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Carver Up
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VC\C\C Amncoc
Protest CalIs _T
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Shiryn Brmtcher " ^7^?!
Man writer
The black principal of Philo Junior High School says he
will not be attending the scheduled meeting of the Ku_
. Klux Klan at Philo on Jan.'19, because he wants to keep
the incident from affecting his objectivity. -
James Rousseau said he does not want to be present so
that he can remain objective about alTthe students at?
Philo. If he doesn't attend, Rousseau explained in a
telephone interview, he won't know which of his students
attended the meeting.
"The main thing that I'm concerned about is that we
don't get the kids in the middle of it," said Rousseau.
The principal said he has gotten more than 100 calls
from Philo parents and others protesting the KKK
meeting. Howevever, his was not the 6nly telephone
ringing offtJie fe)ok.
Patrick Hairston, president of the NAACP, said that he
has received 90 calls within 24 hours from persons who
are4ipset about the decision.
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Gone "Fisl
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
As much as Vice-Chancellor Lafayette Parker will be
missed at Winston-Salem State University, it would be.
nard to argue with his reason for retiring: he will make
more money retired than he does working.
Over a year ago, when his longtime friend and
colleague Kenneth R. Williams retired, Dr. Parker
checked to see how matters stood for his own
30-year veteran of the North Carolina educational
systenv his income would be^ greater when he retired^
than it was when he worked.
After considering this for a year, Dr. Parker decided to
begin his retirement in June, 1978. Chancellor
Williams said when he^retired that he planned to grow _
roses, but Dr. Parker has nth#?r ficVi tn fA usV>s>i*?
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ocean full of them.
"I have a cottage at Topsail," he said. "And I plan to
do a lot of fishing."
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If there is anyone out there who isn't too busy decking 1
his halls with boughs of holly or deciding which of his
friends is worth 15 cents this year, I wish you'd take time J
to explain to me why "Good King Wenceslas" is a
Christmas carol. 1
I sing it every year, along with "The First Noel" and all
the others, but I still don't know why. Consider the
words. "Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast
of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and 1
crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, 1
though the frost was cruel. Then a poor man came in
sight, gathering winter fuel."
"The Feast of Stephen." That's December 26th, St.
Stephen's Day. Close, but not Christmas. The rest of
the song seems to be a fifteenth century weather report, j
with the added information that wood was a primary ,
source of heat in those days.
I still can't make the connection between that and
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v^nnsimas. i nerc migiu dc unci 1 jusi tan i unu u.
In the fifth grade, we had to illustrate a Christ- <
mas carol, and I drew old Wenceslas peering out his 1
castle window at that poor fellow gathering wood. Greg, ]
my friend across the aisle, decided to illustrate "Silent
Night." <
Later when we showed our pictures to the class, Greg's <
drawing was something of a mystery. He had drawn the J
I manger scene, with Mary and Joseph, and behind them 1
was a smiling fat man. J
We knew it wasn't Santa Gaus: no beard, no red suit. "
Finally, somebody asked him: "Hey, Greg, who is the 1
fat man in your'Silent Night' picture?" i
"Oh", said Greg, "That's the guy in the song. Round
John Virgin." By Sharyn Brmtcher 1
"The NEWSpaper Wi
, Atkins
!arver Sr. High, Atl
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
If the proposed changes in the Secondary
Pupil Assignment Plan are adopted,
Carver will be a senior high school again
by 1982, but Atkins will be lowered to
Thes6 changes are part of the plan
suggested by Superintendent James A.
Adams, which he says will save the
system more than one million dollars.
The plan recommends a four-year high
school, and the retention of a two-year
junior high program.
-Five-schools-would be closed completely'
under the plan: Ardmore, Union Cross,
Old Town, Hanes, and Griffith Junior
High. Carver, Hill, and Mt. Tabor
Schools would be converted to four-year
senior hieh schools, while four other 9-10
schools, Anderson, Atkins, and Paisley
will be converted to two-year junior high
schools.
The school system would then^Jiaye
eight senior high schools: North, Carver,
East, Hill Parkland, West, Mt. Tabor,
and Reynolds. The eight junior high
schools would be: Philo, Walkertown,
ling:
Dr. Parker came to Winston-Salem Sti
when the university had only thrc<
buildings, and Blair Hall served both as
administrat n building.
"It's hard to see the changes when you'r
he remarked. The changes at WSSU were
would seem Jess dramatic to someone who <
process day by day than to someone seeing
for the first time since 1961.
"I was just a professor when I came here,
recalled,^^ After^rft^-few years of~te
mentary education, he was named academ
now has the utles of academic dean and '
lor.
What does an academic dean do?
"Everything. And when I say everything,
out anything," Dr. Parker replied.
Officially, his duties are to be respons
faculty and the academic program, but thei
times when he found himself driving stu
hospital, or bailing one out of jail in the n
night- at the request of a frantic parent wh
late at night. They call to ask about the
grades,too. _ _
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State Aids I*
RALEIGH- More than 60 minority highwf
are about to enter a "unique" interns
designed to increase the low percent
highway money going to minority firms.
The 60 are participants in the MBE (Mine
Enterprise) Program of the N.C. De
Transportation, a federally-funded efforl
minority participation in highway building.
Currently, only five minority firms (all si
have contracts with the department for the
year which began July 1, said DOT spoke!
Copeland. They are receiving $275,671
million in contracts awarded this year.
Last year, 11 minority firms received !
subcontracts, said Copeland.
"North Carolina's supportive training
develop minority bidders on highway co
effort by this department to remove barrie
have prevented minority participation in th
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Lmuuiug iuaus in mi) Stiaic, sttiu \J\
Thomas W. Bradshaw, Jr. a Raleigh i
persons who completed a series of classes.
DOT contracted with Management Mar
:iates, a minority consultant firm in Charlo
the educational and skills training progran
participants.
More than 500 interested prospective
:ourses for training in estimating and bid
:onstruction work, payroll record keepinj
systems, reading and using highway spec
legal responsibilities and rights of cor
subcontractors, said Copeland.
The 67 persons who finished all the cours<
to begin an internship with a major primary
i highway project.
"We consider the internship phase of
inique for this area," said Virgil Jones o<
,
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inston's been waiting for"
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(ins jr. High
Wiley, Anderson, Atkins, Kennedy, Paisley,
and Mineral Springs: all having the*
same attendance districts as the senior
high each will4'feed."
Seven existing junior high.programs wil
be discontinued. They ar: Dalton,
Glenn, Griffith, Jefferson, Kernersvtlle,
Northwest, Southwest, and the high
school program at Hanes. Five of these
schools will be converted to elementary
schools;Southwest Junior high will be?
converted to a senior high annex to West
Forsyth Senior High, and Hanes will be
closed.
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dcsiucs saving me scnooi system over
one million dollars in transportation |
costs, staff fuel, and maintenance, the :
plan would also: improve extra-curricular
programs; reduce course duplication;
reduce the number of teachers who are
- teaching out of their major field* improve
school spirit, and improve continuity' in
developmental courses.
Superintendent _Adams presented his
plan to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Couri
-ty School Board in its Monday night
hearing session. In January, 1979, the
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WSSU Administral
To Take it Easy^
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gradual, and i
observed the
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Minority Cont
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program
state
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of the $66.4
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51,171,614 in
program to
ntracts is an
rs which may Truiiportition Secretary Ti
le business of Participant* In the MBE prog
)T ^crrpfflrv Ui?U...A.. a j :_ i. i.- _
??..; uijjuway /Auimiiibirauon.
ceremony for ??Qy participating in such {
prospective highway contra
ipower Asso- training in estimating technic
tte, to design manage a highway project ti
i and identify Jones said.
"We believe the Minority B
trainees took fuifiii^g an existing need
ding highway participation by minority bu
accounting highway construction acti\
tfications and program," he added.
1 tractors an Fifteen minority contractot
approved as subcontractors f<
cs are e lgi e Carolina, but only six ar
contractor on construction business.
At the end of the internsh
t is program minority contractors will be
f the Federal contractors for highway cons
44 pages this week S
Atkins^/
By Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
>: The prospect of Atkins High School
being converted to a junior high has
upset some of the Atkins alumni.
The proposed school plan would turn
the one-time senior high (10-12) into a
x junior high (7-8). Several Diack
citizens feel that demoting Atkins is
:h just one step away from having it
closed.
ij! "When I was on the school boardT^
was concerned that they were eventually
going to close Atkins," said
ij: Beaufort Bailey, the only black elected
tn the srhnol hoard. 44Bv the mere fact
that no young people are moving into
J:': that community, there's a good chance
it may be closed."
Because of the trend, in the next 5 or
& 6 years, they're going to phase it out."
Bailey continued.
if Atkins was erected in 1931, and
dedicated on April 2, 1931 in honor of
lor of Winston-Salem State university .
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ctors will have on-the-job Urban Hous
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switches, lo<
usiness Enterprise Program was also fo
and we anticipate a greater damage to c
isiness firms in federal aid The report
rity as a result of this were in neei
buildings w
s are prequalified and 58 and crackec
or highway projects in North damaged or
e active in the highway adjacent to
building coi
lip program, ten additional John Rob*
qualified to work as prime inspections,
(ruction.
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Uumni =J
Due to deseerecatfon, Atkins was
changed from a 10th and 12th grade :?
schogl to a 9th and 10th grade school at ?:
the end of the 1970-71* school year.
"1 don't feel that they should change :j:|
it," said James Garner, president of $
the 1951 alumni class. Atkins is a
landmark for a lot of black people in
this community , if yog keep demoting & ?
Atkins the next thing you know it will :?
be gone, just like all the other black ?:
things." :j:;
Garner said that his class (1951) is gL
working so that the closing of Atkins
will not happen^?His class has begun
meeting the second Sunday in each $
month at LaTerre XXI, to discuss ways #
of preserving- the school..
of preserving the school. < ;
"We're trying to set the pattern so :?
that other classes will get involved," $
Garner said. "Atkins educated many :?
people in this community and now it is
up to us to see that it stays." :?
Larry Womble, assistant principal at
Old Town Elementary and unsuccesslul
candidate for the southeast ward $
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General upholds the plan which preserves
ndence of Reynolds Health Center, pages 3
y about the Klan? See Editorials on page
) a long-time Christmas tradition, Social
e 6.
Profile looks at a man who's in business for
is? well as himself, page 7..
Called Moses," is previewed on page 8 in
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cn aiso inciuaes dounas, oy joey uanieis.
stums' to the~ Patterson Avenue X^see
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% Violate
ly v>uuc
By Yvttto McColloogh
Staff Writer
on-Salem Board of Aldermen was told this
75 per cent of the apartments at Goler
had some type of housing code violation,
was given in compliance to a request by the
t a previous board meeting, to make an
of the apartments and report the findings
ioard. The aldermen had received numerous
i-om various residents of the complex about
onditions. Alderman Virginia Newell said
been working with several tenants to resolve
ints. +?
rt to the board, which included a slide
1 by Nellie Jones, director of Human Services
Roberts, Housing Rehabilitation and Codes
: was stated that about 42 per cent of the
had onlv one or two defiri^nri^? n
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1 more deficiencies, and 25 per cent had no
>ns.
metropolitan Apartments is a 150-unit
on Old Greensboro Road.,
profit development, built in 1972 by the Goler
n AME Zion Church, and financed under
3f the National housing Act. It is managed by
ing, Inc.
violations found at the apartment complex
oken or missing floor tiles, faulty light
ose receptacle plates and leaking faucets, it
and that previous roof leakage had caused
eifings, watts, and floors.
also concluded that some of the buildings
d of maintenance. Major deficiencies to the
ere: missing or damaged screens, broken
1 glass, loose or missing door hardware,
missing foyer entrance doors and side glass
foyer doors. Also, the foyer areas in the
itained damaged wall, floors, broken light
erts told the board that he made the
about 10 days ago and found the complex the
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