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Vol. V No. 12
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"The NEWSpaper Winston's been waiting for"
16 pages this week Saturday , November 11,1978
icharlie McLean
NAACP's His Life
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
I You could have knocked Charles A. McLean over
ith a feather.
|: As the long-time NAACP state field director sat down
for a breather during the recent state convention of the
ivils rights organization, two casually dressed young
lack men in their late teens sauntered up to McLean.
“Could you give me some information about your
rganization,” one asked.
“The NAACP?” McLean asked incredulously.
“Yea, what is it and what does it do?” the teen
itorted.
McLean’s jaw dropped straight downward in almost
itai disbelief.
It’s not hard to understand why. The National Assoc-
tion for the Advancement of Colored People has been
a’big part of the 67-year-old McLean’s life since since
1918 and there’s a fairly simple reason.
T’m not interested in Charlie McLean; I’m
terested in black people,” he tells anyone who comes
long.
That committment was instilled in him early.
McLean’ mother, Mrs. W.A. McLean, begun one of
the state’s first six NAACP chapters in Fayetteville in
1918.
B “She was pretty active in it;” he recalled. “Crisis
■agazine started coming into our house; I began
Rading it and liked what I saw.”
“By the time I got into high school, my mother got
me a membership in the NAACP,” said McLean.
After attending Winston-Salem State Teachers
liege and a brief stint teaching in Cumberland
unty, McLean went to West Virginia State College to
dy business administration in 1931.
As a student, McLean got interested in the
ottsboro Boys case (the trial of several Alabama
blacks for the alleged' rape of a white woman), so
^terested that he circulated a petition to colleges and
diversities around the nation and had it delivered to a
■newly-inaugurated President Roosevelt in 1933.
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John Clybom, right photo, accepts his ballot from
election registrar, Mrs. Haywood Barnes, daring
Tuesday voting at the St. Stephen’s Baptist Church on
Bowen Boulevard. Left, Alderman Mrs. Vivian $arke,
D-NE, stops to chat with election workers before
casting her ballot at the Carver High School polling
place. Carver had the best voter turnout— 43 per
cent— among tbe 18 predominately black precincts.
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Low Turnout Dooms Blacks
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all for you
• State Homan Relations Connell to make rec
ommendations to Gov. Hunt, page 2.
• A new directory is planned for local minority
firms, page 3.
• The glorious history of the Black Soldier,
Page 4
• Getting Along, Page 5.
S Social Whirl, Page 6.
• "Big House" is honored and a Chinese team
is to play the Rams in basketball. Page 11.
By Sharyn Bratcher
and
John W. Templeton
Staff Writers
A low black voter turnout- about 26 per cent -
doomed the chances of all four blacks seeking local
offices in Forsyth County, including Democratic
incumbents Rep. Harold Kennedy and school board
member Beaufort 0. Bailey, in Tuesday’s elections.
Also losing, after early strong showings, were
Republicans Rodney J. Sumler for the state house and
Clarence G. Watson for the school board.
There was a 41 per cent turnout overall in Forsyth
County, based on final returns from the County Board
of Elections. That turnout was fueled by higher than
average voting in the western sections of the city, said
elections board chairman H.B. Goodson.
“In the western part of the city, the precincts had
more people voting by nine or ten o’clock in the
morning than voted in the 1977 mayoral election,” said
Goodson Tuesday night.
“The low turnout in black precincts could be
attributed to a fear of not being able to win- to a fear
that their vote would not make any difference to any
single candidate,” he said somberly.
Bailey, the first black ever elected to the city/county
school board in 1972, plut the blame for his narrow
defeat (he was 210 votes away from fourth place in the
race for the four seats) on the low black turnout.
“That’s what killed me and Harold Kennedy,” he
said. ‘ ‘1 have no idea what can be done. Until we learn
how to vote, we’ll never do anything.”
Kennedy said the low black turnout was not the only
reason for his defeat. “There was a large number of
whites who voted straight Republican and there was the
effect of STOP,” he said. “I was the only candidate
who spoke out against STOP. ’ ’
He added, “There weree a number of white
Democrats who picked and chose who did not give me
the same votes as the white Democratic candidates
received. It was a single-shot in reverse. ’ ’
“My biggest regret is that I lost the seat a black had
held to a white Republican,” said Kennedy. “There
were only four of us (blacks) in the state House.”
Both Bailey and Kennedy were the only members of
their Democratic slates to lose. Both were supplanted
Beaufort Bailey Harold Kennedy
by conservative Republicans who received heavy votes
from the anti-tax organization STOP.
“I think the school board is going to have a few
problems; I was a buffer between the black community
and the rest of the community,” said Bailey.
The news that no local black candidates would be
elected produced angry reactions among black leaders
interviewed at the headquarters of victorious Rep.
Steve Neal, D-N.C.
Long time activist Mrs. Velma Hopkins stamped her
foot so hard her shoe fell off and silently cursed.
County Commissioner Mrs. Mazie Woodruff, who did
not face election this year, shook her head and noted,
“It’s going to happen all over the country, if we aren’t
careful.”
Shortly after her words, television reports announced
the news that the only black U.S. Senator Edward
Brooke and black Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally of
California had both gone down to death.
Former alderman and mayoral candidate Carl H.
Russell, Sr., called the voting returns, “unfortunate”.
“It seems to me there are too many chieftains and too
few Indians,” he said Tuesday night. “Everybody
wants to be a leader”.
“We need some organization in this city,” Russell
advised. “There’s the strong black set-up in Durham
(the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People)
and one in Greensboro stronger than what we have.”
The Republican Party attempted to make inroads into
the black vote this campaign, plarticularly with the
campaigns of Sumler and Watson and congressional
candidate Hamilton Horton.
Sumler and Watson made some progress, polling
about half as well as Democratic favorites Bailey and
Kennedy. Horton’s efforts were to no avail as Rep.
Neal polled more than 95 per cent of the votes in the
black precincts.
Watson, who for a long time led Bailey and was in fifth
place in the school board race, said Tuesday night, his
campaign had been received well. “We were able to
pick up some split votes,” he said. “Now the people
are beginning to think about their vote and vote for the
man instead of the party”.
The only successful black candidate in Forsyth County
voting was Richard C Rnvin, who will retain his
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Leash Your Dog
Or It'll Cost You
By Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
„ , novelist and educator Ama Bon-
PPs chats with children at the East
BPcslon branch of the Forsyth County
P c Library, in a picture taken shortly
P®' the branch’s opening in November
; ' library building replaced the
eorge Moses Horton branch which
•8an bi 1927.
^“^ends of the East Winston branch
will commemorate the library’s 24th
aimiversary, Sunday, Nov. 12, daring a
reception at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Dr. Kenneth R. Williams, former chan
cellor of Winston-Salem State University,
will speak on the role of the library In the
community and an award will be given
long-time library staffer Mrs. Margaret
Allen.
= If your cat and dog is running around
S loose, it would be a good idea to put it
= on a leash, because now it will cost $10
S more if it is picked up by an animal
S control officer.
= The Winston-Salem Board of Alder-
= men approved Monday night a resolu-
1 tion to increase the city’s leash law
5 violation from $5 to $15. The fine will
S be $5 for the first offense and an
E additional $5 for each subsequent
§ violation up to $30 for the sixth
S violation. Each offence will remain on
E the books of the animal control office
E for a period of three years.
1 The increase in violation was design-
s ed to deter repeat offenders. The
1 Winston-Salem leash law went into
E effect in October 1975. Violations are
E enforced by the Forsyth County animal
g control department.
E Last year, $2,500 was collected in
S leash law fines. The control officers
g responded to over 10,000 calls from
= July 1977 through June 1978.
= The aldermen also postponed a _
g decision on the Winston-Salem sanita- =
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tion’s division’s plans to expand the g
Ebert Street landfill. The resolution =
met with opposition from residents in e
the area. g
Gerald Hewitt, who lives north of the E
landfill, told the alderman that they =
had lived with it long enough. g
“We have to live there, you don’t,” s
Hewitt told the board. g
The Ebert Street landfill has only one =
or two more years of usefill life at its E
present. The city planned to acquire g
more property in the area for landfill g
use. g
George Petrides, a resident who =
lives south of the landfill, also voiced =
opposition to the landfill. =
“We bought our home with the g
assumption that the landfill would be e
closed in a few years,” Petrides said. =
“Who calculates the loss of value of a g
property with the presence of a dump, e
“You call it a landfill, it’s still a s
dump.” Petrides continued. g
The action was postponed until the =
next meeting (Nov. 20) so that the city E
can show the residents near the =
landfill what possible buffers or g
screens can be provided. E
abuse recently, and
many people are realizing that the problem does exist.
However, one problem closely related to this is child
neglect, which hasn’t been a focus of attention, but is a
serious problem.
1 was coming home from work one day when a child
about five years old ran into the street in front of my
car. I was only going about 20 miles an hour so I was
able to brake in time. The child and myself both were
shaken but neither one of us were hurt.
I didn’t see a parent around or anyone watching the
little girl so 1 parked my car and walked the girl back to
her house. I asked her if her mother was home. She
told me no, and that her sister was. The sister turned
out to be about 10 years old. I told her that her little
sister had run out into the street and could have been
badly hurt.
The big sister looked at me and then took her sister by
the arm and went into the house.
I suddenly felt very angry at the parents of those
children. The 10 year old was barely able to take care of
herself much less a smaller child. Even though I had
only seen this one incident I was upset.
This is not the only form of child neglect I have seen. 1
have seen small children left in cars alone, no telling
what could happen. I have seen children undernourish
ed and under fed so that when they go to other people’s
houses they beg for food and eat it like there is no
tomorrow.
The public has just begun to be informed about child
abuse, but there is just a thin line between child abuse
and child neglect. Abuse comes in all forms and it just
doesn’t have to be physical harm. Leaving a child
unprotected is just as harmful as beating a child.
As I think back over these incidents I know I should
have done or said something, but like too many of us I
thought it was none of my business. Now I know it was
my business, and all our business to help people, in this
case children, who can’t help themselves. The next
time you see a child being neglected or abused, speak
out. You do much more harm if you don’t,
by Yvette McCullough