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Winston-Salem Cht'onicle
“Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974”
Vll NO. 18
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Saturday. December 27, 1980
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26 Pages This Week
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KKK Vows:
Gokhale
Womble
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‘We Will Not Back Down’
Suspicion
pomsOver
Firing Of
m Gentry
By Mari Wooden
Staff Writer
he chairman of the Winston-Salem Human Relations
mmission has asked a former employee of the Alcohol
lerage Control Commission to appear before the
iiJand answer questions about his dismissal.
ji.B.G. Gokhale, chairman of the HRC, suggested
Warren B. Brooks, a spokesman for Levi Gentry,
e former ABC employee, try to persuade Gentry to
le before the board or go to HRC director Herman
ridge to answer questions about his firing last sum-
ir, J. Ray Butler, another commission member,
loed Gokhale’s suggestion by saying, “There is a
ability that Gentry feels that he has been given the
•around. 1 see Brooks as an appealer...not as Gentry’s
torney,” Butler said adding, “I too would like to see
:trlrymperson..,a personality sometimes speaks louder
an the person himself.”
.arry. Womble, another board member, also told
ooks.whowas appearing in Gentry’s absence, that “he
ntry)” could rest assured that 1, as a member of the
man Relations Commission, will not be afraid to look
othe situation.”
'be statements issued by the commission seemed to
rase Brooks, who for the second time in one week, has
[senled what he called a “plea for justice,” to one of
city’s governing bodies. He appeared before the
lard of Aldermen earlier in the week.
Brooks’ appeal, which lasted nearly 45 minutes, was
Meted on three thing: (I) “The unjust firing of Levi
Miry.” (2) “The fact that Bert Weeks was not dealt
111 in a more severe manner,” and (3) “The fact that
thing had been done in response to charges that a store
■ assaulted Gentry and that a clerk and the same
inager of the threatened to kill Gentry.” Gokhale,
taking for the other commission members, promised to
ok into the situation.
In other business, the commission viewed a presenta-
about the handicapped by Daisy Foster of the
inslon-Salem Urban League. Following a film about
ndicapped persons, she talked briefly about the situa-
in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County area.
According to Mrs. Foster, there are approximately
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By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
The North Carolina Civil Liberties Union
will represent the New Empire Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan in their attempt to hold
a meeting/exhibit dealing with different
aspects of Klan culture at the main
branch of the Forstyh County Public
Library.
In a news conference held at the library
last week, Vernon Logan of Winston-
Salem National Director of the New
Empire Knights, told the press “every
group has a right to express themselves.
If people don’t want to come to the
exhibit or the meeting, they don’t have
to come.”
Charles F. Lambeth Jr., of Thomasville,
the Klan’s attorney said Monday that
the New Empire Knights were “securing
the right to hold a meeting of the Klan
traditions and origins under the Forsyth
County Library public policy.”
Lambeth said that as a cooperating
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Logan Challenges Hairston
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Following his news conference last
veek, Vernon Logan, National Direc
tor of the New Empire Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan, issued a challenge to
Patrick Hairston, president of the local
chapter of the NAACP.
“Fve tried to get Pat to debate me for
quite a while and he won’t do it. I’ve
tried challenges and even insults and
he still won’t debate me,” Logan said.
Hairston, when told of the challenge
said the he still refuses to debate
Logan.
“He (Logan) shouldn’t breathe the
same air that I breathe. He’s not
worthy of my debating him,” Hairston
said of the KKK member.
Logan said that he would like to
debate the NAACP head in public, but
would consent to sit down with
Hairston privately and discuss things.
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attorney with the NCCLU, he is making a
request of the Forsyth County Library
Board of Directors to have a meeting.
Past request have been denied. Lambeth
said that he has written library director
William H. Roberts III, but has received
no answer.
Roberts said Monday that he received a
letter from Lambeth stating the Klan’s
request.
' Roberts said however that before he
makes any decision, he has to talk with
County Manager H.L. “Pete” Jenkins,
and County Attorney, P. Eugene Price.
Logan calls the previous denials to his
requests to use the library “discrimi
nation.”
“They (the library board) are discrimi
nating against us because of the name.
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Naomi Jones, left, Pat Guinger, center, and Irene P. Hairston, right, wrap gifts to be given to patients at Reynolds
Health Center. See related story and photo on page 2.
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Christmas No Holiday
For Abused Children
Hamlin Says
Conspiracy
Behind Funding
By Mari Wooden
Staff Writer
Two of the three black trustees of the Arts Council,
Inc., of Winston-Salem have expressed reservations
about a grant of $3,000 given to the North Carolina
Shakespeare Festival (a High Point theatre group) in con
junction with the North Carolina School of the Arts for a
feasibility study to be done by Malcolm Morrison, Dean
of the School of Drama at NCSA.
The study would determine whether a professional
Black Theatre Company could survive in the city.
Trustee Larry Womble protested the funding by not
voting for the approval of the grant, during the board’s
meeting last Monday.
“I am concerned with the fact that white groups like
that (Shakespeare Festival) might try to take over what
black theatrical groups have been trying to do in the com
munity. It’s like they’re saying blacks are incapable of
having a theatre company without white support.”
Womble added that he was concerned about why Mor
rison wants to do the feasibility study now.
The second trustee Beatrice Covington, who said she
was also concerned about the fact that the Shakespeare
Festival and Malcolm may be taking away from the local
black theatre groups.”
Larry Hamlin, founder of the North Carolina Black
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By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
Although suspected cases of child abuse
and neglect reports received by county
social services departments decrease dur-
Child Abuse Is Up
In Forsyth County..
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Woodruff:Makes Me Mad
By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
®tl It just makes me angry because 1 know that our
people have worked for nothing for so many years
It'd now we even begrudge them drawing social
security and that just bothers me to no end. And to
that they’ve got no business with food stamps
lust makes me mad and I just want to go out and
Stab a few folks, but 1 can’t do that. But these kinds
at things, like we lease Knollwood Hall to a profit-
faking organization and health care foi the elderly is
"M a profit-making thing because they have got to
ave good attention and to give them good attention,
Pau vegot to have good employees to give it to them.
Sometimes you have to have one employee for
*''aiy five patients and 1 understand now that you
fay have one employee for 15, so this doesn’t work. I
mk that the county needed to keep that nursing
otiie and top operate it not as a profit making thing
u take care of those citizens of ours who belong to
ut. who built this county. Yet, we turn them over and
tay Well, you know, we’re through with you now.
you’re too old and I don’t like that.
Some of the other things that 1 have looked at and,
of course, in education, I call it “pushout” is the
dropping out of students from school. There’s
nothing there to interest them to keep them in school.
When 1 was a student, we may not have had
everything in the schools that we needed, but our
teachers loved us and that made a difference.
1 think that these teachers need to tell little children
when they begin in kindergarten that 1 love you, that
I’m your parent when you’re with me and we’re not
showing enough of that. When kids get to junior high
they’re ready to drop out of school because “so and
so told me that I was dumb” and that’s not nice, it
isn’t good and 1 think we need to take a look at
educating our children, and spend our time and
money on educating children. The building is fine. If
you just build the building out of cinder blocks with
four walls, a floor and a roof on it and put some
lights in it and some seats; I still think you can teach
children.
The building doesn’t have to be a beautiful
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ing December, according to a study
released last week by the Department of
Human Resources in Raleigh, child abuse
and neglect in Forsyth County has not
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TAKE THIS TEST
Are You A Child Abuser?
This test will help parents find out if they have
these same characteristics and problems. Any parent
who can answer yes or is not sure of the answer to
several of these questions, may have a tendency to be
a child abuser and should seek help before it’s too
late. Your county social services department can tell
you what help is available in your community.
—Were you abused as a child? (Abused children
often grow up to be abusive parents.)
-Do you have heavy child caring responsibilities?
-Do you have a lack of parenting knowledge and
feel frustrated about your child’s behavior?
—Do you have an inadequate income, or are you
unemployed and having trouble finding a job?
-Do you feel isolated from friends and relatives
and do you blame this on your child?
—Do you feel you have a drug or alcohol problem?
-Do you have marital problems which include
loud and abusive talk between you and your spouse
or physical abuse?
-Do you believe that severe discipline of your child
is acceptable?
-Do you feel confused about your sexual feelings
toward your child?
-Do you feel your place of residence is too small
or of insufficient quality to meet the basic needs of
your family?
Volunteers Sought
For Soup Kitchen
By Mari Wooden
Staff Writer
Volunteers are being
sought to work in a “soup
kitchen,” sponsored by the
Crisis Control Ministry.
The kitchen is expected to
open sometime during the
first of January.
According to the Rev.
Michael Bradshaw,
Associate Director at Crisis
Control, “there is a good
possibility of housing the
project on the corner of
Northwest Boulevard and
Patterson Avenue, in a
building formerly occupied
by the “Soul Food
Restaurant.” He added that
businesses in the immediate
area seem to support the
idea of a soup kitchen. “We
talked with other businesses
located in the area and they
won’t be offended by the
soup kitchen’s presenpe,”
Bradshaw said.
“Letters are being sent to
the 150 churches in the city
who support Crisis Control
for donations and
volunteers and the response
so far has been good. We
have received donations of
some freezers for food
storage and several grocery
stores have indicated that
they were interested in
donating food or money.
We are also asking six chur
ches to donate a folding
table and chairs,” he said,
adding that other major
needs of the kitchen include
. stoves, large cooking pots,
utensils and a commercial
dishwasher.
Bradshaw said that the
kitchen, if everything goes
according to plan and
enough items are donated,
would serve approximately
60-70 people seven days a
week with hours of 10 a.m.
to noon or II a.m. to 1 p.m.
“There will be no charge
for meals, but a donation
plate will be available for
those who wish to con
tribute,” he said, continu
ing, “We would like to have
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