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CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR AT 2 am SUNDAY, OCT 28 * UNIV. OP IiC-3i’RlALo DZPT BOOM £03 aiLSOZ LIBTiARY 024 A CHAPEL HILL, L’C 27oli SEPT. 1979 80 81 Winston-Salem Chr^onicle 'Serving the Winston Community Since 1974" ^0- 0.9 36 PAGES THIS WEEK WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 20 cents U.S.P.S. NO. 067910 Saturday, October 27,1979 2,000 Wait for Housing Help Bv Yvette Mcp-nllniiok B By Yvette McCullough Staff Writer More than 2,000 families are waiting for section 8 housing, bui there are less than a fourth that number of spaces available and those spaces are already filled. “Our need is much greater than the units we have available,” said Donna Fazio of the Housing Authority. “Most of the applicants on file either live in substandard housing or can’t afford the rent they now have.” Last week, the authority announced that 30 more spaces has been made available outside the city limits, but within Forsyth County. That brings the total allocations to 530. She said the majority of applicants are female heads of households with one or more children and receiving assistance from social services and their average income is $167 a month. The section 8 program allows a family to pay about 25 percent of their monthly adjusted income toward their rent and utility expenses while the housing authority pays the difference between the amount the family can afford and the total rent. To qualify for section 8 assistance two or more individuals living together as a family unit and single individual s who are 62 years or older, disabled, handicapped or displaced and meet the income guidelines. According to data released by the Housing Authority, in order to qualify their income must not exceed these standards: one person family-$9450; two person See Page 15 Desegregation Push Surprise Staff Phot-, by I'cmplvto.. outrageous moment of the roast of C.E. “Big the house in stitches. Ten coaches and associates of Ifees occurs when former Wake Forest coach Gaines fried him up for more than three hours during the fees” McKinney presents the WSSU coach benefit for muscular distrophy in the Benton Convention hletic supporter, putting Gaines and the rest of Center last week. jiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiJtitittiiiitiininiiiiiiiiJtiJiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiHiniiJiiriiiiniiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiJiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitjiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliJMiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiHiiiiiiii Threatens Colleges By John W, Templeton Staff Writer Federal desegregation guidelines are making it unconstitutional” to be a predominately-black school, rena Arouses Questions of Cost PRO By John W. Templeton Staff Writer 1st don’t have the facilities,” shrugged Bob »ith a glance up Cherry Street to the facility he S nston-Salem Coliseum. ogy I use is that people will not go to a Mien the can go to a nice restaurant, ’ ’ said the ^ctor. Pn and other supporters of the $33 million laj^m Arena, the present 8,000 seat structure he best arguments for a new indoor spectator (aid the revenue has declined the last two n a peak of $500,000 to $330,000 last fiscal ‘It’s on a downward slide,” he said with a. irs of the arena also doubt the advantages a K),facility would bring: a revitalization of E ’icreased convention business, 1,000 jobs, tel rooms and $23 million brought into the s to the facility. Jections are based upon a feasiblity study ly^The Arena Group of Atlanta, using researh iy California economist Alfred Gobar. Gobar than 60 such studies from Australia to CON in the opinion of television host and columnist Tony Brown. Brown charged that the practical effect of the desegregation effort has been to stress attracting whites to historically black campuses, instead of the reverse. “If whites don’t want to go to our schools, it is unconstitutional to be a black shcool,” said Brown during a Monday night speech at Winston-Salem State University. By John W. Templeton Staff Writer economic stimulus r' Eject: ;ts the facility will generate $900,000 in itjyear, with a surplus of $200,000. However nts for the bonds required to finace the facility i.5 million per year. that debt service would add 2.7 cents to the See Page 2 or money-loser To opponents of the Winston-Salem Arena proposal, the gleaming white rectangle with 18,500 seats might as well sprout a trunk and tusks, for they consider the $33 million facility a “white elephant.” Opposition has come from several fronts - tax limitation supporters who oppose the increase in taxes, businessmen who would be displaced, those who question the validity of the feasibility study, and blacks who ask whe ther an arena should be the top priority while so cial needs go unmet. L.G.G. Cooper, proprie tor of the food equipment business of the same name, looks out at his 50,000 square feet of space and figures the arena will mean the end of his business and that of 20 other firms in the blocks to be covered by the facility. “It would be impossible to go out here and get another building,” said Cooper. He predicts the same fate for his neigh bors, who have formed the Businessmen Against the Coliseum. Four of those businesses are own ed by blacks. George Appleyard, ma nager of Power Train, a transmission repair firm, said, “It hardly makes sense to rob our taxpay ing businesses with com bined assets in the mil lions of dollars to to make way for a tax creating coliseum that is going to cost millions.” BAC has joined forces with the tax group, STOP (Sabilize Taxes on Proper ty) on that last point. A STOP statement on the arena charges that the actual cost over the life of “There’s something vnong with saying you can only go to school with whites,” Brown told 150 students there. “It’s just as wrong as saying you can only go to school with blacks.” The host of the syndicated series Tony Brown's Journal said predominately black colleges are producing half the black college graduates, although only 30 per cent of black college students attend such schools. “Seventy per cent of black students who enter predominately white schools don’t finish,” said Brown. When he used that figure on one of his shows, said the TV personality, a white viewer called to say that proved that blacks could not handle the work at predominately white colleges. Brown countered with a statistic that 75 per cent of blacks who received advanced degrees got their See Page 3 See Page 2 p Official Quits to be a Housewife ly,Yvette McCullough Staff Writer y of Winston-Salem has black female administrator, 4.22, because she just wants 'ham housewife. b]has been a challenge and "Jopportunity to utilize my ^ones said. “I’ve learned pout the operations of local t! and the interaction be- ityand the county, but now 1 si going to be a housewife.” is is stepping down from a o_bas held for two years, g to Human Services she the manpower programs, bood Youth Corps and was 'f state training for Head- University of North Caro- “However I had never left from a dedication point of view.” Jones said she sees employment as the key for a person because employ ment effects his education, housing, and economy. “Changes in many of the problems we have today could be a result from people having jobs and moving for ward,” Jones said. ‘Employment is the possible accent of any group of people because it can determine where they’re going to go.” “Employment has been one area that has occupied Jones time since she became director of Human Services which administers Comprehensive Em ployment and Training Program(CE- TA), “CETA can’t do it all,” Jones said. “You can’t run a program in isolation or in a vacuum. "'power because I had of my ideas,” she said. “You need to involve the community and a lot of the community agencies,” Jones continued. “We also have to involve the private sector because the public sector can’t achieve without the private sector.” Jones said she doesn’t know how it will be to be a housewife, but will approach it like any other challenge. “I’m interested in challenges, 1 like it and 1 thrive on it,” Jones said. “My mother provided me with the atmos phere to do things on my own. “I believe in the work ethic, both psychologically and mentally,” she continued. “I was determined never to be a teacher, because of the labels and stigmas placed on women and blacks, I knew we could do more than teach.” Looking back over her years as director of human services, Ms. Jones says she has only one regret, and that is they were not able to have a publication for the department. She said she has enjoyed her work and that she would have continued in her position if she wasn’t getting married and moving to Durham. Nellie lones Usually if you can’t find anything to talk about, there’s always the weather. This time however with the weather we’ve been having lately, it is definitely something to talk about. I don’t have a fixation for talking about the weather, but the changing weather we’ve been having lately really puzzles me. A few weeks ago it was cold enough to turn on furnaces, turn up the thermostats and put on longjohns. This week it has been a different story. All the summer clothes most people put away, they needed to take them out again. 1 heard someone say that this is typical fall weather. Well if this is fall 1 feel pretty sorry for it. It seems that every season has something going for it except fall. Spring brings you the April flowers, the birds singing and puppy love. Winter offers the snow and winter sports and Christmas. Summer, well summer offers you practically anything you desire. But fall. When you think of fall, you think of chilly nights, tons of leaves to rake and the unpredictable weather we’re experiencing now. At one time you could say that fall gave you the start of the football season, but most football games start so early now, that half the season is over by fall. I can say that fall does offer the beautiful colors of changing leaves, but once they change and fall off the trees, the colors are no longer a pleasure to look at. However, I thing if we look hard enough we can always find something beautiful in everything. Maybe that is why we have fall. The other seasons have us so spoiled because we don’t have to look very hard to find their beauty. During fall we have to look harder and deeper for its beauty, but it’s there. Fall is just like people. Sometime we can only see a person’s faults, and not the good things he has to offer. But if we take time to look just a little herder wc can find something good. Fall. The season we all can be thankful for. -Yvette McCullough
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