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And The V
By Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
Kenneth R. Williams
Auditorium grew relatively
quiet. The host for the
... , .evening Walter Vinrpnt
By John W. Templeton
f Staff Writer
performance of black anc
white 11th graders on lasi
year's competency tesl
may result in changes ir
the test, according to t
petency Test Commission
Dr. S.O. Jones, a Wins
ton-Salem State Univers
- ity administrator named t<
the commission in May
said the commission staf
has done an item-by-iten
analysis of the difference!
in how blacks answerec
questions and how white:
answered the same ques
' I ^ j^k
< '...J yfm
I : H
^ inct rpvpflii^f" e
"1 -" nariiTjM,ru1''i'hi* i mrngf trpa
in the pageant and was
about to announce the
directed toward the slip of
paper he held in his hand.
1978 Miss Black America
of North Carolina Pageant
is Dehaeva Maria Drake,"
? ?he exclaimed.
The moment had arrived,
it was the icing on,
the cake, the night cap to
an evening long awaited
and a dream come true for
Came For
W A
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Dehaeva Drake, Miss
Black America of North
Carolina-1978.
Compet?
a
On est ions A
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dinner Is..
the* 22 year old singer
from Lumberton.
Miss Drake and nine
other finalists competed in
the swim suit, talent, eveand
prnj?rtion_
rprn petitions in tKp
TuinpEiiiKpiTrWfije
sang her arrangement of
"He Touched Me" and
the pageant was Karen *
Cuthrell, a contestant at
large from Winston-Sa-"
lem. The second runnerup
was Anna Dianne
Johnson of Durham, who
was representing Winston-Salem
State University
and third runner-up
was Cathryn Hunter, a
student at the North CaroSee
Page 5
Exposure,
By Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
Dehaeva Maria Drake 3
of Lumberton entered the
Miss Black American of
North Carolina Pageant to
gain exposure for her
=singing. Not only did she
receive exposiirp for her
singing, she walked away
with the coveted Title of
Miss - Black America - of
North Carolina for 1978.
Dehaeva, the 22 year
old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs., John D, Drake, is^
1977 graduate of Pennbroke
State College,
where she majored in
iiicy Test
Jialyzed
tion.
He said some questions
...U: S-.U UU?|,?
wiuui uia^ns Uio^ivpui bionately?got^
wrong are
j either being changed or
t deleted. The test devel
loper,-CTB McGraw Hill
1 of Monterrey, Calif., has
I been asked to submit a
. revised version oiLthetest
to the commission by Au.
gust, said Dr. Jones.
The commission will
5 make its recommendat?ions
on the testing prof
gram to the State Board
1 of Education, which
3 makes the final decision
i on the competency test.
s Dr. Jones, WSSU's diSee
Page 2
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than 25,000 weekly
H1 'Y'i?* ' -iysfi
5J -WZ.
jUl rnar^'t \ -
Angela Watson, Miss B
Carolina for 1977 [right]
newly crowned queen Deh
Black America of North C
T TF/'*L
, l^vji rr un
music education, with an
emphasis on voice.
^Miss Drake said that
winning the - pageant
hadn't hit her yet but she
does feel good about it.
"It has only been a few
days and I only know I
have the crown and title,''
Drake commentecT
don't know all the other
things I've won."
Looking back over-the
pageant Drake said that
she didn't believe that she
would win.
"The talent was real
good," Drake said. "All
the talent was just fantasMay
Chi
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- ? e>
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
?A - coalition-of^Durham
organizations has announced
plans to organize
a statewide campaign to
block next year's official
implementation jof the
state competency test to
11th grade students.
The_ group's chairperson
branded the competency
test program as
"a scheme designed to
push black and poor white
youth out of the schools
into the street, where they
will be available as cheap
labor for all the new
Part HI'
n?i\
^ JL. \
By Sharyn Bn
Staff Writi
"Juveniles commit
crimes," Rev Ho
reminds us.
The difference in t
significant because it
key point in the ju
system: youthful offer
ted differently from a
regardless of the seri
crime.
Rev. Walser is the
r/\i.f.?r+U P nil nf v' o / ? r\ l
f ui aj tn v/wunwj o
One of the duties
counselors is to see ;
ders through their tr
advising the defendar
or how to behave.
This service is val
most juveniles have c
lawyers whose servic<
of what one might e
-?L-The-AVfixagft.
lawyer one time onl>
William Freeman." T
fifteen minutes be!
starts.''
The court-appoint
limited by law to
1' T*" '
iALEI
readers"
'W " ' rr- ., , _
m&>
Hack America of North
hands the trophy to the
taeva Maria Drake, Miss
Carolina-1978.
i Title
^tic, that it was hard to
predict, because the talent
counted 50 per cent."
As for the pageant she
did enjoy being in it, even
though the road to the top
wasn't easy.
''Because I was a contcstant
at^ large I had to
furnish my own clothes
and I didn't have a sponsor
to look out for me,"
-Drake explained.
"Also I didn't like staying
in a dorm (on WSStJ's
campus), I would have
[ liked to have stayed in e
[ hotel."
? See Page &
mge
tacked
industry which- Governo
XT. i. 1? t- ? 1. .
nUHL IS UlieilipLlIlg IV 1UII
here from Europe."
In Greensboro, the loca
affiliate of the "Nationa
Black Child Developmeni
Institute will begin a five
week summer tutorial project
on July 10 aimed al
students facing the competency
test, and the state
mandated, annual tests ir
_th~<^ third rsixtKr and ninth
grades.
The two moves came ir
response to the releas^o:
test results from lasi
year's "dry nm" of the
competency test program
See page 2
fot Pas
itcher Apparent!
er to much
offenses not days.
race _Walser _ The coi
? field worl
terminology is plaints aj
, underlines a youth is
tvenile justice makes rej
iders are trea- the count
dult criminals, Walser
OUSneSS of the mpnt crpt
o ?
Judge
supervisor of the four
jnseling staff. juvenile
of the court terns of
youthful offen- income 1<
ial, sometimes Kids fr
it what to wear 0ften lefl
only one ]
uable because the teen
ourt-appointed himself.'
?s fait far short for shop
xpect. entering.
aees?his.. wont.
',T' says Judge * Rich
'hat's for about man obs
fore the trial High-i
without
,ed lawyer is and Dad
a fee of $50. club.' Ir
1
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VI Ci
Saturday July 7, I97i>
Boyc
By Sharyn Bratcher de
Staff Writer ce
- Shop -Where?a?
~?nu. CflLnj't-Wagli''. ia_thQ th
battle cry oi th^ <J6n- iu
cerned Citizens boycott,
launched this week
"against -community.
After weeks of negotiations
with ~ store executives,
as well as weeks of
waiting in vain for responses
from other companies,
Robert Henry, President
of C<5hcerned Citizens, announced
that the boycott
would begin July 1st. p,
Henry and other members
of Concerned Citizens
met with NAACP
representatives Monday night-to
learn the results of
an investigation conducted
by the NAACP ^
labor committee of charges
that eight major stores
in the black community
Had a low rate of black
employment?^
The group was told that
two of the stores, Joe's
Fine Foods and Winn-Dixie
in Waughtown, had
indicated a willingness to
hire more blacks, both in
summer jobs for youths
r and permanent help.
Other stores, the committee
reported had been
less responsive, and the
1 Carl Be
^ j High S<
SCllCi journali
* Chronic
parents
V-TJLJL 18 spun
three.
s Go; D
ly that does not entitle one ;
of a lawyer's time these
1
.inseling staff also employs ]
ters who investigate comgainst
juveniles. When a
placed on probation, he
gular visits to a member of i
seling staff.
estimates that the depart s
500 new cases a year.
William Freeman, one of
judges who preside over
court, sees different patjuvenile
crime at different
svels.
om low-income families are
: unsupervised, often with
parent who is working while
ager is left to fend for
rhese are the kids picked up
lifting, or breaking and
They take things they
kids do dumb stuff," Freeerved.
ncome youths are often
supervision while Mommy
dy socialize at the 'country
1 a bid for attention, the
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IRO]
IHP
'Ott .
vision was made to proed
with a boycott
mnst at least gme of
ob? Mcwi baginning Sa
rday.
The stores being consirwi
?
lO f
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
At press time the Deartment
of Housing and
all for you
The City Board of
Aldermen turned a deaf
ear to black requests in
the areas of recreation
and garbage pickup in
the newly enacted budget.
See the details on
page 3.
It's the month for
weddings and Azzie
has the^ details. See
pages 6 and 7.
(Chronicle Profile focuses
on the young man
who had the enviable
task of directing the 18
participants in last
weeks Miss Black
America of North Carolina
pageant. See page
i 7. ^
tad
aty, Jr.t an 18-year-old g
chool, reviews literature
ism seminar he will
;le publisher Ernest H. F
i, Mr. and Mrs. Duane J
sored by the Chronicle.
o Not
youngsters turn to vand
In a recent case, s
:eenagers took to crt
highways heaving bricks
windshields of other cai
"Thev did it 23 times
stated. "I gave them 4
could have killed 4$pmet
Shoplifting has reache
demic proportions that F
tries to see that everyor
spends at least one nigl
that they will realize the
of the offense.
"I had one girl in hei
for shoplifting. She was
An honor student. I ser
until 7 p.m. that night,"
His task is usually a th
"Parents resent the c
man complains. "They
when their kids go to tra:
When, in fact, it's th
raised?the kk
wouldn't he there."
First offenders usuali
tion. After 2 or 3 times,
sent to training scho<
matelv 60% of these 1
"career criminals" as
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ages 20 Centi
Begi
dered for boycott are:
Food Town of Waugh...
town; Family Dollar of
WautHitown: t\ Mart"? ami
WrtKoida -gTr^prfftf- naE
ter locations of Big Star,
Varn C
Urban Development had
not announced its decision
regarding complaints on
? - - / . i
l the distribution 01 tne
$3.65 million in federal
housing money for Winston-Salem's
Community
Development Program.
^Representatives of the
groups who filed the complaint
met with HUD offi;
cials in Greensboro or
June 20th to discuss theh
charges that Winston-Sa
lem's CD program discri
minates against minorit:
: ?rAfc- the meeting, - Larr
Standley, the HUD officia
in charge-of- the case
listened to discussions oi
the city's proposals, bu
did not indicate the posi
tion his department woul
take. }
Present at the meetin
. ' I
;
A
graduate of Reynolds
for a UNC summer
be attending with
Itt [left] and Beaty's
ackson. Beaty's trip
See story on page
Collect
alism. One recer
ome bored juvenile justi
lising local which proh
through the from being s<
s. status offeni
Freeman commits a <
years. They away from h<
>ody.'' which would
id such epi- an adult. Th<
reeman now youths from
le convicted dened offen
it in jail, so and progre
seriousness crimes, like
Training s
re last week youngsters \
a nice girl. be at large, 1
it her to jail rehabilitate
he recalled. is very high
ankless one. "It costs
ourt," Free- keep one 1
' blame me Greensboro
ining school7~ "You could
eir fault. If colllege for
I ~ rigtor he-- Is?the- 4c
justice syst<
y get proba- incidence o
the youth is Many coi
d1. Approxi- there is con
kids become
adults.
"?r? ^ wvirvT-'./nT, W-'?
E
S
ns!
Paul Rose and Roses.
Plans for the boycott
included a transportation
" '~ay smiiEf uf fei uik frcg wdgp-*"-?i?
>rr
* See page 2
ity
IT?r/\Km rrn??mf rr?r\i*nL )
WC1C UVC1JU JLCHJ, /
senting the Winston-Salem
NAACP; Gail Fisher
of the League of Women
Voters; Robert Leek of the
East Winston Neighborhood
group; and attorneys
Benjamin Erlitz of Legal
Aid and Michael Warren
of the National Committee
Against Discrimination in~ ?
Housing.
Larrv Standlev declined
see page 5
f
^NAA P^=
J Convenes
j In Oregon
j. The NAACP's 69th and
nual convention will be in
Portland, Oregon this
g year, under, the theme
-. . till Victory is Won."
The dates are July 3rd
through July 7th.
some of the highlight
speakers will include Patricia
Roberts Harris, the
secretary of the Depart- ment
of Housing and Urban
Development; Donald
Woods, the banned editor
of South Africa's East
London Daily Dispatch;^
Commissioner ?Tyrone
Brown; Eddie Williams,
president of the Joint
Center for Political Studies
and Arthur Fleming,
Chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Civil
?Rights^ ??
NAACP Executive Director
Benjamin Hooks ?
- will speak on July 4th and
board chairman Margaret
Bush Wilson will address
the anticipated 8,000 attendees
on Monday, July
See Page 2
*200^1
it improvement of the
ce system is a new law
ibits status offenders
ent to training school. A
der is a juvenile who
:rime such as running
)me or truancy, offense?
not be crimes if he were
e new law prevents such
meeting a more harder
in training school,
ssing to more adult
robbery and assault.
jchools are places to put
vho are too dangerous to
but their effectiveness in
n ie small, and their cost
t.
about $50,000 a year to
<id locked up," notes
Judge Joseph Williams.
send that same kid to
maybe $2,000 a year."
;niency of the -flivenite ?
sm a factor in the high
f youth crime?
art officials say no, but
siderable evidence to the
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