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Saturday, June 14, 1980 *20' 26 pages this week vyers Back j\CP Plans Boycott 5 chapter of the National Association for ement of Colored People has been mission by its national legal staff to lal protest against the transfer of former istrator Bert Weeks to the recreation charged with not reporting liquor ind mismanaging local ABC stores, airston, local NAACP president, said liapter is calling a meeting of its general jiip and other blacks in the city regarding s situation on June 16 at 7 p.m. at the Jailed Progressive Church on 11‘A Street jm Avenue to decide what type of protest e of action will be taken, jk Hairston had announced four possible B protest the transfer of Weeks, including lying in downtown stores, a boycott of the Istores, picketing City Hall and calling on if aldermen to fire Weeks. $700,000 Debt Reduced to $73,000 A&T Clears Deficit By David Puryear Staff Writer ■If Pi '-'i ■■ ^ 'Mi Sialt I'htiiii Hy OI4U111111 Wittiest Grad Chancellor Lewis Dowdy of A&T State University in Greensboro said this week that the amount of overdue bills owed by the school had been reduced since April from $700,000 to “about $73,000”. Dowdy reported the progress in straig htening out he financial tangle during a meeting Wednesday with a special budget advisory task force appointed by the A&T board of trustees. In an interview with the Chronicle Monday Dowdy denied that the school had had a “deficit” of $700,000. “It was not a deficit,” said the chancellor, “It was $700,000 in unpaid bills.” Dowdy said the overdue accounts were entirely the result of spending Incurred in federally funded research projects. ington to lyat WSSU Tracy Graham, was voted the “wittiest" of the graduating class of Mini Skool on Polo Road last week. Tracy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Graham of Harpers Ferry Road. Dowdy said that “leadership” in university financial matters had allowed the bills to mount up from as far back as August 1979. He refused to discuss the role of the former vice chancellor for fiscal affairs, Plummer Alston of Winston-Salem, in the events which led to the discovery by the state auditor of the unpaid accounts and other accounting errors. Dowdy said he had been advised against mentioning Alston by the state attorney general's office. Alston was fired by Dowdy in April after a state auditor’s report declared the school’s financial records “essentially inauditable.” Alston is appealing his dismissal to the general administration of the University of North Carolina system and refuses to comment publicly on the matter. Both Dowdy and Dr. Quiester Craig, recently appointed acting vice chancellor for fiscal affairs, said A&T’s unpaid accounts had been reduced by “acceler ating the process” of acquiring funds from the federal government. Dowdy and Craig blamedA&T’s fiscal problems on the rapid growth of the school during the last decade, a period which “the size and variety of (federal) grants coming to the university grew tremendously,” in Craig’s words. “The number of personnel available Craig See Page 9 Salem State Chancellor H. ovington has his name be from a list of ididates for a : newly form- rtment of 1 in 1, D.C. n made the* iiciit during ly meeting of af trustees of lune 8. lared statement Covington said, “1 have O’Brien (DOE personnel director) to ny name from the slate of candidates ideration. While recognizing the profes- irtunities such a position would afford, 1 a him my deep sense of committment to Silt Buildup May Close Winston Lake By John W. Templeton Staff Writer Covington A decades-long buildup of mud and silt in Winston Lake threatens to close the recreational spot unless action is taken in the near future. According to long-time observers of the lake, its depth has gone from 25 feet to four feet in spots. City officials candidly admit that they do not know how they can save the lake. “We haven’t found a very effective way,” said Joe Hi Berrier, assistant city manager for operations. The city once dredged a small buildup of silt from the Salem Lake, but Berrier says that process would not work on Winston Lake. See Page 2 “In this case, the whole lake is silted up,” added Berrier. “That becomes a much more difficult job.” The buildup has been caused in part by extensive erosion from developments north of the lake in the past 20 years. The dam which created the lake has also tended to hold silt in the lake bed. “It all started with the golf course,” said George Booie, a 6-year member of the city recreation commission and fishing enthusiast. ‘ ‘Then the year they buiit the Butterfield section, there was a runoff, and then up by the fire station (No. 12) the watershed was destroyed.” Dirt from those developments fell into the streams leading into the lake. The velocity of the streams carried the mud along, although the streams are now getting clogged. “When it hits the lake, the water loses speed,” said Berrier. “Then the dirt starts dropping to the bottom.” An example of the kind of erosion which can take place at times sits just above Frazier or Brushy Fork Creek; which passes below the Castleshire Woods subdivision before going into the Winston Lake golf course. A federal court injunction stopped the development of a 150-unit subsidized apartment complex just south of the creek.At that point, the hill leading from the creek had cleared of trees and a 45 degree cut made in its side to accomodate water pipes. Above it, a half-mile of land sits barren. “It was left in areal mess,” says Grover McPherson of the local office of the Soil Conservation Service. “We’re working with HUD and the erosion control people to help make a plan for stabilizing the site.” Joe White, long-time city recreation director, now retired, said, “This has happened in a lot of cities when development came in and washed a lot of dirt. White said silt buildup “was a problem even when we opened it up for fishing in 1956. 1 proposed one time to drain the lake, haul all the silt out and build a lake above See Page 2 Western Electric Denies Mass Firings of Blacks By Donna Oldham Staff Writer Photo BjrSftiiUaa Miss North Carolina ke reigns as Miss North Carolina of the Youth Department of the True Vine Pentacostal Holiness sinning the pageant held at Wake Forest University last Saturday. Miss Drake, center, attends Ml. ! Church and is the daughter of Mrs. Barbara Drake. More on page 22. ocation Money for Evictees By David Puryear Staff Writer lie works committee of the Board of Aldermen proved a proposal which would allow the city up to $500 in moving expenses to families S’ vacate substandard housing in community ifent (CD) areas. Iposal will now go before a public hearing July 'posed policy would set aside $55,000 of the [tingency funds to assist families and indivi- live in housing found to be unfit for human »>■ If the family had lived in the home for more ^2ys prior to the date on which the board of “ordered the structure demolished or vacated the family would be eligible for assistance, [ds would also be available to businesses in CD 'rd to move because of code enforcement, would be eligible for amounts ranging from $2500 to $10,000 to relocate, if they were in a building also used as a dwelling which was declared uninhabit able. In areas of the city where landlords most commonly refuse to repair dwellings which don’t conform to the building code, reaction was generally favorable. “1 think it will help quite a bit,” said Annabell Hamlin, president of the Watkins Street Neighborhood Association. “We’ve had people to be put out on account of code enforcement with just 30 days notice and their rent was paid up.” But city CD officials said they do not anticipate many cases of dislocation which will require payment from the proposed fund. “This policy would only be applicable in the CD areas and there are very few houses in the demolition category in the CD areas,” said Herman Disher, housing supervisor for the city CD department. “CD areas are Alleged mass firings of black employees at the North Carolina Works of Western Electric Corp., because of falsification of job applications are untrue , according to local officials, “We have been employ ing a number of people in the past 18 months and in the process we have termi nated some people for falsi fication but the idea of a “mass firing of black em ployees” is ridiculous, said Jack Childs, general mana ger of the N.C. Works of Western Electric. Satisfies released to the Chronicle indicate that 10 people were fired due to falsification of job applica tions, according to Jeri Gibson, human resources manager for the works. She also called the term “mass firing”, “excess ive.”. “In the last 18 mnths, we have hired in excess of 2500 people, the 10 that were fired I don’t think is out of proportion of the number hired,’ she said, adding that the 10 fired were all black. is 24.8 percent. “We are employing more minorities than are avail able,” said Ms. Gibson who added that WE has been hiring in the 30-35 percent area of minorities. Childs said that when perspecitve employees fill out job applications there is a little box that asks if the person has ever been con victed of a felony. “We don’t tell them what to put down on the application. When they mark “no” on the applica tion and we do a back ground check and find out that they do have a record Childs added, “when other than.traffic violations, someone falsifies their job then we have no choice but applications, whether they to terminate their employ- are black, white, green or ment, ’ ’ he said. pink, they are terminated. ’ ’ Schools Seek Help ForSummerT uition By David Puryear Staff Writer See Page 2 Ms. Gibson said that over the past 18 months the availability is 22 percent minority, and the utilization Inside the Cliryyqicle Editorials... .... page 4 Letters .... pageS Social Whirl .. page 6,7 Lifestyles.. .. page 8,9 Vibes page 10,11 Sports ... page 13 Church . .. page 20 Obituaries.. ...page 21 Food page 22, 23 Classified. .. .. . page 24 It’s Not Too Late To Subscribe... 722-8628 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school officials are looking for scholarship money from the community to pay the tuition of low- income students who can not afford to attend sum mer school. According to C. Douglas Carter, summer school dir ector, 10 scholarships would take care of all (the requests) I have right Carter said he had solici ted support from several local civic groups, with the Twin City Kiwanis so far the only club to come through with a commitment to help out. Tuitions to attend the various summer school pro grams range from $45 to $100 per pupil for the six-week terms. The school system offers everything from fine arts to basic remedial courses during the summer. Local school board policy requires the .‘-■immer school program to operate on the funds it brings in from tuition, without support from general school funds, according to Carter. Thus, he said, tuitions cannot be waived for needy students unless scholarship money is “in hand.” One possible source of tuition assistance for sum mer school students is the Forsyth County Depart ment of Social Services, through the Assistance for Families with Dependent Children program. “We do include those children who need special assistance for summer school tuition,” said Mitzie Reavis, AFDC administra tive supervisor. “Our board approves the school and then any children who need to attend summer school in order to pass a grade apply at the school. See Page 2
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