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Winston-Salem Clir^oziicle
Volume IV, Number 49 ★ 20 cents★
"The NEWSpaper Winston's been waiting for."
18 Pages this week Saturday August 5, 1978
Chairman Resigns
Democratic
Party Leader
)y Yvette McCuUough
Staff Writer
f^ot too many women
ve the dual honor of
ing a deputy sheriff
chairman of the
jmocratic Party, but
inda Foote Alston,
10 holds the honor, will
on relinquish the dis-
iction. After about five
ars as first vice-
airman and several
onths as acting chair-
an Alston has decided
resign from both posi-
ms
I
will continue to
)rk with the Democra-
Party but there are
veral new people get-
ig involved in the party
id I want to give them a
lance,” Alston said.
Uso being Party Chair-
an is a full time job.”
Working in the politi-
1 arena and working in
e Democratic Party is
)t any thing new for
ston. She first became
volved in the Democra-
party by following in
ir father’s footsteps.
My father was in-
ilved in. politics and I
it involved because of
Alston remarked.
Alinda Foote Alston
‘*I didn’t know the strug
gle we were having until
I got involved.”
“People say that poli
tics is a crooked game,
but the people that say
that aren’t involved.”
Alston continued. “The
party tries to reach peo
ple on a grass root level,
and approach all races.”
As chairman and vice-
chairman, he said she
has tried to stress voter
registration and voter
education.
“I tried to tell them to
look at who they are vot
ing for and know some-
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Against Funding Cuts
Child Care Council Fights Back
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
In the wake of a 30 per cent cut from its budget last
year, the North West Child Development Council, Inc.
has laid off 53 of its employes and may soon eliminate
transportation for its children.
However, the council has decided not to take its re
duction in funds from the state of North Carolina lying
down. The NWGDC board of directors voted Monday
to retain a lawyer to file an administrative appeal with
Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. and possibly with the U. S.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
The key point of the council’s complain is that the
state treats it and four other child care agencies in
western North Carolina differently from other such in
stitutions receiving governmental support.
For these five agencies, the state will pay a maxi
mum of $99.49 per month for children whose families
fall under certain income levels. But for other institu
tions, the state will pay as much as $126 per month.
The five western agencies receive funds channeled
through the state from the Appalachian region. Until
this year, they also received substantial funding from
the Title XX child care program of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
NWCDC executive director Susan Law said the
council’s Title XX funds were cut by almost 90 per
cent under the new state plan. She said the council
hopes to have its funding maximums raised to the le
vel of non-ARC agencies, but failing that, hopes to
receive additional funds to provide transportation for
the children. Last year, the NWCDC budget was $1.5
million. This year, it’s a little more than $1 million.
The council’s board decided to stop transportation
of children in a month in the latest of a series of bud
get cutting measures.
NWCDC had already begun charging parents $1 a
day for. picking up children. In previous years, the ser
vice was free. Before the start of the fiscal year on
July 1, the council laid off 53 workers, mostly teachers
aides.
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Day Caring
Ph(^ by Templeton
Little INfiss Ebony Polite makes friends with a stuffed dog
as Mrs. Evelyn Lewis attends her at the Cleveland Ave-
nne Child Development Center, one of 14 centem operat
ed by the North West ChUd Development Council, Inc.
Next week, Gov.
James B. Hunt, Jr. an
swers tough questions
on topics ranging from
the competency test to
corrections In Questions
and Answers, the Chro
niclers new feature that
puts you direcdy in
touch with top news
makers.
In an hour-long inter
view with Chronicle ex
ecutive e^tor John
Templeton, Gov. Hunt
also lays out his goals
and aspirations for the
state and how his plans
affect blacks.
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I • A personnel foul-up may have finally drawn the at- |
I tention of the county administration to the Reynolds =
= Health Center. Get details on page 2. |
= OThe city’s “Black Renaissance” of art, a “Cover- |
I up” in City Hall and our “Simple” senator are topics 5
I of Editorials on page 4. |
I • Mayor Wayne Corpening is the interviewee in the |
I first “Q&A” feature. Read excerpts of his remarks on |
I page 5. I
I • A “perfect Gemini” who enjoys going to an all-girls |
= college is the subject of this week’s Chronicle Profile. |.
I See page 7. |
I •VIBES tells about Muddy Waters’upcoming visit to |
I Winston-Salem as part of the Carolina Street Scene. |
i See pages 8,9. |
I • Robert Eller looks at the recent all-star contests in |
I Greensboro in Black on Sports. See page 13.
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Corpening Defends Record
s a pretty neat trick to walk out of a meeting and
the remaining participants applaud you for walking
on them.
atrick Hairston, president of the local branch of the
VCP. pulled off that feat the other night. It all came
It because of a unique set of circumstances that says
ething about the way things are run in this city,
airston walked out of the meeting of the city Human
itions Commission, the body created earlier this
. His complaint was simple: the commission isn’t do-
inything.
owever, it turned out that he was not alone in that
ng. Almost before the door of the alderman’s cham-
shut behind Hairston, the other members were
iking him for “waking up” the commission,
le remaining members criticized themselves for get-
“hung up” on technicalities in the effort to decide
;tly what the commission should be doing. One mem-
made reference to the city’s “lack of interest” in the
By Sharyn !l&»teher
Staff Writer
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Graceful
as a Swan
Chronicle Staff Photo by Templeton.
Gerald Glenn, 14, of 208 State Street, takes a backward
dive into the cool waters of the Winston Lake swimming
pool on a 96 degree day when the pool was the only place
to be.
Mayor Wayne Corpening
was the first guest of the
Winston-Salem Chronicle
news staff in “Question &
Answer,” a public affairs
feature in which public fi
gures will be asked about
contemporary issues.
Corpening, who has been
mayor of Winston-Salem
since November 1977, met
last Thursday with Chroni
cle reporters Sharyn
Bratcher, Yvette McCul
lough, and John Temple
ton, to discuss the progress
he has made in his first
months in office.
The mayor stressed his
interest in the revitalization
of downtown, explaining
that it is responsible for
13% of the property taxes.
He spoke of cutting red
tape for downtown building
permits, revising ordi
nances which are outdated,
and seeking input from a
cross-section of the com
munity in curing the ills of
downtown.
Corpening expressed
faith. in his Human Rela
tions Commission, disa
greeing with complaints
that it is a “do-nothing”
organization. (A few hours
after Corpening’s defense
of the Commission, Patrick
Hairston resigned from the
group, charging that the
group was not accomplish
ing anything. See related
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mittee. Another member revealed that he too was
ning to resign unless something - anything — got
irt of the problem was apparent as soon as one walk-
1 the room. The commission, made up of more than
ersons scattered across the visitor’s section of the al-
nen’s meeting room, resembled a choir practice
e than anything else.
nlike a choir, there was no one person to conduct or
estrate the many voices. As a result, the meeting
rambled.
le number of members is a good rule of thumb as to
ability of a group to carry out its mission. Powerful
es such as the county commission or board of alder-
have relatively few members, in order to get things
. Less powerful groups, designed to be little more
a forum for sounding off, have lots of members,
was also evident that the commission had not receiv-
real mandate as to exactly what they were supposed
lat goes back to the commission’s origin. It was pro-
d during the 1977 campaign as a way of dealing with
issues facing human relations in the city. Between
and it’s creation, the commission itself became the
w, there’s a commission; however, the issues still
to be faced. None of the issues have been faced by
■ommission as it has drifted in limbo.
■t, the last meeting indicates that the commission
-eached a watershed: it will either do something, as
members wish; or it will do nothing, and just fade a-
lat may have been what Hairston had in mind.
John W. Templeton
Abortion as Genocide
Scare Tactic or Timely Warning?
By Yvette McCuUough
Staff Writer
“I firmly agree with Reverend Jesse Jackson that a-
bortion is not the hlack community’s soiution to the ‘poor
black’ problem,” said Rev. Curtis Carrington, minority
chairman of the Right to Lite Committee.
“Encourage abortion and in about 20 years the ‘pro
blem’ will disappear. As Rev. Jackson has said,
abortion is genocide, an attack against black people dis
guised as a gift by our friends.”
Rev. Carrington is the pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist
Church in Greensboro. He has spoken to legislators, nu
merous ministers and at various churches across the
state on the abortion issue.
“Although it may not be an intended life, who are we
to say who’s wanted,” Carrington said. “A baby is inno
cent, he could grow up to be the next president or a
preacher.”
“A child unwanted by his mother today, may be the
sole support of that mother tomorrow,” Carrington con
tinued.
Carrington also believes that abortion is genocide. The
dictionary defines genocide as being a deliberate, syste
matic measure toward the extermination of a racial, poli
tical or cultural group.
“Abortion is a way of trying to do away with the poor
class of blacks,” Carrington stated. “When a young girl
gets pregnant, you can’t say that committing a murder
will solve a problem. ’ ’
“Shouldn’t we do what is right instead of what is con
venient?” Carrington remarked.
Nationally black leaders have come out against abor
tion. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, executive director of
People United to Save Humanity (PUSH) is a strong sup
porter of the National Right to Life Committee.
“It is strange that sociologist choose to start talking a-
bout population control at the same time that black peo
ple in America and people of color around the world are
demanding their rightful place as human citizens and the
rightful chance to the material wealth in the world.”
Rev. Jackson has stated. “Given the history of people of
color in the modern world, we have no reason to believe
that whites are going to look out for our best interests.”
The president of the National Right to Life Committee
is a black woman. Dr.Mildred E. Jefferson. Dr. Jeffer
son, the first black woman to graduate from the Harvard
Medical School, believes also that abortion can mean
genocide for blacks.
“1 would guess that the abortionists have done more
to get rid of generations and cripple others than all of the
years of slavery and lynchings,” Dr. Jefferson has said.
Although various black leaders have come out against
abortion, some black women feel that abortion is a mat
ter of choice.
Ora Coleman, chairperson of the North Carolina Black
Women’s Political Caucus in Charlotte, said that abor
tion should be a matter of choice.
“Abortion is not a question of right or wrong, hut a
question of whether or not a woman should have a
choice,” Coleman said. “If funds are not available then
black poor women would not be able to afford to have a-
bortions.”
“The government does not have the right to make the
choice because that is not its role.” Coleman continued.
“Black women have been bombarded by super stud
talk about how abortion is genocide,” one black leader
stated, “These women know that as long as someone
else does not force an abortion on them then it is not ge
nocide.”
“I’m sick and tired of this Right to Life bull,” said a
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