) Page 2 The Chronicle Saturday, June 17, 1978 ? jErviSffiSTRSEp Pari I rpi parents is a factor," From Pa?e 1 gayS ju(jge Freeman. "90% of the kids I see thefts are attributed to ^ court come a the 15-18 age bracket. one-parent or no parent Younsters below 18 home." committed 36,990 robberies, of which 10,156 "There has been a were done by kids break-down in the famunder 15. ~ ily relationship," . . _ In experience and po- ?crrfw?.s Rev. Horace fflftfit, fawf fuiByWilBTOiyo Otmi the. court system still Counseling Staff. , them liko cHUUi..,, -?? * - _ "; Little Rascals" image of juvenile offenders in Her mother has her on the past. birth control pills. Juvenile crime is She's given venereal growing up. disease to quite a few "Ten years ago juve- young men. l'ne mothnile crime wasn't too er is an alcoholic, "serious/' says district Where is the girl now? court judge William We sent her back Freeman. "Kids were home. There's a shortusually in court for age of foster homes, shoplifting or truancy. You can't remove 250 But today they are ,'kids. . . " committing , adult "Parents were better crimes ? robbery, as- parents years ago," sault, murder. . . " says Harold Ellison, co? 60% of these youth- ordinator of the Save ful offenders go on to Our Youth Program run become career crim- by the Experiment in inals. Self-Reliance. The causes of juven- "There is a lack of - _ile crime are obvioust guidance, and somes^ ' I iinrl itr\anifwnnnlir 4; ?? ~ ? ? t *f wuw uiKuiuuuuinj avnv* tiilJtJS CVBD lOV?. edi^Tamily problems, "Teenagers are gettunemployment, poor ing pregnant at twelve schooling, and poverty. and thirteen these Everyone agrees on days," he pointed out. the causes. Finding so- ?-What kind of parents lutions is much more do you expect them to complex. make? Sometimes we "The lack of good have a 9-year old kid Patrick Hair 640 Years In The Wi From Page 1 him, and he wrote one up handouts instead of jobs and brought it back to me. makes them lose the will Now this young man had w?rk, he contends, been living in Winston-Sa- Hairston is a fightlem all his life, and you erknow how he spelled For- "I was up in New York syth? F-o-r-t-h." State," he recalls, "And I He favors competency bad to bave a job* The ~ tests for high school stu- steel mill up there was dents because it would hiring people, but I didn t make schools more ac- ^ow anything about steel countable for what stu- mills. I had never been in dents learn ? or don't one bi my bfe." . learn. "When I went for the Hairston is concerned Job interview. I looked un - about the demoralizing on *^e bulletin board to effect of welfare on see what j?bs were avaU" blacks. Giving people ab^e? * saw ^ ammm needed chippers. "I didn't even know S 3 V 6 W 3 t G f w^at *kat was, but when they asked me what I And Money could do, I said, 'I'm a chipper.' Properly maintained land- "Thev wanted to know scape plants can add signifi- iney wanted to Know cantly to the financial worth where I had worked, and I of your property, and so it's a said 'Salem Steel, Winam?odunt'deof 'water'^planU "ton-Salem, North Caroliactually require. na.' Shoot, Salem Steel Most plants can suffer as wasn't even hiring blacks much, if not more, from h k ?? excessive watering as from too tittle. Here is a useful His prospective em ?- p. t ployers didn't know that, and Pat got the job. When reP?rted f?r work they paired ^im with an experiencecj man ? but they^. 7j/'//-v" gave him no training bewfl \ cause he had said he had I.*, experience, too. I ^ wa^ched the other ^ <**- r guy chipping at cracks in ' the steel for a few minA LITTLE WATER GOES A uteg and then he cave it a LONG WAY toward healthy ' andtnen ne gave it a trees, and they go a long way try. toward high property value. When he brought his guideline suggested by the chipping tool down On a '1 Green Survival" cro/?l/ m u,** v.-?1 ? , ?w v/i uv^n ui l>iic 11UI SVVtil, ine sionals in the American blade flew Qut of the Association of Nurserymen. , . Most trees, shrubs and chipper and nearly cost other plants growing in the him a partner. yard are ser.oualy thirsty "What are you doing?" every week to 10 days. If ? ? tixera w^noijibaujLth* roared the other man. ent of an inch ofraTrffafi over ~ **ldonTlmowwhat I'm that period of time then all doingi" pat confessed, those plants should be given 44_ ? , sufficient water to make sure * need a job. So yoil it reaches down to soak the just show me how to do root.y?Um. ^ this job." For very little water, you can have a lot of lovely green The man obliged ? and around your house. Pat worked in the steel J > ' he Sins Of The Fat that we're working poor reading ability and with, and his mother is violent or disruptive only 22. She is too busy juvenile behavior," the trying to make up for report stated. her own adolescence to bother with the child." But the schools are caught in the trap, and "Sometimes kids will l*a^?g ^ inhibited, come to me with a 70'??? teachers were record of low grades in assa^d last year in ? ? t ti it the U.S. according to , W1M.1 I '*Il Ihttm n ? F .... ,.xfiIrt;eQrta.Jlfana.beecu.home," Ellison .stated. erwT.rtl "The kid will reply. ^ classroom time is School can be a dang" Where can he go erous place for students for help?" and teachers. It can also be a mirror of These young people hopelessness. are caught in a cycle of poverty and inadequate Sometimes youths education. Born"""to are given "social pro*teenage parents who motions" even though did poorly in school they lack the ability to they go to school with do more advanced little encouragement or work. By the time they assistance from home, reach high school they and they do poorly, may become behavior _ Then they "get in problems out of bore trouble at an early age dom or frustration at and bring the third their own inability to do generation into the the work. cycle. "Kenny was a senior The North Carolina in high school," recalls Crime Study Commis- one English teacher, sion stated that it was "And he used to draw impressed by the find- his answers. His writ ings of research groups? ing was on a primaryindicating:" a strong level, and his reading correlation between was verv noor. And T * mr ~ * ~ ? ? delinquincy. and learn- was supposed to~ get ?ing disabilities. -him feady for college in44An especially one year!" strong correlation has People like Jesse been found between Jackson in Project Exston r?^^^ lderness' L mill for a couple of years. He looked out for him- i self then ~ and now -- \ I 11 ^ because, he says, "It's . VY wfUL^ foolish to rely on the 7 descendants?- of slave=? 1 \ A/ owners to help you get 1' v V ahead." He is working toward a ' r x^Qil D6 L/6 solution to the black community's problem through 9 a unified program. "We ( CylVi could start a black bank," t Hairston pointed out. "Or ' ? a housing rehabilitation < \ program. Look, there are " ^ 30,000 blacks in Winston- \ Salem, if we could get just 7 a third of them to give a 1 dollar a week ? that's 7 $10,000 a week you'd have \ to work with. That's a half 7 a million dollars in one I year! And even if you 7 never get anything out of I it yourself, you'd be help- 7 ing some other black per- I son get ahead." J I Mail He sighs. "They'll I spend that money on rec- 6 Of CO ords or some foolishness, f They'd even give that A Qfld much to the church. Why [ won't they do it to help 1 themselves get ahead?" f He sees the obstacles, 1 and he knows the flesh is 7 weak in too many cases, 1 but Patrick Hairston is not 7 giving up. I He doesn't know how. J Sickle Cell j From page 1 7 justified. ? i mfll Sickle Cell tests will still J be administered at the \ center for ~ a fee. The F program included educa- 1 tion, screening, counse- 7 ling and medical follow- V up. About 42,000 people 7 were screened during the V five year period. ^ ^ ^ u tf r _ Suffers Ftti From pag* 1 drama arts and creative rhythms. The focus in each program area is on youth and eel and programs like 1116 twelve eliminated?! Le Roy Meek Certainly an "Economic Board Member devolution" is needed. 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