative "We have not saturated judgment of this rWi the entire state in testing sion." or education/' "This sets a dangerous Several organizations^ precedent in that it opens are concerned not only the door for capricious about the program being dismissal of employees terminated, but also about without justification" Vithe fact that Rumph may gil reported _ ina news be out of a job.. release. 1 ^ mroTT She stated that the Rey Operation PUSHJ.Peo- nMs Center Ad1 pie United to Save Huma- . . . .. . . . , w ministration is accounta nity) president Margaret hie to jt? anri Vigil said that they find it citizen9 ^ that th : regrettable that funds had want Rumph.s dismissal - to be cut off, and that , r Rumph who has twenty > years of service to Rey- See page 2 ?ff& - 11 ? Mr ldren Theater may be one of the programs to be fazed ted. ive Program Fund Cut The Incentive program children from low income is designed to improve the families and many are not communication and rela- able to afford the cost of tionships between police- camp or Y dues. men and the community. The relationship bethere are 1650 boys and tween the officers and girls actively participating children include mutual in the program. participation in recreatioIf the program is not na^ activities. The procontinued 900 children ?ram offers a variety of won't g(H the opportunity activities with the main to go To~camp7 VhcT pro- i ptosis "'aricrr?" gram's children theater nation. The activities ofwill be terminated and a ^?rec^ are football, basketlot of children will lose the ball, swimming, camping, privilege of being a mem- track, boxing, tutoring, ber of the YMCA. The program deals with See Page 2 -c .iO L5W>->- U.U-1 *- ?'. NKLE iften 20 Centw Part I ; Of The Fathers they screamed at their hit me in the mouth." son: "Why did you get . These examples are * caught?" tragic symptoms of a howling national* disease. The - ~~ ^aftgaUiljg fas Lorn rnnmh 3CEbIwT" I I 5555M her skill. She also has a Youth aged ten to 17 JLQ-year old son. A few commit more than half ? -*?eial the orirrvf^ in the I s^eaewsto bowlings He had never murders last year; 12 of been before. those were committed --"I can't understand by children less than 10 my 15-year bid daugh- years old. 173,535 ter," A mother com1 thefts were committed plains. "Ever since sh^e by youths under fifthad her baby she has een; over 100,000 more changed. Last week she See Page 2 " H ' i hJ HfcttyNjr ^ v. y _ rW$r ^ *C * ^ THOMAS JACKSON Black Caterer, Tangle wood Park, Reach Agreement Yvette McCullough cy between the Park and Staff Reporter Jackson. Tanglewood Park and Park Manager Roger Thomas Jackson, the. Lemmons said that the Park's caterer seems to problems in the past may have reached agreeable have been due to a lack of terms for operating the communication between ^park^s^food"servicer Jackson and the board. Jacksonjriet with mem- "The ^communication bers of the Programs and has to be a little bit Facilities Committee of better," Lemmons told Tanglewood Park to dis- Jackson. "If you have any cuss Jackson's lease problems, they need to be based on his April propo- Brought to my attention." sal. ThP HoarH haH Koon TVio rnmmittao at*A . . ..MV4 ??V/ Wilii*ilWWVV UilU requested by the Forsyth Jackson agreed to work on County Commissioners to any problems or comreconsider its recent ac- plaints and Jackson said tion in awarding the he was willing to work on park's food service con- rectifying the complaints tract to Epicure Manage- as soon as possible. ment Services, Inc. Lemmons told Jackson The commissioners re- that they were going to commended in a letter to prepare a contract and the Park board that the incorporate the things that bidding process be started they had talked about, all over again and that Problems between Jackson's lease be exten- Jackson and the Tangleded. wood board began when The committee decided the board voted to begin to pick up Jackson's lease negotiations with Epicure and extend it until Dec. 1. Management, a white The meeting held Tuesday South- Carolina Food sernight was to acquaint vice organization, and to Jackson with some sug- terminate the present gestions and complaints lease with Jackson who is that have come to the black. attention of the commit- Some members of the tee. Park Board and the local NAACP voiced concerns Some of the suggestions that Jackson was being offered to Jackson were to ousted because he was extend the hours for serv- black. Jackson in turn ing hot food at the club retained Melvin Watt, a house, and to expand the member of the Charlotte menu at the Manor House law firm, headed by Julius Tfr~ include ~ a .variety of Cnambers, hs- tits' lawyer/^--' prices and a child's plate. The recommendation by They also discussed the the conmmissioners and possibility of reactivating the withdrawal of Epicure the grill at the pool, ways bid resulted in the present to speed up service and a situation between Jackson change in the billing poli- and the Park.
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