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Black Society
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they started. “My uncles went up to Detroit and bought
a second-hand bus. They drove it all the way back.
Then, my uncle, my father and my other uncle took turns
driving it back and forth from Columbian Heights to
Church Street.”
Soon the Morgans were not alone. Arthur Hill and
Eddie Richardson drove a jitney from downtown up
Liberty Street to East 14th. George Dillahunt drove the
“Lightening Express” to East Winston. Other jitney
owners were Elijah T. Miller, Fred Smith, Charlie
Peoples and H.H. Hairston.
The jitneys came about because of the deficiencies of
the streetcar service for blacks, recalls Hampton Haith,
former general manager of Safe Bus Company.
“The streetcars had to go along designated routes
which were not convenient to blacks,” said Haith.
“They ran north, southeast and west and the eastern
terminal was where the old City Memorial Hospital
was.”
However, he noted that the buses did not have the best
of conditions. “The streets were muddy when it rained.
You almost had to use chains. Claremont Avenue was a
mudbath up to 4th Street. ’ ’
If you see a relative mentioned
in the Roots of Black Winston.
Salem, Call us at 723-9863.
Second home of Y«
Early in 1926, C.T. Woodland, director of the
Patterson Avenue YMCA, called together the bus drivers
to consider merging their operations. On April 26, 1926,
Safe Bus Co, was chartered with Harvey Morgan as its
first president.
Freed from unnecessary competition, the company
flourished through the remainder of the ’20s and even
during the Depression years of the 1930s. By 1947, Color
magazine, an-Ebony-like full-color publication, wrote
about Safe Bus, “The world’s largest Negro bus
company.” Then Safe Bus carried 7 million passengers
per year on 54 buses operated by 104 drivers.
Another milestone during the 1920s was the creation
of the George Moses Horton branch of the Carnegie
Public Library in the YWCA building on Chestnut Street.
This small room with several hundred books was the
forerunner of the current East Winston library. The First
librarian was Mrs. R.S. Hairston.
Above, the second home of the Patterson Avenue branch of the YMCA. The first
building was the old Depot Street School at the present site of the Y. In 1934, the Y
moved to this location a few doors away. Below, a former Jitney has been refurbished
as a part of the Safe Bus Fleet.
As the decade ended, the Great Depression began to
take hold among the black population of Winston-Salem.
Placed in a bind because of the poverty of its clients was,
the Forsyth Savings and Trust Company.
Founder J.S. Hill had died in 1923 and W.S. Scales
replaced him as president, a move the Scales family
history calls his “biggest mistake.”
The directors were forced to ask Wachovia Bank and
Trust, at the time the Southeast’s largest bank, to take
over the assets of Forsyth Savings and Trust.
However, the difectors each had put up their own
assets to cover the bank’s assets. “There was John
Smith, H.H. Turner, George Hill, Scales, myself arid my
mother, Mrs. Sare Hill Edmondson and her husband,
H.M. Edmondson. We all had to put up real estate and
other property to guarantee the assets.”
“We all took a loss on it,” said Hill. “But, the thing
that many people don’t realize was that we didn’t have to
do it. We did it because we didn’t want people to take a
loss.”
Forsyth’s building which stood on the current site of
the Wachovia Building became a branch of the larger
bank.
...that our unemployment
rate is nearly eight percent of
the work force and almost
twice what it was in 1965.
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THESE PEOPLE COULD TELL
YOU A LOT ABOUT THE SYSTEM
The Southern Bell Telephone System in Winston-Salem that is.
Our employees know that things are changing-that we are on the move.
Southern Bell
And that means that people who work for us have the opportunity to qualify themselves to
move into better jobs - better jobs that fully utilize their talents; better jobs that pay more.
This includes highly technical jobs and administrative management jobs.
Opportunities in Southern Bell in Winston Salem are enhanced by the company paid
tuition plan, correspondence courses, and other company sponsored developmental
programs which enable employees to develop themselves to their fullest capabilities.
The employees pictured here together with the other 700 telephone people in Winston
Salem have a great deal to do with the type of telephone service you receive in Winston
Salem. All of is at Southern Bell are committed to do our very best to continue giving you
the high quality telephone service to which you a.e entitled.
GERALDINE INGRAM
PhoneCenter Store-Sapervisor
BELINDA JESSUP
Acting Engineering Assistant
Hi
LOTTIE S. LEWIS
Service Representative
,Ifow will you
livewhenyou’ie
ready
wodong?
It's hard to imagine being old. And wanting to quit work.
Or not being able to work. By the time most people fece this
problem, it’s too late to do anything about it.
Right now, 8 out of 10 Americans over the age of 65 are
barely able to get by.
Young people today are spending at an unprecedented
rate — and saving very litde.
Social Security is not enough by itself. And it’s not keeping
pace with inflation.
Company retirement pJans can help, but many are being
curtailed or eliminated.
If you want to be financially independent after you’ve
quit working — it’s really up to you.
: It’s time tog|^t serious about saving.
% THE
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BANK4SUI
Nicholas A. Daves, Executive Vice Presida
The Northwestern Bank, Winston-Salem
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Account Executive
RUTH CUMMINGS
Operator
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