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Page 2 The Chronicle Saturday, June 17, 1978
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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 twelv<? office,rs 7ho
70,001-Help Employ "e actlvely mvolvel m
Youth try to deal with the Profam effort'
this problem, but it is f9 co?ches ,and co^n8e'
hard to help a teenager lors , By,
who is years behind in ^P1?8 forlbPy8 ^ ^
schoooling. and through becoming actively
mvolved m the acti*
'By the time you test vities, the participants iman
18-year old to see age of the public safety
what Htfl loflrnincr nr^- ? 1
|/?v- v/mvoi MO UiiJJIUVtJU.
"Wgnra aiu, It tsnt a f?Tim Incuuttven^^^
g lummj," I mi hub ihhf gimThub
says WSSU Chancellor lowered the rate of juveTV
JL llQUg^ Pfwin^ npnrtrH" ITsiner _
the key to good jobs, in the program only 60
and unemployment is youths were involved in
another piece of the juvenile arrests.
puzzle. The total cost of the
Teenage unemploy- program is $61,480 or
ment is the highest of $37.28 per participant,
any group in the coun- The coordinator of the
try . Among black- program - Alfred Adams
youths it has been est- feels that this is not a lot
imated as high as 60%. of money to spend on a
"If there were jobs child.
available for every- "If the children get in
body, our criminal pro- trouble you'll spend more
blem would be cut in money than that," Adams
half," says Judge said. "If the program is
Freeman. not continued a lot of kids
_ _"Many kids can't won't have the opportunifind
jobsr" noted ty to ^crto camp or enjoy
Harold Ellison. "Their the outdoor life, because
parents are out working this program is free."
or socializing, so the Patterson YMCA Directfid
is unsupervised. I tor Richard Glover feels?
The ESR community that eliminating the pro
nouses close at 5 p.m7? h gram would have a detri^ !
the city recreation cen- ~~ mental effect.
ters are closed on_ "The rapport between
weekends, school gyms the youth and the officers
are~3osed night and won't be as good," Glover
weekends. Where else said. "After all that's *
can a kid go but the what the program is all J
street?" about."
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From Page 4 gut jt cannot be ah apainterests
as the - Black luetic one. It cannot sucvoter's
apathy worked ceed if it is racial( ^ it
against Black s interests will not get off the ground
on May 30! -tg supporters are comSo
let me ask these poor placent. The economic
people, rent payers and battle u^g have been
wage earners, "Do you clearly drawn^JThe ecorecognize
that the true nomicaiiy comfortable
kinship in America today have mUstered
is not as much within the yjeij. forces and have fired
races as it is a kinship the ^ 8hots
based upon common hard- ^
ship and need. Are you Mr. Williamson has
going to remain ignorant- issued a 4'Call to arms'^to
lyv racially complacent poor people, 1 wonder if
better-off, penny-pinch- tional "losers," will be
ing,? Black - and?white - able to unite across racial
neighbors rip you off lines, to assemble the
hv ronnin r? ? ' * *"
-c?, ?j vuuouig Yvnai - necessary spirit and tiie
hey call 4'non-essential" support, to rise to this
government programs to challenge!
:>e eliminated?! Le Roy Meek
Certainly an "Economic Board Member
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