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TECHNOLOGY AT? CHANGE
Earn College Credit
By Keeping Up
Courses by Newspaper's series "Connections:
Technology and Change" appearing weekly in The
Chronicle and a related PBS television series are tne
basis of a three-hour credit course at Winston-Salem
State University.
The 15 weekly newspaper articles on society's
love-hate relationship with technology and change
will appear each\hursday beginning Sept. 6.
Scheduled to begin airing on the UNC Network is
the 10-part television series, "Connections," a
personal view of the "triggers" of technological
innovation by James Burke, an award-winning BBC
writer and producer.
Readers who wish to take the course for credit mav
register at the Main Library. The only requirement is
enrollment at WSSU as a continuing or special
student.
WSSU director of extension programs Dr. William
Sheppard said there would be a mid-term test and a
final exam. Sheppard said there will also be weekly
seminars at the library featuring local educators.
As a special convenience, readers may enroll by
mail using the coupon in this week's paper.
Coordinated by John G. Burke, professor of .
history, University of California, Los Angeles, the
Courses by Newspaper series is authored by
outstanding social scientists and historians^who
explore the sources, consequences and prospects for
technological change.
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Topics include society's ambivalence toward
change, the ethical dilemmas it creates, and the
impact of these changes on politics, economics, jobs
and lifestyles.
^ In the "Connections" television series, writer
and on-camera narrator James Burke pieces
together the network of logic, genius and chance that
leads to eight modern inventions?including the
atom bomb, computer and production line. Each
dramatic program unfolds like a detective story that
frequently spans centuries and continents in search
of the origins of today's technological society.
In last week's Smoke Signals, we learned of the
increasing frequency of young brides who can't cook,
including our own Yvette McCullough.
Fortunately, there's been a parallel development
which have kept the species from dying out. Us
menfolks have learned how to cook.
I thought about that the other day, when I went out
the apple tree in ~ my backyard, just like my
grandmother, used to do, picked and cleaned some
apples, peeled them and lightly stewed them in
cinnamon.
Then, I made a crust from scratch, filled it with
apples and a half-hour later, had an apple pie any
mother would be proud of.
The development of culinary arts among men is not
new by any means. I think back to the men at Hanes
C.M.E. Church who treated the congregation to
breakfast last Easter, and I'm told that the men
members of the Patterson Avenue YMCA Senior
Citizens Club don't take a back seat to anyone.
Of course, the effects of culturization are pretty
pervasive. There are many fellows who are content to
sit in an easy chair until supper is ready or go out to the
nearest joint if its not.
But for every one like that, there's probably one who
doesn't mind and, in fact, enjoys dealing in the kitchen.
There are limits to that however.
t At my household, the one who doesn't cook has to
wash dishes. Give me a spatula any day. John
Temple tan
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By Yvetto McCullough ?
Staff Writer
A woman and her four children live all
alone in the basement of a condemned
duplex off the corner of 12 Vi Street and
Trade as bulldozers steadily destroy the
houses around them .
Ms. Minnie Singletary and her family
arg not holdouts. She told the Chronicle
that she would gladly move if she could
find a house that is big enough for her
family but at a price she can afford.
"The last family moved out last week,"
said Ms. Singletary.'4I'm still waiting for
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By Yvette McCullough "We're lool
Staff Writer policeman wh
The commander of the and if we find
police district encompass- is we're going
ing East Winston is very him/* Landoi
disturbed about racist said that he ha
remarks about the com- sed the , siti
munity supposedly made legal advisors
by one of his officers. action will be
Published reports sup- person is iden
posedly made by a white Landon told
policeman that said that icje that the
East Winston should be reports aboui
fenced in and monitored ?aSt Winstoi
by airplanes don't rep- make people ti
resent the thinking of the the people liv
police department, said Winston are c
Capt. Johnnie Landon, "East Wi
District II commander. many commur
Gantt Cha
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
A black city councilman in Charlotte is rui
and neck for the Democratic nomination foi
the state's largest city.
Harvey Gantt, 36, an architect and city pi
has served on the Charlotte City Council i
says his campaign has been gaining momemt
Charlotte Observer poll showed him a few j
points behind former State Sen. Eddie V, K
third of the voters undecided.
Gantt's campaign could be a testing grou
kind of strategies needed to elect blacks tc
and other offices where the black vote
represent the majority.
"We have to cut into the areas which
Knox's strength." said Gantt in a Chronicle
interview.
"We believe based on my councilmanic ra
holds an at-large seat) we can possibly carr
per cent of the vote and in some middle-inci
neighborhoods we may do even better."
"In those neighborhoods, I've been sc
position of working on the council on some of
issues," said Gantt.
Gantt is anxious to avoid appearing to be
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Singletary and her family are in the
10Vi Street Community Development
area. She said that the city contacted her
"when it was cold" and told her they
would be acquiring her house.
She said she talked to various city
personnel and who said they would help
her find a house. She and her children,
ranging from 9-17 in age lives in the
basement of a house which once housed
three families. Her street once held eight
houses with several families in each.
There are four houses presently standing,
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deal with die income homes and at
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idn't discus- our apartments and we
lation with have our slums. <
, but some "You can't lump all of
taken if the East Wjnston into one big ;
tified. community," Landon con- ,
the Chron- tinued. "There are many 1
: published positive things in East |
t crime in Winston that are not (
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hink that all Landon said that his
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riminals. pretty well with the com- j
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three waMnglo be destroyed and the
house where Ms. Singletary lives.
"I found a house earlier this month,
but with all of us, it was too small,"
Singletary said. "A lady from the city told
me about another house, but the rent is
$150 a month and I can't afford that."
Ms. Singletary doesn't work, she says
due to arthritis and receives financial
assistance.
Gary Brown, community development
director, told the Chronicle that the city
wants to work with people as much as
possible and that they are in "no big
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we don't have any major etecte ear
problems," Landon said. C?Th COme 1
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Landon said that he has v^ou ? 1 t
about 14 blacks out of * S
about 46 men. He said his 1 eren* 1
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force doesn t have the
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rush" to acquire that land.
"That land is zoned for commercial
business and will probably be pretty hard
land to sell," Brown said. "The land was
acquired probably to help people get out
of some pretty bad housing."
He said that the city was not about to
tear down anyone's housing unless they
had found suitable relocation.
Once Ms. Singletary's land is acquired
she will receive funds to help her pay rent
on a new location as well as funds to help
her move.
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By John W. Temple ton
Staff Writer
ounty black males had a 16 per cent higher
rom cancer than whites and black females
: cent higher rate from 1973-77, according to
itics from the N.C. Department of Human
jrt Michielutte, an associate professor of
medicine at Bowman Gray School of
who has studied the figures, said the
d mortality rates do indicate "thatnon:r
mortality is higherin Forsyth County and
i other than white-nonwhite differences in
re are responsible."
>f the stomach and prostrate and leukemia
the higher rates among black males, said
, Cancers of the stomach and cervix played
: rn the higher female rate.
for the statistical differences are elusive,
/man Gray professor. Possible factors could
srences in incidence, treatment, stage at
accuracy of reporting.
tncc, cancer of the cervix is very treatable if
ly," said Michielutte. "Stage of diagnosis
n there."
idjusted technique converts the actual
e per 100,000 population to what the rate
he county had the same range of ages as
tate.
racial and sexual groups have different
is at various age levels, which throws off
ics.
ulness of these rates is that they allow
by race and sex controlling for differences
ructure," said Michielutte.
y rates are consistent with a 30-year
sase in the incidence and mortality rates
ie National Cancer Institute has allocated
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:te Mayor
is making a strong push to motivate solid
big strategy question," he mused. "You
ry careful about hbw you structure your
vhere the electorate is only 30 per cent,
with a racist campaign," Gantt added.
:k parties and other events have all been
3antt voter registration push in black
s. "We've set up a very elaborate system
voters street by street, block by tyock,"
"We're shooting for a 50 per cent black
gistered voters. That's something we've
ore. *'
nent black leaders have endorsed Gantt's
vever, the candidate dismisses them as
ent in the party than in the community."
respondents to a telephone poll by the
t said they were not influenced by such
. However, the Post poll of 150 black
not scientifically done.
the major issues of the campaign to the
ary as leadership and growth manageindidate
thinks 4rrs- experience on the
? background as a planner equip him well
:s.