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VOL. V NO.52
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Staff Photo by Tcmpleton
Joe James Duncan
"Racism
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By Yvette McCnUoogh *
Staff Writer
The job of driving a truck looks glamour
people. The chance to see the country, g
and the choice of working when you wm
being an independent truck driver lool
However, James Segers, one of the
independent truckers in Winston-Salem, sa
black, it's almost impossible now to make it
"It's getting harder everyday for blacl
said. "With diesel fuel prices rising and 1
hardships blacks have, it's almost impossi
it."
Although now he can choose when he wa
he finds that racial prejudice is still evi
trucking industry. ??
"There is a lot of money involved in tru
you're black and don't know how to service
you're in for a rough time." Segers said.
He said that shops charge blacks more
trucks than whites. He said maintaining a t
lot of money. A truck's oil change costs ab
new set of tires $3,000 and a new engine
$12,000.
caiH that hlar?lfc viion?(nn
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it very hard to get any, unless they
"everything they own." He also said
regulations are more strictly enforced to\
than towards whites.
|;P O nnn n a,
"If a black tracker
palls up to a weigh
station, and he's In
- with a line of whites, they
will wave the
whites -through, hot
they give the black
tracker a real thorough
going over."
"If a black trucker pulls up to a weigh s
he's in with a line of whites, they will wave
through, but they give the black trucker a re
going over," he said. "The black trucker 1
his truck in perfect condition." - _
"I know I haven't accomplished what I'm
by the restrictions put on me by being blac
continued. "I don't think a white man ?
achieved what I have with all the things thai
put in my way."
Segers started in trucking about 14 yea
didn't become an independent trucker by cl
necessity. It all started when Segers first wei
trucking firm and applied for a job. He sn
would have to take an aptitude test which 1
"I had one of the highest scores on the te
said. "However they told me they were lo
man with two years of experience."
? s. 1 ater foiind out that the firm had h
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By John W. Temple ton
Staff Writer
A Derry Street teenager got a five-inch
{ash on the forehead^ and other minor
njuries in a scuffle with city police
ollowing the issuing of a traffic citation
n the 1400 block of Trade Street Tuesday
norning.
The youth, Joe James Duncan, 19, of
I n ?
it/i uerry 5t. was charged with resisting
irrest and assaulting a police officer in
addition to the citation for defective
equipment-after being treated and released
from Forsyth Memorial Hospital.
Duncan and several witnesses to the
arrest charge that police choked him,
scraped his face against the roadway and
kneed him. in the back during the
incident.
Police Sgt. J.G. Matthews of the traffic
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in trucking.
Its," Segers Tandy Kiser, the son/ o(
the financial celebrating his 101st blrthd
ble to make born in Yadkin Connty an
working on various farms. H<
mts to work, Plantation for 18 years until
dent in the
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your trucks ^ V j
to fix their
ruck costs a By Yvette McCulkw
out $100, a Staff Writer
costs about The newly formed Black Pol
. ness League (BPAL) has vote
money find Carl Russell for the Forsyth
' mortgage *n the N.C. House of Repi
that ICC however two candidates wh
vard blacks considered by the leagu<
Chronicle that they are :
running.
Attorneys Annie Kennedy
Beaty said that they were stil
for the seat vacated by R
Deramus, Jr., who resigned
in as a special superior ^ourl
"1 was a candidate before
about BPAL," said Attome
"I'm still a candidate and am
seat and I do intend to run n
Beaty said he is still a ca
that he's offering an alt
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tation, and
the whites
al thorough
las to keep
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could have
[ have been , w
rs ago. He I'l
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to a local
/as told he ^ ^
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st," Segers ' *
oking for a ?- *?- >*k ., jgQX
ired whites __ [jQCtOring
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Salem
the East Winston Community
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C~
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division said he was conducting an
investigation of the incident as required
by police policy.
Officer R.S. Inscore^ one- arrestingofficer,
said the scuffle resulted from
Duncan's refusal to sign the citation and
an attempt to run away from the officers.
"We went out of our way not to hurt
him," said Inscore.
The incident occurred while Inscore
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ana wmcers M.fc. U'Brien and J.I.
Daulton from the traffic division conducted
a license check on Trade Street at
about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Mrs. Donna Goins of 2117 N. Trade
said she had stopped for the checkpoint.
"They were talking to him," she said.
"Then they just grabbed him and started
beating him* I didn't hear them read any
rights or anything.
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I i prevents them
j ,f supplies pure!
y The split h
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Maj. Herb
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BT T' we're not abl<
Staff Photo by McCullough Bergen said
. . ' of revenue to
r former .tave. will be be, then we'll
y, August 24. Kla?r ?u Douglas Jo>
d spent moat of hla life
9 farmed the R.J. Reynolds
Reynolds died.
, Kenned)
igh "My feelings are that
Democratic Executive Commil
itical Aware- am still an active candidate,"
d to endorse "My candidacy is not out of d
County seat Mr Russell, I think an alterna
resentatives, be available for the black peo
10 were also 'David Wagner, a candidate
e told the dered by BPAL said that he wa
still in the a candidate.
"I don't want to pursue it
' and James Wagner said. "I had gotten in
11 candidates at the request of some interes
lep. Judson with BPAL."
to be sworn Wagner said that he plans
t judge. BPAL.
I ever knew Alderman Vivian Burke, cl
y Kennedy. league, said in a prepared
coolrinn +V>n that thp orniin pnHnrcpH Dncci
JLLMIIg llll ^
ext year." has the skills and leadershi
ndidate and represent all the citizens of V
ernative to lem/Forsyth County.
"We urge the Democratic
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Deborah Bethea [right] examines Wanda Jov
pressure aa part of the Patterson Av?
fttrilflifiiBfnlirjadiiCAllon effort at rtrr M
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Chfi
Since 1974"
20 cents
d in /
Edward Callands, 13, one of several rJ
youths playing nearby, said, "All the %
policemen jumped on him and kneed him . j
in the back^ ^
According to the various accounts, |
Duncan and the officers went to the %
ground. Mrs. Goins said, "The one with 1
his arm around his neck was the one
beating his head against the ground."
Inscore said the gash happened in- ^
advertently during the struggle on the \
street and the adjoining sidewalk.
"When he skinned his head, I stuck my
hand under to protect it and I skinned my h
hand."
The license check was conducted
because of complaints from area residents
about reckless driving by persons
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i
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ts Boosters
By John W. Templeton I
Staff Writer "
>n Army Boys Gub has/'disassociated"
Tiny Indians Booster Club in a dispute
r football equipment for the club's Tiny
t football program.
ib officers, parents who have borne the
rt fn* ? A?
ii iw? me ^liugrini, say uie army's action
i from making good the bill for $1200 in
lased for last season.
as .come about during a two-month-old
tters and phone calls between interested
sf late, their lawyers. '
ert Bergen, city commander of the
ny, said, 4'We've got to have help, but
; to use debt."
the army would be seeking other sources
fund the football program. "If it cannot
have to reassess the program. ^ I
rner, president of-the boosters, said the ,
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'Stay in H
until the Committee to support BPA
ttee votes, I date," the statement read.
Beaty said. Russell told the Chronicl
isrespect to accepts the League's endors
itive should though he wasn't actively si
pie." seat.
also consi- 4<1 . .
I was approached by soi
is no onger precjnct people," Russell sai
M carries some weigjit because
anymore, nrecinrt tvnnlA u/<?m *
_ i?w|/sv ^ vt v mivff wy I
vo ve on y Russell said that the other
>te peop e have a right to seek the se
choose to
to support
BPAL was formed last mont
lairman of it was felt that blacks hadn'1
1 statement their fair share from the E
ell because Party. The group is composed c
p ability to chairmen, first vice-chairmen
finston-Sa- sentatives, and Baptist ministei
ence and associates working
Executive benefit of the community.
SCreatii
On Hv
1A stethoscope hung from 1
Bethea's ears as she expertly vi
pressure ballon around her "
Moments later, she look?
nearby blood pressure scale
nounced "that's a 120."
Bethea and a dozen other yc
learning about hypertension
impact on the black community
a unique project operated
Patterson Avenue YMCA thi
Camp Civitan east of Winstc
Part of the process is actually
kto read blood pressure. "V
give the kids a chance to do sc
im* blood they like it a lot more," sal
?nae Holt, who instructs the hyp
tan. xlass.
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Everything Ashford and Simpson touch tarns Into gold,
It seems. Read the story of their remarkable
achievements in Spotlight, part of the all new Vibes,
beginning on page 16.
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L's candi- Russell is a local funeral director and
former mayor pro-tern of the Winston-Sae
that he lem Board df Aldermen. He served 16
ement, al- years on the hoard. In 1977 Russell ran an
Peking the unsuccessful campaign for Mayor and
lost to Wayne Corpening.
me of the Beaty is the former law partner of
d. "BPAL Richard C. Erwin, arid presently is in
5 only the partnership with Billy Friende Jr. Beaty
:o vote." is a 1974 graduate of the University of
candidates North Carolina Law School. He is past
at if they secretary of the N.C. Association of Black
Lawyers and presently the vice-president
, , of the Association.
h because
t received Kennedy was the second black woman
rwmwviauc m tne state or North Carolina to pass the
>f precinct bar. She is in law practice with her
or repre- husband and sons. She is a graduate of
rs' confer- Spelman and received her law degree
I for the from the Howard University School of
Law.
ig Experts
pertension
Deborah The young heart specialists were
trapped a eager to show what they have learned,
patient." "The systolic pressure is when the heart
d at the ic nnA i* u??.
u uv.auiig anu inv uiao IUI i v la w i ivu it 3
and pro- at rest," said Helen Jones.
"You get/ hypertension when the
>uth were veins clog up and make it hard on the
and its heart." she added, "there's a build-up
y through Qf waste in the blood."
by 1 the Another youth volunteered that one of
rough its four blacks have hvpertenc;on as oppos>n-Salem.
C(j f0 one 0f six whites.
l learning yhe hypertension teaching project
/hen you was developed by YMCA health servic>mething,
cs director Emanuel Osei-Antwi, one of
d Dennis tw0 black exercise physiologists in the
ertension
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