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L in:/., ■ ■ Sr-FT. 1973 GO 81 Winston-Salem Chr^omcle “Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 19 74’’ NO- 33 22 Pages This Week WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 20 cents U.S.P.S. NO. 067910 Saturday, April 12, 1980 Housing Authority: T u r n ke y Buyers Can’t Manage Units yu Photo By Sentans Egg-citing Humer enjoys the treat of the season after lling In the Easter egg hunt at Winston Lake creation Center. The youngster lives in Ft. id was here to visit relatives. No doubt she Itlotell her friends about North Carolina. ilitical Revival It For April 27 jssive rally is being planned for April 27 in an Iget black voters excited about the May 6 primary s. i Political Revival 1980” is the name of the event ild in the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium at Salem State University, said Peyton Hairston, le organizers. iraiinated from just an idea several weeks ago,” said in a Chronicle interview. ‘‘We need to latwe get a good turnout. We thought the best kould be a revival or rally.” lip up the fervor, the 4 p.m. rally will feature' four ilioirs and inspirational messages from Revs, (lard and William S. Epps. A. Mc’Lean, state field director emeritus of CP, will discuss the battles he and other civil rorkers waged to get the right to vote for blacks Hairston, local NAACP president, will also talk power of the voter. ® Hairston said the organization of the rally had (igether for the sole purpose of putting on the pers of the organizing committee are: James ■ J' Ray Butlet, Rev. C.E. Green, Patrick I' Heyton Hairstoii, Earline Parmon, Evelyn toward Wiley and Larry Womble. Fon support being received from local churches, I'said he expects a turnout of more than 2,000. I^ould like to get them so fired up that they’ll feel flheydon't get out and vote.” said Hairston. 1 ffigistration will be available and various i^andidates have been invited to attend, although L not have an opportunity to speak. [nisters to Query )te Candidates r for governor, r Sovernor and pier of insurance ‘fetviewed by the committee '""al Baptist State tllis Friday, "Steensboro. chairman Dr. said com- r “d been re- > candidates in statewide ’"'“d the ses- By Donna Oldham Staff Writer Residents of Turkey III homes are not ready to manage themselves, says a top official of the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem. That's why the authority has not officially recognized any of the seven homebuyers associations which have asked to take control of their developments, according to William H. Andrews, community services director of the Housing Authority. The Housing Authority has had 10 years since the opening of the first Turnkey complex to fulfill federal requirements to train homebuyers to manage their own communities. Officials of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Greensboro were unaware that the Housing Authority has not recognized any of the homebuyers associations. “True, the Homebuyers Associations have state charters, but they do not perform as they say in the charters. They do not deal in management or maintenance. They have not progressed to that point yet,” Andrews said. He continued, ‘‘I don’t want to antogan antagonize the situation, but what they want to do requires skills and training that they don’t have. The idea of working with the HBA is to bring them along as far as we can,” he said. The resident’s handbook states that the Housing Authority is responsible for “aiding in the preparation of charters, by-laws, contracts and other appropriate documents for assembling homebuyers for orientation and planning. And to explain to the homeowners the structure and functions of the HBA and the rights and responsibilities of the HBA and the Housing Authority for eventual management responsibility for the develop sions, which begin at 1 p.m. at the United Institu tional Baptist Church, 802 E. Market Street. Topics to be addressed will include high unemploy ment among minorities, appointments of blacks to the judiciary and high state positions, the fate of pre dominately black state uni versities and state procure ment from minority busi ness, said Drayton. Barbara Proctor, first black woman to own a mt^or advertising agency, speaks in Winston-Salem this weekend. Lady Millionaire Started inPoverty Born among the poor in a South Carolina shack and raised in Black Mountain, N.C., Barbara Gard ner Proctor entered the business world with three strikes against her. She was female, black and a single parent. Today, Mrs. Proctor is a millionaire-and one of America’s most respected women in business Graduated from Alabama’s Talladega College, Mrs. Proctor started her own business in 1970 with a loan from the Small Business Administration. To day, she is the founder, creative director and presi dent of Proctor and Gardner Advertising of Chicago. She is the first woman to open a full-service ad agen cy specializing in marketing to and for the black com munities at the local, regional and national levels. Mrs. Proctor is outspoken on the position of women in business and what women can and must do to develop themselves. She is on Business Week’s list of America’s top 100 executive women. She serves on the White House task force on women in business. She is a board member of a Better Business Bureau, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Seaway National Bank and Mt. Sinai Hospital. She is a council member of the American Advertising Federation and the current president of the League of Black Women. Mrs. Proctor will be the keynote speaker for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Governor’s Con ference on Leadership Development for Women, April 12. Twelve workshops conducted by local residents will be conducted from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “Coping With Stress,” will be conducted by See Page 18 ment. The book further states that the Housing Authority will be responsible for “assuring that competent counseling and training assistance be provided in organizing the HBA, These services shall be continued until the HBA is fully operational.’’ “The Housing Authority and the HBA shall execute an agreement recognizing the HBA as the official represen tative of the homebuyers, and establishing the functions, rights, and responsibilities of both parties. This agreement shall be executed as soon as possible after incorporation of the HBA.” When The Chronicle called the Department of Housing and Urban Development area office in Greensboro, Andrews had told them that the Housing See Page 2 Program Designed for Ownership 1 By Donna Oldham Staff Writer '' In 1949, the United States Congress went on record „ by saying that the goal of national housing programs ; was to “provide a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.” , In the late 1960s, through the efforts of the Na- ■f, tional Council of Negro Women, a home ownership . rental program titled Turnkey was started. Turnkey was developed by Joseph Burnstein, ; General Counsel for the Housing Assistance Ad- .. ministration. It was first introduced by former secretary of Housing Assistance Administration. It was first introduced by former secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert C. Weaver on Jan. 20, 1966, two days after his appointment. ' Turnkey’s purpose is to enable. local housing authorities to purchase completed housing developments from private builders. 'i The actual program has four divisions. Turnkey 1 and II are rental programs. Turnkeys 111 and IV are homeownership programs. Turnkey III is designed to provide low and moderate income families an opportunity to own a home, according to the officials of the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem, There are 967 Turnkey homes in Winston-Salem, divided in seven developments. Easton Manor was completed in 1970. Kingston Greens, Cherryview and Morningside were completed in 1971; Northills and Northampton were completed in 1972 and Broadbay in 1974. Easton Manor is the smallest of the developments consisting of 40 homes and Northamp ton the largest with 255 homes. “Applicants are accepted according to their finan cial status and their homeownership potential,” ac cording to James Haley, executive director of the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem. Haley explained that Turnkey residents make mon- See Page 14 Lee Defends CETA Natural Resources and Community Development Secretary Howard N. Lee has issued a vigorous reply to critics of the state’s CETA programs and called on state and local officials to tell the public the story of the good things CETA is ac complishing. Speaking at a conference of the North Carolina Employment and Training Association in Asheville, Lee said, “1 have been disturbed with the continuous coverage that the CETA program has received in the press, 1 am personally depressed that the same aggressiveness towards attempting to discredit CETA has not been exemplified toward giving credit to CETA.” Lee admitted that there have been a few bad apples who have brought “disgrace to many of us,” but he said they would not be allowed to escape paying the price when they are discovered. “North Carolina has one of the cleanest, best-operated and most effective programs in the nation,” he said, poin ting out that with $161 million in program expenditures being audited since 1974, on ly $24.8 million have been questioned, , and the majority of that amount has been cleared as legitimate expenditures. He ad ded that most of the programs have been operated by honest, hard-working people who in some cases lack management training. The secretary cited a number of highly successful programs, including the Gover nor’s Reading Aide Program, which plac ed 1,350 persons in permanent jobs, and a CETA prison guard program, which plac- See Page 14 J.A.C. Royalty Daniel B. Rowdy, left, and Cynthia L. Watson, right, were crowned Mr. and Miss J.A.C. last week in a contest sponsored by J.A.C. Memorial Chapel Church at 614 Patterson Ave. Miss Watson is the daughter of William and Eva Watson of 3705 Prospect Drive. She is a 12-year-oid student at Walkertown Elementary School. Rowdy, 7, is the son of Stanley and Sharon Carroll of 3101 N. Cleveland Ave. He is a student at Mineral Springs Elementary School. Proceeds from the contest went to the church building fund.
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