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With the unexpected February thaw an icy lemonade
Corn Dog in Hanes Mall. The 17-year-old Parklana
to study computer science. Voted Miss Congeniality
she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Lee Kirk man of
Co- Worker Says...
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By Donna Oldham job descriptions," said m(
Staff Writer Tuesday that the super- vie
visor's accusations were bii
A licensed practical nurse "lies."
who worked wfltrthe seven Linda Roane, who work- ed
women who were fired ed at both Baptist Hospital Ai
from their'jobs at Amos - and Amos Cottage on and lift
^Cottage?Rehabilitation?off for four ypans, respond- w<
Hospital ,because their ed to a story in last week's so
supefrtmrt; claimed that Chronicle about the seven w<
"they didn't follow their women who were fired after Tl
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Black Ownership
Meeting Scheduled
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The Committee to Pro- mission to promote black ,
mote Black Ownership will ownership in the city and ?
meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at particularly East Winston," JT
Winston Mutual Life In- said Ms. Newell,
surance Co., 1225 Fifth Reports will be made on ^
Street, according to the progress of Mechanics ^
Virginia K. Newell, chair- and Farmers Bank, which is
woman. currently under construe- co
"The purpose of the tion on Claremont Avenue, inj
meeting is to continue our A-repoft will also be given
Coalition Wants
By Donna Oldham $500,000 grant to be used to
Staff Writer create a Winston-Salem po
Neighborhood Develop- to
The Citywide ment Corp., and to aid in Cc
Neighborhood Coalition the competition of the wo
has asked a private founda- Roger L. Stevens Center for wil
tion in New York for a the Performing Arts.
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The brutal and still unsolved murders of 17 black fee
children in Atlanta, Ga., and the disappearance of two js ;
other black children over the past 19 months, have prompted
two Winston-Salem women to express their bo
remorse in an unusual way. nu
Impressed by the way that yellow ribbons were used as jat
a symbol of freedom for the American hostages in Iran
last month, Yvette Miller and Rhonda Brannon have
launched a "black ribbon" campaign in memory of the
dead Atlanta children. tb<
"The ribbons are a sign of sympathy, despair and con- be
cern that we have for the situation in Atlanta," said Ms.
Brannon, a student. Ms. Miller, a nurse, said that the saj
tragedies in Atlanta "are something you'll never forget." an
"Whervwe wear these ribbons," she said, ''people take pU
a minute and think, hey, that.could have been my kid."
The two got the idea of wearing the black ribbons while pa
walking through a shopping center one day and noticing on
the number of people wearing yellow ribbons honoring thi
the freed hostages. "s
"Those dead children aren't just Atlanta's problem, sh<
thev're everyone's problem and it makes me mad that the
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ire than 70 years of ser- Roane said.
:e to Amos Cottage com- Now a nurse with
led. Western Electric Co., Ms,
"For four years, 1 work- Roane said that when she
on all three shifts at began at Amos Cottaoe ch*
nos Cottage and got to had never worked with the
low aH of the women very meMRfntidtd before.
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nal experience that they showed me how to put on
;re good at their jobs, diapers because putting on
ley had to be," Ms, See Page 2
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I The national president of(
Newell Delta Sigma Theta Sororincerning
the progress be-, ty, Inc., said that black peog
made to develop the pie need to unify their efSee
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the new wave of conserj
vatism that is sweeping the
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her concerns during the
According to the pro- sofority's Founders Day acsal,
which was submitted tivities held Sunday on the
Local Initiatives Support campus of Winston-Salem
>rporation, the grant State University. The
>uld be divided in half, founders day observance
:h both agencies receiving was sponsored by the
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ieral government isn't doing all it can to catch whoever
responsible," Ms. Brannon said.
Since beginning their campaign nearly a month ago,
th women said that they have noticed an alarming
mber of children left unattended or out at unusually
e hours alone.
"This problem doesn't have to be confined just to
lanta, but people don't realize it. There is a 13-year old
1 missing in Greensboro right now and there's nothing
it says that we couldn't have a similar situation right
re in Winston-Salem," Ms. Miller said.
Both women, although without children of their own,
d that they have special interests in the Atlanta cases
d have been following the progress, or as Ms. Miller
t it "the lack of progress," very closely.
"The amount of concern on the federal government's
rt is too little to suit me. Everything else should be put
hold until this sick person or persons can be caught. I
nk that since the children were black, and described as
treet children," people aren't as concerned as they
ould be, but, one little girl was taken out of her bed;
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Saiurday, February 21
NAACP
Crime Ta
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By Donna Oldham cerned about the ievel of
Staff Writer crime in the black community.
Few would dispute
To combat the increasing the fact that justice in
problem of black on black America is far too often adcrime
in Winston-Salem, ministered in an unfair and
the local chapter of the Na- unequal manner. Too often
tional Association for the the guilty are released of the
Advancement of Colored Nazi-Klan murder trial in
People has established a Greensboro and the trial of
task force to develop a the Wilmington 10 to
"crime watch" program in discern the inequity,
the black community. Racism still pervades the
According to NAACP criminal justice system
President Patrick Hairston, from the courthouse to the
the task force, which con- prison cell," Curry said,
sists of NAACP board "We're going to have to
members Clara Nesby, fight crimes in our own
Father Michael Curry and neighborhoods," said
himself, will establish a Hairston, who suggested
"Crime Line." Persons that carrying a gun might be
who have witnessed crimes
committed in the black *
community but who are 0 1
afraid to come Forward and ^ ^ ^
speak directly with officers
of the Winston-Salem ?^ __
Police Department or the Ej y J-yT V*X"
Sheriffs Department will I ;Avi
be able to call the crime line
daily between the hours of 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. and speak By Donna Oldham
with someone at the Stqff Writer
NAACP. The NAACP will,
in turn, relay the informa- Eight of the 11 black law
tion to the police depart- school graduates who filed
' ment for use in the imr a lawsuit against the Board
vestigation. of Law Examiners of the
"The NAACP is con- State of North Carolina
lent Stresses
(lack Unity
and the Gamma Phi
chapters of Delta Sigma S
"We as a
people and clean our own
house because unless we
achieve a steadfast unity, m|
things will crumble into the Mono BaiUty spea
wastebasket of forgotten
dreams," Ms. Bailey said. white women named
An assistant superinten- presidents of colleges where
dent of education in white women dominated
Washington state, Ms. the student body has more
Bailey was extremely than tripled in the past
critical of the fact that col- years. i
leges with predominantly 44We as black women
black, female student need to extract a commitbodies
were not headed by ment and to help turn the i
women, while as she nation around from its pat- j
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Curry Hairston
the answer. "It.might be Hairston also said that
wise for black people to blacks should be ready and
start buying guns to protect able to defend themselves
themselves. I'd rather be against crimes of violence,
caught with a gun by the "Of all the injustices in
police than be caught America, there is a parwithout
one when I needed ticular kind of injustice
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i Blacks to Try
ims Once More
after failing to pass the state North Carolina State Conbar
exam will take the test stitution and the United
again next week. States Constitution. The
The lawsuit, filed last Oc- plaintiffs charge that the *
tober 22, alleges that the board unlawfully and iloperations~and
procedures legally denied them their
of the Board of Law Ex- due process rights by not
aminers violate both the providing them with a constitutionally
adequate level
revievv after they were
notified that they had failed
the exam.
The 11 also charged in
meir suit tnat the board was
created an
I tional manner and as such
did not have the power to
I either grant or deny them
their law
in North Carolina.
I The three-day exam will
I he administered February
23, 23 and 25 in Raleigh. It
ks to the Deltas i* consists of 22 essay questions
and a 200-question
women, and its contempt of multiple choice test called
poor people," she said ad- the Multistate Bar Exam,
ding, "We also have to The latter portion of the ex>vork
to cease the influence am is administered in most
3f organizations like the of the states across the nanoral
majority." , tion on the same day. It
"Time is running out deals with general points of
'aster than the weekly up- law, while the essay section
vard sprint of our food focuses on state law.
Drices," she said. Two of the eight who will
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>bort oa? the lapel of Chronicle publisher Ernest H. Pitt.