v' \ % I VVUf&i VOL. VI NO. 22 24 P? ??> . I ? ^fcfc^jhVy x vX fmbj Sanitation rXf^. Leak pree?te a pi AM WmUmti ?# A y mm i mmm *rmm n VI OBJ Workers Hi? MattaHw workers were . pictured were [1 to r] Dob E Honored Lorry Horry, Chi Leaders Tell C Racism, Br 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. ff9 At - -?-l a '_ i ^? - 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? W ton-Sale "Serving the Winston-Salem ( 0 go* This Week WINSTON SA I ' / ^n B^k. - * / * \.? - / '^m " niLo ly 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 utalitv , DmUIamaa f riumciiis 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 Seepage 23 T estif ies III U/w/\v%nr Cil-i> Ill VT lUllg JIIC ? 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 See Page 23 f ^l^j |^H >m Ghr~\ Community Since 1974" IEM, N.C. 20 cento _ I % 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 r. - 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. L___ 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 oqic J.S.P.S. NO. 067910 Sat ?n Wc id by written down but given ver 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, New St Ruled Black J ?J m ? v**w tTavvHllVli|^ll Staff Writer School officials have said that there ore ao plans to build any new ||^ ^jSS 4. * ' - f? \a ' .', *' ' V\xj9br {' rker Citv / bally,'* 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 Aldridge said.. ? X :hools x u ui in? \ reas x 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 ..u i_ At. _ aciiuui), dcvuusc vi inc 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 ij i * it? 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 See Page 8