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"Serving the East Winston Community Since 1974"
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WINSTON-SAIEM, N.C.
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U.S.P.S. NO. 067910
Saturday, May 19,1979
Mobody listens to Us'
Sanitation Workers Seek Respect from City
{vette McCollongh
Staff Writer
{majority of the city
lion workers joined
;eamster’s Union, be-
no one would listen to
problems and grie-
js, says a leader of the
ired garbage men.
(orkers are now look-
(ward the city’s three
aldermen to listen to
problems.
e workers arranged a
jug with the black
men, Larry Little, Vir
ginia Newell and Vivian
Burke, last Thursday night
at Shiloh Baptist Church.
The men met briefly with
Burke and Newell, but be
cause Little was not pre
sent, the two aldermen
called off the meeting with
out listening to the men.
Arthur Dixon, the shop
steward for the sanitation
workers, told the Chronicle
that the city’s administra
tion is not doing anything
about their problems.
“The guys don’t believe
in the city anymore because
they have told us so much
and done nothing,” Dixon
said. “Some guys are shak-
ey about talking about the
union because they fear for
their jobs, at the same time
because of this harassment
a lot of guys are thinking
about quitting.”
“When there was first
talk about the union, the
administration was around
us like flies, asking what
they could do for us and
making promises,” Dixon
said. “After we joined the
union, they say they’ll listen
to our problems, but they
won’t do anything about
them.”
Dixon said the men want
better working conditions
and more money, although
he doesn’t think money is
the main issue. He said
after trying personally to
talk to the administration
on behalf of the men, to no
avail, he decided to go to
the three black aldermen.
“I talked to Mr. Little
and told him our problem
and he talked to the other
two aldermen and they
agreed to meet with us.”
Little said that he had
agreed to meet with the
workers in the public works
department to listen to
what they had to say.
“The black aldermen ba
sically feel that some of the
workers hadn’t been treated
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T
A Treat
In Store
Devra Tabron of Spring
Hope, N. C. [left] and Jolla
Neal of Winston-Salem will
be two of the 17 young
ladles displaying their ta
lents, Friday and Saturday
night at the Miss Black
America of North Carolina
pageant. The pageant will
be held at Kenneth R.
Williams Auditorium at 8
p.m.
Ira Smith, David Leak and William Roundtree [1 to r] three med school seniors at
Bowman Gray School of Medicine talk about the problems they have had at the school.
Med Students
Blast Racism
By Yvette McCollongh
Staff Writer
Three black students, who will be
among the graduating class this month at
the Bowman Gray School of Medicine,
have found their four-year experience to
be a disillusioning battle against subtle
racism on the part of some of the
students, faculty and staff.
David Leak, Ira Q. Smith and William
Roundtree, told the Chronicle that their
presence was not wanted at the school by
some and that they encountered racism in
various forms.
“1 expected an open minded academic
university, instead I found a high
incidence of ethnic intolerance among
certain factions within the institution,”
said Leak, a native of Garner, N.C,
“It became obvious very early that
there were certain individuals that were
not willing to accept the presence of
persons of different ethnic and social
backgrounds.”
'See Page 2
tate Road Map Hides Black Heritage
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
e official 1979-80 state highway map does not
lea single landmark of the state’s black heritage in
tide “on places to see and things to do.”
the state Departments of Commerce and Transpor-
B, put the map together,, a sister agency, the
irtment of Cultural Resources is preparing a slide
and booklet on the black landmarks in the state.
hey obviously haven’t been in touch with what the
state agencies are doing,” said Rodney Barfield,
tot of the N.C. Museum of History’s The Black
ence in North Carolina exhibit, said of the highwa^y
s preparers.
Bthe hack side of the newly-released map, is a list of
attractions, historic sites, outdoor dramas and
ttfalls. Department of Transportation spokesperson
that side was the responsibility of the Department of
ifflerce’s travel and tourism division.
erce spokesperson Steve Meehan said, “They
just used the same list they used the year
[ don’t think there was any intent to hide
though the map’s guide listed such firms as R.J.
»Ms Tobacco Co. and Schlitz Brewing Co. of
tton-Salem, the list of attractions left off, for
"too, the headquarters of N.C. Mutual Life
While Eddie Clinton [center] travels the state in the
Mobile Musenm of History with a display on “The Black
Heritage In North Carolina,” other motorists have no
idea that there Is a black heritage based on travel
information on the new state official highway map.
Insurance Co. in Durham, the largest black-owned firm
in the world.
Barfield said, “There are in the neighborhood of 20
historic landmarks on the black heritage they could have
placed on the guide.”
He noted that a house occupied by George White, the
last black congressman during the Reconstruction era,
still stands. Barfield added that an early building
occupied by N.C. Mutual, which has been declared a
National Historic Site, could have been included.
Another example was the Ovens Memorial Methodist
Church in Fayetteville, where a black minister preached
to inter-racial audiences in the early 1800s.
There is also a museum in Chatham County devoted to
the works of slave poet George Moses Horton.
“There are plenty of sites they could have listed,” said
Barfield.
According to a release from Commerce Secretary
Lauch Faircloth, who declined to return Chronicle phone
inquiries, “The map and guide are the keys to our
tourism promotion efforts. Last year, we sent out more
than 400,000 to persons requesting North Carolina travel
information.” More than 1.2 million maps have been
ordered at a cost of $138,000.
The maps are being distributed free at public libraries,
state welcome centers, driver licensing offices and weigh
stations.
Five-year-old Atlka Griggs moves araand the Maypole
with other children who ei^oy the Old-fashioned May
Day Festival at the East Winston Branch Library last
Saturday.
Elderly Pool Their Pennies
To Help Support Hot Lunch Program
the long list of occupations filled by local residents,
®"st add that of prophet.
tucal man called us and later came by to let us know
ht was in the business. He even favored us with a
"this hottest predictions.
ttt'st some of his predictions, followed by a little of
'they call “instant analysis.”
" predicted that an earthquake would strike
t"niia, causing a great deal of damage and
hiction to its major cities. As for the state, it would
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By Angela Ingram
St& Intern
Senior citizens at Kim
berly Park are pooling their
nickles, dimes and dollars
to help out the poor folks in
Raleigh who can’t seem to
have enough money to con
tinue the senior citizen’s
daily hot lunch program.
The patrons of the pro
gram, operated locally by
Experiment in Self-Reli
ance, recently got a re
prieve when the Depart
ment of Human Resources
awarded $147,865 in Title
XX funds to Forsyth County
for the fiscal year.
ESR's meals program and
the adult day care efforts of
Creative Life Center had
been fold by county officials
that they would have to^
close down at the end of
February unless the state
forwarded the funds, which
come from moneys unspent
by other counties.
The programs never
closed, as the DHR funds
were forthcoming; howe
ver, the patrons are wary of
next year.
The announcement caused
the 170 patrons at Kimberly
Park, South Park Baptist
Church and Kernersville to
write letters, make phone
calls and anything else they
could think of to everyone
from President Carter on
down the social services
hierarchy.
Mrs. Estelle Fries, a
Kimberly Park resident,
feels the letters and calls
helped bring about the
extension. When she called,
she stressed the problems
of low-income elderly gain
ing food.
Mrs. Anniebell Hardy,
another of the letter writers,
said, “Without this pro
gram, I would lie in bed all
day without eating.”
Hardy has an alternative
program if the senior citizen
lunch program is discontin
ued at the end of the fiscal
year: “The food stamps will
have to be increased so that
people can afford to buy
more food, or increase the
checks so that people can
pay others to fix their
food.”
Mrs. Lorene B. Thomas,
a volunteer worker at the
Kimberly Park lunch pro
gram and president of the
project’s tenant’s associa
tion, said the program has
to be the number one’s
priority now that residents
are receiving less in food
stamps.