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Burkins Claim
Bv Donna Oldham
Staff Writer ?
Forsyth County District Attorney Donald K. Tisdale
said this week that he will contest an attempt by former
assistant DA V. Jean Burkins to collect unemployment
benefits. Tisdale also said that an incident involving two
unpaid traffic tickets, which lead to Ms. Burkins*
dismissal in July was not the only reason that he fired
her.
"I don't feel that she's qualified to draw unemployment.
I might have my own philosophy and it may have
" nothing to do with if they'll allow it or not. Of course, it
would be up to the panel," Tisdale continued, "My own
"philosophy is that she holds a law license and she can
practice law."
Burkins, who filed on Nov. 20, two weeks after she was
defeated in her bid for a District Court judgeship and
four months after she was fired from her assistant DA's
job, said Tuesday that she had no comment about the
. matter.
When asked by the Chronicle if Jier decision to file for
unemployment benefits meant that she was planning to
stay in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County area, Burkins
again replied with, "1 have no comment."
Burkins was fired from her position July 16, after it was
discovered that she had removed two of hec own cases involving
unpaid parking tickets before the cases could be
put on the District Court calendar and tried.
Although, at the time she was dismissed for the'incident,
District Attorney Donald K. Tisdale said that the
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Willette Thompson of Winston-Salem, left, is a member
of the Jack Tale Players at Ferrum College. Shown with
her are Jennifer Crane of McLean, Va., and Margaret
Walker of Vichita, Kan.
Native Sings With
?Jack Tale Players
Ferrum, Va. ? Willette during that time the group
Thompson has been has given more than 500
selected as a member of performances from New
Ferrum College's "Jack York City to New Orleans
Tale Players," a nationally to California. In 1978 they
. recognized touring were selected by the USO
children's theatre group (United Service Organizawhich
presents programs tion) to tour Veterans Adbased
upon the folklore and .ministration Hospitals
music of the Blue Ridge around the country and are
mountain area. now a permanent USO
Willette is the daughter touring company,
of Mr. and Mrs. Willie E. Willette was one of eight
Thompson of Winston- members of the Jack Tale
Salem, N.C. This is her Players who toured VA
third year with the 11- hospitals in West Virginia,
member drama group Pennsylvania and
which will perform Washington, D.C., during
throughout Virginia and thaThanksgiving holidays,
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A Trap!
Black Su
... A disturbing pattern ot rcsegregation is
*rkhin many of the nation's suburbs after a
rapid black suburbanization, says Rutgers
Professor Thomas A. Clarke an urban p
geographer.
Clark is the author of "Blacks in Suburbs:
Perspective," part of a three-year project b
University's Center for Urban Policy Resear
the movement of blacks from the cities to th<
The project is believed to be the most thorc
ment to date of the black middle-class m
study while a forthcoming book by proje
Robert r"W. Lake covers race and home-1
perience. The third stage of the study look
units.
Acording to Clark, who teaches at
University's Livingston College in additii
research duties, black migration to the si
spawned residential patterns that resemble t
discrimination which occurred in the central <
"We are now at a real turning point," (
"Will we have suburban ghettoes? Will we con
create in the suburbs the central city patterr
and ethnic segregation?"
Clark explained that even though the bla<
moving to suburbia are predominantly mil
many have, on a nationwide scale, been ste<
older and poorer sections of suburban comm
the older ring of suburbia that surrounds i
cities. His study found, for example, that 42
all suburban black families reside in housing t
1950.
Hence, new black suburbanites share neig
with poorer blacks, often descendants of
migrated from rural areas to work for the sut
exurban upper class, Clark said. The white m
he added, tends to reside apart from its black c
in the kind of neighborhoods that fit the des
the ideal suburb ? one-family housing, tree-li
and expansive lawns.
Furthermore, the racial home-buying pattei
of these older suburban areas is predominant
black, or black to black. From 1967 to 1971, fc
65 percent of the housing sold in certain of
was sold to blacks. Twenty-two percent of
passed hands from whites to blacks, and 43 pei
houses were purchased by blacks From blacks
Even worse, Clark said, this trend toward
tion has surfaced when the number of blacks
the suburbs, 4.6 million, is still minuscule i
pared to the number of wjiites, 77.2 million,
approximately 24.5 million blacks in America
13.5 million live in cities while 6.4 million resi
areas.
Over 90 percent of the increase in the nati
suburban population between 1970 and 1978
migration, Clark determined. Between 1960 ar
number of suburban blacks increased by 1.9 n
percent), while the proportion of all blacks v
in the suburbs increased by a mere 4.2 perce
same period, his study showed.
That wide disparity initially raised severa
about the scale, pace, substance and geograp
suburbanization in the last two decades and
led to the center's project. Lake and Clark
study by asking, "Why in the mid-1970s \.
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?ugh assessigration
to d.. i/..; ?
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pari of the S/ajj
ct director
buying ex- In a recent new release
s at rental from the North Carolina
Employment Security Comthe
State mission the state's
on to his unemployment rate dropiburbs
has ped for the third straight
he housing month. In the Greensboro,
:ities. Winston-Salem and High
~lark said. Point areas, the rate retinue
to re- mained the same at six peris
of racial cent.
Grover "T>et??r manaopr
:k families of the local ESC office said
ddle class, the "although the black
;red to the unemployment rate was
unities and higher in Winston-Salem at
the central 8.2 percent he felt that there
percent of had been no drastic changes
milt before this year." v
hborhoods
those who Mazie Woodru
mrban and
iddle class, X.T^.4. x*
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cription of
ined streets By Dc
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rn in many
ly white to The Winston-Salem CI
)r example, ed former Forsyth Coin
these areas Woodruff about what sh
the houses disappointments of her I
rcent of the Mrs. Woodruff, a Dei
bid for a second term it
resegrega- tion. She was the corn
residing in famale commissioner,
when com- Mrs. Woodruff waj
, There are Oldham th#? rhrnnirU*c
t, of whom Chronicle-Were you \
ide in rural county commissioner?
Woodruff-In a Sense
ional black don't think we got eno
was due to constantly putting out fi
id 1977, the and, of course, these are
lillion (71.8 public doesn't know abo
yho resided One of the things tha
nt over the took almost three years t<
reevaluation of every sin
1 questions the county. We threw ou
hy of black that were there and got s
I ultimately so when you applied for
began their decent to look at.
- after the
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By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
441 was fighting for a program
with very little inter
nal and community support,"
said Dorothy
Graham-Wheeler of her
resignation last week as
director of the Urban Arts
program of the Arts Council,
Inc.
rviy resignation was a surprise
because 1 was supposed
to report back to work
on Dec. I, after being out
for three months. I guess
they weren't prepared for
it," said Mrs. Grahamr
Wheeler, who added that
the growing frustration
with the Arts Council, its
board of trustees and lack
of funds for her program
were also reasons for her
resignation.
In a release announcing
nation
ights legislation proscribing
, housing and jobs and with
the black middle class - had
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iployment
instant
Wheiv asked why he felt
that the rate of unemployment
remains higher forblacks
he stated that "in addition
to the discrimination
practices of some
t ? t ?
employers, oiacK joo applicants
lacked much of the
necessary training that
would enable them to compete
for many positions, he
said adding that some
potential employers felt uncomfortable
with some of
the cultural differences
within the black race."
Prospects for future
decline in black unemploy-'
ment looked good in the
area of training," Teeter
stated.
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mna Oldham
iff Writer
hronicle last week interviewity
Commissioner Mazie S.
te deemed the highlights and
rour years on the board,
mocrat, was defeated in her
i last month's general elecity's
first and only black,
s interviewed by Donna
city editor.
leased with your tenure as a
I was pleased with it, but I
ugh done because we were
res left by a previous board
the kinds of things that the
>ut.
t we did while in office, it
:> get it done though, was the
gle employee that we had ih
it the old application blanks
ome new application blanks
a job you'd have something
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lenis Lead
jsignation
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broaden the base of arts
support for numerous peoF
P'e 'n l^e community; parp
ticularly minority and
ethnic groups.'*
r^7 *n an 'nlerv*ew earlier in
the week, Mrs. Graham
' Wheeler echoed Rhodes'
statements regarding her
health, adding '*1 quit for a
lot of
A She said that she had
Dorothy Graham-Wheeler been absent from her job
due to a back ailment,
Mrs. Graham-Wheeler's which she described as a
resignation, Arts Council problem with a cervical disc
executive director Milton and a pinched nerve in her
Rhodes stated that 44Mrs. neck.
Graham-Wheeler's health 441 am under a doctor's
problems prevent her from care and 1 don't have any
continuing her work with idea when I would have
the council." been able to return to work;
The release also stated that is the main reason that
that since Mrs. Graham- 1 resigned," Mrs. GrahamWheeler
joined the Arts Wheeler said, adding that
Council staff in February of she was also frustrated with
1977, "she has been in- the lack of funds that her
strumental in continuing to page 2
I Public Forum |
The local branch of the NAACP will sponsor a ?j
"Public Forum" at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Mon- ?
S day, December 15 at 7:30 p.m. The purpose of this g
Ji forum is for the discussion and development of an sj
? "AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTIES,'so that the local ?
$ branch of the NAACP might better know how to ?
?
serve tne community in this present decade. ?
$ Issues that concern all the citizens of the community
will be addressed and stratigies for confronting the *?
S; problems that plague blacks will begin to be for- ?
mulated at this meeting. ?"
P "With forty-seven per cent of all black youth and
igj young adults unemployed, and with the retreat form 8
ifi; affirmative action; with the continued deterioration
of the families, and with the call for anti-busing g
| measures in Congress; with the resurgernce of racism g
:! ; and classism, and with the denial of justice under the
law; we are in need of such a 14Public Forum.44 Now jjj*
igj is the time for us to redefine our dreams and goals,44 ?
g said NAACP president Patrick Hairston. ?
Now is the time for us to regroup and rediscover
| Dur resources. Now is the time to come together, to :?
J pray together, to work together for the common
| good! None of us can afford to play the ostrich, we $1
g can no longer act as if our problems will be solved by g
;! : others or will simply go away! If possible progress is :?
to be made for the citizens of our community, then jig
8 we are the one whol will have to bring it about!,44
| Hariston added.
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"We were constantly putting out fires**...
Right now, we're still in the process of rewriting
the personnel manual. Mind you, we started this the
first year we were there, and it still isn't all finished.
But we did get ail of the personnel reclassified. I have
constantly seen in my lifetime, people who go to
work for the government as a janitor or maid and
they retire some 30 years hence as a maid or janitor
still. So, this is one of the things I had certainly looked
at real hard and we worked on it real hard. All of
the commissioners worked together on that.
Of course, we had to juggle around our personnel
department so that we would have a 'personnel
department to vy^rk with i think ftv g "
pretty good personnel department; wt ^ i ?-r
such a good one before then but, it's better. Beverly
Murrell (a former personnel officer for the county,
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