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Winston-Salem Cht'onicle
‘Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 19 74”
d.VI NO. 27
40 Pages This Week
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
20 cents
U;S.P.S. NO. 067910 Saturday, March 1,1980
ETAJobsCutinHalf
fete W. Templeton
'staff Writer
several months of
inty, the city's hu-
,,vices director is
jg that his depart-
i,, be able to
provide less than half the
number of CETA jobs that
had been anticipated dur
ing the fiscal year.
Walter W. “Doc”
Farabee, who has managed
the department on an acting
basis since October, said
approximately 1,400 per
sons will be served during
the year instead of the pro
jected 3,371.
Most of the cuts are
coming from the area of
public service employment,
said Farabee during an
ipproval Sought
lor 108 Apt. Units
interview in his NCNB
Plaza office. “The empha
sis from Congress is now on
only training and youth
programs,” he said.
Through re-budgeting
the halved-allocation from
the U.S. Department ■ of
Labor, Farabee said the
current 717 jobs now filled
"'ill continue. A job freeze
imposed on October by
Farabee has cut that num
ber from the 779 which had
been planned at that point.
The human services dir
ector expects to have
enough funds for about 700
jobs in the Summer Youth
Employment Program.
Even with that additional
allocation coming, the
city’s CETA appropriation
from the federal govern
ment is at the lowest level
since the 1974-75 fiscal
year. Then, the city received
$3.7 million. This year,
Farabee projects $3.7 to $4
million. Last year, the city
received $7.6 million.
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\ByJohn W. Templeton
Staff Writer
[plans for 108 units of subsidized
lome housing at the south end of
Ind Avenue have been submitted
[ial round of approval by city of-
fcnls in the one, two, and three
(Dm apartments would qualify for
8 rent subsidies under ar
gents for the Southgate develop-
jproposed by Jack Covington of
bn Salem.and Qeorge E. Carr Jr. of
Iboro.
Ithgate would be the first new
Ipmcnt plan after a federal judge
I down the Lake Park Apartments
I planned for a trac* next to the
[shire Woods and Churchland Acres
Visions.Judge Hiram Ward ruled
leU.S. Department of Housing and
jOevelopment ignored its criteria
Ittering low-income housing away
Ither such housing and concentra-
If racial minorities.
■latest project would go into an even
[‘impacted” area, the former East
I urban renewal tract, but East
^Iderman Virginia Newell, D-East,
ptere will be no opposition to the
Many find it hard to keep track of birthdays, but when it only happens once every
four years it‘s quite a different story. Brothers Broadus Jr. and Warded Evans were
both born on Feb. 29 and they are not twins. Imagine the odds of that occurrence.
members plan a big bash for the two this Friday. a
Mrs. Newell said that because four other
Section 8 projects have been approved to
go in non-impacted areas, the Southgate
proposal meets a plan worked out with
HUD last year to spread out subsidized
housing.
Under the plan, preference would be
given to projects in the eastern part of the
city only after similar projects were built
in areas without subsidized housing.
The East Ward alderman is enthusiastic
for the units; “The plans look great; I’m
very proud of what they’ve designed.”
Thirty-four of the apartments would be
one-bedroom, 51 of them two-bedroom
and 23 of them three-bedroom in the plan
presented to city Development Advisory
Committee Wednesday. The site plan
must also meet the approval of the City/-
County Planning Board and the Board of
Aldermen.
All the buildings scattered along the
14.4 acre tract will be built of brick with a
mixture of one and two story structures.
There is a waiting list of 2,000 persons Tournament MVP Larry Holmes fires a jump shot over
for Section 8 housing in the city. The M. Aug.’s William Cooper in championship contest The
Southgate is part of 1,222 units either in 6-6 senior tallied 22 points in the contest and won his re
construction or approved for the city. cond consecutive MVP Award.
Native Son Debuts
In Carnegie Hall
photo By Santiiu
Most Valuable
blohn
W. Templeton
Staff Writer
finston-Salem ’ s
pan relations staff is
lller than that of
pry major city in the
gle, according to
n relations director
nan Aldridge.
population
Behind In HRC Staffing
Imston
is providing the
of human
e number
relations staff, two, as
Winston-Salem, popula
tion 150,000, based on
figures Aldridge gave in
a telephone interview.
Rocky Mount and
Wilson each have a
three-person staff;
Durham and Fayetteville
have four; Wilmington
and Greensboro have
five; and Charlotte has
eight, said Aldridge.
For the coming
budget,'Aldridge is ask
ing the Human Relations
Commission to recom
mend to city budget of
ficials an increase from
$37,000 to $68,400,
enough to provide for
Aldridge, an assistant
and a secretary. His staff
currently consists of a
secretary hired on CETA
funds.
Aldridge expects the
department’s workload
to increase based on pro
gress being made by the
commission. The panel
has asked the board of
Aldermen to consider
fair housing legislation
for the city.
Another recommenda
tion was for the opening
of a warehouse for the
household goods of
families evicted from
their homes.
During February, the
panel obtained recogni
tion of Human Relations
Month by Mayor Wayne
A. Corpening, held a fair
housing tour and has
scheduled its first ban
quet for Friday night at
the Hauser Student
Union at Winston-Salem
State University.
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
Saturday afternoon, Winston-Salem
native Bernard Thacker will reach a
milestone many singers never achieve - a
debut in New York City’s Carnegie
Recital Hall.
“The recital is a milestone;’’ said
Thacker in a telephone interview from
New York. “The very best critics will be
there.”
Also in the audience will be his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Kennedy of
1748 Longview Drive SE, who looked on
proudly last year as Thacker gave his on
ly Winston-Salem recital at the Reynolda
Auditorium.
Thacker has been a tenor soloist with
the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and sang
in the Inaugural Concert for President
Carter in 1977.
He was also “Sporting Life” in the
Houston Grand Opera’s production of
Porgy and Bess on Broadway and
throughout Europe and the United States.
The show’s album won a Grammy award.
When Thacker came through Winston-
Salem last year, he was developing his in
dividual stage performance on a tour
throughout the South in preparation for
Saturday.
“Carnegie Hall is the first step towards
a different sort of image for me,” said
Thacker. “After Sporting Life, I ha.! an
image as a classical singer with a facTity
for Broadway musicals.”
To unveil himself to the demanding
New York audience as a solo singer,
Thacker will sing in the hall “reputed to
have the best acoustics in New York
City.” None of the tunes will come from
Bernard Thacker
Porgy and Bess.
His spotlight in New York City could
have been predicted back in the late 1960s
when Thacker became one of the first
blacks admitted to the N.C. School of the
Arts.
Music instructors like Mrs. Vivien King
Bright honed young Thacker’s voice to
become the “especially lovely tenor” that
New York Daily News critic Bill
Zakariasen has called Thacker.
Paul Robeson and Leontyne Price are
the idols the 34-year-old singer looks up
to. He laments that not even Robeson,
among black male singers, has drawn the
acclaim of Price.
“My goal is to be a great humanitarian
and a great artist,” says Thacker.
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Child of Projects Reaches for theTop
Photo By SaatuM
tells an audience at Wake
ftiauh' ° black in-
Pw * "'“’'‘’Serial level of sports, such as his
‘^^'’elopment for the Atlanta
^Poke Tuesday night, broke Babe
I vith 714 home runs in his career.
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
The muscular body of Larry Little can still get up high
enough to ram home a dunk shot through the nets in the
Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center gymnasium.
His preferred attire is sweat suit and sneakers.
Little may be the only municipal governing official in the
country who can jump that high. But even higher are the
aspirations he sets for himself.
“When people ask me where 1 want to go politically,”
Little told an audience last Sunday, “1 tell them President
of the United States...because I’ve met that boy Carter at
least four or five times, and I’m at least as intelligent as
he is.”
With a particular emphasis to the younger section of
his audience. Little advised them that, even were he to be
unsuccessful in trying for the presidency, “I might wind
up as a U.S. Senator or a Congressman or a Governor or
a Mayor.”
It was not an idle boast. When Little, who grew up in
the Kimberly Park public housing complex, turned 30 last
week, he was regarded as possibly the top black leader in
the city. That’s the response a consulting firm got most
Staff nwto By Tempktoa
Larry Little
often last fall when a cross-section of blacks were asked
to pick leaders.
Alderman Vivian Burke, D-NE, introduced Little to
that audience at the Iota Phi Lambda Black History-
Month ceremony “as a young man who has done so
much for the community.” It was his third Black History
Month speech.
“Larry is a terrific guy,” adds Alderman Virginia
Newell, D-East, “A very brilliant guy. If he keeps his
cool and keeps his head on straight, he can go very far in
politics.
“He’s fed up with inequity and injustice,” added
Newell. “He’s obsessed with it.”
That obsession was partially forged on the basketball
courts, where Little became a high school star, but yet a
near-failure academically.
The Black Panther Party proved to be Little’s grade
school, and also the cause for some lessons about the use
of power.
His favorite story tells about the time he was picked up
by city police for inciting a riot because he dared to place
some black pride posters on the corner of 14th Street and
Jackson Avenue.
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