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Winston-Salem Cht'onicle
"Serving the Winston Community Since 1974"
28 PAGES THIS WEEK
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
20 cents
U.S.P.S. NO. 067910
Sstntday, December 22,1979
eighborhoods Attack CD Priorities
By Yvette McCnllongh
Staff Writer
„g0.81 community development proposal does
■Srt ess the major needs of targeted areas according
E neiahborhood association presidents.
one needs code enforcement, Watkins Street
!*"te"enforcement, but this is not one of the city’s
for this area,” said Mrs. Annabell Hamlin,
* of the Wathins Street Neighborhood Associa-
City officials unveiled their proposal, Tuesday,
Lp a public meeting.
S also want projects designated for our area to
little faster, we have to find out what’s
JVC a
happening, because we need more than what they say,”
she added.
The priority for the Watkins Street area is rehabilita
tion loans and grants assistance, with the project slated
to be complete in June 1981. The assistance applies to
owner-occupants whose incomes are less than 125 per
cent of the median income; or investor-owners who
guarantee to rent a majority of the rehabilitated homes to
families and individuals who qualify for section eight
housing.
Ms Helen Gwyn, president of the East Winston
Neighborhood Association said that she would like for
the city to include Dunleith Street as part of the East
Winston Community Development area.
Residents in that area are living in homes that have
bad heating, inadequate piumbing and no insulation, she
said. Some resident also said that landlords go up on
their rent when repairs are made.
“1 know of at lease a half of a dozen homeowners who
said they would be interested in CD” Ms. Gwyn said.
“We also need something to be done about absentee
landlords in this area.”
The priorities for the area for the 1980-81 year are the
acquisition of 21 parcels, the relocation of 29 families and
individuals and the , demoliton of 35 structures.
Concentrated code enforcement by June 1981 and
rehabilitation assistance by June 1981.
Public works and street improvements are also a
priority. The project would include resurfacing Jackson
Avenue, constructing Hattie Avenue, constructing 11th
Street and grading east of Dunleith Street South of 12th
Street. According to the proposal map a small section of
Dunleith will be in the rehab, area but a portion of the
area is not.
As part of the East Winston project for 1981-82, 17
parcels will be acquired, 17 structures will be
demolished, 25 families and individuals will be relocated
and several streets will receive improvements.
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job Agency Gone, |
;ustomers Stuck
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
linimum of 40 people may have
eir money when a job publishing
,ny doing business here and in
sboro closed shop without notice,
firm, Job Guide Publishing
,ny, which did business out of a
n the First Union Buildings, was
investigation by the state Depart-
of Labor and the Attorney Gene-
ffice when it closed,
iroximately 40 persons had, filed
aints with the local Better Bus-
Bureau against the company.
II Vaughn, local BBB president,
he firm had an “unsatisfactory”
1 of responding to complaints, and
ling their root causes,
gh Horton, an investigator with
rivste personnel services division
e Labor Department, said 25
aints had been received either hy
ffice or the attorney general’s
met protection division. He said
e has been unable reach any of the
principals since Nov. 21.
Guide operated by charging
customers $40 for the right to look at job
listings it had prepared. Customers
could also call in to see if any jobs in
their field were listed.
According to Vaughn and Horton,
complainants said they were unable to
reach the company because the lines
were busy and that jobs listed were
either unavailable or had been filled.
Horton said a change in state law last
July enabled the department to regulate
job publishing services. The owner of
Job Guide.PatrickO’Leary of Greensbo
ro, had successfully sued the state to
stop a previous investigation.
The labor official said the companies
now have to be licensed and have to
meet strict standards for contracts and
advertising.
Vaughn referred a reporter to a BBB
statement about job listing services. It
noted: “The fee may be non-refundable
and there is no guarantee a job will be
found...The openings may or may not
be applicable to the applicant’s line of
work. Reports indicate the same
information may be obtained from the
newspapers.”
But Project Goes On
Castleshire
Protest Slows
Annexation
Staff Pbotobv Templeton
Open Sesame
Young Patrick Lockhart pots all his energies Into opening
the package he just received daring the Christmas party
of the Augsburg Lutheran Church day care center
operated by the Downtown Church Center.
By Patrice E. Lee
Staff Writer
Annexation of 20 acres of land
expected to be the site of 150 units of
low income housing in Winston-Salem
has been postponed until Jan. 7 but a
HUD official has said that a firm
commitment has already been made to
complete the project..
“An initial closing is scheduled in this
office tomorrow ” said John Lyles,
acting director of housing in HUD’s
Greensboro office on Tuesday.
Blocking the annexation will have no
affect on whether the apartments will be
built. The new owners have filed a
petition to have that apartment site
annexed into the city although the
complex could still receive city services
without being annexed.
The scheduled closing is based on “a
firm commitment made several months
ago” and will not be interrupted despite
a complaint the office received from a
Winston-Salem resident Monday, Lyles
said.
Multi-family housing representative
F. Chapman said that the resident
identified herself as a homeowner in an
area already overburdened by low
incom.e housing, concerned about possi
ble property devaluation.
“Her concern is valid.” Lyle said.
We were satisfied that the legal and
regulatory requirements have been met
or we wouldn’t be at this , point.”
Housing Authority officials and Lake
Park devdoper Eugene Gulledge are
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Candidates Prepare For '80 Races
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
8ev. Moses Small, operator of an alcohol rehabilitation
in Bethania, has announced his candidacy for the
Senate from Forsyth County, in the 1980 primary
s.
ding to iong-time poiitical observers. Small
i be the first black to ever run for the Senate in this
decision to run makes it - likely that black
ites will be entered in each of the county-wide
daring the 1980 elections.
Annie Brown Kennedy, recently appointed to fill
, has said she will run for election to the seat.
jte.Mazie Woodruff, a member of the Board of County
doners since 1974, plans to announce her
for re-election in January,
elections board chairman H.B. Goodson will
adefinite decision the same month, but he said it is
be will run for the city/county school board.
Small is a 61-year-old former teacher who has lived in
iyth County for 27 years. His first bid for elective
was in 1972 when he ran along with Beaufort
-y for the school board.
dley was present during an announcement party last
Small
Kennedy
Friday night at Small’s home to help Small make the
announcement. Bailey said, “We need blacks in
Raleigh.”
Small said his background with the rehabilitation
house, the House of Mercy, equips him for the
legislature.
“Too many times, people who have been elected have
come from a lifestyle that knows nothing about poverty, ’ ’
said Small.
“In a time when government is struggling to live
within its means, your best politicians would be people
who have lived in poverty,” he added.
Woodruff
Small has run the House of Mercy for nine years with
as many as 30 clients. He quits teaching in 1969 to begin
working full-time with prisoners. The same year, he was
ordained a minister at First Baptist Church.
Although he is the first candidate to make a formal
announcement for the Senate, the list of potential
Democratic candidates is long. Sen. Marvin Ward,
D-Forsyth, said he will be deciding in January. Rep.
Ted Kaplan, D-Forsyth said he is considering running
but will make a decibion after the first of the year. Other
contenders might be former Sens. Carl Totherow and E.
Lawrence Davis.
'INSIDi-
Beloved “Miss Birdie” Robinson’s
®eral services were held, see story page
Bletaont Park residents honored for
*sutification efforts, page 3.
piristmas Messages from columnists in
’^points, page 4, and a look at
*-income housing and a new holiday in
^itorjals,
Now that you’ve read CONNECTIONS
the test, page 5.
One
superstar, O.J. Simpson, bows out
'0 another young one, Reggie Gaines, is
the
Use in Sports, page 17.
Rehab Proposal Gets Mixed Reactions
By Patrice E. Lee
Staff Writer
The city should repair condemned
houses that .are still being rented to
families, a member of the citywide
neighborhood coalition has said, but
some city officials doubt whether the
program is workable. Several Aldermen
would like to see the idea developed
further,', however.
“Houses are condemned, recon
demned and re-recondemned” under
the current practice of code enforcement
while, families still live in substandard
housing, attorney Paul Shepard said at
the last of the budget “focus” hearings
last week.
‘ ‘Winston-Salem today has the autho
rity to repair the house, attach a lien and
foreclose on the property if they , don’t
pay. If the owners knew you were going
ahead and do that, they’d fix them up
themselves,” Shepard said.
Alderman Virginia Newell and Ernes
tine Wilsqn said last week that they
were concerned with the legal and
financial practicalities of Shepard’s
proposal.
‘ ‘The state statute is so weak that a
person would not be in violation if they
did something to the house (such as put
in a new floor board) that hadn’t been'
done before,” Mrs. Newell said.
“What. chance would we have of
getting our money back?” Ms. Wilson
asked.
Shepard said that he felt both the
state statute and city ordinances were
strong enough to. implement his propo
sal. He also said that the city’s chances
of getting money back spent on repairs
was as strong as the city’s chances of
coilecting fees from property owners for
demolishing and condemned houses.
But City Attorney Ron Seeber and
attorney Roddy Ligon of Womble,
Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice both say
such a program may create more
problems than it solves.
‘There may be some constitutional
problems with the statute. We’re on
kind of shaky legal grounds to be doing
it. The cases we’ve seen indicate that
with other outstanding debts (such as
mortgages placed on the property) you
might not be able to recover the
money,” Seeber said.
The problem, he said, is that “it’s not
well established, where you go in to
repair the property to go in and put a
lien on it. “Nobody in North Carolina
has done it to my knowledge.”
Seeber said that foreclosing on pro
perty to collect demolition fees and
foreclosing to collect money spent for
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