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UNIV, OF FC-SERIALS DEFT. EOO’J 205 WILSOII LIBRARY 024 A -QllAPEL H-ILL, tie 27.514 ^^1 SEPT. 1979 80 81 Winston-Salem Chr^onicle "Serving the Winston Community Since 1974" WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 20 cents U.S.P.S. NO. 067910 Saturday, October 6, 1979 MinistersGetOut Of BPAL Alliance Contestants In the Ebony Fashion Fair Contest relax during a get together at jsj ^^7 *"* ‘O LaTerre XXI last Saturday. The 10. Styling Photo by Santana contestants will be showcasing their talents Sunday at 4 p.m. See story page By John W. Templeton Staff Writer The Baptist Ministers Conference and Associates has decided not to endorse any of the three black condidates seeking the vacant State House seat from Forsyth County as long as they are opposing one another. Negated is the previous committment of the ministers to back Carl H. Russell, the choice of the Black Political Action League, a coalition conference leaders helped form with precinct leaders from predominately black areas. Russell, contacted by telephone after the minister’s Tuesday meeting, said the reversal would have “very little impact because nobody’s voting but precinct chairmen and vice chairmen.” The county Democratic Executive Committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. to make iontracts Sought From Arena By John W. Templeton Staff Writer Black supporters of the $33 million 6nston-Salem Arena have pledged to leek jobs and business opportunities for blacks in the construction and operation If the spectator facility. Dr. H, Douglas Covington, chancellor jf Winston-Salem State University, and 3rmer alderman Carl H. Russell said [blacks have concerns that priority needs jch as housing could be overlooked because of the arena. However, Covington said, “I don’t feel that blacks see their needs as being incompatible with those of the entire community.” The two leaders were introduced as vice chairmen of the citizens committee in favor of the 18,000 seat facility during a media briefing Monday in the Benton convention center. “Carl and I plan to certainly have some input in the plans for this facility and to do all we can to make certain that there’,s input for others in this faciltiy,” said Dr. Covington. Rus sell pointed to the example of Atlanta’s airport expansion as a model for use of minority contractors in large public works projects. “In Atlanta, minority contractors helped them get finished ahead of schedule,” said Russell. He did not call for a strict set-aside program, but said, “If we have people who are qualified then, 1 don’t think we should limit them.” Russell said the increased jobs the arena would bring are needed in the black community. “Our people want to be fully employed. I feel like the Coliseum will bring some jobs and the majority of the jobs that will be created, we have people who can fill those jobs.” In other developments, the Baptist See Page 10 ■’■V-: Hard at Work Staff Photo by Templeton Inside the dilapidated old North Elementary School, many of the students are sent to the school as discipline more than 1,500 students are engaged in independent problems, most prefer the teaching methods to the study learning such as 10th grader Le Monte Hinson and regular school curriculum, typing students of Mrs. Clara Fitzhugh, left. Although tudentsWhom Nobody Wants By John W. Templeton Staff Writer Vhat happens to the student whom one wants? Ip Forsyth County, about three- l^irths of them learn to want them- sdves enough that they achieve such Js as high school graduation and iful employment through the force of lit own self-discipline. _he place where the transformation hwpens is the dilapidated old North Eljmentary School building at 1520 Patterson Ave., home of the Optional Education program of the city/county J^lic schools. R '’'sitor to the building is apt to see "^ents sitting outside on steps, listen- |Wo radios or puffing cigarettes. That reinforces the image of the school [he dumping ground for students who ^discipline problems at other schools. [Ut behind the untraditional casual- la of the school campus, there is le serious learning taking place with lent s heads buried in books or '“-visual equipment and a system of time clocks to determine who goes to class and when. “They think that this is a school for people who are dumb or stupid-people that nobody wants,” said 11th grader Monica Harris as she looked up from a study carrel where she was viewing a film on careers. “I felt the same way until I came here,” she added. “It’s a whole lot different than I thought it was.” What Harris found was a program of individualized study in which each student is given an outline of all the steps necessary to fin'sh a course. The student works at his or her own pace, with help from the teacher when needed. “Bo” Poole, a 10th grader, had dropped out of school a year ago, his report cards dotted with D’s and F’s. “I found I couldn’t get a job because if you don’t have a diploma, they say see you later,” he said. “So rather than sit around all day and do nothing, I decided to come back to the 10th grade.” “Now I’ve started making A’s and B’s,” he added. “lean work faster and not get held up bv a whole classroom of people.” Roslyn Scott is in her second year at Optional Education and wouldn’t trade it for regular secondary classes. “With the curriculum being based on individu ality, it’s a little easier to cope,” said Scott. “I was bored with the regular senool system,” she added, “but here I’m getting more done.” Just after her interview was finished, she handed in an assignment which meant she had finished in two months a course that normally takes a semester. See Page 17 • Charlotte politics shaken up Page 2 • Poor provide scholarship money Page 3 • Tribute to black journalists Page 4 • Nature and technology Page 5 • James Baldwin returns Page 8,9 • Banquet Scene Pages 6,7 • Freshman takes charge for Rams Page 13 its recommendation to Gov. James B. Hunt for filling the seat. There are five announced candidates, but the committee has the option of not picking anyone. In that case, the choice could be left up to the governor or up to voters in the Democratic primary next spring. During the heavily attended minister’s conference meeting Tuesday, the political action committee headed by Rev. Jerry Drayton proposed the resolution that the conference stay neutral when two or more blacks are vying for the same position. See Page 11 $600,000 Poured Into East Winston By John W. Templeton Staff Writer The almost certain prospect of a half million dollars in development in the East Winston area enhances chances that a shopping center will be built there, according to a principal in two of the three buildings nearing final approval. Two banks and a group of doctors won bids for tracts on the fringe of the area reserved for a shopping center from the Development Advisory Committee during its September meeting last week. Final approval of the bids must come from the Board of Aldermen. Tentatively approved were plans by Mechanics and Farmers Bank to build a $260,000 branch next to the current McDonald’s restaurant, by Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., N.A. to build a $285,000 branch and by four black doctors to build a $160,000 clinic next to the Winston Mutual Building. Atty. R. Lewis Ray, counsel for the doctors and for Mechanics and Farmers, said following the committee See Page 11 I noted with interest the other day that the District of Columbia (the place Richard Pryor calls “Dark Country”) is having a serious problem with discrimina tion. It seems that the taxicabs are refusing to pick up black men.Thisis no minor complaint.The person who made it was a city council man who waited outside the equivalent of City Hall for more than an hour, having been passed by numerous cabs. Maybe the cabbies did not know he was a city councilman, but perhaps recognition is not the problem. Two years ago, CBS news anchorman Ed Bradley made a similar complaint about D.C. cabs. Depending on your point of view, the sad or hilarious aspect of the problem is that most of the cabbies are black, too. I noticed that during the six years 1 spent in D.C. watching cabs pass by. On the occasions, I was honored with a ride, cabbies told me that fear of crime was one problem, but they were more concerned that blacks didn’t tip and that blacks took long out of the way trips that tied up the cab. For instance, a rider asking to go to southeast Washington, would be met with “I don’t go to Anacostia, man.” So, I always made scrupulously sure I tipped the cabbie just to do my part for the next rider. Obviously, it did not do much good. Despite that problem, people will get where they want to go. I remember the freshman week boatride at Howard University. After a night of gaiety, three of my dormmates managed to get left when the bus back to Howard left. With the exurberance (read ignorance) of youth, they decided to walk back to campus, not knowing hOw far the waterfront was from Howard. Several hours later, they were dead tired and still about ten blocks away on Georgia Avenue. Then, a transvestite in red dress and shoes (it was placed at about six - five or so) yelled; “Come here, darlings.” They ran the rest of the way. By John W. Templeton
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