Wilis I VOL. V NO 48 ^ (Jack of all Trades | Greg Be thea, whose roles as acting animal control director, inter I governmental director and assistant to the county manager, I I served as acting count} I manager this week while. I I County Manager H. L. | I "Pete" Jenkins at- ^ I tended the National As sociation of Counties.. I convention. When he Board of County ComI assumed the manager's miss loners, it was the I chair during the Monday first time a black had jM i 9^ 4 . """" The Wright Family held IU Bret ever Umlly re. / ? in-i / The state eases Medicaid rules for senior citizens property. Page 2. Community Calendar tells you all the happenings and police praise Happy Hill's progress in reducing crime, Page 3. Carter has the right idea, according to a Chronicle editorial oh page 4, where new columnist Manning Marable discusses the "Crisis in Economics." Joann Falls tells how to stop the outlets in Better Living, page 19. v Dust Settles i On Broad ba^ By John W. Templeton Stiff Writer For almost five years, residents of the Broadba Heights community behind Five Points have rattle along the unpaved Broadbay Street leading to the Turnkey development. And for just about as long, they've been clamoring t get the street paved. There's a little more dust than usual these days, but hardly matters because ii's Heing raised by men an machines hard at work paving Broadbay Street. A spokesman for L. A. Reynolds Paving Company which holds the contract from the city of Winston-Salen said the nearly-mile long project should be finished 1 the next 30 days. Not a minute too soon for people like Jimmy Boyd! city police officer who's board chairman of the Broadba Heights Homeowner's Association. See Page IS (/fcjfcr -U inston+Salem Bargain (' ul- I \ I /;?/.?? A SiltutdJ\ ten-Sale. "Serving the East Winston Coj 22 Pages this week WINSTON1-40 Wideni Watkins Rv Irk Kin W Tpftinlotnn Staff Writer Residents of the Watkins Street neighborhood are fearful that a proposed widening of Interstate-40N>xould be the fatal blow for their once thriving neighborhood. The 1-40 widening is one of three alternatives which will be considered during a public hearing on Monday, July 23 at Parkland High School as local and state officials seek to balance the concerns of anxious neighborhoods with the need to improve the interstate highway, the most widely travelled stretch of road in the state and one of the most dangerous. IL ft jdSLW* si. f jMnt. * "" ~ ' ****** ^Jfl jB-Mifc3a|^? - M Photo by Ward inlon this past week. See details on page 8. Ude s The Urban League Guild has a big slate of activities ahead and all the social news on Social Whirl, pages 8-9. Chronicle Profile j t_ _ \_ _ i i* i i aescnoes a person?wnc^?aengnts m ? finding new information. A brand new feature, together, for people who stay that way, pages 10-11. One-on-one competition begins with celebrity contestants and the Jerry Jones i tournament opens, See Sports, pages 13-14. J I * -1 w J ^ Gettin; Dr. Fred Eady, drama professor at WSSU, directed Um oust of the Summer Theatre play "Our House" by Harold Pinter In preparation for performancea on Jul) Days ' *- ^ m Gbfc pimunity Since 1974" SALEM, N.C. 20 cenu ng Would Endanger Neigl StFears I Transportation planner Ronnie Grubbs says he doesn't think the widening would take any houses in the Watkins Street Area; however, Grubbs said consultants estimates are that 100 feet of space from the current roadway might ? be needed, less than the distance now separating Watkins Street homes and the expressway. "I'm just as close as I would like to be to the expressway now," said Mrs. Annie Bell Hamlin. "I wouldn't want to be any closer." "It would have a terrible impact, because we're sort of fenced in as it is," said Mrs. Hamlin, president of the c? Checkers is t Winning is tl By John W. Temple ton Staff Writer The loud clack of big, red and white marble checkers against specially-made vinyl checker boards sounded out into the halls of the Downtowner Motor Inn Tuesdav afternoon. " -y It was a clear sign that a group of players who regard check s not so much as a game, but as an art form had hit Winston-Salem. This week, the inn is the headquarters for the 14th annual National Championship and Top Ten Ranking of the American Pool Checkers Association, a mostly-black organization, with members from the Mid-west throughout the South. Betwen 200 and 300 contestants are expected, said E. L ;>Jackson, president of the host Piedmont Vj>ool Checkers Association. Food Stamp I By John W. Templeton Staff Writer The removal of the purchase requirements-for_food_ stamps has swelled the number of participating families In Forsyth County by almost 1,000, according-to thecounty food stamp supervisor. Since the beginning of the year, eligible families have not had to pay for their stamps, but instead receive the former "bonus amount" -- the difference between what they once paid and the total amount of stamps. The purpose for the Congressionally-mandated move was to make the service available to those so poor they couldn't afford even the minimal cost of the stamps. Mrs. Mary Johnson, food stamp supervisor in the county Department of Social Services, said the number of families has increased from 5,614 in November to 6,593 at the end of June. "A large number of senior citizens are back on the rolls who had not been on in several years," said Mrs. Johnson. The increase is straining the food stamp delivery system from the time applicants first apply to the point when they redeem the stamps. 1 'TJlP almrtcf /4nnK1inn in /(?/?. IOC i- ?.rt>4\ ...V, UIIHUJI uuuumig 111 applicants JOO IU UtM; has swelled caseloads tremendously," said Mrs. Johnson. Once an applicant is certified, he or she receives what is known as an ATP card, which the recipient takes to one K\ y s&jsJPkiMl H g Ready i 14-25, part of a whirlwind of culturai activity In the next week? r -i V ? i \ ?i\icle i J 1 U.S.P.S/NO. 067910 Saturday, Jaiy 21, 1979 i bo r hood H ighway Watkins Street Improvement Association. "It would really just destroy the neighborhood," she said. The Watkins Street area is wedged between the highway and Peters Creek Parkway. William Huohes. vice nrp?id<>nt nf tVi#? n??rvifltinn thinks that new lanes for the higway would have to come almost up to the south side of Watkins Street, endangering houses there. If the houses are removed, his concern is for adequate See Page 10 heir Game, heir Fame While here, they'll play a daring brand of checkers in which each piece can."jump" forwards and backwards and the king can move at will the length of any straight line. In the other brand of -tournament checkers, jumps are only permitted forward, and the king moves one space at a time. "This gets a little more play in the game, as far as the offensive moves," said Dr. Walter Wright of Greensboro, education director for the host association and according to Jackson, "the fc^st player in North Carolina." C ^ ; Although their form has gained acceptance^ mostly among blacks, Jackson and Wright noted \ ^ that pool checkers is taught and studied avidly in ?^ countries like the Soviet Union, Spain and much of South America. See Page 2 .? J tolls Swelling of eight post offices or the city/county tax office to pick up the stamps. The cards are mailed so recipients will receive them on the first of the month for continuing cases, creating long lines at the *?demption centers which close at three p.m., except at the tax office, which stays open to four p.m. Although some recipients have suggested that more redemption centers be opened in areas where ^arge numbers of senior citizens live, such as housing project community centers, Johnson said that would be infeasible. "The places have to have safes, almost like a bank vault," she said. "The federal government wouldn't let us put them anywhere else." Now that area gas stations have been able to get gas, the fear of possible shortages in North Carolina has passed. However the anxieties that came with those fears still linger. Most Americans are tired of hearing about the gas shortage and skyrocketing prices at the pump. The v citizens in North Carolina were spared the long gas lines that larger metropolitan areas like New York and Los Angeles experiences, but in the back of all our minds, we fear that one day it may happen here. I'vesaid before that I'm not totally convinced that we have a gas shortage and I think a majority of American share my beliefs. Energy is in short supply, but why is it that plenty of gas can be found once the prices have gone up to the oil companies satisfaction? My solution to the problem would be to ask all Americans not to drive their cars for a week. Then two weeks and so on and so on until the oil company got the , message, that they need us just as much as we need them. I'm sure they would stop robbing Americans blind at the gas pumps. Also it wouldn't kill us to give up our automobiles for a day or two. The/rtiajority of Americans are out of shape and under exereisedr myself included. A little walking never hurt anyone. , "Sv " ?>* One dav thjs gas shortage seafe won't be a trick to raise the prices, but because the oil companies have cried won so otten, a lot ot people mignt not oeiieve it. I'm afraid by then it will .be too late for all of us. Oil companies included. Yvette McCuIIourH