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1..VJ n ■ Hi Winston-Salem Chronicle VoL IV No. 46 Saturday 15, 1978 “More than 25,000 weekijr readers” 16 Pages ★ 20 Cents ★ During Past 20 Years I SI ■ m Investigation Sought Of City Promotions w F/ ■ /-Mim 1 .*» .y ^ /■ By John W. Templeton Staff Writer Alderman Virginia K. Newell, D-E, has called for an investigation of city promotion practices for its black employees during the past 20 years. Her action came follow ing an uproar caused by the promotion of three white males to top city positions. Mrs. Newell and her two black col leagues on the Board of Aldermen, vice chairman Vivian K. Burke, D-NE, and Larry Little, D-N, im mediately charged that city manager Orville H. Powell overlooked quali fied black and women city employees in making the promotions last week. “We (the three black aldermen) are going to ask for a complete investiga tion covering blacks who have worked for the city during the past 20 years,” said Mrs. Newell, a Win ston-Salem State Univer sity mathematics profes sor. “Some of these guys in city government come in for four or five years and get high posts and some of the blacks have been here tor 10 or 15 years in the same job,” she added in a Chronicle telephone inter view. Promoted were Gary Brown, 31, the former community development coordinator, to director of ' J See Page 2 •m Virginia Newell Boycott Predicted SlIlUllllliliiMliillltlllll all for you iMllllllllllllillllllh « ■ ■ •• Basket Weaver Leon Berry of Huntersville, N.C. performs the painstaking craftsmanship involved in basket-weav ing for audiences at the North Carolina Folklife Festival in Durham at the West Point on the Eno Park. He works with strips split from old oak trees to make long, utilitarian baskets. By Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer Although negotiations are continuing with most of the stores charged with discrimination, NAACP president Patrick Hairston foresees a boycott within the next three weeks. He stated that most of the stores listed in the complaint have by now contacted him to discuss the matter, but at least two stores have shown no interest in negotiations. Hairston feels that a boy cott may be necessary to convince them of the ser iousness of the situation. Big Star of Northside Shopping Center, whose representatives met with the NAACP Tuesday, has already suffered the ef fects of one boycott. They have never recovered from the Northside boy cott of two years ago, staged to aid the black owner of Staley’s restau rant. “In 1976, our Northside store averaged $60,000 a week,” said Pam Rogers, Division Employee Rela tions manager. “During the boycott the average dropped to $20,000.” She told Hairston that the store presently avera ges $40-45,000 per week, still well below the pre boycott average. Ms. Rogers and Helen Butler, the company’s Af firmative Action co-ordi- See page 2 I ‘ON PAGE 2, the touching story of a Guyanese | I student who needs sponsors to bring his six sons E I to America; also the bleak statistics of unemploy- E I ment tor black youth in Winston-Salem. | I ‘ON PAGE 7, Romeo is black and Juliet is white | I in a new production under way at the North | 5 Carolina School of the Arts. See Chronicle Profile. | = ‘ON PAGE 9, Robert Eller reviews the summer = I basketball scene in Black on Sports and writes = I about a black golf pro who’s waiting for his break. | I ‘ON PAGE 10, 11 and 12, expanded coverage of E I entertainment and leisure featuring the story of an E I artist who brings emotion from wood, the columns | I of Warren Lanier and Joey Daniels, a photo, | I spread on the North Carolina Folklife Festival and | E a photo spread on the Winston-Salem Summer | i Festival. | AliniliniiininiiniitiiinDiiinillilinilllinilliMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiiKiiiS Buzzard Roost ounty To Continue ' ickle Cell Program Yvette McCullough into the school system and Staff Writer to local churches, te Sickle Cell Program Top priority for the leynolds Health Center sickle cell coordinator po- continue to operate sition, will be given to the next fiscal year, Mrs. Hazel Scott, the on a limited scale. former coordinator of the iccording to Dennis sickle cell program and govern, administrator Nathaniel L. Rhump, the he health center, the former director of the am (unofficially) has program, n aUoted $30,000 of “It is unfortunate that requested $52,000 to we have only one position tinue the program to fill and two qualified « i August 1 of this year person,” Magovem said, une 30th of 1979. Federal funds for the ecause of the limited sickle cell anemia pro- is, the program will gram was discontinued only one coordinator because the population 3unsel and educate the base for the 17 county lie on sickle cell ane- region that the program The sickle cell out- covered had decreased. :h program will consist Since the program was Ihe coordinator going No Place To Be Somebody “I’m Not A Wino; I Jiist Drink” [Left to right] L. Calvin Penn and Eddie Morris Jr. are frequent visitors to the area Downtown which is called the Buzzard Roost. The Roost has been a sore spot for many downtown merchants and patrons. But for the men the Roost is a part of life. By Yvette McCullough Staff Writer You can see them standing on street comers or sitting on steps in the downtown area. They are called dere licts, drunkards and winos. They are said to hassle people who come downtown, and to be the cause of some stores vacating the downtown area. Their hangout downtown is called the ‘Buzzard Roost’ and even some of the men that are associated with the place aren’t sure where the name comes from. “I think they call it that because that’s where the drunks and winos hangout,” said Clifton Attacks, a frequent visitor to the ‘Roost.’ However, an acquaintance disagreed with him. “There ain’t no such thing as a wino,” said L. Calvin Penn. “I’m not a wino, I just drink.” “They don’t want us downtown and they ain’t no better than me,” Perm continued. “They don't have no more brains than me, they just drink civi lized.” Attucks said that many of the men that hang out downtown are looking for work and not just to drink. “Jobs are hard to git,” said Attucks. “My sister keeps me up, but I get a job once in a while and make some money. Attucks said that sometime he gets jobs unloading trucks or working on farms. “Somebody come and pick me up and according to what they pay, a day or hour I work,' ’ Attucks stated. ‘ ‘Some time I make around $30.00 a day.” Attucks said that he comes downtown because he doesn’t have any transpor tation except the bus and that it is hard to get around on buses. Being on the ‘Buzzard Roost’ is a change for Attucks who spent eight years in the Army and then worked another eight years on a job at a salvage shop. “I joined the service to help my mother,” Attucks Said. “I quit high See Page 2 By Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer 'he statistics are corn- ling; 51% of all crimes he U.S. committed by ngsters from 10 to 17. factors involved in th crime are widely wn: inadequate Joling, poor parenting, erty, and unemploy- it. diat an we do to fight nile crime? Discipline your child Where Did We Go Wrong? Sratcher Part V and Freeman. ^ He notes that children might get in trouble order to get attention from parents who otherwise ignore them. Youths from single-parent ■ families comprise 90% of those appearing in court. “Kids rebel for lack of love,” says Harold Ellison of ESR’s Save Our Youth child fell, instead of showing concern, the mother shouted angrily at him to get up. Then she pulled him by the arm and dragged him to his feet. . . Now after years of this, juveni e teach that child respect and compas sion for others?” The family problem will probably get worse in the Program. “Most parents next few years. Teenage nearly age,” advises seem to feel they’ve done girls gave birth to approxi- • Horace Walser of the enough if they feed and mately 300,000 infants iyth County Court clothe their child. But last year. The rate of nselling Staff. children need someone to illegitimacy among blacks tany times mothers care about them.” rose to 51%. In a few tell court officials that He recalls witnessing a years society will have to ’ cannot control their small scene in the making cope with these generally ‘age son. “Of course of a future juvenile offen- unwanted babies, who will 'can’t!” snapped one der in downtown Winston- often be raised by people al worker. “They Salem recently. unprepared or unwilling lid have started ten “A mother was walking to give the child the time ‘s ago.” down the street followed and care he needs. Love your child. Have by a very young toddler. An 18-year old with a lationship with him,” He was only about two - 5-year old child may be •s Judge William not walking very well, too busy enjoying her own adolescence to worry about her son. What can society do to help these children - or to protect itself from them? There are programs. Social programs, recre ation programs, employ ment programs, education programs. Many children live from one program to another. Such groups can not take the place of a good family structure, but they are better than nothing. Such programs can pro bably do little to help a hard-core offender, but concern and attention gi ven early might deter a borderline child from get ting into trouble. One way to protect the average youngster is to isolate the hard-core of fender so that he is not out on the street enticing other kids into crime. Removing . habitual of fenders also serves as a deterrent for other kids by example. It restores a respect for the law when a juvenile is actually pun ished for his offense, rather than put on proba tion and turned loose. In cities which have enforced stricter policies toward hard-core juve niles. the crime rate has decreased. Community involve ment can be a significant factor in fighting crime. Winston-Salem has the Community Watch Program which is a neigh borhood alliance to pre vent burglaries. Other programs to involve young people might remove the sense of detachment that makes it easy to victimize strangers. As citizens we can deter juvenile crime by making it harder to accomplish. Locked cars, better home security, and more pre cautions in general will remove temptation from some kids and hopefully protect you from the rest. Merchants can learn a lot about fighting youth crime from a statement made by a young girl on probation for stealing and cashing government checks. “We’d get fake I.D.s made and go to some little grocery store to cashl^ checks." she recalled, ‘' Only some stores want to take your picture, andS fingerprint you, and^ things like that, WE^ STAYED AWAY FROm' THOSE STORES.” There may not be one shining solution to the problem of youth crime. Keeping the problem un- See Page 2 nil ihi ni le fo nt >e o\ ha in U a\ ib it: o si id sai ♦o
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