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Winston-Salem Chr^omcle
“Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974”
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VI NO. 32
28 Pages This Week
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
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U.S.P.S. NO. 067910 Saturday, April 5, 1980
Housing Loans Up 82%
&L’s Triple Lending In Black Areas
By John tV. Templeton
Staff Writer
ifjjr federally chartered savings and loan
lions headquartered in Winston-Salem made an
jt increase in the amount of home mortgages
the traditionally black areas of the city during
d'inston-Salem Chronicle reported in 1978 and
umbia
race
For
Ipairs
,„ts of Columbia
Apartment, Inc.,
granted their long
wish this summer
instruction to repair
roblenis on the ex-
Iftheir housing units
nnouncement was
ast week during a
association meet-
latry Womble, in
association presi
de told the approx-
35 people present
were being ac-
iom construction
work on the rental
jrk is expected to
me 30.
le said that while
iors of most of the
il units would be
that some of the
thought to be in
: would be worked
that would be
d would be roofing,
sashes bannis-
tters, drain spouts,
steps, facings,
, The units will be
and the entrance
the housing devel-
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1979 that the S & L’s had only been making about three
percent of their loans during 1977 and 1978 in these
areas.
In the year since the publication of those stories, the
percentage of their activity has tripled to nine percent, a
figure roughly consistant with the proportion of real
estate activity in that area.
First Federal, Piedmont Federal, Standard and
Winston-Salem Savings and Loan Associations made
$3,810,060 in mortgages in the 13 census tracts with a 90
percent or higher black population during 1979, an
increase of $1.7 million over the figure of $2,084,350 in
1978.
Standard and First Federal showed the highest
increases. The former increased its mortgage activity 269
percent from $421,300 to $1,136,900. First Federal
jumped 233 percent from $649,900 to $1,517,750.
Winston-Salem Savings and Loan received a 153
percent increase from $339,450 to $520,110. Piedmont
Federal Savings and Loan was the only institution not to
record a dollar increase with $635,300 in 1979 as opposed
to $673,700.
However, the percentage of their loan activity in the
black areas of Winston-Salem compared to their
city-wide activity increased from three to nine percent.
In response to the Chronicle stories. Piedmont Federal
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Life Member
The only two Headstart directors Forsyth County has ever had look at the
recognition bestowed upon Mrs. Helen Falls; who guided the program from 1965
until 1977. Her successor, Mrs. Margaret Adams, is there to help share in the life
membership recently granted Mrs. Falls by the N.C. Headstart Assoication. Mrs.
Falls once served as president of the organization and has been active in many of its
committees and functions. She has also touched thousands of local children
through her work with Family Services, Inc., which operates the program for Ex
periment in Self-Reliance.
Johnson's Home of Memory Vs. Northwestern
Mortician Sues Bank
In $2 Million Lawsuit
By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
The owners of Johnson's Home of Memory, a.local
funeral home, have filed suit against a subsidiary of
Northwestern Bank Inc., for damages in excess of $2
million.
James A. Ella T. Johnson named Northwestern
Capital Corp., in a suit filed March 31 in Forsyth County
Superior Court.
In the suit, the Johnsons allege that the company
pressured, threatened and disrupted their business in
order to collect on past due debts. Officials of
Northwestern Bank had no comment on the suit.
They charge that the bank allowed the Small Business
Administration to be released from its guaranty; of their
business loan, and by doing so, dashed their hopes for
long term financing. They also charge that the bank,
often promising to do so, declined to adjust the principal
balance of their loan.
According to the suit, Northwestern’s “wrongdoing”
destroyed the Johsons’s business, their business
reputations and deprived them of assets in excess of
$700,000 for a total sum not exceeding $250,000.
The Johnsons also charge that Northwestern forced
them into reorganization under Chapter VII in the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court.
The Johnson’s reiationship with Northwestern Capital
Corp, began in March of 1972, and existed through Sept.
17, 1978, with the final liquidation of certain assets
belonging to the funeral home.
James Johnson approached the company to procure a
loan for construction and long-term financing of the
funeral home located at 1025 14th St. The building is now
used as the Masonic Hall of Winston-Salem.
McNair Construction Co., of Winston-Salem, was
hired as contractors.
The Johnsons claim that the contractors did undertake
the project, were late on completing the project and
withdrew from construction without completing it.
The suit went on to state that the cost of the project
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Courts Charge High Test Fees
In Cases Involving Narcotics
)lder Black Kids
larder to Place
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The Chronicle will
be closed Easter
Monday,April 7.Hap
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By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
Selling illegal drugs and alcohol are expensive
businesses, expecially if your get caught and have to
stand trial.
In addition to the legal fees and the bond that must be
paid, there are toxicology fees.
The Winston-Salem Police and the Forsyth County
Sheriff. sDepartments use the facilities of the lab at North
Carolina Baptist Hospital for analyzation of substances
that are illegal. The samples analyzed will later be used
as evidence in court.
Alcohol and drugs and other chemicals are analyzed
sample by sample.
For example, if someone is caught with 10 cigarettes in
their possession, believed to be marijuana, then an equal
sample from each cigarette will be analyzed to see if all
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By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
I school-age children are the most
lOo find homes for, according to
wkers from Forsyth and Guilford
s.
W a tendency for agencies to
tomes for these black children.”
% Harris of the Guilford Coun-
mment of Social Services, and a
of the Black Task Force on
on.
toly people come to us and request
ochild under two years old. They
when
W'e suggest an older child.
children are too set in their
tequire too much attention to
® make the adjustment after liv-
losterhome.”
fftthy, a sociai worker with the
department of the Forsyth
epartment of Social Services
“lack children between the ages 8
'®c the most plentiful, while in
children between the ages of
cats old were in abundance,
a waiting list for
Most
has
young
people want the experience
realize that an
“■“Sachild, They
more to deai with and
, ftace more to deal with,
cc ildren bring with them mOre
Ms. Kirby said.
^ttyth and Guilford Counties
(f, ° Councii on Adoptive
III , t ®°c)k. Ms. Kirby explain-
“fk is circulated around the
country. It contains pictures and non
private information about the children up
for adoption. “People can look in the
book and pick out the child that they
want,” she said.
Ms. Harris agreed saying that adop
tions are not limited to just the children in
a particuiar county. Not oniy has she ar
ranged adoptions ali over the state but aii
over the country.
She added that she thinks the myths
surrounding the procedures involving
screening procedures keep a lot of people
from adoption.
“People have myths about adopting, so
we try to make the screening as easy as
possible. You don’t have to have money
in the bank. You don’t have to have a
huge nest egg saved up or a big
checkbook,” she continued.
“People don’t have to have a high in
come. They should earn enough to sup
port themselves and the child adquately
and steadily.
A couple doesn’t have to be childless.
People may adopt children that already
have children, either through a previous
adoption or their own children.
A single person may adopt a child.
The mother may continue to work.
People used to think that the mother had
to quit work to allow the child time to ad
just.
Adopting is not expensive. The only ex
pense involved would be the attorney fees
for the perspective parent or parents.
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Our Easter Bonnets
Members of the three-years-old class at Mini School E. Polo Road, donned their Easter Bonnets
Tuesday for a school-wide contest. Members of the class pictured are Matthew Fussed, Amy
Allen, Brian Wolverton, Caleb Elledge, Michelle Noah, Jennifer Aurthors, Brandon Branscome,
Justin Brewster and Gary Monroe. First place winner was Katheryn Roberts.
Recipients
To Receive
Stamps By
U.S.Mail?
Three-fourths of a sam
ple of Food Stamp reci
pients say they would like to
receive their stamps by
mail, county officials told
the Social Services Board,
saying that convenience
would be the key reason for
the change. But, the 22 per
cent that were against the
change said that the
possibly of theft of food
stamps was their greatest
concern.
Katherine E. Anderson,
administrative supervisor
with the social services
department, who conducted
the survey said that most
people cited the increasing
cost of gasoline as the ma
jor reason that people want
their food stamps mailed.
Mrs. Anderson said in
her proposal to the board
that although she has not
discussed the possibility
with Thornton, that she is
sure that her department
could not successfully han
dle a mail issuance program
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