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m Winsi ^ *f I l h* ^jp VOL. VI NO. 43 I s.l? S. NO. ()6 City Gets First Black PoliceMajor Redd and Morris A. Rober tson were promoted to the rank of major Tuesday and pjjfe - I gS placed in charge of bureaus " Hp as part of Chief Lu Powell's ;-^a| reorganization of the depar- ' w 1 structure. Redd is the first M black major in the depart- MHHt JEW ment s history. ^ n n Redd and Robertson will KJt u ^au join Major Joseph Masten th<> n.imhM nf -supervisorsas a triumverate of bureau reporting directly to the chiefs who will manage the chiefs office, day-to-day operations of the department and reduce See Page 2 Superintendent To Maintain Principal Ratio By David Pur year Staff Writer School Superintendent Dr. James Adams said this 9 week the percentage of black principals in the city-county school system would not decrease as a result of his appointments of fivf new principals, two pf whom will rpnloro k1*/?lrc 1 ft V|/?V?VV / "The ratio will stay at least the same," said Adams, responding to questions after Monday's school board i meeting. Adams emphasized, however, that he would not "be bound by mathematical formulas." Adams will soon make permanent appointments to fill the top spots at Paisley and Anderson High Schools, Jefferson Junior High, and Easton Intermediate. He will also make a temporary appointment to fill the post at South Fork Elementary while the current principal there, Nancy Braswell, serves a one-year assistantship with the state department of public instruction. The opening at Anderson came when Adams recommended to the board that Robert Brower be moved from there to the principalship at Walkertown Junior High. That change, coupled with the retirement of Melvin Scales as Paisley principal, would leave Kennedy High School's Benjamin Warren as the only black principal in the system above the junior high level. In all, 14 of the 63 principals in the system during the last school year, or 22 per cent, were black. However, Adams said he felt he had done a good job in the past in appointing blacks to principalships. "We have done a good job in the past, but we need to Ar\ m' ' eaiH A /tame ' '\A/a am fminn ~ uv I IVI V, aoiw riuuiiij. ?T V aiv li Jlllg IU gU Illglld lliail we are." Out of the nearly 60 applicants for the five principalships, "about seven" are black according to ^ Sec pane 15 Shapes Of' Performing a *1>ng and dance during graduation exercis Childhood (enter are, from left, Keona Bryant, Wtfliai kindergarteners and 11 first graders took part in the comrm ^ tional speeches, and hcardsremarks f row-Mrs. Maurice 1. PI A president, in honor of the occasion. ? . 7 . "Serving the Wmston-~Salem >>'10 \\ |NS|()N-S\I 1AI. Vt" R Starting Early wuth of babes cotrfes the message from | 8 blacks in Wrightsville,Ga., where a near-majority of jj black residents have been excluded from the political i |? progress. Demonstrations which have dragged on for | 8 months have produced a Justice Department in- $ m vestigation and commitments for black hiring in I county government. Leaders of the crusade have |j |j vowed to continue. More on page 2. YMCA Leader To Speak The annual dinner of the Pattersoh Avenue YMCA Hg'Jfl will feature a black airline executive who heads the na- ^Jfl tional council of YMCAs BP and a tribute to 69 Century M Club members. ^ J| James PI in ton Richard Glover, executive director, announced that the dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 in the Benton Convention Center with James O. Plinton, vice president of Eastern Airlines as speaker. Plinton heads the^Rgtfcket development efforts for Eastern Airlines. He was the first black to become a corporate officer of a major airline in 1971 when Eastern named him vice president. For 14 years, he had served as an executive of Trans World Airlines. An early black air pioneer, Plinton was a flight instruct tor for the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the all-black unit known as the Aft*>r W/r*r-M \\>n~ it . wp. . . > > i >VII . 1 1IIVI " V/l 1U T ' CI I l|. III." helped reorganize Equador's national airline and established an air service on Haiti before returning stateside. Sharing the spotlight with Plinton will be the 69^Y MCA members who have donated $100 or more during the past year. Glover said new board members will also be elected during the annual membership meeting. ' Tickets can be obtained at the YMCA or from any board member. I ' A 4 j ? ^ Photo Bv Santana 77ze Future es Sunday at the Winston-Salem State University Early 77 Holfis, Christopher Reed and Sessie Vickers. Sixteen encement. 77?e young graduates recited poetry and inspiraJackson, center director and Mrs. Mosi Helton-Brown, ?xn Chjr Community Since"! 9 74"" Saturday, June 21, 1980 ' We 're Going T< NAACP By Donna Oldham Stall M ritcr Members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopled (NAACP) said during a meeting Monday niglu that they will finalize plans Thursday for possible boycotts and pickets in the city that will include City Hall, the ABC stores and the Winston-Salem Transit Authority. The meeting was held at ihe Greater United Progressive Baptist Church on 11th Street and Jackson Avenue. Patrick Hairston, president of the local branch said that the Thursday meeting will be the deciding factor in what type of boycott or pickett, when and how long. "It's a matter of finalizing our strategy on Thursday night. We're going through wiA it and will be successful. Winston-Salem is the^iggest discriminator," he said. The NAACP called for the possibility of a picket ?following the transfer of local ABC administrator Bert Cabbies Walk Out Over Pay By John W. Templeton Angry stormed out of City Hall and?I refused to drive from late Monday night until Tues day afternoon after the Board of Aldermen only approved part of a rate increase.^ I W.R. Clayton, manager 9 H Blue Inc., said the drivers went back 9 19 to work at about 3 p.m. Ttfesd^. "They had shut down last night before I ^at even got back to the office," he said just after the return to work. "They struck back in the only way they know how," - Clayton said of the men, _. , . , . By Donna Ola who were angry that the ? rr ... . ?r . . Staff Wrm aldermen only back 50 per cent of a rate increase, enough to cover gas costs, Jessie Barrett has her o but not enough to provide dealing with young peopl them with a pay raise. them as she would her owi About three dozen That may be why Mr See Page 3 referred to as i'Nanna" b liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiNiiiiiiHdiiNiHiiniiiiiMiiL children in Northampton, I Inside the development off ButterfieU ^ ? Last Saturday, Mrs. Chronicle daughter and four other ne | sored a cook-out for the Editorials page 4 young people. As she sat Naomi C. McLean page 5 and watched hamburgers Social Whirl page 6 being devoured she reflec Profile page 7 "Nanna." Vibes page 8 "Children need someth Dottie Butler. . . . page 9 cook-out to let them know s< | Sports page 13 I don't know some of these Church page 13 them all, they're all my bab Classifieds page 18 as she surveyed a yard full hood. . page 16 from stroller to high school > * -r i a Nanna said that her lo> It s Not Too Late .... . . children has been going c To Subscribe... .Tm from winston-Salem 722*8628 New Haven, Conn., and ha Recruit Tops Navy'Class Seaman Recruit Wanda I . Cockcrham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. l.cc L;. Cockcrham, 2930 Cipkfis Ct., Winston-Salem, was recently named top recruit of her 80-woman company at the Naval Training Center, Orlando, Ma. She was honored lor her excellent military bearing, attention to dut>, leadership and overall outstanding performance during eight j weeks of basic naval indoctrination. "1 joined the ( Navy to gain work experience," she said. Cockerham will attend radioman school at San Diego, Calif. She is shown above with Rear Admiral Hugh A. Benton, director, Total Force Management Control and Analysis Division. Rear Adm. Benton, speaker at Cockerham's graduation ceremony, is demonstrating the use of a sextant. Mariners us<^the ^exlant to locate their position at sea oqicle ) 2()1 20 panics ihis ssock hrough With It' to Picket Weeks, to the city recreaton department after the ABC board had called for his dismissal. Weeks had been accused of not reporting surplus liquor shipments and mismanaging local ABC stores. I The NAACP paralleled the Weeks case with that of a former recreation department employee Rodney Sumler, who was fired from the department for using a city discount to purchase a television set for his own personal use. I Hairston also noted that even thouah Weeks was transferred to the recreation department, he continues to draw his salary of $28,000 and will do so for the next 16 months. "We're going to organize pickets to picket City Hall and we're also organizing a campaign to stop riding the buses, and boycott the liquor stores.We're going to hit the city hard," said Hairston. He continued, "The city that we pay taxes to treats black people like aliens. Anytime there's an upper level position open> bla.cks are either-over qualified or binder See page 15 " ~~? ? NSv v., pL ??By* . W"~ y FMp Sl,ltt flu III) to I ma" Barrett With some of her kids. all Her 'Nanna fham here to live. Even in Connecticut, children *r would always play in my yard and hang around,'* she said, wn method of' "Ever since I grew up to be lady, I've e...she treats been interested in children and children , know that I care. I'm disabled with s. Barrett is s diabetes and 1 sit here and care for the y most of the children and watch out for them." a Turnkey III Mrs. Barrett said that often, the 1 Drive. children-watch out for her?"When my Barrett, her daughter's not here, they'll come knock lighbors spon- on door am* see ^ I m bright, even mmmunitv'c these big old boys." she laushed. on her porch She said that her success with young and hotdogs People is just common sense, ted on being 4'These children mind so good, they give me respect. You can't approach a ling like this child by hollering at them or cursing at smeone care&. them. We don't want the devil to get in kids, but I love our children," she said, ies," she said She added that since moving into of youngsters Northampton a year ago, she has l# encouraged many teenagers to accom/e affair with pany her to church, Greater United >n for years. Progressive Baptist Church. but lived in When the Golden Boys and Gigolos ive come back 6 \ f i v. i it < AT ? Cockerfiam and Adm. 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