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Page 2-The Chronicle. Saturday, October 11, 1980 Trade St. Ope By Art Blue and move to other locaStaff Writer - tions. What was built to be something of beauty and to Work?has been com- increase trade in the pleted and the former Trade downtbwn area became a Street Mall between 4th and menacing eyesore and 5th streets is once again literally drove shoppers open to traffic. away. Stores in the area had ex- After workmen comperienced a growing decline pleted the renovation this in business after the mall week and traffic once again' was built in 1970. Con- was able to utilize the street, structed to enhance the merchants quickly noticed a downtown area, the Trade positive development in the Street Mall soon became a area. "It's a little early to haven for drunks and get a true feeling of what? derelicts and abandoned the change is going to do," buildings were considered said Fletcher Grubbs, fire hazards. Shoppers com- manager of Stanley Shoes, * plained about being har- adding, "It looks good and rassed by beggars and winos it looks bright. I think it ? and business for merchants will benefit us and began to decrease, forcing downtown in general." several to close their stores Albert Doleman, B&C Survey? ones don't. When times get hard, our dollars could make the difference just like our votes have made the difference in some elections. Some companies ^ulvertsse and market their stuff as if there weren't not notice?" said a black senior employee of a federal agency. Of the 150 persons interviewed, 111 said most companies had changed for the better over 15 years ago (since 1965) but 61 said that most companies ^seem to be slipping back, going backwards since 1975, five years ago. "There is less evident sensitivity, less affirmative action, fewer overtures to blacks, less indication ithat companies are trying," said a black real estate practioner. Said a black attorney: "a big problem is that top white executives still don't know blacks on a one-to-one personal basis. It would pay dividends for white business people if they got their people and black community .leaders together, just a talk, 'progress' and to develop ideas about what would take to make progress." A black congressional assistant confided:"quite a few of these big companies lobby like hell against certain programs that blacks see as helping them. They never come around lobbying for substitute programs that are aimed at solving the big problems as.perceived by blacks. It's as if they were saying, so what! That's why many blacks are saying, So what! A black homemaker, formerly a community college instructor, criticized American corporations "who play footsie with South Africa." She said, "Here is agovernment that officially britalizes its country's black citizens and officially endores racial discrimination, and we've sot companies that : insult" black Americans by dealing with that country. You know, Europe's not the only 'old country'; Africa is our (black people's) old country. Some of these companies just don't care for anything" exceptdollars, even if some of the dollars end up in the fight against freedom and human rights." Another black homemaker, who works as a "substitute teacher," said: "Some companies try their best to sell to black products, cosmetics, hair products, and the like unless, of course, 'they're manufactured by some of the Johnny-come-lately big white name band outfits." A black airlines employee summarized: "Things are bad. They're not going to get better without business and industry doing its part. If things don't get better soon for blacks, it will affect business in a big way. This country can't afford widespread racial conflict at the same time everybody is suffering economically. They used to talk about long hot summers. We coilld very well be into a long hot decade." A black agency executive said: "Business must move on its own initiative rather then being forced into it. It ought to stop its little piddling token activity and put out some real honest-to-goodness effort. It'll take some ingenuity. American business is capable of it...if it wants to ." Then, as if echoing the dire prediction of "a long hot decade," he added:"The crisis isn't going away. It isn't going to get better by itself. Time won't help. It'll probably have to get better by itself. Time won't help. It'll probably have to get horribly worse before something'll be done to make it significantly better. V iffl * j '^jf *"j: fligM -? ?ga^. t.Jl., |f 1 - -; ^ - .-*. Pboio by A. my* ns To Traffic manager of Gates Hat Shop was closed to build the immediately noticed an in- mall.&44I think the renovacrease in walk-in business at tion ill bring in more his store. "I see new faces business and merchants/' already and the traffic in- he added. stated. parking spaces in the block Other merchants and with one-hour free parking shoppers questioned ex- and a small parking lot next pressed similar positive to the Odd Fellow's Lodge comments, mostly concern- building with 16 metered ing the absence of the usual parking spaces, winos and others. With the opening of the One expression of faith in street, many of the now the Trade Street's 4tfaceempty shops and buildings lift" is the fact that the are expected to be occupied world headquarters for the in the near future. International Order of Odd David Ittermann, ex- Fellows will be located in its ecutive director of the former building near the Greater Downtown middle of the block. Association, said, 44We feel Renovation of the building it is the best thing that's is expected to commence happened since the street soon. tlMtHUNIIMIIIIIUIIIIIIMININHUNMIIIIMIIINIIHMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHUIIIIIIIItllHIINNIIIIUIINN Z7? /-* D/trt/i / 1 f KJUl / Ugt ? In the long run, business will be the loser if it doesn't make some major moves." A. black construction laborer said it another way: "The guys on the block most of them aren't working ngirr now^ they say tilings are roilgTi affu nobody cares. They're talking like there's going to be trouble. Ever hear about the fire next time? The next time's almost here. And if things don't get much better around here (on the job), I'll be out there with them." A black department store clerk said that she recently heard her college student son say that "if it ever gets to be all-out war between the blacks and whites in South Africa, things will start warming up over here. 1 hope not. I've got some white friends. 1 know some white folks are trying." She paused and then continued:"A few of them are all right. Quite a few of them are racist as they ever were." B & C also heard many examples of stalemated progress. Until last year, most middle class blacks would cite progress since the "old days" the need for patience and perseverance, and tfie belief that "it will take time" but "the timeNjyill come," admittedly a lone time from rommpntc mc w uwitlij %KJ suggest that "the time (for complete intergration, total desegration) will never come" and "we're slipping back." Commented a Human Relations Commission staff member, black: "Human relations is a bad word now. Someb9dy said last week that human relations See Page 19 kfifr THUMPIN' 13' IS GETTING BIGGER EVi THANKS TO YO Lowe From Page l ^ , v, WW- S.| 47 ,, Mrs. Lowe in the public SlMX 2 oz' schools of Raleigh and L J selected her to become one | J of the first black agents emploed full-time, and placed her in Wake County. > Several years later, she c ? 7 was selected to fill the first | Home Demonstration r^HB^ District Supervisor's posi- 3 oz> LaJSW tion. The next 25 years of Formula service were spent working 44D with home demonstration ?S2?i\5i agents in 27 countries. kjj^L" ____ In 1935 Mrs. Lowe met with eight other agents and established^ with Mrs. B_?^ Lowe contributing the first $5.00, "The Negro Home Demonstration Loan Fund for Girls." The first loan was granted in 1937. That fjJIIUlla | fund in 1966 was changed 44 to the Dazelle F. Lowe Loan 3 ?-2 Fund. In 1968 the Loan lj^ Fund became a scholarship fund, which the North Carolina Extension Home. makers Association, Inc., ???????^ promotes the Dazelle F. Lowe Scholarship Fund. Among her many honors Mrs. Lowe was the red- ki| pient of many awards and tpl JflHtl certificates too numerous to tL I mention, including the %. \ nHI Superior Service Award From the United States ^ 6 02. Department of Agriculture $ I 9 7 in 1954 for outstanding leadership to the people of ' rural North Carolina. "Y" ?H From Page I U iiimntoiHiutf immmiimmnMNiimini * way Shopping Center are 30 8 all possible sites," accor- $147 ding to Glover. _ I Nick Daves, president of ??????? the Metropolitan Board of ?-?1? the YMCA said that committe work is taking place now, and he and Glover irasiik^stfMK. .#?- i S|y B definate statements would \ j B be premature." 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