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Winston-Salem Chr'onicle
"Serving the Winston Community Since 1974"
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By Yvette McCoIlongh
Staff Writer
(loyees of the City’s Public Works Department
[harged that racial discrimination plays a major
the city’s hiring, firing and promotional practices
[ty officials told the Chronicle that.there is no
to the employees charges.
Four employees of the Public Works Department,
■ lie Salley, Samuel France, Ronald Burnette and
'"it Murchison told the Human Relations Commission
"itlupervisors discriminate against blacks when, it
“ Jjo hiring and promotions, that whites are hired on
™|ot while blacks have to go through the personnel
tment and blacks with years of experience are
1 over for whites with less experience when, it
to promotions.
—ere is race discrimination in hiring throughout the
ivernment, said George Salley, a water and sewage
yee. ‘‘Our pleas fall on deaf ears when it concerns
and promotional practices.”
ey also charged that supervisors use the “buddy
system when it comes to hiring, that there are no
supervisors and that a black man with over 22 years
erience was passed over for a white man with three
experience.
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Nine of 10 Residents Say:
Recreation
Inadequate
In NE Area
John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
WSSU Ram cheerleaders are well In
tune for the beginning of the haskethall
season with their spectacular gymnastic
routines as Isaette McAmn, above, and
Roger Johnson indicate. Inside the
Chronicle marks the beginning of the
CIAA-MEAC season with our annual
basketball preview filled to the brim
with facts about men’s and women’s
basketball in the member schools.
Nine in ten residents of a North East
Winston neighborhood say recreation
facilities are inadequate for and youth,
according to a poll conducting by the
Norht East Neighborhood Council, Inc.
Bill Murphy, a neighborhood advisor
from the National Urban Coalition
working with the council, said the need
for more recreation is one of three
strong desires which are immediately
apparent from his preliminary analysis
of the survey taken during the past two
weeks.
Surveyed were 100 residents of the
area between 22d and 25th Streets and
Cleveland and Jackson Avenues by
council volunteers as the first step of a
neighborhood improvement project con
ducted by the NUC under a federal
grant.
Eighty-eight per cent of respondents
said no when asked if recreation
facilities are adequate for adults; 90 per
said no to the same question regarding
teenagers.
the closest park to the neighborhood,
Blum Park, is separated by a major
road. Liberty Street, and a set of
railroad tracks. The area is about
mid-way between the Martin Luther
King and 14th Street Recreation Cen
ters, neither within walking distance.
Murphy said the survey also indicated
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‘INSIDE-
ik leaders made a big mistake in
iracing the Palestinian Liberation Or
ation following the resignation of
ly Yoong, says a foreign policy scholar,
page 2.
%ial Whirl focuses on an anniversary and
Mi Christmas decoration tour set for this
Akend, pages 6, 7.
ftsational Sylvester is the Spotlight in
%es this week, where one also finds the
‘fry of a columnist headed to Paris, pages
10,11.
^sibiy the best black college basketball
tm in the country trounced the A&T
gies this week. See pictures and all the
Itails, page 33.
OnlyOne in lORapes Reported
By Patrice E. Lee
Staff Writer
in the
As many as ten rapes
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County area
may go unreported for every one
brought to the attention of police.
.According to the monthly crime
report for the city, the actual incidence
of rape increased from 53 fi’om Septem
ber to January of 1978 to 61 for the same
period this year.
In forsyth County alone, there have
been 16 rapes so far this year, up from a
yearly total of 12 last year, said Cpl. Bob
Grindstaff, of the Forsyth County
Sheriffs Department.
The discrepancy between law en
forcement agencies figures and figures
maintained by the Rape Hotline, an
organization serving victims of sexual
attacks in Winston-Salem and Forsyth
County, is startling.
Joan Eagle, the Rape Hotline’s
director, said that her organization
comi'oleJ 7fit ict fiis of sexual xsaaiilt
last year.
“This year it looks like there will be
close to 750 victims of sexual assault,”
Ms. Eagle says.
Why the alarming discrepancy be
tween her figures and those of law
enforcement agencies?
‘ ‘We get some cases that police would
not call rape, cases where women have
been raped by their, husbands,” she
said.
When the victim knows her assailant,
the strongest disincentive to reporting
rape is the fear of other people knowing.
“People tend to believe she has
consented. They know and the commu
nity knows that there’ll be no prosecu
tion.” Ms. Ea,gf’! said.
The news media sometimes com
pounds the victim’s desire for privacy
because the victim’s name becomes
public records once charges have been
filed or warrants issued.
Neither Ann DeHart, of the Winston-
Salem Police Department nor Cpl.
Brenda Oldham can accurately measure
how much impact their self defense
programs have helped reduce the
incidences of sexual attack or encourage
reporting but both agree that an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
“It’s a matter of educating the public
about what they can do to prevent it as
well as report it,” Ms. DeHart said.
Both officers spread the gospel of a
“common .sense” -..pproach to self
defense to those who want to listen.
But not reporting rape, when it
occurs, only makes women open game,
says Cp. Grindstaff, who has investi
gated rape cases in Forsyth County for
the last six years.
“Any female old, young, black or
white is susceptible to this,” Grindstaff
said.
nant Wins Rent Appeal
By Patrice E. Lee
Staff Writer
AJformer tenant of Goler Metropolitan Apartments
as awarded almost $300 to compensate for lost
renljl subsidies and expenses stemming from her
igful eviction” in April 1977 may now receive clsoe
00, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled,
court decided she could collect damages from the
ihe was evicted until she won her lawsuit against
artments instead of for one month , as a local judge
C()ple with all their faculties often began to take
lii^s for granted. I too had begun to take different
for granted until this past week, when I lost part of
paring due to an ear infection,
hough my problem was temporary, it has left me
|a permanent understanding of what people with
i jcaps must face everyday.
M with partial hearing in one ear and full hearing in
fter, I had difficulty listening to television and
"8 someone talk. I even found my self talking
*t, even though the people I talked to could hear
According to a ruling issued by the court last month,
Juanita Williams, formerly of 412-B Goler St., is due
“damages...measured according to the period for which
she was deprived of her right to occupy the premises,
which in this case is the period from eviction (April 1977)
until entry of partial summary judgement on July
1978.”
Ms. Williams attorney, Paul Sinai of Legal Aid, said
Tuesday that this decision may well be precedent
setting.
“I doubt that its happened before in North Carolina,”
that damages due to wrongful eviction were awarded, he
said. “The last wrongful eviction case that I’m aware of
was in 1904,” Sinai said.
District Court Judge Gary Tash is expected to
recompute damages due Ms. Williams next week, Sinai
said.
In September 1978, Judge Tabs had ruled that Ms.
Williams was due only $264.26 plus six percent interest
yearly from the time of her eviction awarding her rental
subsidies for only one month, approximately $85. Tash
ruled that Ms Williams loss of rental subsidy should be
limited to one month since she only had a month-to-
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Coach Thomas Brown cuts the championship cake for the
Tiny Indians midgets, winners of the 1979 Sertoma Bowl
in Pop Warner midget football play this year during their
Boosters Club banquet last weekend at the Benton
Convention Center. Players on the team were: Cedric
Moss, John McKnlght, Darryl Brown, Harrison Peters,
Jonathan McCravey, Alphonzo Moore, Darryl Miller,
James Cathcart, Keith Speas, Tony Lindsey, Daren
James, Reggie McKinney, Barnard Wright, Amaldia
Lowery, Leonard Hayes, Charles Crews, Steve Moore,
Terry Witherspoon, Carlos Gantt, Gilbert Rocker and
Arthur Rapley. Other coaches were Norman Williams
Jake Johnson and Willian Scales.
Black Cancer Death Rate 50% Higher
By Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
Ictly,
|lso found ray self trying to hide the fact that I
P t hear very well. During an interview recently,
Ionian I was talking to sat on my bad side. Instead
I'ng her about my hearing problem, I strained to
1 hnt she was saying and even attempted to read her
Pt through the interview okay, but 1 was too
pissed to explain to the woman that I couldn’t hear
I then realized that I was ashamed of my
■ although it was only a temporary one.
'•'"ith all their faculties often make fun of people
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Black women in Forsyth County have
a 54 per cent high mortality rate than
nonwhites according to statistics from
the state Department of Human Re
sources. Black males have a 37 per cent
high mortality rate than whites.
According to statistics from the
Forsyth County Health Department 104
blacks died of cancer in 1978. Of these
deaths 13 died of breast cancer, 31 died
of a neoplasm (abnormal growth) of the
digestive tract and 21 died of conditions
of the respiratory tract.
Robert Michielutte. Ph.D, associate
professor in community medicine at
Bowman Gray School of Medicine said
that the causes of mortality differential
are not clear.
“Unfortunately, we do not yet have
good cancer incidence data in Norht
Carolina. Without these data it is not
possible to determine what parts of the
mortality differential in Forsyth County
are due to difference in incidence,
quality of treatment, stage of diagnosis
or accuracy of reporting,” Michielutte
said.
“All of these are factors. I would
guess that differences in incidence and
stage at diagnosis are most important.”
The overall rate for North Carolina
(all age and sex groups combined) in
1973-77 was 146.2. In comparing the
other large counties in the siate, for
mortality rates per 100,000, are as
follows: Buncombe (Asheville) the
mortality rate for nonwhite males is 77
per cent higher than whites and for
nonwhite females it is 1 per cent higher.
In Durham (Durham) the mortality
rate for nonwhite males is 25 per cent
higher and nonwhites females is 14 per
cent higher. Guilford (Greensboro) the
mortality rate is 29 per cent high for
nonwhite males and 36 per cent high for
nonwhite females. Mecklenburg (Char
lotte) the mortality rate is 21 per cent
high for nonwhite males and 31 per cent
high for nonwhite, females. Wake
(Raleigh) the mortality rate for nonwhite
males is 22 per cent high and 10 per cent
high for nonwhite females.
Dr. Robert A. Diseker, associate
director of cancer control at the Oncolo
gy Research Center of Bowman Gray
School of Medicine said that judgments
should not be made about the data
because the statistics are based on
incomplete information.
“Reporting may differ place to place,
and it just may be that incidence of
cancer is better reported in Forsyth
County than other counties,” Dr. Dise
ker said.
Black men and women have a lower
death rate from various kinds of cancer
in Forsyth County compared to state
and national statistics, according to the
rates that appeared in the book, U.S.
Cancer Mortality by County, which was
published by the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.