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Community
By Patrice ?. Lee
StaffWrlter
* Black representatives who met with City Manager
Bryce A. "Bill" Stuart at the East Winston Branch
Library wasted no time letting him know what their
concerns were.
"We live in the most segregated city in North
Carolina. Most black employees work in the public works
department, where a policeman says we ought to be
fenced in...and shot down like dogs. Community
Development money is being misused," said NAACP
President Pat Hairston.
Walter Marshall picked up where Hairston left off.
"The problem with police...that's for real," Marshall
said recalling his tenure as political action committee
chairman of the NAACP.
"We've had cases where the Nazis attacked citizens"
and the incident wasn't recorded. "It didn't even get
to the press," Marshall said.
Marshall also questioned the role th? Stuart will play
HUD Official
Apartments i
By Patrice E. Lee
Staff Writer
The federal official who blocked the building of Lake
Park Apartments in 1975 has testified that he would do
the same thing today because the building of the
government subsidized units would increase the contfSft- ""
tration of minorities.
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nowcvcr, ine omciai wno approval me apartments in
1978 said he did not know about the minority concentration
in the area.
Both officials testified during a hearing Tuesday on
nearby residents suit to have the project stopped. At
issue is whether the Department of Housing and Urban
Development was "arbitrary and capricious" in its
decision to approve a low-income housing development
on a site that was originally rejected. The case is being
argued in federal court this week.
A biracial group of more than 300 residents who live
near the proposed Lake Park apartments contend that
approval of the development is racially discriminatory
and against HUD regulations. They are asking that
permanent cortfctwction be stopped.
The Castleshire Woods Association, composed of
* black homowncrs, and Citizens for a Balanced Communi<2?
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qw te Qamotlno Stoddard a member of the sanitation
io aanHatlon crew that work In the BatterfleM area.
honored daring an Informal ceremony Toeoday. Also
[ohnea, Mia. Leak, Alderman Vivian Borke, sanitation
irlea Norrto, Ernest Brttton and Edward Johnson.
lity Manager
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in city government. "Do you intend to be the city
manager or the mayor's assistant?" he asked.
Stuart assured the 20 blacks in attendance that he will
be the chief administrative officer in the city that the new
police chief will be expected to deal with all parts of the
community fairly, and that he recognizes eliminating
substandard housing as the "city's number one
problem." "One of the top qualities that will be
important (for a police chief) is the person's demonstrated
attitude toward all aspects of the community.
They will have to understand that the police department
needs special leadership in this area," Stuart said.
Despite his committment to affirmative action, Stuart
said that he will not create vacancies by mass firings.
"Affirmative action may have to depend on the
occurrence of turnovers. I have to try to maintain an
organization that is sound," Stuart said.
Another fundamental that Stuart said he will be
stressing is the need to thoroughly complete projects
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ty, also contend that a proposed development for
subsidized housing on the same site was submitted on
Dec. 18, 1975 and rejected because "construction would
cause a significant increase in the proportion of minority
to non-minority inhabitants."' the suit alleged.
Richard Jarad, a HUD equal opportunity specialist, said
that Ire rejected the application for low-income housing
in 1975 because he felt "it would increase racial
minorities... and the trend would intensify for minority
occupancy and density." Jarad said a recent visit to the
site "reinforced my original thinking," although he said
he did not consider the census tract data when he
rejected the site in 1975. "Could reasonable persons
differ in conclusions drawn about the krea?" asked
Richard Moore, an attorney for HUD's Atlanta office.
"A trained person...could not differ that much."
Jarad testified.
Jarad also said that the need for low-income housing in
Winston-Salem had no bearing his acceptance or
rejection of the site,
However, James Lassiter, area director of fair housing
and equal opportunity said he knew the proposed site
was in a mixed racial area when he approved it for
subsidized housing in 1978 but "but I did not have
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Outspoke
Suspend*
By Patrice E. Lee .
Staff Writer K| 'H
An outspoken city emplo-* IthH
ye has been suspended ' jj
from his job and faces ['
possible dismissal, 9 city
official has confirmed. f
Assistant city manager I
and personnel director,
Alexander Beaty said
that Ronald Burnette. a um
laborer in the public works
department was suspended
January 8 without pay. He, Ronald Burnett
declined to comment on the
reason Burnette was suspended but he did say that
Burnette is appealing the action.
If Burnette were not appealing the suspension, under
personnel guidelines established by the city "in five days
he would automatically be dismissed," Beaty said.
The day before he was suspended Burnette, a member
of the Winston-Salem Improvement Association, had
spoken before the board of aldermen on the Community
Development program.
On two separate occasions prior to Jan 7, Burnette had
complained about poor management practices within the
public works department, once to the Human Relations
Commission and again to several aldermen at the budget
"focus" hearings.
"Supervisors have chosen to view employees as
enemies and have destroyed our grievance process.
They change the rules in the middle of the game, it is not
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Down the Hi
Dawnfe Montague, Bobbette Love and Sony a Love took
holiday from school to have some fun In a wagon. Sony
hill on Second Street.
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Marchers SueGrc
By Pat Bryant $6,800 debt to the City to
Special Correspondent engage the Greensboro Coliseum
on February 2nd, a
GREENSBORO--The Fe- date previously requested
bruary 2nd Mobilization by the February 2nd ComCommittee,
in a law suit mittee.
filed here, asked Tuesday The alleged conspiracy,,
the U.S. District Court for the suit asserts, was for the
the Middle District to de purpose of 4 4 preventing the
clare 44null and void" a plaintiffs from having a
contract between the City peaceful protest against the
of Greensboro and cohcert Ku Klux Klan, to comme
promoter Lawrence loier. morale the February 1,
The $600,000 lavy suit 1960 Greensboro sit-ins,
alleges that three city of- and kick off a new civil
ficials, Mayor James Mel- rights movement,
vin, City manager Tom Os- February Mobilization
borne and Greensboro Coli- Committee Director Dr. Luseum
manager James Os- cious Walker, Jr. said on
hust, conspired and mani- the steps of the courthouse,
pulated Blactycpnccrt pro- "Tom Osborne, James Osmoter
Toler Through a hust and Mayor Jim Melvin
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Ironically, sources within t
say that ?n unclear policy cor
is the reason Burnette was !
These same sources said tl
Teamster's union represent
increasing problems with hfc
Relations Director Herman ,
Burnette has completed the
can have his case investi
The commission is still in
by other public works emplo
tion plays a major part in hir
practices in the department,
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School officials have
said that there ore ao
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have grievously squandered
the tax payers money
to underwrite a concert
which the Black community
will not support and having
knowingly and willfully mi
sled the citizens of Greensboro."
The cost to Greensboro
residents, Oshust said last
week, would exceed
$16,000.
The contract which the
February Committee seeks
to void in the federal court
provides that promoter Toler,
doing business as a
NEW Productions, will be
sheltered from financial
loss.
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Burnette had said,
he public works department
icerning employee absenc?r
suspended. t
lat since Burnette became a
ative last May he has had
s superiors. Human
Aldridge said that once
grievance procedure he
gated by the commission/
vestigating charges levele^
iyees that racial discrimiftaing,
firing, and promotional
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schools in the inner city,
although the building of
schools in other areas of
the county continues.
James Den, assistant
to the superintendent,
told the Chronicle that
the school system does
not have plans to replace
any of the present
schools or to build any
new schools in the inner
city.
"We see the movement
of the black community
spreading away
from East Winston,"
Dew said. "In the next
eight to ten years there
will not be a need to
build entirely new
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declining enrollments.*'
However, Patrick
Hairston, president of
the local NAACP said
that he does not think
blacks are moving out of
East Winston, as school
official reports.
"Black people aren't
moving out, where are
they going to go," J
Hairston told the Chronicle.
"Where are all
the people in Happy Hill
or other places like that
going to go?
"We see the school
board's long range plan
as to close all of the
schools in the black community/'
Hairston continued.
"The assignment
plans are geared
toward tearing down all
the tenet City schools."
According to the assignment
plan devised
by Superintendent
James Adams, which
calls for a four year
senior higjx school,
Hanes High School
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wuuiu oe cioseo. unaer
the plan devised by Nancy
Wooten, a member of
the school board, five
historically blacks
schools would be closed.
They would be Brown,
Diggs, Kimberly Park,
Cook and Skyland.
This list also includes
some of the newer
schools built in the black
community. Kimberly ,,
Park was built in 1966,
the last school to be
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